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SAT SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01cp8ft (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01d2gt8 (Listen) SAT Book of the Week: Then They Came for Me, Episode 5 SAT SAT Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's SAT presidential election, believing he would return to his SAT pregnant fiancée, Paola, in just a few days. In fact, he SAT would spend the next three months in Iran's most notorious SAT prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions. SAT SAT During his time in prison, Bahari drew strength from the SAT similar experiences of his family in the past: his father SAT had been imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s and his sister SAT by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. SAT SAT Read by Philip Arditti and Peter Hamilton Dyer. SAT SAT 'Then They Came for Me' is by Maziar Bahari, with Aimee SAT Molloy. The book is published by Oneworld SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Emma Harding. SAT SAT Music tracks from CD Iranian Chronicles (2008), by David SAT Bergeaud SAT Label: CD Baby.Com/Indys SAT ASIN: B001MIFY46 SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01cp8fw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01cp8fy (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01cp8g0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01cp8g2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01cwx24 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Roger Hutchings, Methodist minister. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01cwx26 (Listen) SAT Marriage Understood: Lenny Bruce, Laurel & Hardy and our SAT listeners explain wedded bliss.Eddie Mair uses music, SAT poetry, comedy and personal testimony to explore what SAT marriage is. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01cp8g4 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01cp8g6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01cwv4f (Listen) SAT Inspirational Walks, Brecon Beacons - Art in the Park SAT SAT Clare Balding walks part of the Beacons Way in the Brecon SAT Beacons National Park to find out how people are being SAT inspired to create their own response to the surrounding SAT landscape. The Park's landscape has inspired artists for SAT generations and today Clare is joined by Robert Macdonald, SAT one of 8 artists to create a series of images which are set SAT into stone along sections of the footpath as part of a SAT project called 'Art in the Park'. Groups from schools and SAT colleges, as well as people from outside of the Park SAT boundaries, have been encouraged to walk sections of the SAT Beacons Way and gain inspiration themselves from the art SAT work and from the landscape around them. SAT SAT Leading the walk today are some of the people involved with SAT the project from both National Park and the Brecon Beacons SAT Park Society and, as they walk, Clare talks to members of a SAT group from Drugaid Cymru to find out how the project is SAT helping, and inspiring, them. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01d0fqk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Schmallenberg virus was never heard of before last summer. SAT Now over 3,000 animals across Europe have this disease which SAT causes birth defects in lambs and calves. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith visits the Royal Veterinary College's farm SAT in Hertfordshire, which has two cases of Schmallenberg in SAT their lambs. Professor Peter Mertens explains why midges are SAT thought to be carrying the virus over the Channel, and Dr SAT Matt Horte from the Met Office shows the models they are SAT using to discover where the midges flew to. SAT SAT Anna Hill meets a vet who has been dealing with SAT Schmallenberg in cattle in Norfolk. Dr Alejandro Thiermann SAT from the World Organisation for Animal Health warns that SAT next year Schmallenberg could affect even more animals. And SAT Professor Matthew Baylis from Liverpool University Climate SAT and Infectious Diseases of Animals predicts that the UK SAT could be seeing more midge borne viruses in the future. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01cp8g8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01d0fwx (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01d0fwz (Listen) SAT Joan Collins, Aoife Mannix, Hammer actor, Most Compassionate SAT Mum, Morse Code Sound Sculpture, Duke Fakir's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles with Joan Collins, poet Aoife Mannix, Hammer SAT House of Horror actor Shane Briant, the mother of three who SAT took adopted her friend's 5 children when tragedy struck, a SAT voice artist makes us go 'aaaaah', a Sound Sculpture about SAT Morse Code and the Inheritance Tracks of Duke Fakir from The SAT Four Tops. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01d0fx1 (Listen) SAT Russia - Crimea - Ukraine SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig discusses the 'Wild East' - Russia - with the SAT BBC's former Moscow correspondent, Martin Sixsmith. Actor SAT Michael Simkins relates his adventures on a rail journey SAT from London to Kiev and on to Crimea to visit the former SAT site of the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of SAT Balaklava in 1854 - and author and linguist Anna Shevchenko SAT explains why she believes Ukraine, where she was born, is a SAT 'hidden' country with much to offer the traveller. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01d0g3b (Listen) SAT The People 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 During the series, Will Gompertz encounters dozens of these SAT unique objects - some priceless, others no more than SAT souvenirs - each shedding light on our relationship with the SAT monarchy and giving a glimpse into the essential ingredients SAT of a successful sovereign. SAT SAT In this programme, Will investigates the unspoken and SAT unwritten contract that has existed between the rulers and SAT the ruled in this country. Over the centuries, both parties SAT have used compromise and conflict, threat and reward. Will SAT uses six objects from the Collection to illuminate some of SAT the pivotal moments in this relationship. SAT SAT From the Wriotheseley Garter Book, dating from the 1520s, SAT one of the earliest depictions of Parliament in action, to a SAT ring keeping the memory of the recently executed King SAT Charles I alive, Will sees both extremes of the relationship SAT between monarch and subject. He encounters the face of SAT revolution in an early photograph purchased by Prince Albert SAT and meets some of those recently touched by a sword that SAT belonged to King George VI, now known as the Investiture SAT Sword, as he gets to the heart of the might and the majesty SAT of monarchy. SAT SAT Producer: Neil George. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01d0g3d (Listen) SAT As MPs discuss the Queen's diamond jubilee in the Commons, SAT George Parker of the Financial Times asks why they can't SAT criticise the Monarch there. SAT SAT He hears from the man who takes the pulse of Conservative SAT backbenchers in the run-up to the Budget. SAT SAT There's a tribute to the late Lord St John of Fawsley who SAT set up the system of select committees. SAT SAT And the story of a potentially explosive leak that was never SAT made public. SAT SAT Chris Skidmore, Paul Flynn. Sajid Javid, Lord Butler, John SAT Whittingdale and Mike Hancock are his guests. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01d0g3g (Listen) SAT The fisherman who decided to sail TOWARDS the tsunami - SAT Julian May hears his story as he drives around Japan a year SAT after the tidal wave and nuclear emergency. Owen Bennett SAT Jones has been meeting Syrians forced into making painful SAT decisions by the ongoing fighting in their country. The SAT BBC's moving out of Bush House in London and, for our man in SAT Rome Alan Johnston, that's a cause of some sadness. Russia's SAT often associated with having autocratic leaders and Tim SAT Whewell's in the city of Krasnodar where many still revere SAT the memory of the empress, Catherine the Great. And Will SAT Ross receives an unexpected invitation to fly into troubled SAT Somalia with the Ethiopian army. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01d0g3j (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01cwwls (Listen) SAT Series 36, With Lloyd Langford SAT SAT Topical comedy with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis who are SAT joined by Jon Holmes, Lloyd Langford, Lucy Montgomery and SAT Mitch Benn for this week's look back at the news. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01cp8gb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01cp8gd (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01cwwlz (Listen) SAT Farnborough, Hampshire SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Farnborough Hill school in Farnborough, SAT Hampshire, with Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles; Shadow SAT Attorney General, Emily Thornberry; Daily Telegraph SAT columnist, Cristina Odone and writer, broadcaster and SAT Guardian columnist, Jonathan Freedland. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01d0g3l (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00t8349 (Listen) SAT Rebus: Strip Jack, part 1 SAT SAT Ian Rankin's Edinburgh detective, Inspector Rebus, SAT investigates the disappearance of an MP's wife. Ron Donachie SAT stars in a two-part dramatisation by Chris Dolan. SAT SAT 15:30 Bach's Choir b01cvpz7 (Listen) SAT Stephen Evans traces the 800 year history of the the boys SAT choir of St Thomas' Church Leipzig, from the days of J S SAT Bach through Mendelssohn, the war years and communism. SAT SAT St Thomas' is a remarkable choir. One of the oldest in SAT Europe it was traditionally formed from the less privileged SAT children of the area and developed a unique sound and SAT technical excellence that J S Bach exploited to the full in SAT his 20 years as its music master. Since then the choir has SAT treasured the musical traditions of its early years and SAT defended the elite musical education of the boys and the SAT performance of Bach's works as he would have heard them, SAT surviving the Nazi years and atheist communism too. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01d0g3n (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Goldie Hawn, Sport Relief SAT SAT Is it right to place a child with a family of a different SAT ethnic background or culture ? Goldie Hawn on the secret to SAT maintaining a long term. Alison Steadman on the enduring SAT appeal of Abigail's Party 35 years on and Agyness Deyn on SAT making her stage debut. Former President of Ireland Mary SAT Robinson on what brings about social change. Happy 60th to SAT the New Musical Experess, but what was it like for its women SAT writers in those early days. Plus if money wasn't an issue, SAT what would you choose to do - stay at home with the kids, or SAT go out to work? And Jane Garvey goes the extra mile to raise SAT money for Sport Relief. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer - Laura Northedge SAT Editor - Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01d0j0z (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents a fresh perspective on the day's news, SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01cwvbm (Listen) SAT Cock-ups and Conspiracies 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 executive panel discuss corporate cock-ups and SAT conspiracies. They swap thoughts on why they occur, and how SAT best to avoid them. SAT SAT Joining Evan are Andy Green, chief executive of business and SAT technology service provider Logica; Phil Smith, chief SAT executive of technology company Cisco UK and Ireland; Luke SAT Johnson, serial entrepreneur and chairman of private equity SAT firm Risk Capital Partners. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Richard Vadon. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01cp8gg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01cp8gj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01cp8gl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01d0j11 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson with Sean Bean, John Sergeant and Claire Foy. SAT Emma Freud flirts with Jason Donovan. And music from The SAT Civil Wars SAT SAT Voted the UK's second sexiest man in 2004 (Clive came in at SAT No.1), Sheffield born actor Sean Bean joins Clive as he SAT returns to our screens in the new action thriller Cleanskin SAT in which he plays a Secret Service Agent. SAT SAT Journalist and broadcaster John Sergeant flicks through SAT Britain's First Photo Album, a forthcoming BBC2 series in SAT which he traces the footsteps of a Victorian pioneer SAT photographer who documented Britain in the 1860s. SAT SAT Claire Foy reflects on playing a fledgling feminist in White SAT Heat, BBC2's drama about a group of student housemates from SAT 1965 London to the present day. SAT SAT Emma Freud tries to tango with actor and singer Jason SAT Donovan. But he's dumped his dancing shoes and returned to SAT the music studio with the release of his new album Sign Of SAT Your Love. SAT SAT We have music from double Grammy award winners, The Civil SAT Wars - who Adele dubbed "by far the best live band I've ever SAT heard" and the critically acclaimed Anna Freier aka I Am SAT Harlequin. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01d0j13 (Listen) SAT Chris Bowlby profiles the French Socialist Party SAT presidential candidate Francois Hollande. SAT Producer: SAT Lesley McAlpine. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01d0j15 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT Going Dark SAT SAT Going Dark is playing at the Young Vic in London until 24 SAT March 2012 SAT SAT Bel Ami SAT SAT Bel Ami directed by Declan Donellan and Nick Ormerod is SAT released on Friday 9 March, certificate 15 SAT SAT Silver SAT SAT Silver by Andrew Motion is published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT Titanic SAT SAT Titanic is broadcast on ITV 1 on the 26th of March at 9pm SAT SAT Louise Bourgeois SAT SAT Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed is showing at SAT the Freud Museum in London until the 27th of May SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01d0j17 (Listen) SAT Government Is Not the Solution SAT SAT Amid global economic turmoil, high government debts and the SAT rise of the Tea Party, hostility to overweaning, SAT overspending government power appears to be on a roll in SAT America today. SAT SAT As Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum SAT all struggle to win the US Republican Party's Presidential SAT nomination, each is doing their best to convince the Party's SAT membership that he is the man to rein in 'Big Government'. SAT SAT But, as Jonathan Freedland explores, this hostility has its SAT roots at the very beginning of the United States. SAT SAT In this programme, he traces how Americans' suspicion of SAT centralised power began with the 1770s rebellion against SAT British rule - and how it became the basis of the way SAT America is governed, through the 'separation of powers'. SAT SAT Jonathan unearths a rich seam of archive which shows how SAT this has coloured American politics over recent decades, SAT even as the size of government has grown. SAT SAT He explores how it fuelled opposition to the New Deal, Civil SAT Rights and the War in Vietnam. SAT SAT And he asks how American Presidents have found ways to push SAT against the constraints of the Constitution and drive their SAT policies through. SAT SAT Historian Professor Desmond King argues that from Franklin SAT Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan and beyond, Presidents have SAT repeatedly declared 'War' on everything from the Depression SAT to drugs, poverty to inflation. SAT SAT This was always a canny bid to play on American patriotism SAT and the President's role as Commander-in-Chief - to make SAT social reform sound as urgent and necessary as fighting a SAT foreign foe. SAT SAT But has this strategy now run out of firepower? And if so, SAT is America's relationship with the very idea of central SAT government now more vexed than ever? SAT SAT Producer: Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01cvgbp (Listen) SAT The Cruel Sea, Episode 2 SAT SAT Dramatised by John Fletcher. SAT 2 of 2. SAT The second part of Nicholas Monsarrat's searing classic SAT novel about the war in the North Atlantic. SAT SAT Lockhart ..... Gwilym Lee SAT Ericson ..... Jonathan Coy SAT Hallam ..... Tracy Wiles SAT Wainwright ..... David Seddon SAT Raikes ..... Gerard McDermott SAT Phillips ..... Peter Hamilton-Dyer SAT Ferraby ..... Carl Prekopp SAT Gregg ..... Harry Livingstone SAT The Operator ..... Adam Billington SAT Coxswain ..... James Lailey SAT SAT Sound by Caleb Knightley SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01cp8gn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01cwrw8 (Listen) SAT Iran and nuclear weapons SAT SAT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington SAT this week to meet US President Barack Obama and right at the SAT top of the agenda was Iran's nuclear programme. Iran claims SAT its programme is for peaceful purposes, but at the same time SAT has banned inspections by the International Atomic Energy SAT Authority to verify those claims. Despite international SAT sanctions Iran seems determined to press ahead - analysts SAT differ on time scales, but all agree that it now has the SAT capability to produce a nuclear weapon if it so chooses. A SAT nuclear armed Iran could dangerously destabilise an already SAT volatile Middle East and pose an existential threat to SAT Israel, putting millions of lives at stake. Also other SAT countries, like Saudi Arabia, would almost certainly feel SAT they'd have to follow the nuclear route. So is it our moral SAT duty to intervene, by force if necessary, to stop that SAT happening? Or, after a decade of disastrous western wars in SAT the Middle East, would an attack on Iran amount to criminal SAT irresponsibility? Can the international community claim any SAT moral authority on this issue when it has allowed India, SAT Pakistan, North Korea and Israel all to develop nuclear SAT weapons? And, in a week when there have been renewed calls SAT of the UK to abandon its 25 billion pound Trident programme, SAT what is our moral justification for keeping our own nuclear SAT arsenal while at the same time preaching non-proliferation SAT to the Iranians? SAT SAT Witnesses: Prof David Rodin, Director of the Oxford SAT Institute for the Ethics & Law of Armed Conflict, DTL from SAT Geneva; Douglas Murray Henry Jackson Society; Dr Mehrdad SAT Khonsari, Sen Res. Consultant at Centre for Arab and Iranian SAT Studies,London/former Iranian diplomat; Prof Mike Clark, SAT Director of RUSI. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, SAT Clifford Longley and Melanie Phillips. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01cvk8q (Listen) SAT (17/17) SAT Russell Davies is in the chair, as the 2012 season of the SAT longest-lived general knowledge contest of them all reaches SAT the Final. The four competitors who have come unscathed SAT through heats and semi-finals line up for the last hurdle, SAT which will determine who is named the 59th 'Brain of SAT Britain'. This year the Finalists are from London, South SAT Wales and Nottinghamshire. SAT SAT They can expect the questions to be especially challenging SAT in the Final contest. They'll be asked, among many other SAT questions, to name Dickens's mistress who was the subject of SAT an acclaimed biography by Claire Tomalin in the 1990s; and SAT the Pope who instigated the First Crusade with an SAT uncompromising sermon in the year 1095. SAT SAT As always, the champion takes home the handsome silver SAT 'Brain of Britain' trophy. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THE FOUR FINALISTS ARE SAT SAT IAN CLARK, a solicitor from London; SAT ROB MERRILL, Director of a mental health charity, from SAT Neath; SAT ROB MILNES, a statistician from Farnsfield, Notts; SAT RAY WARD, a semi-retired librarian from London. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b01cvgbt (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT Ruth Padel's landmark series exploring the pleasures of SAT writing and reading poems comes this time from The Dylan SAT Thomas Centre in Swansea, where Ruth leads a workshop with SAT the Junkbox poetry group. SAT SAT To warm up their poetry muscles, the group try out some SAT writing exercises. These will be available on the website SAT for anyone who wants to give them a go. Then they work on SAT developing and refining poems from two members of the group; SAT acting (as Heaney describes it) as "the reader over my SAT shoulder." The poems are Milking Time by Becky Lowe and SAT Still Life with Wine Glasses by Alan Kellerman. Both have a SAT sense of loss or longing. The group discuss line endings, SAT alliteration and adjectives, and the effectiveness of their SAT use in the two poems. They also enjoy and respond to a poem SAT by Gwyneth Lewis that evokes that peculiarly Welsh SAT phenomenon 'hiraeth'. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 11 MARCH 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01d0fgf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01d23ny (Listen) SUN Cleaning the Silver SUN SUN This year's Radio 4 stories from the Bath Literature SUN Festival were recorded on stage on International Women's Day SUN and are all are written by women in the West Country, with SUN women at their heart. They all have a slightly edgy feel to SUN them, too, as ghosts, shadows and the memories of strange SUN events unfold. In Jenni Mills' story, Cleaning the Silver, a SUN daughter remembers her childhood under the regime of a SUN strict and bullying father, and revisits the circumstances SUN around his shocking death. Jenni writes psychological SUN thrillers, and is the author of two novels, Crow Stone and SUN The Buried Circle - the latter set at Avebury stone circle, SUN not far from her home in Wiltshire. Cleaning the Silver is SUN set in another place she knows well, one of the smaller SUN Channel Islands. SUN SUN Before turning to writing, Jenni worked in broadcasting as a SUN producer, TV director, and radio presenter, fronting Woman's SUN Hour, Famous For Fifteen Minutes and other R4 programmes. SUN SUN Further stories in the Bath Festival series are by Morag SUN Joss and Patricia Ferguson SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d0fgh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d0fgk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d0fgm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01d0fgp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01d0kxw (Listen) SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01cws2d (Listen) SUN Prof Linda Woodhead SUN SUN Linda Woodhead - Director of the Religion and Society SUN Research Programme and Professor of Sociology of Religion at SUN Lancaster University - draws from the findings of the SUN Religion and Society research programme to explore the SUN dis-embedding from traditional community relationships to SUN new communities formed from choice rather than inheritance. SUN SUN In the wake of political and social reactions to the SUN financial crisis, austerity measures and the riots of 2011, SUN debate continues to determine the role of the individual and SUN society. The 2012 Lent Talks consider the relationship SUN between the individual and the collective. Is each person SUN one alone or one of many? Is it the human condition to be SUN self-contained or to belong to the family, the tribe, the SUN congregation, the nation? We live in groups but our most SUN intense experiences are incommunicable. Jesus shared a SUN communal last supper but he died an outcast, abandoned and SUN rejected by his people, his disciples and (apparently) his SUN Father. SUN SUN Speakers of this year's talks include the journalist and SUN author Martin Wroe, who will explore humanity being at its SUN most divine when working in community; John Lennox, SUN Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, explains how SUN his encounter with God is enhanced through science; Tariq SUN Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the SUN Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, examines SUN the philosophy of the individual and how this is neglected SUN in many areas of Islam; Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ, explores the SUN agony of the individual in society. SUN SUN The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for SUN self-examination and reflection on universal human SUN conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, SUN forgiveness and love. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01d0fgr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01d23tn (Listen) SUN Reason and Desire SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the eternal human conflict between our SUN Reason and our Desires. To what extent should the first SUN regulate the second? And how do we achieve the right balance SUN between the two. SUN SUN With readings from Aristotle, Fernando Pessoa and Kim SUN Addonizio, and a diverse range of music, from The Rolling SUN Stones to Wagner, Mark compares secular thoughts on the SUN subject with the teachings of various religions. SUN SUN The programme features an interview with Chakravarthi SUN Ram-Prasad, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy SUN at Lancaster University who makes it clear that there is no SUN one single attitude towards reason and desire in SUN Christianity or in religions of Indian origin. SUN SUN But whether bound by secular or religious thoughts on the SUN matter, Mark sees a clear need for our desires of all sorts SUN to be controlled to some extent, however difficult it is to SUN find a balance between desire and reason. SUN SUN The readers are Peter Guinness and Samantha Bond. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01d23tq (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith visits Pwllpeiran, the upland research farm SUN in Wales which is due to be sold after 80 years of service. SUN It's a huge farm, perched at the top of the Cambrian SUN mountains, and is rough, challenging farming terrain, where SUN 5 inches of rain can fall in a single day. SUN SUN It was taken over by government in 1955, to help post-war SUN Wales produce more food in the uplands. Today it houses a SUN number of long running experiments, on farm pollution, SUN climate change and water quality, as research priorities SUN have changed. ADAS has held the lease since 1997, but is SUN pulling out of the farm 5 years before the lease ends. SUN Unless a buyer can be found by the autumn, the Welsh SUN Assembly government will sell it in small lots to local SUN farmers. SUN SUN Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01d0fgt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01d0fgw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01d23w4 (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 b01d23xk (Listen) SUN Straight Talking Peer Education SUN SUN Kay Mellor presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Straight Talking Peer Education. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1101726 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Straight Talking Peer Education. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN STRAIGHT TALKING PEER EDUCATION SUN SUN Straight Talking exists to reduce the high rates of teenage SUN pregnancy in the UK and to support and empower teenage SUN parents, so that young people achieve economic wellbeing and SUN quality of life. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01d0fgy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01d0fh0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01d24b3 (Listen) SUN The Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes, Anglican Chaplain to SUN Cardiff University, is the preacher in the 3rd of this SUN year's Lent series taking the theme of Freedom Through SUN Action. Live from Eglwys Dewi Sant Church in Cardiff, the SUN service is led by the Rev Delyth Liddell and the Cardiff SUN University Chamber Choir is directed by John Hugh Thomas. SUN Organist: Jeffrey Howard. Producer: Sian Baker. 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 b01cwwm1 (Listen) SUN Churchill's American Speeches SUN SUN David Cannadine reflects on the enduring resonance of the SUN important speeches which Winston Churchill delivered in SUN colleges and universities in the United States. Westminster SUN College, Fulton, has "become a shrine to Churchill and his SUN 'iron curtain' speech" and Harvard was where he gave a SUN speech on "Anglo-American Unity". SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01d24q8 (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01d24rf (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Simon Frith SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Cliff Alladay ..... Gerard McDermott. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01d24vq (Listen) SUN Jackie Mason SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the American comedian Jackie SUN Mason. SUN SUN His one-man shows have been pulling in audiences for more SUN than fifty years. Like his father, grandfather and SUN great-grandfather before him, he trained initially as a SUN rabbi - and quickly acquired a reputation for being very SUN funny. SUN SUN "The people who heard my sermons kept saying to me; 'Rabbi, SUN why aren't you a comedian?' I said to myself, maybe I should SUN take the hint." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01cvkc7 (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 5 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game that celebrates its SUN 45th birthday this year. SUN SUN He hands out subjects on which the panellists must attempt SUN to talk for a minute without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation. A task much harder than it sounds. SUN SUN Devised by Ian Messiter. SUN Produced by Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01d0rcv (Listen) SUN Japan, Fukushima and food SUN SUN Richard Johnson reports from Japan on the impact of the SUN Fukushima disaster on food. How has the threat of SUN contamination changed attitudes to the nation's prized food SUN culture? SUN SUN A year ago, Japan was hit by the catastrophic Tohoku SUN earthquake and tsunami. In the days that followed, reactors SUN 1, 2 and 3 at the Fukushima nuclear power station SUN experienced full meltdown. The fears of catastrophic SUN radioactivite contamination led to a 20 km-radius evacuation SUN around the plant, while engineers risked their lives to SUN stabilise the reactors. SUN SUN It was the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, SUN but that wasn't the end of the story. A longer-term food SUN story started to emerge. SUN SUN A testing regime was introduced to monitor radiation levels SUN in the food supply chain. The World Health Organisation is SUN also carrying out its own tests to ensure that absorption of SUN caesium through food, over decades to come, doesn't become a SUN major threat to public health. SUN SUN But as Richard Johnson discovers, confusion and lack of SUN information in the early weeks of the crisis has led to SUN suspicion and mistrust among large sections of the Japanese SUN population. For this reason, the disaster is likely to not SUN just change Japan's relationship with its politicians, but SUN also its food culture. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01d0fh4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01d24ym (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 Japan: Coping With Disaster b01d7bbl (Listen) SUN What does the Japanese response to last year's tsunami and SUN nuclear meltdown tell us about modern Japan? Anthropologist SUN Tom Gill meets people affected by the two disasters. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01cwwlg (Listen) SUN Eric Robson, Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bob SUN Flowerdew are guests of Wolverhampton Horticultural Society. SUN SUN In addition - Practical March: a hands-on guide to one of SUN the busiest months of the gardening year. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Lent Talks b01cws2d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01d2bxg (Listen) SUN Classic Serial: Out of the Hitler Time, When Hitler Stole SUN Pink Rabbit SUN SUN Out of the Hitler Time: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit SUN By Judith Kerr, dramatised by Beaty Rubens. SUN SUN The first book of the internationally acclaimed trilogy SUN tells the story of a Jewish family forced to flee from SUN Germany in 1933 - told from the perspective of nine year old SUN Anna. SUN SUN Young Anna ... Lauren Mote SUN Max ... Hugo Docking SUN Mama ... Adjoa Andoh SUN Papa ... Paul Moriarty SUN Julius ... James Lailey SUN Elsbeth ... Xenia Mainelli SUN Omama ... Eleanor Bron SUN Fraulein Lambeck ... Tracy Wiles SUN Aunt Sarah ... Sheila Steafel SUN Herr Rosenfeld ... Gerard McDermott SUN Passport Officer ... Christopher Webster SUN Concierge ... Alex Rivers SUN SUN Director: David Hunter. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01d26ln (Listen) SUN Marina Lewycka, on her latest book 'Various Pets Alive and SUN Dead' SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Marina Lewycka about her latest SUN book, Various Pets Alive and Dead, a rye look at modern SUN values, which explores the lives and loves of a family whose SUN hippy parents brought their children up in a commune. Whilst SUN their daughter has become a house proud primary school SUN teacher their son Serge is secretly trading derivatives in SUN the aptly named city bank FATCA. Award winning author of A SUN Short History of Tractors in Ukraine turns her comic eye on SUN the humorous clash of ideologies within one family during SUN the financial crash of 2008. SUN SUN We'll be discussing why the publishing industry has become SUN so enamoured by the next big author and what is happening to SUN the more established, but not so prominent career novelists? SUN With author and critic Matt Thorne, one of the Judges for SUN this year's Fiction Uncovered, an initiative supporting 8 SUN novels by talented writers whose work deserves to be better SUN known - and more crucially - better sold to the public: SUN Editor in Chief at Bloomsbury Alexandra Pringle, launching SUN Bloomsbury Circus in May aimed a discovering and growing new SUN talent, and Charlie Williams, author of the Mangel series SUN and self confessed mid-lister, a term most authors hate. SUN SUN And the much beloved fictional characters Mapp and Lucia, SUN created by E F Benson in the 1920s, in such classics as SUN Lucia In London and Lucia's Progress are brought to life by SUN writer and fan Guy Fraser-Sampson in his novel Lucia on SUN Holiday. What does it demand of a writer to write about SUN characters whose existence is already so firmly fixed in the SUN minds - and hearts - of their numerous fans, which include SUN Alexander McCall Smith and Gyles Brandreth among them, and SUN how do their snobbery and pretentions speak to us now? SUN SUN Producer Andrea Kidd SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN Marina Lewycka's’s book Various Pets Alive and Dead is SUN published by Fig Tree SUN SUN Charlie William’s book One Dead Hen is published by Amazon SUN Encore SUN SUN Guy Fraser-Sampson's book Lucia on Holiday is published by SUN Elliott & Thompson on the 29th March. SUN SUN 16:30 The Narrow Road to the Disaster Zone b01d26qk (Listen) SUN Every Japanese person knows Matsuo Basho's 'The Narrow Road SUN to the Deep North'. This classic is an account by Japan's SUN best-loved poet of a journey he made in 1689. He visited SUN several places famous for their beauty, and because they had SUN inspired poets in years gone by. He celebrated these in his SUN haiku and visited fellow poets. SUN SUN Many of the places Basho wrote about were devastated by last SUN year's tsunami. He walked through Fukushima prefecture, SUN where the stricken nuclear plant is today. In Shiogama, SUN Basho pitied the fishermen and, at Ishinomaki, described SUN hundreds of boats bobbing in a wide bay. Of the 12,000 SUN vessels registered in Sendai, Shiogama and Ishinomaki, only SUN 1,200 remained intact after the tsunami. SUN SUN For the first anniversary of the earthquake the poet and SUN translator Stephen Henry Gill, who has lived in Japan for SUN many years, follows in Basho's footsteps on his own 'Narrow SUN Road to the Disaster Zone'. He tries to reach the power SUN station, passing through village after village deserted SUN because of radiation. He looks at the islands of Matushima, SUN so beautiful they left Basho speechless, continues to the SUN fishing villages of Oshika peninsula and on to the point SUN where he looks out to sea towards the epicentre. SUN SUN All the time, like Basho, Stephen meets people - a poet SUN publishing his work about the tsunami on Twitter; volunteers SUN rebuilding houses; a Zen priest radio broadcaster whose show SUN kept communication open; the fisherman who went to sea, SUN choosing to risk riding the giant waves rather than have his SUN boats smashed onshore. Using interviews, sounds recorded SUN along the way, Basho's writings, and his own haiku, Stephen SUN Gill creates, one year on, a historical, contemporary and SUN cultural response to the earthquake, the nuclear fallout and SUN the tsunami. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01cw5ns (Listen) SUN Family Annihilation SUN SUN In the last two months, three fathers have killed their SUN partners, children and themselves. File on 4 investigates SUN what drives these men to take such drastic action. SUN SUN The programme talks to relatives, expert forensic SUN psychiatrists and academics to try to find out why they SUN became so-called 'family annihilators'. SUN SUN It looks at new research into such cases which points to a SUN link to unemployment rates and the levels of gun ownership. SUN It will also ask whether authorities like the health service SUN and police could do more to watch for signs that men are a SUN risk to their families and asks whether new gun licence SUN measures are working. SUN Presenter: Jane Deith SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01d0j13 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01d0fh6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01d0fh8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d0fhb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01d26ts (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kholi makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Have you ever fallen in love via email? Have you ever SUN wondered what would happen if you could find all your bosses SUN passwords? Have you ever taken a trout on the underground? SUN No? Well on Pick of the Week this week Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN covers all these areas. He'll also enjoy the beauty of Bach, SUN the tenacity of Tim Key and loving Lounge music while SUN sipping an imaginary Martini as an Italian countess slips SUN into some less comfortable. SUN SUN Love Virtually: Radio 4 08.03.2012 SUN Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme: Radio 4 07.03.2012 SUN Desert Island Discs: Radio 4 04.03.2012 SUN Night Visions: Radio 4 09.03.2012 SUN Global Reach: Radio 4 06.03.2012 SUN Essential Classics: Radio 3 07.03.2012 SUN The Wire: Father, Son and Holy Ghost Radio 3 10.03.2012 SUN Book at Bedtime: Capital Radio 4 09.03.2012 SUN Bach's Choir Radio 4 06.03.2012 SUN Book of the Week: Then They Came For Me ep2 Radio 4 SUN 06.03.2012 SUN Something Understood: Radio 4 04.03.2012 SUN The Essay: Listener, They Won It ep1 radio 3 05.03.2012 SUN Fever Pitched: Radio 4 05.03.2012 SUN In the Lounge with Rich Morton: Radio 4 08.03.2012 SUN BBC Radio Scotland: Good Morning Scotland 01.03.2012 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01d0prr (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b012lpvz (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Ship Shape; Make That a Double SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SUN charm to BBC Radio 4, concluding his second series of SUN audience readings. This week some serious thought is put SUN into buying a holiday home in 'The Ship Shape' and the SUN complexities of gender assignment when learning French in SUN 'Make That a Double'. SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 A Father for My Son b01d28pq (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN The Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott died a hundred SUN years ago, leaving behind a fascinating and talented wife, SUN the sculptor Kathleen Scott. Jenny Coverack's trilogy of SUN readings is adapted from her own one-woman stage play, SUN written with Robert Edwards, based on Kathleen Scott's SUN autobiography and journals. These begin with Kathleen's SUN unconventional childhood, when she was farmed out to SUN relatives, before she took the bold and at the time SUN unconventional decision to go to Paris to study art. Here, SUN she mixes in Bohemian circles and is pursued by numerous SUN admirers wanting to start affairs, but what matters most to SUN her is the search for a man worthy of the role of father to SUN the son she longs for. SUN SUN With grateful acknowledgement to the novelist Louisa Young SUN for her biography of her grandmother, Kathleen Scott, 'A SUN Great Task of Happiness'. SUN SUN Reader: Jenny Coverack SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01cwwln (Listen) SUN This week the news carried tough stories about the situation SUN in Syria, and about the death of 15 year old Kristy Bamu, at SUN the hands of his sister and her partner. Too much SUN information said some listeners, especially as some reports SUN did not include a warning about the graphic content. Several SUN other reports did carry a warning - which other listeners SUN found patronising. SUN SUN Richard Clark, head of the BBC Radio Newsroom, tells Roger SUN why a warning may or may not be added, and why he feels it SUN can be the right decision to include disturbing detail. He SUN also tackles your objections about the amount of coverage SUN being given to the US presidential primaries. SUN SUN Is it the end of the road for BBC Radio 2's traffic reports? SUN With websites, apps and local radio providing up to the SUN minute information that's relevant to you wherever you are, SUN some listeners think the end is nigh for traffic on national SUN radio. Sally Boazman, aka Sally Traffic, tells Roger in no SUN uncertain terms why she and her ilk are still providing a SUN vital service. SUN SUN And over-emotional ranters or real people speaking truth to SUN power? Presenters Stephen Nolan and Victoria Derbyshire SUN reveal all about the art of the phone-in. 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 b01cwwll (Listen) SUN Norman St John-Stevas, Lynn D Compton, Leonard Rosoman, SUN Robert Sherman SUN SUN John Wilson on: SUN SUN Politician, academic and dandy Norman St John Stevas, SUN remembered by Michael Heseltine and Andrew Neil. SUN SUN D-Day hero Buck Compton - member of the Band Of Brothers SUN company who later led the prosecution of Bobby Kennedy's SUN killer Sirhan Sirhan. SUN SUN Leonard Rosoman, the war artist who documented the London SUN blitz and taught David Hockney at art school. SUN SUN And Disney film songwriter Robert Sherman, who helped create SUN the soundtrack to childhood. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01d0g3j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01d23xk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01cvkg6 (Listen) SUN Neue Labour SUN SUN Why Labour thinkers believe German society should be the SUN model for Britain's centre left. Matthew Taylor, a former SUN policy adviser to Tony Blair, presents. SUN SUN Download the Analysis podcast SUN SUN Don't miss an episode of Analysis by downloading the SUN programme podcast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01d28s1 (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 b01d28w0 (Listen) SUN Episode 94 SUN SUN Hugo Rifkind of The Times analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01cwvb7 (Listen) SUN Actor John Cusack on playing Edgar Allan Poe, and his SUN concerns for free speech in America. SUN SUN Juliet Stevenson discusses the difficulties of working with SUN Peter Greenaway on his film from 1988, Drowning by Numbers. SUN SUN Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod are better known as the SUN co-founders of the theatre company, Cheek by Jowl. This week SUN sees the release of their debut film, Bel Ami, starring SUN Robert Pattison as the amoral cad from the famous novel by SUN Guy de Maupassant. SUN SUN Riz Ahmed is a British actor noted for his roles in The Road SUN to Guantanamo and Four Lions. He's now starring in Trishna, SUN an adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, directed by SUN Michael Winterbottom. He discusses working with the director SUN and why the film is set in India. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01d23tn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 12 MARCH 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01d0fhz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01cwrt6 (Listen) MON Boxing styles UK vs US - Why nations fail MON MON Why do some nations remain mired in poverty whilst others MON thrive? A new book argues that the clue to prosperity has MON less to do with a country's climate, culture and geography MON than with the inclusivity of its institutions. Authoritarian MON regimes may succeed in the short run, but long term wealth MON is only ensured by secure private property, the rule of law MON and democracy. James Robinson, Professor of Government at MON Harvard University, discusses his thesis with Laurie Taylor. MON They're joined by Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at MON Oxford University. Also 'A Straight Left against a Slogging MON Ruffian' - the origins of different boxing styles in the UK MON and US. Research by, Kasia Boddy, an English lecturer at MON University College, London, explores the boxing boom in the MON years leading up to the First World War. How did anxieties MON about the pre-war balance of power turn into a debate on the MON pros and cons of English versus American styles of boxing? MON And does this cultural clash about sporting technique still MON get played out today? MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01d0kxw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d0fj1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d0fj3 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d0fj5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01d0fj7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d0kxy (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Roger Hutchings, Methodist minister. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01d0ky0 (Listen) MON Saying it with British flowers - with around 75% of flowers MON now imported to the UK, Charlotte Smith assesses the MON challenges the UK's industry faces. MON MON New figures show Campylobacter is on the rise across Europe. MON The bug causes hundreds of thousands of cases of illness and MON around 80 deaths each year in the UK. The European Food MON Safety Authority warns there is no sign of its growth MON slowing. MON MON And Farming Today looks at the problems farmers claim MON Chinese lanterns are still causing. MON MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01d0fj9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01d0ky2 (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01d0ky4 (Listen) MON Writers on Families: Colm Tóibín and AS Byatt MON MON Andrew Marr talks to Colm Toibin about the ways writers MON write about families, and also the impact of their own often MON dysfunctional relationships - from Thomas Mann and WB Yeats, MON to the nightmares of John Cheever's journals. In her novel, MON The Children's Book, AS Byatt explored how far a writing MON mother can harm her children, and yet she argues that she'd MON prefer to know nothing about a writer's private life. The MON novelist Will Eaves mined his own family background for his MON latest book, but insists it's more a work of imagination, MON than memoir. And it's these relationships, and culture, that MON are the key to the success of our species, rather than MON consciousness, language and intelligence, according to the MON evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01d0ky6 (Listen) MON Book of the Week: 20 Letters to a Friend, Episode 1 MON MON By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne. MON MON Writing as if to a close friend, Josef Stalin's daughter MON recalls her extraordinary life as an eyewitness to history, MON beginning with the searing memory of her father's final MON hours, and the turmoil provoked by his terrible death... MON MON Read by Stella Gonet MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01d0ky8 (Listen) MON Women in Business in Liverpool MON MON A Women in Business live broadcast from Liverpool where a MON panel of successful businesswomen is on hand to answer MON questions from female entrepreneurs. Contributors are: MON Judith McKenna, Chief Operating Officer of Asda; Sophie MON Cornish, co-founder of not-on-the-highstreet-dot-com and a MON writer on business for Stylist Magazine; Dawn Gibbin, MON founder of international flooring epxerts, Flowcrete; and MON Sharmadean Reid, stylist and entrepreneur whose nail art MON company WAH! Nails is in the flagship Top Shop stores at MON Oxford Circus and Stratford. MON Presenter: Jane Garvey. MON Producer: Jane Thurlow. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01d0kyz (Listen) MON 15 Minute Drama: The Harpole Report, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5. Comic drama. Idealistic young teacher, George Harpole, MON decides to shake things up when he becomes MON acting head of Tampling St Nicholas Primary School - but he MON encounters stiff resistance from all quarters in J.L Carr's MON novel, MON dramatised by Jonathan Smith. MON George Harpole...........Shaun Dingwall MON Emma Foxberrow..........Hattie Morahan MON Mr Tusker.............Christian Rodska MON Mr Theaker.............Sam Dale MON Mrs Blossom..........Lesley Nicol MON Mrs Rita Grindle-Jones......Jane Whittenshaw MON Mr James Pintle.........David Holt MON Mrs Sue Byrd...........Susie Riddell MON Other parts played by the cast. MON Producer/director: Bruce Young. MON MON 11:00 Feed Me to the Wind b01d0prf (Listen) MON Tens of thousands of ashes remain uncollected or MON unscattered. Amanda Mitchison looks at the choices, MON conflicts and absurdity in the new British ritual of ash MON scattering. MON MON More of us than ever choose to take the ashes of the MON deceased away from a crematorium or funeral directors: but MON it's what should happen then we can't figure out. In fact, MON every undertaker has a whole room of unclaimed ashes - those MON whose next of kin either couldn't decide, or agree, what to MON do with them. As a nation, we used to know which death rites MON were, well, right - but as more and more are cremated, we MON lawless Britons started improvising. MON MON We speak to people who are yet to collect ashes - or have MON made the decision to keep them, at home - exploring the MON complex emotions these plastic containers provoke, even in MON modern 'un-spiritual' Britain. We'll hear from people whose MON personal ceremonies did not go to plan, where uncertainty MON about bylaws and prevailing winds has led to farce instead MON of reverence. The practicalities always seem to fox our need MON for something 'spiritual', so perhaps we're not adequately MON prepared for what we receive from undertakers. MON MON We ask whether the whole process is a hangover of the MON industrial revolution - and look at the feelings that MON municipal buildings like crematoria can elicit. In the quest MON for something special and unique, those who are in the MON business of ash-scattering tell us about the more dramatic MON means of scattering - miniature Viking ships and all. MON MON Perhaps we could take a lead from other traditions which MON have practiced cremation for thousands of years - what is MON the Hindu perspective on cremation? Should we let those MON around us know to 'Feed Me To The Wind' if that is what we MON would want? MON MON Producer: Caleb Parkin. MON MON 11:30 Wordaholics b01d0prh (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all MON about words. MON MON Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and MON comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat MON star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and MON Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. MON MON This week linguistic brainbox Natalie Haynes and poet MON Michael Rosen vie for wordy supremacy with comedians Arthur MON Smith and Paul Sinha. MON MON Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01d0prk (Listen) MON Is contracted out overnight veterinary care harming pets? MON MON Many veterinary surgeries subcontract their out-of-hours MON care to private companies. But is it too expensive? Does it MON always put pet welfare first? Do you even know what MON arrangement your local vet has? Also - we don't appreciate MON in Britain how lucky we are to have such low energy prices. MON So says the German boss of one of the UK's biggest power MON companies. Is he right? And the founder of what we think is MON the UK's first "cash mob" explains how it could rescue the MON high street. It's like a flash mob - but for shopping. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01d0fjc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01d0prm (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 Alvin Hall in The Bonfire of the Vanities b01d0prp (Listen) MON The Bronx MON MON Tom Wolfe described 1980s Bronx as a crime-ridden place of MON despair. Crack dealers on every corner, horrifying crimes MON every day, and a justice system which could do little to MON improve it. MON MON Harlem's revitalised, and New York is renowned for its MON safety- is the Bronx now a great place to live? Alvin Hall MON visits the site of Sherman McCoy's disastrous wrong turn and MON ventures further into the borough to where whole streets' MON worth of apartment buildings were burnt out 25 years ago, to MON discover what's replaced them. MON MON Speaking to a local priest, photographer and environmental MON activist, he asks whether a Sherman McCoy today would feel MON as threatened if he took the wrong lane on the route back to MON Manhattan from JFK Airport. MON MON Produced by Lucy Lloyd. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01d0prr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01d0pw9 (Listen) MON Stone, Taken MON MON Taken written by Richard Monks. MON MON Third in a new series of the intelligent, morally complex MON detective drama created by Danny Brocklehurst and starring MON Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. MON MON Following a spate of attacks on Eastern European businesses MON in the region, a man of Polish descent is attacked in the MON lead up to local elections. Stone suspects the involvement MON of members of the English Nationalist League, an extremist MON right wing political party led by the charismatic Keith MON Dowd. When Dowd's teenage daughter goes missing, Stone is MON forced to investigate whether the two cases are linked. MON MON DCI STONE.....Hugo Speer MON DI MIKE TANNER.....Craig Cheetham MON DS SUE KELLY.....Deborah McAndrew MON DOWD.....Kevin Doyle MON SARAH.....Kathryn Hunt MON ROSA.....Shannon Flynn MON DCI WISE/STEFAN.....James Nickerson MON TOMASZ.....Paul McCleary MON ABE/CAIN/MULWINNEY.....Dermot Daly MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01d0qth (Listen) MON Series 2, University of East Anglia MON MON Coming this week from the University of East Anglia, "The MON 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed MON at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners MON whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on MON location at a different University each week, and it pits MON three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes MON posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union MON buildings, cafes and lecture halls of six universities MON across the UK. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01d0rcv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Road Home: Remaking Homer's Odyssey b01d0rhz (Listen) MON Tom Holland explores the continuing appeal of Homer's MON Odyssey. From the Coen Brothers' film 'O Brother Where Art MON Thou?' to feminist rewritings of the story of Penelope's MON long-suffering wait for her husband to return we remain as MON fascinated as ever by one of the poetic cornerstones of MON western life. Why should that be? MON MON Homer has been quarried and mined and remade ever since the MON Iliad and the Odyssey were first sung. But today poets, MON dramatists, songwriters, novelists and filmmakers are MON working on the poems like never before it seems. Dante, MON Tennyson and James Joyce all had goes at rewriting the story MON of Odysseus (also called Ulysses) and his struggle to get MON home after the Trojan War, but what do today's reworkers MON have to say about the story and its meaning to us? Simon MON Armitage, Michael Longley, Zachary Mason, Alice Oswald, MON Edith Hall, and the late Peter Reading and Christopher Logue MON join the words of Margaret Attwood and the music of Tim MON Buckley and the Soggy Bottom Boys to help us all find our MON way home. Producer:Tim Dee. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01d0rj1 (Listen) MON Travellers MON MON There are many communities of travelling people in Britain MON and there have been for generations. While most people MON accept their lifestyles, some in the settled communities MON regard them with a degree of suspicion, even as a people MON apart. MON MON Many travellers have a strong religious faith. Those of MON Irish origin tend to be Catholic; but an increasing number MON of travellers of Romany origin are joining Pentecostal MON churches. How does their religious practice differ from the MON mainstream? Are there common features that relate to their MON way of life? How has the experience of travelling and of MON exclusion impacted on their faith? In religion, as in life, MON must they always be outsiders? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the religious beliefs of MON travelling people are Dr Adrian Marsh, Senior Programme MON Manager at the Open Society Foundation, Cathleen McDonagh, MON from Exchange House, a National Traveller Organisation in MON Dublin; and Jackie Boyd, a pastor with the Light and Life MON Gypsy Church. MON MON 17:00 PM b01d0rj3 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d0fjf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01d0rj5 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 6 MON MON Paul Merton, Liza Tarbuck, Josie Lawrence and Kit Hesketh MON Harvey are panellists on this week's show, each trying to MON prove they have the greatest gift of the gab. MON MON Nicholas Parsons is in the chair and metes out the subjects MON on which they all must attempt to speak for sixty seconds MON without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01d0rj7 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01d0rj9 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with tenor Noah MON Stewart, whose career has taken him from Harlem to the Royal MON Opera House. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01d0kyz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01d0rjc (Listen) MON Mike Thomson presents Radio 4's investigative history MON series, examining documents which shed new light on past MON events. MON MON In 1946, against the general post-Second World War retreat MON from Empire, Britain acquired a new territory: Sarawak on MON the island of Borneo. MON MON Before its cession to the British, Sarawak had, for over a MON hundred years, been ruled over by the so-called White MON Rajahs. MON MON They were, in fact, the Brooke family from Dorset and the MON decision by Vyner Brooke to hand over to British rule was a MON controversial one both within his family and within the MON country of Sarawak in general. MON MON By 1949 it appeared that those opposed to the handover or MON 'cession', led by Anthony Brooke, were losing the argument. MON MON It was then that a new governor, Duncan Stewart, was MON appointed. But a few short weeks after his arrival, he was MON fatally stabbed while inspecting a school in the provincial MON town of Sibu. MON MON Stewart bravely tried to hide his injury and was flown out MON to Singapore. He clung to life long enough to see his wife MON who had hurried from London to see him. MON MON The death of a young and promising British officer was MON blamed on the final, violent convulsion of the anti-cession MON movement, with the implication that Anthony Brooke should MON share some of the responsibility. MON MON But was that really the motive for the attack? With the help MON of documents discovered by historian Simon Ball, Mikr MON Thomson explores the British attempts to play down and even MON hide the real reason for the assassination. MON MON And Mike speaks to Anthony Brooke's grandson and Duncan MON Stewart's daughter about the legacy left to them by this MON forgotten outburst of colonial violence. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01d0rp8 (Listen) MON Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Downing Street guru MON MON Downing Street's favourite intellectual is Nassim Nicholas MON Taleb, author of the best-selling book The Black Swan. Janan MON Ganesh of the Economist investigates his appeal. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01cwvb9 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper asks if tourists and scientists may be MON bringing aliens into Antarctica. He checks out a MON controversial collision 12 900 years ago in which an MON asteroid impact may have changed the climate. He hears how MON one of our amateur scientists is investigating why we hate MON nasty noises and he discovers how star-quakes could help us MON discover habitable planets. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON ALIENS IN ANTARCTICA MON MON A painstaking new study suggests that each of the 40 000 or MON so visitors to Antarctica each year carries with them on MON clothing about 10 plant seeds. And scientists are at least MON as bad as tourists. Some of the seeds – and other introduced MON species – could compete with the rare and sensitive native MON species and disrupt the delicate ecosystem, especially as MON the climate warms. Prof Pete Convey of the British Antarctic MON Survey discusses the extent of the problem of aliens in MON Antarctica and what can be done about them. MON MON NASTY NOISES MON MON Does squeaky polystyrene make you squirm? Or the screech of MON cutlery dragged across a dinner plate? Our amateur scientist MON Izzy Thomlinson is ready to start gathering data for her MON experiment on annoying sounds. Together with her mentor, MON Prof Trevor Cox from the University of Salford, they are MON about to visit the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham to find some MON willing volunteers to listen to their nasty noises. They MON hope to discover why some of us are so sensitive to nasty MON noises. MON MON YOUNGER DRYAS IMPACT EVENT MON MON Around 12 900 years ago, as the Earth was emerging from the MON last ice age, suddenly North America and Northern Europe MON were plunged back into tundra conditions. I could have been MON caused by cold, fresh melt water upsetting the Atlantic MON circulation. Or it could, like the demise of the dinosaurs, MON have been caused by an asteroid impact. In the Proceedings MON of the US National Academy of Sciences this week, a team of MON scientists report new evidence for the impact theory. But MON not everyone agrees with them. MON MON ASTEROSEISMOLOGY MON MON Professor Bill Chaplin of Birmingham University studies MON star-quakes. They set stars ringing like a bell and can MON reveal the size of the star, it’s rotation and even its MON internal composition and hence its age. He’s leading a team MON using data from the Kepler satellite to aid the search for MON planets around other stars and determine if any are in the MON ‘habitable zone’ where life might be possible. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01d0ky4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01d0fjh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01d0rpb (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01d7f9m (Listen) MON Capital, Episode 6 MON MON Zbigniew is working on the house Petunia Howe lived in when MON he makes a life-changing discovery. 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 Capital interweaves the lives and stories of the residents MON of Pepys Road in an utterly compelling, post-crash, MON state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and MON truth; epic in scope, yet intimate and contemplative. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00w7c95 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 2 MON MON Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack is a multi-paced, one woman MON Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing the exceptional talent of MON Lucy Montgomery. Featuring Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, MON Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Walter. MON MON In this episode we meet Daisy, the chattering public school MON girl's, parents and find out why the Mona Lisa has been MON dumped by the Laughing Cavalier. Plus, a Police Officer who MON can't find the right words, a street survey that probes too MON far and Candi Karmel's sister makes an appearance. MON MON Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by MON Steven Burge and Dan Tetsell. MON Music by Philip Pope MON Producer by Katie Tyrrell. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01d0rpd (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 13 MARCH 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01d0fk2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01d0ky6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d0fk4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d0fk6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d0fk8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01d0fkb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d29d8 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Roger Hutchings, Methodist minister. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01d0rtd (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01d0rtg (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davies. Including Sports Desk; TUE Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01d0rtj (Listen) TUE John Lawton TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to environmental scientist John Lawton TUE about making space for nature. A keen birdwatcher from the TUE age of 7, John describes his studies of birds, dragonflies TUE and bracken and his groundbreaking experiments in the TUE Ecotron, essentially a box full of nature. For the last few TUE decades John has advised successive governments on a host of TUE environmental issues such as GM crops, road traffic TUE pollution and nature conservation. His latest report Making TUE Space for Nature was turned into policy remarkably fast but, TUE he says, it isn't always easy to get governments to listen TUE to environmental advice based on science. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01d0rtl (Listen) TUE Samira Ahmed with Lucy Mathen TUE TUE The journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed is taking over TUE the One to One interviewer's microphone for the next three TUE weeks. TUE TUE Samira has spent 20 years reporting breaking news at home TUE and abroad from Britain to Los Angeles to Berlin. Born to TUE Hindu and Muslim parents and educated at a Catholic school, TUE Samira married into a Northern Irish family. As a result, TUE she's aware of the way news coverage can make sweeping TUE assumptions about stories and tries to seek out the missing TUE angles behind the headlines. TUE TUE With that in mind, her first guest, Lucy Mathen, tells a TUE tale of charitable endeavour, with a surprising twist. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01dd3wj (Listen) TUE Book of the Week: 20 Letters to a Friend, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne. TUE TUE Svetlana describes her early childhood, which slowly turned TUE from idyll to nightmare as her father's power grew and his TUE tyranny began to destroy close friends and family. TUE TUE Read by Stella Gonet TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01d12nt (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3gd (Listen) TUE 15 Minute Drama: The Harpole Report, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5. Comic drama. Harpole's missionary zeal is dented by TUE the loss TUE of his moveable spanner and a disappointing set of eleven TUE plus results. TUE J.L Carr's novel is dramatised by Jonathan Smith. TUE TUE 11:00 Scott's Legacy b01d12nw (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Kevin Fong looks beyond the failure of Robert Falcon Scott's TUE expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole and TUE focuses instead on the scientific legacy of Scott's TUE explorations of Antarctica between 1901 and 1912. TUE TUE In recent years, much has been written about Scott the polar TUE loser and bungler. But that personalised narrative ignores TUE the pioneering scientific research and discoveries which TUE transformed Antarctica from an unknown quantity on the map TUE into a profoundly important continent in the Earth's past TUE and present. TUE TUE Before Scott and Shackleton trekked across the vast ice TUE sheets in the early 1900s, no-one was sure whether there was TUE even a continent there. Some geographers had suggested TUE Antarctica was merely a colossal raft of ice anchored to a TUE scattering of islands. The science teams on the three TUE British expeditions made fundamental discoveries about TUE Antarctic weather and began to realise the frozen TUE continent's fundamental role in global climate and ocean TUE circulation. They discovered rocks and fossils which showed TUE Antarctica was once a balmy forested place. They mapped the TUE magnetism around the South Pole for both science and TUE navigators. They found many new species of animals and TUE revealed the extraordinary winter breeding habits of the TUE penguins. TUE TUE Antarctic historians such as Ed Larson and polar researchers TUE such as David Walton of the British Antarctic Survey explain TUE how the motivation for Scott's two expeditions and TUE Shackleton's Nimrod expedition was a mix of colonial TUE ambition, scientific exploration and displays of national TUE prowess. In fact many historians suggest that Scott's final TUE bid to claim the South Pole for the British was handicapped TUE because the expedition was doing too much science. TUE TUE The dedication to scientific discovery is most poignantly TUE revealed by fossils that Scott's party collected after their TUE disappointment of being beaten by Amundsen and a few weeks TUE before they froze to death trudging across the Ross ice TUE shelf. They found a particular plant fossil which had been TUE one of the Holy Grails on the early explorations of TUE Antarctica's interior. As Peta Hayes of the Natural History TUE Museum explains, it proved an hypothesis raised by Darwin TUE among others that all the southern continents were once TUE linked together. The fossils were also important evidence to TUE support the new and controversial theory of Continental TUE Drift - a theory which now underpins the entirety of modern TUE Earth science. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 11:30 The Brontes' Piano b01d12ny (Listen) TUE Singer Catherine Bott explores the Bronte sisters' musical TUE world through their newly restored piano, now returned to TUE the parsonage in Haworth. Joined by pianist Jonathan Cohen, TUE Catherine looks through the Bronte's family music collection TUE and discovers how musical life at the parsonage underscored TUE the sisters' creative life, their work and tastes. TUE TUE When Charlotte Bronte discovered the poems of her sister TUE Emily, she described them as having "a peculiar music - TUE wild, melancholy and elevating." The Bronte sisters - TUE Charlotte, Emily and Anne - have been mythologized and TUE worshipped ever since their early deaths. Haworth Parsonage, TUE where they and their troubled brother Branwell grew up, has TUE been a place of pilgrimage for 150 years. The Brontes are a TUE literary industry, because we need them to stand as symbols TUE of doomed, rebellious womanhood. And their lives, just as TUE much as their writing, oblige us. They all wrote TUE compulsively from early childhood, creating fantastical TUE worlds in minute writing, moralising verse-tragedies - and TUE Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. TUE TUE But when they made music, they came home from the fantasy TUE lands of Gondal and Angria, to sing and play folk songs TUE (such as Robert Burns' 'Ye Banks and Braes), popular numbers TUE by Haydn, Handel's Harmonious Blacksmith, for their own TUE pleasure, not solely to demonstrate their maidenly TUE accomplishments. The piano their father bought them is still TUE in the Parsonage, recently restored. And their sheet music TUE is still in its drawer. Singer Catherine Bott and pianist TUE Jonathan Cohen go to Haworth, to hold the music in their TUE hands, and recreate a quiet evening at home with Charlotte, TUE Emily, Anne and Branwell. They all lived much of the time in TUE a "wild, melancholy and elevating" world, and that's part of TUE the Bronte myth, but their music-making reminds us of a TUE different side to them - perhaps one that doesn't quite fit TUE with how we want or need them to be. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01d12p0 (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 b01d0fkd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01d13jl (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 Alvin Hall in The Bonfire of the Vanities b01d13jn (Listen) TUE Wall Street TUE TUE The Bonfire of The Vanities told the story of rich Wall TUE Street bond trader Sherman McCoy being involved in a TUE hit-and-run with a young black man in the Bronx, and the TUE dramatic fall out that follows. TUE TUE Sherman's arrogance led to him being there, and his Wall TUE Street success led to his arrogance. Are there still Sherman TUE McCoy's populating Wall Street today, 25 years after the TUE publication of Tom Wolfe's novel? TUE TUE Alvin asks, with Occupy Wall Street, and the implosion of TUE many of the finance companies in New York, whether we've TUE seen the end of the 'Masters of the Universe'. TUE TUE Produced by Lucy Lloyd. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01d0rj7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01d13jq (Listen) TUE Apple Jelly TUE TUE Apple Jelly is a snapshot of austerity Britain in 2011/2012 TUE based on interviews with people who have been affected by TUE the cuts. TUE TUE After starting a family, Sam transformed herself into a high TUE achieving personal fitness trainer. When she is asked by a TUE residential rehabilitation project for young mothers with TUE drug and alcohol addictions to run a weekly fitness TUE programme she agrees, little realizing that her personal TUE journey has only just begun. TUE TUE Sam's bittersweet true story blends verbatim with TUE fictionalized dramatized scenes and is interwoven with TUE interviews from a people who have been at the sharp end of TUE the cuts. TUE TUE Sam ..... Jo Mcinnes TUE Chrissie ..... Petra Letang TUE Janie ..... Catrin Stewart TUE Maisie .... Abigail Thaw TUE Rachel ..... Jessica Pidsley TUE Fran ..... Lisa Gardner TUE Pippa ..... Rachel Atkins TUE Mark ...... Adrian Middleton TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 The Global Reach b01d13js (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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. It is built on the TUE premise that participants in a happening story are more than TUE mere soundbites and will feature voices which are simply TUE never heard elsewhere on BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE We will hear extended testimony from those on the frontline, TUE both in the form of extended interviews with key players in TUE global events and in a series of blogs from an international TUE network of citizen journalists. TUE TUE Featured stories will include that of King Zero, a Burmese TUE monk at the heart of his country's struggle for democracy; TUE the narcocorridos, or drug ballads, of Mexico, which glorify TUE the violence which has claimed the lives of around 40 TUE thousand people in the last 5 years and the multimillionaire TUE rat-catcher from China. TUE TUE All human life is here. Too often a foreign news story is TUE played out without any real sense of its longer term human TUE impact. The Global Reach will remedy that. TUE TUE Producer: Will Yates TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01d13xv (Listen) TUE The Power of Peat TUE TUE In the fight against climate change the peatlands of the TUE British Isles are one of our greatest assets. A healthy peat TUE bog can absorb more carbon dioxide and store it for longer TUE than forests of a similar size. But we're still destroying TUE our peat at a frightening rate. It's mined for use by TUE gardeners, it's burned in power stations, taken by TUE traditional peat-cutters and ravaged by moorland fires. TUE TUE In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap meets the people leading the TUE fightback. He takes to the skies above the Peak District TUE where helicopters are dropping rocks and heather brash onto TUE remote hillsides to heal the wounds caused by two centuries TUE of acid rain. He joins the teams blocking drains and TUE planting pods of sphagnum moss in an effort to bring TUE carbon-sucking life back to the blasted heaths of the peaks. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01d13xx (Listen) TUE Drug and Alcohol Misusing Families TUE TUE For the last four years, London's family drug and alcohol TUE court has been trying to get drug and alcohol misusing TUE families back on track. It has done so by following a TUE different approach from the traditional, more punitive TUE measures adopted by the mainstream courts. Joshua Rozenberg TUE visits the court to find out how effective its pioneering TUE work has been and what those who use it think of it. He TUE speaks to those involved in the day-to-day work of the court TUE - including the district judge, the principals of the main TUE charity involved in its creation, legal representatives and TUE others with expert knowledge of the problems which the TUE court's family users must tackle to put their lives back in TUE order - and talks to observers of the court who have TUE reservations about its approach. Law in Action discovers how TUE far this innovative - but expensive - legal model is one TUE which can realistically be emulated elsewhere in the UK when TUE public funds are under such pressure. TUE TUE Producer Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01d13xz (Listen) TUE Chris Lintott, Neil McCormick TUE TUE Astronomer and Sky at Night presenter Chris Lintott and the TUE Telegraph's Chief music critic Neil McCormick discuss their TUE favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Neil's choice is A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler, the story TUE of anti-hero Barnaby Gaitlin which he says perfectly TUE captures "an end to a lost extended youth." TUE TUE Harriett picks White by Marie Darrieussecq which is an TUE unusual romantic story set on a European base in Antarctica TUE narrated by "an amorphous gaggle of ghosts." TUE TUE Chris suspects that Harriett and Neil will hate Last and TUE First Men by Olaf Stapledon, which describes the history of TUE humanity from the present onwards across two billion years. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Chris Lintott's choice: 'Last and First Men' by Olaf TUE Stapledon TUE Publ. Gollancz TUE TUE Neil McCormick's choice: 'A Patchwork Planet' by Anne Tyler TUE Publ. Vintage TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'White' by Marie Darrieussecq TUE Publ. Faber and Faber TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01d13y1 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d0fkg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01d13y3 (Listen) TUE Series 7, The Arrival TUE TUE Arthur arrives in Spain to run an ill friends bar. TUE Struggling with the language and culture, Arthur enlists the TUE help of his taxi driver as he puts on his first event, with TUE Arthur himself leading the singing on the Karaoke. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Steve Delaney TUE Mel Giedroyc TUE Alastair Kerr TUE Martin Marquez TUE David Mounfield TUE TUE Producer: John Leonard TUE A Komedia production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01d13y5 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01d13y7 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Erin Riley. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3gd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01d13y9 (Listen) TUE How strong is the government's commitment to ending schemes TUE set up to minimise tax? A number of schemes have proved TUE popular in the private sector, including Employee Benefit TUE Trusts. These have been used by football clubs for tax TUE planning purposes, but are now in the sights of HMRC as it TUE attempts to recoup what it sees as unpaid tax. But how TUE widespread are these trust schemes and why are they so TUE popular with companies that have large government contracts? TUE TUE As the Treasury reviews tax avoidance by senior government TUE employees, it has emerged that employees in other parts of TUE the public sector are using payment schemes that keep them TUE off the payroll. There is growing concern that paying public TUE servants through personal service companies may be TUE inappropriate. TUE TUE How tax-compliant are the citizens of the United Kingdom? Is TUE there a risk that publicity about the tax-avoidance schemes TUE of the rich, coupled with easier access to information via TUE the internet, could lead to more people trying to cut their TUE contributions? TUE Presenter: Fran Abrams TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01d13yc (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01d13yf (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 b01d0rtj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01d0fkj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01d13yh (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ddbdx (Listen) TUE Capital, Episode 7 TUE TUE While Shahid Kamal is faced with interrogation at Paddington TUE Green Police Station, Zbigniew comes face to face with Matya TUE at No 51 Pepys Road. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The History Plays b01d1403 (Listen) TUE Oh Salutarius Hosta, Diana TUE TUE The History Plays are a series of imagined conversations at TUE key moments in the recent history of Britain. TUE TUE In "Oh Salutarius Hosta, Diana" Imelda Staunton stars as TUE Martha and Toby Jones as Graham. The couple look back over TUE their lives together but their very different views on Diana TUE mask a far more personal conflict, and Graham's dislike of TUE the princess has its roots in his pain over the TUE circumstances of their son Alan's death. TUE TUE Written and directed by Nigel Smith TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01d1405 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01d0fl3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01dd3wj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d0fl5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d0fl7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d0fl9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01d0flc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d29g5 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Roger Hutchings, Methodist minister. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01d29gr (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01d29hg (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01d29j3 (Listen) WED Libby Purves is joined by boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard WED and singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01dd3x5 (Listen) WED Book of the Week: 20 Letters to a Friend, Episode 3 WED WED By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne. WED WED Finally resolving to confront the past, Svetlana describes WED her paradoxical adoration for a strict and judgmental WED mother, and the awful truth about her mother's untimely WED death.... WED WED Read by Stella Gonet WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01d2bcg (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3h1 (Listen) WED 15 Minute Drama: The Harpole Report, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5. Comic drama. Mr Theaker, the caretaker, WED reacts badly to Harpole's reforming efforts. WED J.L Carr's novel is dramatised by Jonathan Smith. WED WED 11:00 Building the Big Society b01d2fbb (Listen) WED Cooperating WED WED The government wants public sector staff to form social WED enterprises. Giles Edwards has been following the process in WED Bath to find out what this means on the ground. WED WED 11:30 Shedtown b011jvhf (Listen) WED Something's Gonna Change WED WED Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some WED time or other? Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching WED oneself out of a long established orbit to head for the deep WED space of the unknown? WED WED Barry (Tony Pitts) and Jimmy (Kevin Eldon) haven't. Until WED now. Friends since school days in a small town, they find WED themselves slipping inexorably and almost unconsciously into WED middle age. WED WED Barry ...... Tony Pitts WED Jimmy & Johnny ..... Kevin Eldon WED Colin ..... Johnny Vegas WED Diane ..... Suranne Jones WED Dave ..... Shaun Dooley WED Eleanor ..... Ronni Ancona WED Maureen ..... Emma Fryer WED William ..... Adrian Manfredi WED Nicky ..... Caron May Carly WED Yvonne ..... Jessica Knappett WED Father Michael ..... James Quinn WED Wes ...... Warren Brown WED WED Narrator ..... Maxine Peake WED Music ..... Paul Heaton WED WED Written and created by Tony Pitts WED Directed by Jim Poyser WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01d2fbs (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01d0flf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01d2fd0 (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 Alvin Hall in The Bonfire of the Vanities b01d2fgd (Listen) WED Justice WED WED Tom Wolfe wrote of the procession of young black men being WED jolted through the criminal justice system in New York, and WED particularly the Bronx, as a depressing, and relentless, WED spectacle. 1980's New York was renowned for its crime, but WED today it is supposed to be cleaned up. WED WED Alvin Hall asks how much really has changed since those dark WED days, visiting the courthouse in the Bronx, speaking to WED legal contemporaries of characters in the book and then WED asking the truth of what's changed from a younger member of WED the current generation of lawyers. WED WED Produced by Lucy Lloyd. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01d13y5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 On Mardle Fen b01d2fj4 (Listen) WED Series 4, Goose Feathers 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 is after WED celebrity endorsement for the restaurant but Jack is WED hesitant. Just who does Warwick consider to be a celebrity? WED And would Jack want them in the restaurant? Meanwhile a WED silent guest turns up in the restaurant and mysteriously WED disappears. 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 Special Guest...Gyles Brandreth WED WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01d2fkc (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01d13yf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01d2fll (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor discusses a study which goes behind the scenes WED and reveals the politics and culture of life in private and WED military security firms. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01d2fm1 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01d2fr1 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d0flh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01d2fsj (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 Miss London, Jess WED Fostekew and Craig Campbell join Stephen to offer an idiot's WED guide to first impressions. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01d2gxk (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01d2h3h (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports from the Yorkshire Sculpture WED Park on a major exhibition of works by the surrealist Joan WED Miro. WED WED Producer Ekene Akalawu. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3h1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01d2h6s (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Kenan WED Malik and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01d2h8v (Listen) WED Prof John Lennox WED WED John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, WED explains how the relationship between God and the individual WED is enhanced through science. WED WED In the wake of political and social reactions to the WED financial crisis, austerity measures and the riots of 2011, WED debate continues to determine the role of the individual and WED society. The 2012 Lent Talks consider the relationship WED between the individual and the collective. Is each person WED one alone or one of many? Is it the human condition to be WED self-contained or to belong to the family, the tribe, the WED congregation, the nation? We live in groups but our most WED intense experiences are incommunicable. Jesus shared a WED communal last supper but he died an outcast, abandoned and WED rejected by his people, his disciples and (apparently) his WED Father. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01d13xv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01d29j3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01d0flk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01d2hck (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ddbhm (Listen) WED Capital, Episode 8 WED WED At Paddington Green Police Station Shahid gets a nice WED surprise, meanwhile at work Roger gets a terrible one. 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 b01d2hf1 (Listen) WED Superstition WED WED Tim Key tells the tale of Mike Figg, an intensely WED superstitious man. Tom Basden plays the xylophone and has WED brought his own beaters. 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 b01d2hg0 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About Dating - tells the WED story of young, up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who WED after becoming the first in his family to graduate from WED University, opted not to use his architecture degree to try WED his hand at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his WED family's annoyance who want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED MONICA..... CHIZZY AKULOLU WED SAMANTHA ..... ALEX TREGEAR 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 b01d2hg2 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 15 MARCH 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01d0fm4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01dd3x5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d0fm6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d0fm8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d0fmb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01d0fmd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d2kcx (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Roger Hutchings, Methodist minister. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01d2kfy (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b01d2kry (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01d2kzx (Listen) THU Vitruvius and De Architectura THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Vitruvius's De THU Architectura. Written almost exactly two thousand years ago, THU Vitruvius's work is a ten-volume treatise on engineering and THU architecture, the only surviving work on the subject from THU the ancient world. This fascinating book offers unique THU insights into Roman technology and buildings. Its THU rediscovery in the 15th century provided the impetus for the THU neoclassical architectural movement, and Vitruvius exerted a THU significant influence on the work of Renaissance architects THU including Palladio, Brunelleschi and Alberti. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01dd3xr (Listen) THU Book of the Week: 20 Letters to a Friend, Episode 4 THU THU By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne. THU THU Turning to her teenage years, Svetlana writes to her friend THU of the heartbreaking period before and during the war when THU she loses a brother and gains a lover, against her father's THU wishes... THU THU Read by Stella Gonet THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01d2l1n (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3jg (Listen) THU 15 Minute Drama: The Harpole Report, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5. J.L. Carr's comic novel, dramatised by Jonathan Smith. THU The Widmerpool children THU run riot in class until Harpole unexpectedly succeeds in THU teaching them to read. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01d2l2y (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Architects of Taste b01d2l30 (Listen) THU Historian and actor Ian Kelly explores the cross over THU between food and feasting, art, architecture and THU performance. THU THU From the most extravagant medieval feasts and festivals, to THU the modern gastronomy of chefs like Heston Blumenthal and THU Ferran Adria, food has long been moulded, sculpted, and THU displayed against the most theatrical of backdrops. Ian THU Kelly explores the story of artistry in cookery, and argues THU that it's a neglected cultural phenomenon. THU THU He looks at the life of Antonin Careme, the first celebrity THU chef, whose enormous sugar sculptures and piece montees, for THU the likes of Napoleon and the Prince Regent, epitomised THU centuries of high eating. And the Victorian Alexis Soyer, THU whose 'symposium of all nations' rivalled the Great THU Exhibition in its gastronomic extravagance. THU THU We also hear from the chef Ferran Adria, Jane Asher, food THU historians Ivan Day and Marc Meltonville, and chef Anne THU Willens, and jelly mongers Bompas and Parr about how a new THU generation of food artists are bringing back the spirit of THU Careme in their events and performances. THU THU Producer: Jo Wheeler THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01d2l5j (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01d0fmg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01d2l76 (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 Alvin Hall in The Bonfire of the Vanities b01d2mc8 (Listen) THU English Journalists in New York THU THU The Bonfire of The Vanities portrayed New York as a THU turbulent melting pot of inequality, arrogance and greed: 25 THU years on Alvin Hall continues to ask how much has changed. THU THU Amongst the colourful New Yorkers portrayed in Tom Wolfe's THU The Bonfire of the Vanities, was one Brit- the drunken and THU snobbish Peter Fallow. Dragged into covering the story of THU the hit-and-run in the Bronx despite himself, he ends up THU leading the media and driving forward the tale. THU THU Alvin Hall tracks down the journalist who supposedly THU inspired Peter Fallow, and hears the New York experience of THU other English journalists in the past 25 years, to see THU whether their reputation as hard drinking culturally THU superior party animals still holds fast. THU THU With Toby Young and Anthony Haden-Guest. THU Produced by Lucy Lloyd. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01d2gxk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01d2q3z (Listen) THU Interiors THU THU Johnny Vegas welcomes you to the tasteful home of Jeffrey THU Parkin. THU THU "Now you may notice as we begin our tour in earnest that THU there are some design initiatives around the house that THU aren't, strictly speaking, finished... I terms of the decor THU I've been playing around with some ideas. Not all the colour THU schemes have been finalised yet but I think you'd all agree, THU that's a veritable bonus. Most of the hard work's done so THU I'm basically handing you a colour-by-numbers dream home THU come true. You just paint in between the guiding lines that THU my vision has provided you with, and you're laughing." THU THU Interiors shines a mis-wired spotlight on the structural THU flaws exposed in the recent demise of the British property THU market and sparks on the revelation that a house really THU stands up or falls down on the basis of its human contents. THU THU Johnny Vegas as Jeffrey Parkin THU THU With: THU Ben Crompton THU Jo Enright THU Catherine Kinsella THU Joe Ransom THU Rachael McGuinness THU Peter Slater THU THU Based on an original play by Johnny Vegas, Stewart Lee and THU Rob Thirtle. THU THU Directed by Dirk Maggs THU Produced by Sally Harrison THU A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01d2qf6 (Listen) THU Inspirational Walks, Sir Andrew Motion THU THU In the final programme in a series of inspirational walks, THU Clare Balding is joined by the former poet laureate, Sir THU Andrew Motion, to walk around the village of Stisted in THU Essex. As they walk around the village, Sir Andrew tells THU Clare about his memories of growing up in the village where THU he was first inspired to write poetry. THU THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01d23xk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01d26ln (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01d2rd0 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01d2rgl (Listen) THU An update from 'So You Want to Be a Scientist' - Material THU World's search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. THU One of our four finalists, Dara Djavan Khoshdel aged 25 from THU Bournemouth, starts his experiment at Modern Art Oxford. THU He's testing people's emotional reactions to paintings using THU a skin galvanometer, which measures our micro-sweating. But THU will the strength of people's reaction match the financial THU value of each artwork? THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b01d2rvn (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d0fmj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Not What You Know b01d2rz3 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Miles Jupp chairs the series that tests how well panellists THU know those closest to them. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01d2s3w (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01d2s42 (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including a report on an art installation THU which uses 1001 old TV sets. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3jg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01d13xx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01d5lt0 (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 Scott's Legacy b01d12nw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01d2kzx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01d0fml (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01d5lz6 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime: Capital b01ddbs6 (Listen) THU It's November 2008 in Pepys Road and life is changing for THU its residents. For some the changes are good, for the Younts THU they're not. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00t4tps (Listen) THU The Final Curtain THU THU A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple THU and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns THU refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate THU the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind THU in post-war London. THU THU The identity of the mysterious Dr. Belasco is finally THU revealed. But it's one thing to unmask someone, quite THU another to capture them; and Belasco still has a trick or THU two up his - or is it her? - sleeve. THU THU Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan THU Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson THU Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas THU Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood THU Worth/Charlie ..... Greg Powrie THU Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm THU Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood THU Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing THU Insp. Perry ..... Michael Mackenzie THU THU Produced by Patrick Rayner. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01d5m2x (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 16 MARCH 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01d0fn7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01dd3xr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d0fn9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d0fnc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d0fnf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01d0fnh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d5nyb (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Roger Hutchings, Methodist minister. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01d5nyx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01d5p0q (Listen) FRI With Sarah Montague and Evan Davies. Including Sports Desk; FRI Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01d24vq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01dd3y4 (Listen) FRI Book of the Week: 20 Letters to a Friend, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne. FRI FRI Svetlana and her father become estranged after her first FRI love is exiled from Moscow, only to find some accord after FRI the war when she becomes a mother.... FRI FRI Read by Stella Gonet FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01d5p2q (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3kk (Listen) FRI 15 Minute Drama: The Harpole Report, Episode 5 FRI FRI JL Carr's comic novel, dramatised by Jonathan Smith. FRI Idealistic young teacher George Harpole decides to shake FRI things up when he becomes acting head of a primary school. FRI FRI 11:00 Japan: Coping With Disaster b01d7bbl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] FRI FRI 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery b01d5p72 (Listen) FRI A Reconstructed Corpse, Episode 3 FRI FRI by Jeremy Front FRI based on the novel by Simon Brett FRI FRI Another severed limb turns up and FRI Charles enlists Frances' help to solve FRI the mystery of who it belongs to. FRI FRI Charles ..... Bill Nighy FRI Frances ..... Suzanne Burden FRI Maurice ..... Jon Glover FRI Rob Garston ..... Adam Billington FRI Superintendent Sorsby ..... Gerard McDermott FRI Sergeant ..... Simon Bubb FRI Sam Noakes ..... Adjoa Andoh FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01d5q0g (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01d0fnk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01d5qg0 (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 Alvin Hall in The Bonfire of the Vanities b01d5qlv (Listen) FRI The Politics of the Case FRI FRI A rich Wall Street trader being involved in a hit-and-run in FRI the Bronx set off a cascade of racial grievances, political FRI manipulation and media delirium in Tom Wolfe's depiction of FRI 1980s New York. FRI FRI Alvin Hall asks how differently a case like this would play FRI out today. He talks to former mayor Ed Koch about trying to FRI control the media, and lawyers and journalists about what FRI part race and money would play in the unfolding of the story FRI today. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Lloyd. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01d2s3w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01cwwld (Listen) FRI Waiting for the Boatman FRI FRI By Stephen Wakelam FRI FRI The painter Mario Minniti has travelled to Naples to seek FRI out his old friend and former mentor Caravaggio. But on FRI arrival, the great painter is nowhere to be found. In a bid FRI to find him, Mario retraces Caravaggio's last known FRI movements. His search reveals a life lived dangerously. FRI FRI Mario Minniti . . . . . David Tennant FRI Piero . . . . . Anton Lesser FRI Abraham Vinck . . . . . Peter Hamilton Dyer FRI Cecco . . . . . Joe Dempsie FRI Marchesa di Colonna . . . . . Tracy Wiles FRI Guard . . . . . Harry Livingstone FRI FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI Editor: Colin Guthrie FRI Studio Managers: Colin Guthrie, Keith Graham, Alison Craig FRI Production Coordinator: Nicole Fitzpatrick. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01d5qq4 (Listen) FRI Christine Walkden, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer FRI questions you've sent in to the programme via post or email. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Original Shorts b01d5qty (Listen) FRI Series 5, Under My Skin FRI FRI Martin Jarvis directs award-winning American star Calista FRI Flockhart in Christine Conrad's devastating new tale of FRI friendship gone awry. Two creative women in New York find FRI they have much in common. But when gregarious, FRI entrepreneurial Julie commandeers her less outgoing friend's FRI new novel and announces it as her own film project, the FRI relationship is inevitably dislocated. Julie is quoted as FRI saying: 'A wonderful treatment has been written and my FRI brilliant team and I are moving forward with great FRI excitement and (Julie's favourite word) passion.' FRI FRI As far as her erstwhile friend, the actual author of the FRI book, is concerned 'The train had left the station and FRI nobody had bothered to mention it to me!' The gradual FRI realisation that they really aren't 'sisters under the FRI skin', is movingly told. 'Under My Skin' is specially FRI written for Original Shorts by American novelist and screen FRI writer Christine Conrad (Junior, Mademoiselle Benoit, Ties FRI That Bind.) And perceptively performed by Calista Flockhart FRI - star of TV series Ally McBeal and Kitty McCallister in FRI Brothers and Sisters. FRI FRI Director: Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01d5qvj (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01d5qwk (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 b01d5qxd (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d0fnm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01d5qyw (Listen) FRI Series 36, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with a mix of topical sketches FRI and stand up with Matt Forde, Laura Shavin, Alun Cochrane FRI and Mitch Benn. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01d5qzn (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01d5r0k (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01dd3kk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01d5r1x (Listen) FRI Bristol FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics FRI from the BBC's More Than Words Festival at Bristol's M-Shed. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01d5r25 (Listen) FRI Topical reflection. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01d76j7 (Listen) FRI Rio Story FRI FRI Written by Chris Thorpe. FRI FRI Corrupt ex-cop Marcelo (Charles Paraventi) keeps pregnant FRI teenager Liza (Julia Bernat) in this apartment. Rafael FRI (Matheus Oliveira) an idealistic street-kid wants to rescue FRI her and take her far away. FRI FRI Set in one of Rio de Janeiro's most crowded favelas, this FRI ambitious ensemble drama by Chris Thorpe is part love-story FRI and part thriller revolving around a single day in the lives FRI of a couple of thieves, a crooked policeman, a charity FRI worker, a priest, a blind revolutionary and a pregnant FRI teenager. FRI FRI Recorded in Brazil it was made with the help of the Nós do FRI Morro theatre in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. FRI FRI Luis ..... Julio Adriao FRI Sidney .... Danilo Moraes FRI Fabricio ..... Andre Cursino FRI Pastor John ...... Tatsu Carvalho FRI Marcelo ..... Charles Paraventi FRI Luciano ..... Renan Monteiro FRI Angela ..... Olivia Emes FRI Rafael ...... Matheus Oliveira FRI Liza ..... Julia Bernat FRI Felipe ...... Fernando Arze FRI Other parts ......Tecca Ferreira FRI FRI Casting: Ana Dias Carter and Estela Albani FRI Production coordinator: Jazmin Castillo FRI Sound design: Steve Bond FRI Producer in Brazil: Jan Roldanus FRI Producer/Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01d0fnp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01d5r4m (Listen) FRI Robin Lustig presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ddd1c (Listen) FRI Capital, Episode 10 FRI FRI Identities are revealed - Smitty's, and the individual FRI behind the menacing postcards as the Younts fill a removal FRI van and shut the door on No 51 for the last time. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01d13xz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01d5r5d (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
09 March, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 10/03/2012 - 16/03/2012
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