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SAT SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00jjzml (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00jhfr9 (Listen) SAT Sisters of Sinai, Episode 5 SAT By Janet Soskice. The true story of the two sisters who SAT discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Bible SAT on Mount Sinai in 1892. Read by Stella Gonet. SAT After a long and time-consuming battle, Agnes' discovery SAT is finally published, but this does not put an end to the SAT twins' travels. At the age of 63 they set off for their SAT sixth and final trip to Mount Sinai. SAT A Pier Productions production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jjzmn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jjzmq (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jjzms (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00jjzmv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jjzmx (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Gordon Gray. SAT SAT 05:45 Lent Talks b00jj13m (Listen) SAT God Present in Absence? SAT Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God SAT from their own perspective. SAT Jewish feminist theologian Melissa Raphael wonders what SAT Jesus' cry of abandonment on the cross says about God's SAT absence and how it connects with the experience of many SAT Jews in the Holocaust. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00jkd19 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00jkd1c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00jkhk4 (Listen) SAT Living sustainably outside of cities and finding housing SAT without building village suburbs are big problems for SAT those wishing to live in rural landscapes. To buy the SAT cheapest properties in counties such as Herefordshire you SAT would have to borrow 9 or 10 times the average wage and SAT the knock on effect is a far less diverse population. SAT In these troubled financial times Canon Frome Court hopes SAT to offer a solution first made popular in the 70’s. It’s SAT an organic rural farm community set up in a former school SAT and Georgian Mansion which today houses 45 people young SAT and old. This is the first time that the community have SAT opened their doors to the media but as Helen Mark SAT discovers when she meets the members there are few closed SAT doors once inside. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00jkhk6 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT The tiny midge poses a big threat to Britain's farmers. As SAT summer approaches, any Bluetongue infected insects could SAT be blown from the continent and spread the virus by biting SAT livestock, causing lameness, infertility and death in SAT sheep. Farmers are being urged to vaccinate their animals SAT against serotype 8, but many just aren't bothering, and as SAT we import infected animals and have no protection from the SAT second threat of serotype 1, are there too many chinks in SAT our armour? Anna Hill investigates. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00jkhk8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00jkhkb (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00jkhkj (Listen) SAT Fi Glover talks to a woman who found herself in Bam when SAT the earthquake struck there. SAT Her studio guest is basketball player turned presenter SAT turned psychologist John Amaechi. SAT There is a guerrilla report from a barber shop in Bristol SAT where a line is drawn on the floor and no woman is allowed SAT to cross it. SAT Plus a man who has streaked at more than 400 public SAT events, the Inheritance Tracks of Daniel O'Donnell and SAT poetry from Matt Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00jkhkl (Listen) SAT Dr Julian Litten talks about some interesting cemeteries SAT to visit around the country and abroad and reveals some of SAT their history and unique characteristics. He is the SAT Chairman of the Friends of Hardwick Road (King's Lynn) SAT Cemetery, Founder of the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery SAT and a member of the Association of Burial Authorities SAT Executive, of the English Heritage/Church of England Human SAT Remains Advisory Service. SAT Undercliffe cemetery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is a one SAT of Julian's favourites. The cemetery has amazing SAT landscaping on a bluff overlooking the city and contains SAT funerary monuments of profound grandeur. SAT Christopher Somerville is a writer, broadcaster and a SAT walking enthusiast; he shares his experiences of the SAT pleasures and miseries of this leisure activity and talks SAT about some of his favourite UK walks. Christopher's column SAT 'Walk of the Month' was published for over fifteen years SAT in the Daily Telegraph. He is now the Walking SAT Correspondent for The Times. Christopher's latest book SAT contains his selection of 100 those walks all over Britain. SAT SAT 10:30 Motownship b00jkhkn (Listen) SAT Midge Ure travels to Cape Town to meet a group of young SAT township musicians who are using traditional African SAT instruments to record covers of classic Motown and soul SAT hits. SAT Abavuki is a group of 10 aspiring young musicians from SAT Langa, Cape Town's oldest, and one of South Africa's SAT toughest, black townships. The project is produced by SAT London-based Barney Rattle, who has been fusing diverse SAT music styles for many years to bring the sounds of Cape SAT Town's townships to the world. SAT Midge meets the musicians in Langa township and learns SAT about the project and Abavuki's tough backgrounds. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00jq7nd (Listen) SAT Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster SAT parliament. Elinor Goodman examines a 'Green New Deal' SAT which has been promised to fight global warming and the SAT recession at the same time. She discovers, however, that SAT tensions between short and long term priorities are making SAT green politics a challenge. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00jkhks (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00jkhkv (Listen) SAT Millions of people face reductions to their weekly social SAT security benefit claims. Money Box debates the future of SAT pensions after the plunging stock market wiped more than SAT 161 billion pounds from the pension pots of millions of SAT people. Six months on from the collapse of leisure company SAT XL, some customers fear they will never get their money SAT back. Plus, benevolent funds see a rise in demand for SAT their help as many more face hardship. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00jjtz1 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 6 SAT Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, SAT Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin, Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00jkhkx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00jkhkz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00jjtz3 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in London. SAT Panellists are the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, SAT Conservative parliamentary candidate Priti Patel, SAT political editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson and Maajid SAT Nawaz of the Quilliam Foundation. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00jkhl1 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00jkv1w (Listen) SAT Man of the Moment SAT A new production of the dark comedy by Sir Alan Ayckbourn, SAT to mark the occasion of the playwright's 70th birthday. A SAT career criminal, who has written an autobiography and is SAT now a television celebrity, agrees to participate in a SAT reality TV show filmed at his Mediterranean villa. SAT Jill Rillington ...... Lisa Dillon SAT Trudy Parks ...... Janie Dee SAT Douglas Beechey ...... Alex Jennings SAT Vic Parks ...... Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Kenny Collins ...... Damian O'Hare SAT Sharon ...... Ella Smith SAT Ruy ...... Alan Shearman SAT Floor Manager ...... Michael Simkins SAT David ...... John Baddeley SAT Film crew ...... Kenneth Danziger, Matthew Wolf SAT Children ...... Matilda and Alfie Wickham SAT Directed by Martin Jarvis. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00jkv1y (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Little. SAT Carole King talks about her extraordinary career, in which SAT she created some of the most memorable pop hits for the SAT stars of the 1960s and 70s, including Will You Love Me SAT Tomorrow and You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman. But it SAT was not until she released her solo album Tapestry, one of SAT the biggest-selling albums of all time, that Carole King SAT received international acclaim as a singer in her own SAT right. SAT Classical pianist Imogen Cooper performs in the studio and SAT talks about her obsession with Schubert's music. SAT As growing number of couples decide to have just one SAT child, the pros and cons of growing up solo and why one SAT professor thinks we need a global spiritual awakening. SAT Gail McGarva, one of the few remaining wooden boat SAT builders able to build 'by eye', talks about her SAT specialist craft. SAT And one of the most important questions: should a man SAT whose hair is receding just accept his baldness; embrace SAT it even? Or does society prefer a man with a full head of SAT hair? Journalist Brian Beacom explains his decision to SAT have a hair transplant and the author Toby Young explains SAT why he is bald and proud. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00jkv20 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00jkv22 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jkv24 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00jkv26 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jkv28 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00jkv2b (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Armando Iannucci, the man behind The Thick of It, Knowing SAT Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge and The Day Today, SAT chats to Clive talks about writing and directing his new SAT film, In The Loop. SAT Clive meets actor Clarke Peters, who has appeared Damages SAT and the cult TV hit The Wire and will be playing a young SAT Nelson Mandela in the upcoming Channel 4 drama Endgame. SAT Hunter Davies offers Clive some tips on coping with the SAT recession from his new book, Cold Meat and How to Disguise SAT SAT It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Bad Times, SAT published by Frances Lincoln. SAT Arthur Smith talks all things cricket with Scyld Berry, SAT editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2009. SAT Comedy comes from Robin Sebastian and Nigel Harrison, who SAT perform sketches from the Kenneth Williams extravaganza SAT Stop Messing About, playing at the Leicester Square SAT Theatre in London. SAT With music from folk group Mawkin:Causley, playing The SAT Jolly Broom Man from their new album, The Awkward Recruit. SAT Plus Sarah Jane Morris performs Promised Land from her SAT 11th album, Where It Hurts. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00jkv2d (Listen) SAT John Sentamu SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Archbishop of York, John SAT Sentamu, who has called for St George's Day to be made an SAT official English holiday. It is just the latest cause to SAT be championed by one of the Anglican Church's most SAT outspoken leaders. Sentamu had to flee for his life from SAT Uganda to escape the Idi Amin regime and since then has SAT taken up the cause of justice. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00jkv2g (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Philip Hoare, novelist SAT Aminatta Forna and documentary film-maker Adam Curtis to SAT discuss the cultural highlights of the wee. Featuring an SAT arthritic angel, a knackered Viking and a man who can't SAT quite accept he is a Nazi. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00jkv2j (Listen) SAT Carl Sagan - A Personal Voyage SAT Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to SAT his science hero, the American astronomer Carl Sagan, the SAT man who many people describe as the greatest populariser SAT of science of all time. His landmark television series SAT Cosmos was seen by more than 600 million people worldwide SAT and inspired a generation of young scientists to regard SAT the universe with wonder and awe. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00jh472 (Listen) SAT Something Fresh, Episode 2 SAT Second of a two-part dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 SAT comic novel. SAT The rivalry between Ashe and Joan to secure the precious SAT scarab is becoming intense. The obsessive Baxter is in hot SAT pursuit and Lord Emsworth keeps a shotgun beside him in SAT case of midnight marauders. SAT Ashe ...... Ioan Gruffudd SAT Joan ...... Helen McCrory SAT Baxter ...... Jared Harris SAT Earl of Emsworth ...... Martin Jarvis SAT J Preston Peters ...... Hector Elizondo SAT The Hon Freddie ...... Matthew Wolf SAT George Emerson ...... James Frain SAT Aline Peters ...... Andrea Bowen SAT Beach ...... Morgan Sheppard SAT Mr Judson ...... Darren Richardson SAT Colonel Mant ...... Kenneth Danziger SAT Wodehouse ...... Ian Ogilvy SAT Directed by Martin Jarvis. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00jkv2l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00jj0sm (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with SAT families, experts and policy-makers. SAT Mariella and her guests discuss whether shouting at SAT children inflicts long-term damage or is an inevitable SAT part of busy family life. As the focus on children's SAT behaviour and parents' management of it increases, are SAT there effective alternatives to yelling at children to get SAT them to do what you want? SAT The panellists are psychotherapist Sue Gerhardt, Professor SAT Stephen Scott of the National Association of Parenting SAT Practitioners and journalist and writer Jennie Bristow. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00jhg36 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Episode 5 SAT Paul Gambaccini chairs the fifth heat of the music quiz SAT from Manchester, with contestants from the Midlands, north SAT of England and Scotland. The competitors are Alan Douglas SAT from Worcester, Leslie Ford from Newcastle and John Keir SAT from Kirkcaldy. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b00jh476 (Listen) SAT Dom Moraes: The Double Exile SAT Poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of SAT lesser-known or forgotten poets. SAT Born in India, educated at Oxford, admirer of Auden and SAT Spender and a youthful resident of low Soho dives, the SAT life of the beautiful Dom Moraes was in itself poetical. SAT Brian finds in Moraes' work the melancholy of a man who SAT never quite belonged either in India or England. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 APRIL 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00jlv14 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0084f7t (Listen) SUN The Big Chill, Conning Mrs Vinterberg SUN Specially commissioned stories exploring the darker side SUN of life. SUN Mr Roper arrives in Copenhagen by night to buy a Qing SUN dynasty vase from a certain Mrs Vinterberg. To his cost, SUN he finds that she collects rather more than antiques. SUN By Heidi Amsinck, read by Tim McInnerny. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jlvgh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jlvgk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jlvgm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00jlvr2 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00jlvr4 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from All Saints, Daresbury in Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00jkv2d (Listen) SUN John Sentamu SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Archbishop of York, John SUN Sentamu, who has called for St George's Day to be made an SUN official English holiday. It is just the latest cause to SUN be championed by one of the Anglican Church's most SUN outspoken leaders. Sentamu had to flee for his life from SUN Uganda to escape the Idi Amin regime and since then has SUN taken up the cause of justice. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00jlvr6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00jlvr8 (Listen) SUN This is My Body SUN With guest Father Timothy Radcliffe, Mark Tully explores SUN the physical, emotional, legal and spiritual meaning of SUN Jesus' words at the Last Supper. SUN SUN 06:35 Sunrise Service b00jlvrb (Listen) SUN The Dean of Christ Church the Very Rev Christopher Lewis SUN leads a meditation from the Deanery garden, where Lewis SUN Carroll once gained inspiration for Alice's Adventures in SUN Wonderland. With the Christ Church Singers, directed by SUN Clive Driskill-Smith. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00jlvrd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 06:59 Easter Sunday Hymn b00jlvrg (Listen) SUN Jesus Christ is risen today. SUN SUN 07:01 News and Papers b00jlwnq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00jlwnv (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00jlwnz (Listen) SUN St John's Catholic School for the Deaf SUN Gabby Logan appeals on behalf of St John's Catholic School SUN for the Deaf. Donations to this appeal should be sent to SUN Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your SUN envelope St John's School. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. Or give via the website. SUN The school will use your money to buy amplification SUN equipment and musical instruments for pupils. If you are a SUN UK taxpayer, please provide St John's School with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 529319. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00jlwp1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00jlwp5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00jlwp7 (Listen) SUN The joy of Easter is celebrated in a Eucharist from Christ SUN Church Cathedral, Oxford, with excerpts from Messiah SUN marking the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, plus SUN Easter hymns. SUN Preacher: Professor Sarah Foot, Regius Professor of SUN Ecclesiastical History. SUN Director of Music: Stephen Darlington. SUN Organist: Clive Driskill-Smith. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00jlxjk (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00jlxjm (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00jlxjp (Listen) SUN Sue MacGregor brings together a group of people who were SUN involved in the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989, SUN which resulted in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00jhp5b (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 3 SUN David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are SUN encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items SUN of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. SUN With Lucy Porter, Chris Addison, Clive Anderson and Graeme SUN Garden. SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00jlxjr (Listen) SUN Larchfield Community SUN Spring is a time of great activity at the Larchfield SUN Community village. Food is at the heart of community life SUN - Larchfield is a biodynamic livestock farm, with on site SUN butchery, bakery and gardens. But Larchfield is also home SUN to a community where adults with special needs, and those SUN without, live in family groups and work on the land to SUN produce the food that helps sustain not only Larchfield SUN but the wider community of Middlesbrough and North SUN Yorkshire beyond. SUN Sheila Dillon visits the community while lambing is SUN underway and school visits are in full swing to celebrate SUN the return of Spring, and joins in the preparations for SUN their Easter celebrations. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00jlxjt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00jlxjw (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Brian Hanrahan. SUN SUN 13:30 Fixing the Pedigree Dog b00htl96 (Listen) SUN Sue Broom looks at the genetics and health of pedigree SUN dogs and asks if modern science and an understanding of SUN genetics can produce a solution to make them healthier. SUN A recent TV documentary highlighted some severe health SUN problems in a number of pedigree dog breeds. The breeds of SUN most concern include Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with SUN syringiomyelia, a neurological disorder thought to be SUN caused by too small a skull squeezing the brain. Also SUN German shepherd dogs and Neapolitan mastiffs have a high SUN incidence of hip dysplasia and Basset and Bloodhounds bred SUN to be too heavy leaving them prone to arthritis and back SUN problems. SUN However, as Sue discovers, there are changes being made to SUN the way that pedigree dogs are being bred. The Kennel Club SUN has implemented its Fit for Function, Fit for Life SUN campaign. Also, Crufts will be introducing new breed SUN standards, the blueprint for a show dog. They are in the SUN process of training judges to select dogs not only on SUN their looks but also on their health. SUN These changes are welcomed by the RSPCA, but they do not SUN believe that they go far enough and are concerned that the SUN changes in the breed standards are too vague and open to SUN too much interpretation by judges, many of whom are SUN themselves breeders. SUN Certain breed groups do not like being dictated to and SUN think that the problems are being overblown. But some dog SUN breeders are actively seeking out DNA tests for disorders SUN that affect their breed and using this information to SUN 'breed out' unhealthy genes from their stock. SUN Sue finds out what this shake-up of the pedigree dog SUN breeding world will mean for future breeds and whether or SUN not some breeds as we know them will even survive. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00jjt85 (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer SUN questions posed by gardeners in Surrey. SUN To mark the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanical SUN Gardens at Kew, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs return SUN to the gardens where they trained. The Herbarium there SUN contains seven million plant samples, some priceless SUN exhibits collected by, among others, Charles Darwin. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Ankle High History b00jlxjy (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Mark Stephen uncovers Scotland's lost archaeological SUN history. SUN Mark meets two ladies on Mull who stumbled across the SUN ruins of an early Christian chapel which could date back SUN over a millennium. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00jlxr0 (Listen) SUN Therese Raquin, Episode 1 SUN First of a two-part dramatisation by Diana Griffiths of SUN the novel by Emile Zola, set in mid-19th century Paris. SUN Therese is forced by her aunt to marry her sickly son, SUN Camille. However, upon moving to Paris, she and her lover SUN Laurent conspire to murder Camille so that they may love SUN freely. SUN Therese ...... Charlotte Riley SUN Laurent ...... Andrew Buchan SUN Camille ...... Toby Hadoke SUN Mme Raquin ...... Pauline Jefferson SUN Michaud ...... Rob Pickavance SUN Suzanne ...... Deborah McAndrew SUN Manager/Assistant ...... Carl Cieka SUN Directed by Pauline Harris. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00jlxt0 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup presents a celebration of nature writing SUN with guests including Horatio Clare, the author of a new SUN book tracing the annual migration of swallows. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices b00jlyyq (Listen) SUN WH Davies SUN Poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of SUN lesser-known or forgotten poets. SUN WH Davies travelled the world from his native Wales, SUN sleeping rough and jumping trains. His work has a SUN simplicity which is still revered in the form of his SUN well-known lines: 'What is this life if, full of care, We SUN have no time to stand and stare?' SUN But few people know that it was Davies who wrote them. SUN Brian remembers a poet whose work helped set him on his SUN own way as a writer. SUN SUN 17:00 The New Scramble for Africa b00jhxmk (Listen) SUN Mike Wooldridge reports on the quiet economic inroads into SUN Africa being made by India. He asks if we are witnessing a SUN modern-day scramble for Africa as India, along with the SUN world's other most populous country, China, seriously SUN compete with each other to engage resource-rich Africa. If SUN so, what will be the consequences for the continent as a SUN whole and will it benefit or be damaged by this SUN competition? SUN A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00jkv2d (Listen) SUN John Sentamu SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Archbishop of York, John SUN Sentamu, who has called for St George's Day to be made an SUN official English holiday. It is just the latest cause to SUN be championed by one of the Anglican Church's most SUN outspoken leaders. Sentamu had to flee for his life from SUN Uganda to escape the Idi Amin regime and since then has SUN taken up the cause of justice. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00jlyys (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00jlyyv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jlyyx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00jlyyz (Listen) SUN Ernie Rae introduces his selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00jlyz1 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00jlyz3 (Listen) SUN Kirsten O'Brien goes shopping with children to find out SUN what's cool and what's not, what makes a craze, what age SUN kids stop playing with toys and if shopping makes them SUN happy. They tell Kirsten what it is like to be a child SUN shopping today and consumer champion Ed Mayo explains the SUN rights of children shoppers. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008nwjx (Listen) SUN Portraits of East Anglia, Time and Tide SUN Specially commissioned stories by local authors, inspired SUN by paintings of the East Anglian landscape. Recorded in SUN front of an audience in Halesworth, Suffolk, the readings SUN are introduced by Neil Innes. SUN On a Sunday afternoon in late September, two men make SUN their way home across the quay at Orford. The dreaded SUN weekenders have left and the village is once again quiet. SUN But is everything quite as it seems? SUN By Anthony Horowitz, read by Gerard McDermott. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00jjp9j (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00jjt87 (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and SUN interest from many walks of life, some famous and some SUN less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00jkhkv (Listen) SUN Millions of people face reductions to their weekly social SUN security benefit claims. Money Box debates the future of SUN pensions after the plunging stock market wiped more than SUN 161 billion pounds from the pension pots of millions of SUN people. Six months on from the collapse of leisure company SUN XL, some customers fear they will never get their money SUN back. Plus, benevolent funds see a rise in demand for SUN their help as many more face hardship. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00jlwnz (Listen) SUN St John's Catholic School for the Deaf SUN Gabby Logan appeals on behalf of St John's Catholic School SUN for the Deaf. Donations to this appeal should be sent to SUN Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your SUN envelope St John's School. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. Or give via the website. SUN The school will use your money to buy amplification SUN equipment and musical instruments for pupils. If you are a SUN UK taxpayer, please provide St John's School with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 529319. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00jjls6 (Listen) SUN All New SUN Peter Day hears from the business people who, faced with SUN the uncertainties of the global recession, are pinning SUN their hopes for economic recovery on bold new innovation. SUN He visits a weekly meeting of OpenCoffee club, a busy SUN gathering point for networking entrepreneurs, and speaks SUN to small start-up companies who are launching their SUN products in the current downturn. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00jlzbx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00jlzbz (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn SUN Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers. SUN SUN 23:02 The Film Programme b00jjt89 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to poet, publisher, painter, SUN photographer and actor Viggo Mortensen, star of Lord of SUN the Rings, about his new drama, Good. She also hears from SUN the director of award-winning Swedish teen vampire movie, SUN Let the Right One In, who reveals the secrets of his gory SUN sound effects. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00jlvr8 (Listen) SUN This is My Body SUN With guest Father Timothy Radcliffe, Mark Tully explores SUN the physical, emotional, legal and spiritual meaning of SUN Jesus' words at the Last Supper. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 APRIL 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00jlzf1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00jj0f6 (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor is in Leeds to visit the first exhibition to MON draw together images of how, historically, artists have MON represented the social order. He is joined by Alistair MON Robinson, the curator of Rank: Picturing the Social Order MON 1615-2009, as well as by political cartoonist Martin MON Rowson and sociologist Gordon Fyfe. MON They discuss evocative images, from The Chain of Being to MON the Map of World Poverty, and consider the challenges of MON demonstrating power, class and wealth in a visual way. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00jlvr4 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from All Saints, Daresbury in Cheshire. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jlzll (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jlzqv (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jlzln (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00jlzqx (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jlzs2 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Gordon Gray. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00jlzs4 (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Chris Impey. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00jlzs6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00jlzx6 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00jlzxd (Listen) MON Michael Portillo examines what drives people to violence MON and whether any one of us has the potential to become MON violent. If society tells us violence is good or MON justified, how does that change us? MON According to John Gray, society is not progressing. MON Although we may be progressing in the arenas of science MON and knowledge, Gray believes that we cannot use the same MON model for our progress in ethics, politics and the arts. MON He thinks that these are essentially cyclical, and our MON progressions can easily be lost. MON Author Amanda Craig thinks that we need to return to the MON values of the Victorian novel which gave an insight into MON contemporary social issues. She thinks that authors are MON now timid of writing works with a large cast driven by a MON strong plot. MON Chaucer's Canterbury Tales incorporated the medieval MON styles of bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtly MON romance. Peter Ackroyd has translated these tales of MON universal human themes into the language of modern day MON prose. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00jlzzd (Listen) MON The Music Room, Episode 1 MON Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical MON childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his MON severely epileptic older brother. MON The five-year-old William is preoccupied with fishing for MON pike in the castle's moat. Richard's seizures become MON increasingly worse, and a severe form of epilepsy is MON diagnosed. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpn1f (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON A special programme about the future of child protection. MON Lord Laming's review into child safeguarding reforms, MON following the death of Baby P, has called for changes in MON leadership and practice to help protect children from MON harm. There are more targets for child protection, a major MON change in the training and professional development of MON social workers and improving the staffing and status of MON police child protection teams. Will these reforms improve MON child protection policy and keep children safe? To discuss MON the way forward Jane is joined by Kim Bromley-Derry, MON Director of Children's Services at Newham Council, east MON London, independent social worker Joanna Nicholas and MON Detective Superintendent Caroline Bates MON Including drama: Restless. MON MON 11:00 The Baronet and Tissington's Fight for Survival MON b00jm0bq (Listen) MON Sir Richard FitzHerbert, who lives in the grade 2 listed MON Tissington Hall in the Peak District National Park, talks MON to other historic house owners who, like himself, are MON struggling to balance the books and keep the estate going. MON At the start of the year, Sir Richard sold furniture, MON paintings and silver to raise funds. He is the 9th baronet MON to hold the title and does not want to be the one who has MON to lose the Hall. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b00899mt (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford. MON Nick gets a job with a dominatrix and Ronnie buys an MON extraordinary number of sinks. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON Mrs Barlow ...... Tracy Wiles MON James ...... John Dougall MON Senora Vallejos ...... Liza Sadovy MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00jm1ny (Listen) MON With Julian Worricker MON Cricketer Marcus Trescothick has been widely regarded as MON one of England's finest batsmen. He played a key role in MON England's 2005 Ashes triumph, but in 2006 he was forced to MON come home early from England's tour to India after MON suffering a severe anxiety attack. He now talks frankly MON about those dark days and how he is coping with the MON condition. MON Will the government's new data collection policy cause MON problems for sailors? Under the e-borders plan, travellers MON overseas will have to give information in advance about MON their itinerary. The Royal Yachting Association says the MON e-borders plan is not practical for their members. MON Should wine producers be required to list all substances MON used in production on the label? The Food Standards Agency MON is calling for all wine ingredients to be stated on MON bottles but wine producers claim that this will be costly MON and is not necessary. MON Poet Ian McMillan celebrates the rise of the village hall MON as a cultural venue. Actors and writers can be found in MON the heart of the countryside, performing in village halls MON up and down the UK, he asserts. MON The Office for National Statistics has included rose wine MON in the basket of items it uses to measure the inflation MON rate. Meanwhile, research suggests that the number of MON people regularly drinking rose wine has increased from 37 MON per cent in 2005 to 61 per cent now. Julian and guests MON discuss rose wine's growing popularity and taste some MON examples. MON Why are there so few Michelin starred restaurants in city MON centres outside London? Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds MON hold their own when it comes to sport, music and popular MON culture, but when it comes to fine dining, none of them MON has a Michelin star to its name. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00jm2nk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00jm2nm (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00jm2np (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 6 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the sixth heat of the music quiz, MON with contestants from Hampshire and East Sussex. The MON competitors are Brian Haines from London, Dr Alastair MON Smith from Lymington and Nicholas Tucker from Lewes. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00jlyz1 (Listen) MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jm2nr (Listen) MON Shakespeare a la Carte MON Actors from the theatre company Hydrocracker, masquerading MON as waiters in a pizza restaurant, take over a live MON Shakespeare performance when they hear that the real MON actors from the RSC and National Theatre have been delayed MON in traffic. MON Peter Quince ...... Richard Hahlo MON Nick Bottom ...... Jonathan Cullen MON Frances Flute ...... Fiona Dunn MON Hermione ...... Sian Webber MON Crispin ...... Richard Attlee MON Devised by Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo, based on an MON original idea by Pippa Smith MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00jkv2j (Listen) MON Carl Sagan - A Personal Voyage MON Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to MON his science hero, the American astronomer Carl Sagan, the MON man who many people describe as the greatest populariser MON of science of all time. His landmark television series MON Cosmos was seen by more than 600 million people worldwide MON and inspired a generation of young scientists to regard MON the universe with wonder and awe. MON MON 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2wg (Listen) MON Beau and Byron - The Romantic Rebellion MON Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and MON male peacockery through the ages. MON Lord Byron, unwitting author of Romantic dress, famously MON sat for a portrait in the costume of an Albanian nobleman. MON Laurence robes up similarly to commune with the poet. MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00jlxjr (Listen) MON Larchfield Community MON Spring is a time of great activity at the Larchfield MON Community village. Food is at the heart of community life MON - Larchfield is a biodynamic livestock farm, with on site MON butchery, bakery and gardens. But Larchfield is also home MON to a community where adults with special needs, and those MON without, live in family groups and work on the land to MON produce the food that helps sustain not only Larchfield MON but the wider community of Middlesbrough and North MON Yorkshire beyond. MON Sheila Dillon visits the community while lambing is MON underway and school visits are in full swing to celebrate MON the return of Spring, and joins in the preparations for MON their Easter celebrations. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00jm32g (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON Clare English explores some of the ways in which MON technology is being used to tackle crime. MON MON 17:00 PM b00jm32j (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jm32l (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00jm32n (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 4 MON David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are MON encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items MON of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. MON With Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Jack Dee and Will Self. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00jm32q (Listen) MON Lilian gets the feeling that she's not alone. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00jm364 (Listen) MON To mark his 70th birthday, poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus MON Heaney discusses his inspirations with Mark Lawson and MON reflects on how a stroke in 2006 affected his work. MON Heaney, whose first collection of poetry appeared in 1966, MON was born in Country Derry in Northern Ireland. He has MON twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year: for The Spirit MON Level in 1996 and Beowulf in 1999. Mark Lawson has MON interviewed Seamus Heaney in front of a live audience at MON Wyndhams Theatre in London's West End for the publication MON of Stepping Stones, a new book of interviews conducted MON with the poet by Dennis O'Driscoll, and again when he was MON awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. In this MON special edition of Front Row, featuring highlights from MON both interviews, Heaney discusses the inspiration for his MON poetry, reflects on the influence of The Troubles on his MON life and work, and how a stroke in 200 MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpn1h (Listen) MON Restless, Episode 6 MON Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. MON Sally's courier mission becomes deadly dangerous, while MON Ruth is sent to interview the enigmatic Romer. MON Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins MON Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar MON Lucas Romer ...... Adrian Lukis MON Morris ...... Philip Fox MON Raul ...... Sam Dale MON Mexican ...... Stephen Hogan MON Porter ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Man ...... Benjamin Askew MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 20:00 Inside The Child Prisons b00jm3cj (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Winifred Robinson follows the fortunes of some of the MON 300-plus violent and damaged youngsters in Britain who are MON detained in secure children's homes to prevent them MON harming themselves or others. MON She follows interventions ranging from anger management MON courses to drug and alcohol counselling. The children are MON aged between 10 and 16 and most have been placed in the MON units following sentencing by the courts because they are MON too young to be placed in young offenders institutes. With MON intensive staffing ratios and heavy security, the cost of MON each place is high, but if it works the benefits to MON society can be significant. MON At one secure unit, on the outskirts of Bristol, Winifred MON follows 15-year-old Mitchell, who is admitted after trying MON to hang himself in a young offenders institute. He was MON sentenced following a vicious robbery which left a younger MON boy hospitalised. Mitchell blames cannabis and the wrong MON friends for the attack, and while locked up he works hard MON on addressing his behaviour. He plans for a better life on MON his release but his old friends are waiting for him back MON home, and both his parents and staff at the secure unit MON worry about what will happen. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00jjjps (Listen) MON Kosovo MON Michael Montgomery reports on alleged atrocities in Kosovo MON which have remained hidden for 10 years. To mark the 10th MON anniversary of the war in Kosovo, and using documents and MON interviews he has gathered over more than five years, MON Michael reveals detailed evidence of another side to the MON conflict which the world was not meant to see. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00jm3l3 (Listen) MON A Burning Solution MON Sales of wood burning stoves have rocketed over recent MON months. So much so that producers have struggled to meet MON demands. But could the latest 'must have' accessory for MON the style-concious householder be part of the solution in MON meeting our renewables targets? MON Burning woodchip - or biomass - can provide both heat and MON electricity. It is environmentally friendly since the MON carbon has already been captured by the tree as it has MON grown and it is a renewable resource, so has wood's time MON come? MON In this week's Costing The Earth we look at the range of MON biomass heating schemes in the UK – from small-scale MON wood-burning stoves that can effectively heat a home, to MON huge projects that are on the horizon: a massive biomass MON power station is planned at Port Talbot in South Wales. On MON the way we meet a bona fide environmental maverick in MON Barnsley where government renewable targets have been MON reached decades in advance. MON We find out what the government is doing, if it really is MON green, and whether vast swathes of woodland would be MON chopped down to make an impact on our renewables target. MON And with the Port Talbot plant set to import a lot of the MON biomass from Canada, how sustainable is that project? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00jlzxd (Listen) MON Michael Portillo examines what drives people to violence MON and whether any one of us has the potential to become MON violent. If society tells us violence is good or MON justified, how does that change us? MON According to John Gray, society is not progressing. MON Although we may be progressing in the arenas of science MON and knowledge, Gray believes that we cannot use the same MON model for our progress in ethics, politics and the arts. MON He thinks that these are essentially cyclical, and our MON progressions can easily be lost. MON Author Amanda Craig thinks that we need to return to the MON values of the Victorian novel which gave an insight into MON contemporary social issues. She thinks that authors are MON now timid of writing works with a large cast driven by a MON strong plot. MON Chaucer's Canterbury Tales incorporated the medieval MON styles of bawdy anecdote, allegorical fable and courtly MON romance. Peter Ackroyd has translated these tales of MON universal human themes into the language of modern day MON prose. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00jm3l5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00jm3l7 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jm3l9 (Listen) MON Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 1 MON Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about MON life as a single mother in America during the Great MON Depression. MON Mary is certain that anybody can do anything, especially MON her sister Betty, who leaves her husband and his chicken MON ranch and returns to the bosom of her warm and noisy MON family in Seattle. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00jhvk8 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen examines spelling. With a revival of MON interest in spelling bees, the ability to spell 'properly' MON is again becoming synonymous with having a good education. MON But do spelling reformers have a point when they say that MON irregular spelling is responsible for anything from MON teenage pregnancy to the high prison population? MON Michael also considers the politics of spelling and why MON computer spell-checkers do not seem to help people with MON dyslexia. MON MON 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076r0l (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a MON black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and MON ambition of 1980s Britain. MON Farmer Dorothy squeezes every last pound from her MON livestock. MON Michael ...... Robert Bathurst MON Fiona ...... Fiona Allen MON Dorothy ...... Geraldine McNulty MON Findlay/Mortimer ...... Charlie Higson MON George Brunwin/Electrician ...... Gus Brown MON Henry/Farmer ...... Jeff Rawle MON A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 APRIL 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00jm3m4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00jlzzd (Listen) TUE The Music Room, Episode 1 TUE Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical TUE childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his TUE severely epileptic older brother. TUE The five-year-old William is preoccupied with fishing for TUE pike in the castle's moat. Richard's seizures become TUE increasingly worse, and a severe form of epilepsy is TUE diagnosed. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jm56k (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jm56m (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jm56p (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00jm56r (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jm56t (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Gordon Gray. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00jm56w (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00jm56y (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 On the Ropes b00jm66c (Listen) TUE Colin Freeman TUE John Humphrys talks to successful people who have TUE weathered storms in their careers. TUE Colin Freeman, chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday TUE Telegraph, was kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for TUE 40 days in remote caves in the north of the country. It is TUE no longer as rare as it once was to hear of journalists TUE being kidnapped, but Colin's story shows how distorted and TUE unpredictable the rules of engagement for foreign TUE correspondents have become. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b00jm66f (Listen) TUE Clement Attlee TUE BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson explores how Britain's TUE prime ministers have used their power, responded to the TUE challenges of their time and made the job what it is today. TUE Clement Attlee's lack of charisma did not prevent him TUE transforming post war Britain. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00jtxx7 (Listen) TUE The Music Room, Episode 2 TUE Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical TUE childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his TUE severely epileptic older brother. TUE Eight-year-old William makes a playground of the castle's TUE attic spaces and is intrigued by a secret door. Richard TUE experiences dark mood swings, but also finds a new TUE pleasure when he takes up pipe smoking. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jppxm (Listen) TUE With Jane Little. TUE As hundreds of millions of voters are expected to cast TUE their ballots in India's general elections, Jane asks what TUE are the important issues for women voters, and are they a TUE target group for campaigners? Urvashi Butalia, founder of TUE the first women's press in India and journalist Sonia TUE Faleiro join in a discussion of the part gender plays in TUE the voting habits of the world's biggest democracy. TUE Jane is joined by GQ features director Alex Bilmes and TUE columnist Jane Moir to consider why women can't be nice to TUE each other any more. In an article in Vogue, Alex claims TUE in the last ten years he has seen a marked increase in TUE women griping about girlfriends, swiping at celebrities TUE and being catty about colleagues. So how fair is this TUE claim and are men really any different? TUE To coincide with the BBC's new learning campaign calling TUE on the nation to 'Dig In' by rolling up its sleeves, TUE picking up a trowel and starting to plant, Alys Fowler of TUE Radio 4's Gardeners' World talks about planting tomatoes. TUE Whether you have a garden, an allotment, a window box or TUE simply a yoghurt pot, you can get digging, with the help TUE of a free seed starter pack and a sprinkling of advice. TUE And singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie performs in the TUE studio. Her music incorporates blues, jazz, vaudeville and TUE 'gypsy-swing' to create a kaleidoscopic and distinctive TUE sound. TUE Plus drama: Restless. TUE TUE 11:00 Hitting the Buffers b00c55vy (Listen) TUE The Human Body TUE Gareth Mitchell looks at our need for speed in different TUE areas of modern life and asks what is stopping us from TUE getting faster. TUE Gareth is put through his paces at the Human Performance TUE Laboratory at Bath University to find out whether his body TUE is built for speed. He also talks to sports scientists TUE like Professor Bob Girandola from the University of TUE Southern California, who thinks we've reached the pinnacle TUE of natural human achievement - and any further improvement TUE in speed will depend on tinkering with our genes or taking TUE performance enhancing drugs. TUE TUE 11:30 Spoon, Jar, Jar, Spoon: The Two Sides of Tommy TUE Cooper b00jm66h (Listen) TUE Rob Brydon explores two sides to comedian Tommy Cooper - TUE his humour and his love of magic. On stage, Cooper assumed TUE a manic and bumbling persona, but behind this was a man TUE with a genuine talent for magic, as revealed by TUE contributions from magicans Paul Daniels, Alan Alan and TUE the late Ali Bongo. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00jm1pj (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00jmqq6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00jmqq8 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Music Group b00jmqqb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks each of TUE three guests to play the track of their choice for the TUE delight or disdain of the others. TUE His guests include musician and composer Nitin Sawhney; TUE actress, comedienne and Radio 2 DJ Liza Tarbuck; and TUE children's author Terry Deary, creator of the the Horrible TUE Histories series of books. TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00jm32q (Listen) TUE Lilian gets the feeling that she's not alone. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b008gzlm (Listen) TUE Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke, Beginnings TUE Series by Nick Warburton imagining the story of Jesus TUE through the eyes of those who witnessed it. TUE While the disciples are paralysed by Jesus' death, Mary TUE ponders the mystery of his birth. TUE Jesus ...... Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Peter ...... Peter Firth TUE Mary ...... Penelope Wilton TUE Magdalene ...... Lorraine Ashbourne TUE Angel ...... Julian Bleach TUE Simeon ...... David De Keyser TUE Joanna ...... Rachel Atkins TUE Joseph of Arimathea ...... Ben Onwukwe TUE Young Mary ...... Laura Molyneux TUE Cleopas ...... Sam Pamphilon TUE Directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00jmqsc (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring TUE ordinary people's links with the past. TUE Listener Bridget Long sets out to confirm a family story - TUE that her late father played oboe in the premiere of a TUE piece of work by Benjamin Britten while being held in a TUE German POW camp. TUE Archaeologists at the University of Liverpool reveal how TUE they know what Britons ate before the introduction of TUE farming. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00826ct (Listen) TUE Alan Howard Reads, The Tipping Point TUE The popular veteran actor reads specially commissioned TUE short stories. TUE A car journey and a CD of Schubert Lieder offer an English TUE academic the opportunity to reflect on the painful TUE conclusion to a love affair with a German environmentalist. TUE By Helen Simpson. TUE TUE 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2x9 (Listen) TUE The Tartan Titan and the Highland Fashion Cult TUE Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and TUE male peacockery through the ages. TUE The Tartan Titan and the Highland Fashion Cult. By the TUE 19th century, Romanticism and nationalism in Scotland were TUE in full flow. With the royal endorsement of King George TUE IV, the kilt and tartan - a fabric once banned for its TUE associations with the Jacobite cause - had gained cult TUE status. TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00jmv1l (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of TUE words, language and the way we speak. TUE Everyone accepts that it is important for parents to read TUE to their children, but, thanks partly to school literacy TUE targets, many children actually spend more time reading to TUE their parents. Furthermore, some parents suffer from TUE 'performance anxiety' over their inability to 'do the TUE voices' in stories, so, in these cases, what can be done TUE to help keep storytelling alive? TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00jmv1n (Listen) TUE Series 18, Roy Jenkins TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Polly Toynbee, David Steel and Dick Taverne argue that Roy TUE Jenkins, former home secretary, chancellor, president of TUE the European Commission and founder member of the SDP, was TUE one of the greatest politicians of the post-Second World TUE War era. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00jmv1q (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jmv1s (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Heresy b00jmv1v (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Panellists are Rev Richard Coles, TUE journalist Matthew Norman and comedian Mark Steel. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00jmv1x (Listen) TUE Alan's endurance is put to the test. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00jmv1z (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reviews the film In the TUE Loop, a political satire directed by Armando Iannucci and TUE starring James Gandolfini and Peter Capaldi. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jppxp (Listen) TUE Restless, Episode 7 TUE Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. TUE When Morris is found dead, Sally realises that she has TUE been betrayed and now must disappear forever. TUE Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins TUE Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar TUE Lucas Romer ...... Adrian Lukis TUE Jochen ...... Gene Goodman TUE Ludger ...... Matt Addis TUE Morris ...... Philip Fox TUE DC Frobisher ...... Benjamin Askew TUE Ilse ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 20:00 Blair's Faith Foundation b00jmv21 (Listen) TUE Christopher Landau, who has followed the setting up of TUE Tony Blair's Faith Foundation to promote religious TUE dialogue and understanding, asks whether it can succeed in TUE promoting religion as a force for progress. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00jmv23 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00jmv25 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter reports on food intolerance. Many people TUE think they have an intolerance or an allergy to certain TUE foods. Mark discovers the difference between these TUE conditions and asks what happens when we go to a clinic to TUE be investigated. TUE TUE 21:30 On the Ropes b00jm66c (Listen) TUE Colin Freeman TUE John Humphrys talks to successful people who have TUE weathered storms in their careers. TUE Colin Freeman, chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday TUE Telegraph, was kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for TUE 40 days in remote caves in the north of the country. It is TUE no longer as rare as it once was to hear of journalists TUE being kidnapped, but Colin's story shows how distorted and TUE unpredictable the rules of engagement for foreign TUE correspondents have become. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00jmv49 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00jmv4c (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Jane TUE Hill. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jqp6n (Listen) TUE Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 2 TUE Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about TUE life as a single mother in America during the Great TUE Depression. TUE Mary gets Betty a job as a shorthand typist, but she does TUE not know shorthand and cannot type. TUE TUE 23:00 The Secret World b00jn4n1 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Comedy series that offers an insight into the private TUE lives of the famous. Comedy with Jon Culshaw, Sarah TUE Hadland, Lewis Macleod, Jess Robinson and Duncan Wisbey. TUE TUE 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076r3x (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a TUE black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and TUE ambition of 1980s Britain. TUE Biographer Michael Pearce turns his attention to Thomas TUE Winshaw, financier and lifelong voyeur. TUE Michael ...... Robert Bathurst TUE Fiona ...... Fiona Allen TUE Findlay...... Charlie Higson TUE Thomas Winshaw ...... Geoffrey Palmer TUE James Gilroy ...... Gus Brown TUE Hortensia ...... Flaminia Cinque TUE Michael's Mum ...... Geraldine McNulty TUE Alice ...... Lucy Punch TUE Henry/Hanrahan ...... Jeff Rawle TUE Sid James ...... Arthur Smith TUE A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00jn0p5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00jlzzd (Listen) WED The Music Room, Episode 1 WED Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical WED childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his WED severely epileptic older brother. WED The five-year-old William is preoccupied with fishing for WED pike in the castle's moat. Richard's seizures become WED increasingly worse, and a severe form of epilepsy is WED diagnosed. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jn0p7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jn0p9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jn0pc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00jn0pf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jn0ph (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Gordon Gray. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00jn0pk (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00jn0pm (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00jn0pt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00jtxx1 (Listen) WED The Music Room, Episode 3 WED Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical WED childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his WED severely epileptic older brother. WED Richard is captivated by a heron, but is also gripped by a WED furious black mood. Nine-year-old William and his friends WED play with antique swords and cannonballs. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpq4g (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Restless. WED WED 11:00 Wrecked b00jn0pw (Listen) WED Neil McCarthy explores the history of the illicit WED activities of the Wirral peninsula's wreckers, who WED ransacked Liverpool-bound vessels with notorious ferocity. WED After the end of the wrecking era, huge crowds came to the WED Victorian seaside resort of New Brighton, but they too WED have now gone. Neil tries to discover whether the wild WED spirit of the wreckers lives on in the area today. WED WED 11:30 Safety Catch b00jn0py (Listen) WED Series 2, If A Job's Not Worth Doing WED Sitcom by Laurence Howarth about a man who has reluctantly WED drifted into the arms dealing trade. WED Simon suffers from the awful realisation that he loves his WED job and also finds himself proposing to Anna. There is WED only one thing he can do - he has to learn to hate again. WED Simon McGrath ...... Darren Boyd WED Anna Grieg ...... Joanna Page WED Boris Kemal ...... Lewis Macleod WED Judith McGrath ...... Sarah Smart WED Angela McGrath ...... Brigit Forsyth WED Madeleine Turnbull ...... Rachel Atkins WED Richard ...... Dan Mersh WED Julius ...... Nyahsa Hatendi. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00jm1pq (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00jn0q0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00jn0q2 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00jn0q4 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00jmv1x (Listen) WED Alan's endurance is put to the test. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jn0q6 (Listen) WED Listening to the Generals WED By Adam Ganz. The story of how German Jews who had fled WED the Nazis were tasked with secretly recording and WED transcribing the conversations between German generals WED imprisoned in a north London mansion during the Second WED World War. WED Helen ...... Rebecca Saire WED Purfleet ...... Malcolm Tierney WED Anton ...... Matt Addis WED Charles ...... Benjamin Askew WED Von Thoma ...... Nick Dunning WED Cruwell (Crewvell) ...... Sam Dale WED Boes (Burrs) ...... Paul Rider WED Mayer (Maier) ...... Jonathan Tafler WED Hardt ...... Philip Fox WED The Singer ...... David Revels WED The Pianist ...... Michael Harrison WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00jn4f6 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on retirement planning. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0081ck7 (Listen) WED Alan Howard Reads, On Dover Beach WED The popular veteran actor reads specially commissioned WED short stories. WED Matthew Arnold engages in animated internal debate with WED himself about his poem On Dover Beach and its place in WED history. WED By Tom Stoppard. WED WED 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2xr (Listen) WED Men in Black - The Funereal Victorians (and Oscar of WED course) WED Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and WED male peacockery through the ages. WED Why did Victorian men dress as if attending a funeral? Men WED in black embodied power and serious purpose yet also WED democratised fashion forever. WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00jn4f8 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00jmv25 (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter reports on food intolerance. Many people WED think they have an intolerance or an allergy to certain WED foods. Mark discovers the difference between these WED conditions and asks what happens when we go to a clinic to WED be investigated. WED WED 17:00 PM b00jn4fb (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jn4fd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00jn4fg (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Comedian Mark Steel visits towns across the UK and creates WED a stand-up show for a local audience based on what he WED finds out about the area. WED Mark records a show in Merthyr Tydfil, celebrating the WED town and its people. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00jn4fj (Listen) WED The wheels are in motion at Grange Farm. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00jn4fl (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an WED interview with Martin Gore, who reflects on three decades WED with the band Depeche Mode. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpq4j (Listen) WED Restless, Episode 8 WED Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. WED Ruth makes a fool of herself and Sally returns to wartime WED London, where she must find a completely new identity. WED Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins WED Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar WED Hamid ...... Akbar Kurtha WED Alfie ...... Matt Addis WED Fireman ...... Benjamin Askew WED Comeau ...... Sam Dale WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b00jn4fn (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with WED families, experts and policy-makers. WED Mariella and her guests ask what parents can do to help WED children with mental health problems and what constitutes WED a 'normal' level of unhappiness in childhood and WED adolescence. She hears from a mother who fears her unhappy WED 11-year-old-son will go off the rails in adolescence and a WED mother and daughter on the drawbacks and benefits of WED having a mental health diagnosis. WED With guests the family therapist Jan Parker, Richard WED Reeves of the thinktank Demos and Roger Catchpole of WED YoungMinds. WED WED 20:45 A Wonderful Way to Make a Living b00ctl6r (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED US satirist Joe Queenan meets people with unusual WED occupations. He meets an emergency shirt delivery man, WED whose clients include office workers with hangovers, and WED Miles Warde meets a naked yoga instructress. WED WED 21:00 Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature b00jn4m2 (Listen) WED Sean Street tells the story of Ludwig Koch, a German WED refugee from the Nazis who pioneered nature broadcasting WED in Britain. He became the first person to harness new WED technologies to record the sounds of birds, mammals and WED insects and went on to be a household name in Britain WED after the Second World War through his work for BBC radio. WED Featuring Koch's recordings and contributions from those WED who worked with him, and an attempt to record curlews as WED he did with such success. Today, sound recordists use tiny WED digital machines and sophisticated microphones, but they WED also encounter modern-day problems: traffic, planes and WED people as well as fewer, shyer, curlews. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00jn0pt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00jn4nt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00jn4nw (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jqp75 (Listen) WED Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 3 WED Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about WED life as a single mother in America during the Great WED Depression. WED Mary sets up a string of disastrous dates for Betty. WED WED 23:00 My Teenage Diary b00jn5s2 (Listen) WED Shappi Khorsandi WED Rufus Hound invites comedians to revisit their formative WED years by dusting off their teenage diaries and reading WED them out in public for the very first time. Will they WED experience the warm glow of nostalgia or the hot flush of WED embarrassment? WED With Shappi Khorsandi. WED WED 23:15 Bespoken Word b00ctl74 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 WED Mister Gee presents the performance poetry series from WED this year's Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Featured WED performers include exciting newcomer Dockers MC. WED WED 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076r78 (Listen) WED Episode 7 WED Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a WED black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and WED ambition of 1980s Britain. WED The spotlight falls on arms dealer Mark Winshaw. WED Michael ...... Robert Bathurst WED Fiona ...... Fiona Allen WED Mark Winshaw ...... Alan Davies WED Pemberton-Oates ...... Gus Brown WED Joan/Fiona's Nurse ...... Flaminia Cinque WED Hilary Winshaw ...... Rebecca Front WED Michael's Mum/Doctor Gillam ...... Geraldine McNulty WED Thomas Winshaw ...... Geoffrey Palmer WED Henry Winshaw/German Industrialist ...... Jeff Rawle WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00jn83y (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00jtxx1 (Listen) THU The Music Room, Episode 3 THU Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical THU childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his THU severely epileptic older brother. THU Richard is captivated by a heron, but is also gripped by a THU furious black mood. Nine-year-old William and his friends THU play with antique swords and cannonballs. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jn840 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jn842 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jn844 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00jn846 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jn848 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Gordon Gray. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00jn84b (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00jn84d (Listen) THU With Edward Stourton and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00jjgg8 (Listen) THU Suffragism THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Krista Cowman, June Purvis and THU Julia Bush discuss suffragism, the movement for women's THU voting rights. Who championed it, who opposed it and how THU was universal female suffrage really achieved? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00jtxx3 (Listen) THU The Music Room, Episode 4 THU Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical THU childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his THU severely epileptic older brother. THU Richard's behaviour becomes increasingly problematic, but THU his interest in Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales gives THU him and his family an unexpected moment of pleasure. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpq8f (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Restless. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00jn8h1 (Listen) THU Croatia THU Matt Prodger examines the effects of organised crime and THU corruption in Croatia, as the country stands on the brink THU of EU membership. The execution-style assassination of a THU young woman, a car bomb explosion killing the country's THU most famous newspaper editor and journalists and THU businessmen being beaten in the streets are just some of THU the events that have rocked Croatia in recent months. THU THU 11:30 The Broken Melody b00jn8h3 (Listen) THU Musician George Kennaway recalls the life of the THU 19th-century cellist Auguste van Biene, who was discovered THU while busking on the streets of London and went on to play THU the lead in over 6,000 performances of just one play, The THU Broken Melody. THU George, himself a cellist and who carries something of an THU obsession for this forgotten phenomenon, goes in search of THU his lost hero. It involves a family reunion at Golders THU Green Sephardic Cemetery, a once-in-a-century run through THU of this Victorian melodrama by a group of long-suffering THU friends, and some very dusty archives which reveal a THU self-publicist who would fit rather well into 21st century THU showbusiness. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00jm1pv (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00jn8h5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00jn8h7 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00jm3l3 (Listen) THU A Burning Solution THU Sales of wood burning stoves have rocketed over recent THU months. So much so that producers have struggled to meet THU demands. But could the latest 'must have' accessory for THU the style-concious householder be part of the solution in THU meeting our renewables targets? THU Burning woodchip - or biomass - can provide both heat and THU electricity. It is environmentally friendly since the THU carbon has already been captured by the tree as it has THU grown and it is a renewable resource, so has wood's time THU come? THU In this week's Costing The Earth we look at the range of THU biomass heating schemes in the UK – from small-scale THU wood-burning stoves that can effectively heat a home, to THU huge projects that are on the horizon: a massive biomass THU power station is planned at Port Talbot in South Wales. On THU the way we meet a bona fide environmental maverick in THU Barnsley where government renewable targets have been THU reached decades in advance. THU We find out what the government is doing, if it really is THU green, and whether vast swathes of woodland would be THU chopped down to make an impact on our renewables target. THU And with the Port Talbot plant set to import a lot of the THU biomass from Canada, how sustainable is that project? THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00jn4fj (Listen) THU The wheels are in motion at Grange Farm. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jngcx (Listen) THU Dolly THU By Christopher Douglas, based on the real events THU surrounding the selection of Basil D'Oliveira for the THU England cricket team in the 1960s. THU Having emigrated to England and been called up to the THU national team, D'Oliveira's one unfulfilled ambition is to THU be selected to tour against his native South Africa. But THU the administrators of both South African and English THU cricket have other ideas. THU Basil 'Baz' D'Oliveira ...... Jude Akuwudike THU Naomi D'Oliveira ...... Rakie Ayola THU Smithy ...... Justin Salinger THU Reg ...... Tim Woodward THU Anne ...... Rachel Atkins THU Bishop of Adelaide ...... Lewis McLeod THU Tiene Oosterhuizen ...... Saul Reichlin THU Peter West ...... Christopher Douglas THU Damian D'Oliveira ...... Job Angus THU Shaun D'Oliveira ...... Haydon Downing THU Directed by Roland Jaquarello. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00jkhk4 (Listen) THU Living sustainably outside of cities and finding housing THU without building village suburbs are big problems for THU those wishing to live in rural landscapes. To buy the THU cheapest properties in counties such as Herefordshire you THU would have to borrow 9 or 10 times the average wage and THU the knock on effect is a far less diverse population. THU In these troubled financial times Canon Frome Court hopes THU to offer a solution first made popular in the 70’s. It’s THU an organic rural farm community set up in a former school THU and Georgian Mansion which today houses 45 people young THU and old. This is the first time that the community have THU opened their doors to the media but as Helen Mark THU discovers when she meets the members there are few closed THU doors once inside. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00jlwnz (Listen) THU St John's Catholic School for the Deaf THU Gabby Logan appeals on behalf of St John's Catholic School THU for the Deaf. Donations to this appeal should be sent to THU Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal; please mark the back of your THU envelope St John's School. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 THU 404 8144. Or give via the website. THU The school will use your money to buy amplification THU equipment and musical instruments for pupils. If you are a THU UK taxpayer, please provide St John's School with your THU full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on THU your donation worth another 25 per cent. The online and THU phone donation facilities are not currently available to THU listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 529319. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00826cs (Listen) THU Alan Howard Reads, Marriage Lines THU The popular veteran actor reads specially commissioned THU short stories. THU A return visit to the island of Barra brings back memories THU of decades past, holidays and young love. THU By Julian Barnes. THU THU 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2y6 (Listen) THU Men in Uniform - Nation and Empire Resplendent THU Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and THU male peacockery through the ages. THU Military uniform was not always about camouflage. During THU the 19th century it provided men with some of the most THU vibrant and flattering clothing available. THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00jlxt0 (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup presents a celebration of nature writing THU with guests including Horatio Clare, the author of a new THU book tracing the annual migration of swallows. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00jnhf3 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper samples the delights of the Edinburgh THU International Science Festival. THU THU 17:00 PM b00jnhf5 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jnhf7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 4 Stands Up b00jnhgn (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU Chris Addison hosts the stand-up comedy show featuring THU some of the top names on the circuit. Featuring Gareth THU Richards, Alun Cochrane and Simon Brodkin as Lee Nelson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00jnhkr (Listen) THU It's Helen's party and she'll cry if she wants to. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00jnhkt (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpq8j (Listen) THU Restless, Episode 9 THU Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. THU Ruth finds the remains of a sawn-off shot gun at her THU mother's house. What madness is Sally planning? THU Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins THU Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar THU Jochen ...... Gene Goodman THU Sean ...... Stephen Hogan THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00jnj2x (Listen) THU Simon Cox presents the current affairs series combining THU original insights into major news stories with topical THU investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00jnj2z (Listen) THU Power Drive THU As the world's biggest car companies appeal for government THU bailouts, fearless newcomers are seeking to revolutionise THU the global automobile industry with electric cars. Peter THU Day takes a test drive in a plug-in Chinese newcomer and THU hears from an Israel start-up company that wants to charge THU by the mile. THU THU 21:00 Remembrance of Smells Past b00jnj31 (Listen) THU Ian Peacock discovers why certain smells can transport us THU back to our childhood. Our olfactory perceptions are THU increasingly being recognised by scientists as the THU foundation for many of our decisions and actions, from THU consumer loyalty to weight loss and age perception. THU With a growing realisation that a sense of smell has this THU special ability to arouse particular feelings, researchers THU are being drawn to explore the connections between smell, THU memory and emotion. Ian asks if smells could be bypassing THU the conscious mind and accessing memories on a deeper, THU more mysterious level. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00jjgg8 (Listen) THU Suffragism THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Krista Cowman, June Purvis and THU Julia Bush discuss suffragism, the movement for women's THU voting rights. Who championed it, who opposed it and how THU was universal female suffrage really achieved? THU THU 21:58 Weather b00jnj33 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00jnj35 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jqpfl (Listen) THU Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 4 THU Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about THU life as a single mother in America during the Great THU Depression. THU February 1933 is a terrible time to be out of a job. Even THU Mary has a hard time lining up interviews for Betty. THU THU 23:00 The Personality Test b007tzff (Listen) THU Series 3, Toyah Willcox THU Toyah Willcox chairs the comedy quiz in which all the THU questions are about the guest host. Panellists are Sue THU Perkins, Caroline Quinlan, Robin Ince and Will Smith. THU THU 23:30 What a Carve Up b0076rbl (Listen) THU Episode 8 THU Jonathan Coe's cult novel, adapted by David Nobbs, is a THU black comedy inspired by the immorality, greed and THU ambition of 1980s Britain. THU Things move to a spectacular climax. THU Michael ...... Robert Bathurst THU Fiona ...... Fiona Allen THU Hortensia/Tabitha ...... Flaminia Cinque THU Mark Winshaw ...... Alan Davies THU Hilary Winshaw ...... Rebecca Front THU Mortimer Winshaw ...... Charlie Higson THU Michael's Mum/Dorothy ...... Geraldine McNulty THU Thomas Winshaw ...... Geoffrey Palmer THU Phoebe ...... Lucy Punch THU Henry Winshaw/Pyles ...... Jeff Rawle THU A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00jnkd8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00jlzzd (Listen) FRI The Music Room, Episode 1 FRI Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes' memoir of his magical FRI childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his FRI severely epileptic older brother. FRI The five-year-old William is preoccupied with fishing for FRI pike in the castle's moat. Richard's seizures become FRI increasingly worse, and a severe form of epilepsy is FRI diagnosed. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00jnkdb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00jnkdd (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00jnkdg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00jnkdj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00jnkdl (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Gordon Gray. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00jnkdn (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00jnkdq (Listen) FRI With Edward Stourton and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00jlxjp (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor brings together a group of people who were FRI involved in the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989, FRI which resulted in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans. FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00jtxx5 (Listen) FRI The Music Room, Episode 5 FRI Dan Stevens reads William Fiennes's memoir of his magical FRI childhood in a moated castle in which he grew up with his FRI severely epileptic older brother. FRI William, now 17, prepares to leave home. Richard enjoys FRI holidays with his parents and his days find a more even FRI keel, but sadness looms. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00jpqbh (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Restless. FRI FRI 11:00 What's in Your Head b00jnkdx (Listen) FRI Under pressure, when we are on our own, many of us hear FRI the words or songs we learnt by heart as a child. This FRI programme features people discussing how these songs have FRI helped them in situations of extreme pressure and danger. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 O'Kane and Co b00jnksn (Listen) FRI Improvised comedy featuring Irish comedienne and actress FRI Deirdre O'Kane in conversation with some of her friends FRI about women's subjects. She talks to Jackie Clune and FRI Rowland Rivron about the vagaries of childbirth and FRI hospitals. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00jm1q1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00jnlmj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00jnlml (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00jnlmn (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00jnhkr (Listen) FRI It's Helen's party and she'll cry if she wants to. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jnlmq (Listen) FRI Old School Ties FRI By Sue Eckstein. Stand-up comedian Kit Nichols likes to FRI satirise his boarding school experiences, but his past FRI takes on a different light when he reads the obituary of FRI an old school friend. Feeling guilty at having lost touch, FRI Kit decides to confront the man who he believes is FRI responsible for his friend's unexpected death. FRI Kit Nichols ...... Thomas Arnold FRI Father Dominic ...... Crawford Logan FRI Lucy Nichols ...... Noreen Leighton FRI The Abbott ...... Gareth Thomas FRI William Hennessy ...... Richard Greenwood FRI Ted Thomson/Bursar ...... Paul Young FRI Directed by Bruce Young. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00jnlxd (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI John Cushnie, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness answer FRI questions posed by gardeners in the Peak District. FRI The forensic unit at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, has FRI been key in solving a large number of crimes, including FRI murder. Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs visit and FRI discover the secrets of the Jodrell Laboratory. FRI Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather FRI forecast. FRI A Taylor Made production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2yn (Listen) FRI Sporting Gents - The Prince of Wales Plays Golf FRI Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and FRI male peacockery through the ages. FRI Sportswear has been the single biggest influence on men's FRI fashion since the French Revolution. The Prince of Wales FRI set trends both on and off the golf course, and men have FRI been moving towards increasing informality ever since. FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00jnlxg (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00jnm3f (Listen) FRI To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the French New Wave, FRI Francine Stock talks to British directors including FRI Stephen Frears about the influence of Jean-Luc Godard and FRI Francois Truffaut on their work. Plus, French director FRI Claude Lelouch argues that it was not really a revolution FRI at all. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00jnm3h (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00jnr5p (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00jnr5r (Listen) FRI Series 26, Episode 7 FRI Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, FRI Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura FRI Shavin, Jon Holmes and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00jnr5t (Listen) FRI The past comes back to haunt Annette. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00jnr5w (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00jpqbk (Listen) FRI Restless, Episode 10 FRI Dramatisation of William Boyd's thriller. FRI The final confrontation. FRI Sally/Eve ...... Eileen Atkins FRI Ruth ...... Fenella Woolgar FRI Lucas Romer ...... Adrian Lukis FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00jnr5y (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Ludlow. FRI Panellists include Europe Minister Caroline Flint. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00jnr60 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00jntf4 (Listen) FRI I'm the Boss FRI By Karen Brown. Successful HR manager Diane's life is FRI turned upside down by a sinister online bullying campaign, FRI and when she finally discovers the culprit, her world FRI begins to disintegrate. FRI With Lesley Sharp. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00jntbm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00jntf6 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00jqpj9 (Listen) FRI Anybody Can Do Anything, Episode 5 FRI Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about FRI life as a single mother in America during the Great FRI Depression. FRI Unlike Mary, Betty is hopeless at selling advertising, so FRI she gets work as a photographic tinter, a fur coat FRI model-cum-book-keeper and secretary to a mobster. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00jmv1n (Listen) FRI Series 18, Roy Jenkins FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests chose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Polly Toynbee, David Steel and Dick Taverne argue that Roy FRI Jenkins, former home secretary, chancellor, president of FRI the European Commission and founder member of the SDP, was FRI one of the greatest politicians of the post-Second World FRI War era. FRI FRI 23:30 Beardyman and the Mimics b00d61q9 (Listen) FRI Champion beatboxer Beardyman, aka Darren Foreman, is a FRI master of vocal artistry. He can make all manner of FRI noises, including entire percussive music tracks, using FRI only his mouth, throat and tongue. FRI Inspired by the lyrebird, he ventures on a personal FRI journey to unveil the secrets of animal vocal mimicry. He FRI encounters ornithologist and musician Bill Oddie, birdsong FRI scientific experts and a whole new world of sounds. FRI FRI FRI

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