04 March, 2011

Radio 4 Listings for 05/03/2011 - 11/03/2011

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SAT SATURDAY 05 MARCH 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00yz57w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00yz54n (Listen) SAT Bird Cloud, Episode 5 SAT SAT Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Annie Proulx, sets out to SAT build her perfect home in a remote corner of Wyoming. SAT SAT Proulx's first work of non-fiction in twenty years tells a SAT personal story of designing and constructing a house in SAT harmony with her interests, work and personality. SAT SAT Living for her first year at Bird Cloud, Annie Proulx enjoys SAT the range of bird and wildlife that inhabits her property. SAT But it becomes clear that the remoteness and the snow will SAT force her to reassess her dream. SAT SAT Read by Laura Brook SAT Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder SAT Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yz57y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yz580 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yz582 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00yz584 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00yz586 (Listen) SAT With the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00yz588 (Listen) SAT "Can you hear the shooting?" Ex-pat listeners recall SAT witnessing Middle East crises. We hear from a former soldier SAT about being trapped in the Libyan desert during the 1969 SAT coup, and a woman who opted to hide from Iraqi troops in SAT occupied Kuwait rather than become a 'human shield'. Radio 4 SAT favourite Kathy Clugston reads Your News, 'live' and without SAT a rehearsal. John Simpson also lends a hand. With Eddie Mair SAT and Becky Milligan. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00yz58b (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00yz58d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00z1z5n (Listen) SAT Series 17, Episode 5 SAT SAT Stuart Maconie takes in the Manchester skyline with the poet SAT Simon Armitage on his home turf, the borderlands of SAT Yorkshire and Lancashire near to the village of Marsden. SAT They walk part of the Pennine Way from Standedge Cutting SAT towards White Hill, taking in views of Manchester as they SAT go. SAT SAT Grid Reference for walk start point: SE 047118 Standedge SAT Visitor Centre Car Park SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00z1z5q (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Farming Today This Week reports on the future for family-run SAT farms. Charlotte Smith visits Andrew Brown in Rutland where SAT he farms 620 acres with his father, John Brown to find out SAT whether the traditional family farm can compete with larger SAT industrial scale farming operations, and we hear from SAT farming families across the country sharing their views and SAT ideas on how to make traditional farming pay. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin SAT Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00yz58g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00z1z5s (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00z1z5v (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with broadcaster Angela Rippon and poet Matt SAT Harvey; an interview with a woman who lived through the SAT Iranian Revolution in the seventies, a man who 30 years ago SAT was technical director on British Oscar sensation Chariots SAT of Fire, a Day Trip to Stevenage with author and comedienne SAT Emma Kennedy, and Inheritance Tracks from Joy Division and SAT New Order bass player Peter Hook. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00z2ncd (Listen) SAT Antarctic and Shackleton centenary expedition to the South SAT Pole - In the footsteps of my Ottoman uncle SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig explores two very different sides of the SAT Antarctic. One from an expedition cruise ship and the other SAT following the 2008/9 expedition following in the footsteps SAT of Ernest Shackleton's failed bid for the South Pole on the SAT 1907/9 Nimrod Expedition. Sandi also meets Palestinian SAT writer Raja Shehadeh and talks about another journey in SAT someone's footsteps- in this case Raja's great uncle, who SAT fled the Ottoman authorities in Palestine during the First SAT World War and lived on the run for 3 years in and around the SAT Rift Valley. Raja walks around many of the places that his SAT relative lived whilst in hiding. SAT SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Waiter There's a Fly in My Soup b00z2ncg (Listen) SAT We know of few limits when it comes to complaining: from SAT seeking refunds for outfits we've already worn, to sending SAT back wine we don't like in a restaurant. Peter White SAT explores the serious and not so serious experiences of SAT shoppers and examines what rights we really have. Sheffield SAT Trading Standards officer Phil Glaves takes him on a tour of SAT the returns desks at the Meadowhall shopping centre, with SAT queues which sometimes appear more extensive than those SAT found at the tills themselves. He explains the difficult SAT balance between protecting customers and protecting the SAT stores themselves - one of his more colourful complainants SAT was a man who made full use of a 30 day no-quibble returns SAT policy to test out an entire range of bread makers, keeping SAT each one for the maximum period possible. SAT SAT Peter's no stranger when it comes to returning goods and as SAT a presenter at You and Yours he's well aware of his rights SAT when things don't work. But what happens to those products SAT he just doesn't like and particularly after Christmas is it SAT right to expect stores to step in when the present he SAT thought would be perfect turns out to be far from it? SAT SAT The rise in online shopping and the increasing amounts spent SAT on technological goods creates additional uncertainty for SAT shoppers and he tracks the experiences of those dissatisfied SAT with a dizzying array of phones, computers and even bikes SAT brought with the click of a mouse. He questions the motives SAT of people ranging from the serial complainer to the novice SAT testing the waters for the first time and with stores like SAT Marks and Spencer's abandoning the 90 day refund policy he SAT finds out why people sometimes wait so long before SAT complaining. SAT SAT Producer: Susan Mitchell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00z2ncj (Listen) SAT This week Elinor Goodman look behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00z2ncl (Listen) SAT Dreams of a new Libya in the revolutionary city of Benghazi. SAT SAT Could Saudi Arabia be touched by this season of revolt in SAT the Middle East...? SAT SAT In a court in Belarus, we watch KGB evidence condemn a SAT pro-democracy activist. SAT SAT And on a hunting trip in the Amazon, our correspondent finds SAT himself wearing nothing more than a string of SAT feathers....and a smile. SAT SAT The fate of the attempted revolution in Libya is far from SAT settled. There are skirmishes along the main coastal, desert SAT highway, and occasional air strikes by Colonel Gaddafi's SAT jets. But neither his forces nor his opponents seem capable SAT of mounting a decisive military assault. So for now at SAT least, Benghazi.....the city where the revolt SAT began....remains free of the Colonel's regime. And Kevin SAT Conolly has been listening to people there talk of the SAT oppression they've endured under his rule.... SAT SAT The ructions in Libya are making an impact far beyond the SAT Middle East. The upheaval in this oil-producing nation have SAT helped hike the cost of petrol around the world. But the oil SAT price would really rocket if Saudi Arabia were to be SAT seriously shaken by the region's current spirit of SAT revolution. So is there any realistic chance of that...? Our SAT correspondent, Frank Gardner knows Saudi well, and he says SAT that there are murmurs of discontent..... SAT SAT A series of trials is under way in Belarus. President SAT Alexander Lukashenko's opponents are being put through the SAT courts. They're facing charges in connection with a protest SAT they launched after the last election. They were angry that SAT -- according to the official results -- Mr Lukashenko had SAT been re-elected with a huge majority. Independent observers SAT said the vote had fallen well short of democratic SAT standards.... Mr Lukashenko's critics describe the current SAT court cases as no more than Soviet-style, show trials. But SAT the government insists the protests were part of a plot to SAT overthrow it.... Our correspondent David Stern has been SAT watching the trials unfold in the Belarussian capital, SAT Minsk... SAT SAT Right now, around the world there are people doing all sorts SAT of very tough jobs..... There will be fishermen out in the SAT heaving, freezing North Atlantic... There'll be farmers bent SAT double in their paddyfields.... There'll be, sweat-shop SAT workers putting in yet another, exhausting shift.... But in SAT the Indian city of Kolkota, Judy Swallow has been talking to SAT a man who knows as well as anyone what it means to have to SAT make a living the hard way. SAT SAT In our last programme we talked about fashion trouble....the SAT trickiness of making sure that you're dressed properly in SAT different parts of the world. One of our correspondents had SAT struggled to get into a very posh cocktail bar in Singapore. SAT They said she wasn't wearing quite the right type of stylish SAT sandals.... And now we hear that deep in the Amazon jungle, SAT Justin Rowlatt has also faced a serious dress code issue. He SAT had to decide whether or not he should put on one SAT particularly striking accessory.....and as you'll hear, it SAT really wasn't something that they'd let you wear in that SAT posh cocktail bar in Singapore.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00z2pfh (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00yz55f (Listen) SAT Series 33, Dominos, democracy, Duke and Duchy SAT SAT Steve and Hugh are back for a new series and explore the SAT domino effect and democracy; Mitch Benn vents some heavy SAT metal angst at Mervyn King; Jon Holmes looks at how Radio 4 SAT could be made more dictator friendly and John Finnemore SAT warns us not to ask Prince Andrew for help. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00yz58j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00yz58l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00yz55k (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Balfron SAT High School in Stirling with questions for the panel SAT including Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister, Annabel SAT Goldie, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, Charlie SAT Falconer, former Lord Chancellor and Lynn Faulds Wood, SAT founder of the European Cancer Patient Coalition. SAT SAT Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00z2pfk (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00z2pfm (Listen) SAT Vanunu: A Time To Be Heard SAT SAT New drama set in 2004, on the release of Israeli nuclear SAT whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, who was immediately barred SAT from speaking to the foreign media. Peter Hounam, SAT investigative journalist, attempts to find a way to conduct SAT an interview without breaking the terms of Vanunu's freedom. SAT SAT After exposing the assembly of nuclear weapon making SAT capabilities at the Dimona nuclear plant where he worked as SAT a technician, Mordechai Vanunu spent nearly 18 years in SAT prison, 15 of those in solitary confinement. He emerged as SAT keen as ever to make public what he knew and his treatment SAT by the state. However, on the day of his release, Vanunu was SAT banned from speaking to foreign media, and forbidden from SAT leaving the country. SAT SAT Peter Hounam, who broke Vanunu's story in the Sunday Times SAT originally, travelled to Israel to meet Vanunu on release SAT and interview him for UK press and television. Once the SAT restrictions were announced, he set out to find way to give SAT Vanunu a voice without compromising his freedom. SAT SAT This new drama looks at the relationship between the two SAT men, as well as exploring the difficult issues of SAT investigative journalism and freedom of speech. Award SAT winning television and radio writer Jon Sen (Second SAT Generation, Frances Tuesday, 4.4.68) worked from firsthand SAT accounts of this very particular time to be heard. SAT SAT Peter Hounam........David Westhead SAT Mordechai Vanunu......Shai Matheson SAT Meir Vanunu.......Uriel Emil SAT Hilarie Hounam ....Rebecca Knowles SAT Chris Mitchell....Matthew Gravelle SAT Security Guard.....Josh Becker SAT SAT Producer.......Polly Thomas SAT A BBC Radio Drama Cymru/Wales production. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00yyh92 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet SAT SAT Mozart's Clarinet Quintet SAT SAT Written in 1789, two years before Mozart's death, this first SAT ever work for string quartet plus clarinet remains a firm SAT favourite for music lovers around the world. In this SAT programme Professor Paul Robertson describes how his wife SAT played this piece to him whilst he lay in a coma. SAT Clarinettist Peter Furniss tells of the solace the slow SAT movement provided his mother as she lay dying. And Alex SAT Smith explains the importance of this piece in his work to SAT help children with autism, Asperger's, dyslexia and other SAT childhood disorders. SAT Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart SAT Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 SAT Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets SAT Westbury Ensemble; SAT Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 SAT Bingham Quartet; SAT Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 SAT Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets SAT Medici String Quartet; SAT Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 SAT Mozart SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00z2pjc (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jane Garvey presents: Sarah Brown talks to Jenni about her SAT memoir of life "Behind the Black Door" of No.10 Downing SAT Street for the three years that her husband Gordon was in SAT power. What's it like to be what she styles the "WPM", or SAT Wife of the Prime Minister? - especially when George Clooney SAT turns up and you're in your M&S cardy? As "Silk" continues SAT on BBC1, two barristers talk about how hard it is for women SAT to become QCs, and about the pleasures and challenges of the SAT legal life. The former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith talks SAT about why she wanted to make a radio programme about porn. SAT There'll be a discussion of the terms "woman" and "lady": SAT what are the connotations of each? Rachel Johnson, editor of SAT The Lady, gives her thoughts. We hear from two women who as SAT nurses made a road trip across America at the end of the SAT 50's - they've collected their memories in "Bedpans and SAT Bobby Socks". And what to do when you're the only one who SAT changes the loo roll: Jane talks to Barbara Toner, who's SAT just written "What to do About Everything: A Manual for SAT Domestic Life". SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00z2pjf (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00yz3t0 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented this week by SAT Stephanie Flanders, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, SAT statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the SAT business world, through discussion with people running SAT leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT This week, Stephanie's top business guests hail from the SAT worlds of retail, IT and pizza. They swap thoughts on the SAT business of timing. Are modern businesses now so obsessed SAT with doing things quickly that they fail to do it well? SAT SAT And as political turmoil continues in the Middle East, the SAT panel debate whether it's important for businesses to keep SAT up with what's happening around the world. How isolated from SAT current events can they be? SAT SAT Stephanie is joined in the studio by David Wild, chief SAT executive of car accessories company Halfords; Mike Norris, SAT chief executive of IT services firm Computacenter; Chris SAT Moore, chief executive of Domino's Pizza UK & Ireland. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00yz58n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00yz58q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yz58s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00z2pjk (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Rory McGrath is one of our best known faces in British SAT comedy appearing in They Think it's All Over, QI and Three SAT Men in a Boat. His latest book 'The Father, the Son and The SAT Ghostly Hole' describes his Catholic upbringing. And then, SAT as a teenager in crisis, he abandoned his faith, entered the SAT God-forsaken world and embraced its evil ways with a spring SAT in his step. SAT SAT David Starkey is one of our most distinguished historians. SAT But how will he go down in front of a class of disillusioned SAT teenagers in Jamie's Dream School? Jamie, determined to SAT inspire the youngsters, has filled the school with SAT extraordinary teachers in a bid for them to give education a SAT second chance. As their history teacher, David introduces SAT them to some seventh century 'bling' and next week, ends up SAT being sent to the headmaster's office! SAT SAT He's played Mark Anthony in Rome, and the Black Prince in A SAT Knights Tale. James Purefoy returns to the big screen to SAT star in Ironclad, playing a Templar Knight in the blood and SAT guts historical drama set in the England of the 13th SAT Century. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi talks about The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of SAT the Stairs. It's the title of Christina Hopkinson's latest SAT novel and it's about men and their irritating behaviour. SAT Woman are good at making 'to do' lists but what happens when SAT you apply it to your love life and start making lists of his SAT annoying habits... SAT SAT Honduran Aurelio plays the title track of his critically SAT acclaimed album 'Laru Beya' which reflects his Garifuna SAT culture which fuses African and Caribbean roots. SAT SAT And from country-rock singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield SAT who performs Blue Skies Ahead from her latest album Tell Me. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00z2pjm (Listen) SAT As Paris Fashion week gets underway, one of its most SAT successful designers is missing from the show. Chris Bowlby SAT looks at the life and career of John Galliano, who was SAT sacked this week by fashion house Dior after allegedly SAT making anti-Semitic comments. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00z2pjp (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests cultural historian Sir SAT Christopher Frayling and writers Rowan Pelling and Ekow SAT Eshun review the cultural highlights of the week including SAT The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium. SAT SAT The Wizard of Oz is Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's first SAT collaboration on a West End musical since Evita in 1976. SAT Danielle Hope stars as Dorothy - she landed the role by SAT winning the BBC talent show Over The Rainbow - and Michael SAT Crawford is the Wizard. SAT SAT Justin Cartwright's novel Other People's Money tells the SAT story of a 350 year old family-owned bank - Tubal and Co. - SAT which finds itself in trouble after its chairman, Julian SAT Trevelyan-Tubal, leads it into the perilous waters of casino SAT banking. SAT SAT Archipelago is Joanna Hogg's second film and, like her debut SAT Unrelated, is about the cracks which emerge in an English SAT upper middle class family on holiday. The location is the SAT Scilly Isles and tensions and resentment soon bubble to the SAT surface within the confines of the idyllic rented house. SAT SAT Nancy Spero was a celebrated American artist and feminist. SAT The exhibition of her work at the Serpentine Gallery in SAT London was initiated by the Centre Pompidou and is the first SAT major Spero show since the artist's death in 2009. SAT SAT Twenty Twelve is a new BBC4 comedy by John Morton who also SAT wrote People Like Us. It takes the form of a mock SAT documentary following the progress of the Olympic SAT Deliverance Commission in the run up to the 2012 London SAT games and stars Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00z2pjr (Listen) SAT Murdoch at 80 SAT SAT There are two impressions of Rupert Murdoch. One: that he is SAT an ruthless businessman with a rapacious personality and SAT only interested in power. The other: that he is the champion SAT of the free market that opened up British media from the SAT stifling grip of unions. SAT SAT To mark the 80th birthday of the world's most controversial SAT media baron, Steve Hewlett will attempt to get the inside SAT story of the man behind the headlines, by talking to some of SAT his harshest rivals, as well as his closest collaborators. SAT SAT Amongst those Steve speaks to are former Union leader Brenda SAT Dean, Kelvin MacKenzie who edited Rupert Murdoch's Sun, Roy SAT Greenslade who recalls the battle for Wapping, Asa Briggs SAT who talks about his time at Oxford as Murdoch's tutor, and SAT actor Barry Humphries who paints a fearsome picture of SAT Murdoch's drive. SAT SAT In 1931, Murdoch was born to a wealthy media family in SAT Melbourne, Australia. As a young man, his Oxford education SAT was cut short with his father's death, upon which he became SAT managing director of Australia's News Limited in 1953. Under SAT his leadership, the company acquired newspaper after SAT newspaper until Murdoch became the dominant force in SAT Australian media. SAT SAT Murdoch then turned his gaze to Britain with the purchase of SAT The News of the World and the launch of The Sun. In 1981, he SAT gained significant prestige with his purchase of The Times SAT and The Sunday Times, papers that had been unprofitable SAT thanks to increased industrial action. Murdoch, ever the SAT innovative businessman, began electronically automating his SAT newspaper production, which resulted in a confrontation that SAT climaxed at Fortress Wapping in 1986. SAT SAT Today, his News Corporation has significant media holdings SAT around the globe. SAT SAT Producer: Colin McNulty SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00yy5z4 (Listen) SAT Show Boat, Episode 2 SAT SAT Edna Ferber's epic tale of Magnolia Hawks and her remarkable SAT life aboard a Show Boat. SAT SAT As Parthy races up the Cotton Blossom gangplank with SAT shocking news about Gaylord, Kim prepares to open the SAT telegram that has just been delivered to her dressing room SAT ... SAT SAT Kim......................Lysette Anthony SAT Magnolia...............Samantha Spiro SAT Gaylord.................Ryan McCluskey SAT Andy.....................Morgan Deare SAT Parthy...................Laurel Lefkow SAT Young Kim............Shahrazad Matthews SAT Ken......................Mark Caven SAT Mr. Mowson..........Iain Batchelor SAT Julie......................Samantha Dakin SAT Jo/Ralph................Nonso Anozie SAT Queenie................Tracy Ifeachor SAT Sophy/Hetty/Elly...Joanna Monro SAT Windy/Clyde.........Sean Baker SAT Crewman/Waiter...Jude Akuwudike SAT SAT The Music by Neil Brand and the Banjo Played by Mike Hammond SAT SAT Dramatised by Moya O'Shea SAT Directed By Tracey Neale. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00yz58v (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00yz2g8 (Listen) SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Clifford Longley, Anne SAT McElvoy and Kenan Malik. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b00yyc89 (Listen) SAT Durham SAT SAT Coming this week from Durham University, host Steve Punt SAT asks Earth Scientists about Philip Larkin, and English SAT Literature professors about Fish from Marillion. So if SAT you're struggling to remember what happened to Solomon SAT Grundy on Saturday, why the witches in Macbeth speak in SAT trochees not iambs and which footballer was sent off during SAT the 2006 World Cup Final for nutting his opponent - this is SAT the quiz show for you. SAT SAT "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz SAT show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 SAT listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded SAT on location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors. SAT Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most SAT stringent standards of academic rigour - but with lots of SAT facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00yy5z8 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents another varied selection of poetry SAT requests, including work by Derek Mahon and Philip Larkin. SAT The readers are John Sessions, Catherine Cusack and Jonjo SAT O'Neill. SAT SAT There are funny poems; one about a dog on the loose, the SAT loss of memory and a particularly surreal one about the SAT fantasies of a fish, as well as consoling poems on ageing, SAT dying and living. With poetry by Leslie Norris, Matthew SAT Sweeney and UA Fanthorpe. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 MARCH 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00z2r4r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls21w (Listen) SUN Three Women in a Motorhome, Kate's Story SUN SUN The last in a trilogy of stories by Sue Teddern about three SUN women who take a short but eventful trip in a motorhome. SUN Kate's story is read by Rebecca Smart. SUN SUN Kate has given her mother Pam an ultimatum about the SUN motor-home. For her own good; "It can't sit there through SUN another winter. Let's take it on its first and last grand SUN tour, then sell it." The intention was for them to spend SUN some quality time together on the road, away from the SUN pressures of her work so she could let go a little bit and SUN relax. Plans go adrift though as a 'phone call from her SUN colleague turns everything on its head. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00z2r4t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z2r4w (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z2r4y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00z2r50 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00z2r52 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's, Barnes, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00z2pjm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00z2r54 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00z2r56 (Listen) SUN Mark Tully considers Abraham's legacy for Judaism, Islam and SUN Christianity with the help of composer, Steve Reich and SUN video artist, Beryl Korot. Using excerpts from their SUN composition, 'The Cave', Reich and Korot explore what SUN Abraham means to modern day Israelis, Palestinians and SUN Americans, and search for some kind of meaning that can SUN cross political and religious divisions. SUN SUN Choosing readings and music from the three traditions Mark SUN Tully explores what is common to their tellings of the SUN Abraham story and what is unique. He asks whether there can SUN be any relevance in the story for us, in our everyday lives SUN and whether the trust and unquestioning faith that Abraham SUN shows is always a good thing. And finally, he considers SUN whether Abraham really can unite people of different faiths, SUN or, in the end, only stand as a symbol of difference. SUN SUN Presented by: Mark Tully SUN Produced by: Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00z2r58 (Listen) SUN The River Frome is a chalk stream which makes it SUN particularly sensitive to run off of silt and pollution from SUN farms. Elinor Goodman meets two farmers who are working to SUN improve water quality in two of the tributaries which flow SUN into the Frome. Alistair Cooper bought the Sydling Estate, SUN on the Sydling Brook, after a career in the City. He's SUN converted the land to organic production and is keen to SUN increase the number of wild Brown Trout which spawn in the SUN stream. Elinor finds out what bugs are lurking in the SUN crystal clear waters with Sarah Williams from Dorset SUN Wildlife Trust, who tells her that these invertibrates are SUN fish food for the Salmon and Trout. On another tributary, SUN the Hooke, Kevin Wolbridge is improving the environmental SUN impact of his dairy herd through building projects funded by SUN Natural England. Further downstream on the Frome proper, SUN outside Dorchester, Elinor meets anglers John Aplin and SUN Charles Dutton from the Frome, Piddle, and West Dorset SUN Fisheries Association who are passionate about rebuilding SUN Salmon numbers on the river. The association jet washes the SUN river bed, plots spawning sites on GPS, and has paid for a SUN high tech fish pass to make a huge weir less of a barrier. SUN As Elinor hears, it's even fitted with a camera. SUN Producer: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00z2r5b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00z2r5d (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00z2r5g (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00z2shy (Listen) SUN Bees for Development SUN SUN Martha Kearney presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Bees for Development. SUN SUN Donations to Bees for Development should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Bees for Development. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN You can also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Bees for Development SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1078803. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00z2r5j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00z2r5l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00z2sj0 (Listen) SUN The Unreconciled - Order and Disorder SUN SUN The first of a series preparing us for Lent live from the SUN Bar Convent York. Preacher: Dr Anne Richards; Leader: Sr SUN Jane Livesey, Provincial Superior of the English Province of SUN the Congregation of Jesus. With the York Chapter House Choir SUN directed by David Pipe. Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN In our journey through Lent, we will be looking at issues in SUN Christian reconciliation. Download web resources specially SUN written for the series by today's preacher from the Churches SUN Together in Britain and Ireland website. As we travel SUN towards Easter, we prepare ourselves to meet the ultimate SUN reconciling work - what God has done for us in the SUN crucifixion, death and resurrection of his Son, Jesus SUN Christ. Our service this morning comes from a hidden convent SUN chapel - a beautiful miniature gem designed for secret SUN worship. It was built at a time when Catholics were SUN persecuted and the sisters wore plain grey day dresses SUN rather than a habit to avoid arousing suspicion in the SUN streets of York. What does the turbulence of those times SUN teach us as this Lent we prepare to consider The SUN Unreconciled? SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00yz55m (Listen) SUN Series 2, Charnia SUN SUN 3/20. David Attenborough has always been fascinated by SUN fossils; even as a boy he'd spend many hours exploring the SUN local quarry near his home in Leicestershire. And near his SUN family home was a forest which he visited frequently, but SUN didn't hunt for fossils there because he knew the rocks we SUN too old to have any post cards of early life embedded in SUN their layers. But he was wrong - those rocks harboured a SUN wonderful secret - a secret that would rattle the cages of SUN the big thinkers of the time and would change the story of SUN life on earth for ever. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00z2sj2 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00z2sj4 (Listen) SUN Written by: Adrian Flynn SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Tucker ..... Lucy Morris SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00z2sj6 (Listen) SUN UNHCR Bosnia SUN SUN In this episode of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor gathers SUN together six people who were closely connected to the SUN humanitarian aid operation in Bosnia during the war of 1992 SUN to 1995. SUN SUN This was the most devastating conflict in Europe since the SUN end of World War 2. Atrocity after atrocity stirred public SUN opinion to demand action but this was seen as a civil war to SUN which there was no easy military solution. The most the SUN international community could agree to start with was a SUN mission to deliver humanitarian aid. SUN SUN The relief organisation which found itself at the centre of SUN the crisis was the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR. The operation SUN in Bosnia was one of the most complex and risky they'd ever SUN undertaken. SUN SUN More than two million people were displaced during the SUN conflict by what became known as 'ethnic cleansing.' Many SUN suffered starvation or rape and were forced into SUN concentration camps. Others were massacred. Supplies of SUN food, fuel, medicine, clothes and shelter were critical. SUN SUN But the conditions under which aid workers were operating SUN were exceptional. In the long term their experience in SUN Bosnia would have an unprecedented impact on the future of SUN the organisation and its way of working. SUN SUN Sue is joined around the table by; Tony Land, Chief of SUN Operations for the UN refugee agency for much of the war; SUN Larry Hollingworth, was a logistics officer with UNHCR; SUN Amira Sadicovic, worked as UNHCR's external relations SUN officer; Kris Janowski became its longest serving SUN field-worker, Paddy Ashdown was the most prominent British SUN politician to visit Bosnia during that period and Misha SUN Glenny reported from Bosnia for the BBC throughout the war. SUN SUN Producers: Sarah Cuddon and David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00yyd36 (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 4 SUN SUN The comedy panel game continues this week with Sir Terry SUN Wogan making his first ever appearance alongside Paul SUN Merton, Julian Clary and Graham Norton. As ever, Nicholas SUN Parsons is the master of ceremonies. Subjects include 'The SUN Dictionary', 'A Limerick' and... 'The History of the World' SUN - let's see if they can manage to tell us about that in 60 SUN seconds without repetition, hesitation or deviation. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00z2sj8 (Listen) SUN Japan's Food Dilemma SUN SUN Simon Parkes reports from Japan on new ideas being developed SUN for the future of the nation's food supplies. SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00z2r5n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00z2r5q (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. To share your views email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 In Doubt We Trust b00z2sl8 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Are we fooled into thinking we know it all? Has the SUN immediacy of information and knowledge created an illusion SUN that we have all the answers and therefore don't want or SUN feel the need to challenge or doubt our actions and the SUN world around us? SUN SUN Mark Vernon came face to face with these issues having SUN studied physics, been ordained in the Church of England and SUN then lost his faith. In this programme he looks at why we SUN have a lust for certainty and are loosing our ability to SUN doubt and question well. "Doubt has become a bad word. It's SUN associated with fear and failure" he says. But how have we SUN arrived at this situation? Why do we feel uneasy if SUN politicians or religious leaders express doubts in public? SUN Mark looks at how this attitude has affected the worlds of SUN politics and finance. And tries to see whether a mistaken SUN view of science and the way our brains work might give us SUN answers. SUN SUN Producers: Amanda Hancox and Rosie Dawson. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00yz553 (Listen) SUN Northumberland SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team join gardeners in Northumberland. SUN SUN Also, Matthew Wilson revisits the site of the 2012 Olympic SUN Park to follow up on its progress, ending his journey at its SUN supplier nursery in Kent. SUN SUN In addition, gardener Eddie Wardrobe visits a unique SUN community allotment in Prudhoe near Newcastle. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont & Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Genius Unrecognised b00z52d4 (Listen) SUN Electrical Power SUN SUN Tony Hill, Director of Manchester's Museum of Science and SUN Industry honours the scientists who revolutionised SUN microscopic technology, electrical power, air navigation, SUN gyroscopic travel and digital sound. In their day they were SUN dismissed as blue-sky time-wasters but now we recognise SUN their genius. SUN SUN Michael Faraday (1791-1867) SUN SUN Faraday built his electric motor in 1821 and a decade later SUN invented the induction ring and built a rudimentary SUN generator. It was 50 years before electric power was SUN practically applied, because nobody would invest in SUN Faraday's inventions. SUN SUN The story is told that a senior politician was given a SUN demonstration of induction and asked "What good is it ?" SUN Faraday replied "What good is a newborn baby ?" SUN SUN Recorded at the Royal Institution where Faraday worked and SUN where his inventions are on display. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00z52d6 (Listen) SUN Anna of the Five Towns, Episode 1 SUN SUN Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and SUN rebellion set against the vitality and harshness of life in SUN the Staffordshire Potteries in the late nineteenth century, SUN dramatised by Helen Edmundson. SUN SUN Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her SUN miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and SUN freedom. On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit SUN a fortune and realises that she is loved by the charismatic SUN Henry Mynors. But with the money comes responsibility and a SUN growing bond with one of her tenants William Price. SUN SUN Anna.....Charlotte Riley SUN Tellwright.....David Schofield SUN Young Agnes.....Emilia Harker SUN William Price.....Michael Socha SUN Titus Price.....James Masters SUN Henry Mynors.....Lee Williams SUN Beatrice/Older Agnes.....Rosina Carbone SUN Mrs Sutton.....Olwen May SUN Revivalist.....Andrew Westfield SUN Sarah Vodrey.....Jacqueline Redgwell SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00z53v0 (Listen) SUN Benjamin Zephaniah SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to Benjamin Zephaniah, the SUN poet and novelist who's equally popular with both adults and SUN children. Our chosen novel is Refugee Boy, written for young SUN adults. SUN SUN Benjamin is perhaps best known for his performance poetry SUN with a political edge, but he has also written novels for SUN young people. Benjamin is interested in international SUN affairs and travels extensively throughout the developing SUN world. He has visited refugee camps in places like Gaza and SUN Montenegro and in Refugee Boy he borrows from many of the SUN stories he heard, to create a tale that many refugees would SUN recognise. SUN SUN Refugee Boy is the story of Alem, whose mother is Eritrean SUN and father Ethiopian. With both countries at war, his family SUN are neither safe nor wanted in either country. Alem's father SUN brings him to the UK for a better life. SUN SUN Benjamin has said it's hard being a writer who's labelled as SUN 'political' - because he's first and foremost interested in SUN people, not politics. SUN SUN This edition of Bookclub features a group of young adults as SUN well as older readers from the University of the 3rd age, SUN and is chaired by James Naughtie. SUN SUN April's Bookclub choice : 'The Gingerbread Woman' by SUN Jennifer Johnston. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00z53v2 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for inspiring poems, SUN including the result of the Winning Words project. This SUN asked the British public to suggest lines that might SUN encourage athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic SUN and Paralympic Games, as well as future generations of SUN Londoners. Find out which lines, nominated by the public and SUN selected by a panel which included Poet Laureate Carol Ann SUN Duffy, will be engraved on the wall in the Athletes' Village SUN in the Olympic Park. The programme includes some of Roger SUN McGough's own poems on a sporting theme, taken from his SUN collection 'Sporting Relations'. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00yyhvq (Listen) SUN Doctors in Charge SUN SUN Success of the Government's proposed NHS reforms in England SUN rests on family doctors. GPs will be responsible for SUN commissioning treatment for their patients, and managing the SUN £80 billion NHS budget. But how much do we know about the SUN effectiveness and value for money offered by doctors in SUN General Practice? Gerry Northam reports. SUN SUN Government health reform plans 'unethical' warns BMA SUN SUN The government health reform plans for England are SUN "disgracefully unethical" and could undermine trust, the SUN British Medical Association tells the BBC. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00z2pjm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00z2r5s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00z2r5v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z2r5x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00z53v4 (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Page three girls and recent sex scandals are two of the SUN topics in John Waite's Pick of the Week. Rupert Murdoch SUN defends the raunchy side of his super soaraway Sun SUN newspaper, and Max Mosley recalls how his wife reacted when SUN she read the headlines about his unorthodox party going. SUN Also in the programme, Kate Adie tries out bingo for the SUN first time, Terry Wogan tries to speak in under a minute as SUN a new game show panellist. And Edward the Eighth tries the SUN patience of everyone when he has a hissy fit over his SUN numismatic profile. Heads up it'll be a good show. SUN SUN I've Never Seen Star Wars - Radio 4 SUN Murdoch at 80 - Radio 4 SUN The Chaplin Archive - Radio 4 SUN Foot and Mouth, Heart and Soul, A Postscript - Radio Cumbria SUN Brian Gulliver's Travels - Radio 4 SUN The Smell of Money - Radio 4 SUN On The Ropes - Radio 4 SUN The Changing Worlds of Formula One - World Service SUN More Bands That Mattered - Radio 2 SUN Just A Minute - Radio 4 SUN McLevy - Radio 4 SUN The Generation Gap - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Kathryn Blennerhassett. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00z53v6 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00z53v8 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cqgf9 (Listen) SUN The Further Adventures of the First King of Mars, Ninety SUN Seconds of Terror SUN SUN To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik SUN Nick Walker was commissioned to write the sci-fi adventure SUN 'The First King Of Mars'. SUN SUN Now, in five, thrilling, action-packed episodes we continue SUN the story where it left off with our fearless commander, SUN previously employed to head-up the first manned mission to SUN Mars, plummeting towards the planet with no thick atmosphere SUN to slow him down. SUN SUN Starring Peter Capaldi. SUN Producer: Karen Rose SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00yz54z (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton turns up at Hardeep Singh Kohli's flat to ask SUN some personal questions - including who gave him his first SUN kiss? SUN SUN At the end of this month, millions of fans of the BBC Hindi SUN Service will no longer be able to listen on shortwave. Roger SUN speaks to Rifat Jawaid, editor of language programmes at the SUN BBC Asian Network, about his Indian family's passion for the SUN service. SUN SUN And many of you have trouble understanding speech when it's SUN accompanied by background music. So why do producers persist SUN in using it? Roger quizzes Simon Elmes the BBC's Creative SUN Director, Features & Documentaries and others, on the SUN subject. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00yz557 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The artist Suze Rotolo - who inspired some of Bob Dylan's SUN best known songs and appeared on the cover of his album "The SUN Freewheelin' Bob Dylan". SUN SUN Susan Crosland the glamorous journalist and wife of the SUN Labour Cabinet minister Tony Crosland. SUN SUN Hollywood actress Jane Russell - best known for a bra she SUN never wore. SUN SUN Dr Christian J Lambertsen who coined the term "Scuba" when SUN he invented his self contained underwater breathing SUN apparatus. SUN SUN And the distinguished brass band conductor Major Peter SUN Parkes who led the Black Dyke Mills band to international SUN success. SUN SUN 21:00 The Report b00zf4t1 (Listen) SUN The recent uprisings in Libya came after four decades of SUN dictatorship under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The regime had SUN pariah status until the Libyan leader's son, Saif al Islam, SUN managed to persuade outsiders that Gaddafi was committed to SUN reform. But in the face of opposition protests, both Saif SUN and his father refused to relinquish their power and wealth. SUN SUN In recent years, Saif played a crucial role in wooing big SUN business, former dissidents, academics and Western SUN governments. Hugh Miles talks to some of those charmed into SUN assisting the regime and to former members of Saif al SUN Islam's circle who saw much of Libya's wealth squandered on SUN buying influence. SUN SUN Hugh Miles is an award winning writer and broadcaster. He is SUN the author of Al Jazeera - How Arab TV News Challenged the SUN World. SUN SUN How Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi seduced the West SUN SUN Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam used the Libyan SUN Investment Authority fund to "mislead" Britain and the West, SUN writes Hugh Miles. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00z2shy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00yyffd (Listen) SUN Rethinking the Middle East SUN SUN The autocratic regimes of North Africa & the Middle East SUN enjoyed many years of military, political and financial SUN support from the United States government. Dr Maha Azzam SUN looks at the recent history of US involvement in the region, SUN including the brief shift in policy during the presidency of SUN George W Bush, and the role that Israel plays in US/Arab SUN relations. As violence & unrest spread throughout the SUN region, will US policy vary state-by-state depending on its SUN own interests or will President Barack Obama embrace the SUN pro-democracy protests wherever they emerge? What SUN expectations do the protestors have of American support and SUN what levers can the US pull in order to assist them? And if SUN it is seen to falter in its support for the protestors will SUN this seriously undermine US influence in the long-term? SUN SUN Dr Maha Azzam is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00z53vb (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00z52d8 (Listen) SUN Episode 42 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week David Aaronovitch of SUN The Times takes the chair and the editor is Catherine SUN Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00yz559 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to British director Joanna Hogg about SUN Archipelago, a tense and awkward family drama set on the SUN island of Tresco. SUN SUN Director Andrew Ruhemann discusses an overlooked British SUN success at last Sunday's Oscars - his winning short SUN animation The Lost Thing. SUN SUN Francine visits The Junior Film Club in Lewes, Sussex to SUN report on an inventive initiative to engage children in SUN film. SUN SUN Director Marc Evans talks about his road movie Patagonia, SUN starring the singer Duffy in her first film role. SUN SUN Producer Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00z2r56 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 MARCH 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00z2pq1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00yz2g2 (Listen) MON Ethical capital - The Burden of Happiness MON MON The British government is seeking to develop a way to MON accurately measure the happiness of the population. In MON France such a gauge already exists, but is happiness really MON the proper goal of life? The French philosopher Pascal MON Bruckner tells Laurie Taylor that happiness has become a MON burdensome duty, and that the wave of enthusiasm for MON pursuing the nebulous quality has the opposite effect of MON actually promoting unhappiness amongst those who seek it. MON Much better, says he, to accept that happiness as an MON unbidden and fragile gift, arrives only by grace and luck. MON Also on the programme, Patricia Drentea talks about her new MON study 'Ethical Capital: What's a Poor Man Got to Leave?'. It MON looks at the hoped for legacy of people who have no MON financial assets to leave their families. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00z2r52 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00z2pq3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z2pq5 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z2pq7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00z2pq9 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00z589t (Listen) MON With the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00z589w (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Fran Barnes. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00z2pqc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00z589y (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00z58b0 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the human rights lawyer, Peter Harris, MON who represented the ANC when apartheid in South Africa was MON at its height. He discusses how the law was always seen to MON be done, even when justice was denied. Richard Susskind MON wants to revolutionise the justice system: as the new MON President of the Society for Computers and Law he sees MON technology as the answer to today's problems. Australia has MON been the recent victim of natural disasters - floods, storms MON and wild fires - and the country's leading conservationist, MON Tim Flannery, puts forward his views on the future of the MON planet. And as the longest running study of elephants in the MON wild turns 40, Phyllis Lee, explains what they've learnt MON about, what John Donne called, "Nature's great masterpiece". MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00z58b2 (Listen) MON To Miss With Love, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Katharine Birbalsingh. MON MON A third of teachers leave within their first term on the MON job. This one wouldn't quit for all the world. MON MON Meet Furious - sixteen, handsome and completely out of MON control. Nothing frightens him and no one can get through to MON him. Now meet Munchkin - a sweet kid with glasses who's an MON easy target and needs protecting. Then there's Seething and MON Deranged, two girls who are brimming with bad attitude; MON Fifty and Cent, who act like gangsters but are afraid of MON getting beaten up; and Stoic, a brilliant young mind MON struggling to survive. MON MON In the midst of them all, there is a bodyguard and bouncer, MON a counsellor and confidante, a young woman whose job it is MON to motivate and inspire them and somehow keep them out of MON trouble: their teacher. None will make it through the year MON unscathed. Some may not even make it at all. MON MON Spanning a year of shocking truths and hard-won victories, MON of fights and phone-thefts, teenage pregnancies and the MON dreaded OFSTED report, this is the remarkable diary of an MON inner-city school teacher. Revealing the extraordinary MON chaos, mismanagement and wrong-thinking that plague our MON education system, it is a funny, surprising and sometimes MON heartbreaking journey from the frontlines of the classroom MON to the heart of modern Britain. MON MON Katharine Birbalsingh has been teaching in the state school MON system in London for over a decade. Her dream is for all MON schools to become interesting and exciting places of MON learning, where children feel safe, happy and free to aim to MON be the best that they can be. MON MON Read by Adjoa Andoh MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00z58b4 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents. An exhibition of Barbara Everard's MON work at the RHS London Orchid Show. Reform of the Child MON Support Agency: Since 2008 the law has been in place for the MON child maintenance service, currently provided for by the MON CSA, to be charged for. Currentlyunder consultation is the MON extent to which charges for this service should be made, and MON how. We discuss the ethics surrounding the care of extremely MON premature babies and look at female warriors throughout MON history. MON MON Should very premature babies be saved? MON MON Babies born 4 months early - in the 23rd week of pregnancy - MON exist on the very edge of life. A few go on to survive – MON truly 'miracle babies' - but most die. Of the few that do MON survive, many will face long-term disabilities. A new BBC2 MON documentary follows the babies born in such extreme MON prematurity on a Birmingham neonatal unit to ask the MON difficult question: is it always right to keep them alive? MON Jane Garvey meets Lucy, whose daughter Matilda did survive, MON to talk about the choices she had to make during that MON crucial time in intensive care. Professor David Field, MON president of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine MON and Daphne Austin, consultant in Public Health Medicine, MON discuss the poor outcomes of such premature babies, and MON whether the NHS has got its priorities right. MON MON Warrior Women MON MON It’s relatively easy to think of women war leaders in the MON ancient world – Cleopatra, Boudicca, Queen Hippolyta, the MON most famous of the Amazons. It gets harder as the centuries MON roll by to name fighting women and women war leaders. MON Author Rosalind Miles and military historian Robin Cross MON have co-written a book, Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage MON and Heroism. They join Jane to discuss the significant role MON that women have played in wars around the world, from MON prehistory to the present day. MON MON Warrior Women by Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross is published MON by Quercus. MON MON Barbara Everard MON MON Barbara Everard became one of the world's most renowned MON botanical artists after starting her career painting fake MON Chinese wallpapers and reproduction furniture. She went on MON to paint orchids and other tropical plants in Malaya and MON contributed hundreds of pictures to books like Wildflowers MON of the World. The Royal Horticultural Society hosts a rare MON exhibition of her paintings as part of the RHS London Orchid MON Show and Botanical Art Show, 9 - 20 March 2011. Barbara's MON son Martin Everard and Charlotte Brooks from the RHS join MON Jane to discuss her life and work. MON MON Child Maintenance - Proposed Changes MON MON Since 2008 a law has been in place that could allow charges MON for the Government's child maintenance service, currently MON provided by the Child Support Agency. Until April 7th there MON is a consultation on the extent to which proposed charges MON for this service should be made, and how. Woman’s Hour hears MON from Maria Miller MP, the Work and Pensions Minister who is MON responsible for the child maintenance reforms, on how these MON fees will fit into the government’s overall aims to MON encourage separating couples to make their own family-based MON arrangements. And from Janet Allbeson, policy advisor at MON Gingerbread, the organisation that supports single parent MON families, who have concerns with the potential effects these MON changes may have. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00z58b6 (Listen) MON A Domestic, Disclosure MON MON A family cleaner sees and hears everything, from the pill MON packet that signals that her employers are no longer trying MON for another child, to that unfamiliar earring in the marital MON bed that signals something altogether more worrying. Two MON successful family lawyers, prosperous and happily-married, MON pay little attention to their Polish domestic. Perhaps they MON should. MON MON Episode 1: Disclosure MON MON Kim and Olivier, both lawyers in the field of marital MON breakdown and divorce, don't pay attention to Mariola, their MON Polish domestic who hears and see everything. Perhaps they MON should. MON MON Mariola ..... Lydia Leonard MON Olivier ..... Neil Stuke MON Karen ..... Clare Lawrence-Moody MON Dr Kevin Rorty ..... Sean Baker MON Anna ..... Christine Kavanagh MON Elena ..... Sally Orrock MON Russell ..... Deeivya Meir MON MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 11:00 Bristol: Cycling City b00z58b8 (Listen) MON March 2011 is the cut-off date for Bristol to turn itself MON into a Cycling demonstration City over three years. MON Originally the idea was that this would be a pioneering MON project followed by many other cities - indeed, it came from MON the umbrella organisation Cycling England. The many MON stakeholders in cycling culture provided a great deal of MON lively debate as to how the overall funding of £22.8 should MON be spent and how the success of the project should be MON measured. Since the original award, Cycling England itself MON has been abolished in the bonfire of the quangos, and it MON seems unlikely that funding like this will be available MON again for some time to come. Miles Warde, who surveyed the MON early stages of the project last year, saddles up again to MON find out where the money has gone, how it's been accounted, MON and whether Cycling City has been a success. MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00z58bb (Listen) MON Osminia MON MON Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel MON documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit MON after claiming to have had a number of bizarre adventures. MON MON This week he travels to Osminia, a land where marriage is MON outlawed. MON MON Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson MON Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale MON Dr Malik ..... Paul Bhattacharjee MON Tandia ..... Joanna Bobin MON Gigia ..... Jane Whittenshaw MON Seldon ..... Brian Bowles MON Mayor ..... Sam Dale MON Sancti ..... Sally Orrock MON MON Produced by Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00z58bd (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. Four government backed MON train operators from other countries are competing to MON runinter city trains on one of Britain's busiest rail lines, MON the West Coast Main Line which runs from London to the North MON West of England and Glasgow - what would happen to the MON services if they took over from Virgin Trains? MON MON People affected by financial crime often feel they are not MON taken seriously, but now a new system of victim support has MON been set up to help them cope with the emotional and MON practical impact of fraud. MON MON Fair Trade have launched the world's first ethical MON certification system for gold - a guarantee that the product MON has been responsibly sourced and the producers have been MON ethically treated. But does it benefit those who need it MON most and what difference does it make to consumers? MON MON 12:57 Weather b00z2pqf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00z7nw2 (Listen) MON National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty MON minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To MON share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 The 3rd Degree b00z58bg (Listen) MON Stirling MON MON Coming this week from the University of Stirling, host Steve MON Punt puts questions to students and lecturers of Psychology, MON Marketing, and English Studies. So if you've got a notion as MON to who lived at 7 Eccles Street, what is James Bond's family MON motto, or why on earth a marketer might use a 'semantic MON cognitive differential tangent' then listen in... MON MON "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz MON show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 MON listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded MON on location at a different University each week, and it pits MON three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes MON posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union MON buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities MON across the UK. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the MON Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, MON and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both MON sides... MON MON The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit MON surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly MON rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more MON than just glanced at that reading list... MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00z53v6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00z58bj (Listen) MON Mr Jones Goes Driving MON MON Written by Shelley Silas. Johnny Jones isn't particularly MON old, he's a regular man with a regular wife, two grown up MON children and a handful of grandkids. His has a good life, MON and for that he's grateful. He accepts that growing old is MON just one of those things, and until now, he has just got on MON with everything that has been thrown his way. He has always MON lived his life by getting up each day and getting on. MON However, all that is about to change. MON MON Told that a series of seizures he's been having are not MON because of a brain tumour, but epilepsy, relief soon turns MON to gloom. While Johnny accepts everything the doctors tell MON him, he cannot accept having to give up his driving license. MON For over fifty years he's driven just about everyone MON everywhere in his beloved almond Rover P6 with a V8 engine. MON It is his private place, where he can be alone, think alone, MON listen to music, or simply sit by the sea, looking out at MON nothing more than sand and waves. It's a great big armchair MON of a car, with a chrome and oak interior, which he loves MON passionately. His wife, Alice hasn't driven for years, why MON would she when she has Johnny to drive her everywhere? While MON he's happy to part with many other activities, this is one MON he just can't give up. Now he's told he must stop driving or MON face the consequences. MON MON Every day he says tomorrow will be the last day he'll drive. MON MON This is the story of the day he takes one last journey in MON his dark Rover. And gradually we learn about the secrets no MON one else knows about. MON MON The play stars real life husband and wife Richard Briers and MON Ann Davies. MON MON Mr Jones Goes Driving is about growing old but not always MON gracefully. It's about facing up to things in life we don't MON want to. It's the story of a man giving up the one thing MON that he has always loved. MON MON Johnny Jones ...... Richard Briers MON Alice Jones ..... Ann Davies MON Imran ..... Muzz Khan MON Lizzie Gray ..... Helena Breck MON Ian ..... Jonathan Holby MON Patrick ..... Ben Tosh MON Johnny's Mother ..... Stella Duffy MON Johnny's Grandchildren ..... Wilf and Ruby Armstrong Ashdown MON MON Original Music composed by Lucinda Mason Brown MON Producer/Director: Gordon House MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00z2pjr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Generation Gap b00z59n3 (Listen) MON Series 6: Roads, Night Time Street Cleaners MON MON In this series of The Generation Gap, two people from MON different generations discuss how 'The Road' has changed and MON how those changes reflect shifts in society. The two people MON in each programme are linked in some way - either they both MON do the same job in different eras, or they share the same MON passion, or they are two generations of the same family MON working in the same profession. The series sheds light on MON changes of society over the last 40 - 50 years. MON MON In this series, we look at a day in the life of our roads MON -from the night time workers who prepare the street for the MON day ahead to the different kinds of vehicle drivers via the MON people who provide services along the road. In 5 MON montage-style programmes, we hear from night time street MON cleaners, lollipop people, motorcyclists, service station MON owners and truck drivers. MON MON We speak to 2 street cleaners - Vince Smith and Lawrence MON Foley to see how the road at night has changed. As our city MON centres operate 24/7 there is a constant need for cleansing MON teams to clear up after us, but what is our attitude to the MON night time street cleaner and in a more environmentally MON conscious Britain, has our attitude to litter changed? Are MON the people who do the job now different and do they still MON take pride in their work and what of the night-time MON communities such as the homeless? MON MON Reporter: Sara Parker MON MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00z2sj8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00z5bns (Listen) MON Immortality MON MON In the last in the current series, Ernie Rea invites guests MON from different faith and non-faith perspectives to debate MON the challenges of today's world. MON MON Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of MON views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and MON sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around MON us. MON MON In this programme Ernie and guests discuss ways in which MON individuals have sought immortality either through belief in MON eternal life with God or through ever ingenious scientific MON methods. Why do human beings appear to want to believe in MON some sort of life after death? How is the meaning of this MON life shaped by a belief in the hereafter or a knowledge of MON endless existence? Are we ultimately creatures shaped by the MON destiny of our own death? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss immortality are the philosopher, MON John Gray, author of The Immortalisation Commission: science MON and the strange quest to cheat death; the theologian, MON Alister McGrath, professor of theology, ministry and MON education, and head of the centre for theology, religion and MON culture at King's College, London and the psychologist, Les MON Lancaster, professor of transpersonal psychology at MON Liverpool John Moores University. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00z5bnv (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z2pqh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00z5bnx (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 5 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition and deviation? MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00z5bnz (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00z5bp1 (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including the verdict on Battle: Los MON Angeles, the latest film to feature an alien invasion of MON Earth. MON MON Producer Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00z58b6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 On the Bench b00z5bqb (Listen) MON This year marks the 650th anniversary of the appointment of MON the first Justices of the Peace in England and Wales. But MON many magistrates courts are now facing closure as part of MON the cost saving measures announced by the Ministry of MON Justice. MON So how valuable is the role played by local magistrates and MON what impact will the court closures have? MON Jenny Cuffe has been following developments in Salford where MON the Magistrates court is one of those on the hit-list. The MON ageing listed building which houses the court dates back to MON the early nineteenth century - but the court itself has been MON involved in current initiatives including special domestic MON violence courts and a pilot scheme in restorative justice. MON As local politicians battle to stave off the closure, Jenny MON Cuffe follows day-to-day business - talking to magistrates, MON lawyers and their clients, and assessing the claims of those MON who say justice needs to be delivered locally. MON Producer: Jenny Cuffe Editor: David Ross. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00z5bqd (Listen) MON Testing the Emotions MON MON Investigative journalist and author Fran Abrams looks at a MON popular but controversial programme designed to teach MON children emotional and social skills in schools. The concept MON of emotional intelligence has almost become a global MON ideology. It's taught, in one form or another, in around 70% MON of secondary and 90% of primary schools in England and is MON popular in Scotland and Wales too. But what exactly is MON emotional intelligence, can it really be developed and how MON sound are its scientific claims? MON MON 21:00 Material World b00yz3hl (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week MON and speaks to scientists who are making headlines. MON MON Women in Science MON MON The UNESCO 2011 Women in Science Awards recognises five MON outstanding women scientists – one per continent – who are MON honoured for the contributions of their research, the MON strength of their commitments and their impact on society. MON Quentin talks to Clare Lloyd, Professor of Respiratory MON Immunology at Imperial College, about the importance of MON these awards in encouraging female scientists. MON MON Meteorites MON MON Researchers in America have discovered a meteorite which is MON rich in the gas ammonia. It could lend weight to the MON argument that life on earth may have been seeded from space. MON Quentin talks to Professor Sandra Pizzarello, who led the MON research and Dr Caroline Smith, Curator of Meteorites at the MON Natural History Museum in London. MON MON Black Squirrels MON MON Following last week’s piece on grey squirrels and the MON British public’s apparent desire to eliminate them and MON reintroduce the native red squirrel, Quentin responds to a MON listener’s email asking about black squirrels. Helen McRobie MON from the Anglia Ruskin University joins Quentin to explain MON more about these creatures. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00z58b0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00z2pqk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00z7p2s (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00z5btb (Listen) MON Pigeon English, Episode 1 MON MON This is the first novel by Stephen Kelman which tells the MON story of 11 year-old Harrison Opoku, who has moved from MON Ghana to live with his mother and older sister on a tough MON North London housing estate. MON MON Shortly after he arrives he sees a boy he knows slightly, MON lying stabbed on the street and he realises he needs to MON learn the tricks of inner city survival fast. And as he MON tries to come to terms with his new surroundings he MON befriends a pigeon who visits the balcony of his ninth floor MON flat. MON MON Read by Jojo Baidoo. MON MON Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, MON Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and MON Robert Sparks. MON MON Abridged by Jane Marshall MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Stand Up for Comic Relief b00z5btd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Hugh Dennis hosts this series in which six radio presenters, MON one from each of the six BBC radio stations, Radio 1 through MON to 6Music, are given just two weeks to become fully-fledged MON stand-up comedians by performing their first proper gig in MON front of the general public at London's famous comedy venue, MON The Comedy Store. MON MON The contestants are: Dev from Radio 1, Tony Blackburn from MON Radio 2, Tom Service from Radio 3, Jenni Murray from Radio MON 4, Tony Livesey from 5 live and Shaun Keaveny from 6 Music. MON MON To help them on their way though, each of them is paired up MON with a mentor who will try to help them steer clear of the MON many pitfalls of performing stand-up comedy. Dev is mentored MON by Chris Ramsey, Tony Blackburn by Julian Clary, Tom Service MON by Sandi Toksvig, Jenni Murray by Mark Steel, Tony Livesey MON by Justin Moorhouse and Shaun Keaveny by Miles Jupp. Between MON them they hope to win the title of Stand Up for Comic Relief MON champion! MON MON But before this they are given a tour and some history of MON the Comedy Store by stand-up legend, Mark Thomas. MON MON How will they cope with such a daunting challenge? Find out MON by listening to this series of three shows - and then vote MON on which presenter you think is the funniest, with proceeds MON going to Comic Relief. MON MON This programme sees the presenters taking their first MON tentative steps into the world of stand-up comedy. To see MON and hear more of their performances, and to find out how to MON vote for the presenter you think is the funniest, with MON proceeds to Comic Relief, go to MON www.bbc.co.uk/rednoseday/standup. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00z6dm1 (Listen) MON Alicia McCarthy reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 MARCH 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00z5c7l (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00z58b2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00z5c7n (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z5c7q (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z5c7s (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00z5c7v (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00z5c7x (Listen) TUE With the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00z60tz (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00z64kr (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 On the Ropes b00zdky3 (Listen) TUE Valerie Plame Wilson TUE TUE The former covert CIA agent, Valerie Plame Wilson, talks to TUE John Humphrys. She describes the moment that her cover was TUE blown, and the subsequent fall-out. TUE TUE So significant were the events, which centred on the core TUE reasons given for the war in Iraq, that a Hollywood film has TUE been made detailing the affair. TUE TUE 09:30 The Narrowcasters b00z5c81 (Listen) TUE Teachers TV TUE TUE Could education standards be raised if more teachers watched TUE themselves on TV? In the first of a new series featuring TUE some of Europe's most unusual minority TV stations, Nigel TUE Cassidy goes back to school to meet the programme-makers of TUE Teachers TV. TUE TUE Producer: Ben Crighton. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00z9pvc (Listen) TUE To Miss With Love, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Katharine Birbalsingh. TUE TUE Read by Adjoa Andoh TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00z6839 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including Sienna Miller on her new play TUE Flare Path. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00z9pvf (Listen) TUE A Domestic, Irretrievable TUE TUE by Peter Jukes TUE TUE Episode 2: Irretrievable TUE TUE Ever since she discovered the Nanny's earrings in the TUE marital bed, Mariola has seen the Andersons' marriage fall TUE apart. But as the builders move in, and Olivier showers his TUE wife with gifts, will he be able to win back her heart? TUE TUE Mariola ..... Lydia Leonard TUE Olivier ..... Neil Stuke TUE Karen ..... Clare Lawrence-Moody TUE Dr Kevin Rorty ..... Sean Baker TUE Anna ..... Christine Kavanagh TUE Elena ..... Sally Orrock TUE Russell ..... Deeivya Meir TUE Shane ..... Sam Dale TUE Jurek ..... Lloyd Thomas TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 11:00 Calibrated Conundrums b00z5c83 (Listen) TUE From spaghettification to uncertainty, Lynne Truss unpicks TUE puzzling scientific terms. Scientists use language to give TUE authority to their practice, but does it convince or TUE alienate? Cosmetics advertisements use "derma" instead of TUE skin and phrases like "clinically proven" to give their TUE products scientific clout. But Lynne learns that scientists TUE can't "prove", they can only "disprove". Lynne puts her TUE skills to the test at the Science Museum in London to TUE demonstrate "the conservation of angular momentum" otherwise TUE known as "move your bum in and out and go round in circles". TUE TUE 11:30 Emerald Noir: The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction TUE b00z5c85 (Listen) TUE Peace in Northern Ireland and the economic boom and bust in TUE Southern Ireland have led to a recent rise in crime fiction. TUE TUE Val McDermid looks at the way real life violence has been TUE dealt with in the work of authors including Tana French, TUE Eoin McNamee, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Stuart Neville and Declan TUE Hughes. We meet David Torrans - whose bookstore in Belfast TUE has been fictionalised in Colin Bateman's series of crime TUE novels. Declan Burke - author of the blog Crime Always Pays TUE - takes us on a tour of Dublin locations featured in crime TUE novels from the modern Docklands offices which inspired Alan TUE Glynn's novel Winterland to the hotels and shops of 1950s TUE Dublin featured in the crime fiction of Booker winner John TUE Banville - who writes under the name Benjamin Black. TUE TUE Val asks whether the Noir novel is a protestant art form and TUE hears how writers are trying to find new villains in a place TUE where violence has - until recently - been part of everyday TUE life. TUE TUE Producer: Robyn Read. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00z66hw (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00z5c87 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00z6dvn (Listen) TUE National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty TUE minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To TUE share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00z5c89 (Listen) TUE Series 11, Simple Gifts TUE TUE Simple Gifts started life as a Shaker Hymn and became TUE incorporated into the hymn Lord of the Dance and Aaron TUE Copland's ballet suite Appalachian Spring. TUE In this programme, Nora Guthrie describes the central place TUE this tune has played throughout her life. Pete Lashley tells TUE how he heard it unexpectedly whilst touring in New Zealand. TUE Michael Carter explains why his father chose this tune for TUE his famous hymn "Lord of the Dance" and Scott Malchus TUE describes running a marathon whilst listening to this music. TUE Producer, Rosie Boulton. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00z5bnz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00z5c8c (Listen) TUE Care TUE TUE In Clara Glynn's drama a Children's Hearing has to decide if TUE Nicole (13) and Scott (4) should be taken into care or be TUE allowed to return to live with their mother. But is she fit TUE to look after them now? TUE TUE Michelle has been in drug rehab for the last few months, Dad TUE has disappeared and the kids have been under a supervision TUE order. But now Michelle is coming out of rehab, clean and TUE determined to make a fresh start. The three members of the TUE Children's Hearing panel have to decide what is best for the TUE children. TUE TUE As the panel hear reports from experts and from the family TUE their pereception of what should happen to the children is TUE constantly challenged. Would you know what is best for the TUE children? TUE TUE Scotland's Children's Hearing system initiated by The Social TUE Work Act 1968 and the Children(Scotland) Act 1995, led to TUE radical changes in how children and young people in trouble TUE or at risk are dealt with. In this fictional drama the panel TUE - all trained volunteers - are faced with difficult choices. TUE TUE Edward (chairman).........IAIN AGNEW TUE Fiona Henson................CAROL ANN CRAWFORD TUE Mary Branwich...............KIM GERARD TUE Nicole...........................NATASHA WATSON TUE Michele.........................ISA NICOLL TUE Gran.............................ANN DOWNIE TUE Charlie Fleming.............COLIN MCCREDIE TUE Mr. McEwan.................JOHN KIELTY TUE TUE Producer/director...................David Ian Neville. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00z5c8f (Listen) TUE Helen Castor presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listeners' questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Presenter: Helen Castor TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00z5c8h (Listen) TUE Good Show Clarissa, A Midnight Revel TUE TUE Martin Jarvis directs Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley and Lisa TUE Dillon as 'The Girls' in 'Good Show Clarissa!' from Jarvis & TUE Ayres Productions - a series of three 'jolly hockey stick' TUE stories for Radio 4 - performed by stars. These classic TUE tales represent some of the best of popular 20th Century TUE 'girls school fiction'. TUE TUE The first story, 'A Midnight Revel', written in 1926 and TUE performed with girlish relish by Dame Helen Mirren, is a TUE neat thriller in which the boarders at Hardwick High are TUE prevented by the rainy weather from playing a hockey match. TUE TUE Bored at such inactivity, they decide to think of an TUE adventurous alternative entertainment. It's left to Nan TUE Stevenson, the one who usually has 'blossomy' ideas to come TUE up with something exciting. "I've got it!" she exclaimed at TUE last, triumphantly. "There's one thing we've never tried yet TUE (and jolly fun it would be, too!) a midnight supper. TUE Scrumptious! But how will they organise it? And will the TUE girls' daring midnight spree proceed according to plan? What TUE could possibly go wrong? TUE TUE Producer: Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Generation Gap b00z5fr2 (Listen) TUE Series 6: Roads, Lollipop People TUE TUE We hear a street-eye view on how drivers' attitudes have TUE changed towards pedestrians across generations. Road TUE crossing patrols in Somerset like Helen Bailey are piloting TUE a CCTV camera in their lollipop stick because of the problem TUE of cars which drive through regardless of safety and road TUE rage. In the past Terry Cross experienced fewer and TUE friendlier motorists, more cyclists and even a horse and TUE cart using the road. TUE TUE Reporter: Sara Parker TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00z5fr4 (Listen) TUE The result of the referendum in Wales on greater law making TUE powers for the Welsh Assembly could widen the gap between TUE the law in England and that in Wales. There are already many TUE differences in areas such as planning and health, creating TUE pitfalls for lawyers giving advice on both sides of the TUE border. In this edition Joshua Rozenberg looks at where TUE devolution is going and the problems and opportunities that TUE a divergence in the law could create. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00z5fr6 (Listen) TUE Joe Boyd, Mat Fraser TUE TUE Record producer Joe Boyd and actor Mat Fraser talk to TUE Harriett Gilbert about the books they love. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00z64my (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z5c8k (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Act Your Age b00pxn13 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic TUE generations against each other to find out which is the TUE funniest. TUE TUE Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Adrian Walsh TUE are joined by Kevin Bridges, Jason Byrne and Johnnie Casson. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00z5g2l (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00z6dvq (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who reports on the fate of the Skylon, the TUE symbol of the Festival of Britain, which was dismantled in TUE 1952: was it sold for scrap, thrown in the Thames, or TUE re-cycled? TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00z9pvf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00z5g2n (Listen) TUE Danger at Work TUE TUE Following the recent first conviction and hefty fine under TUE new Corporate Manslaughter legislation, the UK's health and TUE safety regime has been hailed a success. Falling death and TUE accident rates appear to confirm an improving trend. TUE TUE But the families of some of those seriously injured and TUE killed in workplace accidents say too many employers are TUE still gettings off too lightly even when they've been found TUE responsible for serious breaches of health and safety TUE legislation. TUE TUE As the government proposes lighter regulation of workplaces TUE and the Health and Safety Executive faces deep cuts, Morland TUE Sanders asks whether protection for employees will be put at TUE risk. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00z6dvs (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00z6dvv (Listen) TUE Gut Bacteria TUE TUE The idea of taking faeces from someone and transplanting it TUE into the bowels of a loved one might sound disgusting. TUE Medically, it might make good sense though. In fact a number TUE of doctors have discovered that this procedure cures TUE intestinal infections when all other treatments have failed. TUE As Dr Mark Porter discovers, it's an illustration of the TUE power of 'good' bacteria. TUE TUE Our bowels are home to an ecosystem of billions of bacteria TUE and other microbes. Many of these gut bugs perform vital TUE jobs for us, such as helping to digest food, making vitamins TUE and priming the immune system. In the last few years, TUE researchers have gathered evidence that a range of health TUE problems and conditions arise from there being an inbalance TUE between beneficial bacteria and potentially harmful ones. TUE These conditions include Irritable Bowel Syndrome, TUE Clostridium difficile infection, allergies and possibly TUE bowel cancer. Dr Mark Porter talks to researchers and TUE doctors about some of the latest findings and treatments TUE based on these insights. TUE TUE 21:30 On the Ropes b00zdky3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00z5c8m (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00z6dvx (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00z5g2q (Listen) TUE Pigeon English, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Jojo Baidoo. TUE TUE Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, TUE Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and TUE Robert Sparks. TUE TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Stand Up for Comic Relief b00z7p37 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00z6ckb (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 MARCH 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00z5gwh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00z9pvc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00z5gwk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z5gwm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z5gwp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00z5gwr (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00z5gwt (Listen) WED With the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00z60v7 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b00z64r3 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00z5gww (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00z9px1 (Listen) WED To Miss With Love, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Katharine Birbalsingh. WED WED Read by Adjoa Andoh WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00z684g (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including Foot and Mouth Disease - 10 WED years on for the women of Cumbria. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zczfj (Listen) WED A Domestic, Mediation WED WED Episode 3: Mediation WED WED Mariola tries to clear up the mess she has made of her WED employers' marriage and protect their young son, Russell. WED But nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors, and WED intervening in a domestic conflict can make things worse. WED WED Mariola ..... Lydia Leonard WED Olivier .....Neil Stuke WED Karen ..... Clare Lawrence-Moody WED Dr Kevin Rorty ..... Sean Baker WED Anna ..... Christine Kavanagh WED Elena ..... Sally Orrock WED Russell ..... Deeivya Meir WED Shane .....Sam Dale WED WED Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00z5hr0 (Listen) WED Series 13, Episode 4 WED WED In May 1979, 10 people died when a fire broke out in the WED furniture department of the Woolworth's store in the centre WED of Manchester. Within minutes of the first flames being WED seen, the building was engulfed in toxic, black smoke. Most WED of those that died were in the restaurant on the second WED floor but the smoke was so thick, they couldn't find their WED way to the exits. WED It was later shown that it was the type of foam used to fill WED the budget furniture on sale that was to blame. WED Fire Officer Bob Graham, who led the investigation into the WED fire, remembers how, for a decade before the fire, he and WED his colleagues had watched the numbers of deaths in domestic WED fires in the Manchester area rocket. They knew the new WED styles of cheap furniture were to blame. Armed with evidence WED from the Woolworth fire, it would take Bob Graham and other WED campaigners a further ten years to persuade the government WED to change the law and WED oblige furniture makers to use flame-resistant foam. WED The Manchester Coroner, Leonard Gorodkin, led the inquest WED into the deaths. He explains why he was not convinced by a WED forensic expert's elaborate theory that faulty wiring behind WED a stack of furniture was responsible for the fire. The fire WED officers believed a naked flame was to blame but at the WED inquest no cause was given. WED Veteran BBC cameraman Ken Ward remembers capturing the WED iconic pictures of the disaster - women trapped behind bars WED in offices on the second floor of the shop. WED The programme mixes the first hand accounts of the people WED caught up in the events with archive of BBC news reports WED from the scene to re-create a terrible day in Manchester's WED history - one that would eventually lead to a change in the WED law that would save thousands of lives in the future. WED WED 11:30 Turf Wars b00z5hr2 (Listen) WED Losing the Plot WED WED In Nick Warburton's delicious comedy, James Fleet plays WED Edward, a bashful man who, passing a local allotment, speaks WED to an attractive female allotee (Joanna Monro). He decides WED there and then that he must apply for a plot. But doing so WED involves an interview with ferocious site-manager Bernie WED (Jonathan Coy) who runs the allotments with military rigour. WED It's all looking unlikely until Edward reveals that his WED father was a local landscape horticulturalist, one Bernie WED has admired all his life. Edward joins the site. And it is WED only then that he springs a surprise on Bernie. One that WED leads to explosive confrontation. Which of them will lose WED the plot? WED WED Edward ..... James Fleet WED Amanda .... Joanna Monro WED Bernie ..... Jonathan Coy WED WED Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00z66js (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00z5gwy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00z5hr4 (Listen) WED National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty WED minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To WED share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00z5hr6 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00z5g2l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00z5hr8 (Listen) WED McLevy - Series 7, Dead Reckoning WED WED Brian Cox, Siobhan Redmond and Stella Gonet star in the WED latest episode of the detective series set in Victorian WED Edinburgh and Leith. Written by David Ashton. WED WED 2/4. Episode Two: Dead Reckoning. Inspector McLevy WED investigates a curious case of grave robbing. WED WED McLevy...........................................BRIAN COX WED Jean Brash........................SIOBHAN REDMOND WED Emma.......................................STELLA GONET WED Mulholland.........MICHAEL PERCEVAL-MAXWELL WED Roach........................................DAVID ASHTON WED Caskie......................................BRIAN PETTIFER WED McMaster..................................SEAN SCANLAN WED Simms...........................................JOHN KIELTY WED WED Producer/director: Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00z6dxd (Listen) WED It's estimated that fraudsters help themselves to around WED £4bn a year of our money. And the National Fraud Authority WED says that we are being duped by an ever-evolving range of WED scams. WED WED So if you want to protect your financial details or want WED advice about dealing with fraud you can call Paul Lewis and WED guests on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00z5hrb (Listen) WED Good Show Clarissa, Jemima Gets Them Guessing WED WED Martin Jarvis directs Lisa Dillon's humorous performance as WED the entire Fourth Form of Cliff House School in 'Jemima Gets WED Them Guessing'. WED WED Written by Hilda Richards in 1939, eccentric, monocled WED Jemima Carstairs (a sort of female fourteen year-old Bertie WED Wooster with brains) is presented with a problem. One of WED their class-mates, Frances Frost - the icicle of the Fourth WED - threatens to blackmail decent Clara Trevlyn for visiting WED the Palais de Danse, thereby jeopardising Clara's position WED as Captain of Games. WED WED But Clara may have had a perfectly proper motive for WED breaking bounds. To save her chum, Jemima concocts a plan WED involving a beach-side confrontation and a mysterious WED boat-trip. Can Jemima rescue Clara's reputation and prevent WED her from disgrace? WED WED Producer: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Generation Gap b00z5hrd (Listen) WED Series 6: Roads, Bikers WED WED Bruce has a passion for motorcycles and as soon as he was WED 16, he bought his first bike from his uncle for £25. For him WED in the late 1950s, a motorbike was an economic necessity as WED he couldn't afford a car but it soon became his life. He WED used it to travel to work and then when he married and had WED his first two children, used his bike as family transport WED with a sidecar and a trailer for when they went on holiday. WED They even took the dog. WED WED He compares his passion with that of Steve Willis who only WED got into bikes 8 years ago and has ended up with a company WED which sells bikes for up to £35,000 to people who have bikes WED as a consumerist bauble but hardly dare to take them out of WED the garage. This change reflects societal shifts in income WED and attitude. WED WED Reporter: Sara Parker WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00z6dxg (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00z6dvv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00z64q6 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z5gx0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Stand Up for Comic Relief b00z7p3p (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00z5hrg (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00z6dxj (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zczfj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00z5hrj (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Clifford WED Longley and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b00z5hrl (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED WED Tom Gill, a professor of social anthropology, recalls some WED memorable and unsettling incidents he witnessed during his WED fieldwork with homeless people in Japan and explores their WED implications WED WED Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling WED in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the WED stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, WED ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and WED society. WED WED Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are WED unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a WED personal dimension. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00z5hrn (Listen) WED Fur or Faux? WED WED One of the most controversial clothing trends in Britain is WED the fashion revival of fur. In this week's 'Costing the WED Earth' Tom Heap investigates the claims by the British Fur WED Trade Association that fur is natural, renewable and a WED sustainable resource that's kind to the environment .He WED visits a fur a farm in Copenhagen where farmer Knud takes WED Tom around his farm that can house up to 24,000 mink. Tom WED sees for himself the conditions in which the animals are WED kept, how they're killed and how their pelts are used. WED WED But how does Knud, and the wider industry, respond to WED recordings of animal cruelty and neglect from other European WED fur farms? And what about charities like PETA (People for WED the Ethical Treatment of Animals) who back in the 1990s ran WED a very successful campaign that vilified the wearing of fur? WED What do they make of the 'green' credentials of fur and its WED come back in the fashion world. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00z5gww (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00z5gx2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00z5hrq (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00z5hrs (Listen) WED Pigeon English, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Stephen Kelman. WED Read by Jojo Baidoo. WED WED Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, WED Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and WED Robert Sparks. WED WED Abridged by Jane Marshall WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 It Is Rocket Science b00z5hrv (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane star in this WED funny, off-beat but factually accurate account of the WED science of rockets and the brilliant but occasionally warped WED brains behind it all. WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill. WED Produced by Gareth Edwards WED WED This week we look at the three fathers of modern rocket WED science: 19th Century self-taught Russian visionary WED Eduardovich Tsiolovsky and his dreams of orbiting space WED stations and Martian colonies; American Robert H Goddard, WED derided in The New York Times in the 1920s for his WED prediction of a lunar landing (they printed a retraction the WED day after the Apollo 11 launch); Transylvanian-German WED Hermann Oberth with his brilliant theories about space WED travel and his horrifying theories about racial supremacy. WED Plus Helen reveals the surprising connection between space WED travel and a coach tour of the Jewels of the Rhineland. WED WED It is performed by Helen Keen, and stars Peter Serafinowicz WED as The Voice of Space, with other parts played by Susy Kane. WED WED 23:15 The Ladies b00t2ckx (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED The Ladies return to Radio 4, as we hear from the paranoid WED Christians preparing for the end of the world, a girl who WED gets wedged in a dress, and a desperate wannabe mum. WED WED Written by Emily Watson Howes. WED WED Cast: WED Emily Watson Howes WED Kate Donmall WED Susanna Hislop WED Fran Moulds WED WED Producer: Mark Talbot WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00z6dmc (Listen) WED Alicia McCarthy reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 MARCH 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00z5y9l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00z9px1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00z5y9n (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z5y9q (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z5y9s (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00z5y9v (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00z5y9x (Listen) THU With the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00z60w8 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma THU Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b00z64sj (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00z5y9z (Listen) THU Free Will THU THU In the 500th edition of the programme, Melvyn Bragg and his THU guests discuss the philosophical idea of free will. THU THU Free will - the extent to which we are free to choose our THU own actions - is one of the most absorbing philosophical THU problems, debated by almost every great thinker of the last THU 2000 years. In a universe apparently governed by physical THU laws, is it possible for individuals to be responsible for THU their own actions? Or are our lives simply proceeding along THU preordained paths? Recent scientific developments mean that THU this debate remains as lively today as it was in the ancient THU world. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00z9pyn (Listen) THU To Miss With Love, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Katharine Birbalsingh. THU THU Read by Adjoa Andoh THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00z6f1g (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zd1c3 (Listen) THU A Domestic, Petition THU THU Episode 4: Petition THU THU As Olivier moves out of the marital home, Mariola finds THU herself cleaning for him and his wife, and soon caught up in THU a domestic minefield: a litigious divorce between two THU lawyers THU THU Mariola ..... Lydia Leonard THU Olivier ..... Neil Stuke THU Karen ..... Clare Lawrence-Moody THU Dr Kevin Rorty ..... Sean Baker THU Anna ..... Christine Kavanagh THU Elena .....Sally Orrock THU Russell ..... Deeivya Meir THU THU Directed by Peter Kavanagh. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00z6f1j (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Wales Window of Alabama b00z5zxv (Listen) THU This is the story of what links the people of Wales, with THU one of the worst atrocities of the American Civil Rights THU movement. In 1963, racist bombers, blew up the 16th Street THU Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama, killing four girls in THU the blast. The murder of children marked another low in the THU violent resistance to civil rights. THU THU News of the bombing was broadcast worldwide. The Welsh THU sculptor John Petts heard about it on the radio as he worked THU in his studio. He was so upset he wanted to do something to THU help. He contacted a local newspaper and a campaign was THU launched to raise money to help rebuild the devastated THU Church. No one was allowed to give more than half a crown - THU to ensure that no rich benefactor could take credit for the THU money raised. There were reports of children, black and THU white, queuing up in Cardiff to donate their pocket money. THU THU Tens of thousands of people contributed to the fund. With THU the money that was raised, Petts was commissioned to make a THU new stained glass window for the Church. Grand in scale, it THU depicted a black man, arms out stretched, reminiscent of the THU crucifixion. Petts drew on his experiences as a medic in the THU second world war to create his image of the 'damaged male THU body'. He was also inspired by the Sharpeville Massacre in THU South Africa, which had happened only a few years before. THU THU The window is now a focus of worship and has become one of THU the most famous pieces of art to come out of the darkness of THU the civil rights period. At its foot a simple message; THU 'Given by The People of Wales'. THU THU This programme tells the story of 'The Welsh Window' THU THU The presenter is Gary Younge and the producer is Nicola THU Swords. THU THU The programme is produced in Manchester. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00z6f1l (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00z5yb1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00z6f1n (Listen) THU National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty THU minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To THU share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00z5hrn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00z5hrg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00z5zxx (Listen) THU A Sleepwalk on the Severn THU THU Award- winning poet, Alice Oswald's extraordinary evocation THU of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary. Set THU to original music by Roger Goula, its subject is moonrise THU which happens five times in different forms: new moon, half THU moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn. Various THU characters, some living some dead, all based on real people THU from the Severn catchment, talk towards the moment of THU moonrise and are changed by it. THU THU Performed by Ron Cook, Sam Dale, Emma Fielding, Tom THU Goodman-Hill, James Laurenson and Helen Longworth. THU THU Music composed by Roger Goula and performed by the Raven THU Quartet and Rowland Sutherland. THU THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00z1z5n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00z2shy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00z5zxz (Listen) THU Good Show Clarissa, The Cheat THU THU Martin Jarvis directs Joanna Lumley's performance of this THU intriguing 'moral' tale from the prolific pen of Enid THU Blyton. THU THU Written in 1947 Susan, less fortunate than most of the other THU girls - and certainly not from their well-heeled backgrounds THU - must win the scholarship in order to continue her THU education. Then an opportunity occurs for her to cheat in THU the exam. Joanna Lumley tells this surprisingly serious THU story with great humanity and compassion. THU THU The story takes the form of both a thriller and a THU psychological account of an inner turmoil. Blyton and THU Lumley, in an ideal partnership, make us feel what it must THU be like, in this situation, to carry such a potentially THU heavy burden of guilt. And of course we are keen to know THU whether there might be a way out for Susan. Can she escape THU expulsion? Could she possibly avoid the stigma of being a THU cheat? THU THU Producer: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Generation Gap b00z5zy1 (Listen) THU Series 6: Roads, M People THU THU When the M6 was built through the Dunning family farm near THU Penrith in the 1960s, John Dunning decided to build Tebay THU Motorway service station even though he was told there THU wouldn't be enough passing traffic. Now the motorway is THU very busy and his daughter Sarah has taken over and THU modernised the business. She now plans to open a new THU motorway services on the M5. THU THU The family pride themselves on good quality food sourced THU locally including from the farm's herd of Galloway cattle. THU (The Dunnings still run the farm) However some customers THU complain there is no 'Burger King' .We talk to father and THU daughter about how expectations of the service station have THU changed and how motorways have opened up travel for all of THU us - as well as bringing employment and sustainability to a THU remote rural area. THU THU Reporter: Sara Parker THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00z53v0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00z6f1q (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00z64v8 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z5yb3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b00z5zy3 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show celebrating THU one of Britain's favourite subjects - failure. THU THU It's a game of competitive ineptitude, the aim of which is THU to come up with the wrongest answer to each question. In THU this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong THU each other with their ideas and stories are comedians Mark THU Watson, Holly Walsh and Rufus Hound. THU THU In this edition the panel's worst party experiences, iPhone THU apps and terrible boyband names all come under the 'wrong' THU spotlight - as well as the best ideas for the worst new TV THU soap. Will anyone beat Mark Watson's pitch - the eyeglass THU themed Opticians! THU THU Rufus Hound also presents the comedy chat show My Teenage THU Diary for Radio 4 and is a team captain on the TV series THU Argumental. In 2010 he also won BBC1's Let's Dance for Sport THU Relief, with an unforgettable dancing impersonation of THU Cheryl Cole's Fight for This Love. THU THU Holly Walsh is a comedy writer and performer with guest THU appearances on Radio 4's The Now Show and Act Your Age as THU well numerous guest appearances on TV shows including 8 Out THU of 10 Cats and Mock the Week. THU THU Comedian Mark Watson is star of Radio 4's Mark Watson Makes THU the World Substantially Better and We Need Answers on BBC3 THU plus Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Comedy Rocks. THU THU The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also THU presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You THU Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live - and writes for The THU Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British THU Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the THU British Comedy Awards 2009. THU THU Producer: Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00z5zy5 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00z5zy7 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who reviews Alison Steadman and Hermione THU Norris in a new staging of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, THU directed by Thea Sharrock. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zd1c3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00z5fr4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00z5zy9 (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented this week by THU Stephanie Flanders, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, THU statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the THU business world, through discussion with people running THU leading and emerging companies. THU THU 21:00 Fingerprints on Trial b00z5zyc (Listen) THU When the American lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, was thrown in THU jail after the Madrid train bombings, the FBI said they were THU "100% certain" that his fingerprints were at the scene. THU Fingerprint examiners, one after the other, agreed with the THU identification and maintained that the prints were Mr THU Mayfield's. THU THU But when the Spanish police arrested the real culprit, the THU world's leading law enforcement agency had to admit that it THU had made a terrible mistake. THU THU The Mayfield case, the Shirley McKie case in Scotland and a THU highly critical report from the American Academy of THU Sciences, have all put intense pressure on forensic THU regulators throughout the world to take a long hard look at THU the procedures and processes by which fingerprint evidence, THU long accepted as "infallible", is collected and analysed. THU THU In this programme, Claudia Hammond investigates whether we THU can still trust fingerprint evidence. She hears from those THU whose prints were identified in error about the trauma of THU facing jail for a crime they didn't commit. She talks to the THU critics, who claim that the procedures and methods in this THU branch of forensic science are unverifiable and that its THU personnel are complacent about the urgent need for change. THU And she speaks to those working within the fingerprint THU community, who acknowledge that the most difficult-to-read THU fingerprint matches do require new treatment, but underline THU that in the vast majority of cases, fingerprint evidence THU remains reliable, trustworthy and above all, safe. THU THU Producer: Fiona Hill. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00z5y9z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00z5yb5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00z6f1s (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00z5zyf (Listen) THU Pigeon English, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Stephen Kelman. THU Read by Jojo Baidoo. THU THU Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, THU Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and THU Robert Sparks. THU THU Abridged by Jane Marshall THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 It's Your Round b00z5zyh (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format THU is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the THU panellists has brought along their own round for the others THU to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and THU unpredictable. THU THU This episode Foster's award winner in Edinburgh this year, THU Russell Kane, Josie Long, Alun Cochrane and Milton Jones THU battle it out to see who can beat each other at their own THU games. THU THU Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the THU games they've brought along. How will the teams fare when THU they play Russell Kane's "Mood News" round? What superhero THU would Milton Jones like to be? And what is josie Long's THU "Nine Previous Convictions" all about? Find out the answers THU to these questions and more in this show. THU THU Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure THU everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. THU THU Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00z6f1v (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 MARCH 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00z60xf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00z9pyn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00z60xh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z60xk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z60xm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00z60xp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00z629v (Listen) FRI With the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00z60xr (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00z6552 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; FRI Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00z2sj6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00z9pzr (Listen) FRI To Miss With Love, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Katharine Birbalsingh. FRI FRI Read by Adjoa Andoh FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00z629x (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents. From the WOW Festival at the FRI Southbank. Guests include the singer Kate Nash who will be FRI performing live. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zd36l (Listen) FRI A Domestic, Without Prejudice FRI FRI by Peter Jukes FRI FRI Episode 5: Without Prejudice FRI FRI Sacked by her two warring bosses, Mariola explains to her FRI interrogator the final twists and turns of the domestic FRI break up, and her final violent role in its denouement FRI FRI Mariola ..... Lydia Leonard FRI Olivier .....Neil Stuke FRI Karen ..... Clare Lawrence-Moody FRI Dr Kevin Rorty ..... Sean Baker FRI Anna ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Elena ..... Sally Orrock FRI Russell ....Deeivya Meir FRI Other parts played by Lloyd Thomas FRI FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 11:00 Hardeep Singh Kohli's Alternative Census b00z61qt (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI In the last programme in this series, Hardeep Singh Kohli FRI travels to Merthyr Tydfil, Christchurch and Brighton to try FRI out his own version of the census. Combining some of the FRI questions from the official census, and some of his own, his FRI aim is to engage householders in an intimate conversation FRI about who they are and what matters to them most. FRI FRI Exploring themes of identity, health and religion, Hardeep FRI speaks to an elderly woman who is the full time carer for FRI her son, a retired woman living in 'Gods waiting room' and FRI an unemployed man who talks of his approach to prayer and FRI faith. FRI FRI With questions that range from the intimate to the FRI irreverent, from the factual to the emotional, Hardeep Singh FRI Kohli explores the parts of our lives that box-checking and FRI number counting don't allow for, uncovering the individual, FRI everyday experiences of people across the country. FRI FRI Producer: Katie Burningham FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00z60xt (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI FRI The arrival of a restaurant reviewer from a posh magazine FRI puts Hope in a spin. Debra Stevenson and Nicola Duffet star FRI in John Godber and Jane Thornton's comedy set in a sandwich FRI bar in Beverley, near Hull. FRI FRI Hope ..... Debra Stevenson FRI Maria ..... Nicola Duffett FRI Dave ..... Neil Dudgeon FRI Mam ...... Anne Reid FRI Ray ..... Shaun Prendergast FRI Gavin ..... Ralph Brown FRI Jenny ..... Sarah Moyle FRI Anita ..... Sherry Baines FRI Carrie ..... Elizabeth Godber FRI Eve ..... Helen Longworth FRI Bob ..... Ben Crowe FRI Monty ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Blinds man ..... James Weaver FRI FRI 'Spread A Little Happiness' is sung by Debra Stevenson. FRI FRI Producer/Director: Chris Wallis FRI An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00z6f30 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00z60xw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00z6f32 (Listen) FRI National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty FRI minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To FRI share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00z629z (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00z5zy5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00z62b1 (Listen) FRI Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster FRI FRI Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is an elegy to FRI the young gap-year student who was murdered in Stubbeylee FRI Park, Bacup, Lancashire, on August 24th 2007. Aged twenty, FRI Sophie suffered fatal injuries while cradling her boyfriend FRI Rob's head in an attempt to protect him from a ferocious FRI attack by a group of youths. Rob survived but Sophie went FRI into a coma and never recovered. FRI FRI Sophie was an intelligent bookish child who showed signs of FRI wanting to be different from an early age. Political, FRI vegetarian, a pacifist, Sophie had left school with A levels FRI and was thinking about what to do with her future when it FRI was taken so brutally from her. FRI FRI Sophie and Rob dressed in a unique way, expressing their FRI individuality as creative artistic people through goth-style FRI clothes, piercings and make-up, which provoked the fatal FRI attack in the early hours of that Saturday morning. Sophie FRI had been dating Rob Maltby, a 21-year-old art student for FRI three years. FRI FRI SOPHIE ...........Rachel Austin FRI FRI Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00z61qw (Listen) FRI Cuddington, Buckinghamshire FRI FRI Eric Robson is joined by Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood and FRI Matthew Biggs in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire. FRI FRI Anne Swithinbank presents the Pruning A Banksia Rose FRI Rulebook. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Generation Gap b00z61qy (Listen) FRI Series 6: Roads, HGV Drivers FRI FRI The Woodall family have been running their road haulage FRI business near Birmingham since the 1930s. It has grown from FRI a one-man truck driving operation to a company employing FRI long and short haul lorry drivers. It has gone from FRI transporting Dunlop tyres to carrying palettes of all manner FRI of things. FRI FRI John Woodall started driving for his father in the 1960s FRI when the roads were very different - now traffic jams and FRI fuel efficiency are part of the transport business. John FRI compares what it was like when he started as a truck driver FRI to the experiences of a present day driver - Andy Anderson, FRI who now trains other drivers in safe and efficient trucking, FRI including fuel conservation and tighter legislation. FRI FRI Reporter: Sara Parker FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00z6f34 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00z62g9 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock with the latest news and names from the world FRI of film FRI FRI Producer: Craig Smith. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00z6637 (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn brings you the top stories of the day. FRI Including Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z60xy (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00z62gc (Listen) FRI Series 33, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the latest edition of the FRI topical stand-up and sketch show. They're joined by guest FRI impressionist Jan Ravens and German stand-up Henning Wehn. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00z62nl (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00z62nn (Listen) FRI David Hare on Stage in Sheffield FRI FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zd36l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00z62nq (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Teignmouth FRI Science Festival in Devon, with questions for the panel FRI including the science writer and broadcaster Gabrielle FRI Walker. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00z62ns (Listen) FRI Series 2, Foreign Fare FRI FRI 4/20. We sometimes forget that vegetables that we see as FRI common-place today in all their varieties have wild origins. FRI The potato for example is a name given to a tuber that both FRI comes from Africa and South America - And the history of FRI their discovery and export into our European markets can be FRI traced by examining how those first explorers named the FRI plants. In Foreign Fare, David Attenborough traces the FRI discovery of some common vegetables to their wild beginnings FRI - and the fascinating natural history of their use as food. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00z62nv (Listen) FRI Direct Red FRI FRI How does it feel to hold someone's heart in your hands? How FRI do you tell a young patient that he's dying? What do you do FRI when, on a quiet ward in the middle of the night, a patient FRI you've grown close to invites you into his bed? This vivid FRI portrayal of the day-to-day life of young female surgeon, FRI and the medical and moral dilemmas she faces, is based on FRI the memoir by Gabriel Weston. One of few women in an alpha FRI male world, she finds herself continually questioning where FRI a doctor should draw the line between being detached and FRI being human. And it's the conflict between these opposing FRI forces - the personal and professional - that lies at the FRI heart of this powerful play, which has been adapted for FRI radio by Tina Pepler. FRI FRI Gabriel . . . . . Hattie Morahan FRI Consultant . . . Alun Raglan FRI Mr Cooke . . . . John Rowe FRI Mrs Cooke . . . . Marilyn le Conte FRI Mark . . . . . . . . Matthew Gravelle FRI Troy . . . . . . . . . Kobna Holdbrook-Smith FRI Babe . . . . . . . . Claire Cage FRI Doctor John . . . .Simon Ludders FRI Nurse . . . . . . . . Catrin Stewart FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00z60y0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00z62zr (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 23:00 Book at Bedtime b00z62zt (Listen) FRI Pigeon English, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today is carnival and Harri has a holiday from his troubles FRI but it is short-lived. He is worrying about his sister lying FRI to him and the Dell Farm Crew have set him a new initiation FRI test ... but when he realises what they want him to do he FRI wants no part of it. FRI FRI Written by Stephen Kelman. FRI Read by Jojo Baidoo. FRI FRI Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, FRI Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and FRI Robert Sparks. FRI FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:15 Afternoon Reading b00lgg90 (Listen) FRI Bears of England, Sewer Bears FRI FRI Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which mix FRI fantasy with folk tale and myth with history. FRI FRI For many years in the 19th century, several dozen bears were FRI held in London's sewers, where they served as the city's FRI unpaid flushers and toshers. FRI FRI Read by Ian Holm. FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00z62zw (Listen) FRI News from Westminster. FRI