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SAT SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05pkm3d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05qt8j8 (Listen) SAT The Story of Alice, Episode 5 SAT SAT Where did Alice stop and 'Alice' begin? SAT SAT Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a shortcut for SAT all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by SAT artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. SAT SAT But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the SAT author and his subject. The story of Charles Dodgson the SAT quiet academic, and his second self Lewis Carroll - SAT storyteller, innovator and avid collector of child-friends. SAT And also of his dream-child Alice Liddell, and the fictional SAT alter ego that would never let her grow up. SAT SAT This is their secret history - one of love and loss, of SAT innocence and ambiguity, and of one man's need to make SAT Wonderland his refuge in a rapidly changing world. SAT SAT Drawing on previously unpublished material, Robert SAT Douglas-Fairhurst traces the creation and influence of the SAT Alice books against a shifting cultural landscape - the SAT birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood and SAT sexuality, and the tensions inherent in the transition SAT between the Victorian and modern worlds. SAT SAT Read by Simon Russell Beale SAT Produced by Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Simon Russell Beale SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT Writer: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05pkm3h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05pkm3k (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05pkm3m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05pkm3p (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05prrjg (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Andrew Martlew. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05prrjj (Listen) SAT 'I had to show the police my knife.' With information on the SAT unsolved murder of Elsie Frost, a man who lived close to the SAT murder scene comes forward with an unusual offer of help. SAT Presented by Eddie Mair. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05pkm3r (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05pkm3t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b05pqsl7 (Listen) SAT The Hoo Peninsula SAT SAT In the marshy landscape of the Hoo Peninsula you can find SAT much of British history. Saxon and Roman remains point to SAT mans first efforts to hold back the sea and use this land SAT for agriculture. The Churchyard in Cooling provides the SAT backdrop for one of Dickens best known works 'Great SAT Expectations'. In Cliffe you can find the remains of an SAT Edwardian explosives factory and at the RSPB reserve on SAT Northward Hill what is left of a radio station used in the SAT Second World War. Today the military history of the area SAT remains but at Lodge Hill the unused Ministry of Defence SAT site has now become home to a substantial nightingale SAT population. This is the great irony of The Hoo landscape, we SAT can clearly see the imprint of heavy industry at places like SAT Grain where we find essential power stations and SAT infrastructure yet it's isolation has also made this place SAT attractive to birds and rare wildlife. Helen Mark explores SAT this unique part of Kent and uncovers just some of the SAT stories which exist beside the container ports and farmland. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05q4zmc (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Seventeen year-old Cameron Hendry was always going to take SAT over the family farm - two-and-a-half thousand acres of SAT tough hill country in the Trossachs - but the sudden death SAT of his father, David, on Christmas Day last year has left SAT him in charge much sooner than he would have wanted. SAT Determined that he, his mother Marianne and brother Duncan SAT would not lose the farm as well as their husband and father, SAT he immediately decided to leave school and put his plans to SAT go to college on hold. Charlotte Smith talks to Cameron SAT about the family's grief for David and their determination SAT to keep the farm running and do him proud. Drawing enormous SAT strength from the support offered to them by the local SAT community, the family discuss the changes they have had to SAT make to the farm since David's death, their plans for the SAT future and their absolute conviction that losing him was bad SAT enough: they refuse to lose their farm as well. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05pkm3w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05q4zmf (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05q4zmh (Listen) SAT Zandra Rhodes SAT SAT Dame Zandra Rhodes is one of Britain's best-known fashion SAT designers, putting London at the forefront of the SAT international fashion scene in the 1970s. Her extensive list SAT of clients has included Princess Diana and Freddie Mercury. SAT Rhodes now lives with her partner, the 94 year old film SAT producer Salah Hassanein and former head of Warner Bros. In SAT 2003 Zandra founded The Fashion and Textile Museum, the only SAT museum in the UK solely dedicated to showcasing developments SAT in contemporary fashion, as well as providing inspiration, SAT support and training for those working in the industry. SAT Since 2000 Zandra's career has diversified into designing SAT sets and costumes for the opera. She first worked for San SAT Diego Opera, who invited her to do costumes for The Magic SAT Flute. After The Magic Flute, she was asked to design both SAT sets and costumes for Pittsburgh Bizet's Pearl Fishers in SAT 2004. Still the woman with the pink hair, Zandra joins SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles in the studio. SAT SAT Also in the studio is Chilly Gonzales, a classically trained SAT pianist from Montreal, Canada. He's a composer, and SAT self-proclaimed musical genius who has co-authored musicals; SAT pursued an alternative rock career; set a Guinness records SAT for longest-ever solo piano performance; tried his hand at SAT rapping, soft rock, and electronic music as a solo artist; SAT and collaborated with Daft Punk, Bjork and rapper Drake. He SAT has made a career out of bridging the gap between classical SAT and pop music. He lives in Cologne, Germany and has just SAT released his new album, Chambers. SAT SAT From music to mullets. Hairdresser extraordinaire Jon-Paul SAT Holt gave Kevin Keegan his curly perm, helped launch what SAT became Europe's biggest chain of hairdressing salons and SAT even sang in a band that played at The Cavern in the '60s. SAT After leaving Liverpool for Canada where he set up two SAT salons, he was awarded North American Hairdresser of the SAT year in 1996. He set up his Avant Garde Hair Studio, where SAT he has looked after the hair of film stars such as Meg Ryan SAT and rock star friends like Vancouver's own Bryan Adams. SAT SAT Mark Cockram is a book binder and has bound books for seven SAT Man-Booker prize award ceremonies. He was elected Fellow of SAT Designer Bookbinders in 2001 and Brother of the Art Workers SAT Guild in 2008. Member of the Society of Bookbinders and the SAT Tokyo Bookbinding Club. SAT After studying art and design at Lincolnshire College of SAT Art, Mark worked as a free lance artist and designer. He SAT discovered his passion for bookbinding and book arts whilst SAT working in Paris restoring Art Deco loos. SAT SAT Sharing his Inheritance Tracks this week is Academy Award SAT and Golden Globe nominee, Tom Conti. He inherits the SAT Scarlatti Sonata in G major played by Yuja Wang and is SAT passing on Piangerò la sorte mia sung by coloratura soprano SAT Simone Kermes (from Handel's Giulio Cesare) SAT Tom Conti is currently reprising his role in acclaimed SAT courtroom play Twelve Angry Men and is on tour from Monday SAT 13th April beginning in York. SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Zandra Rhodes SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Hollow Earth: A Travel Guide b05q4zmk (Listen) SAT Robin Ince takes us on a tour of a world beneath the earth's SAT crust, exploring the history of Hollow Earth theory through SAT literature, legend and scientific theory. SAT SAT Virtually every ancient culture, and most religions SAT worldwide, have shared a belief in some sort of mysterious SAT subterranean world, often inhabited by strange and powerful SAT creatures. To the Greeks and Romans it was Hades. To many SAT early Christians, Hell was conceived as a fiery pit deep in SAT the centre of the earth, a scene most elegantly depicted by SAT Dante in his Inferno. SAT SAT Hollow earth narratives have also inspired many great SAT fantasy and science fiction writers including Jules Verne, SAT Edgar Allan Poe and Tarzan creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. SAT SAT Robin Ince's tour of this world within a world, starts with SAT the obvious question of how to get into it. Is the entrance SAT at the North Pole, the South Pole or even in Newcastle? With SAT the help of his "tour guides", including the graphic SAT novelist Alan Moore, Robin gets advice on where to descend SAT and what he might see once he gets down there. Is this a SAT Dystopia full of desperate souls, or the Utopia imagined by SAT someone like the messianic 19th century physician Cyrus SAT Teed, who established a hollow earth cult in Florida and SAT whose ideas later went on briefly to inspire the Nazis. SAT SAT On his subterranean journey, Robin also meets a classicist, SAT a biblical scholar, and a literary critic. Together they SAT explore the physical aspects of this world and consider who SAT he might bump into. Will it be the three-headed dog SAT Cerberus, or the plesiosaurs and dinosaurs of Jules Verne? SAT Or is this voyage into the interior, actually just a journey SAT into the depths of our own minds? SAT SAT Producer: Philippa Goodrich SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Campaign Sidebar b05q4zmm (Listen) SAT A quirky, irreverent take on the twists and turns of the SAT election campaign, presented by Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05pkm3y (Listen) SAT Battles over Books and Statues SAT SAT History rears its head, not for the first time, in this SAT edition of From Our Own Correspondent. Attacks on SAT colonial-era statues in South Africa mean people there are SAT making a fresh assessment of their country's historical SAT legacy; while in the Far East, what's written in the text SAT books is the subject of a fierce row between South Korea and SAT Japan. A farewell may be bid to decades of hostility between SAT the US and Cuba - their leaders are in Panama and a historic SAT handshake is anticipated. Why do HIV rates remain so high in SAT Russia? We're out with health workers whose efforts seem SAT stymied by ideology and a sense that if it works in the SAT West, then it must be bad for Russia. And a correspondent in SAT Thailand tries to bid a temporary farewell to the torrid SAT world of journalism and goes to a monastery to hunt instead SAT for inner peace. He wasn't entirely successful. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05pkm40 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05q4zmp (Listen) SAT What will the Scottish National Party want to do with the SAT tax, benefits and pensions systems if they hold the balance SAT of power after the election in May? Money Box talks to SAT Stewart Hosie, depute leader of the SNP who speaks on SAT Treasury matters. Stewart is the second person in our series SAT of interviews with the people who would be Chancellor. The SAT Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls will be on the programme next SAT week. SAT SAT Can you claim on your insurance if the person cleaning your SAT home steals from your property? One Money Box listener found SAT her cleaner had taken £10,000 worth of jewellery but her SAT insurers, Churchill refused to pay out because the cleaner SAT had been let into her home willingly. The Ombudsman agreed SAT with Churchill's ruling. So what can you do to protect SAT yourself? SAT SAT One listener was surprised when her 19 year son received a SAT letter from a debt recovery company saying he owed British SAT Gas money. Her son, a student, had never held an account and SAT British Gas told her they hadn't instructed any debt company SAT to recover money. Money Box investigates. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b05prpcq (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 1 SAT SAT The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect SAT the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes SAT for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's SAT Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the SAT flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the SAT country. SAT SAT Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis SAT MacLeod, Debra Stephenson. SAT SAT Producer: Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Producer: Bill Dare SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05pkm42 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05pkm44 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05prq80 (Listen) SAT Political debate and discussion. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05q4zms (Listen) SAT Anita Anand takes listeners' calls and emails in response to SAT this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT Get in touch: SAT Call: 03700 100 444 (Calls will cost no more than calls to SAT 01 and 02 geographic landlines. Lines open Sat 12:30 - SAT 14:30). SAT Text: 84844 SAT Tweet: Follow us @BBCAnyQuestions or tweet using #bbcaq SAT Email: anyanswers@bbc.co.uk SAT SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT 14:30 Good Omens b04vjrjm (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT SAT Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of SAT Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making SAT their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower SAT Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, SAT Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the SAT corners of the earth and are assembling. SAT SAT Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton SAT Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some SAT unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, SAT descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to SAT decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly SAT where the impending Apocalypse will take place. SAT SAT Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; SAT everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. SAT Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and SAT a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the SAT forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden SAT of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), SAT and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around SAT London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on SAT Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of SAT the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place SAT they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring SAT about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. SAT SAT There's just one small problem: someone seems to have SAT mislaid him... SAT SAT With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is SAT the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil SAT Gaiman's Good Omens. SAT SAT Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs. SAT Produced by Heather Larmour. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Peter Serafinowicz SAT Actor: Mark Heap SAT Writer: Neil Gaiman SAT Writer: Terry Pratchett SAT Adaptor: Dirk Maggs SAT SAT 15:30 Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow b05pn3t6 (Listen) SAT A great singer and a great song. Marking the centenary of SAT Billie Holiday's birth, four living jazz musicians and her SAT biographer celebrate her extraordinary and dramatic life, SAT along with her legacy and achievements, through the prism of SAT one historic 12-bar blues. SAT SAT The song Fine and Mellow, which Billie Holiday wrote SAT herself, was recorded in 1957 with an all-star backing band SAT including her friends Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Vic SAT Dickenson, Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan. SAT SAT The programme is introduced by saxophonist Andy Sheppard, SAT and also features expert SAT commentaries from band leader Guy Barker, singers Cleo Laine SAT and Jacqui Dankworth, and Julia Blackburn, author of With SAT Billie. SAT SAT Producer: Tony Staveacre SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05q4zqf (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Clare Balding on the Boat Race; End of SAT a Relationship; Body Beautiful SAT SAT For the first time the Women's Boat Race will be rowed on SAT the same day and place as the men's. Clare Balding will be SAT discussing what it means for women's sport. Why are rock SAT hard abs and perfectly toned triceps seen as the perfect SAT body shape? Writer and classicist Natalie Haynes on why the SAT ancient Greeks were just as obsessed with the body beautiful SAT as we are today. How Jennifer Teege discovered by chance SAT that her grandfather was the Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth SAT and how she's come to terms with her inheritance. Two ballet SAT dancers tell us what it's like to cope with how pregnancy SAT changes their bodies and their ability to dance. Virginia SAT Ironside on the role of the 21st century grandmother and how SAT it's changed. When a relationship breaks down, how long is SAT it acceptable to mourn its end? SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Natalie Haynes SAT Interviewed Guest: Jennifer Teege SAT Interviewed Guest: Virginia Ironside SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Anne Peacock SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05q508v (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b05prrjj (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05pkm48 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05pkm4b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05pkm4d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05q5vbs (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Sara Cox, Noddy Holder, Jimmy Somerville, Enda SAT Walsh, Ron Sexsmith SAT SAT Nikki Bedi is joined by Sara Cox, Noddy Holder, Jimmy SAT Somerville and Enda Walsh for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation and comedy. With music from Jimmy Somerville SAT and Ron Sexsmith. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Enda Walsh SAT The Twits SAT is at the Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre until 31 May 2015. SAT SAT Noddy Holder SAT SAT ‘The World According to Noddy’ is published by Constable and SAT available now. SAT SAT Ron Sexsmith SAT SAT ‘Carousel One’ is available on Monday 6 April on Cooking SAT Vinyl. Ron is playing Art School, Glasgow on June 25, Volvo SAT Tyne Theatre on 26th and RNCM, Manchester on 27th. SAT Check Ron’s website for further dates SAT SAT Des Bishop SAT Stand Up For China is on Tuesday 14 April at 17:30 GMT+1 on SAT the BBC World Service and Des is performing at the Soho SAT Theatre, London on Saturday 11 April. SAT Check Des' website for further details SAT SAT Jimmy Somerville SAT SAT ‘Homage’ is available now on Cherry Red Records. SAT Jimmy's official website SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Sara Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: Jimmy Somerville SAT Interviewed Guest: Noddy Holder SAT Performer: Ron Sexsmith SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05q5vbv (Listen) SAT The Teletubbies SAT SAT We learned this week that Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent and SAT Fearne Cotton are to voice a new run of the hit children's SAT TV series Teletubbies. It's estimated that around a billion SAT children in over 120 countries have watched Teletubbies but SAT there have been no new episodes since 2001, and the imminent SAT return of Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po has made news SAT around the world. But who or what are the Teletubbies? And SAT why have they proved such an enduring cultural phenomenon? SAT SAT Presenter: Becky Milligan SAT Producers: Ben Crighton and Hannah Barnes. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05q5vbx (Listen) SAT Eric Ravilious, Force Majeure, Ice Rink on the Estate, After SAT Electra, Jesse Armstrong SAT SAT Eric Ravilious was one of the finest watercolourists that SAT the UK has ever produced. Born in 1903, he died in 1942 SAT while on duty as an official war artist. Does a new SAT exhibition of his work reveal his genius? SAT In Swedish film 'Force Majeure', an avalanche during a SAT family skiing holiday causes no physical damage but opens SAT fissures in the happy family structure SAT Olympic gold medallists Torvill & Dean have a new TV series: SAT 'Ice Rink On The Estate'. They attempt to turn a group of SAT kids from a deprived Nottingham housing estate are turned SAT into an ice dance troupe. SAT There are very few roles for older actresses, but in April SAT de Angelis' play 'After Electra', the main character is 81 SAT years. SAT The co-writer of Peep Show, Jesse Armstrong has written his SAT debut novel - Can a successful witty TV writer easily make SAT the transfer? SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05pw9tw (Listen) SAT The Meaning of Life According to AJ Ayer SAT SAT What was an English philosopher doing at a New York party, SAT saving the young model Naomi Campbell from a rather pushy SAT boxing heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson? The philosopher was SAT Alfred Jules Ayer, who was just as at home mixing with the SAT glitterati as he was with Oxford dons. On the one hand he SAT was an academic, on the other a celebrity and bon viveur. SAT SAT So what does this logician have to say about the meaning of SAT life? SAT SAT In 1988, a year before his death, he gave a lecture at the SAT Conway Hall in which he set out his notion of existence. By SAT this time, 'Freddie' Ayer was one of the UK's most prominent SAT public intellectuals, with regular television and radio SAT appearances, discussing the moral issues of the day. SAT SAT Ayer's former student at Oxford, philosopher AC Grayling, SAT remembers the tutor that became his friend. He explores the SAT man of contradictions - the atheist who almost recanted SAT after a near-death incident; the deep thinker with a SAT weakness for mistresses and Tottenham Hotspur. What was his SAT contribution to philosophy? How did it inform the way he SAT lived his life? What, if anything, can we learn from SAT Freddie's view on the big question? SAT SAT Producer: Dom Byrne SAT A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05pl647 (Listen) SAT A Fine Balance, Episode 3 SAT SAT Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about SAT India's underclass. SAT SAT Uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om have come to the city to SAT escape the caste violence in their native village. They SAT start working as tailors in the cramped flat of Dina, a SAT middle-aged Parsi widow. Maneck, a reluctant student from SAT the mountains, rents a room from Dina and the four strangers SAT form an unlikely bond against a backdrop of India in crisis SAT - during "the Emergency" of the mid-1970s, a period marked SAT by huge political unrest and human rights violations. SAT SAT A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human SAT spirit under inhuman conditions. SAT SAT Music: Sacha Putnam SAT Sound Design: Steve Bond SAT SAT Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel SAT by Rohinton Mistry SAT SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Director: John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dina: Shernaz Patel SAT Ishvar: Kenneth Desai SAT Om: Anand Tiwari SAT Maneck: Neil Bhoopalam SAT Rustom: Zafar Karachiwala SAT Ibrahim: Rajit Kapur SAT The Thakur: Jayant Kripalani SAT Ashraf: Darshan Jariwala SAT Nusswan: Farid Currim SAT Ruby: Anahita Uberoi SAT Narayan: Vivek Madan SAT Young Dina: Tirtha Kotrial SAT Young Ishvar: Eshan Savla SAT Young Narayan: Samar Uraizee SAT Ensemble: Jim Sarbh SAT Ensemble: Abhishek Saha SAT Ensemble: Meherangiz Acharya-Dar SAT Ensemble: Faezeh Jalali SAT Ensemble: Shivani Tanksale SAT Ensemble: Nadir Khan SAT Author: Rohinton Mistry SAT Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon SAT Adaptor: Kewel Karim SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Director: John Dryden SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05pkm4g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Human Zoo b05pnw2x (Listen) SAT Election Special SAT SAT A month before the general election, Michael Blastland SAT examines whether or not the way we vote can really be SAT changed, and asks if political persuasion is pointless. SAT SAT In a series of experiments run in the Human Zoo lab, the SAT team gauges how opinions are formed in members of the SAT public, and the extent to which psychological 'tricks' can SAT provoke a shift in mindset. SAT SAT How does a politician's physical appearance impact on how SAT their policies are perceived? Can the temperature of our lab SAT have an impact when our subjects debate evidence for SAT man-made global warming? Can opinion on an issue such as SAT crime be changed when the facts are presented? SAT SAT At the heart of the matter are our biases and judgements - SAT how we perceive the world and how rationally or irrationally SAT we behave. SAT SAT Michael is guided by Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural SAT Science at Warwick University, and resident reporter SAT Timandra Harkness sets out to discover how other countries SAT use behavioural science in an attempt to win elections. SAT SAT Produced by Dom Byrne and Eve Streeter SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b05pmrtm (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 3, 2015 SAT SAT (15/17) SAT The 2015 Brain of Britain tournament reaches the third SAT semi-final, with Russell Davies' questions encompassing SAT topics as diverse as 1980s TV theme music, the genetic code, SAT and the political history of Greece. SAT SAT The participants today have all come through the heats with SAT flying colours and will be hoping to take a coveted place in SAT the 2015 Final in two weeks' time. They hail from Bristol, SAT Buckinghamshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. SAT SAT As always, Russell will also be giving a listener the chance SAT to 'Beat the Brains' with ingenious questions of his or her SAT own devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT DIDIER BRUYERE, a scientist from Bristol SAT SAT DAVID GOOD, a software developer from High Wycombe SAT SAT DEREK HEYES, a retired schoolteacher from Horwich in SAT Lancashire SAT SAT DIANNE WHITEHEAD, a retired local government officer from SAT Kendal SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Blast of the Century b05pl64f (Listen) SAT Poet John Cooper Clarke explores the radical work and SAT philosophy of the Vorticists, an inflammatory but SAT short-lived artistic movement that dragged British art into SAT the modern world. SAT SAT In the summer of 1914, while Europe imploded, London's art SAT scene burst into life. The Vorticists had arrived - a SAT radical and iconoclastic art movement that wanted to destroy SAT the old and champion the modern. Lead by the pugnacious SAT genius Wyndham Lewis, they declared war on the Victorian SAT hangover which blighted British art. The classist nude and SAT the twee landscape were dead, they claimed, it was time for SAT art to reflect the beauty of the modern industrialised SAT world. SAT SAT The arrival of the Vorticists was announced by the Blast SAT manifesto, a bright pink sneering lament aimed firmly at the SAT art world. The manifesto contained extensive lists of the SAT things they loved ('Blessed') and hated ('Blasted'). SAT SAT The Vorticists brought more to London than just personal SAT attacks and vitriol. Their radical art was abstract, SAT embracing modernist cubist influences. Jacob Epstein's rock SAT drill was a seminal piece, a statue which integrated man and SAT machine in a warlike expression of power and virility. SAT SAT The Vorticists are not well known today. Just 33 days after SAT the manifesto was published, war was declared on Germany. SAT The resulting destruction overshadowed Blast's nonconformist SAT demands and the movement's radical energy could never be SAT rekindled. SAT SAT John Cooper Clarke relives Vorticism, the Edwardian youth SAT movement cut short by cataclysmic events. Speaking to young SAT artists, historians and a 94 year-old Princess, he shines a SAT light on one of the most radical chapters in modern British SAT art. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Graham SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 APRIL 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05q5w6v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Ballads of Thin Men b0113fws (Listen) SUN The Night Ride SUN SUN Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential SUN cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - SUN was 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin SUN Men were commissioned specially to mark the occasion. SUN SUN Written by Simone Felice SUN SUN The starting point for this story is the line from Bob SUN Dylan's 'Joey': 'Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of SUN who-knows-when.' When the lights in his apartment fuse SUN Adrian Young puts on a dress and takes to his bike to ride SUN the borough's streets on a wintry December night. SUN SUN Simone Felice is the author of two novellas, Goodbye, Amelia SUN and Hail Mary Full Of Holes, and numerous short stories, SUN poems and songs. He is a founding member of The Felice SUN Brothers and his new band The Duke & King's first album SUN 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' has been described as 'Neil Young SUN meets Marvin Gaye on the kind of record that cults are made SUN of.' His new novel, Black Jesus, publishes in April 2011. SUN Simone lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. SUN SUN Reader: Madeleine Potter SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05q5w6x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05q5w6z (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05q5w71 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05q5w73 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05q5y3n (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Bartholomew's Church in Sutton-cum-Lound, SUN Nottinghamshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b05q5vbv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b05q5w75 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b05q5y3q (Listen) SUN I Am SUN SUN John McCarthy is joined by Christian theologian Paula Gooder SUN to consider the phrase 'I Am' as a means of exploring and SUN asserting identity. They begin with God's assertion of His SUN name in Exodus chapter 3, 'I am that I am' and follow this SUN phrase into Jesus' I Am statements in the New Testament - I SUN Am the Bread of Life, I Am the Light of the World, and so SUN on. SUN SUN The programme then broadens out to consider Descartes use of SUN the phrase 'cogito ergo sum' and then John Clare's poem, I SUN Am. SUN SUN John McCarthy also explores the South African phrase Ubuntu SUN which translates as 'I am because we are' or 'I am what I am SUN because of who we all are'. And finally, he notes the recent SUN taking up of the I Am phrase in the slogan Je suis Charlie. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from works by Anne Holm, SUN Mary Oliver and James Weldon Johnson, as well as two poems SUN by Gregory Leadbetter and Sibyl Ruth, specially commissioned SUN for this programme by Writing West Midlands. There's music SUN by Chris Wood, Blind Gary Davis, Gounod and Ben Glover. SUN SUN Readers: Hayley Doherty and Fraser James SUN SUN Produced by Rosie Boulton SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Sunrise SUN SUN Poet: Mary Oliver SUN SUN Publication: Wild Geese SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Bible, Exodus Chapter 3 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Sum SUN SUN Writer: Gregory Leadbetter SUN SUN Publisher: Writing West Midlands SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man SUN SUN Writer: James Weldon Johnson SUN SUN Publisher: N/A SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: I Am David SUN SUN Writer: Anne Holm SUN SUN Publisher: Egmont publishing SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: With You SUN SUN Writer: Sibyl Ruth SUN SUN Publisher: Writing West Midlands SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b05q5y3s (Listen) SUN Bradfield Woods SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN In this first programme recorded in 1997, Lionel Kelleway is SUN joined by Britain's leading woodland historian, Oliver SUN Rackham, who died earlier this year. Lionel and Oliver visit SUN Bradfield Woods in Suffolk which since 1252 has been under SUN traditional woodland management. At the time of broadcast, SUN Oliver had regularly visited this unique woodland for over SUN 20 years. His understanding and knowledge guides Lionel to SUN parts of the wood which link us to the primeval wild wood of SUN Britain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05q5w77 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05q5w79 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05q5y3v (Listen) SUN 'Bring Back Our Girls', Anglican Schools Admissions, 'Gay SUN Conversion' SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05q5y3x (Listen) SUN The Who Cares? Trust SUN SUN Diane Louise Jordan presents The Radio 4 Appeal for The Who SUN Cares? Trust SUN Registered Charity No 1010518 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Who Cares? Trust' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to The Who Cares? Trust. SUN SUN The Who Cares? Trust SUN When a child is taken into care they have often experienced SUN terrible abuse and neglect. Once in care their life is SUN safer, but that’s not the end of the story. Some have a good SUN experience in care, others don’t. What they all share is SUN the need for extra support beyond what the care system SUN provides – and that’s where we come in. We help these SUN children heal, grow in self-belief and fulfil their dreams. SUN We offer friendship, emotional support and run workshops to SUN give them life skills they may have missed out on such as SUN cooking, money management and how to do a job application. SUN We provide a website for children in care and a magazine SUN that informs and inspires them. We’re about to launch an SUN advice service so we can support many more young people SUN having a tough time. Please help us to give children who SUN have come from the worst starts in life a second chance. SUN Their pasts have been sad - but their futures don’t have to SUN be. SUN SUN Word Power Project SUN SUN Many young people in care don’t get the help they need to SUN help them work through the legacy of childhood trauma. SUN That’s why we ran the Word Power project to help these SUN children express their feelings through creative writing. SUN SUN The Who Cares? Trust Family Project SUN SUN Care leavers can feel abandoned, struggle with confidence SUN and find living on their own difficult – practically and SUN emotionally. We run residential weekends for young care SUN leavers that give them a sense of community and peer SUN support, as well as helping them build inner resources of SUN strength and resilience. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05q5w7c (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05q5w7f (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05q5y3z (Listen) SUN On the Road to Emmaus SUN SUN Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir with Tracey Campbell and SUN Friends, and the Rev'd Lucy Winkett take a journey through SUN Gospel music from the resurrection to a point on the road SUN where they meet a stranger who shares with them bread and SUN wine. From St James's Church Piccadilly, London. Producer: SUN Rowan Morton-Gledhill. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05prq82 (Listen) SUN Life's a Selfie SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrccd (Listen) SUN Little Owl 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 Kate Humble presents the little owl. Little owls really are SUN little, about as long as a starling but much stockier with a SUN short tail and rounded wings. If you disturb one it will SUN bound off low over the ground before swinging up onto a SUN telegraph pole or gatepost where it bobs up and down, SUN glaring at you fiercely through large yellow and black eyes. SUN Today, you can hear the yelps of the birds and their musical SUN spring song across the fields and parks of much of England SUN and Wales. SUN SUN Little owl (Athene noctua) SUN Webpage image courtesy of Dale Sutton (rspb-images.com). SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05q5ynl (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 b05q5ynn (Listen) SUN Easter dawns on Lakey Hill, and Joe has got a problem. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Dan Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Heather Pritchard: Margaret Jackman SUN Sandhurst Officer: Peter Lindford SUN SUN 11:16 The Reunion b05q5ynq (Listen) SUN The Fastnet Race Disaster SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites five people who experienced the worst SUN disaster in the history of ocean racing - the Fastnet Race SUN of 1979. SUN SUN It was the race that every ocean going yachtsman aimed to SUN complete at least once in his life-time. A 600 mile course SUN through mercurial tides and dangerous headlands, the Fastnet SUN was the Grand National of ocean racing. In 1979, Former SUN Prime Minister Edward Heath and CNN founder Ted Turner were SUN among the 2,500 competitors. SUN SUN But as they made good progress around Land's End and up SUN towards the south coast of Ireland, the wind was changing. SUN Described as the storm of the century, Low Y was a SUN depression which swept across the Atlantic gathering force. SUN Fifty foot waves and winds of up to 60 knots took SUN forecasters by surprise and scattered the 300 plus yachts SUN taking part. SUN SUN Vessels from Holland, France, Ireland and Germany joined SUN British naval and RAF search teams and rescue crews scouring SUN the 20,000 square miles of ocean looking for yachts, SUN life-rafts and bodies. SUN SUN Unknown terror, selfless bravery and superhuman strength SUN saved most of them, but 15 people perished. SUN Joining Sue around the table to look back on the wildest and SUN most desperate night in ocean racing history are: Jerry SUN Grayson, the first helicopter pilot sent out to rescue the SUN stricken yachts; Alan Green of the Royal Ocean Yachting Club SUN which organised the race; Nick Ward whose crew-mates SUN abandoned their yacht in a life-raft without him; Christian SUN Schaumloffel who helped rescue Nick; and Stuart Quarrie who SUN was out in the storm with four terrified trainees. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05q5w7h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Dilemma b05pmrtt (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 1 SUN SUN Sue Perkins returns with a fourth series of the show that SUN puts the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel. SUN This week, it's the turn of comedians Sarah Millican and SUN John Robins, journalist Michael Deacon and former Blue Peter SUN presenter Janet Ellis, who discuss how to deal with sexist SUN wedding DJs, answer an audience question about coming out SUN for a second time, and pit themselves against the moral SUN clock in the Quickfire Round, where shades of gray are SUN discarded in favour of immediate, black-or-white responses. SUN Episode one of six. SUN SUN Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by SUN Danielle Ward. SUN SUN Presenter ... Sue Perkins SUN Guest ... Sarah Millican SUN Guest ... Michael Deacon SUN Guest ... Janet Ellis SUN Guest ... John Robins SUN Devised by ... Danielle Ward SUN Producer ... Ed Morrish. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sue Perkins SUN Panellist: Sarah Millican SUN Panellist: Michael Deacon SUN Panellist: Janet Ellis SUN Panellist: John Robins SUN Producer: Ed Morrish SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05q615r (Listen) SUN The Ark of Taste SUN SUN Dan Saladino meets the people working to save foods and SUN flavours at risk of extinction. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05q5w7k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05q615t (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Same Tune, Different Song b05mrptd (Listen) SUN In Same Tune, Different Song, composer Debbie Wiseman SUN explores the world of the song lyricist, providing a rare SUN window into an age-old industry. With the lyricist Don SUN Black, famed for many songs including Diamonds Are For Ever, SUN Born Free and Thunderball, and also the lyricist Gary SUN Osborne who has regularly collaborated with artists such as SUN Elton John, Cliff Richard and Alice Cooper, we delve into SUN the processes of collaboration between the composer and the SUN lyricist. SUN SUN Debbie begins this exploration by presenting a standard song SUN melody she has written especially for this programme, to SUN both lyricists. Don Black and Gary Osborne then work on this SUN brand new song totally independent of each other. What SUN follows is an opportunity to see how different lyricists SUN from differing backgrounds work, and what problems they SUN encounter along the way. During the programme there is also SUN an opportunity to hear the results from each lyricist, SUN including a performance by Mica Paris. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05prkhg (Listen) SUN Forest of Bowland SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the programme from the Forest of Bowland. SUN Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank answer SUN horticultural questions from the audience. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson visits Beth Chatto's garden in Essex to take SUN some inspiration for a new season. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Right plant, right place SUN Matthew Wilson meets Garden Director David Ward at The Beth SUN Chatto Gardens. SUN SUN This Week's Questions SUN Q. I was given a Gunnera cutting fifteen years ago. The SUN plant is now very large and threatening to knock over a SUN decorative fence. Can I split the roots and replant them? SUN A. Bob – It has an incredibly tough root system. You would SUN be best to excavate it with a digger and then chop it into SUN pieces with an axe. You can replant them just before growth SUN starts, probably in late autumn or winter. SUN Bunny – I would move the decorative fence rather than the SUN plant. SUN Q. I am looking for suggestions for a 2ft (0.6m) tall pot SUN that has a diameter of 14inches (36cm). It will sit beside a SUN north facing front door and I would like something with SUN colour all year round. SUN A. Anne – Corkscrew hazel adds architectural value all year SUN round and you can add something such as Primulas or Begonias SUN beneath. Once the leaves fall you have a lovely shape and SUN catkins. You could also try Phormium Alison Blackman. SUN Bunny – If the adjacent building isn’t too tall, you could SUN use Abutilon Ashford Red. SUN Bob – Place smaller plastic bulbs within the larger pot. You SUN can then have spring bulbs, then add a pot of bedding SUN plants, and from autumn add something like an Elaeagnus, SUN variegated Holly or an Aucuba. SUN Q. In Preston, are we too far north to grow Butternut squash SUN successfully? SUN A. Bob – They do require a lot of warmth. Marrows cope well SUN in colder conditions. Put down a back plastic sheet where SUN you are going to plant and suspend clear plastic above to SUN intensify the heat. Thin the number of fruits to produce a SUN larger crop. SUN Bunny - It is important to choose the right variety. You SUN could grow them on a straw bale by priming it for twelve SUN days and then planting directly into the bale. You could add SUN a cloche to the individual plants. SUN Anne – I grow the Harrier variety under glass in raised SUN beds. If you use several plants they will pollinate each SUN other. SUN Q. My tulips were very successful in first year but have SUN been disappointing ever since. What am I doing wrong? SUN A. Anne - Some tulips will naturalise in a draining soil, SUN but others just don’t. Replant them in wild areas where it SUN doesn’t matter too much if they don’t grow. For important SUN areas buy new bulbs each year. SUN Bob – You may have a problem with waterlogging. Use sandy, SUN gritty compost and make sure you keep feeding them. SUN Bunny – Tulips like to be planted in deep ground if they are SUN going to perform in consecutive years. SUN Q. My Loniceras always get mouldy leaves that drop off. What SUN is the cause? SUN A. Anne - They are getting mildew because of stress and SUN dryness. They do not grow well in pots because they are SUN naturally woodland plants. Try moving them into a more SUN spacious, cool position. SUN Bob – Check that you don’t have aphids. Aphids leave SUN honeydew on the leaf, which turns to a black soot. SUN Q. How can I encourage a recently planted beech hedge to SUN grow thicker and taller? SUN A. Bunny – Beech is quite slow to thicken up. Cut between SUN each individual plant as well as the edge. Shoots will SUN branch out from every cut. Also make sure there isn’t any SUN weed competition. Don’t cut the top until it is about 1ft SUN (30cm) from the required height. You could also add a SUN trickle hose for the first few years. SUN Bob – Add some well-rotted manure to encourage it. SUN Anne – When planting a beech hedge make sure you leave about SUN 12 inches (30cm) between each plant. It will thicken out to SUN fill the gaps. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05q615w (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces more intimate and revealing SUN conversations. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b05pkpgg (Listen) SUN The Left Hand of Darkness, Episode 1 SUN SUN Adapted by Judith Adams SUN SUN Science fiction with incredible humanity from a brilliant SUN feminist writer. This is the first dramatisation of Ursula SUN Le Guin's 1969 novel which is as groundbreaking in its SUN approach to gender as when it was first published over 45 SUN years ago. SUN SUN In a snow-changed city in the middle of an Ice Age on an SUN alien world, one young man prepares for the biggest mission SUN of his life. Alone and unarmed, Genly Ai has been sent from SUN Earth to persuade the world of Gethen to join The Ekumen, a SUN union of planets. But it's a task fraught with danger. Genly SUN is shocking to the natives. This is a world in which humans SUN are ambigendered - everyone can be a mother, and everyone SUN can be a father. SUN SUN First Minister Estraven is the only person who champions SUN Genly's cause, but their relationship is deeply SUN incomprehensible and troubling. Genly's life is at risk and SUN he must decide who to trust. SUN SUN Director: Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Genly Ai: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith SUN Estraven: Lesley Sharp SUN Argaven: Toby Jones SUN Tibe: Louise Brealey SUN Faxe: Noma Dumezweni SUN Ashe: Ruth Gemmell SUN Ong Tot: Adjoa Andoh SUN Shusgis: Stephen Critchlow SUN Obsle: David Acton SUN Driver: David Hounslow SUN Guard: Rhiannon Neads SUN Author: Ursula Le Guin SUN Adaptor: Judith Adams SUN Director: Allegra McIlroy SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05q6321 (Listen) SUN Christopher Bollen on Orient SUN SUN American novelist Christopher Bollen talks about his novel SUN Orient, a literary murder mystery set in a remote town on SUN the very tip of Long Island. Local people are already SUN dismayed by the number of newcomers, mostly artists, moving SUN to the town from New York and their fears are increased when SUN a young orphan arrives to stay. Meanwhile, strange creatures SUN are washing up on the beach and a caretaker dies in SUN mysterious circumstances. Christopher Bollen talks to SUN Mariella about his own experiences living in Orient and how SUN he has fictionalised its inhabitants. SUN SUN Also on the programme novelists Dorothy Koomson and Roma SUN Tearne talk about taking their inspiration from photographs SUN and Louise Stern reveals the book she'd never lend. And we SUN take a twilight walk around London to discover the literary SUN inspiration the city's streets have offered generations of SUN writers. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of Orient by Christopher Bollen SUN Orient: Chapter 1 SUN by Christopher Bollen SUN SUN Credits SUN Interviewed Guest: Christopher Bollen SUN Interviewed Guest: Dorothy Koomson SUN Interviewed Guest: Roma Tearne SUN Interviewed Guest: Louise Stern SUN SUN 16:30 The (Half) Life of Strontium b05q6323 (Listen) SUN A poetic meditation on the element which unites the atomic SUN bomb which dropped on Nagaski, a remote village in Argyll, SUN and a mutant bounty hunter. Strontium is the 38th element in SUN the Periodic Table, discovered in 1792 in a mine in the SUN Scottish village of Strontian, named by the father of SUN Chemistry Sir Humphry Davy in 1808 and used first as the SUN agent by which sugar was produced from sugar beet, then as a SUN compound in pottery glazes and neon tubes, and finally as an SUN ingredient in the nuclear bomb which inspired the name SUN "Strontium Dog", the mutant bounty hunter in the comic SUN 2000AD. SUN SUN This experimental poetry programme visits Strontian and SUN tells the story of the element and the town, while the poet SUN Robert Crawford writes new poems connecting the element, the SUN bomb and the "mutie" hunter who scours an apocalyptic post SUN nuclear landscape hunting criminals hideously disfigured by SUN the element from which he takes his name. SUN SUN The Actor is David Jackson Young. SUN SUN 17:00 Is Cancer Money Well Spent? b05pnsr8 (Listen) SUN Matthew Hill investigates how money is spent on cancer SUN treatments and asks have we got the balance right? SUN SUN The NHS England budget for cancer treatment is over £6 SUN billion and given that one in two of us is likely to be SUN diagnosed with cancer at some time in our lives how the SUN money is spent potentially affects us all. SUN SUN UK survival rates are improving but they still lag behind SUN many countries in Europe. Matthew travels to a hospital in SUN Lille, France, to see if we can learn from how cancer is SUN treated there. SUN SUN Given that early diagnosis remains a problem in the UK, and SUN research shows that palliative care can improve the quality SUN and length of life, should more money be invested in these SUN two areas? SUN SUN Dr Eric Lartigau shows the BBC's Matthew Hill the Cyberknife SUN at the Oscar Lambret Centre in Lille, France SUN SUN Programme Transcript - Inside Health SUN Downloaded from SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 SUN SUN SUN THE ATTACHED TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A RECORDING AND NOT SUN COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF SUN MISHEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING SUN INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE BBC CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS COMPLETE SUN ACCURACY. SUN SUN SUN SUN IS CANCER MONEY WELL SPENT? SUN SUN TX: 07.04.15 SUN SUN PRESENTER: MATTHEW HILL SUN SUN PRODUCER: GERALDINE FITZGERALD SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Chamberlain SUN SUN In terms of where we should spend our money on cancer what SUN we have to ask ourselves is what do we want to get out of SUN it. Do we want to prevent cancer, do we want to cure it, do SUN we want to make sure that if we get cancer that we live SUN better with it and longer? And the problem with all of SUN those things is that obviously you’d like to say I want it SUN all – I want my cake and I want to eat it. And if that’s SUN the case then currently we don’t do that and currently we SUN can’t afford that. If we’re going to have to make a SUN prioritisation approach to well where do we spend our money SUN – is it on cure – is that more important than spending it on SUN living better and longer? Then we’re not necessarily making SUN the right choices. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Dr Charlotte Chamberlain of Bristol University highlights SUN the dilemmas of deciding how we should spend the NHS England SUN budget for cancer treatment. And in this programme I want SUN to look at what current priorities can mean for someone with SUN cancer. And given that one in two of us are predicted to SUN have cancer in our lives decisions on how the £6.7 billion SUN cancer budget for England is allocated are likely to affect SUN all of us. So while there’s an increase in survival rates SUN in the UK a recent report from Macmillan Cancer Support SUN shows that the UK survival rates still lag behind many SUN comparable countries in Europe. SUN SUN SUN SUN I travelled to Lille in France to see what happens there and SUN to try to understand why in comparison are we spending so SUN little and taking so long to develop effective evidence SUN based services, such as stereotactic radiotherapy, known as SUN SBRT. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN You globally spend less money, whatever the care – medical SUN oncology with drugs or regional oncology with SBRT or other SUN techniques, it’s globally less. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN When someone is diagnosed their cancer journey can be long SUN and very complex. So should all options be available to SUN them even if the evidence base for those treatments can be SUN very thin? SUN SUN SUN SUN Professor Richard Sullivan the Director of the Institute of SUN Cancer Policy at King’s College in London, says at the SUN moment we have our funding priorities the wrong way round. SUN SUN SUN Sullivan SUN SUN The reality is we spend something like £2 billion now on SUN cancer medicines in the UK and cancer medicines are SUN extremely important, they’re actually absolutely essential SUN for curing many types of blood cancers and also very SUN important in the treatment of solid cancer as well. But SUN overall they only add between 2 and 4% improvements in SUN population survival when you look at all cancers across the SUN board. And yet they really do dominate the political and SUN the economic agenda in the UK. SUN SUN SUN SUN And the reality is most cancer patients in the UK will be SUN controlled and cured through early diagnosis and the SUN application of surgery and radiotherapy. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Diagnosis is one area where the UK has a very poor track SUN record, nearly one in four cancer patients in England is SUN diagnosed only when they arrive at hospital in an emergency. SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN My name Florence Wilkes. I am almost 51. I was diagnosed SUN with advanced stage three ovarian cancer in 2010. I mean SUN what was very distressing for me was that I was going to the SUN doctor multiple times over a two year period before my SUN diagnosis with backache, with all sorts of symptoms that I – SUN I wasn’t aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer, my doctor SUN wasn’t aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer and it wasn’t SUN picked up. If it had been picked up at early stage just in SUN the ovaries then the ovaries would have been removed and I’d SUN be been fine. Ninety-five per cent chance of five years SUN plus. Whereas by the time I was diagnosed it had spread in SUN the abdomen - you’re told once it’s in the abdomen we can SUN treat you as best we can but you’re not going to be cured. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So if we spent more money in increasing patients and their SUN GPs’ awareness of symptoms we can intervene earlier before SUN the tumour has a chance to spread. SUN SUN SUN SUN There is one new technology that helps with both prevention SUN and treatment of certain types of cancer – genetic testing SUN for BRCA1 and 2 genes associated with breast and ovarian SUN cancer can give families with a high risk of carrying this SUN genetic footprint potentially life-saving information. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN Because there was no family history of breast or ovarian SUN cancer in the family I wasn’t tested for BRCA. I became SUN aware of the faulty genes through work that Ovarian Cancer SUN Action was doing and a conference I went to. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN But although this genetic testing is recommended by the SUN National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, SUN once someone is diagnosed with ovarian cancer it still isn’t SUN routinely offered in England - as Florence Wilkes SUN discovered. SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN So I requested that I could be tested and I found out that I SUN have the BRCA2 faulty gene. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So you feel it should have automatically been put to you – SUN do you want this – rather than you having to request it? SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN Well yes most definitely. If you’re tested automatically SUN there aren’t just implications for yourself, if you find out SUN you have the faulty BRCA gene, there are implications for SUN yourself and your wider family – your children, your SUN siblings, other relatives in the family. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So it could prevent cancer for other people? SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN For example my daughter’s 20 and she’s going to get tested SUN shortly. Now if she finds out that she also carries the SUN faulty gene she then can have enhanced screening, which SUN would work as a preventative, she could have preventative SUN surgery and also there are drugs that you can take, for SUN example, tamoxifen, which would reduce the risk of you SUN getting ovarian cancer. If I could take my life back, six SUN years, seven years, and if I’d had the BRCA gene I would SUN have had preventative surgery and done other things. Now my SUN situation is not a curable one so my whole family, and my SUN life, my whole family’s life is totally disrupted by my SUN disease, to put it mildly. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN But in Scotland it is routinely available. SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN Yeah. So I guess every health authority or NHS England they SUN have to decide how they spend their money. My sister has SUN asked to be tested for BRCA and she’s been told that there’s SUN a nine month waiting list, so she has to wait nine months SUN before she can be tested. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Work done at the Royal Marsden Hospital shows that if more SUN tests are offered routine testing would offer savings. SUN Genetic testing isn’t appropriate for all cancers but having SUN a better understanding of the exact type of cells in a SUN tumour, knowing the pathology, could, according to Professor SUN Richard Sullivan, unlock the key to better treatments. SUN SUN SUN Sullivan SUN SUN We have to understand that in the same way that we look at SUN genetic testing for susceptibility to guide how we’re going SUN to treat our breast cancer patients, our ability to SUN molecularly define cancers is very important. And the issue SUN really is that at the moment this is only available in some SUN very concentrated academic centres, it is not a widely SUN available facility across the UK, in comparison to France SUN who are at least four to five years ahead of the UK in their SUN modernisation programme. SUN SUN SUN Dunn SUN SUN Ruby, Ruby … SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN At just eight years old Ruby Dunn is slowly getting used to SUN life without her mum. Kerry died two years ago when she was SUN 47 from bowel cancer. Her husband, Craig, is now caring for SUN Ruby who is severely autistic. SUN SUN SUN SUN Radiotherapy could be seen as unsung hero in cancer SUN treatment and one new type of SBRT radiotherapy, known as SUN CyberKnife, targets tumours very accurately. SUN SUN SUN Dunn SUN SUN Kerry was diagnosed with a cancer back in 2008. We’d been SUN recommended a treatment – CyberKnife treatment – by her SUN oncologist. That would have been around about August or SUN September 2011. We then made a – or an application was made SUN to our local PCT – primary care trust – for funding which SUN was actually refused. And then following on from that the SUN primary care trust reversed their decision. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN The revolutionary stereotactic radiotherapy that Kerry’s SUN consultant recommended would have cost £18,000 but her local SUN health service refused to fund it in the first instance. I SUN interviewed Kerry shortly before she died. SUN SUN SUN Kerry SUN SUN To be offered like a lifeline and then have it taken away SUN from you and then another lifeline comes along – yes you can SUN have the treatment – and then it’s taken away again, I don’t SUN know what my future holds now. SUN SUN SUN Dunn SUN SUN She did eventually get her CyberKnife treatment in the SUN beginning part of June the following year, in 2012, but SUN unfortunately things were too late then, Kerry had SUN deteriorated too far and unfortunately she passed away. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Kerry’s oncologist helped appeal for her to be given the SUN CyberKnife or SBRT treatment, putting forward some SUN compelling figures in terms of her chances of survival. SUN SUN SUN Dunn SUN SUN Her oncologist at the time they kind of give you SUN percentages, there was almost a 100% chance she would have SUN been alive within a year of that treatment and something SUN like a 71% chance she would have still been alive after SUN three years. Those figures greatly reduced if she didn’t SUN have the treatment – which is what they refused – and those SUN figures came down to 31% in the first year instead of 100 SUN and then 8% into year two, which was a reduction down from SUN 71%. So yeah it was a tough time. SUN SUN SUN Falk SUN SUN My name’s Stephen Falk, I’m a consultant clinical SUN oncologist, which means that I treat people with cancer and SUN I have a special interest in gastrointestinal cancer. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Dr Stephen Falk was Kerry’s oncologist but today he’s SUN talking to us in his capacity as a national expert on SUN pancreatic cancer. SUN SUN SUN Falk SUN SUN So there has been a particular issue about stereotactic SUN radiotherapy, this is where very high doses of treatment are SUN given to very localised tumours. There is now funding in SUN the UK for that treatment, both within the brain and within SUN the lung, but many of us wish to expand it into other organs SUN and there has been a lot of difficulty in actually funding SUN those treatments. SUN SUN SUN Dunn SUN SUN I tried to get across to the health service that the actual SUN cost of me having to give up work – I’d had a regular job SUN since I was 16 – and the cost to the taxpayer would be much SUN greater for me to have to give up work and take care of Ruby SUN than the actual cost of Kerry’s treatment. SUN SUN SUN Falk SUN SUN In the current funding climate unless something is routinely SUN commissioned the only way that we can get what’s called SUN specialist or additional funding is by demonstrating that SUN there is something very different about the patient in front SUN of us, largely that there are no more than 20 cases a year SUN of the same sort of case within the UK, that is not the SUN situation for most of the patients with cancer who we see SUN and treat. So exceptional funding has become virtually SUN impossible for us. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So what do you say to the patient when you tell them we SUN think you could benefit from this but we’re not even going SUN to bother applying because we know the answer will be no? SUN SUN SUN Falk SUN SUN In general we tend to apply, so we would apply but we would SUN know what the answer was likely to be. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Which is a no? SUN SUN SUN Falk SUN SUN Yes. SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN My name is Eric Lartigau and I’m the Chairman of the SUN Regional Oncology Department here in Lille. Centre Oscar SUN Lambret, which is a cancer centre offering cancer care for SUN 6-7,000 patients yearly and we have a very large SUN radiotherapy department with seven machines offering all SUN types of radiotherapy delivery from IMRT to SBRT delivery. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Having to apply on a case by case basis with a high chance SUN of being turned down for targeted radiotherapy like this SUN would seem extraordinary in many places in Europe. SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN So we have been starting SBRT treatment in June 2007 and we SUN are treating around 350 patients every year, we’ve been SUN treating more than 2,700 patients in the last years. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN The fact that you’re giving more stereotactic radiotherapy SUN what effect does that have upon survival chances, have you SUN studied that? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN We did study that in two big groups of patients. First, the SUN patients with lung cancer, the non-surgical early lung SUN cancer cases and we have demonstrated that these patients SUN have a very good local control and a very good survival, SUN accordingly to the fact that they had no surgery. And the SUN second group of patients who is very interesting for us who SUN are patients with liver tumour, specifically the SUN hepatocarcinoma group, we have very excellent survival on SUN these patients – 85% of the patients with primary SUN hepatocarcinoma are alive at two years, which is something SUN which was not described before for non-operated patients. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN What percent before? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN Less than 50%, so a big improvement. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN I’m now about to meet Monsieur Alain, who’s about to have SUN treatment for his lung cancer. SUN SUN SUN SUN [Conversation in French] SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN Yeah this patient had a very early lung cancer and he was SUN not fit for surgery. SUN SUN SUN SUN [Speaking in French] SUN SUN SUN SUN So the hope of the patient is of course to be cured and it’s SUN an early case. So we know that he was not a good candidate SUN for surgery but with the treatment we offer that there is SUN cancer cells, so he wants the cancer cells to be destroyed SUN and he knows that according to his status that’s a standard SUN treatment for us. SUN SUN SUN SUN [Speaking in French] SUN SUN SUN SUN He’s a 75 years old patient, so he said his family’s SUN relatively limited but wife and a son so he hopes to be with SUN his family for as long a time as possible. He wants to stay SUN with us for some years, yeah, that’s the point. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Merci, merci bien. Bon chance. SUN SUN SUN SUN So Monsieur Alain is just about to get on the table. It’s SUN like a stretcher that’s suspended in mid-air, only held at SUN one end by a large metal arm. Just behind him is a very big SUN CyberKnife, it’s a huge white body with a large arm which SUN rotates in many different directions around Monsieur Alain SUN and gives high intensity focused rays of radiotherapy to a SUN single point, that’s the tumour. So the stretcher is now SUN being raised a foot or so into position. SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN The patient wants to hear classical music but not the Bolero SUN de Ravel. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So there is a laser beam shining, a bit like a crosshair, SUN they’re trying to position it so that it’s exactly in the SUN middle of his body. So as he breathes… SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN The robot is moving, moving with the breathing of the SUN patient. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN You say that you managed to improve your survival outcomes SUN for liver cancer? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN Non-surgical liver cancer. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN By 35%... SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN Exactly right. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN … over two years, so by definition if the UK is not SUN generally giving this treatment then that will mean more SUN patients are not surviving. SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN That means that some patients who is non-surgical that are SUN carcinoma may not have the – what we consider to be the SUN optimal delivery right. You may have other options with SUN interventional radiology or different techniques but today SUN with what we have done and published in the last seven years SUN we strongly consider that this is a big way to go forward SUN yeah. SUN SUN SUN SUN Okay we can go outside and we’ll see the machine moving. SUN SUN SUN SUN [Speaking in French] SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So a big metal door is now closing with a sign saying “Zone SUN Rouge. Danger Radiation”. And we’re now in the control SUN room. There’s a big screen up with different views of our SUN patient who looks quite relaxed at the moment. SUN Lartigau SUN SUN And a big plus too that we do that in three fractions only. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So three visits instead of 26? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN Exactly right. So it’s a big plus. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So that must save money on your time. SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN It does, it does a lot. So on the screen you can see we SUN have taken the first pictures, so the robot will move around SUN the patient, we’ll check, we’ll move, we’ll treat, we’ll SUN check, we’ll move, we’ll treat – all the time long. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Dr Lartigau said this one SBRT machine in Lille has been SUN treating about 350 people a year for body cancer since SUN 2007. According to a Freedom of Information request last SUN year just 568 English patients were given this type of SUN targeted radiotherapy, some 12% fewer than the year before. SUN Patients in England with certain types of lung and liver SUN cancer are eligible for this treatment but the numbers SUN treated are far lower than in France. The NHS has around SUN £14 billion a year to spend on specialised services which SUN include SBRT. SUN SUN SUN SUN NHS England wants to enrol 750 patients a year in studies to SUN test how well the treatment works before it is more widely SUN available. But Professor Richard Sullivan thinks more SUN sharing of data internationally would be helpful. SUN SUN SUN Sullivan SUN SUN One of the things put forward, and extremely sensible, is SUN that we should be more international about building up SUN registries of the effectiveness of these sorts of SUN technologies and effectiveness we do mean real life, real SUN word experience in exactly where these technologies can be SUN used and what sort of survival benefit we can expect but we SUN just haven’t got this agreement at the moment to build these SUN sorts of registries up and to learn from them. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Given the evidence for the effectiveness of SBRT in Lille I SUN asked Dr Steven Falk shouldn’t more funds be made available? SUN SUN SUN Falk SUN SUN I think in some ways that has actually happened within a SUN special commissioning framework where we evaluate the SUN results. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So good news from Stephen Falk. SUN SUN SUN Falk SUN SUN But it did require Lawrence Dallaglio to go on television SUN and on radio and perform at quite a high profile campaign in SUN the Sunday Times to get access to the senior managers within SUN NHS England to make that happen. SUN SUN SUN News Clip SUN SUN BBC News at nine o’clock. Police on both sides of the SUN channel are searching for a five year old boy with a brain SUN tumour who was taken by his parents from hospital in SUN Southampton without the consent of doctors. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN The high profile case of five-year-old Ashya King, taken by SUN his father to Prague for proton beam therapy, hit the SUN headlines last summer and last month the Health Secretary SUN Jeremy Hunt gave the go ahead for £250 million to build two SUN centres for this type of cutting edge radiotherapy. But SUN Professor Sullivan says headlines are not evidence based. SUN SUN SUN Sullivan SUN SUN The proton beam story’s been fascinating, the way that SUN governments over the last 15 years have operated in a knee SUN jerk reaction to health stories coming from the media and SUN engaging in essentially what is knee jerk public policy SUN making. And time and again this has shown to be an absolute SUN disaster in terms of priority setting, equity and fairness SUN in a socialised healthcare system. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN In a statement NHS England denies that media pressure had SUN any effect on the funding announcement for proton beam SUN programme, as they say they initially announced the SUN investment in 2013. SUN SUN SUN Chamberlain SUN SUN My name’s Dr Charlotte Chamberlain and I am researcher, SUN currently, doing a PhD on fair access to cancer drugs. SUN SUN SUN SUN The Cancer Drugs Fund was established in 2010 as an interim SUN fund for six months. And then the Cancer Drugs Fund became SUN fully established in 2011. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN The Cancer Drugs Fund was set up to pay for cancer drugs SUN that haven’t been approved by the National Institute for SUN Health and Care Excellence. In 2011 the fund was worth £200 SUN million but this year has grown to £340 million, which SUN coincidentally is almost as much as we spend on SUN radiotherapy. SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Charlotte Chamberlain has been looking at fair access to SUN cancer drugs and is concerned that the CDF appears to have SUN missed opportunities to strengthen the evidence base. SUN SUN SUN Chamberlain SUN SUN One of the major disadvantages of the Cancer Drugs Fund, SUN according to all the clinicians I’ve interviewed and based SUN on the research that I’ve done, is that the Cancer Drugs SUN Fund wasn’t set up to generate evidence about what quality SUN of life it’s giving to patients. And in fact I’ve been SUN working with some of the Cancer Drugs Fund data for the SUN South West region locally and it’s incredibly disappointing SUN that the survival data in terms of what actually happened to SUN those patients with adverse events, that’s not collected, so SUN if they became ill on their treatment that’s not collected SUN as part of the data for the Cancer Drugs Fund. So we’re SUN missing amazing valuable information for those patients that SUN would improve treatment in the future and we don’t have it. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry or SUN ABPI say the drugs companies will be collecting the data and SUN when we asked NHS England they said they had been SUN systematically collecting data for the last year. Which SUN would suggest that for the first three years of the fund SUN this data was not collected systematically by the NHS. The SUN drugs available through the fund have also recently been SUN evaluated, looking at efficacy and value for money and 25 of SUN the 84 are no longer available as they were thought to not SUN offer sufficient clinical benefit. But while data SUN collection is very important on a person level Florence SUN Wilkes is very grateful for what the fund had done for her SUN ovarian cancer. SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN I was very lucky to get Avastin and it’s working SUN particularly well with me and I’ve been told it might be SUN working particularly well with me because I’m BRCA2. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN And it’s a treatment which is no longer available…? SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN The Cancer Drugs Fund has to make decisions as to what SUN treatments they’ll fund and what treatments they won’t fund SUN and they’ve decided that Avastin is not value for money. SUN Now I would say personally if you could see me – you can’t, SUN you can hear me on the radio – but Avastin is definitely SUN worth the money. It’s kept my disease stable for over a SUN year now, I just think it’s terrible that it’s not available SUN to other women. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN But how do you know it’s that, could it not be for instance SUN the surgery you’ve had? SUN SUN SUN Wilkes SUN SUN I mean I guess nobody can say definitely what it is but I’m SUN pretty certain it’s the Avastin, I would shout from the roof SUN tops that women should be able to have it. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Outside of the Cancer Drugs Fund decisions on whether there SUN is enough evidence to fund a new treatment come from NICE. SUN They use QALYs which is an economic measure of the quality SUN of life gained by a treatment. The most they’re generally SUN prepared to pay for an extra year of quality life is £30,000 SUN but thinking of what I’d seen in France I asked Dr Eric SUN Lartigau if they have a system like NICE? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN Well I want to be nice with you but I think you globally SUN spend less money, whatever the care – medical oncology with SUN drugs or regional oncology with SBRT or other techniques - SUN it’s globally less. I think the ratio is relatively SUN comparable to what we’ve seen in France or in Germany. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Why is there a difference? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN I think we are maybe not as strict as you are, so we may be SUN spending more. But we do open more clinical options for SUN patients. So there is pros and cons in both policies. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN We say it must cost no more than £30,000 for one year of SUN extra quality life, do you know what you say? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN We don’t say so because we don’t use the QALY principle in SUN France. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN What principle do you use? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN We use mostly the results we see on randomised studies and SUN with a high level of evidence. We define that according to SUN the absolute benefit but we don’t put a strict perspective SUN on cost. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN That to me sounds a bit like an open chequebook. SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN Not really open because it’s regulated but as an expensive SUN one. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Is it viable in the long term future for France? SUN SUN SUN Lartigau SUN SUN No, we know it’s not, we are in the process of much more SUN regulation on that. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So while France starts to think about changing their system SUN recent evidence from Professor Karl Claxton at the SUN University of York suggests that even the current threshold SUN set by NICE is already too high. SUN SUN SUN Claxton SUN SUN So NICE approves drugs if they offer greater value than SUN £30,000 per quality adjusted life year gained, that is a SUN measure of health that captures the impact that the drug SUN might have on both length of life survival and the quality SUN in which that’s lived. The research that we’ve conducted, SUN funded by the Medical Research Council, that’s just been SUN published, suggests that that should be much lower - £13,000 SUN per quality adjusted life year. Very many of the newer SUN cancer drugs, the benefits can be quite modest, the prices SUN tend to be very high, so their cost per QALY that they offer SUN tends to be far in excess of £13,000 and in excess often of SUN £50,000. If we choose to approve those drugs at those SUN prices what we know is that we will be doing net harm to NHS SUN patients. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So the kind of drug you’d have in mind would be something SUN like Kadzila, costing about £90? SUN SUN SUN Claxton SUN SUN That’s exactly right. So that particular drug, if we SUN approved that drug for widespread use in the NHS, the SUN additional costs of that drug would displace much, much more SUN health than we would be expected to gain through its use in SUN the NHS. So the key issue there is can we get a price SUN negotiation mechanism which ensures that a drug like Kadzila SUN is priced in a way that it reflects what the NHS can afford SUN to pay for the benefits that it offers. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Kadzila is available to some women through the Cancer Drugs SUN Fund. I asked Alison Clough, Executive Commercial Director SUN at the ABPI, if cancer drugs offer value for money. SUN SUN SUN Clough SUN SUN All medicines offer huge value and cancer medicines in SUN particular now, if you look at the cancers that can be SUN treated, which years ago would have killed, we’ve made huge SUN strides. But of course medicines are assessed for their SUN value. Obviously an issue we’ve had in recent years is that SUN in the UK patients have not had access to medicines that are SUN available in other countries. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN But have we got the priorities right? If you look across SUN the board at how we spend our money I mean that £2 billion SUN on cancer drugs a year compared to £350 million for SUN radiotherapy, when we know radiotherapy is far more curative SUN than drugs. SUN SUN SUN Clough SUN SUN So we did a survey last year in the UK of 1700 adults and SUN more than half thought that we weren’t spending enough on SUN medicines. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Well it depends what question you ask doesn’t it, if you say SUN are we spending enough on cancer drugs then people will say SUN no we’re not. SUN SUN SUN Clough SUN SUN Well especially if you’re the patient who has a chance for SUN extra life, to see a daughter walk down an aisle, you would SUN want those medicines. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN If you ask them the question are we spending enough on SUN cancer treatments that cure patients instead of give them a SUN few months extra life for tens of thousands of pounds, you’d SUN probably say actually we’ll go for the former. SUN SUN SUN Clough SUN SUN So I guess that those are not the choices that people make SUN in reality are they. We have a great heritage as a country SUN in bringing medicines to patients. It’s a costly lengthy SUN risky process. And on average it’s taking sort of 10, 12 SUN years, average cost of about £1.2 billion to bring these SUN medicines to a point where they can be used more widely in SUN patients. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN I put that point about the investment from pharmaceutical SUN companies to Karl Claxton. SUN SUN SUN Claxton SUN SUN Well I think it’s really important to understand one of the SUN reasons why the drug development costs are so high is SUN because certainly in the past healthcare systems have been SUN willing to pay these high prices. If you are willing to pay SUN these high prices then what you will do is to encourage SUN further high cost investments in developments of quite SUN modest benefit. And that’s exactly what we see in this – in SUN this area. I think the second point to make is it’s not SUN really the job of healthcare systems, like the NHS, to SUN ensure that manufacturers make a return on their SUN investment. The job of the NHS is to signal quite clearly SUN to manufacturers – this is the amount we can afford to pay SUN for drugs of these benefits. SUN SUN SUN Clough SUN SUN Professor Claxton’s paper obviously very much focuses on the SUN QALY – the quality adjusted life year – we would say most SUN new cancer medicines are going through NICE and the reason SUN we’ve had the number of no decisions is there’s an SUN over-reliance on the QALY and not enough account taken of SUN doctor, and patient perspectives in that whole process. If SUN you applied the threshold that’s suggested by that paper you SUN would close the door to innovative medicines in the UK. SUN That would be devastating for patients. But in the UK we SUN have also recognised the financial challenges facing the NHS SUN and as of last year, as of 2014, we’ve done a pharmaceutical SUN price regulation scheme, an agreement, that will last five SUN years and industry is paying back money based on the sales SUN of the newer medicines. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN But that’s only because you didn’t want to look like you SUN were being undercut in the UK, compared to other countries, SUN so they didn’t turn round and say well why can’t we pay the SUN same. SUN SUN SUN Clough SUN SUN But the reality is that industry has actually put its money SUN where its mouth is, it’s already paid in three quarters of SUN last year £229 million back to the Department of Health in SUN order to ensure that patients in this country got access to SUN these newer medicines. The estimate for the amount of money SUN that industry will pay back this year is about £800 million. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN And the industry estimates that over five years they’ll pay SUN back £4 billion. What does Karl Claxton think if the SUN pharmaceutical industry are offering rebates, won’t this SUN bring prices down? SUN SUN SUN Claxton SUN SUN There is some important questions about that rebate, not SUN only whether it’s enough, does it really reflect the SUN discrepancy between the value of the drug and what we’ve SUN actually paid for it and secondly where do those rebates SUN go. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN I asked the Department of Health to confirm if that money is SUN reinvested in the NHS. In a statement they say: SUN SUN SUN Department of Health Statement SUN SUN All the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme payments for SUN England go back into spending on improving patients’ health SUN and care. And it will be up to NHS England how they split SUN that overall budget between clinical commissioning groups SUN and specialised commissioning etc. SUN SUN SUN Bonser SUN SUN The day we took Neil to try and get him on a clinical trial SUN at the hospital in the North East of England is one I shall SUN never forget. It was a bitterly cold day in the middle of SUN January and we’d hired a taxi which didn’t arrive, so I SUN ended up driving the two and a half hours or so from Preston SUN Lancashire to Newcastle in the North East. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Tony Bonser understands only too well the drive to try SUN everything in the hope of extra life from what happened to SUN his son Neil. SUN SUN SUN Bonser SUN SUN We’d been told there was a possibility of a clinical trial SUN and we wanted to get him on it because we just were SUN clutching at straws and we thought there had to be some way SUN to cure the problem that Neil had, which was a cancer. And SUN after a day of blood tests and consultations we drove back SUN totally exhausted to be told that Neil didn’t meet the SUN parameters. Actually I don’t think there was ever any SUN possibility of getting him on the trial. The thing that SUN upsets me possibly is that if somebody had had a sensible SUN conversation with us maybe we’d have spent that time in a SUN better way, enjoying our life together as a family, instead SUN of chasing cures that weren’t going to happen. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Tony Bonser is an end of life champion for Dying Matters and SUN now helps families talk more openly about making plans for SUN the end of life. SUN SUN SUN SUN And this convention to keep treating cancer aggressively SUN right up to the end comes from both patients and healthcare SUN professionals. But there is another option. It doesn’t get SUN the same attention as oncology because death is not as SUN glamorous as the fight against cancer. SUN SUN SUN Higginson SUN SUN So guess – guess – what would you think a man on the street SUN would think would be reasonable? SUN SUN SUN SUN What percentage of …? SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Man on the street guess I would say 20% but…. SUN SUN Higginson SUN SUN So it’s 0.3%.. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN Irene Higginson is Professor of Palliative Care at the SUN Siscily Saunders Institute in London. SUN SUN Higginson SUN SUN So in cancer research we know that for every £100 spent 30 SUN pence in a £100 goes on palliative or end of life care. So SUN I think there’s probably more consultants who are professors SUN in oncology at the Royal Marsden than there are specialist SUN professors in palliative medicine in the whole world never SUN mind the UK. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN A lot of people think of palliative care as the last few SUN weeks of life, is there any evidence from you that if it’s SUN done earlier that patients have more benefit? SUN SUN SUN Higginson SUN SUN So there’s some really fantastic evidence that’s emerging SUN now that early palliative care is beneficial. So there was SUN a trial done in the United States of America by Temel which SUN randomised patients to early palliative care or conventional SUN care. And what was very interesting in that study is that SUN the patients that got the early palliative care, integrated SUN with their existing services, had a better quality of life, SUN they also had less depression. And actually lived for two SUN and a half months longer on average than the patients who SUN didn’t have it. Now if this was a chemotherapy drug NICE SUN would have been told immediately to have funded that drug SUN but because it’s a service that’s not happening. SUN SUN SUN Bonser SUN SUN Palliative care to us then and to Neil meant take SUN painkillers because you’ve two or three days left. Actually SUN he got a lot longer than that. And it wasn’t until much SUN later on when I talked to the GP that I was able, too late, SUN to get him the level of pain control that he really should SUN have been on. So palliative is a term that really needs SUN unpacking. SUN SUN SUN Higginson SUN SUN We’ve just published a trial in this country and again we SUN found that the people who went through the early palliative SUN care service had better quality of life than the group that SUN didn’t. And we also found a survival advantage. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN And do we offer this early service in most places in the SUN country? SUN SUN SUN Higginson SUN SUN No. And in a way it’s understandable that it’s not widely SUN available yet. Our study was only published in December, so SUN it would take some time. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So really the question is do you think if you gather more SUN evidence you will get more funding with that evidence? SUN SUN SUN Higginson SUN SUN Well I would hope so but it’s also a mind-set, so you need SUN the evidence but you also need to change people’s minds that SUN this sort of research is worthwhile. And in a way it’s SUN amazing what has been achieved in palliative care research, SUN I mean there have been considerable discoveries to improve SUN symptom control, just think what we could do if we doubled SUN or tripled the amount that’s spent, which would be a drop in SUN the ocean for what is spent on biological research. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN NHS England are looking at a new approach to palliative care SUN funding which they say will be cost neutral but fairer and SUN more transparent. Earlier this year they announced a new SUN independent taskforce to develop a five year action plan for SUN cancer services. It suggests allowing patients to SUN self-refer for diagnostic tests and lowering the thresholds SUN for GPs. But does Professor Richard Sullivan think this SUN will give good value for money and effectiveness? SUN SUN SUN Sullivan SUN SUN We do need to continually take very hard evidence based SUN looks at our national cancer plan – how well it’s being SUN implemented, who’s being held to account and who’s SUN responsible. I think the jury’s really out yet on whether SUN the taskforce are really going to deliver on this and have SUN both the teeth, the accountability and the responsibility to SUN develop really critical insight and that needs to be openly SUN then fed back into changes. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN So if you had the £6.9 billion a year that we spend on SUN cancer what would you do with it? SUN SUN SUN Sullivan SUN SUN The highest priorities must be around early diagnosis, SUN surgery and radiotherapy. And that’s not to say that SUN chemotherapy isn’t important, as I say it’s extremely SUN important in terms of curing many types of cancer. It’s SUN just that we need to be much more directed in improving our SUN surgery and our radiotherapy. And ultimately the prevention SUN is far better than the actual treatment. SUN SUN SUN Hill SUN SUN From the French experience I’ve learnt that they spend more SUN altogether on treating cancer than we do but that the SUN proportion on different types of treatment was similar. So SUN it’ll be interesting to see how they rationalise – where SUN they make cuts and on what clinical basis. Evidence would SUN suggest that in terms of survival and cure frontloading the SUN system is the most effective, better diagnosis, optimum SUN surgery and radiotherapy but realistically there’ll always SUN be people who are diagnosed at the late stages of the SUN disease and will always need to be aware of new innovative SUN treatments. SUN SUN SUN SUN The silver bullet for cancer remains elusive for scientists, SUN doctors and patients alike, so we are left juggling. But if SUN we were designing a cancer system we probably wouldn’t start SUN from where we are now. That’s the reality and the challenge SUN over the next years will be how do we do this better. SUN SUN SUN SUN ENDS SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05q5vbv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05q5w7n (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05q5w7q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05q5w7s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05q63c3 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay SUN SUN Liz Barclay chooses her BBC Radio highlights and sport is SUN high on our agenda: from hot dog eating and pig racing, to SUN famous cricketers who helped make the world a better place SUN and the disaster and tragedy of the 1979 Fastnet race. SUN Endurance and stamina feature alongside daring-do, misplaced SUN optimism and over enthusiasm! SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05q63c5 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:16 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01nbrjc (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 6 SUN SUN John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, SUN regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things SUN like Miranda and Family Guy, presents the last in this SUN second series of his hit sketch show. SUN SUN The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by SUN The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny SUN sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It SUN featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive SUN relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people SUN who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr SUN Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. SUN SUN This week's show starts by going to the dogs and ends with SUN what is surely the oldest hymn in the world. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SUN John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, SUN Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. The original SUN music is by Susannah Pearse. It is produced by Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Liars' League b05qf586 (Listen) SUN Do Days SUN SUN The Liars' League, which launched in 2007, is a live short SUN story event now spanning the globe. 'Liars' because in a SUN sense fiction and acting are both lies - and a 'league' SUN because a company of actors and writers work to bring an SUN evening of themed stories to an audience, once a month in SUN London, New York and Hong Kong. SUN SUN This is the second of three stories recorded at the Liars' SUN League events. In London the theme is 'Boom and Bust', in SUN Hong Kong it's 'Cruelty and Mercy', and in New York - where SUN we are this week - it's 'Entrances and Exits'. SUN SUN Each story brings a distinct flavour of its country of SUN origin - of the culture, people and concerns. Each is SUN populated by ubiquitous skyscrapers and familiar SUN corporations and brands, but at the same time beats to an SUN older rhythm of the people and their traditions - from a SUN Catholic boyhood in New York, through life in London's SUN drabber suburbs, to old traditions surviving amidst the SUN bustle of modern Hong Kong. SUN SUN In Vito Racanelli's Do Days, Paulie and Steven are friends, SUN living across the street from each other in Queens. Steven SUN went to the public school, Paulie to the Catholic one where, SUN more than anything, he learned what not to do. Don't do SUN this, don't do that. For Steven, every day was a 'do day', SUN and Paulie jumped at the chances Steven presented him with, SUN whatever the consequences. SUN SUN Written by Vito Racanelli SUN Read by E James Ford SUN SUN Produced by David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: E James Ford SUN Producer: David Roper SUN Writer: Vito Racanelli SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b05prkhr (Listen) SUN The Easter weekend is a prime opportunity for regular radio SUN presenters to take a step out of the spotlight and into the SUN sun for some rest and relaxation. But their stand-in SUN presenters can be left to face the disappointment of an SUN audience devoted to their favourite host. What are the SUN challenges facing stand-ins and how do they overcome them? SUN Lewis Carnie, the head of Radio 2 programmes, discusses how SUN Sara Cox and Zoe Ball have filled in for leading men Chris SUN Evans and Ken Bruce. SUN SUN The spring breaks also produced trials for users of the BBC SUN Radio iPlayer. As listeners got heavily engrossed in SUN hair-raising dramas and eye-opening documentaries - they SUN were left hanging mid-sentence as iPlayer Radio failed to SUN give them the last few minutes of the programme. The General SUN Manager for Audience Facing Services at BBC Future Media, SUN Andrew Scott, clarifies what happened and how he is working SUN to prevent future failings. SUN SUN And in the election campaign coverage, BBC local radio has SUN launched a series of 170 debates taking place across the SUN country. David Holdsworth, the controller of English SUN Regions, explains why issues affecting smaller communities SUN are still key to political coverage. Station Editor David SUN Harvey outlines how Radio Cambridgeshire is reflecting its SUN listeners' main concerns. And, behind the scenes at BBC SUN Essex's first local debate, producer Mark Syred lets SUN listeners shine a light on what they see as the biggest SUN question in their community. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05prkhm (Listen) SUN Frei Otto, Richie Benaud, Albert Maysles, Julio Cesar SUN Strassera, Mary Clarke SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN The influential German architect Frei Otto, best known for SUN his lightweight structures. Lords Foster and Rogers pay SUN tribute. SUN SUN The Australian cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud. SUN David Gower recalls working with him. SUN SUN The documentary director Albert Maysles who made a SUN celebrated film about the Rolling Stones and 'Grey Gardens' SUN about two eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy. SUN SUN The Argentinian lawyer Julio Cesar Strassera who SUN successfully prosecuted members of the country's military SUN junta. SUN SUN And Mary Clarke, the ballet critic who edited the Dancing SUN Times. SUN SUN Frei Otto SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Tony Chapman, Head of Awards at the RIBA SUN and to fellow architects, Lord Rogers and Lord Foster. SUN SUN Born 31 May 1925; died 9 March 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Richie Benaud (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to cricket commentator and former England SUN captain, David Gower. SUN SUN Born 6 October 1930; died 10 April 2015 aged 84. SUN SUN Albert Maysles SUN Matthew spoke to his daughters, Rebekah and Sara Maysles. SUN SUN Born 26 November 1926; died 5 March 2015 aged 88. SUN SUN Julio César Strassera SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Luis Moreno Ocampo who was deputy SUN prosecutor during the 1985 trial of the Argentine Military SUN Junta. SUN SUN Born 18 September 1933; died 27 February 2015 aged 81. SUN SUN Mary Clarke SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her godson, Jerome Monahan and to Jon Gray, SUN Editor at the Dancing Times. SUN Born 23 August 1923; died 20 March 2015 SUN aged 91. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Tony Chapman SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Rogers SUN Interviewed Guest: Norman Foster SUN Interviewed Guest: David Gower SUN Interviewed Guest: Rebekah Maysles SUN Interviewed Guest: Sara Maysles SUN Interviewed Guest: Luis Moreno Ocampo SUN Interviewed Guest: Jerome Monahan SUN Interviewed Guest: Jon Gray SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05q4zmp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05q5y3x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b05pqx2g (Listen) SUN Blank Screens SUN SUN The Information Technology department used to be a SUN mysterious backroom operation, but has become the vital SUN component of a successful company. With relentless technical SUN developments businesses are facing a constant risk of their SUN computer systems being past their sell by date. SUN SUN Peter Day explores how companies are wrestling with the SUN increasing demands of keeping their I.T fit for purpose. SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane SUN SUN Credit: Photo and LEO Computer recording in the programme SUN courtesy of LEO Computers Society, www.leo-computers.org.uk. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05qf588 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05qf58b (Listen) SUN Tom Newton Dunn of The Sun analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05pqtg8 (Listen) SUN Ryan Gosling; 25 Years of BBC Films SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Ryan Gosling discusses his directorial debut Lost River, SUN which was met with a mixture of cheers and jeers at its SUN Cannes premiere. SUN SUN The head of BBC Films, Christine Langan, looks back at its SUN 25 years history, including such hits as Billy Elliot, SUN Philomena, and Fish Tank, and laments the lack of original SUN stories that land on her desk. SUN SUN One of Britain's few winners at this year's Oscars, hair and SUN make-up artist Frances Hannon, talks about her award-winning SUN moustaches and wigs for The Grand Budapest Hotel. SUN SUN Ruben Ostlund, the director of Force Majeure, a black comedy SUN about a family holiday from hell, reveals why he would like SUN his film to help increase the divorce rate. SUN SUN Frances Hannon’s Oscar and BAFTA and Tilda Swinton’s wig… SUN SUN Woman in Gold SUN Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds in Woman in Gold. In cinemas SUN from 10 April (cert 12A) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Christine Langan SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05q5y3q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 APRIL 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05q5w8v (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05pnvqh (Listen) MON Free Will Explored MON MON Free will explored. Laurie Taylor talks to Julian Baggini, MON writer and Founding Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine, MON about his latest work which considers the concept of MON freedom. He argues against the idea that free will is an MON illusion due to a combination of genes, environment and MON personal history. Instead he posits a sliding scale of MON freedom which allows for the possibility of individual MON agency and responsibility. Also, pets as family: Nickie MON Charles, Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study MON of Women and Gender at Warwick University, discusses her MON study of kinship across the species barrier. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Nickie Charles MON MON Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women MON and Gender at Warwick University. MON Find out more about Professor MON Nickie Charles MON N. Charles (2014) '"Animals just love you the way you are": MON experiencing kinship across the species barrier' in MON Sociology 48 (4) 715-730. MON MON Julian Baggini MON Author and Founding Editor of The Philosopher's Magazine MON Find out more about Dr MON Julian Baggini MON *Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will MON *Publisher: Granta Books MON ISBN-10: 1847087175 MON ISBN-13: 978-184708171 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05q5y3n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05q5w8x (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05q5w8z (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05q5w91 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05q5w93 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05qf6h2 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Andrew Martlew. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05qf6h4 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05q5w95 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45m5 (Listen) MON Egyptian Goose MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Bill Oddie presents the Egyptian goose. Although Egyptian MON geese are common throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa and MON in Egypt, they are now officially a British bird. These MON striking birds attracted the attention of wildfowl MON collectors and the first geese were brought to the UK in the MON 17th century. By the 1960's it became obvious that the geese MON were breeding in the wild in East Anglia and since then MON they've spread in south and eastern England. MON MON Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) MON Webpage image courtesy of Guy Rogers (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05qfj11 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05qfj13 (Listen) MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe asks whether altruism is MON best explained through evolutionary science or moral MON philosophy. David Sloan Wilson argues for the former and MON believes altruism is part of group dynamics and social MON behaviour. William MacAskill may study the moral case for MON doing good, but is more interested in the practical impact MON than the heroic sacrifice. The Mexican campaigner Lydia MON Cacho knows what it means to make enormous personal MON sacrifices for the sake of others - her exposure of sexual MON and physical abuse has led to numerous threats on her life. MON While the composer Tansy Davies attempts to bring to the MON stage human beings in extremis as she creates an opera based MON on the events of 9/11. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Lydia Cacho MON Interviewed Guest: David Sloan Wilson MON Interviewed Guest: William MacAskill MON Interviewed Guest: Tansy Davies MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05r0b35 (Listen) MON The Shepherd's Life, Episode 1 MON MON Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James MON Rebanks's isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the MON first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have MON lived and worked in and around the Lake District for MON generations. MON MON It's a life lived according to the demands of the seasons: MON sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the MON hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the MON gruelling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept alive, MON and the light-headedness that comes with spring, as the MON lambs are born and the sheep get ready to return to the MON fells. MON MON Through his eyes, we see that the Lake District is not a MON playground or a scenic backdrop, it's a working landscape MON that needs sheep and its farmers to survive. MON MON James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter (using his MON moniker: @herdyshepherd1) where you can see photographs MON detailing day to day life on the farm - including his fine MON flock of Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the MON workforce, sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. MON MON Read by Bryan Dick MON Written by James Rebanks MON Abridged by Sian Preece MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron MON MON Music details: MON Track: "The Nightshift" MON CD: Country Escape MON Label: BBC Production Music BBCPM031. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Bryan Dick MON Author: James Rebanks MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05qfj17 (Listen) MON The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Hina Jilani MON Pioneering Pakistani feminist and lawyer MON Hina Jilani has been publicly campaigning for women’s rights MON since the 1980’s, founding Pakistan’s first all- female law MON firm and a shelter providing free legal counsel and support MON to victims of gender-based violence. Hina’s work has made MON her the target of abuse and arrest, and put her in danger. MON She talks to Jane about her work to stop honour killings at MON home, and to promote human rights abroad, both with the UN, MON and as part of The Elders, the elite international group of MON former statesmen and women, which was founded by Nelson MON Mandela. MON MON Who chooses sex work? MON MON A recent study examined the working practices and MON experiences of internet-based sex workers in the UK. We hear MON from Millie, an escort paying for her education. And Dr MON Teela Saunders, lead researcher, and Kirstin Innes, author MON of a new novel called Fishnet, join Jane to discuss who MON chooses to work in the sex industry and why. MON MON Patricia Duncker MON MON George Eliot is one of the most famous nom de plumes in MON British literature, but who was the woman behind critically MON acclaimed novels such as Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss and MON Silas Marner? MON MON Patricia Duncker’s new novel ‘Sophie and the Sibyl’ MON imagines Eliot’s life between the 1870s -1880s. It explores MON the relationship she had with her German publisher, Max MON Duncker and his childhood sweetheart Sophie (who just MON happens to be her biggest fan). Patricia talks to Jane about MON blending real-life with fiction and her affection for MON Eliot. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05qfj19 (Listen) MON Writing the Century 27 - The Journal of a Joskin, 1940: The MON Doorstep War MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people. Further journals MON of Yorkshire farm labourer and aspiring writer Fred Kitchen MON adapted by Stephen Wakelam. The Cowman's first book is MON finally published. MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Fred: Ralph Ineson MON Ethel: Sarah Thom MON Cynthia: Roslyn Hill MON Mr Moore: David Acton MON Studio Manager: Shaun Mason MON Sergeant: Paul Stonehouse MON Interviewer: Sam Dale MON Writer: Stephen Wakelam MON Director: David Hunter MON MON 11:00 The Fishwives' Tale b05qfj1c (Listen) MON It is the most dangerous peacetime job a man can do. And for MON the wives, mothers and daughters who lose their loved ones MON to the sea, rather than to war, the burden is no less to MON bear. MON MON In 2008, Jane Dolby's husband Colin went missing when his MON fishing trawler was caught in a freak storm. The boat was MON finally located and lifted from the bottom of the sea - but MON Colin was not found. MON MON Aside from the emotional pain, there are practical MON complications. The law says that a death certificate cannot MON be issued without a body - which means no life insurance and MON no widowed parents' allowance, despite having four young MON children to bring up. MON MON So in 2012, united by a common bond of understanding the MON dangers of fishing and a desire to raise money for The MON Fishermen's Mission who help so many fishing families in MON hardship, Jane formed the Fishwives' Choir with women from MON all over the UK who have lost husbands, fathers, brothers MON and sons to the sea. MON MON Although the choir was only formed to create a one-off MON charity record, the women received so many performance MON requests that they decided to carry on in any way they MON could. Most had not sung since their school days, but we now MON join Jane, Laura, Leigh and Wendy as they record their debut MON album. MON MON This is a tale of transforming tragedy and grief into music MON and hope. MON MON Lead by Jane and over a bed of raucous laughter, The MON Fishwives' Tale is a heart-warming and at times hilarious MON tale of women overcoming grief through friendship and sea MON shanties - proving that, even in the darkest of times, there MON is still light. MON MON With original music by Josh Winiberg MON Producer: Hana Walker-Brown MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice b05qfjn1 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Comedian Deborah Frances-White tells the true life story of MON her search for her birth mother. MON MON Deborah is Australian but now living in London. With the MON vocal assistance of Thom Tuck, Alex Lowe, and Celia MON Pacquola, she ploughs through Google and Facebook to seek MON out her long lost family before finally hiring a private MON detective. MON MON Deborah soon uncovers clues that lead her to the discovery MON of a genuine relative - her aunt - but not before some odd MON detours, including possibly being related to a one-armed MON champion pole dancer. MON MON Eventually, contact is made with Deborah's real mother, MON Devon, and she must ask the awkward question - why was she MON given away? MON MON Producer: Alan Nixon MON A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05q5w97 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 A History of Ideas b05qfkjm (Listen) MON What Does It Mean to Be Me? MON MON A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in MON many voices. MON MON Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different MON backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week he's MON asking 'What does it mean to be me?' MON MON Helping him answer the question are philosopher Barry Smith, MON neuropsychologist Paul Broks, writer A L Kennedy and MON philosopher Jules Evans. MON MON For the rest of the week Jules, Paul, Alison and Barry take MON us further into the history of ideas about the self with MON programmes of their own. Between them they will examine MON Descartes idea 'I think therefore I am', ask what role MON memory plays in ideas of the self, discover how stories and MON myths burrow into our unconscious, and ask whether there's MON more to existentialism than wearing black and pondering deep MON thoughts. MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 12:16 You and Yours b05qfkjp (Listen) MON Tesco Compensation and Clickbait MON MON Tesco are paying two councils compensation after they pulled MON out of building a store in Somerset. We find out what the MON other 48 stores earmarked by the supermarket may get. MON MON Councils have been trying to introduce voluntary schemes to MON tackle problems associated with extra strength lagers and MON ciders. They ask local retailers to sign up, but some shops MON say they're being forced to. MON MON Clickbait headlines are everywhere on the internet. Why does MON just about every news organisation write in this style, and MON why does it make us click? MON MON From today, convicted criminals in England and Wales must MON pay up to £1,200 towards the cost of their court case. Legal MON experts warn it may lead to more people pleading guilty. MON MON Children with rare diseases are being helped by their MON parents who've formed online communities with other families MON in the same situation. We'll hear from some of the families. MON MON Young people are apathetic about voting in the upcoming MON General Election, but do they know not registering to vote MON can also affect their credit rating? MON MON We hear from our listeners about their problems with Royal MON Mail. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05q5w99 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05qfkjr (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05q63c5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b05qfm6r (Listen) MON Clean Trade MON MON Former 'Casualty' regular Ivana Basic is Rosa in Winsome MON Pinnock's new drama set in an investment bank. We follow the MON changing fortunes of a tight knit group of cleaners and MON members of a Jamaican style 'pardner ring' - a type of MON savings club. There's one problem - they have hardly any MON savings and all have terrible financial problems. Led by MON wannabe trader Nessa, they try their hand at trading on the MON stock market. Much to their surprise they start to make MON money, but as they do so they find that their new found MON riches lead to conflict as their friendships are put to the MON test. MON MON Directed by Nandita Ghose MON MON Award-winning writer Winsome Pinnock has written widely for MON the stage including for the Royal Court, Clean Break Theatre MON Company, Soho Theatre, and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Awards MON include the George Devine Award, The Pearson Plays on Stage MON Award and the Unity Theatre Trust Award. She wrote Lazarus MON for Radio 3 and recently completed a writer's residency at MON the National Theatre. MON MON Credits MON Nessa: Ayesha Antoine MON Jen: Golda Rosheuvel MON Rosa: Ivana Basic MON Angela: Jane Whittenshaw MON Nana: Lorna Gayle MON Zach: Jude Akuwidike MON Dominic: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Marcus: Neet Mohan MON Warren Feast: Sam Dale MON Director: Nandita Ghose MON Writer: Winsome Pinnock MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b05qfm6t (Listen) MON Semi-Final 4, 2015 MON MON (16/17) MON Who declared himself King of France in 1795 but didn't come MON to the throne for another nineteen years? And which MON Hollywood actress's autobiography was entitled 'Goodness Had MON Nothing To Do With It'? MON MON Russell Davies asks the questions in the nail-biting fourth MON semi-final of the 2015 tournament, with four more keen MON quizzers vying for the single remaining place in the Final MON next week. The winner stands a real chance of being named MON the 62nd BBC Brain of Britain champion. MON MON The contenders come from London, Bath, Bromley and Lytham in MON Lancashire. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05q615r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Arts Technologica b05qfsll (Listen) MON Music MON MON Martha Lane Fox explores how musicians use the internet to MON create and distribute their work as network speeds increase. MON MON Twenty years ago, we connected to and disconnected from the MON internet with dial-up modems. With broadband technology, the MON internet is always there. And better connection speeds don't MON just mean we can download music and movies faster. They're MON creating new opportunities for musicians to collaborate and MON make music online. MON MON Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir features singers from MON countries as diverse as Syria and Cuba. MON MON Former 10CC musician Kevin Godley wants to democratise the MON music business with his Whole World Band App that allows MON anyone to make music with musicians anywhere on the planet - MON even with Ronnie Wood. MON MON Musicians at Edinburgh Napier University and the Royal MON College of Music in London are using new technology on MON high-speed research networks that allows them to play MON together with musicians in other countries in real-time. The MON Young Vic want to use similar technology to stage an MON international three-centre opera. New York's Metropolitan MON Opera say the technology will revolutionise opera MON performance. MON MON And Ian O'Connell from Musion, the company that brought the MON late rapper Tupac Shakur back to life at the Coachella MON festival, talks about how faster networks and hologram MON technology mean music concerts of the future will be a whole MON new experience. MON MON Producer: Gill Davies MON An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b05qfxfb (Listen) MON Series 7, Secrets MON MON Secret holders share why and how they have used the internet MON to disclose their most intimate or well kept secrets - how MON does a compulsion to confess in a public setting effect MON those who the secret is about? And can this audition of MON secrets online naturally lead to revealing them offline? MON MON Aleks talks to her high school friends to unravel the MON secrecy about an open secret society at her high school MON which she was never invited to join. She discovers the power MON of secrets and could this type of secret society could exist MON today given the presence of social media. MON MON We also hear from Frank Warren the secret keeper of the MON online website and app PostSecret. Yorick Phoenix who used MON PostSecret to air a secret kept for 30 years tells us why he MON was happy to use such a public setting to explain that he MON kept his daughter a secret from his family. Aleks addresses MON the ownership of secrets and how the internet can impact on MON this. We hear from Yorick's daughter, Rachael about how she MON feels that her father's secret, which is also her own, is MON online for all to hear. MON MON And former MI6 officer Harry Fergusson talks about context MON collapse and how he managed to keep his work and family life MON separate. MON MON Producer: Kate Bissell. MON MON Frank Warren MON Frank is the founder of Postsecret and a man reported to MON have seen more secrets than any other person. MON MON Yorick Pheonix MON MON Yorick is a Software Engineer from the UK who know lives in MON San Francisco. He speaks about a secret he has kept for 30 MON years MON MON Rachael MON Yorick’s daughter who the secret is about MON MON Harry Fergusson MON Harry is a former MI6 spy and Historian MON MON Dave Cooperstein MON MON Dave and Aleks went to high school together. He was involved MON with the secret society she could never gain access MON to. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON MON MON *My memories of Aleks in high school are limited to 3 MON things: boundless energy, unusual hair color, and crazy MON colored Converse All-Star shoes. I'm not sure much has MON changed in the last 25 years.* MON MON 17:00 PM b05qfxfd (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05q5w9d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Dilemma b05qg5jh (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 2 MON MON Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts MON the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel. This MON week, it's the turn of comedians Lucy Porter and Andy MON Zaltzman, BBC 6Music DJ Shaun Keaveney, and food writer Jack MON Monroe, who debate letting your children play with the MON offspring of racists, going on the minimum wage in exchange MON for other people's living standards being raised, and how to MON react to discovering infidelity just before you get married. MON Episode two of six. MON MON Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by MON Danielle Ward. MON MON Producer ... Ed Morrish. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Lucy Porter MON Panellist: Shaun Keaveny MON Panellist: Jack Monroe MON Panellist: Andy Zaltzman MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05qg5jk (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:16 Front Row b05qg5jm (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05qfj19 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Hobsbawm File b05qg5jp (Listen) MON Frances Stonor Saunders explores the hidden history of MON Britain's covert programme against Communism during the Cold MON War. Using the prism of the recently released MI5 MON surveillance file on the late Marxist historian Eric MON Hobsbawm, she tells the story not so much of the man himself MON but of the British State that developed such an obsessive MON interest in him. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b05pqskm (Listen) MON The Bizarre Workings of St Louis County, Missouri MON MON Are excessive traffic fines and debtors' jails fuelling MON community tensions in suburban Missouri? Claire Bolderson MON reports on a network of ninety separate cities in St Louis MON County, most of which have their own courts and police MON forces. Critics say that their size makes them financially MON unviable and allege that some of them boost their incomes by MON fining their own citizens and locking them up when they MON can't pay. MON MON This edition of Crossing Continents goes out and about in St MON Louis County to meet the people who say they are victims of MON a system which sees arrest warrants issued for relatively MON minor misdemeanours. Many of the victims are poor and black. MON The programme also takes us into the courts, and out onto MON the freeways with some of the County's police, who say they MON are upholding the law and promoting road safety. MON MON The US government is not so sure. One of the towns in MON question is Ferguson where riots erupted after a white MON police officer shot a young black man dead last summer. In a MON recent report on the riots, the Department of Justice MON concluded that the Ferguson police had been stopping people MON for no good reason. It said they were putting revenue before MON public safety. MON MON Claire Bolderson investigates how widespread the practice is MON and considers the impact on relations between citizens and MON the authorities that govern them. MON MON Produced by Michael Gallagher. MON MON 21:00 3D Bioprinting b05pn3t4 (Listen) MON It is hard to escape the explosion of 3D printing stories in MON the media. Every day it seems, the latest developments in 3D MON printing are thrust in front our eyes and ears. 3D printing MON is at the cusp of an electronic and technological MON revolution. A revolution the likes of which the world hasn't MON seen since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution over 200 MON years ago. The indications are that it could soon be MON possible for 3D Printers to manufacture any object from any MON material...including living cells. MON MON Presenter Howard Stableford investigates a specific aspect MON and whether this development in 3D printing can bring real MON benefit to the natural world. MON MON Along the way Howard discovers a 3D printed reef structure MON and scientific applications. With species extinction in the MON natural world is a reality Howard then asks the bigger MON question, "could 3D bioprinting to reverse this? Are we near MON the point when we could reproduce a living species? MON MON An Orwellian thought maybe, but is it unreasonable to think MON that 3D printing might one day bring the iconic Dodo back MON from the dead. MON MON Professor Brian Derby MON Brian Derby is Professor of Materials Science in the MON School of Materials at Manchester University MON . His research interests span a wide range with a focus on MON the processing-structure-mechanical properties relation in MON ceramics and glasses, biomaterials and nanostructured MON materials. MON Recently he has been at the forefront of research into the MON development of inkjet printing as a manufacturing tool. He MON has particular interest in developing methods of MON characterising materials and processes in situ. Much of this MON work has been carried out collaborating with industry and MON other research groups across the world. MON MON Dr Amber Griffiths MON Dr Amber Griffiths works at the interfaces between society, MON research, education and policy, both at the MON University of Exeter's Environment and MON Sustainability Institute MON and as a Director of MON FoAM Kernow MON – a non-profit independent arts and research organisation. MON She has over ten years of experience in research and MON education in applied biosciences, and has worked in both MON science publishing and policy. Amber's current interests are MON making physical spaces to bring diverse expertise together MON (for example hacklabs), developing citizen science asa way MON to allow society to drive scientific discovery, and MON furthering the open access/open data movement to broaden MON access to public funded research. MON MON MON David Lennon MON David Lennon specialises in artificial reef technology and MON is co-founder of the MON Reef Design Lab MON and has set up three other artificial reef companies; MON Reef Ball Australia MON Sustainable Oceans International MON and MON Reef Arabia MON While conducting marine research for MON KFUPM Research Institute MON in Saudi Arabia, he started building artificial reefs with MON French scientist Eric Charbonnel in 1991 and at the time was MON involved in fish surveys of steel oil platforms in the MON Gulf. He fell in love with the concept of providing homes MON for fish and witnessing their enthusiastic uptake of his MON creations. Ever since, he has studied how fish and other MON marine biota interact with artificial reefs constructed from MON a range of materials, including surveys to assess the MON performance of coastal canal estates, wrecks and concrete MON pipes as artificial reefs. MON MON Joe Weisenbach MON Joe Weisenbach began his career in engineering at MON Metatec Corporation MON in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. He has over 24 years MON experience in CD and DVD manufacturing, specialising in MON archival grade products. MON For the past 18 years, Joe has worked in several roles at MON MAM-A Inc MON in Colorado Springs including Engineering Manager, Quality MON Manager, Applications Engineering and most recently, General MON Manager for the new 3D Printing Store. MON MON Professor David Williams, OBE MON Professor Williams is also Director of the MON Loughborough-led EPSRC MON (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Centre MON for Innovative Manufacturing in Regenerative Medicine. MON Professor Williams has also recently been appointed as the MON academic lead for the MON University’s Research Challenge in Health and Wellbeing MON The six Research Challenges bring together associated MON research from across the University to accelerate the MON delivery of distinctive solutions to regional, national and MON international challenges. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05qfj13 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05q5w9g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05qg5jr (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05qg5p7 (Listen) MON Gorsky, Episode 1 MON MON A fabulously wealthy Russian visits a struggling Chelsea MON bookshop with a proposal. MON MON When the enigmatic Russian billionaire Roman Gorsky enters a MON quiet Chelsea Mews bookshop, Nick - himself an immigrant MON from the former Yugoslavia - has no idea of the impact this MON man will have on his work and private life. He only knows MON that he has been handed the best commission of his life - to MON create a private library of unparalleled scope and almost MON priceless worth. MON MON But what lies behind Gorsky's desire to create this MON masterpiece, in a land far from his birth, as he endeavours MON to put down roots in this new city he calls home? MON MON Read by Philip Arditti MON MON Written by Vesna Goldsworthy MON Abridged by Isobel Creed MON MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Philip Arditti MON Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy MON Abridger: Isobel Creed MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b05pn676 (Listen) MON Landscape Language MON MON Michael Rosen and Laura Wright talk to Dominick Tyler about MON the evocative words he's collecting, words that people use MON to describe features in the British landscape - from Dingle MON to Desire Path.. MON Dominick Tyler is the author of Uncommon Ground: A MON word-lover's guide to the British landscape, and with his MON Landreader Project he aims to create a glossary of the MON British landscape. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 The Design Dimension b04p84h8 (Listen) MON Series 2, Know Your Place MON MON In the first of a new series, Tom Dyckhoff, writer about MON architecture, looks at the world we inhabit through the lens MON of design. MON MON He examines how the design of the built environment can MON influence who we are and who we might become. He talks to an MON ex-offender about life inside Strangeways prison and finds MON echoes in the experiences of Lynsey Hanley, who's written MON about growing up on a large housing estate in the Midlands. MON Also, Tom taps into the little known use of 'parkour' (urban MON free-running) in the testing of high security facilities. MON MON He draws on the research of criminologist Yvonne Jewkes MON about prison design and rehabilitation, visits an Oxford MON Street retailer with the neuro-scientist Tim Holmes and MON gauges the social and personal impact of privatising public MON space with the author Anna Minton. MON MON Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown. MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 APRIL 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05q5wbh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05r0b35 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05q5wbk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05q5wbm (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05q5wbp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05q5wbr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05qg60s (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Andrew Martlew. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05qg60v (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45pj (Listen) TUE Alpine Swift TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Bill Oddie presents the alpine swift. Alpine swifts are TUE impressive anchor-shaped birds, the colour of coffee above TUE and milk-white below. In the UK Alpine swifts are annual TUE visitors, appearing in Spring, but they don't breed here. TUE They spend the winter in Africa and on their journey north TUE in spring some birds overshoot their breeding areas. Alpine TUE swifts can be seen as they arc through the skies and because TUE they travel so fast they can turn up almost anywhere from TUE central London to Shetland. TUE TUE Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba) TUE Webpage images courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05qgcgg (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b05qgcgj (Listen) TUE Nigel Shadbolt TUE TUE Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at TUE Southampton University, believes in the power of open data. TUE With Sir Tim Berners-Lee he persuaded two UK Prime Ministers TUE of the importance of letting us all get our hands on TUE information that's been collected about us by the government TUE and other organisations. But, this has brought him into TUE conflict with people who think there's money to be made from TUE this data. And open data raises issues of privacy. TUE TUE Nigel Shadbolt talks to Jim al-Khalili about how a degree in TUE psychology and philosophy lead to a career researching TUE artificial intelligence and a passion for open data. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03q6dzr (Listen) TUE Professor Iain Hutchison TUE TUE Anita Anand knew she was meant to be a journalist from the TUE moment she covered her first news story. An instinct she TUE followed proved to be correct, and convinced her that she TUE should pursue journalism. TUE TUE In this series of interviews for 'One to One', Anita TUE discovers what drives people to pursue certain careers. Was TUE there an epiphany, something in their very core, or a series TUE of events that motivated them? TUE TUE This week's guest is world-renowned facial surgeon, TUE Professor Iain Hutchison. In the very early part of his TUE career he spent a year working in casualty. He treated many TUE young men with facial injuries sustained in car accidents. TUE He realised that - simply by stitching them up under local TUE anaesthetic - he could make not just a medical, but an TUE emotional difference to their lives. It was this that led TUE him onto his career in facial surgery, and to the TUE establishment of a charity that researches the prevention TUE and treatment of facial diseases and injuries. TUE TUE Next week Anita speaks to Mathew Waddington, a partner in a TUE law firm who chose to specialise in children's law following TUE the death of his daughter. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE Anita Anand and Iain Hutchison TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05r3tcz (Listen) TUE The Shepherd's Life, Episode 2 TUE TUE James Rebanks is the first son of a shepherd, who was the TUE first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have TUE lived and worked in and around the Lake District for TUE generations. TUE TUE An increasingly marginalised and precarious livelihood - it TUE costs £1 to sheer a sheep, yet each fleece is worth only 40p TUE - Rebanks' anger at the way small farmers are treated, and TUE his passion for continuing his ancestors way of life, is TUE palpable. Through his eyes, we see that the Lake District is TUE not a playground or a scenic backdrop, it's a working TUE landscape that needs sheep and its farmers to survive. TUE TUE James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter TUE @herdyshepherd1 where you can see photographs detailing day TUE to day life on the farm - including his fine flock of TUE Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the workforce, TUE sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. TUE TUE Read by Bryan Dick TUE Written by James Rebanks TUE Abridged by Sian Preece TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Bryan Dick TUE Author: James Rebanks TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05qgcgn (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 b05qgcgq (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 27 - The Journal of a Joskin, 1940: The TUE Promised Land TUE TUE The series which explores the 20th century through the TUE diaries and correspondence of real people. Further journals TUE of Yorkshire farm labourer and aspiring writer Fred Kitchen TUE adapted by Stephen Wakelam. Pastures new for published TUE cowman Fred Kitchen. TUE TUE 1940: The Promised Land TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE Credits TUE Fred: Ralph Ineson TUE Ethel: Sarah Thom TUE Cynthia: Roslyn Hill TUE Simmons: David Acton TUE Official: Shaun Mason TUE Mr Wall: Sam Dale TUE Jack: Monty d'Inverno TUE Alderman: Paul Stonehouse TUE Hadfield: Paul Heath TUE Writer: Stephen Wakelam TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE 11:00 Future Speak b05qgcgs (Listen) TUE Look closely and you'll see that computer code is written TUE all over our offices, our homes and now in our classrooms TUE too. TUE TUE The recent Lords' Digital Skills report says the UK's TUE digital potential is at a make or break point, with a skills TUE gap to be plugged and a generation gap to be bridged. TUE TUE As technologist Tom Armitage argues, there's also a leap of TUE the imagination to be made, to conceive of the wider TUE benefits of reading, writing, and even thinking in code. TUE TUE sets out to decode digital literacy for the so-called TUE 'second machine age'. He considers why and how we should TUE become fluent in the language of computing and, once we've TUE mastered it, what we might do with it. With perspectives TUE from education, industry, academia, the media, science and TUE the arts, he explores a world where, increasingly, code is TUE what you make of it. TUE TUE Baroness Morgan explains why digital skills are high on the TUE House of Lords' agenda; Ian Livingstone CBE, role-playing TUE game creator, tells us why he campaigned for coding in TUE schools; and Professor John Naughton considers what the rest TUE of us should learn to engage democratically in the digital TUE age. TUE TUE Tom visits Benton Park in Newcastle, claiming to be the TUE first primary school in the country to boast a Raspberry Pi TUE Orchestra and speaks to Clare Sutcliffe who founded Code TUE Club before computer science made it onto the curriculum. TUE TUE Outside of the classroom, Tom finds out how the STEMettes TUE are using coding to increase the presence of women in TUE science, technology, engineering and maths - and he TUE discovers why Imogen Heap now prefers to make music with TUE wearable technology. TUE TUE Producer: Kirsty Mcquire TUE A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b05mbc0p (Listen) TUE Series 20, Hallelujah TUE TUE Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' took him years to write. It TUE originally had as many as 80 verses. Recorded for his TUE 'Various Positions' album, it was almost ignored when first TUE released in 1984. Only Bob Dylan saw its true worth and TUE would play it live. John Cale eventually recorded a version TUE which was heard by an obscure musician called Jeff Buckley. TUE TUE The song has been covered by hundreds of artists including TUE Rufus Wainwright, K.D.Lang and Alexandra Burke. TUE TUE We hear from those whose relationship with the song is deep TUE and profound: singer Brandi Carlisle listened to it over and TUE over again as a troubled teenager; it became a sound-track TUE to James Talerico falling in love and Jim Kullander made a TUE connection with the song after the death of his wife. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05q5wbt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 A History of Ideas b05qgcgx (Listen) TUE Paul Broks on John Locke and Personal Identity TUE TUE Neuropsychologist Paul Broks asks how we can be sure we're TUE the same person as we were yesterday. The philosopher John TUE Locke thought it depended on what we could remember: if we TUE could remember something happening to us, then we were the TUE same person as the person it happened to. But is that true? TUE TUE What if our memories could be downloaded and then uploaded TUE into another body? Would that new person be the same as us? TUE And if so, how much would we care if the body we now inhabit TUE was destroyed? These sci-fi philosophical thought TUE experiments can make us rethink our concept of personal TUE identity and maybe even our attitudes towards death. In the TUE end, is there really a self at all, or are we just a bundle TUE of mental states and events? TUE TUE Presenter: Paul Broks TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 12:16 You and Yours b05qgcgz (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05q5wbw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05qgch1 (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05qg5jk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k9q71 (Listen) TUE The Last Breath TUE TUE The drama is set in 2018. Assisted suicide has been TUE legalised in the UK. TUE TUE Ben Fearnside is an abstract expressionist painter. He has TUE had some success with London galleries but his work has now TUE fallen out of fashion. Without an audience his life-work is TUE unwitnessed and 'uncreated'. He decides to make one final TUE piece of art: he will capture a dying breath in a jar and TUE exhibit it. TUE TUE Ben invites freelance radio producer Anita Sullivan to TUE profile him and document the process of capturing The Last TUE Breath. But as the date for breath capture approaches, the TUE identity of the donor remains a mystery. TUE TUE 'The Last Breath' is a high-concept piece of drama about a TUE high-concept piece of art. It plays with narrative form by TUE blending documentary and drama, using real people and real TUE names with a fictional story. The play asks some big TUE questions: what is art, what should be sacrificed in the TUE name of art... and what is the price of a soul? TUE TUE The Last Breath was created by Ben Fearnside with Anita TUE Sullivan TUE TUE Nicky is played by Nicola Walker TUE The interviewees are; TUE Derek and Mo Fearnside, Ben Fletcher, Professor Emma Jones, TUE Anthony Chopper White, Linda Keenan and Dr Mark Gretason. TUE The Static State artists are; TUE Kenny Watson, Alex Allan, Joseph Watts and Robert Perry. TUE TUE Music was written and performed by Nick Tettersell. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Nicky: Nicola Walker TUE Writer: Ben Fearnside TUE Writer: Anita Sullivan TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b05qgch3 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Heartsong TUE TUE From the first touch to the last kiss, Josie Long hears TUE stories of love, loss and finding yourself. TUE TUE An audio diary shines a light on how we rebuild ourselves TUE after the end of a relationship, a final kiss in a love TUE affair holds us in a moment crackling with tension, and a TUE first touch offers a moment of tenderness. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE The items featured in today's programme are: TUE TUE A Kiss TUE Produced by Kaitlin Prest with music by Kyle Kaplan TUE Editorial support from the School of Making Thinking, and TUE Terrence Pender and Mitra Kaboli. TUE Originally aired on Radiotopia's The Heart. TUE http://www.theheartradio.org/ TUE TUE Edith's Passport TUE Produced by Eloise Stevens with music by Raphaella TUE Cello played by George Cooke TUE TUE When Will This End? TUE Produced by Sally Herships with Carolyn Lenske TUE TUE Prepared to Love TUE Feat. Adrian Howells TUE Produced by Karl James TUE Originally aired on The Dialogue Project TUE You can hear the story in it's entirety here: TUE http://understandingdifference.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/prepar TUE d-to-love.html. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05qgch5 (Listen) TUE Cycle City TUE TUE The bulldozers have already begun work on London's 'cycle TUE superhighways' or 'Crossrail for bikes'. Cycling enthusiasts TUE have declared these segregated lanes to be the TUE infrastructure which London needs to make cycling much more TUE appealing for all. Andrew Gilligan, the Mayor's Cycling TUE Commissioner says if Transport for London can get the TUE engineering right then cycling in the capital will become TUE safer and far more people might make the switch from cars, TUE buses and trains to carbon free pedal power. The potential TUE carbon and congestion savings are huge, up to 25% of TUE transport emissions if we can reach the levels of cycling TUE now seen in Copenhagen, and those who cycle are also TUE healthier. However, to replicate Dutch or Danish bike TUE culture cycling's appeal must move beyond the lycra-clad TUE males to become the first choice for women, children and TUE older people too. TUE TUE Tom Heap finds out if these cycle superhighways can really TUE deliver for the capital and if the huge amounts of money TUE being spent here and elsewhere across the country can ensure TUE a cycling revolution for all of Britain's would-be bikers. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05qgch7 (Listen) TUE The Pedant TUE TUE What is a pedant, and where does pedantry come from? Michael TUE Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss with Times writer Oliver TUE Kamm, who describes himself as a "reformed pedant". TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05qgch9 (Listen) TUE Series 36, Rachel Johnson on Ottoline Morrell TUE TUE Rachel Johnson author and journalist champions the life of TUE Ottoline Morrell. The Bloomsbury hostess, a mistress, a TUE dominant figure in the arts without being an artist herself TUE was often mocked and ridiculed. Rachel tells Matthew Parris TUE why her extraordinary life was a great life. They are also TUE joined by author and one of Lady Ottoline's biographers TUE Miranda Seymour. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Rachel Johnson TUE Interviewed Guest: Miranda Seymour TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05qgcjl (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05q5wc0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan b05qgcjn (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Max and Ivan are private detectives for whom no case is too TUE small......Sorry, for whom no fee is too small. Matt Lucas TUE joins them to solve a showbiz mystery. TUE TUE Driven by their love of truth, justice (and the need to pay TUE off their terrifying landlord, Malcolm McMichaelmas), they TUE take on crimes that no-one else would consider. In this TUE case, the mysterious disappearance of film impresario Bernie TUE Goldfinkelrubenstein's leading man. TUE TUE Max and Ivan - comedians and actors Max Olesker and Ivan TUE Gonzalez - are a critically acclaimed, award-winning double TUE act who have quickly established themselves as one of the TUE most exciting comedy duos on the circuit. TUE TUE Over the course of the series they are dropped into new TUE worlds, and have to use their skills to penetrate deep into TUE each community. If that means Ivan dressing up as a 14 year TUE old German girl, so be it! TUE TUE Cast: TUE Max...............Max Olesker TUE Ivan..............Ivan Gonzalez TUE Bernie...........Matt Lucas TUE Malcolm.........Lewis MacLeod TUE Norman.........David Reed TUE Lizzie............Jenny Bede TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd TUE A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05qgcn6 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:16 Front Row b05qgcn8 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05qgcgq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Edge b05qgd0n (Listen) TUE As cruise missiles and precision bombs rained down on Iraq TUE in 1990 some believed it marked the dawn of a new age in TUE which the US would stand supreme and police the world. But TUE this was a fleeting moment of overwhelming military TUE superiority relying on forces built up over a decades-long TUE Cold War arms race. TUE TUE Almost everything that has happened since Operation Desert TUE Storm, when the US and its allies kicked Saddam Hussein out TUE of Kuwait, has served to demonstrate the limitations of TUE Western power and the rise of other forces. Defence spending TUE has been falling in many NATO states, and assumptions made TUE at the end of the Cold War about the nature of future TUE threats now look questionable. TUE TUE With Vladimir Putin challenging Europe, China's inexorable TUE economic rise and Islamic radicalism remaking the Middle TUE East, the West seems everywhere on the defensive. And TUE there's disturbing evidence to suggest that Western forces - TUE including even those of the United States - are nowhere near TUE as strong as many might assume. In this programme Mark Urban TUE asks an uncomfortable question: Is the West losing its TUE military edge? TUE TUE Producer: Mike Gallagher TUE Editor: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05qgd0q (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b05qgd0s (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond with the latest in psychology, neuroscience TUE and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b05qgcgj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05q5wc3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05qgd0v (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05qsylp (Listen) TUE Gorsky, Episode 2 TUE TUE Chelski: a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story TUE about beauty, money and books. TUE TUE A beautiful Russian woman, married to an Englishman, but do TUE they really share a gilded life? TUE TUE Natalia and Tom Summerscale are a golden couple who live an TUE opulent life in Chelsea. When Nick is called upon to deliver TUE an art book for Natalia to their home, The Laurels, he TUE enters a world where everything appears to be perfect. TUE TUE Read by Philip Arditti TUE TUE Written by Vesna Goldsworthy TUE Abridged by Isobel Creed TUE TUE Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Philip Arditti TUE Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy TUE Abridger: Isobel Creed TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b015p632 (Listen) TUE Cheltenham Literary Festival TUE TUE Matt Harvey presents a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, TUE interactive poetry cabaret, joined by one man house band TUE Jerri Hart, fellow poet AF Harrold, and musical comedian, TUE Helen Arney. The Cheltenham Literary Festival audience will TUE contribute a crowd-sourced poem on a theme of their own TUE choice. In past shows it's ranged from the delights of TUE gerbils to garden sheds. What will they choose? TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 The Design Dimension b04ps6py (Listen) TUE Series 2, Designing Protest TUE TUE In the second of a new series, Tom Dyckhoff, writer about TUE architecture, looks at the world we inhabit through the lens TUE of design. TUE TUE Through the experiences of an activist on the streets of TUE Ferguson, Missouri, who made a gas mask from a 'how to' TUE guide exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the TUE playfully provocative design of giant 'carbon bubbles' for a TUE climate change march, Tom explores the history and the TUE practice of design in protest. TUE TUE Fashion writer Cally Blackman reflects on Victorian TUE 'rational fashion' and political T-shirts in the era of TUE Margaret Thatcher, to test Quentin Bell's declaration that TUE the history of fashion is largely about protest. TUE TUE And Catherine Flood, co-curator of Disobedient Objects, TUE discusses with the comedian and political activist Mark TUE Thomas how necessity can be the mother of inventive design TUE for those engaged in movements for social change. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05q5wcz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05r3tcz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05q5wd1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05q5wd3 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05q5wd5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05q5wd7 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05qgjjr (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Andrew Martlew. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05qgjjt (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45q5 (Listen) WED Ruff WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Bill Oddie presents the ruff. The glory of the ruff lies in WED its extravagant courtship displays. For most of the year WED these waders look similar to our other long-legged WED water-birds such as redshanks or sandpipers but in the WED breeding season the males sprout a multi-coloured ruff. The WED impressive ruffs of feathers come in infinite variety, WED black, white, ginger, or a mixture of these. The males WED gather at traditional spring leks with the aim of winning WED one or more mates. WED WED Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED Recording of ruff by Patrik Åberg (Xeno-canto.org) WED WED This programme contains a recording of a ruff, which was WED recorded by Patrik Åberg and sourced via the website WED Xento-canto.org. WED WED WED WED Reference XC58549 / Original recording accessible at WED www.xeno-canto.org/58549. WED WED 06:00 Today b05qgk89 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05qgk8c (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05r3xc3 (Listen) WED The Shepherd's Life, Episode 3 WED WED James Rebanks is the first son of a shepherd, who was the WED first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have WED lived and worked in and around the Lake District for WED generations. WED WED Small scale farming is an increasingly precarious WED livelihood, it's almost impossible to earn enough money to WED bring up a family, you need a secondary income. And so, as WED disagreements with his father intensified, James, aged WED twenty-one, decided to return to education, resulting in a WED place at Oxford. All the time he was away, he longed to be WED back home, working on the fells. WED WED James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter ( as the WED @herdyshepherd1 ) where you can see photographs detailing WED day to day life on the farm - including his fine flock of WED Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the workforce, WED sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. WED WED Read by Bryan Dick WED Written by James Rebanks WED Abridged by Sian Preece WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Bryan Dick WED Author: James Rebanks WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05qgk8f (Listen) WED The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED Presented by Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05qgk8h (Listen) WED Writing the Century 27 - The Journal of a Joskin, 1948: WED Gooseberries WED WED The series which explores the 20th century through the WED diaries and correspondence of real people. Further journals WED of Yorkshire farm labourer and aspiring writer Fred Kitchen WED adapted by Stephen Wakelam. Finances are tight and writing WED commissions are few and far between. WED WED 1948: Gooseberries WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Fred: Ralph Ineson WED Ethel: Sarah Thom WED Cynthia: Roslyn Hill WED Harry: Paul Stonehouse WED Butcher: Sam Dale WED Eddie: Paul Heath WED Eileen: Jane Slavin WED Writer: Stephen Wakelam WED Director: David Hunter WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05qgk8k (Listen) WED Geoff and Vincent - Not Enough Love in the Workplace WED WED Fi Glover introduces two men with highly successful careers WED who are determined to diminish the stigma of mental health WED problems in the workplace by acknowledging their own, in the WED series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you WED listen. 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 Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b05qgk8m (Listen) WED Series 19, Episode 2 WED WED Alan Dein meets the modern residents of the Holy Island of WED Lindisfarne. While the recorded history of of the place can WED be traced back to the 6th century and includes the followers WED of St. Aiden and St Cuthbert, the current residents try to WED maintain a way of life that has existed for hundreds of WED years. Where the monks of Lindisfarne had contend with the WED Vikings and the Reformation, today's residents face an WED annual invasion of half a million tourists. WED WED When the tide is out coachloads of tourists and pilgrims WED flood onto the island. But when the tide comes in and the WED island is cut off from the mainland, the visitors disappear WED and silence descends. WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 11:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03wq26m (Listen) WED Smugglers WED WED Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they WED think is 'Help!'. WED WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED WED This week, the local seafarers' pub starts serving only WED coffee, there's no denying it's rum....the coffee, that is. WED So who better than Milton to sort it out? WED WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05q5wd9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 A History of Ideas b05qgm0g (Listen) WED Writer AL Kennedy on Sartre and the Individual WED WED Writer AL Kennedy on Existentialist ideas about the WED individual. Jean Paul Sartre argued that, for humans, WED 'existence preceeded essence'. This means that there is no WED blueprint or template from which to work - humans are free WED to make themselves up as they go along. Being an individual WED comes from the way you negotiate this freedom and the WED choices you make in the face of it. WED WED 12:16 You and Yours b05qgm0j (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05q5wdc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05qgm0l (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05qgcn6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k2bvz (Listen) WED Road to the Borders WED WED Written by Douglas Livingstone. WED WED Road to the Borders is set in Hawick over the weekend of the WED Reivers' Festival - a few days when the deeds of the reivers WED (dictionary definition: one who makes raids or plunders) are WED celebrated. WED WED Until James I & VI united England and Scotland the reivers WED ruled the Borders, stealing their neighbours' cattle and WED exacting revenge for the raids they suffered themselves. WED Hamish is as English as they come, but his father was born WED in the Borders and Jim's pride in his ancestry becomes more WED marked the older he becomes. As he looks back with regret to WED the rules that governed his forbears, he wishes his son WED could be more like the reivers of old. WED WED Road to the Borders is the sixth play in the Road series, in WED which writer Douglas Livingstone and director Jane Morgan WED team up at an event. The particular sounds are recorded and WED the atmosphere absorbed before Douglas writes the play. On WED this occasion, he responded to the romance and melodrama of WED the story of the reivers and the fact that his own father WED was a Scot played some part in the making of the play. WED WED Producer/Director: Jane Morgan WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b05qgm0p (Listen) WED Puzzled by benefits or tax credits? Paul Lewis and guests WED are ready to help, call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail your questions to moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED now. WED WED Illness, disability, losing your job, retirement or changing WED family circumstances can have a serious impact on your WED finances, making it harder or impossible to make ends meet. WED WED Support may be available in the form of benefits or tax WED credits and if you need help understanding your entitlement, WED making a claim or making sense of the system, Paul Lewis and WED guests will be waiting for your call on Wednesday. WED WED Are you affected by the changing benefits system or the roll WED out of Universal Credit? WED WED What can you do if you've been told there is an overpayment, WED who can check the figures and how will you repay the money? WED WED If you are trying to move into work, how will you manage if WED your salary is low? WED WED Or perhaps you are reducing your working hours to care for a WED relative or as you edge closer to retirement? WED WED Whatever stage of life you're at, joining Paul Lewis to WED answer your benefit questions will be: WED WED Phil Agulnik, Director, entitledto WED Will Hadwen, Working Families WED Gill Williams, Case Worker, Independent Age WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b05qgd0s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05qgm0r (Listen) WED The Ethnography Award 'Shortlist' WED WED The Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in WED association with the British Sociological Association, WED presents a special programme devoted to the academic WED research which has been short listed for our second annual WED award for a study that has made a significant contribution WED to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the everyday life WED of a culture or sub culture. Laurie Taylor is joined by WED three of the judges: Professor Beverley Skeggs, Professor WED Adam Kuper and Dr Coretta Phillips. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05qgm0t (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05qgm0w (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05q5wdf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05qgm0y (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a series of WED bizarre bets from history. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Producer: Joe Nunnery WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: Paul Byrne WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05qgm10 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:16 Front Row b05qgm1g (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05qgk8h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Two Rooms b05qgm2n (Listen) WED Fi Glover hosts a unique experiment as two groups of people WED share their contrasting experiences, and voice their inner WED concerns about the way society is developing, as Britain WED faces arguably the most unpredictable election of modern WED times. WED WED In the first programme, the groups explore whether they feel WED that the UK is creating a secure and financially stable WED society for all. WED WED Producer: Emma Jarvis WED Series Producer: David Prest WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b05qgm1y (Listen) WED Jamie Bartlett WED WED Jamie Bartlett finds out that internet trolls can be WED surprisingly human. The author of "The Dark Net", he says WED that demonising people behind shocking and hidden online WED subcultures may not be the best way to deal with them. WED Greater understanding of the complexity of their motivation WED could lead us to a more effective response. Without WED condoning their disturbing and unacceptable behaviour, he WED tells the stories of his surprising encounters with them. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05qgch5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05qgk8c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05qgm20 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05qt15f (Listen) WED Gorsky, Episode 3 WED WED Chelski: a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story WED about beauty, money and books. WED WED Nick's rented home abuts an enormous construction site for a WED 'private palace' in Chelsea. The owner of this massive WED undertaking and edifice is his employer, the elusive Roman WED Gorsky. WED WED After his visit to The Laurels, Nick bumps into Tom WED Summerscale and they have lunch together. Tom invites Nick WED to visit his accountant with him. WED WED Read by Philip Arditti WED WED Written by Vesna Goldsworthy WED Abridged by Isobel Creed WED WED Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Philip Arditti WED Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy WED Abridger: Isobel Creed WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 23:00 Jigsaw b01r0zbh (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED WED Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine piece together WED a selection of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by WED Colin Anderson. WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b03b2mdg (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Belinda offers Nigel's services as a songwriter to the local WED football team to celebrate their possible cup run. Nigel, WED however, is slightly more concerned with a money-spinning WED sideline selling cheap and nasty music satchels whilst WED coping with his usual array of challenging pupils. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Rob: Dave Lamb WED Kev: Jim North WED Steve: Jim North WED Bradley: Adrian Decosta WED Alvin: Joseph Webb WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:30 The Design Dimension b04svfs1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Ageing Gracefully WED WED Tom Dyckhoff, the writer about architecture, looks at the WED world we inhabit through the lens of design. WED WED In today's episode, he talks to Sir Kenneth Grange about his WED ideas on designing furniture for older people, for whom the WED shiny surfaces and minimal comfort of much modernist design WED poses challenges. WED WED He visits a retro-fitted 'Fifties home in Staffordshire and WED the site of the soon-to-be restored vintage-style amusement WED park, Dreamland in Margate, asking at what point a building, WED object or experience should become monumentalised. WED WED And from Brooklyn, New York Tom hears about 'creative WED caring' and the need to 'respect age' for the objects in our WED lives, from participants in the Fixers' Collective. WED WED Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05q5wfd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05r3xc3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05q5wfg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05q5wfj (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05q5wfl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05q5wfn (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05qjlv2 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Andrew Martlew. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05qjlv4 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45r3 (Listen) THU Little Ringed Plover THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Bill Oddie presents the little ringed plover. In 1938, there THU was great excitement at a Hertfordshire reservoir. On the THU gravelly shoreline a pair of birds, which had never bred in THU the UK before, were showing signs of nesting. They were THU little ringed plovers, summer visitors to Continental Europe THU and they'd been attracted to the reservoirs' shingle banks THU where they laid their clutch of four eggs. Today there are THU around a thousand pairs in the UK. THU THU Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b05qjq65 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05qjq67 (Listen) THU Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo THU Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a THU Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci THU travelled extensively and came into contact with senior THU officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is THU one of the most important encounters between Renaissance THU Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to THU outsiders. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05r3zjm (Listen) THU The Shepherd's Life, Episode 4 THU THU James Rebanks is the first son of a shepherd, who was the THU first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have THU lived and worked in and around the Lake District for THU generations. THU THU In this episode, he remembers the dark days of 2001, when THU farmers faced the horror of Foot and Mouth disease. From the THU loss came something unexpected: a neighbour's kindness led THU him to breed pure Herdwick sheep. THU THU James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter (he's the THU @herdyshepherd1 ) where you can see photographs detailing THU day to day life on the farm - including his fine flock of THU Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the workforce, THU sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. THU THU Read by Bryan Dick THU Written by James Rebanks THU Abridged by Sian Preece THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Bryan Dick THU Author: James Rebanks THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05qjq69 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05qjq6c (Listen) THU Writing the Century 27 - The Journal of a Joskin, 1958: THU Preacher THU THU The series which explores the 20th century through the THU diaries and correspondence of real people. Further journals THU of Yorkshire farm labourer and aspiring writer Fred Kitchen THU adapted by Stephen Wakelam. Fred is now a school gardener THU and preacher alongside his spasmodic writing career. THU THU 1958: Preacher THU THU Pianist: Colin Guthrie THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Fred: Ralph Ineson THU Ethel: Sarah Thom THU Cynthia: Roslyn Hill THU Minister: Ian Conningham THU Trevor: Paul Heath THU Harold: Gerard McDermott THU Writer: Stephen Wakelam THU Director: David Hunter THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b05qjq6f (Listen) THU Who's Afraid of Teatr Doc? THU THU Teatr doc was founded 12 years ago by playwrights who THU couldn't find a venue willing to stage their THU documentary-style plays that often challenge the status quo. THU In December the theatre was raided and forced to shut its THU doors but it quickly reopened in new premises and is still THU cocking a snook at the authorities. "Doc" as it is known to THU those who frequent it, has been recognised internationally THU as one of Russia's most prolific, innovative, and socially THU engaged theatre companies. For Crossing Continents Lucy Ash THU attends the opening night in the theatre's new home, and THU asks its actors, directors and its audience what the theatre THU says about life in Russia today. THU THU 11:30 The Buchan Tradition b05qjq6h (Listen) THU A century after its first print run, the famous novel The 39 THU Steps continues to sell worldwide. It's never been out of THU print. THU THU The book's author, John Buchan, wasn't just a master of the THU suspense thriller, he also wrote poetry, short stories, THU essays, biographies and histories - all on top of his THU ambitious career as editor, publisher, intelligence officer, THU civil servant, politician, churchman, peer and, at the end THU of his life, Governor-General of Canada. THU THU The writer Nicholas Rankin examines Buchan's literary legacy THU through the lens of two of his descendants who have THU themselves become authors - James Buchan is one of John's THU grandsons, a former FT Middle East correspondent who now THU writes both fiction and non-fiction; while Ursula Buchan, a THU granddaughter of John Buchan, is a distinguished gardening THU journalist and social historian. THU THU With additional contributions from best selling novelist THU William Boyd and literary critic Kate MacDonald, James and THU Ursula reflect in a personal way on the influence John THU Buchan has had on their own writing and the significance of THU his books today. THU THU Producer: Dan Shepherd THU A Far Shoreline production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05q5wfq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 A History of Ideas b05qjq6k (Listen) THU Philosopher Jules Evans on Jung and the Mind THU THU Philosopher Jules Evans explores Jung and the shadow inside THU all of us. With archive contributions from Carl Jung and THU Sigmund Freud; plus fantasy writer Juliet McKenna and Mark THU Vernon, author of Carl Jung: How to Believe. THU THU 12:16 You and Yours b05qjq6m (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05q5wfs (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05qjq6p (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05qgm10 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05qjs7r (Listen) THU Have You Seen This Child? THU THU As Pat catches up with an old friend in the park, it THU suddenly dawns on her that her four year old grandchild is THU no longer in the playground. THU THU Clare Dywer Hogg has emerged as one of Ireland's most THU exciting new playwrights. Her first play Farewell, directed THU and starring Stephen Rea, premiered in December 2012 and THU launched the reforming of Field Day Theatre Company. It was THU also broadcast on R3 in March 2013. As well as her theatre THU work, Clare is an award-winning journalist having received THU the Premio Luchetta award for Human Rights journalism. Clare THU grew up in Northern Ireland, studied at Cambridge and lives THU in London. THU THU Credits THU Pat: Brid Brennan THU Emma: Lisa Dwyer Hogg THU Owen: Eugene O'Hare THU Ash: Ian McElhinney THU Policewoman: Fo Cullen THU Finn: Ronan Casey THU Lily: Clodagh Casey THU Writer: Clare Dywer Hogg THU THU 15:00 Open Country b05qjs7w (Listen) THU Sheffield Wild at Heart THU THU Helen Mark discovers why adults aged 50-105 are feeling Wild THU at Heart in Sheffield. THU With rising issues of loneliness and isolation, Project THU Coordinator Jan Flanack recognised a need to support older THU adults in her community. As someone who is passionate about THU the great outdoors - and knowledgeable about the health THU benefits that nature can offer - Jan set about creating the THU 'Wild at Heart Project'. The oldest Wild at Heart THU participant so far has been 101, with the average in their THU mid 80s. Many of the participants remember a time when THU people spent more of their lives outdoors so for them THU 'getting back to nature' is really about reconnecting with THU their past and their youth. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05q5y3x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05q6321 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05qjvnr (Listen) THU Jemaine Clement THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Flight Of The Conchords' Jemaine Clement on his vampire THU mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Jemaine Clement THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05qjvnt (Listen) THU Tracey Logan investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05qjvnw (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05q5wfv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03jz1hz (Listen) THU Series 9, Blood of the Reardons THU THU Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, THU complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his THU never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever THU scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and THU cat together. THU THU Ed discovers that he has diabetes and his daughter, Eli, THU turns up to be his calorie counter- in-chief. To escape THU Eli's gluten free falafel salad, Ed enrols on a clinical THU trial, and that's when his son, Jake turns up in the hope of THU a fly-on-the-wall documentary, although as Ping Points out, THU it will only be marketable if Ed dies! THU THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Dr Liz Newcombe: Claudie Blakley THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Eli: Lisa Coleman THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Jake: Sam Pamphilon THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05qjypd (Listen) THU Tom and Helen have plans, and Rob is feeling the strain. THU THU 19:16 Front Row b05qjypg (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05qjq6c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05qjypj (Listen) THU Sharia Law in Britain THU THU Britain's sharia councils are to be reviewed by the THU government. Reporter Jenny Chryss investigates Islamic law THU in the UK and asks if sharia councils should be under any THU greater scrutiny than other religious tribunals. THU THU Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou THU Reporter: Jenny Chryss. THU THU 20:30 In Business b05qjypl (Listen) THU Last Tango THU THU Less than fifteen years since Argentina last plunged into a THU serious economic crisis, there are fears that trouble is THU looming again. Peter Day reports from Buenos Aires on why THU the country finds it so hard to learn from its past and THU hears about potential solutions. He also watches the world THU famous tango dancing. THU THU Producer: Keith Moore. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05qjvnt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05qjq67 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05qjypn (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05qt72c (Listen) THU Gorsky, Episode 4 THU THU Chelski: a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story THU about beauty, money and books. THU THU The parallels with The Great Gatsby begin to emerge. Roman THU Gorsky has asked Nick to furnish the library of his mansion THU under construction with books of untold value and priceless THU editions of Russian classics. He also wants a section of art THU books which will impress a connoisseur. THU THU The bookseller of modest means finds himself drawn into a THU world of endless wealth. He also begins to spend time with THU the voracious former Bulgarian gymnast, Gery. THU THU Read by Philip Arditti THU THU Written by Vesna Goldsworthy THU Abridged by Isobel Creed THU THU Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Philip Arditti THU Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy THU Abridger: Isobel Creed THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 23:00 Chat Show Roulette b05qjypq (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU Justin Edwards is the host of the new improvised chat show. THU His guests are Simon Day, David Reed, Luisa Omielan and THU Beardyman - with musical accompaniment from James Sherwood. THU THU Devised by Ashley Blaker and Justin Edwards. THU THU Produced by Ashley Blaker THU A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Justin Edwards THU Interviewed Guest: Simon Day THU Interviewed Guest: David Reed THU Interviewed Guest: Luisa Omielan THU Interviewed Guest: Beardyman THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 23:30 The Design Dimension b04tjdxz (Listen) THU Series 2, For Better or Worse THU THU Tom Dyckhoff considers the digital future of design. He THU examines Daan Roosegaarde's "Smart Highway" initiative- THU building interactive and sustainable roads- looks at an THU android phone-based diagnostic eye examination for use in THU remote locations, and talks to Dominic Wilcox about the THU integration of craft and computer technology in his THU driverless car. THU THU Produced by Alan Hall and Hana Walker-Brown THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05q5wgw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05r3zjm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05q5wgy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05q5wh0 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05q5wh2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05q5wh4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05qk05p (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Andrew Martlew. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05qk05r (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45s5 (Listen) FRI Black Redstart FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Bill Oddie presents the black redstart. It was the German FRI Luftwaffe which enabled black redstarts to gain a real FRI foothold here. The air-raids of the Blitz created bombsites FRI which mimicked their rocky homes and the weeds that grew FRI there attracted insects. In 1942 there over twenty singing FRI males in London alone and now they're being encouraged by FRI the creation of 'green roof' habitats, rich in flowers and FRI insects. FRI FRI Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05qk0bk (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b05q5ynq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05r6sx0 (Listen) FRI The Shepherd's Life, Episode 5 FRI FRI Spring is the farmer's reward for the hard days of winter - FRI and in this final episode, the cycle of the year begins FRI again, as James Rebanks prepares for lambing. FRI FRI The first son of a shepherd, who was himself the first son FRI of a shepherd, James and his family have lived and worked in FRI and around the Lake District for generations. Through his FRI eyes we see that the Lake District is not a playground or a FRI scenic backdrop, it's a working landscape that needs sheep FRI and its farmers to survive. FRI FRI Read by Bryan Dick FRI Written by James Rebanks FRI Abridged by Sian Preece FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI Music details: FRI Track: "The Nightshift" FRI CD: Country Escape FRI Label: BBC Production Music BBCPM031. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bryan Dick FRI Author: James Rebanks FRI Abridger: Sian Preece FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05qk1d8 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05qk1db (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 27 - The Journal of a Joskin, 1968: Man FRI with a Scythe FRI FRI The series which explores the 20th century through the FRI diaries and correspondence of real people. Further journals FRI of Yorkshire farm labourer and aspiring writer Fred Kitchen FRI adapted by Stephen Wakelam. Nearly 78 Fred Kitchen is still FRI writing. FRI FRI 1968: Man with a Scythe FRI FRI Pianist: Colin Guthrie FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI Credits FRI Fred: Ralph Ineson FRI Cynthia: Roslyn Hill FRI Rupert: Paul Stonehouse FRI Trabb: Monty d'Inverno FRI Doctor: Ian Conningham FRI Trevor: Paul Heath FRI Bill: Gerard McDermott FRI Joyce: Jane Slavin FRI Writer: Stephen Wakelam FRI Director: David Hunter FRI FRI 11:00 The Sunday Night Drop b05qk1dd (Listen) FRI A look at the lives of children from divorced parents who FRI travel between parental homes. FRI FRI Every Sunday - in service stations, lay-bys and car parks - FRI children pass from one family to another. For a few hours FRI these children exist in a no-mans land between two parental FRI homes, bridging the distance between their parents' broken FRI relationships. Most of Britain is unaware of how far some FRI families have to travel to spend time with each other. FRI FRI It's a sign of our times. Nearly half of divorcing couples FRI in England and Wales have at least one child aged under 16 FRI and 4 million British children now live in separated FRI families. In England and Wales, only 10% of divorce cases go FRI to court, which means that the majority of parents might FRI have found arrangements that work for them and their FRI families. FRI FRI The Sunday Night Drop focuses on the living and loving in FRI modern fragmented families - sharing 'quality time', keeping FRI up appearances, being together yet also alone. It's a FRI glimpse at how families today are managing complexity, FRI difficulty and difference in a way that wasn't necessary in FRI the past. FRI FRI Producer: Emma Colman FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b037j7m0 (Listen) FRI Virginia van Cleeve FRI FRI Part 5 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. FRI FRI From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave FRI amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve FRI solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most FRI popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures FRI survive in the archives. FRI FRI In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to FRI life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and FRI Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and FRI recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the FRI production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to FRI sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have FRI done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so FRI popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, FRI Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, FRI and A Case for Paul Temple. FRI FRI Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory FRI Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the FRI mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. FRI FRI Episode 5: Virginia van Cleeve FRI FRI A sinister shop in the East End may hold a vital clue. FRI FRI Producer Patrick Rayner FRI FRI Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in FRI Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most FRI successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his FRI day. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul Temple: Crawford Logan FRI Steve: Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson FRI Zola: Greg Powrie FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Virginia van Cleeve: Francesca Dymond FRI Miss Marcia: Eliza Langland FRI Lanny Knight: Nick Underwood FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05q5wh6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas b05qk1n3 (Listen) FRI Philosopher Barry Smith on Descartes and Consciousness FRI FRI Rene Descartes, one of the most influential philosophers FRI ever, thought the mind was like an open book that could be FRI read by the light of reason. So there was nothing that we FRI could not access or examine in our own minds. In fact FRI Descartes argued that consciousness was the mind - there was FRI nothing beyond it. Now we see the mind as a labyrinthine FRI cellar full of bric-a-brac and untapped rooms of which FRI consciousness is merely one - and a small one at that. Barry FRI Smith charts this change and explains some of the FRI contemporary thinking about consciousness. FRI FRI 12:16 You and Yours b05qk1n5 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05q5wh8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05qk1n7 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha FRI Kearney. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05qjypd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05qk32w (Listen) FRI Carter Mysteries: The Incident of the Russian Visitors FRI FRI by Jonathan Holloway FRI FRI The 20th Century has left the Carter warehouse crammed with FRI history. When a dodgy pair arrive looking for a long-lost FRI Russian table it's the beginning of a far-reaching and FRI dangerous tale. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI Credits FRI Lisa: Jeany Spark FRI Phil: Stephen Greif FRI Gul: Sharif Dorani FRI Steven: Harry McEntire FRI Dmitri: Stephen Critchlow FRI Viktor: David Hounslow FRI Dan: Sam Dale FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Writer: Jonathan Holloway FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05qk6yw (Listen) FRI Warwickshire FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the panel in Warwickshire, with an FRI audience of local gardeners. Chris Beardshaw, Pippa FRI Greenwood and Christine Walkden answer the 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 Stories by Teffi b05qk6z1 (Listen) FRI Heart of a Valkyrie FRI FRI A series of tales by Teffi, a literary star in FRI pre-revolutionary Russia who has been published again: FRI FRI 3. In Heart of a Valkyrie, translated by Anne Marie Jackson, FRI the husband does little as his wife works all hours. The FRI neighbours laugh at him, until a remarkable 'change' takes FRI place.. FRI FRI Reader Hattie Morahan FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hattie Morahan FRI Writer: Teffi FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05qk6z7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b05qk6zb (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b05qk6zf (Listen) FRI Kat and Shelby - Being an SMA Teenager FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two seventeen year olds with Spinal FRI Muscular Atrophy who have very clear ideas about what it is FRI they need from a carer of PA, in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b05qk75m (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05q5whb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b05qk6zm (Listen) FRI Series 14, Episode 2 FRI FRI The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect FRI the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes FRI for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's FRI Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the FRI flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the FRI country. FRI FRI Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis FRI MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. FRI FRI Producer: Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Debra Stevenson FRI Producer: Bill Dare FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05qk6zq (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Simon Frith FRI Director ..... Marina Caldarone FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer ..... Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer ..... David Troughton FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Charlie Thomas ..... Felix Scott. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:16 Front Row b05qk6zs (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05qk1db (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05qk6zv (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05qk6zx (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas b05qk6zz (Listen) FRI Omnibus, What Does It Mean to Be Me? FRI FRI A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg, but told FRI in many voices. FRI FRI Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different FRI backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week FRI they're tackling the question 'What does it mean to be me?'. FRI Helping him answer it are the writer A. L. Kennedy, the FRI neuropsychologist Paul Broks, the philosopher Jules Evans, FRI and the ontologist Barry Smith. Between them they will FRI investigate consciousness, delve into memory, examine ideas FRI about the 'self' and veer into existentialism. Then each of FRI them attempt to take us further into the subject, with FRI programmes of their own. This Omnibus edition has all five FRI programmes together. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05q5whg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05qsj4h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05qt8jb (Listen) FRI Gorsky, Episode 5 FRI FRI Chelski: a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky: a story FRI about beauty, money and books. FRI FRI Nick Kimovic is rewarded for his efforts in the antiquarian FRI book auctions with a holiday of unsurpassed luxury on FRI Gorsky's private island. The other guests are an eclectic FRI array of Russian gangsters and English financiers. FRI FRI On his return he meets Gery, who has something to tell him. FRI FRI Read by Philip Arditti FRI FRI Written by Vesna Goldsworthy FRI Abridged by Isobel Creed FRI FRI Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Philip Arditti FRI Writer: Vesna Goldsworthy FRI Abridger: Isobel Creed FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 23:00 The Vote Now Show b05qk706 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI FRI A series of election specials from the Now Show gang kicks FRI off this evening. will host a series of six shows spread FRI across four weeks in the lead up to the General Election. FRI With the help of Jon Holmes, Pippa Evans, Laura Shavin, FRI Mitch Benn and special guests from across the political FRI spectrum they'll give their own unique take on the election FRI news and shennanigans. In the first show there'll be their FRI critique of the second of the leader's debates. FRI FRI Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. FRI FRI Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. FRI FRI 23:30 Great Lives b05qgch9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05qk70d (Listen) FRI Celia and Julie - Coping with Loss FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a widow with a single long marriage FRI behind her and her three times married daughter, comparing FRI their losses from death and divorce, in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
10 April, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 11/04/2015 - 17/04/2015
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