Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
SAT SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b079m0y2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b079rd1y (Listen) SAT Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, Episode 5 SAT SAT Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and SAT author, best known for his television work. But in his SAT lyrical and emotionally honest new memoir, he reveals the SAT life-events which would eventually shape him, and change him SAT forever. SAT SAT Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, from his SAT bedroom bursting with birds' eggs and jam jars, to his feral SAT adventures. But throughout his story is the search for SAT freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn't SAT understand him. SAT SAT In this episode, Chris concludes his painfully honest SAT memoir. He is a confirmed outsider - almost overwhelmed - SAT but determined to do things his way, on his terms. SAT SAT This unconventional and uncompromising memoir moves back and SAT forth through time, capturing a child's view of the 60s and SAT 70s - the music, the clothes, the cars - alongside recent, SAT more exposing recollections from adulthood. SAT SAT Read by Chris Packham and Rachel Atkins SAT Abridged by Jo Coombs SAT Produced by Pippa Vaughan SAT A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Chris Packham SAT Reader: Rachel Atkins SAT Author: Chris Packham SAT Abridger: Jo Coombs SAT Producer: Pippa Vaughan SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b079m0y4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b079m0y6 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b079m0y8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b079m0yb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b079rh5n (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew SAT Graystone. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b079rh5r (Listen) SAT Medication made my dad a gambling addict SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b079m0yd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b079m0yg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b079rbcx (Listen) SAT Dawn Chorus across Europe SAT SAT Brett Westwood presents a special programme as Open Country SAT joins forces with the European Broadcasting Union and RTE in SAT Ireland to follow the Dawn Chorus from East to West across SAT Europe. SAT SAT Sunday 1 May was International Dawn Chorus Day and from SAT midnight until six am, Brett Westwood sat in RSPB Ham Wall SAT in Somerset broadcasting about what he heard. The silence of SAT the night is broken by belching Moorhens, booming Bitterns SAT and even a Marsh Frog before Dawn breaks to reveal a huge SAT cast of Coots, Little Grebes and even Brett's first Cuckoo SAT of Spring, to name but a few. SAT SAT But as the Dawn moves West, Brett speaks to Alexander SAT Khaburgaev in Russia about the Starlings of Moscow which SAT imitate cab drivers from a hundred years ago, and Jason SAT Aloisio describes how tackling illegal hunting has allowed SAT the sparrows of Malta to thrive. Helge Søfteland and Niall SAT Hatch witness a thrilling spat between rival Capercaillie, SAT and Rob Buiter and Eric Dempsey report on Bluethroats in The SAT Netherlands. SAT SAT Producer: Toby Field. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07b2nkp (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: European Referendum Debate SAT SAT Charlotte Smith hosts a debate about the EU referendum, SAT recorded with an audience at the Pig and Poultry Fair at SAT Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. SAT Panelists are: UKIP MEP and Agriculture spokesman Stuart SAT Agnew; chair of the AHDB and former NFU President Sir Peter SAT Kendall; and farmers Colin Rayner and James Hook. SAT We hear arguments for and against staying in the EU and what SAT it could mean for farmers in terms of trade, subsidies and SAT regulation. SAT The producer is Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b079m0yj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07b2q12 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b07b2nks (Listen) SAT Actor, Writer and Comedian David Mitchell SAT SAT With Aasmah Mir and the Rev Richard Coles SAT SAT Actor and writer David Mitchell talks about playing William SAT Shakespeare in new series Upstart Crow, his comedy SAT partnership with Robert Webb, and being unable to read SAT people, despite getting a lot of practice as team Captain on SAT Would I Lie to You. SAT SAT As the football season comes to an end, listener Angela SAT Hallam talks about the craft of making football mascots, and SAT her experiences of wearing the costume. SAT SAT Former Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour reflects on his SAT career, which included signing for Fulham aged 9 and SAT cleaning boots as an apprentice. SAT SAT Njambi McGrath is a comedian and antenatal teacher. She SAT talks about finding her voice as a performer, growing up in SAT Kenya and the difficult relationship with her father - which SAT she talks about in her latest show. SAT SAT Amanda Holden shares her inheritance Track: Meat Loaf's Dead SAT Ringer for Love and Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. SAT SAT Upstart Crow staring David Mitchell continues on Monday on SAT BBC 2 at 10pm, except in Northern Ireland where it's on at SAT 11.35pm. SAT Ray Parlour's autobiography The Romford Pele is out now SAT Amanda Holden can be seen on Britain's Got Talent at 8pm on SAT ITV. SAT SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: David Mitchell SAT Interviewed Guest: Angela Hallam SAT Interviewed Guest: Ray Parlour SAT Interviewed Guest: Njambi McGrath SAT Interviewed Guest: Amanda Holden SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b07b2q14 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Sandwich SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the programme from Sandwich. Zoe Laughlin, SAT Henry Dimblebey, Sophie Wright, and Tim Anderson answer this SAT week's culinary questions. SAT SAT Produced by Darby Dorras SAT Assistant producer: Hannah Newton SAT SAT Food consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b07b2q16 (Listen) SAT Paul Waugh of the Huffington Post looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b079m0yl (Listen) SAT A Complex Man SAT SAT The newsmakers. In this edition: a foul-mouthed despot or a SAT man to grapple with the problems of the Philippines? SAT Jonathan Head considers the country's controversial choice SAT for president. A mock funeral at a migrants' camp in Greece SAT - Theopi Skarlatos finds patience with the governments of SAT northern Europe wearing thin. They may have put the clocks SAT forward recently, but Paul Moss reckons time in Venezuela is SAT actually going backwards. Andrew Hosken is in the building SAT in Tirana which was once the headquarters of the country's SAT feared secret police while Sara Wheeler take a look at a way SAT of life on the South Atlantic island of St Helena which many SAT there fear will vanish forever once the long-awaited airport SAT there finally opens for business. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b079m0yn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b079m0yq (Listen) SAT Ban on new builds as second homes SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Pensions SAT SAT SAT Pensions advice: SAT http://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/ SAT SAT WASPI campaign: SAT https://www.facebook.com/WASPI-Women-Against-State-Pension-I SAT equality-Campaign-877054125688402/ SAT SAT How to check your state pension age: SAT https://www.gov.uk/state-pension-age SAT Second Homes SAT SAT SAT Neighbourhood Planning: SAT https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neighbourhood-pla SAT ning SAT SAT St Ives Area Neighbourhood Development Plan 2015 – 2030: SAT https://stivesnplan.wordpress.com/ SAT Student Loans SAT SAT Dr Andrew McGettigan’s blog: SAT *https://andrewmcgettigan.org/2016/04/06/calculator-caveats/ SAT SAT SAT Repayment Calculators: SAT http://www.savethestudent.org/student-loans-repayment-calcul SAT tor SAT http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/student-finance-ca SAT culator SAT http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/student-loan-rep SAT yment-calculator SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b079rfxf (Listen) SAT Series 90, Episode 5 SAT SAT This week, the programme comes from the Corn Exchange in SAT Ipswich as Miles Jupp is joined by Susan Calman, Hugo SAT Rifkind, Zoe Lyons and Jeremy Hardy for the long-running SAT satirical quiz of the week's news. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Panellist: Zoe Lyons SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b079m0ys (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b079m0yv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b079rgy3 (Listen) SAT Lord Ashdown, Dr Liam Fox MP, Baroness Jenny Jones, Rachel SAT Reeves MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Colyton Grammar School in Devon with a panel including SAT the former Leader of the liberal Democrats Lord Ashdown, SAT former Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP, the Green Party SAT peer Baroness Jenny Jones and the Labour MP Rachel Reeves. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b079m0yx (Listen) SAT Any Answers after the Saturday broadcast of Any Questions? SAT Lines open at 1230 SAT Call 03700 100 444. Email is any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Or SAT tweet, the hastag is BBCAQ. Follow us @bbcanyquestions. SAT SAT 14:30 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b07b302r (Listen) SAT Sex, Lust SAT SAT Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by SAT the works of literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile SAT Zola. SAT SAT Season 2. Sex. Episode 8. Lust SAT SAT A story of quenchless desire dramatised by Lavinia Murray. SAT SAT Octave Mouret runs The Ladies Paradise - the greatest shop SAT in Paris. But no matter its success, he's never satisfied. SAT SAT Glenda Jackson stars as Dide the matriarch to a family of SAT wolves - the Rougon- Macquarts. SAT SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dide: Glenda Jackson SAT Octave: Jack Lowden SAT Bourdouncle: Christopher Bisson SAT Baudu: David Fleeshman SAT Haussmann: David Fleeshman SAT Mrs Desforges: Shobna Gulati SAT Clara: Zoe Iqbal SAT Denise: Katie West SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT Author: Emile Zola SAT Adaptor: Lavinia Murray SAT SAT 15:30 16 5 66 b079pqct (Listen) SAT On Monday 16th of May, 1966 two of the greatest albums of SAT all time were released. Through archive, interviews and SAT music from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde SAT on Blonde, we tell the story of the music from that SAT momentous day. SAT SAT For the American music lover, the two albums would come to SAT shape music history. Blonde on Blonde is considered Bob SAT Dylan's magnum opus, while Pet Sounds is The Beach Boys' SAT epic journey into the musical mind of Brian Wilson. SAT SAT Fifty years on, we hear from those who remember that day - SAT musicians who worked on the albums, and teenagers who saved SAT up to buy the records but had a choice to make, Pet Sounds SAT or Blonde on Blonde. SAT SAT We hear of two lovers who danced in the kitchen to Pet SAT Sounds. Wouldn't it Be Nice played as they talked of the SAT future. On that day in 1966, Bob Dylan was playing in SAT Sheffield, one of his forty or so worldwide shows. One Dylan SAT fan remembers it like it was yesterday. The next day Dylan SAT would play Manchester and be called "Judas". SAT SAT One day, two musical visions. SAT SAT Produced by Barney Rowntree and Shani Aviram SAT A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b079m0yz (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation Dr Wanda SAT Austin discusses what she's doing to encourage more women SAT and girls into science and technology. SAT SAT We hear opposing views on the debate about the European SAT Referendum. Labour's former acting leader Harriet Harman MP SAT argues a vote to leave could threaten women's equality at SAT work and Labour MP Gisela Stuart, who chairs the Vote Leave SAT campaign, argues that workers' rights had been "hard won" in SAT the UK, not Europe. SAT SAT What is the value of keeping a diary and why do so many of SAT us keep them. We hear from the author and academic Sally SAT Bayley and the violinist and avid diary keeper Tasmin Little SAT about their teenage diaries. SAT SAT Christine Mills set up the cancer charity Hope For Tomorrow, SAT which launched the first Mobile Chemotherapy Unit. Christine SAT lost her husband David to the disease and she explains why SAT the mobile unit is so important to her. SAT SAT The National Poet of Wales Gillian Clark is preparing to SAT stand down after eight years in the post. She performs some SAT of her much loved poems. SAT SAT In her latest novel, the bestselling historical author SAT Alison Weir brings to life the story of Katherine of Aragon. SAT This is the first book in her new series 'Six Tudor Queen's' SAT where she gives voice to each of Henry's wives. She tells us SAT about new research she has uncovered. SAT SAT Is there anything wrong with sharing an intimate picture SAT with someone consensually online? How about receiving an SAT unsolicited image from a stranger? The American artist SAT Whitney Bell has created an art exhibition using 200 SAT unsolicited 'dick pics' she received online. Katy Horwood SAT discusses what it's like to receive an image and what the SAT law says. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Interviewed Guest: Wanda Austin SAT Interviewed Guest: Harriet Harman SAT Interviewed Guest: Gisela Stuart SAT Interviewed Guest: Sally Bayley SAT Interviewed Guest: Tasmin Little SAT Interviewed Guest: Christine Mills SAT Interviewed Guest: Gillian Clarke SAT Interviewed Guest: Alison Weir SAT Interviewed Guest: Katy Horwood SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b079m0z1 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b079rh5r (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b079m0z3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b079m0z5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b079m0z7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b07b31s2 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Newton Faulkner, Jacqueline SAT Wilson, Hadyn Gwynne, Eric Bibb, Vicky Featherstone SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Newton Faulkner, Vicky SAT Featherstone, Hadyn Gwynne and Jacqueline Wilson for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Eric Bibb. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Vicky Featherstone SAT SAT 'Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour' is currently touring. It's SAT at Theatre Royal, Brighton from 17th to 21st May, The Lomond SAT Auditorium, SECC, Glasgow from 24th to 28th and Liverpool SAT Playhouse from 31st May to 4th June. Check the website for SAT further dates. SAT SAT Jacqueline Wilson SAT SAT 'Rent A Bridesmaid' is published by Doubleday and available SAT now. SAT SAT Haydn Gwynne SAT SAT 'The Windsors' is on Channel 4. SAT SAT Newton Faulkner SAT SAT 'Green Day's American Idiot' is touring until 2nd July. It's SAT at Exeter Northcott Theatre from 18th to 22nd May and SAT Sunderland Empire from 24th to 28th May. Check the website SAT for further dates. Newton performs 'Boulevard of Broken SAT Dreams', from the show. SAT SAT Eric BIbb SAT SAT 'The Happiest Man in The World', available now on Dixiefrog. SAT Eric Bibb is touring dates include Birmingham on 16th May, SAT Edinburgh on 19th May and Glasgow on 20th May, more dates on SAT his website. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Newton Faulkner SAT Interviewed Guest: Jacqueline Wilson SAT Interviewed Guest: Haydn Gwynne SAT Performer: Eric Bibb SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b07b31s4 (Listen) SAT Chief executive of Easyjet, Dame Carolyn McCall, is one of SAT the UK's most successful businesswomen. Initially seen as an SAT outsider, she has won over staff and investors, piloting the SAT airline into the FTSE 100. SAT SAT Over the past three decades, she's also run the Guardian SAT Media Group, and brought her wisdom to the boardrooms of SAT Lloyds TSB, Tesco, Burberry and New Look. Last year she was SAT voted Britain's most admired business leader. SAT SAT An only child, Dame Carolyn was brought up in Bangalore and SAT Singapore, before moving to boarding school in Derbyshire, SAT and later meeting her husband at Kent University. SAT SAT Mark Coles finds out more about this high flyer from her SAT school roommate, former colleagues Alan Rusbridger and Sir SAT Michael Rake, and Easyjet pilot Captain Angus Hogg. SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles SAT Producers: Ruth Alexander and Sarah Shebbeare. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b079m0z9 (Listen) SAT Lionel Shriver, Everybody Wants Some!!, Green Room, The SAT Complete Deaths, Gillian Wearing SAT SAT Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles imagines a dystopian America SAT of the future SAT Richard Linklater's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated tour de SAT force Boyhood is meant to be the spiritual sequel to 1993's SAT Dazed and Confused. Everybody Wants Some!! looks at a group SAT of baseball scholarship students settling-in at a Texas SAT university SAT Horror Thriller film Green Room has been making some SAT audience members vomit and faint -how well will our SAT reviewers cope? SAT At the Brighton Festival: Spy Monkey's The Complete Deaths SAT brings all of the grim and ghastly killings from SAT Shakespeare's works into one gruesome play SAT Gillian Wearing's A Room With Your Views captures a snapshot SAT of views from windows around the world - what does it SAT reveal? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Damian Barr, Viv Groskop and SAT Rebecca Stott. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Green Room SAT Green Room SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 18. SAT SAT SAT Everybody Wants Some!! SAT Everybody Wants Some!! SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Lionel Shriver SAT SAT The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver is available in hardback and SAT ebook now. SAT SAT Image: Sarah Lee SAT SAT Brighton Festival SAT SAT Learn more about the events taking place at the SAT Brighton Festival SAT here. SAT SAT SAT The Complete Deaths SAT The Complete Deaths SAT is at the Theatre Royal Brighton as part of the Brighton SAT Festival until 15 May 2016. It then goes on to tour the UK SAT find full places and dates SAT here SAT . SAT Image: © 2016 Spymonkey. Photograph by John Hunter for Ruler SAT SAT Gillian Wearing SAT Gillian Wearing - A Room With Your Views SAT is at the University of Brighton Galleries, as part of the SAT Brighton Festival, until 29 May 2016. You can submit your SAT own view SAT here SAT . SAT SAT Image: Nigel Green/HOUSE. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Damian Barr SAT Interviewed Guest: Viv Groskop SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Stott SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04g6mn1 (Listen) SAT No More Heroes SAT SAT The concept of the hero is an incredibly powerful one. But SAT what are heroes, and why are we so drawn to them? Angie SAT Hobbs examines the hero, and asks if we are in danger of SAT devaluing the term. SAT SAT Stories of heroes resound through the ages, from Achilles in SAT The Iliad, to Lawrence of Arabia. Tales of heroic exploits SAT can be inspiring, but the reality of being a hero can be a SAT lonely one, and many find it difficult to adjust to normal SAT life. Is a hero someone who displays physical or moral SAT courage? What is the relationship between heroism and SAT recklessness? Have we confused heroism and celebrity? And SAT how is the term used and misused by politicians, charities SAT and the media? SAT SAT To find out what the hero means to us today, Angie speaks to SAT Germaine Greer, Sir Max Hastings, Canon Vernon White, Rory SAT Stewart MP, Colonel Tim Collins and Dame Ellen MacArthur SAT SAT Presenter: Angie Hobbs SAT Producer: Jessica Treen. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b0505l3m (Listen) SAT Cloud Howe, Episode 1 SAT SAT Lewis Grassic Gibbon's powerful sequel to Sunset Song SAT dramatised by Donna Franceschild. SAT SAT Atmospheric drama about Grassic Gibbon's best-loved SAT character, Chris. SAT SAT Now married to Robert, a young and idealistic minister, SAT Chris and her family move from the crofting village of SAT Kinraddie to the mill town of Segget in Aberdeenshire. SAT Living in the wake of the Great War and during the build up SAT to the General Strike, they find themselves instrumental in SAT the small town's epic class struggle. SAT SAT Starring Amy Manson and Robin Laing. SAT SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Chris: Amy Manson SAT Robert: Robin Laing SAT Else: Pearl Appleby SAT Dalziel: Liam Brennan SAT Alec: Philip Cairns SAT Jock: Stephen Duffy SAT Ewan: Roderick Gilkison SAT Leslie: Ralph Riach SAT Ake: Iain Robertson SAT Miss M'Askill: Wendy Seager SAT Mowat: Nick Underwood SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT Adaptor: Donna Franceschild SAT Actor: Lewis Grassic Gibbon SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b079m0zc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b079r5lv (Listen) SAT Energy SAT SAT If new energy sources offer cheap, plentiful power to SAT everyone, how will the planet cope? FutureProofing examines SAT a new method of power generation promising clean, limitless SAT power for everyone. Can it work, what are the consequences, SAT and is there a viable alternative? SAT SAT Fusion has long-promised cheap, clean and limitless power, SAT but over half a century of effort this technology has still SAT not delivered an operational power plant. Now hopes are high SAT that a vast project in the south of France will finally SAT crack the problems and deliver a working model that can be SAT replicated around the world. FutureProofing presenters SAT Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson travel to Provence to find SAT out what the prospects are for a scheme costing upwards of SAT £10billion which could transform the energy supply for us SAT all and with it global geo-politics and the environment for SAT centuries to come. SAT SAT The programme explores what viable alternatives there could SAT be to generate power at the same scale for billions of SAT people across the world, and whether such an alternative is SAT a better route to achieving the goal of cheap, plentiful and SAT clean energy for the future. SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b079nfk8 (Listen) SAT Series 6, The University of York SAT SAT A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this SAT week from the University of York, with specialist subjects SAT including History of Art, Theatre, TV and Film Studies and SAT Physics, and questions ranging from Bartok to La Belle Et La SAT Bête via David Bowie and the Chinese Renmimbi. SAT SAT The programme is recorded on location at a different SAT University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates SAT against three of their Professors in an original and fresh SAT take on an academic quiz. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow SAT and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the SAT students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages SAT and science, but also their Professors' awareness of SAT television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In SAT addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope SAT for mild embarrassment on both sides. SAT SAT Other Universities featured in this series include SAT Gloucestershire, Chester, Birmingham City, Bath and Glasgow. SAT SAT Produced by 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 b079mdy6 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT On the Grasshopper and Cricket SAT SAT By John Keats SAT SAT From The Complete Poems [John Keats] SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Summer SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT From Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti SAT SAT Published by Wordsworth SAT SAT SAT SAT One Cigarette SAT SAT By Edwin Morgan SAT SAT From Edwin Morgan – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT Wessex Heights SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Catch SAT SAT By Simon Armitage SAT SAT From Kid SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Garden SAT SAT By Andrew Marvell SAT SAT From Andrew Marvell – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT A Wall SAT SAT By Dannie Abse SAT SAT From Welsh Retrospective SAT SAT Published by Seren SAT SAT SAT SAT Suicide off Egg Rock SAT SAT By Sylvia Plath SAT SAT From Sylvia Plath – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT In My Craft or Sullen Art SAT SAT By Dylan Thomas SAT SAT (archive recording) SAT SAT From Dylan Thomas: The Poems SAT SAT Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT A Child Half Asleep SAT SAT By Tony Connor SAT SAT Taken from SAT https://webofnotes.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/a-child-half- SAT sleep.pdf SAT SAT In Mrs Tilscher's Class SAT SAT By Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT From Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Jabberwocky SAT SAT By Lewis Carroll SAT SAT From A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse SAT SAT Published by Allen Lane SAT SAT SAT SAT My Own Heart SAT SAT By Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT SAT From Hopkins – Poems and Prose SAT SAT Published by Everyman’s Library SAT SAT SAT SAT An Arundel Tomb SAT SAT By Philip Larkin SAT SAT From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 MAY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b07b9qq5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Time b03zxw0s (Listen) SUN A Bagful of Stories SUN SUN These three new tales by Olga Grushin - commissioned SUN specially for BBC Radio 4 - touch upon the lives of five SUN generations and explore the effects of time on one Russian SUN family. SUN SUN " ... I found a small alarm clock with square black numbers SUN and a picture of a tiny butterfly in the middle of its round SUN face, I took it. SUN SUN "The hands didn't move at first, but my mother said you just SUN had to wind it; only when she did, I saw that it was broken, SUN because the second hand ran backward, and if you stared at SUN the clock long enough to notice, so did the minute hand." SUN SUN Programme 3. A Bagful of Stories SUN Returning to Moscow after wartime evacuation, Elena leaves SUN her bag behind on the platform of a provincial railway SUN station. But what did the bag really contain? SUN SUN Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her SUN childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first SUN Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United SUN States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was SUN shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named SUN one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She SUN has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) SUN and The Concert Ticket (2010). Her story 'The Homecoming' SUN featured in the series 'Platform Three' on Radio 4 (2010) SUN and The Dream Life of Sukhanov was a Book At Bedtime in SUN 2012. Olga lives in Washington D.C. SUN SUN Reader: Ruth Gemmell SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Ruth Gemmell SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Olga Grushin SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07b9qq8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07b9qqb (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07b9qqd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b07b9qqg (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b07b9x6k (Listen) SUN St Mary and St Chad, Brewood SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St Mary SUN and St Chad, Brewood in Staffordshire. There are 8 bells SUN cast in 1896 by Taylors of Loughborough. This week we hear SUN them ringing Spliced Surprise Major. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b07b31s4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b07b9qqj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b07b9x6m (Listen) SUN Healing Moments SUN SUN Academic Dr Sarah Goldingay explores the spiritual aspects SUN of healing. Sarah's research into the healing experience has SUN led her to the realisation that the process involves far SUN more than our bodies alone. SUN SUN For Sarah, healing is about our emotions, our sense of self, SUN the landscape and community we were born into. It's about SUN our very soul. SUN SUN In this episode of Something Understood, stories from SUN patients Sarah has interviewed reveal the importance, when SUN healing, of a deep connection to something other than SUN ourselves - to our doctor, the landscape around us and to SUN the divine. SUN SUN With poetry from Christopher Southgate, who examines the SUN feeling of loss following the death of a loved one, and SUN readings from Navajo surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord, the SUN programme dissects what could be called "healing moments" - SUN moments where the connection between healer and patient SUN becomes imbued with a transcendent power. SUN SUN Presenter: Dr Sarah Goldingay SUN Producer: Max O'Brien SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Liner Notes from Screws SUN SUN Author: Nils Frahm SUN SUN Publisher: Erased Tapes Records SUN Title: The Maxims of Medicine SUN SUN Author: Suzy Kassem SUN SUN Publisher: Suzy Kassem SUN Title: The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of SUN Searching for the Good Life SUN SUN Author: Richard Schoch SUN SUN Publisher: Scribner SUN Title: The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo SUN Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional SUN Healing SUN SUN Author: Lori Arviso Alvord SUN SUN Publisher: Bantam SUN Title: The Source SUN SUN Author: Jean Sprackland SUN SUN Publisher: London Review of Books SUN Title: Coming to Terms SUN SUN Author: Christopher Southgate SUN SUN Publisher: Shoestring Press SUN Title: Ruth Harris SUN SUN Author: Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN Title: Healing Walks for Hard Times SUN SUN Author: Carolyn Scott Kortage SUN SUN Publisher: Trumpeter Books SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b07b9x6p (Listen) SUN The Milking Parlour SUN SUN Sybil Ruscoe meets Nessie Reid whose Milking Parlour project SUN has led to her living with and milking two Guernsey dairy SUN cows in central Bristol for 5 days. SUN SUN We also meet the Parfitt family of Graylands Farm in the SUN hills south of Bristol, from whose herd of prize-winning SUN pedigree Guernseys the two cows were chosen. They explain SUN that they've supported the project in order to encourage the SUN public to better understand the demands of running a dairy SUN farm, and the narrow economic margins which make so many SUN family dairy farms less and less viable. SUN SUN Besides the families who came along to visit the milking SUN parlour and corral set up in a cobbled square next to SUN Bristol's harbourside, Sybil also hears from vegans who SUN express their concerns about the dairy industry and SUN livestock welfare. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b07b9qqm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b07b9qqp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b07b9qqr (Listen) SUN Jordan refugee camp, John Sentamu's pilgrimage, Sermon of SUN the year SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b07b9x6r (Listen) SUN The Sickle Cell Society SUN SUN Malorie Blackman presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN The Sickle Cell Society SUN Registered Charity No 1046631 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'The Sickle Cell Society' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'The Sickle Cell SUN Society' SUN SUN Photo credit: Imo Akpanan. SUN SUN The Sickle Cell Society SUN SUN The Sickle Cell Society is a national charity for sickle SUN cell disorder, an inherited blood disease. The charity SUN provides information, advice and support to those affected, SUN from a helpline service to an annual children’s residential SUN respite holiday, as well as educating the public. SUN SUN A workshop for children SUN SUN Children with sickle cell disease need to learn about SUN managing their condition from a young age. The Sickle Cell SUN Society brings children together and teaches them about SUN their health so they feel better able to look after SUN themselves. SUN SUN Helping patients share their stories SUN SUN The Sickle Cell Society holds events which give patients an SUN opportunity to make their voices heard and share their own SUN stories with the community. SUN SUN Forbidden Game SUN SUN Malorie Blackman has a keen interest in raising awareness of SUN sickle cell, and wrote this book about the issues children SUN with sickle cell face. SUN SUN Turning sickles into smiles SUN SUN Children with sickle cell disease need a little bit of fun SUN in their lives but have special needs. Each year, the Sickle SUN Cell Society runs a tailored holiday where volunteer carers SUN and medics take children on a residential trip with SUN activities including art, sports and theme parks! SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b07b9qqt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b07b9qqw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b07b9x6t (Listen) SUN Marking Pentecost from Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, with the SUN Minister, The Revd Neil Gardner. SUN Hymns: Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney) SUN O Thou who camest from above (Hereford) SUN Like fireworks in the night (St John (Havergal) SUN Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (Veni Creator) SUN Anthem: Let all the world in every corner sing (Vaughan SUN Williams) SUN May the God of peace go with you (Ae fond kiss) SUN Choir of Fettes College directed by David Goodenough. SUN Organist: Simon Nieminski. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b07b9x8h (Listen) SUN Spell-checking the Futr SUN SUN A reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8vcs (Listen) SUN Nightingale: Part One SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David SUN Attenborough presents the nightingale. (Part 1 of 2) A bird SUN whose song of rich crescendos of pure whistles and SUN breathless phrases is hailed as one of the most complex and SUN beautiful in the bird world and quite different to its plain SUN brown appearance. SUN SUN Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b07b9qqz (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 b07b9xbp (Listen) SUN Brian wants to impress, and the Grundys need to make plans. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Latif: Alex Caan SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b07bb1vl (Listen) SUN Inga Beale SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the business woman, SUN Inga Beale. SUN SUN She has been the CEO of Lloyd's of London since January 2014 SUN and was the first woman to hold the post in the 325 years SUN since the insurer was founded in 1688. SUN SUN She is the middle child of a Norwegian mother and an English SUN father and grew up in Newbury, Berkshire. Her career in SUN insurance began in London in the early 1980s, but she tired SUN of the predominantly male culture of the industry and left SUN the City in 1989 to go travelling for a year. On her return SUN she worked for the Prudential and then for GE Solutions, the SUN insurance arm of General Electrics, where the work took her SUN abroad. SUN SUN She left GE in 2006 to turn around a failing Swiss company, SUN before joining the Zurich Insurance Group. Her last role SUN before joining Lloyd's as CEO in 2014 was as chief executive SUN of Canopius, a privately held Lloyd's insurer. SUN SUN In 2015, she topped a power list of the world's leading 100 SUN LGBT executives. She is openly bisexual after coming out in SUN 2008 and has been married to her husband since 2013. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Inga Beale SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b07b9qr2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Unbelievable Truth b079nggy (Listen) SUN Series 16, Episode 6 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David SUN O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as gifts, women, fashion SUN and songs. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. SUN SUN Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Elis James SUN Panellist: Reginald D Hunter SUN Panellist: Maeve Higgins SUN Panellist: David O'Doherty SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b07bb1vn (Listen) SUN Best Food Producer: The Winner SUN SUN Part two of a road trip which took BBC Food & Farming Awards SUN judges Yotam Ottolenghi and Sheila Dillon from the Outer SUN Hebrides, to Cheshire's pastures and on to South west Wales. SUN Which is where they met the winners of this year's award. SUN They are Charcutier Ltd. A young couple producing bacons, SUN hams, cured and smoked products and charcuterie. SUN SUN In this programme, Sheila and Yotam visit Felin y Glyn Farm SUN in Pontnewydd to find how Illtud Llyr Dunsford and Liesel SUN Taylor are pioneering a British charcuterie revolution; SUN making delicious meat products and revitalising their local SUN food scene. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon & produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Yotam Ottolenghi SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Illtud Llyr Dunsford SUN Interviewed Guest: Liesel Taylor SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b07b9qr5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b07b9qr7 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 The Faith of Children or Kumbayah and All That SUN b05pmpdw (Listen) SUN Learning about religion can be the most formative experience SUN of a child's life. But how do early encounters with faith SUN affect children and influence the adults they become? SUN Through personal stories of the fascination, humour and SUN mundanity of faith, comedian Omid Djalili, novelists Sarah SUN Dunant and Jenn Ashworth and journalists Abdul Rehman Malik SUN and Emma Barnett describe their early memories of engaging SUN with religion at home and school, the sense of community it SUN provided but also the challenge and frustration they SUN encountered during their teenage years. SUN SUN Producer: Nija Dalal-Small. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b079rfx5 (Listen) SUN West Suffolk SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN West Suffolk. Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson and Christine SUN Walkden answer this week's questions from the audience. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Fact Sheet SUN Q. How do I look after my Rhubarb plants after I’ve finished SUN picking them in July? SUN SUN Christine – Give them a really substantial watering and then SUN mulch heavily – 15-25cm (6-10 inches), then leave them. SUN SUN Bunny – if it’s starting to flower it could be too congested SUN and needs to be lifted out. There are new varieties which SUN you can go on picking during the summer such as Poulton’s SUN Pride Rhubarb SUN SUN SUN Q. Could you please identify this plant and give me some SUN advice on its care? SUN SUN Matthew – conspicuous hairy stem which gives it its name – SUN the Stag’s horn Sumach (*Rhus typhina) *– produces very SUN vibrant red flowers with great autumn colour.* *However, it SUN likes to run – it sends out suckers and those can travel SUN incredible distances – even 30/40m (100-130ft) away from the SUN mother plant. It can be a problem in a small garden – need SUN to be able to mow all the way around to kill off any suckers SUN or planting it in a garden with a membrane/gravel mulch over SUN the top. SUN SUN Christine – it is a great example of right plant, right SUN place. SUN SUN SUN Q. The scrubland behind my house has some clumps of nettles, SUN I’ve been spraying them with weed killer in the last couple SUN of years and last year not a single nettle appeared – why SUN did they all suddenly vanish? SUN SUN Bunny – if you get a normal garden chemical for killing SUN nettles – usually some form of Glyphosate – that is pretty SUN effective especially if you apply it as they label SUN instructs. Possibly before it was washed away by rain or you SUN didn’t dilute it to the correct proportion – or spray drift. SUN SUN Q. I have a quantity of wood ash that I’m putting around my SUN fruit trees but can I give them too much? If so what other SUN plants would benefit from a dose of wood ash? SUN SUN Matthew – I would suggest letting the wood ash store for a SUN while – letting it mature for 6 months or a year as it can SUN be too blunt. It might be better incorporated into some SUN compost so it takes the intensity down another level. When SUN you apply it directly it can start to form a cap and get SUN slimy and quite unpleasant. SUN SUN Bunny – The highest amount of compound is Lime; the pot ash SUN amount is actually quite low. If you’re growing anything SUN that’s an acid loving plant, then don’t put the ash anywhere SUN near it. When you’re letting it weather down and out in the SUN rain, all the pot ash will wash through and then you will be SUN putting neat Lime on to the plants. When I use it I put it SUN on in the spring to give the most benefit to the plants. SUN SUN Eric – Bob Flowerdew recommends pot ash highly for the SUN Gooseberry. SUN SUN Christine – little and often is much better than a load in SUN one go. SUN SUN SUN Q. Please could you identify this creeping nemesis? - it’s SUN colonising plants on a north facing fence border in my small SUN Victorian terrace garden. SUN SUN Christine – I think it is ‘Mind your own business’ – it has SUN a small leaf and can become invasive. Some people will use SUN this specifically to give a green carpet. The difficulty is SUN that when it’s in a border the only way to control it is by SUN spraying it out with a weed killer – but if it’s amongst SUN other plants, that’s a problem. SUN SUN Bunny – you can get it in green, blue and gold – the green SUN is more ubiquitous. If you’ve got bigger plants and less SUN space, then it should go away. You can use Glyphosate – the SUN weed killer – make sure you pull it away from other plants SUN when you spray it. Be vigilant for a while using a mister SUN bottle and spray it often. SUN SUN SUN Q. I’d like to know what plants the panel have seen on SUN holiday that they would really like to grow in their garden SUN or be able to grow? SUN SUN Matthew – I love the Mediterranean in spring, before it gets SUN dry in the heat. I would take an entire Mediterranean SUN hillside circa 3rd/4th week of April into the 2nd/3rd week SUN of May and have that in my garden frozen in that moment. SUN SUN Christine – China at high altitude - it would have to be SUN *Paraquilegia anemonoides *– it’s an alpine and very hard to SUN grow. Bunny – I would like big gnarled Lemon trees – most SUN of the year there are flowers and fruit and you can use the SUN leaves. SUN SUN SUN Q. When and how do I prune a SUN *Callicarpa* SUN ‘Profusion’? (25/30 years old) SUN Bunny – It’s not something you often prune; it gets to quite SUN a large scrub – with dark blue/violet berries. You could SUN make it more of a scene stealer and pull away/tackle the SUN surrounding plants. Don’t remove more than a third – open it SUN out and give a bit more light and sun to the flowers and SUN then the berries. SUN SUN Matthew – It needs quite a bit of light and air circulation SUN to flower and have good berries. I think the reduction in SUN berries is because it’s getting more and more congested. It SUN is unusual to prune but in this case I would prune it by a SUN third so take out some of the oldest largest branches SUN completely and that will help get more air and light into it SUN – you will lose some berries – add lots of well-rotted SUN manure underneath, lots of water and maybe a slow release SUN fertilizer as well. It is quite old so you could plant a SUN new, younger one. SUN SUN Q. My son and daughter have a small but overlooked rear SUN garden and bungalow – can the panel recommend some planting SUN that will grow quickly but not too large (but 15ft high), SUN evergreen for year-round screening and interesting in leaf SUN flower and or colour? Preferably low maintenance as a bonus. SUN SUN Christine - *Nandina domestica** *– it’s an evergreen, SUN beautifully divided foliage, produces nice plumes of SUN feathery white foliage, which are followed by red berries SUN which attain a height and width of about 5ft and doesn’t SUN need much work. SUN SUN Matthew – Pleached Photinias or the Photinia ‘Red Robin’ – SUN in pleached (clear stem to the tree-like plant and the SUN branches above are trained horizontally) form it works well. SUN You can buy them as pre-formed pleached plants – not cheap SUN (10-15 years old) – effectively an aerial hedge. SUN SUN Bunny – It’s worth getting some canes and working out the SUN exact position and height that they will need to be – you SUN can get other pleached evergreens such as Holly (Nellie SUN Stevens), Magnolias and oaks. You could buy smaller younger SUN ones and grow them up and train them along the fence SUN yourself. SUN SUN SUN Q. I have an old bath, 58 inches by 22 inches, I’m thinking SUN of using it to grow cranberries and SUN *Sarracenias* SUN (Pitcher plants). If the panel think this is feasible please SUN could they advise on siting and cultivation, if not could SUN they suggest alternative planting? SUN SUN Matthew – You could definitely do that but the more typical SUN plant for baths is blueberries. SUN SUN Bunny – I would partially restrict the plughole – to retain SUN the water put some fleece over it to stop the flow. SUN SUN Christine –* Sarracenias* need boggy, acid conditions. SUN Aesthetically it’s not unlike what you would see with the SUN *Vacciniums *(blueberries)* *in their natural conditions. It SUN could be a very interesting combination. In the spring you SUN need to watch out for slugs and snails going for the early SUN growth because they do really love *Sarracenias* – a small SUN amount of copper around the bath might help with this. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b07bb1vq (Listen) SUN In the Omnibus of the series that shows it's surprising what SUN you hear when you listen, Fi Glover introduces conversations SUN from Jersey, Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff, which SUN include mention of worms, thighs, emigration and bunions. 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 Blood, Sex and Money by Emile Zola b07bb1vt (Listen) SUN Sex, Flesh SUN SUN Blood Sex and Money, an epic 24 hours of drama inspired by SUN the works of literature's greatest whistle blower, Emile SUN Zola. SUN SUN Season 2. Sex. Episode 9. Flesh. SUN SUN Love and sex part company in the season finale dramatised by SUN Lavinia Murray. SUN SUN When Nana - Paris' most famous courtesan returns to the SUN city, she finds herself living in a derelict building with SUN her oldest friend. SUN SUN Glenda Jackson stars as Dide the matriarch to a family of SUN wolves - the Rougon- Macquarts. SUN SUN Directed by Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dide: Glenda Jackson SUN Nana: Holliday Grainger SUN Satin: Kate O'Flynn SUN Director: Kirsty Williams SUN Author: Emile Zola SUN Adaptor: Lavinia Murray SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b07bb1vx (Listen) SUN Anthony Cartwright, Award-winning Andrew Michael Hurley, The SUN joy of Teffi, Literary news from Nigeria SUN SUN How landscape from declining industrial towns to remote SUN countryside inspires novelists and shapes characters. Plus SUN the joys of Russian writer Teffi and book news from Lagos. SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to author Anthony Cartwright about SUN Iron Towns, the story of an ageing footballer and his SUN friends in a community scarred by the demise of its SUN industrial past. SUN SUN Andrew Michael Hurley's novel The Loney has been named book SUN of the year by the British Book Industry awards. Andrew SUN shares with us one of his inspirations for the Loney, the SUN great English ghost story writer MR James. SUN SUN In the early 20th century the writer Teffi, a celebrated SUN satirist and writer, had to flee Russia at the start of the SUN revolution. We discover the qualities of her writing with SUN novelist Charlotte Hobson. SUN SUN And we receive a postcard from the heart of lively, literary SUN Lagos. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Anthony Cartwright SUN Interviewed Guest: Andrew Hurley SUN Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Hobson SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b07bb1z7 (Listen) SUN Groups of Poets SUN SUN Roger McGough looks at the poetry produced by groups of SUN friends throughout history, from the Scriblerus club to the SUN Mersey poets, by way of the Lakes and Rose Street. Producer SUN Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Essay on Criticism SUN SUN By Alexander Pope SUN SUN From Poetical Works [Alexander Pope] SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN A Description of the Morning SUN SUN By Jonathan Swift SUN SUN From Everyman's Book of English Verse SUN SUN Published by J M Dent SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Abou Ben Adhem SUN SUN By Leigh Hunt SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail SUN 44433 SUN SUN SUN SUN Ode on a Grecian urn SUN SUN By John Keats SUN SUN From Keats’s Poetry and Prose SUN SUN Published by WW Norton and Company SUN SUN SUN SUN The Inchcape Rock SUN SUN By Robert Southey SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.bellrock.org.uk/misc/misc_poem.htm SUN SUN SUN SUN She Dwelt Among th’ Untrodden Ways SUN SUN By William Wordsworth SUN SUN From William Wordsworth – Selected Poetry SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN If I Could tell You SUN SUN By W H Auden SUN SUN From W H Auden – Collected Shorter Poems – 1927-1957 SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN My parents kept me from children who were rough SUN SUN By Stephen Spender SUN SUN From Stephen Spender- Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Sparrow SUN SUN By Norman MacCaig SUN SUN From Norman MacCaig – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Waxwing SUN SUN By Norman MacCaig SUN SUN From Norman MacCaig – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN The Bell SUN SUN By Adrian Henri SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.adrianhenri.com/writer-poems-thebell.html SUN SUN SUN SUN Armada SUN SUN By Brian Patten SUN SUN From Armada SUN SUN Published by Flamingo SUN SUN SUN SUN Take Comfort SUN SUN By Roger McGough SUN SUN From As Far As I Know SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Everyday Eclipses SUN SUN By Roger McGough SUN SUN From Roger McGough – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin / Viking SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b079prlt (Listen) SUN Dirty Oil? SUN SUN The Serious Fraud Office has begun an investigation into SUN allegations of corruption in the award of multi-million SUN pound oil contracts in the Middle East. A Monaco based SUN company, Unaoil, denies that it helped British and other SUN companies win contracts by corrupting politicians and SUN government officials. SUN The investigation follows a leak of thousands of emails and SUN other documents. Jane Deith has been given access to the SUN leaked papers and reveals what they tell us about the SUN business of oil. SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b07b31s4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07b9qrc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b07b9qrf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07b9qrj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b07bb4bq (Listen) SUN Caz Graham SUN SUN From the subtle taste of tadpoles, yes tadpoles, to Jonathan SUN Swift swimming the Thames in his nightgown and cap, we're SUN catering for all palates in Pick of the Week- the best of SUN BBC Radio in the past seven days. We ponder whether food is SUN the glue that binds Europe together, travel back 50 years to SUN the week that Bob Dylan outraged his fans by plugging his SUN guitar into an amp and chairman Mao kicked off the Cultural SUN Revolution. SUN Plus, swimming with sharks, singing with nightingales and SUN some love-struck capercaillie in Norway. SUN SUN Production Team Kevin Mousley, Kay Bishton and Sally SUN Richardson. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b07bb4bs (Listen) SUN Tom calls a family meeting, and Helen is full of questions. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01sd23j (Listen) SUN The Brontes SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests SUN Mark Watson and Sue Limb. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 Border Crossing b07bb4bv (Listen) SUN Twenty-Something Going Nowhere & The Revolutionary T-Shirt SUN SUN A series of programmes that sets up a unique pairing between SUN writers from countries challenged by refugee and migration SUN issues with short story writers from Britain. Each foreign SUN story was given to a British writer who wrote their own SUN response, in an exchange of fiction that aims to explode SUN myths, explore shared concerns and extend the boundaries of SUN the short story. SUN SUN In Twenty Something Going Nowhere by Ethiopian writer Linda SUN Yohannes, a young girl in Ethiopia discovers her teenage SUN idealism isn't easy to maintain in the harsh reality of SUN working life. The reader is Michaela Gasteratou. SUN SUN In British writer Nikesh Shukla's response, The SUN Revolutionary T-Shirt, a young man exchanges political SUN naivety for a more complex understanding of injustice. The SUN reader is Himesh Patel. SUN SUN Linda Yohannes lives and writes in Addis Ababa. She is a SUN winner of the 2012 Burt Award for African Literature and her SUN recent short stories can be read online on www. jalada.org SUN and www.afreada.com. Nikesh Shukla is the author of two SUN novels, Coconut Unlimited and Meatspace, and a number of SUN short stories. He is Editor of the forthcoming The Good SUN Immigrant, and hosts The Subaltern podcast. SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Michaela Gasteratou SUN Reader: Himesh Patel SUN Writer: Linda Yohannes SUN Writer: Nikesh Shukla SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b079rfx9 (Listen) SUN This week the government released its long-anticipated white SUN paper setting out its views on how the BBC's charter should SUN be reformed and implemented over the next eleven years. SUN Listener discuss their questions and concerns with Roger SUN Bolton and Colin Browne from the Voice of the Listener and SUN Viewer - from how the 'distinctiveness' of the BBC will be SUN measured to a welcome note from the government about on-air SUN trails. SUN SUN Comedian David Baddiel speaks to Roger Bolton about his SUN unusual Radio 4 panel show Don't Make Me Laugh, in which SUN comedians have to do just that - try not to make the SUN audience and themselves laugh by talking about a host of SUN different subjects. One subject in particular - the Queen's SUN sex life - landed the programme in hot water. The timing of SUN the programme on the Queen's 90th birthday caused a stir, SUN but Feedback listeners question whether the subject is SUN acceptable at any time. SUN SUN And we couldn't begin a new series of Feedback without SUN airing at least some of the multitude of views about The SUN Archers' Rob and Helen storyline. After months of domestic SUN abuse by her husband, and a storyline lauded by many for SUN highlighting coercive control, Helen took matters into her SUN own hands and stabbed Rob. Now she's facing trial and her SUN son Henry is still living with his adoptive father. For some SUN listeners this turn of events is a step too far and SUN unrealistic - others are gripped. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Dixon SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b079m0v8 (Listen) SUN Gareth Gwenlan, Sir Harry Kroto, Michael 'Dandy Kim' SUN Caborn-Waterfield, Lilly Dubowitz, Papa Wemba SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Gareth Gwenlan the TV producer and Head of BBC Comedy behind SUN a string of hits including Only Fools and Horses. Sir David SUN Jason pays tribute. SUN SUN Sir Harry Kroto, the Nobel prize winning chemist who helped SUN to discover new forms of carbon. SUN SUN Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield, the charming, well SUN dressed scoundrel who started the Ann Summers chain of sex SUN shops and was imprisoned in France for stealing thousands of SUN pounds from the movie mogul Jack Warner. SUN SUN The paediatrician Lilly Dubowitz who developed revolutionary SUN tests to assess new born babies SUN SUN And the Congolese singer and flamboyant dresser Papa Wemba. SUN SUN Gareth Gwenlan SUN SUN Last Word spoke to actor, Sir David Jason and former Head of SUN BBC entertainment, Paul Jackson. SUN SUN Born 26 April 1937; died 8 May 2016 Aged 79 SUN SUN Harry Kroto SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Professor Malcolm Heggie of the Royal SUN Society of Chemistry’s British Carbon Group. SUN SUN Born 7 October 1939; died 30 April 2016 Aged 76 SUN SUN Michael 'Dandy Kim' Caborn-Waterfield SUN SUN Last Word spoke to friends, Jeremy Scott and Charles SUN Marsden. SUN SUN Born 1 January 1930, died 4 May 2016 Aged 86 SUN SUN Lilly Dubowitz SUN SUN Mathew spoke to husband and colleague, Victor Dubowitz. SUN SUN Born 20 March 1930; died 14 March 2016 Aged 85 SUN SUN Papa Wemba SUN SUN Born 14 June 1949; died 24 April 2016 Aged 66 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b079m0yq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b07b9x6r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b079rbd9 (Listen) SUN Turnarounds SUN SUN Imagine you run a company and it's failing. What do you do? SUN Matthew Gwyther speaks to leaders who've turned around SUN businesses in difficulties and finds out how they did it, SUN what inspired them and what lessons they can pass on. SUN SUN Produced by Nina Robinson. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b07b9qrn (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b079rbd1 (Listen) SUN Remembering Antonia Bird SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Director Antonia Bird, one of the few female directors to SUN carve out a career in the British film industry, is SUN remembered by friends and colleagues Ronan Bennett, Mark SUN Cousins and Kate Hardie. SUN SUN The only female director to be nominated for a feature film SUN in this year's Oscars, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, discusses SUN Mustang, her controversial drama about the treatment of SUN young girls in rural Turkey. SUN SUN Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns reveal what SUN they're looking forward to in this year's Cannes film SUN festival. SUN SUN Antonia Bird SUN SUN Antonia Bird season runs a the BFI Southbank this month, SUN find out more details SUN here SUN SUN The documentary SUN Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood SUN will be broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 22 May at 9pm. SUN SUN Photo credit:: Sophie Baker. SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Ronan Bennett SUN Interviewed Guest: Mark Cousins SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Hardie SUN Interviewed Guest: Deniz Gamze Erguven SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Robey SUN Interviewed Guest: Clare Binns SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b07b9x6m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 MAY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b07b9qv6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b079r53c (Listen) MON TV in prison - Live music in prison MON MON Prison TV: Laurie Taylor considers the therapeutic role of MON television in the modern day jail. He talks to Victoria MON Knight, Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University, MON Leicester, and author of a new study examining the way in MON which TVs in cells manage the everyday life and emotions of MON prisoners; helping deliver both care and control. In MON addition, she offers insights into how technology in prison MON is evolving globally. They're joined by David Wilson, MON Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University. MON MON Also, prison 'blues': BB King, the African American Blues MON musician, died on 14 May 2015. One year on, Les Back, MON Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, London, focuses on his MON performances in prisons. Over a 25-year period, B.B. King MON performed for free in 47 different jails across America. MON Situating his concerts within a wider political context in MON which a crisis was unfolding in US prisons, Back explores MON the implications of King's prison 'blues' and interrogates MON the meaning of music behind bars. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Victoria Knight at De Montfort University, Leicester MON Les Back at Goldsmiths, University of London MON David Wilson at Birmingham City University MON Les Back, How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King, Planetary MON Humanism and the Blues Behind Bars, Part 1 (Theory, Culture MON & Society online journal, 2015) MON Les Back, How Blue Can You Get? B.B. King, Planetary MON Humanism and the Blues Behind Bars, Part 2 (Theory, Culture MON & Society online journal, 2015) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b07b9x6k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07b9qv8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07b9qvb (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07b9qvd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b07b9qvg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07ch35h (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew MON Graystone. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b07bb541 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b07b9qvj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tnrx (Listen) MON Nightjar MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Nightjar. Take a walk on MON a heath on a warm summer evening and you may hear the MON strange churring sound of the nightjar. MON MON Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB MON MON 06:00 Today b07bb89v (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b07bb89x (Listen) MON World on the Move MON MON World on the Move: on Start the Week Andrew Marr explores MON how the mass movement of people has changed societies, in a MON special edition broadcast in front of an audience as part of MON a day of programmes on BBC Radio 4. The historian Sir Hew MON Strachan looks back at the largest single influx of people MON into Britain when 250,000 Belgians arrived during the Great MON War, while Frank Dikötter explores the biggest forced MON internal migration as tens of millions of young Chinese were MON sent to work in the countryside during the Cultural MON Revolution. The poet Patience Agbabi humanises the mass MON movement of people with her tale of one refugee's story. And MON what of those who return? The Bangladeshi author Tahmima MON Anam looks at what happens when you try to go back home. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Frank Dikotter MON Interviewed Guest: Hew Strachan MON Interviewed Guest: Tahmima Anam MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b07bb89z (Listen) MON Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Episode 1 MON MON Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900's, MON forced to flee her country. And this is the story of her MON eventful flight, which is newly translated by Robert and MON Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg. MON It is abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: MON MON Unrest and anxiety in Moscow as the Bolsheviks gather, but a MON 'reading tour' of Ukraine offers Teffi and other artists a MON way out. Time to take the train.. MON MON Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tracy Ann Oberman MON Author: Teffi MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b07b9qvn (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bb8b2 (Listen) MON Michael Tolliver Lives, Episode 1 MON MON Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin MON MON Episode One MON MON Michael's wedded bliss is interrupted by an unexpected phone MON call from his brother. Meanwhile, Brian makes plans for the MON future. MON MON Dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON Producer Susan Roberts MON Director Charlotte Riches MON MON For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the MON City series has blazed its own trail through popular MON culture-from ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic MON novel. Radio 4 are dramatising the full series of the Tales MON novels for the very first time. Michael Tolliver Lives MON continues the adventures of Armistead's well-loved MON characters, followed by Mary Anne in Autumn. MON MON Credits MON Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper MON Michael: Trevor White MON Brian: Simon Lee Phillips MON Ben: Martin T Sherman MON Jake: Fox Fisher MON Shawna: Suzie Grimsdick MON Irwin: James Lailey MON Director: Charlotte Riches MON Producer: Susan Roberts MON Adaptor: Lin Coghlan MON Author: Armistead Maupin MON MON 11:00 The Untold b07bb8b4 (Listen) MON Down's Syndrome: It's Just Two Words MON MON Salma is having a baby, but as the due date draws near she's MON forced to confront unresolved issues with her last MON pregnancy: her baby was born with Down's Syndrome and she's MON yet to tell her in-laws. Grace Dent follows what happens. MON MON The shock of the diagnosis and the way Salma was given the MON news contributed to a long period of struggle and shame. As MON she reveals in The Untold, she was fearful of letting others MON know what had happened and to this day she's still not been MON able to bring herself to tell her in-laws. For the first few MON months she didn't even tell her own parents as she feared MON that others would see her responsible and would feel MON differently about her, her husband and their children. MON MON Following the diagnosis she lost confidence, wouldn't go out MON in public and cried constantly. The turning point came after MON a chance meeting with another Asian Mum whose son also has MON Down's. Soon Mariam had introduced her to a third mother in MON the same position, Bilkish, and the three women have formed MON a strong friendship. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b07bb8b6 (Listen) MON Series 6, Downton Abbey Voice Changer Helmet MON MON Join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of over 30 years and MON is a firmly entrenched, friendly presence in the local area. MON He is joined by his shop sidekick, Dave. MON MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business. MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - MON whether they like it or not! MON MON Written by Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli MON MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli MON Dave: Donald McLeary MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan MON Candida: Barbara Rafferty MON Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns MON Bra Jeff: Steven McNicoll MON Hilly: Kate Brailsford MON Bishop Briggs: Michael Redmond MON Writer: Donald McLeary MON Writer: Sanjeev Kohli MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b07b9qvr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b076cf5t (Listen) MON 16 May 1916 - Alexander Gidley MON MON On this day in 1916, three German steamers were torpedoed by MON Russian submarines, and in Staverton, Alexander Gidley is MON shaken by a letter from the War Office. MON MON Written by Richard Monks MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard MON Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro MON Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe MON Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford MON Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant MON Writer: Richard Monks MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 12:15 World on the Move: Angelina Jolie Pitt in Conversation MON with Mishal Husain b07bqjgq (Listen) MON Part of a day of programmes exploring the mass movement of MON people. MON MON 12:57 Weather b07b9qvx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07bbbjh (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 A British History in Weather b07bbbjk (Listen) MON Holiday on Ice MON MON Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has MON written and painted itself into the cultural life of MON Britain. When the rivers froze: frost fairs and merry making MON on ice. MON MON "The winter of 1608-9 was so cold that the Thames froze MON over. At ebb tide, when the river was shallow, a few brave MON people walked gingerly right across. It was a bitter MON Christmas - and then, in the middle of January, the frost MON really took hold. By the 15th the river was solid from bank MON to bank. People crowded to Temple Stairs to see if what they MON heard was true - that the great highway of London was at a MON halt. MON MON So it was, but there was a new highway in the making. There MON were tents being thrown up, and barrels of ale rolled out. MON Soon there was bowling and skittles, musicians were playing, MON there was dancing, drinking, eating. Someone lit a fire, the MON ice held: the fire was stoked and a hog roasted, turning and MON turning in the flames. An alternative world was forming on MON the river, improvised and ungoverned. You climbed down into MON it on steep ladders, or at the water stairs, as if you were MON boarding a boat, except that that there were no boats to MON board. The ferrymen, out of work, set their oars aside and MON took charge of the growing carnival." MON MON Music by Jon Nicolls. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b07bb4bs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b07bbbjm (Listen) MON World on the Move - Live Drama MON MON By James Graham MON MON Short drama by acclaimed playwright James Graham, performed MON in the BBC Radio Theatre in London as part of World Without MON Borders. MON MON Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON Credits MON Writer: James Graham MON Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko MON MON 14:30 Crossing Continents b079rbcq (Listen) MON Checkmate Me in St Louis MON MON Dave Edmonds travels to the mid-western city of St Louis MON (location for the musical 'Meet Me In St Louis', starring MON Judy Garland) for the US chess championships. The city has MON become a world centre for the game of chess. Its status has MON partly been achieved by funding from a controversial MON multi-millionaire, whose childhood included time in an MON orphanage. Rex Sinquefield is well known for his fascination MON with the game and his enthusiasm is shared by many others. MON There is a thriving chess centre, elite tournaments which MON attract some of the top players, a Chess Hall of Fame and MON chess lessons in local schools. MON MON St Louis is one of America's most violent cities and has MON most recently been in the news for race riots which erupted MON when an unarmed black man was shot by police. Can the game MON of chess serve to lessen racial tension and unite its MON citizens across the board? MON MON Producer: Mark Savage. MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b07bbbjp (Listen) MON Series 6, The University of Gloucestershire MON MON A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this MON week from the University of Gloucestershire with specialist MON subjects including Biosciences, Media and Religious Studies MON and questions ranging from Betjeman to BB King via Botham MON and brass instruments. MON MON The programme is recorded on location at a different MON University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates MON against three of their Professors in an original and fresh MON take on an academic quiz. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow MON and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the MON students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages MON and science, but also their Professors' awareness of MON television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In MON addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope MON for mild embarrassment on both sides. MON MON Other Universities featured in this series include Chester, MON York, Birmingham City, Bath and Glasgow. MON MON Produced by 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 b07bb1vn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Jarvis on McCullers b06zh03z (Listen) MON The writing of Carson McCullers has perhaps never been as MON popular or acclaimed as that of contemporaries such as MON Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams, but nonetheless she MON remains one of the most remarkable and individual writers to MON come out of twentieth century America. She only wrote a few MON works, in large part because rheumatic fever left her MON paralysed in her left arm, and she was beset by ill health MON and alcoholism for many of her fifty years. Her writing MON style was enormously sensuous, filled with the heat, sounds MON and smells of the American south, and the characters who MON populated books like 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe', 'The MON Heart is a Lonely Hunter' and 'A Member of the Wedding' were MON most commonly troubled misfits. Her personal life was MON similarly idiosyncratic - the man she married twice MON committed suicide having tried to get her to do the same - MON though it is her very particular writing style, with a MON strong musicality drawn from the years she spent training as MON a classical pianist, that has made many of her fans so MON vociferous in their attachment to her. MON Jarvis Cocker hears from a number of them, including MON academic Carlos Dews, author Laura Barton and musician MON Suzanne Vega, who has not only written and starred in three MON versions of a play about Carson, but often feels herself to MON be in conversation with her spirit. MON Jarvis explains his own personal devotion, explaining how MON Carson's ability to bypass the brain and connect straight to MON the heart is what makes her such an important figure to him. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b07bbd4y (Listen) MON Social Media MON MON In the virtual world of social media, religious communities MON are now global. But is this at the expense of local MON relationships? Does lively discussion on social media MON translate into to social action? And does social media MON genuinely have the power to reform religious institutions, MON challenge extreme views or change someone's personal MON religious experience? MON MON Ernie Rea discusses the relationship between religion and MON social media with Michael O'Loughlin, journalist and author MON of "The Tweetable Pope"; Dr Bex Lewis, a Christian and MON Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester MON Metropolitan University; and Shelina Janmohammed, a Muslim MON writer and blogger. MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b07b9qvz (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07b9qw1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b07bbd50 (Listen) MON Series 75, Episode 1 MON MON Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of MON the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 MON seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No MON repetition? That's no small order after nearly 50 years. MON MON Paul Merton, now the second most prolific player of the game MON after Kenneth Williams, will be joined by guests including MON series regulars Josie Lawrence, Sheila Hancock, Marcus MON Brigstocke and Gyles Brandreth. Comedian Alexei Sayle, and MON Broadcaster of the Year John Finnemore make their first MON appearances. MON MON Episode one features Paul Merton, John Finnemore, Gyles MON Brandreth and Sheila Hancock talking about such diverse MON topics as Halley's Comet, Carbon Dating and Answering the MON Telephone. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: John Finnemore MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07bbd52 (Listen) MON Peggy has made up her mind, and Johnny helps out at MON Brookfield. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b07b9qw3 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bb8b2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Global Philosopher b075f7qp (Listen) MON Should Borders Matter? MON MON Michael Sandel explores the philosophical justifications MON made for national borders. Using a pioneering MON state-of-the-art studio at the Harvard Business School, MON Professor Sandel is joined by 60 participants from over 30 MON countries in a truly global digital space. MON MON Is there any moral distinction between a political refugee MON and an economic migrant? If people have the right to exit a MON country, why not a right to enter? Do nations have the right MON to protect the affluence of their citizens? And is there MON such a thing as a 'national identity'? MON MON These are just some of the questions addressed by Professor MON Sandel in this first edition of The Global Philosopher. MON MON Audience producer: Louise Coletta MON Producer: David Edmonds MON Editor: Richard Knight MON MON (Image taken by Rose Lincoln) MON MON 20:45 Drama b07bbbjm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 today] MON MON 21:00 Suppose I Lose It: update b07cy2s6 (Listen) MON Now in her 80s, one issue looms ahead for Joan Bakewell and MON others from her generation - the fear of dementia. She MON admits that she's becoming increasingly forgetful. Her home MON is decked with post-it note reminders to help her remember. MON But are the annoying lapses in memory, that characterise her MON daily life, just a normal part of ageing, or could they MON signal something more serious like dementia? As she herself MON says - 'suppose I lose it?'. MON MON In this programme, Joan asks what she might expect and how MON she should prepare if she receives the diagnosis. MON MON Joan's search is spurred on by the news that her friend of MON many years, the actress Prunella Scales, has dementia. Over MON cups of tea at their home, Joan talks to Prunella and her MON husband, the actor Timothy West, about how her memory loss MON is affecting their lives. MON MON Dementia is a growing problem for the nation. Over 800,000 MON now suffer from it and there's no available cure. It's a MON problem that the government has been prioritising through MON the National Challenge on Dementia, but as Professor Sube MON Banerjee, a lead author on the National Dementia Strategy, MON says there's still an immense amount that needs to be done. MON MON Even hospitals struggle to cope with people with dementia. MON Being mostly old and frail, they make up a quarter of MON inpatients, yet the experience can be traumatising. They MON tend to leave hospital less capable than when they went it, MON and are often more confused and anxious. MON MON So how will hospitals cope as the numbers with dementia MON spiral? Professor Harwood is one of those making a start, MON adapting Ward B47 at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham and MON training staff to meet the complex needs of patients with MON dementia, which are only now starting to be understood. MON MON One of the challenges of caring for dementia patients is MON that often their disease is so advanced that they can no MON longer make decisions about their medical treatment. What's MON more, few make their wishes known in advance. So MON geriatrician Professor Rowan Harwood often has to make a MON best guess, which can mean keeping patients alive longer MON than they might have wanted. Joan asks what she should do to MON prepare should she be diagnosed with dementia. MON MON And what's more terrifying - living with dementia, or living MON in a society that fails to support those suffering with it. MON Several towns around the country are now addressing the MON ignorance and fear that can leave sufferers and their carers MON feeling isolated. The Crawley Dementia Alliance is bringing MON together schools, GPs, local businesses and transport MON services to make Crawley more 'dementia friendly'. And it is MON dementia suffers themselves whose opinions lie at the heart MON of what happens here. MON MON Producer: Beth Eastwood. MON MON Me, my friend Pru, and our memories MON Joan Bakewell interviews Prunella Scales and Timothy West MON MON MON MON How close are we to stopping Alzheimer’s? MON BBC iWonder: How close are we to stopping Alzheimer’s? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b07bb89x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b07b9qw5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b07b9qw7 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07bbd54 (Listen) MON The Typewriter's Tale, Episode 1 MON MON Michiel Heyns's novel is set in 1907 at Lamb House in Rye MON where Henry James, the great novelist, lived from 1897-1916. MON It's an intriguing story told from the perspective of Freida MON Wroth, his typist. MON MON 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to,' is the maxim of MON Henry James - and one that Frieda tries to live up to. MON Despite her admiration for her employer, she is marginalised MON and under-valued - seen merely as an extension of her MON Remington typewriter - and is lost between the servants and MON the guests who include the irrepressible Edith Wharton and MON the writer Hugh Walpole, as well as Mr James's extended MON family. MON MON The arrival of the dazzling Mr Morton Fullerton, Paris MON correspondent for The Times, brings Frieda into sudden MON focus. As she is drawn into his confidence, she finds MON herself at the centre of an intrigue, every bit as MON engrossing as the novels she types. Her loyalties tested, MON Frieda must choose between anonymity in the presence of a MON literary master and uncertain love with a man she barely MON knows. MON MON Read by Sian Thomas MON Abridged by Sara Davies MON MON Directed by Alexa Moore MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sian Thomas MON Author: Michiel Heyns MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Director: Alexa Moore MON MON 23:00 Don't Make Me Laugh b079rbd3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON MON David Baddiel hosts the second series of the provocative MON panel show where some of the funniest comedians have to go MON against all their instincts and try not to make an audience MON laugh. MON MON Featuring Richard Herring, Sara Pascoe, Aisling Bea, Rhys MON James. MON MON A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Baddiel MON Panellist: Richard Herring MON Panellist: Sara Pascoe MON Panellist: Aisling Bea MON Panellist: Rhys James MON MON 23:30 The Migrant Crisis: A Spy Master's Perspective MON b07bqk3y (Listen) MON Radio 4 documentary. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 MAY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b07b9qy3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b07bb89z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07b9qy5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07b9qy7 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07b9qy9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b07b9qyc (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07chvsh (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew TUE Graystone. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07bbjhb (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8qh4 (Listen) TUE Wood Warbler TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David TUE Attenborough presents the wood warbler. Their song has been TUE described as "a spinning coin on a marble slab" and you're TUE most likely to hear this chorister in oak or beech wood. TUE TUE Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix) TUE TUE Image by Steve Knell (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07bbjhg (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Europeans - The Roots of Identity b07bbjhj (Listen) TUE Tallinn TUE TUE What's really shaped Europeans' identity? Historian Margaret TUE MacMillan visits Estonia, exploring how a tiny Estonian TUE nation has dramatised the question of where exactly Europe TUE is, and where it ends in the east. She'll find traces of an TUE extraordinary range of conquerors over the centuries, and TUE the way in which old links - Germanic, trans Baltic - are TUE reasserting themselves while links east to Russia decline. TUE And she'll see how new kinds of history - through DNA TUE analysis for example - are revealing why Europeans are such TUE an extraordinary mix of languages, cultures, and migrations. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Bowlby TUE Editor: Bridget Harney. TUE TUE 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b04v5fjp (Listen) TUE Series 3, Nemesis TUE TUE Bettany Hughes pursues nemesis in her archaeology of TUE philosophy on the streets of ancient Athens, in the gym and TUE with experts on counterterrorism and climate change. TUE TUE The surprising and invigorating history of the most TUE influential ideas in the story of civilisation, described as TUE 'a double expresso shot of philosophy, history, science and TUE the arts'. Award--winning historian and broadcaster Bettany TUE Hughes begins each programme with the first, extant evidence TUE of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels TUE both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these TUE ideas have been moulded by history, and how they've shaped TUE us. TUE TUE In this programmes Bettany pursues nemesis with classicist TUE Professor Paul Cartledge, Buddhist scholar Dr Sarah Shaw, TUE Colonel Tim Collins who in March 2003 led British troops TUE into Iraq, and climate change scientist Dr Simon Lewis. TUE Bettany travels to Athens to see where these ideas were born TUE and then explores the street markets, churches, offices and TUE homes where they continue to morph and influence our daily TUE lives. TUE TUE Ideas examined in the first series, in September 2013, were TUE idea, desire, agony, fame and justice. The second series, in TUE January 2014, considered wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and TUE hospitality. Other ideas in this series are psyche, TUE charisma, irony and virtue. TUE TUE Series Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b07bbjhn (Listen) TUE Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Episode 2 TUE TUE Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900's, TUE forced to flee her country. And this is the story of her TUE eventful flight, translated by Robert and Elizabeth TUE Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Irina Steinberg. It is TUE abridged for radio by Katrin Williams.. TUE TUE On the train to Kiev, away from the Bolsheviks. And Gooskin TUE the indefatigable organiser gets the author and others out TUE of various scrapes.. TUE TUE Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tracy Ann Oberman TUE Author: Teffi TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b07b9qyf (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bbjhs (Listen) TUE Michael Tolliver Lives, Episode 2 TUE TUE Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin TUE TUE Episode Two TUE TUE When visiting his Mama's sickbed in Florida, Michael TUE introduces his young husband to his family for the first TUE time. TUE TUE Dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE Producer Susan Roberts TUE Director Charlotte Riches TUE TUE For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the TUE City series has blazed its own trail through popular TUE culture-from ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic TUE novel. Radio 4 are dramatising the full series of the Tales TUE novels for the very first time. Michael Tolliver Lives TUE continues the adventures of Armistead's well-loved TUE characters, followed by Mary Anne in Autumn. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper TUE Michael: Trevor White TUE Ben: Martin T Sherman TUE Mama: Joyce Springer TUE Irwin: James Lailey TUE Lenore: Nicola Ferguson TUE Sumpter: Lauren McDermott Triggs TUE Director: Charlotte Riches TUE Producer: Susan Roberts TUE Adaptor: Lin Coghlan TUE Author: Armistead Maupin TUE TUE 11:00 The Power of Cute b07bbjhv (Listen) TUE Zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke explores the science TUE behind our seeming obsession with all things adorable. There TUE has been an explosion in interest in cuteness, particularly TUE online, with an ever growing number of websites dedicated to TUE pandas, kittens, puppies and of course babies. If you are TUE feeling a bit down in the dumps, what better way to brighten TUE your day then looking at some cute baby animal frolicking TUE about. But what is it that makes these creatures so darn TUE attractive to us and can you be addicted to cute? Lucy TUE investigates the latest scientific research looking at just TUE what makes babies cute, and what looking at them does to our TUE brain, with some surprising results. She visits London Zoo TUE to visit her number one cute creature of choice, the sloth, TUE to find out why sloths hit the top of the cute charts, but TUE the Chinese giant salamander definitely doesn't, and why in TUE terms of conservation, that matters. TUE TUE 11:30 Field Notes: The Irishman Who Invented the Nocturne TUE b07bbk4g (Listen) TUE Alistair McGowan travels to Dublin to explore the TUE sensational life of his musical hero - the 19th century TUE Irish pianist and composer John Field. Born in Dublin in TUE 1782, Field was a child prodigy who left Ireland at an early TUE age to become apprentice to the great Italian composer and TUE piano maker Clementi. Clementi took Field on a tour of TUE Europe and Russia, demonstrating his considerable talents TUE and showcasing Clementi's pianos. TUE TUE Field was to live in Russia for the rest of his life and TUE Russia welcomed Field with open arms - he became the darling TUE of high society, as well as one of the most celebrated and TUE influential pianists of his day. His playing and his TUE invention of a new kind of piano piece, the nocturne, were TUE to influence Chopin, Liszt, Schumann and Mendelssohn. TUE TUE Interviewees include pianists John O'Conor, Finnuala TUE Moynihan, Finghin Collins and architectural historian Finola TUE O'Kane. TUE TUE Produced by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b07b9qyh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b076cf40 (Listen) TUE 17 May 1916 - Kitty Lumley TUE TUE On this day in 1916, Sir Roger Casement was sent to Brixton TUE Prison to await trial for treason, and at Halecot Farm, old TUE loyalties are strained. TUE TUE Written by Richard Monks TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf TUE Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy TUE Dieter Lippke: Felix Auer TUE Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables TUE Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams TUE Hetty Cox: Adie Allen TUE Isaac Cox: James Lailey TUE Rose Fairweather: Helen Longworth TUE Writer: Richard Monks TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b07b9qyk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b07b9qym (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07bbyj0 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 A British History in Weather b07bbyj2 (Listen) TUE Rain TUE TUE Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has TUE written and painted itself into the cultural life of TUE England. Why does British rain fall on British people in TUE spits and spots? TUE TUE Imagine a history told in rain. King Offa's Mercia in TUE eight-century rain, stonemasons building St Andrews TUE cathedral in the rain. The rain as it fell on St Swithin TUE (whose views on the matter are not recorded other than in TUE legend), and the same old rain falling centuries later on TUE Thomas More and his daughter, on Milton, on Dr Johnson and TUE Mrs Thrale. How do they feel? Do they go indoors? Does the TUE rain they see fall like tears or an ill omen or a blessing? TUE There would be a lot of repetition in this history. Rain is TUE continuity: it's what we share. And yet it never rains in TUE the same way twice, and even in the same shower, no two TUE people see the same. TUE TUE The shipping forecast at 48 minutes past midnight takes us TUE on a ritual tour of rain as it falls in darkness on the sea. TUE Images form of places we have probably never been. Cold TUE headlands appear, unvisited beaches, discs and dials in a TUE cabin, moving lights on black swell, crossed by slanting TUE rain. Malin, Hebrides, Bailey. Listening, we think of others TUE listening. Rain, then showers. Moderate, occasionally poor. TUE TUE Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07bbd52 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b07bbyj4 (Listen) TUE Field Notes: The Peregrinations of a Most Musical Irishman TUE TUE Alistair McGowan stars in his own new drama about the TUE prodigiously gifted - and prodigiously partying - John TUE Field, the Irish composer and pianist who invented the TUE nocturne. TUE TUE May 1832 - John Field leaves his Moscow home to begin his TUE first - and last - tour of Europe, taking with him the TUE illegitimate teenage son he barely knows. TUE TUE Directed by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b07b2q14 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Shared Experience b07bbyj6 (Listen) TUE Series 5, The Fall TUE TUE Imagine you're out walking, enjoying the outdoors and TUE beautiful scenery... and then you fall. Down a cliff, off a TUE mountain, into a crevice, into water. Three people whose TUE lives changed forever following 'the fall' discuss the TUE experience with Fi Glover in the new series of Shared TUE Experience TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b07bbyj8 (Listen) TUE Andrew Graham-Dixon on the naming of art movements TUE TUE Michael Rosen and art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon take a tour TUE through the naming of art movements. Surrealism, TUE Impressionism, the Renaissance, the Pre-Raphaelites, Modern, TUE Contemporary - how did they get their names and what does TUE that tell us? Which terms have entered the language? With TUE linguist Dr Laura Wright. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b07bbyjb (Listen) TUE Series 39, Charles Moore on Gordon Hamilton-Fairley TUE TUE Gordon Hamilton-Fairley was a brilliant cancer specialist, TUE the father of oncology in the UK. Then in 1975 he was killed TUE by an IRA bomb intended for a politician who lived in his TUE street. Former editor of the Daily Telegraph Charles Moore TUE chooses a man cut down in his prime. Joining him in the TUE studio are three members of the Hamilton-Fairley family; TUE plus the cancer specialist Ray Powles, who provides a TUE compelling picture of how basic treatment for cancer TUE sufferers used to be. TUE Matthew Parris presents. The producer in Bristol is Miles TUE Warde. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Charles Moore TUE Interviewed Guest: Ray Powles TUE Producer: Miles Warde TUE TUE 17:00 PM b07b9qyp (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07b9qyr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b0435hrn (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Crank TUE TUE Isy Suttie returns to BBC Radio 4 with a brand new series of TUE her Sony Award Winning show, recounting a series of love TUE stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, TUE told partly through song. TUE TUE Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; TUE quite often she's intervened, changing the action TUE dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these TUE stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, TUE often disastrous, love life. TUE TUE In this episode, Isy recounts the tale of the Crank, a TUE Matlock oddball who Isy's mother has roped into helping Isy TUE study the Welsh language. Along the way, Isy picks up a bit TUE of morse code. TUE TUE With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied TUE by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving TUE world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love. TUE TUE "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent TUE TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Isy Suttie TUE Writer: Isy Suttie TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07bbysj (Listen) TUE Pat is distracted, and there is an awkward moment at The TUE Bull. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b07b9qz0 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bbjhs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b07bbysl (Listen) TUE Police forces in England and Wales are to get an additional TUE fifteen hundred firearms officers to help protect the public TUE from terrorism and organised crime. TUE Most of the new officers will be trained within the next two TUE years after the Prime Minister, David Cameron, set aside TUE £143m to boost the country's armed response capability. TUE But is it enough to meet the challenges they face? TUE The number of firearms officers fell from nearly seven TUE thousand in 2009/10 to under six thousand in 2013/14. TUE And, despite the extra funding, the Police Federation is TUE concerned the new firearms teams will have to come from TUE existing staff. They say that will deplete the number of TUE officers available for other duties. TUE BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw investigates - and TUE he examines growing unease at the way in which those who TUE discharge their weapons are dealt with. TUE Concern has been highlighted by the suspension and arrest of TUE the officer suspected of shooting dead Jermaine Baker in TUE Wood Green in December. TUE Police representatives tell the programme that while they TUE expect their actions to be investigated, people will not TUE come forward to train as firearms officers if they believe TUE they will be treated like a criminal who fires an illegal TUE weapon. TUE The Independent Police Complaints Commission acknowledges TUE that firearms officers work in challenging circumstances but TUE maintains that police shootings resulting in death or TUE serious injury should be independently investigated. TUE So, can the system for holding them to account be improved? TUE Reporter: Danny Shaw Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b07b9qz4 (Listen) TUE Help: getting it and dispensing with it TUE TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b07bbysn (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 Europeans - The Roots of Identity b07bbjhj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b07b9qz6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b07b9qz8 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07ch6by (Listen) TUE The Typewriter's Tale, Episode 2 TUE TUE Michiel Heyns's novel is set in 1907 at Lamb House in Rye TUE where Henry James, the great novelist, lived from 1897-1916. TUE It's an intriguing story told from the perspective of Freida TUE Wroth, his typist. TUE TUE 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to,' is the maxim of TUE Henry James - and one that Frieda tries to live up to. TUE Despite her admiration for her employer, she is marginalised TUE and under-valued - seen merely as an extension of her TUE Remington typewriter - and is lost between the servants and TUE the guests who include the irrepressible Edith Wharton and TUE the writer Hugh Walpole, as well as Mr James's extended TUE family. TUE TUE The arrival of the dazzling Mr Morton Fullerton, Paris TUE correspondent for The Times, brings Frieda into sudden TUE focus. As she is drawn into his confidence, she finds TUE herself at the centre of an intrigue, every bit as TUE engrossing as the novels she types. Her loyalties tested, TUE Frieda must choose between anonymity in the presence of a TUE literary master and uncertain love with a man she barely TUE knows. TUE TUE Read by Sian Thomas TUE Abridged by Sara Davies TUE TUE Directed by Alexa Moore TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sian Thomas TUE Author: Michiel Heyns TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Director: Alexa Moore TUE TUE 23:00 What Does the K Stand For? b04xrl8k (Listen) TUE Series 2, Balham's Got Talent TUE TUE Stephen K Amos' sitcom about growing up black, gay and funny TUE in 1980s South London. Written by Jonathan Harvey with TUE Stephen K Amos. TUE TUE Produced by Colin Anderson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos TUE Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah TUE Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna TUE Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas TUE Vincent Amos: Don Gilet TUE Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly TUE Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson TUE Mary: Nadia Kamil TUE Bette: Nadia Kamil TUE Sophie: Nadia Kamil TUE Producer: Colin Anderson TUE Writer: Jonathan Harvey TUE Writer: Stephen K Amos TUE TUE 23:30 A Dirty Secret b075pc0h (Listen) TUE Almost two-and-a-half billion people lack access to an TUE adequate toilet, and around one billion have no sanitation TUE facilities whatsoever. Poor sanitation kills a child under TUE five every 100 seconds. Anthropologist and broadcaster TUE Mary-Ann Ochota visits Bangladesh and India to understand TUE the challenges involved in achieving sanitation for all. TUE TUE It's a problem that is often addressed without any sustained TUE success. The United Nations' Millennium Development Goal TUE aimed to halve the proportion of people without access to TUE basic sanitation by 2015 - a goal that failed by some 700 TUE million people. TUE TUE Bangladesh has achieved much in its sanitation coverage over TUE recent years, in spite of many challenges, but its capital TUE Dhaka is one of the most densely populated cities in the TUE world. Like many cities in an increasingly urbanised world, TUE it struggles to cope with the demands of a rapidly growing TUE population. TUE TUE India has a separate challenge - how to stop 600 million TUE people relieving themselves outdoors. Prime Minister TUE Narendra Modi has pledged to end the practice of open TUE defecation by October 2019, in time to mark the 150th TUE anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. TUE TUE Presenter: Mary-Ann Ochota TUE Producer: Nick Minter TUE An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b07b9r0p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b07bbjhn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07b9r0r (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07b9r0t (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07b9r0w (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b07b9r0y (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07cvsx9 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew WED Graystone. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b07bc09q (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02twjfh (Listen) WED Tree Pipit WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve WED Backshall presents the tree pipit. WED WED Tree pipits are small brown birds without any bright colours WED or distinctive features; but you can identify one from a WED distance when it is singing, because it has a very obvious WED display flight. The male bird sings from April to the end of WED July, launching himself from a treetop perch, then WED parachutes downwards like a paper dart. WED WED Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b07bc0wb (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b07bc0wd (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b07bc0wg (Listen) WED Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Episode 3 WED WED Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900's, WED forced to flee her country. And this is the story of her WED eventful flight, which is newly translated by Robert and WED Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg. WED It is abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: WED WED Arrival in Kiev, with its sunny days and familiar faces, but WED a scourge of White Russians is approaching. When will WED Petlyura get here? WED WED Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tracy Ann Oberman WED Author: Teffi WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b07b9r10 (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bc0wj (Listen) WED Michael Tolliver Lives, Episode 3 WED WED Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin WED WED Episode Three WED WED Michael helps Mrs Madrigal to find a new companion. Brian's WED goodbye gesture to Shawna goes badly wrong. WED WED Dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED Producer Susan Roberts WED Director Charlotte Riches WED WED For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the WED City series has blazed its own trail through popular WED culture-from ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic WED novel. Radio 4 are dramatising the full series of the Tales WED novels for the very first time. Michael Tolliver Lives WED continues the adventures of Armistead's well-loved WED characters, followed by Mary Anne in Autumn. WED WED Credits WED Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper WED Michael: Trevor White WED Ben: Martin T Sherman WED Brian: Simon Lee Phillips WED Jake: Fox Fisher WED Mama: Joyce Springer WED Irwin: James Lailey WED Lenore: Nicola Ferguson WED Director: Charlotte Riches WED Producer: Susan Roberts WED Adaptor: Lin Coghlan WED Author: Armistead Maupin WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b07bc1nx (Listen) WED Jan and Anna - Speech Therapy WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between Anna, who suffered a WED stroke, and the conversation partner who helped her find her WED words again - and discovered a new career in the process. WED Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED 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 The Loss of Lostness b06gtfql (Listen) WED "Let's Get Lost..." croons Chet Baker, harmonising with his WED own trumpet. It's a recording made in the 1950s, at the WED high-water mark of jazz, that improvised and meandering art WED form. Taking his instruction from Baker, Stephen Smith sets WED out on a journey. WED WED But he knows he has a difficult task. Getting lost is WED getting harder. Modern technology can almost guarantee that WED we'll never be lost again - in cities, encyclopaedias or WED record shops. Many of today's teenagers have never been WED lost, either literally or metaphorically. We've been given WED wifi-enabled omnipotence. But, Stephen asks, "What's the fun WED in that?" WED WED In the company of other longing-to-be-lost souls, Stephen WED turns off his GPS and explores the joys of mooching about, WED taking a wrong turn and stumbling upon an unexpected WED delight. WED WED He has some rollicking encounters along the way. Stephen's WED attempts to deliberately disorient himself lead him to WED Hampton Court Maze where he meets a man - incidentally also WED called Smith - who claims he was clean shaven when he went WED in. He goes on a Sunday drive - remember them? - with design WED guru Stephen Bayley where they reminisce about "the WED Proustian pleasure of a packet of cheese and onion...on an WED absolutely futile drive". Via Virginia's Woolf's great essay WED on getting lost, "Street Haunting", he goes to see Graham WED Gouldman of 10cc. The idea of getting lost strikes a chord WED with Gouldman. There's lots of messing around on guitars. WED Gouldman talks about getting lost in the record shops of his WED youth, relives the writing of their greatest hit "I'm Not in WED Love", and in the end pens a new song to lostness. Stephen WED asks Graham what he might do with it. A week later a fully WED recorded version arrives in Stephen's inbox - and he hits WED play.... WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 11:30 Polyoaks b07bc1nz (Listen) WED Series 4, Eight Days a Week WED WED The staff of the dysfunctional West Country surgery have WED their work cut out to provide 'a truly 7 day service'. TV's WED Dr. Jeremy has a possible solution, but it remains to be WED seen if it's ethical. Starring Nigel Planer and Simon WED Greenall in the Health Service satire by Dr Phil Hammond and WED David Spicer. WED WED The Polyoaks surgery is plagued by strikes, endless new WED management initiatives, staff shortages, militant patients, WED eight day weeks, privatisation - and all these things are WED entirely their fault, apparently. WED WED The dysfunctional Bristol surgery run by warring doctors, WED brothers Roy and Hugh Thornton (Nigel Planer and Simon WED Greenall), alternates between embracing and collapsing under WED reforms. They're a nurse down, they've got to slash their WED budget and there's a new Head of the local Clinical WED Commissioning Group who eats GPs for breakfast (Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith). WED WED The practice's calamitous 'celebrity' Dr Jeremy (David WED Westhead), who doesn't know what a Clinical Commissioning WED Group is, continues to dodge alimony payments, malpractice WED suits and the new practice Nurse Monica (Polly Frame). Nurse WED Monica is on exchange from NHS Scotland and is fuelled by a WED borderline psychotic contempt for patients and colleagues WED alike. WED WED Written by Dr Phil Hammond and Mr David Spicer WED Directed by Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Jeremy: David Westhead WED Hugh: Simon Greenall WED Monica: Polly Frame WED Roy: Nigel Planer WED Stephanie Simons: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Patient: Duncan Wisbey WED Patient: Zalie Burrow WED Writer: Phil Hammond WED Writer: David Spicer WED Director: Frank Stirling WED WED 12:00 News Summary b07b9r12 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b076cf43 (Listen) WED 18 May 1916 - Emily Colville WED WED On this day in 1916 seven members of the No Conscription WED Fellowship were sentenced to imprisonment, and in Ashburton, WED Emily Colville resists her duty. WED WED Written by Richard Monks WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Emily Colville: Scarlett Brookes WED Bertram Colville: Nick Underwood WED Bess Dyer: Clara Bermingham WED Cyrus Colville: Anton Lesser WED Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog WED Hetty Cox: Adie Allen WED Molly Dyer: Stevie Thompson WED Oswald Dyer: Dean Nolan WED Simeon Dyer: Josh Darcy WED Writer: Richard Monks WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b07b9r14 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b07b9r16 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b07bc1p1 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 A British History in Weather b07bdd27 (Listen) WED In Cloudland WED WED Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has WED written and painted itself into the cultural life of WED Britain. Are we to clouds what the Eskimo was to snow? WED WED Cloud meant 'hill' in Middle English, a solid, earthy thing. WED But then these hills started appearing in the sky. Looking WED at a cumulus cloud, rising bumpy and steep-sided above us, WED it's easy to see why. These are the Pennines and Snowdonias WED of the air. For a while in the fourteenth century, the same WED Northumbrian poem could contain both types of cloud, the WED tangible and the metaphorical, before gradually the earthy WED meaning faded, leaving its solid residue in our words clot WED and clod. The figurative meaning soared, and clouds were WED ever after phenomena of the sky. WED WED Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07bbysj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b07bdd29 (Listen) WED School Drama, Episode 1 WED WED Four-part drama series with Tom Hollander. Deer Park WED Academy, a re-branded failing school, is working to turn WED itself around and inspire its students. But inspiration can WED be dangerous and when has-been TV star, Geoff Cathcart, is WED brought in to stage a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and WED Juliet, he opens a Pandora's box of controversy. WED WED All other parts played by students and teachers at WED Portsmouth Grammar School: WED Abby Moss, Poppy Goad, Thomas Locke, Joe McAuley, Freddie WED Fenton, Douglas James, Joe Haylock, Jay Pasricha, JM WED Hopkinson, Caleb Barron, Joe McCue WED WED Written by Andy Mulligan WED WED Music by Jon Ouin WED Sound by Steve Bond WED Produced by Emma Hearn WED WED Directed by John Dryden WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Geoff: Tom Hollander WED Michelle: Sian Gibson WED Headmaster: Tony Gardner WED Gail: Heather Craney WED Festival Administrator: Vincent Ebrahim WED Tom: Rob Jarvis WED Charlie: Divian Ladwa WED Naia: Rebecca Emerton WED Louie: Rory Greenwood WED Ben: Rob Merriam WED Ryan: Finn Elliot WED School Secretary: Susie Baxter WED Zoe: Floss Willcocks WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Emma Hearn WED Writer: Andy Mulligan WED WED 15:00 Money Box b07bdd2c (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b07bbysn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b07bdd2f (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b07b9r18 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b07b9r1b (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07b9r1d (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b07bdfm2 (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 1 WED WED The first in a new series of the programme that dares to WED commit heresy. Victoria Coren Mitchell and her guests have WED fun challenging knee-jerk public opinions, and exposing the WED wrong-headedness of received wisdom. WED WED In the first programme of the series Victoria is joined by WED comedians Lloyd Langford and Katy Brand, and the artist WED Grayson Perry. They talk about French Style, God and Hitler. WED WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Victoria Coren Mitchell WED Panellist: Lloyd Langford WED Panellist: Katy Brand WED Panellist: Grayson Perry WED WED 19:00 The Archers b07bdfm4 (Listen) WED Lilian and Jennifer are party planning, and Eddie and Joe WED drum up trade. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b07b9r1g (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bc0wj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b07bdfmg (Listen) WED Memory WED WED New research points to a future where we can artificially WED create and manipulate memory inside our own heads. What are WED the implications when we can control memory in this way, and WED why is it so important to our future? WED WED FutureProofing travels to California to meet the WED neuro-scientists creating the means for us to make and WED control memories inside the human brain, and to hear what WED the future holds when we can manipulate the process of WED forming and storing memories. WED WED Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson also explore WED the implications of having our memories distributed in many WED places - a development that is gathering pace as we WED increasingly use the internet as the repository of our lives WED - from social media to cloud storage and all our online WED shopping data. WED WED And the programme visits Jerusalem to discover how both WED Israelis and Palestinians are meeting the challenge of WED creating and maintaining memorials and museums which not WED only preserve their history but also offer a relevant guide WED to future generations. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Why I Changed My Mind b077gtw1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Sir Stephen Wall WED WED Sir Stephen Wall was one of Britain's leading diplomats, WED having been the UK's representative to the EU and Tony WED Blair's adviser on European policy in Downing Street. A WED practising Catholic for most of his life, after leaving the WED diplomatic service he worked as principal adviser to the WED Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. But after that he WED discarded his faith, and later in his late sixties came out WED as gay. Dominic Lawson asks him why he changed his mind. WED WED "Why I Changed My Mind" is a series in which Dominic WED explores how and why prominent individuals have modified WED their views on controversial topics. WED WED Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b07bdg6b (Listen) WED Series 3, Florence Nightingale: Statistician WED WED Naomi Alderman tells a little-known story about a rather WED well-known nurse. Florence Nightingale is famous for mopping WED the brows of sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean WED war. Generations of Nightingale Nurses are named after her. WED But according to her sister Parthenope: 'she was a shocking WED nurse'. She was the lady of the lamp but the light she cast WED wasn't the light of the nurse's lantern; it was the light of WED statistics. This is the story of Florence Nightingale, the WED intellectual pioneer and revered statistician. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b07bc0wd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b07cbwf5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b07b9r1j (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07ch7r2 (Listen) WED The Typewriter's Tale, Episode 3 WED WED Michiel Heyns's novel is set in 1907 at Lamb House in Rye WED where Henry James, the great novelist, lived from 1897-1916. WED It's an intriguing story told from the perspective of Freida WED Wroth, his typist. WED WED 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to,' is the maxim of WED Henry James - and one that Frieda tries to live up to. WED Despite her admiration for her employer, she is marginalised WED and under-valued - seen merely as an extension of her WED Remington typewriter - and is lost between the servants and WED the guests who include the irrepressible Edith Wharton and WED the writer Hugh Walpole, as well as Mr James's extended WED family. WED WED The arrival of the dazzling Mr Morton Fullerton, Paris WED correspondent for The Times, brings Frieda into sudden WED focus. As she is drawn into his confidence, she finds WED herself at the centre of an intrigue, every bit as WED engrossing as the novels she types. Her loyalties tested, WED Frieda must choose between anonymity in the presence of a WED literary master and uncertain love with a man she barely WED knows. WED WED Read by Sian Thomas WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED WED Directed by Alexa Moore WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sian Thomas WED Author: Michiel Heyns WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Director: Alexa Moore WED WED 23:00 Lenny Henry: Rogue's Gallery b07bdghz (Listen) WED I Never Forget a Face WED WED Lenny Henry's Rogues Gallery is a series of comic monologues WED with twists-in-the-tale, written and performed by Lenny WED Henry. Episode 1 is the story of a modern day miracle, as WED witnessed by a blind man. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Lenny Henry WED Writer: Lenny Henry WED WED 23:15 Death and Taxis b07bdgj1 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Adapted by Sean Grundy and starring Scott Capurro as Andy WED Warhol. Also starring Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw and Kerry WED Shale. WED WED Everyone who is anyone in New York from 1976 to 1987 is in WED Warhol's diary - from Mick Jagger to Donald Trump. WED WED "Friday, August 30, 1978: The doorbell rang and it was Liza. WED She said, 'give me every drug you've got.' I gave them some WED coke, Valium and four Quaaludes. A little figure in a white WED hat came up, and it was Marty Scorsese, hiding around the WED corner. He and Liza went off to have their affair on all the WED drugs. (Valium $1)" WED WED Beginning in the fall of 1976, America's most famous artist WED Andy Warhol talked to his secretary by phone at 9:00 AM, WED every Monday to Friday morning, for ten years. He would talk WED about the events of the previous day, and his office would WED transcribe his monologues into diary pages. WED WED The diary began as a careful recording of his use of money, WED from phone calls to nickels for bag-ladies to cab rides WED (lots of cab rides), but quickly evolved into Warhol's WED personal observations. It was posthumously published in 1989 WED - a condensed version of Andy's more-than-20,000 page, WED phoned-in audit/diary. WED WED The core themes to the dramas are Warhol's loves (art, men, WED fame, money, mainly money) and his fears (failure, WED embarrassment, death, mainly death). WED WED The episodes follow four key themes, using four people in WED Andy's life from 76-87 - homeless Crazy Matty, Warhol's WED boyfriend Jon Gould, writer Truman Capote and artist WED Jean-Michel Basquiat. Woven into this world are buddies Mick WED and Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall, Liza Minnelli and Donald WED Trump. WED WED Nobody escapes his sharp tongue. WED WED Cast: WED BIANCA JAGGER/ JERRY HALL/ JADE JAGGER.................RONNI WED ANCONA WED ANDY WED WARHOL...................................................... WED ......SCOTT CAPURRO WED MICK JAGGER / STEVE WED RUBELL.....................................JON CULSHAW WED TRUMAN WED CAPOTE...................................................... WED ..KERRY SHALE WED BOB MACBRIDE / ROCK WED MANAGER.................................MARTIN T SHERMAN WED WED Based on The Andy Warhol Diaries, edited by Pat Hackett WED Writer: Sean Grundy WED Producer: David Morley WED Director: Dirk Maggs WED WED A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Bianca Jagger: Ronni Ancona WED Jerry Hall: Ronni Ancona WED Jade Jagger: Ronni Ancona WED Andy Warhol: Scott Capurro WED Mick Jagger: Jon Culshaw WED Steve Rubell: Jon Culshaw WED Truman Capote: Kerry Shale WED Bob MacBride: Martin T Sherman WED Rock Manager: Martin T Sherman WED Writer: Sean Grundy WED Producer: David Morley WED Director: Dirk Maggs WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b07bdgj3 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports on the State Opening of Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 MAY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b07b9r31 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b07bc0wg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07b9r33 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07b9r35 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07b9r37 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b07b9r39 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07cz0cp (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew THU Graystone. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b07bkxvt (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378wy3 (Listen) THU Common Redstart 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 Michaela Strachan presents the common redstart. Redstarts THU are summer visitors from sub-Saharan Africa. The males are THU very handsome birds, robin-sized, but with a black mask, THU white forehead and an orange tail. John Buxton gave us a THU fascinating insight into their lives when, as a prisoner of THU war in Germany, he made a study of them. THU THU Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) THU Image courtesy of Nigel Blake (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b07c5n56 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b07bft7v (Listen) THU The Muses THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses and their role in THU Greek mythology, when they were goddesses of poetry, song, THU music and dance: what the Greeks called mousike, 'the art of THU the Muses' from which we derive our word 'music.' While the THU number of Muses, their origin and their roles varied in THU different accounts and at different times, they were THU consistently linked with the nature of artistic inspiration. THU This raised a question for philosophers then and since: was THU a creative person an empty vessel into which the Muses THU poured their gifts, at their will, or could that person do THU something to make inspiration flow? THU THU With THU THU Paul Cartledge THU Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture and AG Leventis Senior THU Research Fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge THU THU Angie Hobbs THU Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, THU University of Sheffield THU THU And THU THU Penelope Murray THU Founder member and retired Senior Lecturer, Department of THU Classics, University of Warwick THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Paul Cartledge THU Interviewed Guest: Angie Hobbs THU Interviewed Guest: Penelope Murray THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b07bft7x (Listen) THU Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Episode 4 THU THU Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900's, THU forced to flee her country. And this is the story of her THU eventful flight, which is newly translated by Robert and THU Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg. THU It is abridged for radio by Katrin Williams: THU THU On to Odessa, where the author encounters General THU Grishin-Almazov, sniffer-outer of local bandits, who 'loved THU literature and theatre'. And wasn't he once an actor? THU THU Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tracy Ann Oberman THU Author: Teffi THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b07b9r3c (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bft7z (Listen) THU Michael Tolliver Lives, Episode 4 THU THU Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin THU THU Episode Four THU THU Michael is surprised by his brother's revelation. Mrs THU Madrigal tries to ease Brian's worries about Shawna leaving. THU THU Dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU Producer Susan Roberts THU Director Charlotte Riches THU THU For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the THU City series has blazed its own trail through popular THU culture-from ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic THU novel. Radio 4 are dramatising the full series of the Tales THU novels for the very first time. Michael Tolliver Lives THU continues the adventures of Armistead's well-loved THU characters, followed by Mary Anne in Autumn. THU THU Credits THU Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper THU Michael: Trevor White THU Ben: Martin T Sherman THU Brian: Simon Lee Phillips THU Irwin: James Lailey THU Director: Charlotte Riches THU Producer: Susan Roberts THU Adaptor: Lin Coghlan THU Author: Armistead Maupin THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b07bft81 (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine THU news developments in their region. THU THU 11:30 Next Stop: Mariachi Plaza b07bft83 (Listen) THU "I play regular guitar, even though I'm supposed vihuela," THU says Luis Molina. "As the head of the group, it's kind of THU nicer to have a guitar...then I can answer the phone for THU more gigs and the other guys can keep performing." THU THU The mariachis of Boyle Heights, East LA, hang around THU Mariachi Plaza most days, to pick up work. You see them in THU their dark suits, embroidered jackets, silver buttons THU running up the sides of their trousers. They're different to THU the wandering musicians, the nortenos who, dressed in shirt THU sleeves and cowboy hats, will walk into a restaurant and THU play you a song for ten dollars. But like the nortenos, the THU life of a mariachi is pretty unpredictable. They work long THU hours. Many work two jobs. THU THU Part of Luis's job is scouting band members. In the past, THU people used to drive, or walk up, to hire them. Now bookings THU often come over the phone. Boyle Heights is changing. Rents THU are rising and, especially since the arrival of the Metro THU Station, developers are moving in. THU THU Writer, Evangeline Ordaz, was born a block from Mariachi THU Plaza and worked for years as a legal aid attorney in the THU neighbourhood. In a neighbourhood on the brink of THU gentrification, Evangeline meets mariachi musicians Luis THU Molina and Hilary Chavez-Bernal during local celebrations THU for Santa Cecilia - the adopted patron saint of the mariachi THU - and spends a night in the Latino suburbs of Los Angeles THU with Luis's band. THU THU With Catherine Kurland (co-author of Hotel Mariachi), tailor THU Jorge Tello, resident Victor Borrayo, mural painter Juan THU Solis and the mariachis of Boyle Heights, East LA. THU THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b07b9r3f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b076cf49 (Listen) THU 19 May 1916 - John Rossiter THU THU On this day in 1916, unified Russian and British forces THU drove the Turks from the banks of the Tigris, while at THU Spittal End Farm, John Rossiter begins to warm towards Rose. THU THU Written by Richard Monks THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU John Rossiter: Mark Rossiter THU Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro THU Morris Battley: Sean Baker THU Rose Fairweather: Helen Longworth THU William Fulford: Ryan Coath THU Mrs Radley: Helen Clapp THU Writer: Richard Monks THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b07b9r3h (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b07b9r3k (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b07bktvw (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 A British History in Weather b07bft85 (Listen) THU Storm THU THU Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has THU written and painted itself into the cultural life of THU Britain. An island at sea - the storms of King Lear and THU Turner and others. THU THU Any storm has its drama, but Coleridge knew the particular THU exhilaration of this place. The lane west from Lynton leads THU into a giant, irregular bowl of heathland known as the THU Valley of the Rocks. From the cramped streets of the village THU the walker is thrown out into an alien land where rocks THU stick up like injured bones from the earth. Even on a calm THU day the wind in this valley is enough to drown out voices THU and make the eyes water; the ear canals ache with the THU pressure. Blowing in from the Bristol Channel, the north and THU north-west gales are funnelled into the bowl where they beat THU around furiously, trying to get free. Coleridge wanted to be THU in the midst of this great weather theatre, opening himself THU to its energy, feeling its effects on his skin, his nerves, THU his imagination. THU THU Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b07bdfm4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b07bft87 (Listen) THU School Drama, Episode 2 THU THU Four-part drama series with Tom Hollander. Deer Park THU Academy, a re-branded failing school, is working to turn THU itself around and inspire its students with a production of THU Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . But inspiration can be THU dangerous and the man brought in to stage the production, THU has-been TV star Geoff Cathcart, has his own ideas about THU education and an unusual attitude to risk assessment. THU THU All other parts played by students and teachers at THU Portsmouth Grammar School: THU Abby Moss, Poppy Goad, Thomas Locke, Joe McAuley, Freddie THU Fenton, Douglas James, Jay Pasricha, JM Hopkinson, Caleb THU Barron, Joe McCue THU THU Written by Andy Mulligan THU THU Music by Jon Ouin THU Sound by Steve Bond THU Produced by Emma Hearn THU THU Directed by John Dryden THU A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Geoff: Tom Hollander THU Michelle: Sian Gibson THU Headmaster: Tony Gardner THU Gail: Heather Craney THU Festival Administrator: Vincent Ebrahim THU Tom: Rob Jarvis THU Charlie: Divian Ladwa THU Naia: Rebecca Emerton THU Louie: Rory Greenwood THU Ben: Rob Merriam THU Ryan: Finn Elliot THU School Secretary: Susie Baxter THU Vehicle Manager: Angus Kennedy THU Zoe: Floss Willcocks THU Director: John Dryden THU Producer: Emma Hearn THU Writer: Andy Mulligan THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b07bft89 (Listen) THU Series 33, Glyndwr's Way with Ursula Martin THU THU Clare Balding gets serious in this new series of Ramblings THU as she discovers what it takes to be a more adventurous THU walker. Today she joins Ursula Martin who walked over three THU thousand, seven hundred miles, around Wales in an eighteen THU month period. After being treated for ovarian cancer she THU decided to walk to her medical appointments from her home in THU mid-Wales to the hospital in Bristol. Ursula then just THU carried on walking, raising money for research into the THU condition and spreading the word about diagnosis. Today she THU takes Clare on small section of her favourite walk, along THU Glyndwr's Way in Powys, Mid Wales, starting just outside THU Llangadfan, they walk for about eight miles to Llanbrynmawr, THU just west of Welshpool , a few miles south of Snowdonia THU National park. The route takes them through farmland, onto THU open moorland and into a pine forest, where the moss covered THU trees allow their imaginations to run wild. Ursula spent THU many nights rough sleeping but she also describes the THU incredible kindness and generosity she received from total THU strangers who offered her meals, accommodation and the THU greatest gift of all; transporting her backpack to her next THU destination. She explains to Clare the joy and pain she THU found in walking day after day across the country she has THU adopted as her own. THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Ursula Martin THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b07b9x6r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b07bb1vx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b07bft8c (Listen) THU Tom Hanks THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Tom Hanks talks about A Hologram For The King and THU Hollywood's relationship with China, and reveals the advice THU he was given to have a hit film in the People's Republic. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Tom Hanks THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b07b9r3m (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b07b9r3p (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07b9r3r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Don't Start b06vc3sg (Listen) THU Series 3, Christmas THU THU What do long term partners really argue about? The third THU series of Frank Skinner's sharp comedy. Starring Frank THU Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. THU THU In this episode, our loving couple, Neil and Kim, spend a THU harrowing Christmas Day together. THU THU The first and second series of Don't Start met with instant THU critical and audience acclaim: THU "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with THU such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a THU writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, THU he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that THU would be lost in his stand-up routines." Jane Anderson, THU Radio Times THU THU "Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic THU comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a THU bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly THU precise dissection of a relationship." Daily Mail THU THU "...a lesson in relationship ping-pong..." Miranda Sawyer, THU The Observer THU THU Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple THU premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over THU another apparently trivial flashpoint. Each week, the stakes THU mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no THU ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with THU increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references THU and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's weaknesses. THU Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an THU unmistakable tenderness. THU THU An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Neil: Frank Skinner THU Kim: Katherine Parkinson THU Writer: Frank Skinner THU THU 18:45 The Pin b06nrjk1 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU THU Join Alex and Ben in their weird twist on the double-act THU sketch show. Strap in for a 15 minute delve in to a world of THU oddness performed in front of a live studio audience. THU THU The Pin are an award-winning comedy duo, and legends of THU Edinburgh festival. They deconstruct the sketch form, in a THU show that exists somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and THU utterly joyous silliness. THU THU After a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a string of hilarious THU performances across BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC 3, Channel 4, and THU Comedy Central, this is The Pin's debut solo show for Radio THU 4. Join them as they celebrate, make, collapse and rebuild THU their jokes, each other, and probably the radio too. THU THU For fans of Adam and Joe, Vic and Bob, and Fist of Fun - a THU show of absurd offerings from two loveable idiots. THU THU 'Reinventing sketch comedy before our very eyes.' THU ***** The List THU 'Eviscerating their chosen form completely.' THU **** The Sunday Times THU 'A very classy, very funny show indeed.' THU **** The Telegraph THU 'Adept at finding laughs in surprising places.' THU **** The Times THU 'A genuine boundary pusher.' THU **** London is Funny. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Alex Owen THU Performer: Ben Ashenden THU THU 19:00 The Archers b07bft8f (Listen) THU Tom loses his rag, and Brian is after Adam's approval. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b07b9r3t (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bft7z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Briefing Room b07bft8h (Listen) THU David Aaronovitch looks at important issues in the news. THU THU 20:30 In Business b07bft8k (Listen) THU Steel in the UK THU THU Amid concern about the future of the Port Talbot steel works THU - and fear for the jobs of workers there - Peter Day looks THU at the history of the industry in Britain. When was the THU heyday of British steel, and what went wrong? Peter visits THU Port Talbot and also delves into the archives to hear THU stories from a time when manufacturing dominated the British THU economy. THU Presenter: Peter Day THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b07b9r3m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b07bft7v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b07b9r3w (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b07b9r3y (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07ch800 (Listen) THU The Typewriter's Tale, Episode 4 THU THU Michiel Heyns's novel is set in 1907 at Lamb House in Rye THU where Henry James, the great novelist, lived from 1897-1916. THU It's an intriguing story told from the perspective of Freida THU Wroth, his typist. THU THU 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to,' is the maxim of THU Henry James - and one that Frieda tries to live up to. THU Despite her admiration for her employer, she is marginalised THU and under-valued - seen merely as an extension of her THU Remington typewriter - and is lost between the servants and THU the guests who include the irrepressible Edith Wharton and THU the writer Hugh Walpole, as well as Mr James's extended THU family. THU THU The arrival of the dazzling Mr Morton Fullerton, Paris THU correspondent for The Times, brings Frieda into sudden THU focus. As she is drawn into his confidence, she finds THU herself at the centre of an intrigue, every bit as THU engrossing as the novels she types. Her loyalties tested, THU Frieda must choose between anonymity in the presence of a THU literary master and uncertain love with a man she barely THU knows. THU THU Read by Sian Thomas THU Abridged by Sara Davies THU THU Directed by Alexa Moore THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sian Thomas THU Author: Michiel Heyns THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Director: Alexa Moore THU THU 23:00 52 First Impressions with David Quantick b07bft8m (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU Journalist and comedy writer David Quantick has met and THU interviewed hundreds of people. What were his first THU impressions, how have they changed and does it all matter? THU THU This week, stories about Christopher Walken, Leiber and THU Stoller, and the advertising industry, among others. THU THU Written and Presented by David Quantick THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Quantick THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU Writer: David Quantick THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b07bft8p (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07b9r53 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b07bft7x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07d0qxc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07d0qxf (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07d0qxh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07d0qxk (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07cz262 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew FRI Graystone. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b07bkybr (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby2t (Listen) FRI Dartford Warbler FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents the Dartford Warbler. Dartford FRI Warblers prefer Mediterranean wine-producing climates, which FRI means ice and snow is bad news for them. The harsh winters FRI of 1961 and 1962 reduced the population to just 11 pairs, FRI but fortunately the numbers have since recovered. FRI FRI Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07d2cb1 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b07bb1vl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b07bfxhj (Listen) FRI Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Episode 5 FRI FRI Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900s, forced FRI to flee her country. And this is the story of her eventful FRI flight, which is newly translated by Robert and Elizabeth FRI Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg. It is FRI abridged for radio by Katrin Williams. FRI FRI Sliding down the map, far from Moscow.. the author ends up FRI in Novorossiisk.. where's that? Then she thinks about places FRI even further afield, as the homeland 'slips away from us'. FRI FRI Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI FRI Reader Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tracy Ann Oberman FRI Author: Teffi FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b07b9r55 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bfxhl (Listen) FRI Michael Tolliver Lives, Episode 5 FRI FRI Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin FRI FRI Episode Five FRI FRI Mary Ann returns to San Francisco to join the vigil at Mrs FRI Madrigal's bedside. Shawna makes a decision about her move FRI to New York. FRI FRI Dramatised by Lin Coghlan FRI Producer Susan Roberts FRI Director Charlotte Riches FRI FRI For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the FRI City series has blazed its own trail through popular FRI culture-from ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic FRI novel. Radio 4 are dramatising the full series of the Tales FRI novels for the very first time. Michael Tolliver Lives FRI continues the adventures of Armistead's well-loved FRI characters, followed by Mary Ann in Autumn. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper FRI Michael: Trevor White FRI Ben: Martin T Sherman FRI Brian: Simon Lee Phillips FRI Mary Ann: Laurel Lefkow FRI Shawna: Suzie Grimsdick FRI Irwin: James Lailey FRI Director: Charlotte Riches FRI Producer: Susan Roberts FRI Adaptor: Lin Coghlan FRI Author: Armistead Maupin FRI FRI 11:00 St Helena - Joining the Rest of Us b07bfxhn (Listen) FRI The Land FRI FRI St Helena, a tiny volcanic scrap of an island in the South FRI Atlantic, dazzling in its flora and fauna, the second most FRI remote community in the world, is about to change forever, FRI and BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a unique ringside FRI perspective on the historic event. FRI FRI Since the May 1502, when the island was discovered by the FRI Portuguese, the only way to access the island was by sea. No FRI wonder it's mighty isolation struck fear into the heart of FRI Napoleon as he approached its monstrous cliffs. FRI FRI Now a brand new airport is being built, and will, it is FRI hoped, tempt up to 20,000 tourists a year to visit the FRI island, where 4,000 'Saints' make up the current population. FRI FRI It will be one of the most beautiful and precipitous FRI airports in the world, and the hope is that the revenue will FRI strengthen St Helena economic viability; but how will it FRI change the way of life of this remote and wild place? FRI FRI Joe Hollins, veterinary surgeon and unlikely reporter, has, FRI for the past 6 months, been recording his life on the FRI island, from the perspective of a vet, capturing the beating FRI heart of the community, along with quite a lot of sheep - to FRI find out what changes the islanders anticipate as they lose FRI their isolated status. FRI FRI Being called out to dissect whales, inseminate cows, tramp FRI donkey paths, inspect tropical fish and perform endless FRI operations on pets, Joe's life as a vet has given him an FRI insight into the island life, not least taking care of the FRI world's oldest land creature, Jonathan, a Seychelles FRI tortoise who is probably 182 years old. FRI FRI Generations of "Saints", with their distinctive accent, have FRI climbed cruel looming cliffs to fish and farm; guano glints FRI like glitter on the rocks, and masked boobies squawk at the FRI visitor rather than fly away. It certainly sounds like the FRI sort of destination adventurous tourist have been looking FRI for. FRI FRI Programme two takes up the story of the retirement of the FRI last Royal Mail Ship, the RMS St Helena, which has been the FRI lifeline for the island, as it completes its final tour of FRI duty. Its also been the means by which Joe has sent his FRI recordings back to the UK, on one of the longest mail routes FRI in the world. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall FRI FRI Music: "On The Isle of St Helena" sung by Steve Turner, on FRI his "The Whirligig of Time" album FRI FRI Additional musical effects by David Bramwell. FRI FRI 11:30 Barry's Lunch Club b07bfxhq (Listen) FRI Inheritance FRI FRI Alex Lowe is 82 year old Barry, who invites an audience to FRI his weekly lunch club where he scrutinises themes close to FRI his heart. With club secretary Hilary (Stephanie Cole) to FRI rein him in, and club treasurer Peter (Philip Pope) FRI providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the FRI ultimate life-style guide for an ageing nation. FRI FRI Episode 4: Inheritance FRI While Dave Marsh the builder fixes the perilous civic hall FRI roof above them, Barry deals with queries about inheritance FRI tax. How best to utilise your money? FRI FRI Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He FRI is not given to looking at the old days through rose FRI coloured spectacles, and is well up to speed with current FRI trends. A seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a FRI false sense of security, delivering hilariously stinging FRI rebukes or erudite assessments of how the world is treating FRI the over 60s. FRI FRI Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in FRI real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting FRI group. FRI FRI Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Barry: Alex Lowe FRI Hilary: Stephanie Cole FRI Peter: Philip Pope FRI Writer: Alex Lowe FRI Writer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b07b9r57 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b076cf4d (Listen) FRI 20 May 1916 - Cyrus Colville FRI FRI On this day in 1916, an air raid on Kent destroyed a public FRI house, while in the County Tribunal in Exeter, Cyrus FRI Colville is on fiery form. FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Cyrus Colville: Anton Lesser FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Bertram Colville: Nick Underwood FRI Burroughs: Sargon Yelda FRI Edwin Lloyd: Finn den Hertog FRI Marcus Goodridge: Max Bennett FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI William Fulford: Ryan Coath FRI Mrs Taylor: Claire Sellers FRI Selleck: Ewan Bailey FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b07b9r59 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b07b9r5c (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b07bkq28 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 A British History in Weather b07bfxhs (Listen) FRI Beginnings and Endings FRI FRI Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has FRI written and painted itself into the cultural life of FRI Britain. FRI FRI "In this series I've been out in all sorts of ancient FRI rainstorms and heatwaves. I've tried to ask how people have FRI experienced and represented the weather in Britain, and FRI especially how it's been imaginatively transformed in FRI writing and painting. Wind and rain have inspired a great FRI deal of art, but I think the arts have also, partly, made FRI our weather. There might be a ghost story somewhere deep FRI behind our experience of low mist, or remembered film music FRI behind the year's first snow. FRI FRI There's a character in Oscar Wilde's essay 'The Decay of FRI Lying' who takes this idea to extremes. He proposes that we FRI see in nature what art shows us to be there. He's willing to FRI contend that the London fogs barely existed before painters FRI started painting them. Then suddenly there were Whistler FRI effects every night in Battersea and Monets rising up from FRI the Thames. Art, he says, invented the fog. Well, that may FRI be ridiculous, but perhaps there's a wisp of truth in it. FRI The images and associations we all carry in mind shape what FRI we see in the air. FRI FRI Books and pictures hold the record of how people over FRI centuries have stared out of the window or bent into the FRI wind. They allow us to look up with many pairs of eyes, FRI everyone seeing a little differently." FRI FRI Music by Jon Nicholls. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b07bft8f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b07bfxhv (Listen) FRI School Drama, Episode 3 FRI FRI Four-part drama series with Tom Hollander. Deer Park FRI Academy, a re-branded failing school, is working to turn FRI itself around and inspire its students with a production of FRI Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. With the first night looming FRI it becomes clear that the man brought in to stage the FRI production, has-been TV star Geoff Cathcart, is not quite FRI who he appears to be. FRI FRI All other parts played by students and teachers at FRI Portsmouth Grammar School: FRI Abby Moss, Poppy Goad, Thomas Locke, Joe McAuley, Freddie FRI Fenton, Douglas James, Jay Pasricha, JM Hopkinson, Caleb FRI Barron, Joe McCue FRI FRI Written by Andy Mulligan FRI FRI Music by Jon Ouin FRI Sound by Steve Bond FRI Produced by Emma Hearn FRI FRI Directed by John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Geoff: Tom Hollander FRI Michelle: Sian Gibson FRI Headmaster: Tony Gardner FRI Gail: Heather Craney FRI Festival Administrator: Vincent Ebrahim FRI Tom: Rob Jarvis FRI Charlie: Divian Ladwa FRI Naia: Rebecca Emerton FRI Louie: Rory Greenwood FRI Ben: Rob Merriam FRI Ryan: Finn Elliot FRI School Secretary: Susie Baxter FRI Vehicle Manager: Angus Kennedy FRI Zoe: Floss Willcocks FRI Radio Presenter: Jason King FRI Director: John Dryden FRI Producer: Emma Hearn FRI Writer: Andy Mulligan FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07bfzhj (Listen) FRI Ness Botanic Gardens - Correspondence Edition FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts a correspondence edition of the programme FRI from Ness Botanic Gardens. Christine Walkden, Bob Flowerdew FRI and Pippa Greenwood are this week's panellists, answering FRI questions sent in by letter, email and social media. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Supermarket Flowers b07bfzhm (Listen) FRI Story of the Week. FRI FRI A deteriorating relationship between a woman who owns a FRI house, outside which a child is knocked down at a bus stop, FRI and the grieving mother who insists on leaving fresh flowers FRI there each day turning the woman's garden wall into a FRI permanent shrine. FRI FRI Dermot Bolger is one of Ireland's most prolific writers. His FRI radio plays for BBC Radio 4 include 'The Night Manager' and FRI 'The Fortunestown Kid' and the radio version of his own FRI novel 'The Woman's Daughter' broadcast in seven countries FRI and winner of the Worldplay Award for best script. FRI FRI Jane Brennan recently won an IFTA for Best Supporting FRI Actress for her role in 'Brooklyn'. FRI FRI Writer ..... Dermot Bolger FRI Reader ..... Jane Brennan FRI Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Dermot Bolger FRI Reader: Jane Brennan FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b07bfzhv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b07bfzhx (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b07bfzhz (Listen) FRI Sharron and Siobhan - MS Does Not Define Me FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a woman with MS and FRI her friend whose husband had the condition. They share a FRI determination to be independent of the diagnosis. 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 b07b9r5f (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07b9r5h (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b07bfzj7 (Listen) FRI Series 90, Episode 6 FRI FRI Hugo Rifkind and Kerry Godliman are amongst Miles' guests in FRI the long-running satirical quiz of the week's news. FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Hugo Rifkind FRI Panellist: Kerry Godliman FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b07bfzjc (Listen) FRI Anna presses Helen for information, and Toby launches a new FRI venture. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gillian Richmond FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b07b9r5k (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City b07bfxhl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b07bfzjf (Listen) FRI Andrea Leadsom MP, Lisa Nandy MP, Dave Nellist, Lord Patten FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Jesmond in Newcastle with the Energy Minister Andrea FRI Leadsom MP, the Shadow Secretary for Energy and Climate FRI Change Lisa Nandy MP, Dave Nellist the chair of TUSC the FRI Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and the Conservative FRI peer Lord Patten. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07bfzjh (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b076cfgh (Listen) FRI 16-20 May 1916 FRI FRI In the week, in 1916, when unified Russian and British FRI forces drove the Turks from the banks of the Tigris, sands FRI are shifting in Ashburton. FRI FRI Cast FRI Hetty Cox ..... Adie Allen FRI Dieter Lippke ..... Felix Auer FRI Selleck ..... Ewan Bailey FRI Morris Battley ..... Sean Baker FRI Alexander Gidley ..... Matthew Beard FRI Bess Dyer ..... Clara Bermingham FRI Marcus Goodridge ..... Max Bennett FRI Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford FRI Emily Colville ..... Scarlett Brookes FRI Tobias Holden ..... Toby Bryant FRI John Rossiter ..... Mark Carey FRI Mrs Radley ..... Helen Clapp FRI William Fulford ..... Ryan Coath FRI Simeon Dyer ..... Josh Darcy FRI Edwin Lloyd ..... Finn den Hertog FRI Adam Wilson ..... Billy Kennedy FRI Isaac Cox ..... James Lailey FRI Cyrus Colville ..... Anton Lesser FRI Rose Fairweather ..... Helen Longworth FRI Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Cora Gidley ..... Joanna Monro FRI Oswald Dyer ..... Dean Nolan FRI Hector Gidley ..... Brian Protheroe FRI Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready FRI Mrs Taylor ..... Claire Sellers FRI Effie Taverner ..... Lizzie Stables FRI Molly Dyer ..... Stevie Thompson FRI Elspeth Taverner ..... Kelly Williams FRI Bertram Colville ..... Nick Underwood FRI Burroughs ..... Sargon Yelda FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b07b9r5m (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b07b9r5p (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07ch8k9 (Listen) FRI The Typewriter's Tale, Episode 5 FRI FRI Michiel Heyns's novel is set in 1907 at Lamb House in Rye FRI where Henry James, the great novelist, lived from 1897-1916. FRI It's an intriguing story told from the perspective of Freida FRI Wroth, his typist. FRI FRI 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to,' is the maxim of FRI Henry James - and one that Frieda tries to live up to. FRI Despite her admiration for her employer, she is marginalised FRI and under-valued - seen merely as an extension of her FRI Remington typewriter - and is lost between the servants and FRI the guests who include the irrepressible Edith Wharton and FRI the writer Hugh Walpole, as well as Mr James's extended FRI family. FRI FRI The arrival of the dazzling Mr Morton Fullerton, Paris FRI correspondent for The Times, brings Frieda into sudden FRI focus. As she is drawn into his confidence, she finds FRI herself at the centre of an intrigue, every bit as FRI engrossing as the novels she types. Her loyalties tested, FRI Frieda must choose between anonymity in the presence of a FRI literary master and uncertain love with a man she barely FRI knows. FRI FRI Read by Sian Thomas FRI Abridged by Sara Davies FRI FRI Directed by Alexa Moore FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sian Thomas FRI Author: Michiel Heyns FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Director: Alexa Moore FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b07bbyjb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b07bfzjk (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b07bfzjm (Listen) FRI Rob and Alison - Art with a Smile FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between an artist who uses FRI local humour and someone who is serious about apostrophes FRI and was thereby drawn purchase his work. Another in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI 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
13 May, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 14/05/2016 - 20/05/2016
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)