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SAT SATURDAY 25 MAY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01sjkck (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01skbc2 (Listen) SAT Falling Upwards, Episode 5 SAT SAT In this heart-lifting book, the Romantic biographer Richard SAT Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer SAT generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic SAT experiments of the 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a SAT balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. SAT SAT In a compelling adventure story, dramatic sequences include SAT an unscheduled early flight over the North Sea, the crazy SAT firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard and the SAT heart-stopping escape of two families from East Germany. SAT SAT Early balloons also played a role in warfare - with the SAT legendary tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during SAT the Prussian siege of 1870, and a memorable flight by SAT General Custer in the American Civil War. SAT SAT These are stories where scientific genius combines with SAT extraordinary courage and the power of an imagination that SAT dares to claim the airy kingdom for itself. SAT SAT Episode 5 (of 5): SAT Perhaps the most daring and ambitious of all the balloon SAT adventurers was the Swede, Salomon AndrĂ©e, and his efforts SAT to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. SAT SAT Read by Rory Kinnear SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sjkcm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sjkcp (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sjkcr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01sjkct (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01sjn9j (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison SAT Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing SAT Compassion and Wisdom. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01sjn9l (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01sjkcw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01sjkcy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01sjjy5 (Listen) SAT Series 24, Chilterns American Women's Club hiking group SAT SAT In this new series of Ramblings, Clare Balding will be SAT walking in search of new places, new people and new SAT experiences. In this first programme she joins the Chilterns SAT American Women's Club hiking group, who walk in search of SAT learning more about their new home and meeting other ex-pat SAT spouses. The club offers a range of activities for SAT ex-American and International women who find themselves SAT living in Britain but the walking group is one of the most SAT popular allowing them to discover and explore their adopted SAT home. SAT Later in the series Clare talks to people who walk in search SAT of a new partner, to discover more about the environment and SAT she walks with the celebrated author Robert MacFarlane who SAT walks to discover the old routes. Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01sljw9 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT As Chelsea Flower Show celebrates its centenary year, Anna SAT Hill makes her way through the Great Pavilion, talking to SAT those who bring a bit of farming life to one of the most SAT prestigious events in the gardening calendar. On probably SAT the coldest and rainiest day of the week-long show, visitors SAT and exhibitors prove the weather can't dampen spirits at SAT Chelsea. Anna hears daredevil tales from a Welsh SAT beef-farmer-turned-plant-hunter who travels the globe SAT searching for exotic blooms. She celebrates British produce SAT with the National Farmers' Union, explores foods of the SAT future with the University of Nottingham and discovers the SAT importance of protecting our native trees and plants from SAT invasive pests and disease. SAT SAT Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01sjkd0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01sll25 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day, Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01sll27 (Listen) SAT Historian Brian Lavery; Caroline Quentin's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sandi Toksvig with maritime and naval SAT historian Brian Lavery, the Inheritance Tracks of Caroline SAT Quentin, the sound of Anita Tedder's coffee grinder, Harriet SAT Tuckey talking about her father's unsung and pivotal role in SAT the 1953 Everest expedition, Jake Wilson who played songs SAT inspired by Captain Scott's diary in the actual hut Scott SAT and his team set off from on their South Pole adventure, SAT John McCarthy exploring the hidden tunnels and grottoes of SAT Dewstow Gardens near Chepstow and Iain MacNeil, a former SAT mariner and current MD of the oldest English language SAT publishers in the World- Witherbys. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Choristers of the Coronation b01sll29 (Listen) SAT Stanley Roocroft from Blackburn Cathedral, Graham Neal from SAT All Saints Parish Church in Eastleigh, Eddie Officer from SAT Belfast's St Anne's Cathedral and James Wilkinson from SAT Westminster Abbey - these and a string of other one-time boy SAT choristers remember the thrill of singing at the Coronation SAT of Elizabeth II. SAT SAT With the help of the Royal School of Church Music, the SAT country was scoured for the very best choristers to SAT supplement singers from the elite choirs of London. All SAT told, over 180 boys sang at the famous event within a choir SAT of around 400. SAT SAT Sixty years on, some of the boys recall their selection and SAT training. SAT SAT They gathered for a month's rehearsal at Addington Palace SAT near Croydon. For some it was their first time away from SAT home. Undaunted, one boy sneaked out to caddie on the local SAT golf course at a fiver a time. SAT SAT There are recollections of the huge job of converting SAT Westminster Abbey to accommodate 8,000, aided by the SAT installation of a railway. SAT SAT On the big day, the choristers were given packed lunches SAT which could even be eaten during the coronation service SAT itself. Alan Ledger, then of the choir of St George's Chapel SAT in Windsor, says he was told to hang on to his milk bottle SAT after drinking the contents - in case it came in useful! SAT SAT The ex-choristers have their favourite moments from the SAT service - whether the musical glories of Parry's 'I Was SAT Glad' or Handel's 'Zadok the Priest' or simply the sight of SAT the new Queen processing to her enthronement. SAT SAT With the service over, it was a rush for the buffet. Then SAT back to everyday life, but with memories to last a lifetime. SAT SAT Producer: Andrew Green SAT An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01sll2c (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT As parliament takes a break for the Whit Bank Holiday some SAT MPs may be contemplating the general decline in the public's SAT engagement with conventional politics. SAT How great is UKIP's threat to the Westminster establishment SAT and should politicians in traditional parties be taking a SAT fresh look at how they conduct their business in parliament. SAT Plus Men of Secrets -former cabinet secretaries talking SAT publicly about their role for the first time. SAT SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01sll2f (Listen) SAT The German Sense of Humour SAT SAT Reporters around the world with the news behind the SAT headlines: Aleem Maqbool talks of the 14-hundred-year old SAT conflict which lies behind today's breakdown in law and SAT order in Iraq; the bicentenary of the controversial composer SAT Wagner causes Steve Evans to question preconceptions about SAT Germans and their society; Ed Butler meets a billionaire in SAT Azerbaijan and chuckles over his plans for a huge building SAT project; the African Union's optimistic about the SAT continent's future but Gabriel Gatehouse finds good news in SAT short supply in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And French SAT schoolchildren will soon lose their traditional midweek day SAT off school. Joanna Robertson tells us they're not happy SAT about it! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01sll2h (Listen) SAT Undead direct debits, mortgage repayments, the marriage of SAT unequals, the cost of investing SAT SAT DIRECT DEBITS SAT Hundreds of people who agreed to pay a computer maintenance SAT contract in the past but then cancelled it have had their SAT direct debits restarted without their permission. The firm SAT says it cannot find them to refund the money. We investigate SAT how direct debits can come back from the dead years after SAT they were cancelled. SAT SAT BANK OF IRELAND SAT Lawyers representing Bank of Ireland customers are asking SAT the Financial Conduct Authority to stop the Bank trebling SAT the monthly mortgage payments for 13,000 customers. This SAT week just over a thousand were given a reprieve but what SAT hope for the others. SAT SAT IT COSTS HOW MUCH? SAT A new online calculator shows the true cost of investing. SAT One fund claims a 1% upfront charge and a 1.25% annual SAT management charge. But the calculator shows the total cost SAT of investing as 2.28% a year. Which means on any modest SAT return the fund share equally in any gains. Two Money Box SAT listeners 'test drive' the calculator and we speak to the SAT co-founder Gina Miller and Lawrence Gosling, Editor of SAT Investment Week. SAT SAT STILL NOT EQUAL SAT The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill passed overwhelmingly SAT by the House of Commons this week will maintain the one SAT financial discrimination between same sex and opposite sex SAT couples. When one same sex partner dies the survivor has SAT more limited rights to inherit their company pension. Why? SAT And can it still be changed? We speak to one Money Box SAT listener and the MP Mike Freer. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01sjn5y (Listen) SAT Series 40, Episode 2 SAT SAT A comedic look at the week's news. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Jon Culshaw SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01sjkd2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01sjkd4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01sjn64 (Listen) SAT Maria Miller, Sadiq Khan, Brendan O'Neill, Trevor Kavanagh SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from West Byfleet, Surrey with the Secretary of State for SAT Culture Media and Sport Maria Miller and Brendan O Neill SAT from the online magazine Spiked , Trevor Kavanagh from The SAT Sun and Sadiq Khan MP Shadow Justice Secretary. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01slm1j (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01slm1l (Listen) SAT The Prince SAT SAT Five hundred years after writing his most provocative SAT political tract, Niccolo Machiavelli appears before an SAT infernal court to appeal against the harsh treatment his SAT works have received over time. SAT SAT Rather than being seen as a description of political SAT cynicism and opportunism, he argues that "Machiavellian" SAT should be a compliment and The Prince has in fact been an SAT infallible guidebook followed closely by all successful SAT leaders. SAT SAT The Prince By Niccolo Machaiavelli SAT Adapted by Jonathan Myerson SAT SAT Produced and directed by Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Jonathan Myerson SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Director: Clive Brill SAT Machiavelli: Damian Lewis SAT Judge: Nigel Cooke SAT Prosecution: Christian Rodska SAT Defence: Helen McCrory SAT Clerk: Meera Syal SAT Cesare Borgia: Joseph Kloska SAT Plato: Joseph Kloska SAT Defendant: Joseph Kloska SAT Kerensky: Theo Fraser Steele SAT Bertrand Russell: Theo Fraser Steele SAT SAT 15:30 The Science of Music b01sj1t0 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Professor Robert Winston looks at music with a scientist's SAT eye in a series which seeks to fully understand our SAT relationship with the power of sound. SAT SAT In this edition, Professor Winston explores the logic, SAT engineering and physics underlying the musical sounds we SAT hear. Why do some notes sound good together? And are we SAT really simply seeking patterns when we listen to music? SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01slm1n (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Producer: Emma Wallace SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01slmcq (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01sjn9l (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01sjkd6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01sjkd8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sjkdb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01slmct (Listen) SAT Emma Freud, Tricky, Richard Bacon, Maria Friedman, Stephen SAT Woolley, Nikki Bedi, Blue Rose Code SAT SAT Emma's stitched up by broadcaster Richard Bacon, whose new SAT book 'A Series of Unrelated Events' hilariously reveals how SAT he once managed to upset a band with a slip of the tongue on SAT a live TV show and ruined a dinner party by transforming SAT everything alcoholic into water. If you ever find yourself SAT sobbing on top of a box of gherkins in the stockroom of a SAT Mansfield McDonald's, Richard can advise. He's made the SAT mistakes so that you don't have to. SAT SAT Emma talks All That Jazz with actress Maria Friedman, who's SAT starred in many a West End musical, including 'Chicago' and SAT 'Ragtime'. Maria's currently directing Stephen Sondheim's SAT 'Merrily We Roll Along', which charts the turbulent SAT relationship between three friends, set over three decades SAT in the entertainment business. It's at London's Harold SAT Pinter Theatre until Saturday 27th July. SAT SAT Another addition to this week's Wild Bunch is Angel With A SAT Dirty Face and Knowle West Boy, Tricky. Nikki Bedi talks to SAT the Bristolian Trip-Hop pioneer about the phenomenal success SAT of his Mercury nominated debut solo album 'Maxinquaye', his SAT trademark Sprechgesang vocal style, his Hollywood acting SAT career and life in Paris. Tricky's back with tenth album SAT 'False Idols' and performs new single 'Nothing Matters'. SAT SAT Stephen Woolley knows all there is to know about The Crying SAT Game... he produced the Oscar winning film of the same name. SAT New film 'Byzantium' is the story of two mysterious women SAT seeking refuge in a run‐down coastal resort. Born 200 years SAT ago and surviving on human blood, knowledge of their secret SAT spreads and their past catches up on them with deathly SAT consequence. At UK cinemas from 31st May. SAT SAT With more music from Edinburgh-born singer/songwriter Blue SAT Rose Code, who performs 'Whitechapel' from his album 'North SAT Ten'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01slmcw (Listen) SAT Series 14, The Woods SAT SAT A distressed Joyce arrives at Carter's house late at night. SAT A dark chaos has descended on life at home. Playwright SAT Sebastian Baczkiewicz responds to the publication of a new SAT report by the Children's Commissioner into the effects of SAT pornography on children and young people. SAT SAT Producer ..... Helen Perry SAT SAT To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, SAT this weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major SAT story from the week's news. The form and content are SAT entirely lead by the news topic - so drama can come in many SAT guises, as well as poetry and prose. SAT SAT Writers who have participated so far include: Lionel SAT Shriver, David Edgar, Amelia Bulmore, Mark Lawson, Bonnie SAT Greer, Laura Solon, Sandi Toksvig, Will Self, Alistair SAT Beaton, Lemn Sissay, April de Angelis, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, SAT Adrian Mitchell, Stewart Lee, John Sergeant, Jo Shapcott, SAT Ian McMillan, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Kate Mosse, Marina Warner, SAT Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, A.L. Kennedy and Lyn Coghlan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz SAT Joyce: Sam Hazeldine SAT Carter: Barnaby Kay SAT Lucy: Amaka Okafor SAT Producer: Helen Perry SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01slmcy (Listen) SAT All That Is by James Salter, and the Iraq War SAT SAT The acclaimed US novelist James Salter is often described as SAT "the writer's writer". He's now written his first novel in SAT 30 years, at the age of 87: All That Is. Will his exquisite SAT prose work for readers as well as writers? SAT SAT Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar has just won the 2013 Pulitzer SAT Prize for Drama in America. A play about ambition, culture SAT and faith set in New York, its topicality is undeniable. Now SAT it opens at the Bush Theatre in London with Hari Dhillon and SAT Kirsty Bushell. SAT SAT Michael Landy has been associate artist at the National SAT Gallery for two years. His new exhibition of extraordinary SAT kinetic sculptures of saints, Saints Alive, has been SAT inspired by what he's seen there. SAT SAT The Iraq War is a series of 3 films made by Norma Percy and SAT Brian Lapping. As before in their work, they've managed to SAT persuade nearly all of the major players in the conflict to SAT talk on camera, often sharing thoughts for the first time. SAT SAT And Something in the Air is the director Olivier Assayas' SAT film set in the early 70s in the aftermath of what happened SAT in France in May 1968. He's said it started with SAT autobiographical anecdotes but wants it to mean something SAT broader. Has he succeeded? SAT SAT The writers Tom Holland and Naomi Alderman and the SAT anthropologist Kit Davis join Tom Sutcliffe. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01slmd0 (Listen) SAT Profumo Confidential SAT SAT In 1963 Tom Mangold covered the Profumo Affair for the Daily SAT Express. Minister of War John Profumo had admitted to an SAT affair with Christine Keeler, who was allegedly also having SAT an affair with a Russian Spy. The scandal led to the SAT Minister's downfall, hastened the departure of the Prime SAT Minister Harold Macmillan and led to the suicide of 'society SAT osteopath' Stephen Ward, who had friendships with all the SAT players and a louche life-style, and was hounded to trial on SAT the flimsiest allegations of living on immoral earnings. SAT SAT Hours before that trial verdict was due, Tom Mangold visited SAT Stephen Ward, only to find him writing suicide notes. SAT Shortly after Mangold left, Ward killed himself. SAT SAT In Profumo Confidential, Tom Mangold stands back from the SAT assignment of his life half a century ago, to explain and to SAT reveal new facets of the event which more than any other SAT etched the shape of a generation and changed the face of SAT Britain for ever. SAT SAT A few weeks ago Mangold acquired some remarkable new SAT documents - the private notes of the right hand man to Lord SAT Denning whose report on the scandal was published fifty SAT years ago. The notes offer an extraordinary insight behind SAT the scenes of the Denning investigation - as well as SAT containing a vivid snapshot of Britain in the early sixties, SAT as one ageing generation fought desperately to keep the SAT swinging sixties at bay. SAT SAT Mangold has also obtained the full manuscript of Ward's SAT unpublished autobiography and, in this programme, Stephen SAT Ward appears to speak from the grave - condemning the SAT establishment hypocricies closing in on him. SAT SAT The programme also features a full and exclusive broadcast SAT interview with Mandy Rice-Davis, Christine Keeler's SAT erstwhile companion. SAT SAT Producer: Adam Fowler SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01shstw (Listen) SAT The Mask of Dimitrios, The Origins of an Obsession SAT SAT Episode 1 (of 2): The Origins of an Obsession SAT SAT English crime novelist Charles Latimer is holidaying in SAT Istanbul when he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - SAT an infamous master criminal long wanted by the law, whose SAT body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. SAT SAT Fascinated by the story, Latimer decides to retrace his SAT steps across Europe and gather material for a new book. SAT Fascination tips over into obsession as he gradually SAT discovers more about his subject's shadowy history - SAT involving murder, prostitution, political assassination, SAT drug-dealing and espionage. SAT SAT The Mask of Dimitrios was written in 1939 by Eric Ambler, a SAT key figure in the evolution of the crime thriller who SAT brought realism and political awareness to the genre and SAT influenced writers such as Graham Greene and John le CarrĂ©. SAT SAT By using the criminal career of Dimitrios as a lens, it SAT enables us to see the dark heart of Europe, a continent SAT riven by violence and corruption. Its demonstration that the SAT pursuit of money is the well-spring from which all other SAT evils flow is as pertinent as ever - and its cast of drug SAT dealers, shady businessmen and displaced refugees makes it SAT seem astonishingly modern. SAT SAT Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan SAT Original music by Neil Brand SAT SAT Director: David Blount SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Latimer: Jamie Glover SAT Dimitrios: Tim McInnerny SAT Col Haki: Kenneth Cranham SAT Mr Peters: Desmond Barrit SAT Marukakis: Richard Attlee SAT Mme Chavez: Rachel Atkins SAT Irana Preveza: Rachel Atkins SAT Siantos: Andrew Branch SAT Sholem: John Evitts SAT Greek Official: John Evitts SAT Dhris Mohammed: Gary Carr SAT Mortuary Attendant: Ilker Kaleli SAT Director: David Blount SAT Author: Eric Ambler SAT Adaptor: Stephen Sheridan SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01sjkdd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01sjj7z (Listen) SAT The Law and Cohabitation SAT SAT In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson's guests SAT struggle to reconcile their differences regarding reform of SAT the way the law treats unmarried cohabiting couples when SAT their relationships break up. SAT SAT There are over four million co-habiting couples in England SAT and Wales. Research suggests that a great number of them SAT think the law, broadly speaking, affords them the same SAT protection as married couples. It turns out they could not SAT be more wrong. SAT SAT The programme hears that the widely held belief that SAT cohabiting couples acquire common law marriage status is a SAT complete myth. SAT SAT Barrister and Lib Dem peer Lord Anthony Lester's argues for SAT root and branch reform to provide legal protection for SAT cohabiting couples. But he is strongly opposed by his SAT cross-bench colleague in the House of Lords, Baroness Ruth SAT Deech, who staunchly defends the special legal status SAT granted those who marry. SAT SAT While there is little agreement among Clive's guests about SAT what changes, if any, should be made to the law, they all SAT agree that much more needs to be done to make cohabitating SAT couples more aware about their lack of legal rights. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01shw12 (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 3 SAT SAT (3/13) SAT Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the third heat in the SAT 2013 series of the general knowledge music quiz, from SAT MediaCity in Salford. SAT SAT The three competitors answering questions on all styles and SAT aspects of music come from Dumfries, West Yorkshire and SAT Cardiff. As well as demonstrating a broad general knowledge SAT of music they'll also have to 'specialise' in a topic SAT they've had no preparation for - chosen from a list Paul SAT will give them half way through the show. SAT SAT There are plenty of surprises and musical extracts to SAT identify, familiar and not so familiar. The winner will go SAT through to the semi-final stage of the 2013 competition in SAT July. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S CONTESTANTS SAT SAT CHERYL EASTON, a museum attendant from Thornhill in SAT Dumfriesshire; SAT SAT DAVE TILLEY, a semi-retired manager from Hebden Bridge in SAT West Yorkshire; SAT SAT GEOFF TRINICK, a retired civil servant from Penylan in SAT Cardiff. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01shsv0 (Listen) SAT A typically untypical range of poems, read by Kerry Elkins SAT and John Mackay. Sublime and surreal poems nestle SAT comfortably alongside heartfelt tales of loss and longing. SAT Poems include Stevie Smith's macabre work The River God and SAT a more benign reflection on nature from the great SAT pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti in his poem 'Silent SAT Noon'. Alastair Reid's work makes regular appearances on the SAT programme but it's usually in the form of his translations SAT of Pablo Neruda's work, so Roger takes the chance to SAT introduce some of his own poetry; the beguiling 'What's SAT What' and a simply beautiful one called 'Oddments, Inklings, SAT Omens, Movements.' SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 MAY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01sl16s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Junior Science b016x4t9 (Listen) SUN Back to School SUN SUN To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick SUN Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence SUN at The Science Museum in London. SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned stories, children SUN become involved in science with strange and unsettling SUN results. SUN SUN In Back To School, young Robert Thornber discovers strange SUN goings-on in the Science Block when he accidentally goes SUN back to school a day early. He is soon forced to run for his SUN life. SUN SUN Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. SUN His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for SUN The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won SUN The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has SUN published three novels and two illustrated collections of SUN stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears SUN which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. SUN One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by SUN Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at SUN international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best SUN Short Animation. SUN SUN Mick lives in Brighton with his family. SUN Written by Mick Jackson. Read by David Holt. SUN Producer: Rosalynd Ward SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sl16v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sl16x (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sl16z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01sl171 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01slmxc (Listen) SUN The bells of St.Leonard, Bledington, Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01sjj81 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Henry Stewart: Choose Your Boss SUN SUN Henry Stewart argues that bad management blights the working SUN lives of millions of people, and that the solution is to let SUN everyone choose their own bosses. 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 b01sl173 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01slqc3 (Listen) SUN Endings and Beginnings SUN SUN What do we do when new revelations throw our past SUN convictions into doubt? Samira Ahmed reflects on times when SUN existing certainties in people and events are shaken - when SUN trust is tested. SUN SUN Is there anything we can be truly certain of in life? Our SUN sense of self alters with age and experience, the most solid SUN relationship can change or end, and even our most heartfelt SUN beliefs can falter. In the wider world, we place trust in SUN things communally as a society - things we feel we should be SUN confident in, such as financial institutions or the labels SUN on our food. Even with a healthy dose of scepticism, we need SUN to invest a degree of trust for society to work. When SUN something goes wrong, we feel that trust has been shaken. SUN SUN History has many examples of existing certainties crumbling SUN in the face of new revelations, especially from science. And SUN maybe that's not so surprising. Absolute certainty about SUN anything is rare - the great American Benjamin Franklin said SUN the only certain things in life are death and taxes. And SUN that might not always be a bad thing. Perhaps we need to SUN steer a course: to acknowledge uncertainty, trust just the SUN right amount. SUN SUN Featuring music by Etta James, Sufjan Stevens and Miles SUN Davies, and the words of Elif Shafak, SUN Rainer Maria Rilke and Walt Whitman. SUN SUN Produced by Caroline Hughes SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01slqc5 (Listen) SUN Tup fairs in the Lake District were traditionally the time SUN when farmers returned tups (rams) they had borrowed for the SUN winter. They are a competition and social occasion, often SUN the first outing after lambing, where young and old farmers SUN get together to talk sheep and catch up on the gossip. Caz SUN Graham reports from this year's Keswick tup fair, which SUN focuses on Herdwicks. They are upland sheep, strong and SUN sturdy, and many of the farmers who keep Herdwicks feel a SUN deep sense of heritage and a responsibility to keep the SUN breed alive. The proudest thing you can call a shepherd is SUN 'a good stockman', and winning at a tup fair is one way to SUN show your skill. At the Keswick fair one particular trophy SUN is prized above all - and a certain Mrs Heelis (also known SUN as Beatrix Potter), a well-known Herdwick breeder, was once SUN the winner. SUN SUN Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Rich Ward. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01sl175 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01sl177 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01slqc7 (Listen) SUN Woolwich murder; Prosperity Gospel; Saints SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01slqc9 (Listen) SUN TB Alert SUN SUN Baroness Joan Bakewell presents the Radio 4 Appeal for T B SUN Alert SUN Reg Charity:1071886 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN T B Alert. SUN SUN TB Alert SUN SUN TB Alert is the UK's national tuberculosis (TB) charity that SUN focuses on TB both in the UK and overseas. The charity was SUN founded in 1998 and was set up to tackle the resurgent SUN threat of tuberculosis – which was declared a global SUN emergency by the World Health Organisation in 1993. After SUN 15 years, TB is still killing one and a half million people SUN each year worldwide – yet it is curable. SUN SUN TB is amongst the top three killers of women and has SUN orphaned 10 million children worldwide. Caring for these SUN vulnerable orphans often falls to their grandparents. Our SUN Grannies Clubs in India help grandparents meet others who SUN are also bringing up their grandchildren in extreme SUN poverty. Most have no choice but to work in the fields or SUN sell street food to survive. The clubs offer vital SUN assistance to grandparents struggling to cope financially SUN and emotionally, providing the support needed to give their SUN grandchildren the best start in life. We also ensure that SUN the grandparents receive a food allowance which is a SUN life-line to ensure they can feed their family – and not go SUN without themselves. SUN SUN Sadly over a third of people who develop TB worldwide will SUN never actually get to see a doctor. People affected by TB SUN are always the best advocates to raise awareness and help SUN people seek treatment. Grannies clubs are no different, SUN grandparents learn how to recognise the symptoms of TB, SUN helping people in their own communities to access SUN life-saving treatment. Anyone can catch TB – but nobody SUN should die of it. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01sl179 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01sl17c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01slqcc (Listen) SUN Service of Worship from St Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry - SUN the UK City of Culture - led by Canon John Merrick, and the SUN preacher is the Very Reverend Dr William Morton, the Dean of SUN Derry. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01sjn66 (Listen) SUN The Doors of Perception SUN SUN John Gray argues for another way of perceiving the world SUN inspired by the fantasy fiction writer Arthur Machen. SUN Instead of believing that meaning in life can only be found SUN by changing things around us, "Some of the most valuable SUN human experiences, Machen observed, come about when we SUN simply look around us without any intention of acting on SUN what we see. He thought of the world as a kind of text in SUN invisible writing, a cipher pointing to another order of SUN things" SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyh9 (Listen) SUN Shag SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David SUN Attenborough presents the Shag. Perhaps the least vocal of SUN all British birds they hiss and belch to warn off SUN interlopers getting too close to their nest. They are SUN seabirds and their name comes from the shaggy crest on the SUN top of their head. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01slqcf (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01slqch (Listen) SUN Helen takes it on the chin, and Elona makes a decision. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Tony Archer: Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Paul Morgan: Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Elona Makepeace: Eri Shuka SUN Glen Whitehouse: Kim Wall SUN Jonathan: James Howard SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01slqck (Listen) SUN Deborah Bull SUN SUN Kirsty Young's guest this week is the ballerina, writer and SUN broadcaster Deborah Bull. SUN SUN The Royal Ballet, where she was a principal dancer for SUN almost two decades owes a debt of gratitude to the Janice SUN Sutton School of Dance in Skegness. It was there, aged 7, SUN two floors above a fish and chip shop and a row of SUN amusements arcades - and having practiced "good toes, bad SUN toes" - that she knew precisely what she wanted to do with SUN her life. SUN SUN After many years of success at the top of her profession, SUN she said goodbye to her childhood dream and jetĂ©d into her SUN life's next act - for a time serving as Creative Director of SUN The Royal Opera House and more recently working far beyond SUN Covent Garden promoting creativity and cultural partnerships SUN across Britain. SUN SUN She says "I always thought I'd feel a passionate sense of SUN loss when I stopped dancing. What was absolutely wonderful SUN was, as the volume turned up on the new career, the volume SUN turned down on the old one." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01shwkx (Listen) SUN Series 66, Episode 1 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the linguistically challenging panel SUN game, with panellists Paul Merton, Pam Ayres, Kevin Eldon SUN and Graham Norton. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01slqcm (Listen) SUN Sugar: Pure, White and Deadly? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon finds out why the debate about the role of SUN sugar in our lives is hotting up. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Hayes SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01sl17f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01slqcp (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 The New North b01slrj5 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN In the last decade the north of England has discovered a new SUN public face. A boom in new landmark cultural public SUN buildings, many built with Lottery funding, has created a SUN distinctive, contemporary image for the region's towns and SUN cities. SUN SUN Martin Goodman, professor of creative writing at Hull SUN University presents this two part journey in search of the SUN 'New North'. He visits the iconic new public buildings and SUN asks how they reflect the changing region, how it differs SUN from the traditional industrialised imagery of the north, SUN and considers the economic challenges these new buildings SUN face in today's austere times. SUN SUN He starts at The Sage in Gateshead and then moves on to SUN MIMA, Middlesbrough's modern art gallery, before going to SUN Hull to visit The Deep aquarium. He speaks to its architect, SUN Sir Terry Farrell, about that building as well as his work SUN in the North East. He also asks author David Almond what SUN these new buildings mean for the culture of Gateshead and SUN Newcastle. SUN SUN So, is there a 'New North' emerging - and if there is, how SUN does it differ from what has gone before? And can these new SUN institutions survive in economically testing times. SUN SUN In part two, Martin will visit the striking new Hepworth SUN Gallery in Wakefield and speak to the architect David SUN Chipperfield about its design. He'll talk to the writer Alan SUN Garner about the historic qualities of the North and find SUN out about regeneration in Manchester and Salford, visiting SUN the new Museum of Liverpool and meeting TV writer Phil SUN Redmond. And he'll hear how the economic squeeze can leave SUN some of those who run new developments feeling like 'paupers SUN in palaces'. SUN SUN Producer: Philip Reevell SUN A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01sjn5k (Listen) SUN Chelsea Fringe SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs this edition of GQT with members of the SUN Chelsea Fringe, London. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and SUN Matthew Wilson are on the panel answering the audience's SUN questions. SUN SUN And listen out for a special musical interlude dedicated to SUN GQT by one of the Chelsea Fringe's comedy acts, Can You Dig SUN It? SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01slrj7 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from StoryCorps, the SUN American inspiration for The Listening Project, in this SUN Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01slrj9 (Listen) SUN The Mask of Dimitrios, The House of the Eight Angels SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 2): The House of Eight Angels SUN SUN English crime writer, Charles Latimer's growing obsession SUN with the career of infamous master criminal, Dimitrios SUN Makropoulos, takes him to Geneva where he learns of SUN Dimitrios' exploits as a spy, and on to Paris where, in the SUN company of the eccentric Mr Peters, he finds his own life SUN under very real threat. 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 CarrĂ©. 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 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 b01slrjc (Listen) SUN Colum McCann on his novel Transatlantic, and mental health SUN and fiction SUN SUN Edney Silvestre talks to Mariella Frostrup about his latest SUN novel If I close my eyes and also discusses great Brazilian SUN literature SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01slrjf (Listen) SUN A Bouquet of Flowers SUN SUN Roger McGough celebrates the centenary of the Chelsea Flower SUN Show with a bouquet of poems about flowers. SUN SUN Daisies from Emily Dickinson and Jon Silkin, roses by Blake SUN and Burns and the wonderfully moving account of his son's SUN birth 'The Almond Tree' by Jon Stallworthy. SUN SUN With readers Juliet Aubrey, Mark Meadows and Harry SUN Livingstone. SUN SUN Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01sj1tn (Listen) SUN Superbugs SUN SUN In the first of a new series, File on 4 asks whether recent SUN stark warnings about the threat posed by growing resistance SUN to antibiotics have come too late. SUN The Chief Medical Officer of England, Professor Dame Sally SUN Davies, has painted an apocalyptic picture where routine SUN operations could become deadly in just 20 years if we lose SUN the ability to fight infection. SUN But the programme discovers growing concern among doctors SUN that bugs found in our hospitals have already developed the SUN ability to withstand drugs which are effectively the last SUN line of defence. SUN Has the Government drive to eradicate MRSA and C-Difficile SUN left the back door open for more challenging strains of SUN superbug to take hold? Does the health service know why SUN numbers of healthcare infections of E. Coli are rising? And SUN where are the new medicines to tackle the resistant strains? SUN The programme hears there's little incentive for drug SUN companies to produce new antibiotics because they won't be SUN able to make enough money. SUN Allan Urry meets the medics on the front line in the battle SUN to stop infection killing patients. Can the NHS win the war SUN against the microbes? SUN SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01slmcw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01sl17h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01sl17k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sl17n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01slrsr (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection of the best of this SUN week's BBC Radio programmes. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01slrst (Listen) SUN Matt's pulling the strings, and Joe's got an eye for a SUN bargain. SUN SUN Producer: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01slrsw (Listen) SUN Greek Tragedy SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests SUN Mark Billingham and Natalie Haynes. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 The Time Being b01slrsy (Listen) SUN Series 6, Llama Sutra SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being offers another showcase SUN for new writers, none of whom have had their work broadcast SUN before. Previous series provided a stepping stone for SUN writers who have gone on to enjoy further success both on SUN radio and in print - such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, SUN Sally Hinchcliffe and Joe Dunthorne. SUN SUN Programme 2: Llama Sutra by Melanie Whipman SUN SUN Things get complicated for a couple undergoing IVF after SUN they visit the llama farm. SUN SUN Melanie Whipman lives in a leafy Surrey village with her SUN husband, teenage twins, dog, cats and chickens. She has an SUN MA in Creative Writing and is currently a PhD student at the SUN University of Chichester. Her short stories have been listed SUN or placed in various competitions and her work has appeared SUN online and in several magazines and anthologies. Her story, SUN Peacock Girl, was the winner of this year's Rubery Prize. SUN SUN Reader: Camilla Marie Beeput SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01sjn5r (Listen) SUN Economics of Scottish independence; Ryanair punctuality SUN SUN Tim Harford inspects the claims the UK Treasury and the SUN Scottish government make about the economics of an SUN independent Scotland; tests Ryanair's claim that more than SUN 90% of its flights land on time; re-runs the Eurovision song SUN contest , excluding the votes of the former Soviet countries SUN to test whether political alliances are affecting the final SUN results; discovers that millions of scientific papers may be SUN incorrect; and learns more about dog years - and cat years. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01sjn5p (Listen) SUN A comedy writer, a founding member of The Doors, an SUN Argentine dictator, a Pakistani politician and an SUN escapologist SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Ray Manzarek - the keyboard player who teamed up with Jim SUN Morrison to found the Doors. SUN SUN General Jorge Videla - the Argentinian dictator who presided SUN over the disappearance of thirty thousand people - but never SUN expressed remorse. SUN SUN Hans Moretti, the magician and escapologist famous for his SUN death-defying stunts on the Paul Daniels Magic Show. Paul SUN pays tribute. SUN SUN Zahra Shahid Hussain - a leading figure in Imran Khan's PTI SUN political party in Pakistan - who was shot dead outside her SUN home in Karachi. SUN SUN And Eddie Braben - the comedy writer whose scripts made SUN Morecambe and Wise a national institution. We have tributes SUN from Ken Dodd and Barry Cryer. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Northedge SUN Producer: Julian May SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01sll2h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01slqc9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01sjk6n (Listen) SUN Vorsprung durch Technik or Universitat? SUN SUN Influential experts are worried that the German economic SUN powerhouse is running out of steam. Where is German SUN innovation, they ask? Why do so few German universities rank SUN among the world leaders? Peter Day reports from Munich. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01slryl (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 b01slryn (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01sjjy7 (Listen) SUN Cannes Festival hits and misses; director Clio Barnard; SUN Stephen Frears on Ali SUN SUN Francine Stock on the hits, misses and surprises of the SUN Cannes Film Festival with Geoff Andrew of the BFI and Robbie SUN Collin, film critic at the Daily Telegraph. Plus the British SUN hope at Cannes, director Clio Barnard on her film The SUN Selfish Giant, a contemporary urban fable following two SUN young boys who collect scrap on a horse and cart. And SUN Stephen Frears discusses his latest project Muhammad Ali's SUN Greatest Fight which is also screening in Cannes and charts SUN the boxer's battle against conscription. Plus Olivier SUN Assayas on nostalgia and radical politics in Something In SUN The Air, set in France in the early 1970s. SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01slqc3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 MAY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01sl18r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01sjhht (Listen) MON Live Music - from Dance Hall to the 100 Club MON MON Live music - from Dance Hall to the 100 Club. MON MON The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long MON been the subject of nostalgic articles and programmes, but MON to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The writer MON and Professor of Music, Simon Frith, is one of the MON co-authors of the first in a three volume series which MON addresses this gap. He talks to Laurie Taylor about how the MON organisation and enjoyment of live music changed between MON 1950 and 1967 offering new insights into the evolving nature MON of musical fashions; the impact of developing technologies MON and the balance of power between live and recorded music MON businesses. The first volume draws on archival research, a MON wide range of academic and non-academic sources, participant MON observation and industry interviews. MON Dr Catherine Tackley, musician and lecturer, and Caspar MON Melville, lecturer in Global Cultural Industries, join the MON debate. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01slmxc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sl18t (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sl18w (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sl18y (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01sl190 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0213z3p (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison MON Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing MON Compassion and Wisdom. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01slvgm (Listen) MON For the last year, writer Harriet Fraser and her MON photographer husband Rob have been following the lives of a MON group of upland sheep farmers, to document the ebb and flow MON of their everyday life and work. It's a project called Land MON Keepers, which they describe as "an artistic venture that MON reflects the land and its stories, through photography and MON writing". Nearly half of the UK's landmass is classed as MON upland, and for the farmers who tend it the work is tough MON and the financial rewards are slim. MON Caz Graham joins Harriet and Rob as they visit Lake District MON hill farmer Gavin Bland while he works with his sheep. She MON hears what they've been doing, why, and how they're going to MON use the material they've gathered. MON MON Produced and presented by Caz Graham. MON MON 05:56 Weather b01sl192 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01slvgp (Listen) MON Spotted Crake 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 Spotted Crake. If it weren't for MON its whiplash song, the spotted crake could win a prize as MON our least visible bird. Unlike its showy relatives the coot MON and the moorhen, this polka-dotted skulker is notoriously MON hard to find and only rarely betrays itself by singing. MON MON 06:00 Today b01slvgr (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01slvgt (Listen) MON Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age MON MON On Start the Week Emily Maitlis talks to the Executive MON Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt about the digital future. A MON future where everyone is connected, but ideas of privacy, MON security and community are transformed. Former Wikileaks MON employee James Ball asks how free we are online. The curator MON Honor Harger looks to art to understand this new world of MON technology. And worried about this brave new world? David MON Spiegelhalter, offers a guide to personal risk and the MON numbers behind it. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01slvgw (Listen) MON The North (and Almost Everything in It), Episode 1 MON MON 'Here is the north, this is where it lies, where it belongs, MON full of itself, high up above everything else, surrounded by MON everything that isn't the north, that's off the page, MON somewhere else.' MON MON Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from MON Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age MON of seven, old enough to form an identity but too young to be MON aware that 'southern' was a category, Morley has always MON thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant, he MON wasn't entirely sure. It was for him, as it is for millions MON of others in England, an absolute, indisputable truth. MON MON Forty years after walking down grey pavements on his way to MON school, Morley explores what it means to be northern and why MON those who consider themselves to be believe it so strongly. MON While exploring his own 'northernness', Morley brings in MON other voices from the North, from Larkin to Wordsworth, Les MON Dawson to George Formby, Morrissey to Mark E. Smith, as he MON attempts to classify the unclassifiable. MON MON Today: Morley on his northern childhood, and how he became a MON northerner. MON MON Paul Morley is an acclaimed music journalist, writer, MON presenter and music producer. He made his name writing for MON the NME between 1977 and 1983, and has gone on to publish MON several books about music. MON MON Reader: Paul Morley, with additional readings from Paul MON Hilton MON Abridger: Viv Beeby MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01slvgy (Listen) MON Celebrating Extraordinary Women MON MON From the ordinary to the extraordinary. We hear the MON inspiring stories of women who have taken on the challenges MON that life has thrown at them. After her divorce at a time of MON life many would be putting their feet up, Rona became a MON round the world yachtswoman; Jo and Della are bereaved MON parents turned campaigners; Fran overcame a paralysing MON accident at work to become World Paraclimbing Champion; MON Wendy and Kelly are ex-offenders turned mentors and Judy MON abandoned urban life to run a hill farm, hotel and whale MON watching company on a remote Scottish island. MON MON Editor: Jane Thurlow MON Producer: Rebecca Wood MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01slvmv (Listen) MON Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Beaches on the Moon MON MON By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON Episode Six - Beaches on the Moon MON MON Pearl shoulders the blame for the tragedy that has struck MON her sons. MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Pearl: Barbara Barnes MON Narrator: Lorelei King MON Cody: Ben Crowe MON Ezra: Simon Lee Phillips MON Jenny: Fenella Woolgar MON Ruth: Amaka Okafor MON Director: David Hunter MON Producer: David Hunter MON Author: Anne Tyler MON Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON 11:00 Signing Up at 16 b01slvmx (Listen) MON Graduation and the Future MON MON A revealing series following a group of 16 year old boys and MON girls, through a year of training at the Army Foundation MON College, Harrogate. MON MON The Junior Soldiers are tested on their final field exercise MON in Scotland before they graduate and start their new army MON careers. For some, the front line is a matter of months MON away. MON MON These young recruits can't legally drive a car or cast a MON vote, yet they are being trained to handle a rifle. No other MON European country allows its citizens to join the army so MON young and reporter Penny Marshall finds out why the British MON Army recruits at 16. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b01slvmz (Listen) MON The Last Report MON MON A special one-off finale of the long running series The MON Pickerskill Reports. MON MON Set in a public school, The Pickerskill Reports finds a long MON retired English master remembering his favourite students - MON the ones he thought most likely to make a real difference to MON the world and who also possessed a streak of anarchy and MON subversion. MON MON In The Final Report, he has to see off a cult leader Faye MON Hornette, whose shady organization The Constancy wants to MON take over Haunchurst College. MON MON With Elaine Cassidy, (BBC 1's The Paradise), Mark Heap (Big MON Train, Green Wing), Tony Gardner, (Fresh Meat, Bluestone MON 42), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Game of Thrones), Michael Feast MON (State of Play) and starring Ian McDiarmid (Star Wars I-III, MON V-VI) in the title role of Dr Henry Pickerskill. MON MON Script Editors: Nick Romero and David Quantick MON Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon MON MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Dr Henry Pickerskill: Ian McDiarmid MON Faye Hornette: Elaine Cassidy MON Oliver Hugh Porter: Thomas Brodie Sangster MON Uncle Cyril: Mark Heap MON Lefty: Tony Gardner MON Lionel Rogers: Tony Gardner MON Mike Poulson Jabby: Michael Feast MON Chaplain: Michael Feast MON Writer: Andrew McGibbon MON Director: Andrew McGibbon MON Producer: Andrew McGibbon MON Producer: Nick Romero MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01slvvd (Listen) MON 118 directory enquiries, and bank holidays abroad MON MON BT confirms it has increased the amount of information on MON its 118 500 directory enquiry service. We compare how prices MON vary between various 118 companies. Simon Calder examines MON the summer airline schedules to see whether they reveal MON anything about changing travel trends. Plus, extra charges MON for your flight. Is the list of add-on costs growing ever MON longer? Also in the programme, claims that energy firms MON shouldn't be the ones encouraging us to use less energy and MON a victory for ex-pats who invested in property abroad that MON was never built. Throughout the programme we hear from BBC MON foreign correspondents about how people spend their public MON holidays abroad. Presenter: Julian Worricker. Producer: John MON Neal. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01sl196 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01slvvg (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 Disability: A New History b01slvvj (Listen) MON The Only Dwarf in Liverpool MON MON Across the country, historians are discovering the voices of MON disabled people from the past. In this 10-part series, Peter MON White draws on the latest research to reveal first-hand MON accounts of what it was like to live with physical MON disability in the 18th and 19th centuries. MON MON The result is moving, revealing, and sometimes very funny: MON "Sirs, I am a dwarf. I have lost my job at the circus and MON what is a dwarf to do in such a situation? In this MON Godforsaken place the snow comes so deep that a MON self-respecting dwarf can't even walk along the street MON without drowning!" MON MON This document is from a huge archive of letters from MON disabled people in the 19th century, applying to the local MON authorities for money. They are a rich source of what life MON was like with a disability. Sources like this are only now MON being discovered and interpreted by historians across the MON country - it amounts to a new historical movement. MON MON In the first programme, Peter explores what this new history MON reveals, and challenges our pre-conceptions. MON MON For Peter, as a blind man, there is a strong sense of MON personal discovery. He says, "I never realised disabled MON people had a history. History was what happened to everyone MON else." MON MON For him the series is revelatory. This programme, for MON instance, includes 18th century jokes about disability and MON discusses what juicy terms for disability were common in a MON society where there was no political correctness. MON MON With historians David Turner, Chris Mounsey, Stephen King, MON Judith Hawley, and voices from the past brought vividly to MON life by actors Gerard McDermott, Ewan Bailey and Emily MON Bevan. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke MON Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON Gallery - Disability: A New History MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01slrst (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01slvvl (Listen) MON Goodnight from Him MON MON A new comedy drama by award-winning playwright Roy Smiles, MON writer of previous Afternoon Dramas Ying Tong, Good Evening, MON Pythonesque and Dear Arthur, Love John. MON MON Goodnight From Him tells the story of Ronnie Corbett and MON Ronnie Barker from their beginnings in cabaret and repertory MON theatre, via their first meeting at the bar of the Buckstone MON Club in 1963 and being chosen by David Frost for his new MON show The Frost Report (alongside John Cleese), to getting MON their own Saturday night BBC1 series The Two Ronnies in MON 1971. The show ran for an extraordinary sixteen years, MON always topping the ratings, ending in 1986 with Ronnie MON Barker's early retirement. MON MON The play explores the differences between the two: Corbett MON the happy-go-lucky sketch performer and extrovert, MON comfortable chatting to an audience; and Barker the shy MON introvert who needed to hide behind his characters to face MON an audience and worked like a demon behind the scenes. MON MON Using parodies of some of their greatest sketches - Fork MON Handles, Mastermind and The Class Sketch from The Frost MON Report - Goodnight From Him tells the story of how two men MON worked together for twenty years without ever a cross word. MON MON Written by Roy Smiles MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee, MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Ronnie Barker: Robert Daws MON Ronnie Corbett: Aidan McArdle MON David Frost: James Lance MON John Cleese: Matt Addis MON Writer: Roy Smiles MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01sm2f5 (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 4 MON MON (4/13) MON MON Paul Gambaccini welcomes four more musically-minded MON contestants to the wide-ranging quiz on all aspects and MON genres of music. MON MON In heat four of the 2013 competition, the contestants are MON from London, Bury St Edmunds and Berkhamstead. They'll have MON to demonstrate a wide knowledge of music in all its variety, MON as well as specialising in a musical topic of which they've MON had no prior warning. Will they prefer questions on Verdi, MON or on Paul Weller? MON MON The winner will take a place in the semi-finals in July. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01slqcm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Move Over Wodehouse b01gvthp (Listen) MON India's English-speaking middle class is expanding fast and MON expected to reach 500 million by 2025. It represents a dream MON market for publishers and one that is set to become the MON biggest in the world. English book sales are already MON rocketing and international publishers are flocking to set MON up Indian offices. MON MON So what books are Indians reading? How are the perennial MON classics such as Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse faring MON against the emerging Indian authors? And what does it take MON to become a bestseller in India? MON MON Jeffrey Archer says he only discovered he had become India's MON most successful foreign author by accident but now launches MON his books there first. At the 2012 Jaipur Literature MON Festival, Mukti talks to writers and publishers who describe MON their excitement at the rapidly expanding market. In a MON country of 30 major languages and over a thousand dialects, MON we hear why it's English that has become firmly established MON as the language Indian authors are using to reflect the MON country back to itself. MON MON Mukti talks to superstar Indian writer Chetan Bhagat. His MON fast-paced comic tales set in call centres and college MON campuses seem to have caught the zeitgeist of modern India. MON His fans are mostly under 35 and appreciate his simple MON language and plots that reflect their lives. Whereas in the MON past Indian authors chased publishing deals in the West, MON he's proud of being a homegrown success. British writers MON such as Jaishree Misra and William Dalrymple, now both MON living in Delhi, describe how they are adapting their MON writing style to cater for their growing Indian readership. MON And Kapish Mehra offers tips on what it takes to be MON successful as a publisher in India today. MON MON First broadcast May 3rd 2012 MON MON Producer Mukti Jain Campion MON A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01sm2f7 (Listen) MON Religion & the Coronation 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 The Queen is preparing to celebrate the 60th anniversary of MON her Coronation on 2nd June 1953. The Coronation is an MON occasion for pageantry and celebration, but it is also a MON solemn religious ceremony. The form and wording have varied MON over the centuries. Today, the Sovereign undertakes to rule MON according to law, to exercise justice with mercy, and to MON maintain the Church of England. MON Ernie and his guests will be considering the spiritual MON elements of the ceremony, asking whether both the wording MON and the solely Christian emphasis are appropriate in today's MON multi-faith society. MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the role of religion in the MON Coronation ceremony are Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin who is both MON a chaplain to the Queen and Speaker's Chaplain in the House MON of Commons, as well as vicar to two inner city parishes in MON Hackney; Martin Palmer, Church Historian and Director of the MON International Consultancy on Religion, Education & Culture MON and Symon Hill, an Associate of Ekklesia, a Christian MON thinktank which explores the role of religion in public MON life. MON MON 17:00 PM b01sm2f9 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sl198 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01sm2fc (Listen) MON Series 66, Episode 2 MON MON Nicholas Parsons is in Derry, Londonderry for this edition MON of the linguistically challenging Just A Minute. The MON panellists are; Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks, Fred MacAulay MON and Roy Walker. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01sm2ft (Listen) MON Josh has his mind on business, and there are some scores to MON be settled at the single wicket. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01sm2fw (Listen) MON Cathy Come Home and This Life producer Tony Garnett MON MON With Mark Lawson. MON MON TV and film producer Tony Garnett's work includes Cathy Come MON Home, Kes, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. The British Film MON Institute is now marking his 50 year career with a MON retrospective season. In this conversation, he explains why MON he has generally refused to do interviews, and how personal MON tragedies have been reflected in films such as Up the MON Junction. MON MON Although he started his career as an actor, appearing in MON Dixon of Dock Green, Garnett discusses the appeal of being a MON producer and the resultant battles to make hard-hitting MON films tackling difficult or controversial issues - including MON back-street abortions and the welfare state. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01slvmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Prosperity Gospel b01sm2fy (Listen) MON Controversial, contested and on the rise in Britain: MON Prosperity Gospel is a movement within Christianity which MON says that if you believe you will be blessed with MON prosperity. Or, in other words, Christianity will make you MON rich. MON MON The last time Nigerian born writer Dotun Adebayo returned to MON his country of birth he saw a Church Pastor driving a car MON through poverty stricken streets with a bumper sticker that MON read "God is great, life is sweet!" In Nigeria prosperity MON and the Gospel are apparently not in conflict. But in this MON programme Dotun sets out to discover why the prosperity MON Gospel of his Nigerian upbringing is flourishing in Britain. MON MON He visits the fastest growing church in Western Europe and MON hears powerful sermons mixing theology, finance and MON self-help. He meets people who claim their lives have been MON transformed by the message and others who were left feeling MON cheated, lied to and lost. MON MON With congregations in their thousands and bank balances in MON the millions Dotun explores how the churches raise vast MON revenues through donations from congregations. Perhaps you MON can't subject God's work to a financial audit but Dotun MON seeks to uncover where the money goes and what those that MON give receive in return? MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01sm2g0 (Listen) MON Labour's New New Jerusalem MON MON Mukul Devichand hears from leading Labour Party figures who MON want a radical new welfare settlement, saying the state MON itself is to blame for society's ills as much as the market. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01sjjy9 (Listen) MON The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of MON Moore on Monday 20th May is nothing new to the area, which MON is situated at the Southern tip of 'tornado alley' and was MON crippled by an equally devastating tornado back in 1999. But MON what is it that makes this stretch of land so susceptible to MON these phenomena and what can its residents do to protect MON themselves? Professor John Snow from the University of MON Oklahoma's College of Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences MON sheds some light on what life is like as a resident of MON 'tornado alley'. MON MON Year on year, another tree disease or pest is identified MON within British borders with ash dieback the latest in a long MON list of pathogens attacking our native species. In light of MON this, The Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Expert Taskforce MON have compiled their final report this week. Chris Gilligan, MON chairman of the expert taskforce and Professor of MON Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, talks MON us through the report's recommendations. MON MON In August 2011, outbreaks of Schmallenberg Virus in cattle, MON goats and sheep emerged in some countries of Western Europe. MON The most dramatic effects of the virus can be seen in MON stillborn calves and lambs with severe deformities. Just MON over a year since the virus was first discovered in the UK, MON a vaccine has been developed in time for breeding season. MON Professor Peter Borriello, CEO of the Veterinary Medicines MON Directorate, explains how the vaccine was engineered so MON quickly. MON MON Professor Hugh Griffiths, the winner of the Institution of MON Engineering and Technology's (IET) A F Harvey Prize, is MON receiving his prize tonight - £300, 000 to continue his work MON on bistatic radar and using FM radio waves and TV signals as MON radar. He joins Quentin Cooper in the studio. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Tornadoes MON MON What is it about Oklahoma's geographical location that MON causes increased susceptibility to tornadoes? How can MON residents of ‘tornado valley’ better protect themselves MON against these rampant acts of Mother Nature? MON prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Tree health MON The Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Expert Taskforce have MON just issued their first report with recommendations to MON combat what they call an “unprecedented threat” from MON non-native pests and diseases. MON MON Schmallenberg Virus Vaccine MON MON The Veterinary Medicines Directorate has issued the MON pharmaceutical company MSD Animal Health a provisional MON licence to provide the new ‘Bovilis SBV’ vaccine to UK MON farmers. They will be the first in the EU to access the MON vaccine. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Radio for radar MON Professor Hugh Griffiths, the winner of the Institution of MON Engineering and Technology's A F Harvey Prize, is receiving MON his prize tonight - £300, 000 to continue his work on MON bistatic radar and using FM radio waves and TV signals as MON radar. He joins Quentin Cooper in the studio. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01slvgt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01sl19b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01sm2g2 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sm7hs (Listen) MON Blood and Beauty, Episode 1 MON MON Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant MON takes on the era's most infamous family - the Borgias. MON MON The story of the Borgia Pope is not long - Roderigo Borgia, MON Alexander VI, was the Head of the Church for barely a decade MON - but an enormous amount of activity, social, political and MON sexual was crammed into that period. MON MON Our abridgement begins in August 1492 when Roderigo Borgia MON wins his campaign to become Pope, and describes the MON repercussions for his children, Cesare, Juan, Lucrezia and MON Jofre. Juan, the only legitimate son, will be allied in MON marriage to Spain, while Cesare is promised to the church - MON thus ensuring their legacy within the Vatican. As for MON Lucrezia, she is part of the price Borgia paid for his MON Papacy - though only 12, she must wed to shore up an uneasy MON alliance with the powerful Milanese Sforza family. MON MON Read by Robert Glenister MON Written by Sarah Dunant MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01sm7hv (Listen) MON Series 2, Wilko Johnson (the A-side) MON MON John Wilson returns with a new series of Mastertapes, in MON which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about MON the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front MON of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. MON Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially MON quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, MON in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both MON editions feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 1, A-side. "Down By The Jetty" with Wilko Johnson. MON MON At the beginning of 2013 Wilko Johnson announced a series of MON farewell UK concerts in March. The guitarist and founding MON member of Dr. Feelgood has been diagnosed with terminal MON cancer and he has chosen not to undergo chemotherapy. But MON before these final live appearances and before going into MON the studio to complete a new album, he came to the BBC Maida MON Vale studios to discuss the making of his very first one: MON Dr. Feelgood's debut album, "Down By The Jetty". MON MON Released in January 1975 and including 'Roxette', 'She Does MON It Right' and 'All Through the City', the album has been MON cited as a major influence by the likes of Paul Weller, the MON Clash, Blondie and the Ramones. MON MON The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the MON audience to ask the questions, can be heard tomorrow at MON 3.30pm MON MON Future Programmes will include Mike Scott talking about the MON Waterboys' album "Fisherman's Blues" and Richard Thompson MON revisiting his best selling solo album, "Rumor & Sigh". MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the MON Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be downloaded MON and other musical goodies accessed. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b01qm79l (Listen) MON Series 12, Zoo for Sale MON MON In a rain sodden valley, close to the fresh winds of the MON Irish Sea, a leopard marches back and forth through the mud. MON Close by, capuchin monkeys chuckle as they cling to the MON bars, and in the warmth of a dark glass tank, a 14 foot MON python is being moved for feeding. MON MON These are unwanted animals - some born in captivity, some MON abandoned and some just too big for their owners to keep. MON They've all found a home with Jean and Alan Mumbray, at The MON Animalarium, a small private zoo close to the fishing MON village of Borth, west Wales. MON MON When Jean and Alan bought the property, they were given the MON keys by the previous owner, who left without a backward MON glance - throwing them into the world of zoo keeping without MON training or experience. 12 years later, full of enthusiasm MON for the place they have created and made their own, they are MON putting the zoo up for sale. MON MON It will be a hard move to make. Jean has a close MON relationship with many of the creatures - such as the lynx MON she calls 'Baby', and who will sit on her shoulder and purr MON as she strokes him fondly. MON MON Jean and Alan have also fostered 42 children over the past MON 25 years. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 MAY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01sl1b5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01slvgw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sl1b7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sl1b9 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sl1bc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01sl1bf (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b021mkx8 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison TUE Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing TUE Compassion and Wisdom. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01sm6q2 (Listen) TUE Anna Hill presents the latest news about food, farming and TUE the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyzk (Listen) TUE Guillemot 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 Guillemot. Guillemots breed on TUE cliff ledges and the chick is encouraged to make its first TUE flight at the pointing of fledging by being encouraged to TUE jump by its mother or father calling from the sea below. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01sm6q4 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01sm6q6 (Listen) TUE Linda Partridge TUE TUE Will we ever be able to escape the diseases of old age? TUE TUE That's the aim of today's guest, Prof Dame Linda Partridge TUE who studies the genetics of ageing. From fruit flies to TUE nematode worms, she uses simple organisms to unmask the TUE secret processes that cause our bodies to deteriorate as we TUE get older. TUE TUE But her route into science was far from normal - growing up TUE in a Catholic convent boarding school, the girls were TUE encouraged to be good housewives rather than diligent TUE scientists. However, the lack of science facilities and TUE teachers meant that the students had to run their own TUE laboratory, ordering chemicals and tending to equipment. TUE TUE It was the start of a long and successful career, which has TUE culminated in Linda becoming the Founding Director of the TUE Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Germany and TUE the Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College, TUE London. TUE TUE Her life's goal is to produce pharmacological treatments TUE that will help people stay healthier in old age. But what TUE are the social and economic impacts of our growing TUE longevity? TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01sm6rr (Listen) TUE Clive Myrie talks to Alp Mehmet TUE TUE BBC News presenter, Clive Myrie, takes over the reins of TUE 'One to One' for a three-part series on immigration. TUE TUE As the son of Jamaican immigrants who came to the UK in the TUE 1960s, Clive has a very personal take on this topic. He TUE lived abroad as a foreign correspondent for almost 15 years, TUE returning once or twice a year to see his family. After 2004 TUE he noticed how much the UK was changing. The EU had TUE expanded, Polish people were settling here in large numbers, TUE and the transformation came as a shock to him. TUE TUE In these interviews, Clive explores an immigrant's view of TUE immigration. In the first programme, he speaks to Alp TUE Mehmet, Vice-Chair of Migration Watch. Mehmet came to the UK TUE at the age of 8, he went on to become an immigration officer TUE and Ambassador to Iceland. As someone who was born abroad TUE and has lived and worked in many different countries, what TUE are his views on immigration and have they changed during TUE his time with an organisation which has itself attracted TUE plenty of controversy on the subject. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01sm6rt (Listen) TUE The North (and Almost Everything in It), Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: holiday trips to the south coast expose the darker TUE side of life in the north. TUE TUE Abridger: Viv Beeby TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sm6rw (Listen) TUE Ute Lemper; Dana Stabenow TUE TUE Samira Ahmed presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sm6ry (Listen) TUE Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Episode 7 TUE TUE By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz TUE TUE Episode Seven - Dr. Tull is not a Toy TUE TUE A vacuum cleaner goes missing and Dr. Jenny Tull finds her TUE domestic niche. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 11:00 On the Borderline b01sm6s0 (Listen) TUE Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most TUE controversial mental health diagnoses and yet it's by no TUE means uncommon. Clare Allan, award-winning novelist and TUE Guardian columnist, says she was given the diagnosis as a TUE "parting gift" when, after 18 months in psychiatric day TUE hospital, she had failed to respond to treatment. TUE TUE Clare tells her own BPD story and uses her experience and TUE perspective to explore the history, science and future of TUE the diagnosis. TUE TUE BPD was "invented" in the 1970s to cover a range of symptoms TUE including violent mood swings, difficulties with intimacy, TUE depression, fear of abandonment and self-destructive TUE behaviour. TUE TUE Why was the diagnosis needed? How was it developed? How does TUE it differ from and resemble other mental health problems? TUE Why are women three times more likely than men to be given TUE the diagnosis? Is there any truth to the notion that you can TUE "grow out" of it and if so, why? What treatment is available TUE and how effective can it be? TUE TUE Clare discovers a debate which is raging amongst mental TUE health professionals about the BPD diagnosis. She talks to TUE experts who defend the use of the diagnosis, including the TUE so-called "father" of BPD, Dr John Gunderson, who wrote the TUE definitive paper on the condition in 1975. She also talks to TUE a senior psychiatrist, Dr Peter Tyrer, who argues that the TUE label of BPD is not useful and should be scrapped. TUE TUE The programme also includes stories of others with the BPD TUE diagnosis and the views of friends and carers. TUE TUE A personal, thought-provoking and challenging programme TUE which highlights the difficulty of diagnosis and definition TUE in the field of mental health. TUE TUE Producer: Leala Padmanabhan. TUE TUE 11:30 The Science of Music b01sm6s2 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Robert Winston looks at music with a scientist's eye. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01sm70r (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01sl1bh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01sm70t (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 Disability: A New History b01sm70w (Listen) TUE Miracle Cures TUE TUE Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives TUE of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th TUE centuries. In this second episode - the search for Miracle TUE Cures. TUE TUE Peter says, "Every so often in the street someone sees me TUE with my white stick and comes up to me -and offers me my TUE sight back. I'm usually quite rude to them, it depends what TUE kind of day I'm having. But the idea of miracle cures runs TUE very deep." TUE TUE It goes back at least to the Middle Ages, to the earliest TUE accounts we have of disability in Britain. Peter TUE investigates the roots of the idea of the miracle cure, in TUE conversation with medieval historian Irina Metzler. She TUE reveals that having a child with a disability was thought to TUE be the result of "the wrong kind of sex" - and there were TUE many "wrong kinds", such as sex on Feast Days and in TUE daylight. TUE TUE Thousands of people with illnesses and disabilities flocked TUE to their local Cathedral, praying to the Saints for a cure. TUE When that didn't work, they simply moved on to another TUE cathedral. And the belief in miracles lasted at least until TUE the 18th Century - we hear how the infant Samuel Johnson was TUE taken to see Queen Anne, his mother hoping that the Royal TUE touch would cure his skin disease. It didn't work, of TUE course, but the great rationalist wore the amulet the Queen TUE gave him all his life - hoping for a cure for his multiple TUE disabilities. There's a triumph of hope over experience! TUE TUE With historians Irina Metzler and Judith Hawley and voices TUE from the past brought vividly to life by actors Emily Bevan, TUE Ewan Bailey and Gerard McDermott. TUE TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01sm2ft (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b018gqzp (Listen) TUE A Tale of Two Cities, Two Promises TUE TUE By Charles Dickens TUE Dramatised by Mike Walker TUE Episode 3/5 - Two Promises TUE TUE In a Paris wine shop information is exchanged about the TUE courtship of Lucie Manette and Charles Darnay, and indeed, TUE in London, it appears that a wedding is indeed in the air. TUE TUE With Adam Billington and Christopher Webster TUE Music by Lennert Busch TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Charles Dickens TUE Adaptor: Mike Walker TUE Charles Dickens: Robert Lindsay TUE Jarvis Lorry: Jonathan Coy TUE Miss Pross: Alison Steadman TUE Dr Alexandre Manette: Karl Johnson TUE Lucie Manette: Lydia Wilson TUE Charles Darnay: Andrew Scott TUE Sydney Carton: Paul Ready TUE Ernest Defarge: James Lailey TUE Therese Defarge: Tracy Wiles TUE Barsad: Gerard McDermott TUE Jerry Cruncher: Carl Prekopp TUE Natty Cruncher: Daniel Cooper TUE Prison Warder: Simon Bubb TUE Ensemble: Adam Billington TUE Ensemble: Christopher Webster TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Director: Jeremy Mortimer TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01sm70y (Listen) TUE Series 3, Someone to Watch Over Me TUE TUE In the first programme of this series of Short Cuts, Josie TUE Long presents a selection of short documentaries which peel TUE back the curtain, peer into the darkness and look out at TUE those who are watching us. TUE TUE By turns delightful and unsettling, today's audio adventures TUE include the secret games teachers play when they're TUE invigilating exams, a photographer whose ambition is to TUE capture 'still lives' of people unawares in their homes at TUE night, and a glimpse of the devices you can buy to spy on TUE those supposedly close to you. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall. TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01sm710 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Wilko Johnson (the B-side) TUE TUE Programme 1, the B-side. Having discussed the making of TUE "Down By The Jetty", the debut album from Dr. Feelgood (in TUE the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 27th May TUE and available online), Wilko Johnson responds to questions TUE from the audience and performs live versions of some of the TUE songs discussed. TUE TUE Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme TUE (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the TUE Radio 4 website, where all the programmes of this and TUE previous series can also be downloaded and other musical TUE goodies accessed. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Food: A Scandalous History b01sm712 (Listen) TUE Giles Coren takes a trip back to the days of Victorian food TUE scandals. TUE TUE Then, adulteration of food was endemic and the ghoulish TUE newspapers of the day played on people's fears about eating TUE horse and cat. TUE TUE In 2013 we have witnessed the explosion of a public panic TUE about the presence of horse meat in supermarket ready meals TUE and mass catering establishments. These scandals have raised TUE a number of important questions about the traceability of TUE our food, our reliance on industrial processes in food TUE production for mass catering and the extent to which the TUE consumer in this process is a victim or really 'should know TUE better'. TUE TUE This programme asks whether it might be useful to look back TUE at similar scandals in the past in order to contextualise TUE our fears about 'horse-meat lasagne'. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01sm714 (Listen) TUE Series 30, Florence Nightingale TUE TUE Dr Lucy Worsley chooses a figure as familiar as she is TUE unknown, the great champion of Victorian nursing, Florence TUE Nightingale. Known as 'the Lady with the Lamp' for her work TUE in the Crimea, Florence was however not just a nurse. She TUE was a health administrator and statistician, whose work laid TUE the foundations for the development of the NHS. TUE TUE Born in 1820 into an upper middle class family, Florence TUE experienced early life as a bird in a gilded cage and TUE suffered frequent 'nervous collapse'. Prodigiously TUE intelligent, she was also deeply religious, and at 16 TUE declared she had heard the voice of God, calling her to TUE nursing. By her thirties, and despite opposition from her TUE family, Florence had succeeded in training as a nurse. She TUE was working in a Harley Street establishment for the care of TUE gentlewomen when Britain and France joined Turkish forces TUE against the Russians in the Crimea. As reports came in of TUE the men's suffering, she became convinced of her ability to TUE help. TUE TUE Commissioned by the War Office, Florence set sail for the TUE Crimea in 1854, and her work there quickly became well TUE known. Walking the corridors with her lamp, she was adored TUE by the men for her determination to spare them the diseases TUE like cholera and typhus that were decimating their numbers. TUE But she was as steely as she was compassionate, and ran her TUE troop of nurses with a military discipline. In Britain her TUE reputation grew. TUE TUE By the time of her return two years later, Florence was a TUE reluctant celebrity, frail and ill. While her mother and TUE sister basked in her glory, Florence retreated from the TUE limelight, and for some years was bed-bound. It's now TUE believed she had brucellosis, an illness contracted through TUE infected milk, which leads to depression and severe pain. TUE Yet this did not stop her engagement with medicine, and even TUE from her bed she was instrumental in changing the way that TUE healthcare was implemented both in the Army, and in society TUE at large. Statistics was key to this, and a passion for TUE Florence, who saw in the gathering of data, the evidence of TUE God's patterns at work. She also famously established a TUE school for nursing, and professionalised nursing work. TUE TUE Dr Lucy Worsley, television historian, writer and Chief TUE Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity TUE that looks after buildings including Hampton Court and the TUE Tower of London, joins Matthew Parris to discuss the complex TUE background of 'the Lady with the Lamp'. And biographer Mark TUE Bostridge explains why Nightingale has a right to be TUE regarded as a great genius of the Victorian age. TUE TUE Producer: Lizz Pearson. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01sm716 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sl1bk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Castle b01hllj1 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Tender Is the Knight TUE TUE Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, TUE starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley"), Neil Dudgeon TUE ("Life Of Riley"), Martha Howe-Douglas ("Horrible TUE Histories") & Ingrid Oliver TUE TUE Sir John fills his castle with wounded soldiers and De TUE Warenne fills his trousers with ice. Plus a new valet TUE arrives hotfoot from somewhere called Downton Abbey... TUE TUE Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander TUE Music by Guy Jackson TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sir John Woodstock: James Fleet TUE Sir William De Warenne: Neil Dudgeon TUE Lady Anne Woodstock: Martha Howe-Douglas TUE Cardinal Duncan: Jonathan Kydd TUE Lady Charlotte: Ingrid Oliver TUE Master Henry Woodstock: Steven Kynman TUE Bates: Lewis Macleod TUE Writer: Paul Alexander TUE Writer: Kim Fuller TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE Director: David Tyler TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01sm718 (Listen) TUE It's a busy time for Jennifer and Tony gets things underway. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01sm71b (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Neil Jordan's TUE vampire film Byzantium, starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma TUE Arterton. Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, TUE shares his passion for a favourite work in Cultural TUE Exchange. TUE TUE Producer Olivia Skinner. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sm6ry (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01sm74t (Listen) TUE There's mounting concern over the Iranian nuclear programme. TUE Is Tehran is simply playing cat and mouse with the TUE international community and buying time until it is ready to TUE develop a nuclear weapon? Evidence is emerging that Iran is TUE co-operating with North Korea, a country which has already TUE developed its own weapon. TUE TUE The latest report from the UN's international watchdog, the TUE IAEA, is due out next month - but has the IAEA been strong TUE enough in its dealings with Tehran and Pyongyang? TUE TUE Reporter Rob Broomby charts the history of concealment of TUE Iran's nuclear activities and its refusal to abandon the TUE most controversial parts of its programme, despite numerous TUE UN Security Council resolutions and a raft of sanctions. In TUE a detailed interview with File on 4, Iran's ambassador TUE dealing with nuclear matters, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, denies TUE his country is a "serial offender". But can protestations of TUE innocence be taken seriously when Iran still refuses TUE inspectors access to key sites and documents? TUE TUE The programme also examines the role of the IAEA in dealing TUE with Iran and hears from former nuclear inspectors, TUE ex-Whitehouse officials, diplomats and experts. Is the TUE Agency up to the job of preventing states from acquiring the TUE bomb? TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01sm74w (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01sm74y (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 b01sm6q6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01sl1bm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01sm750 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01sm7kc (Listen) TUE Blood and Beauty, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Pope Alexander XI begins his reign with caution, impressing TUE the Romans while keeping his mistress and his children in TUE check - as best he can. TUE TUE Read by Robert Glenister TUE Written by Sarah Dunant TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Yes, Nina Conti Really Is on the Radio b01sm78h (Listen) TUE Not since Educating Archie, more than 50 years ago, has a TUE ventriloquist had a show on the radio. Nina Conti is TUE Britain's leading vent and has been all round the world with TUE her puppet Monkey, Gran, Dog and others. Not only is Nina an TUE expert at her craft, she demonstrates that she can think on TUE her feet, chatting to the audience and her two guests: TUE physicist Jim Al-Khalili and Wagner from X Factor. She also TUE invites her audience to bring puppets of their own, which TUE she brings magically to life. This is a celebration of the TUE ancient craft, and a chance to hear one of Britain's TUE funniest women at the top of her game. TUE TUE 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b01qwcyz (Listen) TUE Series 12, An Occasional Island TUE TUE The people of Muchelney, Alan Dein discovers, have an TUE intimate relationship with water. They live on the flood TUE plain of the River Parrett in the Somerset Levels. The name TUE of their ancient village, from the Norse and Old English, TUE means 'growing great island', and, despite the draining of TUE the marshes, it is not unusual for Muchelney to become an TUE island again, and the four roads leading to the village TUE inundated. TUE TUE Alan Dein visits in a time of flood and finds the villagers TUE take it in their stride: farmer Graham Walker fires up his TUE old tractor, puts a sofa on his trailer, and runs a bus TUE service, ferrying people to the far shore so they can get to TUE work and to school. He picks up food and mail. There's no TUE traffic. People stop and talk. They look out for one TUE another. It's not just the children who love it. TUE TUE Widgeon, teal, geese, swans and gulls appear in flocks of TUE thousands to the fields that become a lake of tranquil TUE beauty. No one worries, the houses are old, built cannily on TUE land always a few inches above the flood levels - until now. TUE TUE In November the flood waters rose higher than anyone could TUE remember. The potter John Leach describes how, for the first TUE time, the water coming into his house and kiln. Michael TUE Brown, eel smoker, who has lived by the river for decades, TUE recounts his battle to keep the stealthy enemy out. Thatcher TUE Nigel Bunce is thankful that his son's crying, as the waters TUE approached the child's cot, woke him in time. Shirley Gove's TUE beautiful barn conversion is wrecked. Whenever it rains now, TUE she tells Alan, she will be scared. TUE TUE Something is changing, and Alan Dein finds that the people TUE of Muchelney, after centuries of living on their occasional TUE island, much preoccupied, and some considering their TUE options. TUE TUE Producer: Julian May. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01sl1cg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01sm6rt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sl1cj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sl1cl (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sl1cn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01sl1cq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b020ssjz (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison WED Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing WED Compassion and Wisdom. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01sm7n0 (Listen) WED Sybil Ruscoe presents the latest news about food, farming WED and the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbz0y (Listen) WED Storm Petrel WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David WED Attenborough presents the European Storm Petrel. The storm WED petrels as a group are the smallest seabirds in the world WED and called "Jesus Christ birds" because they give the WED appearance they can walk on water as they flutter over the WED sea surface dangling their legs whilst looking for food. WED WED 06:00 Today b01sm7n2 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01sm7n4 (Listen) WED Libby Purves meets Jimmy Connors and Sir Jonathan Miller. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01sm7n6 (Listen) WED The North (and Almost Everything in It), Episode 3 WED WED Today: sixties glamour finds its way to Reddish, while WED football binds father and son together. WED WED Abridger: Viv Beeby WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01sm7n8 (Listen) WED Jessica Hynes; Kate Manning WED WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01sm71d (Listen) WED Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, This Really Happened WED WED By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz WED WED Episode Eight - This Really Happened WED WED Cody's son Luke makes the journey to Baltimore and the WED Homesick Restaurant. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b01sm7qp (Listen) WED Series 3, The Power of Belief WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook & Skype, hearing WED the real life dramas of random strangers. WED WED Today, stories about the power of belief. Alan hears the WED epic story of a Peruvian man who believes that a Canadian WED visa will persuade his Belarusian ex-wife to come back to WED him, an American woman tells of her relationship with a WED Muslim which raised eyebrows in the Midwest and a Canadian WED man talks about talking to the spirit of his late father. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 House on Fire b01sm7qr (Listen) WED Series 3, Camping 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 Episode 2: WED WED Vicky decides to dust down her girl guide badges and go WED camping with friends. But her original plans for camping WED buddies don't quite work out. WED WED Cast: WED Vicky.............................Emma Pierson WED Matt..............................Jody Latham WED Peter.............................Philip Jackson WED Julie...............................Janine Duvitski WED Colonel Bill.....................Rupert Vansittart WED Man on Radio / WED Camping store man.......Colin Hoult WED Shopkeeper....................Fergus Craig WED WED Written by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01smkpr (Listen) WED Consumer news with Aasmah Mir. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01pztrs (Listen) WED A Funny Old Business Rate System? WED WED John Waite examines how the government's decision to delay WED revaluation of rateable values for business rates could be WED harmful to the future of small independent shops and pubs in WED town centres. Organisations such as the British Property WED Federation, the British Chambers of Commerce, and the WED Association of Town Centre Management say that the system WED creates an unfair playing field, with the High Street no WED longer the prime retail space it once was, given the rise of WED out of town shopping and online business. Decisions on WED rateable value are still being based on rental values from WED 2008, a time when the economy was booming, yet some areas of WED the country have seen rental values fall by as much as 40%. WED Critics also claim that the appeal system is under stress WED and unfair, with a huge backlog of unheard appeals and WED suggestions that the government is encouraging the Valuation WED Office Agency to reject more appeals. We ask a Government WED Minister why commdercial values used to calculate business WED rates can't be updated annually as they are in other WED countries. WED WED Producer: Jo Taylor WED Editor:Andrew Smith. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01sl1cs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01smkpy (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 Disability: A New History b01smkq3 (Listen) WED Freaks and Entrepreneurs WED WED Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives WED of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th WED centuries. In this third episode, he challenges our modern WED ideas of freaks and freak shows. WED WED Many disabled people who exhibited themselves in the 18th WED century were in fact wealthy entrepreneurs. Historians now WED argue that they were in charge of their own careers, and WED they challenged society's expectations of what disabled WED people could achieve. WED WED Case studies include the artist Matthew Buchinger, who was WED born without arms or legs but became a performer to Royalty WED and a symbol of virility in the 18th century. Peter also WED discovers that 18th century dwarves could be delivered to WED your door in a box - if you were wealthy enough to pay for a WED private view. WED WED With historians David Turner, Judith Hawley and Naomi Baker WED and voices from the past brought to life by actors Gerard WED McDermott, Ewan Bailey and Emily Bevan. WED WED Producer: Elizabeth Burke WED Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01sm718 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00xhhw2 (Listen) WED Haunted WED WED By Sally Griffiths. WED WED Professional illusionist, Will Morgan, is to front a TV show WED in which he exposes spiritualist mediums as frauds. Hayley WED Taylor is the spiritualist medium who refuses to back down WED under Will's scrutiny - a challenge Will can't walk away WED from. Both are to have their belief systems sorely tested WED when a voice from one of their pasts refuses to keep silent. WED WED Starring Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey) as Will and Zoe WED Tapper (Mr Selfridge) as Hayley. WED WED Directed by Gemma Jenkins WED WED (repeat) WED WED Credits WED Will: Steffan Rhodri WED Hayley: Zoe Tapper WED Yasmina: Vineeta Rishi WED Nick: Henry Devas WED Callum: Lloyd Thomas WED Waitress: Joanna Monro WED Writer: Sally Griffiths WED Director: Gemma Jenkins WED Producer: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01smpw4 (Listen) WED Holidays WED WED If you're planning a holiday and want to ask about travel WED rights, insurance or travel money, call 03700 100 444 WED between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED What's the best way to take money abroad? Should you take WED cash, pre-paid cards or rely on your credit card? WED WED What are your rights if your flight is delayed or cancelled? WED WED Will be you compensated if your bags are lost? WED WED Are you happy with the way holidays are sold? Is the price WED clear or are you frustrated by optional extras? WED WED If you are booking travel and accommodation independently WED how can you ensure you are not scammed? 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 Kelly Ostler-Coyle, Association of British Insurers WED WED Dan Plant, from MoneySavingExpert WED WED Sean Tipton, ABTA 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 b01sm74y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01smpw6 (Listen) WED The Multicultural Prison WED WED The multicultural prison - a unique analysis of the daily WED lives and interactions of both white and ethnic minority WED inmates in the closed world of the modern, male prison. WED Diverse British nationals, foreign. and migrant populations, WED have been brought into close proximity within prison walls. WED How do they negotiate their tensions and differences? The WED criminologist, Coretta Phillips, talks to Laurie Taylor WED about her empirical research in Rochester Young Offenders' WED Institution and Maidstone Prison. WED WED Also, reactions to jellied eels. Drawing on a series of WED ethnographic encounters collected while hanging around at a WED seafood stand in east London, Alex Rhys Taylor explores the WED relationship between individual expressions of distaste and WED the production of class, ethnic and generational forms of WED distinction. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01smpw8 (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 b01smpwb (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sl1cv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b01s5d64 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Thom Tuck presents the pick of the new sketch groups WED currently performing live on the UK comedy circuit - with WED character, improv, broken and musical sketch comedy. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01smpwd (Listen) WED Lilian finds it hard to be sympathetic, and Tom comes to the WED rescue. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Vanessa Whitburn WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01sn9cc (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01sm71d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01sn9cf (Listen) WED How Free Is Our Speech? WED WED Are laws designed to protect individuals and minority groups WED from offence and harassment, inhibiting free speech? WED WED Clive Anderson and his guests discuss whether cases such as WED the conviction of a woman for telling David Cameron he had WED "blood on his hands" and the arrest of a man for calling a WED police horse "gay" are bringing the law into disrepute. WED WED Barristers Ivan Hare and Neil Addison call for the repeal of WED some public order laws and for reform of law relating to the WED incitement of hatred on the grounds or race, religion or WED sexual orientation. WED WED But Chief Constable Andrew Trotter argues that such laws are WED essential tools in the police armoury for maintaining public WED order. He says minority groups and individuals deserve WED protection from abusive language. WED WED Legal academic Gavin Phillipson suggests that hate speech WED laws should be restricted to preventing language which WED fundamentally questions other people's right to exist or WED that attempts to relegate them to lower class citizens. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01snbm0 (Listen) WED Series 4, Anna Woodhouse: Windows to the Soul WED WED Anna Woodhouse explores what looking through glass and WED glasses means for us. WED WED When she was a call centre worker Anna could see the towers WED of Leeds University through the window of her high rise WED block on a Leeds council estate. For her, this symbolised WED both possibility and disconnection from the object of her WED desire. When she eventually left the estate, she completed a WED study on the place of glass in our culture. 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 Vertical Farming b01snbm2 (Listen) WED By 2050 the population of the world is expected to grow to WED over 9 billion and proponents of "vertical farming" believe WED growing food in cities would use less land and resources WED than traditional outdoor methods, reduce transport costs and WED fossil-fuel emissions. WED WED As vertical farms start to spring up in Sweden, Vancouver WED and the Netherlands, Ella McSweeney investigates whether WED they could provide a cost-effective solution that will WED increase yields or if it is just another example of head in WED the clouds utopian thinking. WED WED Prod: Clare Walker. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01sm7n4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01sl1cx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01snbm4 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01snbm6 (Listen) WED Blood and Beauty, Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3: WED Lucrezia frets about the strategic alliance her father is WED making with her marriage, and Cesare is recalled to Rome. WED WED Read by Robert Glenister WED Written by Sarah Dunant WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01snbm8 (Listen) WED Series 2, About Animals WED WED EPISODE FIVE: ABOUT ANIMALS WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of WED the disappointed family members. She loves Nathan, but she WED aint looking embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was WED looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of WED them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan WED has blown that dream out of the window. WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down WED architecture for comedy. How can her grandson go on stage WED and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the WED good Christian way! WED So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan WED do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or WED will he give in to his family's interference? WED WED Nathan: Nathan Caton WED Mum: Adjoa Andoh WED Dad: Curtis Walker WED Grandma: Mona Hammond WED Robber: Don Gilet WED Steve: Don Gilet WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Nathan Caton WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Ola WED Writer: Maff Brown WED WED 23:15 One b009fycw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 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 Dan Maier, Lizzie Roper, WED David Quantick. Graeme Garden, Johnny Daukes, Deborah WED Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski and Michael Lerner. WED WED Producer: Julian Mayers WED A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b01r0gp9 (Listen) WED Series 12, Academy Beat WED WED Providing pastoral care is key to his role as head of year WED eleven at the London school and he does this by combining a WED no nonsense approach to bad behaviour with a sensitive WED handling of some of the difficulties encountered by his WED fifteen and sixteen year old charges. This is their GCSE WED exam year and although Dave left school in the 1970's with WED just one CSE in English he recognises the difficulties faced WED by those struggling with exam preparations and a lack of WED direction in today's tough economic climate. WED WED Well versed in policing mixed communities the former East WED End officer thought he had pretty much seen it all - that WED was until he entered the corridors of this showpiece WED academy. For Dave the behaviour issues he first encountered WED in the job were a reflection of poor parenting, with many WED adults unsure about how to instil a sense of right and wrong WED in their children. A total of five former police officers WED were brought into the school: each appointed as a year head WED and providing pastoral support and care. WED WED Their job is not an easy one but David Clifford tells Alan WED that it brings rewards, challenges, frustrations and WED excitement in equal measure. Having joined the police force WED at 19 he was due to retire at 49 when he saw the advert for WED "behaviour managers" at the academy. That was eight years WED ago and he and other four retired officers were quickly WED promoted to heads of year, where they have successfully WED tackled a whole range of issues in the school WED WED "What I wasn't prepared for was how vulnerable some of the WED kids are - for all their talk of street life they really WED don't have the resilience that I and my friends had when we WED were young. There are huge contrasts in the job and I see WED everything from the funniest moments to some of the most WED distressing." WED WED As Alan Dein tracks Dave Clifford through a school day he WED sees at first hand some of the challenges involved: a pupil WED who appears to have just dropped off the radar and another WED desperate to be in school but too ill to attend. He is WED called on to deal with a group of girls who swallow cinnamon WED for fun and he tracks down the culprits when chicken bones WED are discovered on the canteen floor. And in amidst these WED episodes there's an album to record and an outburst over a WED text book to resolve: it's all part of the working day for WED Dave Clifford. WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 MAY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01sl1dr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01sm7n6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sl1dt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sl1dw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sl1dy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01sl1f0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b021mkx1 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison THU Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing THU Compassion and Wisdom. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01snjpk (Listen) THU Caz Graham presents the latest news about food, farming and THU the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbz1g (Listen) THU Sedge Warbler THU THU David Attenborough presents the Sedge Warbler. Sedge THU warblers like tangled vegetation near water. They're summer THU visitors here but seek out similar habitats in Africa where THU they spend the winter. Before leaving our shores in autumn, THU they gorge on insects, often doubling their weight. THU THU 06:00 Today b01snjpm (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01snjpp (Listen) THU Queen Zenobia THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Queen Zenobia, a famous THU military leader of the ancient world. Born in around 240 AD, THU Zenobia was Empress of the Palmyrene Empire in the Middle THU East. She led a rebellion against the Roman Empire and THU conquered Egypt before being finally overthrown by the THU Romans. Her story captured the imagination of many THU Renaissance writers, and has become the subject of numerous THU operas, poems and plays. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01snjpr (Listen) THU The North (and Almost Everything in It), Episode 4 THU THU Today: the teenage Morley's head is turned when glam rock THU hits Manchester. THU THU Abridger: Viv Beeby THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01snjpt (Listen) THU Women and their dogs; Nikki Gemmell THU THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01snjpw (Listen) THU Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Apple Apple THU THU By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz THU THU Episode Nine - Apple Apple THU THU Glimpses of happiness are found in the youthful diaries of THU the now blind Pearl. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01snjpy (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 In Godzilla's Footsteps b01y1gxj (Listen) THU Godzilla, the giant green lizard which levels Tokyo THU skyscrapers with a sweep of his enormous tail, was the THU response of Japan's film makers in the 1950s to the national THU trauma of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In THU the wake of 2011's Tsunami, the nation's artists have been THU similarly inventive in turning the disaster into art. The THU "post 3/11 movement" takes inspiration from the devastating THU images of flooded cities, smoking nuclear reactors and grief THU stricken victims which emerged after the earthquake and THU tsunami. THU THU Mark Rickards meets artists and musicians who have turned THU the disaster into art, and asks whether they have found a THU suitable response to the devastating events which shook THU Japan. THU THU 27-year-old installation artist Tsubasa Kato volunteered to THU visit Fukushima to help clear up the rubble. With the help THU of 300 local residents who had lost their homes, Kato THU recently constructed a three storey lighthouse from the THU rubble of ruined houses and schools. The lighthouse now THU stands looking out over the sea, as a symbol of what THU happened in March 2011. THU THU The performance artists Chim Pom, a six person collective of THU unschooled artists donned protective radioactive suits and THU visited the devastated Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, holding THU up symbolic referees' red cards in front of the cracked dome THU of the nuclear reactor. Videoed for a performance art piece THU they admitted they were frightened of the radiation levels THU but "wanted to respond to these life changing events by THU placing ourselves in the middle of the radiation zone." THU THU The video artist Kota Takeuchi secretly took a job at the THU devastated nuclear plant and is recorded pointing an THU accusing finger at the video camera which keeps watch over THU the site. Later he called a press conference to harangue THU Tepco, operator of the plant about the conditions of workers THU inside. THU THU With contributions from Tsubasa Kato, Chim Pom, Kota THU Takeuchi amongst others, Mark Rickards explores Japan's THU artistic response to the tragedy. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01snjq0 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Aasmah Mir. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01sl1f2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01snjq2 (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 Disability: A New History b01snjq4 (Listen) THU Beauty and Deformity THU THU Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives THU of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th THU centuries. THU THU Today, he explores ideas of beauty and deformity which had a THU real impact on the lives of people with disabilities. THU THU In the 18th century, you could be transformed from beautiful THU to "deformed" overnight. We hear the first-hand account of THU one woman who suffered this transformation - the writer Lady THU Mary Wortley Montagu, a society beauty who caught smallpox THU when she was 26: "How am I changed! Where's my complexion, THU where the bloom that promised happiness for years to come?" THU THU Mourning loss of beauty was not just natural human vanity, THU because beauty was thought of as a moral quality, not just THU skin-deep - and ugliness was deeply shameful. The belief was THU that outward deformity revealed inner wickedness. THU THU Peter explores how this idea changed under the impact of a THU greater scientific understanding of the world. But THU surprisingly, science did not encourage more tolerance - in THU fact, it led to a much narrower definition of what was THU "normal". He also discovers that disability was thought to THU be contagious in the 18th century, and that all women were THU believed to be deformed because the ideal body was male. THU THU With historians Naomi Baker and Judith Hawley, and THU historical sources including manuals for parents to correct THU the appearance of their children as well as 18th century THU doctors' advertisements. Voices from the past are brought THU vividly to life, with actors Emily Bevan, Ewan Bailey and THU Gerard McDermott. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Burke THU Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01smpwd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01szb0q (Listen) THU The New Bwana THU THU by Sam Soko THU THU Kenya, 1964. Gaga and Mutia have worked together, doing the THU same jobs in the same workshop, for years. They've watched THU many changes in their country and now that Kenya has gained THU Independence, the possibility of one of them being the boss THU - the new Bwana - is suddenly and surprisingly in the air. THU But what would it mean for their friendship? And how much do THU they really know each other anyway? THU Soko Sam's satire on hope and possibility was shortlisted in THU the 2011 BBC World Service/British Council International THU Playwriting Competition. THU THU Directed by Femi Elufowoju, jr. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Sam Soko THU Gaga Apoto: Babou Ceesay THU Mutia Kitungu: Jude Akuwudike THU Shiral Patel: Sacha Dhawan THU Mr Johnston: Trevor Cooper THU Mrs Johnston: Joanna Brookes THU Announcer: Amaka Okafor THU Director: Femi Elufowoju Jr THU Producer: Femi Elufowoju Jr THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01snjq6 (Listen) THU Series 24, George Monbiot in search of the wild THU THU Clare Balding goes rambling, near Machynlleth, with the THU writer and environmentalist, George Monbiot. The theme of THU this series of Ramblings is 'In Search Of.' and, together, THU George and Clare are walking in search of wildness. THU THU George's new book, 'Feral', is partly a personal story about THU his attempt to stave off the monochrome nature of modern-day THU life: "I could not continue just sitting and writing, THU looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to THU stay fit, watching the seasons cycling past without ever THU quite belonging to them. I was, I believed, ecologically THU bored". THU THU In this walk, George explains how he has attempted to THU 'rewild' his own life and describes what he believes needs THU to be done in order to reintroduce true wildness to our THU countryside through the large-scale restoration of THU ecosystems. He says "researching it felt like stepping THU through the back of the wardrobe". THU THU Using OS Explorer OL23 - Cadair Idris and Llyn Tegid - THU George takes Clare to his favourite place in mid-Wales, a THU rare stand of ancient native woodland, which stirs him to THU his very soul. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01slqc9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01slrjc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01snlst (Listen) THU Neil Jordan on Byzantium; Dr Who 50 years on; Trailers or THU spoilers? THU THU Matthew Sweet talks to the director Neil Jordan about his THU new vampire film, Byzantium starring Gemma Arterton and THU Saoirse Ronan. And 50 years after the Dr Who films took to THU the big screen in Technicolor, we hear from stars Bernard THU Cribbins and Roberta Tovey and Dr Who writer and comedian THU Mark Gatiss. Plus trailers - too much information? Tasters THU or spoilers? We trawl through some of the worst offenders... THU Producer: Elaine Lester. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01snlsw (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 b01snlsy (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sl1f4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Heresy b01snlt0 (Listen) THU Series 9, Episode 3 THU THU Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show THU which dares to commit heresy . THU Her guests this week are comedians Mark Steel and Bridget THU Christie and journalist Matthew Norman. THU THU Producers: Victoria Coren Mitchell and Daisy Knight THU An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01snlt2 (Listen) THU Peggy sticks to her guns, and Jim wonders if he's being over THU sensitive. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01snlt4 (Listen) THU John Wilson charts the progress of artist Jeremy Deller, as THU he creates a range of new work for the British Pavilion at THU the Venice Biennale. The journey begins in Jeremy's flat, THU and includes visits to a recording studio and a record THU pressing plant, before the final unveiling of the works in THU Venice. THU THU Producer Ekene Akalawu. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01snjpw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01snlt6 (Listen) THU Accident and Emergency Crisis THU THU Endless waits, queuing ambulances, waiting rooms like 'war THU zones' . Accident and Emergency departments in England are THU still reeling from what hospital bosses have called the THU 'worst winter anyone can remember'. Why did it happen, and THU is A&E on the verge of collapse? THU Simon Cox looks into the issues at two hospitals in London THU and Birmingham, one that has had lots of investment, the THU other financially troubled. Both have failed to hit their THU government targets for A&E waiting times. THU The Report looks at what these hospitals say about the THU causes of the current problems in A&E and what the solutions THU might be. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01snmp2 (Listen) THU The App Industry THU THU Evan Davis meets "appreneurs" trying to make money in a THU marketplace where traditional business rules do not apply. THU Becoming an appreneur is easy. All you need is a computer THU and a couple of hundred pounds. And an idea of course. No THU surprise perhaps that thousands of new apps are created THU every week to serve the ever growing smart phone and tablet THU computer market. But what happens next? How do you make a THU living if your product is free? And if you sell your app, THU how high can you go when buyers expect a lot for very THU little? And how do you market to customers without knowing THU who they are? THU THU Guests : THU Barry Meade, co-founder Fireproof Studios THU Professor Anthony Steed, co-founder Chirp THU Max Whitby, co-founder & CEO Touch Press THU THU Producer : Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 On the Borderline b01sm6s0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01snjpp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01sl1f6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01snmyz (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01snqbs (Listen) THU Blood and Beauty, Episode 4 THU THU Episode 4: THU Alexander plays out the diplomatic chess game of matchmaking THU his three eligible offspring, and manages to make his THU fourth, Cesare, a Cardinal. THU THU Read by Robert Glenister THU Written by Sarah Dunant THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b01snqbv (Listen) THU Series 2, The Darkest Hour THU THU Jarvis Cocker stars in his own horror movie as he continues THU his nocturnal examination of the human condition, exploring THU the battle between the forces of darkness and light. THU THU He hears from horror movie goers at the Electric Cinema in THU Birmingham, keen to turn the lights off and let the scares THU begin; the National Grid control room which is charged from THU keeping the lights on; and Lundy Island in the Bristol THU Channel - where the electricity switches off at midnight. THU THU What is lurking in the basement as Jarvis approaches the THU darkest hour? THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b01r5ng8 (Listen) THU Series 12, Wheelchair Pusher Needed THU THU "Pusher needed for Silly Old Fart in Wheelchair". THU THU When Terry Chambers had to use a wheelchair after a stroke, THU he needed someone to push him through the streets of Crouch THU End in North London. He already had one carer but it wasn't THU enough. So he placed this jokey advert in the local THU newsagent's window and found Robert. THU THU Terry may describe himself as a silly old fart but he used THU to be a highly successful photographer. He took pictures of THU the Royal Family and many other famous faces. He would THU travel the world, going wherever the work was, too busy for THU a wife or family. And he was a regular in the wine bars and THU restaurants of the West End of London. THU THU But three years ago his career was ended by the stroke. He THU can't walk and has limited movement in his hands. He needs THU help with everything. However, Terry still wants a semblance THU of the life he had before- the wine bars, the alcohol and THU the good lunches in particular.He can't get as far as he THU used to, so he stays around the area of Crouch End where THU he's lived for over 40 years. That's where Robert comes in- THU helping him get out and about. THU THU Robert didn't start out as a carer. For decades, his work THU was in construction, building roads and pavements and THU refurbishing offices. Then a friend suggested he would be THU good at looking after people and he never looked back. At THU the start of the day he helps Terry wash, gets him dressed THU and prepares medicine for him. Then it's time to push the THU wheelchair out of the flat for the day for Terry to visit a THU wine bar- perhaps two- have a good lunch and some fun in the THU afternoon. THU THU Alan Dein follows the pair of them as they navigate the THU streets and finds out how Terry's stroke has altered his THU landscape. How has his view of the world changed now that he THU is sitting in a wheelchair? And what are the qualities that THU make a really good pusher....? THU THU Producer: Emma Kingsley. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 MAY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01sl1g1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01snjpr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01sl1g3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01sl1g5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01sl1g7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01sl1g9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0214015 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison FRI Murdoch, Director of the Foundation for Developing FRI Compassion and Wisdom. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01snxs5 (Listen) FRI Caz Graham presents the latest news about food, farming and FRI the countryside. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbz27 (Listen) FRI Cuckoo - Female 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 female Cuckoo. The "cuckoo" call FRI of the male is perhaps one of the most recognisable of all FRI bird sounds. But the sound of "bathwater gurgling down a FRI plughole" is much familiar and is the call of the looking FRI for somewhere to lay her eggs. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01snxs7 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01slqck (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01snxs9 (Listen) FRI The North (and Almost Everything in It), Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode it's 1976, and the Sex Pistols play FRI Manchester's Free Hall. Morley was there. FRI FRI Reader: Paul Morley, with additional readings from Paul FRI Hilton FRI Abridger: Viv Beeby FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01snxsc (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01snxsf (Listen) FRI Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Dinner FRI FRI By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz FRI FRI Episode Ten - Dinner FRI FRI Home truths are aired at the final family dinner. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 Hunt/Lauda b01rfy5f (Listen) FRI Racing driver and presenter Vicki Butler-Henderson recalls FRI one of sport's most intense rivalries as swashbuckling FRI British playboy James Hunt took on Formula One World FRI Champion Niki Lauda, a man who by the August of 1976 would FRI be fighting for his life in a German hospital. FRI FRI Motorsport legends Murray Walker, journalist Nigel Roebuck FRI and Niki Lauda himself tell how Hunt, in his British FRI Mclaren, chased the Austrian's scarlet Ferrari in a 200mph FRI season-long duel from Brazil to Japan. It wasn't long before FRI the handsome, blonde, badly behaved Hunt became Britain's FRI number one sporting hero, filling the front and back pages FRI of international newspapers in the scorching summer of '76 FRI with his outrageous car control and equally outrageous FRI personal life. FRI FRI Thrilling archive and first hand testimonies from three-time FRI world champion Lauda and famed Austrian commentator and FRI author Heinz Pruller tell how, in the August of that year, FRI Ferrari's golden boy crashed heavily at the notorious FRI Nurburgring circuit in Germany. His car burst into flames, FRI and left Lauda, stricken with terrible burns, to receive the FRI Last Rites. FRI FRI What followed remains one of sport's most heroic chapters as FRI Lauda went from death's door to returning to the track, FRI battle scarred and bleeding, taking the fight with Hunt to FRI the final race of the year and setting up a gladiatorial FRI showdown amid monsoon conditions at the Japanese Grand Prix. FRI FRI Producer: James Wm. Roberts. FRI FRI 11:30 The Newsagent's Window b01qdr38 (Listen) FRI Comic story written and narrated by John Osborne about the FRI community he discovered when he started replying to adverts FRI in his local newsagent's window. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01snxy9 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01snxyc (Listen) FRI Trevor and Catherine - Life Lessons FRI FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. A FRI father and daughter remember their very different FRI educational experiences and reflect on how that has affected FRI their lives and ambitions. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01sl1gc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b020t02t (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 Disability: A New History b01snxyf (Listen) FRI Finding a Voice FRI FRI Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives FRI of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th FRI centuries. FRI FRI Today - Finding a Voice: Peter discovers William Hay, an FRI 18th century MP born with spinal curvature who has left us a FRI remarkably revealing account of his life. FRI FRI Peter comments, "This series has been full of surprises for FRI me - surprises even after making programmes about disability FRI for 30 years. But perhaps this discovery has been for me the FRI most startling. It's a book which very few people know FRI about, and even fewer have read - a personal exploration of FRI what it's like to be disabled in the 18th century. It's full FRI of insights we like to think of as modern." FRI FRI In his book "On Deformity", William Hay describes his life FRI as a disabled MP, in Parliament and on the streets. He FRI reveals the daily humiliation of being a man of restricted FRI growth and his fear of rowdy crowds. But he also proudly FRI challenges the conventional thinking of the time that his FRI disability makes him ill. He gives advice to other men in FRI his situation about which careers they should follow. And he FRI excels at self-deprecating humour - sometimes, he confesses, FRI he feels like "a Worm". FRI FRI Hay's essay is seen by historians as ground-breaking - FRI because in William Hay, disability had for the first time FRI found a voice. But Hay is a challenging role model for FRI modern disability activists. FRI FRI With historians David Turner, Naomi Baker, Tim Hitchcock and FRI Chris Mounsey and readings by Jonathan Keeble. FRI FRI Producer: Elizabeth Burke FRI Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01snlt2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00xhzbv (Listen) FRI Notes to Self FRI FRI by Deborah Wain. FRI FRI Doreen has been in a care home for two years. Her son Robert FRI visits but finds it hard to have a meaningful relationship FRI with his mother, unlike his partner Karen. A performance at FRI the home reveals music to have a powerful effect on Doreen. FRI Can it offer an opportunity for Robert to make a new FRI connection with her? A drama about Alzheimer's disease based FRI on real experiences and interwoven with recordings of music FRI sessions carried out in care homes and day centres. FRI FRI Music performed by David Barnard, James Dinsmore and Rebecca FRI Watson with participants in the Lost Chord music session at FRI The Linney Centre and residents and carers at the Richmond FRI Care Home. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Deborah Wain FRI Doreen: Linda Bassett FRI Robert: Jeff Hordley FRI Karen: Cherylee Houston FRI Dor: Kellie Shirley FRI Harry: William Ash FRI Care Assistant: Ruth Alexander-Rubin FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01snyjz (Listen) FRI Cornwall FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts this edition of GQT with local gardeners FRI in Cornwall. Anne Swithinbank, Bunny Guinness and local FRI special guest Toby Buckland feature on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Four Bare Legs in a Bed b021n6s4 (Listen) FRI The Bed FRI FRI The first of three stories from Helen Simpson's collection, FRI Four Bare Legs in a Bed, read by Rosie Cavaliero. The Bed. FRI An impulse purchase in a department store changes a woman's FRI life. FRI Producer: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Helen Simpson FRI Reader: Rosie Cavaliero FRI Producer: Sarah Langan FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01snyk1 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01snyk3 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01snyk5 (Listen) FRI Gill and Wendy - School Reunion FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation full of giggles between FRI two friends remembering their school reunion, in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01snyk7 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01sl1gf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01snyk9 (Listen) FRI Series 40, Episode 3 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 b01snykc (Listen) FRI Pip's working hard, and Kirsty enjoys a glass of champagne. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough FRI Ben Archer: Thomas Lester FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Tony Archer: Colin Skipp FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott 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 William Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan: Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Alec Murray: Rick Warden FRI Mikey: Matthew Watson FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01snykf (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang reassesses the art and life of Alfred Munnings, FRI a painter largely known as a crusty reactionary, as a new FRI film focuses on his youthful passions in an artists' colony. FRI FRI Producer Olivia Skinner. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01snxsf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01snykh (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Slough in Berkshire. The panel includes the Secretary FRI of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers MP, FRI Environmentalist George Monbiot, Business woman Julie White FRI and Labour peer Lord Adonis. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01snykk (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Disability: A New History - Omnibus b01snykm (Listen) FRI Gisela Stuart FRI FRI Across the country, historians are discovering the voices of FRI disabled people from the past. In this two week series, FRI Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal FRI first-hand accounts of what it was like to live with FRI physical disability in the 18th and 19th centuries. FRI FRI The result is moving, revealing, and sometimes very funny: FRI "Sirs, I am a dwarf. I have lost my job at the circus and FRI what is a dwarf to do in such a situation? In this FRI Godforsaken place the snow comes so deep that a FRI self-respecting dwarf can't even walk along the street FRI without drowning!" FRI FRI This document is from a huge archive of letters from FRI disabled people in the 19th century, applying to the local FRI authorities for money. They are a rich source of what life FRI was like with a disability. Sources like this are only now FRI being discovered and interpreted by historians across the FRI country - it amounts to a new historical movement. FRI FRI For Peter, as a blind man, there is a strong sense of FRI personal discovery in making the programmes. He says, "I FRI never realised disabled people had a history. History was FRI what happened to everyone else." FRI FRI For him the series is revelatory. This programme, for FRI instance, includes 18th century jokes about disability and FRI discusses what juicy terms for disability were common in a FRI society where there was no political correctness. FRI FRI With historians David Turner, Chris Mounsey, Stephen King, FRI Judith Hawley, and voiuces from the past brought vividly to FRI life by actors Gerard McDermott, Ewan Bailey and Emily FRI Bevan. FRI FRI Producer: Elizabeth Burke FRI Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01sl1gh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01snykp (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01snykr (Listen) FRI Blood and Beauty, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Alexander's difficulties with his enemies are complicated by FRI his children's marital problems. As the French prepare to FRI invade Italy, his Papacy hangs in the balance. FRI FRI Read by Robert Glenister FRI Written by Sarah Dunant FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01sm714 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Lives in a Landscape b01nb288 (Listen) FRI Series 11, The Pigeon Men of Burdiehouse FRI FRI Burdiehouse is a council scheme on the outermost tip of FRI Edinburgh and it's here, hidden away from the world outside, FRI that Alan encounters the pigeon, or doo men, locked in a FRI constant battle to capture each other's birds. These men are FRI neighbours but when it comes to pigeons the battle lines are FRI drawn. FRI FRI This is an old game: 'doo flying' has been practised in FRI Scotland since Victorian times. Hundreds of doo men fly FRI 'horseman thief' pigeons from lofts, bedrooms and sheds. The FRI aim being to lure and capture the pigeons of their FRI rivals.The doomen's pigeons mean a lot to them - they are FRI groomed, their feathers dyed and combed to make them look FRI their best. Some families have kept doos for generations. FRI It's a passion passed on from father to son. FRI FRI In Burdiehouse Alan talks to Paul who comes from a long line FRI of doo men. Paul gave up the birds and moved away from the FRI scheme when he got married, but since separating from his FRI wife has moved in with his mother Anne and built a doo hut FRI in the garden. Central to his new life as a doo man is the FRI swap shop, a bird auction held every week in the local pub. FRI This is where the flyers go to trade birds and gossip over a FRI pint. Paul runs the night with Iain, a long-time doo man and FRI self-proclaimed sheriff of the scheme, who often has to step FRI in to prevent the fierce rivalry over pigeons becoming FRI violent. Despite suffering chronic health problems as a FRI result of keeping birds since he was a boy, Iain says he FRI will never give up his pigeons. FRI FRI This is a story of escapism, gamesmanship and family set FRI against the backdrop of the elusive sport of doo flying. FRI FRI Producer: Caitlin Smith. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01snypf (Listen) FRI Nicola and Jordan - Noisy Neighbours FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a high-spirited conversation between a FRI mother and son about the noisy night time antics of their FRI neighbours, in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
24 May, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 25/05/2013 - 31/05/2013
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