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SAT SATURDAY 21 MAY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01133bh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01169r6 (Listen) SAT Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World, Episode 5 SAT SAT Actress Emma Fielding reads Gillian Darley's 'Vesuvius, The SAT Most Famous Volcano in the World'. Dormant since 1944, but SAT still a potential threat to the thousands who live at its SAT foot, Vesuvius has produced its own literature, imagery and SAT scientific insights. SAT SAT Additional Readings by Simon Tcherniak. Abridged by Olivia SAT Seligman. SAT SAT Producer: Olivia Seligman SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01133bk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01133bm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01133bp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01133br (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01133bt (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01133bw (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. 'Don't SAT blame Bogey for the parakeets'. A listener explodes a myth SAT about The African Queen. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01133by (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01133c0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b0118bgk (Listen) SAT Series 18, Heptonstall - Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath SAT SAT Clare Balding is back with a new series of walks with a SAT literary theme, beginning in Heptonstall, the childhood home SAT of poet Ted Hughes, and the burial place of his wife, Sylvia SAT Plath. The rugged landscape influenced not only their work SAT but many other poets. Clare joins John Billingsley a keen SAT rambler and Hughes enthusiast, as well as other writers and SAT walkers to experience the harsh beauty of Bronte Country. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0118bgm (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01133c2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0118bgp (Listen) SAT Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0118bgr (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with historian Amanda Foreman, poet Murray SAT Lachlan Young, a man whose father was a high-ranking SAT official in the Ku Klux Klan, and a torch-bearer at the 1948 SAT Olympics. There's a Sound Sculpture about jackals in India SAT and best-selling author Iain Banks shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0118bgt (Listen) SAT John McCarthy meets poet and author Lavinia Greenlaw who SAT tells him about the designer William Morris's journeys to SAT Iceland in the 1870s and how what he saw informed his SAT radical socialism. She also compares his experiences with SAT her own trip there in the wake of the financial crash. SAT Novelist Niall Griffiths emigrated to Australia as a child SAT with his family but they returned to Britain after a few SAT years. He talks to John about rediscovering his childhood SAT haunts thirty years later and how modern Australia lived up SAT to his memories. SAT John also meets art historian Christopher Lloyd who reveals SAT that Britain's art galleries are full of overlooked SAT masterpieces and that a trip to any part of Britain can be a SAT journey of aesthetic discovery. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Falling for Francoise b0118bgw (Listen) SAT It was on a language-learning trip to Paris that John Andrew SAT first heard the music of Francoise Hardy and fell for the SAT sexy but shy singer. He was not alone - she was the SAT dreamgirl of many an English schoolboy in the early 1960s. SAT SAT In 'Falling for Francoise', he revisits Paris and the SAT streets in which he first lost his heart and he talks to SAT others who've suffered the same fate - the Hardy fan website SAT curator, Yorkshireman Warren Gilbert; musician Ben SAT Christophers, who's written songs for the mature Francoise; SAT journalist Laura Barton, who's besotted with the whole SAT French 60s 'ye ye' scene... and in a real coup, John gets to SAT meet the singer herself, falling for Francoise all over SAT again! SAT SAT Producer: Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0118bgy (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT The government is reviewing controversial NHS reforms. But SAT should ministers give in to critics or stick by their plans? SAT The Tory grandee, Lord Heseltine, has experience of SAT conducting a review of a controversial policy: the poll tax. SAT What advice would he give ministers as they pause before a SAT tide of protest ? SAT SAT Will there ever be an elected House of Lords? This week, SAT Nick Clegg's package of reforms for the Upper House was SAT given short shrift by peers and MPs. Here, the Tory peer, SAT Lord Dobbs, and the former Liberal Democrat Leader, Sir SAT Menzies Campbell MP, take sides. SAT SAT David Cameron has made his second appearance before the SAT committee made up of select committee chairman. Not much SAT news came out of the hearing. But is that a sign that these SAT kind of sessions have failed? The committee chairman, the SAT Lib Dem, Sir Alan Beith, and Labour's Margaret Hodge, SAT reflect. SAT SAT Finally, life is changing for political bloggers. Live SAT blogger Andrew Sparrow of The Guardian, discusses why - with SAT veteran bloggers Tom Watson MP and Iain Dale. SAT SAT The Editor was Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0118bh0 (Listen) SAT The carrots and sticks which the authorities in Saudi Arabia SAT hope will persuade their people that protest is not a SAT sensible option -- Michael Buchanan is gauging opinion in SAT the desert kingdom. Who'll be the next president of Russia - SAT Putin, Medvedev or someone else? It's a question SAT preoccupying correspondents in Russia, among them the BBC's SAT man Steve Rosenberg. As nuclear power plants around the SAT world check their safety procedures after the apparent SAT meltdown in Japan in March, Nick Thorpe visits a power SAT station on the River Danube in Romania. The American SAT president's on his way to Ireland but Kieran Cooke's been SAT finding out that thousands of Irish, prompted by a tottering SAT economy, are preparing to emigrate. And Kevin Connolly SAT visits the casbah in Algers walking, he assures us, in the SAT footsteps of Tarzan of the Apes. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0118bh2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01130qc (Listen) SAT Series 74, The News Quiz, Series 74, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with Armando Iannucci, Will Smith, Bridget Christie SAT and Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01133c4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01133c6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01130qk (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the live discussion from the Galtres SAT Centre in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, with panellists Peter SAT Oborne, Daily Telegraph columnist, Julia Hobsbawm, media SAT businesswoman, Ivan Lewis, Shadow Secretary of State for SAT Culture and Alan Duncan, Minister for International SAT Development. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0118bh4 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00vr5sb (Listen) SAT Five Days in May SAT SAT Written by Matthew Solon. Under extreme pressure and SAT suffering from lack of sleep, the politicians argued and SAT negotiated. There was nothing inevitable about a SAT Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition. Revealing key SAT moments of the negotiations, the drama unpicks what went on SAT behind closed doors and shows how an allegiance between the SAT Conservative and Liberal Democrat gradually formed, and how SAT it withstood the resignation of Gordon Brown. SAT SAT Based on pain-staking research, this is a must-listen SAT 60-minutes - a compelling and entertaining dramatic SAT retelling of the most extraordinary British election outcome SAT in 70 years. SAT SAT David Cameron ..... Samuel West SAT Nick Clegg ..... Nicholas Boulton SAT Gordon Brown ..... Gerard Kelly SAT Peter Mandleson ..... Henry Goodman SAT Ed Balls ..... John Sessions SAT William Hague ..... Philip Jackson SAT Danny Alexander ..... Emun Elliot SAT David Laws ..... Anthony Calf SAT Chris Huhne ..... Rupert Frazer SAT George Osborne ..... Ian Hughes SAT SAT Other parts are played by Charlotte Longfield, Wilf Gilmour SAT and members of the cast. SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b0112fgn (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 4 SAT SAT Fashion designer Betty Jackson joins founder member of The SAT Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, George Hinchliffe and SAT astrophysicist Lucie Green to discuss three personally SAT significant pieces of music. SAT SAT Amongst their choices are a sweeping Sixties soundscape, SAT some philosophising Canadian power rock and eight minutes of SAT magnificent trombone solo played by a man with a pork pie SAT hat. SAT SAT Along the way we discover what makes a fashion entrepreneur SAT weep at the kitchen table, why comedy instruments can SAT produce very moving music, how rock has contributed to the SAT public understanding of science and the name of the Italian SAT singer that links the occult film Don't Look Now with the SAT phrase 'The weekend starts here!' SAT SAT Presenter: Phil Hammond SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0118bh6 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0118brf (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01133bw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01133c8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01133cb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01133cd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0118brh (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Louis Theroux begins his weird weekend on Loose Ends. His SAT latest documentary looks at the lives of staff and inmates SAT of Miami's infamous Mega Jail. Louis spends time in the SAT holding-pen for the unconvicted. The inmates there are SAT awaiting trail which can take years and live under a SAT gladiatorial code - having to fight for food, status and SAT just to pass the time... SAT SAT With early appearances on Blue Peter Sophie Ellis-Bextor was SAT clearly always marked for stardom. She has built up a SAT successful pop career over the last decade since her SAT beginnings with the phenomenally successful Groovejet (If SAT This Ain't Love). Sophie performs her latest single, SAT Starlight, and talks to Clive about her new album, Make A SAT Scene. SAT SAT Celia Walden is a journalist and author of 'Babysitting SAT George', her memoir about spending a summer in the company SAT of George Best, in the year before he died. She recounts a SAT life of passions and addictions as well as a complexity and SAT intelligence often overlooked by the tabloid press. SAT SAT Emma Freud conducts an interview with the BAFTA SAT award-winning Choirmaster Gareth Malone. He shares his SAT passion of classical music and tries to make us understand SAT and appreciate the genre more in his new book 'Music for the SAT People - The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music'. SAT SAT And there's even more music from Doncaster - the roots folk SAT 4 piece In Fear of Olive who perform I'm Sure They'll Fall SAT from their debut EP 'All We Can Do Is Wonder'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b0118brk (Listen) SAT Series 10, Episode 4 SAT SAT In the week that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as head SAT of the IMF - following his arrest on sexual assault charges SAT - award-winning novelist Lionel Shriver (We Need To Talk SAT About Kevin, So Much For That) imagines the reaction of a SAT Brussels-based bureaucrat - and his no-nonsense wife. SAT SAT "Belgian Waffle" by Lionel Shriver SAT SAT Rupert ... Alex Jennings SAT Fiona ... Anna Chancellor SAT SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0118brm (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0118brp (Listen) SAT Bob Dylan and Me SAT SAT Marking the musician's 70th birthday on May 24th 2011 and SAT drawing on archive, much of which has never before been SAT broadcast, a group of writers, poets, musicians and fans SAT have been asked to reflect on what Bob Dylan means to them. SAT SAT Bob Dylan and Me offers a series of essays, richly woven SAT together with songs and archive interviews. SAT SAT Cerys Matthews talks about Bob Dylan's personal impact on SAT her life and music. Paul Morley reflects on Dylan's ability SAT to acquire fame by staying aloof. Professor Christopher SAT Ricks looks at Dylan's years with God. Eddi Reader reflects SAT on the women in his songs. SAT SAT Billy Bragg takes on Bob's troubadour tradition. Beat poet SAT Michael McClure gives a personal view on the man. Natasha SAT Morgan talks about the night she saw Bob Dylan's first SAT British appearance in 1961. SAT SAT Also featured in the programme will be a number of rare Bob SAT Dylan interviews, many not broadcast on British radio SAT before. SAT SAT We will hear Dylan's radio debut from 1962 on WBAI, "I was SAT with the carnival off and on for six years," and he tells SAT KQED San Francisco in 1965, " Do you think of yourself SAT primarily as a singer or a poet?" "Oh I think of myself as SAT more a song and dance man y'know" SAT SAT Sound Design by Alice K. Winz SAT SAT Producers: David Prest and Caroline Hughes. SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0112d5g (Listen) SAT The Prelude, Episode 2 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 SAT life. 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 News and Weather b01133cg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0112xcg (Listen) SAT Slut Walks SAT SAT It all started with a no doubt well meaning, but bungling, SAT policeman in Canada who told a small group of female SAT students that if they wanted to be safe when they go out at SAT night then they shouldn't dress like sluts. The resulting SAT protests, called "Slut Walks" have spread like wildfire and SAT will be coming to the UK soon. Thousands of women have taken SAT to the streets, often wearing very little, to defend their SAT right to wear what they like and attacking the idea that SAT somehow women are responsible for male violence against SAT them. The organisers also claim that by re-appropriating the SAT word "slut" it will help women achieve full autonomy over SAT their sexuality in whichever way they please. SAT SAT As the protestors organising the London march put the SAT finishing touches to their chants - "Come out on the streets SAT - Show some skin - We are all sluts - Win, win, win!" - is SAT one of the current favourites, it's hard to avoid the irony SAT of the fact that a government review in to the sexualisation SAT of children is about to be published. Should we welcome this SAT very fleshy public protest, or does it just feed our already SAT highly sexualised society? Is this an act of radical SAT feminism, or does it just pander to male stereotypes that SAT have also given us padded bras for 7 year olds with matching SAT "Future Porn Star" tee-shirts? SAT SAT Is our attitude to sexuality at best confused or actually SAT hypocritical? On the one hand wanting to have it all, on our SAT own terms and at the same time wringing our hands over the SAT effect that such an open and brazen attitude to sex has on SAT our children. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01132z4 (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 7 SAT SAT Can you suggest a musical connection between Hank Williams, SAT the Marvelettes, and the Canadian rock group Klaatu? SAT SAT The answer to this and many other questions will be provided SAT by Paul Gambaccini, in the seventh heat of this 25th SAT anniversary series of the evergreen music quiz. SAT SAT The competitors this week are from the North of England - SAT from Stockport, Crewe and Leeds to be precise - and they SAT will each be hoping to win a place in the series semi-finals SAT which begin in a few weeks' time. SAT SAT As always, the questions cover the widest possible range of SAT music, both classical and popular. SAT SAT COMPETITORS THIS WEEK SAT SAT LAWRENCE CODY, a former railway signalman from Stockport; SAT GORDON FYFFE, a retired insurance official from Crewe; SAT KEITH GREENWOOD, a university librarian from Leeds. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0112d9s (Listen) SAT In a special edition, Roger McGough re-visits extracts from SAT A.E Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' read by the late Pete SAT Postlethwaite, which were recorded in 1996. SAT SAT There are so many well known lines from A.E. Housman's SAT poetry - 'Into My Heart an Air That Kills, 'When I Was One SAT and Twenty', 'Ale's the Stuff,' to name just a few. All SAT feature in today's programme as Roger re-visits the readings SAT that Pete Postlethwaite recorded of A.E. Housman's 'A SAT Shropshire Lad.' Though neither Pete Postlethwaite nor SAT Housman came from Shropshire, it seems that both fell in SAT love with its Blue Remembered Hills. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 MAY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01185jb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00mg6n0 (Listen) SUN Johnson's Miscellany, Episode 2 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 biography SUN of Johnson, introduces a series of extracts from the great SUN man's work. In chronological order, we work our way through SUN his literary life. SUN SUN This episode includes two contrasting essays from The Idler SUN series published weekly in the Universal Chronicle -The SUN Corruption of News Writers and Ladies' Journey to London. SUN SUN Read by Michael Pennington SUN Introduced by Professor David Nokes SUN SUN Produced by Joanna Green SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01185jd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01185jg (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01185jj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01185jl (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0118873 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Clement Danes, The Strand, Westminster. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b0112xcj (Listen) SUN Series 2, Buddha vs. Buddha SUN SUN Jake Wallis Simons describes how an ancient row within SUN Tibetan Buddhism is causing a modern schism, and why it led SUN him to give up Buddhism for good. 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 b01185jn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0118cmj (Listen) SUN Open SUN SUN Professor of History at Leicester University, and former SUN social worker, Peter King explores 'openness' - does it play SUN a role in enabling us to empathise, to love and to be fully SUN human? The programme includes a look at some of the things SUN which close our lives down - inability to forgive, fear, SUN money, and the need to protect our often fragile sense of SUN self. SUN SUN Peter King, a Deacon in the Anglican Church, explains why he SUN feels the word 'open' is sacred and why being open leads to SUN a life of adventure. SUN SUN Professor King discusses how being open and ready for the SUN new leads to chance encounters which bring fresh insights. SUN He notes that Jesus' life began with Mary's wild and radical SUN openness, trusting God, even though risking public disgrace. SUN SUN Producer: Kim Normanton SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b0118cml (Listen) SUN Raft Spiders SUN SUN Nestling alongside Wales and the English Midlands, SUN Shropshire is a much unexplored county, but one with many SUN surprises. Paul Evans is on home ground for this week's SUN Living World as he heads off to the north of the country to SUN meet John Hughes from Shropshire Wildlife Trust, in search SUN of one of Shropshire's most unusual and beautiful surprises. SUN Meeting John at Wem Moss National Nature Reserve Paul SUN discovers that in the midst of farmland, the landscape SUN between here and the Dee Estuary is peppered with SUN interlocking Mires and Moors, wetland relicts of the last SUN glacial period in Britain. SUN SUN On a cool, windy spring day, Paul and John first explore a SUN small wet woodland, a relic of a once extensive ancient SUN habitat in this area, long cleared by man for farming. SUN Emerging from the trees there in front of them, is an SUN expansive open moss. Mosses in this area are glacial SUN depressions which over time have become filled with peat SUN deposits and are a valuable wetland for a myriad of SUN wildlife. Fed by rainwater these are ideal habitats for the SUN raft spider Dolomedes fimbriatus, Britain's largest native SUN spider. SUN SUN But this spring has been unusually dry, with strong dry SUN winds from the east, so much so the wetlands are drying out. SUN Walking over the moss, evidence is everywhere of the lack of SUN rain in these parts for weeks. Will this wetland specialist SUN still be able to cling on to a precarious existence in this SUN increasingly hostile environment? Join Paul and John to find SUN out if they indeed do find this beautiful spider after all. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01185jq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01185js (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0118cmn (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0118cmq (Listen) SUN Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation SUN SUN Justin Webb, whose own son was diagnosed with Type One SUN Diabetes three years ago, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf SUN of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation SUN SUN Donations to JDRF should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope JDRF. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide JDRF with your full name and address so they SUN can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 295716. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01185jv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01185jx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0118cms (Listen) SUN Living Stones SUN SUN Live from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow where the SUN Provost, the Very Revd Kelvin Holdsworth explores this SUN description of early Christian community from 1 Peter. SUN Leader: The Revd Anne Tomlinson; With the Cathedral Choir SUN directed by Frikki Walker. Organist: Geoffrey Woollatt. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b01130qm (Listen) SUN Series 2, Cuckoo SUN SUN 14/20. The Cuckoo is one of the iconic brood parasites of SUN the world - the bird that cons another species into taking SUN its egg as its own and rears the chick to fledging. In the SUN single frame of the Cuckoo you have a long distance migrant, SUN travelling from Africa to breeding grounds in the temperate SUN north, and back again. The Cuckoo does not raise its own SUN chick and across a range of Cuckoo individuals, they SUN parasitise several species of bird - all much smaller than SUN they are. David Attenborough explores the world of the SUN Cuckoo and not only marvels at their natural history but SUN tells the story of how a wildlife cameraman resolved a SUN scientific mystery - and how the Cuckoo itself harbours yet SUN more secrets to science and natural history. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0118cmv (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0118cmx (Listen) SUN Written by: Carolyn Sally Jones SUN Directed by: Jenny Stephens SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Natalie ..... Maddie Glasbey. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0118cmz (Listen) SUN Debbie Harry SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Debbie Harry. SUN SUN Her group Blondie started out in seedy New York bars and SUN went on to achieve international success - selling tens of SUN millions of albums along the way. She was ultra cool - a SUN striking beauty with platinum hair and a sneer. Now aged 65, SUN her trademark look continues to serve her well, she says: SUN "As far as ageing goes it's rough - I try my best - I'm SUN healthy and I exercise like a fiend. I'm glad that I've had SUN all the radical experiences in my life - it suits me." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01132zd (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 1 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons is back with the first of a new series of SUN Just a Minute, the show that stretches your linguistic SUN elastic to breaking point. On today's show we learn Paul SUN Merton's motto is Work Hard Be Happy whereas Tony Hawks' SUN motto is You're Never Too Old to Be Told Off By a Park SUN Keeper. SUN SUN Joining Nicholas Parsons over the course of this series are SUN Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Josie Lawrence, Julian Clary, SUN Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Elair, Sue Perkins, Graham Norton, SUN Tony Hawks and new girl Fi Glover. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0118cn1 (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon reveals the secrets behind some of the world's SUN great vinegars. SUN SUN Traditionally, the home of balsamic vinegar is Modena in SUN Italy. But now there is a new breed of British producers who SUN are turning their hands to making this viscous dark brown SUN condiment, as well as others who are producing a sumptuous SUN array of fruit vinegars. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon hears from the producers, both in Italy and in SUN the UK, discusses the process and the products - and samples SUN the end results with foodwriter and critic, Charles Campion. SUN SUN Producer: Dilly Barlow. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01185jz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0118cn3 (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 A History of the World Special b010y36c (Listen) SUN When Peter Lewis heard that the BBC were inviting people to SUN nominate personal objects that helped tell the story of the SUN history of the world, he thought immediately of his Uncle SUN Bryn. SUN SUN The invitation was intended to complement the award-winning SUN Radio 4 series 'A History of the World in A Hundred SUN Objects', made in partnership with the British Museum. Those SUN objects told of mankind's origins, of dynasties, of trade SUN and economics, of science and engineering, war, peace, SUN growth and development. SUN SUN The many thousands of contributions to the BBC website threw SUN vivid personal light on those broader subjects, but perhaps SUN none more than Bryn's portrait of his World War Two SUN sweetheart, and later wife, Peggy. SUN SUN The picture, which still hangs in his living room, was SUN painted in oils from a Red Cross postcard photograph that SUN Peggy had sent him when he was a prisoner of war in Poland. SUN He'd been captured in April 1940 and, in spite of twelve SUN unsuccessful escape attempts, he wouldn't see Peggy again SUN until 1945. SUN SUN His life as a prisoner is an extraordinary story of a SUN private soldier gifted with an iron will, a wicked optimism SUN and an unshakeable survival instinct. SUN SUN Many of the camps in which he was held are familiar to SUN historians: Thorn, Stalag VIIb Lamsdorf, Terezin - but it's SUN Auschwitz that leaps most aggressively from the page. SUN SUN Bryn was never held with the Jewish prisoners in the main SUN camp. As a British soldier, he had rights they could only SUN have dreamt of. But he was a labourer in the metal workshops SUN alongside the main camp, and he saw the brutality meted out SUN over the several months of his incarceration there. SUN SUN It was during this period that a fellow worker, a Polish SUN Jew, told him that he could get the tired photograph of SUN Peggy painted for him in oils. SUN SUN Bryn was uneasy about losing such a treasured possession - SUN but when he learnt about the Nazi policy of employing Jewish SUN craftsmen and artists to copy stolen art treasures in the SUN camp next door, he relented. SUN SUN A couple of weeks later, his postcard photo was returned, SUN along with a beautiful portrait of Peggy. For obvious SUN reasons, it was unsigned. SUN SUN So Bryn would never discover the name of the person who SUN painted it, but he treasured it beyond any other possession SUN and kept it taped to his stomach or back for the remaining SUN two years of the war. SUN SUN Bryn is now in his nineties. He's always been reticent about SUN telling the stories of his imprisonment, but here he talks SUN to Peter Lewis about his survival, his escapes, and the SUN portrait from Auschwitz that he brought home safely to the SUN woman who was to become his wife. SUN SUN PRODUCER: Tom Alban. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0118cn5 (Listen) SUN Clapham, N. Yorkshire SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are in Clapham Village Hall, near SUN Lancaster. Eric Robson explores the legacy left by SUN plant-hunter Reginald Farrer. SUN SUN In addition, Christine Walkden visits Emma Morris in her SUN Shrewsbury garden. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 15 by 15 b0118cn7 (Listen) SUN Spin 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 Hardeep spins round at over 600 miles per hour, visits the SUN New Lanark Heritage site where Arkwright's revolutionary SUN spinning machine is still in action, hears cricket SUN commentator Christopher Martin Jenkins recall Shane Warne's SUN test match debut, and touches on political spin with SUN political commentator Peter Oborne. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Bannerman SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Saturday Play b00n6wfs (Listen) SUN Emil and the Detectives SUN SUN Dramatisation by Katie Hims of the comic children's SUN detective novel by Erich Kaestner. SUN SUN Country boy Emil Tischbein, up from Neustadt for the first SUN time, enlists the aid of hundreds of Berlin street boys to SUN help him catch a thief. SUN SUN Emil ...... Joshua Swinney SUN Kaestner ...... Bruce Alexander SUN Grundeis ...... Ewan Hooper SUN Gustav ...... Daniel Cooper SUN Professor ...... Neil Reynolds SUN Traut ...... Bertie Gilbert SUN Peters ...... Josh Robinson SUN Tuesday ...... Harry Child SUN Pony ...... Agnes Bateman SUN Mrs Tischbein ...... Melissa Advani SUN Cashier ...... Tessa Nicholson SUN Jeschke ...... John Biggins SUN Guard ...... Rhys Jennings SUN Taxi Driver ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole SUN Grandma ...... Kate Layden SUN SUN Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0118cn9 (Listen) SUN Frederick Forsyth, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Literary SUN Salons in Afghanistan SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Frederick Forsyth, forty years SUN after he wrote his ground-breaking novel, The Day of the SUN Jackal. The book was one of the first modern international SUN conspiracy thrillers and has spawned an entire genre of SUN writing. SUN SUN Authors Louise Welsh and Francis Spufford pay homage to one SUN of the giants of English literature, Robert Louis Stevenson, SUN who until very recently, was viewed by the critical SUN establishment as a second-rate writer. SUN SUN Plus, how amateur writers across Afghanistan are getting SUN together to critique each other's work in home-grown SUN literary salons. SUN SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0118cnc (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite SUN poetry requested by listeners. Today's programme includes a SUN poem about a writing bureau that transmutes into a small SUN forest, another about an imagined set of neighbours, a SUN bitter love poem from the 8th century, and a sinister SUN folkloric tale read by the poet Robin Robertson. Other poets SUN featured include Harold Nemerov, Lawrence Sail and Molly SUN Holden. The readers are Alison McKenna, Peter Marinker and SUN Jonjo O'Neill. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The Bankers and the Bottom Billion b0112fz9 (Listen) SUN The bankers are back in the spotlight - this time financing SUN an explosion in lending services for the poorest people on SUN earth. They are building on the original dream of SUN "micro-finance" with an array of new products for very poor SUN people, funded in part by raising private debt and equity in SUN London and the world's other financial capitals. SUN SUN It is thought credit, insurance and mortgages could improve SUN the lives of people in slums and villages from Bangladesh to SUN Bolivia. Yet with mounting attacks on micro-finance's SUN idealistic founder Muhammad Yunus, there are also concerns SUN that this rapid injection of investment capital could hurt SUN the poorest. SUN SUN Mukul Devichand tells the intimate story of one slum lane in SUN India, where a group of women have been targeted by the SUN audacious plan to create financial services for the "bottom SUN billion." SUN SUN His report asks one of the most important questions of our SUN time: can financial markets help the poorest, or do they SUN need to be protected from the profit motive? SUN SUN Presenter: Mukul Devichand SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b0118brk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01185k1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01185k3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01185k5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0118cnf (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN When the Chinese Nureyev defected to the USA it was 6 years SUN before he was joyfully reunited with his parents. Ruthie SUN gave birth at 16 and abandoned her new born baby in a phone SUN box but that had a happy ending too. 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SUN SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN History of the World Special - Radio 4 SUN The Chinese Nureyev - Radio 4 SUN David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4 SUN Lost Property - A Telegram From the Queen - Radio 4 SUN Incredible Women - Radio 4 SUN EL Milagro - The Miracle of Cartagena - Radio 3 SUN The Luddite Lament - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Roller Girls - Radio 4 SUN Costing The Earth - Radio 4 SUN Nashville Cats - The Making of Blonde on Blonde - Radio 2 SUN Ballads of Thin Men - Radio 4 SUN The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Radio 2 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0118cnh (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b0118cnk (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00n881p (Listen) SUN A Glimpse of Stocking, Hold-ups SUN SUN A short story in celebration of 'something shocking' - the SUN nylon stocking. SUN SUN Alice Herring seems like the perfect witness but all is not SUN as it seems in this comic tale of robberies, romance and SUN cubic zirconia. Written by Jojo Moyes and read by Siobhan SUN Redmond. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01130pv (Listen) SUN Too many repeats, schedule changes and the loss of much of SUN the children's programming. Fans of the former BBC Radio 7 SUN lament its loss and challenge the station's head of SUN programming Mary Kalemkerian over the changes she's made to SUN the station that's now called Radio 4 Extra. SUN SUN Incest, murder and trench warfare - is Book at Bedtime too SUN dour? Radio 4 commissioning editor Caroline Raphael explains SUN how books are chosen for the late night slot and hears your SUN pleas to let listeners know details of music featured in the SUN programmes. SUN SUN And the controller of Radio 4 Gwyneth Williams reveals how SUN she stopped The Archers being moved from Radio 4 to Radio 4 SUN Extra. SUN SUN Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like SUN him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC SUN radio. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01130q3 (Listen) SUN Garret FitzGerald, Pam Gems, Elisabeth Svendsen, Ernesto SUN Sabato, Bernard Greenhouse SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The former Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald. He helped SUN persuade Margaret Thatcher to sign the Anglo Irish agreement SUN which paved the way for power sharing in Northern Ireland. SUN SUN Also the playwright Pam Gems - whose best known works are SUN Piaf and Stanley. Sir Antony Sher pays tribute. SUN SUN Elisabeth Svendsen who founded the Donkey Sanctuary charity SUN after being left 204 donkeys in someone's will. SUN SUN Ernesto Sabato the Argentinean writer who led the country's SUN investigation into the thousands who disappeared under SUN military dictatorship. SUN SUN And Bernard Greenhouse, cellist and co founder of the world SUN famous Beaux Arts Trio. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0118bh2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0118cmq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0112ydv (Listen) SUN Take a Copy SUN SUN Intellectual property sounds an innocuous enough idea, but SUN patents and copyright have recently been stirring up a lot SUN of strife. Peter Day finds out why copyright in particular SUN is such a contentious issue in the Internet age. SUN Producer: Sanda Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0118cqm (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 b0118cqp (Listen) SUN Episode 53 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week John Kampfner takes the SUN chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01130q5 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock has her travelling shoes on for The Film SUN Programme this week. There's a trip to Cannes to hear what's SUN soon going to be showing in an art house near you; there's a SUN journey back in time to assess Karel Reisz' Isadora starring SUN Vanessa Redgrave; and Francine nips down to the Antarctic to SUN savour Herbert Ponting's Twenties classic, The Great White SUN Silence which has just been released in a dazzling new print SUN with a brand new score composed by Simon Fisher Turner. And SUN last but not least - as the cliché would have it - the SUN independent cinema owner, Kevin Markwick and the former SUN editor of Screen International, Michael Gubbins take the SUN temperature of the film industry in what's been a tricky SUN year. SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0118cmj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 MAY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0118cx8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0112gzd (Listen) MON Cemetery Taboo - The City MON MON Cities are growing at an enormous rate all over the world. MON As they wrestle with overcrowding, pollution, resource MON vulnerability and an increasing gulf between the rich and MON poor what will be the dominant factor to define them? Which MON forces will shape the experience of urban life for the MON individual and will our imagination and creativity enable MON cities to survive into the future? The sociologist Sophie MON Watson and the geographer Matthew Gandy join Laurie Taylor MON to discuss the future of the city. MON Also, the taboo of the body in the cemetery. Kate Woodthorpe MON reveals her research into what remains unmentionable at the MON graveside. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0118873 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0118cxb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0118cxd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0118cxg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0118cxj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0118cxl (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0118cxn (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith hears the unseasonably warm, dry weather in MON parts of the UK is causing crops to appear early. A visit to MON a Worcestershire plum orchard reveals that despite an MON incredible spring blossom, the fruit is now suffering from MON the weather. Wildlife too is confused and Matthew Oates from MON the National Trust says its going to be a memorable summer MON as the countryside copes with the out-of-kilter weather. MON MON Farming Today hears the EU is considering allowing MON Governments to help set the price of milk, to take some MON power away from market forces. Last year 9 dairy farmers a MON week left the industry in the UK, many claiming they were MON being paid less for the milk than it cost to produce. MON MON And farmers could be doing more to reduce waste, according MON to the government's Waste and Resources Action Programme. MON WRAP says over 8 million tonnes of food and drink is thrown MON away by UK households each year. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0118cxq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0118cxs (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 b0118cxv (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the former British ambassador, Sherard MON Cowper-Coles, about the failures of Western policy in MON Afghanistan, and how diplomacy would have been a better MON option than the gun. In 2003 Baha Mousa was arrested by the MON British Army in Basra, in Iraq. Two days later he was dead. MON Richard Norton-Taylor sifts through all the evidence to MON bring the public inquiry into his death to the stage. David MON Pryce-Jones asks what motivates those who take up foreign MON causes, to the detriment of their own country, in Treason of MON the Heart. And the philosopher Angie Hobbs turns to the MON Greek Gods to untangle modern ideas of heroism and bravery. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0118cxx (Listen) MON Babysitting George, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Celia Walden. In the summer of 2003, a young MON reporter is delegated by her boss to go in search of the MON newspaper's start columnist who has gone awol in Malta. MON Celia's role is to stop the hordes of journalists in search MON of George Best from jeopardising his exclusive contract to MON her own paper. The hunt is on for the world's most famous MON footballer. MON MON Read by Clare Corbett MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0118cxz (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Rory Bremner on how he discovered MON he had ADHD and its role in what he recognises as a chaotic MON lifestyle. Sarah Campbell on the iconic textile designs MON produced with her sister Susan Collier and their ambition to MON bring beauty to the mass market. Office in a handbag: can MON you run a successful business without an office? We meet the MON woman who says yes. The ballet coach on her work in bringing MON injured dancers back to the stage. MON MON Rory Bremner and ADHD MON MON Comedian Rory Bremner has found success in his ability to MON switch between impersonating many different people. But MON behind this comic persona is a man who struggles to focus, MON loses the thread and takes on too many tasks that can leave MON his personal and professional life in disarray. Rory had MON always put his chaotic lifestyle down to his personality. MON Jane spoke to Rory about how, after a diagnosis of Attention MON Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, within his family, MON Rory realised he too may have it and decided to further MON investigate the condition in a Radio 4 documentary to be MON broadcast this evening at 8.30pm. MON MON Women in Business - Do you need an office? MON MON If you’re self-employed and work from home you might well be MON able to get away without an office by logging onto your MON laptop at the kitchen table, storing essential paperwork in MON a cupboard under the stairs, and updating your clients on MON your mobile phone. But what about if you have a company of MON 20 employees. Is it always possible and efficient to work MON without an office? Jane discusses with Helen Wooldrige who MON set up the company Cuddledry and Emma Elston, co-founder of MON UK Container Maintenance. MON MON Sarah Campbell MON MON The design duo Collier Campbell have been designing boldly MON patterned and vibrantly coloured textiles for half a MON century. Their hand-painted designs have adorned everything MON from Yves Saint Laurent’s catwalk fashion, to Liberty of MON London’s curtain fabric and M&S duvet covers. The sisters, MON Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell, were ‘politically MON motivated to produce beautiful designs for the mass market’. MON To mark the 50 years of their designs, the National Theatre MON in London’s South Bank is holding an exhibition of their MON work. Tragically, Susan Collier died from cancer just two MON weeks ago. Her sister and lifelong collaborator Sarah MON Campbell joins Jane to talk about how they created their MON iconic designs. MON MON Dance Psychologist - Britt Tajet-Foxell MON MON The Royal Ballet has recently opened its new triple bill MON Ballo della Regina, Live Fire Exercise and Danse a Grande MON Vitesse. As well as the obvious physical preparations for MON their performances the dancers also have the help of the MON Norwegian psychologist Britt Tajet-Foxell who has been MON working with the company for 40 years. She divides her time MON between assisting dancers and sports men and women to MON realise their full potential at the highest levels. MON Felicity Finch has been to meet her and two of the principal MON dancers. MON MON Performance continues until 25th May MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0118lkf (Listen) MON The Gap, Episode 1 MON MON A drama about an Edinburgh family breaking up during their MON daughter's gap year MON by Colin Douglas. MON Heather's leaving school with flying colours. She's off to MON Ghana for a gap year and then to Oxford. Her brother Fraser MON is going into second year at Cambridge studying medicine. MON And their parents, James, a surgeon, and Pippa, a professor MON of economics have some shocking news - they're splitting up. MON Suddenly everything's changing for Heather. With strained MON relationships at home, she embarks on what will become a MON rather unpredictable and challenging placement in Africa. MON MON Heather.................Kirsty McKay MON James..................Paul Young MON Pippa...................Isabella Jarrett MON Fraser..................Keith McLeish MON Janice..................Lesley Mackie MON Dawn...................Lucy Paterson MON Hector.................Alasdair McCrone MON MON Directed by David Ian Neville MON MON 11:00 The Jukes - Bad Blood or Bad Science b0118lkh (Listen) MON Professor Steve Jones asks if people can be "born bad" - as MON was said of the infamous Jukes family in the US. Can MON criminal behaviour be inherited through the genes? MON MON For more than a century, the Jukes clan has been presented MON as America's worst family. Right now on the web American MON evangelical preachers are using the story of the Jukes MON family as a dire warning against "unworthy" people MON procreating. There is a deeply held popular belief that bad MON blood will out, and that criminality can be passed down MON through the generations. But what does the science say? MON MON Professor Steve Jones talks to leading scientists such as MON Steven Pinker, Kevin Beaver, Jim Fallon and Essi Viding MON about the latest research in this highly controversial MON field. MON MON Genetic evidence is increasingly being presented as a MON mitigating factor during sentencing in murder cases in the MON US and elsewhere, and law professor Paul Lombardo assesses MON its efficacy. Helena Kennedy QC discusses the prospect of MON this kind of approach succeeding in UK courts. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b0118lkk (Listen) MON My Valentine 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. MON MON In this episode the Easter family have a couple of unwanted MON guests and Harvey is struggling to come up with a MON Valentine's idea for Jax. 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 MON Producer/Director .... Anna Madley MON An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b011c0n8 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. What the government is MON doing to bring the UK's empty houses back into use. More MON than 300,0000 houses have been empty for more than six MON months in England alone. We hear from innovative social MON enterprises about their ideas for putting them back to use MON and what the Dutch are doing to keep their vacancy rates so MON low. MON The tsunami in Japan continues to cause a global shortage in MON key components, particularly in the car industry. Factories MON around the world are closing temporarily as they wait for MON the supply of parts manufactured in Japan. We discuss MON instant messaging - is it a useful tool for supporting and MON informing consumers or is it simply a gimmick? MON And we look at the future of the railways - will passengers MON have a say? MON MON 12:57 Weather b0118cy1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b011fcdd (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 b011c0nb (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 8 MON MON In which of his compositions did Hector Berlioz make MON extensive use of the 'idee fixe', a term he used for a MON recurring musical motif or theme? MON MON You can find out the answer by joining Paul Gambaccini and MON this week's trio of music enthusiasts, in the latest heat of MON the ever-popular music quiz. This week the competitors are MON from Sussex, Bristol and Hertfordshire - and they'll each be MON hoping to take another of the places in the semi-finals, MON which begin in just a fortnight's time. MON MON Paul's questions are as wide-ranging as ever, covering the MON classics, show tunes, film music, jazz, rock, and six MON decades of the pop charts. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0118cnh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b011by9w (Listen) MON Whistling Wally's Son MON MON Earlier this year playwright Wally K Daly revisited his home MON town of Middlesbrough and went to the area where he had MON grown up in Grangetown all of which has virtually MON disappeared. Most of the local industry has gone together MON with all the surrounding housing, school and pubs. MON MON His play recalls the street in which he lived, his earliest MON war time memories, the people he knew, their fears and MON tragedies, the 'sessions' in bombed houses and the return of MON his father from a prisoner of war camp. He remembers in MON particular his love for his mother and the death of his MON father, Whistling Wally and how these events from his MON childhood have had a profound effect on his writing career. MON MON Auditions were held in Middlesbrough to find two children to MON play major parts. Jamie Dickinson stars as the young Wally K MON Daly and Jodie Day plays two roles, Mary Wrigglesworth and MON Kathleen Daly. Also in the cast are others originally from MON the Middlesbrough area including Monica Dolan, David Seddon, MON Neil Grainger and Marlene Sidaway. MON MON Wally K Daly was recorded on location near the site of his MON former home on Vaughan Street and also on Eston Hills where MON he played as a child. The play is directed by Martin Jenkins MON who first worked with Wally K Daly on his first radio play MON in 1974. MON MON Kevin ..... Jamie Dickinson MON Whistling Wally ..... David Seddon MON Mam and Kitty ..... Monica Dolan MON Kathleen and Mary ..... Jodie Day MON John ..... Neil Grainger MON Fr.O'Hagan ..... Tom Bevan MON Mrs Meskill ..... Marlene Sidaway MON MON Director: Martin Jenkins MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0118brp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Gilbert's Glory b011c0nd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Most people know W.S. Gilbert as the writer of comic operas MON such as 'The Mikado' and 'H.M.S.Pinafore' with Arthur MON Sullivan. But there was far more to his life and work than MON that. He was a prolific playwright, a writer of humorous MON verse including the 'Bab Ballads', a gifted artist and a MON theatre director who helped to revolutionise the way plays MON were produced onstage. MON MON In this series of programmes to mark the centenary of his MON death, the writer and poet Ruth Padel explores five aspects MON of Gilbert's work and evaluates his significance and his MON legacy. Key contributors include the director Mike Leigh MON whose movie 'Topsy-Turvy' depicts the relationship between MON Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as biographers, academics and MON performers such as Alistair McGowan who has performed and MON directed Gilbert and Sullivan operas and the singer Richard MON Suart who recently performed in 'The Mikado' at English MON National Opera. MON MON Programme 1 examines Gilbert the man of contradictions. His MON photographs show a conventional-looking Victorian gentleman MON but was that completely true? Ruth explores the theory that MON underneath lay a desire to turn things topsy-turvy, which MON would provide him with a recurrent plot in his plays. MON MON Producer: Emma Kingsley. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0118cn1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Scientists Go To Hollywood b00tj5qk (Listen) MON Adam Rutherford heads to Tinseltown to talk to the MON scientists who have left the lab for the glamour of the film MON set. MON Although the silver screen may not be known for its MON scientific accuracy, in recent years Hollywood does seem to MON have come calling, where science is concerned. A growing MON number of scientists seem to be taking time out of their day MON job to advise Hollywood directors and producers on the MON portrayal of science, and scientists, in some very well MON known films and TV series. MON Adam visits the set of one of the most well known science MON based TV shows, CSI New York to meet the writer and MON co-producer, himself a former forensic scientist. He talks MON to physicist Brian Cox about his role as science advisor to MON the Danny Boyle directed movie Sunshine. He meets the new MON wave of Hollywood movie makers who are turning to the real MON life scientists to help improve not only the image of MON science on screen, but to inspire some of their most MON fantastical plot line, and finds out whether factually MON incorrect science in the movies really matters? MON MON According to the US National Academy of Science, it does. So MON much so that they have now set up a programme specifically MON designed to help their scientists work with the MON entertainment industry, to improve and foster a positive MON image of science on screen. Adam meets the producer of one MON of last year's biggest Hollywood blockbusters about his MON ambition to keep the science fact in the science fiction as MON accurate as possible, and how the scientists he worked with MON came up with some far more intriguing plot twists and turns MON than anything his writers could have dreamt up. MON Presented by: Adam Rutherford; Produced by Alexandra MON Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b011cm9r (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0118cy3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b011lhrb (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 2 MON MON Ever-popular panel show hosted by Nicholas Parsons. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b011c0nj (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b011c0nl (Listen) MON When Beryl Bainbridge died last July she left a novel almost MON completed. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress draws on a trip MON she made to America in 1968, the year when Robert Kennedy MON was assassinated. Sarah Churchwell reviews. MON MON Producer Robyn Read. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0118lkf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 ADHD and Me b011c0nn (Listen) MON Comedian Rory Bremner has found success in his ability to MON switch between impersonating many different people. But MON behind this comic persona is a man who struggles to focus, MON loses the thread and takes on too many tasks that can leave MON his personal and professional life in disarray. Rory had MON always put his chaotic lifestyle down to his personality. MON MON However, after a diagnosis of Attention Deficit MON Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, within his family, Rory has MON realised he too may have the condition. For this MON documentary, Rory goes on a personal journey to find out how MON this condition affects adults, how attitudes have changed in MON the two decades since the ADHD was first recognised, and how MON we can support the next generation of sufferers to cope with MON this potentially devastating condition. MON MON Producer: Lisa Needham MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0112y4b (Listen) MON Colombia MON MON Early-onset Alzheimer's has stalked a poor extended family MON in Medellin, Colombia. The family carries a dominant gene MON that means that half are at risk. The disease strikes family MON members as young as 25 and by their 40s sufferers are in the MON grip of full-blown dementia. Alzheimer's is by and large a MON disease of the developed world, if for no other reason than MON that people in the developing world don't live long enough MON to suffer from it. Now by using the Colombian family to MON trial new drugs, researchers say they may be on the road to MON a global cure for Alzheimer's. Bill Law asks if this MON represents an unfair exploitation of desperate people - many MON of them barely literate - to benefit those in the West? Or MON is it a case of bringing hope to those in a hopeless MON situation? MON Producer: Natalie Morton. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0112ydg (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of the science in MON and behind the headlines. This week Quentin asks if the MON remaining stocks of smallpox virus should be destroyed? He MON celebrates 150 years of the colour photo and finds out when MON and if we will know if we’ve found the elusive Higgs Boson MON particle. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Smallpox MON MON Should we deliberately make a living organism extinct? Some MON argue that we should, where that organism is a deadly virus MON that killed around 300 million people during the 20th MON Century, leaving many more scarred for life. The organism in MON question is the smallpox virus. As the World Health Assembly MON meets to decide the fate of remaining stocks in secure MON storage n Russia and the USA, Edward Hammond, consultant to MON The Third World Network NGO, and Raymond Weinstein of MON Georgetown University School of Medicine discuss the pros MON and cons. MON MON Colour Photogaph MON MON 150 years ago this week, James Clerk Maxwell was the first MON to demonstrate a permanent colour photograph, using 3 black MON and white images taken and projected through colour filters. MON Dr Malcolm Fairbairn of Kings College London, where Maxwell MON as at the time, discusses his achievements. MON MON HIGGS, HIGGS! MON MON Members of the biggest science experiment on Earth, the MON Large Hadron Collider at the European particle physics MON centre CERN near Geneva have been meeting at the Royal MON Society in London to review their progress. They are MON searching, among other things for the elusive Higgs Boson, a MON particle which may explain why other particles have mass. MON But with thousands of scientists analysing billions of MON particle interactions, who’s to say when they’ve found it? MON Professor Jim Virdee of Cern and Imperial College London and MON Ian Sample of the Guardian discuss the open release or MON censorship of the data. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0118cxv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0118cy5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b011g97s (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011c0nq (Listen) MON The Forgotten Waltz, Encounters MON MON 'The Forgotten Waltz' is Anne Enright's long-awaited novel, MON her first since 'The Gathering', which won the Man Booker MON 2007. MON MON 'The amazing thing is how much I got in that first glance: MON how much, in retrospect, I should have known. It is all MON there: the twitch of interest in Sean, the whole business MON with Evie; I remember this very clearly, as I remember the MON neat and indomitable politeness of his wife.' MON MON In a snow blanketed Dublin, Gina reflects on the last MON decade, from the moment she first caught a glimpse of Sean MON Vallely, through a haze of cigarette smoke, through the MON happenstance and lust, the hotel rooms and the secrets, that MON have brought down two marriages, three mortgages and left MON her a reluctant inhabitant of her childhood home. Startling, MON honest, witty and wry, Enright's novel captures the nuances MON and the bliss of an overwhelming attraction that becomes an MON affair and charts the gradual encroachment of reality,damage MON and a love that can't be overstated. MON MON The Reader is Niamh Cusack, currently starring in Cause MON Celebre at the Old Vic. MON The Abridger is Sally Marmion MON The Producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Here We Come b00pb8l3 (Listen) MON Radio 4 presenter John Waite's personal take on the story of MON The Monkees, the wildly successful 1960s pop group and TV MON stars. MON MON In 1970, as a 19-year-old student, John was hitch-hiking his MON way up the coast of California when he was spotted by Davy MON Jones, the British member of The Monkees, who invited him to MON stay at his Hollywood home. In this programme, John tells MON the fascinating story of the world's first manufactured pop MON group and catches up with Jones, 40 years on. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b011c0nv (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 MAY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b011bz25 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0118cxx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011bz27 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011bz29 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011bz2c (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b011bz2f (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011c0rp (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b011c0rr (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b011c0rt (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 Choice b011bz2h (Listen) TUE Mikey Walsh TUE TUE A new series of The Choice begins this week with the story TUE of Mikey Walsh. TUE TUE He grew up in the closed world of the Romany gypsies. TUE TUE Rarely at school, he seldom mixed with anyone outside his TUE community with its colourful characters and strict family TUE code. And despite its violence and hardships, it was the TUE life that Mikey loved. TUE TUE Eventually he was faced with the agonising decision of TUE whether to turn his back on everyone and everything he knew TUE .....and face an alien world with no education and TUE support... knowing he would never be able to return. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b011c0rw (Listen) TUE Series 2, Harold Wilson 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 This week's portrait in power is Harold Wilson, prime TUE minister during 1964-70 and 1974-76, who won four of the TUE five general elections that he fought as Labour Leader. He TUE captured the mood for change in the 1960s, but his two terms TUE at Number 10 were increasingly dominated by Britain's TUE worsening economic problems. TUE Wilson became Labour Leader in 1963 and united his party by TUE promising to modernise Britain. He seemed to represent TUE change and looked in touch with modern Britain. His first TUE election triumph in 1964 was no surprise and he won a TUE second, resounding, victory in 1966. However, Wilson spent TUE his first three years as prime minister shying away from TUE devaluation of the pound. When devaluation eventually TUE happened, he lost credibility and suffered further TUE humiliation when he backed down over trade union reform in TUE 1969. Yet his first term as premier brought major, liberal TUE reforms in the law on moral and social matters. TUE After Wilson's only election defeat as Labour Leader in TUE 1970, his party shifted to the left. Although he led Labour TUE back into government in 1974, he lacked his old energy. He TUE managed to preserve party unity on the issue of British TUE membership of the EEC by holding the UK's first national TUE referendum in 1975. Although his second term was dominated TUE by Britain's economic crisis and also by internal divisions TUE within his government and his party, his sudden resignation TUE in 1976 came as a great shock to those not close to him. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b011j0dw (Listen) TUE Babysitting George, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Celia Walden. Celia has begun the awkward process TUE of keeping an eye on the famously charming, but TUE unpredictable, George Best. It's a relationship based on the TUE commercial demands of celebrity journalism. George needs the TUE money and the paper needs readers. But underneath the TUE wine-soaked veneer is wit and intelligence and a man still TUE in love with his estranged wife. TUE TUE Read by Clare Corbett TUE TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b011c0ry (Listen) TUE The sexualisation of young girls - can government change TUE attitudes? Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011cst4 (Listen) TUE The Gap, Episode 2 TUE TUE A drama about an Edinburgh family breaking up during their TUE daughter's gap year TUE by Colin Douglas. TUE Directed by David Ian Neville TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b011c0s0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE TUE 5/30 The National Trust is hosting a BioBlitz on the Wraxall TUE Estate near Bristol and Saving Species will be there. A TUE BioBlitz is a building phenomenon where local communities TUE get together with naturalists and "blitz" an area with hand TUE lenses and guide books endeavouring to identify all the TUE animals and plants in a given place. Their data is then TUE uploaded to a central data base. Tyntsfield - the stately TUE home of Lord Wraxall on the Wraxall Estate is thought by TUE some to be one of the finest Victorian homes in the country, TUE with Victorian methods being used to manage the estate by TUE Lord Wraxall until his death in recent years. It's likely TUE the BioBlitz will yield great results. TUE TUE One of the benefits of joining a BioBlitz is to gain skills TUE in observation, recording and naming living things. Saving TUE Species asks a panel of experts "where will tomorrow's TUE naturalists come from?" - some believe a loss of connection TUE with nature is eroding this skill. We will have a guest from TUE the Field Studies Council, Presenter and Naturalist Mike TUE Dilger, The National Trust and poet Miles Chambers. And of TUE course an audience of BioBlitzers! TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Blowing in the Wind: Dylan's Spiritual Journey TUE b011c0s2 (Listen) TUE To coincide with Dylan's birthday (24th May 2011) presenter TUE Emma Freud explores the singers spiritual journey revealing TUE a side to the performer often over looked. TUE TUE The programme opens with how Dylan grew up a small-town Jew TUE in Hibbing, Minnesota. We hear from Cantor Neil Schwartz he TUE also grew up in the same town and his mother was Bob's TUE Sunday school teacher. TUE TUE Author of 'Prophet, Mystic, Poet' Seth Rogovoy reflects on TUE Dylan's early years and his Barmitzvah. We explore early TUE Dylan music and author Clinton Helylin believes Dylan not TUE only drew on early negro spirituals but the Old testament TUE for his more engaging material. Helping makes sense of some TUE of the more complex theological messages is Nick Baines The TUE Bishop of Bradford and a life long admirer of Bob Dylan. TUE TUE It was in the late 1970s, Dylan became a born again TUE Christian and 1979 album 'Slow Train Coming' championed TUE Jesus. Author of 'Down The Highway' Howard Sounes finds TUE Dylan's three Christian albums a "difficult listen". Whether TUE they meant something significant to his audience is another TUE matter, but Al Kasha who helped Dylan with his understanding TUE of the scriptures is convinced you can't doubt the depth of TUE Dylan's religious conversion. TUE TUE Dylan's embrace of Christianity was unpopular with some of TUE his fans and his album "Shot Of Love" recorded the spring TUE 1981, featured Dylan's first secular compositions in more TUE than two years, mixed with explicitly Christian songs. TUE Essentially Dylan's venture into Christianity seemed to be TUE coming to an end. TUE TUE As we discover with all things Dylan, its tricky to work out TUE what is going on inside the singer's mind but 'Blowing In TUE The Wind - Dylan's Spiritual Journey" will go someway to TUE exploring his thoughts and spiritual beliefs through his TUE songs and these revealing interviews. TUE TUE Producer: John Sugar TUE A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b011c0s4 (Listen) TUE How should we revitalise Britain's struggling high streets? TUE The government's appointed retail marketing consultant, Mary TUE Portas, to look at ways to make our shops more prosperous TUE and diverse. How would you tackle the problem of empty units TUE and towns that look the same? Is the answer lower rents, TUE fewer chain stores and extra help for independent retailers? TUE Latest figures suggest consumer spending is likely to remain TUE sluggish, so how to breathe new life in your local high TUE street? Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. Your TUE chance to share your views on the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text 84844 and we may call you back TUE or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b011bz2k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b011fcd4 (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 b011c0s6 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 5 TUE TUE Joining The Music Group this week are the host of Carpool, TUE Scrapheap Challenge and Kryten in Red Dwarf, Robert TUE Llewellyn; chef, cookery writer and co-founder of fast food TUE chain Leon, Allegra McEvedy and artist, TV director and TUE ex-Slits' guitarist Viv Albertine. TUE TUE Their choice of music includes a rousing piece of power TUE folk, a personal manifesto for female empowerment and a TUE 1970s tribute to Thirties' night life in Berlin. TUE TUE Along way we discover out how to bring a machete back from TUE Burma and what aerobics has to do with punk rock. There's TUE some lively disagreement over The X-Factor, militancy and TUE The Woodcraft Folk and a track to which two of the guests TUE can't help but sing along. TUE TUE Presenter: Phil Hammond TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b011c0nj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b011c0s8 (Listen) TUE The Kingsnorth Six, by Julia Hollander TUE TUE In October 2007, climate change activists broke into TUE Kingsnorth Power Station. They planned to climb its central TUE chimney in protest against Government proposals to build TUE more coal-fired power stations. But once on site they faced TUE unexpected challenges. The play tells the story of their TUE gruelling climb and their subsequent court case for criminal TUE damage, in which they faced the threat of prison. TUE TUE Ben ..... Daniel Rabin TUE Emily ..... Federay Holmes TUE Will ..... David Seddon TUE Tim ..... Brian Bowles TUE Kevin / Prosecution Barrister ..... Mark Carey TUE Huw / Defence Barrister ..... Sean Baker TUE Judge ..... Rob Swinton. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Fiona Kelcher. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b011c0sb (Listen) TUE Fiona Watson 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 b011bz30 (Listen) TUE The Pocket AA Milne, High Jinks at Happy-Thought Hall TUE TUE A hundred years ago, A.A. Milne was honing his writing TUE skills as Assistant Editor of Punch with his regular TUE humorous columns and essays. Perfect gems of the form, his TUE stories not only delight in the spirit of the age, they also TUE transcend the years with their insights. TUE TUE Parodying the country-house weekend, with its uncomfortable TUE joys of evening games such as "Definitions", "The Complete TUE Kitchen" and "High Jinks at Happy-Thought Hall", Milne TUE captures the absurdity and vacuousness of characters in TUE transition from idle youth to the tedium of adulthood. TUE TUE Of course, no country house weekend would have been complete TUE without "the little play for amateurs", perfectly formed TUE examples of which Milne supplies in read-aloud form. TUE TUE He also shares his experience of being out of his depth in TUE the company of those more suited to society gatherings, in TUE the form of survival hints and tips. One such is to become TUE "an Authority" on something, anything, even if you know TUE nothing - it livens things up. TUE TUE Milne's stories might have a frivolous veneer, but each one TUE ends with his customary twinkle in the eye, having given us TUE more to think about than we imagined: "...But if you mix in TUE the right society, and only see the wrong people once, it is TUE really quite easy to be an authority on birds --- or, I TUE imagine, on anything else." TUE TUE When he re-published this collection of his humorous stories TUE much later in his career, he observed that for years his TUE younger self was "a model to which I was failing to live TUE up... in fact he became, as one's past is bound to become, TUE both a rival and a millstone." His talent for comic TUE observation that was to become evident in his tales of TUE Winnie-the-Pooh is obvious in these essays. TUE TUE As he wrote himself by way of introduction: TUE "This little book contains the best of what my rival was TUE writing thirty years ago. I contemplate him now with TUE detachment. I have grown to appreciate his quality. So TUE impartial am I become, that I am torn between a desire to TUE tell him how very, very good he is, and a desire to re-write TUE his book for him. But I shall do neither, leaving him to TUE speak for himself." TUE TUE Read by Ian McNeice TUE Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Gilbert's Glory b011c0ss (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Programme 2 explores the way in which Gilbert used and TUE developed the English language and investigates the way in TUE which the word "Gilbertian" has become synonymous with wit TUE and brilliance. Examples range from his earliest comic verse TUE to his later patter songs in the Gilbert and Sullivan TUE operas. TUE TUE Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 16:00 The Secret History of Social Networking b00y2f2s (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Rory Cellan-Jones tells the story of the social networking TUE scramble of the early 2000s and finds out how Facebook TUE emerged to become world's biggest social network. TUE Online social networking had been around for decades, but TUE the popularity of the World Wide Web opened the door to new TUE applications and mass appeal. TUE For the first time, ordinary people were using computers to TUE socialise in a new way. The rapid growth of our online lives TUE resulted tempted dozens of entrepreneurs into the social TUE networking fray. TUE In the UK, Bebo took off in British schools - and struck TUE fear in the hearts of parents. Rory visits the couple who TUE built the site and sold it to American tech giant AOL. TUE MySpace was once network of the future, but after being TUE bought by News Corporation, its tech problems allowed other TUE sites to take off. TUE The real push came from American college campuses, where TUE wired hipsters were looking for ways to manage their social TUE lives online. TUE Facebook wasn't the first site of its kind - other TUE businesses had a lot in common with Mark Zuckerberg's TUE efforts - but its simplicity and the single-minded focus of TUE its CEO gave it an advantage over the competition. TUE From Harvard, Zuckerberg expanded around the world, now TUE counting among his users 500 million people and a third of TUE the British population. But with big growth has come big TUE controversy, over privacy, security, and the targeted TUE advertising that Facebook relies on for the lion's share of TUE its profits. TUE Now one company is firmly at the top of the social TUE networking pyramid, but the history of the industry has TUE shown that fame can be fleeting. Rory finds out that even TUE young people are becoming more wary about what they share TUE online - could new networks spot a gap in the market and TUE steal Facebook's crown? Part 2 of 3. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b011c0tr (Listen) TUE Series 24, Harold Pinter TUE TUE Matthew Parris is joined by Diane Abbott MP and biographer TUE and critic Michael Billington to explore the life of TUE playwright and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter. TUE TUE His name - if you just add an "esque" to it, as in TUE "Thatcheresque or Ortonesque, defines that which is 'marked TUE especially by halting dialogue, uncertainty of identity, and TUE air of menace'. But today's great life is not an easy man to TUE encapsulate. He was a polymath - a playwright, poet, TUE screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and Nobel TUE Laureate - whom his biographer describes as 'an TUE instinctively radical poet whose chosen medium is drama.' He TUE was one of Britain's most celebrated writers - the 'master TUE of the pause' - Harold Pinter. TUE TUE Pinter is said to have 'stamped his mark on the cultural and TUE political scene as an observer of suburban brooding and as TUE an irate iconoclast.' He was also born in Hackney, which may TUE explain in part why he has been chosen by Diane Abbott, TUE Shadow Minister for Public Health, and MP for Hackney North TUE and Stoke Newington. TUE TUE The programme explores Pinter's life and his appeal for TUE Abbott with expert assistance from Pinter's biographer, the TUE writer and critic Michael Billington. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b011cmgr (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011bz2m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b00srjdd (Listen) TUE Series 6, Clare v God TUE TUE Clare doesn't like people on her patch especially if they're TUE an interfering Vicar. 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 b011c0tt (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b011c0tw (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with music TUE entrepreneur Alan McGee, who discusses the rollercoaster TUE story of his label Creation Records, home of the band Oasis. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011cst4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Islam Inc b011c0ty (Listen) TUE From Africa to Kazakhstan, a new Islamic network is TUE attracting millions of followers - and billions of dollars. TUE Inspired by a little-known Turkish Imam, the Gulen movement TUE is linked to more than a thousand schools in 130 countries TUE as well as think tanks, newspapers, TV and radio stations, TUE universities - and even a bank. The movement's critics claim TUE its aim is to gain power and spread socially-conservative TUE Islamic values around the globe. Its supporters say it's TUE just the expression of a modern, business-friendly Islam TUE committed to human rights, democracy and providing education TUE for some of the world's poorest people. Edward Stourton TUE travels to Turkey to find out about the man who inspired TUE what has become a global phenomenon - Fetullah Gulen. There TUE he meets supporters and critics of the movement. He also TUE learns about how its combination of faith, philanthropy and TUE business is proving a winning formula in the developing TUE world. TUE Producer: Helen Grady. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b011c0v0 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b011mt0z (Listen) TUE Programme exploring the limits and potential of the human TUE mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b011bz2h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b011bz2p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b011g97g (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011c0w9 (Listen) TUE The Forgotten Waltz, In These Shoes TUE TUE In today's episode an international conference in TUE Switzerland, too much booze and the luxury of the kiss sets TUE lust in motion. TUE TUE The Reader is Niamh Cusack. TUE The Abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The Producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b011c0wc (Listen) TUE Series 6, Aiming Low TUE TUE Jon Ronson talks to Stewart Lee about why we are all so TUE caught up in competitive lives. They discuss how choosing to TUE aim low in a conscious way is the way forward. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs TUE An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b011c0wf (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0118kx0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b011j0dw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0118kx2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0118kx4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0118kx6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0118kx8 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011c21r (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b011c21t (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b011c21w (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 b011c21y (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b011j0hc (Listen) WED Babysitting George, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Celia Walden. Having fled the paparazzi in Malta, WED George has returned home. But the newspaper still feels that WED he needs babysitting and Celia is once again dispatched to WED make sure that George keeps his contractual obligations to WED the paper. A trip to a health farm follows, but it's hard to WED leave fame and the craving for alcohol behind. WED WED Read by Clare Corbett WED WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b011c220 (Listen) WED Why is science fiction still a male genre? Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ct6p (Listen) WED The Gap, Episode 3 WED WED The Gap, by Colin Douglas. A couple break up during their WED daughter's gap year. 3/5: As the weeks go by in Ghana, WED Heather discovers there are some staffing problems at her WED school. WED WED 11:00 Going on the Gallopers b011c222 (Listen) WED A portrait of the life, popular art and remarkable WED engineering of Carters Steam Fair. John Carter was WED interested in old machinery and fairground art. People began WED giving him gear and rides, or selling them to him when they WED retired, knowing he would keep them working. WED WED His obsession encompassed his family and now, a decade after WED his death, Carters Steam Fair, staffed by John's widow, his WED sons and many old friends, travels for 7 months of the year, WED and spends winter in the yard fettling, burnishing and WED painting. WED WED There are gallopers (no, not carousels) of extraordinary WED glamour and beauty, dizzying steam yachts and the amazing WED Chair -o - Planes. The family and workers live in exquisite WED 1940s art deco showmen's wagons, with cut-glass WED clerestories. WED WED Their set-up is different everywhere they go because they WED regard all this as art and architecture - that moves. Even WED their lorries are ancient and beautiful - This programme, WED recorded in their winter yard and on site while they work, WED captures the wild, bright, musical, oily beauty, and WED thoughtful philosophy, of the life of the steam fair. WED WED Producer: Julian May. WED WED 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00j7522 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Comedian Mark Steel visits Boston in Lincolnshire to take a WED look at the Stump and sprouts and see for himself why the WED inhabitants have no need of a handbrake. With a guest WED appearance from a Boston rapper he presents a show to the WED locals and tries and work out what makes the town so WED distinctive. WED WED Producer - Julia McKenzie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b011c224 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0118kxb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b011fcd6 (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 b011c22d (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b011c0tt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lg4c7 (Listen) WED Torchwood, Asylum WED WED When PC Andy arrests a teenager for shoplifting, he thinks WED it's going to be a routine case. Then he sees the weapon WED she's carrying and decides to call in Torchwood. Under WED questioning from Gwen, the girl remembers her name but WED little else, and when she speaks it's in a strange mix of WED English and Scandinavian but with a Cardiff accent. Then the WED girl's blood tests come through and the team is faced with a WED dilemma. WED WED Jack ... John Barrowman WED Gwen ... Eve Myles WED Ianto ... Gareth David-Lloyd WED PC Andy ... Tom Price WED Freda ... Erin Richards WED Security Guard ... Matthew Gravelle WED Policewoman ... Sara McGaughey WED Dog Walker ... Dick Bradnum WED Girl ... Isabel Lewis WED WED Writer: Anita Sullivan WED Sound Design: Nigel Lewis WED Director: Kate McAll WED BBC Cymru Wales. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b011c235 (Listen) WED Do you have a question about changing employment law, rights WED at work or resolving workplace disputes? WED WED Whether you are an employee or run a small business you may WED need to ask about the recent changes to paternity leave, WED flexible working or the default retirement age. WED WED Or perhaps you are curious about improved rights for agency WED workers from October. WED WED Whatever your question, Paul Lewis and a team of employment WED experts will be ready to help. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011bz6k (Listen) WED The Pocket AA Milne, Little Plays for Amateurs WED WED A.A. Milne relives the agony and ecstasy of amateur WED dramatics during a country-house weekend. WED WED Read by Ian McNeice WED Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Gilbert's Glory b011c237 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Most people know W.S. Gilbert as the writer of comic operas WED such as 'The Mikado' and 'H.M.S.Pinafore' with Arthur WED Sullivan. But there was far more to his life and work than WED that. He was a prolific playwright,. a writer of humorous WED verse including the 'Bab Ballads', a gifted artist and a WED theatre director who helped to revolutionise the way plays WED were produced onstage. WED WED In this series of programmes to mark the centenary of his WED death, the writer and poet Ruth Padel explores five aspects WED of Gilbert's work and evaluates his significance and his WED legacy. Key contributors include the director Mike Leigh WED whose movie 'Topsy-Turvy' depicts the relationship between WED Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as biographers, academics and WED performers such as Alistair McGowan who has performed and WED directed Gilbert and Sullivan operas and the singer Richard WED Suart who recently performed in 'The Mikado' at English WED National Opera. WED WED Programme 3 explores Gilbert as a dramatist and satirist. We WED hear how he developed and parodied Victorian genres of WED burlesque and pantomime to create new comic effects and to WED mock institutions such as the House of Lords in 'Iolanthe'. WED But he also wrote several little-known 'problem' plays, WED depicting the double standards of the society in which he WED lived. Ruth Padel investigates how effective his satire was. WED WED Producer: Emma Kingsley. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b011c239 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b011mt0z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b011cmjk (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0118kxd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b010mztl (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED Arthur Smith presents music and comedy from his home in WED South London with Billy Jenkins, Kevin Eldon, Imran Yusef WED and poetry from Kate Fox WED WED Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b011c23f (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b011c23h (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with folk musician WED Martin Carthy, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday. WED WED Producer Andrea Kidd. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011ct6p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b011c23k (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David WED Aaronovitch with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Melanie WED Phillips and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b011c244 (Listen) WED Series 2, Politicians and pogo sticks WED WED Philip Cowley discusses how politicians have changed to WED reflect the political landscape around them. He uses letters WED from leading politicians to show how today's politicians WED compare favourably to those of the 1950s. And he has a small WED confession to make. 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 b011c246 (Listen) WED Nature's Medicine Cabinet WED WED Take the venom from a scorpion, the suckers from a starfish WED and the sting from a bee. You won't create a spell to turn a WED prince into a frog but you might just find a new anti-asthma WED spray, a way to prevent the failure of heart by-passes or WED the answer to drug-resistant bacteria WED WED Rapid advances in genetic research are throwing open the WED medical treasure chest of the natural world. Chemicals that WED perform a clear function for a plant or animal can be WED isolated, studied and, in some cases, applied to complex WED medical problems. WED WED This is obviously good news for patients but could it also WED be good news for endangered wildlife? Could we soon be WED concentrating our limited conservation resources on saving WED the plants and animals that offer up something to humanity? WED WED Dr. Alice Roberts and medical writer John Naish explore WED nature's medicine cabinet and consider the ethical dilemmas. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b011c21y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0118kxh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b011g97j (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011c248 (Listen) WED The Forgotten Waltz, Kiss Me Honey, Honey WED WED 'The Forgotten Waltz' is Anne Enright's long-awaited novel, WED her first since 'The Gathering', which won the Man Booker WED 2007. WED WED In today's episode an invitation from his wife to a New WED Year's Day party, a stolen kiss and an unwanted witness. WED WED The Reader is Niamh Cusack. WED The Abridger is Sally Marmion WED The Producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Fabulous b00fb8zx (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be Fabulous WED but can't cope. WED WED Edith announces who will get her job while she is on WED maternity leave. WED WED With Daisy Haggard, Katy Brand, Stephen Critchlow, Ben WED Crowe. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b011c24b (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 MAY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0118kxk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b011j0hc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0118kxm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0118kxp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0118kxr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0118kxv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011cff6 (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b011cff8 (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 b011cffb (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 b011cffd (Listen) THU Xenophon THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of THU Xenophon. THU THU The Athenian soldier and writer Xenophon was born around 430 THU BC. A friend and pupil of the great philosopher Socrates, he THU is best known today for his Anabasis, a book which vividly THU narrates his participation in a military campaign under the THU command of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. But he was THU also a major historian and essayist whose other works THU include a treatise on hunting, and the earliest surviving THU manual of horsemanship, which is still used today. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b011j0kh (Listen) THU Babysitting George, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Celia Walden. Once again, George has eluded the THU pursuing media and headed off in pursuit of wine and women. THU Celia Walden continues her account of the lonely and THU frenetic world where tabloid journalism, addiction and THU celebrity feed off each other. THU THU Read by Clare Corbett THU THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b011cffg (Listen) THU Andrea Corr on her solo career. Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011d72g (Listen) THU The Gap, Episode 4 THU THU A drama about an Edinburgh family breaking up during their THU daughter's gap year THU by Colin Douglas. THU Directed by David Ian Neville THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b011cffj (Listen) THU The stories behind the world headlines. THU THU 11:30 Doing It in the Street b011cffl (Listen) THU Actor and academic Martin Reeve occasionally takes to the THU streets under the performance name of Mr Lucky, the Man with THU the Raining Umbrella. It's an act he's been doing for the THU last twenty-five years or so, since he first teamed up with THU street theatre company Avanti Display. He's fascinated by THU the way that street theatre, or outdoor performance which is THU free and accessible to anyone passing by, affects our THU perceptions of the spaces around us: shopping centres, THU streets and squares, buildings, parks and public places. For THU him, it's a more radical and dangerous art form than might THU be imagined, with its roots in the political turbulence of THU the 1960s when companies like Welfare State International THU decided to take art and performance out of theatres and THU galleries onto the streets as a deliberate counter-cultural THU tactic. Although it may now feel less radical, often THU confined to festivals, civic celebrations and corporate THU entertainment, he believes street theatre can still make us THU see the world differently, and stop traffic momentarily to THU make the familiar seem, just for a moment, unfamiliar and THU extraordinary. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b011cffn (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0118kxx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b011fcd8 (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 b011c246 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b011c23f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lg4nq (Listen) THU Torchwood, Golden Age THU THU By James Goss. On the trail of a dangerous energy field, THU Torchwood are led to Delhi. As the energy field grows once THU more, they witness the simultaneous disappearance of THU hundreds of people. Jack discovers that the field centres on THU an old colonial mansion - Torchwood India. Shocked to find THU that Torchwood India is still going strong - he shut it down THU himself over 80 years ago - he's even more surprised to find THU that its members, including his old flame the Duchess, THU haven't aged a day. THU THU Jack ..... John Barrowman THU Gwen ..... Eve Myles THU Ianto ..... Gareth David-Lloyd THU The Duchess ..... Jasmine Hyde THU Mr Daz ..... Amerjit Dew THU Mahajan ..... Ravin J Ganatra THU Gissing ..... Richard Mitchley THU THU Writer: James Goss THU Sound Design: Nigel Lewis THU Director: Kate McAll THU BBC Cymru Wales. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b0118bgk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0118cmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011bz70 (Listen) THU The Pocket AA Milne, The Arrival of Blackman's Warbler THU THU How to survive dinner parties by becoming an expert on THU absolutely anything. THU THU Read by Ian McNeice THU Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Gilbert's Glory b011cfms (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Programme 4 examines Gilbert's achievements as a theatre THU director and looks at the ways in which he helped THU revolutionise theatre production. He was part of a new THU movement to end the tradition of the actor-manager and put THU control of stagecraft into the hands of the director. He THU also displayed meticulous attention to detail as far as THU costumes and sets were concerned. We hear about the way he THU created miniature sets and plotted action using woodblocks - THU but how his cast of real characters didn't always respond as THU he would have liked. THU THU Producer: Emma Kingsley. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b0118cn9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b011cfmv (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week THU and speaks to scientists who are making headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b011jvzr (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0118kxz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b011cfmx (Listen) THU Simon Day 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 In the final episode of the series British comedy legend and THU star of The Fast Show, Down the Line and Bellamy's People, THU Simon Day visits The Mallard Theatre as "himself". THU THU Simon Day ..... 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 b011cfmz (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b011cfn1 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the actor Rob THU Lowe, whose screen career began over 30 years ago, and whose THU roles include Sam Seaborn in the TV drama The West Wing. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011d72g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b011cfn3 (Listen) THU The current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b011cfn5 (Listen) THU Continental Drift THU THU As the sovereign debt crisis continues what next for the THU Euro? What next for Europe? Peter Day asks the experts. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b011c0s0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b011cffd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0118ky1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b011g97l (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011cfyp (Listen) THU The Forgotten Waltz, Dance Me to the End of Love THU THU 'The Forgotten Waltz' is Anne Enright's long-awaited novel, THU her first since 'The Gathering', which won the Man Booker THU 2007. THU THU In today's episode, hotel rooms, the Mistress Game and an THU unexpected devastation. THU THU The Reader is Niamh Cusack. THU The Abridger is Sally Marmion THU The Producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Dave Against the Machine b011cfyr (Listen) THU Come Oily Bombs THU THU Brand new sitcom about paranoid conspiracy theorist Dave THU Railings, written by and starring Radio 4 stalwart and cult THU Come Dine With Me voiceover star Dave Lamb. THU THU Dave Railings lives with his younger brother Jim in a bog THU standard first floor flat which has been customised with THU more surveillance and security equipment than the pentagon. THU Dave kitted it out, Jim despises it and dreams of escaping. THU THU In Episode One Jim casually mentions that he's been unable THU to buy any cooking oil. From this Dave manages to deduce THU that the town is under imminent threat from a dirty bomb THU attack. And when Jim also lets slip that he's going on a THU date with an Arabic woman called Hannan who he's only just THU met, Dave becomes convinced that he's in a desperate race THU against time to save the lives of everyone within a two THU hundred mile radius. THU THU Fast-paced, laugh out loud, convoluted romp focussing on one THU man's over-reaction to the Climate of Fear...or is it an THU over-reaction? THU THU Dave Railings ..... Dave Lamb THU Jim Railings ..... Jim North THU Nigel Spikes ...... Nick Walker THU Geoff Brown ..... Richie Webb THU Hannan ..... Jess Robinson THU THU Written by Dave Lamb THU Script edited by Anil Gupta THU THU Directed by Adam Tandy THU Produced by Richie Webb THU A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 I Was... b00g36l4 (Listen) THU David Lean's Boy Star THU THU Andrew McGibbon analyses great artists at a significant time THU in their careers but from the perspective of someone who THU worked for them, inspired them, employed them or even did THU their job for them while no one was looking. THU THU John Howard Davies played Oliver Twist in David Lean's 1948 THU black and white classic. For the eight-year old boy on a THU film set for the first time in his life, surrounded by the THU likes of Alec Guinness, Robert Newton and Anthony Newley it THU was an exciting and dizzying break from the privations of a THU post war childhood. THU THU Nevertheless the fame that followed the success of the film THU did not suit John and he struggled for many years afterward THU to adjust. THU THU With authentic insights into the making of the film, fresh THU views on the legendary actors John reveals a fascination and THU respect for David Lean that led him to chose a similar THU career path to his mentor - that of a director and producer THU of some of the BBC's most classic comedies in the seventies. THU THU Featuring contributions from producer Ronald Neame and THU biographer Kevin Brownlow. THU THU Producers: Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero THU A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 MAY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0118ky3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b011j0kh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0118ky5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0118ky7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0118ky9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0118kyc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011cjm0 (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b011cjm2 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b011cjm4 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0118cmz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b011j0nn (Listen) FRI Babysitting George, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Celia Walden. The public affection for the FRI womanising, hell-raising, often charming and mostly drunk FRI George Best has begun to wane in favour of a macabre FRI fascination with his disintegrating life. The last couple of FRI occasions on which Celia meets George prove that as well as FRI the aggressive egotist flashes of the old humour are still FRI there alongside the wine-fuelled death wish. FRI FRI Read by Clare Corbett FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b011ckx6 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011d7g1 (Listen) FRI The Gap, Episode 5 FRI FRI A drama about an Edinburgh family breaking up during their FRI daughter's gap year FRI by Colin Douglas. FRI Directed by David Ian Neville FRI FRI 11:00 The Diving Venus b011ckx8 (Listen) FRI Swimmer and explorer Kate Rew tells the fascinating story of FRI Annette Kellerman, the 1920s Australian vaudeville star and FRI champion swimmer who dived into glass tanks, popularized the FRI one-piece swimsuit and became the first woman to attempt to FRI swim the English Channel. FRI FRI Paralysed by polio as a child, Kellerman was introduced to FRI swimming as a therapy. When she discovered that her limbs FRI 'found their true congenial element in water', she quickly FRI became an ambitious swimmer. FRI FRI Her family moved to England to promote her and in 1904 she FRI swam 26 miles down the Thames from Putney to Blackwall, FRI training on a diet of bread and milk. The Daily Mail picked FRI up her story and sponsored her to become the first woman to FRI attempt to swim the English Channel. FRI FRI In her twenties she took a job performing her unusual water FRI ballet act as a mermaid at the London Hippodrome. It was FRI here that she became known as the Diving Venus. FRI FRI But swimming was also a political act for Kellerman. She was FRI a campaigner for the right of women to wear a one piece swim FRI suit. While visiting Boston Beach in 1907, she appeared FRI before the press in a tight-fitting one-piece swimsuit and FRI was later arrested. FRI FRI Kate Rew explores the many layers to Kellerman's life and FRI her own affinity with Kellerman's story. She talks to FRI Margaret Drabble, another swimmer with a passion for FRI mermaids. We hear from the dancer Beth Dean, who went to see FRI Kellerman perform her underwater ballet in the 1920s and we FRI hear extracts from Kellerman's own writings on swimming. FRI 'Swimming cultivates imagination; the man with the most is FRI he who can swim his solitary course through night and day FRI and forget a black earth full of people who push', she FRI wrote. FRI FRI Produced by Sarah Cuddon FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b011ckxb (Listen) FRI Befriending Freddie FRI FRI David Tennant and Sarah Alexander star as the exes FRI determined to be double not single parents and bring the FRI kids up together apart. FRI FRI But Lucy needs compensation for moving house every week... FRI FRI If it's Wednesday it must be Holloway. FRI FRI It turns out Mimi's new husband says he is into fatherhood FRI after all, and Lucy tells her Dad and Tom all about Mum's FRI condition... FRI FRI Mimi is desperate to bring the kids to New York for the FRI premiere of her new husband's play but Tom has found a new FRI friend whose cute yogic mother Joe is drawn to... FRI FRI When Lucy refuses to miss out on her best friend's birthday FRI because of a planned visit to her stepfather in New York, FRI Mimi fails to get Joe's back-up. FRI FRI Joe ..... David Tennant FRI Mimi ..... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ...... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ..... Phoebe Abbott FRI Jennifer ..... Emily Bruni FRI Freddie ...... Oliver Dillon FRI Harry ...... Stuart Milligan 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 b011ckxd (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0118kyf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b011fcdb (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 b011ckxg (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 b011cfmz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lg4vz (Listen) FRI Torchwood, The Dead Line FRI FRI When a Cardiff Hospital is inundated with patients who have FRI fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to FRI investigate. The trances appear to have been triggered by FRI phone calls, all received on retro phones and made from a FRI number that hasn't been active for over 30 years. Determined FRI to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack FRI rings the mysterious number - two, oh, five, nine - nothing. FRI It's a dead line. Until, it calls Jack back..... FRI FRI Jack ... John Barrowman FRI Gwen ... Eve Myles FRI Ianto ... Gareth David-Lloyd FRI Rhys ... Kai Owen FRI Stella .... Dona Croll FRI Jan ... Eiry Thomas FRI Bob .. Matthew Gravelle FRI Tyler ... Brendan Charleson FRI FRI Writer: Phil Ford FRI Sound Design: Nigel Lewis FRI Director: Kate McAll FRI BBC Cymru Wales. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b011ckxj (Listen) FRI Postbag edition FRI FRI Peter Gibbs and the panel answer a collection of listener FRI questions from Sparsholt College. Rosie Yeomans updates on FRI the GQT trial beds. FRI FRI Panellists are Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew FRI Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Gilbert's Glory b011ckxl (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Programme 5 examines Gilbert's relationship with the man FRI with whom his legacy would be bound up - Arthur Sullivan. We FRI hear the qualities that Gilbert brought to the partnership FRI and how his work with Sullivan included not only the FRI creation of the Savoy operas, but a constant monitoring of FRI the finances of the business, which would eventually lead to FRI the famous 'Carpet Quarrel'. FRI FRI Producer: Emma Kingsley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b011ckxn (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 b011ckxq (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b011g8yv (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0118kyh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b011ckxs (Listen) FRI Series 74, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b011ckxv (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b011ckxx (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who reports on the role of the war FRI correspondent, from the telegram to Twitter, in the light of FRI a major new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North. FRI FRI Producer Ekene Akalawu. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011d7g1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b011bybz (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents a topical discussion from Saffron Walden FRI Town Hall in Essex. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011ckxz (Listen) FRI Series 2, Quetzalcoatlus FRI FRI 15/20. As David Attenborough explains, ".the biggest animal FRI to fly was not a bird, but a reptile." - it was a FRI Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur with at least a forty foot FRI wingspan. David Attenborough, a huge fan of palaeontology, FRI is skilled in bringing the past natural histories to life FRI through stories about the discovery of key fossils. What a FRI creature this "terrible lizard" must have been - big enough FRI to scavenge the bodies of dead Tyrannosaurus and yet able to FRI fly, probably in large numbers. And with a twist so typical FRI of Sir David's writing, he brings this pterosaur to life at FRI the very end. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00s7g8f (Listen) FRI RIP Boy FRI FRI Ten years ago Zahid Mubarek was beaten to death by his FRI cellmate, teenager Robert Stewart in Feltham Young Offenders FRI Institution. In Neil McKay's new factual drama, prison offer FRI John acts as our narrator, leading us through an overloaded FRI prison system to reveal how a known racist with psycophathic FRI tendencies ended up sharing a cell with a quiet Asian lad FRI serving only 90 days for petty theft. FRI FRI Stewart's manipulative actions get him moved round the FRI country from one YOI to another as his behaviour becomes FRI increasingly violent and erratic, from tattooing RIP onto FRI his forehead, to inciting the murder of a fellow inmate FRI during a cookery class. He eventually ends up in the huge, FRI overcrowded nightmare that is Feltham, where cells designed FRI for one hold two, and boys are banged up for twenty-three FRI hours out of twenty-four. Astonishingly, Stewart's long FRI record of violence and racist behaviour fails to reach FRI Swallow wing, where the only spare bed is in Zahid Mubarek's FRI cell. FRI FRI It is now ten years since Zahid's death and many of the FRI recommendations of the public inquiry have still not been FRI fully implemented. Prisons remain overcrowded and FRI overstretched. Violence is rife. More than 70% of prisoners FRI suffer two or more mental health disorders. As prison FRI officer John in the play observes: "But it's all out of FRI sight so we keep it out of mind. It shouldn't be, for the FRI sake of everyone. Zahid could have been your son or mine. FRI Remember him. Remember his name. Zahid Mubarek." FRI FRI Robert Stewart ..... Matthew NcNulty FRI John ..... Ross Boatman FRI Zahid Mubarek ..... Darren Kuppan FRI Jamie Barnes ..... Ashley Gerlach FRI Karen Stewart, Nurse ..... Fiona Clarke FRI Prison Officers ..... Nick Underwood FRI Prison Officers ..... Greg Wood FRI Travis ..... John Cattrell FRI Simmo ..... James Adler FRI FRI Directed by Melanie Harris. This is a Red production for BBC FRI Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0118kyk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b011g97n (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011cky1 (Listen) FRI The Forgotten Waltz, How Can I Be Sure FRI FRI 'The Forgotten Waltz' is Anne Enright's long-awaited novel, FRI her first since 'The Gathering', which won the Man Booker FRI 2007. FRI FRI In today's episode: breaking up and looking back, in the FRI shadow of a For Sale sign, and Dublin's general disapproval. FRI FRI The Reader is Niamh Cusack. FRI The Abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The Producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b011c0tr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 I Was... b00ft1wg (Listen) FRI Ernest Hemingway's La Secretaria FRI FRI Andrew McGibbon analyses great artists at a significant time FRI in their careers but from the perspective of someone who FRI worked for them, inspired them, employed them or even did FRI their job for them while no one was looking. FRI FRI Valerie Danby Smith was Ernest Hemingway's secretary in the FRI final two years of his life, accompanying him, his wife and FRI their entourage on bullfighting tours of Spain, trips to New FRI York, and stays in his beloved house in Havana, Cuba. As FRI their relationship blossomed Ernest even proposed to her - FRI while he was still married to his wife - and later confided FRI in Valerie that he was planning to commit suicide after FRI learning he was going blind. FRI FRI This is a moving story of love and duty and how an innocent FRI convent educated girl in a chance encounter in Spain finds FRI herself the willing pupil of one of the greatest American FRI writers of the 20th century who was determined to teach FRI Valerie everything he could about the art of writing and why FRI a courageous engagement of life was vital to that art. FRI FRI Producers: Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero FRI A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
20 May, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 21/05/2011 - 27/05/2011
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