27 April, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 28/04/2012 - 04/05/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 28 APRIL 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01ghh0j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01gk6v3 (Listen) SAT Sightlines, On Rona SAT SAT Read by: Maureen Beattie SAT Abridged by: Pete Nichols SAT SAT "The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered - SAT what is it that we're just not seeing?" SAT SAT In the final essay from her book SIGHTLINES Scottish poet SAT and travel writer Kathleen Jamie makes a few house calls and SAT learns to dit-dit diddle-dit. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ghh0l (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ghh0n (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ghh0q (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01ghh0s (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ghh4n (Listen) SAT with the Revd Alison Jack. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01ghh4q (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01ghh0v (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01ghh0x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01ghc4k (Listen) SAT As the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal celebrates its 200th SAT anniversary, Helen Mark takes a boat trip to find out about SAT the canal's importance to the South Wales landscape. Helen SAT is joined by David Morgan from British Waterways to find out SAT more about the canal's history and Helen and David help SAT local brewer, Buster Grant, to deliver his celebratory ales SAT to local pubs in the way that they would have been delivered SAT 200 years ago. Stopping off en route, Helen finds out more SAT about the lime industry in the area from Nigel Gervis who SAT still produces lime today which is used in maintenance work SAT on the canal's locks and bridges. Helen also meets Ceri SAT Cadwallader from the Blaenavon World Heritage Site to find SAT out about the Forgotten Landscapes Project and the SAT importance of the canal's industrial heritage and its place SAT within the communities of Monmouthshire and Brecon today. SAT And Helen jumps aboard a second boat with ecologist, Mark SAT Robinson, to find out about the wildlife that now inhabits SAT the banks of the canal. SAT Finally, Helen and David join forces to roll out the barrel SAT as Buster's beer arrives at its final destination. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01gng50 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01ghh11 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01gng52 (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01gng54 (Listen) SAT Tom Hodgkinson, Gay dads Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow, SAT Shepherdess Emma Gray and Inheritance Tracks from Richard SAT Holloway SAT SAT Anita Anand with "The Idler" editor Tom Hodgkinson, gay dads SAT Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow talk about their decision to SAT have a sixth child by a surrogate mother, Emma Gray on her SAT life as a shepherdess, poetry from Matt Harvey, Caroline SAT Cornish tells the story of her daughter's red dress, Jacquie SAT Meredith explains how she was adopted by a stray cat, and SAT former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01gng56 (Listen) SAT In the last Excess Baggage, John McCarthy talks to three SAT inveterate travellers: Sara Wheeler, who has written on SAT Africa and the Antarctic, explorer Benedict Allen who has SAT travelled in Siberia and New Guinea and documentary maker SAT Simon Reeve who has just returned from the Indian Ocean. He SAT asks them why they are driven to explore the world and what SAT is the point of travel. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Qatar Philharmonic b01gng58 (Listen) SAT The Qatar Philharmonic was established in 2008, the first SAT western symphony orchestra in a Gulf state, and just one of SAT a number of institutions intended to demonstrate the SAT country's cultural ambitions. SAT SAT Razia Iqbal visits Katar, the official cultural village of SAT Doha, and talks to members of the orchestra, many of whom SAT have been imported from Europe. And she interviews the SAT country's 'culture queen', Sheikha Mayassa Al-Thani, SAT daughter of the Emir of Qatar. SAT SAT Produced by Francesca Panetta and Lucy Greenwell. SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01gng5b (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster this week. SAT SAT The government's problems have been gathering like storm SAT clouds culminating in this week's news of an economy back in SAT recession and a minister under siege for his dealings with SAT the Murdoch press. SAT Conservative Andrea Leadsom, one of the government's new SAT intake of eurosceptical MPs, and a former Labour business SAT minister Pat McFadden look at the economic situation, while SAT Lord Tebbit and Lord Reid consider how David Cameron could SAT benefit from some "big hitters" in his party going out to SAT bat for him. SAT SAT Also in the programme the chair of the Treasury Select SAT Committee Andrew Tyrie, talks about the important changes SAT proposed for the Bank of England, and former chancellor SAT Alistair Darling and the SNP's Stewart Hosie get down to the SAT nuts and bolts of how Scottish independence would or would SAT not work. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01gng5d (Listen) SAT The British soldiers in Afghanistan have lost faith in their SAT mission, there are fields full of opium poppies and the SAT Taliban are everywhere. Quentin Sommerville talks of the SAT mood among the troops as they prepare at last to return SAT home. SAT SAT After Charles Taylor, who'll next be taken to court to face SAT charges relating to war crimes? Fiona Lloyd Davies has been SAT in the Democratic Republic of Congo meeting one former rebel SAT commander who is wanted for trial. SAT SAT Ian Pannell has been talking to an English scholar in Syria SAT whose library was destroyed as the struggle continues SAT between protestors and the security forces. SAT SAT What makes Kenyan athletes such fine distance runners? SAT Claudia Hammond's been jogging through the Great Rift Valley SAT learning some of the answers. SAT SAT and Stephen Sackur went to Cairo to report on how the SAT people's uprising there was faring but instead found himself SAT captivated by a revolutionary TV chef whose recipes are SAT being lapped up throughout the Middle East! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01gng5g (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01ghgt4 (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Rory Bremner, Justin Moorhouse SAT and Roisin Conaty. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01ghh13 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01ghh15 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01ghgtb (Listen) SAT Canterbury SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent with SAT Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan-Smith; SAT Labour Peer and former Cabinet minister, Andrew Adonis; SAT Nobel prize winner and Fellow of the Royal Society, SAT biologist Sir John Sulston; and public policy editor of The SAT Economist magazine, Anne McElvoy. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01gng98 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00w6lqz (Listen) SAT The Caretaker SAT SAT Davies... David Warner SAT Aston... Tony Bell SAT Mick... Daniel Mays SAT David Warner and Daniel Mays star in Harold Pinter's dark SAT comedy. Two brothers shelter an elderly, homeless man after SAT a fight in a cafĂ©. But his problems are far from over. SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01gng9b (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week including Johnny Ball, SAT TV hero, on being a granddad; women in reggae with Carroll SAT Thompson and Jacqueline Springer; the pianist Janina SAT Fialkowska and a visit to Professor Vanessa's Wondershow. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01gng9d (Listen) SAT The day's top news stories, with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01ghh4q (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01ghh17 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01ghh19 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ghh1c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01gngrb (Listen) SAT Anna Chancellor, Richard Bacon, Cerys Matthews and Claire SAT Sweeney SAT SAT Head Boy Clive will be talking to actress Anna Chancellor, SAT who is starring in a theatre double bill of 'South Downs' SAT and 'The Browning Version', which examine life in boarding SAT schools. Anna has just been nominated for a BAFTA for her SAT role in BBC One's 'The Hour' and is still remembered as Hugh SAT Grant's jilted fiancĂ© Duckface in 'Four Weddings and a SAT Funeral'. 'South Downs' and 'The Browning Version' are at SAT Harold Pinter Theatre, London until Saturday 21st July. SAT SAT Man of many talents, broadcaster Richard Bacon will be SAT talking about his new Channel 4 series 'Hidden Talent', SAT which discovers people with extraordinary ability they never SAT dreamed they had. Participants push themselves to the limit SAT in a process that could change completely their lives. The SAT second episode of 'Hidden Talent' is on Tuesday 1st May at SAT 21.00. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi is Game On with Welsh songstress and 6Music SAT presenter Cerys Matthews, whose Radio 4 documentary SAT celebrates the life of one of her heroines, the great gospel SAT singer and civil rights campaigner Mahalia Jackson. SAT 'Conjuring Halie' is on Tuesday 1st May at 11.30 on BBC SAT Radio 4. Hallelujah! SAT SAT Clive swats up on studious actress Claire Sweeney, who is SAT playing brash Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita in Willy SAT Russell's award-winning comedy 'Educating Rita'. Since SAT residing in Brookside Close for over ten years, Claire has SAT been 'Clocking Off' and 'Legally Blonde'. 'Educating Rita' SAT is at London's Menier Chocolate Factory until Saturday 12th SAT May. SAT SAT Music from one half of Australian musical siblings Angus & SAT Julia Stone. Julia performs 'It's All Okay' from her solo SAT album 'By The Horns'. SAT SAT And we'll be toasting Tyne and Wear vocal harmony group The SAT Cornshed Sisters, who perform 'Dance At My Wedding' from SAT their album 'Tell Tales'. SAT SAT Producer Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01gngrd (Listen) SAT Jeremy Hunt SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Jeremy Hunt, the Culture SAT Secretary, who has come under pressure to resign following SAT the release of emails to the Leveson Inquiry. The SAT compromising emails suggest that he or his office was SAT providing inside information to the Murdoch family over the SAT BSkyB takeover bid. He, however, insists that he behaved SAT with complete integrity during the process. SAT SAT Producers: SAT John Murphy SAT Anna Meisel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01gngrg (Listen) SAT Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests Lisa Appignanesi, Kevin SAT Jackson and Natalie Haynes review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT In his film Avengers Assemble Joss Whedon brings together SAT Marvel action heroes Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, Captain SAT America, Hawkeye and the Black Widow as they battle to stop SAT Loki from taking over the Earth with his alien army. SAT SAT Michele Roberts' novel Ignorance revolves around two girls - SAT Jeanne and Marie-Angele - who are schoolfriends in pre-war SAT France but whose relationship and loyalties change as the SAT Germans invade and the differences in their backgrounds SAT becomes more significant. SAT SAT Making Noise Quietly is a series of three short plays by SAT Robert Holman which has been revived at the Donmar Warehouse SAT in London by Peter Gill. Each play features characters whose SAT lives are affected in one way or another by war. SAT SAT To coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the National SAT Maritime Museum in Greenwich has put on an exhibition - SAT Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames - curated by SAT David Starkey. The exhibition aims to show how this waterway SAT has been used as a stage to celebrate significant moments in SAT the nation's life over the past five centuries. SAT SAT The Wind in the Willows with Griff Rhys Jones is an ITV1 SAT documentary which looks at what inspired Kenneth Grahame to SAT write this much-loved children's classic. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01gngrj (Listen) SAT Lunch Is for Wimps SAT SAT Remember the lunch hour? You could leave your desk, meet SAT friends in the pub, eat a three course meal, have a SAT lunchtime affair even...That hour was your own: it didn't SAT belong to your employer. No more. Now, one in five people in SAT the UK never eat lunch. Only one in one hundred regularly SAT take a full hour's break. How has such a huge social change SAT happened? Why on earth did we let the lunch hour go so SAT easily? SAT SAT Matthew Sweet draws on archive recordings to explore what we SAT have lost, and what the hidden costs might be. Wall Street's SAT Gordon Gekko once said "lunch is for wimps" - why do we seem SAT to have accepted his conclusion? When Churchill enjoyed SAT several courses, washed down with wine and brandy, at midday SAT in Downing Street it was thought to help, rather than SAT hinder, his leadership of the country. Matthew talks to SAT social historian Juliet Gardiner, and to historian Sir David SAT Cannadine about Churchill's heroic dining. Sociologist SAT Harriet Bradley offers insights into the rise of SAT presenteeism and the impact of recession on our lunch time SAT habits. Writers Tim Parks implores us to take a break for SAT the sake of our health. SAT SAT Matthew goes back to Hull, where he grew up, and remembers SAT ham sandwiches at home with his mum, and factory whistles SAT sounding out around the city, signalling the start of the SAT lunch hour. He meets factory and office workers and asks why SAT have we allowed ourselves to become so overwhelmed with the SAT pressures of the working day that we don't have time to stop SAT for a break? SAT SAT Includes archive recordings from 1937 describing workers SAT flocking to corner houses for lunch, Ernest Bevin urging SAT wartime factory owners to give their workers proper meals SAT and revelations from the 1980s about liquid lunches and SAT office affairs. SAT SAT Producer: Hannah Marshall SAT A Loftus Audio Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01gf4lq (Listen) SAT Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Episode 1 SAT SAT Dramatised by Archie Scottney SAT SAT Joyous all-star spring fever, led by Alfred Molina, Patricia SAT Hodge, Jared Harris, Martin Jarvis and Rufus Sewell. A SAT pig-napping romantic thriller! PGW's dialogue dances across SAT the Blandings Castle lawns. Charming Earl of Ickenham (Uncle SAT Fred) has received a plea from affably dotty Lord Emsworth SAT to help foil a plot to steal his prize-winning pig. And to SAT examine the sanity of eccentric Duke of Dunstable. SAT SAT Delighting in such entertainment, Uncle Fred arrives at SAT Blandings in the guise of "brain specialist" Glossop, with SAT nephew Pongo posing as his secretary. Lively Polly Pott is SAT the third imposter, secretly engaged to Dunstable's nephew SAT Ricky and hoping to charm her prospective uncle-in-law. SAT Emsworth's devious secretary Rupert Baxter (Jared Harris) SAT spots them but can't call their bluff for fear of blackmail. SAT Emsworth's sister Connie suspects they are jewel thieves. SAT Bosham, Emsworth's son, thinks all is above board. But then SAT Polly's detective Dad is called in. Will the pig-napping SAT happen? SAT SAT Uncle Fred ..... Alfred Molina SAT Lady Constance ..... Patricia Hodge SAT The Duke of Dunstable ..... Christopher Neame SAT Rupert Baxter ..... Jared Harris SAT Ricky Gilpin ..... Rufus Sewell SAT Horace Davenport ..... Lloyd Owen SAT Mustard Pott ..... Julian Holloway SAT Polly Pott ..... Sophie Winkleman SAT Lord Emsworth ..... Martin Jarvis SAT P.G. Wodehouse ..... Ian Ogilvy SAT Lord Bosham ..... Simon Templeman SAT Pongo Twistleton ..... Matthew Wolf SAT Beach ..... Kenneth Danziger SAT Valerie Twistleton ..... Moira Quirk SAT Webster/Footmen ..... Darren Richardson SAT Singing Gardener ..... Mark Holden SAT SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01ghh1f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01gh8n2 (Listen) SAT Transitional Justice SAT SAT Clive Anderson and top legal experts discuss the best way to SAT achieve justice in the wake of massive human rights SAT violations in the Arab Spring countries. What role should SAT the international community play in the process? SAT Libyan lawyer Elham Saudi and US ambassador-at-large for war SAT crimes issues, Stephen Rapp, reflect on how successfully SAT transitional justice was achieved in the past, in Sierra SAT Leone, Rwanda, Iraq, South Africa and Yugoslavia, and argue SAT about the best way forward in Libya as well as in Egypt and SAT Tunisia. SAT SAT Should prominent members of the former Libyan regime, such SAT as Saif Gadaffi, be tried in Libya, where they would face SAT the death penalty, or dealt with in the International SAT Criminal Court in The Hague? SAT SAT Other guests on the programme are Claudio Cordone of the SAT International Centre for Transitional Justice and Geoffrey SAT Robertson QC who served as the first President of the SAT Special Court in Sierra Leone. SAT SAT Are criminal trials the best way to address the horrors of a SAT long and brutal regime? Or are truth and reconciliation SAT commissions better placed to allow a society to move SAT forward? And if there are to be trials, should members of SAT revolutionary forces also be prosecuted for human rights SAT violations? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01gf5t6 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 1 SAT SAT (1/13) SAT The evergreen general knowledge music quiz returns, with SAT Paul Gambaccini welcoming music enthusiasts from around the SAT UK aiming to prove the depth and breadth of their musical SAT knowledge. One of them is destined to become the 26th annual SAT Counterpoint champion in July. SAT SAT The first programme features competitors from London, SAT Wiltshire and Bedfordshire. As always on Counterpoint, SAT they'll be faced with an unpredictable mix of questions SAT covering many genres of music, from the classical repertoire SAT through film music, jazz, show tunes, and the pop charts SAT from the 1950s to the present day. There are plenty of SAT musical extracts to identify, some familiar, others SAT surprising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b01gf4n2 (Listen) SAT Series 12, Vitai Lampada SAT SAT Henry Newbolt's poem Vitai Lampada - better known to most by SAT its rousing chorus "play up, play up and play the game!"- SAT seems at first sight to be a product solely of its time and SAT place: he wrote it at the end of the 19th century and it SAT features cricket, war and a public school ethos about sport SAT and leadership. However, as Peggy Reynolds unpacks the poem SAT and talks to people who still know it, some surprises SAT emerge. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 APRIL 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01ghm85 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Greengrocer's Apostrophe b01gnp4v (Listen) SUN Alice, Hanging In There 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 When Alice is cast aside from her high-flying career she SUN finds a novel way to occupy her time. Armed only with a SUN balaclava and a pot of paint, she starts to vent her anger SUN on sloppy punctuation. SUN SUN A story by Ronald Frame, read by Tracy Wiles. SUN Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ghm87 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ghm89 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ghm8c (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01ghm8f (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01gnhrr (Listen) SUN The bells of St Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne Priors, SUN Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01gngrd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01ghm8h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01gnhrt (Listen) SUN To Fashion SUN SUN In 'To Fashion' Irma Kurtz explores the notion that the SUN garments we wear are a costume of choice. Once beyond the SUN nursery, modesty orders us to cloak our skins, and sometimes SUN our heads and faces too. To wear strategic covering in SUN public is required practically everywhere by law as well as SUN modesty. But we dress for more reasons than modesty and SUN protection. The garments we choose are our costume, and SUN sometimes a uniform, too. What we wear displays if not SUN precisely where we originate and who we are, certainly who SUN we wish we were and want to be seen as being. SUN SUN To illustrate this theme we hear readings from Robert SUN Herrick, Sebastian Horsley and P.G. Wodehouse. The music is SUN by Sergei Prokoviev, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin SUN and Paul Durand. The readers are Liza Sadovy, Col Farrell SUN and Frank Stirling. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01gnhrw (Listen) SUN The Woodman's Butterfly SUN SUN The Pearl Bordered Fritillary, sometimes called the 'April SUN butterfly', is one of the first to emerge in Spring. A jewel SUN of the woodland they have white 'pearl' markings on their SUN wings but sightings are increasingly rare. The 2010 European SUN Union target to halt the loss of bio-diversity has not been SUN met for the UK's butterflies. Three quarters of species SUN showed a decrease in either their distribution or population SUN levels. The Pearl Bordered Fritillary is one such population SUN with numbers declining by 42% over ten years. SUN SUN Sarah Pitt finds one of the few remaining sites where they SUN can be seen in England and finds out why they are also known SUN as 'the Woodsman's butterfly'. This butterfly is termed a SUN 'habitat specialist'. As it emerges from winter hibernation, SUN its larvae feed only on leaves of violets. Woodland SUN management techniques have changed over time and violets are SUN no longer common in British woodland. What can be done to SUN help the highly endangered Pearl Bordered Fritillary? SUN Richard Fox and Gary Pilkington discuss the state of SUN Britain's butterflies. SUN SUN Produced and Presented by Sarah Pitt. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01ghm8k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01ghm8m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01gnhry (Listen) SUN The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, meeting in London, SUN say they'll offer alternative spiritual leadership to SUN dissaffected members of the Church of England. They also SUN want an alternative to the Archbishop of Canterbury as SUN chairman of the Anglican primates meeting. Is this a way of SUN keeping the Anglican communion together or splitting it SUN asunder? SUN SUN 400 years ago a group of exiles returned from the SUN Netherlands to set up the first Baptist congregation on SUN English soil. Trevor Barnes reports on how they fared, and SUN why - if you are descended from these pioneering non SUN conformists - the roots of your family tree may dry up here. SUN SUN The Catholic Education Service has suggested that Catholic SUN pupils sign a petition against gay marriage. Is it legal for SUN them to do so? SUN SUN The message for David Cameron from young British Pakistanis SUN at an Oxford conference is that multi-culturalism is SUN working. SUN SUN The latest plans to reform the House of Lords want to SUN dramatically reduce the number of Bishops who sit there. How SUN has their role developed historically and how have they SUN contributed to the national debate? SUN SUN And exploring Shakespeares church - with the help of a new SUN App on your mobile phone. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01gnhs0 (Listen) SUN Starfish Greathearts Foundation SUN SUN Jim Carter presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Starfish Greathearts Foundation. SUN Reg Charity: 1093862 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Starfish Greathearts Foundation SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Starfish Greathearts Foundation SUN SUN Starfish’s main objective is to provide life, hope and SUN opportunity to vulnerable children in southern Africa. We SUN are particularly concerned about the impact of the AIDS SUN pandemic on children and the current generation of children SUN growing up in a HIV+ world, especially those who live in SUN underserved communities which are unreached by other means SUN of support. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01ghm8p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01ghm8r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01gnhs2 (Listen) SUN Called Together SUN SUN Called together. From Old Testament prophets to Mother SUN Teresa, men and women from across the centuries have felt SUN God is calling them to speak out and to minister to God's SUN people. Michael Ford, a former journalist, leads the SUN service. A number of students from Ripon College, Cuddesdon SUN reflect on how they felt called to ministry from a variety SUN of careers and backgrounds. The principal, the Revd Canon SUN Professor Martyn Percy looks at how that sense of calling is SUN tested and how it can extend to other careers and other SUN paths. SUN Producer Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01ghgtd (Listen) SUN The rights of humans... and animals SUN SUN "Could it be that human rights simply don't exist?" asks SUN Will Self provocatively. SUN SUN To illustrate his point, he writes: "One man's extraordinary SUN rendition is another man's license to torture, which in turn SUN is a flagrant denial of a third man's human rights". And he SUN ponders how we can conceive of a person having any human SUN rights, unless effective sanctions are in place to stop them SUN being violated. He turns his attention to Syria and its SUN "vicious dictator...actively and consistently violating the SUN human rights of its own citizenry". But the UN Security SUN Council is - he says - seemingly powerless to stop him. SUN SUN It is all a long way, he suggests, from Article 1 of the SUN 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights SUN which states that "All human beings are born free and equal SUN in dignity and rights." That - he points out - means that SUN "no single one of the eight-and-a-half billion-odd human SUN lives currently transpiring can be held to be of greater SUN value that any of the others". Without the creation of an SUN "independent global judiciary" and "an equally incorruptible SUN international police force," he argues, this is little more SUN than cant. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01gnhs4 (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 b01gnhs6 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch 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 Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Carl ..... Nicholas Bailey SUN Luke ..... David Perks SUN Doctor ..... Susan Jeffrey. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01gnhs8 (Listen) SUN Hong Kong Handover SUN SUN In the last programme in this series of The Reunion, Sue SUN MacGregor brings together five people who helped pave the SUN way for the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to SUN China. SUN SUN Hong Kong's 28th and last Governor Lord Chris Patten; SUN General Bryan Dutton who was head of the British garrison; SUN diplomat Hugh Davies who led the British negotiating team in SUN the colony; legislator and pro-democracy campaigner Emily SUN Lau lost her job on the stroke of midnight and influential SUN Hong Kong businessman Sir David Tang who waved the British SUN off. SUN SUN In Hong Kong the clock was always ticking. Unlike her other SUN colonial possessions Hong Kong was only ever on lease to SUN Britain. A 99 year lease set to expire on the 30th of June SUN 1997 when the territory would automatically revert to SUN Chinese rule. By the eighties Hong Kong was the busiest SUN container port in the word and the economic gateway to SUN China. But no-one really knew what would happen in 97 when SUN the lease ran out. SUN SUN The killing of hundreds of demonstrators in Beijing's SUN Tiananmen Square in 1989, an act which brought a million SUN people on to the streets of Hong Kong in protest, turned SUN acquiescence at the thought of Chinese rule into fear. Hong SUN Kong people started leaving in droves. Between 1984 and 1997 SUN one sixth of the Hong Kong population emigrated, 66,000 in SUN 1992 alone. SUN SUN As Britain's withdrawal got underway there was still heated SUN debate over how China would run the colony in the future. SUN The 1984 Sino British Joint Declaration had provided a SUN roadmap for Hong Kong's future but the devil was in the SUN detail. Heated exchanges were still going on minutes before SUN the highly orchestrated handover ceremony in which Governor SUN Patten came face to face with those who had denounced him as SUN a 'serpent' and a 'wrongdoer' who would be condemned for a SUN thousand generations'. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01gf5wk (Listen) SUN Series 9, Episode 4 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. Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Lucy Porter and SUN Graeme Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Restaurants, SUN Barbie dolls, Feet and Garlic. 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 Produced by Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01gnhsb (Listen) SUN A Scramble for Eggs? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at changes to the UK's egg supply SUN following the EU's ban on battery cages and how the food SUN industry is dealing with shortages and escalating prices. SUN SUN Although there may still be enough eggs on the shelves of SUN our supermarkets, the programme discovers that egg products SUN used in some of our most popular dishes are in ever shorter SUN supply and some may even be replaced with egg substitute SUN produced by the dairy industry. SUN SUN Three different food producers explain how the use eggs on a SUN large scale and the impact the EU changes have made on their SUN access to supplies of whole, liquid and frozen products. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01ghm8t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01gnjgr (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 b016lbtm (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN In 1871, at the Palace of Mirrors in Versailles, the king of SUN Prussia was crowned emperor of the newly unified German SUN empire - a quite staggering event. This is the story of SUN Germany's journey to define itself, indeed to stamp itself, SUN on the European map. SUN SUN "Everything was decided by military strength, but also by a SUN revolutionary idea that there were parts of the map reserved SUN for particular nations - blood and soil, and that if you SUN pick up a handful of soil, this is German, and if you move SUN fifty yards to the left, this is French." Professor Norman SUN Davies. SUN SUN Travelling from the great areas of conflict - Alsace SUN Lorraine in the west to Konnigratz in the east - Misha SUN Glenny brings to life moments in European history that have SUN huge resonance today. Contributors include Dr Abigail Green SUN of Oxford University, and Professor Michael Sturmer, a SUN former advisor to Helmut Kohl. SUN SUN The producer is Miles Warde. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ghgk7 (Listen) SUN Thrive, Reading SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are guests of gardening charity SUN Thrive. Christine Walkden, Chris Beardshaw and Pippa SUN Greenwood are on the panel. SUN SUN Jeremy Scott, the 2010 Blind Gardener of the Year, meets a SUN handful of gardeners making use of the therapeutic SUN horticulture programs run by the charity. Pippa Greenwood SUN investigates the current Busy Lizzie problem. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01gnjgt (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday omnibus edition of Radio 4's SUN series capturing the nation in conversation: in today's SUN programme, we meet Ciaron and Brendan, Irish brothers whose SUN fraternal bond was tested to the limit when Brendan fell SUN ill; from Radio Berkshire, the story of Jim and John who SUN touchingly remember the biscuity pleasures of working at the SUN Huntley and Palmers factory in Reading which closed in the SUN 1970s, while from Stoke on Trent, the agonising tale of SUN Stevie, the brother to Chris and son to Norman, who vanished SUN while on holiday in Crete. And there's a chance too to hear SUN just how the magic of these Listening Project encounters SUN actually works from one of the team gathering the interviews SUN across Britain. 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 b01gnjw9 (Listen) SUN Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Episode 2 SUN SUN Dramatised by Archie Scottney SUN SUN Charismatic Uncle Fred (Alfred Molina) is still at Blandings SUN Castle masquerading as a 'brain doctor'. The Duke of SUN Dunstable's lunatic pig-napping scheme continues. He calls SUN in nephew Ricky. Money is involved, and maybe a SUN chance for Ricky to marry Polly Pott. Lord Emsworth's SUN prize-pig Empress of Blandings is purloined - and hidden. SUN SUN Will all end happily? Will true love triumph? Even happiness SUN for the Pig? Will our ageing hero, Uncle Fred, be able to SUN leave for London, feeling that 'there are no limits to what SUN I can accomplish - in the Springtime'? All-star cast SUN directed by Martin Jarvis. 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 Producers: Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis SUN SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01gnjwc (Listen) SUN Russell Kane bringing comedy to his first novel The Humorist SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to comedian Russell Kane, who looks SUN at the nature of humour in his first novel, The Humorist, SUN through his protagonist Benjamin White, a leading critic for SUN a satirical magazine called The Review, who is clinically SUN unable to laugh - and is driven by this condition to pursue SUN the concept of the killer joke to its logical conclusion. SUN Russell Kane explains why writing is easier than stand up, SUN talks about being a bibliophile and on how his love of SUN writers from Flaubert to Trollope to Waugh is a constant SUN source of inspiration. SUN SUN Writing Britain - Wastelands to Wonderlands, at The British SUN Library . Among its 150 exhibits are real gems including J.G SUN Ballard's Crash, Katherine Mansfield's A Suburban Fairy Tale SUN and Arthur Conan Doyle "at home" in the Strand Magazine. SUN Jamie Andrews, senior curator at the British Library reveals SUN how writers have both been inspired by and helped shape the SUN nation's understanding of landscape and place SUN SUN Updating The Classics: debut novelist Francesca Segal whose SUN novel "The Innocents" transposes upper class New York of the SUN 1870s into present day North West London's Jewish community SUN talks with Professor of Literature at York University John SUN Bowen about how and why to update the classics. Is there a SUN danger of unfavourable comparisons - are there some books SUN that ought to be left well alone? SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Humorist – Russell Kane SUN Publisher: Simon and Schuster SUN SUN Crash – J G Ballard SUN Publisher: Harper Perennial SUN SUN Kingdom Come – J G Ballard SUN Publisher: Harper Perennial SUN SUN A Suburban Fairy Tale - Katherine Mansfield SUN SUN The Metropolitan Railway by John Betjeman (Audio recording SUN from the British Council Archive) SUN SUN Updating the Classics SUN SUN Four Children and It - Jacqueline Wilson SUN Publisher: Puffin SUN SUN The Hours - Michael Cunningham SUN Publisher: Fourth Estate SUN SUN On Beauty - Zadie Smith SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley SUN Publisher: Harper Perennial SUN SUN The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd SUN SUN The Innocents - Francesca Segal SUN Publisher: Chatto and Windus SUN SUN Reality, Reality – Jackie Kay SUN Publisher: Macmillan SUN SUN 16:30 A Foreigner Everywhere b01gnjwf (Listen) SUN Paul Farley explores the American poet Elizabeth Bishop's SUN extraordinary years in Brazil, and how her rootless, SUN traveller's condition inspired her creativity. SUN SUN Elizabeth Bishop has been called the poets' poets' poet', SUN and her work, often complex and multilayered, examines the SUN big themes of home, travel and identity. Though she's SUN regarded as an American poet, for nearly two decades Bishop SUN lived in Brazil, where she wrote much of her best work. SUN Essentially an orphan from the age of five, and a constant SUN observer, a 'foreigner everywhere', she speaks to our modern SUN rootless condition, asking how and where we find a sense of SUN 'home'. SUN SUN The poet Paul Farley, explores how Bishop tackles questions SUN of travel, and how she challenged approaches to other SUN cultures in the early days of mass tourism. Bishop met the SUN love of her life in Brazil, became deeply involved in the SUN Brazilian political tumult of the 1960s, and made the trip SUN of her life up the Amazon river. But her Brazil years also SUN ended in tragedy. SUN SUN In many ways a poet of our times, Paul explores how Bishop's SUN often overlooked Brazil years offer a new way into her work SUN and its relevance - a constant observer, portraying life in SUN all its nuanced complexity. SUN SUN Produced by Jo Wheeler SUN A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Nigerian Crossroads b01gg7gb (Listen) SUN Mark Doyle investigates the Nigerian paradox. He reports SUN from a Lagos international fashion show - and overflies a SUN network of illegal oil refineries. He visits a polo club SUN where relatively wealthy players favour Argentine ponies - SUN and finds himself in a camp for displaced people which looks SUN like it could be in war-torn Somalia. SUN SUN Nigeria, the giant of West Africa, has the largest SUN population of any African country. It's among the top dozen SUN producers of oil in the world, and has a vibrant, growing SUN economy. It's a country that could - perhaps should - be a SUN significant player on the world stage. But Nigeria's SUN communities are also torn apart by communal and religious SUN violence. And in recent years a new, radical Islamist group SUN has emerged to challenge the power of the state across the SUN north of the country. Thousands have been killed as the SUN police and the followers of the sect battle it out in places SUN of worship, police stations and on the streets. SUN SUN BBC Correspondent Mark Doyle has been visiting Nigeria for SUN over twenty years. He finds the country to be sometimes SUN inspiring and sometimes intensely frustrating. He asks SUN whether Nigeria will grow into a confident democracy or SUN whether it will collapse into a state of semi-permanent SUN violence. SUN Producer: Sam Farmar. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01gngrd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01ghm8w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01ghm8y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ghm90 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01gnjwh (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN This week, why It Started with a Sniff - not a Kiss, as we SUN discover the history of the kiss. Shakespeare gives us a SUN little touch of Harry in the night and a lovesick Malvolio SUN gets his comeuppance for being a party pooper. A L Kennedy SUN debunks the myth that madness produces great art whilst SUN Evelyn Glennie has music that did drive some poor souls mad SUN with the ghostly chimes of the Glass Armonica SUN SUN How a dance company is letting visually impaired fans get SUN closer than ever to help them understand the beauty of the SUN ballet. SUN SUN And the wonderful Mr Fan, barber and horse rider whose ever SUN cheerful exterior hides a tale of true courage. SUN SUN Twelfth Night - Radio 3 SUN Shakespeare's Restless World - Radio 4 SUN A Kiss is Never Just A Kiss - Radio 4 SUN Sightlines - Radio 4 SUN The Hedge - Radio 4 SUN Art and Madness - Radio 3 SUN If Chimes Could Whisper - Radio 3 SUN Drunk Again - Ann Widdecombe Investigates - Radio 5live SUN Lunch is for Wimps - Radio 4 SUN It's My Story - Radio 4 SUN Mike Barfield - Radio York SUN Michael Grade - On The Box - Radio 2 SUN In Touch - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01gnjwk (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 My Teenage Diary b00x95hr (Listen) SUN Series 2, Meera Syal SUN SUN Rufus Hound invites Meera Syal to read embarrassing extracts SUN from her teenage diary and read it out in public for the SUN 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 b01gnjwm (Listen) SUN The Watch Trick SUN SUN Another story from this insightful collection by the SUN acclaimed writer, Jennifer Egan, which takes a pithy and SUN sometimes poignant look at contemporary life in the United SUN States. SUN SUN Hidden desires surface when the hedonistic antics of an old SUN friend challenge a married couple's complacency. SUN SUN Reader: Fenella Woolgar SUN Abridger: Miranda Davies SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01ghgsy (Listen) SUN The formula that changed the world SUN SUN The Long Rain SUN SUN The numbers behind the drought, the hosepipe ban and how SUN much difference recent rainfall (enough to shrink men's SUN hands into the hands of wrinkled apes) has made. SUN SUN The Midas Formula SUN SUN The story of Black-Scholes, the equation that transformed SUN Wall Street - and the arguments over whether it made the SUN world a better place, or helped cause the financial mess SUN we've all been dealing with for the past five years. SUN SUN Tall Tories SUN SUN Last week we discovered North Koreans really are shorter SUN than their South Korean counterparts thanks to poor SUN nutrition in the North. This week: are Labour MPs shorter SUN than Conservative parliamentarians? SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01ghgkc (Listen) SUN Lord Ashley, Levon Helm, Wendy Grant, Charles Colson, Val SUN May SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Lord Ashley, who as the Labour MP Jack Ashley, overcame SUN deafness to become a champion of disabled people's rights SUN SUN Also, Levon Helm, the drummer and singer of The Band - who SUN backed Bob Dylan and recorded acclaimed albums of their own. SUN SUN Wendy Grant - the neuropathologist who came out of SUN retirement to warn that Mad Cow Disease could affect humans SUN SUN Charles Colson - special counsel to Richard Nixon - who SUN carried out dirty tricks against the President's opponents, SUN but later found God. SUN SUN And Val May, the theatre director who established the SUN reputation of the Bristol Old Vic. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01gng5g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01gnhs0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01ghc50 (Listen) SUN Through the Mill SUN SUN In the 19th century the Lancashire cotton industry was at SUN the heart of the world's industrial revolution and the main SUN engine of the British economy. In the 20th century it SUN started a long decline. Today a few remaining textile SUN manufacturers are finding ways of surviving huge global SUN competition. Peter Day finds out how they are doing it. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01gnjyl (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 b01gnjyn (Listen) SUN Episode 101 SUN SUN Nick Watt of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01ghc4m (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Tom Hiddleston to discuss his role SUN in The Avengers Assemble. SUN SUN Directors Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley discuss their much SUN praised micro-budget film Black Pond, starring Chris SUN Langham. SUN SUN Janet McTeer reveals who she modelled herself on for the SUN role of a man in Albert Nobbs. SUN SUN Critic Scott Jordan Harris reports from Ebertfest in SUN Illinois. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01gnhrt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 APRIL 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01ghm9y (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01gg8hx (Listen) MON Raoul Moat - the media story; Indian sex workers MON MON The sad story of the hunt for the lone gunman Raoul Moat had MON many of the ingredients of classic crime fiction: a MON countryside location; an outsider against the law and an MON extraordinary set of tragic circumstances that unfolded over MON time. In this edition of Thinking Allowed Laurie Taylor MON speaks to Michael Rowe, a criminologist at the centre of the MON crisis. He gave countless media interviews at the time and MON has now conducted a study of how 24 hour news media used the MON rubric of crime fiction to present events in a gripping way. MON He argues, however, that it was a method in which truth and MON understanding seem to have been amongst the victims. MON Also on the programme Prabha Kotiswaran discusses her MON ethnographic study of the daily and nightly life of MON prostitutes in two of India's cities. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01gnhrr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ghmb0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ghmb2 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ghmb4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01ghmb6 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gnq8r (Listen) MON with the Revd Alison Jack. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01gnq8t (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 b01ghmb8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01gnq8w (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including MON Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01gnq8y (Listen) MON Creativity: Jonah Lehrer MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses creativity with the MON writer Jonah Lehrer. In his latest book, Imagine, Lehrer MON unpicks the creative process in both science and art, to ask MON where inventiveness and imagination spring from, and how MON they can be harnessed. Experimental sound artist, Scanner, MON talks about creating unique musical compositions and his MON latest collaboration with the Heritage Orchestra at the MON Brighton Festival; and the novelist Joanna Kavenna considers MON the importance of nourishing creative ideas in writing MON fiction. She argues that everyone is born creative, although MON as we get older this innate imaginative ability is often MON suppressed or side-lined. Finally, the chemist, Rachel MON O'Reilly, explains the importance of the creative process in MON scientific research and how blue-sky thinking aids MON developments in nano-materials and technology. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01gnq90 (Listen) MON The Man within My Head, Episode 1 MON MON "The high, thin light was turning the shacks and shanties on MON the hills to gold as I put my thoughts of Graham Greene MON behind me." MON MON The travel writer Pico Iyer (author of Video Nights in MON Kathmandu, Falling Off The Map) has always wandered the MON world with a mentor 'looking on'. Whether it be Bogota, MON Cuba, California, Japan, the man inside Iyer's head, as he MON puts it, is always Graham Greene. And it is Greene's fights MON with faith, his reservations about innocence, his generous MON spirit, that are really inspiring. In the course of five MON episodes and from various destinations the author describes MON his fascination for the great man.. MON MON Pico Iyer is in Bogota where he first tells us that his MON mentor whilst wandering the globe is Graham Greene. MON Abridged in five parts by Katrin Williams MON and read by Paul Basely MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gv92z (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Fertility drugs - the impact on children's health MON MON A recent report reveals that fertility boosting drugs could MON more than double the risk of children developing leukaemia. MON French researchers from INSERM in Paris believe there’s an MON association between ovarian stimulation drugs and one of the MON most common types of leukaemia - acute lymphoblastic - and MON one of the rarer forms - myeloid leukaemia. But how MON concerned should parents be about the link between fertility MON drugs and leukaemia, and are IVF children more susceptible MON to illness than those naturally conceived? Furthermore, is MON enough being done to monitor IVF babies? Professor Robert MON Winston from Imperial College London joins Jane to discuss. MON MON Antique Dolls Houses MON MON Most people keep garden tools and junk in their garden shed MON or outbuildings. Liza Antrim, a conservator in rural MON Somerset, keeps nothing less than a private museum of MON antique dolls houses in hers. A self-confessed dolls house MON obsessive, Liza has spent a lifetime researching and MON restoring her collection and believes dolls houses are MON overlooked in terms of their contribution to social history. MON She does not open her town of dolls houses to many people MON but reporter Henrietta Harrison was one of the lucky few to MON visit her indoor miniature town. MON MON Bisexuality MON MON The singer and star of the Voice Jessie J has been quite MON vocal about her sexuality, but now the author of a new MON unofficial biography of the star has claimed that she is MON really a lesbian and not bisexual. The author claims certain MON people believed being bi was trendy, exotic and a fashion MON statement which would increase her allure. These allegations MON have been denied. But is it really more acceptable for a MON woman to be bisexual and what does all this say about MON attitudes towards bisexual and lesbian women. Jane is joined MON by Louise Carolin, Deputy Editor, Diva magazine and Surya MON Monro from Huddersfield University who is currently writing MON a book about bisexuality. MON MON Sexuality, Equality and Diversity by Diane Richardson and MON Surya Monro MON MON Breakfast Clubs MON MON A new report says more and more children are going to school MON hungry or even malnourished. The Princes Trust says half of MON teachers surveyed say the result of skipping breakfast MON include a lack of concentration, behavioural problems and MON poor attendance. The largest provider of free breakfasts in MON England says demand for meals has increased fourfold. Why MON are children going to school crying with hunger, and should MON the government intervene? MON MON What to say or not say when a friend is in crisis MON MON When you become seriously ill or suffer a bereavement or MON even lose your job, you have all your own emotions to deal MON with but no-one ever warns you that you have to deal with MON your friends' reaction to your situation. Many don’t know MON what to say and invariably many say the wrong thing despite MON the fact that they want to help - it is always with the best MON of intentions. So now the Guardian columist, Deborah Orr, MON has come up with a list of 10 things to say to someone when MON they’re ill. She herself was diagnosed with breast cancer 18 MON months ago. She joins Jane Garvey along with Annie MON Hinchliffe who is a chartered psychologist. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gvkw5 (Listen) MON 44 Scotland Street, Episode 1 MON MON A dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's acclaimed series MON based on the residents of a fictitious tenement building in MON a real Edinburgh New Town street, inspired by Maupin's Tales MON of The City. MON MON Anthropologist Domenica MacDonald observes the lives of her MON neighbours and the neighbourhood in Edinburgh's New Town. MON Pat, a new young tenant, arrives at 44 Scotland Street to MON flat share with Bruce. Bruce is a surveyor with more of an MON eye for the ladies than a sound property. We're introduced MON to five-year-old Bertie, who is controlled by his MON pretentious and intellectual mother Irene - he's learning MON the saxophone, speaks Italian, and is extremely MON knowledgeable about many subjects. And then there's Matthew, MON setting up the Something Special Gallery with little MON knowledge of artists or paintings! MON MON With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an MON interesting corner of the New Town, verging on the Bohemian, MON where haute bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students and the MON more colourful members of the intelligentsia. MON MON One of McCall Smith's particular talents is his ability to MON portray archetypes without resorting to stereotype or MON cliche. In McCall Smith's hands such characters retain charm MON and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy, MON 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith. MON MON DOMENICA..........CAROL ANN CRAWFORD MON RAEBURN TODD.........CRAWFORD LOGAN MON BRUCE............JAMES MACKENZIE MON IRENE..................ROSALIND SYDNEY MON BERTIE.................EUAN LEE MON MATTHEW..............SAMUEL KEEFE MON Music by Tom Cunningham MON MON Producer/director: David Ian Neville. MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b01gvkw7 (Listen) MON Donald Broadbent and the Cocktail Party MON MON When Donald Broadbent died in 1993 he left a legacy which MON still influences our understanding of how we process the MON complex information that is all around us and focus on what MON is salient to us. With his innovative dichotic listening MON experiments, Broadbent moved from his original filter model MON of selective attention to an understanding of the 'cocktail MON party effect', whereby significant information, such as our MON own name, intrudes on our consciousness, even when it's MON embedded in auditory information we're not apparently MON attending to. In the programme Claudia Hammond illustrates MON the point with examples of dichotic listening experiments MON that listeners can try themselves. MON MON By applying an information processing model to attention, MON Broadbent launched the cognitive revolution in psychology in MON Britain. As Director of the Medical Research Council's MON Applied Psychology Unit from 1958 to 1974, Broadbent MON propagated his belief that psychology should be applied to MON practical problems, such as optimising human performance by MON the design of aircraft cockpits or nuclear reactor control MON rooms. He became a regular expert contributor on radio and MON TV, promoting psychology to the public. MON MON Meeting psychologists who studied and worked with Broadbent MON - Professor Susan Gathercole of the MRC Cognition and Brain MON Sciences Unit, Professors Alan Baddeley of York University MON and Dylan Jones and Andy Smith of Cardiff University - MON Claudia Hammond builds a picture of the man and his MON ground-breaking work, learning that noise has a far greater MON impact on our efficiency at work than we realize. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b01gvkw9 (Listen) MON Series 2, With Deepest Sympathy 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 In this episode, the Easter family travel to Middlesbrough MON to help Harvey's miserable, hypochondriac, racist mum Lou MON through a difficult time, and Charlie learns about mobile MON phone etiquette at a Catholic funeral mass and an Italian MON wake. 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 Lou Easter .... Sorcha Cusack MON Priest .... Angus Deayton MON MON Producer: Anna Madley. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01gvkwc (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01ghmbb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01gvkwf (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 b01gvkwh (Listen) MON Treason and Plots MON MON Programme 11. TREASON & PLOTS - A tabloid history of MON Shakespeare's England, told through a collection of MON contemporary accounts of plots to murder Elizabeth I and MON James I. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01gnjwk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01gvlfm (Listen) MON Through the Wire MON MON Helen Macdonald's drama documentary tells the story of the MON British POWs who survived incarceration in German camps in MON World War Two by studying the birds that flew freely all MON around them. While some of their fellow prisoners plotted MON escape and dug tunnels, men like John Buxton, Peter Condor MON and George Waterston looked hard at the birds that flew MON overhead on migration and also at those that chose to fly MON through the camp wire, like redstarts and goldfinches, and MON breed amongst the prisoners and their guards. With days, MON even years, to spare but without any binoculars or other MON equipment, the birdmen turned watching into their way of MON getting through the war. They enlisted the help of other MON prisoners and even some of their guards (bird study was a MON major field in Germany) and they recorded their observations MON using scraps of old cigarette packets to write on. After the MON war their studies were often published and became, and in MON cases remain, key texts for the bird species they were MON writing about. Several of the birdmen went on also to become MON major figures in ornithology and bird conservation. Using MON scientific papers, monographs, letters and diary entries MON Helen Macdonald, poet, falconer and scholar of wartime MON ornithology, has created a drama about men sitting still and MON straining their eyes looking at the sky. The music is by MON Olivier Messiaen, the French composer and bird lover, who MON was also incarcerated in another nearby prison camp by the MON Germans, where he listened to the birds he heard and MON inspired by them and the accidental collection of MON instruments and players there were in his camp, wrote his MON modernist masterpiece, The Quartet for the End of Time. MON MON Cast: Arthur: David Bamber; John Buxton: Lorcan Cranitch; MON Peter Condor: Jay Villiers. MON Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01gvlfp (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 2 MON MON (2/13) MON Which perfectly genteel musical instrument might George MON Bernard Shaw have been moved to describe as 'a snarling MON abomination'? And, at the other end of the spectrum, can you MON remember the title of the Monkees' surreal film comedy, made MON in 1968? MON MON Paul Gambaccini puts these and many other questions to the MON competitors in the second heat in the 2012 series of the MON wide-ranging general knowledge music quiz. Music lovers from MON Gateshead, London and Hitchin in Hertfordshire line up this MON week to face Paul's questions on every musical genre, from MON the core classical repertoire to film music, jazz, show MON tunes, classic rock and pop. MON MON As always, they'll be expected to pick a specialist musical MON topic to answer individual questions on - from a list of MON which they've had no prior warning. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01gnhsb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Ampers-Fan b01gvlfr (Listen) MON The dark horse of the keyboard, the ampersand exists to join MON things together, yet remains set apart. Whilst everyone can MON read and understand the ampersand, or the & symbol, how many MON of us know where it came from? MON MON Alistair Sooke traces the history of the funny little MON character that has quietly given joy to so many, from a MON bored medieval scribe right the way through to a modern day MON digital font designer. Delighting type designers throughout MON the centuries as a chance within a font to create a small MON piece of art, it is a joyful moment in a functional MON resource. Speaking to Ampersfans Alastair enters into a MON world of letterpress, punchcutting and typography and MON discovers how the ampersand can be found at every step of MON the way, bringing a joyful flick of a tail to the dullest MON document. MON MON If you thought the ampersand was a bright young thing in the MON world of type, you couldn't be more wrong; first credited to MON Marcus Tiro around 63 BC, combing the letters e and t from MON the Latin word "et". Fighting off competition from his MON nemesis, the "Tironian Mark", Alastair then tracks the MON ampersand to 16th Century Paris where it was modelled in the MON hands of type designer to the King, Claude Garamond, then MON back across the sea to William Caslon's now famous MON interpretation, designed with a joyful array of flourishes MON and swirls. Alastair will discover how the ampersand became MON a calling card for many typographers, showcasing some of MON their best and most creative work. MON MON A simple twist of the pen, the ampersand has managed to MON captivate its audience since print began, in Ampersfan MON Alistair tries to pin down this slippery character down once MON and for all. MON MON Producer: : Jo Meek & Gillian Donovan MON A Sparklab Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Digital Human b01gvlft (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Aleks Krotoski asks not just what technology can do for us MON but also what is it doing to us and the world we're MON creating? Each week she takes us on a journey to where MON people are living their digital lives to explore how MON technology touches everything we do both on and offline. MON MON Taking broad themes of modern living as a starting point she MON charts the experiences of homo digitas; both the remarkable MON and the mundane, to understand how we are changing just as MON quickly as the advances in our technology. MON MON What does the deluge of images from digital photography mean MON for our memory when every second is being recorded, edited MON and posted online for posterity? Are the identities we MON create in social media no more than exercises in personal MON branding, to be managed and protected like any other MON product? And as traditional churches struggle to leverage MON technology to spread their faith do the behaviours we all MON display online have more in common with religion than MON rationality? MON MON The time for wonder at the digital world is over, we live MON with it in every day. The question really is who are we now MON because of it? MON MON 17:00 PM b01gvlfw (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ghmbd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01gvlfy (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 5 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. Danielle Ward, Henning Wehn, Tom MON Wrigglesworth and John Finnemore are the panellists obliged MON to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: MON Bats, Cars, Orange and Dr. Johnson. 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 b01gvlg0 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01gvlg2 (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including an interview with MON singer-songwriter Norah Jones, and a report on a major MON exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci's anatomical drawings, on MON show at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gvkwh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b01gvlg4 (Listen) MON Remembering Millie MON MON Millie died when she was 22 months, but the impact of her MON life and death is still emerging. "Remembering Millie," MON celebrates her life through the stories of her family, MON friends, neighbours, a teacher at her brother's school, a MON hairdresser who cut her hair once, and even people who never MON met her. MON MON At 20 weeks into their 3rd pregnancy, Martin and Frances MON discovered that their unborn daughter had a rare MON neurological genetic condition. Her head and brain were not MON developing properly. Professionals said she might not have a MON face and strongly advised a termination. But they went ahead MON with the pregnancy, and not only did Millie unexpectedly MON survive the birth, but she lived longer than anyone had MON predicted. She remained the size of a newborn, had a flat MON nose and cleft palate, never sat up and was fed by a tube MON her whole life; yet she touched the lives of everyone who MON met her. MON MON When Martin and Frances move away from Oxford where Millie MON was born and is buried, they negotiate feeling that they've MON left her behind. In the new place with new people they MON continue to keep her memory alive. Millie's grandmother MON says, "she goes on being, because she's remembered so much, MON and a friend observes, "the family's moving on, and MON thriving, loving and enjoying life, and this isn't because MON Millie isn't there any more, it's because Millie WAS there." MON MON In the programme her parents speak openly about how Millie MON has affected them and in tears describe her death. Music and MON readings from the funeral underpin the programme, and MON capture the sorrow, but also the joy of Millie's life. MON There's so much that's positive in the family's testimony, MON and in those of people who knew and loved Millie, or whose MON lives have been changed by Millie's story, that the MON programme both challenges and comforts in equal measure. MON MON Producer: Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01ghc47 (Listen) MON The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh MON MON In Bangladesh, twenty percent of girls are married before MON their fifteenth birthday. Jemy is likely to be one of them. MON She is thirteen years old and due to marry a cousin in three MON days time. MON Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Oli is touring the slums of MON Dhaka, telling parents not to marry off their daughters. MON And in the wards of the Dhaka Medical College lies Poppy, MON awaiting an operation to repair a body broken by childbirth MON at the age of twelve. MON This week's Crossing Continents looks at the issue of Child MON Marriage, through the eyes of these three children. MON It is a practice still rife in Bangladesh despite being MON illegal. Some call it modern day slavery. Child brides drop MON out of school and are rarely able to undertake any paid MON work. Often they become victims of domestic violence. And MON many, like Poppy, suffer severe health problems as a result MON of giving birth at a young age. MON They lose their childhood completely. MON But campaigners are fighting back, trying to persuade rural MON villagers not to marry off their daughters so young. MON Reporter Angus Crawford joins them as they try to track down MON Jemy and halt her wedding. But can they reach her in time? MON Producer: Tony Smith. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01ghc4p (Listen) MON In this Week’s programme Gareth Mitchell looks at the future MON of road transport. According to transport researchers the MON car as we know it will have to become a thing of the past if MON traffic is to continue flowing. Drivers will need to be more MON like passengers and leave much of the decision making about MON what vehicles do on our roads to computerised transport MON management systems. MON MON It’s just over a century since scientists first showed that MON cosmic rays can come from distant stars. Subsequent research MON into their effects here on earth has led to the worrying MON conclusion that they could destroy much of our global MON communications infrastructure. We hear about those early MON cosmic ray pioneers and the role of hot air Balloons in MON determining where they come from, with Professor Alan Watson MON from Leeds University. And speak to Dr Christopher Frost MON from The Rutherford Appleton laboratory’s Neutron MON Irradiation facility, who is trying to recreate the effects MON of those rays to see how they affect modern electronics. MON MON And from our ‘So You Want to be a Scientist’ experiment, we MON look more widely at what makes us talk the way we do. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01gnq8y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01ghmbg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01gvlg6 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01gvlg8 (Listen) MON Annals of the Parish, Episode 1 MON MON John Galt's masterpiece of small-town Scottish life, written MON in 1821. Reverend Micah Balwhidder settles in his study to MON pen an account of his fifty year ministry in the parish of MON Dalmailing. MON MON Balwhidder's appointment in 1760 tears the community apart MON as the young minister is placed in his post by an absentee MON landowner - inciting the rage of the parishioners. MON MON Abridged by Rosemary Goring and read by Paul Young. MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01gg7fy (Listen) MON Losing Your Parents' Language MON MON What's it like to lose the language spoken by your parents? MON Michael Rosen goes to meet families in which parents and MON children have different mother tongues. He meets those who MON have made the decision to bring their children up in MON English, and asks their children what it's like when your MON parents speak a language you can't understand. He also talks MON to parents who want to ensure that their language continues MON down the generations, and fear "losing" their children to MON English. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gvlgb (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 MAY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01ghmc9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01gnq90 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ghmcc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ghmcf (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ghmch (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01ghmck (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hn5lh (Listen) TUE with the Revd Alison Jack. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01gvljn (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01gvljq (Listen) TUE Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including TUE Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Children of the Olympic Bid b01gvljs (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 2 TUE TUE For the past seven years, Peter White has been following the TUE teenagers widely credited with being London's secret weapon TUE when it unexpectedly succeeded in its bid to host the Games TUE TUE Peter has followed these teenagers from their dramatic TUE appearance alongside Sebastian Coe in Singapore, through TUE their sporting triumphs and failures, GCSE's, A-levels and TUE University courses, successful and unsuccessful love TUE affairs, emigration, rows with parents, and in one case a TUE brush with the police. As the games approach he finds out TUE what has happened to them and those who live and train TUE alongside them - from Ellie, the poster girl of the bid, who TUE has now been selected for the British swim team, to TUE Danielle, the dancer, who has been chosen to take part in TUE 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 09:30 One to One b0174gk2 (Listen) TUE Evan Davis talks to Penny Gadd TUE TUE Evan Davis continues his exploration into deception by TUE talking to those who've had cause to be economical with the TUE truth. We think of truth and falsehood as simple binary TUE concepts. Statements surely have to be one or the other. TUE Well not quite. In these interviews Evan meets people who've TUE found themselves on the fuzzy boundary between truth and TUE falsehood. This week he meets Penny Gadd who lead life as a TUE married man but who became more and more aware that she TUE needed to change sex. She'd concealed her feelings for years TUE and as in so many deceptions she'd concealed them from TUE herself too. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01gvljv (Listen) TUE The Man within My Head, Episode 2 TUE TUE Pico Iyer's recalls schooldays in Oxford and then a TUE remarkable decision to commute to California! TUE TUE Reader Paul Bazely TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gvn1z (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gyk32 (Listen) TUE 44 Scotland Street, Episode 2 TUE TUE Producer/director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01gvn21 (Listen) TUE Series 6, In Search of the Japanese Sika TUE TUE If you're up early enough in Purbeck, Dorset and you're TUE lucky enough to spot a deer, it's most likely to be a TUE Japanese sika deer. This area has the largest population in TUE England and the deer are often to be seen grazing on the TUE salt marshes and heath that are such an important part of TUE the landscape here. And if you're travelling on one of the TUE Brownsea Island ferries you might even see one in the water, TUE swimming to or from the island - sika are good swimmers. TUE TUE In evolutionary terms sika deer are recent arrivals to the TUE UK, having been introduced from the Far East into deer parks TUE a little over 150 years ago. Some escaped, others were TUE released and they bred successfully in the countryside TUE beyond park boundaries. Today the Japanese sika is free TUE living in the wild and is now widespread across northern and TUE western mainland Scotland and in the Scottish Borders, well TUE established in Northern Ireland and found in concentrated TUE pockets in England. The sika in Purbeck originate from deer TUE introduced to Brownsea Island under the mistaken view that TUE the surrounding water would contain them. TUE TUE Naturalist, Chris Sperring, is up at the crack of dawn to TUE join Angela Peters of the National Trust and Toby Branston TUE of the RSPB as they begin the Spring count of sika deer in TUE Purbeck. He talks to ecologist Dr Anita Diaz of Bournemouth TUE University and discovers why sika are doing so well in this TUE part of the world, what impact they're having on one of the TUE country's most biodiverse areas and just what makes these TUE elegant and beautiful animals tick. He also finds out how TUE conservation organisations like the RSPB and National Trust TUE are managing the delicate balance of deer, people and TUE internationally important habitats. TUE TUE Presented by Chris Sperring TUE Produced by Karen Partridge. TUE TUE 11:30 Conjuring Halie b01gvn23 (Listen) TUE Cerys Matthews celebrates the life of one of her musical TUE heroines, the great gospel singer Mahalia ("Halie") Jackson, TUE who died in 1972. Jackson became one of the most influential TUE gospel singers in the world at the height of her popularity, TUE inspiring singers like Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples. TUE But she was also one of the unsung heroes of the civil TUE rights movement in America, described by the legendary TUE historian and broadcaster Studs Terkel as one of the bravest TUE people he'd ever met. TUE TUE As a child she suffered illness, poverty and deprivation. TUE The Church was her shelter. During the late 1920s, at the TUE height of the great migration, she toured Illinois TUE performing in churches. But it was in Chicago that she made TUE her name and carved out a place for herself as the first TUE professional gospel singer. She refused to sing secular TUE music, a pledge she kept throughout her professional life. TUE Even Louis Armstrong couldn't persuade her to sing jazz with TUE him. By the 1950s and 60s, touring across Europe, she was TUE being described as "the greatest spiritual singer alive." TUE Throughout, she remained a close friend and comrade of TUE Martin Luther King, travelling with him to the deepest parts TUE of the segregated south and often singing at gatherings TUE where he spoke including at the famous march on Washington. TUE TUE In this programme Cerys shares her passion for Mahalia with TUE another huge fan, Sir Tom Jones. She also talks to gospel TUE singer Vermettya Royster and to the Reverend Stanley Keeble TUE both of whom knew and played with Mahalia. We also hear TUE archive recordings of the historian Studs Terkel talking TUE with Mahalia in the years when they became close friends. We TUE hear from blues and gospel writers Val Wilmer and Viv TUE Broughton. As well as hearing her live performances. TUE TUE Produced by Sarah Cuddon TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01gvn25 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01ghmcm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01gvn27 (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 b01gvn29 (Listen) TUE Sex and the City TUE TUE Programme 12. SEX & THE CITY - A delicate glass goblet TUE reveals the twin seductions of Venice: its sought after TUE luxuries and its equally sought after lecherous women. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01gvlg0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tmtz4 (Listen) TUE What the Bishops Knew TUE TUE 'What the Bishops Knew' by Hugh Costello fictionally TUE explores an accusation of child abuse by a Catholic Priest TUE in Ireland and how over several decades this was allegedly TUE covered up within the hierarchy of the Church in an attempt TUE to protect its reputation. TUE TUE Mary Dowdall - Brid Brennan TUE Bob McCabe - Mark Lambert TUE Barry Glynn - Patrick Fitzsymons TUE Barry, aged 10 - Peter Gilmore TUE Fr Brand - Kevin Flood TUE Monsignor Milligan - Pat Laffan TUE Professor McGovern - Niall Cusack TUE Bishop Culleton - Gerard Murphy TUE Cardinal Finnerty - Des Nealon TUE Director Eoin O'Callaghan TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01gvn2c (Listen) TUE Historian Helen Castor 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 b01gvn2f (Listen) TUE The Return of Old King Coal TUE TUE In the rush to come up with new, clean ways to produce TUE electricity many people assumed that dirty old coal was a TUE fuel of the past, a relic of the Industrial Revolution. TUE However, coal's dominance of the market in electricity TUE generation is actually increasing. China is building many TUE new coal-fired power stations. The booming economies of TUE Poland, Australia and South Africa are almost exclusively TUE reliant on coal whilst even the Germans have turned back to TUE the black stuff as they abandon nuclear power. TUE TUE In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap investigates the dramatic TUE revival of Old King Coal and asks if there are any realistic TUE ways to turn our cheapest, most abundant fuel into a clean TUE source of energy. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01gvn2h (Listen) TUE Interpreting TUE TUE Michael Rosen investigates the world of interpreting. We TUE meet interpreters in business, sport and even psychotherapy, TUE discover how there's more to the job than just language TUE skills, and hear a report on the work of interpreters in the TUE new Russia. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01gvn2k (Listen) TUE Series 27, Edward Said TUE TUE Edward Said was a man, who, in his own words, lived two TUE quite separate lives. First there was the scholar and TUE literary critic of Colombia University, and then there was TUE the fierce critic of American and Israeli policies in the TUE Middle East. In the United States he was an academic TUE superstar, but his views - on Palestine in particular - made TUE him an intensely divisive figure. He died of leukaemia in TUE 1993. TUE TUE In Great Lives, Alexei Sayle explains to Matthew Parris why TUE Edward Said, a man he met twice and described as "very noble TUE and fiercely intelligent", inspired him. Edward Said once TUE described the Palestinians as 'the victims of the victims'. TUE This eloquence, on a subject that in America was taboo, TUE still impresses Alexei Sayle today. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01gvn2m (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ghmcp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01gvq3l (Listen) TUE Series 8, Rosicrucian Armageddon 2 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 joins the modern gaming fraternity when he meets Graham TUE Pearson - the man who gave the world 'Rosicrucian TUE Armageddon' - and is hired to add some authentic TUE 'oldenspeak' to its sequel - 'Rosicrucian Armageddon 2'. TUE Whilst he tries to get to grips with NPC's, orbs and the TUE Quest for the Grail his daughter unexpectedly arrives TUE complete with son, Smile, Japanese tea infuser, dream TUE catcher and native American chants to purge Ed's flat. TUE TUE Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas TUE Olive ..... Stephanie Cole TUE Eli ..... Lisa Coleman TUE Newsreader ..... Corrie Corfield TUE Graham ..... Tom Goodman Hill TUE Pearl ..... Rita May TUE Ping/Lisa ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Delivery man/waiter ..... Dan Tetsell TUE Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01gvq3n (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01gvq3q (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including news of the shortlist for the TUE Turner Prize for visual art, announced today. TUE TUE Producer Erin Riley. TUE TUE 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gvn29 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Life and Death on the Frontline b01gvq3s (Listen) TUE The recent deaths in Syria of the journalists Marie Colvin TUE and Remi Ochlik have once again highlighted the dangers TUE faced by correspondents and media teams reporting from areas TUE of war and conflict. 10 journalists have died in Syria TUE already this year and last year the International News TUE Safety Institute recorded more than 120 deaths of TUE journalists and media staff around the world. TUE TUE After 30 years reporting from hot-spots around the world, TUE the BBC's World Affairs Editor, John Simpson reflects on TUE what it's like to work in the face of frequent danger, on TUE the personal pressures and doubts as well as the TUE relationship between front-line journalists and their TUE managers back at base. He examines the pressure to "get the TUE story" and how journalists on the ground judge the TUE boundaries beyond which they should not stray. Simpson also TUE looks at recent developments to improve the safety of TUE journalists through training, support and the work of TUE organisations aiming to raise international awareness. He TUE asks whether the focus of these efforts is right or whether TUE in the end it largely comes down to experience, judgement TUE and luck. TUE TUE In a world that has come to expect news and eye-witness TUE reporting almost instantly from every corner of the globe TUE are the dangers faced by journalists who seek to shine a TUE light on some of the ugliest aspects of the human story a TUE price worth paying? TUE TUE Producer: Richard Clemmow TUE A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01gvq3v (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01gvq3x (Listen) TUE In the first of a new series Claudia Hammond investigates TUE what the government's health reforms could mean for mental TUE health services. TUE TUE 21:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b01gvljs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01ghmcr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01gvq3z (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01gyks3 (Listen) TUE Annals of the Parish, Episode 2 TUE TUE Settled in his study at the end of his career, Balwhidder TUE remembers how news of trouble in the Americas trickled TUE through to the sleepy town of Dalmailing in 1769. TUE TUE Abridged by Rosemary Goring and read by Paul Young. TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 23:00 Tidal Talk from the Rock Pool b01gvq41 (Listen) TUE The Periwinkle and the Hermit Crab TUE TUE 1/3. The Periwinkle and the Hermit Crab. TUE The Periwinkle played by Bill Wallis and the Hermit Crab TUE played by Geoffrey Palmer, reveal the truth about life in a TUE rock pool, in the first of three very funny salty tales, TUE written and introduced by Lynne Truss, with a soundscape by TUE Chris Watson, and recorded at the QEH Theatre in Bristol as TUE part of BBC Radio 4's 'More than Words' festival. TUE For the joke-loving Periwinkle, life is all about TUE entertaining his neighbours as he roves around the rocks TUE annoying the Hermit Crab, the Sea Anemone, the Goby Fish, TUE the Limpet, and the Lugworm with his terrible jokes. But TUE life in the rock pool isn't all laughter and fun as the TUE Periwinkle reveals when he recalls his encounter with a TUE giant gull - and a near- death adventure! TUE Meanwhile the Hermit Crab stuck in shell with a Ragworm who TUE doesn't do their fair share of the housework, a parasitic TUE barnacle and worst of all an Anemone on his roof who spends TUE all her time exercising; thump, thump, thump. There's no TUE peace 'down below' for the crab. And just when it looks like TUE life couldn't get any worse, a crowd of children arrive at TUE the rock pool with their fishing nets. The Hermit Crab TUE scuttles into the back of his shell for safety and waits for TUE the worst to happen! TUE Periwinkle : Bill Wallis TUE Hermit Crab : Geoffrey Palmer TUE Written and introduced by Lynne Truss TUE Sound design by Chris Watson TUE Produced by Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gvq43 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 MAY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01ghmdn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01gvljv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ghmdq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ghmds (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ghmdv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01ghmdx (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hn5lr (Listen) WED with the Revd Alison Jack. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01gvqnb (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Clare Freeman. WED WED 06:00 Today b01gvqnd (Listen) WED Presented by James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including WED Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for WED the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01gvqng (Listen) WED Libby Purves is joined by guests including musical theatre WED star, Maria Friedman. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01gvqnj (Listen) WED The Man within My Head, Episode 3 WED WED Pico Iyer hits the hot and sultry streets of Havana, and of WED course WED Graham Greene is with him once more.. WED WED Reader Paul Bazely WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gvqnl (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gyk57 (Listen) WED 44 Scotland Street, Episode 3 WED WED Producer/director: David Ian Neville. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01gvqnn (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 1 WED WED In the first of a new series of documentary stories from WED contemporary Britain, Alan Dein captures the dramas of young WED families just moving into Cardea: a brand new housing estate WED on the outskirts of Peterborough. Just two years ago, Cardea WED was just open fields - now it's a burgeoning community. WED WED Two families in particular attract Alan's attention. Sara WED Jane and Stacey are both expectant mums in their early WED twenties. Together with their partners, they're about to WED embark on a new life on a new-build estate. WED WED Cardea represents a fresh start for both women after an WED often difficult past. Sara Jane was brought up on council WED estate and vowed that she wanted a different upbringing for WED her own children. At the same time, Stacey hopes that her WED ambitions to become a midwife - thwarted through ill-health WED - might yet bear fruit as she starts out in a new home. WED WED Alan follows the young families up to and beyond moving day, WED talking to them about their hopes and fears for the future. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 My First Planet b01gvqnq (Listen) WED Inglorious Barters WED WED Written by Phil Whelans WED WED A queue for the loo and a rogue backrub threaten to blow up WED the colony. And just what is Lillian's "Special Skill"...? 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 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 with special guest WED Carshalton Richard Bond. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01gvrx9 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01gw1dp (Listen) WED Radioactive Legacy WED WED A pretty town on the Fife coast remains under threat of an WED unwelcome distinction. A corner of Dalgety Bay could still WED become the first place in Britain to be branded as WED radioactive contaminated land if the Ministry of Defence WED does not follow through on a plan to deal with radioactive WED particles washing up on its shore. The MOD's accused of WED causing the contamination in the first place: aircraft WED containing potentially hazardous radium were smashed up and WED buried after the Second World War. The MOD's investigating WED the scale of the problem and ways it might be put right, but WED has not promised a full and final clean-up of the bay. WED That's despite calls for it to do so from the local MP and WED former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and a recent discovery WED of particles far more radioactive than those previously WED found. Yet Face the Facts reveals how the MOD has cleaned up WED other sites deemed far less radioactive; how it's sold off WED contaminated land for development with radium undetected; WED how a lack of records means it does not know where similar WED sites might be and how a confidential government report WED we've seen from the 1950s warned of the danger of radium WED dumps being forgotten or, in the case of privately-owned WED land, deliberately concealed. WED WED Presenter: John Waite WED Producer: Jon Douglas. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01ghmdz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01gvrxh (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 b01gvrxk (Listen) WED From London to Marrakech WED WED Programme 13. FROM LONDON TO MARRAKECH - Sunken gold from WED West Africa sheds light on the complex relationship WED Elizabethan England had with the Moors of the Mediterranean. WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01gvq3n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tmtb4 (Listen) WED What the Nun Discovered by Harriet O'Carroll WED WED Sr. MaryJo returns home to Ireland after 25 years as a WED missionary in Uganda, to a disillusioned public and a Church WED which has lost so much of its moral authority. But with an WED honesty and simplicity learned in another continent she sets WED in train a quiet but radical revolution. WED WED MaryJo - Marcella Riordan WED Fr Paul - Pat Laffan WED Sr Frances - Lise-Ann McLaughlin, WED Sr Agnes - Julia Dearden WED Sr Bernadette - Stella McCusker WED Cathy - Ali White WED The Mayor - Des Nealon WED WED Director Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01gvrxp (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01gvq3x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01gvrxt (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01gvrxy (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 b01gvry2 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ghmf1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00tbcdp (Listen) WED Series 3, Four Wiseguys and a Funeral 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, when some gangsters from De Warenne's past WED pay a little visit, Henry becomes a made man and Charlotte WED becomes an unmade woman. Plus a clever sting and a souped-up WED getaway sheep. 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 b01gvry6 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01gvryb (Listen) WED With John Wilson, who reports on a major new exhibition of WED art and design from the Bauhaus, the pioneering school WED launched in 1919 by the modernist architect Walter Gropius. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gvrxk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01gvryg (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley chairs a live discussion about the top WED stories of the moment. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01gvryj (Listen) WED Series 3, Clare Melford WED WED Clare Melford, CEO, International Business Leaders Forum, WED argues that Buddha should be in the boardroom. She explains WED what CEOs need to learn about the tenets of Buddhism to make WED their businesses thrive while being WED sustainable. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 The Today Programme Lecture b01gvryl (Listen) WED Business lecture delivered by Sir Mervyn King, governor of WED the Bank of England, to a live audience at the Radio WED Theatre, Broadcasting House, London. WED WED 21:45 The Sleep Diaries b0167zkn (Listen) WED The Crossing WED WED Why do we sleep, and why do many of us find crossing the WED threshold of sleep so difficult? WED WED Sleep is our shadow life: if it were a place we'd spend WED about a third of our life there. We are as varied and WED eccentric in sleep as we are in our waking lives. And we WED still understand very little about why we sleep, how it WED works and what sleep and dreams actually mean. In this WED series mixing science with art, myth and poetry, award WED winning poet and broadcaster Paul Farley goes on the long WED journey through a night's sleep. WED WED We hear from Armond Aserinsky, whose father discovered REM WED sleep in the 1950s and poetry from across the centuries WED capturing the enduring mysteries of sleep. Paul also spends WED the night wired up at a sleep clinic to find out what WED happens to the brain as we cross the threshold into sleep. WED WED This series blends theories of treatment and cause with the WED surreal, the supernatural and fantastic; the eerie recording WED of sleep talkers and testimony of sleep walkers with poetry WED from Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, Philip Larkin and Jane Kenyon. WED WED Presenter: Paul Farley WED Producer: Jo Wheeler WED A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:58 Weather b01ghmf3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01gvryq (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01gykw1 (Listen) WED Annals of the Parish, Episode 3 WED WED It's 1776 and change is in the air as the outside world WED intrudes upon rural Dalmailing. WED WED Abridged by Rosemary Goring and read by Paul Young. WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01gvryw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel finds himself agreeing to join an unusual Simon and WED Garfunkel tribute act. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to WED keep a coachload of pensioners captive in the Arts Centre WED Gift Shop. WED WED Nigel Penny...... Richie Webb WED Belinda...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Alf/Jonathan...... Dave Lamb WED Eric/Steve...... Jim North WED Jemima...... 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 b00w21f3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Kenny Killigrew WED WED Written by Phil Cornwell WED WED Kenny was an outdoors pursuit expert and mountaineer, now WED living on the Cornwell estate whose recent divorce has left WED him with a touch of agoraphobia. When his old friend Pete WED "Peggie" McRuan arrives, Kenny realises that he should get WED out more. 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 Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains for Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gvrz0 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 MAY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01ghmfy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01gvqnj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ghmg0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ghmg2 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ghmg4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01ghmg6 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hn60d (Listen) THU with the Revd Alison Jack. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01gvth9 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01gvthc (Listen) THU Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports THU Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01gvthf (Listen) THU Voltaire's Candide THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's novel THU Candide. First published in 1759, the work follows the THU picaresque adventures of a young man, Candide, and his THU mentor, the philosopher Pangloss. Often uproariously funny, THU the novel is also a biting satire whose targets include bad THU literature, extremist religion and contemporary THU philosophical systems. It captivated contemporary readers THU and has proved one of French literature's most enduring THU classics. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01gvvxh (Listen) THU The Man within My Head, Episode 5 THU THU Pico Iyer is back in Bogota and a journey outside the city THU causes a roadside THU drama, which has him asking questions of Graham Greene THU again.. THU THU Reader Paul Bazely THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gvthk (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01gym86 (Listen) THU 44 Scotland Street, Episode 4 THU THU Producer/director: David Ian Neville. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01gvthm (Listen) THU A Death in Honduras THU THU Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. The THU People's Funeral Service deals daily with the fall-out from THU these extreme levels of violence. Set up by the Mayor of THU Tegucigalpa, the capital city, it distributes coffins, THU maintains two funeral homes, and even offers a mobile THU service where employees take everything necessary for a wake THU - including bread and coffee - to someone's house or local THU church. All of these services are totally free for poor THU people in the city. THU THU In Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly profiles this unique THU organisation, and meets some of the families using its THU services. Among them, is the family of Ramon Orlando Varela, THU a 26 year old gunned down in the street after dropping his THU children off at school. It isn't clear why Ramon was THU targeted. But a toxic mix of gangs, guns, drug cartels - and THU fear - pervades Honduras. And it's unlikely his killers will THU ever be caught. Police corruption is endemic, impunity THU almost a given. THU THU But in spite of the everyday challenges, the workers at the THU People's Funeral Service offer what help they can. At least THU they can lend some dignity to proceedings for families who THU have almost nothing. THU THU 11:30 Move Over Wodehouse b01gvthp (Listen) THU India's English-speaking middle class is expanding fast and THU expected to reach 500 million by 2025. It represents a dream THU market for publishers and one that is set to become the THU biggest in the world. English book sales are already THU rocketing and international publishers are flocking to set THU up Indian offices. THU THU So what books are Indians reading? How are the perennial THU classics such as Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse faring THU against the emerging Indian authors? And what does it take THU to become a bestseller in India? THU THU Jeffrey Archer says he only discovered he had become India's THU most successful foreign author by accident but now launches THU his books there first. At this year's Jaipur Literature THU Festival Mukti meets writers and publishers who describe THU their excitement at the rapid expanding market. In a country THU of 30 major languages and a thousand dialects, we hear why THU it's English that has become firmly established as the THU language Indian authors are using to reflect the country THU back to itself. THU THU Mukti also talks to superstar Indian writer Chetan Bhagat. THU His fast-paced comic tales set in call centres and college THU campuses seem to have caught the zeitgeist of modern India. THU His fans are mostly under 35 and appreciate his simple THU language and plots that reflect their lives. Whereas in the THU past Indian authors chased publishing deals in the West, THU he's proud of being a homegrown success. British writers THU such as Jaishree Misra and William Dalrymple, now living in THU Delhi, describe how they are adapting their writing style to THU cater for their growing Indian readership. And Kapish Mehra THU offers tips on what it takes to be successful as a publisher THU in India today. THU THU Contributors include: THU Jeffrey Archer THU Chetan Bhagat ..... topselling author THU Urvashi Butalia ..... Zubaan Books THU Krishen Chopra ..... Harper Collins India THU William Dalrymple ..... writer THU Kapish Mehra ..... Rupa THU Jaishree Misra ..... British Indian novelist THU Sunil Sethi ..... TV presenter Just Books THU THU Producer: Mukti Jain Campion THU A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01gvthr (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01ghmg8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01gvtht (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 b01gvthw (Listen) THU Disguise and Deception THU THU Programme 14. DISGUISE & DECEPTION - Deception and religion, THU cross-dressing and travelling salesmen are all unpacked via THU a pedlar's trunk. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01gvry6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01gvthy (Listen) THU Bite THU THU In Emily Steel's comedy drama, Dee has had issues with food THU since childhood. She keeps it under wraps but it's making THU her life very complicated, especially on dates. THU THU Dee ... Lucy Montgomery THU Julie ... Jodie Whittaker THU Ray ... Tim Key THU THU Written by Emily Steel. Welsh writer Emily Steel's first THU radio play, Boom Boom, was produced in Cardiff and broadcast THU in early 2010. Bite is Emily's second radio play, and draws THU on her own food issues whilst growing up. She is currently THU under commission from Clwyd Theatr Cymru.. THU THU A BBC Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01gvtj0 (Listen) THU Richard Uridge is in Northamptonshire to discover the THU inspirational landscape around Rockingham Forest.He meets THU musician, Nick Penny, who explains to Richard how he records THU the nightingales that frequently return to Glapthorn Cow THU Pasture and works with these sounds and other birdsong to THU create sound diaries of the landscape.His friend and THU collaborator David Garrett, takes inspiration from the THU Northamptonshire countryside for his poetry which began with THU 'Rose of the Shires, a tribute to the county he loves. And THU artist, Claire Morris Wright, takes Richard for a walk in THU the forest behind her house in the hamlet of Laxton and THU explains how important the feelings and textures of the THU landscape are to her in her work, whether in prints or clay. THU THU Presenter: Richard Uridge THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01gnhs0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01gnjwc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01gvtj2 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01gvtj4 (Listen) THU Science magazine programme. THU THU 17:00 PM b01gvtj6 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ghmgb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01gvtj8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Insurance THU THU Sony Award-winning comic, Tom Wrigglesworth returns for a THU new series of his open letters. This week, his letter is THU addressed to the insurance industry as Tom asks why THU everything has to be so confusing. THU THU Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp. THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01gvtjb (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01gvtjd (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gvthw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01gvtjg (Listen) THU Phil Kemp investigates claims that some businesses were THU mis-sold products designed to protect them against interest THU rate rises. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01gvtjj (Listen) THU Frugal Feast THU THU Big companies may have lots to learn from the cheap and THU cheerful improvisation which is commonplace in the THU developing world, particularly India. Peter Day discovers THU some of the secrets of what is now being called Frugal THU Innovation. THU Producer Sandra Kanthal THU Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01gvn21 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01gvthf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01ghmgd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01gvtrw (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01gymcz (Listen) THU Annals of the Parish, Episode 4 THU THU Incomers from America bring changes to the sleepy parish of THU Dalmailing, and the second Mrs Balwhidder's extreme THU thriftiness causes a rift with the session. THU THU Abridged by Rosemary Goring and read by Paul Young. THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 23:00 The Twilight World of Syd Barrett b011plrs (Listen) THU Six years after his death (7th July 2006) Syd Barrett lives THU on freeze framed, still young and a striking lost soul of THU the sixties whose brief moment of creativity outshines those THU long years of solitude shut away in a terraced house in his THU home town of Cambridge. THU THU This revealing programme hears how his band Pink Floyd (and THU family) coped with Barrett's mental breakdown and explores THU the hurriedly arranged holiday to the Spanish island of THU Formentera - where the star unravelled. In the programme we THU also hear about Barrett's pioneering brand of English THU psychedelic pop typified on early Pink Floyd recordings THU 'Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play' and the strange songs on THU Pink Floyd's impressive debut album 'The Piper At the Gates THU of Dawn'. THU THU Undoubtedly Barrett's experimentation with the drug LSD THU affected him mentally and the band members reveal how THU concerned they were when he began to go catatonic on-stage, THU playing music that had little to do with their material, or THU not playing at all. By Spring 1968 Barrett was out of the THU group and after a brief period of hibernation, he re-emerged THU in 1970 with a pair of albums, 'The Madcap Laughs' and THU 'Barrett', but they failed to chart and Barrett retired to a THU hermit life existing under the watchful gaze of his caring THU sister Rosemary (featured in the programme) THU THU We hear from David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright (one THU of the last interviews before his sad passing) about how THU there was little understanding of mental illness when it THU came to the drug fused culture of the time. These days a THU strung out star is hurriedly booked into the Priory and THU given counselling. As this programme reveals Barrett's THU mental breakdown was not understood and the steps taken to THU help him were inappropriate and still rankle the members of THU Pink Floyd today. THU THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gvtry (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 MAY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Election Special b01h61td (Listen) FRI Comprehensive coverage of the council and mayoral election FRI results. Including news and weather. FRI FRI 04:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ghmhc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ghmhf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01ghmhh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hn684 (Listen) FRI with the Revd Alison Jack. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01gvvxc (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 b01gvvxf (Listen) FRI Presented by Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01gnhs8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01gvvxh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01gvvxk (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01h01wr (Listen) FRI 44 Scotland Street, Episode 5 FRI FRI Producer/director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI 11:00 Dave Brown's New Highway Code b01gvvxm (Listen) FRI Comedian Dave Brown, member of the Mighty Boosh, used to FRI copy the road signs from the Highway Code into his school FRI note book when he was a lad. Here, all grown up and from FRI behind the wheel of his 50 year old Morris Minor, he FRI indulges his lifelong passion for the Highway Code by FRI considering its history from its creation as 'a code of good FRI manners to be observed by all courteous and considerate FRI persons,' to its present day status as Britain's best FRI selling but least read book . It's almost 80 years since the FRI first learner driver bought the 24 page booklet for a penny FRI and consulted it in order to pass their test - and on a FRI drive from London to Brighton, Dave Brown looks at what's FRI changed in driving habits . He picks up writer and cyclist FRI Zoe Williams from London, meets fellow Highway Code fan FRI graphic designer Nathan Lauder en route, and shares an ice FRI cream in Brighton with racing driver Ben Constanduros as he FRI revives some of the code's 'lost' observations from the FRI 1940's and 1950's and tries out a few new ones of his own. FRI FRI Producer: Janet Graves FRI A Pennine Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00rfj1b (Listen) FRI Series 4, Cyclist! FRI FRI In this episode, Milton's a world-beating cyclist who gets FRI tangled up in a close-fitting body suit and the population FRI of Holland... So if you want motivation, speed, adrenalin FRI and a low-energy light bulb that takes forty minutes to come FRI on, then put on your yellow jersey and catch up with FRI "Another Case Of Milton Jones" FRI FRI He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom FRI Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Ben Willbond ("Horrible FRI Histories") and Lucy 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 b01gvvxp (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01gvvxr (Listen) FRI Who Wears the Trousers? Tony or Katherine? FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today Tony and Katherine debate whether or not FRI it's time to retire from their healthfood business in the FRI Lincolnshire Wolds. Katherine usually gets her way... but FRI will she this time? More from the Listening Project at FRI 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 Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01ghmhk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01gvwxp (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 b01gvwxr (Listen) FRI The Flag That Failed FRI FRI Programme 15. THE FLAG THAT FAILED - The problems in uniting FRI Scotland and England and in creating a Great Britain are FRI encapsulated in a set of designs for a common flag. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01gvtjb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01gvwxt (Listen) FRI Betsy Coleman FRI FRI by Katie Hims FRI FRI Betsy Coleman signs up to do memory research for a bit of FRI extra cash, but she finds that her memories are so vivid FRI that revisiting her past becomes compulsive, particularly FRI when she gets to spend some virtual time with her late FRI Mother. FRI FRI Betsy .... Maxine Peake FRI David ..... Benedict Wong FRI Young Betsy ..... Shannon Flynn FRI Mick ..... Ralph Ineson FRI Carla ..... Alison Pettit FRI Des ..... Tony Bell FRI Julie ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Directed by Mary Peate FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01gvwxw (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition, Sparsholt College FRI FRI A drought-themed postbag edition, chaired by Peter Gibbs. FRI The panellists are Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood, Bob FRI Flowerdew. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon and Amy Racs. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Hidden Agendas b01gvwxy (Listen) FRI The Invitation FRI FRI The second of three stories from Wales about secrets and FRI lies, even when they're with good intentions. Chapman is FRI attracted to Karlssen's brilliance, but discovers he's on FRI the receiving end of his ambition, and it's dark. FRI FRI Neil Hartman and Tony Haynes' story is read by Iestyn Jones FRI FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Nigel Lewis. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01gvwy0 (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 b01gvwy2 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01gvwy4 (Listen) FRI Mothers and Marriages: Flavia and Afshan FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: 19 year old Afshan has left her traditional FRI Muslim home in Manchester for university in London. But her FRI mother, Flavia, isn't happy that she's also left behind all FRI plans for an arranged marriage. The final visit to the FRI Listening Project 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 Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01gvwy6 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ghmhm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01gvwy8 (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and Hugo Rifkind. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01gvwyb (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01gvwyd (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gvwxr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01gvwyg (Listen) FRI St Albans FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Marlborough School Science College, St Albans, FRI Hertfordshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01gvwyj (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01hbksx (Listen) FRI Blue Flu by Peter Bleksley FRI FRI Blue Flu is a contemporary drama set in the near future. It FRI explores the 'what if' scenario of a 'police strike' and the FRI fall out of the strike across one day. We will follow three FRI characters across the day of strike action: Mick Harley a FRI dedicated frontline police officer; Jackie Raymond a senior FRI member of the police federation who represent officers and FRI Tom Dunkley, the junior minister who has inherited the FRI responsibility of implementing cuts to a disaffected police FRI service. FRI Mick Harley loves his job and is proud of his work as a FRI 'response officer' but he resents the way cuts have put FRI officers at risk. A colleague of his is injured on duty, for FRI the police this is the true cost and consequence of FRI government cuts. Mick decides to take a militant stand, by FRI triggering 'blue flu' a coordinated action of officers FRI calling in sick. FRI FRI Mick Harley - Shaun Dooley FRI Jackie Raymond - Roberta Taylor FRI DAC Chad Parker - Ron Cook FRI Tom Dunkley - Don Gilet FRI Lisa Harley - Nina Sosnaya FRI Ian Marsh - Harry Livingstone FRI PC Darren Woolcraft - Philip Correia FRI Jack Benjamin - Peter Hamilton Dyer FRI Nurse Sharon - Tracy Wiles FRI DI Richard Jarrett - Peter Bleksley FRI FRI Produced by Stephen Wright. FRI FRI 21:45 One to One b017w65t (Listen) FRI Lucy Kellaway with Anon FRI FRI Lucy Kellaway of The Financial Times, explores the FRI complexities of having considerable personal wealth by FRI talking to the super rich. For Ann (she wishes to remain FRI anonymous) the day her company was floated on the stock FRI market and became a multi millionaire, she was paralysed by FRI fear. FRI 'I had always believed that rich people were not nice FRI people. I was terrified my money would taint and destroy my FRI relationships with friends and loved ones'. FRI A decade on, she has come to terms with her position, FRI becoming a member of The Network for Social Change, ' for FRI people who want to do more than sign a cheque' and having FRI worked out how she wants to spend her money and who she FRI wants to give it to. FRI She talks honestly to Lucy about how she maintains FRI boundaries on her spending and whether she now feels it's FRI possible to be rich and nice. FRI http://thenetworkforsocialchange.org.uk/ FRI Producer Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01gvx89 (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01h029x (Listen) FRI Annals of the Parish, Episode 5 FRI FRI Settled in his study at the end of his career, Balwhidder FRI remembers the loss of a dear friend and the shocking events FRI at the cotton mill which changed Dalmailing for ever. FRI FRI Abridged by Rosemary Goring and read by Paul Young. FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01gvn2k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01gvx8c (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01gvx8f (Listen) FRI Siblings in Christ: Mary and Peter 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 brother and sister united in their FRI religious vocations: Mary became a Carmelite nun, Peter a FRI priest. They talk about what they've missed and what they've FRI gained across the iron grill that separates Mary's secluded FRI religious community from the outside world. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. 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 Marya Burgess. FRI