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SAT SATURDAY 21 APRIL 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01g6479 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01g65gn (Listen) SAT Besieged: Life Under Fire in a Sarajevo Street, Episode 5 SAT SAT To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege SAT of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick SAT revisits her evocative eyewitness account of how the SAT residents of one street in the city endured three and half SAT years of living in a warzone. Today, hostilities end, and SAT twenty years on we find out how life has changed on Logavina SAT Street. SAT SAT Read by Laurel Lefkow SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01g647f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01g647k (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01g647p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01g647r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01g669t (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College Cambridge. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01g669y (Listen) SAT 'Minster for sport and we won the World Cup. Minister for SAT drought... and it rained.' A listener prompts us to look SAT back at the man put in charge of the water crisis in 1976. SAT Also a worried listener put his concerns over SAT directly-elected mayors to a current government minister. SAT Kate Adie reads the news sent in by listeners. With Eddie SAT Mair and Jennifer Tracey iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01g647t (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01g647w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01g63tv (Listen) SAT Herefordshire Churches SAT SAT Where might you find the spot where Saint George killed the SAT dragon and the oldest complete set of medieval bells? The SAT answer lies in the Herefordshire countryside and in the SAT history and legend attached to just some of the beautiful SAT churches that can be found there. The Bishop of Hereford SAT once said that 'The Diocese of Hereford is blessed with so SAT many beautiful church buildings. Most of them stand at the SAT centre of communities they have served for a thousand years SAT or more." SAT SAT Helen Mark travels around the Herefordshire countryside to SAT meet some of the people involved with the churches that are SAT still at the heart of of the rural communities that they SAT serve. She finds out about their history and heritage, the SAT legend and folklore, their past, their present and what the SAT future holds for them. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Anne Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01gd4l9 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01g6480 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01gd4lc (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including SAT Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01gd4lf (Listen) SAT Billy Bragg, Murray Lachlan Young, Kinder Scout leader's SAT son, blind marathon runner, homeless cat man, Sue Townsend SAT SAT Richard Coles with musician and activist Billy Bragg, poet SAT Murray Lachlan Young, Prof Harry Rothman, son of Benny SAT Rothman, the leader of the Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout to SAT mark the 80th anniversary of the climb that won our SAT generation's right to roam, Simon Wheatcroft a blind SAT ultra-marathon runner, a feature about a homeless man from SAT London who was adopted by a cat and now they're constant SAT companions, and Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend's SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Simpson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01gd4lh (Listen) SAT John McCarthy discusses travel to the African countries of SAT Rwanda, Uganda and to the world's newest country, South SAT Sudan. With his guests, doctor Rob Summerhayes, paramedic SAT Franz Opitz and forensic accountant Benedict Jenks - John SAT finds out what attracts people to visiting a country with SAT troubles past or present. All the guests are sensitive to SAT the highly political issues that are involved in visiting SAT such countries and have wide experience of travel to some of SAT the world's hotspots. All have also spent considerable time SAT in Central Africa developing considerable insight into those SAT countries. SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 William Shakespeare's Playlist b01gd4lk (Listen) SAT David Owen Norris and guests compile a playlist for the SAT bard. Choosing Shakespeare's favourite songs are the SAT renowned Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, RSC director SAT Greg Doran and musician Lucie Skeaping. SAT SAT The music ranges from a lullaby Shakespeare's mother Mary SAT Arden might have sung him, through bawdy ballads from the SAT local tavern, to haunting songs written by Shakespeare SAT himself. What do they tell us about our most enigmatic SAT genius? SAT SAT The programme is recorded at the Swan Theatre in SAT Stratford-upon-Avon, a wooden recreation of a Shakespearean SAT playhouse. SAT SAT With singers Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, and a SAT trumpeter from Shakespeare's old school to test the theatre SAT acoustics with some rousing fanfares. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01gd4lm (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster this week. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01gd4lp (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01gd4lr (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: One of the UK's biggest SAT part-time recruitment agencies, Adecco, is accused of SAT short-changing workers by wrongly calculating the holiday SAT pay they are owed. The firm denies it. We hear from one SAT former worker who complained and got the full amount paid. SAT SAT On the trail of the dodgy wine investment companies - we SAT talk to the Insolvency Service and ask why they're not doing SAT more to close down firms found be to trading against the SAT public interest. SAT SAT If you have power of attorney so you can deal with a SAT relative's financial affairs on their behalf, how easy have SAT you found it to deal with banks and building societies? New SAT research suggests banks are inconsistent about what they SAT require, often leaving relatives bewildered and confused by SAT the whole process, at a time when they are already SAT distressed. SAT SAT And companies that offer to get you compensation for SAT mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance: should they be banned SAT from cold-calling or demanding upfront fees? And why are so SAT many still operating when you can make the claim yourself? SAT We hear from the Ministry of Justice on their efforts to SAT clamp down on a growing industry. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01g65l0 (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 3 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Featuring Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front and Andy SAT Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01g6486 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01g6488 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01g65tg (Listen) SAT Coventry SAT SAT The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, chairs a panel SAT discussion of news and politics from Ash Green School and SAT Arts College, Coventry, with International Development SAT Minister, Alan Duncan; Shadow Secretary of State for Energy SAT and Climate Change, Caroline Flint; barrister, professor and SAT international law expert, Philippe Sands; and editor of The SAT Spectator, Fraser Nelson. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01gd4lt (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00sh472 (Listen) SAT An Inspector Calls SAT SAT By J. B. Priestley SAT SAT The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their SAT daughter Sheila when a police Inspector calls. Each member SAT of the family is questioned about their relationship with a SAT young woman, Eva Smith. And they each have to face up to SAT their role in her tragic story. SAT SAT Inspector Goole ... Toby Jones SAT Arthur Birling....David Calder SAT Sibyl Birling...Frances Barber SAT Sheila Birling ... Morvern Christie SAT Eric Birling ... Sam Alexander SAT Gerald Croft ...Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Edna... Vineeta Rishi SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01gd4lw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Olivia Newton-John SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01gd4ly (Listen) SAT Patrick O'Connell presents the day's top news stories, with SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01g669y (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01g648j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01g648l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01g648n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01gd4m0 (Listen) SAT Rufus Wainwright, Jack Davenport, Brenda Blethyn and Amy SAT Lamé SAT SAT Clive has a smashing time with The Talented Mr Jack SAT Davenport. Launching his acting career by playing law SAT graduate Miles Stewart in 'This Life', Jack's starred in SAT 'Coupling' and the first two 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' SAT films. He now plays the womanising director of a Broadway SAT show in the new musical drama 'SMASH', on Sky Atlantic HD SAT from Saturday 21st April at 22.00. SAT SAT Clive will be having a Dalliance and talking Secrets & Lies SAT with award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn. She returns to SAT Northumberland and to our screens to star as the unlikely SAT cop DCI Vera Stanhope in ITV's detective drama 'Vera'. SAT Series two starts on Sunday 22nd April at 20.00. SAT SAT Allegra McEvedy plays pass the parcel with self-confessed SAT chubby glamourpuss, writer and comedian Amy Lamé. SAT Commiserations to Amy, who's new show 'Unhappy Birthday' is SAT actually an exuberant culture clash of party, performance SAT and DJ set. The party starts at Camden People's Theatre from SAT 2nd May and then on a UK tour. SAT SAT Clive will Release A Star, in the form of folk-pop royalty, SAT Rufus Wainwright, who will be talking about his glittering SAT career, sumptuous, theatrical stage shows, Prima Donna's and SAT becoming a dad. He'll be treating us to a performance of SAT 'Out Of The Game' from his album of the same name. SAT SAT And bringing beats and bass lines into the Loose Ends SAT studio, The Vocal Orchestra will be beatboxing 'Perfect SAT Hallelujah', taken from their current E4 Udderbelly show SAT created by Shlomo at London's Southbank Centre. They perform SAT there nightly until Sunday 27 May. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01gd4m2 (Listen) SAT Ralf Hutter SAT SAT Chris Bowlby profiles Ralf Hutter, the only founding member SAT left of the German electronic band Kraftwerk. Coming from an SAT obscure industrial background, Kraftwerk first formed in SAT 1970, and are now credited with being hugely influential on SAT a host of musicians and on music of diverse types, including SAT electronic, hip hop, house and drum and base. SAT Notoriously uncommunicative with the outside world, SAT Kraftwerk used to only have a fax machine as a point of SAT contact at their studio though Ralf Hutter says even that SAT has now gone. SAT Krafwerk have just completed a major series of concerts in SAT New York and are promising that they will be releasing a new SAT album "very soon" - the first in nearly a decade. SAT SAT Producer: John Murphy. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01gd4m4 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Susan Jeffreys, literary SAT critic John Carey and actor Kerry Shale review the cultural SAT highlights of the week. SAT SAT THEATRE Misterman - National Theatre SAT SAT FILM Salmon Fishing in the Yemen SAT SAT TV The King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History - BBC4 SAT SAT BOOK Skios - Michael Frayn SAT SAT EXHIBITION Andy Hope AND Ron Mueck - Hauser & Wirth, London SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00zq9mz (Listen) SAT Walls of Sound SAT SAT When Nelson Mandela was tried 1964 he famously said, "I have SAT cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in SAT which all persons live together in harmony and with equal SAT opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and SAT achieve, but, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am SAT prepared to die." Without the British Library's sound SAT conservation work we would never have heard this. The trial SAT was recorded using a Dictabelt system. The recordings soon SAT became unplayable. The Dictabelts were brought to the SAT British Library where digital transfers were made, allowing SAT us to hear what Mandela said, and how. SAT SAT In 1924, in Paris, James Joyce was recorded reading from SAT 'Ulysses' and the British Library's disc is as highly prized SAT as its Blake, Hardy and Lawrence manuscripts. Alas, we'll SAT never hear how they read their work. SAT SAT These are just two of recordings of immense importance that SAT without the work of the Sound Conservation Centre would be SAT lost. And what a loss that would be. The British Library has SAT invested millions in the Centre and appointed its first ever SAT Curator of Radio. Audio is being accorded the conservation SAT effort usually devoted manuscripts and old masters. All SAT this, the radio historian Sean Street argues in this SAT programme, reflects a fundamental change in attitude to SAT sound itself. SAT SAT In a massive undertaking our sound archives are being saved, SAT restored, digitised, catalogued and opened to all. Street SAT observes all this and talks to curators, technicians and SAT users. Throughout we hear amazing recordings from the SAT libraries walls of sound that, until this change in thinking SAT about sound, few knew about, and fewer could listen to. We SAT listen as these recordings find their rightful place in the SAT documentary heritage of the nation. SAT SAT Producer : Julian May. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01g4ksf (Listen) SAT Plantagenet: Series 3, Richard III - The Three Brothers SAT SAT by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Despite SAT his rebellious brother Clarence, and the formidable dowager SAT Queen Margaret, Edward IV manages to bring a modicum of SAT stability to the kingdom of England. But discontent at the SAT power of his wife and her family erupt into civil war after SAT his death, and his brother Richard is forced to take SAT increasingly drastic steps to uphold Plantagenet power.The SAT final episode of the series. SAT SAT Queen Elizabeth...Nancy Carroll SAT Edward 4th...Simon Bubb SAT Richard 3rd...Carl Prekopp SAT Clarence...Christopher Webster SAT Margaret...Aimee Ffion Edwards SAT Warwick...Gerard McDermott SAT Stafford...Adam Billington SAT Lewis...James Lailey SAT Bishop...Paul Moriarty SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01g648s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01g63w4 (Listen) SAT Television Cameras in Court SAT SAT Clive Anderson and top judges and lawyers discuss SAT controversial Government plans to relax the rules banning SAT television cameras from our courts. While some legal experts SAT are calling for justice to be seen to be done, others warn SAT that the presence of cameras could 'pollute and corrupt' the SAT process of justice. SAT SAT Justice Minister Ken Clarke has announced his intention to SAT initially allow judgments in the Court of Appeal to be SAT broadcast, expanding this to the Crown Courts at a later SAT stage. Despite pressure from broadcasters including the BBC, SAT ITN and Sky, the Government has no immediate plans to allow SAT filming of jurors, victims and witnesses. SAT SAT Clive's guests include judges and lawyers with a wide range SAT of views on the impact cameras would have on the trial SAT process. Among them a Scottish Sheriff who has already SAT allowed filming in his own court. SAT SAT They discuss the arguments for and against allowing SAT broadcasters unrestricted access to the courts 'from gavel SAT to gavel'. What lessons can be learned from experience in SAT other countries, such as in the OJ Simpson and Michael SAT Jackson trials and the more recent Amanda Knox trial? SAT SAT Would the presence of cameras dissuade people coming forward SAT as witness, lower the esteem of the court or impede justice SAT in any other way? Or is it time for justice to truly be seen SAT to be done? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01g5yyc (Listen) SAT Series 2, University of Northampton SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Northampton, "The SAT 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed SAT at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners SAT whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on SAT location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b01g4ksk (Listen) SAT Series 12, Dear Mr Lee SAT SAT UA Fanthorpe's poem Dear Mr Lee is an engaging piece of SAT ventriloquism, written in the voice of a school pupil who SAT has been studying Laurie Lee's classic memoir, Cider With SAT Rosie, in her English class. Fanthorpe has captured the SAT enthusiasm and despair of adolescence, as the pupil SAT confesses to 'Laurie' that she loves everything about his SAT book, except the essays she's had to write about it. Part of SAT the poem's success lies in the fact the Fanthorpe herself SAT taught English for many years, and demonstrates an unusual SAT empathy with a student struggling with the demands of the SAT exam system and a rather tenuous grasp of literary SAT criticism. Peggy Reynolds talks to Lee's biographer Valerie SAT Grove, to UA Fanthorpe's partner Rosie Bailey, to poets SAT Michael Rosen and Wendy Cope, to several of Fanthorpe's SAT notable ex-students including MP Fiona MacTaggart, and to SAT some current students of GCSE English and their inspiring SAT teacher, who all bring their own enthusiasms to the poem. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Davies. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 APRIL 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01gd56g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Greengrocer's Apostrophe b01gnp5m (Listen) SUN Penny's from Heaven SUN SUN Comic tales inspired by those hand-written signs offering SUN "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in SUN Britain. SUN SUN James Anthony Pearson reads a quirky story about the SUN apostrophe that ends a relationship, written by Anneliese SUN Mackintosh. SUN SUN Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01gd56j (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01gd56l (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01gd56n (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01gd56q (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01gf4js (Listen) SUN The bells of St Alphege, Solihull, West Midlands. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01gd4m2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01gd56s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01gf4jv (Listen) SUN Everything Is Music SUN SUN Scholar and priest Teresa Morgan examines why music is so SUN often used to communicate the nature of our existence - from SUN the Big Bang to the human genome. With readings from Oliver SUN Sacks, C.S. Lewis and Milan Kundera and music from SUN Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen and Aaron Copland. SUN SUN Producer: Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01gf4jx (Listen) SUN Denmark is the largest source of imported pork and bacon SUN eaten in the UK. Its pig industry is facing a major change SUN because a partial ban on the use of sow stalls is coming SUN into force next year. The vast majority of Danish breeding SUN pigs have been kept in the narrow pens which only allow sows SUN to stand up and lie down. Sow stalls were completely banned SUN in the UK in 1999. But, as Sarah Swadling finds out, the new SUN EU regulation will still mean that, in practice, pigs will SUN still be kept in sow stalls for several months a year, as SUN well as being confined after they have had piglets. Per Bach SUN Laursen, who breeds 36,000 pigs a year in Northern Jutland, SUN tells Sarah that the stalls reduce stress from sows bullying SUN each other during the early stages of pregnancy. He's SUN concerned that, whilst Danish farmers are on course to SUN comply with the new rules, countries like Spain and France SUN may not meet the deadline. SUN SUN Produced and Presented by Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01gd56v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01gd56x (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01gf4jz (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and SUN perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01gf4k1 (Listen) SUN Toybox SUN SUN Diane Louise Jordan presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Toybox. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1084243 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Toybox. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Toybox SUN SUN Street children stay alive using their wits. Stealing and SUN scavenging; begging and sleeping rough in parks, shop SUN doorways and on dumps; vulnerable to gangs, drugs and SUN violence. Toybox is a Christian charity, set up in 1992 in SUN response to this injustice. Every day Toybox works to change SUN the world for these street children and those at high risk SUN in the cities of Latin America, giving them hope and a SUN future. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01gd56z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01gd571 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01gf4k3 (Listen) SUN The Race of Life SUN SUN 'The Race of Life' - 1000 years after the martyrdom of SUN Alfege, one of the last Saxon Archbishops of Canterbury, SUN from St Alfege's Greenwich, near the London Marathon start SUN line. Alfege was killed by soldiers of the invading Danish SUN army on 19th April 1012 at Greenwich. Alfege gave up his SUN life to protect his flock from oppression at the hand of the SUN invader, refusing to allow himself to be ransomed. After his SUN death he was much venerated, and came to be regarded as a SUN saint who could be honoured by both Dane and Saxon. So SUN Alfege is commemorated both as a martyr for justice and as a SUN symbol of reconciliation between peoples. With The Revd SUN Chris Moody & The Venerable Christine Hardman, Archdeacon of SUN Lewisham and Greenwich. Director of Music: Stephen Dagg. SUN Organist: Richard Brasier. Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01g65tj (Listen) SUN Challenging Intellect SUN SUN Will Self says we should embrace the intellectual challenge SUN of "difficult" books and art, and value works which are more SUN taxing than our increasingly low-brow popular culture. "The SUN most disturbing result of this retreat from the difficult is SUN to be found in arts and humanities education, where the SUN traditional set texts are now chopped up into boneless SUN nuggets of McKnowledge, and students are encouraged to do SUN their research - such as it is - on the web." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01gf4kt (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01gf4kw (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Kevin Townsend ..... Paul Greenwood SUN John Bagshaw ..... Harry Livingstone SUN Esther Sutton ..... Anita Wright SUN Martin Sykes ..... David Troughton SUN Hattie Marshall ..... Maya Barcot SUN Carl ..... Nicholas Bailey. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01gf4ky (Listen) SUN Globe Theatre SUN SUN In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites five SUN people who created a London landmark - Shakespeare's Globe SUN Theatre. Despite three decades of setbacks they defied the SUN critics to make the Globe a critical and commercial success. SUN SUN When Shakespeare's Globe was opened by the Queen on the 12th SUN June 1997, it was the culmination of a dream that began over SUN fifty years earlier. The American actor Sam Wanamaker SUN visited London in 1949 hoping to find the original Globe, SUN where William Shakespeare had written plays. Instead, he SUN found a plaque on a brewery wall. Outraged, he began his SUN quest to reinstate the Globe. SUN SUN He wanted to bring the Elizabethan Globe to life in look and SUN feel. But a simple idea turned into a protracted mission SUN that risked the livelihoods and reputations of everyone SUN involved. There were accusations that it would be a SUN 'Disneyland' for Shakespeare. Some Southwark residents SUN wanted council houses, not a theatre. And just when it SUN looked like the Globe team had the go-ahead to build, a SUN group of road sweepers became the catalyst for a lengthy SUN court battle that almost ended the project before building SUN began. SUN SUN But timber by timber, Shakespeare's Globe took shape. And SUN when it finally opened, audiences queued around the block, SUN rainmacs in hand, for open-air performances under its SUN thatched roof. Fifteen years on, experimentation and SUN award-winning performances have firmly established the Globe SUN in the Shakespeare circuit. SUN SUN Joining Sue MacGregor is: Patrick Spottiswoode, the first SUN Director of Education; Diana Devlin, who saw the project SUN through some of its most difficult years; architect Jon SUN Greenfield; Claire van Kampen, the first Director of Music; SUN and Zoe Wanamaker, Sam's actor daughter who is now Honorary SUN President of Shakespeare's Globe. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01g5zp0 (Listen) SUN Series 9, Episode 3 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Marcus Brigstocke, Miles Jupp, Susan Calman and Alan Davies SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Swimming, Bread, Hotels SUN and Foxes. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01gf4l0 (Listen) SUN The New Beer Frontier SUN SUN From barrel ageing beer to sourcing intensely bitter hops, SUN Dan Saladino reports on the latest trends in American SUN brewing that are starting to influence British beer styles. SUN SUN The US "craft beer" scene started to take shape 30 years SUN ago. Prohibition in the 1920s and post-war industrialisation SUN brought an end to one of the world's most diverse brewing SUN cultures. SUN SUN In 1979 President Jimmy Carter made home brewing legal SUN again, and soon after, a network of adventurous brewers SUN started to emerge. Known as craft brewers, they operate on a SUN small scale and use traditional brewing techniques but also SUN place great emphasis on experimentation and innovation. SUN SUN American brewer and editor of The Oxford Companion to Beer, SUN Garrett Oliver puts their quest for new flavours down to the SUN US losing its own brewing culture and so being free to SUN explore all others. Now a young generation of brewers in the SUN UK are looking at these new US styles and discovering SUN techniques like barrel aging as well embarking on SUN experiments with new, intensely flavoured, hop varieties. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01gd573 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01gf4l2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Invention of Germany b0167zl1 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Germany history is often obscured by the fog of Nazism, SUN making it easy to forget both the high culture, and its SUN often feeble past. There is for example in Koblenz a SUN fountain, marked in 1812 by Napoleon's army heading east, SUN and by the Russians in 1813 heading west. In this series SUN Germany is the turntable, the chess board, the stomping SUN ground of Europe. SUN SUN "It's very difficult to think of Germany at this time as SUN having a future of unity and power," says Professor Norman SUN Davies. "It was in many ways retarded." SUN SUN In this second programme, Misha Glenny explores the rise of SUN Prussia - from Frederick the Great in 1740 to humiliation by SUN Napoleon in 1806. He discovers a state far removed from the SUN images of Iron Crosses, spiked helmets and officious SUN bureaucrats of popular imagination. It is Prussia that will SUN eventually create modern Germany, but first there are SUN several myths to dispel. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01g65h3 (Listen) SUN Cannock Wood, Staffordshire SUN SUN The panel visit a gardening group near Rougeley for some SUN gardening trouble-shooting. In addition, Anne Swithinbank SUN explores the power of climbers in the garden, Alan SUN Titchmarsh explains the appeal of working as a professional SUN gardener as part of National Gardening Week. SUN SUN Produced by Robert Abel & Amy Racs SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01gf4ln (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday Omnibus edition of Radio 4's SUN series capturing the nation in conversation: today Barbara SUN talks to her best friend Becky about her compulsive disorder SUN and how it's affected her life; Humberside transsexual SUN Michelle discusses living as a woman with her friend Cilla; SUN Bob talks to his son-in-law James about his life of crime SUN and Jim and Joan from Northern Ireland share an intimate SUN moment of conversation about growing old together and the SUN end of life. 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 Producer Simon Elmes. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01gf4lq (Listen) SUN Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Episode 1 SUN SUN Dramatised by Archie Scottney SUN SUN Joyous all-star spring fever, led by Alfred Molina, Patricia SUN Hodge, Jared Harris, Martin Jarvis and Rufus Sewell. A SUN pig-napping romantic thriller! PGW's dialogue dances across SUN the Blandings Castle lawns. Charming Earl of Ickenham (Uncle SUN Fred) has received a plea from affably dotty Lord Emsworth SUN to help foil a plot to steal his prize-winning pig. And to SUN examine the sanity of eccentric Duke of Dunstable. SUN SUN Delighting in such entertainment, Uncle Fred arrives at SUN Blandings in the guise of "brain specialist" Glossop, with SUN nephew Pongo posing as his secretary. Lively Polly Pott is SUN the third imposter, secretly engaged to Dunstable's nephew SUN Ricky and hoping to charm her prospective uncle-in-law. SUN Emsworth's devious secretary Rupert Baxter (Jared Harris) SUN spots them but can't call their bluff for fear of blackmail. SUN Emsworth's sister Connie suspects they are jewel thieves. SUN Bosham, Emsworth's son, thinks all is above board. But then SUN Polly's detective Dad is called in. Will the pig-napping SUN happen? SUN SUN Uncle Fred ..... Alfred Molina SUN Lady Constance ..... Patricia Hodge SUN The Duke of Dunstable ..... Christopher Neame SUN Rupert Baxter ..... Jared Harris SUN Ricky Gilpin ..... Rufus Sewell SUN Horace Davenport ..... Lloyd Owen SUN Mustard Pott ..... Julian Holloway SUN Polly Pott ..... Sophie Winkleman SUN Lord Emsworth ..... Martin Jarvis SUN P.G. Wodehouse ..... Ian Ogilvy SUN Lord Bosham ..... Simon Templeman SUN Pongo Twistleton ..... Matthew Wolf SUN Beach ..... Kenneth Danziger SUN Valerie Twistleton ..... Moira Quirk SUN Webster/Footmen ..... Darren Richardson SUN Singing Gardener ..... Mark Holden SUN SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN Producer: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01gf4lv (Listen) SUN Timothy Mo on his much-anticipated novel, Pure SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning writer Timothy Mo SUN about his new book Pure, his first for over a decade, a SUN controversially humorous exploration of the nature of Muslim SUN fundamentalism told from the point of view of a Thai SUN "ladyboy", unwillingly caught up with a group of jihadists SUN in Southern Thailand. The recent devastating bombings, SUN coupled with David Cameron's much publicised visit to SUN Southern Asia, have made Pure a topical and prescient book. SUN SUN Anna Funder and Philip Sington discuss the inspiration to be SUN had from the secret Stasi files in the old East Germany and SUN how writers of both fiction and non - fiction have responded SUN to this fascinating but sometimes devastating archive. In SUN her award winning book Stasi-land, Anna Funder talked to SUN both victims and former Stasi agents whom she tracked down SUN by placing an advert in local East German newspapers. SUN Thriller writer Philip Sington in his novel "The Valley of SUN Unknowing" features a writer compromised by his own frailty SUN as much as by Stasi rule. So how have writers responded SUN creatively to the stories of betrayal, treachery and heroism SUN that the publication of thousands of Stasi files have SUN revealed and are such books a way of healing the wounds of SUN the past? SUN SUN The 41st London Book Fair in partnership with China's SUN General Administration for Press and Publication has SUN attracted criticism from Chinese writers in exile. Neill SUN Denny, editor of The Bookseller, talks about how the 25,000 SUN industry professionals in attendance have responded to the SUN controversy as well as revealing what actually goes on at SUN the publishing world's equivalent of the Stock Exchange SUN trading floor. What are the major deals, how are they SUN transacted - and why do publishers still worry about the SUN rise and rise of the e-book? SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Pure by Timothy Mo published by Turnaround Books SUN SUN Stasiland by Anna Funder published by Granta SUN All That I Am by Anna Funder published by Penguin SUN SUN The Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington published by SUN Harvill Secker SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b01gf4n2 (Listen) SUN Series 12, Vitai Lampada SUN SUN Henry Newbolt's poem Vitai Lampada - better known to most by SUN its rousing chorus "play up, play up and play the game!"- SUN seems at first sight to be a product solely of its time and SUN place: he wrote it at the end of the 19th century and it SUN features cricket, war and a public school ethos about sport SUN and leadership. However, as Peggy Reynolds unpacks the poem SUN and talks to people who still know it, some surprises SUN emerge. SUN SUN 17:00 My Name Is Not 'Hey Baby' b01g61w2 (Listen) SUN In 2011 the Slutwalks which took place around the UK made SUN headlines when women, carrying placards and shouting SUN slogans, protested against the blaming of victims of rape SUN and sexual assault rather than the perpetrators. SUN SUN Yasmeen Khan meets the organiser of the London Slutwalk to SUN see what impact it made, as well as young activists who are SUN raising awareness of street harassment and encouraging women SUN to raise their voices against it. At a Hollerback meeting SUN students describe the verbal assaults which can build up SUN from quasi-compliments to threatening physical assault, and SUN how they can or should react. SUN SUN The grey area between a flirtatious comment and unwanted SUN attention is sometimes a fine one, and makes this area of SUN sexuality difficult to deal with. Yasmeen talks to men and SUN women about how they perceive it, and also to women in SUN India, Sweden and New York about how a new generation is SUN trying to make the rules of sexual engagement clearer. SUN SUN The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister issued a SUN statement on International Women's Day on March 8 this year SUN stating that they 'are working towards signing the Council SUN of Europe's Convention on Violence Against Women and SUN Domestic Violence'. Vera Baird, QC, the chair of Labour's SUN Commission on Women's Safety, talks about the way the SUN judiciary have been influenced, and a spokesman for the SUN Metropolitan Police's anti-rape Sapphire Unit describes how SUN their specialist police officers now deal with victims of SUN serious sexual assault. SUN SUN Yasmeen Khan also asks how the sexualisation of society, in SUN which advertising, the internet and pop music all play a SUN part, has affected young teenagers, and what efforts are SUN being made to counter their influence. SUN SUN Producer: Olivia Landsberg SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01gd4m2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01gd577 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01gd579 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01gd57c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01gf4n4 (Listen) SUN Stuart Maconie makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright SUN SUN Stuart has cast his net far and wide for this week Pick of SUN the Week: From Moscow to Nepal, from stables in York to SUN studios in Jamaica, from the brutality of Sarajevo's war SUN zone to, the sumptuous luxury of, well, Alton Towers. Add to SUN that his catch of the occasional iceberg, and a very odd SUN creature called a Lamprey and it's a bumper haul. SUN SUN Adventures in Poetry - Radio 4 SUN My Name is Not 'Hey Baby' - Radio 4 SUN Wireless Nights - Radio 4 SUN How Young is too Young to be a Popstar? - Radio 1 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN The Big Conversation - Radio York SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Alton Towers: A Journey into Puginland - Radio 4 SUN The Ice Mountain - Radio 4 SUN World on 3 - Radio 3 SUN Book of the Week: Besieged ep 2 - radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: My One and Only - Radio 4 SUN Balalaika Born Again -Radio 4 SUN Tighten Up - The Story of Trojan Records - 6 Music. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01gf4n6 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 My Teenage Diary b00x3ywb (Listen) SUN Series 2, Julian Clary SUN SUN Rufus Hound invites Julian Clary to read embarrassing SUN extracts from his teenage diary and read it out in public SUN for the very first time. SUN SUN Producer: Victoria Payne SUN A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Emerald City and Other Stories b01gf4n8 (Listen) SUN Spanish Winter SUN SUN The next in our series of stories from 'Emerald City', the SUN new collection by young American author Jennifer Egan, whose SUN 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' went on to win the Pulitzer SUN Prize for Fiction, and made her name as one of the best new SUN writers to emerge in the past decade. SUN SUN Today's story, 'Spanish Winter', is set in the shadows of SUN the Alhambra, where a divorced woman tries to break free SUN from the painful ties that bind, until a figure from her SUN past forces her to rethink... SUN SUN The Abridger is Miranda Davies SUN The Producer is Justine Willett SUN Reader: Madeleine Potter. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01g65h9 (Listen) SUN First of a new series. SUN SUN It's been claimed that we are experiencing the greatest wave SUN of extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. SUN "Every hour," says the Convention on Biological Diversity, SUN "three species disappear. Every day up to 150 species are SUN lost." We explain why it's impossible to know whether those SUN numbers are even remotely accurate. SUN SUN A listener asks whether it's true that more British tourists SUN die in Thailand than in any other tourist destination. We SUN get the answer (which - for those who're short of time - is SUN "no"). SUN SUN North Korea is in the news thanks to its recent failure to SUN launch a long-range rocket - an embarrassment for its new SUN leader, Kim Jong-un. What was supposed to be a symbol of SUN power has become a symbol of impotence. But a claim has been SUN doing the rounds which is as resonant as any misfiring SUN missile: that North Koreans are much shorter than their SUN South Korean neighbours. It turns out it's true - and for SUN tragic reasons. SUN SUN Is it really the case that, as one newspaper headline put SUN it, "Blobby Bobbies of Scotland Lard - Three Quarters of SUN male Met Staff are overweight"? SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01g65h7 (Listen) SUN Bert Weedon, Mike Wallace, Judy Egerton, Jack Tramiel and SUN Ahmed Ben Bella SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The man who taught the world to play guitar - Bert Weedon SUN SUN The American TV correspondent Mike Wallace who founded 60 SUN Minutes and interviewed the famous and influential. SUN SUN The art historian Judy Egerton who wrote the definitive work SUN on George Stubbs and enjoyed a gossip with her friend Alan SUN Bennett. He pays tribute. SUN SUN The Algerian freedom fighter and then President Ahmed Ben SUN Bella. SUN SUN And the businessman Jack Tramiel, a holocaust survivor who SUN developed the pioneering Commodore computer. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01gd4lr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01gf4k1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01g64tv (Listen) SUN Dragon's Den SUN SUN After 30 years of tearaway economic growth, there are fears SUN that China may be rapidly slowing down, putting great SUN strains on their economic system. Peter Day reports on the SUN bursting of the great Chinese housing bubble and the SUN pressures on private businesses and wonders if the Year of SUN the Dragon is going be about hard times not traditional good SUN fortune. SUN Producer: Julie Ball. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01gf4nb (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 b01gf4nd (Listen) SUN Episode 100 SUN SUN Iain Martin of The Sunday Telegraph analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01g63y4 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Emily Blunt to talk about her new SUN film, an adaptation of Paul Torday's best-seller, Salmon SUN Fishing in the Yemen. SUN SUN Director Kevin MacDonald makes the case for Bob Marley as SUN one of the most important cultural icons of the 20th SUN century. SUN SUN Juliette Binoche talks about her new film, Elles, an SUN exploration of modern day prostitution in Paris. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01gf4jv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 APRIL 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01gd58c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01g63vw (Listen) MON The High-life and the Row-life MON MON What is the reality of life for a crack cocaine user in MON South London? Daniel Briggs new ethnography is a day to day MON observation of the people who use the drug, and their MON struggles to get the drug and also to get off it. He takes MON Laurie Taylor on an unsettling journey through violence and MON intimidation. MON Also in the programme, eight men in a boat - but how to stop MON them from pulling in different directions? Anthony King MON tells Laurie about his research into how a Cambridge crew MON prepared for and won the Boat Race. He explains the factors MON which helped and hindered their attempt to establish a MON rowing rhythm, and discusses what this says about MON co-ordinating action in society at large. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01gf4js (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01gd58k (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01gd58p (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01gd58r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01gd58t (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gf4pm (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College Cambridge. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01gf4pp (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01gd58w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01gf4pr (Listen) MON Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01gf4pt (Listen) MON Iain Banks and David Hare MON MON On St George's Day Andrew Marr discusses national identity MON and belonging. The playwright David Hare has written a MON companion piece to a Terrence Rattigan play, set in an MON English public school. George Benjamin is celebrated as one MON of England's leading composers, but how far is his work MON shaped by the French musical tradition? The Scottish writer MON Iain Banks discusses his novel, Stonemouth, set in a town MON north of Aberdeen and vividly evoking a sense of place and MON identity. And Rachel Seiffert examines what happens when an MON Ulster girl marries a Glaswegian boy, in her latest short MON story, Hands Across the Water. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01gf5sk (Listen) MON Sightlines, Aurora MON MON Read by: Maureen Beattie MON MON "The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - MON what is it that we're just not seeing"? MON MON Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, MON award-winning Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our MON focus on landscape and the living world, daring us to look MON again at the "natural", the remote and the human-made. MON MON "Kathleen Jamie writes with unparalleled beauty, sharpness MON of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare MON exactness of language" MON Daily Telegraph MON MON Abridged by: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gf5sm (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON New egg sharing research MON MON The cost of having IVF today can be as much as £8,000 per MON cycle plus the cost of the drugs. To offset these costs, MON women are now deciding to donate some of their eggs in MON return for a reduction in their treatment fee but some MON people feel that these women are being exploited and that MON eggs should not be ‘sold’ in this way. To address these MON concerns, the first ever study of egg-sharing between women MON undergoing fertility treatment has been carried out at the MON London Women’s Clinic. Zeynep Gurtin is one of the MON researchers on the study and she joins Jane to discuss. They MON are joined by Josephine Quintavalle, co-founder of Comment MON on Reproductive Ethics. MON MON Street gang psychologist MON MON It’s thought that as many as one in three young offenders MON have psychological problems which would respond well to MON treatment. However they’re also one of the groups that MON people offering psychological services find it hardest to MON reach. Dr Charlie Alcock is a psychologist who’s building a MON career working with street gangs in London. She thinks she’s MON developed a way of helping gang members get access to the MON treatments they need. And at a time when the Government is MON talking about strategies for helping people get out of MON gangs, she argues that sometimes finding ways to help people MON stay in them is a better option. Charlie joins Jane to talk MON about gangs, psychology, and getting out of dangerous MON situations. MON MON The role of grandfathers MON MON A recent edition of Woman’s Hour devoted to grandparents MON prompted a huge listener response, including emails asking MON why grandfathers had been overlooked in the discussion. Is MON there an assumption that grandmothers take more of a role in MON childrearing than grandfathers? Or does being a grandfather MON in retirement mean that some men spend more time with their MON grandchildren than they did their own children? Jane talks MON to grandfather of four Johnny Ball and to Helen Day, whose MON close relationship with her grandfather inspired her to MON write a book about his childhood. MON MON Vitamin D MON MON Following the tragic death of Jayden Wray and the ordeal MON faced by his parents, the pressing public health issue of MON vitamin d intake for pregnant women has been highlighted MON once again. Healthy levels of vitamin d are vital in MON protecting against softening of the bones and related MON illnesses such as rickets. Is the message being communicated MON effectively to pregnant women or does more still need to be MON done? MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gk4n5 (Listen) MON A Small Town Murder, series 4, Episode 1 MON MON By Scott Cherry MON MON In the first episode of 'A Small Town Murder' by Scott MON Cherry: it looks like Family Liaison Officer, Jackie MON Hartwell, might be offered some paid leave after the tragic MON events of a recent case. MON MON Jackie Hartwell (played by Meera Syal) is a West Midlands MON Family Liaison Officer who solves cases by winning the trust MON of those caught up in the nightmare of serious crime and MON murder. MON MON Police guidelines: The primary function of an FLO is that of MON an investigator. In performing this role, the officer will MON support the family, but will also gather relevant MON information and intelligence. MON MON Jackie is a serving copper, not a social worker, functioning MON as part of an active team of investigating CID officers. But MON working in liaison enables her to get closer to the people MON involved in the crime, closer to the raw emotions, than the MON rest of her colleagues - allowing her to investigate in a MON way they can't, as she combines empathy and intuition with MON the keen observation of a clever detective. MON MON In Series 4 of 'A Small Town Murder', Jackie is asked to be MON FLO to the parents of a young man whose murdered body is MON found floating in the local canal. But as she tries to MON support the family and solve the murder, Jackie finds MON herself becoming more and more distracted by the tragic MON consequences of a previous case. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b01gf5sr (Listen) MON Julian Rotter and Locus of Control MON MON When, as a Psychology student, Claudia Hammond read about MON Locus of Control in Julian Rotter's Social Learning Theory MON she assumed its author, like most great Mind Changers, was MON no longer alive. Twenty years later she met him in his home MON near the University of Connecticut. He was happy to reflect MON on his career. MON In 1966 Rotter published his famous IE scale. This measured MON whether the subject had an Internal Locus of Control - MON believing that they could affect the course of their life, MON that their choices would have an impact on what happened to MON them - or an External Locus of Control, in which case their MON life was guided by luck or fate and they themselves had MON little power to change things. The test has been developed MON in many ways since then, but it is still widely used today MON and the notion of Locus of Control has been particularly MON influential in healthcare. Claudia visits Guy's Hospital in MON London to hear from health psychologists Dr Nicky Thomas and MON Professor John Weinman about how it affects their work with MON patients. MON Julian Rotter himself was one of the first clinical MON psychologists ever to be trained in the US and was to be MON extremely influential in training those who followed. He was MON proponent of the scientist-practitioner model and he worked MON hard to ensure that clinical psychology became a MON research-based discipline. He was largely responsible for MON bringing personality theory into the clinical arena. MON Claudia also meets his wife, Doffie - a former graduate MON student of Rotter's, his friends and former colleagues at MON UCONN: Professors Charles Lowe, Marianne Barton and Jerome MON Smith. And hears from Margie Lachman of the Lifespan MON Developmental Psychology Laboratory at Brandeis University, MON how Locus of Control can change with age. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b01gf5st (Listen) MON Series 2, Happy 18th MON MON Written by Andrew Collins MON MON Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal MON optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the MON silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every MON bit of bad news. MON MON This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass MON is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his MON wife of 19 years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows MON all too well. Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter MON family a series of sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the MON positive side. It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees MON it, instead of dealing with the problems of their marriage MON and their teenage kids, Harvey's optimism is actually his MON way of avoiding engagement with the big issues. MON MON Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in MON moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with MON someone who has his head in the clouds. MON MON This week, Harvey and Jax stand firm and inform Charlie that MON they can't afford to throw her an 18th birthday party, much MON to her displeasure, while Robbie's latest flirtation with MON drugs does not quite go as planned. MON MON Harvey Easter ..... Mark Benton MON Jacqui Easter ..... Claire Skinner MON Charlie Easter ..... Rosamund Hanson MON Robbie Easter ..... Tyger Drew Honey MON Kill-R ..... Javone Prince MON Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry MON Dr Ray Marsh ..... Justin Edwards MON Sean Calhoun ..... Michael Legge MON Shop Assistant ..... Susy Kane MON MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01gf5sw (Listen) MON Do flu jab campaigns work? MON MON Thousands of young people will soon be volunteering overseas MON as part of the government's International Citizen Service. MON What are the hopes for the £55 million scheme which has been MON described by some critics as a "government sponsored gap MON year"? We hear from International Development minister Alan MON Duncan. MON MON The former chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has MON claimed that an increase in deaths from flu was down to a MON drop off in government public health campaigns. So how MON effective are flu jab adverts? MON MON It's a year since Additional Paternity Leave was introduced, MON which entitles men to take six months off if their partner MON has had a baby. How many men have taken up the government's MON offer and what does it mean for small businesses? MON MON The shopping centre that's running a "win a shop" MON competition to fill its empty units, the company that's MON setting itself up as a Royal Mail rival by delivering post MON in London and would you buy a TV with your flat-pack MON shelving unit? We find out why furniture giant Ikea is MON moving into the electronics markets. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Olivia Skinner. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01gd58y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01gf5sy (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 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gf5t0 (Listen) MON Europe: Triumphs of the Past MON MON Programme 6. EUROPE: TRIUMPHS OF THE PAST - As a tourist MON attraction in Westminster Abbey, Henry V's instruments of MON battle reflect the view of English history as depicted on MON the Elizabeth stage. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01gf4n6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01gf5t2 (Listen) MON Odour MON MON A celebrated cardiologist is driven to distraction by a MON persistent odour. Where is it coming from? It pervades the MON whole of his life and he becomes obsessed by it. When he MON finally discovers the cause, he is devastated. A black MON comedy by James O'Neill. MON Phillip............Tim McInnerny MON Alex...............Kathryn Hunt MON Susan............Fiona Clark MON Roger/Consultant.....Conrad Nelson MON Mary..............Yusra Warsama MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01gf5t6 (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 1 MON MON (1/13) MON The evergreen general knowledge music quiz returns, with MON Paul Gambaccini welcoming music enthusiasts from around the MON UK aiming to prove the depth and breadth of their musical MON knowledge. One of them is destined to become the 26th annual MON Counterpoint champion in July. MON MON The first programme features competitors from London, MON Wiltshire and Bedfordshire. As always on Counterpoint, MON they'll be faced with an unpredictable mix of questions MON covering many genres of music, from the classical repertoire MON through film music, jazz, show tunes, and the pop charts MON from the 1950s to the present day. There are plenty of MON musical extracts to identify, some familiar, others MON surprising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01gf4l0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 One in a Million b01gf5w5 (Listen) MON Last year on World Book Night, one million books were given MON away for free. Mariella Frostrup explores the experience MON through the words of givers and receivers. Chris Queree, MON who, by various vicarious means, obtained numerous books to MON give to the inmates of HMP Bristol. C J Sansom's Dissolution MON was given away by Margaret McMullin outside her local chip MON shop. Keith Walters gave away Case Histories by Kate MON Atkinson on his local high street and Katie Fryd received MON One Day by David Nicholls whilst returning home from a night MON out in London. MON MON All four participants gained different experiences - from MON the simplicity of sharing in the joy of those to whom they MON gave books, to being encouraged to write and illustrate MON their own book. MON MON Tonight sees the second World Book Night give away, it might MON be worth hitting your local high street for the chance of a MON free book. You never know, it might change your life. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01gf5w7 (Listen) MON Physics MON MON When asked to defend their belief in a Creator God, people MON of faith often turn to the argument that there must be a MON First Cause - you can't create something out of nothing they MON say, therefore right at the beginning, someone must have MON been responsible for the first element from which sprang MON life. MON MON A new book, "A Universe from Nothing", by the American MON theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, turns this argument MON on its head. Not only can something arise out of nothing, MON but something will always arise out of nothing because MON physics tells us that nothingness is inherently unstable. MON MON The book has made an enormous impact in the States, making MON the New York Times' best sellers list, and it prompted MON Richards Dawkins to observe that it was "Potentially the MON most important scientific book with implications for atheism MON since Darwin". MON MON So does it knock the argument for God on the head? Are MON physics and God irreconcilable? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss whether modern physics leaves any MON room for God are Dr John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at MON the University of Oxford, Dr Usama Hasan, Senior Lecturer at MON Middlesex University and a part time Imam, and Dr Mark MON Vernon, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, London MON who has degrees in physics, theology and philosophy. MON MON 17:00 PM b01gf5wh (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01gd590 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01gf5wk (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 4 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. Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Lucy Porter and MON Graeme Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Restaurants, MON Barbie dolls, Feet and Garlic. 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 Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01gf5wm (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01gf5ww (Listen) MON With John Wilson, who marks Shakespeare's birthday with a MON focus on his sonnets. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gf5t0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b01gf5x8 (Listen) MON Mr Fan, from Boatperson to Horseman MON MON When radio producer Julian May or his sons need a haircut MON they pop round to Mr Fan. Over the years, the blond baby and MON the grey curls falling, his story of escape, exile, MON settlement and identity, has emerged. MON MON Mr Fan is from Vietnam but is Chinese. In 1979, when the MON Chinese crossed the border and fought a short war with her MON neighbour, he had to leave. His family left everything and MON clambered aboard an over-laden sailing boat . No one knew MON how to sail or navigate. Months later they reached Hong Kong MON and were interned. Eventually, while his father languished MON dying in prison, he landed in England, and settled in MON Greenwich. MON MON That's the past. What is interesting is the life Mr Fan MON leads now: very Chinese; very English. His tiny garden full MON of pak choi; dawn exercises in the park; table tennis. As he MON snips he sips green tea. MON MON But the pictures on the walls are of horses. Three times a MON week at a suburban riding school, among the pigtailed MON 'gels', this Chinese man in his sixties, trots, canters - MON and now gallops and jumps - in his black velvet riding hat. MON MON This is what he loves, what England has given him, and he'll MON never go back. He did go to Mongolia - on a riding holiday. MON MON While he cuts hair, exercises early in Greenwich Park (where MON he'll soon watch the Olympic equestrian events), tends his MON peasant patch and rides the horses he loves, Mr Fan tells MON his story to Julian May who, sparingly, presents a tale that MON reveals important aspects of identity and belonging. MON MON Producer: Julian May. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01g62zk (Listen) MON The Pink Certificate MON MON There's a Turkish saying that every man is born a soldier; MON and in Turkey every man is conscripted for military service MON of up to 15 months. There is no alternative to this; Turkey MON does not recognise the concept of conscientious objection. MON But one group of people are exempt - homosexuals. Their MON presence in the army is deemed damaging to morale and MON operational effectiveness. But the process by which MON homosexual men are asked to prove their sexual orientation MON is arbitrary and humiliating. Some are asked to provide MON pornographic photographs of themselves with their partners; MON others, photographs of themselves dressed as women. This is MON also a problem for the military psychiatrists who have to MON compromise their professionalism by "diagnosing" someone as MON homosexual, despite the fact that homosexuality is no longer MON regarded internationally as a medical disorder, although it MON once was. In "The Pink Certificate" Emre Azizlerli lifts the MON lid on the only country within the NATO military alliance to MON discriminate against homosexuals in this way. Among his MON interviewees are gay men who have been humiliated in various MON ways during the application process for exemption, as well MON as another man, who wanted to join the military despite his MON homosexuality and enjoyed a varied sex life during his MON period of service. Emre also meets a psychiatrist who MON discusses the ethical dilemma he faced while in the army and MON being asked to "diagnose" gay men, and a well-known MON conscientious objector who went to prison for his MON principles. MON Producer: Tim Mansel. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01g6444 (Listen) MON This week, new research number crunching millions of bits of MON data on breast cancer has allowed scientists to reclassify MON the disease into 10 different subtypes. They say this is a MON huge break though which will lead to new treatments and MON improve outcomes for women with the disease. The lead author MON of the Cancer Research UK study Carlos Caldas explains its MON impact. MON MON The maths of politics. Stand up Mathematician Matt Parker MON and professor of theoretical physics Andrea Rapisarda look MON at the role mathematics plays in elections and the way MON politicians behave. Andrea argues political decisions would MON be improved if politicians were selected at random rather MON than elected, but Matt sees the mathematical flaw in MON electoral systems, which he likens to rolling a dice – one MON where the voters hardly ever get the outcome they wish for. MON MON Its 40 years since British scientist Godfrey Hounsfield MON invented the CT scan. This multilayered use of x ray imagery MON has revolutionised the diagnosis of internal health problems MON and is used worldwide. We speak to Liz Beckmann, one of MON Godfrey Hounsfield’s former colleagues and the co author of MON a new book on his life and work, out this week; 'Godfrey MON Hounsfield: Intuitive Genius of CT' MON MON And we continue our experiments for 'So You Want To Be A MON Scientist'... MON MON The Science of Stripes MON MON ‘So You Want to Be a Scientist?’ finalist Val Watham is at MON the Edinburgh Science Festival. Together with her mentor, Dr MON Peter Thompson from the University of York, she’s putting MON their stripey clothes experiment to the test. MON MON Are horizontal or vertical stripes more flattering? We join MON them as they gather data from over 500 visitors who are MON watching and rating videos of people wearing stripey MON clothes. MON MON Next, Val and Peter have the daunting task of analysing the MON enormous spreadsheet of data they have collected, before MON revealing the results in June. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01gf4pt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01gd592 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01gf5xg (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01gf5xj (Listen) MON The House on Paradise Street, Episode 6 MON MON Sofka Zinovieff's novel about an Englishwoman's quest to MON find out the origins of the bitter feud that has split her MON dead husband's family is set in contemporary Athens, but MON takes us back to the tragic events of the Greek Civil War in MON the 1940s. When Nikitas is killed in a mysterious car crash, MON his English widow Maud meets for the first time his mother MON Antigone, who has returned from Russia after sixty years' of MON exile from Athens. Antigone is slowly beginning to reveal to MON Maud the events which broke her family apart. MON Abridged by Sarah LeFanu MON MON Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach MON Producer: Sara Davies. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01g61vp (Listen) MON As the 100-day countdown to the Olympics begins, Chris MON Ledgard examines how trademark law can control the language MON of the games, and asks if word use can ever be effectively MON contained and controlled. He meets historians charting usage MON of the term "olympic" over centuries; talks to comedy MON producer Jon Plowman about the BBC mockumentary "Twenty MON Twelve", and discovers that one American university wants MON some words banned altogether. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gf5xn (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 APRIL 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01gd59x (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01gf5sk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01gd59z (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01gd5b1 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01gd5b3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01gd5b5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ghtqb (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College Cambridge. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01gg7cd (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01gg7cg (Listen) TUE Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports TUE Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Children of the Olympic Bid b01gg7cj (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 1 TUE TUE Peter has followed them from their dramatic appearance TUE alongside Sebastian Coe in Singapore, through their sporting TUE triumphs and failures, GCSE's, A-levels and University TUE courses, successful and unsuccessful love affairs, TUE emigration, rows with parents, and in one case a brush with TUE the police. As the games approach he finds out what has TUE happened to them and those who live and train alongside them TUE - from Ellie, the poster girl of the bid, who has now been TUE selected for the British swim team, to Danielle, the dancer, TUE who has been chosen to take part in the opening ceremony. TUE TUE When Sebastian Coe presented London's bid for the Games to TUE the IOC in 2005 he was flanked on the stage by 30 East End TUE youngsters who represented the rich cultural diversity of TUE their community. Faces of young sporting hopefuls appeared TUE on billboards and the hopes and dreams they embodied became TUE those of the nation. Radio 4's commitment to following their TUE lives has resulted in tremendous access to youngsters from TUE very different backgrounds as they emerge into adulthood and TUE deal with issues ranging from romance to the direction they TUE should take. TUE TUE As 2012 draws near we hear from Ellie, pictured all those TUE years ago as she dived from the Thames Barrier with the TUE Olympic rings behind her. She moved to Australia, where TUE better access to high quality training facilities, coupled TUE with sheer dedication and talent, have helped her secure a TUE place in the GB team: "Its such a relief, I've been planning TUE this for the last four years and it's amazing to be able to TUE say I'm going to the Olympics. I've been building up to it, TUE I've been training to it and I'm so excited to have made the TUE team." TUE TUE According to her Mum, Toni, the combined prayers or TUE relatives, family and friends across two continents, coupled TUE with years of hard work, helped realise a dream first TUE captured with her place helping the bid, seven years ago: TUE "She's a London girl and she's made the London Olympics. Who TUE would of thought when she was 12 and helped with the bid, TUE that first of all London would get the Olympics and then TUE that Ellie would make the team - it's like a fairy tale. For TUE the little kids out there thinking I want to go to the TUE Olympics, the message is that if you set your heart on TUE something you can achieve it no matter how impossible it TUE might seem." TUE TUE Danielle will be dancing in the opening ceremony, her life TUE having taken unexpected twists and turns - including the TUE recent reconciliation of her parents, who originally TUE divorced when she was just seven. Ashley has also TUE experienced unforeseen developments - he lost his place on TUE the third year of his economic degree course and Peter is TUE alongside him as he copes with life on benefits. He has not, TUE however, lost his commitment to the Olympics - once a TUE promising 2012 prospect, injury put pay to his hopes of TUE competing. He is now overseeing the Youth Ambassador scheme TUE and encouraging youngsters to build on the 2012 TUE opportunities, including funding and facilities: "Its TUE amazing to see the completion of this fantastic Olympic TUE project. " TUE TUE Producer: Sue Mitchell. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b016wxtz (Listen) TUE Evan Davis talks to Rob George TUE TUE Evan Davis explores the issue of deception by talking to TUE those who have had cause to be economical with the truth . TUE From doctors, guilty of well intentioned obfuscation, to TUE ex-fraudsters skilled at outright lies, over the next four TUE weeks, as Evan takes over the One to One chair, he discusses TUE the complicated truth about lying with those, for whom the TUE truth is rarely plain and never simple. TUE In the first programme he talks to Rob George, Consultant in TUE Palliative Care who explains why complete honesty is not TUE always in the best interest of the patient and his need to TUE second guess what information the terminally ill need and TUE when. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01gk4rq (Listen) TUE Sightlines, Pathologies TUE TUE Read by: Maureen Beattie TUE TUE Abridged by: Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gg7cl (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gk4rs (Listen) TUE A Small Town Murder, series 4, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Scott Cherry TUE TUE In the second episode of 'A Small Town Murder' by Scott TUE Cherry: Family Liaison Officer, Jackie Hartwell, gets closer TUE to identifying the malnourished body of the young man found TUE floating in the canal. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01gg7cn (Listen) TUE Series 6, Hedgehogs TUE TUE Hedgehogs are in decline in the UK. We know this from a TUE number of studies and from the fewer corpses we see on our TUE roads: ironically the more flattened hedgehogs, the greater TUE the likelihood of a strong population. But teasing the facts TUE from the image we have created of a vulnerable creature that TUE has to be rescued and nurtured, is a challenge. TUE TUE For Nature, Paul Evans meets the scientists who are TUE grappling with surveys and techniques for assessing hedgehog TUE numbers and status, scientists like Tom Moorhouse from TUE Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit TUE who's beginning a study to radio-track hedgehogs on arable TUE farmland. The study is funded by the British Hedgehog TUE Preservation Society and the People's Trust for Endangered TUE Species, a sure sign that the need to stem the decline of TUE our hedgehogs has become urgent. TUE TUE Producer: Brett Westwood TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Folk Song, Art Song b01gg7dm (Listen) TUE Christopher Maltman is an award-winning opera singer and TUE recitalist. Alongside the lieders, chansons and art songs of TUE his recital repertoire, he loves nothing more than TUE performing folk song settings. TUE TUE Audiences often respond well, but not all among the TUE folk-singing fraternity are enthusiastic about this genre TUE borrowing. Some contend that folk songs lose much of their TUE impact when refined and beautified for the recital stage. TUE TUE Christopher talks to folk singer Eliza Carthy and scholars TUE Georgina Boyes and Tim Healey about the uneasy relationship TUE between the two musical worlds. TUE TUE Is the antagonism musical or to do with very English TUE attitudes to class and accent? And why is it that so many of TUE his opera-singing colleagues from Scotland, Ireland, Wales TUE and further afield, have no such animosity from their TUE respective folk cultures? TUE TUE Christopher also talks to his regular recital accompanist TUE Julius Drake and senior colleague Sir Thomas Allen about the TUE best way of approaching this music, searching for a TUE performance that is genuine to singer and song alike. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01gg7dp (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01gd5b7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01gg7dr (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 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg7dt (Listen) TUE Ireland: Failures in the Present TUE TUE Programme 7. IRELAND: FAILURES IN THE PRESENT - A rare TUE woodcut offers a equally rare visual impression of the TUE troubles and tragedies of Elizabethan Ireland. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01gf5wm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01gg7fr (Listen) TUE The Biggest Issues TUE TUE Sally Stone, a shock jock who hosts a show entitled 'The TUE Biggest Issues', has made her name by stirring up local TUE grievances; everything from mistreated dogs to the issue of TUE free gastric bands. Sally is well aware that her listeners TUE have a healthy appetite for Health matters, and a love hate TUE relationship with the NHS. TUE TUE When Sally gets a call from a listener complaining that her TUE elderly mother has died of neglect at the local hospital she TUE immediately begins a campaign of attrition against the TUE accused doctor and the hospital she works at. But in their TUE eagerness to follow the story, Sally's researcher has failed TUE to reveal that her elderly woman was 17 stone, had had a TUE lung removed twenty years earlier due to heavy smoking.and TUE had continued to smoke after the operation. This was a TUE patient who had virtually zero chance of surviving an TUE operation. TUE TUE But untroubled by the facts, Stone's radio show 'The Biggest TUE Issues' pursues the story with vigour. Newspapers pick up TUE the trail and the consultant's name is leaked. Her family is TUE door - stepped by reporters and her teenage son is driven to TUE the verge of suicide. TUE TUE 'The Biggest Issues' by Annie McCartney TUE TUE Sally Stone ..... Eleanor Methven TUE Jill McEwan ...... Maureen Beattie TUE Jerry Cartwright ..... Conleth Hill TUE Dorothy Megarry ...... Stella McCusker TUE Clive Watson ...... Ian McElhinney TUE Bill Campbell ..... Patrick FitzSymons TUE Tim Webb ...... Ryan McParland TUE Jane Douglas ..... Katy Gleadhill TUE Sharon Harvey ..... Aine McCartney TUE TUE Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan in Belfast. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01gg7ft (Listen) TUE Historian Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01gg7fw (Listen) TUE Cruise Ships and Creeks TUE TUE It is the third-largest natural harbour in the world but TUE even so, it isn't deep enough for modern ships. Falmouth in TUE Cornwall wants to invest £100 million to modernise its TUE ship-repairing docks and facilities for cruise liners. TUE TUE The project would create hundreds of jobs, protect existing TUE businesses and bring cash-laden tourists into the TUE surrounding area. It depends on being able to dredge the TUE channel into the harbour and that's where the problem lies - TUE to do so would mean digging up rare calcified seaweed called TUE maerl which is protected by law and lies in a special TUE conservation area. TUE TUE It's a classic stand-off between economic development and TUE protecting the natural environment- now specialist marine TUE scientists have been called in to see whether both sides can TUE be satisfied. Tom Heap gets to grips with rare seaweed and TUE big bucks in Cornwall for 'Costing The Earth'. TUE TUE Producer: Steve Peacock. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01gg7fy (Listen) TUE Losing Your Parents' Language TUE TUE What's it like to lose the language spoken by your parents? TUE Michael Rosen goes to meet families in which parents and TUE children have different mother tongues. He meets those who TUE have made the decision to bring their children up in TUE English, and asks their children what it's like when your TUE parents speak a language you can't understand. He also talks TUE to parents who want to ensure that their language continues TUE down the generations, and fear "losing" their children to TUE English. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01gg7g0 (Listen) TUE Series 27, George Lyward TUE TUE Aged sixteen and struggling with his sexuality, Tom Robinson TUE attempted to take his own life. Following a series of TUE assessments and tests, he was interviewed for Finchden TUE Manor, a therapeutic community which Robinson describes as TUE the "last chance saloon." Under the stewardship of George TUE Lyward, Finchden Manor was an unconventional place that gave TUE boys the freedom to work through their issues and "help them TUE to shape their futures." TUE TUE In Great Lives, musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson tells TUE Matthew Parris how educationalist George Lyward saved his TUE life. Former Finchden teacher Dr Norman Alm provides expert TUE assistance. Lyward's work is also assessed in the context of TUE last Summer's riots, and Matthew asks what should society do TUE with its troubled teens? TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01gg7g2 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01gd5b9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01gg7g4 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Making a Difference TUE TUE Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, TUE complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his TUE never-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 Ed decides to 'Make a Difference' to impress Fiona and as a TUE consequence finds himself becoming 'a voice for the people' TUE when he joins a group trying to change the railways. As a TUE consequence he finds himself on local radio representing the TUE group and 'channelling grumpy', and astonishingly finds that TUE people agree with his views and find his conversation 'totes TUE legde'. Thus it is that 'Captain Grumblebum' is created. TUE TUE Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas TUE Fiona ..... Jenny Agutter TUE Olive ..... Stephanie Cole TUE Frank ..... Simon Greenall TUE Jaz ..... Philip Jackson TUE Pearl ..... Rita May TUE Cliff/Jonathan ..... Geoff McGivern TUE Ping/Lisa ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE 12 year old official ..... Sam Pamphilon TUE Mandy Kramer ..... Nicola Sanderson TUE Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01gg7g6 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01gg7g8 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer and TUE dramatist Michael Frayn, as he publishes Skios, a new novel TUE set on a Greek island which is hosting an annual academic TUE lecture. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg7dt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Nigerian Crossroads b01gg7gb (Listen) TUE Mark Doyle investigates the Nigerian paradox. He reports TUE from a Lagos international fashion show - and overflies a TUE network of illegal oil refineries. He visits a polo club TUE where relatively wealthy players favour Argentine ponies - TUE and finds himself in a camp for displaced people which looks TUE like it could be in war-torn Somalia. TUE TUE Nigeria, the giant of West Africa, has the largest TUE population of any African country. It's among the top dozen TUE producers of oil in the world, and has a vibrant, growing TUE economy. It's a country that could - perhaps should - be a TUE significant player on the world stage. But Nigeria's TUE communities are also torn apart by communal and religious TUE violence. And in recent years a new, radical Islamist group TUE has emerged to challenge the power of the state across the TUE north of the country. Thousands have been killed as the TUE police and the followers of the sect battle it out in places TUE of worship, police stations and on the streets. TUE TUE BBC Correspondent Mark Doyle has been visiting Nigeria for TUE over twenty years. He finds the country to be sometimes TUE inspiring and sometimes intensely frustrating. He asks TUE whether Nigeria will grow into a confident democracy or TUE whether it will collapse into a state of semi-permanent TUE violence. TUE Producer: Sam Farmar. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01gg7gd (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01gg7gq (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE Producer: Erika Wright. TUE TUE 21:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b01gg7cj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01gd5bc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01gg7gs (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01gg7gv (Listen) TUE The House on Paradise Street, Episode 7 TUE TUE Sofka Zinovieff's novel about an Englishwoman's quest to TUE find out the origins of the bitter feud that has split her TUE dead husband's family is set in contemporary Athens, but TUE takes us back to the tragic events of the Greek Civil War in TUE the 1940s. It's been three weeks since Maud's husband TUE Nikitas died in a mysterious car crash, and Maud has started TUE to hear from his mother Antigone the story of what happened TUE in the civil war that tore the country apart in the 1940s. TUE Meanwhile, Maud's children are involved in the most recent TUE political protests in Athens. TUE Abridged by Sarah LeFanu TUE TUE Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach TUE Producer: Sara Davies. TUE TUE 23:00 Great Unanswered Questions b013fj1w (Listen) TUE Edinburgh Special TUE TUE Comedy talk show recorded at last year's Edinburgh Festival. TUE Northern Irish comedian Colin Murphy and team are joined by TUE special guest Andrew Maxwell. Resident font of knowledge Dr TUE David Booth attempts to answer the questions presented by TUE the audience and as the others debate and discuss, computer TUE buff Matthew Collins trawls the internet to find content TUE which will enhance the humour and knowledge. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gg7gx (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01gd5c6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01gk4rq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01gd5c8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01gd5cb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01gd5cd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01gd5cg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ghvv0 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean of King's College Cambridge. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01gg8gr (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01gg8gt (Listen) WED Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including WED Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for WED the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01gg8gw (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01gk6c0 (Listen) WED Sightlines, The Woman in the Field WED WED Read by: Maureen Beattie WED WED Abridged by: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gg8gy (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gk6c2 (Listen) WED A Small Town Murder, series 4, Episode 3 WED WED By Scott Cherry WED WED In the third episode of 'A Small Town Murder' by Scott WED Cherry: Family Liaison Officer, Jackie Hartwell, is finding WED it hard to win Sue and Carl's trust. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 A Kiss Is... Never Just a Kiss b01gg8h0 (Listen) WED The kiss is the most deceptive gesture. Seemingly simple - WED it is in fact a highly complex action and depending on the WED depth of passion used - can ignite a plethora of emotional, WED sensual and physical reactions including lowering blood WED pleasure, extending life expectancy and helping to choose a WED mate. WED WED But the kiss we know and practice today, didn't always have WED emotional and erotic overtones. In Roman times a kiss was WED used as a symbol of power - the lower the rank the nearer WED the ground you planted your kiss....only kissing someone on WED the mouth if you were their equal. The Greeks believed that WED breath was the life of man - and kissing an adored object WED represented a sort of sacrifice. WED WED And when European explorers introduced the practice of WED kissing in South Africa the Tsonga people were horrified WED exclaiming "Look at these people! They suck each other! They WED eat each other's saliva and dirt!" So you see - the idea of WED kissing someone on the lips hasn't always thrilled people. WED WED Today just about every culture on the planet kisses - but WED some cultures are still reluctant. In Arab countries public WED displays of affection can land you in prison - and if you WED kiss someone in Japan - you can find yourself engaged to be WED married... WED WED In "A Kiss is...Never Just a Kiss" - the former Editor of WED the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling tries to discover how and WED why our views of kissing have changed, whether its lost some WED of its magic with over-use, and takes a lesson in how to do WED it for stage and screen - when you've never met the person WED you're kissing, before. WED WED Presenter: Rowan Pelling WED Producer: Angela Hind WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 My First Planet b01gg8h2 (Listen) WED The Noticeboard of Doom WED WED Written by Phil Whelans WED WED Day 27 and the colonists are torn between Richard's WED newsletter and Archer's hot pants. And which is more WED dangerous - Brian's monkey wrench or Lillian's "vitamin" WED drink"? WED WED A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question WED - if humankind were to colonize space, is it destined to WED succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the WED way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) WED WED Welcome to the colony. We're aware that having been in deep WED cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some WED supplementary information. WED WED Personnel WED Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on WED the voyage, so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is WED now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, WED and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly WED meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian WED (Vicki Pepperdine - "Getting On"), who'd really rather WED everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and WED saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, WED the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born WED baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this WED purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about WED being a couple, just to get on the trip. WED WED Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and WED also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an WED "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer WED the question - if humankind were to colonize space, is it WED destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and WED infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) WED WED Brian ..... Nicholas Lyndhurst WED Lillian ..... Vicki Pepperdine WED Mason ..... Tom Goodman-Hill WED Archer ..... Phil Whelans WED Carol ..... Cariad Lloyd WED Richard ..... John Dorney WED WED Produced & directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01gg8h4 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01gd5cj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01gh8mr (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 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg8h6 (Listen) WED City Life, Urban Strife WED WED Programme 8. CITY LIFE, URBAN STRIFE - The life of London's WED apprentices and Shakespeare's groundlings told through a WED rare woollen cap. WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01gg7g6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01gg8hl (Listen) WED Red and Blue, Terror WED WED By Philip Palmer WED WED Military consultant Bradley Shoreham has been invited to WED discuss possible war game scenarios involving new terror WED attacks on London. But just how hypothetical is this WED consultation? WED WED Bradley Shoreham . . . . . Tim Woodward WED Brigadier Fraser . . . . . Bill Paterson WED The Waiter . . . . . James Lailey WED Defence Secretary . . . . . Christine Absalom WED Head of Intelligence . . . . . Peter Hamilton Dyer WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01gg8hv (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01gg7gq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01gg8hx (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01gh8mt (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 b01gh8mw (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's WED news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01gd5cl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00t7f96 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Vuvuzela of Terror 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, we discover that an Englishman's home is WED his castle and an Englishman's moat is his tax write-off. WED Until Sir John is investigated and has to hire some WED Frenchmen and a bucket of eels. Meanwhile, the Woodstock WED Hospital is about to lose its no-star status... 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 Producer/Director: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01gh8my (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01gh8n0 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with George R R WED Martin, the best-selling writer of epic fantasy novels, WED which provided the source for the TV drama series Game of WED Thrones. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg8h6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01gh8n2 (Listen) WED Transitional Justice WED WED Clive Anderson and top legal experts discuss what role the WED international community should play in helping to achieve WED justice in the wake of massive human rights violations in WED Arab Spring countries. WED WED What form of justice system is best placed to heal the WED wounds of years of oppression? Do criminal courts WED satisfactorily address the horrors of a long and brutal WED regime? Or are truth and reconciliation commissions better WED placed to allow a society to move forward? WED WED And should the task of establishing truth, accountability WED and redress for past abuses be left to individual countries, WED or is it essential for the United Nations and international WED lawyers to become involved? WED WED Lawyers and judges with experience of 'transitional justice' WED processes reflect on whether justice was achieved in the WED past, in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Iraq, South Africa and WED Yugoslavia, and argue about the best way forward in Libya, WED Egypt and Tunisia. WED WED Among the guests, Libyan lawyer Elham Saudi, who argues that WED the important thing is that transitional justice is WED introduced 'organically' and takes the form that the people WED want. Also taking part is Geoffrey Robertson QC who served WED as the first President of the Special Court in Sierra Leone. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01gh8n4 (Listen) WED Series 3, June Andrews WED WED Professor June Andrews, Director, the Dementia Services WED Development Centre, University of Stirling, argues for a WED revolution in our approach to dealing with dementia. She WED outlines immediate low cost changes that would make a WED dramatic difference to delaying the onset of the illness and WED caring for people with dementia. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01gg7fw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01gg8gw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01gd5cn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01gh8n6 (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01gh8n8 (Listen) WED The House on Paradise Street, Episode 8 WED WED Sofka Zinovieff's novel about an Englishwoman's quest to WED find out the origins of the bitter feud that has split her WED dead husband's family is set in contemporary Athens, but WED takes us back to the tragic events of the Greek Civil War in WED the 1940s. Maud feels that the explanation for her husband WED Nikitas' death in a mysterious car crash lies in his WED family's troubled past. Nikiats' mother Antigone has WED returned to Athens after sixty years' exile in Russia, and WED has begun to reveal to Maud the reasons for her long exile WED and the enmity between her and her sister Alexandria. WED Abridged by Sarah LeFanu WED WED Reader: Ann Beach. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01gh8nb (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel's attempts to field calls from a dating agency whilst WED teaching don't go quite as planned. Meanwhile Belinda is WED attempting to track down the elusive Arts Centre Cleaner, WED who has taken refuge in Nigel's room. WED WED Nigel Penny ...... Richie Webb WED Belinda ....... Vicki Pepperdine WED Cedric/Keith ....... Dave Lamb WED Mark/Jasveer ........ Jim North WED Varinka ........ Jess Robinson WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00vy29g (Listen) WED Series 2, Hank Zuttermilk WED WED Phil Cornwell brings six edgy comic characters to life in a WED new series of The Cornwell Estate, starring Tony Gardner WED (Fresh Meat), Roger Lloyd Pack (Only Fools and Horses, Vicar WED of Dibley), Simon Greenall (Alan Partridge) Daisy Haggard WED (Psychoville) Ricky Champ (Him and Her, BBC3) Jill Halfpenny WED (Eastenders, Legally Blonde) and Cyril Nri. WED WED Written by Andrew McGibbon and Phil Cornwell WED WED Hank is a Dutch long distance container driver who lives on WED the estate with his London girlfriend Suzi. When her father WED Ray tells Hank his daughter is pregnant, Hank is faced with WED some troubling choices. WED WED Hank Zuttermilk ...... Phil Cornwell WED Ray Faulkner ...... Ricky Champ WED Ruud ...... Cyril Nri WED Customs Officer 1 ...... Toby Longworth WED Customs Officer 2 ...... Abigail Hollick WED WED Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gh8zl (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 APRIL 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01gd5dh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01gk6c0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01gd5dk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01gd5dm (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01gd5dp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01gd5dr (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gf4pm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Monday] THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01ghc3z (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01ghc41 (Listen) THU Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including THU Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01ghc43 (Listen) THU The Battle of Bosworth Field THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of Bosworth THU Field, the celebrated encounter between Lancastrian and THU Yorkist forces in August 1485. The battle, the penultimate THU of the Wars of the Roses, resulted in the death of Richard THU III. The victory of Henry Tudor enabled him to succeed THU Richard as monarch and establish the Tudor dynasty which was THU to rule for over a century. These events were immortalised THU by Shakespeare in Richard III, and today the battle is THU regarded as one of the most important to have taken place on THU English soil. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01gk6qd (Listen) THU Sightlines, The Gannetry THU THU Read by: Maureen Beattie THU THU Abridged by: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ghc45 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gk6qg (Listen) THU A Small Town Murder, series 4, Episode 4 THU THU By Scott Cherry THU THU In the fourth episode of 'A Small Town Murder' by Scott THU Cherry: Family Liaison Officer, Jackie Hartwell, is faced THU with giving Sue and Carl some frustrating news. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01ghc47 (Listen) THU The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh THU THU In Bangladesh, twenty percent of girls are married before THU their fifteenth birthday. Jemy is likely to be one of them. THU She is thirteen years old and due to marry a cousin in three THU days time. THU Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Oli is touring the slums of THU Dhaka, telling parents not to marry off their daughters. THU And in the wards of the Dhaka Medical College lies Poppy, THU awaiting an operation to repair a body broken by childbirth THU at the age of twelve. THU This week's Crossing Continents looks at the issue of Child THU Marriage, through the eyes of these three children. THU It is a practice still rife in Bangladesh despite being THU illegal. Some call it modern day slavery. Child brides drop THU out of school and are rarely able to undertake any paid THU work. Often they become victims of domestic violence. And THU many, like Poppy, suffer severe health problems as a result THU of giving birth at a young age. THU They lose their childhood completely. THU But campaigners are fighting back, trying to persuade rural THU villagers not to marry off their daughters so young. THU Reporter Angus Crawford joins them as they try to track down THU Jemy and halt her wedding. But can they reach her in time? THU Producer: Tony Smith. THU THU 11:30 Alain-Fournier's Lost Estate b01ghc49 (Listen) THU Lost Love in Paris THU THU Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee travel to France in search of THU the places and people which inspired Alain-Fournier's novel THU of adolescent love Le Grand Meaulnes THU THU Programme 2: Lost love in Paris. THU THU On the first of June 1905, the 18 year old Henri-Alban THU Fournier (pen-name 'Alain-Fournier') saw a woman with a THU white parasol on the steps of the Grand Palais. He took a THU riverboat down the Seine, following her to her lodgings and THU for the next week he tried to attract her attention but a THU week later, by the church of Saint-Germain des Près, Yvonne THU de Quiévrecourt dashed his hopes of a romance saying "we are THU children ...what's the use ?" THU THU A month after this encounter, Fournier's parents sent him to THU London, where he worked at Sandersons wallpaper factory for THU the grand father of the DJ Annie Nightingale. The letters he THU sent back to his childhood friend Jacques Rivière explain THU why he found English women shocking and show him working out THU what kind of writer he wanted to become. They exchanged THU views about Wagner, Dickens, the pre-Raphaelites and THU eventually both got jobs at the Nouvelle Revue Française. THU THU 8 years later, after tracking her with a detective, he met THU up with the now married Yvonne, just as he was about the THU publish Le Grand Meaulnes. In the novel she is re-imagined THU as Yvonne de Galais, first seen by the adventurer Meaulnes THU at a fete in a house in the woods - the lost estate. THU THU Alain-Fournier began work on another novel and a play but THU war broke out and on 22 September 1914, having fought for THU only a few weeks, he was killed in action south of Verdun. THU Reported missing with 20 of his comrades-in-arms, his body THU was found in 1991 in a mass grave where German soldiers had THU buried him. THU THU Producer: Robyn Read THU Readings by Philip Franks from a translation by Frank THU Davison. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01ghc4f (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01gd5dt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01ghjmy (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01ghc4h (Listen) THU New Science, Old Magic THU THU Programme 9. NEW SCIENCE, OLD MAGIC - Dr Dee's Mirror was THU actually a highly polished disk of black obsidian from THU Mexico but it reflects the Elizabethan fascination with the THU new sciences of cosmology and astrology. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01gh8my (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b010t7rs (Listen) THU That's Mine, This is Yours THU by Peter Souter THU THU Juliet ..... Tamsin Greig THU Sam ..... Alex Jennings THU Amanda ..... Eleanor Butters THU THU Directed by Gordon House THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01ghc4k (Listen) THU As the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal celebrates its 200th THU anniversary, Helen Mark takes a boat trip to find out about THU the canal's importance to the South Wales landscape. Helen THU is joined by David Morgan from British Waterways to find out THU more about the canal's history and Helen and David help THU local brewer, Buster Grant, to deliver his celebratory ales THU to local pubs in the way that they would have been delivered THU 200 years ago. Stopping off en route, Helen finds out more THU about the lime industry in the area from Nigel Gervis who THU still produces lime today which is used in maintenance work THU on the canal's locks and bridges. Helen also meets Ceri THU Cadwallader from the Blaenavon World Heritage Site to find THU out about the Forgotten Landscapes Project and the THU importance of the canal's industrial heritage and its place THU within the communities of Monmouthshire and Brecon today. THU And Helen jumps aboard a second boat with ecologist, Mark THU Robinson, to find out about the wildlife that now inhabits THU the banks of the canal. THU Finally, Helen and David join forces to roll out the barrel THU as Buster's beer arrives at its final destination. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01gf4k1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01gf4lv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01ghc4m (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01ghc4p (Listen) THU Science magazine programme. THU THU 17:00 PM b01ghc4r (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01gd5dw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01dtmb8 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his own 5 piece jazz band THU for a brand new series of music and comedy. Kevin Eldon is THU guest as the band get frisky with English food; attempt some THU interactive cooking and find unexpected rhythm in a Jamie THU Oliver tapas set. 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 .... Kevin Eldon THU THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01ghc4t (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01ghc4w (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01ghc4h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01ghc4y (Listen) THU Mark Duggan Investigation THU THU When Mark Duggan was shot by armed police in Tottenham, THU north London on 4th August 2011, the Independent Police THU Complaints Commission immediately began an investigation THU into the circumstances surrounding his death. THU THU It is normal procedure for the IPCC to conduct an THU independent investigation into the circumstances of any THU fatal shooting by the police. THU THU At the time, IPCC Commissioner, Rachel Cerfontyne, said: "I THU will make certain that this investigation is thorough and THU answers the many questions that everyone has when such an THU incident occurs." THU THU Yet there is now the real possibility that a full inquest THU conducted openly and before a jury, will never be held into THU the shooting which triggered rioting in Tottenham, and which THU later spread across London and other English cities. THU THU Simon Cox speaks to people close to Mark Duggan about what THU impact this news is having in the community. THU THU He investigates whether the IPCC have the statutory powers THU they need in order to do their job properly. THU THU And, after the IPCC stated that their hands may well be THU 'tied' by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, Simon THU will ask whether it is time for a change in the law which THU currently prevents phone intercept evidence being heard in THU court. THU THU Producers: Hannah Barnes and Mike Wendling. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01ghc50 (Listen) THU Through the Mill THU THU In the 19th century the Lancashire cotton industry was at THU the heart of the world's industrial revolution and the main THU engine of the British economy. In the 20th century it THU started a long decline. Today a few remaining textile THU manufacturers are finding ways of surviving huge global THU competition. Peter Day finds out how they are doing it. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01gg7cn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01ghc43 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01gd5dy (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01ghc52 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ghc54 (Listen) THU The House on Paradise Street, Episode 9 THU THU Sofka Zinovieff's novel about an Englishwoman's quest to THU find out the origins of the bitter feud that has split her THU dead husband's family is set in contemporary Athens, but THU takes us back to the tragic events of the Greek Civil War in THU the 1940s. Maud's mother-in-law Antigone has told her about THU her experiences with the Greek Communist partisans after the THU war and the charge of treason that led to her long exile in THU Russia. meanwhile, Maud's children have become caught up in THU the violence that it sweeping Athens as protests against the THU government mount. THU Abridged by Sarah LeFanu THU THU Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach THU Producer: Sara Davies. THU THU 23:00 Wireless Nights b01ghc56 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Jarvis Cocker continues his prowl through the dark in the THU last of his new series Wireless Nights. THU THU This evening he invites you on a curb crawl around the seamy THU side of town as he explores the theme 'night manoeuvres'. THU Driving through London he weaves his way in and out of the THU lives of other night riders who are always on the move. He THU joins a private invstigator in Nottingham on a car chase and THU stake out on the trail of a man suspected to be having an THU affair; he finds a minicab driver lost in the Mersey fog THU between fares, haunted by an eerie bell; and is encircled by THU street skaters who spin around the neon-lit West End and THU dark car parks seeking thrills on wheels. THU THU The ride might get a bit hairy at times, but he promises to THU drop you off safely at the end. THU THU Produced by Neil McCarthy and Laurence Grissell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ghc58 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 APRIL 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01gd5fs (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01gk6qd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01gd5fv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01gd5fx (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01gd5fz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01gd5g1 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gf4pm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Monday] FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01ghdnd (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01ghdng (Listen) FRI Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01gf4ky (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01gk6v3 (Listen) FRI Sightlines, On Rona FRI FRI Read by: Maureen Beattie FRI FRI Abridged by: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ghdnj (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gk6v5 (Listen) FRI A Small Town Murder, series 4, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Scott Cherry FRI FRI In the final episode of ' A Small Town Murder' by Scott FRI Cherry: Family Liaison Officer, Jackie Hartwell, hurries FRI back to the canal in the hope of finding Sue and Carl. FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The Pathfinder b01ghdnl (Listen) FRI Tom Mangold reveals the remarkable life and legacy of Air FRI Vice-Marshal Donald Bennett, CB, CBE, DSO, founder of Bomber FRI Command's, Path Finder Force in WWII, and one of Britain's FRI least celebrated civilian and wartime heroes. FRI FRI Bennett, born in Australia, became one of the most FRI experienced pilots in the world in an age when civil FRI aviation was in its infancy, radio communication was FRI difficult, and navigation meant flying past a railway FRI station to read the name on the board. Working for Britain's FRI Imperial Airlines, he set several records one of which, for FRI a non-stop seaplane flight from Scotland to South Africa, FRI still stands today, 74 years later. FRI FRI But it was during the Second World War that Bennett came in FRI to his own. After rescuing the Polish Government in Exile FRI from Nazi-occupied France, operating the Atlantic Ferry FRI Organisation to fly American-built military aircraft to FRI Britain, and escaping on foot through Norway and Sweden FRI after being shot down in an air raid on the German FRI battleship, Turpitz; he set up the RAF's Path Finder Force FRI to guide bombers to their targets with much greater FRI accuracy. FRI FRI Bennett was the youngest Air Vice Marshal by far, he didn't FRI suffer fools, he said what he thought, he had no time for FRI bureaucracy, and he got things done. He was also the only FRI RAF Group Commander not to receive a knighthood after the FRI war. FRI FRI Undaunted he formed his own airline, British South American FRI Airways, flying the most perilous post-war routes in civil FRI aviation, across the Atlantic. FRI FRI Tom Mangold interviews surviving family members and those FRI who flew with Bennett to piece together an astonishing life, FRI and to ask why his name and achievements are so little FRI known. FRI FRI Producer: Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00rbnmk (Listen) FRI Series 4, Travel Entrepreneur! FRI FRI In this episode, Milton's a world-famous Travel Entrepreneur FRI who builds the world's most Extreme Sports Hotel and crosses FRI the Atlantic in a rather unusual way... So if you like FRI bungee ropes, grizzly bears, bright blue aliens and mosquito FRI nets designed to keep the mosquitoes in, then you might just FRI want to catch yourself "Another Case Of Milton Jones" FRI FRI He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom FRI Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dan Tetsell ("Mongrels") and Lucy FRI Montgomery ("Down The Line"). FRI FRI Written by Milton with James Cary ("Think The Unthinkable", FRI "Miranda") FRI Produced & directed by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01ghdnn (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01gnk74 (Listen) FRI Taking the Biscuit: Jim and John FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today memories of working at Huntley and FRI Palmer's biscuit factory in Reading from Jim and John. More FRI from the Listening Project at 4.55pm this afternoon. 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. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01gd5g3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01ghjn8 (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 Shakespeare's Restless World b01ghgk3 (Listen) FRI Toil and Trouble FRI FRI Programme 10. TOIL AND TROUBLE - The differences between FRI Scottish and English witches are revealed by a model ship, FRI made to be hung in a church. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01ghc4t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ghgk5 (Listen) FRI The Hedge FRI FRI By Anita Sullivan. FRI FRI Marion and Richard live a quiet life in their perfect FRI garden, sheltered from a turbulent world by their manicured FRI hedge. Then one day, after an explosive row with their FRI daughter Sophie, out of the hedge emerges a mysterious hand. FRI Slowly the outside world starts to bleed into their fragile FRI haven. FRI FRI A strange and darkly allegorical tale about a family and its FRI fears. FRI FRI Marion: Fiona Shaw FRI Richard: Peter Ellis FRI Sophie: Tanya Franks FRI The Narrator: Dorien Thomas FRI FRI Directed by James Robinson FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ghgk7 (Listen) FRI Thrive, Reading FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team are guests of gardening charity FRI Thrive. Christine Walkden, Chris Beardshaw and Pippa FRI Greenwood are on the panel. FRI Pippa Greenwood investigates the current Busy Lizzie FRI problem. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Hidden Agendas b01ghgk9 (Listen) FRI Reading the Signs FRI FRI Three stories from Wales about secrets and lies, even when FRI they're with good intentions. When Gwyn goes to investigate FRI a fire on a Welsh farm, he suspects the owners are hiding FRI something, but discovers they are not the only ones. FRI FRI Alix Nathan's story is read by Keiron Self. FRI FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Nigel Lewis. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01ghgkc (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01ghgsy (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01ghgt0 (Listen) FRI Bond of Brothers: Ciaron and Brendan FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: from Radio Ulster comes the story of Brendan FRI and Ciaron, brothers whose fraternal bond was tested when FRI Brendan fell ill. The final visit to the Listening Project FRI is at 11.55pm this evening. 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. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01ghgt2 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01gd5g5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01ghgt4 (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Rory Bremner, Justin Moorhouse FRI and Roisin Conaty. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01ghgt6 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01ghgt8 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with British FRI actress Tracie Bennett, as she takes her acclaimed stage FRI portrayal of Judy Garland to Broadway. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01ghgk3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01ghgtb (Listen) FRI Canterbury FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01ghgtd (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01ghgtg (Listen) FRI Bad Memories FRI FRI In 2004, a successful architect and his family mysteriously FRI disappear from their home. Six years later five bodies are FRI found in the cellar of their house. They are identified as FRI Jonathan and Imogen Blake and their son, Matthew; Philip FRI Gibson, who was on the missing person's register and a FRI woman, identity unknown. Forensics determine that not only FRI were they murdered, but the time of death was1926. Can audio FRI files found with the bodies solve the mystery? FRI FRI Rachel Weir ..... Nicola Walker FRI Jim Marquez ..... Rupert Graves FRI Phillip Gibson ..... Steven Mackintosh FRI Jonathan Blake ..... Anthony Calf FRI Imogen Blake ..... Jana Carpenter FRI Matthew Blake ..... Oscar Richardson FRI Mary Marston ..... Imogen MCCurdy FRI Boy 1 ...... Ashley Cook FRI Boy 2 ...... Marcus Webb FRI FRI Written and directed by Julian Simpson. FRI FRI Recorded by Lucinda Mason Brown and David Chilton at Stanmer FRI House in Brighton. FRI Sound design by David Chilton FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01gd5g7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01ghgtj (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ghgtl (Listen) FRI The House on Paradise Street, Episode 10 FRI FRI Sofka Zinovieff's novel about an Englishwoman's quest to FRI find out the origins of the bitter feud that has split her FRI dead husband's family is set in contemporary Athens, but FRI takes us back to the tragic events of the Greek Civil War in FRI the 1940s. Maud's mother-in-law Antigone has told Maud about FRI the imprisonment and trial that led to her long exile in FRI Russia, and Maud is beginning to understand just how deep FRI the rift in her husband's family has been. Meanwhile Maud's FRI daughter Tig has been hurt in a demonstration in Athens, and FRI is only just out of hospital in time for Nikitas' forty-day FRI memorial. As a visitor from England joins the family to FRI mourn, Antigone has one final secret to reveal. FRI Abridged by Sarah LeFanu FRI FRI Readers: Lucy Briers and Ann Beach FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01gg7g0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ghgtn (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01ghgtq (Listen) FRI Missing: Norman and Chris FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: in today's last visit to the Listening FRI Project, the story of a family tragedy from Radio Stoke. FRI Norman talks to his son Chris about his brother Stevie, who FRI went on holiday to Crete seven years ago, but never FRI returned... 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. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI
20 April, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 21/04/2012 - 27/04/2012
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