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SAT SATURDAY 24 MARCH 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01dc948 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01dnn41 (Listen) SAT Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 5 SAT SAT by Tim Winton. SAT SAT In a specially-commissioned coda, the acclaimed author SAT describes how the increasingly threatened and fragile marine SAT ecology has turned him into an environmental campaigner in SAT Western Australia. SAT SAT Read by Stephen Dillane SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dc94b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dc94d (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dc94g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01dc94j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01djt13 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Dr Mark Wakelin, Methodist minister. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01djt3f (Listen) SAT Why some listeners have been experiencing a rush of euphoria SAT after losing their jobs. And - in Budget week - Hugh Pym SAT reads "Your News". SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01dc94l (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01dc94n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01djr4r (Listen) SAT To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, Helen Mark SAT visits the Medway towns to find out how important a part the SAT Kent landscape played in Dickens' life and works. Except SAT London - no part of the British Isles features more SAT prominently in Dickens' life than Kent. "Kent Sir - SAT Everybody knows Kent - apples, cherries, hops and women" Mr SAT Jingle, Pickwick Papers. Anyone who's ever thumbed through SAT the likes of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or The Pickwick SAT Papers will know that the landscape and people of 19th SAT Century Kent provided rich pickings for Dickens. In SAT particular, the clutch of towns around the River Medway SAT including Chatham and Rochester are referenced frequently in SAT Dickens' works. It was growing up here that the author was SAT at his happiest, stockpiling memories he would recycle in SAT later years. Presented by Helen Mark and Produced by Anna SAT Varle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01dtd54 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Farmers are leaving their fields empty rather than risk SAT growing crops, as the drought means that they will not have SAT enough water to irrigate. Anna Hill meets Suffolk farmers SAT James Thorp who is deciding to leave 25% of his crops SAT fallow. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith visits David Shepherd, a Worcestershire SAT farmer who is changing his business to try and mitigate SAT against drought problems. Chris Atkinson from East Malling SAT Research in Kent explains how intensive pear growing can be SAT married with sustainable water use. SAT SAT And Dr Adrian Charlton from the Food and Environment SAT Research Agency is racing to develop new drought and disease SAT resistant peas for farmers in the future. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01dc94s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01dtd56 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01dtd58 (Listen) SAT Mark Miodownik, Luke Wright, literacy champion Sue Chapman, SAT saved by a Labradoodle, Chas Hodges Daytrip, Sarah Millican SAT SAT Richard Coles with politician Roy Hattersley and poet Luke SAT Wright SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01dtd5b (Listen) SAT John McCarthy takes a look at family travel with novelist SAT Gill Lewis, who has taken her daughters spotting wildlife SAT both abroad and in Scotland and Cornwall and Ben Hatch who SAT toured Britain with his young children. And holiday lettings SAT agent Wendy Shand explains how self-catering holidays can be SAT more child friendly. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01dtd5d (Listen) SAT Empire and Commonwealth SAT SAT The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging SAT collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides SAT an intriguing insight into the minds of the Monarchs who SAT assembled it. SAT SAT In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz encounters SAT dozens of these unique objects - some priceless, others no SAT more than souvenirs - each shedding light on our SAT relationship with the monarchy and giving a glimpse into the SAT essential ingredients of a successful sovereign. SAT SAT In this programme, Will looks beyond these island shores to SAT see the Monarchy as a global force. The monarch was a symbol SAT of imperial expansion, in the form of the British Empire, SAT for 300 years. But Will begins with the current reign, which SAT has seen a retreat from Empire and the development of the SAT modern Commonwealth, exemplified in the Royal Collection by SAT a small woven cloth made with yarn spun by Gandhi, which SAT contains an anti-imperial message written in Hindi. SAT Centuries ago, the Queen's predecessor and namesake, SAT Elizabeth I, presided over the very beginning of England's SAT experiment in empire. We see the world as she understood it, SAT in the form of an early atlas. As he explores Britain's SAT involvement in world affairs Will examines a shard of wood SAT from the coffin of George Washington, a print of a merino SAT ram which illustrates George III's impact on the Australian SAT wool trade, and a brightly painted chess set, presented to SAT the Duke of Edinburgh by President Mandela in 1996. SAT SAT Each of these objects has its own story to tell and each SAT reveals another aspect to the art of monarchy. SAT SAT Producer: Neil George. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01dtd5g (Listen) SAT Fraser Nelson Editor of The Spectator looks behind the SAT scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT The chancellor unveiled his budget this week where unusually SAT much of the content was leaked in advance except for the SAT change in taxation for the over 65s which has caused a SAT furore. SAT Duncan Hames Liberal Democrat and Claire Perry Conservative SAT discuss whose ideas really won the day, while Ruth Porter SAT from the IEA and Baroness Greengross who chairs the all SAT party committee on Intergenerational Futures, discuss the SAT elephant in the room -the measure affecting pensioners that SAT didn't get leaked and has proved very controversial. SAT SAT Part of government policy which did not get a mention in the SAT budget was Quantitative Easing the process by which the Bank SAT of England pumps money into the economy to try and promote SAT growth. It's a technical subject not often debated, but SAT should we know more about it given that it can have adverse SAT effects for savers and pensioners? SAT Jesse Norman a Conservative member of the Treasury Select SAT Committee and Kitty Ussher formerly on the Labour government SAT Treasury team think the issue needs to be more widely SAT considered. SAT SAT The Scotland Bill is currently progressing through the House SAT of Lords, but is it going to stop independence in its SAT tracks? Lord Forsyth Conservative says it's unlikely Liberal SAT Democrat Lord Steel thinks it will. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01dtd5j (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01dtd5l (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01djsfs (Listen) SAT Series 36, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with topical, comical sketches SAT and stand up with Jon Holmes, Nathan Caton, Mitch Benn and SAT Laura Shavin. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01dc94v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01dc94x (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01djsg1 (Listen) SAT High Wycombe SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics SAT from Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe with SAT Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves; SAT Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude; Editor of SAT The New Statesman, Jason Cowley; and Editor of Conservative SAT Home, Tim Montgomerie. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01dtd5n (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01dtd5q (Listen) SAT Otherwise Engaged SAT SAT A new production of Simon Gray's most successful and SAT best-loved play. A dark study of a London publisher trying SAT to enjoy a Saturday afternoon at home listening to Wagner. SAT SAT SIMON......JAMES PUREFOY SAT STEPHEN......ALEX MACQUEEN SAT JEFF...... EWAN BAILEY SAT DAVINA......HATTIE MORAHAN SAT WOOD......NIGEL PLANER SAT BETH......TRACY WILES SAT DAVE......RIKKI LAWTON SAT SAT Director - PETER KAVANAGH. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01dtdc0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Katy B SAT SAT Cookery writer Claudia Roden talks about her new book Food SAT of Spain. MasterChef winner Shelina Permaloo on how it feels SAT to be only the second female winner in a decade. Looking SAT after the kids or going out to work - we hear from the SAT slightly guilty, the perfectly happy and those who have to SAT juggle just to get by. How might things change for women SAT under a new Archbishop of Canterbury? Professor Frances SAT Ashcroft talks about the work that's won her an award for an SAT outstanding contribution to science. Plus music from Katy B SAT Producer - Ruth Watts. SAT Editor - Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01dtdc2 (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports SAT headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01djr5b (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Evan's executive panel talk about decision making using SAT examples from their professional life. A chance to see what SAT their jobs consist of and a chance too to think about how we SAT all make choices, for better or worse. They also swap SAT thoughts on stress - their own and that of their employees. SAT SAT Joining Evan are Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of SAT advertising and media company WPP; David Jones, global chief SAT executive of France-based advertising group Havas; Nicola SAT Horlick, chairman of investment fund Rockpool Investments. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Richard Vadon. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01dc94z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01dc951 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dc953 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01dtdc4 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson is joined by the actress Eve Myles and Jo SAT Bunting. With music from The Dirt Daubers. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01dtdc6 (Listen) SAT Rosie Goldsmith profiles Dame Edna Everage, one of SAT entertainment's most colourful characters . Dame Edna SAT stepped into the public spotlight in 1950s as a dowdy SAT Melbourne housewife. Over the years her popularity has SAT soared and she has turned into a flamboyant "gigastar". She SAT is known for her outlandish outfits, her wit and her SAT derision of the cult of celebrity. But she is soon to leave SAT the stage - her forthcoming tour of the UK will be her last. SAT Producers: John Murphy, Anna Meisel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01dtdc8 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT The Master and Margarita SAT SAT The Master and Margarita is at the Barbican until 7 April. SAT SAT The Apartment SAT SAT The Apartment by Greg Baxter is published by Penguin. SAT SAT Victoria Revealed SAT SAT Victoria Revealed is a permanent exhibition at Kensington SAT Palace in London. The palace reopens to the public on SAT Monday and admission is £14.50 with the usual concessions. SAT SAT The Syndicate SAT SAT The Syndicate begins on BBC One on Tuesday at 9 pm. SAT SAT The Kid with a Bike SAT SAT The Kid with a Bike is at selected cinemas, certificate 12A. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01f1nf9 (Listen) SAT More Than Just Whale Music SAT SAT Since Irving Teibel created his Environments label in the US SAT in the late 1960s, recorded natural sound has been a SAT commercial proposition, sought by city-dwellers to re-kindle SAT elemental connections. And his recordings of rain falling in SAT pine forests or sleepy lagoons, thunderstorms, waves SAT crashing and birds singing were deemed significant enough SAT for NASA to send into space on Voyager in 1977. A decade SAT later in the UK, Duncan Macdonald launched WildSounds - SAT initially to teach people to distinguish different SAT birdsongs, but soon adding 'atmospheres' from the Amazon or SAT the African veldt. SAT SAT Christine Finn explores the appeal of recorded natural sound SAT and how it's been manipulated by musicians since the first SAT live broadcast of birdsong in 1924, when the cellist SAT Beatrice Harrison duetted with a nightingale in her garden. SAT When sound engineer Quentin Howard was launching Classic FM SAT in 1992, he used a loop of birdsong recorded in his garden. SAT Radio Birdsong drew appreciative comments from listeners who SAT claimed it relaxed them. Psychologist Eleanor Ratcliffe is SAT investigating why natural sounds hold this appeal. SAT SAT Finn explores the boundaries between natural sound and SAT ambient music, and hears from musician Kit Watkins how SAT living in the mountains of Virginia caused him to use the SAT natural sounds around him in his compositions; she meets SAT Matthew Herbert, whose album One Pig uses natural sound of a SAT different kind to trace the life of a pig, from birth to SAT plate. SAT SAT Finn discovers there's a lot more to recorded natural sound SAT than just whale music, but also finds that whale music, far SAT from simply wafting among New Age crystals, played a major SAT role in launching the conservation movement of the 70s. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01dhcg6 (Listen) SAT Out of the Hitler Time: Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr SAT dramatised by Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT The second book in the trilogy. Having been forced to flee SAT the Nazis, Anna and her family have now arrived in London. SAT Both Anna and her brother Max face the challenges of life as SAT refugees rather better than their parents. SAT SAT Anna ... Anna Madeley SAT Max ... Adam Billington SAT Mama ... Adjoa Andoh SAT Papa ... Paul Moriarty SAT Dainty ... Thelma Ruby SAT Louise ... Susan Engel SAT Mrs. Hammond ... Joanna Monro SAT Mrs. Riley ... Ann Beach SAT Barbara ... Tracy Wiles SAT Cotmore ... Gerard McDermott SAT George ... Harry Livingstone SAT Otto ... Jack Holden SAT Sam ... Malcolm Tierney SAT SAT Director: David Hunter. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01dc955 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01dht2r (Listen) SAT Tax Avoidance SAT SAT It's budget week and as usual the papers are dominated by SAT stories of people who, depending on your perspective, are SAT being taxed too much, or those who are not being taxed SAT enough. How and who we tax and how we spend the proceeds is SAT a profoundly moral equation. The current debate over tax SAT avoidance is a perfect example. Tax avoidance (unlike SAT evasion) is perfectly legal, but, according to many SAT politicians and campaigners, it's immoral - a case of the SAT very rich not paying their fair share because they can SAT afford to hire creative tax accountants, while the rest of SAT us good citizens struggle to make ends meet. The rich are SAT different from you and me but why should we require some SAT people to live by a different moral standard just because of SAT the size of their bank balance and where will it lead if we SAT start saying that people who obey the law are acting SAT immorally none the less? At the root of these arguments is SAT our attitude to wealth and with it strong undercurrents of SAT envious wealth-bashing on one side, and contempt for SAT benefit-scrounging underclass idleness on the other. Is SAT wealth moral good, or morally negative? Are our taxes the SAT legitimate price we pay for living in a civilised society SAT that cares for the less well off or an unfair levy on hard SAT work - a form of state sponsored altruism in the name of an SAT artificially constructed version of social solidarity? Is SAT the moral imperative of taxation to be compassionate through SAT the ways in which the state disperses wealth by giving it to SAT the less than productive, or to create as much wealth as SAT possible in the first place without which no-one benefits? SAT SAT Witnesses: Dr Jamie Whyte - former Lecturer in Philosophy at SAT the University of Cambridge, now works in the financial SAT services sector; Paul Morrison - Public Issues Policy SAT Advisor for the Methodist Church in England; Philip Booth - SAT Editorial & Programme Director at the Institute of Economic SAT Affairs and Professor of Insurance & Risk Management at Cass SAT Business School; Richard Murphy - Tax Research UK. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Melanie Phillips, Claire SAT Fox and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01dhn6p (Listen) SAT Series 2, Swansea University SAT SAT Coming this week from Swansea University, "The 3rd Degree" SAT is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst SAT delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a SAT different University each week, and it pits three SAT Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01dhddc (Listen) SAT Roger McGough is joined on stage by Harriet Walter, John SAT MacKay, Guy Paul and the poet Paul Henry to read poetry SAT requests on the theme of listening and sounds. Coming live SAT from St George's Hall in Bristol as part of the Radio 4 SAT 'More than Words' listening festival. SAT SAT Poetry is meant to be heard, and Roger has been gathering SAT requests for poems that celebrate the wonder of listening. SAT The results may well include favourites like The Listeners SAT by Walter de la Mare, poems about music, birdsong and the SAT weather. But there will be surprises and new discoveries to SAT tantalise or please the ear, and perhaps the heart too. Paul SAT Henry will read his moving poem The Black Guitar and hears SAT his request 'Counting the Beats' by Robert Graves. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 25 MARCH 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01dn9vv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01dtfs9 (Listen) SUN The One I Saw SUN SUN This year's Radio 4 stories from the Bath Literature SUN Festival are all are written by women in the West Country, SUN with women at their heart, recorded on stage on SUN International Women's Day. They all have a slightly edgy SUN feel to them, too, as ghosts, shadows and strange events SUN unfold. In the final story in the series, The One I Saw, by SUN award-winning novelist Patricia Ferguson, two strange and SUN disturbing events separated by many years bring about a SUN profound moment of understanding. SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dn9vx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 02:00 As BBC World Service b01dtg4b (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dn9vz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01dn9w1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01dtfsc (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Leonard's Church, Hythe in Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01dht2t (Listen) SUN Martin Wroe SUN SUN Writer and journalist, Martin Wroe, Martin Wroe explores the SUN ethics of virtue where the individual is at its most divine SUN when working in community. SUN SUN In the wake of political and social reactions to the SUN financial crisis, austerity measures and the riots of 2011, SUN debate continues to determine the role of the individual and SUN society. The 2012 Lent Talks consider the relationship SUN between the individual and the collective. Is each person SUN one alone or one of many? Is it the human condition to be SUN self-contained or to belong to the family, the tribe, the SUN congregation, the nation? We live in groups but our most SUN intense experiences are incommunicable. Jesus shared a SUN communal last supper but he died an outcast, abandoned and SUN rejected by his people, his disciples and (apparently) his SUN Father. SUN SUN Speakers of this year's talks include Tariq Ramadan, SUN Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of SUN Oriental Studies at Oxford University, examines the SUN philosophy of the individual and how this is neglected in SUN many areas of Islam; Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ, explores the SUN agony of the individual in society. SUN SUN The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for SUN self-examination and reflection on universal human SUN conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, SUN forgiveness and love. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01dn9w3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01dtfsf (Listen) SUN New Life, New Views SUN SUN Kurdish poet, Choman Hardi, who has just had her first SUN child, explores how children help us to see things in a SUN different, more positive light in 'New Life, New Views'. SUN Choman recalls her return to Iraq to research the effects of SUN the gas attacks by Saddam Hussein's forces against Kurdish SUN villagers and the torture of her brother. And she explains SUN how, through her daughter, she hopes to make a new beginning SUN in a broken world. SUN SUN Choman reads her own poem, 'My Children', which looks at the SUN way children adapt to new life more easily than their SUN parents, taking on adopted homelands with shocking ease. The SUN programme also includes a beautiful Kurdish lullaby SUN accompanied on the harp and composed by the musician Tara SUN Jaff. Choman talks to the Hungarian-born poet, George SUN Szirtes, about the shift in life perspectives which he's SUN experienced since the arrival of his grandchildren. He reads SUN a poem on the subject, 'The pram in the hall', written SUN especially for the programme. SUN SUN A thoughtful and illuminating look at how children can help SUN to bring hope and fresh perspectives after even the most SUN difficult experiences. SUN SUN Producer: Kim Normanton SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01dtfsh (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith visits a family farm in the midlands which SUN will be cut in two by the new HS2 High Speed rail link. SUN SUN John Barnes' family have worked the land near Lichfield for SUN over 90 years. After decades as tenants they saved up enough SUN to buy the land just 10 years ago. Now all the family is SUN involved in running a thriving wedding venue, bustling farm SUN shop, and the farm. SUN SUN When the HS2 route was first announced, it cut through the SUN meadows; but the revised route takes it through their SUN picturesque Georgian farm house, farm buildings and wedding SUN venue, cutting the farm in half. SUN SUN Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01dn9w5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01dn9w7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01dtfsk (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01dtfsm (Listen) SUN Sport Relief SUN SUN Angela Rippon presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Sport Relief SUN Reg Charity: 326568 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Sport Relief. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Sport Relief SUN SUN All the money raised by the public helps people living SUN incredibly tough lives, both at home in the UK and across SUN the world's poorest countries. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01dn9w9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01dn9wc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01dtfsp (Listen) SUN In the fifth of the Lent series, preacher the Rev Dr Keith SUN Clements reflects on suffering with Sue Mills who was SUN awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours for services to SUN international development and disaster response. Leader: SUN Andrew Graystone. The Daily Service Singers are directed by SUN Justin Doyle, live from Emmanuel Church Didsbury. Producer: SUN Philip Billson. Download web resources 'the way to freedom' SUN specially written for the series from the Churches Together SUN in Britain and Ireland website. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01djsg3 (Listen) SUN David Cannadine recalls the heyday of cinema and television SUN Westerns and wonders if the makers of a big screen SUN adaptation of the Lone Ranger will capture a new audience SUN when the film is released next year. Despite the decline in SUN popularity of the Western, "the appeal of the mythical West SUN has remained a powerful force in American political life." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01dtfxd (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01dtfxg (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Director ..... Jenny Stephens SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer .... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Kylie Richards ..... Leah Brotherhead SUN Sharon Phillips ..... Celia Nelson. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01dtg1r (Listen) SUN Jamie Cullum SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the jazz pianist and singer Jamie SUN Cullum. SUN SUN His interview was recorded in front of an audience at St SUN George's in Bristol and launched Radio 4's More Than Words SUN Festival. Despite failing his grade four piano exam and, by SUN his own admission, barely being able to read music, Jamie SUN Cullum has won a stack of awards and become hugely popular. SUN He is particularly celebrated for his live shows and we are SUN delighted that in this very special recording, he performed SUN three of his musical choices. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01dhn6y (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 7 SUN SUN CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF HISTORY SUN Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons regularly welcomes 'our many SUN listeners around the world.' To mark the flagship show's 45 SUN year anniversary, Nicholas and his team have decided to let SUN some of the listeners welcome them. SUN SUN Along with regular Just a Minute panellists Paul Merton and SUN Marcus Brigstocke, the show's host Nicholas Parsons SUN travelled to India to celebrate and highlight Just a SUN Minute's unique and continuing popularity across the globe. SUN SUN Just a Minute's two special anniversary Indian shows were SUN recorded in front of a lively, excited and sometimes SUN unusually vocal audience of Mumbai urbanites. Topics up for SUN discussion on the show include 'A Cultural Exchange', 'The SUN Voice of New India' and a funny, quick-witted exchange on SUN the unavoidable topic of the British Empire. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01dtgbj (Listen) SUN In Praise of Stock SUN SUN Tim Hayward is not alone in his passion for stock, but there SUN must be few culinary adventurers who take things to the SUN level of his highly developed home routine. SUN SUN Glasses still steamy from several simmering stockpots, Tim SUN sets off on a journey into the world of stock. On his SUN travels he'll share precious stock secrets, learn from the SUN masters, tell tales of nineteenth-century Uruguay and peek SUN behind the doors of stock-cube heaven. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01dn9wf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01dtgbl (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Soul Music b01c7pqb (Listen) SUN Series 13, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien SUN SUN The powerful song, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, made famous by SUN Edith Piaf, is this week's Soul Music. SUN SUN Written in 1960 by Charles Dumont, in a fit of despair, he SUN gave the music to lyricist Michel Vaucaire, but was SUN surprised by the words he wrote. Dumont thought the song SUN should be about war or revolution. Vaucaire explained he SUN wanted to give the song to Edith Piaf. She was living in SUN Paris at the time, having recently finished her 'suicide SUN tour' during which she had collapsed. At that time, Piaf SUN didn't think much of Charles Dumont and tried to cancel SUN their appointment. But on hearing the song, Piaf told Dumont SUN that with this song, she would sing again. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01djrpm (Listen) SUN Muckhart, Clackmannanshire SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a programme with guest panellist Carole SUN Baxter. SUN SUN Practical March continues with an in-depth guide to 'Sowing SUN and Planting' ; germination, soil preparation, bare-root SUN planting -all explained. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Lent Talks b01dht2t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01dtgp4 (Listen) SUN Out of the Hitler Time, A Small Person Far Away SUN SUN Out of the Hitler Time: A Small Person Far Away by Judith SUN Kerr dramatised by Beaty Rubens. SUN SUN The third book in the trilogy. It's now 1956 and Anna is SUN married and settled in London when she gets a worrying SUN telegram about her mother who has been living back in Berlin SUN for 7 years. SUN SUN Anna ... Anna Madeley SUN Mama ... Adjoa Andoh SUN Max ... Adam Billington SUN Konrad ... Simon Treves SUN Richard ... Carl Prekopp SUN Hildy ... Sara Kestelman SUN Nurse ... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ken ... James Lailey SUN Curator ... Peter Hamilton Dyer SUN Gunther ... Harry Livingstone SUN SUN Director: David Hunter. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01dtgp6 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Marilynne Robinson about her new SUN collection of essays, "When I Was A Child I Read Books", SUN about faith, fiction and what it means to be a human being - SUN themes also present in her award winning novels Gilead and SUN Home. Civilisation: community, justice, faith, education, SUN democracy, care for the environment and for our fellow SUN citizens, all come under her scrutiny and she casts a SUN particularly critical eye over what she perceives as the SUN "march of austerity" sweeping away all that "may be called SUN humane"; in particular as these things are represented in SUN the United States. SUN SUN What do George Elliot, Raymond Chandler and Annie Proulx SUN have in common? They all published their first novels in SUN their fifties - as has debut novelist Charlotte Rogan, whose SUN novel "The Lifeboat" is published this month to universal SUN praise. She joins Paul Torday who published his first novel SUN "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" when he was 61 to discuss the SUN pros and cons of a mature debut and whether publishers are SUN too preoccupied with the next bright young thing. SUN SUN And the weird and wonderful things that customers say in SUN bookshops from "Is this book edible?" to "Do you have any SUN crime books involving speeding fines?" to "Do you have any SUN books in this shade of green, to match the wrapping paper SUN I've bought?" Writer and bookseller Jen Campbell on her SUN humorous collection of customers' extraordinary requests - a SUN unique and affectionate insight into the world of SUN bookselling and bookshops. SUN SUN 16:30 Writing Madness b01dtgp8 (Listen) SUN Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into SUN the 20th century and the age of Freud, the Great War and the SUN explosion of the 'sciences of the mind' focusing on three SUN great works of fiction, mixing contemporary psychiatric and SUN literary insight. SUN SUN How did modern literary and psychiatric ideas meet and how SUN did each shape the other? Do these heroines show literature SUN of the period to be a critical - and even emancipating - SUN force...or is fiction really medicine's stooge? Novels on SUN the couch include Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and SUN Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway....interestingly with both SUN novels there's a tendency to base the heroines on real SUN people - Nicole Diver is based on the case history of SUN Fitzgerald's own wife Zelda, whereas Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway SUN comes very close in literary terms to what Freud calls SUN 'self-analysis' - one difference is that Woolf sometimes SUN believed 'madness' was necessary to be creative, while Scott SUN Fitzgerald depicted it as disastrous drain on creativity SUN (ie. his). And both novels have the dynamic and lucrative SUN new industry of psychotherapy in their sights. Vivienne SUN compares fiction in the age of Freud to literary ideas of SUN mental health in the Victorian age and in Dickens SUN specifically, using Great Expectations' Miss Havisham as a SUN case study. SUN SUN Contributors include psychotherapist and essayist Adam SUN Philips, leading psychiatrist Simon Wessely ,cultural SUN historian Lisa Appignanesi and Chris Thompson, psychiatrist SUN and medical director of The Priory SUN SUN Producer: Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01dhs17 (Listen) SUN A Bridge Too Far? SUN SUN To the west of Edinburgh, construction of the new £1.5bn SUN Forth road bridge will use cement shipped across the North SUN Sea under a contract with a German supplier. Scotland's only SUN cement company, based 40 miles from the bridge, was SUN unsuccessful in the bidding. It is claimed that the deal SUN could have maintained 130 jobs in the Dunbar area. SUN SUN £790m worth of steel for the bridge will also come from SUN abroad. A plant near Motherwell lost out as part of a SUN consortium bidding for the work. It says the contract could SUN have secured hundreds of local jobs. SUN SUN Officials insist that they have to follow EU rules which SUN state that any company across the single market can bid for SUN public contracts. But analysts complain that UK authorities SUN interpret these rules more narrowly than their European SUN counterparts, to the detriment of British firms. French SUN public spending goes outside France at only half the rate SUN that British contracts go abroad. SUN SUN With the economy struggling, the Government has pledged SUN support for British business but accepts that public SUN projects are too often awarded in a way that disadvantages SUN domestic companies. So can it take action to support UK jobs SUN without being accused of protectionism? SUN SUN Reporter: Gerry Northam SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01dtdc6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01dn9wh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01dn9wk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dn9wm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01dtgpd (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN India, Russia, the United States.Tooting. John Waite goes SUN globe-trotting for his Pick of the Week programmes on SUN Sunday. He also introduces us to a new Bangladeshi SUN detective, who's the sub-continent's answer to Columbo. SUN And Dudley Moore puts a British twist on Beethoven by SUN imagining how Colonel Bogey might sound if composed by SUN Germany's genius. SUN There's also a chance to hear some top Broadway musicals SUN that the public didn't get to see - as they were meant for SUN corporate America; a hymn to higher sales targets. SUN SUN So, don't miss the showstopper about disposable hospital SUN wear "I never enjoyed an operation more" by joining John for SUN his Pick of the Week this Sunday evening at six fifteen. SUN SUN Robert Winston's Musical Analysis - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: The British Club - Radio 4 SUN Just a minute - Radio 4 SUN News Quiz USA - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes: Rainhorse - Radio 3 SUN Open Country - Radio 4 SUN Word of Mouth - Radio 4 SUN Pink Mist - Radio 4 SUN One to One - Radio 4 SUN There is Business like Show Business - Radio 4 SUN The Topping Tooters of the Town - Radio 4 SUN Jonathan Cowap - BBC Radio York SUN Schubert Diary - Radio 3 SUN Composer of the Week - Radio 3 SUN Dudley Moore's World of Jazz - Radio 2 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01dtgpg (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 In and Out of the Kitchen b016x4sv (Listen) SUN April 21st to 25th SUN SUN Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen comprises the SUN entries from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien SUN Trench. In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, SUN Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day SUN life, "no matter how grizzly or, indeed, how gristly". SUN SUN Cast: SUN Miles Jupp as Damien Trench SUN Justin Edwards as Anthony SUN with SUN Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Geraldine McBeef SUN Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney SUN Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 A Father for My Son b01dth55 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Jenny Coverack's trilogy A Father for my Son is adapted from SUN her own one-woman stage play, written with Robert Edwards, SUN based on the autobiography and journals of the sculptor SUN Kathleen, Lady Scott. After living in Paris as an art SUN student, and 'vagabonding' around Europe, Kathleen has at SUN last found the man she wants to be the father of the son she SUN longs for: a celebrated, well-dressed, rather ugly explorer SUN with eyes of a startling blue called Captain Robert Falcon SUN Scott. When their son Peter is two, Captain Scott sets off SUN for the South Pole, and Kathleen begins the journal she has SUN promised to keep for him until his return. SUN SUN With grateful acknowledgement to novelist Louisa Young, for SUN her biography of her grandmother, Kathleen Scott, 'A Great SUN Task of Happiness'. SUN SUN Kathleen Scott: Jenny Coverack SUN Captain Robert Falcon Scott: Mark Meadows SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01djsfn (Listen) SUN Who are all those people laughing on Count Arthur Strong's SUN Radio 4 comedy show? Not Feedback listeners who want to know SUN why he's still on air after seven series. SUN SUN Listeners find all the spin and speculation ahead of SUN Wednesday's budget a turn-off. Can't we just wait until we SUN actually know what the Chancellor is going to say they SUN wonder? SUN SUN Paddy O'Connell opens the doors of Broadcasting House during SUN a special recording of the programme at the More Than Words SUN Festival in Bristol. But does anyone want to come in? SUN SUN And are the pauses in The Archers getting longer and what SUN could you fill them with? SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01djsfl (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN His holiness Pope Shenouda the third, leader of the Coptic SUN church who had to defend his flock in Egypt from violence SUN and persecution. SUN SUN His Majesty King George Tupou the fifth - the colourful king SUN of Tonga who trained at Sandhurst and introduced democracy SUN to his island people. SUN SUN Maurice Andre, the virtuoso French trumpeter. SUN SUN Iran's first successful female novelist Simin Daneshvar SUN SUN And Chaleo Yoovidhya - the Thai entrepreneur who made SUN billions from the Red Bull energy drink. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01dtd5l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01dtfsm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01dhq6g (Listen) SUN War Gaming Iran SUN SUN Could a hot war with Iran be about to start? Israel could SUN strike against Iran's nuclear facilities; Syria is in SUN revolt; the world is on edge. Edward Stourton probes the SUN West's options. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01dth57 (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 b01dth59 (Listen) SUN Episode 96 SUN SUN George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01djr4t (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Jennifer Lawrence to discuss her SUN lead role in The Hunger Games. SUN SUN Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne discuss their new film, Kid on SUN a Bike. SUN SUN Director Andrew Haigh on his indie breakthrough hit, SUN Weekend, about an intimate relationship between two men in SUN Nottingham. SUN SUN Actor Brian Cox does his best impression of Orson Welles and SUN explains why he'll be performing the entire script of 'the SUN greatest film never made', Welles's adaptation of Joseph SUN Conrad's Heart of Darkness. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01dtfsf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 MARCH 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01dn9x8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01dht2c (Listen) MON Home at RIBA MON MON What does the idea of home mean to us in Britain? How is MON that changing, and are those new needs being met? A new MON economic landscape and an irresistible pressure on housing MON are changing the way we live. For the first time since the MON 1980s home ownership is decreasing, more people are renting MON longer and people are starting to club together in bigger MON groups. MON In a special edition recorded at the Royal Institute of MON British Architects, Thinking Allowed examines the concept of MON home and its relationship to housing. Laurie Taylor is MON joined by an audience of the public and an expert panel: MON Angela Brady, President of RIBA; the housing economist Susan MON Smith, Mistress of Gurton College Cambridge; sociologist MON Esther Dermott from Bristol University and the architectural MON writer Jonathan Glancey. MON The event draws on a series of investigations of listeners' MON homes in which Laurie Taylor and a team of sociologists have MON explored the future of private life. It will also reflect on MON the RIBA exhibition on the history of the British Home, 'A MON Place to Call Home'. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01dtfsc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dn9xb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dn9xd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dn9xg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01dn9xj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dtjcb (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Dr Mark Wakelin, Methodist minister. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01dtjcd (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01dn9xl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01dtjcg (Listen) MON Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01dtjcj (Listen) MON Werner Herzog on Start the Week MON MON On Start the Week Anne McElvoy talks to the filmmaker Werner MON Herzog about his latest documentary which gazes "into the MON abyss of the human soul", in its exploration of death row. MON Liz Mermin delves into the world of particle physics for her MON latest film venture, spending a year at CERN. While work MON there continues to try and understand the fundamental laws MON of nature, Mermin attempts to understand the people behind MON the experiments. The writer Geoff Dyer obsesses about MON Tarkovsky's film, Stalker, as a means to look at his own MON life, and to understand how we discover our deepest wishes. MON While in his new collection of poetry, Paul Farley, explores MON 'the art of seeing': weaving the past and the present to MON highlight those moments glimpsed out of the corner of your MON eye, and what's hidden in plain sight. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01dtkj4 (Listen) MON Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Blaine Harden. MON MON Twenty six years ago, Shin Dong Hyuk was born inside Camp MON 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains MON of North Korea. Camp 14 is a 'complete control district' MON where the only sentence is life. MON MON Prisoners work 15 hour days mining coal, building dams, MON sewing military uniforms. Beatings and executions are common MON and they are always hungry. No one born in one of these MON camps has ever escaped . until Shin. This is his story. MON MON Read by Kerry Shale MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dtkj6 (Listen) MON Marriage Week, Women of Auschwitz, Olympic Canoeist MON MON Marriage: why do we still do it? Beginning a week in which MON we put matrimony under the spotlight, today we look at its MON history. A Russian journalist discusses the rise of Vladimir MON Putin, his hold on power, and the risks she is taking by MON speaking out. We hear from members of British Asian women's MON groups who are being intimidated in their work to support MON those affected by forced marriage or honour-based violence. MON Olympic medal hopeful Rachel Cawthorn goes through her paces MON for the 1000 m canoeing event. The first mass transport of MON women to Auschwitz-Birkenau happened 70 years ago today - we MON find out what is known about them and their arrival. MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Jane Thurlow. MON MON 70th Anniversary of the Arrival of the 1st Transport of MON Women at Auschwitz MON MON Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first mass transport MON of women to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous concentration MON camp in which more than 1,100,000 men, women and children, MON were sent to their deaths. To honour them, there has been a MON journey over the last few days made in their tracks. What do MON we know of those first women and their arrival? Very few MON survived, but for those who did so long enough to build up MON any kind of routine, how did they live? And how did their MON experience differ from that of the men? Melissa Raphael, MON Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of MON Gloucestershire, joins Jane. MON MON History of Marriage MON MON At the start of a special week looking at the institution of MON marriage, Woman’s Hour examines the history of the MON institution. Evidence from the past will shatter a few myths MON about: the golden age of marriage, when we started marrying MON for love and what choices women have had in deciding who and MON when to marry. Jane is joined by Carol Smart, Professor of MON Sociology at the University of Manchester, and Simon MON Szreter, Professor in History and Public Policy in the MON History Faculty, University of Cambridge. MON MON Masha Gessen MON MON Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since 1999, MON coming seemingly from nowhere to succeed Yeltsin as MON President, before being constitutionally obliged to step MON down in 2008 to be Prime Minister. Earlier this month he MON secured a third Presidential term, amid widespread MON accusations of vote rigging and intimidation. Masha Gessen MON is a Russian-born journalist who lives and works in Moscow. MON In her book The Man Without A Face, she explains how a man MON she describes as a small-minded, low-level KGB operative, MON motivated by vengeance and greed, came to exercise absolute MON power over the world’s largest country. She joins Jane to MON talk about Putin, protest and how she views the risks she is MON taking by speaking up in this way. MON MON Olympic Hopefuls - Kayak MON MON The next in our series of features meeting sportswomen who MON are hoping for success in the London Olympics. MON Louise Adamson takes to the water to meet 23 year old sprint MON kayaker Rachel Cawthorn, who takes part in the canoeing MON events. She competes over the longer distance – 500 metres - MON where strength, stamina and technique are all crucial. In MON 2010 Rachel won medals at the World and European MON Championships and she was European Champion in the 1,000 MON metre event. Now she has her sights set on medal success at MON this summer’s Olympics. MON MON Listener Feedback - Running Late MON MON Listener response to our item on running late. MON MON Asian Suffragettes MON MON Slashed tyres, death threats and accusations of betraying MON their religion. The stories are from British Asian women MON groups who, by working to protect female rights, are being MON subjected to threats themselves. These are activists who are MON dealing with issues like forced marriage, domestic violence MON and honour based violence. An investigation by the BBC Asian MON Network reveals that though dozens of cases of intimidation MON have been reported to police, hundreds more are thought to MON have gone unreported. MON MON The Hidden Backlash is on BBC Asian Network at 6pm this MON evening. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dtkj8 (Listen) MON Reeds in the Wind, Episode 1 MON MON Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and MON retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. MON Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by MON Martha King. MON MON Efix is a loyal servant to the Pintor sisters Noemi, Ester MON and Ruth, the last remnants of a noble family in decline, MON dishonoured by a sister, Lia, who ran away and driven to MON poverty by the sudden and mysterious death of their father. MON Only Efix knows the truth. When he discovers that the MON sisters have received a telegram from Lia's son, the ghosts MON of the past emerge. MON MON EFIX.....John Lynch MON ZUAN.....Kane Tomlinson Weaver MON LIA.....Holliday Grainger MON DON ZAME.....Conrad Nelson MON KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari MON MON 11:00 The Asian Youth Movements b01dtkjb (Listen) MON Zaiba Malik tells the story of the Asian Youth Movements. MON MON In the late 1970s, a new generation of Asian youth were MON coming of age in the UK. They were less prepared to tolerate MON the discrimination that their parents suffered. They were MON focused on living in Britain as British people, without the MON myth of return. So when the National Front told them to "Go MON Home" their response was "Where is home if not here?" MON MON The murder of 18-year-old Gurdip Singh Chaggar was the MON impetus behind the formation of the Southall Youth Movement, MON which itself inspired young Asian men and women across MON Britain. Asian Youth Movements were formed throughout the MON country. They organised themselves to fight for justice, MON equality and for the right to live without being victimised. MON MON Underpinning the actions of the Asian Youth Movements was MON the principle that Self Defence is No Offence. It's a MON principle that was tested in court in 1982 in the case of MON the Bradford 12, when members of an AYM splinter group faced MON conspiracy charges for making petrol bombs in order to repel MON racists. They faced life imprisonment. In a landmark legal MON case, they argued that they were acting in self-defence. And MON won. MON MON Zaiba Malik hears from these now maturing youth to find out MON what killed the movements and what they achieved. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 11:30 Wordaholics b01dtkjd (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON MON Gyles Brandreth hosts a comedy panel show in which guests MON are challenged to display their knowledge of words and MON language. In this edition he is joined by Jack Whitehall, MON Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Countdown's Susie Dent. MON MON This week's letter of the week is P which really packs a MON punch. MON MON Writers: James Kettle and Jon Hunter. MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01dtkjg (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01dn9xn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01dtkjj (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 A Life With ... b01dhhpz (Listen) MON Series 6, Insects MON MON A Life With.... Episode 1 of 5: Insects MON MON Insects are not everyone's favourite part of the natural MON world, but a doctor in Norfolk just loves them. Dr Phil MON Wilkins' day job is a palliative care consultant but his MON overwhelming passion is insects. MON MON Mary Colwell goes to his home to see his garden designed for MON insects and to try to understand what the connection is MON between being a doctor and an entomologist. Phil's garden is MON insect heaven, everything in it is there for a reason, to MON attract insects and give them what they need to breed, but MON the surrounding land is intensively farmed fields of crops MON with barely any insect life at all. MON MON Dr Wilkins wants to heal the land, and bring back a healthy, MON vibrant natural community. This is one man's battle to save MON Britain's creepy crawlies for future generations. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01dtgpg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dtkjl (Listen) MON Pandemic, The Present MON MON Written by John Dryden. MON MON Dr Jan Roldano (Ben Daniels) a microbiologist and WHO MON advisor on infectious diseases, arrives in Bangkok to give a MON keynote lecture at a medical conference. Whilst there, he is MON invited to observe the local authority's handling of an MON outbreak of bird flu. MON MON But when a new virulent strain, 'Red Eye', emerges - causing MON bleeding eyes followed by death - he finds himself trapped MON in Thailand, unable to fly home to his wife and son. As the MON virus spreads at a terrifying pace, his investigations lead MON him to one inescapable and terrible conclusion... MON MON Dr Jan Roldano ..... Ben Daniels MON Kanya ...... Sasapin Siriwanij MON Dr Ahmai ...... Pawit Mahasarinand MON Minister Laksan ...... Danai Thiangdham MON Sumi ...... Jaturachai Srichanwanpen MON MON Other parts are played by Ellie Marleen, Ulli Schneider, MON Chanida Yasiri, Teerawat Mulvilai, Jarunun Phantachat, MON Ornanong Thaisriwong, Kosin Pomiam, Soontorn Meesri, Andrea MON Lowe and Marene Vanholk MON MON Production Team: MON Casting: Marilyn Johnson and Nadir Khan MON Production Manager: Jarunan Phantachat MON Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja MON Sound Design: Steve Bond MON Music: Sacha Putnam MON Producer : Nadir Khan MON Executive Producer: Gordon House MON MON Recorded in Bangkok, Thailand MON MON Producer/Director: John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01dtkjn (Listen) MON Series 2, Warwick MON MON Coming this week from the University of Warwick, "The 3rd MON Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at MON cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst MON delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a MON different University each week, and it pits three MON Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01dtgbj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 What the Scandinavians Know about Children's MON Literature b01dtls8 (Listen) MON Presented by Mariella Frostrup. MON MON Why does Scandinavian children's literature 'punch above its MON weight' in terms of worldwide sales, and why does it have a MON particularly unique voice? MON MON From the super-human strength of Pippy Longstocking by MON Swedish author Astrid Lindgren to the strange Finnish MON animals dreamt up by Tove Jansson in the Moomin stories, and MON the anarchic Wild Baby created by Barbro Lindgren and Eva MON Eriksson. MON MON It began with probably the best known storyteller for MON children - Hans Christian Andersen - continued with the work MON of Elsa Beskow, the Swedish Beatrix Potter, and is alive MON today in the books of authors like Gro Dahle. MON MON According to Professor Maria Nikolajeva, a senior editor for MON the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature, MON Scandinavian books are not rooted in the world of fantasy, MON like other children's stories. It's often grounded in a MON slightly skewed reality in which the childlike characters MON exhibit 'magical' talents. And she claims that the MON Scandinavian culture of respect for the child, the history MON of the region, and those long winters, have had a profound MON effect on the character of its literature. MON MON Produced by Helen Lee. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01dtlsb (Listen) MON Adoption MON MON The Government is seeking to speed up the adoption process MON for the growing number of children being taken into care in MON the UK. Social workers responsible for the difficult job of MON matching children with adoptive parents are often criticised MON for focusing too much on questions of ethnicity or MON lifestyle. So how far should religion play a factor in the MON process which links children and parents? Ernie Rea MON discusses the issue with Raffia Arshad, a family lawyer, MON Ruby Clay, an author who has adopted three children with her MON lesbian partner, and Fiona Bowie a social anthropologist and MON also an adoptive mother. MON MON 17:00 PM b01dtlsd (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dn9xq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01dtlvx (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 8 MON MON CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF HISTORY MON Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons regularly welcomes 'our many MON listeners around the world.' To mark the flagship show's 45 MON year anniversary, Nicholas and his team have decided to let MON some of the listeners welcome them. MON MON Along with regular Just a Minute panelists Paul Merton and MON Marcus Brigstocke, the show's host Nicholas Parsons, MON travelled to India to celebrate and highlight Just a MON Minute's unique and continuing popularity across the globe. MON MON Just a Minute's two special anniversary Indian shows were MON recorded in front of a lively, excited and sometimes MON unusually vocal audience of Mumbai urbanites. Topics up for MON discussion on the show include 'Mumbai Traffic,' the phrase MON 'It's Just Not Cricket' . MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01dtlvz (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01dtlw1 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the MON best-selling writer Jodi Picoult. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dtkj8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b01dtlzl (Listen) MON The Long Walk MON MON Twice awarded the George Medal for bravery, as well as an MON MBE for Gallantry, Peter Gurney, the former head of the MON Metropolitan Police Explosives Squad, was defusing bombs MON when international terror groups like Black September first MON began to use IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) as their MON weapon of choice. MON MON As one of the world's top bomb disposal officers, he was in MON the front line as the IRA campaign spread to the mainland. MON He defused hundreds of bombs and saved many lives and he MON describes "the long walk", the journey, always made alone, MON by a bomb disposal officer towards the suspect device. MON MON In "It's My Story: The Long Walk", BBC Northern Ireland's MON Political Editor, Mark Devenport, tracks Peter Gurney's MON career over forty years, as he and his colleagues played a MON deadly game of catch up with the bomb makers and their MON increasingly sophisticated devices. MON MON Police officers, including the former head of the Anti MON Terrorist Squad, remember the IRA bombing campaigns in MON England, including the booby-trapped Wimpy Bar bomb in 1981 MON in London's Oxford Street. This killed instantly Peter MON Gurney's close friend and colleague, Ken Howarth, but after MON finding his body, Mr Gurney had to check for secondary MON devices and then go on to defuse a similar device in another MON building. MON MON There are never-before-heard tapes, recorded in real time by MON Mr Gurney into a tiny micro-cassette strapped to his spine MON (the part of a person's body most likely to protect the MON recordings should his "luck" run out). These dramatic tapes, MON reveal Mr Gurney, cautious about booby-traps, discovering an MON IRA arms cache of guns, explosives and booby-trap devices MON hidden in a forest. MON MON And 21 years after the IRA's audacious attempt to murder the MON Prime Minister and his cabinet, Peter Gurney returns to MON Number 10 Downing Street, where, in one of the last major MON jobs of his career, he defused one of the mortar bombs fired MON through the hole in the roof of a transit van, parked in MON Whitehall. MON MON Producer: Fiona Hill. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01dtlzn (Listen) MON What Is Money? MON MON We dream about it, argue about it, worry about it, celebrate MON it, spend it, save it, we transfer it from one emotion to MON another. But what exactly is money? And why do we trust it? MON Frances Stonor Saunders takes a journey through some of the MON fundamentals of money. MON During her journey she dips her toe into the world of MON quantitative easing. How is that money invented? Is it as MON real as the pieces of paper in our wallets? And she explores MON some of the reasons for the calls to return to a gold MON standard. Essentially, she tries to gain a better MON understanding of what this stuff which we call money is MON really about; how and why do we maintain our faith in it, or MON has it just become too complicated? MON MON 21:00 Material World b01djr4w (Listen) MON This week's programme features another finalist from 'So You MON Want to Be a Scientist' - Material World's search for the MON BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. Izzy Thomlinson, aged MON 18 from Shropshire, tests people's reactions to horrible MON sounds at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham. From scraping MON fingernails down a blackboard to squeaky polystyrene, what MON is the most annoying sound in the world and do the sounds MON that make us wince change with age? Presented by Quentin MON Cooper. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON ONLINE AUCTIONS MON MON Unique low bid auctions offer bidders the opportunity to win MON goods such as cars or televisions for a fraction of their MON usual cost. There seems to be an element of skill and MON judgement in deciding just where to place your bid. However MON new research from the U.S. questions this. The researchers MON show the tactics used to play these auctions are the same as MON those used by some hunting animals in natural systems and MON investors playing the global financial markets. They suggest MON there are strong similarities in both tactics and attitudes MON amongst the players and investors. MON MON MEDICINES FROM THE DEEP MON MON A symposium held yesterday at the University of Aberdeen MON brought together Chemists, Biologists, both academic and MON industrial to talk about medicinal reaches of marine MON organisms. Currently around 15 drugs derived from marine MON origins are going through clinical trials, potentially MON treating a variety of inflammatory and cancerous diseases. MON And in the race to find new antibiotics in the face of MON increased bacterial resistance, the comparatively alien MON compounds produced by organisms at the oceans’ depths could MON prove to be our secret weapon. Prof Marcel Jaspar of the MON Biodiscovery lab, University of Aberdeen describes some of MON the highlights. MON MON SLEEP MON MON Sleep accounts for a third of our lives – or so said Byron. MON But how much do we understand about it? In a new book Sleep: MON A Very Short Introduction, co-author Russell Foster MON Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford outlines the MON state of the science of sleep today. MON MON NASTY NOISES MON MON Our amateur scientist Izzy Thomlinson and her mentor Prof MON Trevor Cox visit the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham with their MON experiment on horrible sounds. MON MON Over the three day science festival, the have been testing MON 1,200 volunteers aged six to 60, to try and find out why MON some people are more sensitive to nasty noises than others. MON MON Adam Rutherford bravely steps into their testing booth to MON hear balloons being squeezed and blackboards scraped. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01dtjcj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01dn9xs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01dtlzq (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dtlzs (Listen) MON Stonemouth, Episode 6 MON MON Tonight the reasons for Stewart's flight from Stonemouth MON five years ago, and his enforced exile, are finally MON revealed. MON MON Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in MON exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch MON Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the MON Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be MON even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north MON of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with its five mile beach, can be MON beautiful on a sunny day. MON MON On a bleak one, it can seem to offer little more than MON seafog, gangsters, cheap drugs and a suspension bridge MON irresistible to suicides. And although there's supposed to MON be a temporary truce between Stewart and the town's biggest MON crime family, it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking MON this promise of peace seriously. Before long a quick drop MON into the cold grey Stoun begins to look like the soft MON option. As he steps back into the minefield of his past to MON confront his guilt and all that it has lost him, Stu MON uncovers ever darker stories, and his homecoming takes a MON more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. MON MON Read by David Tennant. MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01dhrn1 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen and guests celebrate nonsense at an event MON recorded at Radio 4's More The Words festival in Bristol. MON Michael's guests include the children's writer Philip MON Ardagh, the actor Paul Nicholson, and nonsense experts Anna MON Barton and James Williams. With help from an audience of MON adults and children at Bristol Central Library, Michael will MON be filling a cauldron with nonsense poems, prose, limericks MON and tongue twisters, with a few nonsense sounds thrown in to MON bring out the flavour. And the programme will mark the 200th MON anniversary of Edward Lear's birth with discussion of the MON writer's life and work. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01dtm27 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 MARCH 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01dn9yc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01dtkj4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dn9yf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dn9yh (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dn9yk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01dn9ym (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01fkdvn (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Dr Mark Wakelin, Methodist minister. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01dttz3 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01dttz5 (Listen) TUE Presented by Sarah Monatague and Evan Davis. Including TUE Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01dttz7 (Listen) TUE Episode 20 TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to Angela Gallop, the scientist who TUE provided the vital forensic evidence in the recent re-trial TUE for the murder of Stephen Lawrence. TUE TUE Angela describes the painstaking scientific detective work TUE that led her team to find a tiny blood clot on Gary Dobson's TUE jacket, that was not identified during the original trial in TUE 1995; and how they proved that this evidence was not the TUE result of contamination during the handling and storage of TUE the clothing exhibits. TUE TUE Never before in the history of criminal justice have so many TUE cases relied so heavily on scientific evidence. Forensic TUE scientists have ever more sophisticated and powerful TUE techniques at their disposal but, as long as these TUE techniques rely on human judgement (and a surprising number TUE still do) there will be limits to their reliability. Much as TUE we would like to believe the opposite, forensic science is TUE fallible. TUE TUE Further, even when the science is accurate, there's ample TUE scope in a court of law for good science to be made to look TUE bad and bad science, good. Lawyers locked into an TUE adversarial system can all too easily cast doubt on TUE excellent scientific evidence. Equally, Angela warns of the TUE dangers of putting science on a pedestal . TUE TUE After a brief spell studying sea slugs on the Isle of Wight, TUE she joined the Forensic Science Service, later switched to TUE working for the defence and is now probably the most sought TUE after forensic scientist in the UK, involved in countless TUE high profile cases, including the Cardiff Three, the coastal TUE path murders as well as both the trial and retrial of TUE Stephen Lawrence. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01dttz9 (Listen) TUE Samira Ahmed with Murray Melvin TUE TUE Journalist Samira Ahmed meets celebrated actor, Murray TUE Melvin, best known for his role in A Taste of Honey. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01f1p8l (Listen) TUE Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Blaine Harden. TUE TUE From his birth in Camp 14 Shin has been taught by the guards TUE to inform on everyone from his parents to his classmates. TUE Then his mother and brother are caught planning an escape TUE and Shin is taken to an underground prison within a prison, TUE for questioning. TUE TUE Read by Kerry Shale TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dttzc (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dy7qg (Listen) TUE Reeds in the Wind, Episode 2 TUE TUE The Pintor sisters Noemi, Ester and Ruth are the last TUE remnants of a noble family in decline. For twenty five years TUE they have lived with the dishonour of a sister, Lia, who ran TUE away and the poverty brought about by the sudden and TUE mysterious death of their father. Now a telegram announcing TUE the imminent arrival of Lia's son, their nephew Giacinto, TUE causes turmoil. TUE TUE EFIX.....John Lynch TUE NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson TUE ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew TUE RUTH/KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt TUE LIA.....Holliday Grainger TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 11:00 Feathered Apes b01dttzf (Listen) TUE Primates are well known as having highly developed TUE intelligence and in recent decades researchers have looked TUE more closely at the evolution of intelligence in groups TUE other than primates, such as parrots, dogs and dolphins. The TUE corvids, members of the crow family which includes ravens TUE and jackdaws, are known by many lay people to show behaviour TUE which can be seen as intelligent. TUE TUE Joanna Pinnock has long been interested in corvids, TUE observing their behaviour in and around the village where TUE she has lived for many years. Recently though, she TUE discovered that the link between crows and man is not just TUE one of a familiar black bird foraging in fields or nesting TUE in our chimneys, there is actually a deeper connection TUE insofar they too have lots of social interactions with each TUE other - something that could be key in the evolution of TUE intelligence. Joanna heads to Cambridge University to meet TUE Nicky Clayton from the Department of Psychology who, along TUE with colleagues, is undertaking detailed research into what TUE Professor Clayton calls "Feathered Apes". TUE TUE Is it the challenges in the social world that are more TUE significant than the physical world when it comes to animal TUE intelligence? TUE TUE Presenter Joanna Pinncok TUE Producer : Andrew Dawes. TUE TUE 11:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b01dttzh (Listen) TUE Series 3, Chopin TUE TUE Professor Robert Winston brings a scientist's ear to his TUE passion for music, exploring the medical histories of great TUE composers and how illness affected the music they wrote. TUE TUE Tuberculosis remains one of the world's most devastating TUE diseases but in the 19th century, TB or consumption as it TUE was known, gained a curious reputation for stimulating TUE creativity in great artists. Professor Robert Winston looks TUE at the story of Chopin, whose struggle with chronic lung TUE disease has become the archetypal version of that myth, and TUE looks for evidence to reveal the true connection between TUE Chopin's health and his music. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Taylor. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01dttzm (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. Presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01dn9yp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01dtv7w (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents the latest national and TUE international news. Listeners can share their views via TUE email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 A Life With ... b01dhrms (Listen) TUE Series 6, Water Voles TUE TUE A Life With... Ep 2 of 5: Water Voles TUE TUE Water voles are famous for being Ratty in Wind in the TUE Willows, but they are disappearing fast from our waterways. TUE Mary Colwell meets a water vole warrior who is determined to TUE save them. Darren Tansley fell in love with water voles as a TUE boy, messing around on a raft his dad made from an old barn TUE door. 40 years later he is still messing about on the river, TUE but now he is creating new, protected homes for water voles TUE and makes sure their sworn enemies, the mink, don't get TUE anywhere near them. TUE TUE Darren has a fascinating past. Not only has he always been TUE monitoring and studying water voles he was a long haired eco TUE warrior who played in a rock band and campaigned for TUE Greenpeace. When he realised the conservation world didn't TUE really listen to amateurs he went back to college to get the TUE "proper" qualifications. Now his projects are paying off and TUE Darren takes Mary to see water voles that have just returned TUE to a water-way in Essex. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01dtlvz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dttzp (Listen) TUE Pandemic, The Future TUE TUE Written by John Dryden. TUE TUE Diane Harper (Emily Beecham), a British civil servant, is TUE sent to the Oxfordshire countryside to investigate the TUE suicide of a government scientist. TUE TUE It is five years after a devastating pandemic that has wiped TUE out half the world's population. Diane's young daughter died TUE during the outbreak and she can't get over it. When she TUE discovers that the dead scientist had been briefing a TUE journalist who has subsequently gone missing, she absconds TUE from her job and embarks on a desperate search for the truth TUE about the origins of the outbreak. TUE TUE Diane ...... Emily Beecham TUE Mark ...... Keir Charles TUE Mary ...... Alison Steadman TUE Father John ...... Ian Hughes TUE Rebecca ...... Mia Jenkins TUE Amit ...... Munir Khairdin TUE Other parts are played by Paul Slack, Andrea Lowe and TUE Charlie Morton TUE TUE Production Team: TUE Casting: Marilyn Johnson TUE Production Manager: Sarah Tombling TUE Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond TUE Music: Sacha Putnam TUE Executive Producer: Gordon House TUE TUE Producer/Director: John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 The Global Reach b01dtv7y (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE The Global Reach is a new weekly programme , presented by TUE Katie Derham ,which aims to shine a light on international TUE affairs through the personal stories of those directly TUE involved in the making of history. It is built on the TUE premise that participants in a happening story are more than TUE mere soundbites and will feature voices which are simply TUE never heard elsewhere on BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE We will hear extended testimony from those on the frontline, TUE both in the form of extended interviews with key players in TUE global events and in a series of blogs from an international TUE network of citizen journalists. TUE TUE Featured stories will include that of King Zero, a Burmese TUE monk at the heart of his country's struggle for democracy; TUE the narcocorridos, or drug ballads, of Mexico, which glorify TUE the violence which has claimed the lives of around 40 TUE thousand people in the last 5 years and the multimillionaire TUE rat-catcher from China. TUE TUE All human life is here. Too often a foreign news story is TUE played out without any real sense of its longer term human TUE impact. The Global Reach will remedy that. TUE TUE Producer: Will Yates TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01dtvk1 (Listen) TUE Sands of Time TUE TUE Britain's sand dunes are running out of time. Coastal TUE development and well-meaning conservation plans have locked TUE them in place, frustrating the natural ebbs and flows that TUE attract some of our rarest birds, insects and toads. TUE TUE On the coast of South Wales the conservation group Plantlife TUE has decided to take drastic action. A fleet of bulldozers TUE has appeared at Kenfig Sands, home of the rare fen orchid. TUE The plan is to reconstruct this massive dune system, giving TUE space for the natural processes of wind and wave to mould TUE the landscape, returning the natural mobility that so many TUE of our dune species need. TUE TUE Is Mother Nature being given a much-needed helping hand or TUE should we leave what remains of our dunes well alone? Tom TUE Heap reports from the Welsh coast. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01dtvk3 (Listen) TUE The Reduction of English TUE TUE Is English being reduced? With people using text-speak, TUE abbreviations, Twitter and bite-size English, Michael Rosen TUE asks if we now talk and write in a new shortened language, TUE and if that has an effect on the way we communicate. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01dtvk5 (Listen) TUE Isy Suttie, Beverley Humphreys TUE TUE Comedian Isy Suttie and opera singer and broadcaster TUE Beverley Humphreys share their favourite books with Harriett TUE Gilbert. TUE TUE Beverley's choice is the Gothic thriller The Shadow of the TUE Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, which she describes as a "love TUE letter to literature." TUE TUE Isy picks The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan, a sinister TUE tale of two couples in an unnamed European town, which she TUE admits does not have a particularly happy ending. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is the story of a young man with learning TUE difficulties whose intelligence is enhanced by a scientific TUE procedure - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Isy Suttie's choice: 'The Comfort of Strangers' by Ian TUE McEwan TUE Publ. Vintage TUE TUE Beverley Humphreys' choice: ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by TUE Carlos Ruiz Zafon TUE Publ. Phoenix TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: ‘Flowers for Algernon’ by Daniel TUE Keyes TUE Publ. Gollancz TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01dtvk7 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dn9yr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01dtvk9 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Knights of the Round Table TUE TUE Returning home from Spain early, Arthur's applies to join TUE the Round Table. A bang on the head at the Mason's HQ TUE confuses matters somewhat as a concussed Arthur steps back TUE to the days of the Knights of the Round Table. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Steve Delaney TUE Mel Giedroyc TUE Alastair Kerr TUE David Mounfield TUE TUE Producer: John Leonard TUE A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01dtvkc (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01dtvkf (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Brendan TUE O'Carroll, creator and star of the TV comedy Mrs Brown's TUE Boys. TUE TUE Producer Erin Riley. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dy7qg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01dtvln (Listen) TUE After details of people under witness protection were leaked TUE to a private investigator, Allan Urry asks if police are TUE doing enough to protect witnesses whose lives are at risk. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01dtvlq (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01dtvls (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter demystifies health issues that perplex, TUE separates the facts from the fiction and brings clarity to TUE conflicting health advice. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01dttz7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01dn9yt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01dtvlv (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dtvlx (Listen) TUE Stonemouth, Episode 7 TUE TUE Stewart's life is inextricably entwined with the Murstons. TUE He reveals a surprise visit in London by Ellie's sister TUE Grier, whilst in the present day the two former lovers TUE finally meet for the first time in five years. TUE TUE Read by David Tennant TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Richard Herring's Objective b016wzrz (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Golliwog TUE TUE Richard Herring examines the golliwog, debating if it's an TUE object we should reclaim, or consign to the dustbin of TUE history. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01dtvlz (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01dn9zd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01f1p8l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dn9zg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dn9zj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dn9zl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01dn9zn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01fkdxd (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Dr Mark Wakelin, Methodist minister. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01dtvrg (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01dtvrj (Listen) WED Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including WED Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for WED the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01dtvsm (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01f1prp (Listen) WED Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Blaine Harden. WED WED Shin has joined the ranks of prisoners working 15 hour days WED in the garment factory in Camp 14. When he is put in charge WED of a new prisoner, they get talking about life in the world WED outside Camp 14's high voltage fence. His imagination fired, WED Shin dreams of escape. WED WED Read by Kerry Shale WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dtvsp (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dw0t7 (Listen) WED Reeds in the Wind, Episode 3 WED WED The village festival, the Feast of Our Lady of Rimedio is WED underway when Giacinto unexpectedly arrives. Noemi finds WED herself overwhelmed by Giacinto's arrival and calls for Efix WED to take him to the festival. WED WED EFIX.....John Lynch WED NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson WED GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty WED ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew WED KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt WED GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 11:00 North and South: Across the Great Divide b01dtwls (Listen) WED Warwick to the Severn WED WED Ian Marchant continues his trip along a very precise line WED dividing North from South to find out if it's changing. WED WED You can walk the line that separates North from South across WED England, as mapped by Professor Danny Dorling of Sheffield WED University. Think of the border which used to separate East WED and West Germany: a stark division of different life WED chances. The line which divides the UK is just like that - WED it's the only comparable 'border' in Europe - according to WED Professor Dorling. WED WED In these documentaries, writer Ian Marchant travels along WED the dividing line between North and South, zigzagging the WED line which runs, rather surprisingly, from Cleethorpes to WED Gloucester. His aim is to find out what the statistics WED really mean to neighbours who are separated from each other WED by a gulf of health, wealth, education, culture and WED prospects. WED WED In programme two, Ian travels from Warwick to Cinderford and WED talks to accents expert Dominic Watt about the 'bath' divide WED (long 'a' makes you a southerner, short 'a' and you're WED probably a northerner). Poet and creative writing guru WED Professor David Morley talks about the pull of London and WED the joy of heading north and Ian meets geographer John WED Langton, who reveals the ancient origins of the north/south WED divide. WED WED With his customary wit and deceptively gentle interviewing WED style Ian develops an understanding of what the North/South WED divide really means to the people who live on it. This is an WED under-the-skin, thoughtful interrogation of the social WED geography of Britain using this neat device to dig out WED fascinating human stories of the real - and changing - WED meaning of the North/South divide. WED WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 11:30 Shedtown b011vgbz (Listen) WED Night Screams WED WED As the Shedists settle into life under asphalt there's a WED strange noise coming from William's shed. Wes holds a puppet WED show and all are invited. WED WED Barry .....Tony Pitts WED Jimmy & Johnny ...... Kevin Eldon WED Colin ...... Johnny Vegas WED Diane ...... Suranne Jones WED Dave ...... Shaun Dooley WED Eleanor ....... Ronni Ancona WED Deborah Dearden ..... Emma Fryer WED William ..... Adrian Manfredi WED Carly ..... Jessica Knappett WED Father Michael ...... James Quinn WED Wes ....... Warren Brown WED Postwoman ...... Caron May WED WED Narrator ...... Maxine Peake WED Music ....... Paul Heaton WED WED Written and created by Tony Pitts WED Directed by Jim Poyser WED WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01dtwlv (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01dn9zq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01dtwlx (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents the latest national and WED international news. Listeners can share their views via WED email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 A Life With ... b01dht25 (Listen) WED Series 6, Corals WED WED A Life With... Episode 3 of 5: Corals WED WED Corals? In Devon? Believe it or not there are lots of corals WED around the British coastline. Mary Colwell meets a man who WED has spent his life finding out about them. Keith Hiscock was WED inspired to find out about the hidden life of the British WED seas as a child when he read books by the Victorian WED naturalist, Philip Henry Gosse. Keith began to retrace his WED steps, described in detail in his books, and re-discovered WED many of the treasures Gosse found in the 19th Century. Years WED later he became a marine scientist, discovering new species WED and helping protect the marine life of Britain. WED WED On a warm September day Keith took Mary to one of Gosse's WED favourite beaches, Tunnels Beach in Devon, to find a WED treasure that many pirates would covet - the Scarlet and WED Gold Star Coral. You don't have to go to the Barrier Reef to WED see beautiful sea life, it is right on our doorstep, WED although it has to be said, the sea is a lot colder! WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01dtvkc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dtwlz (Listen) WED Pandemic, The Past WED WED Written by John Dryden. WED WED At a climate change conference in Copenhagen, a group of WED radical eco-warriors, led by Josh (Michael Maloney), attempt WED to discredit a right-wing Danish scientist, by luring him WED into a sex scandal. WED WED When it all goes wrong, Richard Frankel (Paul Fox), one of WED the conspirators, gives up 'direct action' and returns to WED his life in Leeds as a teacher. But when he discovers his WED co-conspirator and ex-girlfriend, has given birth to a child WED - a child he believes could be his - he goes in search of WED her. WED WED It's a journey that takes him into a dangerous world of WED environmental espionage and a conspiracy that will have a WED terrible, cruel and profound impact on the world. WED WED Richard ...... Paul Fox WED Anna ...... Marene Vanholk WED Josh ...... Michael Maloney WED Tariq ...... Pushpinder Chani WED Anna's mum ....... Louis Jameson WED Victor ...... Lars Arentz-Hansen WED Other parts are played by Paul Slack, Charlie Morton, Andrea WED Lowe, Mia Jenkins, Munir Khairdin WED WED Production Team: WED Casting: Marilyn Johnson WED Production Manager: Sarah Tombling WED Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja WED Sound Design: Steve Bond WED Music: Sacha Putnam WED Executive Producer: Gordon House WED WED Producer/Director: John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01dtwm1 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in with Paul Lewis. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01dtvls (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01dtwm3 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01dztll (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01dtxcl (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's WED news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dn9zs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01dtxcn (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Stephen K Amos and his pick of the circuit's best stand-ups WED build an idiot's guide to life. This week Maeve Higgins, Tom WED Allen and Phil Nichol join Stephen to offer a guide to WED standing tall. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01dtxcq (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01dtxcs (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with the New WED Orleans-born singer, songwriter and pianist Dr John, whose WED new disc is produced by Dan Auerbach from the band The Black WED Keys. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dw0t7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01dtxgs (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Kenan Malik WED and Michael Portillo. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01dtxgv (Listen) WED Prof Tariq Ramadan WED WED Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in WED the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford, sets out the WED philosophy of the individual and its absence in some areas WED of Islam. WED WED In the wake of political and social reactions to the WED financial crisis, austerity measures and the riots of 2011, WED debate continues to determine the role of the individual and WED society. The 2012 Lent Talks consider the relationship WED between the individual and the collective. Is each person WED one alone or one of many? Is it the human condition to be WED self-contained or to belong to the family, the tribe, the WED congregation, the nation? We live in groups but our most WED intense experiences are incommunicable. Jesus shared a WED communal last supper but he died an outcast, abandoned and WED rejected by his people, his disciples and (apparently) his WED Father. WED WED This year's series of Lent Talks concludes with Dr Gemma WED Simmonds CJ, who will explore the agony of the individual in WED society. 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. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01dtvk1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01dtvsm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01dn9zv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01dtxgx (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dtxgz (Listen) WED Stonemouth, Episode 8 WED WED Ignoring the threats from Ellie's brothers, she and Stewart WED are spending more and more time together. However, when WED everyone gathers for Joe Murston's funeral tensions rise. WED WED Read by David Tennant WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01dtxh1 (Listen) WED Work WED WED In the last of the series, Tim has laid on a final episode WED treat: A professional musician will accompany him as he WED tackles the thorny issue of 'work'. Tom Basden is also WED present. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden & Isy Suttie WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01dtxh3 (Listen) WED About Angry Grandmas WED WED Can't Tell Me Nothing About Angry Grandmas - tells the story WED of young, up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after WED becoming the first in his family to graduate from WED University, opted not to use his architecture degree to try WED his hand at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his WED family's annoyance who want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Nathan Caton ..... Nathan WED Adjoa Andoh ..... Mum WED Curtis Walker ..... Dad WED Mona Hammond ..... Grandma WED PC Scott ..... Don Gilet WED WED Written by: Nathan Caton WED Additional material by: Ola and Maff Brown WED Script Editor: James Kettle WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Supermarket Checkout Girl ..... Alex Tregear. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01dtxh5 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 MARCH 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01dnb0f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01f1prp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dnb0h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dnb0k (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dnb0m (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01dnb0p (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01fkdxx (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Dr Mark Wakelin, Methodist minister. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01dvw6p (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01dvw6r (Listen) THU Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including THU Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01dvw6t (Listen) THU The Measurement of Time THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time. THU Early civilisations used the movements of heavenly bodies to THU tell the time, but even in the ancient world more THU sophisticated timekeeping devices such as water clocks were THU known. The rapid progress of scientific discovery has made THU ever more accurate methods of time measurement possible, THU from the pendulum clock in the seventeenth century to the THU atomic clock in the twentieth. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01f1pxd (Listen) THU Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Blaine Harden. THU THU Shin has escaped from Camp 14 but having been born inside THU the high voltage wire, once he is out he is completely THU alone, with no idea what to do, and with no one to turn to. THU Somehow he must navigate his way to the Chinese border but THU he has no idea where it is. THU THU Read by Kerry Shale THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dvw6w (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dw0wr (Listen) THU Reeds in the Wind, Episode 4 THU THU Giacinto and Grixenda's love blossoms at the Festival of Our THU Lady of Rimedio but Ester confides in Efix her growing THU concern for Giacinto's behaviour which leads to a THU confrontation and a shocking confession. THU THU EFIX.....John Lynch THU GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty THU GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger THU PREDU.....Conrad Nelson THU ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew THU KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01dvw6y (Listen) THU Canada's prescription drug crisis THU THU Canada's First Nations communities are in crisis. Addiction THU to prescription pain-killers is rife, and it's devastating THU the fragile communities of northern Ontario. THU THU OxyContin - an opioid drug capable of inducing a high like THU heroin - is widely abused in Canada. But on isolated THU reserves, people talk of an epidemic. For Crossing THU Continents, Linda Pressly travels to Fort Hope - Eabametoong THU First Nation - to investigate the impact of drug use. THU THU Fort Hope is accessible only by air, apart from a six week THU window in winter when you can drive across the frozen lakes THU on ice roads. It has a population of just 1200 people, but THU it's estimated up to 80% of the working-age population are THU abusing OxyContin. THU THU The beauty of Fort Hope in deepest winter with its THU snow-covered streets conceals the fall-out from endemic drug THU use. This community has experienced a crime wave out of THU proportion to its size. Murder, theft and arson propelled THU the Chief to declare a 'state of emergency'. Even with THU police help it's hard to stop the pills getting onto the THU reserve. And the mark-up for the pushers - one 80mg tablet THU of OxyContin sells for up to $600 - means the addicts of THU Fort Hope are a lucrative market. THU THU There's a glimmer of optimism. Doris Slipperjack, a 23 year THU old mother of three, is fighting back. She's determined to THU beat her addiction. She's become an inspiration to many THU First Nations people. But the road ahead is tough. The THU aboriginal people of Canada have a troubled history of THU addiction. Alcohol, gasoline and glue sniffing, drugs - this THU is a community that has experienced it all. But people will THU tell you that OxyContin is the worst, because it is so THU highly addictive. Who knows if people like Dave Waswa - a THU talented artist, will ever be able to kick the habit. THU THU 11:30 North of the Border - The Rise of Mexican Music THU b01dvw70 (Listen) THU Robin Denselow visits L.A., the commercial centre of the THU narco-corrido, or Mexican drug ballad. The lyrics celebrate THU the exploits of smugglers and cartels. But bizarrely it THU sounds like cheerful, almost comical, accordion polka. THU THU As the Mexican drug war has spiralled out of control it has THU reinvigorated the music with alarming consequences for some THU musicians: numerous singers have been killed in unsolved THU cases since 2006. THU THU The style is a legacy of German miner immigrants at the turn THU of the 20th century. Despite it's rather quaint sound, the THU links with drug cartels are close. Often the first thing a THU trafficker does, following a successful deal, is to contract THU somebody to write a song about his exploit. THU THU The music is generally not played on Spanish language radio THU stations in Mexico. But in the United States there's a THU strangely ambivalent response in the Mexican community who THU often appreciate the beat from home, even if they don't like THU the hyper violent lyrics. THU THU What is the enduring appeal of this music? And what does it THU say about the Mexican migrant community? The programme THU visits Los Angeles - the de facto capital of Mexican music - THU to find out. THU THU Producer: Chris Elcombe THU A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01dvw72 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01dnb0r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01dvw74 (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 A Life With ... b01djny9 (Listen) THU Series 6, Mosses THU THU A Life With... Episode 4 of 5: Mosses THU THU What makes a young man forgo parties with friends to sit at THU home every evening and weekend and study the intricate THU anatomy of mosses? What is it about liverworts, best known THU for smothering seedlings in greenhouses that pushes the THU buttons of a naturalist? Mary Colwell meets Simon Bosenquet THU who sees the beauty and the importance of the less glamorous THU parts of the natural world. THU THU Most of us would walk past these plants without a second THU glance, but we ignore them at our peril. The study of mosses THU and liverworts are a very 21st Century occupation. They are THU often the early indicators of change in the environment from THU pollution to warming temperatures. They are everywhere from THU city pavements to mountain gullies and each has a story to THU tell about the environment. THU THU Sam takes Mary to a remote standing stone in the Brecon THU Beacons to show how a small plant can tell us so much about THU how the landscape has changed. But what makes a young man so THU fascinated with this area of natural history? THU THU Simon Bosenquet THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01dtxcq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dvw76 (Listen) THU The Man with Wings THU THU The Man with Wings, a new play for radio by award winning THU playwright Rachel Joyce, features a war-damaged man who THU wishes to fly, and a village boy, desperate for the return THU of his father. THU THU It is 1947 and there is a gloomy and desolate feel to the THU small Gloucestershire village where young Jack Leach's boy THU lives. It is a village almost entirely populated by women THU and children; the men have yet to return from the war - and THU many will never return. THU THU To this village comes a group of travelling nuns, who may or THU may not be from a religious community, but who set up a THU homestead in a deserted farmhouse. Then comes the man - back THU from the war - who is badly injured, but is nursed back to THU health by the women in the farmhouse. He is befriended in THU particular by Mireille, one of the women, and by the young THU boy, for whom he professes to have a secret. What this THU secret is, and why the man wishes to fly, is revealed as the THU play progresses. The boy then witnesses a scene that will THU live with him forever. THU THU This epic story about faith, forbidden love, and the THU intoxicating power of the imagination has one foot in the THU poverty of post-war rural Britain, a place of bitter THU disillusionment that reflects part of our society today, and THU another in the world of the beauty where the inconceivable THU may just possibly happen. Niamh Cusack, Tom Goodman Hill and THU Ian McDiarmid star in a play, which also introduces Jo Joyce THU Venables as the boy. THU THU Narrator ...... Ian McDiarmid THU Mireille ...... Niamh Cusack THU Man ...... Tom Goodman-Hill THU Boy ...... Jo Joyce-Venables THU Sister Mary ..... Kate Binchy THU Mother ..... Emily Joyce THU Neighbour ...... Alex Tregear THU THU Original Music by Lucinda Mason Brown THU THU Producer: Gordon House THU A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01dvw78 (Listen) THU Flat Holm is the most southerly point in Wales. The Island THU sits just off the Cardiff Coast. In 1982, the Flat Holm THU Project was established. The aim was to manage Flat Holm as THU a local nature reserve and to encourage visitor access and THU opportunities for education. The Island has a long and THU varied history having been used by man since prehistoric THU times. It was farmed for some 800 years and stopped in 1942. THU It has been fortified twice, most recently during the 2nd THU World War. The Island has many buildings and structures of THU historic interest, many are listed buildings and scheduled THU ancient monuments. In this week's Open Country, Helen Mark THU finds out what life is like for the wardens and volunteers THU who live on the Island all year round and what is done to THU prepare the Island for the influx of tourists in the summer. THU Presented by Helen Mark and Produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01dtfsm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01dtgp6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01dvw7b (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01dvw7d (Listen) THU Science magazine programme. THU THU 17:00 PM b01dvw8r (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dnb0w (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00yz3hs (Listen) THU Kate Adie THU THU Kate Adie has a reputation for fearless reporting from wars THU zones, riots and natural disasters. But, of all things, she THU has a mild fear of porridge. On 'I've Never Seen Star Wars' THU she manages to overcome this fear for the very first time, THU and has a small taste of the traditional breakfast food. She THU tries some other things entirely new to her too - yoga, the THU TV series The Sopranos, bingo and reading Swallows and THU Amazons. THU THU Hosted by Marcus Brigstocke THU Created and produced by Bill Dare. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01dvw8t (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01dvw8w (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on notable screenplays which THU were never filmed, on the eve of a complete reading of Orson THU Welles' script for Heart of Darkness, based on Conrad's THU novel. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dw0wr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01dvwcx (Listen) THU The Work Programme Revisited THU THU The Report investigates the government's welfare-to-work THU scheme. Why are some of the organisations in charge of THU delivering the plans saying that the Work Programme is THU unworkable? THU THU Shortly after the £5 billion Work Programme was put into THU place last year, The Report highlighted concerns about THU whether the scheme could succeed where other plans had THU failed in helping the long-term unemployed find jobs, THU through the use of charities and for-profit companies. THU THU Hannah Barnes revisits the story and finds that despite the THU fact the scheme has been running for less than a year, some THU charities and voluntary organisations are already pulling THU out. They cite a lack of referrals from prime contractors - THU the handful of mostly private companies the government THU contracted with under the Work Programme - and the THU difficulty of helping the most difficult cases. THU THU With the bulk of payments under the scheme linked to keeping THU people in jobs over the long term, some charities have THU struggled with cash flow problems that have threatened to THU put them out of business. THU THU A National Audit Office report suggested that the government THU had been being overly optimistic in its estimates of the THU number of people who will be helped into work over the THU course of the Work Programme's five-year contracts. Hannah THU revisits some of the unemployed people currently on the THU scheme who spoke to The Report to in September. Six months THU on, have any of them found jobs? THU THU With warning signs piling up, The Report asks why the THU coalition government is still pressing forward with the Work THU Programme. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01dvwcz (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Feathered Apes b01dttzf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01dvw6t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01dnb0y (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01dvwd1 (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dvwd3 (Listen) THU Stonemouth, Episode 9 THU THU Joe Murston's funeral brings Stewart back to the hotel where THU he was photographed with Jel. As the Murstons get more THU drunk, tension mounts - and Stewart makes a dramatic THU discovery. THU THU Read by David Tennant THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 On the Fringe with Stephen K Amos b00tgz6f (Listen) THU For more than 50 years, what is now the biggest arts THU festival in the world has been at the heart of British THU comedy. THU THU The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is where our aspiring THU stand-ups, writers and comic actors head each August to cut THU their teeth, catch the eye of talent scouts and take part in THU a kind of comedy summer camp. THU THU In this one-off special, stand-up comedian Stephen K Amos THU presents highlights from a Radio 4 comedy spectacular, THU recorded live on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. THU THU There are stand-up sets from Miles Jupp, Richard Herring, THU Susan Calman and Andrew Lawrence as well as an abbreviated THU round of Just A Minute, in which Stephen tries Ian THU Messiter's classic game for the first time, with help from THU Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair and Gyles THU Brandreth. THU THU Stephen also trawls the bars and gutters of Edinburgh, THU talking to Fringe veterans, promoters and newcomers about THU their experiences of the festival, hoping to find out what THU draws hundreds of comedians -and almost as many audience THU members- up to Auld Reekie every Summer. THU THU Interviewees include: Simon Evans, Pappy's, Tom THU Wrigglesworth, Mark Watson, Roisin Conaty, Karen Koren, and THU Justin Moorhouse. THU THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Don't Log Off b018wgzb (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Alan Dein attempts to cross the world on a series of late THU night excursions via Facebook and Skype - discovering the THU real life dramas behind the online profiles across two THU programmes. THU THU It's a hesitant start as Alan starts from a "Friend" count THU of zero, struggling to lure users away from the anonymity of THU the keyboard to the glare of the webcam - and engage in real THU verbal communication. Yet over five long late nights, he THU gradually builds up a circle of friends, crossing the time THU zones and discovering some startling stories. THU THU In programme one, Alan's in the realm of love and loss - THU online and offline. He connects with a single parent THU snowbound in Nova Scotia, an Egyptian whose online romance THU turned sour and a Pakistani yearning for a girl from the THU wrong caste. THU THU In programme two, he's among those dreaming of freedom, THU talking to a man car-jacked in Caracas, and an Iranian THU evading the electronic eavesdropping of the authorities. THU THU Previously, Alan Dein brought us the acclaimed Don't Hang THU Up, in which he set himself the task of calling phone boxes THU around the world to see who picked up. This time, the THU project reaches a whole new scale. THU THU Producers: Laurence Grissell and Sarah Bowen. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01dnb1j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01f1pxd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dnb1l (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dnb1n (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dnb1q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01dnb1s (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01fkdy5 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Dr Mark Wakelin, Methodist minister. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01dvwqh (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01dvwqk (Listen) FRI Presented by James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including FRI Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01dtg1r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01f1pym (Listen) FRI Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Blaine Harden. FRI FRI Having escaped across the border into China, Shin looks for FRI a job. After a lucky encounter in a Korean restaurant he FRI finds himself on his way to South Korea and a life of FRI freedom. But once there he has to acclimatise to a totally FRI new way of life, first in Seoul and then in California, and FRI he is haunted by his memories of life in Camp 14. FRI FRI Read by Kerry Shale FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dvwqm (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dvzpc (Listen) FRI Reeds in the Wind, Episode 5 FRI FRI Giacinto's behaviour is causing trouble for the Pintor FRI sisters. Noemi disapproves of his relationship with Grixenda FRI and there are rumours that Giacinto is gambling. Will Efix's FRI attempts to put things right work? FRI FRI EFIX.....John Lynch FRI NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson FRI ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew FRI RUTH/KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt FRI GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty FRI PREDU.....Conrad Nelson FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 11:00 The Swedish Invasion b010k2f6 (Listen) FRI They gave us Ikea, Volvo and Abba, but now a new wave of FRI Swedish culture is conquering the world. Swedish books, FRI films, music and design are being lapped up in Britain and FRI even our politicians are looking to Sweden for answers. FRI Danny Robins, comedian and Swedophile, goes on a tour of the FRI country to explore why we've fallen so in love with FRI Swedishness and just what it is that we're buying into. FRI FRI Sweden is the world's third biggest exporter of music, its FRI design is coveted across the globe and, led by Steig FRI Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, its crime fiction is now FRI dominating the bestseller lists. What most of us know about FRI the Swedes though is still based on stereotypes - sexually FRI liberated yet boring, suicidal yet happy with a perfect FRI society - it's the land of the midnight sun, forests and FRI lakes, few inhabitants and picturesque towns, where it feels FRI like the most serious crime might be dropping litter. Yet, FRI Steig Larsson's novels and Henning Mankell's Wallander FRI series present a different vision of Sweden, as a land of FRI serial killers, corruption and racism. FRI FRI Danny speaks to Swedish rapper Dogge Doggelito to find out FRI whether there's any truth to the fiction. Though it seems FRI safe and well-ordered, is there a darkness lurking beneath FRI the perfect exterior? Two of Sweden's top politicians have FRI been assassinated; rising immigration has led to strong FRI support for a racist political party and Sweden's FRI egalitarian social democracy feels under threat. FRI FRI But the new 'dangerous' Sweden of the crime thrillers is FRI only part of the picture. The 'Made in Sweden' stamp is FRI still synonymous with success, quality and cool. Danny meets FRI young designers, chats to Swedish cultural commentators and FRI goes in the footsteps of Stieg Larsson's characters, to FRI explore the country's recent success. FRI FRI Producer: Jo Wheeler FRI An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Vital Statistics b01dvwqp (Listen) FRI The Seven Year Itch FRI FRI By Ben Ockrent. FRI FRI After seven years together Amy and Sam are wondering what's FRI missing from their relationship. Agent Y is the man in the FRI know. It's simple, he says: start by unplugging the FRI dishwasher. But can they rely on statistics to keep them FRI together? FRI FRI Cast: FRI Agent Y . . . . . Karl Theobald FRI Amy . . . . . Jemima Rooper FRI Sam . . . . . Bryan Dick FRI Stuart . . . . . Stephen Critchlow FRI Shop Assistant . . . . . Susie Riddell FRI FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko FRI FRI Developed with James Robinson. FRI Studio managers: Caleb Knightley and Keith Graham. FRI Editors: Keith Graham and Peter Ringrose. FRI Production Co-ordinator: Jessica Brown. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01dvzg3 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01dzw3c (Listen) FRI In a new series for Radio 4, mounted in conjunction with the FRI British Library, Fi Glover introduces the first of a series FRI of encounters capturing the nation in conversation. Chick is FRI a former miner from Pontefract in Yorkshire. He discusses FRI his life in a conversation with his granddaughter Lindsay, FRI whose eyes are set on a very different career path. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. Listeners are given a unique FRI opportunity to eavesdrop on these moments of closeness that FRI capture the essence both of a special relationship and of FRI something that really matters to them both. FRI FRI The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams FRI of producers from local and national radio stations who FRI facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not FRI BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts FRI up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment FRI of connection between the participants. Many of the long FRI conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI which they will use to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium, while Radio 4 is broadcasting three of FRI these jewel-like moments each Friday, with an omnibus on FRI Sundays at 2.45pm. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01dnb1v (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01dvzg5 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 A Life With ... b01djrph (Listen) FRI Series 6, Seals FRI FRI A Life With... Episode 5 of 5: Seals FRI FRI Grey seals are Britain's largest mammal, yet still remain a FRI mystery. Mary Colwell Meets Sue Sayer on a windy cliff in FRI Cornwall to view the animals she loves so much. FRI FRI Sue now spends all her time discovering their lives. She FRI used to be a teacher, but as her passion for seals grew she FRI found herself spending more and more time with seals. FRI Eventually she gave up her paid job and became a champion of FRI seals. FRI FRI Sue has developed a fur pattern recognition system that FRI means she know 700 seals just by looking at them! What is it FRI about seals that inspires such dedication? Is it their big FRI eyes or their playful, curious character that is so FRI alluring? Sue finds it hard to say herself, but acknowledges FRI they have totally taken over her life. FRI FRI Sue still uses her teaching skills, but this time to educate FRI the public about seals, how to behave around them and what FRI to do if there is a lone pup on the beach. We may take them FRI for granted she says, but there as many grey seals an red FRI squirrels, its time to take their welfare to heart and grey FRI seals could have no better champion than Sue Sayer to fight FRI their cause. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01dvw8t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dvzg7 (Listen) FRI The Waste Land FRI FRI Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read The Waste Land by FRI T.S.Eliot introduced by Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of FRI Canterbury, Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O'Brien FRI FRI .The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is arguably one of the most FRI important poems of the 20th century . In 1921, Eliot took FRI leave from his job in a bank for a break in Margate with his FRI wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. Here he began working on FRI the poem. The Eliots travelled on to Paris where they were FRI guests of the poet Ezra Pound. Eliot was en route to FRI Lausanne, Switzerland, for treatment for his nervous FRI disorder by Doctor Roger Vittoz whilst Vivien remained at a FRI sanatorium just outside Paris. In Lausanne, Eliot produced a FRI longer version of the poem . Pound then made detailed FRI editorial comments and significant cuts to the manuscript. FRI Eliot later dedicated the poem to Pound. FRI FRI Eliot originally considered titling the poem He do the FRI Police in Different Voices - a phrase taken from Charles FRI Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend. This would help the reader FRI to understand that, while there are many different voices in FRI the poem, some critics believe there is only one central FRI consciousness. FRI FRI In the end, the title Eliot chose was The Waste Land. In his FRI first note to the poem he attributes the title to Jessie L. FRI Weston's book on the Grail legend, From Ritual to Romance. FRI The allusion is to the wounding of the Fisher King and the FRI subsequent sterility of his lands. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01dvzg9 (Listen) FRI Crookham, Northumberland FRI FRI Eric Robson and members of the panel are guests of Crookham FRI Gardeners' Club. FRI Our Practical March series concludes with expert advice on FRI 'Weed & Pest control'. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Original Shorts b01dvzgc (Listen) FRI Series 5, Episode 3 FRI FRI Edward is fond of the little oak tree that stands near the FRI 15th tee of his local golf course. But there are FRI club-members who view the tree with less friendly eyes. FRI Chief among them is the club captain. There have been FRI complaints, he says: some branches hang far too low over the FRI tee - the oak should be cut down. So how FRI can the situation be resolved happily for the club and its FRI members? FRI FRI Over the months, Edward wonders whether Nature herself is FRI becoming involved. And, he recalls, didn't Wordsworth have FRI something to say about all nature being alive, and possessed FRI with a presence that disturbs him with the joy of elevated FRI thoughts? He continues to observe, and witnesses a FRI surprising conclusion. FRI FRI Broadcaster, novelist and humorist Christopher Matthew has FRI written this story especially for Original Shorts. FRI FRI Martin Jarvis reads this wry tale of Nature versus petty FRI bureaucracy. FRI FRI Director: Rosalind Ayres FRI A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01dvzgf (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01dvzgh (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01dzw3f (Listen) FRI In a new series for Radio 4, mounted in conjunction with the FRI British Library, Fi Glover introduces the second of a series FRI of encounters capturing the nation in conversation. Sasha is FRI a mother from Berkshire whose son, Paddy has an inherited FRI heart condition. They talk about life together at home in FRI Marlborough. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. Listeners are given a unique FRI opportunity to eavesdrop on these moments of closeness that FRI capture the essence both of a special relationship and of FRI something that really matters to them both. FRI FRI The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams FRI of producers from local and national radio stations who FRI facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not FRI BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts FRI up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment FRI of connection between the participants. Many of the long FRI conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI which they will use to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium, while Radio 4 is broadcasting three of FRI these jewel-like moments each Friday, with an omnibus on FRI Sundays at 2.45pm. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01dvzgk (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's FRI news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dnb1x (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01dvzgm (Listen) FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis dissect the week's news with FRI comical precision assisted by Jon Holmes, Mitch Benn and FRI Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01dvzgp (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01dvzgr (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang reports from New York, with Thomas Campbell, the FRI British-born director of the vast Metropolitan Museum, and FRI trumpeter Nicholas Payton on why he dislikes the word jazz. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dvzpc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01dvzpf (Listen) FRI Otley FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Otley, West Yorkshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01dvzph (Listen) FRI Topical reflection with Prof David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Inside the Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved FRI b01dvzpk (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI In this second of two omnibus editions of his series from FRI 2009, Tom Mangold re-enters the Bermuda Triangle in search FRI of the truth behind the legend. FRI FRI This episode he resumes his investigations by examining the FRI work of two of the most successful authors who first wrote FRI about the supposed mysteries of this famous piece of wet FRI geometry. The lurid blurbs on the covers of their books FRI often left little to the imagination, one purporting to be : FRI FRI "A saga of the mysterious sea where planes, ships and doomed FRI human beings disappear for ever - an astonishing, baffling, FRI fully documented true life mystery of the hundreds of FRI helpless victims, sucked up by giant water spouts, sea FRI monsters and flying saucers." FRI FRI Tom traces some of those responsible for spreading these FRI yarns and interrogates them and their works rigorously. On FRI the way he discovers how the myth of the triangle became FRI entwined with that of the lost kingdom of Atlantis, how the FRI mysterious disappearance of a plane sixty years ago turns FRI out to be far from inexplicable, and how scientists, air FRI traffic controllers and air sea rescue officers remain FRI extremely sceptical that there are any anomalies in the FRI region. FRI FRI However, Tom finishes his tour on Bermuda itself and finds FRI that some people are convinced that they have experienced FRI something odd. FRI FRI The truth is out there. FRI FRI Producer: Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01dnb1z (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01dvzpm (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dvzpp (Listen) FRI Stonemouth, Episode 10 FRI FRI Iain Banks' novel concludes tonight with a reunion of FRI childhood friends on the beach. Stewart and Ellie think of FRI their future, but her brother has other ideas. FRI FRI Read by David Tennant FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01fq6kn (Listen) FRI Isy Suttie, Beverley Humphreys FRI FRI Comedian Isy Suttie and opera singer and broadcaster FRI Beverley Humphreys share their favourite books with Harriett FRI Gilbert. FRI FRI Beverley's choice is the Gothic thriller The Shadow of the FRI Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, which she describes as a "love FRI letter to literature." FRI FRI Isy picks The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan, a sinister FRI tale of two couples in an unnamed European town, which she FRI admits does not have a particularly happy ending. FRI FRI Harriett's choice is the story of a young man with learning FRI difficulties whose intelligence is enhanced by a scientific FRI procedure - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. FRI FRI Producer: Toby Field. FRI FRI 23:27 Don't Log Off b0194djf (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Alan Dein attempts to cross the world on a series of late FRI night excursions via Facebook and Skype - discovering the FRI real life dramas behind the online profiles. FRI FRI It's a hesitant start as Alan starts from a "Friend" count FRI of zero, struggling to lure users away from the anonymity of FRI the keyboard to the glare of the webcam - and engage in real FRI verbal communication. Yet over five long late nights, he FRI gradually builds up a circle of friends, crossing the time FRI zones and discovering some startling stories. FRI FRI In this second programme, he's among those dreaming of FRI freedom, talking to a man car-jacked in Caracas, and an FRI Iranian evading the electronic eavesdropping of the FRI authorities who's determined to flee the country. FRI FRI Five years ago, Alan Dein brought us the acclaimed Don't FRI Hang Up, in which he set himself the task of calling phone FRI boxes around the world to see who picked up. This time, the FRI project reaches a whole new scale. FRI FRI Producers: Laurence Grissell and Sarah Bowen. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01dzw3k (Listen) FRI In a new series for Radio 4, mounted in conjunction with the FRI British Library, Fi Glover introduces the third of a series FRI of encounters capturing the nation in conversation. Alison FRI and Willie are a couple in their mid-sixties from Northern FRI Ireland. They've had a rich life together, but now face the FRI challenges of an uncertain future as old age approaches. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. Listeners are given a unique FRI opportunity to eavesdrop on these moments of closeness that FRI capture the essence both of a special relationship and of FRI something that really matters to them both. FRI FRI The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams FRI of producers from local and national radio stations who FRI facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not FRI BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts FRI up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment FRI of connection between the participants. Many of the long FRI conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI which they will use to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium, while Radio 4 is broadcasting three of FRI these jewel-like moments each Friday, with an omnibus on FRI Sundays at 2.45pm. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. FRI FRI
23 March, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 24/03/2012 - 30/03/2012
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