22 May, 2015

Radio 4 Listings for 23/05/2015 - 29/05/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05v6gg4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05vj0r4 (Listen) SAT Gold Fever, Episode 5 SAT SAT Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the SAT riches it promises, thousands have gone wild in their search SAT for it, and since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has SAT reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, SAT particularly in the US, people with no experience of SAT prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, SAT tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no SAT idea how to use. And off they went mining. SAT SAT Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 SAT he packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the SAT 21st century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to SAT understand the allure of the metal - and maybe find a bit SAT for himself too. SAT SAT He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who SAT left desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river SAT in scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of SAT striking it rich. Most of them only make enough money to SAT scrape a living, but Steve is surprised how happy they seem SAT to be. From them, he gets a crash course in small-scale SAT prospecting. SAT SAT He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two SAT centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers SAT (in particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) SAT who abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles SAT across perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of SAT riches. SAT SAT Readers: Paul Ritter and Sara Markland SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Paul Ritter SAT Reader: Sara Markland SAT Author: Steve Boggan SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05v6gg6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05v6gg8 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05v6ggb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05v6ggd (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05vhlm3 (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and SAT broadcaster Anna Magnusson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05vhlm5 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05v6ggg (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05v6ggj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b05vfgcb (Listen) SAT Series 30, Royal Greenwich Park SAT SAT In the first of a new series of Ramblings, Clare Balding SAT meets a group of parents who regularly share uplifting walks SAT in Royal Greenwich Park. The walkers each have children with SAT special needs and find that rambling in one of London's most SAT beautiful parks is both joyful and supportive. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05vrd95 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05v6ggl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05vrd97 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05vrd99 (Listen) SAT Jon Culshaw SAT SAT With Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. SAT SAT Jon Culshaw talks about making a career out of impressions, SAT with a repertoire of over 350 voices including John Major, SAT Simon Cowell, Ed Miliband and Patrick Moore. Jon also talks SAT about wanting to take on more serious roles, his fascination SAT with astronomy and love of old cars. SAT SAT Jack Andraka is a pioneering teenage scientist who SAT discovered a way to detect some forms of cancer in their SAT early stages. Now eighteen, he talks about his work, which SAT was initially inspired by the death of a close family SAT friend, and dealing with depression and homophobic bullying. SAT SAT Ninety-three year old Heather Beagley remembers the SAT excitement of being on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary SAT liner in 1936, which travelled from Southampton to New York SAT when she was fourteen. SAT SAT Writer, Director and Choreographer Rajeev Goswami talks SAT about bringing his musical Beyond Bollywood from Mumbai to SAT London's West End. SAT SAT Hotelier and presenter Alex Polizzi shares her Inheritance SAT Tracks: Brindisi from La Traviata and Nina Simone's I Put a SAT Spell on You. SAT SAT Jon Culshaw voices celebrity puppets in Newzoids, available SAT to watch on the ITV Player. SAT SAT Jack Andraka's memoir Breakthrough is out now. SAT SAT Beyond Bollywood is at the Palladium in London until the SAT 27th June. SAT SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Jon Culshaw SAT Interviewed Guest: Jack Andraka SAT Interviewed Guest: Heather Beagley SAT Interviewed Guest: Rajeev Goswami SAT Interviewed Guest: Alex Polizzi SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b05vrd9c (Listen) SAT Series 10, Bury St Edmunds SAT SAT Jay Rayner chairs the culinary panel programme from Bury St SAT Edmunds. SAT SAT Taking questions from a local audience are chef Sophie SAT Wright, Masterchef winner Tim Anderson, broadcaster and cook SAT Andi Oliver, and food historian Annie Gray. SAT SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT Produced by Miranda Hinkley SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b05vrd9f (Listen) SAT George Parker of the Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT How influential are the unions in selecting the Labour SAT leader -how best to choose a successful leader, and what can SAT we expect from the new team David Cameron has selected for SAT his No 10 policy unit. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05v6ggn (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05v6ggq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05vrd9h (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT Related links SAT Cancer Research UK: Travel Insurance SAT Macmillan: Travel Insurance SAT Travel Insurance Geek SAT The Pensions Regulator: Auto enrolment for people who employ SAT carers SAT Disability Rights UK SAT Independent Age SAT Citizens Advice: Subletting SAT Shelter England: Sharing and subletting SAT Shelter Scotland: Subletting if you are a tenant SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b05vhkv8 (Listen) SAT Series 87, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests Hugo SAT Rifkind, Mark Steel and Holly Walsh. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Panellist: Mark Steel SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05v6ggs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05v6ggv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05vhlcb (Listen) SAT Douglas Carswell MP, Mary Creagh MP, Lord Patten, Mark SAT Serwotka SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the SAT Alexander Centre in Faversham, Kent, with UKIP MP Douglas SAT Carswell, Shadow Secretary of State for International SAT Development Mary Creagh MP, former Conservative Party SAT Chairman and former chairman of the BBC Trust Lord Patten SAT and Mark Serwota who is the Director General of the Public SAT and Commercial Services Union. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05vrd9k (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? With Julian Worricker. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b05vrg6z (Listen) SAT Vincent in Brixton SAT SAT by Nicholas Wright SAT SAT Brixton, 1873. A young Dutchman rents a room in the house of SAT an English widow. Based on fact, Nicholas Wright's play SAT charts the genesis of the artistic genius of Vincent van SAT Gogh. SAT SAT Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Play. SAT Producer/director ..... Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT Credits SAT Ursula: Monica Dolan SAT Vincent: Finn den Hertog SAT Eugenie: Melody Grove SAT Sam: Justin Salinger SAT Anna: Maggie Service SAT Writer: Nicholas Wright SAT Director: Gaynor Macfarlane SAT Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05vrg71 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT George Clooney talks about his new film Tommorrowland and SAT his views on being an older man in the movie business. SAT Despite being a crime, sexual harassment has become a SAT regular part of a woman's night out. We ask why and find out SAT what is being done to stop it. SAT We hear from Emma Sky, the anti-war civilian woman who SAT established herself as an essential political advisor to US SAT Army top brass and the good friend to many Iraqis. SAT The Bank of England is asking for nominations from the SAT public for a visual artist to appear on the new £20 note. We SAT discuss what female visual artist would be a good choice? SAT We hear how Clementine Churchill, Winston's wife, played SAT such an integral role, in his life and work. SAT Michelle Obama has spoken about how she has had to fight SAT black stereotypes when she was called Obama's baby momma and SAT Uppity. So how do black women fulfil their potential in the SAT face of such stereotypes? SAT We talk to the football coach Annie Zaidi about what it's SAT like to coach a team of men when you're a British Asian SAT muslim in a headscarf? SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: George Clooney SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Sky SAT Interviewed Guest: Annie Zaidi SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05vrg73 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Simon Jack. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b05vhlm5 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05v6ggy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05v6gh0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05v6gh2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05vrg75 (Listen) SAT Danny Wallace, Ainsley Harriott, Harriet Walter, Ana SAT Matronic, Hadley Freeman, Boubacar Traore, Kaleida SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Danny Wallace welcome Ainsley Harriott, SAT Harriet Walter, Ana Matronic and Hadley Freeman, with music SAT from Boubacar Traore and Kaleida SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Ana Matronic SAT SAT Ana Matronic presents the Eurovision warm-up programme live SAT from Vienna at 6.00pm on Radio 2's Eurovision pop-up digital SAT service on Saturday 23rd May. For extensive Eurovision SAT coverage SAT click for more details SAT SAT Ainsley Harriot SAT SAT Ainsley Harriott’s Street Food continues for its second SAT episode on More Four, Sunday 24th May at 8pm. SAT Ainsley Harriot's official website SAT SAT Harriet Walter SAT SAT The Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'Death of a SAT Salesman' is at the Noel Coward Theatre, London until the SAT 18th July. Ticket information can be found via the SAT RSC website SAT Harriet Walter's official website SAT SAT Hadley Freeman SAT SAT Life Moves Pretty Fast is out now and published by Harper SAT Collins. SAT Hadley Freeman's official website SAT SAT Boubacar Traore SAT SAT The new album 'Mbalimaou' is out now on LusAfrica Records. SAT SAT SAT SAT Kaleida SAT SAT 'Think' EP is out now on Lex Records. SAT SAT Kaleida are supporting Roisin Murphy during May and playing SAT at various gigs during June. Further details can be found on SAT their SAT website SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Danny Wallace SAT Interviewed Guest: Ainsley Harriott SAT Interviewed Guest: Harriet Walter SAT Interviewed Guest: Ana Matronic SAT Interviewed Guest: Hadley Freeman SAT Performer: Boubacar Traore SAT Performer: Kaleida SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05vrg77 (Listen) SAT Liz Kendall SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles the Labour leadership contender Liz SAT Kendall. SAT SAT The shadow care minister was virtually unknown outside SAT Westminster until the last week or so. Now she's one of the SAT bookmakers' favourites to take the party's top job. So who SAT is she? SAT SAT "She can make people enthusiastic about scotch eggs with SAT marmalade." That's how her best friend sums her up, saying SAT she is "zesty". SAT SAT But, as Profile discovered this week, figuring out what SAT really makes Liz Kendall tick isn't easy. SAT SAT Producers: Hannah Barnes and Joe Kent. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05vrg79 (Listen) SAT Owen Sheers, Ninagawa's Hamlet, Home in Manchester, The New SAT Girlfriend, Armada on BBC One SAT SAT Owen Sheers' novel I Saw A Man deals with loss, grief, guilt SAT and attempted redemption SAT Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa has directed Hamlet 8 SAT times. His latest production is playing at The Barbican in SAT London - how well does this 17th Century English play SAT transfer to a setting in 19th Century Japan? SAT Manchester has a brand new arts centre: Home. What will it SAT add to to Manchester's vibrant arts scene? SAT Francois Ozon's film The New Girlfriend is based on a Ruth SAT Rendell novel. How does the cross-dressing of the main SAT character - a young widower - affect his friends, male and SAT female? SAT Dan Snow presents Armada, 12 Days To Save England on BBC2; SAT taking a fresh modern look at the great Elizabethan sea SAT battle - the reasons as well as the results. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05vrg7c (Listen) SAT Adventures in Alienation SAT SAT For most of us, having to leave home, at least once in our SAT lives, is inevitable, necessary and not unwelcome. The idea SAT of modern, secular homelessness is banal, in contrast to the SAT imposed exile that so many are obliged to endure. SAT SAT The writer Amit Chaudhuri left India for England as part of SAT his journey to becoming a writer. He resists the labels of SAT exile or emigre or immigrant. Through these 'Adventures in SAT Alienation', he encounters the experiences of others - among SAT them Kirsty Gunn, James Wood and voices from the BBC Sound SAT Archive - and examines his own understanding of what it SAT means not to belong. SAT SAT Produced by Rachel Hooper. SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05v6gn1 (Listen) SAT The Castle, Episode 2 SAT SAT In Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic SAT wonderland, while K continues to seek a meeting with the SAT elusive official Klamm, his relationship with Frieda is SAT under strain. He suspects her of maintaining a secret tryst SAT with Klamm, and she of a dalliance with Barnabas' two SAT sisters. SAT SAT Dramatist: Ed Harris SAT SAT Producer: John Taylor SAT A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT K: Dominic Rowan SAT Frieda: Sammy T Dobson SAT Jeremias: Mark Benton SAT Artur: Daniel Weyman SAT Teacher: Stephen Greif SAT Amalia: Rachel Bavidge SAT Olga: Victoria Elliott SAT Barnabas: Neil Grainger SAT Papa: Jonathan Cullen SAT Burgel: Jonathan Cullen SAT Momus: Trevor Fox SAT Fire Chief: Trevor Fox SAT Hollister: Ross Waiton SAT Erlanger: Ross Waiton SAT Hans: Dominic Deakin SAT Actor: Alex Taylor-McDowell SAT Actor: Alice Martin SAT Actor: Maddie Hill SAT Actor: Tegan Williams SAT Author: Franz Kafka SAT Adaptor: Ed Harris SAT Producer: John Taylor SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05v6gh4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b05vds5s (Listen) SAT Human Rights on the Battlefield SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests discuss the controversial SAT suggestion that the UK should withdraw from human rights SAT legislation and re-instate 'combat immunity' to protect the SAT British Army from legal action. SAT SAT The British Army may have stepped away from the battlefield, SAT but it is still increasingly under major fire in the courts, SAT where the Ministry of Defence has suffered a series of SAT defeats. Since the landmark case of Smith v MOD in 2013, SAT soldiers injured in battle or the families of those killed SAT in action may sue the Government for negligence under SAT domestic law and for breach of the "Right to Life" under the SAT European Convention on Human Rights. SAT SAT Arguing the case for combat immunity is Dr Jonathan Morgan, SAT co-author of the think tank Policy Exchange's report SAT Clearing the Fog of War which contends that the judiciary is SAT the wrong body to hold the army to account. It says the SAT extension of the common law of negligence to military action SAT has already had damaging effects on the forces. The result SAT will be an excessive degree of caution which is antithetical SAT to the war-fighting ethos that is vital for success on the SAT battlefield. SAT SAT Arguing against Dr Morgan are barrister Jessica Simor QC, SAT who acted for the appellants in Smith v Ministry of Defence, SAT and retired Supreme Court judge Lord Hope, who presided in SAT the case. SAT SAT Also taking part is former Army Legal Service officer Andrew SAT Buckham who now represents soldiers suing the military and SAT the government. SAT SAT Have court decisions which extend the reach of human rights SAT law beyond the UK undermined the effectiveness of the SAT military - and should it be parliament, not the judiciary, SAT that holds the army to account? SAT SAT Produced by Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b05v7tjp (Listen) SAT Series 5, De Montfort University SAT SAT A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three SAT University students take on a team of three of their SAT professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from De Montfort University, The 3rd Degree SAT is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners while SAT delighting the current ones. SAT SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Film, Forensic SAT Science and Contour Fashion. So there are questions on SAT X-rated films, the analysis of blood spatter patterns and SAT the history of lingerie. And also Gogglebox. SAT SAT The show is recorded on location at a different University SAT each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of SAT their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on SAT an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course SAT meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but SAT with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quick-fire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and One Direction. SAT SAT The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on SAT The Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not SAT just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in SAT the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries SAT for Radio 4, including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The SAT Spleen, as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang SAT Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine SAT Particle. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b05v6gn5 (Listen) SAT Poetry by Heart SAT SAT Poetry Please at the finals of the Poetry by Heart SAT competition. Students recite poetry from memory in a bid to SAT be crowned winner in the 2015 contest. Roger Mc Gough SAT presents, and poetry comes from Craig Raine, Rupert Brooke, SAT Carol Ann Duffy and Thomas Hardy. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT A Life in Dreams SAT SAT by Jacob Sam-La Rose SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-life-in-dreams/ SAT SAT SAT SAT 1914 SAT SAT by Philip Larkin SAT SAT From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Soldier SAT SAT by Rupert Brooke SAT SAT From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SAT SAT Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT Originally SAT SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT From New Selected Poems 1984-2004 SAT SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT SAT SAT Invictus SAT SAT by WE Henley SAT SAT From The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT A Martian Sends a Postcard Home SAT SAT by Craig Raine SAT SAT From The New Penguin Book of English Verse SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Josephine Baker Finds Herself SAT SAT by Patience Agbabi SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/josephine-baker-finds- SAT erself/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Dover Beach SAT SAT by Matthew Arnold SAT SAT From Matthew Arnold – Selected Poems and Prose SAT SAT Published by Everyman SAT SAT SAT SAT The Fish SAT SAT by Elizabeth Bishop SAT SAT Elizabeth Bishop – Complete Poems SAT SAT Published by Chatto and Windus SAT SAT SAT SAT Channel Firing SAT SAT by Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest SAT Poetry SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 MAY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05vrhjg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Go West b01rl1y5 (Listen) SUN The Most Beautiful Man in the World SUN SUN Five stories made in Bristol SUN SUN 5. The Most Beautiful Man in the World SUN by Katherine Mitchell SUN SUN A comic monologue recorded at the Bath Literature Festival SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05vrhjj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05vrhjl (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05vrhjn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05vrhjq (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05vssqb (Listen) SUN Church bells from Kingston upon Hull. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b05vrg77 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b05vrhjs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b05vssqd (Listen) SUN The Fading Light SUN SUN As the sun goes down everyday, occasionally resulting in SUN spectacular sunsets, the event can affect people in SUN different ways. A good red sunset (especially over the sea) SUN can provoke great joy, but the fading light can also SUN encourage melancholia. It is no wonder that, throughout SUN history, people have used images of sunset and the dying SUN light to reflect on ageing and mortality. SUN SUN John McCarthy explores some of the ways in which images of SUN fading light have been used to describe our place in the SUN world. SUN SUN He considers different approaches to ageing - with music SUN including Dylan and Debussy, and poetry from the likes of SUN Thomas Hardy, Tennyson and Shakespeare. SUN SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b05vssqg (Listen) SUN George Henderson and The Farming Ladder SUN SUN Sybil Ruscoe finds out about George Henderson, the SUN innovative Cotswold farmer and writer who inspired soldiers SUN returning from WWII to take up farming. SUN SUN His widow Elizabeth - who arrived at Oathill Farm as a SUN landgirl - explains why his writing was so influential. His SUN book, 'The Farming Ladder' - published in 1944 - persuaded SUN her, and many others, that small farms could be highly SUN productive. She and her children are joined by Graham SUN Harvey, the agricultural story advisor on The Archers, who SUN is so impressed by what George Henderson achieved that he's SUN written a play about him. SUN SUN We also meet George's granddaughter Kate, who's in her early SUN 20s, and is continuing the family's work on the farm today. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05vrhjv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05vrhjx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05vssqj (Listen) SUN Archbishop Oscar Romero beatified, Ireland's same-sex SUN marriage vote, Abide With Me SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05vssql (Listen) SUN WellChild SUN SUN Gaby Roslin presents The Radio 4 Appeal for WellChild SUN Registered Charity: 289600 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ' WellChild '. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to WellChild. SUN SUN WellChild SUN SUN There are thousands of children and young people in the UK SUN living with a long-term or complex health condition. SUN WellChild is the national charity working to ensure the best SUN possible care and support for all these children and their SUN families, wherever they are and whenever they need it. We SUN aim to ensure families with seriously ill children get the SUN support they need for every step of their journey by: SUN SUN Our work with families is only made possible by the SUN donations we receive from our supporters. SUN SUN Getting children home to their families SUN SUN Wyatt, pictured here and whose story you hear in the appeal, SUN was born with a hole in his diaphragm and serious problems SUN with his lungs. He spent the first five months of his life SUN in hospital. Thanks to the help of his WellChild Nurse, SUN Wyatt is now able to live at home and his parents have the SUN support they need to be able meet Wyatt’s ongoing specialist SUN ventilator-assisted breathing care. SUN SUN SUN Emotional support for parents SUN SUN Caring for a child needing long term medical care can feel SUN quite lonely at times. Having contact with other parents in SUN a similar situation is an invaluable source of support for SUN many, some even describing it as a lifeline. WellChild SUN Family Tree, offers safe places – both online and face to SUN face – for families to come together to support and listen SUN to each other, wherever they may be. SUN Photo shows Joseph (centre) enjoying life at home with his SUN mum Anna, brothers Nate and Fran and their WellChild SUN Children’s Nurse Diane Miles (far right) SUN SUN Celebrating Inspirational People SUN SUN WellChild Ambassador Gaby Roslin, who presents our appeal, SUN is pictured here with three inspirational young ladies, SUN Rosie Flory, Rachel Hooley, Cecilia Adamou (left to right) SUN who all won a WellChild Award in 2014 in recognition of SUN their courage, determination and inspirational spirit. SUN SUN Practical help for families at home SUN SUN Families with a seriously ill child often find that projects SUN in the home go unfinished, or never get started as their SUN time and finances are so stretched. This can mean that SUN children are living in environments which are not suitable SUN for their needs. WellChild’s SUN Helping Hands SUN programme is addressing this by using volunteers from SUN companies and organisations to complete vital home and SUN garden improvement projects – helping families in truly SUN practical ways. SUN Photo shows Michaela and her family enjoying their renovated SUN garden SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05vrhjz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05vrhk1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05vssqn (Listen) SUN Ring Out Wild Bells! SUN SUN The wind of the Spirit of Pentecost and the ringing of SUN church bells are themes brought together at Holy Trinity SUN Church Hull as the Central Council for Church Bell Ringers SUN gather for their annual weekend. Leader: The Vicar, The Revd SUN Canon Dr. Neal Barnes; preacher: the Revd Irene Wilson. SUN Organist and Director of Music: Mark Keith. Choir conductor: SUN Bronwen Prosser. Producer: Rowan Morton-Gledhill. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05vhlcd (Listen) SUN Politics of Hope SUN SUN AL Kennedy says the election results in Scotland reflect a SUN surge in political engagement in which people continue to SUN feel they have the power to make a difference. SUN "A significant percentage of Scotland's voters on both sides SUN of the independence question currently seem intent on SUN reverse-engineering a democracy by beginning with hope." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: AL Kennedy SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk7c (Listen) SUN Turnstone 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 Brett Westwood presents the turnstone. A turnstone is a SUN stout little wading bird which you'll often see probing SUN under seaweed on rocky shores or flipping pebbles over with SUN the stout bills...hence their name....Turnstone. In summer SUN they are intricately patterned and strikingly coloured like SUN a tortoiseshell cat but at other times of year they look SUN brownish and can be hard to see against the seaweed covered SUN rocks among which they love to feed. SUN SUN Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) SUN Image courtesy of rspb-images.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05vstxg (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 b05vstxj (Listen) SUN There is a dilemma for Jennifer and David, and Emma is SUN marrying Ed. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Will Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Stephan: Serge Soric SUN SUN 11:16 Desert Island Discs b05vstzl (Listen) SUN Jimmy Wales SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the internet entrepreneur Jimmy SUN Wales. SUN SUN He is best known as the co-founder of the free online SUN encyclopedia Wikipedia. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama SUN and was the eldest child of a grocery store manager and his SUN wife who ran a primary school where Jimmy and his siblings SUN were educated. After acquiring a degree in finance and SUN working as a trader in Chicago, his first serious foray into SUN the online world was with the web portal Bomis, before SUN branching out with a project called Nupedia, an online SUN encyclopedia with entries written by scholars and published SUN after undergoing peer review. SUN SUN Wikipedia launched in 2001 and now exists in 287 languages SUN and is the 7th most accessed website in the world with over SUN 20 billion page views per month. It can be edited by anyone SUN though relies on a core of around 5,000 volunteers who are SUN responsible for the majority of the content. It is Jimmy's SUN aim to create "a world in which every single person on the SUN planet is given free access to the sum of all human SUN knowledge." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Jimmy Wales SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05vrhk3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b05v7tl2 (Listen) SUN Series 72, Episode 1 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons returns to host a new series of the popular SUN panel game, recorded at the Shaw Theatre in London. He is SUN joined by panellists Paul Merton, Tim Rice, Liza Tarbuck and SUN Graham Norton who will attempt to talk without deviation, SUN hesitation or repetition on such diverse topics as English SUN Sparkling Wine and Crows Feet. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd SUN A BBC Comedy Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Tim Rice SUN Panellist: Lisa Tarbuck SUN Panellist: Graham Norton SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05vsv6y (Listen) SUN Salt, Pepper... and Seaweed? SUN SUN Highly regarded for its health benefits, people living by SUN the shore have been eating seaweed for millennia. In SUN Ireland, it was part of a prehistoric diet, and taken to SUN ward off illness. In New Zealand, seaweed was a Maori SUN delicacy. In Iceland, it was served daily, dried with fish, SUN butter and bread. And seaweeds in many forms continue to be SUN a major part of day to day cooking in China, Japan and SUN Korea. SUN SUN According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the SUN harvesting of seaweed for food is worth upwards of 5 billion SUN US dollars every year. SUN SUN Yet many of us still associate the greens with Asian food, SUN or experiments in haute cuisine. SUN SUN But now a new generation of wild food entrepreneurs, are SUN asking us to change our habits, and to rethink seaweed as SUN something that can be enjoyed in every meal, for every SUN occasion. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon hears stories of finding food from the sea. SUN People harvesting and cooking with seaweed. And as seaweed SUN enters the mainstream, she hears how age old harvesting SUN traditions, could be under threat. SUN SUN This programme includes the fifth instalment from the Ark of SUN Taste series. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05vrhk5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05vsv70 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Young, British and Imam-in-Training b05symn5 (Listen) SUN Almost half of Britain's Muslim population is under 25 and SUN born in Britain. Yet many of the country's imams are SUN foreign-born and elderly, leading to claims that they can be SUN out of touch with their communities. SUN SUN After the 7/7 bombings in 2005, the UK government launched SUN 'Prevent', an anti-radicalisation strategy to tackle SUN extremism in the UK. An emphasis on 'homegrown' imams - born SUN and trained in the UK - was seen as key in engaging young SUN Muslims and curbing extremism. SUN SUN A decade on, Samira Ahmed explores the changing role of the SUN imam in Britain. Under an increasing media spotlight, their SUN job includes not just the traditional roles of teaching and SUN leading prayers, but counselling and pastoral care, helping SUN third and fourth generations understand their identity as SUN British Muslims. It can be a 24/7 role and the pay can be SUN terrible. At the same time they are finding themselves SUN pulled between the demands of the government, media, their SUN communities and more traditional, conservative mosque SUN committees and trustees. SUN SUN Samira visits the seminaries and colleges where many of SUN Britain's imams are trained, and meets graduates who have SUN left behind mosques, instead providing spiritual guidance SUN online or in their own homes. She asks whether the next SUN generation of Britain's imams are equipped to provide the SUN spiritual guidance and community engagement necessary to SUN help young Muslims come to terms with their identity in SUN increasingly challenging times. SUN SUN Producer Georgia Catt. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05vhkbq (Listen) SUN Chelsea Fringe SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN the Chelsea Fringe Festival. Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood SUN and Anne Swithinbank answer questions at the Tea House SUN Theatre. SUN SUN Matt Biggs takes a grand tour of the Chelsea Fringe SUN festivities and Peter Gibbs visits Matthew Wilson as he puts SUN the finishing touches to his Chelsea show garden. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q - Why am I having trouble with grass seed taking SUN considering I’ve had it down since the start of April? It’s SUN free draining, it’s been scarified, there’s no compaction, SUN it’s well prepared, it was sowed and then covered with a SUN standard top-dressing. SUN Anne SUN – It’s possible that covering it too thickly was a problem. SUN I generally just rake mine in. But the commonest failure is SUN actually grass seed that’s gone off. SUN Bob SUN – Also, birds can be a problem. You could grow first in tray SUN and then, when it’s about an inch tall (2.5cm), plug it into SUN the lawn from there. SUN Q – I’ve just bought my first house and am a complete novice SUN gardener and I’ve got a lot of ivy climbing up the front of SUN the house. I’m keen to control it but not necessarily strip SUN it. What should I do? SUN Pippa SUN – Your best course of action is to try and get up to it and SUN simply cut back some of the extending growth. And do it SUN unevenly rather than in straight lines so it looks natural SUN rather than hacked. If the surface is painted then it is SUN best to kill the section you want to remove and then wait SUN for it to go brown before removing it as its ‘grip’ is less SUN strong once brown. SUN Eric SUN – Ivy is wonderful for wildlife so don’t get rid of it SUN completely. SUN Q – What are the best drought-tolerant plants for an urban SUN setting? SUN Anne SUN – Oriental Poppies or the Soft Shield Fern. SUN Bob SUN – Figs or grapevines don’t need watering so you’ll be fine. SUN Also try Rock Roses, Cistus, and silvery herbs like Thyme, SUN Rosemary and Lavender. SUN Pippa SUN – Herbaceous geraniums have interesting foliage as well as SUN flowers. SUN Q - Is it a bad idea to remove unsightly foliage from Aliums SUN when they are still in flower. SUN Anne SUN – I think you should leave them until they are yellow. They SUN will die back fairly quickly. Grow plants around them to SUN disguise the leaves, such as Geraniums or Catmint. Allium SUN karataviense has a much smarter appearance but doesn’t have SUN the large purple flower head. SUN Q -I have trouble growing Camellias in a southwest-facing SUN garden. Could the panel provide advice? SUN Bob SUN – Use ericaceous compost or leaf mould because they don’t SUN like too much lime. Anne – They need a moisture retentive SUN soil and some light shade. SUN Q - My raspberries are healthy other than a yellowing on the SUN leaves. What could be causing this? SUN The soil is too chalky. Spray them with some seafood SUN solution to increase the trace element that must be SUN deficient. It could be too much lime caused by using tap SUN water. If it is mottled it could be a disease. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05vsvhq (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about how autism affects SUN children's education, and about the impact of one partner's SUN stammer or dyslexia on two separate relationships, in the SUN Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's surprising SUN what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b05vsyz1 (Listen) SUN Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia SUN SUN An intriguing, contemporary take on Samuel Johnson's classic SUN tale of an African prince in search of happiness. SUN SUN A star cast is led by Ashley Zhangazha as Rasselas, Jeff SUN Rawle as Samuel Johnson and Lucian Msamati - the RSC's first SUN black Iago - as the poet Imlac. Singer and actor Cynthia SUN Erivo makes her BBC radio drama debut as Princess Nekayah. SUN SUN Recorded on location at Dr Johnson's House, 17 Gough Square, SUN in the City of London - the very place where over 260 years SUN ago, Johnson compiled his famous dictionary and then in SUN January 1759, wrote his instant bestseller 'Rasselas' in a SUN week, to pay for his mother's funeral. SUN SUN Acclaimed 18th century philosophy fuels a contemporary SUN desert road trip in this inventive and playful adaptation by SUN Jonathan Holloway. Period and modern collide in a satirical SUN fantasy as Rasselas and his companions follow their quest SUN for happiness and purpose to Cairo, where they encounter SUN Arab Spring revolutionaries. SUN SUN Jonathan Holloway's drama also incorporates a compelling SUN glimpse of Johnson himself - the lonely, 50-year-old SUN celebrity and writer, in debt, in poor health, and missing SUN his young Jamaican manservant, Francis Barber, who had run SUN away to sea. Born a slave, Barber was freed at Johnson's SUN insistence and treated kindly by him. SUN SUN Johnson had struggled through many years of poverty before SUN moving to Gough Square and becoming a highly respected SUN writer. 'Rasselas', his singular, progressive rumination on SUN human happiness, is his only novel and his most popular SUN work. SUN SUN Sound design: David Chilton SUN SUN Produced and directed by Amber Barnfather SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Samuel Johnson: Jeff Rawle SUN Arthur Murphy: Kevin Trainor SUN Princess Nekayah: Cynthia Erivo SUN Prince Rasselas: Ashley Zhangazha SUN Imlac: Lucian Msamati SUN Aeronaut: Richard Cordery SUN Pekuah: Adjoa Andoh SUN AJ: Gabriel Mokake SUN Ahmed: Amir El-Masry SUN Mohammed: Zubin Varla SUN Intelligence Man: Zubin Varla SUN Author: Samuel Johnson SUN Director: Amber Barnfather SUN Producer: Amber Barnfather SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05vt6gh (Listen) SUN Ryan Gattis on All Involved SUN SUN Ryan Gattis talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel SUN All Involved, a fictional account of the 1992 Los Angeles SUN riots told from the perspective of 17 different characters SUN caught up in the violence from gang members to fire SUN fighters. SUN SUN Also on the programme, resident close reading expert Sarah SUN Dillon scrutinizes a passage of Ian McEwan's prose; we offer SUN advice to someone in search of the perfect novel for a hen SUN night and Saud Alsanousi, winner of the International Prize SUN for Arabic Fiction, sends us a literary postcard from SUN Kuwait. SUN SUN Read the first chapter of All Involved by Ryan Gatiss SUN All Involved: Chapter 1 SUN by Ryan Gatiss SUN SUN Close Reading of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love SUN I’m holding back, delaying the information. I’m lingering in SUN the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes SUN were still possible; the convergence of six figures in a SUN flat green space has a comforting geometry from the SUN buzzard’s perspective, the knowable, limited plane of the SUN snooker table. The initial conditions, the force and the SUN direction of the force, define all the consequent pathways, SUN all the angles of collision and return, and the glow of the SUN overhead light bathes the field, the baize and all its SUN moving bodies, in reassuring clarity. I think that while we SUN were still converging, before we made contact, we were in a SUN state of mathematical grace. I linger on our dispositions, SUN the relative distances and the compass point – because as SUN far as these occurrences were concerned, this was the last SUN time I understood anything clearly at all. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Ryan Gattis SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dillon SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b05vt6gk (Listen) SUN Children's Poetry and Miscellany SUN SUN Roger McGough with poetry for children and adults alike, SUN including classics from AA Milne and Spike Milligan, William SUN Blake and WB Yeats, and a celebration of a man filling in Os SUN in the library. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN High Talk SUN SUN By WB Yeats SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats SUN SUN Published by Palgrave SUN SUN SUN SUN The O-Filler SUN SUN By Alastair Reid SUN SUN From The Book of Post War Poetry SUN SUN Published by Hutchinson SUN SUN SUN SUN Patience SUN SUN By Denise Levertov SUN SUN From This Great Unknowing – Last Poems SUN SUN Published by New Directions SUN SUN SUN SUN The Fly SUN SUN By William Blake SUN SUN From Blake’s Poetical Works SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Trees in the Garden SUN SUN By DH Lawrence SUN SUN From DH Lawrence – Complete Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Rice Pudding SUN SUN By AA Milne SUN SUN From When We Were Very Young SUN SUN Published by Egmont SUN SUN SUN SUN Granny SUN SUN By Spike Milligan SUN SUN From Silly Verse for Kids by Spike Milligan SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Stones SUN SUN By Leslie Norris SUN SUN From Leslie Norris – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Seren SUN SUN SUN SUN Tall Nettles SUN SUN By Edward Thomas SUN SUN From Edward Thomas – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Against the Grain SUN SUN By Simone Mansell-Broome SUN SUN From Cardiff Bay Lunch SUN SUN Published by Lapwing Publications SUN SUN SUN SUN Marmalade SUN SUN By Simon Rennie SUN SUN From Best of Manchester Poets Vol 1 SUN SUN Published by Puppywolf SUN SUN SUN SUN The Moose SUN SUN By Elizabeth Bishop SUN SUN From Elizabeth Bishop - Complete Poems SUN SUN Published by Chatto and Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b05vcyvk (Listen) SUN Minding the Gap: Mental Healthcare SUN SUN Mental health services are facing a period of unprecedented SUN change. The Department of Health has committed itself to SUN reducing the disparity between spending on physical and SUN mental illness, and a new payment system means services will SUN be funded differently in the future. In the meantime there SUN are concerns that vulnerable patients are dying because of SUN pressures to release them from hospital too quickly, and a SUN failure to provide adequate support in the community. SUN SUN Can a new focus on what has traditionally been dubbed a SUN 'Cinderella service' reverse the impact of years of cuts? SUN SUN Reporter: Adrian Goldberg SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN READ THE PROGRAMME TRANSCRIPT SUN SUN Are vulnerable patients dying after being discharged from SUN mental health care too soon? And as in-patient mental health SUN beds reduce, is there too much pressure on community teams? SUN Read the Transcript SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05vrg77 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05vrhkp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05vrhkr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05vrhkt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05vt6gm (Listen) SUN John McCarthy SUN SUN On Pick of The Week this week: SUN SUN Mark Steel makes the good folk of Fleetwood take a long, SUN hard and very funny look at themselves. SUN SUN How Hip Hop reflects and inspires revolution in the Middle SUN East. SUN SUN A modern day forty-niner miner; Panning for gold in SUN California. SUN SUN Life in the Quiet Zone, a place where mobile phones are SUN banned. SUN SUN The extraordinary influence of the Y chromosome.. SUN SUN And Tax avoidance - it's been going on for centuries.. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05vt6gp (Listen) SUN Phoebe and Josh have all the clues, and Tom gets recruiting. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rivals b03b2g2b (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Problem of the Superfluous Finger SUN SUN By Jaques Futrelle. SUN SUN Dramatised By Chris Harrald. SUN SUN Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock SUN Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a SUN chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He SUN begins with his collaboration with "The Thinking Machine" SUN Professor SFX Van Dusen, trying to solve a strange case SUN involving self-mutilation. SUN SUN Producer: Liz Webb. SUN SUN Credits SUN Lestrade: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Van Dusen: Paul Rhys SUN Mrs Morey: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Dr Prescott: Sean Murray SUN Miss Marsh: Philippa Stanton SUN Hoskins: Ben Crowe SUN Producer: Liz Webb SUN Adaptor: Chris Harrald SUN Author: Jacques Futrelle SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts b05vt88k (Listen) SUN The Time Being, The Summer of Learning SUN SUN The seventh season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for previously unbroadcast writers. Past series have brought SUN new talent to a wider audience and provided a stepping stone SUN for writers who have since gone on to enjoy further success SUN on radio and in print - including Tania Hershman, Heidi SUN Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe, Joe Dunthorne and Rebecca F. SUN John. SUN SUN Episode 2: The Summer Of Learning by Susmita Bhattarcharya. SUN A Welsh girl visits her father's family in India for the SUN first time. SUN SUN Susmita Bhattarcharya is from Mumbai, India. She received an SUN MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University. Her debut SUN novel, The Normal State of Mind, was published in March SUN 2015. Her short stories have appeared in several literary SUN journals internationally and in the UK. Susmita lives in SUN Plymouth with her husband and two daughters. SUN SUN Reader: Naomi Everson SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Susmita Bhattarcharya SUN Reader: Naomi Everson SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b05vhkc0 (Listen) SUN Women Drink Driving SUN SUN Tim Harford asks whether there really is a problem with SUN women drink driving as suggested by the Police Federation. SUN He looks at the Rotterdam Effect and asks whether goods SUN going to Europe's largest port skew the UK's export figures. SUN He looks at the number of people on death row in the US who SUN are eventually exonerated. He finds that the number of SUN species of owl is a more difficult number to come by than SUN you might expect and he asks if the Campaign for Real Ale SUN are right to say that 29 pubs a week are closing in the UK. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05vhkby (Listen) SUN Oscar Holderer, David Sharp, the Dowager Marchioness of SUN Reading, Alexandre Lamfalussy and Guy Carawan SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Oscar Holderer, the last known survivor of the group of SUN German rocket scientists who moved to America after the SUN second world war. He helped to develop the Saturn Five SUN rocket that took men to the moon. SUN SUN Also rambler David Sharp - who created the Thames Path. SUN SUN The Dowager Marchioness of Reading who was a pioneering SUN pilot, a stock car racer and noted for her outspoken SUN political views. SUN SUN The economist and banker Alexandre Lamfalussy who laid the SUN foundations for the European single currency. SUN SUN And the American musician Guy Carawan who helped to turn the SUN church song "We Shall Overcome" into an international SUN campaigning anthem. SUN SUN Oscar Holderer SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Ed Buckbee who SUN served as a NASA public affairs official during the Mercury, SUN Gemini and Apollo era of U.S manned space flight. SUN SUN Born 4 November 1919; died 5 May 2015 aged 95. SUN SUN David Sharp SUN SUN Last Word spoke to the SUN President of the Ramblers Association, Kate Ashbrook and to SUN his friend and fellow rambler, Graham Butler. SUN SUN Born 1 March 1926; died 20 April 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN The Dowager Marchioness of Reading SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her daughter, Lady Jacquie Rufus Isaacs. SUN SUN Born 11 January 1919; died 19 April 2015 aged 96. SUN SUN Alexandre Lamfalussy (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial SUN Times. SUN SUN Born 26 April 1929; died 9 May 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Guy Carawan SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend and colleague, Pam McMichael. SUN SUN Born 27 July 1927; died 2 May 2015 aged 87. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Ed Buckbee SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Ashbrook SUN Interviewed Guest: Graham Butler SUN Interviewed Guest: Jacquie Isaacs SUN Interviewed Guest: Lionel Barber SUN Interviewed Guest: Pam McMichael SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05vrd9h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05vssql (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b05vfk87 (Listen) SUN Medellin Miracle SUN SUN Less than 25 years ago Medellin was the most dangerous city SUN on earth; with a reputation for kidnapping and murder, as SUN well as a thriving drugs trade. Now Colombia's second city SUN has become a top global tourist destination. Peter Day SUN reports on a remarkable transformation. SUN SUN Producer: Keith Moore. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05vt8cp (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05vt8cr (Listen) SUN Beth Rigby of the Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05vfjtf (Listen) SUN Tomorrowland, Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western, SUN Abderrahmane Sissako, Cannes SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Director Brad Bird discusses Tomorrowland, in which George SUN Clooney searches for a mythical city of the future created SUN by the finest minds of their generation. SUN SUN Director Ana Lily Amirpour discusses her Iranian vampire SUN spaghetti western, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. SUN SUN Abderrahmane Sissako talks about the political context of SUN his drama Timbuktu, in which an African town is taken over SUN by a jihadist group. SUN SUN Tim Robey and Clare Binns report from the Cannes Film SUN Festival. SUN SUN Timbuktu (12A) SUN in cinemas from 29 May SUN SUN A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (15) SUN in key cities across the UK from 22 May SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05vssqd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 MAY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05vrhpw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05vct5z (Listen) MON Poverty in Britain; Unemployment As a Choice MON MON Poverty in Britain: Laurie Taylor talks to Joanna Mack, MON Learning and Teaching producer at the Open University, about MON the largest ever survey of UK levels of economic and social MON deprivation. Her co-authored book, 'Breadline Britain..' MON claims that poverty is at an all time high. MON MON Also, claimants who reject work. Andrew Dunn, Senior MON Lecturer in Social Policy at Lincoln University, has MON conducted research which suggests that some unemployed MON people turn down 'undesirable' work, thus choosing to remain MON in financial hardship. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05vssqb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05vrhpy (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05vrhq0 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05vrhq2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05vrhq4 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05wpyxh (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and MON broadcaster Anna Magnusson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05vwpw4 (Listen) MON Flower Confetti MON MON The Bubb family from Shropshire grow potatoes and petals. MON Their biodegradable wedding confetti business began when MON their granny sold dried flowers at a Women's Institute MON market. It's now a big business and the Bubbs grow MON delphiniums, cornflowers and marigolds alongside the Maris MON Pipers. Wake up and smell the roses! MON MON Presented and produced by Sybil Ruscoe. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05vrhq8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkdpz (Listen) MON Pink-Footed Goose MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the MON Pink-Footed Goose. To see and hear a skein of pink-footed MON geese as they fly from their roost on coastal mudflats to MON feed inland is a stirring experience. In winter the British MON Isles hosts well over half the global population of MON pinkfeet. MON MON Pink-Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05vwpw6 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05vwpw8 (Listen) MON Start the Week is at the Hay Festival for a discussion about MON what has made homo sapiens so successful. The historian MON Yuval Noah Harari looks back a hundred thousand years ago MON when at least six human species inhabited the earth and MON explores why only one came to dominate. Science was a key MON breakthrough and Beth Shapiro pushes at the limits of MON knowledge with her book on how to clone a mammoth. The MON writer Colm Tóibín reveals how much he owes past writers in MON his introduction to the enigmatic American poet, Elizabeth MON Bishop, while Owen Sheers explores the themes of loss and MON redemption in his latest novel. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Yuval Noah Harari MON Interviewed Guest: Beth Shapiro MON Interviewed Guest: Colm Toibin MON Interviewed Guest: Owen Sheers MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05vwpwb (Listen) MON Channel Shore, Episode 1 MON MON Tom Fort's maritime journey, abridged by Katrin Williams, MON takes us from MON the White Cliffs to Lands' End. About 675 miles in all.. MON MON 1. Where exactly do the North Sea and the English Channel MON merge, MON and what did Noel Coward get up to at St. Margaret's? MON MON Reader Jonathan Coy MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jonathan Coy MON Author: Tom Fort MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05vwt1p (Listen) MON Glenda Jackson, Jo Swinson, Mary Macleod, Tania Mathias MON MON Life post-Parliament: Glenda Jackson who made her decision MON to stand down a couple of years ago, and Jo Swinson and Mary MON Macleod who both lost their seats in the midst of the drama MON of the recent election, on life after the 2015 General MON Election. MON MON Three years since she gave up her Commons seat, ex-MP, MON Louise Mensch gives advice on how to cope with the change. MON Journalists Gaby Hinsliff and Isabel Hardman reflect on the MON impact on UK politics of the loss of notable women MPs such MON as Anne Begg, Jo Swinson, Esther McVey and Lynne MON Featherstone. MON MON On May 7th Tania Mathias won her Twickenham seat from Vince MON Cable. She talks to Jane about how her experience as a MON doctor is influencing her hopes and fears for her new role MON in national politic. And commentary throughout the programme MON comes from BBC political editor Allegra Stratton. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Jane Thurlow. MON MON Life Post Parliament MON MON As of May 8th Glenda Jackson, Jo Swinson and Mary Macleod MON were no longer MPs; the only difference being that Glenda MON Jackson had made her decision to leave the House of Commons MON a couple of years ago and Jo Swinson and Mary Macleod lost MON their seats in the drama of the election. The three of them MON discuss coming to terms with a life without Parliament. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Glenda Jackson MON Interviewed Guest: Jo Swinson MON Interviewed Guest: Mary Macleod MON Interviewed Guest: Louise Mensch MON Interviewed Guest: Gaby Hinsliff MON Interviewed Guest: Isabel Hardman MON Interviewed Guest: Tania Mathias MON Interviewed Guest: Allegra Stratton MON Producer: Jane Thurlow MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05vwt1r (Listen) MON Amicable, Episode 1 MON MON Can divorce really be amicable? Sally and Joe are about to MON find out. Starring Con ONeill and Christine Bottomley, MON written by Mark Davies Markham. MON MON As more and more marriages end in divorce, the whys and MON wherefores become lost in the what next. When children are MON involved, many parents strive to remain on good terms. But MON is this really possible, when one partner has told the other MON the relationship is over? And do any of us have the MON overwhelming right to individual happiness, once we are MON parents? MON MON Sally wants an amicable divorce from her husband Joe. A man MON she calls her best friend. He goes into shock, denial, MON panic, fear, resistance, acknowledgment, acceptance then MON liberation. MON MON Amicable tracks the five month journey from marriage to MON separation. MON MON The story has been developed out of interviews with real MON people, like Mark's previous 15' drama series for Radio 4 MON (Missing and the transgender child drama, Just a Girl). MON MON Episode 1 MON MON Sally drops the bombshell on her husband of over 20 years, MON Joe - she wants a divorce. Her mind is made up. Joe is MON shocked and angry. How can they remain friends? MON MON The writer MON Mark Davies Markham has written for some of the most iconic MON television series in the UK, including Eastenders, Band of MON Gold and This Life (Writers Guild Award). MON He has written numerous BBC Radio 4 dramas including Just a MON Girl, Safe (Sony nomination), Absent and Deep Down and Dirty MON Rock 'n' Roll. MON MON Director..............................Polly Thomas MON Sound designer....................Cathy Robinson MON Production Co-ordinator..........Eleri McAuliffe MON A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Sally: Christine Bottomley MON Joe: Con O'Neill MON Director: Polly Thomas MON Writer: Mark Davies Markham MON MON 11:00 Everyone a Rembrandt b04xnd05 (Listen) MON Art critic Louisa Buck lifts the lid on Painting By Number MON kits, the 'How To Craze' that swept the world in the 1950's, MON and promised to turn 'Everyman into a Rembrandt'. The MON pretension was laughed at by the art establishment, but MON appreciated by the millions of amateur artists who loved MON them. The anodyne subject matter of seascapes, landscapes, MON clowns and kittens, were all given a flat treatment with a MON simple palette and in the process created an instantly MON recognisable aesthetic. This was plundered for ironic effect MON by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst who saw in Painting By MON Number a way to critique the relationship between art and MON taste, and art and mechanical reproduction. Louisa speaks to MON Dan Robbins in America who did more than anybody else to MON create the PBN template, as well as collectors, museum MON curators, and artists inspired by the complex MON inter-relationships between it, and Pop and Conceptual Art. MON To some eyes PBN represented all that was crass about MON post-war American Culture, a pandering to the lowest common MON denominator, mechanistic, and devoid of artistic merit, to MON others it empowered generations of ordinary people to pick MON up a brush and dare to paint. In the process teaching them MON to look and opening the door onto an artistic world they MON would otherwise have been denied access to. Painting by MON Number might have had its heyday, but even in this digital MON age the attraction of a gentler pastime that doesn't require MON batteries continues to appeal to a new generation of MON adherents. Louisa Buck didn't get a PBN kit for Christmas, MON because her parents thought it wasn't the done thing, now MON forty years later she sets out to lay that ghost to rest, MON and prove that PBN is anything but child's play. MON MON 11:30 On the Rocks b05vwtsk (Listen) MON Series 2, Sermons MON MON 'Sermons' by Christopher William Hill. MON MON 1930s comedy set on the Scilly island of St. Martin's, just MON before the Second World War. Father Tregarthan enlists the MON help of an unlikely source to help him with his irreligious MON parishioners. MON MON Director ..... Mary Peate. MON MON Credits MON Frank Gunwallow: Joseph Kloska MON Tommy Trenear: Stuart Fox MON Tregarthan: Peter Marinker MON Ben Trenear: Alex Palmer MON Morwenna-May: Alex Tregear MON Signor Di Bicci: Sam Dale MON Reggie Pender: Christopher William Hill MON Director: Mary Peate MON Writer: Christopher William Hill MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05vrhqf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b05vx1bl (Listen) MON 25 May 1915 - Ivy Layton MON MON New season of Radio 4's epic drama series set in Great War MON Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Ivy is shocked at MON how much and how quickly Folkestone has changed. MON MON Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Ivy Layton: Leah Brotherhead MON Archie Tulliver: Arthur Hughes MON Muriel Grainger: Hannah Tointon MON Hilary Pearce: Craige Els MON Thornton Tulliver: Nigel Harman MON Worker: Nathan Nolan MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Producer: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b05vx1bn (Listen) MON Cold calls, Show home designs, Market deliveries, Car MON clocking MON MON We look at cold calls - or more specifically cold calls from MON a company promising to stop people getting cold calls in the MON first place. MON MON What makes a show-home? We go to a new development to find MON out what style tips are used to make a new home more MON appealing. MON MON Car-clocking is making a comeback and apparently it's all MON down to personal leases. MON MON We go out on the road with a one-man delivery firm who hopes MON to help indoor markets stay in touch with the big MON supermarkets. MON MON We hear from a dog owner whose pet died after a long haul MON flight MON MON And as it's a Bank Holiday, we unearth the facts and figures MON behind out spending habits in the garden. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05vrhqh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05vx1bq (Listen) MON Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by MON Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vx1bs (Listen) MON Amir Khusro: The Parrot of India MON MON By turns warrior, prisoner of war, court poet and passionate MON Sufi devotee, Amir Khusro was above all a quick-witted MON literary survivor. And his ability to write for all manner MON of patrons and audiences, added to his faith in Sufism, MON would help his words endure for 700 years. Sunil Khilnani MON tells the story of the man who called himself 'The Parrot of MON India'. MON MON After a career as a soldier, Khusro gained fame in the royal MON courts of Delhi where poets improvised and extemporised for MON their patrons, competing with each other in a kind of MON medieval poetry slam. But despite being the most admired MON court poet of his time, he eventually suffered burnout and MON turned for spiritual strength to the great Sufi Muslim saint MON Nizamuddin Auliya. From then on his poetry focussed on the MON ideal of Sufi devotion, a merging of identity between master MON and follower. MON MON Sunil Khilnani visits old Delhi and Khusro's tomb where his MON songs, passed down through 700 years of oral tradition, are MON still performed. Those songs have also come to live in the MON unconscious of millions of Indians through their use in MON cinema. Javed Akhtar, one of the great song-writers of MON Indian cinema, pays tribute to his 13th century predecessor. MON MON The founding fathers of modern India made Amir Khusro a MON mascot of cultural harmony. Sunil Khilnani explores the life MON of a Sufi Muslim who has become the embodiment of the MON nation's unofficial motto: 'Unity in Diversity'. MON MON Producer: Jeremy Grange MON Executive Producer: Martin Smith MON Original music composed by Talvin Singh. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05vt6gp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Tommies b05vx1bv (Listen) MON 25 May 1915 MON MON by Michael Chaplin MON Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. MON MON Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness MON accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at MON war, exactly 100 years ago. MON MON Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and MON his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the MON British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense MON machine, one which connects situations across the whole MON theatre of the war, over four long years. MON MON Today Mickey Bliss is in London, taking time out from MON signals training at Aldershot to look up an old friend who MON might finance his much-needed overhearing device. But he MON also encounters someone much closer. MON MON Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross MON Robert de Tullio: Patrick Kennedy MON Commentator: Indira Varma MON Evadne Hopkins: Clare Corbett MON Amos Purkiss: Carl Prekopp MON Bonamy Lidderdale: Clive Hayward MON Minister: David Cann MON General Antrobus: Robert Blythe MON Hermione: Eleanor Howell MON Producer: David Hunter MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Michael Chaplin MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b05vx4dx (Listen) MON Series 5, Aston University MON MON A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three MON University students take on a team of three of their MON professors. MON MON Coming this week from Aston University, The 3rd Degree is a MON funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at cultivating the MON next generation of Radio 4 listeners while delighting the MON current ones. MON MON The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Law, Psychology MON and Computer Science and the questions range from Wile E MON Coyote and manslaughter to tennis balls, stamp-collecting MON and the Treaty of Westphalia. MON MON The show is recorded on location at a different University MON each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of MON their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on MON an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course MON meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but MON with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow and Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction. MON MON The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on MON The Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not MON just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in MON the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries MON for Radio 4, including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The MON Spleen, as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang MON Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine MON Particle. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05vsv6y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Ghetto Inglese b05vx4dz (Listen) MON Rome's famous landmark the Piazza di Spagna has a secret MON British history that still reverberates today. Novelist MON Matthew Kneale discovers the hidden Ghetto Inglese. MON MON Piazza di Spagna was once the heart of the English Quarter. MON Today it's famous for its luxury boutiques, and for the MON Spanish Steps. Thronged with tourists photographing each MON other, it's alive with noise and colour and Italian style. MON You'd never notice the British influence of the past. But MON away from the gleaming shop fronts of Prada and the like, MON the English speaking community still quietly clings on. MON MON The imposing building which towers above Versace belongs to MON the oldest English speaking order of nuns ever to be MON established in Rome. The Mater Dei were once a thriving MON community of nuns, teaching British girls in the school they MON founded on the premises. Today, there are only five sisters MON left. Their life of prayer and meditation continues, in MON stark contrast to the consumerist bustle outside their MON walls. MON MON Matthew Kneale goes beneath the surface trappings of this MON famous landmark to meet the Piazza's discreet 21st century MON Anglophones. Those who came before them speak to us from MON across the centuries through the vivid impressions they MON recorded in letters and notes and Matthew retraces their MON footsteps across the ancient stones. MON MON As we accompany him we learn that, while the square may have MON been named after the C17th Spanish embassy to the Holy See MON and briefly have been considered Spanish territory, it can MON be argued that it is to the English language's great writers MON and artists that it owes much of its eternal appeal. MON MON Matthew Kneale, author of English Passengers, has lived in MON Rome since 2000. MON MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b05vx635 (Listen) MON Humanism MON MON Can Humanism include belief in God? MON Last year Pope Francis, addressing the European Parliament , MON pleaded for a rediscovery of the ideals of humanism centred MON on respect for the dignity of the human person. He said, "A MON Europe which is no longer open to the transcendent dimension MON of life is a Europe which risks losing its own soul and that MON "humanistic spirit" which it still loves and defends." The MON Pope was clearly trying to reclaim the humanist tradition MON from atheism. But was he waging a futile battle? Is humanism MON by its very nature opposed to religious belief? MON Joining Ernie to discuss Humanism are Stephen Law from the MON Centre for Enquiry and author of "A very short Introduction MON to Humanism; Nick Spencer Co-author of "The Case for MON Christian Humanism;" and Marilyn Mason, former Education MON Officer for the British Humanist Association. MON MON 17:00 PM b05vx637 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05vrhqm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b05vx639 (Listen) MON Series 72, Episode 2 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game in MON which guests Paul Merton, Alun Cochrane, Susan Calman and MON Gyles Brandreth attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition or deviation on such diverse topics MON as Nelson's Column and Alice in Wonderland. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON A BBC Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Alun Cochrane MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05vx63c (Listen) MON It is the annual Single Wicket, and Charlie needs MON information. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b05vx63f (Listen) MON Playing Rosalind, Timbuktu reviewed, Literary Festivals MON MON As a new production of As You Like It opens at the Globe MON Theatre in London, Michelle Terry talks about taking on the MON role of Rosalind, arguably Shakespeare's meatiest female MON role. Actors Niamh Cusack and Juliet Stevenson who've played MON her in the past also describe the pleasures and challenges MON of playing her. MON MON Timbuktu was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars MON and depicts what happens to one family when the city is MON overrun by fanatical jihadis. Channel 4 News' International MON Editor Lindsey Hilsum reviews. MON MON As the Hay Festival gets under way, Front Row takes a look MON at how literary festivals have multiplied in recent years. MON Are they all economically sustainable? Kirsty asks Peter MON Florence, director of the Hay Festival; Fiona Razvi of the MON Wimbledon Bookfest, and bestselling Chocolat author Joanne MON Harris. MON MON Step into the cinema and you might feel you've stepped back MON in time - re-makes of films from the 1980s including Mad MON Max, Poltergeist, Ghostbusters and Terminator are currently MON showing or due to hit our screens soon. Adam Smith muses on MON why so many movies from the 1980s, not known as a great MON decade for classic cinema, are having a revival. MON MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON Producer: Sarah Johnson. MON MON As You Like It MON MON Michelle Terry is Rosalind in As You Like It at MON Shakespeare’s Globe in London until 5 September 2015. MON MON Main Image: Michelle Terry as Rosalind and Simon Harrison as MON Orlando. Photo credit Simon Kane MON MON Timbuktu MON MON Timbuktu is in cinemas from Friday 29 May, certificate 12A . MON MON Literary Festivals MON Hay Festival MON is at Hay-on-Wye until 31 May 2015 MON Wimbledon BookFest MON takes place between 2 October to 11 October 2015. MON MON Image: Hay Festival. Photo credit Finn Beales MON MON Poltergeist MON MON Poltergeist is in cinemas now, certificate 15. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON Interviewed Guest: Juliet Stevenson MON Interviewed Guest: Niamh Cusack MON Interviewed Guest: Michelle Terry MON Interviewed Guest: Lindsey Hilsum MON Interviewed Guest: Peter Florence MON Interviewed Guest: Fiona Razvi MON Interviewed Guest: Joanne Harris MON Interviewed Guest: Adam Smith MON Producer: Sarah Johnson MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05vwt1r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Young, British and Imam-in-Training b05symn5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 20:30 Analysis b05vx63j (Listen) MON Ritual Sexual Abuse: The Anatomy of a Panic, pt 1 MON MON David Aaronovitch of The Times traces the powerful MON intellectual influences behind what he sees as one of the MON most important cultural shifts of the past 40 years: from a MON society in which accusations of sexual abuse were wrongly MON ignored to one in which the falsely accused were crushed by MON a system where the mantra was "victims must be believed". MON MON In the first of two programmes, Aaronovitch will examine the MON role played by unproven psychoanalytic theories which, from MON the 1980s, spread from the world of therapists in Canada and MON the USA to social work, medicine and then to law enforcement MON in Britain. MON MON From the NSPCC to academia it was believed that children MON were being sexually abused in group Satanic rituals, which MON involved murder and animal sacrifice. The programme will MON explore how these bizarre ideas took hold, how they were MON related to mistaken psychotherapeutic practices, and how MON they resonate still. MON MON The programme will look at the influences of four books MON which played a key role in influencing the intellectual and MON cultural climate. These are Sybil, Michelle Remembers, The MON Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) MON and The Courage to Heal. MON MON Producer: Hannah Barnes MON MON Contributors: MON Rosie Waterhouse - Investigative Journalist; Head of MA in MON investigative journalism at City University MON MON Debbie Nathan - Investigative Journalist and Author MON MON Tim Tate - Television Producer and Director MON MON Sue Hampson - Former counsellor, and now Director of Safe to MON Say Trauma Informed Training and Consultancy MON MON Roma Hart - Former Multiple Personality Disorder patient, MON who has retracted claims she was abused in childhood. MON MON 21:00 The Origins of War b05v7tnr (Listen) MON Is our desire to wage war something uniquely human or can MON its origins be traced much further back in our evolutionary MON past? MON MON To suggest that warfare is a regular feature of human MON civilization would be to state the obvious. But just how MON deeply rooted is our desire to kill others of our species? MON Is lethal aggression a fixed part of our genetic code, MON something that has evolved from a common ancestor - and MON something therefore that has adaptive value? Or is warfare - MON and more generally, a predilection for lethal violence MON something that has emerged much more recently in human MON history? No longer the preserve of historians and MON philosophers, the question, as Geoff Watts discovers, is now MON argued over fiercely by anthropologists and biologists. MON MON Producer: Rami Tzabar. MON MON (Photo: Chimpanzee. Credit: Getty Images) MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05vwpw8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05vrhqr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05vx6p8 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05vy8dq (Listen) MON The Wolf Border, Episode 6 MON MON Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal, MON political and environmental boundaries: about power, land, MON family and love. At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, MON defensive, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from her MON home county of Cumbria. Now she has returned to supervise a MON project to re-introduce wolves to England for the first time MON in 500 years. Like the wolves she protects and champions, MON she has been wary of human connections. MON MON Set against the dramatic and artfully evoked backdrop of the MON Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of vested MON power and re-wilding, and of family and motherhood. MON MON Today the wolves are ready for their release into the MON enclosure on the Earl's estate and Rachel is about to give MON birth. MON MON Reader Hattie Morahan MON MON Abridger Sally Marmion MON MON Producer Di Speirs. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Hattie Morahan MON Author: Sarah Hall MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Di Speirs MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b05v7tr3 (Listen) MON Food Connections Festival MON MON Michael Rosen and guests perform songs, poems and stories MON about food. With Writer Tania Hershman, singer Simon MON Panrucker and Cook Barny Haughton. All in front of a family MON audience at the Food Connections Festival in Bristol. MON MON Have you ever wondered what the words raspberry, syllabub or MON toffee have in common? Did you know that pickle is a Dutch MON word but tomato, chocolate and chilli come from the Aztecs? MON MON Join broadcaster and children's writer Michael Rosen on an MON adventure into language and food as he discovers how our MON favourite (and least favourite) dishes got their names in MON Radio 4's Word of Mouth programme. He'll be joined onstage MON by writers and singers to entertain us with poems, songs and MON stories and he'll be working with local schools to find out MON what makes the children of Bristol go 'yum' and 'yuk'. MON MON 23:30 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 performance. New York's MON Metropolitan Opera say the technology will revolutionise MON opera 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 TUE TUESDAY 26 MAY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05vrhsz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05vwpwb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05vrht2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05vrht4 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05vrht6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05vrht8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05wpyxr (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and TUE broadcaster Anna Magnusson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05vx7z4 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkf9f (Listen) TUE Bearded Tit TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Bearded TUE Tit. Bearded Tit live in reed-beds, eat mainly reed-seeds in TUE winter and build their nests using reed leaves and TUE flower-heads. The males do have a flamboyant black moustache TUE which would be the envy of any Chinese mandarin. TUE TUE Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05vx8q7 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Soul Music b03jb1w1 (Listen) TUE Series 17, Strange Fruit TUE TUE "Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves TUE and blood at the root..." Billie Holiday's famous song TUE expresses the horror and anguish of those communities TUE subjected to a campaign of lynching in the American South. TUE Soul Music hears the stories of people whose relatives were TUE lynched by white racists and of the various forms of grief, TUE anger and reconciliation that have followed. These include TUE the cousin of teenager Emmett Till, whose killing in 1955 TUE for whistling at a white woman, added powerful impetus to TUE the civil rights movement. TUE TUE Despite its association with the deep south, the song was TUE actually composed in 1930's New York by a Jewish TUE schoolteacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol adopted the children TUE of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after they were executed in TUE 1953 as Soviet spies. One of those children, Robert, talks TUE of his adopted father's humanity and his belief that the TUE Rosenberg's were killed in a 'state sanctioned lynching by TUE the American government'. For him, Strange Fruit is a TUE comforting reminder of his adopted father's passionate TUE belief in justice and compassion. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b05vx8q9 (Listen) TUE Australia's Rabbit Plague TUE TUE Rabbits were introduced to Australia for sport in the 19th TUE century. By the 1950s they posed a serious threat to TUE Australia's agricultural economy. Hear from one farmer who TUE took part in the battle to bring the alien species under TUE control. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05vx8qc (Listen) TUE Channel Shore, Episode 2 TUE TUE Tom Fort's maritime journey, abridged by Katrin Williams, TUE takes us from TUE the White Cliffs to Lands' End. About 675 miles in all.. TUE TUE 2. Wandering the 'shabby end' of the Royal Parade in TUE Eastbourne, which TUE houses the fishing fleet, the author is reminded of his own TUE fishing exploits. TUE This involved prawn - hunting.. TUE TUE Reader Jonathan Coy TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jonathan Coy TUE Author: Tom Fort TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05vx8qf (Listen) TUE Rock Star Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking TUE TUE American performer Amanda Palmer gave a TED talk in 2013 TUE entitled the Art of Asking She has since expanded it into a TUE book of the same name. She draws on her own personal TUE experiences in life and as a performer to explore what it TUE means to ask. TUE TUE Labour leadership candidate Mary Creagh the MP for Wakefield TUE on why she wants to be the next Leader of the the Party. TUE TUE What can you do if your child is overweight? At what point TUE do you decide their weight is a problem? And how should it TUE best be tackled? TUE TUE Plus money and relationships, Relate Ambassador, Anjula TUE Mutanda, on how to achieve financial harmony. TUE TUE And live music from 4 Girls 4 Harps. TUE TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE Producer Beverley Purcell. TUE TUE AMANDA PALMER TUE TUE American performer TUE Amanda Palmer TUE gave a TED talk in 2013 entitled the Art of Asking that has TUE since been viewed by over seven million people. She has TUE since expanded it into a book of the same title, which TUE rapidly turned into a New York Times bestseller. Amanda TUE initially came to fame as one half of The Dresden Dolls and TUE most recently as lead singer and songwriter of Amanda Palmer TUE and the Grand Theft Orchestra. She has always been very TUE engaged with her fan community and through crowdfunding and TUE the support of her fans, she raised over $1 million dollars TUE to pay for her album, Theatre is Evil, She was heavily TUE criticised afterwards when she announced on her website TUE that, as usual, she was seeking fans to play for free with TUE her Grand Theft Orchestra on her 2012 tour. She drew on TUE this as well as other experiences in her personal life and TUE life as a performer to explore what it means to ask. TUE TUE The Art of Asking or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let TUE People Help is out now TUE TUE MARY CREAGH TUE TUE Labour leadership candidate Mary Creagh the MP for TUE Wakefield talks to Jane Garvey about why she wants to lead TUE the Party. What’s her vision for Labour as it seeks to TUE rebuild itself after failing to persuade the British people TUE to elect it into Government. TUE TUE 4 GIRLS 4 HARPS TUE 4 Girls 4 Harps TUE is an all-female ensemble made up of four friends all aged TUE in their early 30’s. They’ve been together for 15 years and TUE in that time has created over 40 new pieces of works and TUE arrangements for harp quartet. They join Jane to talk TUE classical music, women in music and perform live on the TUE programme. TUE British Harp Chamber Music Competition TUE TUE MONEY AND RELATIONSHIPS TUE TUE Following the revelation that some wealthy American bankers’ TUE wives are being paid an annual ‘bonus’ by their husbands, TUE how can couples make sure the financial aspects of their TUE relationship work for both of them? A survey by TUE Relate TUE which provides support and counselling for all types of TUE relationships, asked people to identify the top challenges. TUE This revealed that money worries were the biggest problem, TUE with 62% of people saying they are one of the biggest TUE strains to relationships. So how can couples make sure TUE disagreements about money don’t come between them? Anjula TUE Mutanda is a Relate Ambassador, Psychologist and author of TUE ‘How To Do Relationships.’ She joins Jane to reveal the TUE secrets of financial harmony. TUE TUE WEIGHT PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN TUE TUE Children born since the 1980s are up to three times more TUE likely than older generations to be overweight or obese TUE and a fifth of boys and quarter of girls born after 1990 are TUE obese by the time they are 10 TUE That’s according to new research announced this month by TUE University College London. The head of the NHS, Simon TUE Stevens, warned the nation’s children are facing a ‘rising TUE tide’ of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, and Health TUE Secretary Jeremy Hunt has vowed to make tackling the problem TUE a Government priority. So what can you do as a parent if TUE your child is overweight? At what point do you decide their TUE weight is a problem? And how should it best be tackled? Jane TUE is joined by GP and Associate Professor at Imperial College TUE London Dr Sonia Saxena, who has conducted a 5 year research TUE project on childhood obesity for the National Institute of TUE Health Research. TUE TUE TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE Actor: Amanda Palmer TUE Interviewed Guest: Mary Creagh TUE Performer: Harriet Adie TUE Performer: Eleanor Turner TUE Performer: Keziah Thomas TUE Performer: Elizabeth Scorah TUE Interviewed Guest: Anjula Mutanda TUE Interviewed Guest: Sonia Saxena TUE Producer: Beverley Purcell TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05vx9vw (Listen) TUE Amicable, Episode 2 TUE TUE Can divorce really be amicable? Sally and Joe are about to TUE find out. Starring Con ONeill and Christine Bottomley, TUE written by Mark Davies Markham. TUE TUE As more and more marriages end in divorce, the whys and TUE wherefores become lost in the what next. When children are TUE involved, many parents strive to remain on good terms. But TUE is this really possible, when one partner has told the other TUE the relationship is over? And do any of us have the TUE overwhelming right to individual happiness, once we are TUE parents? TUE TUE Sally wants an amicable divorce from her husband Joe. A man TUE she calls her best friend. He goes into shock, denial, TUE panic, fear, resistance, acknowledgment, acceptance then TUE liberation. TUE TUE Amicable tracks the five month journey from marriage to TUE separation. TUE TUE The story has been developed out of interviews with real TUE people, like Mark's previous 15' drama series for Radio 4 TUE (Missing and the transgender child drama, Just a Girl). TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Sally accuses Joe of having been unfaithful. They both make TUE sure their daughter are okay, despite their growing anger TUE with each other about how they have ended up in this place. TUE TUE The writer TUE Mark Davies Markham has written for some of the most iconic TUE television series in the UK, including Eastenders, Band of TUE Gold and This Life (Writers Guild Award). TUE He has written numerous BBC Radio 4 dramas including Just a TUE Girl, Safe (Sony nomination), Absent and Deep Down and Dirty TUE Rock 'n' Roll. TUE The cast TUE TUE Director..............................Polly Thomas TUE Sound designer....................Cathy Robinson TUE Production Co-ordinator..........Eleri McAuliffe TUE TUE A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sally: Christine Bottomley TUE Joe: Con O'Neill TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE Writer: Mark Davies Markham TUE TUE 11:00 The Business of Genetic Ancestry b05vy4kb (Listen) TUE A DNA test can help you find your long lost parents and TUE allow you to build your family tree, but when it comes to TUE our deep ancestry, the story is a lot more uncertain, TUE despite what commercial testing companies may claim. TUE Dr Adam Rutherford investigates what modern gene sequencing TUE can (and can't) tell us with scientific certainty and TUE separates the hype and hyperbole from the often complex TUE picture presented by modern gene sequencing TUE At "the world's biggest family history show": Who Do You TUE Think You Are? at the NEC in Birmingham, he talks to the TUE super sleuths tracking down their ancestors and he hears the TUE moving story of Helen and Julia, mother and daughter. Julia TUE spent 20 years fulfilling a promise made when she was just TUE ten years old... to find the identity of her mother's birth TUE parents. Through DNA she found her mother's American GI TUE father and discovered her four half siblings, despite the TUE fact every single piece of information in the adoption file TUE was wrong! TUE But when it comes to our deeper history, we have millions, TUE even billions of ancestors, and from a mitochondrial DNA or TUE Y chromosome DNA test, being told you're descended from the TUE Romans, the Vikings, the Celts, or that you're a direct TUE descendant of Charlemagne or Genghis Khan is both true, and TUE meaningless. Some population geneticists have likened such TUE story-telling to "genetic astrology". TUE Adam talks to Professor Mark Jobling from the University of TUE Leicester, Professor Mark Thomas from University College TUE London and to Debbie Kennett, author, blogger and member of TUE the International Society of Genetic Genealogy, about the TUE scientific lines they believe some genetic ancestry TUE companies cross, when they provide people with stories about TUE their ancient ancestors and their ancient genetic homelands. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 11:30 In Search of the Black Mozart b05wdsnl (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and TUE performing in concert halls the world over as the principal TUE double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. TUE More recently, she's been on a personal journey seeking out TUE the lives and careers of black classical musicians from the TUE eighteenth century who like her, played and composed music TUE at the highest levels. In some cases, slivers of their lives TUE are on record but you have to be quite determined to find TUE out. TUE TUE Chi-chi puts the record straight and with the help of some TUE of the finest musical researchers around, she brings to the TUE fore the music and lives of musicians like TUE violinist/composer Joseph Emidy, virtuoso violinist George TUE Bridgetower and composer Joseph Bologne, aka Chevalier de TUE St-George who not only met Mozart in his lifetime, but who TUE was known by all those who heard his music as the 'Black TUE Mozart'. TUE TUE In today's programme she visits the British Library to find TUE our more about Ignatius Sancho - someone who was born into TUE slavery and ended up being the first person of colour in TUE Britain to have the vote. Also of interest to Chi-chi are TUE his musical compositions which are held at the British TUE Library. Together with music curator, Nicolas Bell and TUE Sancho expert Professor Brychhan Carey the three of them TUE assess Sancho's musical ability and life. TUE TUE In a more sinister turn of events, Chi-chi talks to Handel TUE scholar, Dr. David Hunter who shares his research which TUE reveals that Handel, whilst composing some of the most TUE beautiful music around was an investor in slavery. TUE TUE She also hears about the violinist and composer Joseph Emidy TUE who became a musical star of Cornwall's music scene and TUE meets up with one of his musical ancestors. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05vrhtf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b05vy4kh (Listen) TUE 26 May 1915 - Josiah King TUE TUE There's a new policeman in Folkestone, and he's determined TUE to make his mark. TUE TUE Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick TUE Norman Harris: Sean Baker TUE Ivy Layton: Leah Brotherhead TUE Hilary Pearce: Craige Els TUE Bob Welsh: Nathan Nolan TUE Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Producer: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05vy4kk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: At Risk from Cyclists TUE TUE A child is recovering after being hit by a cyclist riding on TUE a pavement, the cyclist rode off. TUE Have you ever been put at risk on the road by a cyclist? TUE TUE Meanwhile Chris Boardman has called for stricter liability TUE for motorists in accidents involving vulnerable road users, TUE to protect pedestrians and cyclists. TUE TUE Cyclist casualties have risen in recent years as the amount TUE of cycling has increased, latest figures show that over TUE 19,000 cyclists were killed or injured in reported road TUE accidents in 2013. TUE TUE What's your experience on the pavement or road? Are you a TUE cyclist who has been in an accident? Or are you a pedestrian TUE or motorist who's been in an accident caused by a cyclist? TUE TUE Email us with your stories youandyours@bbc.co.uk and join TUE Winifred Robinson at 1215. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05vrhtn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05vy4km (Listen) TUE Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by TUE Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vy50d (Listen) TUE Kabir: Offender and Offendable TUE TUE Today's subject is the low-caste weaver and poet who dared TUE to upturn the social orthodoxies of 15th century India - and TUE who still challenges us today. Sunil explores the life and TUE poetic legacy of Kabir - a dissenter, a provoker and an TUE abrasive debunker of humbug. TUE TUE There are plenty of legends around the poet - for example TUE that, after his death, his body transfigured into flowers so TUE that he could be neither cremated by his Hindu followers s TUE nor buried by Muslim devotees - but we actually know very TUE little about Kabir's life. One of the few certain facts is TUE that he lived in India's most sacred city, Varanasi. Sunil TUE Khilnani finds himself in the poor neighbourhood of TUE Bajardhia where low-caste Muslims still work today as TUE weavers. Sitting in cramped rooms among men with little TUE work, Sunil reflects on the man who described himself as 'a TUE patient weaver's son' but who is actually one of the most TUE impatient, acerbic, fed-up voices in the Indian cultural TUE canon. TUE TUE Kabir has become venerated across northern India as a saint, TUE almost a god. Yet Sunil finds Kabir's name being invoked in TUE secular circles too, for example the annual Jaipur Literary TUE Festival, a 21st century haven for independent thinking. TUE Here he meets the eminent poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, TUE translator of Kabir's poems into modern idiom and an TUE advocate for the poetic dissenter who wasn't afraid to TUE offend the powerful. TUE TUE Producer: Jeremy Grange TUE Original music composed by Talvin Singh. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05vx63c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b05vy5ns (Listen) TUE The Shadow of Dorian Gray TUE TUE by Stephen Wyatt. TUE TUE It's 1895, and Oscar Wilde has just been convicted of gross TUE indecency. London is in a moral panic. It's a dangerous time TUE to be John Gray, the man rumoured to have inspired Wilde's TUE scandalous novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. Summoned to TUE the Cafe Royal by a mysterious telegram, the whole course of TUE John's life will have changed by the time the evening is TUE over. TUE TUE Directed by Abigail le Fleming TUE TUE The Writer TUE Stephen has worked widely as a playwright in theatre, radio TUE and television. In 2008, his play, Memorials to the Missing, TUE won the Tinniswood Award for best original radio script of TUE 2007 as well as Silver in the Best Drama category of the TUE 2008 Sony Radio Academy Awards. In 2012 he won the TUE Tinniswood Award again for his play, Gerontius. He spent two TUE years as Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the TUE University of Sussex and a further year as RLF Writing TUE Fellow on Greenwich University's Maritime campus. TUE TUE So You Want to Write Radio Drama? written in collaboration TUE with Claire Grove was published by Nick Hern Books in TUE December 2013. His first novel Big Dipper was published by TUE Endeavour Press in October 2012. His three-part TUE dramatisation of Dante's The Divine Comedy for Radio 4 was TUE broadcast in March and April 2014. TUE TUE Credits TUE John Gray: Blake Ritson TUE Lord Henry: Nicholas Farrell TUE Andre Raffalovich: Joshua McGuire TUE Waiter: Chris Pavlo TUE The Voice of the Novel: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Director: Abigail le Fleming TUE Writer: Stephen Wyatt TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b05vrd9c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Shared Experience b05vy5nv (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE A new series of Shared Experience begins with a listener who TUE responded after hearing the programme in which four mothers TUE talked about the pain of leaving their children. Daniel got TUE in touch wanting to talk about his own experience of being TUE left by his mother at the age of ten. He talks to Fi Glover TUE and meets Sam, the Mum from the original programme who left TUE her daughter while she battled addiction. What takes place TUE is a painfully honest discussion about the emotional damage TUE Daniel and Sam's daughter suffered. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05vy6f0 (Listen) TUE Non-Verbal Communication TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Laura Wright sob, hum and buzz as they TUE consider whether the sound of a word has any connection with TUE its meaning. With guest Professor Steven Connor. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05wc8wz (Listen) TUE Series 36, David Blunkett on Louis Braille TUE TUE David Blunkett discusses the life of Louis Braille. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: David Blunkett TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05vy6g9 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05vrhvb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b05vy6ps (Listen) TUE Series 6, Melton Mowbray TUE TUE 'Melton Mowbray - Rural Capital of Food' TUE TUE Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a sixth series of the TUE award winning show that travels around the country, TUE researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns TUE that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and TUE performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local TUE residents. TUE TUE In the second episode Mark visits the Leicestershire Town of TUE Melton Mowbray where he discovers that as well as being the TUE home of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and Stilton Cheese, it TUE has also coincidentally, been officially ranked the most TUE obese area of Leicestershire. He looks at the history of fox TUE hunting in the area, meets several eccentric local residents TUE including a crime fighting milk man and he tries to get to TUE the bottom of who and what is the Melton Mowbray Town TUE Estate, a mysterious organisation established in 1549. TUE TUE Written and performed by ... Mark Steel TUE Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair TUE Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Stirling TUE Producer ... Carl Cooper. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Mark Steel TUE Writer: Mark Steel TUE Writer: Pete Sinclair TUE Producer: Carl Cooper TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05vy76y (Listen) TUE David has hit a dead end, and Rob has an idea. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b05vzxn2 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05vx9vw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Affordable Housing Crisis b05vzysp (Listen) TUE The UK has a serious shortage of affordable homes. Lesley TUE Curwen asks whether the current system - where councils do TUE deals with developers to provide cheaper homes - is working. TUE TUE Lesley examines three case studies - the huge redevelopment TUE schemes at Earl's Court and on the Greenwich Peninsula, as TUE well as a development in rural Suffolk. She asks whether TUE developers are being allowed to duck their obligations to TUE provide affordable homes as a condition of planning TUE permission. Are councils too under-resourced and TUE under-skilled to negotiate with large development companies? TUE TUE And what of the commuted sum - where developers pay a fee in TUE lieu of providing affordable housing? How is that working? TUE TUE Lesley hears from New York where the new mayor has TUE instituted a system that spells out what the city needs and TUE wants, cutting the necessity for protracted negotiation. TUE TUE Produced by Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05vzysr (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b05vzyst (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the latest in psychology, TUE neuroscience and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 Soul Music b03jb1w1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05vrhvg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05vzzr6 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05vy8fd (Listen) TUE The Wolf Border, Episode 7 TUE TUE Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal, TUE political and environmental boundaries: about power, land, TUE family and love. At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, TUE defensive, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from her TUE home county of Cumbria. Now she has returned to supervise a TUE project to re-introduce wolves to England for the first time TUE in 500 years. Like the wolves she protects and champions, TUE she has been wary of human connections. TUE TUE Set against the dramatic and artfully evoked backdrop of the TUE Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of vested TUE power and re-wilding, and of family and motherhood. TUE TUE Today As the wolves settle into their new home, Rachel is TUE adjusting to new demands and relationships too. TUE TUE Reader Hattie Morahan TUE TUE Abridger Sally Marmion TUE TUE Producer Di Speirs. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Hattie Morahan TUE Author: Sarah Hall TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Di Speirs TUE TUE 23:00 The John Moloney Show b05vzzr8 (Listen) TUE John Moloney has been headlining comedy clubs all over the TUE world. We've captured him at his very best performing in TUE front of an appreciative audience at The Stand Comedy Club TUE in Edinburgh. TUE TUE This week, there are a number of one liners, a story about TUE the pub and a top tip to avoid trouble if you come home a TUE little worse for wear. TUE TUE Written and performed by John Moloney. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Lorraine TUE A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: John Moloney TUE Performer: John Moloney TUE Producer: Alan Lorraine TUE TUE 23:15 Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets b01rlrk1 (Listen) TUE The Grand Canyon TUE TUE Winner of Best Scripted Comedy in the BBC Audio Awards 2014, TUE poet and playwright Richard Marsh fuses poetry and prose to TUE tell the funny and poignant story of his honeymoon road trip TUE across America with the girl of his dreams. TUE TUE Richard and Siobhan have always wanted to drive across TUE America, and they're doing it in style - in an old banger, TUE covered from top to tail with their favourite sweets, on TUE honeymoon. Their thrilling journey through the States takes TUE them to gun clubs in West Virginia, dying docks in TUE Baltimore, casinos in Las Vegas, moon-lit beaches by the TUE Atlantic and a magnificent sight Richard's always dreamt of TUE seeing - the Grand Canyon. TUE TUE But it turns out America's quite big, and Siobhan's not very TUE good at driving on the right - or asking for directions. TUE It's a lot of hard miles, and they can't drive away from TUE themselves. Is their new marriage strong enough to withstand TUE all those hot, silent mornings - or has the honeymoon period TUE come to an end more quickly than they thought? TUE TUE Contains some explicit language. TUE TUE Written and performed by Richard Marsh TUE TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Richard Marsh TUE Writer: Richard Marsh TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Arts Technologica b05r3ssp (Listen) TUE Art TUE TUE Martha Lane Fox explores how artists collaborate creatively TUE online. In the age of the internet, who needs galleries? TUE TUE Just twenty years ago, the internet was perceived as TUE extraordinary and new. Now it is part of our daily routine. TUE In the mid-90s, the early internet facilitated collaboration TUE between international artists who wanted to challenge the TUE structures of the traditional arts world. Twenty years TUE later, how do artists use a more corporate and commercial TUE internet? Is it a medium or a marketing tool? And what TUE relationships do traditional galleries have with digital TUE art? For some artists, the internet is a means of exploring TUE and highlighting how digital technologies shape our lives. TUE TUE Featuring artists and curators including James Bridle, Ben TUE Vickers, Thomson and Craighead, Kate Genevieve and David TUE OReilly. TUE TUE Producer: Gill Davies TUE An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05vrhx0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05vx8qc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05vrhx2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05vrhx4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05vrhx6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05vrhx8 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05wpyy3 (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and WED broadcaster Anna Magnusson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05vzzs1 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkfhy (Listen) WED Common Pheasant WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Common WED Pheasant. The crowing of pheasants is a sound inseparable WED from most of the UK countryside yet these flamboyant birds WED were introduced into the UK. The pheasant's coppery plumage WED and red face-wattles, coupled with a tail that's as long WED again as its body, make the cock pheasant a strikingly WED beautiful bird. WED WED Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b05vzzvn (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05vzzvq (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05vzzvs (Listen) WED Channel Shore, Episode 3 WED WED Tom Fort's maritime journey, abridged by Katrin Williams, WED takes us from WED the White Cliffs to Lands' End. About 675 miles in all.. WED WED 3. Once upon a time on Cogden Beach near Chesil, 'a WED mermaid was thrown up by the sea, thirteen feet long'. WED WED Reader Jonathan Coy WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jonathan Coy WED Author: Tom Fort WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05vzzvv (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05vzzyb (Listen) WED Amicable, Episode 3 WED WED Can divorce really be amicable? Sally and Joe are about to WED find out. Starring Con ONeill and Christine Bottomley, WED written by Mark Davies Markham. WED WED As more and more marriages end in divorce, the whys and WED wherefores become lost in the what next. When children are WED involved, many parents strive to remain on good terms. But WED is this really possible, when one partner has told the other WED the relationship is over? And do any of us have the WED overwhelming right to individual happiness, once we are WED parents? WED WED Sally wants an amicable divorce from her husband Joe. A man WED she calls her best friend. He goes into shock, denial, WED panic, fear, resistance, acknowledgment, acceptance then WED liberation. WED WED Amicable tracks the five month journey from marriage to WED separation. WED WED The story has been developed out of interviews with real WED people, like Mark's previous 15' drama series for Radio 4 WED (Missing and the transgender child drama, Just a Girl). WED WED Episode 3 WED WED Sally and Joe are still sharing the family home, carefully WED negotiating a new dynamic whilst sharing parenting, but both WED beginning to consider the possibility of seeing other WED people. WED WED The writer WED Mark Davies Markham has written for some of the most iconic WED television series in the UK, including Eastenders, Band of WED Gold and This Life (Writers Guild Award). WED He has written numerous BBC Radio 4 dramas including Just a WED Girl, Safe (Sony nomination), Absent and Deep Down and Dirty WED Rock 'n' Roll. WED WED Director..............................Polly Thomas WED Sound designer....................Cathy Robinson WED Production Co-ordinator..........Eleri McAuliffe WED WED A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Sally: Christine Bottomley WED Joe: Con O'Neill WED Director: Polly Thomas WED Writer: Mark Davies Markham WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05vzzyp (Listen) WED Celia and MaryJane - Refusing to Be Segregated WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between a centenarian and her WED daughter who recall the stand the mother took against the WED unequal Rhodesian education system when she was a head WED teacher. Another in the series that proves it's surprising WED what you hear when you 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 Britain's Underground Army b05vzzyr (Listen) WED Harry Parkes was approaching his 18th birthday in 1944. Like WED most young men he was expecting to be called up for service WED in one of the armed forces. Instead he received a letter WED informing him that he would be spending his national service WED years down a coal mine. WED WED Coal powered everything at this time. And if the nation WED didn't have coal, it couldn't fight the war. Experienced WED miners had joined the army and by 1943 the UK was facing WED coal shortages. WED WED Like almost 48,000 young men, Harry Parkes had been chosen WED at random - drawn from a hat they were told - in a scheme WED devised by the wartime coalition government's Minister for WED Labour, Ernest Bevin. They were Bevin Boys. WED WED Most wanted to join the armed forces and felt they weren't WED valued as Bevin Boys. They wore no uniform and suffered WED taunts, wrongly assumed to be avoiding serving in the armed WED forces. It was a crushing disappointment. But it was also WED life-changing. They very often found themselves exposed to a WED way of life and a class of people they would never have had WED contact with otherwise. WED WED The last Bevin Boys were demobbed in 1948. After their WED service they received no recognition, no medals and were WED excluded from wartime commemorations. It's only relatively WED recently - and after much campaigning - that Bevin Boys have WED been allowed to take part in Remembrance Day services. WED WED In this programme Harry Parkes tells the story of his time WED as a Bevin Boy and the effect it had on his life, and WED introduces two other surviving Bevin Boys, who reflect on WED the different experiences and the ways that being a member WED of this underground army changed them for ever. WED WED Featuring: Peter French, Harry Parkes and Geoff Rose. WED WED Producer: Martin Williams WED WED Music: Eclogue for piano and strings by Gerald Finzi WED Northern Sinfonia / Howard Griffiths. WED WED 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05w000p (Listen) WED Series 10, My Companion WED WED In his continuing quest for somewhere to live, Ed finds WED himself living in an empty phoneshop, the occupation of WED which the council hopes will encourage the stakeholders to WED engage with their creativity. Far from enticing people in to WED attend 'slam poetry events' Ed has other things on his mind WED when he and his ex-wife Janet decide to attend the funeral WED of an old friend - together. Their children are not happy at WED this prospect, and neither is Elgar when he's left at a WED cattery called 'Southpaws'. WED WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. WED WED Produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED Ed Reardon's Week is a BBC Radio Comedy production. WED WED Credits WED Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas WED Cattery Woman: Joanna Brookes WED Olive: Stephanie Cole WED Eli: Lisa Coleman WED Pearl: Brigit Forsyth WED Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Janet: Nicola Sanderson WED Jake: Sam Pamphillon WED Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead WED Writer: Christopher Douglas WED Writer: Andrew Nickolds WED Producer: Dawn Ellis WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05vrhxg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b05w0029 (Listen) WED 27 May 1915 - Kitty Lumley WED WED A cryptic parcel arrives for Kitty at the Wilsons. WED WED Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook WED Albert Wilson: Harry Myers WED Adam Wilson: Leo Montague WED Maggie Macknade: Hollie Thoupos WED CJ Croucher: Ian Masters WED Post Office Clerk: Sam Valentine WED Paperboy: Felix Lailey WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED Producer: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b05w002c (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05vrhxr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05w002f (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by WED Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w002k (Listen) WED Guru Nanak: The Discipline of Deeds WED WED Today's Incarnation is a poet who established one of the WED great world religions: Guru Nanak, the 15th century founder WED of Sikhism. WED WED Like the Buddha and Mahavira, the founder of the Jain WED religion, Nanak was a wanderer. He spent 25 years on the WED road and is said to have travelled as far as Mecca and the WED Himalayas. But, unlike his predecessors, when he had WED achieved enlightenment he returned to his homelands in the WED Punjab. He taught his disciples that, rather than renouncing WED the world and retreating from it, they must use their faith WED to change it from within. Nanak's 'disciplined worldliness' WED emphasised the importance of work and family. WED WED He also instituted an idea which is practised in Sikh WED temples all over the world. Sunil Khilnani visits the WED Gurudwara Nanak Piao in Delhi as they serve the langar, a WED meal provided by volunteers to anyone who comes, regardless WED of status, sex or religion. Everybody eats together in an WED equalizing act, a dispelling of the taboos designed to WED protect caste boundaries. WED WED Sunil explores the life of a man whose ideas were polemical WED and provocative. In announcing that "there is neither Hindu WED nor Muslim" Nanak wasn't proposing a harmonious blend of WED religions. Instead, he was rejecting other paths and WED creating an entirely new religion, one which now has around WED 30 million followers. WED WED Producer: Jeremy Grange WED Original music composed by Talvin Singh. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05vy76y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b05w003g (Listen) WED Sung WED WED Sung by Jim Cartwright WED A bittersweet drama which reunites the writer and star of WED 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'. Lorna is an alcoholic WED who lives alone in a down at heel flat. Then a young door to WED door salesman peddling stretch settee covers knocks on her WED door and discovers that she has a glamorous past. WED WED Song & Lyrics by John O'Hara WED Producer/Director Gary Brown WED WED Jim Cartwright is a celebrated playwright. His plays include WED 'Road', 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" and "Two". WED WED Credits WED Lorna: Jane Horrocks WED Lee: James Cartwright WED Director: Gary Brown WED Producer: Gary Brown WED Writer: Jim Cartwright WED WED 15:00 Money Box b05w003j (Listen) WED How do you make the most of self-employment? If you need to WED know about getting started, marketing, expanding or tax, WED Paul Lewis and guests will be ready with small business tips WED and advice. Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail questions to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED How do you turn a great idea into a successful business? WED WED Where can you find advice about funding, setting up and WED marketing? WED WED What tax, insurance and registration responsibilities are WED there? WED WED Can you claim tax reliefs and allowances for your business? WED WED Should you work as a sole trader or a partnership? WED WED How does franchising work, what are the possibilities, WED responsibilities and risks? WED WED What can you do if cash flow becomes a problem? WED WED Or perhaps there's something we've missed, what's on your WED mind? WED WED Ready to answer your questions will be: WED WED Emma Jones, Founder, Enterprise Nation WED Elaine Clark, Managing Director, CheapAccounting WED Cathryn Hayes, Head of Business Support, The British WED Franchise Association. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges WED apply. WED GOV.UK: Working for yourself WED GOV.UK: Employment Status Indicator WED GOV.UK: Newly self-employed WED Enterprise Nation WED The British Franchise Association WED Cheap Accounting WED Citizens Advice: Self-employed or looking for work. WED The Money Advice Service WED The Federation of Small Business WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b05vzyst (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05w3wfc (Listen) WED Happiness Industry; Wellness Syndrome WED WED The Happiness Industry: Laurie Taylor talks to Will Davies, WED Senior Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of WED London, who asks why policy makers have become increasingly WED focused on measuring happiness. Also, 'wellness syndrome': WED Andre Spicer, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at City WED University, argues that visions of positive social change WED have been replaced by a focus on individual well-being. WED They're joined by Laura Hyman, Lecturer in Sociology at the WED University of Portsmouth. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05w3wff (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05w3wfh (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05vrhxt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Clare in the Community b03sztry (Listen) WED Series 9, Panic Room WED WED Episode 5 - Panic Room WED WED Clare is forced to confront an old phobia after a regular WED home visit takes an unusual turn. Fortunately Helen is on WED hand to help. Back in the office, Joan is left holding the WED babies. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life In today's Big WED Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an WED involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Nali: Nina Conti WED Megan: Nina Conti WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Terry Dobson: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05w3wfk (Listen) WED Tony needs a break. Kenton does not need charity. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b05w3wfm (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05vzzyb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b05w3wkt (Listen) WED The Law of the Road WED WED Clive Anderson and a panel of legal experts discuss what WED changes could be made to our traffic laws to reduce the WED numbers of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians killed or WED injured on the road. WED WED Specialist defence lawyers lock horns with prosecutors, WED magistrates and academic lawyers with a range of views about WED how the law could be changed to improve matters. WED WED The discussion ranges across imposing "strict liability" on WED motorists involved in collision with cyclists, raising the WED legal driving age, stricter drink-driving laws (as in WED Scotland), and even a counter-intuitive proposal to remove WED speed limits and other traffic controlling measures. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b05w3wl5 (Listen) WED Brian Lobel WED WED Brian Lobel who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 20 WED says surviving cancer does not mean you have to be heroic. WED WED "I thought there must be something for the other 50% or 20% WED or 90% who would rather watch a box set than run a WED marathon." WED WED Presenter: Mark Coles WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 My Head b05w3xpk (Listen) WED Every year around a quarter of a million people suffer WED traumatic brain injury in the UK. James Piercy is one of WED those. On 30th January 2011. a nail pierced the tyre of the WED car he was travelling in. The car left the road and hit a WED tree. WED WED This is the story of his injury and subsequent recovery. He WED meets the policeman who held his head and kept him WED breathing, the air ambulance team who rushed him to hospital WED and the surgeon who drilled a hole in his skull in the WED middle of the night. WED WED James also takes a journey through our current understanding WED of the brain, and how studying injuries like James' are WED helping to shape the modern, very different, explanations of WED how our brains work. WED WED Presented by James Piercy WED WED Producer: Toby Murcott WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05vzzvq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05w3x5g (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05w3x5j (Listen) WED The Wolf Border, Episode 8 WED WED Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal, WED political and environmental boundaries: about power, land, WED family and love. At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, WED defensive, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from her WED home county of Cumbria. Now she has returned to supervise a WED project to re-introduce wolves to England for the first time WED in 500 years. Like the wolves she protects and champions, WED she has been wary of human connections. WED WED Set against the dramatic and artfully evoked backdrop of the WED Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of vested WED power and re-wilding, and of family and motherhood. WED WED Today Crisis and Success- Rachel's brother reaches rock WED bottom while the birth of the pups ensures the survival of WED the wolf pack. WED WED Reader Hattie Morahan WED WED Abridger Sally Marmion WED WED Producer Di Speirs. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Hattie Morahan WED Author: Sarah Hall WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Di Speirs WED WED 23:00 John Kearns b05w3x5l (Listen) WED Half-Time WED WED The second of four 14 minute vignettes in a brand new series WED from John Kearns, the Winner of the Main Prize at the 2014 WED Edinburgh Comedy Festival, as well as the Best Newcomer WED Award in 2013. Passions flare and loyalty is tested at a WED football ground in London, in "Half-Time." WED WED Producer: Arnab Chanda. WED WED Credits WED Writer: John Kearns WED Performer: John Kearns WED Producer: Arnab Chanda WED WED 23:15 Before They Were Famous b05w3x5n (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Ian Leslie presents the show which brings to light the often WED surprising first literary attempts of the world's best known WED writers. WED WED In this episode we get a valuable insight into the origins WED of Henry Longfellow's poetic success - in the guise of a WED letter of complaint to a boiler repair company. WED WED We also hear the troubled, adolescent Mary Shelley craft WED disturbing notes to accompany floral tributes, marvel at the WED deliciously spooky auction catalogue copy written by M.R. WED James, and hear a slightly disturbing Christmas cracker joke WED by Fredrik Ibsen. WED WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b05w3x5q (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the State Opening of WED Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 MAY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05vrhyr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05vzzvs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05vrhyt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05vrhyw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05vrhyy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05vrhz0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05wpyyj (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and THU broadcaster Anna Magnusson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05w3zl6 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkfmv (Listen) THU Brambling THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the THU Brambling. Bramblings are the northern equivalent of the THU chaffinch and breed across huge areas of Scandinavia and THU Russia. In autumn they migrate south in search of seeds and THU are particularly fond of beech-mast. The largest recorded THU gathering of any living bird species in the world is of a THU flock of over 70 million bramblings at a roost in THU Switzerland in the winter of 1951. THU THU Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) THU Image courtesy of DavidSlater (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b05w42wh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05w456c (Listen) THU The Science of Glass THU THU While glass items have been made for at least 5,000 years, THU scientists are yet to explain, conclusively, what happens THU when the substance it's made from moves from a molten state THU to its hard, transparent phase. It is said to be one of the THU great unsolved problems in physics. While apparently solid, THU the glass retains certain properties of a liquid and some THU believe it continues to flow, imperceptibly, pointing to old THU stained glass windows for evidence. Despite this THU uncertainty, glass technology has continued to advance from THU sheet glass in the Middle Ages to crystal glass, optical THU glass and prisms, to float glasses, chemical glassware, THU fibre optics and metal glasses. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05w456f (Listen) THU Channel Shore, Episode 4 THU THU Tom Fort's maritime journey, abridged by Katrin Williams, THU takes us from THU the White Cliffs to Lands' End. About 675 miles in all.. THU THU 4. At Slapton Ley there are musings on Pallas sand grouse, THU ship-wrecks, THU and 'Cornish sardines' - whose numbers turned the water THU black from THU Lands' End to Bigbury bay.. THU THU Reader Jonathan Coy THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jonathan Coy THU Author: Tom Fort THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05w456h (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 b05w456k (Listen) THU Amicable, Episode 4 THU THU Can divorce really be amicable? Sally and Joe are about to THU find out. Starring Con O'Neill and Christine Bottomley, THU written by Mark Davies Markham. THU THU As more and more marriages end in divorce, the whys and THU wherefores become lost in the what next. When children are THU involved, many parents strive to remain on good terms. But THU is this really possible, when one partner has told the other THU the relationship is over? And do any of us have the THU overwhelming right to individual happiness, once we are THU parents? THU THU Sally wants an amicable divorce from her husband Joe. A man THU she calls her best friend. He goes into shock, denial, THU panic, fear, resistance, acknowledgment, acceptance then THU liberation. THU THU Amicable tracks the five month journey from marriage to THU separation. THU THU The story has been developed out of interviews with real THU people, like Mark's previous 15' drama series for Radio 4 THU (Missing and the transgender child drama, Just a Girl). THU THU Episode 4 THU THU As Joe's new relationship becomes more serious, Sally gets a THU grip on her own anger and finds renewed friendship with Joe. THU THU The writer THU Mark Davies Markham has written for some of the most iconic THU television series in the UK, including Eastenders, Band of THU Gold and This Life (Writers Guild Award). THU He has written numerous BBC Radio 4 dramas including Just a THU Girl, Safe (Sony nomination), Absent and Deep Down and Dirty THU Rock 'n' Roll. THU The cast THU THU Director..............................Polly Thomas THU Sound designer....................Cathy Robinson THU Production co-ordinator..........Eleri McAuliffe THU A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Sally: Christine Bottomley THU Joe: Con O'Neill THU Director: Polly Thomas THU Writer: Mark Davies Markham THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b05w456m (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Sarah Lucas at the Venice Biennale b05w456p (Listen) THU Alastair Sooke presents an intimate portrait of the artist THU Sarah Lucas as she prepares for the global art exhibition THU the Venice Biennale, with exclusive access to record with THU Lucas before the event. THU THU Since rising to fame in the 1990s as one of the Young THU British Artists, Sarah Lucas is best known for her bawdy THU humour and sexual puns, in works such as Penis Nailed to a THU Board and Human Toilet Revisited. With fried eggs and melons THU in place of body parts and stuffed tights representing THU breasts, Lucas's art is by turns erotic, funny, disposable, THU glamorous and abject. But beyond the puns and the shock THU factor, Alastair reveals a depth and a seriousness to her THU work, as she tackles the big taboos of sex and gender, life THU and death. THU THU With rare access to record with Sarah Lucas in her studio in THU the months leading up to the exhibition, we ask how an THU artist who rose to fame as anarchic, young and British, THU responds to the challenge over twenty years on of THU representing Britain in the grand setting of Venice. THU THU Producer: Jo Wheeler THU A Freewheel production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05vrhz4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b05w45k7 (Listen) THU 28 May 1915 - Ralph Winwood THU THU Reverend Winwood is finding his faith, and his resilience, THU tested. THU THU Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie THU Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley THU Marieke Dupont: Olivia Ross THU Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn THU Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick THU Howard Argent: Toby Jones THU Bertha: Jane Slavin THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Producer: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b05w47hc (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05vrhz8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05w47hf (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by THU Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w47hh (Listen) THU Krishnadevaraya: Kingship Is Strange THU THU Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in THU London, visits Hampi in today's Karnataka, site of the THU sprawling capital of Krishnadevaraya, 16th-century warrior THU and self-doubting king. Krishnadevaraya lived in a brutal THU age and yet his writings show he was both learned and THU thoughtful, with an artistic temperament. He was a THU compulsive self-promoter whose presence is felt amongst the THU ruins at Hampi, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is THU in the Amuktamulyada, his long poetic work, that we hear his THU original voice which marks, says Professor Khilnani, "the THU emergence of an individual self, a subjective voice - THU centuries before the arrival of colonial ideas of the THU individual". THU THU Produced by Mark Savage THU Editor: Hugh Levinson. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05w3wfk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05w47pv (Listen) THU Stone, Progress THU THU The fourth drama in the crime series Stone created by Danny THU Brocklehurst. THU THU In Progress by Alex Ganley when the proprietor of a rundown THU garden centre is murdered, DCI Stone wrestles to find a THU motive and his investigation leads him into dangerous THU territory. THU THU Sound design by Steve Brooke THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU DCI John Stone: Hugo Speer THU DI Mike Tanner: Craig Cheetham THU DS Sue Kelly: Deborah McAndrew THU Ted Lennon: Steve Evets THU Keith: Steve Evets THU McCaffrey: Conrad Nelson THU Rogers: Conrad Nelson THU Maria: Kate Coogan THU Bernice: Kate Coogan THU Barrington: Graeme Hawley THU Bellamy: Graeme Hawley THU Writer: Alex Ganley THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b05w4dpr (Listen) THU Series 30, Old Birds, Pegsdon Hills THU THU Clare Balding walks in the Pegsdon Hills, Bedfordshire, with THU a group of female birders who call themselves the 'Old THU Birds'. The group initially bonded over their mutual love of THU nature, but also have many members who have been widowed, so THU find the gatherings a source of support as well as a way of THU exploring the local countryside. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05vssql (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05vt6gh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05w4j0w (Listen) THU Film Set Britain THU THU With Antonia Quirke. THU THU The Film Programme gathers listeners' memories of the day THU that a film crew rolled into town or took over their street. THU Antonia Quirke will hear from Mr Turner production designer THU Suzie Davies who transformed a land-locked house in THU Hertfordshire into the painter's Thames-side residence, by THU the simple expedient of digging up the garden and filling it THU with enough water to make it look like a river. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05w4jcl (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05w4jcn (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05vrhzb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Best Behaviour b05w4jcq (Listen) THU Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show that defines THU modern etiquette. THU THU This week's guests are comedians Sarah Pascoe, Romesh THU Ranganathan and Richard Herring, who are all seeking to THU supply the top tips for best behaviour in the 21st century. THU THU The panel debates the social minefield of who is best suited THU to host a dinner party, and the correct rules for lane THU discipline in the swimming pool. There's also advice on a THU social conundrum asked by a member of the studio audience - THU 'What should I say when I answer the telephone?'. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Holly Walsh THU Panellist: Sara Pascoe THU Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan THU Panellist: Richard Herring THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05w4jcs (Listen) THU Christine makes a discovery, and Charlie has a favour to THU ask. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b05w4jdb (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05w456k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05w4jxh (Listen) THU When GPs should say no THU THU The Academy of Royal Medical Colleges believes there is THU evidence that many patients are over-medicalised; given THU treatments that do not help alleviate a range of commonplace THU conditions. In some cases they may even do harm. Adrian THU Goldberg explores what patients expect from a medical THU consultation, how they might work better and why some THU doctors find it hard to just say no. As scientific progress THU makes more treatments possible, have we confused what is on THU offer with what might do us the most good? THU THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b05w4jxk (Listen) THU Productivity THU THU Why is UK productivity lower than in many other countries? THU THU Evan Davis begins a new series of The Bottom Line by looking THU at the productivity problem. The programme asks what THU productivity really means and how different sectors go about THU measuring it. THU THU Evan hears from three chief executives in three different THU sectors: manufacturing; advertising and health. How can THU productivity be measured and improved in these diverse THU sectors? How, for example, should the productivity of a THU doctor or nurse be measured? THU THU Guests: THU Dame Julie Moore, Chief Executive of University Hospitals THU Birmingham THU Brian Holliday Divisional Director, Siemens Industry THU Automation THU James Murphy, Founder and Chief Executive of Adam and Eve THU DDB Advertising THU THU Producer: Jim Frank. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05w4jcl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05w456c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05w4jzp (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05w4jzr (Listen) THU The Wolf Border, Episode 9 THU THU Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal, THU political and environmental boundaries: about power, land, THU family and love. At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, THU defensive, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from her THU home county of Cumbria. Now she has returned to supervise a THU project to re-introduce wolves to England for the first time THU in 500 years. Like the wolves she protects and champions, THU she has been wary of human connections. THU THU Set against the dramatic and artfully evoked backdrop of the THU Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of vested THU power and re-wilding, and of family and motherhood. THU THU In today's episode there are tensions in the air - and then THU comes the news that Rachel has feared and she must risk all. THU THU Reader Hattie Morahan THU Abridger Sally Marmion THU Producer Di Speirs. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Hattie Morahan THU Author: Sarah Hall THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Di Speirs THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mx27s (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU In Episode 4: Diane, Joe and David have to do 30 minutes of THU community service as punishment for their crimes against THU radio. THU THU You can see an animation by Tom Rourke on the Radio 4 THU website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio 4. THU THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Aled THU Jones, Paul Harry Allen, Bobbie Pryor and Gary Newman. THU THU Producer: Clair Wordsworth. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b05w4jzt (Listen) THU Susan Hulme and the BBC parliamentary team report from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 MAY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05vrj0g (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05w456f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05vrj0k (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05vrj0m (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05vrj0p (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05vrj0r (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05wpyz9 (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and FRI broadcaster Anna Magnusson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05w82fw (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkfw4 (Listen) FRI Grey Plover FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Grey FRI Plover. The call of the grey plover across the shimmering FRI mud-flats of an autumn estuary is a haunting sound. They FRI feed out on open mudflats using the "run, stop, peck" FRI method....a quick run towards any worms or shellfish which FRI they spot with those big eyes, stop, then a slight lean FRI forward to pick it up. FRI FRI Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rsbp-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05w84zf (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b05vstzl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05w84zh (Listen) FRI Channel Shore, Episode 5 FRI FRI Tom Fort's maritime journey, abridged by Katrin Williams, FRI takes us from FRI the White Cliffs to Lands' End. About 675 miles in all.. FRI FRI 5. The Looes. Then Lizard Point. Then Land's End, where a FRI cream FRI tea is enjoyed, but the place itself? FRI FRI Reader Jonathan Coy FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jonathan Coy FRI Author: Tom Fort FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05w84zk (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 b05w84zm (Listen) FRI Amicable, Episode 5 FRI FRI Can divorce really be amicable? Sally and Joe are about to FRI find out. Starring Con O'Neill and Christine Bottomley, FRI written by Mark Davies Markham. FRI FRI As more and more marriages end in divorce, the whys and FRI wherefores become lost in the what next. When children are FRI involved, many parents strive to remain on good terms. But FRI is this really possible, when one partner has told the other FRI the relationship is over? And do any of us have the FRI overwhelming right to individual happiness, once we are FRI parents? FRI FRI Sally wants an amicable divorce from her husband Joe. A man FRI she calls her best friend. He goes into shock, denial, FRI panic, fear, resistance, acknowledgment, acceptance then FRI liberation. FRI FRI Amicable tracks the five month journey from marriage to FRI separation. FRI FRI The story has been developed out of interviews with real FRI people, like Mark's previous 15' drama series for Radio 4 FRI (Missing and the transgender child drama, Just a Girl). FRI FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI As Sally prepares for a family party to celebrate Joe's FRI birthday, he admits to having a new girlfriend. The FRI divorcing couple finally arrive at a shared sense of FRI acceptance of their new relationship. FRI FRI The writer FRI Mark Davies Markham has written for some of the most iconic FRI television series in the UK, including Eastenders, Band of FRI Gold and This Life (Writers Guild Award). FRI He has written numerous BBC Radio 4 dramas including Just a FRI Girl, Safe (Sony nomination), Absent and Deep Down and Dirty FRI Rock 'n' Roll. FRI FRI The cast FRI FRI Sally........................Christine Bottomley FRI Joe............................Con O'Neill FRI FRI Director..............................Polly Thomas FRI Sound designer....................Cathy Robinson FRI Production co-ordinator..........Eleri McAuliffe FRI A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sally: Christine Bottomley FRI Joe: Con O'Neill FRI Director: Polly Thomas FRI Writer: Mark Davies Markham FRI FRI 11:00 Drawing the Line: When IVF Doesn't Work b05w85g1 (Listen) FRI Around 50,000 women go for IVF treatment in a year. For them FRI and their partners it offers the hope of having a baby where FRI natural means have failed. But, on average, only 25% of FRI cycles result in a live birth. So what happens to the FRI couples and individuals in the other 75% of cases that FRI haven't worked? FRI FRI With many fertility treatments now on offer and statistics FRI on clinics' success rates available, couples often feel they FRI should try everything possible to increase their chances of FRI having a baby. Yet when IVF keeps failing, the cost and FRI sense of grief with each cycle can be overwhelming. But, how FRI do you choose to stop when, in theory, the next cycle could FRI result in that long-dreamed of baby? FRI FRI The world of IVF has been called 'a market in hope' by Lisa FRI Jardine, ex-chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology FRI Authority, who says extensive media coverage of the FRI successes makes us believe it's possible for everyone - but FRI in reality people should be informed of its potential to FRI deliver grief and a sense of failure as well as success. FRI FRI Charlotte Smith talks to those who've experienced repeated FRI IVF failure, and asks them at what point they made the FRI decision to say 'enough is enough' and how that impacted on FRI their lives and relationships. FRI FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced in Bristol by FRI Anne-Marie Bullock. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury b05w8dmy (Listen) FRI Series 3, All Very Hush Hush FRI FRI When Henry decides to work from home, his wife - the FRI novelist and gardener Vera Sackcloth-Vest - is forced to FRI rearrange her secret liaison with Venus Traduces lest Henry FRI should discover her betrayal. FRI FRI But Henry has more pressing matters to attend to. His boss FRI from the foreign office is coming down for a secret meeting FRI to discuss a breach of security at Sizzlinghurst and, as a FRI result, Henry can't stop seeing spies round every corner. FRI His paranoia is fuelled by the arrival of a journalist and a FRI photographer from that hotbed of Bolshevism, the Observer FRI newspaper, who have come to interview Vera, and by the FRI unexpected visit of Ginny Fox and her Socialist husband, FRI Lionel, who have come to do research for Ginny's new novel FRI on the Foreign Office. FRI FRI Everyone appears to be asking intrusive questions and Henry FRI becomes very, very twitchy - especially when he discovers FRI that the interviewer is the working class genius DH Lollipop FRI and the photographer his occasional squeeze, Venus Traduces. FRI FRI Now Henry feels properly betrayed and only Vera denouncing FRI Venus in public can assuage his jealous rage. FRI FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes FRI Gosling: Roger Lloyd Pack FRI Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy FRI Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman FRI Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack FRI Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman FRI Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks FRI DH Lollipop: John Sessions FRI Producer: Jamie Rix FRI Writer: Sue Limb FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05vrj0w (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b05w8dn0 (Listen) FRI 29 May 1915 - Hilary Pearce FRI FRI Hilary Pearce is making his quiet way up in the world. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick FRI Ivy Layton: Leah Brotherhead FRI Thornton Tulliver: Nigel Harman FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Producer: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b05w8dn2 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05vrj0y (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05w8dn4 (Listen) FRI Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by FRI Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w8dn6 (Listen) FRI Mirabai: I Go the Other Way FRI FRI Sunil Khilnani tells the story of Mirabai, the 16th century FRI mystic poet who is one of India's most revered saints. FRI Mirabai was born into a conservative warrior caste in FRI Rajastan but rejected traditional family life and became a FRI wandering religious singer devoted to the Hindu god Krishna. FRI "All this, of course, was scandalous behaviour," says FRI Professor Sunil Khilnani "But Mira proved herself FRI ungovernable in her spiritual zeal". Mirabai composed up to FRI a hundred songs or bhajans which have been passed down FRI through the centuries by oral tradition. Others have been FRI added in her name over the centuries. Today some see Mirabai FRI as a potent symbol of feminism and self-transformation, FRI others as a passionate religious inspiration. FRI FRI With field recordings by Parita Mukta and readings by Sheenu FRI Das FRI FRI Produced by Mark Savage FRI Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of FRI remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05w4jcs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05w8dn8 (Listen) FRI Time for One More Question FRI FRI Glyn Maxwell's comedy drama recorded on location at this FRI year's Hay Festival. FRI FRI 1988 - the first year of the Hay Festival - arrogant FRI schoolboy Roland hears teenage literary hopeful Melanie FRI Carlow read her poem at a New Poets event - and he asks her FRI a 'Terrible Question'. She's distraught and he's thrown out. FRI FRI 2015 - Melanie Carlow is now an award winning poet, Roland's FRI an unemployed poet. He hears her on the radio saying that FRI for 27 years she's tried to answer that schoolboy's FRI 'Terrible Question'. It made her the writer she is. So he FRI gets on a coach to Hay-on-Wye to ask his question again... FRI FRI Love is put through the toughest Q and A in this comedy of FRI festival manners. FRI FRI With special appearances by Ian McMillan, Simon Armitage, FRI Peter Florence and Glyn Maxwell FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI Melanie: Christine Bottomley FRI Roland: Ifan Meredith FRI Gordon: Roger Evans FRI Gareth: Roger Evans FRI Cassie: Ibinabo Jack FRI Young poet: Ben Butler FRI Young poet: Jack Chambers FRI Young poet: Tom Fitzwilliams FRI Actor: Ian McMillan FRI Actor: Simon Armitage FRI Actor: Peter Florence FRI Actor: Glyn Maxwell FRI Writer: Glyn Maxwell FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05w8dnb (Listen) FRI Newcastle FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the programme from Newcastle. Bob FRI Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson answer FRI questions from a local audience. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Wish You Weren't Here... b05w8dnd (Listen) FRI The Last Person FRI FRI Wish You Weren't Here, a series of three original short FRI stories by award-winning writers about that awkward person FRI you'd rather not meet... In the first story Paula's romantic FRI weekend break in the Lake District is derailed when she FRI meets fellow hotel guest Graham. Written and read by Judy FRI Flynn. FRI FRI In our second instalment, a young couple buy a house, but FRI there's a strange clause in the small print and a mysterious FRI guest in their front room. Patrick FitzSymons reads Clare FRI Dwyer Hogg's unsettling tale. FRI FRI The series is concluded with Dermot Bolger's tale of FRI literary fraud; Jack is relieved that his fifth book launch FRI is going well, until an unexpected guest brings a pang of FRI conscience and unwelcome memories of past plagiarism. A FRI stranger, a mystery and an old friend all make us 'wish you FRI weren't here'! FRI FRI Writer ..... Dermot Bolger FRI Reader ..... Richard Lumsden FRI Director ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Dermot Bolger FRI Reader: Richard Lumsden FRI Director: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05w8dng (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b05w8dnj (Listen) FRI Series that investigates the numbers in the news. Presented FRI by Tim Harford. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b05w8dnl (Listen) FRI Ndaizivei and Sekai - Being Strong FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a young woman FRI born in the UK and her grandmother, about the strength she FRI showed when living under white rule in Rhodesia. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI 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 b05w8dnn (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05vrj10 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b05w8dnq (Listen) FRI Series 87, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests FRI Francis Wheen, Helen Zaltzman and Justin Moorhouse. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Francis Wheen FRI Panellist: Helen Zaltzman FRI Panellist: Justin Moorhouse FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05w8dns (Listen) FRI Lynda feels a glimmer of hope, and Brookfield feels the FRI competition. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie 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 Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macey: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b05w8dnv (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05w84zm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05wn7sk (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05w8dnz (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b05w8dp1 (Listen) FRI 25-29 May 1915 FRI FRI New season of Radio 4's epic drama series set in Great War FRI Britain on this day a hundred years ago. The Canadians have FRI arrived in Folkestone, and so have the profiteers. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ivy Layton: Leah Brotherhead FRI Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Howard Argent: Toby Jones FRI Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Thornton Tulliver: Nigel Harman FRI Muriel Grainger: Hannah Tointon FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Bob Welsh: Nathan Nolan FRI Marieke Dupont: Olivia Ross FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Albert Wilson: Harry Myers FRI Archie Tulliver: Arthur Hughes FRI Adam Wilson: Leo Montague FRI Maggie Macknade: Hollie Thoupos FRI Bertha: Jane Slavin FRI CJ Croucher: Ian Masters FRI Post Office Clerk: Sam Valentine FRI Paperboy: Felix Lailey FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05vrj13 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05w8dp3 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05w8dp5 (Listen) FRI The Wolf Border, Episode 10 FRI FRI Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal, FRI political and environmental boundaries: about power, land, FRI family and love. At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, FRI defensive, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from her FRI home county of Cumbria. Now she has returned to supervise a FRI project to re-introduce wolves to England for the first time FRI in 500 years. Like the wolves she protects and champions, FRI she has been wary of human connections. FRI FRI Set against the dramatic and artfully evoked backdrop of the FRI Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of vested FRI power and re-wilding, and of family and motherhood. FRI FRI Today, in the final episode, the chase extends northwards FRI and a new future beckons. FRI FRI Reader Hattie Morahan FRI Abridger Sally Marmion FRI Producer Di Speirs. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hattie Morahan FRI Author: Sarah Hall FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Di Speirs FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b05wc8wz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b05y60ds (Listen) FRI News from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05w8dp7 (Listen) FRI Christine and Sheila - Living Without Roots FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversations between sisters who FRI came to Lancashire from Rhodesia in their teens, reflecting FRI on the impact this displacement has had on their lives. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI 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