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SAT SATURDAY 14 MAY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b010y0w2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b010xyp3 (Listen) SAT Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True SAT Story, Episode 5 SAT SAT "Colonel Prossen searched for ways to ease the stress among SAT his staff. On the 13th May 1945 he had arranged the most SAT sought after prize, one certain to boost morale - a trip to SAT Shangri-la. Margaret was at her desk when the invitation SAT came..." SAT SAT The members of Base G camp in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, SAT are given time out to fly over this wonderful hidden valley, SAT where time has stood still. The only inhabitants are the SAT 'Stone Age' Yali and Dani tribes-people, who populate the SAT jungle swathes. The flight in a plane called 'The Gremlin SAT Special' should be a real eye-opener, but then something SAT goes badly wrong... SAT SAT 5. The top brass at Base G hatch an audacious plot to get SAT all survivors and paratroopers out of the hidden valley. But SAT will the attempted acrobatics with three aeroplanes ever SAT succeed? SAT SAT Reader Nathan Osgood. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b010y0w4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b010y0w6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b010y0w8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b010y0wb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b010y0xr (Listen) SAT Becky Harris SAT SAT Prayer and reflection with Becky Harris. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b010y0xt (Listen) SAT Why don't they blow up IEDs rather than trying to defuse SAT them? We put a listener in touch with a man who spent 10 SAT years defusing explosive devices. Presented by Eddie Mair SAT and Jennifer Tracey. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b010y0wd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b010y0wg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0112902 (Listen) SAT Foot and Mouth - Ten Years On SAT SAT When Foot and Mouth disease struck the UK in 2001, it caused SAT a major crisis in agriculture and the British countryside. SAT Hundreds and thousands of sheep and cattle were slaughtered SAT in an attempt to halt the disease, footpaths were closed and SAT the countryside effectively closed down. Cumbria was one of SAT the worst affected areas of the country and many farmers SAT found themselves at the very heart and soul of the crisis as SAT mass livestock burials and plumes of black smoke from SAT burning pyres destroyed their livestock and their lives. SAT SAT Ten years on, Helen Mark visits Cumbria to find out how they SAT have coped with the crisis since then. Some farmers chose to SAT rebuild their lives in completely different ways but many SAT continued to farm whilst also diversifying into other areas. SAT Helen hears from farmer, Trevor Wilson about life after Foot SAT and Mouth and from vet, Iain Richards, who found himself in SAT the thick of the outbreak, travelling from farm to farm to SAT diagnose sick animals. Once the disease was confirmed, Iain SAT would then be declared a 'dirty' vet and would have to SAT remain at the farm until the animals had been destroyed. SAT SAT Helen also meets Andrew Nicholson who, with his wife Karen, SAT had only been farming in Cumbria for a few years when the SAT disease broke out. Andrew lost many of his valuable Herdwick SAT sheep but now has one of the most remarkable stories to tell SAT of how he dealt with the crisis. And Helen visits the former SAT airfield which became the burial ground for thousands of SAT slaughtered animals and hears from Frank Mawby and director SAT and retired farmer, William Little, about the way in which SAT the local community voted overwhelmingly to turn the site SAT into what is now the Watchtree Nature Reserve. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0112904 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith finds out how farms are generating renewable SAT energy and getting paid to sell it to the National Grid. SAT SAT The EU has set targets for 15% of the UKs energy to come SAT from renewable resources by 2015. Currently only 3% comes SAT from renewables, and the government sees farms playing an SAT increasing role in meeting these targets. SAT SAT A visit to a Staffordshire farm shows waste food from SAT supermarkets bins and kitchen composters being converted to SAT electricity and fertiliser. And a trip to Warwickshire shows SAT one county council trialling a wind turbine project, which SAT it hopes to roll out across its council-owned farms. SAT SAT Solar energy is proving one of the most popular ways to SAT generate renewable energy on farm. There are nearly 30 SAT thousand solar installations in the UK, and Farming Today SAT visits Herefordshire where one farmer has integrated solar SAT power with his chicken business. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b010y0wj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0112906 (Listen) SAT Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0112908 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with cook and writer Elisabeth Luard, poet Mr SAT Gee, a woman who's trying to have a child using a website to SAT match her with a potential donor, and the son of the little SAT bald guy who Benny Hill used to slap round the head to the SAT tune Yackety Sax. We revisit Gloucester Cattle Market with a SAT former auctioneer and a couple of farmers who recall the SAT buzz of what used to be one of the country's biggest SAT livestock sales and is now a shopping centre; and Duncan SAT Lamont, one of Britain's greatest sax players, shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b011290b (Listen) SAT Nagaland - Kosovo - Skiing in Iran SAT SAT John McCarthy hears from architectural journalist Jonathan SAT Glancey about the little visited state of Nagaland in north SAT east India. Although concerned with buildings in his SAT profession, Jonathan has returned several times to a land SAT that has little of the built environment but much stunning SAT mountain scenery - and the wildness of this frontier region SAT gives it the air of a lost kingdom. SAT SAT When Elizabeth Gowing went to Kosovo to live she found that SAT one way to getting know this country of mixed cultures in SAT the years after its civil war was through beekeeping. John SAT talks to her about how she fell in love with a nation that SAT is finding its feet in modern Europe whilst still holding on SAT to the past - and honey. SAT SAT John also meets Henry Iddon a British speed skier who SAT grabbed the chance recently to go skiing in Iran where his SAT experiences included the descent of a volcano. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Twangmasters: The Art of the Lead Guitarist SAT b011290d (Listen) SAT All the attention is usually on the lead singer, but so SAT often a song has been transformed by a great piece of lead SAT guitar playing. Nick Barraclough tells the story of the lead SAT guitarist; from Chuck Berry and BB King's licks to Ritchie SAT Blackmore and Jimi Hendrix's riffs. What's more, he reveals SAT the difference between and riff and a lick. SAT SAT There's more to it than just twanging those strings, though. SAT He's got to have the right attitude, swagger- and volume. SAT SAT Three of today's working lead guitarists sit round a kitchen SAT table and strum their way through a few stories, we hear how SAT Deep Purple recorded with the police beating on their door, SAT and the ways in which lead singers treat their lead SAT guitarists. SAT SAT We hear from Frank Zappa's 'stunt' guitarist and we hear of SAT Ian Gillan's submission, and there is a discussion on SAT whether the colour of a guitar's paint affects its tone and, SAT a question that has been asked by lead guitarists since 1964 SAT is answered: exactly what was that chord George Harrison SAT played at the beginning of A Hard Day's Night? SAT SAT Producer: Nick Barraclough SAT A Smooth Operation production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b011290g (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b011290j (Listen) SAT Assisted suicide: as the people of Zurich in Switzerland SAT prepare to vote on the issue, Imogen Foulkes tells a moving SAT story about a couple who believed they had a right to decide SAT on a date for death. Fergal Keane considers the historical SAT significance of the forthcoming visit, by Queen Elizabeth SAT II, to the Republic of Ireland. Andrew Harding is in the SAT Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi where, he says, people SAT are determined to continue their fight against Colonel SAT Gaddafi and to emerge with their country still united. SAT Matthew Teller visits the city of Taif in Saudi Arabia, a SAT place where many Saudi people spend their holidays, while SAT James Painter's in Peru asking questions about the SAT freshwater Amazon dolphin including: why is it pink? SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b011290l (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b010y0r1 (Listen) SAT Series 74, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b010y0wl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b010y0wn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b010y0r5 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live topical discussion from St SAT John's College Cambridge, which is celebrating its SAT quincentenary, with panellists including Professsor of SAT History and former St John's student, Peter Hennessy; Labour SAT peer and human rights lawyer, Helena Kennedy; universities SAT and science minister David Willetts; and the writer AN SAT Wilson. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b011290n (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 b011290q (Listen) SAT Deep Down and Dirty Rock 'n' Roll SAT SAT By Mark Davies Markham. Suggs stars in a drama set in the SAT music industry. Once Carl was the tragic suicidal poet of SAT the band Lost Youth. Fourteen years earlier Carl feigned a SAT mysterious disappearance. If he comes out of hiding now Lost SAT Youth are history. SAT SAT Ed...Suggs SAT Carl...Burn Gorman SAT Tanya...Philippa Stanton SAT Sophie...Alex Tregear SAT Doreen...Joanna Monro SAT Olly...Stuart McLoughlin SAT Miss Brookes...Jane Whittenshaw SAT Phil...Brian Bowles SAT SAT Music composed by Dave Gale SAT Directed by Claire Grove SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b010xzzk (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 3 SAT SAT Julian Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens and the British SAT Museum's Irving Finkel are joined by TV presenter Konnie Huq SAT to discuss three personally significant pieces of music. SAT SAT Amongst their choices are an inspirational seven minutes of SAT time-wasting Seventies introspection; an 80s club classic SAT from some British soul pioneers and a delicate French love SAT song from an English soprano, which was originally recorded SAT at 78rpm. SAT SAT Along the way we find out who has played opposite Jude Law SAT in a theatre production, what Arthur Scargill bought in a SAT high end fashion outlet and how a 1950s reel to reel tape SAT recorder can bring love into your life. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b011290s (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Kate McCann talks about the search SAT for her daughter Madeleine. Business expert Ruth Badger SAT shares her secrets on how to make a successful presentation. SAT We look at the issue of restorative justice and how it SAT helped bring closure to one woman who'd been raped, and also SAT the issue of privacy and super-injunctions: are they SAT unfairly gagging women? There's music from Rumer and news SAT about the secret supper clubs popular with many diners. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b011290v (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b010y0xt (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b010y0wq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b010y0ws (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b010y0wv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b011290x (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by two of our most famous, female former SAT soap stars. Sarah Lancashire once played Raquel in SAT Coronation Street and is now one of the most successful SAT British actresses on stage and screen. She's currently SAT starring in the new musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes, based on SAT Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray's film A Private Function. SAT SAT Anita Dobson has long since moved from her role as Angie SAT Watts in EastEnders and can now be seen playing Joan SAT Crawford in Bette & Joan, opposite Greta Scacchi. SAT SAT BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson talks about his SAT documentary for BBC One, The Street That Cut Everything. The SAT programme follows the residents of a single street in SAT Preston when council services are withdrawn for an SAT experimental six week. They must decide how to run their own SAT community and all does not run smoothly.... SAT SAT Following on from her exposes of the hotel, air and fashion SAT industries, Imogen Edward-Jones talks to Allegra McEvedy SAT about her latest book, Hospital Babylon. An in-depth, SAT amusing and shocking peek into the world of modern medicine SAT based on the anonymous confessions from some of the SAT country's top medical practitioners. From bribes, sex, and SAT drug addictions to blood, guts and plastic surgery. SAT SAT There's music from Alabama's acclaimed country-music duo SAT taking bluegrass back to its roots, The Secret Sisters. SAT SAT And London six-piece Goldheart Assembly make it to the Loose SAT Ends studio with their Beatle-esque close knit harmonies. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b011290z (Listen) SAT Artefacts by Christopher William Hill SAT SAT Kirsten and Patrick have very different opinions about how SAT Osama Bin Laden should be represented in an exhibition. SAT SAT Kirsten ..... Madeleine Potter SAT Patrick ..... Christopher Nolan SAT Akif ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT SAT Director: Mary Peate. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0112911 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Gillian Slovo and SAT Michael Arditti and writer Ekow Eshun review the week's SAT cultural highlights including A Delicate Balance. SAT SAT James MacDonald's production of A Delicate Balance by Edward SAT Albee at the Almeida Theatre in London stars Penelope Wilton SAT and Tim Piggot-Smith as Agnes and Tobias - a middle-aged SAT couple who share a home with Agnes's alcoholic sister SAT (Imelda Staunton). The couple's lives are knocked off SAT balance when their daughter returns home and their friends SAT Harry and Edna turn up in flight from some existential SAT dread. SAT SAT The aftermath of the 1971 Bangladeshi War of Independence SAT provides the setting for Tahmima Anam's novel The Good SAT Muslim. Maya and Sohail are siblings who have both played SAT their part in the ideological struggle, but their ways of SAT dealing with the disappointments and betrayals that come SAT with their new nation set them at odds. SAT SAT Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's film A Screaming Man is another human SAT drama played out against the background of a civil war. Adam SAT and his son Abdel live in Chad's capital city N'Djamena. SAT Adam (Youssouf Djaoro) is a former champion swimmer who SAT takes great pride in his job as a hotel pool attendant, but SAT when he is usurped by Abdel (Diouc Koma) his instinct for SAT self-preservation has tragic consequences. SAT SAT The BBC4 documentary This Green and Pleasant Land explores SAT the development of British landscape painting from the 18th SAT century to the present day. Contemporary artists including SAT Ralph Steadman, John Virtue and the film-maker Nick Roeg SAT augment this history by responding to the work of their SAT predecessors who looked at and recorded the British SAT countryside. SAT SAT Holburne Museum in Bath is the former home of Sir William SAT Holburne and contains his extensive collection which SAT comprises a wide variety of items from majolica and SAT porcelain to silverware and paintings by artists such as SAT Gainsborough and Stubbs. The museum has just reopened after SAT an £11m renovation which includes a new extension that SAT provides more space to display the collection and also a SAT temporary exhibition room. The opening exhibition is Peter SAT Blake's A Museum For Myself. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0112913 (Listen) SAT Domesday Reloaded SAT SAT Historian Michael Wood surveys the rise, fall, and SAT rehabilitation of the most ambitious digital survey, ever SAT carried out. The project took the name of William the SAT Conqueror's Domesday book and was completed in time for the SAT 900th anniversary of its namesake, SAT SAT The anniversary prompted BBC TV producer Peter Armstrong to SAT propose an equally ambitious project. Using money left over SAT from the successful country wide roll-out of the BBC Micro SAT computer to schools, he hit upon the idea of compiling SAT something similar to the Domesday Book. He wanted to collect SAT pictures and text, gathered by children everywhere, in a SAT digital format, and ultimately deliver a computer resource SAT for every library and school. SAT SAT The country was divided into 3x4 mile squares, and for two SAT years community groups from schools, Scout & Guide troops, SAT Women's Institutes and Tourist Information Centres, were SAT corralled into diligently gathering information about local SAT life in the 1980s. After a huge press launch over a million SAT people took part in the survey, and their stories were SAT astonishingly diverse. 14,000 schools took up the challenge SAT and approached the project in many different ways. From the SAT small Scottish school who undertook a full census of the SAT wildlife on their island, to the (newly) ex-miners' children SAT who wrote poetry about their hopes for a non-coal powered SAT future. SAT SAT The stories and photographs were eventually loaded onto the SAT Domesday machine and the technology was demonstrated to at SAT the highest level, from the Queen, to the then Prime SAT Minister Margaret Thatcher and to President Mitterand. SAT SAT However, when the final machine - a slightly Heath-Robinson SAT combination of a BBC Master, a tracker-ball pointer (this SAT was pre-mouse) and a large 12 inch video disc player (this SAT was pre-CD Rom) - was unveiled in November 1986, it was SAT frustratingly expensive. At almost £5,000, the machines were SAT outside the price range of nearly all libraries and schools. SAT So most of the people involved in gathering the data and SAT snapping the photos never even saw the fruits of their SAT labour. SAT SAT As time went by, the BBC scrapped its interest in SAT interactivity, and the project decayed. All the data so SAT painstakingly collected was locked up in obsolete technology SAT - a good example of the Digital Dark ages of the 1980s. SAT SAT By 2002 the hidden Domesday data started to gain cult status SAT and was a treasure trove for digital archaeologists, many of SAT whom have laboriously excavated the data from the SAT disintegrating discs. Now, 25 years after the original SAT project, that digital archaeology is resurrecting a history SAT of Britain never seen before and data from the 1986 Domesday SAT project is now being made available via the internet at SAT www.bbc.co.uk/domesday. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b010xy3s (Listen) SAT The Prelude, Episode 1 SAT SAT William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude is SAT arguably the most important piece of poetic writing in our SAT language. Recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere, SAT Cumbria, Wordsworth looks back over events in his early life SAT . SAT SAT Wordsworth believed that poetry should be written in the SAT natural language of common speech, and in that way it was SAT revolutionary in its time. SAT SAT Parts of the poem are famous, with lines quoted often such SAT as the description of the young Wordsworth stealing a boat. SAT Other parts are more introspective. The young poet leaves SAT Grasmere to go to University in Cambridge, and is homesick. SAT Wordsworth grapples with his political feelings - travelling SAT to France at the time of the French revolution. He enjoys SAT the hustle and bustle of London, and is euphoric when SAT crossing the Alps. All the time this poem is accessible, SAT bursting with colour and description, full of gripping SAT storytelling. SAT SAT The Prelude is read by Sir Ian McKellen with specially SAT composed music by John Harle, performed by John Harle on SAT Saxophone and Neill MacColl on guitar. SAT SAT The Prelude is directed in Manchester by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b010y0wx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b010y0t1 (Listen) SAT The Future of Privacy SAT SAT The newspapers are once again full of stories about SAT celebrities and gagging orders as a user on Twitter used SAT their 140 characters to out, wrongly it appears in some SAT cases, people who've taken out super injunctions. There's SAT nothing quite like the sight of the British Press in full SAT blooded hue and cry; It's the combination of beautifully SAT crafted righteous anger and self serving pomposity. For some SAT time now it's been targeted on super-injunctions, where the SAT courts have granted orders banning the publication of SAT embarrassing details mostly about the private lives of a SAT number of celebrities and in a Kafkaesque twist, even banned SAT the reporting of the ban. This, thundered the leader SAT writers, is an outrageous infringement by the courts in the SAT freedom of the press. The orders have been granted because SAT Article 8 of the European Human Rights Act recognises that SAT people have a right to a private and family life. The SAT trouble is article 10 of the same act says that everyone has SAT the right to freedom of expression. What moral calibrations SAT should we make to balance these often conflicting rights? A SAT free press is one of the cornerstones of our democracy and SAT why shouldn't public figures be called to account for their SAT sexual morality - or lack of? And of course sex sells a lot SAT of papers. Is anyone fair game? How many of us lead such SAT blameless lives that we could survive a bunch of hacks SAT rooting around in it? Perhaps we need a privacy law to SAT protected us from a press that hacks in to people's mobile SAT phone messages? But this isn't just about what's in the SAT public interest and what interests the public. Our very SAT notion of what is and isn't private is being transformed as SAT we live and publish more about our lives on social networks. SAT Does the more we connect with other people encourage SAT open-mindedness, or just an environment where any sense of SAT judgment or moral boundary is thrown out of the window? We SAT claim to value privacy highly, yet increasingly behave, SAT especially in our online lives, as though we don't. Where do SAT we draw the line between privacy and the right to know? SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b010y378 (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 6 SAT SAT Which serious Anglo-Irish composer of the 20th century SAT secretly wrote comic songs and passed them off as the work SAT of a fictional composer called Karel Drofnatsky? SAT SAT The answer to this, and many other musical teasers, will be SAT supplied by Paul Gambaccini, in the latest heat of SAT Counterpoint, the general knowledge music quiz. For the SAT sixth heat in the 25th anniversary series of the quiz, Paul SAT welcomes competitors to the BBC Radio Theatre in London. SAT SAT The questions cover all the usual musical bases, from the SAT core classics to jazz, show tunes, film scores, chart SAT favourites and recent releases. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT DEREK HALL, a retired personnel manager from Upton nr SAT Newark; SAT PAUL STEVENS, a journalist from London; SAT MIKE WHYMAN, a retired PR manager from Hersham in Surrey. SAT SAT MUSIC IN THIS EDITION SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b010xy8f (Listen) SAT Roger McGough returns with half an hour of pure poetry. With SAT poems about teachers, moons, notable pauses, railway trips, SAT and other journeys including poems by Edward Thomas and SAT Carol Ann Duffy. Keen fell walker and poetry fan Stuart SAT Maconie reads Scafell Pike by the Cumbrian poet, Norman SAT Nicholson, and Roger finds out what a discobolus is in a SAT strange, ranting verse by the painter poet Samuel Butler. SAT The readers are Jonjo O'Neill, Alison McKenna and Peter SAT Marinker. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 MAY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b011296n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6my (Listen) SUN Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 1 SUN SUN Three readings featuring extracts from Samuel Johnson's SUN major works introduced by his biographer, David Nokes. SUN SUN Samuel Johnson (better known as Dr Johnson) was born in SUN Lichfield in September 1709. Half-blind, shambolic and SUN poverty-stricken, he became the most admired and quoted man SUN in the eighteenth century. SUN SUN The son of a bookseller, lack of funds forced him to leave SUN Oxford before taking a degree and, after a stint as a SUN teacher, he travelled to London in search of work. Beginning SUN as a Grub Street journalist, Johnson made lasting SUN contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, SUN moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and SUN lexicographer. A devout Anglican and political conservative, SUN Johnson has been described as "arguably the most SUN distinguished man of letters in English history". SUN SUN His most famous work is, without doubt, A Dictionary of the SUN English Language, published in 1755. It was not the most SUN accurate dictionary, nor the most comprehensive, but it SUN became widely recognised as the first standard dictionary SUN until publication of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years SUN later. SUN SUN Other major works by Johnson are, among others, his Lives of SUN the English Poets including his biography of Richard Savage; SUN the novella, Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia; his notes on The SUN Plays of William Shakespeare; The Idler essays; The Rambler SUN magazine and A Journey to The Western Isles of Scotland. SUN SUN In these three programmes, David Nokes, author of a SUN biography of Johnson, introduces a series of extracts from SUN the great man's work. In chronological order, we work our SUN way through his literary life. SUN SUN Today's episode features a reading from one of his early SUN biographies, The Life of Richard Savage, and an extract from SUN his most famous work, the Preface to a Dictionary of the SUN English Language. SUN SUN Read by Michael Pennington SUN Introduced by Professor David Nokes SUN Produced by Joanna Green SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011296q (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011296s (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011296v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b011296x (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b011296z (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's, Lamberhurst, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b010y0t3 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Dying for a new phone SUN SUN Johann Hari argues that our demand for gadgets has helped to SUN drive the war in the Congo. He says it is a resource war, SUN being fought for minerals like coltan, which finds its way SUN into everything from mobile phones to games consoles. He SUN asks why our governments have not taken forceful action to SUN stop the trade. 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 b0112971 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0112973 (Listen) SUN Rhythm SUN SUN Mark Tully asks why we find rhythm so fascinating and SUN discovers how it governs our lives, from the universal to SUN the microscopic. Rhythm, it seems, not only sets our feet SUN tapping, but binds us all in relationship with each other. SUN SUN The programme features an interview with Russell Foster, the SUN professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University. SUN (Circadian referring to those rhythmic biological cycles SUN that occur in us, within every 24 hours, such as the cycle SUN of wakefulness and sleepiness). Professor Foster believes SUN that, in our 24/7 society, we are trying to overpower that SUN rhythmic cycle within us, with damaging and dangerous SUN consequences to our health and the health of society. So why SUN is rhythm so important, and why does it mean so much to so SUN many people. SUN SUN As Mark Tully says in the programme: SUN "We love Rhythm in music, we love it in poetry. Some SUN discover it in prose too. Then we rejoice in the rhythm of SUN the world we live in, the rhythm of each day, the rising and SUN the setting of the sun, the rhythm of the seasons, and the SUN rhythm that I particularly love, the rhythm of the sea - the SUN tide ebbing and flowing. We each have a rhythm of our own SUN too, and if we don't listen to it we will pay a price." SUN SUN The readers are Samantha Bond, Joseph Kloska and Frank SUN Stirling 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 b0112975 (Listen) SUN Oil Beetles SUN SUN Devon is a beautiful area of the British Isles, an area of SUN the West Country best known for its farmhouse cream teas, SUN rather than a county able to produce its own oil. But it is SUN oil that brings Paul Evans to south Devon where, for this SUN weeks' Living World he meets naturalist John Walters. This SUN oil though is part of a fascinating defence mechanism and SUN life cycle of the subject of this weeks' programme, that of SUN the oil beetle. SUN SUN John has long been researching the ecology and life history SUN of the four species of oil beetle found in Britain, the SUN violet, black, short necked and rugged. By far the rarest SUN species to be found in the country is the short necked oil SUN beetle, a species that until 2007 was thought extinct in the SUN United Kingdom. Can he and Paul possibly see all four SUN species in a single day? SUN SUN On a warm sunlit spring day, Paul and John begin their quest SUN in oak woodland near Dartmoor, a wood carpeted with SUN celandines, the favoured flower of the oil beetle. Soon they SUN discover a male violet oil beetle and its associated cloud SUN of minute flies, an indicator of the remarkable life cycle SUN of these little understood beetles. Close by a huge egg SUN bearing female absorbs the suns rays on her jet black SUN jewel-like body. From here the pair head off to an SUN unimproved wet meadow where John has been studying the SUN flight patterns of this wingless insect, using solitary SUN mining bees to hitch a ride and in return parasitize the SUN eggs of the unfortunate aerial host, once in its burrow. SUN SUN Paul and John leave this area near Dartmoor to travel south SUN to the coast. With sunlight shimmering off the sea, the SUN first migrant swallows making landfall overhead, the rugged SUN oil beetle proves elusive; but there, under a single gorse SUN bush, the rare short necked oil beetle delights these beetle SUN hunters. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0112977 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0112979 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b011297c (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. SUN SUN At one time John Demjanjuk was top of the Simon Wiesenthal SUN Centre's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. Convicted SUN in the week of being an accessory to thousands of murders at SUN the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in Poland, he was immediately SUN released, pending an appeal. Our Presenter Edward Stourton SUN talks to Efraim Zuroff, an Orthodox Jew and current Director SUN of the Centre about his determination to bring the remaining SUN Nazi war crime suspects to justice. SUN SUN The Chief Executive of Celtic Football club described the SUN Old Firm related Sectarian attacks as 'Scotland's Shame'. SUN But the Scottish Legal Action Group believes the root cause SUN of Sectarianism lies beyond the game of football and within SUN the segregated education system. Our Reporter Kevin Bocquet SUN has been in Glasgow looking at how Churches and Schools are SUN working together to combat division. SUN SUN Kevin Ineson, Agricultural Chaplain for Churches Together SUN tells Edward about the helpline for gay farmers, struggling SUN to cope with their sexuality. SUN SUN When Christian Aid set up it's Fair Trade Initiative the aim SUN was to protect vulnerable farmers from exploitation and SUN volatile prices. But how does that work when demand for a SUN crop pushes prices sky high ? Matt Wells reports from SUN Nicaragua' on whether the ideals behind Fairtrade are being SUN realised on the ground. SUN SUN In the week of the Queen's historic 'State' visit to the SUN Republic of Ireland, Edward takes a look its religious SUN significance with Mary Kenny, Writer and Author of 'The SUN Crown and the Shamrock' and Charles Lysaght, Founder of the SUN British Irish Association. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b011297f (Listen) SUN African Revival SUN SUN Gervase Phinn, for many years a school inspector and writer, SUN presents the Radio 4 Appeal for African Revival. A child SUN born to an educated mother is 50% more likely to survive SUN past its 5th birthday so the charity builds schools, trains SUN teachers and supports students. SUN SUN Donations to African Revival should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN African Revival. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You SUN can also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you SUN are a UK tax payer, please provide African Revival with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1108718. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b011297h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b011297k (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b011297m (Listen) SUN Called to serve SUN SUN Mass for Vocations Sunday live from Leeds Cathedral. SUN Celebrant: The Rev Mgr Philip Moger (Dean); Homily: The Rev SUN Paul Grogan (Diocesan Vocations Director); Director of SUN Music: Benjamin Saunders; Organist and Assistant Director of SUN Music: Christopher McElroy. Producer: Mark O'Brien. The SUN outstanding choir of Leeds Cathedral sings This Joyful SUN Eastertide, The King of Love my Shepherd is, Be Thou my SUN Vision, and a Mass setting by Monteverdi. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010y0r7 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Chimps SUN SUN 13/20. They say, David Attenborough reports, that we share SUN more of our genes with chimpanzees than any other species SUN alive today. And this proximity of Homo Sapiens to the SUN chimpanzee motivated Sir David even more to film behaviour SUN never before seen. It had been known for some time that SUN chimps hunt monkeys for meat, but it would be a first to SUN film it for television audiences. To film such a hunt SUN required days of waiting and tracking a troop through the SUN Equatorial African forest - and when the hunt came and was SUN over it changed Attenborough's view of chimps and their SUN importance to us, forever. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b011297p (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b011297r (Listen) SUN Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b011297t (Listen) SUN Kwame Kwei-Armah SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, director and SUN playwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah. SUN SUN His creative output spans both high art and popular culture. SUN He became a household name starring in BBC One's Casualty, SUN but at the same time he was pursuing a career in writing and SUN his award-winning plays have been staged at the National SUN Theatre. He's just finished a stint as the artistic director SUN of The World Festival of Black Arts in Senegal and his next SUN posting is to the US, where he's taking over a theatre in SUN Baltimore. Throughout his life, he says, he continues to be SUN inspired by the joyful atmosphere he grew up in. "My home SUN was so warm, so full of life and noise. Most of my theatre I SUN call the theatre of my front room. My memory was just this SUN citadel to love and joy." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b010y39b (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 6 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Arthur Smith, Tony Hawks, Rhod Gilbert and Charlie Brooker SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Ears, Divorce, Badgers SUN and Ice Cream. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b011297w (Listen) SUN With coffee prices at a 30 year high Sheila Dillon traces SUN the money we pay for a cup along the supply chain and also SUN hears how it raises big questions for Fairtrade. SUN SUN Recently the price for coffee on the world market broke SUN through the important $3.00 barrier. Just a few years ago SUN prices were as low as 60 cents. SUN SUN Speculation from investors is one reason, but other factors SUN like growing demand for coffee in Brazil and China look like SUN creating a long term spike in prices. So what does this mean SUN for growers and what will this mean for us? Will we start to SUN taste the difference as roasters in the UK are forced to SUN source different and cheaper beans? SUN SUN This price spike also raises big questions for the Fairtrade SUN model. Current prices are way above Fairtrade's minimum SUN price, so do coffee growers still need Fairtrade? SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b011297y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0112980 (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 Heel, Toe, Step Together b0112982 (Listen) SUN Heel, Toe, Step Together tells the story of two people who SUN met at an East London market one day and the unlikely SUN friendship that blossomed through dance. SUN SUN Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 SUN and won many competitions with his late wife Iris Hill, who SUN he lived with in Hackney. Katie Burningham, 28, is a radio SUN producer and self-confessed bad dancer. Bob and Katie met by SUN chance one day, shortly after Bob's wife Iris had died, and, SUN three years later, Katie is still having dance lessons with SUN Bob. SUN SUN This programme brings together recordings of their dancing SUN and explores why it is that Bob, and Katie, need to dance. SUN Touching on themes of loss, loneliness, love and affection, SUN Heel, Toe, Step Together reveals how, through music and SUN movement, friendship can bridge generations. SUN SUN Heel, Toe, Step Together was produced as part of the SUN European Broadcasting Union's Master School on Radio SUN Features, with the creative advice of Edwin Brys. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Burningham SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b010xzs9 (Listen) SUN Wentworth Castle Gardens SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer SUN questions posed at Wentworth Castle Gardens near Barnsley. SUN SUN Eric Robson delves into the story of local plant-hunter, SUN Reginald Farrer. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 15 by 15 b0112d58 (Listen) SUN Heels 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 third programme - Heels, Hardeep meets Meg Matthews, SUN who owns 400 pairs of high heels, takes lessons from Chyna SUN Whyne, visits Northampton's shoe museum, and asks ballroom SUN dancer Lilia Kopylova what she thinks about the saying that SUN Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but SUN backwards, and in high heels. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Bannerman SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0112d5g (Listen) SUN The Prelude, Episode 2 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 b0112d9q (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to novelists Eoin Colfer and John SUN Boyne about their new books as they cross the divide between SUN writing for children and adults. Boyne, best known for The SUN Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, has returned to fiction for SUN adults with his latest novel The Absolutist; whilst SUN children's author Eoin Colfer has penned his first adult SUN crime novel Plugged. SUN SUN Jim Crace, author of Booker nominated novel Quarantine, SUN talks about writing his last book in a career which has SUN lasted 25 years during which time he has written twelve SUN novels as well as numerous short stories and plays. SUN SUN And hot new Irish writer Kevin Barry and critic Suzi Feay SUN discuss the way in which long running television drama SUN series have influenced the contemporary novel. Are writers SUN claiming to be inspired by such hugely popular series such SUN as The Sopranos and The Wire as a marketing ploy, or are SUN multiple story lines and a huge cast of characters - beloved SUN of television drama - rejuvenating the way novelists tell SUN their stories? SUN PRODUCER: HILARY DUNN. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0112d9s (Listen) SUN In a special edition, Roger McGough re-visits extracts from SUN A.E Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' read by the late Pete SUN Postlethwaite, which were recorded in 1996. SUN SUN There are so many well known lines from A.E. Housman's SUN poetry - 'Into My Heart an Air That Kills, 'When I Was One SUN and Twenty', 'Ale's the Stuff,' to name just a few. All SUN feature in today's programme as Roger re-visits the readings SUN that Pete Postlethwaite recorded of A.E. Housman's 'A SUN Shropshire Lad.' Though neither Pete Postlethwaite nor SUN Housman came from Shropshire, it seems that both fell in SUN love with its Blue Remembered Hills. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Giving Voice to the Victims b010xzzy (Listen) SUN Winifred Robinson hears from the victims of crime and finds SUN out what more could be done to help them SUN SUN In an age of mass-grieving, where flowers are placed by SUN strangers at murder scenes and politicians promise to place SUN victims at the heart of the criminal justice system - how SUN much do we really know or care about the victims of crime? SUN How are they really served by the police, the courts and the SUN ministers who call on them at times of public unease to SUN share crime summits and photocalls? SUN SUN For the past year Louise Casey the first Victims' and SUN Witnesses' Commissioner for England and Wales has been SUN hearing their stories first hand. A Radio 4's documentary SUN team - reporter Winifred Robinson and producer Sue Mitchell SUN - have been given unique access to these meetings. SUN SUN Louise is a controversial figure. In past roles advising the SUN government on tackling homelessness and anti social SUN behaviour she told charities to abandon soup runs and said SUN offenders on community service should wear florescent SUN jackets so local communities could see the reparations being SUN made. SUN SUN As Commissioner for Victims she says they are too often SUN brushed off and ignored by officialdom as public servants SUN and funding swing into action supporting the perpetrators of SUN crime. SUN SUN Producer: Sue Mitchell. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b011290z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0112984 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0112986 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0112988 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0112df0 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN This week, air guitars at the ready as we celebrate the art SUN of the lead guitarist and join in the debate on what exactly SUN was that chord George Harrison played at the start of A Hard SUN Day's Night? There's also the chance to hear cult sixties SUN girl band The Shaggs and decide whether they were genuinely SUN ahead of their time or genuinely awful. And the true story SUN of the race to rescue the survivors of a terrible plane SUN crash on an island paradise nicknamed Shangri-La, as well as SUN a surprise turn by comedian Alexander Armstrong. Pick of the SUN Week is presented by Sheila McClennon. SUN SUN The Twangmasters - Radio 4 SUN Bob Marley in Exile - Radio 2 SUN Lost in Shangri-La - Radio 4 SUN David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4 SUN Jon Ronson on - Radio 4 SUN Australian Rap - Radio 4 SUN The History of the Interval - Radio 3 SUN Irish Blood, English Heart - Radio 4 SUN Giving Voice to the Victims - Radio 4 SUN Wheels of Power - Radio 4 SUN Chris Evans - Radio 2 SUN Ancient Mysteries - Radio 4 SUN Breakfast - Radio 3 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0112df2 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b0112df4 (Listen) SUN National Debate: SUN Commentator Charlie Pierce digs into the stories most hotly SUN debated in the USA this week. SUN SUN Personal Debate: SUN Debate expert Mark Oppenheimer explains America's complex SUN relationship with rhetorical gymnastics and how the lost of SUN art of debate could improve the nation's place in the world. SUN SUN Outspoken Norman Mailer: SUN His written words won awards nearly too numerous to count SUN and his opinions kicked up debate to almost the same degree. SUN As the late Norman Mailer's Brooklyn apartment goes on the SUN market, his son, Michael Mailer, shows Americana around the SUN book-lined walls and sun-splattered floors for a view of a SUN life lived to the full. SUN SUN American Heroes: SUN Heroes take on many shapes - teachers, celebrities, even SUN politicians. With the success of the mission to find and SUN kill Osama Bin Laden, has the Navy Seal leaped to the front SUN of the line? Presenter Jonny Dymond talks to recently SUN retired Commander, Mark Divine, about the American heroes of SUN today. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00mbxdw (Listen) SUN The Heart of Saturday Night, Step Right Up SUN SUN 'Step Right Up' is the next in the series of stories SUN inspired by the distinctive world created by the legendary SUN musician Tom Waits - a sleazy world peopled by down-at-heel SUN characters on the edge of society, outcasts and deadbeats, SUN hobos and grifters. Huge Waits fan and acclaimed Scottish SUN author Ian Rankin has written a powerful tale, packed with SUN intrigue and menace, set in a London market. A young SUN Jack-the-Lad finds himself taken under the wing of a London SUN market trader, known locally as Saviour. Soon he begins to SUN wonder how his mentor got his name. SUN SUN Reader: Dominic Cooper. SUN Produced by Justine Willett. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0112df6 (Listen) SUN In More or Less this week: SUN SUN Are public sector workers paid 43 per cent more than those SUN in the private sector, as the think tank Policy Exchange SUN claimed this week? SUN SUN If all over 55-year-olds were given cholesterol and blood SUN pressure-lowering drugs - as researchers recently suggested SUN - how many people would take those drugs unnecessarily? SUN SUN Jonah Lehrer on the "decline effect", the disturbing finding SUN that many scientific results appear to fade over time. SUN SUN Kelly Greenhill from Tufts and Harvard universities tries to SUN calculate the civilian death toll in Iraq since the 2003 SUN invasion. SUN SUN Is modern science too complicated to be left to the SUN scientists? Darrel Ince on a scandal in academia. SUN SUN And we try to patch things up with poor old Fireman Dibble. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b010y0qv (Listen) SUN Seve Ballesteros, Richard Holmes, Dana Wynter, Enid Seeney SUN and John Walker SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Seve Ballesteros - hailed as Europe's finest golfer - we SUN speak to his former caddy and hear about his overwhelming SUN compulsion to win. SUN SUN Professor Richard Holmes - the military historian and SUN territorial army brigadier who brought to life great battles SUN on TV. We have a tribute from General Sir Mike Jackson. SUN SUN Dana Wynter the actress best known for her role in Invasion SUN of the Bodysnatchers. SUN SUN And Enid Seeney, the designer who brought us the iconic SUN 1950s Homemaker pottery. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b011290l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b011297f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b010y316 (Listen) SUN Watch Your Language SUN SUN There is no reason why the words used in corporate SUN communications should be pompous and jargon-ridden SUN but that is how it often turns out to be. Peter Day goes SUN into a huddle with a group of enthusiasts determined SUN to improve the way business language works. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0112df8 (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 b0112dfb (Listen) SUN Episode 52 SUN SUN Iain Dale of Total Politics analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b010y0qx (Listen) SUN From multiplex to art house - Francine Stock talks to the SUN man behind the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Jerry SUN Bruckheimer and probes him on the reasons for their SUN perennial appeal. SUN SUN There are interviews too with three of the directors behind SUN this weekend's film releases - Emilio Estevez speaks about SUN his movie The Way, staring his father Martin Sheen; Chad's SUN Mahamat-Saleh Haroun explains why he's thrilled to follow SUN his success with A Screaming Man at last year's Cannes SUN festival with a place on this year's judging panel; and Joe SUN Cornish comes into the studio to talk about his new British SUN film Attack the Block. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0112973 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 MAY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0112djp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b010y0sx (Listen) MON Russian Children in Custody - Paranormal Media MON MON Why is modern media teeming with vampires, witches, ghosts MON and ghouls? Laurie Taylor explores representations of the MON paranormal. Also, how Russia deals with criminal youngsters. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b011296z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0112djr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0112djt (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0112djw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0112djy (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0112dk0 (Listen) MON Becky Harris MON MON Prayer and reflection with Becky Harris. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01132kc (Listen) MON In the UK we spend £1.9 billion a year taming plants, from MON our native gorse to the imported japanese knotweed, and MON controlling pests like rabbits and mink. Trevor Reynolds in MON the Environment Agency's senior advisor on invasive species MON The Environment Agency's senior advisor on invasive species MON says that tackling the problem costs 4.5% of global GDP. MON MON One of Europe's biggest bioethanol plants based on Teeside, MON is to shut down for a few months because of a lack of demand MON for its product. The Ensus plant opened last year and uses MON locally grown wheat to make 400 million litres of bioethanol MON fuel and also produces animal feed as a by product. Its MON marketing manager Grant Pearson explained why it was MON temporarily shutting up shop. MON MON Moira Hickey visits the Torridon Estate in the north-west MON Highlands of Scotland with Alexander Bennett of the National MON Trust to see what damage the wildfires have done to the MON landscape and to the Trust's plans for the area. MON MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith. Producer: Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0112dk2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01132kf (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 b01132kh (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Francis Fukuyama about the development MON of political institutions from the early tribal societies to MON the growth of the modern state. Pakistan has often been MON referred to as a 'failed state', but Anatol Lieven argues MON that despite its reputation it has the makings of a modern, MON viable and coherent country. The author of The Reluctant MON Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, explores what it means to be MON middle class in Pakistan, and Tahmima Anam looks back to MON Bangladesh's fight for Independence, and the relationship MON between religion and politics in the country of her birth. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0112dl1 (Listen) MON Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World, Episode 1 MON MON Actress Emma Fielding reads Gillian Darley's 'Vesuvius, The MON Most Famous Volcano in the World'. MON MON Dormant since 1944, but still a potential threat to those MON who live at its foot, Vesuvius is the only active volcano on MON the European mainland. In AD 79 thousands perished whilst MON fleeing the lava's path, hit by what is known as a MON pyroclastic surge, during which a hurtling jet of gas, MON carrying along the detritus of the eruption, at immense MON speed and horrifyingly high temperatures simply incinerated MON everything in its path. It was, in effect, a horizontal MON H-bomb and thousands perished. MON MON Amongst the volcano's victims was Pliny the Elder, and on MON hand to record events was his nephew, Pliny the Younger. He MON wrote that the devastation was so complete that the MON inhabitants of Naples 'besought the aid of the gods, but MON still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the MON universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore.' MON MON As the belief in the power of the gods gave way to MON Christianity, medieval Neapolitans adopted a patron saint, MON Saint Januarius, to defend them from the terrible ferocity MON of Vesuvius' power. The success of Januarius, (or San MON Gennaro to the Neapolitans), depended on the miraculous MON liquefaction of phials of his (allegedly) dried blood. He MON came into his own during the violent eruption of 1631, when MON he apparently intervened to halt the volcano's lava just MON short of the city. MON MON After that, a whole chapel was given over to the cult of the MON saint. His head was placed by the altar along with the MON phials of his blood and a series of priests rocked slowly to MON and fro for hours, if not days. From them on, the MON inhabitants of Naples placed their entire faith in Januarius MON to save them from the volcano's fury. MON MON With additional readings by Simon Tcherniak. Abridged by MON Olivia Seligman. MON MON Producer: Olivia Seligman MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01132kk (Listen) MON Presented by Jane GarvePresented by Jane Garvey. Is justice MON influenced by the gender of a judiciary which is MON predominantly male? MON Michelle Bachelet survived torture and imprisonment under MON Pinochet's dictatorship before going on to become President MON of Chile. Now in a new role as head of UN Women, she MON discusses how to empower women across the world. When a MON relationship ends, can you remain friends or is that a MON recipe for disaster?y. Is justice influenced by gender? MON MON Michelle Bachelet MON MON Michelle Bachelet is visiting the UK this week in her role MON as Executive Director of UN Women, an agency set up last MON year to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women MON around the world. The priorities for the new agency include MON ending violence against women, and strengthening the women’s MON peace and security agenda. Michelle’s credentials for the MON job are fairly impeccable – former President of Chile, MON doctor, mother of three and survivor of torture and MON imprisonment under the Pinochet dictatorship. She joins MON Jane to explain why the agency currently has less than half MON the money it needs to carry out its work, and what support MON she would like from Governments like ours. MON MON Is justice influenced by gender? MON MON Only one in five of England and Wales’ judges are women and MON Lady Hale remains the first and only woman who sits in the MON UK’s highest appeal court, the Supreme Court. The Ministry MON of Justice says it's committed to addressing the imbalance. MON But according to a government progress report published last MON week, the verdict from Minister for Justice Lord McNally was MON ‘Trying hard – could do better’. But does gender really MON affect the decision-making of our judges and justice in the MON UK? Erika Rackley, Senior Lecturer in Law at Durham MON University’s Law School, and Her Honour Judge Isobel MON Plumstead join Jane to discuss. MON MON Can you be friends with your ex? MON MON Everyone would agree that an amicable split is the best MON thing if a relationship has come to an end, especially if MON there are children involved. But how far should you take a MON platonic friendship with your ex-partner? Should you MON continue to socialise, even go on holiday together? Or is MON remaining emotionally close just a recipe for trouble? The MON journalists Kate Mulvey and Carol Sarler share their views MON and experiences. MON MON Woman's Hour drama - Rebecca and Jeremy Front MON MON In this week’s Woman’s Hour drama, comic actors and writers MON Rebecca Front and her brother Jeremy present the lives of MON five incredible women. Each day, Jeremy conducts a spoof MON interview with an extraordinary and unforgettable character. MON Rebecca plays a different part in each story, and some MON times more than one. You’ll also recognise well-known MON voices, such as Brian Blessed, Graham Norton and Janet MON Ellis. They join Jane to discuss their work. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0112fbd (Listen) MON Incredible Women, Episode 1 MON MON Rebecca Front (The Thick of It, Nighty Night, The Day Today) MON stars in this series about five extraordinary and MON unforgettable characters in Incredible Women. MON MON In each programme less-than-intrepid interviewer Jeremy MON spends one night in the home of each of his interviewees. On MON their territory, he asks about their personal histories, MON plus we discover some very odd things about the way they MON live their daily lives. These 'actuality' interviews are MON interspersed with insert interviews Jeremy has done with MON famous voices who have been 'affected' in one way or another MON by the central character of each episode. MON MON In the first episode, Michael Rosen and Graham Norton reveal MON their lingering disdain for Eleanor Fane-Gore, writer of MON bullying children's tales and purveyor of fascist doctrines. MON MON 11:00 School for Startups b01132km (Listen) MON The last sustained recession in the UK began in the late MON eighties as the "Lawson boom" turned to bust. So what was it MON like to leave school then? Especially if your school was in MON the North East, an area that had already seen much of its MON established industries such as mining and heavy MON manufacturing disappear? And what if yours was the first MON year to sit the new GCSE exams, replacing the O Levels that MON employers knew about? MON MON Prudhoe is a small town in the Tyne Valley, a transition MON between urban Newcastle and the wilds of Northumberland. MON Prudhoe Community High School is an ordinary school drawing MON pupils from the local community. Looking at the world MON through the eyes of a single year group -the class of 88 - MON the programme evokes their hopes and expectations as they MON recount their experiences of school and of stepping out into MON a career. For some it was a chance to make their own future MON by starting up a business of their own. For many, a choice MON had to be made about staying or leaving the region and their MON roots. MON MON In the summer of 88, Yazz was in the charts for 6 weeks: MON their song title provided a refrain for the class of 88 -The MON only way is up. Now in their thirties, how did they cope MON with the struggles of career amid economic ups and downs? MON Did the experience of recession tap into hidden reserves of MON gumption? Were they driven, as one classmate put it "to get MON the hell out of the North East" or did they stay and make a MON success of it at home? And what do their experiences tell us MON about the prospects for school leavers today when, once MON more, prospects appear far from rosy? MON MON School for Start Ups mixes memories and music to offer a MON snapshot of life through the eyes of Prudhoe's class of 88. MON MON Presenter: Richard Collins MON Producer: Mike Greenwood MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b01132yy (Listen) MON Get Well Soon MON MON Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal MON optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the MON silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every MON bit of bad news. MON MON This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass MON is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his MON wife of 19 years, Jacqui or "Jax" (played by Rebecca Front), MON knows all too well. Even when life deals Harvey and the MON Easter family a series of sadistic blows, be it a terminal MON illness, a pyromaniac neighbour or a perpetually unfinished MON extension, Harvey looks on the positive side. It's MON pathological with him. MON MON The way Jax sees it, instead of dealing with the problems of MON their marriage and the two kids - restless, difficult, MON fickle, hypochondriac junior would-be junkie/terrorist MON Robbie, 16, and street-talking, ambitionless, hip-hop MON soon-to-be-ex-sixth-former Charlie, 17 - Harvey's optimism MON ("it'll be fine") is actually his way of avoiding engagement MON with the big issues. MON MON His days as assistant sales manager at a MON Ringfence-Upon-Thames piano shop called Old Joanna's Pianos MON must surely be numbered, his extension doesn't have a roof MON or a side wall, and - although he doesn't yet know it - Jax MON is dangerously close to taking her flirtatious relationship MON with the builder, Rakesh, to the next stage. MON MON Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive MON when he's been dealt such a poor hand in life, and one woman MON battling to live with someone who has his head in the MON clouds. MON MON In this episode Robbie, whilst in search of a stigma, bites MON off more than he can chew whilst Harvey makes the most of a MON beautiful day and walks to work - what could possibly go MON wrong? MON MON Harvey Easter .... Mark Benton MON Jacqui Easter ..... Rebecca Front MON Charlie Easter .... Antonia Campbell-Hughes MON Robbie Easter .... Joe Tracini MON Rakesh Rathi .... Navin Chowdhry MON Kill-R .... Javone Prince MON Ray .... Justin Edwards MON Sean .... Michael Legge MON MON Writer ..... Andrew Collins MON Title Music performer/arranger ..... Jim Bob MON Producer/Director ..... Anna Madley MON An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01132z0 (Listen) MON How psychological profiling on social networks is a treasure MON trove for advertisers - we hear about the new application MON that promises more precise targeting than ever before. MON Advice for the shoppers left high and dry when the DIY chain MON Focus went bust. And the long-overdue fire engines finally MON pulling their weight. Presented by Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0112dk4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01132z2 (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 b01132z4 (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 7 MON MON Can you suggest a musical connection between Hank Williams, MON the Marvelettes, and the Canadian rock group Klaatu? MON MON The answer to this and many other questions will be provided MON by Paul Gambaccini, in the seventh heat of this 25th MON anniversary series of the evergreen music quiz. MON MON The competitors this week are from the North of England - MON from Stockport, Crewe and Leeds to be precise - and they MON will each be hoping to win a place in the series semi-finals MON which begin in a few weeks' time. MON MON As always, the questions cover the widest possible range of MON music, both classical and popular. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0112df2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00scv5n (Listen) MON The Recordist MON MON By Sean Grundy MON MON An illicit affair proves both destructive and a useful MON teaching aid. Starring John Gordon Sinclair, Sharon Horgan MON and Gemma Jones. MON MON Stuart is a freelance surveillance expert who teaches covert MON 'information gathering' to new Intelligence recruits. As MON part of his work he 'bugs' friends & family, including his MON wife, Penny. When he discovers that she's having an affair MON with a man called Neil, his work colleague, Ren, offers her MON own skills in 'enhanced interview techniques' to help, but MON Stuart declines. He realises that the secret affair could MON make an engaging teaching aid. Initially, his students are MON slightly unsettled but very intrigued. The affair becomes MON the main focus of the curriculum, and the group study how to MON 'bug' all manner of difficult situations, such as an MON impromptu hotel room, a car in a field, busy nightclub, and MON hot-air balloon. But Penny feels terrible about the affair MON and Stuart discovers emotions deeply buried and things soon MON spiral out of control. MON MON 'The Recordist' is a dark, offbeat comedy, looking at the MON price love pays for clear acoustics in Dolby NR. MON MON Stuart - John Gordon Sinclair MON Penny - Sharon Horgan MON Ren - Gemma Jones MON Neil - Ed Weeks MON Reese - Fergus Craig MON Munro - Nick Mohammed MON Penny's Mum - Phyllida Nash MON MON Directed / Produced by Alison Crawford. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0112913 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b01132z6 (Listen) MON Series 1, Too Little, Too Late MON MON In the final week of the first part of BBC Radio 4's major MON new series on the History of Russia, the momentum is all MON towards revolution. MON MON After centuries of unbending autocratic government Nicholas MON II creates an embryonic parliament - an astounding leap MON forward. Unrest abates and the economy recovers. Martin MON Sixsmith reflects, "For a brief moment the vision of the MON Russian empire as a sort of British constitutional monarchy MON looked enticingly possible. Had it been offered earlier and MON more willingly - it might just have worked." MON Instead it is seen as too little too late. MON MON Sixsmith stands where the revolutionaries stood and paints MON this picture: "On the 18th of October 1905, a young Jewish MON intellectual with a small goatee beard, a thick head of MON black hair and intense dark eyes rose to address an unruly MON assembly of striking workers here in the Technological MON Institute in Saint Petersburg." That man was Lev Bronstein, MON better known by the pseudonym Leon Trotsky. He and Lenin MON were agitating for the whole Tsarist system to be swept MON away. MON MON After the assassination of his uncle, Tsar Nicholas retreats MON from public view for eight years, but remains under the MON influence of his wife and her faith in the maverick and MON dissolute holy man, Grigory Rasputin. When the Prime MON Minister is assassinated at Kiev Opera House, imperial MON Russia's last attempt at political liberalism comes to an MON irrevocable end. MON MON Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b011297w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Who'd be a Social Worker b01132z8 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Simon Cox gets a rare insight into life for junior social MON workers as he follows two newly qualified workers through MON their first six months in one of the busiest children's MON services departments in Britain. MON MON These are the people we rarely hear from. When something MON goes badly wrong and the protection of children like Baby P, MON Kyra Ishaq and Victoria Climbie fails, social workers are MON roundly lambasted, but never interviewed. MON MON In this programme, we see social work through their eyes. MON James and Natalie are fresh from their training at MON Birmingham University. They join the ranks of hundreds of MON over-loaded social workers trying to protect children in MON some of Birmingham's poorest areas. MON MON Freshly armed with the latest child development theories, MON honed listening skills, and advice on how to conduct a good MON family assessment, they brace themselves for work in the MON real world, not the class room. MON MON What follows is a sobering insight into the hidden lives of MON so many children: the prevalence of domestic violence, drug MON and alcohol addiction and latent aggression. As Natalie and MON James struggle with mountains of paperwork and looming MON deadlines, they constantly question whether they've got it MON right. Did they do all they could for that child, or was the MON truth cleverly concealed from them? How do you ask a burly, MON aggressive father if you can strip back the sheets, look MON through his cupboards and check for punch marks behind the MON door? And if they get it wrong, will it be their face MON staring out from the front of the newspaper as the latest MON social worker to have failed a child? 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 b01132zb (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0112dk6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01132zd (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 1 MON MON Nicholas Parsons is back with the first of a new series of MON Just a Minute, the show that stretches your linguistic MON elastic to breaking point. On today's show we learn Paul MON Merton's motto is Work Hard Be Happy whereas Tony Hawks' MON motto is You're Never Too Old to Be Told Off By a Park MON Keeper. MON MON Joining Nicholas Parsons over the course of this series are MON Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Josie Lawrence, Julian Clary, MON Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Elair, Sue Perkins, Graham Norton, MON Tony Hawks and new girl Fi Glover. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0112fl8 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01132zj (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Johnny Depp's MON return to the role of Jack Sparrow in the fourth Pirates of MON the Caribbean film. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0112fbd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Life and Death of Methodism b01132zl (Listen) MON The Methodist church has been debating whether it should MON continue to exist or merge with the Church of England. But MON while Methodism may be fading in Britain today, it MON originally gave birth to one of the most remarkable forces MON in religious and social life - here and around the world. In MON 'The Life and Death of Methodism' historian Robert Colls MON revisits his Methodist upbringing in the north-east of MON England and the people and places that bear witness to this MON most passionate of people's religion. He describes MON Methodism's belief in personal salvation, an instant change MON in human behaviour through intense faith, its 'war on the MON village' as it tried to transform social life, and its great MON political influence as men and women moved out from the MON chapels to become prominent figures in national life. And he MON listens to the sounds of a movement with a great belief in MON powerful preaching, personal testimony and song, with MON everyone from industrial revolution pitmen to modern MON American Pentecostalists swaying faithfully to its tunes. MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b010y30p (Listen) MON The Pakistan Connection MON MON Following the discovery that Osama Bin Laden was living MON close to the heart of Pakistan's military establishment in MON Abbotabad, Owen Bennett-Jones investigates the ties between MON elements of Pakistan's army, intelligence and government MON with jihadi and Taleban forces. MON Producer: Rebecca Kesby. MON MON 21:00 Material World b010y310 (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 The Anthropocene MON MON Researchers from all over the world and various disciplines MON gathered together in London for a conference called “The MON Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?†The term MON “Anthropocene†was coined by Professor Paul Crutzen of the MON Max Planck Institute in 2002 to suggest human activity has MON had such an irreversible affect on our planet, that we have MON entered into a new geological period, influenced by humans. MON The conference aimed to discuss the various research MON projects studying the Anthropocene, as well as to discuss MON whether or not it should be formalised as a geological MON “Epochâ€. What actually is the Anthropocene, why are so many MON disciplines researching it and what difference will it make MON if it is formalized? Quentin finds out from Leicester MON University geologist Dr. Jan Zalasiewicz, and ecologist MON Professor Erle Ellis from the University of Maryland, MON Baltimore County. MON MON New Fungi MON MON Researchers at the University of Exeter have discovered a MON new type of fungi that changes the understanding of the MON whole fungi kingdom. This new type is missing the normal MON identifying characteristics and as such is due to completely MON rewrite the fungi tree of life. In fact it may provide the MON "missing link" connecting fungi to plants, animals and MON bacteria. Quentin asks Dr Tom Richards of the Natural MON History Museum and the University of Exeter, why has taken MON so long to identify this very abundant type of fungi? MON MON Domesday Reloaded MON MON In 1986 the BBC Domesday project was launched to mark the MON 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book. The MON project produced pairs of interactive laser discs containing MON a ‘digital snapshot’ of Britain with images and articles MON from over a million school children. Technologically way MON ahead of its time, the project required a specially designed MON computer system to access the laserdiscs and as a result MON soon fell victim to digital obsolescence – simply put there MON was no longer a way to retrieve the stored data. Now 25 MON years on, in partnership with the National Archives at Kew, MON the BBC has finally been able to obtain the data from the MON original project. The images and data will be available to MON view on the BBC’s Domesday Reloaded website. Quentin speaks MON to George Auckland, recently retired as Head of Innovation MON at the BBC’s Learning Unit and Tim Gollins, Head of Digital MON Preservation at the National Archives, to find out more. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01132kh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0112dk8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b011335w (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 b010t654 (Listen) MON The Yacoubian Building, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. MON MON Taha's involvement with Muslim extremists bent on jihad MON takes him to a training camp outside of Cairo, where he will MON meet his destiny... 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 Alaa Al Aswaney studied to be a dentist and in fact had his MON first surgery in The Yakoubian building before turning his MON hand to writing and becoming a worldwide bestselling author. MON The Yakoubian Building was made into a film in 2006. MON MON He now lives in Chicago but has been commentating on and MON supporting the call for democracy in Egypt. MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b010xzzt (Listen) MON Michael Rosen takes a look at the history and usefulness of MON the mysterious art of shorthand, with a look at its uses in MON Ancient Rome, Elizabethan England and the present day. MON There's a trip to Bath to hear from Sir Isaac Pitman MON himself, recorded in 1891, and a visit to the University of MON Sheffield's Journalism department. MON MON Producer Luke Hollands. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0113360 (Listen) MON The top news stories from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 MAY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0112dkz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0112dl1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0112dl3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0112dl5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0112dl7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0112dl9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01134ch (Listen) TUE Becky Harris TUE TUE Prayer and reflection with Becky Harris. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0112dlc (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0112dlf (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 b0112fb6 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 final programme, Anne asks how this generation's TUE distinctive life experiences - too young to remember the TUE 1960s and much of the 1970s, but too old to grow up with the TUE internet - will shape our lives over the years to come. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b0112fb8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Harold Macmillan TUE TUE Nick Robinson, the BBC Political Editor, continues his TUE series exploring how different prime ministers have used TUE their power, have responded to the great challenges of their TUE time and have made the job what it is today. TUE TUE The sixth of Nick's portraits in power is Harold Macmillan, TUE prime minister between 1957 and 1963. Macmillan took over TUE from Eden after Britain's humiliation in the Suez crisis, TUE and his upbeat approach and political skill soon earned him TUE the nickname of 'Supermac'. He managed to seem calm despite TUE his inner doubts, and famously dismissed the resignation of TUE his entire Treasury team as 'little local difficulties'. He TUE was admired for his passionate commitment to full employment TUE and wider affluence, but he has also been condemned for TUE failing to tackle Britain's deeper economic problems and for TUE turning a blind eye to the risk of inflation. He developed a TUE close relationship with the US President, John F.Kennedy, TUE but his great ambition of leading Britain into the European TUE Common Market was vetoed by the French President, General de TUE Gaulle. By the end of his premiership, Macmillan seemed out TUE of touch as his government was beset by a series of sex and TUE spy scandals, and he became the butt of the early 1960s' TUE satire boom. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b011682p (Listen) TUE Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World, Episode 2 TUE TUE Actress Emma Fielding reads Gillian Darley's 'Vesuvius, The TUE Most Famous Volcano in the World'. TUE TUE Additional readings by Simon Tcherniak. Abridged by Olivia TUE Seligman. TUE Producer: Olivia Seligman TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0112fbb (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. The tyranny of gardening. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ff2m (Listen) TUE Incredible Women, Episode 2 TUE TUE In this episode he interviews Lauren Bone, a contemporary TUE artist who has hit the headlines with her slogan art on TUE great buildings. Over the course of the 15 minute programme TUE we discover, very much through art critic Waldemar TUE Januszczak, something unexpected about her. It was Waldemar TUE who first noticed her as a student and recognised she had a TUE real and original - though much less trendy - talent for TUE painting beautiful tiny animal and nature portraits. TUE TUE But what happens when a raw talent is waylaid by a TUE Svengali-type person - in Lauren's case, her partner Dagmar TUE who persuaded her to grab the headlines with her graffiti TUE projects? TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b0112fgd (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE The public out cry that ensued following the UK governments TUE announcement it was to sell off state owned woodlands to TUE private owner ship triggered a U-turn in government policy. TUE Woodlands were in the fore of everyone's minds and the topic TUE of conversation up and down the land. It was the TUE biodiversity value of woodlands that became a crucial TUE argument - and public access to the health giving and TUE recreational world woodlands provide. But now the government TUE have scrapped plans to sell off their woodlands, is the TUE problem over? Saving Species will be looking into the value TUE and issues conserving British woodlands through the year - TUE And in this programme through the lives of Blue Tits, TUE Long-Tailed Tits and Black Caps fighting to raise their TUE young discovers there are reasons why caterpillars and other TUE insect larvae aren't nearly so numerous as they should be. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Chinese Nureyev b0112fgg (Listen) TUE Fifty years ago, in June 1961, Rudolph Nureyev made TUE headlines by defecting to the West while on tour in Paris TUE with Russia's Kirov Ballet. Six months earlier, during the TUE height of Mao's Cultural Revolution, a baby was born in a TUE village in China. The sixth of seven sons, Li Cunxin was TUE destined to follow Nureyev's example. Twenty years later in TUE 1981, while on a cultural scholarship to the Houston Ballet, TUE Li defected. TUE TUE His story is a remarkable one, equal to any roles that he TUE has danced. He is now a successful businessman in Australia TUE and was recently named Australian 'Father of the Year'. TUE Darcey Bussell who, since retiring from the Royal Ballet has TUE also been living in Australia, visits Li and his family in TUE Melbourne to hear about his extraordinary journey from TUE peasant to stockbroker, from Communist to Capitalist, from TUE East to West via the world of ballet. TUE TUE At the age of eleven Li was taken from the poor but happy TUE life he enjoyed with his family by scouts from Madame Mao's TUE Beijing Dance Academy who toured the country in search of TUE children with the right physique to be trained as dancers. TUE For the next seven years his education was a combination of TUE rigorous ballet classes accompanied by political TUE brainwashing. The name Nureyev was never heard - his videos TUE banned. Madame Mao demanded ballets with a political message TUE - more often than not Li would be dancing with a gun in his TUE hand. TUE TUE When he was eighteen Li's life changed dramatically with the TUE arrival in Beijing of the first American cultural delegation TUE to visit China. It was then that British choreographer Ben TUE Stevenson, Director of the Houston Ballet, noticed Li's TUE talent and began a chain of events leading to his defection TUE and an international incident between China and the United TUE States. TUE TUE Producer: Merilyn Harris TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0112fgj (Listen) TUE What's the future for the England-Scotland Union after the TUE Holyrood elections? Will the "marriage" continue or are we TUE heading for a messy divorce? Call You and Yours with Julian TUE Worricker. Your chance to share your views on the programme. TUE Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines TUE open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0112dlh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0112fgl (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 b0112fgn (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 4 TUE TUE Fashion designer Betty Jackson joins founder member of The TUE Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, George Hinchliffe and TUE astrophysicist Lucie Green to discuss three personally TUE significant pieces of music. TUE TUE Amongst their choices are a sweeping Sixties soundscape, TUE some philosophising Canadian power rock and eight minutes of TUE magnificent trombone solo played by a man with a pork pie TUE hat. TUE TUE Along the way we discover what makes a fashion entrepreneur TUE weep at the kitchen table, why comedy instruments can TUE produce very moving music, how rock has contributed to the TUE public understanding of science and the name of the Italian TUE singer that links the occult film Don't Look Now with the TUE phrase 'The weekend starts here!' TUE TUE Presenter: Phil Hammond TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0112fl8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b0112flb (Listen) TUE Lost Property, A Telegram from the Queen TUE TUE It's 2011, and, as Alice's 100th birthday present, Ruthie TUE sets out to put her family back together again. The final TUE play in Katie Hims' trilogy of heartbreak and redemption. TUE TUE Ruthie ..... Rosie Cavaliero TUE Alice ..... Edna Doré TUE Ted ..... Gary Beadle TUE Vincent ..... Daniel Rabin TUE Marcus ..... Stuart McLoughlin TUE Ray ..... Sean Baker TUE Queenie ..... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Roseanna ..... Alex Tregear TUE Ella May ..... Joanna Monro TUE Receptionist ..... Sally Orrock TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0112fnr (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 b0112fnt (Listen) TUE Ballads of Thin Men, Dig Yourself TUE TUE Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential TUE cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - TUE is 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin TUE Men have been commissioned specially to mark the occasion. TUE TUE Written by Nick Walker TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b0112fv3 (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Centre Weakens TUE TUE Tsar Nicholas 2nd's reign at the beginning of the 20th TUE century had already been marked by the shedding of workers' TUE blood, and political weakness. Revolutionary voices had been TUE raised, and an unstable Europe would break out into the TUE First World War. The seeds of instability had been sown 40 TUE years before, but it would be Nicholas who would reap the TUE disastrous harvest. TUE TUE Martin Sixsmith tells the story of Russia's part in the TUE First World War through Solzhenitsyn's novel August 1914. TUE Solzhenitsyn takes issue with Tolstoy's belief that TUE individuals cannot shape history and argues that there was TUE nothing inevitable about the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. TUE Greater determination and better leadership could have made TUE things turn out very differently. TUE TUE Sixsmith comments, "In many respects 1914 was a last TUE opportunity for the tsarist regime to save itself. The war TUE was popular and its cause had united many elements of a TUE divided society. For a brief moment, peasant resentment and TUE workers' demands took second place to the overriding TUE imperative of defending the motherland. But the mood of TUE national unity was soon to be shattered by political TUE shenanigans, tsarist incompetence and further setbacks on TUE the battlefield." TUE TUE By 1917 patience with the Tsar had run out, the strain of TUE the war effort led to food shortages, profiteering and TUE inflation. The hated figure of Rasputin had been TUE assassinated the previous year but it was not enough to save TUE the monarchy. Discontent was turning to revolt. Sixsmith TUE concludes, "The unity of 1914 was long gone; the old myths TUE of loyalty to the tsar could no longer hold society TUE together. Tsarism was rotting from within and the only TUE question was who or what would trigger its collapse." 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 The Secret History of Social Networking b00xw14v (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In the first instalment of a three-part series, Rory TUE Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking from the TUE counterculture of the 1970s through early bulletin board TUE systems such as California's The WELL and the first networks TUE on the World Wide Web, finding out how a geeky hobby became TUE a mass phenomenon. TUE Forty years ago, hippies and hackers came together to TUE produce the first attempts at online community. Rory visits TUE the scene of the perhaps the first computer social network TUE open to the general public. Community Memory was a series of TUE terminals in Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay area which TUE opened for business in 1973. TUE It never picked up more than a handful of users, but as TUE personal computers became more common in the 1980s, a host TUE of online bulletin board systems sprang up around the world TUE - although The WELL was perhaps the most influential. An TUE offshoot of the Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL's discussion TUE forums interested journalists as well as computer nerds and TUE showed how computer networks might impact offline life. TUE And Rory follows the trend through to the arrival of the TUE World Wide Web, the thing that turned a mass audience on to TUE the internet and online social networking. TUE Millions signed up for early sites like SixDegrees and TUE Friendster. But the lack of digital cameras and ubiquitous TUE internet access in its late-90s heyday limited the TUE usefulness of SixDegrees as a networking tool. And TUE Friendster's sheer popularity in the early 2000s caused tech TUE problems that the company struggled to overcome. It wouldn't TUE be too long, however, before social networking hit the TUE mainstream. Part 1 of 3. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b0112fv5 (Listen) TUE Series 24, Jack Johnson TUE TUE It was the fight of the century, July 4th 1910, when Tim TUE Jeffries, the so-called Great White Hope, was stopped by TUE Jack Johnson in the 15th round. Suddenly white supremacy TUE didn't seem so self-assured. In America there were riots, TUE while a follow up fight in Britain - between Johnson and the TUE British champion, Bombardier Wells - never took place. A TUE leader in the Times newspaper had urged the promoter to TUE consider 'the special position of trusteeship for coloured TUE subject peoples which the British empire holds ....' TUE Jack Johnson, also known as the Galveston Giant, has been TUE proposed by Matthew Syed, a recent sports journalist of the TUE year. His nomination is based not only on Johnson's life, TUE but what he came to represent. The expert is Kasia Boddy, TUE author of Boxing: A Cultural History. The presenter is TUE Matthew Parris and the producer Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0112fv7 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0112dlk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b00snrjy (Listen) TUE Series 6, Some Others Do 'Ave 'Em TUE TUE Sally Phillips plays Social Worker Clare Barker who has TUE entered a caring profession so that she can sort out other TUE peoples' problems rather than deal with her own. Clare is in TUE her early thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, TUE all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. TUE TUE Clare is back on the social work frontline as a vomiting bug TUE hits her colleagues. Ben and Nali take baby Thomas out for TUE the day and Helen attends the police liaison meeting. 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 TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0112fz3 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0112fz7 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with music producer TUE Danger Mouse, whose new disc is inspired by Italian film TUE soundtrack of the 1960s, and features musicians who TUE performed on the original recordings of scores by Ennio TUE Morricone. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ff2m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Bankers and the Bottom Billion b0112fz9 (Listen) TUE The bankers are back in the spotlight - this time financing TUE an explosion in lending services for the poorest people on TUE earth. They are building on the original dream of TUE "micro-finance" with an array of new products for very poor TUE people, funded in part by raising private debt and equity in TUE London and the world's other financial capitals. TUE TUE It is thought credit, insurance and mortgages could improve TUE the lives of people in slums and villages from Bangladesh to TUE Bolivia. Yet with mounting attacks on micro-finance's TUE idealistic founder Muhammad Yunus, there are also concerns TUE that this rapid injection of investment capital could hurt TUE the poorest. TUE TUE Mukul Devichand tells the intimate story of one slum lane in TUE India, where a group of women have been targeted by the TUE audacious plan to create financial services for the "bottom TUE billion." TUE TUE His report asks one of the most important questions of our TUE time: can financial markets help the poorest, or do they TUE need to be protected from the profit motive? TUE TUE Presenter: Mukul Devichand TUE Producer: Ruth Alexander. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0112g4p (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b0112g4r (Listen) TUE The power of placebo. Placebos have been shown to have a TUE huge effect on people's symptoms in a vast range of TUE illnesses and even change the body's physiology. And their TUE use is widespread. In recent surveys of German and American TUE doctors half said they at some point, prescribed their TUE patients placebos - pills with no active ingredient. But any TUE doctor who wants to exploit their power has to take the TUE ethically dubious step of deceiving their patients - to lie TUE to make them think they're getting a real drug. And TUE undermining the relationship of trust, key to success of TUE healing and medicine. Or do they? In this week's All in the TUE Mind Claudia Hammond talks to Ted Kaptchuk, Associate TUE Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, who in the TUE first experiment of its kind, has shown that even in TUE sceptical patients who know they are getting a sugar pill, TUE the effect of the tablets on their IBS symptoms was huge. TUE Twice as much as those who'd had no treatment at all. TUE TUE How does it work and why? Is it that the medical ritual of TUE pill taking , even in the face of accurate information about TUE the lack of any active drug has a powerful therapeutic TUE effect all on its own? Ted Kaptchuk suggests this effect TUE isn't that patients are thinking themselves better but the TUE ritual of taking pills twice a day somehow encapsulates and TUE unleashes the power of their initial consultation with a TUE compassionate physician. As he says "under the white coat TUE and despite all the hi-tech tools at modern medicines TUE disposal, we doctors still have the feathers of the shaman". TUE While he says this is just proof of principle, in theory it TUE could pave the way for drugs with powerful effects on TUE symptoms but with no side effects. TUE TUE 21:30 The Jam Generation Takes Power b0112fb6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0112dlm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0112g4t (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 b010t6lc (Listen) TUE The Yacoubian Building, Episode 7 TUE TUE Local bigwig Hagg Azzam and owner of the shops on the ground TUE floor of the Yacoubian building yearns for a second wife and TUE a political career.. TUE TUE Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b0112g4w (Listen) TUE Series 6, Witch Hunts TUE TUE Jon Ronson considers the moment when we follow the herd and TUE make accusations. Jon talks to Meredith Maran who at one TUE time believed she was abused by her father. Her beliefs TUE wrecked her family's relationships. Years later she was to TUE question her memory, and ask whether she had been caught up TUE in a wave of accusations that swept America at the same time TUE which was based on false memory syndrome. But what were the TUE consequences of her doubts on her family and her father? TUE TUE Music writer David Quantick brings a lighter note to the TUE programme with his stories of his time as entertainment TUE officer at the student union where he took part in an TUE evening of humiliation towards the rock society. He is still TUE left with feelings of guilt around his actions. TUE TUE Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs TUE An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0112g4y (Listen) TUE The top news stories from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0112gtj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b011682p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0112gtl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0112gtn (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0112gtq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0112gts (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01134c3 (Listen) WED Becky Harris WED WED Prayer and reflection with Becky Harris. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0112gtv (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b0112gtx (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 b0112gtz (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b011684h (Listen) WED Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World, Episode 3 WED WED Abridged by Olivia Seligman. Additional readings by Simon WED Tcherniak WED Producer: Olivia Seligman WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0112gv1 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Jeffrey Archer on his latest WED novel 'Only Time Will Tell'. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ff49 (Listen) WED Incredible Women, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, Jeremy takes a look at Peggy Saville. He WED speaks to 'close friend' Honor Blackman about what made WED Peggy such a special and loved star. WED WED Now in her seventies, Peggy was very big in the 'Round the WED Back' series of saucy British comedy films: Round the Back WED of the Barracks, Round the Back of The Costa Brava, etc. WED Peggy was always cast as the young, busty innocent in a WED fearsomely pointy bra. Her father, Sheridan Saville was at WED The Rada with Olivier and warned his daughter that, due to WED her piggy eyes, she would never make it in pictures, but her WED beautiful voice would keep her in work. Sheridan has WED remained the only significant man in her life - she has WED never married, though ironically she became the bigger star. WED WED During the course of the programme, Peggy talks about her WED film roles in all innocence. She genuinely doesn't seem to WED realise how chock full of innuendo they were. Now an elderly WED woman but still a daddy's girl, she still has the same WED beautiful voice and it still makes her money, as Jeremy WED discovers when he accidentally answers Peggy's phone. WED WED 11:00 A History of the World Special b010y36c (Listen) WED When Peter Lewis heard that the BBC were inviting people to WED nominate personal objects that helped tell the story of the WED history of the world, he thought immediately of his Uncle WED Bryn. WED WED The invitation was intended to complement the award-winning WED Radio 4 series 'A History of the World in A Hundred WED Objects', made in partnership with the British Museum. Those WED objects told of mankind's origins, of dynasties, of trade WED and economics, of science and engineering, war, peace, WED growth and development. WED WED The many thousands of contributions to the BBC website threw WED vivid personal light on those broader subjects, but perhaps WED none more than Bryn's portrait of his World War Two WED sweetheart, and later wife, Peggy. WED WED The picture, which still hangs in his living room, was WED painted in oils from a Red Cross postcard photograph that WED Peggy had sent him when he was a prisoner of war in Poland. WED He'd been captured in April 1940 and, in spite of twelve WED unsuccessful escape attempts, he wouldn't see Peggy again WED until 1945. WED WED His life as a prisoner is an extraordinary story of a WED private soldier gifted with an iron will, a wicked optimism WED and an unshakeable survival instinct. WED WED Many of the camps in which he was held are familiar to WED historians: Thorn, Stalag VIIb Lamsdorf, Terezin - but it's WED Auschwitz that leaps most aggressively from the page. WED WED Bryn was never held with the Jewish prisoners in the main WED camp. As a British soldier, he had rights they could only WED have dreamt of. But he was a labourer in the metal workshops WED alongside the main camp, and he saw the brutality meted out WED over the several months of his incarceration there. WED WED It was during this period that a fellow worker, a Polish WED Jew, told him that he could get the tired photograph of WED Peggy painted for him in oils. WED WED Bryn was uneasy about losing such a treasured possession - WED but when he learnt about the Nazi policy of employing Jewish WED craftsmen and artists to copy stolen art treasures in the WED camp next door, he relented. WED WED A couple of weeks later, his postcard photo was returned, WED along with a beautiful portrait of Peggy. For obvious WED reasons, it was unsigned. WED WED So Bryn would never discover the name of the person who WED painted it, but he treasured it beyond any other possession WED and kept it taped to his stomach or back for the remaining WED two years of the war. WED WED Bryn is now in his nineties. He's always been reticent about WED telling the stories of his imprisonment, but here he talks WED to Peter Lewis about his survival, his escapes, and the WED portrait from Auschwitz that he brought home safely to the WED woman who was to become his wife. WED WED PRODUCER: Tom Alban. WED WED 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00j4hk2 (Listen) WED Skipton WED WED Comedian Mark Steel visits the attractive market town of WED Skipton in Yorkshire and presents a show from the a WED livestock auction hall to discover what makes the town and WED its inhabitants distinctive. WED WED Producer - Julia McKenzie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0112gv3 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b0112gv5 (Listen) WED John Waite examines why schools across the UK have been left WED without the skiing trips they paid for. He speaks to the WED schools, parents and councils left to pick up the pieces and WED he investigates the business behind the trips. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0112gv7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0112gv9 (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 b0112gvc (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0112fz3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0112gvf (Listen) WED Heart WED WED by Mike Bartlett. Alison Steadman plays Susan, a recently WED retired primary school teacher. She sells things on Ebay, WED paints her own version of modern art and grows exotic plants WED in a poly-tunnel. Her husband Steve is stressed at work and WED is becoming depressed and increasingly vicious. She hardly WED recognises him. Even hates him at times. Retirement wasn't WED meant to be like this. WED WED Susan...Alison Steadman WED Steve...Nicholas Farrell WED Jackie...Joanna Monro WED WED Directed by Claire Grove WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0112gyy (Listen) WED Financial help and support for people who need or provide WED care is the subject on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Proposals put forward by the Law Commission should make our WED legal rights to care and support services clearer, but in WED the meantime if you have a question about arranging or WED paying for care, Paul Lewis and guests will be on hand with WED help and advice. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0113fws (Listen) WED Ballads of Thin Men, The Night Ride WED WED Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential WED cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - WED is 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin WED Men have been commissioned specially to mark the occasion. WED WED Written by Simone Felice WED WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b0112gz0 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Year 1917 Dawns WED WED 1917 is the year etched into Russian history. The First WED World War had caused disillusion amongst the military and WED the workers. Tsar Nicholas the 2nd believed blindly in his WED autocratic right to rule, but enemies were all around him, WED and the eventual victor - Lenin - was biding his time at a WED safe distance. WED WED Shostakovich's Symphony 'The Year 1917' provides the WED backdrop for this most momentous year in Russian History. WED The February Revolution of 1917 was, like the earlier WED peasant revolts of Stenka Razin and Pugachev, a spontaneous WED uprising against a hated regime. Contrary to the Soviet WED account of the period, Martin Sixsmith argues "It was WED unplanned, uncoordinated, and the professional WED revolutionaries were left trailing in its wake." WED WED But, with his kingdom crumbling, Tsar Nicholas the Second is WED portrayed, through letters to his wife Alexandra, as WED strangely detached. He barely mentions the revolution that WED was about to end Tsarism in Russia, as if willing it to go WED away by concentrating on other, minor inconveniences. WED Finally the Romanov dynasty, that had begun in the heroic WED glory of 1613 and celebrated its third centenary with great WED pomp just four years previously, came to an end in the WED banality of a provincial railway siding where Nicholas was WED forced to resign. WED WED In the Tauride Palace in Saint Petersburg from where Martin WED Sixsmith tells the rest of the story, Nicholas's portrait WED was unceremoniously ripped from the wall of the Duma WED chamber. Sixsmith walks from the palace's right wing, where WED the Duma deputies announced they were creating a new WED government, to the left wing where hundreds of workers, WED soldiers and peasants were gathering - the two groups WED jostling to fill the vacuum. The time was crying out for WED someone to seize the initiative; he was already waiting in WED the wings. 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 b0112gzd (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b0112g4r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b0112gzg (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0112gvh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b010hcwk (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Arthur Smith presents comedy and music from his flat in WED Balham, with stand-up comedy from Sean Lock in the living WED room, Annette Fagon on the landing and music from Squeeze in WED the kitchen. WED WED Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0112xcb (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0112xcd (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on a new National Theatre WED production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Zoe WED Wanamaker. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ff49 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0112xcg (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David WED Aaronovitch with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Melanie Phillips WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0112xcj (Listen) WED Series 2, Buddha vs. Buddha WED WED Jake Wallis Simons describes how an ancient row within WED Tibetan Buddhism is causing a modern schism, and why it led WED him to give up Buddhism for good. 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 b0112xcl (Listen) WED California Gasping WED WED California has a rapidly expanding population, one of the WED world's most important agricultural zones and a chronic lack WED of water. That contradiction has led to 70 years of WED wrangling punctuated by outbursts of violence and WED corruption. WED WED A new plan is being drawn up which is intended to resolve WED the outstanding problems once and for all, finding a balance WED between the needs of farmers, consumers and the environment. WED WED Travelling from one of the primary sources of the state's WED water in the far north to the threatened landscape of the WED Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Tom Heap hears the voices of WED those who've spent their lives in these stunning landscapes, WED feeling themselves at the mercy of those in power. WED WED Caleen Cisk-Franco, Chief of the Winnemem Wintu WED WED The building of the Shasta Dam in Northern California was WED part of the 1930s solution to the state's twin problems of WED summer drought and winter flood. The construction flooded WED most of the land inhabited by the Winnemem Wintu tribe. WED Caleen and the remaining members of the tribe are deeply WED concerned by plans to raise the height of the dam, WED potentially flooding even more of the tribal land. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0112gtz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0112gvk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0112xcn (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 b010t7v1 (Listen) WED The Yacoubian Building, Episode 8 WED WED Haag Azzam has got what he wished for, but fails to WED anticipate the terrible consequences.... WED WED Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Fabulous b00f41w5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be Fabulous WED but can't cope. The family come to dinner. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0112xcq (Listen) WED The top news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 MAY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0112xdw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b011684h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0112xdy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0112xf0 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0112xf2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0112xf4 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0112xf6 (Listen) THU Becky Harris THU THU Prayer and reflection with Becky Harris. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0112xf8 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b0112xfb (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 b0112xfd (Listen) THU Custer's Last Stand THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of the Little THU Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand. THU THU In 1876 a dispute between the American federal government THU and Native Indians over land rights led to an armed conflict THU now known as the Great Sioux War. In June of that year an THU expeditionary federal force led by General George Custer THU unexpectedly encountered a large group of Sioux and Cheyenne THU warriors in their Dakota homelands. Disobeying orders, THU Custer decided to attack. Barely half an hour later, he and THU all 200 of his men lay dead. Custer's Last Stand has become THU one of the most famous and closely studied military THU engagements in American history. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01169k3 (Listen) THU Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World, Episode 4 THU THU Additional readings by Virginia Ironside. Abridged by Olivia THU Seligman THU Producer: Olivia Seligman THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0112y48 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. The artist Tracey Emin on the THU latest exhibition of her work. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ff80 (Listen) THU Incredible Women, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode, Jeremy meets Kate Wilkie, now aged 37, THU who shot to fame at the age of 12 when she accompanied her THU father on a polar expedition and saved his life...in a very THU macabre way. THU THU Utterly driven since childhood, this programme tries to THU uncover the truth behind her fearless ambition. As she THU talks, we discover that Kate has an extremely literal view THU of the world. She can happily talk about polar equipment and THU preparation for the next expedition till the cows come THU home... but not much else. Music-wise, she listens to Celine THU Dion...but nothing else. And we discover she's just signed THU up Brian Blessed for her next expedition. THU THU However, dark rumours have spread about how her tastes have THU developed during her various cross-polar expeditions. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0112y4b (Listen) THU Colombia THU THU Early-onset Alzheimer's has stalked a poor extended family THU in Medellin, Colombia. The family carries a dominant gene THU that means that half are at risk. The disease strikes family THU members as young as 25 and by their 40s sufferers are in the THU grip of full-blown dementia. Alzheimer's is by and large a THU disease of the developed world, if for no other reason than THU that people in the developing world don't live long enough THU to suffer from it. Now by using the Colombian family to THU trial new drugs, researchers say they may be on the road to THU a global cure for Alzheimer's. Bill Law asks if this THU represents an unfair exploitation of desperate people - many THU of them barely literate - to benefit those in the West? Or THU is it a case of bringing hope to those in a hopeless THU situation? THU Producer: Natalie Morton. THU THU 11:30 The Luddite Lament b0112y4d (Listen) THU In The Luddite Lament, the award winning folk singer John THU Tams looks back at the machine breakers of the 19th century, THU through the prism of the songs they inspired. THU THU Two hundred years ago parts of Britain were on the brink of THU rebellion - and you could be imprisoned for singing a song. THU There were said to be more troops on the border of Yorkshire THU and Lancashire than on the Continent with Wellington. The THU reason? Men armed with hammers, pikes and even guns were THU attacking mills in protest at the introduction of new THU machinery. Luddism began in the Midlands in 1811 and swept THU northwards to Yorkshire and then Lancashire. THU THU In just one month in 1812 a mill was attacked by over a THU hundred men, two Luddites were killed, a manufacturer was THU shot dead and then, to add to the air of fear and paranoia, THU the Prime Minister was assassinated. Spies and informers THU crisscrossed the Luddite areas passing what information they THU could to the authorities - but the Luddites were notoriously THU difficult to infiltrate. They sang songs about their THU exploits - about hardship, about machine breaking and about THU their hero General Ludd. This programme examines the story THU of the Luddites using some of those songs. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b0112y4g (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0112xfg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0112y4j (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 b0112xcl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0112xcb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b01169k5 (Listen) THU Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine THU THU Written by Jules Horne. THU THU Young Scots country blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan is a THU man of ideas, like the velocipede - a clanking, pedalled THU contraption that's the ancestor of the modern bike. THU THU The cranky, smoky voice of the velocipede is our narrator, THU and Kirkpatrick's constant companion. Kirkpatrick has been THU working on the velocipede for the past two years. Dreaming THU of fame, he's oblivious to girls' attentions, smitten THU instead with his velocipede, he's going to ride the 70 miles THU from Dumfries to Glasgow. THU THU It's the summer of 1840, and a long way to go cross-country THU without brakes. But he'll get there quicker than the THU stagecoach. They'll see. First, he meets Gavin Dalziel, an THU engineer. Dalziel takes a mighty interest in the velocipede, THU measures it up and rushes to his workshop, but Pate is too THU naive to notice. Pate and the velocipede clank to the top of THU the final hill and then: Glasgow! In the city, he grazes a THU small girl and is hauled up in court for dangerous driving. THU THU The velocipede is seen as a treacherous contraption, and THU he's found guilty and fined for dangerous driving. He's THU mortified and finally crushed. When he and the velocipede THU eventually arrive home, the shameful news has got there THU before him. Fury drives him out in search of a wife. He THU strides into the kitchens at Drumlanrig Castle and asks the THU maids who wants the job. And there's one who laughs and THU takes him up on it. Gavin Dalziel becomes rich and famous as THU the inventor of the pedal bicycle. The bicycle is delighted. THU Kirkpatrick stops inventing and has a grand life. THU THU Kirkpatrick MacMillan ..... Scott Hoatson THU Machine ..... John Kazek THU Catherine ..... Gabriel Quigley THU Duke ..... Gavin Mitchell THU Duchess ..... Isabella Jarrett THU Wee Toddy ..... Leo MacNeill THU THU Director: Rosie Kellaghe. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0112902 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b011297f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011325p (Listen) THU Ballads of Thin Men, People Carry Roses THU THU Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential THU cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - THU is 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin THU Men have been commissioned specially to mark the occasion. THU THU Written by Toby Litt THU THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b0112ydd (Listen) THU Series 1, Lenin's Return THU THU Chaos follows the abdication of the Tsar, and it is into THU this chaos that Lenin returns from exile. The programme THU opens with a series of telegrams from the German foreign THU ministry which reveal that Berlin saw Lenin as a 'secret THU weapon', a 'dangerous virus' that would foment revolution THU forcing Russia to withdraw from the war, and so the Germans THU put him on the legendary sealed train bound for St THU Petersburg. THU THU But Lenin was most certainly not in control. No one was in THU control. Tsarism had collapsed but the revolutionaries were THU far from united. The Provisional Government was trying to THU create Russia's first western style law-governed state: THU their "liberal idealism was impeccable," muses Martin THU Sixsmith, "but the middle of a world war with revolutionary THU chaos on the streets was not the easiest moment to introduce THU democracy." THU THU The opposition was divided between the Mensheviks who wanted THU to go through a phase of capitalist democracy before true THU revolution ushered in the nirvana of socialism. The THU Bolsheviks, at that stage minor players, had more idea of THU what they wanted to destroy than what they wanted to create. THU But Lenin seized the moment: "All power to the soviets!" was THU his dramatic conclusion that has resonated through Russian THU history. He was already plotting a Bolshevik coup to take THU control and boldly promised Land, Peace, Bread and Freedom. THU This gave him the popular support he needed to have a real THU chance of taking power. THU THU But then he ran away. Sixsmith draws on comments by Nikolai THU Valentinov, a friend of Lenin, which hint at a manic THU depressive side to Lenin's character to explain it. It puts THU things on hold, the Bolsheviks go underground, but by THU October, the pressure for change was unstoppable. 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 b0112d9q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b0112ydg (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b0112ydj (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0112xfj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b0112ydl (Listen) THU Tommy Cockles THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The THU Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show THU along with the back stage and front of house goings on at THU the theatre itself. THU THU This week, comedy legend Tommy Cockles performs at the THU Mallard and is stunned to discover that manager Ron Bone has THU no idea who he is. THU THU Tommy Cockles ..... Simon Day THU Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Goose ..... Felix Dexter THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0112ydn (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0112ydq (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the THU Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries, announced this THU evening. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ff80 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0112yds (Listen) THU Was the Easter riot in Bristol a sign of increased THU opposition to the expansion of supermarkets? Hundreds of THU people took to the street - some throwing missiles - several THU police officers were injured and there was serious damage to THU the new Tesco Express. There'd been a vocal and longstanding THU campaign against the store by some local people and concern THU about the impact on independent retailers. THU THU Many applications from the big four are now for smaller and THU town centre stores, and in the constant battle to maintain THU or increase market share the supermarkets are looking at THU sites which previously would have been of less interest. In THU some places this has lead to vociferous opposition THU challenging those local people and traders who support the THU retail development. THU THU Phil Kemp asks just how well does the planning process THU reflect the views of residents and businesses and make for a THU fair debate? With such controversy about the effect the THU multiples have on the economics of local communities, how is THU a balance struck between support for and against a new THU store? THU THU Producer: Andy Denwood THU Reporter: Phil Kemp. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0112ydv (Listen) THU Take a Copy THU THU Intellectual property sounds an innocuous enough idea, but THU patents and copyright have recently been stirring up a lot THU of strife. Peter Day finds out why copyright in particular THU is such a contentious issue in the Internet age. THU Producer: Sanda Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b0112fgd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0112xfd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0112xfl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0112y4l (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 b010t7v7 (Listen) THU The Yacoubian Building, Episode 9 THU THU Busayna, the most beautiful young resident on the Yacoubian THU roof , finds employment with strings attached.... THU THU Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Jason Cook's Happiness HQ b0112ydx (Listen) THU The comedian Jason Cook is joined by Chris Ramsey, THU psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott and his own mum, Pat, as they THU take a vivacious look at happiness in the workplace. In this THU pilot episode of the comedy, the team discuss what is THU Britain's happiest job and what we can do to make our THU professional lives more cheerful. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0112yf1 (Listen) THU The top news stories from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 MAY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01130p2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01169k3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01130p4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01130p6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01130p8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01130pb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01130pd (Listen) FRI Becky Harris FRI FRI Prayer and reflection with Becky Harris. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01134jg (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b011344s (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, FRI Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b011297t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01169r6 (Listen) FRI Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World, Episode 5 FRI Additional Readings by Simon Tcherniak. Abridged by Olivia FRI Seligman. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Seligman FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01130pg (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011fff5 (Listen) FRI Incredible Women, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today Jeremy meets Valerie Panther, the doyenne of British FRI television. Valerie has been the genius behind almost every FRI seminal TV programme for forty years and she has recently FRI been asked by Number 10 to be the new broadcast integrity FRI tzar. But when Jeremy meets her only son Piers, he reveals FRI there are a lot of disgruntled writers and stars who've got FRI together in an online campaign saying she has cheated her FRI way to the top. FRI FRI This is the only time you will ever hear the FRI nicest-man-in-the-world Barry Cryer saying anything nasty FRI about anyone. And boy does he make up for lost time. FRI FRI 11:00 Roller Girls b01130pj (Listen) FRI An American import, Roller Derby is part race/part contact FRI sport, in which young women violently jostle and elbow their FRI opponents in an attempt to steer them off course. Adopting FRI alter-egos on the track characters like Anna Mosity, FRI Grievous Bodily Charm, Vaga-blonde and Debbie does Malice FRI don war paint, vibrantly-coloured costumes and roller skates FRI as they skid, smash and knock into each other. FRI FRI Leagues are currently springing up in cities across the UK FRI with demand rapidly outstripping the number of places FRI available. These women often end up bruised and battered - FRI so what has propelled the rise of this aggressive 'sports FRI entertainment' amongst Britain's young women? FRI FRI In this programme we explore the stories of two young FRI skaters from the London Roller Girls - Auntie Terror, who FRI skates in the main league, and Hannah Harding, who skates in FRI the practice league. FRI FRI Produced by Eleanor McDowall FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01130pl (Listen) FRI Commendation and Competition 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 Lucy gets inspired by art and creates her own Angel of the FRI North London - but she is confused by Joe's refusal to take FRI her to an exhibition of his own work. FRI FRI Meanwhile Mimi is stuck as usual with annoying Helen who FRI overuses the word 'achingly', hits on Joe and is oddly FRI pretending to find Tom's lame jokes a hoot. 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 Katy ..... Ophelia Davidson FRI Helen ..... Tracy-Ann Oberman 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 b01130pn (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01130pq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01130ps (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 Feedback b01130pv (Listen) FRI Listeners' champion Roger Bolton is back with a new series FRI of Feedback to put your criticisms, queries and concerns to FRI BBC radio's top dogs. FRI FRI It will be a long hot summer as BBC management chew over FRI where the axe will fall to make savings needed - and staff FRI at 5Live prepare to move to Salford but will the listeners FRI hear any difference? FRI FRI And Roger investigates threatened changes to BBC local radio FRI and spends a morning with the Today team - can he get a word FRI in edgeways? FRI FRI Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like FRI him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC FRI radio. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0112ydn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0117cfy (Listen) FRI The Death of Tom Inglis FRI FRI Lesley Manville stars in the true story of Frances Inglis. FRI This modern tragedy also stars Phil Daniels and William FRI Gaminara. FRI FRI When 22 year old Tom Inglis falls out of the back of a FRI moving ambulance and suffers terrible head injuries he is FRI brain damaged and unable to communicate. His family struggle FRI to cope with his disablement, and his mother believes he is FRI in constant pain. Set against the doctors, she becomes FRI increasingly desperate to relieve his suffering. She begins FRI a journey that leads her to action no mother would ever want FRI to contemplate. FRI FRI Frances (Frankie) Inglis ..... Lesley Manville FRI Alex Inglis ..... Phil Daniels FRI AJ Inglis ..... Sid Mitchell FRI Professor Derick Wade ...... William Gaminara FRI Miranda Moore QC ...... Samantha Beart FRI Dr Arvin ..... Rupert Degas FRI Sacha Wass QC ..... Felicity Duncan FRI Katie Wheatley ...... DeNica Fairman FRI Mr Vindlacheruvu ..... Imran Khan FRI FRI Music: Chris O'Shaughnessy FRI Writer: David Morley FRI Director: Dirk Maggs FRI Producer: David Morley FRI A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01130pz (Listen) FRI Clapham, N. Yorkshire FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team are in Clapham Village Hall, near FRI Lancaster. Eric Robson explores the legacy left by FRI plant-hunter Reginald Farrer. FRI FRI In addition, Christine Walkden visits Emma Morris in her FRI Shrewsbury garden. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b01130q1 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Revolution! FRI FRI The signal for the Revolution was given on October 25th by FRI the battleship Avrora, still moored at the St Petersburg FRI quay where she was anchored in 1917. FRI FRI In the concluding programme of the first half of BBC Radio FRI 4's major history of Russia, Martin Sixsmith argues that FRI between the February and October Revolutions of 1917, Russia FRI missed her only chance for real change. He says, '1917 has FRI long been seen as a turning point in Russian history. FRI February put an end to tsarist rule and October inaugurated FRI the era of proletarian socialism. But I believe the real FRI chance for change came in the brief period between the FRI revolutions. The Provisional Government was committed to the FRI introduction of liberal parliamentary democracy, respect for FRI the law and individual civil rights.' FRI FRI But the Provisional Government did not survive, and under FRI Lenin and Communism, the country's 1000 year history of FRI autocracy would continue. Sixsmith quotes the writer Vassily FRI Grossman who says, 'In 1917, the Russian soul had been a FRI slave for a thousand years... the path of freedom lay open, FRI but Russia chose Lenin.' FRI Sixsmith identifies widely differing versions of the events FRI of 1917, untangling the myth and the reality. FRI FRI Eisenstein's iconic film 'October' dramatizes the storming FRI of the Winter Palace, but in fact it was defended by a FRI smattering of teenage cadets. There wasn't much heroism or FRI bloodshed, and it was all over in 24 hours. But it was the FRI beginning of a power struggle between competing FRI revolutionaries, and, in the next part of his history, FRI coming to BBC Radio 4 in the Summer, Martin Sixsmith will FRI describe how the Bolsheviks would consolidate their monopoly FRI on power. They would create a repressive Communist state FRI that would last for over seventy years until it was, in FRI 1991, overturned. 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 16:00 Last Word b01130q3 (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 b01130q5 (Listen) FRI From Avatar to Zoolander - the A-Z of film with Francine FRI Stock FRI FRI Producer: Zahid Warley. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01130q7 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01130q9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01130qc (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01130qf (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01130qh (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011fff5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01130qk (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the live discussion from Easingwold in FRI North Yorkshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b01130qm (Listen) FRI Series 2, Cuckoo FRI FRI 14/20. The Cuckoo is one of the iconic brood parasites of FRI the world - the bird that cons another species into taking FRI its egg as its own and rears the chick to fledging. In the FRI single frame of the Cuckoo you have a long distance migrant, FRI travelling from Africa to breeding grounds in the temperate FRI north, and back again. The Cuckoo does not raise its own FRI chick and across a range of Cuckoo individuals, they FRI parasitise several species of bird - all much smaller than FRI they are. David Attenborough explores the world of the FRI Cuckoo and not only marvels at their natural history but FRI tells the story of how a wildlife cameraman resolved a FRI scientific mystery - and how the Cuckoo itself harbours yet FRI more secrets to science and natural history. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b01130qp (Listen) FRI Russia: The Wild East Omnibus, The Road to Revolution FRI FRI In the final week of the first part of BBC Radio 4's major FRI new series on the History of Russia, the momentum is all FRI towards revolution. FRI FRI After centuries of unbending autocratic government Nicholas FRI II creates an embryonic parliament - an astounding leap FRI forward. Unrest abates and the economy recovers. Martin FRI Sixsmith reflects, "For a brief moment the vision of the FRI Russian empire as a sort of British constitutional monarchy FRI looked enticingly possible. Had it been offered earlier and FRI more willingly - it might just have worked." FRI Instead it is seen as too little too late. FRI FRI Sixsmith stands where the revolutionaries stood and paints FRI this picture: "On the 18th of October 1905, a young Jewish FRI intellectual with a small goatee beard, a thick head of FRI black hair and intense dark eyes rose to address an unruly FRI assembly of striking workers here in the Technological FRI Institute in Saint Petersburg." That man was Lev Bronstein, FRI better known by the pseudonym Leon Trotsky. He and Lenin FRI were agitating for the whole Tsarist system to be swept FRI away. FRI FRI After the assassination of his uncle, Tsar Nicholas retreats FRI from public view for eight years, but remains under the FRI influence of his wife and her faith in the maverick and FRI dissolute holy man, Grigory Rasputin. When the Prime FRI Minister is assassinated at Kiev Opera House, imperial FRI Russia's last attempt at political liberalism comes to an FRI irrevocable end. FRI FRI Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01130qr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01130qt (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b010t6c6 (Listen) FRI The Yacoubian Building, Episode 10 FRI FRI Busayna and Zaki are falling in love, much to her FRI surprise...but Zaki's sister is not going to give up her FRI vendetta. FRI FRI Written by Alaa Al Aswany. Read by Mido Hamada. FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b0112fv5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01130qw (Listen) FRI The day's top news stories from Westminster. FRI
13 May, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 14/05/2011 - 20/05/2011
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