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SAT SATURDAY 01 MAY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00s3hvs (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00s799m (Listen) SAT Defending the Guilty, Episode 5 SAT SAT Criminal barrister Alex McBride has come to the end of his SAT trainee year: his 'pupillage'. Only one of the six trainees SAT in Alex's chambers will be offered a job. SAT SAT In this amusing and revealing series, Alex takes us behind SAT the scenes of Britain's criminal justice system, introducing SAT us to its outlandish personalities, arcane eccentricities SAT and stories of triumph and defeat. SAT SAT The producer is David Roper, and this is a Heavy SAT Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00s3hvv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00s3hvx (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00s3hvz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00s3hw1 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00s3hw3 (Listen) SAT Presented by the Revd Bob Fyffe, General Secretary of SAT Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. SAT SAT 05:45 Ankle High History b00jlxjy (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT Scotland has a lost archaeological history - the ruins of SAT thousands of townships and buildings which have never been SAT recorded on any map, yet which tell the tale of life in a SAT period of dramatic change. Mark Stephen follows attempts to SAT uncover those stories before the buildings fade from the SAT landscape. SAT SAT On the island of Mull, he meets two ladies who stumbled SAT across a lost chapel. As he joins the specialist team SAT surveying the site, he learns that not a single written SAT record of it exists - but that it's probably over a thousand SAT years old. SAT SAT Producer Monise Durrani. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00s3hw5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00s50lx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00s50lz (Listen) SAT Scotland's Coldest Winter SAT SAT Helen Mark is in Scotland to find out how the wildlife and SAT landscape have been affected by the longest and coldest SAT winter in decades. Many species of birds have suffered and SAT there has been concern over deer which have moved to lower SAT ground in search of food and, in some places, have literally SAT been starving to death . The long term effect could be SAT devastating and recovery could take years. Farmers have SAT struggled to reach livestock and those that have managed to SAT do so find themselves facing huge bills for extra feed. And SAT in forests many trees have either died or lost branches when SAT succumbing to the heavy weight of snow on their boughs. SAT SAT But is it all bad news? Reports of a midge free summer after SAT the icy weather caused the hibernating insects to freeze to SAT death in the ground have been greeted with delight by SAT tourists and locals alike. And in ancient forests such as SAT the Abernethy Nature Reserve which works to create deadwood, SAT this winter has been one of their best with naturally SAT created deadwood serving as food for bugs which, in turn SAT provide a hearty meal for birds. So, has it been an SAT exceptionally bad winter......or have we simply forgotten SAT what a 'real' winter is like? SAT SAT Helen journeys through the Highlands of Scotland to find out SAT about the impact of the freezing temperatures and deep snow, SAT which lay on the ground for almost 3 months. She begins at SAT the Aigas Field Centre in Beauly, home of writer, Sir John SAT Lister Kaye. For years, John has closely observed the SAT changes in nature from his regular walks round a loch near SAT his home and feels that this winter has hit the wildlife in SAT the area pretty hard. From Beauly, Helen travels to the SAT Black Isle to meet up with Dan Tomes of the RSPB to hear how SAT the bird population has coped with the arctic conditions, SAT particularly the barn owl which relies so heavily on the SAT mice and voles which would have been buried under thick snow. SAT SAT But not all is doom and gloom. Wardens at the Abernethy SAT Nature Reserve in the Cairngorm National Park, part of which SAT is ancient Caledonian woodland, work to create deadwood SAT which provides food for bugs and, in turn, the birds that SAT feed on them. Helen is shown how this is done, and lends a SAT hand by helping to winch a tree to the ground. This winter, SAT with heavy snow on the boughs of ancient trees, the forest SAT came to life with the gunfire sound of branches breaking and SAT snapping naturally. For Desmond Dugan and Ian Perks at SAT Abernethy, this has been a great winter! SAT SAT But not so for farmers. Finally, Helen travels the few miles SAT to Balliefurth Farm where she meets farmer Alastair SAT McLennan. Alastair has struggled through the thick snow to SAT reach his sheep which have been reliant on supplementary SAT feed all winter and this problem will continue well into the SAT year with the arrival so late of spring. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00s50m1 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Twelve months ago, Farming Today took possession of its own SAT beehive. The aim was to keep the colony of honeybees alive SAT for a year and to examine the problems facing beekeepers and SAT honeybees close up. Now the year is at an end, Charlotte SAT Smith looks back at the trials and tribulations of the SAT programme's beekeepers and makes one final visit to see SAT Aunty, the Queen bee, at the apiary in Warwickshire. SAT SAT Producer: Fran Barnes. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00s50m3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00s50m5 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00s50m7 (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles is joined by Jodi Picoult. The SAT poet is Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00s50m9 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy focuses on the Caucasus, the mountainous SAT region between the Black and the Caspian Seas. It contains SAT Europe's highest mountain and landscapes ranging from SAT subtropical to Alpine and semi-desert. It is ideal walking SAT country but international tensions, particularly between SAT Georgia and Russia, have meant that it is not as well SAT visited as it deserves to be according to Oliver Bullough SAT and Peter Nasmyth who have both travelled widely in the region. SAT SAT Doug Patterson is a painter and architect who, following in SAT the footsteps of 18th and 19th century artists, has painted SAT monasteries and mosques across North Africa, Greece, India SAT and Bhutan. He talks to John about what, despite the SAT differences in religion, the buildings and locations have in SAT common - including those in Greece and Bhutan which are SAT perched on or cling to cliff faces. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of The Public Address b00s50mc (Listen) SAT Laurie Taylor investigates the pain - and occasional SAT pleasure - of the UK's public address announcements and goes SAT on a mission to improve people who make these announcements. SAT It's a form of broadcasting that often has very little or no SAT training whatsoever, yet it's heard by millions each day. SAT SAT Laurie discovers what elements are needed to make us listen SAT to public messages and asks if the people who make them SAT simply get handed a microphone and told to speak. What SAT causes the un-natural pronunciation with the stress nearly SAT always in the wrong place? Why is the language often so SAT archaic? Laurie holds a master-class for shop workers eager SAT to improve their announcements and tests the before and SAT after results. SAT SAT Comedian Arthur Smith, who has trained train workers to SAT speak, challenges Laurie to master the tannoy himself and we SAT hear what happens when he takes over making the SAT announcements on the 12.03 to Birmingham. SAT SAT The producer is Howie Shannon, and this is a White Pebble SAT production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Heckler b00s50mf (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT Clive Anderson presents a quirky, irreverent guide to the SAT events of the election campaign. Producers: Peter Mulligan & SAT Mark D'Arcy. Editor: Martin Rosenbaum. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00s50mh (Listen) SAT In today's programme.. SAT SAT The man who's shaking the foundations of Egyptian politics. SAT SAT We're with Maoist rebels in the jungles of India. SAT SAT The endless, agonising wait for those who went missing in SAT Lebanon's civil war. SAT SAT And a earthquake warning rattles the nerves of our man in SAT Los Angeles... SAT SAT President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has been in power for SAT nearly thirty years. His rule has not been a triumph for SAT democracy. The great weight of the state has often been SAT brought down on his opponents. It's believed that the ageing SAT Mr Mubarak either wants -- yet again -- to renew his term in SAT office next year..or allow his son, Gamal to take over. The SAT President's critics accuse him of governing Egypt in the SAT style of a modern Pharoah. But as Christian Fraser explains, SAT quite suddenly a new challenger has begun to stir the SAT country's stagnant political waters.. SAT SAT They call it the "Red Corridor". It's the swathe of SAT north-east India where Maoists rebels are fighting a SAT guerrilla war. There are attacks on police stations, bomb SAT blasts and skirmishes with the army. The rebellion first SAT surfaced more than forty years ago, and it's cost several SAT thousand lives. The Maoists say they're fighting for the SAT rural poor...people marginalised and exploited by the state. SAT India's leaders are worried. They've called the insurgency SAT the country's "biggest internal security challenge". And SAT they've thrown a-hundred-thousand extra soldiers and police SAT into the fight. Alpa Shah has been spending time with the SAT Maoists in the jungles of Jharkhand state .. SAT SAT When mounting tensions finally erupted, Lebanon moved from SAT peace to war in the space of just a few hours. A church was SAT shot at and a bus was ambushed..and so a decade-and-a-half SAT of conflict began. It all happened one day thirty-five years SAT ago. Two-hundred thousand people died in the war, and SAT half-a-million more were injured. But others simply went SAT missing. And Dahlila Mahdawi reflects now on the anguish of SAT those who..all these years on..still wait for sons and SAT daughters who never came home... SAT SAT Everywhere, the sense of anticipation and excitement is SAT rising. We're now just five weeks from the start of the SAT great festival of football that is the World Cup. Once the SAT tournament's underway the host nation, South Africa will SAT feel like the centre of the universe. Inevitably, some have SAT questioned how well the country will cope with the pressure. SAT But Hamilton Wende believes that..whatever happens on the SAT field..South Africa will be a winner.. SAT SAT The continual, nagging fear of earthquakes casts a shadow SAT over life in the sunshine of California. Everybody there SAT knows that vast and dangerous forces could be building in SAT the earth just beneath their feet. Nobody forgets how the SAT great city of San Francisco was once laid waste. And like SAT everyone else, David Willis in Los Angeles wonders when the SAT next "big one" will strike..It is the most deadly serious SAT question, but even so..he can see the funny side of his SAT bleak predicament.. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00s50mk (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT Producer: Penny Haslam. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00s3hrw (Listen) SAT Series 71, Episode 3 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Andy Hamilton SAT and Francis Wheen. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00s50mm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00s50mp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00s3hry (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Garston in SAT Hertfordshire with questions from the audience for the panel SAT including: Shaun Woodward, Northern Ireland Secretary; SAT Michael Gove, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, SAT Schools and Families; Charles Kennedy, former leader of the SAT Liberal Democrats and Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy Leader of the SAT Scottish National Party. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00s50mr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00s50mt (Listen) SAT The Indian in the Cupboard SAT SAT Eleven year old Omri isn't very impressed with the rubbish SAT birthday present from his friend Patrick, a plastic Native SAT American Indian figure. But he's delighted with the old SAT bathroom cupboard given him by his elder brothers Adiel and SAT Gillon. That night Omri puts the Indian in the cupboard for SAT safe keeping, and locks the door. In the morning he's woken SAT by noises from inside the cupboard - and opening the door, SAT finds the Indian has come to life, and his name is Little SAT Bull. Which is all very exciting, but now he has to find a SAT way of looking after a real human being who, although he is SAT only 3 inches tall, needs to be fed, and wants a horse, and SAT a wife. And when Patrick finds out, it becomes very SAT difficult indeed. SAT SAT Written by Lynne Reid Banks (who also wrote The L Shaped SAT Room), she brings to it all the seriousness and humanity - SAT and humour - of her adult fiction. And like that other story SAT of little people, The Borrowers, this story explores human SAT nature and real moral and ethical issues as Omri realises SAT the power he has over Little Bull. SAT Dramatised for radio by Jane Purcell. SAT SAT Omri ..... Dominic Herman-Day SAT Patrick ..... George Sanderson SAT Little Bull ..... Ben Crowe SAT Tommy Atkins ..... Tom Andrews SAT Adiel ..... Luke Banasiewicz SAT Gillon ..... Sam Harris SAT SAT The producer is Chris Wallis, and this is an Autolycus SAT production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b00s2xhh (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 3 SAT SAT Comedian Milton Jones joins editor of 'The Lady' Rachel SAT Johnson and Wilf Lunn - best known for his satirical SAT inventions on Vision ON - to explain why they've brought a SAT pop-punk record, a Californian country ballad and a Swedish SAT harmonica epic to this week's show. SAT SAT Milton makes public his desire to be Billy Idol. Rachel SAT reveals what happened when her Sixties liberal dad caught SAT her with a Mohican-wearing boyfriend and Wilf explains how SAT he got sacked from his job as a projectionist - for not SAT playing Larry Adler. And in one surreal episode, a guest SAT muddles up a 'rubbery egg' with a well known lyric. It all SAT makes for some bizarre conversation. SAT SAT Hosted by Dr Phil Hammond. SAT SAT The music choices are: SAT Swedish Rhapsody by Larry Adler SAT Rebel Yell by Billy Idol SAT Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin SAT SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes. A Testbed production for BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00s50q8 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT Actor Harriet Walter talks about her role as a scheming SAT widow in the Jacobean tragedy Women Beware Women, now SAT enjoying a revival at London's National Theatre. SAT SAT Voting behaviour: is it hereditary? Kevin Maguire, associate SAT editor of the Daily Mirror, Rachel Johnson, editor of The SAT Lady and Olly Grender, former communications director for SAT the Lib Dems, discuss parental influence. SAT SAT For years women endured the girdle and now men have a SAT garment of their own to hold it all in. Designer Jeff Banks SAT assesses the benefits of 'the mirdle'. SAT SAT Childcare guru Penelope Leach on the argument that allowing SAT young babies to cry for prolonged periods could harm their SAT developing brains. SAT SAT Horrockses Fashions - a look back at one of the best known SAT brands of the 1950's and the designs that are selling for SAT top prices in the vintage clothes market. SAT SAT Maths in schools: why some experts say that despite the SAT national numeracy strategy, maths teaching is failing to SAT score top marks. SAT SAT Swearing: is it worse when women use bad language? SAT SAT Is Voting Behaviour Hereditary? SAT SAT You can find information about all the constituencies on the SAT BBC website. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00s50qb (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00s5172 (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00s5174 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00s5176 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00s5178 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00s517b (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Peter is joined by Australian comedy actress Jane Turner, SAT one half of the cult hit sitcom Kath and Kim, as she makes SAT her London stage debut in 'Holding the Man'. SAT SAT Michael Mosley talks about the wonder of science and how it SAT shaped the world in his latest landmark series, The Story of SAT Science: Power, Proof and Passion. SAT SAT Choirmaster Gareth Malone moves from singing in schools and SAT housing estates to exploring the history of Sea Shanties for SAT BBC Four. SAT SAT Emma Freud looks at Picasso, Dali, Matisse and Warhol with SAT art critic Alastair Sooke and presenter of Modern Masters on SAT BBC One. SAT SAT There's comedy from the delightful Hal Cruttenden. SAT SAT Plus music from dub-reggae legends Dreadzone. SAT SAT And pop perfection from Marina and the Diamonds. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00s517d (Listen) SAT Series 8, Motorway Man SAT SAT It's the last weekend before polling. The debates are over, SAT and it's 'make your mind up time'. Across the country, SAT barbeques are being primed, lawns are being mown and choices SAT are being mulled over. Somewhere amidst the Home Counties SAT marginals, Motorway Man - this election's successor to SAT Worcestershire Woman and Mondeo Man - has been distracted SAT from his task. By Tony Grounds. SAT SAT Adam ... Rhys Thomas SAT Mikey ... Kenneth Cranham SAT Rochelle ... Kellie Shirley SAT Ian ... Jude Akuwudike SAT SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00s517g (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00s517j (Listen) SAT The Bradford Fire: A Day That Will Live With Me Forever SAT SAT May 11th 1985 is a day which will live with Gabby Logan SAT forever. SAT SAT The third division trophy had just been paraded around SAT Valley Parade by the triumphant Bradford City players and SAT the game against Lincoln City was a formality the home side SAT had to go through before they could really start celebrating. SAT SAT Gabby's dad, Terry Yorath, was assistant manager of Bradford SAT City that season and aged 12, she attended the match with SAT her family. The fire which later swept through one of the SAT stands in just four minutes, started about four rows from SAT where Gabby and her brother and sister would usually sit. SAT SAT 56 people died in the disaster while more than 260 were SAT injured. The majority of those who perished were either SAT young children or the elderly. In some cases, several SAT generations of the same family were wiped out. SAT SAT The horrific TV images of the fire taking hold shocked a SAT nation and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Prince Charles SAT and Princess Diana all visited Bradford in the days SAT following the tragedy. SAT SAT It was the worst fire disaster in British football history SAT and In this Archive on 4, Gabby hears from survivors who SAT were forced to make split second decisions to escape as well SAT as the lengths people went to in order to save others. SAT SAT In the weeks and months following the fire, £3.5 million SAT pounds was raised by The Bradford Disaster Appeal Fund - the SAT highlight being a special version of the 1960s Gerry and The SAT Pacemakers hit "You'll Never Walk Alone". The Crowd's cover SAT version would later go to Number One. SAT SAT The disaster led to major changes in football safety as well SAT as pioneering medical products for burns injuries and the SAT establishment of the Bradford Burns Unit. Gabby reflects on SAT how, 25 years on, lives are still being saved as a result of SAT this often forgotten disaster. SAT SAT The producer is Ashley Byrne, and this is a Made in SAT Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00s1pdv (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 3: Smiley's People, Part 3 SAT SAT Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George SAT Smiley in a three-part dramatisation by Robert Forrest of SAT John le Carre's classic novel, first published in 1979 and SAT the third in the celebrated 'Karla Trilogy' following SAT 'Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy' and 'The Honourable Schoolboy.' SAT SAT Part 3: Smiley is ready to spring the trap on his life-long SAT Russian adversary Karla. With Toby Esterhase watching his SAT back, he now moves the operation to Berne in Switzerland. SAT But can he be certain he's the hunter, not the hunted? SAT SAT Ann ..... Anna Chancellor SAT Ostrakova ..... Lindsay Duncan SAT Peter Guillam ..... Richard Dillane SAT Saul Enderby ..... James Laurenson SAT Inspector Mendel ..... Kenneth Cranham SAT Toby Esterhase ..... Sam Dale SAT Grigoriev ..... Finlay Welsh SAT Night Registrar/Sister ..... Joanna Monro SAT Karla ..... Philip Fox SAT Tatiana ..... Alison Pettitt SAT SAT Producer Patrick Rayner SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00s517l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00s3gq7 (Listen) SAT Jury Trial SAT SAT The British tradition of trial by jury is under threat. SAT SAT Amendments to the Criminal Justice Act have allowed the SAT first criminal trial to take place without a jury for over SAT 400 years. And a senior judge is recommending the removal of SAT juries from libel trials. SAT SAT In the last in the current series of Unreliable Evidence, SAT Clive Anderson and guests discuss the future of the jury. SAT SAT Long-standing critic of the jury system, Sir Louis SAT Blom-Cooper argues that the failure of juries to give SAT reasons for their verdicts, makes them unaccountable. He SAT argues that defendants should at least be given the option SAT to be tried by a judge alone. SAT SAT Crown Court Judge Simon Tonking, and criminal barrister SAT Chris Sallon QC, both support the jury system, though Judge SAT Tonking admits he doesn't always agree with the verdicts SAT returned by juries. Prof Cheryl Thomas' report for the SAT Ministry of Justice concluded that juries are fair, SAT efficient and effective, but she concedes that there is room SAT for improvement. SAT SAT An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT Producers: Anne Tyerman Brian King. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00s2w22 (Listen) SAT Series 24, Episode 6 SAT SAT Three music enthusiasts join Paul Gambaccini for the sixth SAT heat of the wide-ranging music quiz. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b00s1pdz (Listen) SAT Series 2, Thomas Blackburn SAT SAT Novelist Julia Blackburn joins Brian Patten to talk about SAT the life and work of her father, Thomas, whose powerful and SAT remarkable poetry reflects the lifelong struggles he had SAT with his demons. Thomas's father handed on to his son a SAT hideous sense of shame which was in due course compounded by SAT alcoholism and an addiction to prescription drugs. Yet SAT Thomas Blackburn's rich and unflinching poetry is still well SAT worth reading, and at the end of his life he was able to SAT make peace with the past and die in contentment. SAT SAT The reader is Patrick Romer. SAT SAT The programme is written and presented by Brian Patten, and SAT produced by Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 MAY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00s54c7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b009psp2 (Listen) SUN What I Learned from the Metaphysical Poets, Taken in Shadows SUN SUN By Helen Dunmore SUN SUN A painted portrait, depicting the charismatic beauty of John SUN Donne, inspires this short story by a mistress of the form. SUN SUN Reader: Emma Fielding. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00s54c9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00s54cc (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00s54cf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00s54ch (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00s54ck (Listen) SUN The Bells of St Stephen's church in Brannel, Cornwall. SUN SUN 05:45 It Happened Here b00sb22y (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN In the first of three programmes showing how places have SUN influenced political events, Peter Hennessy visits Admiralty SUN House in London. The government building at the north end of SUN Whitehall, close to Trafalgar Square, has frequently been SUN the office and home of post-war prime ministers when 10 SUN Downing Street has needed refurbishment. SUN SUN Peter recalls the momentous events of 1962 when Harold SUN Macmillan sacked a third of his Cabinet in 1962 at Admiralty SUN House in the notorious "Night of the Long Knives". He also SUN discusses Britain's role in the Cuban missile crisis of that SUN year and reveals that it was from Admiralty House that the SUN dramatic order was given for Britain's nuclear weapons to be SUN put on standby for imminent launch. SUN SUN Thirty years later, during John Major's premiership, SUN Admiralty House once again became the focus of worldwide SUN political and public attention as it was the place where the SUN United Kingdom's membership of the European Exchange Rate SUN Mechanism (the ERM) finally collapsed in ignominy, causing SUN lasting damage to the reputation and credibility of the SUN recently-elected government. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Coates. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00s54cm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00s54cp (Listen) SUN Westminster Abbey SUN SUN Mark Tully presents a special edition of Something SUN Understood from Westminster Abbey, which this month SUN celebrates the 450th anniversary of its establishment as a SUN collegiate church by Elizabeth I. SUN SUN The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, SUN guides us through some of the Abbey's most sacred spaces, SUN and talks about the inspiration he finds in the SUN 'prayer-soaked walls'. Prayer is the main theme of the SUN programme, and The Dean talks personally about how and why SUN he prays, including an admission that before any great State SUN Service involving the Queen, he sends up a quick SUN 'stiffening' arrow of prayer. SUN SUN The programme includes prayers by some of those who are SUN buried in the Abbey, like Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley SUN Hopkins and Sir Isaac Newton. The music too is by the great SUN musicians commemorated there: Handel, Purcell, Stanford, and SUN Noel Coward, whose moving wartime song 'London Pride' SUN celebrates the spirit of the Blitz. Other readings include SUN an account of Charles II's coronation in the Abbey by Samuel SUN Pepys - as always just as interested in the fine ladies as SUN the spectacle going on round him; and a sharp satire on SUN prayer by John Betjeman. SUN SUN A programme which evokes the awe of a very beautiful sacred SUN space - but which is also witty, and lively, never too SUN solemn. SUN SUN The producer is Elizabeth Burke. This is a Loftus production SUN for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00s54cr (Listen) SUN Welsh sheep and wool SUN SUN Adam Henson visits Cwmchwefru Farm and talks to Lesley SUN Wickham about her passion for coloured sheep, her Dexter SUN cows and the numerous varieties of goats to be found on her SUN 100 acre farm in the Cambrian Mountains. Originally a SUN knitwear designer and spinner Lesley has developed her SUN interest in naturally coloured fleeces, ethical farming SUN methods and animal husbandry in general into a successful SUN business which supplies high quality wool and woollen goods. SUN She has been successfully cross breeding her sheep for 20 SUN years and despite working almost single handedly still SUN occasionally finds time to spin and knit in her own studio SUN on the farm, a welcome and relaxing refuge from the mountain SUN weather and the rounds of feeding and muck clearing. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00s54ct (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00s54cw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00s54cy (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00s54d0 (Listen) SUN Contact a Family SUN SUN Muriel Gray appeals on behalf of Contact a Family. SUN SUN Donations to Contact a Family should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Contact a Family. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Contact a Family with SUN your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities are SUN not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 284912. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00s54d2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00s54d4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00s54d6 (Listen) SUN A service from Farnham United Reformed Church led by the SUN Minister, the Revd Michael Hopkins. Preacher The Revd SUN Roberta Rominger, General Secretary of the URC. Director of SUN Music Edwin Rolles; Producer Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN Farnham United Reformed Church SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00s3hs0 (Listen) SUN Simon Schama reflects on the meaning of money as represented SUN by coins and notes and in art. He celebrates the solidity of SUN coins with their seeming defiance of monetary transience in SUN contrast to paper money which embodies more readily the SUN ephemeral nature of fortunes made and lost. Simon Schama SUN sees the current economic crisis as an ideal moment for SUN artists to emulate their predecessors from earlier times of SUN boom and bust by producing paintings to express financial SUN worthlessness. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00s54d8 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00s54db (Listen) SUN Written By: Tim Stimpson SUN Directed By: Kate Oates SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ... Angela Piper SUN Kate Madicane ... Kellie Bright SUN Matt Crawford ... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van-Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ... Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy ... Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker ... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ... Amy Shindler SUN Kirsty Miller ... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ... Ryan Kelly SUN Paul ... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Ted ... Paul Webster. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00s54dd (Listen) SUN Tonight Programme SUN SUN On the 18th February 1957 the BBC broadcast the first SUN programme of a series that was destined to run to over a SUN thousand episodes, although many people involved in making SUN the programme were far from convinced that they would be SUN able to pull off even the pilot successfully. SUN SUN Tonight was the first time that the BBC had tried to SUN broadcast a live current affairs programme that ran five SUN nights a week, but it turned out to be an important SUN milestone in the BBC's evolution, marking a shift from an SUN "Auntie Knows Best" attitude to being a voice for the viewer. SUN SUN An incredible array of talent went through Tonight's SUN offices, and Sue is joined by five of its leading lights. SUN Alasdair Milne was, with Donald Baverstock, one of the SUN programme's original executive producers and went on become SUN Director General of the BBC. Antony Jay was in charge of the SUN ground-breaking film unit and went on to write Yes Minister. SUN Cynthia Kee was in charge of the cultural side of the SUN programme, booking famous names such as Louis Armstrong and SUN Brigitte Bardot. SUN SUN Jack Gold worked in the editing department before branching SUN out to become a successful film director, responsible for SUN The Naked Civil Servant, Aces High and The Medusa Touch, and SUN Julian Pettifer was one of the programme's roving reporters. SUN SUN There are also contributions from other key players: SUN presenter Cliff Michelmore, reporter Alan Whicker and singer SUN Cy Grant. SUN SUN The producers are James Crawford and David Prest. A SUN Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00s2w3d (Listen) SUN Series 5, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus and Catherine Tate SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as ostriches, toast, SUN spectacles and the colour red. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00s54dg (Listen) SUN Food and Photography SUN SUN Food is photographed a lot. From features in the weekend SUN papers to oozing pudding adverts on TV - from shots on SUN supermarket packaging to the artful single lettuce leaf SUN suspended above the aisle.. It's quite possible that we see SUN more photographs of food than we do real food. In the first SUN of two programmes about portrayal of food, Sheila Dillon SUN explores the world of commercial food photography. Do they SUN REALLY use mashed potato instead of ice-cream? And which SUN image on the cover of a food mag is most likely to shift SUN copies? Sheila is joined by cook/foodwriter, Nigel Slater, SUN to discuss the changing fashions in depicting dinner. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00s54dj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00s54dl (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00s3hrp (Listen) SUN Matt James gives the lowdown on invasive plants: How is the SUN government proposing to restrict the sale of these potent SUN plants? SUN SUN This week, the team is in Nottinghamshire, The panel members SUN are Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew. Eric SUN Robson is the chairman. SUN SUN The producer is Lucy Dichmont. This is a Somethin Else SUN production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country b00s54j7 (Listen) SUN Octavia Hill SUN SUN Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust, SUN lived at Crockham Hill in Kent. Not by chance it was exactly SUN the kind of countryside she wanted to preserve: a short SUN train ride from the centre of the fast-expanding city. In SUN her passion to conserve outdoor spaces, she bought nearby SUN Toyes Hill and slapped a conservation order on it. SUN SUN In this episode of Escape to the Country, Laurence Llewelyn SUN Bowen visits Toyes Hill, the first area of land to be held SUN in Trust for the nation, to explore Octavia Hill's idea that SUN the countryside offered vital "pure earth, clean air and SUN blue sky" for ordinary, working people. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Greenwell SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0075qkb (Listen) SUN Cider with Rosie, Episode 1 SUN SUN Tim McInnerny plays Laurie and Niamh Cusack his mother, in SUN this production recorded on location in and around the Slad SUN valley. In the first of two episodes dramatised by Nick SUN Darke, the Lee family arrive in their new home. SUN Laurie........Tim McInnerny SUN Mother.......Niamh Cusack SUN Young Loll..Sunny Leworthy SUN SUN With Jennifer Compton, Paul Currier, Briony Fforde, Daniel SUN Clifford, Lisa Kay, Laura Strachan, Jed Blacklock, David SUN Goodland, Constance Chapman, Val Lorraine, Chris Grimes, SUN June Barrie, James Lawton, Pupils of Rodborough Primary School. SUN Music by Paul Burgess SUN Directed by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe SUN Repeated Saturday 9.00 p.m. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00s54tn (Listen) SUN Orhan Pamuk SUN SUN Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's most prominent writer and winner of SUN the Nobel Prize for Fiction, joins James Naughtie and SUN readers to discuss My Name is Red. SUN SUN The novel is a complicated mixture of murder mystery, fairy SUN tale and exploration of the medieval world of the Turkish SUN miniaturist painter. SUN SUN The novel begins - surreally - from the point of view of the SUN murdered man; his body thrown down the bottom of a well, he SUN waits for this death to be discovered. The story is then SUN taken up by a myriad of characters, which include a coin and SUN a horse, as well as the colour Red itself. They recount a SUN chapter at least each - in fact this book has twenty SUN narrators and yet, as James Naughtie and readers testify, it SUN is a page-turner. SUN SUN My Name is Red is the most popular of Pamuk's in the English SUN speaking world, due he says to the whodunnit element, but SUN also to the global appeal of the art. SUN SUN Orhan Pamuk discloses how as a young man he longed to be a SUN painter, and so as a successful writer, it was a natural SUN progression to write about the joys of painting, and to SUN explore how an artist feels as their hands move across the page. SUN SUN His reputation as the funny man of his family is also in SUN evidence. Despite his intellectual credentials, humour is an SUN important tool for him. He says he doesn't like writing a SUN serious book, and if the reader isn't smiling when he reads SUN his work, then he feels guilty. SUN SUN June's Bookclub choice : The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid SUN Banks SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices b00s556s (Listen) SUN Series 2, Padraic Fiacc SUN SUN Padraic Fiacc was born in Belfast in the mid-1920s and SUN migrated with his family to New York in search of a less SUN violent society - unfortunately they found themselves in the SUN notorious Hell's Kitchen area where social problems were SUN rife and gang warfare raged. Coming back to Belfast later in SUN his life, Fiacc recognised many of these social problems and SUN was able to write about them with an outsider's eye. His SUN straightforward language and spare, stark style marked him SUN out from the more lyrical poets writing in the great Irish SUN tradition, and for decades he has been cold-shouldered by SUN the literary establishment. Brian Patten tells the story, SUN illustrated with some of Fiacc's most poignant and sometimes SUN disturbing poems. SUN SUN The reader is Jonjo O'Neill. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 Thank You For My Freedom b00s2yll (Listen) SUN Former Beirut Hostage John McCarthy has never thanked SUN Giandomenico Picco, the United Nations negotiator who SUN arranged his release. In this documentary John at last SUN travels to meet him and explores the development of the role SUN of the crisis negotiator. SUN SUN The journey John McCarthy makes is a deeply personal one. He SUN is intensely grateful for the role Picco took in arranging SUN his release - at no small risk to himself - and John's SUN journey to New York provides a compelling holding form for SUN his wider purpose. SUN SUN John is fascinated by the skills and dedication of men such SUN as Picco, and he explores how the techniques used in SUN negotiation have changed and developed. SUN SUN With the help of archive and interviews, John contemplates SUN the development of the role of the negotiator. Beginning SUN with the emergence of negotiation as a psychological study SUN in early 70s America, he considers negotiation tactics being SUN used in international crises and domestic incidents - can SUN the same tactics be employed in both arenas? SUN SUN The programme culminates in John's meeting with Picco. He SUN will endeavour, in the light of his investigations into the SUN role of the negotiator, to answer some of his closer SUN unanswered questions regarding the back room story that led SUN to his own personal freedom. SUN SUN Producer - Kevin Dawson SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00s517d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00s556v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00s556x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00s556z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00s5571 (Listen) SUN Val McDermid makes her selection from the last seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN The Vote Now Show - Radio 4 SUN Black Watch, 3 Scots - A War in Their Own Words - Radio SUN Scotland SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Thank You For My Freedom - Radio 4 SUN Start the Week - Radio 4 SUN Defending The Guilty - Radio 4 SUN Unreliable Evidence - Radio 4 SUN Bette and Joan and Baby Jane - Radio 4 SUN Charles Hawtrey, That Funny Fella with the Glasses - Radio 4 SUN The Music Teacher - Radio 4 SUN The Art of the Public Address - Radio 4 SUN The Bradford Fire - A Day That Will Live with Me for Ever - SUN Radio 4 SUN The Aspern Papers - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Mark Steel's in Town - Radio 4 SUN Tony Bennett Presents the great American Songbook - Radio 2 SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00s55c3 (Listen) SUN The gulf widens between Pip and Ruth, and Paul comes to a SUN kind of rescue. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00s55c5 (Listen) SUN Mark Mardell presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, SUN lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00br85h (Listen) SUN Hay-on-Wye Stories 2008, You've Got Everything Now SUN SUN A married man is haunted by his school experiences and in SUN particular, by his memories of his inscrutable, troubled SUN classmate, Quinn. Costa Award winning novelist Catherine SUN O'Flynn reads her specially commissioned short story for BBC SUN Radio 4 in front of an audience at the Hay Festival. SUN SUN Read by Catherine O'Flynn SUN Producer: Emma Harding. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00s55c7 (Listen) SUN Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer discusses drama, BBC cuts SUN and whether or not he regrets dropping the UK theme. SUN SUN Also on the programme, guests on Any Questions aren't SUN supposed to know what's coming up. But have they recently SUN been getting briefed? Plus as ever, the best of your SUN comments concerning BBC radio. SUN SUN Producer: Brian McCluskey SUN A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00s3hrr (Listen) SUN The subjects of today's programme include Dorothy Height, SUN described by Barack Obama as "the godmother of civil rights" SUN in the United States. A campaigner from the 1930s, according SUN to the US President she was "at every march and milestone SUN along the way". SUN Also the prolific writer Alan Sillitoe, who first came to SUN prominence with his novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. SUN We hear from his son David. SUN Professor Fred Halliday, renowned scholar of international SUN relations and expert on the Middle East. His fluency in over SUN ten languages helped him to gain a deeper understanding of SUN Middle Eastern culture and politics SUN And the poet Peter Porter. Russell Davies recalls the long SUN Soho lunches they shared with Clive James, Kingsley and SUN Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and other luminaries. SUN SUN Dr DOROTHY HEIGHT SUN SUN Leading US civil and women’s rights activist who has died SUN aged 98. SUN SUN President Obama called Dorothy Height the godmother of the SUN American civil rights movement. Dorothy began campaigning in SUN Harlem in the 1930s and didn’t stop until she died. Whilst SUN the men of the movement took the more prominent roles, SUN Dorothy’s powerful influence was felt behind the scenes as SUN she worked tirelessly, not only for equal treatment for SUN black people, but also for the recognition of women’s SUN rights. For forty years she was director of the National SUN Council of Negro Women. She sat alongside Martin Luther King SUN as he made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech and she was SUN there at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Dorothy Height’s SUN funeral in Washington last Thursday was attended by a Who’s SUN Who of the civil rights movement. SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the writer and academic Dr Maya Angelou, SUN and to Professor Dorian Warren, a civil rights specialist at SUN New York’s Columbia University. SUN SUN Dorothy Irene Height was born 24 March 1912 and died 20 SUN April 2010. SUN SUN ALAN SILLITOE SUN SUN British author and poet who has died aged 82. SUN SUN Alan Sillitoe was a prolific novelist, but he was best known SUN for two books written at the start of his career. “Saturday SUN Night and Sunday Morning” tells the story of the rebellious SUN young factory worker Arthur Seaton. It was much praised for SUN its descriptions of working class life and earned Sillitoe SUN the label of being one of the “Angry Young Men” of the SUN 1950s. “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” was a SUN short story about a Borstal boy who takes up running as a SUN mental and physical escape from his miserable life. SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Allan’s son David Sillitoe, to the writer SUN and broadcaster Paul Allen, and to the Portuguese writer SUN Helder Macedo. SUN SUN Alan Sillitoe was born 4 March 1928 and died 25 April 2010. SUN SUN FRED HALLIDAY SUN SUN Professor of International Relations who has died aged 64. SUN SUN Professor Fred Halliday was an internationally renowned SUN scholar and expert on the Middle East. He was Professor of SUN International Relations at the London School of Economics SUN for more than twenty years, was fluent in at least ten SUN languages and based his scholarly views on extensive travel SUN and research. His expertise brought him attentive audiences, SUN not just in lecture theatres, but also in broadcast studios SUN and the corridors of power. Politically he was on the left, SUN although he was much criticised by former friends for his SUN support of the first Gulf War in 1991. SUN SUN Last Word hears from Professor Fawaz Gerges, who has taken SUN over Fred Halliday’s chair at the LSE and to his former SUN colleagues there, Professors Margot Light and Chris Brown. SUN SUN Frederick Halliday was born 22 February 1946 and died 26 SUN April 2010. SUN SUN PETER PORTER SUN SUN Poet who has died aged 81. SUN SUN Peter Porter was an Australian by birth, but he adopted SUN Britain as his home and became one of our best loved poets. SUN He had been born in Brisbane and first travelled to the UK SUN in 1951. His first volume of poetry, Once Bitten, Twice SUN Bitten, was published in 1961 and gave a satirical picture SUN of the artists and media figures of the swinging sixties, a SUN group which Peter knew well. He often attended literary SUN lunches in Soho with luminaries like Kingsley and Martin SUN Amis, Clive James and Russell Davies. SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the author Russell Davies and to Peter’s SUN friend Martin Backs. SUN SUN Peter Neville Frederick Porter was born 16 February 1929 and SUN died 23 April 2010. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00s50mk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00s54d0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00s55c9 (Listen) SUN Small World SUN SUN Outsourcing used to be something that big companies did when SUN they transferred the work of whole departments to offshore SUN specialists across the world to save money. But now small SUN start-ups are learning how to build global organisations SUN from day one of their existence. Peter Day finds out why. SUN SUN Producer : Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00s55cc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00s55cf (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Election Papers Say b00s55ch (Listen) SUN Episode 9 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Election Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. Each SUN programme will see a leading political journalist take a wry SUN look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest SUN stories of the campaign. SUN SUN Hear all about it - with former Editor of The Sun Kelvin SUN MacKenzie. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00s3hrt (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to actor Eddie Marsan about working SUN with Mike Leigh and Martin Scorsese, and about his new SUN thriller, The Disappearance Of Alice Creed SUN SUN Terence Stamp reveals why being sacked by one legendary SUN Italian director helped him get a job with another. SUN SUN Three community cinemas around the country offer advice on SUN how to start your own film society. SUN SUN Orson Welles and a false nose are the stars of Jane Eyre, SUN which is released for the first time on DVD. Jane Graham SUN reviews this 1944 production. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00s54cp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 MAY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00s55lp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00s3fzq (Listen) MON Capitalism and Development MON MON "Capital is the lifeblood that flows through the body MON politic of all those societies we call capitalist, spreading MON out, sometimes as a trickle and other times as a flood, into MON every nook and cranny of the inhabited world", writes David MON Harvey, the world's most cited academic geographer. He gives MON Laurie a radical critique of what governs that flow of MON capital and what causes the crises which, he claims, will MON increasingly disrupt that flow with alarming rapidity. MON Modern economics has buried its head in detail but ignored MON the systematic character of capital flow, he claims, and it MON is time for a restore an understanding of how capital works. MON Also on Thinking Allowed is the Cambridge development MON economist Ha-Joon Chang. In his analysis the detailed global MON programmes on international development amount to little MON more than poverty reduction, and the rich world is keeping MON the less developed countries poor in the name of free trade. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00s54ck (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00s55n5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00s55rd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00s55rq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00s56f3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00s5fpk (Listen) MON Presented by the Revd Bob Fyffe, General Secretary of MON Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00s5ft9 (Listen) MON The risk of an outbreak of bluetongue disease in Britain is MON rising, because farmers are importing animals from infected MON areas in Europe. That's according to The British Veterinary MON Association which says there has been a sharp decline in the MON number of farmers vaccinating their stock this year, and MON warns that although bluetongue hasn't been found in Britain MON since 2008 the disease is still at large in northern Europe, MON and the likelihood of an outbreak here is growing. Also in MON Farming Today, The Police are asking farmers, abattoirs and MON butchers to be extra vigilant after a spate of sheep thefts MON in Scotland. 300 sheep and lambs have been stolen from a MON number of farms in the Lothian and Borders area over recent MON months. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. MON Producer: Fran Barnes. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00s5nt3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00s5fty (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00s5nt5 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr Starts the Week with Sir Peter Hall talking MON about directing comedy as he returns to Bedroom Farce, a MON play he first directed in 1977; Professor Edith Hall MON discussing Greek tragedy; Director of the National Youth MON Theatre Paul Roseby talking about turning teenagers on to MON Shakespeare and John Freeman, the editor of Granta on MON writing about sex. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00s5h5f (Listen) MON Blood Knots, Episode 1 MON MON Author Luke Jennings writes about a lifetime of fantastic MON fishing and fishing mentors. MON MON Luke is hooked by that monster of freshwaters - the pike. MON MON Reader: Nigel Hastings MON Abridged by Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00s5h62 (Listen) MON Now We Are Sixty. On the verge of her sixtieth Birthday, MON Jenni Murray takes a look at the differences between the MON baby-boomers and the sixty year old women of previous MON generations. MON MON As the women who were born in the years immediately after MON the war reach 'senior' status, what will their priorities be MON and is sixty really the new forty? MON MON Jenni Murray celebrates her sixtieth Birthday with Helena MON Kennedy QC who was born on the same day. MON MON Also on the programme: Liz Shorrocks [sociologist and Course MON Director of Creative Writing at the University of Bradford], MON and journalists Eve Pollard, Minette Marrin and Sarah Vine. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hsb (Listen) MON An Unsuitable Attachment, Episode 6 MON MON Penelope Wilton stars in Barbara Pym's wonderful story of MON love, requited and otherwise, in unfashionable north London MON in 1960. The parish party set off on their trip to Rome, MON full of expectations. And it doesn't disappoint, indeed MON there are even a few surprises. MON MON An Unsuitable Attachment was turned down by Barbara Pym's MON publishers, Faber, when she gave them the manuscript in MON 1963, with very little explanation. Her previous 6 books had MON met with some success, so she was very upset and according MON to her correspondence felt very badly treated. It wasn't MON until 1977, when the Times Literary Supplement published a MON symposium on the most over and under-rated writers of the MON century and two contributors named her in the second MON category - the only living writer to be so distinguished - MON and her next novel was published before the year was out. MON She was widely interviewed, appeared on Desert Island Discs, MON and was the subject of a tv film. She died in 1980. An MON Unsuitable Attachment was finally published in 1982. MON MON Dramatised by Jennie Howarth. MON MON Narrator ..... Penelope Wilton MON Penelope ..... Sophie Thompson MON Sophia ..... Lucy Akhurst MON Ianthe ..... Raquel Cassidy MON Mervyn ..... Stephen Critchlow MON Mark ..... Martin Ball MON Rupert ..... Ben Crowe MON John ..... Tom Andrews MON Sister Dew ..... Angela Curran MON Lady Selvedge ..... Joanna Wake MON Mrs Grandison ..... Frances Jeater MON Edwin ..... Robin Bowerman MON Basil ..... Joe Coen MON MON The director is Chris Wallis, and this is an Autolycus MON production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 The Name Game b00s5nzv (Listen) MON The number of people changing their name by deed poll has MON doubled in the past five years and should top 70,000 this MON year. With a one hour express service that costs just a few MON pounds, people are hastening to fill in the forms, make the MON change and become someone new. Tim Samuels asks what is MON driving this self-reinvention - is it divorce, immigration MON or the quest for a little cheer? MON MON After tea with Christine Hamilton - now Mrs British MON Battleaxe - Tim heads off to meet some of the migrants, MON attention seekers, former drunks and others reinventing MON themselves. He encounters Ian Roberts, who transformed MON himself into the distinguished actor and playwright Kwame MON Kwei Armah, a young man called Dylan who changed his surname MON to reject his undeserving father, and Princess-Rainbow.com MON who woke up one morning with more than just a hangover. MON MON He brushes dust off the Close Rolls at the National Archives MON to discover the origins of the deed poll and is on his best MON behaviour with the Senior Master at the Royal Courts of MON Justice. MON MON And before he takes the plunge to change his own name, Tim MON pauses to contemplate identity, aspiration and belonging. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen. MON MON 11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00n594p (Listen) MON Series 2, Ill Communication MON MON Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest, MON family-run record shop in Birmingham. MON MON Adam uses his dad's bout of flu as the perfect excuse to MON start tidying the shop; his dad uses it as the perfect MON excuse to take on nature's flu vaccine - Guinness and dominoes. MON MON Adam ...... Lenny Henry MON Rudy ...... Larrington Walker MON Richie ...... Joe Jacobs MON Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon MON Doreen/Ms Rogers ...... Claire Benedict MON Policeman ...... Andrew Brooke. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00s5hw2 (Listen) MON Alistair Darling has promised tougher action on bank lending MON to business and even promised a new watchdog, a "credit MON adjudicator", which he announced in the budget to give small MON businesses a right of appeal against their bank. But how are MON small businesses faring with the banks in the meantime? MON MON A canteen worker in Marks and Spencer unwittingly started a MON food revolution in 1980 when she wrapped up some left over MON sandwiches and sold them. Thirty years later the pre-packed MON sandwich industry is worth 6 billion pounds and a third of MON all sandwiches eaten in the UK are commercially made. MON We examine the sandwich market. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00s5jh1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00s5jlb (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00s55c3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00s5nzx (Listen) MON Barbershopera! MON MON By Rob Castell and Tom Sadler with Sarah Tipple MON MON John Sessions narrates this comedy musical set in the murky MON world of barbershop singing. MON MON When star tenor Tony decides to quit his barbershop group on MON the eve of the Euro Barbershop Competition final, a MON replacement must be found. But how? Where? Whom? MON MON Old Fabiano........John Sessions MON Toni Soprano.......Lara Stubbs MON Al Legro..............Pete Sorel-Cameron MON Frank Sonata......Rob Castell MON Hugh B. Doo.......Tom Sadler MON Young Fabiano....Sam Spedding MON Jean-Claude........John Evanson MON Gunther..............Jeremy Limb MON Gangrenus..........Ian Aitkenhead MON MON Director...........Ben Walker. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00s517j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Drawings on the Wall b008vl2x (Listen) MON The Legless Women of Creswell Craggs MON MON Archaeologist Dr George Nash explores five of Western MON Europe's most remarkable rock art sites. MON MON His journey begins with extinct animals and strange female MON forms in Church Hole Cave in Derbyshire. Who created this MON prehistoric graffiti, and why? MON MON Producer: Chris Eldon Lee MON A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00s54dg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00s6rwz (Listen) MON Series 6, South Africa MON MON Katie Derham hears about holidays to South Africa. MON MON There's growing excitement in the country just a few short MON weeks from the World Cup. Infrastructure and hotels have MON been upgraded but what's on offer for the tourist? How easy MON is it to navigate the country and the social divide? MON MON We have reports from Johannesburg and Cape Town and the MON Winelands. There's advice on ways of meeting local people MON and how to access some world class music. We hear a listener MON report from the Reeves of Worcester and follow the Mandela MON trail to Robben Island. MON MON Katie is joined in the studio by guest Lenny Henry who has MON recently returned from South Africa, exploring the country MON through its music and by South-African born travel editor of MON the Telegraph, Graham Boynton. MON MON The producer is Susan Marling. This is a Whistledown and MON Just Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00s5jq8 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00s5k66 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00s6rx2 (Listen) MON Series 5, Episode 6 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Fred MacAulay, Susan Calman, Liza Tarbuck MON and Charlie Brooker are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: ducks, MON Thomas Edison, make-up and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00s5jp3 (Listen) MON Kenton goes on a recruitment drive, and Joe finds a MON financial incentive for a spring clean. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00s5l2y (Listen) MON In May 2000 the Queen became the first visitor to Tate MON Modern, the giant gallery housed in a former power station MON on the banks of the River Thames. Ten years on and 45 MON million people have passed through the building which once MON generated electricity for London but has now become a MON cultural powerhouse for Britain. MON MON In a special edition of Front Row, John Wilson looks at the MON social and artistic impact of Tate Modern with guests MON including artists Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry, and writers MON AS Byatt and Ian Rankin. The programme also includes a MON profile of Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota and a look at MON the gallery's many appearances at the cinema. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hsb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia: The Story of Tito b00s6rx4 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In the second episode of Martin Bell's series on "Tito and MON the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia", news reports from the wars MON and his own first person accounts of the terror that raged MON across the Balkans for five years brings us to Bosnia in 2010. MON MON 15 years after the international community stepped in to end MON the war in Bosnia, Martin Bell heads to Sarajevo to find out MON whether the old arguments that made talks between MON communities break down in 1990 are rearing their heads two MON decades later. Nationalist arguments, playing on ethnic MON identities and old fears, have returned in a country that is MON more separated and segregated than ever. MON MON Examining the Dayton Peace Agreement Martin asks whether it MON was successful in rebuilding post-war Bosnia or whether it MON remains part of the reason Bosnia is still struggling. He MON explores whether foreign interference, in enforcing a share MON of power amongst multiple agencies has stalled any MON meaningful progress, and what can be done to stop Bosnia MON collapsing back into a state of civil war, as some fear. MON Should the international community step away and risk MON creating a black hole in Europe or do they continue to MON intervene to ensure violence is abated and peace remains, MON even if it is manufactured by outsiders? MON MON Returning to Sarajevo, the place where he was shot and MON injured, Martin explores what has changed and what has MON remained the same since the war in the early nineties, MON talking with Bosnian Serb, Muslim and Croats about their MON hopes and fears for Bosnia's future. MON MON Martin also meets with Bosnia's current High Representative, MON and its most famous former High Representative, Paddy MON Ashdown, to find out what role the International Community MON can play in securing a safer future for Bosnia and for all MON of the Balkans. MON MON The producer is Gemma Newby. This is an All Out production MON for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 The Report b00s6rx6 (Listen) MON The dust from the Icelandic volcano has started to settle, MON but questions remain in the air. Were the authorities acting MON too cautiously when they closed British airspace for six MON days? Who was really making the decisions, and could it have MON been sorted out much faster? MON The Report this week will trace the story of the volcano and MON the airspace shut down, with contributions from the MON regulators, airlines, and a couple who made a nightmare MON journey back overland - from Morocco. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00s3h44 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science news. MON This week: MON MON With oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico following an MON explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Professor MON Chuck Kennicutt of Texas A&M University outlines the threat MON the oil slick represents, what might be done to mitigate the MON effects and how the oil will eventually disperse. MON MON Can scientific development and innovation push the economic MON recovery forward? The authors of a new report "Big Potatoes: MON The London Manifesto for innovation" believe so. Launched at MON the Royal Society the report highlights how there is MON currently very little debate in society about research and MON development. It has become socially acceptable not to know MON about science, argue the authors, and this change in public MON and political attitude is stifling economic recovery as well MON as limiting future innovation and therefore the creation of MON new industries and jobs for the future. Quentin is joined by MON one of the reports co-authors Professor James Woudhuysen and MON the former vice-president of the Royal Society, Sir Martin MON Taylor. MON MON Another of our 'So You Want To Be A Scientist' finalists, MON John Rowlands, starts his experiment on 'noctilucent MON clouds'. These luminous layers of ice crystals appear high MON up in the atmosphere between May and August, but no one MON knows exactly why these mysterious clouds appear. Quentin MON takes John to meet his mentor, Prof Nick Mitchell from the MON Centre for Space, Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, who is MON going to try and help him find out. MON MON Interior Traces is a series of live radio plays that next MON week go on tour. They explore the effects of brain imaging MON on individual identity and society through the stories of MON two characters with different brain conditions. They MON contrast present understanding with an imagined future in MON which people can be told in advance that they may develop a MON tumour or even a violent criminal tendency. Quentin meets MON writer and neuroscientist Dr Louise Whiteley and Dr Daniel MON Glaser of the Wellcome Trust and the UCL Institute of MON Cognitive Neuroscience. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00s5nt5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00s5lm1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00s5lty (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00s5m08 (Listen) MON The Aspern Papers, Episode 6 MON MON by Henry James, read by Samuel West. MON MON Jeffrey Aspern's obsessive devotee has become more desperate MON to obtain the elusive letters held by Miss Bordereau. MON Fearing that the old lady will destroy the papers he has put MON pressure on her niece to rescue them, but he begins to MON realise that neither of them is a match for the calculating MON Juliana herself. MON MON Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. MON MON 23:00 The Vote Now Show b00s5ncl (Listen) MON Episode 10 MON MON Punt and Dennis present a nightly satirical round up of MON election news and comment from comedians, journalists and MON commentators. Recorded in front of an audience at the Radio MON Theatre about 4 hours before transmission, this is a very MON topical comedy show. MON MON 23:30 Art Attack b00nf33j (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Series investigating the history of attacks on art works, MON from the earliest times to the present day. MON MON Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow looks at some of MON the most renowned attacks on art carried out in the name of MON politics and religion. What leads someone to blow up a MON statue, destroy photos with ink and scalpel, take the heads MON off angels or slash a painting of a naked woman? Tim looks MON at the impact on the work itself and the wider cultural and MON social implications of such attacks. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 MAY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00s55kl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00s5h5f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00s55lr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00s55n7 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00s55rg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00s56b8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00s5fmc (Listen) TUE Presented by the Revd Bob Fyffe, General Secretary of TUE Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00s5fpm (Listen) TUE Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00s5ftc (Listen) TUE With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Morecambe and Wise: The Garage Tapes b00s6svj (Listen) TUE Jon Culshaw uncovers an extraordinary audio archive of early TUE Morecambe and Wise material, including a number of long lost TUE tapes. TUE TUE This is a genuine archive find of real importance. A few TUE years ago, Doreen Wise, widow of Ernie, cleared the old TUE family garage of piles of tapes and 78 recordings. TUE TUE At the end of last year, Independent radio company TUE Whistledown were contacted by Eric and Ernie's agents, and TUE producer David Prest offered to look at the material. TUE TUE "It was an extraordinary sight - a couple of old fruit boxes TUE full of reel to reel tapes and a musty old red suitcase TUE brimming with 78 records," says producer David Prest. TUE TUE The most important finds are a number of long-lost episodes TUE of Eric and Ernie's first radio show, "You're Only Young TUE Once" which was made for the BBC between November 1953 and TUE June 1954. TUE TUE These feature songs, sketches, their trade mark banter and TUE guest cameo appearances from other well-known perfomers TUE including Bob Monkhouse. TUE TUE The tapes in Ernie's garage are believed to be "run off" TUE copies recorded at 33/4 ips by studio engineers immediately TUE after the recordings, and probably never played since, as TUE well as acetate copies which Doreen paid the studio engineer TUE a few shillings for. TUE TUE "Much of the value of the material is in what it shows about TUE their comedy development. The early radio series are very TUE naturalistic, and feature historical sketches and songs TUE which precede the 1970s BBC TV shows by almost 15 years", TUE says David. TUE TUE Other treats include: Andre Previn's speech to Eric and TUE Ernie at a Variety Club lunch in 1974, rare recordings of TUE their Great Yarmouth and Blackpool shows from the mid-late TUE sixties. TUE TUE Also included are many original master tapes of songs, TUE written for the duo, which show their skill in the recording TUE studio. TUE TUE The producers are David Prest and Stewart Henderson, and TUE this is a Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00s5h0n (Listen) TUE Blood Knots, Episode 2 TUE TUE Author Luke Jennings writes about a lifetime of fantastic TUE fishing and fishing mentors. TUE TUE A summer holiday in Shropshire sees twelve year old Luke TUE fishing dark deep lakes for lively perch. TUE TUE Reader: Nigel Hastings TUE Abridged by Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00s5h5h (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE Actress Gemma Arterton discusses going from blockbusters and TUE James Bond to a low budget British thriller The TUE Disappearance of Alice Creed. The divorce rate may be at its TUE lowest rate since 1979, but for the fourth year running, TUE twentysomethings had the highest divorce rate of any age TUE range. Why do so many of these so-called 'starter marriages' TUE fail, and what can be done to give young couples better TUE support? TUE When Sarita Mandanna started writing her first novel she got TUE the highest advance ever paid by an Indian publisher for a TUE debut novel. She joins Jane to discuss that book - Tiger TUE Hills - the story of a secret love affair on a South Indian TUE coffee plantation in the nineteenth century. What do you if TUE you want to grow your own food but don't have a garden or TUE can't get an allotment? Anna Bailey reports on scheme in TUE Brighton which pairs up gardeners. And Dr Rachel Hewitt TUE discusses the early history of Ordnance Survey maps. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmp (Listen) TUE An Unsuitable Attachment, Episode 7 TUE TUE Penelope Wilton stars in Barbara Pym's wonderful story of TUE love, requited and otherwise, in unfashionable north London TUE in 1960. The parish party are doing Rome, and Rupert turns TUE up, to Penelope's delight, but unlike Rome, he may not be TUE what she had hoped. TUE TUE Dramatised by Jennie Howarth. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Penelope Wilton TUE Penelope ..... Sophie Thompson TUE Sophia ..... Lucy Akhurst TUE Ianthe ..... Raquel Cassidy TUE Mervyn ..... Stephen Critchlow TUE Mark ..... Martin Ball TUE Rupert ..... Ben Crowe TUE John ..... Tom Andrews TUE Sister Dew ..... Angela Curran TUE Lady Selvedge ..... Joanna Wake TUE Mrs Grandison ..... Frances Jeater TUE Edwin ..... Robin Bowerman TUE Basil ..... Joe Coen TUE TUE The director is Chris Wallis, and this is an Autolycus TUE production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00s6svl (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE 5/40. There's a massive leak of crude oil from a BP well in TUE the Gulf of Mexico with many reporting it as the largest TUE slick in history - and the crude is making landfall on the TUE Mississippi Delta, one of the most biodiverse areas in the TUE USA. We ask wildlife film-maker and author Steve Nicholls, TUE who has been to this wildlife hotspot many times, who and TUE what is most threatened and insight into the natural TUE resilience of such wilderness. Our regular newshound Kelvin TUE Boot will focus on how the Americans are reporting this TUE story and how the disaster is being dealt with. TUE TUE Also in the programme, the demise of the Wood Warbler in TUE British woodlands. This migrant songbird from Africa was one TUE of the key choristers in the British Dawn Chorus. But there TUE are more Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps. We ask ornithologist and TUE bird migration expert Ian Newton how the songsters that make TUE up the dawn chorus have changed and why. TUE TUE And we hope also to bring you the story of the Field Cricket TUE release in southern England - but the running order is a bit TUE fluid at the moment as we watch the developments in the Gulf TUE of Mexico. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Pistols at Dawn b00s6svn (Listen) TUE Between 1613 and 1614 it is claimed that every distinguished TUE family in the UK lost a member to duelling. James I even TUE campaigned against it, but the aristocracy wanted to retain TUE it as a legal way of settling disputes 'honourably'. The TUE practice continued until it was eventually outlawed at the TUE end of the nineteenth century. Until it was, the duel has TUE a fascinating place in British history as a means of TUE 'solving' dispute and novelists and playwrights have been TUE using it as a way of spicing up plots and intrigue along the TUE way. As a youngster, Justin Champion loved adventure TUE novels which were jam-packed with sword play - The Three TUE Musketeers, The Prisoner of Zenda and Scott's Waverley TUE series. He has always been intrigued as to why men felt the TUE urgency to defend their honour in such a dangerous way. In TUE this programme, he tracks the history of the duel, its TUE influence, some particularly pivotal duels, is shown how to TUE sword fight and thinks he's found the reason why duelling TUE eventually ceased as a practice in the UK. TUE TUE Justin talks to experts of Shakespeare to discuss how TUE frequently the Bard picked up on the duelling debate in many TUE of his plays including Romeo and Juliet. He visits the TUE Royal Armouries Collection in Leeds to witness a sword TUE fight. Justin is shown the techniques and is handed a TUE sword for a tutorial. He charts the move from sword to TUE pistol and gets a tour behind the scenes at the Royal TUE Armouries Collection to look at some important swords and TUE pistols involved in duelling. TUE TUE Justin also talks to fellow historians about significant TUE duels and their political and literary impact. The duel has TUE even been used by Cabinet Ministers and Prime Ministers as a TUE way of settling their differences. We hear from the BBC TUE Deputy Political Editor, James Landale (who tells the story TUE of his ancestor's involvement in the last fatal duel in TUE Scotland in 1826) and who also tells listeners about TUE Wellington's engagement in a duel in Battersea. TUE TUE Listeners will also hear from a social historian of the 19th TUE century about how the meaning of "honour" changed for men TUE during this period and how a pension arrangement changed TUE forever as the willingness of men to accept an invitation to TUE "pistols at dawn". TUE TUE In the programme are short extracts from newspapers and TUE plays to illustrate the points Justin and his interviewees TUE will be making. TUE TUE Presenter: Professor Justin Champion is head of history at TUE Royal Holloway, University of London. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00s5hsd (Listen) TUE You and Yours with Julian Worricker. The main hopefuls in TUE the next election lay out their plans for transport. Would TUE you buy a complete lifestyle off the peg - even the home you TUE choose to live in? TUE TUE Also, comedian David Quantick is intrigued by online music TUE service Spotify's plan to launch a tool to help you make a TUE 21st century version of the classic cassette mix tape. TUE TUE Plus how does the election impact on local issues? There is TUE strife in Penzance over plans for a new ferry terminal TUE serving the Scilly Isles. TUE TUE The full list of candidates for the West Cornwall and Isles TUE of Scilly constituency of St Ives. TUE Conservative - Derek Thomas, TUE Cornish Democrats - Jonathan Rogers, TUE Green - Tim Andrewes, TUE Labour - Philippa Latimer, TUE Liberal Democrat - Andrew George MP, TUE Mebyon Kernow - Simon Reed, TUE UKIP - Mick Faulkner. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00s5j6j (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00s5jk1 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00s5jp3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00s6svq (Listen) TUE Gentleman Jim TUE TUE Gentleman Jim is Raymond Briggs' own dramatisation of his TUE graphic novel of the same title. It is the story of Jim TUE Bloggs, a toilet attendant who dreams of a better life for TUE him and his beloved wife Hilda. TUE TUE Ruminating over the jobs in the paper, Jim's imagination TUE leaps into action as he seeks adventure and excitement. He TUE sets out to turn his dreams into reality, but soon discovers TUE that things aren't so straightforward. TUE TUE Hindered not least by a lack of education and funds, Jim's TUE life begin to spiral out of all control, and his romantic TUE dreams turn into terrible nightmares. TUE TUE Gentleman Jim is a wonderfully funny and yet intensely TUE moving tale, which despite its melancholy has at its heart a TUE real feeling of optimism. TUE TUE Jim ..... David Haig TUE Hilda ..... Jan Ravens TUE Other characters ..... John Sessions, Adrian Schiller and TUE Sara Markland TUE TUE The producer is Celia de Wolff, and this is a Pier TUE production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00s6sw1 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the natural world and our impact on it. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00s6t4m (Listen) TUE Come Away, Come Away!, Peanut Butter and Cello TUE TUE To mark the 150th anniversary of J M Barrie's birth, three TUE leading writers for young people contribute new stories TUE inspired by a chapter title from 'Peter Pan'. TUE TUE By Geraldine McCaughrean. TUE TUE A young girl from the favelas carries a precious burden on a TUE hazardous cross-city journey. TUE TUE Reader: Melody Grove. TUE TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 15:45 The Drawings on the Wall b008wv2c (Listen) TUE Graffiti Gorge TUE TUE Archaeologist George Nash explores five of Western Europe's TUE most remarkable rock art sites. TUE TUE Today he risks his neck in Northern Portugal's Coa Valley to TUE see Iron Age carvings of beasts and warriors. But why are TUE they engraved directly on top of earlier art in such TUE dangerous places? And what drives modern day graffiti TUE artists to risk their lives to the same end? TUE TUE Producer: Chris Eldon Lee TUE A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00s778z (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen enters the world of flavour, examining how TUE what goes in to our mouths corresponds with the words which TUE come out of them. Visiting the lab of a flavourist, he finds TUE out how language is used to create tastes that don't exist TUE yet. Food historian Ivan Day demonstrates how words have TUE been imported alongside the food they describe. Michael's TUE also joined in the studio by food critic for the Guardian, TUE Jay Rayner, to discuss what makes a great menu. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00s77ft (Listen) TUE Series 21, Matthew Flinders TUE TUE Sir Stuart Rose, chairman of Marks and Spencer, chooses the TUE cartographer Matthew Flinders for Great Lives. Flinders TUE mapped Australia two hundred years ago in His Majesty's ship TUE the Investigator. "Since neither birth nor fortune have TUE favoured me," he wrote, "my actions shall speak to the TUE world." Sir Stuart Rose clearly finds inspiration in what TUE Flinders achieved and the way he led his men. Rose also TUE reveals that his first ambition was to join the Royal Navy, TUE and that he applied to 25 companies before Marks and Spencer TUE took him on. Dr Nigel Rigby of the National Maritime Museum TUE offers the expert's view on Flinders life and Matthew Parris TUE presents. The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00s5jp5 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00s5jqb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Baggage b00ls77k (Listen) TUE Series 4, Tales of the Unexpected TUE TUE Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. TUE TUE It's December in Edinburgh and the Christmas spirit is in TUE short supply. The spirit of whisky, however, features TUE heavily, as Ruth decides whether or not to risk falling off TUE the wagon and Caroline and Roddy risk seriously falling out. TUE TUE Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon TUE Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan TUE Ruth ...... Adie Allen TUE Roddy ...... Robin Cameron TUE Hector ...... David Rintoul TUE Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter TUE Miriam ...... Nicola Grier TUE TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00s5jld (Listen) TUE Pip shows where her priorities lie, and Oliver comes up with TUE a plan to teach Joe a lesson. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00s5l0z (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including Valerie Grove discussing her TUE biography of the publisher Kaye Webb, who changed the face TUE of children's literature in the 60s working for Puffin TUE whilst battling emotional pain in her private life. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 PVS: The Search for Consciousness b00s77m0 (Listen) TUE It was John Waite's coverage of the Tony Bland case which TUE eventually led to the Law Lords giving permission for TUE feeding to be withdrawn. He'd been in a persistent TUE vegetative state for four years following the Hillsborough TUE disaster and died nine days after that ruling. With the TUE tubes and clinical paraphernalia removed his father, Allan, TUE said it was: "the first time he's looked like our Tony since TUE the day he set off for the football match." TUE TUE It was Tony's parents wish that future medical efforts TUE focused on trying to improve the diagnosis of PVS, and now TUE Dr Adrian Owen and his fellow Cambridge researchers are TUE using functional MRI scans to try to detect brain activity. TUE They've been asking patients and healthy volunteers to TUE imagine playing tennis to answer questions whilst being TUE scanned. In each of the healthy volunteers this stimulated TUE activity in the pre-motor cortex part of the brain which TUE deals with movement. This also happened in four out of 23 of TUE the patients presumed to be in a vegetative state. TUE TUE These are not patients who show any signs of any physical TUE recovery but the research raises the possibility that they TUE might retain a degree of consciousness and there might be a TUE way of communicating with them. Up to 12,000 people under 40 TUE in this country suffer traumatic brain injury every year TUE and, according to Professor John Pickard, head of TUE neurosurgery at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge, there TUE are serious deficiencies in their care: "The tendency for TUE patients to be left to languish on general medical, surgical TUE and orthopaedic wards continues to their detriment." TUE TUE The work might eventually lead to improved diagnosis and TUE care for some patients. It started with the case of Kate TUE Bainbridge, a 37 year old teacher thought to be in a TUE vegetative state after contracting a viral infection. Dr TUE Owen showed her photos of her parents whilst her brain was TUE being scanned: "We found that areas of her brain burst into TUE activity that accorded perfectly with the brain locators of TUE healthy volunteers doing the same task." Today Kate sits in TUE a wheelchair "speaking" with the aid of a letter-board and TUE tells of her relief that doctors finally realised that she TUE was conscious even though she could not speak or make any TUE kind of signal. TUE TUE Vegetative state and minimal-conscious state are different TUE from brain death, which involves the total destruction of TUE all brain areas and the consequent collapse of heart-lung TUE function. If a vegetative state lasts for more than three TUE months (longer in certain forms of brain insult) there is TUE thought to be progressively less chance that the patient TUE will return to even minimal consciousness. TUE TUE Today Kate is grateful for the work going on at Cambridge TUE University and credits neuroscientist Dr Owen with helping TUE her communicate - she can send and recieve e-mails, watch TUE television and listen to music. She would like to see much TUE more done to help others diagnosed as being in a persistent TUE vegetative state: "Not being able to communicate was awful - TUE I felt trapped inside my body. I had loads of questions, TUE like 'Where am I?', 'Why am I here?', 'What has happened?'. TUE TUE "I just have to look and see what the scans did for me. They TUE found I was there inside my body that did not respond.". TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00s77m2 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00s77m4 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter visits the Trauma Centre at Barts and the TUE London Hospital. It has set up teams of experts to rapidly TUE deliver treatments to those who are seriously injured, TUE following a model of care that was established in the United TUE States. This approach has been shown to save lives and TUE improve the outcome for severely injured patients. TUE TUE The Royal London Hospital Trauma Centre treats around 1400 TUE patients a year, and about a quarter of these are very TUE seriously injured. This can be the result of knife or TUE gunshot wounds, traffic accidents, burns or falls. The team TUE was heavily involved in the treatment of the victims of the TUE London bombings in 2005. The Trauma Centre is now one of TUE four in London, which are collaborating to provide the best TUE treatment to the capital. TUE TUE Mark Porter spends a day with the team of doctors and TUE nurses, to find out how they work together to save the lives TUE of the seriously injured. TUE TUE Producer: Deborah Cohen. TUE TUE 21:30 In Our Time b00s3h3w (Listen) TUE The Great Wall of China TUE TUE Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Wall of China. TUE TUE The Great Wall is not a single Wall. It is not visible from TUE space, contrary to popular belief, as it is much too thin. TUE But it remains a spectacular architectural and historical TUE phenomenon. TUE TUE The Great Wall's military importance, and its symbolic TUE power, have varied widely in its long existence, as its TUE place in Chinese life has shifted with the country's history. TUE TUE It was initially constructed at the command of the first TUE Emperor, from 221 BC, and was a combination of the various TUE protective walls that had been built by the smaller states TUE which he had conquered and merged to form China. TUE TUE The original Wall was made of pounded earth, and in places TUE the wind-carved remains of this two thousand year old TUE construction are still visible. TUE TUE But the Wall which is familiar to us today is the work of TUE the Ming Dynasty, and its vast programme of reinforcement - TUE prompted by a renewed threat from the Mongols in the north. TUE TUE In the 17th century, amazed Jesuits sent back reports to TUE Europe about the Wall, and ever since it has held a powerful TUE place in the imagination of the West. TUE TUE Some scholars argue that this in turn has shaped the modern TUE Chinese appreciation of their astounding inheritance. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00s5ljq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00s5lm3 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00s5lv0 (Listen) TUE The Aspern Papers, Episode 7 TUE TUE The final episode of The Aspern Papers by Henry James, read TUE by Samuel West. TUE TUE After all his scheming to obtain Jeffrey Aspern's letters to TUE Juliana Bordereau, the obsessive collector is tantalizingly TUE close to them but cannot feel confident of possessing them. TUE He knows where they are in the house, he knows that Juliana TUE has not long to live. It has now become a matter of ensuring TUE the old lady doesn't destroy the papers before she dies. His TUE one hope is the co-operation of the loveless Miss Tina. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. TUE TUE 23:00 The Vote Now Show b00s5nc8 (Listen) TUE Episode 11 TUE TUE 11/12: Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a nightly TUE satirical round up of election news and comment from TUE comedians, journalists and commentators. TUE TUE 23:30 Art Attack b00nk2xr (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Series investigating the history of attacks on art works, TUE from the earliest times to the present day. TUE TUE When does destruction become an act of creation? Lawrence TUE Pollard explores what lies behind some of the more bizarre TUE assaults on contemporary art, including an exploding shed, TUE an artist who destroyed every one of his possessions and art TUE that has been both urinated on and whacked with a hammer. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 MAY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00s55kn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00s5h0n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00s55lt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00s55n9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00s55rj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00s56bb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00s5fmf (Listen) WED Presented by the Revd Bob Fyffe, General Secretary of WED Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00s5fpp (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00s5ftf (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00s77mx (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00s5h0q (Listen) WED Blood Knots, Episode 3 WED WED Author Luke Jennings writes about a lifetime of fantastic WED fishing and fishing mentors. WED WED Luke thinks that his dad's wartime experiences might have WED drawn him to the waterside - to fish. WED WED Reader: Nigel Hastings WED Abridged by Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00s5h5k (Listen) WED Presented by Jane Garvey. Lucy Kellaway talks about her new WED book "In Office Hours" exploring the perils of the office WED relationship. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmr (Listen) WED An Unsuitable Attachment, Episode 8 WED WED Penelope Wilton stars in Barbara Pym's wonderful story of WED love, requited and otherwise, in unfashionable north London WED in 1960. While everyone else has gone back to England, WED Ianthe and Sophia go to visit Sophia's Aunt in her villa in WED Ravello. It's romantic, if run down, and Ianthe tells Sophia WED of her love for John. Sophia's reaction is not quite what WED she would expect. WED WED Dramatised by Jennie Howarth. WED WED Narrator ..... Penelope Wilton WED Penelope ..... Sophie Thompson WED Sophia ..... Lucy Akhurst WED Ianthe ..... Raquel Cassidy WED Mervyn ..... Stephen Critchlow WED Mark ..... Martin Ball WED Rupert ..... Ben Crowe WED John ..... Tom Andrews WED Sister Dew ..... Angela Curran WED Lady Selvedge ..... Joanna Wake WED Mrs Grandison ..... Frances Jeater WED Edwin ..... Robin Bowerman WED Basil ..... Joe Coen WED WED The director is Chris Wallis, and this is an Autolycus WED production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Cutting the Lifeline b00s9j0s (Listen) WED Migrant workers' remittances provide a lifeline for millions WED in the world's poorest countries. But the global economic WED crisis is cutting that lifeline for many people. The flow of WED remittance money is drying up - and increasingly it's the WED workers themselves - rather than their wages - that are WED heading home. WED WED The small Central American country of Honduras is one of the WED poorest in the western hemisphere and depends for almost WED thirty percent of its income on remittances. In this WED programme we hear from Honduran migrant workers in the U.S. WED who are struggling to find jobs - and from their WED impoverished families back home. WED WED Producer: Vera Frankl WED An IGA production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons b00lsxh0 (Listen) WED Occasional series of comic profiles celebrating the living WED artists deemed to be 'iconic icons'. WED WED Written by and starring Patrick Barlow, with additional WED material by John Ramm. WED WED A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00s5hsg (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00s5j6l (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00s5jk3 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00s5jld (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00s77wr (Listen) WED Brief Lives - Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly WED Debby is representing a posh, middle aged good time girl who WED has been held at the airport on suspected drugs charges. She WED says she has friends in high places. But will they help her? WED Meanwhile Sarah's sister suddenly shows up. A North London WED Princess who gets a nose bleed if she goes past Watford? WED What's her game? WED WED Frank..................................David Schofield WED Debbie................................Emma Atkins WED Sarah.................................Tracey-Ann Oberman WED Rebecca.............................Jessica Blake WED Caroline..............................Kathryn Hunt WED Sumner...............................Malcolm Raeburn WED Alex....................................Jak Norton WED O'Brien................................David Corden WED WED Producer Gary Brown. WED Original music by Carl Harms WED WED The third series of 'Brief Lives' returns chronicling the WED adventures of Frank Twist and his extraordinary bunch of WED legal reps. The Agency operates 24 hours a day, seven days a WED week, dispatching legal representatives to set free WED burglars, muggers, murderers and even some innocent people WED who find themselves on the wrong side of a cell door. WED WED This week Debbie represents Caroline (a posh ex-good time WED girl) who has been stopped by customs at Manchester Airport. WED She's tested positive for cocaine and is supected of being a WED drugs mule - i.e swallowing bags of cocaine. She can easily WED prove that she isn't a 'Swallower' by taking an x-ray. But WED Caroline refuses - saying she is pregnant. This causes WED incredulity from the interrogating officer because she is WED the wrong side of forty. WED WED Meanwhile Sarah's sister, Bex is up from London. She breezes WED in, but Sarah suspects something is up. It seems that she is WED owed some money by a Manchester crook. Sarah refuses to help WED until a little family backstory is evoked. WED WED Debby is dispatched to ask the help of a friend of Caroline. WED But the friend casts her adrift. They have a shared history WED - but he's fed up of bailing her out. She's on her own. WED Debby suspects his involvement. The bags burst in Caroline's WED stomach and she dies at the airport. WED WED Written by TV writers Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly; Brief Lives WED stars David Schofield as Frank, Tracy Ann Oberman (Dirty WED Den's killer in EastEnders) as Sarah, and Emma Atkins WED (Charity Dingle in Emmerdale) as Debbie. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00s77wt (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer your WED personal finance questions. WED Subject: Identity theft WED Guests: Sandra Quinn, director of communications, UK Cards WED Association WED James Jones, consumer education manager, Experian WED James Daley, editor, Which? Money WED You can call the programme when lines open on Wednesday at WED 1330 BST. The number is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00s6t4p (Listen) WED Come Away, Come Away!, Daredevil WED WED To mark the 150th anniversary of J M Barrie's birth, three WED leading writers for young people contribute new stories WED inspired by a chapter title from 'Peter Pan'. WED WED By Michael Morpurgo. WED WED A reckless challenge leads to a dark discovery in a tale of WED nature and brotherhood. WED WED Reader: James Bryce. WED WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 15:45 The Drawings on the Wall b008yn1c (Listen) WED Irish Illusions WED WED Archaeologist George Nash explores five of Western Europe's WED most remarkable rock art sites. WED WED George visits County Meath in Ireland where strange patterns WED adorn the walls of the Fourknocks Passage Grave. What do the WED patterns mean? WED WED George finds himself being stared at by a very odd WED cartoon-like face inside a 5000-year-old Irish tomb. It's a WED very early example of what we now call "graffiti" - and WED around it are hypnotic patterns of concentric circles, WED horizontal zigzags and strings of diamond shapes. Strangely WED similar carvings occur in Wales, Brittany and the Iberian WED peninsular. So who created them? What do they all mean? And WED who was copying who in Neolithic times? WED WED George teams up with the modern-day Muslim graffiti artist WED Mohammed Ali to study these patterns for their spiritual WED significance, which may just lie in the fact that they are WED not as perfect as they seem. And he considers the WED possibility that Stone Age Man may well have been 'stoned' WED when he created them. WED WED Producer: Chris Eldon Lee WED A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00s782f (Listen) WED From Morse to Wallander, the anthropology of the detective WED tour. Plus criminals in Russia. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b00s782h (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b00s5jp7 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00s5jqd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00s782k (Listen) WED Series 2, Gateshead WED WED Comedian Mark Steel travels to Gateshead to perform to WED locals who under no circumstances want their town to be WED confused with Newcastle. WED WED Whilst up there Mark enjoys a memorable night out in a local WED pub; a telling-off in the Baltic Art Gallery, a visit to the WED Angel of The North and an ugly car park that some people WED want to preserve because of its role in a grisly murder. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00s5jlg (Listen) WED Adam prepares for a fruitful summer, and Jennifer's WED surprised to find Paul even closer to home. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00s5l11 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the former WED Coronation Street actress and Loose Women presenter Denise WED Welch, whose autobiography documents her battle with drugs WED and post natal depression. Plus the South African trumpeter WED and composer Hugh Masekela. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Devil's Advocate b00s782m (Listen) WED Celebrity Privacy WED WED In this new Radio 4 debate series, David Aaronovitch invites WED two guest speakers to turn their established views on their WED head and debate the contrary position. WED WED Speakers are given two weeks to research their arguments WED before appearing in the debate in front of an invited WED audience at Cambridge University. We follow the debate, but WED also hear about their research process and from the people WED who have acted as their mentors. WED WED At the end of a programme, a vote is taken, and the speakers WED are invited to reflect on the experience. Has it changed WED their established views? WED WED In this first programme in the series, the motion is: WED WED 'Celebrities have no automatic rights to a private life.' WED WED Speaking for the motion is TV presenter John Leslie, and WED against is columnist and writer Toby Young. WED WED In an increasingly celebrity-centric society, should stars WED who ultimately survive on the oxygen of publicity have the WED right to a private life? Is a lack of clear privacy laws WED eroding the freedom of the press, and are celebrities WED hypocritical when it comes to balancing privacy with WED publicity - or do they need protection? WED WED The programme is recorded in front of an invited audience WED at Judge Business School in Cambridge. WED WED Producer: David Prest WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 What the Election Papers Say b00s782p (Listen) WED Episode 10 WED WED BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the WED Election Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. Each WED programme will see a leading political journalist take a wry WED look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest WED stories of the campaign. WED WED Hear all about it - with Assistant Editor of the Sunday WED Express Julia Hartley-Brewer. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00s7b36 (Listen) WED With 5% of the world's flora and fauna Brazil's enormous WED Cerrado region is a rich mosaic of grass and woodland that WED is being destroyed at twice the speed of the Amazon WED rainforest. WED WED Taking up one quarter of Brazil's land mass the Cerrado WED lacks the high profile of the Amazon or its celebrity WED supporters, making it easier for the fast expanding WED sugarcane and soya industries to take bigger bites out of WED the savannah. That can mean the loss of unique species and WED the destruction of traditional ways of life in the region. WED WED For 'Costing the Earth' Tim Hirsch visits the Cerrado to WED hear from local people who are trying to save their land by WED making it pay. Ice creams flavoured with unusual Cerrado WED fruits and bird-watching holidays for British tourists may WED not be able to compete with large-scale farming but locals WED hope they'll give the area the publicity it needs for real WED protection. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00s77mx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00s5ljs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00s5lm5 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00s5m0b (Listen) WED A Perpetual Love Affair, Byron in Venice WED WED Henry James described his relationship with Venice as "a WED perpetual love affair," and in Bryon's case this is very WED apt. Byron arrived in Venice in 1816, following great WED scandal in England. He had not meant to stay long but soon WED fell in love - notably with the wife of his landlord - and WED his letters chronicle the development both of this affair WED and of his eccentric decision to learn Armenian. WED WED This selection of Byron's letters is read by Mark Meadows. WED WED Abridged and produced in Bristol by Christine Hall. WED WED 23:00 The Vote Now Show b00s5ncb (Listen) WED Episode 12 WED WED 12/12: Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a nightly WED satirical round up of election news and comment from WED comedians, journalists and commentators. WED WED 23:30 In Search of the Holy Quail b00mdy17 (Listen) WED Three musicians - Guy Garvey of Elbow, Martin Noble of WED British Sea Power and Marc Riley, formerly of The Fall and a WED BBC 6 Music presenter - explore the rugged terrain of WED Shetland in search of the quail. WED WED They travel to to Sumburgh Head on the southern tip of WED Shetland Mainland, to a traditional Shetland music session WED in a Lerwick pub and to Mousa Broch, one of the world's WED largest Storm Petrel breeding colonies, on their search for WED the elusive bird. As there are no more than four quail seen WED in the Shetlands during a typical season, the chances of WED seeing one are slim. WED WED A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 MAY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00s55kq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00s5h0q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00s55lw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00s55nc (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00s55rl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00s56bd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00s5fmh (Listen) THU Presented by the Revd Bob Fyffe, General Secretary of THU Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00s5fpr (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b00s5fth (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00s7b6r (Listen) THU The Cool Universe THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe. THU THU Producer: Phil Tinline. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00s5h0s (Listen) THU Blood Knots, Episode 4 THU THU Author Luke Jennings writes about a lifetime of fantastic THU fishing and fishing mentors. THU THU Luke realls another angling mentor - the enigmatic Robert, THU who teaches him the art of fly-fishing for trout. THU THU Reader: Nigel Hastings THU Abridged by Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00s5h5p (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Ugly feet - how to cope with THU summer sandals. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmt (Listen) THU An Unsuitable Attachment, Episode 9 THU THU Penelope Wilton stars in Barbara Pym's wonderful story THU of love, requited and otherwise, in unfashionable north THU London in 1960. Confused by Penelope's tearfulness in Rome, THU Rupert heads over to Ianthe for solace. But it is not to be. THU THU Dramatised by Jennie Howarth. THU THU Narrator ..... Penelope Wilton THU Penelope ..... Sophie Thompson THU Sophia ..... Lucy Akhurst THU Ianthe ..... Raquel Cassidy THU Mervyn ..... Stephen Critchlow THU Mark ..... Martin Ball THU Rupert ..... Ben Crowe THU John ..... Tom Andrews THU Sister Dew ..... Angela Curran THU Lady Selvedge ..... Joanna Wake THU Mrs Grandison ..... Frances Jeater THU Edwin ..... Robin Bowerman THU Basil ..... Joe Coen THU THU The director is Chris Wallis, and this is an Autolycus THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00s7dvr (Listen) THU India's Red Belt THU THU After 20 years of fighting, the Indian government has THU launched its biggest ever offensive against Maoist rebels. THU The government has sent thousands of troops into remote THU jungle areas in an attempt to "wipe out the top leadership" THU of the insurgents and end the fighting which has killed more THU than 6,000 people. THU THU British anthropologist Alpa Shah has gained access to a THU Maoist-controlled region of Jharkand in eastern India. She's THU been given a rare interview with a Maoist leader and she THU reports on day-to-day life in some of the country's poorest THU villages in areas under Maoist influence. THU THU The fields are still tilled by oxen.there are few roads and THU 85% of the population have no electricity. Yet Jharkhand has THU vast forest and mineral resources. It produces 48% of THU India's coal, 40% of the country's iron, 48% of its bauxite THU and 100% of its kyanite. Multi-national companies are THU looking to set up here. But the Maoists say the local people THU are seeing little of this new-found wealth. THU THU The Maoists are seen as terrorists by the Indian THU authorities. But in these villages, Alpa discovers that they THU are responsible for the running of almost every aspect of THU day-to-day life. They organise local festivals, make-shift THU courts, food markets and their own schools. Described by THU many as "the family", it's a complex social landscape where THU the Maoists are firmly embedded. THU THU Against this backdrop, Alpa questions Maoist fighters about THU why they're prepared to use brutal means to achieve their THU aim of overthrowing the state. She visits a military THU training camp where poorly armed recruits are preparing to THU take on the might of the Indian paramilitary troops. A child THU soldier, who's 15, tells her he's fighting to liberate the THU people against poverty. THU THU Presenter: Alpa Shah THU Producer: Adele Armstrong. THU THU 11:30 Launching the Style Decade b00s7dvt (Listen) THU 30 years after it was launched, Robert Elms investigates the THU origins and influence of The Face, the 'style bible' of the THU 80s. The magazine was at the forefront of a remarkable THU change in the visual landscape of Britain in the 1980s: from THU Sunday newspaper supplements, to television ads, to ordinary THU high street shop fronts. THU THU Until 1980 music magazines were black and white broadsheet THU papers like the NME and Melody Maker. Then in the summer of THU 1980 The Face changed all that. Started by the former NME THU and Smash Hits editor Nick Logan, it brought a flash of THU colour to the magazine industry, mixing pop, politics, THU photography, fashion and style, all tied together by the THU iconic design of art director Neville Brody. THU THU The Face advocated that music didn't matter unless everyone THU looked good. With the innovative marriage of fashion and THU music, 'the best dressed magazine' quickly became the THU arbiter of style and cool in 1980s England. THU THU At its most successful The Face was at the forefront of THU every major youth movement and was pivotal in launching the THU career of models Kate Moss and photgrapher Juergen Teller. THU Taking stock, publisher Nick Logan and Neville Brody reveal THU what they believe to be the lasting impact of The Face on THU style and design. THU THU The producer is Barney Rowntree, and this is a Somethin Else THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00s5hsj (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00s5j6n (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00s5jk5 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00s5jlg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00s7dvw (Listen) THU Can't Live Without You THU THU By Kellie Smith THU THU Starring Sarah Smart and Bryan Dick THU THU A psychological thriller about a man's craving for control THU in his marriage. THU THU When Greg's partner Anna becomes ill and needs constant THU care, Greg flourishes as her carer and becomes intoxicated THU by her dependency. Greg's apparent overwhelming love for his THU partner, his deepening desire to feel needed takes him to THU the limit in their relationship. THU THU Greg......Bryan Dick THU Anna..... Sarah Smart THU Neil........Dean Smith THU Nurse.....Emma Hartley-Miller THU THU Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00s50lz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00s54d0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00s6t4r (Listen) THU Come Away, Come Away!, The Beautiful Freedom Cage THU THU To mark the 150th anniversary of J M Barrie's birth, three THU leading writers for young people contribute new stories THU inspired by a chapter title from 'Peter Pan'. THU THU By Julie Bertagna. THU THU Alam travels from his desolate mountain community to the THU glittering promise of Europe, where he hopes to learn the THU true meaning of freedom. THU THU Reader: Laura Smales. THU THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 15:45 The Drawings on the Wall b0090g5r (Listen) THU The Master of Paspardo THU THU Archaeologist George Nash explores five of Western Europe's THU most remarkable rock art sites. THU THU George visits the prehistoric art of northern Italy's Val THU Camonica. Carved into the rock is one of the world's first THU maps, images of some of Europe's earliest houses and scores THU of Iron Age warriors. He asks if these fighting figures THU could be the work of just one artist. THU THU Producer: Chris Eldon Lee THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00s54tn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00s7dvy (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper meets the scientists making news. This week THU he investigates the science of Plasmonics, the ultimate THU ability to control light and use it to process information THU and manipulate materials at the smallest scale imaginable. THU THU Controlling the interaction between light and matter is THU fundamental to science and to technology - from probing THU entanglement in quantum physics to harnessing the THU spectacular information carrying capacity of optical fibres. THU Nanoscale fabrication allows the manufacture of new THU materials with increasing sophistication and freedom of THU design, but controlling light at the nanoscale remains a THU challenge. Traditionally light can only be controlled on THU length scales down to a little below the wavelength of THU light, a few hundred nanometres, hence the usual resolution THU limit of optical microscopes and telescopes. However, a new THU paradigm called plasmonics is emerging, to control light THU below its wavelength limit, down to nanometre length scales. THU THU Also in the programme, the latest news from the finalists of THU 'So You Want To be a Scientist'. THU THU Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00s5jp9 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00s5jqg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00s7dw0 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Arhtur Smith invites the audience into his home for comedy THU and entertainment from Nine Below Zero, Phill Jupitus, Josh THU Widdecombe and Marlon Davies. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00s5jlj (Listen) THU Fallon meets the new boy in town, and Oliver ensures that THU Joe pays his dues. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00s5l13 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00s7dw2 (Listen) THU With the football season drawing to a close, Morland Sanders THU investigates the financial crisis facing Premiership and THU Championship clubs. Many are saddled with huge debts. THU THU One manager says his club's business model of high wages and THU bonuses simply does not stack up and threatens the viability THU of the national game. THU THU And the outgoing Football League chairman has warned that THU the affairs of some clubs are not transparent, making it THU impossible to determine who the owners are - and the level THU of debts on the books. THU THU Producer: Samantha Fenwick. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00s7dw4 (Listen) THU Press Under Pressure THU THU Many of the world's best-known business newspapers and THU magazines are being painfully squeezed by the recession and THU the rise of rival media. In London and New York, Peter Day THU finds out why it matters..and how they are going about THU fighting for survival. THU THU Producer : Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00s6svl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00s7b6r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 Election Night 2010 b00s8c2v (Listen) THU Presented by James Naughtie & Carolyn Quinn. THU THU Live results, analysis and interviews as the UK finds out THU who has won the right to govern. THU THU A night of unfolding drama, as told by Radio 4's best known THU and respected presenters including Martha Kearney, Andrew THU Marr, Justin Webb, Jane Garvey, Jenni Murray, Ritula Shah, THU Libby Purves, Ed Stourton, Julian Worricker and Paddy THU O'Connell. THU THU We know the nation has never been less in love with those THU who represent us, so Election Night 2010 promises to be both THU brutal and dramatic. THU THU We'll hear from the winners and the losers. James Naughtie THU and Carolyn Quinn and Radio 4's election number cruncher, THU Professor Phil Cowley will look at the stats, the swings, THU the new names and whether any party has attracted enough THU support to form the next government. As Phil makes sense of THU of the numbers, Carolyn will make clear the state of the THU parties and Jim invariably will make a complete mess of THU whatever is left around him. THU THU A night to remember. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 MAY 2010 FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00s5ftk (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00s54dd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00s5h0v (Listen) FRI Blood Knots, Episode 5 FRI FRI Author Luke Jennings writes about a lifetime of fantastic FRI fishing and fishing mentors. FRI FRI Luke takes us back again to dark, brackish waters for that FRI freshwater monter - the pike. Very big pike, in fact. FRI FRI Reader: Nigel Hastings FRI Abridged by Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00s5h5s (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmw (Listen) FRI An Unsuitable Attachment, Episode 10 FRI FRI Penelope Wilton stars in Barbara Pym's wonderful story of FRI love, requited and otherwise, in unfashionable north London FRI in 1960. Ianthe Broome and John Challow are to be married. FRI It says so in The Times. But can it be true? It's so FRI unsuitable. Perhaps it won't happen after all. FRI FRI Dramatised by Jennie Howarth. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Penelope Wilton FRI Penelope ..... Sophie Thompson FRI Sophia ..... Lucy Akhurst FRI Ianthe ..... Raquel Cassidy FRI Mervyn ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Mark ..... Martin Ball FRI Rupert ..... Ben Crowe FRI John ..... Tom Andrews FRI Sister Dew ..... Angela Curran FRI Lady Selvedge ..... Joanna Wake FRI Mrs Grandison ..... Frances Jeater FRI Edwin ..... Robin Bowerman FRI Basil ..... Joe Coen FRI FRI The director is Chris Wallis, and this is an Autolycus FRI production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Random Edition b00s3d1r (Listen) FRI 350th Anniversary of the Restoration Special FRI FRI The English Revolution was as brutal, divisive and - in its FRI way - as politically significant as its counterparts in FRI France and Russia. FRI FRI But somehow the nation more or less came together again in FRI the spring of 1660 in support of one route out of the chaos FRI that followed Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 - monarchy. FRI And this Random Edition examines, with the help of the FRI Parliamentary Intelligencer 'newsbook' for April 30th to May FRI 7th 1660, just how Charles II came to be accepted back as FRI king, eleven years after his father had been beheaded. FRI FRI The Intelligencer describes in graphic detail the arrival FRI before both Houses of Parliament of Sir John Grenville, a FRI messenger from Charles, who is currently in the Dutch town FRI of Breda. Grenville carries the king's 'Declaration of FRI Breda' containing the various guarantees that will prove to FRI make his restoration possible. FRI FRI Using other extracts from the Intelligencer, Peter Snow, FRI examines some of Charles's guarantees - that all in the army FRI will be paid arrears owing to them; that a general pardon FRI will be offered to (almost) all those who worked against the FRI monarchy in the preceding years; and that freedom of FRI religion will be respected. FRI FRI Just how far were these guarantees fulfilled? FRI FRI Peter Snow is joined by Restoration historian Ronald Hutton FRI for a tour of various sites in Westminster that help bring FRI alive the Intelligencer's stories. FRI FRI Also in the programme, Andrew Green travels to Breda to FRI learn about Charles II's years of exile. Trevor Barnes fills FRI out the Intelligencer's story of how militant Republican FRI resistance has been snuffed out. And historian Jenny Uglow FRI stands on the beach at Deal in Kent to imagine the great FRI fleet preparing to cross the North Sea to bring Charles home FRI from The Netherlands. FRI FRI All this....and the newspaper's ads. FRI FRI Programme contributors include historians Pene Corfield, FRI Jenny Uglow, Jason Peacey, Ronald Hutton, Mark Goldie, John FRI Morrill and David Farr. FRI FRI Sites visited include undercroft of Houses of Parliament, FRI Westminster Abbey, St Margaret's Westminster, and Banqueting FRI House in Whitehall. FRI FRI This is an Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 When The Dog Dies b00s7f9r (Listen) FRI Episode 2: SPYING IS BELIEVING FRI FRI Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom FRI Sorry, Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. FRI FRI Sorry ran for seven series on BBC 1 and was number one in FRI the UK ratings. FRI FRI In this new Radio 4 sitcom, Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who FRI is growing old happily along with his dog Henry. His grown FRI up children - both married to people Sandy doesn't approve FRI of at all - would like him to move out of the family home so FRI they can get their hands on their money earlier. But Sandy's FRI not having this - he's not moving until the dog dies. And FRI not just that, how can he move if he's got a lodger? His FRI daughter is convinced that his too-attractive lodger Dolores FRI (Liza Tarbuck) is after Sandy and his money. FRI FRI Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a FRI friendly word - a kindly hand on the shoulder - can really FRI help a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog FRI together face a complicated world. There's every chance FRI they'll make it more so. FRI FRI In this second episode, Spying Is Believing, we meet Sandy's FRI daughter-in-law Victoria, also known as the Wicked Witch of FRI the West. Her husband and daughter are two of her victims. FRI Sandy, aided by Dolores, finds himself snooping on Victoria, FRI hiding in a car boot and climbing a very tall tree. This is FRI an adventure straight out of the Dangerous Grandad's Book FRI For Boys. FRI FRI SANDY - RONNIE CORBETT FRI TYSON - DANIEL BRIDLE FRI CALAIS - AMELIA CLARKSON FRI DOLORES - LIZA TARBUCK FRI VICTORIA - JOANNA BROOKES FRI LANCE - PHILIP BIRD FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee, a CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00s5hsl (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00s5j6q (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00s5jk7 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Martha Kearney. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00s5jlj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c5xth (Listen) FRI The Confessions FRI FRI Charlotte Grieg's play is a contemporary thriller about an FRI art scam. FRI FRI When Luke cons an unknowing client into selling him a FRI valuable artwork at a cut price rate, he knows he stands to FRI make a killing - but he can't pull off his plan without the FRI help of his girlfriend Catrin. Catrin is a good girl who has FRI fallen for a bad boy but will she override her moral FRI scruples and go along with Luke's scheme whatever the price? FRI FRI Luke ..... Clive Standen FRI Catrin ..... Lynne Seymour FRI Heinrich ..... John Castle FRI Simone .....Sara McGaughey FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00s7f9t (Listen) FRI Anne Swithinbank goes in search of bedding-plant inspiration FRI at Sunderland's municipal gardens. FRI FRI Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and chairman FRI Eric Robson are guests of Herrington Flower Club. FRI FRI The producer is Howard Shannon, and this is a Somethin' Else FRI Sound Directions production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Drawings on the Wall b0091xzh (Listen) FRI Architecture of Death FRI FRI Archaeologist George Nash explores five of Western Europe's FRI most remarkable rock art sites. FRI FRI George and fellow archaeologist Adam Stanford document the FRI Neolithic carvings at Barclodiad y Gawres on Anglesey and FRI make a tantalising discovery on the mainland. But what does FRI all this prehistoric graffiti mean? FRI FRI Producer: Chris Eldon Lee FRI A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00s7f9w (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00s7f9y (Listen) FRI Jenny Agutter revisits The Railway Children. Riz Ahmed on FRI controversial satire Four Lions. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00s5jpc (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00s5jqj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00s7fb0 (Listen) FRI Series 71, Episode 4 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week are Jack Dee, Jeremy FRI Hardy, Francis Wheen, and Sue Perkins. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00s5jll (Listen) FRI Matt cranks up the pressure, and a crisis at Brookfield FRI brings Jude to the farm. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00s5l15 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. With Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00s5hmw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00s7fb2 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Witney in FRI Oxfordshire. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00s7g8c (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Simon Schama. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00s7g8f (Listen) FRI Ten years ago Zahid Mubarek was beaten to death by his FRI cellmate, teenager Robert Stewart in Feltham Young Offenders FRI Institution. In Neil McKay's new factual drama, prison offer FRI John acts as our narrator, leading us through an overloaded FRI prison system to reveal how a known racist with psycophathic FRI tendencies ended up sharing a cell with a quiet Asian lad FRI serving only 90 days for petty theft. FRI FRI Stewart's manipulative actions get him moved round the FRI country from one YOI to another as his behaviour becomes FRI increasingly violent and erratic, from tattooing RIP onto FRI his forehead, to inciting the murder of a fellow inmate FRI during a cookery class. He eventually ends up in the huge, FRI overcrowded nightmare that is Feltham, where cells designed FRI for one hold two, and boys are banged up for twenty-three FRI hours out of twenty-four. Astonishingly, Stewart's long FRI record of violence and racist behaviour fails to reach FRI Swallow wing, where the only spare bed is in Zahid Mubarek's cell. FRI FRI It is now ten years since Zahid's death and many of the FRI recommendations of the public inquiry have still not been FRI fully implemented. Prisons remain overcrowded and FRI overstretched. Violence is rife. More than 70% of prisoners FRI suffer two or more mental health disorders. As prison FRI officer John in the play observes: "But it's all out of FRI sight so we keep it out of mind. It shouldn't be, for the FRI sake of everyone. Zahid could have been your son or mine. FRI Remember him. Remember his name. Zahid Mubarek." FRI FRI RIP BOY is written by Bafta award-winning TV dramatist Neil FRI McKay (Mo, See No Evil, Dunkirk, The Hunt for the Yorkshire FRI Ripper) who specializes in dramatizing stories about real FRI lives. Matthew NcNulty (Five Days, Unforgiven, The Mark of FRI Cain) plays Robert Stewart and Ross Boatman (Sex & Drugs & FRI Rock & Roll, Cassandra's Dream) plays John. Zahid Mubarek is FRI played by Darren Kuppan who has just appeared in East is FRI East at Birmingham Rep. FRI FRI Robert Stewart ..... Matthew NcNulty FRI John ..... Ross Boatman FRI Zahid Mubarek ..... Darren Kuppan FRI Jamie Barnes ..... Ashley Gerlach FRI Karen Stewart, Nurse ..... Fiona Clarke FRI Prison Officers ..... Nick Underwood FRI Prison Officers ..... Greg Wood FRI Travis ..... John Cattrell FRI Simmo ..... James Adler FRI FRI Directed by Melanie Harris. This is a Red production for BBC FRI Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00s5ljx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00s5lm9 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00s5n6p (Listen) FRI A Perpetual Love Affair, Henry James' Venice FRI FRI Henry James considered his relationship with Venice "a FRI perpetual love affair." FRI FRI Selina Cadell reads a selection of James's writing about the FRI city he loved. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00s77ft (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 I Want to Work in... b00m535t (Listen) FRI Laurie Taylor - himself a former careers master at a FRI comprehensive school - takes an affectionate look back at 50 FRI years of careers advice. FRI FRI He goes back to the time when careers were really only for FRI middle-class boys; girls and the lower orders were expected FRI to make do with mere jobs. This was reflected in the FRI inadequate careers advice handed out at the time by school FRI careers masters and by the often patronising schools TV FRI films about everything from working in insurance to the FRI distinctive pleasures of shelf-filling in a supermarket. How FRI much was anyone helped by such sources of information? FRI FRI Laurie finds out how different the situation is today, when FRI fewer and fewer children follow in their parents' career FRI footsteps and when even the notion of a 'career' itself is FRI under attack by the proponents of the 'portfolio' society. FRI He talks to experts and visits a jobs fair for graduates, FRI and asks if, over the past 50 years of careers advice, FRI anybody has taken a blind bit of notice. FRI FRI Going to Work - careers advice from the 1960s FRI FRI From 'plonking' to the glass ceiling - find out what school FRI leavers had to look forward to in the 1960s. FRI
30 April, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 01/05/2010 - 07/05/2010
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