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SAT SATURDAY 23 APRIL 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b010fhb0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b010hd95 (Listen) SAT The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Edmund de Waal.Read by Nicholas Murchie. SAT SAT 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger SAT than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the SAT extraordinary events that overtake one family. SAT SAT Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first SAT encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his SAT great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the SAT 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could SAT ever have imagined. SAT SAT His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time SAT were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, SAT Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation SAT settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; SAT emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists SAT became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire SAT collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to SAT his banker cousin in Vienna. SAT SAT Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would SAT play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. SAT The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to SAT the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their SAT vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved SAT by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was SAT occupied. SAT SAT Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great SAT buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the SAT network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a SAT tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique SAT collection. SAT SAT Abridged by Polly Coles SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010fhb2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010fhb4 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010fhb6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b010fhb8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010fhbb (Listen) SAT With the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of SAT London. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b010fhbd (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b010fhbg (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b010fhbj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b010k2dw (Listen) SAT Richard Uridge is in Herefordshire at the annual film SAT festival to hear why it's important to bring the cinema SAT experience to rural areas. On a farm outside the city of SAT Hereford, he discovers a recently rehoused international SAT film archive containing 80,000 documentaries including SAT several old films on life in the Herefordshire countryside SAT dating back to the 1930s that are being preserved as part of SAT our rural heritage. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b010k2dy (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Farming Today investigates the role farms play in preserving SAT and unearthing history. Caz Graham visits a farm that is SAT recapturing the past by growing a heritage cherry orchard SAT and maintaining original field boundaries from medieval SAT times. A visit to one Oxfordshire farm reveals how an entire SAT Romano-British arena was discovered on an arable farm, and SAT Farming Today explores how ancient farm boundaries can SAT affect the way modern farms are run. SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b010fhbl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b010k2f0 (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b010k2f2 (Listen) SAT Sian Williams with writer and director Mike Leigh and poet SAT Matt Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b010k2f4 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy hears about people and places from all corners SAT of the world. SAT SAT 10:30 The Swedish Invasion b010k2f6 (Listen) SAT They gave us Ikea, Volvo and Abba, but now a new wave of SAT Swedish culture is conquering the world. Swedish books, SAT films, music and design are being lapped up in Britain and SAT even our politicians are looking to Sweden for answers. SAT Danny Robins, comedian and Swedophile, goes on a tour of the SAT country to explore why we've fallen so in love with SAT Swedishness and just what it is that we're buying into. SAT SAT Sweden is the world's third biggest exporter of music, its SAT design is coveted across the globe and, led by Steig SAT Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, its crime fiction is now SAT dominating the bestseller lists. What most of us know about SAT the Swedes though is still based on stereotypes - sexually SAT liberated yet boring, suicidal yet happy with a perfect SAT society - it's the land of the midnight sun, forests and SAT lakes, few inhabitants and picturesque towns, where it feels SAT like the most serious crime might be dropping litter. Yet, SAT Steig Larsson's novels and Henning Mankell's Wallander SAT series present a different vision of Sweden, as a land of SAT serial killers, corruption and racism. SAT SAT Danny speaks to Swedish rapper Dogge Doggelito to find out SAT whether there's any truth to the fiction. Though it seems SAT safe and well-ordered, is there a darkness lurking beneath SAT the perfect exterior? Two of Sweden's top politicians have SAT been assassinated; rising immigration has led to strong SAT support for a racist political party and Sweden's SAT egalitarian social democracy feels under threat. SAT SAT But the new 'dangerous' Sweden of the crime thrillers is SAT only part of the picture. The 'Made in Sweden' stamp is SAT still synonymous with success, quality and cool. Danny meets SAT young designers, chats to Swedish cultural commentators and SAT goes in the footsteps of Steig Larsson's characters, to SAT explore the country's recent success. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Wheeler SAT An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b010k2f8 (Listen) SAT As part of its plan to reduce the budget deficit, the SAT coalition's Strategic Defence and Security Review last year SAT envisaged radically slimmed-down military forces for SAT Britain, with controversial cuts to numbers of troops, naval SAT vessels, aircraft and weapons. Yet within weeks the prime SAT minister led calls for intervention in Libya. SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart explores the apparent contradictions SAT between the high-minded rhetoric of the Government's foreign SAT policy and the planned cuts in defence spending. Do British SAT prime ministers too often will the ends of foreign policy SAT while lacking the means to deliver them? Are financial SAT pressures finally forcing Britain to match its defence SAT forces to its diminished power in the world? Or is a more SAT modest UK role in international affairs dangerous and too SAT rigid for a fast-changing world? And what is the state of SAT the relationship between politicians and the military? SAT SAT Producer Simon Coates. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b010k2fb (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b010k2fd (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b010fd8n (Listen) SAT Series 74, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b010fhbn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b010fhbq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b010fd8v (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Brick Lane SAT Music Hall in Silvertown London with panellists Sayeeda SAT Warsi, Chairman of the Conservative Party; Alan Johnson, SAT former Labour Cabinet minister; Rod Liddle, columnist; and SAT Philippe Sands, Professor of International Law at the SAT University of London. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b010k2fg (Listen) SAT Listeners respond to the issues raised in the preceding SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b010k2fj (Listen) SAT One Chord Wonders: This is the Modern World SAT 4/5 SAT Frank Cottrell Boyce's series of plays about the punk SAT generation 30 years on continues with the story of an SAT unlikely pilgrimage to Camberley. Eco-toilet pioneer and SAT ex-'anarcho-punk' Muttley is about to be forcibly reunited SAT with his former self. SAT SAT Muttley ... Danny Webb SAT Lineel ... Stephanie Leonidas SAT Lin ... Ann Beach SAT Hippie ... Carl Prekopp SAT Drug Dealer ... John Biggins SAT Market Researcher ... Alex Tregear SAT Club Doorman ... John Cummins SAT Williams ... Sam Dale SAT Hotel Receptionist ... Liz Sutherland SAT SAT Director/Producer ... Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 Ghost Music b010dp0s (Listen) SAT In 1939 the BBC recorded the sound of two trumpets SAT discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb. It was a nail-biting SAT session; one of them had previously shattered, but the SAT British soldier, James Tappern, who played them allowed the SAT haunting music that had been silent for 3000 years to be SAT heard once more. SAT SAT For three months this year the recording had added SAT poignancy, as one of the trumpets was among the many SAT artefacts stolen from the Cairo Museum during the recent SAT revolution, though it's now been recovered. Archaeologist SAT Christine Finn, who travelled to Egypt upon news of the SAT uprising and chronicled the looting of archaeological sites, SAT tells the story of the trumpet with the help of SAT Egyptologist, Margaret Maitland. SAT SAT Christine hears an account of the 1939 recording from Peter SAT Tappern, son of the original bandsman, himself a SAT professional trumpeter. And from archive of Rex Keating, who SAT recorded the event for the BBC in Cairo. SAT SAT Christine also considers how archaeology has revealed other SAT 'ghost music'. Richard Dumbrill talks about his SAT reconstruction of the Silver Lyre of Ur, discovered by SAT Leonard Woolley in modern-day Iraq around the same time that SAT Howard Carter was excavating Tutankhamun's tomb. She hears SAT from Domenico Vicinanza of the Lost Sounds Orchestra, an SAT international group which re-creates the sound of ancient SAT instruments using technology and synthesis. One of its first SAT projects was the ancient Greek harp often seen on classical SAT vases, the epigonion; this time the instrument is not a SAT faithful re-creation, but a new model reflecting its 21st SAT century incarnation. SAT SAT And Christine reflects on the role of these musical, SAT archaeological discoveries in modern composition. SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b010k3rh (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. The troubled life of the legendary SAT Edith Piaf traced in a new biography about the singer. The SAT debate on the Alternative Vote: what might it mean for SAT women? Tips from intrepid globe-trotters of the nineteenth SAT century, including the best length of skirt for SAT mountaineering. What role Gaddafi's daughter Aisha is SAT playing in presenting the Libyan regime's message to the SAT people. The work of the prolific children's writer Ursula SAT Moray Williams and her extraordinary life. Emmylou Harris on SAT her song-writing roots and influences. Find out how to Cook SAT the Perfect... brownies. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b010k3rk (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b010fhbd (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b010fhbs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b010fhbv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010fhbx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b010k3rm (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the entertainer, raconteur and former SAT politician Gyles Brandreth. His one man comedy show covers SAT all aspects from his life and was a sell out success at the SAT Edinburgh Festival last year. London folk get a chance to SAT see him and The One to One Show at The Riverside Studios in SAT Hammersmith in May. SAT SAT Paul Merson was a hugely successful football player for SAT Arsenal and England. Now he's written his memoir 'How Not to SAT Be a Professional Footballer'. Top tips on what NOT to do SAT include: not getting drunk enough to forget the 90 minutes SAT of football you've just played, not to share a house with SAT Gazza and not to place £30,000 bets at the bookies. Paul is SAT now a panellist on SkySports' weekend football results show, SAT Soccer Sunday. SAT SAT Following a BBC television adaptation starring Billie Piper, SAT the author of A Passionate Woman, Kay Mellor talks to Clive SAT about the confession of an affair made to her by her mother. SAT Kay takes on the emotional role of playing her mother Betty SAT on stage in Ipswich and Oldham over the next couple of SAT months. SAT SAT Arthur Smith tries a spot of Sign Spinning under the SAT tutelage of 'spinstructor' Max Durovic. It's America's SAT fastest growing form of outdoor advertising - a mix of break SAT dancing and acrobatic performance whilst waving a six foot SAT advertising board around your body! SAT SAT There's music from London based six-piece skiffle group, The SAT Severed Limb. Drawn together from a love of rockabilly, folk SAT and the King of Skiffle Lonnie Donegan, they perform their SAT single Woo Eee Ha Ha! SAT SAT Having toured with the likes of Laura Marling and Mumford SAT and Sons, folk popstress Alessi's Ark makes a welcome return SAT to Loose Ends, performing The Wire from her new album, Time SAT Travel. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b010k3rp (Listen) SAT Martin Amis SAT SAT Martin Amis has a reputation as a literary bad boy and has SAT caused a stir in a recent interview with a French magazine SAT talking about the 'moral decrepitude of England' and saying SAT he would 'prefer not to be English'. It's not the first time SAT Amis has courted controversy: he offended Muslims by saying SAT they 'ought to suffer until they get their house in order' SAT and earlier this year he riled children's authors by saying SAT 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a SAT children's book'. Those who've met him, however, say he can SAT be charming and he commands the loyalty of several high SAT profile friends. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b010k3rr (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests author Linda Grant, the BBC's SAT diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall and the novelist SAT Michael Arditti review the cultural highlights of the week. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00jkv2j (Listen) SAT Carl Sagan - A Personal Voyage SAT SAT Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to SAT his science hero, the American astronomer Carl Sagan, the SAT man who many people describe as the greatest populariser of SAT science of all time. His landmark television series Cosmos SAT was seen by more than 60 million people worldwide and SAT inspired a generation of young scientists to regard the SAT universe with wonder and awe. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b010dgrb (Listen) SAT The Mauritius Command, Episode 3 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. SAT SAT Jack has been promoted to Commodore to lead a squadron of SAT English ships, charged with taking the Indian Ocean islands SAT of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. Jack faces SAT superior odds at sea and on land (where Stephen's subversive SAT skills are invaluable as ever). Yet, in his new role as SAT Commodore, Jack needs subtlety and subterfuge to win over SAT the crews and subordinate captains of his own fleet, SAT including the courageous but brutal Captain Corbett. SAT SAT Based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when Britain and France SAT were bitterly engaged in protecting their trade routes SAT around the southern tip of Africa - and the islands of SAT Mauritius and Réunion (east of Madagascar) were viewed as SAT 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 Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA SAT Governor Farquhar ..................... ..DAVID RINTOUL SAT Lt-Col Keating ............ ........THOMAS ARNOLD SAT Admiral Bertie.............................. SEAN BAKER SAT Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER SAT Lt Pullings ...................................DAVID HOLT SAT Lt Tullidge....................................LLOYD THOMAS SAT Major O'Neil................................ SAM DALE SAT Midshipman Johnson ....... ...........NYASHA HATENDI SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b010fhbz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b010drkx (Listen) SAT Celebrity Activism SAT SAT The days of the tame celebrity being wheeled out by SAT political parties or charities to show their face at the SAT launch of their latest campaign - and keep their mouth SAT firmly shut - have long gone. The rise of social networking SAT and the way celebrity culture has spread to all parts of our SAT society mean that some celebrities, if they choose to wield SAT it, have genuine power. This is the age of the Celebrity SAT Activist. Hugh Grant turning the tables on journalists and SAT arming himself with a hidden microphone to investigate phone SAT hacking for the New Statesman may be one of the unlikelier SAT and entertaining stories in the field, but there's a lot to SAT choose from. Labour politicians won't forget Joanna Lumley's SAT lobbying for the Ghurkhas; Patrick Stewart regularly speaks SAT in favour of assisted dying and celebs are all over the SAT alternative vote referendum. If you think this all seems to SAT be overstating things consider this: Stephen Fry's tweets SAT are followed by 2.45 million people, that's more than the SAT printed copies of the Times, the Telegraph, the Financial SAT Times, the Guardian and the Independent combined. Do people SAT like Stephen Fry have a moral duty to use the power of their SAT status to comment and campaign on issues - to motivate and SAT get people engaged in a way traditional politicians can't? SAT Does such power foster and encourage a sense of social SAT conscience in us all, or have we sacrificed content on the SAT altar of celebrity and allowed a few to use it promote their SAT particular personal interests, career and self worth? Is SAT celebrity activism good for our democratic process? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Michael SAT Portillo, Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b010dhd4 (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 3 SAT SAT (3/13) SAT If La Scala is the main opera house in Milan, and La Fenice SAT (fe-NEET-chay) its equivalent in Venice, which Italian city SAT is home to the Teatro San Carlo? SAT SAT The third heat of the 25th anniversary series comes from the SAT BBC Radio Theatre in London, with Paul Gambaccini asking the SAT questions on a wide range of musical styles and eras. SAT SAT The winner today will take a place in the semi-finals in SAT June. As usual the questions cover classical music, jazz, SAT film and stage music, vintage chart hits and recent SAT releases. There are plenty of musical extracts, some SAT surprising, others familiar. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT IAN FENNELL, a software developer from Kidderminster; SAT EDWARD HALSTED, an actor from London; SAT ALISON RAWLINSON, a nurse from Godalming, Surrey. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b010dgrg (Listen) SAT Series 3, Herbert Read SAT SAT Herbert Read was a man of many contradictions. Though a SAT dedicated socialist and a committed anarchist, he was SAT knighted by Winston Churchill; he was a pacifist but was SAT twice decorated for bravery in the First World War; he was a SAT strong advocate for Modernism in British art but could not SAT accept the concept of Post Modernism. His towering presence SAT in the post-war art world (he co-founded the Institute of SAT Contemporary Arts) almost totally eclipsed his abilities as SAT a poet, and yet his son - the writer Piers Paul Read - SAT believes he always thought of himself as a poet. SAT SAT Brian Patten, who met Herbert Read towards the end of his SAT life, revisits his First World War poetry and finds an SAT impressively mature voice; cool in tone but full of SAT humanitarian feeling towards the men - he characterised them SAT as "children" - involved on both sides. SAT SAT Piers Paul Read contributes to the programme and the poems SAT are read by Samuel West. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b010lxlv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00lv228 (Listen) SUN Perspectives, The Mumpers SUN SUN Series of stories about people approaching something SUN familiar from a different point of view. SUN SUN By Eleanor Thom. Distant memories mingle with the present as SUN an old woman at the end of her life is cared for by her SUN young nurse. Read by Laura Smales. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010lxlx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010lxlz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010lxm1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b010lxm3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b010lxm5 (Listen) SUN The bells of St John Baptist, Burford, Oxfordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b010k3rp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b010lxm7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b010lxm9 (Listen) SUN Everything Has Its Place SUN SUN The pursuit of coherence in our lives is often mirrored in SUN the orderly way in which we manage the clutter of our SUN physical environment. SUN SUN In 'Everything Has Its Place' Felicity Finch reflects on how SUN we express this desire for neatness and order. Referring to SUN words and music from Carol Shields, Robert Herrick and SUN Daniel Abse, Radiohead, Mozart and Jacques Brel, and in SUN conversation with actress Souad Faress, Felicity explores SUN the comfort we draw from the arrangement of the objects with SUN which we surround ourselves, the chaos thrust upon us by SUN nature and the desire for freedom from the rigidity and SUN limitations that order can sometimes impose. SUN SUN With readings by Emma Fielding and Jonathan Keeble. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 Sunrise Service b010lxmc (Listen) SUN A meditation to mark the dawning of Easter Day from SUN Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral led by the Dean, the Rervd SUN Canon Anthony O'Brien, with the Cathedral Girls' Choir SUN directed by Philip Arkwright with Timothy Noon (organ). SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b010lxmf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b010lxmh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b010lyxt (Listen) SUN A special Easter Sunday edition with the theme of SUN reconciliation and healing. William will be joined by a SUN special panel: Rabbi Julia Neuberger, senior Rabbi at the SUN West London synagogue; Colin Parry OBE, co-founder of the SUN Tim Parry and Jonathan Ball Foundation for Peace in SUN Warrington, and Canon David Porter, Canon Director for SUN Reconciliation at Coventry Cathedral. SUN SUN Earlier this month, Burnley, scene of race riots back in SUN 2001, was ranked the eleventh most deprived town in the SUN country. Padiham, one of the small towns within the borough SUN has just voted in a member of the BNP to the ceremonial role SUN of Deputy Mayor. Our reporter Kevin Bocquet who reported on SUN those riots revisits Burnley to ask what challenges the town SUN still faces. SUN SUN This Sunday, Celtic and Rangers meet in the final Old Firm SUN game of a turbulent football season. Former Scotland player SUN Pat Nevin talks to William about his research into SUN sectarianism in the west of Scotland and how it goes beyond SUN the game of football. SUN SUN William speaks to Christian Pakistani MP Sherry Rehman about SUN living under the constant threat of assassination due to her SUN opposition to the country's blasphemy laws. SUN SUN We assess the latest from Nigeria after a week of violence SUN between Muslims and Christians and ask whether this SUN sectarian rift will grow wider as Nigerians go to the polls SUN again on Tuesday. SUN SUN Easter Sunday will be an especially momentous day for J SUN Wilson from Iowa, who will call time on his Lenten fast in SUN which he has drunk nothing but beer. He will tell William SUN about his spiritual journey and the historic beer, brewed SUN first by German friars which he has drunk every day for the SUN past 6 weeks. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b010lyxw (Listen) SUN Prisoner's Education Trust SUN SUN Lord Ramsbotham presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Prisoner's Education Trust. SUN SUN Donations to the Prisoner's Education Trust should be sent SUN to 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 the Prisoner's Education Trust 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: 1084718. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b010lxmk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b010lxmm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b010lyxy (Listen) SUN Easter Day from St George's SUN SUN The joy of Easter is celebrated in a communion service from SUN the Book of Common Prayer, live from St George's Chapel, SUN Windsor Castle. SUN Hymns include Jesus Christ is risen today, This joyful SUN Eastertide, and Thine be the glory. SUN Preacher and celebrant: The Revd Dr Hueston Finlay. SUN Director of Music: Timothy Byram-Wigfield. SUN Organist: Richard Pinel. SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010fd8x (Listen) SUN Series 2, Rats SUN SUN 10/20. It might be surprising to hear, but David SUN Attenborough has made it known over the years that rats are SUN not his favourite animal. In this piece, dedicated to his SUN nemesis, Attenborough with great wit and skill tells us of SUN the living nightmare he endured whilst on location in a SUN place infested with them. If that wasn't enough, whilst SUN making Life of Mammals, he devoted a whole programme to them SUN - and to balance his own personal view went to an Indian SUN temple where the rat is revered and even encouraged to swarm SUN in vast numbers. But in a clever twist of the story, as is SUN the hallmark of David Attenborough, in no uncertain way he SUN tells us why they should be respected. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b010lyy0 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b010lyy2 (Listen) SUN Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Directed by: Jenny Stephens SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene 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 Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Elona ..... Eri Shuka SUN Ted ..... Paul Webster SUN Eric Robson .... As himself SUN Matthew Wilson .... As himself. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b010lyy4 (Listen) SUN Cath Kidston SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer Cath Kidston. SUN SUN Cheerful and practical, her products nod towards the 1950s. SUN She began with ironing board covers but these days you can SUN listen to a radio decorated with one of her designs, pitch SUN one of her tents or decorate the children's bedroom with her SUN cowboy wallpaper. SUN SUN In her own room as a child she used to play at keeping shop. SUN These days her business has a turnover of more than £50 SUN million. "I really felt, from very, very early on, I was SUN onto something with the notion of what I was doing," she SUN says. "I remember feeling I'd really overstepped the mark SUN when I opened my second shop - thinking, that's probably SUN going a stage too far." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b010dk23 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 3 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 Arthur Smith, Tony Hawks, Rhod Gilbert and Charlie Brooker SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Mice, Soup, Television SUN and Sir Walter Raleigh. 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 b010lyy6 (Listen) SUN Margate's Food Stories - Pie Days and Holidays. SUN SUN The Food Programme follows Sophie Herxheimer an artist who SUN collects and draws food stories. For four months she has SUN been travelling around the seaside town of Margate in the SUN south east to bring people's food memories to life through SUN art. SUN SUN Her aim is to create an exhibition and a book to celebrate SUN the people of the town and give them an opportunity to share SUN personal stories. SUN SUN Once a thriving holiday destination for Londoners Margate is SUN now trying to find a new identity. The recently opened SUN Turner Contemporary Gallery is one step in that process. SUN Sophie Herxheimer is hoping the food stories, and her SUN drawings will also make a contribution to Margate's future. SUN SUN The project was launched at Christmas in the town's Tudor SUN House and produced a wide range of stories; funny, sad, SUN nostalgic, joyful, eccentric and thought provoking. SUN SUN People were invited to sit down, talk and watch their SUN memories appear as Sophie drew them live. The work has been SUN building up to the Easter bank holiday weekend when all of SUN Sophie's drawings will be unveiled to the public. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN Reporter: Sara Parker. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b010lxmp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b010lyy8 (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 Bailout Boys Go to Dublin b010mryv (Listen) SUN "I have a very vivid memory of going to Brussels on the SUN final Monday and being on my own at the airport and looking SUN at the snow gradually thawing and thinking to myself: this SUN is terrible. No Irish minister has ever had to do this SUN before". SUN SUN The former Irish Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, in his SUN first major interview since the Irish bailout last November SUN recalls his feelings as he prepared to sign up to the 85 SUN billion euro bailout - a deal which would end Ireland's SUN economic sovereignty. SUN SUN "I had fought for two and a half years to avoid this SUN conclusion. I believed I had fought the good fight and taken SUN every measure possible to delay such an eventuality and now SUN hell was at the gates". SUN SUN Dan O'Brien, the economics editor of the Irish Times, tells SUN the inside story of Ireland's bailout. It is a tale of high SUN drama, international diplomacy and - ultimately - political SUN meltdown. SUN SUN In the space of just two weeks and two days, the country was SUN transformed. . The Celtic Tiger was dead and Ireland was SUN forced to go with the proverbial begging bowl and accept a SUN multi-billion euro international bailout. SUN SUN It was an unprecedented situation. Never before had the SUN International Monetary Fund given a bailout to a country SUN that - publicly at least - was insisting it didn't need it. SUN SUN Dan talks to the main players to uncover the truth of just SUN what happened during those weeks in November and how the SUN deal was reached. SUN SUN Many believe Ireland was bounced into the bailout by Europe SUN - and in particular the European Central Bank. SUN SUN "The Irish government decided on its own to seek help. We SUN have not pushed anyone" says Klaus Masuch, the chief SUN negotiator for the European Central Bank. SUN But Brian Lenihan tells a very different story. "The SUN European Central Bank appeared to have arrived at a view SUN that Ireland needed to be totally nailed down". When asked SUN if the ECB bounced Ireland into a bailout, Mr Lenihan SUN responds: "I would say that, yes". SUN SUN Dan describes the chaos as teams from the International SUN Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European SUN Central Bank arrived in Dublin. "There weren't enough desks SUN so for the first few days we just sat with our laptops on SUN the floor" one negotiator says. He hears about the SUN government's fears of widespread social unrest during these SUN weeks as the country lost control of its own finances. And SUN he hears about the 2 am meetings as the international teams SUN struggled to save not only the Irish economy - but the whole SUN future of the euro. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b010lyyd (Listen) SUN Ambridge SUN SUN A unique Easter Special bringing together two of Radio 4's SUN longest running programmes. SUN SUN In this lively horticultural debate, lead by chairman Eric SUN Robson, the Gardeners' Question Time panel of Bob Flowerdew, SUN Christine Walkden and Matthew Wilson answer the everyday SUN gardening questions of country folk. SUN SUN After 64 years of giving real advice to real gardeners, this SUN week the Gardeners' Question Time panel is in Ambridge, SUN facing the questions of the gardeners of Borsetshire, in a SUN special recording to mark the Archers 60th Anniversary. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood shows how to spot and combat the first signs SUN of pests and disease in your garden, with the hope of SUN ensuring a better harvest of fruit and vegetables. Matthew SUN Wilson visits one of Ambridge's most active residents to SUN show her how to achieve the perfect lawn; giving fool-proof SUN advice on spring lawn maintenance applicable to any garden SUN in the UK. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon & Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Wonderful Ways to Beat the Recession b010m03w (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN Suzy Greaves is a life coach who offers to help you with The SUN Big Leap. American writer and satirist Joe Queenan is ready SUN to leap - he wants to become a falconer and hires Suzy to SUN help with this radical change of career. The recession has SUN pushed thousands of people into searching for what they SUN really want to do, and Suzy helps many of her clients to SUN develop a portfolio of work, from IT engineers who want to SUN be magicians, to architects who want to design handbags. The SUN programme features contributors from the Cotswold Falconry SUN Centre, and the producer is Miles Warde. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b010m03y (Listen) SUN Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities, Episode 1 SUN SUN Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities - 'a noisy, vital, SUN impertinent social satire full of zest and high spirits' - SUN was published in 1838 to great acclaim and introduced SUN Dickens to the style of bold comic writing he went on to SUN make his own. Surtees' writing was a significant inspiration SUN for Pickwick Papers. SUN SUN John Jorrocks is one of the great comic characters of SUN English literature, a sporting cockney grocer, vulgar, SUN good-natured, Master-of-Foxhounds and a social hero among SUN the old hunting fraternity. SUN SUN Set at a time when the 'sport' was changing from being a SUN popular and inclusive neighbourhood event - the old SUN fashioned farmer's hunt - into a more pretentious, exclusive SUN and expensive activity - it displays great irony as the SUN rapidly expanding middle class began to show more of a SUN disdain and dislike of tradesmen (like Jorrocks) than the SUN blue bloods and gentry ever did. SUN SUN Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities gives a brash, honest, funny SUN portrait of an innocent, naive England which is only just SUN beginning to register the profound social changes brought on SUN by the industrial revolution. SUN SUN It depicts an almost Shakespearian world-order where SUN everyone happily occupies their place in the scheme of SUN things....a world-order which we see being taken over and SUN transformed by the grasping, shameless Victorian nouveau SUN riche. SUN SUN Surtees (and Scott Cherry) gives us a gallery of SUN unforgettable comic characters - and, at the programme's SUN heart, a true Falstaff, in the irrepressible, loveable, SUN indefatigable rogue that is John Jorrocks - fighting to SUN preserve the English way of life he knows and loves. SUN SUN Scott Cherry - who previously gave us somewhat irreverent SUN versions of "Humphry Clinker" (Smollett) and "Mr Sponge's SUN Sporting Tour" (Surtees) - once again turns his comic SUN imagination and free inspiration to the recreation of the SUN world of Jorrocks and Handley Cross. SUN SUN Doleful is charged as Master of Ceremonies to turn Handley SUN Cross into a spa town to rival Bath. He confides all his SUN doubts to his "imaginary friend" - Beau Nash who helps out SUN with his own experiences. But the tide of apathy is in SUN danger of sweeping all their best laid plans away; there SUN seems to be only one way out....to introduce fox hunting to SUN the town. Enter the sporting hero to rival all before him - SUN John Jorrocks. SUN SUN Jorrocks ..... Danny Webb SUN Nash ..... Clive Swift SUN Doleful ..... Charles Edwards SUN Miss Barnington ..... Rebecca Saire SUN Mello/Moonface ..... Gareth Armstrong SUN Julia Jorrocks ..... Emma Pierson SUN Muleygrubs ..... Christian Rodska SUN Pigg/Bray ..... Rob Hudson SUN Simpkins ..... Geoffrey Beevers SUN Barnington ..... Grant Gillespie SUN SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b010m040 (Listen) SUN Edward St Aubyn SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup in extended conversation with novelist SUN Edward St Aubyn, author of the Booker nominated Mother's SUN Milk. SUN SUN St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical books centre on the saga of SUN the Melroses, a family suffocated by the presence of a SUN sadistic father and a disillusioned mother. His alter ego, SUN Patrick Melrose, has just come to the end of his fictional SUN journey with the publication of the final chapter in the SUN series, At Last. SUN SUN Edward St Aubyn joins Mariella to discuss the end of his SUN decade-long relationship with the Melroses, and how his SUN extraordinary life - which included being raped by his SUN father and becoming a drug addict - fuelled his fiction. SUN SUN With readings by Rory Kinnear. SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices b010m042 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Patricia Beer SUN SUN Brian Patten highlights the work of Patricia Beer, which he SUN feels deserves a new evaluation. Her strong, clear poetic SUN voice grew out of a life menaced by insecurity and anger. SUN Her friend, the poet Elaine Feinstein, and her niece, the SUN novelist Patricia Duncker, consider the woman and the SUN poetry. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 American Jihad b010dp1k (Listen) SUN The 11 September attackers came from the Middle East, but SUN now, nearly a decade later, America is confronting a new, SUN homegrown threat from Islamic extremism. This programme SUN traces the story of one all-American boy. Omar Hammami grew SUN up in Alabama, son of a Baptist mother and a Syrian father. SUN He was popular, well-liked, and church-going. He converted SUN to Islam as a teenager and eventually turned to an SUN ever-more-radical version of his new faith. SUN Across the US the debate over homegrown extremism is raising SUN questions about how America relates with minorities. In SUN Washington, Congress has held hearings on radicalisation and SUN Muslim co-operation with law enforcement. Some Muslims chose SUN to testify, while others have denounced the hearings as an SUN exercise in scapegoating. SUN American radicalisation hasn't fit a neat pattern, and SUN experts worry most about 'lone wolves'. But some homegrown SUN extremists have already shown the ability to carry out SUN deadly attacks - the worst was a mass shooting which killed SUN 13 at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. SUN Omar Hammami's path eventually led him to jihad in Somalia, SUN where he quickly rose the ranks of the violent group Al SUN Shabaab. In this programme we find out how many others might SUN follow him - and why. SUN Presented by BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b010k3rp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b010lxmr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b010lxmt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010lxmw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b010m044 (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b010m046 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b010m048 (Listen) SUN Election season 2012: SUN The 2012 election season is under way - and Barack Obama is SUN the man the Republicans need to beat. There are plenty of SUN contenders out there, but has the GOP found the man or woman SUN with the winning combination? This week, Joe Scarborough - SUN the host of MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' and a former Republican SUN congressman himself - is on hand to guide us though the 2012 SUN election. SUN SUN The Royal Wedding: SUN With the Royal Wedding just around the corner, we'll hear SUN from Americans with very different views about the upcoming SUN nuptials. SUN SUN Dolly Parton: SUN Dolly Parton talks about what keeps her smiling, who SUN inspired her unique looks - and, of course, the royal SUN wedding. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00m17fx (Listen) SUN Pavilion Pieces, Youthful Folly SUN SUN By Sylvestra Le Touzel Teale. SUN SUN The breaking of a cherished mirror, seems like an omen to SUN Frances Hughes, fifty, and on tour at the Theatre Royal. SUN Twenty eight years earlier, in Brighton, in love, and about SUN to make her West End debut in a play with a cast three times SUN her age, she had been captivated by her first visit to the SUN Pavilion, which seemed to embody her dreams of glory and SUN romance. Once again she is drawn to the baroque palace, and SUN finds its fading splendour awakens old ghosts. SUN SUN Read by Sophie Thompson SUN SUN Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b010fd86 (Listen) SUN In this week's More or Less: SUN SUN David Cameron has asked the Office for National Statistics SUN to investigate the prospects for collecting meaningful SUN wellbeing data. But for now, when it comes to putting a SUN number on national progress, there is still only one game in SUN town: GDP, or gross domestic product. But how useful is it? SUN SUN We reveal the results of "The Other Census", our survey of SUN the Today and More or Less audiences. What have we found out SUN about - well, you? SUN SUN How well are British schoolchildren doing compared to their SUN international peer group? It's an important question. And SUN there's a way of answering it, using a set of tests called SUN "PISA", the programme for international student assessment. SUN But there are doubts about the validity of the PISA method, SUN and the way the numbers are used by politicians. More or SUN Less investigates. SUN SUN Listener Richard Anderson wrote to us with the following SUN question: "I was at dinner with my wife and three friends. SUN We discovered that all five of our fathers were called John SUN Charles. What's the chance of that?" Matt Parker tries to SUN figure out the answer. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b010fd8g (Listen) SUN Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and SUN celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b010k2fd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b010lyxw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b010dw0k (Listen) SUN Watch This Space SUN SUN America's space effort faces big upheavals as President SUN Obama reigns in government spending and NASA is told to work SUN in partnership with private enterprise. From the Kennedy SUN Space Centre in Florida and the Mojave Desert, Peter Day SUN asks what happens next on the USA's journey into space. SUN SUN Peter Day's Webcomment SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b010m04b (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 b010m04d (Listen) SUN Episode 49 SUN SUN Andrew Grice of The Independent analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b010fd8j (Listen) SUN Francine Stock with what's going on in the world of film, SUN including the latest offerings from Wim Wenders and Alexei SUN Popogrebsky. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b010lxm9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 APRIL 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b010m195 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b010dq7d (Listen) MON Demise of a Welsh steel town - Sexual politics of ballroom MON dancing (BSA 60th Anniversary) MON MON A special edition marking the British Sociological MON Association's 60th anniversary. Laurie Taylor considers some MON of the seminal figures who've changed the face of sociology MON in the UK over more than half a century. He also highlights MON some of the most interesting research to emerge from this MON year's BSA conference, including Professor Valerie MON Walkerdine's study of the demise of breadwinning masculinity MON in a former South Wales steel town. How do men cope when few MON options are available other than 'women's work' in MON supermarkets and industrial cleaning? In addition, he hears MON about Dr Vicki Harman's exploration of ballroom dancing and MON traditional gender roles. Is it possible to be a feminist as MON well as being twirled around in a cloud of chiffon and MON sequins? MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b010lxm5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010m197 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010m199 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010m19c (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b010m19f (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010m19h (Listen) MON With the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of MON London. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b010m19k (Listen) MON Alpacas have only been imported into the UK since 1996 but MON there are now around twenty five thousand of them in the MON country. The market for Alpaca fleece is becoming MON increasingly commercial, whether for ready made garments or MON knitting yarn. Sarah Swadling meets Rob Bettinson and his MON daughter Kerry Lord from Toft Alpacas, on their farm in MON Warwickshire. MON MON 05:57 Weather b010m19m (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b010m19p (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 b010m19r (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the theatre director Greg Doran about MON the literary detective work involved in his production of MON Cardenio - a play he's described as Shakespeare's Lost Play MON re-imagined. Nicola Shulman turns to the court of Henry VIII MON to explore the influence of Thomas Wyatt's poetry. While MON Neil Astley brings together contemporary poets from around MON the world in an anthology dedicated to 'Being Human'. And as MON the Guardian launches a new website for book reviews by MON readers, its literary Editor, Claire Armitstead says there MON will always be a place in newspapers for the professional MON critics. MON MON Producer: Victoria Brignell. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00zdbj1 (Listen) MON Edgelands, Episode 1 MON MON Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a MON wilderness that is much closer than you think: those MON debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These MON two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places MON that we all journey through, but generally fail to MON acknowledge. MON MON Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this MON Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial MON landscapes of ruined warehouses, landfill sites, retail MON parks, sewage works and power stations. MON MON Today, the car breaker's yard and the graffitied bridge. MON MON Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts MON Produced by Emma Harding MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b010m19t (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Taking kids out of school to go on MON holiday - is it ever okay? With a record number of MON unauthorised holidays being taken by school children and MON their families, we look at what's likely to happen over the MON extended Easter Break. In our "Cook the Perfect" season you MON can learn how to whip up a delicious Shepherd's Pie with MON Lindsey Bareham. And continuing our Women in Business MON initiative we listen in to the advice Nikki King from Isuzu MON Trucks UK gives to her mentee Jo Pateman who runs Women With MON Waders, a company which specialises in cleaning and MON maintaining ponds and lakes. And Diana Beresford-Kroeger MON shares her passion for trees. MON MON Term-time Holidays MON MON The latest statistics from the Department for Families and MON Education show that last year was the highest rate of MON unauthorised term-time holidays since records began. Schools MON are increasingly reluctant to grant authorised absences but MON parents appear to be continuing to take their children out MON of school during term time anyway. So is it ever ok to take MON your children out of school in school time? Jane is joined MON by journalist Joanna Moorhead and co-founder of Mumsnet, MON Justine Roberts. MON MON Cook the Perfect… Shepherd’s Pie MON MON Traditionally shepherd’s pie was always made with the MON remains of a roast lamb joint – the ideal and economical way MON to get a second hot meal out of one piece of meat. In the MON latest of our Cook the Perfect series, writer and cook, MON Lindsey Bareham shows Jane how to cook the perfect MON shepherd’s pie, as well as suggesting some innovative and MON delicious twists. MON MON Women in Business - Jo Pateman MON MON The third businesswoman in our special series is Jo Pateman MON from Hertfordshire. Jo runs Women With Waders, a company MON which specialises in cleaning and maintaining ponds and MON lakes. Her mentor is Nikki King, who runs Isuzu Trucks [UK], MON a company with an annual turnover of £36 million. Reporter MON Judy Merry joined Jo and her team working in the garden of a MON large detached house. MON MON Trees and our environment MON MON Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, medical biochemist MON and self-defined "renegade scientistâ€. She’s also a world MON expert on how trees chemically affect our environment. In MON her new book, 'The Global Forest, 40 Ways Trees Can Save MON Us', Diana has mixed traditional science with elements of MON ancient myth, alternative medicine and spirituality to MON reveal the invisible connections between trees and the world MON around them. Jane will speak to Diana about her book, her MON 160-acre garden and her mission to create a living archive MON of ancient trees. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010m19w (Listen) MON Out of Africa, The Cuckoo MON MON By Karen Blixen. MON Dramatised by Judith Adams MON MON Episode 1 : The Cuckoo MON Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds MON herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous MON responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee MON plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to MON know the land and the East Africans who work for and with MON her. In the process, she learns more about herself. MON MON In 1913, Karen travels to Kenya to marry her second cousin MON and start a farm in Africa. MON MON Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding MON Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill MON Kamante .... Beru Tessema MON Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi MON Wilhelm ..... Sean Baker MON MON Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 11:00 It's Our Story: Liverpool's Own b010m2f4 (Listen) MON Tim Daley tells the story of Lewis's department store, a MON Liverpool institution that for over 150 years followed the MON city's fortunes through good times and bad until its closure MON last spring. MON MON "Take two journeys in one" writes Daley, journalist and MON proud Liverpudlian, "the journey through the lifetime of a MON shop and the city it served." MON MON Lewis's Department store began life in the heart of MON Liverpool city centre during 1856; it survived a fire, the MON First World War, the May Blitz in 1941, changing tastes and MON fierce competition from a city once which was once full of MON emporia, to take a special place in the hearts of MON Liverpudlians. MON MON But the shop, started by businessman, entrepreneur and MON philanthropist David Lewis, closed its doors for the final MON time in May 2009. MON MON 'Liverpool's Own' charts the rise of Lewis's department MON store, its relationship with the city it once served and its MON bond with the people who loved it. MON MON Founder David Lewis's creation gave birth to modern shopping MON and the idea that it could be a leisure activity, thanks to MON the clever marketing and publicity stunts. Here was a man MON who brought quality goods to normal people at the best MON possible price, giving rise to the slogan: 'Lewis's - MON Friends Of The People'. With the city's population booming MON in the second half of the 19th century mostly due to Irish MON immigration, Lewis's was there to serve the new MON Liverpudlians by the thousand, flourishing until the Second MON World War. What Liverpool went through, Lewis's went MON through. MON MON But in May 1941 the city was firebombed ruthlessly, with one MON of the raids destroying Lewis's. The business, however, MON survived, picking itself up and dusting itself down, in much MON the same way that the city as a whole was forced to do. MON Rebuilt and reborn, complete with a controversial Jacob MON Epstein sculpture above the front door entitled 'Liverpool MON Resurgent' Lewis's was returning to its former glory, in a MON sleek, modern and confident way just as the city of MON Liverpool was doing the same. MON MON Today just a shell the store stands empty and closed, MON isolated at the wrong end of Liverpool's fashionable MON designer shopping district, waiting as developers seek to MON preserve and re-use the old building as the cornerstone of a MON new residential and business development. MON MON Using testimonies from the people who worked there, MON academics and local historians the programme re-opens the MON doors of Lewis's for one last time. MON MON Producer: Tim Daley. MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010m2f6 (Listen) MON Series 4, Evil Narbara 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 a rowdy party shop run by an unfriendly sort MON causes havoc amongst the local traders association after a MON number of undesirables descend on the town. 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 Peggy: Kate Donnelly MON Mrs Begg: Marj Hogarth MON Hilly: Kate Brailsford MON Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan MON Bra Jeff: Steven McNicol MON MON Producer/Director: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b010m2f8 (Listen) MON David Cameron wants to see Britain in the top five tourist MON destinations in the world. He says tourism presents a huge MON economic opportunity. But is enough investment being put in MON to make this happen? With a number of other European MON countries looking to rely on tourism to boost their MON economies, we find out how the summer is shaping up. We look MON at what other governments are doing to support MON infrastructure and boost tourism, specifically in Portugal MON and Ireland. MON MON Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world. Julian MON Worricker goes behind the scenes to find out how the airport MON authorities are trying to capitalise on making the journey MON as important as the destination. MON MON It's one year since the eruptions of an Icelandic volcano MON grounded more than a hundred thousand flights and stranded MON millions of passengers. We find out about a new detection MON system meaning pilots will be able to see an ash cloud at MON distances of 100 km and ask how effective it will be at MON reducing future disruption to air travel. MON MON Plus comedian Tom Wrigglesworth on our love affair with the MON camper van and some favourite 'hidden' holiday destinations. MON MON 12:57 Weather b010m19y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b010m2fb (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 b010m2fd (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 4 MON MON (4/13) MON Who was the trumpeter, producer and record company boss who MON had an American no.1 hit in 1979 with a tune called 'Rise'? MON MON The answer to this and many other musical questions will be MON dispensed by Paul Gambaccini, in the chair for the fourth MON heat of Counterpoint, the long-running music quiz. This MON week's contenders are from Cumbria, West Yorkshire and the MON West Midlands. MON MON They'll be tackling questions on every genre of music, from MON the core classical repertoire to jazz, show tunes, film MON music, vintage chart favourites and recent hits. As usual, MON the contestants have no idea what's going to come their way MON - the only thing that's guaranteed is that they'll be MON racking their brains. And there'll be a generous helping of MON musical extracts, both familiar and surprising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b010m046 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b010m2fg (Listen) MON Ten Lessons in Love MON MON An eclectic mix of writers explores one of the most MON important human emotions. Ten short plays; encompassing MON romance, heartbreak and some adult themes; each one is a MON very different perspective on love. MON MON David uses 'the machine' to revisit his old memories - he MON wants to pinpoint the exact moment he fell in love. But when MON it malfunctions, it catapults us into the stories of a MON variety of people, all of whom are attempting to make sense MON of love. MON MON Lesson 1: You never know when you're going to fall in love MON By Nick Warburton MON David ... Sean Baker MON Young David ... Nyasha Hatendi MON Young Eleanor ... Alex Tregear MON MON Lesson 2: More often than not, your dream date will be a MON nightmare MON By Bola Agbaje MON Laide ... Zawe Ashton MON Femi ... Femi Oyeniran MON MON Lesson 3: Beware of skeletons in the closet MON Written and performed by Josie Long MON MON Lesson 4: Remain interested; don't yawn at least MON By Tim Key MON Derek Monet ... Tim Key MON Marie ... Alex Tregear MON Waiter ... Stuart McLoughlin MON MON Lesson 5: When your heart freezes it's time to leave the MON building MON By Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON Jeanie ... Sally Orrock MON Ken ... Daniel Rabin MON MON Lesson 6: Love is fickle MON Written and performed by Josie Long MON MON Lesson 7: Being alone doesn't have to mean being lonely MON By Nick Payne MON Jim ... Stuart McLoughlin MON Sarah ... Alex Tregear MON MON Lesson 8: Love's worth fighting for MON The real-life story of Dane and Lenka MON Produced by Rich Ward MON MON Lesson 9: Love can't be pinned down MON Written and performed by Josie Long MON MON Lesson 10: Ignore all previous lessons MON David ... Sean Baker MON Eleanor ... Jane Whittenshaw MON Young David ... Nyasha Hatendi MON Young Eleanor ... Alex Tregear MON Clive ... Stuart Mcloughlin MON MON Directed by James Robinson. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00sb2s4 (Listen) MON Unsung Heroes MON MON Tucked out of sight in the pit of Covent Garden, the MON Orchestra of the Royal Opera House accompanies every world MON class performance presented on that stage. What does that MON glittering world look like from down there? Sarah Lenton, MON using a mixture of archive and new interviews with the MON musicians, follows the orchestra's fortunes from Handel's MON time to now. MON We find out what it's like never to see a show, how to avoid MON flying daggers, why old London County Council drainpipes are MON indispensible to Tosca and where the brass players disappear MON to in very long breaks. MON Supplementing the player's view of life is audio archive MON from the ROH and the BBC, including Thomas Beecham (who MON calmly extended one morning rehearsal to midnight,) Darcey MON Bussell, ("it is this battle between you" on the conductor MON versus the dancer,) and John Copley (on working on Tosca MON with Maria Callas.) MON MON Producer: Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010m2fj (Listen) MON Series 1, Ivan the Terrible MON MON The major new history of Russia series began last week in MON the 9th century with a collection of warring tribes. It MON looked at the events that laid the foundations of the MON Russian nation, the adoption of Christianity and the lasting MON influence of the Mongol invasion. This week Martin Sixsmith MON discovers the emerging forces that will make her the largest MON and longest-lived territorial empire in modern history. MON MON He begins with Ivan the Terrible who centralises power in MON the Tsar, enslaving peasants and nobles alike. Martin MON Sixsmith paints a vivid portrait of one of Russia's most MON familiar Tsars, and uses Eisenstein's film Ivan The Terrible MON to explore the tenets of absolute autocracy that have MON characterised Russian rule ever since. This 'iron fist' MON which created a major obstacle to reform, and separated MON Russia ever further from Western Europe. He cites Ivan's MON correspondence with Elizabeth I, who by the 1550s was MON Russia's sole foreign ally. 'Ivan's letters', he says, MON "sound almost like love letters." MON MON Ivan the Terrible is remembered as a wild-eyed, slightly MON deranged figure. But his legacy also had its positive side. MON Under his leadership, Russia expanded for the first time MON beyond the lands occupied by orthodox, ethnic Russians. It MON conquered the Tartar khanate of Kazan, laying the MON foundations for the greatest contiguous empire on earth. MON MON Astoundingly, Russia would grow by 50 square miles a day for MON the next three centuries, until by 1914 it occupied eight MON and a half million square miles - a multiethnic, MON multilingual state spanning more than one seventh of the MON globe. Today, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, MON Russia still spans eleven time zones and is home to a MON hundred nationalities and 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 b010lyy6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b010m2k3 (Listen) MON Series 8, STDs on smart phones and solar flares MON MON At the University of London Dr Tariq Sadiq is leading a team MON of scientists in a project to create a mini micro lab that MON can be inserted into smartphones to test for STDs - but, as MON Rupert discovers, while the technology is there to make it, MON the ethics surrounding it are problematic. MON MON Professor Martyn Thomas of the Royal Academy of Engineering MON joins us in the studio to explain how solar flares could MON interfere with our Global Satellite Navigation System. We MON have become increasingly reliant on GPS and use it in our MON financial systems, for the emergency services and in MON shipping and air transport. Will a nasty spell of space MON weather bring our networks crashing down? MON MON After a lengthy search using underwater robots we speak to MON the team who have discovered the wreckage of Air France 447 MON on the ocean bed off Brazil. It's feared that vital MON information stored in the black box will never be recovered MON - so can they be made more robust? We find out more about MON the technology inside these important flight recorders. MON MON And Rupert meets up with a group of 'self-hackers' in London MON who use the very latest technology to log information about MON their lives. Are they just data obsessives or can there be MON positive results? We hear from Jon Cousins who has overcome MON depression through 'self-hacking'. MON MON Produced by Kate Bissell. MON MON 17:00 PM b010m2k5 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010m1b0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b010m2k7 (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 4 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 Alan Davies, Jack Dee, Marcus Brigstocke and Lucy Porter are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as: Eyes, Snakes, Cutlery and Dieting. 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 b010m2k9 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b010m2kc (Listen) MON Andy Warhol's last trip to London MON MON John Wilson reports on Andy Warhol's final visit to London MON in 1986, for an exhibition of new self-portraits - an MON occasion which made a profound impression on many who met MON him at the time. MON MON Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller was then an art MON history student, but an evening spent at the Ritz Hotel with MON Warhol and his entourage proved a life-changing moment. MON Gallery owner Anthony d'Offay, who invited Warhol to create MON the exhibition and arranged his no-expense-spared trip MON across the Atlantic on Concorde, remembers how he disagreed MON with the artist's choice of works. And Curiosity Killed the MON Cat front-man Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, reviewer Richard Cork MON and documentary-maker Kim Evans all recall the excitement of MON the exhibition opening - as well as the shock of Warhol's MON unexpected death just over six months later. MON MON Producer John Goudie. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010m19w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Alive in Chernobyl b010r4kh (Listen) MON On the 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in MON history, Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native MON Ukraine - to find the people who are living in the "dead MON zone". MON MON In the last week of April 1986, when the nuclear reactor MON exploded showering deadly radiation over the surrounding MON area, thousands of power station workers and their families MON were evacuated. It wasn't until a week later that the MON peasants who also lived in the 'Exclusion Zone', were also MON evacuated. By then many had been contaminated. MON MON Life in the cities did not suit this group of people with MON its strong and ancient ties to the land. Many suffered from MON depression and also prejudice, having fled the contaminated MON area. Over the years a number of small groups of elderly MON rural people have defied the radiation and returned to live MON in their abandoned villages and are working the land they MON love. MON MON Olga Betko, visits these tiny remote communities to see how MON they are surviving in isolation and recovering a poisoned MON homeland. She also looks for other signs of life in the MON Exclusion Zone: when humans left, there was a resurgence in MON animal population. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b010dstq (Listen) MON Germany MON MON David Goldblatt looks at whether Berlin's alternative MON culture is under threat from commercial pressures. Or do MON developers and artists need each other to exist? MON MON Berlin has long been a magnet for artists from within MON Germany and abroad. After the wall fell in 1989 they flooded MON into the vast deserted buildings left in the Mitte area of MON the former East of the city. But over the last few years MON developers have been moving into this increasingly MON fashionable area, increasing rents and evicting squatted MON buildings. MON MON Today the right and left banks of the Spree river, the MON district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, has become home to MON underground clubs and artists studios. But developers are MON increasing their grip on this area too. A few years ago they MON joined together to create an consortium called "MediaSpree" MON with the aim of turning the East bank of the Spree into a MON media hub. Universal Studios and MTV were two of the first MON companies to locate themselves in the converted warehouses MON of a deserted port in 'no man's land' where the border wall MON once ran. They were attracted, in part, by the alternative MON vibe of the area. MON MON But now increasing rents in this area are pushing artists MON and original residents out - and with them the clubs and MON galleries that attracted the media businesses in the first MON place. Will developers and the alternative culture find a MON way to co-exist? MON Producer: Jane Beresford. MON MON 21:00 Material World b010dw05 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He discovers the impact of the MON Deepwater Horizon spill on the Gulf of Mexico's wildlife one MON year on and the ongoing effect of Chernobyl on human health MON 25 years after the event. We also return to the islands of MON Tristan da Cunha for an update on the penguins, following MON the oil spill there and discover a strange exchange taking MON place between Saturn and one of its moons. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Deepwater Horizon explosion MON MON One year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf MON of Mexico which resulted in 11 people dead and 4.9 million MON barrels of oil being released into the ocean, Jennifer Pike, MON the Deputy Director of the Gulf Restoration Programme at MON Ocean Conservancy, talks about the impact this disaster has MON had on the local wildlife. There is a strong need to MON establish funding for a long term monitoring and research MON programme of the region’s ecosystem and work is currently MON being done to make this happen. Quentin finds out more. MON MON Chernobyl’s 25 year anniversary MON MON In light of the recent events in Fukushima, the effect of a MON level 7 nuclear disaster on human health is being MON questioned, based on research done in the 25 years following MON the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. Despite this research being MON fairly sparse, Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams tells us about MON his work on thyroid cancer following the Chernobyl disaster MON and the lessons that can be learnt for the future. MON MON Penguin cleanup MON MON Following the previous interview, Katrine Herian, RSPB MON Project Officer, updates Quentin on the ongoing project to MON rescue the penguins on the islands of Tristan da Cunha. MON SANCCOB (The Southern African Foundation for the MON Conservation of Coastal Seabirds) along with inhabitants of MON the island have been washing and rehabilitating the penguins MON in hopes of releasing them back into the wild. So far a MON total of 3718 penguins been taken in by the project and 24 MON have been released. MON MON Saturn and Enceladus MON MON The international Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has MON made two new important discoveries. One of the planet’s MON smaller moons, known as Enceladus, has been found to house MON ice volcanoes releasing molecules of water. These molecules MON then get split into electrically charged particles which MON collide with Saturn’s atmosphere and create an ultraviolet MON aurora. Dr Andrew Coates joins Quentin in the studio to MON explain how. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b010m19r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b010m1b2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b010m5n6 (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 b010v0fm (Listen) MON The Absolutist, Episode 1 MON MON September 1919: 20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train MON from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian MON Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will MON during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on MON the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector, MON an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft MON family. MON But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. MON He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that he is desperate MON to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the MON courage. As he recalls his friendship with Will, from the MON training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern MON France, he speaks of how the intensity of their friendship MON brought him both happiness and self-discovery as well as MON despair and pain. MON From the author that brought us The Boy in the Striped MON Pyjamas and The House of Special Purpose - John Boyne MON creates a story that examines the events of the Great War MON from the perspective of two young soldiers; whose friendship MON encounters an extraordinary challenge. MON MON The reader is Blake Ritson. MON MON The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by MON Heather Larmour. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b010dp13 (Listen) MON Academic English MON MON Is English too dominant in academic work around the world? MON Chris Ledgard visits universities in Sweden to ask staff and MON students how much they are able to debate, write and publish MON in their native language. MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 In Living Memory b00td9pl (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 3 MON MON In the mid 1990s investment companies sprung up offering MON huge returns on ostrich farming. The promise was that you MON could get 70 per cent or more and never get your feet muddy, MON or even have to see your ostriches. The birds would lay and MON endless supply of valuable eggs and the companies offered to MON buy them back. MON MON Ostrich fever took hold, and birds changed hands at 10 times MON their true market value. It seemed too good to be true - and MON it was. The Department of Trade moved in and closed down the MON companies on the grounds that that they were running pyramid MON schemes. In the case of the biggest company, the Ostrich MON Farming Corporation, an investigation by the Serious Fraud MON Office revealed that the directors had also been siphoning MON off millions of pounds into offshore accounts, and three MON directors went to prison. MON MON In this programme, Jolyon Jenkins tries to discover why so MON many apparently intelligent people fell for the ostrich MON scams. He also discovers what happened to the ostriches when MON the Ostrich Farming Corporation collapsed, and follows the MON fortunes of the two companies, each run by retired military MON officers, which were set up to try to carry on ostrich MON farming. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 APRIL 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b010m7k6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00zdbj1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010m7k8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010m7kb (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010m7kd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b010m7kg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010m7kj (Listen) TUE With the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of TUE London. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b010m7kl (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie TUE Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b010m7kn (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 b010m7kq (Listen) TUE Series 6, Concert Pianists TUE TUE James Rhodes and Susan Tomes, two concert pianists, discuss TUE with work with Olivia O'Leary. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b010m7ks (Listen) TUE Series 2, William Gladstone TUE TUE Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, continues his new TUE series exploring how different prime ministers have used TUE their power, responded to the great challenges of their time TUE and made the job what it is today. The third of Nick's TUE portraits in power is William Gladstone, who was prime TUE minister four times between 1868 and 1894, and led the TUE government for more than twelve years in total. He is our TUE oldest ever premier, having finally left Downing Street for TUE the last time aged 84. TUE TUE Gladstone's influence endures today. Politicians who believe TUE in low taxes and small government echo his belief in TUE 'retrenchment'. He also served as chancellor of the TUE exchequer four times and made a lasting impact - his TUE emphasis on strict financial discipline remains Treasury TUE orthodoxy. Those who call for political change reflect his TUE belief in reform. And those who advocate an ethical foreign TUE policy and intervention abroad to uphold liberal values are TUE following his emphasis on moral considerations. TUE TUE Gladstone dominated nineteenth century politics. First TUE elected as a Tory MP in 1832, Gladstone ended as a TUE Liberal-radical prime minister. His personal rivalry with TUE Disraeli sparked fierce parliamentary exchanges and remains TUE the stuff of legend. He kept fit by long walks and TUE enthusiastic tree-felling. Intensely religious, his mission TUE to save prostitutes also brought him deep personal anguish. TUE TUE In the first two programmes in this series, Nick looked at TUE Pitt the Younger and Earl Grey, and in later programmes TUE considers Herbert Asquith, Ramsay MacDonald, Harold TUE Macmillan, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00zf6d5 (Listen) TUE Edgelands, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today, landfill sites and sewage treatment works. TUE TUE Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts TUE Produced by Emma Harding TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b010m7kv (Listen) TUE Presented by Jenni Murray. Andrew Morton's new book on the TUE Royal couple Kate and William ahead of Friday's big day. We TUE examine the Polish Government's new commitment to gender TUE equality and discuss the Night Bra! Paula Yates and Marilyn TUE Monroe apparently wore one and we ask if it can really keep TUE the wrinkles at bay and help defy gravity. And we hear about TUE a prison programme called "Family Man" aimed at helping long TUE term offender rehabilitation. Following our recent Mother TUE and Son programme to mark Mother's Day, our reporter TUE Felicity Finch has been to talk to Pat and her son Scott TUE about the impact of the programme on their lives and family. TUE TUE William and Kate by Andrew Morton TUE TUE To mark the Royal Wedding this week, the biographer Andrew TUE Morton will be publishing a book: ‘William and Catherine, TUE Their Lives, Their Wedding’. He joins Jenni to discuss the TUE couple’s families and backgrounds, the story of their TUE relationship and engagement and the preparations for the TUE wedding of the year. TUE TUE 'William and Catherine Their Lives, Their Wedding,’ by TUE Andrew Morton is published by Michael O’Mara. TUE TUE Feminism in Poland TUE TUE Earlier this year the Polish parliament passed its Gender TUE Quota Bill, meaning that in future 35% of all candidates on TUE the lists of parties running for seats in the country’s TUE parliament must be women. But Polish women still have very TUE limited reproductive rights, limited access to childcare, TUE and women’s participation in the workforce is one of the TUE lowest in Europe. Jenni will be speaking to Dr Agnieszka TUE Graff from the University of Warsaw, and Dr Elwira Grossman, TUE Lecturer in Polish Studies at the University of Glasgow. TUE TUE Night-time bras TUE TUE Is one way to avoid a sagging and wrinkle-free bust to wear TUE a bra in bed? Paula Yates and Marilyn Monroe apparently both TUE wore one. A former Dutch flight attendant Rachel de Boer has TUE produced a night bra which aims to keep the wrinkles at bay. TUE To discuss wearing a bra in bed Jenni is joined by La TUE Decollette designer Rachel de Boer and Adam Searle, the TUE former President of the British Association of Aesthetic TUE Plastic Surgeons. TUE TUE Family Man courses TUE TUE Following our recent Mother and Son programme to mark TUE Mother’s Day, our reporter Felicity Finch has been to talk TUE to Pat and her son Scott, who has just been released from TUE prison. While there Scott participated in a nine week TUE project called Family Man, set up by the charity Safe TUE Ground. Evidence suggests that this course impacts on the TUE risks of reoffending, by encouraging prisoners to maintain TUE their family relationships both while in prison and on their TUE release. Scott and Pat talk about the impact on their lives TUE and family. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010m7kx (Listen) TUE Out of Africa, The Tapestry TUE TUE By Karen Blixen. TUE Dramatised by Judith Adams TUE TUE Episode 2 : The Tapestry. TUE Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds TUE herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous TUE responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee TUE plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to TUE know the land and the East Africans who work for and with TUE her. In the process, she learns more about herself. TUE TUE Karen is settling into life on the farm but Bror, her TUE husband, has very different ideas. And there is also Lulu to TUE contend with. TUE TUE Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding TUE Kamante .... Beru Tessema TUE Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi TUE Bror ..... Sam Dale TUE TUE Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b010m7kz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE Saving Species is back for another year of live broadcasting TUE about the world of wildlife conservation. We kick off the TUE first programme with a glorious reminder that spring has TUE sprung and the UK's most treasured migrant birds are back - TUE the Swallows. During the winter a Natural History Unit team TUE visited Nigeria to track down a little known population of TUE wintering swallows - And they found them. With upward of TUE five million individuals, the sky darkened with the swirling TUE avian spectacle. And at the time this programme is broadcast TUE most of those birds will be in their European breeding TUE grounds - a considerable number in the UK - And even more TUE specific, we know some go to Norfolk. We will reveal how we TUE know East Anglia is the destination of some of these West TUE African Swallows. TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE news hound Kelvin Boot - and Matthew Oates finds the Duke of TUE Burgundy butterfly. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Digital Archive b010m9sw (Listen) TUE Once a writer's archive consisted of letters, badly-typed TUE first drafts and corrected manuscripts. But now they write TUE on computers and communicate by email, what clues to their TUE creative process remain? Archaeologist Christine Finn sets TUE out to explore how the new generation of archive from the TUE digital age will be made accessible to future generations. TUE TUE She hears from Erika Farr, the Coordinator for Digital TUE Archives at Emory University in America, which recently TUE acquired Salman Rushdie's archive. It is a definitive 21st TUE century archive, including emails, discs, and the computers TUE on which he wrote his best-selling books. TUE TUE Meanwhile the British Library is also addressing the digital TUE challenge. Christine meets their first-ever Curator of TUE Digital Manuscripts, Jeremy John, who explains how they're TUE developing a 21st century approach to the preservation of TUE the writer's environment. Instead of having to travel to Ted TUE Hughes' Devon home to view his work-place, devotees will be TUE able to access a digital reconstruction of his study via th TUE BL website. TUE TUE Christine Finn also discusses the impact of technology on TUE the art of archiving the work of writers and poets with TUE novelist Fay Weldon, exploring how these developments affect TUE authors, their readers, and potential biographers. She hears TUE from Margaret Atwood's biographer, Professor Nathalie Cooke, TUE Associate Provost of McGill University in Montreal, and from TUE Bobby Friedman, who has written an unofficial biography of TUE politician John Bercow. TUE TUE The traditional lament is the loss of data, as email TUE replaces letters and drafts disappear with the delete key. TUE But here Finn celebrates the new technology that is as much TUE a part of an archive as the words themselves. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b010m9sy (Listen) TUE Is the BBC value for money? Does it offer the programmes and TUE content that you want - on TV, on radio and online? Your TUE chance to put your views to Sir Michael Lyons, the outgoing TUE Chair of the BBC watchdog, the BBC Trust. How do you think TUE the Corporation handled the issue of older female TUE presenters? Is it right that 6 Music is saved whilst the TUE future of the Asian Network is unclear? And what of the TUE BBC's new strategy: Putting Quality First? Its aim is to do TUE fewer things better. So where do you want the focus to be? TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker and share your TUE opinions. Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 TUE (lines open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b010m7l1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b010n4x3 (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 The Music Group b010m9t0 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 1 TUE TUE Comedian Stewart Lee and voiceover artist Julie Berry are TUE joined by the author of One Day, novelist David Nicholls to TUE discuss three personally significant pieces of music. TUE TUE Amongst their choices are a soulful rendition of a song TUE about the Falklands' conflict, a piece that survived a TUE Carnegie Hall protest involving red paint; and a painful and TUE experimental journey into playing guitar when suffering from TUE a degenerative disease. TUE TUE In the process, we discover one Music Group member had an TUE adolescent passion for Space themes played by the Geoff Love TUE Orchestra, whilst another has experienced the benefits of TUE Bach in a hotel bathroom. We also discover what the free TUE jazz movement has to do comedy and more specifically, with TUE Morecambe and Wise. TUE TUE The Music Choices are: TUE Shipbuilding sung by Robert Wyatt TUE Bach's Chaconne from Partita No.2 for solo violin performed TUE by Yehudi Menuhin TUE 5 Weeks Later by Derek Bailey TUE TUE Presenter: Phil Hammond TUE TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b010m2k9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b010m9t2 (Listen) TUE The Vertigo Trust TUE TUE By Jon Canter. TUE TUE Ronnie Sax is a sixty something multi-millionaire TUE businessman, abrasive, cocky, three times divorced but on TUE wife number four. He's egotistical and high energy and very TUE much afraid of heights. He lives in a bungalow. His very TUE large office is on the ground floor. Branson keeps inviting TUE him into his balloon but Ronnie always has an excuse. TUE TUE He gives an interview to Deborah - a journalist with some TUE serious copy to fill - and her searching questions turn into TUE a flirtation that Ronnie feels can only be consummated by TUE conquering his phobia. TUE TUE Enter Martin - a 'Vertigo Counsellor' who has read Deborah's TUE article and thinks he can help. Martin's done his research TUE and Ronnie, impressed, quickly hires him as his very own TUE counsellor (as long as no one knows finds out what he's TUE doing in Ronnie's office.) TUE TUE Over a series of sessions, Ronnie gets attached to Martin TUE and quite dependent on him. Martin helps him overcome his TUE deepest fears. TUE TUE But Martin has a secret. A big secret. One that threatens to TUE turn Ronnie's world completely upside down. TUE TUE Ronnie ..... Gerard Murphy TUE Martin ...... James Fleet TUE Deborah ..... Daisy Haggard TUE Uncle Ray ..... Trevor Martin TUE Tanya ...... Kellie Shirley TUE Mother ..... Helen Ryan TUE TUE Produced and directed by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b010m9t4 (Listen) TUE Fiona Watson 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 b010mv4r (Listen) TUE The Crystal Fountain, Landlord of the Crystal Fountain TUE TUE Martin Jarvis directs Imelda Staunton in Malachi Whitaker's TUE moving story, written in the 1930s. Attractive red-headed TUE teacher, Brenda Millgate, meets five jolly men on a train TUE from King's Cross going north. What happens to her on the TUE journey is a life-changing experience. They're very friendly TUE and helpful. All northerners. Where have they been? Who are TUE they? Eventually it's revealed that they're all landlords. TUE TUE Brenda, unhappy in London away from her northern roots, is TUE beguiled by their talk, their humour and their courtesy. TUE Then one of them says something which changes her whole TUE life. TUE TUE Malachi Whitaker was a prolific writer in the 1920s and TUE '30s, writing with great perception and care about ordinary TUE folk, invariably setting the stories in her native TUE Yorkshire. She became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' TUE because of her sympathetic observation of the minutiae of TUE human beings and their (often comic and surprising) TUE behaviour. TUE TUE Imelda Staunton biography: Oscar nominated and Bafta TUE award-winning for her title role performance in 'Vera TUE Drake'. She has had a long and distinguished career in the TUE theatre, RNT and West End, performing A Man for all Seasons, TUE Mack & Mabel, Side by Side, and Elektra. Also BBC TV Series: TUE Cranford. TUE TUE Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010m9t8 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Enter the Romanovs TUE TUE Pushkin's play and Mussorgsky's Opera Boris Godunov tell the TUE story of Russia's Time of Troubles, which resulted from an TUE absence of legitimate power. After the death of Ivan the TUE Terrible, who left no succession, the throne had been fought TUE over and authority undermined. For 20 years at the start of TUE the 17thc, famine, revolt, economic devastation and foreign TUE invasions came close to destroying the Russian state TUE forever. TUE TUE From the foot of the statue in Moscow placed in their TUE memory, Martin Sixsmith tells the story of the 2 men who TUE saved Moscow from the predatory Poles. They were MÃnin and TUE Pozharsky - one of them a Russian prince, the other a TUE merchant. They raised a militia and saw off the invaders, TUE allowing a new dynasty, the Romanov family, to fill the TUE power vacuum. They would rule until overthrown by the TUE Bolsheviks 300 years later. Glinka's patriotic National TUE Anthem, written two centuries later, celebrates the rise of TUE this new autocratic dynasty. TUE TUE The Romanovs, as Martin Sixsmith points out, could have TUE created a new style of governance in Russia. "The nobility TUE might have seized the moment to insist on a role in running TUE the country, similar to the one enjoyed by the English TUE barons since the time of Magna Carta. But they didn't. TUE Instead, the talk was of the need for an absolute ruler, TUE unshackled by restrictions on his authority, and invested TUE with the monolithic power necessary to safeguard national TUE security." One more opportunity to temper the autocracy that TUE would dog Russia for centuries had slipped by with nothing TUE changed. The need for unity and security was paramount. TUE TUE Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b010m9tb (Listen) TUE Speakers' Corner TUE TUE Chris Ledgard explores Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde TUE Park. He talks to the regulars who come to speak each week TUE and learns how its history stretches back over a hundred TUE years. The Speakers' Corner Trust is helping to set up more TUE Speakers' Corners around the UK to promote debate and TUE freedom of expression. In Tunisia, since the revolution last TUE January, people have started to gather on the main street in TUE Tunis to talk about politics and current affairs. TUE TUE Produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b010fd93 (Listen) TUE Series 24, Kathleen Ferrer TUE TUE Kathleen Ferrier's was a British contralto singer who died TUE in 1953 from breast cancer. Her professional career had TUE lasted just 14 years but in that time she had had become an TUE international star, singing at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne TUE and Carnegie Hall; and had worked with such luminaries of TUE post-war music as Benjamin Britten, Sir John Barbirolli, and TUE Bruno Walter. Not bad for someone who had no formal training TUE as a singer and who had left school to work in the Blackburn TUE telephone exchange. Ferrier never lost her common touch, TUE never became a prima donna, and retained her liking for TUE beer, cigarettes, and risque jokes. In this programme, TUE broadcaster Sue MacGregor tells Matthew Parris why she TUE admires Ferrier's work. Joining the discussion is conductor TUE Christopher Fifield who edited Ferrier's letters. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b010m9td (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010m7l3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b010m9tg (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 7 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, Lucy TUE Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse. TUE TUE Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Julia Davis, Robert TUE Popper, Adil Ray and Arabella Weir. TUE TUE Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b010mcks (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b010mckv (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actress and TUE writer Shirley MacLaine, as she publishes a new memoir TUE called I'm Over All That. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010m7kx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Fallout: The Legacy of Chernobyl b010mckx (Listen) TUE Events in Japan have reignited controversy around the safety TUE of nuclear energy, reviving memories of the world's worst TUE nuclear accident, at Chernobyl. TUE TUE But just how bad was the worst? What were the real health TUE consequences of Chernobyl? On the 25th anniversary of the TUE disaster Nick Ross travels to Ukraine, to the ruined plant TUE itself, to meet survivors and to talk to scientists and TUE doctors to try to unravel the truth. TUE TUE Has Chernobyl turned out to be the health catastrophe that TUE anti-nuclear campaigners claim? TUE TUE How much of our fear of radiation is rational and how much TUE is based on myth and propaganda surrounding the Chernobyl TUE accident? TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b010mckz (Listen) TUE Marcelo Bratke is an acclaimed pianist who was born with TUE complex eye problems. He spent his early life denying his TUE blindness and even concealing the fact from fellow members TUE of the orchestras he played with. TUE Finally, as an adult, his wife encouraged him to have an TUE operation on both eyes, which although risky, could restore TUE his sight. TUE The operations were successful and Marcelo speaks of the TUE bright colours he could see for the first time - so bright TUE in fact, that he said they resemble a cartoon. TUE He says that moving to the UK helped him come to terms with TUE his sight problems and admitts that he would have benefitted TUE from going to a special school but at the time his parents TUE thought they were doing the best thing for him by putting TUE him in mainstream education. TUE Marcelo learnt to play the piano purely by ear, and became TUE interested when he heard his father playing. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b010mcl1 (Listen) TUE American neuroscientist James Fallon talks to Claudia TUE Hammond about his own personal journey of discovery about TUE the nature of criminal brain. With his expertise in TUE neuroanatomy, James Fallon was often asked to analyse and TUE interpret the brain scans of convicted murderers in legal TUE cases. Neuroimaging studies have shown that psychopaths TUE often have differences in brain structure and functioning to TUE normal people. TUE TUE Knowing his professional interest in the criminal brain, his TUE mother then told Professor Fallon about a dark ancestral TUE streak in his father's side of the family. Genealogical TUE detective work uncovered 8 murderers and alleged killers in TUE one branch of the family tree - including Lizzy Borden (who TUE was accused but acquitted of the axe-murders of her father TUE and step mother). TUE TUE The opportunity to have his own brain scanned then came up. TUE James Fallon was unnerved to discover that aspects of his TUE own brain functioning had marked similarities to those of TUE psychopath he had studied. Adding to the alarm were results TUE of some subsequent genetic tests. TUE TUE A number of genes have been linked to aggressive and violent TUE behaviour. One of these has been nick-named the 'warrior' TUE gene. The gene makes a brain chemical called monoamine TUE oxidase A, MAO-A. There are different versions or 'flavours' TUE of this gene. James Fallon turned out to have the version TUE which has been most strongly correlated with violent TUE behaviour in some studies. Professor Fallon says that in a TUE sense, he's a born killer. TUE TUE However, Professor Fallon's discoveries about himself have TUE had a profound effect on his thinking about the roots of TUE psychopathy and violent behaviour. He used to be a strong TUE advocate of the power of genes on human nature and TUE behaviour. Now, he's convinced that his childhood and TUE upbringing made all the difference in who he is. TUE TUE 21:30 Between Ourselves b010m7kq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b010m7l5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b010mcl3 (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 b010wvg3 (Listen) TUE The Absolutist, Episode 2 TUE TUE The reader is Blake Ritson. TUE TUE The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by TUE Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b010mrsk (Listen) TUE Series 6, Voices in the Head TUE TUE Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another TUE 5 part series of fascinating stories shedding light on the TUE human condition. TUE TUE Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she TUE was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a TUE label she totally rejects. Now she is a high achieving TUE academic. What started the voices and how did she get to a TUE point where she not only lives happily with the voices that TUE still exist but also works with others who have the same TUE experience? With contributions from writer Graham Linehan TUE and comedian Josie Long. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs TUE An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b010mrsm (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme presents the top news stories from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b010mry4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00zf6d5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010mry6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010mry8 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010mryb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b010mryd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010mryg (Listen) WED With the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of WED London. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b010mryj (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b010mryl (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b010mryn (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00zf37p (Listen) WED Edgelands, Episode 3 WED WED Today, container yards and power stations. WED WED Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts WED Produced by Emma Harding WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b010mryq (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010mrys (Listen) WED Out of Africa, Visitors to the Farm WED WED By Karen Blixen. WED Dramatised by Judith Adams WED WED Episode 3: Visitors to the Farm WED Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds WED herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous WED responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee WED plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to WED know the land and the East Africans who work for and with WED her. In the process, she learns more about herself. WED WED Karen tells her beloved friends, Denys Finch-Hatton and WED Berkeley Cole about another, even more intriguing visitor to WED her farm - a young man named Emmanuelson who came, slept one WED night and walked away, never to return. WED WED Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding WED Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill WED Berkeley ..... Sam Dale WED Emmanuelson ..... Iain Batchelor WED Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi WED WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 11:00 Bailout Boys Go to Dublin b010mryv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] WED WED 11:30 Beauty of Britain b010mryx (Listen) WED Series 2, The Delegate 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 Radio 4 comedy follows WED Beauty's continuing adventures as the Featherdown Agency WED sends her to 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. The series breaks the WED embarrassed silence about what happens to us when we get old WED and start to lose our faculties. It shows the process in all WED its chaotic, tragi-comedy but it does so from the point of WED view of Beauty, whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught WED her to respect age. Beauty sees Britain at its best, its WED worst and also sometimes without its clothes on running the WED wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' WED WED Episode 4 'The Delegate' WED WED Karen of the featherdown agency sends Beauty to the 'End of WED Life' care conference on her behalf. Beauty struggles to WED understand the peculiar behaviour of the British at a WED conference and their obsessions with name tags and lanyards, WED as well as why she is the only carer in attendance. This WED must be why the keynote speaker, Professor Smythe takes a WED shine to her? WED WED Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Jenny ..... Pippa Haywood WED Rob ..... Tony Gardner WED Mrs Grace ..... Phyllida Law WED Sally ..... Felicity Montagu WED Karen/Keely ..... Nicola Sanderson WED WED The music for the series was performed by The West End WED Gospel Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b010mryz (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b010mrz1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b010pv9h (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 b010mrz3 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b010mcks (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b010mrz5 (Listen) WED Countrysides WED WED Countrysides follows a hunt master (Tim McInnerny) and an WED anti hunt protester (Russell Tovey) who find a fragile human WED connection despite their opposing positions. It is a story WED about the relationship between hunter and prey and what WED happens when those behaviours are reversed. WED WED Based on extensive research, Countrysides explores what is WED happening in the countryside in response to the Hunting Act WED and represents the views and feelings of people involved on WED all sides WED WED Countrysides was recorded in London and on location in WED Sussex. The cast also includes; Lucy Speed, Nicholas WED Boulton, Sam Dale and Tom Stanley. WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0110f44 (Listen) WED Money Box Live takes your calls on the cost of getting WED married. WED How to decide on a budget. What method of payment will give WED you protection if things go wrong on your big day? WED Should you consider taking out wedding insurance? And tips WED on how to negotiate a good deal for a more cost conscious WED ceremony. WED WED So join Vincent Duggleby and guests for a wedding finances WED edition. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b010m9t6 (Listen) WED The Crystal Fountain, Strange Music WED WED Martin Jarvis directs Moira Quirk in Malachi Whitaker's WED moving short story of a young girl's visit to a dance hall WED on a rainy night with her friend. But why does Cora send WED Joyce though to the dance-floor alone. Why does she remain WED outside? Is she waiting for someone? Then the young man WED she's come to see is standing in front of her. WED WED It's Danny Dunne, the band leader. He tells her she WED shouldn't have come. She tells him urgently that she wants WED to see him again. 'I want us to be alone again together,' WED she says. 'You know what I want.' He nervous, telling her WED he's got to be careful. But what is the real story between WED these two? Does Cora have a hidden agenda? And is there more WED to diffident Danny than there seems? WED WED Malachi Whitaker was prolific in the 1920s and '30, writing WED with compassion and perception about ordinary folk, WED invariably setting the stories in her native Yorkshire. She WED became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' because of her WED sympathetic observation of the minutiae of human beings and WED their (often comic) behaviour. WED WED Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010mrz9 (Listen) WED Series 1, East into Siberia WED WED By 1613 when the Romanovs came to power, Russia was already WED a multiethnic empire. It was the wealth of that very empire WED - the northern forests, the agriculture of the Asian south, WED the mineral riches of Siberia - that had given Muscovy the WED strength to survive its recurring crises. It was this WED relationship between the Russian state and the Russian WED empire - its original Slavic population and its expanding WED multi-ethnic one - that became an ever more crucial factor WED in moulding her future identity WED WED In this episode Martin Sixsmith visits the eastern fringe of WED the Ural Mountains to tell the story of Siberia - its WED staggering vastness that has spawned legends of space, and WED emptiness and freedom. He uses the dashing Cossack Yermak - WED whose memory endures in Russian folk poetry and popular WED ballads - to show how Siberia became a vital part of WED Russia's growing empire transforming Muscovy from a state on WED the brink to a nation of unequalled riches. WED WED But the other, darker side to Siberia is also evoked in the WED poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko and in Shostakovich's Opera WED Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with its poignant evocation of the WED convict road that so many Russians - including Dostoevsky, WED Lenin, Stalin, Mandelstam and Solzhenitsyn, would tread over WED the next four centuries. He also tells the story of the Old WED Believers who broke away from the Orthodox Church and whose WED heirs still gather today. They opposed the hijacking of WED religious belief by a centralised state-sponsored hierarchy WED and were part of a daunting set of problems that the new WED tsar, Peter the Great, had to tackle and tackle fast. WED WED Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b010mrzc (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b010mcl1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b010mrzf (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010mrzh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Act Your Age b010mrzk (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 6 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 Holly Walsh is joined by Andrew Lawrence, WED Rufus Hound teams up with Paul Foot and Ted Robbins is WED paired with Stu Francis. WED WED Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b010mrzm (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b010mrzp (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a report from the new Lyric WED Theatre in Belfast. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010mrys (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b010mrzr (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b010mrzt (Listen) WED Series 2, Care to be a nurse? WED WED Columnist Christina Patterson discusses her own experiences WED of terrible nursing care. She asks why we keep making WED excuses for bad nursing when good care is so important, and WED maintains that whatever the pressures on them nurses always WED have a choice about how they behave. WED WED Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling WED in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the WED stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, WED ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and WED society. WED WED Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are WED unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a WED personal dimension. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b010mrzw (Listen) WED Cocoa Loco WED WED It used to be a treat but now a chocolate bar is one of the WED cheapest ways to fill up. Chocolate is the unlikely WED substance at the heart of commodity wars. Cocoa has been WED reported to be more valuable than gold but will this mean WED the end of the nation's coffee break. WED WED Over-farming has caused problems in chocolate producing WED countries in Africa and South America. The pressure to WED produce cheap cocoa has meant farmers have failed to replant WED and replenish. Soil has become unusable and mature trees are WED now reaching the end of their life cycle. Fair trade has WED been forced on even the biggest producers like Nestle as the WED only means to get the raw product. But, is it too little too WED late and is this late interest a real commitment to fair WED deals for farmers and their land? WED WED There is concern that speculation by financial traders has WED helped to push up food prices worldwide, creating an WED unsustainable bubble that makes it even harder for many in WED the developing world to afford to eat. Workers in the UK WED have also felt the impact - Burton's Foods blamed higher WED cocoa and wheat prices for the closure of its Wirral factory WED - where Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodgers are made - with the WED loss of over 400 jobs. WED WED Palm oil is another growing problem. Cheap, easy to grow and WED lucrative, many cocoa farmers have switched to this crop and WED turned their land over to monoculture. Costing the Earth WED investigates the efforts to keep our favourite treat going WED and asks if this is the first commodity of many to succumb WED to over-production and unrealistically cheap market prices. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b010mryn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b010ms00 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b010pxdd (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 b010wvhx (Listen) WED The Absolutist, Episode 3 WED WED The reader is Blake Ritson. WED WED The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by WED Heather Larmour. WED WED 23:00 Living with Mother b010ms1h (Listen) WED Curtains at the Window WED WED We're in the rural part of deep Devon on a remote cattle WED farm. 79 yr old Patrick has always lived with his 103 year WED old mother Maisy in their humble farm house. Patrick, WED however, is as tight as they come and won't hear of spending WED money on anything but the essentials. WED WED All's going well until his Maisy's old school friend Susan WED returns home from London to retire and fills Maisy's head WED with all sorts of modern ideas. Will life be the same again WED or will Patrick still not allow curtains at the window? WED WED Maisy: Stephanie Cole WED Patrick: David Ryall WED WED Producer: Anna Madley WED An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00qprmm (Listen) WED Series 1, Market Magic WED WED Comedy by David Kay and Gavin Smith. WED WED Mordrin is a 2,000-year-old wizard living in the modern WED world, where regular bin collections and watching Countdown WED are just as important as slaying dragons. WED WED With Gordon Kennedy, Jack Docherty, Cora Bissett and David WED Kay. WED WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b010ms1k (Listen) WED Sean Curran presents the top news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 APRIL 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b010mt29 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00zf37p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010mt2c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010mt2f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010mt2h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b010mt2k (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010mt2m (Listen) THU With the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of THU London. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b010mt2p (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b010mt2r (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b010mvcp (Listen) THU Cogito Ergo Sum THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss one of the most famous THU statements in philosophy: "Cogito ergo sum". THU THU In his Discourse on the Method, published in 1637, the THU French polymath Rene Descartes wrote a sentence which THU remains familiar today even to many people who have never THU heard of him. "I am thinking", he wrote, "therefore I THU exist". Although the statement was made in French, it has THU become better known in its Latin translation; and THU philosophers ever since have referred to it as the Cogito THU Argument. THU THU This simple statement may seem obvious, but it is the THU foundation of Descartes's attempt to establish what we can THU truly know. Centuries after his death, it remains one of the THU most important sentences in Western philosophy. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00zf386 (Listen) THU Edgelands, Episode 4 THU THU Today, retail parks and edgeland hotels. THU THU Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts THU Produced by Emma Harding THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b010mt2t (Listen) THU Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010mt2w (Listen) THU Out of Africa, Icarus THU THU By Karen Blixen. THU Dramatised by Judith Adams THU THU Episode 4 : Icarus THU Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds THU herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous THU responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee THU plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to THU know the land and the East Africans who work for and with THU her. In the process, she learns more about herself. THU THU Karen and Denys indulge in two of their favourite pursuits - THU shooting lions and flying in Denys's plane over Africa. Such THU is their love of the country, they decide that they would THU like to be buried on a ridge overlooking the Ngong hills. THU THU Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding THU Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill THU Ismael ..... Jude Akuwudike THU Kamante .... Beru Tessema THU Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi THU THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b010mt2y (Listen) THU What happened next? THU THU Lucy Ash revisits some of the significant stories covered in THU recent years and discovers what has changed since our THU initial reports. THU In some instances, there have been attempts to bring THU suspects to justice. In 2009 Crossing Continents uncovered THU disturbing evidence of alleged atrocities by the Kosovo THU Liberation Army during the Kosovo War ten years ago. Since THU then a trial has opened in the capital Pristina and two THU former KLA leaders are being prosecuted for war crimes. The THU case began in March 2011, just a few months after Dick THU Marty, Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe, released THU an explosive report claiming that the KLA summarily executed THU prisoners and harvested their kidneys to sell for organ THU transplants. THU Also in 2009 Crossing Continents looked at claims that THU Rwandans in France and Germany were controlling a deadly THU African militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. THU Reporter Peter Greste tracked down Callixte Mbarushimana to THU a Paris cafe. The elegantly dressed rebel Hutu leader flatly THU denied his group was responsible for attacks against THU civilians. But then, last October, Mbarushimana was arrested THU and sent to the International Criminal Court in the the THU Hague accused of 11 counts of crimes against humanity and THU war crimes, including rape and murder. Bereaved families and THU victims in Congo have long complained about a climate of THU impunity - could that be about to change? THU There appears to be a disheartening lack of change in THU Turkmenistan. Lucy Ash travelled there undercover in 2005 to THU find out what ordinary life was like for the citizens of one THU of the world's most repressive dictatorships. Despite the THU gold and marble clad buildings in the capital Ashgabat, she THU found people deprived not only of all rights and freedoms, THU but also of basic necessities such as healthcare. At that THU time the country was ruled by a man who renamed the month of THU April after his mother, outlawed ballet and banned gold THU teeth. The current president, ex dentist Gurbanguly THU Berdymukhammedov is less flamboyant but his promised reforms THU have failed to materialise. Doctors Without Borders, the THU last international nongovernmental organisation operating in THU the country recently left because the government refused to THU allow a programme to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis. THU This special edition also catches up with an American THU policeman who created a cult following for his "Street THU Story" podcasts, vivid vignettes of his work for the Tulsa THU Police Department. And now that India has decriminalised THU homosexuality, what has happened to the Gay Prince of THU Rajpipla, once shunned by his family and his community? THU THU 11:30 Erich Honecker's Rock and Roll Years b010mt30 (Listen) THU Henning Wehn investigates 'Ostrock' - the rock and pop music THU scene in the old East Germany. THU THU During the Cold War, we were given the impression that life THU behind the Iron Curtain was unrelentingly grim and that THU communist youth suffered from a lack of fashionable clothing THU and an earnest adherence to the socialist dream. THU THU But this was not always the case and despite the fact that THU Erich Honecker believed 'beat music' was being used by the THU enemy to send East German Youth into 'overdrive', he had THU only limited success in placing controls on a thriving rock THU and pop music scene in the GDR. THU THU It is true that his musicians had to perform in front of a THU committee to obtain a licence to perform, that there was THU only one - state controlled - record company and that if you THU fell foul of those in power, your music 'ceased to exist'. THU But East German youngsters were listening to Western music THU being played on radio stations on the other side of the Wall THU and so Erich Honecker ultimately failed to control the THU musical tastes of the GDR teenager. THU THU In 'Erich Honecker's Rock and Roll Years', German comedian THU Henning Wehn goes to Berlin in search of a scene unknown to THU him when he was growing up in West Germany. He talks to THU Ostrock musicians and fans and uncovers a story that THU involves, the Stasi, disappearing musicians, lyrics with THU hidden meanings and music that was 'Western' in all but THU name. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b010mt32 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b010mt34 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b010pv7t (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 b010mrzw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b010mrzm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 On Mardle Fen b009yfc7 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Taste of Success THU THU by Nick Warburton. Part 4: The Taste of Success. The THU eccentric restaurant set in the Fens is in financial THU trouble. Jack asks his nephew to take care of things so he THU can get away for a few weeks. Meanwhile Warwick sings the THU praises of Mardle Pudding, a legendary local dish. THU THU Warwick Hedges.....Trevor Peacock THU Jack Hedges.....Sam Dale THU David.....Chris Pavlo THU Fay.....Liza Sadovy THU Marcia.....Kate Buffery THU Imogen.....Liz Sutherland THU Zofia.....Helen Longworth THU THU Director Claire Grove. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b010k2dw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b010lyxw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b010mrz7 (Listen) THU The Crystal Fountain, Home to Waggonhouses THU THU Martin Jarvis directs Rosalind Ayres in Malachi Whitaker's THU moving story, written in the 1930s. Sarah has been cycling THU for two hours. Where's she going? And why? She's determined THU to see the husband who deserted her. She has heard he is THU lying ill at Ebesham. THU THU Three years ago he had come into some money and it had THU turned his head. Then the farm seemed too small for him. He THU went to look at bigger farms miles away. On one of his THU journeys he met an attractive widow. One day they left THU quietly together, and later Sarah heard that they had set up THU house at Ebesham. And now Sarah is riding there, where David THU is lying ill. But she arrives to find an unexpected THU situation. What she does next could probably only have come THU from Malachi Whitaker compassionate pen. THU THU Malachi Whitaker was prolific in the 1920s and '30s, writing THU with great perception and care about ordinary folk, THU invariably setting the stories in her native Yorkshire. She THU became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' because of her THU sympathetic observation of the minutiae of human beings and THU their (often comic) behaviour. THU THU Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010mv4t (Listen) THU Series 1, Peter the Great THU THU A threatening grassroots rebellion, commemorated in THU Shostakovich's The Execution of Stenka Razin, immediately THU foreshadows the reign of one of Russia's greatest Tsars, and THU the architect of its future. THU THU Peter the First, later known as The Great, was crowned as a THU nine year old boy. For a decade and a half he was THU shamelessly manipulated by relatives and regents in a THU violent, bloody power struggle. It left him with a burning THU conviction that Russia must change. Martin Sixsmith THU describes his relentless energy and fierce determination, THU which would make him the most influential ruler in Russian THU history. Only Lenin would come close to him in the impact he THU had on society and power. THU THU Peter the Great was a giant, both physically - he was six THU foot seven inches tall - and intellectually. He combined THU intelligence and wit with an unremitting penchant for THU debauchery. With his band of close associates he formed The THU All-joking, All-drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters, with THU extravagant rituals of feasting and drunkenness and savage THU mockery of the church. But, "beneath it all, like THU Shakespeare's Prince Hal", Martin Sixsmith insists, "he THU maintained an unwavering seriousness of intent and THU acceptance of his destiny." THU THU He had inherited urgent problems, but with an eye on the THU West (he travelled incognito to London, Oxford and THU Manchester), he reformed the way Russia was governed. He THU created its first civil service, built a new capital city THU and brought the Russian calendar into line with the rest of THU the world. He constructed a modern army and a navy that THU saved Russia from the very real threat of foreign invasion, THU and turned a nation in danger of self-destructing into a THU European great power, with a vast, stable empire able to THU support her international ambitions. THU THU Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b010m040 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b010mv4w (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 17:00 PM b010mv4y (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010mt36 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b010mv50 (Listen) THU Tony Beckton THU THU British comedy legend and star of The Fast Show, Down the THU Line and Bellamy's People, Simon Day debut's his own Radio 4 THU character comedy show. 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 back stage and front of house goings on at THU the theatre itself. THU THU Episode 2 of 6: Tony Beckton. Reformed violent criminal Tony THU Beckton visits the Mallard Theatre to read from his memoirs THU as part of his rehabilitation. THU THU Tony Beckton / Peter ..... Simon Day THU Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Goose ..... Felix Dexter THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU Stacey ..... Susan Harrison THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b010mv52 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b010mv54 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who meets composer Nitin Sawhney and THU organist James Taylor in the Royal Albert Hall, to find out THU how Sawhney has created a new work for the hall's organ, THU with its 9999 pipes. THU THU Producer Allegra McIlroy. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010mt2w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b010mv56 (Listen) THU In the 21st century age of digital technology, is it still THU really necessary to have a paper census costing the British THU taxpayer 482 million pounds and taking nine years to plan? THU In opposition, the Conservative Party was highly critical of THU the census. So, as the dominant partner in a coalition THU government, could they be about to abolish it? Reporter THU James Silver investigates the options for a replacement THU survey of the nation and reveals how some proposed changes THU could result in more goverment intrusion. THU THU 20:30 In Business b010mv58 (Listen) THU For Your Information THU THU Information seems to be moving right to the heart of the THU 21st century economy but nobody really knows what it is or THU how it works. Peter Day talks to pioneers in the field of THU information management as well as corporate gatekeepers of THU this valuable commodity we call information to find out what THU advances are being made with the amount of data we now THU generate. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b010m7kz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b010mvcp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b010mt38 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b010pxdg (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 b010wvjv (Listen) THU The Absolutist, Episode 4 THU THU The reader is Blake Ritson. THU THU The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by THU Heather Larmour. THU THU 23:00 That Jan Ravens b010mw8c (Listen) THU Jan Ravens heads up a new show which presents familiar names THU in unfamiliar situations. With Eve Webster, India Fisher and THU Ewan Bailey. THU THU In this pilot episode Dame Maggie Smith discovers a shocking THU secret in Downton Abbey, the Queen discusses wedding plans THU with Mrs Middleton, and Baroness Warsi appears as a THU challenger on Countdown. THU THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b010mw8f (Listen) THU Mark D'Arcy presents the top news stories from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b010mwb5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00zf386 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010mwb7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010mwb9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010mwbc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b010mwbf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010mwbh (Listen) FRI With the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of FRI London. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b010mwbk (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martyn FRI Poyntz-Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b010mwbm (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; FRI Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b010lyy4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00zf5sh (Listen) FRI Edgelands, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today, ruined warehouses and abandoned piers. FRI FRI Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI FRI 10:00 The Royal Wedding b010mwbp (Listen) FRI The Marriage of HRH Prince William of Wales to Catherine FRI Middleton. FRI FRI James Naughtie leads BBC Radio's live coverage, with Edward FRI Stourton in Westminster Abbey and, to witness the event as FRI it unfolds, a team of broadcasters around the processional FRI route of London, including Julian Worricker, Anita Anand, FRI Wendy Austin, Robin Lustig, Jonathan Agnew, Eleanor Oldroyd, FRI Nick Higham, Jane Garvey and BBC Royal Correspondent Peter FRI Hunt. Historian Christopher Lee and royal authors Kate FRI Williams and Sarah Gristwood add expert comment. FRI FRI The Marriage Service begins at 11am, followed by a carriage FRI procession to Buckingham Palace, while the balcony FRI appearance and RAF fly-past will be featured during The FRI World At One. FRI FRI Editor Peter Griffiths. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b010mwbr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b010pv7w (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 b010mwbt (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b010mv52 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hv1dz (Listen) FRI The State of the Art FRI FRI The State of The Art FRI By Iain M. Banks FRI Dramatised by Paul Cornell FRI FRI The Culture ship Arbitrary arrives on Earth in 1977 and FRI finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'property' FRI and 'money' and on the edge of self destruction. When Agent FRI Dervley Linter, decides to go native can Diziet Sma change FRI his mind? FRI FRI The Ship ...... Antony Sher FRI Diziet Sma ...... Nina Sosanya FRI Dervley Linter ...... Paterson Joseph FRI Li ...... Graeme Hawley FRI Tel ...... Brigit Forsyth FRI Sodel ...... Conrad Nelson FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b010mwlq (Listen) FRI Carrickfergus FRI FRI Eric Robson leads Christine Walkden, Bunny Guinness and Bob FRI Flowerdew in a horticultural discussion in Carrickfergus, FRI County Antrim. FRI FRI An insight into rose breeding with Christine Walkden. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010mwls (Listen) FRI Series 1, A Window on the West FRI FRI Peter the Great's major legacy, visible in all its splendour FRI today, is the city of St Petersburg. He wanted to found a FRI new capital city, named after St Peter the Apostle. He chose FRI an inhospitable northern marshy bank of the River Neva, and FRI raised up a formidable showpiece of architecture and FRI city-planning. FRI FRI St Petersburg became a grand statement loaded with symbolic FRI resonance of renewal and adventure. It would inspire future FRI generations, including the greatest of all Russian writers, FRI Alexander Pushkin. His epic poem The Bronze Horseman opens FRI with an elegant love letter to the European face of St FRI Petersburg and her ousting of the old, Asiatic leaning FRI Moscow. FRI FRI From the city's streets Martin Sixsmith describes the FRI "never-ending boulevards and even vaster squares; the FRI surreal White Nights when darkness is banished and the city FRI takes on its magical aura of ethereal beauty." Peter himself FRI talked of a 'great leap from darkness into light' and the FRI city became known as a 'window on Europe' and the defining FRI metaphor of Peter's reign. But, the first clues that Peter's FRI reforms might not be all they seem come in the very way he FRI set about building this place. While the city rose gleaming FRI and splendid, its foundations - laid on gigantic crates of FRI stones sunk by slave labourers into the boggy mire - were FRI literally full of the dead. FRI FRI Just as at the end of Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, praise FRI for Peter is tinged with horror, Martin Sixsmith asks how FRI European Peter really was in terms of democracy, justice and FRI the rule of law. He knew change was vital because of the FRI tensions in society - the peasant revolts were a symptom of FRI a system straining at the seams - but he wanted to control FRI that change, and certainly didn't want reforms that would FRI weaken the autocratic power he himself wielded. FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b010mwlv (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 b010mwlx (Listen) FRI Ray Winstone and Christian Carrion talk to Francine Stock FRI about their new films FRI FRI Produce: Zahid Warley. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b010mwlz (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010mwbw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b010mwm1 (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b010mwtw (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b010mwty (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang reports on why so many new films and TV dramas FRI are based on true stories. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald FRI FRI (revised repeat). FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010mwv0 (Listen) FRI Out of Africa, The Giraffes Go to Hamburg FRI FRI By Karen Blixen. FRI Dramatised by Judith Adams FRI FRI Episode 5: The Giraffes Go to Hamburg FRI FRI Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds FRI herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous FRI responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee FRI plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to FRI know the land and the East Africans who work for and with FRI her. In the process, she learns more about herself. FRI FRI As Karen faces her greatest fear - the necessity of FRI departure from Africa - the grasshoppers come and seal her FRI fate. And there is still worse to come. FRI FRI Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding FRI Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Kamante .... Beru Tessema FRI Farah ..... Maynard Eziashi FRI Bror ..... Sam Dale FRI FRI Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b010mwv2 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Wotton Arts FRI Festival in Gloucestershire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010mwv4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Monsters FRI FRI 11/20. Fire breathing dragons are clearly something from FRI legend, but what about a monster that lives in an ancient FRI deep lake? In this edition of David Attenborough's Life FRI Stories, Sir David reflects on a time when pre-eminent FRI conservationist and naturalist Peter Scott was immersed in FRI acquiring evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness FRI Monster. No such giant creature has ever been found or FRI concrete evidence it ever existed, but this is an intriguing FRI tale of discovery. David Attenborough moves his story on to FRI beyond the highlands of Scotland and into the Himalayas - FRI and it's here that Sir David reveals something very FRI surprising. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b010mwv6 (Listen) FRI Russia: The Wild East Omnibus, Expansion and Autocratic Rule FRI FRI The major new history of Russia series began last week in FRI the 9thcentury with a collection of warring tribes. It FRI looked at the events that laid the foundations of the FRI Russian nation, the adoption of Christianity and the lasting FRI influence of the Mongol invasion. This week Martin Sixsmith FRI discovers the emerging forces that will make her the largest FRI and longest-lived territorial empire in modern history. He FRI begins with Ivan the Terrible who centralises power in the FRI Tsar, enslaving peasants and nobles alike, exploring the FRI tenets of absolute autocracy that have characterised Russian FRI rule ever since. FRI FRI As the Empire expands, the Russian State is in turmoil. FRI Martin Sixsmith gives a vivid portrait of Russia's troubled FRI rulers before a new, strong dynasty emerges. By 1613 when FRI the Romanovs came to power, Russia was already a multiethnic FRI empire. It was the wealth of that very empire - the northern FRI forests, the agriculture of the Asian south, the mineral FRI riches of Siberia - that had given the emerging nation the FRI strength to survive its recurring crises. A threatening FRI grassroots rebellion immediately foreshadows the reign of FRI one of Russia's greatest Tsars, and the architect of its FRI future. FRI FRI Peter the First, later known as The Great, was crowned as a FRI nine year old boy. Martin Sixsmith describes his relentless FRI energy and fierce determination, which would make him the FRI most influential ruler in Russian history. Peter the Great's FRI major legacy, visible in all its splendour today, is the FRI city of St Petersburg. He chose an inhospitable northern FRI marshy bank of the River Neva, and raised up a formidable FRI showpiece of architecture and city-planning. St Petersburg FRI became a symbol of renewal and adventure, and, owing to its FRI closeness to Europe, was Russia's 'window on the west'. FRI FRI Readings by: David Warner, Peter Dickson, Peter Guinness, FRI Richard Albrecht, Mike Hayley, Yuri Klimov, Terence Longdon, FRI Jonathan Oliver, Max Bollinger FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b010mwby (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b010nm9k (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 b010wvkk (Listen) FRI The Absolutist, Episode 5 FRI FRI The reader is Blake Ritson. FRI FRI The Absolutist was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by FRI Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b010fd93 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 The Doctor and Douglas b00rp3dw (Listen) FRI As a new generation of fans await the debut of the 11th FRI incarnation of the Doctor, long-time fan Jon Culshaw travels FRI back in time to look at the man who changed Doctor Who FRI forever: Douglas Adams. FRI FRI After years toiling for success as a writer, in 1978 FRI Douglas' world turned upside down. Just weeks after the FRI radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was FRI commissioned, so was his first script for Doctor Who. The FRI following year - just as Hitchhikers was taking off - he was FRI offered the job as script editor, one of the most demanding FRI jobs in television. FRI FRI The scripts he wrote for Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet, FRI City of Death and Shada - still stand as a benchmark for the FRI series today. But his time on the series was beset by FRI problems. Technician strikes would seriously affect FRI production, inflation was squeezing the series budget, and FRI Douglas was exhausted by the simultaneous demands of FRI Hitchhikers and Doctor Who. FRI FRI Nevertheless, Douglas left an indelible mark on Doctor Who, FRI bringing in a sharp wit that hadn't been seen before in what FRI was ostensibly a children's TV series. Today's crop of FRI writers and producers strive to emulate the intelligence, FRI humour and ideas in Adams' scripts from 1979. FRI FRI Jon Culshaw looks at Douglas' work on a television FRI institution, talking to the writers, directors and actors FRI who worked with him, and looks at the legacy of his work on FRI Doctor Who with new executive producer Steven Moffat. FRI FRI Produced by Simon Barnard and Kieron Moyles. This is a Wise FRI Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
22 April, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 23/04/2011 - 29/04/2011
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