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SAT SATURDAY 31 MARCH 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01dvyrh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01f1pym (Listen) SAT Book of the Week: Escape from Camp 14, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Blaine Harden. SAT SAT Having escaped across the border into China, Shin looks for SAT a job. After a lucky encounter in a Korean restaurant he SAT finds himself on his way to South Korea and a life of SAT freedom. But once there he has to acclimatise to a totally SAT new way of life, first in Seoul and then in California, and SAT he is haunted by his memories of life in Camp 14. SAT SAT Read by Kerry Shale SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01dvyrk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01dvyrm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01dvyrp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01dvyrr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01dw02l (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Most Reverend George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01dw02s (Listen) SAT Jennifer Tracey talks to Philip Rankin, the man who built SAT Scotland's first chair lift. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01dvyrt (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01dvyrw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01dvw78 (Listen) SAT Flat Holm is the most southerly point in Wales. The Island SAT sits just off the Cardiff Coast. In 1982, the Flat Holm SAT Project was established. The aim was to manage Flat Holm as SAT a local nature reserve and to encourage visitor access and SAT opportunities for education. The Island has a long and SAT varied history having been used by man since prehistoric SAT times. It was farmed for some 800 years and stopped in 1942. SAT It has been fortified twice, most recently during the 2nd SAT World War. The Island has many buildings and structures of SAT historic interest, many are listed buildings and scheduled SAT ancient monuments. In this week's Open Country, Helen Mark SAT finds out what life is like for the wardens and volunteers SAT who live on the Island all year round and what is done to SAT prepare the Island for the influx of tourists in the summer. SAT Presented by Helen Mark and Produced by Anna Varle. SAT SAT Kimble West abseiling on Flatholm SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01f1jrv (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01dvyry (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01f1k42 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01f1k4p (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with Jarvis Cocker and poet Elvis McGonagall SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01f1k9z (Listen) SAT Iceland SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig goes to Reykjavik to look at aspects of SAT tourism in Iceland and discovers that the volcanic eruptions SAT and the financial crash there may not have been so bad for SAT the country. As well as reminding the world of its SAT geological attractions the crises have helped Iceland look SAT at its cultural roots like the sagas and....knitting. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01f1kcx (Listen) SAT Legacy SAT SAT In this Diamond Jubilee year, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz SAT has been selecting some of the most revealing objects from SAT the Royal Collection to see what they tell us about the SAT monarchs who acquired them. It is one of the most SAT wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world, SAT and also one of the most surprising - offering up an SAT intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who SAT assembled it. SAT SAT During the course of this series, Will has encountered SAT dozens of these unique objects - some priceless, others no SAT more than souvenirs - each giving a glimpse into the SAT essential characteristics of a successful sovereign. And in SAT this, the final programme, he delves once more into the SAT Collection to see what a subtly doctored portrait of Richard SAT III, a bombastic mural that once hung in the Palace of SAT Whitehall and the paintings on the Grand Staircase in SAT Buckingham Palace tell us about how the Monarchy has dealt SAT with a series of dynastic crises. And he joins the Royal SAT Collection at work today and sees how Leonardo da Vinci, SAT Johannes Vermeer and a pair of four foot candelabra are SAT brought into the service of both Queen and country. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT The Art of Monarchy - See the Objects SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01f1kdt (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT The Bradford West by -election produced a huge and SAT unexpected upset for the Labour party. But what does it SAT signify? David Cowling head of political research at the BBC SAT puts the result into perspective. SAT SAT It was also a difficult week for the Conservative SAT government,with the scandal over large party donations and SAT accusations of mishandling a potential fuel crisis. SAT Matthew D'Ancona from the Daily Telegraph discusses the SAT current standing of the parties with Nick Pearce of the SAT IPPR. SAT SAT The Liberal Democrats have begun to distinguish themselves SAT more openly and aggressively from the Conservatives. SAT Evan Harris vice chair of the Liberal Democrat Federal SAT Policy Committee and a former MP joins Stephen Gilbert SAT Liberal Democrat MP for Newquay to evaluate this new SAT approach. SAT SAT And should we take seriously the decline in the number of SAT working class MPs in parliament? SAT David Skelton of Policy Exchange and Labour MP Fiona SAT O'Donnell give their views on how to adjust the balance of SAT representation in the House of Commons. SAT SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01f1kfd (Listen) SAT What does a chaotic pet market have to tell us about Libya's SAT transition from dictatorship to democracy? Kevin Connolly's SAT been finding out. SAT SAT Refineries. Miles and miles of pipeline. Hundreds of workers SAT from overseas. Antonia Quirke's learned they are all coming SAT to a remote corner of Mozambique now there's been a huge oil SAT find there. SAT SAT Drug-related violence is a major issue in the Mexican SAT presidential election campaign, which has just got underway. SAT Will Grant's in the capital city where even news of the most SAT gruesome happenings now seems to cause little surprise or SAT horror. SAT SAT Jonathan Fryer's been meeting a family hugely respected in SAT Togo. Over the generations they've become known for SAT frequently producing twins -- regarded as particularly SAT special in this part of west Africa. SAT SAT And how on earth did a man from the high Himalayas come to SAT be serving Jewish culinary specialities in a store in SAT Manhattan. The answer to that one comes from Reggie SAT Nadelson. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01f1kfx (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01dvzgm (Listen) SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis dissect the week's news with SAT comical precision assisted by Jon Holmes, Mitch Benn and SAT Laura Shavin. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01dvys0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01dvys2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01dvzpf (Listen) SAT Otley SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley, West SAT Yorkshire, with entrepreneur Doug Richard; cross-bench peer SAT and Professor of Politics and Women's Studies at the SAT University of York, Haleh Afshar; Leader of the House of SAT Commons, Sir George Young MP; and Shadow Leader of the SAT Commons, Angela Eagle MP SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01f1kh0 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00sb0h8 (Listen) SAT The Jubilee Singers SAT SAT Writer Adrian Mitchell's drama about the extraordinary SAT Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Tennessee, who in the SAT years immediately after slavery brought their great 'Sorrow SAT Songs' from the plantations to Europe. SAT SAT Cast SAT Adjoa Andoh SAT Felix Dexter SAT Nadine Marshall SAT Tanya Moodie SAT Alibe Parsons SAT Clive Rowe SAT Ray Shell SAT Jonathan Pryce SAT SAT Producer: Marilyn Imrie SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b01dttzh (Listen) SAT Series 3, Chopin SAT SAT Professor Robert Winston brings a scientist's ear to his SAT passion for music, exploring the medical histories of great SAT composers and how illness affected the music they wrote. SAT SAT Tuberculosis remains one of the world's most devastating SAT diseases but in the 19th century, TB or consumption as it SAT was known, gained a curious reputation for stimulating SAT creativity in great artists. Professor Robert Winston looks SAT at the story of Chopin, whose struggle with chronic lung SAT disease has become the archetypal version of that myth, and SAT looks for evidence to reveal the true connection between SAT Chopin's health and his music. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01f1kjl (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Karren Brady on being a "Strong Woman". What you really SAT think about marriage and civil partnerships. Who'll be the SAT first Champion Lady Jockey? Find out what Barack Obama, JK SAT Rowling and Einstein have in common. And what did a leading SAT food writer make of the contents of Jane Garvey's fridge! SAT Producer Sarah Johnson. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01f1ljf (Listen) SAT Carolyn Quinn presents a fresh perspective on the day's top SAT news stories, with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01fqfdd (Listen) SAT Ruthlessness 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 It's tough at the top, but when is it right to be tough at SAT the top? Evan's executive panel debate the pros and cons of SAT ruthlessness as a management style. They also talk about SAT investing and selling in deprived areas - places capitalism SAT often overlooks. SAT SAT Joining Evan are Jasmine Montgomery, founder of Seven SAT Brands; Michele Giddens, co-founder of Bridges Ventures; SAT Dido Harding, chief executive of Talk Talk Group. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Richard Vadon. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01dvys4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01dvys6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01dvys8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01f1lpn (Listen) SAT Julian Clary, Robert Powell and Max Hastings. Nikki Bedi SAT chats to Amelia Bullmore. With music from Shearwater and SAT Stush SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by 'renowned homosexual' Julian SAT Clary to discuss his new novel Briefs Encountered. Former SAT Jesus of Nazareth actor, Robert Powell talks about making SAT the transition from playing Son of God to Doctor in The SAT House. Thirty years on from the Falklands War journalist Max SAT Hastings explores its impact and legacy and writer and actor SAT Amelia Bullmore gets Clive acquainted with Olympic SAT mockumentary Twenty Twelve. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01f1lr9 (Listen) SAT Len McCluskey SAT SAT As the threat of possible strike action by fuel tanker SAT drivers looms, Mukul Devichand profiles Len McCluskey, the SAT left winger who became general secretary of Unite in 2010. SAT As the UK's biggest union and the Labour party's biggest SAT donor, Unite is often in the headlines - many generated by SAT its leader. Len McCluskey courted controversy by raising the SAT prospect of strikes during the Olympics and was roundly SAT criticised by both the Coalition and the Labour party. He SAT has been an outspoken critic of Ed Miliband's leadership SAT despite having played a key role in getting him elected. SAT This week's Profile asks what Len McCluskey stands for and SAT charts his journey from white-collar worker on the Liverpool SAT docks to the most powerful trade union leader in the SAT country. SAT SAT Presenter: Mukul Devichand SAT Producer: Phillip Kemp. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01f1lrr (Listen) SAT In Peter Carey's extraordinary latest novel, The Chemistry SAT of Tears, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at a museum, learns SAT of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen SAT years. As the mistress of a married man, she must struggle SAT to keep the depth of her anguish to herself. catherine is SAT given a special project in a quiet annexe where she SAT reluctantly unpacks an eerie automaton that she has been SAT charged with bringing back to life. SAT SAT The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster's great Jacobean tragedy SAT and poetic masterpiece tells the dark and bloody story of SAT the recently widowed duchess as she struggles to retain SAT strength and dignity in the face of death. SAT In the film Tiny Furniture, the director cast her own mother SAT and sister and shot it in the family apartment. It tells the SAT story of Aura who returns home from her American Midwest SAT liberal arts college to her artist family's New York trendy SAT loft. She takes a job as a hostess at a restaurant and falls SAT into relationships with two self-centred men while SAT struggling to define herself. SAT SAT The V&A's major new exhibition showcases the best of British SAT design from the 1948 "Austerity Olympics" to the summer of SAT 2012. Works range from the Morris Mini Minor, created in SAT 1959, to the newly commissioned model of Zada Hadid's London SAT Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics. SAT Smash is an American musical drama tv series produced by SAT Steven Spielberg. The show revolves around the creation of a SAT new Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. As SAT the production takes shape, everyone involved in it must SAT balance his or her often chaotic personal life with the all SAT consuming demands of a life in the theatre. SAT SAT The Duchess of Malfi is on at the Old Vic in London until 9 SAT June. SAT SAT The Chemistry of Tears, by Peter Carey is published by Faber SAT and Faber. SAT SAT Tiny Furniture is at selected cinemas, certificate 15. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01dtdcb (Listen) SAT Greece: An Unquiet History SAT SAT Maria Margaronis asks if the spectre of Greece's unstable SAT past is haunting its current nightmares. Culturally at SAT Europe's heart, geographically at its edge, Greece has SAT always been pulled and pushed by the contradictory needs of SAT the big powers. SAT SAT Maria looks back through the turbulent 20th Century that saw SAT Greece suffer multiple national schisms. Beginning with the SAT 1922 crisis of defeat against Turkey and the subsequent mass SAT refugee influx that swelled Greece's population by around a SAT fifth. War brought Nazi occupation that would last from 1941 SAT to 1944 and led to compromise, collaboration and resistance SAT that brought terrible reprisals, the virtual extermination SAT of Greece's ancient Jewish communities & destruction for SAT many villages. Those years would lead directly to the SAT enduring trauma of Civil War. The central event for SAT Margaronis that divided and still divides Greek society and SAT memory. It saw Greek's fighting their former British allies SAT in the streets of Athens in December 1944 and led to SAT atrocities on both Left and Right and finally wholesale SAT repression and exile of the Left after their defeat. Silence SAT and then dictatorship and Junta from 1967 to 1974 would SAT continue to divide society. The return of democracy and the SAT rise of the PASOC party led to a different sort of memory, SAT the unquestioning heroization of the wartime resistance and SAT the celebration of Left wing memory that obscured painful SAT questions of what Greeks had done to Greeks. Entry into SAT Europe was potentially both a celebration of progress and a SAT safe haven for Greek identity. SAT SAT The recent financial crisis has made Greeks once again SAT deeply divided about both Europe and their own history. The SAT divisions remain and consciously or unconsciously, history SAT is informing that debate. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Burman. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01dtgp4 (Listen) SAT Out of the Hitler Time, A Small Person Far Away SAT SAT Out of the Hitler Time: A Small Person Far Away by Judith SAT Kerr dramatised by Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT The third book in the trilogy. It's now 1956 and Anna is SAT married and settled in London when she gets a worrying SAT telegram about her mother who has been living back in Berlin SAT for 7 years. SAT SAT Anna ... Anna Madeley SAT Mama ... Adjoa Andoh SAT Max ... Adam Billington SAT Konrad ... Simon Treves SAT Richard ... Carl Prekopp SAT Hildy ... Sara Kestelman SAT Nurse ... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Ken ... James Lailey SAT Curator ... Peter Hamilton Dyer SAT Gunther ... Harry Livingstone SAT SAT Director: David Hunter. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01dvysb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01dtxgs (Listen) SAT Morality and social networks SAT SAT We all make mistakes - said and done things we regret and SAT pray we'll be allowed to gracefully forget. Increasingly it SAT seems this isn't an option in a digital age when virtually SAT everyone has smart phones and few qualms about sharing SAT images with the world online. The latest celebrity to say SAT she's fallen victim is X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos SAT who's accused her ex-boyfriend of leaking a sex tape SAT recorded on a mobile phone 6 years ago when she was 17 and SAT before she became famous. For £3.90 you could download the SAT six minute clip of them sharing an intimate moment. She, of SAT course, has posted her own video in reply - showing photos SAT of herself and then boyfriend Justin Edwards, telling her SAT fans and anyone else who cared to take a peak, how SAT heartbroken and violated she felt. Justin, whose stage name SAT is MC Ultra, denies he leaked the tape and claims filming it SAT was Tulisa's idea. She's now obtained a High Court SAT injunction to try and stop the tape being distributed and is SAT reported to be considering suing for £100,000 damages. This SAT modern day morality tale tells us a lot about celebrity SAT culture and our prurient desires, but is it also an SAT indication of how social networks and digital technology are SAT changing our relationships - cheapening and brutalizing SAT them? You don't have to search very hard to know that there SAT are countless other and many more disturbing examples of SAT this kind of thing online. Is it just a combination of the SAT immediacy of technology and the lack of judgment of youth, SAT or are there another elements at work here? A desire to hurt SAT and humiliate, a lack of compassion and empathy. Empathy is SAT not a quality much on display among internet trolls - for SAT example 25 year old Sean Duffy who was jailed last year SAT after posting videos and messages mocking the deaths of SAT teenagers and taunting their families. An extreme case, but SAT again, not an isolated one. Is this the price we pay for SAT freedom of speech? Are those women bloggers who've given up SAT in the face of repeated violent and misogynistic online SAT abuse just being thin skinned? Or have they seen more SAT clearly that there's something dark in the heart of social SAT networks? SAT SAT Dr Aric Sigman - Child Psychologist; Dr Bernie Hogan - SAT Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute; Caroline SAT Farrow - Catholic blogger; Padraig Reidy - News Editor, SAT Index On Censorship. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Kenan Malik SAT and Michael Portillo. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01dtkjn (Listen) SAT Series 2, Warwick SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Warwick, "The 3rd SAT Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst SAT delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a SAT different University each week, and it pits three SAT 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 Writing Madness b01dtgp8 (Listen) SAT Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into SAT the 20th century and the age of Freud, the Great War and the SAT explosion of the 'sciences of the mind' focusing on three SAT great works of fiction, mixing contemporary psychiatric and SAT literary insight. SAT SAT How did modern literary and psychiatric ideas meet and how SAT did each shape the other? Do these heroines show literature SAT of the period to be a critical - and even emancipating - SAT force...or is fiction really medicine's stooge? Novels on SAT the couch include Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and SAT Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway....interestingly with both SAT novels there's a tendency to base the heroines on real SAT people - Nicole Diver is based on the case history of SAT Fitzgerald's own wife Zelda, whereas Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway SAT comes very close in literary terms to what Freud calls SAT 'self-analysis' - one difference is that Woolf sometimes SAT believed 'madness' was necessary to be creative, while Scott SAT Fitzgerald depicted it as disastrous drain on creativity SAT (ie. his). And both novels have the dynamic and lucrative SAT new industry of psychotherapy in their sights. Vivienne SAT compares fiction in the age of Freud to literary ideas of SAT mental health in the Victorian age and in Dickens SAT specifically, using Great Expectations' Miss Havisham as a SAT case study. SAT SAT Contributors include psychotherapist and essayist Adam SAT Philips, leading psychiatrist Simon Wessely ,cultural SAT historian Lisa Appignanesi and Chris Thompson, psychiatrist SAT and medical director of The Priory SAT SAT Producer: Simon Hollis SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 APRIL 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01f06qt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fhjkg (Listen) SUN Fame SUN SUN Martin Jarvis directs acclaimed actor Alfred Molina in SUN Miller's witty story on the nature of celebrity. Meyer SUN Berkowitz has two hit plays running on Broadway. SUN SUN Suddenly he's a star. And rich. People approach him in the SUN street. Cabbies yell and wave at him. His photo is on the SUN front cover of magazines. Barmen ply him with drinks on the SUN house. But fame can be tiresome. Especially when you are SUN accosted by an old high school friend. SUN SUN Though anonymity can be oddly unwelcome too. SUN SUN Playwright Miller's forensic examination of the dual aspects SUN of stardom makes compelling points about human nature and SUN the ego. SUN SUN Reader: Alfred Molina SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01f06qx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01f06r1 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01f06r3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01f06r5 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01f58tn (Listen) SUN The bells of St Helen's Church, Lundy Island. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01dtxgv (Listen) SUN Prof Tariq Ramadan SUN SUN Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in SUN the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford, sets out the SUN philosophy of the individual and its absence in some areas SUN of Islam. 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 This year's series of Lent Talks concludes with Dr Gemma SUN Simmonds CJ, who will explore the agony of the individual in SUN 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 b01f06r7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01f58xv (Listen) SUN The Window of Vulnerability SUN SUN For April Fool's Day, the comedian and broadcaster Hardeep SUN Singh Kohli reflects upon the possible vulnerabilities to SUN which we're exposed when falling in love. SUN SUN He draws upon poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Edward Dorn (The SUN Window of Vulnerability) and Carolyn Kizer, writings by SUN Milan Kundera and Neil Gaiman and music by Laura Marling, SUN Elbow and Billie Holliday. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01f58yf (Listen) SUN Caz Graham visits the Environment Agency's coarse fish farm SUN at Calverton in Nottinghamshire which produces millions of SUN fish to restock rivers. The farm's manager, Alan Henshaw, SUN shows Caz the breeding process. It begins with eggs being SUN harvested from wild fish and, as she finds out, goose SUN feathers are an essential tool in making sure those eggs are SUN fertilised. The Environment Agency's farm has released fish SUN into almost every river system in England and Wales. Caz SUN witnesses the River Derwent, near Derby, being restocked SUN with Grayling and Barbel. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham SUN Producer: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01f06r9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01f06rc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01f58zj (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01f5913 (Listen) SUN Scope SUN SUN Richard Herring presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Scope. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 208231 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Scope. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Scope SUN SUN Scope works with disabled people, of all ages, and their SUN families, across England and Wales. We offer practical, SUN everyday support and deliver campaigns that can change SUN lives. Our vision is a world where disabled people have the SUN same opportunities as everyone else. Together we can create SUN a better society. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01f06rf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01f06rh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01f5922 (Listen) SUN In the last of Radio 4's Lent series, The Rev Paul Wilson SUN marks Palm Sunday with a service live from Knutsford SUN Methodist Church reflecting on Jesus' majestic entry into SUN the city of Jerusalem which prefigures the sorrow and SUN anguish of Holy Week. Leader: Jenny Mossman. Music director: SUN The Rev Steven Benson. Producer: Simon Vivian. Download web SUN resources 'The Way to Freedom', specially written for the SUN series, from the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland SUN website. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01dvzph (Listen) SUN Fat Policemen SUN SUN David Cannadine reflects on the changing images of the SUN typical policeman and our attitude towards the way they look SUN in the light of a recent report that over half of the SUN members of the Metropolitan Police are overweight. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01f5948 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01f595c (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Adrian Flynn SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch 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 Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Gerry Moreton ..... Mark Perry SUN Rich Phillips ..... Luke Hudson SUN Eamon Phillips ..... Stephen Hogan SUN Martyn Gibson ..... Jon Glover SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01f596z (Listen) SUN In the first of a new series of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor SUN brings together five athletes who competed in the Olympic SUN Games of 1948 in London. SUN SUN Dorothy Tyler won a silver medal for the High Jump, Dorothy SUN Manley won silver for the women's 100 metres, Tommy Godwin SUN won two bronze medals for cycling, John Parlett ran in the SUN men's 800 metre race and Sir Roger Bannister was Assistant SUN to the Chef de Mission for the Games. SUN SUN In many ways London was not an obvious choice of venue for SUN the 1948 Games. The war had left Britain virtually bankrupt. SUN London was bomb damaged and rationing was still in place. SUN But despite the drawbacks, Prime Minister Attlee saw the SUN Games as something which could boost spirits of the nation. SUN SUN The whole event was organised in less than two years and SUN relied heavily on sponsorship and donations. No new SUN facilities were to be built. The Games (dubbed 'The SUN Austerity Olympics') would be a 'make do and mend' venture. SUN The Empire Stadium at Wembley formed the main site for SUN events. SUN SUN Competitors had little time to train but they were offered SUN extra food rations once they'd been selected. They were SUN accommodated in RAF camps and were required to make their SUN own kit. Fewer than 10% of the competitors in 1948 were SUN female and this was also the year that the 'sex test' was SUN introduced to stop any risk of men masquerading as women. SUN SUN The opening ceremony took place on a baking hot July day. SUN Four thousand athletes from fifty nine nations marched into SUN Wembley arena to be addressed by King George VI. Some of the SUN stars of that year included the Dutch athlete Fanny SUN Blankers-Koen, known as 'the flying housewife' and the SUN eccentric Czech runner, Emil Zatopek. America topped the SUN tables with 38 Gold medals and when the Games were over they SUN discovered they'd even made a profit. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01dtlvx (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 8 SUN SUN CELEBRATING 45 YEARS OF HISTORY SUN Broadcaster Nicholas Parsons regularly welcomes 'our many SUN listeners around the world.' To mark the flagship show's 45 SUN year anniversary, Nicholas and his team have decided to let SUN some of the listeners welcome them. SUN SUN Along with regular Just a Minute panelists Paul Merton and SUN Marcus Brigstocke, the show's host Nicholas Parsons, SUN travelled to India to celebrate and highlight Just a SUN Minute's unique and continuing popularity across the globe. SUN SUN Just a Minute's two special anniversary Indian shows were SUN recorded in front of a lively, excited and sometimes SUN unusually vocal audience of Mumbai urbanites. Topics up for SUN discussion on the show include 'Mumbai Traffic,' the phrase SUN 'It's Just Not Cricket' . SUN SUN Just a Minute regulars Paul Merton and Marcus Brigstocke are SUN joined by top Indian comedy talents, Cyrus Broacha and SUN Anuvab Pal. Cyrus Broacha is a Prime-time TV host as well as SUN actor, writer and comedian. He is best known for his show SUN 'Bakra' on MTV and 'The Week that Wasn't' on CNN-IBN. Anuvab SUN Pal is a leading star in India's new wave of stand up SUN Comedy, performing regularly in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. SUN Multi-talented, he performs stand-up in addition to his SUN other careers as an internationally renowned playwright, SUN screenwriter and journalist for Reuters. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01f597w (Listen) SUN Biscuits: A Serious Business SUN SUN Simon Parkes takes a look behind the scenes of Britain's SUN favourite snack, the biscuit and as he discovers major SUN change is underway to some of our most famous food brands. SUN SUN Our most popular biscuits, including the digestive and the SUN Bourbon became firm fixtures of British life in the 19th SUN century. The snacks were produced in their millions in SUN places like Reading and York and exported all over the SUN world. Today, we spend more than 2.5 billion pounds eating SUN our way through an ever increasing range of biscuits. SUN SUN It's a world that's now having to adapt to a number of SUN powerful trends. Firstly, as we're being encouraged to eat SUN more healthy foods, millions of pounds are being invested by SUN manufacturers with the aim of "reformulating" some of the SUN most valuable recipes in the food industry. Secondly, with SUN the rise of global food brands, more and more of these SUN iconic snacks are being bought up by a small number of SUN companies. SUN SUN What does all this mean for a British food institution? SUN Simon Parkes takes a close look at the pleasures and the SUN profits behind the biscuit. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01f06rk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01f599m (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 I'm Rather Worried about Jim b019f8br (Listen) SUN In 1948 BBC Radio's Light Programme broadcast the first SUN episode of Mrs Dale's Diary - a radio drama serial centred SUN around the daily diary of a doctor's wife called Mary, her SUN husband Jim, (who provided the show with its unlikely SUN catchphrase, "I'm rather worried about Jim") and their SUN children, Bob and Gwen. For the following twenty one years, SUN and over 5531 episodes - more than 6 million listeners tuned SUN in every day between 11 and 11.15 to hear the everyday SUN affairs of this much loved family. SUN SUN Penelope Keith - was herself a huge fan. She talks to SUN original cast members and directors of the show - to SUN discover what made it such a phenomenon and why its legacy SUN lives on today. She reveals the magic ingredients that made SUN it so popular, how the story lines reflected what was really SUN going on in society, and what happened when the original Mrs SUN Dale played by Ellis Powell - was suddenly replaced by the SUN international actress and film star, Jessie Matthews. SUN SUN "I'm Rather Worried about Jim" is a fascinating and amusing SUN look at a once much cherished English institution. SUN SUN Presenter: Penelope Keith SUN Producer: Angela Hind SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01dvzg9 (Listen) SUN Crookham, Northumberland SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are joined by guest panellist SUN Alison Pringle as guests of Crookham Gardeners' Club. SUN Our Practical March series concludes with expert advice on SUN 'Weed & Pest control'. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01g803l (Listen) SUN Omnibus Edition SUN SUN Fi Glover introduces the omnibus edition of Radio 4's new SUN series, mounted in conjunction with the British Library, SUN that captures the nation in conversation. SUN SUN Chick is a former miner from Pontefract in Yorkshire. He SUN discusses his life in a conversation with his granddaughter SUN Lindsay, whose eyes are set on a very different career path. SUN Sasha is a mother from Berkshire whose son, Paddy has an SUN inherited heart condition. They talk about life together at SUN home in Marlborough. Alison and Willie are a couple in their SUN mid-sixties from Northern Ireland. They've had a rich life SUN together, but now face the challenges of an uncertain future SUN as old age approaches. And from Tunstall in Stoke on Trent, SUN Paula and Maddie share memories of Paula's comedian father. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that SUN aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in SUN which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation SUN with someone close to them about a subject they've never SUN discussed intimately before. The conversations are being SUN gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and SUN national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every SUN conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an SUN important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then SUN edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN participants. Many of the long conversations are being SUN archived by the British Library which they will use to build SUN up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the SUN UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload SUN your own conversations or just learn more about The SUN Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01f5gvh (Listen) SUN Plantagenet: Series 3, Henry V - True Believers SUN SUN by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Young SUN prince Hal will inherit an unstable throne, and a kingdom SUN riven with heresy and rebellion. Victory over the rebel SUN Hotspur, and then the French, will bring peace to England SUN and glory to the king - but at what cost to the man? SUN SUN Hal ...Luke Treadaway SUN Catherine...Lydia Leonard SUN Thomas of Earlham...James Lailey SUN Sir John Oldcastle...Nicky Henson SUN Henry IV...Paul Moriarty SUN Badby...Simon Bubb SUN Bradmore...Carl Prekopp SUN With Rikki Lawton, Gerard McDermott and Christopher Webster SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01f5gvk (Listen) SUN Anne Enright - The Gathering SUN SUN Anne Enright talks to James Naughtie and readers about her SUN 2007 Man Booker prize-winning novel The Gathering. SUN SUN The book was the surprise win of that year - beating Ian SUN McEwan's On Chesil Beach. Chair of Judges Howard Davies SUN proclaimed the novel had one of the best closing sentences SUN of any he had ever read. SUN SUN The Gathering of the title is the wake of Liam Hegarty who SUN has committed suicide by walking into the sea at Brighton. SUN His sister Veronica, one of the remaining nine siblings, SUN narrates. In an exploration of uncertainty and recollection, SUN she imagines the lives and thoughts of her grandparents' SUN generation, and the hazy memories from her own childhood. SUN And as family gather for the funeral, this big, brawling SUN Irish family's history begins to spill out and show its SUN cracks. SUN SUN Anne will be talking to her readers about the darkness in SUN the novel, but also about how the Gathering provides the SUN consolation of humour even in the grimmest situations - such SUN as the scene where the family guard Liam's open coffin in SUN Dublin. SUN SUN May's Bookclub choice : God's Own Country by Ross Raisin SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b01f5gvm (Listen) SUN Series 12, next to of course god america i SUN SUN Known as the poet who didn't use capitals or punctuation, ee SUN cummings loved life and the natural world. But he also loved SUN satirising the pretensions of American politicians, and SUN their uses and misuses of patriotism. That's certainly what SUN he does in his acclaimed 1926 sonnet, '"next to of course SUN god america', which crashes together some of the USA's SUN revered foundational texts to great effect. His use of wit SUN puts him in a very different league to the British war SUN poets. SUN SUN Peggy Reynolds begins the new series of Adventures in Poetry SUN by exploring the impact and wider associations of cummings' SUN poem. She hears about the circumstances in which Cummings SUN wrote it: serving in the Ambulance Corps during the First SUN World War, he was detained by the French for over 3 months, SUN under suspicion of being a German spy. Professor David Herd SUN of the University of Kent, an expert on Twentieth Century SUN American poetry, argues that after undergoing such SUN imprisonment, it's perhaps no surprise that Cummings had SUN cause to parody the consequences of politicians resorting to SUN tub-thumping patriotic rhetoric at times of crisis. We hear SUN how the poem still speaks to people today, among them SUN American journalist Michael Goldfarb, who was an unembedded SUN reporter in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01dtvln (Listen) SUN Witness Protection SUN SUN After details of people under witness protection were leaked SUN to a private investigator, Allan Urry asks if police are SUN doing enough to protect witnesses whose lives are at risk. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01f1lr9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01f06rm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01f06rp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01f06rr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01f5btk (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN We're howling at the moon in Pick of the week this week, SUN visiting drug baron country and defusing bombs in Downing SUN Street. And if that all sounds a bit too dangerous relax SUN with the composer once described as 'nearest to God', find SUN out all you ever wanted to know about sundials and learn how SUN to handle a water vole... all that and more in Pick of the SUN Week - with Liz Barclay tomorrow/today/this evening at a SUN quarter past 6. SUN SUN The Listening Project - Radio 4 SUN Life: An Idiots Guide - Radio 4 SUN North and South: Across The Great Divide - Radio 4 SUN Radio Scotland SUN A Life With - Radio 4 SUN Chris Evan's Breakfast Show - Radio 2 SUN Sunday - Radio 4 SUN What The Scandinavian's Know About Children's Literature - SUN Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: Pandemic - Radio 4 SUN Book Of the Week: Escape From Camp 14 - Radio 4 SUN It's My Story: the Long Walk - Radio 4 SUN The Asian Youth Movements - Radio 4 SUN North of the Border - Radio 4 SUN The Schubert Essay: Matthew Sweet -Radio 3 SUN Sunday Feature: Claiming Schubert - Radio 3 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01f5bvg (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 In and Out of the Kitchen b017551m (Listen) SUN July 15th to 19th SUN SUN Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen features a few 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 life, "no SUN matter how grizzly" as he puts it "or, indeed, how gristly". SUN SUN Cast: SUN Miles Jupp as Damien Trench SUN with SUN Justin Edwards as Anthony SUN Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney SUN Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher SUN Alex Tregear as the BA Lady/Helpful Student SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 Emerald City and Other Stories b01f5c03 (Listen) SUN Puerto Vallarta SUN SUN 2011 was a phenomenal year for the young American author, SUN Jennifer Egan. Her novel, 'A Visit From The Goon Squad' SUN became a run-away bestseller and went on to win the Pulitzer SUN Prize for Fiction. Now a collection of her short stories has SUN been re-published by Constable and Robinson. SUN SUN Entitled Emerald City, the stories are a pithy and sometimes SUN poignant look at contemporary life in the United States. SUN Young and middle-aged characters change, grow and regret in SUN a series of tales that traverse the United States and the SUN state of modern marriage, parenting and ambition. Egan is SUN heralded as one of the best writers to emerge in the past SUN decade and this collection underlines her ability to bring a SUN spotlight on the particular and to reflect a nation in SUN challenging times. SUN SUN Today's story, Puerto Vallarta, is a portrait of a family, SUN where the truth is not as it seems and where a daughter has SUN to make a choice and so find her own freedom. SUN SUN The Reader is Sasha Pick SUN The Abridger is Miranda Davies SUN The Producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01dvzgh (Listen) SUN Last week critics of Radio 4's Count Arthur Strong aired SUN their views - and outraged his many fans. They contacted the SUN programme in droves, demanding satisfaction. SUN SUN So, in this week's programme the Count's supporters meet his SUN detractors for a fight to the comedy death - well nearly. SUN Which side will win? Is the programme Strong or weak? Roger SUN Bolton officiates and there is a special appearance from SUN Count Arthur himself. SUN SUN Roger meets Today presenter Justin Webb and 5Live's Victoria SUN Derbyshire to discuss the delicate art of interviewing SUN ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. SUN SUN And is In Our Time killing the past tense? By repeatedly SUN discussing past events in the present tense, worried SUN listeners feel that the programme may permanently mangle the SUN language. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01dvzgf (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The Tory politician Lord Newton - a respected Minister of SUN Health and Secretary of State for social security. Edwina SUN Currie tells us why she confided in him about her affair SUN with John Major. SUN SUN The darts player Jocky Wilson - a Scottish hero to the poet SUN Ian Macmillan who pays tribute. SUN SUN Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the warlord who became President of SUN Somalia but couldn't stop the country's tribal and religious SUN violence SUN SUN Jennifer Longford, daughter of Lloyd George's mistress - but SUN was Lloyd George her father? SUN SUN And banjo player extraordinaire Earl Scruggs - Whispering SUN Bob Harris pays tribute to the bluegrass pioneer.. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01f1kfx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01f5913 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01dtlzn (Listen) SUN What Is Money? SUN SUN We dream about it, argue about it, worry about it, celebrate SUN it, spend it, save it, we transfer it from one emotion to SUN another. But what exactly is money? And why do we trust it? SUN Frances Stonor Saunders takes a journey through some of the SUN fundamentals of money. SUN During her journey she dips her toe into the world of SUN quantitative easing. How is that money invented? Is it as SUN real as the pieces of paper in our wallets? And she explores SUN some of the reasons for the calls to return to a gold SUN standard. Essentially, she tries to gain a better SUN understanding of what this stuff which we call money is SUN really about; how and why do we maintain our faith in it, or SUN has it just become too complicated? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01f5c5w (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 b01f5c7m (Listen) SUN Episode 97 SUN SUN Agnes Poirier of La Liberation analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the French Presidential Election campaign SUN trail. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01dvw7b (Listen) SUN In an extended interview, Francine Stock meets with Hugh SUN Grant to talk about his new role as the voice of an SUN incompetent buccaneer in the Aardman Animations 3-D SUN stop-motion film, The Pirates! In an Adventure with SUN Scientists. He also discusses his role in The Leveson SUN Inquiry, and why he thinks the films of Jean Luc-Godard are SUN pretentious nonsense. SUN SUN Also on the programme, a profile of Jafar Panahi, one of SUN Iran's most famous directors, whose latest work, This Is Not SUN A Film, is an attempt to make a film under house arrest. We SUN also investigate the routes around the censors taken by SUN earlier filmmakers in other countries. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01f58xv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 APRIL 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01f06sl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01dtwm3 (Listen) MON Culinary Culture and Globalisation - Dignity MON MON Britain congratulates itself on the success of its MON restaurants and its stable of 21 multiple Michelin-starred MON eateries, but how many people know that Germany has nearly MON double that figure? What are the Germans cooking up that MON leaves the Brits behind? Economic sociologist Christel Lane MON discusses her recent research with Laurie Taylor, arguing MON that, while French culture still dominates in restaurants MON awarded multiple stars by the 'little red book', it is a MON regional emphasis which sets Germany apart. Food critic and MON editor of Waitrose Kitchen William Sitwell joins the MON discussion of the extent of globalising factors in the high MON end restaurant industry. Does the ubiquity of lemongrass or MON the rise of the Othello Cake show that French influence is MON starting to wane? MON Also in the programme: why do we show dignity towards the MON dead when they are not around to appreciate it? Dignity is a MON quality which pervades many aspects of modern life. MON Philosopher Michael Rosen explains the practical MON applications of dignity, how it forms the basis of notions MON like human rights and the tangles and confusions that arise MON from diverging notions of what dignity means. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01f58tn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01f06sn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01f06sq (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01f06ss (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01f06sv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01f5hn8 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Most Reverend George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01f5hnb (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01f06sx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01f5hnd (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01f5htv (Listen) MON The 'death of socialism'? MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks back at the political MON and cultural landscape of the last 20 years with the author MON Alwyn Turner. In 1992 Margaret Thatcher proclaimed 'the MON death of socialism' after the Conservative election victory, MON and Turner argues this moment led to a generation turning MON away from politics, putting their energy into culture. But MON Janet Daley believes that it wasn't John Major's victory but MON the fall of communism that demoralised and destabilised the MON left, and the lessons of 1989 are still to be learnt. In its MON defence, the Labour MP Tristram Hunt points to the long MON history of socialism and believes its death has been much MON exaggerated. And the political cartoonist Martin Rowson MON lampoons both left and right. In his latest book he updates MON Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the late 1990s, targeting the MON government of Tony Blair, media moguls and Europe. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01f5hng (Listen) MON The Great Animal Orchestra, Episode 1 MON MON Read by Nigel Lindsay. MON MON A fascinating and unique exploration of nature's music, from MON plants and animals to wind and rain MON MON Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural MON sound. He has spent the last 40 years recording ecological MON soundscapes and has archived the sounds of over 15,000 MON species - half of the wild soundscapes he has on tape don't MON exist anymore because of human actions. MON MON In The Great Animal Orchestra he invites us to listen MON through his ears to all three as he showcases singing trees, MON contrasting coasts, and the roar of the modern world. Just MON as streetlights engulf the stars, Krause argues that human MON noise is drowning out the sounds of nature, but that our MON focus on the visual today is blinding us to this.The Great MON Animal Orchestra shows why it is critical to preserve what MON remaining soundscapes we have, and will make you hear the MON world entirely differently. MON MON Written by Bernie Krause MON Adapted by Polly Coles MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01f5hnj (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Women in Advertising MON MON The much awaited fifth series of Mad Men, the 1960’s MON advertising drama set in New York, has just started. On MON Monday, Woman’s Hour talks to women working in advertising MON in the UK about their experiences. We investigate life in MON the British advertising world from the 1970’s on and how MON being a woman has helped or hindered their career. Do the MON dramatised experiences of women in the US in any way reflect MON the way things have developed here? And what is it like MON today? Women only comprise 205 of ‘creatives’ in an industry MON which still makes some hugely sexist assumptions about MON consumers. Jane is joined by Carol Reay, now a consultant MON running her own branding agency but says she was the first MON woman to be a named partner running her own agency back in MON the early 80’s and Rosie Arnold, the deputy executive MON creative director for BBH based in London. MON MON Rita Chiarelli MON MON Rita Chiarelli, award winning Canadian blues singer, MON embarked on a blues pilgrimage and stumbled upon Louisiana MON State maximum Security Penitentiary, aka Angola Prison, a MON jail with a long history for blues music. Chiarelli's MON initial offer to perform a concert there, much like Johnny MON Cash did at Fulsom Prison, proved to be just the beginning. MON Soon she was collaborating with some of the inmates who are MON accomplished musicians themselves. This is captured in a MON documentary film, "Music from the Big House" in which Rita MON gets to know some of the inmates, hears their stories and MON learns about their lives inside. Rita tells Jane the MON extraordinary story of how the film was made and performs MON one of the songs she played with the inmates. MON MON Neighbours MON MON If an Englishman’s home is his castle are neighbours friends MON or foe? We know when they take up the piano, have parties, MON children, barbeques, rows and reconciliations – but do we MON know their names? We talk to historian Emily Cockayne about MON her new book Cheek by Jowl, A History of Neighbours. MON MON Book details: Cheek by Jowl, A History of Neighbours by MON Emily Cockayne. Publisher: The Bodley Head. ISBN MON 978-1-847-92134-5 MON MON Louise Bourgeois MON MON The artist Louise Bourgeois is probably best known in this MON country for the gigantic sculpture of a spider which she MON created for Tate Modern back in 1999. Now a new exhibition MON of her work – called ‘The Return of the Repressed’ - has MON gone on show at the Freud Museum in North London. It's based MON on the discovery of two boxes of writings, detailing Louise MON Bourgeois’ reactions to her psychoanalytic treatment - MON including the repercussions for her of discovering as a MON young child that her father was having an affair with her MON English nanny. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01f5hnl (Listen) MON Reeds in the Wind, Episode 6 MON MON Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and MON retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. MON Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by MON Martha King. MON MON Efix urges Giacinto to put things right following the MON discovery that he has forged signatures to get credit from MON Kallina the usurer to pay his gambling debts. Will Giacinto MON manage to pay everything back in time? MON MON EFIX.....John Lynch MON NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson MON ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew MON RUTH/KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt MON GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger MON GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty MON PREDU.....Conrad Nelson MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 11:00 La France Maintenant b01f5hnn (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Our picture of France, according to Professor of French and MON Paris resident Andrew Hussey, is all too often clouded by MON romantic and outdated cliches that fail to do justice to the MON true nature of the country. So just as the French might MON imagine Brits living in a comfortable 1950s idyll of MON afternoon tea and rolled up umbrellas, so we fall back on MON visions of berets, baguettes and pastis. In this two part MON series, he travels the length of the country, from MON Marseilles in the south to Lille in the north, stopping off MON in Lyon and Paris along the way. He explores the rich MON multi-cultural life that has developed over the last fifty MON years with its tensions as well as its rewards, and walks MON the streets and visits the bars where the ordinary French MON people live out their daily lives. As he moves around, he MON discovers that many of the more recent myths about France - MON that it is a cultural museum, for example, where nothing new MON of any note is taking place - are just as false as the old, MON with the the country's many regions coming alive with a MON sense of their own identity and a dynamic, creative energy MON that a previous all-encompassing focus on Paris had MON prevented. If there is, as de Gaulle suggested, a certain MON idea of France, Hussey's goal is to discover how that idea MON has developed and what it looks like right now, in La France MON Maintenant. MON MON 11:30 Just a Minute's Indian Adventure b01f5hnq (Listen) MON Just a Minute grew to prominence in India, when it became MON available to Indian audiences via the BBC World Service. MON This exposure gave birth to a number of 'Indianised' MON versions of the game, which continue to be played amongst MON smart, young, Indian college graduates today. Dubbed 'JAM', MON they are a testament to the show's transnational appeal. MON MON As part of the Radio 4 Just a Minute anniversary MON celebration, Nicholas Parsons visits Bangalore and Mumbai to MON take a look at these JAM sessions; modern Indianised and MON radically different take up of the Just a Minute British MON audiences know and love. The documentary follows a group of MON lively young Indian college students as they prepare for a MON competitive JAM tournament against their peers at the Indian MON Institute of Management in Bangalore. MON MON The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01f5hns (Listen) MON Radio 4 consumer affairs programme MON MON A health charity is calling on Trading Standards to clamp MON down on bogus cancer cures which claim that various exotic MON food products can halt or cure the disease. MON MON Too few young people are choosing a career in butchery and MON it is posing a bigger threat to the high street butcher's MON shop than supermarket expansion, says the industry's trade MON magazine. MON MON A Manchester based firm has developed a £300 'box' which can MON shave up to 12% off your electricity bill we'll be looking MON at one in the studio and finding out how it works. MON MON The bids are in on You Tube from over 300 communities hoping MON to be chosen to receive £100,000 and advice from Mary Portas MON to help them regenerate. MON MON Town planners are calling for a comprehensive Map of England MON incorporating at least 100 sets of data to help planners and MON developers make better decisions. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01d1nkj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01f5hnv (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 The People's Passion b01f5hnx (Listen) MON Cathedral Conversation - Ceremony and Society MON MON Ceremony and Society: Rev. Giles Fraser, the former Canon MON Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, and David Rennie, MON Political Editor of The Economist discuss the past and MON present importance of St Paul's in the life of the nation. MON Wren's masterpiece rose like a phoenix from the ashes of the MON Great Fire of London. It inspired the city's will to resist MON the Blitz and it celebrated the wedding of Prince Charles MON and Lady Diana Spencer. Now it has lost its dominance of the MON London skyline to the skyscraper temples of Mammon and has MON been besieged by the protesters of the 'Occupy' movement. MON Producer, Peter Everett. MON MON David Rennie and Giles Fraser MON MON In Part One: Ceremony and Society, Rev. Giles Fraser, the MON former Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, and David MON Rennie, Political Editor of The Economist, discuss the past MON and present importance of St Paul’s in the life of the MON nation. Wren’s masterpiece rose like a phoenix from the MON ashes of the Great Fire of London. It inspired the city’s MON will to resist the Blitz and it celebrated the wedding of MON Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Now has it lost its MON dominance of the London skyline to the towering temples of MON Mammon and does it need a new narrative in the aftermath of MON being besieged by the protesters of the ‘Occupy’ movement? MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01f5bvg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f5hnz (Listen) MON The People's Passion, Monday: Coming to Jerusalem MON MON BBC Radio 4's major series for Holy Week looks at life in MON our cathedrals now. MON MON Cathedrals still dominate our city centres: once symbols of MON temporal power, of technological wonder, a vital part of our MON musical health, and more recently the focus of protest and MON appeals to a new morality - what do they mean to us now? MON MON A week of original dramas set in a fictional cathedral, and MON daily features from real ones, explore how our great MON cathedrals offer an image of the contradictions of faith in MON twenty-first century Britain. MON MON The People's Passion Mass and Easter Anthem, composed MON specially for the series by Sasha Johnson Manning, with MON lyrics written by the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, not only MON features in the programmes, but has been made freely MON available by the BBC, and will be sung by over a hundred and MON forty choirs around Britain and across the world, as we move MON towards Easter Day. MON MON The People's Passion Mass and Anthem will be broadcast in MON full on Easter Sunday, as part of Sunday Worship for Easter MON Day, from Manchester Cathedral. MON MON 1/5: Monday: Coming to Jerusalem MON MON by Nick Warburton MON MON Monday morning. Ellen's in early, looking for peace. Paul's MON at the gates, refusing to pay. Is the Cathedral MON concentrating on the right things? MON MON The Old Man ..... David Bradley MON Ellen ...... Adjoa Andoh MON Graham ...... Kim Wall MON Paul ..... Jim Norton MON Clive ..... Don Gilet MON Caroline ..... Alex Tregear MON Robert ..... James Fleet MON Priest ..... Tracy Wiles MON MON Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting MON MON Original music by Sasha Johnson Manning, with lyrics by MON Michael Symmons Roberts. MON Performed by: MON Manchester Chamber Choir, directed by Christopher Stokes, MON with Jeffrey Makinson (organ), Rob Shorter (tenor), Rebecca MON Whettam (cello), Jahan Hunter (trumpet) and Holly Marland MON (recorder). MON BBC Singers with Eleanor Gregory (soprano), Margaret Cameron MON (alto), Chris Bowen (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (bass) and MON Andrew Earis (piano). MON Andrew Kirk (organ), and the choir of Saint Mary Redcliffe, MON Bristol. MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01f5hp1 (Listen) MON Series 2, University of Sussex MON MON Coming this week from the University of Sussex, "The 3rd MON Degree" 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 b01f597w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Art Disrupted: Damien Hirst and Co b01f5hp3 (Listen) MON This programme explores the various forces at work that MON would ultimately lead to the storm of Damien Hirst and co. MON We'll hear from Jon Thompson and Michael Craig Martin, who MON taught many of the artists at Goldsmiths, Hirst himself on MON his own beginnings as an artist, his recognition that MON London's art world would have to change to accommodate him MON and his friends, his views on his work and his idea of the MON role of the artist today. MON MON We hear from Nick Serota on the role of Tate, Louisa Buck on MON the inevitable break from Cork street and the constraints of MON the old, fusty, pin striped suit wearing art world. We hear MON from fellow artists about the wow factor of the Saatchi MON gallery, their instinctive entrepreneurship, the bond they MON shared and their stop at nothing attitude, the shift to MON artists coming from the working class and.. on a more MON discordant note, the invasive role of mass media and its MON destruction of the avant garde. MON MON Producer: Kate Bland MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01f5hp5 (Listen) MON This is the most important week in the Christian Year when MON Christians commemorate what they regard as the central event MON in human history, the death and resurrection of Jesus MON Christ. Jesus died on the cross, an excruciating form of MON torture carried out by the Romans. Today the cross is MON commonly used as a fashion item - not a symbol of death, but MON of consumerism. It can still cause offence; some Christians MON have been told they cannot wear one at work. MON Ernie Rea considers the different uses and symbolism of the MON cross with Dr Sophie Lunn Rockcliffe, Lecturer in Roman MON History at Kings College London; Dr Anna Robbins, Lecturer MON in Theology and Contemporary Culture at the London School of MON Theology: and Dr Ed Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute MON of Abrahamic religions in Cambridge. MON MON 17:00 PM b01f5hp7 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d1nl9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01f5hp9 (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Lucy Porter and Graeme Garden are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as: Parrots, Breakfast, Insurance and MON Oliver Cromwell. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment programme for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01f5hpc (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01f5htx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on a major Damien Hirst MON retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01f5hnl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Fathers and Sons - From the Falklands to Helmand MON b01f5htz (Listen) MON To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of the MON Falklands conflict, two fathers who fought in the same MON battle in 1982 on what it's like having sons in military MON service in more recent wars. Does experience of warfare make MON fathers better or worse at handling the emotions of having a MON son fighting for his country? MON MON Former paratrooper Phill Adkins, who as a seventeen-year-old MON private took part in vicious hand-to-hand fighting on Mount MON Longdon, says it was the worst day in his life when his son MON Dean told him he was joining the army. Corporal Dean Adkins MON talks about his operational tour in Helmand last year during MON which time he came through several fierce firefights with MON the Taliban and a roadside bomb which put him in hospital. MON The last tour, Operation Herrick 13, gave his father six MON months of sleepless nights but for Dean, his Dad's letters MON and his presence on the end of a phone gave him inspiration MON and provided an anchor during traumatic times. MON In the Pike family, on the other hand, soldiering is in the MON blood so it was only natural that Will would follow in the MON tradition. He joined the same battalion as the one his MON illustrious father Sir Hew Pike commanded in the Falklands. MON Sir Hew talks vividly about the bloody aftermath of the MON battle for Mount Longdon and about the task he had of MON telling parents how and why their sons had died in the MON fighting. Will, like Dean, drew confidence from knowing his MON father was always ready to listen back home. Two fathers MON from opposite ends of the social scale reveal different MON attitudes to the risks of death in war. What both fathers MON have in common is the bond they have with their sons, MON although they have differing ways of showing their support MON when they are away fighting. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01dvw6y (Listen) MON Canada's prescription drug crisis MON MON Canada's First Nations communities are in crisis. Addiction MON to prescription pain-killers is rife, and it's devastating MON the fragile communities of northern Ontario. MON MON OxyContin - an opioid drug capable of inducing a high like MON heroin - is widely abused in Canada. But on isolated MON reserves, people talk of an epidemic. For Crossing MON Continents, Linda Pressly travels to Fort Hope - Eabametoong MON First Nation - to investigate the impact of drug use. MON MON Fort Hope is accessible only by air, apart from a six week MON window in winter when you can drive across the frozen lakes MON on ice roads. It has a population of just 1200 people, but MON it's estimated up to 80% of the working-age population are MON abusing OxyContin. MON MON The beauty of Fort Hope in deepest winter with its MON snow-covered streets conceals the fall-out from endemic drug MON use. This community has experienced a crime wave out of MON proportion to its size. Murder, theft and arson propelled MON the Chief to declare a 'state of emergency'. Even with MON police help it's hard to stop the pills getting onto the MON reserve. And the mark-up for the pushers - one 80mg tablet MON of OxyContin sells for up to $600 - means the addicts of MON Fort Hope are a lucrative market. MON MON There's a glimmer of optimism. Doris Slipperjack, a 23 year MON old mother of three, is fighting back. She's determined to MON beat her addiction. She's become an inspiration to many MON First Nations people. But the road ahead is tough. The MON aboriginal people of Canada have a troubled history of MON addiction. Alcohol, gasoline and glue sniffing, drugs - this MON is a community that has experienced it all. But people will MON tell you that OxyContin is the worst, because it is so MON highly addictive. Who knows if people like Dave Waswa - a MON talented artist, will ever be able to kick the habit. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01dvw7d (Listen) MON A leak of gas from a platform 150 miles off the Scottish MON coast is causing concerns, particularly over risks of MON explosion. We look at the environmental effects of the gas MON and ways of clearing it up. As with oil spills bacteria may MON play a role in its dispersal. MON MON An environmental conference in London this week gave MON scientists the chance to get together ahead of the next MON round of international climate change negotiations. We look MON at the subject of geo –engineering. Once the realm of MON science fiction, the idea of using chemicals to seed clouds MON or reflect light back from the sun is now being seen as a MON serious option for dealing with climate change. MON MON So You Want to be a Scientist. The clothes are ready for our MON experiment looking at the arguments over vertical versus MON horizontal stripes, which ones really do have a slimming or MON fattening effect? MON MON Geo engineering MON MON CGI - White World: New York painted white. This theoretical MON method of Geo-engineering is designed to cool the earth by MON reflecting the suns rays away from the planet. MON MON Quentin Cooper discusses the Issues with Tim Kruger who MON manages the Oxford Geoengineering Programme, an initiative MON of the Oxford Martin School, at the University of Oxford and MON Professor Anne Glover, chief Scientific Advisor to the MON European Commission. MON MON Seeing stripes MON MON Our science of fashion experiment is in full swing. Amateur MON scientist Val Watham wants to know whether vertical or MON horizontal stripes are more flattering to wear. MON MON This week, we visit the sewing machine room at the MON University of the Creative Arts (UCA) where fashion design MON students have been making and modelling the stripey shirts MON and dresses to use in Val’s test. MON MON We talk to Jemma Willis, 1st year fashion coordinator, about MON the process of designing and producing the 15 stripy outfits MON to help answer Val’s question. MON MON Quentin also talks to her mentor Dr Peter Thompson from the MON University of York, about the science behind stripes, and MON the visual tricks they can play on us. MON MON You can take part in Val’s experiment during the Edinburgh MON Science Festival on 13 -15 April. We’ll be joining forces MON with BBC One’s Bang Goes the Theory road-show based on The MON Mound, outside The National Galleries of Scotland. MON MON Bacteria MON MON New strains of bacteria evolved to feed off the oil during MON the gulf of Mexico spill, its thought such bacteria could be MON artificially developed to deal with many forms of pollution. MON MON Quentin talks to Christoph Gertler, marine pollutant expert MON at Bangor University. MON MON Helmholtz Illusion MON MON These squares are all the same size, but the Helmholtz MON Illusion makes the horizontal stripes appear taller MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01f5htv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01f06t3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01f5jwp (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01f5jwr (Listen) MON The Snow Child, Episode 1 MON MON Jack and Mabel hope that a fresh start in 'Alaska, our MON newest homeland' will enable them to put the strain of their MON childless marriage behind them. But the northern wilderness MON proves as unforgiving as it is beautiful: Jack fears that he MON will collapse under the strain of creating a farm, and a MON lonely winter eats its way into Mabel's soul. When the first MON snow falls, the couple find themselves building a small MON figure - a snow girl. The next morning, their creation has MON gone, and they see a child running through the spruce trees. MON Gradually this child - an elusive, untameable little girl MON who hunts with a fox and is more at ease in the savage MON landscape than in the homestead - comes into their lives. MON But as their love for the snow child and for the land she MON opens up to them grows, so too does their awareness that it, MON and she, may break their hearts. MON Written with the clarity and vividness of the Russian MON fairytale from which it takes its inspiration, The Snow MON Child is an instant classic. MON MON Eowyn Ivey MON Named after a character from Tolkien's The Lord of the MON Rings, Eowyn Ivey currently works at an independent MON bookstore in Alaska. The Snow Child is her debut novel. MON MON The reader is Miranda Richardson MON MON The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by MON Gemma McMullan. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01dtvk3 (Listen) MON Textspeak MON MON Michael Rosen on the uses and abuses of textspeak. Is the MON English language being abbreviated away? MON Writer Will Cohu thinks texting has changed the way we MON communicate with each other. MON Students at William Morris Sixth Form tell Michael how they MON use their phones to talk - exploding a few popular MON preconceptions along the way. MON Professor David Crystal puts the use of texting language MON into context, and Canadian linguist Joan Lee discusses her MON research on the subject. MON And Nick D'Aloisio talks about the mobile phone app he's MON created which condenses and summarises news articles for a MON time-poor generation. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b01fd275 (Listen) MON Series 7, Passion at Glasgow Cross MON MON On the wall above the Val D'Oro, one of the oldest fish and MON chip shops in Glasgow hangs a painting of the Crucifixion, MON painted to commemorate the residents of one of the poorest MON areas of the city. MON MON Completed in 2010 David Adam's stark image of a crucified MON Christ in a street scene at Glasgow Cross places Christ in MON the midst of the city. At the foot of the cross where MON Christ's grieving mother Mary traditionally stands, is MON another Mary, Mary Paterson, a valued customer and local MON character, now in her nineties, huddled over the basket in MON which she carried her dog Sheba. MON MON To the left of the cross, Luigi Corvi, owner of the shop, MON stands poised to sing, bearing a plate of fish and chips. In MON his innocence, a small boy offers up the remains of his Irn MON Bru to Jesus while a woman to his right attempts to pick the MON pocket of a passer-by and a man nearby injects heroin into MON his thigh. MON MON But as Alan Dein discovers in the first of the new series of MON Lives in a Landscape, exploring offbeat aspects of MON contemporary Britain, the Passion at Glasgow Cross also MON describes Luigi's long suppressed dream: he serves fish and MON chips by day but dreams of life singing opera at La Scala... MON MON Producer David Stenhouse MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 APRIL 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01d1nm2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01f5hng (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d1nm6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d1nm8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d1nmb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01d1nmd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01f8l60 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Most Reverend George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01f5lcb (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01f5lcd (Listen) TUE Presented by James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including TUE Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Public Philosopher b01f5lcg (Listen) TUE Should universities give preference to applicants from poor TUE backgrounds? TUE TUE "We're going to engage in an experiment ....an experiment in TUE public philosophy. We sometimes think that philosophy is TUE remote, abstract and distant from the world we actually TUE inhabit. I think otherwise". So says the eminent Harvard TUE political philosopher Michael Sandel as he challenges an TUE audience to examine the big ideas, the big philosophical TUE questions that lie behind our views. TUE TUE In a series of public events, recorded at the London School TUE of Economics, he brings his trademark style to a discussion TUE on a current issue. This week, he delves into the thorny TUE issue of access to universities. "Should students from poor TUE backgrounds be given priority in admissions?" he asks. He TUE demands a show of hands. The brave ones volunteer to explain TUE the thinking behind their views. TUE TUE The audience is swept along. "Who decides if you're from a TUE poor background...what does that mean to come from a poor TUE background? The way our system works right now is fair TUE because we're just numbers" says Georgia, arguing that TUE academic results are all that matter. TUE TUE Fazal's view, reflecting his experience of American TUE universities, is very different. "On one piece of paper TUE you're writing down your experiences, your grades. On the TUE other you're writing down your financial background...how TUE much money you can potentially pay". TUE TUE Throughout, Michael Sandel acts as referee, thinker and TUE devil's advocate. TUE TUE His lectures to Harvard undergraduates have been described TUE as "spellbinding...an exhilarating journey". They are TUE popular, provocative and interactive. Now he brings that TUE approach to Radio 4. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01fcmh8 (Listen) TUE The Great Animal Orchestra, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Nigel Lindsay. TUE TUE The sounds of the geophony were the first sounds on earth - TUE and this element of the soundscape is the context in which TUE animal voices, and even important aspects of human sonic TUE culture, evolved'. Bernie Krause explores the soundscapes of TUE the non-animal world. TUE TUE Written by Bernie Krause TUE Adapted by Polly Coles TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01f5lcj (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01f5lcl (Listen) TUE Reeds in the Wind, Episode 7 TUE TUE Giacinto runs away following Ruth's sudden death leaving TUE Grixenda distraught and Ester and Noemi financially ruined. TUE Efix goes to Don Predu for help. TUE TUE EFIX.....John Lynch TUE NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson TUE GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger TUE PREDU.....Conrad Nelson TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01f5lcn (Listen) TUE Series 6, Drumming Down TUE TUE Spring woodlands are loud now with the drumming of great TUE spotted woodpeckers and their familiar head-banging TUE territorial sounds are everywhere in the UK . Numbers of TUE great spotted woodpeckers have increased 250% over the last TUE few decades and they have taken to feeding in garden TUE bird-tables along with tits and robins. However, their much TUE smaller cousin, the tiny sparrow-sized lesser spotted TUE woodpecker has declined by as much as 90% in the same period TUE and from 2011 is one of the species monitored by the Rare TUE birds Breeding Panel. TUE TUE To find out why our woodpeckers have experienced very TUE different fortunes, Brett Westwood visits the Wyre Forest on TUE the Worcestershire/Shropshire border. This ancient oak wood TUE is one of the study plots for a 3-year RSPB research project TUE on the lesser spotted woodpecker, and one of the best sites TUE to see them in the UK. They are one of the most difficult TUE birds to study because of their size, their attraction to TUE feeding high in the canopy and their huge winter range. A TUE single bird may range over 700 hectares of forest habitat in TUE winter and so is very hard to locate. In spring , they call TUE and drum, making February March and April the best months to TUE see them, before the leaves are fully expanded. For Nature, TUE Brett Westwood visits Wyre with Ken Smith and Elisabeth TUE Charman, woodland ecologists from the RSPB, to search for TUE the birds and to learn about the results of the survey. TUE Although the decline of the lesser spotted woodpeckers is TUE still shrouded in mystery, some interesting facts have TUE emerged. A third of the broods are deserted by one of the TUE parents, leaving the other, usually the male, to bring up TUE the young. Lesser spotted woodpeckers glean insects from TUE leaves and there are indications that climate change may be TUE affecting their prey supplies. TUE TUE Among woodland birds, "lesser spots" aren't the only species TUE whose numbers are falling . Nightingales, willow tits and TUE wood warblers are also declining sharply which raises TUE questions about the suitability of our woods for many TUE species. But with the rise of the greater spotted TUE woodpecker, also a woodland bird, teasing out the reasons is TUE a challenge for scientists. Brett talks to Rob Fuller, of TUE the British Trust for Ornithology who's studied woodlands TUE for over 30 years, and hears about the complexities of TUE monitoring woods and the birds which live in them. TUE TUE Producer: Brett Westwood TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b01f5lcq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Shostakovich 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 Shostakovich was the most celebrated musical icon of the TUE Russian Soviet state. But he had an uneasy relationship with TUE the political authorities. He was officially denounced TUE several times, once by Stalin himself, friends and TUE colleagues were arrested, and it's claimed that his works TUE often betray a hidden, subversive political message. TUE Professor Robert Winston examines the psychological damage TUE that could have been caused by a composer trying to serve TUE both Stalin's brutal, totalitarian regime and his own TUE creative muse. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Taylor. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01f5lcs (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01d338g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01f5lcv (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The People's Passion b01f5lcx (Listen) TUE Cathedral Conversation - Music and Majesty TUE TUE Music and Majesty: Lord Wallace and David Hill visit TUE Westminster Cathedral to discuss the history and the future TUE of the cathedral choir. Baron Wallace of Saltaire (formerly TUE William Wallace), a senior Liberal Democrat politician, has TUE been involved with choral music all his life; as an TUE 11-year-old he sang at the Coronation. Today he is trustee TUE of the National Children's Choir and also runs a charity - TUE Voces Cantabiles - which aims to help young singers. David TUE Hill is a choral director who has worked with some of TUE Britain's finest choirs, including those of St John's TUE Cambridge, Winchester Cathedral and Westminster Cathedral. TUE Producer, Peter Everett. TUE TUE Lord Wallace and David Hill TUE TUE In Part Two: Music and Majesty, Lord Wallace and David Hill TUE visit Westminster Cathedral to discuss the history and the TUE future of the cathedral choir. Baron Wallace of Saltaire TUE (formerly William Wallace), a senior Liberal Democrat TUE politician, has been involved with choral music all his TUE life; as an 11-year-old he sang at the Coronation. Today he TUE is trustee of the National Children's Choir and also runs a TUE charity - Voces Cantabiles - which aims to help young TUE singers. David Hill is a choral director who has worked with TUE some of Britain’s finest choirs, including those of St TUE John’s Cambridge, Winchester Cathedral and Westminster TUE Cathedral. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01f5hpc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f5lcz (Listen) TUE The People's Passion, Tuesday: Betrayal TUE TUE 2/5: Tuesday: Betrayal TUE TUE by Nick Warburton TUE TUE Callum has no job and nothing to fill his days, but he loves TUE to sing in the Cathedral's Voluntary choir. With the choir, TUE he is rehearsing the newly commissioned Easter Anthem, to TUE perform on Good Friday. Who would dream of stopping him? But TUE temptation can whisper in all sorts of ears... TUE TUE The Old Man ..... David Bradley TUE Robert ..... James Fleet TUE Callum ..... Harry Livingstone TUE Sonia ..... Rina Mahoney TUE Paul ..... Jim Norton TUE Clive ..... Don Gilet TUE Graham ...... Kim Wall TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting TUE TUE Original music by Sasha Johnson Manning, with lyrics by TUE Michael Symmons Roberts. TUE Performed by: TUE Manchester Chamber Choir, directed by Christopher Stokes, TUE with Jeffrey Makinson (organ), Rob Shorter (tenor), Rebecca TUE Whettam (cello), Jahan Hunter (trumpet) and Holly Marland TUE (recorder). TUE BBC Singers with Eleanor Gregory (soprano), Margaret Cameron TUE (alto), Chris Bowen (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (bass) and TUE Andrew Earis (piano). TUE Andrew Kirk (organ), and the choir of Saint Mary Redcliffe, TUE Bristol. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01f5ld1 (Listen) TUE Historian Helen Castor presents a new series of Radio 4's TUE popular magazine in which listeners and leading researchers TUE share their passion for the past. TUE TUE From Stirling to Southampton, Oxford to Orleans, the Making TUE History team have been out and about in the last few weeks TUE chasing down answers to questions posed in the emails and TUE letters sent in by the Radio 4 audience: family research, TUE forgotten diaries, architectural oddities, unexplained TUE features in the landscape... all these, and more, add to a TUE 'must-listen mix' of topics that range from the Aztecs to TUE the obsession of a French railway enthusiast in Amersham. TUE TUE In this week's programme: Helen meets two listeners who are TUE about to embark on a journey of a lifetime to see for TUE themselves the exact spot in the icy waters of the North TUE Atlantic where a relative died on a British ship sunk by a TUE British minefield in a little-known accident during the TUE Second World War; fellow presenter Tom Holland heads down TUE Route 66 to discover that mediaeval Native Americans loved TUE the city-life just as much as their twenty-first century TUE cousins; and a professional map-maker puzzles over some TUE unexplained symbols that are making horticultural history in TUE the Surrey countryside. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01f5ld3 (Listen) TUE Frozen Fish TUE TUE The seas around the Antarctic contain some of our last TUE healthy fish stocks. Tight regulation and vicious weather TUE conditions have kept most trawlers out of the southern TUE waters but the global demand for protein could push more TUE fishermen to sail to the frozen south. TUE TUE For 'Costing the Earth' the chef Gerard Baker travels to TUE South Georgia to hear how scientists hope to maintain the TUE health of the southern oceans in the face of overwhelming TUE odds. Could their experience help the rest of the world TUE secure the future of fish? TUE TUE Gerard Baker joins the crew of the New Polar TUE TUE Earlier this year South Georgia fisheries scientists studied TUE the health of the major commercial fish species by examining TUE fish caught by the New Polar. Chef, Gerard Baker joined TUE them for the voyage. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01f5ld5 (Listen) TUE In Diamond Jubilee year, Michael Rosen looks at royal TUE language. How has the way the Queen speaks changed over the TUE years, and how about her grandchildren? What is the Queen's TUE English, and does she speak it? TUE TUE Voice coach Penny Dyer demonstrates how she helped Helen TUE Mirren to transform the way she talked, for the film 'The TUE Queen'. TUE TUE Jonathan Harrington has studied the Queen's Speech over 50 TUE years and traces the ways in which she has come to sound TUE more like her people. TUE TUE And we uncover the rather surprising original meaning of the TUE word jubilee. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01f5mmf (Listen) TUE Series 27, Dylan Thomas TUE TUE Dylan Thomas, arguably Wales's most famous poet, comes under TUE scrutiny on Great Lives. A man famous both for his TUE linguistic exuberance and his chaotic, alcohol-fuelled TUE private life, Dylan Thomas is proposed by another Welsh poet TUE in a specially recorded programme at Bristol's More Than TUE Words Listening Festival. TUE TUE Owen Sheers is one of Britain's brightest young writers and TUE the author of Resistance, and he is keen to bust some myths TUE about his fellow Welshman's reputation. Joining him on stage TUE is presenter Matthew Parris along with Damian Walford-Davies TUE of Aberystwyth University. The programme includes archive TUE recordings of Dylan Thomas's famous voice, and also Richard TUE Burton reading the opening of Under Milk Wood. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01f5mmh (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d3399 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01f5mmk (Listen) TUE Series 8, Have a Great Weekend TUE TUE Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, TUE complete with his trusty companion Elgar and his never TUE ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever TUE scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and TUE cat together. TUE TUE Inevitably he finds himself once more battling through the TUE week encountering the numerous 12-year olds who run the TUE media, teaching the lively bunch of pensioners who can TUE "teach him a thing or two about money making schemes, frugal TUE living and having a good time thank you very much", and TUE regular run-ins with the rather successful Jaz Milvane, TUE director of Ed's only ever book-to-screen adaptation. TUE TUE As we renew our acquaintance with Ed we find him in a TUE somewhat lighter mood, enjoying normal weekend-ish type TUE things, like having a bath, and whistling. He's also TUE visiting the DIY store - because he can. His renewed TUE acquaintance with 1960's hot young model, Fiona Templeton, TUE could have much to do with this new outlook, particularly as TUE they have a shared love of the free sachets to be found in TUE the Sunday newspapers. As long as they don't mix up the TUE shampoo sachet with the brown sauce sachet they should be TUE fine. TUE TUE Cast list Ep.1 TUE TUE Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas TUE Fiona ..... Jenny Agutter TUE Olive ..... Stephanie Cole TUE Jaz Milvain ..... Philip Jackson TUE Pearl ..... Rita May TUE Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Post Office Clerk ..... Nicola Sanderson TUE Kourier (stet) ..... Dan Tetsell TUE Stan.....Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01f5mmm (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01f5mmp (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film TUE Headhunters, based on a book by the best-selling Norwegian TUE crime writer Jo Nesbo. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01f5lcl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Green Gold: The Bamboo Boom b01f5mn2 (Listen) TUE Camille Rebelo believes in bamboo. With a Masters in TUE Environmental Management from Yale, she sees herself as a TUE pioneer of a new approach to make forestry work for people - TUE and also for profit. And to do so, she and her colleagues TUE are tapping into new sources of private investment. They are TUE developing a bamboo plantation in Nicaragua, funded, in TUE part, by the world's first asset - backed Bamboo Bond. TUE TUE Eco Planet Bamboo is convinced that the way forward is to TUE persuade investors that money really does grow on trees - or TUE in this instance a grass, since that's what bamboo is. TUE TUE Bamboo has a higher tensile strength than steel, and is also TUE versatile, light, flexible and enduring. Unlike other TUE timbers it can also be used for construction, clothing, TUE food, cosmetics, medicine, green charcoal and fuel. It TUE reaches maturity in a fraction of the time it takes tropical TUE hardwoods to grow, and unlike trees continues to grow and TUE replenish once harvested. Bamboo also captures more carbon TUE than any other land plant. TUE TUE Nowhere is that need for a replacement for timber more TUE evident than Nicaragua, which has one of the highest rates TUE of deforestation in the world. The bamboo plantation has TUE provided jobs in a poor area of the country with few TUE employment opportunities. Eco Planet Bamboo talks of TUE Conscious Capitalism, and its unique Bamboo Bond is TUE promising investors returns of 500% over a 15 year period. TUE TUE The BBC's World Affairs Correspondent Mike Wooldridge asks TUE whether such promises are too good to be true? Could bamboo TUE prove to be green gold for Nicaragua's poor? And is this a TUE way of not only fighting poverty, but global warming too? TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01f5mn4 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01f5mn6 (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 Public Philosopher b01f5lcg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01f06v4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01f5mnd (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01f5mng (Listen) TUE The Snow Child, Episode 2 TUE TUE The reader is Miranda Richardson TUE TUE The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by TUE Gemma McMullan. TUE TUE 23:00 Richard Herring's Objective b00vcqm7 (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Hoodie TUE TUE How has a tracksuit top with a hood attached to it come to TUE inspire fear in modern Britain and is it actually used as an TUE excuse to demonise the young? TUE TUE 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b01fd2tq (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 2 TUE TUE St Peter's church, a 13th century jewel, is empty. TUE TUE Inside, the workings of the clock tick ominously, moving the TUE hands towards midnight. On the street outside a group of TUE people, maybe a hundred, huddle against the cold, waiting TUE for the clock to strike. TUE TUE This is the scene on the second Sunday in December, every TUE year, in the village of Broughton, near Kettering in TUE Northamptonshire. This is a quiet village, the bypass takes TUE traffic away, the few commuters leaving town early in the TUE morning. The few pubs are jolly, but not rowdy, and the TUE Co-op acts as an unofficial meeting point for the locals. TUE TUE Not much to distinguish it from the other villages nearby; TUE flat, farmland stretching from one village to the next, with TUE the odd superstore or garden centre between them. But come TUE midnight something different happens; something unique, TUE ancient, mysterious; something rather noisy. For every year TUE for as long as anyone can remember, and even further back, TUE the devil is beaten out of Broughton, by the tin can band - TUE a collection of villagers who patrol the streets after TUE midnight, banging, pots and pans, milk churns and hip baths, TUE drums and hammers, colanders and frying pans - anything that TUE makes a noise in fact, and for one night a year, Broughton TUE becomes the noisiest place in Northamptonshire. And no one TUE quite knows why... Alan Dein joins them with a microphone. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 APRIL 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01d33b8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01fcmh8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d33bd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d33bg (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d33bj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01d33bl (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01f8l4z (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Most Reverend George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01f65vz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01f65w1 (Listen) WED Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including WED Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01f65w3 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01fcmyg (Listen) WED The Great Animal Orchestra, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Nigel Lindsay. WED WED Why do giraffes vocalize in frequencies so low that we can't WED hear them with our ears alone? Why do anemones make sound? WED Did you know that ants can sing? Bernie Krause reveals the WED extraordinarily diverse sounds of earth's 'biophony'. WED WED Written by Bernie Krause WED Adapted by Polly Coles WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01f65w5 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01f65w7 (Listen) WED Reeds in the Wind, Episode 8 WED WED Following Giacinto's departure and the Pintor sisters' WED financial ruin, Don Predu comes to the rescue. But will Efix WED persuade Noemi to accept Predu's offer of marriage? WED WED EFIX.....John Lynch WED NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson WED KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt WED GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 11:00 The Mystery of the Holy Thorn b01f65w9 (Listen) WED In the small hours of 8 December 2010, the "holy thorn" tree WED of Glastonbury was cut down by persons unknown wielding a WED chain saw. The next few days saw an outpouring of grief from WED pagans and Christians around the world. The thorn, it is WED alleged, was 2000 years old and planted by Joseph of WED Arimathea when he came to England in the first century. The WED Thorn was "miraculous" because it flowered twice a year, at WED Christmas and Easter. For in Glastonbury, Christianity sits WED awkwardly alongside paganism - its Abbey is supposedly the WED oldest Christian building in Britain. The destruction of the WED Thorn was blamed on anti-pagans, or alternatively WED anti-Christians. In this programme Jolyon Jenkins WED investigates the theories. WED WED People who know of Glastonbury from its music festival may WED be surprised to know that the town itself is the witchcraft WED capital of the UK. The high street is dominated by purveyors WED of wiccan paraphernalia. Apart from the witches, there are WED Goddess worshippers, faerie followers, astrologers, shamans, WED alchemists, geomancers, druids, spiritualists, and every WED possible variety of alternative healer. So there are two WED mysteries of the holy thorn. One is who cut it down, and WED why. The other is why it seems to mean so much not just to WED Christians, but to the hundreds of pagans who have settled WED in Glastonbury. WED WED The former mayor detects "a certain taste of Satanism". The WED local Catholic priest reports finding evidence of animal WED sacrifice on his church steps. The local Anglican vicar WED feels that Christians have been getting marginalised and WED that that he "needs to put Christianity back on the map". So WED how did Britain's oldest Christian centre become Witchcraft WED Central? WED WED 11:30 Shedtown b01dhj1q (Listen) WED Storm WED WED A layer-cake of disaster threatens the creosoted community. WED And where's Colin? 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 Deborah Dearden ...... Emma Fryer WED William ....... Adrian Manfredi WED Carly ...... Jessica Knappett WED Father Michael ...... James Quinn WED Wes ......Warren Brown WED Petshop Owner ...... Caron May WED WED Narrator...Maxine Peake WED Music......Paul Heaton WED WED Written and created by Tony Pitts WED Directed by Jim Poyser WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01f65wc (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01d44qd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01f65wf (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The People's Passion b01f65wh (Listen) WED Cathedral Conversation - Art and Architecture WED WED Art and Architecture: novelist Salley Vickers and architect WED Ptolemy Dean discuss the timeless beauty of Salisbury WED Cathedral. Salley has written about cathedral art in several WED of her books. Ptolemy advises on restoration works for WED cathedrals including Salisbury. Together they take a tour WED that begins in the roof-space ('like a Wiltshire barn') and WED ends in the Chapter House with its famous carved scenes from WED the Bible. WED Producer, Peter Everett. WED WED Sally Vickers and Ptolemy Dean WED WED In Part Three: Art and Architecture, the novelist Salley WED Vickers and architect Ptolemy Dean discuss the timeless WED beauty of Salisbury Cathedral. Salley has written about WED cathedral art in several of her books. Ptolemy advises on WED restoration works for cathedrals including Salisbury. WED Together they take a tour that begins in the roof-space WED (‘like a Wiltshire barn’) and ends in the cloisters with WED their magnificent cedar trees. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01f5mmm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f65wk (Listen) WED The People's Passion, Wednesday: Last Supper WED WED 3/5: Wednesday: Last Supper WED WED by Nick Warburton WED WED When Clive, the Cathedral's Vice Dean, invites his WED girlfriend Jo to tea; and Graham, one of the vergers, is WED bullied into feeding a troublesome visitor... neither man WED knows quite what's in store for him. WED WED The Old Man ..... David Bradley WED Jo ..... Tracy Wiles WED Clive ..... Don Gilet WED Paul ..... Jim Norton WED Graham ...... Kim Wall WED Hannah ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan WED with Adjoa Andoh and James Lailey. WED WED Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting WED WED Original music by Sasha Johnson Manning, with lyrics by WED Michael Symmons Roberts. WED Performed by: WED Manchester Chamber Choir, directed by Christopher Stokes, WED with Jeffrey Makinson (organ), Rob Shorter (tenor), Rebecca WED Whettam (cello), Jahan Hunter (trumpet) and Holly Marland WED (recorder). WED BBC Singers with Eleanor Gregory (soprano), Margaret Cameron WED (alto), Chris Bowen (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (bass) and WED Andrew Earis (piano). WED Andrew Kirk (organ), and the choir of Saint Mary Redcliffe, WED Bristol. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01f676q (Listen) WED Despite the challenging economic conditions, the number of WED small businesses in the UK continues to grow. WED WED A number of Government initiatives were launched last month WED aimed at helping small firms. WED WED The National Loan Guarantee Scheme will aid businesses with WED cheaper finance by reducing the cost of bank loans under the WED scheme by 1%. WED WED Key announcements for business in the Budget two weeks ago WED week include: a cut in the main rate of Corporation Tax from WED 26% to 24% next month; the Enterprise Management Incentive WED scheme will provide additional help to start-ups; and the WED Government is consulting on how to make it easier for sole WED traders and small businesses to calculate their taxable WED income. WED WED Are you starting a small business and want advice on the WED best way of going about it? WED WED Do you run a small business and want help on calculating WED your tax? WED WED If you are approaching your bank for a loan what must you WED bear in mind? WED WED What are the biggest issues facing your business? WED WED Are you struggling with unsecured or secured debt? WED WED Is the Government doing enough to support small business? WED WED Joining Vincent Duggleby on the programme: WED WED Iestyn Davies, Federation of Small Businesses WED Mike Warburton, Grant Thornton WED James Henry, Business Debtline WED Peter Ibbotson, Natwest/RBS WED WED Presenter: Vincent Duggleby WED Producer: lesley McAlpine WED WED Lines open at 1pm. The number to ring 03700 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01f5mn6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01f676s (Listen) WED When the factories close, what happens to the communities WED they leave behind? In this week's programme, Laurie WED investigates the effects of industrial decline in Wales, WED examining in-depth sociological studies of the residents of WED two industrial Welsh towns. WED Professor Valerie Walkerdine discusses the impact of the WED closure of the steelworks in 'Steeltown.' How does an WED community cope when its focal point finally closes? How does WED the community attempt to maintain a sense of identity? How WED do young men deal with the embarrassment of being branded WED "mammy's boys" for having to take on 'feminine' work? And WED how do women manage to hold the community together? WED Also in the programme, Jean Jenkins tells Laurie about her WED research on how the closure of the Burberry factory in WED Treorchy affected non-work life for the workers concerned. WED Many people found part time work, but did that really WED improve their life at home? WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01f676v (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 b01f676x (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's WED news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d44r5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00t0qxz (Listen) WED Series 3, The Dragon of Mass Destruction WED WED Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four Weddings WED & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode, De Warenne is in trouble as an official WED enquiry into the Crusades gets mixed up with a Talent WED Competition and a Dragon of Mass Destruction. Plus WED embroidery gets a right dissing. WED WED Sir John Woodstock ..... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ...... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan ...... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ...... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ...... Steven Kynman WED Merlin ...... Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01f676z (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01fjtjj (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01f65w7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01d44rm (Listen) WED Joint Enterprise WED WED In the first of a new series, Clive Anderson and guests WED discuss the controversial law of joint enterprise under WED which people can be convicted of murder even if they didn't WED physically participate in an assault or strike the fatal WED blow. WED WED Francis Fitzgibbon QC, who has defended people in joint WED enterprise cases, argues that this complex and unwieldy law WED is being applied indiscriminately to combat gang violence, WED and is leading to miscarriages of justice. WED WED Solicitor Simon Natas calls for the law to be changed to WED make it necessary to prove that a defendant intended that WED someone should be killed or seriously injured. WED WED But Mark Heywood QC who has prosecuted in the trials of WED people accused of murder following the death of a young man WED during a knife attack by a gang in Victoria Station, defends WED the way joint enterprise law is currently being applied. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED A Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01f67bd (Listen) WED Sr Gemma Symonds CJ WED WED Six well-known figures reflect on how the Lenten story of WED Jesus's ministry and Passion. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01f5ld3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01d44pt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 21:58 Weather b01f06w5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01f67bg (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01f67bj (Listen) WED The Snow Child, Episode 3 WED WED The reader is Miranda Richardson WED WED The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by WED Gemma McMullan. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01fcvy0 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED A famous ex-pupil of Nigel's pitches up at the Arts Centre WED to make a 'where-it-all-began-for-me' documentary, and is WED keen to interview Nigel. WED WED Whilst Nigel's preparations for the reunion are hampered by WED the usual array of frustrating pupils, Belinda attempts to WED use this tenuous connection to a celebrity to generate some WED much needed revenue for the Arts Centre. WED WED Nigel Penny ...... Richie Webb WED Belinda ........ Vicki Pepperdine WED Betty ...... Isobel Webb WED Greg ..... Jim North WED Damien ..... Dave Lamb WED Elsa ..... Jess Robinson WED WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00vhhnj (Listen) WED Series 2, Colin Oberon WED WED Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon. Six new, edgy WED comic characters are brought to life in a brand new series WED of The Cornwell Estate, starring Jill Halfpenny (Strictly WED Come Dancing, Eastenders), Roger Lloyd Pack (Only Fools and WED Horses, Vicar of Dibley), Simon Greenall (Alan Partridge) WED and Ricky Champ (Him and Her, BBC3). WED WED Colin Oberon is a primary school English teacher determined WED to teach his class anything but how to speak English. He WED wants them to learn his new language "Globe-ish" The school WED and governors are not impressed. WED WED Colin Oberon ..... Phil Cornwell WED Head Teacher ..... Mia Soteriou WED School Govenor ..... Cyril Nri WED Parents ..... Damola Adelaja, Lashana Lynch, Daniel York, WED Amy Ip, Tom Reed, Harvey Virdi WED WED Written and directed by Andrew McGibbon WED Additional material by Nick Romero WED Producer: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b01fd2tz (Listen) WED Series 7, Between Brothers WED WED Alan Dein follows the lives of two brothers - Alex, WED searching for a fresh start away from London gangs and his WED adopted brother JJ, who is poised for success on the London WED stage. WED WED Alan charts the lives of Alex, JJ and parents Liz and WED Andreas as they cope with changes which will fundamentally WED shift the balance of their family life. WED WED As JJ approaches 16 he must make decisions about his life WED and is preparing for auditions which could see him relaunch WED his acting career. This was put on hold five years earlier WED when the woman he knew as his 'mum' died and he was taken in WED by best friend Alex and adopted by Alex's parents, Andreas WED and Liz. Before this he had toured with productions like the WED King and I and his teachers believe he has the talent, drive WED and determination to succeed. WED WED These are characteristics in short supply for Alex who is WED preparing to move to the Philippines to live with his WED maternal grandmother. He has been selling Cannabis and now WED owes money to a local gang. Excluded from school he sees WED little prospect of his life improving and welcomes the WED opportunity to start afresh somewhere new - even though that WED means leaving best friend JJ. WED WED The recordings track events from the initial intervention of WED family therapists offering intensive support in London to WED the equally enticing offer from relatives abroad. As Alex WED prepares to leave England JJ prepares for the auditions WED which could seal his future and both brothers get use to the WED idea of living their separate lives. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 APRIL 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01d44s4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01fcmyg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d44s8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d44sb (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d44sd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01d44sg (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01f8l51 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Most Reverend George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01f67fn (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01f67y2 (Listen) THU Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including THU Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01f67y4 (Listen) THU George Fox and the Quakers THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of THU Quakerism. In the mid-seventeenth century an itinerant THU preacher, George Fox, became the central figure of a group THU known as the Religious Society of Friends, whose members THU believed it was possible to obtain contact with Christ THU without priestly intercession. The Quakers, as they became THU known, were persecuted for many years, but survived to THU become an influential religious group. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01fcmz1 (Listen) THU The Great Animal Orchestra, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Nigel Lindsay. THU THU Krause explores how 'organisms evolve to acoustically THU structure their signals in special relationships to one THU another - co operative or competitive - much like an THU orchestral ensemble.' THU THU Written by Bernie Krause THU Adapted by Polly Coles THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01f67y6 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01f67y8 (Listen) THU Reeds in the Wind, Episode 9 THU THU Following Giacinto's accusation of murder Efix is haunted by THU memories of the past. Believing he is to blame for the THU downfall of the Pintor sisters he is compelled to leave- but THU where will he go? THU THU EFIX.....John Lynch THU GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty THU PREDU.....Conrad Nelson THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01f67yb (Listen) THU The Angola 2 THU THU Tim Franks looks at the case of two US inmates who have been THU held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for what will be THU 40 years this month. It's believed to be the longest period THU of time in US penal history. For most of their confinement THU Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace were held in the Louisiana THU State Penitentiary, a prison often known as "Angola", after THU the origin of the people who worked there when it was a THU slave plantation. The two were originally imprisoned for THU armed robbery. The men who later became known as the Angola THU 2 were linked to the Black Panther party, and fought for THU better prison conditions for the black inmates, and an end THU to the widespread rape and harsh work conditions. While in THU prison there, they were charged with the murder of a prison THU guard, and convicted on the evidence of a prison inmate who THU had been promised his freedom if he testified against them. THU For most of the time since then they have been held in THU solitary confinement. The official reason has remained the THU same for 40 years: fear that the men would re-start their THU Black Panther-type activism and organise younger inmates as THU militants. The use of solitary confinement is on the THU increase in the US - we ask are there good reasons for its THU use, and whether it is compatible with US and international THU law. THU THU 11:30 Word for Word b01f685t (Listen) THU Half a century ago in Stoke-on-Trent a small dramatic THU revolution took place that reverberated round Britain's THU theatres. In among the Shakespeare, Ibsen, Moliere and THU Chekhov plays, radical director Peter Cheeseman slipped in a THU production about his theatre's neighbours. After THU interviewing local people who worked in the town's most THU famous industry and by using their real stories and actual THU words, Peter and his actors created The Jolly Potters. So, THU Verbatim Theatre was born. THU THU Paul Allen visits The Potteries' New Vic Theatre to find out THU just how far 'verbatim theatre' has come. Next month, in THU Where Have I Been All My Life?, actors wearing infra-red THU headsets will hear and re-present, word for word, what local THU people have said about their dreams and desires. The creator THU is Alecky Blythe, whose award-winning London Road was THU another powerful piece of verbatim theatre about the THU community living near the red light district of Ipswich. THU THU Paul talks to Nicolas Kent, who commissioned research into THU last summer's riots (when the Government chose not to order THU an inquiry) and staged the results in The Riots at London's THU Tricycle Theatre. He hears about other dramatised THU investigations into the murders of Stephen Lawrence and THU anti-nuclear campaigner Hilda Murrell, the state of our THU railways, and the fight to save a steel works. Did those THU plays change anything? THU THU And he asks about the moral dilemmas of how you shape the THU material, what you put in or leave out; and the pressures on THU actors knowing they are playing people watching them. THU THU What is the role of theatre as a factual witness to THU society's crises, rather than telling imagined stories? Can THU verbatim theatre help us understand human stories better? THU THU Producer: Chris Eldon Lee THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01f685w (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01d51sn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01f685y (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 The People's Passion b01f6860 (Listen) THU Cathedral Conversation - Heroes and Heritage THU THU Heroes and Heritage: Loyd Grossman, Chairman of The Churches THU Conservation Trust and Baroness Sherlock visit Durham THU Cathedral to discuss its history and its present importance. THU In 2001 Radio 4 listeners voted Durham Cathedral the best THU building in Britain. Sir Walter Scott called it "Half church THU of God, half castle 'gainst the Scot." The cathedral was THU founded in AD 1093 and built to hold the shrine of St THU Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. It has always been a place of THU pilgrimage and today receives 600,000 visitors a year. THU Producer, Peter Everett. THU THU Baroness Sherlock and Loyd Grossman THU THU In Part Four: Heroes and Heritage, Loyd Grossman, Chairman THU of The Churches Conservation Trust and Baroness Sherlock THU visit Durham Cathedral to discuss its history and its THU present importance. In 2001 Radio 4 listeners voted Durham THU Cathedral the best building in Britain. Sir Walter Scott THU called it “Half church of God, half castle 'gainst the THU Scot.†The cathedral was founded in AD 1093 and built to THU hold the shrine of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. It has always THU been a place of pilgimage and today receives 600,000 THU visitors a year. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01f676z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f6862 (Listen) THU The People's Passion, Thursday: Trial THU THU 4/5: Thursday: Trial THU THU by Nick Warburton THU THU Who are all the statues in the Cathedral? Who remembers all THU the people named on the monuments? And why are there empty THU spaces? When Samir comes to the Cathedral, with a THU half-formed plan in his head and the means to carry it out THU in his bag, he finds out why. THU THU The Old Man ..... David Bradley THU Robert ..... James Fleet THU James Greenstock ..... Gerard McDermott THU Samir ..... Shane Zaza THU Hannah ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan THU THU Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting THU THU Original music by Sasha Johnson Manning, with lyrics by THU Michael Symmons Roberts. THU Performed by: THU Manchester Chamber Choir, directed by Christopher Stokes, THU with Jeffrey Makinson (organ), Rob Shorter (tenor), Rebecca THU Whettam (cello), Jahan Hunter (trumpet) and Holly Marland THU (recorder). THU BBC Singers with Eleanor Gregory (soprano), Margaret Cameron THU (alto), Chris Bowen (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (bass) and THU Andrew Earis (piano). THU Andrew Kirk (organ), and the choir of Saint Mary Redcliffe, THU Bristol. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01f6864 (Listen) THU Drought THU THU As parts of the country face a hosepipe ban for the first THU time in 20 years, Jules Hudson is in Berkshire to find out THU how the drought is affecting the county. THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01f5913 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01f5gvk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01f6866 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01f6868 (Listen) THU Science magazine programme. THU THU 17:00 PM b01f686b (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d51tf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01d51th (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU In a new brand music comedy series comedian Alex Horne and THU his 5 piece band give us a latin lesson; ponder the language THU that unifies us all and guest stand-up David O Doherty takes THU us for a noisy ride in the quiet carriage. THU THU Host .... Alex Horne THU Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland THU Saxophone/clarinet .... Mark Brown THU Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier THU Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds THU Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe THU Guest performer .... David O'Doherty THU THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01f68ff (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01f68fh (Listen) THU John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01f67y8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01f68mh (Listen) THU Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of a 7/7 bomber who killed THU half of the 52 victims, is suspected of involvement in a THU Kenya terror plot. Following the London atrocities, Germaine THU Lindsay's partner, also a Muslim convert, claimed no THU knowledge of his activities and dropped off the intelligence THU services' radar. THU THU Now, a white woman resembling Lewthwaite and travelling with THU three children on a false passport has been linked to a THU house where bomb making equipment was found during a raid in THU December . Those involved are believed to be linked to THU al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda associated group based in THU neighbouring Somalia and blamed for a string of abductions THU in the area. THU THU The terrorist group, known for recruiting from the Somali THU diaspora including that in the UK, is now also targeting THU British Muslims from other backgrounds. The horn of Africa THU has become the latest training ground for potential THU jihadists who represent a threat not only in that area, but THU in Britain too. THU THU Simon Cox investigates. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01f68mk (Listen) THU Growing Old THU THU As Baby Boomers start turning 65, many countries are quite THU suddenly growing old. The trend means THU big changes for the economy, healthcare, social life..and a THU challenge to the assumptions by which we have THU lived life for the past two centuries. Peter Day explains THU why. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01f5lcn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01f67y4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01f06x8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01f68sc (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01f68sf (Listen) THU The Snow Child, Episode 4 THU THU The reader is Miranda Richardson THU THU The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by THU Gemma McMullan. THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b01f68sh (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU A new series in which Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark, finding THU stories of the night people... THU THU Tonight, the theme is Overnight Delivery as Jarvis boards THU the red-eye, taking a transatlantic flight of the THU imagination - peering down at the human dramas beneath as THU the world slowly rotates - accompanied by Jarvis' own THU musical selections. THU THU As Jarvis reaches cruising altitude, he finds himself THU gripped by the compelling life and death stories of a THU shepherdess in the midst of a very difficult birth, a THU transplant nurse on late shift and a priest who performs the THU role of deliverance ministry - in layman's terms: exorcism. THU THU But this dark night is not without light relief, as Jarvis THU muses on the trying experience of long haul air travel, THU revealing his own antidote to a fear of flying: Hugh Grant. THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b0100h5j (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 4 THU THU Alan Dein follows the fortunes of Iraq veteran turned THU wedding photographer Stefan Edwards as he contends with the THU difficulties of life on civvy street and tries to cut THU himself a slice of the increasingly competitive wedding THU market. THU THU It's a March wedding for Lorraine and Richard from Newport THU and photographer Stefan Edwards exudes an air of military THU authority as he helps to chronicle the pair's big day. On THU the inside, though, Stefan's every bit as nervous as the THU couple anxiously awaiting the exchanging of vows. For THU Stefan's a newcomer to the wedding photography business - THU six months previously, he'd been out in Iraq using his THU camera to chronicle the war ravaged country, first for the THU British army and then for a private security contractor. THU THU Having visited virtually every corner of Iraq, Stefan THU eventually decided to return to the UK to be with his THU Newport-based family who'd grown increasingly concerned at THU his absence. With steady work hard to find, Stefan has THU decided to go into the photography business, swapping one THU risk for another. Alan Dein joins him at the start of the THU wedding season as he attempts to drum up trade for his new THU venture and put the trauma of Iraq behind him. THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 APRIL 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01d51vb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01fcmz1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01d51vg (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01d51vj (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01d51vl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01d51vn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01f8l55 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Most Reverend George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01f69zz (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01f6b01 (Listen) FRI Presented by Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01f596z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01fcn00 (Listen) FRI The Great Animal Orchestra, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Nigel Lindsay. FRI FRI Having explored the worlds of inanimate and animal sound, FRI Krause turns to the sounds and noises generated by modern FRI human beings and their effects on the non-human world around FRI them. FRI FRI Written by Bernie Krause FRI Adapted by Polly Coles FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01f6b03 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01f6b05 (Listen) FRI Reeds in the Wind, Episode 10 FRI FRI Hearing that Giacinto will marry Grixenda, leaving Noemi FRI free to marry Predu, Efix returns to the village. Will Efix FRI finally be at peace with his conscience? FRI FRI EFIX.....John Lynch FRI NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson FRI ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew FRI GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty FRI PREDU.....Conrad Nelson FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 11:00 In Search of Originality b01fd4v4 (Listen) FRI Is it still possible to do anything truly original? And why FRI should we care if it isn't? Ian Peacock finds out, with a FRI challenge to come up with just one original thought of his FRI own: a new sound to end a radio programme. FRI FRI 'Creation is the art of concealing your sources' is a mantra FRI attributed to any number of great thinkers, Einstein among FRI them. And if we are not convinced that Einstein was FRI original, who is? FRI FRI In his trademark quirky but thoughtful style, Ian Peacock FRI sets off on a Kafkaesque quest for true originality. But his FRI infectious optimism quickly begins to crack. Doubts set in FRI during a trip to the UK Patent Office, surely a bastion of FRI unalloyed originality. Patents it seems are rarely built on FRI blinding flashes of inspiration, more on incremental FRI development. And Ian's own inventions (a hamster wheel for FRI cats and bleeping contact lenses amongst them) find FRI surprisingly little enthusiasm. FRI FRI For help he turns to Kane Kramer, self-proclaimed inventor FRI of the digital audio player, who also runs a side-line FRI helping people nurture their own creativity. Is there FRI originality lurking within us all, or is this a gift you FRI have to be born with? According to writer Winifred FRI Gallagher, invention is an instinct lurking within all of FRI us, if only you can work out how to harness it. FRI FRI As Ian's increasingly philosophical journey evolves, ever FRI more curious sounds emerge from a quartet of FRI specially-engaged minds, holed up in a darkened anechoic FRI chamber and challenged by Ian to devise the most original FRI sound ever for the programme's finale. At times it sounds FRI more like a children's party than a route to blinding new FRI truths as this menagerie of professors and artists clank FRI together random objects. The result, when at last it FRI appears, turns out to be, well, interesting. Have these FRI great brains achieved the ultimate alchemist's dream? Or are FRI we doomed, in the era of the mash-up never to achieve FRI originality again? And would that even matter? FRI FRI 11:30 Vital Statistics b01f6b09 (Listen) FRI How I Learned to Drive FRI FRI By Nick Payne. FRI FRI Now that his girlfriend Anna has moved all the way to FRI Cornwall to be a chef, Gary must either get over his fear of FRI public transport or learn to drive. But however hard he FRI tries, Gary keeps failing his test. It's lucky for him that FRI his case has landed on the desk of Agent Y - who's about to FRI intervene with his statistical superpowers. FRI FRI Agent Y . . . . . Karl Theobald FRI Gary . . . . . Al Weaver FRI Anna . . . . . Amaka Okafor FRI Antonia . . . . . Susie Riddell FRI Neil . . . . . James Lailey FRI Terrence . . . . . Peter Hamilton Dyer FRI Fiona . . . . . Christine Absalom FRI FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko FRI FRI Developed with James Robinson. FRI Studio managers: Caleb Knightley and Keith Graham. FRI Editors: Keith Graham and Peter Ringrose. FRI Production Co-ordinator: Jessica Brown. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01f6bf2 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01f6bf4 (Listen) FRI Love: Beryl and Graham FRI FRI In Radio 4's new series, mounted in conjunction with the FRI British Library, Fi Glover introduces another set of FRI encounters capturing the nation in conversation. Graham FRI visits his grandmother Beryl from Hull to talk about FRI closeness, relationships and her late-flowering love for her FRI second husband who won her heart when he picked her up in FRI his Reliant Robin. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. Listeners are given a unique FRI opportunity to eavesdrop on these moments of closeness that FRI capture the essence both of a special relationship and of FRI something that really matters to them both. FRI FRI The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams FRI of producers from local and national radio stations who FRI facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not FRI BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts FRI up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment FRI of connection between the participants. Many of the long FRI conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI which they will use to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium, while Radio 4 is broadcasting three of FRI these jewel-like moments each Friday, with an omnibus on FRI Sundays at 2.45pm. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01d6n2q (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01f6bf6 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The People's Passion b01f6bf8 (Listen) FRI Cathedral Conversation - Belief and Belonging FRI FRI Belief and Belonging: the philosopher John Gray visits FRI Canterbury to discuss the cathedral and its meaning with the FRI Archbishop, Dr Rowan Williams. What is the role and place of FRI the cathedral in modern Britain. What is it about this FRI unique sacred space that has the capacity to appeal to FRI people of faith and, more particularly, those of no faith FRI who may come for the music, the anonymity, the history or FRI the ritual or a combination of all of these. Although John FRI is an atheist, they find much in common when they consider FRI the importance of this ancient building as a place of myth FRI and mystery. FRI Producer, Peter Everett. FRI FRI Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and John Gray FRI FRI In the final programme, Part Five: Belief and Belonging, the FRI philosopher John Gray visits Canterbury to discuss the FRI cathedral and its meaning with the Archbishop, Dr Rowan FRI Williams. This programme was recorded just before the FRI announcement that Dr Williams has decided to step down from FRI the post. Although John Gray is an atheist, he finds much in FRI common with the Archbishop when they consider the importance FRI of this ancient building as a place of myth and mystery. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01f68ff (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f6bfb (Listen) FRI The People's Passion, Friday: The Road to Emmaus FRI FRI 5/5: Friday: The Road to Emmaus FRI FRI by Nick Warburton FRI FRI Good Friday is a big day for Robert, the Cathedral's FRI Director of Music. And despite his attempts to clear his FRI mind, it all keeps going out of kilter. In fact, as the FRI Cathedral fills and empties for the afternoon service and FRI the big evening performance by the Voluntary choir, no one - FRI from lost tourists to late singers - seems to be quite FRI themselves... FRI FRI The Old Man ..... David Bradley FRI Alice ..... Sarah Gordy FRI Graham ..... Kim Wall FRI Robert ..... James Fleet FRI Rebecca ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Lynne ..... Tina Gray FRI Callum ..... Harry Livingstone FRI with Peter Hamilton-Dyer FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting FRI FRI Original music by Sasha Johnson Manning, with lyrics by FRI Michael Symmons Roberts. FRI Performed by: FRI Manchester Chamber Choir, directed by Christopher Stokes, FRI with Jeffrey Makinson (organ), Rob Shorter (tenor), Rebecca FRI Whettam (cello), Jahan Hunter (trumpet) and Holly Marland FRI (recorder). FRI BBC Singers with Eleanor Gregory (soprano), Margaret Cameron FRI (alto), Chris Bowen (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (bass) and FRI Andrew Earis (piano). FRI Andrew Kirk (organ), and the choir of Saint Mary Redcliffe, FRI Bristol. FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Liturgy b01f6bfd (Listen) FRI A meditation on the Crucifixion in music and readings from FRI Westminster Cathedral. Fr James Hanvey SJ reflects on the FRI final moments of Christ's earthly journey and how we FRI continue to encounter the Crucified Christ in our daily FRI lives. With traditional music from the world famous FRI Westminster Cathedral Choir, readings from the Gospel FRI accounts of Christ's Passion and poetry, Fr Hanvey explores FRI how it is from the margins of society as well as the margins FRI of our comprehension that we stand at the foot of the Cross. FRI Master of Music: Martin Baker FRI Assistant Master of Music: Peter Stevens FRI Producer: Mark O'Brien. FRI FRI 15:30 One to One b0157l1x (Listen) FRI Lyse Doucet with Masood Khalili FRI FRI One to One is a new series of interviews on Radio 4 in which FRI well respected broadcasters follow their personal passions FRI by talking to the people whose stories interest them most. FRI FRI The first set of interviews will be presented by Lyse FRI Doucet. FRI FRI Lyse Doucet has a long-standing connection to the country FRI and people of Afghanistan; she's reported from there for FRI over 20 years. FRI FRI Over the next four weeks Lyse will be in conversation with FRI Afghans - young and old, living at home and abroad - to hear FRI their remarkable stories. This month marks the 10th FRI anniversary of the American-led invasion of Afghanistan, a FRI good time to reflect on recent history and consider the FRI future. FRI FRI Masood Khalili is Afghanistan's Ambassador to Spain, but FRI he's also a poet who says his life is "10% about politics FRI and 90% about culture". FRI FRI On the 9th of September 2001, he was the only survivor of an FRI Al Qaeda suicide bomb attack which killed his friend and FRI legendary military leader, Ahmad Shah Masood. An attack FRI which is regarded as a pre-cursor to 9/11. FRI FRI Khalili's injuries were so severe that he was lucky to live FRI and can no longer endure the dry, dusty conditions of his FRI homeland. Lyse Doucet went to see him in Madrid where he FRI described the bomb blast and the impact it has had on him. FRI FRI He also talked about his occasional visits to, and memories FRI of, his beloved garden near Kabul. That garden is a metaphor FRI for the way he regards his country - FRI FRI "I see a flower there and it's blossoming and I say my FRI country will be ok. my country will be like that flower". FRI FRI Producer: Karen Gregor. FRI FRI 15:45 Made in Bristol b01f6cgs (Listen) FRI Birdsong Man FRI FRI In the first of a series of specially commissioned sound FRI stories from the More Than Words Festival in Bristol, Paul FRI Mundell reads Birdsong Man by Timothy X Atack. Every FRI morning, out in the forest, an hour before dawn, Birdsong FRI Man fixes microphones to the trees and in between the rocks. FRI And every night, in the lonely hours, he gets a phone call FRI asking for his progress. Who are the recordings for, and why FRI has he been asked to make them? FRI FRI Timothy X Atack is a scriptwriter, film director and FRI musician who makes fictions for stage, screen, audio and FRI installation in which music and sound are integral to the FRI storytelling. He's in a band called Angel Tech and is FRI co-founder of performance group Sleepdogs. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01f6cgv (Listen) FRI Jane Little tells the life stories of people who have FRI recently died, from the rich and famous to the unsung but FRI significant. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01f6cgx (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 16:55 The Listening Project b01f6cgz (Listen) FRI Merseybeat: Cy and Lucy FRI FRI In Radio 4's new series, mounted in conjunction with the FRI British Library, Fi Glover introduces another set of FRI encounters capturing the nation in conversation. Cy is a FRI music legend from Liverpool who's known almost all the great FRI names over the years; he's in conversation with his FRI granddaughter Lucy about the glory days. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. Listeners are given a unique FRI opportunity to eavesdrop on these moments of closeness that FRI capture the essence both of a special relationship and of FRI something that really matters to them both. FRI FRI The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams FRI of producers from local and national radio stations who FRI facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not FRI BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts FRI up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment FRI of connection between the participants. Many of the long FRI conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI which they will use to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium, while Radio 4 is broadcasting three of FRI these jewel-like moments each Friday, with an omnibus on FRI Sundays at 2.45pm. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01f6ch1 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01d6n3m (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01f6ch3 (Listen) FRI Series 77, 06/04/2012 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01f6ch5 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01f6ch7 (Listen) FRI John Wilson talks to leading photographers, including David FRI Bailey, Don McCullin and Terry O'Neill, who share advice on FRI how to take a better photograph. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01f6b05 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01f6ch9 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Sturminster Newton, Dorset. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01f6chc (Listen) FRI Prof David Cannadine reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01fhfyg (Listen) FRI Scream FRI FRI Written by Boz Temple-Morris and Kris Hollington. FRI FRI A crime caper telling the extraordinary but true story FRI behind the theft of Edvard Munch's expressionist masterpiece FRI from an Oslo museum in 2004. FRI FRI Oslo police are closing in on the criminal mastermind behind FRI an audacious cash robbery when two incompetent criminals FRI burst into the Munch Museum and ask for directions to FRI Norway's most famous painting. Amazingly, they emerge with FRI two paintings, The Scream and The Madonna. So begins a high FRI profile and often bizarre game of cat and mouse as police FRI attempt to track down these national treasures and arrest FRI those behind the robbery. FRI FRI Could it be that the criminal mastermind, David Toska, has FRI commissioned the theft of the Scream simply to divert police FRI resources from the investigation into his cash robbery? So FRI believes Iver Steinback, Norway's no 1 detective. FRI FRI Even after Toska's arrest the police seem no closer to FRI recovering the painting but police develop a bizarre FRI negotiating tactic after Toska develops a voracious appetite FRI for - chocolate. FRI FRI Scream is made in collaboration with investigative FRI journalist Kris Hollington and recorded entirely on location FRI in Olso with Norway's leading actors. FRI FRI Kjell ....... Christian Rubeck FRI Inspector Steinbeck ....... Jargen Langhelle FRI Thomson ....... Mats Eldaen FRI Siegried ........ Henrik Horge FRI Petter ........ Stig-Henrik Hoff FRI Karl ....... Aksel Hennie FRI Elina ....... Ingrid Bolsa Berdal FRI Paal Enger and David Toska ....... Eric Madsen FRI FRI Other parts were played by FRI Siri Ingul, Catherine Gram, Lars Engebretsen, FRI Endre Haukland, Josefine Coward, Bettina Fleischer and Axel FRI Aubert. FRI FRI Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. FRI FRI Director: Boz Temple-Morris FRI A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01f06yf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01f6chf (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01f6chh (Listen) FRI The Snow Child, Episode 5 FRI FRI The reader is Miranda Richardson FRI FRI The Snow Child was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by FRI Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01f5mmf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Lives in a Landscape b0106vcr (Listen) FRI Series 7, Readers' Lives FRI FRI 5. Readers' Lives. Every six weeks a group of women in FRI affluent Putney by the Thames in south-west London meets to FRI discuss a book they've all been reading. This is no casual FRI club open to the public but a close knit circle of friends FRI and bibliophiles whose group is exclusive. As Boat Race FRI Saturday - spring highpoint of the social calendar - FRI approaches, Alan Dein joins the women as they go about their FRI daily lives to hear about their relationship with Putney, FRI with each other and the meaning the book club has for them. FRI FRI Producer: Neil McCarthy. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01f6chk (Listen) FRI Life's End: Jean and Rebecca FRI FRI In Radio 4's new series, mounted in conjunction with the FRI British Library, Fi Glover introduces the first of a series FRI of encounters capturing the nation in conversation. Mother FRI Jean talks intimately with her daughter Rebecca about the FRI difficulties of ageing and failing health and how best to FRI make your peace with the world. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. Listeners are given a unique FRI opportunity to eavesdrop on these moments of closeness that FRI capture the essence both of a special relationship and of FRI something that really matters to them both. FRI FRI The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams FRI of producers from local and national radio stations who FRI facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not FRI BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts FRI up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment FRI of connection between the participants. Many of the long FRI conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI which they will use to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium, while Radio 4 is broadcasting three of FRI these jewel-like moments each Friday, with an omnibus on FRI Sundays at 2.45pm. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI There is an omnibus edition of the Listening Project on FRI Sunday at 2.45pm. FRI
30 March, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 31/03/2012 - 06/04/2012
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