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SAT SATURDAY 16 APRIL 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0106x94 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0106vck (Listen) SAT The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting, SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT French psychologist Marie de Hennezel examines western SAT attitudes to ageing and asks if we can transform the way we SAT feel about growing old, making this most feared period one SAT of the best times of our lives. SAT SAT De Hennezel draws on her experience of working with the SAT dying to argue that one's proximity to death is not to be SAT feared. SAT SAT Read by Alexandra Mathie. SAT Abridged by Alison Joseph. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0106x96 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0106x98 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0106x9b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0106x9d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0106x9g (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most SAT Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and SAT Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0106x9j (Listen) SAT 'I found my real mum on Facebook.' A listener tells of a SAT family reunited. Plus two opposing views from Ivory Coast SAT and a trip to an HIV respite centre. Mariella Frostrup reads SAT Your News. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0106x9l (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0106x9n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b010dd3s (Listen) SAT Helen Mark is in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire to find out how SAT horses and the natural landscape of Royal Deeside are SAT helping wounded and serving military personnel. Set up by SAT ex-marine Jock Hutchison and his wife Emma, Horseback UK is SAT a charity aiming to provide a safe and secure environment SAT for soldiers returning from active service or those that SAT have already left, many of whom have suffered injury or SAT acute stress as a result of active service. The charity uses SAT equine therapy and the value of the great outdoors and SAT nature therapy to provide part of the rehabilitation process SAT for serving personnel and veterans from the UK military. SAT Helen hears from Jock about their hope that those who have SAT lived their lives on the edge will benefit from the SAT opportunities available to them in the peace and SAT tranquillity of the countryside and the quality of life this SAT offers. Fundamental to this is the relationship with the SAT horses and the style of Western riding which gives these SAT guys the experience of being a cowboy high up in the saddle SAT and looking down on countryside that they might previously SAT not have noticed as they passed through. Mixing equine SAT therapy, nature therapy and adventure training the aim is SAT for people to learn about opportunities in the Scottish SAT countryside, including game-keeping, horsemanship, fishing SAT etc. while getting to know their local community. Helen SAT hears from Jay Hare and Rick Anderson, two of the people who SAT have benefited from the centre, and also from Eric Baird at SAT the nearby Glen Tanar Estate, one of the areas that is SAT supporting the charity by encouraging people there to become SAT involved in conservation work. Fundamental to the work of SAT the centre are the horses and the way in which they are used SAT to integrate the people they carry on their backs into the SAT community and countryside of the Royal Deeside landscape. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b010dd3v (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0106x9q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b010dd3x (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b010dd3z (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles with writer, broadcaster and SAT poker ace Victoria Coren, poet Aoife Mannix, one man who SAT faces some big fences in his chase to become a jockey, and SAT another who does not feel pain. Style guru Peter York takes SAT us on a Daytrip and actress Anne Marie Duff shares her SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b010dd41 (Listen) SAT Welsh wilderness - Harp around the World - Moonlight SAT SAT John McCarthy hears about people and places from all corners SAT of the world. SAT SAT 10:30 Sylvie Simmons: The Rock Chick b010dd43 (Listen) SAT Sylvie Simmons left Islington as a teenager in the seventies SAT to freelance as a rock correspondent for the likes of NME, SAT Sounds and Melody Maker. Music journalists were rare on the SAT West Coast back then, female ones even rarer. SAT SAT Sylvie talks to Nick Barraclough about how it was her SAT dislike of English traditional folk music that drove her SAT from her London home to California, where she encountered a SAT burgeoning music scene. They received her, initially, with SAT scepticism. Her love of the music, though, and her thorough SAT understanding and encyclopaedic knowledge of the scene soon SAT won her respect and affection from musicians and editors SAT alike. SAT SAT Sylvie recalls the trickier encounters she has had over the SAT years; the blues player who expected more than just a review SAT from her, a shy Michael Jackson who needed an interpreter, SAT an ailing Johnny Cash, awkward but ultimately chummy Donald SAT Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan and a ticking off from SAT Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks. SAT SAT She reflects on the pros and cons of being a female in what SAT is predominately a male world; the relief of some female SAT stars that they can talk to one who understands, and the SAT fact that of all the genres, heavy rock has the most SAT courteous interviewees, sensitive singer-songwriters not so SAT good, new romantics the worst. SAT SAT Sylvie also shows Nick her new passion; her impressive SAT ukulele collection and we're treated to an impromptu duet. SAT SAT Producer: Nick Barraclough SAT A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b010dd45 (Listen) SAT Delivering Devolution SAT SAT As voters in Scotland and Wales prepare to go to the polls, SAT Sheena McDonald takes stock with a panel of experts of more SAT than a decade of devolution and asks what it means for the SAT UK as a whole. Highlighting policies which are strikingly SAT different from those of the government in Westminster, in SAT Wales she looks at higher education and the decision to SAT shield Welsh students from large tuition fee increases; in SAT Scotland she looks at health and patients' benefits such as SAT free prescriptions and free personal care. What will be the SAT impact of the recent increase in law making power for Wales SAT and imminent greater tax raising power for Scotland and what SAT are likely to be the tensions between the different nations SAT in the UK at a time when public spending is being squeezed? SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b010dd47 (Listen) SAT 'The Bahrain I had known wasn't there' - Frank Gardner, who SAT used to live on the Gulf island, has been back to report on SAT life there under a state of emergency which is proving SAT increasingly difficult for the Shiite opposition. The 7/7 SAT bombings in London claimed victims of many nationalities: SAT Nick Beake has travelled to Poland to hear more about one of SAT them - a young woman who was a keen student and a member of SAT the local choir. India's huge population has come under SAT scrutiny in the recent census and Mark Tully has been SAT wondering if the country's relatively youthful population SAT will ultimately prove a boon for the economy, or a drain on SAT it. A long-running strike at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra SAT has finally come to an end and Petroc Trelawny's been SAT hearing that it could be a long time before the wounds are SAT healed. And Kathy Flower finds that chemists' shops in the SAT French Pyrenees offer much more than just aspirins - they're SAT places you can visit for advice on wild mushrooms: will they SAT kill you or prove a tasty topping on your omelette? SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b010dd49 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0106vqy (Listen) SAT Series 74, Episode 1 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0106x9s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0106x9v (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0106vr4 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from The SAT National Railway Museum in Shildon, County Durham. SAT The panellists taking questions from the floor will be SAT Employment Minister Chris Grayling, Labour peer Lord SAT Malloch-Brown, Chairman of Interbrand Rita Clifton, and the SAT Liberal Democrats' former Director of Policy Richard SAT Grayson. SAT SAT Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. SAT SAT Presenter:Jonathan Dimbleby SAT Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b010dd4c (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b010dd4f (Listen) SAT One Chord Wonders: Damned, Damned, Damned SAT 3/5 SAT The third of Frank Cottrell Boyce's plays about the punk SAT generation in middle age. Hardman Mick's career in the music SAT business imploded after a brush with an over-enthusiastic SAT fan. Now in prison, can he find salvation in his treasured SAT memories of 'that night' in 1977? SAT SAT Mick Martindale ... Richard Ridings SAT Lee ... Lloyd Thomas SAT Tony ... Chris Pavlo SAT Wayne ... Richie Campbell SAT Phil ... Paul Richard Biggin SAT Announcer ... John Rowe SAT Guard ... Ben Crowe SAT SAT Director/Producer ... Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 Into the Music Library b01061hr (Listen) SAT It's the music which has surrounded us our whole lives, but SAT which most of us have never quite heard let alone listened SAT to... and nearly all of it made in the UK. SAT SAT Sometimes called 'Source music', 'Mood Music' or as it's SAT best known, 'Library music': a hugely important part of SAT British sonic history. Its use and purpose is simple: it's SAT well produced, economic music for film, TV, advertising and SAT radio. Never commercially available to the general public, SAT this music was pressed onto vinyl from the 1950s onwards in SAT short, limited quantities and then sent directly to TV SAT production houses and radio stations for use when necessary. SAT SAT From the mid 1960s onwards, as TV and radio productions SAT expanded, so did library music usage. As a result the golden SAT age of TV (and our memories of it) is not only punctuated SAT but dominated by classic library music. SAT SAT Sports themes, situation comedies, game shows, cartoons, SAT talk shows, classic children's tv, the testcards and even SAT Farmhouse Kitchen was brought to us all with the help of SAT library music. Themes for Terry And June, Grange Hill, SAT Mastermind, Match Of The Day and of course that gallery tune SAT from Vision On are all well placed library cues. But there SAT are reels (and reels) of gorgeously crafted, equally great SAT stuff that never made it past the elevator door! We have SAT been surrounded by it forever, but we know so little about SAT it.... Where does it comes from? Who actually makes it? And SAT how do you actually set about making music for the inside of SAT a waiting area, a lift or for a plane before it takes off? SAT SAT In this first ever documentary about library music we'll SAT look into its history (starting in 1909), speak with the SAT dynastic library owners (de Wolfe, KPM, John Gale), We find SAT out what's it's like to make music to imaginary pictures by SAT speaking to the library music makers (which could include SAT Jimmy Page and Brian Eno), and even have a word with the SAT Musicians Union who banned UK recording of library music SAT throughout the late 60s. SAT SAT We also talk to the modern day enthusiasts, the collectors SAT (Jerry Dammers) and explore the contemporary influences of SAT this extraordinary musical genre. And of course re-acquaint SAT ourselves with some of the most familiar music we've never SAT listened to! SAT SAT Presented by collector and archivist Jonny Trunk. SAT Producer: Simon Hollis SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b010dd4h (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b010dd4k (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0106x9j (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0106x9x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0106x9z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0106xb1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b010dd4m (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Peter is joined by the legendary Queen guitarist and SAT astrophysicist Brian May and his protege, West End star SAT Kerry Ellis. After roles in Wicked, We Will Rock You and SAT Oliver! Kerry is joined by Brian as they embark on a SAT nationwide UK tour of Kerry's album, Anthems. SAT SAT Simon Day brings some of his Fast Show, Down the Line and SAT Bellamy's People characters to life, including SAT unconventional eco-warrior Dave Angel, poet Geoffrey SAT Allerton, pub know-it-all Billy Bleach and reformed criminal SAT Tony Beckton. All recorded in 'The Mallard' Theatre for The SAT Simon Day Show on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Intrepid adventurer Ben Fogle has tackled jungles, desert SAT marathons, mountain treks and Cross Atlantic rowing trips. SAT On Sunday night, Ben gets exclusive access to his hero SAT Captain Scott's Hut in the Antarctic, frozen in time for the SAT last century. SAT SAT Jo Bunting discusses the influential Vagina Monologues with SAT Mistresses and Marchlands actress Shelley Conn, who stars in SAT a special all-Asian cast of the play alongside Meera Syal SAT and Shappi Khorsandi. Jo also finds out how Shelley was SAT picked by Stephen Spielberg to star in his epic big budget SAT sci-fi drama, Terra Nova. SAT SAT With music from Dinosaur Jr founder J Mascis who performs SAT 'Not Enough' from his first solo album 'Several Shades of SAT Why'. SAT SAT And from one-man maverick maestro Muntu Valdo: the SAT Cameroonian, who has played with the likes of Ali Farka SAT Toure, Tony Allen, Staff Benda Billi and Keziah Jones plays SAT Musseing from his new album 'The One and The Many'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b010dd4p (Listen) SAT In the week that the News of the World has come under SAT intense scrutiny over phone hacking allegations, Edward SAT Stourton profiles the News International Chief Executive SAT Rebekah Brooks, and asks how she has become one of the most SAT powerful women in Britain today. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b010dd4r (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b010dd4t (Listen) SAT Spilling the News SAT SAT "If you come to work in Washington, you'd better put your SAT big boy pants on." SAT SAT This is Admiral Thad Allen's reflection on being caught in SAT the middle of a political battle following the BP oil spill SAT in the Gulf of Mexico. Admiral Allen was the National SAT Incident Commander overseeing a plan which was set up after SAT the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. This was the first time the SAT plan had been used, and at its core was the idea that BP SAT would carry out the clean up, overseen by the federal SAT authorities. SAT SAT But BP's role quickly became a political challenge. "British SAT Petroleum" - as many began to call it - were vilified by the SAT media. The chief executive, Tony Hayward, became a deeply SAT unpopular figure, particularly after he said - "I would like SAT my life back". SAT SAT In Spilling The News, Steve Hewlett examines the political SAT and media response to the spill. He charts how a tragic SAT industrial accident and serious environmental threat became SAT a bitter war of words, often fought over national lines. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Ledgard. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0105s46 (Listen) SAT The Mauritius Command, Episode 2 SAT SAT Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised by SAT Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain Jack Aubrey and SAT Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. Episode 2 of 3. SAT SAT Jack Aubrey is promoted (temporarily) to Commodore to lead a SAT squadron of English ships, charged with taking the Indian SAT Ocean islands of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. Jack SAT must succeed against superior odds at sea and on land (where SAT Stephen's subversive skills are invaluable as ever). Yet, in SAT his new role as Commodore, Jack needs subtlety and SAT subterfuge to win over the crews and subordinate captains of SAT his own fleet, including the flamboyant but erratic, Lord SAT Clonfert. SAT SAT The story is based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when SAT Britain and France were bitterly engaged in protecting their SAT trade routes around the southern tip of Africa - and the SAT islands of Mauritius and Réunion (east of Madagascar) were SAT viewed as strategic bases. SAT SAT The Mauritius Command is the fourth novel in Patrick SAT O'Brian's Nelsonic epic series and the sequel to HMS SAT Surprise which was dramatised for Radio 4 in 2008. SAT SAT Captain Jack Aubrey ................... DAVID ROBB SAT Doctor Stephen Maturin .......... ...RICHARD DILLANE SAT Lord Clonfert.................................SAM DALE SAT Dr McAdam................................. SEAN BAKER SAT Lt-Col Keating ............ .......THOMAS ARNOLD SAT Governor Farquhar ..................... .DAVID RINTOUL SAT Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA SAT Captain Pym............................... BRIAN BOWLES SAT Lt Webber....................................PIP CARTER SAT Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER SAT Lt Briggs..................................... NYASHA SAT HATENDI SAT Midshipman Cotton........................LLOYD THOMAS SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0106xb3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b0106rvk (Listen) SAT Complexity SAT SAT Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and SAT judges discuss legal issues of the day. SAT SAT The final programme in the current series discusses concerns SAT that our law has become so complex that even judges are SAT struggling to understand it. SAT SAT The chair of the Law Commission, the appeal court judge Lord SAT Justice Munby, tells Clive Anderson that unnecessary amounts SAT of government legislation over recent years has compounded SAT legal complexity, and made it difficult for the Commission SAT to do its job, clarifying and simplifying the law. SAT SAT The last Labour Government, for example, created 4,300 new SAT crimes during its years in power - including a ban on SAT swimming in the wreck of the Titanic and on the sale of game SAT birds shot on a Sunday. SAT The programme hears how legal complexity creates problems in SAT almost all areas of law, making it increasingly difficult SAT for members of the public to understand and therefore SAT exercise their rights. SAT SAT Lord Justice Mumby says governments have failed to implement SAT a lot of the Law Commissions suggested improvements to the SAT law, and have also failed to introduce a "basic tool of SAT democracy" - an authenticated electronic database of SAT statutory law. SAT SAT He admits that the Law Commission's ultimate objective, a SAT complete codification of the law, is unlikely ever to be SAT achieved. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b0105vty (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 2 SAT SAT (2/13) SAT Do you know which role in classical music has been performed SAT over the years by Boris Karloff, Dame Edna Everage, David SAT Bowie and Sir Sean Connery, among others? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini will have the answer, as he takes the chair SAT for the second heat in the 25th anniversary series of the SAT wide-ranging music quiz. Facing his questions this week are SAT contestants from Hertfordshire, Middlesex and the West SAT Midlands. SAT SAT As usual, the questions cover everything from the classical SAT repertoire to film music, show tunes, classic jazz, rock and SAT pop. There'll be a chance for the contestants to specialise, SAT with a choice of musical topics on which to answer their own SAT individual questions - but they get no advance warning of SAT the categories. SAT SAT The quiz features plenty of musical extracts, some familiar, SAT others rarely heard. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT TIMOTHY ALCOCK, a former Post Office worker from Royston, SAT Herts; SAT ANDREW KILLEEN, a novelist from Birmingham; SAT LACHLAN MUNRO, a design consultant from Edgware. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b0105sjz (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT SAT In the first of a new series, Brian Patten explores the life SAT and poetry of Anne Ridler, whose quiet and lucid SAT observations of 20th century life are often overlooked. Born SAT into a literary family, Anne's early employment with the SAT publisher Faber meant that she was working to T.S. Eliot. SAT Her work, however, is very much in her own distinctive SAT voice: quiet, contemplative, but acute in its observation. SAT Juliet Stevenson reads a selection of Anne Ridler's poems on SAT themes of the natural world, relationships, the rhythms of SAT human life. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 APRIL 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00z76ts (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b0106rvn (Listen) 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 fifth Lent Talk of the series, Guardian columnist, SUN Madeleine Bunting, explores the unmet public appetite for SUN justice in the wake of the financial crisis. 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 b00z76tv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00z76tx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00z76tz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00z76v1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b010df00 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Edward, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b010dd4p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00z76v3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b010dfgl (Listen) SUN First Impressions SUN SUN Mark Tully asks if we should rely on First Impressions or SUN take more time to form opinions. Can we influence the impact SUN we make on others, and can we be manipulated by those who SUN cultivate misleading first impressions for their own SUN benefit. SUN SUN Using examples of music inspired by the composers' first SUN impressions of landscapes, and poetry written about first SUN impressions of lovers, and even drawing on the conclusions SUN of research into instinctual judgments, Tully discovers that SUN 'snap' decisions can not only prove trustworthy in the long SUN run, but help to protect us from harm. SUN SUN But should we always trust our immediate responses, or is SUN there an argument to be made for 'proper' consideration? SUN What are the dangers of acting upon first impressions, and SUN when has it all gone wrong. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b010dfgn (Listen) SUN 25 years after the Chernobyl disaster, Caz Graham visits SUN Snowdonia, where radiation from the fallout still affects SUN more than 300 farms. SUN SUN Father and son Trebor and Emlyn Roberts recall hearing on SUN the radio how a radioactive cloud would pass over their SUN farm. They were told their sheep and land would be affected SUN for 3 weeks, 3 months at the most. A quarter of a century SUN on, they cannot move any animal from their land without SUN testing it for radiation. SUN SUN Testers from the Welsh Assembly arrive with a Geiger counter SUN to test a batch of sheep set for market. They have not SUN recently been grazing the peat land where the radiation is SUN worst, so Emlyn is hopeful they will be fit for human SUN consumption. He has now been told the radiation will stay in SUN the land forever, and as he reflects on the situation at the SUN Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, he considers the impact SUN Chernobyl has had on his career, Welsh farming, and family SUN life. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00z76v5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00z76v7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b010dfgq (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b010dfgs (Listen) SUN Anti-Slavery International SUN SUN Hugh Quarshie presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Anti-Slavery International. SUN SUN Donations to Anti-Slavery International should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Anti-Slavery International. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Anti-Slavery International with your full SUN 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: 1049160. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00z76v9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00z76vc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b010dfgv (Listen) SUN The Unreconciled - Lies and Truth SUN SUN The last of our series for Lent live from St Arvan's Church, SUN near Chepstow. Preacher: Father Michael Gollop, with the SUN Ardwyn Singers directed by David Michael Legget. Producer: SUN Sian Baker. SUN SUN In our journey through Lent, we have been looking at issues SUN in Christian reconciliation. Download web resources SUN specially written for the series from the Churches Together SUN in Britain and Ireland website. As we approach the SUN culmination of the events leading to 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. Separating truth from lies is the SUN preoccupation of Pontius Pilate as he tries to act adroitly SUN in a situation which is both political and personal for him. SUN What can his dilemmas amidst the unfolding drama of Christ's SUN last days in Jerusalem teach us, as this Lent we consider SUN the Unreconciled? SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0106x58 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Identities SUN SUN 9/20. You get a very different insight into the natural SUN world when you have the opportunity to study the behaviour SUN of individual animals. David Attenborough recalls with SUN sumptuous delight spotting a blackbird in his garden with a SUN white feather - "whitey" - giving him a window into the life SUN of blackbirds and what's more, that individual. And, he SUN says, he saw what blackbirds get up to! In this story SUN Attenborough remembers filming spiders and filming SUN chimpanzees, both of which benefited from someone knowing SUN about the individuals - and whether you're a spider or a SUN chimpanzee, you have a personality all of your own. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b010dfgx (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b010dfgz (Listen) SUN Written by Mary Cutler SUN Directed by Jenny Stephens SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ... Patricia Green SUN Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ... Alison Dowling SUN Lilian Bellamy ... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Clarrie Grundy ... Rosalind Adams SUN Will Grundy ... Phillip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy ... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy ... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ...Ian Pepperell SUN Oliver Sterling ... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ... Souad Faress SUN Elona ... Eri Shuka SUN Ted ... Paul Webster. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b010dfh1 (Listen) SUN Felicity Green SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the pioneering fashion journalist SUN Felicity Green. SUN SUN As hem-lines headed north in the early 60s she was hitting SUN her stride in Fleet Street. She was the first woman on the SUN board of a national paper and, as society changed, she kept SUN right up with it. She introduced readers to Mary Quant, Biba SUN and Twiggy and, on one memorable occasion, gave Harold SUN Wilson's wife Mary a home perm. SUN SUN Now in her mid-80s she is still mentoring students at St SUN Martin's College and says "I have never been fashionable - SUN fashion needs to be followed at a very, very respectful SUN distance. My blue-print for fashion is to be simple and SUN stylish." SUN SUN Producer: Rachel Simpson. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b0105ymv (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 2 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Clive Anderson, Sue Perkins, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: dogs, lobsters, Lewis SUN Carroll and the sun. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b010dfh3 (Listen) SUN Borough Market SUN SUN Borough Market, in south east London has been, and is, a SUN food phenomenon. It took off in the 1990s, riding in the SUN wake of the BSE outbreak that had led to a new interest in SUN the source of our food. As it developed it looked as though SUN a few seedy acres on the south bank of the Thames were going SUN to give us, for the first time in decades, a market as good SUN as the very best in France, Spain or Italy. SUN SUN And Borough's influence stretches beyond London: it served SUN as a model for other local authorities for what a market SUN could be, and how it could regenerate communities and areas. SUN Even supermarkets imitated its ranges as urban wealth SUN reached rural pockets. SUN SUN But the market's success has latterly been overshadowed by SUN criticisms that it has lost its way, catering now for SUN tourists not local cooks, and introducing rising tariffs on SUN traders that some say threaten their businesses. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon charts the rise of the market with some of its SUN founders, and asks the Chair of Trustees for the Borough SUN Market, Peter Wilkinson, has this nationally important SUN market lost its way? SUN SUN Producer Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00z76vf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b010gdv0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. Listeners can comment via SUN email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Mind Changers b00yhv36 (Listen) SUN Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony SUN SUN Elizabeth Loftus is the highest-ranking female in the list SUN of top 100 psychologists. She's gained world-wide renown for SUN her experiments showing that memory, far from being an SUN accurate record, is influenced by subsequent exposure to SUN information and events and is re-constituted according to SUN the biases these create. SUN SUN Claudia Hammond meets the creator of several classic SUN experiments, who broke new ground with the filmed SUN simulations of road accidents she showed to subjects in the SUN 1970s. These studies revealed that witness reports of the SUN same incident varied according to the wording used by the SUN questioner, giving rise to the development of the 'cognitive SUN interview' - witness-led it avoids questioner-bias. Loftus' SUN work has changed the way witnesses are dealt with throughout SUN the legal system. SUN SUN Having shown that existing memories can be altered, Loftus SUN was inspired to try to implant a whole false memory by the SUN rise in cases of 'recovered' memories of violence and abuse SUN in childhood. Her 'Lost in the Mall' and 'Bugs Bunny' SUN studies proved that she could - in 30% of subjects - make SUN them believe something that had never happened was part of SUN their childhood history. SUN SUN Loftus has inspired much work in the field of memory, SUN including that of Barbara Tversky, on how memory reflects SUN the spin put on a story. SUN SUN Lorraine Hope, of Portsmouth University, has used the SUN Cognitive Interview to develop the Self-Administered SUN Interview (SAI), trialled by Greater Manchester Police. SUN Steve Retford of their Major Incident Team is convinced of SUN its benefits. SUN SUN Loftus' former friends and teachers at Stanford - Gordon SUN Bower, Lee Ross and Brian Wandell - remember a fun-loving SUN and forceful young woman, while Gillian Cohen reviews her SUN influence in the UK. SUN SUN update: SUN SUN Episode 1 of Mind Changers Series 5 was postponed because of SUN extended coverage of the events in Egypt. SUN SUN The series will now start with Walter Mischel's Marshmallow SUN Study on Sunday 20 February and you'll be able to hear SUN Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony on Sunday 17 SUN April. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0106vjb (Listen) SUN Powys, Wales SUN SUN Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank join SUN gardeners in Llandeilo and District Gardening Club for a SUN horticultural discussion. Peter Gibbs chairs. SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank visits the National Botanic Garden of Wales SUN to uncover what uses rare Welsh natives have in the domestic SUN garden. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Wonderful Ways to Beat the Recession b010dgfz (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN If you're thinking of going on holiday - but no longer have SUN the cash - then one of Claire Wade's virtual holidays is SUN definitely for you. Her company Holidays From Home offer you SUN the opportunity to travel to New York or Sydney without SUN chewing up the environment or getting jet lag. Instead you SUN get a series of imaginative props, plus a full seven day SUN timetable as to what to do every day. Has to be heard to be SUN believed. The producer is Miles Warde. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b010dgrb (Listen) SUN The Mauritius Command, Episode 3 SUN SUN Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised by SUN Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain Jack Aubrey and SUN Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. SUN SUN Jack has been promoted to Commodore to lead a squadron of SUN English ships, charged with taking the Indian Ocean islands SUN of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. Jack faces SUN superior odds at sea and on land (where Stephen's subversive SUN skills are invaluable as ever). Yet, in his new role as SUN Commodore, Jack needs subtlety and subterfuge to win over SUN the crews and subordinate captains of his own fleet, SUN including the courageous but brutal Captain Corbett. SUN SUN Based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when Britain and France SUN were bitterly engaged in protecting their trade routes SUN around the southern tip of Africa - and the islands of SUN Mauritius and Réunion (east of Madagascar) were viewed as SUN strategic bases. SUN SUN The Mauritius Command is the fourth novel in Patrick SUN O'Brian's Nelsonic epic series and the sequel to HMS SUN Surprise which was dramatised for Radio 4 in 2008. SUN SUN Captain Jack Aubrey ................... DAVID ROBB SUN Doctor Stephen Maturin .......... ...RICHARD DILLANE SUN Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA SUN Governor Farquhar ..................... ..DAVID RINTOUL SUN Lt-Col Keating ............ ........THOMAS ARNOLD SUN Admiral Bertie.............................. SEAN BAKER SUN Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER SUN Lt Pullings ...................................DAVID HOLT SUN Lt Tullidge....................................LLOYD THOMAS SUN Major O'Neil................................ SAM DALE SUN Midshipman Johnson ....... ...........NYASHA HATENDI SUN Producer/director: Bruce Young. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b010dgrd (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to former journalist Annalena McAfee SUN about her novel The Spoiler, a story set against the SUN excesses of modern journalism, and featuring not one but two SUN feisty female protagonists. SUN SUN She also looks back at literary precursors to McAfee's SUN novel, from Evelyn Waugh's Scoop onwards, with the help of SUN former newspaper editor Max Hastings and novelist DJ Taylor. SUN SUN Plus, American writer Steve Hely on penning a novel all SUN about trying to write a best-selling novel - and what it SUN tells us about our literary pretensions today. SUN SUN PRODUCER: HILARY DUNN. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices b010dgrg (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 2 SUN SUN Herbert Read was a man of many contradictions. Though a SUN dedicated socialist and a committed anarchist, he was SUN knighted by Winston Churchill; he was a pacifist but was SUN twice decorated for bravery in the First World War; he was a SUN strong advocate for Modernism in British art but could not SUN accept the concept of Post Modernism. His towering presence SUN in the post-war art world (he co-founded the Institute of SUN Contemporary Arts) almost totally eclipsed his abilities as SUN a poet, and yet his son - the writer Piers Paul Read - SUN believes he always thought of himself as a poet. SUN SUN Brian Patten, who met Herbert Read towards the end of his SUN life, revisits his First World War poetry and finds an SUN impressively mature voice; cool in tone but full of SUN humanitarian feeling towards the men - he characterised them SUN as "children" - involved on both sides. SUN SUN Piers Paul Read contributes to the programme and the poems SUN are read by Samuel West. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 The Sea Gangsters b01095mf (Listen) SUN The recent murder of four innocent civilian hostages aboard SUN their yacht 'Quest', the kidnapping of children aboard a SUN Danish yacht, and the hi-jack of the giant oil tanker SUN 'Irene' are game changers in the ever growing scandal of SUN international piracy. Piracy Inc. is getting bigger, nastier SUN and richer by the week - at the expense of the freedom of SUN Western sea trade. SUN SUN The new sea gangsters now have some 20 mother ships, most SUN driven by hostage slave crews operating with virtual SUN impunity on sea lanes stretching from Africa to India. The SUN recent escalation highlights the impotence of the West's SUN navies in facing the threat. Paralysed by indecision, the SUN British and their NATO allies have virtually no authority to SUN disarm, attack or aggressively confront the enemy. Only SUN India, Russia and South Korea have taken the law into their SUN own hands and blasted the Somali pirates out of the water SUN when and where they have caught up with them - but at a SUN price. SUN SUN What the world sees is a half glamorous image of the Johnny SUN Depps of Somalia. The reality is the new pirates are some SUN 130 separate but highly organised gangs of ruthless SUN operators who sometimes torture their hostages and are SUN holding 760 seafarers, some of them going insane after SUN nearly a year of captivity on filthy boats with minimal food SUN and water. SUN SUN "We are talking about a new international criminal SUN conspiracy", Joe Angelo, Managing Director of Intertanko. SUN SUN For BBC Radio 4 investigative reporter Tom Mangold, visits SUN the front line and talks to the key people involved. SUN Reporting from the Gulf from on board a British Royal Navy SUN anti-piracy patrol and talking to victims, perpetrators and SUN insiders about the ever darkening future for commercial SUN shipping he asks what can be done about the gangsters who SUN operate a $100 million dollar a year racket SUN SUN Producer: Gemma Newby SUN A Jolt Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b010dd4p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00z76vh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00z76vk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00z76vm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b010dgrj (Listen) SUN Have you ever been inside a volcano? Or had a pillow fight SUN with a Prime Minister? Or met someone with a passion for SUN tracking down theme tunes, jingles - and even the background SUN music for a promotional film on packing, printing and light SUN assembly? Meet them all in Pick of the Week, alongside some SUN powerful, eloquent voices talking about forgiveness and the SUN joy and tenderness which can accompany old age. SUN Martin Wainwright makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Random Edition - 1961 First Man in Space 50th Anniversary SUN Special - Radio 4 SUN Titanium - Radio 4 SUN Jules Verne's Volcano - Radio 4 SUN A Thousand Kisses - Radio 3 SUN Into the Music Library - Radio 4 SUN Sylvie Simmonds - The Rock Chick - Radio 4 SUN Rony Robinson - BBC Radio Sheffield SUN Book of the Week - The Warmth of the Heart Prevents the Body SUN from Rusting - Radio 4 SUN 5Live Breakfast - Your Call - Radio 5 Live SUN The Prime Ministers - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Bronzeville - Chicago Lives - Radio 4 SUN Drive - Radio 5 Live SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b010dgrl (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b010dgrn (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00m17ft (Listen) SUN Pavilion Pieces, The Indian Hospital SUN SUN Written by Kellie Jackson SUN SUN It is 1915 and Brighton's Royal Pavilion is transformed into SUN a hospital for Indian Soldiers. A goodwill visit from the SUN King and Queen has a disturbing impact on two young Gurkha SUN brothers. SUN SUN Read by Judy Parfitt SUN Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0106vj6 (Listen) SUN In the last series we looked at what changes to the tuition SUN fee system will cost students. In this programme we examine SUN the other side of the equation: how much will the changes SUN cost the taxpayer? Could the Government be on the hook for SUN more than it thinks? SUN SUN The US Supreme Court recently issued a judgement on what SUN might seem an unlikely subject: the uses and abuses of SUN statistical significance testing. We explain why it matters. SUN SUN It seems not a week goes by without a politician claiming to SUN be progressive - or claiming that the other guy to be SUN regressive. Everyone seems to assume that progressivity in SUN the tax system is self-evidently a good thing. But is that SUN always true? SUN SUN This week we were told that inflation has fallen by all SUN measures but with the biggest drop shown in the Consumer SUN Prices Index. What exactly is the difference between CPI and SUN RPI? It's not - as most journalists report - all about SUN housing costs. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0106vjd (Listen) SUN Sidney Lumet, Baruch Blumberg, Roger Nichols, Edith Helm and SUN Ishbel MacAskill SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The prolific film director Sidney Lumet - whose movies SUN included Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and Network. We SUN have tributes from Omar Sharif and Jenny Agutter. SUN The nobel prize winning scientist Baruch Blumberg, who saved SUN millions of lives by isolating the Hepatitis B virus and SUN developing a vaccine SUN Roger Nichols - the innovative studio engineer who gave SUN Steely Dan their distinctive sound. SUN Edith Helm - the first woman ever to be given a kidney SUN transplant - we speak to the donor - her twin sister. SUN And the "honey voiced" Gaelic singer Ishbel MacAskill. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b010dd49 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b010dfgs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0106v1c (Listen) SUN Quick on the Draw SUN SUN In an age of high technology communications, two SUN long-established companies in a single German city are still SUN battling each other for supremacy in a global marketplace SUN ... in pencils. In Nuremberg Peter Day asks Faber-Castell SUN and Staedtler how they both stay sharp ... and finds out SUN what light (and shade) they can throw on the success of SUN German industry and the viability of Europe as a single SUN economy. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b010dgw2 (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 b010dgw4 (Listen) SUN Episode 48 SUN SUN Hugo Rifkind of The Times analyses how the broadsheets and SUN red tops are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0106vqt (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet discusses the fashion sense of the Vikings SUN with Tom Hiddleston, who plays the Norse god, Loki, in SUN Kenneth Branagh's latest offering Thor and explores cowboy SUN country with Shirley Henderson, one of the stars of Kelly SUN Reichardt's feminist Western, Meek's Cutoff. You can also SUN hear how Tony Garnett prepared for his groundbreaking film, SUN Prostitute, which is being re-released on DVD and Shirley SUN Anne Field remembers her part in John Mortimer's first SUN feature film script, Lunch Hour...a rarely seen masterpiece SUN from the early Sixties. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b010dfgl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 APRIL 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b010dhc3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01064yx (Listen) MON Catholic Police Officers in Northern Ireland - Facebook MON MON In the wake of the murder of Ronan Kerr, a Catholic police MON officer in Omagh, Laurie talks to Dr Mary Gethins about her MON research into the Catholic police officers who have joined MON the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). She conducted MON a survey of 300 serving officers followed by in depth MON interviews with 70 current, trainee and officers and MON explored the rewards for doing a job which can isolate MON people from their communities, expose them to prejudice from MON colleagues and always carries the risk of violence from MON dissident republicans. Community policing is an enduring MON problem for the force with some Catholic communities utterly MON rejecting the legitimacy of the police. Will the PSNI MON eventually becoming an integrated force, respected by MON Catholics and Protestants alike? Perhaps the strong reaction MON against the murder of Ronan Kerr will help establish the MON authority of the police force across Northern Irish society. MON MON Also on Thinking Allowed, Facebook in Trinidad. Laurie talks MON to Danny Miller about his ethnographic study of Facebook MON users in the Caribbean island. He finds it can wreck your MON marriage, put your job in jeopardy but actually bolsters MON community and augments many of the positive aspects of MON modern life. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b010df00 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010dhc5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010dhc7 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010dhc9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b010dhcc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010dhcf (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most MON Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and MON Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b010dhch (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b010dhck (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b010dhcm (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 b010dhcp (Listen) MON Andrew Marr's guests include the neuroscientist and MON philosopher Sam Harris, who argues that science ought to MON influence human morality rather than religion; the writer MON Masha Gessen who describes the extraordinary story of the MON Russian maths genius Grigori Perelman who solved a MON mathematical problem that had remained inscrutable for a MON century but refused to take the credit - or the million MON dollar prize; Adam Rutherford, geneticist and journalist on MON decoding the genome and being human and the Revd Lucy MON Winkett of St James's Piccadilly, London on how the MON religious sensibility can contribute to the 'good society'. MON MON Producer: Elaine Lester. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b010dhcr (Listen) MON The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 1 MON MON By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. MON MON 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger MON than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the MON extraordinary events that overtake one family. MON MON Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first MON encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his MON great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the MON 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could MON ever have imagined. MON MON His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time MON were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, MON Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation MON settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; MON emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists MON became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire MON collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to MON his banker cousin in Vienna. MON MON Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would MON play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. MON The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to MON the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their MON vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved MON by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was MON occupied. MON MON Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great MON buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the MON network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a MON tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique MON collection. MON MON Abridged by Polly Coles MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b010dhct (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. The secret letters that shed new light on MON the life of singer Edith Piaf who's the subject of a newly MON published biography. Official figures in India support the MON view that the number of girls born there is continuing to MON decline, despite a legal ban on sex selective abortions. Two MON guests discuss how to bring about a change in inherent MON cultural attitudes towards girls. With a referendum on the MON Alternative Vote weeks away, we look at whether changing the MON voting system could benefit women. There's music from MON Europop singer Tatiana, whose musical style has been MON compared to that of Amy Winehouse. MON MON Edith Piaf MON MON Edith Piaf was one of the most beloved singer/songwriters of MON the 20th century, famed for songs including La Vie en Rose MON and Je ne Regrette Rien. Yet her path to stardom was full of MON heartbreak: the death of her daughter in infancy, and of her MON great love in a plane crash. She had many illnesses, affairs MON and additions, all of which contributed to her passionate MON performances and strengthened her enduring bond with MON audiences. To discuss her life and work, and to debunk many MON of the myths surrounding Edith, Jane is joined by MON biographer, Carolyn Burke. MON MON ‘No Regrets, The Life of Edith Piaf’ by Carolyn Burke is MON published by Bloomsbury on 19 April. MON MON AV – What does it mean for women? MON MON Next month we’re invited to take part in a referendum on MON whether or not to change the UK voting system. It’s the MON first UK-wide referendum since 1975. We’ll discuss what a MON change might mean and whether or not an Alternative Vote MON system could bring any benefits to women voters or encourage MON more women into politics. With Dr Rosie Campbell, politics MON lecturer at Birkbeck University, Katie Ghose, Chair of the MON Yes to Fairer Votes campaign, and Jane Kennedy, former MON Labour Minister and National Organiser of the Say No to AV MON campaign. MON MON India’s ‘missing girls’ MON MON India’s national census has revealed the country’s already MON skewed birth sex ratio getting worse. The numbers show for MON every 1,000 boys born there are only 914 girls. The ‘missing MON girls’ are usually aborted, soon after their parents find MON out their sex. Economic growth and the spread of literacy MON have not helped to reverse the trend, nor has a law MON preventing the abortion of a child solely because of its MON sex. So, what does this imbalance mean for Indian society? MON Sarika Sinah, Action Aid’s Regional Manager for Madhya MON Pradesh and Dr Mary E. John, Director of the Centre for MON Women’s Development Studies from Delhi discuss. MON MON Tatiana - Polish Power-Pop MON MON Tatiana grew up in Poland listening to Led Zeppelin, Janis MON Joplin and Robert Plant. She studied at the National School MON of Ballet, but injury put an end to her career as a MON ballerina, and she turned her attention to music. She MON became lead singer of the Polish band Blue Café, then MON branched out on her own. She joins Jane to talk about MON growing up in Poland in the 80s, being compared to Amy MON Winehouse and her new single, 'Been a Fool'. MON MON Tatiana’s debut UK single ‘Spider Web’ was released on 11th MON April 2011. The album ‘Spider Web’ will be released on 2nd MON May 2011. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fn7d (Listen) MON Sherbet Dolls, Episode 1 MON MON by Karen Brown MON MON The Ratcliffe family are on a journey, the preparation, MON organisation, the chaos that is 12 year old Olivia competing MON in a children's beauty pageant, the Bella Bambino Beauty MON Pageant finals held in Birmingham. MON MON Stacey ...... Naomi Radcliffe MON Tony ...... John Thomson MON Olivia ...... Shannon Flynn MON Jin Lin ..... Shamae Griffin MON Lift announcer ..... Melissa Jane Sinden MON Judy ...... Kathryn Hunt MON John ..... Seamus O'Neill MON Director ..... Pauline Harris MON MON 11:00 Barrow b010hflh (Listen) MON Out there at the end of a long peninsula of land extending MON from the northern tip of Morecambe Bay into the Irish Sea, MON and on the western edge of the Lake District, the town of MON Barrow-in-Furness seems to exist in total contrast to its MON beautiful, windswept surroundings. Barrow's industrial MON identity seems unalterable, to the extent that it has been MON described "the most working class town in England", based on MON the number of working mens' clubs, bookies, and chip shops MON per head of the town's population. But the town's industry MON was always specialised. The iron and steelworks are long MON gone, shipbuilding a fading memory, and the submarines built MON at BAE Systems' Shipyards now keep busy only a third of the MON 14,000 workforce employed in the 1980s. Despite the fact MON that a series of Astute-class hunter-killer submarines is in MON production, the long-term future of the Trident-based MON nuclear defence system is uncertain and the recession may MON have put Barrow's ambitious dockland regeneration plans on MON hold. The special industrial heritage of this isolated MON Cumbrian coastal town provides a unique focal point for MON presenter/ producer Bob Dickinson (whose father came from MON Barrow) to monitor a year of economic austerity. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010dhcy (Listen) MON Series 4, The Bewerdine Spectrum MON MON The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with a MON 4th series with more shop based shenanigans and over the MON counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty MON sidekick Dave. MON MON Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli MON 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 MON audience with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and MON a Writers' Guild award in 2008. This brand new series sees a MON crop of new shop regulars, and some guest appearances along MON the way from the likes of Mina Anwar and Kevin Eldon. MON MON In this episode Sanjay goes on work experience at the local MON paper, The Lenzie Trumpet, and ends up writing the problem MON page which spells disaster for Ramesh and his loyal MON customers. MON MON So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a MON firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves MON the art of the 'shop'. MON MON However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to MON all other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by MON his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who MON shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he MON is treated like a slave. MON MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them MON whether they like it or not! MON MON Ramesh: Sanjeev Kolhi MON Dave: Donald McLeary MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Keith Futures: Greg McHugh MON Hilly: Kate Brailsford MON Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan MON MON Producer/Director: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b010dhd0 (Listen) MON What is it like to be branded a terrorist when you're MON nothing of the kind? On Monday's programme we'll find out MON from a man who has had that very experience. Arrested for MON being part of a non-existent Islamic plot to assassinate the MON Pope on his visit to London last year, Sami was one of six MON men released without charge less than two days later. But MON not before one newspaper had accused him and the others of MON plotting "to assassinate the head of the Roman Catholic MON church and slaughtering hundreds of pilgrims.". MON MON 12:57 Weather b010dhd2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b010fk22 (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 Counterpoint b010dhd4 (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 3 MON MON If La Scala is the main opera house in Milan, and La Fenice MON (fe-NEET-chay) its equivalent in Venice, which Italian city MON is home to the Teatro San Carlo? MON MON The third heat of the 25th anniversary series comes from the MON BBC Radio Theatre in London, with Paul Gambaccini asking the MON questions on a wide range of musical styles and eras. MON MON The winner today will take a place in the semi-finals in MON June. As usual the questions cover classical music, jazz, MON film and stage music, vintage chart hits and recent MON releases. There are plenty of musical extracts, some MON surprising, others familiar. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b010dgrl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b010dhd6 (Listen) MON Charity MON MON By Daniel Jamieson MON MON When an illegal minicab driver knocks a man off his mobility MON scooter they begin an unusual and touching relationship that MON will change both their lives. MON MON Charity ..... Nikki-Amuka Bird MON Jason ..... Lloyd Hutchinson MON Kizza ..... Kuan Frye MON Finn ..... Daniel Rabin MON Nikolay ..... Brian Bowles MON Doctor ..... Sally Orrock MON Cashier ..... Jane Whittenshaw MON Passengers ..... Stuart McLoughlin, Alex Tregear, Daniel MON Rabin, Jane Whittenshaw MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b010dd4t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010dk1x (Listen) MON Series 1, Rurik, founder of Rus MON MON A major new history series begins this week which traces the MON development of Russia over a period of 1,000 years. The MON first five weeks take the listener from the beginning of the MON Russian state in 862 A.D. up to the cataclysmic revolution MON of 1917. Martin Sixsmith, who writes and presents the MON series, was the BBC's Moscow Correspondent in 1991. The MON series begins with a vivid recording of his report on the MON events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. MON MON As he says: 'I remember with absolute clarity my conviction MON that the dissolution of the Communist Party after seventy MON years in power, meant the monster of autocracy was dead in MON Russia, that centuries of repression would be thrown off and MON replaced with freedom and democracy. But I was wrong. MON MON The country is stable and relatively prosperous now, but MON democracy and freedom again take second place to the demands MON of the state: the spectre of autocracy is again haunting MON Russia. Back in 1991, in the grip of Moscow's euphoria, I'd MON forgotten the lesson of history - that in Russia things MON change ... only to remain the same. Attempts at reform, MON followed by a return to autocracy, had happened so often in MON Russia's past that it was very unlikely things would be MON different this time. ' MON MON In this first programme, Martin travels to the northern city MON of Novgorod. It was there that, ancient history has it, the MON warring Slav tribes invited Rurik to come and bring order. MON He was the first iron fist, and he gave Rus-sia its name. MON But, as Martin Sixsmith points out, already by the late MON ninth century, two key leitmotifs of Russian history are MON beginning to emerge - the tendency towards autocracy, and MON the urge for aggression and expansion. Today Russia spans MON eleven time zones and is home to a hundred nationalities and MON a hundred and fifty languages. MON MON Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b010dfh3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b010dk1z (Listen) MON Series 8, The death of the mouse, and Twitter customer MON service MON MON Simon Cox delves into what the real impact will be for the MON new regulation of cookies. MON MON Rupert tries out an eye-tracking laptop and we ask whether MON the mouse could be on its last legs. MON MON Some of the last diary entries of the explorer David MON Livingstone are being revealed through imaging technology, MON Simon hears what other famous historical characters could MON have previously illegible writings brought to light. MON MON And the ash cloud and snow caused chaos last winter, but it MON lead to the evolution of Twitter being used for customer MON service. Are companies learning how to use this medium MON properly to keep people on the go, on the go? MON MON Produced by Lucy Lloyd. MON MON 17:00 PM b010dk21 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010dhd8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b010dk23 (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 3 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Arthur Smith, Tony Hawks, Rhod Gilbert and Charlie Brooker MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Mice, Soup, Television MON and Sir Walter Raleigh. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b010dk25 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b010dk27 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on the remake of the MON film Arthur, now starring Helen Mirren and Russell Brand. MON MON Producer Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fn7d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Christie's Through the Looking Glass b00vc1k9 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In this two-part documentary Miranda Sawyer takes an MON intriguing peep behind the scenes at London's oldest Fine MON Art auction house. Christie's operates as an influential MON barometer of the Art market. In these recessionary times we MON follow the preparations for their most important sale season MON of the year. MON MON In this first programme we are introduced to specialists MON renowned for their discretion and expertise and the dealers, MON collectors and investors who populate this glittering world. MON We investigate how artworks come to be sold and values MON established in the most public marketplace in the Art world. MON MON Producer: Eleanor Thomas MON A Harcourt Films production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0106tjm (Listen) MON The Women of Egypt MON MON Three years ago Bill Law travelled to Egypt for Crossing MON Continents to meet five extraordinary women who were MON fighting for human rights and equal pay for women in Egypt. MON For this programme, Bill returns to Egypt to tell the story MON of the unfolding revolution through the eyes of those very MON same five women. Their stories are a unique insight into how MON the revolution came about and raise questions about its MON future. MON Producer: Daniel Tetlow. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0106tqc (Listen) MON On this week's programme, Quentin Cooper speaks to Leila MON Battison, part of the team who have discovered fossils of MON some of the first life forms on Earth in Loch Torridon in MON northwest Scotland. The research could change the way we MON think early life evolved. Also, Dr Drew Endy the director of MON BIOFAB, the world's first open source synthetic biology MON factory, explains how he hopes to provide generic genetic MON parts to bioengineers to speed up developing new organisms. MON Quentin goes to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to see MON one of the oldest chronometers in pieces - it's being MON studied as part of preparations for the 300th anniversary of MON the Longitude Act in 2014. Finally Doug Millard, the Space MON Curator from the Science Museum talks about Yuri Gagarin and MON the technology used to blast him into space. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Fossils Discovery MON MON Fossils of some of the earliest life forms on Earth have MON been discovered at Loch Torridon in northwest Scotland. The MON research could change the way we think early life evolved – MON reversing current thinking that complex cells started life MON in the oceans and then moved onto land. Leila Battison from MON Oxford University, one of the team behind the work, joins MON Quentin on the programme. MON MON Biofab MON MON The Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering are MON holding a meeting to discuss the latest developments in MON synthetic biology. Today, a single designer microbe can MON take years to create and cost tens of millions of dollars, MON as each control part has to be identified, characterized and MON tweaked in order to be reused. But this could all change MON with BIOFAB – the first open source public factory of MON generic genetic parts. Dr. Drew Endy, Director of BIOFAB MON and the President of the Biobricks Foundation joins Quentin MON in the studio. MON MON Harrison Timekeeping MON MON Preparations are underway for the 300th anniversary of the MON Longitude Act in 2014 and at the National Maritime Museum in MON Greenwich, Jonathan Betts has been working on a massive MON project to dismantle, study, catalogue and reassemble the MON four world famous Harrison timekeepers. Currently in 1253 MON pieces, Jonathan is about to start putting the H3 clock back MON together. Quentin went to see him and to find out more about MON one of the world’s most historically significant timekeepers MON which ultimately solved the great longitude problem, and MON saves countless mariner’s lives. MON MON First Man in Space MON MON Doug Millard the Space Curator at the Science Museum is on MON the programme to talk about how the Russians achieved the MON first manned space flight and what technology was used to MON sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit fifty years ago. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b010dhcp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b010dhdb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b010fk3y (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 b010dk2c (Listen) MON Plague Child, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. MON MON Tom Neave confronts Lord Stonehouse, making a deal which MON could secure his future with Anne and her family. He joins MON forces with Eaton, the man with the scar who once hunted MON him, to find the pendant which will lead him to his real MON father... MON MON Read by Jamie Glover MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b010626m (Listen) MON Politeness MON MON Michael Rosen takes a well-mannered look at politeness. Is MON it true that "thank you", "goodbye" and other traditional MON expressions of courtesy are dying out? MON MON Cora Malinak is a trainer who helps people from other MON cultures to learn the unwritten rules of communicating MON politely in English. Geraldine D'Amico discusses French MON ideas on politeness, and the rules about using "tu" and MON "vous". MON MON Blogger Sarah Ditum talks us through the "online MON disinhibition effect". Why is it that emails can seem ruder MON than other forms of communication? MON MON And Michael talks to the eminent linguist and author MON Professor Deborah Tannen, who has spent many years studying MON the language of politeness, and believes that what seems MON like rudeness can in fact just be a different conversational MON style. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 In Living Memory b00td9pg (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 2 MON MON In the early 1970s Britain's universities were swept by a MON wave of student protest and sit-ins. They wanted cheaper MON meals in their refectories, the right to have visitors of MON the opposite sex in their rooms after 10pm, and world MON revolution. Jolyon Jenkins looks at three of the protests MON that occurred in 1970. At Keele, students tried to levitate MON the vice-chancellor's residence. At Warwick, they occupied MON the registry and discovered what appeared to be files MON monitoring their political activities. And at Liverpool they MON took over the Senate House, calling for the sacking of the MON Chancellor, Lord Salisbury, because of his alleged MON pro-apartheid sympathies. Forty years on, Jolyon Jenkins MON talks to the veterans of the protests, on both sides, and MON finds that the resentments still run deep. Among those MON involved in the Liverpool protest was broadcaster Jon Snow, MON who says "we were united in our determination to grind the MON nose of the university into the dust". MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 APRIL 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b010dnzt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b010dhcr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010dnzw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010dnzy (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010dp00 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b010dp02 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010dp04 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most TUE Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and TUE Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b010dp06 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b010dp08 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 Between Ourselves b010dp0b (Listen) TUE Series 6, Multiple Births TUE TUE Multiple births - TUE TUE Dawn Richards is the mother of naturally conceived triplets, TUE Emily Carlisle had twins following IVF. They join Olivia TUE O'Leary in the Between Ourselves studio to discuss the joy TUE and the sheer hard work of raising multiples. TUE TUE Emily's delight at discovering she was having twins was TUE followed by a series of unforeseen events which entirely TUE changed her experience of motherhood. TUE TUE Dawn describes the confusing moment she and her husband TUE discovered they were having triplets. Following a difficult TUE pregnancy and an emergency birth, three tiny babies were TUE brought home. Through a haze of sleepless exhaustion Dawn TUE changed 15 nappies, and prepared 15 bottles of milk a day. TUE TUE When the first few months are over, the toddler years bring TUE fresh challenges for parents of multiples: TUE TUE If you're brave enough to risk a trip to the park, who do TUE you decide to chase when one child runs to the duck-pond and TUE the other towards the road? TUE TUE And the most basic of needs - how does a mother of multiples TUE go to the loo? According to Emily, with at least one small TUE child sitting on your lap. Or have a shower? With three TUE small faces pressed up against the glass. TUE TUE And would Emily or Dawn have more children? Join them on TUE this week's edition of Between Ourselves to find out. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b010dp0d (Listen) TUE Series 2, Earl Grey TUE TUE Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, continues his new TUE series exploring how different prime minister have used TUE their power, responded to the great challenges of their time TUE and made the job what it is today. The second of Nick's TUE portraits in power is Earl Grey, whose name is now more TUE usually associated with a blend of tea than with his TUE political achievements. Grey was 66 years old when he became TUE prime minister in 1830 and served for less than four years, TUE but he passed the Great Reform Act and abolished slavery in TUE the British Empire. TUE TUE Grey's Great Reform Act is widely hailed as the first, TUE crucial step in Britain's gradual evolution towards TUE democracy. But Grey is an unlikely champion of reform since TUE he believed that modest reform was the best way to preserve TUE Britain's constitution and guard against what he saw as the TUE horrors of mass democracy in which everyone can vote. TUE TUE Nick hears from the historians Jeremy Black, Jane Ridley and TUE Amanda Foreman, who talks about Grey's affair with TUE Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Georgiana's political TUE influence on the young Grey. TUE TUE In the first programme in this series, Nick looked at Pitt TUE the Younger, and in later programmes considers William TUE Gladstone, Herbert Asquith, Ramsay MacDonald, Harold TUE Macmillan, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. TUE TUE Producer: Rob Shepherd. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b010hd99 (Listen) TUE The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. TUE TUE Abridged by Polly Coles TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b010dp0g (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Continuing in our series Cook the TUE Perfect... Brownies. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010dhcw (Listen) TUE Sherbet Dolls, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Karen Brown TUE An entertaining drama serial exploring the magnetism and TUE expanding phenomena of children's beauty pageants. TUE When Stacey discovers other childrens clothes are custom TUE made or designer labels she secretly TUE takes her daughter out on a shopping spree in preparation TUE for the first category of formal wear. TUE Cast TUE Stacey ...... Naomi Radcliffe TUE Tony ...... John Thomson TUE Olivia ...... Shannon Flynn TUE Jin Lin ..... Shamae Griffin TUE Lift announcer ..... Melissa Jane Sinden TUE Pageant Compere ..... Ruth Piggott TUE Judy ...... Kathryn Hunt TUE John ..... Seamus O'Neill TUE Alicia ..... Emma Garrett TUE Director ..... Pauline Harris TUE TUE 11:00 The Light Switch Project b010dp0j (Listen) TUE What happens when you switch on a light? The actor Toby TUE Jones discovers it is a question without end. TUE TUE A simple question has been troubling Toby Jones for some TUE time. Challenged to develop a piece of theatre about climate TUE change, Toby was struggling for ideas. Then it hit him. If TUE we understand what happens when we turn a light switch on we TUE might be better at turning lights off. And so Toby started TUE to learn as much as he could about what happens when you TUE turn on a light switch. And he's still going. TUE TUE The Light Switch Project follows Toby on a journey into an TUE act we all take for granted every day. Meeting various TUE experts to explain (amongst other things) the evolution of TUE the eye, the workings of the national grid, and the fact TUE that that we don't know what electricity really is. Going TUE all the way to the carboniferous tree that made the lump of TUE coal that burnt to make the light bulb glow. All from the TUE Pandora's Box of a simple question - what happens when you TUE turn on a light switch? TUE TUE 11:30 The RSC at 50 b010dp0l (Listen) TUE The New Theatre TUE TUE James Naughtie explores the history of the Royal Shakespeare TUE Company as it marks its 50th birthday and reopens its main TUE Stratford theatre. Part 3. The new theatre. TUE TUE The struggle to create a new theatre in Stratford, fit for TUE the diverse work of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the TUE 21st Century, goes right back to its founding in 1961. In TUE the final episode of his three-part series, James Naughtie TUE speaks with the key players about the problems with the TUE Elisabeth Scott Shakespeare Memorial Theatre built in 1932, TUE the triumphant experiments at The Other Place and The Swan, TUE and - built within the original walls - the brand new TUE theatre with its thrust stage which will open with Michael TUE Boyd's production of Macbeth in April 2011. TUE TUE Former Artistic Directors Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands and TUE Adrian Noble tell Jim about their times with the company TUE while Judi Dench recalls the terror and hilarity of TUE performing with Ian McKellen in Nunn's famously intense TUE production of Macbeth at The Other Place in 1976. Architect TUE Rab Bennetts and current Artistic Director Michael Boyd TUE explain the challenge of creating the new space while the TUE series culminates in an examination of why performing TUE Shakespeare matters to the artistic well-being of the TUE nation. TUE TUE As Peter Brook says to Jim in a rare interview: "This is TUE Shakespeare. Not "Shakespeare Memorial" but this is TUE Shakespeare as the real, living example that there is TUE something more". TUE TUE The series as a whole features an exclusive breadth of TUE interviews with the key players of the past half century. TUE With all five artistic directors Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, TUE Terry Hands, Adrian Noble and Michael Boyd; luminaries such TUE as Peter Brook, Cicely Berry, Greg Doran, Judi Dench, TUE Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; and backstage artists, TUE technicians and craftspeople, James Naughtie explores both TUE the history of the company and the reasons why its work TUE matters to the wider British cultural scene. TUE TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b010gb8z (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b010dp0q (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b010fk1t (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 Ghost Music b010dp0s (Listen) TUE In 1939 the BBC recorded the sound of two trumpets TUE discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb. It was a nail-biting TUE session; one of them had previously shattered, but the TUE British soldier, James Tappern, who played them allowed the TUE haunting music that had been silent for 3000 years to be TUE heard once more. TUE TUE For three months this year the recording had added TUE poignancy, as one of the trumpets was among the many TUE artefacts stolen from the Cairo Museum during the recent TUE revolution, though it's now been recovered. Archaeologist TUE Christine Finn, who travelled to Egypt upon news of the TUE uprising and chronicled the looting of archaeological sites, TUE tells the story of the trumpet with the help of TUE Egyptologist, Margaret Maitland. TUE TUE Christine hears an account of the 1939 recording from Peter TUE Tappern, son of the original bandsman, himself a TUE professional trumpeter. And from archive of Rex Keating, who TUE recorded the event for the BBC in Cairo. TUE TUE Christine also considers how archaeology has revealed other TUE 'ghost music'. Richard Dumbrill talks about his TUE reconstruction of the Silver Lyre of Ur, discovered by TUE Leonard Woolley in modern-day Iraq around the same time that TUE Howard Carter was excavating Tutenkhamun's tomb. She hears TUE from Domenico Vicinanza of the Lost Sounds Orchestra, an TUE international group which re-creates the sound of ancient TUE instruments using technology and synthesis. One of its first TUE projects was the ancient Greek harp often seen on classical TUE vases, the epigonion; this time the instrument is not a TUE faithful re-creation, but a new model reflecting its 21st TUE century incarnation. TUE TUE And Christine reflects on the role of these musical, TUE archaeological discoveries in modern composition. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b010dk25 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b010dp0v (Listen) TUE The Sensitive - A Casualty of War TUE TUE A woman missing since 1945 is seen in a deserted guest TUE house. Glasgow's psychic detective investigates. TUE TUE Atmospheric thriller by Alastair Jessiman. TUE TUE A Casualty Of War is the latest in an occasional series of TUE psychic investigations by the "Sensitive" - Thomas Soutar. TUE TUE Thomas's mother has been forced to close her guest house due TUE to emergency building work. An old friend, retired hotelier TUE Jack Cameron, offers her the use of his guest house, now TUE lying empty. Reluctant to allow his mother to stay in the TUE house alone Thomas persuades his girlfriend Kat to stay with TUE them. TUE TUE Soon tensions become evident between Kat, Thomas and his TUE mother. The house sits on a hill, isolated, cold and gloomy. TUE Thomas senses a malignant presence - and he hears an old TUE woman calling out for help. Even Kat detects a strange TUE atmosphere, and one night Thomas's mother is sure she sees a TUE face in her bedroom mirror. TUE TUE Thomas confesses to Kat that he's been fascinated by the TUE "house on the hill" and its owner - ever since he discovered TUE that Jack's mother had disappeared from here without a trace TUE in 1945. TUE TUE Thomas........................Robin Laing TUE Mrs Soutar....................Sheila Donald TUE Kat..............................Julie Duncanson TUE Jack.............................Paul Young TUE Mrs Forbes-Brown.........Edith Macarthur TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b010dp0x (Listen) TUE Helen Castor presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listeners' questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b010dp0z (Listen) TUE Tales from the Casino, Ten Miles High TUE TUE 'They say the floor at the Casino is amazing - a sprung wood TUE floor! And they can fit 1200 people in the ballroom there. TUE Twelve hundred people dancing!' TUE TUE David's mate Batty converted him to Northern Soul: lending TUE him obscure records, teaching him dance moves and describing TUE the legendary club. The plan is to hitch-hike to Wigan to TUE experience the Casino for themselves. TUE TUE Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate TUE venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over TUE the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the TUE latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were TUE sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way TUE up the road. TUE TUE The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with Russ TUE Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three songs TUE that became known as the Three Before Eight: "Time Will Pass TUE You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is Over" by TUE Jimmy Radcliffe and "I'm On My Way" by Dean Parrish. TUE TUE These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton TUE (herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw TUE off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was TUE voted 'Best Disco In the World' by American Billboard TUE Magazine. TUE TUE Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977. She is a TUE freelance writer of features and music columns, notably TUE 'Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll' for the Guardian. Her first TUE story for radio, The Carpenter, was broadcast in 2009 as TUE part of Sweet Talk's We Are Stardust, We Are Golden series TUE for BBC Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks, her debut novel, was TUE published in 2010. Laura lives in London. TUE TUE Written by Laura Barton. Read by Bryan Dick. TUE TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010dp11 (Listen) TUE Series 1, A Church for the State TUE TUE Russia in its earliest history was a disorderly group of TUE tribes which followed pagan religions. As Rurik's descendant TUE Vladimir took control in the 10th century AD, two priorities TUE emerged, the choice of a religion that would bind the state TUE together and the choice of an alphabet that would cement the TUE religion in place and become a common language for the TUE people. TUE TUE As Martin Sixsmith relates, 'Russians have been Orthodox TUE Christians for so many centuries that we tend to take it for TUE granted. But Russia came close to adopting another religion TUE - Islam. If Russia had chosen Islam, history could have been TUE very different - not only for Russia, but for all of us in TUE Western Europe too.' It was said that Russia only rejected TUE Islam because of its ban on alcohol, which was a step too TUE far for the thirsty Russians. TUE TUE And, as for the language, the Russians owe that to two TUE missionary Saints, Cyril and Methodius. They based their TUE alphabet partly on Ancient Greek, and created a unifying TUE language for Church and State, one which allowed the people TUE access to the Bible and thus to the message of Christianity. TUE TUE By the 10th century Russia had established a new capital in TUE Kiev, now the capital of Ukraine, and from there sent TUE traders and envoys west into Europe and east into Asia. It TUE was a period when the nation found a stability, but Vladimir TUE had 12 sons, and a fratricidal war would inevitably follow. TUE TUE Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b010dp13 (Listen) TUE Academic English TUE TUE Is English too dominant in academic work around the world? TUE Chris Ledgard visits universities in Sweden to ask staff and TUE students how much they are able to debate, write and publish TUE in their native language. TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b010dp15 (Listen) TUE Series 24, Simone de Beauvoir TUE TUE Actress Diana Quick tells Matthew Parris why she believes TUE that existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir lived a TUE great life, despite living in the shadow of Jean Paul TUE Sartre. TUE TUE Simone de Beauvoir was a brilliant writer and philosopher in TUE her own right. Her study, The Second Sex, made her an iconic TUE figure for the feminist movement, and she remained true to TUE her intellectual honesty until her death in 1986, aged 78. TUE Yet despite all of her achievements, she is chiefly TUE remembered as the student of her lover and teacher, Jean TUE Paul Sartre. TUE TUE Joining Matthew Parris and Diana Quick in the studio is de TUE Beauvoir biographer Lisa Appignanesi. The producer is John TUE Byrne. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b010dp17 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010dp19 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b010dp1c (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 6 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 Amelia TUE Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson and Paul TUE Whitehouse. TUE TUE Special guests are Adil Ray and Arabella Weir. TUE Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b010dp1f (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b010dp1h (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including a report on what 'word of mouth' TUE now means for the arts in a digital age. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010dhcw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 American Jihad b010dp1k (Listen) TUE The 11 September attackers came from the Middle East, but TUE now, nearly a decade later, America is confronting a new, TUE homegrown threat from Islamic extremism. This programme TUE traces the story of one all-American boy. Omar Hammami grew TUE up in Alabama, son of a Baptist mother and a Syrian father. TUE He was popular, well-liked, and church-going. He converted TUE to Islam as a teenager and eventually turned to an TUE ever-more-radical version of his new faith. TUE Across the US the debate over homegrown extremism is raising TUE questions about how America relates with minorities. In TUE Washington, Congress has held hearings on radicalisation and TUE Muslim co-operation with law enforcement. Some Muslims chose TUE to testify, while others have denounced the hearings as an TUE exercise in scapegoating. TUE American radicalisation hasn't fit a neat pattern, and TUE experts worry most about 'lone wolves'. But some homegrown TUE extremists have already shown the ability to carry out TUE deadly attacks - the worst was a mass shooting which killed TUE 13 at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. TUE Omar Hammami's path eventually led him to jihad in Somalia, TUE where he quickly rose the ranks of the violent group Al TUE Shabaab. In this programme we find out how many others might TUE follow him - and why. TUE Presented by BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b010dp1m (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b010dp1p (Listen) TUE Presenter Claudia Hammond starts a new series of All in the TUE Mind by joining mothers and babies at a travelling, TUE high-tech language lab in a Children's Centre in London's TUE East End. TUE TUE The testing session is just one of many to be carried out TUE over the next two years in the communities of two of TUE London's most deprived boroughs, Tower Hamlets and Newham. TUE TUE Parents and babies are being invited to participate in a TUE novel psychological study to investigate whether researchers TUE can pick up very early indicators of later language or TUE attention problems in infants as young as 6 months. The TUE babies will be retested and assessed again when they are two TUE years old. TUE TUE The travelling 'babylab' is a high tech computer screen, set TUE up in local children's centres. The baby sits in front of it TUE and is played various videos and sounds aimed at testing how TUE sensitive he or she is to speech and other aspects of their TUE environments. The computer screen also contains a camera and TUE eye movement tracker, so as well as testing the infants it TUE also records all their responses to what they are seeing and TUE hearing. TUE TUE For example, at 6 months old, babies should be very TUE interested in looking at faces and mouths when people are TUE speaking, learning which mouth shapes match particular TUE speech sounds. At this age they are likely to know the TUE difference between the look of a mouth saying 'ba' as TUE opposed to 'ga'. This is part of their earliest language TUE development. If they are not able to make these and other TUE discriminations, it could be a sign of language and other TUE developmental problems to come. TUE TUE This seems to be the case from studies of babies in formal TUE university laboratories. But this new project aims to find TUE out whether reliable predictors of language and learning TUE difficulties can be picked up with testing equipment out in TUE the real world. And in particular in communities at the TUE lower end of the socio-economic scale. Children from this TUE section of society are at greater risk of language and other TUE developmental problems than children in better-off areas. TUE TUE The community testing sessions are also aimed at increasing TUE parents' understanding and appreciation of how their babies TUE learn about language and the world around them, and TUE demonstrating just how clever their infants are - even at 6 TUE months. TUE TUE The research project is run by the University of East London TUE and Birbeck College London. The psychologists hope their TUE findings will in the future allow the identification of TUE individual children with potential problems at the youngest TUE age possible. The idea is that the earliest that weaknesses TUE are identified, the greater the chance the children can be TUE helped to catch up in the development of their communication TUE and social skills. TUE TUE 21:30 Between Ourselves b010dp0b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b010dp1r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b010fk3h (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 b010dp1t (Listen) TUE Plague Child, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. TUE TUE Tom and Eaton make their way through wartorn Oxfordshire TUE towards Highpoint, where they will both confront ghosts from TUE their past....and Tom will begin to piece together the truth TUE about the day he was born. TUE TUE Read by Jamie Glover TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00p912l (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE TUE Perrier Award-winning comedian Laura Solon presents a series TUE of sketches, monologues and one-liners. TUE TUE Naive office worker Adrian is offered a job as the new TUE Robson and Jerome, the United Planetary Super Council is TUE invaded by a space-fiend and a strange German woman takes TUE over the Shipping Forecast. TUE TUE With Ben Moor, Rosie Cavaliero and Ben Willbond. TUE TUE 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00r66c1 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Sanjeev Bhaskar TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites his guest Sanjeev Baskar to try TUE five things he's never done before including reading PG TUE Wodehouse. TUE TUE Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is TUE about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort TUE zones. TUE TUE The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and TUE creator Bill Dare had never seen Star Wars. TUE TUE Host: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Guest: Sanjeev Bhaskar TUE Producer: Bill Dare. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b010dq65 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b010hd99 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010dq67 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010dq69 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010dq6c (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b010dq6f (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010dq6h (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most WED Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and WED Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b010dq6k (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b010dq6m (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b010dq6p (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including racing pundit Gary Wiltshire, aka 'The Belly from WED the Telly'. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b010hd91 (Listen) WED The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 3 WED WED By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. WED WED Abridged by Polly Coles WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b010dq6r (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fn83 (Listen) WED Sherbet Dolls, Episode 3 WED WED by Karen Brown WED An entertaining drama serial exploring the magnetism and WED expanding phenomona of children's beauty pageants. WED When Tony accidentally breaks his daughters backing track cd WED for the talent category WED he rushes out to buy another but then has second thoughts. WED The pageant seems to be showing the strains in WED Tony and Stacey's marriage too. WED WED Stacey ...... Naomi Radcliffe WED Tony ...... John Thomson WED Olivia ...... Shannon Flynn WED Jin Lin ..... Shamae Griffin WED Lift announcer ..... Melissa Jane Sinden WED Pageant Compere ..... Ruth Piggott WED Judy ...... Kathryn Hunt WED John ..... Seamus O'Neill WED Alicia ..... Emma Garrett WED Director ..... Pauline Harris WED WED 11:00 Bronzeville Lives: Chicago's Black Metropolis WED b010dq6t (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Bronzeville is a city within a city. Once the teeming heart WED of Chicago's Black Metropolis on the city's Southside, WED epicentre of the Great Migration that brought hundred's of WED thousands from the South, it has shaped the career of WED President Obama, launched the city's first black Mayor, WED birthed brilliant writers and poets and made music to WED entrance the world. WED WED Once it was a proud and self contained black universe WED remembered by Timuel Black & Sam Greenlee. Banks, department WED stores and clubs where the world's greatest performers WED played. But it was also a slum where two thirds of its WED housing was condemned. A world of de facto segregation made WED possible by housing covenants and hostile white communities. WED WED Bronzeville began to crumble and change in the late 1950's WED as the world's largest housing developments, the Projects, WED rose to create a city within a city within a city. They WED would become a trap for the poorest of the poor and a base WED for the rising gangs to deal drugs and death. Now those WED projects are either empty lots or desirable low rise homes & WED Bronzeville faces an uncertain future with the prospect of WED gentrification and a scramble to preserve its fast WED disappearing landmarks. WED WED A long walk along State St, once a 4 mile concrete corridor WED and home to 40,000 people brings you finally to the Bishop WED Roberts Temple. In 1955 Mamie Till brought her son Emmet's WED corpse here for a funeral that would spark the civil rights WED movement. Just a few blocks away on 44th St was the world of WED Coach John Hill which grew increasingly murderous by the WED late 1960's. Young entrepreneur Tanya Durr still smiles WED about a childhood in the notorious Ida B.Wells projects. WED some 40 years separate them. Neither can remember how many WED friends and students they have buried WED WED Presented & Produced by Mark Burman. WED WED 11:30 Beauty of Britain b010dq6w (Listen) WED Series 2, The Little Black Shorts WED WED No professional care-worker can afford to miss Beauty WED Olonga's survival guide to Britain - its overheated houses, WED its disappointing church services and its world-class WED charity shops. Series 2 of this comedy follows Beauty's WED continuing adventures as the Featherdown Agency send her to WED provide care for the elderly. WED WED Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls WED hoping to live the dream in Britain. Beauty sees Britain at WED its best, its worst and also sometimes without its clothes WED on running the wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog shouting WED 'Come on!' WED WED Beauty starts a romance with the handsome but somewhat WED immature Leon. She also deals with a relationship at the WED other end of life's journey when she is sent by her agency WED to look after a warring elderly couple. WED WED Beauty ... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Frank ... Geoffrey Palmer WED Joan ... Phyllida Law WED Leon ... Lloyd Thomas WED Mrs Gupte ... Indira Joshi WED Anil ... Paul Sharma WED WED The music was performed by The West End Gospel Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b010dq6y (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b010dq70 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b010fk1w (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 b010dq72 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b010dp1f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b010dq74 (Listen) WED The Bat Man WED WED by Amelia Bullmore WED WED When his wife died three years ago, Christopher fled London WED for a simpler existence in Cornwall, where he has settled on WED bat protection as his mission. Colette and her noisy WED daughters rent the holiday cottage next door and disturb the WED peace - both his and that of his beloved bats. WED WED Christopher ..... Bill Nighy WED Colette ..... Katherine Parkinson WED Biddy ..... Jenny Agutter WED Rory ..... Sean Baker WED Lou-Lou ..... Lauren Mote WED Grace ..... Georgia Groome WED WED directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b010dq76 (Listen) WED If you have a question about running a furnished holiday or WED buy-to-let property you can talk to Vincent Duggleby and a WED team of experts on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Whether you need advice about taxation, mortgage costs, WED regulation or general advice about your holiday or WED buy-to-let business, the team will be ready to help. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b010dq78 (Listen) WED Tales from the Casino, What Shall I Do? WED WED Rita works in the cloakroom of the Casino, and hasn't been WED on the ballroom floor since the days when it was called the WED Wigan Empress. But then Frank starts calling. WED WED Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate WED venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over WED the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the WED latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were WED sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way WED up the road. The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with WED Russ Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three WED songs that became known as the Three Before Eight: "Time WED Will Pass You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is WED Over" by Jimmy Radcliffe and "I'm On My Way" by Dean WED Parrish. WED WED These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton WED (herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw WED off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was WED voted 'Best Disco In the World' by American Billboard WED Magazine. WED WED Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977. She is a WED freelance writer of features and music columns, notably WED 'Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll' for the Guardian. Her first WED story for radio, The Carpenter, was broadcast in 2009 as WED part of Sweet Talk's We Are Stardust, We Are Golden series WED for BBC Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks, her debut novel, was WED published in 2010. Laura lives in London. WED WED Written by Laura Barton. Read by Melanie Kilburn. WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010dq7b (Listen) WED Series 1, Prince Igor and the Polovtsians WED WED Russia with its long and vulnerable borders would be a WED continual prey to aggressive forces. Rivalry and disunity WED within conspired to undermine any proper defence. In this WED episode Martin Sixsmith cites one of Russia's most treasured WED myths, the lyric poem 'The Lay of Prince Igor', which WED describes the hopeless courage of Prince Igor as he sets off WED in 1185 with a small band of men to defeat the Polovtsians. WED WED As Martin says, 'Every Russian schoolchild knows its WED strange, disturbing images and its rhythmic, muscular verse. WED It was a mainstay of the Russian oral tradition, intended to WED be memorised and recited as patriotic propaganda. But far WED from being a celebration of victory, the Song of Igor is a WED dire warning of the perils of national disunity.' WED WED The composer Borodin would further its fame with his opera WED 'Prince Igor' which contain the famous Polovtsian Dances. WED The music retold the legend, and throughout Russian cultural WED history artists in the fields of music, art and literature WED would continually revisit their nation's rich heritage. In WED Soviet times these stories often acted as propaganda for the WED Communist State, and Martin Sixsmith in this episode cites WED the 1938 film 'Alexander Nevsky' by director Sergei WED Eisenstein, recounting the defeat of the Teutonic knights in WED 1242, which was used by Stalin to this end. WED WED Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b010dq7d (Listen) WED A special edition with new research from the British WED Sociological Association conference. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b010dp1p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b010dqg8 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010dq7g (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Act Your Age b010dqgb (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 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 Carl Donnelly, WED Lucy Porter is joined by Justin Edwards and Tom O'Connor WED teams up with Norman Lovett. WED WED Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b010dstz (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b010dqgd (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with the singer and WED songwriter Morrissey. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fn83 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b010drkx (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Michael WED Portillo, Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b010drkz (Listen) 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 final Lent Talk of the series, the Reverend Mark WED Oakley, Canon Treasurer at St Paul's Cathedral, talks about WED the conflict with God - when in the face of disaster and WED suffering God appears absent. 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 b010drl1 (Listen) WED Peak Leak WED WED From the atolls of the Pacific to the Thames Estuary WED shipwrecks of World War Two litter the oceans of the world. WED After seventy years rust is starting to take its toll, WED breaching steel hulls and sending cargoes of munitions, WED chemicals and oil into the environment. WED WED For decades governments have turned a blind eye to the risk, WED anxious to avoid responsibility for ships sunk in foreign WED waters. However, as the number of pollution incidents WED increase it's becoming vital for expertise in underwater WED imaging and salvage to be pooled in a worldwide effort to WED identify and remediate the most dangerous wrecks. WED WED Tom Heap investigates the latest salvage techniques and asks WED if the abolition of rescue tugs around the coastline of WED Britain could add to the risk of future wrecks. WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b010dq6p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b010dq7j (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b010fk3k (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 b010drrj (Listen) WED Plague Child, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. WED WED Tom is reunited with Matthew, the man who brought him up in WED the docks. He begs him to reveal the whereabouts of the WED Stonehouse pendant. But he is not the only one eager to find WED it... WED WED Read by Jamie Glover WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Living with Mother b010drrl (Listen) WED Wild Card WED WED This mother and son are as posh as posh can be. An old WED established family and proud of it. Unfortunately Xander is WED a drunken idiot who is always getting into all sorts of WED scrapes. WED WED His mother has run the family home with a rod of iron ever WED since her husband was imprisoned for dodgy dealings. Has her WED foolish son inherited his father's genes? When he loses the WED family jewels, will she be able to bail him out? WED WED Mother: Penelope Keith WED Xander: Kevin Eldon WED WED Producer: Anna Madley WED An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00qj274 (Listen) WED Series 1, Ogre Bin Laden WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED regular bin collections and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. WED WED In this episode Mordrin takes matters into his own hands to WED try and solve his erratic bin collections, and decides to WED magic up a rubbish eating Ogre with disastrous consequences. WED WED Featuring and written by Scottish stand up David Kay and WED starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty, Mordrin McDonald WED mixes the magical with the mundane and offers a hilarious WED take on the life of a modern day Wizard. WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st century wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated WED 2000-year-old sorcerer with enough power in his small finger WED to destroy a town, yet not even enough clout to get his bins WED emptied on time by the local council. Even for such a WED skilful sorcerer modern life is rubbish! WED WED Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He WED initially set up as a plc for income tax relief, but has WED found it a useful vehicle to help him bolster his Wizard WED skill set and his range of services. (Even a wizard has to WED diversify). He's been running Fruity Potions from his cave WED for the past few years, in between completing the odd quest WED as instructed by the Wizard Council. In the past his WED services were to help kings in battles of good and evil, or WED as he prefers to put it, assisting with neighbour disputes. WED WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Geoff: Gordon Kennedy WED Heather: Cora Bissett WED Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson WED Flora: Eleanor Thom WED Jim The Joiner: Grant O'Rourke WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rbkyc (Listen) WED Series 3, Jon Culshaw WED WED Marcus Brigstocke invites his guest Jon Culshaw to try five WED things he's never done before including visiting a casino. WED WED Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is WED about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort WED zones. WED WED The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and WED creator Bill Dare had never seen Star Wars. WED WED Host: Marcus Brigstocke WED Guest: Jon Culshaw WED Producer: Bill Dare. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b010dst2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b010hd91 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010dst4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010dst6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010dst8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b010dstb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010dstd (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most THU Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and THU Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b010dstg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b010dstj (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b010dstl (Listen) THU The Pelagian Controversy THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Pelagian THU Controversy. THU THU In the late 4th century a British monk, Pelagius, began to THU preach a heretical Christian doctrine. Pelagius believed THU that mankind was not inherently depraved, and disputed the THU necessity of original sin. His opinions were highly THU controversial; his most prominent opponent was the bishop St THU Augustine of Hippo. Their dispute was to be of long-lasting THU significance to the future of the Church. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b010hd93 (Listen) THU The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 4 THU THU By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. THU THU Abridged by Polly Coles THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b010dstn (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Lycra - the fibre that THU emancipated women? THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fngm (Listen) THU Sherbet Dolls, Episode 4 THU THU by Karen Brown THU An entertaining drama serial exploring the magnetism and THU expanding phenomena of children's beauty pageants. THU Stacey stands up to protestors claiming child exploitation THU and daughter Olivia wants to go home after losing THU in the Casual Category. THU THU Stacey ...... Naomi Radcliffe THU Tony ...... John Thomson THU Olivia ...... Shannon Flynn THU Jin Lin ..... Shamae Griffin THU Lift announcer ..... Melissa Jane Sinden THU Pageant Compere ..... Ruth Piggott THU Judy ...... Kathryn Hunt THU John ..... Seamus O'Neill THU Alicia ..... Emma Garrett THU Patrick ..... Jake Norton THU Director ..... Pauline Harris THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b010dstq (Listen) THU Germany THU THU David Goldblatt looks at whether Berlin's alternative THU culture is under threat from commercial pressures. Or do THU developers and artists need each other to exist? THU THU Berlin has long been a magnet for artists from within THU Germany and abroad. After the wall fell in 1989 they flooded THU into the vast deserted buildings left in the Mitte area of THU the former East of the city. But over the last few years THU developers have been moving into this increasingly THU fashionable area, increasing rents and evicting squatted THU buildings. THU THU Today the right and left banks of the Spree river, the THU district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, has become home to THU underground clubs and artists studios. But developers are THU increasing their grip on this area too. A few years ago they THU joined together to create an consortium called "MediaSpree" THU with the aim of turning the East bank of the Spree into a THU media hub. Universal Studios and MTV were two of the first THU companies to locate themselves in the converted warehouses THU of a deserted port in 'no man's land' where the border wall THU once ran. They were attracted, in part, by the alternative THU vibe of the area. THU THU But now increasing rents in this area are pushing artists THU and original residents out - and with them the clubs and THU galleries that attracted the media businesses in the first THU place. Will developers and the alternative culture find a THU way to co-exist? THU Producer: Jane Beresford. THU THU 11:30 The Ladies' Man of Opera b010dsts (Listen) THU Composer Richard Strauss lived a long life crowded with THU splendid women. But to the surprise of his friends he THU belonged to only one- his formidable wife, soprano Pauline THU de Ahna. THU THU For Strauss's "other women" belonged to the illustrious THU gallery of heroines he would bring to the operatic stage, THU beginning with Freihild in Guntram. Many of his heroines THU were already immortal in name, Salome, Elektra, Ariadne, THU Daphne, Helen of Troy. Even his best male roles (Octavian in THU Der Rosenkavalier, the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos) were THU written for women. Indeed all of Strauss' operas would THU celebrate the soprano voice, because he composed with his THU wife's voice in his ear. THU THU In 2009 the actor, Michael Pennington, played Richard THU Strauss in the West End play, Collaboration. Whilst acting THU out the Composer's life on the stage he became fascinated THU with Strauss' life and in particular his marriage. THU THU In The Ladies' Man of Opera Michael Pennington goes on a THU journey through the music and letters of Strauss to discover THU the relationship that formed the bedrock of his musical THU achievements. Examining the works of the composer he reveals THU the central role that Pauline played in his music and in THU doing so explores their enduring and eventful marriage. THU THU Producer: Jo Meek THU An All Out Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b010gbbz (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b010dstx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b010fk1y (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 b010drl1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b010dstz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 On Mardle Fen b009tzcd (Listen) THU Series 1, Dark Horse THU THU On Mardle Fen: Series by Nick Warburton, set in an THU idiosyncratic restaurant in the Fens. 3/4. Dark Horse: The THU dark tale of the twisted eel seems about to repeat itself. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b010dd3s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b010dfgs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b010dsw8 (Listen) THU Tales from the Casino, Three Before Eight THU THU It is all about ritual. Saturday comes and Rob, a seasoned THU DJ at the Casino, is sorting through and packing his records THU for the night. THU THU Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate THU venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over THU the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the THU latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were THU sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way THU up the road. The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with THU Russ Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three THU songs that became known as the Three Before Eight: "Time THU Will Pass You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is THU Over" by Jimmy Radcliffe and "I'm On My Way" by Dean THU Parrish. THU THU These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton THU (herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw THU off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was THU voted 'Best Disco In the World' by American Billboard THU Magazine. THU THU Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977. She is a THU freelance writer of features and music columns, notably THU 'Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll' for the Guardian. Her first THU story for radio, The Carpenter, was broadcast in 2009 as THU part of Sweet Talk's We Are Stardust, We Are Golden series THU for BBC Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks, her debut novel, was THU published in 2010. Laura lives in London. THU THU Written by Laura Barton. Read by Daniel Rigby. THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010dszs (Listen) THU Series 1, The Mongol Yoke THU THU In 1240, the Mongols arrived at the capital of the Russian THU lands, the great city of Kiev. After a week-long bombardment THU that breached the city walls, the Mongols poured in, THU wreaking death and destruction. It was to change the course THU of Russian History. THU THU Isolated from Europe, Russia missed out on the Renaissance, THU and Martin Sixsmith argues, "She would never fully catch up THU with its intellectual, cultural and social values. Instead, THU a profound admiration for the Mongol model of an autocratic, THU militarised state began to enter the Russian psyche.This THU legacy was so deeply assimilated that its influence has THU marked the way the country is governed right down to the THU present day." THU THU The widely accepted view is that the Mongol period was a THU national catastrophe and the absolutist state model it THU implanted in Russia was her great misfortune. But drawing on THU the writings of the great historian Nikolay Karamzin, THU Sixsmith suggests the political unity it created among the THU Russian lands outweighed all the negative effects. THU THU He visits Kulikovo Pole, where the Russians marked their the THU first military victory against the Mongols. In national folk THU memory this is the place to which Russians came disunited THU and left as a nation. Alexander Blok, the great Symbolist THU poet writing 500 years later, sees it as the starting gun THU for a millennial clash of opposing religions and values that THU would define Russia's historical identity. THU THU The country united around what soon become a national THU religious myth -the belief that Rus had been chosen by God THU for a historic mission - and a consciousness of being a THU unified nation in opposition to external enemies. And, as THU we'll see, the leader of that newborn Russia would no longer THU be Kiev, but Moscow. THU THU Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown THU A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b010dgrd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b010dw05 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper 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 b010dw07 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010dsv1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b010dw09 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The THU Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show THU along with the backstage and front-of-house goings on at the THU theatre itself. THU THU In show one the theatre is visited by acclaimed Yorkshire THU poet, Geoffrey Allerton (Simon Day). Geoffrey reads poems THU and excerpts from his recent memoir "Marking Time" and THU struggles to get a hot meal from sound and lighting THU technician, Goose (Felix Dexter). Meanwhile in the bar two THU local mums are getting to know each other over several THU bottles of wine. THU THU Geoffrey Allerton ..... Simon Day THU Anna / Claire ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Sarah ..... Arabella Weir THU Goose ..... Felix Dexter THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b010dw0c (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b010dw0f (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fngm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b010dw0h (Listen) THU The stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan missed THU scheduled safety inspections weeks before the disaster. The THU Japanese regulation system stands accused of failing to take THU the risk of an extreme natural disaster seriously enough, THU and of a lack of openness with the public. THU THU Britain's own regulatory body which oversees nuclear power THU plants has just relaunched itself after years of concern THU that it has been secretive, understaffed and overstretched. THU THU In recent years the government's Chief Nuclear Inspector THU says he has struggled to recruit new staff and that the THU Nuclear Safety Inspectorate faced major challenges to ensure THU old nuclear plants are run safely. THU THU As the Office for Nuclear Regulation takes on the challenge THU of ensuring Britain's nuclear power plants are run safely, THU Andy Denwood investigates whether its up to the job. THU THU Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. THU THU 20:30 In Business b010dw0k (Listen) THU Watch This Space THU THU America's space effort faces big upheavals as President THU Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work THU in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy THU Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day THU asks what happens next on the USA's journey into space. THU THU 21:00 The Light Switch Project b010dp0j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b010dstl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b010dsv3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b010fk3m (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 b010dw0m (Listen) THU Plague Child, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. THU THU Tom finds the pendant and confronts his real father at last, THU in the midst of the most brutal battle of the Civil War -but THU this is not a happy reunion... THU THU Read by Jamie Glover THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b010fbyb (Listen) THU A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. THU It's a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it THU in the slightest. Stay a while and meet the waifs, strays, THU ghosts, murderous pensioners and squirrels of this THU delightful land as they go about their bizarre business. THU THU Written and performed by Alice Lowe. THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rdzv8 (Listen) THU Series 3, Jenny Eclair THU THU Marcus Brigstocke invites his guest Jenny Eclair to try five THU things she's never done before including having a bikini THU wax. THU THU Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is THU about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort THU zones. THU THU The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and THU creator Bill Dare had never seen Star Wars. THU THU Host: Marcus Brigstocke THU Guest: Jenny Eclair THU Producer: Bill Dare. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 APRIL 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b010fbz3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b010hd93 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010fbz5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010fbz7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010fbz9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b010fbzc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010fbzf (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Most FRI Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and FRI Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b010fbzh (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b010fbzk (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b010dfh1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b010hd95 (Listen) FRI The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Edmund de Waal.Read by Nicholas Murchie. FRI FRI Abridged by Polly Coles FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b010fbzm (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fnh0 (Listen) FRI Sherbet Dolls, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Karen Brown FRI An entertaining drama serial exploring the magnetism and FRI expanding phenomena of children's beauty pageants. FRI It's the grand final but when Tony discovers the extent of FRI Stacey's deceit in the name of fame he can take no more. FRI FRI Stacey ...... Naomi Radcliffe FRI Tony ...... John Thomson FRI Olivia ...... Shannon Flynn FRI Jin Lin ..... Shamae Griffin FRI Lift announcer ..... Melissa Jane Sinden FRI Pageant Compere ..... Ruth Piggott FRI Judy ...... Kathryn Hunt FRI John ..... Seamus O'Neill FRI Alicia ..... Emma Garrett FRI Director ..... Pauline Harris FRI FRI 11:00 James and the Giant Eagle b010fc06 (Listen) FRI Like most small boys James Aldred loved climbing trees and FRI now he has grown up, he's still climbing trees; helping FRI scientists and film crews up into the canopy. When he was FRI invited to help a wildlife team film one of the world's FRI largest eagles in Southern Brazil, it was an offer he FRI couldn't refuse. But what happened next was a nerve-wracking FRI and painful encounter with one of the world's most powerful FRI birds. Harpy Eagles have a body length of over 3ft, a FRI wingspan of over 6ft and weigh 10-12 pounds. Their hind FRI talons can grow up to the size of grizzly bear claws, and FRI are used to strike their prey; monkeys, sloths and possums, FRI which they then carry aloft. When James was asked to climb a FRI tree, to assist with moving a camera on an eagle's nest, he FRI found out exactly why these birds have such an awesome FRI reputation. FRI FRI Harpy Eagles are found in tropical lowland forests from FRI southeast Mexico to northern Argentina and southern Brazil. FRI They prefer large expanses of uninterrupted forest in which FRI to hunt. They are highly impressive and successful FRI predators, owing primarily to their size and strength. They FRI are also highly manoeuvrable fliers. They have excellent FRI eyesight and good hearing, and are acutely observant and FRI opportunistic birds. Their name is derived from the Harpies FRI in Greek Mythology, which were ferocious winged creatures FRI with sharp claws, a woman's face and a vulture's body. They FRI were wind spirits which took the dead to Hades. FRI FRI Recordings made by James Aldred on location are combined FRI with interviews with ornithologist Ian Newton and field FRI biologist, Marta Curti (of The Peregrine Fund) in a FRI programme which explores the behaviour, ecology and FRI reputation of Harpy Eagles in the wild. FRI FRI 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b00rp3dy (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI From Carnegie Hall to the BBC Radio Theatre - American FRI humorist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection FRI of published stories and articles. In show 1 of 4: "6 to 8 FRI Black Men", "Diary Fragments" and "Just a Quick Email". FRI FRI The producer is Steve Doherty, and the programme is a FRI Boomerang Plus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b010fd84 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b010fbzp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b010fk20 (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 b010fd86 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b010dw0c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b010fd88 (Listen) FRI Mary Toft's Rabbit Tale FRI FRI Written by Colin Bytheway. In 1726, 26 year old mother of FRI three, Mary Toft gave birth to a rabbit. And then another. FRI And then another. All were stillborn - some were just rabbit FRI body parts - but all were the fruit of her loins. FRI FRI Local surgeon John Howard confirmed the phenomenon, FRI delivering several live rabbits himself. He wrote of his FRI findings to the Secretary of George I. The King, intrigued, FRI sent his personal anatomist Nathaniel St Andre to FRI investigate who soon concluded that Toft was telling the FRI truth and was preternaturally giving birth to rabbits. FRI FRI Mary quickly became a national sensation and was brought to FRI London to be studied at length but inevitably Mary broke and FRI she confessed - the whole thing was a hoax. FRI FRI Mary was imprisoned, and she, the medical profession and FRI even the country were publicly ridiculed. Mary herself was FRI immortalized in a sketch by Hogarth. After five months of FRI incarceration Mary was released, returning to Godalming, her FRI children, her husband and her old life. She later claimed FRI she made up the rabbit tale "to get so good a living that I FRI should never want as long as I lived." FRI FRI Mary ..... Anna Madeley FRI Joshua ..... Will Young FRI John Howard ..... Rupert Graves FRI St Andre ..... Nickolas Grace FRI Sir Richard ..... Patrick Ryecart FRI George I ..... Ian Masters FRI FRI Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Liturgy b010fd8b (Listen) FRI On the most solemn day in the Christian calendar, Dr Tina FRI Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at Roehampton FRI University, travels to Jerusalem to reflect on the last FRI moments of Christ's life. Starting at night, in the Garden FRI of Gethsemene, the place where Jesus was arrested, Dr FRI Beattie re-examines the human and spiritual consequences of FRI Christ's journey to his death on the cross. She visits the FRI Pavement on which Christ was tried by Pontius Pilate and FRI scourged, and reflects on the moment where Mary has to FRI contemplate the death of her son. The programme finishes FRI inside the Church of the Holy Sepluchre, the site Christians FRI believe to be the place of the crucifixion and resurrection. FRI Producer: Mark O'Brien. FRI FRI 15:30 The Good Conductor b00ww59f (Listen) FRI In this special talk, the author and former social worker FRI Bernard Hare tells of the train conductor he met on a FRI journey home when he was twenty three. He was desperate to FRI get home to see his mother in hospital but was due to miss FRI the connecting train home. The conductor broke the rules and FRI ensured that Bernard made his connection - and on the way FRI passed on a valuable motto which Bernard has adopted in his FRI own life. FRI Bernard Hae was born in Leeds in 1958 to a mining family. He FRI became a social worker, but was disillusioned by the system FRI after the miners' strike. He is now an author and describes FRI himself as an 'unofficial freelance social worker' in his FRI spare time, when he regularly passes on the conductor's FRI message. FRI Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. FRI A real Good Samaritan FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010fd8d (Listen) FRI Series 1, Moscow - The New Capital FRI FRI In 1453, the Fall of Constantinople and destruction of the FRI Christian Byzantine Empire by the Turks left Russia the sole FRI remaining leader of the Orthodox faith. Directly exposed to FRI the expanding empire of Islam it was a time of immense fear FRI but also of opportunity, and Moscow used the crisis to FRI further its claim to religious and political supremacy. FRI FRI A mystical prophetic text, known as The Legend of the White FRI Cowl, began to circulate, claiming to consecrate Moscow as FRI the Third Rome, the true guardian of God's rule and causing FRI great excitement among the population. Martin Sixsmith FRI suggests the prophecy was in fact a forgery created for FRI political purposes. FRI FRI Moscow had begun to emerge a century earlier under the canny FRI Ivan Kalita or Ivan Moneybags, whose wheeling and dealing FRI carved out a rich and powerful place for his city and FRI himself. He persuaded the Mongols to name him Grand Prince FRI and pre-eminent ruler of the Russian lands. The word 'Tsar' FRI was created by his heirs, derived from 'Caesar', and FRI 'Sovereign of all the Russias.' FRI FRI But the departure of the Mongols had left a power vacuum, FRI and there were three contenders vying to fill it: Lithuania, FRI Poland and the northern city of Novgorod, which had avoided FRI direct Mongol occupation, and preserved the old FRI quasi-democratic values of Kievan Rus. FRI FRI Moscow needed to deal with each of them, and it did so FRI slowly, creating a fragile national unity under Ivan III's FRI unbending autocracy. It gave him the strength he needed to FRI embark on an unparalleled campaign of territorial expansion, FRI initiating the relentless empire building that would FRI continue unabated to the twentieth century. FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b010fd8g (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 b010fd8j (Listen) FRI Francine Stock with what's going on in the world of film, FRI including the latest offerings from Wim Wenders and Alexei FRI Popogrebsky. FRI FRI Producer: Zahid Warley. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b010fd8l (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010fbzr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b010fd8n (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b010fd8q (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b010fd8s (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson examines dramatic and literary portrayals of FRI Jesus Christ, from Dorothy L Sayers' landmark radio drama of FRI the 1940s to the new novel from James Frey. FRI FRI Producer India Rakusen. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010fnh0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b010fd8v (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Brick Lane FRI Music Hall in Silvertown London. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010fd8x (Listen) FRI Series 2, Rats FRI FRI 10/20. It might be surprising to hear, but David FRI Attenborough has made it known over the years that rats are FRI not his favourite animal. In this piece, dedicated to his FRI nemesis, Attenborough with great wit and skill tells us of FRI the living nightmare he endured whilst on location in a FRI place infested with them. If that wasn't enough, whilst FRI making Life of Mammals, he devoted a whole programme to them FRI - and to balance his own personal view went to an Indian FRI temple where the rat is revered and even encouraged to swarm FRI in vast numbers. But in a clever twist of the story, as is FRI the hallmark of David Attenborough, in no uncertain way he FRI tells us why they should be respected. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b010fd8z (Listen) FRI Russia: The Wild East Omnibus, 22/04/2011 FRI FRI Martin Sixsmith begins his major series, telling the story FRI of Russia's journey from a collection of tribes over 1000 FRI years ago to its present place among the world's nations. FRI FRI Readings by: David Warner, Peter Dickson, Peter Guinness, FRI Mike Hayley, Max Bollinger, Richard Albrecht FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b010fbzt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b010fk3p (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 b010fd91 (Listen) FRI Plague Child, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne. FRI FRI Tom exchanges the pendant and his birthright for the deeds FRI to Half Moon Court. He regrets his choice, love struggling FRI with ambition - until one day Lord Stonehouse summons him to FRI Parliament... FRI FRI Read by Jamie Glover FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b010dp15 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rms97 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Ardal O'Hanlon FRI FRI Marcus Brigstocke invites his guest Ardal O'Hanlon to try FRI five things he's never done before including bell ringing. FRI FRI Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is FRI about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort FRI zones. FRI FRI The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and FRI creator Bill Dare had never seen Star Wars. FRI FRI Host: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Guest: Ardal O'Hanlon FRI Producer: Bill Dare. FRI
15 April, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 16/04/2011 - 22/04/2011
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