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SAT SATURDAY 18 MAY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01sdw5r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01sdw1m (Listen) SAT Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832, SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT 5. Reform of Britain's voting system wins the day and the SAT Bill becomes law. 'It is difficult SAT to believe that it is done' - is the consensus, after months SAT of dramatic debate and SAT hand-wringing.. SAT SAT Reader Adrian Scarborough. SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sdw5t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sdw5w (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sdw5y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01sdw60 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sdw80 (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd SAT Mary Stallard. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01sdw82 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01sdw62 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01sdw64 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01sdr1r (Listen) SAT The Minack Coast SAT SAT Felicity Evans visits the Minack Theatre at Porthcurno, in SAT the far west of Cornwall. Built into the rocky cliffs SAT overlooking the sea, the theatre was planned, built and SAT financed by one determined woman - Rowena Cade. Local SAT storyteller Mark Harandon has researched and re-created the SAT character of Billy Rawlings, Cade's gardener, who worked for SAT her for 40 years and helped to build the theatre. Mark, as SAT Billy, leads Felicity around the theatre telling stories SAT collected from the family and people who knew him, and SAT reminiscing about how the theatre was built. SAT SAT Felicity explores the coast further, visiting the Porthcurno SAT Telegraph Museum, an area which was the hub of international SAT cable communications from 1870-1970. In WWII secret tunnels SAT were dug by Cornish miners to house an underground building SAT and the entire telegraph operations. These bomb proof/gas SAT proof tunnels provided 14 secure cables out of the UK to its SAT allies. SAT SAT Going east along the coast path from Porthcurno, near the SAT village of Treen, stands The Logan Rock, a massive boulder SAT perched on the edge of a cliff, and locally known as a SAT rocking stone. Felicity hears how legend has it that it SAT could be rocked with one finger, until it was rocked so much SAT by a rowdy group of naval seamen 1824, that it was dislodged SAT from its perch. This apparently upset local residents for SAT whom the rock was a tourist attraction and source of income, SAT who complained so much that the seamen were forced to SAT restore it - at some effort! SAT SAT Producer: Beatrice Fenton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01shqbv (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01sdw66 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01shqbx (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 b01shqbz (Listen) SAT Caitlin Moran, Murray Lachlan Young, John McCarthy in SAT Kosovo, Bonnie Tyler's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles with writer Caitlin Moran, SAT poet Murray Lachlan Young, and Jess Miller and her recording SAT of Jimi Hendrix & Jim Morrison given to her by her dad, SAT Andy. John McCarthy travels to Kosovo, JP Devlin drops in on SAT Wolverhampton, listeners Joy Jones and Gillian Scott-Wood SAT explain why their family has been sending each other the SAT same birthday card for 64 years & Bonnie Tyler shares her SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b01shqc1 (Listen) SAT Series 6, Casualty SAT SAT Paul Jackson presents a further edition of the show that not SAT only celebrates classic television programmes, but also uses SAT them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and SAT social history. SAT SAT In the final programme of the current series, he visits the SAT purpose-built studios of the longest running medical drama SAT in the world. Born out of necessity (as a weapon in the SAT weekly battle for audience-share on Saturday nights) SAT "Casualty" has become one of BBC 1's most consistent SAT performers. SAT SAT Paul discusses the programme's origins with the show's SAT creators (Jeremy Brock & Paul Unwin) and the people who SAT commissioned it and then stood by it during its lean years SAT (Lord Grade and Jonathan Powell). He assesses how much it SAT has changed in its 27 year life with the help of its current SAT (and long-standing) cast (including the returning Patrick SAT Robinson who plays Ash, the ever present Derek Thompson who SAT from the very first episode played Charlie Fairhead, and SAT Pete Salt, the medical consultant on whom Charlie is based) SAT and series Producer Nikki Wilson. And he gauges the future SAT of the programme with the head of BBC 1's scheduling, Dan SAT McGolpin. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01shqc3 (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of the Daily Telegraph investigates the Tories SAT and Europe. There's a playwright's view of politics, horror SAT at the latest case of child grooming, and a limerick about SAT UKIP. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01shqc5 (Listen) SAT Conspiracy! SAT SAT Correspondents' stories from around the world: a field day SAT for conspiracy theorists as the White House stumbles in a SAT fog of political scandal; Libya's second city Benghazi's SAT unstable, violent and there's uncertainty there over the SAT presence and degree of influence of radical Islamists; as SAT France slips back into recession, there's a trip to SAT Lot-et-Garonne in the south west where they have their own SAT ideas about how to cope in times of economic difficulty; to SAT the holiday islands of The Seychelles to find out why there SAT are Somali pirates there practising their football skills. SAT And it's noisy, dirty, the poverty's shocking, the traffic SAT awful. So why is it so hard to say goodbye to Mumbai? SAT Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01shqc7 (Listen) SAT Card payment glitches at contactless terminals SAT SAT Personal finance news with Paul Lewis. Card payment glitches SAT at contactless terminals - could you end up paying twice? SAT Plus customers fobbed off after long air delays. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01sdw2l (Listen) SAT Series 40, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw present a comedic look at the SAT week's news, with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin and Sara Pascoe. SAT SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01sdw6b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01sdw6d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01sdw2s (Listen) SAT Michael Fabricant, Jack Dromey, Jeremy Browne, Jackie Malton SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Fowey in Cornwall with Conservative Vice Chairman SAT Michael Fabricant MP, Labour's Housing Minister Jack Dromey SAT MP, Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne MP and the writer SAT Jackie Malton who was the inspiration for Lynda La Plante's SAT character DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. A former DCI SAT in the Met Police, Jackie now works as a crime drama script SAT advisor, is a writer herself and also works with ex SAT offenders. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01shqc9 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01shqcf (Listen) SAT The Last Tycoon SAT SAT The celebrated theatre director Bill Bryden adapts F Scott SAT Fitzgerald's last and unfinished novel. Starring Aiden SAT Gillen, Jack Shepherd and Charlotte Emmerson. SAT SAT Haunted by the death of his wife, 1930s Studio Head Monroe SAT Stahr works eighteen hour days, each one a collision of SAT talent meetings, set visits, script brainstorms and preview SAT screenings. He's the "last of the princes", is making the SAT studio millions and seems bullet proof. SAT SAT At the end of an epic day, an earthquake breaks two water SAT mains, sending a roaring river of water through the studio. SAT And with it, the huge floating head of the goddess Shiva - a SAT film prop. SAT SAT As Stahr leaves his office to inspect the damage he sees the SAT head floating by and on it two women, one of them the SAT mesmerising Kathleen. SAT SAT It's the beginning of a love affair that will destroy him. SAT SAT As their affair plays out, we follow the disintegration of SAT one of the great Hollywood legends, and also witness the SAT darker heart of the Hollywood machine as a paranoid fear of SAT communism comes to the fore. SAT SAT It's a gorgeous, excruciating, heady tale - based on SAT Fitzgerald's own painful experiences working in Hollywood as SAT a screenwriter. SAT SAT Produced by Laurence Bowen SAT Adapted and directed by Bill Bryden SAT Production Associate - John Tams SAT Sound Design - Mark Smith SAT SAT A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald SAT Adaptor: Bill Bryden SAT Director: Bill Bryden SAT Producer: Laurence Bowen SAT Munro Stahr: Aidan Gillen SAT Kathleen: Charlotte Emmerson SAT Bremmer: Jack Shepherd SAT Cecilia: Hilary Connell SAT Brady: Michael Feast SAT Tony Rodriquez: Karl Johnson SAT Boxley: Trevor Ray SAT Fleishacker: John Guerrasio SAT Miss Doolan: Angela Douglas SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01shqch (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour. Yoko Ono; Princess Merida; Female SAT Undertakers SAT SAT Yoko Ono at 80 on curating Meltdown, her career and life SAT with John Lennon. Merida's make-over. Sharleen Spiteri plays SAT in the studio. Caryn Franklin and Daphne Selfe discuss SAT whether there are more opportunities now for older models. SAT Caring at home for a relative with dementia. Women in the SAT funeral business. Lindsey Bareham Cooks the SAT Perfect...Trifle. SAT SAT Presented by: Jane Garvey SAT Produced by: Rebecca Myatt SAT Edited by: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01shqcm (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01sdw82 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01sdw6g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01sdw6j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sdw6l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01shqcp (Listen) SAT Andy McNab, Jasper Gibson, Simon Reeve, Paulette Randall, SAT Danny Wallace, John Grant, Allah-Las SAT SAT This week Clive's secret mission is with novelist and former SAT SAS operative Andy McNab, whose bestseller 'Bravo Two Zero' SAT is the true story of eight members of the SAS regiment on a SAT top secret mission to infiltrate deep behind enemy lines. SAT The 20th Anniversary edition is available on 23rd May. SAT SAT Clive treads the boards with theatre director Paulette SAT Randall, currently directing Lenny Henry in August Wilson's SAT 'Fences', the story of a once gifted athlete denied his turn SAT at the big time and now struggling through daily life in SAT Pittsburgh. It's at London's Duchess Theatre from Wednesday SAT 19th June to Saturday 14th September. SAT SAT Danny Wallace gets his ribs tickled by Jasper Gibson; SAT co-founder of Britain's largest comedy website The Poke. His SAT debut novel 'A Bright Moon For Fools' is the story of Harry SAT Christmas. He is fat, unattractive, rude, deeply dishonest SAT and unable to dance. On a mission to track down his late SAT wife's ancestral village, Christmas lurches across rural SAT Venezuela from one drunken crisis to another. As the real SAT trouble begins, can redemption survive? SAT SAT G'day Mate! Clive goes bush with adventurer and presenter SAT Simon Reeve. Following the success of his Indian Ocean SAT series, Simon embarks on another epic adventure, this time SAT travelling across Australia. Simon encounters an SAT extraordinary array of people and exotic wildlife, offering SAT a unique insight into life in Down Under. 'Australia with SAT Simon Reeve' starts on Sunday 19th May at 21.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT With music from LA based alt-rockers Allah-Las, who perform SAT 'Tell Me (What's on Your Mind)' from their album SAT 'Allah-Las'. SAT SAT And a welcome return to former Czars frontman John Grant, SAT who performs 'GMF' from his album 'Pale Green Ghosts'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01shqcr (Listen) SAT Series 14, Tomb With a View SAT SAT In the week in which the Eurovision Song Contest returns to SAT its spiritual home in Sweden, and tensions simmer once again SAT over Britain's future role in Europe, Sandi Toksvig imagines SAT the fight for independence within one UK family. SAT SAT To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, SAT this award-winning weekly series presents a dramatic SAT response to a major story from the week's news. Writers who SAT have participated so far include: Lionel Shriver, David SAT Edgar, Amelia Bulmore, Mark Lawson, Bonnie Greer, Laura SAT Solon, Will Self, Alistair Beaton, Lemn Sissay, April de SAT Angelis, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Adrian Mitchell, Stewart Lee, SAT John Sergeant, Jo Shapcott, Ian McMillan, Kwame Kwei-Armah, SAT Kate Mosse, Marina Warner, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, A. L. SAT Kennedy and Lyn Coghlan. SAT SAT Performed by Sheila Hancock SAT Directed by Justine Willett. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01shqct (Listen) SAT The Great Gatsby and Propaganda at the British Library SAT SAT Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited The Great Gatsby with Leonardo SAT DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan hits the 3D screens promising a SAT great party. F Scott Fitzgerald's book has had a troubled SAT history in film... will Luhrmann be the one to make it work? SAT SAT Propaganda: Power and Persuasion at the British Library is a SAT major and thought-provoking new exhibition that brings SAT together wartime material alongside public health messages, SAT banknotes and social media. Does it make a convincing SAT argument about the definition of propaganda? SAT SAT Up the Women (BBC4) and Psychobitches (Sky Arts) are two new SAT comedy shows highlighting women performers and writers; both SAT star Rebecca Front. The number of women featuring in comedy SAT has been the subject of scrutiny in recent years. How funny SAT are these series? SAT SAT The Round House by Louise Erdrich was the winner of the US SAT National Book Award 2012. It's the story of Joe who lives on SAT a North Dakota reservation. His mother is brutally raped and SAT the book considers the aftermath of that attack, SAT highlighting the difficulties of prosecuting the perpetrator SAT as tribal and federal law fail to bring him to justice. SAT SAT And Ibsen's play Public Enemy - more usually translated as SAT An Enemy of the People - arrives at the Young Vic in a SAT heavily cut, updated version with a striking set and SAT performances. Does its story of an individual and the masses SAT work for our times? SAT SAT The novelist Louise Doughty and writers Ekow Eshun and SAT Hadley Freeman join Tom Sutcliffe to review. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01shqcw (Listen) SAT Lives and Politics SAT SAT What makes a politician tick? How has the business of SAT politics changed over time? Two remarkable archives, eighty SAT years apart, offer some revealing answers. SAT SAT In the 1930s, Colonel Josiah Wedgwood sent a questionnaire SAT to a wide selection of politicians ranging from the greatest SAT Minister of State to the lowliest backbencher, putting SAT questions no one had the temerity to ask before - including SAT how much they earned, their religious views, their trade or SAT profession and what they most disliked about Parliament. The SAT answers offered a snapshot of their times, class and SAT personalities. SAT SAT This portrait of political life has lain in the Archives of SAT the History of Parliament Trust for 80 years. Now the Trust SAT is repeating the exercise in a set revealing of audio SAT interviews with veteran politicians who've spent their lives SAT in Westminster. This programme compares and contrasts the SAT two accounts. SAT SAT The current generation remembers the War, the new Welfare SAT State and Britain's declining global role. They worked SAT through an era of industrial strife, economic uncertainty, SAT social change, Thatcherism, Northern Ireland and mass media. SAT Their careers saw a shift in how we regard politicians - SAT from deference to suspicion. SAT SAT What beliefs made them enter politics - and do they still SAT retain them now? How did they deal with party, constituency, SAT ministerial office? How did experiences of life outside SAT Westminster - personal and professional - affect them and SAT has something been lost in the gradual professionalisation SAT of politics? SAT SAT Matthew Parris looks at what has changed and what has SAT remained constant about politics, and examines how SAT individuals felt they could make a difference. SAT SAT Producer: Mike Greenwood SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01sd1kl (Listen) SAT Angel Pavement, Episode 2 SAT SAT The fortunes of Twigg and Dersingham, Purveyors of Fine SAT Veneers, of Angel Pavement London EC1 were foundering , SAT until the mysterious James Golspie walked through their SAT door. SAT SAT Bearing a swatch of high quality samples from the Baltic at SAT rock bottom prices, he has given the firm his sole agency on SAT a commission only basis. SAT SAT Overnight the firm's fortunes are transformed. Orders pour SAT in from every quarter, wages are raised and, in this heady SAT atmosphere, love blossoms. SAT SAT Let us hope Mr Golspie and his veneers are the genuine SAT article, for it's 1930 and it's very cold out there. SAT SAT Produced and 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 Harold Turgis: Joseph Kloska SAT Miss Matfield: Victoria Brazier SAT Mr Dersingham: Carl Prekopp SAT Lena Golspie: Faye Castelow SAT Poppy Sellers: Millie Binks SAT Edie Smeeth: Jane Purcell SAT Fred Mitty: Stephen Critchlow SAT Benenden: Stephen Critchlow SAT Mrs Mitty: Angela Curran SAT Benenden's Niece: Angela Curran SAT George: Oswald Scott SAT Cashier: Lucia Cox SAT Writer: Martin Jameson SAT Director: Chris Wallis SAT Producer: Chris Wallis SAT Author: JB Priestley SAT Adaptor: Martin Jameson SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01sdw6n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01p424t (Listen) SAT Series 3, Amber Dermont: The Benefits of an Unhappy SAT Childhood SAT SAT Amber Dermont explains the benefits of an unhappy childhood. SAT SAT "Though my parents were caring people, I could not escape my SAT own sense of despair," she says. She discusses the influence SAT of sadness on the imagination, and describes how this SAT upbringing took her on a journey that gradually helped her SAT imagine a life for herself as a fiction writer. SAT SAT Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas SAT and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking SAT on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a SAT live audience. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 22:30 Over the Boundary b01ks2yp (Listen) SAT Kevin O Brien's century for Ireland against England in the SAT 2011 World Cup was the fastest of all time. Irish cricket SAT fans had waited at least a hundred years to celebrate such a SAT victory. SAT SAT Before the game there had been precious few victories, but SAT also precious few supporters and players to celebrate them. SAT But after the match cricket fans in Ireland slowly started a SAT whispering chorus of texts, tweets and emails, as the SAT enormity of their team's achievement spread from the few who SAT understood, to the masses who didn't. SAT SAT On the state broadcaster RTE's main tea time show, their SAT chief political correspondent finished a very serious report SAT about the ongoing coalition talks and suddenly broke into an SAT impassioned monologue to listeners: SAT SAT 'I don't know if you remember the Norwegian commentator the SAT night when Norway beat England? He started shouting 'are you SAT listening Maggie Thatcher?'. Well -.are you listening SAT Geoffrey Boycott? Are you listening Mick Jagger? Are you SAT listening Oliver Cromwell? Our boys just thrashed you at SAT cricket!' SAT SAT It was an extraordinary moment. Cricket had crashed into the SAT national consciousness. SAT SAT Ireland may have the third oldest cricket club in the world SAT - Phoenix cricket club in Dublin - but in the centuries SAT since it was established, there have been concerted efforts SAT to ban it and relegate it to the bottom of Ireland's SAT sporting fixtures. Viewed as unpatriotic and a colonial SAT imposition, the GAA - the national sporting association - SAT banned its members from playing or watching 'foreign SAT sports'. Playing cricket became a political decision. SAT SAT In Over the Boundary, Kevin Connolly tells the story of how SAT cricket batted its way into Ireland's sporting arena. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01sd5gv (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 2 SAT SAT (2/13) SAT Do you know at which cathedral the England cricket captain SAT Alastair Cook was once a chorister? Or which eccentric SAT musician fronted The Magic Band? The answers to these and SAT many other musical questions are revealed in this week's SAT edition of Counterpoint, chaired by Paul Gambaccini. SAT SAT The contestants in the second heat hail from London and SAT Bristol, and they'll be hoping their general musical SAT knowledge will be wide enough to carry them through to a SAT semi-final place. SAT SAT They'll also have to face individual questions on a special SAT musical topic which will be sprung on them completely out of SAT the blue, with no chance to prepare. And there'll be plenty SAT of musical extracts to identify, both familiar and SAT surprising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT HOWARD DELMONTE, a psychotherapist from Haringey in London; SAT SAT MICK QUINN, a retired psychiatric nurse from Bristol; SAT SAT RUFUS STILGOE, a barrister from London. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01sd1kq (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a wide selection of poetry requests. SAT This week - fresh renditions of classic as well as SAT contemporary poems, as some of the choices will be recited SAT by teenagers taking part in the national Poetry by Heart SAT competition finals. A Poetry Archive initiative, Andrew SAT Motion has described the competition as "A way for 14- to SAT 18-year olds to have serious fun while they extend their SAT reading, deepen their powers of appreciation, and memorise SAT beautiful and intriguing poems which will enrich their lives SAT for ever." SAT Poems include Love From a Foreign City by Lavinia Greenlaw, SAT a fantastic rendition of Welsh Incident by Robert Graves and SAT a not to be missed recitation in Middle English from Sir SAT Gawain and the Green Knight. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 MAY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01shpd4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Brief Sparks b019qm1n (Listen) SUN Ladies and Gentlemen 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. SUN SUN Spark worked as a novelist, dramatist and children's author, SUN but it is perhaps her short stories that best exemplify her SUN sharp eye and beautifully-crafted work, where she coolly SUN probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath veneer of human SUN respectability. The three stories in this series include the SUN wry humour of social comedy 'The Snobs' and the sharp satire SUN of class, aspiration and phobia in 'You Should Have Seen the SUN Mess'. SUN SUN Here, Muriel Spark enjoys a timely satire on the perils SUN awaiting those who attempt to commit adultery, when a SUN married man runs the terrible risk of taking a walk in the SUN park with his young mistress. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01shpd6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01shpd8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01shpdb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01shpdd (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01shqss (Listen) SUN The bells of the Church of St.Peter and St.Paul, Tonbridge, SUN Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01sdmy5 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Emma Byrne: Why We Swear SUN SUN The science writer Emma Byrne argues that, far from tuning SUN out, we should listen carefully when people swear, because SUN they often do so for good reasons. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas SUN and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking SUN on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a SUN live audience at Somerset House. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01shpdg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01shst3 (Listen) SUN When Certainties Are Shaken SUN SUN When things we feel sure of are not actually as they seem, SUN it can be unsettling. What do we do when new revelations SUN throw past convictions into doubt? Samira Ahmed reflects on SUN times when existing certainties in people and events are SUN shaken; when trust is tested. SUN SUN Is there anything we can be truly certain of in life? Our SUN sense of self might alter with age and experience. The most SUN solid relationship could change or end. Even our most SUN heartfelt beliefs could falter. In the wider world, we might SUN place trust in things communally as a society; things we SUN feel we should be confident of, like financial institutions SUN or the labels on our food. Even with a healthy dose of SUN scepticism, do we need to invest a degree of certainty or SUN trust, for society to work? SUN SUN When something goes wrong - particularly in these uncertain SUN times - do we feel that trust or faith has been shaken? SUN History has many examples of existing certainties crumbling SUN in the face of new revelations, especially from the world of SUN science. SUN SUN Perhaps absolute certainty about anything is rare. Maybe SUN most things in life we might feel certain of - people, SUN situations, ourselves - are prone to be shaken up from time SUN to time. In the programme, we hear the Reverend Canon David SUN Reindorp share his experience of depression; a period of SUN great insecurity for him. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from Angela Carter, Gerard SUN Manley Hopkins and Walt Whitman with music by Etta James, SUN Stephen Sondheim and Sir William Herschel. SUN SUN Produced by Caroline Hughes SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01shst7 (Listen) SUN The Yuan Yang SUN SUN In traditional Chinese culture the mandarin duck is believed SUN to bring lifelong fidelity to couples and frequently used as SUN symbols for wedding presents or in Chinese art. Formerly SUN abundant in their native Far East, numbers of mandarin ducks SUN have declined due to habitat destruction (mainly logging) SUN and over-hunting. It is difficult to estimate exactly how SUN many remain in the world, but estimates are around 60,000 to SUN 80,000 birds, which includes a free living introduced and SUN naturalised population of 7,000 birds in the UK. SUN SUN For this Living World, presenter Chris Sperring travels to SUN the river Dart in Devon where starting underneath the busy SUN A38 trunk road he meets up with naturalist John Walters who SUN has been studying a winter roost of mandarin ducks here. In SUN mid-winter up to 100 birds can roost here but in early SUN spring they are beginning to pair up and disperse along the SUN river Dart. Leaving this noisy suburban area, Chris and John SUN then head off up the river to search for pairs of these SUN wonderful tree ducks in the Devonian landscape. SUN SUN The male mandarin is possibly one of the most colourful SUN species of waterfowl and an unmistakable bird with its SUN plumage covering most colours in an artist's palate. The SUN male has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye, a SUN reddish face and "whiskers". In full breeding plumage the SUN most striking of all these feathers are two vibrant orange SUN "sails" at the back which signal his presence to females and SUN other males. Despite all these vibrant colours they are a SUN surprisingly difficult bird to find in the wild as they are SUN well camouflaged against the shrubs and habitat they move SUN into to breed. Unlike most British ducks, these 'tree ducks' SUN nest in tree holes, the emerging day-old ducklings have a SUN perilous fall to the ground below. SUN SUN Chris discovers in the programme that Britain's wild SUN Mandarin population could probably be more numerous than SUN that of the duck's true home, China and the Russian Far SUN East, where it is now endangered. But how did this exotic SUN alien came to be in Britain in the first place and how it is SUN now on the British Bird List? First recorded in the 17th SUN Century where they were brought to Britain as ornamental SUN waterfowl on stately homes, they eventually escaped; SUN although it was not until the 1920's that they became a SUN truly wild living species, although as Chris discovers, SUN intervention from humans plays a vital role in maintaining SUN this exotic species in the British countryside. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01shpdj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01shpdl (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01shst9 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01shstc (Listen) SUN World Child Cancer SUN SUN Graham Norton presents the Radio 4 Appeal for World Child SUN Cancer SUN Reg Charity:1120321 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN World Child Cancer. SUN SUN World Child Cancer SUN SUN For any parent, having a child diagnosed with cancer is one SUN of the worst things imaginable. Sadly for many parents in SUN low and middle income countries the diagnosis is made worse SUN as survival rates are far lower than they should be, as low SUN as 10%. Whilst in high income countries, survival rates for SUN child cancers are around 80%. SUN SUN Quite simply, children are dying because of the knowledge SUN gap between rich and poor countries. Worse still, many are SUN dying without any effective pain relief. SUN Our vision is to see a world where every child with cancer SUN has access to the best possible treatment and care. SUN SUN We work to improve cancer diagnosis, treatment and care for SUN some of the world’s poorest children by creating twinning SUN partnerships linking hospitals in developed and developing SUN countries. These partnerships create a two-way transfer of SUN expertise and skills to develop locally appropriate and SUN affordable solutions to the problem of child cancer. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01shpdn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01shpdq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01shstf (Listen) SUN Inspired by Celestial Fire SUN SUN A service for Pentecost Sunday, live from Emmanuel Church, SUN Didsbury, south Manchester. SUN SUN With reflections from Debra Green OBE, founder of 'Redeeming SUN Our Communities', which seeks to transform neighbourhoods by SUN bringing together community groups, churches, the police, SUN the fire service, local authorities and voluntary agencies, SUN aiming to reduce crime and disorder. SUN SUN Service leader: Andrew Graystone SUN With the Manchester Chamber Choir SUN Music director: Richard Tanner SUN Accompanist: Jeffrey Makinson SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01sdw2v (Listen) SUN The Meaning of Evil SUN SUN John Gray turns to the writer Patricia Highsmith and her SUN character Tom Ripley for a perspective on the meaning of SUN evil. "For me she's ....one of the great twentieth century SUN writers with a deep insight into the fragility of morality." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby02 (Listen) SUN Nightingale, part 2 SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. (Part 2 SUN of 2) David Attenborough presents the extraordinary duet SUN between cellist Beatrice Harrison and a nightingale recorded SUN live as an outside broadcast and the first broadcast of any SUN wild animal not in captivity. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01shsth (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01shstk (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Director ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee 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 Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Hether Bell SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Spencer Wilkes ..... Jonny Elsmore SUN Celia Redwood ..... Anita Dobson. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01shstm (Listen) SUN Alice Walker SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the Pulitzer Prize SUN winning writer Alice Walker. SUN SUN Author, poet, feminist and activist, it was her novel The SUN Color Purple that brought her worldwide attention and SUN acclaim. The story of a poor black girl surviving in the SUN deep American south, between the wars, it is a landmark SUN work, disturbing and exhilarating in equal measure. SUN SUN If one subscribes to the idea that "art is a wound turned to SUN light", then Alice Walker's early life proved crucial to her SUN future creations. Shot and blinded in one eye by her SUN brother's BB gun it was through the isolation of her injury SUN that she began to write. She once described poetry as SUN "medicine". SUN SUN She has also said, "I know the world's a mess, but there's SUN so much that's gorgeous in it. I wish everybody could have SUN what I have." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01sd7fg (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 6 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 Mark Watson, Tony Hawks, Lucy Porter and Ed Byrne are the SUN panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as lions, pianos, fingers and the French. 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 b01shstp (Listen) SUN Food, Cancer and Well-Being SUN SUN Sheila Dillon asks if food and nutrition should have a SUN bigger role in treating cancer. Is the medical profession SUN too reluctant to see food as an essential component in SUN improving the well-being of cancer patients SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01shpds (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01shstr (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 Destination Freedom b01r9skv (Listen) SUN It's often assumed that the drive for black emancipation in SUN America began with Martin Luther King and the civil rights SUN movement. This documentary challenges that perception, SUN taking us back years earlier to the arts broadcasting of SUN Chicago radio's Destination Freedom. SUN SUN Appearing a whole decade before the civil rights movement, SUN Destination Freedom was truly the first of its kind. SUN SUN It launched in 1948, a weekly series of 30 minute radio SUN dramas that showcased the lives and accomplishments of SUN prominent African Americans - from Louis Armstrong, Joe SUN Lewis and Duke Ellington, to the 18th century icon of the SUN anti-slavery movement Crispus Attucks and Harriet Tubman, an SUN abolitionist who fought for women's suffrage. The SUN programme's founder and writer, Richard Durham, described it SUN as radio that was "rebellious, biting, scornful and cocky". SUN SUN Artistically, as well as politically, it was years ahead of SUN its time. Never heavy handed or simple propaganda, the SUN broadcasts were even, on rare occasions, acoustically SUN innovative to the point of being sound-art surreal. The SUN profile of the world class African-American heart surgeon SUN Daniel Hale Williams, for example, is told from the point of SUN view of one of his patient's hearts (in an episode called SUN 'The Heart of George Cotton'). SUN SUN The show walked a daring line between reform and revolution, SUN and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and SUN anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting. SUN SUN As well as drawing on the archive of Destination Freedom, SUN this programme illuminates a largely unknown, but important, SUN chapter in the history of civil rights and tells how radio SUN drama played its part from the very beginning. SUN SUN Presenter: Donnie Betts SUN Producer: Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01sdw26 (Listen) SUN Postbag edition, Sparsholt SUN SUN A postbag edition from the potting shed at Sparsholt SUN College, hosted by Eric Robson with Matt Biggs, Christine SUN Walkden and Pippa Greenwood answering listeners' questions SUN sent in by post and email. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01shstt (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces more conversations from around the UK SUN in this Sunday Edition. They cover life with locked-in SUN syndrome, with terminal cancer, without your grandchild, and SUN with a dominatrix called FiFi, proving time and again that SUN it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01shstw (Listen) SUN The Mask of Dimitrios, The Origins of an Obsession SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 2): The Origins of an Obsession SUN SUN English crime novelist Charles Latimer is holidaying in SUN Istanbul when he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - SUN an infamous master criminal long wanted by the law, whose SUN body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. SUN SUN Fascinated by the story, Latimer decides to retrace his SUN steps across Europe and gather material for a new book. SUN Fascination tips over into obsession as he gradually SUN discovers more about his subject's shadowy history - SUN involving murder, prostitution, political assassination, SUN drug-dealing and espionage. SUN SUN The Mask of Dimitrios was written in 1939 by Eric Ambler, a SUN key figure in the evolution of the crime thriller who SUN brought realism and political awareness to the genre and SUN influenced writers such as Graham Greene and John le Carré. SUN SUN By using the criminal career of Dimitrios as a lens, it SUN enables us to see the dark heart of Europe, a continent SUN riven by violence and corruption. Its demonstration that the SUN pursuit of money is the well-spring from which all other SUN evils flow is as pertinent as ever - and its cast of drug SUN dealers, shady businessmen and displaced refugees makes it SUN seem astonishingly modern. SUN SUN Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan SUN Original music by Neil Brand SUN Director: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Latimer: Jamie Glover SUN Dimitrios: Tim McInnerny SUN Col Haki: Kenneth Cranham SUN Mr Peters: Desmond Barrit SUN Marukakis: Richard Attlee SUN Mme Chavez: Rachel Atkins SUN Irana Preveza: Rachel Atkins SUN Siantos: Andrew Branch SUN Sholem: John Evitts SUN Greek Official: John Evitts SUN Dhris Mohammed: Gary Carr SUN Mortuary Attendant: Ilker Kaleli SUN Director: David Blount SUN Author: Eric Ambler SUN Adaptor: Stephen Sheridan SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01shsty (Listen) SUN Author Louise Erdrich; plus the winner of the Independent SUN Bookshop award SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Native American writer Louise SUN Erdrich. She's written a string of novels since first SUN publishing Love Medicine in 1984, all set in and around a SUN fictional Chippewa Native American reservation in North SUN Dakota. Her latest National Book Award winning novel is "The SUN Round House." Narrated by 13 year old Joe, the novel SUN explores the impact on the boy , his family and the wider SUN community when his mother is brutally raped which according SUN to Erdrich is a crime one in three native American women SUN will experience in their life time - while the perpetrators SUN escape prosecution due to complex jurisdictional issues SUN involving state versus tribal law. SUN SUN The Bookseller Industry Awards in London last week included SUN the coveted Independent Bookseller Industry Award. With the SUN UK publishing industry announcing amazingly buoyant sales SUN figures of 3.34 BILLION pounds this year, nominees - from SUN Biggar in the Scottish borders to Limerick in Ireland - SUN discuss how our treasured independent bookshops can compete SUN not just against online, but with the ubiquitous cut price SUN offers of chain stores, superstores and online giants. And SUN the winner reveals the secret of her - or his- success. SUN SUN With the latest adapatation of the The Great Gatsby filling SUN cinema screens across the UK this weekend, Professor SUN Christopher Bigsby, Director of the Arthur Miller Centre at SUN UEA and Anne Margaret Daniel, a consultant on the Baz SUN Luhrmann film and currently writing a book about the author, SUN discuss why F Scott Fitzgerald is one of the America's most SUN celebrated authors. Credited with defining the Jazz Age - a SUN term which he himself coined- and writing quintessentially SUN about the American dream at an epoch changing moment in the SUN country's history, he died in 1940, aged only 44, an SUN alcoholic with his dreams destroyed in no less devastating SUN fashion than Gatsby's. Why do experts and readers alike rate SUN Fitzgerald so highly? SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01shsv0 (Listen) SUN A typically untypical range of poems, read by Kerry Elkins SUN and John Mackay. Sublime and surreal poems nestle SUN comfortably alongside heartfelt tales of loss and longing. SUN Poems include Stevie Smith's macabre work The River God and SUN a more benign reflection on nature from the great SUN pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti in his poem 'Silent SUN Noon'. Alastair Reid's work makes regular appearances on the SUN programme but it's usually in the form of his translations SUN of Pablo Neruda's work, so Roger takes the chance to SUN introduce some of his own poetry; the beguiling 'What's SUN What' and a simply beautiful one called 'Oddments, Inklings, SUN Omens, Movements.' SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The Art of the Foreign Minister b01sdm13 (Listen) SUN What makes a great foreign minister? Jonathan Powell, Tony SUN Blair's chief of staff, talks to some of the men who have SUN held the office. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01shqcr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01shpdx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01shpdz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01shpf1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01shsv2 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01shsv4 (Listen) SUN Josh shares his ideas, and Lilian has a shock. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01shsv6 (Listen) SUN Mark Twain SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests SUN John O'Farrell and Jane Thynne. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 The Time Being b01shsv8 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Marathon SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. SUN Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience SUN and provided a stepping stone for writers who have since SUN gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print, SUN such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and SUN Joe Dunthorne. SUN SUN Marathon by Claire Powell SUN SUN An extra-marital affair - long-nourished by alcohol - starts SUN going badly wrong when the man starts to get fit: training SUN for a half-marathon with his son. SUN SUN Claire Powell was born and brought up in south-east London. SUN She graduated from UEA's Creative Writing (Prose) MA in SUN 2012, where she received the year's highest mark for a SUN dissertation, and was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial SUN Bursary and Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant. She has SUN just signed up for her first half-marathon. SUN SUN Reader: Lorraine Pilkington SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01sdw2d (Listen) SUN It's been reported that Angelina Jolie's 87% cancer risk led SUN to her having a double mastectomy. More or Less examines SUN cancer risk probabilities, and speaks to Dr Kat Arney from SUN Cancer Research UK. SUN SUN Has the UK been hit by a Romanian crime wave? Speaking on a SUN recent edition of BBC radio 4's Any Questions, Christine SUN Hamilton thought so. More or Less checks the numbers and SUN speaks to the Romanian ambassador, Dr Ion Jinga. SUN SUN Education Secretary Michael Gove has been criticised for SUN claiming that 'survey after survey' provide evidence of SUN teenagers' ignorance of key historical events - the surveys SUN turn out to be non-rigorous polls commissioned by a TV SUN company and a hotel chain with the aim of turning the SUN results into press releases designed to create publicity in SUN the media. Tim Harford speaks to Michael Marshall from SUN Merseyside Skeptics Society about how the PR survey industry SUN works, and about how frequently they create stories in the SUN news media. SUN SUN The Prime Minister and the Chancellor say that thousands of SUN jobs are being created by the private sector. This seems SUN surprising as the Coalition Government was formed in the SUN wake of a deep recession and the economy as remained fairly SUN flat ever since. Tim Harford assesses what's really going on SUN with UK employment and speaks to Professor John Van Reenen SUN of the London School of Economics, and Nick Palmer from the SUN Office for National Statistics. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01sdw2b (Listen) SUN Joe Farman, Dr. Margaret White, Sir Terence Beckett, Arnold SUN Peters, Paul Shane, Marcella Pattyn and Steve Martland SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Joe Farman - the geophysicist who discovered a hole in the SUN ozone layer. SUN SUN The pro life campaigner Dr Margaret White SUN SUN The former Chief Executive of Ford UK Sir Terence Beckett, SUN who oversaw the development of the Cortina and the Transit SUN van. SUN SUN The versatile British composer Steve Martland SUN SUN And Arnold Peters who played Jack Woolley in the Archers. SUN June Spencer - who plays his wife Peggy -tells us that his SUN Alzheimer's storyline was very poignant as life mirrored SUN art. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01shqc7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01shstc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01sdrhf (Listen) SUN New Dimensions SUN SUN Manufacturing is leaping into the 21st century at some SUN speed. Peter Day hears from the pioneers who are applying SUN digital thinking to the making of things..by using 3D SUN printing and many other techniques as well. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01shsyc (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 b01shsyf (Listen) SUN George Parker of The Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01sdrgz (Listen) SUN Cannes Festival; The Great Gatsby premiere; Jay Bulger on SUN Beware of Mr Baker; Neil Brand on spy theme music SUN SUN Francine Stock on the latest from the Cannes Film Festival, SUN including The Great Gatsby premiere with critics Catherine SUN Bray and Jonathan Romney. Baz Luhrmann's latest spectacular SUN has attracted mixed reviews in the US where it's just been SUN released - so how did it go down with the Cannes crowd? SUN Beware of Mr Baker is an usually revealing music documentary SUN on the life and career of the tempestuous Cream drummer SUN Ginger Baker. The director Jay Bulger describes the lies he SUN had to tell to get Ginger to talk to him and why the drummer SUN broke his nose with a walking stick. SUN And the composer Neil Brand guides us through spy films from SUN The 39 Steps to the Ipcress Files and JFK and explains how SUN their scores give a clue to the secrets of their plots. SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01shst3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 MAY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01shpfz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01sdmjw (Listen) MON Stammering and Identity; Land of Too Much MON MON Poverty versus abundance in the US - why does America have MON more poor people than any other developed country? How can MON its great wealth fail to impact on the 46 million Americans, MON who, according to official figures, live below the poverty MON line? US sociologist, , Monica Prasad, suggests some MON reasons. She talks to Laurie Taylor about her new book, 'The MON Land of too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of MON Poverty", arguing that we can't answer these questions by MON saying that America has always been a liberal, laissez-faire MON state - it hasn't. Instead, she claims that a particular MON tradition of government intervention in America has MON undermined the development of a European-style welfare MON state. They're joined by Professor of Social Policy, Peter MON Taylor-Gooby, who provides a British perspective. MON MON Also, stammering and identity - Dr Clare Butler discusses MON her interview based research into how people who stammer MON learn to control, conceal and rise above the stigma of MON having a style of speech which departs from the norm. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01shqss (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01shpg1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01shpg3 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01shpg5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01shpg7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01xqftz (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd MON Mary Stallard. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01shw09 (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith presents the latest news about food, farming MON and the countryside. MON MON 05:56 Weather b01shpg9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyh9 (Listen) MON Shag MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David MON Attenborough presents the Shag. Perhaps the least vocal of MON all British birds they hiss and belch to warn off MON interlopers getting too close to their nest. They are MON seabirds and their name comes from the shaggy crest on the MON top of their head. MON MON 06:00 Today b01shw0c (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01shw0f (Listen) MON Antonia Fraser: Democracy and Reform MON MON On Start the Week Anne McElvoy explores movements and people MON that have changed the political landscape. The MP Jesse MON Norman champions the founder of modern conservatism, the MON 18th century philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke. Lady MON Antonia Fraser brings to life the Great Reform Bill of 1832 MON which transformed the way Britain was governed. And one of MON the co-founders of the Occupy movement, David Graeber, looks MON afresh at the idea of democracy. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01shw0h (Listen) MON Falling Upwards, Episode 1 MON MON In this heart-lifting book, the Romantic biographer Richard MON Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer MON generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic MON experiments of the 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a MON balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. MON MON In a compelling adventure story, dramatic sequences include MON an unscheduled early flight over the North Sea, the crazy MON firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard and the MON heart-stopping escape of two families from East Germany. MON MON Early balloons also played a role in warfare - with the MON legendary tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during MON the Prussian siege of 1870, and a memorable flight by MON General Custer in the American Civil War. MON MON These are stories where scientific genius combines with MON extraordinary courage and the power of an imagination that MON dares to claim the airy kingdom for itself. MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): MON Every balloon tells a story, and more often than not it is MON one of courage in the face of great perils. MON MON Two determined balloonists take to the skies to raise money MON for charity. Over two hundred years separate them, but both MON find themselves sailing out over the sea with nothing but MON danger ahead. MON MON Read by Rory Kinnear MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01shw0k (Listen) MON Joan Smith; Men and childcare; Snooping on a partner MON MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Editor: Robyn Read MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01shw0m (Listen) MON Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Pearl MON MON By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON Episode One - Pearl MON MON Abandoned by her salesman husband an angry Pearl Tull is MON left to bring up her three children alone. MON MON Director: David Hunter MON MON Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant tells the story of two MON brothers and a sister deserted by their father, raised by MON their angry mother, moving through the calamities and MON exultations of their difficult youth into separate MON strategies for survival, and finally into a shared humanity. MON MON The place is Anne Tyler's Baltimore. The story is Pearl's, MON her short-lived romance and late marriage to "flamboyant" MON travelling salesman Beck Tull and her attempt to keep the MON family together after he leaves. We see her three children MON pummelled into adulthood through her excesses of maternal MON energy and spurts of terrifying rage. MON MON Cody, wild and incorrigible is driven to cruel domination MON over his brother Ezra, boyhood practical jokes and taunts MON culminating in an unforgivable (and yet seemingly forgiven) MON act, and is ultimately possessed by the lure of power and MON money. High-spirited, hard-working Jenny becomes a MON paediatrician, nurturing strangers as she becomes more and MON more inaccessible to those close to her. Ezra, his mother's MON favourite (and Anne Tyler's most enduring character) has a MON dream of a homesick restaurant "where people come just like MON to a family dinner" - except that whenever his own family MON gathers at his restaurant the meal is always left MON unfinished, appetites dissipated in squabbles and tempests. MON MON There are elements of this family tragedy that we all MON recognise, details that ring sharply true and characters MON that are both truthful and entertaining. MON MON HER NAKED SKIN by Rebecca Lenkiewicz was the first play to MON be performed on the Olivier stage by a living female MON playwright. THE NIGHT SEASON won the Critics Circle Theatre MON Award for Most Promising Playwright. SARAH AND KEN (Drama on MON 3) was awarded a special commendation at the 2012 BBC Audio MON Drama Awards. Other radio work includes CARAVAN OF DESIRE MON and BLUE MOON OVER POPLAR. MON MON There is a synergy between Rebecca and Anne Tyler - a common MON precision of language, an understanding of character, a MON shared angle on the poetry of language and image and a MON similar sense of fascination with the quirky and the MON offbeat. MON MON Credits MON Pearl: Barbara Barnes MON Narrator: Lorelei King MON Beck: Nathan Osgood MON Young Cody: Max Baldry MON Young Ezra: Richard Linnell MON Young Jenny: Eloise Webb MON Director: David Hunter MON Producer: David Hunter MON Author: Anne Tyler MON Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON 11:00 Signing Up at 16 b01shw0p (Listen) MON The Realities of War MON MON Episode 2 (of 3) MON MON Reporter Penny Marshall follows the experiences of a group MON of 16 year old boys and girls as they undergo a year of MON training at the Army Foundation College, Harrogate. MON MON As the Junior Soldiers embark on their Realities of War MON training, Penny considers just how easy it is for a 16 year MON old to truly grasp the realities of war. They visit the MON Imperial War Museum in London and the military cemetery at MON Brookwood to learn more about the realities of the job they MON have signed up to do. MON MON Yet the hardest lesson comes from real life, when six young MON soldiers are killed on active service in Afghanistan in MON March 2012. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Kerry's List b01shw0r (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON A four-part sketch show co-written by and starring comedian MON 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 final episode, Kerry's List involves changing MON sheets, buying a kids book on where babies come from, MON getting her roots done, learning to knit, not drifting off, MON reading a classic and dusting the plants. 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 Writer: Kerry Godliman MON Writer: David Pusey MON Actor: Kerry Godliman MON Actor: Ben Abell MON Actor: Melissa Bury 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 MON 12:00 You and Yours b01shw0t (Listen) MON Cheeky brand names, Proms tickets, NHS Psychotherapy MON MON How does the way older people are housed affect broader MON attitudes to ageing? A new report questions the way MON elderly people are treated, from the language used to MON describe them, their interests and role after retirement, MON and importantly where they live and how they are looked MON after. MON Advance ticket sales for this year's BBC Proms have MON outstripped the demand seen in previous years. But it's MON prompted concerns that some music lovers are being forced to MON make use of touts. MON The government wants to help more people with emotional or MON psychological problems to receive psychotherapy, but there MON are concerns that the NHS is narrowing the range of MON therapies it offers, depriving many patients of the help MON they need. MON As the Chelsea Flower Show opens, some top-tips to help you MON get the best from your garden. The enthusiasts for whom MON cleaning the car is no Sunday chore, but a highlight of the MON week! MON MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01shpgc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01shw0w (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 Mother Tongue Interference b01shw0y (Listen) MON Gisela Stuart MON MON Five short autobiographies in two languages. 1. The Labour MON MP Gisela Stuart was born in Bavaria but now represents the MON people of Edgbaston in the House of Commons. Neville MON Chamberlain was once the MP for the same constituency and MON sometimes Gisela Stuart imagines talking to him of the MON changes that have occurred in Britain and across Europe MON since the Second World War. She also recalls her rural MON upbringing in southern Germany, the economic miracle that MON turned farmers like her father into BMW factory workers, and MON acquiring an accent that allowed her to share a joke with MON the last Pope. MON Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01shsv4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01shw10 (Listen) MON Edward, Edward MON MON A two-hander about Edward VI and Lady Jane Grey starring MON brilliant young actors Oscar Kennedy and Izzy Meikel Small, MON first seen together in the BBC's recent Great Expectations. MON MON Aged just nine years old, Edward VI becomes King upon the MON death of his father, Henry the VIII. Together with his MON cousin Jane, Edward tries to negotiate the vagaries of life MON at court and to find a freedom when every move he makes is MON watched over by the tenacious Privy Council. MON MON Credits MON Edward: Oscar Kennedy MON Jane: Izzy Meikle-Small MON Actor: Paul Stonehouse MON Actor: David Seddon MON Actor: Philippa Stanton MON Actor: Amaka Okafor MON Writer: Abigail Docherty MON Director: Lu Kemp MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01shw12 (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 3 MON MON (3/13) MON Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the third heat in the MON 2013 series of the general knowledge music quiz, from MON MediaCity in Salford. MON MON The three competitors answering questions on all styles and MON aspects of music come from Dumfries, West Yorkshire and MON Cardiff. As well as demonstrating a broad general knowledge MON of music they'll also have to 'specialise' in a topic MON they've had no preparation for - chosen from a list Paul MON will give them half way through the show. MON MON There are plenty of surprises and musical extracts to MON identify, familiar and not so familiar. The winner will go MON through to the semi-final stage of the 2013 competition in MON July. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01shstp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Creating Pitch-Perfect b01shwkq (Listen) MON Audiences need never suffer out-of-tune singing again, MON thanks to the development of pitch-correction software. But MON as well as correcting the inadequate, it has become a tool MON for new and creative ways of performing and recording. MON MON Presenter Catherine Bott is a Classical singer, broadcaster MON and experienced session musician. She visits a recording MON studio to see how the software works, and bravely submits MON her own voice for analysis by deliberately singing out of MON tune. MON MON Surprisingly, one of the best-known examples of pitch MON correction software - Auto-Tune - was developed by a former MON oil industry engineer working on the development of acoustic MON tests for interpreting seismic data. Dr Andy Hildebrand MON realised that the same technology could be used to analyse MON and modify pitch in audio files without affecting vocal MON quality. Catherine talks to Andy about how he came to MON develop the software. MON MON Catherine also looks at the creative use of pitch correction MON software - starting with the iconic use of the effect in MON Cher's 1998 single Believe, where extreme use of the effect MON creates a robotic vocal style used later by Kanye West and MON Channy Leaneagh singer with from the band Poliça. She visits MON composer and producer Steve Pycroft in his studio to see how MON the effect can be used on her vocals on a specially-arranged MON piece of Baroque music. MON MON And the negative side of pitch correction is also explored - MON is it encouraging singers to be lazy, knowing that any MON tuning errors can always be 'fixed in the mix'? MON MON With contributions from studio engineers Tom Bailey and Olga MON Fitzroy, music critics Tom Ewing and Neil McKenzie, and MON Channy Leaneagh of Poliça. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01shwks (Listen) MON Fire in Religion 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 In Edinburgh a modern festival has grown up around the MON ancient pagan festival of Beltane, traditionally marked on MON May 1st, where fires are lit. But does fire have both MON negative and positive connotations across all religions? Is MON it always viewed as potentially transforming as well as MON destructive? MON In today's programme, Ernie Rea is joined by Alan Williams, MON Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion at the MON University of Manchester; Ronald Hutton, Professor of MON History at Bristol University and Canon Loveday Alexander, MON Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of MON Sheffield, to discuss the role of fire within religion and MON its symbolism today. MON MON 17:00 PM b01shwkv (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01shpgf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01shwkx (Listen) MON Series 66, Episode 1 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the linguistically challenging panel MON game, with panellists Paul Merton, Pam Ayres, Kevin Eldon MON and Graham Norton. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01shwkz (Listen) MON Matt isn't convinced, and Alistair is there in a crisis. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01shwl1 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reviews Robert De Niro and Diane MON Keaton in the film comedy The Big Wedding. MON MON Producer Penny Murphy. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01shw0m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Safari Surgery b01shwl3 (Listen) MON The demand for cosmetic surgery is spreading to Africa and MON is no longer just the preserve of the rich and famous. From MON Cape Town to Cairo, there's a growing appetite for plastic MON surgery. MON MON South Africa is already one of the world's top destinations MON for those in search of a cheap tummy tuck, breast MON enhancement or facelift, with perhaps a safari on the side. MON MON Up until now, most patients have come from the US and MON Europe, but this situation is changing fast as increasing MON numbers of patients from within the continent travel to MON South Africa for treatment. And there are clinics opening up MON in other African countries too, including Nigeria and Kenya. MON MON Ayisha Yahya meets doctors and patients, hears about the MON procedures demanded and explores the dilemmas of offering MON such surgery in countries where many still have little or no MON access to basic health care. MON MON And what does it tell us about changing perceptions of MON beauty in Africa today? MON MON Producer: Ruth Evans MON A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01sdnkq (Listen) MON Romario Tackles Brazil MON MON Brazil is getting ready to host the 2014 World Cup. But the MON preparations have become marred in controversy. And leading MON the charge against over-budget stadiums, vested interests MON and corruption is an unlikely figure: Romario. Brazil's MON World Cup-winning footballer has transformed himself into a MON serious, hard-working politician. Tim Franks meets him for MON Crossing Continents. Is this a genuine transformation for MON one of Brazil's most notorious celebrity bad-boys? MON Producer: Linda Pressly. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01sdrh1 (Listen) MON Quantum computer; Ancient water; Stem cells; Dambusters MON MON One of the world's most powerful, commercially available, MON "quantum" computers is to be installed at NASA's Ames MON research centre. It will be shared between Google, NASA, and MON researchers via the Universities Space Research Agency, MON providing access to a machine which is up to 3600 times MON faster than a conventional computer. Dr Geordie Rose, Chief MON Technical officer at D-Wave Systems, the comparny who MON developed this computer, and Professor Alan Woodward, from MON the Department of Computing at Surrey University are on the MON show. MON MON Scientists have discovered the oldest fluid water system in MON the world, buried deep beneath Ontario, Canada. The waters MON have been isolated for at least 1.5 billion years and if MON microbial life is found, it could suggest that buried biomes MON might exist deep beneath the surface of Mars. Professor MON Chris Ballentine from the University of Manchester, head of MON the research project, tells us more. MON MON Embryonic Stem Cells are cells with the unique capability of MON being able to develop into any kind of cell in the human MON body. Now a technique known as somatic cell nuclear MON transfer, which involves transferring the nucleus of a donor MON cell into that of a female egg cell, has been successfully MON applied to humans cells. Dr Paul De Sousa, a stem cell MON researcher from the University of Edinburgh, explains why MON these findings are important both to the scientific world MON and the world of healthcare. MON MON To mark the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters mission, MON Material World is taking a look at some of the spectacular, MON yet largely unknown engineering achievements of World War MON II. Beyond bouncing bombs were the lesser known military MON operations like PLUTO, Mulberry Harbour and Tern Island. Dr MON Colin Brown, Engineering Director at the Institution of MON Mechanical Engineers tells us more. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01shw0f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01shpgh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01shwl5 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01shwl7 (Listen) MON A Delicate Truth, A Bitter Pill 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: A Bitter Pill - Kit learns the truth about the MON night on the Rock. 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 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 b01sdg46 (Listen) MON English and German MON MON At the Brighton Festival, Michael Rosen explores our MON linguistic links with Germany. Michael and his guests MON discuss our shared Anglo Saxon heritage, cultural influences MON from the Romantics to the Weimar Republic, and how the two MON languages relate to each other in the modern era. And we MON hear from other writers and artists having fun with words on MON stage in Brighton - oratory and story-telling are strong MON themes at this month-long festival. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01shwl9 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 MAY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01shphg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01shw0h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01shphj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01shphl (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01shphn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01shphq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01xqg1r (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd TUE Mary Stallard. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01sj1sk (Listen) TUE Anna Hill presents the latest news about food, farming and TUE the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyhp (Listen) TUE Greenfinch 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 Greenfinch. Often seen singing TUE from the tops of garden trees looking large for a finch with TUE a heavy bill, these are sadly a declining garden bird. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01sj1sm (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 b01sj1sp (Listen) TUE John Krebs TUE TUE Lord John Krebs left academia to run the Food Standards TUE Agency. He tells Jim Al-Khalili about life in the public TUE sphere and dealing with foot and mouth disease, and badgers TUE and TB. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01sj1sr (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah talks to Dr Michael Irwin TUE TUE In the third of her interviews on the concept of TUE renunciation, Ritula Shah talks to Dr Michael Irwin about TUE the idea of renouncing life in old age or when faced with a TUE terminal illness. Dr Irwin is a retired GP who campaigns for TUE voluntary euthanasia and has accompanied people to the Swiss TUE clinic Dignitas when they have chosen to end their lives. He TUE talks to Ritula about his belief that people should have a TUE choice as to when and how to die and about his thoughts on TUE the end of his own life. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01sjsys (Listen) TUE Falling Upwards, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 5): TUE What earthly use is a balloon? Early scientists struggled to TUE grasp the opportunities offered by flight but, in turbulent TUE times, the military were quick to make the most of aerial TUE reconnaissance. TUE TUE Read by Rory Kinnear TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sj1st (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sj1sw (Listen) TUE Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Teaching the Cat to Yawn TUE TUE By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz TUE TUE Episode Two - Teaching the Cat to Yawn TUE Young Cody's jealousy of his placid younger brother Ezra TUE accelerates. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE 11:00 The Truth and Nothing but the Truth b01sj1sy (Listen) TUE Dr Geoff Bunn discovers that Dick Tracy and Wonder Woman TUE both have starring roles in the history of lie detection. TUE The culture of the comic book influenced the cultural TUE perception of science then, and now colourful brain images TUE from fMRI scans direct the public's view of what science can TUE achieve. But does seeing parts of the brain light up when a TUE subject lies provide any more concrete proof of what is true TUE and what is not than did measuring heart and sweat rate in TUE the traditional polygraph? TUE TUE Dr Geoff Bunn investigates the latest lie detecting TUE technology with the help of Steven Rose, Emeritus Professor TUE of Neuroscience at the Open University and Geraint Rees, TUE Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. He TUE discovers that the early history of the lie detector TUE features a psychologist, William Marston, who went on to TUE create the comic book character Wonder Woman, and an amateur TUE magician, Leonarde Keeler, who was an inspiration for the TUE comic strip hero, Dick Tracy. TUE He explores the history of the American obsession with lie TUE detection, aided by Ken Alder, Professor of History at North TUE Western University and Garyn Roberts, biographer of Chester TUE Gould, who created Dick Tracy. He investigates Wonder Woman TUE at the Travelling Man comic book shop in Manchester with the TUE help of Dr Joan Ormrod, co-editor of the Journal of Graphic TUE Novels and Comics. And he hears from Bruce Burgess, founder TUE of Polygraphs UK, who uses his company's services. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 11:30 The Science of Music b01sj1t0 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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 this edition, Professor Winston explores the logic, TUE engineering and physics underlying the musical sounds we TUE hear. Why do some notes sound good together? And are we TUE really simply seeking patterns when we listen to music? TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01sj1t2 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01shphs (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01sj1t4 (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 Mother Tongue Interference b01skh6g (Listen) TUE Zinovy Zinik TUE TUE Five short autobiographies in two languages. 2. Russian TUE novelist Zinovy Zinik came from Moscow to London via TUE Jerusalem in 1976. He worked for the BBC World Service and TUE speaks brilliant if cranky English. As he left, the TUE authorities in the Soviet Union took his passport with its TUE hammer and sickle on the cover and cut it in two with a pair TUE of scissors. He was henceforth blacklisted and unable to TUE return to his homeland for fifteen years. Yet throughout TUE that emigration, and ever since, Russian has remained his TUE language. He reflects on his mother tongue and his TUE fatherland and the solace Sidney Bechet's clarinet playing TUE offered a young boy in 1950s red Moscow. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01shwkz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b018g6x1 (Listen) TUE A Tale of Two Cities, The Old Order TUE TUE Dramatised by Mike Walker TUE Episode 2/5: The Old Order TUE TUE Lucie Manette is a witness at Charles Darnay's trial for TUE treason at the Old Bailey, where his defence team includes TUE the dissolute Sydney Carton. Meanwhile, an incident in a TUE Paris street stirs revolutionary fervour. TUE TUE With Christopher Webster TUE Music by Lennert Busch TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Adaptor: Mike Walker TUE Charles Dickens: Robert Lindsay TUE Jarvis Lorry: Jonathan Coy TUE Lucie Manette: Lydia Wilson TUE Dr Alexandre Manette: Karl Johnson TUE Charles Darnay: Andrew Scott TUE Sydney Carton: Paul Ready TUE Ernest Defarge: James Lailey TUE Therese Defarge: Tracy Wiles TUE Marquis St Evremonde: Clive Merrison TUE Stryver: Simon Bubb TUE Barsad: Gerard McDermott TUE Jerry Cruncher: Carl Prekopp TUE Mrs Cruncher: Adjoa Andoh TUE Natty Cruncher: Daniel Cooper TUE Gabelle: Adam Billington TUE Attorney General: Paul Moriarty TUE Actor: Christopher Webster TUE Composer: Lennert Busch TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Director: Jeremy Mortimer TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01sj1t6 (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01sj1t8 (Listen) TUE Tom Heap investigates the latest developments in GM TUE technology. TUE TUE He visits the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute for TUE the latest on precision genome engineering in animals and TUE discovers the story behind "Pig 26", the first TUE genetically-modified pig. TUE TUE One of the main aims of the latest genome technology is to TUE produce disease-resistant animals, but will GM technology TUE ever be accepted by the public in the UK? TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 It's My Story b01sj1tb (Listen) TUE The Prisoner Released TUE TUE Three years after he was sent to prison, PJ is about to be TUE released. But getting out can be more daunting than going TUE in. In prison there's food, warmth, shelter; there's TUE healthcare, education and work; there's discipline, TUE structure and routine. TUE TUE This is PJ's first prison sentence. He came in aged 18 with TUE a street robbery conviction related to his gambling TUE addiction. He's been counting down the days but is concerned TUE he has become institutionalised. As the big moment TUE approaches, his emotions turn from excitement to TUE trepidation. TUE TUE In this first person account, PJ speaks openly and honestly TUE about his fears of what's to come. He's worried about TUE finding somewhere to live and getting in to work. But there TUE are other issues he will have to face - re-establishing his TUE relationship with his family, the temptation to commit crime TUE and walking past the bookmakers he believes resulted in him TUE going to prison in the first place. TUE TUE With rare access inside prison, we accompany PJ during his TUE last few days inside, the final night in his cell and his TUE walk through the prison gates and into the uncertainty of TUE freedom. We then follow him during the days, weeks and TUE months after prison as he attempts to re-establish himself TUE in society. We hear his first meeting with his probation TUE officer, his struggle to find a place to live and his TUE efforts to find work. We also discover whether he'll return TUE to his gambling habit and find out how he reacts when TUE presented with the opportunity to commit crime. TUE TUE Produced by Chris Impey TUE A PRA production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01sj1td (Listen) TUE Series 30, Primo Levi TUE TUE Edmund de Waal chooses a writer he believes is one of the TUE greatest of the modern age - Primo Levi, author of the TUE Periodic Table. Born in 1919 in Turin, Levi was an Italian TUE Jew, one of the few deported to Auschwitz who would escape TUE alive. TUE TUE Primo Levi's account of his time in the camp, If This Is a TUE Man, made him one of the first writers to document the TUE Holocaust and it established his name around the world. But TUE Levi was not just a writer. He was a chemist, which gave him TUE the skills that helped save his life in Auschwitz. It was TUE also a day job he never gave up, and his passion for science TUE remained a life-long pursuit. TUE TUE After the War, Levi returned to Turin, married, had a family TUE and wrote books in his spare time. He also became an TUE enthusiastic letter-writer, corresponding with a new TUE generation of Germans, to help them better understand the TUE effects of the Nazi regime. Yet from his youth, Levi TUE suffered from depression. In 1987 he took his own life, TUE throwing himself down the stairwell in the house where he'd TUE been born. TUE TUE Ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal joins Matthew Parris to TUE discuss how Levi's work inspired The Hare With Amber Eyes - TUE his own memoir of his family's history as Jews in 19th and TUE 20th century Europe. And biographer Ian Thomson, one of the TUE last to interview Levi, explains why we shouldn't confuse TUE Levi the writer with Levi the man. TUE TUE Producer: Lizz Pearson. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01sj1tg (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01shphv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01s259m (Listen) TUE Bob and Marie 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 fourth and final episode, Isy returns to Matlock to TUE take driving lessons from instructor Bob, who she learns has TUE a crush on another pupil, the mysterious Marie. While Isy TUE tries to master an impeccable 3 point turn, she attempts to TUE unite Bob with the girl of his dreams and discovers some TUE important lessons in love of her own. 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 Producer: Lianne Coop TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01sj1tj (Listen) TUE Nic has a good idea, and Glen Whitehouse has an answer for TUE everything. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01sj1tl (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the TUE best-selling writer Dan Brown, whose new novel Inferno is TUE inspired by Dante. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sj1sw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01sj1tn (Listen) TUE In the first of a new series, File on 4 asks whether recent TUE stark warnings about the threat posed by growing resistance TUE to antibiotics have come too late. TUE The Chief Medical Officer of England, Professor Dame Sally TUE Davies, has painted an apocalyptic picture where routine TUE operations could become deadly in just 20 years if we lose TUE the ability to fight infection. TUE But the programme discovers growing concern among doctors TUE that bugs found in our hospitals have already developed the TUE ability to withstand drugs which are effectively the last TUE line of defence. TUE Has the Government drive to eradicate MRSA and C-Difficile TUE left the back door open for more challenging strains of TUE superbug to take hold? Does the health service know why TUE numbers of healthcare infections of E. Coli are rising? And TUE where are the new medicines to tackle the resistant strains? TUE The programme hears there's little incentive for drug TUE companies to produce new antibiotics because they won't be TUE able to make enough money. TUE Allan Urry meets the medics on the front line in the battle TUE to stop infection killing patients. Can the NHS win the war TUE against the microbes? TUE TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01sj1tq (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01sj1ts (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01sj1sp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01shphx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01sj1tv (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sj1tx (Listen) TUE A Delicate Truth, A Good Man Lost TUE TUE Tonight: A Good Man Lost - Where on earth is Jeb? 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 b01sj1tz (Listen) TUE Grazing TUE TUE Comedy by Sophie Woolley. TUE TUE Both Rod and Nadia need to revolutionise their lives. He's TUE job-less and she's in love limbo. Health guru Leone promises TUE to transform them from the inside out with a drastic diet. TUE But she might just turn their lives upside down instead. TUE TUE Leone ..... Sally Phillips TUE Nadia ..... Lucinda Raikes TUE Rod ..... Ben Crowe TUE TUE Director ..... Helen Perry TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01sj1v1 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 MAY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01shpjr (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01sjsys (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01shpjt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01shpjw (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01shpjy (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01shpk0 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01xqg9b (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd WED Mary Stallard. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01sj1wj (Listen) WED Anna Hill presents the latest news about food, farming and WED the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyj8 (Listen) WED Tawny Owl 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 young Tawny Owls. Most of us know the WED "hoot" and "too-wit" of Tawny Owls but might be puzzled if WED we heard wheezing in the woods, the sound of the young. WED WED 06:00 Today b01sj1wl (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 b01sj1wn (Listen) WED Libby Purves meets actor and comedian Hugh Dennis. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01sk9yl (Listen) WED Falling Upwards, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Rory Kinnear WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sj1wq (Listen) 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 b01sj1ws (Listen) WED Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Destroyed by Love WED WED By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz WED WED Episode Three - Destroyed by Love WED WED With Cody at College and Ezra drafted, Jenny is left to deal WED with the unpredictable Pearl and Ezra's friend Josiah... but WED an unlikely romance is in the air. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b01sj1wv (Listen) WED Series 3, A Tale from the Bush WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook & Skype, hearing WED the real life dramas of random strangers. WED He never knows who he will be speaking to next or what WED secrets they will reveal. WED WED Today, he hears a moving story of widowhood from 60 year old WED Jennie in the Australian Bush. The line is so bad that Alan WED decides to send her a digital recorder so that she can WED record herself in quality. What emerges is a bittersweet and WED intensely personal story but one which also touches on key WED events in Australia in the post-1945 era, including the WED Vietnam War and the catastrophic Darwin Cyclone. WED WED She also uses the recorder to capture some of the abundant WED bird life in her remote and rural part of Queensland. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 House on Fire b01sjhdg (Listen) WED Series 3, Marriage WED WED A new series with Matt and Vicky, the two flatmates who love WED to hate to love each other - with the usual mixture of WED somewhat hapless situations brought about by their inability WED to live in the real world, or indeed with each other. WED WED They are aided and abused as ever by their less than loving WED parents, who can always be relied upon to wash their hands WED of any responsibility. WED WED Vicky...................................Emma Pierson WED Matt....................................Jody Latham WED Peter...................................Philip Jackson WED Julie.....................................Janine Duvitski WED Colonel Bill...........................Rupert Vansittart WED Registrar..............................Jane Slavin WED Other parts played by Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult. WED WED Written by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01sjhdj (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01sjhdl (Listen) WED The UK Boomtown: North Sea industry suffers staff shortages WED WED At a time when the UK government is supporting billions of WED pounds worth of investment in the oil and gas industry to WED help economic recovery and secure thousands of jobs, John WED Waite asks how the 'threat' of the skills shortage can be WED overcome. The industry is being promoted as a vital WED strategic resource that helps fulfil our energy needs and WED insulates the UK from volatile global markets. However, WED filling the skills gap is widely considered to be one of the WED biggest challenges the industry faces. John hears how high WED levels of activity, global competition and the misconception WED of UK oil and gas being a 'sunset industry', is leading to WED talent overlooking a career in the sector. How a shortage of WED skilled labour drives up costs and impacts on project WED schedules, and leads to wider concerns over reliability of WED supply and, therefore, higher prices. He investigates why WED successive governments and the industry, despite foreseeing WED this problem, have so far failed to implement adequate WED policies and measures to tackle it, and asks what is now WED being done to develop sufficient levels of manpower. WED Business Secretary Vince Cable and a representative of the WED industry respond. WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki WED Editor:Andrew Smith. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01shpk2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01sjhdn (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 Mother Tongue Interference b01skzjf (Listen) WED Evelyn Arizpe WED WED Five short autobiographies in two languages. 3. Mexican WED scholar of children's literature, Evelyn Arizpe, lives and WED works in Glasgow and brought up two children there - half in WED Spanish and half in English. She reflects on her own WED journeys into English and on the way (and the language) in WED which children learn and think and imagine. And she listens WED to some old songs from her mother country. Producer: Tim WED Dee. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01sj1tj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sjhdq (Listen) WED Outline Permission WED WED Dublin, 2005, the height of the property boom. Alice and WED Frank long to move from their city terrace to a bungalow by WED the sea but with house prices constantly escalating how are WED they ever going to compete in the bidding wars? The solution WED comes from their neighbour, a property developer, who WED proposes a lucrative business opportunity. Is this WED proposition just too good an opportunity to turn down? With WED Dublin's property market soaring to dizzy heights, what WED could they possibly lose? WED WED Written by Dermot Bolger WED WED Produced & Directed by Gemma McMullan. WED WED Credits WED Frank: Dermot Crowley WED Alice: Dearbhla Molloy WED Ronan: Darragh Kelly WED Kim: Dawn Bradfield WED Susan: Seainin Brennan WED Auctioneer: Sinead Ingoldsby WED Reporter: Austin O'Callaghan WED Writer: Dermot Bolger WED Director: Gemma McMullan WED Producer: Gemma McMullan WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01sjhds (Listen) WED Equity Release WED WED Thinking about Equity Release to help with retirement? To WED find out how it works, what it costs and to ask about the WED pros and cons, call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Debt charity StepChange say that a growing number of older WED people are struggling financially. The number of people aged WED 60 or over contacting StepChange to ask for help has risen WED by 36% since 2009. WED WED Rising living costs and extremely low savings rates may be WED putting pressure on your monthly budget. Releasing money WED from the value of your home could help but is Equity Release WED really suitable? WED WED Are there other ways to raise money and would you be better WED off moving to a smaller property? WED WED Will Equity Release affect your existing benefits or tax WED position? WED WED How much will you have to pay in legal and administrative WED fees? WED WED What interest rate is applied? WED WED Or perhaps you've been attracted by a cashback advert? WED WED Who can give advice and what qualifications should they WED have? WED WED Whatever your question, call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED To answer your questions presenter Vincent Duggleby will be WED joined by: WED WED Nigel Waterson, Chairman, Equity Release Council WED WED Vanessa Owen, Head of Equity Release, LV WED WED Tom Moloney, Financial Advice Manager, StepChange Debt WED Charity WED WED Phone lines are open between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard WED geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01sj1ts (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01sjhht (Listen) WED Live music - from Dance Hall to the 100 Club. WED WED The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long WED been the subject of nostalgic articles and programmes, but WED to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The writer WED and Professor of Music, Simon Frith, is one of the WED co-authors of the first in a three volume series which WED addresses this gap. He talks to Laurie Taylor about how the WED organisation and enjoyment of live music changed between WED 1950 and 1967 offering new insights into the evolving nature WED of musical fashions; the impact of developing technologies WED and the balance of power between live and recorded music WED businesses. The first volume draws on archival research, a WED wide range of academic and non-academic sources, participant WED observation and industry interviews. WED Dr Catherine Tackley, musician and lecturer, and Casper WED Melville, lecturer in Global Cultural Industries, join the WED debate. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01sjhhw (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 b01sjhhy (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01shpk4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Down the Line b01sjhj0 (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 4 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 19:00 The Archers b01sjj7v (Listen) WED Helen takes it on the chin, and Ruth has a giggle. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01sjj7x (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on Michael Landy's new kinetic WED sculptures of saints, made from recycled junk, and on show WED at the National Gallery, London. WED WED Producer Stephen Hughes. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sj1ws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01sjj7z (Listen) WED In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and senior WED lawyers, judges and other legal experts explore the chaotic WED state of the law affecting unmarried cohabiting couples and WED expose the 'myth' of common law marriage. WED WED With a rising trend in cohabitation and an increase in the WED number of adults and children left in poverty after WED relationship breakdowns, many people are calling for reform WED of the law. They argue that the law affecting unmarried WED cohabiting couples is full of internal contradictions and WED arbitrary distinctions. WED WED There are over four million co-habiting couples in England WED and Wales. Research suggests that most of them think the WED law, broadly speaking, affords them the same protection as WED married couples. It would seem they could not be more wrong. WED WED In January of this year, Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice WED Toulson said a woman who lost her home and business when she WED split from her partner of more than three decades was a WED victim of sexist property laws. WED WED This programme debates the wide gap between the way the law WED treats those who are married and those living together, and WED examines conflicting arguments about the need for reform. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01sjj81 (Listen) WED Series 4, Henry Stewart: Choose Your Boss WED WED Henry Stewart argues that bad management blights the working WED lives of millions of people, and that the solution is to let WED everyone choose their own bosses. 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 b01sj1t8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01sj1wn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01shpk6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01sjj83 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sjj85 (Listen) WED A Delicate Truth, Necessary Precautions WED WED Tonight: Necessary Precautions - as Toby puts together his WED case, he knows he is increasingly at risk. 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 b01sjj87 (Listen) WED Series 2, About Poorly Relatives WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED About Poorly Relatives WED WED Nathan Caton is unsympathetic when his parents are poorly as WED he has an important gig and needs to be on his A game. But WED he agrees not to tell Grandma that they're poorly as she WED doesn't believe in poorly. WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED REVEREND WILLIAMS ..... DON GILÉT 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 b0093zb2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 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, David Quantick WED and Andrew Crawford. WED WED Producer: Julian Mayers WED A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01sjj89 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 MAY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01shpl3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01sk9yl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01shpl5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01shpl7 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01shpl9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01shplc (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01xqgc5 (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd THU Mary Stallard. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01sjjxg (Listen) THU Charlotte Smith presents the latest news about food, farming THU and the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbywp (Listen) THU Garganey 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 Garganey. When you hear the male's THU peculiar call, you could be forgiven for thinking that the THU Garganey is a grasshopper rather than a duck. One of its THU other names is 'cricket teal' and the dry rattle is unlike THU any other British bird sound you'll hear. THU THU 06:00 Today b01sjjxj (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01sjjxl (Listen) THU Levi-Strauss THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the THU anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. One of twentieth-century THU France's most celebrated intellectuals, Lévi-Strauss THU attempted to show in his work that thought processes were a THU feature universal to humans, whether they lived in tribal THU rainforest societies or in the rich intellectual life of THU Paris. He was the leading exponent of structuralism, a THU school of thought which was influential for decades. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01skb21 (Listen) THU Falling Upwards, Episode 4 THU THU Episode 4 (of 5): THU Crowd-pleasing entertainments and spectacular displays grew THU in popularity, with increasing numbers of young women THU performing aerial stunts from balloons. THU THU Read by Rory Kinnear THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sjjxq (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Editor: Robyn Read THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sjjxs (Listen) THU Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Heart Rumours THU THU By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz THU THU Episode Four - Heart Rumours THU THU Ezra has plans to modernise Scarlatti's Restaurant. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01sjjxv (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell their stories and THU examine news developments in their region. Presented by Kate THU Adie. THU THU 11:30 David Vaughan: The Artist Who Fell from Grace THU b01sjjxx (Listen) THU Manchester-born pop artist David Vaughan was a 60s success THU story who got to the very top and then lost everything. Ten THU years after his death, this programme takes a new angle on THU an iconic decade and its trendy art and pop scenes, THU encapsulated in the tragic, but frequently funny and THU inspiring story of one man. THU David Vaughan was in his 20s and had just left the Slade THU School of Art when he co-founded the BEV Group (Binder, THU Edwards and Vaughan) with two friends from Manchester, in THU the early 60s. Their psychedelic furniture, cars, fabrics, THU wall murals, and posters all commanded an elite list of THU customers, including Eric Clapton, Princess Margaret and THU Henry Moore. Vaughan was so successful he went to America to THU customise jet aircraft for Pan Am. Briefly, he also ran the THU Roundhouse in London, and booked Jimi Hendrix for one of his THU early UK gigs. THU But David fell - literally - from grace, victim of a mental THU collapse that started after he tumbled 30 feet from a cradle THU while painting a wall mural on Carnaby Street, injuring his THU head. A friend's response to this was to give him a large THU dose of LSD, from which he never seemed to recover. He quit THU London and returned north. THU But he continued making art, including many more murals, THU painting impressive examples in shops like Barretts music THU store in Manchester, and the Childrens' Ward at Tameside THU Hospital. These may have been bright and popular, but THU Vaughan's personal style had become darker, earning him the THU label "modern Goya" for his paintings of victims of the THU Vietnam War. He became, disastrously, a friend and patient THU of the anti-psychiatrist, R.D. Laing, who at the time was THU possibly in an even worse state, due to alcoholism, than THU Vaughan himself. Despite his continuing artistic output, THU however, Vaughan's life was deteriorating slowly, and after THU moving to Ibiza, splitting with his family, remarrying, and THU then moving back to Manchester, he eventually died in 2003. THU This programme looks back at his life and times, with the THU aid of newly discovered deathbed interviews of broadcast THU quality recorded by Vaughan's friend, musician and soundman THU David Lunt. Also contributing is Vaughan's daughter, Sadie THU Frost, talking for instance about her wedding to Gary Kemp THU in 1988, to which she didn't invite her dad - because THU earlier, he had invaded the stage at a Spandau Ballet gig at THU Manchester Apollo, and "looked like a tramp". THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01sjjxz (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01shplf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01sjjy1 (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 Mother Tongue Interference b01skzhz (Listen) THU Maria Mertzani THU THU Five short autobiographies in two languages. 4. Maria THU Mertzani moved from Greece to study sign language in the UK. THU The ways different sign languages vary from language to THU language has much to say about how the world speaks. In THU Bristol now Maria still signs in Greek but also in British THU sign language. She also teaches spoken Greek to the Greek THU children of immigrant families and also to British adults in THU the UK. She reflects on the routes into and out of language THU and her own experiences along the way. Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01sjj7v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sjjy3 (Listen) THU The Emperor's Babe THU THU A sparkling mash-up of culture and history, set in Roman THU London. THU THU Zuleika, a stunningly beautiful girl of Sudanese heritage, THU is neglected by her parents and left till now to run wild in THU the city's streets. THU THU Bernadine Evaristo's strikingly original and evocative story THU of Zuleika's short but colourful life is dramatised by THU Jonathan Holloway. Starring Michelle Asante (fresh from lead THU role in 'Feast' at the Young Vic) as Zuleika and THU Olivier-nominated Paul Chahidi as her husband Felix. THU THU In 2013, Zuleika would be scouted to model for Prada or THU Burberry. In AD 211, Zuleika's prospects are much more THU brutal. THU THU Dramatised from Bernadine Evaristo's novel by Jonathan THU Holloway. THU THU 'London Calling' arranged and performed by Cousin Dim, THU featuring vocals by Holly Hockaday. THU THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU Credits THU Zuleika: Michelle Asante THU Felix: Paul Chahidi THU Alba: Alex Tregear THU Valeria: Hannah Wood THU Tranio: Rick Warden THU Severus: Terence Anderson THU Director: Mary Ward-Lowery THU Adaptor: Jonathan Holloway THU Writer: Bernadine Evaristo THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01sjjy5 (Listen) THU Series 24, Chilterns American Women's Club hiking group THU THU In this new series of Ramblings, Clare Balding will be THU walking in search of new places, new people and new THU experiences. In this first programme she joins the Chilterns THU American Women's Club hiking group, who walk in search of THU learning more about their new home and meeting other ex-pat THU spouses. The club offers a range of activities for THU ex-American and International women who find themselves THU living in Britain but the walking group is one of the most THU popular allowing them to discover and explore their adopted THU home. THU Later in the series Clare talks to people who walk in search THU of a new partner, to discover more about the environment and THU she walks with the celebrated author Robert MacFarlane who THU walks to discover the old routes. Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01shstc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01shsty (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01sjjy7 (Listen) THU Cannes Festival hits and misses; British director Clio THU Barnard THU THU Francine Stock on the hits, misses and surprises of the THU Cannes Film Festival with Geoff Andrew of the BFI and Robbie THU Collin, film critic at the Daily Telegraph. Plus the British THU hope at Cannes, director Clio Barnard on her film The THU Selfish Giant, a contemporary urban fable following two THU young boys who collect scrap on a horse and cart. THU Producer: Elaine Lester. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU Interviewed Guest: Clio Barnard THU THU 16:30 Material World b01sjjy9 (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 b01sjjyc (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01shplh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Heresy b01sjjyf (Listen) THU Series 9, Episode 2 THU THU Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show THU which dares to commit heresy. THU THU Her guests this week are comedians David Mitchell and Alex THU Horne, and writer and broadcaster Germaine Greer. Together THU they have fun exposing the wrong-headedness of received THU wisdom and challenging knee-jerk public reaction to events. THU THU Topics up for discussion are videogames, outer space and THU horse lasagne. THU THU Produced by Victoria Coren Mitchell and Daisy Knight THU An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01sjjyh (Listen) THU Lynda tries to bite her tongue, and Elona makes a decision. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01sjk6j (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including Cultural Exchange: violinist THU Nigel Kennedy selects Black and Blue, by Louis Armstrong. THU THU Producer Penny Murphy. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sjjxs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01sjk6l (Listen) THU Investigating Historic Abuse THU THU The Jimmy Savile scandal has prompted a wave of new THU investigations into alleged sexual abuse of children and THU young people, some of it dating back decades. But can the THU police and the criminal justice system deliver on their THU promise to put offenders behind bars? In The Report, Melanie THU Abbott investigates whether there really have been THU improvements in getting justice for both victims and the THU accused in these complex cases. What results can the public THU expect from the millions of pounds being spent on Operation THU Yewtree and the new investigation into abuse at North Wales THU care homes? Those who have suffered false accusations, and THU those who have gone through the heartache of failed attempts THU to prosecute their attackers reveal the human reality behind THU police and legal actions. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01sjk6n (Listen) THU Vorsprung durch Technik or Universitat? THU THU Influential experts are worried that the German economic THU powerhouse is running out of steam. Where is German THU innovation, they ask? Why do so few German universities rank THU among the world leaders? Peter Day reports from Munich. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 The Truth and Nothing but the Truth b01sj1sy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01sjjxl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01shplk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01sjk6q (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sjk6s (Listen) THU A Delicate Truth, Falling on Deaf Ears THU THU Tonight: Falling on Deaf Ears - Kit and Toby find their THU efforts to expose the truth rebuffed. 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 b01sjk6v (Listen) THU Series 2, Nights of Passage THU THU Tonight, Jarvis Cocker's award winning nocturnal exploration THU of the human condition takes to the sea. Join him on the THU midnight sailing of a Channel ferry as he contemplates night THU crossings mythic and modern. THU THU As he moves across dark waters he hears the miraculous story THU of Jeni, a castaway lost and found in the North Sea whose THU epic struggle took place at night. He meets Sean, a young THU wrestler who slips through the ropes of the ring for his THU first fight night and embarks on his own right of passage. THU Also on board, a wise old man of the sea, Swilly Billy, THU keeps Jarvis on course. THU THU Charon, the ferryman of dead souls across the ancient River THU Styx makes an appearance but, fear not, sea sickness tablets THU are available the lights of Calais are not far off. THU THU Produced by Neil McCarthy. THU THU 23:30 The Magic Theatre of Hermann Hesse b01m0lgl (Listen) THU Hermann Hesse is the biggest-selling author in the German THU language - responsible for Steppenwolf, a 'bible' for the THU '68 generation; Siddhartha, which influenced aspects of the THU New Age movement; and The Glass Bead Game, which is now THU inspiring game designers. THU THU In this programme, the reasons for the durability of his THU iconic status are examined by those for whom his appeal has THU survived beyond a youthful fixation. THU THU Peter Owen is the publisher who first introduced Hesse's THU work to Britain in the 1950s. John Wilson is a Professor of THU mathematics at Oxford University and keen musician who has THU attempted to interpret the rules of Hesse's Nobel THU Prize-winning Glass Bead Game. Eric Zimmerman is a New THU York-based games designer who found inspiration in Hesse's THU writing for a game that evaluates cultural aesthetics. THU Johnny Flynn is a singer-songwriter who fell under the spell THU of Hesse's fascination with eastern mysticism. Susanne THU Voelker runs the Hesse museum in south-west Germany and THU believes the author's influence is felt by readers of all THU generations and demographics who are making life decisions. THU THU The Magic Theatre of Hermann Hesse weaves together their THU testimonies with readings from Hesse's work and music from THU both his own time and from ours. THU THU Produced by Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 MAY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01shpmd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01skb21 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01shpmg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01shpmj (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01shpml (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01shpmn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01xqgcy (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd FRI Mary Stallard. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01sjn51 (Listen) FRI Charlotte Smith presents the latest news about food, farming FRI and the countryside. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyxy (Listen) FRI Redshank 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 Redshank. Redshanks are one of our FRI commonest wading birds at home in freshwater marshes and on FRI estuaries where you can easily recognise them from their FRI combination of long scarlet legs, white rumps and wing-bars FRI and greyish brown bodies. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01sjn53 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01shstm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01skbc2 (Listen) FRI Falling Upwards, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 5): FRI Perhaps the most daring and ambitious of all the balloon FRI adventurers was the Swede, Salomon Andrée, and his efforts FRI to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. FRI FRI Read by Rory Kinnear FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sjn55 (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 b01sjn57 (Listen) FRI Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Country Cook FRI FRI By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz FRI FRI Episode Five - The Country Cook FRI FRI Cody's obsession with his brother Ezra's fiancee, country FRI girl Ruth, becomes a determined campaign. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 The Outsourced b01pzqpv (Listen) FRI Chris Mullin looks at the impact of outsourcing on the FRI workforce. FRI FRI For many years government and local authorities have been FRI putting services out to tender, and now, with the drive to FRI cut costs in the public sector, Britain is said to be in the FRI biggest wave of outsourcing since the 1980s. FRI FRI The outsourced sector is estimated to employ around one FRI tenth of the workforce. Some outsourced jobs are in FRI relatively low wage, low skilled areas. Critics say it leads FRI to a two-tier workforce and a race to the bottom, with FRI damaging effects on pay and conditions. Those putting FRI services out to tender and the outsourcing companies cite FRI greater efficiencies and substantial savings for the FRI taxpayer. Whatever the wider pros and cons, many workers now FRI find themselves in outsourced companies. FRI FRI In this programme Chris Mullin talks to cleaners, care FRI workers, parking wardens, refuse workers about working in FRI the outsourced sector and finds out what outsourcing has FRI meant for them. He also speaks to outsourcing companies, FRI unions and politicians. FRI FRI (This programme was first broadcast in January 2013) FRI FRI Producer: Jane Ashley. FRI FRI 11:30 Party b01n6rsf (Listen) FRI Series 3, Radio 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. For the last episode in the series the group get a FRI crucial radio interview ahead of the upcoming by election. FRI 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 Alison the radio producer .... Rachel Stubbings FRI Radio Interviewer .... Peter Curran FRI Drama interviewee ...Jot Davies FRI FRI Producer .... Julia McKenzie. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01sjn59 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01sjn5c (Listen) FRI Gilly and Jane - The Head and The Tale FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between the hind quarters FRI and the front end of the camel which features annually in a FRI Devon village panto, in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01shpmq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01sjn5f (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 Mother Tongue Interference b01skzj5 (Listen) FRI Kailash Chand FRI FRI Five short autobiographies in two languages. 5. Kailash FRI Chand is an Indian doctor in Stalybridge, he grew up FRI speaking Punjabi but worked as a GP for his whole career in FRI the UK. He came to Britain in the 1970s and was beaten up in FRI a racist attack not long after he arrived. Despite this FRI welcome, he stayed, built up his own successful practice, FRI and has recently retired to become the deputy chair of the FRI BMA. He remembers his years in the NHS and the comforts of FRI Urdu poetry and Indian songs. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01sjjyh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01sjn5h (Listen) FRI Dotty Rogers: My Life in Movies FRI FRI by Charlotte Bogard Macleod. FRI FRI Dotty Rogers has trouble with reality. She shimmies easily FRI from the mundanity of everyday motherhood to star parts in FRI the movies of her own imagining. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dotty: Kate Fleetwood FRI Bill: Rick Warden FRI Rose: Lorraine Burroughs FRI Dad: Robert Blythe FRI Grace: Madeleine Power FRI Sophia: Lucy Morton FRI George: Will Howard FRI Doctor: Joanna Brookes FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Producer: David Hunter FRI Writer: Charlotte Bogard Macleod FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01sjn5k (Listen) FRI Chelsea Fringe FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs this special edition of GQT with members FRI of the Chelsea Fringe, London. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness FRI and Matthew Wilson answer the audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 David Pownall at 75 b01sjn5m (Listen) FRI The Known Facts FRI FRI Episode 3 (of 3): FRI The Known Facts by David Pownall FRI Read by Hannah Gordon FRI FRI The last of three specially commissioned stories marking the FRI 75th birthday of David Pownall, the distinguished FRI playwright, novelist and poet. FRI FRI During a visit to Ireland, a chance encounter with a local FRI museum curator has a profound effect on three elderly FRI academics and their different attitudes towards mortality. FRI FRI Director: Martin Jenkins FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Radio 4 Blog: David Pownall at 75 FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01sjn5p (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01sjn5r (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01sjn5t (Listen) FRI Shirley and Janie - A Journey Well-Travelled FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between two women born FRI into the traveller community who have come a long way FRI educationally and are proud of the work they now do for the FRI women, children and young people of the gipsy and traveller FRI communities. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01sjn5w (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01shpms (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01sjn5y (Listen) FRI Series 40, Episode 2 FRI FRI A comedic look at the week's news. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Jon Culshaw FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01sjn60 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Glen Whitehouse ..... Kim Wall FRI Jonathan ..... James Howard. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01sjn62 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sjn57 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01sjn64 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from West Byfleet, Surrey with the Secretary of State for FRI Culture Media and Sport Maria Miller and Brendan O Neill FRI from current affairs blog site spiked-on-line, Trevor FRI Kavanagh from The Sun and Sadiq Khan MP Shadow Justice FRI Secretary. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01sjn66 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01391jw (Listen) FRI Midsummer FRI FRI Midsummer - a play with songs by David Greig and Gordon FRI McIntyre. FRI Starring Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon. FRI FRI It's a Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Two FRI thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for FRI something to turn up. FRI FRI Midsummer is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost FRI weekend of bridge burning, wedding bust-ups, chases, bondage FRI miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self FRI loathing misery. A warm hearted adult romantic comedy! FRI FRI Midsummer was first produced by the Traverse Theatre FRI Edinburgh. It was widely acclaimed at the 2009 Edinburgh FRI Fringe Festival and has since toured to Ireland, Canada and FRI England. FRI FRI Producer/director - David Ian Neville. FRI FRI Credits FRI Helena: Cora Bissett FRI Bob: Matthew Pidgeon FRI Writer: David Greig FRI Writer: Gordon McIntyre FRI Director: David Neville FRI Producer: David Neville FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01shpmv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01sjn68 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sjn6b (Listen) FRI A Delicate Truth, Truth Must Out FRI FRI Tonight: Truth must out - whatever the cost. 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 b01sj1td (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Songs of the Sacred Harp b01p40h5 (Listen) FRI Cerys Matthews visits Alabama to uncover a sacred choral FRI tradition. Widely practiced before the American Civil War, FRI Sacred Harp singing is currently experiencing a global FRI resurgence. FRI FRI Once called 'white spiritual', this haunting unaccompanied FRI choral tradition survived in the small rural Baptist FRI churches of the American Deep South. Very different to FRI bluegrass and to African American Gospel music, Sacred Harp FRI preserved Anglo-Celtic practices that were subsequently lost FRI in the UK. FRI FRI Today, this music is spreading from the Deep South around FRI the US and is even developing a following in the UK. Cerys FRI travels to an all-day singing convention in Alabama to find FRI out why the music is not just surviving but flourishing. In FRI an age when church attendance is dropping fast, what is FRI attracting people all over the US and the UK to sing archaic FRI hymns? FRI FRI Also called 'shape note singing', the music is based around FRI the Sacred Harp hymn book compiled in Georgia in 1844. The FRI pages show different shapes above the words to indicate the FRI notes, enabling songs to be sung on sight. Gatherings are FRI arranged in a hollow square with the self-selected leader FRI entering the middle to call out the number of their chosen FRI song. No applause or audience is allowed. Far removed from FRI 'happy clappy', they are often austere hymns with themes of FRI death and the pain of everyday existence. FRI FRI Contributors include Hugh McGraw, Jesse Karlsberg, Warren FRI Steele, Reba Del Windom, Henry Johnson, Michael Walker, Emma FRI Rose Brown and Sam Carter. FRI FRI For information on Sacred Harp singing around the UK: FRI http://www.ukshapenote.org.uk/ FRI http://londonsacredharp.org/ FRI FRI Produced by Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01sjn8r (Listen) FRI Steve and Derek - Things That Go Bump in the Night FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who hold FRI widely differing views of the supernatural, in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
17 May, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 18/05/2013 - 24/05/2013
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