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SAT SATURDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01c7xgw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01cpy0w (Listen) SAT What the Grown-Ups Were Doing, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Michele Hanson. SAT Read by Rebecca Front. SAT SAT Fleeing suburbia for Art School brings liberation in many SAT guises. SAT SAT The genteel suburbia of Northwest London in the 1950s is the SAT setting for this memoir of an only child whose Jewish mother SAT had loudly held opinions on everything from the stinginess SAT of her neighbours to the bowel movements of her entire SAT family. Negotiating adolescence was never going to be easy. SAT SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01c7xgy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01c7xh0 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01c7xh2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01c7xh4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01c7xqk (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. SAT From Wales, with the Rev.Mary Stallard. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01c7xqm (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01c7xh6 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01c7xh8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01c7sn5 (Listen) SAT Inspirational Walks, Storytelling in Cornwall SAT SAT In the third in a series of inspirational walks for SAT Ramblings, Clare Balding is in Cornwall where she is joined SAT by writer and storyteller, Anna Maria Murphy. Inspired by SAT the story of Mary Kelynack, an 84 year old Cornish fishwife SAT who walked from Newlyn to London in 1851, Anna decided to SAT walk all over Cornwall meeting people along the way and SAT gathering stories to inspire her writing. Using ancient SAT routes and seldom used footpaths, Anna set off with a SAT notebook and pen and describes her journey as possibly the SAT single most inspirational thing she has ever done in her SAT life. SAT Today, Clare joins Anna to walk from the small coastal SAT fishing town of Looe to Polperro, the village where Anna was SAT born. Although this route usually forms part of the popular SAT South West Coast Path, Clare and Anna choose to head inland SAT following woodland footpaths and the 'roads less travelled' SAT of Cornwall before heading to Talland Bay where they pick up SAT the coast path for the last section of the walk. Who will SAT they meet along the way? SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01cj1lk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT This week the Environment Agency announced south east SAT England would join most of East Anglia in drought. Charlotte SAT Smith visits Northamptonshire, where the last 16 months have SAT been the driest on record. A big hole which farmer Duncan SAT Farrington digs for her, in one of his oilseed rape fields, SAT shows exactly why he is concerned about where his crops will SAT get their water from later in the spring. The UK's Global SAT Food Champion explains why he thinks farmers need to adopt SAT more radical ideas to save water. And, if water scarcity SAT intensifies, could water footprinting become as familiar an SAT idea as carbon footprinting? SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith SAT Producer: Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01c7xhd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01cj1lm (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01cj1lp (Listen) SAT Lucie Green, Salena Godden, Martyn Ware, Chrissie SAT Wellington, Diane Blood, height theorist, John Bercow SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles with astronomer Dr Lucie Green, poet Salena SAT Godden, Diane Blood who made legal history 15 years ago by SAT fighting for the right to bear her dead husband's children, SAT and super athlete Chrissy Wellington who's 4 times winner of SAT the female Iron Man triathlon, a Daytrip to Sheffield with SAT The Human League/Heaven 17's Martyn Ware, a man who has a SAT theory about height and school uniform and the Inheritance SAT Tracks of Speaker of The House of Commons John Bercow. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01cj1lr (Listen) SAT Ashoka's India; Undesirable Places SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig hears about a lost Emperor of India: Ashoka SAT ruled the subcontinent about 2,200 years ago and left many SAT pillars and rocks carved with his edicts. Historian Charles SAT Allen went in search of the legacy of this once great SAT Emperor a journey which took him to some of the remoter SAT parts of the country. Writer Tim Moore and webmistress Cathy SAT Shaw both have an interest in visiting some of the least SAT attractive sounding places in Britain and have made many SAT trips to find out if the reputations of towns like SAT Middlesbrough and Scunthorpe for being undesirable SAT destinations are justified. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01cj1lt (Listen) SAT Faith SAT SAT The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging SAT collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides SAT an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who SAT assembled it. SAT SAT In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz encounters SAT dozens of these unique objects - some priceless, others no SAT more than souvenirs - each shedding light on our SAT relationship with the monarchy and giving a glimpse into the SAT essential ingredients of a successful sovereign. SAT SAT A thousand years of monarchical history tell us that one SAT crucial relationship for a monarch is with the church. In SAT today's programme, Will sees how hard successive rulers have SAT worked to make sure religion stayed on their side. It has SAT not always been easy. The relationship with the church has SAT through the centuries been so fraught as to threaten the SAT survival of a sovereign. SAT SAT Will begins with an object used - only for a brief but SAT crucial moment - in the coronation of the present Queen, SAT then encounters an object that dates from the time of SAT William the Conqueror and that has anointed some of SAT England's most famous Kings and Queens in the eyes of God. SAT He reads Henry VIII's robust defence of the Catholic faith, SAT written just a few years before political expediency drove SAT him to break with the Papacy; and sees a landscape painting SAT that provides a possible insight into the private faith of SAT Queen Victoria. SAT SAT Along the way, Will enlists the help of curators from the SAT Royal Collection, Lord Indarjit Singh, historians Sir SAT Diarmaid MacCulloch, Anna Whitelock and the Archbishop of SAT Canterbury, Rowan Williams. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01cj1rs (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01cj1rv (Listen) SAT Andrew Harding's in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia -- how SAT impressed have they been there with the international SAT gathering in London this week aimed at restoring stability SAT to their country? Gerry Northam's in Japan where, a year SAT after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, they're SAT wondering whether to dump nuclear power altogether. David SAT Willis is looking at a ninety-year-old murder mystery in the SAT Hollywood hills. An extraordinary tableau's revealed in a SAT Cairo bar: Sara Hashash meets a soldier who, on his days SAT off, joins demonstrators throwing stones at the military! SAT And Aleem Maqbool examines Pakistan's system of government SAT from Mirpur, a town they call: Little Britain. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01cj1rx (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01c7x4w (Listen) SAT Series 36, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt is joined by Jon Culshaw, Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes, SAT Laura Shavin and Paul Sinha for a topical tour of the week's SAT news. SAT SAT Producer Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01c7xhg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01c7xhj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01c7xfg (Listen) SAT Long Eaton, Nottingham SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Trent College, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, with SAT Education minister, Sarah Teather; Shadow minister, Michael SAT Dugher; businesswoman, Nickki King; and writer and SAT broadcaster, Kenan Malik. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01cj1rz (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01cj1s1 (Listen) SAT Noughts and Crosses SAT SAT by Malorie Blackman, dramatised for radio by Janice Okoh SAT SAT Callum and Sephy have known each other since they were SAT babies, when his Mum worked for hers. But Callum is a Nought SAT - a second class citizen - and Sephy a Cross, one of the SAT elite. Her father is also one of the country's leading SAT policiticians. No matter how much they may want to be SAT together, the world is telling them they can't. And soon SAT bigger things will prevail. Like the bombing.......... SAT SAT Sephy ..... Zawe Ashton SAT Callum ..... Rikki Lawton SAT Meggie/Jasmine ..... Adjoa Andoh SAT Ryan/Andrew Dorn ..... Carl Prekopp SAT Jude ..... Alex Lanipekun SAT Lynette/Sarah ..... Tracy Wiles SAT Kamal ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Kelani Adams ..... Nikki Amuka Bird SAT Mr Pingule ..... Israel Oyelumade SAT Mr Stoll ..... Richard Pepple SAT Soanes ..... Gerard McDermott SAT Shania ..... Victoria Inez Hardy SAT SAT Director/Producer Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01cj2bk (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: London Fashion Week SAT SAT London Fashion Week - does the industry protect its models SAT and the business of fashion forecasting.The fall of the SAT Alpha Male and the rise of the Beta Age. Can three minutes SAT of vigorous exercise a week really keep you healthy? The SAT charity tackling unsporting behaviour on the sidelines by SAT parents and music from the legendary Joan Baez and the SAT rapper Speech Debelle. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01cj2hd (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT Presented by Carolyn Quinn. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01c7srg (Listen) SAT Selling expertise SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Evan and three top executives discuss the curiosities of SAT selling their expertise, knowledge the customer doesn't SAT have. If consumers are in a state of relative ignorance, how SAT can they shop around? What stops them getting ripped off? SAT They also swap thoughts on religion in the workplace. SAT SAT Joining Evan are Heather McGregor, managing director of SAT headhunters Taylor Bennett; Rupert Soames, chief executive SAT of mobile energy company Aggreko; Gavin Oldham, chief SAT executive of retail stockbroker The Share Centre. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01c7xhl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01c7xhn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01c7xhq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01cj2hg (Listen) SAT Clive will be scratching an itch with broadcaster Simon SAT Mayo, whose new children's book is inspired by his son's SAT love of reading and science. Itchingham Lofte is a fourteen SAT year old science nut who discovers a rock that, in the wrong SAT hands, could cause untold havoc across the world. SAT SAT Journalist and presenter Michael Mosley will be sprinting in SAT to talk to Clive about his current fitness regime, SAT consisting of just three minutes of high intensity training SAT per week! Forget about spending hours in the gym or jogging, SAT Michael's BBC Two programme explains how in 'Horizon: The SAT Truth About Exercise' on Tuesday 28th February at 21.00. SAT SAT Arthur Smith tickles the ivories with comedian and pianist SAT Rainer Hersch. His new London show is a tribute to one of SAT the world's greatest comedy entertainers Victor Borge, whose SAT life is retold and his hilarious act re-imagined by his SAT natural successor. 'Rainer Hersch's Victor Borge' is at SAT Jermyn Street Theatre, London from 6th to 31st March. SAT SAT Clive's on a Big Night Out with comedian Simon Day, whose SAT 'Fast Show' comedy creations include blazer wearing, deadpan SAT entertainer 'Tommy Cockles' and the 'Competitive Dad'. SAT Simon's autobiography 'Comedy and Error' tells the story of SAT his past addictions, homelessness and his successful career SAT as a comedian. SAT SAT With music from the Mercury nominated Portico Quartet SAT featuring Swedish singer Cornelia who perform 'Steepless' SAT from their self-titled album. SAT SAT And our prayers are answered when singer-songwriter Ed SAT Laurie performs 'East Wind' from his album 'Cathedral'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01cj2hj (Listen) SAT Series 11, Episode 7 SAT SAT John Godber's topical drama is inspired by this week's news. SAT Two gravediggers (Mark Addy and Dicken Ashworth) contemplate SAT the ideal Sunday newspaper. SAT SAT Mark Addy is currently starring in Collaborators at The SAT National Theatre and Dicken Ashworth stars in Three Days in SAT May at Trafalgar Studios. John Godber is one of the most SAT performed playwrights in English and has won many awards for SAT his work on stage, film and television. SAT SAT To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, SAT our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major SAT story from the week's news. The form and content are SAT entirely lead by the news topic - an instant reaction to the SAT mood of the moment. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01cj2hl (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Deborah Moggach, Paul Morley SAT and Kevin Jackson review the week's cultural highlights SAT including Capital by John Lanchester. SAT SAT The Bomb: A Partial History at the Tricycle Theatre in SAT London is a series of ten specially commissioned short plays SAT on the subject of nuclear proliferation. It includes work by SAT Zinnie Harris, David Greig and John Donnelly. SAT SAT The action in John Lanchester's novel centres around the SAT people living and working in a well-to-do London street - SAT Pepys Road - in the months leading up to the banking crash SAT of 2008. The characters include a banker, a Polish builder, SAT a Premiership footballer and a Zimbabwean asylum seeker SAT working as a traffic warden. SAT SAT Woody Harrelson stars as a corrupt LA cop - Dave Brown - in SAT Oren Moverman's film Rampart. Brown is under investigation SAT after savagely beating a motorist who crashed into his SAT patrol car, but he is unrepentant and both his personal and SAT professional life are out of control. SAT SAT Paula Milne's BBC2 drama series White Heat traces the lives SAT of a group of seven friends who first meet as students SAT sharing a flat in London in 1965. It stars Claire Foy, Sam SAT Claflin and Juliet Stevenson. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01cj2lf (Listen) SAT The Politics of Art SAT SAT This "Archive on 4" uses the fortieth anniversary of John SAT Berger's ground-breaking BBC-2 series on art and society - SAT called "Ways of Seeing" - and Tim Marlow's extensive SAT knowledge and popular appeal to do three things. SAT SAT First, to show how the programmes challenged, in a SAT revolutionary way, how we think about paintings and SAT understand them. Secondly, to reveal how they contributed SAT significantly to broader social change by offering a SAT compelling new approach to understanding the relationship SAT between painting and wider society. And, thirdly, to SAT consider what the legacy of the series has been for public SAT awareness of art. SAT SAT John Berger's decision to wear brightly coloured, SAT open-necked shirts was arresting enough. But it was his SAT opening-frame vandalism of Botticelli's celebrated canvas SAT "Venus and Mars" from the National Gallery which broke new SAT ground. It argued that paintings had been stripped of their SAT context to raise money through sales of reproductions. It SAT also amounted to a wider, devastating critique of SAT money-grubbing by the previously unassailable SAT taxpayer-supported galleries. SAT SAT In the febrile political and social atmosphere of the early SAT Seventies in Britain, "Ways of Seeing" argued powerfully, as SAT we hear in extracts from across the programmes, for SAT understanding art in a far more political way. Tim shows how SAT "Ways of Seeing" was engaged, passionate and up-to-date, SAT explicitly seeking out the opinions of those - notably women SAT and children - whose views had until then been largely SAT ignored. SAT SAT Tim also considers the wider legacy of the series. In SAT particular, he demonstrates that Berger's pot-stirring SAT approach changed the way art is understood. As we again live SAT through leaner economic times, Tim finds out how far the SAT message of this series is newly pertinent. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Coates. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01c6trt (Listen) SAT Gulliver's Travels, Episode 3 SAT SAT Jonathon Swift's classic satire, in a brand new SAT dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who]. SAT SAT The last voyages of Jonathan Swift's story are the lesser SAT told. Gulliver finds himself on the floating Island of SAT Laputa, where he encounters mad scientists and the SAT terrifying ghosts of the great and the good. He flees from SAT these intellectual and spiritual horrors, only to finally SAT find a kind of Eden with the Houyhnhnms, a race of SAT intelligent and gentle horses. However, in this land, humans SAT - or as they are called, the 'Yahoos' - are considered SAT vermin. The dark and traumatizing experiences Gulliver has SAT in this land change his life (and his wife and family's SAT lives) forever. With the satire here focused on crazy SAT scientific experimentation, superstition, and finally SAT spiritual desolation - Gulliver's Travels is as modern and SAT potent now as it has ever been. SAT SAT Gulliver's Travels stars Arthur Darvill as Gulliver. Other SAT members of the company are Matthew Gravelle, Sam Dale, SAT Bethan Walker, Judith Faultless, Richard Nicol, Chris Pavlo, SAT Claire Cage, Lynne Seymour, Gareth Pierce, Ewan Bailey and SAT Phoebe Waller-Bridge. SAT SAT Gulliver's Travels is adapted for radio by Matthew SAT Broughton, and is a BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by SAT Sam Hoyle. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01c7xhs (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01c7rql (Listen) SAT University admissions SAT SAT When The Office for Fair Access (OFFA), the public body that SAT promotes fair access to higher education, was created it was SAT immediately dubbed by cynics as "Off-Toff". Those critics SAT would say their fears have been justified with the SAT appointment of its new chief "university access tsar" SAT Professor Les Ebden who has threatened to use OFFA's power SAT to impose huge financial penalties on universities that fail SAT to do enough to open their doors to undergraduates from SAT disadvantaged homes. Depending on your educational SAT background that's either an ad hominem argument, or playing SAT the man rather than the ball. The moral battle that SAT universities find themselves in the centre of is meritocracy SAT verses social engineering. OFFA supporters say our SAT universities, especially Oxbridge and the so called Russell SAT Group are becoming dominated by those from wealthy and SAT privileged backgrounds. They want more use of "contextual SAT data" about applicant's backgrounds and even lower grades SAT for some state pupils to promote social mobility and justice SAT - especially when a steep rise in tuition fees and cuts in SAT places is making it harder to get a place at all. The SAT "Off-Toff" camp says this kind of interference will SAT undermine the academic excellence of one of our last truly SAT world class sectors at a time when as a nation we need to be SAT investing in our intellectual capital to compete with SAT countries like India, China and Brazil and to produce SAT graduates who see their education as a career-changing SAT improvement rather than a lifestyle choice. Or is this SAT treating the symptom and not the cause - a state education SAT system that's lost sight of the quest for academic SAT excellence and is not producing what top universities are SAT looking for and a society that likes to think its SAT meritocratic, but is still beset with class envy and SAT division? And while both sides fight over the position of SAT the educational goalposts parents are left wondering how to SAT do the best for their children. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01c7ncn (Listen) SAT (15/17) SAT The third semi-final of the grand-daddy of general knowledge SAT quizzes features competitors from Windsor, Glasgow, SAT Tottenham and Farnsfield in Nottinghamshire. Each of them SAT has come unscathed through the heats stage, and now plays SAT for a place in the grand 2012 Final the week after next. SAT SAT Russell Davies puts questions from every conceivable field SAT of knowledge. Which war was formally ended by the Treaty of SAT Paris of 1856? In the Beatles' first film 'A Hard Day's SAT Night', which Irish-born actor played the grandfather? SAT SAT As always, there's also a chance for a listener to win a SAT prize with his or her suggestions for fiendish questions to SAT defeat the contestants' combined brainpower. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01c6try (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry asked for by SAT listeners, including this week poems by Brian Patten and SAT Thomas Hardy. There is also a special focus on the work of SAT the late Christopher Logue, a friend and inspiration to both SAT Brian Patten and Roger himself. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01chz9v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Under the Skin b01cj384 (Listen) SUN Another Life SUN SUN Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South SUN Asian Literature Festival, which is staged in London and SUN across the United Kingdom. The relationship between the SUN English language, its literary tradition and writers from SUN South Asia has become an exciting and enduring part of SUN British literary life. The Festival celebrates writers from SUN South Asia and British Asian writing, equally, reflecting SUN the diversity of themes, subjects and literary forms that SUN constitute South Asian writing in 2012. SUN SUN Under the Skin features three stories by British Asian SUN writers. Resma Ruia's Another Life focuses on the SUN restlessness of an Asian businessman who visited Manchester SUN as a young man on his way to America - but never left. SUN SUN Lyndam Gregory, Deni Francis and Najma Khan are the readers. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01chz9x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01chz9z (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01chzb1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01chzb3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01cj388 (Listen) SUN The bells from St Michael's in Mottram in Longdendale, SUN Greater Manchester. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01c7rqn (Listen) SUN Robin Gorna SUN SUN Robin Gorna, who has spent 26 years working globally to SUN combat AIDS, fears that at a time when we know how to deal SUN with the problem, we are losing the political will to tackle SUN it. She sees finances drying up, and stigma, prejudice and SUN an unwillingness to engage with social and sexual aspects of SUN the illness preventing millions from getting access to the SUN treatment and care they need. Robin Gorna believes there is SUN a real opportunity to end the epidemic, and she blames short SUN attention spans and the wrong actions for the fact that it SUN is still on the increase. Four Thought is a series of talks SUN in which speakers give a personal viewpoint recorded in SUN front of an audience at the RSA in London. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01chzb5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01cj38b (Listen) SUN I'm a Number, Not a Man SUN SUN In a society based on managerial principles, is it possible SUN that our numbers count more than our names? SUN Jo Fidgen explores challenges to our sense of self. SUN SUN She talks to an American man known as Benjaman who was found SUN suffering from amnesia with no personal identification on SUN him and, without a social security number, no means of SUN re-engaging with society. And she also references the SUN writings of, among others, WH Auden, George Orwell and Jose SUN Saramago, with music by Erik Satie, the Kinks and SUN Shostakovich. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01cj38d (Listen) SUN Winter Flies SUN SUN Where do flies go to in the winter? It's a question often SUN asked and in Living World this week, Miranda Krestovnikoff SUN is in search of answers. Her guide is Erica McAlister, the SUN Collections Manager of Diptera (two-winged flies) at SUN London's Natural History Museum. The location is an SUN ice-bound pool and woodland near Kidderminster where the SUN conditions look anything but favourable. When they arrive SUN nothing is flying, but Erica's backpack suction sampler SUN (what she calls her "ghostbuster gear") reveals a host of SUN metallic greenish flies hiding under the leaves of a tussock SUN sedge. These are known as "dollies" to fly experts..easier SUN to say than dolichopodids! SUN SUN These dollies are expert dancers and Erica explains that SUN they can be seen on most garden ponds in summer when the SUN males pose on the surface film and wave their wings to flirt SUN with females and threaten other males. SUN SUN As indicators of good habitat, flies are excellent says SUN Erica. With over 7500 species in the UK they outnumber SUN butterflies, moths and beetles and get into every niche, so SUN if you want to study the health of a habitat look for its SUN diversity of flies. SUN SUN Producer: Brett Westwood SUN Editor: Julian Hector. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01chzb7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01chzb9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01cj438 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01cj43b (Listen) SUN The Rainforest Foundation SUN SUN Trudie Styler presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The SUN Rainforest Foundation. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 7391285 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN The Rainforest Foundation. SUN SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN THE RAINFOREST FOUNDATION SUN SUN The Rainforest Foundation supports indigenous peoples and SUN traditional populations of the world's rainforest in their SUN efforts to protect their environment and fulfil their rights SUN to land, life and livelihood. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01chzbc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01chzbf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01cj43d (Listen) SUN What is Freedom? SUN SUN The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is the SUN preacher in the first of this year's Lent services taking SUN the theme of the Way to Freedom. Live from the King's School SUN Canterbury and led by the Senior Chaplain, the Revd Fredrik SUN Arvidsson, with the Chapel Choir directed by Howard Ionascu. SUN Organist: David Newsholme. Producer:Stephen Shipley. SUN Download web resources specially written for the series from SUN the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland website. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01c7xfj (Listen) SUN A History of Monetary Unions SUN SUN David Cannadine reflects on the history of monetary unions SUN and what causes them to succeed or fail. Ancient Greece SUN turns out to be a pioneer, whereas modern Greece has posed a SUN threat to any monetary union it has joined. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01cj43g (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01cj43j (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Nawal Gadalla SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas 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 Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Bert Horrobin ..... Martyn Read SUN Kylie Richards ..... Leah Brotherhead. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01cj4ky (Listen) SUN Brian Moore SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the former rugby player and SUN commentator Brian Moore. SUN SUN As a player he was ferociously competitive, he says his SUN approach to the game was almost pathological and it earned SUN him the nickname 'the pitbull'. SUN SUN By the time he retired, he'd earned dozens of England caps SUN and played in three grand slams. But he discovered the SUN obsessive determination he'd shown as a player was not so SUN useful off the pitch. SUN SUN "In sport, the 'I won't give up', 'carry on training' and SUN 'going again and again and again', that's rewarded because SUN people say isn't that fantastic - but when it comes to SUN normal life, you can't solve everything like that." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01c7ncx (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 3 SUN SUN Chairman Nicholas Parsons endeavours to find out who has the SUN greatest gift of the gab. SUN SUN Panellists Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary and SUN Charles Collingwood have to speak on a variety of subjects SUN given to them by Nicholas. They must speak for 60 seconds on SUN that subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation - a SUN task much more difficult than it sounds. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01cj83h (Listen) SUN Britain's Food Safety Net SUN SUN Who makes sure our food is safe and how? A report on SUN Britain's food safety net. SUN SUN The Food Standards Agency is reviewing who makes sure our SUN food is safe and how that work is carried out. SUN SUN Currently the UK's 434 local authorities employ 2800 people SUN to police our food. With with austerity measures underway SUN there's now less money to spend on those services and SUN budgets for Environmental Health, Trading Standards and SUN public analysis are coming under pressure. SUN SUN It's resulted in food sampling rates and the number of SUN inspections on businesses coming down. Professor Erik SUN Millstone, an expert on the UK's food safety system, SUN believes this could result in an increase in risk from food SUN borne illness. SUN SUN Already rates of Campylobacter, a bacterial form of food SUN poisoning, are on the rise and so any future safety regime SUN will have that as one of its main priorities. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon interviews Tim Smith, Chief Executive of the SUN Food Standards Agency, about the cuts, the FSA's review and SUN if economic pressures could lead to an increase in risk to SUN our health. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01chzbk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01cj83k (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Battle for Egypt b01cj83m (Listen) SUN A year after President Mubarak of Egypt was brought down by SUN 18 days of street protest, the army, then hailed as heroes SUN for defending the revolution, are now seen by many as SUN villains. Despite almost daily street protests calling on SUN them to step down, the generals are still running the SUN country. They say they'll handover power once a new SUN president has been elected in the summer. SUN SUN When they do hand over it will be to a government that's SUN likely to be dominated by Islamists, who won around 70 per SUN cent of the seats in parliament in recent elections. The SUN young activists who drove the revolution find themselves on SUN the political fringes, with only a handful of seats in SUN parliament and lacking a unified organisation. SUN SUN Magdi Abdelhadi, who reported from Cairo during the final SUN tumultuous days of President Mubarak's 30-year rule, returns SUN to assess who's winning the struggle in a three-way battle SUN for power in Egypt between the army, the Islamists and the SUN revolutionaries. SUN SUN Interviewees include: Shady El Ghazaly Harb, one of the SUN revolutionaries; Mohamed Ghozlan, spokesman for the Moslem SUN Brotherhood; former military intelligence officer General SUN Sameh Seif Al-Yazal; historian Khamal Famy; Julie Hughes of SUN the National Democratic Institute. SUN SUN The producer is Tim Mansel. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01d167g (Listen) SUN Saltash, Cornwall SUN SUN Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank are on SUN the panel. Eric Robson chairs. SUN SUN Matt James explores how the slag heaps around Cornwall's SUN polluted and now defunct tin mines are being cleaned up and SUN replanted as a massive new park. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Key Matters b00tt5jf (Listen) SUN Series 2, E Minor SUN SUN In this second series of Key Matters, presenter Ivan Hewett SUN explores the question of why certain musical keys have SUN become associated with particular moods. For example, why is SUN A major almost always employed by composers to write SUN optimistic, even ecstatic music? And how has E minor become SUN the key of choice for portraying menace and tragedy? SUN SUN Cellist and composer Philip Sheppard defines the qualities SUN of E minor on Wednesday with music ranging from Brahms, SUN Elgar and Shotakovich to The Clash. SUN SUN Produced in Birmingham by Rosie Boulton. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01cj83p (Listen) SUN The Cruel Sea, Episode 1 SUN SUN Dramatised by John Fletcher. SUN 1 of 2. SUN The first part of Nicholas Monsarrat's searing classic novel SUN about the men and ships who fought who fought in the North SUN Atlantic during the 2nd World War. SUN SUN Lockhart ..... Gwilym Lee SUN Ericson ..... Jonathan Coy SUN Ferraby ..... Carl Prekopp SUN Wainwright ..... David Seddon SUN Phillips ..... Peter Hamilton-Dyer SUN Gregg ..... Harry Livingstone SUN Mavis ..... Tracy Wiles SUN Coxswain ..... James Lailey SUN Donnelly ..... Adam Billington SUN SUN Sound by Caleb Knightley SUN Directed by Marc Beeby SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01cj83r (Listen) SUN John Lanchester discusses his latest book Capital SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to John Lanchester about his new SUN novel Capital, which looks at the state of the nation SUN through the lives and stories of the residents of one SUN street. SUN SUN Recently there have been a number of authors who've hit back SUN publically after a review they haven't agreed with, SUN including the great American linguist and philosopher Noam SUN Chomsky, who published a retort to a review of his book SUN "Making the Future." So it is ever a good idea for writers SUN to respond to their critics? Author Terence Blacker SUN explores. SUN SUN Paris has famously been the inspiration and muse for many SUN artists and writers, from Sartre, Toulouse-Lautrec and SUN Renoir to Balzac, Colette and their literary counterparts SUN from around the world, people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, SUN James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. Another ex-pat drawn to SUN the city today is the Australian born writer and journalist, SUN John Baxter, whose book "The Most Beautiful walk in the SUN world" explores his own experiences of the French capital, a SUN journey that has led to him becoming a walking guide to SUN literary Paris. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN Capital by John Lanchester published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN Family Romance by John Lanchester published by Faber and SUN Faber SUN SUN Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay SUN published by Allen Lane SUN SUN The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester published by Picador SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of Capital by John Lanchester SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01cj83t (Listen) SUN More of listeners' poetry requests as Roger McGough, Martin SUN Jarvis and Susan Jameson present a mix of material including SUN an 18th century comic romp, some pieces of nostalgia and a SUN poem asked for by more listeners than any other. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01c7pr5 (Listen) SUN Diabetes SUN SUN New NHS research has revealed the shocking toll of SUN preventable deaths caused by just one medical condition. SUN Diabetes - in which the body fails to control blood sugar SUN levels safely - is causing 24,000 needless deaths a year in SUN England alone. SUN SUN It's not just the old and middle-aged who are at risk. Young SUN women with diabetes are 6 to 9 times more likely to die than SUN their age group overall. And many more young people who SUN don't die will develop life threatening diseases later due SUN to failure to manage their blood sugar. SUN SUN Badly controlled diabetes can lead to kidney disease, heart SUN conditions, or blindness. It's also the cause of 5,000 SUN amputations a year, mainly of legs or feet. With around 3 SUN million diagnosed sufferers known to the health service, SUN diabetes is said to be costing the NHS £9 billion a year, SUN about a tenth of the total health budget. SUN SUN Julian O'Halloran reveals why, despite Government pledges, SUN it's so difficult to get to grips with the disease. And, SUN with the incidence of diabetes rocketing, he asks whether SUN the NHS can cope. SUN SUN Producer - Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01cj2hj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01chzbm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01chzbp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01chzbr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01cj83w (Listen) SUN Sarah Montague makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN This week, Sarah Montague escapes the newsroom to go on a SUN hunt for the biggest trees in the world; to be inspired by SUN birds; and take a tour of the grandest streets of London. SUN After that we're bathing with a ferret, before lying back on SUN a few scatter cushions to listen to Van the Man and mull SUN over the choice of God or George Clooney? SUN SUN World at One Radio 4 SUN Nature Radio 4 SUN Inspired by birds Radio 3 SUN Julia George Water Radio Kent SUN PM Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: Number 10 Radio 4 SUN It's Not What You Know radio 4 SUN Wordaholics Radio 4 SUN My London World Service SUN Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: What the Grown Ups are Doing Radio 4 SUN One to One Radio 4 SUN Witness: Silent Films World Service SUN Oscar Sings Radio 4 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01cj83y (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b0129bpk (Listen) SUN Series 2, Us and Them and selected diary extracts SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SUN charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This SUN week, we learn no two families are ever alike in "Us and SUN Them" and we get a peep into the caustic mind of the author SUN when he reads selections from his extensive diaries. SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Sussex Scandals b01cjb66 (Listen) SUN Up and Down the Fire Escape SUN SUN Written by John Peacock. SUN SUN In his teens, Gerard O' Shea, lived innocently, through the SUN tempestuous affair of his mother, Katie O' Shea and Parnell SUN 'the uncrowned King of Ireland'. 50 years later Myrna Loy SUN and Clark Gable, unwittingly, help him to reach an SUN understanding of those days. SUN SUN These are three short stories narrated by characters SUN involved in notorious scandals that originated in Sussex: SUN Uppark (Lady Hamilton), Crawley (John George Haigh's girl SUN friend) and Brighton (Katie O' Shea's son, Gerard), ranging SUN from 1815 to 1953. The fall of a woman who revelled in her SUN scandals; another who was forced to face the truth that her SUN lover was a murderer; and the son of Katie O' Shea, SUN defending his father during his mother's notorious affair SUN with Charles Stewart Parnell. SUN SUN Read by Niall Buggy. SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01c7x4r (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01c7x4p (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN the war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed covering SUN the bombardment of Homs in Syria. We hear about her SUN dangerous career - and her love of sailing. SUN SUN the adventurer John Fairfax - he was the first man to row SUN solo across the Atlantic and then rowed across the Pacific SUN with Sylvia Cook. She tells me how they braved huge storms SUN and a shark attack. SUN SUN the military historian MRD Foot, who drew on his own SUN experiences in the SAS to become the official historian of SUN the Special Operations Executive SUN SUN And the comedian Frank Carson, who unified Northern Ireland SUN through laughter. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01cj1rx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01cj43b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01c7nd5 (Listen) SUN Profits Before Pay SUN SUN It may come as no great surprise that many of us have SUN experienced a wage squeeze, while the cost of living has SUN gone the other way, since the financial crisis of 2008. SUN However, as Duncan Weldon, a senior economist at the Trades SUN Union Congress, points out, wages for most people in the UK SUN began stagnating years before the crisis. SUN SUN We tend to think of the early 2000s as a time of relative SUN wealth: house prices were rising, credit flowed easily, the SUN government introduced a generous tax credit scheme and SUN people generally felt better off. But Duncan Weldon argues SUN these masked the reality of what was going on. SUN SUN Work done by the think tank The Resolution Foundation, which SUN focuses on those on low and modest incomes, shows that there SUN was almost no wage growth in the middle and below during the SUN five years leading up to 2008 and yet the economy grew by SUN 11% in that period. Others also point out that the share of SUN the national income which goes into wages, as opposed to SUN profits, has been decreasing since the mid-1970s. The SUN argument is that less of the economic pie is going into the SUN pockets of ordinary workers. SUN SUN What is also clear is that a disproportionate amount of the SUN economic wealth has been going to those at the top. The SUN earnings of the richest few per cent have increased rapidly SUN in the UK since the 1980s and that pattern accelerated in SUN the last ten years. In the United States that process began SUN earlier and has been more extreme. SUN SUN Some economists argue that this is not a problem in itself SUN as taxation, for example, helps to re-distribute the money SUN to the less well off or those with disadvantages. SUN SUN In Analysis Duncan Weldon asks why wages stopped rising in SUN the years before the crash and what was the driving force SUN for the squeeze? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01cjb68 (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 b01cjb6b (Listen) SUN Episode 92 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 b01c7sn7 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Woody Harrelson, who plays a violent SUN racist cop in his new film Rampart. It's been hailed by many SUN as one of the performances of the year. So why no Oscar nod? SUN He explains all. SUN SUN Also out this week is Black Gold, a vast sweeping epic which SUN tells the story of the discovery of oil in the Arab states SUN at the turn of the 20th century. Staring Mark Strong and SUN Antonio Banderas, the film is conspicuous in featuring no SUN Arab actors in the lead roles. One of the producers behind SUN the film Ali Jaafar, discusses the challenges of making a SUN movie set in the Arab world. SUN SUN Director Stephen Frears explains why Otto Preminger's Laura, SUN starring Gene Tierney, is one of his favourites from the SUN film noir genre. SUN SUN And ahead of the Academy Awards this weekend Francine speaks SUN to producer Sue Goffe and director Grant Orchard about their SUN Oscar-nominated short, A Morning Stroll. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01cj38b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01chzcg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01c7rq6 (Listen) MON In 1980 there were around 300,000 students in forty-six MON universities, now there are some two and a quarter million MON students studying in 130 universities across Britain. More MON people than ever before are receiving a university education MON but despite - or even because of this - there is enormous MON anxiety about the role that universities should play. Should MON they be judged on their contribution to the economy or on MON the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake? How can their MON 'impact' or success be measured? The intellectual historian MON Stefan Collini puts these debates in their historical MON context as he talks to Laurie about his new book, What Are MON Universities For? MON MON And why are we so fascinated with outlaws? Could it be that MON they offer an alternative way of life without the MON hierarchies and corporate power that seem to hold us back? MON Martin Parker, author of Alternative Business: Outlaws Crime MON and Culture thinks so. He discusses his work with Laurie and MON criminologist Dick Hobbs. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01cj388 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01chzcj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01chzcl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01chzcn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01chzcq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cjm45 (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. MON From Wales, with the Rev.Mary Stallard. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01cjm47 (Listen) MON Growing up on a farm, surrounded by muck, could be much MON better for you than living in a clean house. Researchers at MON the University of Bristol have compared piglets reared in a MON sanitised environment to those kept on a farm. They found MON that the farm animals have a better immune system - and this MON also correlates to humans. MON MON Food and farming is the biggest industry in the UK - but MON could it expand to aid the UK economy? Farming Minister, Jim MON Paice MP thinks that the industry can export more food to MON expand. Professor Tim Lang believes that there needs to be MON comprehensive investment in rural housing and agriculture MON colleges, and that farming can't be left to market forces. MON Lord Donald Curry believes that although UK agriculture MON could expand, farming will never become a dominant industry. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01chzcs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01cjm49 (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 b01cjm4c (Listen) MON Faith and Doubt: Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong, Jonathan MON Safran Foer and Helen Edmundson MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses faith and doubt. MON Richard Holloway started training for the priesthood from MON the age of 14, but as the former Bishop looks back on his MON life he reveals a restless spirit, always questioning his MON beliefs. Karen Armstrong has had similar crises of faith, MON and asks in a forthcoming talk, 'What is Religion?' For the MON 17th century Mexican nun, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, faith MON was wrapped up in her love of writing and poetry - her life MON is brought to the stage by the playwright Helen Edmundson. MON And Jonathan Safran Foer celebrates the Jewish text Haggadah MON which tells the story of the Exodus to the Promised Land. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01cjm4f (Listen) MON Wilkie Collins, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Peter Ackroyd. MON Read by Michael Pennington. MON MON Peter Ackroyd charts the life of Wilkie Collins. From his MON childhood as the son of an artist, to his struggles to MON become a writer, and his life-long friendship with Charles MON Dickens. MON MON Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, MON extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in MON colourful clothes, 'as if playing a certain part in the MON great general drama of life' Wilkie Collins looked MON distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, MON befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly MON attractive to women - and avidly read by generations of MON readers. MON MON Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, 'the sweetest-tempered of MON all the Victorian novelists', from his childhood as the son MON of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as MON writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with MON the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. A true MON Londoner, Collins, like Dickens, was fascinated by the MON secrets and crimes -- the fraud, blackmail and poisonings - MON that lay hidden behind the city's respectable facade. He was MON a fighter, never afraid to point out injustices and shams, MON or to tackle the establishment head on. MON As well as his enduring masterpieces, "The Moonstone" - MON often called the first true detective novel - and the MON sensational "Women in White," he produced an intriguing MON array of lesser known works. But Collins had his own MON secrets: he never married, but lived for thirty years with MON the widowed Caroline Graves, and also had a second liaison, MON as 'Mr and Mrs Dawson', with a younger mistress, Martha MON Rudd, with whom he had three children. Both women remained MON devoted as illness and opium-taking took their toll: he died MON in 1889, in the middle of writing his last novel - Blind MON Love. MON MON Told with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable verve this is a MON ravishingly entertaining life of a great story-teller, full MON of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding. MON MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cjm4h (Listen) MON Childcare Costs, Funny Women, Active Ageing MON MON The rising costs of childcare - we look at a new report from MON The Daycare Trust which shows how much parents are paying MON out to go to work. At the other end of the scale, we look at MON the growing numbers of people over 60 and hear arguments for MON better support for our ageing population taking priority MON over help with childcare costs. Despite a proliferation of MON professional funny women, it's men who dominate a shortlist MON for this year's Chortle comedy awards. Just two female MON comedians make it to the listing which runs to 13 separate MON categories. We talk to the man behind the awards and ask why MON women appear to have lost out. We look at the challenges MON that arise when same-sex couples enter into informal MON parenting agreements with donors in order to have a child. MON Are pre-conception agreements the answer to potential legal MON battles over the role of the parents involved? MON Producer Catherine Carr. MON Presenter Jane Garvey. MON MON The rising cost of childcare MON MON A new report from The Daycare Trust says the cost of MON childcare is yet again rising above the rate of inflation. MON What does this mean for parents who can’t afford not to MON work; and for those who’d like to return to work but would MON spend most of their wages on childcare if they did? We MON discuss with Kate Groucutt, Policy Director at The Daycare MON Trust, and Neil O’Brien, Director of think-tank Policy MON Exchange. MON MON Active Aging MON MON Why does our society treat older people as mere ‘problems’ MON to be dealt with, rather than individuals who are not so MON very different to their younger selves? With the number of MON people over 60 in the UK outnumbering those under 16 for the MON first time ever, should the creation of a modern support MON system for our ageing population be given political priority MON over childcare? MON MON Chortle Comedy Awards MON MON Over the last year or so, female comedians such as Miranda MON Hart, Sarah Millican and Josie Long have had a high profile, MON have sold DVDs by the truck-load and have starred in MON award-winning television shows. So why haven’t they made MON the Chortle comedy awards shortlist, which was released last MON week? There are 30 individual comedian nominations on that MON list, of which just two are for women – Susan Calman and MON Dana Alexander. In the remaining categories, the majority MON of acts nominated are exclusively male. Steve Bennett, the MON editor of Chortle, which describes itself as ‘The UK comedy MON guide’, joins Jane Garvey to explain how the panel of MON judges, which included more women than men, reached this MON male-heavy final list. MON MON Do same sex couples need pre-conception agreements? MON MON There are a growing number of same-sex couples entering into MON informal parenting agreements with donors, and a number of MON these deals have resulted in legal battles over the role of MON the parents involved. Most recently a gay man who donated MON his sperm to his lesbian ex-wife has asked for overnight and MON holiday contact with her son. The boy’s mother and her MON girlfriend say he has ‘betrayed’ a pact made before MON conception. MON So would this situation be one that could have been avoided MON if a pre-conception agreement had been drawn up between MON those involved? And with more alternative family MON arrangements being entered into do we need to talk in terms MON of primary and secondary parents? Jane is joined by actor MON Charlie Condou and family solicitor Linzi Bull to MON investigate. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cjm4k (Listen) MON Angarrack, Autumn MON MON Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around the MON future of a crumbling Cornish ancestral estate in the MON immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Sir Richard MON Penwerris (Richard Johnson), mired in debt, wishes to MON bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his MON wife, Lady Helen (Lia Williams) who plans to drag the MON estate, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. MON Matters are complicated further by the sudden emergence of MON an heir to the estate, Rafe Penwerris (Henry Hadden-Paton), MON whom his father believed to have died in the war. A clash of MON Titans ensues - with only one winner. MON MON Sir Richard Penwerris ..... Richard Johnson MON Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams MON Rafe ...... Harry Hadden-Paton MON Tregunna ....... Tony Haygarth MON Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton MON MON Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton MON Producer: Gordon House MON A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Recycled Radio b01cjm4m (Listen) MON Recycled Radio - old BBC programmes chopped up and recycled MON into something new, featuring the voices of Sheila Hancock, MON David Attenborough, Beryl Bainbridge, Matthew Parris, John MON Humphrys, Margaret Thatcher, Joe Queenan, Bill Clinton, MON Armando Iannucci, Jeremy Paxman and Gordon Brown on the MON theme of Failure. MON MON Failure is a subject we can all understand - the programme MON features quiz show contestants, divorcees, politicians, as MON well as an explanation of the the death of the dodo, and the MON voice of the man who discovered Scott's body in his tent in MON the Antarctic. But these are not stories told in a MON conventional sense - they have been chopped up and broken MON down, then placed against each other to create something MON new. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 Wordaholics b01cjm4p (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all MON about words. MON MON Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and MON comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat MON star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and MON Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. MON MON This week linguistic brainbox Natalie Haynes and poet MON Michael Rosen vie for wordy supremacy with comedians Arthur MON Smith and Paul Sinha. MON MON Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01cv9tp (Listen) MON The cost of residential care and expensive 'free' trials MON MON Should cafes and bars let you "spend a penny" without you MON having to spend a penny? Or is that an unfair burden on MON business? Is it fair for people who fund their own MON residential care to be charged hundreds of pounds a month MON more than local authority-funded residents for exactly the MON same service? And have you fallen victim to the face cream MON "free trial offer" that could cost you a packet? MON MON The presenter is Julian Worricker, the producer is Paul MON Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01chzcv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01cjm4r (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Sport and the British b01cjm4t (Listen) MON War Games MON MON Week five of the series that explores how sport made Britain MON and Britain made sport. In this episode Clare Balding visits MON The Imperial War Museum to discover the vital role sport has MON played, both on the battle field and on the home front, MON during both World Wars. She starts in the Hall of MON Remembrance in front of John Singer Sargent's, Gassed, an MON oil painting more than twenty feet long, depicting the MON aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World MON War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a MON dressing station. Yet in the background there are groups of MON men playing football. As Prof. Tony Collins of De Montfort MON University explains, sport became an essential part of army MON life, alleviating the boredom and the terror, by 1916 there MON was a football ground in each brigade area of the Western MON Front. MON During the Second World War, Prof Tony Mason explains the MON importance of sport to those captured and detained in German MON prisoner of war camps, with football, in particular being MON used as a way of providing entertainment for troops MON overseas. MON The series was made in partnership with The International MON Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort MON University, Leicester. MON The Reader is Alun Raglan MON Technical presentation: John Benton MON Producer: Garth Brameld. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01cj83y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01cjm4w (Listen) MON Stone, Sleep Tight MON MON Episode 1 MON MON Sleep Tight by Cath Staincliffe MON MON When two year old Brianna disappears one night from her MON family home, DCI Stone and his team are called upon to lead MON the investigation. The first of a new series of the MON intelligent detective series tackling morally ambiguous, MON complex and challenging subjects created by Danny MON Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. MON MON DCI STONE ... Hugo Speer MON DI MIKE TANNER ... Craig Cheetham MON DS SUE KELLY .. Deborah McAndrew MON CARA .. Rachel Austin MON JEN .. Sarah McDonald Hughes MON CROW/EDOZIE .. Chris Jack MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari MON Produced by Charlotte Riches MON MON A Radio Drama North Production. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01cjm4y (Listen) MON (16/17) MON The fourth and last semi-final of the 2012 series will MON determine who takes the remaining place in the grand Final. MON The competitors are from Reigate, Inverness, Disley in MON Cheshire and Neath in South Wales. MON MON Russell Davies asks the questions, which include: What's the MON name of the man-eating water monster who plagues the hall of MON King Hrothgar in the Old English poem Beowulf? And which MON sea-area in the Met Office shipping forecast extends MON furthest west? MON MON The answers could prove crucial in the contest to discover MON who'll take a step closer to the 2012 'Brain of Britain' MON title. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01cj83h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle b01cjm50 (Listen) MON A hundred years ago Edgar Rice Burroughs created the MON character of Tarzan who quickly became a global sensation - MON when the books were first adapted for the big screen in MON 1918, the resulting film was one of the first ever to take MON over a million dollars at the box office. Way ahead of his MON time, Burroughs ignored the advice of business 'experts' who MON told him not to roll out the character across different MON formats. By doing so, he was one of the true pioneers of the MON multi-media franchises that have since become the norm. MON MON Tarzan himself has been as troubling as he has been popular MON - the different characterisations that have appeared in the MON hundreds of books, films, radio shows, comic books, cartoons MON etc., make it very hard to pinpoint one single, authentic MON character. Some critics have derided him for his affirmation MON of white, colonial assumptions, while others have championed MON his eco-warrior credentials. One thing is for sure - with a MON range of new books and films appearing, the character of MON Tarzan has lost little of his original appeal. John Waite MON talks with, among others, James Sullos of ERB Inc., Desmond MON Morris to find out about the plausibility of the notion of a MON baby being raised by apes, and cultural historian Jeffrey MON Richards. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01cjm52 (Listen) MON Korea MON MON The death in December of Kim Jong Il, North Korea's "Dear MON Leader" has focused the spotlight on the affairs of one of MON the world's most secretive states. MON Kim Jong Il - and his father before him - had assumed the MON status of demi-gods. To follow any other religion risked MON imprisonment or worse. In today's "Beyond Belief" Ernie Rea MON asks what the implications of Kim Jong Il's death might be MON for religious freedom. MON By contrast, South Korea has some of the world's largest MON Christian congregations. And for centuries millions of MON Koreans, North and South, have followed Confucian, Buddhist MON and Shaman traditions. MON MON Joining Ernie for the discussion are James Grayson, Emeritus MON Professor of Modern Korean Studies at the University of MON Sheffield; Professor Sebastian Kim who holds the Chair in MON Theology and Public Life at York St John University; and Dr MON Jiyoung Song Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Lecturer MON at the National University of Singapore. MON MON 17:00 PM b01cjm54 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01chzcx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01cjm56 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 4 MON MON Panellists Paul Merton, Liza Tarbuck, Josie Lawrence and Kit MON Hesketh-Harvey join host Nicholas Parsons for the popular MON panel game where they have to speak on a given subject for MON sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON Devised by Ian Messiter. MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01cjm58 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01cjm5b (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on a new staging of MON The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams' opera about the MON killing of an American tourist by Palestinian hijackers. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cjm4k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Doctor - Tell Me the Truth b01cjm5d (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In the second part of Doctor Tell Me The Truth Prof Reason MON asks whether the University of Michigan programme could work MON in the NHS. Peter Walsh from Action Against Medical MON Accidents tells him of cases where doctors have been MON prevented from admitting their mistakes at the insistence of MON their managers. He introduces us to 'Robbie's Law', named MON after a boy who died as a result of medical malpractice, a MON piece of proposed legislation now being examined in the MON House of Lords which would require all NHS hospitals to MON adopt an open disclosure policy. Academics David Studdert MON and Alan Kalachian ask whether such a policy is legally MON enforceable or even desirable. Sir Liam Donaldson, a former MON Chief Medical Officer, tells us of his attempts to promote MON openness in the NHS and we hear from Robbie Powell's father MON who tells us that his twenty year legal battle could have MON been avoided if the doctors had only admitted their mistakes MON and apologised. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01cjm5g (Listen) MON America: The Right Way MON MON Justin Webb explores what the primaries reveal about the MON state of the right in the US. Is the Republican party really MON split? Has a radical wing taken over? What does the American MON right offer in the post financial crisis world -that might MON enthuse Americans and perhaps the rest of us too. And is the MON party ready to lead again. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01c7sn9 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper hears that men may not be heading for MON extinction after all! The male Y-chromosome is degenerate MON but, according to a new study, has been stable since we MON diverged from monkeys 25 million years ago. But the MON fundamental unit of mass, the kilogram, may not be stable. MON Attempts to redefine it in terms of fundamental constants MON are fraught with difficulty. But there is hope on the MON horizon for mimicking one of nature's greatest secrets, MON photosynthesis, the ability to turn sunshine into fuel. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Redefining the Kilogram MON MON The kilogramme is the last of the SI units – the fundamental MON units of measurement in science – to be defined by a MON physical artefact. It is a small lump of metal in a vault in MON Paris, and its mass is… exactly a kilogramme – by MON definition! But for some years efforts have been made around MON the world to instead couple the kilogramme to a more MON fundamental constant of nature. Dr Ian Robinson of the UK’s MON National Physical Laboratory has been working on one MON technique – the “Watt Balance†for some decades now, and has MON published a paper in the journal Metrologia which outlines MON how the new owners of the apparatus – Canada’s NRC-INMS – MON might make the leap in accuracy sufficient for us to define MON the kg not by the Paris prototype, but by a quantity known MON as Planck’s constant. That could happen in as little as two MON years. MON MON Men may not be doomed! MON MON The human Y-chromosome that carries the genes that determine MON the male sex has degenerated from that of our distant MON ancestors, but is the degeneration continuing, condemning MON males to eventual extinction? Not according to new research MON comparing us with monkeys whose evolutionary lineage MON diverged 25 million years ago. Dr Jennifer Hughes of the MON Whitehead Institute in Cambridge USA, lead author of the new MON study, in the journal ‘Nature’, discusses her results with MON geneticist Dr Max Reuter of UCL. MON MON Neutrinos probably don't break the cosmic speed limit MON MON Members of CERN's 'OPERA' experiment, who announced strange MON results last year that suggested that ghostly particles MON called neutrinos may travel fractionally faster than the MON speed of light have now issued a statement saying that they MON have identified two sources of possible error, one in an MON oscillator used to time-stamp the particles, the other a MON loose connection to a GPS receiver. Subject to further MON tests, this strange phenomenon may disappear, to the relief MON of many phsicists but the disappointment of those enjoying MON the challenge. Physics journalist Edwin Cartlidge comments. MON MON Fuel From Sunshine MON MON Photosynthesis is the secret to all life on earth. It is MON nature’s way of taking the energy from sunlight and storing MON it chemically for use later. At last week’s AAAS meeting, MON several teams from around the world outlined work aimed at MON creating some kind of “artificial leafâ€. On an industrial MON scale, such a thing would allow the creation of so called MON solar fuels – fuels which, unlike the electricity generated MON by a standard solar cell, would be storable, transportable MON and applicable to many of our energy needs. Glasgow MON University’s Solar Fuel Group are optimistic that their MON approach – a type of accelerated natural photosynthesis – MON might provide the way forward. But many different approaches MON are being explored, and many millions of pounds are being MON spent worldwide on this “holy grail†of energy research: the MON secrets of synthetic photosynthesis. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01cjm4c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01chzcz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01cjmjy (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01cjmk0 (Listen) MON Swimming Home, Episode 1 MON MON 'Life is only worth living because we hope it will get MON better and we'll all get home safely" MON MON When beautiful Kitty Finch lands in the middle of what seems MON a conventional holiday set up - two couples, one teenage MON daughter and a villa in the south of France - no-one quite MON knows the effect she will have, though at once the ground MON shifts. MON MON In the fierce heat of July, fissures yawn open, prised apart MON by Kitty's unsettling presence. Is she benign? What does she MON want? Is she an admiring fan or a darker foe? And who is MON keeping secrets, most of all from themselves? MON MON Deborah Levy's first novel in fifteen years has garnered MON much praise. Witty and acute by turn, its deceptively simple MON setting belies the fractured relationships and the sense of MON imminent chaos that threatens all the characters. In today's MON episode: 'There's something in the pool'. MON MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Produced by Di Speirs MON Directed by Elizabeth Allard MON The Reader is Juliet Aubrey MON MON 23:00 Miracles R Us b00sm8tq (Listen) MON Lot 243 MON MON Caroline's car gives up the ghost. It will cost more to have MON it mended than the business can afford. MON MON They have been asked to attend an auction at a country house MON to bid for a Lot for a client and Sylvia will drive them MON there in her car - a car Caroline knew nothing about. They MON turn left all the way. They find the client's item, but, MON also find Caroline's grand-mother's silver dressing table MON set, sold with everything else when her husband's fraud MON brought their lives crashing down. MON MON Whilst Caroline reflects with a cigarette outside she bumps MON into Lauren, soon to be ex-wife of the pop star who owns the MON house and all the contents that are being auctioned. The MON women, united by events, strike up a friendship. Meanwhile, MON Sylvia meets Lambourn the Gardener and they realise they are MON kindred spirits. MON MON Caroline..............................Deborah Findlay MON Sylvia..............................Anna Massey MON Lauren..............................Madeleine Bowyer MON Lambourn..............................Trevor Peacock MON Carl Bailey..............................Nigel Hastings MON Auctioneer..............................Michael Shelford MON MON Written by Lesley Bruce MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON Music and stings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: "When MON the Day is Done" and stings: "Time of No Reply" and "Cello MON Song". MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01cjmk2 (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01chzdm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01cjm4f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01chzdp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01chzdr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01chzdt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01chzdw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cmt11 (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. TUE From Wales, with the Rev.Mary Stallard. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01cjwt8 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01cjwtb (Listen) TUE Presented by James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including TUE Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01cvpyx (Listen) TUE Iain Chalmers TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to the pioneering health services TUE researcher, Iain Chalmers, who was one of the founders of TUE the Cochrane Collaboration. TUE TUE Once described by one writer as 'The Maverick Master of TUE Medical Evidence'. Iain Chalmers trained as a doctor, TUE eventually specialising in obstetrics. But early in his TUE career, he started to question the basis of everything he TUE was trained to do and this set him on a very different path: TUE to champion treatments based on the best available evidence, TUE first in his own field and then across healthcare. It's a TUE journey that has at times challenged the foundations of TUE medical practice. TUE TUE In 1992, he was appointed Director of the Cochrane Centre, TUE which led to the foundation of the Cochrane Collaboration, TUE dedicated to ensuring that patients, doctors and researchers TUE have access to unbiased information about the effectiveness TUE of healthcare interventions, across the world. TUE TUE Iain wants to reduce uncertainty in medicine or at the very TUE least, acknowledge where it exists, so that patients can TUE make sensible choices about their care. There are now 30,000 TUE Cochrane members world wide, from Brazil to Belgium. He's TUE been hugely influential both within medicine but across all TUE areas of social policy and the inspiration for a generation TUE of evidence-based, sceptical enquirers such as Ben Goldacre. TUE A frequent irritant of the medical establishment Iain, some TUE might say, he become one of them when he was knighted for TUE services to healthcare in 2000. TUE TUE Having spent his career trying to change the mindset of the TUE medical community from the inside, he's now pushing from the TUE outside, arguing that patients' concerns should help drive TUE the medical research agenda. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01cjwtg (Listen) TUE Yasmin Alibhai-Brown with Louis de Bernieres TUE TUE For personal reasons, the journalist and broadcaster Yasmin TUE Alibhai-Brown, has chosen to explore the impact of family TUE breakdown for 'One to One'. TUE TUE Yasmin divorced over twenty years ago, and - although TUE happily re-married - often contemplates the fall-out of TUE divorce, and the resulting emotional ripples which TUE inevitably reach further than the separating couple. In TUE these programmes she's hearing the stories of a grandparent, TUE a parent and a young person who have all lived through a TUE family break-up. TUE TUE Last week Yasmin spoke to a grandmother who hasn't seen her TUE granddaughter for four years, and this week she speaks to TUE the author Louis de Bernieres. He talks from the position he TUE holds as patron of the charity Families Need Fathers, but TUE also from the very personal point of view of a father of two TUE children, who has now separated from their mother. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01cqrsl (Listen) TUE Wilkie Collins, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Peter Ackroyd. TUE Read by Michael Pennington. TUE TUE Following the death of his beloved father William, Wilkie TUE embarks on a memoir to celebrate his life. TUE TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cjwtj (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqrsn (Listen) TUE Angarrack, Winter TUE TUE Lady Helen is dismayed at the arrival of a man from the TUE National Trust, to whom her husband wishes to bequeath the TUE estate. A visit from her stepson, Rafe, is more intriguing. TUE TUE Sir Richard Penwerris ..... Richard Johnson TUE Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams TUE Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton TUE Tregunna ....... Tony Haygarth TUE Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton TUE Jepson ...... Peter Cadwell TUE TUE Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton TUE Producer: Gordon House TUE A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Return of the South China Tiger b01cjwtl (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Li Quan, a petite, former international fashion executive, TUE was born in Beijing in the year of the Tiger, and seems an TUE unlikely conservationist. With no formal conservation TUE background, Li and her wealthy investment banker husband TUE turned their backs on the corporate world and dug deep into TUE their own pockets to try to save the South China Tiger from TUE extinction. TUE TUE These highly endangered tigers have not been seen in the TUE wild for many years, and there are fewer than 60 left in TUE Chinese zoos. TUE TUE Arguing that time for the tigers was running out fast, in TUE 2003 Li persuaded the Chinese authorities to lend her Hope TUE and Cathay, two precious zoo-bred cubs. She flew them to TUE South Africa to start a new life on the grasslands of the TUE Karoo, where they could learn to hunt and breed in the wild TUE again. Ultimately, their offspring would then be sent back TUE to specially created wildlife reserves in China. TUE TUE A year later, two more cubs called Tiger Woods and Madonna TUE followed. Born in captivity, these cubs had never walked on TUE grass before and were only used to ready meals. Madonna was TUE definitely a virgin and Tiger Woods decidedly under par, but TUE slowly they learnt to hunt for themselves. TUE TUE This original Gang of Four has now increased to 14, all of TUE whom have proved to be proficient predators in the wild. TUE TUE Flying tigers half way round the world to start a new life TUE in a new continent was a high risk and controversial plan. TUE The project has faced opposition from conservationists who TUE argue that the project is foolhardy and reintroduction TUE should only be done in the animals' natural environment - in TUE China not Africa. TUE TUE Sue Armstrong investigates whether this pioneering project TUE has any prospect of saving one of the world's most TUE endangered species. TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01cjwtn (Listen) TUE Series 13, The Hallelujah Chorus TUE TUE Stirring, emotional and unmistakable: The Hallelujah chorus TUE from Handel's Messiah is the subject of this week's Soul TUE Music. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01cjwtq (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. Presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01chzdy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01cjwts (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Sport and the British b01cjwtv (Listen) TUE Broadcasting to the Nation TUE TUE Clare Balding discovers how the birth of broadcasting TUE changed British sport for ever. Radio played a crucial role TUE in the popularisation of sport, suddenly you didn't need to TUE be at the event to know exactly what happened or to be swept TUE up in the excitement of the match. Jean Seaton, the BBC's TUE historian explains how the events that were chosen for TUE outside broadcast began to provide a secular calendar for TUE the year, with the schedule being dominated by the most TUE commentator friendly sports; football and tennis were a fit, TUE flying fishing and pigeon racing were not. TUE We hear some of the earliest and most celebrated sports TUE broadcasters ; George ' by Jove' Allison, Raymond Baxter, TUE Brian Johnson and John Arlott, who describes the man TUE responsible for the first sports programming on the BBC, TUE Seymour Joly de Lotbiniere. TUE The series was made in partnership with The International TUE Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort TUE University. TUE Readers: Stuart McLoughlin and Jo Munro TUE Technical presentation: John Benton TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt TUE Executive producer: Ian Bent. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01cjm58 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01cjwtx (Listen) TUE The Great Squanderland Roof TUE TUE In 'The Great Squanderland Roof', Julian Gough explores TUE another puzzling area of modern economics with the help of TUE the BBC's Stephanie Flanders. This time Gough turns his TUE attention to the eurozone crisis and, along with the TUE Chancellor of Frugalia and the Head of the European Bank of TUE Common Sense and Stability, conjures an ambitious and TUE unorthodox plan to save Europe, the Markets and the World. TUE TUE Jude lives in a henhouse with no roof, in the bankrupt TUE Republic of Squanderland. Purchased for ten million euro at TUE the height of the credit bubble, his henhouse has been rated TUE the asset in Europe most likely to default. To solve this TUE small but symbolic problem and restore confidence in the TUE markets, Europe's leaders need a plan. Sadly, putting a roof TUE on Jude's henhouse quickly escalates out of control. Soon TUE they are committed to building a roof over the entire TUE country, half a mile above the startled voters... But what TUE happens when a structure that's too big to fail finally TUE fails? To the horror of Europe's bankers and politicians, TUE Jude comes up with a dramatic (and rather romantic) solution TUE to the Eurozone crisis... TUE TUE Jude - Rory Keenan TUE Finian - Dermot Crowley TUE Bertrand Plastique - James Lailey TUE Helen Dunkel - Adjoa Andoh TUE Heidi - Clare Corbett TUE Stephanie Flanders - herself. TUE TUE Director Di Speirs. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01cjwtz (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents the final programme of a new BBC Radio 4 TUE series: a food panel show, recorded in front of a live TUE audience, aimed at anyone who cooks at home, not just the TUE experts. Each week the programme travels round the country TUE to visit interesting food locations, and meet local TUE food-loving people. TUE TUE The panel features: food adventurer and self-styled TUE 'gastronaut', Stefan Gates; Mexican food expert, writer and TUE Masterchef winner, Thomasina Miers; chef, co-founder of the TUE Leon restaurant chain, and regular on Radio 4's Loose Ends, TUE Allegra McEvedy; and food scientist, Peter Barham, who has TUE advised some of the leading restaurants in the world, TUE including Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck and Noma in TUE Copenhagen. TUE TUE This week The Kitchen Cabinet is in Rye, as part of Rye Bay TUE Scallop Week, so the panel will be talking about all things TUE seafood. TUE TUE Food consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel & Lucy Armitage TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01cjwv1 (Listen) TUE Nuclear Power Without the Nasties TUE TUE The Fukushima disaster in Japan brought the nuclear revival TUE to a juddering halt. But what if there was a cheaper, safer TUE way to create nuclear energy? TUE TUE Thorium is an abundant radioactive element that offers the TUE prospect of producing power without the danger of reactor TUE meltdowns or the enormous amounts of long-lived waste left TUE behind by conventional nuclear power plants. The Chinese and TUE Indian governments have advanced plans for thorium reactors TUE whilst French and British scientists are already developing TUE the technology that can turn the theory into commercial TUE reality. TUE TUE In 'Costing the Earth' Julian Rush investigates the TUE prospects for a new wave of 'safe' nuclear energy. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01cjwv3 (Listen) TUE Internet privacy and copyright TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg asks how laws on privacy and copyright TUE should be adapted for the global internet age. A senior TUE lawyer at Google, William Patry, explains why copyright TUE should be radically reformed. And, with growing concerns TUE about the extent of information on users held by companies TUE such as Google+ and Facebook, how robust are the existing TUE protections on privacy and how will they be kept up to date? TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01cjwv5 (Listen) TUE Harriett Gilbert's guests this week are the art critic Brian TUE Sewell and the poet Wendy Cope. Wendy's choice of favourite TUE book is "Evening in the Palace of Reason," a non-fiction TUE narrative about Frederick the Great and the composer Johann TUE Sebastian Bach. Brian Sewell chooses a novel about the TUE Second World War, "From the City, From the Plough," which TUE resonates with him as he recalls his time doing National TUE Service in the early 1950s. And Harriett's own choice is TUE "The Moving Toyshop," a frivolous and mannered but TUE intriguing detective novel. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Wendy Cope's choice: "Evening in the Palace of Reason" by TUE James Gaines TUE Publ. Harper Perennial TUE TUE Brian Sewell's choice: "From the City, From the Plough" by TUE Alexander Baron TUE Publ. Black Spring Press TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: "The Moving Toyshop" by Edmund TUE Crispin TUE Publ. Vintage TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01cjwv7 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01chzf4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01cjwv9 (Listen) TUE Series 7, The Viewing TUE TUE Arthur finds a cunning way of nosing around a neighbours TUE home, as he masquerades as a potential purchaser, he also TUE receives interesting news from an old friend in Spain. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Steve Delaney TUE Mel Giedroyc TUE Alastair Kerr TUE David Mounfield TUE TUE Producer: John Leonard TUE A Komedia production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01cjwvc (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01cjwvf (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Irving TUE Berlin's three daughters, Mary Ellin Barrett, Linda Emmett TUE and Elizabeth Peters, who recall their father in the light TUE of a British stage version of his hit film musical Top Hat. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqrsn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01cjwvh (Listen) TUE Their judgments send markets into freefall. It is alleged TUE that their mistakes led to the Enron collapse and the 2008 TUE financial crisis. They are the credit rating agencies. Who TUE exactly are they and what exactly do they do? TUE TUE Is this exploration of the complex world of the "Big Three" TUE rating agencies, BBC Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym TUE takes listeners behind the scenes of the world economy. TUE Through revealing interviews with insiders and former TUE analysts at Standard and Poor's (S&P), Moody's and Fitch, TUE along with leading investors and bankers, Hugh tells the TUE story of the world's ongoing financial woes from a new TUE perspective and ask if anything has really changed. S&P TUE managing director John Chambers explains why governments TUE listen to what his company says. TUE TUE In Italy the agencies - rarely heard about until recently - TUE have suddenly been subject to police raids and front page TUE headlines. Italy, like many European nations, is unhappy TUE about its recent downgrade and campaigner Elio Lannutti is TUE on a mission to break the power of the rating agencies. But TUE is there any truth in the idea that they're acting TUE politically in their judgements on the Eurozone? TUE TUE Real concern about the "Big Three" began following the TUE collapse, in 2001-2003, of several major multinationals, TUE including Parmalat, dubbed Europe's Enron. Ordinary people TUE who lost money know only too well what it means when the TUE rating agencies get it wrong. When mortgage-backed TUE securities began going bad in 2007, alarm bells rang again. TUE Why had financial products riddled with bad debt been given TUE Triple A ratings? TUE TUE So is there any way of breaking the "Big Three's" grip on TUE power - or are they an inevitable fact of life in a global TUE financial landscape? TUE Producer: Lucy Proctor. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01cjwvk (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01cjwvm (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues that perplex us TUE and separates the facts from the fiction. He brings clarity TUE to conflicting health advice, explores new medical research TUE and tackles the big health issue of the moment revealing the TUE inner workings of the medical profession and the daily TUE dilemmas doctors face. TUE TUE Producers: Erika Wright/ Paula McGrath. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01cvpyx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01chzfd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01cjwvp (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01cjwvr (Listen) TUE Swimming Home, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today's episode: 'A Very Special Connection'. TUE TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion TUE Produced by Di Speirs TUE Directed by Elizabeth Allard TUE The Reader is Juliet Aubrey. TUE TUE 23:00 The History Plays b01cdvb7 (Listen) TUE Stonehouse in Alice TUE TUE Written and directed by Nigel Smith and starring Tim TUE McInnerny as John Stonehouse and Daniel Rigby as Ed TUE Jennings. Stonehouse in Alice is the second of The History TUE Plays, imaginary conversations set against the backdrop of TUE real events. TUE TUE It's 1974 and Ed Jennings, a cub reporter from a local paper TUE has stumbled upon the scoop of a lifetime while on holiday TUE in Australia. Because Leonard has found missing maverick MP, TUE John Stonehouse. TUE TUE Stonehouse recently faked his death to escape from a sea of TUE debt, the fraud squad, his wife, and a series of TUE misadventures back home in the UK. A charmer, a snob, an TUE aesthete, a writer and a con man, the Walsall North MP, once TUE one of the greatest loose cannons of his political TUE generation, is now in hiding, shacked up with his mistress TUE in one of the loneliest places on earth. What will be kept TUE secret for decades, however, is that he's also a communist TUE spy. TUE TUE Ed is bright enough to know this story will make his name. TUE It has all the ingredients; celebrity, notoriety, sex, TUE politics and sleaze. But what it's fundamentally about is TUE greed. And that is still seen as shocking in an MP. Chisholm TUE knows no post-war English politician will have had such a TUE fall from grace. Profumo only erred for lust. This is TUE something new... and thrilling. And it turns out Stonehouse TUE has an offer for the young reporter. One that will change TUE both their lives. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01cjwvt (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01chzgc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01cqrsl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01chzgh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01chzgm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01chzgp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01chzgr (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cmt1y (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. WED From Wales, with the Rev.Mary Stallard. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01ckgfn (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01ckgfq (Listen) WED Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including WED Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for WED the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01ckgfs (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01cqvcx (Listen) WED Wilkie Collins, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Peter Ackroyd. WED Read by Michael Pennington. WED WED Wilkie meets Caroline Graves in unusual circumstances and, WED little does he know, she will become a close companion for WED the rest of his life. WED WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ckgfv (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqvcz (Listen) WED Angarrack, Spring WED WED Lady Helen is growing increasingly attached to her stepson WED Rafe - a welcome distraction as she battles her husband WED Richard for control of Angarrack, the Penwerris ancestral WED home. WED WED Sir Richard Penwerris ...... Richard Johnson WED Lady Helen ....... Lia Williams WED Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton WED Tregunna ....... Tony Haygarth WED Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton WED Jepson ....... Peter Cadwell WED WED Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton WED Producer: Gordon House WED A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 The Lobotomists b016wx0w (Listen) WED 2011 marks a 75th anniversary that many would prefer to WED forget: of the first lobotomy in the US. It was performed by WED an ambitious young American neurologist called Walter WED Freeman. Over his career, Freeman went on to perform perhaps WED 3,000 lobotomies, on both adults and later on children. He WED often performed 10 procedures or more a day. Perhaps 40,000 WED patients in the US were lobotomised during the heyday of the WED operation - and an estimated 17,000 more in the UK. WED WED This programme tells the story of three key figures in the WED strange history of lobotomy - and for the first time WED explores the popularity of lobotomy in the UK in detail. WED WED The story starts in 1935 with a Portuguese doctor called WED Egas Moniz, who pioneered a radical surgical procedure on WED the brain. Moniz was a remarkably distinguished figure, a WED diplomat as well as a doctor, who had invented the technique WED of cerebral angiography which is still used today. With very WED little evidence, he speculated that cutting the links WED between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain would WED relieve symptoms of mental disorder. His results were seized WED on with enthusiasm the following year by Freeman, the WED grandson of one of the US's most famous surgeons. Freeman WED was a relentless self-publicist and managed to convince many WED of the efficacy of his procedure. Freeman's promotion of WED lobotomy as a cure for mental illness was instrumental in WED Moniz receiving the Nobel Prize for medicine. The operation WED was also taken up by the most celebrated British WED neurosurgeon of the time, Sir Wylie McKissock. Like Freeman, WED he travelled the country, performing numerous lobotomies in WED single sessions. For this programme, Hugh Levinson WED interviews McKissock's former colleagues and hears in detail WED about how he performed several thousand lobotomies, or WED leucotomies as they were known in the UK. WED WED The operations were successful in subduing disturbed WED patients, usually with immediate positive results, which WED sometimes persisted. Freeman argued that this was better WED than letting mentally ill patients rot away for decades in WED squalid institutions, untreated and unattended. However, WED further monitoring showed very mixed results. While a WED significant number of patients with affective disorders WED seemed to become better, a large proportion were unaffected WED or got worse. Many patients reverted to a child-like state. WED A significant proportion died as a direct result of the WED procedure. WED WED In the 1940s, Freeman pushed on, devising a faster and WED cheaper procedure. He hammered an icepick (originally taken WED from his home fridge) through the top of each eye socket, WED directly into the skull. He then swept the icepick from side WED to side, destroying the connections to the frontal lobes. WED Other surgeons were horrified by the random nature of the WED operation. He recorded with satisfaction in his diary when WED attending doctors ended up vomiting or fainting. His closest WED aide refused to participate. By the late 1950s the lobotomy WED craze was over, and only a very few continued to be WED performed in special cases. In the late 1960s, Freeman was WED banned from operating. WED WED The stories of Moniz, Freeman and McKissock - all commanding WED and dynamic figures - raise profound questions about our WED ideas both of mental health and science. Is a patient WED "cured" just because he becomes subdued? And how come the WED lobotomy became so popular despite the lack of evidence of WED its efficacy - and the rapid dissemination of evidence of WED its potential for harm? To what extent is science WED independent of powerful personalities, economic WED considerations and media pressure? WED WED 11:30 HR b01ckgfz (Listen) WED Series 3, Robbed WED WED Nigel William's retirement comedy series, starring Jonathan WED Pryce and Nicholas le Prevost. The two friends, having WED discovered that their pensions are worthless, take every WED measure thinkable to survive. This week, Sam tries to WED remortgage their home. WED WED Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce WED Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost WED Mr Loomis ..... Philip Jackson. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01ckgg1 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01chzgw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01ckgg3 (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Sport and the British b01ckgg5 (Listen) WED Driving Innovation WED WED Clare Balding continues to explore how Britain shaped sport WED and sport shaped Britain. Horse racing may be the sport of WED kings but the princes, playboys and plutocrats of the modern WED era have preferred motor racing and the British have been at WED the wheel throughout. Stirling Moss, Graham Hill, Jackie WED Stewart, James Hunt, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have WED all led the way but in the early days women were central to WED this story too, with Mrs EM Thomas being the awarded the WED first 120 mph badge at Brooklands in 1928. , WED The series was made in partnership with The International WED Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort WED University. WED Technical presentation: John Benton WED Producer: Sara Conkey. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01cjwvc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 On Mardle Fen b01ckgg7 (Listen) WED Series 4, If You Build It WED WED By Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock is back as inspirational WED chef Warwick Hedges who runs an idiosyncratic restaurant in WED the Cambridgeshire Fens with his permanently anxious son WED Jack. In the first of a new series Warwick hits on an idea WED for putting the restaurant on the map; a music festival. WED Jack is dead against it but Warwick has plans. WED WED Warwick Hedges...Trevor Peacock WED Jack Hedges...Sam Dale WED Marcia Hedges...Kate Buffery WED Zofia...Helen Longworth WED Samuel...John Rowe WED Sebastian...Adam Billington WED WED Directed by Claire Grove WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01ckgg9 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01cjwvm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01ckggc (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01ckggf (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 b01ckggh (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's WED news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01chzh0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01ckggk (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 WED WED Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience WED consider proposals for a People's Manifesto. WED WED This week's agenda: WED A kick-starter to kick Scotland out of the Union WED Bankers to be given bonuses in the form of NHS donation WED cards WED An end to bank fees for those on a family income of less WED than £30,000 WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01cjwvc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01ckggp (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who re-assesses the life and work of the WED Trinidad-born writer Errol John, as his play Moon on a WED Rainbow Shawl receives a new production at the National WED Theatre. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqvcz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01ckggt (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Claire WED Fox and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01ckggw (Listen) WED The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd Nick Baines begins a new WED series of Lent Talks where six well known figures from WED journalism, science, religion and public life reflect on how WED the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry and Passion continues to WED interact with contemporary society and culture. WED WED In the wake of political and social reactions to the WED financial crisis, austerity measures and the riots of 2011, WED debate continues to determine the role of the individual and WED society. The 2012 Lent Talks consider the relationship WED between the individual and the collective. Is each person WED one alone or one of many? Is it the human condition to be WED self-contained or to belong to the family, the tribe, the WED congregation, the nation? We live in groups but our most WED intense experiences are incommunicable. Jesus shared a WED communal last supper but he died an outcast, abandoned and WED rejected by his people, his disciples and (apparently) his WED Father. WED WED Speakers of this year's talks include the journalist and WED author Martin Wroe, who will explore humanity being at its WED most divine when working in community; John Lennox, WED Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, explains how WED his encounter with God is enhanced through science; Dr Gemma WED Simmonds CJ, explores the agony of the individual in WED society. WED WED The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, WED forgiveness and love. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01cjwv1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01ckgfs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01chzh2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01ckggy (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ckgh0 (Listen) WED Swimming Home, Episode 3 WED WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard WED The Reader is Juliet Aubrey. WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01ckgh2 (Listen) WED Death WED WED In the second in the series, Tim Key takes on the biggest WED imponderable of them all - death - via his narrative poem: WED The Boy Who Faked His Own Death. Musical accompaniment is WED provided by Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01ckgh4 (Listen) WED About Moving Out WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who becomes the first WED in his family to graduate from University - only to opt for WED a career in comedy - much to his family's annoyance who want WED him to get a 'proper job' using his architecture degree. WED WED Each episode is designed to show the criticism, interference WED and rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his family WED as he pursues his career against their wishes. The series is WED a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with scenes from his WED family life. WED WED In Episode Two; Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About Moving WED Out, Nathan decides it's time to leave home. But, can he WED find somewhere to live and will his mother allow him to WED leave? WED WED Nathan ..... Nathan Caton WED Grandma ..... Mona Hammond WED Mum ..... Adjoa Andoh WED Dad ..... Curtis Walker WED Reverend Williams ..... Don Gilet WED James ..... Ola WED WED Written by: Nathan Caton WED Additional material by: Ola and Maff Brown WED Script Editor: James Kettle WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ckgh6 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 MARCH 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01chzhs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01cqvcx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01chzhv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01chzhz (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01chzj1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01chzj3 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cmt2q (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. THU From Wales, with the Rev.Mary Stallard. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01ckmg4 (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 b01ckmg6 (Listen) THU Presented by Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports THU Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01ckmg8 (Listen) THU Benjamin Franklin THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of THU Benjamin Franklin. A printer, statesman, diplomat, writer THU and scientist, Franklin was one of the most remarkable THU polymaths who ever lived - and as the only Founding Father THU to have signed all three of the fundamental documents of the THU United States of America, including its Declaration of THU Independence and Constitution, he occupies a unique position THU in the history of the nation. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01cqwsv (Listen) THU Wilkie Collins, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Peter Ackroyd. THU Read by Michael Pennington. THU THU By 1863, Wilkie Collins has found great literary success THU with works including The Woman in White. And soon another THU woman enters his life. THU THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier. THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ckmgb (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqwsx (Listen) THU Angarrack, Summer THU THU Lady Helen's relationship with her stepson Rafe is growing THU dangerously out of control - a fact viewed with considerable THU suspicion by Angarrack's long-serving butler Tregunna. THU THU Sir Richard Penwerris ..... Richard Johnson THU Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams THU Rafe ...... Harry Hadden-Paton THU Tregunna ...... Tony Haygarth THU Ralston ...... Nicholas Boulton THU Jepson ....... Peter Cadwell THU Prideaux ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU THU Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton THU Producer: Gordon House THU A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01ckmgd (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 The 12 Inch Single b01ckmgg (Listen) THU From the mid-1970s the humble 7 inch vinyl single was joined THU by a much grander relative - the 12 inch single. It reached THU its peak in 1983 with Blue Monday by New Order, probably the THU biggest selling 12 inch single of all time. THU THU Music Journalist and co-founder of ZTT Records, Paul Morley THU visits the Factory Club in Manchester to talk to Peter Hook THU of New Order about how Blue Monday was written and to THU designer Peter Saville about the famous sleeve. THU THU Paul explores the origins of the 12 inch single as a THU potentially higher quality format than the 7 inch single and THU visits Abbey Road studios to watch an engineer cutting a 12 THU inch single; does it really sound better? THU THU And he meets music producer Trevor Horn at Sarm Studios, THU home of ZTT records, to discuss the Frankie Goes to THU Hollywood 12 inch singles. ZTT released so many different THU versions of Two Tribes on 12 inch that the chart rules were THU changed - so was the record buyer getting value for money? THU And what does the 12 inch single tell us about 1980s THU excesses? THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01ckmgj (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01chzj7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01ckmgl (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Sport and the British b01ckmgn (Listen) THU The Gentleman Amateur THU THU Clare Balding's at Lords Cricket ground in London to explore THU the demise of the amateur gentleman and the rise of the THU professional player, as the 1960's saw the beginning of a THU new, more egalitarian era, in British sport. THU In all walks of life, Britain's 'Establishment' was being THU scrutinized, criticised and satirised so it was hardly THU surprising that sport and particularly cricket should come THU under fire. THU Dr Dilwyn Porter of The International Centre for Sport THU History and Culture at De Montfort University explains how THU the MCC had to finally abandon its long-standing distinction THU between gentlemen and players or amateurs and professionals. THU The distinction epitomised by David Sheppard (later Bishop THU of Liverpool) and Yorkshireman, THU Fred Trueman. THU Readers: Sean Baker and Nyasha Hatendi. THU Technical Presentation: John Benton THU Producer: Garth Brameld. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01cjwvc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ckpjh (Listen) THU Rumpole and the Man of God THU THU By John Mortimer THU Adapted by Richard Stoneman THU THU It's 1959, and Rumpole is faced with defending a clergyman THU accused of shoplifting who although he clearly did not THU commit the crime, is curiously reluctant to be cross THU examined under oath, where he would have to tell the truth, THU but save himself from being be defrocked. THU THU Meanwhile Rumpole's fellow barrister and friend Frobisher, a THU confirmed batchelor, announces his engagement to a very THU merry widow, whom Rumpole seems to remember he has met THU somewhere before... THU THU And finally, Hilda, she who must be obeyed, drops a bomb of THU information which will have a profound effect on their THU marriage. THU THU Rumpole ... Timothy West THU Younger Rumpole ... Benedict Cumberbatch THU Hilda ... Jasmine Hyde THU Mr Pratt/ George Frobisher ... Stephen Critchlow THU Reverend Mordred Skinner ... Adrian Scarborough THU Evelyn Skinner/ Ida Tempest ... Cathy Sara THU Mr Justice Vosper/Claude Erskine-Brown ... Nigel Anthony THU THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01ckpjk (Listen) THU Inspirational Walks, Kinder Scout THU THU Almost 80 years since the Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout, THU Clare Balding joins ramblers from Manchester and Sheffield THU to mark this inspirational moment in walking history. THU THU On April 24th 1932, around 400 ramblers from Lancashire set THU off from Bowden Bridge quarry near Hayfield to walk up onto THU the plateau of Kinder Scout, the highest point in the THU Derbyshire Peak District, in protest at the lack of the THU right to roam on open land. As they scrambled upwards THU towards the moorland plateau of Kinder, the trespassers were THU met and confronted by the Duke of Devonshire's gamekeepers. THU A group of ramblers from Sheffield, who had also set off THU that morning from Edale, did eventually reach the plateau THU and the two groups met up before turning and retracing their THU steps. The following day six of the Manchester ramblers were THU arrested and imprisoned, a move which was to outrage many THU people and serve only to highlight and sympathise with the THU ramblers cause, resulting finally in the Countryside and THU Rights of Way Act in 2000 THU THU Today Clare joins members of the Sheffield Ramblers, as well THU as Manchester-born broadcaster and avid walker, Mike THU Harding. They represent the two groups of ramblers that set THU off from Edale and Hayfield respectively, to take part in THU the Mass Trespass back in 1932. Leaving from Bowden Bridge, THU just as the original trespassers did, the group walk towards THU Kinder Reservoir and on to William Clough, where the Duke of THU Devonshire's gamekeepers were waiting. As they walk, the old THU cross-Pennines rivalry is still in evidence as the Sheffield THU walkers remind Clare that it was their group that had THU actually reached the top all those years ago. But everyone THU on that day 80 years ago shared a common passion for the THU hills and the moors around which, as folk singer Ewan THU Maccoll wrote, no one man should have the right to own. THU THU The Mass Trespass of Kinder Scout was one of the most THU inspirational moments in the history of the rambling THU movement, inspiring walkers and campaigners of access to THU open land for years to come. It wasn't the THU only trespass to take place - there were others before it THU and many more inspired by it. But it lives on in the memory THU of all those who believe that all should have the right to THU roam. THU THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01cj43b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01cj83r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01ckr42 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01crd80 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b01ckr44 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01chzj9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Not What You Know b01ckr46 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Joining Miles this time round are "The Thick Of It" star, THU Rebecca Front, Fast Show actor and character comedian, Simon THU Day, and award-winning Geordie comic, Jason Cook, all of THU whom have nominated one of their intimate circle to answer THU questions about their relationship, in an attempt to prove THU how well they know them. THU THU If the panel can predict the responses their nominees gave, THU they get points. THU THU Rebecca thinks she knows her father, Charles Front, a THU retired illustrator and calligrapher, pretty well. Simon THU examines his relationship with best friend, Conrad Butlin, a THU stylist from Notting Hill in London. And Jason plumps for THU his mother, Pat, a recruitment consultant from Hebburn in THU Newcastle - and, it turns out, something of a Loose Women THU fan... THU THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01ckr48 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01ckr4b (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including an interview with director THU Michael Winterbottom, whose new film Trishna is a version of THU Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, transported to THU modern India. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqwsx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01cjwv3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01ckr4d (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Return of the South China Tiger b01cjwtl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01ckmg8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01chzjc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01ckr4g (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ckr4j (Listen) THU Swimming Home, Episode 4 THU THU Abridged by Sally Marmion THU Produced by Di Speirs THU Directed by Elizabeth Allard THU The Reader is Juliet Aubrey. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00t0jcn (Listen) THU Steve's Intuition THU THU A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple THU and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns THU refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate THU the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind THU in post-war London. THU THU The hunt for the elusive Dr. Belasco leads Paul and Sir THU Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard to a surprising discovery in THU a remote cottage. But it doesn't seem to take them any THU nearer finding Dr. Belasco - perhaps the two men should THU listen more attentively to Paul's wife Steve. THU THU Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan THU Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson THU Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas THU Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood THU Worth/Charlie ..... Greg Powrie THU Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm THU Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood THU Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson THU Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing THU Insp. Perry ..... Michael Mackenzie THU THU Produced by Patrick Rayner. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ckr4l (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 MARCH 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01chzjy (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01cqwsv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01chzk2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01chzk4 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01chzk6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01chzk8 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cmt33 (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. FRI From Wales, with the Rev.Mary Stallard. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01cks45 (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 b01cks47 (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 Desert Island Discs b01cj4ky (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01cqx0f (Listen) FRI Wilkie Collins, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Peter Ackroyd. FRI Read by Michael Pennington. FRI FRI His first child with Martha Rudd is born, Caroline Graves FRI returns to Gloucester Place and Wilkie Collins' great friend FRI and collaborator, Charles Dickens, dies. FRI FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cks49 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqx0h (Listen) FRI Angarrack, Autumn FRI FRI Sir Richard is dead, and a fire has destroyed Angarrack's FRI library. But are the two events connected - and will Lady FRI Helen be able to use them to her advantage? FRI FRI Sir Richard Penwerris ...... Richard Johnson FRI Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams FRI Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton FRI Tregunna ...... Tony Haygarth FRI Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton FRI Jepson ...... Peter Cadwell FRI Prideaux ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI FRI Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton FRI Producer: Gordon House FRI A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The Stationery Cupboard b01cks4c (Listen) FRI Lucy Mangan loves pens...and paper...and folders. In fact, FRI from her first fountain pen to the latest leather notebook, FRI Lucy has been thrilled by the smell and feel of fresh FRI stationery. Of course, she's not alone - one of the most FRI popular luxuries for Desert Island Discs castaways is pen FRI and paper. In The Stationery Cupboard, we meet fellow FRI devotees of the paraphernalia of school and office life. FRI Lucy goes back to her South London junior school to talk to FRI children about pencil cases. She meets writers to discuss FRI the merits of the 1920s typewriter, a sleek laptop, and a FRI pile of lined A5 notebooks. The psychologist Linda Blair FRI explores our attachment to particular designs, and members FRI of the Writing Equipment Society explain why happiness is a FRI collection of two thousand fountain pens. FRI FRI Producer: Chris Ledgard. FRI FRI 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery b01cks4f (Listen) FRI A Reconstructed Corpse, Episode 1 FRI FRI by Jeremy Front FRI Based on the novel by Simon Brett FRI FRI Charles takes on the role of a lookalike in a crime FRI reconstruction programme. But a missing person FRI case soon turns to murder. FRI FRI Charles ..... Bill Nighy FRI Frances ..... Suzanne Burden FRI Maurice ..... Jon Glover FRI Angie ..... Alex Rivers FRI Rob Garston ..... Adam Billington FRI Chloe Earnshaw ..... Francine Chamberlain FRI Greg Marchmont ..... Carl Prekopp FRI Superintendent Sorsby ..... Gerard McDermott FRI Zoe/Receptionist ..... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Actor/PC/Steward ..... Rikki Lawton FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01cks4h (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01chzkb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01cks4k (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Sport and the British b01cks4m (Listen) FRI Beating Us at Our Own Game FRI FRI Clare Balding takes a look at Britain's most successful FRI export ever - football. Yet in giving it to others, the FRI British lost control of the game they had created and FRI crafted. Clare, with the help of Prof Tony Mason of The FRI International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De FRI Montfort University, looks at our troubled relationship with FRI the sport's governing body FIFA and asks if a British team FRI will ever again come close to winning the World Cup. FRI FRI Readers: Sean Baker and Nyasha Hatendi FRI Technical Presentation: John Benton FRI Producer: Garth Brameld. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01ckr48 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01cks4p (Listen) FRI Rumpole and the Explosive Evidence FRI FRI By John Mortimer FRI Adapted by Richard Stoneman. FRI FRI It's 1960. Hilda's had a baby son,Nicholas. Rumpole, awash FRI with flu, defends a safe-blower, and exposes the dubious FRI dealings of a senior police officer. FRI FRI Rumpole is in bed with flu, but more than happy to be called FRI into work to escape the twenty-four hour baby minding FRI duties. The case is the defence of a well known safe blower FRI with lots of previous and Rumpole finds himself alone and FRI without a leader, exposing the underhand behaviour employed FRI by one Dirty Dickerson, a senior police officer who is quite FRI prepared to tamper with evidence in order to frame well FRI known criminals. In so doing however, Rumpole breaches one FRI of the codes of procedure in court, and finds himself in FRI danger of losing his right to work in court. However, help FRI arrives from the intervention of a gentleman of the press. FRI FRI Meanwhile, at Froxbury mansions, Rumpole forms a strong bond FRI with his infant son in the watches of the night, when he FRI talks over the intricacies of the case with him, and FRI discovers that Hilda really does care about his career, and FRI their future together. FRI FRI Rumpole ..... Timothy West FRI Younger Rumpole ..... Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Hilda ..... Jasmine Hyde FRI Joyce Pringle ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Sam Ballard ..... Michael Cochrane FRI D.I. Dickerson ..... John Ramm FRI Sir Oliver Oliphant/ Philbeam ..... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Erskine-Brown/Charlie Wheeler ..... Nigel Anthony FRI Henry/ Mr Fingleton ..... Adrian Scarborough FRI FRI Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01cks4r (Listen) FRI Haynes, Bedfordshire FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening debate in Bedfordshire. FRI Joining him on the panel are Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood FRI and Chris Beardshaw. FRI FRI In addition, as the event nears, Matthew Wilson reports on FRI the progress of the Olympic park. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Leap Year Tales b01cks4t (Listen) FRI February Alone FRI FRI Three stories to mark the Leap Year. FRI FRI 'February Alone' by Ruth Thomas. FRI FRI An intended romantic lunch goes strangely awry. Will a gift FRI of lingerie help save the hour? FRI FRI Read by Melody Grove. FRI Produced by Patricia Hitchcock. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01cks4w (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by John Wilson. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01cks4y (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01cks50 (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents the day's top stories. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01chzkd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01cks52 (Listen) FRI Series 36, Episode 3 FRI FRI Topical comedy with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. This week FRI Lynne Truss, Andy Parsons, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn join FRI Steve and Hugh for a look at the week's biggest (and FRI smallest) stories. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01cks54 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01cks56 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cqx0h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01cks58 (Listen) FRI Beccles, Suffolk FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Beccles in Suffolk. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01cks5b (Listen) FRI Topical reflection. FRI FRI 21:00 Sport and the British: Omnibus b01cks5d (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI The omnibus edition of this weeks Sport and the British with FRI Clare Balding. FRI Sport was reaching out through the airwaves to a whole new FRI audience. It was increasing in popularity, growing up and FRI leaving home. In some cases, this meant progress - FRI innovation in motor sport or egalitarianism in cricket but FRI in others, like football, it meant a painful loss of control FRI to FIFA. FRI Technical Presentation: John Benton FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt FRI Executive Producer: Ian Bent. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01chzkg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01cks5g (Listen) FRI Robin Lustig presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01cks5j (Listen) FRI Swimming Home, Episode 5 FRI FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI Produced by Di Speirs FRI Directed by Elizabeth Allard FRI The Reader is Juliet Aubrey. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01cjwv5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01cks5l (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
24 February, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 25/02/2012 - 02/03/2012
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