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SAT SATURDAY 03 MARCH 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01chzlf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01cqx0f (Listen) SAT Wilkie Collins, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Peter Ackroyd. SAT Read by Michael Pennington. SAT SAT His first child with Martha Rudd is born, Caroline Graves SAT returns to Gloucester Place and Wilkie Collins' great friend SAT and collaborator, Charles Dickens, dies. SAT SAT Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, SAT extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in SAT colourful clothes, 'as if playing a certain part in the SAT great general drama of life' Wilkie Collins looked SAT distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, SAT befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly SAT attractive to women - and avidly read by generations of SAT readers. SAT SAT Peter Ackroyd follows his hero, 'the sweetest-tempered of SAT all the Victorian novelists', from his childhood as the son SAT of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as SAT writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with SAT the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. A true SAT Londoner, Collins, like Dickens, was fascinated by the SAT secrets and crimes -- the fraud, blackmail and poisonings - SAT that lay hidden behind the city's respectable facade. He was SAT a fighter, never afraid to point out injustices and shams, SAT or to tackle the establishment head on. SAT As well as his enduring masterpieces, "The Moonstone" - SAT often called the first true detective novel - and the SAT sensational "Women in White," he produced an intriguing SAT array of lesser known works. But Collins had his own SAT secrets: he never married, but lived for thirty years with SAT the widowed Caroline Graves, and also had a second liaison, SAT as 'Mr and Mrs Dawson', with a younger mistress, Martha SAT Rudd, with whom he had three children. Both women remained SAT devoted as illness and opium-taking took their toll: he died SAT in 1889, in the middle of writing his last novel - Blind SAT Love. SAT SAT Told with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable verve this is a SAT ravishingly entertaining life of a great story-teller, full SAT of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding. SAT SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01chzlh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01chzlk (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01chzlm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01chzlp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cks6f (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Bishop Martin Shaw. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01cks6h (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01chzlr (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01chzlt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01ckpjk (Listen) SAT Inspirational Walks, Kinder Scout SAT SAT Almost 80 years since the Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout, SAT Clare Balding joins ramblers from Manchester and Sheffield SAT to mark this inspirational moment in walking history. SAT SAT On April 24th 1932, around 400 ramblers from Lancashire set SAT off from Bowden Bridge quarry near Hayfield to walk up onto SAT the plateau of Kinder Scout, the highest point in the SAT Derbyshire Peak District, in protest at the lack of the SAT right to roam on open land. As they scrambled upwards SAT towards the moorland plateau of Kinder, the trespassers were SAT met and confronted by the Duke of Devonshire's gamekeepers. SAT A group of ramblers from Sheffield, who had also set off SAT that morning from Edale, did eventually reach the plateau SAT and the two groups met up before turning and retracing their SAT steps. The following day six of the Manchester ramblers were SAT arrested and imprisoned, a move which was to outrage many SAT people and serve only to highlight and sympathise with the SAT ramblers cause, resulting finally in the Countryside and SAT Rights of Way Act in 2000 SAT SAT Today Clare joins members of the Sheffield Ramblers, as well SAT as Manchester-born broadcaster and avid walker, Mike SAT Harding. They represent the two groups of ramblers that set SAT off from Edale and Hayfield respectively, to take part in SAT the Mass Trespass back in 1932. Leaving from Bowden Bridge, SAT just as the original trespassers did, the group walk towards SAT Kinder Reservoir and on to William Clough, where the Duke of SAT Devonshire's gamekeepers were waiting. As they walk, the old SAT cross-Pennines rivalry is still in evidence as the Sheffield SAT walkers remind Clare that it was their group that had SAT actually reached the top all those years ago. But everyone SAT on that day 80 years ago shared a common passion for the SAT hills and the moors around which, as folk singer Ewan SAT Maccoll wrote, no one man should have the right to own. SAT SAT The Mass Trespass of Kinder Scout was one of the most SAT inspirational moments in the history of the rambling SAT movement, inspiring walkers and campaigners of access to SAT open land for years to come. It wasn't the SAT only trespass to take place - there were others before it SAT and many more inspired by it. But it lives on in the memory SAT of all those who believe that all should have the right to SAT roam. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01cv8n9 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01chzly (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01cv8nc (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01cv91m (Listen) SAT Andi Osho, Murray Lachlan Young, Dolly the Sheep scientist, SAT Jubilee boat man, British Summer Time campaigner SAT SAT Richard Coles with comedienne Andi Osho, poet Murray Lachlan SAT Young, Dr Bill Ritchie who helped create Dolly the Sheep, SAT Philip Morrell, the Barnado's boy turned millionaire who's SAT lending his boat to the Queen for the Jubilee, Patrick SAT Newman who's trying to change the date of British Summer SAT Time, a Soundscape of a guitar, and the Inheritance Tracks SAT of arts guru Sir Christopher Frayling. SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01cv91p (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys SAT of travel. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01cv91r (Listen) SAT Magnificence 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 In this programme, Will uses five objects to investigate a SAT pivotal aspect of the art of monarchy - the projection of SAT magnificence. An idea as old as monarchy itself, SAT magnificence is the expression of power through the display SAT of wealth and status. Will's first object unites our current SAT Queen with George III; the Gold State Coach, which has been SAT used for coronations since 1821. Built for George III in SAT 1762, it reflects Britain's new found glory in its richly SAT gilded carvings and painted panels...but the glory was to be SAT short lived. SAT SAT Will goes on to explore Henry VIII's taste for interior SAT design at Hampton Court Palace, with the enormous Abraham SAT Tapestries - a symbol of Henry's personal self-belief but SAT also a post-Reformation statement to his rival the Pope. SAT Charles II's preoccupations are given unlikely form in a SAT silver table now held at Windsor Castle, whilst Sir SAT Christopher Wren's designs for Hampton Court have an SAT unusually egalitarian purpose. SAT SAT The idea of magnificence might seem one-dimensional - but SAT encoded into the jewels, the gilding, the silver and the SAT marble are stories of political intrigue and personal SAT paranoia. SAT SAT Prod: Neil George. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01cvcqm (Listen) SAT Andrew Pierce presents a look behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01cvcqp (Listen) SAT 'A revolution with almost no co-ordination or planning.' SAT That was Ian Pannell's assessment as he toured northern SAT Syria trying to assess the strength of the rebellion against SAT President Assad. SAT SAT Meanwhile, James Harkin's in the capital Damascus where SAT international sanctions are starting to leave their mark on SAT everyday life. SAT SAT Rachel Harvey's been meeting a group of Burmese opposition SAT figures recently released from long jail sentences. Do they SAT believe the new government is genuinely committed to a SAT process of reform? SAT SAT There's a story of connectivity, turtles and love from Huw SAT Cordey in the central American state of Costa Rica. SAT SAT And how would you like to get the tea for 49 young children? SAT Catherine Fellowes has been talking to a mum in Kenya who SAT does it every day! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01cvcqr (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01cks52 (Listen) SAT Series 36, With Andy Parsons and Lynne Truss SAT SAT Topical comedy with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. This week SAT Lynne Truss, Andy Parsons, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn join SAT Steve and Hugh for a look at the week's biggest (and SAT smallest) stories. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01chzm0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01chzm2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01cks58 (Listen) SAT Beccles, Suffolk SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Beccles in Suffolk. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01cvcqt (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01b8w6h (Listen) SAT An American Rose SAT SAT by Charlotte Jones SAT SAT The Kennedys were the most famous family in SAT England when Joseph became American Ambassador SAT in London. But daughter Rosemary's behaviour began to SAT cause the family increasing concern. SAT SAT Rosemary Kennedy ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT Kathleen Kennedy ..... Lydia Wilson SAT Rose Kennedy ..... Lisa Eichhorn SAT Deborah Mitford ..... Tilly Gaunt SAT Billy Hartington ..... Carl Prekopp SAT Dr Freeman ..... Don Gilet SAT Sister Margaret ..... Tracy Wiles SAT John White ..... Harry Livingstone SAT SAT Produced by Claire Grove SAT Directed by Sally Avens SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01cjwtn (Listen) SAT Series 13, The Hallelujah Chorus SAT SAT Stirring, emotional and unmistakable: The Hallelujah chorus SAT from Handel's Messiah is the subject of this week's Soul SAT Music. SAT SAT The Alzheimer's Society runs a group called 'Singing for the SAT Brain'. It's for people with dementia or Alzheimers and SAT their carers who come together to sing in a group. As music SAT is tied so closely to emotional memories, often lyrics and SAT music remain firmly fixed in the brain, even though other SAT memories have died away. SAT SAT Paul Spicer, composer, conductor and organist, describes the SAT historical backdrop to Handel's exhilarating composition. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01cvcqw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT How to distinguish Darjeeling from Green - the key to the SAT perfect cuppa. Kathy Lette on her new novel which draws on SAT her own experience of having a son with Aspergers Syndrome. SAT Orla Guerin on her experience of reporting from a war zone. SAT The rising cost of childcare. Girls, gangs and sexual abuse. SAT Learning how to fail. And music to "move the soul and stir SAT the spirit" created on the lirone a stringed instrument SAT that's disappeared from modern orchestras SAT Presented by Jenni Murray. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01cvcqy (Listen) SAT Presented by Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's SAT news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01ckr4d (Listen) SAT Reinvention 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's three executive guests all run companies that to a SAT large extent have had to reinvent themselves. He asks them SAT what's driven change in each of their businesses, and how SAT they've fared. They also swap ideas on what they think our SAT children should be taught at school. SAT SAT Joining Evan are Rooney Anand, chief executive of pub SAT retailer and brewer Greene King; Ian Livingston, chief SAT executive of multinational telecoms provider BT Group; SAT Rupert Gavin, chief executive of Odeon and UCI Cinemas SAT Group. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01chzm4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01chzm6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01chzm8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01cvcr0 (Listen) SAT This week Clive chats to Nicholas Owen, the news anchor, SAT reporter and correspondent who has taken the chance to SAT report on his own life in his autobiography 'Days Like SAT This'. SAT SAT Marine biologist Monty Halls tells Clive about taking the SAT plunge to live the life of a Cornish fisherman for his new SAT BBC 2 series, "The Fisherman's Apprentice". SAT SAT Nikki Bedi gets cosy with actor Stephen Mangan who will be SAT returning to our screens in the guise of Dirk Gently, SAT Douglas Adams' self-styled 'holistic detective'. SAT SAT Actor, comedian, occasional singer songwriter Keith Allen SAT tells us about his Channel 4 documentary Keith Allen Meets SAT Nick Griffin. And what happened when he serenaded the the SAT leader of the BNP on his ukulele. SAT SAT Music comes from Jeb Loy Nichols, an American-born singer, SAT songwriter and musician. His music combines elements of SAT soul, country, folk, reggae and blues. Jeb plays SAT Countrymusicdisco45 from his ninth solo album 'The Jeb Loy SAT Nichols Special'. SAT SAT Katy Carr is a London based performer whose distinctive SAT cabaret-folk style has likened her somewhere between Lady SAT Gaga and Vera Lynn. She performs 'Kommander's Car' from her SAT album 'Coquette'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01cvcr2 (Listen) SAT Series 11, I Hold My Breath SAT SAT I Hold My Breath SAT by Lizzie Nunnery SAT SAT Inspired by recent conflicts in the Middle East and the SAT plight of journalists who encounter life threatening SAT situations in their day to day reporting. SAT SAT Graham ...... Sam Troughton SAT Annie ...... Rebecca Callard SAT SAT Producer/Director ....... Pauline Harris SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01cvcr4 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Linda Grant, Miranda Sawyer and SAT John Mullan review the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT THEATRE The Leisure Society - Trafalgar Studios SAT FILM Carancho SAT TV Touch - Sky1 AND Alcatraz - Watch TV SAT BOOK Lost Memory of Skin - Russell Banks SAT EXHIBITION Game Plan: Alighiero Boetti - Tate Modern SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT Carancho SAT SAT Carancho directed by Pablo Trapero SAT is released on Friday 2 March, certificate 15 SAT SAT Lost Memory of Skin SAT SAT Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks is published by SAT Clerkenwell Press SAT SAT Touch SAT SAT Touch is broadcast on Sky 1 on Tuesday 20 March SAT SAT Alighiero Boetti SAT SAT Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan is showing at Tate Modern, SAT London until 27 May 2012 SAT SAT The Leisure Society SAT SAT The Leisure Society by François Archambault is showing at SAT the Trafalger Studios, London until 31 March 2012 SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01cvcr6 (Listen) SAT Playing Doctors and Nurses SAT SAT Since the broadcasts of the Radio Doctor encouraged the SAT British to open their bowels during the Second World War, SAT the bowels of broadcasting organisations have filled up with SAT factual and fictional series featuring doctors and nurses. SAT SAT Mark Lawson visits the BBC's written archives centre in SAT Caversham and reads through programme files detailing SAT reactions to some of the Radio Doctor scripts, worries about SAT the accuracy of early documentary dramas and behind the SAT scenes information about the making of well known series SAT including Dr Finlay's Casebook, The Singing Detective and SAT Angels. SAT SAT He meets the doctor turned writer Richard Gordon, whose name SAT adorns the jackets of the Doctor in the House books, which SAT have been adapted as film, tv and radio series. And he talks SAT to the former medic Jed Mercurio, who created the TV series SAT Cardiac Arrest, which is regularly voted the most realistic SAT medical drama in polls of medical professionals. SAT SAT Actor Alan Alda explains how his role in Mash helped to save SAT his life and we hear whether Hugh Laurie (star of House) and SAT Helen Baxendale (star of Cardiac Arrest) believe doctors SAT should be seen as heroic figures. Mal Young, the former head SAT of continuing drama serials at the BBC, discusses having to SAT answer complaints about realism, graphic footage and SAT political bias in Casualty and Holby City. Programme makers' SAT responsibilities are debated by Roger Graef, whose many SAT documentaries about aspects of medicine include Inside Great SAT Ormond Street, and who chairs the Mental Health Media SAT Awards: honouring accurate depictions of psychiatric illness SAT in medical fact and fiction. SAT SAT Dramas which have been condemned by the medical profession SAT for giving patients false hopes of salvation or SAT resuscitation are now used to train would be doctors - what SAT does Richard Gordon think of this trend? SAT SAT Producer: Robyn Read. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01cj83p (Listen) SAT The Cruel Sea, Episode 1 SAT SAT Dramatised by John Fletcher. SAT 1 of 2. SAT The first part of Nicholas Monsarrat's searing classic novel SAT about the men and ships who fought who fought in the North SAT Atlantic during the 2nd World War. SAT SAT Lockhart ..... Gwilym Lee SAT Ericson ..... Jonathan Coy SAT Ferraby ..... Carl Prekopp SAT Wainwright ..... David Seddon SAT Phillips ..... Peter Hamilton-Dyer SAT Gregg ..... Harry Livingstone SAT Mavis ..... Tracy Wiles SAT Coxswain ..... James Lailey SAT Donnelly ..... Adam Billington SAT SAT Sound by Caleb Knightley SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01chzmb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01ckggt (Listen) SAT The Morality of Abortion SAT SAT Department of Health officials are this week starting their SAT inquiry in to allegations in the Daily Telegraph that SAT abortions are being carried out on the basis of gender. SAT Undercover reporters filmed consultations about terminations SAT at a number of clinics around the country. One consultant in SAT Manchester was heard telling a woman who said she wanted to SAT abort a female foetus: "I don't ask questions. If you want a SAT termination, you want a termination". The revelations have SAT re-ignited the debate over reform of the act that legalised SAT abortion in 1967. It's estimated that at least one third of SAT British women will have had an abortion by the time they SAT reach the age of 45. In 2010, there were 189,574 abortions SAT carried out to residents of England and Wales and one third SAT (34%) of those women undergoing abortions had already had SAT one or more previous abortions. The overwhelming majority SAT (98%) of terminations are carried out under the clause that SAT to continue the pregnancy would risk the woman's mental SAT health. Campaigners on one side argue that the law is being SAT interpreted far too liberally, in a way that was never SAT intended or anticipated 45 years ago and that in the early SAT stages of pregnancy abortion is effectively available on SAT demand. On the other side it's said that the allegations of SAT "gendercide" are vastly exaggerated and this is all part of SAT a campaign by the backdoor to make it harder for women to SAT get an abortion. Have we turned what should one of the most SAT profound of moral choices involving life and death into a SAT thoughtless act amounting to little more than routine SAT inconvenience? Or is that an attack on the fundamental SAT liberty of women to have control over their own bodies and SAT to turn the clock back to a time when sexual shame and SAT individual guilt were common currency? How do we balance the SAT moral status of the unborn foetus with rights of women and SAT if it's morally unacceptable to have an abortion on the SAT grounds of gender, why is it OK just because it's SAT inconvenient? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01cjm4y (Listen) SAT (16/17) SAT The fourth and last semi-final of the 2012 series will SAT determine who takes the remaining place in the grand Final. SAT The competitors are from Reigate, Inverness, Disley in SAT Cheshire and Neath in South Wales. SAT SAT Russell Davies asks the questions. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01cj83t (Listen) SAT More of listeners' poetry requests as Roger McGough, Martin SAT Jarvis and Susan Jameson present a mix of material including SAT an 18th century comic romp, some pieces of nostalgia and a SAT poem asked for by more listeners than any other. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 MARCH 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01cp83j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Under the Skin b01cvdds (Listen) SUN Eyebrows 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. SUN SUN The relationship between the English language, its literary SUN tradition and writers from South Asia has become an exciting SUN and enduring part of British literary life. The Festival SUN celebrates writers from South Asia and British Asian SUN writing, equally, reflecting the diversity of themes, SUN subjects and literary forms that constitute South Asian SUN writing in 2012. SUN SUN Under the Skin features three stories by British Asian SUN writers. Kavita Bhanot's Eyebrows introduces us to three SUN generations of women seen through the eyes of Jaya on her SUN weekend visits to her grandmother. 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 b01cp83l (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01cp83n (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01cp83q (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01cp83s (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01cvg3x (Listen) SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01ckggw (Listen) SUN The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd Nick Baines begins a new SUN series of Lent Talks where six well known figures from SUN journalism, science, religion and public life reflect on how SUN the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry and Passion continues to SUN interact with contemporary society and culture. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01cp83x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01cvg3z (Listen) SUN Challenging Your Instincts SUN SUN Mark Tully wonders what might happen if we challenge our SUN instinctive fears and prejudices. Some instincts can protect SUN us but others can act as barriers in our lives. SUN SUN Mark looks at instincts like fear, disgust, hatred and SUN revenge and considers how overcoming them can have positive SUN results. SUN SUN The programme features examples of people who have gone SUN against the instinct to hate: the white judge in the SUN Southern States of America who, in times of segregation, SUN risked his life to defend Negroes; and the Croatian poet who SUN writes of the need to love our enemies, despite what they SUN have done in the past and continue to do now. In her words: SUN 'only love such as this can save the world... make life come SUN out of death'. SUN SUN The readers are Samantha Bond and Peter Guinness. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01cvg41 (Listen) SUN Caz Graham visits an egg farmer who borrowed £1 million for SUN new cages. Battery cages were banned in January; On Your SUN Farm asks whether the new cages are worth the money. SUN SUN Secretary of State for the Environment Caroline Spelman has SUN been lobbying the EU, calling for tough action on countries SUN which have not complied with the battery cage ban. 14 SUN countries didn't make the deadline. But Italy has now given SUN its farmers three more years to install the new cages. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01cp83z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01cp841 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01cvg43 (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 b01cvg45 (Listen) SUN War on Want SUN SUN Vanessa Redgrave presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity War on Want. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 208724 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN War on Want. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN WAR ON WANT SUN SUN War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in SUN partnership with people affected by globalisation. They SUN campaign for human rights and against the root causes of SUN global poverty, inequality and injustice. War on Want is SUN calling for an end to sweatshop exploitation. SUN SUN FROM VANESSA REDGRAVE: SUN SUN "Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women garment workers SUN pay a terrible human price in poor wages and conditions SUN making clothes for British high street shops. War on Want is SUN helping these women to win a better deal. I'm so proud to be SUN working with War on Want and I urge people in Britain to SUN give as much as they can to support War on Want's appeal". SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01cp845 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01cp847 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01cvg47 (Listen) SUN Freedom through Discipline SUN SUN The Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, is the SUN preacher in the second of this year's Lent services taking SUN the theme of the Way to Freedom, and today exploring freedom SUN through discipline. SUN Led by the Revd Canon Mark Harris, with the Cathedral Choir SUN directed by Duncan Ferguson. Organist: Nicholas Wearne. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. 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 b01cks5b (Listen) SUN Why Wear a Tie? SUN SUN Historian David Cannadine compares the traditions of tie SUN wearing on both sides of the Atlantic. He reflects on the SUN social significance of this element of male dress and SUN observes a recent phenomenon - that politicians seem to SUN campaign in open neck shirts but govern wearing ties. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01cvg49 (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01cvg4c (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Simon Frith SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller 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 Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Luke ..... David Perks. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01cvg4f (Listen) SUN Patsy Rodenburg SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the renowned voice coach Patsy SUN Rodenburg. SUN SUN Her work at the National Theatre and the RSC has spanned SUN decades and her students include Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian SUN McKellen, Dame Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis. But her SUN work takes her away from the stage too - she has coached SUN politicians and helped offenders in prison. She says: "I did SUN some work on Hamlet in a top security prison and the guy SUN playing Claudius was a murderer and he spoke, 'Oh my offence SUN is rank, it smells to heaven', and he just broke." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01cjm56 (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 4 SUN SUN Panellists Paul Merton, Liza Tarbuck, Josie Lawrence and Kit SUN Hesketh-Harvey join host Nicholas Parsons for the popular SUN panel game where they have to speak on a given subject for SUN sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Devised by Ian Messiter. SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01cvg4h (Listen) SUN The Food We Eat SUN SUN We are going through an unprecedented change in how we eat. SUN Developing countries are moving away from traditional diets, SUN and all over the world new types of foodstuffs are edging SUN out foods that have been consumed for centuries. Is this a SUN change for the better, what is driving this change, and how SUN well do we understand what the implications are? SUN SUN Two influential thinkers - Michael Pollan in the USA and SUN Joanna Blythman in Britain - have written books that, at a SUN time when food choices and dietary advice seem ever more SUN complicated, offer a cry for simplicity. SUN SUN The most populous nation on the planet - China - is SUN undergoing its own rapid transition. Could the glamour of SUN the western diet really threaten such an ancient and unique SUN food culture? SUN SUN Sheila talks to Michael, Joanna and the food writer and SUN expert on Chinese food, Fuchsia Dunlop, about the food that SUN we eat. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01cp84f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01cvg4k (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 Comp Lit b014629w (Listen) SUN A children's book using the word "Paki". An angry Daily SUN Telegraph editorial about teen fiction. A new group of SUN writers and teachers grappling with the difficult lives of SUN new young readers. 'Comp Lit.' may not have been a literary SUN genre. But it had widespread repercussions SUN SUN Nick Baker revisits a period in children's literature, the SUN 1970s, when stories with gritty true life settings sent the SUN boarding school story packing, at least until the arrival of SUN Harry Potter. A new era of fiction set in state schools, SUN aimed at a diverse new readership, hungry for stories about SUN their lives, rather than the idealised lives of middle class SUN children. SUN SUN Nick traces the arrival of stories for and about 'ordinary' SUN boys and girls of all ages, talking to writers Robert SUN Leeson, Bernard Ashley, Gene Kemp, Farrukh Dhondy and Jan SUN Needle about a time when the politics of class and the SUN classroom, of race and gender, came together in fiction. SUN SUN By the 1970s, books like The Trouble with Donovan Croft by SUN Bernard Ashley, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene SUN Kemp and Come To Mecca by Farrukh Dhondy were depicting real SUN life in Britain. Authors were often teachers, keen to SUN capture the imaginations of reluctant readers with stories SUN they'd relate to. The stories were instantly popular. They SUN inspired the hit TV drama Grange Hill.. SUN SUN What kids should and did read became a hot topic. The new SUN books told stories charged with the language and behaviour SUN found in schools the readers went to. Fostering, working SUN mums, benefits, multiracial friendships and racist bullying SUN were all grist to the mill. Did they sacrifice fantasy for SUN social realism? Should the politics of class race and gender SUN be kept out of the children's books? Nick examines the SUN legacy of Comp Lit. SUN SUN Producer: Tamsin Hughes SUN A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01cks4r (Listen) SUN Haynes, Bedfordshire SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening debate in Bedfordshire. SUN Joining him on the panel are Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood SUN and Chris Beardshaw. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson reports on the progress of the Olympic park SUN and Matthew Biggs investigates Italian vegetable varieties SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Lent Talks b01ckggw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01cvgbp (Listen) SUN The Cruel Sea, Episode 2 SUN SUN Dramatised by John Fletcher. SUN 2 of 2. SUN The second part of Nicholas Monsarrat's searing classic SUN novel about the war in the North Atlantic. SUN SUN Lockhart ..... Gwilym Lee SUN Ericson ..... Jonathan Coy SUN Hallam ..... Tracy Wiles SUN Wainwright ..... David Seddon SUN Raikes ..... Gerard McDermott SUN Phillips ..... Peter Hamilton-Dyer SUN Ferraby ..... Carl Prekopp SUN Gregg ..... Harry Livingstone SUN The Operator ..... Adam Billington SUN Coxswain ..... James Lailey SUN SUN Sound by Caleb Knightley SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01cvgbr (Listen) SUN Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty SUN SUN Alan Hollinghurst talks to James Naughtie and readers about SUN his 2004 Man Booker prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty. SUN SUN Framed by the general elections of 1983 and 1987 which SUN returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty is a SUN story of love, class, sex and money - and AIDs. It won SUN praise for the way it crawls deep under the skin of 1980's SUN Britain. SUN SUN Protagonist Nick Guest is a young, gay Oxford graduate of SUN modest means who is invited to stay with the wealthy Fedden SUN family at their Notting Hill home. The father Gerald is a SUN conservative MP consumed by by his rising status within the SUN party; his wife Rachel is from the landed gentry - and SUN therefore old money; daughter Catherine is a manic SUN depressive, whilst Nick has had a crush on the son Toby SUN since their time together at University. SUN SUN However, there is far more to this book than mere social SUN satire. SUN SUN "It's about someone who loves things more than people. And SUN who ends up with nothing, of course. I know it's bleak, but SUN then I think it's probably a very bleak book, even though SUN it's essentially a comedy." SUN SUN This is Nick speaking about Henry James' book The Spoils of SUN Poynton, which he has been turning into a (doomed, of SUN course) film script. However, in a typical instance of SUN Hollinghurst's sharp irony, both the reader and Nick himself SUN realise just as he speaks these words that he might as well SUN be discussing his own narrative in The Line of Beauty. SUN SUN April's Bookclub choice : Anne Enright's The Gathering SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b01cvgbt (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN Ruth Padel's landmark series exploring the pleasures of SUN writing and reading poems comes this time from The Dylan SUN Thomas Centre in Swansea, where Ruth leads a workshop with SUN the Junkbox poetry group. SUN SUN To warm up their poetry muscles, the group try out some SUN writing exercises. These will be available on the website SUN for anyone who wants to give them a go. Then they work on SUN developing and refining poems from two members of the group; SUN acting (as Heaney describes it) as "the reader over my SUN shoulder." The poems are Milking Time by Becky Lowe and SUN Still Life with Wine Glasses by Alan Kellerman. Both have a SUN sense of loss or longing. The group discuss line endings, SUN alliteration and adjectives, and the effectiveness of their SUN use in the two poems. They also enjoy and respond to a poem SUN by Gwyneth Lewis that evokes that peculiarly Welsh SUN phenomenon 'hiraeth'. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01cjwvh (Listen) SUN Credit Rating Agencies SUN SUN Their judgments send markets into freefall. It is alleged SUN that their mistakes led to the Enron collapse and the 2008 SUN financial crisis. They are the credit rating agencies. Who SUN exactly are they and what exactly do they do? SUN SUN Is this exploration of the complex world of the "Big Three" SUN rating agencies, BBC Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym SUN takes listeners behind the scenes of the world economy. SUN Through revealing interviews with insiders and former SUN analysts at Standard and Poor's (S&P), Moody's and Fitch, SUN along with leading investors and bankers, Hugh tells the SUN story of the world's ongoing financial woes from a new SUN perspective and ask if anything has really changed. S&P SUN managing director John Chambers explains why governments SUN listen to what his company says. SUN SUN In Italy the agencies - rarely heard about until recently - SUN have suddenly been subject to police raids and front page SUN headlines. Italy, like many European nations, is unhappy SUN about its recent downgrade and campaigner Elio Lannutti is SUN on a mission to break the power of the rating agencies. But SUN is there any truth in the idea that they're acting SUN politically in their judgements on the Eurozone? SUN SUN Real concern about the "Big Three" began following the SUN collapse, in 2001-2003, of several major multinationals, SUN including Parmalat, dubbed Europe's Enron. Ordinary people SUN who lost money know only too well what it means when the SUN rating agencies get it wrong. When mortgage-backed SUN securities began going bad in 2007, alarm bells rang again. SUN Why had financial products riddled with bad debt been given SUN Triple A ratings? SUN SUN So is there any way of breaking the "Big Three's" grip on SUN power - or are they an inevitable fact of life in a global SUN financial landscape? SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01cvcr2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01cp84h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01cp84k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01cp84m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01cvgbw (Listen) SUN Eric Robson makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Now, where would you find the henhouse that sparked the Euro SUN crisis, a Czech spy who did a bunk in 1974, Neil Kinnock SUN shedding a furtive tear, the father of humanism, owls, SUN potcheen and a glass of Chateau Fleet Street? SUN It's all in Pick of the Week with Eric Robson on Sunday. SUN SUN The Great Squanderland - Roof Radio 4 SUN Essential Classics - Radio 3 SUN The Essay: Wild Things, The Owl. - Radio 3 SUN The Strand - World Service SUN Japan: Hope Amid the Chaos - World Service SUN The History Plays: Stonehouse in Alice - Radio 4 SUN Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle - Radio 4 SUN Ramblings: Kinder Scout - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes: Ascent of Mount Ventroux - Radio 3 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Rumpole and the Man of God - Radio 4 SUN Kitchen Cabinet - Radio 4 SUN Angarrack - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen SUN Addition(s):. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01cvgby (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b012f9s3 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Memento Mori and The Motherless Bear SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SUN charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience SUN readings. This week: The consequences of buying your partner SUN an antique skeleton in "Memento Mori" and a dark fable about SUN mourning: "The Motherless Bear". SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Dressing Natalie b01d24cl (Listen) SUN By Hannah McGill. A woman puts pen to paper and writes to SUN her bank manager after an unforeseen spending spree. Read by SUN Barbara Rafferty. SUN SUN Writer and critic Hannah McGill is a former Artistic SUN Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01cks4y (Listen) SUN The fate of BBC local radio is once more under the SUN microscope this week, as independent media consultant John SUN Myers publishes his report on the best way to cut costs and SUN keep quality. He recommends scrapping the plan to share SUN afternoon programmes across regions, and suggests that SUN cutting back on management could save two million pounds. SUN Roger meets David Holdsworth, the controller of English SUN Regions, to find out what this will mean for listeners. SUN SUN As the BBC World Service turns 80, it has thrown open the SUN doors to its news conference. For the first time the daily SUN meeting where editors discuss the news agenda was broadcast SUN around the world. Feedback went along to find out how much SUN the great and the good consider what the audience wants to SUN hear. SUN SUN And do you know your Angry Birds from your Grand Theft Auto? SUN On BBC Radio 4 a recent edition of Front Row focused on SUN computer games. About time too said many listeners. So will SUN there be more discussion of the topic in the future? Roger SUN meets editor John Goudie to find out. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01cks4w (Listen) SUN John Wilson on SUN SUN Davy Jones - the child actor from Manchester who became a SUN Monkee in California. Last Word hears from his bandmate SUN Peter Tork. SUN SUN Jean Pateman who led the campaign to save Highgate Cemetery SUN from closure in the 70s, remained the guardian of the place SUN for 30 years and became the basis of a character in a SUN bestselling novel by Audrey Niffenegger SUN . SUN Steve Kordek, the man who, in the 1940s, revolutionised the SUN game of pinball by adding the electric flippers. SUN SUN And childbirth guru Betty Parsons whose clients included the SUN Queen and Princess Diana. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01cvcqr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01cvg45 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01cjm5g (Listen) SUN America: The Right Way SUN SUN Justin Webb explores what the primaries reveal about the SUN state of the right in the US. Is the Republican party really SUN split? We explore how the party has shifted to the right, SUN and the reasons for it. The role of the Tea party within the SUN conservative movement, and the effect it's having on the SUN primary race. We look at what ideas the American right SUN offers in the post financial crisis world -that might SUN enthuse Americans and perhaps the rest of us too. And ask is SUN the party ready to lead again. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01cvgc2 (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 b01cvgc4 (Listen) SUN Episode 93 SUN SUN David Aaronovitch of The Times analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01ckr42 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Minnie Driver and director Marc SUN Evans to discuss their high school musical Hunky Dory, a SUN love letter to 1970's Wales. SUN SUN Austrian Markus Schleinzer discusses his debut Michael, SUN where a paedophile imprisons a young boy in his cellar. SUN SUN Pasquale Iannone explains why The Conformist from 1970 is SUN director Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece and a blue print SUN for the American New Wave. SUN SUN And as the Oscar stardust settles, box office analyst SUN Charles Gant reveals what we've actually been watching on SUN the big screen. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01cvg3z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 MARCH 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01cp858 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01ckggc (Listen) MON "poor mentality", "placidly bovine", "volubly unreachable", MON "feeble minded" - just some of the terms used by social MON workers as they tried to describe the poor in the 1920s and MON 30s. Much of their case work was given over to discussing MON whether the poor were deserving or whether they were making MON fraudulent claims on the charities and government MON organisations these new professionals were representing. MON Laurie is joined by Mark Peel, the author of a new study of MON social work and poverty in the United States, Australia and MON Britain, and they discuss which attitudes have changed and MON which remain the same with the historian Selina Todd. MON Also, how evangelic Christians have turned their backs on MON fire and brimstone and are seeking to put the Bible into the MON background of everyday life. Matthew Engelke talks about his MON study of the Bible Society of England and Wales. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01cvg3x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01cp85b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01cp85d (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01cp85g (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01cp85j (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cvk7w (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Bishop Martin Shaw. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01cvk7y (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01cp85n (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01cvk80 (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including MON Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01cvk82 (Listen) MON Middle Age: David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon MON Armitage and Claudia Hammond MON MON Andrew Marr celebrates middle age with the scientist David MON Bainbridge, who dismisses any suggestion of mid-life crisis, MON to argue that there's much more to middle age than just a MON period between youth and being old. The poet Simon Armitage MON asks in 'Knowing what we Know Now', whether we'd choose to MON live our life backwards once we got to the mid point, but MON the writer Deborah Moggach suggests there's a gender divide MON to reaching 50. And the psychologist Claudia Hammond MON discusses perceptions of time, and explores why we're so MON obsessed with its passing. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01cvk84 (Listen) MON Book of the Week: Then They Came for Me, Episode 1 MON MON Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's MON presidential election, believing he would return to his MON pregnant fiancée, Paola, in just a few days. In fact, he MON would spend the next three months in Iran's most notorious MON prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions. MON MON During his time in prison, Bahari drew strength from the MON similar experiences of his family in the past: his father MON had been imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s and his sister MON by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. MON MON Bahari's memoir is also a troubling portrait of life in MON modern Iran. MON MON Read by Philip Arditti and Peter Hamilton Dyer. MON MON 'Then They Came for Me' is by Maziar Bahari, with Aimee MON Molloy. The book is published by Oneworld MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Emma Harding. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cvk86 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Jane's Sport Relief Challenge MON MON It’s Sport Relief and this year we’re all being asked to ‘go MON the extra mile’. That's exactly what Jane did, along with MON six other BBC radio presenters, who completed an army MON assault course. MON MON Reduced Working Hours MON MON It is recognised that women have disproportionately been MON victims of public and private-sector redundancies and the MON most recent official figures also demonstrated that women MON are increasingly taking up part-time work because of a lack MON of alternatives, 5.86 million women compared with 2.01 MON million men. At the same time there is anecdotal evidence of MON people in both the public and private sectors being asked to MON work reduced hours. How willing should you be to accept part MON time work? Jane speaks to solicitor, Jo Davis, Partner and MON Head of Employment at BP Collins. MON MON Legal Aid Update MON MON The Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders bill MON returns to the House of Lords today for final readings. If MON it becomes law, it’s been estimated that 7,000 fewer MON domestic violence cases will qualify for legal aid each MON year. The government last week agreed to broaden the MON definition of domestic violence used in the bill, after MON pressure from women’s organisations, legal campaigners and MON politicians. However, opponents of the bill are not MON satisfied by this change of heart, and want the evidence MON criteria in such cases to be widened too. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cvk88 (Listen) MON I Love You, Goodbye, Episode 1 MON MON written and adapted by Cynthia Rogerson MON MON Rose's marriage to Harry is falling apart. Their 15 year old MON son, Sam, hates them for moving to the Highlands. Polish MON philosopher and pizza maker, Maciek, is missing home and MON Ania, the marriage guidance counsellor, finds that not MON everything can be orderly. All are soon to discover the MON beauty and heartache of love. MON MON Rose ... Wendy Seager MON Harry ... Steven McNicholl MON Sam ... Finn den Hertog MON Ania ... Meg Fraser MON Maciek ... Grant O'Rourke MON MON Original music by Fraser Fifield MON Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 11:00 Boot Camp on a Boat: Still Sailing? b01cvk8b (Listen) MON In 2010, Jolyon Jenkins went to Hull to report on 'Cat MON Zero', an innovative new charity that set itself ambitious MON targets to change the lives of the city's 'NEETs' - young MON people not in employment, education or training. Powerful, MON moving and funny, the documentary he made charted the early MON days of a controversial approach to re-engaging these MON disaffected and disenchanted young people. MON MON Unlike other projects targeted at this hard-to-reach group, MON Cat Zero did not offer trendy 'teen' prizes for those taking MON part. They promised instead a gruelling SAS-type test where MON participants would have no sleep, no cigarettes, lots of MON exercise and a series of chores and challenges to complete, MON including cooking their own food. If they survived this MON introductory event, they could join the six-week training MON course which would lead to several qualifications and the MON possibility of a voyage in the North Sea for two weeks. MON Hull's NHS Primary Care Trust spent nearly half a million MON pounds on a 72 foot yacht as its contribution to the scheme, MON causing controversy both locally and nationally. MON MON Early results were encouraging but the long-term impact of MON this unusual project were yet to be determined, and its MON initial funding ran out in September 2011. Now that the MON government and the economic climate have radically changed, MON Jolyon asks how things have turned out for 'graduates' of MON the scheme and how it will raise funds to keep going in the MON future. MON MON He discovers what co-founder Jim Dick sees as a perfect MON example of 'Big Society'. The charity has adapted its MON programmes to suit the needs of sixth-formers and older MON jobseekers as well as the 16-18 year old NEETs. It has MON partners in a range of businesses across Hull with private MON and public sector funding and now sells berths on events MON like the North Atlantic Challenge to raise money for the MON project in the winter months. MON MON As for the people it was set up to help:seventy per cent of MON its participants have come off the NEET register and their MON testimony is moving. Vinny left school at thirteen, became a MON father at sixteen and had resigned himself to a life on MON benefits at seventeen. But he was persuaded onto the course MON and says it has transformed his life. He now has a full time MON job and is looking forward to 'living as an adult and MON starting my life'. His mother Angie says 'Cat Zero hasn't MON just changed his life, it's changed our lives and his son's MON life. He left here a boy and he came back a man. He totally MON changed and he's stayed that way.' MON MON Producer Mary Ward-Lowery MON MON 11:30 Wordaholics b01cvk8d (Listen) MON Episode 3 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 vie for supremacy in the ring. MON MON Today's show features Fresh Meat star Jack Whitehall, Radio MON 4 regular Milton Jones and Countdown stalwart Susie Dent as MON well as Greek scholar and all-round clever clogs Natalie MON Haynes. MON MON Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01cvk8g (Listen) MON Radio 4's Consumer Affairs Programme. MON MON New research shows how customers can pay over £300 more a MON year for the same amount of energy depending on where they MON live and the tariff they choose. MON MON The diet advice on the diabetes website has been criticised MON by a doctor who says it could well make the condition worse. MON MON Later this year restrictions on non lawyers owning and MON running law firms will be abolished. The aim is that legal MON firms will become more entrepreneurial and efficient. MON Supporters say it will lead to less costly services and MON products that will be easier to understand; critics claim it MON could do the opposite. MON MON British supermarkets are rejecting more fruit and vegetables MON from foreign suppliers because they are 'ugly'. They say MON Britain is becoming obsessed with looks over taste;meanwhile MON A Tory MP agrees and she's setting up a business to sell MON 'ugly food'. MON MON A firm that supplied expert witnesses to courts ruling on MON disputes relating to the cost of car hire has been closed MON down and its employees face jail in what has been described MON as one of the largest legal scams ever. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01cp869 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01cvk8j (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 b01cvk8l (Listen) MON Sport for All MON MON Clare Balding asks why and when did the British government MON get involved in sport. How did sport become part of MON politics, in a country which had always prided itself on MON keeping them apart? MON The Nazis threw immense resources behind the German team for MON the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, while the British Foreign MON Office still thought sport should be, ' a private affair MON between private individuals' free of government MON interference. However by the 1950's post war politicians MON began to think that physical recreation and games might be a MON cure for the general apathy and discontent of British youth MON as exemplified by the teddy boys, mods and rockers of the MON era. MON Professor Tony Mason of The International Centre for Sport MON Culture and History at De Montfort University explains the MON importance of the 1957 Wolfenden Committee's report in MON broadening access to sporting facilities for all sectors of MON society. MON Technical presentation: John Benton MON Producer: Lucy Lunt. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01cvgby (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01cvk8n (Listen) MON Stone, Demons MON MON Demons written by Martin Jameson. MON MON Second in a new series of the intelligent detective drama MON created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring Hugo Speer as DCI MON John Stone. MON MON When a young man, Emir, is fatally stabbed in a Manchester MON street in front of his twin brother Jamal, DCI Stone and his MON team investigate whether it could be a case of mistaken MON identity. Emir's father believes it to be a racist attack MON and has serious concerns about Stone's investigation. As MON tension mounts, racial unrest begins to spread through the MON city and Stone's investigation comes under intense scrutiny. MON Then Jamal goes missing. MON MON DCI STONE.....Hugo Speer MON DI MIKE TANNER.....Craig Cheetham MON DS SUE KELLY.....Deborah McAndrew MON JAMAL.....Darren Kuppan MON SYED.....Shiv Grewal MON MUMTAZ.....Harvey Virdi MON DALE/CONNOR.....Matthew McNulty MON MCCAFFREY.....Jonathan Keeble MON MON Produced by Nadia Molinari MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01cvk8q (Listen) MON (17/17) MON Russell Davies is in the chair, as the 2012 season of the MON longest-lived general knowledge contest of them all reaches MON the Final. The four competitors who have come unscathed MON through heats and semi-finals line up for the last hurdle, MON which will determine who is named the 59th 'Brain of MON Britain'. This year the Finalists are from London, South MON Wales and Nottinghamshire. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01cvg4h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Fever Pitched: Twenty Years On b01cvkc1 (Listen) MON So acceptable has it become for the middle classes to 'talk' MON football, it's hard to remember what an anomaly you were in MON 1992 if you had a degree and followed league games. The MON public perception of football for most of the eighties was MON summed up by a broadsheet article which called it 'a slum MON sport for slum people'. MON MON Nick Hornby's 'Fever Pitch' may not have single-handedly MON changed all of that in the twenty years since it was MON published, but the quality of the autobiographical writing MON had a huge impact on the admissibility of the sport into MON high and middle brow circles, and influenced a generation of MON British male writers. In this programme Nick Hornby talks to MON presenter John Wilson to uncover the origins of this MON remarkable account of a self-aware and obsessive Arsenal MON fan. They also venture into Arsenal's old ground at Highbury MON (now converted into flats) to reflect on how much the world MON of football has changed since Nick first conceived the book. MON John also happens to have a personal stake in the fate of MON the stadium, and in the story of Nick's seminal memoir - MON he's the son of legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson who MON features in 'Fever Pitch'. MON MON Produced by Faith Lawrence in Salford. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01cvkc3 (Listen) MON Atheism MON MON For the last few years a group dubbed the New Atheists have MON been waging a verbal war against religion. The language they MON employ is unrestrained. The late Christopher Hitchens was MON fairly typical when he wrote in his book "God is not Great," MON "Religion comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our MON species and is a babyish attempt to meet our insatiable MON demand for knowledge." Richard Dawkins has declared that his MON aim is " To convert religious believers to atheism by MON helping them to overcome their childhood indoctrination in MON order to break free of the vice of religion altogether." MON Where has this new militancy come from? How does it differ MON from the Atheism that went before? Is New Atheism a movement MON and where is it heading? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss Atheism today are Professor Simon MON Blackburn, Vice President of the British Humanist MON Association; Mark Embleton, a psychologist and President of MON Atheism UK; and Lois Lee, founder of the Non-Religion and MON secularity research network. MON MON 17:00 PM b01cvkc5 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01cp86h (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01cvkc7 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 5 MON MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game that celebrates its MON 45th birthday this year. MON MON He hands out subjects on which the panellists must attempt MON to talk for a minute without hesitation, repetition or MON deviation. A task much harder than it sounds. MON MON Devised by Ian Messiter. MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01cvkdb (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01cvkdd (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who meets Oscar-winning film-maker Andrew MON Stanton, whose writing credits include Toy Story and Finding MON Nemo, and whose new film is a fantasy adventure set on Mars. MON MON Producer Timothy Prosser. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cvk88 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01cvkg4 (Listen) MON Mike Thomson returns with Radio 4's investigative history MON series, examining documents which shed new light on past MON events. MON MON In the first programme of the new series, Mike investigates MON the role played by the French Government and defence MON industry during the Falklands War. MON MON 30 years on, it's well documented that French President MON Francois Mitterrand was supportive of the British war effort MON - not least in the memoirs of Prime Minister Margaret MON Thatcher. Yet Mike discovers papers which suggest there was MON a deep split within the French government. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01cvkg6 (Listen) MON Neue Labour MON MON Why Labour thinkers believe German society should be the MON model for Britain's centre left. Matthew Taylor, a former MON policy adviser to Tony Blair, presents. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01crd80 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper hears the outcome of the House of Lords MON review into the role of the government's departmental Chief MON Scientific Advisers from the chair of the committee, Lord MON Krebs. There is news of progress towards refining, reducing MON and replacing the use of animals in scientific experiments. MON And we take a walk in the forest - the oldest forest ever MON discovered, home to strange plant ancestors nearly 400 MON million years ago. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Government Scientific Advisors MON MON The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has just MON published its report on the role and functions of MON departmental Chief Scientific Advisers. The report sets out MON a range of recommendations to ensure that Government policy MON decisions are supported by the best science and engineering MON advice available. They include promoting Chief Scientific MON Advisers to a grade where they have direct access to MON ministers, making most of them part-time so they still MON maintain links with science, and adding a social science MON adviser. Quentin hears the details from Lord Krebs who MON chaired the investigation. MON MON Reducing, Refining and Replacing Animals in Research MON MON The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and MON Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) has just announced MON the winners of a competition to find new ways to do exactly MON that: replace animals in research, refine their use to MON minimise discomfort, and reduce the numbers needed. Dr MON Kathryn Chapman of NC3Rs discusses the awards and their MON purpose and Dr Anna Williams of Edinburgh University MON describes how she can now use thin slices of tissue rather MON than whole animals in her research on multiple sclerosis. MON MON Fossil Forests MON MON 390 million years ago, not far from what is now New York MON City, there was a forest; one of the first forests the world MON had seen. This week, the journal Nature publishes details of MON an excavation of that forest, revealing giant ferns and a MON strange creeper that may represent the first woody timber on MON Earth. Quentin hears the details from Dr Chris Berry of MON Cardiff University. Dr Howard Falcon-Lang of Royal Holloway MON University of London describes his new world map of forests MON at the time of the dinosaurs, featuring prickly but MON nutritious monkey puzzle trees and pinewoods that reached MON almost to the Poles. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01cvk82 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01cp86r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01cvln4 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01cvln6 (Listen) MON Capital, Episode 1 MON MON Capital - the new novel by John Lanchester is the story of MON one south London street, which has seen a hundred years of MON fortunes made and lost, of hearts broken, of first steps and MON last breaths. And then, one day a card with a simple message MON drops through each letterbox: 'We Want What You Have'... MON MON At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensive life, a MON stalled marriage and a job in the City. His hoped-for MON Christmas bonus of a million pounds might seem lavish, but MON with second homes and nannies to maintain it's starting to MON look more like a necessity. At eighty-two, Petunia Howe just MON sits in her window, perplexed by how Pepys Road has changed MON in her lifetime, wondering why anyone wants what she's got. MON Elsewhere in Pepys Road, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to MON indulge the affluent in their interior decoration whims and MON traffic warden Quentina has exchanged political activism in MON Zimbabwe for encounters with enraged motorists. At the end MON of the road, Ahmed Kamal runs the cornershop. For them all, MON this non-stop city offers the chance of a different kind of MON life. MON MON Capital is read by Rafe Spall and begins in December 2007 MON with the residents of Pepys Road preparing for Christmas, MON but the cards they receive aren't what they expect. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00w20zg (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 1 MON MON The 'one woman Fast Show' performs an array of comic MON characters including a fame-hungry celebrity mother. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01cvm3l (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 MARCH 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01cp884 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01cvk84 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01cp886 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01cp888 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01cp88b (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01cp88g (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cz1m7 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Bishop Martin Shaw. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01cvpys (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01cvpyv (Listen) TUE Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports TUE Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01cvpyx (Listen) TUE Martin Rees TUE TUE Jim enters the multiverse with Astronomer Royal Martin Rees. TUE He's worked on the big bang, black holes and the formation TUE of galaxies but what he would really like to know is if TUE there is life elsewhere in the universe. TUE TUE As an ex president of the Royal Society and a member of the TUE House of Lords he is at the heart of science policy and TUE worked with the G8 to put science on the international TUE agenda. An atheist, he has attracted criticism from other TUE scientists for his religious views. TUE TUE He says we can now be fairly certain of what happened in the TUE universe from a nanosecond after the big bang until today TUE and is a supporter of the idea that there may have been many TUE big bangs leading to many universes. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01cvpyz (Listen) TUE Yasmin Alibhai-Brown with Megan TUE TUE For personal reasons, the journalist and broadcaster Yasmin TUE Alibhai-Brown, has chosen to explore the impact of divorce TUE on families 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 So far Yasmin has spoken to a grandmother who hasn't seen TUE her granddaughter for four years, and to the author, Louis TUE de Bernieres, who is patron of Families Need Fathers. TUE TUE This week she speaks to 18 year old Megan, who describes the TUE experience of living through her parents' divorce. TUE TUE The charity Young Minds put us in touch with Megan. Their TUE website is www.youngminds.org.uk and Megan is part of the TUE Young Minds VIK (Very Important Kids) project. TUE TUE Young Minds has a Parents' Helpline which is for any adult TUE who is concerned about the mental health or wellbeing of any TUE child or young adult. It's free to call and the number is TUE 0808 802 5544 (Monday to Friday 9.30am-4pm) TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01d2fsn (Listen) TUE Book of the Week: Then They Came for Me, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode, Bahari films some of the demonstrations TUE and violence that follow the disputed presidential TUE elections, but his activities soon bring him to the TUE attention of the Iranian authorities and he finds himself TUE under arrest. TUE TUE Read by Philip Arditti and Peter Hamilton Dyer. TUE TUE 'Then They Came for Me' is by Maziar Bahari, with Aimee TUE Molloy. The book is published by Oneworld TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Emma Harding. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cvpz1 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cvpz3 (Listen) TUE I Love You, Goodbye, Episode 2 TUE TUE written and adapted by Cynthia Rogerson TUE TUE Rose's and Harry continue to attempt to save their failing TUE marriage. Their 15 year old son, Sam, hates them for moving TUE to the Highlands but finds an unexpected friend in Polish TUE philosopher and pizza maker, Maciek. Recovering from a TUE broken heart, Maciek is about to experience a bolt from the TUE blue. TUE TUE Rose ..... Wendy Seager TUE Harry ..... Steven McNicholl TUE Sam ..... Finn den Hertog TUE Ania ..... Meg Fraser TUE Maciek ..... Grant O'Rourke TUE TUE Original music by Fraser Fifield TUE Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 11:00 Return of the South China Tiger b01cvpz5 (Listen) TUE Back to China TUE TUE Ten Years ago, Li Quan - a petite former fashion executive TUE --and her American multi-millionaire banker husband, turned TUE their backs on the corporate world and, decided to use their TUE personal wealth to try to save the South China tiger from TUE extinction. TUE TUE With no formal qualifications or conservation background, Li TUE persuaded the Chinese authorities to lend her two precious TUE zoo-bred tigers, to be shipped to a reserve in South Africa. TUE There the tigers could learn to hunt and breed in the wild TUE again. Their offspring would then be sent back to specially TUE created wildlife reserves in China. TUE TUE It was a daring plan, and widely criticised for being too TUE risky and too costly. But ten years on, there are now 14 TUE tigers in South Africa, six of them born in the last year, TUE and all have proved proficient hunters. TUE TUE The next stage of the project is to establish a wildlife TUE reserve in China where the second generation cubs can be TUE returned. Several possible sites have been selected, and TUE prey animals would also have to be introduced for the tigers TUE to hunt. It is a challenging task. TUE TUE Depending on the site chosen by the Chinese government, TUE thousands of people may have to be moved in order to make TUE way for the tigers, and there is still the unresolved TUE problem of poaching in a country where tiger blood and body TUE parts are highly prized for Chinese medicine, despite being TUE illegal since 1993. TUE TUE Sue Armstrong asks whether this pioneering project has any TUE prospect of saving one of the world's most endangered TUE species? TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Bach's Choir b01cvpz7 (Listen) TUE Stephen Evans traces the 800 year history of the the boys TUE choir of St Thomas' Church Leipzig, from the days of J S TUE Bach through Mendelssohn, the war years and communism. TUE TUE St Thomas' is a remarkable choir. One of the oldest in TUE Europe it was traditionally formed from the less privileged TUE children of the area and developed a unique sound and TUE technical excellence that J S Bach exploited to the full in TUE his 20 years as its music master. Since then the choir has TUE treasured the musical traditions of its early years and TUE defended the elite musical education of the boys and the TUE performance of Bach's works as he would have heard them, TUE surviving the Nazi years and atheist communism too. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01cvpz9 (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 b01cp88p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01cvr3q (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents the latest national and TUE international news. Listeners can share their views via TUE email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Sport and the British b01cvr3s (Listen) TUE Golden Girls TUE TUE In the final week of her series exploring how sport made TUE Britain and Britain made sport, Clare Balding looks at the TUE female British athletes of the 1960's who finally took TUE centre stage on the podium and in the press. TUE She visits the home of the Birchfield Harriers in TUE Birmingham, one of the country's leading athletics clubs. TUE There she meets Norma Blaine who'd been coaching young women TUE athletes since 1951. Norma remembers when women were unable TUE to compete in any distance race over two hundred metres. Her TUE friend, Diane Leather ran a five minute mile, (breaking the TUE women's world record), the same week as Bannister broke the TUE male world record but Diane's achievement was never TUE acknowledged. TUE Clare explores the legacy of Anita Lonsborough,Dorothy TUE Hyman, Anne Packer, Mary Rand and Lillian Board and asks if TUE this golden age of female athletes can ever be repeated. TUE The series has been made with The International Centre for TUE Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University in TUE Leicester. TUE Technical presentation: John Benton TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01cvkdb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00p8hk4 (Listen) TUE The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer TUE TUE Glasgow 1780. Lawyer Enoch Dalmellington represents the TUE ambiguities of Scottish society since the Union. He detests TUE the corruption of Glasgow's merchants, but can't resist TUE being bought off by them; he dreams of Scottish TUE independence, but is too canny to mention it. And there's a TUE wake-up call to a city whose history has always been more TUE rich, varied and morally ambiguous than the dominant TUE narrative of victimhood allows. TUE TUE Dalmellington ..... Ian McDiarmid TUE Directed by Jeremy Mortimer TUE TUE 15:00 The Global Reach b01cw5n8 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE The Global Reach is a new weekly programme , presented by TUE Katie Derham ,which aims to shine a light on international TUE affairs through the personal stories of those directly TUE involved in the making of history. TUE TUE This week, a year on from the Japanese earthquake, we hear TUE the story of sixty one year old Hiromitsu Shinkawa, who was TUE rescued 10 miles out to sea, sitting on the roof of his TUE house 2 days after a massive Tsunami hit his home TUE TUE We go ringside with Yamar, a big fan of La Lutte or TUE Senegalese wrestling, which is fast becoming the West TUE African country's biggest sporting obsession. TUE TUE Narcorridos are the most popular musical genre in northern TUE Mexico but their jaunty polka-style rhythms often hide TUE something far more sinister and insidious. The drug cartels TUE use them to recruit gunmen to their cause and to frighten TUE their rivals. We find out who sings them, who listens to TUE them and why. TUE TUE As Azerbaijan gears up to host this year's Eurovision, Azeri TUE activist and "donkey" blogger Emin Milli takes a wry look at TUE his country's record on human rights. TUE TUE Producer: Will Yates TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01cw5nb (Listen) TUE Rebel Without a Car TUE TUE The car was once the symbol of youthful cool. From James TUE Dean through Steve McQueen to Ayrton Senna the car was a TUE symbol of freedom, daring and sexual allure. Today the young TUE of the western world have turned their back on the car. Half TUE of American 17-year-olds have a driver's licence today TUE compared with three-quarters in 1998 and in Europe car sales TUE are down whilst public transport use is up. TUE TUE Is it simply that insurance costs have rocketed for young TUE drivers? Is it because the young remain in education for TUE longer? Are our youth becoming more environmentally aware or TUE is it because cars have become safe, reliable and downright TUE dull? TUE TUE In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap takes to the road from the TUE Streets of San Francisco to the inner ring roads of the West TUE Midlands to find out if the age of the car is coming to an TUE end. He meets the marketing men, the manufacturers and the TUE innovators struggling to retain a place in our affections TUE for the motor car. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01cw5nd (Listen) TUE Sport and the Law TUE TUE The law is increasingly impacting on sport, with landmark TUE cases being heard in the High Court and European Court of TUE Justice in areas like drugs and employment law. The TUE involvement of lawyers has increased as the professionalism TUE and importantly the money has increased. But when sport ends TUE up in the ordinary courts the cases can be slow and in some TUE cases financially crippling. Governing bodies are often keen TUE to stay out of court, and sport has instituted its own TUE courts, such as the Court for Arbitration for Sport. Many TUE sporting governing bodies write into their constitutions TUE that the CAS be the first port of call in dispute TUE resolution. TUE TUE The CAS will play a key role at the Olympics, but dispute TUE resolution starts long before the games themselves. TUE Britain's rhythm gymnastics team are already appealing TUE against a decision not to select them for the Olympics and TUE sprinter Dwain Chambers is awaiting a decision by CAS on TUE whether the British Olympic Association rules that currently TUE bar him from competing in an Olympic Games break the TUE international rules on drug bans. TUE TUE But the move away from the normal courts is not driven by TUE cost alone. There is a debate about how far the law courts TUE should be involved in decisions which impact on sport. The TUE European Union has recognised the special nature of sport, TUE and this has been welcomed by sporting governing bodies. But TUE are we seeing the build up of a body of sports law, which TUE might conflict with law in other areas? How far should sport TUE be special in the eyes of the law? And where should the TUE boundary lie between areas which are decided by traditional TUE courts, sports courts or left up to the sport governing TUE bodies themselves? Joshua Rosenberg talks to those involved TUE with sport and the law. TUE TUE Producer: Wesley Stephenson. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01cw5ng (Listen) TUE Deborah Meaden, Eliza Carthy TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert invites Deborah Meaden from Dragons' Den, TUE and folk-singer and songwriter Eliza Carthy to pick their TUE favourite books. TUE TUE Eliza chooses Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran TUE Foer - a story of a young man who goes to the Ukraine in TUE search of the woman who saved his Grandfather from the TUE Nazis, aided by a blind old man, a randy dog and a very, TUE very bad translator. TUE TUE Deborah's choice is the historical detective story The TUE Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, the tale of a TUE young woman, Sarah Blundy, accused of murder set against the TUE backdrop of religious, political and intellectual ferment TUE that surrounded England in the 1600s. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is the idiosyncratic The Emperor's Babe by TUE Bernardine Evaristo. It's a book written entirely in verse TUE and set in Roman Britain, which tells the story of Zuleika, TUE the feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants TUE whose head is turned by the arriving Emperor, Septimus TUE Severus. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01cw5nj (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01cp88w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01cw5nl (Listen) TUE Series 7, Arthurish TUE TUE Arthur sets off to run an ill friend's bar in Spain. To make TUE life easier, for him and everyone else, he attempts to TUE invent his own language. Now, if only he can navigate the TUE airport and get to Spain. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Steve Delaney TUE Mel Giedroyc TUE Alastair Kerr TUE David Mounfield TUE TUE Producer: John Leonard TUE A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01cw5nn (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01cw5nq (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who meets Lloyd Newson, director of DV8 TUE physical theatre, whose new work focuses on questions of TUE freedom of speech in a multicultural society. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cvpz3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01cw5ns (Listen) TUE Family Annihilation TUE TUE In the last two months, four fathers have killed their TUE partners, children and themselves. File on 4 investigates TUE what drives these men to take such drastic action. TUE TUE The programme talks to relatives, expert forensic TUE psychiatrists and academics to try to find out why they TUE became so-called 'family annihilators'. TUE TUE It looks at new research into such cases which points to a TUE link to unemployment rates and the levels of gun ownership. TUE It will also ask whether authorities like the health service TUE and police could do more to watch for signs that men are a TUE risk to their families and asks whether new gun licence TUE measures are working. TUE Presenter: Jane Deith TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01cw5nv (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01cw5nx (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter demystifies health issues that perplex, TUE separates the facts from the fiction and brings clarity to TUE conflicting health advice. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01cvpyx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01cp892 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01cw5nz (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01d5nhh (Listen) TUE Capital, Episode 2 TUE TUE Christmas is upon Pepys Road, Petunia Howe is feeling poorly TUE and Arabella Yount is plotting a surprise for Roger. TUE TUE Capital is read by Rafe Spall and begins in December 2007 TUE with the residents of Pepys Road preparing for Christmas, TUE but the cards they receive aren't what they expect. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The History Plays b01cw5p1 (Listen) TUE Maggie Heart Galtieri TUE TUE Maggie Watkins (Josie Lawrence) finds a young Argentinean TUE soldier, Christian Galtieri (Javier Marzan), in her kitchen, TUE wounded and in need of shelter. As she slowly learns why he TUE is in hiding the pair fall in love, but as their TUE relationship grows the Task Force lands and it becomes TUE harder and harder to ignore the larger forces at play around TUE them. TUE TUE This is the third of Nigel Smith's series The History Plays, TUE five two hander plays set at turning points in the history TUE of the last five decades. TUE TUE Written and directed by Nigel Smith TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01cw5p3 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 MARCH 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01cp8b4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01d2fsn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01cp8b6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01cp8b8 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01cp8bb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01cp8bd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cz1sn (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Bishop Martin Shaw. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01cw65w (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. WED WED 06:00 Today b01cw65y (Listen) WED Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports WED Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01cw660 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01d2ftk (Listen) WED Book of the Week: Then They Came for Me, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, his captors offer to make him a deal. WED WED Read by Philip Arditti and Peter Hamilton Dyer. WED WED 'Then They Came for Me' is by Maziar Bahari, with Aimee WED Molloy. The book is published by Oneworld WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Emma Harding. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cw662 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cw664 (Listen) WED I Love You, Goodbye, Episode 3 WED WED written and adapted by Cynthia Rogerson. WED WED The vagaries and complexities of love and sex continue to WED puzzle the inhabitants of the Highland village of Evanton. WED Could splitting up be the best solution for Harry and Rose? WED And, for Maciek, a miracle occurs outside the Co-op. WED WED Rose ..... Wendy Seager WED Harry ..... Steven McNicholl WED Sam ..... Finn den Hertog WED Ania ..... Meg Fraser WED Maciek ..... Grant O'Rourke WED WED Original music by Fraser Fifield WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 11:00 Building the Big Society b01cw7kl (Listen) WED Organising WED WED Giles Edwards has been following three community organisers, WED who the government hopes will build the Big Society in some WED of England's more deprived areas. But can they do it? WED WED 11:30 HR b01cw7kn (Listen) WED Series 3, Gambled 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, they hope for a WED lottery win. WED WED Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce WED Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost WED Dustman ..... Gerard McDermott. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01cw7kq (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01cp8bg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01cw7ks (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents the 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 b01cw7kv (Listen) WED Rugby's Big Bang WED WED Clare Balding explores why Rugby Union tried to stand firm WED against the encroaching tide of professionalism and in WED August 1995, lost. WED One by one the old bastions of the sporting gentleman had WED fallen in the 1960s and 1970s. Cricket, tennis and athletics WED had all abandoned the Victorian distinction between amateurs WED and professionals. The word 'amateur' had almost become an WED insult. But of all the major sports, only one continued to WED uphold the banner of: rugby union.It had introduced strict WED amateur rules into the game in 1886 and ever since had been WED determined to uphold them. Prod Tony Collins explains that WED when the Thatcher era did away with the old school tie WED mentality and money became an acceptable topic of WED conversation there was only one way rugby could go. WED This series was made in partnership with The International WED Centre for Sport History and Culture. WED WED Technical presentation: John Benton WED Producer: Sara Conkey. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01cw5nn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 On Mardle Fen b01cwrt2 (Listen) WED Series 4, Wives WED WED By Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock stars as inspirational WED chef Warwick Hedges who runs an upmarket restaurant in the WED Cambridgeshire Fens with his son Jack. Warwick's WED granddaughter is back from college and she's curious about WED the family. She wants to trace her roots. In particular WED she's been wondering about her grandmother but her request WED touches a nerve. 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 Imogen...Victoria Inez Hardy WED WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01cwrt4 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests take calls on the financial WED implications of part time working. WED WED More than a quarter of the population now works part-time - WED and record numbers of people have been forced into part-time WED work because they can't find a full-time job, according to WED latest figures from the ONS. WED WED For many, part-time employment offers a good balance between WED work and other commitments. For others it's what they have WED to do until the job market picks up. WED WED If you're one of millions working part-time, whether through WED choice or by necessity, Moneybox Live has a panel of experts WED ready to offer advice and answer any queries you might have. WED WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights, TUC WED WED Malcolm Maclean, pensions expert, Barnett Waddingham WED WED John Whiting, Tax Policy Director, The Chartered Institute WED of Taxation WED WED Will Hadwen, Rights adviser, Working Families WED WED Phone lines open at 1pm. The number to call: - 03 700 100 WED 444. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01cw5nx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01cwrt6 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01cwrt8 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01cwrtb (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01cp8bj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01cwrtd (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Stephen K Amos and his pick of the circuit's best stand-ups WED build an idiot's guide to life. This week Sara Pascoe, Matt WED Forde, Carey Marx and David O'Doherty offer an idiot's guide WED to dishonesty. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01cwrtg (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01cwrtj (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Andrew Lloyd WED Webber, who reflects on Love Never Dies, his follow-up to WED Phantom of the Opera, which is now released on DVD. WED WED Producer Timothy Prosser. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cw664 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01cwrw8 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, WED Clifford Longley and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01cws2d (Listen) WED Prof Linda Woodhead WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01cw5nb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01cw660 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01cp8bl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01cws2g (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01d5njl (Listen) WED Capital, Episode 3 WED WED Roger Yount's Christmas goes from bad to worse and Shahid WED Kamal has a surprise when an old comrade turns up. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01cws2j (Listen) WED Chance WED WED This week Tim tackles the dicey issue of 'chance' via a WED selection of poems including: 'The Wrong Number that Led to WED a Marriage' and 'Probably Gay'. Musical accompaniment is WED provided by Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01cws2l (Listen) WED About Work WED WED 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 frustration. They WED want him to get a 'proper job' using his architecture WED 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 fictionalised WED scenes from his family life. WED WED In Episode Three; Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About WED Work, Nathan is persuaded to work at his Dad's office. WED WED Nathan ..... Nathan Caton WED Grandma ..... Mona Hammond WED Mum ..... Adjoa Andoh WED Dad ..... Curtis Walker WED Mr Brimson ..... Don Gilet WED Paul ..... Ola WED Lingerie Customer / Boss ..... Chizzy Akudolu 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 b01cws2n (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 MARCH 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01cp8c7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01d2ftk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01cp8c9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01cp8cc (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01cp8cf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01cp8ch (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cz3jn (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Bishop Martin Shaw. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01cws6k (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01cwsz9 (Listen) THU Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including THU Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01cwszf (Listen) THU Lyrical Ballads THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the THU collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel THU Coleridge first published in 1798. The volume contains some THU of the best-known work by both men, including The Rime of THU the Ancient Mariner and Tintern Abbey - and is today seen as THU a point of radical departure for poetry in English. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01d2fvd (Listen) THU Book of the Week: Then They Came for Me, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Philip Arditti and Peter Hamilton Dyer. THU THU 'Then They Came for Me' is by Maziar Bahari, with Aimee THU Molloy. The book is published by Oneworld THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Emma Harding. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cwszh (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cwszk (Listen) THU I Love You, Goodbye, Episode 4 THU THU written and adapted by Cynthia Rogerson. THU THU The complexities of love and sex continue to trouble the THU inhabitants of a Highland village. Ania is pregnant but in THU love with another man. Sam is falling in love. But his THU parents, Rose and Harry, have split up - haven't they? THU THU Rose ... Wendy Seager THU Harry ... Steven McNicholl THU Sam ... Finn den Hertog THU Ania ... Meg Fraser THU Maciek ... Grant O'Rourke THU THU Original music by Fraser Fifield THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01cwszm (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 In the Lounge with Rich Morton b01cwszp (Listen) THU For many casual listeners, the music usually defined as THU 'lounge' may conjure up something kitsch and outdated, THU bringing to mind the world of Austin Powers or the THU sentimental, string-sodden arrangements of their parents' THU record collections. As comedian, composer and lounge THU aficionado Rich Morton discovers, there's a large and THU healthy subculture of lounge lovers who view it as anything THU but outdated. For the past twenty years, clubs devoted to THU lounge music have been thriving, and several successful THU series of lounge compilations have brought obscure and THU sought-after tracks by some of the greatest 20th century pop THU and jazz performers to the ears of a new generation. THU THU As a composer and collector of lounge tunes, Rich goes in THU search of the alchemy that produces a lounge classic: THU whether it's the voice of a Rat Pack regular, the tight THU brassy arrangement of a Neil Hefti or a Quincy Jones, the THU timeless simplicity of a Burt Bacharach or Tony Hatch melody THU - or simply a mood, something indefinable, laid-back, THU evocative of a time and a place that's anywhere but here. THU THU Rich meets fellow lounge collectors, club owners and THU composers - with the shared passion for a music that's often THU overlooked or derided but, as the programme reveals, THU constantly being reinvented. New technology means that THU classic tracks are being re-discovered and shared as never THU before, producing fascinating advances and musical hybrids THU within lounge culture. THU THU Producer: Paul Bajoria. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01cwszr (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01cp8ck (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01cwszt (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents the 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 b01cwszw (Listen) THU Globalisation THU THU Clare Balding explores the way global television has changed THU our relationship with sport forever. It's no longer seasonal THU and is bankrolled by TV income and it bows to TV's needs. THU This series was made in partnership with The International THU Centre for Sport History and Culture. THU THU Technical presentation: John Benton THU Producer: Sara Conkey. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01cwrtg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01cwv4c (Listen) THU Love Virtually THU THU Love Virtually is a thoroughly modern epistolary novel with THU a difference: its protagonists - Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike THU - communicate exclusively by e-mail. (Who writes letters THU anymore?) THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01cwv4f (Listen) THU Inspirational Walks, Brecon Beacons - Art in the Park THU THU Clare Balding walks part of the Beacons Way in the Brecon THU Beacons National Park to find out how people are being THU inspired to create their own response to the surrounding THU landscape. The Park's landscape has inspired artists for THU generations and today Clare is joined by Robert Macdonald, THU one of 8 artists to create a series of images which are set THU into stone along sections of the footpath as part of a THU project called 'Art in the Park'. Groups from schools and THU colleges, as well as people from outside of the Park THU boundaries, have been encouraged to walk sections of the THU Beacons Way and gain inspiration themselves from the art THU work and from the landscape around them. THU THU Leading the walk today are some of the people involved with THU the project from both National Park and the Brecon Beacons THU Park Society and, as they walk, Clare talks to members of a THU group from Drugaid Cymru to find out how the project is THU helping, and inspiring, them. THU THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01cvg45 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01cvgbr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01cwvb7 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01cwvb9 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b01cwvbc (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01cp8cm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Not What You Know b01cwvbf (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Miles Jupp hosts the show in which it's not what you know THU that matters, but who. And more importantly, how well you THU know them. THU THU Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley nominate one of THU their intimate circle to answer a series of questions and THU they then have to second-guess how their nominees responded. THU Roisin picks her best friend, Caroline, Ed chooses his mum, THU Jill, and Richard Madeley opts for his daughter, Chloe - all THU with varying degrees of success. THU THU The panel also have to try and predict the responses of THU legendary football commentator, John Motson, as he is asked THU "what's your favourite film?", "what would you have been if THU you weren't a football commentator?" and "which other famous THU TV coat-wearer would you be? The Fonz, Columbo, or THU Paddington Bear?" THU THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01dnj0z (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01cwvbk (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who meets the Grammy Award-winning THU double-bass player Esperanza Spalding. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cwszk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01cw5nd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01cwvbm (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 b01cvpz5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01cwszf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01cp8cp (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01cwvbp (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01d5nkw (Listen) THU Capital, Episode 4 THU THU April 2008 - and life is changing in Pepys Road. Petunia THU faces a bleak future, Shahid has an unwanted guest and the THU Police are investigating the postcards. THU THU Capital is read by Rafe Spall and begins in December 2007 THU with the residents of Pepys Road preparing for Christmas, THU but the cards they receive aren't what they expect. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00t2xwp (Listen) THU The Suspects THU THU Paul and his wife Steve are in great danger. And when the THU attack finally does come, it's from a very unexpected THU direction. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01cwvbr (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 MARCH 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01cp8d8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01d2fvd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01cp8db (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01cp8dd (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01cp8dg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01cp8dj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cz3x6 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt FRI Revd Martin Shaw. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01cwvns (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01cwvnv (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; FRI Thought for the Day. Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah FRI Montague. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01cvg4f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01d2gt8 (Listen) FRI Book of the Week: Then They Came for Me, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Philip Arditti and Peter Hamilton Dyer. FRI FRI 'Then They Came for Me' is by Maziar Bahari, with Aimee FRI Molloy. The book is published by Oneworld FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01cwvnx (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01cwvnz (Listen) FRI I Love You, Goodbye, Episode 5 FRI FRI written and adapted by Cynthia Rogerson. FRI FRI A tragic accident will alter the lives of many of the FRI inhabitants of the Highland village of Evanton. But love - FRI in many forms - survives. FRI FRI Rose ... Wendy Seager FRI Harry ... Steven McNicholl FRI Sam ... Finn den Hertog FRI Ania ... Meg Fraser FRI Maciek ... Grant O'Rourke FRI FRI Original music by Fraser Fifield FRI Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 11:00 Night Visions b01cwvp1 (Listen) FRI A radiophonic journey into the extraordinary world of an FRI aerial crime fighter, peace invader, beholder of night FRI visions and all-seeing eye. FRI FRI Poet Paul Farley takes a journey into the London night FRI aboard the Metropolitan Police helicopter. From its base FRI deep in Epping Forest the city lights can be seen twinkling FRI in the distance. Once the crew is scrambled and the FRI helicopter takes off the illuminated metropolis begins to FRI move beneath him as the the Air Support Unit dashes through FRI the air from task to task. Be it searching for a missing FRI person on a railway siding or a burglar hiding in gardens, FRI taking on car pursuits or watching a house well out of FRI earshot whilst an armed unit lays siege, it observes London FRI and its inhabitants through thermal image cameras which turn FRI night into day. What the naked eye sees, however, is a FRI vision of sublime beauty as the electric city lights up. FRI FRI Farley reflects on this world of transformation and in his FRI poem, The Asset, the helicopter takes on a life of its own. FRI FRI Producer Neil McCarthy. FRI FRI 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery b01cwvp3 (Listen) FRI A Reconstructed Corpse, Episode 2 FRI FRI by Jeremy Front FRI Based on the novel by Simon Brett FRI FRI Charles discovers bitter rivalries FRI amongst the police investigating the murder FRI of a property developer. And an unwelcome surprise awaits FRI when he attempts FRI to celebrate his wedding anniversary with Frances. FRI FRI Charles ..... Bill Nighy FRI Frances ..... Suzanne Burden FRI Maurice ..... Jon Glover FRI Juliet ..... Tilly Gaunt FRI Miles ..... Thomas Arnold 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 Police Constable ..... Christopher Webster FRI Barmaid ..... Victoria Inez Hardy FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01cwvp5 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01cp8dn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01cwvp7 (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 b01cwvp9 (Listen) FRI The State of Play FRI FRI Clare Balding with Professors Richard Holt, Tony Collins and FRI Mike Cronin explores the cultural importance of the great FRI triviality that is sport. FRI The series was made in partnership with The International FRI Centre for Sports History and Culture at de Montfort FRI University. FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt FRI Executive Editor: Ian Bent. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01dnj0z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01czctk (Listen) FRI Not Just for Christmas FRI FRI It was always Danny and Jimmy, Jimmy and Danny. They were FRI blood brothers, inseparable, them against the world - until FRI the one big row that drove them apart. Now twenty years on FRI Jimmy is on the phone, he wants to meet. Jimmy wants to make FRI his peace with his estranged brother, even if it involves a FRI little white lie or two... FRI FRI Danny.....Simon Delaney FRI Jim..... Michael McElhatton FRI Karen.....Barbara Bergin FRI Barman....Gerry O'Brien FRI Billy Dunne....Miche Doherty FRI Billy Dunne's Girlfriend....Deirdre O'Kane FRI Teen Danny.....Sam Keeley FRI Teen Jimmy.....Donal Gallery FRI Young Danny....Adam Brown FRI Young Jimmy.....Scott Graham FRI Kay......Seainin Brennan FRI Father......Paul Kennedy FRI FRI Producer/Director Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01cwwlg (Listen) FRI Eric Robson, Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob FRI Flowerdew are guests of Wolverhampton Horticultural Society. FRI FRI In addition - Practical March: a hands-on guide to one of FRI the busiest months of the gardening year. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Leap Year Tales b01cwwlj (Listen) FRI Excepting February FRI FRI Three stories to mark the Leap Year. FRI FRI 'Excepting February' by Alan Spence. FRI FRI February's extra day threatens to cause technical meltdown FRI in Scotland's granite city, but meanwhile may give love FRI another chance for one man. FRI FRI Read by John Buick. FRI Produced by Patricia Hitchcock FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01cwwll (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 b01cwwln (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 b01cwwlq (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01cp8dq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01cwwls (Listen) FRI Series 36, Episode 4 FRI FRI Topical comedy with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis who are FRI joined by Jon Holmes, Lloyd Langford, Lucy Montgomery and FRI Mitch Benn for this week's look back at the news. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01cwwlv (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01cwwlx (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang in New York, including reports on theatre FRI with a campaigning agenda, and a scheme which allows artists FRI to exchange their work for health care. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01cwvnz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01cwwlz (Listen) FRI Farnborough, Hampshire FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Farnborough, Hampshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01cwwm1 (Listen) FRI Topical reflection. FRI FRI 21:00 Sport and the British: Omnibus b01cwwm3 (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI FRI In the omnibus edition of the final week of Sport and the FRI British ,Clare Balding looks forward to what increased FRI globalisation will mean to the future of sport. FRI FRI Presenter: Clare Balding FRI Producer: Garth Brameld. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01cp8ds (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01cwwm5 (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01d5np9 (Listen) FRI Capital, Episode 5 FRI FRI Spring has sprung in Pepys Road. The police investigation is FRI going nowhere and Roger's deputy is hatching a plan to get FRI him straight to the top. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01cw5ng (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01cwwm7 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
02 March, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 03/03/2012 - 09/03/2012
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