01 April, 2011

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SAT SATURDAY 02 APRIL 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00zt62q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00zt8cr (Listen) SAT Venetian Navigators - The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the SAT Far North, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Andrea di Robilant. SAT SAT Read by Sam Dale. SAT SAT In the fourteenth century, so the story goes, two merchant SAT brothers set out from Venice on a journey through the rough SAT seas of the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes and SAT fighting savage natives on distant shores. SAT SAT Their adventures - printed as a small book and beautifully SAT detailed map in 1558 by an enthusiastic ancestor - were SAT celebrated throughout Europe until, in 1835, the story was SAT denounced as a 'tissue of lies' and the Zens faded into SAT oblivion. SAT SAT Intrigued by the myth, the writer Andrea di Robilant set out SAT to discover what traces remain of these fabled voyages. In SAT this final episode, the quest reaches its furthest point SAT north on the slopes of a smoking volcano in Greenland. SAT SAT Abridged by Laurence Wareing. SAT SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zt62s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zt62v (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zt62x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00zt62z (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zt631 (Listen) SAT Prayer and reflection. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00zxf8d (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00zt633 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00zt635 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00zxn8g (Listen) SAT The shores of the Durham coastline were once as black as the SAT coal that was tipped into the waves that crashed onto them. SAT But in recent years an amazing transformation has taken SAT place. Helen Mark finds out about the Durham Heritage Coast. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00zxn8j (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Melton Mowbray pork pies, Stilton cheese and the Cumberland SAT sausage are among the 40 UK products which carry protected SAT name status from the European Union. Strict criteria are set SAT on the area or way in which the food or drink is made. A SAT further 44 UK products are applying and the Government wants SAT even more producers to bid for it. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith looks at just how valuable such titles are. SAT Although a Cornish Pasty might be well-known, she asks if SAT customers are as fussed if their celery is 'Fenland' or SAT their ale 'Kentish'. She visits a farm in Oxfordshire to see SAT why their Gloucestershire Old Spots Pork is 'Traditionally SAT Farmed' and to ask if customers know the difference or even SAT care. SAT SAT Meanwhile growers are trying to get protected status for SAT 'watercress'. So what will farmers who grow the leaves in SAT soil use on their labels? SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00zt637 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00zxn8l (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00zxn8n (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles with author and screenwriter SAT Anthony Horowitz, poet Murray Lachlan Young, and a former SAT evacuee who was eventually adopted by the family who took SAT him in. There's a Sound Sculpture of washing china tea sets, SAT an I Was There from the Chief Officer of The Canberra when SAT she requisitioned for the Falklands War, and the Inheritance SAT Tracks of rock 'n' roll's first lady Wanda Jackson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00zxn8q (Listen) SAT Nigeria - Newfoundland, Labrador and Montreal, Canada SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig finds out about Nigeria with actor and SAT director Femi Elufowoju Jr and novelist Christie Watson, and SAT gets under the skin of Montreal and Newfoundland with writer SAT Kathleen Winter. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 For One Night Only b00zxn8s (Listen) SAT Series 6, Berlioz's Les Troyens SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini presents the award-winning series that SAT re-visits the occasions on which a classic live album was SAT recorded. He hears from those who were there, on-stage, SAT backstage and in the audience, to re-create the event for SAT all of us who, each time we play the album, think: 'If only SAT I could have been there'. SAT SAT In December 2000 at The Barbican, Sir Colin Davis conducted SAT the London Symphony Orchestra in the epic Berlioz opera, Les SAT Troyens. Featuring a fine line-up of soloists, including Ben SAT Heppner, Michelle de Young and Petra Lang, Sir Colin's SAT championing of the unfashionable composer brought Berlioz's SAT unwieldy account of the fall of Troy and the founding of SAT Rome to exhilarating life. SAT SAT The resulting recording was released on the LSO Live label SAT and met with international approval, assuring the new SAT label's success. The album was the unanimous critics' choice SAT at the Classical Brits awards - chaired that year by our SAT presenter, Paul Gambaccini. It also won two Grammy Awards - SAT for best opera recording and classical recording. SAT SAT Now he hears from Sir Colin Davis himself about his memories SAT of the exceptional recording. Members of the cast, including SAT Ben Heppner, Petra Lang and Toby Spence recall their SAT experience of the opera, as do members of the orchestra and SAT the audience. SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00zxn8v (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT Education Secretary Michael Gove was roundly attacked in the SAT commons this week by his opposite number Andy Burnham, for SAT being more of a journalist than a minister. Does he deserve SAT the criticism? SAT Former Conservative Education Secretary Kenneth Baker and SAT Labour MP Pat Glass fill in his report card. SAT SAT The Liberal Democrats are the junior partner in the SAT coalition but on economic policy they appear to carry SAT weight. Have they more clout than we think? SAT Michael Fallon is a deputy chairman of the Conservative SAT party and John Thurso a Liberal Democrat member of the SAT Commons Treasury Select Committee. How do they see it? SAT SAT Labour is constantly accused of not being specific about its SAT economic plans. But at what stage in the electoral cycle SAT should they show their hand? SAT Gavin Kelly of the think tank the Resolution Foundation and SAT formerly an adviser to Gordon Brown, discusses this with SAT Matthew Hancock a Conservative MP who worked for George SAT Osborne until May last year. SAT SAT And fixed term parliaments: Former Speaker Baroness SAT Boothroyd explains the problems this would throw up the role SAT of the speaker. SAT SAT The Editor was Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00zxn8x (Listen) SAT Visiting time at Yemen's jail for political prisoners: SAT Genevieve Bicknell meets the families of some of those SAT detained who tell her why they feel it's time for the SAT country's president to step down. Mark Urban, just back from SAT Afghanistan, talks of a new attempt to improve the tarnished SAT image of Afghanistan's police force. How the Lost Boys, who SAT fled the civil war in Sudan, are finding out details of SAT their past thanks to an archive which had been gathering SAT dust in Addis Ababa - that's from Paul Adams. Linda Pressley SAT travels deep into the forests of Ecuador to find out how oil SAT exploration is threatening a way of life. Anu Anand is in SAT Delhi, where traditional storytellers have been tempting SAT people away from their flatscreen TVs. And Owen Bennett SAT Jones is in Cairo wondering if he's just been ripped off by SAT a canny taxi driver. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00zxn8z (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00zt4hh (Listen) SAT Once upon a Time There Was a Deficit SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a look between the lines of SAT the Coalition cuts story; Jon Holmes shrugs at the iPad and SAT finds a way to enliven British theatre; Mitch Benn downloads SAT a Cloud Girlfriend and guest stand-up Paul Sinha doesn't SAT spout 'extreme anti-white vitriol' towards the countryside. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00zt639 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00zt63c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00zt5xp (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical discussion from Ashford, Kent SAT with panellists Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone, SAT Margaret Beckett MP, New Statesman columnist Laurie Penny SAT and Anne McElvoy, Public Policy Editor for the Economist. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00zzm8x (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00zzms7 (Listen) SAT One Chord Wonders, Parallel Lines SAT 1/5 SAT Frank Cottrell Boyce's series of plays about the punk SAT generation 30 years on begins with the story of Julie, the SAT singer in an ageing Blondie tribute band. An invitation to SAT the reunion of the audience at an Adverts gig in 1977 brings SAT some skeletons dancing from the cupboard. SAT SAT Julie ... Doon Mackichan SAT Thing ... Sian Reeves SAT Margaret ... Rosie Cavaliero SAT Steve Reeves ... Ivan Kaye SAT Pete ... Paul Viragh SAT Joe ... Joseph Tremain SAT Lovely ... Sarah Bedi SAT Announcer ... John Rowe SAT Waiter ... Ben Crowe SAT SAT Director/Producer ... Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00zsdsn (Listen) SAT Series 11, Mahler's Adagietto SAT SAT Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony SAT SAT Mahler wrote his 5th Symphony during the summers of 1901 and SAT 1902. The Adagietto is the 4th movement which is thought to SAT have been inspired by falling in love with Alma who he SAT married around this time. This single movement is Mahler's SAT most well known piece of music. It was famously used in the SAT 1971 Luchino Visconti film Death in Venice And it was also SAT conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the mass at St Patrick's SAT Cathedral, New York on the day of the burial of Robert SAT Kennedy. SAT In this programme, composer David Matthews explains the SAT significance of this piece in Mahler's output. Psychoanalyst SAT Anthony Cantle describes listening to it with his mother SAT during her last days of dementia. Malcolm Reid tells how SAT this piece signified a change in himself as a young man in SAT the British police force with narrow, racist views, to SAT hearing it in Australia and shifting his to becoming a SAT liberal. And Helen Epstein explains why it was played at her SAT mother's funeral. SAT Producer, Rosie Boulton. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00zzms9 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jane Garvey presents. Women in business: how do you make SAT your product or service stand out in a crowded market? SAT Margaret Humphreys on her investigation into the child SAT migrants whose stories unfold in the film Oranges and SAT Sunshine. Human rights abuses in Iran and the likely impact SAT of the appointment of a new UN special rapporteur to the SAT country. Counselling on abortion - how impartial is the SAT advice given? On the eve of Mother's Day, why a son can be SAT the love of your life. Authors Kate Mosse and Lionel Shriver SAT discuss the 'inheritance books' they'd pass on to the next SAT generation. Homosexuality - how far have attitudes towards SAT it changed among young people. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00zzmsc (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00zxf8d (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00zt63f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00zt63h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zt63k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00zzmsf (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests take over the Radio 4 airwaves for a SAT glorious 45 minutes of eclectic conversation and music. SAT SAT Peter will be entering the 'Dragons' Den' this week as SAT Deborah Meaden joins us in the Loose Ends studio. Deborah's SAT the Den's second most frequent investor , and chats to Peter SAT about her new project 'valuemystuff.com.' SAT SAT From 'The West Wing' to the West End - Richard Schiff joins SAT the cast of Jack Rosenthal's SMASH! Best known for playing SAT Toby Ziegler in The West Wing he is no stranger to treading SAT the boards over here, appearing in 2007 in the West End SAT production of Underneath the Lintel. SAT SAT Peter will be talking to musical theatre star, SAT multi-platinum recording artist and chat show host Michael SAT Ball. The king of British musical is famously known for his SAT roles in Hairspray, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Les SAT Miserables. SAT SAT Chef, Broadcaster and Writer Allegra McEvedy talks to Alison SAT Jackson, who shocked the world with her BAFTA Award-winning SAT BBC TV series, Double Take. Alison has made a name for SAT herself through her use of famous lookalikes to create SAT paparazzi parodies. With the Royal Wedding looming, 'Kate SAT and Wills Up the Aisle: A Right Royal Fairy Tale' is a SAT tongue in cheek look at the royal romance. SAT SAT There is music from Tom Williams and the Boat and Josh T SAT Pearson. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00zzmsh (Listen) SAT In the week that singer-songwriter Adele's critically SAT acclaimed second album retains the UK top spot for the ninth SAT consecutive week, Colin Paterson asks whether she can beat SAT the record set by Madonna to become the female solo artist SAT with the longest-running album at number one for consecutive SAT weeks. SAT SAT At just 21 years old, how did this 'ordinary girl' from SAT North London conquer the charts? SAT SAT Reporter - Colin Paterson SAT Producer - Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00zzmsk (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00zzmsm (Listen) SAT The Referendum Question SAT SAT In the run up to the forthcoming alternative vote referendum SAT on 5 May 2011, Shaun Ley explores the history of referendums SAT at various levels in the UK and thus the British public's SAT relationship with direct democracy. SAT SAT Clement Attlee famously derided referendums as 'just not SAT British'. Many in the UK are instinctively resistant to the SAT notion, preferring the supremacy of Parliament. But in SAT recent years there have been more and more referendums from SAT issues ranging from establishing the Scottish Parliament, to SAT whether or not there should be a congestion charge in SAT Manchester. SAT SAT Supporters of this form of direct democracy say it SAT encourages participation and puts power in the hands of the SAT voter. But critics argue that the politicians hold all the SAT cards, and that referendums are often used to get the SAT government off a political hook, particularly when their SAT party is divided. SAT SAT While the AV referendum is only the second UK wide SAT referendum - the first being the 1975 referendum on staying SAT in the Common Market - there have been numerous other SAT referendums of smaller kinds over the years. Some have SAT engendered passion, others indifference, and one even a SAT boycott. There have been unusual cross party alliances, and SAT calculated distancing by those on the same side. Campaigners SAT have organised eye catching stunts and wheeled out their SAT best celebrity supporters. Sometimes, despite the music and SAT razzmatazz, the voters have failed to engage. And sometimes SAT voters have given the politicians a bloody nose and stopped SAT a policy in its tracks. Politicians, including Neil Kinnock, SAT Shirley Williams and Teddy Taylor, tell us how referendum SAT campaigns have given them some of their best and worst SAT moments in politics. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00zs7v7 (Listen) SAT The Lost World, Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders SAT SAT 2/2: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders. SAT By Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised by Chris Harrald. SAT Professor Challenger and his team are marooned on the SAT isolated Amazonian plateau, at the mercy of dinosaurs and a SAT murderous tribe of hominids. Will they survive to satisfy SAT their scientific curiosity? Will they be able to escape and SAT bring home news of their discoveries? SAT SAT Professor Challenger...David Robb SAT Dr Diana Summerlee...Jasmine Hyde SAT Lord John Roxton...Jamie Glover SAT Edward Malone...Jonathan Forbes SAT Querioz... Vinicius Salles SAT Meldrum...Sean Baker SAT Indian tribesman... Milton Lopes SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00zt63m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00zsjzf (Listen) SAT Intellectual Property SAT SAT Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and SAT judges discuss legal issues of the day. SAT SAT The second programme in the series looks at the law and SAT intellectual property. Humans are an extraordinarily SAT creative species, but can't always agree about the legal SAT rights relating to that creativity. SAT SAT This programme looks at how our courts attempt to resolve SAT disputes over trademarks, inventions, music and literature; SAT in fact over everything from life-saving drugs to sweater SAT designs. Do our copyright, patent and other laws create the SAT right balance between the protection of entrepreneurship and SAT the potential benefit to the public of less regulated SAT distribution of our creative output? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b00zsc2g (Listen) SAT Middlesex SAT SAT This episode of 'The 3rd Degree' is brought to you from SAT Middlesex University, where host Steve Punt puts the SAT questions to students and dons of Child Nursing, Design & SAT Art, Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Topics for questions SAT include whirling astronauts, Wagner's operas, and 300 SAT billion copies of the Queen. So if you've ever wondered SAT which exponential function's derivative is equal to the SAT function itself or what are the exact contents of a SAT Jägerbomb cocktail, then this is the quiz show for you. SAT SAT "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz SAT show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 SAT listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded SAT on location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Man Versus God b00zs7vc (Listen) SAT Storyteller Seema Anand explores Muhammad Iqbal's epic poem SAT Shikwa, one of the most famous and enduring works of Islamic SAT literature. The poem is an audacious and heartfelt complaint SAT in lyrical Urdu about all the many ways in which God has let SAT Muslims down. SAT SAT When it was first recited by Iqbal at a public gathering in SAT Lahore in 1911, a fatwa was issued by Islamic scholars who SAT were shocked by its seemingly outrageous impudence: here was SAT Man daring to challenge the wisdom of God! SAT SAT Like many works by Iqbal, the poem is presented as a SAT dialogue between Man and God, a quite revolutionary concept SAT in Islamic literature and with echoes of Milton's Paradise SAT Lost. Iqbal felt strongly that Islam should be open to SAT reform and questioning - and many of his ideas are as SAT powerfully relevant today as they were 100 years ago. SAT SAT Iqbal is often called the spiritual father of Pakistan for SAT using poetry to raise self-awareness amongst Muslims in SAT pre-partition India so that they would eventually rise up SAT and seek a separate nation. His poems are still recited at SAT social gatherings all across the Muslim world (Shikwa is now SAT even available as an iPhone app) but his poetry has a much SAT wider appeal than just for Muslims. It contains many SAT universal ideas about the relationship between Man, Earth SAT and Divinity which resonate to this day. SAT SAT Seema Anand (who is not Muslim) is learning to translate the SAT poem with the dream that one day she too will be able to SAT recite it and bring it to new audiences in Britain. Despite SAT the challenge of learning a poem in a language she barely SAT knows and with intricate imagery and ideas drawn from SAT earlier Sufi and Persian poets, it's something she pursues SAT because she's convinced the beauty of the verse nourishes SAT the soul. SAT SAT Contributors: Professor Javed Majeed, Navid Akhtar SAT Readings by Sagar Arya, Saeed Jaffrey and Pervaiz Alam SAT Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SAT A Culturewise production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 APRIL 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00zzmtv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00zsjzh (Listen) SUN Feisal Abdul Rauf SUN SUN This year's Lent Talks sees six well known figures reflect SUN on different elements of conflict found in the story of SUN Jesus' ministry and Passion from the perspective of their SUN own personal and professional experience. SUN SUN In the third Lent Talk of the series, Imam Feisal Abdul SUN Rauf, the chairman of the Cordoba Initiative Islamic SUN Cultural Centre, near ground Zero in New York, reflects on SUN the conflict between faith and identity. SUN SUN The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for SUN self-examination and reflection on universal human SUN conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, SUN forgiveness and love. The main theme for this year's talks SUN will explore conflict in different forms and how it SUN interacts with various aspects of society and culture. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zzmtx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zzmtz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zzmv1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00zzmv3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00zzmv5 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Michael's Cornhill, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00zzmsh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00zzmv7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00zzmv9 (Listen) SUN American festival director and broadcaster Julie Shapiro SUN began a long correspondence with her great aunt Lill SUN following the death of Lill's husband fifteen years ago. It SUN lasted til Lill's own death seven years later. These SUN letters, read by Irma Kurtz, form the central part of a SUN programme that examines the rituals, intimacies and SUN sustaining qualities of old-fashioned letter-writing. SUN SUN Julie also draws on 'wise words' to correspondents by Lewis SUN Carroll, read by Jonathan Keeble, and 'audio postcards' from SUN the author Rick Moody and the founder of analogue magazine SUN The Radio Post, Simon Roche, and sets the entire programme SUN to a soundtrack by the Canadian pianist Gonzales - a SUN favourite choice of music to accompany letter-writing. SUN SUN 'Yours Truly' is at once a celebration of an art which SUN technology is in danger of drowning out, a monument to a SUN dearly beloved relative and a 'call to pens'. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00zzmvc (Listen) SUN Caz Graham meets a former city banker who's swapped his SUN pin-stripe suit for a pair of wellies. Michael Wentworth SUN Waites now trades a different kind of stock: livestock. SUN After three tough years on his upland hill farm in Cumbria, SUN Caz asks Michael if he thinks he's on course to make a SUN profit from this tough landscape. SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00zzmvf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00zzmvh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00zzmvk (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 Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00zzn23 (Listen) SUN Joan Bakewell presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity International Children's Trust. SUN SUN Donations to International Children's Trust should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope International Children's Trust. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide International Children's Trust with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 254781. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00zzmvm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00zzmvp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00zzn25 (Listen) SUN The Unreconciled - Wounds and Healing SUN SUN On this Mothering Sunday, part of our series for Lent live SUN from St Martin-in-the-Fields, with the Rev Nicholas Holtam. SUN Preacher: The Rev Clare Herbert, Lecturer, St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields. Director of Music: Andrew Earis; SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN In our journey through Lent, we are looking at issues in SUN Christian reconciliation. Download web resources specially SUN written for the series from the Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland website. As we travel towards Easter, we prepare SUN ourselves to meet the ultimate reconciling work - what God SUN has done for us in the crucifixion, death and resurrection SUN of his Son, Jesus Christ. Our service this morning comes SUN from a church renowned for its work with some of the most SUN wounded individuals at the bottom of the pile in this SUN massive and diverse metropolis, amongst them mothers and SUN their children. How can healing take place so they are no SUN longer The Unreconciled? SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00zt5xr (Listen) SUN Series 2, Wallace SUN SUN 7/20. It was the great travel books written in the 19th SUN century by Alfred Russell Wallace that inspired David SUN Attenborough himself to achieve great things in the realm of SUN natural history. But Attenborough tells us that Wallace was SUN more than just a great travel writer. His power of SUN meticulous observation and recording as he explored many SUN parts of the world were in the highest league imaginable, SUN even for Victorian standards - and his power of analysis SUN very much akin with Darwin, his great contemporary. Wallace SUN independently came up with a theory of evolution that was in SUN parallel to Darwin's thinking - two field naturalists SUN breaking huge conventions of the time and coming up with the SUN single most important theory in Biology. How did they SUN resolve the conflict between themselves? SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00zzn27 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00zzn29 (Listen) SUN Written by Joanna Toye SUN Directed by Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Vicky Tucker .....Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker .....Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Elona ..... Eri Shuka SUN Coroner ..... Stephen Tomlin. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00zzn2c (Listen) SUN Martin Sheen SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Martin Sheen. SUN SUN In recent years he has won great acclaim and a Golden Globe SUN for playing the leader of the free world in the hugely SUN successful political drama The West Wing. He's made more SUN than a 100 movies, including Apocalypse Now, Badlands and SUN The Departed. For him, work is often a family affair, in SUN Wall Street he acted alongside his son Charlie Sheen and in SUN his latest movie, The Way he was directed by another of his SUN children - Emilio Estevez. SUN SUN But away from the film set, he's an activist and campaigner SUN - he's been arrested around 70 times and is motivated, he SUN says by faith and conscience above politics. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00zsd0w (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 7 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons is joined by Julian Clary, Paul Merton, SUN Graham Norton and Terry Wogan as they try to speak without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation. Subjects include, My SUN Disastrous Trip to the Zoo and for Julian Clary SUN especially... Innuendo. SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00zzn2f (Listen) SUN Food and the Unification of Italy SUN SUN Sheila Dillon explores the food story behind the 150th SUN anniversary of Italian unification. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00zzmvr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00zzn2h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. To share your views email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Mothers and Sons b00zsc28 (Listen) SUN For Mother's Day, an exploration of the special bond between SUN mother and son, stories sent in by listeners to Woman's SUN Hour. Ben was close to his family, had a place in medical SUN school and was on course to fulfill his parents' aspirations SUN - when he suddenly announced he was getting married. He was SUN 19. His parents lost him for ten years. But when he reached SUN crisis point he decided to go home - he had nowhere else to SUN go. "It was dark and there was a light in the porch. Mum SUN held me, and I cried for a very long time." SUN SUN Beverley, a single parent, used to take her young son SUN Benjamin everywhere with her, even parachuting. But he SUN started smoking cannabis, taking ecstasy, and dropped out of SUN university to organize raves. The drugs affected his mental SUN health and he tried to kill his mother. "I believed she'd SUN been cruel to me when I was young. I developed a fantasy SUN that led me to making a gun. That's when things became SUN dangerous. I made the gun and my uncle said, 'What's that SUN for?' and I said, 'It's to shoot your sister.'" She called SUN the police; he was sentenced to four years in prison. But SUN then came the day when, from his secure mental unit, SUN Benjamin decided to call his mother. SUN SUN The third story is even more extraordinary. Ahmed's mother SUN gave birth to him during an Israeli raid in the Gaza strip. SUN Her baby was taken from her, placed in intensive care and SUN she was given a number for his cot. When the hospital was SUN evacuated, her husband ran to save the baby but discovered SUN two babies in the cot. He chose one, and handed him to his SUN wife, who bonded with the baby immediately. But they did not SUN tell their son what had happened - until he found out when SUN he was 17. The repercussions of that choice are still being SUN felt by Ahmed and his mother. Is he really her son? And what SUN does it mean, in the end, to be a good son, and a good SUN mother? SUN SUN Producers: Elizabeth Burke and Kim Normanton SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00zt4h5 (Listen) SUN Hartlebury, Kidderminster SUN SUN Eric Robson leads the GQT team in lively horticultural SUN debate in the village of Hartlebury. SUN Anne Swithinbank investigates the manufacture and safety of SUN municipal compost for the domestic gardener. SUN SUN Get more from your shopping: Using your grocery leftovers to SUN grow from seed. Bob Flowerdew advises. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont with Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Wonderful Ways to Beat the Recession b00zzpl3 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN The American satirist Joe Queenan is fascinated by anyone SUN who can turn an idea into a revenue stream. So three years SUN on from his series A Wonderful Way to Make a Living - in SUN which he met the penetration testers, the naked yoga SUN instructor, and the emergency shirt delivery guy - Joe is SUN back to meet the brains behind the businesses bucking the SUN economic downturn. This week, Shopjacket, who make fake shop SUN fronts to cheer up a dying High Street near you; and Joe SUN Hoare the laughter therapy guy. The producer is Miles Warde. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00zzpl5 (Listen) SUN The Mauritius Command, Episode 1 SUN SUN Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised in SUN three parts by Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain SUN Jack Aubrey and Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. SUN SUN Following his adventures in HMS Surprise, Jack Aubrey has SUN been kicking his heels at home when his old friend, Stephen SUN Maturin, comes knocking at his door with welcome news. Jack SUN is promoted to Commodore, and is to lead a squadron of SUN English ships, charged with taking the Indian Ocean islands SUN of Mauritius and Reunion from the French. SUN SUN In the course of the novel Jack must succeed against SUN superior odds at sea and on land. Yet, in his new role as SUN Commodore, Jack will need subtlety and subterfuge to win SUN over the crews and subordinate captains of his own fleet. SUN SUN Based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when Britain and France SUN were bitterly engaged in protecting their trade routes SUN around the southern tip of Africa. SUN SUN The Mauritius Command is the fourth novel in Patrick SUN O'Brian's Nelsonic epic series, and the sequel to HMS SUN Surprise which was dramatised for Radio 4 in 2008. SUN SUN Captain Jack Aubrey ................... DAVID ROBB SUN Doctor Stephen Maturin .......... ...RICHARD DILLANE SUN Governor Farquhar ..................... DAVID RINTOUL SUN Lt-Col Keating ............ .......THOMAS ARNOLD SUN Lord Clonfert................................ SAM DALE SUN Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA SUN Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER SUN Midshipman George Johnson ....... NYASHA HATENDI SUN Dr McAdam/Admiral Bertie.......... SEAN BAKER SUN Captain Pym............................... BRIAN BOWLES SUN Mrs. Williams ............................ JOANNA MONRO SUN Sophie....................................... SALLY ORROCK SUN Producer/director: Bruce Young. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00zzpl7 (Listen) SUN Jennifer Johnston SUN SUN Recorded at the Verbal Arts Centre in Londonderry/City of SUN Derry, James Naughtie and readers talk to one of Ireland's SUN finest writers - Jennifer Johnston. SUN SUN Now in her eighties, Jennifer has been called 'The Quiet SUN Woman' of Irish literature. Her distinguished career has SUN spanned more than 40 years and has netted the Whitbread SUN Prize among her many awards. Her books are taught on the SUN Irish school curriculum and in American Universities. SUN SUN The chosen novel for this edition of Bookclub is one of her SUN later ones, The Gingerbread Woman. Like many of her novels, SUN this story deals with personal conflict, as two characters SUN meet by chance one day on a cliff top overlooking Dublin Bay SUN and form an uneasy friendship. Yet the conflict between SUN these two mirrors a bigger question - the conflict between SUN the North and South of Ireland. SUN SUN Jennifer Johnston is a writer who watches and listens. She's SUN best known for her portrayal of different Irelands, notably SUN the group called the Anglo-Irish, who appear in what became SUN known as The Big House novels. More recently she has moved SUN her protagonists out of the countryside and into the SUN affluent suburbs. SUN SUN Jennifer grew up in a theatrical house - her father Denis SUN was the leading playwright of his day and her mother Shelah SUN an actress. Jennifer describes how her literary upbringing SUN has resonated through her writing, and how much she enjoys SUN writing dialogue. SUN SUN As always on Bookclub, a group of readers join the author in SUN the discussion and James Naughtie chairs the programme. SUN SUN May's Bookclub choice : 'Be Near Me' by Andrew O'Hagan. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 A House Divided: The Poetry of the American Civil War SUN b00zzpl9 (Listen) SUN On the 12th of April 1861 Confederate forces attacked the US SUN Military's Fort Sumter, thus beginning the bloodiest war in SUN American history. It is this conflict, more than the SUN American Revolution or World War Two that has had the most SUN dramatic impact on the nation's character. This year marks SUN its 150th anniversary. SUN SUN In a war of brother against brother; the conflict created a SUN tragic human drama as the country struggled to define SUN itself. America's most distinguished poets were affected by SUN unprecedented levels of carnage. Herman Melville wrote a SUN chronological, impressionistic volume of poetry on the Civil SUN War. SUN SUN Walt Whitman, a volunteer nurse during the war wrote SUN heart-wrenching poems about wounded soldiers beside piles of SUN amputated limbs. Emily Dickinson was most productive during SUN this time, though she never wrote directly about the war. SUN However, her meditations on death, violence and the bloody SUN landscape provide a deep insight into the nation's SUN character. SUN SUN In this programme, we'll hear music and poetry from before, SUN during and after the war. SUN SUN Slaves like George Moses Horton who sold poetry in the hopes SUN of buying his own freedom reflects on the meaning of SUN liberty. Soldiers like Obediah Ethelbert Baker who wrote for SUN his wife back home, talks about the righteousness of the SUN Union cause. Northern abolitionist Quakers regale the noble SUN Northern mission and the "poet laureate of the Confederacy", SUN Henry Timrod, recalls the birth of a new nation. Allan SUN Gurganus is a southern US author whose work has been heavily SUN influenced by the American Civil War. He presents this SUN fascinating documentary. SUN SUN Producer: Colin McNulty SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00zshnz (Listen) SUN Memory on Trial SUN SUN Do we understand enough about how memory works to properly SUN assess evidence in sex abuse cases when allegations date SUN back decades? Can juries make decisions based on their SUN common sense in complex cases? SUN SUN The number of so called "historic abuse cases" making their SUN way through the coruts has increased in recent years SUN following changes in the law that make it easier to bring SUN them to trial and a greater willingness on behalf of victims SUN to come forward. SUN SUN These are among the most difficult cases the justice system SUN handles given the highly sensitive nature of the allegations SUN being made and the often lengthy gap between the events in SUN question and the prosecution. Many cases now turn on one SUN person's word against another and therefore rely heavily on SUN the quality of memory evidence each side can bring. SUN SUN But even the memory experts are divided on how the court SUN process should assess memory evidence. Whist many victims SUN never forget their abuse, some psychologists say people can SUN genuinely block out or forget abuse and then remember it in SUN detail later in life. But others warn of "false memory SUN syndrome" and claim that in some cases allegations are SUN wrongly based on ideas that have arised during therapy or SUN from third party experiences which complainants adopt as SUN their own. SUN SUN In this week's File on 4, Jackie Long examines concerns from SUN across the criminal justice system - from lawyers who claim SUN the system is creating "a new genre of miscarriages of SUN justice" because defendants cannot get a fair trial, from SUN victims who say their long-held memories are being branded SUN as false in court and from psychologists who question how SUN well equipped our courts are to consider such evidence. SUN SUN So how much do we know about how memory works? And is the SUN courtroom the right place to get to the truth? SUN SUN Producer Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00zzmsh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00zzmvt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00zzmvw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zzmvy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00zzplc (Listen) SUN Truth is stranger than fiction, they say - and Pick of the SUN Week on Sunday certainly bears that out. John Waite will be SUN hearing how a father and son from Manchester travelled to SUN Ecuador to track down their mother's killer. How President SUN Reagan was given the all-clear by his secret service guards, SUN even though he'd been shot by a would-be assassin. Did you SUN know that Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner has the IQ of a genius, SUN and wanted the magazine to be a political document. Or that SUN you can get so attached to chickens that you chat to them SUN and even take them on holiday. The truth, the whole truth .. SUN in Pick of the Week SUN SUN They Write The Songs - Radio 2 SUN Wonderful Ways To Beat The Recession - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Let's Get Quizzical - Radio 4 Extra SUN Wuthering Heights - Radio 3 SUN Witness - Shooting Ronald Regan - World Service SUN Document - Radio 4 SUN That's So Gay - Radio 1 SUN The Original Playboy - Radio 4 SUN Act Your Age - Radio 4 SUN The Disappearance of Jennifer Pope - Radio 4 SUN Elegies From A Suburban Garden - Radio 4 SUN Attila The Hen - Radio 4 SUN Woman's Hour - Radio 4 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN Listen to the Band - Radio 2 SUN SUN John Waite makes his selection from the week's radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Kathryn Blennerhassett. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00zzplf (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00zzplh (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cqfyt (Listen) SUN The Further Adventures of the First King of Mars, The King's SUN Subjects SUN SUN To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik SUN we commissioned Nick Walker to write the sci-fi adventure SUN 'The First King Of Mars'. Now in five, thrilling SUN action-packed episodes we continue the story where it left SUN off. SUN SUN The commander makes a shocking discovery when he finds a SUN door in an underground tunnel. SUN SUN Nick Walker's theatre work has been presented extensively in SUN the UK as well as Europe, and the USA. His plays and short SUN stories are often featured on BBC Radio 4 and 3 series of SUN the late-night show The Bigger Issues. He is the author of SUN two critically acclaimed novels Blackbox and Helloland, SUN published in the UK, US, Australia, Japan and across Europe. SUN SUN Performed by Peter Capaldi. SUN Producer: Karen Rose SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00zt4h3 (Listen) SUN "Embarrassingly small" cuts? SUN SUN The Coalition Government's planned spending cuts have been SUN described as "savage" by the TUC's Brendan Barber. But they SUN have also been described by Fraser Nelson of The Spectator SUN as "embarrassingly small". Who's right? SUN SUN The Other Census SUN SUN The census is all well and good. It will tell us how many we SUN are, where we live, with whom, and more. Good, hard facts. SUN But, we wondered, could we yield some surprising data by SUN asking less obvious questions? Follow the link below to SUN complete The Other Census. SUN SUN The cost of intervention SUN SUN Libya seems to be in full-fledged civil war and the UK is SUN part of an international coalition intervening in the SUN conflict. Last week the Chancellor addressed what all this SUN might cost. But how does he know? SUN SUN Strawberry Fields... forever? SUN SUN The maths behind the most mysterious edit in music. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00zt4h9 (Listen) SUN Edward Stobart, Geraldine Ferraro, Diana Wynne Jones and SUN Robert Tear SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Edward Stobart who built up the family trucking firm to SUN become a business success and a cult brand. SUN SUN Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to stand as vice SUN president of the USA. SUN SUN Childrens' fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones who drew on her SUN own troubled relationship with her parents in her books. SUN SUN Paul Baran, the American electrical engineer who developed SUN some of the key building blocks of the internet. SUN SUN And the flamboyant tenor Robert Tear - we have a tribute SUN from Sir Thomas Allen. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00zxn8z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00zzn23 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00zt3py (Listen) SUN Over a Barrel SUN SUN Turmoil across the Middle East sent oil prices jumping and SUN has raised big questions about the security of the energy SUN supplies that have powered the world economy for the past SUN 100 years. Peter Day investigates the future of oil.and what SUN the current upheavals might mean for other energy supplies. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00zzplk (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00zzplm (Listen) SUN Episode 46 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading journalist takes a wry look at how the SUN broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories in SUN Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00zt4hc (Listen) SUN In The Film Programme this week, Francine Stock talks to two SUN directors at very different stages of their careers - Jerzy SUN Skolimowski and Jim Loach. Skolimowski has been involved in SUN cinema since the Sixties and as well as collaborating with SUN Polanski directed, Deep End and Moonlighting. He believes SUN his new film, Essential Killing, is his best yet. Jim Loach SUN by contrast has just made his first feature - Oranges and SUN Sunshine... a story about the deportation of children from SUN the United Kingdom to Australia - a subject that might SUN easily have tempted his father, Ken. Francine also talks to SUN the actor Roger Allam about his part in bringing Posy SUN Simmonds' cartoon strip, Tamara Drewe, to the big screen and SUN the BFI's Bryony Dixon shares her delight in the SUN ever-evolving relationship between cinema and radio. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00zzmv9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 APRIL 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00zzqgx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00zsjz1 (Listen) MON Mafias - Live Music MON MON Woodstock did not have a sponsor, people flooded to Hyde MON Park for a free concert from the Rolling Stones but now a MON top price ticket to see Bon Jovi - the 'Diamond Circle VIP MON Experience' - can cost you something approaching $2,000. MON What has happened to live music to transform it into the MON industry it has become? How have concert performances become MON a successful way of funding music when recorded music has MON been in retreat? Laurie Taylor speaks to two authorities in MON the field of popular music studies, Simon Frith and Martin MON Cloonan, to discuss the social and economic changes which MON have brought music performance to the fore. MON Also we hear of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese Triads MON in London and Italian Mafias across the western world, but MON is organised crime really spreading like a global virus? The MON criminologist Federico Varese explores the capacities of MON mafias trying to conquer new territories. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00zzmv5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zzqgz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zzqh1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zzqh3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00zzqh5 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zzqh7 (Listen) MON with Rev. Canon Jenny Wigley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00zzqr9 (Listen) MON The Irish Farmers Association is campaigning to make MON pre-nuptual agreements legally binding to protect farm MON holdings and succession rights. The IFA's James Kane says MON current rules are unfair and that other countries, including MON the UK, should follow suit. MON MON Recent figures show that farming accounts for 41 per cent of MON the UK's overall methane emissions, and cattle are a large MON part of this. Emma Weatherill goes to meet Professor Chris MON Reynolds from the University of Reading who says how MON changing what cattle are fed can reduce greenhouse gas MON emissions. MON MON British flower growers are warning that the bad winter could MON delay flowers for Easter. After a tough start to the year MON they've been banking on a good mothering sunday, and then MON Easter to improve their fortunes. Caroline Marshall - Foster MON from the British Flower and Plant association says that due MON to the weather, many producers just won't meet their MON targets. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00zzqh9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00zzqy7 (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00zzqy9 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the Catholic Archbishop Vincent Nichols MON about how far his faith's social teachings chime with the MON Big Society, but also what impact the government's cuts MON might have on the work of Catholic charities. The writer MON Michael Collins charts the rise and fall of the council MON estate, and what role social housing will have in the MON future. Lisa Appignanesi gets to grips with the most untidy MON of emotions: love. And the neuroscientist, David Eagleman MON exposes the workings of the non-conscious brain, and MON questions whether scientists should wade into the debate MON over what is fair punishment. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00zzr1h (Listen) MON Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 1 MON MON Ken Campbell, who died in September 2008, was one of the MON great mavericks of British theatre. MON MON Ill-suited to a role in conventional theatre, he created a MON risk-taking confrontational style of performance, which MON often explored unlikely subject matter. He became, in MON director Mike Leigh's words, "The outsider's outsider" MON MON Bob Hoskins, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are amongst the MON performers whose formative years were spent working with MON Campbell. What did the director and producer bring to MON performance that made him such a mesmeric figure? MON MON Michael Coveney's biography tells the story of Campbell, the MON great adventurer of British theatre. MON MON Read by Toby Jones MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zzr1k (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents: Today we are launching our new food MON series of ' How to make the perfect...' And to start us off MON Mary Berry will join Jane Garvey in the Woman's Hour studio MON to talk about Simnel Cake. What happens if you suddenly find MON yourself unemployed in your 50s, having spent all your MON working life in the same job? The "Black Beauty" effect - MON what is it about horses that make women so passionate about MON them? And will Tuesday's changes to Working Tax Credits MON force women out of work? MON MON Changes to Childcare Element of Working Tax Credit MON MON A recent survey by netmums of over 2,000 working mothers MON says over half will stop work or cut back on their hours MON because of cuts to the childcare element of Working Tax MON Credits. Jane discusses the implications with Will Hadwin, MON Working Families and Sally Russell, Netmums. MON MON Finished at 50 MON MON What happens if you suddenly find yourself unemployed in MON your 50s, having spent all your working life in the same MON job? The latest edition of BBC One’s Panorama, called MON Finished at Fifty? follows four people who lost their jobs MON in their early 50s. Jane speaks to one of them, Lindy MON Griffiths a teacher for 22 years then a local authority MON educational consultant for 7 years who was made redundant in MON 2010. She is now setting up her own business. Jane is also MON joined by Occupational Psychologist Sue Firth to look at the MON effect on women of losing their job in their 50s – how MON different is their experience from men? MON MON Panorama: Finished at 50 is on BBC One on Monday 4 April at MON 8.30 pm. MON MON What is it about horses makes women so passionate about MON them? MON MON From Black Beauty to National Velvet – horses have played a MON large part in childhoods across the generations. Some girls MON were happy for their relationships with horses to blossom MON statically through the medium of a television screen; others MON could only wait for dawn to scramble out in their wellies MON and muck out the horses before chasing across the downs with MON the wind rushing through their hair. But what happens when MON those girls become grown women? And what is it about horses MON that make women so passionate about them? Jane discusses MON with Fiona Walker, author of Kiss and Tell, a novel set in MON the world of eventing, and journalist Liz Jones who rescued MON her first horse three years ago, and now looks after six of MON them. MON MON Kiss and Tell by Fiona Walker, publsihed by Sphere. ISBN: 9 MON 780751 544091. MON MON How to Make the Perfect ..... Simnel Cake MON MON Today we are launching our new food series of ‘ How to make MON the perfect…..’. And to start us off Mary Berry joins Jane MON in the Woman’s Hour studio to talk about Simnel Cake. Now MON associated with Easter, it was originally made for Mothering MON Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent. They discuss the best MON recipe, the history and the variety of fun ways to decorate MON this popular cake. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zzsdg (Listen) MON The Little Ottleys, Episode 1 MON MON Series One (5 episodes) MON Episode One MON It's 1908 and Bruce and Edith, The Little Ottleys, as they MON were called, live in a very new, very small, very white flat MON in Knightsbridge. And so begins Ada Leverson's witty and MON wonderful social comedy set in Edwardian London and MON dramatised in five episodes by Martyn Wade. MON MON Ada Leverson............Haydn Gwynne MON Bruce.......................Bertie Carvel MON Edith........................Juliet Aubrey MON Hyacinth...................Alex Tregear MON Cecil........................Stuart McLoughlin MON Anne........................Jane Whittenshaw MON Eugenia....................Joanna Monro MON MON Directed By Tracey Neale MON MON 11:00 The Protection Game b00zzsdj (Listen) MON Bodyguards, or close-protection officers (CPOs), are the MON thing of Hollywood myth. But, in real life, do some MON bodyguards have to make the ultimate sacrifice and dive in MON front of the bullet? MON MON Broadcaster Yasmeen Khan meets, and trains with, some new MON recruits at a Task International training course in Kent. MON These men and women are training to be close-protection MON officers for corporate clients from around the world. MON Yasmeen learns more about the training, and the wider world MON of CPOs from the Task trainer. She also hears about the MON recent work Task CPOs have undertaken in Cairo, bringing out MON UK citizens and taking in much needed medical and food MON supplies. MON MON In a secretive London location, Yasmeen meets up with MON security expert Will Geddes, and together they discuss the MON ethics of personal protection, of selling your body & skills MON to someone else with the possible ultimate outcome of your MON own death. Who are the clients and what is the stark reality MON of being a CPO in the modern age? Will discusses his recent MON experiences in Libya and Cairo. MON MON Yasmeen also talks with Bill Butler, the Chief Executive of MON the Security Industry Authority. Under the SIA's leadership MON it has now become mandatory for security staff to be MON licensed in the UK. Yasmeen wants to know how the SIA MON manages to ensure that unlicensed protection services don't MON succeed. MON MON As Yasmeen learns, many CPOs come from a military MON background, but then there are also those who have long MON experience in the Special Branch and Royal Protection MON Detail. She heads to an even more secretive location to meet MON Brian Isdale, a former Special Branch officer, now running MON his own security service and hiring many ex-police officers. MON Business is clearly good, and with the Olympics looming, it MON seems it will only get better. MON MON Producers: Neil Gardner & Yasmeen Khan MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00zzw1w (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON MON The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with a MON 4th series with more shop based shenanigans and over the MON counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty MON sidekick Dave. MON MON Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli - MON 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 MON audience with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and MON a Writers' Guild award in 2008. This brand new series sees a MON crop of new shop regulars, and some guest appearances along MON the way from the likes of Mina Anwar and Kevin Eldon. MON MON In this opening episode Ramesh and his son Alok go head to MON head as they enter a competition to design a new sweetie MON favourite. Will the old wise head see off the challenge from MON the young pretender to the corner shop crown? MON MON So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a MON firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves MON the art of the 'shop' MON MON However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to MON all other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by MON his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who MON shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he MON is treated like a slave. MON MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them MON whether they like it or not! MON MON Ramesh ..... Sanjeez Kolhi MON Dave ..... Donald McLeary MON Sanjay ..... Omar Raza MON Alok ..... Susheel Kumar MON Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth MON Keith Futures ..... Greg McHugh MON Hilly ..... Kate Brailsford MON Mrs Armstrong ..... Maureen Carr MON Keenan ..... Max Merrill MON MON Prodcuer/Director: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00zzy2b (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON We hear about new guidelines to stop bullying by some debt MON collectors. They are being drawn up by the Office of Fair MON Trading. MON MON Recently a new vaccine to rid the world of polio was MON announced but there are still plenty of people struggling MON with the effects of the illness. We examine the condition MON known as post polio syndrome. MON MON And as the new financial year kicks off for local councils, MON there are moves by some to hand over the running of many of MON their public services to voluntary organisations and MON charities. Some fear this could be privatisation by the back MON door. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00zzqhc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0100wxs (Listen) MON National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty MON minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To MON share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00zzy2d (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 1 MON MON (1/13) MON MON Can you name the composer of the theme music to the classic MON Charlie Chaplin film 'Modern Times'? Or guess which MON composer's work is the most-performed in the entire history MON of the Proms? MON MON The evergreen music quiz returns for its 2011 series, with MON Paul Gambaccini in the questionmaster's chair. He'll be MON putting questions on the widest possible range of music to MON contestants from all over Great Britain, the eventual MON champion taking the 25th Counterpoint trophy at the end of MON June. MON MON The quiz tests the competitors' knowledge of the core MON classics, as well as film and stage music, jazz, rock and MON pop. There are plenty of musical surprises, and forgotten or MON rarely-heard extracts, alongside long-established MON favourites. MON MON As always, the general knowledge questions on music are MON followed by a specialised round, in which the contestants MON have to choose a musical topic or category on which to MON answer. The available categories can range from questions on MON a specific composer, to musical genres, music for particular MON instruments, and quirky eclectic themes. MON MON The first trio of competitors joins Paul Gambaccini in MON Manchester for the opening heat of this 25th anniversary MON series. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00zzplf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00zzy2g (Listen) MON My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye MON MON How many ways are there to say goodbye? Why do we say MON goodbye? And what does it really feel like? Is it always MON forever? An adventurous new play about parting by Dan MON Rebellato. MON MON Scott and Ben are climbing a mountain. When Scott falls, Ben MON has to leave him to get help. Sean and Nathan turned the MON company around but today, Nathan has to make his colleague MON redundant. Richard has been with Dawn for years, but he MON knows tonight's evening out is make or break. Sarah is MON expecting her girlfriend Lou for dinner, so the call from MON the airport comes as a shock. Nikki is nervous about leaving MON London to start a new life as a student in Cardiff. MP MON Andrew has survived a media storm about his expenses claims, MON with the support of his constituency party until now. MON MON Blurring distinctions between time, place and people, My MON Life is a Series of People Saying Goodbye explores the pain, MON poignancy and new possibilities of parting. MON MON Dan Rebellato is a playwright and academic. He has been MON shortlisted twice for a Sony award. His new stage play, MON Chekov in Hell, will be at the Soho Theatre London 20 April MON to 14 May, after a successful run at The Drum, Plymouth. MON Other radio work includes an adaptation of Gogol's Dead MON Souls starring Michael Palin and Mark Heap. He is Professor MON of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of MON London and a regular contributor to The Guardian theatre MON website. MON MON Andrew ...... Sean Gallagher MON Richard ..... David Annen MON Matty .....Will Payne MON Nikki .....Fenella Woolgar MON Sarah ..... Frances Grey MON Lou ..... Jenny Jules MON MON Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON A Crosslab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00zzmsm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gqxr9 (Listen) MON The Ninety-Day War MON MON David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War MON which began 150 years ago this month. In ten episodes he MON explores the origins and legacy of the war. This was MON originallly broadcast as part of the 90 part series, MON America: Empire of Liberty MON MON Episode 1: The start of the Civil War: a fight for Southern MON independence and the end of slavery. MON MON Previously broadcast on 19 January, 2009. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00zzn2f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b00zzylf (Listen) MON Series 8, The next silicon city and the granny cloud MON MON Silicon Fen, in Cambridgeshire, is a great success. Silicon MON Glen, in the Scottish central belt, has many empty lots. Can MON the government really create the next Silicon Valley in East MON London? Simon and Rupert find out. MON MON With an ageing population many people are at work trying to MON find ways to protect our elderly selves in the home, in the MON least invasive way possible. Simon discovers some of the MON innovative developments. MON MON And how Newcastle University set up the 'granny cloud' to MON teach children in developing countries, from their own MON living rooms. MON MON Producer: Lucy Lloyd. MON MON 17:00 PM b0100267 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zzqhf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00zzz1y (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 1 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. MON MON Alan Davies, Jack Dee, Marcus Brigstocke and Lucy Porter are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as: curry, eyes, flies and breasts. 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 b00zzz22 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00zzz26 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the writer MON David Lodge, whose new novel is about the life of H G Wells. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zzsdg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Communist Cosmos b00zzz2d (Listen) MON After Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the earth, MON Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev took to telling party MON meetings that Gagarin had seen 'no God in space.' When the MON USSR beat America into orbit it was a triumphant victory not MON just for the Soviet Union, but for communism itself. MON MON Following Sputnik, the first dogs in space and Gagarin's MON world-changing flight, the USSR continually followed each MON mission with a bigger and more audacious successor, and MON their policy of not reporting failures meant that all the MON world saw was the USSR going further and faster whilst NASA MON could barely get off the ground. To the rest of the planet, MON communism was flexing its muscle as the West floundered. MON MON In 'The Communist Cosmos', Angus Roxburgh tells the story of MON how the Soviet Union saw space as the key to its global MON superiority; how the space programme's chief designer Sergei MON Korolev was hatching plans for manned missions to the moon, MON Mars and Venus long before anyone dreamed they could be MON possible; and how ultimately Soviet superiority in space MON came to an abrupt end MON MON Producer: Chris Walker MON A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00zsldf (Listen) MON Uganda MON MON Anna Cavell investigates the human trafficking of Ugandan MON women to Iraq. They were lured there by promises of MON well-paid jobs - but instead found themselves effectively in MON slavery, beaten and in some cases raped. She hears the story MON of how a Ugandan security contractor and an American officer MON together organised a courageous freelance raid which freed MON nine of the women. And she discovers that despite the MON rescue, the practice appears to be continuing. MON Producer: Natalie Morton. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00zt3pt (Listen) MON Adam Rutherford presents the weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to Dr. Jim Smith from the MON University of Portsmouth about the latest developments at MON the Fukashima Plant and Professor Gerry Thomas from Imperial MON College, London tells him about the current risk to human MON health. Also on the programme; is sonar damaging beaked MON whales and could placing decoy artificial birds on the MON ground near pylons, prevent real birds from flying into MON them? Finally, the RSC is about to stage a play about Sergei MON Korolyov the father of the Russian space programme. Adam MON meets the play's writer Rona Munro. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Japan Nuclear Reactor MON MON Japan is to decommission four stricken reactors at the MON quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant. The plant’s operator- MON Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) made the announcement three MON weeks after failing to bring reactors 1 - 4 under control. MON Locals would be consulted on reactors 5 and 6, which were MON shut down safely. Harmful levels of radioactivity have been MON detected in the area. Adam Rutherford talks to Dr. Jim MON Smith, an expert in radioactive contamination, from MON Portsmouth University and Professor Gerry Thomas from MON Imperial College, London. MON MON Beaked Whales MON MON Scientists from the University of St Andrews have found that MON beaked whales are particularly sensitive to unusual sounds. MON Measuring their reactions to both simulated sonar calls and MON during actual naval exercises, researchers found the whales MON fell silent and moved away from the loud noises. The use of MON sonar for naval communication has been linked to beaked MON whales stranding in the past. Adam talks to Professor Ian MON Boyd from St Andrews University. MON MON Birds collide with man made objects MON MON A new study has shown that birds are not so eagle-eyed after MON all. The report (IBIS) International Journal of Avian MON Science- has found that large birds of prey and sea birds MON crash into wind turbines and power lines because they do not MON look where they are going. Adam talks to Professor Graham MON Martin from University of Birmingham about how birds see in MON a very different way to humans. MON MON Little Eagles MON MON The play Little Eagles tells the extraordinary story of MON Sergei Korolyov, chief designer and unsung hero of the MON Soviet space programme. Under his leadership, the USSR MON trounced the Americans in the space race throughout the MON fifties and for much of the sixties, achieving a series of MON firsts including the first human in space and Earth orbit. MON The 50th anniversary of this first flight by cosmonaut Yuri MON Gagarin, one of Korolyov’s beloved ‘little eagles’, is MON celebrated this year. Little Eagles is at Hampstead Theatre MON from 16 April to 7 May 2011. Writer Rona Munro joins Adam to MON explain more. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00zzqy9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00zzqhh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0101tj1 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00zzz2l (Listen) MON The Tiger's Wife, Episode 6 MON MON Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch read Tea Obreht's MON evocative debut novel set in a Balkan country scarred by MON war, and where Natalia, a young doctor, is struggling to MON understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather's MON death. A tattered copy of The Jungle Book which her MON grandfather kept with him always, provides an unlikely clue, MON sending her on a quest that leads to the extraordinary MON stories of the deathless man and the tiger's wife. Today, a MON miracle leads to a second encounter between Natalia's MON grandfather and the deathless man. MON MON Ann Patchett has this to say, "The Tiger's Wife is a marvel MON of beauty and imagination. Tea Obreht is a tremendously MON talented writer." MON MON Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00zshnl (Listen) MON Michael Rosen looks at the world of words. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zzzlm (Listen) MON Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 APRIL 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01000yr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00zzr1h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01000yt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01000yw (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01000yy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01000z0 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01000z2 (Listen) TUE with Rev. Canon Jenny Wigley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01000z4 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01000z6 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 Between Ourselves b01000z8 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Episode 1 TUE TUE A fascinating, and very personal, discussion between two TUE people who have Asperger's Syndrome. Presented by Olivia TUE O'Leary. TUE Frederick Veal is in his late 40s, and was only diagnosed TUE with Asperger's Syndrome five years ago. He said the TUE diagnosis made sense of his entire life: of the TUE difficulties, the strange habits, the problems holding down TUE a job. He gives a frank and fascinating description of his TUE early life - an obsession with spinning, sensitivity to TUE noise (he could hear humming coming from electric sockets), TUE head-banging. Since his diagnosis he has been able to learn TUE certain coping techniques which make life more bearable. TUE TUE Ben Delo found out he had Asperger's at the age of 11, when TUE he bugged his parents' telephone calls. This early diagnosis TUE means he began the process of learning and copying many of TUE the idiosyncratic, nonsensical, but necessary social habits TUE that the rest of the world take for granted; things like TUE shaking hands and making eye-contact. TUE TUE Asperger's Syndrome is named after the Austrian psychologist TUE who first described it, Dr Hans Asperger. It's at the milder TUE end of the autism spectrum and those with it have difficulty TUE with social interaction, with reading social situations, TUE with communicating. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:30 The Narrowcasters b010020y (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE Religious broadcasting may have dwindled in Britain along TUE with Church attendance. But that's not the case in Italy. In TUE the final edition of The Narrowcasters, the series which TUE looks at the world of specialist TV channels, the BBC's TUE Europe Business Correspondent Nigel Cassidy reports from TUE Rome where he drops in on the Vatican Television Centre. The TUE nerve centre of the Holy See's TV operation is a huge state TUE of the art mobile outside broadcast unit parked just off St TUE Peter's Square. It beams out regular live pictures of Pope TUE Benedict's audiences and activities to adherents and TUE non-believers alike. It even turned in a small profit last TUE year from selling the live pictures to major broadcasters. TUE But it's not the only Catholic TV in town. Nigel Cassidy TUE also discovers TV 2000, an entire TV channel owned by some TUE Italian clergy. It shows documentaries, phone-ins and TUE discussions, which seek to add a moral dimension to the TUE talking points of the day. Some see such channels as an TUE antidote to the brasher side of Italian television, where TUE commercial stations owned by Prime Minister Silvio TUE Berlusconi are better known for quiz and music shows TUE featuring scantily-clad hostesses. But as Nigel Cassidy TUE reports, it may be that in spite of their mission to TUE evangelise the world, Italy's Catholic broadcasters are TUE largely preaching to the already converted. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0101kyv (Listen) TUE Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Toby Jones TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0100212 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents. Including what's going on in the TUE middle-aged brain. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0100214 (Listen) TUE The Little Ottleys, Episode 2 TUE TUE Series One (5 episodes) TUE Episode Two TUE TUE Aylmer Ross makes quite an impression on both Bruce and TUE Edith at the Mitchell's dinner party. TUE TUE Ada............ Haydn Gwynne TUE Bruce..........Bertie Carvel TUE Edith...........Juliet Aubrey TUE Aylmer.........Jonathan Firth TUE Hyacinth.......Alex Tregear TUE Anne............Jane Whittenshaw TUE Cecil.............Stuart McLoughlin TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 11:00 The Cuckoo b0100216 (Listen) TUE Professor Nick Davies of Cambridge University presents a TUE fascinating portrait of one of our most tantalising birds TUE and a revelatory insight into the evolution of cheating in TUE one of the Natural World's most successful scandals; the TUE ability of a young cuckoo to dupe its host parents into TUE raising and feeding it. TUE TUE The Common Cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite, that is, it TUE never raises its own young but relies entirely on other host TUE species to do all the work of nest building, incubation and TUE chick rearing. There are about 9,672 species of birds of TUE which one per cent are obligate brood parasites. In Britain, TUE we have just one, the Common Cuckoo. Individuals parasitise TUE particular species: Meadow Pipit, Dunnock and Reed Warblers TUE are the most common. A female cuckoo doesn't make a nest, TUE instead she watches a suitable area. Then, when she is ready TUE to lay, she selects a nest, swoops down, removes a host egg, TUE lays her own its place and flies off. All this in less than TUE 10 seconds. Up to 25 eggs may be laid in a suitable season TUE and in the case of the Reed Warbler host, the Cuckoo's egg TUE closely resembles the host eggs in both colour and size. TUE Incubation is by the host and the young Cuckoo hatches after TUE 12 days. The blind and naked Cuckoo then instinctively TUE pushes other eggs or young out of the nest. Young cuckoos TUE leave the nest after about 19 days and continue to be fed TUE for a further 3 weeks. By this time, an adult Reed Warbler TUE may have to perch on the back of the Cuckoo to feed it! TUE TUE Moving between nests in the reed beds of Wicken Fen in TUE Cambridgeshire, Nick Davies discusses the exciting questions TUE that brood parasites raise about the evolution of cheating TUE and the arms race between parasites and their hosts. TUE TUE Presenter Professor Nick Davies TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 The RSC at 50 b0100218 (Listen) TUE The Ensemble TUE TUE James Naughtie goes backstage as the Royal Shakespeare TUE Company celebrates its 50th birthday and reopens its main TUE theatre in Stratford upon Avon. Part 1.The Ensemble. TUE TUE The RSC is now so much a feature of the British cultural TUE landscape that it is easy to imagine it has been around ever TUE since Shakespeare wrote his plays. Far from it. In this TUE three-part series, James Naughtie explores how the company TUE first came into being in 1961; the creation of its unique TUE ensemble system; its landmark productions; the opening TUE production in April 2011 in its newly built state-of-the-art TUE auditorium within the historic theatre on the banks of the TUE Avon in Stratford. TUE TUE This series has enjoyed an exclusive breadth of access to TUE the key players of the last half century. It includes the TUE voices of all five of the artistic directors - Peter Hall, TUE Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands, Adrian Noble and Michael Boyd; TUE luminaries such as Peter Brook, Cicely Berry, Judi Dench, TUE Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; not to mention many TUE members of the wider team of artists, technicians and TUE crafts-people who support the actors on stage. James TUE Naughtie explores not only the history of the company but TUE also why the work it does matters to the British cultural TUE scene. TUE TUE In the first programme, James follows Michael Boyd and TUE company as they prepare the new production - Macbeth - which TUE will formally open the new theatre in April 2011. TUE TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0100jtl (Listen) TUE Listeners air their views on consumer news and issues. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01000zb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0100nq8 (Listen) TUE National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty TUE minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To TUE share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Loud Organs His Glory b0103wyx (Listen) TUE Anyone who has watched a BBC Prom or visited St Paul's or TUE Salisbury or Hereford or Truro Cathedral will have seen a TUE "Father Willis" organ. This programme tells the story of the TUE man who through a blend of engineering ability, musical TUE ambition and massive self-confidence became the dominant TUE organ builder of the Victorian era. It was an era in which TUE huge organs were suddenly required in both cathedrals and TUE the new town halls appearing all over the country. TUE Simon Townley tells the story of 'Father' Henry Willis from TUE his relatively humble beginnings as the son of a London TUE builder to the heights of Victorian society. By winning a TUE competition at the great Exhibition in 1951 Willis set TUE himself on a road which was to lead to the building of over TUE a thousand organs. Many are still working today, even if TUE they've been altered over the years. What makes the Willis TUE organs special, and makes organists today acknowledge there TUE greatness in hushed tones, is the subject of this programme. TUE Simon visits the current Willis factory in Liverpool where TUE new organs are still built and old Willis machines are TUE revitalised. TUE He plays the organ in Winchester Cathedral, the organ that TUE won the Great Exhibition competition and was squeezed into TUE the Cathedral by the then organist S.S.Wesley, and he finds TUE out more about the man whose love of yachting was matched TUE only by his belief that anything was possible when it came TUE to the building of organs. If that meant splitting an organ TUE in two, putting the two parts on either side of a cathedral TUE transept and linking the whole lot through a system of TUE subterranean pipes then that's what he would do... and he TUE did, in the case of St Pauls Cathedral. TUE But essentially the father Willis story is about the details TUE that earned his reputation. The reed technology that no-one TUE at the time could match, the use of new steam generated wind TUE and the design of organ consoles that gave organists like TUE Willis himself, a control that they'd never enjoyed before. TUE It's a story of the king of instruments built at a time of TUE supreme national self-confidence by a man who embodied the TUE spirit of the age and gave it voice. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00zzz22 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b0100230 (Listen) TUE Deja-Vu TUE TUE By Alexis Zegerman TUE TUE When a young English woman and a French man meet in Paris it TUE is language that stands between them. But when he gets TUE stopped and searched in London, the seed of a much larger TUE difference is sown. This bi-lingual play in French and TUE English is a co-production between BBC Radio Drama and Arte TUE Radio, a division of Arte France. TUE Claire...Caroline Catz TUE Ahmed...Karim Saleh TUE French Policeman...Richard Sanda TUE French Policeman...Hovnatan Avedikian TUE British Policeman...Chris Pavlo TUE Translator...Helen Longworth TUE Directed by Lu Kemp and Christophe Rault TUE Produced by Jeremy Mortimer. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0100232 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listener's questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b010023q (Listen) TUE Backwards and in High Heels, Fascinating Marion TUE TUE Stories of women quietly outperforming the men in their TUE lives. Commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of TUE Ginger Rogers, who famously did everything that Fred Astaire TUE did - only backwards and in high heels. TUE TUE 'Fascinating Marion' by Joan Smith. Teenager Stella is TUE horrified when her practical mother invests in an outlandish TUE hat. Read by Melody Grove. TUE TUE Journalist, critic and novelist Joan Smith is the author of TUE the 'Loretta Lawson' detective novels and writes a regular TUE column for The Independent. TUE TUE 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gqxt2 (Listen) TUE The Killers Take Command TUE TUE David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War TUE which began 150 years ago this month. In ten episodes he TUE explores the origins and legacy of the war. In this episode, TUE we meet the men on both sides of the battle lines: Robert E TUE Lee and Ulysses S Grant. TUE TUE Episode 2 - The Killers Take Command TUE TUE This was originallly broadcast as part of the 90 part TUE series, America: Empire of Liberty TUE This episode was previously broadcast on 20 January, 2009. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b010023v (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen explores the complex relationship between TUE language and sport, and asks "If sport is so unpredictable, TUE why is it that sports punditry is so predictably TUE cliche-ridden?" TUE Michael talks to commentators, athletes, and TUE athletes-turned-commentators to see if the arrival of the TUE Olympics on British soil is likely to herald a new era of TUE hyperbole and inarticulate over-excitement. TUE TUE Producer: John Byrne. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b010023x (Listen) TUE Series 24, Thomas Edison TUE TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his TUE guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Here, TUE Sir Clive Sinclair nominates fellow inventor Thomas Edison. TUE Edison invented sound recording, the electric light bulb and TUE moving pictures, but also had his fair share of duds along TUE the way. Sir Clive invented the first electronic calculator TUE but also the ill-fated C5 electric car. Separated by a TUE century, do the two men have anything in common? Joining the TUE discussion is Edison's biographer Neil Baldwin. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b010023z (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01000zd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b0100241 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 4 TUE TUE The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by TUE the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators TUE of The Fast Show. TUE TUE Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia TUE Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy TUE Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse. TUE TUE Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Robert Popper, Adil Ray TUE and Louis Vause. TUE TUE Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b010025q (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0100nbk (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0100214 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b010025s (Listen) TUE Air Crashes TUE TUE The investigation following an air disaster is supposed to TUE make air travel safer. But do the reports always get to the TUE truth about why planes crash? Emma Jane Kirby examines TUE claims that international air accident investigations are TUE often slow, incompetent and influenced by political TUE sensitivities. So how does this affect the victims' families TUE as they fight manufacturers and airlines for compensation? TUE And could the blame game be preventing lessons being learned TUE that could prevent future accidents? TUE Producer Jenny Chryss. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b010025v (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Blood For Blood b00qx456 (Listen) TUE What lies behind the reluctance of black and Asian people in TUE Britain to act as blood and organ donors? Statistically, TUE they are far less likely to come forward as donors than TUE their white compatriots. The oft repeated suggestion is that TUE there is a greater fear and suspicion of the medical TUE profession by these groups. But is that really the case? TUE Might the answers be cultural, religious or stem from a lack TUE of awareness? TUE TUE The problem is made even more stark by figures which show TUE that black and Asian people comprise a quarter of the people TUE on the waiting list for kidney transplants for example, far TUE in excess of their percentage of the population. TUE TUE In Blood for Blood, Beverley De-Gale examines the imbalance TUE between donors and recipients in the black and Asian TUE populations. TUE TUE Beverley De-Gale's son, Daniel, was in need of a bone marrow TUE transplant and held out hope for several years before TUE finding a donor but sadly died from non-related TUE complications in 2008. But the years of anxious waiting on a TUE list exposed a truth: the pool of black donors was virtually TUE dry. TUE TUE In the wake of the death of her son, Beverley De-Gale asks TUE just what is behind the conundrum of Britain's black and TUE Asian population's disinclination to volunteer as blood and TUE organ donors. TUE TUE Daniel De-Gale with his parents Beverley De-Gale and Orin TUE Lewis at an ACLT fundraising event TUE TUE 21:30 Between Ourselves b01000z8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01000zg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0100q0m (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0100261 (Listen) TUE The Tiger's Wife, Episode 7 TUE TUE The reader is Hattie Morahan. TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00p2z8j (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE Laura Solon presents her third series of sketches, TUE monologues and one-liners. TUE TUE This week we meet a woman who is so completely useless that TUE she's just been snapped up for a job in the government; TUE Britain's most affable secret agent and someone with a TUE pretend hedgehog sanctuary. TUE TUE Also featuring Rosie Cavaliero, Ben Moor and Ben Willbond. TUE TUE Producer: Colin Anderson. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0100263 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 APRIL 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b010026c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0101kyv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010026f (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010026h (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010026k (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b010026m (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01002xm (Listen) WED with Rev. Canon Jenny Wigley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01002xp (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin WED Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b01002xr (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01002xt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0100x2s (Listen) WED Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Toby Jones WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01002xw (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents. Including the work of the Cornish WED artist Rose Hilton. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01002xy (Listen) WED The Little Ottleys, Episode 3 WED WED Series One (5 episodes) WED Episode Three WED WED Aylmer has fallen madly in love with Edith and she with him WED but they are resigned to being apart WED WED Ada..............Haydn Gwynne WED Bruce............Bertie Carvel WED Edith.............Juliet Aubrey WED Aylmer..........Jonathan Firth WED Anne.............Jane Whittenshaw WED Hyacinth........Alex Tregear WED Cecil..............Stuart McLoughlin WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED 11:00 Esler on Eichmann b010026p (Listen) WED Adolf Eichmann was responsible for sending millions of WED people to the Nazi death camps during World War Two. After WED the end of the war he escaped to Argentina, but in 1960 he WED was snatched by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service WED and brought to Jerusalem to stand trial. WED WED In this programme the award-winning journalist Gavin Esler WED travels to Israel to meet those involved in Eichmann's WED dramatic and controversial capture and trial. WED WED The kidnapping violated Argentina's sovereignty and was WED condemned by the UN. Questions were raised about whether it WED was appropriate to try Eichmann in Israel, and international WED Jewish leaders feared an anti-Semitic backlash. WED WED David Ben-Gurion, Israel's Prime Minister, insisted that the WED Jewish state was the only heir of the six million murdered WED and that the trial would fulfil a historic duty. In the WED event it forced the young country to confront its history in WED a way that had profound consequences. WED WED Gavin meets Rafi Eitan, who lead the Mossad team and who WED recalls his acute sense of being involved in something WED momentous. Gabriel Bach, the deputy prosecutor, explains WED that Eichmann's defence 'he was only following orders' was WED laughable. In fact he disobeyed orders to carry out his WED extermination ambitions. Michael Goldman Gilad, who survived WED Auschwitz, became a policeman and witnessed Eichmann's WED execution. WED WED He remembers being forced to spread ash from the Birkenau WED crematorium onto the icy ground so SS officers wouldn't WED slip. Only when he saw the tiny pile of ash after Eichmann's WED cremation did he realise how many bodies must have made up WED the ash mound in the camp. WED WED Producer: Kate Taylor WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Beauty of Britain b0100gqp (Listen) WED Series 2, Citroen UXB WED WED No professional care-worker can afford to miss Beauty WED Olonga's survival guide to Britain - its overheated houses, WED its disappointing church services and its world-class WED charity shops. Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows WED Beauty's continuing adventures as the Featherdown Agency WED sends her to provide care for those who need it - and some WED who don't, but all of whom have relatives with guilty WED consciences. WED WED Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls WED hoping to live the dream in Britain. 'There are plenty of WED opportunities here. The professional classes are always off WED sick due to binge drinking and the rest are too lazy to get WED off the couch to answer the pizza delivery man.' WED WED The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens WED to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. It WED shows the process in all its chaotic, tragi-comedy but it WED does so from the point of view of a migrant worker, Beauty, WED whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught her to respect WED age. Beauty sees Britain at its best, its worst and also WED sometimes without its clothes on running the wrong way down WED the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' WED WED In episode one, Beauty is sent to look after Sarah, who WED lives with both her mother and daughter. A perfect, happy WED modern family, like the kind Beauty has seen in feel-good WED British movies. With her own famly being very demanding, it WED is understandable when Beauty begins to get too close. WED WED Episode 1 'Citroen UXB' WED WED Beauty... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Joyce ... Julia McKenzie WED Sarah ... Jenny Agutter WED Lucy ... Catherine Shepherd WED Sally ... Felicity Montagu WED Karen ... Nicola Sanderson WED WED The music for the series was provided by The West End Gospel WED Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0100gqr (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b010026r (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0100tk3 (Listen) WED National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty WED minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To WED share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b0100gqt (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b010025q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0100gqw (Listen) WED Early Belt and the Present WED WED Murder mystery set in India in 1709. A young servant, Early WED Belt, accompanies a group of superstitious English merchants WED as they transport a vast wagon train of goods to Delhi. The WED wagon train - known as The Present - is an incentive for the WED Indian Emperor to grant free trade throughout the land. As WED the convoy crawls across India a merchant is found murdered. WED Stories quickly spread of a sorceress locked inside an WED enchanted cabinet somewhere within the convoy. When a second WED merchant is killed the rumours turn to hysteria. It falls to WED Early Belt to solve the mystery. WED WED Written by Richard Pitt with additional material by Bert WED Coules. WED WED Early Belt.....JAMES ANTHONY PEARSON WED John Surman.............DAVID HAYMAN WED Dr Hamilton..........JOHN SHEDDEN WED Prof Peters ..............RALPH RIACH WED Merchant 1 ...........KENNY BLYTH WED Merchant 2...........BRIAN PETTIFER WED Merchant 3.........MARK MCDONNELL WED Emperor .............UMAR AHMED WED Beda Belt...........LUCY PATERSON WED Producer/Director: Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0100gqy (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a team of advisors will be here to answer WED your questions about welfare benefits on Wednesday's Money WED Box Live. WED WED The rules are changing for a number of benefits this month, WED including Local Housing Allowance, Tax Credits and tests for WED Employment and Support Allowance. WED WED And in the longer term, The Welfare Reform Bill could WED transform much of our benefits system. WED WED If you have a question about how you'll be affected, or any WED other benefit question, Paul Lewis and guests will be ready WED to help. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0100gr0 (Listen) WED Backwards and in High Heels, Dressing Natalie WED WED Stories of women quietly outperforming the men in their WED lives. Commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of WED Ginger Rogers, who famously did everything that Fred Astaire WED did - only backwards and in high heels. WED WED 'Dressing Natalie' by Hannah McGill. A woman puts pen to WED paper and writes to her bank manager after an unforeseen WED spending spree. Read by Barbara Rafferty. WED WED Writer and critic Hannah McGill is a former Artistic WED Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. WED WED 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gqxt4 (Listen) WED Forever Free WED WED David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War WED which began 150 years ago this month. In ten episodes he WED explores the origins and legacy of the war. In this episode, WED Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation to free WED the slaves. WED WED Episode 3: Forever Free WED WED Previously broadcast on 21 January, 2009, as part of David WED Reynolds 90 part series, America, Empire of Liberty. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0100gr4 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Super Recognisers b00q3fbv (Listen) WED What if you could never forget a face? A group of people WED newly discovered to science have been dubbed 'Super WED Recognisers'. They have an extraordinary ability to WED recognise faces of everyone they meet, now matter how WED fleeting the encounter or how long ago. At the other WED extreme, imagine looking in the mirror and not recognising WED who was staring back at you. Or not knowing which is your WED own child at the school gates. People with prosopagnosia or WED face blindness have those kinds of experiences every day. WED WED Claudia Hammond explores the science of face recognition. WED She uncovers the extremes of a skill that is fundamental to WED social interaction and yet science is only just beginning to WED understand. She talks to neuroscientists have done some of WED the first FMRi brain scans to find out more about how our WED brains register faces. WED WED As many as 1 in 50 people are prosopagnosic but many won't WED know they have a problem. What are the implications for WED border control, policing and eye witness evidence? Also WED everyone struggles to recognise faces of people they don't WED know but what are the consequences for criminal justice? WED WED 17:00 PM b0100vjb (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010026t (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Act Your Age b0100gr6 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy WED generations to find out which is the funniest. Will it be WED the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard who WED will be crowned, for one week at least, as the Golden Age of WED Comedy. This week Holly Walsh is joined by Sean Walsh, Lucy WED Porter teams up with Hal Cruttenden and Tom O'Connor is WED paired with Dave Spikey. WED WED Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0100gr8 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0100grb (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Swedish crime WED writer Henning Mankell, as he publishes his final Inspector WED Wallander novel. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01002xy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b0100grd (Listen) WED Tax WED WED Clive Anderson and guests analyse the legal issues of the WED day. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b0100grg (Listen) WED Well known figures reflect on elements of conflict found in WED the story of Jesus' ministry and Passion from the WED perspective of their own personal and professional WED experience. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b0100grj (Listen) WED Fields Paved with Gold WED WED Birmingham City Council is already fitting solar to 10,000 WED homes and farmers with more than 35 acres had hoped to earn WED as much as £50,000 a year harvesting solar energy. But, the WED government now seems to be backtracking on its promise of WED large subsidies. Spain's solar industry recently crumbled WED due to the false economics of government funding and they WED have a lot more sunshine than the UK. Germany too, which has WED the world's largest market for solar, has recently had to WED dramatically decrease promised feed in tariffs in order to WED prevent an unsustainable bubble. WED WED Detractors of solar argue that even if we covered the WED country in panels we would only produce the energy of a WED handful of power plants. Nevertheless the limited FIT offer WED is heralding a 'goldrush' in parts of the South West who WED hope to revive the local economy. Once the offer ends the WED industry must be able to sustain itself but in the UK is the WED latest renewable hot ticket worth the gamble? Even in sunny WED Cornwall five figure planning application fees have put off WED many investors and new uncertainty over feed in tariffs has WED stalled planned projects. WED WED There are those who believe covering the roofs of some of WED our most loved National Trust Institutions like Dunster WED Castle with panels will be an expensive mistake. Others WED believe that any government or public body influence will WED only falsely inflate and then ultimately suppress the real WED value of solar. WED WED As ever the industry relies on growing take up making WED technology cheaper and increased funding for research WED increasing efficiency even in Britain's darkest parts. WED Low cost organic solar cells being developed at Cambridge WED University could be the answer but can we afford to wait for WED them to come online. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01002xt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b010026w (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0100vmd (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0100grn (Listen) WED The Tiger's Wife, Episode 8 WED WED Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 23:00 Living with Mother b0100grq (Listen) WED Spilt Milk WED WED Michael has never had a girlfriend and his mum Susan decides WED it's time for him to buck his ideas up and get a woman. She WED wants him out of the house for both their sakes, he's 41 WED after all! WED WED But Michael is a lazy dreamer. No woman in her right mind WED would want him. Still, Susan has a plan. Her friend's got a WED single niece and if needs be, Susan will drag Michael over WED there. Perhaps the niece will take pity on him. But maybe WED Michael has plans of his own... WED WED Producer: Anna Madley WED An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00q3ld2 (Listen) WED Series 1, Quest WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED regular bin collections and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Dragon. WED WED In this episode Mordrin is summoned by the wizard council to WED deal with an out of control Jakonty Dragon which is on a WED path of destruction and is set to wipe out the tiny town of WED Aviemore, but who can he recruit to help him? WED WED Featuring and written by Scottish stand up David Kay and WED starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty, Mordrin McDonald WED mixes the magical with the mundane and offers a hilarious WED take on the life of a modern day Wizard. WED WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Geoff: Gordon Kennedy WED Heather: Cora Bissett WED Bernard The Blue: Jack Doherty WED Tracy: Rosemary Hollands WED Jill: Sally Reid WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0100grs (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne reports on the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 APRIL 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0100jpg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0100x2s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0100jpj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0100jpl (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0100jpn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0100jpq (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0100jps (Listen) THU with Rev. Canon Jenny Wigley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0100jpv (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b0100jpx (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0100jpz (Listen) THU Octavia Hill THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian social THU reformer Octavia Hill. THU THU From the 1850s until her death in 1912, Octavia Hill was an THU energetic campaigner who did much to improve the lot of THU impoverished city dwellers. She was a pioneer of social THU housing who believed that there were better and more humane THU ways of arranging accommodation for the poor than through THU the state. She provided an early model of social work, did THU much to preserve urban open spaces, and was the first to use THU the term 'green belt' to describe the rural areas around THU London. She was also one of the founders of the National THU Trust. Yet her vision of social reform, involving volunteers THU and private enterprise rather than central government, was THU often at odds with that of her contemporaries. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0100x2v (Listen) THU Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Toby Jones THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0100jq1 (Listen) THU Jane Garvey presents: Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0100jq3 (Listen) THU The Little Ottleys, Episode 4 THU THU Series One (5 episodes) THU Episode Four THU THU Edith is missing Aylmer terribly and she has written asking THU him to return but will he.....? THU THU Ada...........Haydn Gwynne THU Aylmer......Jonathan Firth THU Bruce..........Bertie Carvel THU Edith...........Juliet Aubrey THU Mavis.........Deeivya Meir THU Cecil..........Stuart McLoughlin THU Eugenia......Joanna Monro THU Anne...........Jane Whittenshaw THU Hyacinth......Alex Tregear THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0100jq5 (Listen) THU Ecuador THU THU The Ecuadorian Amazon region is one of the most bio-diverse THU on the planet. In one area, nearly 600 bird species, 80 THU kinds of bat and 150 varieties of amphibian have been THU recorded. And it's possible that the density of one of the THU rarest wild cats, the jaguar, is twice as high as anywhere THU else in the world. This is also home to two of the last THU uncontacted groups of indigenous people in the world, who THU choose to live undisturbed in voluntary isolation. THU THU But beneath the rich tropical soil lies another treasure - THU nearly a billion barrels of untapped oil, 20% of this Latin THU American nation's reserves. Ecuador has calculated that if THU it were to exploit this petroleum, it would make over $7 THU billion. That is a significant sum of money for a relatively THU poor nation. But instead, the government has a radical plan: THU if the international community will compensate Ecuador for THU half of the loss of revenue, the government will pledge to THU protect this unique environment and keep the drillers out. THU With the funds raised, Ecuador will invest in social THU projects and non-carbon forms of energy, and aims to create THU a global template for other poor equatorial countries with THU oil. THU THU This is what's known as Plan A in Ecuador, and President THU Correa has set a deadline of the end of 2011 to collect the THU first US $100 million. If donors don't materialise, he has THU always said he will implement Plan B - to begin the process THU of extracting crude from this particular oil block, known as THU Yasuni-ITT. THU THU For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly travels deep into the THU rainforest to find out what is at stake. She visits a THU community of Haorani indigenous people who have a history of THU resisting - often violently - the encroachment of oil THU companies in the Amazon. And with the recent court judgement THU against the US oil giant Chevron - who took over Texaco - THU and a resulting hefty fine of over US$8 billion for THU pollution, she traces the often dirty history of oil THU exploitation in Ecuador. THU THU But how realistic is the Yasuni-ITT initiative? Ecuador's THU economy is dependent on oil exports. Technology too has THU moved on, and an oil investor and analyst tells Crossing THU Continents that not only has the industry learnt some THU lessons, but also that it is now possible to extract oil THU from the pristine forest with minimal damage to the THU ecosystems. THU THU So far it seems the Ecuadorean people support Plan A. But THU although international donors have shown moral backing for THU the government's idea to save the rainforest, this hasn't THU been matched by contributions to the fund. And with less THU than half the $100 million pledged, the clock is ticking for THU one of the world's most unique and precious habitats. THU THU Producer: Emil Petrie. THU THU 11:30 My Nights with Emma B b0100jtj (Listen) THU Three years ago, British novelist Adam Thorpe undertook one THU of the most daunting tasks in literature - to produce an THU elegant, accurate and atmospheric translation into English THU of one of the world's greatest books, Gustave Flaubert's THU story of the devious and beautiful Emma and her life in and THU around provincial Rouen, Madame Bovary. THU THU Recorded as Adam wrestled with the intricacies of 19th THU century French, with the highly polished word-perfect prose THU of Flaubert's original and with the practical reality of THU making an English version that was fluently and stylishly THU readable as well as pin-point accurate, this documentary is THU also a secret life of the novelist at work. THU THU Because, like Thorpe himself, Flaubert was a perfectionist. THU He's known for his agonising over the fine-grain of his THU writing, taking a full five years to complete the novel. THU Long nights could easily elongate into a full week before a THU single page emerged. And yet Madame Bovary remains one of THU the great landmarks of storytelling - much filmed and THU serialised, the tale of the sexy provincial girl with THU metropolitan tastes and ambitions in 19th century Normandy THU scandalised as well as thrilled: Emma Bovary's passionate THU carriage ride through the streets of Rouen is one of the THU most famous and erotic scenes in literature that contributed THU to the immorality charge that landed Flaubert in court. THU THU But how to come to terms with all this when even exclamation THU marks mean different things in English and French? Living THU himself in the depths of the French countryside, Adam Thorpe THU reveals the pleasures and the pain of turning Flaubert into THU enjoyably readable English - but should it be 19th or 21st THU century English...? THU THU Producer: Simon Elmes. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b010021b (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0100jq7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0100vx6 (Listen) THU National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty THU minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To THU share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b0100grj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0100gr8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 On Mardle Fen b009n44f (Listen) THU Series 1, Distant Cold Light THU THU by Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock stars as ancient, earthy, THU inspired chef Warwick Hedges, in a four part series set in THU an idiosyncratic restaurant in the Cambridgeshire Fens. THU Part 1: Distant Cold Light. A mysterious young man brings THU his mother for a special meal. THU THU Warwick Hedges.....Trevor Peacock THU Jack Hedges.....Sam Dale THU David.....Chris Pavlo THU Fay.....Liza Sadovy THU Marcia.....Kate Buffery THU Imogen.....Liz Sutherland THU Zofia.....Helen Longworth THU Samuel.....John Rowe THU THU Director Claire Grove. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00zxn8g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00zzn23 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0100lg3 (Listen) THU Backwards and in High Heels, Sharing the Joke THU THU Stories of women quietly outperforming the men in their THU lives. Commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of THU Ginger Rogers, who famously did everything that Fred Astaire THU did - only backwards and in high heels. THU THU 'Sharing the Joke' by Reginald Hill. A chief constable THU remembers her big break as she looks back over her career at THU her retirement dinner. Read by Wendy Seager. THU THU Acclaimed novelist and CWA Diamond Dagger winner Reginald THU Hill is the author of series including the 'Dalziel and THU Pascoe' novels. THU THU 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gqxt6 (Listen) THU A New Nation THU THU David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War THU which began 150 years ago this month. In ten episodes he THU explores the origins and legacy of the war. The Battle of THU Gettysburg. THU THU Episode 4: A New Nation THU Previously broadcast on 22 January, 2009, as part of David THU Reynolds 90 part series, America, Empire of Liberty. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00zzpl7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b0100ljm (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b0100ljp (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0100jq9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b0100ljr (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong THU side of life with comedians Frank Skinner and Josie Long THU plus Harry Hill TV Burp writer Daniel Maier competing to THU suggest the best in bad ideas. THU THU Charlie's challenges in this episode see the panel recall THU 'the most embarrassing thing they've done in public' plus THU suggesting concepts for a terrible chain of shops. Can THU anyone top Frank Skinner's suggestion of the drinking THU accessory franchise 'Oddbinge'? THU THU Added to this are the panel's nominations for the worst THU irritants of modern life - including Josie Long selection of THU 'comment' sections on the web or as she calls them 'the THU bottom half of the internet'. THU THU The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also THU presents BBC4's acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series - THU and is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also THU won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0100j92 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0100ljt (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0100jq3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0100ljw (Listen) THU On 5 May, the whole of the UK goes to the polls to vote in a THU referendum for the first time since 1975. Voters will be THU asked to decide whether they want to replace the existing THU "first past the post system" to elect MPs to the House of THU Commons with the "alternative vote" system. THU THU It is a referendum that will see some unlikely alliances THU forming on either side of the campaign, with some the UK's THU largest trades unions lining up alongside senior THU Conservative party politicians to push for a "no" vote, THU while those advocating a "yes" come not only from THU established parties like the Liberal Democrats and some THU sections of the Labour Party, but also smaller parties like THU the Green Party. THU THU But with such a complex mix of interested parties, how much THU do we know about who is bankrolling the campaigns and what THU their agendas are? Reporter James Silver investigates the THU campaign groups and private individuals pumping millions of THU pounds into the contest and asks whether the rules around THU disclosure of donations are as robust as those for general THU elections. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0100ljy (Listen) THU New Bric On The Block THU THU Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and China are the BRICs - the THU developing countries experts think are well on their way to THU the top of the world's economic league table. But now THU there's talk that the fourth most populous country, THU Indonesia, is heading there, too. From Jakarta, Peter Day THU finds out more. THU THU 21:00 The Cuckoo b0100216 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0100jpz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0100jqc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0100vyh (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0100lmv (Listen) THU The Tiger's Wife, Episode 9 THU THU The readers are Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 23:00 Alan Garner: The Return to Brisingamen b00j6xxz (Listen) THU John Waite came from the area where "The Weirdstone ..." was THU located and counts it as a major influence upon him. We THU follow him as he accompanies Garner to the book's original THU setting to find out more about the remarkable author who was THU twice declared dead as a child. Waite also travels to THU Oxford, to look at the original Weirdstone manuscript in the THU Bodleian library and meets one of Garner's most ardent THU admirers, Philip Pullman - who describes him as one of the THU very best authors of his kind that England has ever THU produced. THU THU 23:30 The Keskidee b00k4fv9 (Listen) THU Oral Historian Alan Dein pieces together the remarkable and THU pioneering story of the Keskidee, Britain's first arts THU centre for the black community. Founded in the early 1970's THU and tucked away in a church hall in the backstreets of THU Islington, London, it forged new ground for a generation of THU black British poets, actors, artists and directors. Today a THU plaque is being unveiled by Islington Council in recognition THU of the cultural importance of the Keskidee, whose story was THU first told when this programme was originally broadcast in THU 2009. THU THU Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson was the educational officer at THU the Keskidee and Bob Marley shot the music video for 'Is THU This Love?' there. It had its own drama company, artists in THU residence and was a hub for African and Afro-Caribbean THU politics and arts, as well as a creative nursery for THU home-grown talent. It also catered for the needs of local THU youth and gave a generation of black teenagers a space of THU their own. But this massively influential cultural centre THU also has a fascinating earlier history, when it served as a THU progressive mission hall with a musical pastor and a THU legendary silver band. Today the building has reverted to THU being a religious base, housing an African church and a THU devout and joyous congregation. Dein joins up the hidden THU history of Gifford Hall which has played host to three THU different communities, but which, curiously, have much in THU common. THU THU Producer: Neil McCarthy. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 APRIL 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0100h1y (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0100x2v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0100h20 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0100h22 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0100h24 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0100h26 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0100h28 (Listen) FRI with Rev. Canon Jenny Wigley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0100h2s (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Fran Barnes. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0100h37 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00zzn2c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0100x2x (Listen) FRI Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Toby Jones FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0100h4q (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0100h4s (Listen) FRI The Little Ottleys, Episode 5 FRI FRI Series One (5 episodes) FRI Episode Five FRI FRI Much to the dismay of Alymer, Edith has forgiven Bruce for FRI his romantic liaison with another woman. FRI FRI Ada.........Haydn Gwynne FRI Alymer.....Jonathan Firth FRI Bruce.......Bertie Carvel FRI Edith........Juliet Aubrey FRI Mavis........Deeivya Meir FRI Anne.........Jane Whittenshaw FRI Eugenia.....Joanna Monro FRI Hyacinth....Alex Tregear FRI Cecil..........Stuart McLoughlin FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b0100h5j (Listen) FRI Series 7, Episode 4 FRI FRI Alan Dein follows the fortunes of Iraq veteran turned FRI wedding photographer Stefan Edwards as he contends with the FRI difficulties of life on civvy street and tries to cut FRI himself a slice of the increasingly competitive wedding FRI market. FRI FRI It's a March wedding for Lorraine and Richard from Newport FRI and official photographer Stefan Edwards exudes an air of FRI military authority as he chronicles the pair's big day. On FRI the inside, though, Stefan's every bit as nervous as the FRI couple anxiously awaiting the exchanging of vows. For FRI Stefan's a newcomer to the wedding photography business - FRI six months previously, he'd been out in Iraq using his FRI camera to chronicle the war ravaged country, first for the FRI British army and then for a private security contractor. FRI FRI Having visited virtually every corner of Iraq, Stefan FRI eventually decided to return to the UK to be with his FRI Newport-based family who'd grown increasingly concerned at FRI his absence. With steady work hard to find, Stefan has FRI decided to go into the photography business, swapping one FRI risk for another. Alan Dein joins him at the start of the FRI wedding season as he attempts to drum up trade for his new FRI venture and put the trauma of Iraq behind him. FRI FRI Producer: Laurence Grissell. FRI FRI 11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b0100j8w (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI FRI It's not Hope's birthday, so why is everyone bringing her FRI presents? FRI FRI Debra Stevenson and Nicola Duffet star in episode 6 of John FRI Godber and Jane Thornton's comedy set in a sandwich bar in FRI Beverley, near Hull. FRI FRI 'Spread A Little Happiness' is sung by Debra Stevenson. FRI FRI Hope ..... Debra Stevenson FRI Maria ..... Nicola Duffett FRI Dave ..... Neil Dudgeon FRI Mam ..... Anne Reid FRI Ray ..... Shaun Prendergast FRI Gavin ..... Ralph Brown FRI Jenny ..... Sarah Moyle FRI Anita ..... Sherry Baines FRI Carrie ...... Elizabeth Godber FRI Eve ..... Helen Longworth FRI Bob ..... Ben Crowe FRI Monty ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Blinds man ..... James Weaver FRI FRI Producer/Director: Chris Wallis FRI An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0100j8y (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0100h2b (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0100pmt (Listen) FRI National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty FRI minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To FRI share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on Twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b0100j90 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0100j92 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00h8zf1 (Listen) FRI Phumzile FRI FRI By Matthew Hurt. Tom and Pete are on holiday in South FRI Africa. When a mugger tries to snatch Pete's phone a local FRI woman intervenes, but when she asks him for money Tom is FRI suspicious. FRI FRI Phumzile...Nadine Marshall FRI Pete...Stephen Hogan FRI Tom...Nathan Stewart-Jarrett FRI Emilia...Syan Blake FRI Harry...Matt Addis FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0100j94 (Listen) FRI Postbag edition from Bunny Guinness' garden FRI FRI Round at Bunny's: Bob Flowerdew, Chris Beardhshaw and Eric FRI Robson gather in Bunny Guinness' Peterborough garden to FRI answer a selection of listener questions sent in by post and FRI email. FRI In addition, a snoop around the award-winning garden FRI designer's patch. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gqxt8 (Listen) FRI The War Behind the Battle Lines FRI FRI David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War FRI which began 150 years ago this month. In ten episodes he FRI explores the origins and legacy of the war. FRI FRI Episode 5: 'The War Behind the Battle Lines': The burning of FRI Atlanta. FRI FRI Previously broadcast on 23 January, 2009, as part of David FRI Reynolds 90 part series America, Empire of Liberty. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0100j98 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b0100j9b (Listen) FRI The latest news and names from the world of film. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0100j9d (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0100h2d (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b0100j9g (Listen) FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the last in the series of FRI topical stand-up and sketches. They're joined by Jon Holmes, FRI Jess Robinson and stand-up Alun Cochrane. Mitch Benn and Joe FRI Stilgoe provide the music. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0100j9j (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0100j9l (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Mohamed FRI Al-Daradji, the director of the Iraqi film drama Son of FRI Babylon, which is about to be released on DVD. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0100h4s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0100j9n (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Nova Hreod School FRI in Swindon with the deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph, FRI Benedict Brogan, the broadcaster John Sergeant, the chief FRI executive of Relate, Claire Tyler and the Green Party leader FRI and MP, Caroline Lucas. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0100j9q (Listen) FRI Series 2, Hummers FRI FRI 8/20. Hummingbirds are given spectacular names motivated by FRI their striking colours, patterns and shimmering metallic FRI iridescence; their names are beautiful as are the birds. FRI David Attenborough has filmed them on several occasions and FRI is fascinated by their agility and flying skills to drink FRI nectar from flowers inaccessible to any other animal. And FRI propelled by this rocket fuel of nature they are capable of FRI flying great distances and living life in the fast lane. FRI Enchanting in this story is how moved David Attenborough is FRI when recalling a story of their conservation; a rare piece FRI of good news he comments. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00zf64b (Listen) FRI Choice of Straws FRI FRI by ER Braithwaite. London's East End 1960. Twins Jack and FRI Dave Bennett are a happy-go-lucky, rootless pair of Teddy FRI boys. If they do occasionally rough-up a black guy it's just FRI a game to them. Until a victim in Whitechapel fights back FRI and Dave pulls a knife. From the writer of To Sir With Love. FRI FRI Jack.....Harry Hepple FRI Dave.....Luke Norris FRI Michelle.....Gugu Mbatha-Raw FRI Mum.....Ellie Haddington FRI Dad.....David Hargreaves FRI Ruth.....Annabelle Dowler FRI Mr Spencer..... Alex Lanipekun FRI Officer.....Stephen Hogan FRI FRI Dramatised by Roy Williams FRI Director Claire Grove. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0100h2g (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0101h29 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0100jhd (Listen) FRI The Tiger's Wife, Episode 10 FRI FRI The reader is Hattie Morahan. Abridged by Sally Marmion and FRI produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b010023x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Star Wars on the South Bank b00rtbg2 (Listen) FRI Almost thirty years ago serious plans were made to simulate FRI a Mars colony on the Southbank of the River Thames. Such an FRI outrageous idea would be dismissed outright if it wasn't FRI dreamt up by one of Britain's greatest social reformers - FRI Michael Young. FRI FRI Lord Young of Dartington, who died in 2002, was committed to FRI building institutions dedicated to social improvement. He FRI initiated or played a major role in creating the Consumers' FRI Association, the Open University, as well as Labour's 1945 FRI manifesto - Let us face the future. But then in 1984 he FRI launched the Argo Venture, a collective of Britain's finest FRI scientists, thinkers and space experts who were calling for FRI the planting of human colonies in space. His son, the author FRI and journalist Toby Young, asks was the Argo Venture an idea FRI too far? FRI FRI He recruited an amazing cast of volunteers; the Scientist FRI James Lovelock, the astronomer Lord Martin Rees and the FRI Science writer Nigel Calder amongst others. Young's legacy FRI was indisputably great but was this latter-day Georgian FRI folly, born of a grandee legendary enthusiasm? Was the whole FRI project set for failure? Could a serious British Mars FRI Programme exemplify the spirit of the early 21st century? FRI FRI In this programme Toby Young talks to Lord Martin Rees, FRI Professor Colin Pillinger and hears from passionate FRI advocates of Martian colonisation, but what was his father FRI looking for in Space? FRI FRI Produced by Barney Rowntree FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI