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SAT SATURDAY 05 MAY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01gvxb3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01hxhnb (Listen) SAT The Man within My Head, Episode 5 SAT SAT "The high, thin light was turning the shacks and shanties on SAT the hills to gold as I put my thoughts of Graham Greene SAT behind me." SAT SAT The travel writer Pico Iyer (author of Video Nights in SAT Kathmandu, Falling Off The Map) has always wandered the SAT world with a mentor 'looking on'. Whether it be Bogota, SAT Cuba, California, Japan, the man inside Iyer's head, as he SAT puts it, is always Graham Greene. And it is Greene's fights SAT with faith, his reservations about innocence, his generous SAT spirit, that are really inspiring. In the course of five SAT episodes and from various destinations the author describes SAT his fascination for the great man.. SAT SAT Pico Iyer is back in Bogota and a journey outside the city SAT causes a roadside SAT drama, which has him asking questions of Graham Greene SAT again.. SAT SAT Reader Paul Bazely SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01gvxb5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01gvxb7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01gvxb9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01gvxbc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01gvxcq (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Rt SAT Revd Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01gvxcs (Listen) SAT Another country: a Briton who became French so he could vote SAT there and a British Ghanaian on what she feels she owes to SAT her country of birth. Plus flash fiction and the couple with SAT 10,000 books. Danny Baker reads Your News. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01gvxbf (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01gvxbh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01gvtj0 (Listen) SAT Northamptonshire Inspiration SAT SAT Richard Uridge is in Northamptonshire to discover the SAT inspirational landscape around Rockingham Forest.He meets SAT musician, Nick Penny, who explains to Richard how he records SAT the nightingales that frequently return to Glapthorn Cow SAT Pasture and works with these sounds and other birdsong to SAT create sound diaries of the landscape.His friend and SAT collaborator David Garrett, takes inspiration from the SAT Northamptonshire countryside for his poetry which began with SAT 'Rose of the Shires, a tribute to the county he loves. And SAT artist, Claire Morris Wright, takes Richard for a walk in SAT the forest behind her house in the hamlet of Laxton and SAT explains how important the feelings and textures of the SAT landscape are to her in her work, whether in prints or clay. SAT SAT Presenter: Richard Uridge SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01h2c3g (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01gvxbk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01h2c3j (Listen) SAT Presented by Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01h2c3l (Listen) SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with 1970's pop mega-star SAT David Cassidy; writer Jane Johnson who got lost in the Atlas SAT mountains in Morocco and ended up marrying the Berber SAT tribesman who rescued her; actor Patrick Duffy (aka Dallas' SAT Bobby Ewing) who describes his love of caravanning; SAT translator Mary Hobson who took a degree in Russian in her SAT sixties and, now in her 80s, is winning awards for her SAT version of Pushkin; John McCarthy reveals some secrets of SAT the Paris metro; Chris Purkiss who lost her husband in a SAT crowd; Steve Blacknell who wrote to his heroes, the SAT Incredible String Band, and ended up living with them; SAT Andrew Buckingham who struck up an unlikely pen-friendship SAT with the iconic British wit and actor Kenneth Williams; a SAT Bank Holiday poem from Luke Wright and the Inheritance SAT Tracks of evergreen chanteuse and entertainer Cilla Black. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Asian Weddings: Something Gold, Nothing Borrowed, SAT Everything New b01h2c3n (Listen) SAT Big fat gypsy weddings might have hit the headlines, but the SAT traditional British Asian wedding has always been big. Often SAT including several separate ceremonies and events spread over SAT a week or more, the cost of the average Asian wedding in the SAT UK is frequently well over £30,000. With the significance of SAT marriage or 'shaadi' being huge in south Asian culture, SAT weddings are a serious business. From the lavish designer SAT outfits and the elaborate cakes to the grand stages where SAT the bride and groom sit on their thrones, complete with a SAT lighting and sound system to rival a TV talent show, this is SAT an industry worth a reported £300 million a year in the UK SAT alone. SAT SAT Yasmeen Khan explores the glamorous world of British Asian SAT weddings. She takes in an Asian wedding exhibition in the SAT UK, meeting the clothes designers, wedding planners, SAT toastmasters, food suppliers, chefs, videographers and SAT 'yellow gold' jewellers making their fortunes as the second SAT and third generation tie the knot, all of them keen to help SAT the families show off their wealth. She learns about the SAT different cultural aspects of a Muslim, Sikh and Hindu SAT wedding. She visits a couple's big day and explore the SAT meaning behind cultural traditions, such as the confiscating SAT of the groom's shoes by the bride's sisters and cousins - SAT finding out what he must do to get them back. SAT SAT Yasmeen also delves into the politics of the guest list at SAT an Asian wedding, many of which are huge affairs with SAT hundreds and sometimes thousands of guests! And she SAT discovers just how much family relations are tested as an SAT increasing number of couples pay for something that has SAT traditionally been paid for by the bride's family. SAT SAT Produced by: Yasmeen Khan & Neil Rosser SAT A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01h2c76 (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster this week. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01h2c78 (Listen) SAT In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says SAT Sunday's vote in Greece could be the most critical of them SAT all. SAT SAT Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaound in the SAT global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the SAT pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer. SAT SAT Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in SAT Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few SAT people. SAT SAT Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how SAT Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is SAT affecting reindeer and their herders SAT SAT And Alan Johnston - touring the celebrated sights of Rome - SAT tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill SAT shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01h2c7b (Listen) SAT Are you being short-changed by your energy company. We hear SAT from one listener who thought she had agreed a set amount SAT for direct debit yet found herself being charged nearly SAT double when all the time her account was in credit. What are SAT your rights when you think you are being over-charged and SAT why does it happen? SAT SAT Warning letters are going out this week to almost 70,000 SAT households advising that their benefit will be cut next SAT April when the controversial benefits cap is imposed. But SAT there are concerns that the letters are being sent to many SAT households who will not be affected and that some ways of SAT mitigating the reduction are not mentioned in the letter. SAT SAT The latest chapter in the HMRC odyssey: On-hold nightmares SAT and wrongly sent letters. Since Tuesday 650,000 people have SAT been clocking up fines of 10 pounds a day which could go on SAT for 90 days and then have another 300 pounds added straight SAT after that. Their offence is that they have not filed their SAT 2010/11 tax return and it is now three months past the SAT deadline. We hear from some listeners who have given up SAT trying to get through on the phone to HMRC to sort this out SAT even though they are being wrongly fined. SAT SAT A landmark ruling from the Financial Services Authority to SAT compensate investors who lost out in two risky Arch Cru SAT funds. Independent financial advisors have been ordered to SAT foot the bill. It's the first time the FSA has used a SAT relatively new power which allows them to order a group of SAT financial companies to refund customers if there's been SAT widespread losses on a particular product. We talk to Daniel SAT Grote from Citywire who has followed the story since it SAT broke and an independent financial advisor who is frustrated SAT that advisors who weren't involved with the Arch Cru SAT investment will carry the can. SAT SAT And when is a faster payment fast. We hear who is abiding by SAT new EU rules and who is not. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01gvwy8 (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01gvxbm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01gvxbp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01gvwyg (Listen) SAT Marlborough Science Academy, St Albans SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from Marlborough Science Academy, St Alban's, SAT Hertfordshire, with Liberal Democrat peer and former leader, SAT Paddy Ashdown; Minster of State for Universities and SAT Science, David Willetts; Shadow Secretary of State for SAT Communities and Local Government, Hilary Benn; and General SAT Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Christine SAT Blower. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01h2c7d (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00w055w (Listen) SAT A Month in the Country SAT SAT By J. L. Carr SAT Dramatised by Dave Sheasby SAT SAT WW1 survivor Tom Birkin spends a summer uncovering a SAT medieval mural in the Yorkshire village of Oxgodby. Here he SAT discovers treasures, riches he thought the war had blown SAT away for ever. SAT SAT Cast SAT Birkin ..... Rupert Evans SAT Alice ..... Hattie Morahan SAT Keach ..... Stephen Critchlow SAT Moon ..... Blake Ritson SAT Kathy ..... Leah Brotherhead SAT Station Master ..... Tony Bell SAT Produced by David Hunter SAT SAT 15:30 Conjuring Halie b01gvn23 (Listen) SAT Cerys Matthews celebrates the life of one of her musical SAT heroines, the great gospel singer Mahalia ("Halie") Jackson, SAT who died in 1972. Jackson became one of the most influential SAT gospel singers in the world at the height of her popularity, SAT inspiring singers like Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples. SAT But she was also one of the unsung heroes of the civil SAT rights movement in America, described by the legendary SAT historian and broadcaster Studs Terkel as one of the bravest SAT people he'd ever met. SAT SAT As a child she suffered illness, poverty and deprivation. SAT The Church was her shelter. During the late 1920s, at the SAT height of the great migration, she toured Illinois SAT performing in churches. But it was in Chicago that she made SAT her name and carved out a place for herself as the first SAT professional gospel singer. She refused to sing secular SAT music, a pledge she kept throughout her professional life. SAT Even Louis Armstrong couldn't persuade her to sing jazz with SAT him. By the 1950s and 60s, touring across Europe, she was SAT being described as "the greatest spiritual singer alive." SAT Throughout, she remained a close friend and comrade of SAT Martin Luther King, travelling with him to the deepest parts SAT of the segregated south and often singing at gatherings SAT where he spoke including at the famous march on Washington. SAT SAT In this programme Cerys shares her passion for Mahalia with SAT another huge fan, Sir Tom Jones. She also talks to gospel SAT singer Vermettya Royster and to the Reverend Stanley Keeble SAT both of whom knew and played with Mahalia. We also hear SAT archive recordings of the historian Studs Terkel talking SAT with Mahalia in the years when they became close friends. We SAT hear from blues and gospel writers Val Wilmer and Viv SAT Broughton. As well as hearing her live performances. SAT SAT Produced by Sarah Cuddon SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01h2c8r (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01h2c8t (Listen) SAT The day's top news stories, with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01gvxcs (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01gvxbr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01gvxbt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01gvxbw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01h2c8w (Listen) SAT Alison Steadman, Richard Wilson, Marcus Du Sautoy and John SAT O'Farrell SAT SAT I Don't Believe It! Clive has One Foot In The Grave with SAT actor Richard Wilson who, for ten years, played the SAT archetypal grumpy old man and deadpan pensioner Victor SAT Meldrew. Richard's new Radio 4 series is the hilarious, SAT bizarre and revealing radiography of his fictional life SAT story. 'Believe It!' starts on Wednesday morning 9th May at SAT 11.30 on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Clive talks to the Spitting Image of script writer, SAT broadcaster and author John O'Farrell about his career SAT writing for such great comedies as 'Alas Smith And Jones' SAT and 'Have I Got News For You'. John's latest novel 'The Man SAT Who Forgot His Wife' is the poignant story of a man who SAT suddenly loses his memory - and his Mrs! SAT SAT Nikki Bedi will be crunching the numbers with mathematician SAT and would-be conductor Professor Marcus Du Sautoy, who SAT competes in BBC Two's 'Maestro at the Opera' to master the SAT ultimate art form. 'Maestro at the Opera' is on Fridays at SAT 21.00. SAT SAT Clive's invited actress Alison Steadman to the party to talk SAT about her varied career playing such gems as the houseproud, SAT Demis Roussos-loving Beverley in Mike Leigh's 'Abigail's SAT Party' and Gavin's mildly hysterical mum Pam in 'Gavin & SAT Stacey'. Alison's new BBC Four comedy is the monologue of a SAT mother preparing for for her daughter's civil partnership. SAT 'A Civil Arrangement' in on Sunday 6th May at 21.00. SAT SAT With music from London based psychedelic quartet and hot new SAT things Django Django. In keeping with traditional bank SAT holiday weather, they'll perform their new single 'Storm' SAT from their debut self-titled album. SAT SAT And from the talented and unforgettable singer, composer and SAT producer Eska, who performs 'To Be Remembered'. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01h2c8y (Listen) SAT Roy Hodgson SAT SAT Multi-lingual, a good listener and a surprise choice for SAT arguably the biggest job in British sport - manager of the SAT England football team. SAT SAT Hodgson has coached football teams in eight different SAT countries during a career which has lasted 36 years. He is SAT said to have revolutionised the techniqes of some players - SAT he took Switzerland to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup. SAT He's much better known in Italy than the UK after his time SAT at Inter Milan. SAT SAT At Fulham he was regarded as an eccentric but clever choice SAT as they avoided relegation before reaching the 2010 Europa SAT League Final. SAT SAT Hodgson is not into mind games and isn't known for saying SAT things for impact - like some other Premier League managers. SAT Some say he is bereft of ego and a gentleman, others that he SAT can be as passionate and defensive as the rest. He has a SAT rigorous approach to preparation - players at Liverpool SAT complained about the complexity of his training schedules. SAT SAT A great lover of literature he is said to have read the SAT works of nearly every Nobel prize winner - not intimidated SAT by taking on the works of foreign authors. SAT SAT Gerry Northam profiles the man friends say has a complex SAT character - on the one hand obsessed with football, on the SAT other never happier than when away from the beautiful game. SAT SAT Producer: Samantha Fenwick. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01h2c90 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Cahal Dallat, Kit Davis and SAT John Mullan review the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT THEATRE Love, Love, Love - Royal Court SAT SAT FILM Juan of the Dead SAT SAT BOOK Flight - The Marlowe Papers - Ros Barber SAT SAT EXHIBITION Bauhaus: Art As Life - Barbican SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01h2c9p (Listen) SAT One Way Ticket - The Beeching Cuts Revisited! SAT SAT When Dr Richard Beeching unveiled his little book 'Reshaping SAT Britain's Railways' in the early 1960s the nation was left SAT in shock at the scale of the cutbacks he was suggesting. SAT SAT Britain's railways were losing millions every year. The rise SAT of the car didn't help matters and the Government decided it SAT was time to look afresh at the railways. SAT SAT The original plan was to close 5,000 miles of railway and SAT 2,000 stations. Around 70,000 people would eventually lose SAT their jobs. SAT SAT It's acknowledged that Dr Beeching's cuts were seismic but SAT what impact did the decisions made in the early 60s have on SAT future rail policy in the UK? And how much of Beeching's SAT vision for the railways, including more focus on Inter City SAT services, has been realised? SAT SAT Here Michael Portillo revisits the archives and the events SAT of 1963, hears from some of those working in the industry at SAT the time and looks at how some lines were eventually SAT resurrected and revitalised while others weren't. SAT SAT As part of the programme Michael travels along the scenic SAT Settle to Carlisle line which lost many of its stations SAT during the Beeching cuts, he hears from rail expert SAT Christian Wolmar and speaks to Richard Spendlove - writer SAT and creator of TV series Oh Dr Beeching who at the time of SAT the cuts was a Station Master in Cambridgeshire. SAT SAT He also hears from former Transport ministers and SAT secretaries about how the Beeching cuts impacted on SAT Government rail plans and policy over the past five decades. SAT SAT Finally given the recent huge rise in rail usage, the SAT programme assesses what Dr Beeching would have made of the SAT state of Britain's railways today. SAT SAT Produced by: Ashley Byrne SAT A Made in Manchester Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01gnjw9 (Listen) SAT Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Episode 2 SAT SAT Dramatised by Archie Scottney SAT SAT Charismatic Uncle Fred (Alfred Molina) is still at Blandings SAT Castle masquerading as a 'brain doctor'. The Duke of SAT Dunstable's lunatic pig-napping scheme continues. He calls SAT in nephew Ricky. Money is involved, and maybe a SAT chance for Ricky to marry Polly Pott. Lord Emsworth's SAT prize-pig Empress of Blandings is purloined - and hidden. SAT SAT Will all end happily? Will true love triumph? Even happiness SAT for the Pig? Will our ageing hero, Uncle Fred, be able to SAT leave for London, feeling that 'there are no limits to what SAT I can accomplish - in the Springtime'? All-star cast SAT directed by Martin Jarvis. 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 Producers: Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis SAT SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01gvxby (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01gvryj (Listen) SAT Series 3, Clare Melford SAT SAT Clare Melford, CEO, International Business Leaders Forum, SAT argues that Buddha should be in the boardroom. She explains SAT what CEOs need to learn about the tenets of Buddhism to make SAT their businesses thrive while being SAT sustainable. SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 22:30 The Bishop and the Prisoner b018wvn3 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT In this three part series the BBC is given a rare degree of SAT access to prisons as it accompanies the Rt Rev James Jones, SAT the Church of England's "Bishop for prisons," into the SAT country's jails. Conversations with prisoners - voices SAT rarely heard on radio - are the centrepieces of these SAT programmes, but the Bishop also talks to prison staff, SAT politicians and opinion-formers about what prison should be SAT for, how prisoners can be helped to become useful citizens SAT and whether community sentences can ever win the public's SAT confidence as a viable alternative to prison. SAT SAT In this first programme, James Jones visits Liverpool, High SAT Down and Forest Bank prisons. He witnesses the "processing" SAT of inmates as they go through prison reception (or "The SAT Churn" ) and gets out of the way of officers on the walkways SAT responding to alarms that are always sounding. He measures a SAT cell (12 paces by 9). He talks to prisoners - first-timers, SAT old hands, self-harmers - about why they are there. SAT Governors and prison officers tell him how they seek to SAT manage inmates' routines and behaviour, and about the SAT importance of looking out for themselves - when two staff SAT can be responsible for a wing holding sixty prisoners, it SAT doesn't do to let your guard down. SAT SAT The prison population is at record levels, having almost SAT doubled in the last twenty years. The Justice secretary SAT Kenneth Clarke says he doesn't understand how it has been SAT allowed to get so big, and lambasts attempts of previous SAT Governments to cut crime by giving longer sentences as SAT "pathetic". He tells the Bishop that his aim is to reduce SAT the re-offending rate. Yes, it will help his department's SAT bottom line, but it's common sense too. SAT SAT How to cut re-offending is the million dollar question. SAT Prisoners, governors and commentators seem to agree that an SAT offender only stops committing crimes when he decides he's SAT had enough; as one said, "I've got too old for it - my heart SAT isn't in it anymore." The deprivation of liberty, courses in SAT thinking skills and literacy don't seem to work as SAT effectively as the simple passage of time. SAT SAT If prison doesn't reduce re-offending, does that mean it SAT doesn't work? SAT SAT Prison is also there to punish - though some say it doesn't SAT do that well enough. SAT SAT In one obvious sense prison is effective; while prisoners SAT are locked away from society, they can't commit crime on the SAT outside. But if prison is to mend the prisoner as well as SAT incarcerate him, it must do more - and that is the focus of SAT the next programme. SAT SAT This programme was first broadcast on January 2nd 2012. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01gvlfp (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 2 SAT SAT (2/13) SAT Which perfectly genteel musical instrument might George SAT Bernard Shaw have been moved to describe as 'a snarling SAT abomination'? And, at the other end of the spectrum, can you SAT remember the title of the Monkees' surreal film comedy, made SAT in 1968? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini puts these and many other questions to the SAT competitors in the second heat in the 2012 series of the SAT wide-ranging general knowledge music quiz. Music lovers from SAT Gateshead, London and Hitchin in Hertfordshire line up this SAT week to face Paul's questions on every musical genre, from SAT the core classical repertoire to film music, jazz, show SAT tunes, classic rock and pop. SAT SAT As always, they'll be expected to pick a specialist musical SAT topic to answer individual questions on - from a list of SAT which they've had no prior warning. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 A Foreigner Everywhere b01gnjwf (Listen) SAT Paul Farley explores the American poet Elizabeth Bishop's SAT extraordinary years in Brazil, and how her rootless, SAT traveller's condition inspired her creativity. SAT SAT Elizabeth Bishop has been called the poets' poets' poet', SAT and her work, often complex and multilayered, examines the SAT big themes of home, travel and identity. Though she's SAT regarded as an American poet, for nearly two decades Bishop SAT lived in Brazil, where she wrote much of her best work. SAT Essentially an orphan from the age of five, and a constant SAT observer, a 'foreigner everywhere', she speaks to our modern SAT rootless condition, asking how and where we find a sense of SAT 'home'. SAT SAT The poet Paul Farley, explores how Bishop tackles questions SAT of travel, and how she challenged approaches to other SAT cultures in the early days of mass tourism. Bishop met the SAT love of her life in Brazil, became deeply involved in the SAT Brazilian political tumult of the 1960s, and made the trip SAT of her life up the Amazon river. But her Brazil years also SAT ended in tragedy. SAT SAT In many ways a poet of our times, Paul explores how Bishop's SAT often overlooked Brazil years offer a new way into her work SAT and its relevance - a constant observer, portraying life in SAT all its nuanced complexity. SAT SAT Produced by Jo Wheeler SAT A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 MAY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01h29jn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Greengrocer's Apostrophe b01h2cfr (Listen) SUN The Sweet Possessive 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 Distracted by an apostrophe obsession, a woman fails to SUN notice that her lover is not all that he seems. Monica Gibb SUN reads a short story by Diana Hendry. SUN SUN Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01h29jq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01h29js (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01h29jv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01h29jx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01h2cgz (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's Church, Andover, Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01h2c8y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01h29jz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01h2ch1 (Listen) SUN Henry David Thoreau SUN SUN Mark Tully assesses Henry David Thoreau's influence, 150 SUN years after his death. Advocate of the simple life, champion SUN of emancipation, and fervent opponent of government SUN interference in the lives of citizens, Thoreau's 19th SUN century ideals have inspired civil rights leaders from SUN Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King. SUN SUN Mark Tully looks not just at Thoreau's famous writings SUN expressing his remarkable affinity with the American SUN outdoors, but at his political activism too, and the legacy SUN it has left around the world. From tax avoidance, to his SUN opposition to slavery, Thoreau was an ardent supporter of SUN the ordinary person. His passionate ideas inspired thinkers SUN and humanitarians, as well as generations of writers, SUN including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and WB Yeats. SUN SUN Musicians and composers too, were moved to pay tribute to SUN Thoreau and the programme includes works by such diverse SUN fans as Charles Ives and Pink Floyd. SUN SUN In asking what we can learn today from the writer of the SUN American classic Walden, Mark Tully reassesses Thoreau's SUN message for the 21st century. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01h2chx (Listen) SUN Bee Flies SUN SUN There's a pretender on the wing. Joanna Pinnock joins SUN naturalist John Walters in Devon to find out more about a SUN bee mimic, the Dark Edged bee fly. With its reddish hairy SUN body and rapier-like proboscis it's said to look part bee, SUN part mosquito and is often spotted in gardens in Spring SUN hovering and darting above the ground. The long proboscis SUN helps it take nectar from deep within flowers rather like a SUN hummingbird. SUN SUN While this furry, buzzing, rather attractive fly is harmless SUN to humans, its pretence of being a bee is to help its young SUN get a good start in life by using others' nests. In Spring SUN the female bee fly coats her eggs in dust to give them some SUN added weight and then hovering near solitary bee nesting SUN holes will flick her eggs at the entrance. As they develop, SUN her larvae head inside the bee's nest and devour the SUN emerging bee larvae. It's a fly-eat-bee world... SUN SUN Producer: Sheena Duncan SUN Editor: Julian Hector. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01h29k1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01h29k3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01h2kv2 (Listen) SUN "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." "Till death us do Part" SUN "Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest." Shakespeare? The SUN King James Bible? Close -- the Anglican Book of Common SUN Prayer marks its 350th anniversary this year. Trevor Barnes SUN reports SUN SUN This weekend we celebrate St Georges day - not in England SUN but in the Middle East where the festival of Al-Khader SUN brings together Muslims and Christians. Matthew Bell SUN reports. SUN SUN Greek Elections on Sunday are likely to see the far right SUN Golden Dawn party pass the threshold of votes needed to SUN enter parliament for the first time. The vote takes place SUN against a backdrop of austerity and despair with an increase SUN in suicides and the Orthodox Church feeding thousands of SUN people every day. Samira speaks to Professor Othon SUN Anastasakis. SUN SUN Sheyke Amer Jamil is leading a campaign in Scotland to try SUN and change the attitude and culture surrounding forced SUN marriage. SUN SUN Victims of child abuse in Ireland are calling for the SUN resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady after a BBC investigation SUN revealed more details of his role in investigating Ireland's SUN most notorious paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth in SUN 1975. We speak to the Michael Kelly, Deputy Editor of the SUN Irish Catholic Newspaper and Father Brian Darcy SUN SUN A new wine is on the market and its Halal - 0% alcohol. SUN Samira talks to the maker asking why do we need Halal wine SUN and what's the point of it? SUN SUN On 8 May 2012, the Bishops' Conference and the Vatican's SUN Justice and Peace office is hosting a conference on SUN combating human trafficking. Samira talks with Detective SUN Inspector Kevin Hyland about the MET office involvement and SUN how they are working closely with the Catholic church. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01h2kv4 (Listen) SUN Bag Books SUN SUN Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on SUN behalf of the charity Bag Books. SUN Reg Charity: 1026432 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Bag Books SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Bag Books SUN SUN Bag Books is a national charity producing multi-sensory SUN books for people with severe or profound and multiple SUN learning disabilities. Each book is handmade in our workshop SUN by a team of skilled craft artists and volunteers. Bag SUN Books also hosts multi-sensory storytelling sessions at SUN schools, libraries, day centres and residential homes for SUN children and adults with learning disabilities and trains SUN others in multi-sensory storytelling technique. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01h29k5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01h29k7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01h2kv6 (Listen) SUN A service from Highfields Church in Cardiff, exploring the SUN concept of "Grace" and how it influences and shapes our SUN lives. The preacher is the Rev. Peter Baker and the music is SUN directed by Philip Holt, with Kelvin Thomas as conductor. SUN Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01gvwyj (Listen) SUN Lords, lordlings and....crumpets SUN SUN Fifteen years ago - Will Self writes - he had afternoon tea SUN in the House of Lords with the late Conrad Russell. The SUN distinguished historian was a hereditary peer who was SUN entirely in favour of Lords' abolition. What Will Self SUN remembers most about the encounter was the crumpets. "'Do SUN have another crumpet" he'd say, 'they really are awfully SUN good'". Fifteen years on, Will says: "Russell was right SUN about the crumpets - and he was right about the SUN hereditaries". SUN SUN He looks forward to the Queen's Speech, which is widely SUN expected to include a bill on Lords reform. A waste of time, SUN he believes. But that matters little in his view. "After SUN all, the first bill to create an elected second chamber was SUN introduced over a century ago - and doesn't this simply SUN prove that the great and glorious fudge that's the unwritten SUN British constitution thrives on such slow and organic SUN change". SUN SUN Via what he calls the "Googlisation" of the political SUN process, he attacks the move towards the centre ground by SUN all three main UK parties. "We...are tormented by SUN politicians who look the same, sound the same and spout SUN so-called 'policies' that are usually only marginally SUN different versions of the same routine ideas". SUN SUN Back at the Lords, he concludes, hereditary peers "are still SUN busily tucking into their excellent crumpets. Yummy-yummy". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01h2kv8 (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 b01h2kvb (Listen) SUN For detailed synopses, see daily episodes SUN SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... John Yorke and Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene 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 Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Carl ..... Nicholas Bailey. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01h2kvd (Listen) SUN Tim Minchin SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the composer and performer Tim SUN Minchin. SUN SUN As a comic and musician he has sold out London's O2 Arena SUN and won legions of fans. He wrote the songs for the Royal SUN Shakespeare Company's musical Matilda - the production of SUN Roald Dahl's children's story has been a smash hit on the SUN West End, won seven Olivier awards and is due to transfer to SUN Broadway next year. SUN SUN He says: "I'm not a magical thinker - I don't think I need SUN my special undies on or my special pencil - I'm not SUN superstitious about the process. I just took my childhood of SUN reading Dahl and said, 'I know what this is' and wrote some SUN songs." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01gvlfy (Listen) SUN Series 9, Episode 5 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. Danielle Ward, Henning Wehn, Tom SUN Wrigglesworth and John Finnemore are the panellists obliged SUN to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: SUN Bats, Cars, Orange and Dr. Johnson. 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 b01h2kvg (Listen) SUN Seaweed, a Forgotten Food? SUN SUN Despite a long history of use in coastal areas of the SUN British Isles, and with a well-established role in folklore SUN and traditional medicine - seaweed is not an ingredient SUN currently found in many British kitchen cupboards. SUN SUN The raw ingredient is something of an acquired taste, and SUN knowledge of different seaweeds and their uses is not SUN widespread. However, as Sheila Dillon discovers in this SUN edition of The Food Programme, things are starting to SUN change. SUN SUN In food cultures such Japan's, seaweeds have long been an SUN important and treasured food. Through the work of people SUN such as Prannie Rhatigan, author of Irish Seaweed Kitchen, SUN people are starting to rediscover how to cook and utilise SUN seaweeds and are looking again out to sea. SUN SUN With a rise in scientific interest into the unique compunds SUN within seaweeds, appreciation of its unique flavour SUN properties, and trials of its uses as a food fortificant, SUN Sheila asks if seaweed is a food of the future? SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01h29k9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01h2kvj (Listen) SUN As voters go to the polls in both France and Greece, we ask SUN if the political mood is shifting away from the need to SUN undertake austerity measures across the Eurozone. Plus, SUN reaction to the local election results in England, Scotland SUN and Wales and a lookahead to the Queen's Speech. SUN SUN 13:30 North of the Border - The Rise of Mexican Music SUN b01dvw70 (Listen) SUN Robin Denselow visits L.A., the commercial centre of the SUN narcocorrido, or Mexican drug ballad. The lyrics celebrate SUN the exploits of smugglers and cartels. But bizarrely it SUN sounds like cheerful, almost comical, accordion polka. SUN SUN As the Mexican drug war has spiralled out of control it has SUN reinvigorated the music with alarming consequences for some SUN musicians: numerous singers have been killed in unsolved SUN cases since 2006. SUN SUN The style is a legacy of German miner immigrants at the turn SUN of the 20th century. Despite it's rather quaint sound, the SUN links with drug cartels are close. Often the first thing a SUN trafficker does, following a successful deal, is to contract SUN somebody to write a song about his exploit. SUN SUN The music is generally not played on Spanish language radio SUN stations in Mexico. But in the United States there's a SUN strangely ambivalent response in the Mexican community who SUN often appreciate the beat from home, even if they don't like SUN the hyper violent lyrics. SUN SUN What is the enduring appeal of this music? And what does it SUN say about the Mexican migrant community? The programme SUN visits Los Angeles - the de facto capital of Mexican music - SUN to find out. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Elcombe SUN A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01gvwxw (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition, Sparsholt College SUN SUN A drought-themed postbag edition, chaired by Peter Gibbs. SUN The panellists are Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood, Bob SUN Flowerdew. SUN SUN How to keep get your fruit and veg through the drought. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon and Amy Racs SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01h2kvl (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series SUN capturing the nation in conversation: in today's programme, SUN we meet 19 year old Afshan, who has left her traditional SUN Muslim home in Manchester for university in London, and her SUN mother, Flavia, who is unhappy that her daughter also seems SUN to have left behind all plans for an arranged marriage. And SUN from Radio Merseyside, a conversation through bars - not SUN prison bars but those of an enclosed convent. Here brother SUN and sister Peter and Mary, priest and nun, discuss their SUN lives and religious vocations. And the producer who recorded SUN this extraordinary Listening Project encounter gives his SUN personal account of the meeting. 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 Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01h2kvn (Listen) SUN The Great Gatsby, Episode 1 SUN SUN by F Scott Fitzgerald. SUN Dramatised by Robert Forrest. SUN SUN F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz SUN Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the SUN greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. Nick SUN Carraway arrives in Long Island and is reacquainted with his SUN distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan. He falls in with her wealthy SUN crowd. His neighbour, the self-made and self-invented SUN millionaire, Gatsby, is the man who has everything - but one SUN thing will always be out of his reach. SUN SUN Nick ..... Bryan Dick SUN Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott SUN Tom ..... Andrew Buchan SUN Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner SUN Jordan ..... Melody Grove SUN Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson SUN Klipspringer ..... Sam Dale SUN Wilson ..... Gerard McDermott SUN Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell SUN Catherine ..... Tracy Wiles SUN Chester ..... Patrick Brennan SUN Lucille ..... Christine Absalom SUN Alice ..... Amaka Okafor SUN SUN Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01h762n (Listen) SUN Ross Raisin - God's Own Country SUN SUN Ross Raisin is a young writer who won much praise for his SUN debut novel God's Own Country in 2008. He discusses the book SUN with James Naughtie and a group of readers. SUN SUN It's the story of Sam Marsdyke who's a troubled nineteen SUN year old young man living on a remote farm in the North SUN Yorkshire Moors. It's a place of beauty and Sam resents the SUN incomers, be they the ramblers he spies upon, or the new SUN neighbours who've just moved up from London. SUN SUN Sam is one of contemporary fiction's unforgettable SUN characters; thanks largely to his use of the local dialect - SUN words like beltenger, raggald or snitter. But these words SUN don't get in the way of the reading, and part of the success SUN of Sam's language is its confirmation of his isolation. SUN SUN There's an ambiguity for the reader about whether Sam's SUN early mishaps in the novel are intentional, such as the SUN neighbour's boy getting food poisoning from Sam's welcoming SUN gift of hand picked mushrooms. But Ross Raisin says that for SUN him, as Sam's creator, there's no ambiguity. SUN SUN Later in the novel, Sam's demise is swift, dark and SUN frightening; and it's Ross's achievement that the reader SUN still feels sympathy for him. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN June's Bookclub choice : The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa SUN Gregory. SUN SUN 16:30 The Person from Porlock b01h2l6n (Listen) SUN When the poet Coleridge failed to complete his 'dream poem' SUN Kubla Khan, he laid the blame on a 'person from Porlock' who SUN had called to see him on business, thereby fatally SUN interrupting his writing. SUN SUN 'The Person from Porlock' has come to represent anything SUN that interrupts the creative process, and he has inspired a SUN number of poems in his own right, from writers as diverse as SUN Stevie Smith and R S Thomas. SUN SUN Paul Farley travels to Porlock in Somerset in search of SUN Coleridge's mysterious visitor and, in the company of Tim SUN Liardet, Hester Jones and Tom Mayberry, contemplates a SUN number of poetic interruptions - both obstructive and SUN curiously inspirational. SUN SUN Producer: Emma Harding. SUN SUN 17:00 Life and Death on the Frontline b01gvq3s (Listen) SUN The recent deaths in Syria of the journalists Marie Colvin SUN and Remi Ochlik have once again highlighted the dangers SUN faced by correspondents and media teams reporting from areas SUN of war and conflict. 10 journalists have died in Syria SUN already this year and last year the International News SUN Safety Institute recorded more than 120 deaths of SUN journalists and media staff around the world. SUN SUN After 30 years reporting from hot-spots around the world, SUN the BBC's World Affairs Editor, John Simpson reflects on SUN what it's like to work in the face of frequent danger, on SUN the personal pressures and doubts as well as the SUN relationship between front-line journalists and their SUN managers back at base. He examines the pressure to "get the SUN story" and how journalists on the ground judge the SUN boundaries beyond which they should not stray. Simpson also SUN looks at recent developments to improve the safety of SUN journalists through training, support and the work of SUN organisations aiming to raise international awareness. He SUN asks whether the focus of these efforts is right or whether SUN in the end it largely comes down to experience, judgement SUN and luck. SUN SUN In a world that has come to expect news and eye-witness SUN reporting almost instantly from every corner of the globe SUN are the dangers faced by journalists who seek to shine a SUN light on some of the ugliest aspects of the human story a SUN price worth paying? SUN SUN Producer: Richard Clemmow SUN A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01h2c8y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01h29kf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01h29kh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01h29kk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01h2lj8 (Listen) SUN Caz Graham makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN There's a menagerie of exotic creatures in Pick of the Week; SUN we'll be watching out for the three booted long lashed SUN weedle nittle, inspired by Edward Lear and brought to life SUN by cartoonist Ralph Steadman. Geoffrey Palmer gives the SUN performance of a lifetime as a neurotic hermit crab, and SUN there's the dark horse of typography, bring on,..the SUN ampersand. SUN SUN Beyond the weird and wonderful, the programme's diving right SUN into the heart of the biggest of themes, life and death on SUN the frontline examined by John Simpson, the near impossible SUN challenge of coping after the death of a child, and the SUN healing and redemptive role of music. SUN SUN Conjuring Haile - Radio 4 SUN The Verb - Radio 3 SUN It's My Story - Radio 4 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN Tidal Talk from the Rockpool - Radio 4 SUN The Food Programme - Radio 4 SUN From Our Own Correspondent - World Service SUN Ampers-Fan - Radio 4 SUN Ed Reardon's Week - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear - Radio 3 SUN Through the Wire - Radio 4 SUN Life and Death on the Frontline - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01h2ljb (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 French Presidential Elections: The Results b01h2ljd (Listen) SUN Coverage of the results of the French presidential election. SUN Presented by Ed Stourton. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01gvwy2 (Listen) SUN A grand economic experiment? SUN SUN Are we witnessing a Grand Economic Experiment being played SUN out between Britain, trying to cut its way out of trouble, SUN and the United States, trying to spend its way to SUN redemption? SUN SUN Border brouhaha SUN SUN Just how long have travellers been waiting to get through SUN immigration at Heathrow Airport? We wade into a statistical SUN slanging match between an airline operator and a Home Office SUN minister. SUN SUN Bank holidays SUN SUN What are you planning to do with the bank holiday? Paint the SUN bathroom? Listen to old podcasts of More or Less? Or DESTROY SUN THE ECONOMY? Could it possibly be true that cancelling all SUN eight regular bank holidays in England and Wales would boost SUN GDP by 1.3%? SUN SUN Choral coincidence SUN SUN Lister Julia Atkins wrote: "I belong to a wonderful choir, SUN Rock Chorus, in Milton Keynes. I discovered one evening that SUN 3 new ladies had come along from Olney, 10 miles away. They SUN all sat next to each other. They had never met before. But SUN most extraordinary was that they all lived in the same SUN road!! That's quite a combination of coincidences, I think SUN you'll agree." Well, we'll see. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01gvwy0 (Listen) SUN Khalil Dale, Leila Berg, Tomas Borge, Terry Spinks, Rev Ray SUN Davey SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on the Red Cross worker Khalil Dale who SUN was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan; SUN SUN The writer and educationalist Leila Berg whose controversial SUN "Nippers" series taught children to read with stories from SUN working class life; SUN SUN The Nicaraguan revolutionary Tomas Borge who co-founded the SUN Sandinista Front and cracked down on opponents as Interior SUN Minister; SUN SUN The flyweight Terry Spinks who became the youngest boxer to SUN win a gold medal at the Olympics; SUN SUN and the Reverend Ray Davey whose Corrymeela Community SUN brought together Protestants and Catholics during Northern SUN Ireland's troubles. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01h2c7b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01h2kv4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01gvtjj (Listen) SUN Frugal Feast SUN SUN Big companies may have lots to learn from the cheap and SUN cheerful improvisation which is commonplace in the SUN developing world, particularly India. Peter Day discovers SUN some of the secrets of what is now being called Frugal SUN Innovation. SUN Producer Sandra Kanthal SUN Editor Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01h2ljg (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 b01h2ljj (Listen) SUN Episode 102 SUN SUN George Parker of The Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories, in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01gvtj2 (Listen) SUN Fifty years on, Sir Tom Courtenay in conversation with SUN presenter Francine Stock looks back at his first film role SUN in Tony Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance SUN Runner. SUN SUN Neil Brand is behind the piano to study the music of the SUN British New Wave. SUN SUN Critic Sandra Hebron discusses two psychological dramas of a SUN different kind - Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, and Dirk SUN Bogarde in Reiner Fassbinder's Despair. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01h2ch1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 MAY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01h29lh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01gvrxt (Listen) MON Nationhood; recognising transgender MON MON What drives people to make the often difficult choices to MON change their bodies and change their gender? How is the MON everyday affection for one's country changing in English MON life? Laurie Taylor discusses issues of transsexuals and the MON body modifications they choose. Also the place of ordinary MON English nationalism, as he meets the joint winners of The MON British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams first book MON prize. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01h2cgz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01h29lk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01h29lm (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01h29lp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01h29lr (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01h5xc8 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Rt MON Revd Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01h5xcb (Listen) MON Moira Hickey is in Skye to discover whether the new Crofting MON Commission can help secure a future for this ancient method MON of farming. Land prices are rising; young people struggling MON to find the money to buy crofts; and as more emphasis is now MON placed on growing food, crofters argue their method of food MON production is more vital than ever before. MON MON Presented and Produced by Moira Hickey. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01h29lt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01h5xcd (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including MON Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01h5xcg (Listen) MON The Digital Future MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks into the digital future. MON Nick Harkaway dismisses fears of a digital dystopia in which MON distracted people, caught between the real world and the MON screen world, are under constant surveillance. He believes MON we need to engage with the computers we have created, and MON shape our own destiny. Simon Ings is the editor of a new MON digital magazine, Arc, which uses science fiction to explore MON and explain what the future might hold for society. While MON Anab Jain's design company uses scenarios and prototypes to MON probe emerging technologies and ideas, from headsets to help MON the blind to see, to everyday objects with their very own MON internet connection. And Charles Arthur investigates the MON battle for dominance of the internet with Apple, Google and MON Microsoft struggling to stay on top, and asks what that MON means for the rest of us. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01h5xcj (Listen) MON Granta's Britain, Sugar in the Blood MON MON Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their MON sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in MON Britain. MON MON 'Sugar In The Blood' by Andrea Stuart. Read by Lorraine MON Burroughs. MON MON This selection of original non-fiction is taken from a MON glorious and sometimes feistily cantankerous celebration of MON Britain. MON MON Andrea Stuart arrived from Barbados in the mid 1970s, aged MON 14 yrs. Hers was a plantation owning Bajan family descended MON from an 18th century English emigrant. The essay explores MON the painful contradictions of race, money and class - all MON transcended by that arbitrary signifier, skin colour. MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01h5xcl (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Single Parents - Has the stigma gone? MON MON To start off Single Parents week on Woman’s Hour, we look at MON the way social attitudes towards single parents have MON changed. Whether it’s the moral judgments applied to unwed MON mothers in the 1950’s, or the popular image of a teenage MON welfare scrounger in the 1990’s, there has often been a MON stigma attached to single parenthood. So do we now live in MON more enlightened times, or has the disapproval simply taken MON on more subtle forms? Jane discusses the myths and the MON reality with Pat Thane, professor of contemporary and MON British history at Kings College London, Fiona Weir, the MON chief executive of single parents’ organisation Gingerbread, MON and Isobell Turner, who became a lone parent in the 1980’s. MON MON Siobhan Benito MON MON Former civil servant Siobhan Benita was the only independent MON candidate standing in this year's London mayoral race. In an MON age when local democracy is being held up as a good role MON model through directly elected mayors and police MON commissioners, can an enthusiastic outsider really get a MON foothold on the stage occupied by the professional MON politician? Siobhan joins Jane to discuss the challenges she MON faced. MON MON Joanna Alfaro, Peruvian Environmentalist MON MON Joanna Alfaro first became interested in wildlife when she MON was growing up in Lima and her father bought a book with MON pictures of exotic birds. Little did she know then that her MON interest would lead her to some of the remote communities in MON the world, in the western deserts of the Peruvian coast, MON helping fishermen organize themselves to make their MON livelihoods more efficient - and environmentally MON sustainable. Joanna joins Jane to talk about how MON environmental science has led her from conservation work to MON community leadership, and how being a woman has helped her MON get to grips with a macho, wild west culture. MON MON Exaggeration MON MON Catastrophizing, laying it on thick, stretching the truth, MON telling a good story … Sue Elliot Nichols has always MON exaggerated - and now she comes clean. With the help of MON friends and family she reflects on the exaggerator’s role. MON MON Marrying someone from a different country MON MON Love across the national divide can undoubtedly bring great MON joy, but also headaches in the form of language barriers, MON airmiles and that tricky issue of the visa running out. How MON do you negotiate the practical and cultural differences, MON decide where to live and come to terms with the fact that MON you can ever have a holiday that doesn’t involve visiting MON the in-laws? Tessa Dunlop met her husband when she was MON teaching English in his Romanian town, and he was still at MON school. It took them another 7 years to get together…he MON now lives here in the UK and she’s written a memoir of their MON unconventional love story, "To Romania with Love." Tessa MON joins Jane, as does Guadelupe Marengo, she’s Mexican and MON came here to study 25 years ago, met her British husband and MON never went home. MON MON To Romania with Love is published by Quartet Books on 31st MON May, but is available as an e-book now. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01h5xcn (Listen) MON Not a Love Story, Episode 1 MON MON By Shelagh Stephenson MON MON When Maddie Cook is violently raped by someone she thought MON was friend, she is urged by the Police to prosecute her MON attacker, with decidedly mixed results MON MON Madeleine Cook is 24 and, for the last nine months, she's MON been living back home with her parents whilst she temps and MON tries to pay off her student loan. Her boyfriend Nick is MON still living in London, and they see each other whenever MON they can. MON MON Madeleine still has old friends from school days and a MON clutch of new ones. They meet up in local pubs most MON weekends. Like everywhere now the bars are open late, the MON drinks are cheap and usually most of them get anything MON between tipsy and very drunk. The sort of normal weekend MON behaviour you find in every town and city, but it being a MON small, relatively middle class place, it's less violent and MON not particularly aggressive. MON MON One Friday night Madeleine leaves the pub and walks home MON along the seafront in the company of Danny, a boy of her own MON age, whom she's known for few months, through other friends. MON On the way and seemingly out of the blue, he jumps on her. MON At first she thinks it's a bad joke, but in fact he rapes MON her. We know it happens, because we're with her at the time. MON MON Stunned, shocked, she calls her friend Louise, and together MON they go to a rape crisis centre. The next day, Louise MON persuades her to go to the police. MON MON It sets in motion a whole chain of events which question our MON attitudes towards rape, sexuality and sexual assault. MON MON Maddie Cook ..... Jasmine Hyde MON Danny King ..... Mark Quartley MON Meg Harper .....Haydn Gwynne MON Nick ..... Leon Ockenden MON Janet ..... Jeany Spark MON Louise ..... Michele Tate MON Paula ..... Margot Leicester MON Mike ..... Michael Elwyn MON Barry ..... Jonathan Tafler MON Ned ..... Jonathan Sayer MON MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan MON A Big Fish Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 100 Years of the Royal Flying Corps b01h5xcq (Listen) MON After receiving its Warrant from King George V, the Royal MON Flying Corps came into being in May 1912. Peter and Dan Snow MON look at the centenary of this corps of the British Army and MON how it advanced from primitive balloons and flimsy biplanes MON to sophisticated long range bombers. MON MON Dan looks back on the experience of flying in a World War MON One trainer and Peter explores the aircraft of the MON Shuttleworth Collection, all working examples of trainers, MON fighters and bombers. Professor Richard Overy and General MON Sir Mike Jackson explain how the RFC's pioneering work MON altered the course of warfare, and documents from the Museum MON of Army Flying chart the tragic loss of life that went hand MON in glove with extreme bravery and remarkable technical MON development. In a few short years the RFC went from being MON perceived as a fad to a major component of 20th century MON warfare, and eye witness accounts tell of artillery MON spotting, photo reconnaissance and the carnage on the Somme. MON MON More importantly, rather than focusing on the RFC as a MON curtain-raiser to the creation of the Royal Air Force in MON 1918, the programme looks at the Corps in its own right and MON what it brought in terms of intelligence, sophisticated MON mapping and air supremacy to the British Army in the field. MON MON Producer: Alyn Shipton MON A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b01h5xcs (Listen) MON Series 2, You're Leaving MON MON Written by Andrew Collins MON MON Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal MON optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the MON silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every MON bit of bad news. MON MON This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass MON is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his MON wife of 19 years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows MON all too well. Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter MON family a series of sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the MON positive side. It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees MON it, instead of dealing with the problems of their marriage MON and their teenage kids, Harvey's optimism is actually his MON way of avoiding engagement with the big issues. MON MON Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in MON moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with MON someone who has his head in the clouds. MON MON This week, Harvey's racist mum, Lou, moves in while she MON grieves for her plumber boyfriend and drives Jax out of the MON house, but will she give her blessing to Charlie and MON Kill-R's wedding when they fix a date? 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 Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry MON Sean Calhoun ..... Michael Legge MON MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01h5xcv (Listen) MON Live from Westfield Stratford MON MON You and Yours is broadcasting live from Westfield shopping MON centre in Stratford to hear about your changing shopping MON habits and what entices you to hand over your hard earned MON cash when times are tight. We'll be hearing from bank MON holiday shoppers and about the winners and losers in the MON retail war. MON MON Top fashion designer Paul Costelloe will be casting his eye MON over how we dress. MON MON And we'll also have news of a revolution in supermarket CD MON and DVD sales - in the future you'll be able to have your MON music and films made specially for you on demand while you MON pick up your groceries. MON MON Julian Worricker will be trying his hand at making pretzels. MON Prepare to be horrified at the shapes he comes up with. MON MON And we also want your pictures and stories about your MON personal retail heaven and hell. Simply take pictures of MON what you love or hate about where you're shopping now on MON your phone and post them on Twitter using the hashtag MON #youandyours . The best will be featured in a You and Yours MON Flickr gallery. There is a link to the gallery on the You MON and Yours website. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01h29lw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01h645z (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h6461 (Listen) MON A Time of Change, a Change of Time MON MON Programme 16 A TIME OF CHANGE, MON A CHANGE OF TIME - A rare MON domestic clock with an equally rare minute hand and MON quarter-hour chimes reveals the changing relationship MON Shakespeare's audiences had to time. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01h2ljb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01h6463 (Listen) MON Dear Arthur, Love John MON MON By Roy Smiles MON MON A comedy drama by Roy Smiles, writer of previous Afternoon MON Dramas Ying Tong, Good Evening and Pythonesque. MON MON It's often assumed that it was Dad's Army that made John Le MON Mesurier and Arthur Lowe well known. This is not so. Arthur MON Lowe had come to national attention, after a long MON apprenticeship in theatre, as the uptight church warden Mr MON Swindley in Coronation Street. John had made many films and MON found success as the diffident Colonel in the popular sitcom MON George And The Dragon. But it was Dad's Army, late in their MON lives, that brought them fame, fortune and the oddest of MON friendships. MON MON For these were strange bedfellows: Arthur was a grammar MON school boy made good, John a public schoolboy who'd shamed MON his family by going into show business; Arthur was a high MON Tory, John a life-long fluffy liberal; Arthur had a happy MON and stable marriage, John notoriously difficult ones - his MON first wife (Hattie Jacques) had left him for a shifty MON car-dealer, his second wife (Joan) had left him for doomed MON comedian Tony Hancock. MON MON In 1982 John writes to Arthur to say how much he misses him MON and, as he does, we flashback to Dad's Army: the first read MON through; the reaction to getting 21 million viewers; Lowe's MON hatred of being recognised by the public; the rivalry MON between John Laurie and Arnold Ridley; Lowe's hostility to MON Clive Dunn and socialism; the affection Le Mesurier had for MON them all, particularly Jimmy Beck; and how, after initial MON snobbery about the show, the cast came to realise it was the MON best time of their lives. MON MON John Le Mesurier ..... Anton Lesser MON Arthur Lowe ..... Robert Daws MON John Laurie ..... Kenny Ireland MON James Beck ..... James Lance MON Ian Lavender ..... Matt Addis MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01h6465 (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 3 MON MON 3/13) MON If you can name the Broadway musical in which Daniel MON Radcliffe played the lead role in a revival last year, you MON might be able to hold your own against the contestants in MON the music quiz Counterpoint, with Paul Gambaccini. MON MON This week's edition comes from Media City in Salford, with MON competitors from Birmingham, Nottingham and Duns in MON Berwickshire facing Paul's questions on all aspects and MON genres of music. There are plenty of musical extracts, both MON familiar and surprising, to identify, MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01h2kvg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Architects of Taste b01d2l30 (Listen) MON Historian and actor Ian Kelly explores the cross over MON between food and feasting, art, architecture and MON performance. MON MON From the most extravagant medieval feasts and festivals, to MON the modern gastronomy of chefs like Heston Blumenthal and MON Ferran Adria, food has long been moulded, sculpted, and MON displayed against the most theatrical of backdrops. Ian MON Kelly explores the story of artistry in cookery, and argues MON that it's a neglected cultural phenomenon. MON MON He looks at the life of Antonin Careme, the first celebrity MON chef, whose enormous sugar sculptures and piece montees, for MON the likes of Napoleon and the Prince Regent, epitomised MON centuries of high eating. And the Victorian Alexis Soyer, MON whose 'symposium of all nations' rivalled the Great MON Exhibition in its gastronomic extravagance. MON MON We also hear from the chef Ferran Adria, Jane Asher, food MON historians Ivan Day and Marc Meltonville, and chef Anne MON Willens, and jelly mongers Bompas and Parr about how a new MON generation of food artists are bringing back the spirit of MON Careme in their events and performances. MON MON Producer: Jo Wheeler MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Digital Human b01h6469 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Control is one of the big attractions of living in the MON digital world, we only post the best pictures of ourselves MON enjoying the best parts of our lives. But does that mean we MON start to treat our lives more like a brand, to be sold to MON our friends and protected from anything negative? Aleks MON Krotoski talks to Sherry Turkle director of MIT's Initiative MON on Technology and the Self to ask if this could cause us MON problems. She'll also find out what happens when you give up MON control of your online life or have it taken over. MON MON 17:00 PM b01h646c (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn presents full coverage and analysis of the MON day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01h29ly (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01h646f (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 6 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. Miles Jupp, Susan Calman, Marcus Brigstocke MON and Alan Davies are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Goats, MON Singing, Glue and Painting. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01h646h (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01h646k (Listen) MON In a special edition, John Wilson meets Damon Albarn at work MON in his studio, surrounded by instruments, as he prepares for MON a busy summer. MON MON He's helping to launch the London 2012 Festival with the MON return of his opera Dr Dee, which is inspired by the MON Elizabethan alchemist and visionary, and his band Blur are MON marking the end of the Olympics with a big Hyde Park MON concert. MON MON Damon begins his day spinning a 78rpm disc on his wind-up MON gramophone, and the tour of his studio includes the sounds MON of his specially-commissioned church bells and a Soviet-era MON Russian synthesizer. MON MON Turning the pages of a large 17th century book about Dr Dee MON and the angels, he reflects on his interests in the magical MON ideas of the period. He also reveals his views on the future MON of his band Blur - and turns to his studio piano to perform MON the opening section of a brand new Blur song, which will be MON released later this year. MON MON Producer John Goudie. MON MON 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h6461 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b01g5zp6 (Listen) MON White Chief Humphrey MON MON From sitcom to chiefdom - Michael Palin introduces the story MON of Humphrey Barclay's journey from TV comedy to an African MON village in Ghana. MON MON Humphrey Barclay is the man behind some of Britain's best MON loved sitcoms. He started with the Cambridge Footlights and MON rubbed shoulders with the best of comic talent, soon finding MON himself working with John Cleese, Michael Palin, and Terry MON Jones in television shows such as 'Do Not Adjust Your Set'. MON Humphrey stayed behind the scenes as a producer, but now he MON has come centre stage in a very different world. Today MON Humphrey Barclay's work is a far cry from TV studios and MON scripts. We find him dressed in the most elaborate robes and MON taking part in African rituals, as we discover his life as a MON Chief in the remote Ghanaian village of Kwahu Tafo. MON MON It all came about thanks to an African actor who played a MON part in 'Desmond's', a sitcom Humphrey made in the late MON 1980s for Channel Four. MON MON Set in a barbershop in south London, it starred Gyearbour MON Asante from Ghana, with whom Humphrey soon had a strong MON personal friendship. When Gyearbour died, it was clear to MON Humphrey that he needed to attend his funeral in Ghana, and MON he made plans for the journey. The funeral lasted three MON days, and at the end of the elaborate ritual, Humphrey MON received an unusual request: would he like to join the royal MON family as a chief? The only answer seemed to be 'yes'. MON MON We join Humphrey as he journeys from the capital Accra up MON into the interior of Ghana to his adopted village on the MON high Kwahu plateau. Humphrey will be with the villagers to MON celebrate Ghana's Independence Day, marking the moment that MON British colonial rule ended in 1957. He'll take us on a tour MON of his duties as 'Nkosuohene', or development chief, and MON he'll take us to see the sacred rock Buruku. Most MON importantly he'll show us some of the achievements of his MON time as chieftain of this remote Ghanaian outpost, where he MON has helped build a library, a music academy, as well as set MON up many medical projects. MON MON From the Finchley Road to the Kwahu plateau - this will be a MON journey that links Humphrey's two disparate worlds and show MON what can happen when life takes an unexpected turn. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01gvthm (Listen) MON A Death in Honduras MON MON Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. The MON People's Funeral Service deals daily with the fall-out from MON these extreme levels of violence. Set up by the Mayor of MON Tegucigalpa, the capital city, it distributes coffins, MON maintains two funeral homes, and even offers a mobile MON service where employees take everything necessary for a wake MON - including bread and coffee - to someone's house or local MON church. All of these services are totally free for poor MON people in the city. MON MON In Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly profiles this unique MON organisation, and meets some of the families using its MON services. Among them, is the family of Ramon Orlando Varela, MON a 26 year old gunned down in the street after dropping his MON children off at school. It isn't clear why Ramon was MON targeted. But a toxic mix of gangs, guns, drug cartels - and MON fear - pervades Honduras. And it's unlikely his killers will MON ever be caught. Police corruption is endemic, impunity MON almost a given. MON MON But in spite of the everyday challenges, the workers at the MON People's Funeral Service offer what help they can. At least MON they can lend some dignity to proceedings for families who MON have almost nothing. MON MON HONDURAS: WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP AND MON FUNERALS ARE FREE MON MON Honduras has the world's highest murder rate. Many victims MON are poor. And now the city of Tegucigalpa offers free MON funerals for anyone unable to give a loved-one a dignified MON burial. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01h646m (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper examines the practicalities of expanding wind MON farms in the North Sea. Last week a meeting of European MON ministers called for greater investment in wind technology, MON and an industry consortium was launched to look at ways of MON increasing the amount of offshore power that could be MON generated from the North Sea. The engineering challenges are MON huge, we get to grips with the big questions on how to wire MON up the sea for electricity production and look to the shape MON of future wind turbines, which would need to increase in six MON years if the plan is to be realised. MON MON Gamma rays can be bent. A French research institute has MON found a way of refracting these radioactive beams in much MON the same way as visible light. The discovery opens up a MON whole new area of research, and potential Nano scale probing MON technologies which could seek out many materials from drugs’ MON to nuclear waste and have the potential to treat cancer much MON more accurately than any current radiation based methods. MON MON A few weeks ago we discussed the government’s plans to give MON the security services greater powers to snoop on our online MON activities. The plan would need the co operation of internet MON service providers, and mobile phone companies who would have MON to hand over data showing the activities of their customers. MON One person who knows all about the methodology is the author MON who goes by the pseudonym DR K, in the past he has been a MON computer Hacker, and written a book about his experiences, MON The Real Hacker’s Handbook. MON MON Also, on today's So You Want To Be A Scientist. Our 18 yr MON old amateur scientist Izzy Thomlinson launching a national MON experiment on Horrible Sounds this week. MON MON Together with her mentor, Prof Trevor Cox, they’ve designed MON an online test to find out why some people are more MON sensitive to nasty noises than others. MON MON You can take part by listening to a selection of noises, MON from nails scraping down the blackboard to squeaking MON polystyrene, and rating them on a scale of ‘not unpleasant’ MON to ‘extremely unpleasant’. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01h5xcg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01h29m0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01h646p (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01h646r (Listen) MON Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 1 MON MON By Anne Tyler. MON MON Read by William Hope. MON MON The new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne MON Tyler is the simple yet profound story of one man's recovery MON from the death of his wife. MON MON While family and friends fuss around him, widower Aaron MON Woolcott ploughs on. He busies himself with work at the MON family firm, a small publisher with a successful line in MON "Beginner's Guides" to every stage and aspect of life (from MON "The Beginner's Spice Rack", to "...Kitchen Remodelling", to MON "...Funerals"). Then, at the point when Aaron thinks he MON can't go on, Dorothy, his wife, begins to appear to him in MON reassuringly solid form. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01gvn2h (Listen) MON Interpreting MON MON Michael Rosen investigates the world of interpreting. We MON meet interpreters in business, sport and even psychotherapy, MON discover how there's more to the job than just language MON skills, and hear a report on the work of interpreters in the MON new Russia. MON MON 23:30 Balalaika Born Again b01g61v9 (Listen) MON Pat Metheny or Paganini? Who is Alexey Arhipovskiy? MON MON This is the story of the humble, three-stringed balalaika MON and the story of a maverick Russian virtuoso, Alexey, who MON wants to transform the balalaika's image; to show it is more MON than a piece of folksy soviet souvenir kitsch. Alexey has MON developed a beautiful new sound and a new repertoire for the MON balalaika, mixing a classical music sensibility with the MON temperament of prog rock. With his trusty manager, Mikhail, MON he wants to take the balalaika out of Russia and beyond the MON former Soviet borders. But can he take Russia out of the MON balalaika? Nick Baker travels to Moscow to meet him. MON MON He finds a musical rebel and an intriguing character who MON combines both adult seriousness and childlike enthusiasm for MON an instrument once played only by peasants. At the Gnessian MON Musical Academy, Alexey's Professor recalls a gifted musical MON student who took his formal classical training and turned it MON into something else. He added his own spirited MON individualism, as well as some electronic effects. MON MON In Dubrovnik, Croatia, Nick meets up with Alexey again as he MON prepares to perform at the Julian Rachlin and Friends MON Chamber Music Festival. He is virtually the only MON non-classical act on the bill. The festival is full of five MON star ex-Russian prodigies whose families left Russia in the MON 1980s and brought with them tried and tested classical MON music. What happens next? MON MON Producer: Tamsin Hughes MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 MAY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01h29mv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01h5xcj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01h29mx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01h29n1 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01h29n3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01h29n5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01h8tzk (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Rt TUE Revd Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01h666c (Listen) TUE Sarah Swadling discovers why it's just too wet for waders TUE and finds out what is needed to entice the next generation TUE farmers into the industry. Reporter Clare Freeman visits a TUE farm to find out how the current wet weather has been TUE affecting wildlife and a new report states that farmers TUE should be paid public money to improve animal welfare on TUE their farms. Sarah Swadling finds out why. TUE TUE Presenter: Sarah Swadling Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01h666f (Listen) TUE Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including TUE Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01h666h (Listen) TUE James Lovelock TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to James Lovelock about elocution TUE lessons, defrosting hamsters and his grand theory of planet TUE earth, Gaia. The idea that from the bottom of the earth's TUE crust to the upper reaches of the atmosphere, planet earth TUE is one giant inter-connected and self-regulating system. TUE TUE It's a scientific theory that's had an impact way beyond the TUE world of science: Gaia has been embraced by poets, TUE philosophers, spiritual leaders and green activists. Vaclav TUE Haval called it "a moral prescription for the welfare of the TUE planet". TUE TUE James Lovelock, now 92, talks about the freedom and TUE frustrations of fifty years spent working outside the TUE scientific establishment. TUE TUE Public interest in Gaia proliferated after the publication TUE of his first book Gaia: a new look at life on earth in 1979; TUE but the scientific community remained highly sceptical. For TUE decades Gaia was ignored, dismissed and even ridiculed as a TUE scientific theory. To this day, evolutionary biologists, in TUE particular, take issue with the notion of a self-regulating TUE planet. John Maynard Smith called it "an evil religion". TUE TUE Jonathon Porritt says Lovelock taught him "the value of TUE cantankerous, obstinate independence, sticking to what you TUE think is right and making those the cornerstones of your TUE existence". Outspoken in support of nuclear power, Lovelock TUE has offered to store a large amount of high level nuclear TUE waste in a concrete box in his garden. On climate change, he TUE believes it's too late for mankind to save the planet. TUE TUE At the start of his Life Scientific, Lovelock says he learnt TUE more working as an apprentice for a photographic firm in TUE south London than he ever did later at university. The best TUE science, he insists, is done with your hands as well as your TUE head. TUE TUE Thanks to Henry Higgins style elocution lessons aged 12, he TUE was able to get a job at the well respected National TUE Institute for Medical Research. Wartime science was all TUE about solving ad -hoc problems and he loved it. A prolific TUE inventor, he made a very early microwave oven to defrost TUE hamsters and invented the Electron Capture Detector - an TUE exquisitely sensitive device for detecting the presence of TUE the tiniest quantities of gases in the atmosphere and led to TUE a global ban on CFCs. TUE TUE Aged 40, Lovelock decided to go it alone and, he insists, TUE the theory for which he is best known, Gaia, simply would TUE not have been possible had he remained working within the TUE scientific establishment. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01h666k (Listen) TUE Fi Glover talks to Dan Crow TUE TUE In the new series of One to One, in which some of our most TUE respected broadcasters follow their personal passions by TUE talking to the people whose stories interest them most, Fi TUE Glover meets some of the men and women who've founded new TUE tech companies that are putting Silicon Roundabout in East TUE London on the map. TUE Living locally, Fi's been fascinated by the way this area of TUE Hackney has rapidly become the third most important TUE technical start up centre in the world.- after Silicon TUE Valley and New York. As a magnet to some of the most TUE enterprising and innovative internet companies, Old Street TUE Roundabout has been renamed, Silicon Roundabout. This TUE generation of entrepreneurs are bringing back some old TUE British business values ; inventive, risk taking and barrier TUE breaking. In the first programme she meets a veteran of TUE Silicon Valley, Dan Crowe . Now the chief technology officer TUE at Songkick, he's had the expected triumphs and disasters in TUE internet start-ups but feels this quiet revolution, that's TUE happening now in Hackney, may have a real impact in changing TUE the economic fortunes of Britain. TUE He explains to Fi why this should make us cheerful, a survey TUE from the Boston Consulting Group recently put the UK as the TUE leader of the G20 nations in our internet economy - so we TUE are top at something after all . TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01hj7gw (Listen) TUE Granta's Britain, Stevenage 1/2 TUE TUE Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their TUE sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in TUE Britain. TUE TUE 'Stevenage 1/2' by Gary Younge. Read by David Harewood. TUE TUE This selection of original non-fiction is taken from Granta TUE magazine's volume 'Britain'. TUE TUE Gary Younge was brought up in Stevenage, a place which even TUE his fellow residents were hard pushed to locate on a map. It TUE was an engineered community but one in which he and his TUE brothers and their single parent mum participated in TUE whole-heartedly. Nonetheless despite having only spent six TUE weeks there as a four year old, whenever he was asked where TUE he was from, 'home' was Barbados. TUE TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01h666m (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE Sapphire TUE TUE Sapphire is the author of two collections of poetry and the TUE best-selling novel Push about the abuse, violence and TUE addiction suffered by a young black woman Precious Jones. TUE The novel was adapted as the film Precious and received two TUE Academy Awards. Sapphire has written a sequel The Kid – TUE which follows the struggles of Precious’s son, Abdul, after TUE her death from AIDS. In 2009 Sapphire she was a recipient TUE of a United States Artist Fellowship. Sapphire appeared at TUE the Book Slam as part of the Brighton Festival this week, TUE and she joins Jane to discuss her writing. TUE TUE The Kid by Sapphire, published by Penguin. ISBN: TUE 978-0-241-95730-1 TUE TUE Gok Wan - Cook the Perfect Wok Fried Beans TUE TUE Gok Wan, acclaimed fashion stylist and presenter of ‘How to TUE Look Good Naked’ is firing up his wok to showcase his other TUE great passion in life, Chinese cooking - and will cook Wok TUE Fried Beans. Growing up with a Chinese restaurateur and chef TUE for a father, Gok has a real passion for home cooked Chinese TUE food and over the years has developed many recipes of his TUE own. ‘Gok Cooks Chinese’ explores Chinese home cooking, TUE creating healthy and quick meals. TUE TUE Gok Cooks Chinese published by Penguin accompanies the TV TUE series on Channel 4 which airs on 21 May at 8.30pm TUE TUE Helen Gamboa TUE TUE It wasn’t until she moved to Britain, that Angolan artist TUE Helga Gamboa discovered the indigenous pottery of her TUE birthplace. Growing up in urban Luanda, the cultural TUE heritage of her country had been supressed by years of TUE colonial rule and civil war. But when Helga moved to Britain TUE she discovered thousands of artefacts collected by two TUE pioneering English sisters who, in the 1930s, studied and TUE filmed the country’s Kwanyama women and their pottery and TUE rituals in the 1930s. Now the work of Helga Gamboa is to be TUE shown alongside some of the most significant pieces TUE collected by the Powell-Cotton sisters, in an exhibition TUE that celebrates the art of Angola. Helga Gamboa joins Jane TUE to discuss how her ceramics mix traditional methods with TUE modern and sometimes shocking images, to highlight the TUE struggles endured by women and children in Angolan society. TUE TUE Whose taste do you trust? TUE TUE There are some people for whose impeccable taste you rely on TUE for good advice whether it be a about where to go on a night TUE out with colleagues, what books to read or what to buy for TUE the aged aunt who has everything. In the past we may have TUE found out the best places to go, what to see, read and buy TUE after reading the experts and critics in newspapers and TUE magazines. Now there are also hundreds of bloggers giving TUE fashion advice and curated websites that suggest what to see TUE at the cinema, or what to serve at dinner tonight. So who do TUE you trust? Jane TUE discuss with podcaster and blogger, Helen Saltzman and Daisy TUE Garnet from the website, A Little Bird. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01h8z2k (Listen) TUE Not a Love Story, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Shelagh Stephenson TUE TUE Naively, Maddie hopes for the quick conviction of her TUE attacker. TUE TUE One Friday night Madeleine leaves the pub and walks home TUE along the seafront in the company of Danny, a boy of her own TUE age, whom she's known for few months, through other friends. TUE On the way and seemingly out of the blue, he jumps on her. TUE At first she thinks it's a bad joke, but in fact he rapes TUE her. We know it happens, because we're with her at the time. TUE TUE It sets in motion a whole chain of events which question our TUE attitudes towards rape, sexuality and sexual assault. TUE TUE Director: Eoin O'Callaghan TUE A Big Fish Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Hurricane Rash b01h666p (Listen) TUE Dr Kevin Fong looks at the unlikely birth of modern TUE reconstructive surgery, developed in direct response to the TUE great air battles of the Second World War, and the TUE horrendous burns suffered by the pilots who survived. TUE Plastic surgery has had a bad press of late, more associated TUE with the vanity of Hollywood, but its true origins lie in a TUE small unassuming hospital in Kent, with a surgeon called TUE Archie McIndoe and the development of an aeroplane that TUE would become one of the great heroes of the Battle of TUE Britain: The Hawker Hurricane. The Hurricane was an awesome TUE fighter, built for maximum efficiency when it came to TUE shooting down enemy aircraft. What it was not built for was TUE to protect the brave pilot flying in it, should it get hit. TUE The result, for those who survived, were some horrific TUE burns, (nicknamed Hurricane Rash) and terrible TUE disfigurements. Kevin tells the story of Archie McIndoe, and TUE his "guinea pigs", the pilots he operated on, who bravely TUE endured months, if not years, of often experimental TUE treatment that pushed the boundaries of the field, and whose TUE legacy is still evident in the most cutting edge techniques TUE of modern reconstructive surgery. TUE TUE Presenter: Dr Kevin Fong TUE Producer: Alexandra Feachem. TUE TUE 11:30 The First LP in Ireland b01h666r (Listen) TUE In 1947, the Irish Folklore Commission and the BBC TUE established a scheme to seek out and record folk music and TUE stories throughout Ireland. The project was the idea of TUE Donegal-born BBC producer Brian George and it lasted until TUE 1952. TUE TUE Field recordings in Cork, Kerry, Donegal and Galway were TUE made by singer, storyteller, piper and broadcaster Seamus TUE Ennis along with Brian George and his colleague Maurice TUE Brown, a features producer from the BBC. Recordings were TUE simultaneously being made in Northern Ireland by Peter TUE Kennedy and Sean O Baoill. In all 1500 performances were TUE preserved on over seventy hours of tape. TUE TUE In early 1951, American folklorist and musicologist Alan TUE Lomax travelled to Ireland on a similar mission, to record TUE '...authentic performers in the isolated places where songs TUE are handed down from generation to generation by word of TUE mouth' and which '...are threatened to be engulfed by the TUE roar of our powerful society.' TUE TUE Lomax is regarded as one of the great field collectors of TUE the twentieth century: His recordings introduced the world TUE to such talents as Jelly Roll Morton and Leadbelly. With TUE Seamus Ennis as his guide, Lomax visited villages across TUE Ireland, recording singers and musicians. TUE TUE Lomax and Ennis pooled their unique archive - from their TUE separate 1947 and 1951 field trips - to assemble the very TUE first anthology of Irish traditional music ever to be TUE compiled on an LP - what they described as '...the first TUE systematic mapping of the folk or oral musical tradition.' TUE Filled with accordions, fiddles, pianos, stories and songs, TUE the album would become a template for future musicians, TUE introducing generations to songs which would eventually TUE become standards: I'll Go No More A Rovin', Whiskey In The TUE Jar, She Moves Through The Fair. TUE TUE Producer: Owen McFadden. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01h666t (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01h29n7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01h666w (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h666y (Listen) TUE Plague and the Playhouse TUE TUE Programme 17. PLAGUE & THE PLAYHOUSE TUE - May 1603 saw not only a new king but the worst plague TUE outbreak since the Black Death. Its impact and reach is TUE told through a series of early seventeenth century TUE proclamations. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01h646h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01h6670 (Listen) TUE The Dreamer TUE TUE The son of a renowned Nazi hunter attempts to retrieve a TUE stolen Matisse painting. Jane Asher and William Gaminara TUE star in this atmospheric drama by Ronald Frame. TUE TUE Paulette is a music teacher in Nice. She is being shadowed TUE by a man. Levin, when cornered, claims that he wants to take TUE up the piano again. In fact Levin is the son of a famous TUE Nazi-hunter, recently deceased. Paulette is the daughter of TUE an SS officer who escaped to Buenos Aires. In Paulette's TUE apartment Levin locates the object of his searches - a TUE Matisse painting. But is it an original? Both Paulette and TUE Levin have been held in a dream-like state, troubled by and TUE unable to shake off the past. Paulette moved to Nice, TUE attracted by the image in the painting, and frustrated by TUE her mother's attempts to ruin her romances. Levin was never TUE able to please his father: by finding the painting, will he TUE finally be 'proving' himself? TUE TUE Paulette Dubois - JANE ASHER TUE Howard Levin - WILLIAM GAMINARA TUE TUE Producer/ Director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01h6672 (Listen) TUE Historian Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Join in by contacting the programme: TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE Join the conversation on our Facebook page or find out more TUE from the Radio 4 website - TUE www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/makinghistory TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01h6674 (Listen) TUE Return of the king 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 b01h6676 (Listen) TUE Chugger Chat TUE TUE Michael Rosen investigates the language of chuggers and TUE street vendors. If you stop people in the street to ask them TUE to donate to your charity, come to your show or buy your TUE goods, which words work best? The word "chugging" was coined TUE by a journalist ten years ago to describe what some TUE charities would rather call "face to face fundraising". But, TUE as Michael discovers, others in the charity world have TUE decided to embrace the "ch" word and give it a positive TUE spin. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01h6678 (Listen) TUE Series 27, John Ford TUE TUE John Ford had a monumental Hollywood career - over 140 TUE films, Oscars he never turned up to receive, and a blunt way TUE of approaching the business that made him enemies as well as TUE friends. He stood up once at a meeting and said simply, "My TUE name's John Ford, I make westerns." TUE Eric Pickles makes an unlikely, but extremely knowledgeable TUE guest. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local TUE Government is often depicted as a blunt man himself. But he TUE paints a fascinating picture of his young self sitting cross TUE legged as a boy watching The Searchers, Fort Apache and The TUE Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He realised even then that TUE these were not westerns but a portrait of America finding TUE itself. "When the legend becomes fact," says a newspaperman TUE at the end of one of Ford's films, "print the legend." TUE Joining Eric Pickles in the studio are Ed Buscombe, Matthew TUE Parris, and wonderful archive of the tough-talking director TUE John Ford. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01h667b (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01h29n9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01h667d (Listen) TUE Series 8, Keeping the Flame Alive 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 With the Olympics looming Stan spies a golden opportunity - TUE renting out Ed's flat for the duration of the games at the TUE princely sum of £3,000 a week. So Ed has to pack up his TUE newspaper collection, sift through his takeaway trays and TUE leave the place he's called home for the last years. But TUE where will he go? TUE TUE Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas TUE Fiona ..... Jenny Agutter TUE Janie ..... Rachel Atkins TUE Olive ..... Stephanie Cole TUE Cliff ..... Geoff McGivern TUE Frank ..... Simon Greenall TUE Jaz ..... Philip Jackson TUE Pearl ..... Rita May TUE Ping/Lisa ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01h667g (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01h667j (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h666y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Something Rotten in Mayfield b01hbp2m (Listen) TUE In August 2000, in Mayfield Kentucky, 19-year-old Jessica TUE Currin was brutally murdered. When the local police failed TUE to find her killer, a local woman, Susan Galbreath contacted TUE veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold and asked his TUE help in solving the crime. TUE TUE Mangold, off work with a knee operation and bored, became TUE intrigued by the story and flew to Mayfield, a dry town in TUE the heart of America's bible belt, to work with Susan. TUE Together the odd couple worked tirelessly from an TUE ultra-modest room in a motel frequented by Hells Angels and TUE interstate truckers, determined to crack the case. Within TUE ten days it had become obvious not only that the local TUE police had completely failed to mount a proper TUE investigation, and charged an innocent man with the murder, TUE but that the real identity of the killer was reasonably well TUE known on the street. After two weeks, the couple handed TUE their evidence to the Kentucky State Police, and both waited TUE for results. But nothing happened. The police didn't act, TUE the culprits weren't arrested, and the killers remained TUE free. Why? TUE TUE In "Something Rotten In Mayfield" Tom returns to Kentucky to TUE tell the remarkable story of how he and Susan finally got TUE justice for Jessica and reports on how some detectives, TUE mired in scandal, could not or would not solve the crime on TUE their doorstep. TUE TUE Produced by Gemma Newby. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01h667l (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01h667n (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond visits HMP Grendon, the only prison in TUE Europe which operates wholly as a therapeutic community. TUE More than nine out of ten prisoners there will be serving TUE indeterminate sentences for murder or serious violent TUE offences. Inmates have to apply for a place and once at TUE Grendon will undergo intensive group therapy three times a TUE week for over a year. Claudia meets inmates, therapists and TUE prison staff to find out how the prison operates and how its TUE unique environment aims to reduce reoffending rates. TUE TUE Producer: Pam Rutherford. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01h666h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01h29nc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01h66fq (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Carolyn TUE Quinn. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hc9st (Listen) TUE Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Anne Tyler. TUE TUE Read by William Hope. TUE TUE In this episode, Aaron Woolcott, editor at his family's TUE small publishing house in Baltimore, reveals how a freak TUE accident claimed the life of his wife Dorothy. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 23:00 Tidal Talk from the Rock Pool b01h66fs (Listen) TUE The Anemone and the Goby Fish TUE TUE 2/3. The Anemone and the Goby Fish. TUE The Anemone (played by Alison Steadman) and the Goby Fish TUE (played by Sean Power), reveal the truth about life in a TUE rock pool, in the second 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 The Anemone lives on the Hermit Crab's shell, which means TUE she gets free rides around the rock pool to see her TUE neighbours. And there's almost nothing the Anemone loves TUE more than being able to parade her slim and highly toned TUE body around the pool. Of course this means she is almost TUE permanently on a diet and has to exercise to keep fit, TUE stretching and bending her tentacles. All this thumping up TUE and down on his roof annoys the Hermit crab, but the Anemone TUE is used to his grumbling. She exercises a lot and he TUE grumbles a lot. They are the perfect partners. And then one TUE day; as she's bending and stretching, there's a terrible TUE sound ..! TUE The Goby Fish is a very small fish in a big pool. He's a TUE tough talkin', fast movin' fish who likes the girls and TUE loves his mother. He zips about the pool showing off his TUE fancy fin work, sweet-talking the girls and playing the cool TUE guy - which is not always easy when, as he points out, TUE you've got a not-very-cool sucker attached to one side of TUE your body. Still a little guy can have big dreams and this TUE little fishy has really big dreams! TUE TUE Anemone : Alison Steadman TUE Goby Fish : Sean Power TUE Written and introduced by Lynne Truss TUE Sound design by Chris Watson TUE Produced by Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 23:30 Folk Song, Art Song b01gg7dm (Listen) TUE Christopher Maltman is an award-winning opera singer and TUE recitalist. Alongside the lieders, chansons and art songs of TUE his recital repertoire, he loves nothing more than TUE performing folk song settings. TUE TUE Audiences often respond well, but not all among the TUE folk-singing fraternity are enthusiastic about this genre TUE borrowing. Some contend that folk songs lose much of their TUE impact when refined and beautified for the recital stage. TUE TUE Christopher talks to folk singer Eliza Carthy and scholars TUE Georgina Boyes and Tim Healey about the uneasy relationship TUE between the two musical worlds. TUE TUE Is the antagonism musical or to do with very English TUE attitudes to class and accent? And why is it that so many of TUE his opera-singing colleagues from Scotland, Ireland, Wales TUE and further afield, have no such animosity from their TUE respective folk cultures? TUE TUE Christopher also talks to his regular recital accompanist TUE Julius Drake and senior colleague Sir Thomas Allen about the TUE best way of approaching this music, searching for a TUE performance that is genuine to singer and song alike. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 MAY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01h29p6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01hj7gw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01h29p8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01h29pb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01h29pd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01h29pg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01h8tyv (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Rt WED Revd Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01h73p4 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01h73p6 (Listen) WED Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including WED Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for WED the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01h73p8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01hj877 (Listen) WED Granta's Britain, Stevenage 2/2 WED WED Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their WED sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in WED Britain. WED WED This selection of original non-fiction is taken from Granta WED magazine's volume 'Britain' WED WED Stevenage (2/2): Writer and commentator, Gary Younge WED explores his relationship to the new town of Stevenage and WED how the place he grew up in has evolved. WED WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01h73pb (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01h8z70 (Listen) WED Not a Love Story, Episode 3 WED WED By Shelagh Stephenson WED WED Maddie begins to regret having involved the Police in the WED rape. WED WED One Friday night Madeleine leaves the pub and walks home WED along the seafront in the company of Danny, a boy of her own WED age, whom she's known for few months, through other friends. WED On the way and seemingly out of the blue, he jumps on her. WED At first she thinks it's a bad joke, but in fact he rapes WED her. We know it happens, because we're with her at the time. WED It sets in motion a whole chain of events which question our WED attitudes towards rape, sexuality and sexual assault. WED WED Director: Eoin O'Callaghan WED A Big Fish Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01h73pd (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 2 WED WED Alan Dein delves into the deaths of two Labradors, Moz and WED Chloe and three Jack Russell Terriers, Monty, Poppy and WED Murphy, living in different families on the same street. WED Following the latest death, pork steak laced with pesticide WED was found in a garden and a local vet is in little doubt WED that this was a deliberate. WED WED For Georgina and her husband Darren the attacks have WED unleashed mistrust and fear in their once close knit WED community. Their home on the sprawling council estate now WED hosts a shrine around the fireplace and the cremated remains WED of their loved pets are buried in the garden. Just weeks WED later Monty's mother, Poppy, was out in the garden when Emma WED spotted her eating something: "I rushed out and couldn't WED believe my eyes when I saw her with more meat. It was too WED late to stop her and she died later that afternoon." WED WED For PC Charlie Banks, from the Pontefract and Knottingley WED neighbourhood policing team, the case is proving difficult WED to solve. There is no history of dispute between neighbours WED and he has found no evidence to suggest what might lie WED behind the attacks. Alan Dein meets those with theories of WED their own and looks at what these five dogs meant to their WED owners and who might have wanted them dead. WED WED And just days into the recording the poisoner strikes again WED - with Alan Dein following the latest attack and also the WED reaction to it: Georgina and her husband, for instance, have WED decided to pack their bags and leave. But their son, Zac, WED has grown up on the estate and is reluctant to leave. WED WED Meanwhile other neighbours speculate about what might be WED behind the latest attacks - could this be a personal WED vendetta....? WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 11:30 Believe It! b01h73pg (Listen) WED Drink WED WED Believe it! WED WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. WED Based on glimmers of truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, WED bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity WED radiography of Richard Wilson. WED WED He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised WED scenes from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily WED exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national WED treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, WED theatre and Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant WED of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a WED drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, WED monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for WED governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery (not true). WED All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are WED wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery. WED (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference to his famous catchphrase.) WED Richard is supported by a small core cast viz: WED David Tennant WED John Sessions WED Lewis Macleod WED Arabella Weir WED And Jane Slavin WED Who play anyone and everyone! WED WED Ghost written by Jon Canter WED Produced by: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01h73pj (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01h73pl (Listen) WED John Waite investigates criticism of one of the UK's biggest WED commercial waste collectors, accused of misselling WED contracts, unfairly driving up prices and resisting clients' WED attempts to terminate their contracts. WED WED Presenter: John Waite WED Producer: Nick Jackson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01h29pj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01h73pn (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h73pq (Listen) WED London Becomes Rome WED WED Programme 18. LONDON BECOMES ROME WED - A set of designs for the Coronation Procession of WED James I reveals the extent of classical knowledge amongst WED Shakespeare's audience. WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01h667g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01h75cx (Listen) WED Ink Deep WED WED Ink Deep by Vivienne Franzmann WED WED Annie has rebuilt her life following a nervous breakdown. WED She lives in a beautiful isolated cottage on the Isle of WED Mull. She is in a new relationship with a local artist, Ed. WED Her children are healthy and attend a secondary school on WED the mainland. So why isn't she happy? WED WED Annie............Gillian Kearney WED Ed..................Derek Riddell WED Jess...............Sarah McDonald Hughes WED Leo............... Charles Swinford WED Jacqueline.....Barbara Marten WED WED Producer/Director Gary Brown WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01h75cz (Listen) WED Nursery fees are rising faster than inflation, salaries are WED frozen and tax credits are being cut - which can all have a WED big impact on families trying to manage their household WED budget. Research suggests many parents spend more than a WED third of their incomes on childcare. So, if you'd like WED advice on tax-efficient schemes like childcare vouchers, or WED details on your rights and responsibilities when employing a WED nanny, you can call Money Box Live. Paul Lewis and a panel WED of experts will answer your calls and emails on the finances WED of childcare. Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 WED 444. Lines open at 1pm, Wednesday. WED WED Producer, Sally Abrahams. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01h667n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01h75d1 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01h75d3 (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 b01h75d5 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01h29pl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00tdn0f (Listen) WED Series 3, There's No Place Like Woodstock WED WED Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet (The Vicar Of Dibley, Four Weddings and WED a Funeral) and Neil Dudgeon (Life Of Riley) WED WED In this episode, we discover that somewhere, over the WED rainbow... there are a bunch of idiots from Woodstock and a WED mysterious man known only as 'Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber'. 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 b01h75d7 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01h75d9 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h73pq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01h75dc (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley chairs a live discussion about the top WED stories of the moment. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01h75df (Listen) WED Series 3, Matthew Syed WED WED Writer and former England table tennis champion Matthew Syed WED says we should not overemphasise the importance of talent WED over effort. Four Thought is a series of talks recorded WED before an audience at the RSA in London. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01h6674 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01h73p8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01h29pn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01h75dh (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hdfvp (Listen) WED Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 3 WED WED By Anne Tyler. WED WED Read by William Hope. WED WED The new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne WED Tyler is the simple yet profound story of one man's recovery WED from the death of his wife. WED WED In the aftermath of the freak accident that killed his wife, WED Aaron seeks to regain some semblance of normality by going WED back to live in the wreckage of their home. Throwing himself WED into his work, as editor at his family's small vanity press WED in Baltimore, he tries to evade the sympathetic efforts of WED his colleagues and neighbours. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b01h75l2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel finds himself losing pupils as a new music teacher who WED is able to get outstanding exam results starts working at WED the Arts Centre. WED WED Meanwhile Belinda is keen to put the new income stream to WED good use. WED WED Nigel Penny...... Richie Webb WED Belinda...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Chloe...... Isobel Webb WED Mrs Taylor...... Felicity Montagu WED Aleesha/Rachel...... Jess Robinson WED Maurice...... Dave Lamb WED Guy...... Jim North WED Bobby...... Joseph Webb WED WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Directed by Nick Walker WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00w7cgy (Listen) WED Series 2, Switzerland McNaughtiehorse WED WED Written by Phil Cornwell. 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 Switzerland McNaughtiehorse, Switzy to his associates is a WED Bronx, New York ex-pat living on the Cornwell Estate. He is WED a dedicated anglophile too and finds the differences in WED American and British culture fascinating, especially when it WED comes to his special line of work - 'waste disposal'. Phil WED Cornwell stars. WED WED Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon. WED Additional material by Nick Romero WED Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01h75l4 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 MAY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01h29qk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01hj877 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01h29qm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01h29qp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01h29qr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01h29qt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01h8tyx (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Rt THU Revd Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01h75xk (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01h75xm (Listen) THU Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including THU Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01h75xp (Listen) THU Game Theory THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the THU mathematical study of animal and human behaviour. First THU studied in the 1940s, game theory allows researchers to THU unravel decision-making strategies, and why certain types of THU behaviour emerge. Today it's seen as a vital tool in such THU diverse fields as evolutionary biology, economics, computing THU and philosophy. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01hj8fs (Listen) THU Granta's Britain, Theatre of Fortune THU THU Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their THU sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in THU Britain. THU THU This selection of original non-fiction is taken from Granta THU magazine's volume 'Britain'. THU THU 'Theatre of Fortune' by Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia THU Kaliada. Read by Basher Savage . A young couple flee from THU Belarus where their theatre has been closed down and their THU colleagues tortured and jailed. THU THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01h75xr (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01h90jc (Listen) THU Not a Love Story, Episode 4 THU THU By Shelagh Stephenson THU THU Maddie's decision to identify her rapist divides her THU friends. THU THU One Friday night Madeleine leaves the pub and walks home THU along the seafront in the company of Danny, a boy of her own THU age, whom she's known for few months, through other friends. THU On the way and seemingly out of the blue, he jumps on her. THU At first she thinks it's a bad joke, but in fact he rapes THU her. We know it happens, because we're with her at the time. THU THU It sets in motion a whole chain of events which question our THU attitudes towards rape, sexuality and sexual assault. THU THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan THU A Big Fish Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01h75xt (Listen) THU Russia's New Energy Frontier THU THU Lucy Ash visits Russia's new energy frontier in the Arctic THU Yamal region and explores the impact oil and gas extraction THU is having on the indigenous people there. THU THU Gradually but inexorably, reindeer give way to railroads and THU gas rigs. She goes to stay with a family of herders near the THU base of the Yamal Peninsula, whose name in the local Nenets THU language means "the end of the earth." Yamal is home to the THU largest single area of reindeer husbandry in the world and THU unlike many indigenous people of the north in Canada, the THU USA and other parts of Russia, the Nenets herders have THU proved remarkably resilient. They survived both THU collectivisation in Soviet times and the chaos of the THU transition to a market economy in the 1990s. But now there THU is a new threat as Vladimir Putin has vowed to "turn Yamal THU into the new oil and gas province of Russia." THU THU Lucy's host in the tundra, Nikolai Khudi, is philosophical THU about the changing world around him and wary of criticising THU the state monopoly Gazprom. The flow of oil and gas revenue THU to the region has brought social benefits such as decent THU schools and hospitals. Many nomads have willingly given up THU their traditional lives, and even those who've remained on THU the tundra now enjoy snow mobiles, satellite dishes and THU mobile phones. But Nikolai's brother Yevgeny worries their THU way of life is endangered and that fish may soon disappear THU from lakes and rivers because of the drilling. THU THU But Moscow is determined to exploit the treasures under the THU permafrost. The president elect is heavily dependent on THU hydrocarbons and is counting on them to fulfil recent THU campaign promises. At the current levels of price and THU consumption, the natural gas reserves in Russia's Arctic THU region, would generate enough fuel to feed Europe for around THU 75 years, with a total value of almost $17 trillion. The THU fate of this frozen territory thousands of miles from the THU Kremlin speaks volumes about the Russian state both past and THU present. THU THU 11:30 The Library Returns b01h75xw (Listen) THU The public outcry over the predicted closure of libraries THU masks a subtler story. Across Europe, the USA and Britain THU libraries are being re-invented. They are being given a much THU needed architectural facelift and a profound review of THU services in order to guarantee their survival into the 21st THU century. THU THU Jonathan Glancey presents this programme which visits the THU great game-changing library in Seattle, Europe's 'most THU modern' library in Deft, a library in Stuttgart which is THU reviving a whole neighbourhood, Piers Gough's 'super THU library' for Canada Water in London's Docklands and, of THU course, the huge new library at the centre of Birmingham THU which will open next year as the largest public cultural THU space in Europe. THU THU He considers what these libraries are doing to secure their THU place in the future - what they can offer in terms of THU inspiring architecture, engagement with the communities they THU serve and democratic access to the digital world. THU THU Producer: Susan Marling THU A Just Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01h75xy (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01h29qw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01h75y0 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h75y2 (Listen) THU The Theatres of Cruelty THU THU Programme 19. THE THEATRES OF CRUELTY THU - A human eyeball in a silver setting provides a striking THU insight to the theatre of cruelty in Elizabethan and THU Jacobean Britain. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01h75d7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tmtjg (Listen) THU Stopgap THU THU by Julie Mayhew. New graduate Max takes a temp job while on THU her way to bigger things. She considers her colleague Emma THU to be a victim of dull office life, but Emma's secret THU postcards tell a very different story. THU THU Emma ..... Liz White THU Max...... Claire Harry THU Ian..... Iain Batchelor THU Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01h75y4 (Listen) THU Devon Farm Vet THU THU Jules Hudson shadows a farm vet in Devon. As the landscape THU has changed and farms have grown larger the role of the farm THU vet has changed also. A large part of their role is now on THU disease prevention rather than simply treatment and they can THU be crucial in spotting disease outbreaks like foot and mouth THU which have devastated the countryside in the past. Jules THU shadows newly qualified vet Jen Hall to find out what's THU involved and how important the relationship with the farmer THU can be in protecting animals and the countryside. THU THU Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01h2kv4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01h762n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01h77lg (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01h77lj (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b01h77ll (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01h29qy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01h77ln (Listen) THU Series 2, Low-Cost Airline Industry THU THU Sony Award-winning comedian Tom Wrigglesworth performs THU another of his open letters. This week Tom turns his THU attentions to the low-cost airline industry, as he asks THU whether they are all they are cracked up to be. And whether, THU if he does enough online check-in, he can legitimately claim THU to be part-time staff and get an invite to the Christmas do. THU THU Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp. THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01h77lq (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01h77ls (Listen) THU Mark Lawson talks to Hilary Mantel about her novel Bring Up THU The Bodies, a sequel to her Booker Prize-winner Wolf Hall. THU The new book focuses on the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h75y2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01h77lv (Listen) THU Tax relief on charity donations THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. Presented by THU Simon Cox. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01h77lx (Listen) THU Bank to Basics THU THU Britain's big four banks are being challenged by newcomers. THU Peter Day asks what new arrivals on the high street have to THU do to prize customers away from their traditional loyalties. THU THU The Government wants more competition in banking with the THU aim of getting a better deal for customers who have been THU complaining about the service they receive in record THU numbers. There are key developments taking shape but will THU they be enough to create bigger banks to compete with the THU big boys? THU THU Well, Virgin Money has bought Northern Rock and Lloyds is THU currently negotiating to sell more than 630 branches, THU possibly to Co-Op Bank. Meanwhile, newer banking players THU like Handelsbanken and Metro are expanding, promising better THU local customer service and in some cases, that elusive thing THU - a bank manager. Big retail names like Tesco and THU Sainsbury's have banking licences and hope to grow the THU business from the financial products they currently offer. THU Shawcross Bank and Aldermore Bank aim to take small business THU customers away from the high street banks. THU THU But there are big stumbling blocks to competition. The big THU four - Lloyds Banking Group, RBS/Natwest, Barclays and HSBC THU have an eye watering 77% market share of personal current THU accounts, and 85% of Small and Medium Enterprises current THU accounts. THU THU There are other factors too which complicate the picture. THU While the technology may be cheaper to create a new banking THU platform, banks will shortly have to hold more ready capital THU to prevent any future financial crises. THU THU So can the newcomers really make a dent in the big four's THU domination of UK banking? THU Producer Lesley McAlpine THU Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Hurricane Rash b01h666p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01h75xp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01h29r0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01h77lz (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hdfzl (Listen) THU Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 4 THU THU By Anne Tyler. THU THU Read by William Hope. THU THU The new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne THU Tyler is the simple yet profound story of one man's recovery THU from the death of his wife. THU THU Arriving home from work to find water pouring through the THU roof of his house, Aaron is forced to call in a builder and THU face up to the extent of the tree's damage. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 23:00 Tonight b01h77nt (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Rory Bremner and the team return for another series of THU Tonight, the topical satire show that digs that bit deeper THU into national and international politics. THU THU Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of THU things as it is to make fun of them. With a team that THU includes veteran satirists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody and THU versatile impressionist and character comedian Kate THU O'Sullivan, Tonight promises to do both. This is half an THU hour of stand-up, sketches, and investigative satire. And at THU the core of the show are Rory's incisively funny interviews THU with the most informed guest commentators on the current THU political scene. THU THU More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with THU the word fiscal in them - and some truly brilliant THU impressions: a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. THU THU Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01h77nw (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 MAY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01h29rx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01hj8fs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01h29rz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01h29s1 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01h29s3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01h29s5 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01h8tyz (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The Rt FRI Revd Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01h7cd9 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Clare Freeman. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01h7cdc (Listen) FRI Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01h2kvd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01hj9w1 (Listen) FRI Granta's Britain, The Magic Place FRI FRI Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their FRI sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in FRI Britain. FRI FRI This selection of original non-fiction is taken from Granta FRI magazine's volume 'Britain' FRI FRI 'The Magic Place' written and read by Kapka Kassabova. A FRI Bulgarian Kiwi novelist finds her sense of home in Scotland. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01h7cdf (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01h90jy (Listen) FRI Not a Love Story, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Shelagh Stephenson FRI FRI The rapist's testimony seems to sway the jury. FRI FRI One Friday night Madeleine leaves the pub and walks home FRI along the seafront in the company of Danny, a boy of her own FRI age, whom she's known for few months, through other friends. FRI On the way and seemingly out of the blue, he jumps on her. FRI At first she thinks it's a bad joke, but in fact he rapes FRI her. We know it happens, because we're with her at the time. FRI FRI It sets in motion a whole chain of events which question our FRI attitudes towards rape, sexuality and sexual assault. FRI FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI A Big Fish Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The Trouble with Moody Teens b01h7cdh (Listen) FRI In every school class, at least one teenager will need FRI urgent treatment for clinical depression. With thousands of FRI under-16s on anti-depressants, there is concern that mental FRI health problems amongst youngsters are on the rise. So what FRI is the difference between typical teen behaviour and FRI something more serious? FRI FRI Presenter Miranda Sawyer hears from young people who speak FRI frankly about their thoughts and feelings, often hidden from FRI those around them. She talks to parents, teachers and FRI experts to find out what are the first signs that a teenager FRI is suffering from clinical depression - and asks why it is FRI sometimes so difficult to spot those early symptoms. FRI FRI In this programme, teenagers speak about the increasing FRI pressures of growing up today - from school, home and FRI friends - and Miranda asks why do some teenagers cope with FRI these pressures whilst others spiral down into depression? FRI How much are social networking and today's economic climate FRI to blame and how much of the illness is hereditary? FRI FRI At school, some teachers may dismiss early signs of FRI depression as bad behaviour or lack of attention in class, FRI but increasingly secondary schools like Bradley Stokes near FRI Bristol have a specialist unit and strategies in place to FRI identify vulnerable pupils and refer them early for FRI psychological help. FRI FRI Often social stigma and guilt make it difficult for FRI teenagers and parents to come forward and GPs may initially FRI put problems down to adolescence, while child and adolescent FRI mental health services (CAHMS) can be patchy and FRI oversubscribed. Miranda investigates the treatment available FRI and finds out how charities like Young Minds support both FRI teenagers with mental health problems and worried parents. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Parker FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00rp1wd (Listen) FRI Series 4, Miner! FRI FRI In this episode, Milton waves goodbye to the world of dance FRI and musical theatre to pursue his dream of becoming - a FRI miner! And then his fortunes skyrocket when he strikes oil FRI in the middle of the ocean - on an oil tanker. Diamonds, FRI gold, laser beams and Eastenders combine in a glamorous yet FRI gritty tribute to Billy Elliot in "Another Case Of Milton FRI Jones". FRI FRI He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom FRI Goodman-Hill (Camelot), Dave Lamb (Come Dine With Me) and FRI Ingrid Oliver (Watson & Oliver). FRI FRI Written by Milton with James Cary FRI Produced & directed by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01h7cdk (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01h7cdm (Listen) FRI Best Buddies: Darren and Jeremy FRI FRI Presented by Fi Glover. Capturing the nation in FRI conversation. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01h29s7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01h7cdp (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 b01h7cdr (Listen) FRI Shakespeare Goes Global FRI FRI Programme 20 SHAKESPEARE GOES GLOBAL FRI - The publication of the First Folio of Shakespeare's FRI collected plays in 1623 began the process of turning an FRI early modern playwright into a global phenomenon. An FRI annotated copy of the Collected Works of Shakespeare FRI reveals the extent to which Shakespeare has inspired and FRI influenced audiences across the globe and through the ages. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01h77lq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01h7cdt (Listen) FRI Mrs Lowry and Son FRI FRI Written by Martyn Hesford FRI FRI Artist L. S. Lowry lived all his life with his over-bearing FRI mother Elizabeth. Bed-ridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively FRI tried to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his FRI artistic ambitions, whilst never failing to voice her FRI opinion at what a disappointment he is to her. This powerful FRI drama imagines the impact this obsessive mother and son FRI relationship had on the great artist. FRI FRI L S Lowry ..... Reece Dinsdale FRI Elizabeth Lowry ..... Lynda Baron FRI FRI Directed by Gary Brown FRI Produced by Charlotte Riches. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01h7cdw (Listen) FRI Malvern Spring Gardening Show FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel are garden trouble-shooting at FRI Malvern Spring Gardening Show. Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Wilson FRI and Pippa Greenwood form this week's panel of experts. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Hidden Agendas b01h7cdy (Listen) FRI Christmas '83 in the Rhondda FRI FRI The last of three stories from Wales about secrets and lies, FRI even those set with good intentions. It's Christmas '83 in FRI the Valleys, and Ceri has two young children. She'd like to FRI give them toys but their father has other plans. FRI FRI Shelley Rees reads a story by Rachel Trezise. FRI FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Emma Bodger. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01h7cf0 (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 b01h7cf2 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01h7cf4 (Listen) FRI Travelling Through Generations: Millie and Douglas FRI FRI Presented by Fi Glover. Capturing the nation in FRI conversation. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01h7cf6 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01h29s9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01h79sr (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Fred Macaulay and FRI Bridget Christie. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01h7cf8 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01h7cfb (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including a report on Anish Kapoor's giant FRI steel sculpture for the Olympic Park, which is unveiled FRI today. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h7cdr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01h7cfd (Listen) FRI Woodstock FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from The Marlborough School, Woodstock, FRI Oxfordshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01h7cfg (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01gvx87 (Listen) FRI Greed All about It FRI FRI It is 1986 and Alice longs to be taken seriously as a proper FRI journalist. So when Greg 'from management' takes a shine to FRI her and mentions that he is involved in setting up a new FRI newspaper in a high tech office in Wapping, she senses an FRI opportunity. FRI FRI A sharp, satirical look at the Wapping dispute by Ian Hislop FRI and Nick Newman. Part of the Eighties season on TV and FRI Radio. FRI FRI Alice ..... Sally Hawkins FRI Ted ..... Ron Cook FRI Greg ..... Richard Dillane FRI Harry ..... Clive Russell FRI Eileen ..... Marion Bailey FRI Andy ..... Freddie White FRI Charles ..... Nigel Hastings FRI Graham ..... John Biggins FRI Reporter ..... Keely Beresford FRI FRI Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01h29sc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01h7cfj (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hdg0t (Listen) FRI Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Anne Tyler. FRI FRI Read by William Hope. FRI FRI The new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne FRI Tyler is the simple yet profound story of one man's recovery FRI from the death of his wife. FRI FRI Slowly, as the repairs to his home start to take shape, FRI Aaron's grief begins to ease. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01h6678 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01h7cfl (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01h7cfn (Listen) FRI Marriage Across the Sectarian Divide: Mabel and JD FRI FRI Presented by Fi Glover. Capturing the nation in FRI conversation. FRI
04 May, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 05/05/2012 - 11/05/2012
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