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SAT SATURDAY 26 MARCH 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00zm4m9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00zm3hq (Listen) SAT The Popes, Episode 5 SAT SAT Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the SAT Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich SAT has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing SAT institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the SAT centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by SAT no means historically) the first pope - to the present day. SAT Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have SAT unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in SAT unspeakable iniquity. SAT SAT In the final episode of The Popes, John Julius Norwich SAT concludes with the election of the people's pope John XXIII SAT a welcome antidote to Pius XII. Expected to be nothing more SAT than a brief, caretaker pope, John turned out to be anything SAT but. Dragging the Church into the twentieth century, he SAT shook the world. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zm4md (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zm4mg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zm4mj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00zm4ml (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zm4mn (Listen) SAT With the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath SAT Abbey. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00zm4mq (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News b00zm4ms (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00zm4mv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00zq87b (Listen) SAT Richard Uridge explores the Edgelands around Manchester with SAT poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, who urge us SAT to love the disregarded spaces between the city and SAT countryside. SAT SAT EDGELANDS By Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts is SAT published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00zq87d (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Many rural services are more expensive to run than urban SAT ones, from buses to the village shop. Charlotte Smith speaks SAT to people in the village of Stretton-on-Dunsmore in SAT Warwickshire to discover what value countryside services SAT have to the rest of society. Professor Wyn Grant from the SAT University of Warwick and Reverend Barbara Clutton guide SAT Charlotte through the costs of running a village. SAT SAT Anna Hill visits Erpingham Primary School in Norfolk, which SAT has just 14 pupils aged from five to 11 years old. Sarah SAT Swadling props up the bar at a pub in Dorset which was SAT resurrected by the locals. And Ruth Sanderson finds out SAT about a scheme which provides mopeds for people to get to SAT work in the countryside. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma SAT Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00zm4mx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00zq87g (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00zq87j (Listen) SAT Suzy Klein with pop star Rick Astley and poet Elvis SAT McGonagall; interviews with a woman who found out at the age SAT of 18 that her father was not the man who'd raised but a SAT famous novelist instead. There's a Crowdscape from SAT Letchworth, Britain's first Garden City and home of the SAT country's first roundabout, and Inheritance Tracks from SAT Clarence B Jones, the man who helped Martin Luther King SAT write his 'I Have a Dream' speech. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00zq8nj (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores Morecambe Bay and the area round SAT about and talks to a travel journalist about her love of SAT India and places to visit near Sheffield. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 For One Night Only b00zq9m8 (Listen) SAT Series 6, BB King Live at the Regal SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini is back with the award-winning series that SAT re-visits the occasions on which a classic live album was SAT recorded. He hears from those who were there, on-stage, SAT backstage and in the audience, to re-create the event for SAT all of us who, each time we play the album, think: 'If only SAT I could have been there'. SAT SAT On 21 November 1964 what's been hailed as one of the SAT greatest blues albums of all time was recorded at Chicago's SAT premier black theatre, The Regal. It's claimed, that SAT musicians from Eric Clapton to John Mayer still play it for SAT inspiration before they go on stage. SAT SAT If BB's studio sessions were electric, it was on stage that SAT he really came into his own. Yet, at a time when live albums SAT were becoming the thing, BB had yet to record one. Enter SAT Johnny Pate, A&R man for ABC Paramount, the label that had SAT recently signed Riley B King. SAT SAT On the night, Chicago DJs Pervis Spann and E Rodney Jones SAT introduced the sets and the enthusiastic audience erupted as SAT BB and his band treated them to a classic performance. SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini listens to memories of that SAT never-to-be-forgotten night from BB King himself and from SAT the sole surviving member of his band, Duke Jethro. Jethro's SAT usual instrument, the HammondB3 Organ, was in the repair SAT shop so he had to play, for the first time in his life, a SAT piano. Yet his tinkling riffs are one of the album's major SAT charms. SAT SAT Paul also hears from the album's producer, Johnny Pate, from SAT WVON DJ Pervis Spann, and from Arthur Gathings, who was in SAT the audience. SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00zq9mb (Listen) SAT Peter Riddell looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT A rapid conclusion in Libya? Or a long stalemate? The senior SAT Conservative, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, and the Labour peer, Lord SAT Malloch-Brown, discuss whether a new UN resolution is needed SAT to bring about the downfall of Colonel Gaddafi. SAT SAT The government has volunteered to set in statute a duty to SAT consult Parliament in the event of future military action. SAT Labour's Graham Allen, long-term campaigner for more SAT parliamentary power, is delighted. SAT SAT Boxed in? Or just pursuing a steady course towards economic SAT recovery? Verdicts differ about the second budget of the SAT Chancellor, George Osborne. The Observer's William Keegan SAT and the Conservative, Peter Lilley, weigh the arguments. SAT SAT Finally, MPs agreed this week to reject a one per cent pay SAT rise and freeze their salaries at £65,738 a year. The SAT Conservative Mark Field,and Labour's Helen Jones want an SAT independent body to decide their pay in future. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00zq9md (Listen) SAT From Our Own Correspondent is in a small Gypsy town in SAT eastern Hungary where right-wing vigilantes say crime is out SAT of control. They plan to introduce their own style of SAT security - the police and local authorities are concerned. SAT The programme's in Amsterdam finding out why the Dutch SAT monarchy is less relaxed - and more regal than it was. And SAT visit the country where there's nothing peculiar in naming SAT your baby: "Joker", "Honey-boy", or even "Peanut". SAT SAT Sue Lloyd-Roberts has been to Saudi Arabia to see if the SAT talk of reform sweeping through the Arab world has had any SAT effect on the daily lives of women in the kingdom. SAT SAT Chris Morris travels to Portugal for a close-up look at the SAT crisis in the Eurozone. SAT SAT Each of Europe's remaining royal houses has its own style. SAT Here in Britain there's still a good deal of pomp and SAT circumstance, and ancient tradition. But we've always SAT thought of the Dutch as having a more relaxed approach to SAT their monarchy - fewer carriages, more getting around on SAT bicycles and so on. But it seems that's a rather outdated SAT image - Gabriel Gatehouse says there's been a change of SAT tone. SAT SAT Most of us don't have a great deal of say over what we're SAT called. Our parents give us a name and we carry it through SAT life. So when you pick one for a baby, you might want to SAT bear in mind that he or she won't always be a baby. They SAT might become a president, or a paratrooper, or whatever. So SAT you might go for a neutral kind of name that would feel SAT right, whatever. But that sort of thinking would be SAT considered way too boring in the Philippines. As Kate SAT McGeown explains, Filipino names are a riot of invention. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00zq9mg (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00zm4hy (Listen) SAT Er - I thought we didn't have any money? With Rory Bremner. SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis count the cost of war with SAT special guest, impressionist Rory Bremner. Mitch Benn SAT performs an elegy for Knut the polar bear; stand-up Imran SAT Yusuf ponders the unifying talents of a prospective Miss SAT Universe; Laura Shavin whisks us off on a National Insurance SAT holiday and pop singer Alistair Griffin says roll up, roll SAT up for Kate and Wills wedding souvenirs. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00zm4n0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00zm4n2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00zlln5 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from SAT Kingston Grammar School in Surrey, with panellists Boris SAT Johnson, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Shadow Justice SAT Secretary, Bob Crow, general Secretary of the RMT union and SAT Ann Leslie, the veteran foreign correspondent for the Daily SAT Mail. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00zq9mj (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 b00zq9ml (Listen) SAT Leverage SAT SAT By Simon Passmore. SAT SAT A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the SAT funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly SAT questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention SAT computer files, or give her anything as a keepsake? Helen's SAT suspicions mount as she retraces his last movements. Her SAT discoveries put her in the firing line. A fast-paced, SAT psychological thriller. SAT SAT Helen . . . . . Claire Foy SAT David . . . . . Blake Ritson SAT Mark . . . . . Charlie Cox SAT Kendra . . . . . Sally Orrock SAT Clare . . . . . Joanna Monro SAT Jamie . . . . . Nyasha Hatendi SAT Ray . . . . . Sean Baker SAT SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00zlk07 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Schubert's Winterreise SAT SAT Written the year before Schubert's death aged just 31, these SAT 24 songs based on poems by Wilhelm Muller describe a journey SAT that takes us ever deeper into the frozen landscape of the SAT soul. Singers Thomas Hampson, Mark Padmore, Alice Coote and SAT David Pisaro describe the experience of immersing themselves SAT in this music. And Bernard Keefe tells of the time he sang SAT these songs in Hiroshima to survivors of the bomb. SAT Producer, Rosie Boulton. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00zq9mn (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jane Garvey presents. Anne-Marie Duff on going from SAT Shameless to posh in Cause Celebre, a tale of love, SAT betrayal, loyalty and obsession on the London stage. A small SAT but significant number of children are raised by older SAT siblings. We look at a new report which questions the SAT practical and financial support given by social services. We SAT talk to the teacher, sacked after a book she'd written SAT featuring her pupils ended up on the internet. Suffragette SAT Emily Wilding Davison is best known for throwing herself SAT under the King's horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913. Less well SAT known is how she spent Census night 1911 - we discover why SAT she hid in a cupboard in the House of Commons. We hear from SAT the woman at the centre of protests after the disputed SAT presidential elections in the Ivory Coast and the march that SAT ended with seven women being shot by soldiers. Novelist SAT Esther Freud on the hopes and trials of young actors in SAT search of the Lucky Break - the title of her latest book. SAT And when is a hat not a hat? Our fascination for SAT fascinators. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00zq9mq (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00zm326 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business, presented by Evan Davis. SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT This week, Evan's guests are all top executives from the SAT world of fashion and clothing. They discuss whether normal SAT business rules apply in their world. They also get down to SAT the nitty gritty of the business itself - who makes the SAT money and how do they set the prices? SAT SAT The panel also talks about marketing, and the role of PR in SAT getting their products noticed. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00zm4n4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00zm4n6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zm4n8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00zq9ms (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests take over the Radio 4 airwaves for a SAT glorious forty five minutes of eclectic conversation and SAT music. SAT SAT Peter is joined by none other than one of televisions most SAT popular presenters, Fern Britton. With interviews as varied SAT as Dolly Parton and Tony Blair under her belt, the former SAT This Morning presenter returns to our screens with her brand SAT new Channel 4 five o'clock chat show, Fern. Not only that, SAT she draws on her thirty years of TV experience for her debut SAT novel, New Beginnings. SAT SAT Choreographer, theatre director and former dancer Arlene SAT Phillips presents a new show, Midnight Tango. Featuring SAT Strictly Come dancing stars Vincent and Flavia, which is SAT about to go on nationwide tour. Plus she's back to judge BBC SAT One's prime time dance show, So You Think You Can Dance? SAT SAT And Peter meets the alternative drag artist Ty Jeffries, who SAT brings his award winning show starring Miss Hope Springs to SAT the Drill Hall, London. SAT SAT Emma Freud talks to the equestrienne circus star and grand SAT daughter of Billy Smart, Yasmine Smart, as she starts her SAT first tour of the UK for 25 years as part of Zippos Circus: SAT Horsepower. SAT SAT Music from Singing Adams. Formed by Steven Adams, the former SAT lead singer of the cult group the Broken Family Band, they SAT bring their indie folk to the Loose Ends studio. SAT SAT Plus an acoustic set from Austin, Texas, as Will Schiff and SAT Patrick Pestorius from rock group Okkervervil River perform SAT Weave Room Blues. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00zq9mv (Listen) SAT Amr Moussa SAT SAT Morland Sanders profiles the Secretary General of the Arab SAT League, Amr Moussa. SAT A key pillar in cobbling together international legitimacy SAT for the coalition mission in Libya was support from the SAT League of Arab States. But after bombing runs began, Amr SAT Moussa appeared to criticise the coalition strikes as beyond SAT the scope of the United Nations mandate. SAT Is this apparent wavering a lack of consensus in the Arab SAT League and does this limit its influence? How successful has SAT the League been under the leadership of Amr Moussa? SAT As he prepares to depart as head of the League and stand for SAT President of Egypt what are the challenges now facing both SAT the League and him personally? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00zq9mx (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Adam Mars Jones, SAT historian Amanda Vickery and film-maker James Runcie review SAT the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 3D film by Werner Herzog which SAT explores the Chauvet cave in the south of France. The cave SAT was discovered in 1994 and contains paleolithic paintings of SAT animals which date back 35,000 years - the oldest ever SAT found. Wim Wenders has also used 3D for his film Pina (due SAT for release on 22nd April), about the choreographer Pina SAT Bausch. Four of Bausch's most celebrated works are performed SAT by key members of her company. SAT SAT Philip Hensher's novel King of the Badgers is set in SAT Hanmouth - a small, picturesque Devon town which becomes the SAT focus of national interest when an eight year old girl goes SAT missing. There's a lot more going on behind Hanmouth's SAT closed doors and pastoral facade than is immediately SAT apparent. SAT SAT Jacques Demy's film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg won the SAT Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1964. It has now been adapted for SAT the stage by Kneehigh as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and - as SAT in the film - every word of the script is sung to Michel SAT Legrand's original score. Carly Bawden and Andrew Durand are SAT the star-crossed lovers Guy and Genevieve in the rainy SAT Normandy port. SAT SAT Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everday Life at the Wellcome SAT Collection in London is an exhibition which explores dirt SAT and our relationship to it in six different settings - a SAT home in seventeenth century Delft in Holland; a street in SAT Victorian London; a hospital in Glasgow in the 1860s; a SAT museum in Dresden in the early twentieth century; a SAT community in present day New Delhi; and a New York landfill SAT site in 2030. SAT SAT Campus is a new comedy series on Channel 4 from the makers SAT of Green Wing. The setting is Kirke University where the SAT behaviour of the teaching staff makes the students look like SAT paragons of virtue and maturity. Andy Nyman stars as the SAT venal Vice Chancellor Jonty de Wolfe. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 The Archive Hour b00zq9mz (Listen) SAT Walls of Sound SAT SAT When Nelson Mandela was tried 1964 he famously said, "I have SAT cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in SAT which all persons live together in harmony and with equal SAT opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and SAT achieve, but, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am SAT prepared to die." Without the British Library's sound SAT conservation work we would never have heard this. The trial SAT was recorded using a Dictabelt system. The recordings soon SAT became unplayable. The Dictabelts were brought to the SAT British Library where digital transfers were made, allowing SAT us to hear what Mandela said, and how. SAT SAT In 1924, in Paris, James Joyce was recorded reading from SAT 'Ulysses' and the British Library's disc is as highly prized SAT as its Blake, Hardy and Lawrence manuscripts. Alas, we'll SAT never hear how they read their work. SAT SAT These are just two of recordings of immense importance that SAT without the work of the Sound Conservation Centre would be SAT lost. And what a loss that would be. The British Library has SAT invested millions in the Centre and appointed its first ever SAT Curator of Radio. Audio is being accorded the conservation SAT effort usually devoted manuscripts and old masters. All SAT this, the radio historian Sean Street argues in this SAT programme, reflects a fundamental change in attitude to SAT sound itself. SAT SAT In a massive undertaking our sound archives are being saved, SAT restored, digitised, catalogued and opened to all. Street SAT observes all this and talks to curators, technicians and SAT users. Throughout we hear amazing recordings from the SAT libraries walls of sound that, until this change in thinking SAT about sound, few knew about, and fewer could listen to. We SAT listen as these recordings find their rightful place in the SAT documentary heritage of the nation. SAT SAT Producer : Julian May. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00zl943 (Listen) SAT The Lost World, A Bridge to the Unknown SAT SAT 1/2 A Bridge to the Unknown SAT By Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised by Chris Harrald. The SAT hot-headed Professor Challenger claims that extinct species SAT of animals are still to be found living on an isolated SAT Amazonian plateau. Dr Summerlee, Lord John Roxton and the SAT intrepid reporter, Edward Malone, find themselves committed SAT to a journey of a lifetime. SAT SAT Professor Challenger...David Robb SAT Dr Diana Summerlee...Jasmine Hyde SAT Lord John Roxton...Jamie Glover SAT Edward Malone...Jonathan Forbes SAT Gomez...Milton Lopes SAT Beaumont...Sam Dale SAT Meldrum...Sean Baker SAT Maple White...Nyasha Hatendi SAT Tarp Henry...Brian Bowles SAT Edith Challenger...Jane Whittenshaw SAT Indian tribesman...Vinicius Salles SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00zm4nb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00zllkg (Listen) SAT Terrorism SAT SAT The first in a new series of Unreliable Evidence with Clive SAT Anderson, looks at the role of the law in preventing SAT terrorism. SAT SAT The programme brings together the former Director of Public SAT Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald who has just overseen the SAT Government's review of its counter terrorism powers and Lord SAT Carlile, who for the past ten years been the government's SAT independent reviewer of terrorism legislation. SAT SAT They agree that the right balance has to be struck between SAT security and the protection of civil liberties, but disagree SAT about the extent to which this has been achieved. SAT SAT Both men have been able to see the intelligence information SAT on which government anti-terrorism legislation has been SAT based. Lord Carlile believes security measures such as SAT control orders have averted terrorist attacks, while Lord SAT Macdonald worries they have often prevented justice being SAT done. SAT SAT Also taking part in the discussion is human rights SAT barrister, Tim Owen QC, who has appeared in several leading SAT cases relating to control orders and other anti-terrorism SAT measures. SAT SAT They discuss the law relating to torture, deportation, stop SAT and search powers and the new measures being brought in to SAT replace the highly controversial control orders. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b00zlfhf (Listen) SAT Salford SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Salford, host Steve SAT Punt puts the questions to lecturers and students alike. So SAT if you'd like to hear a Military Historian humming Beatles SAT songs, a Senior Lecturer in Criminology trying to identify SAT Rihanna, or students trying to list types of fruit that SAT begin with the letter 'P', then this is the quiz show for SAT you. Plus the only time in recording history that the word SAT "pebble" has earned a massive cheer. 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 in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. 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 Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You b00zlbl5 (Listen) SAT Bob Cobbing's playful experiments with sound and text have SAT inspired a generation of poets, artists and composers. A SAT writer whose work skittered between literature and music, SAT poetry and artwork - he is, perhaps, best remembered for his SAT extraordinary poetry readings. With his operatic, resonant SAT voice he would boom, howl, chant and whisper leaving his SAT audience enchanted and enraged in equal measures. SAT SAT In this programme we delve into the work of Bob Cobbing - SAT exploring his influence on the publishing world, his role in SAT one of the most turbulent periods at the Poetry Society and SAT the visual poem that outraged Margaret Thatcher. SAT SAT Revered and reviled - he has been a controversial figure at SAT times. In this feature the writers Iain Sinclair, Peter SAT Finch, Alan Brownjohn and Paula Claire, amongst others, SAT reflect on the musicality of his work, how he challenged the SAT conventional notion of poetry and the surprising controversy SAT sound and visual poetry caused in the twentieth century. SAT SAT Produced by Eleanor McDowall SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 MARCH 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00zq9nk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00zllkj (Listen) SUN Austen Ivereigh SUN SUN This year's Lent Talks sees six well-known figures reflect SUN on different elements of conflict found in the story of SUN Jesus' ministry and Passion from the perspective of their SUN own personal and professional experience. SUN SUN In the second Lent Talk of the series, Catholic writer and SUN commentator, Austen Ivereigh, explores how we can escape the SUN cycle of conflict by becoming a forgiving victim rather than SUN a vengeful one - whilst at the same time receiving justice. SUN SUN The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for SUN self-examination and reflection on universal human SUN conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, SUN forgiveness and love. The main theme for this year's talks SUN will explore conflict in different forms and how it SUN interacts with various aspects of society and culture. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zq9nm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 02:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ztdz2 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zq9np (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00zq9nr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00zq9t8 (Listen) SUN The bells of Westminster Abbey. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00zq9mv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00zq9nt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00zq9tb (Listen) SUN 'Trains are made for meditation', John Betjeman wrote, SUN celebrating slow travel back in 1940. He was only one of SUN many poets, writers and musicians who have found inspiration SUN in rail travel. Hypnotised by the rhythm of the train, they SUN find a freedom to think and to dream, inspired by the SUN unfolding landscape outside. SUN SUN Mark Tully chooses the best train poetry and music and talks SUN to the Chaplain of St Pancras Station, Jonathan Barker, SUN about his work on the station. With music by Glenn Miller, SUN Anton Dvorak, Villa Lobos and Baron Samedi. SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00zq9td (Listen) SUN Caz Graham looks at cutting-edge farming at Aberystwyth SUN University. Here, in the shadow of the mountains of SUN Snowdonia, scientists are trying out the latest eco-friendly SUN farming methods, which aim to improve crop yield, reduce SUN pesticides and improve animal welfare. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00zq9nw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00zq9ny (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00zq9tg (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00zq9tj (Listen) SUN Ronnie Corbett presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity The Amber Trust. SUN SUN Donations to The Amber Trust should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope The SUN Amber Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can SUN also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide The Amber Trust with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1050503. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00zq9p0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00zq9p2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00zq9tl (Listen) SUN The Unreconciled - Speaking and Listening SUN SUN Part of our series for Lent live from Govan Old Parish SUN Church, Glasgow. Preacher: the Rev Douglas Gay, Lecturer in SUN Practical Theology at Glasgow University. Leader: The SUN Minister, the Rev Moyna McGlynn. Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN In our journey through Lent, we are looking at issues in SUN Christian reconciliation. Download web resources specially SUN written for the series from the Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland website. As we travel towards Easter, we prepare SUN ourselves to meet the ultimate reconciling work - what God SUN has done for us in the crucifixion, death and resurrection SUN of his son, Jesus Christ. SUN Our service this morning asks how, through speaking and SUN listening, we find out what God wants of us, how we hear the SUN call, and how the way we communicate affects everyone around SUN us. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00zm4j4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Earthworms SUN SUN 6/20. Although Charles Darwin is especially well known for SUN his work on the Theory of Evolution through his seminal work SUN "On the Origin of Species", he also published a lot of his SUN research on earthworms. Earthworms fascinated Darwin, so SUN much so that his observations led him to believe that they SUN showed marked intelligence. And earthworms fascinate David SUN Attenborough too. He recalls a visit to Australia to film SUN the giant earthworm and intriguingly used his ears more than SUN any other sense to find them. What did they sound like and SUN what did they look like? He reveals all. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00zq9vh (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00zq9vk (Listen) SUN Written by Nawal Gadalla 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 Brian Aldridge ... Charles Collingwood SUN Christine Barford ... Lesley Saweard SUN Peggy Woolley ... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy ... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ... Barry Farrimond SUN Roy Tucker ... Ian Pepperell SUN Caroline Sterling ... Sara Coward SUN Robert Snell ... Graham Blockey SUN Bert Fry ... Eric Allan SUN Lewis Carmichael ... Robert Lister SUN Usha Franks ... Souad Faress SUN Annabelle Shrivener ... Julia Hills SUN Jim Lloyd ... John Rowe SUN Marty ... Jonny Magro SUN Elona ... Eri Shuka. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00zq9vm (Listen) SUN The British Rock and Rollers SUN SUN In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites five SUN people who took part in the earliest days of rock and roll SUN in the UK. SUN SUN The first stirrings occurred when the film Blackboard SUN Jungle, featuring Bill Haley and The Comets singing 'Rock SUN Around The Clock' was released in 1955, but when Heartbreak SUN Hotel by Elvis Presley entered the UK charts in May 1956, a SUN passion for rock and roll was ignited amongst the youth. SUN SUN Within a matter of months Tommy Steele's 'Rock With The SUN Caveman,' generally considered to be the first rock and roll SUN song to have originated in the UK, had reached number 13 in SUN the charts. The rock and roll revolution was under way. SUN SUN Tommy Steele was discovered in the 2i's Coffee Bar in Old SUN Compton Street in Soho, as was Cliff Richard and The SUN Shadows, Mickie Most, Joe Brown, Vince Taylor and Terry Dene SUN amongst many others. The person who discovered him, Larry SUN Parnes, was the UK's first pop manager. SUN SUN In this programme, Sue MacGregor will be discussing those SUN days with Bruce Welch from The Shadows, Terry Dene, Vince SUN Eager and Marty Wilde who all signed up with Larry Parnes SUN and Clem Cattini, who played drums with all of them. SUN SUN Producer: Brian McCluskey SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00zlfkp (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 6 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts this long running panel game. This SUN week, panellists Tony Hawks, Paul Merton, Ross Noble and SUN Liza Tarbuck attempt to speak for a minute without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation. Subjects include the SUN Theory of Relativity and Moby Dick. SUN Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00zq9vp (Listen) SUN Natural Wine SUN SUN Natural Wine is the latest buzz in the wine world but what SUN is it? Sheila Dillon discusses and samples this chemical and SUN additive-free "new" wine that was in fact quaffed by the SUN Ancient Romans. SUN SUN Producer: Dilly Barlow. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00zq9p4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00zqc43 (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 Charlotte White's Musical Fight b00zt6v0 (Listen) SUN As a teenager Charlotte White performed the opening bars of SUN the prelude to Bach's cello suite. Nothing remarkable about SUN that until you learn that Charlotte is profoundly disabled SUN and performed the piece using assistive technology with SUN every crotchet and quaver triggered through the slightest SUN movements of her head and thumbs. SUN SUN Josie d'Arby meets this remarkable young woman and discovers SUN how Charlotte was largely written off by mainstream society, SUN enduring cooking classes and music therapy that she SUN describes as "seriously patronising." In this enlightening SUN interview, Charlotte talks about her accident, the moment SUN she re-discovered music, and how this helped every aspect of SUN her rehabilitation. SUN SUN Josie finds out about the moment the Drake Music Project SUN entered Charlotte's life, firing up her imagination with SUN music, providing her with the equipment necessary to perform SUN and compose and helping to crack the shell into which she'd SUN retreated. SUN SUN Doug Bott from the Drake Music Project recalls Charlotte's SUN sensitivity to light and sound, as they worked in these SUN quiet half-lit rooms with the whirr of his laptop drowning SUN out the music they were rehearsing. He fondly recalls SUN Charlotte's progression in those early sessions and SUN celebrates her brilliance and determination to perform SUN classical music. He explains how assistive technology works, SUN and discusses the challenges Charlotte faced gaining SUN acceptance and recognition from the wider musical community. SUN SUN Josie finds out about how Charlotte ended up in Norway SUN listening to her compositions being performed by Tromso SUN Symphony Orchestra at the prestigious Northern Lights SUN Festival, and Tessa White gives a moving account of her SUN daughter's transformation into the confident young woman she SUN is today. SUN SUN Producer: Toby Field. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00zllrd (Listen) SUN The Edible Garden Show SUN SUN A 'Grow your own' edition where Eric Robson and the team are SUN trouble-shooting at The Edible Garden Show, Warwickshire. SUN SUN In addition, Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Anne SUN Swithinbank explore this new gardening event. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Genius Unrecognised b00zs7v5 (Listen) SUN Digital Sound 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 Alec Reeves (1902-1971) SUN SUN Alec Reeves was part of the team of engineers responsible SUN for the first commercial transatlantic telephone link SUN (1927). In 1938 he patented a system called 'pulse code SUN modulation' to reduce background noise. It replaced analogue SUN transmission with a digital sequence of pulses based on a SUN sampling rate of 8,000 bits per second. SUN SUN It was PCM that was to make possible the digital recording SUN and transmission we have today, but Reeves's invention SUN didn't become cost-effective until after the transistor was SUN developed in the 1950s. SUN SUN During the war, Reeves developed an airborne radio SUN navigation system that made possible highly-accurate SUN bombing. After the war he was part of the team that invented SUN optical fibre transmission. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00zs7v7 (Listen) SUN The Lost World, Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders SUN SUN 2/2: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders. SUN By Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised by Chris Harrald. SUN Professor Challenger and his team are marooned on the SUN isolated Amazonian plateau, at the mercy of dinosaurs and a SUN murderous tribe of hominids. Will they survive to satisfy SUN their scientific curiosity? Will they be able to escape and SUN bring home news of their discoveries? SUN SUN Professor Challenger...David Robb SUN Dr Diana Summerlee...Jasmine Hyde SUN Lord John Roxton...Jamie Glover SUN Edward Malone...Jonathan Forbes SUN Querioz... Vinicius Salles SUN Meldrum...Sean Baker SUN Indian tribesman... Milton Lopes SUN Directed by Marilyn Imrie SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00zs7v9 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to author of Brick Lane Monica Ali SUN about her new book, a novel inspired by the life of Princess SUN Diana. SUN SUN Seventy years after her death, novelist and critic James SUN Runcie assesses the legacy of Virginia Woolf. SUN SUN And librarians, listeners and writer Dreda Say Mitchell SUN defend public libraries. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 Man Versus God b00zs7vc (Listen) SUN Storyteller Seema Anand explores Muhammad Iqbal's epic poem SUN Shikwa, one of the most famous and enduring works of Islamic SUN literature. The poem is an audacious and heartfelt complaint SUN in lyrical Urdu about all the many ways in which God has let SUN Muslims down. SUN SUN When it was first recited by Iqbal at a public gathering in SUN Lahore in 1911, a fatwa was issued by Islamic scholars who SUN were shocked by its seemingly outrageous impudence: here was SUN Man daring to challenge the wisdom of God! SUN SUN Like many works by Iqbal, the poem is presented as a SUN dialogue between Man and God, a quite revolutionary concept SUN in Islamic literature and with echoes of Milton's Paradise SUN Lost. Iqbal felt strongly that Islam should be open to SUN reform and questioning - and many of his ideas are as SUN powerfully relevant today as they were 100 years ago. SUN SUN Iqbal is often called the spiritual father of Pakistan for SUN using poetry to raise self-awareness amongst Muslims in SUN pre-partition India so that they would eventually rise up SUN and seek a separate nation. His poems are still recited at SUN social gatherings all across the Muslim world (Shikwa is now SUN even available as an iPhone app) but his poetry has a much SUN wider appeal than just for Muslims. It contains many SUN universal ideas about the relationship between Man, Earth SUN and Divinity which resonate to this day. SUN SUN Seema Anand (who is not Muslim) is learning to translate the SUN poem with the dream that one day she too will be able to SUN recite it and bring it to new audiences in Britain. Despite SUN the challenge of learning a poem in a language she barely SUN knows and with intricate imagery and ideas drawn from SUN earlier Sufi and Persian poets, it's something she pursues SUN because she's convinced the beauty of the verse nourishes SUN the soul. SUN SUN Contributors: Professor Javed Majeed, Navid Akhtar SUN Readings by Sagar Arya, Saeed Jaffrey and Pervaiz Alam SUN SUN Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culturewise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00zlkpz (Listen) SUN Organs Failure? SUN SUN Is the NHS doing enough to combat the crisis in organ SUN donations for transplants? Allan Urry examines the challenge SUN of ensuring more suitable donors are available at a time SUN when those waiting for life saving operations are SUN increasing. Surgeons are reporting worse outcomes for some SUN patients, as poorer quality organs have to be used because SUN of chronic shortages. This comes despite a big drive by the SUN Department of Health to improve availability. But, are SUN opportunities to recover more organs being missed because of SUN the way doctors manage the care of patients who are close to SUN death? SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00zq9mv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00zq9p6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00zq9p8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zq9pb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00zs7vf (Listen) SUN John Harris makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN This week, the curious tale of the only female pope, the SUN Today programme's inspired attempts to rewrite the rules of SUN several sports, and why the Soviet Union put so many animals SUN into orbit. Plus, the inside story of early British SUN rock'n'roll, the battle for the soul of the Labour Party, SUN and a Nelson Mandela speech rescued by the British Library SUN for posterity. SUN SUN The Magnificent Andrea - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN So Wrong It's Right - Radio 4 SUN What's in a Meme - Radio 4 SUN The Popes - Radio 4 SUN Document - Radio 4 SUN It Is Rocket Science - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: Walls of Sound - Radio 4 SUN Analysis - Radio 4 SUN Don't Buy A Winter Coat - Radio 4 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN The Jazz House - Radio Scotland SUN The Reunion - Radio 4 SUN Radcliffe and Maconie - Radio 2 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Kathryn Blennerhassett. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00zq76v (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00zs7vh (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN U.S. efforts in the Middle East SUN SUN With U.S. warplanes among those flying over Libya to enforce SUN the no-fly zone, Americana presenter Allison Keyes gathers a SUN roundtable discussion with the American people to learn what SUN they think of the latest U.S. efforts in the Middle East. SUN SUN Growing older in the United States can be a complicated SUN experience SUN SUN Authors Susan Jacoby and Arnold Weinstein say the romantic SUN storylines of books and movies can play a part in the SUN process of coming to terms with aging. Americana visits with SUN older Americans in a retirement community in Maryland to SUN find out what they think about the myths and truths of SUN aging. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00cqfyr (Listen) SUN The Further Adventures of the First King of Mars, Take me to SUN your Leader SUN SUN To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik SUN we commissioned Nick Walker to write the sci-fi adventure SUN 'The First King Of Mars'. Now in five thrilling SUN action-packed episodes we continue the story where it left SUN off. SUN SUN Our intrepid crew fear that they are not alone on the Red SUN Planet. SUN SUN Nick Walker's theatre work has been presented extensively in SUN the UK as well as Europe, and the USA. His plays and short SUN stories are often featured on BBC Radio 4 and 3 series of SUN the late-night show The Bigger Issues. He is the author of SUN two critically acclaimed novels Blackbox and Helloland, SUN published in the UK, US, Australia, Japan and across Europe. SUN SUN Performed by Peter Capaldi SUN SUN Producer: Karen Rose SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00zm482 (Listen) SUN If the pips are always late on DAB radio, how will we know SUN what the real time is when we all switch over to digital? SUN SUN Roger Bolton talks to Rupert Brun, the BBC's head of SUN technology who says - actually - we won't. SUN Some listeners question Jenni Murray's use of language SUN during her recent stand-up routine for Comic Relief - the SUN Woman's Hour presenter reveals why she abandoned PC in SUN favour of street slang. SUN SUN Sir Michael Lyons is coming to the end of a turbulent four SUN years as the chairman of the BBC Trust. In his last SUN interview for Feedback he discusses whether the BBC "lost SUN its moral compass" during the Ross/Brand affair, how SUN executive pay was brought into line and how listeners will SUN be consulted on the next round of BBC cuts. SUN And MPs put their weight behind your arguments in favour of SUN local radio. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00zm4jz (Listen) SUN Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Christopher, Fred Titmus and Jet SUN Harris SUN SUN Matthew Bannister remembers: SUN SUN Elizabeth Taylor - we assess her as movie actress, sex SUN symbol and celebrity icon. We have memories from Richard SUN Burton's nephew and the playwright David Wood who appeared SUN alongside Burton and Taylor in an Oxford student production SUN of Dr Faustus. SUN SUN Also Warren Christopher, the American Secretary of State SUN under Bill Clinton - Lord Hurd pays tribute. SUN SUN Middlesex and England bowler Fred Titmus, who lost some of SUN his toes in a boating accident, but was playing again within SUN weeks. SUN SUN And Jet Harris of the Shadows - said to be the first person SUN in the UK to play an electric bass guitar. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Kobrak. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00zq9mg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00zq9tj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00zlgdl (Listen) SUN Blue Labour SUN SUN Labour's traditional working class supporters are abandoning SUN the party in their droves. But can Labour win them back SUN without alienating the middle-class voters it needs to win SUN the next election? David Goodhart explores the tensions SUN between two traditions in the Labour movement - a liberal SUN wing focussed on equality and diversity and a conservative SUN strand that is more concerned with issues of solidarity and SUN community. And he examines the new Blue Labour school of SUN thought, which believes that the best way to unite the two SUN traditions is to rethink the Big State approach that became SUN a defining element of the post-war Labour Party's identity. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00zs7vk (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 b00zs7vp (Listen) SUN Episode 45 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 George Parker of the FT SUN takes the chair. SUN SUN FEATURED PRESENTER: GEORGE PARKER SUN SUN George Parker is Political Editor for the Financial Times. SUN His career as a political journalist stretches back to 1990 SUN when he became the Western Morning News political editor, SUN covering the downfall of Margaret Thatcher. He joined the FT SUN as a political correspondent in 1995. In 2010 he was elected SUN chairman of the parliamentary press gallery. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00zm4hw (Listen) SUN This week in The Film Programme Francine Stock travels north SUN of Hadrian's Wall in search of lost Romans and backwards in SUN time to ponder the mysterious and beautiful Paleolithic SUN paintings found on the walls of a cave in southerin France. SUN Her companion for the foray into the land of the Picts is SUN Kevin MacDonald who has directed a film version of Rosemary SUN Sutcliff's classic book, The Eagle of the Ninth; and for the SUN trip to the caves she's joined by the veteran German SUN director, Werner Herzog. His documentary Cave of Forgotten SUN Dreams is shot in 3D and has been hailed as his best film to SUN date....quite a claim for a man with Fitzcarraldo and SUN Aguirre, Wrath of God in his back catalogue. There's also an SUN interview with Brian Cox about two of his favourite films SUN and the sound designer, Matt Wand, offers us a glimpse into SUN the world of the Foley artist - the people who not only make SUN Marilyn's heels go clickety clack and Clint's horses go SUN cloppity clop but invite us to dream. SUN SUN Producer - Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00zq9tb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 MARCH 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00zq76b (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00zm871 (Listen) MON The Impact of the Temperance Movement - The New North MON MON Will power and prosperity shift to the frozen North? A new MON book predicts that Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Sweden, MON Finland, and Russia will be the beneficiaries of a new world MON order. By 2050, four megatrends - climate change, rising MON population, globalisation and resource depletion - will lead MON to the rise of 'The New North', as migration, energy MON bonanzas and international trade turn the world upside down. MON The geographer, Professor Laurence Smith, tells Laurie MON Taylor why these projections amount to more than planetary MON palm reading. Also, does the morality of the 19th century MON Temperance movement influence modern day attitudes to MON drinking? The law lecturer, Henry Yeomans, argues that MON prohibitionism - contrary to popular belief - lives on in MON 'binge drinking' Britain. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00zq9t8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zq76d (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zq76g (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zq76j (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00zq76l (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zq76n (Listen) MON With the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath MON Abbey. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00zq854 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00zq76q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00zt6x6 (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 b00zs806 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Niall Ferguson about the history of MON civilisation, and how the West came to triumph over what MON appeared to be superior empires in the East, and whether MON that ascendancy is in permanent decline. While the economist MON George Magnus questions whether emerging markets, like MON China, really are about to dominate the world. The Queen MON will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee this year, and the MON commentator Peter Whittle presents a robust defence of the MON monarchy as one of Britain's leading institutions. And as MON revolution and change sweep across the Middle East, MON Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed looks at the impact on the MON Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00zsc24 (Listen) MON Venetian Navigators - The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the MON Far North, Episode 1 MON MON By Andrea di Robilant. MON MON Read by Sam Dale. MON MON In the fourteenth century, so the story goes, two merchant MON brothers set out from Venice on a journey through the rough MON seas of the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, MON fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New MON World a full century before Columbus. MON MON The story of their adventure, recounted in a small book MON accompanied by a beautifully detailed map by an enthusiastic MON Zen ancestor in 1558, travelled throughout Europe, from the MON workshop of the great cartographer Gerard Mercator to the MON court of Elizabeth I. For centuries, the brothers were MON heralded as pioneering adventurers, until, in 1835, the MON story was denounced as a 'tissue of lies' and the Zens faded MON into oblivion. MON MON Intrigued by the myth, the writer Andrea di Robilant set out MON to discover the truth about the Zen voyages. Following in MON their footsteps, his quest to solve one of Venice's most MON intriguing mysteries takes him on a fascinating journey of MON his own, from the crumbling Palazzo Zen in Venice to the MON space-age transport links of the Faroe Islands, a remote MON volcanic hillside in Greenland and the ruins of a once MON dynamic monastery in Iceland. MON MON Abridged by Laurence Wareing. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zq856 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. Including the implications of the new MON French law banning face veils. MON MON Full face veil ban in France MON MON A new law comes into effect on 11th April in France which MON will ban Muslim women from wearing the Niqab, or the full MON face veil in any public place. Women who break the law will MON be fined 150 Euro but the fine for anyone who is found to MON coerce a woman into wearing the Niqab will be 30,000 Euro. MON Only a very small minority of Muslim women in France wear it MON and the debates surrounding the law have been bitter and MON divisive with some arguing that it deliberately targets MON Muslims and others saying that it is an equality issue for MON women. The BBC’s Paris Correspondent Christian Fraser MON reports on the new law and Salma Yaqoob, a Birmingham City MON councillor and leader of the Respect Party, looks at the MON wider implications. MON MON Margaret Humphreys and the Child Migrant Programme MON MON From the 1920’s to the early 1970’s more than 130,000 MON British children were sent to former colonies where many MON suffered abuse. The Child Migrant Programme sent poor MON children for a "better life" to countries like Canada and MON Australia, but many were abused and lied to. This week the MON film 'Oranges and Sunshine' opens and tells the story of MON what happened to some of these children and their attempts MON to find out about the families they had come from. The story MON unravels through the experiences of Margaret Humphreys, a MON social worker from Nottingham, who was instrumental in MON uncovering what had happened. She joins Jane. MON MON Oranges and Sunshine is released in cinemas across the UK MON on 1st April 2011 MON MON Jean Auel – On her Stone-Age Blockbusters MON MON Jean Auel has learned how to start a fire without matches MON and how to soften deer hides with brains she has squished MON with her bare hands… all in the name of research. She is MON the American author of the Earth’s Children series which MON began with The Clan of the Cave Bear in 1980. It’s a MON six-part saga of early tribesmen living in prehistoric MON Europe. She joins Jane to talk about her writing. Why turn MON to writing in her 40s? Why the fascination with Ice Age MON people? What’s next for her lead character, Ayla? MON MON The Land Of Painted Caves will be published on 29th March MON 2011. MON MON The Cult of Beauty MON MON In the late 19th century, a group of artists, writers and MON designers became known as Aesthetes for their conviction MON that art should exist for no other reason than to be MON beautiful. Following hot on the heels of the MON Pre-Raphaelites, the Aesthetic Movement dedicated itself to MON beauty above all within the home, within fashion and within MON art. William Morris designed luxurious wallpaper prints for MON the everyday woman to decorate their houses with. And MON magazines doubled their selling power by adhering to this MON latter-day ‘Changing Rooms’ lifestyle philosophy. But could MON an almost entirely male movement really speak directly to MON women? And were any of them actively involved in the MON movement apart from as muses? The Victoria and Albert MON Museum opens its exhibition ‘The Cult of Beauty – The MON Aesthetic Movement 1860 – 1900’ on 2 April. Stephen MON Calloway, the co-curator, and Elizabeth Prettejohn, MON Professor of History of Art at Bristol University join Jane MON to discuss the role of women in the very first artistic MON movement to inspire a lifestyle. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zsc26 (Listen) MON The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON by Esther Wilson MON Return of award winning drama series; an illuminating and MON striking exploration of the challenges and aspirations in MON the unique life of a young woman with learning disabilities. MON A series that's both tough and feelgood. MON Starring Donna Lavin and Edmund Davies - actors with MON learning disabilities. MON MON Darleen is taking driving lessons and proposes to Jamie. MON Marriage, driving lessons, the pitfalls of sheltered housing MON are all on the agenda in series 2. Created in part through MON improvisation and inspired by true stories. MON MON Darleen Fyles....... Donna Lavin MON Jamie ...... Edmund Davies MON Treena ..... Lorraine Ashbourne MON Leonard ..... Steve Evats MON Ben ...... Wyllie Longmor MON Marie ..... Emma Hartley-Miller MON Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris MON MON 11:00 Mothers and Sons b00zsc28 (Listen) MON For Mother's Day, an exploration of the special bond between MON mother and son, stories sent in by listeners to Woman's MON Hour. Ben was close to his family, had a place in medical MON school and was on course to fulfill his parents' aspirations MON - when he suddenly announced he was getting married. He was MON 19. His parents lost him for ten years. But when he reached MON crisis point he decided to go home - he had nowhere else to MON go. "It was dark and there was a light in the porch. Mum MON held me, and I cried for a very long time." MON MON Beverley, a single parent, used to take her young son MON Benjamin everywhere with her, even parachuting. But he MON started smoking cannabis, taking ecstasy, and dropped out of MON university to organize raves. The drugs affected his mental MON health and he tried to kill his mother. "I believed she'd MON been cruel to me when I was young. I developed a fantasy MON that led me to making a gun. That's when things became MON dangerous. I made the gun and my uncle said, 'What's that MON for?' and I said, 'It's to shoot your sister.'" She called MON the police; he was sentenced to four years in prison. But MON then came the day when, from his secure mental unit, MON Benjamin decided to call his mother. MON MON The third story is even more extraordinary. Ahmed's mother MON gave birth to him during an Israeli raid in the Gaza strip. MON Her baby was taken from her, placed in intensive care and MON she was given a number for his cot. When the hospital was MON evacuated, her husband ran to save the baby but discovered MON two babies in the cot. He chose one, and handed him to his MON wife, who bonded with the baby immediately. But they did not MON tell their son what had happened - until he found out when MON he was 17. The repercussions of that choice are still being MON felt by Ahmed and his mother. Is he really her son? And what MON does it mean, in the end, to be a good son, and a good MON mother? MON MON Producers: Elizabeth Burke and Kim Normanton MON A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00zsc2b (Listen) MON Jampoa 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 Jampoa where fame definitely equals MON fortune. MON MON Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson MON Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale MON Dr Malik ..... Paul Bhattacharjee MON Steen ..... Dave Lamb MON Darmy ..... John Nicholson MON Hajia ..... Catherine Shepherd MON Dr Reem ..... Christopher Douglas MON Donya ..... Margaret Cabourn Smith MON Host ..... Sam Dale MON Journo ..... Nyasha Hatendi MON Gameshow Host ..... Brian Bowles MON MON Written by Bill Dare MON Produced by Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00zsc2d (Listen) MON The explosion in the use of mobile data by people with MON smartphones and tablet computers has led to the push towards MON the next big thing in mobile wireless networks, 4G. Now the MON industry regulator OFCOM is auctioning off the rights to the MON 4G spectrum. It could raise billions of pounds for the MON Treasury but what's in it for consumers ?America is often MON seen as the land of plenty - with its supersized portions MON and vast amounts of choice when it comes to food. It's not MON uncommon for restaurants in the States to present MON encyclopedic-like menu. At The Cheesecake Factory the menu MON reads more like a novel running to almost almost 20 pages. MON But could all that be about to change? In New York, one of MON the country's culinary capitals, many venues are adopting MON introducing simpler menus with less scope for customers to MON pick and choose. MON MON A British company says it has gone into administration MON largely because of money it's owed for building the stadium MON which helped Qatar win the 2022 football World Cup. What are MON the the pitfalls of doing business abroad ? MON MON A group of elderly ex-pats - who lost their life savings to MON a fraudster because of a loophole in French banking law - MON say they have reached an "amicable settlement" with Societe MON Generaleover the return of the money. The story of British MON con-man Graham Templeton, and the two million pounds he MON stole from retirees who'd gone to live in the Dordogne, was MON first reported by our sister programme Face the Facts at the MON beginning of last year. Now their six year struggle to MON recover the money appears to be over. MON MON New cars will have digital radios fitted by 2013, to help MON the government push ahead with the switchover. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00zq76s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00ztb2v (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 b00zsc2g (Listen) MON Middlesex MON MON This episode of 'The 3rd Degree' is brought to you from MON Middlesex University, where host Steve Punt puts the MON questions to students and dons of Child Nursing, Design & MON Art, Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Topics for questions MON include whirling astronauts, Wagner's operas, and 300 MON billion copies of the Queen. So if you've ever wondered MON which exponential function's derivative is equal to the MON function itself or what are the exact contents of a MON Jägerbomb cocktail, then this is the quiz show for you. 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 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 b00zq76v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jj01n (Listen) MON Beirut Days MON MON By Kris Kenway. A day in the life of the enigmatic city MON where east meets west. For three lost souls, this is the day MON when everything changes. MON MON Narrator ...... Nadim Sawalha MON Mounira ...... Souad Faress MON Josef ...... Peter Polycarpou MON Nadine ...... Sirine Saba MON Rania ...... Razane Jammal MON Abu Ziad ...... Raad Rawi MON MON Directed by James Robinson. MON MON 15:00 The Archive Hour b00zq9mz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Elegies from a Suburban Garden b00zsd0l (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON "If we're lucky", says botanist Phil Gates "we gardeners get MON to experience the seasonal rollercoaster of gardening MON emotions about 70 times. Just 70 spring, summer, autumn and MON winters in a lifetime... and with each passing cycle those MON that remain become even more precious". In this series, MON recorded over a year, the relationship between a gardener MON and his garden and the emotions evoked by each season, are MON explored. In a modern, high-tech consumer society MON cultivating a garden remains perhaps the most direct way in MON which we can maintain an emotional and sensual link with the MON natural world. MON MON The series begins in early spring. Much of the soil is MON exposed at this time of year, and at first glance there MON seems little life, but look more closely, and green shoots MON of new life are visible. There's an air of expectancy and MON excitement. What will the new season bring? What has MON survived the sub-zero temperatures and heavy snows of MON winter? Hope and expectation is mixed with relief as MON survivors are discovered. But this is no time to relax, MON there are jobs to done; the greenhouse needs sweeping and MON cleaning out, the glass which cracked under the weight of MON the winter's snow needs replacing, the slugs need rounding MON up and then the arrival of new packets of seeds set in MON motion plans for the year's new plantings. MON MON Presenter Phil Gates MON Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00zq9vp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b00zsc2j (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 1 MON MON Simon casts an eye over the revolutions and political unrest MON that has been taking place across the world, and asks MON whether Western tech companies are inadvertently helping MON governments suppress their people. MON MON Rupert Goodwins is back, learning how we'll be fighting MON crime in future. MON MON The government has repeatedly looked to crowdsource us for MON ideas, but they aren't really using them. Should they bother MON at all? MON MON And Simon discovers how the RNLI is using technology to save MON fishermen's lives. MON MON Producer Lucy Lloyd. MON MON 17:00 PM b00zsd0r (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zq76x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00zsd0w (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 7 MON MON Nicholas Parsons is joined by Julian Clary, Paul Merton, MON Graham Norton and Terry Wogan as they try to speak without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation. Subjects include, My MON Disastrous Trip to the Zoo and for Julian Clary MON especially... Innuendo. MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00zq76z (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00zq771 (Listen) MON Kirsty Lang meets the writers of TV comedy Candy Cabs, MON Elliot Hope and Johanne McAndrew. MON MON Folk musicians from the US and Canada have spent a weekend MON in Shrewsbury working alongside British musicians to produce MON a new album inspired by the folk song collector Cecil Sharp. MON They discuss their collaboration. MON MON A review of the film Essential Killing. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zsc26 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b00zsd10 (Listen) MON Mike Thomson explores newly released documents which suggest MON that Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil government secretly MON co-operated with the British to crush the IRA in the 1930s. MON MON In January 1939 the IRA launched a devastating bombing MON campaign across England for the cause of a united Ireland. MON Bombs left at power stations, in litter bins and empty MON cinemas caused havoc in London, Manchester, Birmingham and MON other major cities. In August 1939 Coventry suffered the MON worst explosion when a bomb carried by a bicycle brought MON carnage to the streets and left five dead. MON MON Ireland's Prime Minister Éamon de Valera was in a difficult MON position as he had turned his back on the militant MON republicanism of his youth in favour of constitutional MON politics. With war looming he also wanted to keep Ireland MON neutral. Faced with an IRA campaign that was undermining his MON political efforts and ratcheting up the violence - at one MON stage the IRA even considered recruiting volunteers for MON "death squads" - documents show that de Valera was secretly MON co-operating with his arch enemy - the British government - MON to stamp out his former brothers in arms. MON MON Producer: Paula McGinley. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00zq2kc (Listen) MON Baghdad Airport MON MON Gabriel Gatehouse hears the extraordinary tales of the MON people coming into and out of Iraq - and paints a portrait MON of a still troubled country through its international MON gateway. MON MON It's not been the safest of places: one worker describes MON seeing a car bomb attack on the airport road and you still MON need to pass through five checkpoints to enter the terminal. MON Gabriel meets the people entering the country - like British MON and Ugandan security men, and pilgrims from Iran, bound for MON Iraq's Shia holy sites. There are the people leaving Iraq, MON including a Christian family who fear for their lives if MON they stay. And then there are the people who live in the MON airport compound - like the American air traffic controller MON who never leaves, except to return home on holiday. MON MON Producer: Becky Lipscombe. MON MON Life in Iraq as seen by travellers at Baghdad airport MON MON The extraordinary tales of the people at Baghdad airport, MON whether staff or passengers, shine a light on life in Iraq, MON as Gabriel Gatehouse reports. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00zm31w (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to Professor Robin Grimes, MON the Director of the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at MON Imperial College, London about the latest developments at MON the Fukushima nuclear plant. We speak to an ornithologist MON who is battling to save penguins in one of the remotest MON parts of the world - the islands of Tristan da Cunha - MON following an oil spill. Also on the programme; can Hollywood MON put real science into the movies and the latest in sport MON engineering and how it can lead to gold medals. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON UK Penguins MON MON A grounded cargo vessel has been wrecked on Nightingale MON Island – part of the Tristan da Cunha UK overseas territory MON in the South Atlantic - and threatens to create a twin MON environmental disaster for the island’s wildlife, which MON includes nearly half of the world population of northern MON rockhopper penguin; one of the world’s most threatened MON species of penguin. The fuel oil and cargo of 1500 tonnes of MON heavy crude oil has been leaking into the sea, posing a MON major hazard to the island’s tens of thousands of pairs of MON penguin as well as the economically-important rock lobster MON fishery. Hundreds of oiled penguins have already been seen MON coming ashore. Quentin talks to Katrine Herian, RSPB Project MON Officer. MON MON Japan Nuclear Reactor MON MON After last week’s programme, which looked at the Japan MON nuclear power plant crisis, Quentin talks to Professor Robin MON Grimes, Director of the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at MON Imperial College, London, to find out the latest from the MON Fukushima plant and what is next for the reactors. MON MON Science in films MON MON Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, MON is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever MON produced. Using advisors from 65 scientific organisations. MON Other films such as A Beautiful Mind, Finding Nemo and The MON Hulk have achieved some degree of scientific credibility MON because of science consultants. Quentin talks to Dr David MON Kirby, author of Lab Coats in Hollywood, to find out how MON important science consultants are to films. MON MON Sport and engineering MON MON Sports science and engineering in the UK have vital roles to MON play in the success of British athletes. This includes MON identifying high performance technology across a range of MON sports and providing specialist support services in MON physiology, nutrition, strength and conditioning to ensure MON British athletes are at the top of their game. Quentin talks MON to Professor Steve Haake, Director of the Centre for Sports MON Engineering Research at Sheffield Hallam University, about MON modelling performance. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00zs806 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00zq773 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00zsdg9 (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 b00zsdgc (Listen) MON The Tiger's Wife, Episode 1 MON MON Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set MON in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a MON young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious MON circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of MON The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always MON provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads MON to the extraordinary stories of the deathless man and the MON tiger's wife. MON MON Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 MON Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on MON the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - MON the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short MON story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer MON Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David MON Mitchell. MON MON She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in MON Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family MON immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United MON States. MON MON The reader is Hattie Morahan. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00zlknd (Listen) MON First of a new series. Michael Rosen looks at the speaking MON of English in the UK - who speaks English and who doesn't? MON If you live in the UK should you speak English - and if so, MON what will be the effect of cutting the funding for ESOL MON English language classes? MON Michael meets people settled in the UK who are studying MON English, to find out how they learn it, and how it's paid MON for. MON Then he chairs a discussion on the wider issues with John MON Eversley, Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Primary Care MON at City University; Douglas Murray, author and political MON commentator, and Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion; MON Sarah Mulley, Associate Director for Migration, Trade and MON Development at the Institute for Public Policy Research and MON Ceri Williams, Warden and Principal of Mary Ward Settlement MON and Centre. MON Producer: Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zq775 (Listen) MON News from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00zsdrm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00zsc24 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zsdrp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zsdrr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zsdrt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00zsdrw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zsdry (Listen) TUE With the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath TUE Abbey. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00zsds0 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00zsds2 (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 b00zsds4 (Listen) TUE Adam Ant TUE TUE Flamboyant and charismatic, Adam Ant was the most successful TUE pop star of the early 1980s. TUE TUE He is best remembered for his wild sense of style - dressed TUE as a highwayman with a white-stripe painted across his face, TUE crashing through a church window in the video for his TUE biggest hit 'Stand and Deliver'. TUE TUE The extreme highs and lows of bipolar disorder affected his TUE career and personal life - he attempted suicide; he's been TUE sectioned and he's spent long periods in psychiatric care. TUE TUE He discusses the highs and lows of his life and career with TUE John Humphrys. TUE TUE Adam Ant and John Humphrys in the 'On the Ropes' studio TUE TUE 09:30 The Narrowcasters b00zsds6 (Listen) TUE The Poker Channel TUE TUE Europe's most unusual minority TV stations with Nigel TUE Cassidy. Tiny television network the Poker Channel is TUE gambling on turning late night card games into compulsive TUE viewing. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00zt7py (Listen) TUE Venetian Navigators - The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the TUE Far North, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Andrea di Robilant. TUE Read by Sam Dale. TUE TUE Intrigued by the myth, the writer Andrea di Robilant set out TUE on a personal quest to see what traces remain of these TUE fabled voyages. In this episode, he arrives in the Faroe TUE Islands: a scattering of volcanic islands half-way between TUE Shetland and Iceland where echoes of its vibrant past as a TUE busy maritime hub still resonate. TUE TUE Abridged by Laurence Wareing. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zsds8 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Does primary school class size make a TUE difference to a child's chances? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt744 (Listen) TUE The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Long The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles episode 2/5 TUE by Esther Wilson TUE Return of award winning drama series; an illuminating and TUE striking exploration of the challenges and aspirations in TUE the unique life of a young woman with learning disabilities. TUE A series that's both tough and feel good. TUE Starring Donna Lavin and Edmund Davies; actors with learning TUE disabilities. TUE Wedding preparations are developing but lack of finance TUE cause a few disappointments. TUE Plus Darleen's friend in sheltered housing gets attacked. TUE Darleen ..... Donna Lavin TUE Jamie ..... Edmund Davies TUE Treena ..... Lorraine Ashbourne TUE Leonard ..... Steve Evats TUE Ben ..... Wyllie Longmore TUE Bob ...... Stephen Chapman TUE Vicar ...... Declan Wilson TUE PRODUCED/DIRECTED BY PAULINE HARRIS. TUE TUE 11:00 Attila the Hen b00zsdsb (Listen) TUE The fashion for keeping chickens in your back garden shows TUE no sign of waning, but Natalie Haynes has heard some dark TUE rumours about the true habits of the hen. Can they be true? TUE Natalie's own chicken knowledge being limited entirely to TUE their lives in Ancient Rome, she hears from chicken breeders TUE and keepers; but perhaps the most keen insight is from TUE ornithologist Mark Cocker, who explains how things look from TUE the chickens' own perspective. Poultry and people can be TUE very good for one another, but like any relationship it does TUE require respect. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 11:30 The Original Playboy b00zsdsd (Listen) TUE This April Hugh Hefner will be 85 years old. The same month TUE his fiancée will be celebrating her 25th birthday. His TUE involvement with much younger women is just one of the TUE reasons he's attracted controversy and criticism his whole TUE life. But are we too quick to dismiss him as merely a TUE pornographer? Former Loaded editor James Brown examines Hugh TUE Hefner's publishing career during his most successful years, TUE revealing how his contribution to cultural and social change TUE is often overlooked. TUE A philosophy graduate with a genius IQ, Hefner founded TUE Playboy magazine back in 1953 with a $600 loan and some TUE naked pictures of Marilyn Monroe. It was an instant success TUE going on to sell 7 million copies a month. But by 1960s the TUE magazine was much more than just a girlie mag. TUE Under Hefner's strict direction Playboy presented a TUE lifestyle. The magazine placed itself at the forefront of TUE the new consumer society by featuring articles on fine wine, TUE food, fashion, cars and HIFIs. Thanks to some heavyweight TUE journalism there were articles on environmentalism, nuclear TUE disarmament, anti-Vietnam sentiments and civil rights. The TUE publication was a champion of some of the world's most TUE notable authors; Arthur C Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir TUE Nabokov, PG Wodehouse and Margaret Atwood are just some of TUE the writers who had short stories published in Playboy. The TUE "big interview" was just as impressive - it featured an TUE array of world famous people from movie stars to sportsmen, TUE and from presidents to dictators. TUE Of course most people associate Playboy with nude TUE photographs. The racy pictures pushed the levels of TUE acceptable nudity in a prudish, post-war society. Their TUE artistic style would influence other magazines, the fashion TUE world and advertising but Playboy's sexual content didn't TUE stop there. Hefner was frustrated at what he saw as TUE America's puritanical attitude to sex. He made it his TUE mission to bring about sexual liberation, regularly TUE publishing his philosophies and attitudes on the subject. He TUE ended up becoming a leading figure in the sexual revolution. TUE This anti-establishment stance resulted in several battles TUE with the authorities who tried to ban the distribution of TUE Playboy. Hefner won them all, paving the way for more TUE liberal publishing and the relaxation of censorship. TUE In the 1990s' James Brown created the men's lifestyle TUE magazine Loaded, which many called "the new Playboy." The TUE similarities were obvious: both magazines featured men's TUE fashion, serious journalism and of course, beautiful women. TUE In this documentary James Brown speaks to professors, TUE Playboy bunnies, Hef's right hand man and a Hefner TUE photographer to get the lowdown on the octogenarian's TUE extraordinary life and career. It's a rollercoaster ride TUE through American history topped off with an exclusive TUE interview with the man known around the world as the TUE Original Playboy. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00zsdsg (Listen) TUE In his Budget, the Chancellor George Osborne announced a TUE series of measures designed to boost manufacturing in TUE Britain. He wants the brand 'Made in Britain' to lead our TUE economic recovery. But given that manufacturing has been TUE neglected for years and now accounts for only about 12% of TUE GDP, do we have the network of suppliers and the skills to TUE make it work? Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. Your TUE chance to share your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00zsdsj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00zsdsl (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 b00zsdsn (Listen) TUE Series 11, Mahler's Adagietto TUE TUE Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony TUE TUE Mahler wrote his 5th Symphony during the summers of 1901 and TUE 1902. The Adagietto is the 4th movement which is thought to TUE have been inspired by falling in love with Alma who he TUE married around this time. This single movement is Mahler's TUE most well known piece of music. It was famously used in the TUE 1971 Luchino Visconti film Death in Venice And it was also TUE conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the mass at St Patrick's TUE Cathedral, New York on the day of the burial of Robert TUE Kennedy. TUE In this programme, composer David Matthews explains the TUE significance of this piece in Mahler's output. Psychoanalyst TUE Anthony Cantle describes listening to it with his mother TUE during her last days of dementia. Malcolm Reid tells how TUE this piece signified a change in himself as a young man in TUE the British police force with narrow, racist views, to TUE hearing it in Australia and shifting his to becoming a TUE liberal. And Helen Epstein explains why it was played at her TUE mother's funeral. TUE Producer, Rosie Boulton. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00zq76z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00zsdsq (Listen) TUE The Spellbound Horses TUE TUE by Julia Blackburn TUE TUE Julia's father was the poet Thomas Blackburn. He was an TUE alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his TUE drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy obsession TUE with death, she always knew he loved her. TUE TUE She learnt the transforming power of words from him, and she TUE clung to them, a life raft in a stormy sea. 'Find the TUE metaphor, darling!' he'd say, 'and when you've got that, TUE you're on the way towards facing whatever it is that needs TUE to be faced!' TUE TUE Julia is older now than her father ever became, and here is TUE her son Daniel, about to get married. She worries about the TUE impression she has given Daniel of his grandfather. There TUE are no aunts or uncles to give a different twist on Thomas' TUE life so it has all come from her: stories of bad behaviour TUE and drunken excess, told to make Daniel laugh with disbelief TUE but not to bring him closer to the man who was his TUE grandfather. TUE TUE And what has Daniel inherited as well as that lanky body and TUE those bushy eyebrows? Could there be a locked box of trouble TUE somewhere inside him, a smouldering present from the past? TUE TUE A work of mesmerising delicacy from the winner of the Pen TUE Ackerley prize for memoir 2009. TUE TUE Julia...Diana Quick TUE Tommy...David Troughton TUE Daniel...Martin Bonger TUE Hannah...Sally Orrock TUE Peggy...Jacqueline Tong TUE House owner...Brian Bowles TUE Music composed and performed by Lawrence Williams TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00zsdss (Listen) TUE Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listeners' questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00zsdvj (Listen) TUE I Expected the Worst..., My Last Breath TUE TUE "Before the showing, I put some stones in my pocket to throw TUE at the audience in case of disaster. I expected the worst. TUE But, happily, the stones weren't necessary. After the film TUE ended, I listened to the prolonged applause and dropped my TUE projectiles, discreetly, one by one, on the floor behind the TUE screen." TUE TUE In a series of three readings this week, famous film-makers TUE describe their adventures in the movie business. TUE TUE 1. MY LAST BREATH TUE Luis Bunel recalls scandalous times with the Surrealists in TUE twenties Paris, when he made films such as Un Chien Andalou TUE on money borrowed from his mother! TUE TUE Reader Ian McDiarmid TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 15:45 Elegies from a Suburban Garden b00zsdvl (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE "If we're lucky", says botanist Phil Gates "we gardeners get TUE to experience the seasonal rollercoaster of gardening TUE emotions about 70 times. Just 70 spring, summer, autumn and TUE winters in a lifetime... and with each passing cycle those TUE that remain become even more precious". In this series, TUE recorded over a year, the relationship between a gardener TUE and his garden are explored, and the emotions evoked by each TUE season. In a modern, high-tech consumer society cultivating TUE a garden remains perhaps the most direct way in which we can TUE maintain an emotional and sensual link with the natural TUE world. TUE TUE It's now late Spring and in Phil's suburban garden in County TUE Durham, there's a real sense of expectation as buds swell, TUE and a songthrush sings for a mate from a high tree perch. A TUE woodpigeon nests in the Pear Tree whilst blackbirds and TUE wrens set up home elsewhere. The dark hues of winter are TUE transformed into a rich variety of greens. Duckweed runs TUE rampant across the pond, cloaking it with an emerald veil. TUE In the glasshouse, the strawberries which were planted TUE earlier in the year are now ready to move outside, and all TUE across the garden the green shoots of spring are bursting TUE through the soil. After the long cold months of winter and TUE the wet days of spring, Nature is gearing up to blossom and TUE grow in the weeks ahead. TUE TUE Presenter Phil Gates TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00zshnl (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen looks at the world of words. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00zshnn (Listen) TUE Rageh Omaar, Stephanie Calman TUE TUE Journalist and writer Rageh Omaar talks about his love of TUE Tolkien, choosing The Hobbit as his good read. Author and TUE founder of the badmothersclub.com Stephanie Calman chooses TUE The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, and presenter TUE Sian Williams commends the disturbing novel Room by Emma TUE Donoghue. Three very different books producing an animated TUE and engaging discussion. TUE TUE Producer Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00zshnq (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zsdsv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b00zshns (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 3 TUE TUE The return of the ground-breaking Radio 4 show, hosted by TUE the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators TUE of The Fast Show. TUE TUE Down the Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Simon TUE Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery and Paul TUE Whitehouse, TUE TUE Special guests are Lee Mack, Adil Ray and Fiona Whitehouse. TUE TUE Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00zshnv (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00zshnx (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the poet Wendy TUE Cope, as she publishes a new collection called Family TUE Values. TUE TUE A review of Monica Ali's novel Untold Story, which imagines TUE a world in which Princess Diana did not die in a car crash. TUE TUE Duncan Jones' first film Moon was acclaimed by critics. His TUE latest, Source Code, features a soldier who wakes up to find TUE himself inhabiting another man's body. Novelist and critic TUE Matt Thorne reviews. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt744 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00zshnz (Listen) TUE Memory on Trial TUE TUE Do we understand enough about how memory works to properly TUE assess evidence in sex abuse cases when allegations date TUE back decades? Can juries make decisions based on their TUE common sense in complex cases? TUE TUE The number of so called "historic abuse cases" making their TUE way through the coruts has increased in recent years TUE following changes in the law that make it easier to bring TUE them to trial and a greater willingness on behalf of victims TUE to come forward. TUE TUE These are among the most difficult cases the justice system TUE handles given the highly sensitive nature of the allegations TUE being made and the often lengthy gap between the events in TUE question and the prosecution. Many cases now turn on one TUE person's word against another and therefore rely heavily on TUE the quality of memory evidence each side can bring. TUE TUE But even the memory experts are divided on how the court TUE process should assess memory evidence. Whist many victims TUE never forget their abuse, some psychologists say people can TUE genuinely block out or forget abuse and then remember it in TUE detail later in life. But others warn of "false memory TUE syndrome" and claim that in some cases allegations are TUE wrongly based on ideas that have arised during therapy or TUE from third party experiences which complainants adopt as TUE their own. TUE TUE In this week's File on 4, Jackie Long examines concerns from TUE across the criminal justice system - from lawyers who claim TUE the system is creating "a new genre of miscarriages of TUE justice" because defendants cannot get a fair trial, from TUE victims who say their long-held memories are being branded TUE as false in court and from psychologists who question how TUE well equipped our courts are to consider such evidence. TUE TUE So how much do we know about how memory works? And is the TUE courtroom the right place to get to the truth? TUE TUE Producer Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00zshp1 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Is Surgery Scientific? b00zshp3 (Listen) TUE Can surgery be submitted to the same rigorous clinical TUE trials as drugs to ensure the right surgical procedures are TUE being carried out? Or does the very nature of the craft make TUE this impossible? Every operation is unique to each patient TUE and the surgeon who carries it out. No two surgeons will TUE ever carry out the exact same operation. How do we know TUE therefore, which procedure is best? TUE TUE The answer is not straightforward. What if surgeon decides TUE to alter regular surgery in some way. How does he or she TUE evaluate whether the new alteration is better than the old? TUE If the same were to happen with a drug, it would take 6 or 7 TUE years to make one ingredient change, carry out randomised TUE clinical trials to test the safety and efficacy of the TUE alteration before coming into use. Not so with surgery. By TUE its very nature, surgery, a craft, is dependent on the TUE surgeon carrying out the operation, on the patient before TUE him and on the manifestation of the disease he is dealing TUE with in that patient. No two patients are the same, and thus TUE no two operations will be the same. TUE TUE Although 30 per cent of hospital admissions require surgery, TUE only 2 per cent of medical research funding goes into TUE testing whether surgical procedures have a scientific TUE grounding. Surgeons are now trying to alter that figure and TUE see how this problem can be addressed. TUE TUE In this programme Geoff Watts looks at the problems faced by TUE surgeons and how they may be overcome. TUE TUE 21:30 On the Ropes b00zsds4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00zsdsx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00zshp5 (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 b00zshp7 (Listen) TUE The Tiger's Wife, Episode 2 TUE TUE The readers are Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch. TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00nywl0 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Perrier Award-winning comedian, Laura Solon continues her TUE series of sketches, monologues and one-liners. TUE TUE Olga the ex-tyrannt takes on a British Post Office, a man TUE tries to buy his mother a gift in an expensive department TUE store and Sandrine, the Parisien radio host, chats about why TUE French culture is much better then the culture of say, TUE Britiain. TUE TUE Producer: Colin Anderson. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zshp9 (Listen) TUE News from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00zshpt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00zt7py (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zshpw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zshpy (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zshq0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00zshq2 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zshq4 (Listen) WED With the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath WED Abbey. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00zshq6 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00zshq8 (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 b00zshqb (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Lewis Wolpert. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00zt7sk (Listen) WED Venetian Navigators - The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the WED Far North, Episode 3 WED WED By Andrea di Robilant. WED Read by Sam Dale. WED WED Intrigued by the myth, the writer Andrea di Robilant set out WED on a personal journey to see what traces remain of these WED fabled voyages. In this episode, the author arrives in WED Iceland and visits the ruins of a monastery believed to be WED mentioned in the Zen text. While there he chances upon an WED old farmer whose encyclopaedic knowledge of the Icelandic WED sagas brings the distant past vividly to life. WED WED Abridged by Laurence Wareing. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zsjyd (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents. The special relationship between WED mothers and sons. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt8qg (Listen) WED The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED By Esther Wilson WED Return of award winning drama series; an illuminating and WED striking exploration of the challenges and aspirations in WED the unique life of a young woman with learning disabilities. WED A series that's both tough and feel good. WED Starring Donna Lavin and Edmund Davies; actors with learning WED disabilities. WED Darleen is scared to return to her flat in sheltered WED accommodation after her friend was attacked. She WED unexpectedly confides in her driving instructor. WED WED Darleen Fyles ...... Donna Lavin WED Jamie ...... Edmund Davies WED Treena ...... Lorraine Ashbourne WED Ben ...... Wyllie Longmore WED Marie ..... Emma Hartley Miller WED Bob ...... Stephen Chapman WED Stacy ..... Niamh Clarke WED Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris WED WED 11:00 While the Boys Are Away b00zsjyg (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In the third of his programmes on the lives of the families WED of soldiers, broadcaster and film maker Gareth Jones looks WED at the experiences of the families of the 2nd Battalion The WED Royal Welsh while the soldiers are on a six month tour in WED Afghanistan. WED WED Producer: Martin Kurzik. WED WED 11:30 Turf Wars b00zsjyj (Listen) WED The Accidental Head by Jeremy Front WED WED Beth just wants what's best for her 11 year old son; a solid WED secondary education at the kind of school that recognises WED his genius, as well as his aptitude for baroque music. A WED school like Folgate. But when the family is edged out of WED Folgate's catchment area, a battle begins. WED WED Beth takes on the might of the council with a mixture of WED community action, ancient by-laws and sheep. WED WED Beth .. Katherine Parkinson WED Jake .. Darren Boyd WED Ruth Willith .. Emma Fryer WED Journalist .. Alex Tregear WED Helen .. Sally Orrock WED Farmer/Hughes .. Brian Bowles WED WED Directed by James Robinson. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00zsjyl (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00zshqd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00zsjyn (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 b00zsjyq (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The Producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00zshnv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00zsjys (Listen) WED The Disappearance of Jennifer Pope WED WED by Mike Harris in collaboration with Dave and Stefan Pope WED The extraordinary true story of the disappearance of an WED English nurse in Ecuador, and how her husband and son WED tracked down her abductor. Dave and Stefan Pope spend a year WED in a country fraught with poverty and corruption, where they WED barely speak the language, with next to no money. But with WED heaps of determination and good will from a few key WED characters they eventually reap the rewards of justice. WED WED Dave Pope ...... Reece Dinsdale WED Stefan Pope ..... Matthew McNulty WED Jennifer Pope ..... Kate Layden WED Marco Chaves .... Oliver Miceli WED Clifford Craig/Hostel Owner ...... David Fleeshman WED Fiscal of Banos ...... Javiar Marzan WED Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00zsjyv (Listen) WED Money Box Live with Paul Lewis comes from Plymouth's Drake WED Circus shopping Centre as part of the BBC's Money Matters WED Roadshow. WED WED People with savings, investments, tax, pensions and benefit WED questions can meet the Money Box team in Plymouth to put WED their questions to the experts. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00zsjyx (Listen) WED I Expected the Worst..., Francois Truffaut: Letters WED WED 2. Francois Truffaut: Letters. WED His missives are a rich source of insight and amusement, as WED he WED considers the likes of dubious actors, terrible music, WED freedom of expression and favourite foods... WED WED Read by Ben Miles WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 15:45 Elegies from a Suburban Garden b00zsjyz (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED "If we're lucky", says botanist Phil Gates "we gardeners get WED to experience the seasonal rollercoaster of gardening WED emotions about 70 times. Just 70 spring, summer, autumn and WED winters in a lifetime... and with each passing cycle those WED that remain become even more precious". In this series, WED recorded over a year, the relationship between a gardener WED and his garden are explored, and the emotions evoked by each WED season. WED WED With the arrival of summer, the garden is transformed. WED Barely a centimetre of soil is visible, under the luxuriant WED growth of trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables. Phil slides WED back the glasshouse door carefully. Just inside there are WED several pots of squirting cucumber plants. The squirting WED cucumber, Ecballium elaterium, disperses its seeds in a WED sudden explosion. As the fruit ripens, it fills with a slimy WED juice, which gradually creates pressure. It then burst open WED and propels its seeds with an initial velocity estimated as WED of 56 km (35 miles) per hour. So, as Phil explains, it's WED necessary to enter the greenhouse with caution at this time WED of year, to avoid becoming a victim to a rain of seed WED pellets! Then there are the pitcher plants capturing and WED digesting wasps and flies; a gruesome sound on a quiet WED night! Beyond the glasshouse, poppies fight for space WED amongst the potato crop; courgettes straddle across the WED path, and the fruit bushes ripen in the sun. At this time of WED year, there's almost nothing nicer than grazing as you WED wander through the garden, even if that means feasting on WED the occasional maggot-infested raspberry! After all, as Phil WED says "What's wrong with eating a few maggots?" WED WED Presenter Phil Gates WED Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00zsjz1 (Listen) WED Live music - Mafia WED WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Story of Economics b00zsjz3 (Listen) WED In this three-part series Michael Blastland lays out the WED history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes WED wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right. In the WED final programme, 'Monsters', Michael goes to Cambridge - WED where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'. WED WED Producer: Richard Knight. WED WED 17:00 PM b00zsjz5 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zshqg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Act Your Age b00zsjz7 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy WED generations to find out which is the funniest. Will it be WED the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard who WED will be crowned, for one week at least, as the Golden Age of WED Comedy. This week Jon Richardson is joined by Andi Osho, WED Rufus Hound teams up with Andrew Maxwell and Ted Robbins is WED paired with both Roger De Courcey and Nookie Bear. WED WED Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00zsjz9 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00zsjzc (Listen) WED Anne-Marie Duff stars in Thea Sharrock's production of WED Rattigan's Cause Celebre. The play is based on the true WED story of Alma Rattenbury who, in 1935, was accused of WED killing her husband and put on trial along with her WED 18-year-old lover. Mark Lawson discusses the play. WED WED Theatres and arts organisations find out today whether their WED budgets have been cut by the Arts Council England. We hear WED from some of the successful companies and those who may go WED under. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt8qg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00zsjzf (Listen) WED Intellectual Property WED WED Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and WED judges discuss legal issues of the day. WED WED The second programme in the series looks at the law and WED intellectual property. Humans are an extraordinarily WED creative species, but can't always agree about the legal WED rights relating to that creativity. WED WED This programme looks at how our courts attempt to resolve WED disputes over trademarks, inventions, music and literature; WED in fact over everything from life-saving drugs to sweater WED designs. Do our copyright, patent and other laws create the WED right balance between the protection of entrepreneurship and WED the potential benefit to the public of less regulated WED distribution of our creative output? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00zsjzh (Listen) WED Feisal Abdul Rauf WED WED This year's Lent Talks sees six well known figures reflect WED on different elements of conflict found in the story of WED Jesus' ministry and Passion from the perspective of their WED own personal and professional experience. WED WED In the third Lent Talk of the series, Imam Feisal Abdul WED Rauf, the chairman of the Cordoba Initiative Islamic WED Cultural Centre, near Ground Zero in New York, reflects on WED the conflict between faith and identity. WED WED The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, WED forgiveness and love. The main theme for this year's talks WED will explore conflict in different forms and how it WED interacts with various aspects of society and culture. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00zm0mk (Listen) WED Alien Invaders WED WED The threat to wildlife from invasive species is now one of WED the greatest across the world and it is growing. Killer WED shrimp are the latest non-native species to be found in a WED formerly quiet and respectable area of Cambridgeshire. In WED the UK we have endlessly debated the problem of the grey WED squirrel and Japanese knotweed but in Spain the invaders are WED being driven out permanently. Can their plan work and would WED eradication return native species to abundance or simply WED create new problems in our ecosystems? WED WED Recent studies suggest the rise in invasive species stems WED from international trade. Global warming has also WED contributed to species migration and survival in the wild. WED The Spanish authorities have drawn up a list of 168 WED offending species including the raccoon and mink, zebra WED mussels, and one of the worse offenders the ruddy duck. WED WED In New Zealand rats are driving the yellowhead bird to WED extinction and the chrytrid fungi is causing a worldwide WED decline in amphibians but can species really recover after WED competition is successfully eradicated? It seems that in WED some cases they can. The near extinct black vented WED shearwater is recovering on a Mexican island after the WED eradication of cats, goats and sheep. The wallaby is also WED recovering after red fox were taken out in Australia. WED WED However, there are also a growing number of scientists who WED argue that to eradicate invasives is costly, cruel and WED ultimately unnecessary. In Puerto Rico invasive species have WED been the only plant and wildlife able to survive in eroded WED soils. Their encroachment has returned lifeless areas to WED thriving jungles, eventually providing a more encouraging WED environment for native species to return. WED WED If we can't beat them then it may even be time to learn from WED these ecological survivors. WED WED Producer Helen Lennard WED Repeated on 31:03:2011 13:31:00. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00zshqb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00zshqj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00zsk0d (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 b00zt22l (Listen) WED The Tiger's Wife, Episode 3 WED WED The readers are Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 23:00 It Is Rocket Science b00zt22n (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Helen Keen presents her off-beat comic take on the history WED of rocket science starring Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards WED WED This week Helen asks if humanity will ever make it to the WED stars, and ponders some of the greater mysteries of the WED universe, such as time travel, parallel universes and faster WED than light travel. And have aliens ever made it here? And if WED so have they been tempted to use their vastly superior WED intelligence to really clean up in pub quizzes. WED WED Performed by Helen Keen and stars Peter Serafinowicz as the WED Voice of Space with other parts played by Susy Kane. WED WED 23:15 The Ladies b00tbkg9 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED The Ladies meet an extreme wedding planner, and the new WED voice of the automated Tesco tills. And there's a failed WED attempt to get people to sign up to a new religious cause. WED WED Written by Emily Watson Howes WED WED Cast List: WED WED Emily Watson Howes WED Kate Donmall WED Susanna Hislop WED Fran Moulds WED WED Produced by Mark Talbot WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zsjzk (Listen) WED News from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 31 MARCH 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00zsld1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00zt7sk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zsld3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zsld5 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zsld7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00zsld9 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zslf6 (Listen) THU With the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath THU Abbey. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00zsldc (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b00zslf8 (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 b00zt235 (Listen) THU The Bhagavad Gita THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Bhagavad Gita. THU THU The Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse section of the Sanskrit epic THU the Mahabhrata, is one of the most revered texts of THU Hinduism. It narrates a conversation between Krishna, an THU incarnation of the deity, and the Pandava prince Arjuna and THU has been described as a concise summary of Hindu theology. THU But it is also a philosophical work of great richness and THU influence. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00zt7vw (Listen) THU Venetian Navigators - The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the THU Far North, Episode 4 THU THU By Andrea di Robilant. THU Read by Sam Dale. THU THU Intrigued by the myth, the writer Andrea di Robilant set out THU on a personal journey to see what traces remain of these THU fabled voyages. In this episode his quest reaches the shores THU of Newfoundland and prompts the question: did Antonio Zen THU arrive in North America a full century before Columbus? THU THU Abridged by Laurence Wareing. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zslfb (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents. The influence of Robin and Lucienne THU Day on mid-20th century design. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt8rp (Listen) THU The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU by Esther Wilson THU Darleen's fiance Jamie is in a real dilemma - the bailiffs THU are coming round and he discovers he's been robbed. THU Return of award winning drama series; an illuminating and THU striking exploration of the challenges and aspirations in THU the unique life of a young woman with learning disabilities. THU A series that's both tough and feel good. THU Starring Donna Lavin and Edmund Davies - actors with THU learning disabilities. THU THU Darleen Fyles....... Donna Lavin THU Jamie ...... Edmund Davies THU Treena ..... Lorraine Ashbourne THU Ben ...... Wyllie Longmore THU Marie ..... Emma Hartley-Miller THU Kenny ..... Declan Wilson THU Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00zsldf (Listen) THU Uganda THU THU Anna Cavell investigates the human trafficking of Ugandan THU women to Iraq. They were lured there by promises of THU well-paid jobs - but instead found themselves effectively in THU slavery, beaten and in some cases raped. She hears the story THU of how a Ugandan security contractor and an American officer THU together organised a courageous freelance raid which freed THU nine of the women. And she discovers that despite the THU rescue, the practice appears to be continuing. THU Producer: Natalie Morton. THU THU 11:30 Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature b00jn4m2 (Listen) THU Ludwig Koch was once as famous as David Attenborough, as THU pioneering as 'Blue Planet' and as important as the BBC THU Natural History Unit. They all owe their existence to this THU German refugee who first recorded the music of nature. THU Through his archive and new field recordings the poet Sean THU Street tells the story of Ludwig Koch. THU THU When Sean Street was recording in a store-room at the THU Science Museum for a Radio 4 archive programme he came THU across a grey crate, stencilled, as if it belonged to a band THU on tour, with KOCH on it. This was the disc-cutting machine THU which Ludwig Koch used for a decade to make the recordings THU of birds, mammals and insects that led to a new field of THU study, of broadcasting and the creation of the BBC's Natural THU History Unit. THU THU Sean and his producer then began investigating and THU discovered that Koch made the first ever wildlife recording, THU of a bird, when he was eight, in 1889 - and that it still THU exists in the BBC's archives. THU THU Koch was an effusive man and this led to several THU confrontations with Nazi officials, whom he despised. There THU is an extraordinary recording of him telling the story of a THU Berliner whose bullfinch sang 'The Internationale'. He was THU carted off to prison and the bird 'executed'. "Under THU dictatorship," Koch observed, "even songbirds suffer". He THU came to England, worked with Julian Huxley on theories of THU animal language, and recorded birds from the Scillies to THU Shetland. THU THU In 1940 he joined the BBC and soon became a household name, THU beloved of comedians (there's a great sketch by Peter THU Sellers parodying him at work) because of his resolute THU pronunciation of English as if it were German. THU THU As well as being wonderful radio in itself his work was of THU great significance. It inspired producer Desmond Hawkins to THU start 'The Naturalist', (using Koch's enchanting recording THU of a curlew as its signature tune). Sean Street uses his THU recordings and contributions of those who worked with him in THU what becomes a natural history programme in itself, with THU Koch the subject and Sean exploring his habits and habitat. THU THU There is also an attempt to record curlews as he did so THU successfully, to shed light on the achievements of this THU courageous, influential and loveable genius. Today THU sound-recordists use tiny digital machines and sophisticated THU microphones. But there are other problems - traffic, planes, THU people - and fewer, shyer curlews. THU THU Producer: Julian May. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00zt3pm (Listen) THU Listeners air their views on consumer news and issues. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00zsldh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00zslfd (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 b00zm0mk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00zsjz9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00gd54t (Listen) THU The Forgetting Curve THU THU As an expert on memory loss, Greg Cooke is asked to THU invalidate the testimony of an eyewitness in a high-profile THU murder trial. He undermines the Prosecution's key witness by THU convincing the jury that we forget as much within 24 hours THU as we do over a whole year. As a result, a vicious murderer THU walks free, but Greg is soon to discover - there's a price THU to pay. THU THU A tense, white-knuckle ride as a rather self-satisfied hero THU embarks, reluctantly, on a voyage of self-discovery. THU THU Hugh Costello is an Emmy nominated TV and Film writer. His THU recent work for radio includes Afternoon Plays 'My Dear THU Children of the Whole World' and 'What The Bishops Knew'. THU THU The Forgetting Curve was written by Hugh Costello. THU THU Greg Cooke was played by Michael Glenn Murphy THU Isabelle Kavanaghby Lia Williams THU D.I. Baddely..... Chris McHallem THU Eve Cooke.....Andrea Irvine THU Valerie Ryan.....Karen Ardiff THU Brenda.....Annie McCartney THU Professor Nolan.....Richard Howard THU Kelly.....Hugh Costello THU And Paul.....Inam Mirza THU THU The Forgetting Curve was recorded in Belfast and the THU producer was Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00zq87b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00zq9tj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00zt3pp (Listen) THU I Expected the Worst..., Wings of Desire THU THU 3. WINGS OF DESIRE THU Wim Wenders describes working with angels on THU his famous film, based in Berlin. And should angels THU be shot in black and white or in colour? THU THU Reader Stephen Dillane THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 15:45 Elegies from a Suburban Garden b00zt3pr (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU "If we're lucky", says botanist Phil Gates "we gardeners get THU to experience the seasonal rollercoaster of gardening THU emotions about 70 times. Just 70 spring, summer, autumn and THU winters in a lifetime... and with each passing cycle those THU that remain become even more precious". In this series, THU recorded over a year, the relationship between a gardener THU and his garden are explored, and the emotions evoked by each THU season. THU THU With the arrival of autumn, the fruits of all the hard work THU of the previous months are literally ready to pick. Phil THU doesn't waste any time gathering in the Autumn-fruiting THU raspberries. THU THU The other great success in the garden has been the raised THU beds; and for what feels like weeks now, Phil and his wife THU have been enjoying home-grown courgettes. In fact Phil is so THU impressed by his raised beds, that he's beginning to think THU about transforming all the vegetable area to raised beds ... THU and having bought a new spade after the old finally THU collapsed, he's ready to begin! THU THU Before that, though, there are plenty of other tasks to do, THU such as cutting the hedge, now the nesting season is over, THU With a hatred of noisy electrical garden tools Phil happily THU clambers up his ladder with a pair of secateurs and sets THU too, trimming the beech hedge. THU THU Whilst to some, the garden in Autumn may seem at times a sad THU place; as leaves fall off the trees, but the red, orange and THU golden colours of the leaves are for Phil a last 'Hoorah!' THU as the garden explodes with colour; enjoying its very own THU firework display. Surrounded by such wonderful colours as THU well fruits and vegetables to harvest, Autumn is surely a THU time to feel a sense of elation in the garden. THU THU Presenter Phil Gates THU Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00zs7v9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00zt3pt (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 b00zslfg (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zsldk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b00zslfj (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the panel show devoted to the art of THU being wrong, with comedians Rufus Hound, Sharon Horgan and THU Fergus Craig competing to give the best in wrong answers. THU THU Charlie's favorite hobby - the computer game - comes in for THU the So Wrong It's Right treatment this week. Asked to pitch THU a terrible idea for a computer game, who will triumph in the THU battle between Fergus' Football Player Liaison Officer, THU Sharon's Breast Feeding game and Rufus' innovative third THU person shooter - You Should Have Seen It Man Like Wow? THU THU Also up for examination are the panel's nominations for THU modern woes - how will Charlie react to Rufus' nomination THU for his greatest modern irritant: 'Charlie Brooker'. THU THU The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also THU writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series THU Newswipe and Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's You Have Been THU Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards THU 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press THU Awards for his newspaper columns. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00zslfl (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00zslfn (Listen) THU Mark Lawson meets actress Stephanie Powers. Her new memoir THU reflects on her career, with roles including Jennifer in the THU American TV series Hart to Hart. THU THU Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Odets was branded a failure THU when it premiered in 1938. Keeley Hawes stars in the THU National Theatre revival. Mark reports from the opening THU night. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt8rp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00zt3pw (Listen) THU Simon Cox investigates the problems that donations from Arab THU countries are creating for British universities. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00zt3py (Listen) THU Over a Barrel THU THU Turmoil across the Middle East sent oil prices jumping and THU has raised big questions about the security of the energy THU supplies that have powered the world economy for the past THU 100 years. Peter Day investigates the future of oil.and what THU the current upheavals might mean for other energy supplies. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 The Biggest Radio on Earth b00zt3qd (Listen) THU Plans are advancing for the biggest radio on Earth, an array THU of up to 3000 radio telescopes across a continent. The THU Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have its central core in THU either South Africa or Western Australia, but its spiral THU arms of outlying giant dishes will reach out 3000 km across THU several countries. Astronomer Dr Lucie Green hears how it THU could search for habitable planets, intelligent life and THU new-born galaxies. THU THU The ambitious 1.5 billion Euro plan is a partnership between THU 70 institutions in 20 countries, with its headquarters in THU Manchester. But wide-open spaces with sparse population and THU few mobile phone masts are needed to build it. So there is THU fierce competition between the two remaining short-listed THU host countries as the time to decide between them THU approaches. For one proposal, the array would be centred in THU the ancient desert of Western Australia, with outlying THU dishes as far away as New Zealand. The other comes to a THU focus in South Africa's Northern Cape and reaches out to THU Ghana, Kenya and Mauritius. THU THU The rewards could be, quite literally, astronomical, with 50 THU times the sensitivity of anything before and the ability to THU detect alien broadcasts from distant solar systems and even THU to image the gaps in dusty discs where planets may orbit. THU But the astronomers also have to justify the cost at times THU of financial restraint, given that the array will not be THU complete until 2024. And engineers have to prove that it THU will be possible - something they've already begun to do by THU linking together 7 existing radio telescopes in the UK with THU a new high-speed fibre optic network. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00zt235 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00zsldm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00zt3s0 (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 b00zt3tr (Listen) THU The Tiger's Wife, Episode 4 THU THU The reader is Hattie Morahan. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 23:00 The News At Bedtime b00wrbt8 (Listen) THU Review of the Year THU THU Join legendary nurseryland broadcasters John Tweedledum THU (Jack Dee) and Jim Tweedledee (Peter Capaldi) as they return THU to Radio Fourtywinks for a one-off special, presenting their THU review of the year in Nurseryl Land, with the help of roving THU reporter Mary Mary Quite Contrary (Vicki Pepperdine) and a THU very special Thought for the Year with Peter Rabbi and a THU whole load of other festive treats. THU THU Starring THU Jack Dee - John Tweedledum THU Peter Capaldi - Jim Tweedledee THU with THU Vicki Pepperdine, Lucy Montgomery, Alex MacQueen, Dan THU Tetsell and Lewis MacLeod THU THU Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman THU Produced by Simon Nicholls. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zslfq (Listen) THU News from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 APRIL 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00zsk0s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00zt7vw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00zsk0v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00zsk0x (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00zsk0z (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00zsk11 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00zt4gq (Listen) FRI With the Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath FRI Abbey. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00zslfv (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00zt4gs (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 b00zq9vm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00zt8cr (Listen) FRI Venetian Navigators - The Voyages of the Zen Brothers to the FRI Far North, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Andrea di Robilant. FRI Read by Sam Dale. FRI FRI Intrigued by the myth, the writer Andrea di Robilant set out FRI to discover what traces remain of these fabled voyages. In FRI this final episode, the quest reaches its furthest point FRI north on the slopes of a smoking volcano in Greenland. FRI FRI Abridged by Laurence Wareing. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00zt4gv (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt8ss (Listen) FRI The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Esther Wilson FRI As the wedding approaches, Darleen and Jamie buy their ring FRI with a budget of £45, and then disaster strikes on the FRI wedding day as Jamie gets cold feet. A rom-com with a FRI difference. Created in part through improvisation and FRI inspired by true stories. FRI FRI Return of award winning drama series; an illuminating and FRI striking exploration of the challenges and aspirations in FRI the unique life of a young woman with learning disabilities. FRI A series that's both tough and feel good. FRI Starring Donna Lavin and Edmund Davies - actors with FRI learning disabilities. FRI FRI Darleen Fyles....... Donna Lavin FRI Jamie ...... Edmund Davies FRI Treena ..... Lorraine Ashbourne FRI Ben ...... Wyllie Longmore FRI Marie ..... Emma Hartley-Miller FRI Jeweller/Bob ...... Stephen Chapman FRI Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00zt4gx (Listen) FRI Series 7, Between Brothers FRI FRI Alan Dein follows the lives of two brothers - Alex, FRI searching for a fresh start away from London gangs and his FRI adopted brother JJ, who is poised for success on the London FRI stage. FRI FRI Alan charts the lives of Alex, JJ and parents Liz and FRI Andreas as they cope with changes which will fundamentally FRI shift the balance of their family life. FRI FRI As JJ approaches 16 he must make decisions about his life FRI and is preparing for auditions which could see him relaunch FRI his acting career. This was put on hold five years earlier FRI when the woman he knew as his 'mum' died and he was taken in FRI by best friend Alex and adopted by Alex's parents, Andreas FRI and Liz. Before this he had toured with productions like the FRI King and I and his teachers believe he has the talent, drive FRI and determination to succeed. FRI FRI These are characteristics in short supply for Alex who is FRI preparing to move to the Philippines to live with his FRI maternal grandmother. He has been selling Cannabis and now FRI owes money to a local gang. Excluded from school he sees FRI little prospect of his life improving and welcomes the FRI opportunity to start afresh somewhere new - even though that FRI means leaving best friend JJ. FRI FRI The recordings track events from the initial intervention of FRI family therapists offering intensive support in London to FRI the equally enticing offer from relatives abroad. As Alex FRI prepares to leave England JJ prepares for the auditions FRI which could seal his future and both brothers get use to the FRI idea of living their separate lives. FRI FRI 11:30 The Artiness of Naughtiness b00zt4gz (Listen) FRI What have Jonathon Swift, Orson Welles, Marcel Duchamp, Yoko FRI Ono, Malcolm Mclaren, Jeremy Beadle, and Sacha Baron Cohen FRI got in common? Toby Amies discovers how tricksters and FRI pranksters have turned the poking of fun into an art form. FRI FRI Pranking is such a part of society, we've got a specially FRI sanctioned day of misrule in the calendar. Mark Twain FRI described the 1st of April as "the day we remember what we FRI are the other 364 days of the year". But for some people FRI April Fool's day is just not enough; generally opposed to FRI the status quo, they are determined to alter our FRI relationship with reality by forcing us to question its FRI veracity. FRI FRI There are pranksters who have been determined to show us our FRI folly all year round and most have philosophical, political FRI and artistic reason to do so. FRI FRI Toby investigates this reasoning behind pranking - FRI discovering why people will risk consequences as serious as FRI prison to make a point or get a laugh. Sometime the FRI motivation behind a prank is not always only a good laugh at FRI someone else's expense. It can be a very serious business. FRI FRI Toby draws a wobbly line from the court jester to the hoaxes FRI of Swift and Welles to Yves Klein to the playful Marxism[!] FRI of Debord and the Situationsists, through to the commercial FRI modern pranking industry and the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, FRI Improv Everywhere, Jeremy Beadle and America's king of the FRI prank, Joey Skaggs. FRI FRI Presenter: Toby Amies FRI Producer: Rob Alexander FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00zt4h1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00zsk13 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00zxdtv (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 More or Less b00zt4h3 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford is back with a new series of More or Less, and FRI the numbers behind the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00zslfl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ftd09 (Listen) FRI The Lottery Ticket FRI FRI A black comedy about the unlikely friendship between an FRI asylum seeker and a migrant worker who find a stray lottery FRI ticket and think it may be the answer to all their problems. FRI By BAFTA winning writer, Donna Franceschild. FRI FRI Salih...............Nitzan Sharron FRI Jacek..............John Kazek FRI Woman...........Meg Fraser FRI Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00zt4h5 (Listen) FRI Hartlebury, Kidderminster FRI FRI Eric Robson leads the GQT team in lively horticultural FRI debate in the village of Hartlebury. FRI Chris Beardshaw profiles the bluebell as his 'flower of the FRI moment'. FRI FRI Get more from your shopping: Using your grocery leftovers to FRI grow from seed. Bob Flowerdew advises. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Elegies from a Suburban Garden b00zt4h7 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI "If we're lucky", says botanist Phil Gates "we gardeners get FRI to experience the seasonal rollercoaster of gardening FRI emotions about 70 times. Just 70 spring, summer, autumn and FRI winters in a lifetime... and with each passing cycle those FRI that remain become even more precious". In this series, FRI recorded over a year, the relationship between a gardener FRI and his suburban garden are explored, and the emotions FRI evoked by each season. FRI FRI Winter brings with it heavy snows and for more then a FRI fortnight, the garden lies buried under two feet of snow. FRI Phil is forced indoors, and watches the garden through the FRI windows. But this brings its own rewards as the bird feeders FRI attract hungry visitors. The highlights include a flock of FRI Waxings; tropical looking birds with prominent crests which FRI migrate here from Scandinavia, and arrive one morning and FRI feed on the remains of the crab apples before disappearing FRI again. FRI FRI As soon as the snow melts, Phil ventures back out into the FRI garden; young green daffodil shoots are peering above the FRI soil, and there are the first strange-looking scented FRI flowers on the Wintersweet. Phil has seen a small hexagonal FRI greenhouse in a catalogue which would make the perfect bird FRI hide and herb house, so now he has to clear a space for it; FRI and that means removing a large tree stump. Meanwhile in the FRI glasshouse, the Hollyhocks seedlings have survived the FRI winter and Sweet Pea seeds have germinated on wet paper FRI towels in a plastic container and are now ready to sow into FRI seed trays, prior to planting out later in the year. FRI FRI And whilst Winter signifies loss and the end of one FRI gardening year, sowing seeds and planning ahead is forward FRI looking and with this, there's the excitement of a new cycle FRI starting again. FRI FRI Presenter Phil Gates FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI Honesty Pod FRI FRI By November the first frosts have arrived and the nights FRI have drawn in. Low winter sunlight highlights the papery FRI seed cases of the honesty plants, whose flowers attracted FRI butterflies and bees back in the early summer. Image by FRI Phil Gates. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00zt4h9 (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 b00zt4hc (Listen) FRI The latest news and names from the world of film. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00zt4hf (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00zsk15 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00zt4hh (Listen) FRI Comedians Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the topical FRI stand-up and sketch show. They are joined by Jon Holmes, FRI Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin and guest stand-up Paul Sinha. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00zt5xk (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00zt5xm (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang talks to violinist Leila Josefowicz. FRI FRI Glen Duncan explains the inspiration for his novel The Last FRI Werewolf. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00zt8ss (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00zt5xp (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from FRI Ashford, Kent with panellists Equalities Minister Lynne FRI Featherstone, Margaret Beckett MP, columnist Rod Liddle and FRI Anne McElvoy, Public Policy Editor for the Economist. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00zt5xr (Listen) FRI Series 2, Wallace FRI FRI 7/20. It was the great travel books written in the 19th FRI century by Alfred Russell Wallace that inspired David FRI Attenborough himself to achieve great things in the realm of FRI natural history. But Attenborough tells us that Wallace was FRI more than just a great travel writer. His power of FRI meticulous observation and recording as he explored many FRI parts of the world were in the highest league imaginable, FRI even for Victorian standards - and his power of analysis FRI very much akin with Darwin, his great contemporary. Wallace FRI independently came up with a theory of evolution that was in FRI parallel to Darwin's thinking - two field naturalists FRI breaking huge conventions of the time and coming up with the FRI single most important theory in Biology. How did they FRI resolve the conflict between themselves? FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00zt5xt (Listen) FRI The Cairo Trilogy, Episode 3 FRI FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Nobel FRI Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz the drama was recorded FRI on the streets of Cairo. FRI FRI This episode begins in the 1940s with the Second World War FRI in progress. It has a devastating effect on the family FRI business and one of the grandchildren is sucked into a newly FRI emerging radical Islamist movement. FRI FRI Old Kamal............Omar Sharif FRI Kamal..................Amr Waked FRI Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab....Ihab Sakkout FRI Ahmad................Sedky Sakhar FRI Munim.................Ahmed Nour FRI Sawsan...............Dina Nadim FRI Badur..................Radwa Elgabry FRI FRI Other cast members: Tamer Nasrat, Rena Malak, Caroline FRI Khalil, Yara Goubran, Zeinab Moubarak, Ola Roshdy, Nairy FRI Avedissian, Ekram Zalat, Sherif Nour, Salah Fahmy, Yeve FRI Youssef, Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim , Saymaa Shalan, Radwa FRI Elgabry, Mika Thabet, Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden. FRI FRI Music by Sacha Puttnam FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon FRI Producer/Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00zsk17 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00zt60z (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00zt611 (Listen) FRI The Tiger's Wife, Episode 5 FRI FRI The reader is Hattie Morahan. FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00zshnn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00zt613 (Listen) FRI News from Westminster. FRI
25 March, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 26/03/2011 - 01/04/2011
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