10 May, 2013

Radio 4 Listings for 11/05/2013 - 17/05/2013

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SAT SATURDAY 11 MAY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01s8k9q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01s5gdr (Listen) SAT A Sting in the Tale, Episode 5 SAT SAT Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from SAT his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in SAT experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into SAT the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to SAT protect our rarest bees. SAT SAT Read by Tim McInnerny SAT Producer: Joanne Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s8k9s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s8k9v (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s8k9x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01s8k9z (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s8w0c (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Glenn SAT Jordan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01s8w0f (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01s8kb1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01s8kb3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01s8qxr (Listen) SAT Cannock Chase SAT SAT Jules Hudson goes to Cannock Chase in Staffordshire to find SAT out about its military past. A major training camp during SAT the First World War, he visits a mock-up of part of the SAT Western Front that was built in order to familiarise troops SAT with the concept of trench warfare, before they were sent to SAT France and Flanders. Now covered in scrub, county SAT archaeologists will begin clearing the site, a model of SAT Messines Ridge, this summer. This is in preparation for the SAT centenary commemorations next year that mark the beginning SAT of the First World War. SAT SAT Cannock Chase as a whole can be seen as a landscape of SAT commemoration. Besides the mock-up of the Trenches, the area SAT is home to cemeteries for Commonwealth and German soldiers SAT who died in the UK during both world wars, including the SAT crews of the Zeppelins shot down over Britain during the SAT First World War. Jules also visits a memorial to the Katyn SAT Massacre on the Chase, which commemorates the 22,000 Polish SAT soldiers who were shot by the Soviets on Stalin's orders in SAT 1940. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01sc8j7 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, SAT presented by Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01s8kb5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01sc8mm (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day, Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01sc9c9 (Listen) SAT Michael Sandel, Don McLean and Bonnie Prince Charlie SAT SAT Sian Williams and Aasmah Mir talk to US political SAT philosopher Michael Sandel who argues that how much we SAT define society by monetary value challenges the very core of SAT our moral selves. Sian and Aasmah also explore notions of SAT death- not in any morbid sense- but firstly with JP Devlin SAT who brings us a 'guerrilla report' from Nunhead Cemetery in SAT London. And secondly they find out about the increasingly SAT popular 'Death Cafés where people meet for tea, cake and a SAT jolly discussion about mortality, all run by Jon Underwood SAT who feels we don't talk about death half enough. Then they SAT meet child genius Jacob Barnett and his Mum Kristine. Jacob SAT has an IQ higher than Einstein and has been confounding SAT academics and scientists with his knowledge of astrophysics SAT since he was 3. Now, at 14, he's working on extending the SAT theory of relativity. In our 'sound sculpture', we hear the SAT doleful sounds of the harmonium- loved and restored by folk SAT musician Pete Roe and we enjoy The Inheritance Tracks of SAT American legend Don McLean. Finally, Sian and Aasmah travel SAT in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie with Gregor Ewing SAT and his border collie Meg- who carries her own rucksack. SAT Good dog. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b01sc9cc (Listen) SAT Series 6, Desmond's SAT SAT Paul Jackson continues with the series that does much more SAT than celebrating innovative television programmes - it uses SAT them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and SAT social history. SAT SAT In the spotlight today is Channel 4's longest running sit SAT com, Desmond's - the OTHER Peckham based comedy which SAT featured Norman Beaton as Desmond, the owner of a West SAT Indian Barber shop and Carmen Munroe who played his wife, SAT Shirley. The 71 episode series first aired on Channel 4 in SAT 1989 and finished in 1994 upon the untimely early death of SAT its star character, 'Desmond', played by Norman Beaton. SAT SAT Paul speaks to the show's creator, Trix Worrell, who got the SAT idea for setting a comedy in a Peckham West Indian Barber's SAT shop whilst he was on a bus travelling through Peckham on SAT the way to meet comedy producer, Humphrey Barclay. SAT SAT Both of them share their memories of the creation of SAT Desmond's with Paul Jackson, along with the series' first SAT producer, Charlie Hanson and script editor Paulette Randall. SAT Ram John Holder, one of the show's stars, 'Porkpie' tells SAT Paul how accurately the sit com portrayed the West Indian SAT community and how it was a welcome change to be in a black SAT sit com which was both funny and enjoyed by all sections of SAT the audience. SAT SAT The then commissioner for Channel 4, Farrukh Dhondy, gives SAT his thoughts on the success of Desmond's and contributors SAT question how much further forward British television is SAT today in its commission of comedies featuring members from SAT the UK's diverse communities. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01sc9cf (Listen) SAT In the week of the Queen's speech Anne McElvoy of the SAT Economist reflects on its pageantry, the legislation it SAT proposes for curbing immigration, and the absence of any SAT plans for a referendum on Europe. SAT Plus is government sufficiently business friendly. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01sc9ch (Listen) SAT Brides for Sale SAT SAT Correspondents around the world with the detail behind the SAT headlines: Beth McLeod on the struggling Syrian refugees SAT resorting to selling their daughters into marriage. The SAT costs and consequences of standing in a Pakistani election SAT are explored by Owen Bennett Jones. Another food scandal in SAT China: Martin Patience on how, this time, it's rat which is SAT leaving a nasty taste in the mouth. How can a pile of SAT nappies in the British Museum spell good news for Somalia? SAT The answer comes from Mary Harper while Tim Hartley takes SAT time out at a football match in North Korea. It might still SAT be the beautiful game but not as most of us know it! SAT The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01sc9ck (Listen) SAT Overdraft charges, insurance, contactless cards, mortgages SAT for over-60s SAT SAT OVERDRAFT CHARGES RISE SAT NatWest and RBS are putting up charges for people who have SAT arranged to have an overdraft and then make use of it. The SAT new £6 a month charge will apply to million customers with SAT the Select account who go more than £10 overdrawn in a SAT month. In the past there was no charge until they exceeded SAT £100. Interest at 19.89% will also be charged. SAT SAT CAR TRIALS SAT You want to sell your car. You advertise it. A potential SAT buyer comes round. He wants a test drive. You take him out SAT in the car. He asks if he can drive. You get out to swap SAT seats. He gets into the driving seat and before you get back SAT in the passenger side zooms off into the distance. You never SAT see your car again. You call your insurer. But a handy SAT get-out clause may stop your claim better than a stinger SAT would halt a car. We ask the insurer to take another look SAT and ask what your rights are. SAT SAT MORTGAGE WRINKLES SAT After our story last week on interest only mortgages, we SAT find the lenders who will extend mortgages to people over SAT pension age. SAT SAT MORE CONTACTLESS SAT Banks are rolling out contactless credit and debit cards. In SAT fact all our plastic payment methods will have this SAT technology enabled soon. And of course stories are SAT proliferating on the internet about how thieves are using SAT devices to brush past us and steal our data. Can it happen? SAT And if you are concerned can you get a non-contactless SAT alternative? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01s8vw1 (Listen) SAT Series 80, Episode 5 SAT SAT Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01s8kb7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01s8kb9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01s8vw7 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Keele University, Staffordshire, with Secretary of SAT State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin MP, Commentator SAT Christine Hamilton, Independent Columnist Yasmin Alibhai SAT Brown and Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01sc9cm (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01sc9cp (Listen) SAT Pepys: Fire of London SAT SAT London in 1666 was a health and safety nightmare. It was SAT illegal to build with wood and thatch but people did it SAT anyway. Foundries were forbidden in the city but that didn't SAT stop them operating. Charles II had banned dangerous SAT overhanging windows but this was ignored by local government SAT who carried on building them regardless. Many homes still SAT contained muskets and gunpowder left over from Cromwell's SAT time. Six hundred tons of highly potent gunpowder were SAT stored in the Tower of London itself. Riverfront warehouses SAT were full of oil and tallow. There was no fire service. SAT SAT In Pudding Lane, on 2 September, after a day of slaving over SAT a hot oven, Thomas Farrinor, baker to King Charles II, went SAT to bed unaware that his oven was still alight. The SAT smouldering embers ignited some nearby firewood and by 1 SAT o'clock in the morning his house was ablaze. A strong wind SAT on that September morning ensured that sparks flew SAT everywhere . . . SAT SAT Samuel Pepys' diary of the following days, dramatised by SAT Hattie Naylor, reveals the unfolding drama. SAT SAT Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by SAT Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany SAT Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David SAT Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by SAT Alice Baxter. SAT Historical consultant: Liza Picard SAT Sound by Nigel Lewis SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT Credits SAT Adaptor: Hattie Naylor SAT Samuel Pepys: Kris Marshall SAT Elizabeth Pepys: Katherine Jakeways SAT Will: John Biddle SAT King Charles: Ewan Bailey SAT Jane: Rebecca Newman SAT Mayor Bludworth: Matthew Gravelle SAT Mr Howells: Dick Bradnum SAT Mr Houblon: Richard Nichols SAT Mrs Wood: Siriol Jenkins SAT Mrs Batelier: Eiry Thomas SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT SAT 15:30 Richard Wagner - Power, Sex and Revolution b01s8byy (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Mention his name and images flicker of dwarves, flying SAT maidens, magic swords and bronze breast-plates, all of it SAT served in vast portions to test stamina of audience and SAT singers alike. But what's really going on in Wagner? SAT SAT In the second part of his journey through Wagner's music, SAT Paul Mason turns to the seemingly conventional world of a SAT singing competition in 16th-century Nuremburg. But Die SAT Meistersinger reveals dark seams beneath its surface: SAT complex human relationships and an attitude to nationalism SAT and race which raise fundamental questions about the SAT validity of Wagner's very artistic mission. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01sc9cr (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01sc9ct (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01s8w0f (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01s8kbc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01s8kbf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s8kbh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01sczkr (Listen) SAT Roy Hattersley, Alison Moyet, Ralf Little, Ian Stone, Jon SAT Holmes, Junip SAT SAT Clive discovers the dynasty of the Devonshires with Labour SAT politician and author Roy Hattersley. 'The Devonshires: The SAT Story of a Family and a Nation' delves into the history of a SAT family of scientists, soldiers, patrons, politicians, SAT philanderers and powerful women. The huge personalities in SAT the Devonshire story make for an illuminating path into the SAT political, social and cultural changes we've undergone. SAT SAT Jon Holmes scores a goal with stand up comedian Ian Stone, SAT who's been known to Mock The Week and now presents Absolute SAT Radio's Rock and Roll Football Show. Ian's long believed the SAT best form of Government would be a benign dictatorship with SAT him in charge; his latest show attempts to find solutions to SAT some of the more intractable world problems. 'The Stone SAT Agenda' is at E4 Udderbelly Festival, London on Thursday16th SAT May. SAT SAT Clive's All Cried Out with singer songwriter Alison Moyet, SAT who shot to fame providing the bluesy vocals to eighties SAT synthpop duo Yazoo. They had several smash hits such as SAT 'Only You' and 'Don't Go' and Alison's enjoyed solo success SAT for over thirty years. She talks to Clive about her new SAT album 'the minutes', which she's touring later this year and SAT performs 'Filligree'. SAT SAT Clive has Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps with SAT actor Ralf Little. Following his big break playing Antony in SAT the Royle Family, Ralf's starred in a number of films and SAT sitcoms. He now stars in Peter Nichols's black comedy 'A Day SAT in the Death of Joe Egg', which portrays the love, pain, SAT anger and strain of a young couple raising a disabled child. SAT It's at Rose Theatre, Kingston until Saturday 18th May. SAT SAT With psychedelia infused music from Jose Gonzalez's Swedish SAT indie-rock outfit Junip, who perform 'Your Life, Your Call' SAT from album 'Junip'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01sczkt (Listen) SAT Pep Guardiola SAT SAT This week the football world ascended dizzying heights of SAT breathlessness over the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson. But SAT as one footballing titan steps down, another - a man who is, SAT in some ways, the antithesis of Sir Alex - is about to step SAT up to take on one of the highest-profile jobs in world SAT football. Tim Franks profiles Pep Guardiola, and asks SAT whether he could be Sir Alex's successor as perhaps the most SAT successful manager in the game. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01sczkw (Listen) SAT Pinter's The Hothouse and The Reluctant Fundamentalist SAT SAT John Simm and Simon Russell Beale star in a new production SAT of Harold Pinter's The Hothouse at the Trafalgar Studios in SAT London. When Pinter first wrote the play in the fifties, he SAT put it in a drawer and pronounced it useless. Was he wrong? SAT SAT Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on SAT Mohsin Hamid's Booker-nominated novel, stars Riz Ahmed as SAT Changez, who finds his loyalty questioned and torn post SAT 9/11. SAT SAT Terry Eagleton is one of the best-known literary theorists SAT in the world. His new book is How to Read Literature. Will SAT it enhance the reading experience? SAT SAT Mud, written by Jeff Nichols and starring Matthew SAT McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, was nominated for the SAT Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes film festival. It's a SAT coming-of-age movie set on the banks of the Mississippi. SAT SAT And The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson, is a tense search SAT for a serial killer set in Belfast, beginning on BBC2 next SAT week. SAT SAT Joining Tom Sutcliffe are Professor John Mullan and the SAT writers Michael Arditti and Aminatta Forna. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01sczxf (Listen) SAT Heroes and Hacks SAT SAT Monicagate. Camillagate. Hackgate. Plebgate. SAT SAT It's 40 years since the world was introduced to the original SAT "gate" via the televised Senate Watergate Hearings. In this SAT Archive on 4, journalist Eamonn O'Neill investigates the SAT Watergate legacy. The film All the President's Men, with SAT Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Washington Post SAT journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, inspired an SAT entire generation of journalists. "Deep Throat," "inside SAT sources" and "follow the money" became buzzwords for a SAT supposedly golden age of journalism. SAT SAT But was it really hard-bitten reporting that brought down SAT the leader of the free world? Or is that it a convenient SAT myth, aided by Hollywood, indulgently lifting the SAT expectations of journalists? SAT SAT 40 years later in Britain, the golden age seems to be long SAT gone, thanks to the excesses of "Hackgate." It was Watergate SAT in reverse, a scandal that brought down journalists, leaving SAT politicians largely intact. SAT SAT Eamonn examines the nature of modern investigative SAT journalism, through archive from Watergate and other SAT political scandals since. He talks to Washington Post SAT journalists, including Bob Woodward, about their heroic SAT status. He meets the new breed of "heroic" investigative SAT journalists, including Heather Brooke, who helped expose the SAT MPs expenses scandal, and Nick Davies, who exposed the phone SAT hacking scandal for The Guardian. SAT SAT Eamonn also looks at fate of the investigative press in a SAT post-Leveson environment, searching for the line between SAT hero and hack. SAT SAT Producer: Colin McNulty SAT SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01s7xsc (Listen) SAT Angel Pavement, Episode 1 SAT SAT Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley SAT Dramatised by Martin Jameson SAT SAT Twigg and Dersingham, Purveyors of Fine Veneers, has been a SAT successful family firm in the City for three generations. SAT But now, in the depression of 1930, it can no longer cover SAT its costs and the owner, young Mr Dersingham, is looking for SAT cuts. SAT SAT Then James Golspie arrives with a proposition. He has the SAT sole agency for some excellent Baltic veneers at SAT extraordinary prices and, despite the caution of the company SAT accountant Mr Smeeth, an agreement is reached. But is Smeeth SAT right? Is Golspie everything he seems? SAT SAT Directed by Chris Wallis SAT An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Our Guide: Marcus Brigstocke SAT James Golspie: Henry Goodman SAT Herbert Smeeth: Jeff Rawle SAT Mrs Cross: Fenella Norman SAT Miss Verever: Fenella Norman SAT Harold Turgis: Joseph Kloska SAT Goath: Shaun Prendergast SAT Miss Matfield: Victoria Brazier SAT Mr Dersingham: Carl Prekopp SAT Mr Pearson: Stephen Critchlow SAT Benenden: Stephen Critchlow SAT Poppy Sellers: Millie Binks SAT Mary Dersingham: Colleen Prendergast SAT Mrs Pearson: Jane Purcell SAT Edie: Jane Purcell SAT Agnes: Lucia Cox SAT Lena Golspie: Faye Castelow SAT Director: Chris Wallis SAT Writer: Martin Jameson SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01s8kbk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01ntgw7 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Ismail Einashe: The Challenge for British Somalis SAT SAT Ismail Einashe, who came to Britain as a child refugee from SAT Somalia, reflects on the link between childhood war trauma SAT suffered by young Somali men and the way some are drawn to SAT violent gang culture. SAT SAT Four Thought is a series of talks offering a personal SAT viewpoint recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in SAT London. SAT SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 22:30 In Search of the British Dream b01qhqpg (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT In Search of the British Dream travels from the cramped SAT sitting rooms of poor illegal migrants to the plush London SAT homes of the global elite, including a Saudi princess and SAT the son of a Russian billionaire. SAT SAT There are now 7.5 million foreign-born people in the UK. SAT Almost three million of them have come in the last 10 years. SAT One in eight people England and Wales were born abroad - the SAT same ratio as in the land built on immigration, the United SAT States. SAT SAT But can anyone with a dream make it in Britain? SAT SAT Mukul Devichand asks newcomers, some wealthy and others SAT poor, about making money here. SAT SAT He explores the fear that Britain's welfare state is drawing SAT people in, asking difficult questions of those immigrants SAT who rely on it. And he asks uncomfortable questions of the SAT global wealthy, too, drawn by the tax laws of the UK. SAT SAT Mukul Devichand was born in a Welsh town as the son of SAT Indian migrants and has explored migration issues around the SAT world for the BBC. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01s7yw7 (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 1 SAT SAT (1/13) SAT SAT Which rock group's songs have inspired a recent work by the SAT great American modernist composer Steve Reich? And in which SAT music-related field is the work of Herman Leonard, Francis SAT Wolff and Chuck Stewart particularly notable? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini welcomes the first trio of contestants in SAT the 2013 series of the general knowledge music quiz. Over SAT the next three months, music lovers will play in a knockout SAT competition to find the brightest musical brain in Britain, SAT who will be crowned the 27th annual Counterpoint champion. SAT Questions cover the classical repertoire along with jazz, SAT show tunes, film music, and sixty years of the pop charts. SAT SAT In Heat 1 the contestants come from London and Essex. SAT They'll have to display their knowledge of music in all its SAT variety, including tackling questions on a completely SAT unforeseen specialist subject. There are plenty of musical SAT extracts of all kinds to identify, both familiar and SAT surprising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01s7xsh (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with a varied selection of poetry requests. SAT Poems of praise to the lowly and the heavenly, including SAT work by George Barker and RS Thomas who were both born one SAT hundred years ago this year. RS Thomas's 'A Marriage' is SAT tender and moving; "We met under a shower of bird notes", SAT and he analyses the powerful stillness of the atmosphere 'In SAT Church.' Poems by another priest poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT also feature, with his sonnet to Felix Randall, which he SAT wrote after the death of a parishioner of his while he was a SAT priest in Liverpool, as well as 'God's Grandeur'. There will SAT be many secular exultations too though, with Les Murray SAT paying homage to the bed, Emily Dickinson to the sea and a SAT paean to the music of Bach by the Swedish poet Lars SAT Gustafsson. With readings by John Mackay and guest poets SAT Leontia Flynn and Paula Meehan. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 MAY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01sc3rl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Brief Sparks b019h1c3 (Listen) SUN You Should Have Seen the Mess SUN SUN Muriel Spark had one of the most distinctive voices in SUN twentieth-century writing, was capable of incisive and SUN darkly-comic observation, and won prizes for her writing SUN across the World. Spark worked as a novelist, dramatist and SUN children's author, but it is perhaps her short stories that SUN best exemplify her sharp eye and beautifully-crafted work, SUN where she coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath SUN veneer of human respectability. SUN SUN The three stories in this series include the darkly funny SUN 'Ladies and Gentlemen', which contrasts well with the wry SUN humour of social comedy 'The Snobs' and the sharp satire of SUN class, aspiration and phobia in this vignette: 'You Should SUN Have Seen the Mess', read by Jane Collingwood. SUN SUN Here, Muriel Spark revels in the pettiness of the British SUN psyche in an acerbic story of a girl who turns her back on SUN life's opportunities for fear of a little dirt. SUN SUN Reader: Jane Collingwood SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sc3rn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sc3rq (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sc3rs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01sc3rv (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01sd0hf (Listen) SUN The bells of Crediton Parish Church, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01sczkt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01sc3rx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01sd0hh (Listen) SUN The Greatest of These Is Love? SUN SUN John McCarthy is joined by writer Salley Vickers to reflect SUN on the centrality of love in our lives, considering I SUN Corinthians 13. This is sometimes referred to as the "love SUN chapter" of the New Testament and is often read at weddings SUN and funerals. Tony Blair read it at Princess Diana's SUN funeral. SUN SUN The chapter includes images and phrases which are known to SUN us all, such as the invitation to "put off childish things" SUN and the mystery of "seeing through a glass darkly". SUN SUN Salley Vickers' first novel, Miss Garnett's Angel, became a SUN phenomenal word-of-mouth hit and was followed by other SUN greatly loved books, such as Mr Golightly's Holiday, The SUN Other Side of You and Dancing Backwards. Salley has a skill SUN at merging ancient art and modern psychology in her stories SUN and often deals with Biblical matters. Her latest book The SUN Cleaner of Chartres explores one of her best loved themes - SUN the power of love to transform. SUN SUN In this programme Salley considers I Corinthians 13 firstly SUN as a piece of literature by examining how it works in terms SUN of shape, tone, and images. She then brings her own SUN experience to the chapter as both writer and SUN psychotherapist. Questions arise as to whether it is true SUN that "love never faileth" as the chapter says, what the SUN value is of "putting off childish things", and whether it is SUN always the case that love is greater that faith and hope. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from Rumi, Viktor Frankl, SUN Rilke and George Herbert, with music by Eric Whitacre, J.S SUN Bach and Zbigniew Preisner. SUN SUN Readers: Rachel Atkins and George Irving SUN Producer: Rosie Boulton SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01sd0hk (Listen) SUN The Tenby Daffodil SUN SUN For many the emergence of the daffodil is the real, true SUN harbinger of spring. That flash of yellow across the SUN countryside breathes vitality into a previously grey and SUN dormant winter landscape. The spring of 2013 has been SUN exceptionally cold and so these vibrant flashes of sunset SUN yellow are an even more welcome sight to gladden the heart. SUN There are around 26,000 species of daffodil in the World, SUN however Britain is home to a special collection of true wild SUN daffodils; smaller and less showy than the more usual SUN cultivated stock, but superbly adapted to survive in our SUN cold wet climate. SUN SUN For Living World, presenter Chris Sperring joins botanist SUN Ray Woods in search of one such daffodil, the Tenby SUN daffodil, the National emblem of Wales. This daffodil is SUN unique in that it is found nowhere else on the Planet except SUN around Tenby and southwest Wales. Most often associated with SUN places of habitation, its origins and history are now lost SUN in history, but by the 1800's this species was abundant in SUN hedgerow and field. SUN SUN In the 1830's a horticulturalist in Tenby saw the economic SUN potential of selling these miniature wild daffodils to SUN gardeners and with the arrival of the railway to London, SUN thousands of tons of Tenby daffodil bulbs were dug up from SUN the Welsh countryside and sent to Covent Garden markets. For SUN a few years daffodil mania gripped Britain, the countryside SUN was harvested for bulbs, with reports of one farmer SUN receiving £80 for the daffodil bulbs which were dug up in a SUN single field. By the 1950's this once abundant species was SUN almost extinct in the wild and it was only a chance query in SUN the Tenby Tourist Information office in the 1970's saved SUN this species from extinction, and in doing so revived the SUN fortunes of other wild daffodils in Britain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01sc3rz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01sc3s1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01sd0hm (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01sd0hp (Listen) SUN Encompass: The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust SUN SUN Amit Lavi in Jerusalem and Mandy Braden in London present SUN the Radio 4 Appeal for Encompass: The Daniel Braden SUN Reconciliation Trust. SUN Reg Charity:1096213 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Encompass. SUN SUN Encompass: The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust SUN SUN Set up in memory of Daniel Braden, who was killed in the SUN Bali terrorist bombings of 2002, Encompass aims to cultivate SUN a global network of active, confident and motivated young SUN people who are working across divides of faith, culture and SUN ideology to combat the rise in global extremism. SUN Since 2003, Encompass has actively engaged with over 1,200 SUN young people from six countries including Israel, the SUN Palestinian Territories, the UK, the USA, Pakistan and SUN Indonesia. We have two main areas of focus to our work: The SUN international Journey of Understanding and the UK programme. SUN The Journey of Understanding takes place in an outdoor SUN centre in Wales. The nine day programme includes outward SUN bound team building activities followed by challenging SUN indoor workshops on topics such as identity, community, SUN conflict and stereotype. Participants are then supported and SUN mentored to initiate their own projects back in their SUN communities. The UK programme is a condensed, two day SUN version of the Journey of Understanding aimed at diverse and SUN marginalised young people living in the UK. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01sc3s3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01sc3s5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01sd0hr (Listen) SUN Stories of Salvation SUN SUN In a service from Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, Canon SUN Angela Tilby and Canon Edmund Newell explore Christian SUN themes of innocence, temptation and the reward of virtue in SUN Grimm's Fairy Tales during a year of celebrations marking SUN the 200th anniversary of their publication. Director of SUN Music: Clive Driskill-Smith. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b01s8vw9 (Listen) SUN The Myth of Modernity SUN SUN John Gray draws on the novels of Mervyn Peake to argue it's SUN a mistake to imagine that modernity marks a fundamental SUN change in human experience. "The modern world is founded on SUN the belief that it's possible for human beings to shape a SUN future that's better than anything in the past. If the SUN Gormenghast novels have any continuing theme, it's that this SUN modern belief is an illusion." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Editor: Richard Knight SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01s6y1h (Listen) SUN Cuckoo - Male SUN SUN David Attenborough narrates the first in a new series of SUN short stories about our British birds inspired by their SUN calls and songs, beginning with the Cuckoo. After spending SUN winter in Africa, the migratory urge propels the Cuckoos SUN northwards. And for many of us their return is a welcome SUN sign that spring is well and truly here. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01sd0ht (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01sd0hw (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Peter Leslie Wild SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Grace ..... Jenny Johns SUN Jonathan ..... James Howard. SUN Helen has a baby by donor insemination SUN Dragon's Hen? SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01sd0hy (Listen) SUN Damien Hirst SUN SUN Kirsty Young's guest this week is the artist Damien Hirst. SUN SUN Life, death, desire, fear, beauty, horror - his creative SUN preoccupations are standard fair; his art - using sharks, SUN maggots, butterflies, glass, formaldehyde and even sometimes SUN paint - is not. His best known works have become iconic SUN symbols of contemporary culture and his exhibitions and SUN auctions attract attention the way a carcass attracts flies. SUN SUN Growing up in Leeds his mother was something of an early SUN artistic influence - she had dots painted on the front door SUN and whenever Damien said he'd finished a drawing, she'd lay SUN another sheet of paper down and tell her son "carry on." SUN SUN He once said, "People don't like contemporary art but all SUN art starts life as contemporary. I'm sure there were people SUN in caves going 'I like your cave but I hate that crap you've SUN got on the wall'." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01s7zpg (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 5 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 Richard Osman, John Finnemore, Lucy Beaumont and Rhod SUN Gilbert are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as octopuses, planes, SUN armadillos and socks. 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 b01sd1kd (Listen) SUN A Life Through Wine: Jancis Robinson SUN SUN Jancis Robinson remembers the specific bottle of wine which SUN ignited her passion for both drinking wine and writing about SUN it. She began reviewing for the University paper 40 years SUN ago and has grown to become a world renowned author and SUN critic on the subject. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon explores some of the big trends that have SUN taken place during her career, from the growth of English SUN wines, to the rise of supermarkets as the wine sellers to SUN the nation. SUN SUN She talks about those who influenced her in the early years SUN of tasting and writing and what she makes of other reviewers SUN like Robert Parker who can decide the fate of a wine around SUN the world. SUN SUN Produced in Bristol by Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01sc3s7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01sd1kg (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 Ella in Berlin b01s09z5 (Listen) SUN Jazz singers Cleveland Watkiss and Dame Cleo Laine listen to SUN Ella Fitzgerald's Mac the Knife, when she forgot the words SUN in Berlin on 13 February 1960, and then have a go SUN themselves. SUN SUN For post-war Germany jazz, which had been banned under SUN Hitler, was the music of freedom. When Norman Granz first SUN brought his Jazz at the Philharmonic tours to Europe in the SUN 1950s, Germans flocked to the concerts and Oscar Peterson SUN and Ella Fitzgerald were soon firm favourites. SUN SUN In February 1960, the German part of the tour opened in SUN Berlin. Mac the Knife, from Brecht's Threepenny Opera, had SUN been a number one for Bobby Darin for nine weeks the SUN previous year, and Ella's friend Louis Armstrong had a hit SUN with it in 1956. But Ella had never sung it. As a tribute to SUN the people of Berlin, she decided she would. She did, but SUN not the version they knew. Yet it was this SUN improvisation that would win her two Grammy awards. SUN SUN Cleveland Watkiss, for whom Ella Fitzgerald has always been SUN an inspiration, explores her virtuoso improvisation and SUN scat-singing, in the company of another virtuoso performer, SUN Dame Cleo Laine. They hear from people who were there that SUN night in the Deutschlandhalle, including tour manager, Fritz SUN Rau, pianist Paul Smith and guitarist Jim Hall, and from the SUN author of a forthcoming cultural biography of Ella SUN Fitzgerald, Judith Tick. SUN SUN Cleveland Watkiss won the London Jazz Award for Best SUN Vocalist in 2010 and was voted Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards SUN best vocalist for three consecutive years. He's had a SUN life-long passion for Cleo Laine and finally had the SUN opportunity to meet - and sing with - her in the course of SUN making this programme! SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01s8vd9 (Listen) SUN The Food and Environment Research Agency, York SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs GQT with gardeners at The Food and SUN Environment Research Agency in York. On the panel are Bob SUN Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Alison Pringle. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01sd1kj (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from around the UK on SUN subjects ranging from the appeal of the Morris Minor to an SUN admission of self-harm, and whether to take the test for a SUN cancer gene, in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that SUN proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01sd1kl (Listen) SUN Angel Pavement, Episode 2 SUN SUN The fortunes of Twigg and Dersingham, Purveyors of Fine SUN Veneers, of Angel Pavement London EC1 were foundering , SUN until the mysterious James Golspie walked through their SUN door. SUN SUN Bearing a swatch of high quality samples from the Baltic at SUN rock bottom prices, he has given the firm his sole agency on SUN a commission only basis. SUN SUN Overnight the firm's fortunes are transformed. Orders pour SUN in from every quarter, wages are raised and, in this heady SUN atmosphere, love blossoms. SUN SUN Let us hope Mr Golspie and his veneers are the genuine SUN article, for it's 1930 and it's very cold out there. SUN SUN Produced and directed by Chris Wallis SUN An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Adaptor: Martin Jameson SUN Author: JB Priestley SUN Our Guide: Marcus Brigstocke SUN James Golspie: Henry Goodman SUN Herbert Smeeth: Jeff Rawle SUN Harold Turgis: Joseph Kloska SUN Miss Matfield: Victoria Brazier SUN Mr Dersingham: Carl Prekopp SUN Lena Golspie: Faye Castelow SUN Poppy Sellers: Millie Binks SUN Edie Smeeth: Jane Purcell SUN Fred Mitty: Stephen Critchlow SUN Benenden: Stephen Critchlow SUN Mrs Mitty: Angela Curran SUN Benenden's Niece: Angela Curran SUN George: Oswald Scott SUN Cashier: Lucia Cox SUN Director: Chris Wallis SUN Producer: Chris Wallis SUN Writer: Martin Jameson SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01sd1kn (Listen) SUN Tessa Hadley on her novel Clever Girl, Cory Doctorow; and SUN Ian Rankin on the book he would never lend SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Tessa Hadley about her latest SUN novel Clever Girl, which charts one women's life from SUN childhood in the 1960s to middle age and why her character SUN Stella has a love hate relationship with literary fiction. SUN SUN From H.G Wells to Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov to Arthur C SUN Clarke, many writers have enjoyed playing with the SUN possibilities of science and pushing the boundaries of SUN technology. SUN Author Cory Doctorow and Dr Ester MacCallum-Stewart discuss SUN how much literature has embraced and inspired future SUN technology. SUN SUN Continuing our series on books that are too treasured to SUN ever leave their owner's possession, award winning crime SUN writer Ian Rankin explains why he'll never lend his precious SUN copy of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley SUN Publisher: Jonathan Cape SUN SUN The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark SUN Publisher: Macmillan in 1961 SUN SUN The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross SUN Publisher: Titan Books SUN SUN 1984 by George Orwell SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams SUN Publisher: Ursa Minor SUN SUN Donna Haraway - The Cyborg Manifesto Publisher: Routledge SUN SUN The Steampunk novels of Cherie Priest SUN Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates SUN SUN Neuromancer by William Gibson SUN Publisher: Voyager SUN SUN The Players of Games by Iain Banks Publisher: Macmillan SUN SUN Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson SUN Publisher: Candlemark and Gleam SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01sd1kq (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a wide selection of poetry requests. SUN This week - fresh renditions of classic as well as SUN contemporary poems, as some of the choices will be recited SUN by teenagers taking part in the national Poetry by Heart SUN competition finals. A Poetry Archive initiative, Andrew SUN Motion has described the competition as "A way for 14- to SUN 18-year olds to have serious fun while they extend their SUN reading, deepen their powers of appreciation, and memorise SUN beautiful and intriguing poems which will enrich their lives SUN for ever." SUN Poems include Love From a Foreign City by Lavinia Greenlaw, SUN a fantastic rendition of Welsh Incident by Robert Graves and SUN a not to be missed recitation in Middle English from Sir SUN Gawain and the Green Knight. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The New Dissidents b01s8cp9 (Listen) SUN The Good Friday Agreement is 15 years old. But, for some, SUN Northern Ireland remains a violent place. Beatings and SUN murders are still happening, with grim regularity. Now SUN there's a new danger. Several dissident republican groups SUN have come together to form a 'new IRA'. Peter Taylor asks SUN why, 15 years on, a dangerous few still write their SUN political messages in blood. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01sczkt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01sc3s9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01sc3sc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sc3sf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01sd1ks (Listen) SUN A song thrush tweets, a ferret meets a sticky end and a SUN refugee family is reunited. David Pownell extols the virtues SUN of Radio, Robyn Steward lets her autism stand in the way of SUN nothing and Alan Johnson recalls his childhood. SUN SUN There's a feast of music and drama and if you're going SUN camping, looking for a new book to read or wondering what's SUN on at the cinema there's something for you too So join Liz SUN Barclay for this week's Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Tweet Of The Day - Radio 4 SUN Book Of The Week: A Sting In The Tale - Radio 4 SUN You & Yours - Radio 4 SUN Saturday Drama: Pepys - Fire Of London - Radio 4 SUN When Washington Came To Brum - Radio 4 SUN The Gatsby Factor - Radio 4 SUN Drama On 3: The Octoroon - Radio 3 SUN David Pownall At 75 - Radio 4Extra SUN Alan Johnson On Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Deeds Not Words - Radio 4 SUN Knowing Me, Knowing Autism - Radio 4 SUN George Mackay Brown Stories - Radio 4 SUN Book At Bedtime: This Is Where I Am - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01sd23g (Listen) SUN There's a big surprise waiting for Clarrie, and David and SUN Ruth make a decision. SUN SUN Producer: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01sd23j (Listen) SUN The Brontes SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests SUN Mark Watson and Sue Limb. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 George Mackay Brown Stories b01sd23l (Listen) SUN The Masked Fisherman SUN SUN A bold fishwife inspires a Viking Earl to write a poem of SUN great humility. Short story set in twelfth century Shetland SUN by George Mackay Brown. SUN SUN One of the major figures of Scottish twentieth century SUN literature, George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996) was a prolific SUN poet and novelist who took much of his inspiration from the SUN culture, history and landscape of the Northern Isles. "The SUN Masked Fisherman" appears in the story collection of the SUN same title. SUN SUN Read by Paul Young. SUN Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01s8vvv (Listen) SUN How much does the EU cost the UK? SUN SUN The UK and Europe in numbers: SUN SUN The UK Independence Party (UKIP) made substantial gains in SUN recent local elections. SUN It's best known for wanting the UK to withdraw from the SUN European Union. This is not an official policy shared by any SUN of the other established political parties. SUN And, as with any political battleground, numbers have been SUN pressed into service as weapons. SUN Tim Harford makes sense of the numbers flying around with SUN the help of Iain Begg, professorial research fellow at the SUN London School of Economics' European Institute. SUN SUN Military suicides: SUN SUN It's claimed that more Falklands veterans have taken their SUN own lives than died during the conflict itself. But is it SUN true? Next week the government's defence statistics agency SUN will publish a long-awaited report about the number of SUN military personnel who have killed themselves since serving SUN in that conflict in the 1980s. More or Less reporter SUN Charlotte McDonald speaks to Simon Wessely Director, King's SUN Centre for Military Health Research Institute of Psychiatry SUN about what estimates from Vietnam and the first Gulf War SUN tell us about the mental health of war veterans - and about SUN why the rate of deaths tells us more than the raw numbers SUN do. SUN SUN Why you really might be Richard III's relative: SUN SUN Fifteen relatives of Richard III are petitioning the High SUN Court about where the king should be buried. Some reporting SUN has implied that the famous 15 are almost the only SUN descendants of Richard III who exist. But mathematician Rob SUN Eastaway figures out how many other distant relatives of SUN Richard III might actually be out there. SUN SUN The Cost of Margaret Thatcher's funeral: SUN SUN Initial media reports claimed the Baroness Thatcher's SUN funeral would cost £10m. Two weeks later, the figure had SUN shrunk to £3.6m. How? SUN SUN Dog years: SUN SUN It's often said that one dog year equals seven human years. SUN But is it true? Ben Carter unveils the More or Less SUN Dogulator. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01s8vvs (Listen) SUN An architect, the founder of Ms magazine, an Olympic sailor, SUN an Italian politician and a film director SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Olympic sailing gold medallist Andrew Simpson who died SUN when his racing catamaran capsized in San Francisco Bay. SUN SUN Bryan Forbes, the British film director who made The SUN Stepford Wives and Whistle Down the Wind among many other SUN titles. Hayley Mills pays tribute. SUN SUN The former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti who had SUN close links to the Vatican and - it is said - the mafia. SUN SUN Mary Thom - who as an editor at Ms Magazine helped to SUN develop a generation of feminist writers SUN SUN And Rick Mather, the architect who specialised in blending SUN modern architecture with historic buildings including the SUN National Maritime Museum at Greenwich and the Ashmolean SUN Museum in Oxford. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01sc9ck (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01sd0hp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01sd2n0 (Listen) SUN Battle of the Business Schools SUN SUN Two of the world's most acclaimed business schools are SUN engaged in fierce rivalry across SUN the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. Harvard Business SUN School and MIT's Sloan School of SUN Management are both making significant changes to the way SUN teach in order to continue SUN to attract the best and the brightest. Peter Day wonders SUN whether it is still worth becoming SUN a Master of Business Administration. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01sd2n2 (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 b01sd2n4 (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01s8qxt (Listen) SUN The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Jeff Nichols; Star Trek Into SUN Darkness SUN SUN Riz Ahmed discusses his latest role in The Reluctant SUN Fundamentalist. Directed by Mira Nair, it's based on the SUN Booker Prize-nominated novel by Mohsin Hamid. Ahmed plays SUN Changez, a young man from Pakistan who makes his fortune in SUN the US as a successful financier, only to find he becomes an SUN outsider after 9/11. SUN The writer and director Jeff Nichols explains how he brought SUN his labour of love, Mud, to the big screen. A Mississippi SUN tale with echoes of Mark Twain, it stars Matthew McConaughey SUN and tells the story of a fugitive man living on an island SUN and his friendship with two young boys. SUN And Star Trek is back with the latest installment, Into SUN Darkness, directed by JJ Abrams. Writers, producers and SUN long-term collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci SUN explore how they hoped to bring new life - and wit - to the SUN beloved franchise that is Star Trek. Film maker Sarah Gavron SUN explains how a holiday in Greenland became her latest SUN documentary. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01sd0hh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 MAY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01sc3tc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01s8mp5 (Listen) MON Middle Class Enclaves and Escapes MON MON Middle class enclaves and escapes. A special edition of MON Thinking Allowed partly recorded at the British Sociological MON Association's 2013 conference. MON MON Privatised neighbourhoods and lifestyle migration are a MON global phenomenon. Increasingly, it seems, middle class MON people with sufficient capital are choosing to 'opt out' of MON urban environments, or, at least, to shield themselves from MON their more 'dangerous' elements, namely the poorer MON residents. Laurie Taylor talks to a range of academics who MON have researched the various manifestations of this desire MON for enclaves, escapes and the 'good life'. Can the broader MON social dynamics and conflicts of a society be understood by MON examining evolving form of housing and urban flight? MON MON Maggy Lee talks about the rapid expansion of residential MON tourism and 'lifestyle migration' between Hong Kong and MON mainland China, as the 'well off' buy up high end, gated MON communities. Nick Osbaldiston looks at 'lifestyle migrants' MON in Australia who move to small, mainly coastal communities, MON representing a middle class 'takeover'. And Ceren Yalcin MON explores the proliferation of 'sealed off' housing complexes MON in Istanbul. They're joined by Rowland Atkinson who has done MON extensive research into gentrification, gated communities MON and housing inequality. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01sd0hf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sc3tf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sc3th (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sc3tk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01sc3tm (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sk4x5 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Glenn MON Jordan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01sd3jl (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, MON presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:56 Weather b01sc3tp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby02 (Listen) MON Nightingale, part 2 MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. (Part 2 MON of 2) David Attenborough presents the extraordinary duet MON between cellist Beatrice Harrison and a nightingale recorded MON live as an outside broadcast and the first broadcast of any MON wild animal not in captivity. MON MON 06:00 Today b01sd3jn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01sd3jq (Listen) MON Music and the mind: Carrie Cracknell MON MON On Start the Week Carrie Cracknell talks to Jonathan MON Freedland about her new production of Berg's opera, Wozzeck, MON and the descent of the central character into madness and MON despair. The pianist Jonathan Biss looks at whether MON Schumann's later music reflects the troubled state of his MON mind. The psychiatrist's diagnostic bible is to be updated MON later this month, and Tom Burns and Richard Bentall discuss MON the controversies that continue to dog the world of MON psychiatry. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01sd3js (Listen) MON Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, MON Episode 1 MON MON "The struggle for the Great Reform Bill of 1832 took place a MON the crossroads of English history." - so says Antonia Fraser MON in her lively and insightful account of the political change MON that took place during this period. MON MON Times were in flux. The Industrial Revolution was underway. MON The reverberations of the French Revolution were still being MON felt. And the country would be ruled by a new monarch, MON William IV. MON MON And political change, who and how we would vote, was now in MON the spotlight. Put there mainly by the MON Whigs - led by Earl Grey. MON MON Age-old corruption, rotten boroughs, even hereditary peers MON would feel these winds of change. But how would the Bill be MON made law? Bumpily and dramatically, as it turned out, and MON its path is followed in five episodes, which are abridged by MON Katrin Williams: MON MON 1. It is the beginning of the 1830's. One king has died, MON another has been toppled, MON and the word 'reform' is in the air. But who will press for MON it? MON MON Reader Adrian Scarborough MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sd3jv (Listen) MON Female GPs; A Partner's Ex MON MON Are part-time female GPs creating a problem for the health MON service? Polly Vernon and Eleanor Moran discuss the impact MON on a relationship of a partner's ex loves. We hear from MON Afghanistan's first female military helicopter pilot. A new MON report says women's inequality is getting worse under MON current government policies. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Producer by Rebecca Wood. MON MON Are part-time women doctors creating a timebomb for the NHS? MON MON This year women GPs are predicted to outnumber male GPs. MON A 15 year follow-up of doctors after graduation showed MON that, on average, after career breaks and part time working MON are taken into account women work 25% less than their male MON counterparts. What impact will this have on patient care and MON the profession as a whole and what’s being done to address MON potential problems in the future? Jane discusses with Dr MON Sarah Wollaston, MP, and Dr. Katherine Woolf, Academic MON psychologist. MON MON Being jealous of your partner’s ex MON MON For most of us, our partner’s exes are mysterious people who MON we’ll usually never know beyond our partner’s coy MON descriptions and maybe the odd item left behind, a relic of MON relationships past. In Leanne Shapton’s latest graphic MON novel, ‘Was She Pretty?’ she looks at perceptions of former MON loves and how knowledge (or lack of) can bring out our MON jealousies. Have you ever been haunted by your partner’s ex? MON Columnist Polly Vernon and author MON MON Was She Pretty? By Leanne Shapton. Published by Particular MON Books MON MON Women’s Equality Report MON MON Inequality for women is getting worse as a direct result of MON the Government’s austerity policies, according to charities MON working in the women’s sector. Later today the Women’s MON Resource Centre will launch a report which it says points to MON a breach in the UN’s bill of rights for women, a convention MON that the UK government is signed up to. The WRC is hoping MON that international pressure will force the government to MON take gender equality into account in its policy making MON decisions. Jane is joined by Vivienne Haynes of the WRC and MON by Sue Robson of the North East Women’s Network, an area MON said to be suffering a ‘crisis of gender inequality’. MON MON Afghanistan’s first female military helicopter pilots MON MON In 1989 Latifa Nabizada and her sister Laliuma became MON Afghanistan's first women military helicopter pilots. Five MON years ago Laliuma died in childbirth, so Latifa is now MON bringing up both her sister’s child and her own daughter MON Malalai. She talks about balancing her military career and MON motherhood. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Rebecca Wood MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sd3jx (Listen) MON How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 4, Episode 1 MON MON In this the 4th series of How Does That Make You Feel MON Martha's clients have made few changes to their MON circumstances. MON Richard Fallon MP, [ROGER ALLAM] is still convinced MON promotion to the front bench is being denied him because of MON his obese son and his lack of visibility. This latter aspect MON is about to change radically but not in the way Richard had MON hoped. MON MON Shelagh Stephenson is the author of A Short History of MON Longing, and Wasted, recently heard on Radio 4. She is an MON Olivier award winner for her play The Memory of Water and MON has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards with her plays, MON Darling Peidi and Five Kinds of Silence. MON She wrote Enid, (The Life of Enid Blyton) BBC4 and Shirley MON (The Shirley Bassey story) BBC2 and one episode of the MON mini-series Downtown Abbey. She is currently writing, Seeks MON Similar 3 x 60 series for BBC1 and Resting, a comedy series MON for Hugh Bonneville. MON MON Credits MON Martha: Marcella Riordan MON Richard Fallon MP: Roger Allam MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan MON Writer: Shelagh Stephenson MON MON 11:00 Signing Up at 16 b01sd5gf (Listen) MON The Shock of Capture MON MON A revealing series following a group of 16 year old boys and MON girls, through a year of training at The Army Foundation MON College, Harrogate. MON MON This programme charts the first six weeks of training - the MON hardest phase when the teenagers experience 'the shock of MON capture' and have to learn to adapt to their new army regime MON of strict discipline, early starts, limited contact with MON home and little free time. MON MON It's physically and mentally hard, they are homesick and MON tired, and not all make it thorough. MON MON Britain has the youngest army in Europe, and reporter Penny MON Marshall wonders what it takes to turn teenagers into MON soldiers who are physically and mentally ready to fight, and MON even to die, for their country. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Kerry's List b01sd5gh (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON The third in a four-part sketch show co-written by and MON starring comedian and actress Kerry Godliman. MON MON Kerry is a married mother of two, a stand up comedian and MON has two children. Her life can only properly function with MON her daily list - if she didn't compile this vital list, her MON life would simply fall apart. MON Each week, this series looks at a different list and delves MON into Kerry's madcap world by looking at various elements of MON that week's list in sketches, narrative and stand up. MON MON In this third episode, Kerry's List involves bleaching mugs, MON napping, sorting out cobwebs, distressing a chest of MON drawers, organizing CDs, keeping my friend's secret, growing MON vegetables and buying Puy Lentils. MON MON Joining Kerry is her husband Ben (played by her real husband MON Ben Abell) and her five year old daughter Elsie (played by MON Melissa Bury) together with a range of bizarre characters - MON including an enthusiastic council environment worker, some MON disgruntled satsumas, a bored therapist, a Fairy Jeanmother MON and a very keen gym instructor. MON MON Any busy parent who's ever compiled a list of their own will MON relate to Kerry Godliman's incident filled world. MON MON The cast includes David Pusey (who co-wrote the series), MON Bridget Christie, Lucy Briers, Rosie Cavaliero and Nicholas MON Le Prevost. MON MON Kerry Godliman is fast establishing herself as a highly MON skilful stand up comic and actress, from her recent MON appearances on Live at The Apollo (BBC 1), Derek (C4) and MON Our Girl (BBC 1). MON MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Kerry Godliman MON Actor: David Pusey MON Actor: Bridget Christie MON Actor: Lucy Briers MON Actor: Rosie Cavaliero MON Actor: Nicholas Le Prevost MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Kerry Godliman MON Writer: David Pusey MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01sd5gm (Listen) MON Gold, pension liberation, cold callers, Glasgow 2014 tickets MON MON Radio 4's consumer affairs programme with Julian Worricker. MON Have gold to sell? Why a gold comparison website may not, in MON fact, be comparing anything - so where does your gold go? MON How children's toys and games may be unwittingly giving a MON bad impression of people with facial disfigurements. And MON the man who profited from his battle with PPI cold-callers. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01sc3tr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01sd7fb (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 In a Prince's Footsteps b01sd5gp (Listen) MON Lebanon MON MON In 1862 Albert, Prince of Wales, toured the Middle East. At MON the time it was still predominantly controlled by the MON Ottoman Empire. As he travelled, his photographer Francis MON Bedford kept a detailed photographic record of the trip. In MON this series John McCarthy revisits the scenes of Bedford's MON photographs - Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, MON Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Greece. He considers how the MON immediate physical, political and social landscape has MON evolved during the intervening 150 years. MON MON Some of Bedford's photographs are of widely known locations MON - the Pyramids at Giza, the Mount of Olives, the temples at MON Baalbek, the Acropolis - others are of remote hilltops and MON apparently random buildings, scenes without any obvious MON significance. Both however hold fascinating and unexpected MON tales and insight. MON MON The series will reflect on the rise and fall of empires - MON the Ottoman, British and French all play their part in these MON stories. They are now all gone, but the world's powers still MON seek to influence the politics of the region. MON MON In each episode John McCarthy focuses on two of Bedford's MON original photographs, revisiting the sites and taking his MON own pictures of the same scenes today. MON MON In the sixth programme in this series John arrives in MON Lebanon to seek out the site of the Prince's encampment in MON Beirut and he visits the ancient temples at Baalbek. MON MON This radio series coincides with a major exhibition of MON Bedford's photographs by the Royal Collection, currently MON showing at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. MON MON Presenter: John McCarthy MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01sd23g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sd5gs (Listen) MON The Interrogation - Series 2, Simon MON MON by Roy Williams MON MON 3/3 The Story of Simon. A sixth-former is attacked on his MON way to school, and hospitalised. When Max and Sean start to MON investigate, they hardly expect to uncover a love story MON MON Music by David Pickvance MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON DS Max Matthews: Kenneth Cranham MON DC Sean Armitage: Alex Lanipekun MON Simon Barnes: Sam Swann MON Jason: Michael Shelford MON Simone Parker: Amaka Okafor MON Damien: Will Howard MON Wendy Harris: Joanna Brookes MON Mr Renshaw: Nicholas Murchie MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Producer: Jessica Dromgoole MON Writer: Roy Williams MON Composer: David Pickvance MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01sd5gv (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 2 MON MON (2/13) MON Do you know at which cathedral the England cricket captain MON Alastair Cook was once a chorister? Or which eccentric MON musician fronted The Magic Band? The answers to these and MON many other musical questions are revealed in this week's MON edition of Counterpoint, chaired by Paul Gambaccini. MON MON The contestants in the second heat hail from London and MON Bristol, and they'll be hoping their general musical MON knowledge will be wide enough to carry them through to a MON semi-final place. MON MON They'll also have to face individual questions on a special MON musical topic which will be sprung on them completely out of MON the blue, with no chance to prepare. And there'll be plenty MON of musical extracts to identify, both familiar and MON surprising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01sd1kd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Room for a View: The Artist's Studio b01sd5gx (Listen) MON Rats in the skirting boards, paint splattered floors, MON absinthe bottles in the corner of the room, the odd severed MON ear. the artist's studio imagined. MON But what about the real thing? MON MON Armed with sharpened palette knife and microphone, artist MON Susan Aldworth explores studios of the future and the past, MON posing the question are you an artist if you don't have a MON studio, and in the age of computer technology, do you need MON one at all? MON MON Most artists work alone - hidden from the world, in a MON private sanctuary where they can think, dream, create and MON most importantly make mistakes. MON MON Anish Kapoor, and Anthony Gormley, like Michelangelo, have MON huge warehouse spaces, along with teams of assistants - MON their studios are bustling hives of creation, almost MON manufacturing. MON MON By contrast Frank Laws is an early career artist, just MON beginning to make a living, his canvasses are too large to MON paint in his flat - so despite it taking half his income, he MON has a shared studio in a warehouse in the East End of MON London. MON MON In " A Room for a View: The Artist's Studio" Susan Aldworth MON visits the studio of artist Tony Bevan, to find out how he MON uses the space to create his art; hears tell of rat infested MON studios from Jonathan Harvey, executive director of MON legendary studio co-operative ACME, who are currently MON building new studios for the future, and talks to Hossein MON Amirsadeghi who has just visited over 100 British artists in MON their studios, resulting in an encyclopaedic photographic MON record - "Sanctuary" - all exploring the idea of what makes MON a great studio and good place to make art. MON MON Presenter:Susan Aldworth is an artist with a current display MON at the National Portrait Gallery, and 20 years' experience MON as an artist and teacher. MON MON Produced by Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01sd5h1 (Listen) MON The Jesuits MON MON Beyond Belief debates the place of religion and faith in MON today's complex world. Ernie Rea is joined by a panel to MON discuss how religious beliefs and traditions affect our MON values and perspectives. MON Pope Francis is the first Pope from a religious order for MON 200 years. Many were surprised by his appointment. But what MON will his Jesuit formation give him as he grapples with the MON many complex issues facing the Catholic Church, including MON child abuse and infighting, including what some view as MON corruption, within the Vatican itself? MON In the first of a new series, Ernie Rea discusses the MON Jesuits, with panellists Brendan Callaghan SJ, Master of MON Campion Hall, Oxford; Michael Barnes SJ, Professor of MON Interreligious Relations at Heythrop College, University of MON London and Catherine Pepinster, Editor of The Tablet. MON MON 17:00 PM b01sd5h3 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sc3tt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01sd7fg (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 6 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 Mark Watson, Tony Hawks, Lucy Porter and Ed Byrne are the MON panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as lions, pianos, fingers and the French. 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 b01sd7fj (Listen) MON Alistair has to disappoint Darrell, and Pat and Tony have MON things to think through. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01sd7fl (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the new film of MON The Great Gatsby, and the Archbishop of Canterbury shares an MON artistic passion in Cultural Exchange. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON Editor: John Goudie MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sd3jx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Pedant's Progress: An Intimate History of the Arts MON Scholar b01sdcrf (Listen) MON The term "pedant" used simply to mean teacher but came to MON signify a nit-picking obsessive whose qualities might MON include, at best, eccentricity and other-worldliness, at MON worst, social dysfunction, deviant behaviour and MON irrelevance. MON MON Abigail Williams explores the image and stereotype of the MON university humanities teacher of the past, and the MON connection of this image with the current debate, now that MON academics are increasingly urged to demonstrate their impact MON on the outside world. MON MON As a young Oxford English scholar who also has a new post as MON a Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Abigail considers whether there MON is a fundamental incompatibility between the kinds of MON attributes that make for a fine scholar - focus, obsession, MON isolation, detail, rarefication - and the sorts of MON outward-looking performing roles that are now being MON encouraged. MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01s8qxf (Listen) MON Return to Ghana's Oil City MON MON Two and a half years ago, oil started flowing from Ghana's MON first commercial offshore oilfield. Shortly after the taps MON were turned on, Rob Walker visited the hub for the new MON industry: the once sleepy port of Takoradi. He found a MON mixture of ambition and uncertainty in a rapidly expanding MON boomtown. Rob now returns to Takoradi to meet people he met MON last time and find out whether their dreams have been MON realised. MON Producer: Katharine Hodgson. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01s8qxw (Listen) MON Currently, scientific research in the UK receives an MON estimated 4.9 billion euro from the EU’s FP7 program, a MON figure that is likely to climb to as much as 8 billion euro MON when the current program finishes in 2013. With the MON possibility of a referendum on EU membership becoming more MON apparent, what would happen to UK scientific research if the MON UK were to leave the EU altogether? UKIP MEP Roger Helmer MON and Professor Ed Hinds of Imperial College London discuss MON the implications with Gareth Mitchell. MON MON The existence of pear-shaped nuclei has long been predicted, MON but although some qualitative hints of this nuclear shape MON have been found, the quantitative information to back this MON up has been sparse. By using accelerated beams of heavy, MON radioactive ions, a team lead by researchers at the MON University of Liverpool recently found a clear pear shape in MON the nucleus of radium isotopes. As explained by Professor MON Jonathan Butterworth from University College London's MON Department of Physics and Astronomy, these findings hold MON huge promise in furthering our understanding of nuclear MON structure and also, testing the standard model of particle MON physics. MON MON By examining White Dwarf stars in the nearby Hyades Cluster, MON Dr Jay Farihi from the University of Cambridge's Institute MON of Astronomy, found that these dead stars were 'polluted' by MON low levels of carbon and lots of silicon. Dr Farihi hopes to MON use these findings to gain invaluable insights into the fate MON of our own solar system when, as predicted, the sun ceases MON to exist in 5 billion years. MON MON EU Science Funding MON MON Currently, scientific research in the UK receives an MON estimated 4.9 billion euro from the EU’s FP7 program but MON what would happen if the UK were to discontinue their EU MON membership? UKIP MEP Roger Helmer and Professor Ed Hinds of MON Imperial College London discuss. MON MON Pear shaped nuclei MON MON The classic model of spherical nuclei came into question MON once again this week with the identification of pear-shaped MON nuclei in radium isotopes. Jonathan Butterworth from MON University College London’s Department of Physics and MON Astronomy now believes these findings can be used to further MON our understanding of nuclear structure and also, to test the MON standard model of particle physics. MON MON Hyades MON MON By examining White Dwarfs (or Dead Stars) in the nearby MON Hyades Cluster, Dr Jay Farihi from the University of MON Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, hopes to gain invaluable MON insight into the fate of our own solar system when, as MON predicted, the sun ceases to exist. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01sd3jq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01sc3tw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01sdcrh (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sdcrk (Listen) MON A Delicate Truth, A Rock and a Hard Place MON MON If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that MON good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian MON Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel MON from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which MON tells the story of a good man who must choose between his MON conscience and his duty to the Service. MON MON An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of MON Gibraltar, a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office MON serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; MON the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer, the success, MON assured. MON MON But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and MON commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find MON himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will MON take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the MON depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the MON truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention MON and justice it deserves. MON MON Tonight: Between a Rock and A Hard Place - the MON counter-operation swings in to action. MON MON John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities MON of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in MON British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty MON years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between MON London and Cornwall. MON MON Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as MON Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of MON Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga. MON The reader is Damian Lewis MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01s8bzb (Listen) MON With a royal baby imminent, Michael Rosen investigates MON names. From rare surnames which have all but died out in MON this country, to countries which tightly control first names MON given to children. He meets expectant mothers at an MON ante-natal class and finds out about the names they're MON thinking of for their offspring, and talks to an historian MON about royal names- are we ever likely to have a Prince Kevin MON or a Princess Tracey? Produced in Bristol by Melvin MON Rickarby. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01sdg16 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 MAY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01sc3vq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01sd3js (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sc3vs (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sc3vv (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sc3vx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01sc3vz (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sk5yn (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Glenn TUE Jordan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01sdg21 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, TUE presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby0q (Listen) TUE Garden Warbler TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David TUE Attenborough presents the Garden Warbler. Garden warblers TUE aren't very well named .these are birds which like overgrown TUE thickets of shrubs and small trees and so you're more likely TUE to find them in woodland clearings especially in newly- TUE coppiced areas. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01sdg23 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01sdg25 (Listen) TUE Sanjeev Gupta TUE TUE Geologist Sanjeev Gupta talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his TUE love of exploring exotic terrains, from the foothills of the TUE Himalaya to the red deserts of Mars. His research has taken TUE him across the earth and now into space, working as a Long TUE Term Planner on NASA's current Mars Curiosity Mission. TUE TUE But Sanjeev Gupta's big discovery lay at the bottom of the TUE English Channel. Unearthing a 'wacky' theory from the 1980s, TUE Sanjeev set out to prove that a series of megafloods caused TUE Britain to separate from continental Europe and become an TUE island. TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01sdg27 (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah talks to Mark Boyle TUE TUE Ritula Shah was brought up as a Jain, which has renunciation TUE as one of its central tenets. Ritula has always been TUE fascinated by this idea and in this series she wants to TUE explore what it means to give up something that still has TUE value to those around you. Why do it? Where does it leave TUE your relationships with those people whose choices you will TUE have contradicted or undermined by your own? What happens TUE when you waver (as surely you must)? TUE TUE In this second episode in a series of three programmes, she TUE talks to Mark Boyle who lived without money for almost three TUE years. What did he think it could achieve? TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01sdg29 (Listen) TUE Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE 2. The characters behind the story of Reform are a vivid lot TUE - Lord Grey, the Duke Of Wellington, Thomas Attwood, TUE William IV. Also, a special committee was formed to speed TUE the destiny of the Bill... TUE TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Reader: Adrian Scarborough TUE Author: Antonia Fraser TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sdg2c (Listen) TUE Yoko Ono; Dementia Care; Powerlister Shami Chakrabati TUE TUE Yoko Ono. Dementia care. Powerlister and director of Liberty TUE Shami Chakrabarti on how debates around the kitchen table TUE inspired her career. TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE Editor: Robyn Read TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdg2f (Listen) TUE How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 4, Episode 2 TUE TUE When the maddening Aaron finally left home, in the dead of TUE the night, leaving a note; 'abducted by aliens', Howard TUE believed his life would begin to find a more even keel. But TUE when Aaron turns up after a years absence with big plans for TUE a make-over of Howard's house, he realises his problems are TUE far from over. TUE TUE Director: Eoin O'Callaghan TUE Writer: Shelagh Stephenson TUE TUE 11:00 State of Play b01sdg2h (Listen) TUE Can computer games help to solve the problems of the world? TUE Alex Butterworth finds that some so-called "serious" games TUE are generating new intelligence in the fields of science, TUE politics and other areas. TUE TUE He talks to games designers, commentators, scientists and TUE other experts to ask how computer games like these are TUE helping to impact on society. What implications might these TUE discoveries have for policy-makers in the future? How does TUE change through gaming actually occur- and how can it be TUE measured? TUE TUE Alex talks to Ken Eklund, whose game "World Without Oil" TUE encouraged players to imagine their responses to an oil TUE shortage. TUE TUE He also explores the process of making games with a message TUE with designer Tomas Rawlings, whose creations include a game TUE about the conflict in Syria. TUE TUE He hears how the game "Evoke" from the World Bank encouraged TUE players to engage with problems in the developing world and TUE win funding for some of their schemes. TUE TUE And he hears how the scientific research of folding proteins TUE has been turned into a game where players have solved TUE problems which had defeated biochemists. TUE TUE Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 11:30 The Science of Music b01sdg2r (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Professor Robert Winston looks at music with a scientist's TUE eye in a series which seeks to fully understand our TUE relationship with the power of sound. TUE TUE In the first programme of the series, Professor Winston TUE explores the origins of music. Are we really the descendants TUE of singing cavemen? TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01sdg30 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01sc3w1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01sdg32 (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 In a Prince's Footsteps b01sdg34 (Listen) TUE Lebanon TUE TUE In the seventh programme in this series, John remains in TUE Lebanon visiting the remote town of Rachaiya and the TUE crusader castle at Beaufort." TUE TUE Presenter: John McCarthy TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01sd7fj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b018g3n8 (Listen) TUE A Tale of Two Cities, Recalled to Life TUE TUE By Charles Dickens TUE Dramatised by Mike Walker TUE Episode 1/5: Recalled to Life TUE TUE Robert Lindsay leads a cast which includes Alison Steadman, TUE Jonathan Coy, Andrew Scott, Paul Ready and Karl Johnson in a TUE new dramatisation of Charles Dickens's classic, with TUE original music by Lennert Busch. TUE TUE From the echo of the first line 'It was the best of times, TUE it was the worst of times' to the final 'It is a far far TUE better thing that I do than I have ever done', Dickens's TUE novel of the French revolution tells a story of the TUE redemptive powers of love in the face of cruelty, violence TUE and neglect. TUE TUE A Tale of Two Cities won the Bronze Sony Award for Best TUE Drama last year. TUE TUE Written and published in weekly instalments in 1859, A Tale TUE of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during TUE the French Revolution. It shows the plight of the French TUE people under the brutal oppression of the aristocracy in the TUE years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding TUE savage brutality of the revolutionaries toward the former TUE aristocrats in the years immediately following. The story TUE follows several characters through these events, notably TUE Charles Darnay, a French former aristocrat who falls victim TUE to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution, and Sydney TUE Carton, a dissipated English barrister who tries to redeem TUE his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie TUE Manette. TUE TUE Although the events covered in A Tale of Two Cities cover TUE eight years, the plot develops and builds powerfully from TUE the moment that the story opens, with the coded rumours of TUE Dr Manette being 'restored to life' and Dickens orchestrates TUE the wider political picture behind the story of Lucie, TUE Darnay and Carton, with his customary brilliance. TUE TUE Music by Lennert Busch TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer TUE TUE This is the sixth Dickens novel that Mike Walker has TUE dramatised for Radio 4. His dramatisation of Our Mutual TUE Friend, also directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica TUE Dromgoole, was broadcast in the Woman's Hour drama slot in TUE 2009. TUE TUE Credits TUE Adaptor: Mike Walker TUE Ensemble: Adam Billington TUE Ensemble: Christopher Webster TUE Author: Charles Dickens TUE Charles Dickens: Robert Lindsay TUE Jarvis Lorry: Jonathan Coy TUE Miss Pross: Alison Steadman TUE Lucie Manette: Lydia Wilson TUE Dr Alexandre Manette: Karl Johnson TUE Charles Darnay: Andrew Scott TUE Ernest Defarge: James Lailey TUE Therese Defarge: Tracy Wiles TUE Gaspard: Simon Bubb TUE Jerry Cruncher: Carl Prekopp TUE Joe: Rikki Lawton TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Director: Jeremy Mortimer TUE Composer: Lennert Busch TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01sdg42 (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01sdg44 (Listen) TUE The Cost of Cruising TUE TUE When the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground in January TUE 2012 the environmental dangers to the Tuscan coastline were TUE obvious. This month the salvage operation is due to begin TUE and there's real concern that the movement of the settled TUE wreck could result in a new disaster. TUE TUE Julian Rush reports from the island of Giglio on the hopes TUE and fears of local people and considers the risks that the TUE new generation of super-size cruise liners pose to some of TUE the most beautiful coastlines in the world. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01sdg46 (Listen) TUE English and German TUE TUE At the Brighton Festival, Michael Rosen explores our TUE linguistic links with Germany. Michael and his guests TUE discuss our shared Anglo Saxon heritage, cultural influences TUE from the Romantics to the Weimar Republic, and how the two TUE languages relate to each other in the modern era. And we TUE hear from other writers and artists having fun with words on TUE stage in Brighton - oratory and story-telling are strong TUE themes at this month-long festival. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01sdlgp (Listen) TUE Series 30, Salvador Dali TUE TUE John Cooper Clarke, poetry's Punk Laureate, nominates TUE Salvador Dali for great life status - melting clocks, bright TUE red sofas in the shape of Mae West's lips, lobster TUE telephones, trademark sharply pointed waxed moustache and TUE all. TUE TUE The Bard of Salford reveals that he has an acutely observant TUE eye when it comes to appreciating the works by Surrealism's TUE Spanish enfant terrible, who first inspired him when a TUE teenager at a Catholic secondary school in the city. TUE TUE But, asks Matthew Parris, was Dali a genius artist or just a TUE gifted marketeer of his own brand image? "Both" comes the TUE resounding answer from John Cooper Clarke and the eminent TUE art historian Dawn Ades, who recalls meeting the artist when TUE she knocked on his door in Figueres, Catalonia, as an TUE unsuspecting student in 1968. Listen in to find out what TUE happened next. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01sdlgr (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sc3w3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01rszvq (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Isy Suttie (Dobby from Channel 4's Peep Show and double TUE British Comedy Award nominee) returns to BBC Radio 4 with TUE these unique tales, recounting a series of love stories TUE affecting people she's known throughout her life, told TUE partly through song. TUE TUE Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; TUE quite often she's intervened, changing the action TUE dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these TUE stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, TUE often disastrous, love life. TUE TUE In this third episode, Isy looks for signs as to whether her TUE relationship with a poet can survive despite semantic TUE differences, while she lends a helping hand to Matlock's new TUE chef Claire and her Elvis impersonator admirer Leigh. TUE TUE With her multi-character and vocal skills, plus her guitar, TUE Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, sharing TUE with us her lessons in life and love. TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01sdlgt (Listen) TUE Matt's got a lot on his mind, and Lynda has to give way. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01sdm11 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdg2f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Art of the Foreign Minister b01sdm13 (Listen) TUE Radio 4 documentary. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01sdm15 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01sdm17 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond investigates the role of sleep in mental TUE health. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01sdg25 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01sc3w5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01sdm19 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sdm1c (Listen) TUE A Delicate Truth, Suspicions and Unease TUE TUE Tonight: Suspicions and Unease - the more Toby sees of his TUE new Minister, the less he understands. TUE TUE The reader is Damian Lewis TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Absolutely Delish b01sdm1h (Listen) TUE Flying the Nest TUE TUE New comedy by Alice Birch. TUE Ed and Annie are planning a special dinner for their two TUE children. They've spent hours preparing, created the right TUE kind of ambience and have carefully chosen the menu. After TUE all, the family that eats together stays together. But TUE tonight there might just be a few surprises on the kitchen TUE table. TUE TUE Ed ... John Henshaw TUE Annie ... Mary Jo Randle TUE Charlotte ... Kate O'Flynn TUE Sam ... Alex Carter TUE Felix ... Will Howard TUE Jack ... Paul Stonehouse TUE TUE Director ..... Helen Perry TUE TUE Alice Birch is a new young writer, part of the Royal Court TUE Super Group and a graduate of their Young Writers Programme. TUE Her play, Many Moons, was a finalist for the 2012 Susan TUE Smith Blackburn Prize. Her other work includes Life for TUE Beginners at Theatre 503 and the 24 Hour Plays for the Old TUE Vic New Voices. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01sdm1k (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 MAY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01sc3x0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01sdg29 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sc3x2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sc3x4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sc3x6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01sc3x8 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ydfn9 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Glenn WED Jordan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01sdmcm (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, WED presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby1j (Listen) WED Blackcap WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David WED Attenborough presents the Blackcap. Many Blackcaps winter in WED sub-Saharan Africa, but increasingly birds have been WED wintering in the Mediterranean and over the last few decades WED spent the winter in the UK. WED WED 06:00 Today b01sdmcp (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather, Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01sdmcr (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01sdmct (Listen) WED Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, WED Episode 3 WED WED 3. The bill to reform our voting system goes through the WED House of Commons but its passage in the Lords is WED spectacularly blocked.. WED WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Reader: Adrian Scarborough WED Author: Antonia Fraser WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sdmcw (Listen) WED Sharleen Spiteri; Alison Nimmo; Peggy Shaw WED WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Editor: Robyn Read WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdmcy (Listen) WED How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 4, Episode 3 WED WED Caroline's obsession with her children being exceptional is WED matched only by her own determination to become a therapist WED and take over Martha's job. WED WED Director: Eoin O'Callaghan WED Writer: Shelagh Stephenson WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b01sdmd0 (Listen) WED Series 3, Healing WED WED Alan Dein holes himself up in a studio through the night and WED invites the online world to talk to him. Knowing nothing WED about the people he is about to talk to, he settles down for WED an evening of intriguing, random encounters. WED WED In this second programme, he crosses the world via Facebook WED & Skype and hears the stories of people in the process of WED healing. A woman pursues new love when her husband's WED infidelity begins days after their wedding, a Ghanaian WED healer tries to cure a woman through prayer over the phone, WED and a barrister struggles to regain his speech after being WED stabbed and beaten with a machete in an Anguillan WED restaurant. WED WED Producer: Sarah Bowen. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b01sdmd2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED WED Gyles Brandreth presides over the comedy panel game where, WED this week, Susie Dent and Lloyd Langford compete against WED Dave Gorman and Natalie Haynes to find out which team is the WED most passionate and knowledgeable about words. WED WED This week Susie Dent reveals two of her favourite WED now-defunct words from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary are WED 'pandiculation' (to stretch while yawning) and 'snirtle' (to WED laugh in a quiet and restrained manner); Dave Gorman comes WED up with a new cliche to replace 'Curiosity Killed the Cat'; WED Natalie Haynes tells us what the Cockney rhyming slang 'a WED Basil' refers to and Lloyd Langford is asked the meaning of WED 'dumpoke' from the 1903 dictionary, 'Hobson Jobson - A WED Glossary of Anglo Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases' (a WED book which Susie Dent claims is 'a very good read'). WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01sdmd4 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01sdmdj (Listen) WED John Waite investigates the closure of the Remploy WED factories, which provided 'sheltered' employment for workers WED with disabilities. Only around 20 per cent of those who lost WED their jobs have found alternative employment. Furthermore we WED hear concerns about the tendering process for one Remploy WED division. There are concerns that the chosen company was WED always destined to win the bid and one MP has accused the WED firm of "asset-stripping." We hear from Disabled People's WED Minister Esther McVey who denies any wrongdoing in the WED factory sell off process and defends the Remploy closure WED programme. WED WED Producer: Mark Ansell WED Editor;Andrew Smith. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01sc3xb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01sdmjm (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 In a Prince's Footsteps b01sdmjp (Listen) WED Syria WED WED In the eighth programme in this series, John considers two WED images taken in Damascus, and the current situation in Syria WED today. WED WED Presenter: John McCarthy WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01sdlgt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sdmjr (Listen) WED Aberystwyth Noir - It Ain't Over till the Bearded Lady Sings WED WED By Malcolm Pryce. The night Mr Big Top was gunned down on WED the streets of Aberystwyth, everyone knew who'd done it - WED the Druids - the same guys who built Stonehenge, although WED they'd changed a bit since those days. Now they were just a WED bunch of wiseguys into racketeering and extortion. They ran WED the girls too, the ones who stood in shop doorways wearing WED stovepipe hats, with a 'come hither' look in their eyes. WED Everything about the case spelled Trouble, and Aberystwyth's WED only Private Investigator, Louie Knight, wasn't a great WED admirer of Trouble. Disenchanted with his life, Louie had WED decided to pull down the blinds and let the crazy world pass WED by. As for Trouble, he didn't give a hoot, just so long as WED it didn't come knocking on his door. And then it did, in the WED shape of Calamity Jane, schoolgirl and aspiring Private Eye, WED and determined to crack the case . The investigation leads WED them into the seedy world of Aber's End of the Pier show: WED the world of the balloon twister, the bearded lady, and the WED Amazing Mr Marmalade - not forgetting Louie's nemesis, WED former games teacher turned lion tamer, Herod Jenkins. WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, produced and directed by Kate WED McAll. WED WED Credits WED Louie Knight: Phylip Harries WED Calamity Jane: Catrin Stewart WED Sospan: Rhodri Meilir WED Mr Marmalade: Matthew Gravelle WED Piccolino: Matthew Gravelle WED Herod Jenkins: Matthew Gravelle WED Eeyore: Matthew Gravelle WED Mrs Meirionydd: Eiry Thomas WED Mrs Tonypandy: Manon Edwards WED Mrs Jones: Manon Edwards WED Director: Kate McAll WED Producer: Kate McAll WED Writer: Malcolm Pryce WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01sdmjt (Listen) WED Employment Rights WED WED Do you know your rights at work? If you're concerned about WED pay, hours, leave, disputes or any other employment issue WED call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Where do you stand if you're one of the growing number of WED people employed on a zero hours working contract? WED WED Perhaps you've a query about working for an agency? WED WED What are the options if you're considering sharing parental WED leave or applying for flexible working? WED WED Maybe you're facing the difficult prospect of redundancy or WED reduced working hours? WED WED And what should you do if you start a small business and WED want to take on a member of staff? WED WED Whatever your question our employment panel will be here to WED help. Presenter Vincent Dugglbey will be joined by: WED WED Andrew Cowler, Conciliator, ACAS WED Lucy McLynn, Employment Partner, Bates Wells & Braithwaite WED Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights, TUC WED WED Call 03 700 100 444 on Wednesday. Phone lines are open WED between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard geographic charges apply. WED Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED Presenter: Vincent Duggleby WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED Contact the Money Box Live Team WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01sdm17 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01sdmjw (Listen) WED Land of Too Much; Stammering and Identity WED WED Poverty versus abundance in the US - why does America have WED more poor people than any other developed country? How can WED its great wealth fail to impact on the 46 million Americans, WED who, according to official figures, live below the poverty WED line? US sociologist, , Monica Prasad, suggests some WED reasons. She talks to Laurie Taylor about her new book, 'The WED Land of too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of WED Poverty", arguing that we can't answer these questions by WED saying that America has always been a liberal, laissez-faire WED state - it hasn't. Instead, she claims that a particular WED tradition of government intervention in America has WED undermined the development of a European-style welfare WED state. They're joined by Professor of Social Policy, Peter WED Taylor-Gooby, who provides a British perspective. WED WED Also, stammering and identity - Dr Clare Butler discusses WED her interview based research into how people who stammer WED learn to control, conceal and rise above the stigma of WED having a style of speech which departs from the norm. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01sdmjy (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01sdmk0 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sc3xd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Down the Line b01sdmxx (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 3 WED WED The return of the ground-breaking Radio 4 show, hosted by WED the legendary Gary Bellamy and brought to you by the WED creators of The Fast Show. WED WED Starring Rhys Thomas, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix WED Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, Adil Ray, Robert WED Popper and Paul Whitehouse. WED WED Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse WED A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas WED Actor: Amelia Bullmore WED Actor: Simon Day WED Actor: Felix Dexter WED Actor: Charlie Higson WED Actor: Lucy Montgomery WED Actor: Adil Ray WED Actor: Robert Popper WED Actor: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Charlie Higson WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01sdmxz (Listen) WED Spencer has a request, and Pip demands an explanation. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01sdmy1 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange - writer Will WED Self nominates The Man Who Was Thursday, a novel by G K WED Chesterton. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdmcy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01sdmy3 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley presents the final programme in the live, WED studio-based debate series taking the form of newspaper WED leader conferences. WED WED He is joined by five prominent journalists, who write WED leading articles or editorials for their newspapers, WED representing the press in the nations of the UK and across WED the English regions as well as the leading national WED newspapers. WED WED Three subjects in the news will be decided upon and WED discussed. Two of these reflect current events at home and WED abroad - and prompt lively and provocative discussion. The WED third subject offers some light relief. WED WED Following the discussion of each of the three subjects, WED Andrew invites one of his guests to draw up on air the WED "leader" for that subject setting out its main points. This WED important component of the programme helps ensure that WED resolution of the debate is achieved for listeners and that WED the full range of views expressed is reflected. WED WED Contributions from listeners on what is being - and what WED should be - discussed are also strongly encouraged WED throughout the programme via Twitter (#r4leader) and by WED e-mail (leaderconference@bbc.co.uk). WED WED The leaders are posted online at the Radio 4 website WED following the programme. WED WED Joining Andrew Rawnsley this week are: Kirsty Buchanan, WED Aditya Chakrabortty, Nigel Nelson, Lesley Riddoch and Graeme WED Demianyk. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01sdmy5 (Listen) WED Series 4, Emma Byrne: Why We Swear WED WED The science writer Emma Byrne argues that, far from tuning WED out, we should listen carefully when people swear, because WED they often do so for good reasons. 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 at Somerset House. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01sdg44 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01sdmcr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01sc3xg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01sdmy7 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sdmy9 (Listen) WED A Delicate Truth, Breaking Every Rule WED WED Tonight: Breaking Every Rule - Toby takes an irrevocable WED step. WED WED The reader is Damian Lewis WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01sdmzn (Listen) WED Series 2, About Money WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum - loves Nathan, but she aint looking WED embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad - clumsy and hard-headed and leaves WED running the house to his wife (she wouldn't allow it to be WED any other way). WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma - How can her grandson go on stage WED and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the WED good Christian way! WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. WED WED About Money WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED LAYLA ..... CHIZZY AKUDOLU WED REVEREND WILLIAMS / MR DANIELS ..... DON GILÉT WED SHIFTY ..... OLA WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 23:15 One b0092j16 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED David Quantick's critically acclaimed sketch show where no WED sketch features more than one voice. WED WED Featuring the vocal talents of Graeme Garden, Johnny Daukes, WED Deborah Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski and Andrew WED Crawford. WED WED Producer: Julian Mayers WED A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01sdmzq (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 MAY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01sc3y9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01sdmct (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sc3yc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sc3yf (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sc3yh (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01sc3yk (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ydkjd (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Glenn THU Jordan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01sdnkb (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, THU presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby29 (Listen) THU Grey Heron THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David THU Attenborough presents the Grey Heron. The Grey Heron makes a THU loud croaking sound, often standing in an ungainly way on a THU tree-top which it might share with many others for nesting - THU the heronry. THU THU 06:00 Today b01sdnkd (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather, Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01sdnkg (Listen) THU Cosmic Rays THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays. In 1912 the THU physicist Victor Hess discovered that the Earth is under THU constant bombardment from highly energetic subatomic THU particles. These so-called cosmic rays have been known to THU cause damage to satellites and electronic devices on Earth, THU but their origin has long been mysterious. The study of THU cosmic rays and their effects has led to major breakthroughs THU in particle physics; one team of researchers recently THU claimed to have discovered their origin. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01sdnkj (Listen) THU Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, THU Episode 4 THU THU 4. Reform of Parliament is stalling, the Bill cannot get THU through. So the Mob is on the streets of Sherbourne and THU Bristol. In fact, unrest seems likely everywhere.. THU THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Reader: Adrian Scarborough THU Author: Antonia Fraser THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sdnkl (Listen) THU Lindsey Bareham Cooks the Perfect Trifle: Ruth Madoc; Older THU Models THU THU Lindsey Bareham Cooks The Perfect Trifle. Ruth Madoc on THU playing singer Dorothy Squires. Are there more opportunities THU now for older models ? Is snooping on a partner acceptable ? THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Editor: Robyn Read THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdnkn (Listen) THU How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU Philip's facelift has raised his spirits temporarily and THU convinced him he is now a match for Carmen who is 25 years THU his junior. Martha's reaction is to encourage him to THU increase his therapy sessions to twice a week. THU THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan THU Writer: Shelagh Stephenson THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01sdnkq (Listen) THU Romario Tackles Brazil THU THU Brazil is getting ready to host the 2014 World Cup. But the THU preparations have become marred in controversy. And leading THU the charge against over-budget stadiums, vested interests THU and corruption is an unlikely figure: Romario. Brazil's THU World Cup-winning footballer has transformed himself into a THU serious, hard-working politician. Tim Franks meets him for THU Crossing Continents. Is this a genuine transformation for THU one of Brazil's most notorious celebrity bad-boys? THU Producer: Linda Pressly. THU THU 11:30 Poetry in Translation b01sdnqh (Listen) THU Just how do you translate a poem? Daljit Nagra explores the THU different approaches that poets take, and there's more to it THU than just knowing another language. The Magazine Modern THU Poetry in Translation was founded by Ted Hughes and Daniel THU Weissbort in 1965. It's hard to believe that before this THU British poetry had no real access to work beyond its THU borders. Modern Poetry in Translation has just changed THU editorship, and we hear from outgoing editor David THU Constantine and new editor Sasha Dugdale about the THU magazine's history and future. Daljit speaks to poets Jo THU Shapcott, Pascale Petit, WN Herbert and Yang Lian, who share THU the pleasures and pitfalls of their methods of translation. THU THU Presenter: Daljit Nagra THU Producer: Jessica Treen. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01sdnqk (Listen) THU Consumer news with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01sc3yp (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01sdnqm (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 In a Prince's Footsteps b01sdpv8 (Listen) THU Turkey THU THU In the ninth episode in this series, John travels to THU Istanbul and visits the Galata Tower and the Scutari THU Military barracks. THU THU Presenter: John McCarthy THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01sdmxz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sdr1p (Listen) THU Chopping Onions THU THU by Becky Prestwich THU THU Grandmother Esther has suffered a stroke . Esther's THU daughter, Ruth, has insisted she come to stay while she THU recovers. To welcome Esther, daughter Ruth is attempting to THU make chicken soup and grand-daughter Vanessa is going to THU make a desert.. But as the three generations of Jewish women THU come together in the kitchen, they stir up much more than THU the soup. A poignant and comic new drama about motherhood. THU THU Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Credits THU Ruth: Maureen Lipman THU Vanessa: Sarah Smart THU Esther: Christine Cox THU Taxi Driver: Sushil Chudasama THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Writer: Becky Prestwich THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01sdr1r (Listen) THU The Minack Coast THU THU Felicity Evans visits the Minack Theatre at Porthcurno, in THU the far west of Cornwall. Built into the rocky cliffs THU overlooking the sea, the theatre was planned, built and THU financed by one determined woman - Rowena Cade. Local THU storyteller Mark Harandon has researched and re-created the THU character of Billy Rawlings, Cade's gardener, who worked for THU her for 40 years and helped to build the theatre. Mark, as THU Billy, leads Felicity around the theatre telling stories THU collected from the family and people who knew him, and THU reminiscing about how the theatre was built. THU THU Felicity explores the coast further, visiting the Porthcurno THU Telegraph Museum, an area which was the hub of international THU cable communications from 1870-1970. In WWII secret tunnels THU were dug by Cornish miners to house an underground building THU and the entire telegraph operations. These bomb proof/gas THU proof tunnels provided 14 secure cables out of the UK to its THU allies. THU THU Going east along the coast path from Porthcurno, near the THU village of Treen, stands The Logan Rock, a massive boulder THU perched on the edge of a cliff, and locally known as a THU rocking stone. Felicity hears how legend has it that it THU could be rocked with one finger, until it was rocked so much THU by a rowdy group of naval seamen 1824, that it was dislodged THU from its perch. This apparently upset local residents for THU whom the rock was a tourist attraction and source of income, THU who complained so much that the seamen were forced to THU restore it - at some effort! THU THU Producer: Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01sd0hp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01sd1kn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01sdrgz (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Material World b01sdrh1 (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 b01sdrh3 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sc3yr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Heresy b01sdrh5 (Listen) THU Series 9, Episode 1 THU THU The first in a new series of the programme that dares to THU commit heresy. THU THU Victoria Coren and her guests have fun challenging knee-jerk THU public opinion, and exposing the wrong-headedness of THU received wisdom. THU THU In the first programme of the series Victoria Coren is THU joined by comedians Lee Mack and David Schneider, and THU writer-broadcaster Germaine Greer, to argue about foxes, THU maths and Andy Murray THU THU Producers: Victoria Coren and Daisy Knight THU An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01sdrh7 (Listen) THU Jim enjoys an afternoon out, and Jazzer loses his rag. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01sdrh9 (Listen) THU With John Wilson, who interviews the photographer Rankin, as THU he opens a major exhibition of new work in Liverpool. In THU Cultural Exchange, actor Terence Stamp selects the 1946 film THU The Razor's Edge. THU THU Producer Ekene Akalawu. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdnkn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01sdrhc (Listen) THU Police and Crime Commissioners THU THU Police and Crime Commissioners, it was argued, would make THU the police more accountable by providing oversight by a THU directly elected individual, who would in turn be subject to THU strict checks and balances. Yet, the electorate failed to THU vote in high numbers for such an idea; the November 2012 THU elections recorded an average turnout of just 15%. THU THU A string of headlines in recent weeks has questioned the THU judgement of some PCCs, whether it's claiming expenses for THU two limousine journeys costing £700, attempting to hire a THU full-time youth commissioner, or appointing friends and THU former colleagues to well-paid jobs in the Police and Crime THU Commissioner office. THU THU Six months after they were elected, Simon Cox investigates THU how well Police and Crime Commissioners are getting on in THU the job. THU THU The Report will investigate why some Commissioners appear to THU be more active than others and will explore the different THU styles they have adopted. The programme will speak to a THU selection of Commissioners elected in 41 areas across THU England and Wales about the key decisions they've made on THU budgets, staffing and policing priorities. THU THU Producer: Hannah Barnes. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01sdrhf (Listen) THU New Dimensions THU THU Manufacturing is leaping into the 21st century at some THU speed. Peter Day hears from the pioneers who are applying THU digital thinking to the making of things..by using 3D THU printing and many other techniques as well. THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 State of Play b01sdg2h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01sdnkg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01sc3yt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01sdrrm (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sdrrp (Listen) THU A Delicate Truth, Hard Evidence THU THU Tonight: Hard Evidence - his worst suspicions confirmed, who THU can Toby trust now? THU THU The reader is Damian Lewis THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b01sdrrr (Listen) THU Series 2, Nightwatch THU THU Jarvis Cocker becomes a nightwatchman in a high rise office THU block as he continues his nocturnal exploration of the human THU condition. THU THU Decked out in regulation uniform and armed with a powerful THU torch, Jarvis starts his rounds protecting London's 36 THU storey Euston Tower. Along the way, he hears tales from THU others keeping watch during the dark hours. THU THU Among those who share their stories of late night vigilance THU are the parents of a young girl with a rare condition which THU causes her to stop breathing when she falls asleep; a man at THU a control centre in Portsmouth who monitors the Indian Ocean THU for Somali pirates and a former spy recalling a dangerous THU meeting with a Middle Eastern agent. THU THU For Jarvis, the strain of this late lonely night starts to THU takes its toll as he attempts to play table tennis - with THU himself. THU THU As ever, the stories in tonight's dark vigil are accompanied THU by Jarvis' own musical selections. THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01sdrrt (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 MAY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01sc3zn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01sdnkj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sc3zq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sc3zs (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sc3zv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01sc3zx (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ydq65 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Glenn FRI Jordan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01sdtx9 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside, FRI presented by Anna Hill. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby2t (Listen) FRI Dartford Warbler FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents the Dartford Warbler. Dartford FRI Warblers prefer Mediterranean wine-producing climates, which FRI means ice and snow is bad news for them. The harsh winters FRI of 1961 and 1962 reduced the population to just 11 pairs, FRI but fortunately the numbers have since recovered. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01sdtxc (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01sd0hy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01sdw1m (Listen) FRI Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI 5. Reform of Britain's voting system wins the day and the FRI Bill becomes law. 'It is difficult FRI to believe that it is done' - is the consensus, after months FRI of dramatic debate and FRI hand-wringing.. FRI FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Reader: Adrian Scarborough FRI Author: Antonia Fraser FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sdw1p (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Editor: Robyn Read FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdw1r (Listen) FRI How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 4, Episode 5 FRI FRI The fly on the wall documentary which Richard signed up for FRI to help raise his profile, exposes some uncomfortable facts FRI about his life which they are now about to air on FRI television. Contrary to his hope for rebirth as a public FRI figure, Richard is about to be ridiculed in front of the FRI entire nation. FRI FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Writer: Shelagh Stephenson FRI FRI 11:00 Fried Chicken Feels the Heat b01sdw1t (Listen) FRI At a time when what we eat is under increasing scrutiny, FRI Yasmeen Khan investigates the fried chicken shop. There are FRI over 1700 places in the UK where chicken wings, legs and FRI thighs are dipped in batter and herbs, fried and served up - FRI often with chips. FRI FRI Ranging from the Colonel's market-leader to the humble FRI chicken and chip shop in the high street, they serve FRI thousands of customers every day. FRI FRI In the London Borough of Tower Hamlets there are 45 FRI providers of fast food and snacks for each school, and it's FRI a major concern in their Public Health Department. Yasmeen FRI talks to Tower Hamlets' dietician Michele Sandelson about FRI efforts to educate schoolchildren about over-indulging in FRI fatty foods. FRI FRI Fiona Crawford of Glasgow's Centre for Population Health is FRI similarly concerned about levels of child obesity in FRI Scotland, and is advising on how to restrict outlets near FRI schools. London's Healthier Eating Commitment adds its own FRI missionary zeal, as does Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North FRI and Stoke Newington. FRI FRI But, as Yasmeen admits, there's no doubt that fried chicken FRI can be a tasty dish. She visits KFC HQ and meets Chris FRI Fells, the Product Excellence Director, who shows her the FRI kitchens where new menus are tried out - but Colonel FRI Sanders' spicy secret is kept well under wraps. FRI FRI Mr.Massood who runs the Tasty Chick'n Pizza has no such FRI mysteries and lists cinnamon, ginger, garlic and cumin in FRI his recipe. And for chef and tv cook Gizzi Erskine, fried FRI chicken is up there with the most memorable dishes she FRI prepares. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Party b01n1qyg (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Splits FRI FRI Series 3 of the satirical comedy about a group of young FRI idealists trying to make waves with their new political FRI party. This week the group are on their way to research for FRI the by-election. Written by Tom Basden. FRI FRI Simon .... Tom Basden FRI Duncan .... Tim Key FRI Jared .... Jonny Sweet FRI Mel .... Anna Crilly FRI Phoebe .... Katy Wix FRI European Man .. Jot Davies FRI FRI Producer .... Julia McKenzie. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01sdw1w (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01sdw1y (Listen) FRI Kate and Jean - What Would He Have Thought? FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between sisters widowed in FRI very different circumstances - one lost her husband to liver FRI disease, the other to murder by the Ulster Freedom Fighters FRI - in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear FRI when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01sc3zz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01sdw20 (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 In a Prince's Footsteps b01sdw22 (Listen) FRI Israel FRI FRI In the final programme in this series John travels to Athens FRI and the Greek island of Kefalonia. FRI FRI Presenter: John McCarthy FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01sdrh7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sdw24 (Listen) FRI IOU FRI FRI IOU by Jaden Clark FRI A bailiff, who's lost everything in his personal life goes FRI to collect on a female shoplifter and loses the one thing he FRI didn't know he still had in his possession. His heart. But FRI in gaining his heart, is he also prepared to lose his FRI liberty? FRI FRI Director/ Producer Gary Brown FRI FRI Jaden Clark is an experienced TV writer; her credits include FRI EastEnders, Waterloo Road and Moving On. This is her first FRI play for radio. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jack: Don Gilet FRI Chrissie: Sally Carman FRI Donna: Natalie Grady FRI Rob: Luke Broughton FRI Tyson: Ellis Hollins FRI Ruby: Molly Peters FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Jaden Clark FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01sdw26 (Listen) FRI Postbag edition, Sparsholt FRI FRI Horticultural advice. FRI FRI 15:45 David Pownall at 75 b01sdw28 (Listen) FRI No Two Rooms Alike FRI FRI Episode 2 (of 3): FRI No Two Rooms Alike by David Pownall FRI Read by Robert Glenister FRI FRI The second of three specially commissioned stories marking FRI the 75th birthday of David Pownall, the distinguished FRI playwright, novelist and poet. FRI FRI Director: Martin Jenkins FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01sdw2b (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Presenter: Matthew Bannister FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01sdw2d (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01sdw2g (Listen) FRI Will and Matt - Stone Age Men FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between friends who share FRI an ancient history and enjoy spending their time FRI flint-knapping - making iron age tools. Another in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01sdw2j (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sc401 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01sdw2l (Listen) FRI Series 40, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw present a comedic look at the FRI week's news. Producer: Colin Anderson. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01sdw2n (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Mary Cutler FRI Director ..... Peter Leslie Wild FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Grace ..... Jenny Johns FRI Jonathan ..... James Howard. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01sdw2q (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including a report on the hits and misses FRI so far at the Cannes Film Festival, which opened this week. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sdw1r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01sdw2s (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Fowey in Cornwall with Conservative Vice Chairman FRI Michael Fabricant MP, Labour's Housing Minister Jack Dromey FRI MP, Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne MP and the writer FRI Jackie Malton who was the inspiration for Lynda La Plante's FRI character DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. A former DCI FRI in the Met Police, Jackie now works as a crime drama script FRI advisor, is a writer herself and also works with ex FRI offenders. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01sdw2v (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 In a Prince's Footsteps - Omnibus b01sdw2x (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Presenter: John McCarthy FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01sc403 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01sdw2z (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sdw31 (Listen) FRI A Delicate Truth, A Ghost from the Past FRI FRI Tonight: A Ghost from the Past - Sir Christopher Probyn's FRI idyllic retirement is about to be shattered. FRI FRI The reader is Damian Lewis FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01sdlgp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01sdw3y (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01sdw40 (Listen) FRI Neil and Tracy - Beyond the Call of Friendship FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between friends who have FRI gone the extra mile; when Neil suffered kidney failure, FRI Tracy was happy to donate one of hers. Two years on, Neil FRI finally has the chance to say thank you - and make sure this FRI time Tracy listens. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI