12 April, 2013

Radio 4 Listings for 13/04/2013 - 19/04/2013

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SAT SATURDAY 13 APRIL 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01rrbzt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01rtz8m (Listen) SAT Mom and Me and Mom, Episode 5 SAT SAT When Maya Angelou is in Sweden for the filming of her first SAT screenplay she finds she needs some motherly support. The SAT formidable Vivian Baxter is on the next plane out. SAT SAT Read by Adjoa Andoh SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rrbzw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rrbzy (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rrc00 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01rrc02 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rrdd6 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with SAT Monsignor Tony Rogers. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01rrdd8 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01rrc04 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01rrc06 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01rr7rt (Listen) SAT Graham Sutherland's Pembrokeshire SAT SAT Graham Sutherland talked of Pembrokeshire as the place where SAT 'I began to learn painting'. In this week's Open Country, SAT Felicity Evans follows in his footsteps, discovering the SAT landscapes that inspired his work. The abstract shapes and SAT colours of his art are revealed through conversations with a SAT self confessed 'Sutherland Groupie' also known as art SAT historian Sally Moss and geologist and writer Dr Brian John. SAT Felicity also meets with Susie and Nicky Philipps of Picton SAT Castle who recall Sutherland's visits to their ancestral SAT home and local artist Sarah Jane Brown who shares her own SAT artistic view of 'Sutherland's' land. SAT SAT Presented by Felicity Evans SAT Produced by Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01rtzck (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Pig farming - the UK herd is at its smallest since 1952, but SAT some farmers are making it work. Caz Graham visits the SAT intensive pig unit at Harper Adams University in Shropshire SAT to hear why farmers are optimisitc about the industry's SAT future. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01rrc08 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01rtzcm (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah SAT Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the SAT Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01rtzdv (Listen) SAT Lindsey Davis and the Inheritance Tracks of Graham Fellows SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with author Lindsey Davis, SAT creator of the much loved Roman detective 'Falco', the SAT Inheritance Tracks of Graham Fellows- the creator of John SAT Shuttleworth-the story of Dorit Oliver-Wolff who hid in SAT Budapest during WW2, became a famous singer and now tours SAT schools telling young people about her experiences, Ben SAT Fogle exploring explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell's SAT house, the pleasure of digging with trowels and conductor SAT John Lubbock founder of the Orchestra of St John talking SAT about the importance of taking music out in the every nook SAT and cranny of the community. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Prisoner Soul b01rtzdx (Listen) SAT In the 1960s and early 1970s, a number of U.S. prisons SAT allowed inmates to form bands and produce commercially SAT available LPs. Today, many of those records are collectors' SAT items. SAT SAT Gary Younge tracks down some of the men who were in these SAT groups, finding out how the music shaped their lives and SAT hearing from those who supported this progressive initiative SAT in the face of the old punitive regime. SAT SAT Gary travels to Huntsville, Texas, where a bespoke studio SAT was built within the prison. Visiting the maximum security SAT Wynne Unit, Gary is joined by the scheme's former music SAT director, Harley Rex. This is the first time Harley has SAT returned to the unit in over thirty years and he details the SAT scale and impact of the project. Outside the prison's high SAT walls, Gary and Harley meet ex-inmate John Indo who explains SAT how the music affected the 17 years he served inside. SAT SAT Over on the East Coast, in New Jersey's Rahway prison, SAT Reginald Haynes was another inmate with a similar SAT initiative. Reginald was spotted at a convict talent show by SAT established music producer George Kerr and a group now known SAT as The Legendary Escorts was formed. Reginald tells the SAT extraordinary story of how the group's first album was SAT produced, and of the changes the scheme would bring to his SAT later life on the outside. SAT SAT Back in Texas Gary meets the local people who live near the SAT prison and finds out what impact commercially releasing the SAT music had on people's perceptions of the prisoners. He'll SAT hear how inmates performed locally, including at the always SAT popular prison rodeo. SAT SAT Produced by Vivienne Perry SAT A Like It Is production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 What Thatcher Did Next b01s4z6h (Listen) SAT Elinor Goodman explores Margaret Thatcher's life and SAT continuing political involvement as a 'back seat driver' SAT after she ceased to be prime minister. SAT SAT With interviews with former cabinet colleagues and others SAT who knew her well, the programme examines how she attempted SAT to influence her successors, often to the annoyance of many SAT Conservatives although with the backing of her continuing SAT supporters. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01rv0lf (Listen) SAT The Stradivarius Tree SAT SAT Colour and insight from reporters around the world: the man SAT who'll find you a violin tree in the Jura Mountains; what's SAT going to happen to the man who tends the roses in the Afghan SAT town of Lashkar Gah? Culture clash in Bamako -- how some of SAT the refugees from Mali's north are overstaying their SAT welcome. Why the Mexican president's warning about SAT vigilantes won't be heeded in the mountainous south-west and SAT ominous signs as birds of prey gather in the Kenyan capital, SAT Nairobi. SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01rv0lh (Listen) SAT Card charges, Thatcher's finance legacy, bank customers SAT unable to run their account SAT SAT From this week excessive charges for using a credit or debit SAT card will be outlawed. 'Excessive' meaning more than the SAT actual cost to the vendor of accepting that payment method. SAT That cost, subject to some argument this week, is probably SAT 20p-50p for a debit card and around 2% or 2.5% for a credit SAT card. Money Box finds examples of firms overcharging this SAT week and one says they will stop it. And if you find a firm SAT not obeying this new law what can you do? Executive director SAT of Which? Richard Lloyd joins the programme. SAT SAT The death of Lady Thatcher this week has led to much SAT examination of her impact on the UK. Pensions, investments, SAT mortgages, financial advice, and industry were all changed SAT beyond recognition in little more than a decade. Julie SAT Wilson, IFA at Penlife Associates; Justin Urquhart Stewart, SAT Seven Investment Management and Malcolm McLean, Pensions SAT Consultant, Barnett Waddingham, debate Lady Thatcher's SAT personal finance legacy. SAT SAT New guidance was issued this week to tell banks how they SAT should deal with people who have the legal right to run a SAT bank account for a relative who has lost their mental SAT capacity. Some banks are very bad at understanding the way SAT the law works and their obligations under it to people SAT acting under a Power of Attorney or an order of the Court of SAT Protection. We look at what the banks should do - and how it SAT works in practice. Experts include: Chair of Solicitors for SAT the Elderly, Chris Belcher; and Alan Eccles, chief SAT executive, Office of the Public Guardian. SAT SAT And: If you're one of thousands of Nationwide customers with SAT a Flexclusive ISA, you could benefit from a mistake by the SAT Building Society. But only if you act quickly. Plus a Cash SAT ISA roundup of the best deals. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01rrcsh (Listen) SAT Series 80, Episode 1 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Andrew Maxwell, Daniel SAT Finkelstein, and Roisin Conaty. SAT SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01rrc0b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01rrc0d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01rrd8d (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Exeter with UKIP Party Director Lisa Duffy, John Cooper SAT QC, Francis Maude MP the Minister to the Cabinet Office and SAT the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01rv0lk (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01rv0lm (Listen) SAT Great Escape: The Justice SAT SAT Seventy years ago this month, a group of Air Force officers SAT began work on an ambitious plan to tunnel their way out of a SAT German POW camp called Stalag Luft Three. A year later the SAT tunnel was ready and seventy-six made their escape. All but SAT three were recaptured, but fifty were then systematically SAT executed on orders from German High Command. This much was SAT made internationally famous by Hollywood in the film The SAT Great Escape, which mixes a meticulous depiction of the SAT tunnelling plan with highly fictionalised American SAT characters on motorbikes. SAT SAT But there is a stranger part of the story which starts where SAT the film leaves off, and reveals the real history behind the SAT nation-building legend. The British Government vowed to SAT avenge the murders, and within weeks of the war's end, sent SAT RAF investigators into the ruins of Germany, with orders to SAT track down the killers, and bring them to exemplary justice. SAT SAT Award-winning dramatist Robin Brooks and internationally SAT best-selling novelist Robert Radcliffe tell the SAT extraordinary story of the escape, the murders, and the SAT postwar manhunt in the chaos of divided Germany, through the SAT eyes of one of the senior investigating officers: a SAT straightforward by-the-book detective from Blackpool CID. SAT SAT Credits SAT Sqn Ldr McKenna: Stephen Tompkinson SAT Nixon: Gunnar Cauthery SAT Schulmann: Ewan Bailey SAT Max Wielen: Nicholas Murchie SAT Emil Schulz: Rick Warden SAT Oberst von Lindeiner: Robert Blythe SAT Roger Bushell: Ben Crowe SAT Paul Brickhill: Michael Shelford SAT Nils Fuglesang: Will Howard SAT Marie: Amaka Okafor SAT Gluck: Paul Stonehouse SAT Angela Schulz: Hannah Wood SAT Director: Jonquil Panting SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT Writer: Robin Brooks SAT SAT 15:30 Comme Je Suis - Sketches of Juliette Greco b01rqpkh (Listen) SAT The singer Juliette Greco emerged in post-war Parisian SAT society as an embodiment of the bohemian ideas and ideals SAT that gripped the Left Bank. SAT SAT A shy girl from the provinces, she had been part of the SAT Resistance, before pursuing a career as singer and actress. SAT Jean-Paul Sartre described her voice as containing "a SAT million poems". Miles Davis famously fell for her, but SAT wouldn't marry her, saying he "loved her too much to make SAT her unhappy"! SAT SAT Laura Barton has always been drawn to what Greco represents SAT - that voice, her black-clad kohl-eyed image - and presents SAT a sequence of sketches, impressions, portraits of the SAT octogenarian singer. SAT SAT With contributions from Ginette Vincendeau, Philip Sweeney, SAT Pascal Grierson and others. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall. SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01rv0lp (Listen) SAT Helena Morrisey; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland SAT SAT Helena Morrisey on running a successful business and getting SAT women on company boards. Baroness Shirley Williams and SAT former MPs Louise Mensch and Jacqui Smith discuss the legacy SAT of Margaret Thatcher to women in politics with feminist SAT author Natasha Walter. Issy Suttie, who plays Dobby in Peep SAT Show, on meddling in other people's love lives. 15 years SAT after the Good Friday Agreement - what's been the impact on SAT women's lives? United Nations' Special Representative on SAT Sexual Violence, Zainab Hawa Bangura. Esther Rantzen and SAT Mary Russell discuss whether lying about your age is ever a SAT good thing. SAT Presenter Jenni Murray SAT Producer Dianne McGregor. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01rv0lr (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01rrdd8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rrc0g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01rrc0j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rrc0l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01rv0lt (Listen) SAT Joan Collins, Jamie Cullum, Cleo Rocos, Enda Walsh, Scottee, SAT Sweet Baboo SAT SAT Actress, author and ultimate glamourpuss Joan Collins has SAT just hit London's West End with her acclaimed one woman SAT show. She talks to Clive about her career, most notably SAT playing Alexis Carrington in glitzy soap opera Dynasty. 'One SAT Night With Joan' reveals the stories and secrets of a SAT Hollywood legend. It's at the Leicester Square Theatre and SAT touring until the end of April. SAT SAT Clive's busking with playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh, SAT whose screenplay credits include 'Disco Pigs' and the award SAT winning 'Hunger' about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Enda SAT wrote the book of the multi-award winning musical 'Once'; SAT the story of an Irish busker's meeting with a young Czech SAT mother and is a celebration of love, friendship and music. SAT It's at London's Phoenix Theatre until Saturday 30th SAT November. SAT SAT Performer Scottee is this week's guest interviewer, and SAT cracks the whip with Miss Whiplash herself, comedy actress SAT Cleo Rocos, who reveals what life was like as Kenny SAT Everett's sidekick. Cleo enjoys a tipple 'in the best SAT possible taste'and her new book The Power Of Positive SAT Drinking' is a masterclass on how to drink and be merry, SAT ensuring that every drinking occasion snowballs into a SAT glorious and triumphant event. SAT SAT Clive tickles the ivories with multi-talented musician, SAT producer and broadcaster Jamie Cullum, who's back to talk SAT about his sixth album 'Momentum'. Having sold over ten SAT million records worldwide, collaborating with artists from SAT Stevie Wonder to The Roots, Jamie performs in the Loose Ends SAT studio 'Everything You Didn't Do' from his new album. SAT SAT More music this week from Stephen Black AKA Sweet Baboo, who SAT performs 'If I Died' from his album 'Ships'. SAT SAT Producer Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01rv0lw (Listen) SAT Elizabeth Llewellyn SAT SAT Mary Ann Seighart profiles Elizabeth Llewellyn, the daughter SAT of Jamaican immigrants, who had an obvious talent for SAT singing from an early age. Her school-teachers in south SAT London encouraged her to take lessons and go to concerts, SAT and she won a place at the Royal Northern College of Music. SAT But ill-health forced her to drop out. She then pursued an SAT alternative career in IT recruitment, her talent lying SAT dormant. But when, years later, she joined an amateur choir, SAT her new colleagues urged her to take her voice more SAT seriously. She auditioned for the Glyndebourne chorus and SAT from that point on her rise has been meteoric. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01rv0ly (Listen) SAT The Rijksmuseum and Once on the London stage SAT SAT The Rijksmuseum re-opens in Amsterdam; Chimamanda Ngozi SAT Adichie's new novel Americanah; and the musical Once arrives SAT on the London stage. SAT SAT Producer: Fiona Couper SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01rv0m0 (Listen) SAT Radiolab SAT SAT Radiolab, an American public radio programme, has been on SAT the air for over ten years. Its co-creators, Jad Abumrad and SAT Robert Krulwich (who are also the presenters), say it's SAT somewhere inbetween science and the humanities. It certainly SAT breaks down the conventions of science and, for that matter, SAT most broadcast journalism. Made by WNYC, New York Public SAT Radio, it has fans around the world - two million people SAT download their podcasts each month. The show itself has won SAT a prestigious Peabody award. SAT SAT Neither Jad nor Robert have a scientific background and they SAT aren't afraid to demonstrate how they try to understand a SAT scientific study or theory and sometimes can't get a handle SAT on it. They engage in what appears to be effortless banter, SAT deftly handling topics that might seem intimidating at first SAT sight. SAT SAT Scientists taking part include Oliver Sacks and Richard SAT Dawkins. They don't come over as authority figures and often SAT reveal their personal stories. British neuropsychologist SAT Paul Broks, who is a regular contributor, says "I like the SAT idea that they leave things hanging. Popular science SAT programmes usually wrap things up too tightly, but science SAT isn't like that". SAT SAT Although they are a generation apart, Robert and Jad appear SAT to be equals. They take on subjects like sperm, colour, the SAT nature of numbers, stress, the afterlife, symmetry, the SAT evolution of altruism and race. SAT SAT While respecting the science, they're not afraid to have fun SAT and complain that 'there's not enough joy in public radio'. SAT So their hour-long shows recreate experiments, employ radio SAT drama, singing and occasionally, audience participation. SAT SAT Producer: Judith Kampfner SAT A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01rqhvz (Listen) SAT A Larkin Double, A Girl in Winter SAT SAT Episode 2 (of 2): A Girl in Winter SAT SAT Philip Larkin's second and final novel which he wrote in SAT 1946, aged 24, and dramatised for the first time on BBC SAT Radio 4 by Richard Stevens. SAT SAT In wintery wartime Britain, Katherine Lind, exiled and SAT alone, endures her job as an assistant in an obscure SAT provincial library with an unpleasant boss and unfriendly SAT colleagues. Frozen in time and tragedy, her past is gone - SAT and with it her family, her friends, her old life. She is SAT living moment by moment. But on this cold, bleak Saturday, SAT news from an English family she once knew forces her to SAT relive the idyllic summer she spent with them six years SAT before. Will Katherine's icy heart finally start to melt? SAT SAT A Girl in Winter is a beautiful evocation of the icy SAT claustrophobia that Philip Larkin himself endured, working SAT in a provincial library in his early twenties, when his SAT career as a poet was only just beginning. SAT SAT This new radio adaptation stars Carolyn Genzkow, a young SAT German film and television star, based in Berlin. Meeting SAT British radio actors for the first time and performing in SAT English, Carolyn brings wonderful authenticity to the role SAT of the isolated émigré Katherine Lind. SAT SAT Dramatised by Richard Stevens SAT Sound by Alisdair McGregor SAT Producer/Director: Fiona McAlpine SAT SAT An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Katherine Lind: Carolyn Genzkow SAT Robin Fennel: Jolyon Coy SAT Jane Fennel: Clare Corbett SAT Mr Anstey: Nicholas Woodeson SAT Miss Brooks: Jill Cardo SAT Miss Green: Sinead Matthews SAT Veronica Parbury: Matilda Ziegler SAT Jack Stormalong: Clive Brill SAT Director: Fiona McAlpine SAT Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT Writer: Richard Stevens SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01rrc0n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b01rr55c (Listen) SAT Series 6, Character SAT SAT Character can be broadly defined as the collection of SAT strengths and weaknesses that form and define who we are. SAT But to get an idea of what constitutes "good" character we SAT have to go back to the ancient Greek philosophers like SAT Aristotle, who said that the potential for good character is SAT by nature in humans but whether virtues come to be present SAT or not is not determined by human nature but as a SAT consequence of following the right habits. SAT SAT Fast forward a couple of millennia and the role of character SAT is again a hot topic. As a generation of children emerge SAT into an adult world of fierce competition, shrinking job SAT markets and over-subscribed and costly higher education, SAT questions are being asked about how prepared they are for SAT this strange new world. And with anxiety at epidemic levels SAT and a huge rise in cases of depression in teenagers; could SAT focus on character and character education be as important SAT as grades in equipping children for an uncertain future. SAT SAT Joining Mariella Frostrup to discuss this are Baroness SAT Claire Tyler, Lib Dem peer from the Social Mobility All SAT Party Parliamentary Group; Tom Harrison, the Deputy Director SAT of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values at the SAT University of Birmingham; Tim Gill, a writer and consultant SAT on childhood issues; Sue Atkins, a parenting expert, writer SAT and coach , and Dr Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington SAT College. SAT SAT Producer: Alison Hughes. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01rqnf1 (Listen) SAT Series 3, University of Edinburgh SAT SAT A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a SAT team of three University students take on a team of three of SAT their professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Edinburgh, the SAT specialist subjects are Biological Sciences, History of Art SAT and International Relations and the questions range from SAT Lady Chatterley and Aubrey Beardsley through to laughing gas SAT and Carly Rae Jepson. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Broken Paradise b01rqhw3 (Listen) SAT To mark the fourth anniversary of the ending of Sri Lanka's SAT civil war, in May 2009, translator Lakshmi Holmström SAT introduces some of the most powerful Tamil poetry to emerge SAT from the 26 year long conflict, in which an estimated 70,000 SAT people were killed as militant Tamil Tigers fought to SAT establish a separate Tamil state in the north of the island. SAT SAT These poems bear witness to the atrocities committed by both SAT sides and reflect on some of the war's most significant SAT turning points, from the deadly introduction of female SAT suicide bombers to the final bloody showdown on a beach near SAT Jaffna, where government forces conclusively defeated the SAT Tamil Tigers. SAT SAT Poets featured include Cheran, probably the most significant SAT living Tamil poet, whose poems chart the history of the war SAT and of a landscape once idyllic, now devastated. There is SAT also a poem by S. Sivaramani, a promising young woman poet SAT who committed suicide in 1991. In Oppressed by Nights of War SAT she describes the impact of the violence and fear on SAT children. SAT SAT Presenter Lakshmi Holmström MBE is a widely acclaimed SAT translator of Tamil fiction and poetry. A collection of her SAT translations of Cheran's poetry is to be published this SAT summer, titled In a Time of Burning. SAT SAT Readings by Hiran Abeysekara, Vayu Naidu and Vignarajah SAT SAT Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SAT A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 14 APRIL 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01rtffv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Human Cradle b01bbd8q (Listen) SUN Saba SUN SUN In Sulaiman Addonia's new short story 'Saba', a former SUN cinema employee decides to create a 'cinema' of his own SUN inside a refugee camp. Read by Abukar Osman. SUN SUN The first of three contemporary stories from the Horn of SUN Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. SUN SUN Produced by Emma Harding SUN SUN About the author: Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia was born in SUN Eritrea to an Eritrean mother and an Ethiopian father. He SUN spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following SUN the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he SUN lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has lived in SUN London since 1990. His first novel, The Consequences of Love SUN (Vintage) was published in 2009. SUN SUN Producer: Emma Harding SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rtffz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rtfg3 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rtfg5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01rtfg7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01rv33k (Listen) SUN The bells of St.Mary the Virgin, Hanbury, Worcestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01rv0lw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01rtfg9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01rv33m (Listen) SUN Taking Up the Thread SUN SUN Samira Ahmed takes up the thread to reflect on some of the SUN ways 'threads' can lead us and connect us in our lives. A SUN thread is something we can follow, lose and pick up again. SUN We might find ourselves hanging by a thread, or tying some SUN loose ones together. They can bind us and we can break them. SUN They are woven into our lives literally, metaphorically and SUN linguistically. SUN SUN The idea of following a thread to guide us is age-old, found SUN for example in the Greek myth of Ariadne's thread leading SUN Theseus out of the labyrinth, after he'd slain the Minotaur. SUN Who doesn't need the thread of understanding to lead them SUN through life's maze sometimes? Sacred threads play a SUN significant role in the ceremonies of many faiths and SUN cultures, not least in the life of the Guru Nanak and the SUN founding of the Sikh faith. And when they are woven or SUN knitted together, threads can play a potent role in art and SUN domestic life. SUN SUN Featuring music by Monteverdi, Bjork and Judy Collins, and SUN writing by Robert Graves, Simon Armitage and Kate SUN Summerscale. SUN SUN Produced by Caroline Hughes SUN Presented by Samira Ahmed SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01rv33p (Listen) SUN For auctioneer, Chris Armstrong and others at Hexham Mart in SUN Northumberland, it wasn't enough to sit back and watch as SUN the average age of people taking part in their livestock SUN auctions edged ever upwards. The Mart is now in the fifth SUN year of a scheme in which the company invests significant SUN sums by putting money up front for young farmers to 'buy' an SUN animal from market and then take it home to over-winter. In SUN March there is a young farmers show, and then a sale, both SUN featuring only animals involved in this competition. Who SUN will win the show, which animal will make the most profit, SUN and will this realistically help to bring enough young SUN people back to the traditional livestock markets to keep SUN them going in changing times? SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01rtfgc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01rtfgf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01rv33r (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01rv33t (Listen) SUN OCD Action SUN SUN Keira Bartlett, who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive SUN Disorder, presents the Radio 4 Appeal for OCD Action SUN Reg Charity:1035213 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN OCD Action. SUN SUN  OCD Action is a national charity focusing on Obsessive SUN Compulsive Disorder (OCD). We provide support and SUN information to anybody affected by OCD, work to raise SUN awareness of the disorder amongst the public and frontline SUN healthcare workers, and strive to secure a better deal for SUN people with OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a SUN debilitating mental health condition affecting between 1-2% SUN of the UK population. It is often trivialised and SUN misunderstood by health professionals and the general SUN public, and the lack of awareness of both the seriousness of SUN OCD and the treatments available is a tragedy for those SUN whose lives are destroyed by the disorder, and for their SUN loved ones SUN SUN Our vision is of a society where OCD is better understood SUN and diagnosed quickly, where appropriate treatment options SUN are open and accessible, where support and information are SUN readily available and where nobody feels ashamed to ask for SUN help. We provide a range of vital services for anyone SUN affected by OCD, from a national support and information SUN helpline for people making their first steps to recovery SUN through to one-to-one Advocacy support championing those SUN most in need. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01rtfgh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01rtfgk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01rv33w (Listen) SUN A service from Chester Cathedral, a place of worship for SUN nearly two thousand years and the site of a Benedictine SUN monastery in the 11th century. The service explores the SUN question the abbott would ask someone exploring the SUN religious life: "What do you seek?" and extends that SUN searching question to all looking for meaning in life today. SUN The service reflects traditional Benedictine spirituality SUN with psalms and plainchant hymns. The Chester Cathedral Nave SUN Choir is directed by Benjamin Chewter and the organist is SUN Geoffrey Woollatt. The service is led by Canon Peter Jenner SUN and the preacher is the Bishop of Stockport, Robert Atwell. SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01rrd9c (Listen) SUN Science, Magic and Madness SUN SUN What is the difference between magic and science? What is SUN the difference between Galileo and his contemporary, the SUN famous Elizabethan astrologer and alchemist John Dee? SUN According to Adam Gopnik it's the experimental method - the SUN looking and seeing and testing that goes with true science. SUN But when he wrote about this recently he found that fervent SUN members of the John Dee fan club disagreed. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01rv33y (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01rv340 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Adrian Flynn SUN Director ..... Peter Leslie Wild SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Shula Hebden LLoyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens SUN Celia Redwood ..... Anita Dobson SUN Maurice Horton ..... Philip Fox SUN Jonathan Roberts ..... James Howard SUN Janice Longfield ..... Susan Jeffrey SUN Callum Longfield ..... Tommy Jessop. SUN Bridge Farm SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01rv342 (Listen) SUN King's Cross Fire SUN SUN Sue MacGregor brings together five people who were SUN profoundly affected by the Kings Cross Fire in London, in SUN which 31 people died and many others suffered physical and SUN psychological scarring. SUN SUN It's 25 years since the publication of a damning report on SUN the fire - the worst in the history of the London SUN Underground. Tony Ridley, had been managing director of the SUN service for five years. His success in reversing a long SUN decline in use of the underground was overshadowed by SUN accusations of a blind spot over passenger safety, SUN particularly over wooden escalators. SUN SUN Law lecturer Sophie Tarrasenko was travelling to King Cross SUN that evening in November 1987. She was forced to get off at SUN an earlier stop because of a fire. It was not until the next SUN day that she learned that her brother had been killed in the SUN blaze. She went on to set up a Family Support Group to SUN improve treatment of bereaved families. SUN SUN Kwasi Afari Minta was the most badly burned of the SUN survivors. The musician from Ghana sustained terrible burns SUN to his face and endured numerous operations during his six SUN months in hospital. He lost his battle for compensation and SUN now survives on benefits. SUN SUN Steve Heather was a leading firefighter that night. He SUN remembers being completely disorientated while struggling in SUN intense heat and pitch black. He also lost a close SUN colleague, station officer Colin Townsley. SUN SUN Lindsay Taylor was a reporter for London radio station LBC SUN and always carried his recording equipment with him. By SUN chance, he was travelling through Kings Cross when fire SUN broke out. He spent most of the next 48 hours there SUN documenting events as well as reporting on the subsequent SUN memorial service and compensation battles. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01rqnj3 (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Katherine Ryan and Graeme SUN Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Sharks, Photography, SUN Sugar and Jeremy Clarkson. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01rv39b (Listen) SUN Chilli Britannia SUN SUN Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from SUN growers to expert eaters and those who like their chillies SUN red hot. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01rtfgm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01rv39d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Lenin in Letchworth b01r9r3x (Listen) SUN In 1907 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin attended a congress of exiled SUN communists in London that helped plan the revolutionary SUN overthrow of the Russian tsar a decade later. It was during SUN this momentous event that the Soviet Union's future leader SUN is said to have visited the English garden city of SUN Letchworth. SUN SUN Firm evidence of Lenin's presence in Letchworth is SUN tantalisingly hard to find. But the very idea of the SUN single-minded Russian revolutionary finding himself among SUN the English radicals of rural Hertfordshire - people whom SUN George Orwell described as the "fruit-juice drinking" and SUN "sandal-wearing" classes - is a suggestive one. SUN SUN What could turn-of-the-twentieth-century English socialists, SUN committed to notions of healthy living, fulfilling work and SUN parliamentary democracy, teach the self-proclaimed leader of SUN the Russian workers and peasants with his implacable SUN revolutionary fervour and appointment with destiny? SUN SUN Francis Spufford visits Letchworth to investigate the SUN background to the story. He finds out why Lenin might have SUN made the journey and discovers who and what he may have seen SUN and the effect which he might have had on the locals. SUN SUN Francis also reveals what lasting impression the trip into SUN the Hertfordshire countryside may have made on Lenin and how SUN it seems to have shaped the physical design of Moscow and SUN Stalingrad. SUN SUN Among those taking part are: Dame Antonia Byatt, the author SUN and authority on turn-of-the-twentieth-century writers; Dr. SUN Tristram Hunt, the historian of the Victorian city and the SUN biographer of Engels; Sheila Rowbotham, the leading SUN authority on English Edwardian radicalism; and Ken MacLeod, SUN the science fiction writer and committed socialist. SUN SUN Producer Simon Coates. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01rrc2z (Listen) SUN North Buckinghamshire SUN SUN This week the team visits Stony Stratford in North SUN Buckinghamshire with Peter Gibbs in the chair. On the panel SUN are Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Chris Beardshaw. SUN SUN Also in the programme this week, Anne Swithinbank visits Bob SUN Flowerdew's garden to talk us through what to do this April, SUN after the cold weather in March made it a write-off for SUN gardeners. And Christine Walkden brings us some passion for SUN her 'plant of the moment': Arum maculatum. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01rv39g (Listen) SUN Swansea City, coming out, delivering your own grandchildren, SUN and second time around marriages are all covered in the SUN conversations Fi Glover presents in this Sunday Edition, SUN proving it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01rv39j (Listen) SUN The Great Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth SUN SUN A beautiful glover's daughter is romantically pursued by a SUN warmongering blacksmith, a poetising prince, a hot-headed SUN clansman and a bumbling bonnet-maker in lawless 14th century SUN Scotland. SUN SUN In Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth, feeble King Robert SUN III is failing to stop his beloved country being torn apart SUN by warring clans and pillaging nobles - chaos reigns SUN supreme. When our heroine, Catharine Glover, suffers SUN heartbreak and tragedy at the hands of the vengeful Earl of SUN March, a terrible dilemma presents itself. SUN SUN Should she follow the dictates of her heart by marrying the SUN man she loves - or should she obey her father's wish and SUN shun a world of 'hard iron and barbaric cruelties' by SUN betrothing herself to Christ? SUN SUN Adapted for Radio by Scott Cherry SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Catherine Glover: Morven Christie SUN Her father: Hugh Ross SUN Henry Smith: Bryan Larkin SUN King Robert: Clive Russell SUN The Earl of March: Kenneth Cranham SUN Oliver Proudfoot: Forbes Masson SUN Conachar: Callum O'Neil SUN Louise the Minstrel: Olivia Morgan SUN A citizen: Richard Hansell SUN Walter Scott: David Tennant SUN Director: Clive Brill SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN Writer: Scott Cherry SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01rv3mj (Listen) SUN Taiye Selasi on Ghana Must Go and Gillian Cross on After SUN Tomorrow SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents the best new fiction and SUN non-fiction, talking to writers and unearthing lost SUN classics. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 The Bards of Whitelocks Bar b01rv3ml (Listen) SUN Poet Jean Sprackland visits the characterful Leeds city SUN centre bar, Whitelocks, famous for its poetic punters from SUN Betjeman to T S Eliot. In the company of poets Ian Duhig, SUN Jon Glover, Rommi Smith and Antony Dunn, she explores the SUN legacy of the postwar Leeds poetry renaissance that produced SUN such eminent poets as Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Jon SUN Silkin. SUN SUN Produced by Emma Harding SUN SUN 17:00 The Prozac Economy b01rr377 (Listen) SUN Prozac is 25 years old. It has been taken by over 40 million SUN people around the world and made billions of dollars for Eli SUN Lilly, the company that created it. But does it work? And SUN what effect has the promise of a "happiness pill" had on SUN society? SUN SUN Will Self examines the legacy of the so-called 'wonder SUN drug'. As he sets off on a personal exploration of the SUN conflicting and sensational stories that surround Prozac, he SUN talks to those who make the drug, those who take it and SUN those who prescribe it. SUN SUN Anti-depressant use in the UK is rising sharply but, as Will SUN discovers when he talks to Eli Lilly's Dr Robert Baker, we SUN still don't really know exactly how Prozac works. Dr David SUN Wong, one of the fathers of the drug, reveals to Will that SUN he believes too many people are taking it. Psychotherapist SUN Susie Orbach diagnoses a generation of "Prozac children" SUN raised on the promise of on-demand happiness. SUN Dr David Healy, one of Prozac's most outspoken critics, SUN tells Will why he thinks that the drug and its siblings are SUN responsible for hundreds of unnecessary deaths in this SUN country each year and Linda Hurcombe explains to Will why SUN she believes Prozac is linked to the death of her teenage SUN daughter, Caitlin. SUN SUN But Will also meets Dorothy Neilson who explains how the SUN drug saved her from a horrifying pit of depression. Leading SUN psychiatrist Professor David Nutt tells Will that Prozac has SUN been a revolution in patient safety and deserves to be SUN celebrated. And Will's own GP, Dr Dominic Stevens, argues SUN that Prozac can save jobs, save marriages and save lives. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01rv0lw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rtfgp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01rtfgr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rtfgt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01rv3mn (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01rv3mq (Listen) SUN Vicky enjoys motherhood, and Brenda comes to a decision. SUN SUN Producer: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN 19:15 Believe It! b01hjtm8 (Listen) SUN Rivals SUN SUN Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has SUN always said he'd never write one. SUN Based on glimmers of truth, Believe It is the hilarious, SUN bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity SUN radiography of Richard Wilson. SUN SUN He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised SUN scenes from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily SUN exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national SUN treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, SUN theatre and Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant SUN of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a SUN drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, SUN monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for SUN governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery (not true). SUN SUN All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are SUN wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery. SUN (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed SUN reference to his famous catchphrase.) SUN SUN Richard is supported by a small core cast: SUN David Tennant SUN John Sessions SUN Lewis Macleod SUN Arabella Weir SUN and Jane Slavin SUN who play anyone and everyone! SUN SUN Ghost written by Jon Canter SUN Produced by: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Three Stories by Edith Pearlman b01rv805 (Listen) SUN Unravished Bride SUN SUN "These stories are an exercise in imagination and SUN compassion.. a trip around the world.." SUN ANN PATCHETT, author of Bel Canto SUN SUN Edith Pearlman has been writing stories for decades and is SUN in her mid seventies. Recognition duly arrived in America SUN with various awards, but only recently has her collection, SUN Binocular Vision, been acclaimed in Britain. Now there's SUN chance to hear three of the tales on radio, and be SUN acquainted with a voice that is compelling and new to us.. SUN SUN 2. Unravished Bride SUN They are introduced at somebody's wedding and their meetings SUN will go on for a year. But these are meetings with a SUN difference.. SUN SUN Reader Laurel Lefkow SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01rrcs9 (Listen) SUN Over the top eulogising or overly critical? In this week's SUN Feedback, listeners are divided over the BBC's coverage of SUN the death of Margaret Thatcher. We talk to the Head of the SUN BBC Newsroom, Mary Hockaday. SUN SUN And do you need to know what's on BBC One when you're SUN listening to Radio 4? We put your frustrations about the SUN latest high-profile cross-TV and radio campaigns - BBC One's SUN The Village and Radio 4's Front Row - to the Director of SUN Marketing and Audiences for BBC Radio, Neil Caldicott. SUN SUN Following our discussion last week about whether Radio 4 SUN could and should do more to attract new, younger listeners, SUN we hear some surprising reactions from youthful fans of the SUN network. SUN SUN Listener Rob Johnston gives us an English lesson. SUN SUN And we're looking for your questions for Gwyneth Williams, SUN the Controller of Radio 4. We'll be talking to Gwyneth in a SUN week's time so be sure to send us your questions. Some SUN listeners will even be able to put their points to the SUN Controller directly. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01rrcs7 (Listen) SUN A former Prime Minister, an IVF pioneer, a Corgi toy SUN designer and a Muppets co-creator SUN SUN Following a week of tributes to Baroness Thatcher, Matthew SUN Bannister gives the Last Word to the other Dennis - the man SUN who was her driver for fourteen years. And we hear how her SUN father's Methodist sermons shaped her philosophy. SUN SUN Also the Nobel prize winning pioneer of IVF Sir Robert SUN Edwards, Lord Winston pays tribute. SUN SUN Marcel Van Cleemput who designed all the Corgi toys so SUN popular with children in the sixties and seventies including SUN the James Bond Aston Martin DB5, the Batmobile and Chitty SUN Chitty Bang Bang. SUN SUN And Jane Henson who worked with her husband Jim to create SUN the Muppets. SUN SUN Producer: Philip Sellars SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01rv0lh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01rv33t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01rr7zj (Listen) SUN The Sick Note SUN SUN Until recently, doctors filled in a sick note for people off SUN work. But now things are changing. The sick note has turned SUN into a fit note, and from next year a government-backed SUN scheme will try to help ill people get back to work as SUN quickly as possible, even if it is only part time. Peter Day SUN finds out what's behind the changes, and why they matter. SUN Producer Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01rv8cb (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 b01rv8cd (Listen) SUN Iain Dale of the Eastern Daily Press analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01rr7rw (Listen) SUN New Ryan Gosling film The Place Beyond The Pines; plus the SUN films we've really watched so far in 2013 SUN SUN The director Derek Cianfrance, best known for Blue SUN Valentine, talks to Francine Stock about his new film The SUN Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling, and why SUN becoming a father himself made this a very personal project. SUN The critic Karen Krizanovich explores male melodrama on the SUN big screen and we hear from producer Lisa Bryer on why BAFTA SUN is bringing short films to the cinema. Are audiences ready SUN for an evening of back to back shorts? SUN The documentary maker Dror Moreh explains how he managed to SUN get former Israeli secret service chiefs to talk on film SUN about their misgivings about security policy over the last SUN few decades in his new project, The Gatekeepers. SUN And there's analysis from Charles Gant and independent SUN cinema owner Kevin Markwick on the big hits and misses of SUN the year so far and what we've got to look forward to in the SUN coming months. SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01rv33m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 APRIL 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01rtfj2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01rr4wb (Listen) MON Thrift Chic; Thatcherism MON MON 'Thatcherism' - was it a distinct ideology? In the light of MON Margaret Thatcher's death, Laurie Taylor considers whether MON or not she had a coherent and radical philosophy which MON marked a rupture with a post war consensus crossing party MON political lines. In addition, he explores her impact on MON academic research and the universities. He talks to Robert MON Saunders, lecturer in Politics and History and co-editor of MON a recent book, 'Making Thatcher's Britain'. They're joined MON by Geoff Andrews, Senior Lecturer in Politics & MON International Studies. MON MON Also, media and cultural studies lecturer, Dr Tracey Jensen MON charts the rise of 'new thrift' projects in popular culture MON which promise to show us how to do 'more with less'. MON Austerity politics has, she claims, generated a range of TV MON shows, advice manuals and weblogs which have turned thrift MON from a means of survival into a chic, middle class, MON lifestyle choice. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01rv33k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rtfj4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rtfj6 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rtfj8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01rtfjb (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0lz9 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with MON Monsignor Tony Rogers. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01rv8dq (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01rtfjd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01rv8ds (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah MON Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01rv8dv (Listen) MON On Start the Week Jonathan Freedland journeys from the MON origin of life to the possibilities of new life-forms with MON the geneticist Adam Rutherford. Steve Jones updates the MON Bible from the point of view of modern science and Barbara MON Sahakian looks at our ability to make decisions, and whether MON 'smart drugs' should be used to boost our reactions. The MON artist Susan Aldworth is inspired by neuro-scientific MON imagery to explore the relationship between mind and body in MON her portraits of those with epilepsy and in doing so asks MON how this material corresponds or contrasts with the MON subject's sense of self. MON MON Producer: Natalia Fernandez. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01rv8dx (Listen) MON She Left Me the Gun, Episode 1 MON MON When journalist Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother, MON Paula, said "One day I will tell you the story of my life MON and you will be amazed." Growing up in a tranquil English MON village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before MON her. She knew she had grown up in South Africa and had seven MON siblings. She had been told stories about deadly snakes and MON hailstones the size of golf balls. There was mention, once, MON of a trial. But most of the past was a mystery. MON MON When her mother dies of cancer, Emma - by then a successful MON journalist at the Guardian - feels the need to uncover her MON history. She travels to South Africa, to the extended family MON she has never met, and unravels a daunting tale, the events MON of which her mother had kept from her - events that, even MON amongst her mother's siblings, were never discussed. MON MON Emma Brockes' story of her mother's past is warm and moving, MON in moments upsetting, and ultimately redemptive, as she MON rediscovers her mother. MON MON Emma Brockes is a feature writer at the Guardian. She MON studied English at Oxford University, where she edited MON Cherwell, the student newspaper, won the Philip Geddes Prize MON for Journalism, and graduated with a first. In 2001 she won MON Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards and MON a year later was voted Feature Writer of the Year, the MON youngest ever recipient of the award. Outside journalism she MON has written a one act play called 'The Prompt', and a book MON on musicals entitled, 'What Would Barbara Do? How Musicals MON Changed My Life'. MON MON Writer: Emma Brockes MON Reader: Alison Pettitt MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON Listen to Emma Brockes on Woman's Hour MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rvnv3 (Listen) MON Suranne Jones; chosing care for dementia sufferers; MON Hsiao-Hung Pai MON MON Actress Suranne Jones; caring for dementia sufferers; MON Hsiao-Hung Pai on the sex trade; Emma Stewart discusses MON finding jobs if you have had a break. Jane Garvey presents. MON MON Have your or one of your loved ones been diagnosed with MON dementia? If so, have you found a suitable care option? It MON can be a confusing and emotionally draining-experience MON working out what is best for everyone concerned. There are MON more than 670,000 people living with some form of MON dementia in England alone, and the chances are that most of MON us will be touched by the condition at some point in our MON lives. MON MON Suranne Jones first rose to prominence playing the role of MON Karen McDonald in Coronation Street. She’s since received MON critical acclaim for her role as a woman convicted of the MON murder of two police officers in Unforgiven, and is MON currently starring as DC Rachel Bailey in the hit ITV crime MON drama. MON MON Beautiful Thing runs at the Arts Theatre in London until 25 MON May, followed by a short UK tour visiting Liverpool, Leeds MON and Brighton. MON MON What are the issues facing women who want to return to work MON after a break and what support and advice is available to MON them? MON MON There are an estimated 80,000 sex workers in the UK a MON quarter of whom are migrants and the majority are women. MON Jane speaks to the investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai MON who went undercover as a housekeeper in a number of brothels MON in the UK to unveil the reality of the British sex trade and MON the plight of migrant women who are trapped and controlled MON on the margins of society. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rxzcg (Listen) MON An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 1 MON MON The poorest farmer in the village, Mewa Gul, has a double MON crisis. A sick cow will cost money to replace, so he really MON needs his daughter's bridal money. But when there is MON astonishing news about her fiancé, the wedding seems in MON jeopardy. We also meet the wealthy, landowning Akbar Khan, MON who is violently opposed to the village's new school. MON MON A slice of daily village life from the wild, mountainous MON Pak-Afghan borders - where the only law is tribal law and MON there is no road, no electricity and no phone, but hi-tech MON drones fly overhead. MON MON An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is based on characters and MON storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made by and for the MON Pashtun people of this untamed area. MON MON Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt MON Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey MON Sound design by David Chilton MON Music by Olivia Thomas MON MON Executive Producer: John Dryden MON Producer: Anne-Marie Cole MON An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Mewa Gul, the poorest farmer: Vincent Ebrahim MON Bakhtawara, his wife: Meera Syal MON Zarlakhta, his daughter: Balvinder Sopal MON Taza Gul, his son: Jaz Deol MON Akbar Khan, the wealthy landowner: Sagar Arya MON Durranai, his mother: Sudha Bhucher MON Wisal, his elder son: Donald Slack MON Mashal, his younger son: Muzz Khan MON Director: Liz Rigbey MON Producer: Anne-Marie Cole MON Writer: Liz Rigbey MON MON 11:00 Journeys down My Street b01rvnws (Listen) MON Home Away From Home - The Somalis of Bute Street, Cardiff MON MON Amidst all the coverage of contemporary migration to MON Britain, it is easy to forget the older generations of MON immigrants from across the world who have settled here and MON made Britain their MON home. MON MON Journeys Down my Street is a new series in which Mike MON Berlin, an urban historian from Birkbeck College, University MON of London, visits individual streets at the heart of such MON communities, to hear the stories of earlier immigrants - MON their arrival, their early lives and their observations on MON Britain today. MON MON 2. Home Away From Home, The Somalis of Bute Street, Cardiff MON MON At the end of the 19th century many working on the steam MON ships of the British Empire was an attractive career choice MON for seamen from Somaliland. Many came to Cardiff, found work MON in the docks heaving the coal that powered those ships, and MON the first settled in Butetown in 1890. MON MON A vibrant community grew, centred on the docks and the MON mosque. But the last coal was shipped out in the 1960s, MON Cardiff docks are not what they were and Butetown has been MON redeveloped - and work is scarce. MON MON The older generation of Somalis has, in recent years, been MON joined by new immigrants, refugees from their war-torn MON homeland. Their experiences and expectations are very MON different, as 'De Gabay' recently made clear. This was a MON day-long production with National Theatre Wales, in which MON young poets from the Somali community performed all around MON Butetown. MON MON Mike Berlin meets Somalis whose families have lived in MON Butetown for a century, and more recent arrivals tell their MON stories, too. MON MON Producer: Julian May. MON MON 11:30 The Rita Rudner Show b01rvnwv (Listen) MON Life's a Gamble MON MON The third episode of American comedian Rita Rudner's new MON sitcom - written by herself and her real life husband, MON Martin Bergman. MON MON Rita continues to face somewhat challenging circumstances as MON she returns to the UK after a fifteen year break. With the MON help of her husband Martin (Martin Trenaman), she tries to MON re-establish her comedy career in the UK and her agent MON arranges for her to play a gig for a French industrialist - MON with chaotic results. MON MON Rita and Martin are also helped by the bizarre Mrs Harrison MON (the wonderful Phylida Law), a hotelier who has introduced MON them to an array of slightly off kilter characters. And MON Martin decides to assemble a scratch team of card players to MON win a fortune at a casino and, not unexpectedly, things MON don't quite go to plan! MON MON Again featuring some classic stand-up comedy from Rita, this MON old-fashioned style sitcom has a sterling supporting cast, MON including Martin Bergman, Michael Fenton-Stevens, Dominic MON Frisby and Vivienne Avramoff. MON MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Rita Rudner MON Actor: Martin Trenaman MON Actor: Phyllida Law MON Actor: Martin Bergman MON Actor: Michael Fenton Stevens MON Actor: Dominic Frisby MON Actor: Vivienne Avramoff MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Rita Rudner MON Writer: Martin Bergman MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01rvnwx (Listen) MON London Book Fair, vexatious complaints, the high street in MON winter MON MON Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. Today You and Yours MON will be talking to publishers, retailers and authors at the MON London Book Fair where publishers launch their titles for MON the coming year and retailers decide which books will appear MON on their shelves and online. We will hear from industry MON experts about the changes in the book selling market and how MON the publishing industry is looking at new ways to make MON money. MON MON We'll also hear how the high streets and out-of-town MON shopping centres fared over Easter and what impact the cold MON weather had on the way people shop. MON MON And how you can be 'blacklisted' by your local NHS hospital MON and what you can do about it. MON MON 12:55 Reflections on Thatcher b01s4qm2 (Listen) MON Julian Barnes MON MON A series of brief extracts from diverse writings that follow MON Margaret Thatcher's rise and fall. The authors include MON Barbara Castle, Alan Clark, John Major, Julian Barnes and MON others MON MON As Prime Minister, Lady Thatcher appeared to have little MON time for the arts and literature, as the novelist, Julian MON Barnes, observed. (Extract from Letters from London). MON MON 12:57 Weather b01rtfjg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01rvnwz (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rvnx1 (Listen) MON The Conquering Engines: Industrial Revolution MON MON The Conquering Engines - Industrial Revolution: Episode MON twenty-one of a thirty-part series made in collaboration MON with the British Library Sound Archive. MON MON Henry David Thoreau is one of history's great listeners. His MON classic work Walden is dense with descriptions of the MON natural sounds he discovered when he swapped his Concord MON home for a simple cabin in the woods. But his peace was MON disturbed by a noise that presaged the age to come: the MON snort of the iron horse. MON MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explains MON how the sounds of nature gave way before the industrial din. MON MON Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. MON Producer: Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01rv3mq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nq3sz (Listen) MON Two Pipe Problems, A Rose by Any Other Name MON MON In tribute to Richard Briers who co-starred in this series MON for six years. MON MON Sandy and William find a cardboard box in the doorway to the MON Old Beeches; inside, a tiny baby, clutching a small toy. MON There is no message and no sign of the mother. From the MON moment Sandy carries the box into the breakfast room, the MON discovery causes a sensation in the closet world of the MON home. Everyone is enchanted by the child - a little girl - MON and horrified at the implications of her being abandoned. MON MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Catherine Bailey Production MON MON Written by award winning television and theatre writer MON Michael Chaplin. MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON MON Produced by: Catherine Bailey MON A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Sandy Boyle: Stanley Baxter MON William Parnes: Richard Briers MON The Girl (Stephanie): Joan Iyiola MON Karen: Tracy Wiles MON Mary: Jillie Meers MON Nellie: Anne Reid MON PC Marlowe: David Holt MON Old Beeches Residents: David Holt MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producer: Catherine Bailey MON Writer: Michael Chaplin MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01rvnx3 (Listen) MON Series 3, Leicester MON MON A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a MON team of three University students take on a team of three of MON their professors. MON MON Coming this week from the University of Leicester, the MON specialist subjects are Medicine, Sociology and, quite MON literally, Rocket Science (well, Astrophysics and Space MON Physics), with questions ranging from tummy rumbling to MON black holes via cheese, snooker and T.S. Eliot. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01rv39b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Weekend in Butetown b01rvnx5 (Listen) MON Gwyneth Lewis explores the contemporary life and fascinating MON history of the largest Somali community outside Somalia as MON National Theatre Wales visits Butetown in Cardiff for a MON one-off reclaiming of a unique migratory and poetic MON heritage. MON MON In the days when Cardiff was one of the shipping centres of MON the world, it's docks areas, like so many similar places MON around the UK and around the world, became special MON multicultural, multilingual communities. These port areas MON were often isolated from the cities around them, while at MON the same time closely connected to places thousands of miles MON away. MON MON One of the biggest communities to thrive in Cardiff's Tiger MON Bay, as it was called, was made up of Somali sailors and MON tradespeople, who settled half way up the Bristol Channel in MON such numbers that it became the largest Somali community MON outside Somalia itself. MON MON Inside that community, they kept alive the traditions and MON stories of their relatives in the way that generations of MON Somalians had done - through story telling and poetry. As MON the 60s turned to the 70s and 80s, these stories were still MON told in terraces in Butetown (the ideal workers house MON village built for the dockers by the Lord Bute, and MON cassettes of the storytellers in Cardiff and back home would MON travel between the two places on the ships. MON MON The first production in National Theatre Wales' third MON season, De Gabay [The Poem], will be a two-day, MON site-specific exploration of the Butetown area of Cardiff, MON with a focus on the lives of its young Somali poets and the MON generations that came before them. The cast and crew will MON include members of the local community, and the audience MON will move between docks, lock gates, the pubs and pilot MON houses of the shoreline and the houses of individual MON families to hear the stories of the two communities MON together. MON MON It's a performance idea based on the Passion in Port Talbot, MON which was the great success of NTW's first season. It has MON been written by 5 young Somali poets alongside John McGrath, MON the artistic director of the NTW. It is an attempt not just MON to tell a remarkable history, but also to unite two ancient MON poetic traditions - the Celtic Eisteddfod which still MON dominates the lives of children in Wales, and the oral MON history poetry of the Somali people who have made Cardiff MON their home. MON MON In this programme poet (and transatlantic sailor) Gwyneth MON Lewis visits Butetown as the performance comes through the MON community. She talks to members of the community both young MON and old and listens to their stories and their poetry. She MON asks about their traditions of theatre, and how the MON community has kept its cultural independence within Wales MON for 100 years. She goes inside the houses of those who will MON be visited by the audiences promenading through their lives, MON and talks too to the actors (some professional, others just MON volunteers who couldn't turn down the temptation) about how MON it feels to tell these stories. And she talks to John MON McGrath and the poet/writers of the play, young men who came MON to Cardiff in the 80s and 90s who add yet another layer to a MON remarkable story of mix and migration. MON MON The backdrop of the theatre weekend itself, with its street MON parades and public performance, will sit alongside the very MON personal stories of the community today. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01rvnx7 (Listen) MON Series 3, Estrangement MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores the difficulties of unpicking our MON digital lives when they’ve become entwined with another’s. MON The digital world is great at capturing and storing moments MON from our lives - sharing your family snapshots, tweets about MON domestic bliss, keeping the world up to date with each rung MON you climb on the career ladder... But in the wake of a MON relationship breakdown it can be painful to be confronted MON with such echoes of the past, and even more so if you’re MON constantly reminded that the people you're separated from MON are carrying on without you. MON In this week's episode, Aleks talks to Becca Bland about the MON hardships of seeing into her estranged family's lives MON online, and author Nathan Bransford who found that having a MON wealth of information online after a divorce forced him into MON making some hard decisions. She also discovers how digital MON technology can be used to manage people's lives after a MON relationship breaks down, and (if all else fails) how to MON vanish entirely. MON Producers Victoria McArthur and Peter McManus MON MON 17:00 PM b01rvnx9 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rtfjj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01rvnxc (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Rhod Gilbert, Richard Osman, Lucy Beaumont and John MON Finnemore are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as moles, cabbages, trains MON and the BBC. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01rvnxf (Listen) MON Hayley and Roy come up trumps, and Josh has a proposition. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Vanessa Whitburn MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01rvnxh (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including news of the latest Best of Young MON British Novelists list, as selected by Granta magazine. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:42 Reflections on Thatcher b01s4qml (Listen) MON Peter Jenkins MON MON In October 1990, Margaret Thatcher made no attempt to MON conceal her deep hostility to further European integration. MON Her outspoken comments were witnessed by Peter Jenkins, the MON political columnist, who reported the scene in 'The MON Independent'. MON MON This extract is included in a 10-part series of brief MON extracts from diverse writings that follow Margaret MON Thacher's rise and fall as a political leader. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rxzcg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 How to Run Europe b01rvnxk (Listen) MON Rebellious Britannia: Rome's Northern Flank MON MON In the first of three programmes, Anne McElvoy explores the MON challenges of governing the peoples of Europe across three MON of the continent's great empires ...and the parallels today. MON To begin the series, Anne looks at the Roman era, when MON Colchester was the capital of Britannia. With the help of MON Roman expert Professor Catharine Edwards of Birkbeck, MON University of London, she discovers how hard it was for Rome MON to exercise control over its most northerly province. MON MON Roman Britain was a fringe state on a vast empire; conquered MON late it was initially hard to run. The story of its MON rebellion and subsequent assimilation into the Roman Empire MON tells us the story of an experiment into a new kind of rule MON and governance; running a province was a balancing act MON between local custom and the idea of being part of a greater MON whole. MON MON Producers Vicki Perrin and Simon Elmes MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01rr7rf (Listen) MON Ukraine's HIV battle MON MON Twelve years ago Lucy Ash investigated Ukraine's fight MON against HIV infection, which was mainly caused by injecting MON drug users. After the Orange Revolution in late 2004, the MON government promised to do everything it could to fight the MON disease and the situation seemed to improve. But now Ukraine MON has the second highest infection rate in Europe, surpassed MON only by Russia. Around the world, other countries are MON managing to reduce rates of HIV infection and AIDS-related MON deaths. Lucy Ash travels to Kyiv and Odessa to see why MON fighting HIV is so difficult in Ukraine. MON Producer: Julie Ball. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01rr7ry (Listen) MON What's it like being a research academic these days? Not so MON many piles of dusty books and journal articles lying around, MON many more hundreds or even thousands of files sitting on MON your computer. But how to connect them, sort them and cross MON reference them? This was a problem felt by Victor Henning, MON co-founder of a London tech startup called Mendeley, who MON aimed to build a tool for researchers around the world to MON use to smooth their work flow and to increase collaboration MON by revealing the people who are reading the same articles. MON Mendeley were bought outright this week by Reed Elsevier, MON the Dutch publishing house who publish more than 2000 MON scientific journals, including the Lancet. Victor Henning is MON joined by Jason Priem of the University of North Carolina at MON Chapel Hill, author of a recent horizon scanning feature in MON Nature, to discuss the future of science publication and how MON this wealth of research will be managed in the future. MON MON Flights across the North Atlantic could get a lot bumpier in MON the future because of climate change. New research, MON published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that turbulence MON could double by 2050. Dr. Paul Williams, an atmospheric MON scientists from the University of Reading, explains to MON Gareth Mitchell the implications of his findings. MON MON Changes to our environment are effecting evolution much MON quicker than we thought. A new study shows that even if we MON were to return a habitat to its former state, the population MON may not recover to its former state as it could have already MON evolved significantly away from that. This has big MON implications for fisheries management, crop pest resistance MON and even for emerging diseases like bird flu. Professor Tim MON Benton of Leeds University explains why this new work should MON challenge current conservation methods. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01rv8dv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01rtfjl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01rvnxm (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective MON with Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rvpdh (Listen) MON Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4, Pride and MON Disillusionment MON MON On the night that Granta announce its once-in-a-decade MON selection of the twenty best British novelists aged under MON forty on Front Row, Book at Bedtime brings the first of five MON extracts or stories by some of the rising talent on the list MON to the airways. MON MON Granta's first generation-defining list of writers was MON published in 1983, and that and subsequent lists in 1993 and MON 2003 have garnered considerable attention and debate. This MON year's list promises to be no different, focussing the MON spotlight on writers who will go on to become household MON names, as their predecessors from Amis to Tremain, McEwan to MON Winterson have done. MON MON Alongside the list, Granta publish short stories or extracts MON from as yet unpublished novels from all twenty writers on MON the list. Di Speirs, Editor of Readings, has read the MON stories 'blind', and picked five that reflect the diversity MON and range of the material and the writers, which will be MON broadcast across the week. MON MON In stories that range from the wilderness to the domestic MON hearth via a dystopian nightmare, and that question long MON held loyalties or expose the powerlessness of the immigrant, MON this brand new and exciting work reflects the vibrancy and MON vivid imagination of the next generation of British MON novelists. MON MON In today's story, a soldier questions his age old loyalty. MON MON The Reader is Sagar Arya MON The abridger is Miranda Davies MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01rr36v (Listen) MON Language in India; politics and passion MON MON More than a billion people, twenty two scheduled languages, MON and dozens more mother tongues: In the first part of two MON programmes, Chris Ledgard explores the complex and MON passionate politics of language in India. In Delhi and MON Jaipur, we visit schools, business and newspaper offices to MON ask - how do the languages you speak, read and write in MON India influence your life? MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01rvpfg (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports, as the Commons returns from its Easter MON break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 APRIL 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01rtfkf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01rv8dx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rtfkh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rtfkk (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rtfkm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01rtfkp (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0ly0 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with TUE Monsignor Tony Rogers. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01rvpg1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01rvpg3 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin TUE Webb. TUE TUE 09:00 Making News b01rvpg5 (Listen) TUE Brave New Worlds TUE TUE Journalist and broadcaster Steve Richards presents a three TUE part series examining the News. From bulletins to rolling TUE news and citizen journalism - what News was, what it is now TUE and what it will become. TUE TUE What makes something News and something else not? Is the TUE News a public service, a cycle, an entertainment built on TUE sensation, a constant rush of 'breaking' news or a form of TUE national communion and shared belonging? Driven by changes TUE in technology and in news culture itself, and as the news TUE cycle becomes ever faster, the question of what News is also TUE concerns how we consume it and who 'we' are becoming as a TUE result. TUE TUE The series talks to reporters, journalists, editors, news TUE producers and experts including Jon Snow, Alistair Campbell, TUE Adam Boulton, editors Sarah Sands and Ceri Thomas, Paul TUE Staines (aka Guido Fawkes), Ed Stourton and psychotherapist TUE Adam Phillips. TUE TUE Episode 3 (of 3): Brave New Worlds TUE Steve Richards looks beyond the official news cycle to TUE explore what news might become as informal outlets continue TUE to multiply, digitally and online, and as revolutions in TUE technology underwrite the very content of news: the rise of TUE the citizen journalist, the phenomenon of pre-emptive news TUE and the relatively new psychic disorder of news 'addiction'. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Found b01rvpg7 (Listen) TUE The Mother's Story TUE TUE A five part series of stories following family members who TUE are reunited after separation through family circumstance, TUE tragedy or conflict. TUE TUE As well as hearing the emotional stories of people who have TUE been searching for others for many years, we also hear the TUE stories of the organisations who help them - including the TUE Red Cross, Salvation Army and Missing Person's Bureau. TUE TUE The internet has increased the possibility of finding people TUE through social networking and other websites - such as a TUE site set up recently by Missing Person's Bureau and TUE featuring details of unidentified bodies. TUE TUE The stories have a range of outcomes, not always happy. TUE TUE Episode 3 (of 5): The Mother's Story TUE The work of the Red Cross Tracing Service reuniting families TUE across the world following conflict or natural disaster, TUE featuring an interview with Head of the Tracing Service Nev TUE Jefferies and the emotional airport reunion of a mother and TUE her two children from the Ivory Coast. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Parker TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01rz2rr (Listen) TUE She Left Me the Gun, Episode 2 TUE TUE Writer: Emma Brockes TUE Reader: Alison Pettitt TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rvpk8 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01s4zr0 (Listen) TUE An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 2 TUE TUE Shopkeeper Sardar Aka's older wife, Gulnara, hears some news TUE which gives her good reason to be jealous of his new young TUE wife. Meanwhile, in the house of the village warlord, the TUE young, widowed Kashmala reveals to her mother-in-law that TUE she is harbouring a secret and dangerous ambition. TUE TUE Executive Producer: John Dryden TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Cole TUE An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 A Natural History of Me! b01rvpkb (Listen) TUE If you thought the human body was only made of human cells, TUE then think again. What scientists now know is that for every TUE one human cell in a healthy body there are about ten times TUE as many microbial cells, mainly bacteria. There's likely to TUE be several thousand different microbes associated with the TUE human body. This collection of bacterial populations is TUE known as the human microbiome. TUE TUE In this programme, Paul Evans discovers just what these vast TUE numbers of bacteria and other microscopic organisms are TUE doing inside us, how important they are to our very TUE existence and how they affect our perception of self. TUE TUE "When my human body runs for the bus" says Paul "Ten times TUE as many non-human cells hop on too. When I go to sleep, 10 TUE times as many other cells get on with minding my business". TUE TUE Changes in these communities may be responsible for gum TUE disease, skins diseases, digestive disorders and even TUE obesity and cancer. TUE But what does all this actually mean and what are the TUE implications for this new found knowledge for what we TUE thought we knew about ourselves . our human self? After all, TUE if we're not all human, then what are we? TUE TUE With the help of scientists as well as philosophers TUE including Satish Kumar and writer and performer A.L.Kennedy, TUE Paul goes in search of some answers to help understand the TUE human ecology, explore ideas about communities and self, and TUE answer the question, "what am I"? It's a fascinating and TUE unexpected journey which takes him from a busy laboratory in TUE Kings College London Dental Institute to a winter woodland TUE in Devon, and what he discovers is that without our microbes TUE we might not exist at all; we are our microbes. As former TUE Jain Monk, and Fellow of Schumacher College Satish Kumar TUE says "My microbes, therefore I am" TUE TUE Presenter Paul Evans, Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 Lady Gaga v Heavy Metal: The Confusing World of Pop in TUE Indonesia b01rvpkd (Listen) TUE Lady Gaga was banned but Death Metal is cool - from the TUE streets and clubs of Jakarta, we hear the contradictions TUE that make up the burgeoning Indonesian music scene. TUE TUE As many young Indonesians have more cash in their pockets, TUE music promoters are seeing the country as a new opportunity TUE for high profile pop tours. Artists such as Beyoncé and TUE Rihanna have been booked to play in Jakarta, albeit modestly TUE dressed. TUE TUE But there have been frictions. The world took notice when TUE Lady Gaga's recent show in Jakarta was cancelled - local TUE authorities sat on the fence as conservative Islamic groups TUE called her the "devil's messenger." It seemed that despite TUE Jakarta's reputation as the "city of sin" (an unlikely TUE reputation for the capital city of the most populous muslim TUE country in the world) things were changing. TUE TUE Then American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, banned from TUE performing in some countries because of their graphic songs TUE about mutilation and necrophilia, was approved to play in TUE Jakarta. This is one of the contradictions in Indonesian pop TUE - discovering that heavy metal is on the rise amongst young TUE radical muslims. TUE TUE This documentary looks at these opposing forces and how the TUE music scene is taking shape in this influential city. TUE TUE Maria Bakkalapulo talks to the group Tengkorak, a TUE self-styled Islamic metal band sympathetic to FPI, the TUE Islamic Defenders Front, a hard-line Islamic group in TUE Indonesia notorious for vandalising nightclubs and even TUE breaking up concert gigs. Tengkorak & FPI were integral in TUE pushing Lady Gaga's show cancellation in Jakarta. TUE TUE Presenter: Maria Bakkalapulo - who lives and works in TUE Indonesia TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01rvpkg (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:55 Reflections on Thatcher b01s4qm4 (Listen) TUE Alan Clark TUE TUE A series of brief extracts from diverse writings that follow TUE Margaret Thatcher's rise and fall. The authors include TUE Barbara Castle, Alan Clark, John Major, Julian Barnes and TUE others. TUE TUE Alan Clark witnessed the dramatic scene after Margaret TUE Thatcher narrowly failed to defeat Michael Heseltine's TUE challenge for the Conservative leadership in 1990. Clark TUE talked with the then Prime Minister as her support ebbed TUE away. (Extract from The Diaries of Alan Clark). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01rtfkr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01rvpkj (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rvpkl (Listen) TUE The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly TUE TUE The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly: Episode twenty-two TUE of a thirty-part series made in collaboration with the TUE British Library Sound Archive. TUE TUE In the early years of the nineteenth century, new technology TUE allowed people to hear sounds that had always existed - but TUE below the threshold of normal human perception. Professor TUE David Hendy of the University of Sussex tells the story of TUE medicine's listening revolution: the discovery of the TUE stethoscope. TUE TUE Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. TUE Producer: Matt Thompson TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01rvnxf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rvpkn (Listen) TUE The Flea by Michael Symmons Roberts starring Toby Jones and TUE Conrad Nelson. TUE TUE Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts TUE TUE The Flea focuses on the year 1601 when Donne, a 29-year-old TUE scholar, poet and diplomat, makes the decision that will TUE change his life. Donne is working (by day) as Chief TUE Secretary to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Thomas TUE Egerton, at his Palace in London's Strand. By night, he is TUE living a life of excess in the fleshpots of the city. His TUE famously erotic love poems are unpublished, but widely TUE circulated in literary London. TUE However, the poet has begun to fall in love with his boss' TUE niece Ann More. But Donne comes from a Catholic family, TUE which puts him beyond the pale in decent society. TUE TUE During these heady months in the 'raddled and ribald TUE glamour' of Elizabethan London, Donne's poems are gaining TUE wider currency, including the famous love poem 'The Flea' TUE (memorably described by turn-of-the-century critic Arthur TUE Quiller-Couch as 'the most disgusting in our language'), TUE 'The Sonne Rising', 'To His Mistress Going to Bed', 'Love's TUE Ecstasie'. TUE TUE Credits TUE The Flea: Toby Jones TUE John Donne: Conrad Nelson TUE Ann: Natalie Grady TUE Egerton: Malcolm Raeburn TUE Brooke: William Ash TUE Essex: William Ash TUE Sir George: David Fleeshman TUE Priest: David Fleeshman TUE Beth: Claire Brown TUE Director: Susan Roberts TUE Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01rvppj (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the Making History studio by Dr TUE Elaine Chalus, who is Director of the Centre for History and TUE Culture at Bath Spa University and currently involved in TUE researching The Admirals Wife: An Intimate History of TUE Family, Navy and Empire. It draws upon the largely unknown TUE diaries of Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1778-1857). TUE TUE Alongside her is one of Britain's leading historians of the TUE eighteenth century, Professor Jeremy Black from the TUE University of Exeter. TUE TUE Tom heads to the British Library in London to take a TUE privileged look at a remarkable volume of naval dispatches. TUE Unearthed by naval historian Sam Willis, this beautifully TUE bound book contains first - hand accounts of some of the key TUE sea battles between 1794 and 1805. So why don't we know more TUE about it? TUE TUE In Warwickshire, archivist Rob Eyre brings us evidence for a TUE unique way of paying for Nelson's navy: a hair-powder tax. TUE TUE And Helen Castor takes a trip to Watford to meet a Making TUE History listener who can shed new light on the role of toads TUE in pregnancy testing before the DIY kits of today. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Produced by Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01rvppl (Listen) TUE The Deepest Lake on Earth TUE TUE Russia's Lake Baikal is the oldest and deepest lake in the TUE world, containing 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water. TUE Dr Anson Mackay from University College London is one of a TUE team drilling through the bed of this extraordinary body of TUE water. The cores of sediment that they pull up from the TUE depths will tell us not just about the environmental history TUE of Baikal, they'll tell us about 1000s of years of global TUE climate change. Today the lake is threatened by pollution, TUE rising population and Mongolian gold mining. Can the story TUE of the lake's past help preserve it for the future? TUE TUE Tom Heap tells the story of the expedition as we join Dr TUE Mackay and his colleagues to piece together the history of TUE Baikal and search for clues to the future of all freshwater TUE on Earth. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01rvppn (Listen) TUE Language and Politics in India TUE TUE More than a billion people, twenty two scheduled languages, TUE and dozens more mother tongues: In the second of two TUE programmes, Chris Ledgard explores the complex and TUE passionate politics of language in India. In Delhi and TUE Jaipur, we visit schools, business and newspaper offices to TUE ask - how do the languages you speak, read and write in TUE India influence your life? TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01rvppq (Listen) TUE Series 30, Kenny Everett TUE TUE Chris Tarrant chooses one of the great pioneers of modern TUE radio - a man born Maurice Cole in Liverpool in 1944, who TUE became famous on television as Gizzard Puke, Cupid Stunt and TUE Sid Snot. Kenny Everett's life was almost as bizarre as the TUE characters he played, but it is for his work as a deejay TUE that Chris Tarrant selects him. Tarrant was at Capital Radio TUE for twenty years. TUE TUE Kenny Everett began his career in pirate radio, from where TUE he was sacked. He also worked for the BBC, from where he was TUE sacked. He made one appearance on Radio 4's Just a Minute, TUE famously talking about marbles. Other employees included TUE Radio Luxembourg and Capital. TUE TUE Presenter Matthew Parris reminisces about the Young TUE Conservatives invitation to Kenny Everett to join them on TUE stage in 1983 - his slogans included 'Let's Bomb Russia' and TUE 'Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away' - while biographer TUE James Hogg fills in some of the details of Everett's TUE complicated personal life. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01rvpps (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rtfkt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01rvppv (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Olsens TUE TUE In his debut solo Radio 4 show, comedian Thom Tuck recounted TUE heart-rending tales of loves lost while drawing comparisons TUE with 54 Straight-to-DVD Disney movies he'd watched, so we TUE don't ever have to. TUE TUE Thom now turns his attention to other genres of TUE Straight-to-DVD movies - seeking out further underrated gems TUE and drawing parallels with captivating personal tales from TUE his own life experience, backed by cinematic music, so we TUE can rest easy. TUE TUE In this third episode, Thom looks at the Straight-to-DVD TUE offerings from "The Olsen Twins", self made millionaires TUE from their empire of teenage market films. Thom looks at the TUE journey of their success, and draws parallels with the wise TUE (and not so wise) choices he's made in his life. TUE TUE "...a seductive experience" The Guardian TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Thom Tuck TUE Producer: Lianne Coop TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01rvppx (Listen) TUE Darrell's doing the dirty work. Meanwhile, Emma starts to TUE feel better about things. TUE TUE Producer: Vanessa Whitburn TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01rvppz (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with best-selling TUE thriller writer David Baldacci, whose latest book focuses on TUE a government assassin on the trail of a fellow agent. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:42 Reflections on Thatcher b01s4qmn (Listen) TUE Matthew Parris TUE TUE A series of brief extracts from diverse writings that follow TUE Margaret Thatcher's rise and fall. The authors include TUE Barbara Castle, Alan Clark, John Major, Julian Barnes and TUE others. TUE TUE In 2001, Lady Thatcher remained a formidable campaigner, as TUE Matthew Parris witnessed. (Extract from Chance Witness', TUE first published in The Times). TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01s4zr0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 How to Have a Good Death b01rvpq1 (Listen) TUE The Liverpool Care Pathway is a guide to giving people the TUE best possible death. It was devised by the Royal Liverpool TUE University Hospital and the Marie Curie Hospice in Liverpool TUE in the late 1990s and is now recognised as a best practice TUE model by the Department of Health. Dr Kevin Fong asks why it TUE has recently been criticised by bereaved families and some TUE of the press. Is it because some medical staff are TUE administering it in a callous way or is it because the TUE families of people who are terminally ill are not informed TUE of what happens on the Pathway? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01rvpq3 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01rvpq5 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter reports on the latest health stories. TUE TUE 21:30 Making News b01rvpg5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01rtfkw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01rvpq7 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective TUE with David Eades. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rvpq9 (Listen) TUE Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4, Submission TUE TUE In today's story, Submersion, by a writer known for his TUE powerful use of language and imagery, TUE flood and fire haunt a young man coming to terms with TUE disaster. TUE TUE The Reader is Jamie Parker TUE The abridger is Miranda Davies TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b01rvpqc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE Matt Harvey is joined by fellow poets Molly Naylor and Jonny TUE Fluffypunk for poetry, laughter and cabaret in front of an TUE appreciative audience at the Ways with Words festival at TUE Dartington in south Devon. All this whilst one man band, TUE Jerri Hart, continues to needle Matt from the sidelines. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01rvpqf (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 APRIL 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01rtflp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01rz2rr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rtflr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rtflt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rtflw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01rtfly (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0ly6 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with WED Monsignor Tony Rogers. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01rvprx (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01rvprz (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin WED Webb. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01rvps1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01rz315 (Listen) WED She Left Me the Gun, Episode 3 WED WED Writer: Emma Brockes WED Reader: Alison Pettitt WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 The Funeral of Baroness Thatcher b01s5xrl (Listen) WED Sian Williams leads coverage of the ceremonial procession WED and funeral of Britain's first female PM, with commentary on WED the Service at St Paul's Cathedral from James Naughtie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01rvptx (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01ry9sg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01rvptz (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rvpv1 (Listen) WED The New Art of Listening WED WED The New Art of Listening: Episode twenty-three of a WED thirty-part series made in collaboration with the British WED Library Sound Archive. WED WED In the eighteenth century, musical performances were a WED relaxed affair. Most audience members were so busy chatting, WED flirting and eating they didn't do much listening at all. WED But then came the era of grand concert halls. Professor WED David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores how the WED Victorians stopped shuffling and learned to hush. WED WED Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. WED Producer: Matt Thompson WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01rvppx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rvpv3 (Listen) WED The Second Son WED WED by Peter Whalley WED WED A chilling psychological mystery drama about identity, fraud WED and self belief WED A son tracks down his estranged father only to discover that WED someone has beaten him to it. A stranger has taken his WED identity and claims to be his Father's only son. WED WED Producer and directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED Credits WED Robert: Jason Stone WED Laura: Gillian Kearney WED Bob: Stephen Fletcher WED DI Pine: Stephen Fletcher WED Henry: David Fleeshman WED Elaine: Denise Black WED Director: Pauline Harris WED Producer: Pauline Harris WED Writer: Peter Whalley WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01rvpv5 (Listen) WED Benefits WED WED Hundreds of thousands of people across the UK are affected WED by the changes to benefits which started coming into force WED from April this year. It's part of one of the biggest WED shake-ups of the welfare system in decades. Changes to WED housing benefit, a replacement for disability living WED allowance, a cap on the total amount of benefit that WED working-age people can receive, and localising council tax WED benefit, are some of the major alterations. WED WED Do you understand how you might be affected? WED Are you clear about what benefits you might be able to WED claim? WED WED Call Paul Lewis and expert guests: WED Lee Healey, Managing Director, IncomeMAX WED Sally West, Policy Adviser, Age UK WED and Jean French, Head of Advice and Information for Carers WED UK WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01rvpq5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01rvpv7 (Listen) WED Clergy Lives; English Heritage WED WED Heritage politics in the UK - Laurie Taylor talks to Ruth WED Adams, the author of a new study which argues that powerful WED interest groups have championed a 'country house' version of WED our national past in place of a more complex and diverse WED history. Has the heritage lobby transformed the WED architectural heritage of the aristocracy from a minority WED interest to a cause with popular support? And, if so, at WED what cost? Also, Dr Caroline Gatrell discusses her WED sociological exploration of the every day lives of modern WED day parish priests. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01rvpv9 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01rvpvc (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rtfm0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01rvpvf (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Comedian Alun Cochrane takes listeners on a room by room WED stand-up tour of his house. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01rvpvh (Listen) WED Neil comes to a decision, and Pip makes her excuses to WED David. WED WED Producer: Vanessa Whitburn WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01rvpvk (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rz317 (Listen) WED An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 3 WED WED The poverty-stricken Mewa Gul tries to extract his family WED from his daughter Zarlakhta's engagement. But it won't be WED easy - or cheap. Meanwhile, in the landowner's house, young WED Wisal Khan continues to love Zarlakhta from afar. WED WED Executive Producer: John Dryden WED Producer: Anne-Marie Cole WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b01rvpvm (Listen) WED Series 6, Birth Order WED WED Does being the eldest child give you an advantage in life? WED Does the youngest get away with more? Whether you're the WED youngest or eldest child, or somewhere in the middle, your WED position in the family may influence your attitude to WED school, careers and relationships. In this edition of WED Bringing Up Britain, Mariella and her guests will be looking WED at the evidence and experience of how important your place WED in the family pecking order is, and its potential WED consequences. WED WED Why are more astronauts first borns? WED WED Can it really be true, as one study revealed that the first WED born child has an IQ 2.3 points higher than their subsequent WED siblings and as one longitudinal study has revealed, the WED younger you are in your family, the shorter you are likely WED to be. WED WED Mariella is joined around the table by anthropologist, WED Professor Ruth Mace, clinical psychologist, Linda Blair and WED family relationship counsellor Suzy Hayman to sift and WED debate the evidence. WED WED Producer: Sarah Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01rvpvp (Listen) WED Series 4, Emma Woolf: Explaining Anorexia WED WED Emma Woolf explores how people suffering from eating WED disorders might now have a proper explanation for the WED condition. Emma has suffered from anorexia and written and WED talked about it extensively. A proper explanation for her WED illness has remained elusive - until now. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking WED on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a WED live audience. It is recorded in front of a live audience at WED Somerset House in London. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01rvppl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01rvps1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01rtfm2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01rvpw2 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective WED with David Eades. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rvpw4 (Listen) WED Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4, The Reservation WED WED In today's extract, The Reservation, by a writer known for WED her muscular language and unflinching eye, a daughter leaves WED behind the wilds of Idaho to return to the wilderness she WED grew up in, and her dying mother. WED WED The Reader is Olivia Coleman WED The abridger is Miranda Davies WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 I, Regress b01rvpw6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Matt Berry (The IT Crowd) plays a twisted regression WED therapist in this dark comedy. Medium Desc Matt Berry plays WED a twisted regression therapist in this dark, WED Lynch-meets-Kaufman-style comedy. Produced by Sam Bryant. WED Long Desc A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for WED an unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' WED sees Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, WED Snuff Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist WED taking unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys WED through their subconscious. WED WED Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client WED who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient WED is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the WED various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are WED played out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or WED nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny WED as it is disturbing. WED WED The cast across the series include Bob Mortimer, Daisy WED Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy-Ann Oberman. WED WED A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone WED else's head! WED WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 23:15 Don't Start b01685zr (Listen) WED Series 1, Idea WED WED Celery rears its ugly head again as Neil attempts his WED Androcles and the lion tactic when making tea, and Kim WED admits she has grievance nostalgia. WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner. A masterclass in the great art of WED arguing. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted WED comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each WED week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial WED flashpoint - a text from a friend, a trilby and a bad WED night's sleep. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim WED battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The WED two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, WED unexpected literary references (Androcles and the Lion pop WED up at one point) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's WED weaknesses. WED WED Neil ..... Frank Skinner WED Kim ...... Katherine Parkinson WED WED Producer/Director: Polly Thomas WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01rvpw8 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with news from Westminster, including a report WED on Prime Minister's Questions. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 APRIL 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01rtfmx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01rz315 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rtfmz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rtfn1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rtfn3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01rtfn5 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0lyb (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with THU Monsignor Tony Rogers. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01rw1k3 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01rw1k5 (Listen) THU News and current affairs with John Humphrys and Sarah THU Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather, Yesterday in THU Parliament and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01rw1k7 (Listen) THU The Putney Debates THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates. For THU two months in late 1647, representatives of Fairfax's New THU Model Army and the radical Levellers met in a church in THU Putney to debate a possible future constitution for England. THU Their discussions not only affected the immediate future of THU the country, but had a profound effect on conceptions of THU civil liberties and the nature of democracy. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01rz35v (Listen) THU She Left Me the Gun, Episode 4 THU THU Writer: Emma Brockes THU Reader: Alison Pettitt THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rw2zd (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rz35x (Listen) THU An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 4 THU THU The elder wife of shopkeeper Sardar Aka is suddenly ill. Or THU is she just sick with jealousy of his younger wife? The THU doctor will know. However, the couple are on their way to THU the doctor's clinic down the mountain when an event shakes THU the whole village. THU THU Executive Producer: John Dryden THU Producer: Anne-Marie Cole THU An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01rw2zg (Listen) THU Mexico's Village Vigilantes THU THU Linda Pressly meets the vigilantes fighting Mexico's THU criminal gangs in Guerrerro State. THU THU 11:30 Mr Capra Goes to Hollywood b01rw2zj (Listen) THU "The art of [my films] is very, very simple... it's the love THU of people. Add two simple ideals to this love of people - THU the freedom of each individual and the equal importance of THU each individual - and you have the principle on which I've THU based all my films." Frank Capra, 1982. THU THU This programme explores the filmmaker Frank Capra's enduring THU vision of the American dream. The man behind It's a THU Wonderful Life, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Mr Deeds Goes THU to Town and It Happened One Night, he remains one of THU America's most popular directors - yet his movies can still THU divide critics. THU THU Was he simply a peddler of sentimental 'Capra-corn' or do THU his films offer a much more complex view of American life? THU THU We consider what makes a movie 'Capra-esque' - looking at THU the balance of humour and heart in his films through to THU their occasional dark, noir-like edges - as well as THU unpicking how the 'Capra-esque' has filtered down into the THU contemporary American political landscape. THU THU Produced by Eleanor McDowall THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01rw2zl (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01rtfn9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01rw2zn (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rw2zq (Listen) THU Life in the City THU THU Life in the City: Episode twenty-four of a thirty-part THU series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound THU Archive. THU THU As cities grew, next-door's noise became increasingly hard THU to escape. Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex THU follows the writer Thomas Carlyle's grumpy attempts at THU soundproofing, before travelling to New York to imagine the THU teaming, noisy world of the Lower East Side tenements in the THU early twentieth century. THU THU Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. THU Producer: Matt Thompson THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01rvpvh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rw2zs (Listen) THU Cash Cow THU THU by Ewa Banaszkiewicz THU THU When Sophie's father runs up a gambling debt she has to THU choose whether to give him the money or let him face prison. THU THU Sophie ..... Aisling Loftus THU Nick ..... Robert Glenister THU Kryztof ..... Will Howard THU Frankie ..... Taron Egerton THU Cheri ..... Adjoa Andoh THU THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU It is Christmas Eve, and the first Christmas Sophie and her THU two younger brothers ,Krzystof and Frankie, will spend THU without their Polish mother, Maria, who died earlier in the THU year. At twenty eight, Sophie feels that she has to take THU over as 'head' of the family. Since the death of her mother, THU her youngest brother Frankie (16) has been going off the THU rails mainly due to their compulsive gambler father's more THU frequent visits to the local casino. Before Maria died, she THU put the small flat that Nick and Frankie lives in, into THU Sophie's name, to ensure Nick didn't gamble it away. She THU also made Sophie promise she would always look after her THU father. However when Nick's gambling leads him to fraud and THU maybe prosecution that could lead to a prison sentence - THU what exactly did that promise of 'looking after him' mean? THU How is Sophie going to manage to step into her mother's THU shoes? THU THU Aisling Loftus (Mr Selfridge, Noises Off) and Robert THU Glenister (Hustle, Noises Off) lead the cast. THU THU Ewa Banaszkiewicz is of Anglo, Polish, Sri Lankan descent. THU She has written several radio plays including 'Three In A THU Bed' and 'Wedding In Krakow'. She is an award winning film THU maker and is currently working on her next feature. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01rw2zv (Listen) THU Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis, along Dorset's Jurassic coast, THU to explore the Undercliffs, a fascinating jungle-like THU terrain that's been created by 200 years of landslips, and THU is still evolving today. THU THU She learns that the exceptional rainfall of the last twelve THU months has increased the geological instability of this area THU that lies to the west of Lyme Regis, through which passes THU the South West Coast Path. THU THU Helen meets geologists, naturalists, and the wildlife artist THU Elaine Franks, all of whom are passionate about the striking THU quality of the Undercliffs - a six mile stretch of land THU that's the nearest to jungle conditions that can be found in THU Britain. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01rv33t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01rv3mj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01rw3yf (Listen) THU Jeremy Irons on Trashed; new Pierce Brosnan romcom Love is THU All You Need THU THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Material World b01rw3yh (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 b01rw3yk (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rtfnc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01rw3ym (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 3 THU THU Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's THU Manifesto using policies suggested by his studio audience. THU THU Producer: Colin Anderson THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01rw3yp (Listen) THU Helen does some straight talking, and Tom forges ahead. THU THU Producer: Vanessa Whitburn THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01rw3yr (Listen) THU John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rz35x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01rw3yt (Listen) THU Children's heart surgery THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01rw3yw (Listen) THU Indian Identity THU THU The government of India has embarked on a huge programme to THU give the whole population, 1.2 billion people, a unique THU identity number backed by fingerprint and eyeball scans. THU Peter Day asks whether the ID scheme will cut poverty as it THU is intended to or, as critics allege, create a Big Brother THU state. THU THU 21:00 A Natural History of Me! b01rvpkb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01rw1k7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01rtfnf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01rw4px (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective THU with Philippa Thomas. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rw4q1 (Listen) THU Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4, A World Intact THU THU In today's story, A World Intact, by a writer known for his THU lyricism, set in the last years of the Second World War, a THU young man returns from training to his rural home to find it THU unchanged - but no longer where he belongs. THU THU The Reader is Harry Lloyd THU The abridger is Julian Wilkinson THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On b01rw4q3 (Listen) THU Series 7, Being Normal THU THU As a new edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical THU Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published this year, THU writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson travels around the THU UK meeting people whose behaviour might be considered THU normal, but may soon fall under the criteria of some brand THU new disorders. THU THU He goes to a competitive eating competition in Bristol to THU speak to a man who has been obsessed with his weight. And he THU visits Adam Buxton, who may be a candidate for "intermittent THU explosive disorder" as he is prone to losing his temper in THU an explosive way. THU THU Psychiatrist Dr Joanna Moncrieff says she believes the DSM THU is amplifying a tendency to label more and more people as THU having health problems. While Dr Jeffrey Lieberman, THU president elect of the American Psychiatric Association, THU which publishes the DSM, defends the manual saying it does THU not attempt to pathologise normal behaviour such as anger THU but look at repeated behaviour. THU THU Jon also hears from David Aaronovitch who was sent to a THU psychiatrist by his parents for being a shouty teenager and THU he wonders if, these days, he would be misdiagnosed? Finally THU Jon speaks to Alex Trenchard who tells his story for the THU first time of how his obsession with his music festival THU resulted in a prison sentence. THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01rw4q7 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01rtfpf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01rz35v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rtfph (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rtfpk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rtfpm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01rtfpp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0lyj (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with FRI Monsignor Tony Rogers. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01rw8mp (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01rw8mr (Listen) FRI News and current affairs with John Humphrys and Sarah FRI Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather, Yesterday in FRI Parliament and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01rv342 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01rz3gc (Listen) FRI She Left Me the Gun, Episode 5 FRI FRI Writer: Emma Brockes FRI Reader: Alison Pettitt FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Listen to Emma Brockes on Woman's Hour FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rw8mt (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rz3gf (Listen) FRI An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 5 FRI FRI The villagers are horrified to learn the cause of the FRI terrifying event which has shaken their mountain. In the FRI landowner's house, Shah Bibi, wife of the shady Akbar Khan, FRI fears that his activities mean it could happen again, and FRI even closer to home. Meanwhile, Mewa Gul and his son go to FRI the jirga - the village justice panel - to explain why the FRI family wants to break Zarlakhta's engagement. But will the FRI jirga agree and free Zarlakhta to marry another? FRI FRI UK listeners must leave an Everyday Story of Afghan Folk on FRI this cliffhanger. But the programme is ongoing in Pashtun. FRI An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is based on characters and FRI storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made by and for the FRI Pashtun people of this untamed area. FRI FRI Executive Producer: John Dryden FRI Producer: Anne-Marie Cole FRI An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Mind Changers b01rw8mw (Listen) FRI Abraham Maslow and the Hierarchy of Needs FRI FRI Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series FRI which examines the work of the people who have changed our FRI understanding of the human mind. This week she examines the FRI work of Abraham Maslow who, in the mid-twentieth century, FRI developed a theory of human motivation which was FRI particularly influential in management. FRI FRI In his 1954 book, Motivation and Personality, Maslow FRI explained his Heirarchy of Needs: how only when basic FRI physiological needs, and those of safety and security, are FRI met can humans aspire to be motivated by higher goals such FRI as status and self-respect. And he maintained that only a FRI small number of exceptional people - he gave Albert Einstein FRI and Eleanor Roosevelt as examples - are capable of reaching FRI the highest level of motivation, and are driven by the FRI desire to accomplish all they are capable of. FRI FRI Maslow was also a pioneer, with Carl Rogers, of Humanistic FRI Psychology - a response to the sharply opposing schools of FRI psychoanalysis and behaviourism which dominated psychology FRI at the time. FRI FRI Claudia Hammond visits Brandeis University outside Boston, FRI where Maslow was the founding Professor of Psychology, to FRI speak to some who knew him, and hears from psychologists and FRI management experts how his influence persists. Contributors FRI include Margie Lachman - Professor of Psychology at Brandeis FRI University, Lawrence Fuchs - emeritus Professor of American FRI Civilization and Politics at Brandeis (who died last month), FRI and Warren Bennis - Professor of Management and Organization FRI at the USC Marshall School of Business. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 11:30 FindthePerfectPartner4u.com b01rw8my (Listen) FRI New Directions in Applied Mathematical Modelling FRI FRI Following on from Charlotte Cory's 'Thinking of Leaving Your FRI Husband', this romantic comedy series explores the perils of FRI internet dating for the middle-aged man. FRI FRI In Episode Three, Professor Tony (Henry Goodman), a FRI recently-widowed professor who teaches in the University FRI Mathematics Department of "East Greenwich and Lewisham FRI Combined", goes off to Norway to deliver a lecture on the FRI mathematical basis for social interactions - based on his FRI own research dating prospective partners from the internet FRI dating website findtheperfectpartner4u.com. FRI FRI But where women are concerned, Tony finds Norway no less FRI dangerous a place than England - particularly when he wakes FRI up after a short nap to find a naked Russian student in his FRI bed. FRI FRI The student, and all of Tony's dates, are played by Lia FRI Williams. FRI FRI Tony / Italian Waiter....................Henry Goodman FRI Sarah and all Tony's internet dates.......Lia Williams FRI Mother / Marjory / Russian Mother........Marcia Warren FRI Miles.....................................Carl Prekopp FRI Vice-Chancellor / Pilot / FRI Norwegian Academic / Prof Belchen............Sam Kelly FRI Jeff / Norwegian Academic / FRI Prof NaNanan...............................Kerry Shale FRI Second Girl / Klara.......................Alexis White FRI Girl at Gate / Air Stewardess......Stephanie Georgeson FRI FRI Original Music: David Chilton FRI Director: Gordon House FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01rw8n0 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01rw8n2 (Listen) FRI Nicola and Jordan - Call of Duty FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Fi Glover presents another conversation FRI in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. Nicola is a nurse; her 13 year old son, Jordan, FRI wants to join the Royal Marines. But has he considered that FRI this could mean having to kill? FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01rtfpr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01rw8xr (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rw8xt (Listen) FRI Capturing Sound FRI FRI Capturing Sound: Episode twenty-five of a thirty-part series FRI made in collaboration with the British Library Sound FRI Archive. FRI FRI Sounds were ephemeral until recording technology made it FRI possible to capture them. Professor David Hendy of the FRI University of Sussex introduces bottled moments from the FRI past, including the voices of Robert Browning and Florence FRI Nightingale and 9/11 answerphone messages. FRI FRI Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. FRI Producer: Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01rw3yp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rw8xw (Listen) FRI Legacy: Suspicious Minds by Cath Staincliffe. FRI FRI When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published FRI probate detectives, ex-police officer Dan and his ruthless FRI sister Rachel, hunt for a body backwards through the family FRI line to find the true heir and get a slice of the fortune. FRI FRI Dan and Rachel's search for an heir to Petra Oster's estate FRI leads them to investigate events in 1980's East Berlin. FRI Finding several anomalies in Petra's history, it becomes FRI clear that Petra escaped to Britain in an attempt to erase FRI her past. Will their hunt for her heir reveal the truth? FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dan: William Ash FRI Rachel: Jo Hartley FRI Konrad: Conrad Nelson FRI Petra: Lisa Brookes FRI Magda: Fiona Clarke FRI Lauren: Sarah McDonald Hughes FRI Young Magda: Sarah McDonald Hughes FRI Stasi Officer: Jack Lord FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Writer: Cath Staincliffe FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01rw8xy (Listen) FRI Ickenham FRI FRI This week from Ickenham in Middlesex, with Eric Robson in FRI the chair and Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew FRI Wilson taking the audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b00tpsp0 (Listen) FRI Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The World's End FRI FRI Following the success of the first series of 'The Mysterious FRI Mr Quin', Martin Jarvis reads more stories featuring Agatha FRI Christie's personal favourite character. FRI FRI Mr Quin assists his friend Mr Satterthwaite to investigate FRI three mysteries. But one mystery remains - who is Mr Harley FRI Quin himself? FRI FRI Mr Satterthwaite, on holiday in Corsica, travels by car with FRI his friend the Duchess and an Indian judge, to the top of FRI the island known as The Worlds End. They are led, via FRI perilous ravine lined roads, by Naomi, a young, strangely FRI distracted artist. FRI FRI In a village at the summit they suddenly encounter Mr Quin FRI and, whilst sheltering from a sudden snowstorm, another FRI visiting group - a well-known actress, her husband and a FRI theatre producer. The actress tells the story of her stolen FRI opal and the young writer imprisoned for the offence. Naomi FRI seems unexpectedly disturbed by the tale. FRI FRI Has Mr Quin once again appeared in time to avert a possible FRI tragedy? FRI FRI Producer: Rosalind Ayres FRI A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01rw8y0 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01rw8y2 (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 16:55 The Listening Project b01rw8y4 (Listen) FRI Gordon and Paula - Ticked Off FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between partners Gordon FRI and Paula, about the strains of dealing with Gordon's FRI Tourette's Syndrome, proving again that it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. They cope mainly through humour, FRI though it occasionally fails. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01rw8y6 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rtfpt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01rw8y8 (Listen) FRI Series 80, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Justin Moorhouse FRI and Hugo Rifkind. FRI FRI Producer: Sam Bryant FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01rw8yb (Listen) FRI Writer .... Mary Cutler FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter .... Brian Hewlett FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens FRI Celia Redwood ..... Anita Dobson FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Des Chapman ..... Ben Crowe FRI 1st Police Officer ..... Ben Whybrow FRI 2nd Police Officer ..... Rob Swinton. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01rw8yd (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with Ian Gillan and FRI Ian Paice, long-standing members of the band Deep Purple. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rz3gf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01rw8yg (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a special edition of Any FRI Questions? from Columbia University, New York, to mark the FRI first 100 days of President Obama's second term. He'll be FRI joined by Congresswoman Donna Edwards, Eliot Spitzer - 54th FRI Governor of New York, Harry Evans, Reuters Editor at Large, FRI and former Congresswoman Dr Nan Hayworth at Columbia FRI University New York. FRI Producer: Miles Ward. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01rw8yj (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Knight FRI FRI 21:00 Noise: A Human History - Omnibus b01rw8yl (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the episodes from week five of a six week FRI series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound FRI Archive. FRI FRI Henry David Thoreau is one of history's great listeners. His FRI classic work Walden is dense with descriptions of the FRI natural sounds he discovered when he swapped his Concord FRI home for a simple cabin in the woods. But his peace was FRI disturbed by a noise that presaged the age to come: the FRI snort of the iron horse. FRI FRI Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explains FRI how the sounds of nature gave way before the industrial din. FRI FRI As cities grew, next-door's noise became increasingly hard FRI to escape. David follows the writer Thomas Carlyle's grumpy FRI attempts at soundproofing, before travelling to New York to FRI imagine the teaming, noisy world of the Lower East Side FRI tenements in the early twentieth century. FRI FRI We also discover the story of medicine's listening FRI revolution - the stethoscope - and find out about the first FRI attempts to use technology to turn ephemeral sounds into FRI something captured permanently. David Hendy introduces FRI bottled moments from the past, including the voices of FRI Robert Browning and Florence Nightingale and 9/11 FRI answerphone messages. FRI FRI Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. FRI Producer: Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01rtfpw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01s0stk (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective FRI with Philippa Thomas. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rw8yn (Listen) FRI Granta Best of Young British Novelists 4, Anwar Gets FRI Everything FRI FRI In today's story, Anwar gets Everything, a construction FRI worker in Dubai witnesses an incident which will change his FRI life. FRI FRI The Reader is Sagar Arya FRI The abridger is Julian Wilkinson FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01rvppq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01rw8zf (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the latest news and analysis from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01rw8zh (Listen) FRI John and Brenda - Feeling Unaccepted FRI FRI Fi Glover presents an emotional conversation between Brenda FRI and her widowed step-father-in-law. Brenda believes his now FRI deceased wife never thought Brenda good enough to marry her FRI son, proving again that it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI