01 March, 2013

Radio 4 Listings for 02/03/2013 - 08/03/2013

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SAT SATURDAY 02 MARCH 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01qsqwv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01qzctq (Listen) SAT Far From the Tree, Episode 5 SAT SAT The time-worn adage says that the apple doesn't fall far SAT from the tree, meaning that a child resembles his or her SAT parents. The children described in this book are apples that SAT have fallen elsewhere - some a couple of orchards away, some SAT on the other side of the world. Yet myriad families learn to SAT tolerate, accept and finally celebrate children who are not SAT what they originally had in mind. SAT SAT Andrew Solomon introduces us to families coping with SAT deafness, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, and SAT disability - as well as families who have children who are SAT prodigies, who are gay, or who become criminals. SAT SAT While each of these characteristics is potentially SAT isolating, Solomon documents the repeated triumphs of human SAT love and compassion to show that the shared experience of SAT difference is what unites us. SAT SAT Episode 5 (of 5): SAT Different kinds of families are constructed or conceived in SAT different ways - just as some children choose to identify SAT with a gender other than the one they were born into. Andrew SAT Solomon is married to his partner John and they are happily SAT involved in the parenting of four children, all with SAT differing family circumstances. SAT SAT Read by Kerry Shale SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qsqwx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qsqwz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qsqx1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01qsqx3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qwk51 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Clair Jaquiss. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01qwk53 (Listen) SAT "The music speaks to me." In praise of the sounds of Mali. A SAT PM listener on the need for "guitars to replace guns" after SAT militants in Mali declare war on music. Eddie Mair and SAT Jennifer Tracey ask what impact has it had on the country's SAT rich culture? SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01qsqx5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01qsqx7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01qwhp7 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Toyah Willcox SAT SAT Actress and singer, Toyah Willcox, takes Clare Balding for a SAT walk in rural Worcestershire. SAT SAT The theme for this series of Ramblings is 'self-improvement' SAT and for Toyah - who has always had problems with her joints, SAT including a recent hip replacement - walking is the perfect SAT exercise. She says it helps her keep her weight down and SAT remain active. SAT SAT Clare met Toyah at Croome Landscape Park, a National Trust SAT Property famous for its stunning grounds designed by SAT Capability Brown. Unfortunately Toyah was injured - 97 SAT pantomime performances over Christmas had taken their toll - SAT but, crutch in hand, the ramble went ahead. SAT SAT By the end of the walk, during which Toyah discussed her SAT serendipitous route into show business and forthcoming SAT performance in a 'bawdy' show called Hormonal Housewives, SAT she actually felt better. Proof, she said, that walking is SAT one of the best ways to remain healthy. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01qzj13 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01qsqx9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01qzj15 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah SAT Montague. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, SAT Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01qzj17 (Listen) SAT Judy Finnigan, Jeff Lynne's Inheritance Tracks, a wooden dog SAT from Stalag Luft lll and the sounds of a Cornish Cave SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with writer and broadcaster SAT Judy Finnigan, Adam who suffers from auditory verbal SAT hallucinations- hearing voices, poetry from Kate Fox, a SAT glimpse inside the film 'Lincoln' with one of the historical SAT advisors Professor Catherine Clinton, a sound sculpture from SAT a Cornish cave, The Thing about Me- a listener's momento SAT from Stalag Luft lll ( The Great Escape ) is a wooden dog SAT and The Inheritance Tracks of Jeff Lynne from ELO SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Hardeep's Game of Life b01qzj19 (Listen) SAT Hardeep Singh Kohli investigates how everything from SAT brushing your teeth to filling out your income tax return SAT may soon be turned into an opportunity to score a point and SAT earn a reward. It's called "gamification." Will it cure the SAT world of its ills or simply commodify every human SAT interaction? SAT SAT When he was younger Hardeep used to walk to and from school. SAT To make his journey more interesting the cracks on the SAT pavement became hot lava - one wrong step and his trainer SAT would burn and he would fall into hell. And so, with his SAT goal of getting home without stepping on the cracks, his SAT monotonous journey was made into a game. SAT SAT Yet is "play" is on the verge of being co-opted by the SAT marketers and advertisers. Are we - the consumers - the ones SAT being played? Or will it galvanise us into carrying out SAT those tasks that we have been avoiding for years? SAT SAT Games designer Jesse Schell tells Hardeep that games are SAT creeping into every aspect of our lives and they have the SAT power to make us better people. Meanwhile, Professor Ian SAT Bogost believes that brands are 'simply capturing the wild SAT coveted beast that is video games for use in the grey, SAT hopeless wasteland of big business.' SAT SAT Producer: Barney Rowntree SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01qzj1c (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Fraser Nelson. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01qzj1f (Listen) SAT Tea Time in Germany SAT SAT Reporters worldwide tell their stories. Steve Evans in SAT Berlin on how, perhaps surprisingly given their history, SAT Germans feel a real affinity with Britain. She used to be SAT called 'the most powerful woman in Mexico.' Will Grant on SAT the arrest, on embezzlement charges, of one of the country's SAT top union leaders. Paul Henley tries to keep his cool SAT listening to a stream of homophobic vitriol in Russia. Young SAT people in Portugal queuing up to leave the country - Alison SAT Roberts is in Lisbon where morale's plummeting as the SAT jobless figures soar. And as the tenth anniversary of the SAT US-led invasion of Iraq approaches, Kevin Connolly's there SAT musing on how one never quite knows how history will work SAT out. SAT The producer is Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01qzj1m (Listen) SAT Loyalty to house insurers, poor savings rates, and equity SAT release SAT SAT LOYALTY DOESN'T PAY SAT Are insurers charging customers more for being loyal? One SAT Money Box listener - Alison Gann - who had used the same SAT insurer for 38 years discovered she was paying more than SAT £1000 for home insurance that she could get for £332 as a SAT new customer. Reporter Bob Howard speaks to Alison Gann. The SAT programme also hears from Which? Money expert, James Daley. SAT SAT SAVINGS RATES PLUMMET SAT The Government scheme to encourage banks to lend has led to SAT a massive fall in the rates they pay to savers. Funding for SAT Lending lets the banks borrow money cheaply from the SAT Treasury. So they don't need our money. The Financial SAT Secretary to the Treasury, Greg Clarke; Labour's shadow SAT Treasury minister, Chris Leslie, discuss the issues. In SAT addition, the programme speaks to Sylvia Waycot, editor, SAT Moneyfacts and also to mortgage expert, Ray Boulger, John SAT Charcol Mortgage Brokers. SAT SAT MORTGAGES NOT ON TRACK SAT Bank of Ireland has more than doubled the tracker mortgage SAT rate paid by thousands of its customers, despite the fact SAT that the rate is supposed to track Bank Rate which has not SAT changed for four years. But there is nothing customers can SAT do except make tracks for another lender. SAT SAT SPENDING THE HOUSE SAT There is an estimated £750 billion locked up in homes owned SAT by millions of pensioners. New research suggests it could be SAT used to relieve poverty, boost the economy and create jobs. SAT But most pensioners are very reluctant to release this cash SAT to boost their income. But are predictions of a boom in SAT Equity Release realistic? Andrew Logan, Associate Director SAT at Oxford Economics and co-author of the report is joined by SAT Stephen Lowe from Just Retirement, the UK's second biggest SAT equity release provider and Mick McAteer from The Financial SAT Inclusion Centre, to discuss the issues. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01qwk3v (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical SAT stand-up and sketches. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01qsqxc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01qsqxf (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01qwk41 (Listen) SAT Esther McVey, Toby Young, Mohammed Ansar, Evan Harris SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Bradford with blogger Mo Ansar, Esther McVey the SAT Disabilities Minister, Toby Young and Dr Evan Harris. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01qzk11 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01qzk13 (Listen) SAT The Iraq Dossier SAT SAT The dossier "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction", lead to SAT the headline "just 45 minutes from attack", persuaded MPs to SAT vote for an invasion of Iraq, and hardened public opinion SAT against Saddam Hussein. Fall out from accusations by the BBC SAT that the claims had been "sexed up" led to the death of Dr SAT David Kelly and the Hutton Inquiry. SAT SAT This drama goes behind the scenes of MI6, the Ministry of SAT Defence and Downing Street to dramatise one of the most SAT controversial episodes in British politics. SAT SAT The author, David Morley, has created the script from the SAT mountain of emails, memos, and first hand testimony SAT submitted to the various inquiries into the 2003 invasion of SAT Iraq, as well as from first-hand interviews with Dr Brian SAT Jones, who died in 2012 and was the MoD's leading expert on SAT nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, concerned that SAT exaggeration should not creep into the dossier. SAT SAT Other key players include Richard Dearlove, head of MI6; SAT John Scarlett, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee SAT and Tony Blair's adviser, Alastair Campbell. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Clemmow SAT A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dr Brian Jones: Richard E Grant SAT John Scarlett: Anton Lesser SAT Richard Dearlove: Peter Firth SAT Narrator: Lindsay Duncan SAT Alastair Campbell: Andrew Dunn SAT Robert Green: David Caves SAT Mark Allen: Stephen Critchlow SAT Henry Brown: Jon Glover SAT Tony Cragg: Keith Wickham SAT Sally Morgan: Felicity Duncan SAT Jones's Boss: Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Danny Pruce: Tom Alexander SAT Producer: Richard Clemmow SAT Writer: David Morley SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01qwb2n (Listen) SAT Series 15, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater SAT SAT The Stabat Mater's imagines the sufferings of the Virgin SAT Mary at the foot of the cross, and Pergolesi's SAT eighteen-century setting remains a choral favourite. SAT SAT Pam Self tells the moving story of how this piece unites her SAT and her friend Helen Vaughan, both during life and after. SAT SAT Soprano Catherine Bott reflects on the piece's themes. SAT SAT The Stabat Mater has been reinterpreted many times over the SAT years: Sasha Lazard recalls singing it in the school choir, SAT before later taking the melody and transforming it into a SAT dance version for her album 'The Myth of Red' rechristening SAT it 'Stabat Mater IXXI' in the wake of the September 11th SAT attacks. SAT SAT Producer: Toby Field SAT Researcher: Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01qzk15 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01qzk17 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news presented by Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01qwj0b (Listen) SAT Retail SAT 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. SAT SAT You go to a shopping centre and you find an ice rink. Or you SAT go to a bookstore for a glass of wine. So is this the new SAT world of retail? Evan Davis and his panel of top business SAT brains explore what's in store for physical shopping. They SAT also swap thoughts on what makes a good shop assistant. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Sir Stuart Rose, former Chief SAT Executive of Marks & Spencer and soon to take over as SAT Chairman of online grocery retailer Ocado; Berndt Hauptkorn, SAT Chief Executive of the European arm of Japanese clothing SAT chain Uniqlo; Andy Street, Managing Director of department SAT store chain John Lewis. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qsqxh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01qsqxk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qsqxm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01qzk4d (Listen) SAT Barbara Taylor-Bradford, Benjamin Zephaniah, Tony Gardner, SAT Robin Ince, Seb Emina, Fimber Bravo, Sivu SAT SAT Clive's joined by best-selling novelist and Woman of SAT Substance Barbara Taylor Bradford, who tells Clive what has SAT driven her to publish twenty-eight novels, selling SAT eighty-two million copies worldwide. Barbara's latest novel SAT 'Secrets From The Past' tells the story of war photographer SAT Serena, who, following the death of her father, steps away SAT from the war zone to reassess her life. SAT SAT From one war zone to another as Clive defuses an explosive SAT encounter with actor Tony Gardner. Waltzing in from his Last SAT Tango In Halifax, Tony is now playing the commander of an SAT entire bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan. BBC Three's SAT new comedy drama 'Bluestone 42' follows the camaraderie, SAT bonds and banter of a bunch of soliders and how they pass SAT the time in between saving lives. The series starts on SAT Tuesday 5th March at 22.00. SAT SAT The over easy Robin Ince enjoys a full English with author SAT and breakfast blogger Seb Emina. His new book 'The Breakfast SAT Bible' about the most important meal of the day intersperses SAT the practicalities of putting a good breakfast together with SAT essays and miscellanies from a crack team of eggsperts..and SAT that's no yolk! SAT SAT Clive takes refuge with prolific writer and Rastafarian dub SAT poet Benjamin Zephaniah whose powerful novel 'Refugee Boy' SAT charts one boy's courageous fight for recognition, alone in SAT a strange country. Benjamin's book has been adapted for the SAT stage by fellow poet Lemn Sissay and is at West Yorkshire SAT Playhouse from Saturday 9th to Saturday 30th March. SAT SAT With music from London based singer-songwriter Sivu, who SAT performs his debut single 'Better Man Than He'. SAT SAT And from award winning steel pan maestro Fimber Bravo who SAT plays 'The Way We Live Today' from his solo album SAT 'Con-Fusion'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01qzk4g (Listen) SAT Beppe Grillo SAT SAT Beppe Grillo has achieved a stunning success in the Italian SAT elections with the performance of the new citizens' protest SAT network - the Five Star Movement. He is its guiding star, a SAT comedian-turned politician. The movement emerged from the SAT web and took its argument into town squares all over Italy. SAT The citizen activists oppose what they regard as the SAT corrupted, self-serving traditional parties - the entire SAT failed political establishment. The movement has connected SAT with huge numbers of Italians who have developed a contempt SAT for the governing elite. SAT SAT Producer Ian MuirCochrane. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01qzk4j (Listen) SAT Joe Wright's Trelawny of the Wells; JM Coetzee's The SAT Childhood of Jesus; Richard Gere in Arbitrage SAT SAT Joe Wright is best known as a film director, his work SAT including Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Anna Karenina. SAT But Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse marks his SAT debut as a theatre director.Richard Gere was Golden SAT Globe-nominated for his role as businessman Robert Miller in SAT Nicholas Jarecki's film Arbitrage, a tense morality tale set SAT in the world of high finance.A boy arrives in a strange SAT country and can find no room to sleep... JM Coetzee's The SAT Childhood of Jesus has obvious parallels with the story SAT referenced in its title, but is a re-telling really the aim SAT of the twice-Booker-winning author?Barocci: Brilliance and SAT Grace is the title of a new exhibition at the National SAT Gallery which aims to bring a previously under-recognised SAT artist to more prominent attention. It includes some tender SAT drawings and portraits as well as the dynamic, colourful SAT altarpieces for which he is most admired.And BBC3's new SAT sitcom Bluestone 42 touches on potentially sensitive SAT territory: it's set amongst the troops in Afghanistan. How SAT funny is it?The novelists Patrick Gale and Aminatta Forna SAT and writer Natalie Haynes join presenter Tom SAT Sutcliffe.Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT Trelawny of the Wells continues at the Donmar Warehouse, SAT London, until the 13th April 2013. SAT SAT Arbitrage is in cinemas in nationwide, certificate 15. SAT SAT The Childhood of Jesus by J M Coetzee is published by SAT Harvill Secker. SAT SAT Bluestone 42 is on BBC3 on Tuesday 5th March at 10pm. SAT SAT Barocci: Brilliance and Grace continues at The National SAT Gallery until 19th May 2013 SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01gngrj (Listen) SAT Lunch Is for Wimps SAT SAT Remember the lunch hour? You could leave your desk, meet SAT friends in the pub, eat a three course meal, have a SAT lunchtime affair even...That hour was your own: it didn't SAT belong to your employer. No more. Now, one in five people in SAT the UK never eat lunch. Only one in one hundred regularly SAT take a full hour's break. How has such a huge social change SAT happened? Why on earth did we let the lunch hour go so SAT easily? SAT SAT Matthew Sweet draws on archive recordings to explore what we SAT have lost, and what the hidden costs might be. Wall Street's SAT Gordon Gekko once said "lunch is for wimps" - why do we seem SAT to have accepted his conclusion? When Churchill enjoyed SAT several courses, washed down with wine and brandy, at midday SAT in Downing Street it was thought to help, rather than SAT hinder, his leadership of the country. Matthew talks to SAT social historian Juliet Gardiner, and to historian Sir David SAT Cannadine about Churchill's heroic dining. Sociologist SAT Harriet Bradley offers insights into the rise of SAT presenteeism and the impact of recession on our lunch time SAT habits. Writers Tim Parks implores us to take a break for SAT the sake of our health. SAT SAT Matthew goes back to Hull, where he grew up, and remembers SAT ham sandwiches at home with his mum, and factory whistles SAT sounding out around the city, signalling the start of the SAT lunch hour. He meets factory and office workers and asks why SAT have we allowed ourselves to become so overwhelmed with the SAT pressures of the working day that we don't have time to stop SAT for a break? SAT SAT Includes archive recordings from 1937 describing workers SAT flocking to corner houses for lunch, Ernest Bevin urging SAT wartime factory owners to give their workers proper meals SAT and revelations from the 1980s about liquid lunches and SAT office affairs. SAT SAT Produced by Hannah Marshall SAT A Loftus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01qsrpf (Listen) SAT Pather Panchali - Song of the Road, Episode 1 SAT SAT Pather Panchali: Song of the Road by Bibhuti Bhushan Banerji SAT dramatised by Tanika Gupta from a translation by T.W Clark & SAT Tarapada Mukerji SAT SAT A classic story of poverty and sibling love set in a remote SAT Bengali village at the beginning of the twentieth century. SAT The life of a poor Brahmin family is seen through the eyes SAT of young Opu and his older sister Durga. With their father, SAT Horihor, often away from home in search of work, tension SAT mounts as their mother, Shorbojoya, struggles on her own. SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari SAT SAT It is the vivid and moving story of life in a rural village SAT on the brink of change, seen through the eyes of two SAT children. The novel deals with the relationship between SAT destruction and creation, and is an uplifting tale of growth SAT and love. It is a beautiful and atmospheric novel that SAT inspired an iconic film by Satyajit Ray in 1955. The heart SAT of the novel and this dramatisation is the love between SAT brother and sister. It charts family life through a SAT collection of daily events that cumulatively create a vivid SAT and unforgettable world. In Tanika Gupta's dramatisation SAT Opu, now a grown man narrates the story, looking back on his SAT childhood and to the people he has loved, in particular his SAT older sister Durga.Tanika Gupta is an award-winning writer SAT who has written extensively for radio, theatre, film and SAT television. She was recently awarded an MBE; named Asian SAT Woman of Achievement (Arts and Culture) and nominated for an SAT Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her production of SAT A Doll's House for Radio 3 recently won the best adaptation SAT BBC Audio Drama Award. SAT SAT Credits SAT Adult Opu: Sagar Arya SAT Indir: Meera Syal SAT Durga: Rhea Somaiya SAT Shorbojoya: Ayesha Dharker SAT Horihor: Shiv Grewal SAT Shejbou: Pooja Ghai SAT Dashi: Pooja Ghai SAT Palit: Ace Bhatti SAT Child Opu: Adnan Chowdhury SAT Tunu: Nuha Fabiha Sultana SAT Baby Opu: Ava Taylor SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT Writer: Tanika Gupta SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01qsqxr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01qwgm2 (Listen) SAT Morality of gambling SAT SAT Is it right that gambling is promoted so heavily in TV SAT commercials, at sporting events and online? Complaints to SAT the Advertising Standards Authority about TV gambling SAT advertisements increased six-fold last year. Some SAT commercials were taken off the air because they 'glamorised' SAT gambling or because they portrayed it as a reasonable way of SAT dealing with financial problems. Anti-gambling campaigners SAT say that the vast increase in the promotion of gambling is SAT creating more addicts and tempting poor people to risk money SAT they can't afford. Should gambling advertising be banned? Or SAT is that infantilising those who want to gamble and while at SAT the same time stopping them getting information that could SAT get them better odds? Is gambling a morally neutral form of SAT entertainment or a vice that corrupt the winners, the losers SAT and society as a whole? SAT SAT Panellists: Eugene Farrar from GRASP (Gambling Reform & SAT Society Perception Group), Clive Hawkswood from the Remote SAT Gambling Association, Gareth Wallace from the Salvation Army SAT and Mark Littlewood from the Institute of Economic Affairs. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Anne McElvoy SAT and Kenan Malik. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01qw8tx (Listen) SAT (14/17) SAT SAT In the metamorphosis of arthropods and other organisms, what SAT is meant by the word 'exuvia'? And what's the Spanish word SAT for summer? SAT SAT Russell Davies tests the general knowledge of four more SAT semi-finalists who have come successfully through the heats SAT of this year's competition. One of them will win a place in SAT the Final and a real chance of taking the title 'Brain of SAT Britain 2013'. SAT SAT The questions get tougher as the contest proceeds: so they SAT will need to draw on all their reserves of knowledge of SAT every field from history and mythology, science and SAT geography, literature and music, to current affairs and SAT contemporary culture. SAT SAT There will also be the chance for a listener to win a prize SAT by coming up with questions that could stump the SAT contestants. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT DAVID BUCKLE, a college Vice-Principal from Nuneaton; SAT SAT SCOTT DAWSON, a data processor from Stoke on Trent; SAT SAT ROD RIESCO, a translator from Horwich in Lancashire; SAT SAT BARRY SIMMONS, a former IT manager from Leeds. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b01qx0d5 (Listen) SAT The Body SAT SAT A new programme introduced by Paul Farley featuring the best SAT of poetry now. The first in the series looks at the body in SAT question - the shapes of poems and the people in them. How SAT does a poet decide on the form of their poem? What do SAT different poetic forms do the subject of a poem? The SAT programme travels the country and anatomises its poetic SAT body. With found poems and field-notes, a diary of failure SAT and success, the sound of the world being taken down in SAT rhyme, and a look into a hive of dead bees in midwinter. SAT With new poems from Sean Borodale, Don Paterson and Alice SAT Oswald. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 MARCH 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01qzk62 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b012l1yv (Listen) SUN The Foxes Come at Night, Gondolas SUN SUN Now in his eightieth year, Cees Nooteboom is one of SUN Holland's leading and most respected authors, a writer of SUN both novels and travel books and a consummate short story SUN writer. The Foxes Come at Night, his recent collection, has SUN won the 2010 Gouden Uil - the most prestigious literary SUN award in Flanders and is now published in English. SUN The collection is set in the cities and islands of the SUN Mediterranean, territory Nooteboom knows well. The stories SUN are linked by their meditations on memory and age, on love SUN won and lost and on the fragments of life treasured in a SUN photograph or a detail. SUN In 'Gondolas' a fine art dealer finds the past stirred by a SUN photograph taken on the same Venetian canal bank forty years SUN ago. In 'Thunderstorm' a couple's own fissures are reflected SUN in a horrific moment on a beach. And in 'Late September' a SUN woman waits on a windblown Spanish cafe terrace before the SUN inevitable conclusion to her lonely day. SUN Written with haunting attention to detail and pitch perfect SUN prose, sensitively translated by Ina Rilke, these stories SUN show one of the European masters of the genre at his best. SUN Reader Ian McDiarmid SUN Abridger Sally Marmion SUN Producer Di Speirs. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qzk64 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qzk66 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qzk68 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01qzk6d (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01qzl0w (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's Parish Church, Bishopstoke, SUN Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01qwgm4 (Listen) SUN Alexander McCall Smith SUN SUN In the second of this year's Lent Talks, author Alexander SUN McCall Smith considers how you can feel abandoned by SUN society, as you grow older. SUN SUN The Lent Talks feature six well known figures from public SUN life, the arts, human rights and religion, who reflect on SUN how the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry and Passion SUN continues to interact with contemporary society and culture. SUN The 2013 Lent Talks consider the theme of "abandonment". In SUN the Lenten story, Jesus is the supreme example of this - he SUN died an outcast, abandoned and rejected by his people, his SUN disciples and (apparently) his Father - God. But how does SUN that theme tie in with today's complex world? There are many SUN ways one can feel abandoned - by family, by society, by SUN war/conflict, but one can also feel abandoned through the SUN loss of something, perhaps power, job or identity. The SUN Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for SUN self-examination and reflection on universal human SUN conditions such as temptation, betrayal, greed, forgiveness SUN and love, as well as abandonment. SUN SUN Speakers in this year's talks include Baroness Helena SUN Kennedy, QC, who considers what it means to abandon being SUN human; Loretta Minghella, Director of Christian Aid, who SUN considers the abandonment of self and the need to face who SUN we truly are; Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain and Religious SUN Adviser to HM Forces, who has just returned from Afghanistan SUN and who explores the total abandonment experienced by both SUN sides as a result of war; Benjamin Cohen, journalist and SUN broadcaster, who reflects on his own personal story of SUN religious rejection through being gay, and Canon Lucy SUN Winkett, Rector of St James's Piccadilly, who explores the SUN relationship between abandonment and betrayal. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01qzk6g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01r08ct (Listen) SUN Should I Stay or Should I Go? SUN SUN Mark Tully compares the experiences and motives of people SUN whose conscience has led them to abandon their religion, SUN with those who come to terms with their differences and SUN attempt to change things from within. And, taking Dietrich SUN Bonhoeffer as an example of someone who disagreed SUN fundamentally with the actions, or inaction, of his church SUN but chose to remain within it , this programme asks how far SUN we would be prepared to take a stance on a matter of SUN conscience, regardless of the personal consequences. SUN Bonhoeffer's open criticism of the regime in Germany in SUN the 1930s was not echoed by his fellow pastors, and led to SUN his imprisonment and execution by the Nazis before the end SUN of the Second World War. SUN SUN From the Pilgrim Fathers, who put the Atlantic Ocean between SUN themselves and a State Religion they felt they could not be SUN part of, to people faced with a choice when their church SUN does not embrace their sexuality, or bars them from certain SUN places or positions because of their gender, Mark Tully SUN looks at those who have had to ask: Should I stay or Should SUN I Go. SUN SUN The readers are Grainne Keenan and John McAndrew. SUN SUN Produced by Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01r08cw (Listen) SUN Since 1900 more than twenty breeds of British farm animal SUN have become extinct. On Your Farm meets a man who has SUN devoted his life to turning that tide. Eric Freeman was one SUN of the first members of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, SUN which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year. He SUN shares his passion for Gloucester Old Spots Pigs and SUN Gloucester Cattle with Sarah Swadling. He tells her that SUN pulling them back from the brink of oblivion has been a SUN 'thrill' and that, despite turning eighty, he 'can't see SUN life' without his animals around him. SUN SUN Presented and Produced by Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01qzk6j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01qzk6l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01r09sm (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01r09sp (Listen) SUN International Rescue Committee UK (IRC) SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents the Radio 4 Appeal for SUN International Rescue Committee UK (IRC) SUN Reg Charity:1065972 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN IRC. SUN SUN For 80 years, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has SUN responded to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and SUN helped people to survive and rebuild their lives. Today, the SUN IRC works tirelessly to support people forced to flee their SUN homes due to conflict or natural disaster. The charity SUN delivers emergency aid, provides vital health care, protects SUN children, and supports women and girls who have suffered SUN rape and physical abuse. The IRC works with refugees from SUN over 40 countries including Syria, Burma, Liberia, SUN Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, and Sudan. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01qzk6n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01qzk6q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01r09sr (Listen) SUN This Is Our Story: Fed by the Bread of Heaven SUN SUN 'This is our story' - Fed by the Bread of Heaven: third in a SUN series for Lent linking stories of faith from the the bible SUN with life today. Live from The Memorial Chapel, University SUN of Glasgow. Leader: Rev Stuart MacQuarrie; Preacher: Alison SUN Phipps; Glasgow University Chapel Choir directed by James SUN Grossmith. SUN Download Lent resources from Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland by logging on to bbc.co.uk/sundayworship; SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01qwk43 (Listen) SUN Modern Medicis SUN SUN Lisa Jardine celebrates the influence of art connoisseur Sir SUN Denis Mahon and reflects on the impact of wealthy art SUN collectors on public taste and government policy. SUN "Art collectors with a fortune to spend inevitably exert an SUN influence on artistic taste and on the art market. The SUN question is: Is a collector who wins public praise for SUN having a "good eye" or "flawless taste" being celebrated for SUN their critical astuteness in identifying a neglected work's SUN lasting aesthetic value and its importance within the SUN artistic tradition? Or are they simply establishing a high SUN competitive price for that artist or artistic school?" SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01r09st (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01r09sw (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carole Simpson-Solazzo SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... 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SUN SUN He started out doing fashion shoots and is very good at SUN making pretty young things look even prettier. But his work SUN and influence have spread well beyond the glossy pages of SUN style bibles. From Congolese war widows to canoodling SUN pensioners his skill is capturing a moment of spontaneous SUN and often surprising truth. He should really been doing SUN peoples' tax returns - he went to college to study SUN accountancy - but his head was turned in his halls of SUN residence where the arts students seemed to be having all SUN the fun. Within a few years Kate Moss was posing for him in SUN nothing but a fedora and leather boots. However his SUN reputation for raunch was put on the back burner the day he SUN photographed The Queen - his picture of a serene and smiling SUN monarch now hangs in The National Portrait Gallery. SUN SUN Photography is he says "like a seduction. It's a SUN relationship compressed into a moment." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01qw93l (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 3 SUN SUN How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition & deviation? Julian Clary, Jenny SUN Eclair, Richard Herring and Paul Merton attempt to do so SUN under the watchful eye of Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01r09t0 (Listen) SUN US Southern Cooking and Chef Sean Brock SUN SUN Richard Johnson is in South Carolina to meet Charleston SUN chef, Sean Brock, who is on a mission to revive ingredients SUN and flavours not experienced for hundreds of years. SUN SUN It's a story that involves an intricate "food tattoo", one SUN of America's biggest private seed collections, a hog roast SUN and "pick picking" and bowls of delicious peas, beans, rice, SUN grits and fried chicken. SUN SUN Soon after British settlers arrived in South Carolina in the SUN 17th century a cuisine called the "Carolina rice kitchen" SUN was formed. Using the expertise of West African slaves to SUN develop rice plantations, a larder evolved consisting of the SUN main crop along with beans, African vegetables and staples SUN like oats, rye and wheat from Britain. SUN SUN Chef Sean Brock believes it was one of the earliest, and SUN "most beautiful" food cultures in America. In his SUN mid-thirties and sporting an arm covered in tattoos of SUN heirloom vegetables, he's attempting to "reboot" that SUN cuisine and those ingredients which had all disappeared by SUN the 20th century. SUN SUN He's joined forces with historian David Shields and a seed SUN hunter, Glenn Roberts, to source, grow and cook with these SUN historic foods. SUN SUN Richard joins Sean Brock at his restaurant, Husk to hear why SUN "ridiculous flavour" is the driving force behind the SUN mission. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01qzk6s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01r0b11 (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 After Saddam b01r0b13 (Listen) SUN After Saddam: Hugh Sykes returns to Iraq SUN It's ten years since the invasion which toppled the regime SUN of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Since then Iraqis have endured an SUN American-led military occupation, a brutal insurgency, SUN intense sectarian violence, hundreds of thousands of violent SUN deaths - and three democratic elections. SUN BBC correspondent Hugh Sykes has been a regular visitor to SUN Iraq since 2003 - exploring the lives of people in a country SUN where security, education, electricity and even the water SUN supply can never be taken for granted. SUN Now Hugh returns to Iraq to find out how their lives have SUN changed over the past decade. SUN How Iraq Changed the World SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qwk3j (Listen) SUN Crickhowell SUN SUN This week Eric Robson takes the Gardeners' Question Time SUN team to Crickhowell in South Wales, with Bob Flowerdew, SUN Matthew Biggs and Christine Walkden taking questions from SUN the audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01r0b15 (Listen) SUN The Cultural Revolution in China SUN SUN In the mid 1960s the young people of China were encouraged SUN to turn on their parents and teachers and 'criticise' them. SUN It was part of Chairman Mao's plan to rejuvenate his SUN communist state. Violence and upheaval followed as young Red SUN Guards took his message to extremes. Paul Crook was a SUN foreign teenager living with his family in Beijing. His SUN whole world was turned upside down by the Cultural SUN Revolution. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01r0b17 (Listen) SUN Pather Panchali - Song of the Road, Episode 2 SUN SUN Pather Panchali: Song of the Road by Bibhuti Bhushan Banerji SUN dramatised by Tanika Gupta from a translation by T.W. Clark SUN & Tarapada Mukerji SUN SUN A classic story of poverty and sibling love set in a remote SUN Bengali village at the beginning of the twentieth century. SUN The life of a poor Brahmin family is seen through the eyes SUN of young Opu and his older sister Durga. Opu has his first SUN experiences of life outside the village and Durga now a SUN young woman of fourteen begins to look forward to marriage SUN and adult life but with the monsoon rains comes tragedy. SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari SUN SUN It is the vivid and moving story of life in a rural village SUN on the brink of change, seen through the eyes of two SUN children. The novel deals with the relationship between SUN destruction and creation, and is an uplifting tale of growth SUN and love. It is a beautiful and atmospheric novel that SUN inspired an iconic film by Satyajit Ray in 1955. SUN The heart of the novel and this dramatisation is the love SUN between brother and sister. It charts family life through a SUN collection of daily events that cumulatively create a vivid SUN and unforgettable world. In Tanika Gupta's dramatisation SUN Opu, now a grown man narrates the story, looking back on his SUN childhood and to the people he has loved, in particular his SUN older sister Durga.Tanika Gupta is an award-winning writer SUN who has written extensively for radio, theatre, film and SUN television. She was recently awarded an MBE; named Asian SUN Woman of Achievement (Arts and Culture) and nominated for an SUN Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her production of SUN A Doll's House for Radio 3 recently won the best adaptation SUN BBC Audio Drama Award. SUN SUN Credits SUN Adult Opu: Sagar Arya SUN Durga: Rhea Somaiya SUN Opu: Adnan Chowdhury SUN Horihor: Shiv Grewal SUN Shorbojoya: Ayesha Dharker SUN Niren: Sacha Dhawan SUN Proshonno: Sacha Dhawan SUN Shejbou: Pooja Ghai SUN Palit: Ace Bhatti SUN Gokul: Ace Bhatti SUN Omola: Nuha Fabiha Sultana SUN Hashi: Shaheen Khan SUN Barber's Wife: Shaheen Khan SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN Writer: Tanika Gupta SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01r0b19 (Listen) SUN Andrew Miller on his Costa award-winning novel Pure SUN SUN Andrew Miller discusses his novel Pure, winner of the 2011 SUN Costa Prize. Set in pre-revolutionary Paris, the book is a SUN gripping, earthy story about the clearing of a huge cemetery SUN in the area now known as Les Halles. SUN SUN When a young engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte arrives in Paris SUN from Normandy, he is charged with the huge task of SUN destroying the church and cemetery of Les Innocents in 1785. SUN He is surrounded by a fully fledged cast of characters : SUN LeCoeur, his friend and former colleague from the mines near SUN Belgium, his girlfriend, the prostitute Heloise, Armand, the SUN church's organist and a revolutionary, and the fairytale SUN like Jeanne. But just as significant to the novel's success SUN are the ideas of the Enlightenment and Miller's subtle SUN laying out the undercurrents of disquiet and unrest which SUN would eventually lead to bloodshed and revolution. SUN SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the SUN questions. SUN SUN April's Bookclub choice : The Forty Rules of Love by Elif SUN Shafak. SUN SUN Produced by Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b01r0b3n (Listen) SUN Borders Met and Crossed SUN SUN Adventures in strong language - performed and from the page SUN - introduced by a master of poetic ceremonies, Paul Farley. SUN Borders - met and crossed - are the theme of the day. The SUN River Styx where the dead arrive and the shape-shifting SUN places where people become other animals are among the SUN subjects. Jo Shapcott, James Lasdun and Simon Armitage come SUN to the edge and shout their poems across. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01qwc8t (Listen) SUN Britain in Flood SUN SUN Has the Government done enough to protect communities from SUN flooding? Were cuts in river maintenance work responsible SUN for farmers land in Somerset being underwater for months? SUN Why are planners allowing developers to continue to build on SUN floodplains? A committee of MPs accuses the Coalition of SUN being woefully slow to bring in measures to combat the SUN problem. Allan Urry investigates. SUN Producer Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01qzk4g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qzk6v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01qzk6x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qzk6z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01r0b5p (Listen) SUN A selection from the week's radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01r0c5p (Listen) SUN There's a difficult parting. Meanwhile Tom makes a racket. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r0c5r (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN SUN New series of the comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his SUN five piece band and specially written, original music. SUN Guests across this series include Phill Jupitus, Charlie SUN Baker, Nick Mohammed, Doc Brown, Matt Lucas and Danny Baker. SUN SUN This second episode explores the theme of 'the body' SUN including songs on shampoo, beards and catarrh. Guest SUN starring Phill Jupitus who sings with the band and reads a SUN poem, plus a rap from Lady Lykez. SUN SUN Host .... Alex Horne SUN Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland SUN Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown SUN Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier SUN Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds SUN Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake SUN Guest performers .... Phill Jupitus and Lady Lykez SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Go West b01r0c5w (Listen) SUN A Story to Be Told SUN SUN Five new stories produced from Bristol SUN SUN 1. A Story to be Told SUN by Gillian Tindall SUN SUN Read by Wendy Brierley SUN SUN Swimming up through layers of post-operative anaesthetic, SUN Jennifer judges it time to tell an important secret about SUN her past life before it vanishes with her. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01qwk3q (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Read Roger Bolton's post on the Radio 4 blog SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01qwk3n (Listen) SUN A train robber, an actress, an animator, a TV executive and SUN a human rights activist SUN SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01qzj1m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01r09sp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01qw93v (Listen) SUN Vulgar Keynesianism SUN SUN Roberto Unger is an American-based thinker who is highly SUN critical of the current ideas from left-of-centre SUN politicians and thinkers about how to restore advanced SUN economies to healthy growth. His devastating attack last SUN summer on what he saw as the shortcomings of President SUN Obama's plans for a second term made him an overnight SUN internet sensation. SUN SUN For Unger, what he and others call "vulgar Keynesianism" - SUN the idea that governments should spend more money to SUN stimulate growth and create jobs - has little left to offer. SUN It is unlikely to have a big enough impact and will SUN disappoint both politicians and voters. SUN SUN Instead, he argues, those who think of themselves as SUN progressive need to think much more boldly and creatively. SUN And this applies not just to ideas about the economy but SUN also to politics and democratic institutions. What he sees SUN as a drab, predictable - and failed - approach needs a SUN complete overhaul. SUN SUN In this edition of "Analysis", Tim Finch talks to Roberto SUN Unger about his critique of left-of-centre thinking. He asks SUN him to justify his criticisms of current ideas and to set SUN out his alternative vision. Tim then discovers from figures SUN on the left here in Britain how they react to Unger's SUN approach and how likely it is that "vulgar Keynesianism" SUN will give way to something new. SUN SUN Among those taking part: Jon Cruddas, MP; Sonia Sodha; SUN Tamara Lothian; Stuart White and David Hall-Matthews. SUN SUN Producer Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01r0c5y (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 b01r0c60 (Listen) SUN Andrew Gimson of The London Evening Standard analyses how SUN the newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01qwhpy (Listen) SUN Actor Mark Wahlberg on cop thriller Broken City, plus SUN Richard Gere on Arbitrage SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Mark Wahlberg about his latest role SUN as an ex-cop in the thriller Broken City which also stars SUN Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Richard Gere SUN discusses charm and corruption which both feature heavily in SUN Arbitrage, a film about high finance, greed and adultery. SUN Neil Bennett from Digital Arts magazine explains why there's SUN a crisis in the visual effects industry despite films like SUN Life of Pi, which rely on such skills, topping the Oscars SUN list.There's discussion of the Italian film Caesar Must Die, SUN with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar played by real-life SUN prisoners. And Alison Abbate, producer of Frankenweenie, on SUN her passion for stop-motion animation. Producer: Elaine SUN Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01r08ct (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 MARCH 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01qzk81 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01qwglp (Listen) MON Fashion, Class and Mums; Red Racisms MON MON 'Red Racisms' - Laurie Taylor talks to the Professor of MON Racism and Ethnicity Studies, Ian Law, about his study of MON racism in Communist and Post Communist countries. He hears MON about the battle to challenge the racist underground in the MON Russian Federation, the post war experiences of the Roma in MON Hungary, the emergence of new forms of racism in Cuba and MON Tibetan struggles against Chinese domination. They're joined MON by the historian, Michael Stewart. Also, Katherine MON Appleford's research on class, motherhood and fashion - the MON extent to which mothers influence their daughters' taste in MON style and clothes. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01qzl0w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qzk83 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qzk85 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qzk87 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01qzk89 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r0c9h (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Clair Jaquiss. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01r0c9t (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01qzk8c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01r0cbj (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01r0cbw (Listen) MON Feminism: Natasha Walter and Catherine Hakim MON MON On Start the Week Anne McElvoy explores the state of MON feminism today. It's fifty years since Betty Friedan's MON landmark book, The Feminine Mystique, questioned the role of MON women in society. Anne McElvoy discusses that role today MON with the Living Dolls author, Natasha Walter, the proponent MON of erotic capital Catherine Hakim, the radical feminist Finn MON Mackay and the journalist and academic Shereen El Feki who MON has been looking at the changing sexual attitudes and MON behaviour in the Arab world. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01r0cf3 (Listen) MON Bedsit Disco Queen, Episode 1 MON MON Written and read by Tracey Thorn. MON MON Tracey Thorn's memoir charts a personal and musical journey MON that takes us back to her teenage diaries and the thrill of MON punk, juggling school homework with interviews with the NME MON as part of all-girl group The Marine Girls and the DIY indie MON music scene of the late 1970s. She has experienced the highs MON of stardom and been dropped by her record company. She has MON spent a career struggling with the challenge of combining MON artistic integrity, personal politics and feminism with the MON music industry hunger for chart success. This is an MON insider's insight into the music industry over thirty years, MON but above all it's a very personal story which has Tracey's MON relationship with Ben Watt at the heart of it. MON MON Today, how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk first influenced MON the teenage Tracey to become the guitarist in a band while MON still at school - and before she could even play her MON instrument. MON MON Abridged by Alison Joseph MON Produced by Allegra McIlroy. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r0dyb (Listen) MON What does feminism mean to you? Phone-in MON MON What does feminism mean to you? A badge of honour? A MON fundamental part of how you view the world? An unnecessary MON label? An idea which has had its time? An unhelpful ideology MON which has done more harm than good? How would you describe MON yourself? Are you a radical feminist? A feminist? 'Not a MON feminist but...'? Pro equality but anti feminist? Why? How MON do you think feminism has directly affected your life? Phone MON Jane Garvey with your views and experiences. Phone lines MON open at 0800 on Monday March 4th on 03700 100444, email now MON via our Contact Us link or tweet @bbcwomanshour #feminism. MON MON Just before Woman's Hour on the 4th March on BBC Radio 4's MON Start the Week, Anne McElvoy will be discussing feminism MON with Natasha Walter, the Living Dolls author; the proponent MON of erotic capital Catherine Hakim; the radical feminist Finn MON Mackay and the journalist and academic Shereen El Feki who MON has been looking at the changing sexual attitudes and MON behaviour in the Arab world. MON MON Is feminism a fundamental part of how you view the world? An MON idea that has run its time? MON MON It's fifty years since Betty Friedan's landmark book, The MON Feminine Mystique, questioned the role of women in society. MON Anne McElvoy's discusses that role today with the Living MON Dolls author, Natasha Walter, the proponent of erotic MON capital Catherine Hakim, the radical feminist Finn Mackay MON and the journalist and academic Shereen El Feki who has been MON looking at the changing sexual attitudes and behaviour in MON the Arab world. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b01r0dyd (Listen) MON Marking Time, Episode 11 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard MON Dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON MON 1940: Louise goes to her first dance in London and meets the MON famous painter, Michael Hadleigh. MON MON Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow. MON MON Marking Time is the second of four compelling Cazalet novels MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard, which together give a vivid MON insight into the lives, hopes and loves of three MON generations. MON As Elizabeth Jane Howard enters her 90th Birthday year, MON Radio 4 are broadcasting dramatisations of all four novels MON between January and August 2013. MON You can catch up with series one, The Cazalets: The Light MON Years, on iplayer. MON MON Audio for this episode will be available from date of MON broadcast until Friday 15 March 2013. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Louise: Alix Wilton Regan MON Michael: Harry Hadden-Paton MON Stella: Hannah Taylor-Gordon MON Zee: Liza Sadovy MON Director: Sally Avens MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Lin Coghlan MON MON 11:00 Mad Houses b01r0dyg (Listen) MON Ken Arnold explores how three European countries variously MON tell the history of mental illness. What do museums of MON madness tell us about who we were and who we are? Ken MON Arnold, Head of Public Programmes at the Wellcome Trust, MON visits three of Europe's old 'mad houses' that are now MON museums in Aarhus in Denmark, Haarlem in the Netherlands and MON Ghent in Belgium. Two of these institutions still function MON as psychiatric hospitals. Each has unusual, beautiful and MON terrifying objects on show ranging from straight-jackets to MON lobotomy tools, and also collections of 'outsider art', but MON each is also strikingly successful at evoking for their MON visitors different (and sometimes wildly different) views of MON madness - strange, worrisome, extreme mental states. MON MON Ranging from a pitch-dark solitary confinement cell to the MON brightly coloured papier-mache dolls made by long term MON inmates, from the era of shackles to the era of the talking MON cure, the history of Europe's reaction to the madness in its MON midst as shown by these museums is long and still shifting. MON Britain doesn't yet have a national museum of mental illness MON or psychiatry. Bedlam Hospital in London will take on this MON role in years to come. What might we learn from the mad MON houses of Europe? MON MON Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 11:30 Thinking of Leaving Your Husband? b00rrkg5 (Listen) MON Find-the-perfect-partner-4-u-dot-com MON MON The first episode of a comedy drama by Charlotte Cory MON starring Henry Goodman and Lia Williams. MON MON Sarah is deeply dissatisfied with her lot. Her marriage to MON the kindly but deeply boring Malcolm has long since failed MON to bring any spark to her life, and a brief relationship MON with a man called David, while ultimately unfulfilling, at MON least proves to her that she is not so unattractive that she MON cannot find happiness elsewhere. MON MON So she leaves Malcolm and a chance encounter with an old MON school friend, Tania, leads her to move in with her friend MON and join the internet dating site MON Find-the-perfect-partner-4-u.com. But her first experience MON of internet dating proves hugely embarrassing. MON MON Sarah ... Lia Williams MON Malcolm - and all Sarah's internet dates ... Henry Goodman MON Mother ... Miriam Margolyes MON Tania ... Frances Barber MON Francis Parker ... Roger Hammond MON MON Sound Design: Lucinda Mason Brown MON Original Music: David Chilton MON Director: Gordon House MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01r0dyj (Listen) MON Morrisons boss, dementia care and secret cigarettes MON MON After a disappointing year for Morrisons, the supermarket MON chain's boss tells us how he aims to turn things around. MON Dalton Philips says many more convenience stores are part of MON the plan and offers an insight into the profitability of MON online grocery shopping. MON MON There's a secret trade in under-the-counter cigarettes. MON We're out on the high street with the people trying to stop MON it. MON MON And museums which show how we used to live are helping MON people with dementia. We report on the special memory MON sessions for care home residents using objects from days MON gone by. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Jon Douglas. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01qzk8f (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01r0dyl (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents 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 Battle for the Airwaves b01r0dyn (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON MON Nick Robinson looks at the controversies over coverage of MON the Falklands War in his latest programme on relations MON between broadcasters and politicians. The invasion of the MON Falkland Islands in 1982 was the biggest overseas conflict MON Britain had been involved in since Suez in 1956. Again, the MON BBC and the government clashed - this time over BBC coverage MON and also delays in getting TV pictures from the Falklands. MON MON The Task Force's long journey to the Falklands and the delay MON in receiving pictures prompted speculation about the MON campaign on radio and television. Newsnight appeared to cast MON doubt on official sources by saying, "If we believe the MON British" and referring to "the only damage the British MON admitted". Although the BBC argued that it had to guard its MON reputation for telling the truth, Prime Minister Margaret MON Thatcher complained that, "There are times when it would MON seem that we and the Argentines are almost being treated as MON equal." MON MON More controversy followed when Panorama featured critics of MON the conflict under the title Can We Avoid War? But the BBC's MON Richard Francis stressed the importance of BBC independence: MON "When the Argentines claimed in the first raid on Port MON Stanley airport that they had shot down two Sea Harriers and MON damaged two more, the British Minister of Defence said none MON had been hit and the world wondered who was right. But when MON the BBC correspondent aboard HMS Hermes reported 'I counted MON the Harriers go out and I counted them all back,' the world MON believed." Eventually, footage from the conflict began MON arriving in Britain and the success of the operation gripped MON the country, but relations between broadcasters and the MON government had been severely tested. MON MON Producer: Rob Shepherd. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01r0c5p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nl6hn (Listen) MON Notes to Future Self MON MON When thirteen year old 'Philosophy Rainbow'- better known as MON Sophie - is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she, her MON mother Judy, and her sister Calliope, return to live with MON their grandmother Daphne in Birmingham. MON MON Reunited for the first time in years, the three generations MON of women must try to prepare themselves for the inevitable MON loss of Sophie from their lives, while Sophie herself must MON come to terms with her own mortality. MON MON As Sophie counts down the last weeks days, and minutes, of MON her life, tensions simmer and emotions bubble to the MON surface. At times Sophie hates her family; they have their MON futures, the rest of their lives to look forward to. But MON Sophie has her Future Self. Someday, she believes she'll MON come back as someone else. Then she'll have a different MON future. The future denied her now. And she leaves her Future MON Self some notes, some advice to remember, because after all, MON all stories about death are really stories about how to MON live. MON MON Adapted for radio by Lucy Caldwell from her stage play, MON Notes to Future Self is a brave and poignant story of a MON young girl facing death before she even really knows what MON life means. MON MON Producer/Director....Heather Larmour MON MON Credits MON Sophie: Imogen Doel MON Calliope: Jayne Wisener MON Judy: Amanda Ryan MON Daphne: Jane Lowe MON Director: Heather Larmour MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON Writer: Lucy Caldwell MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01r0dyq (Listen) MON (15/17) MON MON The book 'Ten Days That Shook The World', by John Reed, is MON an eyewitness account of which event? And what was the MON subject of the public inquiry over which the High Court MON judge Lord Mersey presided in 1912? MON MON These are among the questions faced by the semi-finalists, MON in the third semi-final of Brain of Britain 2013, with MON Russell Davies in the chair. MON MON The winner will take a place in the series Final in just a MON couple of weeks' time, so the stakes are high. As always, MON there's also a chance for a listener to outwit the combined MON brainpower of the contestants, by suggesting devious MON questions of his or her own. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01r09t0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Was Gertrude Stein Any Good? b01r0dys (Listen) MON Gertrude Stein has been called a genius and an idiot. So MON which was she? For some Stein is on a literary par with her MON contemporaries and friends; James Joyce, T.S Eliot, Marcel MON Proust or Ezra Pound, but for others she's a fraud, the MON 'eminent idiot' of the Modernist period, writing gibberish MON and passing it off as art. MON MON There's no doubting the importance of Stein as a creative MON catalyst. She gathered some of the greatest artists of the MON 20th century into her circle, offering financial, emotional MON and intellectual support. Picasso and Hemingway in MON particular cited her importance to their work. MON MON She spent much of her life working on her opus, 'The Making MON of Americans', a book likened to Joyce's Ulysses in its MON scale, ambition and incomprehensibility. Does it deserve MON re-examination? Is it fair that Joyce is lauded and Stein MON marginalised? MON MON In this program the poet and presenter of Radio 3's The MON Verb, Ian McMillan asks if Gertrude Stein was any good. The MON program is produced in Salford by Nicola Swords. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01r0dyv (Listen) MON The revelation that horse meat has found its way into MON supermarket products, and that Muslim prisoners have been MON fed meals containing pork has highlighted again the way food MON is produced and animals treated. MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the place of animals in the MON religions of East and West are Shimon Cohen, Director of MON Schechita UK, an organisation which defends the Jewish MON method of slaughtering animals; Barbara Gardner, a trustee MON of the RSPCA and author of The Compassionate Animal; and MON Shaunaka Rishi Das a Vaisnav priest from the Oxford Centre MON of Hindu Studies. MON MON 17:00 PM b01r0dyx (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qzk8h (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01r0dzt (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 4 MON MON Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Josie Lawrence, Marcus MON Brigstocke attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition & deviation under the watchful eye of MON Nicholas Parsons. MON MON Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01r0dzw (Listen) MON Chris overindulges, and Jazzer takes a tumble. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01r0dzy (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who talks to composer George Benjamin MON about the British premiere of his opera Written on Skin, MON based on a medieval tale of love and violence. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b01r0dyd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01r0hsx (Listen) MON MI6 and the Media MON MON Jeremy Duns examines leaked documents which suggest close MON links between MI6 and the British press during the Cold War. MON MON In December 1968, the British media was shaken by a series MON of secret documents leaked to Soviet state newspapers. The MON documents claimed a range of key Fleet Street correspondents MON and news chiefs were working for the intelligence services. MON Further papers alleged close links between the BBC and MI6. MON MON At the time, the documents were dismissed by the British MON media as forgeries, part of an escalating propaganda battle MON played out in the Russian press. In this edition of MON Document, Jeremy Duns uncovers evidence which suggests that MON the papers were genuine and examines how they might have MON found their way into Soviet hands. MON MON Notorious spies George Blake and Kim Philby are among those MON under suspicion of having leaked the documents. MON MON Jeremy Duns speaks to distinguished Sunday Times journalist MON Phillip Knightley, and historian of the intelligence MON services Professor Christopher Andrew. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01r0f4g (Listen) MON Islamists International MON MON The Muslim Brotherhood is a global ideological network MON enjoying popular support across the Sunni Muslim world. It, MON and closely related Islamic groups, are well established MON across the Muslim world: from North Africa to the Middle MON East, Turkey, the Indian subcontinent and Malaysia. MON Christopher de Bellaigue discovers how this community of MON faith and politics has been influenced by the rise to power MON of its founding branch: the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. MON MON Producer: Sue Davies. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01qwhtp (Listen) MON Is junk DNA really rubbish? Scientists dispute recent MON findings about our genetic code. Dr. Ewan Birney from the MON European Bioinformatics Institute defends his work, while MON Professor Chris Ponting from Oxford University discusses the MON latest research on the functionality of our DNA. Professor MON Mark Pagel from Reading University has analysed Homer's MON writing by using the language within his poems to date the MON work. And why did a fire start at the the last remaining pit MON in Warwickshire? Dr. Dr Guillermo Rein, from Imperial MON College, London and Tony Milodowski from the British MON Geological Survey explain how spontaneous heating events, MON like this fire, occur. MON MON Scientists dispute recent findings about our genetic code MON MON What causes spontaneous combustion in mines? MON MON New research has pinned down when Homer’s epic poems were MON written MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01r0cbw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01qzk8k (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01r0f4j (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r0f4l (Listen) MON The Middlesteins, Episode 6 MON MON A layered. bittersweet tragi-comedy about three generations MON of a Jewish family from the Chicago suburbs. MON MON Edie Middlestein is a woman who can't stop eating. Her MON family fear she will eat herself to death. But Edie's heart MON and soul feel full when her stomach is full. And as she MON alternates between eating and grinding all the joy out of MON her memories, relationships around her start to unravel. MON MON Episode 6 (of 10) MON Life is stressful for Benny Middlestein. His mother is ill. MON His father has left his mother. His wife is not only MON obsessed with the kids' forthcoming b'nai mitzvah but has MON put everyone on a joyless diet. And now, he's going bald. MON MON Written by Jami Attenberg MON Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Sound Painting b01r0f4n (Listen) MON An artist's studio is a unique setting, littered with the MON debris of creative endeavour - photos, drawings and images MON all offering inspiration. MON MON However many artists also draw on audio stimulus from the MON music of their hi-fis and ipods. In this revealing MON programme, Tim Marlow meets some of the UK's leading artists MON to explore the sounds and music they use and how it MON influences the creative process. MON MON Artist-in-residence at the National, Michael Landy, is happy MON to listen to the sounds of the gallery as he works, MON expressing an interest in the PA announcements and the MON gentle hum of Sir Peter Blake's fridge, left by the artist MON after his spell working at the National studio. MON MON The use of music was something that used to move one of MON Britain's leading sculptors, Sir Anthony Caro. He talks MON about his past use of the classics to enhance the mood of MON his studio. But these days, as he nears his 90th birthday, MON he prefers silence as "Beethoven is just too distracting". MON MON Rachel Whiteread also enjoys music when she is drawing but MON explains how everyday sounds affect her work and MON demonstrates some of the noises that punctuate her day. MON MON The programme culminates with Tracey Emin at her Bethnal MON Green studio revealing the sounds and music that influence MON her work. MON MON Producer: John Sugar MON A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r0f4q (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 MARCH 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01qzk9f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01r0cf3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qzk9h (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qzk9k (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qzk9m (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01qzk9p (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r0g3z (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Clair Jaquiss. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01r0g41 (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 b01r0g43 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 In Defence of Bureaucracy b01r0g45 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE The former Prime Minister Tony Blair is one of many TUE high-profile contributors to Gus O'Donnell's two part series TUE In Defence of Bureaucracy. TUE TUE Pity the poor bureaucrat. He's a desk-jockey, a pen-pusher, TUE a bean-counter, a jobsworth. He's seen as part of the TUE faceless machine that strangles creativity and enterprise TUE with red-tape. At least that's how he's often portrayed in TUE popular culture and the press. TUE TUE In the first programme (of two), the former Cabinet TUE Secretary, Gus O'Donnell, makes a provocative and passionate TUE plea In Defence of Bureaucracy, arguing that far from being TUE just "the glue that greases the wheels of progress", an TUE efficient bureaucracy isn't only a symptom of a mature TUE democracy - it's a fundamental prerequisite. TUE TUE At a time when one broadsheet newspaper has characterised TUE the relationship between government ministers and TUE bureaucrats in the Civil Service as "Whitehall at War", Lord TUE O'Donnell talks to, amongst others, former Prime Minister TUE Tony Blair, the head of M15 Jonathan Evans and Sir Antony TUE Jay, one of the co-authors of the iconic comedy series Yes, TUE Prime Minister. TUE TUE Producer: Will Yates TUE A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b01kbk3r (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE In the third in the series. Roger Law travels to Chongqing TUE in China to see what new museums are being built in this TUE huge and overwhelming city. He visits the Three Gorges TUE museum to find the artefacts which were rescued from the TUE massive dam project, and after climbing up and down the many TUE hills in Chongqing, he finds himself in need of some help TUE from the Chinese Traditional Medicine museum. The doctor in TUE residence is able to give him some much needed personal TUE attention, but does the medicine have any effect? TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01r0g47 (Listen) TUE Bedsit Disco Queen, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written and read by Tracey Thorn. TUE Abridged by Alison Joseph TUE Produced by Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r0g49 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b01r0g4c (Listen) TUE Marking Time, Episode 12 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE TUE Louise is insufferable since going to acting school and TUE Christopher tries to find sanctuary in Home Place. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Sally Avens & Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 11:00 Who's the Pest? b01r0g4f (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE They make up 80% of the species on earth, and at any time TUE there are ten QUINTILLION of them living. TUE TUE Meet the six-legged rulers of the world: INSECTS TUE TUE Entomologist Erica McAlister is known as Fly Girl to her TUE friends. As Curator of Flies at the Natural History Museum, TUE she knows what remarkable, strange, and diverse animals TUE insects are. But for most of us, insects are pests - TUE something we swot, or repel, or catch in a jar and hastily TUE eject from the house. In this three part series, Erica will TUE take listeners on an adventure in insect-world. It's our TUE world, but not as we know it. TUE TUE Insect world is populated by beings with superpowers - an TUE amazing sense of smell, lightning reflexes, the ability to TUE fly at dizzying speed or walk on the ceiling. And these TUE superpowers have implications for us humans - in medicine, TUE defence, food, art and architecture. They can help us to TUE live more healthily, more safely, more sustainably. TUE TUE In Episode One, Erica discovers that bees' sense of smell TUE can be used to detect explosives and disease. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01r0g4h (Listen) TUE Series 15, Shipbuilding TUE TUE The song from 1982 was written by Elvis Costello and Clive TUE Langer for Robert Wyatt and has been recorded in several TUE versions by Elvis Costello himself, Suede, June Tabor, Hue TUE and Cry, Tamsin Archer and the Unthanks. TUE TUE Its blend of subtle lyrics and extraordinary music makes TUE this a political song like no other. It transcends the TUE particular circumstances of its writing: the Falklands War TUE and the decline of British heavy industry, especially ship TUE building. TUE TUE Clive Langer and Elvis Costello describe how the song came TUE to be written and how the legendary jazz trumpeter and TUE flugelhorn player, Chet Baker came to perform on Costello's TUE version. TUE TUE Richard Ashcroft is a philosopher who wants the song, which TUE he describes as a kind of secular hymn, played at his TUE funeral because it gives a perfect expression of how he TUE believes we should think about life. Not being able to feel TUE the emotion of the song would, he feels, would be like being TUE morally tone-deaf. If you don't like this song, he'd find it TUE hard to be your friend. TUE TUE The song's achingly beautiful final couplet about "diving TUE for pearls" makes the MP Alan Johnson cry and has also TUE inspired an oral history and migrant integration project in TUE Glasgow. Chris Gourlay describes how the participants found TUE a way to overcome their lack of English and communicate TUE through a shared understanding of ship building practice. TUE TUE Other contributors include Hopi Sen, a political blogger who TUE was an unusually political child and the Mercury Prize TUE winning folk group The Unthanks who toured their version to TUE towns with shipbuilding connections as part of a live TUE performance of a film tracing the history of British TUE shipbuilding using archive footage. TUE TUE Producer: Natalie Steed. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01r0g4k (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01qzk9r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01r0ghw (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Battle for the Airwaves b01r0ghz (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE TUE Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, continues his series on TUE relations between broadcasters and politicians, from the TUE early days to the present: today, the Iraq War and the most TUE damaging political row in the BBC's history. He examines the TUE clash between the BBC and the government that led to the TUE resignations of the BBC's Chairman, Gavyn Davies, and its TUE Director-General, Greg Dyke, and walkouts by staff. TUE The Blair Government's decision to take Britain to war in TUE Iraq over the apparent threat posed by its dictator, Saddam TUE Hussein, was deeply controversial. After the invasion, as TUE doubts grew over whether Saddam possessed any weapons of TUE mass destruction (WMD), the Today programme reporter Andrew TUE Gilligan alleged that the Government 'probably knew' that TUE its earlier claim that Saddam could deploy WMD within 45 TUE minutes 'was wrong', even before they put it in the dossier TUE on Saddam's threat. The Government rejected Gilligan's claim TUE and Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's chief of communications, TUE repeatedly demanded an apology. After the death of the BBC's TUE source, the weapons expert Dr David Kelly, Tony Blair called TUE an inquiry. TUE The verdict of Lord Hutton's inquiry was damning on the BBC. TUE The BBC Chairman, Gavyn Davies, and the Director-General, TUE Greg Dyke, resigned. The BBC reformed its journalism and TUE complaints procedures. No WMD were found in Iraq and MI6 TUE withdrew its 45-minute claim. TUE TUE Producer: Rob Shepherd. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01r0dzw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r0gj2 (Listen) TUE Noble Cause Corruption by Fin Kennedy TUE TUE DI Maxine Boyd is a newly promoted police detective but she TUE is unprepared for life in CID. Following the apparent TUE suicide of a fellow officer in her first week she begins to TUE uncover the true nature of this overstressed and TUE overstretched department. Could it be that officers TUE routinely take the law into their own hands in order to get TUE the job done? Soon she is tested to the limit as she TUE realises how far she has to go to remain loyal to her CID TUE team. TUE TUE Noble Cause Corruption is authentic and an original police TUE drama. Serving and ex police officers were consulted during TUE the making of the drama. TUE TUE Story consultant Kris Hollington TUE Music and sound by Howard Jacques and Alisdair McGregor TUE TUE Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris TUE A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE DI Maxine Boyd: Chloe Howman TUE DC Wynters: Phil Wright TUE DC Broderick: David Hartley TUE DC Santos: Damien Cooper TUE DI Lloyd: Nicholas Gleaves TUE PC Leah Morgan: Alice O'Connell TUE Denise Dewhurst: Polly Kemp TUE Director: Boz Temple-Morris TUE Producer: Boz Temple-Morris TUE Writer: Fin Kennedy TUE TUE 15:00 The Human Zoo b01r0gj4 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people led by the TUE head or by the heart? How rational are we? How do we TUE perceive the world and what lies behind the quirks of human TUE behaviour? TUE TUE Michael Blastland presents a curious blend of intriguing TUE experiments to discover our biases and judgements, TUE conversations, explorations and examples taken from what's TUE in the news to what we do in the kitchen - all driven by a TUE large slice of curiosity. TUE TUE Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick TUE University, is on hand as guide and experimenter in chief. TUE TUE Our thoughts, John Milton said, are a kingdom of infinite TUE space and they might take us anywhere -whether our subject TUE is writ large, like the behaviours of public figures or the TUE contradictions of politics, or located in the minutiae of TUE everyday life. We can show how what happens on the big stage TUE is our own behaviour writ large - like the old Linda Smith TUE joke about the Iraq-war coalition's failure to find chemical TUE weapons: "I'm the same with the scissors". TUE TUE The Human Zoo explores why it is that our judgements are so TUE averse to ambiguity, how mental energy is linked to our TUE legs, why we don't want to be in the dock when the judge is TUE hungry - and other thoughts that have nothing to do with TUE anything much beyond the ironing. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01r0gj6 (Listen) TUE Electrifying Africa: Beyond the Grid TUE TUE Mirco-solar lamps are now lighting parts of Africa that the TUE grid cannot reach. Tom Heap investigates how the solar TUE spread is emulating the wide reach of mobile phones in TUE Africa. TUE TUE There are currently over 100 million kerosene lamps across TUE Africa that are the main source of light in parts of the TUE continent that are either off-grid or where people cannot TUE afford to hook-up to the electricity grid. These lights are TUE polluting, dangerous and expensive. TUE TUE Burning a kerosene light in a small room produces the same TUE detrimental effect as smoking two packets of cigarettes. TUE They are a fire hazard and they can cost as much as 15% of TUE an average salary to fuel in some parts of the continent. TUE TUE Tom heap sets out to discover if a small desktop solar lamp TUE that costs a fraction of the running expenses of a kerosene TUE lamp can improve the health of millions of people and help TUE to lift Africa out of poverty. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01r0gj8 (Listen) TUE Inside the Supreme Court TUE TUE In a broadcasting first the programme comes from inside the TUE United Kingdom Supreme Court where the country's most senior TUE judge, the Court's president Lord Neuberger, answers TUE questions put by Joshua Rozenberg and an audience of Law in TUE Action listeners. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01r0gjb (Listen) TUE Daljit Nagra and Susan Jeffreys TUE TUE This week's recommended books are by Edna O'Brien, Margery TUE Allingham and the anonymous author of a controversial TUE memoir, A Woman in Berlin. Harriett is joined by by poet TUE Daljit Nagra and journalist and radio critic Susan Jeffreys. TUE TUE Daljit recommends 'The Country Girls' by Edna O'Brien, a TUE funny and painful story of growing-up in Ireland in the TUE early 1960s. Susan's book is the anonymously written 'A TUE Woman in Berlin', a searing and brilliant memoir of survival TUE by a German woman living through the final weeks of World TUE War Two. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is 'Coroner's Pidgin' by one of the queens TUE of crime fiction, Margery Allingham. TUE TUE Daljit Nagra's debut poetry collection 'Look We Have Coming TUE to Dover!' won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First TUE Collection. His latest book: 'Tippoo Sultan's Incredible TUE White-Man Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!!' was shortlisted for TUE the TS Eliot Prize. Daljit is currently working on a version TUE of the South Asian classic text 'Ramayana'. There were no TUE books at home when he was a child and the first book that TUE really made an impression on him was William Blake's 'Songs TUE of Innocence and Experience' when he was nineteen. TUE TUE Daily Mail radio columnist Susan Jeffreys has always worked TUE with books, first in libraries, (notably in Zambia where she TUE delivered books by van and canoe). Later she wrote for TUE Punch, The Listener and The Observer among many other TUE publications. A Sony Gold winning broadcaster, she has also TUE written a libretto and short stories. She can't remember TUE what the first book she read was called, but she does TUE remember it was made of cloth so it could be read in the TUE bath - a tin bath in front of the fire - and she's been a TUE keen fan of bath reading ever since, as is evidenced by the TUE soggy pages of her review copies. TUE TUE Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham TUE Published by Random House TUE TUE A Girl in Berlin (Anon) TUE Published by Littlebrown TUE TUE The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01r0gjd (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qzk9t (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Elvenquest b01r0gjg (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Underworld TUE TUE The Questers are forced into the Underworld where they must TUE find Penthiselea's mum to ask her an all important question TUE that could finally lead them to the Sword of Asnagar. TUE TUE Meanwhile, Lord Darkness faces a testing time too, when he TUE tries to raise an army of the dead. TUE TUE Starring: TUE Darren Boyd as Vidar TUE Louise Delamere as Penthiselea's mother TUE Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech TUE Dave Lamb as Amis/The Gatekeeper TUE Stephen Mangan as Sam TUE Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness TUE and TUE Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea TUE TUE Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01r0gjj (Listen) TUE Shula acts quickly, and there's terrible news for Alice. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01r0gjl (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews with John Wilson. TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b01r0g4c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 How Iraq Changed the World b01r2qgj (Listen) TUE How has the world changed since the fall of Saddam Hussein TUE ten years ago? What effect did the war have on the balance TUE of power, the respect for international institutions and the TUE global standing of the United States and Britain? George W. TUE Bush described the war as 'a central commitment in the war TUE on terror' but some say that, if anything, it has promoted TUE terrorists and their cause. And then there's liberal TUE interventionism. Have we created a tyrant's charter? Leading TUE thinkers from Britain, the United States, China and Russia TUE discuss the impact of the war that has dominated our TUE headlines and reshaped our history. TUE After Saddam TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01r0gjq (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01r0gjs (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 In Defence of Bureaucracy b01r0g45 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01qzk9w (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01r0gjv (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r0gjx (Listen) TUE The Middlesteins, Episode 7 TUE TUE Edie, Emily and Robin - three generations of Middlestein TUE women - meet at Kenneth's Chinese restaurant. TUE TUE Written by Jamie Attenberg TUE Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01r0gjz (Listen) TUE Nationality TUE TUE What does it mean to be Scottish? In the 1960s, television's TUE 'The White Heather Club' was the ultimate representation of TUE Scottishness. But it wasn't how Susan thought of herself, TUE and to be honest she wasn't that bothered about it. But then TUE she watched Austin Powers, and realised that the character TUE 'Fat Bastard' was what people thought the Scots were - deep TUE fried mars bar eating, drunken, daft jocks. TUE So she started to really evaluate what it has meant to be TUE Scottish throughout history, and now believes that national TUE identity is crucial, but that you have to take control of it TUE to be proud of it. TUE But is nationalism still a dirty word, or have events like TUE the Olympics allowed us to reclaim who we are without shame? TUE Is national identity simply an excuse to be parochial and TUE defensive? What's the difference between patriotism, TUE nationalism and national identity and has the latter been TUE tainted with the former two? TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r0gk1 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 MARCH 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01qzkbq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01r0g47 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qzkbs (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qzkbv (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qzkbx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01qzkbz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r0gnx (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Clair Jaquiss. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01r0gnz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01r0hpv (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01r0gp1 (Listen) WED Curtis Stigers WED WED Libby Purves meets jazz singer Curtis Stigers. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01r0gp3 (Listen) WED Bedsit Disco Queen, Episode 3 WED WED Written and read by Tracey Thorn. WED WED Abridged by Alison Joseph WED Produced by Allegra McIlroy. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r0gp5 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme which offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b01r0gp7 (Listen) WED Marking Time, Episode 13 WED WED by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED WED Villy is indignant that Louise has gone to stay with Michael WED without telling them, but Edward is delighted when it means WED she will stay in their London house on the way back. WED WED Produced and directed by Sally Avens & Marion Nancarrow WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01r0gp9 (Listen) WED Series 12, Academy Beat WED WED Tackling poor behaviour is a key priority in an academy WED which has employed a team of former policeman as heads of WED year: Alan Dein meets Dave Clifford, the longest serving of WED them. WED WED Well versed in policing mixed communities the former police WED former East End police officer, Dave Clifford, thought he WED had pretty much seen it all - that was until he entered the WED corridors of one of the country's new showpiece academies. WED Alan finds out how he and the other police officers WED recruited as "Heads of Year" are faring and what skills from WED their former lives they are currently drawing on. WED WED Their job is not an easy one but David Clifford tells Alan WED that it brings rewards, challenges, frustrations and WED excitement in equal measure. Having joined the police force WED at 19 he was due to retire at 49 when he saw the advert for WED "behaviour managers" at a new London academy. That was eight WED years ago and now he and his police colleagues have become WED so invaluable that they've been promoted to Heads of Year. WED It's quite a grand title for someone like Dave, who left WED school with just one GCE! WED WED "What I wasn't prepared for was how vulnerable some of the WED kids are - for all their talk of street life they really WED don't have the resilience that I and my friends had when we WED were young. There are huge contrasts in the job and I see WED everything from the funniest moments to some of the most WED distressing." WED WED As Alan Dein tracks Dave Clifford through a school day he WED sees at first hand some of the challenges involved: a WED playground fight, classroom disruptions, a missing year WED eleven pupil with exams on the horizon and the mysterious WED chicken wings found over the canteen floor. None proves WED serious in itself but all take time and energy to resolve WED and have the potential to escalate... WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 11:30 Murder Is Easy b01r0gpc (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED by Agatha Christie WED Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson WED WED 3. Luke and Bridget are getting closer, in spite of WED themselves. As they discover yet another body, they think WED they know who the murderer is, but will they be able to WED prove it? WED WED Luke ..... Patrick Baladi WED Bridget ..... Lydia Leonard WED Lord Whitfield ..... Michael Cochrane WED Miss Waynflete ..... Marcia Warren WED Miss Pinkerton ..... Marlene Sidaway WED Billy Bones ..... Patrick Brennan WED Rose ..... Lizzy Watts WED Dr Thomas ..... Will Howard WED Major Horton ..... Robert Blythe WED WED Technical presentation was by Anne Bunting and Robin Warren WED WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01r0gpf (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01qzkc1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01r0h06 (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Battle for the Airwaves b01r0h08 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED WED Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, concludes his series on WED relations between broadcasters and politicians by looking at WED the present day. In previous programmes, Nick Robinson has WED looked at the General Strike in 1926; the dispute over WED foreign policy in the 1930s; the Suez crisis in 1956; the WED row between the Labour Party and the BBC in the early 1970s; WED the clashes over reporting 'The Troubles' in Northern WED Ireland, culminating in the broadcasting ban on terrorists WED and their supporters; the Falklands War; and the Iraq War. WED In this final programme, he concludes by looking at the WED present relationship between broadcasters and politicians. WED WED Producer: Rob Shepherd. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01r0gjj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r0h4m (Listen) WED The Silence at the Song's End WED WED After the death of her 23 year old son, Nicholas Heiney, WED Radio 4 broadcaster Libby Purves discovered, scattered about WED his room on bits of crumpled paper and post-it-notes, his WED poems and journals. His life in words. WED WED Getting up at dawn throughout that summer, Libby set about WED transcribing his writings - 35,000 words - onto her WED computer. She deliberately chose an unfamiliar font as a way WED of disciplining herself not to change anything. And every WED day she would email what she had typed to Heiney's former WED English tutor, Professor Duncan Wu, at St Catherine's WED College, Oxford. WED WED What followed was 'The Silence At The Song's End' - written WED by Nicholas Heiney and adapted for radio by Libby Purves. WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED As Herself: Libby Purves WED Nicholas Heiney: Joseph Drake WED Young Nicholas: Luca Thomas WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01r0h4p (Listen) WED Renting and letting WED WED Concerned about renting or letting a home? What are your WED rights and responsibilities and how do you resolve disputes? WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED The demand for rental property is increasing and so is the WED cost. The LSL Property Services Buy-to-Let index says that WED despite recent falls, rents in January were 2.8% higher than WED a year ago and The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors WED (RICS) is predicting a further increase of 4% over the WED coming 12 months. WED WED Higher rental levels may seem attractive if you're a WED would-be landlord, but what expenses should you allow for WED and how do you work out if you really can make a profit? WED What standards of safety and maintenance are required? WED WED As a tenant, do you feel you are getting value for money? Do WED you know what has happened to your deposit and what can you WED do if you are unhappy with the condition of your home? WED WED For free advice about renting and letting, talk to a team of WED experts on Wednesday. WED WED Presenter Vincent Duggleby will be joined by: WED WED Richard Lambert, Chief Executive, National Landlords WED Association WED Giles Peaker, Solicitor, Anthony Gold WED Marveen Smith, Partner, Pain Smith Solicitors WED WED Call 03 700 100 444 on Wednesday, phone lines are open WED between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard geographic charges apply. WED Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED Contact the Money Box Live Team WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01r0gjs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01r0h4r (Listen) WED Drugs for Life; Subcultural Identity WED WED Drugs for life - Laurie Taylor talks to the US WED anthropologist, Joseph Dumit, about his research into the WED burgeoning consumption of medicine in the US. Dumit did WED ethnographic research with drug company executives, WED marketers, researchers, doctors and patients, and assessed WED the industry's strategies for expanding their markets. He WED asks if the huge growth in medication ties us to a radically WED new conception of ourselves as intrinsically ill and need of WED treatment. Is this a uniquely American development or does WED it equally apply to the UK and beyond? He's joined by the WED British sociologist, John Abraham. WED WED Also, hanging on to a subcultural identity in later life - WED we hear from listeners who still carry a torch for their WED youthful selves, be it as teds, mods, punks or WED goths....Professor Angela McRobbie analyses the phenomenon. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01r0h4t (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01r0h4w (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qzkc3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dilemma b01r0h4y (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the WED moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of WED finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on WED their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was WED asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi WED Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that WED once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if WED he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, WED Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) WED WED As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also WED features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience WED Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience WED may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates WED a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the WED others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, WED where each panellist is given an indefensible action that WED they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own WED Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, WED each one following on from the last as they burrow their way WED deeper into a moral quagmire; and Quickfire, where shades of WED grey are dismissed in favour of a fingers-on-the-buzzers WED binary choice - "Would you rather eat a kitten or fight a WED swan?". WED WED This week's show sees comedian Dave Gorman cheating higher, WED faster and stronger; journalist Anita Anand deal with an WED unexpected guest; creator of Bleak Expectations Mark Evans WED getting a hand in the bush (but no birds); and comedian WED Jenny Eclair embrace dating in the digital age. WED WED The show was devised by the award-winning comedian Danielle WED Ward, and is presented by Sue Perkins. WED WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01r0h50 (Listen) WED Alice is frantic with worry. Meanwhile Ed piles on the WED pressure. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01r0h52 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b01r0gp7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01r0yt8 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, Melanie WED Phillips and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01r0ytb (Listen) WED Benjamin Cohen WED WED In the third of this year's Lent Talks, journalist and WED broadcaster Benjamin Cohen reflects on the fear of being WED abandoned by his own Jewish community, for being gay. WED WED The Lent Talks feature six well-known figures from public WED life, the arts, human rights and religion, who reflect on WED how the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry and Passion WED continues to interact with contemporary society and culture. WED The 2013 Lent Talks consider the theme of "abandonment". In WED the Lenten story, Jesus is the supreme example of this - he WED died an outcast, abandoned and rejected by his people, his WED disciples and (apparently) his Father - God. But how does WED that theme tie in with today's complex world? There are many WED ways one can feel abandoned - by family, by society, by WED war/conflict, but one can also feel abandoned through the WED loss of something, perhaps power, job or identity. The WED Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, greed, forgiveness WED and love, as well as abandonment. WED WED Speakers in this year's talks include Baroness Helena WED Kennedy, QC, who considers what it means to abandon being WED human; Alexander McCall Smith considers how you can feel WED abandoned by society as you grow older; Loretta Minghella, WED Director of Christian Aid, considers the abandonment of self WED and the need to face who we truly are; Imam Asim Hafiz, WED Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM Forces, who has WED just returned from Afghanistan, explores the total WED abandonment experienced by both sides as a result of war WED and, finally, Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's WED Piccadilly, explores the relationship between abandonment WED and betrayal. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01r0gj6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01r0gp1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01qzkc5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01r11xv (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r0ytd (Listen) WED The Middlesteins, Episode 8 WED WED As Josh and Emily's b'nai mitzvah draws ever closer, Richard WED takes his grandchildren to the synagogue. WED WED Written by Jami Attenberg WED Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Terry Pratchett's Eric b01r0zb9 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Adapted by Robin Brooks. WED WED Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a WED technicolour imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially WED when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric. WED WED 1/ 4 When precocious young Eric Thursley summons a demon WED from the loathsome pit to fulfil his every wish, he WED certainly gets what he asked for. Just... not exactly what WED he asked for. That's the problem with wishes. WED WED Rincewind ..... Mark Heap WED Eric ..... Will Howard WED Death ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Archchancellor ..... Robert Blythe WED Parrot ..... Ben Crowe WED Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie WED Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford WED Mother ..... Christine Absalom WED Narrator ..... Rick Warden WED Director ..... Jonquil Panting. WED WED 23:15 Jigsaw b01r0zbh (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine piece together WED a selection of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by WED Colin Anderson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r0zbp (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 MARCH 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01qzkd2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01r0gp3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qzkd4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qzkd6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qzkd8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01qzkdb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r0zqk (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Clair Jaquiss. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01r113b (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b01r113d (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01r113g (Listen) THU Absolute Zero THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss absolute zero, the THU lowest conceivable temperature. In the early eighteenth THU century the French physicist Guillaume Amontons suggested THU that temperature had a lower limit. The subject of low THU temperature became a fertile field of research in the THU nineteenth century, and today we know that this limit - THU known as absolute zero - is approximately minus 273 degrees THU Celsius. It is impossible to produce a temperature exactly THU equal to absolute zero, but today scientists have come to THU within a billionth of a degree. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01r113j (Listen) THU Bedsit Disco Queen, Episode 4 THU THU Written and read by Tracey Thorn. THU THU Today, Tracey confronts Ben's life threatening illness that THU altered both their lives, and her decision to give up pop THU stardom for motherhood. THU THU Abridged by Alison Joseph THU Produced by Allegra McIlroy. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r113l (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme which offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b01r113n (Listen) THU Marking Time, Episode 14 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU THU Hugh wants to spend some time in Hastings with Polly, but it THU doesn't turn out the way he had planned. Nor does the news THU Diana has for Edward. THU THU Produced and directed by Sally Avens & Marion Nancarrow THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01r113q (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Dreamers of the Black Metropolis b01r113s (Listen) THU Rita Coburn Whack tells the story of how three generations THU of painters, sculptors, poets and printmakers forged a new THU identity in Chicago's 'Black Metropolis'. THU THU Chicago, de facto black capital of America. Destination for THU the largest internal migration in American history as ten's THU of thousands of black American's left the crippling racism THU and poverty of the South for the less limited opportunities THU of the big city. THU THU The burgeoning 'black metropolis' on the city's Southside THU underwent a renaissance that nurtured painters, sculptors, THU poets and printmakers. Largely rejected by the White THU American art world centred in New York, frequently excluded THU from both studying and exhibiting in their own city and keen THU to redefine the African in America these artists were the THU dreamers of the Black Metropolis. THU THU To represent the race, to redefine their place in this white THU world and to reclaim dignity often drove THU these artists. From the jazz age came the vibrancy of THU Archibald Motley's canvases of city life & the epic murals THU of William Edouard Scott. In 1940, at the height of THU Roosevelt's New Deal 'Negro Art' was firmly on the map with THU both The American Negro Exposition and the opening of the THU Southside Community Arts Centre at the heart of Chicago's THU Bronzeville. Now artists like Charles White, Elizabeth THU Catlett, Margaret Burroughs and poet Gwendolyn Brooks had a THU space to call their own. THU THU The 'Red Scare' of the 1950's would partly silence these THU voices but the new,bold creators of the Black Art Movement THU and AfriCobra would place art in the forefront of the THU struggle for recognition and respect once again. Emmy award THU winning Rita Coburn Whack enters the still functioning THU Southside Community Arts Centre and hears from those who THU helped create new dreams for the 'Black Metropolis. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01r113v (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01qzkdd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01r12nb (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents 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 Taxi Ride around the City of Culture b01r20cp (Listen) THU Amanda Burton, Bronagh Gallagher and Alan Wright star in a THU play by Oscar-nominated writer Dave Duggan telling the story THU of Derry-Londonderry as it becomes the 2013 UK City of THU Culture. Performed before an audience at The Playhouse in THU Derry, it was originally aired as Fare Play for Voices as THU part of the Broadcasting House programme. Introduced by THU Paddy O'Connell. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01r0h50 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r11w9 (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 4, Wedlowe Sound THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Pilgrim must tackle an old adversary and save the community THU of Wedlowe Sound when it is threatened by a giant. THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby THU THU A fourth series of four thrillingly dark adventures. THU Pilgrim, cursed with immortality by the King of the THU Greyfolk, is forever forced to walk between the human world THU and the world of Faerie in a never-ending quest to preserve THU the uneasy balance between the two. In this series, armed THU with the Abaeron, a book of incredibly powerful magic that THU protects its owner above all else, he can finally challenge THU Mr Speed who has stolen generations of brides from one THU family, separate devoted parents from their very strange new THU changeling baby, put a giant to sleep, and locate Merlin, THU the figure most feared in all the Faerie world. Hard tasks THU at the best of times, but Pilgrim must also contend with the THU relentless malice of the sorceress Mrs Pleasance and the THU devious cunning of the King of the Greyfolk himself. THU Read Producer Marc Beeby's blog THU THU Credits THU William Palmer: Paul Hilton THU Wedlowe: Ronald Pickup THU Massey: Paul Stonehouse THU Neil: Will Howard THU Gwen: Liza Sadovy THU Dreamer: Ben Crowe THU Girl: Agnes Bateman THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01r11wc (Listen) THU Series 23, David Sedaris THU THU The author, David Sedaris, takes Clare Balding on a THU litter-picking walk in West Sussex. THU THU When David Sedaris was a child he would clear up around the THU house, and keep his own bedroom perfectly tidy. This THU obsession has, in recent years, been transferred to the THU outdoors and Sedaris is now a devoted daily litter-picker, THU cleaning the roadside verges of Pulborough and the THU surrounding area. THU THU Clare imagined that this edition of Ramblings might take her THU across the South Downs, occasionally reaching for a stray THU bottle or piece of paper. In reality it involved walking THU less than two miles, and filling six bin bags full to THU bursting with all manner of filthy rubbish. All while THU wearing a fetching hi-viz jacket. A very unusual edition of THU Ramblings! THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01r09sp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01r0b19 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01r11wf (Listen) THU Francine Stock talks to Tim Roth, Steven Soderbergh and THU Frank Langella THU THU The director Steven Soderbergh, who made Oceans Eleven to THU Thirteen, Traffic and Che talks to Francine Stock about his THU new film Side Effects, a thriller exploring the apparent THU effects of taking anti depressants. The actor Frank Langella THU who played Nixon in Frost/Nixon discusses his new buddy THU movie Robot and Frank, in which a retired thief deals with THU his encroaching senility by planning one more heist, with THU the help of a robot. And Tim Roth on Broken, a British film THU dealing with adolescence and everyday violence. Producer: THU Elaine Lester. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01r11wh (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01r11wk (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qzkdg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b01r11wm (Listen) THU Series 9, How to Be a Woman in the 21st Century THU THU Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves THU with a broadcast of national comic import as he delves into THU the murky world of womanlitude. Expect polite language from THU the start. THU THU Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of THU debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank THU exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, THU erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series THU of his show, famous for lines like - THU "Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far THU East. My 12-year old daughter asked me for a new pair of THU trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make THU her own" and, "Islam is no weirder than Christianity. Both THU are just Judaism with the jokes taken out." THU THU Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they THU first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show THU was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on THU a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since THU the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment THU department was besieged, questions were asked in the House THU and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible THU for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with THU Paul Lewis. THU THU Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony THU Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for THU Chemistry. THU THU The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by THU Jeremy's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler. THU THU Written by Jeremy Hardy THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01r11wp (Listen) THU Susan is thrown into a panic, and Elizabeth handles some THU hostile questions. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01r11wr (Listen) THU John Wilson assesses David Bowie's music and influence, in THU the light of a new album and a major exhibition. John also THU draws on his own archive of interviews with Bowie. THU THU Producer Olivia Skinner. THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b01r113n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01r0gj8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01r11wt (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 Who's the Pest? b01r0g4f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01r113g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01qzkdj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01r11ww (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r11wy (Listen) THU The Middlesteins, Episode 9 THU THU It's Josh and Emily's special day, and all the Middlesteins THU are gathered for the b'nai mitzvah. But what do Edie and THU Richard's friends - the Cohns and the Grodsteins and the THU Weinmans and the Frankens - make of it all? THU THU Written by Jami Attenberg THU Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b01r11x0 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Last year, comedian Bridget Christie noticed that misogyny, THU like shiny leggings, had made an unexpected comeback. But THU did it ever really go away? Bridget Christie Minds the Gap THU is a new four-part stand up comedy series on the state of THU British feminism today. THU An incident involving a man, a smell and a well-known THU bookstore made her ask what place feminism has in modern THU Britain, whether the fight has been won or is being fought THU on different fronts. Plus, why did Bic launch the "Bic for THU Her" - a pen specifically designed for a woman's hand? THU In episode one she asks why feminism became a dirty word and THU whether the modern British woman needs it. From a smell in a THU well known bookshop to a pen designed specially for women, THU she looks at some of the more ridiculous things associated THU with being a woman. THU Fred MacAuley helps her remember some of the key incidents THU which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms. THU Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r11x2 (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 MARCH 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01qzkfc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01r113j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qzkff (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qzkfh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qzkfk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01qzkfm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r123c (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Clair Jaquiss. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01r123f (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01r123h (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01r09sy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01r123k (Listen) FRI Bedsit Disco Queen, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written and read by Tracey Thorn. FRI FRI Abridged by Alison Joseph FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r12lj (Listen) FRI How practical would it be for MPs to job share? What's it FRI like to be a woman without a mother on Mother's Day - FRI playwright Lucy Gannon talks about her personal experience. FRI How has ten years of war affected Iraqi women? Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b01r12ll (Listen) FRI Marking Time, Episode 15 FRI FRI by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Lin Coghlan FRI FRI Polly is distressed that her parents aren't talking to one FRI another about her mother's illness and confides in Miss FRI Milliment.. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Sally Avens & Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 11:00 Why Bob the Builder Has Moved Overseas b01r12ln (Listen) FRI Bob the Builder has moved overseas. This is the jaunty title FRI of Gerald Scarfe's documentary about a crisis in British FRI animation, which like so many other industries is now moving FRI abroad. Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine are both FRI now owned by the American toy giant Mattel, and tax breaks FRI in Ireland and Canada mean that much British animation is FRI now being drawn overseas. FRI FRI "My name is Gerald Scarfe, and I've been involved in this FRI business for some fifty years, working for Disney on FRI Hercules and Pink Floyd's The Wall, as well as doing my FRI weekly cartoon for the Sunday Times. My son is an animator, FRI and my grandson wants to work in the business too, so I'm FRI obviously keen to see if there's going to be an industry in FRI ten or fifteen years." FRI FRI With contributions from Nick Park of Aardman, culture FRI minister Ed Vaizey, and Brian Cosgrove, creator of FRI Dangermouse and Count Duckula, this is a high quality FRI insight into a business we all take for granted, but for FRI which other nations have enormous respect. Last year the FRI Chancellor George Osborne, in his budget statement, stated FRI that it was government policy 'that we keep Wallace and FRI Gromit exactly where they are'. This then is the starting FRI point for a gripping tale of talent, toons, and tax breaks. FRI FRI The producer is Miles Warde. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b01r12lq (Listen) FRI Series 4, Goodbye Uncle Norman FRI FRI In this new series of HR by Nigel Williams, Sam has won the FRI lottery. He has to write a speech for a recently deceased - FRI but long-forgotten - uncle. And at the crematorium all is FRI not what it seems. FRI FRI Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost FRI Boffo ..... Pip Torrens FRI Gordon ..... Ben Crowe FRI Vicar ..... Robert Blythe FRI Woman ..... Christine Absalom FRI FRI Director: Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01r12ls (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01qzkfp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01r12lv (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 Eat, Pray, Write a Memoir b01r1331 (Listen) FRI Memoirs top the non-fiction best selling lists and memoir FRI writing courses are bursting at the seams. FRI FRI Ian McMillan goes in search of how to write a memoir. He FRI meets Helena Drysdale - a memoirist who teaches the skill, FRI and Helena Tym who decided to write her memoir ' Chin up, FRI Head down,' after her son was killed in Afghanistan. FRI FRI Writers from the Ty Newydd writers centre in Wales talk FRI about starting their memoirs, and Ian encourages Radio 4 FRI listeners to stop whatever they're doing, and put down the FRI first words of their own . FRI FRI Producer: Janet Graves FRI A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01r11wp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r1333 (Listen) FRI And/Or FRI FRI By Jason Sutton FRI FRI A dark story of love, obsession and aspiration starring FRI Lauren Socha. FRI FRI Miriam is unhappy with her life; she works hard delivering FRI groceries for a supermarket, but still can't afford to move FRI out of her mum's house. But when she develops a relationship FRI with David, one of her well-off customers, Miriam's life FRI begins to change. Finally she's found an escape route. Only FRI one things stands in her way, David's wife. FRI FRI Veronica is high flying, career driven and successful; she's FRI a very different woman to Miriam. The two square up to each FRI other in a darkly compelling confrontation and as events FRI take a dangerous turn, it soon becomes clear that only one FRI of them can prevail. FRI FRI Directed by James Robinson FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Miriam: Lauren Socha FRI Veronica: Eiry Thomas FRI David: Alun Raglan FRI Alan: Gareth Pierce FRI Director: James Robinson FRI Writer: Jason Sutton FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01r1335 (Listen) FRI Batley FRI FRI Eric Robson and the GQT team visit local gardeners in FRI Batley. Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Matthew Biggs FRI are on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Maiden City Stories b01r1337 (Listen) FRI The Sacrifice FRI FRI Three new short stories, specially commissioned by BBC Radio FRI 4 to celebrate Derry~Londonderry's status as UK City of FRI Culture, from some of the city's leading literary figures. FRI Seamus Deane, Jennifer Johnston and Brian McGilloway each FRI bring us a new short story, recorded in front of an audience FRI in the city's Verbal Arts Centre. FRI FRI 'The Sacrifice' by Brian McGilloway FRI FRI Grianan of Aileach is a prehistoric ring fort sitting atop FRI Grianan hill, barely ten miles from the centre of FRI Derry~Londonderry, yet in a different jurisdiction, a few FRI miles over the border in the Irish Republic. So when a dead FRI body is discovered there, bruised and half-naked, DS Lucy FRI Black is summoned over the border to investigate how it FRI ended up in the middle of nowhere and why. FRI FRI Read by Laura Pyper FRI Produced by Michael Shannon. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01r14tb (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01r14tn (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: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01r14ts (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qzkfr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01r14tx (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01r14v1 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Rayan Kelly FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron FRI Stephen Maidment ..... Brian Bowles FRI Nancy Applegate ..... Joanna Brookes. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01r14v3 (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, who reports on the play Longing, William FRI Boyd's debut as a stage dramatist, which draws on two FRI stories by Chekhov. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b01r12ll (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01r14v7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Brighton with activist Peter Tatchell, Secretary of FRI State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey MP, Andrea FRI Leadsom MP and the award winning crime writer Peter James. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01r14vc (Listen) FRI Lisa Jardine reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b00r32vt (Listen) FRI Vincent Price and the Horror of the English Blood Beast FRI FRI By Matthew Broughton. In 1967, Vincent Price came to the UK FRI to make the horror movie Witchfinder General. It was the FRI best performance of his career, and the worst few months of FRI his life. This play takes a light-hearted look behind the FRI scenes of the making of this classic British film. FRI FRI Other parts played by Simon Ludders and Lynne Seymour FRI FRI Produced and directed by Sam Hoyle. FRI FRI Credits FRI Vincent Price: Nickolas Grace FRI Tony Tenser: Kenneth Cranham FRI Michael Reeves: Blake Ritson FRI Philip Waddilove: Richard Nichols FRI Hilary Dwyer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge FRI Ian Ogilvy: Gareth Pierce FRI Actor: Simon Ludders FRI Actor: Lynne Seymour FRI Director: Sam Hoyle FRI Producer: Sam Hoyle FRI Writer: Matthew Broughton FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01qzkft (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01r14vh (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r14vm (Listen) FRI The Middlesteins, Episode 10 FRI FRI After the b'nai mitzvah, Kenneth sets off for Edie's home to FRI share food and - he hopes - love. FRI FRI Written by Jami Attenberg FRI Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01r0gjb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r14vp (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI