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SAT SATURDAY 14 APRIL 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01fjz4z (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01g6pwc (Listen) SAT Double Cross, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Ben Macintyre. SAT SAT It is June 1944 and the Allies prepare for the landings in SAT Normandy, taking the Germans by surprise, thanks to the work SAT of the double agents working for the British secret service. SAT SAT D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World SAT War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a SAT different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at SAT convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, SAT were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. The SAT deception involved every branch of Allied wartime SAT intelligence - the Bletchley Park code-breakers, MI5, MI6, SAT SOE, Scientific Intelligence, the FBI and the French SAT Resistance. But at its heart was the 'Double Cross System', SAT a team of double agents controlled by the secret Twenty SAT Committee, so named because twenty in Roman numerals forms a SAT double cross. SAT SAT The key D-Day spies were just five in number, and one of the SAT oddest military units ever assembled: a bisexual Peruvian SAT playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a Serbian seducer, a SAT wildly imaginative Spaniard with a diploma in chicken SAT farming, and a hysterical Frenchwoman whose obsessive love SAT for her pet dog very nearly wrecked the entire deception. SAT Their enterprise was saved from catastrophe by a shadowy SAT sixth spy whose heroic sacrifice is here revealed for the SAT first time. Under the direction of an eccentric but SAT brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers, working SAT from a smoky lair in St James's, these spies would weave a SAT web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler's army SAT and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel SAT in safety. SAT SAT These double agents were, variously, brave, treacherous, SAT fickle, greedy and inspired. They were not conventional SAT warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless SAT lives. Their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, SAT Tricycle and Garbo. This is their story. SAT SAT Reader: Jonathan Keeble SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier Production For BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fjz51 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fjz53 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fjz55 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01fjz57 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01fjzc5 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with SAT Monsignor Tony Rogers. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01fjzc7 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01fjz59 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01fjz5c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01fjx6m (Listen) SAT Watership Down Under Threat SAT SAT Watership Down under threat. Helen Mark visits the Berkshire SAT site made famous by author Richard Adams. Development is now SAT planned, but should literary status override housing need? SAT SAT A planning application to build 2,000 homes south of Newbury SAT has met fierce opposition from a local community. Armed with SAT an international bestseller, Watership Down, the campaigners SAT and author Richard Adams believe the site of the original SAT warren, Sandleford Park, should remain as open countryside. SAT SAT To explore the issues and mark the 40th anniversary of the SAT book's publication Helen follows the path taken by the SAT fictional rabbits Hazel and Fiver. It takes her across the SAT real landscape that follows the Berkshire/Hampshire border. SAT SAT It's a truly stunning part of rural Britain, but is there SAT room for sentimentality when we have a serious housing SAT shortage? Open Country investigates the arguments for and SAT against. SAT SAT Producer: Clare Freeman. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01g4ddz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Angela Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01fjz5f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01g4df1 (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01g4df3 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with food writer Tamasin Day-Lewis, David SAT Gollancz, who discovered he's one of the 600 children SAT fathered by a British scientist's sperm donations and Moss SAT Hills, who's been on board two different ships as they've SAT sunk. There's poetry from Aoife Mannix, a sound sculpture SAT featuring the unforgettable sound of the iconic 2CV engine, SAT Inheritance Tracks from Nicholas Parsons and news of what's SAT thought to be the furthest flung highland games in the SAT world. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01g4df5 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy meets the former debutante Meriel Larkan who SAT fell in love with Peru and rescued and restored a Victorian SAT steam ship on Lake Titicaca. He is also joined by Chris SAT Smith and Liz Peel who went by canoe through the Bolivian SAT jungle in search of the village of Manchester; and Kung Fu SAT expert Nick Hurst explains why he set off to Malaysia and SAT China to spend time with his grandmaster Sugong. SAT SAT Producer: Margaret Collins. SAT SAT 10:30 Twitterpated! b01g4df7 (Listen) SAT It's seventy years since Friend Owl (in the film Bambi) SAT identified a phenomenon that has been evident in nature SAT since the earliest times. With the spring thaw, Bambi and SAT Thumper are bewildered by the giddy skittishness of the SAT creatures of the forest. Owl enlightens them... SAT SAT "They're twitterpated! Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in SAT the springtime ... you're walking along, minding your own SAT business. You're looking neither to the left, nor to the SAT right, when all of a sudden you run smack into a pretty SAT face. Woo-woo! You begin to get weak in the knees. Your SAT head's in a whirl ... You're knocked for a loop!" "Gosh, SAT that's awful", says Thumper. SAT SAT Young couples share their stories of falling in love in the SAT springtime - Sandy and Alex are still students, SAT head-over-heels and planning a life together; Jo and Amit SAT were 'knocked for a loop' under a tree surrounded by SAT squirrels and birds. SAT SAT Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher traces the behaviour SAT described by Friend Owl back to humanity's origins and finds SAT evidence of its effect in our brain chemistry. Woodland SAT ranger Simon Bateman, on a sunny spring morning, finds the SAT promise of new life in the flora and fauna under his SAT protection. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b01g4dnc (Listen) SAT Vying for Asian Voters SAT SAT For both Labour and the Conservatives achieving an outright SAT majority in the Westminster Parliament will require winning SAT over many voters who have not previously supported their SAT causes. In particular, both parties need to do more to win SAT over voters among Britain's ethnic communities and SAT especially voters with an Asian heritage. SAT SAT Labour, shocked by its recent defeat in the Bradford West SAT by-election, needs to reconnect with these voters it has too SAT often taken for granted. The Conservatives, meanwhile, SAT struggle to win greater support among aspirational Asian SAT voters without whom it is unlikely to be able to govern on SAT its own. And for the Liberal Democrats - who have no MPs SAT from Britain's ethnic communities - maintaining a sizeable SAT presence in the House of Commons will require stronger SAT backing from Asian voters than they have won at previous SAT elections. SAT SAT With all the parties needing to connect, Mary Ann Sieghart SAT asks how our politicians are going to appeal better to SAT voters from the United Kingdom's Asian communities. Can they SAT exploit at a national level the successful campaigns SAT individual MPs have run locally with their diverse SAT electorates? What should they be learning from abroad? And SAT what changes will we be seeing in how the parties present SAT themselves to voters as the battle to win votes hots up? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01g4dnf (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01g4dnh (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance with Paul SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01fjz3h (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Fred Macaulay, Jo Caulfield and SAT Andrew Maxwell. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01fjz5h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01fjz5k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01fjz3p (Listen) SAT London SAT SAT Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Broadcasting House, in London with Deputy SAT Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman; Secretary of SAT State for Justice, Ken Clarke; Editor of Prospect Magazine, SAT Bronwen Maddox and writer, Will Self. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Eaton. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01g4dnk (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00sqgdw (Listen) SAT Mountain of Light SAT by Simon Bovey SAT SAT London, 1851. The world's largest diamond is on show at the SAT Great Exhibition. And John Rayverne must find a way to steal SAT it to save the people he loves. SAT SAT John.......Carl Prekopp SAT Emily.......Lizzy Watts SAT Hawkesworth....Ben Crowe SAT Rilke.......Harry Myers SAT Hobbs....Sam Dale SAT Galloway......Michael Shelford SAT Cobbet.....David Seddon SAT Wyatt.....Nigel Hastings SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT SAT 15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b01fhwj5 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Mozart SAT SAT Professor Robert Winston brings a scientist's ear to his SAT passion for music, exploring the medical histories of great SAT composers and how illness affected the music they wrote. SAT SAT Mozart's health has fascinated observers for over two SAT hundred years. The documents have examined to reveal every SAT available medical detail. Any mention of a cough or an ache SAT has been minutely analysed for evidence about the diseases SAT he suffered and the mystery illness that killed him at the SAT tender age of 35. But is this intense scrutiny is obscuring SAT our picture of Mozart? Over 160 different causes of death, SAT alone, have now been suggested. Professor Winston sifts SAT through the morass of information and speculation to SAT discover what Mozart's health can really tell us about the SAT man and his music. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01g4f2w (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Navigating a good relationship as a grandparent; Elaine C SAT Smith on what it's like to play Susan Boyle in the musical SAT of her life; historian Bettany Hughes discusses the legacy SAT of the divine Goddess; the use of experts in child SAT protection; retirement and the argument for abolishing it; SAT why one GP won't be having a smear test; moving back home SAT with mum and dad in your twenties. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01g4f2y (Listen) SAT The day's top news stories, with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01fjzc7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01fjz5m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01fjz5p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fjz5r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01g4f30 (Listen) SAT Lee Mack, Amadou & Mariam, Laura Gibson, Arthur Smith and SAT Jenny Agutter SAT SAT Clive stays in with stand up comedian and actor Lee Mack, as SAT his gag packed, multi-award winning sitcom Not Going Out SAT returns to BBC One. He rejoins regular cast members Tim SAT Vine, Sally Breton and Katy Wix for more scrapes and sticky SAT situations every Friday night. SAT SAT She may be best known for her role in the The Railway SAT Children but Jenny Agutter has starred in Logan's Run, Equus SAT and An American Werewolf in London. Now she's joined forces SAT with Bob Hoskins in her latest film, Outside Bet which is on SAT general release now. SAT SAT The seventies are the decade that shaped Britain today - so SAT says Dominic Sandbrook, historian and presenter of BBC Two SAT series The 70's. His series re-examines the decade as one of SAT a housing boom, rising consumerism and conflict in the SAT Middle East. His book Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for SAT Britain 1974-1979 accompanies the series. SAT SAT Arthur Smith gets his kit on to talk to Nigel Wray, Chairman SAT of Saracens Rugby Football Club and owner of possibly the SAT largest sporting memorabilia collection in the world. Arthur SAT gets to fondle WC Grace's last bat and (not that he needs SAT it), uses the starter's megaphone from the 1908 Olympics. SAT Nigel's collection has been brought together in a book 'A SAT Sporting History' by David Norrie with all proceeds going to SAT the Saracens Sport Foundation. SAT SAT Music from Malian superstars Amadou and Mariam. Having SAT toured with the likes of Coldplay and U2 and performed at SAT the Nobel Peace Prize Concert for Barack Obama, they return SAT to the Loose Ends studio to play Wily Kataso from their new SAT album 'Folila'. SAT SAT Last time Laura Gibson appeared on Loose Ends, she serenaded SAT Andy Williams. This time Laura Gibson is back to perform her SAT current single The Fire from her album 'La Grande'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01g4f32 (Listen) SAT After North Korea's controversial rocket launch and SAT celebrations to mark the centenary of the birth of the SAT country's "Great Leader," David Torrance profiles the SAT country's new young leader, Kim Jong-un. Little is known SAT about him in this most secretive of states. But after the SAT death of his father Kim Jong-Il late last year, he has begun SAT to establish his authority in relation to North Korea's SAT military and ruling communist party, and he has been SAT confirmed this week in the most senior political office. He SAT will also have to decide how far to seek rapprochement with SAT the outside world. Has his education, partly in Switzerland, SAT made him a new kind of North Korean leader? SAT Producers: John Murphy, Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01g4f34 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests playwright Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker and the writers David Aaronovitch and Kamila SAT Shamsie review the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT THEATRE Long Day's Journey Into Night - Apollo Theatre - SAT directed by Anthony Page, starring David Suchet SAT SAT FILM Cabin in the Woods - directed by Drew Goddard SAT SAT TV Starlings - Sky1 - written by and starring Matt King and SAT Steve Edge SAT SAT BOOK Home - Toni Morrison SAT SAT EXHIBITION Hans-Peter Feldman - Serpentine Gallery SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT Long Day's Journey Into Night is on at the Apollo Theatre, SAT until August 18th 2012. SAT SAT Starlings is coming soon to Sky 1 and Sky 1 HD. SAT SAT The Cabin in the Woods is in cinemas nationwide from this SAT weekend, certificate 15. SAT SAT Home by Toni Morrison is published by Knopf. SAT SAT Hans-Peter Feldman exhibition is at the Serpentine Gallery SAT until 5 June 2012. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01g4f87 (Listen) SAT Hobsbawm: A Life in History SAT SAT Eric Hobsbawm is interviewed by Simon Schama to discuss his SAT work and his extraordinary life. SAT SAT Professor Eric Hobsbawm is one of our most eminent SAT historians. His four-volume history of the nineteenth and SAT twentieth centuries, starting with 'The Age of Revolution' SAT and ending with 'The Age of Extremes', is considered a SAT masterpiece, an accessible classic which is still read by SAT students today. SAT SAT Hobsbawm was born in Alexandria in 1917, months before the SAT Russian Revolution. He grew up in Vienna and Berlin, before SAT moving to England, where he studied history at Cambridge. At SAT 94 years old, he is President of Birkbeck College, and is SAT still writing. His most recent book, published in 2011 is SAT 'How to Change the World', in the light of the global SAT financial crisis, it is a timely collection of essays SAT reassessing Marx and Marxism. SAT SAT Simon Schama meets Eric at his home in Hampstead to discuss SAT his turbulent childhood, orphaned at 14, he moves to Berlin SAT to stay with relatives who are too concerned with scratching SAT a living in the collapsing Weimar Republic to notice that SAT the teenage Eric is hiding a Communist Party printing press SAT in his bedroom. SAT SAT In 1933 he moved to England, a country he found incredibly SAT boring after the excitement of Berlin, however, it is the SAT English education system that makes him a historian, when he SAT wins a scholarship to Cambridge, later founding Communist SAT Party Historians Group, and the journal Past and Present, SAT which influenced a whole generation, including a young Simon SAT Schama. SAT SAT Eric Hobsbawm is an unrepentant Marxist, whilst SAT acknowledging the failure of twentieth century Communism, he SAT has not given up on Marxist ideals. As he tells Simon SAT Schama, he would like to be remembered as 'somebody who not SAT only who kept the flag flying, but who showed that by waving SAT it you can actually achieve something, if only good and SAT readable books'. SAT SAT Their discussion is illustrated with BBC archive clips from SAT Eric's previous tv and radio appearances SAT SAT Producer: Jessica Treen. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01d9w42 (Listen) SAT Plantagenet: Series 3, Henry VI - A Simple Man SAT SAT by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. The SAT once-great England of Henry V is bankrupt and losing SAT territory in France. The times call for a strong man who can SAT unite the kingdom. Not the weak, idealistic Henry VI, SAT pleading for peace and incapacitated by bouts of insanity. SAT As the House of York grows in power, Queen Margaret is SAT forced to take up arms to protect her royal line. SAT SAT Henry VI... Al Weaver SAT Margaret...Aimee Ffion Edwards SAT York... Shaun Dooley SAT Cardinal Beaufort...Paul Moriarty SAT Warwick...Gerard McDermott SAT Somerset...Carl Prekopp SAT Edward of York...Simon Bubb SAT With Rikki Lawton, James Lailey and Christopher Webster SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01fjz5t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01fjvxl (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests discuss whether our planning law SAT strikes the right balance between encouraging economic SAT growth and the protection of the environment. The programme SAT explores concerns that the Government's new National SAT Planning Policy Framework tilts the playing field in favour SAT of the developers. SAT SAT Planning lawyer Nathalie Lieven QC argues that the new NPPF SAT sweeps away detailed and useful planning guidelines in SAT favour of the meaningless concept of a presumption in favour SAT of sustainable development. The lack of clear details, she SAT says, will create work for lawyers for many years. SAT SAT And all the guests agree that, at the end of the day, if you SAT want to stop a development, whether it's a high-speed rail SAT network, a airport runway or a new supermarket, identifying SAT a threat to the habitat of great crested newts or badgers SAT will be most effective. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT A Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01fhrjh (Listen) SAT Series 2, Queen Mary, University of London SAT SAT Coming this week from Queen Mary, University of London, "The SAT 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed SAT at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners SAT whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on SAT location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b01d9w48 (Listen) SAT Series 12, The Raven SAT SAT Peggy Reynolds explores one of the most iconic poems ever SAT published. Over 160 years since its first appearance, it is SAT still inspiring film makers, horror writers and theatre SAT directors to produce their own interpretations. Yet many SAT loathed the poem, including W.B Yeats who said it was SAT insincere and vulgar. The poem granted its author instant SAT fame, yet he spent most of his life in poverty. To try and SAT capitalise on its success he wrote an essay about its SAT composition, which many believe to imbued with an over SAT inflated sense of mastery. The poet attracted nearly as much SAT controversy as his poem. An inveterate gambler, alcoholic SAT and occasional drug abuser, he was a philanderer whose most SAT popular poems were about his devotion to a lost love. SAT There's also a demonic bird involved. Need any more clues? SAT Nevermore SAT With guests including the poet and falconer Helen Macdonald, SAT Professor of English John Sutherland, the poet Jay Parini, SAT the raven master at the Tower of London and occasional SAT appearances by feathered friends, Peggy Reynolds unpicks SAT Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 APRIL 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01fqt4l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01g4gb7 (Listen) SUN Beavers SUN SUN Directed by Martin Jarvis, award-winning American actor SUN Hector Elizondo reads Miller's canny tale of a man trying to SUN rid his pond of beavers. At first he's baffled by their SUN behaviour. Miller uses the idea to examine the mystery of SUN knowing (and perhaps understanding) another creature's SUN motives. Perplexed, the man considers this enigma. SUN SUN The conventional analysis is that beaver dam building has, SUN as its purpose, the blocking of a small stream with a dam, SUN in order to create a pond in which the beaver can build its SUN lodge and raise its family, safe from predators. SUN But this fellow already has a deep pond in which to build SUN its lodge. Indeed, it has already built one. So why does it SUN need to stuff the overflow pipe, and thereby raise the pond SUN level?Why is the beaver creating a pond where a perfect one SUN already exists? Soon the man feels himself weakening before SUN such absolute dedication. SUN SUN He comes to a surprising conclusion which forces him to SUN admire the beavers' complexity, to respect their SUN intelligence - compared to his own doubting nature, his SUN fractured convictions. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fqt4n (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fqt4q (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fqt4s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01fqt4v (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01g4gbc (Listen) SUN The bells of St Bartholomew's Church, Smithfield, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01g4f32 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01fqt4x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01dmdmm (Listen) SUN Mindfulness SUN SUN Mark Tully meditates on the art of being still, and the SUN benefits of quiet contemplation, as medical science borrows SUN from the practices of religious traditions. SUN SUN He talks to Mark Williams, Professor of Clinical Psychology SUN at the University of Oxford who teaches 'Mindfulness' SUN techniques and whose research has shown that daily SUN meditation can reduce the occurrence of severe depression at SUN least as much as anti-depressants do. SUN SUN Featuring music by Edward Elgar, Arvo Part and Jules SUN Massenet, and words by Rainer Maria Rilke and Octavio Paz, SUN this programme looks at how else regular contemplative SUN sessions can enrich our lives in an increasingly busy world. SUN For some it is a way of experiencing God, for others a means SUN of coming to terms with their own failures, and for many it SUN can produce profound changes in their lives. SUN SUN As Mark Tully perceives, through the practice of Mindfulness SUN people can drink from the well of religious insight whether SUN they have a religious faith or not. He even accepts in the SUN end that he should, perhaps, overcome his own reluctance to SUN make the commitment that meditation requires, and curb the SUN distractions that can make our minds rampage, 'like an SUN untrained elephant'. SUN SUN The readers are Emily Raymond and David Holt. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01dmdmp (Listen) SUN Caz Graham visits a Cumbrian farmer who has struggled to SUN make money with ice-cream and organic milk, and is now using SUN Jersey cows and new grassland science to help make dairy SUN farming pay. SUN SUN Kevin Beaty farms in the shadow of the Cumbrian fells and SUN takes grass farming very seriously. The Cumbrian climate is SUN perfect for producing a lush green sward, and, inspired by SUN techniques from New Zealand, he now manages to feed his cows SUN nothing but the green stuff. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01dmdmr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01dmdmt (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01g4gpd (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 Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01g4gpg (Listen) SUN Remap SUN SUN Quentin Cooper presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Remap. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1137666 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Remap. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Remap SUN SUN Remap makes special pieces of equipment for people with SUN disabilities to increase independence, help manage life’s SUN daily challenges and get back into enjoying sport and other SUN leisure pastimes. With their ingenious and inventive SUN approach, they help disabled people do things they didn’t SUN think possible. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01dmdn0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01dmdn2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01dmdn4 (Listen) SUN The Risen Christ and the Gift of Unity SUN SUN An Eastertide celebration of peace and reconciliation from SUN Lichfield Cathedral on the 400th anniversary of the death in SUN Lichfield of the Puritan Edward Wightman. Led by Canon SUN Wealands Bell with Canon Pete Wilcox and the Lichfield SUN Cathedral Chamber Choir directed by Martyn Rawles and SUN accompanied by Oliver Walker. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01fjz3r (Listen) SUN Jubilee Celebrations SUN SUN David Cannadine looks ahead to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, SUN reflecting on the history and significance of royal jubilees SUN worldwide and, in particular, the celebrations for Queen SUN Victoria. "Diamond jubilees... are very much a construction SUN of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: both SUN in terms of the grandiose ceremonials accompanying them, and SUN also in terms of the narratives that have invariably been SUN constructed to make some sort of sense of the six decades SUN that are being commemorated." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01dmdn6 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01dmdn8 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01dmdnb (Listen) SUN HMS Sheffield SUN SUN Thirty years after the Falklands war, Sue MacGregor brings SUN together six men from HMS Sheffield, hit by an Argentine SUN missile on 4th May 1982, and sunk six days later. SUN SUN The British Task Force had only just arrived in the disputed SUN area of the South Atlantic. The company of HMS Sheffield, SUN fresh from a six month tour of the Gulf, were just six days SUN from home when they received the order to turn around and SUN head South. SUN SUN Few knew much about the Falkland Islands, and believed the SUN dispute with Argentina would be solved before they even got SUN there. But diplomacy failed and by 1st May hostilities had SUN begun in earnest. Just three days later Sheffield was hit. SUN SUN HMS Sheffield was one of three Type 42 destroyers, whose SUN role was to protect the vital aircraft carriers, Hermes and SUN Invincible from attack. That attack, when it came, was fast, SUN low and devastating - an Exocet missile, fired from an SUN Argentine Super-Etandard aircraft, locked on target, skimmed SUN the waterline and hit Sheffield amidships, knocking out all SUN her vital services. The crew had only a few seconds warning. SUN SUN There was no explosion, just a rapid spread of thick, acrid SUN smoke from a fire that raged uncontrollably for several SUN days. Desperate attempts to fight the fire were in vain, and SUN with the deck raging hot, and fire rapidly approaching the SUN ship's own missile system, the order was given to abandon SUN ship. Sheffield sank six days later, the first British SUN warship to be lost in battle since World War Two. SUN SUN In the hours that followed the survivors pieced together who SUN was missing. Twenty men had died, some bravely staying at SUN their posts, trying to restore vital services to the ship, SUN others going back in to rescue others. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01fhrjr (Listen) SUN Series 9, Episode 2 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Danielle Ward and Tom SUN Wrigglesworth are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Pandas, SUN Football, China and Smoking. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01g4ks7 (Listen) SUN The Fermentation Revival SUN SUN Since ancient times humans have harnessed the power of SUN microbes to preserve food and enhance its flavours. Rich and SUN complex food cultures have developed that use this power in SUN a process called fermentation - making pickles, breads, SUN wines and much, much more. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon joins Sandor Katz - author and 'fermentation SUN revivalist' - to find out more about the wonders of SUN fermentation as well as our very relationship with these SUN microbes. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01dmdnj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01g4ks9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Invention of Germany b015c342 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN " Germany as we understand it, unified and strong, only came SUN into existence a mere 140 years ago. Before then ? Well SUN there was Bavaria and Prussia, Saxony, Baden Wurttemberg, SUN Pomerania, Westfalia, Schleswig Holstein .this list is SUN extremely long. And defining where one bit ended and the SUN next began - well, it was utterly bewildering." SUN SUN Misha Glenny presents a three part history of Germany before SUN the world wars, revealing how weak and fragmented it used to SUN be. SUN SUN The series starts with the siege of Magdeburg of 1631, when SUN a city the size of Paris was burnt to the ground. The events SUN of the Thirty Years War hugely influenced later German SUN nationalists, as Swedes, French, Danish, Spanish and huge SUN numbers of Scottish mercenaries rampaged through the area we SUN now call Germany. SUN "Germany was in many ways more sinned against than sinning," SUN concludes contributor Simon Winder. SUN SUN Misha Glenny is a former BBC central European correspondent SUN and winner of a Sony gold. The producer is Miles Warde, who SUN collaborated with Misha Glenny on previous series about the SUN Alps, the Habsburgs and Garibaldi. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01fjz33 (Listen) SUN West Midlands SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN your gardening queries from Beckminster Methodist Church. SUN Eric Robson is in the chair. SUN SUN We return to Matthew Wilson's garden for advice on building SUN a child-friendly garden. Meanwhile Bunny Guinness SUN demonstrates how to dog-proof your garden. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01g4ksc (Listen) SUN Omnibus Edition SUN SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday Omnibus edition of Radio 4's SUN series capturing the nation in conversation: today Mike SUN talks to his adoptive son about how he rescued him as a baby SUN from South Vietnam; Jayne talks to her mother Sally in SUN Liverpool about their life together and the father she never SUN knew; from London, Jamaican-born Monica discusses with her SUN gay son Rikki how coming out as gay was difficult for her SUN too; and in Stoke on Trent Marc discusses with his foster SUN dad Colin about how he's managed to turn his life round SUN after a very difficult beginning. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that SUN aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in SUN which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation SUN with someone close to them about a subject they've never SUN discussed intimately before. The conversations are being SUN gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and SUN national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every SUN conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an SUN important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then SUN edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN participants. Many of the long conversations are being SUN archived by the British Library which they will use to build SUN up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the SUN UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload SUN your own conversations or just learn more about The SUN Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer Simon Elmes. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01g4ksf (Listen) SUN Plantagenet: Series 3, Richard III - The Three Brothers SUN SUN by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Despite SUN his rebellious brother Clarence, and the formidable dowager SUN Queen Margaret, Edward IV manages to bring a modicum of SUN stability to the kingdom of England. But discontent at the SUN power of his wife and her family erupt into civil war after SUN his death, and his brother Richard is forced to take SUN increasingly drastic steps to uphold Plantagenet power.The SUN final episode of the series. SUN SUN Queen Elizabeth...Nancy Carroll SUN Edward 4th...Simon Bubb SUN Richard 3rd...Carl Prekopp SUN Clarence...Christopher Webster SUN Margaret...Aimee Ffion Edwards SUN Warwick...Gerard McDermott SUN Stafford...Adam Billington SUN Lewis...James Lailey SUN Bishop...Paul Moriarty SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01g4ksh (Listen) SUN Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and the best of children's SUN books SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Elif Shafak about her latest book SUN Honour, which highlights the issue of honour killings in the SUN Kurdish Turkish community across two continents. SUN SUN We've heard a lot about young adult fiction, but what about SUN novels for younger children? The seven to twelve year old SUN age range used to be regarded as The Golden Age for books, SUN Open Book examines what's happening now. SUN SUN Plus, more of the funny things people say in bookshops. This SUN time round, book buyers get their revenge. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b01g4ksk (Listen) SUN Series 12, Dear Mr Lee SUN SUN UA Fanthorpe's poem Dear Mr Lee is an engaging piece of SUN ventriloquism, written in the voice of a school pupil who SUN has been studying Laurie Lee's classic memoir, Cider With SUN Rosie, in her English class. Fanthorpe has captured the SUN enthusiasm and despair of adolescence, as the pupil SUN confesses to 'Laurie' that she loves everything about his SUN book, except the essays she's had to write about it. Part of SUN the poem's success lies in the fact the Fanthorpe herself SUN taught English for many years, and demonstrates an unusual SUN empathy with a student struggling with the demands of the SUN exam system and a rather tenuous grasp of literary SUN criticism. Peggy Reynolds talks to Lee's biographer Valerie SUN Grove, to UA Fanthorpe's partner Rosie Bailey, to poets SUN Michael Rosen and Wendy Cope, to several of Fanthorpe's SUN notable ex-students including MP Fiona MacTaggart, and to SUN some current students of GCSE English and their inspiring SUN teacher, who all bring their own enthusiasms to the poem. SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 17:00 France and Race: A Question of Identite b01fhysd (Listen) SUN Julian Jackson explores the central issue in the current SUN election campaign for the Presidency of France: race, SUN religion and what it means today to be French. SUN SUN Clichy-sous-Bois is a notorious Parisian ghetto. True, the SUN wooded, gently rolling slopes of this borough to the SUN north-east of the capital are stacked with residential SUN blocks, yet there are no telltale burned-out blocks or SUN abandoned lots. Clichy is kempt. It was though in this SUN almost wholly immigrant community that the death in 2005 of SUN two Muslim youths fleeing from police sparked some of the SUN worst and most widespread race riots seen in Europe for SUN generations. SUN SUN There are today 5 million Muslims in France, the largest SUN population in western Europe, largely as a result of the SUN country's colonial past in north Africa. And their presence SUN has increasingly since the 2005 riots been a central issue SUN in French society. In 2009 the government instituted a SUN national enquiry, with town-hall meetings and debates that SUN resulted in much hand-wringing, over what it means today 'to SUN be French', not least in the light of the country's ban on SUN wearing the full Islamic veil in public. SUN SUN Now there is widespread belief that with the far-right SUN National Front led by the charismatic Marine le Pen, there SUN may be a re-run of the 2002 shock elimination by the party SUN of one of the main contenders in the first round of voting. SUN SUN In this programme, Julian Jackson, Professor of modern SUN French history at Queen Mary, University of London, visits SUN Clichy and meets the men and women who are at the heart of SUN the debate - Jean-Francois Copé, chief of Sarkozy's UMP, SUN Harlem Désir, Socialist MP and founder of SOS Racism and SUN Marine le Pen to discuss what being French is all about and SUN how they reconcile the fraught arguments over race and SUN religion. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Elmes. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01g4f32 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01dmdp9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01dmdpc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dmdpf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01g4ksm (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN This week's Pick Of The week with Gerry Northam includes a SUN candid confession of persistent self-doubt from Alastair SUN Campbell, the former powerhouse of Downing Street. There's SUN comedy from Henning Wehn and Ed Reardon; drama from the SUN streets of Liverpool where Judas Iscariot used to be burnt SUN in effigy every Good Friday; refugees from the repressive SUN regime in Uzbekistan which is forcibly sterilising its SUN female population; and a dramatic recreation of the SUN morse-code signals from the sinking Titanic just after she SUN hit the iceberg a hundred years ago. SUN SUN We gain a glimpse into the psyche of Hitler's Deputy, Rudolf SUN Hess. And Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora finds some shocks in SUN the songs he left unrecorded. SUN SUN The Essay - Radio 3 SUN Jack London's People of the Abyss - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN The Public Philosopher - Radio 4 SUN Titanic Town - Radio 4 SUN Discovery - World Service SUN Ship of Dreams - Radio 4 SUN Ed Reardon's Week - Radio 4 SUN The Judas Burner - Radio 4 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN Costing The Earth - Radio 4 SUN Crossing Continents - Radio 4 SUN The Psychiatrist and the Deputy Fuhrer - Radio 4 SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01g4kyj (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 My Teenage Diary b00wqbjv (Listen) SUN Series 2, Victoria Coren SUN SUN Rufus Hound hosts this six-part comedy series in which SUN celebrities are asked to revisit their teenage diaries and SUN read them out in public for the very first time. This week, SUN Victoria Coren. SUN SUN Producer: Victoria Payne SUN A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Emerald City and Other Stories b01dq53v (Listen) SUN One Piece SUN SUN The next in our series of stories from 'Emerald City', the SUN new collection by young American author Jennifer Egan, whose SUN 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' went on to win the Pulitzer SUN Prize for Fiction, and made her name as one of the best new SUN writers to emerge in the past decade. SUN SUN In today's story, 'One Piece', a young girl takes drastic SUN action to put the broken pieces of her brother's life back SUN together again. SUN SUN The Abridger is Miranda Davies SUN The Producer is Justine Willett SUN Reader: Teresa Gallagher. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01fjz39 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the SUN place to air your views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN The extension of World at One, changes to Saturday morning SUN programmes and thoughts on the next Director General of the SUN BBC - Gwyneth Williams, the controller of Radio 4 takes SUN listeners' questions and gives her thoughts on what this SUN summer holds for her network. SUN SUN Making the unmissable... er... missable. Why were so many SUN programmes not available on iPlayer last weekend and why had SUN so many podcasts gone awol? Was everyone on holiday? SUN SUN Young news junkies form a Feedback Listening Club to pick SUN apart Radio 1's Newsbeat programme. SUN More tense discussion over use of the historic present on In SUN Our Time, Midweek and The Long View. SUN SUN Producers: Kate Taylor and Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01fjz37 (Listen) SUN Fang Lizhi, Ferdinand Porsche, Miss Read, Bingu wa SUN Mutharika, Derick Thomson SUN SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Leading Chinese dissident, Fang Lizhi, who inspired the SUN student protests that ended in Tiananmen Square. SUN SUN The last of the dynasty - Ferdinand Porsche - designer of SUN the iconic 911 sports car. SUN SUN English author, Dora Saint - better known to her many fans SUN as Miss Read. SUN SUN President Bingu wa Mutharika, reformer turned autocrat whose SUN death has been little mourned in Malawi. SUN SUN And Derick Thomson, poet, publisher and champion of the SUN Gaelic language. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01g4dnh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01g4gpg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01fjx76 (Listen) SUN French Lessons SUN SUN As the EuroZone struggles for survival, France remains at SUN the heart of Europe. Peter Day finds out how French business SUN is faring in an era of huge European uncertainty. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01g4m5c (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 b01g4m5f (Listen) SUN Episode 99 SUN SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01fjx6p (Listen) SUN In a special edition of the programme, Matthew Sweet travels SUN to Port Talbot in Wales to meet one of its most famous sons, SUN Michael Sheen. He discusses The Gospel of Us, the film SUN version of his biblical passion play performed amongst the SUN local community last Easter. The actor also takes Matthew on SUN a tour of the town that produced two other stars of the big SUN screen - Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01dmdmm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 APRIL 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01fqt62 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01fjtgv (Listen) MON Rubbish - Civil Partnerships MON MON We pay others to take away our household refuse from the MON front of our house whilst hoarding other junk in the attic. MON And while most of us wouldn't mind buying other people's MON discarded clothes in a charity shop, only a few are prepared MON to take even edible food from supermarket dumpsters. What MON hidden motives lurk behind our relationship with waste? MON Martin O'Brien, author of 'A Crisis of Waste?' and Jeff MON Ferrell, author of 'Empire of Scrounge', join Laurie to sift MON through the competing ways of understanding refuse. MON Also, how do civil partnerships compare to heterosexual MON marriages? Carol Smart talks about her research for a large MON study which explores the romantic comparisons. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01g4gbc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fqt64 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fqt66 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fqt68 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01fqt6b (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01g5yxl (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with MON Monsignor Tony Rogers. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01g5yxn (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01fqt6d (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01g5yxq (Listen) MON Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01g5yxs (Listen) MON China MON MON Andrew Marr discusses the state of China with the authors MON Jonathan Fenby and Martin Jacques. Fenby attempts to draw MON together the whole of the China story to explore its global MON significance, but also its inner complexity and complexes. MON Martin Jacques has updated his bestseller, When China Rules MON the World, to argue that the country's impact will be as MON much political and cultural, as economic. But while China's MON finances make all the headlines, what of its literature? Ou MON Ning edits China's version of Granta magazine, showcasing MON the work of contemporary Chinese authors, but must tread a MON careful path to keep the right side of the censors. And the MON academic and translator Julia Lovell argues that to MON understand the new spirit of China, it's vital to read its MON often contrarian short fiction. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01g5yxv (Listen) MON Besieged: Life Under Fire in a Sarajevo Street, Episode 1 MON MON To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege MON of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick MON revisits her evocative eyewitness account of how the MON residents of one street in the city endured three and half MON years of living in a warzone. Today, bellicosity is met with MON denial before harsh and terrifying realities kick in. MON MON Read by Laurel Lefkow MON Abridged by Julian Wilkinson MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01g5yxx (Listen) MON Laurie Metcalf MON MON American actor Laurie Metcalf on taking to the London stage MON in a "Long Day's Journey into Night. The joys and pitfalls MON of being in an "open relationship". What impact will the MON Welfare Reform Act have on the relationships of disabled MON people? And Yasmeen Khan on her documentary "My Name is Not MON 'Hey baby'" which explores MON new initiatives to counter cases of sexual harassment and MON assault MON MON Producer Caroline Donne. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01g5yxz (Listen) MON Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 1 MON MON Katie is facing her release from prison after spending most MON of her life behind bars. Terry, a new warden at the prison, MON has been assigned to help her readjust to daily life on the MON outside. After a rocky start the two develop an unlikely MON friendship and, helped by her love of designing and making MON clothes for the inmates, Katie's confidence grows. Could MON these designs be her way out of the prison system, or her MON downfall? MON MON KATIE.....Rachel Austin MON TERRY.....Graeme Hawley MON NINA.....Sarah Parks MON GERDA.....Szilvi Naray-Davey MON CLARA.....Ruth Alexander Rubin MON GOVERNOR HENRIETTA/OFFICER BRENDA.....Brigit Forsyth MON GRANT/OFFICER LUKE.....Perry Fitzpatrick MON MON Produced by Susan Roberts. MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b01g5yy1 (Listen) MON Joseph Wolpe and Systematic Desensitization MON MON When the South African psychiatrist, Joseph Wolpe, took up MON his post at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1965, he MON brought with him the treatment he'd developed for patients MON with phobias. Systematic Desensitization involved a lengthy MON process of relaxation and gradual exposure to the object of MON the phobia. It was known as Behaviour Therapy, with its MON concentration on learning a different response to a MON stimulus. It paid no attention to the patient's childhood or MON underlying psychological experiences and was thus a radical MON departure from the Freudian, psychoanalytic approach that MON was the established method of psychiatry in the US at the MON time. He brought about a sea change, which sees him MON regularly listed as one of the top twenty most influential MON psychologists of the 20th century. MON MON Claudia Hammond visits Philadelphia to meet two of Joseph MON Wolpe's former colleagues, Michael Ascher and Allan Cristol MON to hear about the man and his work. At Temple University MON Medical School Professor William Dubin shows her Wolpe's MON portrait and discusses his legacy, while Dr Richard MON Heimberg, Director of the Adult Anxiety Clinic at Temple, MON reveals how Wolpe's form of therapy still influences what he MON does today. MON MON In the UK, Elaine Caiger gets over her paralyzing fear of MON spiders at a course run by Anxiety UK which distils Wolpe's MON lengthy process into a matter of hours. And Paul Salkovskis, MON Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science at the MON University of Bath, reflects on his worldwide impact. MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b01g5yy3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Sorry MON MON In this week's episode, Harvey's cat Lucky has gone missing, MON but does her disappearance have anything to do with the MON book-burning neighbour (played by Simon Day)? Robbie MON develops a crush on an older woman and Jax rekindles her MON relationship with the builder Rakesh. MON MON Harvey Easter ..... Mark Benton MON Jacqui Easter ..... Claire Skinner MON Charlie Easter ..... Rosamund Hanson MON Robbie Easter ..... Tyger Drew Honey MON Kill-R ..... Javone Prince MON Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry MON Dr Ray Marsh ..... Justin Edwards MON Mr Leopold ..... Simon Day MON Sean Calhoun .... Michael Legge MON MON Written by Andrew Collins MON Title Music Arrangement by Jim Bob MON Producer/Director: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01g5yy5 (Listen) MON Free prescriptions for Paracetamol MON MON Students in Nottingham are being charged £70 each for a MON parking permit when other residents are given three permits MON per household absolutely free.Find out why. MON MON The Football League plans to consult on the use of MON artificial pitches in competitive games. Could this be the MON end of grass pitches in English football clubs? MON MON In December, You & Yours heard from unemployed young people MON learning to build Apps for Facebook. But did these skills MON lead to jobs in the digital sector? We catch up with one of MON the former students. MON MON Plus a whole new way of learning - the students who will MON soon be able to rent e text-books. MON MON And we will be speaking to the father of a German Olympic MON athlete who wants to park his camper van right next to the MON London 2012 Aquatic Centre where his daughter is competing. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Olivia Skinner. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01fqt6g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01g9950 (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g5yy7 (Listen) MON England Goes Global MON MON Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, returns to MON Radio 4 with a new object-based history. Taking artefacts MON from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan MON and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and MON rapidly changing world in which they lived. MON MON With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of MON political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil MON asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they MON were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to MON explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the MON public and helped shape the works, and he considers what MON they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of MON Shakespearean England. MON MON Programme 1. ENGLAND GOES GLOBAL - How Sir Francis Drake's MON circumnavigation of the globe changed the way Shakespeare's MON audiences viewed the world and their country's place on it. MON For the first time, England was engaging with the whole MON world. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01g4kyj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00x41n8 (Listen) MON Burned to Nothing MON MON Matthew returns to Nigeria, the land of his birth. He has MON come to secure the release of his son who has become caught MON up in the politics of a land in turmoil; a land he has MON fallen in love with. By Rex Obano. MON MON Matthew .... Lucian Msamati MON The General .... Jude Akuwudike MON Medina .... Lorraine Burroughs MON Keith .... David Ajala MON Sunday .... Obi Abili MON Inenevwerha .... Gbemisola Ikumelo MON MON Director: Femi Elufowoju, jr. MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01g5yyc (Listen) MON Series 2, University of Northampton MON MON Coming this week from the University of Northampton, "The MON 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed MON at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners MON whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on MON location at a different University each week, and it pits MON three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01g4ks7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Alton Towers: A Journey into Puginland b01g5znt (Listen) MON The Gothic ruin of Alton Towers now stands surrounded by a MON famous theme park. Hordes of families shriek past on rides MON like "The Hex", perhaps oblivious to the fact that it was MON once one of the architect Pugin's finest creations. MON MON His magnificent interiors were a high point in the MON Nineteenth Century Gothic movement and a landmark of the MON English Catholic Revival. Built for his patron the Earl of MON Shrewsbury- one of the country's most important grandees- in MON its day the turreted towers and medieval interiors were more MON spectacular than anything Disney could have invented. MON MON In the year of Pugin's bicentennial, Martin Ellis explores MON the ruins to discover fragments of the rich interiors which MON suggest its former greatness -sumptuous ceilings, huge MON stained glass windows and Gothic sculpture. He uncovers the MON story of the decline of a noble house, the loss of the dream MON of a return to Catholic England and the wholesale fall from MON fashion of the Gothic style. It's a sorry tale of legal MON wrangles, neglect and greed which led to the house being MON stripped of everything of value, including its roofs, and MON being left to the elements. MON MON For generations the house has stood as an enigmatic and MON romantic ruin in the midst of the expanding theme park. It's MON been largely overlooked by cultural historians who have MON charted the return to fashion of Pugin as the eminent figure MON in the Gothic Revival. Yet now the building might be MON undergoing something of a renaissance at the hands of the MON theme park owners. Work is underway to stabilise and restore MON some key elements of Pugin's work. MON MON The programme looks at the restoration work in progress and MON examines how Pugin's original vision can sit alongside the MON fantasies created for a theme park run by a commercial MON organisation. Does it offer a different model for conserving MON our heritage or do commerce and culture collide? And we MON explore more widely into " Pugin Land" for examples of his MON work from his brief but spectacular career, such as the MON church of St Giles in Cheadle and the Palace of Westminster MON which offer hints of the glory that was once Alton Towers. MON MON Presenter: Martin Ellis. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01g5znw (Listen) MON In today's "Beyond Belief" Ernie Rea and guests discuss the MON religious foundations and functions of monarchy. MON Can monarchy be divorced from its religious underpinnings MON and, if not, what place does it have in a secular society? MON Is it a symbol of unity or division in multi cultural MON Britain? MON Joining Ernie to discuss the Monarchy are Philip Blond, MON Director of Res Publica; Symon Hill, Associate Director of MON the Think Tank, Ekklesia; and the Rev Dr Judith Maltby, MON Reader in Church History at the University of Oxford. MON MON 17:00 PM b01g5zny (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fqt6j (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01g5zp0 (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 3 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Marcus Brigstocke, Miles Jupp, Susan Calman and Alan Davies MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Swimming, Bread, Hotels MON and Foxes. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01g5zp2 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01g5zp4 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor, writer MON and musician Harry Shearer. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g5yy7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The War over Syria b01gcrhj (Listen) MON The conflict in Syria is transfixing the Middle East. But it MON is transforming it too. Barbara Plett, the BBC's UN MON Correspondent, returns to her old patch in the Middle East MON to examine how the future of the Assads could also shape the MON future of the region. She charts the influence of MON neighbouring states over the conflict in Syria, with the MON Gulf States, especially Saudi Arabia and newly assertive MON Qatar supporting the rebels. Meanwhile Iran and its allied MON Lebanese force, Hezbollah, are firmly behind the Syrian MON regime. And there's likely to be an increasing role for the MON new Arab democracies. MON MON This power play could spill over into direct conflict or MON continue to simmer behind the scenes - but its consequences MON could be dramatic, most directly by affecting Lebanon's MON fragile political balance. Barbara meets wounded Syrian men MON in Lebanon desperate to get back over the border to Syria to MON fight. Residents of Tripoli in Lebanon tell her they are MON already feeling the effects of heightened sectarian MON tensions. Could the fighting in Syria explode into a MON conflict that reshapes the Middle East? MON MON Producer: Lucy Proctor. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01fjx63 (Listen) MON Forced Sterilisation in Uzbekistan MON MON Natalia Antelava reports on Uzbekistan where women have MON become the new target of one of the most repressive regimes MON on earth. She uncovers evidence that women are being MON sterilised,often without their knowledge, in an effort by MON the government to control the population. MON The programme speaks to victims and doctors and highlights MON the fear and paranoia that have made this such a difficult MON story to tell. Women have fled the country in order to MON escape the practice. Only a few brave Uzbeks have been MON willing to speak, often telling horrific stories the MON government don't want told. MON Producer: Wesley Stephenson. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01fjx6r (Listen) MON Gareth Mitchell examines Wednesday's Indonesian earthquake. MON Widespread damage was avoided as this huge 'horizontal MON strike' earthquake did not generate the giant tsunami waves MON which engulfed the region in 2004. Dr Richard Luckett from MON the British Geological Survey explains the differences MON between this and other earthquakes. MON MON Much of the coverage of the anniversary of the sinking of MON the Titanic has concentrated on the fate of the passengers, MON but the sinking also had an effect on global MON telecommunications. Morse code messages transmitted from the MON vessel using the then new telegraph technology alerted the MON world to the liner's fate. Confusion over how these messages MON were relayed, received and reacted to led to new legislation MON on safety at sea, and new international standards for MON telegraphy. Michael Hughes, author of a new book Titanic MON Calling, tells Gareth of the technological impact of the MON tragedy. MON MON Can computers tell what you're thinking ? Perhaps not. MON However, new research suggests they may be better than MON humans at detecting the facial expressions that give away MON when someone is lying. US researchers 'trained' computers to MON detect subtle eye movements made while lying. Venu MON Govindaraju, of the Centre for Unified Biometrics and MON Sensors at the State University of New York in Buffalo, says MON the technique could be expanded to look at other facial MON expressions, as they all seem to change when we don't tell MON the truth. MON MON And we hear from another of our So You Want To Be A MON Scientist finalists, on his experiment looking into how MON closely peoples' faces match their voices. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01g5yxs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01fqt6n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01g5zp8 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01g5zpb (Listen) MON The House on Paradise Street, Episode 1 MON MON 1/10 Sofka Zinovieff's novel explores the long and tragic MON legacy of the Greek Civil War through a gripping story set MON in contemporary Athens. When Maud's Greek husband Nikitas MON dies in a mysterious car crash, Maud becomes curious about MON his family's troubled past. His mother, Antigone, now lives MON in Moscow, estranged from the family for nearly sixty years MON after abandoning her young son. Antigone has never been back MON to Greece, but now Maud needs to let her exiled MON mother-in-law know that her son is dead. Abridged by Sarah MON LeFanu MON MON Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach MON Producer: Sara Davies. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01fhys0 (Listen) MON Academic stand-up and cognitive development MON MON Chris Ledgard meets the academics doing stand-up comedy in a MON London pub; asks why foreign languages have to be so MON difficult, and discovers that jokes reach parts of the brain MON that other words cannot reach. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01g5zpd (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 APRIL 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01fqt77 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01g5yxv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fqt79 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fqt7c (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fqt7f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01fqt7h (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gd647 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with TUE Monsignor Tony Rogers. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01g5ztl (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01g5ztn (Listen) TUE Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports TUE Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Public Philosopher b01g5ztq (Listen) TUE Should we bribe people to be healthy? TUE TUE The eminent Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel TUE brings his trademark style to a discussion on a current TUE issue, questioning the thinking underlying a current TUE controversy This week, he takes a provocative look at the TUE controversial subject of incentivising good health. TUE TUE Michael Sandel has been enthralling students at Harvard for TUE years. These discussions - recorded in front of an audience TUE at the London School of Economics - bring his trademark TUE style to Radio 4. They're challenging, outspoken and TUE interactive. TUE TUE Sandel turns his attention to health and ponders whether the TUE present constraints on the NHS leave us with no choice but TUE to bribe people to be healthy. Profound moral questions lie TUE behind paying people to lose weight, quit smoking or abandon TUE alcohol. Michael Sandel weaves through these issues with the TUE help of philosophers past and present. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01g5zts (Listen) TUE Besieged: Life Under Fire in a Sarajevo Street, Episode 2 TUE TUE To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege TUE of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick TUE revists her evocative eyewitness account of how the TUE residents of one street in the city endured three and half TUE years of living in a warzone. Today, a death in one of the TUE Logavina Street's families. TUE TUE Read by Laurel Lefkow TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01g5ztv (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd0k8 (Listen) TUE Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 2 TUE TUE Katie starts work on the Burnsides order, whilst Terry TUE starts her rehabilitation. TUE TUE Produced by Susan Roberts. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01g60ft (Listen) TUE Series 6, Lamprey TUE TUE In 1135 King Henry I died, allegedly of eating a "surfeit of TUE lampreys" and the phrase has passed into our language, even TUE though the vast of majority of us, and that includes many TUE naturalists, have never seen a lamprey. We have three TUE species in the British lsles and although they are classed TUE as fishes, they are among the most primitive creatures with TUE a backbone. They're survivors too: over 200 million years TUE ago, lampreys looking very similar to those we see nowadays TUE were clamping their suckers - lampreys don't have jaws - TUE onto primitive fish and sucking their blood. TUE TUE But as Brett Westwood finds out in Nature, nowadays we're TUE giving these ancient survivors a challenge. Lampreys need TUE clean waterways free of obstacles as two of our species TUE migrate inland from the sea to breed in gravelly stretches TUE of our rivers. They also spend up to 6 years as blind larvae TUE buried in silt and so can be vulnerable to floods and water TUE extraction. TUE TUE On the River Ure in Yorkshire Brian Morland is monitoring TUE river lampreys for the Environment Agency and he shows Brett TUE his first blind lamprey larvae or ammocoetes. He also talks TUE about the huge sea lampreys, a metre along and thick as a TUE man's arm, which are being restricted by river blockages TUE such as dams and weirs. But Paul Frears, a fisheries manager TUE with the Environment Agency has lamprey's interests at heart TUE and with funding from the European Water Framework TUE Directive, can offer fresh hope to these weird and endlessly TUE fascinating fish. TUE TUE Producer: Brett Westwood TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Balalaika Born Again b01g61v9 (Listen) TUE Pat Metheny or Paganini? Who is Alexey Arhipovskiy? TUE TUE This is the story of the humble, three-stringed balalaika TUE and the story of a maverick Russian virtuoso, Alexey, who TUE wants to transform the balalaika's image; to show it is more TUE than a piece of folksy soviet souvenir kitsch. Alexey has TUE developed a beautiful new sound and a new repertoire for the TUE balalaika, mixing a classical music sensibility with the TUE temperament of prog rock. With his trusty manager, Mikhail, TUE he wants to take the balalaika out of Russia and beyond the TUE former Soviet borders. But can he take Russia out of the TUE balalaika? Nick Baker travels to Moscow to meet him. TUE TUE He finds a musical rebel and an intriguing character who TUE combines both adult seriousness and childlike enthusiasm for TUE an instrument once played only by peasants. At the Gnessian TUE Musical Academy, Alexey's Professor recalls a gifted musical TUE student who took his formal classical training and turned it TUE into something else. He added his own spirited TUE individualism, as well as some electronic effects. TUE TUE In Dubrovnik, Croatia, Nick meets up with Alexey again as he TUE prepares to perform at the Julian Rachlin and Friends TUE Chamber Music Festival. He is virtually the only TUE non-classical act on the bill. The festival is full of five TUE star ex-Russian prodigies whose families left Russia in the TUE 1980s and brought with them tried and tested classical TUE music. What happens next? TUE TUE Producer: Tamsin Hughes TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01g61vc (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01fqt7k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01g9j6f (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g61vf (Listen) TUE Communion and Conscience TUE TUE Programme 2. COMMUNION AND CONSCIENCE - The communion cup TUE that Shakespeare may well have used sheds light on the TUE dramatic religious changes that came in the aftermath of the TUE Reformation TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01g5zp2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b012r99n (Listen) TUE DeLorean TUE TUE Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980's. A TUE hunger strike was looming and street violence and tit for TUE tat murders were an everyday occurrence but in a small TUE corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was TUE happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car TUE was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late TUE twentieth century. For two years John DeLorean brought hope TUE to communities flattened by the Troubles in Northern TUE Ireland, where every other person was out of work and the TUE unemployment rate was the highest in Western Europe. This is TUE the story of that two year dream as seen through the eyes of TUE key employees - including a union representative, an TUE assembly line worker and a supervisor. Over 9,000 DMC's were TUE produced during this period, cars which today still retain TUE their cult status. The workforce put their heart and souls TUE into this car plant believing that this was going to be the TUE start of a better future, they too could 'live the dream.' TUE TUE Glenn Patterson is one of Northern Ireland's leading TUE contemporary novelists. He has also written various plays TUE for radio and is co-writer on the feature film 'Good TUE Vibrations' which is to shortly commence filming in Northern TUE Ireland. TUE TUE Liz - Michelle Fairley TUE Anto - Richard Dormer TUE T.C. - Rhys Dunlop TUE Al Benetar - Stuart Milligan TUE James Callaghan - Anton Lesser TUE Robert - Patrick Fitzsymons TUE TUE Producer - Clare Delargy TUE Director - Gemma McMullan. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01g61vk (Listen) TUE Series exploring ordinary people's links with the past TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01g61vm (Listen) TUE Britain in Flames TUE TUE Last spring huge swathes of the British countryside, from TUE Dorset to the West Highlands erupted in flames. In the wake TUE of a dry winter and drought orders across the south there's TUE a real risk of another year of serious wildfires. TUE TUE In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap investigates the causes of TUE forest and moorland fire and the innovative ideas that could TUE help us predict them, and fight them. TUE TUE At Crowthorne Forest in Berkshire, site of the most TUE destructive of 2011's fires he meets the young families TUE evacuated from their homes who are now planting saplings TUE that should prove to be more fire-resistant than their TUE charred predecessors. In Northumbria he joins the local fire TUE and rescue service for an exercise designed to test their TUE speed and efficiency in the face of fire. And in the forests TUE of South Wales he finds out why the region is the arson TUE capital of the UK. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01g61vp (Listen) TUE Series exploring the world of words. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01g9c4w (Listen) TUE Series 27, Gertrude Stein TUE TUE Gertude Stein, American poet, writer and art collector, TUE lived most of her life in France. She was one of the first TUE people to spot the genius of Picasso, Cezanne and Matisse, TUE and she believed she was a genius too.Opinion on that score TUE remains divided. TUE In Great Lives, Erin Pizzey chooses her because Stein TUE inspired her to live a life without compromise. Since TUE setting up the world's first refuge for battered women in TUE 1971, Erin Pizzey has campaigned and written about domestic TUE violence, publishing "Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will TUE Hear" and her autobiography "This Way To The TUE Revolution".Joining presenter Matthew Parris in the studio TUE is Diana Souhami, author of "Gertrude and Alice". TUE The producer is Isobel Eaton. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01g61vt (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fqt7m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01g61vw (Listen) TUE Series 8, It's a Nude Nude Nude Nude World TUE TUE Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, TUE complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his TUE never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever TUE scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and TUE cat together. TUE TUE Jaz Milvain asks Ed to curate a moving tribute to him and TUE his work in film for the 'surprise' party that he's TUE organising for his 60th birthday. Whilst Ed relishes the TUE idea of a comedy 'roast' Jaz is looking for something more TUE akin to a light sauté. TUE So it is that Ed tracks down Jaz's first masterwork, 'It's a TUE Nude Nude Nude Nude World' to form the cornerstone of the TUE tribute, not knowing that Fiona did a few day's work on it. TUE TUE Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas TUE Fiona ..... Jenny Agutter TUE Olive ..... Stephanie Cole TUE Posh Woman ..... Sally Grace TUE Frank ..... Simon Greenall TUE Cliff ..... Geoff McGivern TUE Waiter ..... Martin Hyder TUE Jaz ..... Philip Jackson TUE Pearl ..... Rita May TUE Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01g61vy (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01g61w0 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with writer Irvine TUE Welsh, who has written a prequel to his best known novel TUE Trainspotting. TUE TUE Producer Erin Riley. TUE TUE 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g61vf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 My Name Is Not 'Hey Baby' b01g61w2 (Listen) TUE In 2011 the Slutwalks which took place around the UK made TUE headlines when women, carrying placards and shouting TUE slogans, protested against the blaming of victims of rape TUE and sexual assault rather than the perpetrators. TUE TUE Yasmeen Khan meets the organiser of the London Slutwalk to TUE see what impact it made, as well as young activists who are TUE raising awareness of street harassment and encouraging women TUE to raise their voices against it. At a Hollerback meeting TUE students describe the verbal assaults which can build up TUE from quasi-compliments to threatening physical assault, and TUE how they can or should react. TUE TUE The grey area between a flirtatious comment and unwanted TUE attention is sometimes a fine one, and makes this area of TUE sexuality difficult to deal with. Yasmeen talks to men and TUE women about how they perceive it, and also to women in TUE India, Sweden and New York about how a new generation is TUE trying to make the rules of sexual engagement clearer. TUE TUE The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister issued a TUE statement on International Women's Day on March 8 this year TUE stating that they 'are working towards signing the Council TUE of Europe's Convention on Violence Against Women and TUE Domestic Violence'. Vera Baird, QC, the chair of Labour's TUE Commission on Women's Safety, talks about the way the TUE judiciary have been influenced, and a spokesman for the TUE Metropolitan Police's anti-rape Sapphire Unit describes how TUE their specialist police officers now deal with victims of TUE serious sexual assault. TUE TUE Yasmeen Khan also asks how the sexualisation of society, in TUE which advertising, the internet and pop music all play a TUE part, has affected young teenagers, and what efforts are TUE being made to counter their influence. TUE TUE Producer: Olivia Landsberg TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01g61w4 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01g61w6 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE Producer: Paula McGrath. TUE TUE 21:30 The Public Philosopher b01g5ztq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01fqt7p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01g61w8 (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01g61wb (Listen) TUE The House on Paradise Street, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/10 Sofka Zinovieff's novel about an Englishwoman's quest TUE to find out the origins of the bitter feud that has split TUE her dead husband's family is set in contemporary Athens, but TUE takes us back to the tragic events of the Greek Civil War in TUE the 1940s. When Maud's husband Nikitas is killed in a TUE mysterious car crash, his aunt Alexandra tells Maud she TUE should contact his mother Antigone in Moscow. Antigone left TUE Greece nearly sixty years ago, leaving Nikitas behind, and TUE has never returned. Now she makes a momentous decision: she TUE will go back for her son's funeral. TUE Abridged by Sarah LeFanu TUE TUE Read by Ann Beach and Lucy Briers TUE Producer: Sara Davies. TUE TUE 23:00 Richard Herring's Objective b00vkycj (Listen) TUE Series 1, Dolly the Sheep TUE TUE Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we've grown TUE to hate. In the final show of the series Richard reclaims TUE Dolly the sheep as he examines why we are fearful and TUE suspicious of the idea of cloning without really TUE understanding it. TUE Richard talks to a genetics professor about how cloning TUE works and what it was like to meet Dolly. Richard also asks TUE science writer Dr Ben Goldacre whether evil scientists exist TUE and whether he is allowed to clone Dr Who assistant Amy TUE Pond. TUE The show was recorded in front of an audience. Producer TUE ..... Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01g61wv (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01fqt88 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01g5zts (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fqt8b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fqt8d (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fqt8g (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01fqt8j (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gd63x (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with WED Monsignor Tony Rogers. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01g62nz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b01g62p1 (Listen) WED Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports WED Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01g62p3 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01g62p5 (Listen) WED Besieged: Life Under Fire in a Sarajevo Street, Episode 3 WED WED To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege WED of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick WED revists her evocative eyewitness account of how the WED residents of one street in the city endured three and half WED years of living in a warzone. Today's theme is about coming WED of an age in a warzone. WED WED Read by Laurel Lefkow WED Abridged by Julian Wilkinson WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01g62p7 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd0ln (Listen) WED Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 3 WED WED As Katie is drawn even further into Grant's plan and we WED learn more about her past and the reasons for her WED imprisonment. WED WED Produced by Susan Roberts. WED WED 11:00 Born in Bradford b01g62pc (Listen) WED Families have given blood samples, medical histories, WED details of their educational attainment, eating and WED parenting habits, family structures and incomes. As the WED first children to join the study start school, Winifred WED finds out how they have fared. WED WED The research team is based at the Bradford Royal Infirmary WED and its work will provide solid evidence to help answer some WED of the great medical puzzles of our time: everything from WED why some people have heart disease and depression to what is WED driving the rises in incidence of diabetes, asthma and WED obesity. The findings on cot death are just about to be WED released, with results that will significantly modify the WED guidance to parents. Other studies soon to be released with WED assess how far a pregnant mother's diet affects her baby's WED health. WED WED The city is ethnically diverse - more than half of the 6,000 WED babies born each year have a mother of Pakistani origin. WED Bradford also has the highest rate of genetic illness in WED Britain and this is due to genetic disorders passed on in WED cousin marriages. The research has demonstrated that two WED thirds of mothers of Pakistani origin in Bradford have WED husbands who are their first or second cousins - which WED significantly increases the risk of autosomal recessive WED conditions. WED WED This is the third programme in a continuing series and a WED chance to see how life is unfolding for young optimistic WED mothers in sometimes troubled relationships and difficult WED circumstances. Winifred spoke to them four years ago and WED catches up with their stories again. WED WED According to the Head of the study, Professor John Wright - WED an epidemiologist based at Bradford Royal Infirmary - the WED aim is to find out more about the causes of childhood WED illness in children from all cultures and classes as their WED lives unfold: "It's like a medical detective story really - WED trying to piece together the clues in people's lifestyles, WED their environments and their genetic make-up, as we try to WED determine whether someone falls sick or someone doesn't.". WED WED 11:30 My First Planet b01g62ph (Listen) WED Hairdresser from Space WED WED Day 7 on the colony, and Mason stirs up an ethical nightmare WED involving a clone, a murder and some dreadlocks. Meanwhile, WED Archer the handyman attempts some repairs on his own head. WED WED A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question WED - if humankind were to colonize space, is it destined to WED succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the WED way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) WED WED Welcome to the colony. We're aware that having been in deep WED cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some WED supplementary information. WED WED Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on WED the voyage, so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is WED now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, WED and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly WED meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian WED (Vicki Pepperdine - "Getting On"), who'd really rather WED everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and WED saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, WED the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born WED baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this WED purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about WED being a couple, just to get on the trip. WED WED Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and WED also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an WED "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer WED the question - if humankind were to colonize space, is it WED destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and WED infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) WED WED Brian ....... Nicholas Lyndhurst WED Lillian ....... Vicki Pepperdine WED Mason ........ Tom Goodman-Hill WED Archer ......... Phil Whelans WED Carol ......... Cariad Lloyd WED Richard .......... John Dorney WED and special guest WED Scalding ........ Gus Brown WED WED Written by Phil Whelans WED Produced & directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01g62pk (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01fqt8l (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01g9jr1 (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g62pm (Listen) WED Snacking through Shakespeare WED WED Programme 3. SNACKING THROUGH SHAKESPEARE - A luxury fork WED discovered on the site of the Rose theatre helps explain WED what people were nibbling on when they first heard: "Is this WED a dagger I see before me?" WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01g61vy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01g63vr (Listen) WED Red and Blue, Behind Enemy Lines WED WED By Philip Palmer WED WED Troy is at war with Sparta in Bradley Shoreham's latest war WED game. A team of British Special Forces are about to face a WED challenge that will test them to the limit. WED WED Bradley Shoreham . . . . . Tim Woodward WED Tom . . . . . Ifan Meredith WED Ricky . . . . . Warren Brown WED Julie . . . . . Liz White WED Andy . . . . . Don Gilet WED Jim . . . . . Paddy Wallace WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01g63vt (Listen) WED Pensions WED WED Financial phone-in with Vincent Duggleby. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01g61w6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01g63vw (Listen) WED The High-life and the Row-life WED WED What is the reality of life for a crack cocaine user in WED South London? Daniel Briggs new ethnography is a day to day WED observation of the people who use the drug, and their WED struggles to get the drug and also to get off it. He takes WED Laurie Taylor on an unsettling journey through violence and WED intimidation. WED Also in the programme, eight men in a boat - but how to stop WED them from pulling in different directions? Anthony King WED tells Laurie about his research into how a Cambridge crew WED prepared for and won the Boat Race. He explains the factors WED which helped and hindered their attempt to establish a WED rowing rhythm, and discusses what this says about WED coordinating action in society at large. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01g63vy (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01g63w0 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fqt8n (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00t4q0l (Listen) WED Series 3, The Snowballs of Hell WED WED Hie ye The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four Weddings WED & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode there's romance in the air for Charlotte as WED a vicious gang war breaks out in the Castle. Meanwhile, De WED Warenne discovers the fondue and declares martial law. WED WED Sir John Woodstock ....... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ....... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ........ Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan ........ Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ........ Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ........ Steven Kynman WED Merlin ........ Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Producer/Director: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01g637v (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01g63w2 (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with writer Stanley WED Booth, as he re-publishes his renowned account of life on WED the road with The Rolling Stones. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g62pm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01g63w4 (Listen) WED Television Cameras in Court WED WED Clive Anderson and top judges and lawyers discuss WED controversial Government plans to relax the rules banning WED television cameras from our courts. While some legal experts WED are calling for justice to be seen to be done, others warn WED that the presence of cameras could 'pollute and corrupt' the WED process of justice. WED WED Justice Minister Ken Clarke has announced his intention to WED initially allow judgments in the Court of Appeal to be WED broadcast, expanding this to the Crown Courts at a later WED stage. Despite pressure from broadcasters including the BBC, WED ITN and Sky, the Government has no immediate plans to allow WED filming of jurors, victims and witnesses. WED WED Clive's guests include judges and lawyers with a wide range WED of views on the impact cameras would have on the trial WED process. Among them a Scottish Sheriff who has already WED allowed filming in his own court. WED WED They discuss the arguments for and against allowing WED broadcasters unrestricted access to the courts 'from gavel WED to gavel'. What lessons can be learned from experience in WED other countries, such as in the OJ Simpson and Michael WED Jackson trials and the more recent Amanda Knox trial? WED WED Would the presence of cameras dissuade people coming forward WED as witness, lower the esteem of the court or impede justice WED in any other way? Or is it time for justice to truly be seen WED to be done? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01g63w6 (Listen) WED Series 3, Jules Evans WED WED Jules Evans, author of "Philosophy for Life and Other WED Dangerous Situations", explores what ancient Greek and Roman WED philosophy can tell modern society about wellbeing. He WED celebrates the link between modern psychotherapy and the WED wisdom of Socrates, the Stoics and other ancient WED philosophers but warns that the new politics of happiness is WED in danger of becoming illiberal. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01g61vm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01g62p3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01fqt8q (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01g63w8 (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01g63wb (Listen) WED The House on Paradise Street, Episode 3 WED WED Sofka Zinovieff's novel is set in contemporary Athens, but WED the story it tells takes us back to the bitter political WED divisions of post-war Greece. After Maud's Greek husband WED Nikitas dies in a mysterious car crash, she makes contact WED with his mother, Antigone, who has been living in exile in WED Moscow for nearly sixty years after abandoning Nikitas as a WED baby. Maud knows Nikitas has been researching the years of WED the Greek Civil War, and is becoming curious to know more WED about his family's troubled history. WED Abridged by Sarah LeFanu. WED WED Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach WED Producer: Sara Davies. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01g63wd (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel is offered a reconciliation meeting with local youths WED after they have run riot in the Arts Centre. And asked to WED teach them three part harmony into the bargain. WED WED Nigel Penny ....... Richie Webb WED Belinda ........ Vicki Pepperdine WED Steve ....... Nick Walker WED Edwina ....... Felicity Montagu WED Peter ....... Dave Lamb WED Alan/T'Shawn ........ Jim North WED Mary ....... Jess Robinson WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00vw86r (Listen) WED Series 2, Bob Crevice WED WED Phil Cornwell brings six edgy comic characters to life in a WED new series of The Cornwell Estate, starring Tony Gardner WED (Fresh Meat), Roger Lloyd Pack (Only Fools and Horses, Vicar WED of Dibley), Simon Greenall (Alan Partridge) Daisy Haggard WED (Psychoville) Ricky Champ (Him and Her, BBC3) Jill Halfpenny WED (Eastenders, Legally Blonde) and Cyril Nri. WED WED Written by Andrew McGibbon and Phil Cornwell WED WED Bob Crevice is an enthusiastic train driver living on the WED Cornwell estate. When he is suspended from duty after a WED medical, his career seems to be over. WED WED Bob Crevice ..... Phil Cornwell WED James Colagh ..... Roger Lloyd Pack WED Charlene Crevice ..... Kate Terence WED Derek Vaulter ..... Paul Brennan WED WED Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon. WED Additional material by Nick Romero WED Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01g63wg (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 APRIL 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01fqt99 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01g62p5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fqt9c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fqt9f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fqt9h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01fqt9k (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gd63z (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with THU Monsignor Tony Rogers. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01g9kg4 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b01g62t7 (Listen) THU Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including THU Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01g62w1 (Listen) THU Neoplatonism THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Neoplatonism, the school THU of thought founded in the 3rd century AD by the philosopher THU Plotinus. Neoplatonism brought together the philosophy of THU Plato with a new religious sensibility, and had a THU significant influence on thinkers as late as the THU Renaissance. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01g62x5 (Listen) THU Besieged: Life Under Fire in a Sarajevo Street, Episode 4 THU THU To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege THU of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick THU revisits her evocative eyewitness account of how the THU residents of one street in the city endured three and half THU years of living in a warzone. Today, a ceasefire and new THU causes of anguish. THU THU Read by Laurel Lefkow THU Abridged by Julian Wilkinson THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01g62x7 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd3fg (Listen) THU Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 4 THU THU Terry takes Katie on her first trip to the countryside and THU the pair grow closer, but can he cope with her deceit over THU Grant? THU THU Produced by Susan Roberts. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01g62zk (Listen) THU The Pink Certificate THU THU There's a Turkish saying that every man is born a soldier; THU and in Turkey every man is conscripted for military service THU of up to 15 months. There is no alternative to this; Turkey THU does not recognise the concept of conscientious objection. THU But one group of people are exempt - homosexuals. Their THU presence in the army is deemed damaging to morale and THU operational effectiveness. But the process by which THU homosexual men are asked to prove their sexual orientation THU is arbitrary and humiliating. Some are asked to provide THU pornographic photographs of themselves with their partners; THU others, photographs of themselves dressed as women. This is THU also a problem for the military psychiatrists who have to THU compromise their professionalism by "diagnosing" someone as THU homosexual, despite the fact that homosexuality is no longer THU regarded internationally as a medical disorder, although it THU once was. In "The Pink Certificate" Emre Azizlerli lifts the THU lid on the only country within the NATO military alliance to THU discriminate against homosexuals in this way. Among his THU interviewees are gay men who have been humiliated in various THU ways during the application process for exemption, as well THU as another man, who wanted to join the military despite his THU homosexuality and enjoyed a varied sex life during his THU period of service. Emre also meets a psychiatrist who THU discusses the ethical dilemma he faced while in the army and THU being asked to "diagnose" gay men, and a well-known THU conscientious objector who went to prison for his THU principles. THU Producer: Tim Mansel. THU THU 11:30 Alain-Fournier's Lost Estate b01g632l (Listen) THU A Childhood in Sologne THU THU Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee travel to France in search of THU the places and people which inspired his novel of adolescent THU love Le Grand Meaulnes. Part 1: A Childhood in Sologne. THU THU The village school where Fournier's father taught, the THU holidays he spent at his grandparents' cottage and the THU tumbledown house in the woods nearby fed the imagination of THU Henri Alban-Fournier. He drew on these locations when THU creating his only finished novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a simply THU written story of love and longing as an adventuring THU schoolboy discovers an almost mythical lost estate lived in THU by a young women, which the writer published under his pen THU name 'Alain-Fournier'. Auguste Meaulnes' fictional quest to THU retrace his steps and find the woman he dreams about echoes THU Fournier's own romantic obsession with a young woman he THU encountered briefly in Paris - whom he later traced using THU private detectives. THU THU The novelist Julian Barnes and biographer Hermione Lee THU compare Le Grand Meaulnes to Dickens, Debussy's opera THU Pelleas and Melisande and F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great THU Gatsby and discuss the reputation of the novel in France THU today. THU THU Producer: Robyn Read THU Readings by Philip Franks from a translation by Frank THU Davison. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01g6337 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01fqt9m (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01g634s (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g637c (Listen) THU Life without Elizabeth THU THU Programme 4. LIFE WITHOUT ELIZABETH - Painted in 1571 to THU justify and celebrate Elizabeth I's position in the Tudor THU succession, by the 1590s, with no direct Tudor heir, this THU image had very different implications. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01g637v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011vjhh (Listen) THU Lilo THU THU Childhood sweethearts meet up after nearly 20 years, THU wondering should they have stayed together? But a childhood THU act of violence somehow attracts and repels them in equal THU measure. THU THU Starring Maxine Peake and Trystan Gravelle, Lilo is a play THU about love, loss and trying to make sense of the past. THU THU Trystan and Simone haven't seen each other for eighteen THU years. They went to school together, grew up together and THU fell in love. It ended badly and then Trystan went off to THU university. To Trystan's disappointment Simone is still THU married, to his arch enemy no less. They even have kids. THU Trystan has no family but a successful career. They both THU claim to be happy. They both claim to have no regrets. But THU as the evening progresses they get down to the heart of the THU matter. Have they wasted the last eighteen years? Should THU they be together now? And how much did Simone's act of THU violence in the swimming pool, as a child, change the shape THU of both their lives? When the pub kicks them out they make THU their way to Trystan's hotel room. They have never slept THU together. Are they going to sleep together now? THU THU We meet Trystan and Simone at 11, 18 and 36 and piece THU together the story of their friendship which seems to have THU foundered on an incident in the pool that completely alters THU the course of their lives. THU THU Simone ...... Maxine Peake THU Trystan ..... Trystan Gravelle THU Simone (11 yrs) ..... Shannon Flynn THU Trystan (11 yrs) ..... Euan Brown THU THU Sound Design by Eloise Whitmore THU Producer: Melanie Harris THU A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01g63tv (Listen) THU Herefordshire Churches THU THU Where might you find the spot where Saint George killed the THU dragon and the oldest complete set of medieval bells? The THU answer lies in the Herefordshire countryside and in the THU history and legend attached to just some of the beautiful THU churches that can be found there. The Bishop of Hereford THU once said that 'The Diocese of Hereford is blessed with so THU many beautiful church buildings. Most of them stand at the THU centre of communities they have served for a thousand years THU or more." THU THU Helen Mark travels around the Herefordshire countryside to THU meet some of the people involved with the churches that are THU still at the heart of of the rural communities that they THU serve. She finds out about their history and heritage, the THU legend and folklore, their past, their present and what the THU future holds for them. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Anne Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01g4gpg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01g4ksh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01g63y4 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01g6444 (Listen) THU Science magazine programme. THU THU 17:00 PM b01g64c9 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fqt9p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01djp2w (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his own 5 piece jazz band THU for a brand new series of music and comedy. This time they THU make music on the subject of 'hard water'; shine a spotlight THU on the troubled life of the double bassist and reveal the THU haunting sound of the 'ocarina'. The band are joined by THU guest comedian Isy Suttie who persuades Alex to sing in a THU duet... THU THU Host .... Alex Horne THU Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland THU Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown THU Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier THU Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds THU Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe THU Guest ....Isy Suttie THU THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01g64jz (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01g64k1 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g637c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01g64q1 (Listen) THU Calling Time on Cheap Booze? THU THU A new alcohol strategy for England unveiled by the THU Government will clamp down on cheap alcohol with the THU introduction of a minimum unit price. This unexpected THU u-turn, just months after the Health Secretary, Andrew THU Lansley, cast doubt on the legality of the plan, has THU delighted campaigners and follows the lead set in Scotland THU last year. THU THU The proposals are now being trumpeted by the Home Office as THU a way to crack down on binge drinking and alcohol related THU violence, but how far will they go in reducing late night THU anti-social behaviour in town centres? THU THU Andy Denwood investigates moves North and South of the THU border to reduce alcohol related crime. THU THU Producer: Gail Champion. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01g64tv (Listen) THU Dragon's Den THU THU After 30 years of tearaway economic growth, there are fears THU that China may be rapidly slowing down, putting great THU strains on their economic system. Peter Day reports on the THU bursting of the great Chinese housing bubble and the THU pressures on private businesses and wonders if the Year of THU the Dragon is going be about hard times not traditional good THU fortune. THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01g60ft (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01g62w1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01fqt9r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01g6589 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01g658w (Listen) THU The House on Paradise Street, Episode 4 THU THU Sofka Zinovieff's novel is set in contemporary Athens, but THU the story it tells goes back to the bitter political THU divisions of the Greek Civil War. When Maud's Greek husband THU Nikitas dies in a mysterious car crash, his mother Antigone THU returns from Moscow, where she has been living in exile for THU nearly sixty years after abandoning Nikitas as a small THU child. Maud has become anxious to know more about her THU husband's troubled family history, and has decided that THU Antigone holds the key. THU Abridged by Sarah LeFanu THU THU Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach THU Producer: Sara Davies. THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b01g6592 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Jarvis Cocker takes to the streets to peer through stained THU windows, cold steel bars and Japanese paper screens, to find THU out just what goes on Behind Closed Doors at night time. THU THU He joins a lock-in where the time bell is never rung, and THU peers into the deepest recesses of a lock-in brain that THU belongs to Jack, reliving the night when the doors shut in THU his brain. THU THU On his nocturnal sojourn Jarvis recalls old times, on the THU streets of post-industrial Sheffield, and shares the THU loneliness of the long sentenced prisoner who dreams of THU empty streets under a full moon. THU THU Take a night walk with Jarvis Cocker; bring a torch. You THU might find yourself in a dark corner, but you've got a good THU guide. THU THU Producer: Sara Jane Hall. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01g659s (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 APRIL 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01fqtbb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01g62x5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01fqtbd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01fqtbg (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01fqtbj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01fqtbl (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gd641 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with FRI Monsignor Tony Rogers. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01g65gj (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01g65gl (Listen) FRI Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including FRI Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for FRI the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01dmdnb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01g65gn (Listen) FRI Besieged: Life Under Fire in a Sarajevo Street, Episode 5 FRI FRI To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege FRI of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick FRI revists her evocative eyewitness account of how the FRI residents of one street in the city endured three and half FRI years of living in a warzone. Today, hostilities end, and FRI twenty years on we find out how life has changed on Logavina FRI Street. FRI FRI Read by Laurel Lefkow FRI Abridged by Julian Wilkinson FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01g65gq (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gd3fj (Listen) FRI Tomorrow the Catwalk, Episode 5 FRI FRI Terry confronts Grant over the Burnsides' order and Katie's FRI release date is looming. FRI FRI Produced by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 11:00 The Ice Mountain b01g65gs (Listen) FRI This haunting soundscape follows the journey of a fictional FRI iceberg as it travels south into the North Atlantic after FRI calving from a glacier in Greenland. One hundred years ago FRI RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and FRI more than 1500 people died as a result of this collision. As FRI a result, the International Ice Patrol (I.C.P.) was formed FRI to monitors the ice conditions near the Grand Banks of FRI Newfoundland and warn mariners of the dangers that icebergs FRI present to safe navigation. Since the formation of the FRI I.C.P. no ship which has heeded their warnings has struck an FRI iceberg in the North Atlantic. Narrated by Adjoa Andoh and FRI with sound recordings by Chris Watson, the ICE MOUNTAIN FRI follows the journey of an iceberg; from creation to FRI destruction and recalls the events which led up to the FRI sinking of RMS Titantic. Each spring, huge numbers of FRI icebergs set off on a 'one way migration' south. How far FRI they travel and in which direction depends on their size, FRI shape, wind direction and strength, currents and tides. FRI During their journey the most astonishing groans, creaks and FRI growls can be heard as they heat up in the sun, crack and FRI melt or roll around in the waves. Writer and broadcaster FRI Tony Soper describes how birds including Glaucous gulls and FRI Kittiwakes, will use them as places to roost and fish. This FRI in turn will attract killer whales which feed on small fish FRI like Capelin. But for mariners, icebergs are to be avoided. FRI One of the most dangerous aspects is that most of the body FRI of the berg is below the surface. About 1/10th is above FRI water and the rest below. "There's nothing, almost nothing FRI you can do to control its behaviour, to determine what it's FRI going to do, and it is just a force of nature." FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 11:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00r7n2p (Listen) FRI Series 4, Milton Jones - Mathematical Genius! FRI FRI Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his field, FRI with no ability whatsoever. FRI FRI Milton is a mathematical whiz-kid who gets tied up in knots FRI and rings trying to solve the equation of the mysteriously FRI disappearing geniuses. FRI FRI With Tom Goodman-Hill, Lucy Montgomery, Ben Willbond. FRI FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01g65gv (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01g65gx (Listen) FRI Gender and identity: Michelle and Cilla FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today Humberside transsexual Michelle FRI discusses her life as a woman with her best friend Cilla. FRI More from the Listening Project at 4.55pm this afternoon. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01fqtbn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01g9fl0 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g65gz (Listen) FRI Swordplay and Swagger FRI FRI Programme 5. SWORDPLAY AND SWAGGER - The essential FRI accoutrements of any self-respecting gentleman illustrate FRI the extent of violence in Elizabethan London - both onstage FRI and off. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01g64jz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01g65h1 (Listen) FRI My One and Only FRI FRI by Dawn King. A dark thriller about obsessive love and FRI modern technology. FRI FRI Layla ..... Katherine Parkinson FRI Noah ..... Carl Prekopp FRI Ben ..... Simon Bubb FRI Amy ..... Victoria Inez Hardy FRI Katy ..... Alex Rivers FRI Florist ..... Francine Chamberlain FRI Mhairi ..... Tracy Wiles FRI Jeroen ..... Adam Billington FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01g65h3 (Listen) FRI Cannock Wood, Staffordshire FRI FRI The panel visit a gardening group near Rugeley for some FRI gardening trouble-shooting. FRI In addition, we've a round-up of this year's National FRI Gardening Week. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon & Robert Abel FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Made in Bristol b01g65h5 (Listen) FRI Hood FRI FRI A man walks through the city late at night. He hears FRI footsteps, sees a figure behind him. It's dark, he's alone, FRI and there's only one way this can end. Edson Burton has FRI written a gripping, atmospheric story that explores the FRI power of sound to drive the imagination. FRI FRI Edson Burton is a poet, playwright, performer, storyteller FRI and historian who has written five plays for BBC radio. Last FRI Autumn a theatrical staging of his first poetry collection, FRI Seasoned, opened in Bristol on the same night as his new FRI play, Raising Kamila. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01g65h7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01g65h9 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01g65hc (Listen) FRI Compulsion: Barbara and Becky FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation. Barbara talks to her best friend Becky about FRI her obsessive condition of hair-pulling and how it's deeply FRI affected her life. There's a final visit to the Listening FRI Project tonight at 1155pm. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01g65hf (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's FRI news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01fqtbq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01g65l0 (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01g65l2 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01g65l4 (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actress FRI Barbara Windsor. FRI FRI Producer Erin Riley. FRI FRI 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g65gz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01g65tg (Listen) FRI Coventry FRI FRI Nick Robinson chairs a panel discussion of news and politics FRI from Ash Green School and Arts College, Coventry. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01g65tj (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00tmtnf (Listen) FRI Siege FRI FRI Peter and Veronica Pleasance are residents of Skylarks FRI Residential Home for the Elderly. They haven't spoken to FRI their high-flying son - Managing Director of Trixel FRI Technologies - for over twenty years. When one of his FRI employees, Oludayo Akano is kidnapped in Nigeria, son Jerome FRI Akano decides it is time for some action. FRI FRI Along with his friends Damien (trying to make a name for FRI himself as an activist) and Chalky (along for the ride), FRI they attack the residential home in order to hold Peter and FRI Veronica Pleasance ransom in the name of Akano. FRI FRI Siege - which came from an idea by writer Francesca Joseph, FRI was developed through a series of improvisation workshops FRI with the cast, who provided the dialogue for the piece. FRI FRI This fast-moving tragi-comic piece hurtles towards a FRI surprising climax. FRI FRI Siege by Francesca Joseph, improvised by the cast. FRI FRI Peter ..... Karl Johnson FRI Veronica ..... Marlene Sidaway FRI Jack ..... David Hargreaves FRI Leo ..... Peter Martin FRI Tracy ..... Christine Brennan FRI Jerome ..... Nathan Stewart-Jarrett FRI Damien ..... Danny Dalton FRI Chalky ..... Stefan Gumbs FRI PC Singh ..... Muzz Khan FRI FRI Director Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01fqtbs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01g65tl (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01g65tn (Listen) FRI The House on Paradise Street, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sofka Zinovieff's novel is set in contemporary Athens, but FRI its story goes back to the bitter political divisions in FRI post-war Greece. When Maud's Greek husband, Nikitas, is FRI killed in a car crash, his mother Antigone decides to go FRI back to Athens after nearly sixty years of exile in Moscow. FRI As she and Maud begin to warm to each other, she opens up to FRI Maud about the events of the Nazi occupation that lay at the FRI heart of the family's troubled history. FRI FRI Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01g9c4w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ghgyw (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01g65tq (Listen) FRI Growing old: Joan and Jim FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation. Tonight Joan and Jim from Northern Ireland FRI discuss growing old together, and the end of life. And you FRI can hear an omnibus edition of all today's conversations, FRI plus an extra encounter, on Sunday at 2.45pm. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI
13 April, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 14/04/2012 - 20/04/2012
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