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SAT SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01d5r6c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01dd3y4 (Listen) SAT 20 Letters to a Friend, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne. SAT SAT Svetlana and her father become estranged after her first SAT love is exiled from Moscow, only to find some accord after SAT the war when she becomes a mother.... SAT SAT Read by Stella Gonet SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d5r6f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d5r6h (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d5r6k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01d5r6m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d5r7s (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev SAT Dr Bert Tosh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01d5r7z (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01d5r6p (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01d5r6r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01d2qf6 (Listen) SAT Inspirational Walks, Sir Andrew Motion SAT SAT In the final programme in a series of inspirational walks, SAT Clare Balding is joined by the former poet laureate, Sir SAT Andrew Motion, to walk around the village of Stisted in SAT Essex. As they walk around the village, Sir Andrew tells SAT Clare about his memories of growing up in the village where SAT he was first inspired to write poetry. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01dc3dm (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT This will have been the busiest week of the year for SAT florists and flower growers, in the run up to Mothering SAT Sunday. But, as around three quarters of flowers sold in the SAT UK are imported, could, or should, more flowers be grown SAT here? Charlotte Smith visits David Austin Roses in SAT Shropshire, which breeds new varieties for cut flower SAT producers and gardeners. Every year they cross pollinate SAT thousands of roses by hand but, from that, only four or five SAT varieties will make the grade to go on sale. Whilst the SAT company carries on its painstaking rose breeding in England, SAT its cut flower production actually takes place in Kenya, SAT Ecuador and California. Charlotte also visits New Covent SAT Garden Market to talk to florists who are English flower SAT enthusiasts, and Sarah Falkingham meets a woman on a mission SAT to create a British 'Flowers from the Farm' label. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith SAT Producer: Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01d5r6t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01dc473 (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01dc499 (Listen) SAT Pauline Black, Kate Fox, Natasha Owen Jones, Milton Keynes, SAT Breadboard, Ben Miller's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles with The Selecter's Pauline Black, poet Kate SAT Fox, Natasha Owen Jones who traced her long-lost brother SAT only to find he was a convicted killer and who has just SAT returned from meeting him for the first time, one of the SAT original inhabitants of Milton Keynes, the story of a SAT beloved breadboard, and the Inheritance Tracks of comedian SAT Ben Miller. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01dc4zg (Listen) SAT Black Prince - Wine trade in Medieval Europe - Lourdes SAT SAT John McCarthy meets a writer who followed in the 14th SAT century footsteps of the Black Prince through SW France; an SAT historian who has followed a medieval wine trail through SAT Gascony and a novelist who was seduced by the lure of SAT Lourdes and the Pyrenees. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01dc53t (Listen) SAT Progress 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 programmes, Will explores the relationship the SAT institution of the monarchy has had with that potentially SAT corrosive agent - change. He finds that the most successful SAT monarchs have understood and harnessed innovation - Henry SAT VIII took an interest in wood so the Navy boats would be the SAT best on the ocean, Charles II established the Royal SAT Observatory so astronomers could find out more about the SAT skies and better inform navigation. Queen Victoria asked SAT Marconi to demonstrate a radio station at Osborne House and SAT she took part in the first trans-Atlantic cable ever sent. SAT SAT With the help of objects and curators from the Royal SAT Collection, together with leading historians, Will studies SAT objects that not only demonstrate the patronage of the arts SAT and sciences but also illuminate the more personal SAT expressions of learning and monarchical intellectual SAT engagement. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01dc562 (Listen) SAT .Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT There has been much speculation over what taxes the SAT chancellor might raise or cut in his budget next week. Tim SAT Farron Liberal Democrat and David Ruffley Conservative SAT discuss the options. SAT Recent events in Afghanistan have started to pose questions SAT about the effectiveness of the British and US mission there SAT and the timing of the withdrawal of troops. Sir Menzies SAT Campbell a former Liberal Democrat leader and Patrick Mercer SAT a Conservative MP who was formerly an officer in the armed SAT forces assess the current strategy. SAT Plus David Cameron's highly successful trip to the USA as SAT observed by David Rennie of the Economist and Lance Price a SAT former special adviser to Tony Blair. SAT And Margaret Hodge chair of the Public Accounts Select SAT Committee engages with former senior civil servant Sir SAT Richard Mottram on the vexed question of the accountability SAT of the civil service. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01dc56n (Listen) SAT A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa SAT correspondent Andrew Harding on the film about warlord SAT Joseph Kony and why it's received the thumbs down from an SAT audience in Uganda. SAT SAT A group of former paramilitaries and police officers from SAT Northern Ireland have been to South Africa to see how SAT combatants in the apartheid era there are now trying to come SAT to terms with their troubled past -- Fergal Keane joined SAT them. SAT SAT 'A steady pulse of pleasure' as Simon Worrall sails to the SAT fabled Spice Islands in the wake of the great nineteenth SAT century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace. SAT SAT Joanna Robertson's been to the cinema in Paris seeing how SAT French children are being educated to become the film SAT experts of the future. SAT SAT And Peter Day describes the extraordinary Chinese ghost town SAT -- empty streets, half-finished buildings -- which suggests SAT to some that the great real estate bubble there has finally SAT burst. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01dc57k (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance with Paul SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01d5qyw (Listen) SAT Series 36, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with a mix of topical sketches SAT and stand up with Matt Forde, Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes and SAT Mitch Benn. SAT SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01d5r6w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01d5r6y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01d5r1x (Listen) SAT Bristol SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics SAT from the BBC's More Than Words Festival at Bristol's M-Shed. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01dc58l (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00tcs2h (Listen) SAT Rebus: Strip Jack, Rebus: Strip Jack, part 2 SAT SAT Final part of Ian Rankin's crime thriller as Inspector Rebus SAT investigates the death of an MP's wife. Ron Donachie stars SAT in this two-part dramatisation by Chris Dolan set in SAT Edinburgh and the Highlands in 1992. SAT SAT In Edinburgh a man confesses to the murder of two women - SAT but Rebus isn't convinced. Much to his superior's dismay, SAT Rebus ignores the confession and disappears north to SAT investigate a wild party deep in the Scottish countryside. SAT SAT D.I. Rebus ..... Ron Donachie SAT D.S. Holmes ....... Andy Clark SAT WPC Moffat.... Lisa Gardner SAT Gregor Jack.... Gavin Kean SAT McMillan....Liam Brennan SAT C.S. Watson..... Douglas Russell SAT Ronald Steele.... Robin Laing SAT Helen/Cathy ..... Emma Currie SAT Costello/Rab ..... Lewis Howden SAT Patience...... Monica Gibb SAT Kemp..... Laurie Brown SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT Producer/director Bruce Young. SAT SAT 15:30 The Brontes' Piano b01d12ny (Listen) SAT Singer Catherine Bott explores the Bronte sisters' musical SAT world through their newly restored piano, now returned to SAT the parsonage in Haworth. Joined by pianist Jonathan Cohen, SAT Catherine looks through the Bronte's family music collection SAT - including Anne Bronte's own songbook, copied by hand - SAT and discovers how musical life at the parsonage underscored SAT the sisters' creative life, their work and tastes. SAT SAT The Brontes' piano was originally made by John Green of Soho SAT Square at the turn of the C19th and is thought to have come SAT in to the parsonage sometime in the early 1830s. The sisters SAT all loved music. Emily was described as playing 'with SAT precision and brilliancy'; Anne preferred to sing. SAT Charlotte's poor eyesight meant that she couldn't read the SAT notes to play, although knowing references to music, song SAT and piano performance figure throughout her fiction. SAT SAT The piano itself has an interesting history: it was lent to SAT Mr Grant, the curate of Oxenhope by Patrick Bronte after his SAT children's deaths, and then sold at an auction of Bronte SAT items in 1861. It then passed through numerous hands and was SAT put up for sale at Sothebys in 1916, before eventually SAT finding its way back to the parsonage. It has been recently SAT restored - for the first time opening up the sound world of SAT the Brontes' private, domestic musical life. Does their SAT music-making show us a different side to the sisters - SAT perhaps one that doesn't quite fit with how we want or need SAT them to be? SAT SAT Producer: Simon Hollis SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01dc59t (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Doreen Lawrence SAT SAT Doreen Lawrence on getting Justice for her son Stephen. SAT Tippi Hedren on what it was really like working with Alfred SAT Hitchcock. Advice for entrepreneurs from some of the UK's SAT top business women from our visit to the SAT Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Liverpool. And Jane SAT Garvey learns how to shop for vintage clothes. SAT SAT Producer Jane Thurlow SAT Editor - Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01dc5b6 (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents a fresh perspective on the day's news, SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01d5lt0 (Listen) SAT Leadership 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 what good leadership consists SAT of - how do you turn a mediocre manager into a brilliant SAT boss? They also swap thoughts on surviving on 20% less of SAT everything. How would their companies cope, and what would SAT they look like? SAT SAT Joining Evan are Martin Gilbert, chief executive of fund SAT manager Aberdeen Asset Management; Allan Leighton, chairman SAT of set top box maker Pace; Nigel Whitehead, group managing SAT director of BAE Systems. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Richard Vadon. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01d5r70 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01d5r72 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d5r74 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01dc60v (Listen) SAT Alex James, Peter Lord and Lynne Truss. Arthur Smith chats SAT to Pearl Lowe. With music from The Stranglers and Crybaby SAT SAT This week we're in Bristol at the More Than Words Festival SAT where Clive is joined by the daddy of Wallace and Gromit, SAT Peter Lord. He's aboard the good ship Loose Ends to tell us SAT about Bristol based Aardman's latest flick, The Pirates! In SAT an Adventure with Scientists starring Hugh Grant as a salty SAT sea captain. SAT SAT Fromage alert! Former Blur man and Bristol local Alex James SAT saunters by to treat us to a taster from his latest memoir SAT 'All Cheeses Great and Small'. SAT SAT Former singer-songwriter turned fashion and textiles SAT designer, Pearl Lowe tries to get to grips with Arthur Smith SAT and his idiosyncratic sense of style?? Tune in to see how SAT she fares........ SAT SAT The always polite and grammatically correct writer Lynne SAT Truss keeps Clive on his toes ahead of her appearance on SAT Sunday at the More Than Words festival when she introduces SAT her BBC Radio 4 series 'Tidal Talk from The Rock Pool' SAT SAT Music is brought to us from British legends The Stranglers SAT who perform 'Boom Boom' from their new album Giants. And SAT Bristolian tunesmith Crybaby who play 'I Cherish The SAT Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost' from their their SAT eponymous debut album. SAT SAT Produced by Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01dc617 (Listen) SAT Jimmy Wales SAT SAT Claire Bolderson profiles the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy SAT Wales, who is working as an unpaid advisor to the UK SAT Government helping open up policy making to the public. He's SAT an information evangelist and his belief in the power of SAT shared knowledge has driven the remarkable success of SAT Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. With entries on more SAT than 20 million subjects looked at by more than 450 million SAT people per month, Jimmy Wales' creation is one of that SAT handful of internet successes that really have changed our SAT lives. The programme hears from associates of Jimmy Wales SAT and from his critics. And of course from the man himself. SAT SAT Producers: SAT Lesley McAlpine SAT Anna Meisel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01dc6jq (Listen) SAT Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests novelist Liz Jensen and the SAT writers Susannah Clapp and Giles Fraser review the cultural SAT highlights of the week - including Can We Talk About This?, SAT a physical theatre piece that sets out to explore the issues SAT of Islamic extremism, multiculturalism and freedom of SAT speech. It's set to a text that has been taken from over 40 SAT interviews and asks - have well-intended multicultural SAT policies inadvertently ended up betraying the very SAT minorities and freedoms Britain ought to be protecting? SAT SAT The classic novel Gullivers Travels has been adapted and SAT updated by the cartoonist, and satirist, Martin Rowson into SAT a graphic novel. He sets his book in the late 1990s and his SAT hero - a distant descendant of Swift's Lemuel Gulliver - is SAT a former Government employee who has travelled the world SAT working for various NGOs and charities. The Lilliput that SAT Gulliver arrives into has an oddly familiar Prime Minister SAT with large ears and a semi-crazed smile. SAT SAT Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a brooding and SAT philosophically searching film that won the Grand Prix prize SAT at Cannes last year. The story takes place during one night SAT as a convoy of three vehicles, containing a dozen men, drive SAT through the badlands of Turkey. The convoy contains two SAT murder suspects who are trying to take the policemen, SAT prosecutor and doctor they are travelling with to the SAT location where they buried their victim. SAT SAT Death Row is a new TV documentary series where the SAT iconoclastic director Werner Herzog takes an inside look at SAT a maximum security prison in Texas, featuring interviews SAT with death row inmates. SAT SAT Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude is an exhibition SAT which focuses on the debt that the British painter owed to SAT the 17th century French artist Claude Lorrain. When Turner SAT died, he bequeathed two large paintings to the National SAT Gallery, on the condition that they were hung between two SAT specific works by Claude. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01dc8mj (Listen) SAT The Licence to Kill SAT SAT Seventy years ago British-trained volunteers assassinated SAT Reinhard Heydrich, a leading Nazi, in Prague. His killing SAT resulted in drastic reprisals against innocent civilians in SAT Czechoslovakia. The village of Lidice, which was falsely SAT linked to the assassins, was razed to the ground, all the SAT adult men were executed and the women and children sent to SAT concentration camps. The ensuing outrage, however, did help SAT firm up commitment to the Czechoslovak cause and to the SAT Allies finally revoking the Munich agreement under which SAT large parts of the country had been ceded to Germany. SAT SAT Britain contemplated using assassination after the Second SAT World War - for instance against Presidents Nasser in Egypt SAT and Idi Amin in Uganda - but as far as we know it has SAT repeatedly decided against, fearing the consequences. Other SAT Western countries have toyed with it - such as the CIA SAT plotting against Castro in Cuba and Lumumba in Congo in the SAT 1960s but also more recently in the use of drones against SAT al-Qaeda leaders and in the raid that killed Osama bin SAT Laden. And some countries - notably Israel, it's alleged - SAT continue to use it regularly today as an instrument of SAT policy - for instance against Iranian scientists. SAT SAT The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera asks whether SAT state-sponsored assassination is an effective tool of war SAT and policy and if it can ever be justified. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Savage. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01d2bxg (Listen) SAT Out of the Hitler Time, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit SAT SAT By Judith Kerr, dramatised by Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT The first book of the internationally acclaimed trilogy SAT tells the story of a Jewish family forced to flee from SAT Germany in 1933 - told from the perspective of nine year old SAT Anna. SAT SAT Young Anna ... Lauren Mote SAT Max ... Hugo Docking SAT Mama ... Adjoa Andoh SAT Papa ... Paul Moriarty SAT Julius ... James Lailey SAT Elsbeth ... Xenia Mainelli SAT Omama ... Eleanor Bron SAT Fraulein Lambeck ... Tracy Wiles SAT Aunt Sarah ... Sheila Steafel SAT Herr Rosenfeld ... Gerard McDermott SAT Passport Officer ... Christopher Webster SAT Concierge ... Alex Rivers SAT SAT Director: David Hunter. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01d5r76 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01d2h6s (Listen) SAT Gay Marriage SAT SAT The government will this week launch a public consultation SAT on its proposals to allow gay marriage. The idea has brought SAT forth a torrent of opposition from many senior church SAT leaders who argue the institution is one of the building SAT blocks of society and that the state does not have the moral SAT authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning SAT and purpose of marriage. Earlier this year the Pope said gay SAT marriage threatens to undermine "the future of humanity SAT itself" and in a speech to US bishops in Rome last Friday he SAT said the Christian vision of human sexuality was now in SAT crisis around the world with "powerful political and SAT cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of SAT marriage". The Universal Declaration on Human Rights defines SAT marriage as a right which applies to men and women and that SAT "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of SAT society and is entitled to protection by society and the SAT state". But the authority of the church, our understanding SAT of human sexuality and our definitions of what a family is SAT have all changed fundamentally in the past 60 years. Of SAT course there are those who say that's part of the problem SAT and there are also those who see the issue in the simple SAT terms of equality - why should gay people be denied SAT something that heterosexuals have as a right? But there are SAT also many people of faith who welcome the idea that the SAT sacrament of marriage should be open to as many people as SAT possible because it's the best way establish long lasting, SAT stable loving relationships whether children are being SAT raised in them or not. So who should be allowed to marry? SAT SAT Witnesses: Dr Austen Ivereigh - Catholic Voices; Ben SAT Summerskill - Chief Executive Stonewall; Dr David Landrum - SAT Director of Public Policy Evangelical Alliance; Rabbi Laura SAT Janner-Klausner- Movement of Reform for Judaism. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Kenan SAT Malik and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01d0qth (Listen) SAT Series 2, University of East Anglia SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of East Anglia, "The SAT 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed SAT at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners SAT whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on SAT location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 The Narrow Road to the Disaster Zone b01d26qk (Listen) SAT Every Japanese person knows Matsuo Basho's 'The Narrow Road SAT to the Deep North'. This classic is an account by Japan's SAT best-loved poet of a journey he made in 1689. He visited SAT several places famous for their beauty, and because they had SAT inspired poets in years gone by. He celebrated these in his SAT haiku and visited fellow poets. SAT SAT Many of the places Basho wrote about were devastated by last SAT year's tsunami. He walked through Fukushima prefecture, SAT where the stricken nuclear plant is today. In Shiogama, SAT Basho pitied the fishermen and, at Ishinomaki, described SAT hundreds of boats bobbing in a wide bay. Of the 12,000 SAT vessels registered in Sendai, Shiogama and Ishinomaki, only SAT 1,200 remained intact after the tsunami. SAT SAT For the first anniversary of the earthquake the poet and SAT translator Stephen Henry Gill, who has lived in Japan for SAT many years, follows in Basho's footsteps on his own 'Narrow SAT Road to the Disaster Zone'. He tries to reach the power SAT station, passing through village after village deserted SAT because of radiation. He looks at the islands of Matushima, SAT so beautiful they left Basho speechless, continues to the SAT fishing villages of Oshika peninsula and on to the point SAT where he looks out to sea towards the epicentre. SAT SAT All the time, like Basho, Stephen meets people - a poet SAT publishing his work about the tsunami on Twitter; volunteers SAT rebuilding houses; a Zen priest radio broadcaster whose show SAT kept communication open; the fisherman who went to sea, SAT choosing to risk riding the giant waves rather than have his SAT boats smashed onshore. Using interviews, sounds recorded SAT along the way, Basho's writings, and his own haiku, Stephen SAT Gill creates, one year on, a historical, contemporary and SAT cultural response to the earthquake, the nuclear fallout and SAT the tsunami. SAT SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 MARCH 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01dc8x3 (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 b01dd5s4 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN This year's Radio 4 stories from the Bath Literature SUN Festival are all are written by women in the West Country, SUN with women at their heart, recorded on stage on SUN International Women's Day. They all have a slightly edgy SUN feel to them, too, as ghosts, shadows and strange events SUN unfold. The second story is read by Morag Joss, SUN award-winning crime fiction author of the Sara Selkirk SUN series. SUN SUN The last story in the series will be read by Patricia SUN Ferguson SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dc8x5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dc8x7 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dc8x9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01dc8xf (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01dhcg0 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Edward's, Eggbuckland, Plymouth. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01d2h8v (Listen) SUN Prof John Lennox SUN SUN John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, SUN explains how the relationship between God and the individual SUN is enhanced through science. 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; Tariq Ramadan, SUN Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of SUN Oriental Studies at Oxford University, examines the SUN philosophy of the individual and how this is neglected in SUN 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 b01dc8xh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01dd5tf (Listen) SUN The Moon in My Life SUN SUN In 'The Moon in My Life' the space scientist Dr Maggie SUN Aderin Pocock reflects on the cultural and scientific SUN effects of the moon, and also on the role the moon has SUN played in her personal life. SUN SUN She talks to scientist Professor John Sutherland about SUN recent research that indicates that the moon could have been SUN responsible for generating all life here on Earth and SUN chooses readings by H.G. Wells, Carol Ann Duffy and Carl SUN Sandburg and music by Dvorak, Debussy and Carl Orff . The SUN readers are Liza Sadovy and David Holt. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01dd5vn (Listen) SUN Anna Hill visits two farmers in East Sussex to find out SUN about the impact of the Schmallenberg virus. The disease, SUN which causes serious deformities and stillbirths in sheep SUN and cattle, was first identified in Germany last year. SUN Scientists believe the disease is spread by midges, and it SUN emerged in southern England during January. More than 150 SUN farms in England have now seen the Schmallenberg virus. East SUN Sussex is one of the most badly affected areas. Being so SUN close to the continent, where there have been more than SUN 2,000 cases, farmers in East Sussex are on the front line SUN for infected midges having blown in. Anna meets pedigree SUN South Down sheep breeder Mark Littmoden, whose lambing has SUN been marred by the disease. A few miles down the road, SUN Justin Harmer is waiting anxiously to see if it will show up SUN in his pedigree Sussex cattle, once spring calving gathers SUN pace. As Justin says, it's "all in the lap of the gods". SUN SUN Presenter: Anna Hill SUN Producer: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01dc8xk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01dc8xm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01dd5wf (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 On the programme this week SUN SUN Gavin Drake reports on what practical steps churches can SUN offer to the young unemployed in the week that new figures SUN show a rise in the number of young out of work. SUN SUN We hear from Catholics about their varying reactions to SUN Archbishop Vincent Nicholls letter on gay marriage which was SUN read out in churches last weekend...and from a liberal rabbi SUN who feels the government has not gone far enough because SUN there is still no provision for religious marriage for same SUN sex couples. SUN SUN St Cuthbert's Gospel is believed to be oldest fully intact SUN European book, created in honour of one of our most SUN celebrated Christian leaders.The British Library has just a SUN few weeks to hit its 9 million pound target to save the book SUN for the nation after it was put up for sale by the Society SUN of Jesus. SUN Luke Walton has a report. SUN SUN And we examine in detail the legacy of Rowan Williams as he SUN announces he is to step down as Archbishop of Canterbury at SUN the end of the year....and asking who might succeed him in SUN what he once described as "an intimitating and enormous SUN job." SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01f8r1f (Listen) SUN Child in Need India SUN SUN Mark Tully presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Child In Need India. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1092674 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Child In Need India. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN CHILD IN NEED INDIA SUN SUN CINI's mission focuses on sustainable improvement in Health, SUN Nutrition, Education and the Protection for women and SUN children in need. It aims to overcome the barriers of SUN poverty, caste and gender that affect the lives of the poor SUN and vulnerable in India. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01dc8xp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01dc8xr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01dd5zs (Listen) SUN The Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor Dr Donal McKeown, is SUN the preacher in the fourth of this year's Lent services SUN taking the theme of the Way to Freedom. On this Mothering SUN Sunday, the service reflects on Church as Community. From SUN the Church of the Good Shepherd in Belfast, led by the SUN Father Eugene O'Neill, with Cappella Caeciliana directed by SUN Donal McCrisken. Producer: Bert Tosh. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01d5r25 (Listen) SUN Power of the Press SUN SUN Historian David Cannadine reflects on the power of the SUN press, past and present, recalling how early twentieth SUN century press barons attempted to influence politics. He SUN recalls Stanley Baldwin's response to the campaign by Lords SUN Rothermere and Beaverbrook to topple him as Conservative SUN leader, accusing them of wielding "power without SUN responsibility." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01dh7c6 (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01dh7c8 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Director .....Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough 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 Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Natalie Hollins ..... Maddie Glasbey SUN Consultant ..... Tracy Wiles SUN Kylie Richards ..... Leah Brotherhead. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01dh7cb (Listen) SUN Anna Ford SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Anna Ford. SUN SUN One of the first high profile women in news, she worked for SUN Granada, ITV and the BBC before retiring after more than SUN thirty years on our screens. One of her professional SUN pairings was presenting the News at 10 with Reginald SUN Bosanquet, she remembers how he would try to unsettle her SUN during broadcasts: "I adored Reggie, he would land either SUN obscene poems or love poems on my script just before I was SUN to about to read it to camera and I would catch just a sight SUN of this and it was almost impossible not to laugh." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01d0rj5 (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 6 SUN SUN Paul Merton, Liza Tarbuck, Josie Lawrence and Kit Hesketh SUN Harvey are panellists on this week's show, each trying to SUN prove they have the greatest gift of the gab. SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons is in the chair and metes out the subjects SUN on which they all must attempt to speak for sixty seconds SUN without hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01dhcg2 (Listen) SUN Free From Foods SUN SUN There's been a huge growth in the range of 'free from' foods SUN over the last decade. Sheila Dillon asks whether this is due SUN to more people being diagnosed with food allergies, or SUN whether retailers and manufacturers are finding their own SUN ways to grow consumer interest in dairy and gluten free SUN foods. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01dc8xt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01dhcg4 (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 Soul Music b01b9jp0 (Listen) SUN Series 13, Baker Street SUN SUN Gerry Rafferty's glorious and instantly recognisable hit, SUN Baker Street is the subject of this week's Soul Music. SUN SUN Rafferty died last year (on January 4th 2011) at the age of SUN 63, leaving behind a widely respected musical legacy. The SUN most popular of his tracks is, arguably, Baker Street: SUN SUN His daughter Martha Rafferty recalls hearing her father SUN develop the melody in the attic of their Glasgow home; the SUN sound of him picking-out the tune on his acoustic guitar SUN would drift through the push-up attic-door, filling the rest SUN of the house with what would become his biggest hit. She SUN describes the inspiration for the lyrics: a book called 'The SUN Outsider' by Colin Wilson which Rafferty was reading at the SUN time. It's about the sense of disconnection from the world SUN that artists often feel. Martha regards Baker Street as the SUN lyrical version of that book. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01d5qq4 (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition SUN SUN Christine Walkden, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer SUN questions you've sent in to the programme via post or email. SUN SUN 14:45 Lent Talks b01d2h8v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01dhcg6 (Listen) SUN Out of the Hitler Time: Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr SUN dramatised by Beaty Rubens. SUN SUN The second book in the trilogy. Having been forced to flee SUN the Nazis, Anna and her family have now arrived in London. SUN Both Anna and her brother Max face the challenges of life as SUN refugees rather better than their parents. SUN SUN Anna ... Anna Madeley SUN Max ... Adam Billington SUN Mama ... Adjoa Andoh SUN Papa ... Paul Moriarty SUN Dainty ... Thelma Ruby SUN Louise ... Susan Engel SUN Mrs. Hammond ... Joanna Monro SUN Mrs. Riley ... Ann Beach SUN Barbara ... Tracy Wiles SUN Cotmore ... Gerard McDermott SUN George ... Harry Livingstone SUN Otto ... Jack Holden SUN Sam ... Malcolm Tierney SUN SUN Director: David Hunter. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01dhdd9 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup looks at the career and life of Dodie SUN Smith, the author best known for her hugely popular SUN children's story, The 101 Dalmatians, and I Capture the SUN Castle, a teenager's depiction of her family's life in a SUN crumbling castle. Written in 1949, it was voted in at number SUN 82 in 'the nation's 100 best loved novels' as part of the SUN BBC's The Big Read. SUN With three of her lesser known novels, The Town in Bloom, SUN The New Moon with the Old and It Ends with Revelations being SUN re-published, Dodie's biographer Valerie Grove and Heidi SUN Thomas, who adapted I Capture The Castle for the big screen, SUN discuss her legacy. SUN SUN Sofka Zinovieff has written two non fiction titles, the SUN first Eurydice Street - A Place in Athens about her SUN experience living in that city for a year and her second SUN about the fascinating life of her grandmother, an SUN aristocratic Russian who escaped the revolution to lead a SUN peripatetic life in Europe. Her latest is a novel, The House SUN on Paradise Street in which she fictionalises the story of SUN Greek women that embraces the last turbulent 70 years of SUN Greek History. SUN SUN In his fictionalised memoir "Walking to Hollywood" Will Self SUN writes about an author called Will Self. In the book this SUN alternative Will Self meets homeless people played by Toni SUN Morrisson and Salman Rushdie! Therefore it's not surprising SUN that he himself is now the subject of a surreal novel by Sam SUN Mills. In The Quiddity of Will Self, he himself becomes the SUN object of adoration and sexual desire by members of the WSC, SUN the Will Self Cult. And Sam isn't the only novelist to base SUN their book around a real living person. Rodge Glass's latest SUN novel, 'Bring me the head of Ryan Giggs', uses Manchester SUN United's popular and long standing player as a way of SUN looking at the underside of football. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN I Capture the Castle published by Vintage Classics SUN The One Hundred and One Dalmatians SUN The Town in Bloom is published by Corsair SUN The New Moon with the Old is published by Corsair SUN It Ends with Revelations is published by Corsair SUN SUN Dear Dodie: Life of Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove is SUN published by Pimlico SUN SUN The House of Paradise Street by Sofka Zinovieff is published SUN by Short Books SUN SUN Walking to Hollywood by Will Self SUN SUN The Quiddity of Will Self by Sam Mills is published by SUN Corsair SUN Bring me the Head of Ryan Giggs by Rodge Glass is published SUN by Tindal Street Press SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01dhddc (Listen) SUN Roger McGough is joined on stage by Harriet Walter, John SUN MacKay, Guy Paul and the poet Paul Henry to read poetry SUN requests on the theme of listening and sounds. Coming live SUN from St George's Hall in Bristol as part of the Radio 4 SUN 'More than Words' listening festival. SUN SUN Poetry is meant to be heard, and Roger has been gathering SUN requests for poems that celebrate the wonder of listening. SUN The results may well include favourites like The Listeners SUN by Walter de la Mare, poems about music, birdsong and the SUN weather. But there will be surprises and new discoveries to SUN tantalise or please the ear, and perhaps the heart too. Paul SUN Henry will read his moving poem The Black Guitar and hears SUN his request 'Counting the Beats' by Robert Graves. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01d13y9 (Listen) SUN Tax Avoidance SUN SUN How strong is the government's commitment to ending schemes SUN set up to minimise tax? A number of schemes have proved SUN popular in the private sector, including Employee Benefit SUN Trusts. These have been used by football clubs for tax SUN planning purposes, but are now in the sights of HMRC as it SUN attempts to recoup what it sees as unpaid tax. But how SUN widespread are these trust schemes and why are they so SUN popular with companies that have large government contracts? SUN SUN As the Treasury reviews tax avoidance by senior government SUN employees, it has emerged that employees in other parts of SUN the public sector are using payment schemes that keep them SUN off the payroll. There is growing concern that paying public SUN servants through personal service companies may be SUN inappropriate. SUN SUN How tax-compliant are the citizens of the United Kingdom? Is SUN there a risk that publicity about the tax-avoidance schemes SUN of the rich, coupled with easier access to information via SUN the internet, could lead to more people trying to cut their SUN contributions? SUN Presenter: Fran Abrams SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01dc617 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01dc8xw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01dc8xy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dc8y0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01dhddf (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN There's not so much a recurring theme, but a mood in this SUN week's Pick of the Week, reflecting the power of human SUN endeavour and endurance when pitted against the sometimes SUN impenetrable, stark beauty of nature. SUN SUN We find out about the fossilised riches of the South Pole, SUN even though the man who collected them perished there, we SUN hear the quiet but angry poetry written by someone who SUN witnessed the Japanese tsunami of 2011, and then there's the SUN hold that mountains have over nearly the entire population SUN of Slovenia. SUN SUN It's enough to make us all feel very, very small. SUN SUN The Narrow Road to Disaster- Radio 4 SUN Sunday Feature: Swansea's Other Poet- Radio 3 SUN The History Plays: Oh Salutarious Hosta, Diana - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: Interiors - Radio 4 SUN Architects of Taste - Radio 4 SUN Drama on 3: Chowringhee - Radio 3 SUN Alvin Hall in the Bonfire of Vanities - Radio 4 SUN Original Shorts: Under my Skin - Radio 4 SUN Feed Me To The Wind - Radio 4 SUN Costing the Earth - Radio 4 SUN Scott's Legacy - Radio 4 SUN The Essay: Meanings of Mountains - Radio 3 SUN Wicked Picket: The Life and Times of Wilson Pickett - Radio SUN 2 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01dhddh (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 In and Out of the Kitchen b016ljx7 (Listen) SUN January 1st to 5th SUN SUN Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen comprises the SUN entries from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien SUN Trench. In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, SUN Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day SUN life, "no matter how grizzly or, indeed, how gristly". SUN SUN Miles Jupp as Damien Trench SUN Justin Edwards as Anthony SUN with SUN Selina Cadell as Damien's mother SUN Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney SUN Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher SUN and SUN Alex Tregear as the Researcher SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 A Father for My Son b01dhfkx (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 A SUN Father for my Son is adapted from her own one-woman stage SUN play, written with Robert Edwards, based on Kathleen Scott's SUN autobiography and journals. Having arrived in Paris to study SUN art at the turn of the twentieth century, Kathleen makes SUN friends with the sculptor Rodin, and through him makes SUN friends with the dancer Isadora Duncan. After a series of SUN adventures around Europe, with and without Isadora, Kathleen SUN meets the figure she has been searching for: the one man who SUN is worthy to be a father to the son she desperately desires. 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 b01d5qwk (Listen) SUN After The Now Show this week tackled gay marriage, child SUN abuse and the Catholic church some Feedback listeners SUN contacted us with concerns. Roger asks Jane Berthoud, BBC SUN Radio's head of comedy, how her team assesses controversial SUN material and whether in this case the right decisions were SUN made. SUN SUN Robust and challenging - or simply a slanging match? When SUN presenter Justin Webb first joined the Today programme he SUN said he'd be gentle and let politicians have their say. Then SUN he changed his mind. In this week's programme he joins BBC SUN Radio 5Live's Victoria Derbyshire to discuss the difference SUN between aggression and persistence in the political SUN interview. SUN SUN And after many Feedback listeners reported hearing the SUN repeated use of "Facades" by composer Philip Glass in an SUN array BBC Radio programmes. we finally hear from the man SUN himself. Ahead of his installment as BBC Radio 3's Composer SUN of the Week, Philip Glass offers his own slightly surreal SUN insight into the popularity of this particular piece. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01d5qvj (Listen) SUN Sherwood Rowland, Lawrence Anthony, James Q Wilson, Jack SUN Chippendale, Joe Thompson and Philip Madoc SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sherwood Rowland who won the Nobel prize for showing that SUN chemicals used in aerosols were damaging the ozone layer, SUN SUN Lawrence Anthony, the conservationist known as the "elephant SUN whisperer" who saved the animals in the Baghdad Zoo after SUN the American invasion of Iraq, SUN SUN James Q Wilson, the neo con social scientist who put forward SUN the "broken windows" theory of crime - suggesting that SUN focussing on low level disorder could combat more serious SUN offences, SUN SUN Joe Thompson - the fiddle player who kept alive the musical SUN traditions of the black string bands of the American south, SUN SUN and Jack Chippendale, the respected wooden boat builder. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01dc57k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01f8r1f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01d0rp8 (Listen) SUN Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Downing Street guru SUN SUN Downing Street's favourite intellectual is Nassim Nicolas SUN Taleb, author of the best selling book The Black Swan. Janan SUN Ganesh of The Economist investigates his appeal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01dhfkz (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 b01dhfl1 (Listen) SUN Episode 95 SUN SUN Anne McElvoy of the Economist analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01d2rd0 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Mark Wahlberg to discuss his new SUN film, Contraband, his love of European thrillers, and why SUN his criminal record has helped his acting career. SUN SUN Polish director Agnieszka Holland discusses her new film, In SUN Darkness, a real-life tale of a group of Jews who hid from SUN the Nazis in the sewers of Lvov, in Poland. SUN SUN And a celebration of the late director Ken Russell, as Kim SUN Newman reviews a new cut of The Devils, and from behind the SUN piano Neil Brand deconstructs Russell's use of music in his SUN films from Gustav Mahler to The Who. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01dd5tf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 MARCH 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01dc8yn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01d2fll (Listen) MON Private military security; whisky tourism MON MON The MIddle Eastern conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have MON been characterised by widespread deployment of private MON military and security companies. Their job has been to MON provide protection to army compounds, aid agencies and MON governments. Most of these men are American but a third are MON British. Laurie Taylor hears about new research by Professor MON Paul Higate, a Reader in Gender and Security at Bristol MON University. His study finds that British operatives see MON themselves as cool headed professionals but regard their MON American counterparts as 'trigger happy cowboys'. But is MON this perception an objective reality or a self serving MON illusion? The sociologist, Professor Anthony King, joins MON this discussion. Also, artifice versus authenticity on the MON traveller trail. MON Professor Karl Spracklen from Leeds Metropolitan University MON talks about the quest for the 'real' and 'authentic'' in MON tourism. Whisky tours are now as central to Scottish tourism MON as buying heather or eating haggis. Has 'tasting a dram' MON become just another element in the construction of invented MON tradition? MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01dhcg0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dc8yq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dc8ys (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dc8yv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01dc8yx (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dhg7y (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev MON Dr Bert Tosh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01dhg80 (Listen) MON Alien Invaders: Charlotte Smith hears the killer shrimp has MON arrived in the Norfolk Broads. The Environment Agency MON explains how this inch-long predator has spread from its MON native territory near the Black Sea, and could now present MON severe problems for the Broads' delicate ecosystem. MON MON The biggest challenge facing farmers in the next few years MON is water - whether too much, or too little. That's the view MON of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. RASE Chief MON Executive Denis Chamberlain tells Farming Today how farmers MON in England are changing how they work the land to cope with MON the drought. MON MON And Caz Graham tries her hand at coppicing - the traditional MON way of managing woodlands to create healthy habitats for MON wildlife and to provide wood. MON MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01dc8yz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01dhgbl (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01dhhpg (Listen) MON Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer MON MON Andrew Marr talks to the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine MON Gordimer. In her latest book she explores the tensions at MON the heart of a nation struggling to define itself MON post-apartheid, through the lives of an interracial couple MON in suburban South Africa. The past and present also collide MON in the poet Jack Mapanje's attempt to understand why he was MON arrested by the Malawian secret police, and imprisoned MON without charge. Richard Dowden looks to the future of Africa MON to ask whether Chinese investment, an explosion in mobile MON technology and a growing middle class, means this will be MON Africa's decade. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01dhhpj (Listen) MON Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 1 MON MON by Tim Winton. MON MON Acclaimed Australian author, Tim Winton, recalls childhood MON memories of Christmas holidays in a shack at the beach, the MON coastal summer idyll and how his relationship with the sea MON has shaped his adult life. MON MON Read by Stephen Dillane MON Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dhhpl (Listen) MON Phone-in: Stay at home or go to work? MON MON If you're a parent and money was no object would you rather MON stay at home with your children or work outside the home? A MON recent discussion on this subject provoked such a large and MON varied response that today we're devoting the programme to MON it with a phone-in. Call 03700 100 444 with your experiences MON after 0800 or you can email us through the website: MON bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer Kirsty Starkey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dhhpn (Listen) MON Craven: Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's Police Drama 'Craven', MON starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven returns to Radio 4. MON MON As impending cuts threaten the staff of the Greater MON Manchester Police Murder Investigation Team, a case MON involving dangerous dogs and legal drugs piques DCI Craven's MON interest. MON MON Her boss, DCI Price (James Quinn) warns Craven to MON concentrate on the bigger stories that might just save the MON staff, but Craven has other plans and dog loving Terry Bird, MON (David Crellin) puts old grievances aside to take on the MON case. MON MON Craven is determined to prove that the dog bite murder of a MON homeless man, is part of a new wave of organised crime and MON the 'legal' drugs on sale at the Pet Shop is somehow linked. MON Her Boss DI Price has other plans and with DS Watende MON Robinson afraid of dogs, bending the rules won't be easy. MON MON Producer: Justine Potter MON A Red production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 The Teenage Pregnancy Myth b01dhhpq (Listen) MON In 1997 the newly elected Labour government was quick to MON take measures against teenage motherhood. In 1999 they MON published a seminal document which became hugely influential MON in shifting both the public's and policy makers' ideas of MON the 'problem' of teenage pregnancy. The report was MON underpinned by a drive to tackle social exclusion. The MON report's tone was set in its foreword where Tony Blair MON described youthful pregnancy as leading to 'shattered lives MON and blighted futures'. But teenage fertility was highest 4 MON decades ago in 1971 with 51 births per 1000 in women under MON 20. Since then the numbers have halved. MON MON In this programme Miranda Sawyer hears from leading social MON scientists who argue that public policy has ignored evidence MON which shows that far from shattered lives and blighted MON futures, teenage mothers and their children can and do lead MON happy, healthy lives. MON MON 11:30 Wordaholics b01dhhps (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON MON Gyles Brandreth hosts a comedy panel show in which guests MON are challenged to display their knowledge of words and MON language. In this edition he is joined by Jack Whitehall, MON Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Countdown's Susie Dent. MON MON Writers: James Kettle and Jon Hunter. MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01dhhpv (Listen) MON Rate your tenant, eco-cooking and rent a dress MON MON Landlords and letting agencies are creating networks to MON share information on how their tenants behave. Is it a MON sensible precaution or all a bit Big Brother? MON MON We'll test a new piece of cooking equipment that is claimed MON to cut energy use and bills. It's not a pot. It's a bag. MON MON And we'll also hear about the women who see the dress, love MON the dress and wear the dress - without ever having to buy MON the dress. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01dc8z1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01dhhpx (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 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012fbpq (Listen) MON The Countryside MON MON In his new series Blind Man's Bete Noire, Peter White MON explores some of the things which 'get up my nose' about MON blindness. The four programmes include The Countryside, MON Holidays, Being Introduced to Other Blind People and Going MON Slowly. MON MON In the first programme, Peter takes a walk in the Kent MON countryside with keen rambler Janet Street-Porter, who tries MON to help Peter find the best way for him to experience and MON enjoy the countryside. MON She suggests that Pete finds a silent walking companion, but MON they both agree they would not make an ideal partnership as MON both are too similar in disposition and like to do most of MON the talking! MON MON Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01dhddh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dhn6m (Listen) MON Stone, One of Our Own MON MON One of Our Own written by Danny Brocklehurst. MON MON Final episode in the new series of the intelligent, morally MON complex detective drama created by Danny Brocklehurst and MON starring Hugo Speer as DCI John Stone. MON MON When a fellow police officer is found critically injured on MON the notorious Marinduque Estate, Stone is determined to find MON the attackers. But with the Governor telling him to back off MON the case, Stone decides to take matters into his own hands. MON MON DCI STONE ..... Hugo Speer MON DI MIKE TANNER ..... Craig Cheetham MON DS SUE KELLY ..... Deborah McAndrew MON MCCAFFREY/FULLERTON ..... Jonathan Keeble MON MIRIAM/WAITRESS ..... Maggie Fox MON LEAH ..... Vivienne Harvey MON BILLY/LANDLORD ..... Greg Wood MON MON Produced by Charlotte Riches MON Audio Drama North. MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01dhn6p (Listen) MON Series 2, Swansea University MON MON Coming this week from Swansea University, "The 3rd Degree" MON is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at MON cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst MON delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a MON different University each week, and it pits three MON Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01dhcg2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 There Is Business Like Show Business b01dhn6r (Listen) MON Some of the most lavish and expensive musicals ever staged MON were in praise of photocopiers, kitchen appliances, MON insurance salesmen and even tractors...They were made in the MON 50s, 60s and later by companies to motivate their staff. The MON people who wrote them were huge Broadway names including MON Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock the men who gave us Fiddler MON on the Roof. They were private performances staged at sales MON conventions and the music was never made available to the MON public. They were a hidden part of the business world and MON the only reason we now know about them is that some shows MON were recorded as souvenirs for the employees - and these MON have been discovered by a couple of enthusiastic record MON collectors, Steve Young and Jonathan Ward. They tell Will MON Young about their favourite shows - Detroit Diesel's "Diesel MON Dazzle" and "A Musical Introduction to 1958 - The Shape of MON Tomorrow" from Westinghouse Appliances. MON MON There were also industrial shows in the UK. We speak to MON choreographer and director Gillian Lynne who produced the MON Lyon's Maid musical "With Lyon's Maid, You're Laughing!" in MON 1973. And Herb Kanzell who, following his triumph with The MON Westinghouse Appliances show of 1958 wrote musical shows for MON British Rail, Oxo and British Airways. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01dhn6t (Listen) MON Nigeria MON MON Nigeria is in crisis. Thousands of Nigerians have fled their MON homes following a spate of Islamist killings. MON The attacks have been carried out by a group calling itself MON Boko Haram which has demanded that Christians leave the MON North of the country where the majority population is MON Muslim. Christians have taken revenge by attacking mosques MON and Muslims living in the South. MON MON Nigeria is said to be one of the most religious countries in MON the world. Its also Africa's biggest producer of oil so it MON is wealthy. But more than half of its people live in MON poverty. Corruption and mismanagement is endemic. So is this MON conflict really about religion at all, or is religion simply MON a presenting issue? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss the role of religion in the MON conflict in Nigeria are MON Dr Jameel Yusha, senior lecturer in media and politics at MON Northumbria university, Dr Steven Pierce, lecturer in the MON history of sub Saharan Africa at the university of MON Manchester and Dr Leena Hoffman who has just completed her MON PhD on democracy and patronage politics in Nigeria at the MON University of Birmingham. MON MON 17:00 PM b01dhn6w (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dc8z3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01dhn6y (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 7 MON MON CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF HISTORY MON Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons regularly welcomes 'our many MON listeners around the world.' To mark the flagship show's 45 MON year anniversary, Nicholas and his team have decided to let MON some of the listeners welcome them. MON MON Along with regular Just a Minute panellists Paul Merton and MON Marcus Brigstocke, the show's host Nicholas Parsons MON travelled to India to celebrate and highlight Just a MON Minute's unique and continuing popularity across the globe. MON MON Just a Minute's two special anniversary Indian shows were MON recorded in front of a lively, excited and sometimes MON unusually vocal audience of Mumbai urbanites. Topics up for MON discussion on the show include 'A Cultural Exchange', 'The MON Voice of New India' and a funny, quick-witted exchange on MON the unavoidable topic of the British Empire. MON MON Just a Minute regulars Paul Merton and Marcus Brigstocke are MON joined by top Indian comedy talents, Cyrus Broacha and MON Anuvab Pal. Cyrus Broacha is a prime-time TV host as well as MON actor, writer and comedian. He is best known for his show MON 'Bakra' on MTV and 'The Week that Wasn't' on CNN-IBN. Anuvab MON Pal is a leading star in India's new wave of stand up MON Comedy, performing regularly in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. MON Multi-talented, he performs stand-up in addition to his MON other careers as an internationally renowned playwright, MON screenwriter, and journalist for Reuters. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01dhn70 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01dhn72 (Listen) MON Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON Producer Timothy Prosser. MON MON 19:45 Pink Mist b01dhq6b (Listen) MON After Before MON MON A new dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier MON struggling to return home. Commissioned for the Radio 4 More MON than Words festival in Bristol and set and recorded there. MON MON There are three comrades: Arthur is back in Bristol and MON wants to tell the story of his war and that of his friends, MON Hads and Taff.. Taff is a dubstep 'soundhead', Hads is MON trapped in a job in a shopping centre; they join up too MON Arthur's girlfriend and Had's mother and Geraint's wife also MON appear. MON With music by Jon Nicholls. MON MON Arthur: Carl Prekopp; Hads: Osi Okerafor; Taff: Jordan MON Bernarde; Gwen: Devon Black; Lisa: Alex Tregear; Sarah: MON Leona Walker. MON MON Producer Tim Dee. MON MON 20:00 Document b01dhq6d (Listen) MON Mike Thomson continues Radio 4's investigative history MON series, examining documents which shed new light on past MON events. MON MON In 1942, the Vichy regime ruled a large part of France, MON after striking a deal with Hitler when France fell in June MON 1940. This left France officially neutral, with a severely MON limited 'Armistice Army'. Yet British troops were fighting MON Vichy forces in Madagascar, as they had done in Syria MON in1941. France, it seems, was more neutral towards Germany MON than towards Britain; here its collaborationist regime, MON under Marshall Petain, was viewed with contempt by Winston MON Churchill and the British people, who instead supported MON Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Free French. MON MON Yet in this edition of Document, Mike Thomson presents MON evidence that, not only were the British Chiefs of Staff MON meeting with representatives of the Vichy army to discuss MON supplying them with arms, but they were doing so behind the MON backs of Prime Minister Churchill and the Foreign Secretary, MON Anthony Eden. MON MON To investigate, Mike enlists the help of Eric Grove - MON Professor of Naval History at the University of Salford, MON Vichy historians Robert Paxton, Henry Rousso and Simon MON Kitson, eminent French historian Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac MON - who was one of De Gaulle's intelligence officers, and MON military historians Max Hastings and Colin Smith, as well as MON Gerald Bryan, who was badly injured fighting Vichy forces in MON Syria. MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01dhq6g (Listen) MON War Gaming Iran MON MON Might a hot war with Iran be about to start? Israel could MON strike against Iran's nuclear facilities; Syria is in MON revolt; the world is on edge. Edward Stourton probes the MON West's options. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01d2rgl (Listen) MON A new set of Hominin remains from a Cave in China prove MON difficult to place in the human family tree. The "Red Deer MON Cave People" share some traits with modern humans, and some MON with older relatives. Do they represent hybrids from MON interbreeding 11,500 years ago or could they represent a new MON species previously unknown to science? Lead author Darren MON Curnoe from the University of New South Wales and Dr MON Isabelle de Groot from the Natural History Museum in London MON discuss the findings. MON MON Co-curator Ghislane Boddington and Prof Noel Sharkey talk to MON Quentin about a new exhibition opening on Friday at FACT, MON Liverpool, called "Robots and Avatars". The vision of MON numerous artists of a near future where we freely interact MON with colleagues and friends in the form of robots or remote MON projections as avatars will be on display. What are the MON implications for how we live and work? MON MON An update from 'So You Want to Be a Scientist' - Material MON World's search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. MON One of our four finalists, Dara Djavan Khoshdel aged 25 from MON Bournemouth, starts his experiment at Modern Art Oxford. MON He's testing people's emotional reactions to paintings using MON a skin galvanometer, which measures our micro-sweating. But MON will the strength of people's reaction match the financial MON value of each artwork? MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01dhhpg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01dc8z5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01dhq86 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dq3v9 (Listen) MON Stonemouth, Episode 1 MON MON Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in MON exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch MON Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the MON Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be MON even more dangerous than turning up. MON MON An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with its five MON mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one, MON it can seem to offer little more than seafog, gangsters, MON cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to MON suicides. And although there's supposed to be a temporary MON truce between Stewart and the town's biggest crime family, MON it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of MON peace seriously. Before long a quick drop into the cold grey MON Stoun begins to look like the soft option. As he steps back MON into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all MON that it has lost him, Stu uncovers ever darker stories, and MON his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had MON anticipated. MON MON Read by David Tennant. MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00wdjff (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON MON Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack is a multi-paced, one woman MON Fast Show for BBC Radio 4 showcasing the exceptional talent MON of Lucy Montgomery. Featuring Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, MON Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Walter. MON MON Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by MON Steven Burge, Jon Hunter and Joe Wilkinson. MON Music by Philip Pope MON Produced by Katie Tyrrell MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01dhq8q (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 MARCH 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01dc8zr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01dhhpj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dc8zt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dc8zw (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dc8zy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01dc900 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dhqc2 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev TUE Dr Bert Tosh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01dhqcj (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01dhqfl (Listen) TUE Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports TUE Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01dhrmb (Listen) TUE Tejinder Virdee TUE TUE As the search continues for the elusive Higgs boson or "God" TUE particle, Jim al-Khalili talks to CERN physicist, Tejinder TUE Virdee. Tejinder explains why this particle is so TUE fundamental to our understanding of the nature of the TUE universe and describes how, in the early days, a handful of TUE committed scientists and politicians pushed Europe to create TUE one of the most complex machines ever made, the Large Hadron TUE Collider. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01dhrmd (Listen) TUE Samira Ahmed with Konstanty Gebert TUE TUE The journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed explores some TUE missing angles for One to One: 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 Programme 2: From Poland to the Arab Spring TUE TUE Samira meets Konstanty Gebert one of Poland's best-known and TUE most respected journalists. During Poland's Communist TUE dictatorship, he operated underground; laboriously TUE hand-printing documents which were secretly distributed; TUE avoiding the police who would constantly follow his TUE movements. In One to One he recalls those years, and TUE describes what it was like when he and his colleagues were TUE eventually able to join a free press. He makes comparisons TUE with journalists in Arab spring countries, and discusses TUE what they could possibly glean from his experiences. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01dnf3q (Listen) TUE Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Tim Winton. TUE TUE The acclaimed author considers the very particular TUE Australian relationship with the sea and describes his TUE encounters with dolphins and whale sharks off the coast of TUE Western Australia. TUE TUE Read by Stephen Dillane TUE Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dhrmg (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq3t8 (Listen) TUE Craven: Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's returning Police Drama TUE 'Craven' starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven continues on TUE Radio 4. TUE TUE DS Watende Robinson refuses to admit to the rest of the team TUE that he is afraid of dogs and is distracted at work by the TUE impending birth of his first baby. But DS Terry Bird has him TUE sussed. TUE TUE Producer: Justine Potter TUE A Red production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Scott's Legacy b01dhrmj (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show us the way TUE back to the Moon and onto Mars? TUE TUE One hundred years ago, Scott reached the South Pole. TUE However, more than four decades passed before people went TUE back there. On the Moon, Neil Armstrong took his leap for TUE mankind in 1969 and it has been fifty years since the last TUE astronaut left the lunar surface. Presenter Kevin Fong talks TUE to space scientists and historians to find out if Robert TUE Scott's Antarctic exploits provide a road map for future TUE human exploration of the Moon and the planet Mars. TUE TUE Kevin's quest entails an examination of the underlying TUE geopolitical motivation behind both South Polar exploration TUE and the effort which took humans briefly to the lunar TUE surface. But what would get us back to the Moon and onto TUE Mars - would it be political rivalry, science or transport TUE that was cheap enough? TUE TUE In times of economic austerity (in the West at least), what TUE scientific questions are important enough to justify TUE exploration of the Moon and Mars? The six short Apollo TUE visits to the lunar surface were enough to crack the mystery TUE of how the Moon itself formed - namely that a Mars sized TUE planet crashed into the early Earth. The molten rock that TUE was blasted into orbit by that collision coalesced as our TUE lunar neighbour. TUE TUE Sending astronauts back to explore the rocks of the Moon TUE could solve the most important mysteries about the early TUE Earth - when did life first evolve and under what sort of TUE conditions? On the Earth itself all the clues have been TUE obliterated by eons of erosion and continental drift but on TUE the inert Moon there may well be fragments of the primordial TUE Earth on the surface. These fragments were flung there 4 TUE billion years ago when giant space rocks crashed into our TUE young planet, kicking up ejected debris. TUE TUE As for Mars, the big questions are, is there life there now TUE or did life ever evolve there? If it did originate on Mars, TUE how different was it from life on Earth? If we found life TUE did not arise there, we might wonder whether we are really TUE alone in the Universe. TUE TUE Kevin asks whether we need to send human explorers rather TUE than expendable robots to tackle these great scientific and TUE philosophical prizes. Assuming that people will do a much TUE better job, who will get them there. Will it be NASA joining TUE forces with the Chinese and Indian space agencies? Or might TUE it be the likes of Elon Musk, founder of the private rocket TUE company Space X - a dot.com and space entrepreneur who has TUE been described as a cross between Bill Gates and Howard TUE Hughes. TUE TUE Among Kevin's interviewees are Elon Musk and Apollo 17 TUE astronaut Harrison Schmidt, the only geologist (so far) to TUE walk and collect specimens on the Moon. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 11:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b01dhrml (Listen) TUE Series 3, Tchaikovsky TUE TUE Professor Robert Winston brings a scientist's ear to his TUE passion for music, exploring the medical histories of great TUE composers and how illness affected the music they wrote. TUE TUE The romantic sweep of Tchaikovsky's music has made him a TUE favourite with audiences for over a century. But is it TUE possible that the extremes of emotion expressed in his best TUE loved symphonies, ballets and operas were the product of a TUE man tormented? Professor Winston examines Tchaikovsky's TUE experience of living as a gay man in 19th century Russia, TUE where homosexuality was illegal, and puts under the TUE microscope the theory that Tchaikovsky's music reveals a man TUE who was psychologically damaged by the conflict between his TUE nature and society's expectations. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01dhrmn (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 b01dc902 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01dhrmq (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 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012krr1 (Listen) TUE Holidays TUE TUE In Blind Man's Bete Noire, Peter White explores some of the TUE things which annoy him most about his blindness. TUE In the second programme Peter is joined by broadcaster and TUE travel expert Simon Calder. They spend the Isle of Wight TUE ferry crossing discussing the best type of holiday for Peter TUE to enjoy independence, flexibility and action. TUE TUE Simon suggests a cruise may well meet Peter's requirements TUE and mentions that there are also tailored holidays for blind TUE people. Peter talks to one such specialist company about the TUE holidays they offer, providing blind travellers with a TUE sighted guide, to enable them to go on holiday on their own. TUE TUE Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01dhn70 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dhrmv (Listen) TUE Noise TUE TUE A sound-driven mystery about memory loss and trust. Kit TUE knows something isn't quite right, as she struggles to TUE regain her identity after an accident. A new play by Alex TUE Bulmer. TUE TUE Original music by Alice Trueman TUE Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore TUE TUE Kit ..... Effie Woods TUE Dan ..... Jonas Khan TUE Helena ...... Sarah Waddell TUE Matt ...... Richard Teverson TUE TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE A Sparklab Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 The Global Reach b01dhrmx (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 b01dhrmz (Listen) TUE Outbreak TUE TUE The outbreak of Schmallenberg disease amongst sheep and TUE cattle on British farms has provided a powerful reminder of TUE how novel infections can develop, spread and kill before the TUE authorities have a chance to react. TUE TUE Intensive farming, international travel and climate change TUE are all playing a role in changing the diseases we TUE encounter. In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap asks what TUE epidemics we should expect in the future and examines the TUE readiness of government, the medical profession and the TUE pharmaceutical industry. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01dhrn1 (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen and guests celebrate nonsense at an event TUE recorded at Radio 4's More The Words festival in Bristol. TUE Michael's guests include the children's writer Philip TUE Ardagh, the actor Paul Nicholson, and nonsense experts Anna TUE Barton and James Williams. With help from an audience of TUE adults and children at Bristol Central Library, Michael will TUE be filling a cauldron with nonsense poems, prose, limericks TUE and tongue twisters, with a few nonsense sounds thrown in to TUE bring out the flavour. And the programme will mark the 200th TUE anniversary of Edward Lear's birth with discussion of the TUE writer's life and work. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01dhrn3 (Listen) TUE Frances Barber, Grace Dent TUE TUE Writer Grace Dent and actress Frances Barber talk to TUE presenter Harriett Gilbert about the books they love, in an TUE edition recorded in front of an audience at R4's More Than TUE Words Listening Festival in Bristol. TUE TUE Outspoken and hilarious author Grace Dent is the TUE self-proclaimed Queen of Twitter, and her favourite book is TUE a masterpiece of acerbic wit: Love in a Cold Climate by TUE Nancy Mitford. TUE TUE Frances Barber is one of Britain's best-loved actresses, TUE recently to be seen in Dr Who, and her choice is A Thousand TUE Splendid Suns by Afghan-born novelist Khaled Hosseini. It's TUE the follow-up to his hugely acclaimed debut novel, The Kite TUE Runner. TUE TUE And Harriett Gilbert brings Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood to TUE the table, to see if it still deserves its iconic status.. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Grace Dent's choice: 'Love in a Cold Climate' by Nancy TUE Mitford TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE Frances Barber's choice: 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by TUE Khaled Hosseini TUE Publ. Bloomsbury TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'Cat's Eye' by Margaret Atwood TUE Publ. Virago TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01djtx7 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dc904 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01dhrn5 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Spanish Elvis TUE TUE Arthur puts on en event in an ill friends Spanish bar. With TUE Liza Minelli and a Spanish Elvis auditioning, Arthur can do TUE nothing other than perform himself to make sure the night TUE goes off with a real bang. 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 Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01dhs11 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01dhs13 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including the verdict on the film The TUE Hunger Games, based on the best-selling book by Suzanne TUE Collins. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 Pink Mist b01dhs15 (Listen) TUE Hads's Story TUE TUE Episode 2. Hads' Story. TUE Arthur: Carl Prekopp; Hads: Osi Okerafor; Taff: Jordan TUE Bernarde; Gwen: Devon Black; Lisa: Alex Tregear; Sarah: TUE Leona Walker. TUE Producer Tim Dee. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01dhs17 (Listen) TUE To the west of Edinburgh, construction of the new £1.5bn TUE Forth road bridge will use cement shipped across the North TUE Sea under a contract with a German supplier. Scotland's only TUE cement company, based 40 miles from the bridge, was TUE unsuccessful in the bidding. It is claimed that the deal TUE could have maintained 130 jobs in the Dunbar area. TUE TUE £790m worth of steel for the bridge will also come from TUE abroad. A plant near Motherwell lost out as part of a TUE consortium bidding for the work. It says the contract could TUE have secured hundreds of local jobs. TUE TUE Officials insist that they have to follow EU rules which TUE state that any company across the single market can bid for TUE public contracts. But analysts complain that UK authorities TUE interpret these rules more narrowly than their European TUE counterparts, to the detriment of British firms. French TUE public spending goes outside France at only half the rate TUE that British contracts go abroad. TUE TUE With the economy struggling, the Government has pledged TUE support for British business but accepts that public TUE projects are too often awarded in a way that disadvantages TUE domestic companies. So can it take action to support UK jobs TUE without being accused of protectionism? TUE TUE Reporter: Gerry Northam TUE Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01dhs19 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01dhs1c (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 b01dhrmb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01dc906 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01dhs1f (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dhq88 (Listen) TUE Stonemouth, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by David Tennant TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The History Plays b01dhs1h (Listen) TUE A History of Blair in 9 1/2 Voices TUE TUE Last in Nigel Smith's series of plays set at key moments in TUE the last five decades. TUE TUE A History of Tony Blair in 9 1/2 voices stars Jon Culshaw as TUE Tony Blair, lost in the winding corridors of the BBC the day TUE after his resignation. He finds himself sharing a room with TUE Sue (Fiona Allen), a struggling impressionist who assumes he TUE is a Tony Blair lookalike. Blair enjoys the opportunity to TUE talk about himself in the third person, and to show off a TUE few impressions of his own. TUE TUE A darkly comic but thoughtful exploration of what makes TUE Blair tick, the play gives a compelling explanation for what TUE may have lain behind Blair's early political successes and TUE what prompted his unwavering commitment to the war in Iraq. TUE TUE Written and directed by Nigel Smith TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01dhs1k (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01dc90s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01dnf3q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dc90v (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dc90x (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dc90z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01dc911 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dhqc4 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev WED Dr Bert Tosh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01dhqc6 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b01dhqf8 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01dht1v (Listen) WED Libby Purves is joined by theatre director Barrie Rutter. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01dnmr1 (Listen) WED Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 3 WED WED by Tim Winton. WED WED The acclaimed Australian author describes how a childhood of WED snorkelling has led to a passion for freediving and recalls WED childhood evenings in the mysterious sand dunes of Western WED Australia. WED WED Read by Stephen Dillane WED Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01dht1x (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq3xp (Listen) WED Craven: Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's returning Police Drama WED 'Craven' starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven continues on WED Radio 4. WED WED When one of Adams mates dies of a 'legal' drugs overdose, it WED is clear that the problem is wide spread and a local Pet WED Shop selling pond cleaner is not all it seems. Craven's WED 'regular irregular' lover, Macca (Jack Deam) helps out. WED WED Producer: Justine Potter WED A Red production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 North and South: Across the Great Divide b01dht1z (Listen) WED Cleethorpes to Coventry WED WED Ian Marchant takes a trip along a very precise line dividing WED North from South to find out if it's changing. WED WED You can walk the line that separates North from South across WED England, as mapped by Professor Danny Dorling of Sheffield WED University. Think of the border which used to separate East WED and West Germany: a stark division of different life WED chances. The line which divides the UK is just like that - WED it's the only comparable 'border' in Europe -according to WED Dorling. WED WED In these documentaries, writer Ian Marchant travels along WED the dividing line between North and South, zigzagging the WED line which runs, rather surprisingly, from Cleethorpes to WED Gloucester. His aim is to find out what the statistics WED really mean to neighbours who are separated from each other WED by a gulf of health, wealth, education, culture and WED prospects. WED WED Programme one looks at how economic opportunities divide WED communities on the line, including their health and WED educational prospects and the type of work available to WED them. Ian begins his journey just south of Cleethorpes, is WED buzzed by spitfires, talks to Sir Michael Darrington - ex WED CEO of Greggs - about different pie-marketing strategies WED north and south. Professor Danny Dorling reveals the WED surprisingly clear-cut economic differences he can trace all WED along the line. Ian also meets Rachel North of West Lindsey WED District Council to talk about degrees of southern-ness and WED joins her and some street-cleansing operatives in WED Gainsborough who are very surprised to find they live in the WED 'south'. WED WED With his customary wit and deceptively gentle interviewing WED style he demonstrates so brilliantly in programmes such as WED 'On the Top Deck' and 'The Ghost Trains of Old England' Ian WED develops an understanding of what the North/South divide WED really means to the people who live on it. This is an WED under-the-skin, thoughtful interrogation of the social WED geography of Britain using this neat device to dig out WED fascinating human stories of the real - and changing - WED meaning of the North/South divide. WED WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 11:30 Shedtown b011pkqz (Listen) WED Foundations WED WED Written by Kevin Eldon. Colin (Johnny Vegas) is all at sea WED as the foundations of Jimmy's dream take shape on the beach. WED Wes and Father Michael witness the profits of some WED not-so-spiritual meat. 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 Carly ..... Jessica Knappett WED Father Michael ..... James Quinn WED Wes ...... Warren Brown WED WED Narrator ..... Maxine Peake WED Music ..... Paul Heaton WED WED Created by Tony Pitts. Directed by Jim Poyser WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 Budget 2012 b01dvyjc (Listen) WED Live coverage of the Chancellor's Budget speech with WED analysis and reaction. WED WED 13:57 Weather b01dc913 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01dhs11 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 On Mardle Fen b01dht27 (Listen) WED Series 4, The Old Lost Road 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. An invitation turns WED up for "Mr Hedges" to read a poem at a large charity do in WED the cathedral on Christmas Eve. Both Jack and Warwick begin WED to practice using the heavily pregnant Zofia as a sounding WED board. 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 WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01dht29 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01dhs1c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01dht2c (Listen) WED What does the idea of home mean to us in Britain? How is WED that changing, and are those new needs being met? A new WED economic landscape and an irresistible pressure on housing WED are changing the way we live. For the first time since the WED 1980s home ownership is decreasing, more people are renting WED longer and people are starting to club together i bigger WED groups. WED In a special edition recorded at the Royal Institute of WED British Architects, Thinking Allowed examines the concept of WED home and its relationship to housing. Laurie Taylor is WED joined by an audience of the public and an expert panel: WED Angela Brady, President of RIBA; the housing economist Susan WED Smith, Mistress of Gurton College Cambridge; sociologist WED Esther Dermott from Bristol University and the architectural WED writer Jonathan Glancey. WED The event draws on a series of investigations of listeners' WED homes in which Laurie Taylor and a team of sociologists have WED explored the future of private life. It will also reflect on WED the RIBA exhibition on the history of the British Home, 'A WED Place to Call Home'. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01dht2f (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 b01djty2 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dc915 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01dht2h (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 Ava Vidal, Howard WED Read, Andy Wilkinson and Lucy Porter offer a guide to WED raising children. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01dht2k (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01dht2m (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Pink Mist b01dht2p (Listen) WED Taff's Story WED WED Episode 3 Taff's Story WED Arthur: Carl Prekopp; Hads: Osi Okerafor; Taff: Jordan WED Bernarde; Gwen: Devon Black; Lisa: Alex Tregear; Sarah: WED Leona Walker. WED Producer Tim Dee. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01dht2r (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Matthew Taylor, Melanie Phillips, Claire WED Fox and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01dht2t (Listen) WED Martin Wroe WED WED Writer and journalist, Martin Wroe, Martin Wroe explores the WED ethics of virtue where the individual is at its most divine WED when working in community. WED WED In the wake of political and social reactions to the WED financial crisis, austerity measures and the riots of 2011, WED debate continues to determine the role of the individual and WED society. The 2012 Lent Talks consider the relationship WED between the individual and the collective. Is each person WED one alone or one of many? Is it the human condition to be WED self-contained or to belong to the family, the tribe, the WED congregation, the nation? We live in groups but our most WED intense experiences are incommunicable. Jesus shared a WED communal last supper but he died an outcast, abandoned and WED rejected by his people, his disciples and (apparently) his WED Father. WED WED Speakers of this year's talks include Tariq Ramadan, WED Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of WED Oriental Studies at Oxford University, examines the WED philosophy of the individual and how this is neglected in WED many areas of Islam; Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ, explores the WED agony of the individual in society. WED WED The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, WED forgiveness and love. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01dhrmz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01dht1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01dc917 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01dht2w (Listen) WED Ritula Shah presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dq4w7 (Listen) WED Stonemouth, Episode 3 WED WED Read by David Tennant WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01dht2y (Listen) WED Egypt WED WED This week Tim Key is on a cultural pilgrimage to Cairo, as WED he grapples with the meaning of 'Egypt'. Tom Basden plays WED guitar, while wearing a fez. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Otto WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01dht5l (Listen) WED About Proud Mums WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About Proud Mums - 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.' Or WED did, until success beckoned. WED WED The episodes are a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND 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 b01dht5n (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01dc91t (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01dnmr1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dc91w (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dc91y (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dc920 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01dc922 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dhqc8 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev THU Dr Bert Tosh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01dhqcb (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 b01dhqfb (Listen) THU Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports THU Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01djnxx (Listen) THU Moses Mendelssohn THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work and influence THU of the eighteenth-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A THU prominent figure at the court of Frederick the Great, THU Mendelssohn was one of the most significant thinkers of his THU age. Today he is best remembered for his efforts to bring THU Jewish and German culture closer together; as one of the THU principal architects of the Haskala, the Jewish THU Enlightenment, he is widely regarded as having helped bring THU Judaism into the mainstream of European culture. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01dnmzv (Listen) THU Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 4 THU THU by Tim Winton. THU THU The acclaimed Australian author discovers that his THU relationship with the sea is echoed in his children and THU their delight in beachcombing: "Gifts and signs wash ashore THU here on the hard white beach, and I stoop with my kids, some THU days, and pick them up and hold them to the light." THU THU Read by Stephen Dillane THU Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01djnxz (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq51g (Listen) THU Craven: Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's retuning Police Drama 'Craven' THU starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven continues on Radio 4. THU THU As Watende Robinson's wife goes into labour with their first THU baby, a break, takes the team to a farm in Denshaw where THU shocking activities and an abandoned child hint at a much THU bigger crime. THU THU Producer: Justine Potter THU A Red production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01djny1 (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 The Topping Tooters of the Town b01djny3 (Listen) THU 'These are the topping tooters of the town, who play THU "Lilliburlero" to my Lord Mayor's horse through the city.' THU THU In an exhilarating programme, William Lyons (musician and THU specialist in performance and Renaissance music) celebrates THU the music of the Waits - a professional band of musicians THU who played for civic and ceremonial occasions in major towns THU across the country until 1835. THU THU That skirl of the waits band blasting their way down broad THU thoroughfares and narrow alleys stirs the blood even amidst THU the cacophony of modern life. The music of the waits was THU external and non-exclusive - for the people on the street, THU not confined within the tapestried walls of the royal court. THU It could be heard somewhere, every day, within earshot. THU THU We trace the broad repertoire of the Waits, exploring their THU exceptional place in the culture and life of 16th century THU England. THU THU They received an annual wage and were granted livery, THU raising their status above the mistrusted common minstrel. THU THU They were famed in London for their artistry and skill, THU rivalled only by the Waits in Norwich and occasionally the THU royal court, although Elizabeth I regularly called upon the THU waits to play over her own musicians. THU THU Thomas Morley dedicated his 'First Booke of Consort Lessons' THU [1599] to the London Waits, praising their skill and 'my THU love towards them'. THU THU They were mostly wind players: shawms, curtals, cornetts, THU sackbuts, dulcian, recorders and bagpipes. THU THU After their civic duties, Waits were free to solicit work; THU in London, they increasingly found parts in the new theatres THU that were springing up through the City and along the THU Thames. Stage directions in the plays of Shakespeare, THU Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson call for 'hoboys', THU 'recorders', 'cornetts' and 'shawms'. THU THU Producer: Kate Bland THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01djny5 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01dc924 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01djny7 (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 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012qq7n (Listen) THU Being Introduced to Other Blind People THU THU Peter White is joined by author Sue Townsend who is also THU blind, to discuss their pet hate of being introduced to THU other blind people. Peter says that often sighted people THU will suggest that he meets someone, not because they may THU have anything in common, but purely because they are both THU blind. Visually-impaired BBC News correspondent Gary O' THU Donoghue also comments. THU THU But Peter then meets Irene, June and Kathleen who disagree THU with his sentiments and point out what they consider to be THU the benefits of meeting other people who are also THU visually-impaired. THU THU Producer : Cheryl Gabriel. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01dht2k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01djr4p (Listen) THU Jailbird Lover THU THU Mid-Wales: and a lonely bachelor avoids personal contact as THU much as humanly possible, despite the best efforts of his THU well-meaning but nosey next door neighbours. THU THU Gwilym Lloyd whiles away his time, pottering in the garden, THU learning the harmonica and writing letters to women serving THU long-term prison sentences in various jails around the THU world. Women that he knows he'll never have to meet. THU THU When South Londoner Layla O'Dowd is released on early parole THU and suddenly shows up on the the doorstep of Gwilym's rural THU Welsh cottage out of the blue, his whole world is turned THU upside down. In the modern social media jungle of internet THU profiles and identity theft, the art of letter writing may THU seem quaintly old fashioned, but that doesn't mean that it's THU not fraught with the very same dangers. THU THU Gwilym ..... Charles Dale THU Layla ..... Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Mrs Davies ..... Suzanne Packer THU Owen Davies ..... Iestyn Jones THU Consuelo ..... Manon Edwards THU THU The music was played by harmonica virtuoso Julian Jackson. THU A BBC Cymru/Wales Production, directed by Emma Bodger. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01djr4r (Listen) THU To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, Helen Mark THU visits the Medway towns to find out how important a part the THU Kent landscape played in Dickens' life and works. Except THU London - no part of the British Isles features more THU prominently in Dickens' life than Kent. "Kent Sir - THU Everybody knows Kent - apples, cherries, hops and women" Mr THU Jingle, Pickwick Papers. Anyone who's ever thumbed through THU the likes of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or The Pickwick THU Papers will know that the landscape and people of 19th THU Century Kent provided rich pickings for Dickens. In THU particular, the clutch of towns around the River Medway THU including Chatham and Rochester are referenced frequently in THU Dickens' works. It was growing up here that the author was THU at his happiest, stockpiling memories he would recycle in THU later years. Presented by Helen Mark and Produced by Anna THU Varle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01f8r1f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01dhdd9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01djr4t (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01djr4w (Listen) THU This week's programme features another finalist from 'So You THU Want to Be a Scientist' - Material World's search for the THU BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. Izzy Thomlinson, aged THU 18 from Shropshire, tests people's reactions to horrible THU sounds at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham. From scraping THU fingernails down a blackboard to squeaky polystyrene, what THU is the most annoying sound in the world and do the sounds THU that make us wince change with age? Presented by Quentin THU Cooper. THU THU Producer: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b01djr4y (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dc926 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Chris Ramsey: Offermation b01djr50 (Listen) THU South Shields comedian Chris Ramsey brings his Edinburgh THU Comedy Award nominated show to Radio 4 via the Manchester THU Comedy store. He explores the notion of 'Offermation' (not THU very interesting personal information that we haven't asked THU for) and what stuff really makes our lives meaningful. THU THU Writer and Performer....Chris Ramsey THU Producer....Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01djr52 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01djr54 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 Pink Mist b01djr56 (Listen) THU The Bomb THU THU Epsiode 4. The Bomb THU Producer Tim Dee. THU THU 20:00 The Report b01djr58 (Listen) THU NHS Reform THU THU Why are plans to reform the NHS in England so controversial? THU Simon Cox investigates the tortuous path of the Health and THU Social Care Bill and asks how the proposed changes may work. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01djr5b (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 b01dhrmj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01djnxx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01dc928 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01djr5d (Listen) THU Philippa Thomas presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dq51j (Listen) THU Stonemouth, Episode 4 THU THU A game of pool in the present and a teenage game of THU paintball start harmlessly but turn violent and deadly in THU today's episode of Iain Banks' novel. THU THU Read by David Tennant THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 News Quiz USA b019rlp1 (Listen) THU Topical panel quiz. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01djr5g (Listen) THU David Cornock with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01dc92v (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01dnmzv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dc92x (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dc92z (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dc931 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01dc933 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dhqcd (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev FRI Dr Bert Tosh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01dhqcg (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01dhqfd (Listen) FRI Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including FRI Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for FRI the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01dh7cb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01dnn41 (Listen) FRI Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Tim Winton. FRI FRI In a specially-commissioned coda, the acclaimed author FRI describes how the increasingly threatened and fragile marine FRI ecology has turned him into an environmental campaigner in FRI Western Australia. FRI FRI Read by Stephen Dillane FRI Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01djrp5 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01dq55j (Listen) FRI Craven: Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI Series 2 of Amelia Bullmore's retuning Police Drama 'Craven' FRI starring Maxine Peake as Sue Craven concludes on Radio 4. FRI FRI But it is the pack mentality of the women on the drug addled FRI estate that brings the investigation to an end. We finish FRI series two as the axe falls on the job of one member of the FRI team. FRI FRI Producer: Justine Potter FRI A Red production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The I Love You Bridge b01302s4 (Listen) FRI A quest for the original lovers of the 'I Love You Bridge' - FRI a fabulously incongruous message painted on a footbridge on FRI a hollowed-out housing estate in Sheffield. FRI FRI Presented by feature film maker, opera director and FRI screenwriter, Penny Woolcock, in her first radio FRI documentary. FRI FRI Producer: Frances Byrnes FRI A Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery b01djrp9 (Listen) FRI A Reconstructed Corpse, Episode 4 FRI FRI by Jeremy Front. FRI Based on the Novel by Simon Brett FRI FRI Charles finds the final piece in the macabre FRI jigsaw puzzle of murder but not before his own life FRI comes under attack. FRI FRI Charles ..... Bill Nighy FRI Frances ..... Suzanne Burden FRI Maurice ..... Jon Glover FRI Chloe Earnshaw ..... Francine Chamberlain FRI Superintendent Sorsby ..... Gerard McDermott FRI Sam Noakes ..... Adjoa Andoh FRI Martin Earnshaw ..... James Lailey FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01djrpc (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01dc935 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01djrpf (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 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012wdjk (Listen) FRI Going Slowly FRI FRI In the final programme of the series, Peter White explores FRI his bete noire of Going Slowly with record-breaking Steve FRI Cunningham ("the fastest blind man on the planet") about why FRI sighted people try to slow him down. FRI FRI Comedian Nick Hancock explains to Peter the joys of fishing FRI but he remains unconvinced about the benefits of sitting FRI still for a long time, doing apparently nothing. FRI FRI Visually-impaired BBC News correspondent Gary O' Donoghue FRI also comments. FRI FRI Peter finally experiences ultimate freedom by running full FRI pelt along a Northumbrian beach. FRI FRI Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01djr52 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01djrpk (Listen) FRI The British Club FRI FRI By Ben Musgrave FRI FRI Sub-Inspector Mondol is a Bangladeshi detective with a few FRI problems: a body in a pool, a tight, ex-pat British FRI community and a Superintendent who doesn't want to rock the FRI boat. All too swiftly, Mondol finds himself in the murky FRI world of unregulated property development, heroin addiction FRI and bribery. What choices will he make? A compelling FRI detective story by award winning writer Ben Musgrave. FRI FRI Mondol.....Sanjeev Bhaskar FRI KP.....Samantha Bond FRI Superintendent.....Paul Bhattacharjee FRI John.....David Thorpe FRI Adam.....Sam Pamphilon FRI Douglas.....Peter Hamilton Dyer FRI Anjali.....Susie Riddell FRI FRI Pianist.....Dave Morecroft FRI Cultural Consultant.....Sabir Mustafa FRI Language Advisor.....Manoshi Barua FRI FRI Produced and directed by Sarah Bradshaw FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01djrpm (Listen) FRI Muckhart, Clackmannanshire FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a programme with guest panellist Carole FRI Baxter. FRI FRI Practical March continues with an in-depth guide to 'Sowing FRI and Planting'. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Original Shorts b01djrpp (Listen) FRI Series 5, Judgement FRI FRI The jurors in this case plainly disapprove of aging defence FRI barrister Harry Fox as he shambles into court in his torn FRI gown. He believes 'better a hundred guilty men go free, than FRI one innocent man be convicted.' But this case may be FRI different. FRI FRI As Fox defends his client, he can see the jurors' hearts FRI going out to the fragile-looking victim in the case. They FRI stare at Fox as if to say - how can you defend a rapist? FRI Have you no conscience? But then, something curious come to FRI light in the courtroom. Will old Harry have to exercise his FRI own 'judgement'? The denouement is unexpected and rather FRI shocking. Successful barrister and novelist Olly Jarvis has FRI written this brand-new story FRI especially for Original Shorts. It's given a masterly FRI performance by Tim Pigott-Smith. FRI FRI Director: Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01djsfl (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 b01djsfn (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 b01djsfq (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dc937 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01djsfs (Listen) FRI Series 36, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with topical, comical sketches FRI and stand up with Jon Holmes, Nathan Caton, Mitch Benn and FRI Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01djsfv (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01djsfx (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with Jonny FRI Greenwood, from the band Radiohead, and Polish composer FRI Krzysztof Penderecki. Penderecki inspired a new orchestral FRI work by Greenwood, and their music appears side by side on a FRI new recording. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Pink Mist b01djsfz (Listen) FRI Pink Mist FRI FRI Epsiode 5. Pink Mist FRI Producer Tim Dee. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01djsg1 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics, FRI hosted by one of the winners of the BBC's Schools Questions FRI and Answers competition: Uckfield Community Technology FRI College, East Sussex. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01djsg3 (Listen) FRI Topical reflection with Professor David Cannadine. FRI FRI 21:00 Inside the Bermuda Triangle: The Mysteries Solved FRI b01dljk3 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI In this first of two omnibus editions of his series from FRI 2009, Tom Mangold begins an epic quest to uncover the truth FRI behind one of the world's most famous mysteries. FRI FRI The Bermuda Triangle is one of the great iconic stories of FRI our time. Within its half million square mile borders FRI between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico some 1000 people FRI are said to have perished in the sixty or so ships and FRI planes that have vanished without trace since 1854. FRI FRI Producer: Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01dc939 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01djsg5 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01dq55x (Listen) FRI Stonemouth, Episode 5 FRI FRI Stewart's return to Stonemouth causes tensions to rise with FRI the Murston family. These reach a peak with Ellie's brothers FRI kidnapping Stewart and threatening him high above the FRI churning waters flowing beneath the suspension bridge. FRI FRI Read by David Tennant FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01dhrn3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01djsg7 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
17 March, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 17/03/2012 - 23/03/2012
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