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SAT SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0520r1x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b052m59l (Listen) SAT Leaving before the Rains Come, 'It's not supposed to happen SAT this way' SAT SAT In a follow-up to the award-winning memoir "Don't Let's Go SAT to the Dogs Tonight", Alexandra Fuller charts her SAT tempestuous marriage to the man she thought would save her SAT from the chaos of life in southern Africa. SAT In 1992, after her parents had seen off all other suitors, SAT Alexandra Fuller married Charlie Ross, a charismatic SAT adventurer and polo player, and the only man who seemed able SAT to stand up to her parents. In this witty, frank and SAT courageous memoir, Fuller charts their twenty tempestuous SAT years together from brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the SAT mountains and plains of Wyoming. SAT Today: a tragic accident threatens to change everything. SAT SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Author: Alexandra Fuller SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0520r1z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0520r21 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0520r23 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0520r25 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b052mld9 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Reverend Dr Janet Wootton. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b052mldc (Listen) SAT 'I can't tell my brother not to fight.' - The Ukrainian SAT friend of an iPM listener tells us how his family is coping SAT with military conscription. Presented by Jennifer Tracey and SAT Eddie Mair. Your News is read by Bridget Kendall. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0520r27 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0520r29 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b052lpl5 (Listen) SAT Series 29, Bonding Walks: Stiperstones, Shropshire SAT SAT In this new series of Ramblings, Clare Balding explores the SAT way walking can help us bond with other people, the SAT countryside and our history. In this first programme she's SAT invited to take part in the 20th annual walk up to the top SAT of the Stiperstones in Shropshire with a group of men who SAT came together to bond as fathers. Quentin Shaw started the SAT tradition when his sons were at primary school as a way of SAT encouraging the men to get to know each other. SAT The group has grown from the original five fathers to about SAT fifty men, from teenagers to some in their seventies: SAT fathers, colleagues, friends, sons, friends of sons. The aim SAT is now to keep the group as diverse as possible, introducing SAT men who would not otherwise meet: men working in mental SAT health, children's services, housing, health, education, SAT ex-army, scouting, craftsmen, tradesman etc. Quentin SAT explains to Clare that overall ethos has always been to SAT celebrate fatherhood and friendship in a low key way, and to SAT give men a reason for a day off when they are stressed out SAT just before Christmas. SAT Clare is the first woman ever to be invited to join the SAT group, who end their morning walk with a large cooked SAT breakfast at a local pub. SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Quentin Shaw SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05329jj (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Soil SAT SAT Anna Hill travels to Cranfield University where scientists SAT are studying the properties of soil - both on the farm and SAT in the lab. This is the UN's International Year of Soils. SAT Today we look at some of the threats, including erosion and SAT degradation from intensive use, and what farmers can do to SAT improve their soils. Anna visits the large-scale experiments SAT set up to research the effects of things like climate change SAT and farm machinery on soil. The producer is Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0520r2c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05329jl (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05329jn (Listen) SAT Ruby Wax SAT SAT Ruby Wax joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir to talk about SAT how she brings her knowledge of neuroscience, spiked with SAT comedy, to her one woman show. SAT SAT David Reynolds explains how his grandfather's letters, and SAT enthralling childhood stories of the Wild West, inspired him SAT to embark on a road trip along Highway 83 from Canada to the SAT Mexican border. He describes some of the local characters he SAT met, the three different types of cowboys that still exist SAT today and why he thinks Sacagawea should be on US bank SAT notes. SAT SAT Pete Ross meets some of the visitors to the Dragon Café in SAT Borough, London - the UK's first 'mental health café' and SAT creative space. SAT SAT We hear why dancing science teacher Dr. Richard Spencer SAT choreographs his college biology lessons to music, and how SAT this has led to him becoming a top 10 finalist for the $1m SAT (£650,000) Global Teaching Prize. SAT SAT The singer Ray Quinn chooses his Inheritance Tracks: My SAT Special Angel by Malcolm Vaughan and Eye of the Tiger by SAT Survivor. SAT SAT And Josh Carrott - aka 'The Korean Englishman' - tells us SAT why he is on a mission to bring Korean culture to the UK SAT through his YouTube Channel. SAT SAT Sane New World: Taming the Mind - runs at St James Theatre, SAT London from 2-14 March 2015. SAT Slow Road to Brownsville by David Reynolds is published by SAT Greystone Books. SAT 'They Say Love' - the first single from Ray Quinn's new SAT album - is released on Monday 23 February. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruby Wax SAT Interviewed Guest: David Reynolds SAT Interviewed Guest: Pete Ross SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Spencer SAT Interviewed Guest: Ray Quinn SAT Interviewed Guest: Josh Carrott SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b05329jq (Listen) SAT Series 5, Chariots of Fire SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini explores Oscar-winning films. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0532b2q (Listen) SAT A Week in Westminster Special SAT SAT Elinor Goodman talks to five MPs who entered Parliament for SAT the first time in May 2010. SAT SAT All of them - Sarah Wollaston (Con), Rory Stewart (Con), Ian SAT Lavery (Lab), Chi Onwurah (Lab) and David Ward (Lib Dem) - SAT previously had careers beyond the world of Westminster. How SAT have they fared since she first spoke to them in June 2010 SAT as they took their places on the green benches of the House SAT of Commons? They tell her of their ambitions, their SAT achievements, and their frustrations. SAT SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0520r2f (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0520r2h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0532b2s (Listen) SAT Crowdfunding in Eden; Flight compensation cash delays; Banks SAT told to be nicer SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT A County Court case in Liverpool next week could decide what SAT happens to the backlog of claims over compensation delays. SAT Five airlines are defying the Supreme Court by refusing to SAT obey EU law and pay passengers for long delays. Simon SAT Calder, travel editor of the Independent joins the show. SAT SAT Crowdfunding has grown from almost nothing to more than £80 SAT million in a few years. But what are the risks and potential SAT rewards for investors? How far are you likely to get your SAT money back if the firm you've put your cash into goes bust? SAT Sonia Rothwell reports. Julia Groves, UK Crowdfunding SAT Association, also joins the programme. SAT SAT A new briefing for banks tells them to treat customers with SAT long term illnesses more sympathetically. The briefing was SAT issued by the trade body the British Bankers' Association. SAT Eric Leenders of the BBA and Mike O'Connor from the debt SAT charity StepChange debate the issues. SAT SAT Microbusinesses find it harder to get good deals on their SAT energy. And energy firms make a much bigger profit from SAT small firms than from domestic consumers. That's according SAT to this week's report from the Competition and Markets SAT Authority. How can microbusinesses avoid being trapped in a SAT poor value contract? Jonathan elliott from Make it Cheaper SAT speaks to the programme. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b052mjzd (Listen) SAT Series 86, Episode 1 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Susan Calman, Samira Ahmed and SAT Phill Jupitus, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Samira Ahmed SAT Panellist: Phill Jupitus SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0520r2k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0520r2m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b052mjzl (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Lumen SAT Christi College in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. On SAT the panel: the former Chief Executive of the Child SAT Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Jim Gamble; Sinn SAT Fein MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Michelle Gildernew; SAT writer and political commentator, Simon Heffer; and SAT Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Antrim, Ian Paisley. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0532byd (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b0532byg (Listen) SAT The African Queen SAT SAT Samantha Bond and Toby Jones star in a new dramatisation of SAT C.S. Forester's classic World War 1 novel. SAT SAT Set in 1915, Rose Sayer's work as a missionary comes to an SAT abrupt end when the village she and her brother, Reverend SAT Samuel Sayer, live in is invaded by the German army. Samuel SAT dies of fever and Rose blames the ungodly Germans for having SAT ground him down and frightened off the entire village. SAT SAT Patriotically, but naively, Rose conceives of blowing up a SAT German warship thus helping the war effort. She convinces SAT cowardly Cockney Charlie Allnut to lend his rickety SAT steam-powered boat, The African Queen, for the cause. He has SAT offered to give Rose a lift in his boat to get away from the SAT village and the Germans, so reluctantly goes along with her SAT plan. If they manage to survive German attacks, rapids, SAT malaria and mechanical mishaps will they be able to survive SAT each other? SAT SAT The novel, The African Queen by C.S. Forester, was of course SAT the basis for the highly popular Hollywood movie of the same SAT name. Paul Mendelson's dramatisation goes back to the novel SAT re-instating Forester's original ending and giving Charlie SAT his Cockney identity back! SAT SAT The African Queen SAT By C. S. Forester; dramatised for radio by Paul Mendelson SAT SAT Music composed and played by Gary C. Newman SAT Producer/director: David Ian Neville. SAT SAT Credits SAT Rose: Samantha Bond SAT Charlie: Toby Jones SAT Samuel Sayer: Stephen Critchlow SAT German Sailor: Mark Edel-Hunt SAT German Sea Captain: David Acton SAT Director: David Neville SAT Producer: David Neville SAT Author: CS Forester SAT Adaptor: Paul Mendelson SAT SAT 15:30 Tales From the Stave b052j0v0 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Mozart's Requiem SAT SAT The manuscript of Mozart's Requiem Mass may have had a SAT starring role in the film Amadeus but in this opening SAT programme of a new series of Tales from the Stave, Frances SAT Fyfield and her guests reveal the equally extraordinary true SAT stories behind the composer's final, unfinished, SAT composition. SAT SAT The film played fast and loose with the role of Salieri in SAT the decline and death of the composer. In fact his role is SAT relatively minor. But the score - or rather the scores, for SAT Mozart's wife Constanza over-saw work on two separate SAT volumes - tells of contributions, additions, edits and SAT completions by at least two composers and probably more. And SAT yet through these layers of development, a masterpiece of SAT dramatic composition still manages to emerge. SAT SAT Frances is joined by the music scholar Nigel Simeone, the SAT Viennese conductor Manfred Huss and Jette Engelke, a member SAT of the Wiener Singakademie choir. They help to unpick what SAT is and what isn't in Mozart's own hand and why they believe SAT the completed work is so close to a structure conceived by SAT the composer. SAT SAT The team is indebted to the host at the Austrian National SAT Library, Dr Thomas Leibnitz, who allows few to see this SAT extraordinarily valuable manuscript. "It is" he points out SAT laconically "quite simply the most valuable piece in our SAT entire collection". SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0532byj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Revenge on Revenge Porn, Leaving Care SAT at 18, When Is the Right Time to Try for a Baby? SAT SAT Emma Holten tells us why she chose to post MORE naked SAT pictures of herself online after her email had been hacked SAT and intimate images of her published all around the world. SAT SAT We discuss if there is ever a right time to decide to try SAT and get pregnant and have a baby? SAT SAT Fifteen year old author Helena Coggan on how she's juggling SAT writing and studying for her GCSE's alongside her three book SAT deal. SAT SAT We hear from a young woman bought up in care about the SAT difficulties she faced when she had to leave her care home SAT at the age of 18. SAT SAT The former diplomat Jean Harrod describes her work as a SAT British consul in Geneva and how real life experiences of SAT those she helped influenced her first novel. SAT SAT Viv Grant was a successful head teacher who turned a failing SAT primary school around. But her success came at a cost and SAT she describes why she believes head teachers' need more SAT support . SAT SAT And we hear from Mercury Music Prize nominee Beth Orton SAT about an all women musical course she's been running in SAT Manchester. SAT SAT Presented by Emma Barnett SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Revenge Porn SAT Emma Barnett speaks to Emma Holten who, after having her SAT email hacked and intimate images of her published all around SAT the world, chose to publish more naked photos of herself. SAT Joining the discussion is author Fiona Neill who has been SAT researching the internet porn endemic among teens, and who SAT is concerned that the value of privacy is rapidly SAT decreasing.The revenge porn helpline is run by the South SAT West Grid for Learning charity on 0845 6000 459. SAT Fiona Neill’s new novel The Good Girl is out in April. SAT SAT When's the Best Time to Have a Baby? SAT How do people decide when’s the best time to try and have a SAT baby? Emma is joined by two listeners – old university SAT friends Tiggy and Kristina to discuss. SAT SAT Helena Coggan SAT Helena Coggan is fifteen, studying for her GCSE’s and her SAT debut novel is being published this week. The Catalyst is a SAT fantasy novel set in a future version of London, where the SAT population are divided into those who are magically Gifted SAT and mere mortals, the Ashkind. Helena talks to Jenni about SAT sitting down to write the book age thirteen, female heroines SAT and the type of book she wanted to write. SAT SAT Leaving Care SAT SAT Children who live in care homes would like to be able to SAT stay until they are aged 21, according to “Staying Put,” a SAT government-funded report. Under current rules, they must SAT leave after they turn 18 when local authority funding runs SAT out. Last year, SAT legislation SAT was passed allowing children who live in foster homes to SAT remain until they are 21. So why is there a different SAT system for children in care homes and children in foster SAT homes? What is the impact on the children concerned? What SAT is the financial cost? What is the best age for children to SAT leave care? SAT SAT The film SAT 'Kicked Out Kids' is on Channel 4 SAT tonight at 11.05pm. SAT www.thewhocarestrust.org.uk SAT SAT Viv Grant SAT SAT Back in 2001, Viv Grant was a very successful headteacher, SAT who had turned a failing primary school around. This success SAT however came at a cost - the sacrifice of her own family SAT life, acute isolation and endless self-doubt. Everyone SAT looked to her for leadership, but she had no-one to talk SAT to. Eventually she left her job to found an independent SAT support service for school leaders. Viv talks to Jenni about SAT her experience, and the importance of meeting headteachers’ SAT emotional needs. SAT http://www.integritycoaching.co.uk/ SAT SAT Beth Orton SAT In its 18-year history the Mercury Prize has only been SAT awarded to five women. Beth Orton has been nominated twice, SAT but not yet won. She has been leading a week-long, SAT all-women, musical residency in Manchester, due to culminate SAT in a live show on Friday night. Beth is in the studio with SAT one of the musicians involved, Josephine Oniyama, to talk SAT about women in music and the equality gap they still face SAT and performing a song live. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Barnett SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Holten SAT Interviewed Guest: Helena Coggan SAT Interviewed Guest: Viv Grant SAT Interviewed Guest: Josephine Oniyama SAT Interviewed Guest: Beth Orton SAT Interviewed Guest: Jean Harrod SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0532byl (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b052lt1l (Listen) SAT Inventors SAT SAT Artificial snow, a plastic hairbrush and a non-spill baby SAT beaker: How do you turn an idea into a successful business? SAT Three entrepreneurs discuss with Evan Davis the process of SAT designing a product and getting it onto the market. How do SAT you finance the project and what's the best way to protect SAT your design from copycats? We'll hear how one inventor SAT risked everything in a legal battle against a company that SAT stole her design. And discover how to create more than 200 SAT types of fake snow. SAT SAT Guests: SAT Shaun Pulfrey, Founder and CEO, Tangle Teezer SAT SAT Mandy Haberman, Founder, Haberman Products SAT SAT Darcey Crownshaw, Founder and MD, Snow Business SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0520r2p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0520r2r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0520r2t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0532cby (Listen) SAT Sara Cox, Celia Imrie, Richard Osman, Morgana Robinson, Nick SAT Mohammed, Arrested Development SAT SAT Clive Anderson and co-host Sara Cox chat to Celia Imrie SAT about her new novel 'Not Quite Nice'; to Morgana Robinson SAT about the new series of Vic and Bob's 'House of Fools'; to SAT 'Pointless's Richard Osman about 'Two Tribes' and to comic SAT Nick Mohammed about 'Dracula! Mr Swallow - The Musical'. SAT With music from Arrested Development. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Celia Imrie SAT ‘Not Quite Nice’ is published by Bloomsbury on Thursday 26th SAT February and ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ is in SAT cinemas on the same day. SAT SAT Nick Mohammed SAT ‘Dracula! (Mr Swallow -The Musical)’ is at London’s Soho SAT Theatre until Saturday 7th March. SAT SAT Morgana Robinson SAT ‘House of Fools’ is on Monday 23rd February at 22.00 on BBC SAT Two. SAT SAT Richard Osman SAT ‘Two Tribes’ is on every weekday at 18:00 on on BBC Two. SAT SAT Arrested Development SAT '3 Years, 5 months & 2 days in the life of…' is available SAT now on Universal Music Group. ‘The Essentials’ is also SAT available now. SAT Arrested Development are playing at The Britannia, Kent on SAT Saturday 21st, Koko, London on Sunday 22nd, Concorde SAT Brighton on Monday 23rd and Marble Factory, Bristol on SAT Tuesday 24th February. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Celia Imrie SAT Interviewed Guest: Morgana Robinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Osman SAT Interviewed Guest: Nick Mohammed SAT Performer: Arrested Development SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0532cc0 (Listen) SAT Yanis Varoufakis SAT SAT The casually-dressed Greek finance minster Yanis Varoufakis SAT has, in challenging the eurozone, become - almost overnight SAT - one of the most important politicians in Europe. In this SAT edition of Profile Mark Coles hears how Varoufakis grew up SAT under the Greek colonels but was shaped by life in SAT Thatcherite Britain before embarking on his unusually SAT restless international career in economics. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0532cc2 (Listen) SAT The Duke of Burgundy, The Kind Worth Killing, Suffragettes SAT Forever, Art from Elsewhere, Eugene Onegin SAT SAT The production of Eugene Onegin by Moscow's Vakhtangov State SAT Academic Theatre being staged at London's Barbican sold out SAT for a year in Russia and the international tour sells to SAT packed-out houses SAT SAT The Duke of Burgundy is Peter Strickland's latest film which SAT looks at the love affair between 2 sub-dom lesbian SAT lepidopterists SAT SAT Amanda Vickery presents BBC2's Suffragettes Forever, a three SAT part series trying to tell "the unknown story" of "Britain's SAT longest war, the 300 year-long campaign by women for SAT political and sex equality" The touring exhibition "Art From SAT Elsewhere" currently in Birmingham displays some of The Art SAT Fund's acquisitions of works by artists from overseas SAT SAT Peter Swanson's novel "The Kind Worth Killing" is a twisty SAT turny thing; a thriller full of unexpected surprises. Is it SAT surprisingly good? SAT SAT Eugene Onegin SAT Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia bring their SAT production of SAT Eugene Onegin SAT to London, directed by Rimas Tuminas. Main Image: Sergey SAT Makovetskiy and Eugeniya Kregzhde, Vakhtangov State Academic SAT Theatre, Eugene Onegin. Photo: Dmitry Dubinksy SAT SAT The Kind Worth Killing SAT The book SAT The Kind Worth Killing SAT by Peter Swanson is published by Faber & Faber. SAT SAT Suffragettes Forever SAT The three part series SAT Suffragettes Forever! SAT begins on Wednesday 25 February, 8pm on BBC Two. SAT SAT The Duke Of Burgundy SAT Written and directed by Peter Strickland, the film SAT The Duke Of Burgundy SAT is in cinemas from Friday 20 February, certificate 18. SAT SAT Art From Elsewhere SAT The exhibition SAT Art From Elsewhere SAT is on display at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery until 31 SAT May 2015. It then continues on tour to Middlesborough, SAT Preston, Eastbourne and Bristol. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sarah Crompton SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0532chv (Listen) SAT Malled: 60 Years of Undercover Shopping SAT SAT Will Self visits an out-of-town mall of the mind. Air SAT conditioned, driveable, mild-mannered and secure, the mall SAT was the perfect sheltered shopping emporium. There were SAT faint echoes of the grand bazaars of the east, but filled SAT with reassuring western brands. Some were so tailor-made for SAT malls that they thrived there like tomatoes under glass - SAT think Krispy Kreme and Gap. SAT SAT The seeming innocuity of these spaces created rich source SAT material for Generation X talents like Douglas Coupland and SAT director Kevin Smith, and what would 'Dawn of the Dead' be SAT without the prerequisite shopping mall? SAT SAT Replaced by internet shopping - and yes - our long-forgotten SAT high street, there's been a marked downturn in enclosed mall SAT development in the west. These environments now feel as SAT mid-century as motels and strip lighting. Yet, as quickly as SAT we turn our backs on this brand of retail homogeneity, Asia SAT and South America are embracing it with vigour. Of the 25 SAT largest malls in the world, only three are now situated in SAT North America. SAT SAT Will Self explores the early utopian ideals of these space SAT and argues that despite their historic links to uniformity SAT and submissiveness, malls now represent a space where rules SAT can be broken and true self-expression can find a home. SAT SAT 21:00 War and Peace b04w89v4 (Listen) SAT Episode 8 SAT SAT Marya flees Bald Hills when it is subject to attack from the SAT French army. After being rescued by Nikolai from a near SAT peasants revolt, they both realise their mutual love for one SAT another, despite Nikolai already being promised to Sonya. SAT SAT Pierre decides to visit the Battlefields at Borodino where SAT he encounters Andrei who is now living in a broken down shed SAT and desperately trying to forget his previous life. General SAT Kutuzov is leading the cavalry. Despite Pierre warning SAT Andrei of the rumours that Kutuzov is a traitor to the SAT Russians and questioning whether Kutuzov is a skilled SAT commander, Andrei believes that, with Kutuzov by their side, SAT they will win the battle. Although, unknown to Andrei, SAT Kutuzov may have to sacrifice Moscow in the process. SAT SAT A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by SAT Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes SAT of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic SAT War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and SAT Harriet Walter. SAT SAT The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, SAT Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the SAT events that shaped their lives and the lives of every SAT Russian who lived through these troubled times. SAT SAT War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level SAT of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th SAT Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, SAT social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale SAT never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in SAT ten episodes. SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT Executive Producer: Peter Hoare SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Lesley Manville SAT Actor: John Hurt SAT Actor: Alun Armstrong SAT Actor: Harriet Walter SAT Author: Leo Tolstoy SAT Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0520r2w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b052jkx0 (Listen) SAT Is it a Moral Duty to Vote? SAT SAT Is it immoral to be apathetic about politics? The Bishops of SAT the Church of England clearly think so. This week they sent SAT a letter to parishes advising 'Christian men and women how SAT to vote". So we all have a duty to join in the arguments and SAT it's wrong to be a 'don't know'! SAT As the election gets closer, however, the prevailing view SAT seems to be that politicians are a sleazy and self-serving SAT bunch of hypocrites. Whatever the bishops say, at least a SAT third of us won't be voting; half of young people aren't SAT even registered to vote. But when politicians focus their SAT efforts on ingratiating themselves with pensioners (the SAT people who vote the most) we say that's cynical. SAT Party membership has fallen off a cliff. More of us belong SAT to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds than to all SAT our political parties combined. It was revealed last week SAT that Russell Brand ('Don't vote it only encourages them') SAT has three times as many Twitter followers as all our MPs put SAT together. SAT Polls show that we hate the idea of state funding for SAT political parties, but we also hate the idea of 'dodgy SAT donors' buying political influence. We laugh at last week's SAT Tory fund-raising dinner featuring an auction in which lots SAT included 'a shoe-shopping trip with Theresa May'; we recoil SAT from the idea of a Labour government in hock to its trade SAT union sponsors. Some say that political donations from SAT wealthy individuals are to be applauded - it's philanthropy, SAT just like giving to charity. But do we really believe it's a SAT coincidence that so many millionaire donors happen to have SAT ended up in the House of Lords? SAT Should 16-year-olds have the vote? Should voting be made SAT compulsory? Is it a moral duty to vote? Or are there other SAT ways, just as morally cogent, to get involved in the SAT political process? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b052hptd (Listen) SAT Heat 8, 2015 SAT SAT (8/17) SAT 'They're young... they're in love... and they kill people' SAT was the promotional tag-line for which 1967 film release? SAT SAT This and many other general knowledge questions face the SAT competitors in the eighth heat of 'Brain of Britain', who SAT this week come from London, Bath and Belfast. Russell Davies SAT is in the questionmaster's chair - and music, history, SAT politics, mythology, geography, science and popular culture SAT are all fair game for Russell's questions. The winner will SAT take another of the automatic places in the semi-finals of SAT the 2015 contest later in the spring. SAT SAT There's also a chance for a listener to win a prize by SAT outwitting the contestants with his or her own question SAT ideas, in 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT MARY DIXON, a retired careers advisor from London; KATHRYN SAT EVERETT, an English teacher, also from London; ANDREW SAT HOYLE, an airline consultant from Belfast; NIGEL JONES, a SAT retired computer programmer from Bath. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0520tj1 (Listen) SAT Bubble and Squeak SAT SAT Roger McGough with something for everyone, from WB Yeats to SAT Elizabeth Barrett Browning by way of Ted Hughes and Derek SAT Walcott. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Sailing to Byzantium SAT SAT By WB Yeats SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of WB Yeats SAT SAT Published by Palgrave SAT SAT SAT SAT The Idea of Order at Key West SAT SAT By Wallace Stevens SAT SAT From Wallace Stevens – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Verse for a Certain Dog SAT SAT By Dorothy Parker SAT SAT From The Collected Dorothy Parker SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Licorice Fields at Pontefract SAT SAT By John Betjeman SAT SAT From John Betjeman – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by John Murray SAT SAT SAT SAT Six Men in Search of a Car SAT SAT By Paul Henry SAT SAT From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT SAT SAT A Model Railway SAT SAT By Paul Henry SAT SAT From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT SAT SAT Acts of Love SAT SAT By Pam Rehm SAT SAT From Small Works SAT SAT Published by Flood editions 2005 SAT SAT SAT SAT Love After Love SAT SAT By Derek Walcott SAT SAT From Collected Poems 1948-1984 SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT On a Portrait of Wordsworth SAT SAT By Elizabeth Barrett Browning SAT SAT From Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poetical Works SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Lost Leader SAT SAT By Robert Browning SAT SAT From Browning – Poems Selected by W.E. Williams SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Fulbright Scholars SAT SAT By Ted Hughes SAT SAT From Birthday Letters SAT SAT Published by Faber and SAT Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Post Script SAT SAT By Gillian Clarke SAT SAT From A Recipe for Water SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT First Sight SAT SAT By Philip Larkin SAT SAT From The Whitsun Weddings SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Rhyw ddiolchgarwch / A Time and a Place SAT SAT By Menna Elfyn SAT SAT Translated by Elin Ap Hywel SAT SAT From Perffaith Nam / Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems SAT 1995-2007 SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0532f8r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Annika Stranded b01pz5jg (Listen) SUN Series 1, A Body of Water SUN SUN Annika Strandhed is a leading light in the murder squad of SUN the Oslo police. Her neuroses - and she has a few - are SUN mostly hidden by a boisterous manner and a love of motor SUN boats. And she thinks she's funny - although her colleagues SUN aren't so sure. SUN SUN Commissioned specially for Radio 4, these three stories by SUN Nick Walker introduce us to a new Scandinavian detective: SUN not as astute as Sarah Lund or Saga Norén perhaps, but SUN probably better company. SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 3): A Body Of Water SUN A sound is a body of water narrow enough for a man to swim SUN across. But on the island of Oscarsborg, Annika finds the SUN body of a man who clearly didn't make it. SUN SUN Nick Walker is part of the Coventry-based mixed media SUN experimentalists Talking Birds whose work has been presented SUN extensively in the UK as well as in Sweden, Ireland, and the SUN USA. He has worked with some of the country's leading new SUN work theatre companies both in the UK and abroad, including SUN Stan's Cafe, Insomniac, and Theatre Instituut Nederlands. SUN SUN He is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels SUN 'Blackbox' and 'Helloland'. His plays and short stories are SUN often featured on BBC Radio 4 including: Arnold In A Purple SUN Haze (2009), the First King of Mars stories (2007 - 2010), SUN the Afternoon Play Life Coach (2010), and the stories Dig SUN Yourself (2011) and The Indivisible (2012) - all of them SUN Sweet Talk productions. SUN Reader: Nicola Walker SUN Sound Design: Jon Calver SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Annika Stranded is a Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Nicola Walker SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Nick Walker SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0532f8t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0532f8w (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0532f8y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0532f90 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0532g03 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0532cc0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0532f92 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0532g05 (Listen) SUN 'Be yourself', we're told. But what does that really mean? SUN What is this thing called self? SUN SUN The poet and radio producer Pejkl Malinovski reflects on a SUN question that has intrigued poets for centuries. 'I is SUN someone else', Rimbaud said. 'I contain multitudes', said SUN Whitman. SUN SUN Modern neuroscience contests the idea that we are somehow SUN born with a soul and millions of Buddhists have been living SUN happily without one for thousands of years. SUN SUN Perhaps a lot of our frustrations in this self-centred era SUN come from the idea that we must control, build and advance SUN our egos, when really we might be a lot better off giving up SUN some control. SUN SUN Pejk's meditation embraces writings by Gertrude Stein, SUN Fernando Pessoa and Sharon Salzberg. SUN SUN Producer Alan Hall. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Poem: SUN The Seer’s Letter SUN Author: SUN Arthur Rimbaud SUN Title: SUN Song of Myself (from Leaves of Green) SUN Author: SUN Walt Whitman SUN Poem: SUN When I look I see clear as a sunflower (from The Keeper of SUN Sheep) SUN Author: SUN Fernando Pessoa (Albert Caeiro) SUN Title: SUN The Book of Disquiet SUN Author: SUN Fernando Pessoa (Bernardo Soares) SUN Title: SUN Poetry and Grammar SUN Author: SUN Gertrude Stein SUN Poem: SUN Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas SUN Author: SUN Gertrude Stein SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b0532g07 (Listen) SUN In Search of Giant Fungus SUN SUN Chris Sperring and Michael Jordan of the Association of SUN British Fungus Groups go in search of giant bracket fungus SUN in Dommett Wood in Somerset. SUN SUN Bracket fungus grow on a variety of native trees. The SUN vegetative part of the fungus, known as mycelium, grows SUN under the bark of fallen wood or living trees, and will SUN eventually break down and rot the host tree. However, the SUN part that can most easily be seen is the fruiting body of SUN bracket fungus. These fruiting bodies, growing on tree SUN trunks and fallen logs, allow the fungus to reproduce and SUN exist to produce and liberate millions of microscopic SUN spores. SUN SUN Chris Sperring with Michael Jordan in Somerset's Dommett SUN Wood SUN SUN Ganoderma bracket fungus SUN Pictures: Chris Sperring SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0532f94 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0532f96 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0532g09 (Listen) SUN Religion and Politics, Ukraine Crisis, Muslim Convert Play SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0532g0c (Listen) SUN Rainbow Trust Children's Charity SUN SUN Mary Nightingale presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Rainbow SUN Trust Children's Charity SUN Registered Charity No 1070532 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Rainbow Trust Children's Charity' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Rainbow Trust. SUN SUN Rainbow Trust Children's Charity SUN Rainbow Trust provides bespoke emotional and practical SUN support direct to families who have a child with a life SUN threatening or terminal illness. For these families every SUN day is unthinkably tough, but Rainbow Trust makes life just SUN a little bit easier. Their teams of Family Support Workers SUN across the country provide care and support for the whole SUN family: from their child’s diagnosis, during treatment and, SUN if needed, through bereavement and beyond. SUN SUN SUN Rowan with Pinky SUN SUN Rowan was given Pinky on the day she was diagnosed with a SUN brain tumour. Rainbow Trust helped her parents with SUN information and an understanding ear, and practicalities SUN like transport to make the 100 mile round-trip for SUN specialised hospital treatment. SUN SUN A frightened Rowan found comfort in her beloved fluffy SUN companion when she was waiting for chemotherapy and Rainbow SUN Trust were there to support her mother, Beth, when she SUN accompanied Rowan to hospital appointments. SUN * SUN Photo shows Rowan at nearly five years old with Pinky* SUN SUN Support for the whole family SUN SUN Having a child with a life threatening or terminal illness SUN impacts on the whole family – Rainbow Trust supports SUN parents, siblings and grandparents who are often forgotten. SUN These days, grandparents can play a large part in a family’s SUN support network and are doubly affected by their SUN grandchild’s illness as they worry about their own child, SUN the parent, dealing with their child’s illness and their SUN grandchild. SUN SUN Support for hospital appointments SUN SUN Trips to hospital appointments can be very stressful as SUN parents struggle through traffic or try to find parking at SUN the hospital. Rainbow Trust Family Support Workers pick SUN families up from their homes and take them to the hospital SUN for their appointments. During these trips, parents can SUN relax and talk about their concerns with the Family Support SUN Worker so they arrive better prepared to deal with their SUN child’s appointments or treatment. SUN * SUN Photo shows a nine year old Rowan enjoying some free time SUN with Janet, her Rainbow Trust Family Support Worker* SUN SUN For as long as needed SUN SUN When a family is in crisis, 24 hour support is available and SUN given wherever it is needed. Most support services leave a SUN family when their child dies, but Rainbow Trust is there for SUN them as long as a family needs to be. They are one of the SUN only organisations that supports families through SUN bereavement and beyond. SUN *“Life goes on, friends go back to work, but Rainbow Trust SUN is always there.”* SUN Charlotte Prunty, Emma’s mother. SUN Emma died in 2013 aged five years old. Rainbow Trust SUN supported Charlotte and Emma’s older brother and sister SUN throughout her illness, were at Emma’s funeral and still SUN support her family today. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0532f98 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0532f9b (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0532g0f (Listen) SUN In God's Hands: We Are God's Viceroys SUN SUN 'We are God's viceroys' - the first in a series of Lent SUN services based on this year's Archbishop of Canterbury's SUN Lent Book - Desmond Tutu's 'In God's hands' SUN and exploring what it means to be made in God's image. Led SUN by the Revd Dr Sam Wells from St Martin-in-the-Fields, SUN London, with the Venerable Sheila Watson. Director of Music: SUN Andrew Earis. Producer: Stephen Shipley. Lent resources for SUN individuals and groups complementing the programmes are SUN available on the Sunday Worship web pages. SUN SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields 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 SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past SUN eight and time t go live to St Martin-in-the-Fields in SUN Trafalgar Square for this morning’s Sunday Worship. It’s SUN the first in our series of Lent services and it’s led by the SUN Vicar of St Martin’s – the Revd Dr Sam Wells. It begins SUN with the ancient plainsong chant known as the Lent Prose SUN SUN Music: Lent Prose SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN Welcome to St Martin-in-the-Fields. Desmond Tutu captured SUN the imagination of the world by resisting apartheid in South SUN Africa with courage, vision, and wit. Throughout Lent, SUN Sunday Worship will be following his message from In God’s SUN Hands, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book for 2015. In SUN the first chapter he talks of human beings as God’s viceroys SUN or representatives on earth. From the profound experience of SUN being discriminated against, Tutu makes a case for universal SUN dignity, the intrinsic worth of every person as a child of SUN God. He here is, speaking about the revolutionary message of SUN the Bible. SUN SUN Reader: SUN What the Bible says categorically, exhilaratingly, is that SUN what endows you and me with … infinite worth, is this one SUN fact: that we are created in the image of God. Our worth is SUN something that… belongs to all human beings, regardless. SUN SUN If we really believed … that each human being without SUN exception is created in the image of God, and so is a SUN God-carrier – then we would be appalled at any ill-treatment SUN of another human being, because it is not simply unjust but SUN also, shockingly, blasphemous. It really is like spitting in SUN the face of God. SUN Sam Wells: SUN During Jesus’ trial people really did spit in the face of SUN God. What gives human beings dignity is that God believed we SUN were worth living for, worth becoming human for; and that in SUN Christ, God believed we were worth dying for, every single SUN one of us. The phrase ‘image of God’ means not just that we SUN were created to look like God, but that God chose to become SUN incarnate and look just like us. Let us pray. SUN SUN God of glory, in Jesus you became what we are so that we SUN might become what you are. You have made us little lower SUN than the angels and your viceroys on earth. Lift the hearts SUN of the downtrodden and the spirits of the oppressed, that SUN every weary throat may sing with your song of freedom and SUN every tired shoulder be renewed by the gospel of your SUN kingdom; in the name of Christ. Amen. SUN SUN Psalm 8 reflects on the wonder of human existence. We sing SUN the metrical version – the hymn ‘O Lord of every shining SUN constellation.’ SUN SUN Music: O Lord of every shining constellation (Highwood) SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN Charles Dotou is a man in our community who knows what it SUN means for his human dignity to be crushed and to be SUN restored. SUN SUN Charles Dotou: SUN My name is Charles. I’m a gynaecologist from Senegal. I SUN trained in Dakar, Paris and London. I was successful, and I SUN enjoyed a high reputation. In 2011 my life was threatened. I SUN felt in danger and that I had no choice but to escape to the SUN UK. SUN SUN I’d got used to life as a doctor with a good income but now SUN everything changed. I had skills to offer: but it was like SUN beginning all over again. I felt I no longer had a home or SUN an identity. I turned up at refugee centres in search of SUN help. I applied for asylum. My life felt worth nothing. I SUN tried to keep myself from losing my mind or killing myself. SUN It seemed even God had forgotten me. SUN SUN I came to St Martin-in-the-Fields. Within only a few visits SUN I felt I had a family again. They welcomed me and listened SUN to me and involved me in their church programmes.. It was a SUN breakthrough for me. God used the people in this church to SUN say, ‘You are part of us - you are our brother.’ These SUN people gave me back my dignity. SUN SUN One day several months later, out walking in the SUN countryside, I came across a sheep in distress. The farmer SUN was anxious because the sheep was bleeding and the vet had SUN been delayed. I quickly realised that it was a breach birth. SUN I went down on my knees and turned the lamb into the right SUN position in the sheep’s womb. I’d done this so many times SUN assisting in childbirth. The lamb was born safely and stood SUN up trembling. Everyone watching clapped. As I was cleaning SUN the blood off my hands someone in the crowd called out, ‘Are SUN you a vet?’ ‘No’ I said. ‘I’m a doctor.’ The man called SUN back, ‘We need people like you.’ SUN SUN I long to be needed again and to do what God trained me to SUN do. I want to be able to give as well as receive. The church SUN gave me back my dignity. It has given me a community in SUN which I can belong again. Now I am part of a training SUN programme at a Manchester Hospital to revalidate my medical SUN qualifications. I want to use my skills to bring dignity to SUN others. I hope I will be given the chance again. SUN SUN Music: Spiritual – There is a balm in Gilead SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN Charles Dotou found a balm in Gilead. But he can relate to SUN Jesus’ experience of dehumanising rejection, here described SUN in the letter to the Hebrews, chapter 13. SUN SUN Reader: SUN Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do SUN not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings; for SUN it is well for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by SUN regulations about food, which have not benefited those who SUN observe them. We have an altar from which those who SUN officiate in the tent have no right to eat. For the bodies SUN of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary SUN by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside SUN the camp. Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the city SUN gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood. Let SUN us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he SUN endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we are SUN looking for the city that is to come. Through him, then, let SUN us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, SUN the fruit of lips that confess his name. (Hebrews 13: 8-15) SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN The letter to the Hebrews points the suffering Jesus endured SUN outside the city gate, but it also calls upon us to go to SUN him and share in his sufferings. Our preacher is the SUN Archdeacon of Canterbury, Sheila Watson. SUN SUN Sheila Watson: SUN On the surface of the Moon, just a few feet from the Apollo SUN 11 landing site and Neil Armstrong’s first footprint, lies a SUN small white cloth pouch. Inside that pouch is a silicon SUN disc, the size of a small coin, containing messages from 73 SUN nations. One of those nations is the Vatican. In it the SUN Pope quotes Psalm 8, aptly the first biblical text to reach SUN the moon: ‘When I look at the heavens, the work of your SUN fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; SUN what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals SUN that you care for them? You have made them little lower than SUN God and crowned them with glory and honour’. SUN SUN This is the first of the psalms to erupt in a great paean of SUN praise to God. The psalms immediately preceding have SUN concentrated on humanity’s suffering. Psalm 8 bursts out SUN with an astounding affirmation of the status and vocation of SUN human beings – little lower than God, crowned with glory and SUN honour, with all things under their feet. It resonates with SUN Archbishop Tutu’s emphasis on us as God’s stand-ins here on SUN earth. It gives force to his challenge to imagine what would SUN happen in our world were we to act as if each of us were SUN God-carriers, God’s stand-ins? How would we view that person SUN who irritates us so much, if we remember they too are a SUN God-bearer? How could we mistreat, bomb or torture a fellow SUN God-bearer and viceroy? How could we forget our SUN responsibility to help all creation flourish by loving and SUN caring as God would? (God knows, our beautiful but broken SUN world needs it.) SUN SUN Living this means getting our hands dirty, confronting the SUN suffering of the world. It means remembering, as our lesson SUN from Hebrews says, those who are in prison as if we SUN ourselves are in prison; those who are being tortured as if SUN we ourselves are being tortured. It is an extraordinary SUN demand. Only a God who shares our suffering could make such SUN a demand. Such a God spoke to those caught up in the horrors SUN of the Great War of 1914-18, whose anniversary we continue SUN to keep this year. As Edward Shillito, a Methodist chaplain SUN to those in the trenches, wrote: SUN SUN The other gods were strong; but Thou wast weak; SUN They rode, but Thou didst stumble to a throne; SUN But to our wounds only God’s wounds speak; SUN And not a god has wounds, but Thou alone. SUN SUN The season of Lent, which began on Wednesday and runs till SUN Easter Day, asks us as Christians to go back to the bare SUN essentials and reflect on what really matters in our lives. SUN It’s a time to take up the challenge to live like God. What SUN might it mean to live like God? Julia de Beausobre, a victim SUN of Stalin’s Gulags, offers a humbling yet inspiring glimpse SUN of what living like God might mean. Julia’s husband was SUN killed in the camps. She herself was horribly tortured. A SUN friend who met her in London describes someone who exuded a SUN remarkable radiance, dignity and stillness; who had pared SUN everything down to its essentials. Asked how she survived, SUN Julia said ‘It was simple really. I tried to love my SUN torturers, because if I loved them I would not be adding to SUN the evil in the world, and they would not have succeeded in SUN adding to the evil in the world by making me hate them. SUN But if I loved, it could just be that it might have some SUN effect on them and even reduce the evil in the world. At its SUN simplest level Christ’s way of love and trust and SUN forgiveness seemed to be the only way.’ SUN SUN Is that too simple? Or too difficult? Julia loved her SUN torturers in order to reduce the sum total of evil in the SUN world. She loved them because if she hated them she’d have SUN let them win. She loved them because she discovered that SUN repaying hatred with love was ‘the only way.’ Too simple? Or SUN too difficult? SUN SUN Living like God means keeping faith with love and hope. It’s SUN about loving life and looking forward. It’s why we take SUN something up for Lent as well as give something up – to help SUN the world be a better place one small step at a time. SUN SUN And this brings us back to Desmond Tutu. Because this spirit SUN of answering evil with good is embodied for me in the South SUN African struggle of recent decades to become the rainbow SUN nation. I remember on my first visit being overcome by the SUN beauty of the landscape and overwhelmed at the idea that SUN amidst apartheid that glorious landscape could not be shared SUN by black and white together. It was a South African Zulu SUN who, like Julia de Beausobre, taught me what living like SUN God, living with Christ’s generosity and hope might mean. As SUN a child she was walking with her mother by one of the most SUN beautiful sandy beaches in the Cape. They could see everyone SUN enjoying themselves on the beach and she wanted to join in. SUN Her mother knew that no black could go there – but her SUN response showed astounding wisdom and hope as she said ‘No, SUN you can’t – but one day you will!’ SUN That’s God’s promise too – not just the moon and the stars SUN but that one day, in Christ, our broken world will be made SUN new and Christ’s way of love and trust and forgiveness will SUN be the only way. One day you will walk on that beach. One SUN day your cruel torturers will become your forgiven friends. SUN One day you will come face to face with the wounded God of SUN the trenches and the dazzling God of the Moon and stars, and SUN find they are the same God, the God who made heaven and SUN earth and yet the whole time was mindful of you. And, with SUN the psalmist, you will sing, ‘O, Lord, our Sovereign, how SUN majestic is your name in all the world’. SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN Our dignity as humans is founded on the discovery that Jesus SUN thought we were worth living and dying for. This is the SUN message of William Walsham How’s tender hymn sung now to a SUN new setting by Bob Chilcott. SUN SUN Music: It is a thing most wonderful (Chilcott) SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN In wonder and gratitude we offer our prayers. SUN SUN Richard Carter: SUN God who bears us, you have made us also to be bearers of SUN you. In Christ you went outside the camp and suffered for SUN us. By the power of your Holy Spirit, renew your image in SUN all who are rejected and downtrodden today: lift every voice SUN that it may sing, till earth and heaven ring with the SUN harmonies of freedom, truth and grace. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN Hear our prayer. SUN SUN Radiant God, we see as cast in your image those who have SUN treated us with cruelty or unkindness. Your son Jesus Christ SUN called you to forgive persecutors for they know not what SUN they do. Incline our hearts to embody his reconciling love, SUN that as we know our hurts and seek your healing, we may too SUN live your risen life in gestures of understanding and SUN mercy. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN Hear our prayer. SUN Wounded God, as we see the image of your son in one another, SUN you promise that one day we shall see you face to face. SUN Bring companionship to all who struggle in physical health SUN or mental well-being, and hope to any who feel their lives SUN are diminished and constrained. Raise up communities of SUN imagination that model the life you make possible in the SUN power of your Spirit. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN Hear our prayer. SUN SUN Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy SUN kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our SUN trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And SUN lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For SUN thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and SUN ever. Amen. SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN Our greatest joy and deepest knowledge is that we are God’s SUN beloved child. SUN SUN Music: I am his child (Hogan) SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN In his most famous speech, Dr Martin Luther King, jr said ‘I SUN have a dream that my four little children will one day live SUN in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of SUN their skin, but by the content of their character.’ Here we SUN sing and share that dream of human dignity, and the joy of SUN being made in the image of God. SUN SUN Music: We have a dream: this nation will arise (Woodlands) SUN Michael Forster (born 1946) after Martin Luther King Jr. SUN Sam Wells: SUN Christ give you grace to grow in holiness, to deny SUN yourselves, take up your cross and follow him; and the SUN blessing of God almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, be SUN among you and remain with you always. Amen. SUN Voluntary SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b052mjzn (Listen) SUN The Power of Fiction SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the power of our relationship with SUN fictional characters. "People need people whose lives can be SUN seen to follow a dramatic arc, so that no matter what trials SUN they encounter, the people who survey them can be reassured SUN that when the light begins to fade, these people - to whose SUN frail psyches we've had privileged access - will at least SUN feel it's all meant something." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03k21n6 (Listen) SUN Blackbird 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 Chris Packham presents the blackbird. Resident blackbirds SUN are on the alert just now because their territories are SUN under siege. Large numbers of Continental blackbirds pour in SUN to the UK each winter to escape even colder conditions SUN elsewhere. SUN SUN Blackbird (Turdus merula) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0532g5p (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 b0532g5r (Listen) SUN Jennifer has some home truths for Kate, and David is on a SUN quest. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joanna Toye SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Janet Hopkins: Katerina Pushkin SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0532g5t (Listen) SUN Jonas Kaufmann SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the tenor, Jonas SUN Kaufmann. SUN SUN Frequently referred to as one of the greatest singers of his SUN generation, both his parents fled East Germany for Munich SUN between the end of the war and the Berlin wall being SUN erected. Jonas was brought up singing in choirs, playing the SUN piano and listening to a range of classical music. When he SUN was seven, he was enthralled by seeing his first opera - SUN Madam Butterfly. He studied Maths at university, but soon SUN changed to music and quickly started getting professional SUN singing work. SUN SUN Since then he has taken on many of the great roles for SUN tenors, at opera houses around the world - Don Carlo, Don SUN José (Carmen), Alfredo (La Traviata), and Cavaradossi SUN (Tosca). He is also known as a singer of 'Lieder' & renowned SUN not only for the beauty of his voice but for his musical SUN range. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonas Kaufmann SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0532f9d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b052hptn (Listen) SUN Series 71, Episode 2 SUN SUN The popular comedy panel game returns with Paul Merton, Tony SUN Hawks, Josie Lawrence and Alun Cochrane, hosted by Nicholas SUN Parsons. Subjects include 'Multitasking', 'Kinky Boots' and SUN 'A Cathedral City' as this edition comes from Canterbury. SUN SUN This is the second in series 71 of Radio 4's classic panel SUN game in which the contestants are challenged to speak on a SUN given subject for a minute without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation. SUN SUN This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, SUN Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and SUN trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth SUN doctor, David Tennant. SUN SUN Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in SUN Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its SUN 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Tony Hawks SUN Panellist: Josie Lawrence SUN Panellist: Alan Cochrane SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0532g5w (Listen) SUN The Clink - Revisited SUN SUN Sheila goes behind bars to visit the most popular restaurant SUN in Cardiff, The Clink, which is run by prisoners. SUN SUN Ten years ago Al Crisci was a winner at the BBC Food and SUN Farming Awards for his work at High Down prison. At the SUN ceremony he announced that he was going to open a restaurant SUN in the prison which would be run by inmates and would serve SUN high end food to the paying public. Now there are currently SUN three prison restaurants across the country, with a fourth SUN about to open in HMP Styal. SUN SUN Sheila visits The Clink Restaurant on the site of HMP SUN Cardiff which has recently been voted the top restaurant in SUN the city by Tripadvisor. She speaks with inmates and SUN ex-prisoners about working in a restaurant and whether this SUN model can help reduce prison re-offender rates. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0532f9g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0532g5y (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Business of Film with Mark Kermode b0536932 (Listen) SUN Development Hell SUN SUN Film critic Mark Kermode reveals the economic realities SUN behind the film industry. In the first part of the series, SUN Mark finds out about the journey from script to screen - a SUN path littered with obstacles. SUN SUN Many films languish in so-called "Development Hell", where SUN producers turn in scripts, listen to conflicting opinions SUN and resubmit their storylines hoping for a magical green SUN light. Some will make it, such as Jonathan Glazer's Under SUN the Skin which took 13 years to get to the screen. Others, SUN like Lynda Obst's film about an Ebola outbreak in the late SUN 1980s, may finally see the light of day, in some form, SUN twenty years on. SUN SUN Away from the art and artifice lie the financial barriers to SUN getting a film made. For some, the movie industry in 2015 is SUN little more than the 'branded carnival business'. The SUN Hollywood studio system seeks success, replication, and SUN reliability. Has an industry that was built by risk takers SUN now become risk averse? Independent movie makers struggle to SUN raise the finance for their films while the big studios SUN produce movies that they know will turn a profit. SUN SUN We hear from the BFI, Channel 4 and BBC Films on the support SUN they are offering. Experts within film finance describe SUN their model, but Lock Stock and Kick Ass producer Matthew SUN Vaughn, who has turned a profit on every film he has made, SUN believes there is no such thing as a British film industry SUN and movies should not be subsidised with tax breaks, adding SUN that the industry is just a 'glamorised service provider'. SUN SUN Producers: Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones SUN A Hidden Flack production for Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b052m6dp (Listen) SUN Galleywood, Essex SUN SUN Eric Robson is in the village of Galleywood, Essex. Chris SUN Beardshaw, Christine Walkden and Matthew Wilson join him to SUN answer the questions from local gardeners. SUN SUN Also, Chris Beardshaw explores the gardens of Great SUN Chalfield Manor used in the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall and SUN the team visit RHS Hyde Hall to share some topical tips. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. I have been gifted a packet of wildflower seeds. How to I SUN go about planting them? SUN SUN SUN A. Matthew - It will depend on what the packet comprises of. SUN If it is a packet of cornfield annuals then they will need SUN tilling every year in order to flower. They require their SUN germination cycle to be broken. Naturally the plough would SUN have done this, so in a garden you need to turn the ground. SUN Scratch the surface with a fork and scatter your seeds SUN across it. SUN SUN Chris - Make sure the seed is still viable and has been SUN stored in a cool, dry place. SUN SUN SUN Q. My Brassicas are plagued with Whitefly. How can I SUN eradicate them? SUN SUN SUN A. Christine – you need to prevent them from reaching the SUN plants in the first place. Create a frame and cover them SUN with fleece. The flies and the plants are both waxy, so an SUN insecticide tends to run off. You could also try sticky SUN traps. SUN SUN SUN Q. My daughter is getting married on 6th June and we would SUN like to use Sweet peas. I have already started some off in SUN the autumn. Will they be ready in time? SUN SUN SUN A. Chris – Make sure you keep them in a frost-free SUN environment for as long as possible. SUN SUN Prepare the ground with plenty of organic matter but not too SUN much nitrogen. Nitrogen increases the top growth and you SUN won’t see as many flowers. Train them to five feet (5m) up a SUN cane. Sweet peas do not like flexible structures. Take the SUN top shoot and train it back down an adjacent cane to form an SUN N-shape. You will get early blooms from side-shoots. They SUN will require free-draining soil and full sun. SUN SUN SUN Q. What is the easiest way to propagate Coronilla glauca? SUN SUN SUN A. Christine – It is beautiful member of the pea family with SUN yellow flowers. The best way is to harvest the seedpod when SUN it has gone papery. Take it when green, as it will have the SUN highest germination rate. If it goes brown, the germination SUN rate drops to about 40%. SUN SUN SUN Matthew – There is a more compact version called Valentina SUN with primrose yellow flowers. It is great in a border and is SUN draught tolerant. SUN SUN SUN Q. I have two Daphne bushes. After nine years, one is still SUN doing well whereas the other has gone yellow. What can I do SUN to improve its condition? SUN SUN SUN A. Matthew – This looks like a case of Chlorosis. Daphnes SUN are woodland plants and like moist but well drained soil SUN with lots of compost. They won’t like a clay soil. Feed them SUN with liquid sequestered iron. Think about improving the soil SUN and giving the root as much room as possible. SUN SUN SUN Chris – Move it to the part of the garden where your other SUN Daphne is thriving. They don’t mind being moved. If you want SUN to wait until next year, dig a trench and back fill with SUN sand. This will prepare it for transportation by severing SUN the side roots. SUN SUN SUN Q. I have a Clematis Montana growing across my garage. It SUN continues to spread but has never flowered. SUN SUN SUN A. Chris - I think it is actually Clematis vitalba which SUN rarely flowers. It has a muted green leaf and has a SUN relatively large gap between the fibrous stems. It is great SUN to run through trees in a relaxed setting, but is not a SUN specimen for a garden. SUN SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest some bee-friendly plants that the SUN rabbits will hate? SUN SUN SUN A. Matthew – Firstly try netting the rabbits out. Rabbits SUN don’t like the waxy leaves of the Euphorbia and bees will SUN like the Euphorbia mellifera. Eremurus would also work and SUN bees love them. SUN SUN SUN Chris – Try using Digitalis, especially the purpurea SUN species. Eryngiums are prickly but be sure to plant them SUN deep enough so that the rabbits don’t dig for the roots. Add SUN something pungent to deter them from digging. Daffodils are SUN toxic so will be left uneaten. Ulex would also work. SUN SUN SUN SUN See more about the SUN houses and gardens used for BBC2's adaptation of Wolf Hall SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0536934 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears from Scotland, Devon and Cumbria about the SUN death of a 15 year old, marriage and divorce, and how SUN similar children with Down's Syndrome are to all children, SUN in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b0536936 (Listen) SUN Reading Europe - Spain: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN When the woman with whom he was about to begin an affair SUN suddenly dies in his arms, Victor considers walking away - SUN but is unable to resist delving into the woman's dark SUN secrets. SUN SUN Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at SUN her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. SUN When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and SUN Victor retreat to the bedroom. Undressing, she feels SUN suddenly ill dies, inexplicably, in his arms. SUN SUN What should Victor do? Remove the compromising tape from the SUN phone machine? Leave food for the child, for breakfast? SUN These are just his first steps, but he soon takes matters SUN further - unable to bear the shadows and the unknowing, SUN Victor plunges into dark waters. SUN SUN Writer Javier Marías, Europe's master of secrets and of what SUN lies reveal and truth may conceal, is on sure ground in this SUN profound, brilliantly imagined and hugely intricate novel. SUN SUN From the novel by Javier Marías SUN Translated by Margaret Jull Costa SUN Dramatised for radio by Michael Butt SUN SUN Produced by Eoin O'Callaghan SUN A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Victor: Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN Luisa: Emma Fielding SUN Tellez: John Rowe SUN The King: Malcolm Sinclair SUN The King: Nickolas Grace SUN Author: Javier Marias SUN Adaptor: Michael Butt SUN Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0536938 (Listen) SUN Rabih Alameddine on his new novel An Unnecessary Woman SUN SUN Rabih Alameddine's new novel An Unnecessary Woman was SUN shortlisted for a National Book Award. One reviewer called SUN it 'succulent fiction'. He talks to Mariella about his SUN cantankerous heroine, her obsession with translation and why SUN we all turn into our mothers. SUN SUN Actor David Duchovny, perhaps best known as Fox Mulder in SUN The X-Files, has written his first novel: Holy Cow. As well SUN as discussing how he created his bovine narrator, he also SUN reveals that a volume of William Blake's poetry is the Book SUN He'd Never Lend. SUN SUN And in our Reading Clinic critic and writer John Freeman SUN suggests books for a listener who is off to Las Vegas to SUN celebrate his birthday - a city, Freeman says, of 'second SUN chances', so does its literature reflect that? SUN SUN Read the opening pages of 'An Unnecessary Woman' by Rabih SUN Alameddine SUN 'An Unnecessary Woman' opening pages SUN by Rabih Alameddine SUN SUN Booklist SUN An Unnecessary Woman SUN by Rabih Alameddine SUN Holy Cow SUN by David Duchovny SUN Las Vegas Reading Clinic SUN Northline SUN by Willy Vlautin SUN Beautiful Children SUN by Charles Bock SUN The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its SUN Hold on America SUN by Sally Denton and Roger Morris SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Rabih Alameddine SUN Interviewed Guest: David Duchovny SUN Interviewed Guest: John Freeman SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b053693b (Listen) SUN Teenagers SUN SUN Roger McGough presents poetry by, for and about, teenagers SUN including works by Thomas Chatterton, Adrian Mitchell, Wendy SUN Cope, Imtiaz Dharker and Foyle Young Poets winner Ila SUN Colley. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower SUN SUN By Dylan Thomas SUN SUN From Dylan Thomas -The Poems SUN SUN Published by Dent & Sons 1971 SUN SUN SUN SUN O Captain my Captain SUN SUN By Walt Whitman SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Dover Publications 1991 SUN SUN SUN SUN Mother, any distance greater than a single span SUN SUN By Simon Armitage SUN SUN From Book of Matches SUN SUN Publised by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Walking Away SUN SUN By C. Day Lewis SUN SUN From C.Day Lewis Selected Poems, SUN SUN Published by Enitharmon Press 2004 SUN SUN SUN SUN She Pops Home SUN SUN By Cal Clothier SUN SUN Unpublished SUN SUN SUN SUN Outgrown SUN SUN By Penelope Shuttle SUN SUN From Unsent SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe 2012 SUN SUN SUN SUN A Puppy Called Puberty SUN SUN By Adrian Mitchell SUN SUN From Blue Coffee SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe 1996 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Concerned Adolescent SUN SUN By Wendy Cope SUN SUN From Serious Concerns SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber 1992 SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from A Balade of Charitie SUN SUN By Thomas Chatterton SUN SUN From Chatterton’s Poetical Works SUN SUN Published by The Aldine Edition of The British Poets SUN SUN SUN SUN New Vibrations SUN SUN By Ila Colley SUN SUN SUN SUN Father and Son I & II SUN SUN By John Thompson SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from A Shropshire Lad SUN SUN By AE Housman SUN SUN Published by Hesperus 2008 SUN SUN SUN SUN Odi et Amo SUN SUN By Catullus SUN SUN From Catullus The Complete Poems SUN SUN Published by Oxford paperbacks 2008 SUN SUN SUN SUN Salome SUN SUN By Carol Anne Duffy SUN SUN From The World’s Wife SUN SUN Published by Picador 2010 SUN SUN SUN SUN Blessing SUN SUN By Imtiaz Dharker SUN SUN From Modern Women Poets SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe 2005 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b052j57v (Listen) SUN Islamic State: Looting for Terror SUN SUN Satellite images reveal the extent to which sites of SUN important historical interest have been looted in Syria. SUN Some of these are in areas controlled by Islamic State where SUN looters are believed to pay a tax to allow them to operate. SUN Iraqi military say evidence from a senior IS member revealed SUN the group is making millions of pounds from the trafficking SUN of looted antiquities SUN Simon Cox investigates the global trade in stolen artefacts SUN and traces smuggling routes through Turkey and Lebanon and SUN onto the international antiquities market. SUN He hears concerns that dealers and collectors are not doing SUN enough to verify the provenance of ancient works of art and SUN asks whether the authorities in the UK and elsewhere are SUN doing enough to prevent the trade. SUN Why, for example, does the UK remain the most significant SUN military power not to have ratified a UN convention to SUN protect cultural property during armed conflict? SUN Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0532cc0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0532f9j (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0532f9l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0532f9n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b053693d (Listen) SUN Catherine Bott SUN SUN In this week's Pick of the Week Catherine Bott goes to SUN Hollywood with David Niven, to Sondheim musicals with Ruthie SUN Henshall and the Fort William Musical Society, and into the SUN wardrobe with Reece Shearsmith. There'll also be lots of her SUN favourite radio voices, from Winifred Robinson, Hardeep SUN Singh Kohli to that old devil Screwtape, brought to life by SUN Jonathan Pryce. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b053693g (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Gloomsbury b01ngrwf (Listen) SUN Series 1, A Desperate Attempt to Have Fun SUN SUN The writer Vera Sackcloth-Vest has to tear herself away from SUN her beloved garden just at the moment when her mammillarias SUN are about to open. SUN SUN She and her husband Henry have been summoned to London by SUN her bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox. Ginny and her SUN husband Lionel have realized that they have never had what SUN is known as "fun" and they beg Vera and Henry to provide it. SUN SUN Simultaneously, Vera's ardent acolyte Venus Traduces asks SUN Vera to educate her, so she can be taken seriously by the SUN Gloomsbury set. Exhausted by her efforts to educate and SUN entertain, and haunted by the fear that her beloved Henry SUN will soon be posted to the Balkans, Vera endures an SUN emotional crisis at a picnic in Kensington Gardens. SUN SUN Rescue arrives unexpectedly, and she escapes back to her SUN beloved Sizzlinghurst, just as her mammillarias lift their SUN saucy little faces to the sun. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes SUN Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy SUN Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks SUN Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman SUN Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer SUN SUN Produced by Jamie Rix SUN A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts b053693j (Listen) SUN New Writing from Africa, Cordelia SUN SUN A series of three specially commissioned stories by new SUN writers from the African continent - writers who are part of SUN an emerging literary scene bursting with young, talent. SUN SUN In Cordelia by the Nigerian author Jowhor Ile, a young man SUN recalls his childhood and the girl who looked after him. SUN SUN Jowhor Ile was brought up in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. This is SUN his first story to be broadcast on radio. SUN SUN Reader: Richie Campbell SUN SUN Commissioned for radio by Ellah Allfrey SUN Directed by Jill Waters SUN A Waters Company production for Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Jowhor Ile SUN Reader: Rich Campbell SUN Director: Jill Waters SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b052mbjs (Listen) SUN The allied bombing of Dresden was one of the most SUN controversial episodes of the Second World War - but was SUN Radio 4's coverage of the 70th Anniversary too one-sided? SUN The editor of Radio 4's Today programme, Jamie Angus, SUN discusses how the BBC reflected on this historic event with SUN a senior lecturer in War and Media at King's College London, SUN Dr Peter Busch. SUN SUN And the story behind how the BBC obtained a startling piece SUN of audio from the shootings in Copenhagen. Toby Castle was SUN duty editor in the BBC Newsroom at the time and he talks to SUN Roger Bolton about why he decided the shocking audio could SUN be put on air. SUN SUN Also, an epic tale of endurance and self-sacrifice - SUN listeners tell us how they managed to hear ten hours of War SUN and Peace in one sitting. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b052mbjq (Listen) SUN Michele Ferrero, Lady Platt of Writtle, John McCabe, Louis SUN Jourdan, Anne Naysmith and Lesley Gore. SUN SUN Julian Worricker on SUN SUN Michele Ferrero - confectioner, creator of Nutella, Tic Tacs SUN and Kinder Eggs and Italy's richest man. He was famously shy SUN and died having only given one newspaper interview. SUN SUN Beryl Platt, a wartime aeronautical engineer, who went on to SUN promote women in science and engineering as chairwoman of SUN the Equal Opportunities Commission. SUN SUN The composer and pianist John McCabe, who was responsible SUN for more than 200 compositions during his lifetime. SUN SUN Louis Jourdan, the French film actor blessed with what were SUN described as 'incredible good looks', who became famous for SUN his role in Gigi. SUN SUN And Anne Naysmith, who enjoyed a promising career as a SUN pianist in the 1960s before she fell on hard times and lived SUN rough on the streets of west London. SUN SUN Michele Ferrero SUN SUN Last Word spoke to author and journalist, John Hooper and SUN restaurateur, Antonio Carluccio. SUN SUN Born 26 April 1925; died 14 February 2015 aged 89 SUN SUN Lady Platt of Writtle SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her Daughter, Vicky Platt and Ex Director SUN of WISE (Women in to Science and Engineering), Marie- Noëlle SUN Barton. SUN SUN Born 18 April 1923; died 1 February 2015 aged 91 SUN SUN John McCabe SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Radio 3 Presenter, Alyn Shipton and SUN cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber. SUN SUN Born 21 April 1939; died 13 February 2015 aged 75 SUN SUN Louis Jourdan SUN SUN Last Word spoke to British film critic, Michael Freedland. SUN SUN Born 19 June 1921; died 14 February 2015 aged 93 SUN SUN Anne Naysmith SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her friends and neighbours, Sally Mates SUN and Charlotte Kasner. SUN SUN Born 1937; died 9 February 2015 aged 78 SUN SUN Lesley Gore SUN SUN Born 2 May 1946; died 16 February 2015 aged 68. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Julian Worricker SUN Interviewed Guest: Antonio Carluccio SUN Interviewed Guest: John Hooper SUN Interviewed Guest: Vicky Platt SUN Interviewed Guest: Marie-Noelle Barton SUN Interviewed Guest: Alyn Shipton SUN Interviewed Guest: Julian Lloyd Webber SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Freedland SUN Interviewed Guest: Sally Mates SUN Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Kasner SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0532b2s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0532g0c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b052hvhn (Listen) SUN Downward Social Mobility SUN SUN Social mobility is a good thing - right? Politicians worry SUN that not enough people from less-privileged backgrounds get SUN the opportunity to move up in life. But are we prepared to SUN accept that others lose out - and move in the opposite SUN direction? Jo Fidgen explores the implications of downward SUN social mobility. SUN Producer: Charlotte McDonald. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b053693l (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b053693n (Listen) SUN Caroline Daniel of The Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 TED Radio Hour b053693q (Listen) SUN To the Edge SUN SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN SUN Guy Raz investigates how people are able to go to the brink SUN of human endurance. With high wire artist Philippe Petit. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b052mjzn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0532fbl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b052jk2s (Listen) MON Conservatism, Emotional Labour in a Care Home MON MON Conservatism: Roger Scruton, Professor of Philosophy at MON Birkbeck College, London, talks to Laurie Taylor, about the MON intellectual roots of Conservative values and ideology. MON MON Also, the emotional labour of care workers in a private MON residential care home. Eleanor Johnson, Researcher in Social MON Sciences at the University of Cardiff, talks about her case MON study of carer's practical and emotional work. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Eleanor K Johnson MON MON Researcher in Social Sciences, University of Cardiff MON MON * MON Abstract: The business of care: the moral labour of care MON workers MON *Eleanor K. Johnson MON Sociology of Health & Illness MON Volume 37, Issue 1, pages 112–126, January 2015 MON doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12184 MON MON Roger Scruton MON MON Writer and Philosopher MON MON Find out more about MON Roger Scruton MON MON *How to be a conservative MON *Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum MON ISBN-10: 1472903765 MON ISBN-13: 978-1472903761 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0532g03 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0532fbn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0532fbq (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0532fbs (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0532fbv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b054cns2 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Dr Janet Wootton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0536jp0 (Listen) MON Global dairy, rare breed, unaffordable rural housing MON MON A glimmer of hope, possibly, for UK dairy farmers as global MON commodity markets start to improve. But, as AHDB analyst MON Patty Clayton tells Anna Hill, there are several hurdles MON ahead before farmers can expect their prices to increase. MON MON A new review of rural housing takes stock of progress in MON closing the affordability gap. MON MON We begin a week examining whether Britain's rarest livestock MON breeds can have a place in modern farming. MON MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0532fbx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5bwv (Listen) MON Shelduck 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 David Attenborough presents the shelduck. Shelducks are MON birds of open mud and sand which they sift for water snails MON and other tiny creatures. They will breed inland and they MON nest in holes. Disused rabbit burrows are favourite places MON and they'll also settle down in tree cavities, sheds, MON out-buildings and even haystacks. MON MON Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). MON MON 06:00 Today b0536jp3 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Front Row b0536jp5 (Listen) MON The Front Row Debate MON MON Are artists owed a living? John Wilson hosts a public debate MON at the Hull Truck theatre with a panel of high-profile MON guests and a live audience to mark the launch of the BBC's MON Get Creative campaign and to open a national conversation MON exploring the relationship between the state and the arts. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0536jp8 (Listen) MON Shop Girl, Episode 1 MON MON Mary Portas reads her moving, funny account of growing up in MON a large Irish family in a small Watford semi in the 1970s. MON MON Young Mary is always getting into trouble. When she isn't MON choking back fits of giggles at Holy Communion, or playing MON pranks on her teachers, she's gluing together cardboard MON boxes with her mum and dad to win youth club competitions MON dressed as a pack of Player's No. 6. MON MON In Mary's house, money is scarce and space is tight. But MON these are good times and everything revolves around the MON force of nature that is her mum. MON MON Mary's dad is a tea salesman and she loves tagging along on MON his sales calls to independent shops, selling everything MON from Chappie dog food and Heinz soups to Homepride flour and MON Kellogg's Corn Flakes. And even as a six-year-old, the girl MON who will one day be known as "Mary Queen of Shops" knows MON there is a world enclosed in the four tiny letters of the MON word 'shop'. MON MON Read by Mary PortasAbridged by Jo Coombs MON MON Produced by Hannah Marshall MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Mary Portas MON Author: Mary Portas MON Abridger: Jo Coombs MON Producer: Hannah Marshall MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0536jpb (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Nadiya Savchenko MON MON Nadiya Savchenko, former Ukrainian military pilot, now MON Ukrainian MP and delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of MON the Council of Europe has been held in custody in Russia MON over the killing of two Russian journalists since June 2014. MON Kiev says she was illegally seized by Russian forces inside MON Ukraine and dragged across the border. On December 13th she MON started a hunger strike, and Russia has come under intense MON pressure from the international community to release her. MON She was one of the first Ukrainian women to train as an air MON force pilot and has become, for many, a symbol of the MON Russia-Ukraine conflict. MON MON How does a relationship survive a life-changing disability MON or illness? MON One in five people in the UK has a disability. However, MON almost eighty per cent of them weren’t born disabled – they MON acquired their disabilities later in life. Most of those MON people are supported and cared for by a partner or a family MON member. So, what do you do if your partner of many years MON becomes disabled or suddenly falls permanently ill? How do MON you cope with the fact that your loved one may never again MON be the same person you fell for? Joining Jane is Grace MON Maxwell whose husband, musician Edwyn Collins suffered a MON serious brain hemorrhage and Professor John Kemp, who took MON early retirement to take care of his late wife Shirley. MON MON Chelsea Cobbler MON MON The Shoe Collection at Northampton Museums and Art Gallery MON is currently asking people to send in treasured footwear MON with special memories. When Diane Clark donated a pair of MON 1970s boots made by The Chelsea cobbler she had no idea how MON delighted the museum would be as they fill a gap in the MON museums1970s footwear heritage. She met up with our reporter MON Tamsin Smith at the museum to explain why they these boots MON are so precious to her. MON MON The Women Who Built Waterloo Bridge MON MON London’s Waterloo Bridge has a rather unusual nickname – The MON Ladies Bridge. Tourist boats guides, who ferry sightseers up MON and down the Thames, use this name to honour the women who MON played a key role in its construction. These female workers MON took over when Irish labourers went home at the outbreak of MON World War Two and local men were conscripted. MON MON Now a campaign has been launched to celebrate the efforts of MON these women. Jane talks to historian Dr Christine Wall and MON campaigner Jen Lexmond to find out more about the women who MON built the bridge. MON MON UKIP MON In the next in our series about women parliamentary MON candidates, we meet UKIP candidates Sandra James and Rose MON Gibbins and ask why the party believes that positive MON discrimination does not help women. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0536jpg (Listen) MON The Henry Experiment, Episode 1 MON MON A mother (Emma Fielding) fears that a child parenting expert MON (Matthew Marsh) is endangering his own seven year old son MON Henry by testing out his theories of early independence on MON him. MON MON When Anna finds a boy alone and barefoot on Hampstead Heath, MON she accompanies him home for his own safety. But she is MON horrified to discover that he was left there on purpose to MON develop his independence, by his father, the famous MON parenting expert Professor Horace Henderson. MON MON A thriller which asks whether our society bubble wraps MON children, whether we have the right to interfere in other MON people's children's lives and how we become parents with the MON spectres of our own childhoods still looming over our MON shoulders. MON MON Based on a novel by the journalist Sophie Radice who MON contributes to The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent MON and many magazines. Adapted for radio by award winning MON writer Charlotte Jones who has written extensively for TV, MON theatre and radio. Her most celebrated play "Humble Boy has MON played all over the world, she wrote the book for Andrew MON Lloyd Webber's stage musical of "The Woman in White" and MON most recently ITV aired her three part thriller "Without MON you". MON MON Producer ... Liz Webb. MON MON Credits MON Anna: Emma Fielding MON Henderson: Matthew Marsh MON Henry: Finn Monteath MON Mother: Elaine Claxton MON David: Ian Conningham MON Jason: Paul Heath MON Policewoman: Hannah Genesius MON Writer: Sophie Radice MON Adaptor: Charlotte Jones MON Producer: Liz Webb MON MON 11:00 Pushing Up the Daisies b0536q9j (Listen) MON As she approaches her 80th year, Penelope Simpson decides to MON paint her own coffin. She keeps it in her garden shed, which MON acts as her studio. As the year passes, she paints the lid MON with flowers from every season, picked from her garden. Then MON she invites friends and relatives to paint whatever they MON like on the coffin too. She says, 'It's a nice way for your MON friends to say goodbye to you, and you to say goodbye to MON your friends'. MON MON Then her grand-daughter Olivia comes to stay, and when she's MON invited to paint her grandmother's coffin, a profound MON connection between them is revealed. MON MON Producer: Sara Conkey. MON MON 11:30 The Architects b0536qr7 (Listen) MON Series 2, DIY MON MON Sir Lucien casts aside his hopes of Brutalism returning to MON fashion and decides to go into house building. His loyal MON team must follow...negotiating marshland, unexploded bombs MON and homicidal relatives en route. By Jim Poyser with Neil MON Griffiths. MON MON Directed by Toby Swift. MON MON Credits MON Sir Lucien: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Tim: Alex Carter MON Sarah: Anna Crilly MON Matt: Dominic Coleman MON Lucy: Jane Slavin MON Darvo: Ian Conningham MON Council Receptionist: Ian Conningham MON Director: Toby Swift MON Writer: Jim Poyser MON Writer: Neil Griffiths MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0532fbz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b0536qr9 (Listen) MON 23 February 1915 - Alan Lowther MON MON At Marshalls, Alan's patience is being tested. MON MON Written by Melissa Murray MON Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Alan Lowther: David Seddon MON Andrew Williams: Neil Grainger MON Beth: Hannah Wood MON Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham MON Gladys Lowther: Elaine Claxton MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready MON Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan MON Telegram Boy: Shaun Mason MON Writer: Melissa Murray MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0536qrc (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0532fc1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0536qrf (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers b053721c (Listen) MON Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, brings MON to life the numbers conveying the big trends that have MON transformed the shape and scope of the British state. MON MON He looks at what governments through the centuries have MON spent, borrowed, taxed, regulated and built; and he MON considers how we came to organise a national life that MON reaches into every corner of private life, from the delivery MON of pensions and healthcare to the surveillance of emails or MON rules about the temperature of a hot cup of tea. MON MON By one measure, the modern British state is roughly 7,000 MON times bigger than the Tudor state. How and why did that MON happen? MON MON The story of the state unfolds through muddy fields, MON smugglers coves and a Victorian village lock-up. Numbers MON become sound as we hear the dramatic scale of change that MON has occurred over the centuries. MON MON The evolution of the state may be driven less by party MON politics than party politicians might like us to think. MON Although the state's size and functions are a natural MON subject of fierce political argument, the impetus for the MON biggest changes has often come from another source - such as MON war, economic growth, and the power that arises from MON knowledge. MON MON In this sixth programme, Andrew turns to social security. MON MON Producer: Michael Blastland MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b053693g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b053721f (Listen) MON In Aldershot MON MON Aldershot is 10% Nepali but unemployed 'Suitboy' has never MON spoken to one - till now... MON MON 'Suitboy' got his nickname from local youths making fun of MON the suit he wears all the time as he struggles to find a MON job. At the Job Centre he meets 'Gurung', an ex-Gurkha and MON one of the swelling Nepalese community in Aldershot whose MON presence has caused unrest among some locals. Neither feels MON like they belong and as they fill their time with odd jobs MON trying to 'repair' their broken town, they forge an unlikely MON friendship. But as Suitboy's marriage disintegrates due to MON the tensions of unemployment, he takes out his frustrations MON on some youths who have been taunting Gurung - with MON disastrous consequences. MON MON Producer ..... Nandita Ghose MON Directed by Liz Webb MON MON Writer Matthew Wilkie's theatre credits include Bliss MON (Platform 4, Salisbury), 412 Letters (Union Theatre, MON London), The Trail Of The Farnham Flyer (Farnham Maltings) MON and Horst Buchholz And Other Stories (Bewley's Café Theatre, MON Dublin), which he also adapted for radio. Other radio MON includes Disaster! (3rd series BBC 7's Planet B) and The New MON Boy (R4 Extra's The Man In Black). MON MON Credits MON Suitboy: Ian Conningham MON Gurung: Bhasker Patel MON Pushpa: Ritu Arya MON Karen: Rhiannon Neads MON Adviser: Jane Slavin MON Gary: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Mark: Samuel Valentine MON Producer: Nandita Ghose MON Director: Liz Webb MON Writer: Matthew Wilkie MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b053721h (Listen) MON Heat 9, 2015 MON MON (9/17) MON Which two English cathedrals hold original copies of Magna MON Carta? And which science fiction novel's title is a direct MON reference to the temperature at which books spontaneously MON ignite? MON MON Russell Davies chairs the ninth heat in the current season MON of the ever-popular general knowledge quiz, with contestants MON from the North of England competing at the BBC's Salford MON studios for a place in the semi-finals in the spring. MON MON Every point counts, as it's not just the heats winners who MON go through but also the runners-up with the highest scores MON across the series. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0532g5w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Whistling Woman b053721k (Listen) MON Soprano and broadcaster Catherine Bott explores the art of MON whistling. It was once thought to be bad luck or unsuitable MON for a woman but Catherine herself is an inveterate whistler, MON often finding herself doing so unconsciously when she is MON doing her shopping. MON MON Catherine considers the myths surrounding whistling women. MON She meets Sheila Harrod, a former champion whistler and MON celebrates the remarkable career of Ronnie Ronalde who was a MON huge whistling star in the 1940s and 50s. MON MON Catherine speaks to Tamas Hacki, a former professional MON whistler and doctor who has studied the physiology of MON whistling compared with singing. And she learns about MON whistling as a means of communication in places like the MON Spanish island of La Gomera. MON MON With contributions from John Lucas who has co-authored a MON history of whistling, Julien Meyer who has researched MON whistled speech and has written a book about it, and Simon MON and Eleanor Grant. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b053721m (Listen) MON Series 11, Serendipity in Science MON MON Serendipity in Science MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian Lee MON Mack, science author and journalist Simon Singh and chemist MON Professor Andrea Sella to look at how many of our biggest MON science discoveries seem to have come about by accident. MON From Viagra to Pyrex to the discovery of the Cosmic MON Background Microwave Radiation, the earliest remnant of the MON big bang, they all owe their discovery to a healthy dose of MON luck and accident as scientists stumbled across them in the MON course of looking for something else. So are these MON discoveries just luck, are they still deserving of Nobel MON prizes and scientific glory, or is serendipity and an open MON scientific mind key to exploring and understanding our MON universe? MON MON 17:00 PM b053721p (Listen) MON With the latest news interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0532fc3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b053721t (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 3 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? Gyles Brandreth, Marcus MON Brigstocke, Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi try their MON best. Subjects include 'Animal Husbandry', 'The Rights of MON Spring' and 'The Goons'. MON MON This is this third episode in series 71 of Radio 4's classic MON panel game in which the contestants are challenged to speak MON on a given subject for a minute without hesitation, MON repetition or deviation. MON MON This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, MON Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and MON trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth MON doctor, David Tennant. MON MON Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in MON Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its MON 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke MON Panellist: Jenny Eclair MON Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05372ss (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b05372sv (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0536jpg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is b050yh99 (Listen) MON If you believe the world should be a fairer place, does MON morality demand that you give away your money to those who MON are poorer than you - even if you don't think of yourself as MON rich? And if so, should you donate it to charity or pay it MON in tax? MON MON In this personal exploration of the issues, Giles Fraser MON seeks to work through the tricky moral dilemmas involved in MON responding to poverty and inequality, both in the UK and MON internationally. He talks to those who have pledged to give MON away large portions of their income, and others who think MON that this is simply an irrelevant gesture. The interviewees MON include the the prominent moral philosopher Peter Singer, MON TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady, Matt Wrack from the MON Fire Brigades Union, the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, the MON writer George Monbiot, and Will MacAskill of Giving What We MON Can. MON MON Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b05372sx (Listen) MON Artificial Intelligence MON MON Should we beware the machines? Professor Stephen Hawking has MON warned the rise of Artificial Intelligence could mean the MON end of the human race. He's joined other renowned scientists MON urging computer programmers to focus not just on making MON machines smarter, but also ensuring they promote the good MON and not the bad. How seriously should we take the warnings MON that super-intelligent machines could turn on us? And what MON does AI teach us about what it means to be human? Helena MON Merriman examines the risks, the opportunities and how we MON might avoid being turned into paperclips. MON MON Producer: Sally Abrahams. MON MON 21:00 The Placebo Problem b052j0ty (Listen) MON Whilst the placebo effect is now recognised as a useful MON therapeutic tool, less familiar is its malign counterpart: MON the nocebo effect, the capacity of an inert or sham MON treatment to induce adverse physical and mental effects. MON Geoff Watts explores the science behind this remarkable MON phenomenon and its worrying implications. MON MON Acknowledged for decades, the placebo effect only became the MON subject of serious scientific study in the last ten years. MON Not only can sham treatments improve clinical outcomes, MON sometimes as powerfully as pharmacological interventions, MON but the method of giving the treatment can itself determine MON a placebo's success. Perception is everything. But if a MON placebo can reduce symptoms and enhance treatment then MON presumably the opposite is true. Welcome to the nocebo MON effect. MON MON Nocebo, meaning "I shall harm", is the wicked sibling of MON placebo, meaning "I shall please". First remarked on in the MON medical literature in 1961, it took nearly 40 years for hard MON evidence to emerge when, on a hunch, an Italian MON physiologist, Fabrizio Benedetti, conducted a cunning MON experiment. He injected subjects with two substances that he MON told them would induce pain. Neither actually would but one MON substance (unbeknownst to the patients) did in fact have the MON ability to inhibit anxiety. If there was a specific MON neurological pathway in the brain that was creating the MON nocebo effect, could the anti-anxiolytic block it? The MON answer was emphatically yes and provided the clearest MON evidence yet that a patient's mere perception of what they MON expect to happen could induce real, detrimental physical and MON mental symptoms - in this case anxiety and pain. MON MON Other researchers have attempted to explore the phenomenon MON further. Studies in Germany and the Netherlands showed that MON nocebo could be induced merely by relaying verbal or visual MON information to the subjects. In the US, Parkinson's patients MON told that their brain pacemakers (for deep brain MON stimulation) were to be turned off experienced dramatically MON more negative symptoms even though the pacemakers were left MON switched on. Patients in a trial looking at lactose MON intolerance were falsely told they were given lactose when MON in fact they were given glucose and true to form, nearly MON half complained of stomach pains. MON MON In some sense this seems obvious - one can induce fear and MON anxiety by telling scary stories. But the consequences of MON nocebo go beyond mere medical curiosity. A few years ago the MON effect hit the headlines when tens of thousands of people MON were seemingly affected by it in New Zealand, spurred on by MON alarmist media reporting about the negative side effects of MON a 'new' drug. Except it wasn't new at all - it simply had a MON branding re-launch. The pharmaceutical compounds were MON unchanged. Nevertheless, this lead to a 2000-fold increase MON in negative side-effect reporting. So what had caused this? MON We did - the media. News reports began incorrectly MON attributing side effects such as joint pain and depression MON to this so-called new drug. The effect snow-balled. Areas of MON the country with the highest number of media scare stories MON saw the highest number of complaints about the drug's side MON effects. It's not that patients were making it up - as far MON as they were concerned their symptoms were real but they MON were not related to the pharmacological effects of the drug MON but to nocebo. Their health had been hijacked by their MON expectation. MON MON Nocebo is not only more powerful than placebo but it is MON likely to be more widespread and its implications are far MON more serious as it not only interferes with the existing MON treatments but it hinders the development of new drugs. And MON as clinicians and researchers become more aware of the MON consequences of nocebo, many reach the same uncomfortable MON conclusion - that patients are being given too much MON information about the risks of treatment - be it surgery or MON drugs - creating anxiety and fear which leads to physical MON distress. Doctors are caught between a rock and a hard place MON - First do no harm is the bedrock of medicine. As is MON informed consent. But what do you do when informed consent MON leads to harm? And can you even begin to control for what MON patients can discover for themselves on the internet or MON through the media? MON MON Producer: Rami Tzabar. MON MON 21:30 Front Row b0536jp5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0540h8z (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05372t1 (Listen) MON In Certain Circles, 'It was enough that he existed' MON MON Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth MON Harrower's novel was written in 1971 and is published for MON the first time now. MON MON This tale of love, class and freedom, set set among the MON grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after MON WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell Howard. MON Charismatic and confident, the children of affluent and MON loving parents, they welcome into their circle two orphans, MON Stephen and Anna. It is a meeting that will resonate for MON decades. MON MON Today: the bleakness of unrequited and of married love. MON MON Author: Elizabeth Harrower MON Reader: Penny Downie MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Penny Downie MON Author: Elizabeth Harrower MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 23:00 Agatha Christie b01r0gpc (Listen) MON Murder Is Easy, Episode 3 MON MON by Agatha Christie MON Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson MON MON 3. Luke and Bridget are getting closer, in spite of MON themselves. As they discover yet another body, they think MON they know who the murderer is, but will they be able to MON prove it? MON MON Luke ..... Patrick Baladi MON Bridget ..... Lydia Leonard MON Lord Whitfield ..... Michael Cochrane MON Miss Waynflete ..... Marcia Warren MON Miss Pinkerton ..... Marlene Sidaway MON Billy Bones ..... Patrick Brennan MON Rose ..... Lizzy Watts MON Dr Thomas ..... Will Howard MON Major Horton ..... Robert Blythe MON MON Technical presentation was by Anne Bunting and Robin Warren MON MON Directed by Mary Peate. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b05373nc (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0532fd1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0536jp8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0532fd3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0532fd5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0532fd7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0532fd9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b054h5kc (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Dr Janet Wootton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05373qf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c26 (Listen) TUE Ptarmigan 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 David Attenborough presents the ptarmigan. Few birds are TUE tough enough to brave winter on the highest of Scottish TUE mountains but Ptarmigan are well adapted to extreme TUE conditions. They're the only British bird that turns white TUE in winter and Ptarmigan have feathers that cover their toes, TUE feet and nostrils to minimise heat loss. TUE TUE Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05373s4 (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 Long View b0537490 (Listen) TUE The 1929 General Election and the Art of Political TUE Persuasion TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland focuses on the art of political TUE persuasion, through the prism of the 1929 general election, TUE when the Conservative Party employed the UK's top TUE advertising agency. TUE TUE Producer Mohini Patel. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0537492 (Listen) TUE John Harris Talks to Penny Andrews about Autism TUE TUE John Harris, of the Guardian, talks to Penny Andrews, a TUE university researcher, who, after a difficult childhood and TUE adolescence was finally diagnosed as autistic in her early TUE thirties. TUE John is known for having two consuming passions music, and TUE politics - and luckily he's developed a career that revolves TUE around both. But around five years ago, he acquired a third TUE area of expertise and curiosity: autism. TUE TUE His son James was born in 2006 and, when he was 3, it was TUE discovered he was autistic. For John and his partner, the TUE next two or three years passed in a blur of educational TUE therapy, tussles with officialdom, James's successful entry TUE to a mainstream school, and reading: lots and lots of it. TUE TUE In his first edition of One to One, John talked to Simon TUE Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at TUE Cambridge University and Director of the University's Autism TUE Research Centre. TUE TUE Today he talks to Penny about how the condition has affected TUE her life and how she has learnt to live with it, holding TUE down an intellectually challenging job and married life. TUE TUE They discuss how schools and employers can help those on the TUE autistic spectrum make the most of the gifts and talents TUE they have and understand better the more challenging aspects TUE of the condition. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0537494 (Listen) TUE Shop Girl, Episode 2 TUE TUE Mary Portas reads her moving and hilarious memoir of her TUE early years. TUE TUE It's 1974 and the world is changing. Glam-rock boys who look TUE like girls are wearing silk and glitter on Top of the Pops, TUE and even in Watford chicken chow mein is all the rage and TUE Oxford bags are making an appearance on the market stalls. TUE TUE For the young Mary Portas, life is full of opportunity which TUE she'll seize as soon as she's old enough for a Saturday job. TUE She's never happier than when she's singing along to David TUE Bowie songs with her brothers and sister, with backcombed TUE hair and fuchsia eye shadow. TUE TUE Her mum, a stickler for the rules when it comes to school TUE and church, is happy to encourage her children's TUE self-expression. But this world of chaotic creativity is TUE blown apart when Mary's mother is taken seriously ill. TUE TUE Read by the author TUE Abridged by Jo Coombs TUE TUE Produced by Hannah Marshall TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Mary Portas TUE Author: Mary Portas TUE Abridger: Jo Coombs TUE Producer: Hannah Marshall TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0537496 (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 b0537498 (Listen) TUE The Henry Experiment, Episode 2 TUE TUE A mother (Emma Fielding) fears that a child parenting expert TUE (Matthew Marsh) is endangering his own seven year old son TUE Henry by testing out his theories of early independence on TUE him. TUE TUE When Anna discovered that famous parenting expert Professor TUE Horace Henderson had left his 7 year old son alone on TUE Hampstead Heath, she reported him to to police. She now TUE feels that she must start following Henry to keep an eye on TUE him. TUE TUE A thriller which asks whether our society bubble wraps TUE children, whether we have the right to interfere in other TUE people's children's lives and how we become parents with the TUE spectres of our own childhoods still looming over our TUE shoulders. TUE TUE Based on a novel by the journalist Sophie Radice who TUE contributes to The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent TUE and many magazines. Adapted for radio by award winning TUE writer Charlotte Jones who has written extensively for TV, TUE theatre and radio. Her most celebrated play "Humble Boy has TUE played all over the world, she wrote the book for Andrew TUE Lloyd Webber's stage musical of "The Woman in White" and TUE most recently ITV aired her three part thriller "Without TUE you". TUE TUE Producer ... Liz Webb. TUE TUE Credits TUE Anna: Emma Fielding TUE Henderson: Matthew Marsh TUE Henry: Finn Monteath TUE David: Ian Conningham TUE Policeman: Monty d'Inverno TUE Writer: Sophie Radice TUE Adaptor: Charlotte Jones TUE Producer: Liz Webb TUE TUE 11:00 Ebola Junction b053749b (Listen) TUE Dr Wright is one of the 30 NHS volunteers who set off for TUE Sierra Leone in November. His took the decision to volunteer TUE in the fight against Ebola after the United Nations warned TUE that the world has just 60 days to get the virus under TUE control or face an "unprecedented situation for which we TUE don't have a plan" The report, issued by the organisation's TUE health arm, said the virus was "running faster than us and TUE it is winning the race." TUE TUE The UN identified the opening of Ebola Treatment Centres and TUE more effective community containment as key to success and TUE in Bradford where Dr Wright is director of the Institute for TUE Health Research, it was a rallying call that saw him TUE immediately volunteer. He worked in southern Africa in the TUE early 1990's, when HIV was endemic and has continued to TUE visit. He's in charge of opening the Moyamba treatment TUE centre: a million pound British Government funded hospital TUE built by the Royal Engineers in just six weeks. TUE TUE In this second programme in the series his recordings start TUE at the December opening of the hospital. On day one three TUE patients arrive: two of them exposed during a funeral. The TUE young man, Ibrahim, seems the strongest and the team prepare TUE to use the training they received in the York military TUE barracks. His audio recordings take listeners onto the wards TUE and through the last moments as Ibrahim loses his fight TUE against the terrible disease. There's no time to take stock TUE before more patients are arriving and throughout Christmas TUE Dr Wright records what happens. TUE TUE Working in the community is a key element of the job, with a TUE major push to reinforce messages about safe burials and hand TUE washing: TUE "One of the concerns with all of this is that we have this TUE European army of clinicians going out all dressed up in TUE scary protective equipment and it could be very alienating." TUE TUE Professor Wright and the team get word that in a nearby area TUE unsafe burials are still taking place: they travel there TUE with the army and explain the dangers to local chiefs. On TUE Christmas Eve the chiefs send him and the medical team a TUE pig, which they can kill and feast on. But soon after this TUE Dr Wright develops a temperature and is quickly on the other TUE side of the "scary" bio hazard suits, where he remains in TUE isolation awaiting the results of his own test for Ebola. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales From the Stave b053749d (Listen) TUE Series 11, Der Rosenkavalier TUE TUE When Der Rosenkavalier made its British premier in 1913 TUE there was heated debate about the appearance of the on-stage TUE bed in the first scene, not to mention the hot-blooded music TUE that accompanied the antics thereupon! However the TUE manuscript of Richard Strauss' most popular opera is more TUE about extraordinary precision and detail than passionate TUE abandon. TUE The huge volumes held by the Austrian National Library were TUE actually a part payment for a Viennese house Strauss was in TUE the process of acquiring but their appeal to one of the TUE world's leading Strauss conductors, Simone Young is the TUE discipline and imagination of the score's contents. Also TUE joining Frances Fyfield to see this huge work is the TUE Viennese Baritone Clemens Unterreiner who, as the elderly TUE Faninal finds himself performing the part of a character who TUE comes from the same area of the city has he does. TUE The opera is perhaps most famous for its three central TUE female characters, the Marschallin, her lover Octavian, TUE usually sung by a Mezzo-soprano, and Sophie who eventually TUE tears Octavian away from his initial relationship. Simone's TUE Young's insights into this triangle and how Strauss evokes TUE it in the score in some of the most visceral romantic music TUE of the 20th century is a highlight of this quintessentially TUE Viennese edition of Tales from the Stave. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0532fdc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b05374w9 (Listen) TUE 24 February 1915 - Phyllis Marshall TUE TUE Phyllis readies herself for a particularly difficult TUE meeting. TUE TUE Written by Melissa Murray TUE Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Phyllis: Christine Absalom TUE Adeline: Anastasia Hille TUE Nurse Wedger: Amaka Okafor TUE Reynolds: Neil Grainger TUE Dr Stratham: Sam Dale TUE Workman: Gerard McDermott TUE Writer: Melissa Murray TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05375kv (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0532fdf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05375kx (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers b05375kz (Listen) TUE Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, brings TUE to life the numbers conveying the big trends that have TUE transformed the shape and scope of the British state. TUE TUE He looks at what governments through the centuries have TUE spent, borrowed, taxed, regulated and built; and he TUE considers how we came to organise a national life that TUE reaches into every corner of private life, from the delivery TUE of pensions and healthcare to the surveillance of emails or TUE rules about the temperature of a hot cup of tea. TUE TUE By one measure, the modern British state is roughly 7,000 TUE times bigger than the Tudor state. How and why did that TUE happen? TUE TUE The story of the state unfolds through muddy fields, TUE smugglers coves and a Victorian village lock-up. Numbers TUE become sound as we hear the dramatic scale of change that TUE has occurred over the centuries. TUE TUE The evolution of the state may be driven less by party TUE politics than party politicians might like us to think. TUE Although the state's size and functions are a natural TUE subject of fierce political argument, the impetus for the TUE biggest changes has often come from another source - such as TUE war, economic growth, and the power that arises from TUE knowledge. TUE TUE In programme seven, Andrew analyses the numbers around debt. TUE TUE Producer: Michael Blastland TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05372ss (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04bryz1 (Listen) TUE I'm a Believer TUE TUE Stephen Mangan stars in Jon Canter's irreverent comedy. TUE TUE When Simon meets God in his dreams, he's happy to tell Him TUE to His face that He doesn't exist. But that's before Simon TUE meets Birth, Death and a woman who thinks he's a vicar... TUE all on the same night. TUE TUE Directed by Jonquil Panting TUE TUE Jon Canter's deliciously dry dialogue, satirically TUE self-conscious characters, and real moments of pathos, make TUE his comedies as intelligent and sharp as they are gentle and TUE ineffably English. His comic novels include 'Seeds of TUE Greatness','A Short Gentleman' and 'Worth'. He wrote TUE 'Afterliff' with John Lloyd, and helped Rev. Adam Smallbone TUE edit 'The Rev Diaries'. He has written for Lenny Henry, Dawn TUE French, Angus Deayton, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, TUE Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, co-wrote 'Posh Nosh' with TUE Arabella Weir, and 'Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful' with TUE Guy Jenkin. Other writing credits include 'The Two Ronnies', TUE 'Not The Nine O Clock News', 'Mr Bean', 'Alas Smith & TUE Jones', and 'Murder Most Horrid'. Hugh Bonneville starred in TUE BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of 'A Short Gentleman' by Robin TUE Brooks, Stephen Fry starred in 'I Love Stephen Fry', and TUE 'Believe It!', starring Richard Wilson, won the BBC Audio TUE Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Simon: Stephen Mangan TUE God: Colin McFarlane TUE Jane: Claudie Blakley TUE Mary: Pauline McLynn TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Writer: Jon Canter TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b05375l1 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor hosts the programme in which history and TUE historians meet. TUE TUE This week, Tom Holland is hot on the trail of missing TUE frescoes which shed light on Birmingham's artistic heritage TUE and its place at the centre of civic politics before the TUE First World War, and Dr Sam Willis heads for Shrewsbury to TUE explore the history of our 18th century flying men. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05375l3 (Listen) TUE Bristol: Green Capital? TUE TUE Bristol has been named as Europe's Green Capital for 2015. TUE Tom Heap finds out if local people will see real TUE improvements in their city. TUE TUE Trapeze artists and a high wire act on a bicycle, spanning TUE two former warehouses, heralded the start of Bristol's Year TUE as European Green Capital for 2015. The award is a few years TUE old now and goes to a city with outstanding green TUE credentials and ambitions. TUE TUE So how is Bristol shaping up for it's year in the big green TUE spotlight? TUE TUE A year ago Costing The Earth asked what the award meant, and TUE how it would impact and improve the lives of Bristolians TUE along with those living around the city. TUE TUE Now the award is here, so Tom Heap investigates whether TUE there is substance beyond the stunts, gimmicks and planned TUE festivals: are there radical plans afoot to put the TUE environment in the forefront of Bristolians' minds? TUE TUE Solar Panels are appearing on roofs of council buildings TUE across the city, projects and grants encouraging residents TUE to insulate their homes are in full swing. Wildlife TUE corridors are springing up, provision and distribution of TUE sustainable food is gathering pace. There's an education TUE programme featuring Shaun The Sheep for school children, TUE piloting in Bristol and available nationwide from September TUE but the city cannot ignore it's major problem: the traffic. TUE TUE Bristol has some of the worst congestion in the UK, and with TUE that congestion comes poor air quality, and this ultimately TUE costs lives. TUE TUE Costing The Earth asks if Bristol's traffic conundrums are TUE solveable and if, after being green capital for a year, the TUE number of deaths in the city caused as a direct result of TUE air pollution, will fall. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b05375ly (Listen) TUE A Day in the Life of a Magistrate TUE TUE Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b053761s (Listen) TUE Josie Long and Romesh Ranganathan TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books, including Yann TUE Martel's Booker Prize winner Life of Pi, with Josie Long and TUE Romesh Ranganathan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Josie Long TUE Interviewed Guest: Romesh Ranganathan TUE TUE 17:00 PM b053761v (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0532fdh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b0480352 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Nominated for Best Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama Awards TUE 2015, Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' is a comedy sketch TUE show written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd, TUE stars of Radio 4's Showstoppers. TUE TUE This week a pair of American tourists visit St Paul's TUE cathedral to confess their sins; there's an unexpected TUE rendezvous at the train station waiting for the 4:18 to TUE Hatfield; and a student council meeting unearths some dark TUE secrets. TUE TUE Written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd TUE TUE Supporting cast: Adam Meggido and Oliver Senton TUE TUE Script Editor: Jon Hunter TUE TUE Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Ruth Bratt TUE Performer: Lucy Trodd TUE Actor: Adam Meggido TUE Actor: Oliver Senton TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Writer: Ruth Bratt TUE Writer: Lucy Trodd TUE Composer: Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b053761x (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b053761z (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0537498 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b0537662 (Listen) TUE With a growing number of compensation claims arising from TUE cases of historic sexual abuse and more recent high profile TUE cases of sexual grooming, Tim Whewell investigates the key TUE role which insurance companies play. In representing the TUE local authorities where scandals occurred, insurers TUE naturally seek to limit liability but are they doing so at a TUE cost to victims? Lawyers say they have to battle to get TUE access to files and other information - causing further TUE distress and delaying help for those damaged by abuse. Some TUE say the fight is getting harder as insurance companies have TUE toughened their approach in recent years. And, with a TUE national inquiry into historic cases of child sex abuse, how TUE much influence did insurance companies have on the way some TUE past investigations were carried out? File on 4 talks to TUE senior local authority insiders who say they were told to TUE alter their approach to abuse investigations to protect the TUE insurers' interests. But was that at the expense of children TUE at risk? TUE Reporter: Tim Whewell Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0537664 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b0537666 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b0537490 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0532fdk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05372sz (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0537668 (Listen) TUE In Certain Circles, 'No-one knows me' TUE TUE Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth TUE Harrower's novel was written in 1971 and is published for TUE the first time now. TUE This tale of love, class and freedom, set set among the TUE grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after TUE WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell Howard. TUE Charismatic and confident, the children of affluent and TUE loving parents, they welcome into their circle two orphans, TUE Stephen and Anna. It is a meeting that will resonate for TUE decades. TUE Today: while Anna remains defiantly single, Zoe regrets her TUE own defiance in marrying Stephen. TUE Author: Elizabeth Harrower TUE Reader: Penny Downie TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Penny Downie TUE Author: Elizabeth Harrower TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b053721m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b053766b (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0532ffd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0537494 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0532ffg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0532ffj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0532ffl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0532ffn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b054h5kw (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Dr Janet Wootton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05376y9 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bickerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c3r (Listen) WED Sanderling 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 David Attenborough presents the sanderling. Twinkling along WED the tideline, so fast that their legs are a blur, WED sanderlings are small waders. It's the speed with which they WED dodge incoming waves that catches your attention as they run WED after the retreating waters and frantically probe the sand. WED WED Sanderling (Calidris alba) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). WED WED 06:00 Today b0537718 (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 b053771b (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b053771d (Listen) WED Shop Girl, Episode 3 WED WED Mary Portas reads her moving and hilarious memoir of her WED early years. WED WED Mary's family is reeling from the death of her mother - the WED core of their busy, chaotic, happy household. Her unexpected WED loss has sent them spinning in different directions, each WED lost in their own grief. WED WED Her dad has crumpled and Mary knows she must be the one to WED stop everyone falling into the chasm which has opened in the WED family. So she juggles A-Levels and RADA auditions with WED cleaning and comforting her teenage brother. WED WED Will her new responsibilities leave any room for her own WED theatrical aspirations? WED WED Read by the author WED Abridged by Jo Coombs WED WED Produced by Hannah Marshall WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Mary Portas WED Author: Mary Portas WED Abridger: Jo Coombs WED Producer: Hannah Marshall WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b053771g (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:40 15 Minute Drama b053771j (Listen) WED The Henry Experiment, Episode 3 WED WED A mother (Emma Fielding) fears that a child parenting expert WED (Matthew Marsh) is endangering his own 7 year old son Henry WED by testing out his theories of early independence on him. WED WED Professor Henderson is becoming increasingly angry with WED Anna's interference with his parenting and Anna's own mother WED and grown up daughter make her question her own parenting. WED WED A thriller which asks whether our society bubble wraps WED children, whether we have the right to interfere in other WED people's children's lives and how we become parents with the WED spectres of our own childhoods still looming over our WED shoulders. WED WED Based on a novel by the journalist Sophie Radice who WED contributes to The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent WED and many magazines. Adapted for radio by award winning WED writer Charlotte Jones who has written extensively for TV, WED theatre and radio. Her most celebrated play "Humble Boy has WED played all over the world, she wrote the book for Andrew WED Lloyd Webber's stage musical of "The Woman in White" and WED most recently ITV aired her three part thriller "Without WED you". WED WED Producer ... Liz Webb. WED WED Credits WED Anna: Emma Fielding WED Henderson: Matthew Marsh WED Mother: Elaine Claxton WED Natasha: Roslyn Hill WED Ruth: Jane Slavin WED Writer: Sophie Radice WED Adaptor: Charlotte Jones WED Producer: Liz Webb WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04gcfmn (Listen) WED Fiona and Natalie - A Very Special Bond WED WED Fi Glover introduces an adoptive mother talking about her WED son with the mother who gave birth to him; their mutual love WED for him shines through. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. WED WED 11:00 Recycled Radio b053bq4j (Listen) WED Series 3, Recycled: Work WED WED Gerald Scarfe introduces the subject of work. Featuring WED Norman Tebbit, John Prescott, Martin Luther and Dick WED Whittington. Is hard work the route to true happiness? WED WED 11:30 Boswell's Lives b053bq4l (Listen) WED Boswell's Life of Freud WED WED by Jon Canter WED WED Comedy as James Boswell Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer WED pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he attempts to WED write a biography of Sigmund Freud but finds it is Freud who WED is asking all the questions. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Other celebrities that have their lives penned by James WED Boswell will include - Maria Callas (Arabella Weir), Harold WED Pinter (Harry Enfield) and Boris Johnson (Alistair McGowan). WED WED Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both WED television and radio. He recently penned the radio series WED 'Believe It' starring Richard Wilson but his work goes back WED to Spitting Image. He is also the author of several books WED and has been called our greatest living comic novelist. WED WED Miles Jupp is an actor and stand up. He is best known for WED playing Nigel in the series 'Rev' and is a regular WED contributor to R4 panel games and 'Have I Got News For You' WED on BBC1. In March he will open in a new play at the National WED Theatre: 'Rules For Living'. WED WED Henry Goodman has recently been seen as Sir Humphrey Appleby WED in the stage version of Yes Minister and Arturo Ui. Films WED include 'The Damned United', The Life and Death of Peter WED Sellars' and 'Notting Hill'. WED WED Credits WED James Boswell: Miles Jupp WED Sigmund Freud: Henry Goodman WED Writer: Jon Canter WED Director: Sally Avens WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0532ffq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b053bq4n (Listen) WED 25 February 1915 - Johnnie Marshall WED WED A pretty visitor turns heads at Marshalls factory. WED WED Written by: Melissa Murray WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready WED Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont WED Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman WED Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Martha: Chelsea Halfpenny WED Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner WED Writer: Melissa Murray WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b053bq4q (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0532ffs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b053bq4s (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers b053bq4v (Listen) WED Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, brings WED to life the numbers conveying the big trends that have WED transformed the shape and scope of the British state. WED WED He looks at what governments through the centuries have WED spent, borrowed, taxed, regulated and built; and he WED considers how we came to organise a national life that WED reaches into every corner of private life, from the delivery WED of pensions and healthcare to the surveillance of emails or WED rules about the temperature of a hot cup of tea. WED WED By one measure, the modern British state is roughly 7,000 WED times bigger than the Tudor state. How and why did that WED happen? WED WED The story of the state unfolds through muddy fields, WED smugglers coves and a Victorian village lock-up. Numbers WED become sound as we hear the dramatic scale of change that WED has occurred over the centuries. WED WED The evolution of the state may be driven less by party WED politics than party politicians might like us to think. WED Although the state's size and functions are a natural WED subject of fierce political argument, the impetus for the WED biggest changes has often come from another source - such as WED war, economic growth, and the power that arises from WED knowledge. WED WED Producer: Michael Blastland WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b053761x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04980dx (Listen) WED Come to Grief WED WED A first radio play by Hannah Vincent. WED WED Sylvia (Claire Rushbrook) is in hospital suffering from WED memory loss. She cannot remember anything about her life. WED The treatment she is undergoing is radical - she is WED suspended above the floor, hanging by her neck. Medical WED staff assure her that this way 'everything will fall into WED place'. WED WED As she hangs, Sylvia is visited by a series of figures, WED including her husband (Philip Jackson), her daughter WED (Emerald O'Hanrahan) and a man (Carl Prekopp), calling WED himself her friend, whom she cannot recognize. WED WED But are these people real or phantoms? It soon becomes WED apparent that part of the space of the play is Sylvia's WED unconscious, the land of her memory. As she comes to WED understand this, she slowly starts to remember the appalling WED events that have occurred.... WED WED Original Music: David Chilton WED Directed and produced by Gordon House WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Sylvia: Claire Rushbrook WED Don: Philip Jackson WED Neil: Carl Prekopp WED Sophie: Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Consultant: Ian Masters WED Nurse: Claire Wilson WED Director: Gordon House WED Producer: Gordon House WED Writer: Hannah Vincent WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b053bq4x (Listen) WED Paying for Long-Term Care WED WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b0537666 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b053bq4z (Listen) WED Romanian Economic Migrants in London - The British in South WED Africa WED WED Migration: the complexities of transnational movement, WED identity and belonging. Laurie Taylor explores migration in WED contrasting contexts. He talks to Daniel Briggs, Professor WED of Criminology at the Universidad Europea, Madrid, about his WED study of Romanian economic migrants in Britain. Leaving WED behind the debt and corruption of their home in life in the WED hope of finding something better, what kinds of lives do WED they end up living in the UK? Also, Daniel Conway, Lecturer WED in Politics & International Studies at the Open University, WED discusses his research into the lives, histories and WED identities of white British-born immigrants in South Africa, WED twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took WED office. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Daniel Briggs WED WED Professor in Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, WED Universidad Europea WED WED Find our more about Dr WED Daniel Briggs WED WED *Culture and immigration in context: An ethnography of WED Romanian migrant workers in London WED *Daniel Briggs, Dorina Dobre (Authors) WED Publisher: Palgrave Pivot UK WED ISBN-10: 1137380608 WED ISBN-13: 978-1137380609 WED WED Daniel Conway WED WED Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, Open WED University WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Daniel Conway WED WED *Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British WED in South Africa WED *Daniel Conway, Pauline Leonard WED Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan WED ISBN-10: 023034657X WED ISBN-13: 978-0230346574 WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b053bq51 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b053bq53 (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0532ffv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b053bq55 (Listen) WED Series 10, Reece Shearsmith talks to Bob Mortimer WED WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED WED In the second episode of the series co-creator and star of WED The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No.9 Reece WED Shearsmith talks to one half of comedy double-act Vic & Bob, WED creators of Shooting Stars and House of Fools, Bob Mortimer. WED WED Producer ... Charlie Perkins. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b053bq57 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b053bq59 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b053771j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b053bq5c (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Michael WED Portillo and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b053bq5f (Listen) WED James Runcie WED WED Our series begins with the writer and director James Runcie WED who looks at the Passion through the prism of mystery drama. WED WED Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05375l3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b053771b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b053bq5h (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b053bq5k (Listen) WED In Certain Circles, 'It harmed him' WED WED Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth WED Harrower's novel was written in 1971 and is published for WED the first time now. WED This tale of love, class and freedom, set set among the WED grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after WED WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell Howard. WED Charismatic and confident, the children of affluent and WED loving parents, they welcome into their circle two orphans, WED Stephen and Anna. It is a meeting that will resonate for WED decades. WED Today: Zoe realises that not everyone can bear to be loved. WED Author: Elizabeth Harrower WED Reader: Penny Downie WED Abridger: Sally Marmion. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Penny Downie WED Author: Elizabeth Harrower WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 23:00 Irish Micks and Legends b053bq5m (Listen) WED Series 2, Cuchulainn and the Hound WED WED Aisling Bea (British Comedy Award Winner 2014) and Yasmine WED Akram (Sherlock) return with a second series, offering their WED unique take on Ireland's ancient stories. WED WED Irish Micks and Legends is comedic, highly irreverent WED storytelling of ancient Irish folklore. Still the very best WED pals, Aisling and Yasmine take their role explaining Irish WED legends to the British nation very seriously indeed. That WED said, it would appear that they haven't had the time to do WED much research, work out who is doing which parts, edit out WED the chat or learn how to work the sound desk. WED WED With a vast vault of fantastical myths, mixed with 21st WED century references to help you along, prepare for some very WED silly lessons in life, love and the crazy shenanigans of old WED Ireland and modern Irish. The first series was a Chortle WED Best Radio Comedy Nominee 2013. WED WED Episode Four: Cuchulainn and the hound WED Join Aisling and Yasmine to learn how the young Setanta WED became known as CuChulainn, the most famous of all the WED warriors in ancient Ireland because he played our national WED sport. WED WED Producer: Raymond Lau WED A Green Dragon Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b053bq5p (Listen) WED Series 3, Dating WED WED Tim Key is on a date. He's attempting to woo Anne White, WED while grappling with the concept of dating through the WED medium of his poetry. Musical accompaniment is provided by WED Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden and Ellie White WED WED Produced by James Robinson WED WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production WED WED The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning comedian returns for a WED third series of his Late Night Poetry Programme. Since WED series two Tim has been busy touring his latest acclaimed WED live show, Single White Slut, thrilling audiences at the Old WED Vic in Daniel Kitson's Tree, as well as filming movies such WED as Steve Coogan's Alpha Papa and Richard Ayoade's The WED Double. But now he's back on late night Radio 4 doing what WED he does best - attempting to recite poetry whilst tormenting WED his friend and musician, the equally brilliant Tom Basden. WED WED Praise for Tim Key WED WED "...You never know when Key will suddenly toss you a WED fantastic joke or startlingly well-constructed line." Radio WED Times WED WED "The show... has a kind of artistry and strange beauty that WED makes it unlike any other hour of stand-up you are likely to WED see." The Observer WED WED "In any other sphere apart from comedy, we'd probably class WED this way of looking at the world as certifiable. Here it WED feels like genius." The Telegraph. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Performer: Ellie White WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b053bq5r (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0532fgl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b053771d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0532fgn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0532fgq (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0532fgs (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0532fgv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b054h5m3 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Dr Janet Wootton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b053bsf5 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c63 (Listen) THU Snow Bunting 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 David Attenborough presents the snow bunting. The THU ornithologist and author, Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, THU described the snow bunting as 'possibly the most romantic THU and elusive bird in the British Isles'. When you disturb a THU flock of what seem to be brownish birds, they explode into a THU blizzard of white-winged buntings, calling softly as they THU swirl around the winter strandline. THU THU Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) THU Webpage image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com). THU THU 06:00 Today b053bsf7 (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 b053bsf9 (Listen) THU The Eunuch THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and THU significance of eunuchs, castrated men who played important THU roles in many civilisations, from ancient Greece to China THU and the Ottoman Empire. Typically employed as servants, THU eunuchs sometimes attained prominent positions in royal THU courts, and were of great cultural significance for THU centuries. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b053bsfc (Listen) THU Shop Girl, Episode 4 THU THU Mary Portas reads her moving and hilarious memoir of her THU early years. THU THU Ten months after her mother's sudden death, Mary's dad is THU finally beginning to emerge from his grief. At the Widows' THU and Widowers' Club, his brylcreemed hair and Night Fever THU dance moves prove attractive - soon he's bringing his new THU girlfriend Rebecca to meet the family. THU THU Mary has started a course in 'visual merchandising' at the THU local college, but she knows her future doesn't lie in THU anything as mundane as shops - she spends her nights at the THU Roxy in Soho listening to Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees, THU The Clash and The Jam, and craves drama and excitement. THU THU Then, one work experience at Harvey Nichols, she begins to THU see that shop windows can be as theatrical as any stage. THU They are a performance, a fantasy landscape where anything THU could be played out. THU THU But just as Mary starts to see a future for herself and an THU outlet for her talents, the foundations of her life are THU pulled from beneath her when her father announces his THU intention to sell the family home and move in with Rebecca. THU THU Read by the author THU Abridged by Jo Coombs THU THU Produced by Hannah Marshall THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Mary Portas THU Author: Mary Portas THU Abridger: Jo Coombs THU Producer: Hannah Marshall THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b053bsff (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b053bsfh (Listen) THU The Henry Experiment, Episode 4 THU THU A mother (Emma Fielding) fears that a child parenting expert THU (Matthew Marsh) is endangering his own 7 year old son Henry THU by testing out his theories of early independence on him. THU THU Anna felt sure that Professor Henderson's son Henry was THU being exposed to real danger. But Anna's mother seems to be THU taking Henderson's side and she is beginning to doubt THU herself. THU THU A thriller which asks whether our society bubble wraps THU children, whether we have the right to interfere in other THU people's children's lives and how we become parents with the THU spectres of our own childhoods still looming over our THU shoulders. THU THU Based on a novel by the journalist Sophie Radice who THU contributes to The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent THU and many magazines. Adapted for radio by award winning THU writer Charlotte Jones who has written extensively for TV, THU theatre and radio. Her most celebrated play "Humble Boy has THU played all over the world, she wrote the book for Andrew THU Lloyd Webber's stage musical of "The Woman in White" and THU most recently ITV aired her three part thriller "Without THU you". THU THU Producer ... Liz Webb. THU THU Credits THU Anna: Emma Fielding THU Henderson: Matthew Marsh THU Henry: Finn Monteath THU Mother: Elaine Claxton THU Man: Monty d'Inverno THU Writer: Sophie Radice THU Adaptor: Charlotte Jones THU Producer: Liz Webb THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b053bsfk (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Writing a New South Africa b053bsfm (Listen) THU Page and Stage THU THU A picture of South Africa now, as seen by a new generation THU of writers and poets. THU THU In the second programme of the series Johannesburg-based THU poet Thabiso Mohare looks at the challenges, tensions and THU solutions facing South African writers. He talks to THU publishers, writers and poets about the issue of a small THU book-reading culture being exacerbated by the high cost of THU books in the country, and looks at how the spoken word scene THU has grown in the past twenty years to provide an outlet for THU new voices. And he travels to the University of THU Stellenbosch, once the intellectual engine-room of THU apartheid, to talk to two poets who have managed to create a THU rare thing: spoken word sessions in a township that are THU attended by a truly diverse and mixed audience of poets and THU aspiring poets, where poetry in all of the eleven official THU languages of South Africa is welcomed. THU THU In a three part series, street poet 'Afurakan' Thabiso THU Mohare explores the major cities of Johannesburg and Cape THU Town, talking to 'Born Frees', writers of the freedom THU generation - those born under apartheid but whose adult THU years have been spent in a new democracy - and gaining THU insights from an older generation who only began to publish THU their work in the new democratic era. Thabiso looks at South THU Africa two decades after the fall of apartheid, through the THU themes writers are choosing to engage with in their work. THU These authors, poets and playwrights are exploring the past THU and present, from apartheid's legacy to political THU corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some are THU exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or THU looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write THU about after the end of the struggle. THU THU Thabiso talks to new voices who are just making their names, THU and those who are already established, addressing the THU problems they face, causes for optimism, and the way THU conditions and opportunities have changed for writers in the THU past two decades. He looks at what they feel to be their THU literary heritage, and who they take inspiration from in a THU culture still feeling the inequalities of the educational THU legacy of apartheid. Literacy issues for some and the lack THU of a culture of reading more widely mean that the market for THU books is small, and the road to the arts truly blossoming THU into normalcy in South Africa after the end of apartheid has THU been uneven and complex. Other outlets for storytelling too THU - poetry and spoken word events, plugging into older THU traditions - are supporting the flowering of a diversity of THU voices as hoped for when the political landscape changed so THU radically in 1994, with writers of all ethnicities pitching THU in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the range of voices now THU being heard and the picture they present. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0532fgx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b053bsfp (Listen) THU 26 February 1915 - Fraser Chadwick THU THU The rift between the Chadwick twins deepens. THU THU Written by Melissa Murray THU Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman THU Alan Lowther: David Seddon THU Clyde: Tom Mannion THU Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart THU Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan THU Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott THU Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone THU Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian THU Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner THU Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield THU Writer: Melissa Murray THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 Face the Facts b053bsfr (Listen) THU Inside St Patrick's THU THU A policy of broadening access to further education for a THU wider range of students has turned into a "free-for-all" THU with some colleges gaming the system to attract public THU funding. THU Presenter:John Waite THU Producer:Paul Waters THU Editor:Andrew Smith. THU THU 12:57 Weather b054vc1d (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b053bsft (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers b053bsfw (Listen) THU Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, brings THU to life the numbers conveying the big trends that have THU transformed the shape and scope of the British state. THU THU He looks at what governments through the centuries have THU spent, borrowed, taxed, regulated and built; and he THU considers how we came to organise a national life that THU reaches into every corner of private life, from the delivery THU of pensions and healthcare to the surveillance of emails or THU rules about the temperature of a hot cup of tea. THU THU By one measure, the modern British state is roughly 7,000 THU times bigger than the Tudor state. How and why did that THU happen? THU THU The story of the state unfolds through muddy fields, THU smugglers coves and a Victorian village lock-up. Numbers THU become sound as we hear the dramatic scale of change that THU has occurred over the centuries. THU THU The evolution of the state may be driven less by party THU politics than party politicians might like us to think. THU Although the state's size and functions are a natural THU subject of fierce political argument, the impetus for the THU biggest changes has often come from another source - such as THU war, economic growth, and the power that arises from THU knowledge. THU THU In programme nine, Andrew explores the numbers around THU building the state. THU THU Producer: Michael Blastland THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b053bq57 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b053bv5l (Listen) THU Scenes from a Crime THU THU A man with no memory finds himself outside a flat in a THU tenement block in Mumbai. With no idea of who he is or how THU he got there he tries, with the help of a street-child, to THU piece together fragments of his life. THU THU This thriller from writer/director John Dryden is set and THU recorded on the streets of Mumbai. THU THU John Dryden's production of The Seventh Test, based on the THU novel The Accidental Apprentice, has been short-listed for THU the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015 in both the Best Adaptation THU and Best Serial categories. His other work includes the THU original three-part drama series Severed Threads, The THU Reluctant Spy, A Tokyo Murder and Pandemic, which won the THU Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His THU dramatisation of Bleak House won a Sony Award for Best THU Drama. He recently won Best Drama Producer at the Radio THU Academy Production Awards 2014. THU THU Producer: Preetika Chawla THU Editor: Ayeesha Menon THU THU Written, Recorded and Directed by John Dryden THU A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Man: Vivek Madan THU Child: Faezeh Jalali THU Couple (Man): Siddharth Menon THU Couple (Woman): Shivani Tanksale THU Neighbour: Suhaas Ahuja THU Nita: Prerna Chawla THU Homeless Woman: Ayeesha Menon THU Buddy: Namit Das THU Producer: Preetika Chawla THU Director: John Dryden THU Writer: John Dryden THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b053bv5n (Listen) THU Series 29, Philip Marsden, Truro, Cornwall THU THU Clare Balding walks with the writer Philip Marsden from his THU home near the banks of the River Fal out to the Cornish THU coastal path. Clare and Philip discuss why we react so THU strongly to certain places and why layers of stories and THU meaning build up around particular features in the THU landscape. THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Philip Marsden THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0532g0c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0536938 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b053bv5q (Listen) THU The latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b053bxy1 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b053bxy3 (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0532fgz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Britain Versus the World b04xntwp (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU THU Episode FOUR: THU THU The fourth episode of the new comedy panel show - Britain THU Versus The World - that pits two British comedians against a THU team of comics from overseas to find out which side is THU superior. Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is THU the English comedian Joe Lycett while the captain of the THU Rest of the World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Canadian THU stand-up Celia Pacquola. The contest is overseen by Irishman THU Ed Byrne who does his very best to stay impartial. THU THU Host THU Ed Byrne THU THU Guests THU Hal Cruttenden THU Henning Wehn THU Joe Lycett THU Celia Pacquola THU THU Programme Associate Bill Matthews THU THU Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Ed Byrne THU Panellist: Hal Cruttenden THU Panellist: Henning Wehn THU Panellist: Joe Lycett THU Panellist: Celia Pacquola THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 19:00 The Archers b053bxy5 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b053bxy7 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b053bsfh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b05375ly (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b053bxy9 (Listen) THU Waiting in Line: The Business of Queuing THU THU Evan Davis presents the business discussion show. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b053bxy1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b053bsf9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b053bxyc (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b053bxyf (Listen) THU In Certain Circles, 'Something's happened to Anna' THU THU Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth THU Harrower's novel was written in 1971 and is published for THU the first time now. THU This tale of love, class and freedom, set set among the THU grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after THU WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell Howard. THU Charismatic and confident, the children of affluent and THU loving parents, they welcome into their circle two orphans, THU Stephen and Anna. It is a meeting that will resonate for THU decades. THU Today: the devastating fallout from the arrival of an THU unexpected letter. THU Author: Elizabeth Harrower THU Reader: Penny Downie THU Abridger: Sally Marmion. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Penny Downie THU Author: Elizabeth Harrower THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mdg8l (Listen) THU Series 2, Anidara THU THU by Bill Dare THU THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre THU adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in Anidara THU where Brian finds himself put out to stud. THU THU Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale THU Computer ..... Duncan Wisby THU Gem ..... Gerard McDermot THU Markl ..... Harry Livingstone THU Dorka ..... Vicki Pepperdine THU Liberator ..... Duncan Wisby THU Master ..... Patrick Brennan THU THU Producer ..... Steven Canny THU THU This is the second series of this satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and including, Duncan Wisby, Vicki THU Pepperdine, Lisa Dillon, Colin Hoult, Toby Longworth, Adrian THU Scarborough, Dan Tetsell, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Debra THU Stephenson, Colin Hoult, Nina Conti, Jo Bobin and Marcus THU Brigstocke. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b053bxyh (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0532fhx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b053bsfc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0532fhz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0532fj1 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0532fj3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0532fj5 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b054h5nn (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Dr Janet Wootton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b053bytp (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c8y (Listen) FRI Purple Sandpiper 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 David Attenborough presents the purple sandpiper. On winter FRI beaches, where waves break on seaweed-covered rocks, purple FRI sandpipers make their home. 'Purple' refers to the hint of a FRI purple sheen on their back feathers. They are well FRI camouflaged among the seaweed covered rocks and being FRI relatively quiet, compared to many waders, are easy to FRI overlook. FRI FRI Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) FRI Webpage images courtesy of Malcom Hunt (rspb-images.com). FRI FRI 06:00 Today b053c3nt (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 b0532g5t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b053c3nw (Listen) FRI Shop Girl, Episode 5 FRI FRI Mary Portas reads her moving and hilarious memoir of her FRI early years. FRI FRI Mary has finally found her calling as a window dresser at FRI Harrods. Under Berge, the Armenian Rudolf Nureyev/Freddie FRI Mercury look-alike who's known as Queen of the Store, she FRI learns to create windows which will make dreams become FRI reality and entice customers over the threshold into the FRI magic kingdom. FRI FRI She thrives in the frenetic, creative environment, but now FRI that her dad has sold the family home to move in with his FRI new wife, she's always desperate for money and lonely in her FRI tiny flat. FRI FRI Then, one night, her step mother turns up - with shocking FRI news. FRI FRI Read by the author FRI Abridged by Jo Coombs FRI FRI Produced by Hannah Marshall FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Mary Portas FRI Author: Mary Portas FRI Abridger: Jo Coombs FRI Producer: Hannah Marshall FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b053c3ny (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b053c3p0 (Listen) FRI The Henry Experiment, Episode 5 FRI FRI A mother (Emma Fielding) fears that a child parenting expert FRI (Matthew Marsh) is endangering his own 7 year old son Henry FRI by testing out his theories of early independence on him. FRI FRI Anna has been forced to question whether her own problems FRI with empty nest syndrome and with the way she was raised FRI have made her over-obsess about Professor Henderson's son. FRI But she finally meets Henry's mother Nancy and is horrified FRI to hear that Henderson and Henry are missing. FRI FRI A thriller which asks whether our society bubble wraps FRI children, whether we have the right to interfere in other FRI people's children's lives and how we become parents with the FRI spectres of our own childhoods still looming over our FRI shoulders. FRI FRI Based on a novel by the journalist Sophie Radice who FRI contributes to The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent FRI and many magazines. Adapted for radio by award winning FRI writer Charlotte Jones who has written extensively for TV, FRI theatre and radio. Her most celebrated play "Humble Boy has FRI played all over the world, she wrote the book for Andrew FRI Lloyd Webber's stage musical of "The Woman in White" and FRI most recently ITV aired her three part thriller "Without FRI you". FRI FRI Producer ... Liz Webb. FRI FRI Credits FRI Anna: Emma Fielding FRI Henderson: Matthew Marsh FRI Jason: Paul Heath FRI Nancy: Jane Slavin FRI Writer: Sophie Radice FRI Adaptor: Charlotte Jones FRI Producer: Liz Webb FRI FRI 11:00 Don't Log Off b053c3p2 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Staying Strong FRI FRI Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing FRI the real life dramas of strangers he randomly encounters. FRI FRI In the first programme in this new series, Alan hears FRI stories from people who have had to find the strength to FRI deal with difficult situations and make tough choices. FRI FRI Speaking out for the first time, a girl in trouble with her FRI education tells Alan how her sponsor offered her a repulsive FRI choice. A New York lawyer fights to get back to work after a FRI horrific attack and a Syrian student leaves his family in FRI the hope of rebuilding his country. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Bowen. FRI FRI 11:30 Cleaning Up b053c3p4 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Every night, as time is called and people are spat out onto FRI the streets and squeezed into rides home to dream -tossed FRI beds - others are hard at work. Teams of cleaners are in FRI office spaces scrubbing, vacuuming and cleaning up. And FRI right at the bottom of the food chain we find our gang - FRI Spit n' Polish tackling the floors of a plush tower block in FRI Manchester city centre. FRI Written by Ian Kershaw and with a top hole Northern cast FRI this is a funny, sometimes dark comedy about people who FRI always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.This four part FRI series is about a group of people who are thrown together by FRI their work and who take as much solace as they can from FRI this. FRI FRI Episode One. FRI They say there's someone for everyone, has Shiv found true FRI love? FRI FRI Written by Ian Kershaw FRI Produced in Salford by Alison Vernon-Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Julie: Julie Hesmondhalgh FRI Nobby: Paul Barber FRI Dave: John Thomson FRI Shiv: Lauren Socha FRI Nita: Bhavna Limbachia FRI Our Bri: Jack Dean FRI Writer: Ian Kershaw FRI Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0532fj7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b053c3p6 (Listen) FRI 27 February 1915 - Robert O'Leary FRI FRI Robert's careful equilibrium is shaken. FRI FRI Written by Melissa Murray FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Robert O'Leary: Deka Walmsley FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Landlord: Neil Grainger FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Man 1: Simon Harrison FRI Man 2: David Seddon FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Writer: Melissa Murray FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b053c3p8 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0532fj9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b053c3pb (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 A History of Britain in Numbers b053c3pd (Listen) FRI Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, brings FRI to life the numbers conveying the big trends that have FRI transformed the shape and scope of the British state. FRI FRI He looks at what governments through the centuries have FRI spent, borrowed, taxed, regulated and built; and he FRI considers how we came to organise a national life that FRI reaches into every corner of private life, from the delivery FRI of pensions and healthcare to the surveillance of emails or FRI rules about the temperature of a hot cup of tea. FRI FRI By one measure, the modern British state is roughly 7,000 FRI times bigger than the Tudor state. How and why did that FRI happen? FRI FRI The story of the state unfolds through muddy fields, FRI smugglers coves and a Victorian village lock-up. Numbers FRI become sound as we hear the dramatic scale of change that FRI has occurred over the centuries. FRI FRI The evolution of the state may be driven less by party FRI politics than party politicians might like us to think. FRI Although the state's size and functions are a natural FRI subject of fierce political argument, the impetus for the FRI biggest changes has often come from another source - such as FRI war, economic growth, and the power that arises from FRI knowledge. FRI FRI In the final programme of the series, Andrew turns his FRI attention to enfranchisement. FRI FRI Producer: Michael Blastland FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b053bxy5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b053c3pg (Listen) FRI The Road to Bani Walid FRI FRI by Dr Saleyha Ahsan FRI FRI Why do British citizens volunteer for action in far away FRI countries which they don't know? FRI FRI In the autumn of 2011, amid the wave of popular action which FRI unseated regimes across the Middle East and North Africa, FRI emergency medicine registrar Dr Saleyha Ahsan got herself FRI into Libya, and set off for the front line - to the battle FRI of Bani Walid. FRI FRI This is the story of her journey to confront the reality of FRI revolution - and of her own reasons for being there. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI Credits FRI Saleyha: Maryam Hamidi FRI Riad: Noof Ousellam FRI Waleed: Tariq Jordan FRI Aisha: Amira Ghazalla FRI fahad: Peter Singh FRI Arif: Waleed Elgadi FRI Husam: Amir El-Masry FRI Writer: Saleyha Ahsan FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b053c3pj (Listen) FRI Preston FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs this week's episode from Preston. Bob FRI Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank answer the FRI audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Sitters' Stories b053c3pl (Listen) FRI Portrait of Elizabeth FRI FRI Captured in a moment in time with faces forever staring at FRI them and fingers ever pointing, the sitters from some FRI well-known paintings get a chance to escape from the canvas, FRI set the story straight or tell us their particular version FRI of the story behind the image. FRI FRI Painting: Portrait of Elizabeth Bridges Austen (1773-1808), FRI housed at the Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton FRI FRI http://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/ FRI FRI Elizabeth Bridges Austen was the daughter of a baronet, Sir FRI Brook Bridges of Goodnestone Park, near Sandwich in Kent. In FRI December 1791 she married Edward Austen, elder brother of FRI the celebrated novelist Jane Austen. Between 1793 and 1808, FRI Elizabeth bore eleven children, and was not infrequently FRI assisted in their care and education by her sisters-in-law, FRI Jane and Cassandra. FRI FRI Elizabeth died suddenly, on 10 October 1808, less than a FRI fortnight after the birth of her eleventh child. Her FRI illness, thought at the time to be no more than the FRI "Godmersham cold' then afflicting the family, was later FRI discovered to be puerperal fever. Shortly after her death, FRI Edward belatedly offered a cottage on one of his estates to FRI his mother and sisters, ending their peripatetic existence FRI since the retirement in 1801 of the Rev. George Austen, and FRI his death in1805. They chose Chawton Cottage, now the Jane FRI Austen House Museum at Chawton, where Jane Austen spent her FRI final years, perhaps the most creative of her life. It is in FRI this house that the portrait of Elizabeth hangs today. FRI FRI Sophia Hillan situates her story during this final illness, FRI as Elizabeth, unaware of its severity, rails at the thought FRI of having her sister-in-law Jane attend her. But just what FRI has made Elizabeth so angry with Jane? FRI FRI Writer ... Sophia Hillan FRI Reader ..... Laura Carmichael FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Sophia Hillan FRI Reader: Laura Carmichael FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b053c3pn (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b053c3pq (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04gch3g (Listen) FRI Jimmy and Andy - The Impact of Abuse FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two men who suffered sexual abuse from FRI the same perpetrator in their teens, but only met when they FRI gave evidence at the trial where he was convicted, as they FRI try to come to terms with the painful aftermath. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b053c3pv (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0532fjc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b053c3px (Listen) FRI Series 86, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, who is joined by Andy Hamilton, Sara Pascoe and FRI Hugo Rifkind, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Andy Hamilton FRI Panellist: Sara Pascoe FRI Panellist: Hugo Rifkind FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b053c3pz (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Paul Brodrick FRI Director ..... Marina Caldarone FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b053c3q1 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b053c3p0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b053c3q3 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby hosts political debate from the Wills FRI Memorial Building at Bristol University. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b053c3q5 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b053c3q7 (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 23-27 February 1915 FRI FRI Lunatic asylums were being commandeered by the government FRI for use as military hospitals and Robert's careful FRI equilibrium is shaken. FRI FRI Written by Melissa Murray FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Gladys Lowther: Elaine Claxton FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Arnold Reynolds: Neil Grainger FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Dr Stratham: Sam Dale FRI Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian FRI Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor FRI Andrew Williams: Neil Grainger FRI Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield FRI Beth: Hannah Wood FRI Telegram: Shaun Mason FRI Workman: Gerard McDermott FRI Martha: Chelsea Halfpenny FRI Clyde: Tom Mannion FRI Landlord: Neil Grainger FRI Man: Simon Harrison FRI Writer: Melissa Murray FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0532fjf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05440rw (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b053c3q9 (Listen) FRI In Certain Circles, 'You must solve yourself' FRI FRI Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth FRI Harrower's novel was written in 1971 and is published for FRI the first time now. FRI This tale of love, class and freedom, set set among the FRI grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after FRI WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell Howard. FRI Charismatic and confident, the children of affluent and FRI loving parents, they welcome into their circle two orphans, FRI Stephen and Anna. It is a meeting that will resonate for FRI decades. FRI Today: endings and new beginnings, as Anna and Zoe realise FRI what love is. FRI Author: Elizabeth Harrower FRI Reader: Penny Downie FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Penny Downie FRI Author: Elizabeth Harrower FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b053761s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b053c3qc (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04g8q57 (Listen) FRI Elsie and Netta - Home Is Where the Heart Is FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two Jamaican-born women who both FRI settled in Cardiff after the war and now reflect on their FRI lives here and what they miss from Jamaica. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
20 February, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 21/02/2015 - 27/02/2015
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