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SAT SATURDAY 15 MARCH 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03xgvg1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03xgslh (Listen) SAT A Sense of Direction, Episode 5 SAT SAT The author Gideon Lewis-Kraus describes leaving America for SAT life in Berlin, to ease the sadness after his father SAT abandoned the family home. But Berlin isn't enough and only SAT embarking on a series of world-wide pilgrimages will help SAT him. The journeys turn out both amusing and moving, and are SAT abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams.. SAT SAT 5. It's to Uman in Ukraine to celebrate Rosh Hashanah with SAT brother Micah - and their elusive father! SAT SAT Reader Patrick Kennedy SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT 'This Camino business sounded vaguely familiar' SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Patrick Kennedy SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Author: Gideon Lewis-Kraus SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03xgvg3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03xgvg5 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03xgvg7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03xgvg9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03xgvr7 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the SAT Rev Dr Gordon Gray. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03xgvr9 (Listen) SAT 'Do you really want to see someone losing their life?' - A SAT listener who spent his career watching unedited news footage SAT talks about the effect of watching violent images. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03xgvgc (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03xgvgf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b03xgl46 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight SAT SAT In this series of Ramblings, Clare Balding revisits some of SAT her favourite walks and walkers. After thirteen years she SAT returns to the Isle of Wight to meet Elizabeth Hutchings who SAT introduced her to the Tennyson Trail. SAT SAT Elizabeth's late husband, Richard, was the founder of the SAT Farringford Tennyson Society, so it was only fitting that he SAT should have a bench, placed in his memory, under the poet's SAT monument on top of the Down. But when Clare last visited SAT this National Trust site, it was their policy not to have SAT memorial plaques on benches, a disappointment to Elizabeth. SAT But thanks to the likes of Head Ranger Robin Lang, they have SAT reversed their position and now the bench has an SAT inscription, to Richard, carved into the wood. SAT SAT Although now in her mid eighties and unable to make the SAT steep climb onto the Down, with the help of Robin's four by SAT four, Elizabeth and Clare once again visit the monument , SAT the Down and Richard's seat and discuss the role walking has SAT played in Elizabeth's long and eventful life. SAT SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Hutchings SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03xzs0z (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03xgvgh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03xzs13 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03xzs15 (Listen) SAT Kate Humble SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by tv presenter Kate SAT Humble, Mark Boyle who lived without money for 3 years, and SAT Philip Geddes who brought a stuffed penguin from Antarctica SAT to Hampshire. Pop Idol judge Nicki Chapman shares her love SAT of dressage, John McCarthy takes a dip in the baths of SAT Budapest and Desmond Morris shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Produced by Lizz Pearson. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Humble SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Boyle SAT Interviewed Guest: Philip Geddes SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicki Chapman SAT Interviewed Guest: John McCarthy SAT Interviewed Guest: Desmond Morris SAT Producer: Lizz Pearson SAT SAT 10:30 1914-1918: The Cultural Front b03th7bz (Listen) SAT Arf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All Fronts SAT SAT While high culture wrestled with the clash of German Kultur SAT and the civilisation of the west, popular culture had no SAT such concern for nuance in the early months of war. In this SAT programme Francine Stock explores the way the music SAT industry, and by 1914 it was a thriving performing and SAT publishing industry in Britain, responded to war. SAT Recruitment songs, patriotic sheet music and poems by the SAT thousand were everywhere. But it was short lived. Once the SAT zeal for righteous war was replaced with the mundane SAT business of fighting, the music makers returned to the SAT escapism their audiences sought. SAT SAT In France the authorities took complete control of popular SAT culture from the outset and with immediate conscription SAT there was no need for recruitment song. Instead they turned SAT to an established supply of heroic French song driven by the SAT smart of defeat in 1871 at the hands of the Prussians. SAT SAT In Germany the 'spirit of September' echoed through the SAT Biergarten in the form of the Prussian, now German, anthem, SAT 'Heil! dir im Siegerkranz' (to the tune of our own national SAT anthem) as well as 'Wacht am Rhein'. But as the initial war SAT fever settled Germans turned to Operetta for their SAT entertainment with the British Foreign Secretary Grey and SAT the French Prime minister Poincare the butt of jokes in SAT pieces like 'Immer Feste Druff' by Walter Kollo. SAT SAT And finally, Imperial Russia saw a flurry of vivid Posters SAT (Lubok) and increasingly postcards extolling the virtues of SAT the Cossack Warrior, while popular singers like Nadezhda SAT Plevitskaia sang emotive songs of pride in the Tsar and SAT Russia in the folk style that spoke to the heart of both her SAT city and rural audiences. But it was an image of an injured SAT soldier by Leonid Pasternak, father of Boris, which captured SAT the popular imagination from the outset. Hated by the Tsar SAT it first appeared in 1914, long before it became a powerful SAT image for the Bolshevik uprisings later in the war. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Arf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All SAT Fronts (2) SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03xzs1c (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behinds the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03xzs1j (Listen) SAT History, Aliens and Chicken Wings SAT SAT Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. This week Mark SAT Lowen is reminded of his days in the Balkans as he talks SAT about history to people in Crimea; three years after the SAT start of the uprising in Syria, Lina Sinjab catches up with SAT those who once had so much hope; Sue Lloyd Roberts hears how SAT a religious sect that believes in Aliens and the pursuit of SAT pleasure is trying to help victims of female genital SAT mutilation in Burkina Faso; In Serbia, Guy de Launey tells SAT us how a political double-act could be replaced by Superman; SAT and Tara Isabella Burton explains why chickens should avoid SAT the Wing Bowl in Philadelphia. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03xzs1l (Listen) SAT Bundled insurance, Scottish pensions, budget lookahead, SAT travel cancellations SAT SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03xzs3b (Listen) SAT Series 83, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest SAT panellists Miles Jupp, Holly Walsh and Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03xgvgk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03xgvgp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03xgswl (Listen) SAT Baroness Helena Kennedy, Baroness Annabel Goldie, Angela SAT Constance MSP, Michael Fry SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Edinburgh with Labour peer and lawyer Baroness Helena SAT Kennedy, former leader of the Scottish Conservatives SAT Baroness Annabel Goldie, Youth Employment Minister Angela SAT Constance MSP and the historian Michael Fry. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03xzsnn (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Tony Benn on the Radio b03zqmw3 (Listen) SAT Following the death of Tony Benn, Conservative MP David SAT Davis gives a personal exploration of Tony Benn's life and SAT ideas through his many appearances on BBC radio. SAT SAT 15:30 A Shower of Sparks b03xf0g1 (Listen) SAT In spring 1974, alongside the established kiddie-pop of Mud, SAT Slade and the Wombles, a new act sidled onto Top Of The Pops SAT who generated more playground chatter the following morning SAT than any of the above. Brothers Ron and Russell Mael had SAT formed Sparks three years earlier, but their breakthrough SAT came with the hit song 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both SAT Of Us' - three minutes of staccato glam-pop that was over SAT almost as soon as it began, with near-indecipherable lyrics SAT and gunshot sound effects throughout. SAT SAT Even more intriguing than the song was the brothers' SAT appearance - corkscrew-haired Russell bouncing around the SAT stage singing falsetto, while Ron stood virtually motionless SAT at a piano in the background with a Hitler moustache and SAT pursed lips, his eyes moving from side to side. SAT No one would even have guessed that they were brothers, but SAT the Maels' chalk-and-cheese stage personae created a visual SAT image which won them many more Top Of The Pops appearances SAT and many more hits. Moreover, their image came to set the SAT tone for a generation of electro-pop bands such as Soft Cell SAT and the Pet Shop Boys - who followed the template of a SAT charismatic frontman with a virtually motionless SAT keyboard-playing wonk in the background, both of whose SAT contributions were vital to the act. SAT SAT In this programme the Mael brothers talk to Stuart Maconie SAT about the relationship that led them into the music business SAT and has seen them through a career of startling longevity, SAT defying those who dismissed them as just another novelty SAT act. Forty years on, Sparks are working on their 22nd studio SAT album and still have music critics eating out of their SAT hands. Always Anglophile by instinct, they have consistently SAT enjoyed more success here than in their native USA - though SAT they have played a long game, content to issue music SAT sporadically and on their own terms rather than always to SAT pursue the next hit. Their quirky creativity and refusal to SAT play industry games have won them many prominent admirers SAT among writers and musicians, notably Morrissey, Julie SAT Burchill and Björk. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT Radio 4 On Music SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03xzsnq (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Paying for Sex SAT SAT Should paying for sex be criminalised? There are proposals SAT to change the laws on prostitution for the first time in SAT twenty years. We hear from a former prostitute in favour of SAT fining or jailing people who buy sex and from sex workers SAT who argue that making it an criminal offence won't stop SAT prostitution, but will make it more dangerous for the people SAT involved. SAT SAT As we begin the search for the ten women who should be on SAT this year's Woman's Hour Power List 2014 Game Changers, we SAT ask; how do you recognise a Game Changer, how do they SAT operate and what are they like to manage? SAT SAT Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford is one of the SAT defining accounts of country life during the Victorian era, SAT not to mention the inspiration for a hit television series. SAT But why do we know so little about her? SAT SAT What's it like to look for work in this competitive job SAT market when you're a woman of a certain age? SAT SAT Plus a team of girls in North London have become champions SAT in robotics - what impact has it had on their ambitions? SAT SAT And as the weather turns warmer what colour coats should we SAT be wearing for Spring. SAT SAT Producer; Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Karen Jennings SAT Interviewed Guest: Susanne Sorensen SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Walmsley-Johnson SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Mabey SAT Interviewed Guest: Rachel Short SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Aylett SAT Interviewed Guest: Julia Robson SAT Interviewed Guest: Jacqui Cooper SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03xzsnv (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03xglvt (Listen) SAT Transformation SAT SAT Corporate turnaround and transformational tales. Evan Davis SAT and guests discuss how companies fail, struggle and find SAT their way again. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Bruno Cercley, CEO of Rossignol Group SAT Harriet Green OBE, CEO of Thomas Cook Group SAT Martyn Gibbs, CEO of Game Retail Ltd SAT SAT Producer: Kent DePinto. SAT SAT Evan Davis SAT Presenter of The Bottom Line SAT SAT Bruno Cercley SAT CEO of Rossignol Group SAT SAT SAT Martyn Gibbs SAT CEO of Game Retail Ltd SAT SAT Harriet Green OBE SAT CEO of Thomas Cook Group SAT SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03xgvgr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03xgvgt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03xgvgw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03xzsnx (Listen) SAT John Lloyd, Jenna Russell, Bobby Crush, Marc Abrahams, SAT Scottee, Joan As Police Woman SAT SAT 'Whatever Happened To Spitting Image?' Clive talks to TV SAT producer John Lloyd; one of the many contributors who SAT address the question in BBC Four Arena's 30th anniversary SAT programme. Spanning the early years of Margaret Thatcher's SAT government to the end of John Major's, Spitting Image SAT puppets became almost as famous as the politicians they SAT lampooned. SAT SAT In a city of the future that has been inflicted with a SAT terrible drought, business tycoon Caldwell B. Cladwell has SAT made his fortune through bribery and the monopolisation of SAT all public toilets. It's not a place to get caught short! SAT Clive talks to Olivier award winner Jenna Russell, who stars SAT in the UK premiere of 'Urinetown, The Musical.' SAT SAT "He twinkles and sparkles and boy, can he play!" As Bobby SAT Crush hits 60, Scottee invites him to tickle the ivories SAT with a rendition of 'Nicholas Parsons' on the Loose Ends SAT Steinway and asks the astonishing pianist about his 40 years SAT in showbusiness, reaching right back to his debut on TV's SAT "Opportunity Knocks" in 1972. SAT SAT Clive talks to the creator of the Ig Nobel Prizes about his SAT second book of truly improbable research. It's another SAT addictive, wryly funny expose? of odd, imaginative, and SAT amazingly improbable research from around the globe, such as SAT the use of Prozac for the treatment of stereotypical pacing SAT behaviour in a captive polar bear! SAT SAT With more music from Joan As Police Woman performs 'Holy SAT City' from her album 'The Classic'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from John Lloyd, Jenna Russell, Bobby Crush, SAT Marc Abrahams, Scottee, Joan As Police Woman (2) SAT SAT John Lloyd SAT ‘Arena: Whatever Happened To Spitting Image?’ is on BBC Four SAT on Thursday 20th March at 21.00. SAT SAT Jenna Russell SAT ‘Urinetown’ is at St James Theatre, London until Saturday SAT 3rd May. SAT SAT Bobby Crush SAT 'Bobby Crush: 60th Birthday Concert’ is at Leicester Square SAT Theatre, London on Sunday 23rd March. SAT SAT Marc Abrahams SAT ‘This Is Improbable Too’ is published by Oneworld and SAT available now. SAT SAT SAT Joan As Police Woman SAT ‘The Classic’ is available now on Play It Again Sam. SAT Joan As Police Woman is playing at Norwich Arts Centre on SAT 15th March and Village Underground, London on 15th, Komedia, SAT Brighton on 17th and The Belgrave, Leeds on 19th April. SAT Check her website for further dates. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03xzsnz (Listen) SAT Rupert Harrison SAT SAT Ahead of the budget Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Rupert SAT Harrison. He's the top economic adviser to George Osborne, SAT and the man some call the 'real Chancellor' and 'the most SAT important man you've never heard of'. Those who know him SAT well and have seen his influence grow describe his career SAT and characteristics. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03xzsp1 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs sharp, critical discussion of the SAT week's cultural events. SAT SAT Cézanne and The Modern SAT The exhibition SAT Cézanne and The Modern SAT is at The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 13 March - 22 June SAT 2014. Main Image Credit: Vincent van Gogh, Tarascon Stage SAT Coach, 1888, © The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on SAT long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum. SAT SAT W1A SAT W1A SAT begins on Wednesday 19 March, 10pm, BBC Two. SAT SAT Under The Skin SAT Directed by Jonathan Glazer, SAT Under The Skin SAT is in cinemas from Friday 14 March, certificate 15. SAT SAT Decoded SAT Decoded by Mai Jia is published by Allen Lane on 18 March SAT 2014. SAT SAT Urinetown SAT Directed by Jamie Lloyd, SAT Urinetown: The Musical SAT is at St James Theatre in London, until 3 May 2014. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03xzsp3 (Listen) SAT The Interviewer Stole the Show SAT SAT It's often said these days that the interviewers have stolen SAT the show - interviews are no longer read for their subject, SAT but for the interviewer's personal ruminations, reflections, SAT opinions and even judgements on the person in question. SAT SAT Lynn is probably one of the worst offenders. Known as Demon SAT Barber for thirty years, she doesn't repent. The move of the SAT interviewer from the wings to centre stage has happened in SAT her lifetime and with her eager connivance. SAT SAT In this programme, she argues how her medium is all the SAT better for the interviewers taking charge. When she started SAT her career in the late 60s, there were no regular celebrity SAT interviews in the newspapers. As a young writer she worked SAT as Literary Editor on Penthouse Magazine and Bob Guccione, SAT who founded the magazine, wanted to launch an American SAT edition which meant she had to familiarise herself with SAT American culture, spelling and interests. So she subscribed SAT to all the great American magazines - Playboy, Esquire, The SAT New Yorker, Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine and Rolling SAT Stone - with writing from Lillian Ross, Norman Mailer, Tom SAT Wolfe, Gay Talese, and Joan Didion. SAT SAT This writing became known as the New Journalism and included SAT great interviews and profiles which, as she reveals, are SAT great works of literature - brilliant studies of the SAT writer's celebrity subject. They have defined how she and SAT others approach their interviewing today. SAT SAT With Gay Talese and Camilla Long SAT SAT Producers: Kate Bland and Beth Clayton SAT A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03xcxdx (Listen) SAT Pride and Prejudice, Episode 3 SAT SAT by Jane Austen SAT Dramatised by Charlotte Jones SAT SAT Elizabeth has misjudged Wickham's character and he is about SAT to bring further shame on her family. Can she hope to ever SAT see Mr Darcy again after rejecting his offer of marriage? SAT SAT Directed by Sally Avens SAT SAT Elizabeth has rejected Darcy's offer of marriage but is SAT beginning to reappraise her judgement of his character after SAT she learns of how Wickham attempted to seduce Darcy's SAT sister. Darcy may have put his proposal badly, pointing out SAT their differences in birth and the behaviour of her family. SAT He may also have attempted to separate her sister Jane from SAT Mr Bingley But it appears he believed that Jane did not love SAT Bingley. And Elizabeth knows that her mother and younger SAT sisters do not always behave with the decorum that might be SAT expected of them and her father is too lazy to correct them. SAT Perhaps the fault is not entirely on Darcy's side. SAT SAT Published just over 200 years ago Pride and Prejudice SAT remains one of the Nation's favourite novels; with its SAT intellect and wit it appeals to a broad range of readers. It SAT stands the test of time by dealing with the timeless issues SAT of love, social class, money and mistaken judgements and by SAT having a witty and clever though flawed heroine at its SAT heart. Elizabeth Bennet is a thorough radical for her time SAT and perhaps the first heroine to ask is it possible to have SAT it all? SAT SAT Pippa Nixon takes on the role of Elizabeth; she received SAT rave reviews for her Rosalind in 'As You Like It' ' a rising SAT young star'. SAT Jamie Parker (Darcy) has played Henry V at the National and SAT is shortly to portray Hamlet on Radio 4. SAT Double Olivier Award winner Samantha Spiro takes on Mrs SAT Bennet and Toby Jones Mr Collins. SAT SAT Credits SAT Elizabeth Bennet: Pippa Nixon SAT Mr Darcy: Jamie Parker SAT Jane Bennet: Lydia Wilson SAT Lydia Bennet: Georgie Fuller SAT Mrs Bennet: Samantha Spiro SAT Mr Bennet: David Troughton SAT Kitty Bennet: Carys Eleri SAT Mr Bingley: Joshua Maguire SAT Miss Bingley: Fenella Woolgar SAT Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Carolyn Pickles SAT Mr Wickham: Joel MacCormack SAT Mrs Gardiner: Priyanga Burford SAT Mr Gardiner: Steve Toussaint SAT Mr Collins: Toby Jones SAT Georgiana: Katherine Rose Morley SAT Narrator: Amanda Root SAT Director: Sally Avens SAT Adaptor: Charlotte Jones SAT Author: Jane Austen SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03xgvgy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b03xf1fg (Listen) SAT Assisted Dying SAT SAT There are few more emotive subjects than assisted dying. It SAT captures both the hopes and the fears of the age in which we SAT live. Advances in medical technology have been a triumph, SAT extending our life expectancy almost exponentially. 33% of SAT babies born today can expect to live to 100. 80 years ago SAT the figure would have been less than 4%. But along with the SAT undreamt of levels of longevity have come the nightmares of SAT a lingering death; robbed of our humanity by the indignity SAT and pain of diseases. The government has just announced that SAT it will give MP's a free vote on the latest legislative SAT attempt to allow people to get help to die and campaigners SAT believe that decision will give the bill a strong chance of SAT becoming law. It will allow adults to ask a doctor to help SAT them die if they've been given no more than six months to SAT live. But it won't go as far as some campaigners would like. SAT Why is it morally acceptable to help someone to kill SAT themselves if they're already close to death, but not to SAT help someone who might have many years of pain and suffering SAT ahead of them? And if it's right to allow adults assisted SAT suicide, why not children? After all is it moral to expect SAT them to endure the suffering we would not? At the heart of SAT this issue is personal choice and moral agency - it's my SAT life and my death. But is the brutal truth that in almost SAT every circumstance we already have that choice, it's just SAT that we want someone else to administer the coup de gras? Or SAT is that point? Assisted dying - a very compassionate and SAT humane answer to help people when they are at their most SAT desperate or a law that will in reality help only a small SAT number, but put many more vulnerable people at risk? Chaired SAT by Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Matthew SAT Taylor, Giles Fraser. SAT SAT Witnesses are Graham Winyard, Colin Harte, Gerlant van SAT Berlaer and Ruth Dudley Edwards. SAT SAT Produced by Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03xdk8l (Listen) SAT (14/17) SAT Competitors from Portsmouth, Bolton, Ormskirk and Leeds face SAT Russell Davies' questions, in the second semi-final of SAT radio's most venerable general knowledge quiz. They have all SAT won their respective heats, or been among the top-scoring SAT runners-up, and now stand a real chance of a place in the SAT 2014 Final. SAT SAT Can they identify the New York jazz club whose address in SAT its heyday was 1678 Broadway? Or the name given to the SAT constant expressing the quantity of electric charge carried SAT by a mole of electrons? SAT SAT They'll also be called upon to pool their knowledge and see SAT if they can deal with the listener's cunning questions SAT chosen this week to 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT BRIAN DAUGHERTY, a postman from Portsmouth; SAT SAT DR GARY GRANT, a GP from Bolton; SAT SAT DAG GRIFFITHS, a retired teacher from Ormskirk; SAT SAT DR ALISON HARDIE, a university lecturer from Leeds. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b03xcxf1 (Listen) SAT Milosz and Dickinson SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by Czeslaw SAT Milosz and Emily Dickinson read by Peter Marinker and SAT Eleanor Tremain. A Polish veteran of many of the upheavals SAT of the middle of the Twentieth Century and a Nineteenth SAT Century New Englander who kept to her house and communicated SAT with the world by post: perhaps not much connects these SAT poets and yet their poems speak to one another across the SAT years. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT A Portrait with a Cat SAT SAT SAT By Czeslaw Milosz SAT SAT From SAT New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT That Love is all there is SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT A narrow fellow in the grass SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT How it Should Be in Heaven SAT SAT By Czeslaw Milosz SAT SAT From SAT New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT I went to Heaven SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT La Belle Epoque/Trans-Siberian Railway SAT SAT By Czeslaw Milosz SAT SAT From SAT New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT After great pain a formal feeling comes SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT I think the Hemlock likes to stand SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT And Yet the Books SAT SAT By Czeslaw Milosz SAT SAT From SAT New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT Because I could not stop for death SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT The crickets sang and set the sun SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT Blacksmith Shop SAT SAT By Czeslaw Milosz SAT SAT From SAT New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT I heard a fly buzz when I died SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT There came a wind like a bugle SAT SAT By Emily Dickinson SAT SAT From SAT Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT What Passed at Colonus SAT SAT Seamus Heaney SAT SAT Published in the New York Review of Books 7th Oct 2004 SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Peter Marinker SAT Reader: Eleanor Tremain SAT Producer: Tim Dee SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 MARCH 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03xztlk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 After Wonderland b03xzvn0 (Listen) SUN Alice after Wonderland SUN SUN The first of three dramatic monologues by Sheila Yeger SUN imagining the adult lives of characters from children's SUN literature. SUN SUN Decades after her adventures with the Red Queen and the SUN White Rabbit Alice lives alone with her cat and her SUN memories. SUN SUN Alice is played by Marlene Sidaway; the producer is James SUN Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Alice: Marlene Sidaway SUN Producer: James Cook SUN Writer: Sheila Yeger SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03xztlm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03xztlp (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03xztlr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03xztlt (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03xzvn2 (Listen) SUN Winchester Cathedral SUN SUN The bells of Winchester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b03xhfds (Listen) SUN Bonnie Greer SUN SUN The American writer Bonnie Greer begins this year's series SUN of Lent Talks, where six prominent writers reflect on the SUN Christian season of Lent and how the story of Christ's SUN passion continues to impact on contemporary society. SUN SUN This year's theme is looks at power and the way the story of SUN the Passion reflects the ways in which power is exercised in SUN today's world. Power can be used for good or bad, to build SUN or destroy, to give or take, to serve or to lead. SUN SUN In this talk Bonnie Greer reflects on the power of names. SUN Slaves and the descendants of slaves must use the names they SUN were given. Power has the ability to alter other people's SUN reality. It also has the ability to answer, the ability to SUN define yourself. When Pontius Pilate asked Jesus his name, SUN Jesus did not reply. SUN SUN Producer: Peter Everett. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03xztlw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03xzwgb (Listen) SUN Gifts SUN SUN John McCarthy considers the complexities in giving and SUN receiving gifts. SUN SUN As he shops for a present for a relation he hasn't seen for SUN a while, John reflects on the dance of gifting. He explores SUN ways in which gifts can create unanticipated jealousies. SUN They can so often reflect the taste of the giver rather than SUN the recipient and sometimes giving can be manipulative. SUN SUN The shopping trip brings back memories of a surprise gift SUN John's father once brought home from a business trip, and he SUN remembers his nephew's intense disappointment at not getting SUN the present he wished for from his grandmother. All of which SUN raises the knotty subject of how to receive a gift SUN graciously. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from works by EM Forster, SUN Eva Ibbotson, Kim Addonizio and Brian Patten. And there's SUN music by Wagner, Chris Wood, Jim Croce and Cesar Franck. SUN SUN Readers: Rachel Atkins and Fraser James SUN SUN Produced by Rosie Boulton SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03xzx5p (Listen) SUN Peter Kendall SUN SUN Peter Kendall was elected president of the National Farmers' SUN Union in 2006. Since then, he has had to get used to SUN spending more time in a boardroom and a suit than he does on SUN a tractor. During his leadership, farming has been through SUN foot and mouth, Schmallenberg, bird flu, horsemeat, CAP SUN reform, the badger cull, and flooding. Eight years on, he's SUN just stepped down. SUN SUN Charlotte Smith travels to the Kendall family farm in SUN Eyeworth in Bedfordshire, to see how both Peter and his SUN family view the prospect of his return to a more hands-on SUN life on the farm. She meets his brother Richard, who's been SUN running the farm, and his wife and children - the youngest SUN of whom was only a baby when he was first elected president. SUN SUN Peter reflects on the challenges of his time at the top, and SUN speculates on what may lie ahead for the farming industry. SUN SUN Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03xztly (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03xztm0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03xzx5r (Listen) SUN Pope Francis and Archbishop Welby; PM's Jewish Roots; Tony SUN Benn and Non-Conformism SUN SUN Religious news and current affairs programme, discussing SUN Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin Welby one year on, David SUN Cameron's Jewish roots, and Tony Benn and non-conformism. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03xzx5t (Listen) SUN Target Ovarian Cancer SUN SUN Andy Hamilton presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Target Ovarian SUN Cancer. SUN Reg Charity: 1125038 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'T O C'. SUN SUN Target Ovarian Cancer SUN SUN Twelve women in the UK die every day from ovarian cancer. SUN Currently, only a third of women diagnosed survive for more SUN than five years. That’s amongst the worst survival rate in SUN Europe. There are very few treatment options, and often a SUN lack of support available. SUN Target Ovarian Cancer SUN is working to change this. By raising awareness about SUN symptoms, funding research into treatments and providing SUN support for women with ovarian cancer, we aim to save lives SUN and help women diagnosed to live their lives to the full. We SUN rely 100% on voluntary income and every pound donated makes SUN a difference. SUN SUN Support for women SUN SUN Your donation could help women like Sarah (left), who came SUN to one of Target Ovarian Cancer’s ‘Being Together’ days. SUN These days take place around the UK, and are often the first SUN time a woman meets another with ovarian cancer. They can SUN compare experiences, share advice, and find out about local SUN support. Sarah said “ SUN I'm so glad that I went. I left better informed, more SUN hopeful and smiling!!.” SUN SUN Raising awareness about symptoms SUN UK survival rates are low because women in the UK are not SUN diagnosed quickly enough, making treatment far more SUN difficult. Target Ovarian Cancer works to raise awareness SUN with women of the symptoms of ovarian cancer, and with GPs, SUN to make sure that women have the best chance of survival. SUN SUN SUN Research into new treatments SUN Target Ovarian Cancer’s medical research programme aims to SUN improve treatments for women with ovarian cancer by funding SUN world-class medical research all around the UK. It is only SUN through investment that we will see this happen and so every SUN pound donated is vital. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03xztm2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03xztm4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03xzx5w (Listen) SUN Inside Doubt SUN SUN 'Inside Doubt' SUN From Fortwilliam Presbyterian Church Belfast. SUN SUN In the second of Radio 4's series 'Inside Lent', the Rev Dr SUN Lesley Carroll explores how and why we doubt. SUN Doubt is often seen as the enemy of faith; the New Testament SUN teaches that the enemy is, in fact, fear. SUN Leader: Jonathan McCormick SUN With the Choir of Carrickfergus Grammar School. SUN Edward Craig SUN Organist: Stephen Hamill SUN Producer: The Revd Dr Robert Tosh. SUN SUN Through programmes on Radio 4, local radio and online SUN resources for individuals and groups, BBC Religion & Ethics SUN 'Inside Lent', devised by Bishop Stephen Oliver, invites SUN listeners to join a journey of discovery through this SUN Christian season by reflecting on the nature of a number of SUN very human feelings. bbc.co.uk/religion SUN SUN Lent: Inside temptation (9th March) SUN Lent: Inside doubt (16th March) SUN Lent: Inside anger (23rd March) SUN Lent: Inside love (30th March) SUN Lent: Inside fear (6th April) SUN Lent: Inside hope (13th April) SUN Easter Day - Inside joy (20th April). SUN SUN Rev Dr Lesley Carroll SUN SUN Lesley grew up in Co. Tyrone and was ordained as a SUN Presbyterian minister in 1988. From 1992-1997, she was SUN minister at Macrory Memorial Church in North Belfast and in SUN 1998 also became minister at Fortwilliam Park. In 2005 the SUN two congregations amalgamated. SUN SUN Lesley is passionate about promoting cross community SUN development in the area and she served as a member of the SUN Eames-Bradley Consultative Group on the Past. She has also SUN been Convener of the Presbyterian Church’s influential SUN Church and Government Committee. SUN SUN Fortwilliam Presbyterian Church, Belfast 16/03/14 SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN Opening Announcement from Radio 4 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4: It’s ten past eight and time for Sunday SUN Worship. 'Inside Doubt' is the second in our Lent series and SUN comes from Fortwilliam and Macrory Presbyterian Church SUN Belfast. The service is introduced by the Preacher the Rev SUN Dr Lesley Carroll, and begins as the Choir of Carrickfergus SUN Grammar School sing an introit: ‘O come ye servants of the SUN Lord’ SUN O Come Ye Servants of the Lord (Tye) SUN Dr Carroll SUN SUN Good morning and welcome to Fortwilliam and MacCrory Church. SUN We’re in North Belfast, a very diverse part of the city and SUN it is our aim to build relationships with people from a SUN variety of backgrounds. Leading the service with me today is SUN Jonathan McCormick, one of our elders along with some other SUN members of the congregation and the Choir of Carrickfergus SUN Grammar School. SUN SUN On this St Patrick’s weekend we remember the young man who SUN left his home to bring the gospel to Ireland where he’d SUN earlier been a slave, looking after sheep. A hero of the SUN faith he struggled with the decision to heed God’s call and SUN go. He was at the end of his tether, doubting what he SUN believed God was calling him to. In his writings he SUN reflected: SUN I did not proceed to Ireland until I was almost giving up. I SUN give thanks to God who kept me faithful in the day of my SUN temptation. SUN SUN Almost giving up. This morning we reflect on the experience SUN of being inside doubt. On our Lenten journey we call our SUN human story of faith and doubt to mind. We will discover SUN that faith and doubt go hand in hand, doubt does not oppose SUN faith but can deepen it. In the Bible it is fear, and not SUN doubt, that is opposed to faith for fear immobilises us, SUN silences us, holds us fast. Doubt, on the other hand, SUN emboldens us, opens our hearts to conversation with and SUN about God and liberates us. Today we reflect on how faith, SUN doubt and fear weave and dance together and bring us back to SUN the hope that what is seen in our lives is made from what is SUN unseen." SUN Jonathan McCormick SUN Our first hymn acknowledges that there are times when we SUN experience doubt and even despair but it prays for a more SUN nature faith. To the tune Regent Square, we sing When our SUN confidence is shaken SUN HYMN When our confidence is shaken (Regent Square) SUN SUN SUN Jonathan McCormick SUN Prayer SUN SUN Loving God, we come to you this day with praise and wonder SUN on our lips. We approach you with expectancy and SUN thanksgiving. SUN SUN You are the giver and the sustainer of life. SUN SUN Your name is holy, your will is pure, your timing is perfect SUN and your works are great. No word in any vocabulary could SUN come close to describing your majesty and the wonder of your SUN love. SUN SUN And yet, despite this there are times when we feel, much SUN like St. Patrick must have felt during his time tending SUN sheep, that we are alone. We doubt what we know to be true SUN about you, and the questions for which there are no answers SUN seem too overwhelming. SUN SUN While our love for you is real we acknowledge that there are SUN times when we don’t show it. When we act out of turn, when SUN we ignore your prompts or when we avoid need. Your love for SUN us sees these failings, our weakness, doubt, and fear yet it SUN brings us forgiveness, wholeness and life. Despite our SUN inadequacies your love is faithful and comforting. Your love SUN feels the depths of our pain yet is not overcome by it. Your SUN love knows grief yet has the capacity to comfort us in our SUN sorrow. SUN SUN Forgive us when we fail to live a life that reflects your SUN love. Strengthen us that we may better embody your character SUN and forgive us for the many times we take you for granted. SUN SUN We ask for your guidance God, during this Lenten period. A SUN period of wilderness, a period where the doubt seems to SUN creep in easier than any other time, a period where we are SUN to slow down, attune ourselves more closely to you, and SUN listen for the gentle whisper of your spirit carried on the SUN wind. We pray that we would hear you telling us who we are, SUN and not be defined by our own misguided notions, doubt or SUN fear. We pray that we could come to rely more fully on you, SUN trusting your will to be greater, more pure and more holy SUN than our own. SUN SUN Transform us through your spirit and empower us to serve you SUN this day and throughout the rest of our days. SUN SUN Through Christ our Lord, Amen SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN The reading from St Mark Chapter 4 and verse 35 is a story SUN of Jesus and his disciples caught in a storm on the Sea of SUN Galilee when the disciples begin to doubt that Jesus cares SUN for them SUN Reading St Mark 4.35-41 SUN SUN That evening, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let’s cross to SUN the east side." So they left the crowd, and his disciples SUN started across the lake with him in the boat. Some other SUN boats followed along. Suddenly a windstorm struck the lake. SUN Waves started splashing into the boat, and it was about to SUN sink. SUN SUN Jesus was in the back of the boat with his head on a pillow, SUN and he was asleep. His disciples woke him and said, SUN "Teacher, don’t you care that we’re about to drown?" SUN SUN Jesus got up and ordered the wind and the waves to be quiet. SUN The wind stopped, and everything was calm. SUN SUN Jesus asked his disciples, "Why were you afraid? Don’t you SUN have any faith?" SUN SUN Now they were more afraid than ever and said to each other, SUN "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!" SUN Jonathan McCormick SUN The hymn "I cannot tell" recognises there are many things in SUN the Christian Faith that we can know but there are others SUN and we cannot tell how or why they happened. We sing it to SUN probably the best known of all Irish traditional melodies- SUN the Londonderry Air. SUN Hymn: I Cannot Tell (Londonderry Air) SUN SUN SUN Jonathan McCormick SUN The 11th chapter of Hebrews describes what faith is SUN Reading Hebrews 11 vv1-3 & 8-10 SUN SUN Faith makes us sure of what we hope for and gives us proof SUN of what we cannot see. It was their faith that made our SUN ancestors pleasing to God. SUN SUN Because of our faith, we know that the world was made at SUN God’s command. We also know that what can be seen was made SUN out of what cannot be seen. SUN SUN Abraham had faith and obeyed God. He was told to go to the SUN land that God had said would be his, and he left for a SUN country he had never seen. Because Abraham had faith, he SUN lived as a stranger in the promised land. He lived there in SUN a tent, and so did Isaac and Jacob, who were later given the SUN same promise. Abraham did this, because he was waiting for SUN the eternal city that God had planned and built. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Carroll Sermon SUN SUN SUN SUN I was sitting in the corner of my settee. I had been sitting SUN there for weeks on end. Physical pain made it impossible to SUN move too far, impossible to shop or cook or clean. I had SUN made several visits to the accident and emergency department SUN and I was no further forward in knowing where the pain came SUN from. A friend and colleague phoned to see how I was and we SUN talked about the experience I was having and what it meant SUN for my faith. As we talked I felt my eyes brim with tears SUN and I said to him, ‘Do you think God has forgotten me?’ I SUN felt I was sinking into darkness as the pain took hold. My SUN mind was dimmed with suffering and pain relief and in that SUN moment when I finally touched base with how I felt, I sensed SUN fear turn me stone cold. Strangely, I was not afraid of the SUN the things I might have expected to be. I was not afraid of SUN dying . was not afraid the source of the pain would be SUN missed until it was too late. I didn’t even question the SUN reality of God - but in that moment of insight I realized I SUN was, quite simply, afraid - afraid that God had forgotten SUN me. I began to doubt all that I had been taught about God SUN who loves us with everlasting love and who sees me whether SUN resting or waking, whether it is dark or light. The fear SUN finally drove me to the struggle of doubt, a dance of SUN thought about what it means to have faith when you are full SUN of questions and when you are just beginning to warm inside SUN with the energy of wondering. SUN SUN Friends called. Some did shopping. Some did cleaning. Some SUN brought meals. Some sat with me and talked. Some phoned or SUN sent cards. Many prayed. In the hands and feet and words and SUN laughter and care of all those friends I found the SUN everlasting love, the eyes that see and share a life in SUN suffering as in joy. In those friends, and some strangers SUN too, God was awake and well and there was no difference SUN between dark and light for God was ever present. SUN SUN The gospel writers record Jesus words: SUN SUN Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, SUN and the door will be opened for you. Everyone who asks will SUN receive. Everyone who searches will find. And the door will SUN be opened for everyone who knocks. SUN SUN Matthew 7 vv7&8 SUN SUN In the searching that comes with doubt there is hope, the SUN hope of finding, of a knocked door opening, of asking and SUN receiving. John O’Donohue, the Irish poet, author and SUN priest, was a writer of blessings and he takes up the theme: SUN SUN Reading from SUN Bendictus SUN SUN But caught in the searching when the diamond light of SUN something like the certain hope the writer to the Hebrews SUN describes, has not yet been found and eyes have not yet been SUN schooled to find that one gift in the night corner, the SUN journey is hard. It is a labour to put one foot in front of SUN the other. But the other option is fear and the frozenness SUN it brings. Fear destroys, distils no learning for those SUN hide-bound by it. There is only hopelessness in fear. In SUN doubt there is hope as cold insides warm to question and SUN wonder and dare, yes dare, to hope. SUN SUN Have you forgotten us Lord? Do you think that God has SUN forgotten you? There are hands and feet and words and SUN prayers to warm you with gentle compassion. In them you know SUN that God is not asleep but watchful, the blessing of that SUN diamond light will come. In doubting you insist that God is SUN taken seriously. You insist that faith is real in every SUN costly situation of life. You insist that God bears wounds SUN and heals sorrows, weeps with those who weep, laughs with SUN those who laugh and hurts with all who experience the hurt SUN of wondering if God really cares. SUN SUN SUN SUN Jesus was asleep in the back of the boat. The whistling wind SUN and the swelling waves were rocking the boat mercilessly and SUN the disciples were wide-awake, terrified of what would SUN happen to them. Fearful and imagining all kinds of things SUN they shook Jesus awake, at last grasping his attention. But SUN instead of telling him they were frightened they spoke to SUN him of their greatest fear - that he didn’t care about them, SUN he didn’t care that they might drown. Ironically, when Jesus SUN rose and calmed the winds and the waves they were even more SUN afraid for they were struck with awe and wondered who Jesus SUN was that even the winds and waves obeyed him. SUN SUN This short story from this morning’s Gospel reading reveals SUN the disciples as people who were full of fear. At every SUN turn, even with the blessing of calmed waters, they were SUN afraid and it was their fear that brought them to doubt that SUN Jesus really cared about them. And it was their doubt that SUN caused them to shake Jesus awake. It was their doubt that SUN gave voice to their faith showing their faith was alive and SUN well, looking for something from the Son of God, as they SUN searched for the affirmation of care. SUN SUN Doubt was not the opposite of faith for them. If doubt had SUN been eliminated they would still have been captive to their SUN fear but instead their doubt shook them from their fear and SUN in faith they reached out and were blessed with calmed SUN waters and taken to a new place in faith, a new place in SUN which they wondered more about the Son of God and who he SUN really was. SUN Choir Christ Be With Me (Pachelbel Canon arr Rawsthorne) SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN The story reveals that the disciples were people full of SUN fear. In the difficulties of our lives we too are often SUN revealed as people who are full of fear. SUN SUN When our loved one dies ahead of time and we are alone and SUN no one can feel the pain deep in our being, we are afraid. SUN SUN When we watch over a child destroying themselves with SUN addiction and bad choices, we are afraid. SUN SUN When friends turn on us and when love turns out to be empty SUN and artificial, we are afraid. SUN SUN We can be so afraid that we can doubt God cares about us. We SUN trusted in a God whom we believed sees us and knows us and SUN loves us but life’s circumstances turn us to fear and then SUN we can doubt that God is all we thought God was. Somehow the SUN blessing of God in our lives slips into the shadows. SUN SUN In his blessing entitled SUN For Courage SUN John O’Donohue, wrote this: SUN SUN Reading SUN SUN Fear, doubt, faith - we thank God for them for when they SUN dance together our search for God is spurred on by the SUN insistence that we take God seriously. The insistence that SUN we take faith seriously, the faith that makes us sure of SUN things we hope for but cannot see. SUN SUN The American civil rights activist, poet, and actress Maya SUN Angelou experienced abuse and the warped, exploitive love of SUN people who were only for themselves. She wrote eloquently of SUN the courage that comes from real and lasting love. The kind SUN of love that calls faith from us, lingers with us in the SUN dance with doubt and warms us from our fear. Angelou wrote: SUN SUN Reading Touched by an Angel SUN SUN SUN Choir SUN : Northern Lights (Gjeilo) SUN SUN SUN SUN Jonathan McCormick SUN Let us pray: SUN Reader 1: SUN SUN Father, we know that this is not the world that you want SUN when you created it. So we pray for places where it seems SUN that the world is crumbling. At this time we remember SUN specifically the situations is Syria, South Sudan, the SUN Central African Republic and Ukraine. We think too of SUN Northern Ireland. We don’t claim to know everything about SUN these situations, or the people involved but, we ask that SUN your comfort would reign in our confusion, that your peace SUN would prevail over our problems and your love would SUN transcend our expectations. SUN Reader 2: SUN SUN Loving God of heaven and earth, of all countries and SUN nations, of people of all faiths and of no faith, we ask SUN that you would reveal yourself to those who are suffering, SUN to those who are powerful, to those who are powerless, and SUN to ordinary people in their everyday lives that this world SUN might become a better reflection of your love and your SUN glory. SUN SUN Because our doubt and confusion often stops us acting, SUN assure us that we can make a positive difference and give SUN your people everywhere hands that are prepared diligently to SUN work to help restore this earth;; hearts to see everyone, in SUN every place as worthwhile, and minds focussed on you. SUN Reader 3 SUN SUN We remember all who feel lost in a confusion of doubt and SUN uncertainty SUN SUN Because of illness or loneliness or depression SUN SUN Because they are consumed by guilt or fear or anger. SUN SUN Help calm their doubts and quell their fears; speak to their SUN hearts and bring rest to their minds. SUN SUN SUN Jonathan McCormick SUN God of all care and compassion, you take us through deep SUN waters but never abandon us in the storm; we often walk in SUN the dark but you never leave us without your light. Be with SUN us in the night time of our fear and in the day of our SUN overconfidence that we may keep faith with each other as you SUN have kept faith with us in Christ our Saviour who taught us SUN to pray SUN SUN Lord’s Prayer SUN SUN SUN Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael) SUN Dr Carroll Blessing SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03xgtsd (Listen) SUN The Time Warp SUN SUN Sarah Dunant reflects that today's harsher judgement of some SUN of the sexual behaviour prevalent in the 1970s springs in SUN part from the freedom forged in that decade. "Without the SUN seventies, we would never have had the debate, the public SUN awareness, the sense of outrage or even the occasionally SUN blunt tool of the law to judge the present and the past." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x46sm (Listen) SUN Treecreeper SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Bill Oddie presents the treecreeper. Treecreepers are common SUN woodland birds but because their high-pitched almost SUN whispering song, is often drowned out by the dawn chorus, SUN they're often overlooked. The first glimpse may be a SUN silhouette, its belly close to the bark, braced by stiff SUN tail feathers. It has a curved, tweezer-like bill with with SUN which it delicately probes for hidden insects and spiders SUN deep in the crevices of the bark. SUN SUN Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) SUN Webpage image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03xzx5y (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03xzx60 (Listen) SUN Neil offers some unsolicited advice, and tensions rise at SUN Blossom Hill Cottage. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Ben Archer: Thomas Lester SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler SUN Kingsley Harris: Tom Roberts SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Writer: Nawal Gadalla SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03xzx62 (Listen) SUN Murray Walker SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Murray Walker SUN SUN His commentating career began in 1948 and he finally hung SUN the lip mic at the end of 2001. His trousers-on-fire style SUN of delivery brought excitement, emotion and fanatical SUN obsession to Formula 1 - for many motor racing fans he was SUN motorsport. SUN SUN He was a petrol-head before the term had even been coined; SUN his father, one of the top motorbike racing champions of his SUN day, ignited his son's life-long love of big noisy engines. SUN SUN He's talked British fans through so many of the sport's SUN greatest victories - Damon Hill crossing the finish line to SUN win the World Title brought an audible lump to his throat. SUN But also, inevitably, there have been great tragedies too - SUN his live commentary on Ayrton Senna's fatal crash in 1994 SUN was possibly his most professionally demanding. SUN SUN He says, "I have always believed that Formula One, with its SUN highs and lows, is the ultimate distillation of life." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Murray Walker SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b03xdk8s (Listen) SUN Series 68, Episode 5 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition & deviation? Fi Glover joins regulars SUN Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks and Paul Merton as Nicholas SUN Parsons adjudicates. Subjects include 'Ten Things to Do SUN during a Powercut'. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Fi Glover SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Tony Hawks SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03xzyy1 (Listen) SUN Hospital Food SUN SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the governments latest plans to SUN improve food in the NHS. The government is introducing a new SUN incentive to encourage hospitals to invest in food. Will SUN this succeed where other initiatives fail? SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03xztm6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03xzyy3 (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 Crypto Wars b03xzyy5 (Listen) SUN The revelations from Edward Snowden that British and SUN American spies have been working to break encryption have SUN generated fierce debate. Privacy advocates argue that the SUN NSA and GCHQ have undermined the internet by weakening the SUN security on which we rely to keep our communications and SUN transactions secure. At issue is whether people should be SUN able to encrypt their messages so that they are entirely SUN private - which would mean that governments wouldn't be able SUN to read them. But this latest fight is just the latest SUN chapter in a battle going back decades. SUN SUN In the 1970s, a group of academics and scientists in America SUN came up with a means of providing encryption for the masses. SUN The NSA, the US spy agency, went into battle with them - SUN doing its best to suppress and control the emerging SUN technology of public encryption. It even tried to prosecute SUN some of the proponents. At its heart is a culture clash SUN between two sides: libertarian techies on the West Coast and SUN East Coast government spies. BBC Security Correspondent SUN Gordon Corera meets the engaging characters from both sides SUN of the divide and finds out what it means for us today. SUN Producer: Mark Savage. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03xgsm0 (Listen) SUN Cheltenham SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Cheltenham. Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Anne SUN Swithinbank take questions from local gardeners. SUN SUN Also in this episode, Chris explores a villa in SUN Gloucestershire to unearth a Roman horticultural legacy, and SUN Matthew Wilson traces the close relationship between SUN gardening and fashion as he visits the Garden Museum in SUN Lambeth, London. SUN SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q. I have Clematis growing across my porch. On a Friday it SUN had produced two flowers but by the Saturday they were dead. SUN What am I doing wrong? SUN SUN A. Clematis is often affected by a disease called 'wilt' and SUN no one is completely sure what causes it. They are often SUN attacked by slugs and the damage can have the appearance of SUN Clematis wilt. It would be best to put down some slug SUN deterrent. Make sure you are planting deep enough so that if SUN the top is damaged then the buds under the ground can SUN sprout. A rose fertilizer will help it on its way. SUN SUN Q. I planted some young Pac Choi plants last November. They SUN were supposed to be ready after six weeks but they have just SUN gone to seed. Could the panel explain what has gone wrong? SUN SUN A. Usually they go to seed when things get a little bit too SUN tough and the main cause is often dryness. However, that may SUN not have been the case this year. It is usually a good idea SUN to start from seeds because the transporting process can be SUN too much of a shock for small plants. Sew the seeds in cells SUN and plant them out when they are a maximum of one inch SUN (2-3cm). They may have been over pampered before you bought SUN them, so try hardening young plants before planting them out SUN proper. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest some plants for a summer SUN container? It will be positioned in a sunny spot and can SUN only be watered a couple of times a week. SUN SUN A. Pelargoniums are quite low maintenance and can survive SUN drying out. Try anything from the classic Pelargonium to SUN some of the more unusual varieties such as Angel. They have SUN a slightly succulent stem which helps. For true succulents SUN you could try Portulaca, which is a pretty, trailing plant SUN and produces needle-like foliage and flowers like Rock SUN Roses. If you want good trailing foliage, use the classic SUN Helichrysum Petiolare. It has long, draping stems with SUN round, silver leaves. Make sure that you choose big SUN containers and line them with bubble wrap to decrease the SUN rate at which they dry out. Layering your plants provides SUN you with insurance if something fails. Start with something SUN architectural, for example a Phormium. Then add Aeonium SUN Zwartkop for its wonderful rosettes of near black foliage SUN and elegant stems. Use Golden Oregano for a blast of colour. SUN Throw in some Mesembryanthemums for added seasonality. SUN SUN Q. I have a leafless Poinsettia left over from Christmas. SUN What shall I do with it so that I can use it next Christmas? SUN SUN A. They go into a resting phase, so it is a good time to SUN prune. Once it has started to show new growth, repot it and SUN water it. Give it a liquid feed every week. Then you have SUN the challenge of bringing it into bract. They won't come SUN into colour unless they receive the right amount of light. SUN They will remain green if you keep them in a room with SUN artificial lighting. Be aware that they are very prone to SUN red spider mite and this can cause defoliation. SUN SUN Q. My mature Euphorbia characias wulfenii has been battered SUN to the ground by wind and rain. Would it hurt to tidy it up SUN at this point in the year? SUN SUN A. Late summer or early winter is usually recommended to SUN prevent them from flailing around in the bad weather. You SUN may find that you get a lot of sappy growth but pruning now SUN is fine. The sooner you do it the better and it will SUN rejuvenate from right down in the base. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03xzzc4 (Listen) SUN Taiwan - The 228 Incident SUN SUN In early 1947, Chinese nationalist forces, led by Chiang SUN Kai-Shek, killed an estimated twenty thousand Taiwanese SUN islanders after protests in Taipei. The Chinese had taken SUN control of the island at the end of WW2 after more than 50 SUN years of Japanese rule. Dr Chau Wu was a young boy at the SUN time of the killings. SUN SUN 15:00 Saturday Drama b01rv0lm (Listen) SUN Great Escape: The Justice SUN SUN In the spring of 1943, a group of Air Force officers began SUN work on an ambitious plan to tunnel their way out of a SUN German POW camp called Stalag Luft Three. A year later the SUN tunnel was ready and seventy-six made their escape. All but SUN three were recaptured, but fifty were then systematically SUN executed on orders from German High Command. This much was SUN made internationally famous by Hollywood in the film The SUN Great Escape, which mixes a meticulous depiction of the SUN tunnelling plan with highly fictionalised American SUN characters on motorbikes. SUN SUN But there is a stranger part of the story which starts where SUN the film leaves off, and reveals the real history behind the SUN nation-building legend. The British Government vowed to SUN avenge the murders, and within weeks of the war's end, sent SUN RAF investigators into the ruins of Germany, with orders to SUN track down the killers, and bring them to exemplary justice. SUN SUN Award-winning dramatist Robin Brooks and internationally SUN best-selling novelist Robert Radcliffe tell the SUN extraordinary story of the escape, the murders, and the SUN postwar manhunt in the chaos of divided Germany, through the SUN eyes of one of the senior investigating officers: a SUN straightforward by-the-book detective from Blackpool CID. SUN SUN Producer/Director ..... Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from Great Escape: The Justice (2) SUN SUN Credits SUN Sqn Ldr McKenna: Stephen Tompkinson SUN Nixon: Gunnar Cauthery SUN Schulmann: Ewan Bailey SUN Max Wielen: Nicholas Murchie SUN Emil Schulz: Rick Warden SUN Oberst von Lindeiner: Robert Blythe SUN Roger Bushell: Ben Crowe SUN Paul Brickhill: Michael Shelford SUN Nils Fuglesang: Will Howard SUN Marie: Amaka Okafor SUN Gluck: Paul Stonehouse SUN Angela Schulz: Hannah Wood SUN Director: Jonquil Panting SUN Producer: Jonquil Panting SUN Writer: Robin Brooks SUN Writer: Robert Radcliffe SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03xzzc6 (Listen) SUN Mary Lawson; Iranian literature; AS Byatt and Cecil Day SUN Lewis SUN SUN Acclaimed Canadian author Mary Lawson talks to Mariella SUN Frostrup about her latest novel Road Ends, set once again in SUN the harsh and isolated landscape of Northern Ontario, where SUN a suicide has an unexpected effect on an already unravelling SUN family. SUN SUN 35 years ago Iran was declared an Islamic Republic following SUN the exile of the Shah and the return of Ayatollah Khomeini. SUN Known as Persia before 1935, it had one of the greatest SUN empires of the ancient world, and has maintained a distinct SUN cultural identity within the Islamic world especially SUN retaining its own language, Farsi. Writer and broadcaster SUN Ali May and one of the country's most important contemporary SUN writers Amir Cheheltan discuss the state of modern Iranian SUN literature SUN SUN In the early 1960s an aspiring young writer sent her SUN manuscript on spec to the publisher Chatto and Windus. The SUN author was AS Byatt, her editor Cecil Day Lewis, and that SUN debut novel, The Shadow of the Sun, was published, after SUN much editorial discussion between the two, 50 years ago in SUN 1964. This early correspondence offers an unique window into SUN the writing process and highlights the blossoming SUN relationship between these two giants of the literary world. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Road Ends by Mary Lawson - Publisher: Random House SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of Road Ends by Mary Lawson SUN SUN Chapter 1: Road Ends by Mary Lawson SUN Road Ends SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Mary Lawson SUN Interviewed Guest: Ali May SUN Interviewed Guest: Amir Cheheltan SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b03xzzc8 (Listen) SUN Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew, Walter de la Mare SUN SUN Roger McGough introduces a selection of requested poetry SUN from three poets who were active one hundred years ago: SUN Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew and Walter de la Mare. In 1914, SUN Charlotte Mew, who had one of the saddest lives in all SUN poetry, was cautiously assembling poems for her first SUN collection, The Farmer's Bride. Walter de la Mare had just SUN published Peacock Pie, a book of his children's poems, which SUN has remained immensely popular, with many reprints ever SUN since. And the brief poetic career of Edward Thomas was just SUN getting underway after he met the American poet Robert Frost SUN and began turning his prose writing into poems. The readers SUN are Eleanor Tremain, Peter Marinker and Anton Lesser. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN I So Liked Spring SUN SUN By Charlotte Mew SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew SUN SUN Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co SUN SUN SUN March SUN SUN By Edward Thomas SUN SUN From SUN The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917 SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN They Told Me SUN SUN Walter de la Mare SUN SUN From SUN Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN Requiescat SUN SUN By Charlotte Mew SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew SUN SUN Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co SUN SUN SUN The Hollow Wood SUN SUN By Edward Thomas SUN SUN From SUN The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917 SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN All That’s Past SUN SUN Walter de la Mare SUN SUN From SUN Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN The Farmer’s Bride SUN SUN By Charlotte Mew SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew SUN SUN Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co SUN SUN SUN Some One SUN SUN Walter de la Mare SUN SUN From SUN Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN The Combe SUN SUN By Edward Thomas SUN SUN From SUN The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917 SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN The Field SUN SUN Walter de la Mare SUN SUN From SUN Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN In the Fields SUN SUN By Charlotte Mew SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew SUN SUN Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co SUN SUN SUN Fare Well SUN SUN Walter de la Mare SUN SUN From SUN Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN Old Man SUN SUN By Edward Thomas SUN SUN From SUN The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917 SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN May 1915 SUN SUN By Charlotte Mew SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew SUN SUN Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co SUN SUN SUN Seeds SUN SUN Walter de la Mare SUN SUN From SUN Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Eleanor Tremain SUN Reader: Peter Marinker SUN Reader: Anton Lesser SUN Producer: Tim Dee SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b03xf0gt (Listen) SUN Election Fraud SUN SUN With local authority elections due in May, Allan Urry SUN investigates claims of organised vote rigging. SUN SUN Earlier this year, the Electoral Commission identified 16 SUN areas in England with wards that are at particular risk of SUN electoral fraud. SUN SUN File on 4 visits some of those towns and cities and hears SUN first hand evidence of intimidation and the widespread abuse SUN of postal votes - including allegations that some people are SUN being pressured into handing over their vote to party SUN activists. SUN SUN A candidate who successfully took a court case against his SUN opponent after narrowly losing an election, says some SUN campaigners have lost sight of what is right and wrong. SUN SUN And a judge who sits in election fraud cases attacks the SUN system as "shambolic" and "wide open to abuse". SUN SUN So is our voting system too vulnerable to fraud? Are the SUN authorities doing all they can to root out corruptions? And SUN is it time to end postal voting on demand? SUN SUN Producers: Emma Forde and Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03xzsnz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03xztm8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03xztmb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03xztmd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03y00qr (Listen) SUN Writer and broadcaster John Waite presents the best of BBC SUN Radio this week. SUN SUN Be warned - there's a lot of rudeness in Pick of the Week SUN this Sunday. As John Waite discovers, it's open season on SUN being rude about famous people in the newspapers these days. SUN Radio 4 has also just started being rude about architects, SUN too. There's a rather rude joke about Bruce Forsythe, and a SUN rather rude noise from a two hundred year old tortoise. SUN SUN So join John for his Pick of the Week - surely it'd be rude SUN not to. SUN SUN Produced by the polite Stephen Garner. SUN SUN Today (Radio 4, 6am Friday 14th March) SUN SUN Archive on 4: The Interviewer Stole the Show (Radio 4, 8pm SUN Saturday 15th March) SUN SUN Nature: The Midland Brown Snake - Dead or Alive (Radio 4, SUN 9pm Monday 10th March) SUN SUN From Our Own Correspondent (World Service, 8.50pm Thursday SUN 13th March) SUN SUN Afternoon Drama: Dividing the Union (Radio 4, 2.15pm Friday SUN 14th March) SUN SUN Moira Stuart (Radio 2, 11pm Sunday 9th March) SUN SUN Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones! (Radio 4, 6.30pm Wednesday 12th SUN March) SUN SUN The Life Scientific (Radio 4, 9am Tuesday 11th March) SUN SUN Venus in View (Radio 4, 11.30am Thursday 13th March) SUN SUN Book of the Week: A Sense of Direction (Radio 4, 9.45am SUN All-week) SUN SUN Publishing Lives (Radio 4, 1.45pm All-week) SUN SUN A Shower of Sparks (Radio 4, 3.30pm Saturday 15th March) SUN SUN 5 Live Breakfast (5 Live, 6am Wednesday 12th March). SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03y00qt (Listen) SUN It is a moment of truth for Ruth. Meanwhile Lynda muscles SUN in. SUN SUN 19:15 Jeeves Live b03y00qw (Listen) SUN Series 2, Jeeves Takes Charge SUN SUN Martin Jarvis performs Jeeves Takes Charge, the second of SUN two celebrated P.G. Wodehouse stories, starring Bertie SUN Wooster and his urbane valet Jeeves. SUN SUN Recorded before a live audience as a highlight of the 2013 SUN Cheltenham Festival of Literature, it's a one-man tour de SUN force - as well as Jeeves and Wooster, Jarvis also portrays SUN Bertie's fiendish fiancée Florence Craye. SUN SUN This is Bertie's account of how he hired Jeeves as his SUN 'gentleman's personal' gentleman. Jeeves's first task is to SUN assist Bertie in spiriting away a scandalous family memoir SUN before publication. And, more crucially, extricating the SUN young master from the clutches of Florence. SUN SUN Reviews for Jarvis's previous one-man R4 Wodehouse include SUN this from The Times: "Outshining all was Martin Jarvis in SUN the funniest performance of the year... an astonishing SUN one-man tour-de-force... Jarvis switched unerringly from one SUN character to the next ..." SUN SUN Martin Jarvis received a Theatre World Award for his SUN performance as Jeeves in By Jeeves on Broadway. SUN SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Actor: Martin Jarvis SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN Author: PG Wodehouse SUN SUN 19:45 The Showman's Parson: Tales from the Memoirs of the SUN Rev Thomas Horne b03y00qy (Listen) SUN The Mummer SUN SUN Thomas Horne was born in 1849 in a caravan at Nottingham SUN Goose Fair. He spent the first part of his life as a working SUN showman - dressing up as a performing bear, running a Penny SUN Bazaar around the Lancashire Wakes, working as a doorman in SUN Mrs Williams' Waxwork, and finally becoming an actor in a SUN Mumming Booth and a partner in an Illusion Show. Latterly, SUN he joined a missionary brotherhood in Oxford, and was SUN ordained as a priest in Leeds in 1885. SUN SUN Until his death in 1918, Thomas Horne was a vigorous SUN campaigner for the rights of travelling people. With his SUN education, training as a priest, and family association with SUN the fairground, he was their ideal representative. He SUN travelled throughout the country, preaching to showfolk and, SUN in one year alone, he travelled over 12,000 miles, visiting SUN fairs as far apart as Penzance in Cornwall to Ayr in SUN Scotland. SUN SUN The stories in this series are taken from his memoirs held SUN in the National Fairground Archive in Sheffield. SUN SUN Today's story concerns the actor, Hervey Hoyne and the SUN terrible events surrounding a fire in the Mumming Booth at SUN Rotherham Statutes Fair. SUN SUN Read by Tony Lidington SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tony Lidington SUN Producer: David Blount SUN Author: Thomas Horne SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03xgswb (Listen) SUN Is anyone at the BBC listening? This week we'll be talking SUN to John Humphrys about whether liberal bias at the BBC has SUN put it out of step with public opinion, and whether anything SUN is changing. And there's a tale of sabotage and sacrilege in SUN a Lincolnshire abbey. SUN SUN In an interview with this week's Radio Times, John Humphrys SUN admitted the BBC had, in the past, been wrong in its SUN coverage of immigration and Europe. "We weren't sufficiently SUN sceptical - that's the most accurate phrase - of the SUN pro-European case. We bought into the European ideal". And SUN he went on to say that the BBC has been "grotesquely SUN over-managed". Roger Bolton asks John what has changed and SUN whether BBC presenters should criticise their employer. SUN SUN Roger's also been brushing up his Welsh this week to speak SUN to the Editor of Programmes for BBC Radio Cymru, Betsan SUN Powys. Following a dispute with Welsh musicians and a fall SUN in listener figures, BBC Radio Cymru, the only national SUN Welsh language radio station, decided it needed to start SUN listening to its audience. After months of conversations SUN with listeners, Radio Cymru has re-launched with a dramatic SUN shake-up to its schedules. Will it work? And will they still SUN be listening now they've made the changes? SUN SUN And our quest to find the very first bells broadcast on the SUN BBC takes us to a small town in the Midlands to hear a SUN listeners' fascinating tale of a nefarious plot to foil the SUN broadcasters. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03xgsw8 (Listen) SUN Tony Benn, James Ellis, Peter Rona, Marion Thorpe, Bob Crow SUN SUN On Last Word with Julian Worricker: SUN SUN Two prominent figures of the political left, Tony Benn and SUN Bob Crow. Ruth Winstone, who edited Tony Benn's diaries for SUN publication, pays tribute to the former Cabinet minister and SUN Labour MP. And you'll hear from a close colleague of the SUN general secretary of the RMT union and from a man who was SUN critical of him in print but who says privately you couldn't SUN meet a nicer and more sincere bloke. SUN SUN The actor, James Ellis, who portrayed Bert Lynch in 'Z Cars' SUN for sixteen years. Sir Kenneth Branagh recalls how James SUN helped launch his career. SUN SUN The oceanographer, Doctor Peter Rona, who helped to pioneer SUN the scientific exploration of the deep-sea floor. SUN SUN And the pianist, Marion Thorpe, who co-founded the Leeds SUN International Piano Competition. SUN SUN Tony Benn SUN SUN Julian spoke to Ruth Winstone who edited his diaries. SUN SUN Born 3 April 1925; died 14 March 2014 aged 88. SUN SUN James Ellis SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his son Toto and to fellow actor Sir SUN Kenneth Branagh. SUN SUN Born 15 March 1931; died 8 March 2014 aged 82. SUN SUN Peter Rona SUN SUN Julian spoke to Dr Bramley Murton of the SUN National Oceanography Centre. SUN SUN Born 17 August 1934; died 19 February 2014 aged 79. SUN SUN Marion Thorpe SUN SUN Julian spoke to Dame Fanny Waterman, co-founder of the Leeds SUN International Piano Competition and to political commentator SUN Iain Dale. SUN SUN Born 18 October 1926; died 6 March 2014 aged 87. SUN SUN Bob Crow SUN SUN Julian spoke to the President of the RMT, Peter Pinkney and SUN to Dick Murray, former Transport Editor at the Evening SUN Standard. SUN SUN Born 13 June 1961; died 11 March 2014 aged 52. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Julian Worricker SUN Interviewed Guest: Ruth Winstone SUN Interviewed Guest: Kenneth Branagh SUN Interviewed Guest: Toto Ellis SUN Interviewed Guest: Bramley Murton SUN Interviewed Guest: Fanny Waterman SUN Interviewed Guest: Iain Dale SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Pinkney SUN Interviewed Guest: Dick Murray SUN Producer: Simon Tillotson SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03xzs1l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03xzx5t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03y02c5 (Listen) SUN The Jihadi Spring SUN SUN Owen Bennett-Jones asks if the real beneficiaries of the SUN multiple failures of the Arab revolutions are the Islamist SUN militants both of al-Qaeda and its increasingly violent SUN allies. Does the West's tacit support for the reassertion of SUN military control in Egypt send a powerful message to SUN would-be Islamists - that they will never be allowed to SUN achieve power through the ballot box? SUN Producer: Leo Hornak. SUN Analysis: Political Islam SUN What is Wahhabism? SUN Syria and the New Lines in the Sand SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03y00r1 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03y00r3 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03xgl48 (Listen) SUN Jonathan Glazer on Under The Skin; Spinal Tap 30 years on; SUN SXSW highlights; Rome on film SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to writer and director Jonathan Glazer SUN about Under the Skin, an unsettling sci fi film starring SUN Scarlett Johansson. His previous work includes Birth and SUN Sexy Beast. He explores the challenges of seeing the world SUN through alien eyes. SUN SUN Spinal Tap, the rock mock doc, is 30 years old and Scott SUN Jordan Harris and Sophie Monks Kaufman debate whether it SUN still works for a new generation. SUN SUN The South By South West Festival, or SXSW, is underway in SUN Austin Texas, covering film, music and interactive. Henry SUN Barnes from The Guardian brings us his highlights from the SUN festival including The Possibilities Are Endless, a SUN documentary about the musician Edwyn Collins and his SUN recovery from a stroke. SUN SUN And Pasquale Iannone of Edinburgh University takes us on a SUN tour of Rome on film from Fellini to Sorrentino. SUN SUN Under The Skin SUN Directed by Jonathan Glazer, SUN Under The Skin SUN is in UK cinemas from Friday 14 March, certificate 15. SUN SUN Rome, Open City SUN Directed by Roberto Rossellini, SUN Rome, Open City SUN is in selected cinemas from Friday 7 March, certificate 12A. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Glazer SUN Interviewed Guest: Scott Jordan Harris SUN Interviewed Guest: Sophie Monks Kaufman SUN Interviewed Guest: Henry Barnes SUN Interviewed Guest: Pasquale Iannone SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03xzwgb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 MARCH 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03y02hz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03xf1f2 (Listen) MON Post-Katrina New Orleans; The Capitalist Personality MON MON Post-Katrina New Orleans: how disaster recovery became a MON lucrative business. Laurie Taylor talks to Vincanne Adams, MON US Professor of Medical Anthropology, about her account of MON market failure after the devastation wrought by Hurricane MON Katrina in 2005. 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MON MON Vincanne Adams MON MON Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of MON California, San Francisco MON MON MON Find out more about MON Vincanne Adams MON MON MON Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake MON of Katrina MON Publisher: Duke University Press MON ISBN-10: 0822354497 MON ISBN-13: 978-0822354499 MON MON Phil O'Keefe MON MON Professor of Environmental Management and Economic MON Development at Northumbria University MON MON MON Find out more about Professor MON Phil O'Keefe MON MON MON Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented MON Responses MON Geoff O'Brien; Phil O'Keefe (Authors) MON Publisher: Routledge MON ISBN-10: 0415600944 MON ISBN-13: 978-0415600941 MON MON Christopher Swader MON MON Assistant Professor of sociology at the National Research MON University, Higher School of Economics in Moscow MON MON MON Find out more about MON Christopher Swader MON MON MON The Capitalist Personality: Face-to-Face Sociality and MON Economic Change in the Post-Communist World MON Publisher: Routledge MON ISBN-10: 041589221X MON ISBN-13: 978-0415892216 MON MON Ethnography Award MON MON Thank you for all your entries. 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MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03xzvn2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03y02j1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03y02j3 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03y02j5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03y02j7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03y0dzs (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the MON Rev Dr Gordon Gray. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03y0dzv (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03y02j9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x457w (Listen) MON Grey Partridge MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Bill Oddie presents the Grey partridge. The grey partridge, MON a plump game bird, is now a rarity across most of the UK. MON Found on farmland, a partridge pair will often hold MON territory in a few fields beyond which they seldom stray MON during their whole lives. They should be doing well but MON increasing field sizes, which reduce nesting cover and the MON use of pesticides, which kill off vital insects, have taken MON their toll. MON MON Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03y0dzy (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03y0f00 (Listen) MON Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff MON MON Tom Sutcliffe discusses how we make decisions with the Nobel MON prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Moral choices in MON politics can be a complicated business, according to the MON academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff, who MON explores whether the age of international intervention is MON over. Doctors work under the oath 'do no harm', but the MON neurosurgeon Henry Marsh says the decision whether to MON operate on a brain is rarely that simple. High emotion can MON cloud your judgement and the writer Lisa Appignanesi looks MON back at sensational crimes of passion to ask how far the MON perpetrators were responsible for their actions. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Daniel Kahneman MON Interviewed Guest: Michael Ignatieff MON Interviewed Guest: Henry Marsh MON Interviewed Guest: Lisa Appignanesi MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03zrcfv (Listen) MON Free at Last - The Benn Diaries 1991 to 2001, Episode 1 MON MON January 1991 - 'The bombing of Iraq is going on on a huge MON scale', to the eve of the 1992 general election - 'I think MON Kinnock will be prime minister'. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tony Benn MON Producer: Jane Ray MON Author: Tony Benn MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03y0f04 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03y0f06 (Listen) MON Shirley, The Valley of the Shadow of Death MON MON Rachel Joyce's dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's tale of MON love, longing and loss. MON Robert has suddenly left Yorkshire, unaware that Caroline MON has fallen into a deep sickness. MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON Credits MON Charlotte Bronte: Lesley Sharp MON Caroline: Joanne Froggatt MON Shirley: Jemima Rooper MON Robert: Joseph Kloska MON Louis: Joel MacCormack MON Mrs Pryor: Christine Kavanagh MON Mr Helstone: Sean Murray MON Mr Sympson: David Seddon MON Hortense: Priyanga Burford MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Adaptor: Rachel Joyce MON Author: Charlotte Bronte MON MON 11:00 The Regimental Future b03y0l8w (Listen) MON From the Life Guards to the Parachute Regiment, the British MON Army's regiments are rich in culture and steeped in MON tradition, but how long will they last, and how long will MON they remain useful? MON MON Will Robson assesses the role and relevance of the regiments MON in modern warfare and at a time when defence budgets are MON being cut. MON MON To the soldiers that serve in them, the regiment is the MON all-important military family that provides accommodation, MON welfare and a fierce identity, bonding soldiers together in MON training and in battle. MON The regimental system, with its own esoteric structures, MON names, class divides and hierarchies, has endured for many MON years - yet is unique among the modern militaries. MON MON Could Government plans to downsize and force the British MON army to restructure lead to amalgamations chipping away at a MON structure that remains key to the army's success. The Royal MON Fusiliers are fighting the planned disbandment of their MON second Battalion, a move which will leave them with one MON battalion and an uncertain future. MON MON On the other hand, restructuring may also lead to larger and MON stronger regiments which amalgamate the traditions of MON individual units, creating a shared and strengthened MON regimental ethos. For example, the Rifles Regiment's MON original Light Infantry and Royal Green Jacket battalions MON have been boosted by former heavy infantry regiments such as MON the Devon and Dorsets and the Gloucesters. MON MON We hear from serving soldiers and officers, as well as MON veterans of all ranks. MON MON Producer: Harry Graham MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Ordeal by Innocence b03y0l8y (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON by Agatha Christie MON dramatised by Joy Wilkinson MON Episode 1 MON MON Doctor Calgary comes to visit the Argyle family with good MON news, or so he thinks. He tells the family he is there to MON clear the name of Jacko, who was convicted of the murder of MON his mother. But his news is not greeted with the enthusiasm MON he expects. MON MON directed by Mary Peate. MON MON Along with Crooked House, Ordeal by Innocence was Agatha MON Christie's favourite of her own works. It is easy to see MON why. Eschewing the traditional detective format, it takes an MON original idea - how the innocent suffer more than the guilty MON when a crime goes unsolved - and explores it to the full MON within a family where everyone has a motive and means to MON have done it. MON MON Credits MON Calgary: Mark Umbers MON Gwenda: Jacqueline Defferary MON Kirsten: Wanda Opalinska MON Hester: Phoebe Waller-Bridge MON Jacko: Arthur Hughes MON Leo: Sean Murray MON Mickey: Joel MacCormack MON Tina: Carys Eleri MON Philip: John Norton MON Mary: Priyanga Burford MON Marshall: David Seddon MON Huish: Michael Bertenshaw MON Doctor: Harry Jardine MON Hotel Receptionist: Georgie Fuller MON Director: Mary Peate MON Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson MON Author: Agatha Christie MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03y0l90 (Listen) MON Dangerous Mail MON MON Royal Mail tells us about its new dangerous mail policy and MON why it decided to destroy a Swedish bicycle helmet. MON MON In April the NHS will start paying some people to arrange MON their own care. We find out why, and how it will work. MON MON Reporter Samantha Fenwick experiences a day on the buses MON that charge themselves. Milton Keynes is the first place in MON Europe to get them. MON MON And credit ratings. How a long forgotten fraud came back to MON haunt a listener who urgently needs to renew his mortgage MON deal. MON MON Presented by Winifred Robinson. MON Produced by Natalie Donovan. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03y02jc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03y02jf (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 Russia: The Wild East b010dp11 (Listen) MON Series 1, A Church for the State MON MON The first of these selected episodes from Martin Sixsmith's MON history of Russia reflects on the earliest times, in the MON 10th century, when Kiev was the capital of all the Russian MON states. It was a period called Kievan Rus and, among the MON legacies it left through the centuries and up to the present MON day, were the choice of religion and the Cyrillic language. MON MON Producers: Adam Fowler and Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03y00qt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03y0l94 (Listen) MON A Kidnapping, Episode 1 MON MON Daniel Ryan and Jade Matthew play two British teachers at an MON international school in Manila who conspire to kidnap the MON 10-year-old son of a prominent Filipino politician. It's a MON simple get-rich quick plan that turns out not to be quite as MON straightforward as they had hoped. A fast-paced thriller and MON a grand, comic morality tale set and recorded in the MON Philippines. MON MON Recorded in the Philippines at the British School Manila and MON the Joya Towers Manila MON MON Sound Design: Steve Bond MON Original Music: Sacha Putnam MON MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Writer: Andy Mulligan MON Director: John Dryden MON MON A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Mark: Daniel Ryan MON Rachel: Jade Matthew MON Rami: Art Acuna MON Paolo: Nacio Samonte MON The Headmistress: Madeleine Nicolas MON Debbie: Jane Fisher MON Lily: Geraldine Tan MON Senator Amantez: Bart Guingona MON Mrs Amantez: Roselyn Perez MON Colonel Reyas: Leo Rialp MON Louis: Amiel Mendoza MON Andreas: Joel Trinidad MON Jonathan: Andy Mulligan MON Actor: Rona Lou San Pedro MON Actor: Francis Matheu MON Actor: Paulo Rodriguez MON Actor: Max Adarme MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Writer: Andy Mulligan MON Director: John Dryden MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03y0l96 (Listen) MON (15/17) MON The third semi-final of the nationwide general knowledge MON quiz comes from the Radio Theatre in London, with Russell MON Davies in the chair. The competitors have all either won MON their heats or been among the top-scoring runners-up in this MON year's series. Today's winner will go through to the grand MON Final, and into the home straight in the race for the title MON of 61st Brain of Britain. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03xzyy1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Great Estate b03y0lcj (Listen) MON Writer Suzi Feay explores the power and influence of the MON literary estate on our cultural and intellectual life - its MON control over what appears in print, what is revealed and MON what remains concealed from public view - including letters, MON journals, unpublished works. MON MON Talking to a number of writers, biographers, critics, MON novelists and publishers, as well as literary executors, MON Suzi asks why it is a family's private concerns, often the MON self appointed 'keepers of the flame' should outweigh MON questions of the cultural good, open access, scholarly MON research and even critical honesty. MON MON A stash of old letters is found that reveals a cherished MON author to be far less than perfect - is it right that they MON are embargoed for a hundred years? Do great writers, in the MON years after their death, belong first to their families or MON to the wider world? Is privacy sacred or does the reading MON public have a right to know? MON MON The programme looks at a number of case histories of great MON literary estates - from Joyce to Ian Fleming, Henry James MON and Eliot to Larkin and Kafka - including the censorious and MON the bizarre, and exploring changing ideas of posterity, MON copyright, biography and the onset of literary celebrity. MON MON Lucrative modern estates are often run ruthlessly, MON represented by powerful literary agencies. But beyond issues MON of copyright, questions remain about what parts of a MON writer's work and life exist in the public realm, what comes MON to light only under pressure and what may never see the MON light of day - all bound to the power of the literary MON estate. In an era where public censorship of literary work MON is consigned to memories of the Lady Chatterley trial, is MON private censorship alive and well? MON MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03y0lcl (Listen) MON Stonehenge MON MON The Spring equinox falls on 20th March. A few dozen pagans MON and Druids will mark it with ceremonies inside the famous MON circle at Stonehenge. The summer solstice in June, on the MON other hand, will see thousands of people converge on the MON site. Why do they come? To connect with the ancestors? MON Celebrate nature? Rave? Does what they do bear any MON relationship to what happened at Stonehenge thousands of MON years ago, and can we ever know? MON Ernie Rea is joined by Ronald Hutton, Professor of History MON at the University of Bristol, Julian Thomas,. Professor of MON archaeology at Manchester University and Frank Somers from MON the Amesbury and Stonehenge Druids. MON MON 17:00 PM b03y0lcn (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03y02jh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b03y0n88 (Listen) MON Series 68, Episode 6 MON MON Radio 4's classic panel game continues its run. MON MON Sheila Hancock, Richard herring, Paul Merton and Josie MON Lawrence attempt to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, MON repetition & deviation under the watchful eye of Nicholas MON Parsons. MON Subjects include 'Unanswerable Questions' and 'The Very MON First Telephone'. MON MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Richard Herring MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03y0n8b (Listen) MON Jennifer is determined, and David has a lot to take in. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03y0n8d (Listen) MON John Wilson talks to actor Tom Hollander about the return of MON his ecclesiastical BBC sitcom "Rev". Producer Tim Prosser. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Interviewed Guest: Tom Hollander MON Producer: Timothy Prosser MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03y0f06 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Roots of Extremism b03y0n8g (Listen) MON What drives people to exterminate others? The historian MON Daniel Pick reveals the story of an extraordinary project MON which aimed to unearth persecution's roots, from witch-hunts MON to the Holocaust and beyond. MON MON In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief organisers of the MON Holocaust, was tried in Jerusalem. Among those deeply MON troubled by his apparent ordinariness was David Astor, the MON editor of the Observer . MON MON Astor was also an enthusiastic champion of psychoanalysis, MON and made a speech declaring that the 'political MON psychopathology' of Nazism - and other examples of MON persecution and extermination - should be investigated. And MON he had the money to make this happen. MON MON The historian Norman Cohn contacted Astor and offered to MON help. Cohn was the author of The Pursuit of the Millennium, MON a pioneering study of the ways medieval utopian visions led MON to 'purifying' massacres. MON MON With Astor's support, Cohn set up the Columbus Centre, a MON team of historians, sociologists and other scholars who set MON about investigating the psychological roots of the Nazi mass MON killings of Jews and Gypsies, and much earlier examples such MON as the witch-hunts across Europe in the Middle Ages. MON MON One member of the team, psychiatrist Dr Henry Dicks, even MON visited West German prisons to interview convicted SS MON killers and concentration camp guards face to face. MON MON In this programme, Daniel Pick investigates the story of the MON Columbus Centre, drawing on exclusive access to private MON recordings of the Centre's meetings. MON MON And he explores the impact of the project today, from MON terrorism studies to the Tribunal that tried the MON perpetrators of the Rwanda genocide. MON MON With: Jeremy Lewis, Lucy Astor, Adrian Dicks, Marina MON Voikhanskaya, Steven Reicher, John Horgan, Frank Chalk, MON Albie Sachs. MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03y0n8j (Listen) MON Eldar Shafir: Scarcity MON MON (Image credit: Jerry Nelson) MON MON Jo Fidgen interviews Eldar Shafir, professor of psychology MON and public affairs at Princeton University, and co-author of MON Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much in front of an MON audience at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford MON University. Jo will explore the book's key idea: that not MON having enough money or time, shapes all of our reactions, MON and ultimately our lives and society. MON MON Producer: Ruth Alexander. MON Life by Lottery MON Roberto Unger MON Edward Snowden: Leaker, Saviour, Traitor, Spy? MON MON 21:00 Nature b03xf0fz (Listen) MON Series 8, The Midland Brown Snake - Dead or Alive MON MON The Midland Brown Snake found in the eastern United States, MON like many snake species migrates between winter hibernation MON areas and summer habitat in the Spring and Autumn. In many MON areas, even including the wilder or more rural areas and MON within State Parks where it is found, this means having to MON cross roads. To this small harmless snake the length of a MON pencil, a tarmacadamed road surface which holds the heat MON seems the ideal spot to pause to raise the body temperature MON on that journey but is also the cause of its demise. Its MON size and colouration means it is effectively invisible to MON passing traffic. While the Midland Brown Snake is not under MON conservation concern, the number of snakes being killed each MON year is high and some populations are endemic to specific MON areas. Howard Stableford joins a research team in an Eastern MON Illinois state park to find out how they are monitoring this MON beautiful snake, whether dead or alive, and how the MON information they are gathering may help other populations of MON this snake or other reptiles at threat from roads. MON MON Produced by Sheena Duncan. MON MON On the trail of midland brown snakes MON Presenter Howard Stableford on the trail with Dr Stephen MON Mullin (Eastern Illinois University) and one of the Midland MON Brownsnakes in hand. MON MON Close up of a midland brown snake MON One of the Midland Brownsnakes being studied by Dr Stephen MON Mullin. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03y0f00 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03y02jm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03y0n8l (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03y0n8n (Listen) MON The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, Love and Loss MON MON Beguiling, funny and poignant, The Collected Works of A.J. MON Fikry is largely set in Island Books, a failing independent MON bookshop in the middle of an island community off the MON American coast. A. J.Fikry, the shop's owner, is struggling MON to come to terms with a devastating loss, Amelia, a sales MON rep for a small publisher can't find the right man, and MON Maya, the baby found abandoned beside the piles of books, MON with a note, all gravitate to its teetering stackes. Island MON Books brings them together and offers life lessons gleaned MON from reading which are passed on and shared. MON MON Gabrielle Zevin is an award winning American novelist, MON writing for adults and young adults. She is also a MON screenwriter; her first screenplay was 'Conversations with MON Other Women' which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron MON Eckhart. MON MON Madeleine Potter has appeared in numerous films, television MON series, and theatre productions. She is well known to Radio MON 4 audiences for We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Great Swim MON and Where'd You Go, Bernadette. MON MON Hari Dhillon reads from A.J. Fikry's journal. Hari has read MON for Book of the Week and Book at Bedtime and starred in MON Holby City. MON MON The abridger is Sally Marmion and the producer is Elizabeth MON Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Madeleine Potter MON Reader: Hari Dhillon MON Author: Gabrielle Zevin MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b03cn0r8 (Listen) MON Series 4, Growing Pains MON MON Josie Long explores the painful process of growing up in a MON sequence of mini documentaries. MON MON From first steps to last love, we hear tales of MON controversial haircuts, the search for independence and the MON need to let go of the past. MON MON The items featured in the programme are: MON MON Singing Boys MON Prod. Rikke Houd MON MON Like Rude Boys MON Feat. voices recorded at the creative arts organisation Only MON Connect MON Prod. Steve Urquhart MON MON Dark Eyes MON Prod. Natalie Kestecher MON Originally broadcast on ABC Radio National MON MON Scared MON Prod. John Biewen MON MON The Man in the Picture MON Prod. Sara Parker MON MON Danny and Annie MON Prod. StoryCorps MON MON Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03y0nwx (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 MARCH 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03y02kj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03zrcfv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03y02kl (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03y02kn (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03y02kq (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03y02ks (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03y0qck (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the TUE Rev Dr Gordon Gray. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03y0qcm (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x458y (Listen) TUE Great Crested Grebe TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Bill Oddie presents the great crested grebe. In Spring, TUE great crested grebes perform a high ritualized mating TUE display. This includes head shaking and a spectacular TUE performance during which both male and female birds gather TUE bunches of waterweed and as they swim towards each other, TUE before rising vertically in the water, chest to chest, and TUE paddling furiously to keep themselves upright. TUE TUE Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03y0qcp (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b03y0qcr (Listen) TUE Anne Glover TUE TUE Biologist Prof Anne Glover of Aberdeen University tells Jim TUE Al-Khalili about why she became the first scientific adviser TUE in Scotland and then took on the same job in Europe. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03y0qct (Listen) TUE David Loyn talks to Soraya Pakzat TUE TUE As western forces prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan, and TUE the country faces elections, the BBC's Kabul correspondent TUE David Loyn talks to Soraya Pakzat, a woman's rights TUE campaigner. She tells him of how she has rescued young girls TUE sold in marriage, of the extraordinary Afghan crime of TUE "running away", and of her fears for the future of women in TUE the country. TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03zrdkx (Listen) TUE Free at Last - The Benn Diaries 1991 to 2001, Episode 2 TUE TUE The aftermath of the 1992 General Election, John Smith, the TUE Labour leadership contest and a trip on John Major's private TUE plane. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tony Benn TUE Producer: Jane Ray TUE Author: Tony Benn TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03y0qjp (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03y0qkz (Listen) TUE Shirley, The First Blue Stocking TUE TUE Shirley is horrified when she discovers her uncle is TUE determined to find her a husband of his choosing. How can a TUE man who scorns art and literature ever be able to find the TUE perfect partner for her? TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE Credits TUE Charlotte Bronte: Lesley Sharp TUE Shirley: Jemima Rooper TUE Caroline: Joanne Froggatt TUE Louis: Joel MacCormack TUE Mr Helstone: Sean Murray TUE Mr Sympson: David Seddon TUE Director: Tracey Neale TUE Adaptor: Rachel Joyce TUE Author: Charlotte Bronte TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b03y0qkl (Listen) TUE Series 8, Bigfoot: Not a Bear TUE TUE A "Nature" with a bit of a difference. Instead of looking at TUE rare species and conservation measures, this week's TUE programme focuses on perhaps the most elusive (if not TUE non-existent) creature of all - Bigfoot, the supposed ape TUE like or hominid creature that people believe lives in the TUE North West of the United States. With reports of sightings TUE of strange man-like beasts that go back as far as 1920 if TUE not stretching back into the 18th century, and the 1967 TUE famous, if not infamous, film shot at Bluff Creek in TUE California, there's as much interest in finding evidence of TUE Bigfoot today as there's ever been amongst those convinced TUE of its existence. But rebuffs of misidentification, TUE assumption and hoaxes abound. TUE Invited to the annual Beachfoot Camp 2013, BBC journalist TUE Matthew Hill hears of Bigfoot encounters from people who've TUE had experiences across decades and heads out with Bigfoot TUE researchers with all the latest technology in their quest to TUE be the ones to capture that one piece of vital indisputable TUE evidence. He also has a confounding experience that leaves TUE him unsure what to think and tries to understand what it is TUE in the human psyche that needs to hold to the belief that TUE these man-like monsters exist. TUE TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan. TUE TUE 11:30 Rejection Notes - The Movie Scores That Never Were TUE b03y10gs (Listen) TUE The movie world has a hidden story of musical carnage that TUE every composer has come to experience and dread! Ever since TUE the end of the studio system the film score, an essential TUE part of the film making process, has been subject to the TUE vagaries of the volatile world of film making. The very last TUE chance to make or break a movie is beset with pitfalls, no TUE one is safe and many composers refuse to talk about this TUE bitter but brutal reality of composing for film- your score TUE is ultimately their score to be subject to all the vagaries TUE of film making. Scores by legendary composers as varied as TUE Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Hermann, Jerry Goldsmith, James TUE Horner and William Walton have been abandoned. Directorial TUE disagreements, the much loathed temp track, studio TUE interference, last minute meltdowns and other, even more TUE unlikely, factors have led to hundreds of scores being TUE discarded. Every year, if you look hard enough, you can find TUE another trail of wrecked notes. TUE TUE Take just two films only a year apart: Kubrick's legendary TUE 2001: A Space Odyssey seems impossible now without its TUE Strauss and Ligeti but despite Stanley Kubrick knowing he TUE was in thrall to the past masters he allowed the brilliant TUE Alex North to feverishly compose an original score for it TUE that became a sacrificial cause celebre. In 1969 one of TUE Britain's finest, William Walton, scored The Battle of TUE Britain only to find himself unceremoniously replaced by the TUE more hummable Ron Goodwin. He never forgot the slight. TUE TUE Some scores get unlikely resurrections; original sessions TUE kept by canny recordists can resurface as was the case with TUE both The Battle of Britain and 2001 but some remain forever TUE silent. Christopher Cook hears from acclaimed composer TUE Howard Blake who has experienced just about everything the TUE world of fiim music can throw at a film composer and editor TUE Terry Rawlings reveals what it took to make Alien sound even TUE more terrifying at the expense of upsetting Jerry TUE Goldsmith's who had composed one of his greatest ever TUE scores. TUE TUE Producer Mark Burman. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03y10gv (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03y02kv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03y02kx (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 Russia: The Wild East b010dq7b (Listen) TUE Series 1, Prince Igor and the Polovtsians TUE TUE The second of these selected episodes from Martin Sixsmith's TUE history of Russia continues the earliest story of Russia's TUE relationship with Ukraine. TUE TUE From the 10th to the mid-13th centuries, Kiev is the centre TUE of power and the culture and politics of Kievan Rus has TUE brought stability to the emerging nation. But internal TUE squabbles among the princes of different states, and warring TUE tribes on the borders, threaten to destroy what has been TUE achieved. TUE TUE Even so, these smaller battles were about to be dwarfed by a TUE far bigger threat, which would eventuall bring down Kiev and TUE move the capital to Moscow. TUE TUE Producers: Adam Fowler and Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03y0n8b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03y10gx (Listen) TUE A Kidnapping, Episode 2 TUE TUE Daniel Ryan and Jade Matthew play two British teachers at an TUE international school in Manila who conspire to kidnap the TUE 10-year-old son of a prominent Filipino politician. It's a TUE simple get-rich quick plan that turns out not to be quite as TUE straightforward as they had hoped. A fast-paced thriller and TUE a grand, comic morality tale set and recorded in the TUE Philippines. TUE TUE Recorded in the Philippines at the British School Manila and TUE the Joya Towers Manila TUE TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond TUE Original Music: Sacha Putnam TUE TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Andy Mulligan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mark: Daniel Ryan TUE Rachel: Jade Matthew TUE Rami: Art Acuna TUE Paolo: Nacio Samonte TUE Debbie: Jane Fisher TUE Lily: Geraldine Tan TUE Senator Amantez: Bart Guingona TUE Mrs Amantez: Roselyn Perez TUE Colonel Reyas: Leo Rialp TUE Louis: Amiel Mendoza TUE Andreas: Joel Trinidad TUE Taxi Driver: Paulo Rodriguez TUE Priest: Francis Matheu TUE Jonathan: Andy Mulligan TUE Actor: Rona Lou San Pedro TUE Actor: Max Adarme TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Andy Mulligan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b03y10gz (Listen) TUE Series 6, Lewes TUE TUE Jay Rayner and the team are in Lewes for this episode of the TUE culinary panel programme. TUE TUE Taking questions from a local audience are Masterchef winner TUE Tim Anderson, food scientist Peter Barham, restaurateur TUE Henry Dimbleby and chef Sophie Wright. TUE TUE The menu this week features spinach, kohlrabi, Japanese TUE vegetables and beer, as well as tips for quick and easy TUE lunches if you're working from home. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. TUE TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b03y10h1 (Listen) TUE Feeding the Crops of the Future TUE TUE Tom Heap looks at whether we're running out of phosphorus. TUE It's an essential element in fertiliser and all life on TUE earth depends on it. Nowadays we get it from mining TUE phosphate rock, which is a finite resource. Some scientists TUE have predicted that we could run out within decades. TUE TUE Britain has no phosphate rock reserves of its own, and with TUE 80 per cent of known rock under the control of one country, TUE Morocco, should we be taking future supplies more seriously, TUE as a matter of national security? TUE TUE Tom investigates whether there are alternatives to phosphate TUE rock, such as extracting phosphorus from sewage. He learns TUE about a nineteenth century gold rush in East Anglia, where TUE fortunes were made from extracting phosphate from fossilised TUE dinosaur bones and droppings. In an emergency, could we go TUE back to this old method? TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b03y10h3 (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b03y10h5 (Listen) TUE Julie Burchill and Fred MacAulay TUE TUE Writer Julie Burchill and broadcaster Fred MacAulay argue TUE about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Fred TUE loves The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, but Julie, who TUE used to love it, feels very differently about it on TUE re-reading it now. Her recommendation is Alys, Always by TUE Harriet Lane, which she says is the scariest book you will TUE ever read. And Harriett introduces them both to Get Shorty TUE by Elmore Leonard and waits to see what they make of it.. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS BROADCAST TUE TUE TUE TUE Alys, Always by Harriet Lane TUE TUE Published by Phoenix TUE TUE TUE TUE Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger TUE TUE Published by Penguin TUE TUE TUE TUE Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard TUE TUE Published by Phoenix TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Julie Burchill TUE Interviewed Guest: Fred MacAulay TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03y10h7 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03y02kz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b00zf1zy (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 1 TUE TUE The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by TUE the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators TUE of The Fast Show. TUE TUE Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia TUE Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy TUE Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse, TUE TUE Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Robert Popper and Adil TUE Ray. TUE TUE Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Contact the show TUE Email the show at downtheline@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Credits TUE Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas TUE Performer: Amelia Bullmore TUE Performer: Simon Day TUE Performer: Felix Dexter TUE Performer: Charlie Higson TUE Performer: Lucy Montgomery TUE Performer: Paul Whitehouse TUE Performer: Rosie Cavaliero TUE Performer: Robert Popper TUE Performer: Adil Ray TUE Producer: Paul Whitehouse TUE Producer: Charlie Higson TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03y10h9 (Listen) TUE Brian faces a stark choice, and Ian pushes himself to the TUE limit. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03y10j7 (Listen) TUE Kirsty Lang reviews the new exhibition at the National TUE Gallery featuring the work of Venetian Renaissance artist TUE Paolo Veronese. Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kirsty Lang TUE Producer: Rebecca Nicholson TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03y0qkz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Gay Rights: Tying the Knot? b03yggdf (Listen) TUE The first same-sex weddings in England and Wales take place TUE on 29th March - yet marriage was the last thing on the minds TUE of pioneering gay rights crusaders in the 60s and 70s. TUE Reverend Richard Coles looks at how gay marriage became the TUE defining issue of recent years - and asks whether it TUE represents the last crusade of the campaign for gay rights. TUE TUE He speaks to senior Stonewall figures Ben Summerskill, TUE Michael Cashman and Angela Mason. He also hears from Peter TUE Tatchell, the Conservative Party's first openly gay MP Alan TUE Duncan and former Prime Minister Tony Blair who introduced TUE Civil Partnerships. TUE TUE Richard discovers that for many early activists, marriage TUE was not only a far off prospect, it wasn't a very desirable TUE one either, as many gay men and women sought the downfall of TUE traditional institutions. TUE TUE So where along the line did the idea of gay marriage become TUE the number one campaigning issue? And with this last major TUE legislative milestone passed, is it time for gay rights TUE campaigners to pack up and go home? TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03y10tb (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03y10td (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b03y0qcr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03y10tg (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03y10tj (Listen) TUE The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, A Discovery TUE TUE Enchanting, funny and poignant, The Collected Works of A.J. TUE Fikry is largely set in Island Books, a struggling TUE independent bookshop in the middle of an island community TUE off the American coast. In today's episode, an unlikely TUE discovery in the children's section of the bookshop presents TUE A.J. with a dilemma. Madeleine Potter is the narrator, and TUE Hari Dhillon reads from A.J. Fikry's journal. TUE TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion and the producer is Elizabeth TUE Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Madeleine Potter TUE Reader: Hari Dhillon TUE Author: Gabrielle Zevin TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 23:00 Turf Wars b00zm084 (Listen) TUE How's Your Mother? TUE TUE MICHAEL MALONEY stars in Simon Brett's short play for this TUE comedy drama series: 'TURF WARS'. TUE TUE In a gossipy village Humphrey Partridge is reckoned to be TUE anti-social, indeed stand-offish. But he always has an TUE excuse - namely that he has to look after his ailing elderly TUE mother. It raises eyebrows at work. For example when TUE Humphrey's boss needs him to stand in for a colleague at a TUE conference abroad, Humphrey point blank refuses to go. The TUE boss ends up going himself. No-one has ever met the TUE legendary matriarch. Not even nosy Raj the local postman. TUE But then one morning when Humphrey is at work, Raj notices a TUE fire in Humphrey's house, breaks in to put it out and makes TUE an extraordinary discovery. Soon police are digging in TUE Humphrey's garden. But just what is Humphrey's dark secret? TUE TUE HOW'S YOUR MOTHER by Simon Brett TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE Credits TUE Humphrey Partridge: Michael Maloney TUE Raj: Adeel Akhtar TUE Sgt Wallis: Adeel Akhtar TUE Mr Denton: Sam Dale TUE Trevor: Sam Dale TUE Mrs Denton: Sally Orrock TUE Mrs Jones: Christine Kavanagh TUE Director: Peter Kavanagh TUE Writer: Simon Brett TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03y10vj (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03y02mc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03zrdkx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03y02mg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03y02mk (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03y02mm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03y02mp (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03y10xf (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the WED Rev Dr Gordon Gray. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03y13z8 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45bg (Listen) WED Sand Martin WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Bill Oddie presents the sand martin. The flickering shapes WED of sand martins over a lake or reservoir are a welcome sign WED of spring. After winging their way across the Sahara Desert, WED the first birds usually arrive in the UK in March. They're WED smaller than house martins or swallows, and they're brown WED above and white below with a brown band across their chest. WED Often you can hear their dry buzzing calls overhead before WED you see them. WED WED Sand martin (Riparia riparia) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b03y13zb (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03y13zd (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03zrdlg (Listen) WED Free at Last - The Benn Diaries 1991 to 2001, Episode 3 WED WED August 1994 - 'Woken at 4am by a drunken Scotsman', to May WED 1997 - the new Labour Government sweeps into power with Tony WED Blair at the helm. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tony Benn WED Producer: Jane Ray WED Author: Tony Benn WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03y13zg (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03y13zj (Listen) WED Shirley, News WED WED Something is very wrong with Shirley but she refuses to tell WED anybody what ails her. Can Louis finally persuade her to WED confide in him? And everyone, especially Caroline, is WED anxious for news of Robert. WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED Credits WED Charlotte Bronte: Lesley Sharp WED Shirley: Jemima Rooper WED Louis: Joel MacCormack WED Caroline: Joanne Froggatt WED Mrs Pryor: Christine Kavanagh WED Mr Sympson: David Seddon WED Robert: Joseph Kloska WED Director: Tracey Neale WED Adaptor: Rachel Joyce WED Author: Charlotte Bronte WED WED 11:00 Robert Peston's Family Business Therapy b03y13zl (Listen) WED Why do family businesses succeed, and fail? The BBC's WED business editor Robert Peston explores the pains and WED pleasures of working alongside family members. From the East WED End Funeral Directors who have built a four generation WED empire to the hardware store locked in intergenerational WED conflict, Peston explores the flashpoints and finest hours WED caused by working in the family way. WED WED 11:30 HR b03y13zn (Listen) WED Series 5, Peter and Sam and Ed and Kate WED WED Nigel Williams' comedy. Peter is jealous of Sam's new WED partner Ed. He hatches an elaborate plan to make them break WED up. But will he succeed? WED WED Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED WED Credits WED Peter: Jonathan Pryce WED Sam: Nicholas Le Prevost WED Kate: Kate Fahy WED Ed: David Haig WED Wolfram: Tony Bell WED Director: Peter Kavanagh WED Writer: Nigel Williams WED WED 12:00 Budget 2014 b03y146d (Listen) WED Live coverage of the chancellor's Budget speech with WED analysis and reaction. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03y10h9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03y14n7 (Listen) WED A Kidnapping, Episode 3 WED WED Daniel Ryan and Jade Matthew play two British teachers at an WED international school in Manila who conspire to kidnap the WED 10-year-old son of a prominent Filipino politician. It's a WED simple get-rich quick plan that turns out not to be quite as WED straightforward as they had hoped. A fast-paced thriller and WED a grand, comic morality tale set and recorded in the WED Philippines. WED WED Recorded in the Philippines at the British School Manila and WED the Joya Towers Manila WED WED Sound Design: Steve Bond WED Original Music: Sacha Putnam WED WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Writer: Andy Mulligan WED Director: John Dryden WED WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Mark: Daniel Ryan WED Rachel: Jade Matthew WED Paolo: Nacio Samonte WED Senator Amantez: Bart Guingona WED Mrs Amantez: Roselyn Perez WED Andreas: Joel Trinidad WED Rami: Art Acuna WED Debbie: Jane Fisher WED Nikko: Sam Barlongay WED Nikko's Uncle: Paulo Rodriguez WED Boat Owner: Francis Matheu WED Colonel Reyas: Leo Rialp WED BBC News Reporter: Colin Briggs WED BBC News Reporter: Owen Bennett-Jones WED BBC News Reporter: Andrew North WED BBC News Reporter: Lyse Doucet WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Writer: Andy Mulligan WED Director: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03y152f (Listen) WED Saving and Investing WED WED Wondering where to put your money? Talk to Paul Lewis and WED guests about the best home for your savings and investments. WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED ISA providers are launching new accounts for the 2014/15 tax WED year, so who is offering the best cash ISA rate? WED WED If you already have a cash ISA and the interest rate has WED dwindled away, where can you move it to? WED WED Anna Bowes from Savings Champion will be in the studio with WED advice. WED WED If you have an appetite for risk and want to consider a WED stocks and share ISA, tracker or fund where do you start? WED WED What's the cheapest way to invest in equities and how do you WED find out about the funds on offer? WED WED Put your question to Carolyn Black, Investment Manager at WED Stockbrokers Redmayne-Bentley and Independent Financial WED Adviser Brian Dennehy of Dennehy Weller and Co. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 One to One b03y0qct (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010t6jm (Listen) WED Series 1, Defeat and Disaffection WED WED Martin Sixsmith charts the tensions that have often surfaced WED between Russia and its southern states. WED WED In this episode, chosen from his 2011 series on the history WED of Russia, Martin shows how successive rulers have battled WED to keep Georgia, Ukraine, Chechnya and the Caucasus under WED their control. WED WED The confrontation became international in the mid-19th WED century when France and Britain decided they needed to WED restrain Russia's naval expansion into the Mediterranean at WED Sebastopol, and launched the Crimean War. WED WED Producers: Adam Fowler and Anna Scott-Brown WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03y152h (Listen) WED Race in Police Disciplinaries; Protestant Fishermen in WED Scotland WED WED Race in police 'misconduct' proceedings - Laurie Taylor WED considers new research exploring the perception that ethnic WED minority police officers are disproportionally subjected to WED such investigations. Graham Smith, Senior Lecturer at WED University of Manchester School of Law, looked at data WED provided by 3 English police services over a 4 year period WED between 2008 and 2011. WED WED Also, Evangelical Fishermen - the lives and beliefs of WED fundamentalist Christians living in a remote Scottish WED fishing village. Joseph Webster, Research Fellow in Social WED Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Cambridge, WED discusses his study of an austere community of Protestant WED Brethren struggling with the crisis of the contemporary WED fishing industry whilst also focusing on the 'End of Days'. WED How does this most demanding form of religious faith survive WED in the midst of the tough and perilous work at sea? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Graham Smith WED WED Senior Lecturer in Regulation, School of Law, University of WED Manchester WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Graham Smith WED WED WED WED WED Ethnic Minority Police Officers and Disproportionality In WED Misconduct Proceedings WED Graham Smith, Harry Hagger Johnson And Chris Roberts WED WED Joe Webster WED WED Lecturer in Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Joe Webster WED WED WED WED WED The Anthropology of Protestantism: Faith and Crisis among WED Scottish Fishermen WED Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan WED ISBN-10: 1137336536 WED ISBN-13: 978-1137336538 WED WED Ethnography Award WED WED Thank you for all your entries. WED WED WED WED These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, WED Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise WED Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor WED Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). WED WED WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, WED originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The WED work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED WED WED The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of WED 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 WED WED WED WED Please see the WED Terms & Conditions WED for all the rules. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03y152k (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b03y152m (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03y02my (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03y152p (Listen) WED Big Farmer WED WED Long Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing WED they think is 'Help!'. WED WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED WED This week, Milton Jones is asked for help because there are WED ugly rumours about the local farm going too far with its GM WED crops. At least, that's what the vegetables are saying. WED WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03y154q (Listen) WED Tom can't hide his anger, and Ruth is thoughtful. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03y15hw (Listen) WED John Wilson presents the arts news and review programme. WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED Producer: Olivia Skinner WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03y13zj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03y15hy (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Michael Portillo, Giles WED Fraser, Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b03y15j0 (Listen) WED The novelist Catherine Fox looks at this year's theme of The WED Power and the Passion by reflecting on the power of Christ's WED submission. How can you rally to the cause of a man who WED won't fight, forbids you to defend him and lets himself be WED killed? After all, we've learned to dislike 'victim WED mentality', haven't we? WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b03y10h1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03y13zd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03y02n5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03y15j2 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03y15j4 (Listen) WED The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, Episode 3 WED WED Beguiling, funny and poignant, The Collected Works of A.J. WED Fikry is largely set in Island Books, a struggling WED independent bookshop at the heart of an island community off WED the American coast. Today, A.J. Fikry acts out of love when WED he makes an extraordinary commitment. Madeleine Potter and WED Hari Dhillon read. WED WED The abridger is Sally Marmion and the producer is Elizabeth WED Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Madeleine Potter WED Reader: Hari Dhillon WED Author: Gabrielle Zevin WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 23:00 Afternoon Reading b0144v1t (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, Spooky and the Van WED WED By Joe Lycett. WED WED Seventeen year old Julian is writing a blog. He's currently WED experiencing the weird limbo that lies between finishing WED school and starting university. As well as musing upon how WED his life might change, Julian's neighbour, nicknamed Spooky, WED is providing plenty of writing material and mystery... WED WED Part of a series of short stories written and performed by WED comedians; recorded in front of an audience at the BBC's own WED venue at Potterrow, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in WED 2011. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03y15jr (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED WED A brand new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther WED Coles, with Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and WED Marcia Warren. WED WED The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse WED in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service WED Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad WED and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, WED whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their WED medication and offer comfort and support. WED WED Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot WED cure her patients, only help them manage their various WED conditions. She visits the following characters throughout WED the series: WED WED Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean WED descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made WED tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, WED who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. WED So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves. WED WED Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of WED affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by WED the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony. WED WED Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating WED disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to WED sugary and fatty snacks at all times. WED WED Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the WED Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a WED product of his imagination. WED WED Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, WED charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if WED he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more WED time he will explode. WED WED Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. WED Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures WED unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead. WED WED Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who WED have collaborated many time in the past, including on The WED Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness. WED WED Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with WED additional material from Esther Coles WED Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani WED A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gary: Paul Whitehouse WED Billy: Paul Whitehouse WED Ted: Paul Whitehouse WED Herbert: Paul Whitehouse WED Graham: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Phyllis: Marcia Warren WED Tony: Simon Day WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03y15jt (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster, as the Chancellor WED delivers his Budget. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 MARCH 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03y02r2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03zrdlg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03y02r4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03y02r6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03y02r8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03y02rb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03y36vk (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the THU Rev Dr Gordon Gray. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03y36vm (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45jq (Listen) THU Goldeneye THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Bill Oddie presents the goldeneye. Although they're a common THU winter visitor, you'll need to travel to Speyside in the THU Scottish Highlands to see goldeneyes in their breeding THU season where, since 1970, a small population has bred there. THU Unlike dabbling ducks, such as mallard and teal, they don't THU need muddy shorelines and lots of vegetation. Goldeneyes are THU diving ducks that feed mainly on shellfish and crustaceans. THU THU Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b03y36vp (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03y36vr (Listen) THU Bishop Berkeley THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of George THU Berkeley, an Anglican bishop who was one of the most THU important philosophers of the eighteenth century. Berkeley THU believed that objects only truly exist in the mind of THU somebody who perceives them - an idea he called THU immaterialism. His work on the nature of perception was a THU spur to many later thinkers, including David Hume and THU Immanuel Kant. The clarity of Berkeley's writing, and his THU ability to pose a profound problem in an easily understood THU form, has made him one of the most admired Early Modern THU thinkers. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03zrdn1 (Listen) THU Free at Last - The Benn Diaries 1991 to 2001, Episode 4 THU THU August 1997-April 1999: The death of Diana, Princess of THU Wales, peace in Northern Ireland, the Americans start to THU target Saddam Hussain, and an encounter with Ali G. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tony Benn THU Producer: Jane Ray THU Author: Tony Benn THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03y36vw (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03y36vy (Listen) THU Shirley, Confessions THU THU As Shirley and Caroline stay awake all night, waiting to THU hear whether Robert will pull through, Shirley agrees to THU tell her friend why she has been so secretive. THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU Credits THU Charlotte Bronte: Lesley Sharp THU Shirley: Jemima Rooper THU Caroline: Joanne Froggatt THU Robert: Joseph Kloska THU Louis: Joel MacCormack THU Hortense: Priyanga Burford THU Director: Tracey Neale THU Adaptor: Rachel Joyce THU Author: Charlotte Bronte THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03y36w0 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Art of Home b03y36w2 (Listen) THU How does an artist's sense of home shape and direct their THU work? Do they need to be rooted in a familiar place where THU ideas and they have personally been shaped? Or can being THU cast far from home galvanise an artist's work, giving them a THU fresh perspective? THU THU Author Rosie Dastgir explores the importance of roots and THU home on the work of an artist in this authored programme. THU She meets different artists from diverse places across THU Britain. THU THU Clio Barnard is one of Britain's rising filmmakers and her THU work made Rosie wonder about her roots and sense of place. THU Much of Barnard's film work is centred in Yorkshire and her THU movies The Arbour and the latest, BAFTA nominated The THU Selfish Giant reflect a social realism that could only come THU from an intimate knowledge of the area. THU THU Going home to Wolverhampton, was something that Sathnam THU Sanghera felt compelled to do to write his funny and moving THU memoir The Boy with the Top Knot - as he had learnt his THU father was a schizophrenic, explaining some of his family's THU strange behaviour while he was growing up. The memoir takes THU him on an extraordinary journey from his father's harsh life THU in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist THU Office. THU THU Simon Stevens is an award-winning playwright. His writing is THU characterised as part of a new generation of gritty realism THU and is widely performed, not only in the UK but also THU throughout Europe. His work and writing grapple with his THU past of growing up on the streets of Stockport. The THU playwright believes that writers and artist invariably THU reflect back on their past, hoping to resolve conflict, THU upheaval and other events - a futile endeavour but, as we THU hear, an exercise that has resulted in some wonderful THU creative energy. THU THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03y36w4 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03y02rd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03y02rg (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 Russia: The Wild East b012l0r4 (Listen) THU Series 2, Collectivisation THU THU Stalin's five year plan was to bring disaster to the farming THU communities and peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1930's. THU THU In this episode from his history of Russia, Martin Sixsmith THU shows how collectivisation produced famine on an THU unimaginable scale. Millions of people starved to death - THU the majority of them in Ukraine. THU THU Producer: Anna Scott-Brown and Adam Fowler THU A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03y154q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03y38kc (Listen) THU Rumpole, Rumpole and the Old Boy Net THU THU By John Mortimer THU Adapted by Richard Stoneman THU Starring Benedict Cumberbatch. THU THU We rejoin Rumpole and Hilda in 1964. Hilda is worried about THU the choice of school for their son, Nicholas. Hilda wants THU Rumpole to become a Q.C. in order to afford a decent THU education for Nicholas. Claude Erskine-Brown is also trying THU to take silk but he's distracted by the arrival in chambers THU of Rumpole's new pupil, Miss Phillida Trant. THU THU Phillida assists Rumpole in the defence of Mr Napier Lee, THU who's charged with running a disorderly house near Victoria THU Station, and with the more serious accusation of blackmail. THU Mr Lee admits his customers all went to public school. And THU the alleged victim of the blackmail was at Lawnhurst College THU with Mr Lee, which is why Lee won't break the unwritten law THU and sneak on his old school chum. THU THU Erskine-Brown is prosecuting at the Old Bailey, where THU Phillida recognises a familiar face in the press box. Isobel THU Vincent was at Bennenden with Phillida, and now works for THU the Evening Standard. With help from Phillida, Isobel THU publishes the name of the alleged victim. This public THU identification leads to Rumpole's successful defence on the THU charge of blackmail, but also puts Phillida in danger of THU prosecution for contempt of court. THU THU Phillida works hard to get out of trouble with the law but, THU instead, finds herself drawn towards Rumpole - and into THU trouble of a more personal kind. THU THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie. THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch THU Hilda: Jasmine Hyde THU Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony THU Sir Cuthbert: Ewan Bailey THU Mr Lee: Ewan Bailey THU Phillida Trant: Cathy Sara THU Judge Bullingham: Stephen Critchlow THU Stephen Lucas: Stephen Critchlow THU Director: Marilyn Imrie THU Adaptor: Richard Stoneman THU Author: John Mortimer THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b03y38kf (Listen) THU Series 26, Over the Hill walkers, Windsor Great Park THU THU This series is themed 'Ramblings Revisited' as Clare Balding THU walks again with some of her favourite and most memorable THU guests. THU THU In the spring of 2006, Clare went rambling with a female THU hockey team who had been walking together for 15 years. In THU this time they'd developed enduring friendships on as well THU as off the pitch. THU THU Now, eight years on - and with most of the original walkers THU now retired - Clare is going back to catch up with the 'Over THU the Hill' club. The group started-up after an advertisement THU was placed on the hockey club wall; it stipulated that the THU requirements of those attending were 'A sense of humour, THU walking boots or strong shoes, haversack, waterproof THU clothing and approximately £65 plus beer and lunch money'. THU THU The group walk in a different location each time they THU gather, this week they'll be in Windsor Great Park. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03xzx5t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03xzzc6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03y38kh (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03y38kk (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b03y38km (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03y02rs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks b03y38kp (Listen) THU Funerals and Sex Education THU THU Jason Cook helps make life more lovely for listeners, with THU the help of regular guests Zoe Harrison and Neil Grainger to THU illustrate his life lessons. THU THU This time Jason looks at the peculiar pressures of fitting THU in at funerals as well as how to tackle the tricky task of THU explaining the bird n' the bees. THU THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Jason Cook THU Ensemble: Zoe Harrison THU Ensemble: Neil Grainger THU Producer: Sam Michell THU Writer: Jason Cook THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03y38kr (Listen) THU Tom and Kirsty are celebrating. Meanwhile Brian hits rock THU bottom. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03y38kt (Listen) THU John Wilson with news and reviews from the arts world. THU Producer Claire Bartleet. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Wilson THU Producer: Claire Bartleet THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03y36vy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b03y10h3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03yqktw (Listen) THU Energy Upstarts THU THU Turning up the heat: the new energy companies breaking into THU a market dominated by big established firms. Evan Davis THU meets two small entrants to the sector to find out how THU they're gaining market share. Is the strategy to compete on THU price, customer service or green credentials? He'll discuss THU the role of the price comparison websites in encouraging THU customers to switch providers and hear how some smaller THU companies are cutting gas and electricity bills when their THU bigger rivals aren't. THU THU Guests: Dale Vince, Founder and CEO, Ecotricity THU THU Stephen Fitzpatrick, Founder and Managing Director, Ovo THU Energy THU THU Ann Robinson, Director of Consumer Policy at uSwitch.com THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03y38kk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03y36vr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03y02s5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03y38l0 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03y38l2 (Listen) THU The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, Chance and Possibility THU THU The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry is the enchanting, funny THU and touching novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Set in Island Books, THU a struggling independent bookshop at the heart of an island THU community off the American coast, it is the place where life THU lessons gleaned from reading are passed on. Today, Maya and THU A.J. open a book each, and what they find inside leads to THU delight and opportunity. Madeleine Potter and Hari Dhillon THU read. THU THU Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Madeleine Potter THU Reader: Hari Dhillon THU Author: Gabrielle Zevin THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 23:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zm31y (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show that revels THU in glorious failure. He is joined by comedians Lee Mack, THU Shappi Khorsandi and David Schneider in a comedy contest to THU give the wrongest answer to each of Charlie's challenges. THU THU Amongst the questions Charlie throws at his guests in this THU episode is 'what's the worst thing you've done in the THU pursuit of romance'. The panel's pitches - Lee Mack's first THU kiss whilst playing 'spin the bottle', Shappi's ill-fated THU attempts to impress a boy by showing how fast she can walk, THU and David's unfortunate heroics at the local swimming pool - THU are all subjected to Charlie's unique comic interrogation. THU THU Added to this are the panel's hilariously terrible ideas for THU a new museum and their nominations for the worst irritants THU of modern life... THU THU The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also THU presents BBC4's award-winning series Newswipe and You Have THU Been Watching on Channel 4 - plus writing for The Guardian. THU He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009 and THU Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards for THU his column. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Charlie Brooker THU Panellist: Lee Mack THU Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi THU Panellist: David Schneider THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03y38l4 (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 MARCH 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03y02tl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03zrdn1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03y02tn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03y02tq (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03y02ts (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03y02tv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03y3g8m (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the FRI Rev Dr Gordon Gray. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03y3g8p (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45lf (Listen) FRI Snow Goose FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Bill Oddie presents the snow goose. Snow geese breed in the FRI Canadian Arctic and fly south in autumn to feed. Their FRI migrations are eagerly awaited and the arrival of thousands FRI of these white geese with black-wingtips is one of the FRI world's great wildlife spectacles. Here, on the opposite FRI side of the Atlantic, snow geese are seen every year, often FRI with flocks of other species such as white-fronted geese. FRI Snow geese are commonly kept in captivity in the UK, and FRI escaped birds can and do breed in the wild. So, when a white FRI shape turns up amongst a flock of wild grey geese, its FRI origins are always under scrutiny. FRI FRI Snow goose (Chen caerulescens) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Mark Sisson (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI Recording of a snow goose by Paul Marvin FRI FRI Included in this programme is an audio recording of a snow FRI goose recorded by Paul Marvin: it was sourced via the FRI website Xeno-canto.org. FRI FRI FRI FRI Reference XC143615. Accessible at FRI www.xeno-canto.org/143615 FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03y3g8r (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03xzx62 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03zrdtd (Listen) FRI Free at Last - The Benn Diaries 1991 to 2001, Episode 5 FRI FRI The series ends on a very personal note, as the cancer that FRI Tony's beloved wife Caroline has battled with as a 'test of FRI character' starts to dominate both their lives. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tony Benn FRI Producer: Jane Ray FRI Author: Tony Benn FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03y3kgg (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03y3kgj (Listen) FRI Shirley, The Winding Up FRI FRI It is a time of change and decisions need to be made. FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI Credits FRI Charlotte Bronte: Lesley Sharp FRI Shirley: Jemima Rooper FRI Caroline: Joanne Froggatt FRI Robert: Joseph Kloska FRI Louis: Joel MacCormack FRI Mr Sympson: David Seddon FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI Adaptor: Rachel Joyce FRI Author: Charlotte Bronte FRI FRI 11:00 Three Pounds in My Pocket b03y3kgl (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI Men and women arriving from the Indian subcontinent in the FRI 1950s and 1960s with as little as three pounds in their FRI pockets recall their first impressions of Britain. In this FRI final programme in the series, Kavita Puri talks to this FRI pioneer generation who have spent most of their lives in FRI Britain. Where is home now, she asks them, and how do you FRI hold on to your own culture? FRI FRI 11:30 The Architects b03y3kgn (Listen) FRI Series 1, Fracking Hell FRI FRI Jim Poyser and Neil Griffiths' new comedy series set in a FRI struggling architectural practice. Potentially lucrative FRI contracts involving nuclear power plants, military drone FRI manufacturers and a fracking company leave Matt and his FRI principles in potential meltdown. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI Credits FRI Matt: Dominic Coleman FRI Sarah: Ingrid Oliver FRI Sir Lucien: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Tim: Alex Carter FRI Hayley: Aisling Bea FRI Snadaker: Stephen Critchlow FRI Gentle Energy MD: Steve Toussaint FRI Amanda: Carolyn Pickles FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Jim Poyser FRI Writer: Neil Griffiths FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03y3kgq (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03y02tx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03y02tz (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 Russia: The Wild East b01322df (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Moscow Coup FRI FRI In the final selection from his history of Russia, Martin FRI Sixsmith describes the tumultuous events that took place in FRI Moscow in 1991. FRI FRI He was there as a BBC correspondent as Communist plotters FRI tried to save the Soviet Union. They imprisoned President FRI Gorbachev at his holiday villa and announced that they were FRI saving the country from further reform and openness. They FRI hadn't reckoned with Yeltsin, who climbed on top of a tank FRI stationed outside the Moscow white house and, almost FRI singlehandedly, won back the army and forced the plotters to FRI back down. FRI FRI This was the end of the USSR. The former republics, Ukraine FRI among them, were free to take their own steps towards a new FRI democratic constitution. But these were steps which would do FRI nothing to alter the tension between Russia and Ukraine that FRI had existed throughout their history. FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler and Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03y38kr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03y3kgs (Listen) FRI Rumpole, Rumpole and the Sleeping Partners FRI FRI By John Mortimer FRI Adapted by Richard Stoneman FRI Starring Benedict Cumberbatch. FRI FRI After a legal ball in the Savoy Hotel, Rumpole and Hilda FRI argue about Rumpole's drunken behaviour in front of Mr FRI Justice Gwent-Evans. Rumpole can take no more of his wife FRI and jumps out of their taxi. He intends to spend the night FRI in chambers but finds Erskine-Brown in Equity Court, with FRI Phillida Trant, "working late". Rumpole asks Phillida to FRI help him with the defence of Hugo Lutterworth, who's accused FRI of trying to kill the husband of his lover. FRI FRI Phillida goes home with Erskine-Brown, leaving Rumpole to FRI sleep on his sofa - strictly against the rules of chambers. FRI And this is pointed out to him by Erskine-Brown when he FRI arrives early next morning with Phillida. Did they spend the FRI night together? Rumpole's feelings for his pupil are FRI confusing, so he concentrates on his client. FRI FRI Rumpole discusses the case again with Phillida, who seems FRI out of sorts. She tells Rumpole to go home to Hilda but he FRI ignores her advice and is caught having supper at his desk FRI by Erskine-Brown, who accidentally invites Rumpole to stay FRI at his flat - which does not go well. FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Hilda: Jasmine Hyde FRI Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony FRI Judge Gwent-Evans: Nigel Anthony FRI Phillida Trant: Cathy Sara FRI Hugo Lutterworth: Stephen Critchlow FRI Captain Gleason: Stephen Critchlow FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI Adaptor: Richard Stoneman FRI Author: John Mortimer FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03y3lk8 (Listen) FRI Whitby FRI FRI Horticultural panel programme. FRI FRI 15:45 New Irish Writing b03y3lkb (Listen) FRI Serenity FRI FRI A series of new readings by some of Ireland's most exciting FRI and talented writers. Clare Dwyer-Hogg, Michèle Forbes, Paul FRI McVeigh and Martin Meenan bring us a range of stories where FRI human emotions are tested, and memories are forged, FRI forgotten or found, all the while taking a humorous and FRI poignant look at how people withdraw, connect and reconnect FRI with one another throughout the course of their lives. FRI FRI A coffee shop owner who portraits the epitome of calm and FRI sophistication spectacularly lets her guard down in FRI "Serenity" by Claire Dywer-Hogg. Read by Hattie Morahan. FRI Produced by Morag Keating. FRI FRI Music, Letters by Little Bear. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Katrina Porteous FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI Producer: Di Speirs FRI Writer: Katrina Porteous FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03y3lkd (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03y3lkg (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03y3lkj (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03y02v1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03y3lkl (Listen) FRI Series 83, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest FRI panellists Fred MacAulay, Elis James and Phill Jupitus. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Fred MacAulay FRI Panellist: Elis James FRI Panellist: Phill Jupitus FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03y3lkn (Listen) FRI There's a very special visitor to Ambridge, and the FRI competition hots up. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03y3lkq (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang reports on the new exhibition - Designing FRI Georgian Britain - at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Producer FRI Tim Prosser. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Kirsty Lang FRI Producer: Timothy Prosser FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03y3kgj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03y3lks (Listen) FRI Andy Street, Francis O Grady, Rachel Reeves MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Birmingham University with Shadow Chief Secretary to FRI the Treasury, Rachel Reeves MP, Chief Executive of John FRI Lewis Andy Street and General Secretary of the TUC, Francis FRI O Grady. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03y3lkv (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01k2f8y (Listen) FRI Four Trees down from Ponte Sisto FRI FRI Twenty five years ago in Rome, an American student named FRI Geoffrey Charde fell to his death from a wall above the FRI river Tiber, late at night and with no witnesses, four trees FRI down from Ponte Sisto. FRI Since then, his mother, the poet Sharon Charde has been FRI writing her way through all the dimensions of her son's FRI death; writing her way back to life through a series of FRI poems that combine her fearless examination of specific FRI details and events with deep philosophical insights into the FRI close proximity of death within every aspect of life. FRI Adapted and composed for radio by Gregory Whitehead. FRI Performed by Anne Undeland. FRI Producer Jeremy Mortimer. FRI FRI Anne Undeland Recording Four Trees Down FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Sharon Charde FRI Adaptor: Gregory Whitehead FRI Performer: Anne Undeland FRI Producer: Jeremy Mortimer FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03y02v3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03y3lkx (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03y3lkz (Listen) FRI The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, A Trip to Providence FRI FRI Beguiling, funny and poignant, The Collected Works of A.J. FRI Fikry is largely set in Island Books, a struggling FRI independent bookshop at the heart of an island community off FRI the American coast. Today, Amelia's favourite book finds A.J FRI planning a trip to Providence with Maya and his trusted FRI friend, Lambiase. Madeleine Potter & Hari Dhillon read. FRI FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Madeleine Potter FRI Reader: Hari Dhillon FRI Author: Gabrielle Zevin FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b03y10h5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03y3ll1 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
14 March, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 15/03/2014 - 21/03/2014
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