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SAT SATURDAY 27 MARCH 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00rflcv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00rmpwl (Listen) SAT The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, Episode 5 SAT SAT Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders's account SAT of troubled life of Violet Gibson the daugher of an SAT Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in SAT Rome in 1926. SAT SAT Violet was eventually released by the Italian government. SAT But how would her family determine her fate and future? SAT SAT Abridged by Jill Waters SAT SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rflcx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rflcz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rfld1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00rfld3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rfld5 (Listen) SAT with the Rt Revd Tom Wright Bishop of Durham. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00rfld7 (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. A weekly SAT companion to the nightly PM the expertise of the Radio 4 SAT audience shapes the programme. Presented by Jennifer Tracey SAT and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00rfld9 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00rkkph (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00rkkpk (Listen) SAT Bosworth Field SAT SAT The Battle of Bosworth was the decisive battle of the Wars SAT of the Roses a long and bloody conflict which ended when SAT Richard III became the last king of England to die on the SAT battlefield signalling the end of Plantagenet rule and the SAT birth of the Tudor dynasty. According to 'history' the SAT Battle of Bosworth was thought to have taken place around SAT the site of Ambion Hill near Market Bosworth in SAT Leicestershire. Yet for years controversy has raged over the SAT precise location of the battle and recently the search for SAT the exact location culminated in the discovery of SAT 'extraordinary and unexpected' evidence. So where actually SAT was the Battle of Bosworth and what it it mean for the town SAT and region ?We hear the story of the battle and talks to the SAT people who have spent years investigating the various SAT theories and scouring the countryside around Ambion Hill to SAT pinpoint the exact location of the battle and of Richard's SAT death. She meets actor Robert Hardy Patron of the Richard SAT III Foundation who feels that Richard was the innocent SAT victim of Tudor spin. Robert has published several books on SAT medieval warfare and social & military history and has SAT himself walked the various possible sites of the battle SAT during the course of the investigation. SAT SAT Glenn Foard Project Officer for the Battlefields Trust takes SAT Helen to an unremarkable field on farmland in Leicestershire SAT but one which yielded the most incredible and conclusive SAT evidence yet to pinpoint it as the exact site of the battle. SAT Helen hears from the farmer who owns the field about what it SAT means to him to own this piece of land where the scale of SAT the find is said to transform the significance of Bosworth SAT to a battle of international importance. SAT SAT Helen also joins the people from the Wars of the Roses SAT Federation for a lesson in medieval warfare and hears about SAT their regular battle reenactments. Will they move their SAT battle too? And how will this discovery change the SAT perception of the battle for the people who visit the SAT Bosworth Battlefield Centre on Ambion Hill? SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00rkkwh (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith SNF. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00rkkwk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00rklp6 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00rklp8 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by actor and singer David Essex. The SAT poet is Matt Harvey. SAT SAT Mary Balfour recalls memories set off by the sound of SAT scraping burnt toast. SAT SAT Tiffany Murray had an exciting childhood. She and her mother SAT lived in the Welsh borders and rented their home out to rock SAT bands who rehearsed in the huge hall of their country house SAT - Queen Black Sabbath and Motorhead were among them. SAT SAT Stephen Whyles worked alongside his father at the Whitwell SAT colliery in North Derbyshire when the Miners' strike was SAT called in 1984. Six months into the dispute he crossed the SAT picket line and returned to work. SAT SAT Writer James Ellroy inherits Chanson D'amour by Art and SAT Dotty Todd and passes on Uptown Blues by The Great Jimmie SAT Lunceford Orchestra. SAT SAT Poet performer enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting SAT Matt Harvey performs up and down the country at festivals SAT cabarets conferences and colleges. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00rklpb (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig talks about travel in Tanzania in a programme SAT direct from Dar es Salaam. SAT SAT 10:30 Never Before in the History of Motion Pictures... b00rkm42 (Listen) SAT Patrick Humphries takes an affectionate look at the little SAT known story of movie trailers from their early beginnings as SAT simple slides into the spectacular special effect filled SAT fanfares of today. SAT SAT In a bygone age film was such a novelty what mattered most SAT was not what you were going to see but the simple fact you SAT were going to the cinema. As the movie going public became SAT more selective this fast growing industry realised the huge SAT importance of publicising their wares more effectively and SAT the trailer was born. SAT SAT Patrick talks to those who both currently and formerly have SAT been responsible for bringing us the hyperbole bombast and SAT outlandish headlines we've come to expect from movie SAT advertising. He uncovers the story of Esther Harris who SAT dominated British trailer making from the late 1920s up SAT until the 1980s. We hear from the 'Queen of Trailers' SAT herself in a never before broadcast interview in which this SAT wonderfully eccentric ninety year old explains over a cup of SAT tea how her extraordinary career began and the problems she SAT encountered with censors and occasionally directors SAT including Michael Winner who she recalls told her "you're a SAT bloody nuisance you know but you've got style!" SAT SAT Producer:Katrina Fallon. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00rl205 (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of the Daily Mail presents half an hour of SAT topical political discussion. What does this week's Budget SAT tell us about the battlelines for the general election? And SAT the reputation of Parliament takes another tumble. Editor: SAT Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00rl207 (Listen) SAT Israelis react to the rupture in relations with their SAT closest allies as Tim Franks in Jerusalem has been finding SAT out; Linda Pressly is in the freezing steppe lands of SAT Mongolia where a nomadic way of life has come under threat; SAT Adam Mynott's been at the CITES meeting in Qatar and says SAT it's been a good fortnight for elephants but not so for SAT sharks and tuna; in Brussels Nigel Cassidy has been SAT discovering that the dream of forging a confident and SAT prosperous Europe has taken a battering and Sam Miller asks SAT is it possible that Jesus Christ once wandered the beautiful SAT Vale of Kashmir... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00rl209 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT Producer: Lesley McAlpine. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00rfl5z (Listen) SAT Series 30, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the SAT week's news with help from Jon Holmes Laura Shavin Mitch SAT Benn and a special guest. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00rl20c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00rl20f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00rfl61 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the British SAT Medical Association in London. The panellists are foreign SAT secretary David Miliband shadow health secretary Andrew SAT Lansley the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman Vince SAT Cable and writer and broadcaster Germaine Greer. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00rl20h (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 b00rl20k (Listen) SAT Playing With Trains, Episode 2 SAT SAT Stephen Poliakoff is reunited with leading actor Timothy SAT Spall in a new two-part radio version of his drama Playing SAT With Trains to be broadcast in March. Spall is joined by Zoe SAT Tapper (whose recent TV credits include lead roles in SAT Survivors Desperate Romantics and Affinity) and Geoffrey SAT Streatfeild (who recently starred as Hal in the RSC's SAT History Cycle). Poliakoff and Spall previously collaborated SAT brilliantly on the ground-breaking TV dramas Shooting the SAT Past and Perfect Strangers. SAT SAT The play tells the story of the rise and fall of Bill Galpin SAT (Spall) a flamboyant entrepreneur who pools his fortune into SAT backing risky inventions which are concerned with SAT safeguarding the environment while at the same time having a SAT very tempestuous but poignant relationship with his two SAT children Roxanna and Danny (Tapper and Streatfeild). SAT SAT Beginning in the heady days of the late 1960s Playing With SAT Trains deals with the fact that Britain invents so much yet SAT manufactures so little. Galpin makes a fortune from a SAT brilliant development in gramophone technology and then SAT turns himself into a self-appointed patron and champion of SAT inventors and innovators everywhere clashing with the SAT establishment through the libel courts speeches to captains SAT of industry Civil Service offices and even TV shows. SAT SAT Parallel to his relationship with industry is his even more SAT tempestuous relationship with his children. Roxanna - whom SAT he expects to become a great engineer - drops out of SAT Cambridge and becomes an art student in an attempt to escape SAT her father's grip. Danny meanwhile turns into the very thing SAT his father despises - a financial expert but in so doing SAT recognises the shortcomings of his father's enterprises. SAT SAT Playing With Trains is a moving family drama set over two SAT decades charting a "love affair" between father and SAT daughter. It's Poliakoff at his very best telling an SAT intensely private story within a sweeping public drama. SAT SAT Playing With Trains was originally staged at the RSC in SAT 1989. SAT SAT Bill Galpin Timothy Spall SAT Roxanna Galpin Zoe Tapper SAT Danny Galpin Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Frances Helen Longworth SAT Mick Joseph Kloska SAT Gant Michael Fenton Stevens SAT QC Bruce Alexander SAT Judge Nigel Hastings SAT SAT Producer/DirectorPeter Leslie Wild. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00rdyrb (Listen) SAT Series 9, Bach's Goldberg Variations SAT SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT SAT Bach wrote his Goldberg Variations for harpsichord in the SAT 1740s but today it's performed by pianists all over the SAT world. People describe the place these pieces have in their SAT lives including a neuroscientist from New York painist SAT Angela Hewitt a father driving his family through the night SAT in the Australian Outback and a woman from Oregon whose life SAT was transformed perhaps even saved by this music. SAT SAT Music played SAT Johann Sebastian Bach SAT Goldberg Variations SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00rl2kf (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Men seeking paid-for sex on the SAT street will soon risk being arrested on their first offence SAT due to tough new measures to tackle prostitution. And local SAT communities will have greater powers to challenge the number SAT of lap dancing clubs in their areas. Both pieces of SAT legislation will come into force via the Policing and Crime SAT Act next month. So what impact will the changes have on SAT women sex workers? SAT Peter and Sarah are married. She had an affair he found out SAT but they're still together. So can an affair actually save a SAT relationship? SAT Children conceived with donated sperm or eggs after 2005 SAT have the right to trace their biological parents when they SAT reach 18 - but what if they have never even been told that SAT one parent was in fact a donor ? Woman's Hour debates SAT whether parents should be obligated to disclose a child's origins. SAT With the ever-increasing stresses of modern life from SAT rushing from work tidying away toys cooking dinner before SAT unloading the fourth load of washing many mothers crave some SAT time to themselves - or what's been coined as 'me time'. Is SAT time alone for mothers essential or a luxury? SAT We hear from artist Maggi Hambling - whose latest paintings SAT include a series inspired by the sea and a display in SAT Canterbury Cathedral of some of the images of crucifixes SAT which she paints every year on Good Friday. SAT There is music from Sue Richardson one of the few female SAT singer/trumpet players worldwide. SAT And a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in SAT London celebrates British quilt making from the 1700s to SAT work by artist Tracey Emin. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00rl2kh (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00rfj45 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top executives from SAT Nintendo MTV and Thomson Reuters to find out what challenges SAT they face in the digital age. They also discuss how they SAT manage their star performers. SAT SAT Evan is joined by chief executive of Thomson ReutersTom SAT Glocer general manager of Nintendo UK David Yarnton and SAT David Lynn managing director of MTV Networks UK and Ireland. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00rl2kk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00rl2km (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rl2kp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00rl2kr (Listen) SAT The historian writer and broadcaster Bettany Hughes tries to SAT cram 3000 years of humanity's history into a light SAT conversation with Clive Anderson on this week's Loose Ends. SAT Her eight week TV season of 'Bettany Hughes' Ancient World' SAT is on More 4. She also presents the Radio 4 series on women SAT in the Bible 'Banishing Eve'. SAT SAT Tamara Rojo Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet performs SAT a pas de deux with Clive before joining the Ballet Nacional SAT de Espana for the Spring Dance season at London's Coliseum. SAT SAT Architect George Clarke is Channel 4's Restoration Man as he SAT celebrates our architectural heritage yet re-invents a SAT future for these treasured properties across the country. SAT SAT Member of The Royle Family Ralf Little makes his Loose Ends SAT interviewing debut as he gets down with UK's Queen of Soul SAT (and Celebrity Mastermind winner) Beverley Knight who also SAT performs live in the studio. SAT SAT And there's more music from Sheffield's Indie newcomers The SAT Crookes with comedy from the surrealist troubadour Boothby SAT Graffoe. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00rl2kt (Listen) SAT Philip Pullman SAT SAT Jonathan Maitland profiles the writer Philip Pullman whose SAT latest book 'The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ' SAT has prompted letters damning him to eternal hell - even SAT though it has yet to be published. Pullman is no stranger to SAT controversy: the film of the first book in the trilogy 'His SAT Dark Materials' outraged influential American Catholics who SAT campaigned to get the dramatisation of his next two books SAT shelved. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00rl2kw (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00rl2ky (Listen) SAT Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire SAT SAT The broadcaster and Doctor Who fan MATTHEW SWEET travels to SAT The University of Manchester - home of Delia Derbyshire's SAT private collection of audio recordings - to learn more about SAT the wider career and working methods of the woman who SAT realised Ron Grainer's original theme to Doctor Who. SAT Delia's collection of tapes was until recently in the SAT safekeeping of MARK AYRES archivist for the BBC Radiophonic SAT Workshop. Matthew meets up at Manchester University with SAT Mark along with Delia's former colleagues from the BBC SAT Radiophonic Workshop BRIAN HODGSON and DICK MILLS - plus SAT former 'White Noise' band member DAVID VORHAUS - to hear SAT extracts from the archive discuss their memories of Delia SAT and the creative process behind some of her material. SAT Her realisation of the Doctor Who theme is just one small SAT example of her genius and we'll demonstrate how the music SAT was originally created as well as hearing individual tracks SAT from Delia's aborted 70's version. We'll also feature the SAT make up tapes for her celebrated piece 'Blue Veils and SAT Golden Sands' and hear Delia being interviewed on a SAT previously 'lost' BBC recording from the 1960s. SAT Matthew's journey of discovery will take in work with the SAT influential poet Barry Bermange as well as her 1971 piece SAT marking the centenary of the Institution of Electrical SAT Engineers. SAT This Archive on 4 is brought up to date with an individual SAT track from 'The Dance' from the children's programme 'Noah'. SAT Recorded in the late 1960s this remarkable tape sounds like SAT a contemporary dance track which wouldn't be out of place in SAT today's most 'happening' trance clubs. SAT SAT Producer: Phil Collinge. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00rd4p1 (Listen) SAT Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady, The Flight SAT SAT Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel SAT Richardson. SAT SAT Clarissa has been persuaded to flee with the notorious SAT libertine Lovelace escaping an arranged marriage. In London SAT she begins to learn of the darker side of Lovelace's SAT character as he secures her lodgings in a house of ill SAT repute and begins to use lies trickery and cruel delusions SAT in an attempt to seduce her. SAT SAT Clarissa Harlowe ...... Zoe Waites SAT Robert Lovelace ...... Richard Armitage SAT Anna Howe ...... Cathy Sara SAT Mrs Sinclair ...... Miriam Margolyes SAT Dorcas ...... Lisa Hammond SAT Sally ...... Sophie Thompson SAT Belford ...... Adrian Scarborough SAT Tourville ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Captain Tomlinson ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT SAT A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00rl2l0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4 SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00rfhjs (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind SAT the week's news. Claire Fox Michael Portillo Clifford SAT Longley and Kenan Malik cross-examine witnesses. SAT SAT On the Moral Maze this week SAT SAT It's a long time since the striking heyday of the 1970 and SAT early 80's but with the BA strike and threats of industrial SAT action on the railways and London Underground it's been SAT dubbed the Spring of Discontent. Whatever the rights and SAT wrongs on both sides of these disputes its clear that it's SAT the travelling public who have nothing to do with the SAT industrial action will also have to pay the price. When SAT does the collateral damage of a strike become unacceptable SAT and where should we draw the line between the collective SAT private interest of unions or employers and the wider public SAT interest? If we curtail the right to strike are we SAT protecting the narrow interests of consumers by curtailing a SAT fundamental right in democratic society? SAT SAT 22:55 Budget Statement by the Scottish National Party b00rs848 (Listen) SAT The Scottish National Party make a statement on the budget. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00rdwrf (Listen) SAT Series 24, Episode 1 SAT SAT Three contestants join Paul Gambaccini for the opening heat SAT in the 2010 series of the wide-ranging music quiz. SAT SAT Broadcast from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00rd4p5 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces poems from 'across the pond'. SAT There's a bus ride in Nova Scotia and a few trips to the SAT cinema with works by Elizabeth Bishop Frank O'Hara and Billy SAT Collins. For good measure there's also a Swedish poem about SAT growing up and a very English poem with a host of bluebells. SAT The readers are Jennifer Jellicorse and Kerry Shale. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT The Beekeeper SAT by Jack Matthews SAT From: The New York Times Book of Verse SAT Pub: Collier MacMillan SAT SAT Some Days SAT by Billy Collins SAT From: Picnic Lightning SAT Pub: University of Pittsburgh Press SAT SAT Ave Maria SAT by Frank O’Hara SAT From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry SAT Pub: WW Norton and Company SAT SAT Untitled (What did I experience that evening?) SAT by Par Lagervist SAT Translated by Leif Sjoberg and WH Auden SAT From: Evening Land (Aftonland) SAT Pub: Souvenir Press SAT SAT To Stammering SAT by Kenneth Koch SAT From: New Addresses SAT Pub: Knopf SAT SAT The Lace Maker SAT by Barbara Howes SAT From: The New York Times Book of Verse SAT Pub: Collier Macmillan SAT SAT Lana Turner Has Collapsed SAT by Frank O’Hara SAT From: The Faber Book of Movies SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT The Moose SAT by Elizabeth Bishop SAT From: Elizabeth Bishop – Complete Poems SAT Pub: Chatto & Windus SAT SAT Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg SAT by Richard Hugo SAT From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry SAT Pub: WW Norton and Company SAT SAT Stage Directions for Bluebells SAT by Diana Hendry SAT From: Strange Goings On SAT Pub: Viking SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 MARCH 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00rl2pw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00rfhjv (Listen) SUN Rev Prof Alister McGrath SUN SUN Series of six talks by eminent thinkers exploring how faith SUN and religion interact with a variety of aspects in society. SUN SUN Rev Prof Alister McGrath reflects on the continuously SUN developing relationship between the natural sciences faith SUN and religion. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rl2py (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 02:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rl2qv (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rl2yv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00rl3hl (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00rl48f (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from Sheffield Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00rl2kt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00rl48h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00rl48k (Listen) SUN The Beauty of Birds SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the spiritual inspiration poets and SUN musicians have found in birds and goes bird watching with SUN nature writer Richard Mabey. SUN SUN Interview: Richard Mabey SUN SUN Author of: SUN SUN Birds Britannica SUN by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey SUN Chatto & Windus 2005. SUN ISBN-10: 0701169079 SUN SUN Nature Cure SUN Chatto & Windus 2005. SUN ISBN-10: 0701176016 SUN SUN Music SUN SUN Oh that I on wings could rise (from “Theodora”) by Handel SUN performed by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson/Nicholas SUN McGegan/Philarmonia Baroque Orchestra from Handel Arias SUN Harmonia Mundi B001HMKDPM. SUN SUN Of All the Birds that I do Know by Alfred Deller et al from SUN Alfred Deller: Portrait of a Legend Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 SUN 261/264. SUN SUN Bye Bye Blackbird by Miles Davis from Round About Midnight SUN Sony B00005B58W. SUN SUN The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams performed by Tamsin SUN Little/BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis from SUN Vaughan Williams: The Symphonies The British Line SUN B000000SEB. SUN SUN His Eye is on the Sparrow by Mahalia Jackson from The SUN Essential Mahalia Jackson Sony B0001FGBB6. SUN SUN Cant Del Ocells/Song of the Birds Pablo Casals performed by SUN the Pades Festival Orchestra from JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 26 SUN Sony Classical CBS MPK 46724. SUN SUN Reading 1: George Herbert's Easter Wings SUN SUN George Herbert Easter Wings SUN From Susan Tracy Rice Easter - Its History Celebration SUN Spirit and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse SUN Publisher unknown 2008. SUN ISBN-10: 1443776955 SUN SUN Lord Who createdst man in wealth and store SUN Though foolishly he lost the same SUN Decaying more and more SUN Till he became SUN Most poore: SUN SUN With Thee SUN O let me rise SUN As larks harmoniously SUN And sing this day Thy victories: SUN Then shall the fall further the flight in me. SUN SUN My tender age in sorrow did beginne; SUN And still with sicknesses and shame SUN Thou didst so punish sinne SUN That I became SUN Most thinne. SUN SUN With Thee SUN Let me combine SUN And feel this day Thy victorie; SUN For if I imp my wing on Thine SUN Affliction shall advance the flight in me. SUN SUN Reading 2: Bishop Joseph Hall's Meditations SUN SUN Bishop Joseph Hall Meditations (17th century) SUN From Bishop Joseph Hall The Art of Divine Meditation SUN Published by Sovereign Grace Publishers Inc 2007 SUN ISBN-10: 1589603621 SUN SUN Reading 3: The Running Sky SUN SUN Tim Dee reading from his book The Running Sky SUN Jonathan Cape Ltd 2009 SUN ISBN-10: 0224081985. SUN SUN Reading 4: The Darkling Thrush SUN SUN Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush SUN from The Darkling Thrush and Other Poems SUN Thomas Hardy and George Beningfield SUN Salem House 1985 SUN ISBN-10: 0881621064 SUN SUN Reading 5: Returning we hear the Larks SUN SUN Isaac Rosenberg Returning we hear the Larks SUN from Poems by Isaac Rosenburg SUN Gordon Bottomley SUN BiblioBazaar 2009 SUN ISBN-10: 1117207935 SUN SUN Reading 6: Wild Geese SUN SUN Mary Oliver Wild Geese SUN from Mary Oliver: Selected Poems SUN in the “Bloodaxe World Poets” series SUN Bloodaxe Books 2004. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00rl48m (Listen) SUN Lester Bowker farms 750 sows on his outdoor pig farm near SUN Budleigh Salterton in Devon. Three to four hundred piglets SUN are born on this farm every week. In this week's On Your SUN Farm Caz Graham explores the challenges facing the pig SUN industry today from the cost of feed to welfare issues such SUN as tail docking and teeth clipping. Over the last ten years SUN half of the pig farmers in Britain have gone out of SUN business. Two years ago Lester Bowker had to make the SUN decision whether to continue his Devon farm. He decided to SUN carry on and now he is finally making a profit. He tells Caz SUN Graham his story and explains the challenges he faces SUN farming such a remote landscape on the cliff tops of the SUN Devon coast. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00rl48p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00rl48r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00rl48t (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00rl48w (Listen) SUN Arthrogryposis Group SUN SUN Donations to Arthrogryposis Group should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal please mark the back of your envelope SUN TAG. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a SUN UK tax payer please provide TAG with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 327508. SUN SUN Arthrogryposis Group (TAG) SUN SUN The Arthrogryposis Group (TAG) provides contact and support SUN to people living with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenital SUN (AMC) and their friends and families. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00rl48y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00rl490 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00rl492 (Listen) SUN People on the Edge of His Pain: Barabbas SUN SUN People on the Edge of His Pain - the last of our Lent series SUN this Palm Sunday takes the character of Barabbas. This SUN week's title is "daylight robber" but is this describing SUN Barabbas or someone else? SUN From St Mary's Lowe House St Helens with Fr Stephen SUN Pritchard. Music from Joanne Boyce and Mike Stanley with De SUN La Salle School and Animate Youth choirs. Producer: Philip SUN Billson. www.bbc.co.uk/sundayworship. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00rfl63 (Listen) SUN Simon Schama reflects on the politics surrounding President SUN Obama's healthcare reforms which he sees as a turning point SUN of historic significance. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00rl494 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00rl496 (Listen) SUN As Kate comes to the end of her stay in Ambridge some of the SUN more observant members of her family notice that all is not SUN well with the prodigal daughter. While sensible Alice SUN decides to tell her sister some home truths Brian opts for a SUN more gentle approach; but will Kate finally confide her SUN problems to her father? SUN SUN Vicky has cause for celebration as the first new arrival at SUN Grange Farm is finally born. Vicky is quick to greet the new SUN arrival; but her delight quickly turns to disappointment as SUN she learns that life for the new calf might not be as rosy SUN as she had hoped. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00rl498 (Listen) SUN Emma Thompson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Emma Thompson. SUN SUN Sense and Sensibility The Remains of the Day Much Ado About SUN Nothing and Howards End are just a handful of her notable SUN screen credits in a dazzling career that has seen her pick SUN up Oscars for both acting and writing. SUN SUN She appears to have pulled off that rare trick of being both SUN a star and one of us - she famously keeps her brace of SUN Oscars in the downstairs loo still lives across the road SUN from her mum and holidays in a cottage in Scotland where she SUN says she and her husband spend a third of the year 'digging SUN in like a pair of old potatoes.'. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00rdxlz (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 12 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Sue SUN Perkins Graham Norton Tony Hawks and Paul Merton. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00rl4kg (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon visits the Food and Drink Expo 2010 at SUN Birmingham's NEC. With more than 600 suppliers exhibiting SUN it's a chance to get an idea of where the food industry's SUN heading. Sheila will be exploring amongst other things the SUN way food producers are using new media to communicate with SUN customers.... To Tweet or Not to Tweet? - that is the SUN question. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00rl4kj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00rl4kl (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Banishing Eve b00rl4kn (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN In the second part of her series charting the role of women SUN in the founding of the Christian Church historian Bettany SUN Hughes continues to explore gender tension at the heart of SUN the new religion. SUN SUN As Christianity became the state religion in the Roman SUN Empire and spread into Europe Bettany follows the concerted SUN efforts to remove women from spiritual life. The church was SUN becoming organised and its creed defined - and as the church SUN fathers met in Nicea and Ephesus they were faced with a SUN decision that would affect the status of women for the next SUN thousand years. How were women to be seen in the new SUN church? The two characters of Eve and Mary dominated the SUN debate and had profound effects on the religious perception SUN of women. SUN SUN But women fought doggedly for their positions. Bettany sets SUN out to re-discover these women from Rome Greece and a windy SUN Whitby and finds that the history of women in the early SUN Church is written as much in the fragments of stone left SUN behind as in the official scriptures. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00rfl5r (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a correspondence edition of the popular SUN horticultural forum. Pippa Greenwood Matt Biggs and Bob SUN Flowerdew answer questions sent in by listeners. SUN SUN 14:45 The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio b00rl4zg (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Artist Roger Law concludes his investigation into the life SUN and work of Caravaggio in Rome where he finds out what's SUN under way for the 400th anniversary of the artist's death. SUN He discovers that as well as the exhibitions and lectures SUN plans are afoot to reproduce some of Caravaggio's greatest SUN masterpieces in exact detail. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00rl4zj (Listen) SUN Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady, Imprisonment SUN SUN 3/4 SUN Lovelace tricks Clarissa into returning to Mrs Sinclair's SUN house of ill repute and after she has been drugged he has SUN his way with her. SUN SUN Robert Lovelace RICHARD ARMITAGE SUN Clarissa Harlowe ZOE WAITES SUN Mrs Moore DEBORAH FINDLAY SUN Mrs Rawlings ALISON STEADMAN SUN Tourville JULIAN RHIND-TUTT SUN Belford ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH SUN Capt. Tomlinson STEPHEN CRITCHLOW SUN Boy CATHY SARA SUN Lady Betty SOPHIE THOMPSON SUN Charlotte ELLIE BEAVEN SUN Dorcas LISA HAMMOND SUN Mrs Sinclair MIRIAM MARGOLYES SUN SUN Dramatised by Hattie Naylor SUN SUN Directed by MARILYN IMRIE. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00rl4zl (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the American writer Dave Eggers SUN best known for his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering SUN Genius. His latest book Zeitoun tells the extraordinary SUN story of a Syrian-American survivor of Hurricane Katrina who SUN found himself arrested as a suspected Al-Qaeda member while SUN helping other victims of the disaster. Also on the programme SUN the screenwriter Stephen Poliakoff chooses his five SUN favourite books. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Suckers! Poet and Parasite b00rl4zn (Listen) SUN Parasites are not an obvious subject matter for poetry but SUN in fact there are a surprising number of poems about these SUN miniature blood-suckers. From Donne's 'The Flea' to SUN Rimbaud's 'Lice Hunters' and D.H. Lawrence's 'Mosquito' it SUN seems that a number of prominent poets have been fascinated SUN by the notion of blood-sucking and by the uncomfortable SUN relationship between man and parasite. SUN SUN Paul Farley considers this long relationship between poets SUN and parasites as he looks for leeches in the pools of SUN Dungeness visits the mosquito colonies cultivated under SUN Gower Street in London and marvels at the strange beauty of SUN the flea specimens in the Rothschild Collection of Fleas at SUN the Natural History Museum. SUN SUN In the company of entomologists and of fellow poets Susan SUN Wicks Antony Dunn and Sarah Howe Paul examines both classic SUN and contemporary poems to discover how parasites have been SUN portrayed - and transformed - in verse. SUN SUN Paul Farley is an award-winning poet and broadcaster. His SUN work includes the poetry collections The Boy from the SUN Chemist is Here to See You The Ice Age and Tramp in Flames. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00rdzvb (Listen) SUN The government is promising extra help for people out of SUN work during the recession. But as Britain braces itself for SUN a rise in unemployment Allan Urry reports from the SUN communities already hardest hit and asks what redundant SUN steelmakers public sector workers and others joining the SUN dole queue can really expect at the Jobcentre. SUN SUN Jobcentre Plus is 'failing customers' SUN SUN Allan Urry hears why some unemployed people have no SUN confidence that Jobcentres will find them a job. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00rl2kt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00rl52y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00rl530 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rl532 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00rl534 (Listen) SUN Clive Coleman makes his selection from the last seven days SUN of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00rl55q (Listen) SUN The camera never lies at Brookfield and Tony tells David to SUN count his blessings. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00rl55s (Listen) SUN So what's next? Matt Frei is joined by one of America's best SUN known and respected broadcasters - Brian Williams of NBC's SUN Nightly News. The two discuss what's next on the political SUN agenda now that health care reform has been passed by SUN Congress and signed into law by President Obama. SUN SUN American voices illustrate the issues vying for legislative SUN attention. Matt Frei talks with an immigration reform SUN advocate and undocumented immigrant herself. SUN SUN Adam Dittrich CEO of the Americana Community Bank in SUN Minnesota offers his two cents about how looming financial SUN reform could impact the value and vulnerability of community SUN banks. SUN SUN And Matt Frei talks with Emergency Financial Manager of SUN Detroit Public Schools Robert Bobb about how to deal with an SUN education crisis. SUN SUN It's not all politics. Americana hears from musician Mark SUN Seliger about the musical journey of his band Rusty Truck. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008lvh6 (Listen) SUN Treasure Island, The Man of the Island SUN SUN John le Carre reads Robert Louis Stevenson's classic SUN adventure story abridged by Katrin Williams. Jim begins his SUN exploration of the island and encounters the castaway Ben SUN Gunn. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00rfj9v (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00rfl5t (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. SUN SUN HARRY CARPENTER SUN SUN Sports commentator and broadcaster who has died aged 84. SUN SUN Harry Carpenter was a versatile sports broadcaster who SUN covered tennis and golf for the BBC and presented some of SUN its best known programmes. But it’s for his boxing SUN commentaries that he will always best be remembered. Harry SUN had the good fortune to be covering boxing at a time when SUN major bouts commanded vast audiences on terrestrial SUN television and when some of the sport’s greatest SUN personalities were stepping into the ring. But his SUN authoritative knowledge of the sport and unflappable style SUN made him popular with fighters die hard fans and the casual SUN viewer alike. Harry Carpenter was born in Norwood in South SUN London the son of a fish merchant. SUN SUN Last Word hears from sports journalist Neil Allen the SUN broadcaster Des Lynam and the boxing manager Frank Maloney. SUN SUN Harry Carpenter was born 17 October 1925 and died 20 March SUN 2010. SUN SUN WOLFGANG WAGNER SUN SUN Grandson of Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth SUN opera festival who has died aged 90. SUN SUN Wolfgang Wagner was the grandson of the composer Richard SUN Wagner. And for more than forty yearsfirst with his brother SUN Wieland and then alonehe ran the Bayreuth Festival devoted SUN to his grandfather’s music. When he retired he passed the SUN baton to his two daughters. SUN SUN Last Word hears from friend and Wagner expert Professor John SUN Deathridge of King’s College London. SUN SUN Wolfgang Wagner was born 30 August 1919 and died 21 March SUN 2010. SUN SUN SIR JAMES BLACK SUN SUN Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and doctor who has died SUN aged 85. SUN SUN Sir James Black was a pharmacologist who won the Nobel Prize SUN for his work on two important classes of drugs. The first SUN were beta blockers which helped to save the lives of SUN millions of heart patients. The second were drugs which SUN turned a peptic ulcer from a life threatening to a SUN manageable condition. James Black was born in Glasgow. SUN SUN Last Word hears from friend and colleague Professor Robin SUN Ganellin. SUN SUN Sir James Black was born 14 June 1924 and died 22 March SUN 2010. SUN SUN GEORGE WEBB SUN SUN The father of the British trad jazz revival who has died SUN aged 92. SUN SUN George Webb is credited with being the man behind the post SUN war revival of traditional jazz in Britain. As a pianist and SUN bandleader and then as an agent and promoter George took SUN trad jazz from his South London roots and toured it around SUN the country. It all started during the war when George was SUN working as a machine gun fitter. He formed a band called SUN George Webb’s Dixielanders modelled on the legendary King SUN Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band of the twenties. They played at SUN the Red Barn pub in Barnehurst – and word began to spread SUN among younger fans about this exciting style of music. One SUN of the people who turned up to listen was the trumpeter SUN Humphrey Lyttleton who was invited to join the band. SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Radio 3 jazz presenter Geoffrey Smith and SUN to the cartoonist Wally Fawkes – or Trog – who played SUN clarinet with the Dixielanders. SUN SUN George Webb was born 8 October 1917 and died 10 March 2010. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00rl209 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00rl48w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00rdxm3 (Listen) SUN Who Are The Taliban? SUN SUN While the fighting in Afghanistan continues there is talk SUN too of a negotiated peace. But do we really understand who SUN the Taliban are what they want and how they fit into Afghan SUN society? Edward Stourton discovers what dealing with the SUN Taliban would really mean. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00rl55v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00rl55x (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:40 From Glory to Infamy b00rw3qq (Listen) SUN 1/1. Michael Dobbs veteran insider of general election SUN campaigns from 1979 to 1997 was at the heart of epoch-making SUN victories and a humiliating defeat. In this one-off talk he SUN recalls the exhilaration and the despair the wobbles the SUN unscripted moments and the turning points of those years - SUN and ruminates on the lessons of it all. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:55 Budget Statement by Plaid Cymru b00rs8nt (Listen) SUN Plaid Cymru make a statement on the budget. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00rfl5w (Listen) SUN Lewis Gilbert looks back over six decades in the film SUN business from directing classics such as Reach For The Sky SUN and Alfie to three of the biggest Bond films ever: You Only SUN Live Twice The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. SUN SUN Director Roger Michell dissects Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got SUN His Gun an anti-war film from 1971. SUN SUN Writer Tom McCarthy discusses Alfred Hitchcock's SUN preoccupation with doubles particularly the director's own SUN portly image often seen as cameos in his movies. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00rl48k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 MARCH 2010 MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rl61g (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rl61x (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00rl6h6 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rl6n4 (Listen) MON with the Rt Revd Tom Wright Bishop of Durham. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00rl6qs (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith finds why a skills shortage is good news for MON those studying agriculture. Is it possible to become a MON farmer without a family farm to fall back on? And the latest MON progress on the Farming Today piglets. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00rlzdx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00rl6wc (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00rlzdz (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Lionel Shriver whose new book 'So Much MON For That' looks at ageing illness money and asks 'how much MON is one life worth?'. Journalist and author Lionel Shriver's MON book 'We Need to Talk about Kevin' won the Orange Prize in MON 2005. Animal behaviourist Jonathan Balcombe discusses the MON inner lives of animals; journalist Victoria Clark talks MON about her new book 'Dancing on the Heads of Snakes' about MON the turbulent past and troubled present of Yemen and Heather MON Brooke discusses her role in exposing the scandal of MPs' MON expenses. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00rl6wf (Listen) MON Burying The Bones, Episode 1 MON MON In "Burying The Bones" distinguished biographer Hilary MON Spurling takes as her subject Pearl Buck the highly MON influential American author whose astonishing life proved MON even more fantastic than her popular novels of the 1930s 40s MON and 50s. MON MON Born to Christian missionaries in 1890s China Buck's writing MON helped change Western perceptions of that country forever; MON in recognition of which she won the Nobel Prize for MON Literature in 1938. MON MON Pearl's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Good Earth" MON portrayed the lives of ordinary Chinese people and became a MON worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1932 (it still MON sells in its thousands each year). Though her work has MON fallen out of fashion with the public she is still held in MON high regard by writers such as Jung Chang the acclaimed MON author of "Wild Swans" who described Buck as "One of the MON greatest writers on China'". MON MON Hilary Spurling is the author of "The Unknown Matisse" MON listed as one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 1998 MON and "Matisse The Master" which was named Whitbread Book of MON the Year and won the Los Angeles Times biography prize in MON 2005. MON MON Reader: Lindsay Duncan. MON Abridger: Alison Joseph. MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rl8m8 (Listen) MON Friday evening's Over the Rainbow on BBC 1 saw the start of MON Andrew Lloyd Webber's search for the next actress to play MON Dorothy in a theatre adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. But why MON does Dorothy's character continue to enchant us? More than MON one hundred years after she was created by the American MON author L. Frank Baum Jane delves deep to find out what's MON behind her enduring appeal. MON MON In the last two weeks the 'legal high' mephedrone has hit MON the headlines and has been linked to the deaths of three MON young people. The government's Advisory Committee on the MON Misuse of Drugs is deciding whether mephedrone should be MON banned under the misuse of drugs act and it's due to submit MON its report to the Home Secretary Alan Johnson today. Dr Max MON Pemberton joins Jane to explain why he decided to try MON mephedrone for himself and write a newspaper article about MON his experience. MON MON The name of Pearl Buck was once known throughout the world MON as the author of an extraordinary and unexpected bestseller MON "The Good Earth" which won the Pulitzer Prize and led to MON Buck becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel MON Prize for Literature. Hilary Spurling has just published a MON biographical account of Pearl's years in China "Burying the MON Bones" which is this week's "Book of the Week"; Anchee Min's MON novel "Pearl of China" which imagines Pearl's life and MON invents a friend for her. They join Jane to discuss why this MON great writer has been forgotten. MON MON With the wedding list season approaching the growing MON popularity of "wish lists" donations made to charity in MON one's name and some people even telling their family and MON friends what they want as a present has the simple pleasure MON gone out of gift giving? To discuss the issues Jane is MON joined by the broadcaster and writer Shyama Perera and the MON journalist Tanya Gold who has been known to come out in a MON rage at even the sight of a wedding list! MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2r (Listen) MON David Golder, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5 Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and MON ambition love and money translated by Sandra Smith and MON adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. MON MON David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is MON something like a monster but whose killer instinct in MON business is based not in self-interest but in the almost MON pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does MON not care for him. MON MON Episode One: 1929 France. David Golder a self-made MON businessman of 68 is rich and ruthless- and woe betide MON anyone who tries to cross him. Even if that person is his MON oldest friend and associate Simeon Marcus. But on this MON occasion Golder's implacability in his business dealings has MON unforeseen and tragic results. MON MON David Suchet stars as Golder with Anna Francolini (recently MON winner of the TMA/Stage award for the best stage performance MON of 2009) as Irene Nemirovsky. MON MON Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929 MON and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish MON background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The MON novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in MON 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the MON Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died MON in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39. MON MON David Golder..............David Suchet MON Nemirovsky...............Anna Francolini MON Marcus.....................Robin Harvey Edwards MON Mme Marcus.............Julia Swift MON MON Directed by Peter Farago. MON MON 11:00 Inside the Brain of a Five-Year-Old b00rm072 (Listen) MON Claudia Hammond investigates the latest research into the MON working of the five year old brain and asks whether they are MON really designed to cope with today's classrooms. Could a MON deeper understanding of brain development help MON educationalists get better results in the classroom - and if MON so why aren't they listening? Claudia talks to the MON researchers challenging the educational establishment and MON finds out why education policy often takes so long to catch MON up with the scientific evidence. MON MON 11:30 Sneakiepeeks b00pqn27 (Listen) MON Two of Our Spies Are Missing MON MON Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept MON backstabbing surveillance operatives. MON MON When Bill meets up with Ian Swaine the organisation's most MON effective but least sane assassin it's up to Sharla and Mark MON to find them. MON MON Bill ...... Richard Lumsden MON Sharla ...... Nina Conti MON Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya MON Ian Swaine ...... Paterson Joseph MON Mrs Davies ...... Lucy Montgomery MON Channing/American/Welsh Landlord ...... Ewan Bailey MON Tim the Tea Boy ...... Joe Thomas MON Secretary/Welsh Girl ...... Tessa Nicholson. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00rlbcm (Listen) MON Asda is slimming down its pool of dairy farmers because it MON was getting more milk than it needs. We'll find out how this MON will affect the UK milk industry. MON MON Plus MON MON The recession has led to the boarding up of many shops in MON our town and city centres. Add to this the growing choice as MON to where we spend our money: getting weekly groceries MON delivered; buying clothes books and music online; and MON visiting huge out of town retail parks for spending sprees - MON it's clear that High Streets will have to adapt if they're MON to thrive. MON MON We'll be discussing the future of our town centres with the MON author of a report suggesting coffee shops and socialising MON is the way forward; the Chief Executive of Greggs the baker; MON and the Director of the Retail Centre for Retail Research. MON MON And Julian watches some 3D TV and finds out how retailers MON and broadcasters plan to take the technology to the nations MON sitting rooms. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00rldsq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00rlfgx (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00rm074 (Listen) MON Series 24, Episode 2 MON MON Paul Gambaccini welcomes three more competitors to the BBC MON Radio Theatre for Heat Two in the 2010 series of the MON long-running music quiz. This week's trio of music MON enthusiasts come from London Edinburgh and Brighton - and MON they'll be facing Paul's questions on every aspect of the MON musical spectrum from the classics to show tunes film music MON jazz pop and rock. From Palestrina to Pink Floyd Paul MON Gambaccini has it covered in 'Counterpoint'. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00rl55q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rm21n (Listen) MON Arabian Afternoons, The Casper Logue Affair MON MON A darkly comic thriller by Sebastian Baczkiewicz set in MON Baghdad. The first of three Arabian Afternoons - MON contemporary plays inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights. MON MON Junior diplomat Bob Goldacre is in trouble: the American MON businessman he was looking after has vanished from a Baghdad MON street. As the suspects pile up Goldacre is going to have MON his work cut out if he wants to save his career and make MON sure that justice is done. MON MON Shahrazad.........SIRINE SABA MON Shahrayar..........KEVORK MALIKYAN MON Aseera..............BETSABEH EMRAN MON Rahim...............SARGON YELDA MON Goldacre...........TREVOR WHITE MON Hammond.........BRUCE ALEXANDER MON Casper..............NATHAN OSGOOD MON Kindermann.......RUFUS WRIGHT MON Carlton.............JOHN BIGGINS MON Charlene...........ALISON PETTIT MON MON Directed by Abigail le Fleming MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00rl2ky (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 On the Map b00rlwxj (Listen) MON World View MON MON 6/10 World View. Mike Parker considers the picture that maps MON and atlases give us of the wider world and our place in it. MON He discovers how cartographers always have to keep one eye MON on the map and the other on the news as territorial disputes MON rage borders change and new countries emerge. And he visits MON Jan Morris to look through a collection of maps and atlases MON accumulated over sixty years of travel writing. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00rl4kg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b00rm309 (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 1 MON MON Simon Cox returns for another series exploring the ways the MON digital world is changing how we live our lives. MON MON Whether it's the device in your pocket on your desk or built MON into nearly every part of the world around us technology is MON part our daily lives MON MON Each week Simon Cox presents a range of stories from the MON very latest cutting edge developments to the day to day MON practical ways technology impacts on us all. So whether it's MON what happens as soon your child hits the panic button on a MON social networking site or asking when will battery MON technology catch up with the growing demands on our portable MON devices? Click On will be there to guide you. MON MON As well as responding to the technology stories of the week MON other content we plan to feature in the coming series MON includes: MON MON Cyber warfare - the recent defence review is still dominated MON by the big ticket items; aircraft carriers tanks and jet MON fighters. But is cyber warfare being ignored by a military MON that is still frankly ignorant of the scale of the threat. MON China is planning on "electronic dominance" by the middle of MON the century. So will the ability to wage a cyber war become MON the WMD of the future and what can you do when this war MON doesn't have to waged by another state? MON MON Don't do the Crime if you must be online - Is technology MON allowing criminals to continue their activities beyond their MON cell walls? Social networking websites are coming under MON pressure to better monitor the use of their sites by MON prisoners. Illicit mobile phone use by inmates has grown to MON the extent that authorities are installing jamming devices MON in all UK prisons. Balanced against this is the knowledge MON that allowing prisoners to keep social and family contacts MON prevents reoffending. So how has technology changed what it MON means to doing your time? MON MON Lost in translation - we compare the various technologies MON aiming to translate foreign languages. Which is best; online MON tools the latest app for your smart phone or the trusty MON phrasebook? MON MON Social Networks for the aspiring author - Harper Collins are MON no longer intending to accept unsolicited manuscripts. MON Instead they've launched a social network where budding MON authors will review and rate each others work. So will this MON result in better books getting published or will it be only MON the best self publicists who will see their work in print? MON MON Virtual Crime Scenes - Forensic teams in Glasgow are about MON to roll out a new reconstruction technique across Scotland. MON 3-D animations are now being used to demonstrate how a crime MON allegedly took place. The technology can make complex MON situations more understandable while virtual models can be MON created of a body to show how a bullet or knife caused MON injury. As well as helping to simplify technical evidence it MON also means juries might be saved from having to see MON distressing pictures. MON MON We'll also be featuring a series of one to one interviews MON with those shaping our technological futures; opinion MON formers blue sky thinkers and those behind the technologies MON of the next big thing! MON MON 17:00 PM b00rlx4k (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00rlx6h (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00rv4db (Listen) MON Series 5, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts another series of the panel game in MON which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete MON against one another to see how many items of truth they're MON able to smuggle past their opponents. Marcus Brigstocke MON Henning Wehn Lucy Porter and Graeme Garden are the MON panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as: Sleep Beer Childbirth and Sir Isaac MON Newton. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON The producer is Jon Naismith and this is a Random MON Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00rlfqv (Listen) MON Time is running out for Kenton and Jazzer meets his nemesis. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00rlx7g (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to stars of Canoe MON Man a TV drama about the faked death of John Darwin. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Ruthless and Brilliant b00pn4c5 (Listen) MON At the end of 2006 one of Radio 4's longest standing MON presenters announced very publicly that she had breast MON cancer. Jenni Murray who has been presenting Womanâ??s Hour MON for more than 20 years told her listeners that she would be MON away from the microphone for a while as she underwent MON treatment. MON MON Jenni returned to work after a mastectomy and chemotherapy. MON Then in 2008 she was joined on the programme by the Irish MON journalist Lia Mills who had much of her jaw neck and MON cheekbone removed after she was diagnosed with oral cancer. MON She described her surgeons as 'ruthless and brilliant' MON - brilliant enough to save her life and ruthless enough to MON take a knife to her face. MON MON This got Jenni thinking - what does it take to lift a MON scalpel and cut into the most intimate and treasured parts MON of the human body? MON MON This programme examines the extremes of surgery and speaks MON to the doctors whose work saves lives but also fundamentally MON changes them. How do you tell a patient that radical surgery MON is needed as they beg you for an alternative? MON MON The programme concentrates on maxillofacial breast and MON prostate surgery. It will look at the relationship between MON patient and doctor as the various surgical options are MON considered. MON MON As part of the programme Jenni will attend a mastectomy. MON MON The program is presented by Jenni Murray and produced in MON Manchester by Nicola Swords MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00rjz1p (Listen) MON The Children of Dushanbe MON MON Angus Crawford reports on efforts to rescue vulnerable girls MON in Tajikistan who were locked up rather than helped. He MON hears how girls who had been raped were detained for being MON 'degenerate'. He also sees how a British NGO is working with MON the Tajik authorities to help these teenagers find freedom MON and safety. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00rm3pr (Listen) MON Eco-City Limits MON MON Eco-cities. Architects developers and visionaries have been MON promising them for the past decade. Dongtan was supposed to MON be the green Shanghai the Thames corridor was supposed to be MON a linear eco-city Florida's building a car-free city for MON 100000 eco towns were to spread around the UK. But time and MON time again economic reality intrudes plans are shelved or MON diluted and another commuter suburb is thrown up with a MON token wind turbine. MON The answers might be found at the World Future Energy Summit MON in the extraordinary setting of Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. MON $20bn has been committed by the government to ensure this MON city is the first zero carbon conurbation. With the money MON made supplying the world's fossil fuel the Abu Dhabi emirate MON has employed Norman Foster to create the anti-Dubai- a car MON and skyscraper-free city powered by the sun. If anyone can MON do it then the cash-rich democracy-free hugely ambitious MON rulers of Abu Dhabi are the men to back. Progress is rapid MON with students already attending the Masdar Institute of MON Science and Technology with its focus on renewable energy MON and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) making MON its home as the first international agency to be located in MON the Middle East. MON With the great and good of the sustainability movement MON gathered together in Masdar City in early 2010 it's a MON perfect opportunity to test the concept- a real model for MON the cities of the future or a green smokescreen for the oil MON states' carbon- hungry habits. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00rlzdz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00rlxh4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00rlyqf (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r9y3l (Listen) MON Dancing Backwards, Episode 1 MON MON Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new novel MON Dancing Backwards MON MON Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone she MON decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old MON friend Edwin in New York. MON MON As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins MON to blossom - learning to ballroom dance taking up smoking MON again befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And in MON her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood as a MON student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets MON Edwin. Edwin it soon becomes clear is someone she's betrayed MON and someone she's both terrified and desperate to see again. MON The story that unfolds about the young Violet holds the MON secret to that betrayal. MON MON Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a MON critically acclaimed best-selling novelist whose work MON includes Mr Golightly's Holiday Instances of the Number 3 MON Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's MON Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at MON Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the MON Oedipus myth Where Three Roads Meet for Radio 4's Afternoon MON Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she was a MON psychoanalyst. MON MON Produced by Kirsty Williams. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00rdzv4 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of words MON language and the way we speak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00rlz0s (Listen) MON News views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with David Wilby. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 MARCH 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00rl59q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00rl6wf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rl5cy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rl5wf (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rl61j (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00rl6gm (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rl6mt (Listen) TUE with the Rt Revd Tom Wright Bishop of Durham. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00rl6qg (Listen) TUE Presenter: Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00rl6t1 (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Between Ourselves b00rmr64 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 2 TUE TUE An Iraqi Kurd and an Iranian Azeri discuss their lives as TUE refugees in the United Kingdom. Mohamed (from Iran) became a TUE refugee in 2009 while Zirak was granted refugee status in TUE 2002 and now has British citizenship. What is it like to TUE leave family and friends behind in your home country TUE possibly never to return? Have you put them in danger by TUE leaving? Is it easy to settle in the UK? TUE TUE Zirak was involved with an organisation that wanted a free TUE Kurdistan. When the group was discovered two of his friends TUE were arrested and one subsequently died. He started TUE receiving threatening letters and knew he had to leave. He TUE left in 2002 and from Turkey was smuggled out in a lorry. TUE When he eventually arrived in the UK he didn't know what TUE country he was in and couldn't speak any English. TUE TUE Mohamed travelled here to study music and became involved TUE with Azeri politics; friends back home were arrested as a TUE result and he began to realise that he too would be arrested TUE if he returned. He applied for refugee status which was TUE granted extremely quickly - it was just a month before he TUE was told he had leave to remain for five years. He hopes to TUE return home one day. TUE TUE 09:30 A Musical Trip to South Africa - with Lenny Henry b00rmr66 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE 1/5 TUE In this series of five programmes Lenny Henry is in South TUE Africa to enjoy and experience the country through its music. TUE South Africa has one of the richest musical traditions on TUE the planet with a wealth of talent to match. Lenny meets the TUE cream of that talent - from the legendary trumpeter Hugh TUE Masekela (whose new show 'Songs of Migration' Lenny enjoys TUE in Johannesburg) to S Africa's best selling recording TUE artists the Queen of Gospel Rebecca Malope. TUE TUE Lenny begins the whole series centre pitch at Soccer City in TUE Jo'burg to the accompaniment of a chorus of Vuvuzelas - the TUE deafening trumpets that blast out at football matches! He's TUE invited onto YFM youth radio station to hear about Kwaito TUE aka 'township house' music and finds himself in a recording TUE studio with some of the country's hottest bands. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qf (Listen) TUE Burying The Bones, Episode 2 TUE TUE Lindsay Duncan reads from "Burying The Bones" - the latest TUE book by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling. Her subject is TUE Pearl Buck one of the most successful and popular American TUE novelists of the 20th Century. TUE TUE Though her work has now fallen out of fashion in her day TUE Pearl was a phenomenal bestseller. The novel that made her TUE name was "The Good Earth" - and it still sells in its TUE thousands - which depicted for the first time the gruelling TUE conditions of China's rural poor. Born to Presbyterian TUE missionaries in 1890s China Buck's first hand experience of TUE the language and people informed her writing and helped to TUE change Western perceptions of that country forever; in TUE recognition of which she won the Nobel Prize for Literature TUE in 1938. TUE TUE In today's episode we learn more about Pearl's childhood and TUE the ways in which her father's missionary zeal impoverished TUE his family. A firebrand preacher who was often absent for TUE long periods of time he invariably spent his meagre wages on TUE a project to translate the New Testament into Chinese. TUE Pearl's mother lost four children to illnesses which could TUE have been treated easily had they better access to food and TUE medicine. This was the potent environment which formed Pearl TUE and inspired her adult imagination. TUE TUE Abridger: Alison Joseph TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rl8lr (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey visits an exhibition about the history of plants TUE and flowers in the home. Also on the programme: how Lady TUE Susana Walton kept her husband William's music alive. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2f (Listen) TUE David Golder, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5 TUE Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and TUE ambition love and money translated by Sandra Smith and TUE adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. TUE TUE David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is TUE something like a monster but whose killer instinct in TUE business is based not in self-interest but in the almost TUE pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does TUE not care for him. TUE TUE Episode Two: Following the shattering conclusion of the TUE Marcus affair Golder travels to Biarritz to recuperate. But TUE with his wife and daughter entertaining a seemingly endless TUE parade of charming hangers-on and gigolos Golder finds TUE himself far from relaxed. TUE TUE David Suchet stars as Golder with Anna Francolini (recently TUE winner of the TMA/Stage award for the best stage performance TUE of 2009) as Irene Nemirovsky. Elizabeth Bell plays Golder's TUE rapacious wife Gloria and Francesca Dymond his indulged TUE daughter Joyce. TUE TUE Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929 TUE and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish TUE background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The TUE novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in TUE 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the TUE Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died TUE in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39. TUE TUE David Golder...........................David Suchet TUE Irene Nemirovsky....................Anna Francolini TUE Gloria Golder..........................Elizabeth Bell TUE Joyce Golder..........................Francesca Dymond TUE Hoyos....................................Vernon Dobtcheff TUE Fischl.....................................Stewart Permutt TUE TUE Directed by Peter Farago. TUE TUE 11:00 In Hinkley's Shadow b00rmr68 (Listen) TUE The villages around Hinkley Point in Somerset have lived TUE with nuclear power for nearly half a century. As plans are TUE developed for a new power station Chris Ledgard investigates TUE life in a nuclear community. TUE TUE In medieval times the village of Stogursey on the edge of TUE the Quantock Hills was a market town. Over the centuries its TUE importance diminished. Then work began on a nuclear power TUE station on the Somerset coast just 2 miles away and TUE Stogursey found itself in demand again - families flooded in TUE and the school sent its overspill to the village hall. In TUE Hinkley's Shadow is a portrait of a nuclear community. The TUE first generation of Britain's nuclear power workers are now TUE retired. At Hinkley their children are now working on the TUE site. So how is it to have grown up in the shadow of a TUE nuclear power station? Chris Ledgard talks to people who TUE work in and around Hinkley including a mud horse fisherman TUE said to be the last in the world who fishes with a sledge he TUE pushes out into Bridgwater Bay. And as the debate on the new TUE station Hinkley Point C develops the anti-nuclear protestors TUE enter another battle. But what happens to a protest movement TUE as it nears middle age? TUE TUE 11:30 Delirious Wilderness b00rmr6b (Listen) TUE Poet Owen Sheers travels to one of the wildest corners of TUE the country - to discover the brilliant tragic tale of TUE Britain's lost school of Post-Impressionism. TUE TUE A century ago Britain's most brilliant - and infamous - TUE artistic celebrity fled the debauchery of London's bohemia TUE to find a new purity - in one of the nation's most remote TUE wildernesses. He had been tempted there by a unique kindred TUE spirit - a fellow painter and bohemian wildchild - whose TUE rich imagination and relentless lust for life was spurred by TUE knowledge that he had just months to live. TUE TUE The celebrity was Augustus John doyen of the Cafe Royal and TUE celebrity portraitist of London's top literary figures and TUE socialites. His friend: James Dickson Innes - virtually TUE forgotten since his tragic death from tuberculosis aged just TUE 27 - yet described by one critic as 'indispensable' to TUE British landscape art. TUE TUE Their Eden was the Arenig Valley in North Wales - a sliver TUE of craggy swirling peaks and haunting silent plateaux east TUE of Snowdonia between Bala and Ffestiniog. There buffeted by TUE the wind and blinded by the rain they painted feverish TUE delirious landscapes together in the open air - a unique TUE blaze of creativity amidst the desolate countryside TUE described as Britain's only true flame of Post-Impressionism. TUE TUE Yet after barely eighteen months their fire was extinguished TUE - as the spectre of war illness and death abruptly drew a TUE curtain upon their work. And whilst John was to live on for TUE nearly half a century his reputation - and infamy - TUE undiminished Innes was to die barely a year later - his work TUE unappreciated and unloved - in a Kent hospice. After Arenig TUE neither man was to paint landscapes ever again. TUE TUE Poet Owen Sheers grew up amongst the Black Mountains of TUE South Wales from which he drew inspiration for his TUE collection "Skirrid Hill". In Delirious Wilderness he tells TUE the story of this unique fleeting moment in British art TUE history - encountering artists writers and art historians as TUE he travels to Arenig - as remote now as it was a century ago TUE - to try to distil what John and Innes were searching for in TUE this untamed landscape. TUE TUE The programme features contributions from the famed travel TUE writer Jan Morris - herself haunted by the Arenig Valley TUE which she describes as "hallucinogenic...like entering a TUE dream" - as well as Augustus John's biographer Michael TUE Holroyd and the contemporary Welsh landscape artist Iwan TUE Gwyn Parry. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00rlb66 (Listen) TUE Why are there so many strikes when the UK economy is barely TUE out of recession? TUE TUE British Airways staff are about to strike and thousands of TUE workers at Network Rail British Gas and the Civil Service TUE are planning walkouts in the coming weeks over pay and TUE working conditions. At a time when unemployment is nearly TUE 2.5 million. Are these disputes all separate and unrelated TUE or do they mark a new mood among the UK's unionised labour TUE force? TUE TUE Do you support the strike action? Is it the only way that TUE workers can effectively protect their pay and conditions? TUE Are bosses exploiting the recession - using it as an TUE opportunity to cut costs and ditch staff ? Or should workers TUE recognise they must become more efficient if they want to TUE hang on to their jobs? TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Call 03700 100 444 TUE (lines open at 1000) or email youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00rldsg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00rlff3 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero b00rmrpt (Listen) TUE Nitin Sawhney explores the life of the Indian musician Ravi TUE Shankar as he approaches his 90th birthday. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00rlfqv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rmrpw (Listen) TUE Arabian Afternoons, The Porter and the Three Ladies TUE TUE Arabian Afternoons: The Porter and the Three Ladies TUE A wild dark modern fairytale by Rachel Joyce set in TUE Damascus. The second in a series of contemporary plays TUE inspired by stories from the Arabian Nights. TUE TUE It is time for Shahrazad to tell another tale to save her TUE life. In this story within a story we find out that if Joe TUE doesn't find the exclusive to satisfy his ruthless editor he TUE will lose his job. He finds three beautiful women in TUE Damascus but what is the truth behind their secret life? TUE TUE Shahrazad ........Sirine Saba TUE Shahrayar.........Kevork Malikyan TUE Joe....................Stephen Tompkinson TUE Margot............... Joanna Monro TUE Mira................... Indira Varma TUE Affyah.................Jasmine Jones TUE Juliba..................Melissa Advani TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00rmrpz (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the natural world and our impact on it. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00c0npx (Listen) TUE Unaccustomed Earth, Hell-Heaven TUE TUE Nina Wadia reads Hell-Heaven from Pulitzer Prize-winning TUE author Jhumpa Lahiri's collection exploring the dark secrets TUE of family life all linked by the Bengali immigrant TUE experience. TUE TUE An India mother's lonely life in America is eased when she TUE mees a charismatic young immigrant who transports her back TUE to a time before marriage. But before long her secret TUE infatuation comes close to devastating her family. TUE TUE Hell-Heaven begins in America but like all the stories in TUE this remarkable series spills back over generations and past TUE memories to India following new lives forged in the wake of TUE loss. TUE TUE Reader: Nina Wadia TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 15:45 On the Map b00rlwwr (Listen) TUE Off the Map TUE TUE 7/10 Off the Map. The first step to success in any military TUE campaign is a good map. During the Second World War TUE intelligence officers prepared meticulously detailed maps TUE for the D-Day landings using a combination of aerial TUE photography old tourist guides and holiday snaps. Mike TUE Parker discovers how Germany and later the Soviet Union TUE compiled maps of Britain often more detailed than our own. TUE And he visits a Cold War nuclear bunker one of the many TUE sites that until recently were simply blank spaces on TUE Ordnance Survey maps. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00rms93 (Listen) TUE Why do people always want to "improve" your English? Michael TUE Rosen investigates the phenomenon of the "style guide" and TUE asks whether all the advice that's given is helpful or TUE accurate. He asks why some people take a strong dislike to TUE adjectives and adverbs and wonders whether as Reader's TUE Digest says it really does pay to enrich your word power. TUE (Or should that be "Readers' Digest?"). TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00rms95 (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor discusses book recommendations with writer TUE broadcaster and ex-MP Gyles Brandreth and actor and director TUE Burt Caesar. TUE TUE Gyles Brandreth is novelist and biographer (of royalty) a TUE prolific broadcaster (most regularly on 'The One Show') an TUE actor ex-MP for Chester and raconteur. TUE TUE Burt Caesar was born in St Kitts and came to the UK as a TUE child. His acting career has ranged widely encompassing a TUE Bond film Shakespeare and many plays for BBC Radio Four. TUE Burt is also a director for stage and television artistic TUE advisor at RADA and creative consultant at the Museum of TUE London. TUE TUE BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THE PROGRAMME: TUE TUE Sue MacGregor's choice: Right Ho Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse TUE Publ. Arrow Books TUE TUE Gyles Brandreth's choice: Seasonal Suicide Notes by Roger TUE Lewis TUE Publ. Short Books TUE TUE Burt Caesar's choice: Beyond a Boundary by CLR James TUE Publ. Yellow Jersey Press. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00rlx2f (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 b00rlx4m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rms97 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Ardal O'Hanlon TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. TUE Ardal O'Hanlon tries five things he's never done before. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00rlfjx (Listen) TUE Kenton's got a challenge for Robert and Vicky plays midwife TUE at Grange Farm. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00rlx6k (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to architect David TUE Adjaye about his photographic survey of urban Africa. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 GCHQ: Cracking the Code b00rmssw (Listen) TUE The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera gains TUE exclusive access to Britain's ultra secret listening station TUE where super computers monitor the world's communications TUE traffic and Britain's global eavesdropping and electronic TUE surveillance operations are conducted. TUE TUE The layers of secrecy which have surrounded GCHQ's work are TUE peeled away - what exactly does it do and who is it TUE listening to? TUE TUE The programme explores the wide area covered by signals TUE intelligence - from looking for terrorists planning attacks TUE against the United Kingdom to supporting military operations TUE of the type underway in Afghanistan. TUE TUE A team from the Counter terrorism section describes what it TUE is like to listen in on terrorists' conversations and the TUE constant battle to predict where the next attack will come TUE from: "I don't think you would be human if you didn't go TUE home at night and couldn't switch off and thought 'Oh my TUE God. What happens if . . .?'" What about the ethics of TUE eavesdropping and how does their work compare to the way it TUE is portrayed on television in series like 'Spooks'? TUE TUE Code-breakers talk about their work attempting to find a TUE chink in the armour of a carefully encrypted message sent by TUE a terrorist or a foreign government. "It just feels amazing TUE really" when there is a breakthrough says one. "I mean you TUE feel like you've won". TUE TUE The programme looks at the technological challenges posed by TUE the internet and the threat of cyber warfare which has led TUE to the establishment of a new cyber operations centre at TUE Cheltenham. It also explores the scientific and mathematical TUE breakthroughs which have been achieved at GCHQ including the TUE discovery of public key encryption used when we shop on the TUE internet. TUE TUE There's a tour of the building's four great computer halls TUE containing racks and racks of IT equipment and covering TUE around ten thousand square metres. "I could actually fit TUE Wembley football pitch into three of the halls quite TUE comfortably' says the man in charge of making sure that the TUE equipment doesn't crash. TUE TUE Gordon Corera challenges the director Iain Lobban. There has TUE been considerable speculation about whether the government TUE is planning huge databases at GCHQ to keep track of all TUE communications and internet traffic. Do they really spy on TUE us? And how accountable are they? This programme provides TUE the answers. TUE Producer: Mark Savage. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00rmssy (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 How Myers-Briggs Conquered the Office b00rmst0 (Listen) TUE It was created by a mother and daughter team neither of whom TUE were trained as psychologists yet today it is the world's TUE most widely used personality indicator used by leading TUE companies like Shell Procter and Gamble Vodafone and the BBC. TUE TUE Mariella Frostrup tells the story of The Myers-Briggs Type TUE Indicator (MBTI) created by Katherine Briggs and her TUE daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. Participants are asked a TUE series of questions intended to reveal information about TUE their thinking problem solving and communication styles. At TUE the end of the process each participant is handed one of 16 TUE four-letter acronyms which describes their "type." ENTPs are TUE extrovert inventors ISTJs are meticulous nit pickers. TUE Mariella finds out what type she is- will it change the way TUE she works? TUE TUE Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers devised their TUE questionnaire during WWII to help women identify the sort of TUE war-time jobs where they would be "most comfortable and TUE effective." It was a long and arduous struggle to convince TUE industry it could be useful to them. Today in academia many TUE are still not convinced. TUE TUE Despite this as Myers-Briggs rolls out across the globe how TUE does it cope with different cultural attitudes towards TUE celebrating individualism particularly in more reserved TUE Asian countries? TUE TUE Mariella asks the key question; what does Myers-Briggs tell TUE us that we couldn't have found out before? TUE TUE 21:30 Between Ourselves b00rmr64 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00rlx9n (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00rlxh6 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r9y23 (Listen) TUE Dancing Backwards, Episode 2 TUE TUE Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new novel TUE Dancing Backwards TUE TUE Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone she TUE decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old TUE friend Edwin in New York. TUE TUE As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins TUE to blossom - learning to ballroom dance taking up smoking TUE again befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And in TUE her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood as a TUE student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets TUE Edwin. Edwin it soon becomes clear is someone she's betrayed TUE and someone she's both terrified and desperate to see again. TUE The story that unfolds about the young Violet holds the TUE secret to that betrayal. TUE TUE In tonight's episode Violet remembers the first time she and TUE Edwin met. TUE TUE Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a TUE critically acclaimed best-selling novelist whose work TUE includes Mr Golightly's Holiday Instances of the Number 3 TUE Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's TUE Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at TUE Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the TUE Oedipus myth Where Three Roads Meet for Radio 4's Afternoon TUE Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she was a TUE psychoanalyst. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 23:00 The Gorbals Vampire b00rmt00 (Listen) TUE Glasgow's Southern Necropolis is an eerie place at the best TUE of times but when two local policemen answered a call there TUE in September 1954 they encountered a bizarre sight. Hundreds TUE of local children ranging in ages from 4 to 14 were crammed TUE inside roaming between the crypts. They were armed with TUE sharpened sticks knives stolen from home and stakes. They TUE said they were hunting down "A Vampire with Iron Teeth" that TUE had kidnapped and eaten two local boys. TUE The policemen dispersed the crowd but they came back at TUE sundown the next night and the next. The local press got TUE hold of the story and it soon went national. There were no TUE missing boys in Glasgow at that time and press and TUE politicians cast around for an explanation. They soon found TUE one in the wave of American Horror comics with names like TUE "Astounding Stories" and "Tales from the Crypt" which had TUE recently flooded into the West of Scotland. Academics TUE pointed out that none of the comics featured a vampire with TUE iron teeth though there was a monster with iron teeth in the TUE bible (Daniel 7.7) and in a poem taught in local schools. TUE Their voices were drowned out in a full-blown moral panic TUE about the effect that terrifying comics were having on TUE children. Soon the case of the "Gorbals Vampire" was TUE international news. TUE The British Press raged against the "terrifying corrupt" TUE comics and after a heated debate in the House of Commons TUE where the case of Gorbals Vampire was cited Britain passed TUE the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act TUE 1955 which for the first time specifically banned the sale TUE of magazines and comics portraying "incidents of a repulsive TUE or horrible nature" to minors. TUE Writer Louise Welsh explores how the Gorbals Vampire helped TUE bring the censorship of comic books onto the statute books. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00rlz06 (Listen) TUE News views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Sean Curran. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00rl59s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00rp7qf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rl5d0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rl5wh (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rl61l (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00rl6gp (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rl6mw (Listen) WED with the Rt Revd Tom Wright Bishop of Durham. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00rl6qj (Listen) WED Presenter: Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00rl6t3 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00rmt9m (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qh (Listen) WED Burying The Bones, Episode 3 WED WED Lindsay Duncan reads another excerpt from Hilary Spurling's WED new book: "Burying The Bones". The distinguished WED biographer's new subject is the astonishing life of Nobel WED Prize-winning author Pearl Buck one of the most successful WED and popular American novelists of the 20th Century. (She's WED best remembered for her novel "The Good Earth" which is WED still a bestseller.) WED WED Pearl's desire for independence led her to make a hasty WED marriage of which her family disapproved. Refusing to be WED cowed by a series of personal tragedies she discovered that WED her imagination offered escape from her difficulties and she WED began to write fiction in earnest. WED WED Abridger: Alison Joseph WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rl8lt (Listen) WED Jenni Murray talks to Meera Syal about her new role in WED Shirley Valentine. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2h (Listen) WED David Golder, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5 WED Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and WED ambition love and money translated by Sandra Smith and WED adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. WED WED David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is WED something like a monster but whose killer instinct in WED business is based not in self-interest but in the almost WED pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does WED not care for him. WED WED Episode Three: Golder's health takes a turn for the worse WED and a doctor is called. But the diagnosis when it comes is WED far from welcome to anybody concerned. WED WED David Suchet stars as Golder with Anna Francolini (recently WED winner of the TMA/Stage award for the best stage performance WED of 2009) as Irene Nemirovsky. Elizabeth Bell plays Golder's WED rapacious wife Gloria and Francesca Dymond his indulged WED daughter Joyce. WED WED Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929 WED and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish WED background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The WED novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in WED 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the WED Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died WED in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39. WED WED David Golder - David Suchet WED Irene Nemirovsky - Anna Francolini WED Gloria Golder - Elizabeth Bell WED Joyce Golder - Francesca Dymond WED Hoyos - Vernon Dobtcheff WED Doctor Ghedalia - Max Digby WED WED Directed by Peter Farago. WED WED 11:00 Cadbury is Our Longbridge b00rmthx (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Two years in the making this is the inside story of how the WED Somerdale chocolate factory near Bristol became caught up in WED a huge global tale. Cadbury announced the factory was WED closing over two years ago but the American food giant Kraft WED reckoned they could keep it open if their bid for Cadbury WED proved a success. Six days after winning they announced WED Somerdale would shut making employees feel they'd been made WED redundant all over again. WED WED Producer Miles Warde. WED WED 11:30 House On Fire b00pr7sg (Listen) WED Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. WED WED Vicky and Matt decide to have a housewarming party. A simple WED split of duties leaves Matt in charge of sending the WED invitations and Vicky doing everything else. Surely Matt can WED get one thing right? WED WED Vicky ...... Emma Pierson WED Matt ...... Jody Latham WED Col. Bill ...... Rupert Vansittart WED Julie ...... Janine Duvitski WED Peter ...... Philip Jackson WED Donny ...... Sebastian Cardinal WED Wendy ...... Sophie Black WED WED With Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult. WED WED Directed by Clive Brill and Dan Hine WED WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00rlb6b (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00rldsj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00rlff5 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00rmxb6 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00rlfjx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rmxb8 (Listen) WED Arabian Afternoons, A Dish of Pomegranates WED WED A Dish of Pomegranates WED by Peter Jukes WED The third in a series of plays inspired by stories from the WED Arabian Nights. WED WED Shared roots and scattered families in the melting pot of WED modern Jerusalem. Tired after a stressful trip Ajib is WED stopped by security officers as he tries to fly out of Ben WED Gurion airport on his way home to the U.S. They don't think WED his story adds up. Can he make them believe him? And does he WED actually know the whole story himself? WED WED Shahrazad .......................SIRINE SABA WED Shahrayar/Vardan.............KEVORK MALIKYAN WED Ajib.................................WILLIAM EL-GARDI WED Orit..................................BETSABEH EMRAN WED Rafi..................................ZUBIN VARLA WED Howard.............................ALLAN CORDUNER WED Julia.................................KEELY BERESFORD WED Café Owner.......................STEFAN KALIPHA WED Tawfik/Trader 2..................MOZAFFAR SHAFEIE WED Flight Attendant/Trader 1....DAVID SEDDON WED Protestor...........................RUFUS WRIGHT WED WED Directed by Mary Peate WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00rmxbb (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer your WED personal finance questions. WED You can call the programme when lines open on Wednesday at WED 1330 GMT. The number is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00c0npc (Listen) WED Unaccustomed Earth, Unaccustomed Earth, part 1 WED WED Indira Varma reads the first part of Pulitzer Prize-winning WED author Jhumpa Lahiri's story Unaccustomed Earth exploring WED the dark secrets of family life through the Bengali WED immigrant experience. WED WED When Ruma's mother dies she leaves a space neither she nor WED her father knows how to fill. Back in India both know things WED would have been very different. A visit from her father WED brings to the surface feelings of guilt uncertainty and loss WED - but ultimately a kind of understanding. WED WED Unaccustomed Earth begins in America but like all the WED stories in this series spills back over memories and WED generations to India following new lives forged in the wake WED of loss. Concludes tomorrow. WED WED Reader: Indira Varma WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 15:45 On the Map b00rlwwt (Listen) WED Whose Map Is It Anyway? WED WED 8/10 Whose Map Is It Anyway? Thanks to Ordnance Survey the WED landscape of the British Isles is probably the most WED comprehensively mapped of any in the world. But pressure is WED growing for OS to waive their copyright and make their WED cartographic data free to use for all-comers. Mike Parker WED asks whether the UK's mapping agency can maintain its hold WED on the national topography - and its reputation. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00rmxbd (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Remembrance of Smells Past b00jnj31 (Listen) WED Ian Peacock discovers why certain smells can transport us WED back to our childhood. Our olfactory perceptions are WED increasingly being recognised by scientists as the WED foundation for many of our decisions and actions from WED consumer loyalty to weight loss and age perception. WED WED With a growing realisation that a sense of smell has this WED special ability to arouse particular feelings researchers WED are being drawn to explore the connections between smell WED memory and emotion. Ian asks if smells could be bypassing WED the conscious mind and accessing memories on a deeper more WED mysterious level. WED WED Ian Peacock remembers... WED WED Ian Peacock discovers which memories are associated with WED different smells at the Department of Psychology at WED Stockholm University. WED WED 17:00 PM b00rlx2h (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 b00rlx4p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b00rmxk5 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED The Party take to the streets with their inaugural protest. WED Jared's musical attempts to draw attention backfire WED painfully and Mel is desperate to get arrested. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00rlfjz (Listen) WED Lilian and Paul have a capital time and Joe gets back on the WED farm. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00rlx6m (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to Michael Whyte WED director of a documentary on a group of Carmelite nuns. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00rmxk7 (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind WED the week's news. Claire Fox Michael Portillo Clifford WED Longley and Kenan Malik cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00rmxk9 (Listen) WED Rev Dr Giles Fraser WED WED Rev Dr Giles Fraser Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral WED and a tutor of military ethics at The Defence Academy WED reflects on the nature of sacrifice. WED WED 21:00 God On My Mind b00rp1dr (Listen) WED Neurology WED WED Matthew Taylor Chief Executive of the RSA discovers what the WED latest scientific research can tell us about the human need WED for religion. WED WED Part 2: Neurology WED WED Almost half the population claim to have felt the presence WED of a power beyond themselves. But what happens in the brain WED during religious experiences? If magnetism can produce WED visions then what price mysticism and meditation? What's the WED difference between sainthood and schizophrenia? And why are WED many believers convinced that God speaks to them in their WED dreams? WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00rmt9m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00rlx9q (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00rlxh8 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r9y25 (Listen) WED Dancing Backwards, Episode 3 WED WED Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new novel WED Dancing Backwards WED WED Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone she WED decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old WED friend Edwin in New York. WED WED As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins WED to blossom - learning to ballroom dance taking up smoking WED again befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And in WED her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood as a WED student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets WED Edwin. Edwin it soon becomes clear is someone she's betrayed WED and someone she's both terrified and desperate to see again. WED The story that unfolds about the young Violet holds the WED secret to that betrayal. WED WED In tonight's episode Violet and Edwin embark on a shared WED career and aboard ship one of the dance hosts begins to take WED more than a little interest in her. WED WED Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a WED critically acclaimed best-selling novelist whose work WED includes Mr Golightly's Holiday Instances of the Number 3 WED Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's WED Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at WED Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the WED Oedipus myth Where Three Roads Meet for Radio 4's Afternoon WED Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she was a WED psychoanalyst. WED WED Produced by Kirsty Williams. WED WED 23:00 Earls of the Court b00rp1dt (Listen) WED The Hangover WED WED Lloydie knows that when Johnno's hungover he always makes a WED misconceived life-changing decision. But is he ready for WED what's coming? WED WED 23:15 Nick Mohammed in Quarters b00hdbgz (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Energetic sketch comedy from Nick Mohammed and friends. With WED Anna Crilly and Colin Hoult. WED WED 23:30 4 At the Fringe b00d0hwc (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Four At The Fringe is the first of two half hour comedy WED shows for Radio 4 which features some of the best acts who WED appeard at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 recorded at WED The Pleasance Beyond. WED WED The series is hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre with his WED own unique style - he'll be introducing the eight acts over WED the two shows. WED WED This first show features Ed Byrne; cheeky comedienne Kerry WED Godliman Liverpudlian comic John Bishop and Rich Hall as his WED musical alter-ego Otis Lee Crenshaw who offers his unique WED perspective on life from an American perspective WED WED Four At The Fringe brings the best of the acts appearing at WED The Fringe in Edinburgh in one bite sized audio chunk! WED WED The producer is Paul Russell and the programme is an Open WED Mike production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 APRIL 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00rl59v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00rp7qh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rl5d2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rl5wk (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rl61n (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00rl6gr (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rl6my (Listen) THU with the Rt Revd Tom Wright Bishop of Durham. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00rl6ql (Listen) THU Presenter: Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00rl6t5 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00rp1fd (Listen) THU The History of the City, part 2 THU THU Melvyn Bragg presents the second of a two-part discussion THU about the history of the city. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qk (Listen) THU Burying The Bones, Episode 4 THU THU Lindsay Duncan reads another extract from "Burying The THU Bones" Hilary Spurling's account of the astonishing life of THU Pearl Buck. THU THU The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for THU Literature (in 1938) Pearl's popular novels were rooted in THU her childhood experiences of growing up in rural China the THU daughter of missionaries at the turn of the 20th century. THU Jung Chang the author of "Wild Swans" has described Pearl THU Buck as "one of the greatest writers on China". THU THU Today's episode explores the extraordinary effect that THU Pearl's commercial success had on her family. This was most THU powerfully expressed in the freedom she had to secure a THU future for her daughters - including the best healthcare for THU her disabled daughter. But success came at a price: cracks THU began to appear in her marriage and Pearl became the focus THU of a divorce scandal that rocked 1930s America. THU THU Abridger: Alison Joseph. THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rl8lw (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Who do you prefer Robert Redford THU or Paul Newman? THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2k (Listen) THU David Golder, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5 THU Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and THU ambition love and money translated by Sandra Smith and THU adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. THU THU David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is THU something like a monster but whose killer instinct in THU business is based not in self-interest but in the almost THU pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does THU not care for him. THU THU Episode Four: Following disturbing news from the financial THU markets Golder makes plans to return to Paris to negotiate a THU deal which will save him from the impending catastrophe. But THU before he goes Gloria has a shattering surprise for her THU husband. THU THU David Suchet stars as Golder with Anna Francolini (recently THU winner of the TMA/Stage award for the best stage performance THU of 2009) as Irene Nemirovsky. Elizabeth Bell plays Golder's THU rapacious wife Gloria and Francesca Dymond his indulged THU daughter Joyce. THU THU Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929 THU and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish THU background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The THU novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in THU 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the THU Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died THU in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39. THU THU David Golder - David Suchet THU Irene Nemirovsky - Anna Francolini THU Gloria Golder - Elizabeth Bell THU Hoyos - Vernon Dobtcheff THU Loewe - David Gant THU THU Directed by Peter Farago. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00rp1w4 (Listen) THU Mongolia is in the grip of the deadliest winter for a THU decade. People have died because they can't reach doctors or THU hospitals and malnutrition is increasing fast. Most THU significantly for a nation where tending livestock is THU central to its culture untold millions of animals have died. THU Frozen carcasses of sheep and goats litter parts of the THU country. Linda Pressly travels to the remote far west of the THU country to report on this developing emergency. She asks THU what it means for Mongolia as rural refugees from the deep THU freeze have flooded to the capital Ulan Bator. THU And she asks about the prospects of a brighter future with THU recent discovery of what may be the world's largest deposits THU of gold. THU Producer: Linda Sills. THU THU 11:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History THU of Modern American Literature b00rp1w6 (Listen) THU Goodbye Soldiers, Hello Everyone THU THU Mark Lawson completes his tour of modern American literature THU with a story of departures and arrivals and the cultural THU pressures which writers face in the 21st century. THU THU The great post-Second World War generation of authors - THU Norman Mailer John Updike Joseph Heller Kurt Vonnegut Jr - THU and their surviving contemporaries such as Gore Vidal and THU Philip Roth often expressed gloom about the future of THU serious novels and plays fearing they would be pushed out by THU a pressure towards more commercial and personal stories. THU THU The rise of "confessional writing" - from the poetry of THU Sylvia Plath and others in the 60s to the modern "misery THU memoir" - has seemed to call into question the validity of THU imagination and invention. Lawson argues that an underlying THU change in the status of the literary novel is epitomised by THU the fact that wheareas in the 1960s John Updike was featured THU on the cover of Time magazine more recently it was Dan THU Brown. THU THU However a new wave of so-called "hyphenated"' writers - THU Indian-American Korean-American Dominican-American - has THU been renewing U.S libraries in the way they always had been: THU through immigration. THU THU Taking final stock Mark Lawson reflects on whether American THU Literature has reached a full stop or perhaps achieved a new THU dash. He talks to authors including John Ashbery Rita Dove THU Chang-rae Lee Junot Diaz Lorrie Moore Walter Mosley and THU James Patterson. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00rlb6g (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00rldsl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00rlff7 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00rm3pr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00rlfjz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rp1w8 (Listen) THU Last Family Standing THU THU Paul Watson's play "Last Family Standing" is set in 1946 THU though many listeners might think it today. THU THU Britain newly emerged from the shadow of war is in a time of THU austerity. Five million victorious men and women have THU returned from the war effort to a peacetime of few jobs. THU Money food and decent housing are also scarce. The THU Government has failed to stem accumulating social problems. THU The jubilation of VE day has evaporated. Life is difficult. THU The party is over. THU THU Today 2010 we are told our economic output is falling. The THU nation is suffering the worst contraction of GDP since 1946. THU THU Politicians wave their hands and offer excuses. Bankers sit THU in isolated splendour seemingly impervious to social need. THU And the people wait! THU THU Like our grandparents who waited for the tank and munitions THU factories to re-adjust to the needs of peace to the building THU of cars kettles and cookers we all again wait as THU unemployment and its consequence affect the finance of home life. THU THU Paul Watson's play is the account of one waiting family in THU 1946 the Truscott family. Charles Marjorie and their THU grown-up children's struggle to survive "at any cost" brings THU tragic consequence as remembered by the only surviving THU family member Dorothy. It is her anger and contempt for the THU Establishment of "then and now" that fuels 'Last Family THU Standing'. THU THU The programme is produced by Paul Watson and is a Pier THU Productions Limited production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00rkkpk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00rl48w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00c0npf (Listen) THU Unaccustomed Earth, Unaccustomed Earth, part 2 THU THU Indira Varma reads the second part of Pulitzer Prize-winning THU author Jhumpa Lahiri's title story from her collection THU Unaccustomed Earth exporing the dark secrets of family life THU through the Bengali immigrant experience. THU THU When Ruma's mother dies she leaves a space neither her THU daughter or her husband knows how to fill. Back in India THU both know things would have been very different. But when THU Ruma's father visits her in America Ruma finally decides to THU invite him to live with her and her family. But his response THU is not what she had expected. THU THU Unaccustomed Earth begins in America but like all the THU stories in this week's series spills back over memories and THU generations to India following new lives forged in the wake THU of loss. THU THU Reader: Indira Varma THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 15:45 On the Map b00rlwww (Listen) THU Digital Maps THU THU 9/10 Digital Maps. Who needs traditional paper maps any more THU when you can download all the maps you need from the THU internet? Mike Parker looks at cartography in the digital THU age and asks whether internet mapping and satellite THU navigation are actually destroying good map-making and map-reading. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00rl4zl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00rp1wb (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week. THU THU 17:00 PM b00rlx2k (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 b00rlx4r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00rp1wd (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 5 THU THU Milton waves goodbye to the world of dance and musical THU theatre to pursue his dream of becoming a miner. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00rlfk1 (Listen) THU Jazzer puts his money where his mouth is and Ambridge shows THU it has got talent. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00rlx6p (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang talks to Joanne Harris THU about her new novel Blueeyedboy. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00rp1wg (Listen) THU Morland Sanders investigates the background to the strike at THU British Airways. How has a dispute over reductions in cabin THU crew turned into a long-running and costly row? THU THU Union officials fear the dispute has the potential to cause THU acrimonious rifts between staff at BA - once dubbed the THU world's favourite airline. But managers say they have to cut THU costs and have put in place extensive plans to keep many THU routes operating. Travellers though face chaos and THU cancellations. THU THU The Report examines the financial problems facing BA - and THU asks if the industrial action will result in business and THU first class passengers taking their custom elsewhere. They THU make up the premium market that the airline needs to keep THU for its long-term survival. THU THU Producer: Sally Chesworth. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00rp1wj (Listen) THU Who Sets Our Standards? THU THU World trade in goods and services - from the butter on your THU bread to the existence of the mobile phone - is held THU together by an invisible web of standards set by all kinds THU of official and semi official organisations. Peter Day has THU been asking the standards-setters what they do and why it THU matters. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 The Naming of Genes b00lyfy1 (Listen) THU Kakapo Cleopatra and Pavarotti are cryptic names for genes; THU the clue to what they do lies in their names. Sue Broom THU cracks the code in this subtle game of scientific one upmanship. THU THU Chardonay Hedgehog and Cheap Dates all have one thing in THU common. They are all names for genes specifically of fruit THU fly or drosophilia genes. The trick is you have to guess THU what it is so for example Amontillado is a allusion to the THU Edgar Allan Poe book where the hero is walled in alive; the THU gene amontillado refers to mutant larvae who can't hatch. THU THU Chardonay is a reference to the white blood cells and other THU wine genes are Chablis retsina and Chianti. The wine THU collection is housed at Dr Leonard Zon's laboratory at THU Harvard Medical School. When one of Dr Zon's students THU discovers a new wine gene they are awarded with a bottle of THU that particular wine although he has got wise to them THU choosing some of the more rarified and expensive vintages. THU THU Other labs prefer to use Shakespeare characters musical THU references or more colloquial terms such as Lush referring THU to an increased affection for alcohol. Sometimes there are THU races to name the gene and a fight may break out between THU institutions. Kathy Matthews of the Bloomington Drosophilia THU Stock Centre in Indiana proudly says that fly geneticists THU were the first geneticists and therefore in the early days THU it was like being in the Wild West but now political THU correctness is moving in. THU THU More seriously worm mice and human geneticists think they THU should tone down their gene names. Its not appropriate they THU say to call a gene a Sonic Hedegehog. THU THU But Kathy and her colleagues are resisting; it is part of THU their tradition they say. A witty whimsical or colloquial THU name can get a scientist lot of attention in the scientific THU community. THU THU Sue Broom looks at some of the more famous examples and THU charts the resistance to turning Van Gogh into a chain of THU numbers and letters. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00rp1fd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00rlx9s (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00rlxhb (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r9y27 (Listen) THU Dancing Backwards, Episode 4 THU THU Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new novel THU Dancing Backwards THU THU Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone she THU decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old THU friend Edwin in New York. THU THU As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins THU to blossom - learning to ballroom dance taking up smoking THU again befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And in THU her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood as a THU student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets THU Edwin. Edwin it soon becomes clear is someone she's betrayed THU and someone she's both terrified and desperate to see again. THU The story that unfolds about the young Violet holds the THU secret to that betrayal. THU THU In tonight's episode Violet and Edwin's happy life together THU faces its first challenge when an interloper arrives. THU THU Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a THU critically acclaimed best-selling novelist whose work THU includes Mr Golightly's Holiday Instances of the Number 3 THU Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's THU Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at THU Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the THU Oedipus myth Where Three Roads Meet for Radio 4's Afternoon THU Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she was a THU psychoanalyst. THU THU Produced by Kirsty Williams. THU THU 23:00 Scrooby Trevithick b00rp1wl (Listen) THU Paparazzo THU THU Scrooby Trevithick is a six part scripted comedy series THU written by and starring Andy Parsons following on from the THU first series aired on Radio 4 18 months ago - The Lost THU WebLog of Scrooby Trevithick. THU THU This second series continues to follow the exploits of the THU hapless character of Scrooby (Andy Parsons) an enthusiastic THU but flawed wannabe who having returned from his wanderings THU is still trying to find himself by zealously posting his web THU diaries online. THU THU Each episode features him attempting to make a dent in the THU national consciousness and in this series he's helped by his THU good friend Sasha (Kerry Godliman). However his desire for THU success always takes him one step further than prudence THU dictates. THU THU In this series he tries his hand at becoming a Councillor a THU Journalist a Performer an Entrepreneur a Writer and in this THU third episode a Paparazzo having taken some dubious footage THU on his mobile phone. THU THU The cast features a variety of talented comedians including THU Dara O Briain Russell Howard Hugh Dennis Russell Kane Rufus THU Hound Alun Cochrane Dominic Frisby Paul Thorne Martin Coyote THU and Barunka O'Shaugnessy. THU THU As always listeners are encouraged to share their comments THU with Scrooby at www.scroobytrevithick.com as he needs all THU the advice he can get! THU THU The producer is Paul Russell and the programme is an Open THU Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 4 At the Fringe b00d44xs (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU 4 At The Fringe is the second of two half hour stand up THU comedy shows for Radio 4 which features some of the best THU acts appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 THU recorded at The Pleasance Beyond. THU THU The series is hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre with his THU own unique style - introducing the eight acts over the two THU shows. THU THU Tonight Jon Richardson Jeff Green Alun Cochrane and comic THU musician David O'Doherty will bring his two small keyboards THU and his very odd sense of humour to round the show off. THU THU Four At The Fringe brings the best of the acts appearing at THU The Fringe in Edinburgh in one bite sized audio chunk! THU THU The producer is Paul Russell and the programme is an Open THU Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 APRIL 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00rl59x (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00rp7qk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00rl5d4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00rl5wm (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00rl61q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00rl6gt (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00rl6n0 (Listen) FRI with the Rt Revd Tom Wright Bishop of Durham. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00rl6qn (Listen) FRI Presenter: Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00rl6t7 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00rl498 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qm (Listen) FRI Burying The Bones, Episode 5 FRI FRI Lindsay Duncan reads the final extract from Hilary FRI Spurling's new book: "Burying The Bones". The distinguished FRI biographer's subject is the astonishing life of Pearl Buck FRI one of the most successful and popular American novelists of FRI the 20th Century. FRI FRI In today's episode we learn that as she entered old age FRI Pearl's indomitable spirit continued to shine as she shocked FRI and surprised her family with a series of bizarre life FRI choices. Pearl never quite recovered her equilibrium after FRI the death of her second husband and surrounded by a coterie FRI of flamboyant young men became increasingly cloistered - FRI receiving visitors in a 'throne' room; a strange echo of the FRI last days of her childhood heroine the last empress of FRI China. FRI FRI Though her work has now fallen out of fashion in her day FRI Pearl Buck was a phenomenal bestseller. The novel that made FRI her name was "The Good Earth" which depicted for the first FRI time the gruelling conditions of China's rural poor. Born to FRI Presbyterian missionaries in 1890s China Buck's first hand FRI experience of the language and people informed her writing FRI and helped to change Western perceptions of that country FRI forever; in recognition of which she won the Nobel Prize for FRI Literature in 1938. FRI FRI Abridger: Alison Joseph. FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00rl8ly (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray celebrates 150 years of fish and chips. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2m (Listen) FRI David Golder, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/5 FRI Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and FRI ambition love and money translated by Sandra Smith and FRI adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. FRI FRI David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is FRI something like a monster but whose killer instinct in FRI business is based not in self-interest but in the almost FRI pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does FRI not care for him. FRI FRI Episode Five: Living alone in Paris Golder's career as a FRI financier looks to be all but over. But an unexpected visit FRI makes it necessary to force himself into one last deal- FRI whatever the cost. FRI FRI David Suchet stars as Golder with Anna Francolini (recently FRI winner of the TMA/Stage award for the best stage performance FRI of 2009) as Irene Nemirovsky. Elizabeth Bell plays Golder's FRI rapacious wife Gloria and Francesca Dymond his indulged FRI daughter Joyce. FRI FRI Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929 FRI and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish FRI background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The FRI novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in FRI 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the FRI Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died FRI in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39. FRI FRI David Golder - David Suchet FRI Irene Nemirovsky - Anna Francolini FRI Gloria Golder - Elizabeth Bell FRI Joyce Golder - Francesca Dymond FRI Delegate - Robin Harvey Edwards FRI Russian Boy - Richard Galazka FRI FRI Directed by Peter Farago. FRI FRI 11:00 The Doctor and Douglas b00rp3dw (Listen) FRI As a new generation of fans await the debut of the 11th FRI incarnation of the Doctor long-time fan Jon Culshaw travels FRI back in time to look at the man who changed Doctor Who FRI forever: Douglas Adams. FRI FRI After years toiling for success as a writer in 1978 Douglas' FRI world turned upside down. Just weeks after the radio series FRI The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was commissioned so was FRI his first script for Doctor Who. The following year - just FRI as Hitchhikers was taking off - he was offered the job as FRI script editor one of the most demanding jobs in television. FRI FRI The scripts he wrote for Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet City FRI of Death and Shada - still stand as a benchmark for the FRI series today. But his time on the series was beset by FRI problems. Technician strikes would seriously affect FRI production inflation was squeezing the series budget and FRI Douglas was exhausted by the simultaneous demands of FRI Hitchhikers and Doctor Who. FRI FRI Nevertheless Douglas left an indelible mark on Doctor Who FRI bringing in a sharp wit that hadn't been seen before in what FRI was ostensibly a children's TV series. Today's crop of FRI writers and producers strive to emulate the intelligence FRI humour and ideas in Adams' scripts from 1979. FRI FRI Jon Culshaw looks at Douglas' work on a television FRI institution talking to the writers directors and actors who FRI worked with him and looks at the legacy of his work on FRI Doctor Who with new executive producer Steven Moffat. FRI FRI Produced by Simon Barnard and Kieron Moyles. This is a Wise FRI Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b00rp3dy (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI From Carnegie Hall to the BBC Radio Theatre - American FRI humourist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection FRI of published stories and articles. In show 1 of 4: "6 to 8 FRI Black Men" "Diary Fragments" and "Just a Quick Email". FRI FRI The producer is Steve Doherty and the programme is a FRI Boomerang Plus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 Counterpoint b00rp41f (Listen) FRI For Easter weekend on Radio 4 Paul Gambaccini's in the FRI quizmaster's chair for a very special edition of the FRI long-running music quiz 'Counterpoint'. FRI FRI The quiz covers the usual broad mixture of musical styles - FRI but all the extracts and musical clues in this special FRI edition will be played live in the studio by the BBC FRI Philharmonic taking a breather from their current Mahler FRI season of concerts. FRI FRI Answering Paul's questions and identifying the extracts are FRI three musical celebrities - soprano and radio presenter FRI Catherine Bott; conductor and comedian Rainer Hersch; and FRI musician writer and comedian Kit Hesketh Harvey. FRI FRI The BBC Philharmonic will be providing plenty of surprising FRI arrangements of familiar melodies from Tchaikovsky to Take FRI That. You can hear which of the celebrity panellists proves FRI to have the broadest musical knowledge in this unique FRI collaboration recorded with an enthusiastic audience at BBC FRI Manchester. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00rldsn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00rlff9 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00rp41h (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00rlfk1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00cbrjn (Listen) FRI I Love Stephen Fry FRI FRI Jackie is married to a good-natured but big-bottomed butcher FRI Terry. She works in a newsagent and she's restless. Her FRI youngest child Chloe is about to get married to Carl a FRI sensible lad. But Jackie thinks Chloe's repeating her own FRI mistake: marrying too young without exploring her options. FRI Jackie's a big fan of Stephen Fry and would love her FRI daughter to be marrying a man as interesting as him. Jackie FRI buys a tent ostensibly as a wedding present for Chloe. But FRI instead Jackie sleeps in the tent herself in the garden to FRI escape her husband. She has a series of dreams about Stephen FRI Fry. He's everything her husband Terry is not: eloquent FRI metropolitan learned and gay. In a series of exciting and FRI alarming fantasies Jackie and Stephen have a platonic love FRI affair. Then Chloe meets Stephen Fry in an Indian restaurant FRI and tells him her mum is in love with him. Suddenly fantasy FRI is becoming reality. FRI FRI Terry discovers his wife is in love with a man known only as FRI 'Steve'. He's no idea who Steve is. Should he confront FRI Steve? Or should he keep quiet and wait for his wife's FRI affair with Steve to blow over. Eventually husband wife and FRI Steve meet in an Ipswich bookshop and have their lives FRI changed forever. Except Steve. He just carries on being FRI Stephen Fry. FRI FRI Stephen Fry - Himself FRI Jackie - Lesley Sharp FRI Terry - Phil Davis FRI Margaret - Carolyn Pickles FRI Ron - Ron Cook FRI Chloe - Sinead Matthews FRI Carl - Karl Theobald FRI FRI Producer/Director Fiona McAlpine FRI The programme is an Allegra producton for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Liturgy b00rp41k (Listen) FRI Cries of the Passion. Professor of Christianity and the Arts FRI at King's College London the Revd Prof Ben Quash traces the FRI way of the cross through the sounds and cries he hears on FRI his daily walk to work across London. The cries of the FRI Passion tell the story as Ben's pilgrimage moves from the FRI roaring crowds of the Arsenal stadium past the joyful FRI shouting of children in Coram's Fields playground the cries FRI of the market place in Covent Garden into the box of FRI darkness in Tate Modern. The journey starts in the chant of FRI the crowd and ends in a solitary cry. Producer: Clair FRI Jaquiss. FRI FRI 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00c0npk (Listen) FRI Unaccustomed Earth, Year's End FRI FRI Hari Dhillon reads Year's End the last in the series of FRI stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri FRI exploring the dark secrets of family life through the FRI Bengali immigrant experience. FRI FRI During a holiday visit to his family home three years after FRI his mother's death a young man struggles to accept his FRI father's new and very young Indian wife. FRI FRI Year's End begins in America but like all the stories in FRI this series spills back over memories and generations to FRI India following new lives forged in the wake of loss. FRI FRI Reader: Hari Dhillon FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 15:45 On the Map b00rlwwy (Listen) FRI Maps of the Mind FRI FRI 10/10 Maps of the Mind. The most powerful maps aren't found FRI on paper or a computer screen. They're the maps we hold in FRI our memories and imaginations. Mike Parker visits a primary FRI school in his home town to compare the pupils' maps with his FRI own drawn from childhood recollection. And he takes a trip FRI to Ambridge home of the Archers to meet Eddie Grundy and ask FRI him for directions around the village. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00rp41m (Listen) FRI John Wilson presents the obituary series analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00rp41p (Listen) FRI Colin Shindler investigates the British film studios that FRI time forgot. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00rlx2m (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 b00rlx4t (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00rp41r (Listen) FRI Series 30, Episode 5 FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00rlfk3 (Listen) FRI The future can't come soon enough for Tom and Jill gets good FRI support on Good Friday. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00rlx6r (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Brian Eno guest FRI artistic director of the 2010 Brighton Festival. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00rlb2m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00rp41t (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Holsworthy in FRI Devon with questions from the audience for the panel FRI including: Peter Hain MP Welsh Secretary; musician Billy FRI Bragg and Daily Telegraph columnist Bryony Gordon. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00rp41w (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Simon Schama. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00rp41y (Listen) FRI Old World, New Powers FRI FRI Another chance to hear "A History of the World in a Hundred FRI Objects" where the Director of the British Museum Neil FRI MacGregor retells the history of humanity through the things FRI it has made... and which have found their way into the FRI Museum's collection. FRI FRI This week he is looking at the key power struggles taking FRI place across the globe around 3000 years ago as ambitious FRI new forces were building sophisticated new societies. And he FRI does so with the help of: a set of stone carvings depicting FRI perhaps for the first time the terrible effects of war on FRI civilian populations; a stone sphinx of a black ruler that FRI conquered Egypt from the south; a Chinese bronze bowl buried FRI with the dead for feasts in the afterlife; a set of brightly FRI coloured textiles from the Peruvian peninsula of Paracas; FRI and what may well be amongst the world's first proper coins FRI minted during the reign of Croesus. And amongst those on FRI hand to plot the wider significance of these objects in our FRI world history are Lord Ashdown Zeinab Badawi Dame Jessica FRI Rawson Dr Wang Tao Zandra Rhodes and James Buchan. FRI FRI Producers: Rebecca Stratford Anthony Denselow and Paul FRI Kobrak. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00rlx9v (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00rlxhd (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r9y29 (Listen) FRI Dancing Backwards, Episode 5 FRI FRI Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new novel FRI Dancing Backwards FRI FRI Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone she FRI decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old FRI friend Edwin in New York. FRI FRI As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins FRI to blossom - learning to ballroom dance taking up smoking FRI again befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And in FRI her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood as a FRI student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets FRI Edwin. Edwin it soon becomes clear is someone she's betrayed FRI and someone she's both terrified and desperate to see again. FRI The story that unfolds about the young Violet holds the FRI secret to that betrayal. FRI FRI In tonight's episode Edwin discovers that Violet's been FRI keeping a rather surprising secret from him. FRI FRI Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a FRI critically acclaimed best-selling novelist whose work FRI includes Mr Golightly's Holiday Instances of the Number 3 FRI Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's FRI Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at FRI Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the FRI Oedipus myth Where Three Roads Meet for Radio 4's Afternoon FRI Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she was a FRI psychoanalyst. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00rms95 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 4 at the Fringe b00m721q (Listen) FRI 2009, Episode 1 FRI FRI Micky Flanagan introduces comedy and music from the FRI Edinburgh Festival Fringe recorded at the Pleasance Theatre FRI and featuring Russell Kane Rich Hall Fred MacAulay and Ali FRI McGregor. FRI FRI Each year the Edinburgh Fringe hosts some of the best FRI comedians from Britain and around the world and in 2009 FRI there are over 750 comedy productions being staged. FRI
26 March, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 27/03/2010 - 02/04/2010
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