06 May, 2011

Radio 4 Listings for 07/05/2011 - 13/05/2011

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SAT SATURDAY 07 MAY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b010t7vy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b010t6np (Listen) SAT Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949, SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World SAT War is told through a multitude of individual women's SAT experiences. As their stories unfold we discover how they SAT loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared. Today, as the SAT celebratory atmosphere of VE day fades, many women are left SAT wondering what the future holds. SAT SAT Virginia Nicholson's books include Among the Bohemians - SAT Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two SAT Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War SAT which was broadcast as a Book of the Week. SAT SAT Read by Fenella Woolgar SAT Abridged by Doreen Estall SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010t7w0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010t7w2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010t7w4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b010t7w6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010t7w8 (Listen) SAT With Dr Mike Ford. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b010w3yn (Listen) SAT "My son has been promised his first shotgun for his 7th SAT birthday"; a listener tells us why he wants his children to SAT grow up handling guns. We also hear from a counter-insurgeny SAT expert with historic links to Abbottabad, and an all-female SAT barbershop chorus. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer SAT Tracey. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b010t7wb (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b010t7wd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b010xvnk (Listen) SAT Helen Mark takes a ride on the new Welsh Highland Railway, SAT which eaves Caernarfon and takes in the stunning Snowdonian SAT landscape, before arriving at its destination in Porthmadog. SAT Along the way Helen hears about the back-breaking work SAT undertaken by hundreds of volunteers to get the railway up SAT and running and about the history of slate mining in the SAT area, which used to rely so heavily on the railways. She SAT also stops off at the RSPB's Osprey Project at Glaslyn to SAT catch sight of the only breeding pair of ospreys in Wales. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b010y0wz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT While sunworshippers have enjoyed the warmest April on SAT record the countryside has been suffering. Fires have SAT ravaged forests and gorseland across the UK, spreading SAT quickly in the dry conditions and causing damage that will SAT take decades to recover. Meanwhile farmers are seeing crops SAT wilting and river levels dropping due to the lack of SAT rainfall and high temperatures. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith visits Ragley Home Farms in Warwickshire to SAT see for herself the damage already done to wheat stocks SAT which will see yields drop. Having been stopped from SAT abstracting water from the river they're having to make SAT careful decisions about how to use the limited water they SAT have and which crops to use it on. Farm Manager John Parker SAT says rainfall over the next few days will be crucial. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b010t7wg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b010y1wk (Listen) SAT Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b010y1wm (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with composer Howard Goodall, poet Salena SAT Godden, mannequin revolutionary Kevin Arpino, and civil SAT servant turned boxing promoter Miranda Carter. There's a SAT Sound Sculpture of an intensive care unit and Country legend SAT Emmylou Harris shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b010y1wp (Listen) SAT John McCarthy looks at Liberia and Sierra Leone with SAT journalist and author Tim Butcher who retraced a journey SAT without maps made by Graham Greene in 1935. The dangers of SAT heat and disease are still there but on his 350 mile walk SAT through the jungle Tim also encountered a region riddled SAT with post-conflict tensions and superstitions. SAT SAT Photographer Marion Bull tells John about her travels SAT usually made on her own to physically challenging places - SAT in particular to the deserts of Algeria, where she is SAT fascinated by rock paintings but is also drawn to the harsh SAT and sometimes risky life among the Tuareg people. SAT SAT And when life in a country becomes too risky for visitors, SAT they may well call on their insurance company to repatriate SAT them. John meets specialist Ted Jones who organises the SAT evacuation of clients from political, medical or natural SAT crises such as recent events in Libya, Egypt or Japan after SAT the tsunami. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus! b010y1wr (Listen) SAT 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the Monty Python SAT team's most bizarre and least known television adventures, SAT two forty five minute specials they made exclusively for SAT German television. SAT SAT Roll up, it's Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus! This is the SAT extraordinary tale of when the Pythons went Bavarian. SAT SAT Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Alfred Biolek, the man who SAT persuaded them to take their comedy to Germany, all talk SAT about how life on set began to imitate a Monty Python SAT sketch. SAT SAT German Comedy Ambassador, Henning Wehn, tells the story of SAT how in 1971 the Pythons were flown into Bavaria, full of new SAT original ideas for sketches, including pieces about the SAT German artist Albrecht Durer, William Tell and The Merchant SAT of Venice. They also adapted the popular Flying Circus SAT Lumberjack Song into German and planned to sing it with the SAT Austria Border Police Choir. SAT SAT Only Michael Palin and John Cleese were capable of SAT delivering lines in 'understandable' German. Despite SAT extensive language coaching, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry SAT Jones and Graham Chapman were virtually incomprehensible. SAT This may have added to the Pythons' trademark absurdity and SAT surrealism, but confused the bejeebus out of the German TV SAT audience. SAT SAT Realising this dream was becoming a nightmare, Alfred Biokek SAT took the decision to make the second programme in English, SAT with German subtitles added later. It proved to be a major SAT hit on German TV, but all concerned decided it best not to SAT repeat the experience. SAT SAT Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus! hears from Terry Jones, SAT Michael Palin and Alfred Biolek about how they came up with SAT the material for these special versions and listening to SAT clips from both programmes, asks whether 'Pythonesque' SAT really works when translated into German. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Meek SAT An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b010y1wt (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor was Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b011027f (Listen) SAT Weeks of violent confrontation in Uganda: Will Ross is in SAT the capital Kampala where lawyers are the latest group to SAT come out in protest against the regime of President SAT Museveni. Demonstrations against his rule have been broken SAT up violently by police. The main opposition leader's being SAT treated in hospital in neighbouring Kenya. What will happen SAT when he returns to his homeland? Mishal Husain is in the SAT Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where the life of Osama bin SAT Laden, the world's most wanted man, was brought to an end SAT last Sunday. Mishal talks of the new interest in this SAT location which she remembers as a place her family went on SAT holiday. President Obama was at Ground Zero this week and SAT coincidentally, a little earlier, our correspondent Paul SAT Adams was there with his two young sons who had awkward SAT questions to ask about that day when the Twin Towers came SAT crashing down. There's a new predator in the Caribbean - the SAT Lionfish. Tim Ecott's been to the Cayman Islands to get an SAT idea of the scale of the problem it's brought with it. And SAT Jonathan Fryer waits and waits for the night bus to Bolivia. SAT But at least he has some company in the shape of a large, SAT and affectionate, wild pig! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b010xykm (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT As one major bank throws in the towel over a controversial SAT insurance product - will others follow suit? SAT Plus: can the Department for Work and Pensions help itself SAT to money it is owed from the estate of someone who has died SAT without telling the executors? SAT And: we unpick exactly how many times you get charged for SAT paying for foreign currency in sterling. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b010t6f2 (Listen) SAT Series 74, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Featuring Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Richard SAT Herring and Susan Calman. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b010t7wj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b010t7wl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b010t6by (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Harrow High SAT School in London with Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for SAT Culture, Quentin Letts, Daily Mail columnist, Shirley SAT Williams, the Liberal Democrat peer and Douglas Alexander, SAT Shadow Foreign Secretary. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b010y1ww (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b010y1wy (Listen) SAT A Change in the Willows SAT SAT Toad is back on a spending spree and dismissive of his SAT friends - until he needs their help for a rather irritating SAT ghost problem! Ratty finds himself flooded out of his river SAT side home by rising river levels. SAT SAT Mole tries to understand the link between the pang in his SAT stomach and the desire all animals have to be amongst their SAT own kind. And good old Badger is upset that nobody listens SAT to him and his friends take him for granted. SAT SAT Toad ..... Tim McInnerny SAT Mole ..... Stephen Mangan SAT Ratty ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Badger ...... Andrew Sachs SAT Dove ..... Issy van Randwyck SAT Sheep .....Ian Buchan SAT Mole 2 ..... Yolanda Kettle SAT Mole 3 ..... Ilker Kaleli SAT Mole 4 ..... Jonathan Sayer SAT Mole 5 ..... Natalie Carrington SAT SAT Written by Ian Buchan SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT Producer: Julian Stevens SAT An Artists Studio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b010t6gy (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 2 SAT SAT John Cooper Clarke and psychiatrist Sube Banerjee are joined SAT by the actress Samantha Morton to discuss three personally SAT significant pieces of music. SAT SAT Amongst their choices are a classic slice of secular gospel, SAT a 1970s punk rock call to arms; and a song that is SAT guaranteed to get one music group member dancing, exactly SAT one minute fifty seconds into the track. SAT SAT Along the way we find out what head teachers like to play to SAT pupils in assembly and the influence Joe Strummer had on SAT dementia strategy at the Department of Health. We also SAT discover the difference between song writing and poetry, in SAT the English language, and who stole John Cooper Clarke's SAT hair. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b010y1x0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week presented by Jane SAT Garvey. As one of Margaret Thatcher's handbags goes under SAT the auctioneer's hammer for charity, we look at how she used SAT this iconic accessory and its place in fashion history. How SAT should children be disciplined in schools? Are women in SAT Liverpool taking the brunt of the jibes that used to be SAT levelled at the girls from Essex and we look at the tyranny SAT of children's parties. As speculation mounts that President SAT Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni is expecting a baby, we look at SAT how this might effect his electoral fortunes. We hear about SAT allegations of sexism at Ivy League universities and the SAT little known short story by Daphne Du Maurier about a male SAT sex doll. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b011027h (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b010w3yn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b010t7wn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b010t7wq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010t7ws (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b010y1x2 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the Hollywood actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who SAT after roles in American Gangster and Endgame takes the lead SAT in BBC Two's conspiracy thriller The Shadow Line. SAT SAT Proudly holding the title as the '41st Best Stand Up Ever', SAT cult comic Stewart Lee brings his knowing irony and charmed SAT cynicism to the Loose Ends studio. His BAFTA nominated TV SAT series, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle returns to BBC Two and SAT he's also curating his own weekend, Stewart Lee's Austerity SAT Binge, as part of the Southbank Centre's Festival of Britain SAT Celebrations. SAT SAT Neil Strauss made his name with his best selling expose on SAT the pick up artist community, The Game. But he delves into SAT his music journalism for his latest book Everyone Loves You SAT When You're Dead, revealing the wild adventures and SAT surprising disclosures of stars including Lady Gaga, Tom SAT Cruise, Brian Wilson, Marilyn Manson and Britney Spears. SAT From talking death with Johnny Cash and sex with Russell SAT Brand to buying nappies with rap star Snoop Dogg. SAT SAT Emma Freud talks to camper extraordinaire Emma Kennedy about SAT the follow up to her best selling childhood memoir, The SAT Tent, The Bucket and Me. Her new book, I Left My Tent in San SAT Francisco, charts her hapless attempt to cross America, in SAT glorious ineptitude and humour. Jack Kerouac it ain't... SAT SAT There's music from 'The recession's soul voice of reason...' SAT Aloe Blacc, performing one of this years biggest hits I Need SAT A Dollar, which has been hailed as the anthem of our time. SAT SAT Sunshine by name, Sunshine by nature - sun soaked soul from SAT Atlanta singer, songwriter and pianist, Avery Sunshine who SAT plays her single I Got Sunshine from her eponymous debut SAT album. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b010xy8h (Listen) SAT Series 10, In Order of Preference SAT SAT By Hugh Costello. Paul Weeks is a "NO" man - he thinks AV is SAT expensive and flawed and not the British way. In the week of SAT Bin Laden's killing, he finds the AV referendum an SAT embarrassing sideshow. But his wife, Sophie, has been SAT actively campaigning for a YES vote, with a vigour that has SAT surprised Paul. Now, as polling day arrives, and as the SAT fault lines are exposed in the coalition's façade of unity, SAT Paul and Sophie's marriage also starts to unravel. Does SAT Sophie's passion for change have as much to do with their SAT relationship as with electoral reform..? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b010y1x4 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests poet Craig Raine and writers SAT Susan Jeffreys and David Aaronovitch review the cultural SAT highlights of the week. SAT SAT Saoirse Rohan plays the title role in Joe Wright's film SAT Hanna. Raised by her father (Eric Bana) in the seclusion of SAT northern Finland and trained as a clinical killer, the SAT teenager is pursued by a rogue CIA agent (Cate Blanchett) SAT when she ventures into the wider world. SAT SAT At Last is the last in the series of Edward St Aubyn's SAT novels featuring Patrick Melrose and his family. At his SAT mother's funeral Patrick finds that his transition to SAT orphanhood isn't necessarily the liberation he had so long SAT imagined. SAT SAT All's Well That Ends Well comes to Shakespeare's Globe in SAT London for the first time. Janie Dee is the Countess of SAT Rousillon in Jonathan Dove's production and Sam Crane is her SAT son Bertram who flees to the battlefront when the King of SAT France compels him to marry the low-born Helena (Ellie SAT Percy). SAT SAT The BBC2 documentary strand Wonderland returns with an SAT unusual insight into the work of the relationship SAT counselling organisation Relate. Producer/director Zac SAT Beattie was allowed to record some of the charity's clients SAT during their counselling, but then replaced the visuals with SAT Jonathan Hodgson's animated images, thus allowing the SAT individuals to remain unseen. SAT SAT When Simon Norfolk discovered the pictures which fellow SAT photographer John Burke had taken in Afghanistan during the SAT Second Afghan War between 1878 and 1880 he felt compelled to SAT return to the country and record his own complimentary SAT images of conflict involving the British and their allies SAT there over a century later. The resulting exhibition - Burke SAT & Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan - at Tate SAT Modern brings the two men's work together in the same SAT gallery. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b010y1x6 (Listen) SAT Julian Huxley and the Invention of the Public Scientist SAT SAT Through the life and work of Julian Huxley, Jim Al-Khalili SAT explores the idea of the public scientist. Huxley was a SAT member of the BBC's Brains Trust and a founder of UNESCO. He SAT also invented the Children's Zoo at London Zoo. He wrote SAT accessible books on evolution. But how did being a media SAT figure, committed to the public understanding, square with SAT the world of academic science? And where does Huxley's SAT influence lie to this day? Without Huxley no Brian Cox? SAT Producer Tim Dee. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b010t3jw (Listen) SAT Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities, Episode 2 SAT SAT Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities gives a brash, honest, funny SAT portrait of an innocent, naive England which is only just SAT beginning to register the profound social changes brought on SAT by the industrial revolution. SAT SAT It depicts an almost Shakespearian world-order where SAT everyone happily occupies their place in the scheme of SAT things....a world-order which we see being taken over and SAT transformed by the grasping, shameless Victorian nouveau SAT riche. SAT SAT Surtees (and Scott Cherry) gives us a gallery of SAT unforgettable comic characters - and, at the programme's SAT heart, a true Falstaff, in the irrepressible, loveable, SAT indefatigable rogue that is John Jorrocks - fighting to SAT preserve the English way of life he knows and loves. SAT SAT Scott Cherry - who previously gave us somewhat irreverent SAT versions of "Humphry Clinker" (Smollett) and "Mr Sponge's SAT Sporting Tour" (Surtees) - once again turns his comic SAT imagination and free inspiration to the recreation of the SAT world of Jorrocks and Handley Cross. SAT SAT The gentry of Handley Cross look on in horror as the fox SAT hunting craze begins to sweep through their town. In a SAT classic comedic clash between high and low brow - the SAT citizens are thrown into alternate modes of consternation SAT and celebration. SAT SAT Jorrocks ..... Danny Webb SAT Nash ..... Clive Swift SAT Doleful ..... Charles Edwards SAT Miss Barnington ..... Rebecca Saire SAT Mello/Moonface ..... Gareth Armstrong SAT Julia Jorrocks ..... Emma Pierson SAT Muleygrubs ..... Christian Rodska SAT Pigg/Bray ..... Rob Hudson SAT Simpkins ..... Geoffrey Beevers SAT Barnington ..... Grant Gillespie SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b010t7wv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b010t7s5 (Listen) SAT The Killing of Osama Bin Laden SAT SAT For the tens of thousands of Americans celebrating on the SAT streets of New York and Washington the death of Osama bin SAT Laden at the hands of US special forces was justice done at SAT last. But for many the joy wasn't just prompted by the SAT justice of his death; there was also retribution and SAT revenge. The fact that he wasn't brought before a court and SAT given the due process that our democracy demands didn't seem SAT to trouble many, if any of them. And why should it? bin SAT Laden was undoubtedly directly responsible for ordering the SAT deaths of thousands of people and had inspired others to SAT carry out many more horrific murders in his name. We don't SAT know if those sent to get him had a shoot to kill policy, SAT but a dead bin Laden conveniently avoids the messy prospect SAT of a drawn-out trial, imprisonment and probable death SAT sentence anyway. If anyone deserved it, surely it was him SAT and didn't the nature of his crimes demand the retribution SAT of his death? SAT SAT Should we worry about the niceties of judicial process when SAT it comes to the likes of terrorists? There are many who'd SAT say that after the bombing of the US embassy in Kenya and SAT Tanzania in 1998, where more than 200 lost their lives and SAT over 5000 were injured, that there was enough evidence and SAT opportunity to justify killing bin Laden then. If we'd have SAT been pro-active at that time the world would have been SAT spared 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan and possibly Iraq SAT and countless lives would have been saved. And if we SAT ruthlessly use lethal force against terrorists like bin SAT Laden, because of the threat they pose to our lives and SAT democracy, why not against someone like Colonel Gaddafi who SAT arguably has just as much blood on his hands through the SAT sponsoring of terrorism around the world and who, with his SAT oil wealth and the power of the state behind him, has the SAT means to produce weapons of mass destruction which really SAT would threaten our civilisation. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b010t5wr (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 5 SAT SAT Do you know which famous piano concerto has been described SAT as sounding like 'Orpheus taming the Furies'? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini has the answer to this, and many other SAT questions on music of every genre, as he's joined by three SAT more contestants for the fifth heat of the music quiz. This SAT week's trio of music lovers are all from the South East of SAT England. SAT SAT In addition to the classical repertoire, Paul's questions SAT cover film music, show tunes, jazz, rock, and sixty years of SAT the pop charts. As usual, the contestants will have to SAT answer questions on a special subject of which they've had SAT no prior warning - and there are plenty of musical extracts, SAT both familiar and surprising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT MARK GRANT, an accountant from Bromley in Kent; SAT STEPHEN POLLARD, a journalist from London; SAT STEPHEN RATCLIFFE, a trade association director from SAT Pulborough in West Sussex. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices b010t3k0 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Robert Service SAT SAT As a young man, Brian Patten was fascinated by the life and SAT work of Robert Service, who in the early years of the 20th SAT century left a banking job in Glasgow for the excitement of SAT the goldrush in the Yukon. He almost immediately found SAT himself working in a bank again, but he was now in a SAT romantic wilderness. In the bars of Whitehorse he heard SAT wonderful stories of life in the Gold Rush which he SAT transmuted into Kipling-inspired verse, and he was soon the SAT best-paid poet in the western world. Yet despite his huge SAT popularity, he remained the self-described "man who wouldn't SAT fit in." Now, though honoured in Canada, his work is almost SAT forgotten. SAT SAT The poems are read by James Cosmo. SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 MAY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b010xy27 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00lxfbj (Listen) SUN Perspectives, Attendance SUN SUN Series of stories about people approaching something SUN familiar from a different point of view. SUN SUN By Elizabeth Reeder, read by Robin Laing. SUN SUN A man comes to a life-changing decision as he observes his SUN lover tending to a dying relative. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010xy29 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010xy2c (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010xy2f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b010xy2h (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b010xy2k (Listen) SUN The bells of St Thomas, Norbury, Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b010t7tx (Listen) SUN Series 2, Don't Apologise SUN SUN Jonathan Sumption discusses modern apologies for historical SUN events. Starting with Tony Blair's apology for the Irish SUN potato famine and Pope John Paul II's 94 such apologies, he SUN argues that the trend is turning into a tide. He argues that SUN such apologies rely on a concept of inherited guilt, and SUN asks whether the benefits ever outweigh the serious moral SUN and philosophical objections. SUN SUN Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling SUN in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the SUN stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, SUN ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and SUN society. SUN SUN Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are SUN unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a SUN personal dimension. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b010xy2m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b010xy2p (Listen) SUN The Two Sides of Hope SUN SUN We think of hope as such a positive thing but Mark Tully SUN considers the dangers of false optimism, and the despair SUN that can follow the collapse of great expectations. SUN SUN He takes two examples. SUN SUN On New Year's Eve 1918, the ship, the Lolaire (Pro: You Lair SUN Uh) was bringing over 300 survivors of the First World War SUN back to their loved ones on the Hebridean Island of Lewis SUN and Harris. This return was one of great hope - for those SUN returning, for those waiting, for the Island, and for the SUN world after such a catastrophic war which had ended just six SUN weeks before. SUN SUN The following day would be a New Year. But in the small SUN hours the ship was caught in a storm as it approached the SUN harbour and sank within sight of the crowds on the shore. SUN Most were drowned. It seems the amount of despair is SUN sometimes exponentially linked to the amount of positive SUN expectation. SUN SUN And Mark Tully also looks at a contemporary story of SUN infertility, where regular hope is followed by regular SUN despair, and there can often be a desire not to hope, at SUN all, for fear of the disappointment that follows. SUN SUN But it's not all doom and gloom. Mark Tully also looks at SUN how enduring hope can be a respite, and one that can be SUN continually reached. And the words of Martin Luther King, SUN and the music of Frank Sinatra add another positive note in SUN favour of Dreams, and High Hopes. SUN SUN Presented by Mark Tully SUN Produced by Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b010xy2r (Listen) SUN Dymock Daffodils SUN SUN Writer and naturalist Paul Evans visits the famous daffodils SUN of Dymock. This corner of north Gloucestershire is home to SUN some of the very best wild daffodil spectacles in the SUN British Isles, plants whose pale primrose flowers with SUN egg-yolk trumpets spill over motorway verges, infiltrate SUN hedgerows and crowd into copses for a few precious weeks in SUN late March and early April. The area is also famous for SUN hosting a remarkable collection of poets just before the SUN First World War, lured there by the idea of a rural idyll . SUN Among them were Edward Thomas, who was killed in action, and SUN the visiting American poet Robert Frost, whose verse, "The SUN Road Not Taken " includes the well-known line "two roads SUN diverged in a yellow wood". Was this perhaps a reference to SUN the tides of Dymock daffodils? SUN Paul finds out from his guides Roy Palmer, folklorist and SUN chairman of the Dymock Poets Society, and botanist Ray SUN Woods, who reveals the resilience and also the vulnerability SUN of this surprising flower, which is showing promise as a SUN relief for dementia. Blending literature, history and SUN wildlife, Living World takes the poets' path into the heart SUN of wild daffodil country in this unique corner of England SUN and revels in the coming of spring. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b010xy2t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b010xy2w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b010xy2y (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Father Nadime Nasir an Anglican priest talks to Edward about SUN the situation for Christians in Syria and discusses the SUN moral implications for non-intervention. SUN SUN Sister Nora Nash from a convent in Pennyslvania takes on SUN Goldman Sachs - Matt Wells reports SUN SUN The campaign for the lving wage has been running in UK the SUN for ten years. But how succesfull is it? Edward talks to SUN Catherine Howarth who was there at the begining. SUN SUN Manchester cathedral defends itself against BNP critics for SUN its liturgy celebrating a black St George - Trevor Barnes SUN reports SUN SUN Last week American preacher David Wilkerson died in a car SUN accident in Texas. 40 years ago Wilkerson wrote a book, The SUN Cross and The Switchblade, which has been printed 15 million SUN times. We look at the impact of the book and how it has SUN shaped the life and work of thousands of young Christians SUN since. SUN SUN William Morris, Bishop of Toowoomba Diocese in Queensland SUN talk about why his support for the ordination of women has SUN led him to step down from his post, after a letter from Pope SUN Benedict XVI. SUN SUN A week after the death of Osama Bin Laden we discuss the SUN reaction amongst Mulsims in the UK and ask whether his death SUN will further radicalise young Muslims with Catherine SUN Hesseltine from EMPAC and Dr Taj Hargey from the Muslim SUN Education Centre of Oxford. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b010xy30 (Listen) SUN Home Start SUN SUN David Jason presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Home Start. SUN SUN Donations to Home Start should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio SUN 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Home Start. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give SUN online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide Home Start with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1108837. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b010xy32 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b010xy34 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b010xy36 (Listen) SUN The Resurrection and the Life SUN SUN 40 years after the foundation of Greater Manchester's SUN largest hospice, the Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Revd Nigel SUN McCulloch, preaches at this service giving thanks for a SUN tradition of end of life care inspired by the Christian SUN belief that every individual has a unique dignity before SUN God. Such a belief lies behind the compassionate approach SUN which seeks to embrace every person, regardless of faith or SUN conviction, who comes into contact with the hospice movement SUN right across the UK. Leader: Deborah Hollamby. Live from SUN Emmanuel Church Didsbury with the St Ann's Festival Choir SUN directed by John Pomphrey and with organist Jeffrey SUN Makinson. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010t6c0 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 12 SUN SUN 12/20. When massing for their winter torpor in Mexico, the SUN pine trees laden with Monarch Butterflies are one of the SUN most mystical and magical places to be. David Attenborough SUN is one of many naturalists, writers and broadcasters to SUN marvel at this species migration feat and the spectacle of SUN their over wintering - one of the natural wonders of the SUN world. In this Life Story David Attenborough guides us SUN through the butterfly's migration to Canada from Mexico - SUN and back again - gently unpacking their natural history and SUN wonder. And he immerses us in other butterfly congregations SUN during filming trips over the years - but in a clever twist SUN brings us back to his garden with an intriguing thought SUN about the evolution of butterfly behaviour. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b010xy38 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b010xy3b (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Phoebe Tucker ..... Lucy Morris SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright 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 William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Spencer Wilkes ..... Johnny Venkman SUN Ted Griffiths ..... Paul Webster. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b010xy3d (Listen) SUN Molly Parkin SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the doyenne of bohemian living, SUN Molly Parkin. SUN SUN She left the Welsh valleys to train as a fine artist in SUN London and was a successful painter then teacher before SUN becoming a fashion writer and novelist. She is as well SUN known, though, for her lifestyle as her work. She adopted a SUN hedonistic approach to life - smoking and drinking through SUN the night and picking up numerous lovers along the way. SUN SUN Now aged 79 she prefers to live alone and says she has found SUN a calmer way of living. "I have been blessed, and made it my SUN business, to surround myself with larger than life SUN characters," she says, "love, on a very profound level comes SUN unexpectedly and brilliantly." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b010t64r (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 5 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Clive Anderson, Sue Perkins, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Sheep, Furniture, The SUN Ancient Greeks and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 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 b010xy3g (Listen) SUN Climate Change Farm SUN SUN How do we produce food to deal with climate change? To find SUN out, Sheila Dillon visits Mark Diacono's "climate change" SUN farm in Devon to look at a new way of producing food, mixing SUN exotic plants with agro-forestry. SUN SUN Mark's guiding principle is plant only what you passionately SUN want to eat. His own list began with mulberries and expanded SUN to include many things that were historically impossible - SUN pecans, Japanese wineberries, Carolina allspice, peaches. SUN They all have their place. But climate change might not just SUN mean warmer summers - it could mean more unpredictable SUN weather; droughts, downpours, and floods which can wipe out SUN annual crops. So Otter Farm is a test bed for perennial SUN horticulture and forest gardening, inter-planting trees, SUN shrubs, climbers and groundcover, plants that grow back SUN every spring and are more resilient to extreme weather. SUN SUN Also joining Sheila at Otter Farm is Martin Crawford of the SUN Agro-forestry Research Trust in Devon which has been SUN practicing agro-forestry for nearly two decades. It is low SUN maintenance but very productive, and has a considerably SUN lower carbon footprint than conventional farming which SUN relies on chemical inputs and tillage of the soil - both SUN significant emitters of CO2. SUN SUN Sheila, Mark and Martin share a "climate change lunch" with SUN Gerry Hayman of the British Tomato Growers Association, SUN growers who've received negative press for their SUN sustainability credentials e.g. heated greenhouses vs. SUN tomatoes grown in the Spanish sun. It's also the kind of SUN monocrop that the Otter Farm model cites as being SUN unsustainable in the future. Over lunch they discuss the SUN pros and cons of British tomato growing, the horticulture SUN industry in the UK, and new ways of producing food for an SUN increasing world population. SUN SUN Producer: Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b010xy3j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0110406 (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 Manchester and Liverpool: Britain's American Civil War SUN b010xy3l (Listen) SUN Historian Tristram Hunt tells a tale of two cities. SUN SUN In the 1860s, the great port of Liverpool and the industrial SUN powerhouse that was Manchester and its surrounding towns SUN were both deeply involved with America and its great export SUN industry: cotton. But when the American Civil War erupted in SUN 1861, it began to pull the two cities in very different SUN directions. SUN SUN Tristram begins at the house of Charles Kuhn Prioleau, a SUN South Carolina cotton trader who set up home in Liverpool. SUN SUN Prioleau took it upon himself to start privately - and SUN illicitly - funding a fleet of deadly warships for his SUN embattled Confederate homeland. Merseyside shipbuilder SUN Laird's was happy to help. SUN SUN What's more, under Abraham Lincoln, the American North SUN blockaded the South and stopped it exporting cotton. SUN Tristram hears how this angered many Liverpool businessmen, SUN who began to back the Confederacy, helping to smuggle SUN supplies through the North's blockade. SUN SUN There was even a Bazaar at Liverpool's palatial new St SUN George's Hall, to raise money for the Confederate prisoners. SUN SUN Meanwhile, the choking-off of cotton supplies from the SUN American South had a terrible impact on the mill-workers of SUN Lancashire, who suddenly found themselves out of work, and SUN increasingly short of food. SUN SUN This led some to hope for a swift end to the war. And yet, SUN even in the throes of 'Cotton Famine', many cotton workers SUN gathered at Manchester's Free Trade Hall and issued an SUN extraordinary message to President Lincoln. SUN SUN They assured him that, though his blockade was imposing SUN great hardship on them, they still supported his battle SUN against slavery. SUN SUN And this extraordinary gesture led not just to a grateful SUN response from Lincoln, but a rich political reward.... SUN SUN Presenter: Tristram Hunt MP SUN Producer: Phil Tinline SUN SUN With: Thomas Sebrell, Jerry Williams, Michael SUN Benbough-Jackson, David Brown and Alan Kidd. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b010t6jk (Listen) SUN Carmarthenshire, Wales SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening Q&A in Carmarthenshire, SUN Wales. He is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew & Anne SUN Swithinbank. SUN SUN In addition, Matthew Wilson reports on a recent set of SUN daffodil trials taking place at RHS Wisley. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 15 by 15 b010xy3q (Listen) SUN Trifle SUN SUN What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it SUN lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN chooses a word and sees where it leads him. In 15 minutes he SUN expects to learn 15 things he didn't know before. SUN SUN In the second programme 'Trifle', Hardeep meets head pastry SUN chef Jocky Petrie who went on a mission to make the perfect SUN trifle, Shakespeare scholar Luke Healy, and remembers the SUN inimitable TV cook Fanny Cradock. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Bannerman SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b010xy3s (Listen) SUN The Prelude, Episode 1 SUN SUN William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude is SUN arguably the most important piece of poetic writing in our SUN language. Recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere, SUN Cumbria, Wordsworth looks back over events in his early life SUN . SUN SUN Wordsworth believed that poetry should be written in the SUN natural language of common speech, and in that way it was SUN revolutionary in its time. SUN SUN Parts of the poem are famous, with lines quoted often such SUN as the description of the young Wordsworth stealing a boat. SUN Other parts are more introspective. The young poet leaves SUN Grasmere to go to University in Cambridge, and is homesick. SUN Wordsworth grapples with his political feelings - travelling SUN to France at the time of the French revolution. He enjoys SUN the hustle and bustle of London, and is euphoric when SUN crossing the Alps. All the time this poem is accessible, SUN bursting with colour and description, full of gripping SUN storytelling. SUN SUN The Prelude is read by Sir Ian McKellen with specially SUN composed music by John Harle, performed by John Harle on SUN Saxophone and Neill MacColl on guitar. SUN SUN The Prelude is directed in Manchester by Susan Roberts. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b010xy8c (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Booker winning author Anne SUN Enright about her new novel, The Forgotten Waltz, a story of SUN love and memory set in Dublin in the days prior to the SUN financial crash. SUN SUN Plus - the profound literary friendship between Charles SUN Dickens and Wilkie Collins, examined by Dickens fan Roy SUN Hattersley and academic John Bowen. Dickens and Collins SUN wrote, walked and shared their literary passions together, SUN most notably in The Tale of Two Idle Apprentices, a comic SUN travelogue in which they send themselves up. SUN SUN Mariella also speaks to young adult author Patrick Ness SUN about picking up the literary baton, after he completed a SUN novel by fellow writer Siobhan Dowd following her death from SUN cancer. SUN SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b010xy8f (Listen) SUN Roger McGough returns with half an hour of pure poetry. The SUN work of Edward Thomas, Kathleen Raine and Carol Ann Duffy SUN features, with poems about teachers, moons, notable pauses, SUN railway trips, and other journeys. Keen fell walker and SUN poetry fan Stuart Maconie reads Scafell Pike by the Cumbrian SUN poet, Norman Nicholson, and Roger finds out what a SUN discobolus is in a strange, ranting verse by the painter SUN poet Samuel Butler. The readers are Jonjo O'Neill, Alison SUN McKenna and Peter Marinker. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Lebanon: The Next Generation b010t6l7 (Listen) SUN Twenty-five years ago John McCarthy first set foot in SUN Lebanon. Twenty years ago he left. In the years between he SUN had been blindfolded, chained and beaten - as one of the SUN Western hostages caught up in the turmoil of the Lebanese SUN civil war. SUN SUN Now he returns for BBC Radio 4, with a set of questions he SUN is keen to answer. What has happened to Lebanon in the years SUN of comparative peace? Has the cycle of violence finally been SUN broken? What has happened to the civil war generation? And, SUN more importantly for John, what are the post-war generation SUN of young Lebanese doing to reshape their society? Are they SUN creating their own version of the Arab Spring? SUN SUN In the week of his visit John encounters two mass SUN demonstrations that illustrate the possibilities of change - SUN and also the barricades set against it. SUN SUN Event one is a rally of close to a million people in SUN Martyrs' Square. At this event the vast crowd roars approval SUN as the acting Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, calls for his SUN main political rival, Hezbollah, the Party of God, to give SUN up its weapons. Old Politics. SUN SUN Event two is more modest, but its impact on Lebanese society SUN could conceivably be more profound. Thirty-thousand people, SUN most of them young, march through the city streets to a hip SUN hop beat. They believe that for Lebanon to really become a SUN post-war society it must introduce a secular system, based SUN on individual human rights. The present system, they SUN believe, inevitably leads to conflict. New politics. SUN SUN John meets people from both sides of the great debate. Nadim SUN Gemayel, the son of an assassinated warlord who believes SUN that the days of warlords must be ended. Or Walid Jumblatt, SUN a current warlord, who feels trapped by the system that SUN sustains his power. SUN SUN And John meets a host of young people, determined to change SUN the world. SUN SUN Producer: Geoff Dunlop SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b010xy8h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b010xy3v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b010xy3x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010xy3z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b010xy8k (Listen) SUN Caz Graham makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN In Pick of the Week tonight we discover why Harrison SUN Birtwhistle is composing a Requiem for a Moth, the best way SUN to catch a basking adder, and ask does Matthew Parris SUN deserve a BAFTA for a stellar performance as Lewis Carroll's SUN Plum Pudding? SUN SUN There's a trip to Bavaria with the Monty Python team, a SUN saunter round the Festival of Britain and also, following SUN the death of Osama Bin Laden, we have moving testimony from SUN the New York banking boss who lost more than 500 staff and SUN his own brother on September the 11th. SUN SUN All that and another chance to hear a smashing bit of SUN cricket commentary, an excellent listen even if you don't SUN like cricket. SUN SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN The Jam Generation Takes Power - Radio 4 SUN 78 Revolutions - Radio 4 SUN Costing The Earth - Radio 4 SUN The Simon Day Show - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Lost Property - The Wrong Label - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Crossing Continents - Radio 4 SUN A Tonic For The Nation -Radio 2 SUN Requiem For A Moth - Radio 4 SUN Saving Species - Radio 4 SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b010xwf5 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b010xyfy (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00mbxfb (Listen) SUN The Heart of Saturday Night, Muriel SUN SUN Ed Stoppard reads the next in the series of stories inspired SUN by the distinctive world created by the legendary musician SUN Tom Waits - a sleazy world peopled by down-at-heel SUN characters on the edge of society, or outcasts and deadbeats SUN singing of loss and longing. In US author Willy Vlautin's SUN story, a small-town forklift truck-driver returns to his old SUN neighbourhood and the bar he used to drink in before his SUN breakdown. All the characters are still there, but he can't SUN help but notice how they all do their best to avoid SUN mentioning his dead wife Muriel. SUN SUN The reader is Ed Stoppard. SUN SUN Produced by Justine Willett. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b010xykh (Listen) SUN In this week's programme: SUN SUN The blogosphere has been awash with accusations of a climate SUN change conspiracy. The UN, it's claimed, tried to cover up a SUN prediction made about "climate refugees". More or Less SUN investigates. SUN SUN What really happened immediately after Henry Cooper knocked SUN Cassius Clay to the floor in their famous 1963 fight? SUN SUN In late April, the OECD (the Organisation for Economic SUN Cooperation and Development) released a report stating that SUN progress in reducing child poverty in the UK has stalled. SUN But how is child poverty measured? And is the official SUN measure the best way to think about it? SUN SUN And finally: Professor Danny Dorling, a geographer at the SUN University of Sheffield, offers a surprising statistical SUN overview of Britain. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b010xykk (Listen) SUN Osama bin Laden, Sir Henry Leach, Sir Henry Cooper, Hubert SUN Schlafly and Arthur Laurents SUN SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b010xykm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b010xy30 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b010t7t8 (Listen) SUN Keep it Local SUN SUN As pubs struggle to survive, Peter Day travels through SUN villages in Yorkshire and Cumbria to talk to local activists SUN and find out how easy it is to buy and successfully run one SUN of the focal points for any community - the village pub. He SUN looks at the successes and failures and asks whether sheer SUN enthusiasm and community spirit is enough to win through. SUN Is there an economic case for these sorts of projects or can SUN they only survive through grants and subsidies? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b010xy41 (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 b010xykp (Listen) SUN Episode 51 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Alan Cochraine of The SUN Telegraph takes the chair and the editor is Catherine SUN Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b010t6jr (Listen) SUN In the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the SUN director of Atonement, Joe Wright about his new film, Hanna; SUN the charismatic Christoph Waltz, who stars in Water for SUN Elephants, discusses the craft of screen acting; and the SUN film historian Neil Brand reflects on cinema's ironic use of SUN music. There's also a look back to two cult films released SUN in 1968 - Bob Rafelson's Head and the even rarer Joanna, SUN directed by Mike Sarne, which has just been released on DVD. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b010xy2p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 MAY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b010xvtg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b010t7rz (Listen) MON The Poor on Poverty and Radical Gardening MON MON Gardening is the epitome of a peaceful pasttime, associated MON as it is with semi-somnolent suburban weekends, the sound of MON hedges being carefully clipped and the reassuring aroma of MON freshly mown grass. The notion of 'radical' gardening MON implies little more than a concerted attack on the mass of MON weeds accumulated in an herbaceous border or a garden MON makeover culminating in a fully decked patio. However, there MON is a radical history to gardening and it has been the site MON of protest and counterculture in Britain from the Levellers MON and the Diggers in the 17th century to today's so-called MON Guerrilla Gardeners. On today's Thinking Allowed Laurie is MON joined by George McKay and Tim Jordan to discuss the MON protest, politics and plots of the garden. MON Also on the programme, Tracy Shildrick on her illuminating MON study of the underprivileged of Teesside and why nobody MON describes themselves as poor. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b010xy2k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010xvtj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010xvtl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010xvtn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b010xvtq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010xvvc (Listen) MON With Dr Mike Ford. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b010y34t (Listen) MON This year more oil seed rape will be processed than ever MON before in the UK. Farmers are producing 2.3 million tonnes MON of the seeds which can be used in animal feed or turned into MON oil for food. Meaning more fields of gold across seven MON hundred thousand acres of the UK. MON A world expert on renewable energy says it's impossible for MON the UK to meet its targets on green energy. By 2020 the MON Government aims for the UK to produce 15 per cent from MON renewable sources. MON Also in the programme, gay farmers can feel isolated, MON depressed and some even consider suicide according to a MON unique church run service in Cheshire set up to support MON them. Charlotte Smith finds out why. Presenter; Charlotte MON Smith. Producer; Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b010xvts (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01105hc (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 b010y34w (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the Labour MP Denis MacShane about the MON political situation in France. It's 30 years since the MON election of the country's first socialist President, MON Francois Mitterrand. The People's Pledge is campaigning for MON a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, and its MON founder Ruth Lea argues that it's time to disregard the MON wishes of Brussels. The Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman MON explores the spirit of Mesopotamia in his latest works, MON where his films of water defy national boundaries. And the MON so-called 'godfather' of the Young British Artists, Michael MON Craig-Martin, showcases the art of drawing, from his MON original sketches using tape forty years ago, to the MON computer-generated drawings of today. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b010xw10 (Listen) MON Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True MON Story, Episode 1 MON MON "Colonel Prossen searched for ways to ease the stress among MON his staff. On the 13th May 1945 he had arranged the most MON sought after prize, one certain to boost morale - a trip to MON Shangri-la. Margaret was at her desk when the invitation MON came..." MON MON The members of Base G camp in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, MON are given time out to fly over this wonderful hidden valley, MON where time stands still. The only inhabitants are the 'Stone MON Age' Yali and Dani tribes-people, who populate the jungle MON swathes. The flight in a plane called 'The Gremlin Special' MON should be a real eye-opener, but then something goes badly MON wrong... MON MON 1. This tale of a forgotten land is abridged in five MON parts by Katrin Williams, and we first learn how the plane MON is forced down in empty, verdant nowhere. But are there MON any survivors? MON MON Reader Nathan Osgood MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b010xw4x (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. The women who struck out west with MON the wagon trains in 1840s America - why they endured such MON hardship, and how their lives were changed. Should schools MON teach girls to say no to teen sex? We discuss a bill that MON would give extra sex education lessons, offering information MON and advice on the benefits of abstinence. Jazz singer and MON broadcaster Clare Teal performs live. We hear the personal MON stories of women in Afghanistan gathered by Zarghuna Kargar MON when she presented Afghan Woman's Hour on the BBC World MON Service. MON MON Teenage sex MON MON Should schools teach girls to say no? The Conservative MP MON Nadine Dorries wants schools to give girls aged 13 to 16 MON extra sex education lessons, offering information and advice MON on the benefits of abstinence. Her ten-minute rule bill MON which she says will empower young girls was passed by 67 MON votes to 61. It will now join a list of private member’s MON Bills waiting for a second reading in the Commons. To MON discuss, Jane is joined by the MP Louise Bagshawe who backed MON the bill and Simon Blake, Chief Executive of Brook, the MON sexual health charity for young people. MON MON Clare Teal MON MON Yorkshire born Clare Teal is one of the most successful MON female British jazz singers in decades: twice voted British MON Jazz Singer of the year and the BBC’s Jazz Singer of the MON year in 2006, she signed the biggest ever recording deal by MON a British jazz singer. Away from her singing work, Clare’s MON also known for her weekly big band shows on BBC Radio 2. Her MON new album, ‘Hey Ho’, is Clare’s tenth, and is a celebration MON of The Great British Songbook spanning a period of almost MON 120 years, with artists ranging from Noël Coward and Ivor MON Novello to Annie Lennox and Snow Patrol. Clare joins Jane to MON discuss the inspirations behind her new album and performs MON live in the studio. MON MON 'One More (Baby Be Good To Me)' and 'Hey Ho' is released on MON 9th May on MUD records. MON MON Pioneer women MON MON The Oregon Trail in 1845 was not a comfortable place to be. MON Dubbed the American Desert, it typically took pioneers and MON their wagons six months to complete. At the end lay the MON promise of free land and agricultural paradise. A new film, MON Meek’s Cutoff, tells the story of three families who become MON horribly lost on the trail and are forced to adapt in order MON to survive. Jane talks to Dr Karen Jones from the University MON of Kent about the real women who headed West into the MON unknown and how they changed along the way. MON MON Meek's Cutoff is in selected cinemas now. MON MON Dear Zari MON MON In her new book, Zarghuna Kargar brings together a MON collection of life stories gathered when she was presenting MON Afghan Woman’s Hour on BBC World Service. ‘Dear Zari’ tells MON the intimate and personal stories of women hidden from view: MON sold as children to settle family disputes, denied an MON education or access to health care and rejected when they MON fail to produce sons. MON MON 'Dear Zari' is published by Chatto and Windus. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010xw7w (Listen) MON Ancient Mysteries, Episode 1 MON MON A series of monologues adapted from two books, 'Ancient MON Mysteries' and 'Tell Mrs Mill her husband is still dead' MON (compiled, edited and published by David Clegg). MON MON They are adapted from interviews in which dementia sufferers MON recall their lives. The pieces are funny, sad, moving and MON mysterious in what they say about the human spirit and mind. MON MON Read by Richard Briers and Anne Reid MON Sound Engineer: Tom Jenkins MON Produced by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse MON A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow b01104bx (Listen) MON Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow- For centuries hair has been used MON as a symbol of remembrance; from a simple lock kept to the MON more intricate practice of weaving hair into bracelets or MON its use in art and jewellery. In this programme the MON historian and biographer Juliette Barker traces these MON practices through history and talks to some modern MON collectors. Now that it has become apparent that hair offers MON us the chance to retrieve good quality DNA could it be about MON to enjoy a renaissance as favoured medium once more by which MON we remember our loved ones and ancestors? MON MON 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010y376 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON MON In this episode Dave and the boys are busily organising a MON surprise 50th birthday party for Ramesh, but will Sanjay MON manage to keep his trap closed long enough without spilling MON the beans before the big day. MON MON So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a MON firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves MON the art of the 'shop'. MON MON However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to MON all other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by MON his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who MON shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he MON is treated like a slave. MON MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them MON whether they like it or not! MON MON Ramesh: Sanjeev Kolhi MON Dave: Donald McLeary MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Keith Futures: Greg McHugh MON Malcolm: Mina Anwar MON Alan: Tom Urie MON Phil: Stewart Cairns MON Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo MON MON Producer/Director: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01104bz (Listen) MON How much of an appetite is there for eating rabbit farmed in MON the UK? Can British bunnies compete with foreign imports on MON quality and price? MON MON And we find out why one Suffolk village get its mail MON delivered on alternate days only. MON MON Plus, how one American entrepreneur is advising the MON government on how to get the long-term unemployed back to MON work. MON MON 12:57 Weather b010xvtv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01104c1 (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 b010y378 (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 6 MON MON Which serious Anglo-Irish composer of the 20th century MON secretly wrote comic songs and passed them off as the work MON of a fictional composer called Karel Drofnatsky? MON MON The answer to this, and many other musical teasers, will be MON supplied by Paul Gambaccini, in the latest heat of MON Counterpoint, the general knowledge music quiz. For the MON sixth heat in the 25th anniversary series of the quiz, Paul MON welcomes competitors to the BBC Radio Theatre in London. MON MON The questions cover all the usual musical bases, from the MON core classics to jazz, show tunes, film scores, chart MON favourites and recent releases. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b010xwf5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b010y37b (Listen) MON Unfinished Business MON MON Judith Kampfner's play about how a quick Internet search can MON change the lives of two families who never knew of each MON other's existence. MON MON Based on the actual story of one man's impulse to discover MON more about his absent father and the fragile friendship he MON then forms with the man who was perhaps closest to the dad MON he never knew. The words of the letters they send are taken MON from the real email correspondence they exchanged. All names MON have been changed and additional characters invented. MON MON Simon Sachanah ..... Daniel Gerroll MON Owen Sachanah ..... Tom Datnow MON Marjorie Robinson ..... Sandra Shipley MON Dr Anna Carter ..... Christa Scott-Reed MON Jeff Rodriguez ..... Shawn Elliot MON Tina Rodriguez ..... Leslie Lyles MON Radio Announcer ..... Sydney Beveridge MON MON Technical Direction: Scott Lehrer MON Producer/Director: Judith Kampfner MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b010y1x6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010y396 (Listen) MON Series 1, The Downtrodden Serfs MON MON Over 700 years successive Tsars had extended the grip of MON Russia on new territory. The Empire needed a huge peasant MON class to work the land, and out of this need came the MON underdog of Russian society - 17 million serfs, or, as they MON were also called, souls. The plight of the serf pricked the MON conscience of the Russian intelligentsia, and for writers MON they were a fact of life that in the 19th century became a MON cause. MON MON As pressure for change mounted, this programme traces the MON role serfdom has played in the history of Russia. As early MON as Kievan times in the 11th and 12th centuries, slaves were MON a valuable commodity. In many ways serfdom had been a MON relatively benign arrangement between landowner and peasant MON - and despite the many stories of brutality, the music that MON emerged is surprisingly joyful. "The inherited willingness MON to pull together in the face of shared problems helped the MON nation expand into an empire and defend itself against its MON enemies," argues Martin Sixsmith. "But it also hindered the MON development of private property, political freedoms and the MON law-governed institutions that Western Europe was beginning MON to take for granted." MON MON In the 19th century serfdom had developed into the worst MON form of slavery and by the 1850's abolition was under MON serious discussion in Russia and America. An emerging MON Russian intelligentsia expressed their own guilt over the MON horrors of serfdom. But unpicking centuries of class MON division would have to wait for the 20th century before it MON erupted. MON MON Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking MON Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b010xy3g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Who'd be a Social Worker b010m3ft (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON As four new social workers start their careers in adult MON services, Simon Cox gets a unique opportunity to follow them MON and see how well their training has prepared them. MON MON These are the people we rarely hear from. When something MON goes wrong in social work, it's the directors who appear in MON the news; the anonymous workers who get lambasted in the MON press. But we don't hear the social worker's side of the MON story. Now they get a chance to tell us. MON MON All four graduates have just finished their training at MON Birmingham University. Jobs are scarce and what they do find MON is temporary or unqualified. But all are excited about their MON new careers. MON MON Ali has been invited back to the hospice where she did her MON training. She gives us a touching insight into the MON practicalities of dying as she tries to help patients fend MON off the bailiffs. Others are keen to ensure their treasured MON possessions go to the right people. MON MON Lucy is working as a mental health recovery worker in a day MON centre in Norwich. Its users are up in arms about changes to MON the service, which they say will leave them isolated and MON suicidal. Just two weeks into the job, Lucy finds herself MON the focus of blame. MON MON Agency worker, Lara, is 22. Every day she goes out to assess MON the needs of the elderly to see what help they can get with MON limited funding available. She meets a woman in her eighties MON living alone with advanced Alzheimer's. Her son is her only MON carer and his boundless patience and good humour touch Lara MON who tries to get them more help. MON MON Tabitha loves her job helping adults with learning MON disabilities. But so soon after starting there's a round of MON redundancies and she's on the list. There's nothing going MON locally. Will she have to leave her young children for a job MON elsewhere in the country? MON MON Presenter: Simon Cox presents The Report and Click On on MON Radio 4, and previously fronted The Investigation. MON Producer: Deborah Dudgeon MON Executive Producer: David Prest MON A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b01104c3 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010xvtx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b010y39b (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 6 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Arthur Smith, Tony Hawks, Rhod Gilbert and Charlie Brooker MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Ears, Divorce, Badgers MON and Ice Cream. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b010xwdv (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b010xwhh (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including a review of film-maker Terry MON Gilliam's debut as an opera director, with a production of MON The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz, for English National MON Opera. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010xw7w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Fighting the Power of Pink b010y39d (Listen) MON Any parents of a little girl will tell you that they are MON strangely drawn to the colour pink. But is it in their genes MON or is it all down to culture? Kat Arney investigates, MON talking to parents, scientists, and the toy industry. She MON discovers that while women are more drawn than men to MON reddish shades of blue, boys and girls don't seem to develop MON different preferences until they are over the age of two. MON But long before then, they have very different preferences MON for toys. So maybe we all just like different colours MON because we like the things that come in those colours. Or MON maybe women really do prefer pink because in the distant MON past they needed to be able to see red berries against green MON leaves, while men needed to see brown bison against a blue MON sky? MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b010t6lp (Listen) MON South Africa MON MON In South Africa a mining company whose owners include the MON grandson of Nelson Mandela and the nephew of President Jacob MON Zuma has left thousands of its employees without work and, MON they claim, without pay. MON MON Back in 2009 the company, Aurora Empowerment Systems, bid MON R605 million (£55 million) to take over two gold mines on MON the outskirts of Johannesburg, despite having no experience MON in mining industry. Aurora promised steady jobs, housing and MON bursaries for miners' children. MON MON The reality has been poverty, despair and even suicide, and MON mining unions claim the company still owes workers around MON R12 million in unpaid wages (£1.1 million). Aurora denies MON this, and says they have paid 80 per cent of the outstanding MON salaries. MON MON Martin Plaut travels to South Africa and sees first hand the MON personal despair of the affected mine workers, and learns MON how the Aurora debacle has created a schism between the MON ruling ANC party and the working-class black South African MON voters, who feel the country's political elite no longer MON care about their plight. MON MON Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. MON MON 21:00 Material World b010t7qp (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON MON Tornadoes in the USA MON MON The outbreak of tornadoes that ravaged the southern US last MON week was the largest in the country’s recorded history. The MON three-day period from 25th-28th April saw 362 tornadoes MON strike. More than three hundred and seventy seven people MON have died and many are still missing. We ask Josh Wurman, MON President of the Centre for Severe Weather Research in MON Colorado, what made last month's storms so exceptional, how MON researchers like him are investigating tornadoes, and how MON much there still is to learn. MON MON Why being overweight can cause dementia? MON MON Being overweight or obese in mid-life could increase the MON risk of developing dementia in later life, scientists in MON Sweden have found. Previous studies have indicated a link MON between obesity and dementia, but this is the most MON comprehensive study to date to show an increased risk with MON just being overweight. But do we know why being overweight MON can affect memory? Dr. Simon Ridley, from Alzheimer's MON Research UK, joins us from Cambridge. MON MON Mapping English Orchards MON MON People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) has completed a MON 5 year survey to map England’s traditional orchards - a UK MON Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Priority Habitat. The MON inventory provides for the first time an accurate picture of MON the number of traditional orchards remaining, as well as a MON county by county league table about their age and condition. MON We speak to Anita Burrough, the Orchard Project Officer at MON PTES. MON MON Gravity Probe B Announcement MON MON NASA first got involved with the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) MON space mission in 1963. The project was designed to test two MON predictions derived from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. MON Yesterday NASA announced the results of this long running MON mission. We talk to Professor Tim Sumner from Imperial MON College, about whether Einstein got it right. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b010y34w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b010xvtz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01104mx (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 b010m60f (Listen) MON The Yacoubian Building, Episode 1 MON MON By Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. MON MON In one of the finest old apartment buildings in Cairo, sixty MON five year old playboy Zaki Bey has a romantic MON misadventure... MON MON Once home to the creme de la creme of Egyptian society, The MON Yacoubian Building is now past its prime. Older residents MON cling to the faded glories and old-world charm of its past, MON while newer tenants busily prevent eager arrivals from MON usurping more space in a building that reflects 70 years of MON Egypt's social and political upheavals. MON MON Structured as a series of intersecting vignettes, The MON Yacoubian Building follows Taha, the studious doorman's son; MON his first love, Busayna, who struggles to support her MON family; Zaki Bey el Dessouki, an elderly yet elegant MON lothario; Hatim Rasheed, the homosexual editor of a leading MON newspaper; rags-to riches millionaire and political aspirant MON Hagg Azzam; and the wheeler-dealer tailor Malak Khilla, MON among others, as they conspire, romance, suffer, and dream MON in the shadow of the historic edifice. Bursting with life, MON The Yacoubian Building vividly provides a revealing glimpse MON into contemporary Egypt, where a cosmopolitan past clashes MON with a tumultuous present. MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b010t6h8 (Listen) MON We do it at college, at work, and even in pursuit of MON happiness. But what are the rules of engagement for an MON interview? Michael Rosen finds out how to get into MON university; how to keep your job or get a better one, and MON how to impress the love of your life. MON MON Getting a place at university is more competitive than ever. MON So just how level is the university playing field? Does the MON process reward the most intelligent or the most articulate? MON And are the skills developed for the college interview ones MON that will come in handy later on....down the pub? MON MON Producer: John Byrne. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b010y3b5 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 MAY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b010xvv1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b010xw10 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010xvv3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010xvv5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010xvv7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b010xvv9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011073z (Listen) TUE With Dr Mike Ford. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b010xzxf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b010xzxh (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Jam Generation Takes Power b010xzxk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Political columnist Anne McElvoy meets leading figures from TUE the new generation at the top of British politics, including TUE Ed Miliband, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who grew up in TUE the 1980s listening to bands like The Jam. TUE TUE In the second programme, she explores how the Blair years TUE saw them begin their careers in politics and what lessons TUE they now draw from that very different political period, in TUE terms of both spin and substance. TUE TUE Producer: James Cook. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b010xzz7 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Ramsay MacDonald TUE TUE Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, continues his 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. TUE TUE The fifth of Nick's portraits in power is Ramsay MacDonald, TUE who became the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924 but seven TUE years later came to be seen as a traitor by his party when TUE he agreed to lead a Conservative-dominated National TUE Government. TUE TUE MacDonald's rise to the premiership was a remarkable TUE achievement for someone who began life in the Victorian era TUE as the illegitimate child of a servant girl and a farm TUE labourer. As prime minister and foreign secretary in TUE Labour's first, short-lived government, MacDonald TUE established his party's fitness to govern, despite lacking a TUE majority in parliament. Five years later, he returned to TUE Number 10 when Labour became the largest party but he still TUE lacked an overall majority. His government was overwhelmed TUE by the world economic depression and its orthodox policies TUE were inadequate for tackling mass unemployment. In August TUE 1931, the government sought to restore confidence by cutting TUE its spending, but MacDonald's Cabinet split over proposed TUE cuts in unemployment benefit. MacDonald's Labour colleagues TUE were shocked when he accepted the King's invitation to lead TUE a coalition government. The National Government won a TUE landslide victory later in 1931 and MacDonald remained prime TUE minister until 1935, but he almost destroyed the party that TUE he did so much to build. TUE TUE Helping Nick to reassess MacDonald are his biographer, David TUE Marquand, and the politician and writer, Roy Hattersley. In TUE the rest of his series, Nick considers Harold Macmillan, TUE Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. TUE TUE Producer Rob Shepherd. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b010xzz9 (Listen) TUE Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True TUE Story, Episode 2 TUE TUE There are three survivors after The Gremlin Special goes TUE down TUE in verdant jungle. Margaret, McCollum and Decker struggle TUE making TUE it up to high land, then find out they are not alone... TUE TUE Reader Nathan Osgood. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0112b61 (Listen) TUE Estonian crime writer Sofi Oksanen talks about her book TUE 'Purge'. Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01121gy (Listen) TUE Ancient Mysteries, Episode 2 TUE TUE A series of monologues adapted from two books, 'Ancient TUE Mysteries' and 'Tell Mrs Mill her husband is still dead' TUE (compiled, edited and published by David Clegg). TUE TUE They are adapted from interviews in which dementia sufferers TUE recall their lives. The pieces are funny, sad, moving and TUE mysterious in what they say about the human spirit and mind. TUE TUE Read by Amelia Bullmore and John Woodvine TUE Sound Engineer: Tom Jenkins TUE Produced by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b010xzzc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE Latest reports suggest that the population of Mountain TUE Gorillas in forested central Africa is picking up. This TUE species became emblematic of the plight of endangered TUE species in general with pressures on their habitat, the TUE Gorillas being poached for body parts and family groups TUE broken up and even destroyed. Ian Redmond, one of the TUE pioneering Mountain Gorilla scientists who brought this TUE issue to the world media returns regularly to the area. This TUE time he has returned with Saving Species recording equipment TUE and in the company of the head of Interpol. We get the TUE latest from the area and how the international community TUE tackles the complex issue of poaching and trade in TUE endangered species. It also fires up another major theme in TUE this year's Saving Species run, that of woodlands and TUE forests. TUE TUE We'll have Ian Redmond in the studio and we'll hear reports TUE from Woodlands in the UK. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Widdecombe TUE Investigates b010xzzf (Listen) TUE 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of The TUE Innocence of Father Brown. Ann Widdecombe goes on the trail TUE of G.K.Chesterton's crime solving priest whose unlikely TUE methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age TUE of Detective Fiction. She talks to fans A.N.Wilson and Simon TUE Brett, and traces the creation of Father Brown to the TUE friendship between Chesterton and Mgr John O'Connor, an TUE Irish Priest who later converted Chesterton to Catholicism. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b010xzzh (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b010xvvh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01107xz (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 b010xzzk (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 3 TUE TUE Julian Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens and the British TUE Museum's Irving Finkel are joined by TV presenter Konnie Huq TUE to discuss three personally significant pieces of music. TUE TUE Amongst their choices are an inspirational seven minutes of TUE time-wasting Seventies introspection; an 80s club classic TUE from some British soul pioneers and a delicate French love TUE song from an English soprano, which was originally recorded TUE at 78rpm. TUE TUE Along the way we find out who has played opposite Jude Law TUE in a theatre production, what Arthur Scargill bought in a TUE high end fashion outlet and how a 1950s reel to reel tape TUE recorder can bring love into your life. TUE TUE Presenter: Phil Hammond TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b010xwdv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b010xzzm (Listen) TUE Lost Property, The Year My Mother Went Missing TUE TUE It's 1979, and it's not the first time that Ruthie's mother TUE Queenie has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note. The TUE second in Katie Hims' trilogy of plays. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Rosie Cavaliero TUE Ruthie ..... Shannon Flynn TUE Vincent ..... Ceallach Spellman TUE Marcus ..... Elliot Griffiths TUE Dad ..... Ralph Ineson TUE Ray ..... Daniel Rabin TUE Alice ..... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Queenie ..... Sally Orrock TUE PC O'Hara ..... Stuart McLoughlin TUE DI Driscoll ..... Sean Baker TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b010xzzp (Listen) TUE Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listener's 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 b00rt9gd (Listen) TUE EM Forster Short Stories, The Story of the Siren TUE TUE The Story of the Siren is the first in our series of short TUE fiction by EM Forster. It is an unsettling story about a sea TUE nymph and an ill fated young Sicilian. The novelist best TUE known for twentieth century classics including A Passage to TUE India, A Room with a View and Maurice was also a prolific TUE writer of short stories. In them he explored many of the TUE themes central to his novels, including the morals of the TUE middle classes in the early twentieth century, and his TUE fascination with culture and mores of the beguiling South. TUE The reader is Dan Stevens. TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010xzzr (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Murder of the Tsar TUE TUE The cultivation of Russia's great lands depended on the TUE labour of millions of serfs, and they had for hundreds of TUE years been at the very bottom of the social ladder. But, TUE under a new Tsar, it seemed, at last, that their lowly place TUE was going to change. On March the 3rd 1861 Alexander II took TUE a step that many tsars before him had considered taking, but TUE had always drawn back from. TUE TUE The Manifesto on the Emancipation of the Serfs did something TUE that had petrified previous rulers: it offered freedom to TUE twenty three million Russians who for centuries had been TUE little more than slaves. The liberation of the peasants was TUE the biggest shake-up in Russian society since the time of TUE Peter the Great. It affected nearly every member of the TUE population, placed the whole economic and social structure TUE on a new footing, and created shock waves that would rumble TUE through the nation for decades. TUE TUE The reform was long overdue. Peasant unrest had been growing TUE since the end of the Napoleonic invasion, turning to violent TUE uprisings during and after the recent military disaster of TUE the Crimean War. The Manifesto is full of pleas for TUE restraint that betray the very real fear of conflict. But as TUE Martin Sixsmith points out, the Emancipation was 'a botched TUE job - too little, too late - it disappointed and angered TUE nearly everyone'. TUE TUE And in 1881 an extremist revolutionary threw a bomb at the TUE Tsar's carriage with fatal results. "Why," asks Sixsmith TUE "did the man who brought emancipation, peace and the TUE possibility of democracy in Russia end up with his legs TUE blown off, his face shattered, bleeding to death?' The TUE question's all the more poignant because in the minutes TUE before he set off on his last, fatal carriage ride Alexander TUE had just put his signature on a document that could have TUE changed Russia forever. TUE TUE Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking TUE TUE Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b010xzzt (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen takes a look at the history and usefulness of TUE the mysterious art of shorthand, with a look at its uses in TUE Ancient Rome, Elizabethan England and the present day. TUE There's a trip to Bath to hear from Sir Isaac Pitman TUE himself, recorded in 1891, and a visit to the University of TUE Sheffield's Journalism department. TUE TUE Producer Luke Hollands. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b010xzzw (Listen) TUE Series 24, Petra Kelly TUE TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his TUE guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Green MP TUE Caroline Lucas nominates German Green politician Petra TUE Kelly. Kelly was one of the first Green parliamentarians to TUE be elected anywhere in the world. Intense, charismatic and TUE beautiful, she became an international political superstar TUE who rejected the idea of conventional politics. But she fell TUE out with her colleagues and became reliant on her lover, a TUE former German army General turned peace activist, Gert TUE Bastian. Bastian, possibly fearing exposure as a Stasi TUE agent, murdered Kelly and himself in 1992. Joining the TUE discussion is Kelly's biographer and former Green Party TUE activist, Sara Parkin. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01108k4 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010xvvk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b00slqvv (Listen) TUE Series 6, Luck of the Irish TUE TUE Clare Barker the social worker with all the politically TUE correct jargon but none of the practical solutions is back. TUE TUE The Sony Award Winning comedy, Clare in the Community, TUE returns with Sally Phillips as Clare Barker the social TUE worker who secretly regards herself as a cross between TUE Mother Theresa, Wonder Woman and Michelle Obama. Clare TUE considers most other professions trivial. TUE TUE Like plenty before her, Clare Barker has entered a caring TUE profession so that she can sort out other peoples' problems TUE rather than deal with her own. She is in her mid thirties, TUE white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are TUE occasional causes of discomfort to her. TUE TUE Clare is delighted to find she has an Irish ancestor. TUE TUE Clare ..... Sally Phillips TUE Brian ..... Alex Lowe TUE Ray ..... Richard Lumsden TUE Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck TUE Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti TUE Libby ..... Sarah Kendall TUE Ptolemy ..... Philip Pope TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b010xwdx (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01108k6 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Hugh TUE Laurie as he releases his debut album, a disc of New Orleans TUE blues. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01121gy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Giving Voice to the Victims b010xzzy (Listen) TUE Winifred Robinson hears from the victims of crime and finds TUE out what more could be done to help them TUE TUE In an age of mass-grieving, where flowers are placed by TUE strangers at murder scenes and politicians promise to place TUE victims at the heart of the criminal justice system - how TUE much do we really know or care about the victims of crime? TUE How are they really served by the police, the courts and the TUE ministers who call on them at times of public unease to TUE share crime summits and photocalls? TUE TUE For the past year Louise Casey the first Victims' and TUE Witnesses' Commissioner for England and Wales has been TUE hearing their stories first hand. A Radio 4's documentary TUE team - reporter Winifred Robinson and producer Sue Mitchell TUE - have been given unique access to these meetings. TUE TUE Louise is a controversial figure. In past roles advising the TUE government on tackling homelessness and anti social TUE behaviour she told charities to abandon soup runs and said TUE offenders on community service should wear florescent TUE jackets so local communities could see the reparations being TUE made. TUE TUE As Commissioner for Victims she says they are too often TUE brushed off and ignored by officialdom as public servants TUE and funding swing into action supporting the perpetrators of TUE crime. TUE TUE Producer: Sue Mitchell. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b010y3bp (Listen) TUE Partially-sighted Rachel Gadsden began losing her vision TUE four years ago, yet she says it's only since her eyesight TUE has deteriorated that her career has blossomed. We explore TUE the opportunities for visually impaired artists and ask TUE whether it is possible to earn a living in this field. TUE TUE Plus how easy it is to use the iPlayer if you can't see? TUE Several listeners have contacted us to say that they have TUE had problems using the service. Technology expert Robin TUE Christopherson explains the issues and we hear from the TUE iPlayer team. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b010y000 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond explores the limits and potential of the TUE human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Jam Generation Takes Power b010xzxk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b010xvvm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01113s4 (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 b010p6cj (Listen) TUE The Yacoubian Building, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. TUE TUE As Zaki Bey's feud with his sister Dawlat escalates he TUE contemplates the mess he's made of his life... TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b010y002 (Listen) TUE Series 6, The Fine Line Between Good and Bad TUE TUE Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another TUE series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human TUE condition. TUE TUE Recorded on location in Fremont, New Hampshire, Jon meets TUE the sisters who were part of the girl group from the 1960s TUE 'The Shaggs'. Created by their father, the sisters were home TUE schooled and made to practice every day. Their album, TUE Philosophy of the World was ridiculed and a flop, but TUE remarkably many years later they were re-discovered and TUE hailed as way ahead of their time and a major contribution TUE to music. The other story in this programme is told by Simon TUE Hollis who recalls the time he worked as a designer in TUE Calvin Klein's New York flag ship store and made a major TUE mistake with too many red candles. TUE TUE Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs TUE An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b010y3br (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b010xvvp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b010xzz9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010xvvr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010xvvt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010xvvw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b010xvvy (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01114kq (Listen) WED With Dr Mike Ford. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b010xvw0 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01114ks (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 b010y0s9 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b010y0sc (Listen) WED Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True WED Story, Episode 3 WED WED The survivors spend more time in the company of 'Pete' WED and co, witnessing ancient rituals never before revealed to WED the world. Then more sky-spirits descend to amaze the WED tribes-people.. WED WED Reader Nathan Osgood. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01114kv (Listen) WED Town versus country: where's the best place to live? WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Plus an interview with Marcia WED Clark, the prosecutor of OJ Simpson. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01121n3 (Listen) WED Ancient Mysteries, Episode 3 WED WED A series of monologues adapted from two books, 'Ancient WED Mysteries' and 'Tell Mrs Mill her husband is still dead' WED (compiled, edited and published by David Clegg). WED WED They are adapted from interviews in which dementia sufferers WED recall their lives. The pieces are funny, sad, moving and WED mysterious in what they say about the human spirit and mind. WED WED Read by Felix Dexter, Kathy Burke and Charlie Higson WED Sound Engineer: Tom Jenkins WED Produced by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse WED A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 The Wheels of Power b010y0sf (Listen) WED Ben Wright speaks to the best-informed people in politics: WED ministerial car drivers. And he hears some extraordinary WED behind-the-wheel tales from these previously discreet public WED servants. WED WED Ministerial car drivers have become almost legendary, WED appearing as wise Whitehall sages in everything from WED ministers' memoirs to Yes, Minister! They have never spoken WED for themselves: until now. In this programme, Ben speaks to WED former drivers and reveals what the official history of the WED Government Car Service - long hidden within Whitehall and WED only released after a Freedom of Information request - WED contains. WED WED The drivers discuss the dramatic changes to the service over WED the years, and take us behind closed (car) doors at some of WED the most memorable moments in modern political history. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 11:30 Beauty of Britain b010y0sh (Listen) WED Series 2, Life in the UK WED WED Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows Beauty's continuing WED adventures among the cauliflower-cheese eating population as WED the Featherdown Agency sends her to provide care for those WED who need it - and occasionally some who don't, but all of WED whom have relatives with guilty consciences. Beauty sees WED herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to WED live the dream in Britain. Until she gets the nod from God WED about which sector of the economy would most benefit from WED her entrepreneurial skills, Beauty will carry on grating the WED Extra Mature Cathedral City, running the assisted baths and WED trying to understand the British character. WED WED The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens WED to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. WED Beauty sees Britain at its best, its worst and also WED sometimes without its clothes on running the wrong way down WED the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' WED WED Episode 6 'Life in the UK' WED WED Beauty Oolonga, a Southern African care worker, shares her WED quirky view of Britain. Beauty's visa to work in the U.K. is WED about to run out. Will she pass her citizenship test and be WED granted indefinite leave to remain and will the handsome, WED mature Ade be her saviour? Last in series. WED WED Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Liz ..... Rita May WED Helen ..... Nicola Sanderson WED Mrs Gupte ..... Indira Joshi WED Anil ..... Paul Sharma WED Jodie ..... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Waiter/Receptionist ..... Christopher Douglas WED Ade ..... Paterson Joseph 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 b010y0sk (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b010y0sm (Listen) WED Advertising Space WED WED John Waite investigates the charities and businesses owed WED money for sports advertising they never received. WED WED 12:57 Weather b010xvw2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01112fd (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 b010y0sp (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b010xwdx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b010y0sr (Listen) WED Father Brown: The Secret Garden WED WED By G. K. Chesterton. WED WED Dramatised by Bert Coules. WED WED Paris, 1911. A dinner party given by Aristide Valentin, WED Chief of the Paris Police, is disturbed by the discovery of WED a stranger lying murdered within the grounds of his WED high-walled garden. Who is he? How did he get there? And WED which of the distinguished guests has committed the gruesome WED crime? WED WED Time for Father Brown to step forward. Intuitive and WED unassuming, his unremarkable exterior conceals a profound WED knowledge of human frailty. Who better than a priest to WED understand the nature and prevalence of evil? WED WED Father Brown ..... Richard Greenwood WED Brayne ..... Angus MacInnes WED Valentin ..... Liam Brennan WED Dr Simon ..... Jimmy Chisholm WED Lord Galloway ..... Paul Young WED Lady Galloway ..... Eliza Langland WED Margaret Galloway ..... Francesa Dymond WED O'Brien ..... Robin Laing WED WED Directed by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01114kx (Listen) WED Answering listener calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00rt9gg (Listen) WED EM Forster Short Stories, The Road from Colonus WED WED Misunderstandings thwart plans for a sojourn in the idyllic WED Greek countryside in The Road From Colonus, the next in our WED series of short fiction by EM Forster. The novelist best WED known for twentieth century classics including A Passage to WED India, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howard's End was also WED a prolific writer of short stories. In them he explored many WED of the themes central to his novels, including the morals WED and mores of the middle classes in the early twentieth WED century, and his fascination with the Mediterranean. WED Read by Andrew Sachs. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Produced WED by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010y0st (Listen) WED Series 1, Seeds of Revolution WED WED In 1881 an assassin's bomb, thrown into the carriage WED carrying Tsar Alexander II, ended his life with an act of WED extreme violence. Despite Alexander's good intentions of WED reform, anger over the power of the ruling class had blazed WED into the open. The punishment for the assassins was WED unsparing. WED WED Following on from the assassination, Martin Sixsmith looks WED at the origins of the revolutionary movement in Russia - and WED where it would lead. He begins with Camus' description of WED the execution of Alexander II's assassins in St Petersburg. WED The perpetrators belonged to the People's Will Movement, WED which had declared a merciless, bloody war to the death. WED WED Sixsmith looks at the rise of socialism through the writers WED of the time, such as Chaadayev and Herzen. Their diagnosis WED of Russia's social and political backwardness crystallized a WED deep-seated ideological schism. By the 1840s both WED Westernisers and Orthodox Slavophiles agreed change was WED needed .... it was just that they had very different ideas WED of the form it should take, and they missed their chance. WED WED In a few turbulent years, the cautious liberals were swept WED away by a new generation of angry radicals - Men of the WED Sixties - "much less squeamish and much readier to use WED violence to impose their views". Nikolai Chernyshevsky's WED book What Is To Be Done? published in 1864 determined the WED future of the whole revolutionary movement. The plot WED glorifies the 'new men', disgusted by tsarist society and WED selflessly dedicated to socialist ideals. The love affair of WED the two principal characters climaxes not in bed, but in the WED founding of a women's cooperative. Its glorification of WED 'cold blooded practicality and calculating activity' set the WED tone for the violence of the coming years and Lenin himself WED regarded it as a pivotal precursor of Bolshevism. WED WED Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking WED Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b010y0sx (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores representations of the paranormal in WED the media. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b010y000 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b01114kz (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010xvw4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b01075pz (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Arthur Smith with more music and comedy from his actual flat WED in Balham. Jenny Eclair is in the front room, Simon Evans on WED the landing, John Smallshaw delivers poetry and Alex Wilson WED and his salsa combo are in the kitchen. WED WED Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b010xwdz (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01114l1 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on new British exhibitions of WED work by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained by WED the authorities in China in April. WED WED Producer Andrea Kidd. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01121n3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b010y0t1 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David WED Aaronovitch with Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Michael WED Portillo and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b010y0t3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Dying for a new phone WED WED Johann Hari argues that our demand for gadgets has helped to WED drive the war in the Congo. He says it is a resource war, WED being fought for minerals like coltan, which finds its way WED into everything from mobile phones to games consoles. He WED asks why our governments have not taken forceful action to WED stop the trade. 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 b010y0t5 (Listen) WED The Real Avatar WED WED James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver are the latest to wade WED into the battle to stop the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil but it WED seems celebrity causes are less likely to win ecological WED battles than they were 20 years ago and with oil and gas WED prices spiralling big dams are back on the menu everywhere. WED WED In the 1990s Sting and the Xingu tribal people succeeded in WED creating enough worldwide protest to stop the Belo Monte dam WED being put into construction. Since then the World Bank has WED stepped away from financing big dams, distancing itself from WED projects which have often caused as many problems as they WED solve. WED WED One fifth of the world's freshwater is found in the Amazon. WED The Belo Monte dam will divert a significant amount of the WED Xingu river flooding 640km including much of the city of WED Altamira and displacing upwards of 20,000 people. It will WED cost $17 billion and environmentalists argue that this is WED only viable because it will lead the way for dams further WED upstream which could produce far more energy and because the WED electricity will power aluminium smelters and iron ore WED mines. They also site the devastating impact on wildlife and WED migratory fish which are staples for indigenous tribes, a WED likely increase in malaria from the stagnant water and WED significant methane release from the river bed as it dries. WED WED The Brazilian government, and many Brazilian people, argue WED that the dam is absolutely necessary and that this is WED renewable energy. With one of the world's fastest growing WED economies they need fuel, and hydro already provides 80% of WED the country's energy needs. Should privileged Western stars WED be listened to when they may not fully understand the issues WED and what is more important to the environment movement, WED conservation or carbon? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b010y0s9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b010xvw6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01114l3 (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 b010p7l5 (Listen) WED The Yacoubian Building, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. WED WED Newspaper editor Hatim has fallen in love with a young WED soldier and installed him in a room on the roof of the WED Yacoubian building. WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Fabulous b00dzl8x (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be Fabulous WED but can't cope. Faye's office holds a speed-dating event. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b010y0tb (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 MAY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b010xvw8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b010y0sc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010xvwb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010xvwd (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010xvwg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b010xvwj (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011157c (Listen) THU With Dr Mike Ford. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b010xvwl (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Martin THU Poytnz-Roberts. THU THU 06:00 Today b01115dn (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 b010y30m (Listen) THU The Anatomy of Melancholy THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's The THU Anatomy of Melancholy. THU THU In 1621 a priest and mathematician, Robert Burton, published THU a book quite unlike any other. The Anatomy of Melancholy is THU a vast compendium of writing about melancholy, written THU partly to alleviate the author's own depression. Despite its THU subject matter, the Anatomy is an entertaining work, THU described by Samuel Johnson as the only book that ever took THU him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. It THU also offers a fascinating insight into seventeenth-century THU medical theory - and cast a long shadow over literature in THU English for centuries. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b010xyhh (Listen) THU Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True THU Story, Episode 4 THU THU Hollywood comes to the Valley as a wobbly THU figure with cameras attached falls from the skies THU into the long grasses. He's here to film the tribes THU of course... THU THU Reader Nathan Osgood. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01115hc (Listen) THU On today's Woman's Hour Jenni Murray talks to Kate McCann THU about the ongoing search for her daughter. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01123p4 (Listen) THU Ancient Mysteries, Episode 4 THU THU A series of monologues adapted from two books, 'Ancient THU Mysteries' and 'Tell Mrs Mill her husband is still dead' THU (compiled, edited and published by David Clegg). THU THU They are adapted from interviews in which dementia sufferers THU recall their lives. The pieces are funny, sad, moving and THU mysterious in what they say about the human spirit and mind. THU THU Read by Rosie Cavaliero, Sian Phillips and Amelia Bullmore THU Sound Engineer: Tom Jenkins THU Produced by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse THU A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b010y30p (Listen) THU Pakistan THU THU Following the discovery that Osama Bin Laden was living THU close to the heart of Pakistan's military establishment in THU Abbotabad, Owen Bennett-Jones investigates the ties between THU elements of Pakistan's army, intelligence and government THU with jihadi and Taleban forces. THU Producer: Rebecca Kesby. THU THU 11:30 Australian Rap b010y30r (Listen) THU Rapping out dreamtime stories: a new outlet for Australian THU Aboriginal youth. THU For years the Australian Aboriginal community have struggled THU to be heard. But as Mark Rickards discovers, today the youth THU have found a new voice through music and 'desert rap'. THU THU Speaking to the first rappers to use their own Aboriginal THU language, Mark Rickards finds that the traditions of THU dreamtime storytelling have been reinvigorated by rap music. THU Although the style originated in the USA, Aboriginal youth THU have adapted it to suit their own needs. It can be used to THU tell the stories of life in the outback or life in the city, THU and to represent the often unheard voices of the Aboriginal THU people. THU THU Mark visits an Aboriginal radio station which has helped THU bring indigenous rap to a wider audience, and looks at the THU challenges of getting mainstream recognition. THU THU Today younger rappers are talking about a brighter future THU for the Aboriginal people, and their music shows hopeful THU signs for the gradual evolution of Australia itself. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b010y30t (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b010xvwn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b011162h (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 b010y0t5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b010xwdz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v73zm (Listen) THU Every Child Matters THU THU The second linked drama dealing with the fall out of the THU case of Debbie Hurst who was vilified as the most repulsive THU woman in Britain for allowing her ten year old daughter to THU dance semi-naked on the internet for paedophiles. It is six THU months since the case exploded on to the red tops and Joanne THU was the social worker who took the flak. She feels as though THU she was hung out to dry and wants to know why. THU THU Joanne.....Sarah Lancashire THU David.....George Costigan THU THU Producer Gary Brown THU THU 15:00 Open Country b010xvnk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b010xy30 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00rt9gj (Listen) THU EM Forster Short Stories, The Obelisk THU THU In The Obelisk, the next in our series of short stories by THU EM Forster, a chance encounter leads an unhappily married THU couple to find solace in forbidden ways. Throughout his THU career the novelist best known for some of the twentieth THU century's best loved novels including A Passage to India, THU Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howard's End wrote short THU stories which reveal much about his outlook on life. Many of THU his stories including The Obelisk were unpublished until THU after his death because of their homosexual theme and only THU shown to his circle of friends, among them Christopher THU Isherwood and T.E. Lawrence. THU THU Read by Ruth Wilson. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Produced THU by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010y30y (Listen) THU Series 1, Censorship and Suppression THU THU The assassination of Alexander II in March 1881 resulted in THU sheer panic amongst the ruling elite - revealed in the THU private correspondence between Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the THU right wing conservative adviser of the new tsar, and THU Alexander III. THU THU Within days of ascending the throne, Alexander denounced his THU father's plans for a quasi-liberal constitution, thus THU signalling the end of yet another of Russia's brief THU flirtations with the ideas of liberal democracy and a return THU to the autocratic rule, which has always been her default THU position. THU THU In an argument which Martin Sixsmith suggests is as relevant THU today as it was in 1881, Pobedonostsev contends that the THU vast size of Russia and its many ethnic minorities mean THU Western style democracy can never work there. Under his THU influence, censorship was tightened, the secret police THU reinforced and thousands of suspected revolutionaries packed THU off to Siberia. Ethnic tensions were met with a campaign of THU forced Russification which fostered resentment and sowed the THU seeds of future conflict in regions like Ukraine, the THU Caucasus, central Asia and the Baltic Provinces. THU THU Alexander wanted to unify the country by turning a Russian THU empire into a Russian nation, with a single nationality, a THU single language, religion and sovereign authority. He had a THU pathological fear of political opposition and was quick to THU declare emergency rule, suspend the law and restrict civil THU liberties. For a while revolutionary activity was driven THU underground, and to the countryside. But it never went away THU and it returned with a conviction that if the people were THU not ready for revolution it must be brought about and THU imposed on society by a clique of dedicated professionals. THU THU Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking THU Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b010xy8c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b010y310 (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 b011162k (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010xvwq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b010y312 (Listen) THU Billy Bleach THU THU Simon Day welcomes listeners to small provincial theatre the THU Mallard. The headlining stand-up has not shown up, so THU newcomer Billy Bleach must perform an extended set. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b010xwf1 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b011162m (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01123p4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b010y314 (Listen) THU In the aftermath of the conflicts in North Africa a new wave THU of migrants is heading to Europe, but the 27 member states THU are divided over how to share the responsibility. THU THU Simon Cox explores the growing dispute and asks whether it THU could result in changes to the EU's fundamental principle of THU open borders and how it deals with migration in the future. THU THU Reporter: Simon Cox THU Producer: Gail Champion. THU THU 20:30 In Business b010y316 (Listen) THU Watch Your Language THU THU There is no reason why the words used in corporate THU communications should be pompous and jargon-ridden THU but that is how it often turns out to be. Peter Day goes THU into a huddle with a group of enthusiasts determined THU to improve the way business language works. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b010xzzc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b010y30m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b010xvws (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01115dq (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 b010p7xt (Listen) THU The Yacoubian Building, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. THU THU The death of Abduh's son spells disaster and tragedy for the THU love-struck Hatim.. THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Sparkhill Sound b010y31b (Listen) THU By Adil Ray and Anil Gupta THU THU Sparkhill Sound is a local radio station THU serving...Sparkhill. Sparkhill is a part of Birmingham. THU Birmingham is a city in the West Midlands. All human life is THU there. Pakistanis, Indians, Somalians, Iraqis, Irish, East THU Europeans. Even some English. Sparkhill Sound brings them THU all together on a radio station that tries - but usually THU fails - to promote harmony. THU THU Performed by Adil Ray, Felix Dexter, Gary Pillai, Vineeta THU Rishi. THU Produced by Bill Dare THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b010y32w (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 MAY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b010xvwv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b010xyhh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0111hnj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0111hnl (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010xvwx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b010xvwz (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010xymy (Listen) FRI With Dr Mike Ford. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b010xvx1 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b010xyn0 (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 b010xy3d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b010xyp3 (Listen) FRI Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True FRI Story, Episode 5 FRI FRI The top brass at Base G hatch an audacious plot to get FRI all FRI survivors and paratroopers out of the hidden valley. But FRI will FRI the attempted acrobatics with three aeroplanes ever succeed? FRI FRI Reader Nathan Osgood. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b010xyp5 (Listen) FRI How to set up a secret dinner club. Presented by Jenni FRI Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010xyqq (Listen) FRI Ancient Mysteries, Episode 5 FRI FRI A series of monologues adapted from two books, 'Ancient FRI Mysteries' and 'Tell Mrs Mill her husband is still dead' FRI (compiled, edited and published by David Clegg). FRI FRI They are adapted from interviews in which dementia sufferers FRI recall their lives. The pieces are funny, sad, moving and FRI mysterious in what they say about the human spirit and mind. FRI FRI Read by Paul Whitehouse and Brigit Forsyth FRI Sound Engineer: Tom Jenkins FRI Produced by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse FRI A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Irish Blood English Hearts b010xyqs (Listen) FRI The Queen is to visit Ireland for the first time on 17th FRI May. She's visited nearly every country on the globe, yet FRI never her nearest neighbour. Even 5 years ago the suggestion FRI of a state visit to Ireland was politically impossible. But FRI the Celtic Tiger brought a new confidence and for the first FRI time Ireland was ready for a meeting as equal allies, rather FRI than as a former colony. FRI FRI What's fascinating is that up at the level of politics and FRI official ideology, there's always been a nexus of FRI misunderstandings and anxieties about the Anglo Irish FRI relationship. Talk of a state visit provoked one Irish FRI newspaper to say it 'ought to be a matter for mild curiosity FRI or benign indifference. And yet, even now, it touches one of FRI those twitchy, tender nerves that remain inert most of the FRI time'. FRI FRI But down at the level of real life as it is lived, no two FRI peoples on the face of the planet are closer. FRI FRI Writer and broadcaster Joseph O Connor knows this first FRI hand. 'The book that reveals most about the relationship FRI between Ireland and England is no novel or history textbook FRI or learned tome, but the telephone directory of any major FRI British city, in which hundreds of people bearing my own FRI surname will be found. The Irish and the English are far FRI more intertwined than they ever acknowledge officially, but FRI privately we all know this to be true.' FRI FRI In 'Irish Blood English Hearts' Joseph considers the complex FRI cultural relationships between Britain and Ireland. He FRI writes letters to Queen Elizabeth and her great, great FRI grandmother Queen Victoria (who last visited Dublin over 100 FRI years ago) about the land that they will visit and the FRI nature of the reception they can expect. FRI FRI Producer: Rachel Hooper FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b010xyy8 (Listen) FRI Sniffing Stevie and the Gym Horse FRI FRI David Tennant and Sarah Alexander star as the exes FRI determined their marital failures will not get in the way of FRI good parenting. FRI FRI This week son Tom feels guilty about not wanting to be mates FRI with a boy with a permanent snot bubble. The divorced pair FRI confuse him about the morality of befriending losers. FRI Meanwhile a visit to a tattoo parlour gives Lucy a great FRI idea about getting some attention. Joe finds a new job and a FRI visit to The Wellcome Institute provides Mimi with some FRI useful information about Syphilis. FRI FRI If it's Wednesday... it must be Holloway... FRI FRI Joe ..... David Tennant FRI Mimi ..... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ..... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ..... Phoebe Abbott FRI Bobby ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Stevie ..... Ben Baker FRI Ms Smart .... Morwenna Banks FRI Donald ..... Gordon Kennedy FRI FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b010xyyb (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b010xvx3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b010xyyd (Listen) FRI National and international news, featuring analysis, comment FRI and interviews. Listeners can share their views via email: FRI wato@bbc.co.uk or on Twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b010xzs5 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b010xwf1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b010xzs7 (Listen) FRI Referee FRI FRI By Nick Perry. FRI FRI Geoff is football referee at the top of his profession. But FRI after a controversial game, he's heavily criticised and FRI dropped from the upcoming Cup Final. Geoff's frustration FRI builds and his scruples are soon tested. FRI FRI Geoff . . . . . Mark Addy FRI Don . . . . . Ralph Ineson FRI Koch . . . . . Andrew Scott FRI Pritchard . . . . . Sean Baker FRI Lisa . . . . . Denise Gough FRI Karen . . . . . Sally Orrock FRI Jamie . . . . . Rielly Newbold FRI Manager . . . . . Brian Bowles FRI Players . . . . . Stuart McLoughlin & Daniel Rabin. FRI FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b010xzs9 (Listen) FRI Wentworth Castle Gardens FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer FRI questions posed at Wentworth Castle Gardens near Barnsley. FRI FRI Eric Robson delves into the story of local plant-hunter, FRI Reginald Farrer. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b010y0qs (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Last Tsar FRI FRI It is the turn of the century and the days of Imperial FRI Russia are numbered. Nicholas II was crowned in May 1896. FRI Nearly 1400 men, women and children were crushed to death in FRI the crowds at his coronation, which was quickly seen as a FRI bad omen. Within a year, disturbances had broken out in FRI Russian universities and the Socialist Revolutionaries were FRI disrupting government by murdering senior government FRI ministers close to the Tsar. Double agents used their FRI privileged position to mount further assassinations. FRI By the end of 1904, Russia was close to turmoil and a strike FRI at the Putilov Engineering works in St Petersburg spread FRI quickly to other factories. Within a month a hundred FRI thousand workers had downed tools. FRI FRI Dmitry Shostakovich's eleventh symphony - The Year 1905 - FRI portrays the bloody culmination of the strikes on Sunday the FRI 9th of January, when soldiers opened fire on protesters FRI bringing a petition to the Tsar, leaving more than a hundred FRI dead in the snow. FRI FRI And trouble at home was soon to coincide with disaster FRI abroad. Aggressive expansionism in the far-east had brought FRI Russia into conflict with Japan, and the catastrophe of FRI Tsushima in which Russia lost eight battleships and four FRI cruisers, with 4000 men dead and 7000 taken prisoner. That FRI and the uprising in Odessa, immortalised in Eisenstein's FRI film Battleship Potemkin, dealt Tsarism an immortal blow FRI from which it would never recover. Suddenly the mighty FRI tsarist system didn't look so mighty after all. FRI FRI The resulting concessions introduced by the Tsar were seen FRI as an admission of the regime's fragility. As Martin FRI Sixsmith hints, 'It wouldn't take much for the whole edifice FRI to come crashing to the ground.' FRI FRI Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b010y0qv (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 b010y0qx (Listen) FRI From multiplex to art house - Francine Stock investigates FRI the world of film. FRI FRI Producer: Zahid Warley. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b010y0qz (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010xvx5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b010y0r1 (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b010xwgn (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b010y0r3 (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b010xyqq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b010y0r5 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live topical discussion from St FRI John's College Cambridge, which is celebrating its FRI quincentenary, with panellists including Professor and FRI former St John's student, Peter Hennessy. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010y0r7 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Chimps FRI FRI 13/20. They say, David Attenborough reports, that we share FRI more of our genes with chimpanzees than any other species FRI alive today. And this proximity of Homo Sapiens to the FRI chimpanzee motivated Sir David even more to film behaviour FRI never before seen. It had been known for some time that FRI chimps hunt monkeys for meat, but it would be a first to FRI film it for television audiences. To film such a hunt FRI required days of waiting and tracking a troop through the FRI Equatorial African forest - and when the hunt came and was FRI over it changed Attenborough's view of chimps and their FRI importance to us, forever. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b010y0r9 (Listen) FRI Russia: The Wild East Omnibus, Episode 4 FRI FRI Over 700 years successive Tsars had extended the grip of FRI Russia on new territory. The Empire needed a huge peasant FRI class to work the land, and out of this need came the FRI underdog of Russian society - 17 million serfs, or, as they FRI were also called, souls. The plight of the serf pricked the FRI conscience of the Russian intelligentsia, and for writers FRI they were a fact of life that in the 19th century became a FRI cause. FRI FRI As pressure for change mounted, this programme traces the FRI role serfdom has played in the history of Russia. As early FRI as Kievan times in the 11th and 12th centuries, slaves were FRI a valuable commodity. In many ways serfdom had been a FRI relatively benign arrangement between landowner and peasant FRI - and despite the many stories of brutality, the music that FRI emerged is surprisingly joyful. "The inherited willingness FRI to pull together in the face of shared problems helped the FRI nation expand into an empire and defend itself against its FRI enemies," argues Martin Sixsmith. "But it also hindered the FRI development of private property, political freedoms and the FRI law-governed institutions that Western Europe was beginning FRI to take for granted." FRI FRI In the 19th century serfdom had developed into the worst FRI form of slavery and by the 1850's abolition was under FRI serious discussion in Russia and America. An emerging FRI Russian intelligentsia expressed their own guilt over the FRI horrors of serfdom. But unpicking centuries of class FRI division would have to wait for the 20th century before it FRI erupted. FRI FRI Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b010xvx7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b010y0rc (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b010p7zh (Listen) FRI The Yacoubian Building, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. FRI FRI Taha, son of the doorkeeper, is thrown into the arms of the FRI Islamist Brotherhood after a bitter disappointment... FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b010xzzw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b010y0tl (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI