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SAT SATURDAY 09 APRIL 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0100jmd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00zzr1h (Listen) SAT Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 1 SAT SAT Ken Campbell, who died in September 2008, was one of the SAT great mavericks of British theatre. SAT SAT Ill-suited to a role in conventional theatre, he created a SAT risk-taking confrontational style of performance, which SAT often explored unlikely subject matter. He became, in SAT director Mike Leigh's words, "The outsider's outsider" SAT SAT Bob Hoskins, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are amongst the SAT performers whose formative years were spent working with SAT Campbell. What did the director and producer bring to SAT performance that made him such a mesmeric figure? SAT SAT Michael Coveney's biography tells the story of Campbell, the SAT great adventurer of British theatre. SAT SAT Writer Michael Coveney is a long-standing theatre critic, SAT who has worked for The Financial Times, The Observer and The SAT Daily Mail. Actor Toby Jones played Truman Capote in SAT 'Infamous' and Swifty Lazar in 'Frost/Nixon' and recently SAT reprised the role of Dobby in the film 'Harry Potter and the SAT Deathly Hallows'. Toby has also appeared in a production of SAT 'The Warp' by Neil Oram, the 22-hour epic created by Ken SAT Campbell. SAT SAT Read by Toby Jones SAT Abridged by Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0100jmg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0100jmj (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0100jml (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0100jmn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0100jmq (Listen) SAT with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0100jms (Listen) SAT We all hoard. But what happens when hoarding becomes a SAT health hazard? Michael invites us into his cottage, or SAT "pigsty", as he calls it, to show us the accumulated clutter SAT of utensils, papers and bags that have become his home. SAT Also, one retired teacher's experience of ingrained SAT immobility, from a constituency not so very far from Nick SAT Clegg's home town. And, a tale of a great woman and her SAT flying machine; the first female to build and fly her own SAT aeroplane, told to us by iPM listener, her great-niece. Plus SAT Clare Balding canters through your news from Aintree, while SAT on Grand National reporting duty. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0100jmv (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0100jmx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0103z1x (Listen) SAT Sherwood Forest SAT SAT For this week's Open Country, Richard Uridge is in the SAT Birklands area of Sherwood Forest finding out about its SAT ancient past when he visits Thynghowe, an ancient open-air SAT meeting place where hundreds of Vikings gathered to make SAT important decisions. SAT SAT Presenter: Richard Uridge SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0103z1z (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Like all industries, farming has to meet the government's SAT climate change target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions SAT by 80% on 1990 levels. Charlotte Smith visits a SAT Northamptonshire beef farmer, James Fanshawe, who has SAT stopped using fertiliser and is slaughtering his animals SAT younger. Both things help the farm's finances, and can help SAT reduce greenhouse gas emissions. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith. Producer: Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0100jmz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0103z3s (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0103z5m (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles with best-selling author Joanna SAT Trollope, poet Kate Fox, one man who discovered a crock of SAT gold and another who lived through the upheaval in the Congo SAT as it became independent in 1960; an I Was There feature SAT about the 1997 Grand National which postponed by an IRA bomb SAT scare, and Benjamin Zephaniah shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0103z5p (Listen) SAT Walking in Ireland and Spain - Philippines SAT SAT John McCarthy hears from a bestselling thriller writer about SAT his travels around The Philippines, finds out about a series SAT of new walks in Ireland and talks to someone seeking SAT inspiration from a pilgrimage across Spain. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 For One Night Only b0103z8j (Listen) SAT Series 6, Keith Jarrett: The Cologne Concert 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 Keith Jarrett had made his name as a jazz pianist working SAT with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. But in the SAT 1970s he began to give solo performances, frequently SAT improvised. On 24 January 1975, at the Opera House in SAT Cologne, Germany, he played an entirely improvised concert SAT to a packed house. Lasting over an hour, it was released on SAT ECM, the new jazz label founded by Manfred Eicher. Keith SAT Jarrett: The Cologne Concert was to become not only the SAT best-selling solo album in jazz history, but also the SAT best-selling piano recording ever. SAT SAT The concert promoter was an amateur jazz enthusiast: Vera SAT Brandes, who was only 17 at the time. For this programme she SAT returns to the Cologne Opera House, sharing her memories of SAT an extraordinary evening with others who were there, SAT including sound engineers Martin Wieland and Eva SAT Bauer-Oppelland, and members of the audience. She recalls SAT how she begged and borrowed to set up the concert, revealing SAT the drama of her discovery that the wrong grand piano had SAT been placed on the stage and her futile efforts to find a SAT replacement. It turns out that for this record-breaking SAT album, Jarrett improvised on an out-of-tune piano with a SAT smattering of mute keys! SAT SAT Recapturing the magical intensity of Jarrett's epic SAT performance, Paul Gambaccini hears those who were there SAT recall a night of emotion and euphoria which they've never SAT forgotten, and conveys through Jarrett's masterly SAT performance a sense of history being made. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0103z8l (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT Andrew Lansley has promised to listen to suggestions for SAT improving his hotly-disputed reform of the NHS. Labour said SAT the Health secretary's statement to MPs on Monday - SAT announcing a "pause" in proceedings - was humiliating. Here, SAT Ann Soubry, a Tory MP and parliamentary aide in the Health SAT department, sticks up for the reforms in conversation with SAT Labour's Ben Bradshaw. SAT SAT After Greece and Ireland, now Portugal appeals for a SAT bail-out. How fragile is the Eurozone? The economist and SAT Eurosceptic, Professor Tim Congdon, looks into the future. SAT SAT The public understands "first past the post". But what about SAT the alternative vote? Here, the Lib Dem Stephen Williams and SAT the Tory Kwasi Kwarteng agree to differ on its merits as a SAT referendum on the voting system looms. SAT SAT Finally, how far does a foul-mouthed outburst from Wayne SAT Rooney epitomise the excesses and faults of football? The SAT Tory Damian Collins and Labour's Paul Farrelly are taking SAT part in a parliamentary enquiry into the way the sport is SAT run. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0103z8n (Listen) SAT Today our correspondent takes a drive through the country SAT which was once one of Africa's success stories -- today the SAT journey reveals Ivory Coast, after months of conflict, is a SAT devastated, fearful place. There's an initiative underway in SAT Afghanistan to improve the lot of women about to give birth. SAT At the moment many are dying in childbirth and many children SAT perish within the first weeks of life. Our reporter's at a SAT clinic near Kabul hearing what they plan to do. And we hear SAT about efforts to help the mighty, but threatened, sturgeon SAT in the River Danube. There are some fishy tales to tell ... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0103z8z (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT How ending a payment to the AA may be more complicated than SAT you think SAT Plus: the winners and losers in the State Pension shake up SAT And a further increase - on the quiet - to prescription SAT charges in England. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b0100j9g (Listen) SAT A listening exercise with Alun Cochrane SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the last episode in the SAT series as they examine the pros and cons of AV and who's SAT really listening to the NHS. Guest stand-up Alun Cochrane SAT ponders parental patronage and Oliver Letwin's aversion to SAT flying Northerners; Jon Holmes exposes himself to the latest SAT innovation in airport security; and spring is in the air for SAT Joe Stilgoe, who's crazy about Kate Humble. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0100jn1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0100jn3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0100j9n (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Nova Hreod School SAT in Swindon with the deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph, SAT Benedict Brogan, the broadcaster John Sergeant, the chief SAT executive of Relate and Liberal Democrat peer, Claire Tyler SAT and the Green Party leader and MP Caroline Lucas. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0103zjt (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 b0103zjw (Listen) SAT One Chord Wonders: Blitzkrieg Bop SAT 2/5 SAT Frank Cottrell Boyce's series of plays about the punk SAT generation 30 years on. In 1977 self-styled Mo Motormouth SAT was writing a punk fanzine. Now she's doing the travel news SAT for a radio station. An attempt to re-launch her ailing SAT career brings unwelcome attention from some of her SAT 'livelier' listeners. SAT SAT Mo ... Pauline Quirke SAT Benny ... Adam Kotz SAT Shammi ... Manjinder Virk SAT Steve Reeves .... Ivan Kaye SAT George ... Ben Crowe SAT Arthur ... Harry Myers SAT Jack ... Sanjay Shelat SAT Teacher/Barney ... Stephen Critchlow SAT Benny's Daughter ... Amy Enticknap SAT SAT Producer/Director ... Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 Loud Organs His Glory b0103wyx (Listen) SAT Anyone who has watched a BBC Prom or visited St Paul's or SAT Salisbury or Hereford or Truro Cathedral will have seen a SAT "Father Willis" organ. This programme tells the story of the SAT man who through a blend of engineering ability, musical SAT ambition and massive self-confidence became the dominant SAT organ builder of the Victorian era. It was an era in which SAT huge organs were suddenly required in both cathedrals and SAT the new town halls appearing all over the country. SAT SAT Simon Townley tells the story of 'Father' Henry Willis from SAT his relatively humble beginnings as the son of a London SAT builder to the heights of Victorian society. By winning a SAT competition at the Great Exhibition in 1851, Willis set SAT himself on a road which was to lead to the building of over SAT a thousand organs. Many are still working today, even if SAT they've been altered over the years. What makes the Willis SAT organs special, and makes organists today acknowledge their SAT greatness in hushed tones, is the subject of this programme. SAT SAT Simon visits the current Willis factory in Liverpool where SAT new organs are still built and old Willis machines are SAT revitalised. SAT SAT He plays the organ in Winchester Cathedral, the organ that SAT won the Great Exhibition competition and was squeezed into SAT the Cathedral by the then organist S.S.Wesley, and he finds SAT out more about the man whose love of yachting was matched SAT only by his belief that anything was possible when it came SAT to the building of organs. If that meant splitting an organ SAT in two, putting the two parts on either side of a cathedral SAT transept and linking the whole lot through a system of SAT subterranean pipes then that's what he would do... and he SAT did, in the case of St Paul's Cathedral. SAT SAT But essentially the Father Willis story is about the details SAT that earned his reputation. The reed technology that no one SAT at the time could match, the use of new steam-generated wind SAT and the design of organ consoles that gave organists like SAT Willis himself a control that they'd never enjoyed before. SAT SAT It's a story of the king of instruments built at a time of SAT supreme national self-confidence by a man who embodied the SAT spirit of the age and gave it voice. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0103zph (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jane Garvey presents: Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT We hear from Fawzia Koofi, the Afghan politician planning to SAT run for President. The actor Sophie Grobel talks about her SAT role in the hit TV show "The Killing" and Woman's Hour SAT launches a new series called "Cook the Perfect" with advice SAT from the cake maker Mary Berry about how to make a SAT successful Simnel Cake. How to treat the "Manopause" when SAT men suffer reduced testosterone and why do some women love SAT horses? And Mary Byrne, the X-Factor singer talks about her SAT new found success in later life. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0103zpk (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0100jms (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0100jn5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0100jn7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0100jn9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0103zpm (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Peter is joined by French actress and dancer Leslie Caron. SAT Famous for her roles in Gigi, An American in Paris and SAT Chocolat. She reveals all in her memoir 'Thank Heaven' SAT including her childhood in occupied France, being discovered SAT by Gene Kelly, her marriage to Peter hall and love affair SAT with Warren Beatty. SAT SAT Ex-Young One and Bottom star Adrian Edmondson takes timeout SAT from his folk punk covers band The Bad Shepherds. In his 12 SAT part ITV series 'The Dales', he meets those living and SAT working in the idyllic Yorkshire Dales. SAT SAT Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley SAT gives us an intimate history of the home, looking at the SAT kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room through the ages. SAT Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit and why did SAT medieval people sleep sitting up? Just a couple of questions SAT answered in Lucy's BBC Four Series 'If Walls Could Talk' SAT based on her book of the same name. SAT SAT Arthur Smith finds out how Miles Jupp fared as an unprepared SAT and unqualified cricket journalist on an England Cricket SAT tour of India, the subject of Miles current stand up tour SAT 'Fibber in the Heat'. SAT SAT Asa gives us her fusion of West African sounds with SAT contemporary pop as she performs 'Be My Man' her latest SAT single from her album Beautiful Perfection. SAT SAT And Indie-pop from Chicago trio Smith Westerns who make a SAT flying visit to the Loose Ends studio to perform 'Weekend' SAT from their new album Dye It Blonde'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0103zpp (Listen) SAT In the week that artist Ai Weiwei was detained by the SAT Chinese authorities, Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the SAT outspoken designer of the 'Bird's Nest' Olympics stadium. SAT SAT Reporter - Mary Ann Sieghart SAT Producer - Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0103zpr (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests novelist Deborah Moggach, actor SAT Kerry Shale and academic and critic John Mullan review the SAT week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Award winning documentary Armadillo by Danish film maker SAT Janus Metz follows a group of Danish soldiers from their SAT arrival in 2009 at a joint Danish and British base in SAT Helmand called Armadillo. The film prompted an official army SAT enquiry into alleged misbehaviour by some of the soldiers SAT following a Taleban ambush and it was announced in November SAT 2010 the base was to be dismantled. SAT SAT Television writer and humorist Steve Hely's How I Became A SAT Famous Novelist chronicles its protagonist's successful SAT attempt to write a best seller and what he learns about life SAT along the way. Described as an "evisceration" of celebrity SAT culture and literary fame. SAT SAT Linda Basset stars in acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens's SAT new play "Wastwater" at the Royal Court directed by Katie SAT Mitchell and set in an unlikely theatrical location, the SAT periphery of Heathrow as it explores the lives of those who SAT live there. SAT SAT And Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon opens at the SAT Ashmoleon Museum in Oxford. Until 30 years ago Macedon's SAT capital city Aegae remained relatively unknown. Excavations SAT uncovered then revealed treasures from the tombs of its most SAT famous heroes, King Philip II and his son Alexander the SAT Great. SAT SAT And a new drama on Channel 5, The Walking Dead, adapted from SAT Robert Kirkman's graphic novels by Frank Darabont, who SAT describes it as a human story about zombies. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil Macleod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0103zpt (Listen) SAT How to Archive Yourself SAT SAT In October 1998 Gordon Bell went paperless. This is Gordon SAT Bell, of Microsoft, who has been described as "the Frank SAT Lloyd Wright of computers". He has archived everything he SAT has written and now records the minutiae of his life SAT digitally as part of a project called MyLifeBits, an SAT experiment designed to assist and maybe even supersede SAT memory. But now that we can record so much of our lives are SAT we missing out on the living of them? SAT SAT The wealth, range and affordability of devices to record SAT your own life - from the 'basic' camera phone, hand-held SAT internet connection, and even biological and genetic SAT sequencing, has expanded exponentially over recent years. SAT Take a look at the next event you are enjoying - viewing the SAT Mona Lisa, watching David Byrne at the Royal Festival Hall, SAT enjoying a friend's birthday cake candles being blown out - SAT and count how many people are watching and how many are SAT recording the moment. SAT But what is all this for? Why are we doing it? And is an SAT archive an archive if it is not structured, indexed, given SAT meaning? Talking to passionate archvist Robert Fripp, from SAT King Crimson, dispassionate archivist Geoff Dyer, and Sue SAT Aldworth, an artists whose whole house is her arhive, SAT presenter and self-archivist Toby Amies argues that the SAT virtual moment has now become a vital part of the moment, SAT not a dilution of it and that by being part of this new SAT explosion of archiving we are playing our part in a shift of SAT consciousness. He believes that the virtual is becoming as SAT important, or as real, as the real and that this is part of SAT the slow move into a future where technology and humans SAT intersect in a different way. SAT He examines the explosion in the archiving of human SAT existence, wondering whether we are in the age of the super SAT diary or at a launching point for the transference of our SAT consciousness into the digital universe, for good. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00zzpl5 (Listen) SAT The Mauritius Command, Episode 1 SAT SAT Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised in SAT three parts by Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain SAT Jack Aubrey and Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. SAT SAT Following his adventures in HMS Surprise, Jack Aubrey has SAT been kicking his heels at home when his old friend, Stephen SAT Maturin, comes knocking at his door with welcome news. Jack SAT is promoted to Commodore, and is to lead a squadron of SAT English ships, charged with taking the Indian Ocean islands SAT of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. SAT SAT In the course of the novel Jack must succeed against SAT superior odds at sea and on land. Yet, in his new role as SAT Commodore, Jack will need subtlety and subterfuge to win SAT over the crews and subordinate captains of his own fleet. SAT SAT Based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when Britain and France SAT were bitterly engaged in protecting their trade routes SAT around the southern tip of Africa. SAT SAT The Mauritius Command is the fourth novel in Patrick SAT O'Brian's Nelsonic epic series, and the sequel to HMS SAT Surprise which was dramatised for Radio 4 in 2008. SAT SAT Captain Jack Aubrey ................... DAVID ROBB SAT Doctor Stephen Maturin .......... ...RICHARD DILLANE SAT Governor Farquhar ..................... DAVID RINTOUL SAT Lt-Col Keating ............ .......THOMAS ARNOLD SAT Lord Clonfert................................ SAM DALE SAT Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA SAT Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER SAT Midshipman George Johnson ....... NYASHA HATENDI SAT Dr McAdam/Admiral Bertie.......... .SEAN BAKER SAT Captain Pym............................... BRIAN BOWLES SAT Mrs. Williams ............................ JOANNA MONRO SAT Sophie....................................... SALLY ORROCK SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0100jnc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b0100grd (Listen) SAT Tax SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests analyse the legal issues of the SAT day. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00zzy2d (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 1 SAT SAT (1/13) SAT SAT Can you name the composer of the theme music to the classic SAT Charlie Chaplin film 'Modern Times'? Or guess which SAT composer's work is the most-performed in the entire history SAT of the Proms? SAT SAT The evergreen music quiz returns for its 2011 series, with SAT Paul Gambaccini in the questionmaster's chair. He'll be SAT putting questions on the widest possible range of music to SAT contestants from all over Great Britain, the eventual SAT champion taking the 25th Counterpoint trophy at the end of SAT June. SAT SAT The quiz tests the competitors' knowledge of the core SAT classics, as well as film and stage music, jazz, rock and SAT pop. There are plenty of musical surprises, and forgotten or SAT rarely-heard extracts, alongside long-established SAT favourites. SAT SAT As always, the general knowledge questions on music are SAT followed by a specialised round, in which the contestants SAT have to choose a musical topic or category on which to SAT answer. The available categories can range from questions on SAT a specific composer, to musical genres, music for particular SAT instruments, and quirky eclectic themes. SAT SAT The first trio of competitors joins Paul Gambaccini in SAT Manchester for the opening heat of this 25th anniversary SAT series. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS SAT SAT ANTHONY DEAN, a teaching assistant from Nottingham; SAT FIONA LEIPER, a bookseller from Lentran near Inverness; SAT CHRISTOPHER MOORE BRIDGER, formerly in local government, now SAT retired, from Oswestry. SAT SAT 23:30 A House Divided: The Poetry of the American Civil War SAT b00zzpl9 (Listen) SAT On the 12th of April 1861 Confederate forces attacked the US SAT Military's Fort Sumter, thus beginning the bloodiest war in SAT American history. It is this conflict, more than the SAT American Revolution or World War Two that has had the most SAT dramatic impact on the nation's character. This year marks SAT its 150th anniversary. SAT SAT In a war of brother against brother; the conflict created a SAT tragic human drama as the country struggled to define SAT itself. America's most distinguished poets were affected by SAT unprecedented levels of carnage. Herman Melville wrote a SAT chronological, impressionistic volume of poetry on the Civil SAT War. SAT SAT Walt Whitman, a volunteer nurse during the war wrote SAT heart-wrenching poems about wounded soldiers beside piles of SAT amputated limbs. Emily Dickinson was most productive during SAT this time, though she never wrote directly about the war. SAT However, her meditations on death, violence and the bloody SAT landscape provide a deep insight into the nation's SAT character. SAT SAT In this programme, we'll hear music and poetry from before, SAT during and after the war. SAT SAT Slaves like George Moses Horton who sold poetry in the hopes SAT of buying his own freedom reflects on the meaning of SAT liberty. Soldiers like Obediah Ethelbert Baker who wrote for SAT his wife back home, talks about the righteousness of the SAT Union cause. Northern abolitionist Quakers regale the noble SAT Northern mission and the "poet laureate of the Confederacy", SAT Henry Timrod, recalls the birth of a new nation. Allan SAT Gurganus is a southern US author whose work has been heavily SAT influenced by the American Civil War. He presents this SAT fascinating documentary. SAT SAT Producer: Colin McNulty SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 APRIL 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0105r71 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b0100grg (Listen) SUN Well known figures reflect on elements of conflict found in SUN the story of Jesus' ministry and Passion from the SUN perspective of their own personal and professional SUN experience. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0105r73 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0105r75 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0105r77 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0105r79 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0105r7c (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints, East Pennard, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0103zpp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0105r7f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0105r7h (Listen) SUN Colours of Religion SUN SUN Mark Tully attends the Hindu festival of Holi in Delhi, gets SUN covered with dye, and asks what is the significance of SUN colour, in religion and in spring festivals. SUN SUN Recorded partly on location in Mark Tully's home town of SUN Delhi, this programme charts the run up to the festival, SUN with the singing of traditional songs, and the lighting of SUN bonfires. On the special day itself, coloured dyes and SUN waters are thrown as the city erupts in an explosion of SUN colour, noise and sometimes lusty humour. Speaking to locals SUN and visitors alike, Tully gets a sense of the importance of SUN colour to this festival, his city and to Hinduism. Looking SUN to other traditions he asks what different colours mean to SUN different faiths. SUN SUN And as the rumbustiousness of Holi subsides, Tully is left SUN to consider what parallels he can find in western festivals, SUN music and writing, which might first appear more solemn, but SUN can have their own undercurrents of bawdiness and abandon. SUN SUN Presented by Mark Tully SUN Produced by Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0105r7k (Listen) SUN Caz Graham meets John Geldard, a farmer who claims the boom SUN in local food has saved his livelihood and been a lifeline SUN to farmers in the local area. Caz joins John at one of the SUN busiest times of the year: he's currently lambing and SUN calving. He tells Caz that local food production will help SUN to feed the world's growing population and safeguard the SUN futures for many struggling farmers. SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0105r7m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0105r7p (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0105r7r (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 The murder of Constable Ronan Kerr has brought Church and SUN community together in an unprecedented way this week in SUN Northern Ireland. Ireland Correspondent Andrew Martin will SUN talk to William Crawley about the hope that has come from SUN tragedy. SUN SUN A new survey by a Jewish charity has identified increasing SUN levels of child poverty - particularly within the SUN ultra-orthodox Haredi community. William talks to the author SUN Jonathan Boyd. SUN SUN In the second of four audio postcards from Westminster SUN Abbey, Quentin Letts looks at the often troubled SUN relationship between the Abbey and Parliament. SUN SUN As the EU consider a law that would require kosher meat to SUN be labelled in a way that shows how the animal was killed, SUN we debate the issue with an MEP and the Jewish group who say SUN it is the equivalent of putting a yellow star on the SUN package. SUN SUN What's in a name? Quite a lot, according to the Archbishop SUN of Westminster Vincent Nichols, who has joined the campaign SUN to stop his local pub being renamed. He tells William the SUN story behind "The Cardinal" pub and also how it ties into SUN Catholic social teaching today. SUN SUN Science and religion are often seen as polar opposites, but SUN this weekend a major conference in Cambridge is celebrating SUN the Belgian Catholic priest who came up with Big Bang SUN theory. William talks to former Templeton Prize winner Rev SUN Dr John Polkinghorne about the conference, and also what he SUN thinks of this week's decision to award the prize to an SUN atheist. SUN SUN Is the Catholic church still ignoring official guidelines SUN about defrocking priests who are convicted of child abuse? SUN Kevin Bocquet returns to Salford to investigate these SUN claims. SUN SUN Finally, what can we learn from the case of Nan Maitland, SUN the 84-year-old woman who ended her life in Switzerland this SUN week because she didn't want to die of old age? William SUN looks at the ethics of assisted dying with Dr Michael Irwin SUN from the Society of Old Age Rational Suicide and the Bishop SUN of Swindon Rt Rev Dr Lee Rayfield. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0105r7t (Listen) SUN Action on Elder Abuse SUN SUN Richard Briers presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Action on Elder Abuse. SUN SUN Donations to Action on Elder Abuse should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Action on Elder Abuse. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 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 Action on Elder Abuse with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1048397. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0105r7w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0105r7y (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0105rh5 (Listen) SUN The Unreconciled - Heaven and Hell SUN SUN Part of our series for Lent live from New Life Christian SUN Centre Derby. Preacher: Pastor Geoff Pickup; Worship Leader: SUN Henry Ita. Producer: Philip Billson. 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 with ministries stretching out to those in SUN debt or who are homeless. One member of the congregation SUN works with a community she was once part of, women who work SUN the streets of inner city Derby. Heaven and hell are terms SUN traditionally associated with our ultimate destinies, but in SUN what ways do they illustrate our living here and now - SUN whether or not we consider ourselves the Unreconciled? SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0100j9q (Listen) SUN Series 2, Hummers SUN SUN 8/20. Hummingbirds are given spectacular names motivated by SUN their striking colours, patterns and shimmering metallic SUN iridescence; their names are beautiful as are the birds. SUN David Attenborough has filmed them on several occasions and SUN is fascinated by their agility and flying skills to drink SUN nectar from flowers inaccessible to any other animal. And SUN propelled by this rocket fuel of nature they are capable of SUN flying great distances and living life in the fast lane. SUN Enchanting in this story is how moved David Attenborough is SUN when recalling a story of their conservation; a rare piece SUN of good news he comments. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0105rh7 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0105rh9 (Listen) SUN Written by Joanna Toye SUN Directed by Jenny Stephens SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Green SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard 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 Will Grundy ..... Phillip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Roy Tucker .....Ian Pepperell SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Midwife ..... Jenny Coverack. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0105rhd (Listen) SUN Terry Gilliam SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the animator and director Terry SUN Gilliam. SUN SUN He first planted his foot-print on our cultural landscape SUN more than thirty years ago - back then, it was a huge, SUN animated foot which squashed everything beneath it and SUN became one of the defining images of Monty Python's Flying SUN Circus. SUN SUN In the years since, his film credits have included Brazil, SUN Twelve Monkeys and The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Now aged SUN 70, he's directing his first opera. He says: "I've always SUN liked the extremes, the edges. I like to know where the SUN cliff is, but you only find out by stepping off." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00zzz1y (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Alan Davies, Jack Dee, Marcus Brigstocke and Lucy Porter are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as: curry, eyes, flies and breasts. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0105rhg (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the role of food producers and SUN farmers in combating the Sicilian mafia. SUN SUN The Sicilian "Cosa Nostra" emerged around the citrus groves SUN of Palermo in the 19th century as control of farming and SUN food production fell into the hands of estate managers and SUN middle men. SUN SUN From that time the influence of the mafia over food SUN production and distribution on the island has been SUN extensive. SUN SUN In recent decades the work of investigators like Giovanni SUN Falcone and Paolo Borsellino did much to lessen the power of SUN the mafia but its involvement in the food business continues SUN to this day. SUN SUN Now, a new generation of entrepreneurs and anti-mafia SUN campaigners are using food to send a message around the SUN world that Sicily is breaking away from that past. SUN SUN Producer Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0105r80 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0107wxc (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 What Would Jesus Eat? b00rxjgw (Listen) SUN Food writer Stefan Gates investigates what was on the menu SUN at The Last Supper, looking at a new theory that Leonardo Da SUN Vinci thought it was grilled eels and sliced oranges. SUN SUN The controversial restoration of Leonardo's masterpiece in SUN 1997 has raised the possibility of identifying the food on SUN the table in the painting. Stefan journeys to Milan to find SUN the reasons Leonardo chose to paint what he did. Along the SUN way he uncovers a long tradition of depictions of the Last SUN Supper, giving an insight into the way Christian attitudes SUN to food have changed. SUN SUN Though Leonardo's version is the most famous, other SUN paintings of the Last Supper have offered unusual answers to SUN the question "what would Jesus eat", including crayfish, SUN roast pork and even guinea pig, all decidedly un-kosher for SUN what is commonly understood to have been a passover meal. SUN Other paintings of the subject like that of Paolo Veronese SUN attracted the attention of the Inquisition for the inclusion SUN of "dwarves and drunkards". SUN SUN Stefan talks to historians of art and food and visits the SUN Last Supper in Milan to find out more on what the paintings SUN can tell us about our relationship with food and dining. SUN SUN The producer is Russell Finch, and the programme is a SUN Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0100j94 (Listen) SUN Postbag edition from Bunny Guinness' garden SUN SUN Round at Bunny's: Bob Flowerdew, Chris Beardhshaw and Eric SUN Robson gather in Bunny Guinness' Peterborough garden to SUN answer a selection of listener questions sent in by post and SUN email. SUN In addition, a snoop around the award-winning garden SUN designer's patch. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Wonderful Ways to Beat the Recession b0105s44 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 he meets the company that rents SUN out an extraordinary array of empty properties - including SUN police stations and fire stations - to people in search of SUN cheap rent. The only catch is that they have to guard the SUN property too. The producer is Miles Warde. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0105s46 (Listen) SUN The Mauritius Command, Episode 2 SUN SUN Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised by SUN Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain Jack Aubrey and SUN Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. Episode 2 of 3. SUN SUN Jack Aubrey is promoted (temporarily) to Commodore to lead a SUN squadron of English ships, charged with taking the Indian SUN Ocean islands of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. Jack SUN must succeed against superior odds at sea and on land (where SUN Stephen's subversive skills are invaluable as ever). Yet, in SUN his new role as Commodore, Jack needs subtlety and SUN subterfuge to win over the crews and subordinate captains of SUN his own fleet, including the flamboyant but erratic, Lord SUN Clonfert. SUN SUN The story is based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when SUN Britain and France were bitterly engaged in protecting their SUN trade routes around the southern tip of Africa - and the SUN islands of Mauritius and Réunion (east of Madagascar) were SUN viewed as strategic bases. 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 Lord Clonfert.................................SAM DALE SUN Dr McAdam................................. SEAN BAKER SUN Lt-Col Keating ............ .......THOMAS ARNOLD SUN Governor Farquhar ..................... .DAVID RINTOUL SUN Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA SUN Captain Pym............................... BRIAN BOWLES SUN Lt Webber....................................PIP CARTER SUN Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER SUN Lt Briggs..................................... NYASHA SUN HATENDI SUN Midshipman Cotton........................LLOYD THOMAS SUN Producer/director: Bruce Young. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0105s48 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Orange prize nominated novelist SUN Jennifer Egan about her book, A Visit From The Goon Squad. SUN The book takes its inspiration from the writings of Marcel SUN Proust as well as the hit American television series The SUN Sopranos. SUN SUN Mariella is also joined by writers Hisham Matar and Mirza SUN Waheed to examine how the experience of living in a region SUN with ongoing political conflict translates into fiction. SUN SUN Plus, children's author Anthony Horowitz and his son Cassian SUN are in the studio to offer literary advice to arguably the SUN most challenging reading group of all - teenage boys. SUN SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices b0105sjz (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 1 SUN SUN In the first of a new series, Brian Patten explores the life SUN and poetry of Anne Ridler, whose quiet and lucid SUN observations of 20th century life are often overlooked. Born SUN into a literary family, Anne's early employment with the SUN publisher Faber meant that she was working to T.S. Eliot. SUN Her work, however, is very much in her own distinctive SUN voice: quiet, contemplative, but acute in its observation. SUN Juliet Stevenson reads a selection of Anne Ridler's poems on SUN themes of the natural world, relationships, the rhythms of SUN human life. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b010025s (Listen) SUN Air Crashes SUN SUN The investigation following an air disaster is supposed to SUN make air travel safer. But do the reports always get to the SUN truth about why planes crash? Emma Jane Kirby examines SUN claims that international air accident investigations are SUN often slow, incompetent and influenced by political SUN sensitivities. So how does this affect the victims' families SUN as they fight manufacturers and airlines for compensation? SUN And could the blame game be preventing lessons being learned SUN that could prevent future accidents? SUN Producer Jenny Chryss. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0103zpp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0105r82 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0105r84 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0105r86 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0105syw (Listen) SUN Did you know... that it was accepted wisdom for a thousand SUN years that flies had only four legs? That the female cuckoo SUN can lay up to 25 eggs in other birds' nests in one season? SUN That Edison refused to invent the hearing aid, despite pleas SUN from hundreds of fans... and that Himmler's watch was SUN swapped by his captors for cigarettes? Fact or fiction? Find SUN out in Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Sounds of the 20th Century - Radio 2 SUN Book of the Week - Ken Campbell - The Great Caper - Radio 4 SUN Loud Organs His Glory - Radio 4 SUN Desert Island Discs - Terry Gilliam - Radio 4 SUN Between Ourselves - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Thomas Edison - Radio 4 SUN Shaun Keaveney - 6Music Breakfast Show SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN The Cuckoo - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Play - Early Belt and the Present - Radio 4 SUN Esler on Eichmann - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN The Communist Cosmos - Radio 4 SUN SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0105syy (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b0105sz0 (Listen) SUN Americana investigates the American Civil War. SUN SUN Civil War Today: SUN Yale's Professor David Blight joins Matt Frei to discuss the SUN political, social and racial tensions of the Civil War era, SUN still reverberating through America today. SUN SUN American Voices of the Civil War: SUN The experiences of ordinary Americans at the Battle of SUN Antietam - STILL the bloodiest single-day battle in American SUN history. SUN SUN Dean Faulkner Wells: SUN Dean Faulkner Wells, niece of the SUN double-Pulitzer-prize-winning writer, William Faulkner, SUN recalls her own upbringing in America's Deep South. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00m175f (Listen) SUN Pavilion Pieces, The Prince's Favourite SUN SUN Written by Emma Barnes. Not long after the death of George SUN IV, a group of visitors are given a tour of the Brighton SUN Pavilion by a servant of the Royal Household. Mr Hodges SUN takes no particular interest in the group until the oldest SUN of the party, a dowdy spinster, drops some remarks which SUN suggest she is less respectable than she seems. Her sister, SUN she reveals, had a connection with the Prince Regent. As the SUN Prince was a notorious womaniser, Mr Hodges immediately SUN scents the whiff of scandal. SUN SUN As they proceed through the marvels of the Pavilion, the old SUN lady seems to be searching for something, beyond the many SUN artefacts on display. Mr Hodges is so curious that he allows SUN her access to the private Royal Apartments, in the hope of SUN discovering more about her and her mysterious sister. The SUN revelation, when it comes, takes Mr Hodges completely by SUN surprise. SUN SUN Read by Claire Skinner SUN Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0100j90 (Listen) SUN Youth unemployment SUN SUN We are frequently told that young people have never had it SUN so bad. They can't get on the housing ladder and it's SUN increasingly difficult to get a job. New unemployment SUN statistics will be published next week. But will they tell SUN the whole story? SUN SUN Trumptonshire's deficit SUN SUN Should the Government cut spending and raise taxes in order SUN to cut the deficit or will doing so be counterproductive? It SUN is, of course, the question of the moment. It's a debate SUN about what economists call the "fiscal multiplier". But what SUN is a fiscal multiplier? And can we measure it? Let's take an SUN example: Trumptonshire. SUN SUN Social immobility? SUN SUN A shocking graph showing how the education system allows SUN untalented rich kids to overtake talented poor kids was used SUN by the Government this week to demonstrate Britain's lack of SUN social mobility. But some argue the graph is distorted by SUN one of the oldest statistical problems of all. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0100j98 (Listen) SUN Juliano Mer Khamis, Leslie Collier, Pinetop Perkins and SUN Andrew Tait SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Israeli/Palestinian actor and director Juliano Mer SUN Khamis. He set up the Freedom Theatre in the refugee camp at SUN Jenin - and was shot dead earlier this week. SUN SUN Also: the virologist Professor Leslie Collier. His work on SUN smallpox vaccines led to the eradication of the illness. He SUN also made a big impact on the treatment of the eye disease SUN trachoma. SUN SUN The veteran blues pianist Pinetop Perkins - he won a Grammy SUN at the age of 97. SUN SUN And Andrew Tait - the Director General of the National House SUN Building Council who's been credited with ending the SUN practice of "jerry building" in Britain. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0103z8z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0105r7t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0100ljy (Listen) SUN New Bric On The Block SUN SUN Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and China are the BRICs - the SUN developing countries experts think are well on their way to SUN the top of the world's economic league table. But now SUN there's talk that the fourth most populous country, SUN Indonesia, is heading there, too. From Jakarta, Peter Day SUN finds out more. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0105t23 (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 b0105t25 (Listen) SUN Andrew Porter SUN SUN Andrew Porter of The Telegraph analyses how the broadsheets SUN and red tops are covering the week's biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0100j9b (Listen) SUN The Film Programme covers all the tenses this week - past, SUN present and future. Francine Stock talks to the director, SUN Guillaume Canet, about his latest film, Little White Lies, SUN which has sold five million tickets in France alone and is SUN opening in cinemas here now.To look back she's joined by the SUN writer, Paul Mayersberg and the historian, Pasquale Iannone. SUN Paul will be discussing the genesis of Nicholas Roeg's The SUN Man Who Fell to Earth while, on the eve of a big Bertolucci SUN season on London's Southbank, Pasquale considers the SUN importance of his second feature, Before the Revolution. SUN Last but not least, the critic Tony Rayns, examines China's SUN attitude to foreign films and what the future might hold for SUN directors trying to get a toehold in its huge market SUN SUN Producer - Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0105r7h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 APRIL 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0103tcd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0100gr4 (Listen) MON Streetlife - Performing politics in the square MON MON In 1905 Russians gathered at 6 different points to march on MON the Winter Palace and the streetscape of St Petersburg MON contributed enormously to their success. The Russian poor MON were cheek by jowl with the rich and this inflamed a class MON consciousness which - despite industrialisation - the poor MON suburbs of Europe did much to dissapate. How does urban MON geography effect the way societies develop? What have MON streets given to politics? As street protests continue to MON challenge authority across the Middle East and violence MON characterises the marches in our own capital, Laurie is MON joined by Leif Jerram and John Clarke from the Open MON University to discuss the role the street in the history of MON politics. Also on the programme Jeffrey Alexander discusses MON how the revolution was 'performed' for Egypt and for the MON rest of the world from Cairo's central square. That MON compelling drama provided a powerful symbol which was enough MON to bring down the government. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0105r7c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0103tcg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0103tcj (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0103tcl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0103tcn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0105t6m (Listen) MON with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0103tcq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0105t6r (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0105vth (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to Terry Jones about his new opera, The MON Doctor's Tale, which with a Monty Python-esque absurdity MON tells the story of a devoted doctor, who just happens to be MON a dog. The writer Elif Batuman follows the footsteps of her MON Russian literary heroes, to see whether their lives and work MON can influence her own. While the BBC's former Moscow MON correspondent, Martin Sixsmith takes in a thousand years of MON Russian history. And David Runciman asks 'Can Democracy MON Cope?' with what is happening around the world, and looks MON back to the works of Tocqueville and Nietzsche to help make MON sense of the state of democracy today. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0105vtk (Listen) MON The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting, MON Episode 1 MON MON French psychologist Marie de Hennezel looks at western MON attitudes to ageing and asks if we can transform the way we MON feel about growing old, to make this most feared period one MON of the best times of our lives. MON MON Relating her encounters with extraordinary people who have MON embraced ageing happily and with grace, de Hennezel guides MON us through the art of growing old. MON MON Read by Alexandra Mathie. MON Abridged by Alison Joseph. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0105vtm (Listen) MON With Jenni Murray. Mothers' and babies' lives are being put MON in danger by the UK's over-stretched and under-resourced MON maternity services. So are super units the way forward? MON Jenni explores the issues. Ursula Sladec has just won the MON prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. She tells Jenni how MON her quest to limit Germany's dependence on nuclear power MON ended up with her, and her like-minded neighbours, owning MON the local electricity supply. Back in 1971, the feminist MON artist Margaret Harrison famously depicted Hugh Heffner as a MON bunny girl. She joins Jenni to discuss a new retrospective MON of her work. Also, the growing outdoor sport of Parkour and MON the pleasures of the European Picture Book Collection. MON MON Electric rebel MON MON Ursula Sladec has helped transform energy supply in Germany. MON Dismayed at the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago she and some MON neighbours wanted to limit their dependence on nuclear MON power. They started by running an energy saving competition; MON then launched a nation-wide campaign to raise the money to MON buy their local electricity supplier; and now run Germany’s MON first cooperatively owned renewable energy company, MON supplying electricity to more than 100-thousand homes. MON MON Margaret Harrison MON MON Margaret Harrison is one of Britain’s best known feminist MON artists. She was one of the pioneers of British feminist art MON in the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the ‘unruly band of MON feminists’ who disrupted the Miss World contest in 1970. MON She dropped off the radar in Britain in the 1980s but is MON better known in the USA where she lived and worked with a MON group of likeminded women artists on the East Coast. But a MON new exhibition is opening in London this week in which some MON of Margaret’s works – old and new – will be shown alongside MON the work of post-feminist performance artists The Girls. MON MON I am a Fantasy by Margaret Harrison & The Girls, is at MON PayneShurvell, London from 15 April to 21 May 2011 MON MON Maternity Services – Are Super Units the way forward? MON MON Mothers’ and babies’ lives are being put in danger by the MON UK's over-stretched and under-resourced maternity services. MON The latest figures from the Centre for Maternal and Child MON Enquiries show that 14 NHS trusts have baby death rates MON twice the national average. What’s going wrong? And MON what’s the solution? Jenni will be joined by Tony Falconer, MON President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and MON Gynaecologists and Frances Day-Stirk, Director of Learning MON Research and Practice Development at the Royal College of MON Midwives. MON MON European Book Collection MON MON Do you remember the first book you ever read? Perhaps MON something with lots of short words and cute pictures? MON Picture books are the way many children around the world MON first access literature - but not every country produces the MON same amount. In Western Europe, countries like Germany and MON Britain publish a thousand new picture books every year, MON whereas the situation is quite different in Eastern European MON countries. Now with the help of funding from the European MON Commission, a collection of the best picture books from each MON of the 27 countries in the European Union is being made MON available for use in schools and on the internet. Jennifer MON Chevalier has been looking at the European Picture Book MON Collection. MON MON Parkour MON MON You may remember an advert for BBC One which was first shown MON in 2002 and featured a man called David Belle running over MON buildings, up and down walls, in fact, overcoming whatever MON obstacle confronted him. It was the first time we’d seen a MON sport called Parkour or Freerunning. It started on the MON streets of France and is now practised all over the world. MON Agota Mahop runs Parkour workshops specifically for women. MON Anna Bailey joined her at an outdoor class on a housing MON estate in south west London to find out why the sport is MON taking off. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0105vtp (Listen) MON Kiss Kiss, William and Mary MON MON Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in MON dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl, taken MON from the anthology, Kiss, Kiss. Bizarre and amusing by MON turns, these black comedies are justly famous for their MON surprise endings. MON MON The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a MON writer of adult fiction, and are characterized by their MON deliciously cynical view of human nature and the relish with MON which they punish the charlatans, bullies and schemers who MON inhabit their world. MON MON In William And Mary we meet Mary Pearl (Celia Imrie), who MON thinks she's finally free of William, the tyrannical husband MON who forbade her all life's pleasures, when he dies after a MON short illness. She subsequently learns, however, that - MON hoping to cheat the grave - he allowed a scientist to remove MON his brain and attach it to a life support system. This gives MON her the opportunity to get her own back.... MON MON Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan MON MON Storyteller....Charles Dance MON Mary.......Celia Imrie MON William......John Rowe MON Landy......Nigel Anthony MON MON Producer/Director: David Blount MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Random Edition b0105vtr (Listen) MON 1961 First Man in Space 50th Anniversary Special MON MON This Peter Snow Random Edition Special, marking the 50th MON anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first manned spaceflight, MON brings alive the Daily Telegraph for April 13th 1961. The MON highlight is an interview with Yuri Gagarin's daughter, MON Yelena Gagarina, specially recorded for the programme in MON Moscow. MON MON Gagarina talks about how her father hugely regretted that MON his experience in space was over so fast. he wanted to MON experience space again but it proved impossible. Random MON Edition visits the National Space Centre in Leicester, where MON Peter Snow enters a mock-up of Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft MON and inspects a soviet-made space suit for a dog. MON MON Among the contributors to the programme are astronomers Sir MON Bernard Lovell and Sir Patrick Moore. In 1961 Lovell was MON establishing Jodrell Bank as one of the world's great MON centres for space research. Now 97, he reflects on his MON confidence shown in this 1961 Daily Telegraph that Russia MON would be first to the moon. Lovell also talks of his role in MON the use of Jodrell Bank as an early warning indicator of a MON soviet missile attack on Britain. He talks of his belief MON that he was lucky to survive his visits to moscow in this MON period. MON MON This Special Random Edition also brings alive the MON newspaper's reporting of wild celebrations in Russia at the MON news of Gagarin's flight. in 1961, Olga Selivanova was MON living in the caucasus. she recalls hearing the news on the MON sole tv set left on the shelves of her local department MON store. The Daily Telegraph shows the British Government MON congratulating Russia on the space flight, but the MON authorities were reluctant to host Gagarin on his MON international PR tour later in 1961...until he accepted an MON invitation to visit a foundrymen's union in Manchester. We MON hear from a Mancunian who cine-filmed Gagarin's arrival at MON Ringway Airport. MON MON Producer: Andrew Green MON An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b0105vtt (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 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 episode Alok announces his sudden engagement to MON Siddiqua, the daughter of the local Pennywise empire and MON shop rival to Ramesh. So is it love that is driving Alok, or MON the promise of a gadget filled backshop? 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 ..... Sanjeev Kolhi MON Dave ..... Donald McLeary MON Sanjay ..... Omar Raza MON Alok ..... Susheel Kumar MON Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth MON Keith Futures ..... Greg McHugh MON Siddiqua ..... Debbie Welsh MON Shahid Mirza ..... Mani Sumal MON MON Producer/Director: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0105vtw (Listen) MON How much do you spend on your mobile? Could you save money MON just by switching your contract ? MON We investigate whether home pregnancy tests could be made MON accessible for blind and visually impaired women. We'll ask MON if London 2012 will be the Greenest ever Olympics and chat MON to entrepreneur Theo Paphitis about his latest ventures. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0103tcs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01075s1 (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 b0105vty (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 2 MON MON Do you know which role in classical music has been performed MON over the years by Boris Karloff, Dame Edna Everage, David MON Bowie and Sir Sean Connery, among others? MON MON Paul Gambaccini will have the answer, as he takes the chair MON for the second heat in the 25th anniversary series of the MON wide-ranging music quiz. Facing his questions this week are MON contestants from Hertfordshire, Middlesex and the West MON Midlands. MON MON As usual, the questions cover everything from the classical MON repertoire to film music, show tunes, classic jazz, rock and MON pop. There'll be a chance for the contestants to specialise, MON with a choice of musical topics on which to answer their own MON individual questions - but they get no advance warning of MON the categories. MON MON The quiz features plenty of musical extracts, some familiar, MON others rarely heard. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0105syy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b0105vv0 (Listen) MON The Afghan and the Penguin MON MON Neither Muriel, Younis' landlady, nor Major Douglas, his MOD MON case officer, can help the Afghan interpreter. Having MON sustained an injury in Afghanistan while serving with the MON British army, Younis has been brought back to England for an MON operation and recuperation within an MOD safe house. MON MON As he faces deportation back home to an uncertain fate, the MON Afghan interpreter is prepared to try anything in his MON attempt to stay. Muriel tries her best to keep his spirits MON up and even allows a moment of intimacy. On a whim she takes MON him to her local wet zoo where Younis befriends an unlikely MON companion, a penguin. Two very different beings out of their MON element. But can the penguin offer him any comfort? And can MON he use what he has learnt from the penguin to help persuade MON Major Douglas he should be allowed to stay? MON MON Michael Hastings' original play for radio takes a wry look MON at the world through the eyes of those who play an unsung MON part in the war in Afghanistan. MON MON Younis ..... Sargon Yelda MON Muriel ..... Lynne Miller MON Major Dougie ..... Alan Cox MON Lieutenant/Policeman ..... Christian Bradley MON Station Jock ..... Christian Brassington MON The Boy ..... Timon Greaves MON MON Directed by Steven Atkinson MON Produced by Nicholas Newton MON A Promenade production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0103zpt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gtlx2 (Listen) MON The Passing of the Dead MON MON David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War MON which began 150 years ago this month. MON MON Episode 6: 'The Passing of the Dead': The end of the Civil MON War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. MON MON Previously broadcast on 26 January, 2009, as part of David MON Reynolds' 90 part series on the history of Amerca. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0105rhg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b0105ymq (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 3 MON MON High frequency trading relies on computers competing with MON each other to trade in the money markets. Simon asks who is MON regulating this need for speed and whether it could MON contribute to another financial crisis. We also hear MON concerns that the IT system used by the London Stock MON Exchange will in time struggle to deal with the ever faster MON algorithms used by traders. MON MON Simon visits the Metropolitan Police's Digital and MON Electronic Forensic Lab, where police officers are now able MON to provide barristers and defence lawyers access to MON interactive evidence in court; allowing greater flexibility MON during trials, helping to engage jurors and helping in some MON cases to cut court cases by four weeks. MON MON And our IT expert, Rupert Goodwins goes along to a meet up MON of 'self hackers' or 'life loggers' in London, who by using MON the latest technology, record data about themselves to share MON online as a way to achieve self improvement. We hear from MON one man who recorded his moods and posted the data online to MON help him diagnose and deal with his bipolar disorder, with MON great results. His idea is now being researched by the MON London Institute of Psychiatry. MON MON Producer Kate Bissell. MON MON 17:00 PM b0105yms (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 17:54 Referendum Campaign Broadcast b0109k21 (Listen) MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0103tcv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b0105ymv (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 2 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 Clive Anderson, Sue Perkins, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: dogs, lobsters, Lewis MON Carroll and the sun. 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 b0105t3l (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0105ymx (Listen) MON Writer Rona Munro; Meek's Cutoff reviewed MON MON With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with playwright and MON screenwriter Rona Munro, who this month launches two new MON plays - one about the early Soviet space programme, and one MON about a Chinese couple in Edinburgh - and her film, Oranges MON and Sunshine, has just been released in cinemas. MON MON Kirsty explores the literary scene in today's Russia, with MON four of Russia's leading writers: Boris Akunin, Andrei MON Bitov, Mikhail Shishkin and German Sadulaev. MON MON Kirsty and Westerns expert John Harvey review the film, MON Meek's Cutoff, about the tribulations of three pioneer MON families in 1845, making their way, tortuously, across the MON Oregon Trail in three small wagons. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0105vtp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Sub 2-Hour Marathon: Sport's Holy Grail b0105ymz (Listen) MON Sixty years ago, people said the four minute mile was MON impossible: in 1954 they all gasped in disbelief when Roger MON Bannister proved them wrong. They also said the 100 metres MON would never be run in under 10 seconds and shuddered again MON when Jim Hines did just that in 1968. Will the 2 hour MON marathon be the next great sporting barrier to be broken or MON will it remain beyond human endeavour? The question MON polarises opinion among athletes, sports scientists and MON commentators worldwide. MON MON BBC reporter and marathon runner Chris Dennis will explore MON whether it's physically and mentally possible to run 26.2 MON miles in 120 minutes. MON MON In the hills around Addis Ababa, the current world record MON holder Haile Gebrselassie tells him what it felt like to run MON the distance in 2 hours 3 minutes 59 seconds, how close to MON the limit he pushed his body, but why he is still convinced MON the two hour barrier will be broken in the next 20-30 years. MON Other elite athletes, including the women's marathon world MON record holder Paula Radcliffe and London marathon Race MON Director Dave Bedford also explain when and how they think MON it will happen. MON MON The Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru will argue that the sub MON 2-hour marathon is simply a pipedream, a landmark too far. MON The Secretary General of World Marathon Majors, Glenn MON Latimer, who has worked with many of the world's leading MON athletes for 30 years also has serious reservations. MON MON Chris also heads to Loughborough to the English Institute of MON Sport to meet Dr Barry Fudge who gets him on the treadmill MON so he can experience first-hand what it feels like to run a MON mile in 4 minutes 35 seconds, the pace required for a sub 2 MON hour marathon. MON MON Producer: Jo Meek MON An All Out Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0100jq5 (Listen) MON Ecuador MON MON The Ecuadorian Amazon region is one of the most bio-diverse MON on the planet. In one area, nearly 600 bird species, 80 MON kinds of bat and 150 varieties of amphibian have been MON recorded. And it's possible that the density of one of the MON rarest wild cats, the jaguar, is twice as high as anywhere MON else in the world. This is also home to two of the last MON uncontacted groups of indigenous people in the world, who MON choose to live undisturbed in voluntary isolation. MON MON But beneath the rich tropical soil lies another treasure - MON nearly a billion barrels of untapped oil, 20% of this Latin MON American nation's reserves. Ecuador has calculated that if MON it were to exploit this petroleum, it would make over $7 MON billion. That is a significant sum of money for a relatively MON poor nation. But instead, the government has a radical plan: MON if the international community will compensate Ecuador for MON half of the loss of revenue, the government will pledge to MON protect this unique environment and keep the drillers out. MON With the funds raised, Ecuador will invest in social MON projects and non-carbon forms of energy, and aims to create MON a global template for other poor equatorial countries with MON oil. MON MON This is what's known as Plan A in Ecuador, and President MON Correa has set a deadline of the end of 2011 to collect the MON first US $100 million. If donors don't materialise, he has MON always said he will implement Plan B - to begin the process MON of extracting crude from this particular oil block, known as MON Yasuni-ITT. MON MON For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly travels deep into the MON rainforest to find out what is at stake. She visits a MON community of Haorani indigenous people who have a history of MON resisting - often violently - the encroachment of oil MON companies in the Amazon. And with the recent court judgement MON against the US oil giant Chevron - who took over Texaco - MON and a resulting hefty fine of over US$8 billion for MON pollution, she traces the often dirty history of oil MON exploitation in Ecuador. MON MON But how realistic is the Yasuni-ITT initiative? Ecuador's MON economy is dependent on oil exports. Technology too has MON moved on, and an oil investor and analyst tells Crossing MON Continents that not only has the industry learnt some MON lessons, but also that it is now possible to extract oil MON from the pristine forest with minimal damage to the MON ecosystems. MON MON So far it seems the Ecuadorean people support Plan A. But MON although international donors have shown moral backing for MON the government's idea to save the rainforest, this hasn't MON been matched by contributions to the fund. And with less MON than half the $100 million pledged, the clock is ticking for MON one of the world's most unique and precious habitats. MON MON Producer: Emil Petrie. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0100ljm (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to Professor Alison Bruce MON from Brighton University about the latest developments at MON the Fukushima plant in Japan. He's joined in the studio by MON Dr. Fred Kavalier a GP and former genetics consultant to MON discuss pre-pregnancy diagnosis and what genetic conditions MON it could possibly help detect. Professor Ian Stewart will MON also be in the programme explaining why maths is fundamental MON to biology, which is also the subject of his latest book MON "Mathematics of Life" and Royal Society Head Archivist Keith MON Moore is bringing in some of the scientific travel MON manuscripts that have been scanned and put online for all to MON enjoy. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Fukushima update MON MON Professor Alison Bruce from the Nuclear Physics Group at MON Brighton University gives Quentin an update on the latest MON developments at the Japanese nuclear plant; why are the MON engineers now pumping nitrogen into reactor 1 and is reactor MON 2, which was leaking radioactive water, now sealed? MON MON Pre-pregnancy screening MON MON The Human Genetics Commission have just published a report MON in which they state they have no objections to people being MON screened to see if they are carriers of certain genetic MON diseases. Dr. Fred Kavalier a GP and form Primary Geneticts MON Consultant at Guys and St. Thomas’s Hospital is in the MON studio to explain which diseases can be screened for and MON why. MON MON Mathematics of Life MON MON Professor Ian Stewart is on the programme to talk about his MON latest book “Mathematics of Life.” He explains how MON mathematics can explain many biological processes and how MON since the discovery of DNA, maths is playing an ever MON increasing role in our understanding of living things. MON MON Scientific travels MON MON The Royal Society’s Head of Library and Archives Keith MON Moore, is bringing into the studio some of the scientific MON travel manuscript’s that have just been put online. They MON are mainly from the time of the expansion of the British MON Empire and give an insight into the scientific work going on MON at this time. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0105vth (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0103tcx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01083xr (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 b0105yn1 (Listen) MON Plague Child, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. MON MON It is 1625 - on a rainy night in Oxfordshire, Tom Neave's MON life nearly ends as soon as it has begun, when Lord MON Stonehouse orders that the newborn must be cast into the MON plague pit - but the future holds much more in store for the MON red-haired, hot tempered boy who relates the story of his MON early years, from a childhood at the docks in Poplar into an MON apprenticeship at a City printers, which will take him into MON the the heart of politics at a turning point in British MON history. MON MON Read by Jamie Glover MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b010023v (Listen) MON Michael Rosen explores the complex relationship between MON language and sport, and asks "If sport is so unpredictable, MON why is it that sports punditry is so predictably MON cliche-ridden?" MON Michael talks to commentators, athletes, and MON athletes-turned-commentators to see if the arrival of the MON Olympics on British soil is likely to herald a new era of MON hyperbole and inarticulate over-excitement. MON MON Producer: John Byrne. MON MON 23:30 In Living Memory b00tbbtz (Listen) MON Series 12, Pope John Paul II in Britain MON MON The visit by Pope John Paul II to England, Scotland and MON Wales in 1982 was a momentous occasion for British MON Catholics. This was the first time a Pope had set foot in MON Britain. The six day tour was a pastoral trip not a state MON visit, and on occasion after occasion the Pope showed his MON popular touch. In Westminster and Wembley, Coventry and MON Cardiff, the crowds turned out for noisy, colourful MON celebrations. MON MON But the visit - which cost millions to organise - was very MON nearly cancelled at the last minute. As the Pope's arrival MON day in May 1982 drew closer, the crisis in the Falklands MON deepened. Many commentators suggested it would be impossible MON for the Pope to visit a nation at war with Argentina, a MON Catholic country. Argentine and British bishops flocked to MON Rome to press their case. Back in Liverpool, Bishop Vincent MON Malone was in the final planning meetings for the northern MON leg of the tour. As he waited for a call from his MON Archbishop in Rome with, he firmly expected, bad news, he MON discussed first aid and whether creams should be in tubes or MON bottles. It all seemed a little pointless. But then the MON phone went. It was the late Archbishop Derek Worlock - Pope MON John Paul II had defied the doubters and the trip was on. MON MON In this programme, Chris Ledgard speaks to Bishop Malone, MON other officials and people who were part of the huge crowds MON and congregations. The main organiser, Monsignor Ralph MON Brown, explains how he dealt with companies wanting to cash MON in on the souvenir trade by bringing in the world's biggest MON sports management company, IMG. More used to dealing with MON Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, IMG led the church through MON the commercial side of the tour, negotiating deals on MON popemobiles, taking care of spoons and candlesticks, and MON seeing off the firm that wanted to produce a screwdriver MON with a flashing papal head! MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0102rt7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0105vtk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0102rt9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0102rtc (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0102rtf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0102rtj (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010b9f7 (Listen) TUE with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0105yv1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0105yv3 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 Between Ourselves b0105zk7 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Episode 2 TUE TUE Lady Carnarvon of Highclere Castle (the setting for Downton TUE Abbey) and James Hervey Bathurst of Eastnor Castle discuss TUE the responsibility of owning two of Britain's finest stately TUE homes. TUE TUE What's it like having everyone from Maggie Smith to Madonna, TUE plus accompanying film crews, invade your family seat? Do TUE you agree to place lit candles under oil paintings to keep TUE the director happy? TUE TUE Is it a necessary evil or a genuine pleasure to throw open TUE your grounds and home to the general public? How else to TUE make ends meet when the maintenance bills and heating costs TUE for these old, cold, stone houses are so high? TUE TUE Olivia O'Leary discusses how best to run your Stately Home TUE on this week's Between Ourselves. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b0105zk9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, William Pitt the Younger TUE TUE Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, begins a second TUE series exploring how different prime ministers have used TUE their power, responded to the great challenges of their time TUE and made the job what it is today. The first of Nick's eight TUE portraits in power is William Pitt the Younger, who became TUE prime minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 TUE years in total. When Pitt died aged 46, he was younger than TUE most of other premiers were when they first became prime TUE minister. His father, Pitt the Elder (earl of Chatham), and TUE his uncle, George Grenville, were both former prime TUE ministers, and Pitt the Younger dedicated his life to TUE politics. TUE TUE Nick hears from William Hague, Foreign Secretary, former TUE Conservative Leader and award-winning biographer of Pitt the TUE Younger, and historians Jane Ridley and Jeremy Black. He TUE recalls Pitt's life and times by visiting Downing Street, TUE the Bank of England, the House of Commons, Trafalgar Square TUE and Westminster Abbey. TUE TUE Britain faced massive debts when Pitt became prime minister, TUE but in 1783 the cause had been a disastrous war in America. TUE Pitt began by reducing debt and boosting trade, but the TUE impact of the French Revolution in 1789 dominated the rest TUE of his premiership. The cost of the French wars plunged TUE Britain deeper into debt, forcing Pitt to print money (he TUE authorised the first £1 and £5 banknotes) and to introduce TUE income tax for the first time. Shortly before his death, TUE Nelson's victory at Trafalgar ensured Britain's security, TUE but Napoleon dominated Europe and was not finally defeated TUE until nine years after Pitt's death. TUE TUE In this series, Nick Robinson also looks at Earl Grey, TUE William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith, Ramsay MacDonald, Harold TUE Macmillan, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0105zkc (Listen) TUE The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting, TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Alexandra Mathie. TUE Abridged by Alison Joseph TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0105zkf (Listen) TUE With Jenni Murray. Including the actor Celia Imrie on her TUE autobiography The Happy Hoofer. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0105zkh (Listen) TUE Kiss Kiss, Parson's Pleasure TUE TUE In Parson's Pleasure we meet Cyril Boggis (Ronald Pickup), TUE an unscrupulous antiques dealer, who charms his way into TUE people's homes disguised as a simple parson, hoping to pick TUE up neglected treasures for a song. One bright, Sunday TUE afternoon however, all does not go according to plan when, TUE in the home of farmer Rummins, he discovers a priceless TUE Chippendale commode... TUE TUE Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan TUE TUE Storyteller....Charles Dance TUE Cyril Boggis....Ronald Pickup TUE Rummins...David Ryall TUE Claud......John Baddeley TUE Lady Harcourt..Lucie Fitchett TUE TUE Producer/Director: David Blount TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Voodoo Wasps and Zombie Worms b01061hk (Listen) TUE Almost every organism on Earth has an associated parasite, TUE and most have quite a few. We're used to the idea that TUE influenza and malaria microbes can wreak havoc on our TUE bodies, but researchers now realise how they can also infect TUE our minds, intentionally changing the way we think and TUE behave. TUE TUE Toxoplasma gondii is a tiny microbe that convinces rats to TUE overcome their fear of cats. This suicidal behaviour will TUE eventually get the rat eaten, passing on the microbe. T TUE gondii will infect just about any warm blooded animal - TUE including humans. It causes birth defects in humans, and TUE farmers fear the onset of "abortion storms" where whole TUE flocks of ewes miscarry. Due to us flushing cat litter down TUE the toilet it's now infecting dolphins too. T gondii is now TUE the world's most successful parasite, infecting 40% to 60% TUE of humans on the planet. TUE TUE Scientists in America are now looking at evidence that TUE Toxocara and its relations are responsible for illnesses TUE such as schizophrenia. This is because excessive production TUE of the neurotransmitter dopamine is associated with TUE schizophrenia - and toxoplasma gondii, uniquely, actually TUE manufactures dopamine. TUE TUE So how about getting rid of T gondii once it's penetrated TUE your brain? So far, there's no vaccine available except for TUE sheep. The development of a human vaccine has so far been TUE slow, partly because T gondii doesn't kill. However, there's TUE exciting evidence that anti-psychosis drugs such as the ones TUE used for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia stop the T TUE gondii from replicating in the brain. TUE TUE Thankfully, not all parasites are harmful - and a national TUE team of scientists in the U.S. are investigating the role TUE that other parasites can play in treating Crohn's disease TUE and other chronic autoimmune disorders. TUE TUE 11:30 The RSC at 50 b01061hm (Listen) TUE The First Ten Years TUE TUE James Naughtie explores the history of the Royal Shakespeare TUE Company as it marks its 50th birthday and reopens its main TUE Stratford theatre. Part 2: The First Ten Years. TUE TUE In the second programme of his three-part series, James TUE Naughtie explores how the Royal Shakespeare Company came TUE into being in 1961 and its extraordinarily dynamic first ten TUE years. TUE TUE He speaks with the two key players - Peter Hall and Peter TUE Brook (both now in their eighties, both still busily working TUE in theatre) - about the stultifying 1950s theatre culture TUE which they inherited. As Brook vividly recalls, "those old TUE laddie codger actors just boomed away". TUE TUE The two Peters discuss other aspects which were ripe for TUE change - the need for a European-style ensemble, for TUE training in verse-speaking, for longer and more open TUE rehearsals, for productions which arose from a particular TUE time rather than simply being wheeled out again and again - TUE all RSC hallmarks which are now taken for granted. Veteran TUE members of the company Patrick Stewart and Judi Dench recall TUE the joys of that time, including, in Dench's case, the TUE indiscrete joys of affairs which inevitably arose due to the TUE geographical isolation of Stratford. Contemporary Associate TUE Director Greg Doran explains the attraction of working in TUE Stratford - walking daily, on his way to rehearsals, past TUE the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried; while TUE Hall explains how vital it was to start up a London season TUE if he was to succeed in turning a group of actors into a TUE world-class company. TUE TUE Meanwhile, the current Company dramaturge Jeannie O'Hare TUE explains how productions of new works by contemporary TUE writers - Pinter, Bond, Hare - helped re-energize the RSC, TUE culminating in what is often seen as its aesthetic TUE high-point - Brook's Dream in 1971 - which, in a rare TUE interview, the great Peter Brook himself recalls for the TUE programme. TUE TUE The series as a whole features an exclusive breadth of TUE interviews with the key players of the past half century. TUE With the help of all five artistic directors: Peter Hall, TUE Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands, Adrian Noble and Michael Boyd; TUE luminaries such as Peter Brook, Cicely Berry, Greg Doran, TUE Judi Dench, Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; and backstage TUE artists, technicians and craftspeople, James Naughtie TUE explores both the history of the company and the reasons why TUE its work matters to the wider British cultural scene. TUE TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b010g9jm (Listen) TUE Should teachers be given more respect and valued for their TUE classroom skills? As teachers at a Blackburn school strike TUE over pupils' bad behaviour, who would want to join the TUE profession? If you're a teacher who's disillusioned with the TUE whole education system or someone who feels passionate about TUE passing on your knowledge to the next generation, we'd like TUE to hear from you. Should parents take more responsibility TUE for discipline and not leave it to schools to deal with? How TUE can teachers tackle disruptive behaviour and inspire TUE unmotivated students? If you're doing teacher-training now, TUE what are your hopes and fears? To share your views, email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0102rtn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01075rn (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 Into the Music Library b01061hr (Listen) TUE It's the music which has surrounded us our whole lives, but TUE which most of us have never quite heard let alone listened TUE to... and nearly all of it made in the UK. TUE TUE Sometimes called 'Source music', 'Mood Music' or as it's TUE best known, 'Library music': a hugely important part of TUE British sonic history. Its use and purpose is simple: it's TUE well produced, economic music for film, TV, advertising and TUE radio. Never commercially available to the general public, TUE this music was pressed onto vinyl from the 1950s onwards in TUE short, limited quantities and then sent directly to TV TUE production houses and radio stations for use when necessary. TUE TUE From the mid 1960s onwards, as TV and radio productions TUE expanded, so did library music usage. As a result the golden TUE age of TV (and our memories of it) is not only punctuated TUE but dominated by classic library music. TUE TUE Sports themes, situation comedies, game shows, cartoons, TUE talk shows, classic children's tv, the testcards and even TUE Farmhouse Kitchen was brought to us all with the help of TUE library music. Themes for Terry And June, Grange Hill, TUE Mastermind, Match Of The Day and of course that gallery tune TUE from Vision On are all well placed library cues. But there TUE are reels (and reels) of gorgeously crafted, equally great TUE stuff that never made it past the elevator door! We have TUE been surrounded by it forever, but we know so little about TUE it.... Where does it comes from? Who actually makes it? And TUE how do you actually set about making music for the inside of TUE a waiting area, a lift or for a plane before it takes off? TUE TUE In this first ever documentary about library music we'll TUE look into its history (starting in 1909), speak with the TUE dynastic library owners (de Wolfe, KPM, John Gale), We find TUE out what's it's like to make music to imaginary pictures by TUE speaking to the library music makers (which could include TUE Jimmy Page and Brian Eno), and even have a word with the TUE Musicians Union who banned UK recording of library music TUE throughout the late 60s. TUE TUE We also talk to the modern day enthusiasts, the collectors TUE (Jerry Dammers) and explore the contemporary influences of TUE this extraordinary musical genre. And of course re-acquaint TUE ourselves with some of the most familiar music we've never TUE listened to! TUE TUE Presented by collector and archivist Jonny Trunk. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0105t3l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b01061ht (Listen) TUE Titanium TUE TUE History rarely remembers who came second. If Yuri Gagarin TUE had so much as sneezed on the 12th of April 1961 the honour TUE of being the first man in orbit would have gone to his TUE training partner, Gherman Titov. But Gagarin didn't sneeze TUE and a disappointed Titov had to climb back down the launch TUE tower. A few months later Titov did launch successfully in TUE Vostock II. He completed 17 earth orbits (got space-sick, TUE ate and slept) and is still the youngest person ever to have TUE gone into space. But he's largely unheard of because he TUE wasn't 'first'. In Anita Sullivan's play, which marks the TUE 50th anniversary of Gagarin's flight, the story of the two TUE cosmonauts - their training, their selection, the flight and TUE its aftermath, is told through Titov's eyes as he waits at TUE Chkalovsky Airbase for Yuri to return from what should have TUE been a routine training flight on the 27th March 1968. TUE TUE Gherman Titov . . . . . Derek Riddell TUE Yuri Gagarin . . . . . .. William Ash TUE Private Baskov .. . . . . Sarah Ovens TUE Nikolai Kaminin .. . .. Alun Raglan TUE Sergei Korolev . . . . . Stephen Marzella TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01061hw (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 b01061hy (Listen) TUE Saints and Sinners, Madame Cassandra TUE TUE 'Madame Cassandra' by Edna O'Brien. TUE Read by Sorcha Cusack. TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall TUE Produced by Lawrence Jackson TUE TUE Edna O'Brien is one of the most distinguished writers and TUE figures in the world of letters. Since emerging from Ireland TUE in the early 1960s with 'The Country Girls', her many novels TUE including 'Girl with Green Eyes', 'House of Splendid TUE Isolation' and 'In The Forest' have attracted both praise TUE and controversy. 'Saints and Sinners' is her eagerly awaited TUE new collection. TUE TUE 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gtlwm (Listen) TUE Dead States, New Birth TUE TUE David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War and TUE its aftermath TUE TUE Episode 7: 'Dead States, New Birth': The North attempts to TUE force change upon the South. TUE TUE Previously broadcast on 27 January, 2009, as part of David TUE Reynolds 90 part history of America. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b010626m (Listen) TUE Politeness TUE TUE Michael Rosen takes a well-mannered look at politeness. Is TUE it true that "thank you", "goodbye" and other traditional TUE expressions of courtesy are dying out? And why do we find it TUE easier to be ruder in emails and online? Or is it that our TUE notions of politeness are simply changing...? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b010626p (Listen) TUE Series 24, Leonard Bernstein TUE TUE The conductor Charles Hazlewood chooses the great American TUE composer Leonard Bernstein, music director of the New York TUE Philharmonic and creator of West Side Story, Wonderful Town, TUE and Candide. The charismatic Bernstein clearly influenced TUE Charles Hazlewood's own choice of career - he's an award TUE winning conductor, made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 2003 TUE and recently presented The Birth of British Music on BBC tv. TUE Joining him in the studio is Humphrey Burton, friend and TUE professional colleague of Leonard Bernstein and whose TUE documentaries include The Making of West Side Story. Matthew TUE Parris presents. The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b010626r (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 17:56 Referendum Campaign Broadcast b0109kly (Listen) TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0102rtq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b010626t (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 5 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, Dave Cummings and Adil TUE Ray TUE TUE Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b010626w (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b010626y (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports from the new Turner TUE Contemporary gallery in Margate, which opens later this TUE month. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0105zkh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Sea Gangsters b01095mf (Listen) TUE The recent murder of four innocent civilian hostages aboard TUE their yacht 'Quest', the kidnapping of children aboard a TUE Danish yacht, and the hi-jack of the giant oil tanker TUE 'Irene' are game changers in the ever growing scandal of TUE international piracy. Piracy Inc. is getting bigger, nastier TUE and richer by the week - at the expense of the freedom of TUE Western sea trade. TUE TUE The new sea gangsters now have some 20 mother ships, most TUE driven by hostage slave crews operating with virtual TUE impunity on sea lanes stretching from Africa to India. The TUE recent escalation highlights the impotence of the West's TUE navies in facing the threat. Paralysed by indecision, the TUE British and their NATO allies have virtually no authority to TUE disarm, attack or aggressively confront the enemy. Only TUE India, Russia and South Korea have taken the law into their TUE own hands and blasted the Somali pirates out of the water TUE when and where they have caught up with them - but at a TUE price. TUE TUE What the world sees is a half glamorous image of the Johnny TUE Depps of Somalia. The reality is the new pirates are some TUE 130 separate but highly organised gangs of ruthless TUE operators who sometimes torture their hostages and are TUE holding 760 seafarers, some of them going insane after TUE nearly a year of captivity on filthy boats with minimal food TUE and water. TUE TUE "We are talking about a new international criminal TUE conspiracy", Joe Angelo, Managing Director of Intertanko. TUE TUE For BBC Radio 4 investigative reporter Tom Mangold, visits TUE the front line and talks to the key people involved. TUE Reporting from the Gulf from on board a British Royal Navy TUE anti-piracy patrol and talking to victims, perpetrators and TUE insiders about the ever darkening future for commercial TUE shipping he asks what can be done about the gangsters who TUE operate a $100 million dollar a year racket TUE TUE Producer: Gemma Newby TUE A Jolt Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0106283 (Listen) TUE Home pregnancy testing kits are currently totally TUE inaccessible to people who are blind or severely visually TUE impaired but could they be adapted to include an audible TUE result? We hear from an engineer who says an accessible TUE option could be easy to produce and from a blind woman who TUE wants to start a family but is forced to rely on a third TUE party to read the results. Plus we hear your views on TUE Olympic tickets and talk to blind campaigner Jill Allen King TUE about the forthcoming changes to disability living TUE allowance. TUE TUE 21:00 The Chemist of Life and Death b01062gy (Listen) TUE Science has always been capable of huge innovation, and TUE frightening destruction. The life of one scientist TUE encapsulates that tension more than any other - Fritz Haber. TUE In this programme Chris Bowlby explores Haber's dramatic TUE life, personal as well as professional, discovering how a TUE Jew desperate to be a patriotic German, became a chemist of TUE great creativity, but also of military power. Scenes from TUE his life explore how he made his discoveries - including the TUE fertiliser that fed the world, and the poison gas used in TUE the First World War. We hear of his struggle for social TUE acceptance, the suicide of his wife in protest at his war TUE work, and finally his tragic death, shortly after expulsion TUE from Nazi Germany. But he had left the most ironic legacy of TUE all - research that gave the Nazis the basis for the gas TUE used to murder millions in the Holocaust. TUE TUE 21:30 Between Ourselves b0105zk7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0102rts (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01084f6 (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 b0106ym2 (Listen) TUE Plague Child, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. TUE TUE Tom goes on the run after his life is threatened by two TUE mysterious strangers- but not before he declares his love to TUE Anne, the daughter of his employer. Returning to his TUE childhood home he is faced with shocking news... TUE TUE Read by Jamie Glover TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00p67ts (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE Laura Solon presents her third series of sketches, TUE monologues and one-liners. TUE TUE This week unwelcoming neighbour Annabelle quizzes an TUE unsuspecting soul over his windchimes; useless entrepreneur, TUE Carole Price, takes another swing at selling her bad ideas TUE to the world and someone travels back from the very near TUE future to warn a man about his blind date. TUE TUE Starring Laura Solon, with Rosie Cavaliero, Ben Moor and Ben TUE Willbond. TUE Producer: Colin Anderson. TUE TUE 23:30 Party b00r7l7j (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Satirical sitcom by Tom Basden about a group of young TUE idealists trying to set up a new political party. TUE TUE Simon ...... Tom Basden TUE Mel ...... Anna Crilly TUE Duncan ...... Tim Key TUE Jared ...... Johnny Sweet TUE Phoebe ...... Katy Wix. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01061p2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0105zkc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01061p4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01061p7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01061p9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01061pc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010b9f9 (Listen) WED Prayer and reflection. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01063v7 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01063x9 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01063xc (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0106406 (Listen) WED The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting, WED Episode 3 WED WED Read by Alexandra Mathie. WED Abridged by Alison Joseph WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0106408 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including the the actress and singer WED Michelle Gayle; and the best-selling author Jodi Picoult on WED her latest novel. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01064yd (Listen) WED Kiss Kiss, Royal Jelly WED WED In Royal Jelly we meet beekeeper Albert Taylor and his wife WED Mabel. Worried that their newborn daughter isn't eating WED properly, Albert starts giving her royal jelly - a highly WED nutritious substance fed by bees to the larvae of their WED queens. The baby starts to put on weight. But Mabel begins WED to notice other changes too.. WED WED Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan WED WED Storyteller....Charles Dance WED Albert.....Chris Emmett WED Mabel.....Rachel Atkins WED WED Producer/Director: David Blount WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Bronzeville Lives: Chicago's Black Metropolis WED b01064yg (Listen) WED Bronzeville is a city within a city. The once teeming heart WED of Chicago's Black Metropolis on the city's Southside has WED shaped the career of President Obama, made music to change WED the world and been on the frontline of the American dream. WED WED For generations it has been the most densely populated part WED of the city. Divided by great highways from white WED neighbourhoods, latterly defined by its disastrous public WED housing developments or 'projects', it has birthed the words WED of Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and Lorraine Hansberry. WED The music of gospel, blues & jazz, not to mention the WED publishing phenomenon of Ebony Magazine. WED WED Between 1900-1944 Chicago's black population grew from WED 30,000 to 340,000 constrained largely to the Southside with WED Bronzeville at its heart. The Great Migration saw successive WED waves of black Americans abandon the poverty and murderous WED racism of the South's small towns to head for what many saw WED as 'the Promised Land'. Work, freedom from fear and a shot WED at the American dream drew millions to the concrete and WED steel of Chicago and its steel mills, slaughter yards and WED railways. For a time, those who dwelt in the Black WED Metropolis had a community bound tight by pride and the WED knowledge that they stood on their own. WED WED The Black Metropolis is also the title of the classic 1945 WED study of this world. As historian Adam Green consults its WED words as a guide to today's streets so activist, teacher and WED historian Timuel Black recalls the night Joe Louis became WED champion of the world with Bronzeville as its capital. Susan WED Cayton Woodson remembers the time Paul Robeson drove her to WED this vibrant city to begin an new life and the writer Sam WED Greenlee spins bittersweet tales of a world on the cusp of WED disintegration and painful change. WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED 11:30 Beauty of Britain b01064yj (Listen) WED Series 2, Laurelmead 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 the elderly. WED WED Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls WED hoping to live the dream in Britain. The series breaks the WED embarrassed silence about what happens to us when we get old WED and start to lose our faculties. It shows the process in all WED its chaotic, tragi-comedy but it does so from the point of WED view of Beauty, whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught WED her to respect age. Beauty sees Britain at its best, its WED worst and also sometimes without its clothes on running the WED wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' WED WED Episode 2 'Laurelmead' WED WED 'A British care home is basically a big house named after a WED tree' observes Beauty, as she decides to work at Laurelmead WED this week. A change from her usual live in work, but working WED for the care home brings its own difficulties. There is some WED good news- her church choir is through to the regional WED finals of 'Go for Gospel'. WED WED Beauty ... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Kriss ... Felix Dexter WED Neville ... Clive Swift WED Mrs Gupte ... Indira Joshi WED Anil ... Paul Sharma WED Worship Leader Wayne ... Lloyd Thomas WED Uncle Custard ... Chris Douglas WED Sandra ... Nicola Sanderson WED WED The music for the series was performed by The West End WED Gospel Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01064yl (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01061pf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01075rq (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 b01064yn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b010626w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b01064yq (Listen) WED Jelly Babes WED WED by Judy Upton. Resourceful mum, Shanice, is persuaded by her WED next-door neighbour, Evie, to take up the bizarre sport of WED jelly wrestling to make ends meet. WED WED Becky, AKA Azaria The Amazon, shows her the ropes and WED Shanice is soon wowing the rowdy stag night audiences with WED her slams and smackdowns. WED WED By night she's bikini clad Alice Malice, by day she's mum to WED gymnastics-mad Alex and a devoted daughter to her disabled, WED ex-army dad. WED WED When these two worlds threaten to collide, it reawakens a WED painful episode from Shanice's childhood which threatens to WED tear apart her cherished family life and leads to a WED show-down with the father she adores. WED WED Shanice... Sally Orrock WED Becky... Nadine Marshall WED Evie... Jane Whittenshaw WED Club Manager... David Seddon WED Shanice's dad... Sam Dale WED Alex... Ryan Watson WED Wrestling choreography by Henry Devas WED WED Directed by Gemma Jenkins WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01064ys (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a team of experts will be here to WED answer your questions about personal, occupational and state WED pensions on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED The rules about annuities and how much you can save into a WED pension are changing and the age at which you can claim your WED state pension is rising. WED WED If you have a question about planning or accessing your WED pension, or you want to know if you will be affected by WED pension reform, Vincent Duggleby and guests will be ready to WED 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 b01064yv (Listen) WED Saints and Sinners, Black Flower WED WED 'Black Flower' by Edna O'Brien. WED Read by Sheila Hancock WED Abridged by Doreen Estall WED Produced by Lawrence Jackson WED WED 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gtlwp (Listen) WED Reunion but not Reconstruction WED WED A history of America, written and presented by David WED Reynolds. WED WED Episode 8: 'Reunion but not Reconstruction': Former slaves WED enjoy a brief period of political equality in the South. WED WED Previously broadcast on 28 January, 2009 as part of David WED Reynolds' 90 part series on the history of America. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01064yx (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Chemist of Life and Death b01062gy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b010650g (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01061pj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Act Your Age b0106rvc (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 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 Tom Deacon, Rufus WED Hound teams up with Henning Wehn and Ted Robbins is paired WED with Billy Pearce. WED WED Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0106rvf (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0106rvh (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Judy Golding, WED who has written a memoir about her father, the Nobel WED Prize-winning novelist William Golding, who found success WED with his debut novel Lord of the Flies. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01064yd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b0106rvk (Listen) WED Complexity WED WED Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and WED judges discuss legal issues of the day. WED WED The final programme in the current series discusses concerns WED that our law has become so complex that even judges are WED struggling to understand it. WED WED The chair of the Law Commission, the appeal court judge Lord WED Justice Munby, tells Clive Anderson that unnecessary amounts WED of government legislation over recent years has compounded WED legal complexity, and made it difficult for the Commission WED to do its job, clarifying and simplifying the law. WED WED The last Labour Government, for example, created 4,300 new WED crimes during its years in power - including a ban on WED swimming in the wreck of the Titanic and on the sale of game WED birds shot on a Sunday. WED The programme hears how legal complexity creates problems in WED almost all areas of law, making it increasingly difficult WED for members of the public to understand and therefore WED exercise their rights. WED WED Lord Justice Mumby says governments have failed to implement WED a lot of the Law Commissions suggested improvements to the WED law, and have also failed to introduce a "basic tool of WED democracy" - an authenticated electronic database of WED statutory law. WED WED He admits that the Law Commission's ultimate objective, a WED complete codification of the law, is unlikely ever to be WED achieved. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b0106rvn (Listen) WED This year's Lent Talks sees six well known figures reflect WED on different elements of conflict found in the story of WED Jesus' ministry and Passion from the perspective of their WED own personal and professional experience. WED WED In the fifth Lent Talk of the series, Guardian columnist, WED Madeleine Bunting, explores the unmet public appetite for WED justice in the wake of the financial crisis. WED WED The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, WED forgiveness and love. The main theme for this year's talks WED will explore conflict in different forms and how it WED interacts with various aspects of society and culture. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b0106rvq (Listen) WED Deepwater Horizon - The Real Damage WED WED President Obama described Deepwater Horizon as America's WED worst environmental disaster. If that was true why have fish WED numbers in the Gulf massively increased since the blow-out? WED WED One year on from the disaster Tom Heap travels through WED Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana in search of the true WED economic and environmental impact of the spill. Did the WED political and media reaction cause more damage to the region WED than the accident itself? WED WED He'll also be asking what effect the reaction to the WED disaster could have on Britain's plans for deep water WED drilling. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01063xc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01061pl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b010963d (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 b0106yp7 (Listen) WED Plague Child, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. WED WED While King Charles struggles to find accord with Parliament, WED Tom battles to understand his connection with the Stonehouse WED family, who are either his benefactors or his worst WED enemies...or both. WED WED Read by Jamie Glover WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Living with Mother b0106rvs (Listen) WED Home Time WED WED Phillip is about to take early retirement and has plans with WED his golf friend Arnold to tour some of the best courses in WED the country. Maybe it's time for mother to go into a home, WED after all, she is losing her marbles and that wheelchair is WED a burden. WED WED Poor June wants to stay in her own home but feels guilty WED about her son having to care for her. Will Phillip feel WED guilty? Will he end up missing watching his favourite WED programmes with mother? Or will June make some new friends WED and actually love her freedom and day trips? WED WED June: Anne Reid WED Phillip: Timothy Spall WED WED Producer: Anna Madley WED An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00qck4v (Listen) WED Series 1, Blairochil Business Awards 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 Jakonty Dragon. WED WED In this episode Mordrin's jam making business Fruity Potions WED is up for a gong at the Blairochil Business awards, but who WED can he take along for his plus one? 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 Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st century wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated WED 2000-year-old sorcerer with enough power in his small finger WED to destroy a town, yet not even enough clout to get his bins WED emptied on time by the local council. Even for such a WED skilful sorcerer modern life is rubbish! WED WED Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He WED initially set up as a plc for income tax relief, but has WED found it a useful vehicle to help him bolster his Wizard WED skill set and his range of services. (Even a wizard has to WED diversify). He's been running Fruity Potions from his cave WED for the past few years, in between completing the odd quest WED as instructed by the Wizard Council. In the past his WED services were to help kings in battles of good and evil, or WED as he prefers to put it, assisting with neighbour disputes WED WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Geoff: Gordon Kennedy WED Heather: Cora Bissett WED Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson WED Flora: Eleanor Thom WED Jim The Joiner: Grant O' Rourke WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Party b00rblxx (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Satirical sitcom by Tom Basden about a group of young WED idealists trying to set up a new political party. WED WED The friends wrangle over their new party's foreign policy. WED Or at least they would if they had a pen. The arrival of WED Phoebe's politically astute older boyfriend threatens the WED party's future, as Jared's insecurities come bubbling to the WED surface. WED WED Simon ...... Tom Basden WED Mel ...... Anna Crilly WED Duncan ...... Tim Key WED Eamonn ...... Nick Mohammed WED Jared ...... Johnny Sweet WED Phoebe ...... Katy Wix. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 APRIL 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01061pn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0106406 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01061pq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01061ps (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01061pv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01061px (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010b9fc (Listen) THU with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0106tj7 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b0106tj9 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0106tjc (Listen) THU The Neutrino THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the neutrino. THU THU In 1930 the physicist Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence THU of an as-yet undiscovered particle. He also bet his THU colleagues a case of champagne that it would never be THU detected. He lost his bet when in 1956 the particle, now THU known as the neutrino, was first observed in an American THU nuclear reactor. Neutrinos are some of the most mysterious THU particles in the Universe: they are produced in their THU trillions by the Sun, pass through almost everything in THU their path and are almost impossible to detect. Today, THU experiments involving neutrinos are providing insights into THU the nature of matter, the contents of the Universe and the THU processes deep inside stars. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0106tjf (Listen) THU The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting, THU Episode 4 THU THU Read by Alexandra Mathie. THU Abridged by Alison Joseph THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0106tjh (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including Cat Deeley on So You Think You THU Can Dance. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0106tjk (Listen) THU Kiss Kiss, Mrs Bixby & The Colonel's Coat THU THU In Mrs Bixby & The Colonel's Coat, Mrs Bixby - wife of a THU dull, New York dentist - is having an affair with a wealthy THU playboy known as the Colonel. When he decides to end their THU relationship, the Colonel gives her a mink coat as a THU keepsake. Realizing that her husband will wonder where she THU acquired such an expensive gift, Mrs Bixby devises an THU ingenious plan to explain it away.... THU THU Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan THU THU Storyteller........Charles Dance THU Mrs Bixby / Miss Pulteney........Lorelei King THU Bixby / Colonel / THU Wilkins / Pawnbroker......Kerry Shale THU THU Producer/Director: David Blount THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0106tjm (Listen) THU The Women of Egypt THU THU Three years ago Bill Law travelled to Egypt for Crossing THU Continents to meet five extraordinary women who were THU fighting for human rights and equal pay for women in Egypt. THU For this programme, Bill returns to Egypt to tell the story THU of the unfolding revolution through the eyes of those very THU same five women. Their stories are a unique insight into how THU the revolution came about and raise questions about its THU future. THU Producer: Daniel Tetlow. THU THU 11:30 Jules Verne's Volcano b0106tjp (Listen) THU 12 months after Iceland's ash cloud grounded global air THU transport, leading sound recordist Chris Watson reveals the THU secrets of one of Iceland's more literary but no less famous THU volcanoes. THU THU A boyhood Jules Verne fan, Chris will retrace the steps of THU Professor and Axel Lidenbrock from Reykjavik to his THU favourite place in the world - Snaefellsjokull - the glacier THU that contains the passage to the Centre of the Earth in THU Verne's 1864 seminal work of Science Fiction. Along the way THU he'll encounter communities affected by the 2010 eruptions THU of Eyjafjallajokull, talking to people who live within this THU geologically charged environment and meeting artists and THU musicians who have been inspired by their volcanic THU landscape. THU THU Tying in with Verne's theme of geographical exploration, to THU reach Snaefellsjokull - known to locals simply as Jules THU Verne's Volcano - Chris will travel through one of Iceland's THU most beautiful National Parks and will use his extraordinary THU recording techniques to reveal the natural sounds of this THU unique environment. The sounds of bubbling mud pools and THU sulphurous springs mirroring Jules Verne's deep connection THU to the physical world. THU THU Revealing interviews with leading figures from Iceland's THU vibrant arts scene: including the keyboardist of Sigur Ros THU and best-selling Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason will THU combine with Chris's recordings as he creates his own sonic THU adventure in the shadow of Jules Verne's novel and Iceland's THU volcanoes. THU THU Producer: Rose de Larrabeiti THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b010g9h2 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01061pz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01075rs (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 b0106rvq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0106rvf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 On Mardle Fen b009q9hs (Listen) THU Series 1, Mural THU THU by Nick Warburton. Part 2: Mural. In an idiosyncratic THU restaurant deep in the Fens the ancient proprietor, Warwick, THU can't help interfering in the kitchen. He is driving his son THU mad. Until his grandson suggests they give the old man a THU project. THU THU Warwick Hedges.....Trevor Peacock THU Jack Hedges.....Sam Dale THU David.....Chris Pavlo THU Fay.....Liza Sadovy THU Marcia.....Kate Buffery THU Zofia.....Helen Longworth THU Samuel.....John Rowe THU THU Director Claire Grove. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0103z1x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0105r7t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0106tjt (Listen) THU Saints and Sinners, My Two Mothers THU THU 'My Two Mothers' by Edna O'Brien THU Read by Michelle Fairley THU Abridged by Doreen Estall THU Produced by Lawrence Jackson THU THU 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gtlwr (Listen) THU New South, Old Ways THU THU David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War and THU its aftermath THU THU Episode 9: 'New South, Old Ways': The birth of segregation. THU THU Previously broadcast on 29 January, 2009 as part of David THU Reynolds' 90 part history of America. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b0105s48 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b0106tqc (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 The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b0106v11 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01061q1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b0106v13 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show that sees comics THU Lee Mack, Sarah Millican and Graham Linehan battle to supply THU the finest wrong answers. THU THU Charlie's tests see the guests recall 'the worst thing THU they've done on their own'. Who will win between Lee Mack's THU story of avoiding Anthea Turner, Sarah Millican's tale of THU woe whilst stuck on the side of motorway, or Graham THU Linehan's calamity in a hotel shower? THU THU Added to this are the panel's ideas for a terrible new THU gameshow. Will anyone spot the fatal flaw in Graham's pitch THU - the futuristic word quiz 'Scrabble 2000'? THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0106v15 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0106v17 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reviews the new stage musical Betty THU Blue Eyes, based on Alan Bennett's film A Private Function, THU the tale of a pig being secretly reared in the austerity THU Britain of 1947. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0106tjk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0106v19 (Listen) THU The Report investigates the battle over the government's THU plans to stop illegal downloading of music. Is the digital THU economy bill unravelling? THU THU 20:30 In Business b0106v1c (Listen) THU Quick on the Draw THU THU In an age of high technology communications, two THU long-established companies in a single German city are still THU battling each other for supremacy in a global marketplace THU ... in pencils. In Nuremberg Peter Day asks Faber-Castell THU and Staedtler how they both stay sharp ... and finds out THU what light (and shade) they can throw on the success of THU German industry and the viability of Europe as a single THU economy. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Voodoo Wasps and Zombie Worms b01061hk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0106tjc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01061q3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b010b5tv (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 b0106yq6 (Listen) THU Plague Child, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. THU THU Tom is elated when Anne admits she loves him, and witnesses THU the momentous visit of the King to Parliament, when the tide THU turns toward the people. But his joy is short lived as his THU pursuers close in.... THU THU Read by Jamie Glover THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00fm3lj (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU THU Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's THU Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and THU then getting them to vote for the best. THU THU 23:30 Party b00rfhjq (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Satirical sitcom by Tom Basden about a group of young THU idealists trying to set up a new political party. THU THU The Party clarifies its policies on climate change, while THU Duncan deals with the aftermath of under-cooked chicken THU sausages from a BBQ. Before long, murder is committed and THU the young idealists are placed in a compromising position. THU THU Simon ...... Tom Basden THU Mel ...... Anna Crilly THU Duncan ...... Tim Key THU Jared ...... Johnny Sweet THU Phoebe ...... Katy Wix. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01061q5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0106tjf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01061q7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01061q9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01061qc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01061qf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010b9ff (Listen) FRI with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0106vcf (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin FRI Poyntz-Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0106vch (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0105rhd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0106vck (Listen) FRI The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting, FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Alexandra Mathie. FRI Abridged by Alison Joseph. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0106vcm (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0106vcp (Listen) FRI Kiss Kiss, The Landlady FRI FRI In The Landlady we meet young Billy Weaver, who has just FRI arrived in Bath to take up a new job. He books into a FRI curiously deserted B & B. The landlady, who inhabits a FRI sitting room filled with stuffed animals, is welcoming but FRI odd. Wondering if he's her only guest, Billy checks the FRI register and sees two strangely familiar names. Taking tea FRI with her later, Billy suddenly remembers reading in the FRI papers that both her former guests disappeared in mysterious FRI circumstances. The landlady tells Billy that, like him, each FRI was a beautiful young man whom she didn't want to leave.... FRI FRI Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan FRI FRI Storyteller........Charles Dance FRI Landlady.........Doreen Mantle FRI Billy Weaver.....James Joyce FRI Mr Greenslade...John Rowe FRI FRI Producer/Director: David Blount FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b0106vcr (Listen) FRI Series 7, Readers' Lives FRI FRI 5. Readers' Lives. Every six weeks a group of women in FRI affluent Putney by the Thames in south-west London meets to FRI discuss a book they've all been reading. This is no casual FRI club open to the public but a close knit circle of friends FRI and bibliophiles whose group is exclusive. As Boat Race FRI Saturday - spring highpoint of the social calendar - FRI approaches, Alan Dein joins the women as they go about their FRI daily lives to hear about their relationship with Putney, FRI with each other and the meaning the book club has for them. FRI FRI Producer: Neil McCarthy. FRI FRI 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b00rtg8c (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI From Carnegie Hall to the BBC Radio Theatre - American FRI humourist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection FRI of published stories and articles. In show 2 of 4: "Let It FRI Snow", "The Cat and the Baboon" and "Keeping Up". FRI FRI The producer is Steve Doherty, and this is a Boomerang Plus FRI production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0106vj4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01061qh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01075rv (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 b0106vj6 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0106v15 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0106vj8 (Listen) FRI Pouring Poison FRI FRI by Lou Ramsden FRI FRI Hazel spends her life describing plays for visually impaired FRI people. But when she starts to describe the real world to FRI her new friend Davy, is she giving an accurate picture of FRI the world around her? She's looking for an escape from the FRI pressures of looking after her disabled mother, but is she FRI looking in the right place? A bittersweet romantic drama by FRI award-winning writer Lou Ramsden. FRI FRI Hazel. . . . . Kathryn Hunt FRI Davy. . . . . Nicholas Boulton FRI Phil . . . . . Jonathan Keeble FRI Suzanne . . . . . Alison Pettitt FRI Lynne . . . . . Marian Kemmer FRI Rob . . . . . Dan Hagley FRI FRI Theatre Company: Nyasha Hatendi, FRI Jane Whittenshaw, Stuart McLoughlin, Sean Baker FRI and Alex Tregear. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0106vjb (Listen) FRI Powys, Wales FRI FRI Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank join FRI gardeners in Llandeilo & District Gardening Club for a FRI horticultural discussion. Peter Gibbs chairs. FRI FRI We revisit Jenie and Kaye Eastman in Portishead. Part of the FRI Listeners' Gardens series. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 America, Empire of Liberty b00gtlwt (Listen) FRI War and Memory FRI FRI David Reynolds tells the story of the American Civil War and FRI its aftermath FRI FRI Episode 10: 'War and Memory': How the Civil War became FRI etched on the American consciousness for generations to FRI come. FRI FRI Previously broadcast on 30 January, 2009, as part of David FRI Reynolds' 90 part history of America. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0106vjd (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 b0106vqt (Listen) FRI Francine Stock with what's going on in the world of film, FRI including Terry Jones on Vikings and Shirley Henderson on FRI being a woman in a Western. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0106vqw (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01061qk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0106vqy (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0106vr0 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0106vr2 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who reports on the publication of The Pale FRI King, a posthumous novel by the acclaimed American writer FRI David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0106vcp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0106vr4 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from The FRI National Railway Museum at Shildon, County Durham. FRI FRI Producer:. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0106x58 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Identities FRI FRI 9/20. You get a very different insight into the natural FRI world when you have the opportunity to study the behaviour FRI of individual animals. David Attenborough recalls with FRI sumptuous delight spotting a blackbird in his garden with a FRI white feather - "whitey" - giving him a window into the life FRI of blackbirds and what's more, that individual. And, he FRI says, he saw what blackbirds get up to! In this story FRI Attenborough remembers filming spiders and filming FRI chimpanzees, both of which benefited from someone knowing FRI about the individuals - and whether you're a spider or a FRI chimpanzee, you have a personality all of your own. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00zm3hv (Listen) FRI Cottonopolis, Episode 5 FRI FRI Cottonopolis is created by Nick Leather. Written by Michelle FRI Lipton. FRI FRI In Episode 5 of Cottonopolis, we go back across the weeks FRI events through the eyes of the Taxi Driver Henri Mally FRI FRI Today concludes the Woman's hour drama but the story is FRI finally resolved in the Afternoon Play next Monday. FRI FRI "Henri" is faced with an impossible choice bringing back FRI echoes from his past, as we get nearer to the truth behind FRI the disappearances. FRI FRI Henri Mally ..... Chris Jack FRI Lucas Mally/Lenoir ..... Beru Tessema FRI Al Choudhray ..... Sushil Chudasama FRI Joe ..... Jack Deam FRI DCI Bullmore/Newsreader ..... Victoria Brazier FRI FRI Original music composed by Stephen Kilpatrick. FRI Producer/Director: Justine Potter FRI A Red production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:16 Friday Play b00zsd09 (Listen) FRI Cottonopolis FRI FRI Cottonopolis is created and written by Nick Leather FRI FRI Cottonopolis follows local Manchester Evening News FRI journalist Gemma Hayes, as she uncovers the truth behind the FRI disappearances of women in Manchester; one of whom was an FRI old school friend. FRI FRI This afternoon play is stand alone, but concludes last FRI week's Woman's Hour drama - which contains 5 different FRI stories exploring what happens when fear changes people's FRI behaviour. FRI FRI Gemma Hayes ..... Lisa Millett FRI Drew .....Will Ash FRI Peter ..... David Crellin FRI Christie ..... Paula Wolfenden FRI Imogen ..... Lisa Brookes FRI Alex ..... Mark Jordon FRI FRI Producer/Director: Justine Potter FRI A Red production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01061qm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b010b5yn (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 b0106yql (Listen) FRI Plague Child, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. FRI FRI Tom finally learns the truth behind his connection to the FRI Stonehouse family and the identity of the man with the scar FRI on his face whom he has feared since childhood - but this FRI news pales when he discovers he is about to lose Anne FRI forever... FRI FRI Read by Jamie Glover FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b010626p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Party b00rmxk5 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI The final episode sees The Party take to the streets with FRI their inaugural protest. If only it wasn't raining. Jared's FRI musical attempts to draw attention backfire painfully and FRI Mel is desperate to get arrested. FRI FRI Duncan ... Tim Key FRI Jared ... Johnny Sweet FRI Mel ... Anna Crilly FRI Phoebe ... Katy Wix FRI Policeman ... Nick Mohammed FRI Simon ... Tom Basden FRI FRI Written by Tom Basden. Producer Julia McKenzie. FRI
08 April, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 09/04/2011 - 15/04/2011
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