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SAT SATURDAY 12 MAY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01h7chb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01hj9w1 (Listen) SAT Granta's Britain, The Magic Place SAT SAT Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their SAT sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in SAT Britain. SAT SAT This selection of original non-fiction is taken from Granta SAT magazine's volume 'Britain' SAT SAT 'The Magic Place' written and read by Kapka Kassabova. A SAT Bulgarian Kiwi novelist finds her sense of home in Scotland. SAT SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01h7chd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01h7chg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01h7chj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01h7chl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01h7crx (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer to begin the day with Andrea SAT Rea. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01h7crz (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01h7chn (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01h7chq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01h75y4 (Listen) SAT Devon Farm Vet SAT SAT Jules Hudson shadows a farm vet in Devon. As the landscape SAT has changed and farms have grown larger the role of the farm SAT vet has changed also. A large part of their role is now on SAT disease prevention rather than simply treatment and they can SAT be crucial in spotting disease outbreaks like foot and mouth SAT which have devastated the countryside in the past. Jules SAT shadows newly qualified vet Jen Hall to find out what's SAT involved and how important the relationship with the farmer SAT can be in protecting animals and the countryside. SAT SAT Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01hdnkh (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01h7chs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01hdnkk (Listen) SAT Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01hdnqn (Listen) SAT Peter Hennessy, Canvey Island, selective mutism, 56 Up, the SAT Baron of Pontinha, reading Crowdscape, Joan Baez SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with historian Peter SAT Hennessy, John McCarthy on Canvey Island with Dr Feelgood's SAT Wilko Johnson, Sheri Pitman a young woman who went through SAT school refusing to speak, Tony Walker a 56 year old man SAT whose life has been documented on TV since he was seven, SAT Kevin Allmond the Yorkshire businessman who has become the SAT Baron of a small European principality, a Crowdscape from SAT Reading, The UK representative for the Pacific Island of SAT Nauru Martin Weston makes a plea for Naurans in Britain to SAT contact him, a "Thing About Me" feature from Sinead Withers SAT about a beloved leather jacket, and Folk legend Joan Baez's SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 There Is Business Like Show Business b01dhn6r (Listen) SAT Some of the most lavish and expensive musicals ever staged SAT were in praise of photocopiers, kitchen appliances, SAT insurance salesmen and even tractors...They were made in the SAT 50s, 60s and later by companies to motivate their staff. The SAT people who wrote them were huge Broadway names including SAT Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock the men who gave us Fiddler SAT on the Roof. They were private performances staged at sales SAT conventions and the music was never made available to the SAT public. They were a hidden part of the business world and SAT the only reason we now know about them is that some shows SAT were recorded as souvenirs for the employees - and these SAT have been discovered by a couple of enthusiastic record SAT collectors, Steve Young and Jonathan Ward. They tell Will SAT Young about their favourite shows - Detroit Diesel's "Diesel SAT Dazzle" and "A Musical Introduction to 1958 - The Shape of SAT Tomorrow" from Westinghouse Appliances. SAT SAT There were also industrial shows in the UK. We speak to SAT choreographer and director Gillian Lynne who produced the SAT Lyon's Maid musical "With Lyon's Maid, You're Laughing!" in SAT 1973. And Herb Kanzell who, following his triumph with The SAT Westinghouse Appliances show of 1958 wrote musical shows for SAT British Rail, Oxo and British Airways. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Ross. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01hdnqq (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01hdnqs (Listen) SAT Many Syrian doctors and nurses have fled the country as the SAT violence there continues. Portia Walker's been talking to SAT one of them in Turkey about why she's decided to return home SAT SAT The Arab Spring has so far failed to take root in Algeria. SAT This week there were elections there and Chloe Arnold's been SAT reflecting on the public reluctance to take part in a vote SAT about the country's future. SAT SAT Hugh Sykes has been listening to opposing views about the SAT state Pakistan's in. Some talk of its political stability; SAT others of how it's ripe for revolution. Everyone, though, SAT has a view about the public corruption there. SAT SAT A UN envoy, in Cambodia this week, spoke of how firearms SAT were increasingly being used there against human rights SAT activists. Guy Delauney considers this in the light of SAT growing public controversy over land issues and illegal SAT logging. SAT SAT And as the nude bathing season gets underway in Germany SAT Stephen Evans tells a story of how cultural confusion over SAT nakedness caused embarrassment in a Berlin gym. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01hdnqv (Listen) SAT The five major High Street banks have now set aside 7.5 SAT billion pounds for payment protection insurance compensation SAT after mis-selling it to millions of people during a decade SAT or more. Four of them raised their provision against the SAT cost by another billion pounds between them in the first SAT quarter of the year. Not since the 1990s has mis-selling SAT occurred on such an industrial scale. SAT SAT This week we speak to one woman who reclaimed more than SAT £50,000 from credit card companies. She did it by herself. SAT No claims management companies. No Financial Ombudsman SAT Service. She simply filled out forms and sent them to the SAT business concerned. She got paid out in less than eight SAT weeks as well. SAT SAT The programme also hears from Mike Dailly from the Govan Law SAT Centre. SAT SAT The programme also takes a close look at Which's? Big SAT Switch. Customers will end up with cheaper energy bills as a SAT result but could they have done even better themselves? The SAT programme hears from Richard Lloyd, Executive Director at SAT Which? and Joe Malinowski, founder of the energy comparison SAT site, theenergyshop.com. SAT SAT Savers not warned when their rate is due to dive following SAT the end of a fixed term could be due compensation, following SAT a ruling by The Financial Ombudsman Service. The programme SAT hears from one listener who lost £2,500 in interest when his SAT rate dropped after a year. Paul also talks to Guy Anker from SAT Money Saving Expert and Anna Bowes, director at independent SAT savings comparison website savingschampion.co.uk. SAT SAT Last week Stephen Hardwick, Corporate Communications SAT Director from Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs told Money Box SAT that making it cheaper to make calls to HMRC helplines SAT wasn't an option - citing budgetary constraints and SAT technical feasibility. Following the programme a number of SAT Money Box listeners contacted us with some possible SAT solutions to the problem. Paul puts some of those SAT suggestions to David Hickson, founder of the Fair Telecoms SAT Campaign and asks whether HMRC could be doing more for SAT consumers. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01h79sr (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Fred Macaulay and SAT Bridget Christie. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01h7chv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01h7chx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01h7cfd (Listen) SAT Woodstock SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from The Marlborough School, Woodstock, SAT Oxfordshire, with Business Secretary, Vince Cable; Shadow SAT Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, SAT Mary Creagh; broadcaster and director of Colourful Radio, SAT Henry Bonsu; and Conservative MP, Douglas Carswell. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01hdnqx (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00qynvv (Listen) SAT Othello SAT SAT Lenny Henry stars in Northern Broadside's version of SAT Shakespeare's great tragedy of love turned sour by unfounded SAT jealousy. Othello's descent into deluded rage is SAT orchestrated by the dazzling villainy of his lieutenant SAT Iago. SAT SAT (Original stage production created by Northern Broadsides SAT and West Yorkshire Playhouse and staged in London by Sonia SAT Friedman Productions) SAT SAT IAGO ..... Conrad Nelson SAT RODERIGO ..... Matt Connor SAT BRABANTIO ..... Geoff Leesley SAT OTHELLO ..... Lenny Henry SAT CASSIO ..... Richard Standing SAT DUKE / GRATIANO ..... David Beckford SAT SENATOR / LODOVICO ..... Simon Holland Roberts SAT DESDEMONA ..... Jessica Harris SAT MONTANO ..... Andy Cryer SAT EMILIA ..... Sara Poyzer SAT HERALD / GENTLEMAN ..... Chris Pearse SAT BIANCA ..... Victoria Gee SAT SAT Director: Barrie Rutter SAT Producer: David Hunter SAT SAT Music arranged by Conrad Nelson and performed by the cast. SAT SAT 16:30 Woman's Hour b01hdnqz (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Gok Wan cooks the perfect... SAT SAT Being a single parent in the twenty first century. Cooking SAT the perfect wok fried green beans with Gok Wan. What Tamsin SAT Greig - known to millions as Debbie in The Archers - really SAT thought of kissing Matt LeBlanc on TV's Episodes. And why SAT Tessa Peake-Jones thinks Dennis Potter's controversial play SAT Brimstone and Treacle is as relevant today as it was in the SAT 1970's. SAT SAT Producer Emma Watts SAT Presenter Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01hdnxz (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports SAT headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01h7crz (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01h7chz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01h7cj1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01h7cj3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01hdny1 (Listen) SAT Lesley Sharp, Goldie, Russell Watson and Danny Wallace SAT SAT Clive's off to a falsetto start with The Voice himself SAT Russell Watson. Russel tells us about his extraordinary SAT singing career, which started in Working Men's Club's when SAT he was a child. Since then, Russell has overcome brain SAT cancer and become the self-styled 'Peoples Tenor'. His new SAT album 'Anthems - Music To Inspire A Nation' is released on SAT 21st May. SAT SAT Clive will be doing The Full Monty with Lesley Sharp whose SAT acting debut was playing Bob's wife Michelle in 'Rita, Sue SAT and Bob Too'. Lesley's starring as another wife in Sky 1 SAT HD's new comedy drama 'Starlings'. She plays a working class SAT wife, living in a small nest, with a big brood. 'Starlings' SAT starts on Sunday 13th May at 20.00. SAT SAT Emma Freud just can't say no to Yes Man Danny Wallace. As SAT well as writing and presenting, Danny started his own SAT 'Lovely' country, formed the Karma Army and found himself in SAT some very Awkward Situations. Danny's debut novel 'Charlotte SAT Street' is a heartwarming, everyday tale of boy stalks girl! SAT SAT Drum and Bass Maestro Goldie will try his hand at anything - SAT from B-boy to Ballroom dancer, 'Bad Boy' to 'Bullion' the SAT bodyguard. He'll be talking to Clive about his latest SAT performance as an angel at the International Dance Festival. SAT 'Wings of Desire' is in Victoria Square, Birmingham from SAT Wednesday 16th to Saturday 19th May. SAT SAT With music from Oklahoma rock 'n' roller JD McPherson, who SAT performs 'North Side Gal' from his album 'Signs And SAT Signifiers'. SAT SAT And Rachel Sermanni will be taking a deep breath to sing SAT 'Breathe Easy' from her EP 'Black Currants'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01hdp9b (Listen) SAT Alexis Tsipras SAT SAT Greece's far left-wing bloc, Syriza, made dramatic gains in SAT last weekend's election to become the country's second SAT largest party. The vote has split the country politically SAT and the party's brash young leader Alexis Tsipras is SAT credited with its success based on a populist SAT anti-austerity, anti-bailout message. SAT SAT Asked to form a coalition government this week Alexis SAT Tsipras failed to get enough support, but as the turmoil and SAT search for a political solution goes on, he will be hard to SAT ignore. SAT SAT Tsipras has been described as a cool, mild-mannered SAT politician who shuns neckties and likes to get around on his SAT motorcycle. Born four days after the fall of Greece's SAT military dictatorship in July 1974, Mr Tsipras became leader SAT of Syriza in 2008 and was elected to parliament in 2009. He SAT first emerged on the political scene in 2006, when he came SAT third in the Athens mayoral race. SAT SAT The former communist youth activist has been accused by some SAT of inciting violent protests and failing to condemn their SAT actions. Others claim he is promising an economic future he SAT cannot deliver. SAT SAT Andy Denwood profiles the man who has become a significant SAT player on the Greek political stage, as the country tries to SAT avoid a second election. SAT SAT Producer: Rob Cave. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01hdp9d (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01hdp9g (Listen) SAT The Great Listener SAT SAT Tony Parker was a ground-breaking writer and oral historian SAT - the master of the tape-recorded interview. Whether talking SAT to convicted murderers, the homeless, impotent men or SAT unmarried mothers, his enigmatic quiet empathy meant that SAT people opened up to him with immense honesty and trust. He SAT was the Great Listener. SAT SAT The result was a unique and expansive body of work, in which SAT he shaped these real-life stories into compelling thematic SAT narratives. By the time of his death in 1996, he had SAT published scores of books, made documentaries for radio and SAT television, and pioneered the genre of verbatim drama. SAT SAT Although his work was always based on real people in real SAT places, Parker gave all his interviewees and their locations SAT pseudonyms, and he scrupulously destroyed all traces of the SAT interviews-the tapes and the transcripts-once the books were SAT published. SAT SAT Alan Dein traces the story of Tony Parker through the SAT archive that remains and along the way tries to get behind SAT the pseudonyms and obfuscation and track down some of Tony SAT Parker's interviewees to find out what it was like to open SAT up to the Great Listener. SAT SAT Producer: Martin Williams. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01h2kvn (Listen) SAT The Great Gatsby, Episode 1 SAT SAT by F Scott Fitzgerald. SAT Dramatised by Robert Forrest. SAT SAT F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz SAT Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the SAT greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. Nick SAT Carraway arrives in Long Island and is reacquainted with his SAT distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan. He falls in with her wealthy SAT crowd. His neighbour, the self-made and self-invented SAT millionaire, Gatsby, is the man who has everything - but one SAT thing will always be out of his reach. SAT SAT Nick ..... Bryan Dick SAT Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott SAT Tom ..... Andrew Buchan SAT Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner SAT Jordan ..... Melody Grove SAT Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson SAT Klipspringer ..... Sam Dale SAT Wilson ..... Gerard McDermott SAT Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell SAT Catherine ..... Tracy Wiles SAT Chester ..... Patrick Brennan SAT Lucille ..... Christine Absalom SAT Alice ..... Amaka Okafor SAT SAT Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01h7cj5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01h75df (Listen) SAT Series 3, Matthew Syed SAT SAT Writer and former England table tennis champion Matthew Syed SAT says we should not overemphasise the importance of talent SAT over effort. Four Thought is a series of talks recorded SAT before an audience at the RSA in London. SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 22:30 The Bishop and the Prisoner b0194kz2 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 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 Prisoners who are released from prison without a job to go SAT to are far more likely to re-offend than those who have. In SAT this second programme, the Bishop visits training schemes SAT which offer inmates a chance to gain new skills and may even SAT guarantee them a job. The shoe manufacturer Timpsons has SAT training workshops in Liverpool and Forest Bank; High Down SAT is home to the infamous Clink restaurant where prisoners SAT cook and serve Michelin-style food to members of the public. SAT SAT But rehabilitation may depend more on a change of heart than SAT a change in circumstance. The Government says all the SAT evidence points to the effectiveness of Restorative Justice SAT schemes in cutting re-offending - whether through Victim SAT awareness schemes, encounters between victims and SAT perpetrators, Community Payback or the offender making SAT financial reparations. SAT SAT James Jones hears from prisoners who say that encountering a SAT victim has changed their lives. Some victims tell him that SAT Restorative Justice has positively transformed their own SAT lives; others feel that the Government's emphasis on it SAT sidelines victims yet further within the Criminal Justice SAT system. Prisons minister Crispin Blunt responds. SAT SAT In his encounters with prisoners and ex-offenders, the SAT Bishop challenges those who seek to evade responsibility for SAT their crimes, and those who think that, while they are worth SAT rehabilitating, others are not. SAT SAT This programme was first broadcast on January 9th 2012. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01h6465 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 3 SAT SAT 3/13) SAT If you can name the Broadway musical in which Daniel SAT Radcliffe played the lead role in a revival last year, you SAT might be able to hold your own against the contestants in SAT the music quiz Counterpoint, with Paul Gambaccini. SAT SAT This week's edition comes from Media City in Salford, with SAT competitors from Birmingham, Nottingham and Duns in SAT Berwickshire facing Paul's questions on all aspects and SAT genres of music. There are plenty of musical extracts, both SAT familiar and surprising, to identify, SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Person from Porlock b01h2l6n (Listen) SAT When the poet Coleridge failed to complete his 'dream poem' SAT Kubla Khan, he laid the blame on a 'person from Porlock' who SAT had called to see him on business, thereby fatally SAT interrupting his writing. SAT SAT 'The Person from Porlock' has come to represent anything SAT that interrupts the creative process, and he has inspired a SAT number of poems in his own right, from writers as diverse as SAT Stevie Smith and R S Thomas. SAT SAT Paul Farley travels to Porlock in Somerset in search of SAT Coleridge's mysterious visitor and, in the company of Tim SAT Liardet, Hester Jones and Tom Mayberry, contemplates a SAT number of poetic interruptions - both obstructive and SAT curiously inspirational. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Harding. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 MAY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01hdn41 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Danish Noir b01hmwjl (Listen) SUN Last Train to Helsingor SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi SUN Amsinck, Denmark is a place of twilight and shadows: a SUN mysterious place where strange and often dark things happen. SUN In 'Last Train to Helsingor' Henrik Borg has done well for SUN himself; he drive a Mercedes to and from work though prefers SUN the train from Copenhagen to Helsingor, because it is SUN predictable. SUN SUN But things start to go wrong when Borg falls asleep, and SUN wakes up in a mysterious, deserted railway siding. SUN SUN Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, SUN has covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992. Heidi SUN has written numerous short stories including The SUN Chanterelles of Ostvig (2008), Conning Mrs Vinterberg (2007) SUN and Detained (2005), all of which were produced by Sweet SUN Talk for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Written by Heidi Amsinck SUN Read by Tim McInnerny SUN Producer: Ros Ward SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hdn43 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hdn45 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hdn47 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01hdn49 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01hdpl8 (Listen) SUN The bells of St George's Church, Poynton, Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01hdp9b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01hdn4c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01hdplb (Listen) SUN Modern Architecture SUN SUN Read by: Emma Fielding and Peter Guinness SUN SUN Mark Tully ponders why the beauty he sees in the traditional SUN architecture of his home city, New Delhi, is not apparent in SUN the spate of modern buildings now being built. He despairs SUN that the new can never match the magnificence of the old. SUN SUN But to prevent himself sliding into a state of complete SUN reminiscence and nostalgia, he spends a day with the world SUN renowned Indian architect, Charles Correa, visiting SUN inspiring new projects in the city. Correa, whose British SUN Council Building in New Delhi is upheld as a masterpiece, SUN shares Tully's dislike of inappropriate high rise blots on SUN the Delhi skyline, but is more optimistic that a new form of SUN Indian architecture will emerge, anchored firmly in the SUN cultural and mythical traditions of the country. He sees SUN Indian cities as a place of hope, and new buildings as a way SUN of connecting the past to the future. SUN SUN And with a warning to himself that he must not join the SUN ranks of those who condemned the iconic Eiffel Tower and SUN Sydney Opera House as monstrosities, just because they were SUN different, Tully accepts that some change is for the good, SUN as long as it's good to look at. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique Broadcasting Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01hdpld (Listen) SUN The Pasqueflower SUN SUN The beautiful purple pasqueflower with its distinctive SUN yellow anthers is one of the few Spring flowers to be in SUN bloom around Easter. Once found across most chalk and SUN limestone grasslands in Britain the flower declined severely SUN from the late 1700s when these grasslands were ploughed so SUN that crops could be grown. It is now found at only 19 sites SUN in the country and at only 5 of those sites are they found SUN in large number and at small colonies, pasqueflower SUN populations are becoming very isolated. SUN SUN Joanna Pinnock joins a botanist and reserve manager at one SUN of the largest remaining colonies in Cambridgeshire to find SUN out more about the fascinating history and botany of the SUN pasqueflower and how colonies are being helped back from the SUN brink with grazing - as it needs short grass in order to be SUN able to thrive - and other conservation methods. SUN SUN Producer: Sheena Duncan SUN Editor: Julian Hector. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01hdn4f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01hdn4h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01hdplg (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Samira Ahmed. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01hdplj (Listen) SUN Tools with a Mission SUN SUN Tommy Walsh presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Tools with a Mission. SUN Reg Charity: 1104903 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Tools with a Mission SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Tools with a Mission SUN SUN Tools with a Mission help people to switch from aid SUN dependency to self sufficiency by providing tools with which SUN to work and earn a living to support themselves and their SUN families. Using volunteers, unwanted tools are collected in SUN the UK then refurbished and packed into kits before shipping SUN overseas. Last year 20 containers were sent to vocational SUN training projects working in poorer areas of Zambia, Uganda, SUN Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa’. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01hdn4k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01hdn4m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01hdpll (Listen) SUN From St Bartholomew's Church, Stranmillis, Belfast. Led by SUN Rev Dr Ron Elsdon. Preacher Rev Janice Elsdon. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01h7cfg (Listen) SUN Military matters SUN SUN "Suppose you've spend the entirety of your working life SUN pushing paper in an office and concocting ways of winning SUN elections - then the heavy wooden door of Number 10 finally SUN swings closed and....in the back garden, a couple of SUN strapping fellows are parading up and down the lawn with SUN Heckler & Koch machine guns around their necks, their SUN mission: to stop the baddies scything you down". SUN SUN Will Self asks what can drive political leaders into the SUN arms of the military. From the era of Margaret Thatcher on, SUN he says, "a key aspect of the premiership seems to have SUN become posing with tough, tough boys and their tough, tough SUN toys". SUN SUN In Will Self's view, this close relationship between SUN politicians and the military helps no-one. His solution - to SUN bring back National Service. "The cry", he writes, "beloved SUN of the ramrod-straight and the crew-cut is joined by me with SUN all my bohemian heart". And he says he would be first in SUN line! SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01hdpln (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 b01hdqm6 (Listen) SUN For detailed synopses, see daily episodes. SUN SUN Writer ... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ... Peter Leslie Wild SUN Editor ... John Yorke and Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks 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 William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly SUN Hattie Marshall ..... Maya Barcot SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01hdqmd (Listen) SUN Baroness Hollins SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Baroness Sheila Hollins. SUN SUN An Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, she has specialised in SUN the health and welfare of people with learning disabilities; SUN advising on policy and influencing attitudes. She started SUN off as a GP, turning to psychiatry after finding a huge SUN proportion of her patients were suffering from emotional and SUN social problems. One of her four children has a learning SUN disability and that has brought a focus to her professional SUN ambitions. She says: "In many ways, I've always thought that SUN our children are going to be different to any expectation we SUN had of them and really the joy of parenthood is discovering SUN who your children really are." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01h646f (Listen) SUN Series 9, Episode 6 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. Miles Jupp, Susan Calman, Marcus Brigstocke SUN and Alan Davies are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Goats, SUN Singing, Glue and Painting. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01hdypt (Listen) SUN A Soya Bean Future? SUN SUN What's the future for one of the world's most successful and SUN controversial crops, soya? SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01hdn4p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01hdypw (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton presents the latest national and SUN international news, including an in-depth look at events SUN around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Holy Mackerel - It's My Life! b01bb9cm (Listen) SUN Narrator: Bernard Cribbins SUN SUN Bernard Cribbins helps paint a radio portrait of one of this SUN country's most successful but least well known cartoonists. SUN The longest-running daily cartoon strip in the world is the SUN work of Frank Dickens - his character "Bristow", the SUN middle-aged office rebel, first appeared in 1961 and has SUN been a well-loved feature of newspapers throughout the world SUN ever since. Dickens tried to make sense of his life as a SUN cartoonist, and life in general, while pootling around the SUN countryside in his old VW, the "Kaisermobile", but his SUN autobiography remains unfinished. As a result - and despite SUN being a legend in Fleet Street - he remains an enigma to SUN most of his readers. SUN SUN Michael Williams succeeded in lifting the character Bristow SUN out of the newspaper in a Radio 4 series (described by the SUN Daily Mail as "a model for sitcoms", with The Times claiming SUN "The dull routine of office life has not been so hilariously SUN transformed since the stage musical 'How to Succeed in SUN Business Without Really Trying'") and Bristow's inspiration SUN can be seen in many workplace comedy creations including SUN "Dilbert" and "The Office". Originally conceived as a guide SUN to car maintenance, the strip that defined the humour in SUN red-tape muddles has been a daily constant during its SUN creators turbulent and eventful life. Through the comical SUN warp and woof of survival in Chipping Norton revealed in his SUN diary entries and with the help of fellow cartoonists and SUN artists MAC, Ralph Steadman, Bernard Cookson and Rick SUN Brookes, perhaps we'll finally find out who the man is SUN behind one of this country's (and now the world's) most SUN successful cartoons. SUN SUN Contributors include - Ralph Steadman, MAC, Bernard Cookson, SUN Rick Brookes. SUN SUN Producer: Neil Cargill SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01h7cdw (Listen) SUN Malvern Spring Gardening Show SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel are garden trouble-shooting at SUN Malvern Spring Gardening Show. Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Wilson SUN and Pippa Greenwood form this week's panel of experts. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon and Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01hdypy (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 Darren and Jeremy from Cardiff, whose conversation SUN about the particular bonds of male friendship was recorded SUN by Radio Wales. And from Radio Lincolnshire, a conversation SUN between a grandfather and granddaughter whose life SUN experiences have differed widely, but whose closeness is all SUN too apparent. While Radio Berkshire brings us a mother-son SUN encounter about a family past blighted by sectarian violence SUN in Northern Ireland. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that SUN aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which SUN people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with SUN 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 b01hdyq0 (Listen) SUN The Great Gatsby, Episode 2 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. SUN SUN Nick has fallen in with the wealthy crowd on Long Island. SUN His neighbour, Gatsby, asks Nick to engineer a meeting with SUN his lost love, Nick's cousin, Daisy. 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/Michaelis ..... Sam Dale SUN Wilson/Gatz ..... Gerard McDermott SUN Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell SUN Alice ..... Amaka Okafor SUN SUN Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01hdyq2 (Listen) SUN Jackie Kay on her new collection of short stories Reality, SUN Reality SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to awarding winning poet and SUN novelist Jackie Kay about her new collection of short SUN stories Reality, Reality. Her previous work includes SUN Trumpet, the novel which won her the Guardian First Book SUN Award. In this collection fourteen of the fifteen stories SUN are told by first person female narrators and show a variety SUN of female predicaments - from the apparently trivial world SUN of a compulsive dieter to the deeply serious plight of a SUN woman suffering abuse in a care home, explored with SUN compassion, wit and insight. SUN SUN Why are novels set in the fifties currently so popular and SUN what does interest in such books reveal about our own age? SUN As we become firmly entrenched in a period of austerity does SUN life as it was lived over 60 years ago offer comfort, was it SUN the last age of innocence, or does it provide a means to SUN reflect on our own time? Crime writer Laura Wilson whose SUN book A Willing Victim is the most recent in her series of SUN novels featuring Detective Inspector Ted Stratton and is set SUN in 1956, the year of Suez and the Hungarian uprising joins SUN writer and broadcaster James Runcie whose Grantchester SUN Mystery series featuring Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of SUN Death starts in the 1953, the year of the Coronation, to SUN discuss why the 50s is the literary decade of the moment. SUN SUN And Tim Coates talks about his new website bilbary.com which SUN aims to increase the capacity of libraries to provide SUN e-books for their customers, in the week that the Carnegie SUN Trust UK produced a report urging libraries to adapt to a SUN changing world. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01hdyq4 (Listen) SUN The first in a new series of Poetry Please. Roger McGough is SUN joined in the studio by Wendy Cope, who reads a selection of SUN her love poems and two requests from her latest collection. SUN The readers are Nigel Anthony, Lucy Briers and Stuart SUN McLoughlin. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 Something Rotten in Mayfield b01hbp2m (Listen) SUN In August 2000, in Mayfield Kentucky, 19-year-old Jessica SUN Currin was brutally murdered. When the local police failed SUN to find her killer, a local woman, Susan Galbreath contacted SUN veteran BBC investigative reporter Tom Mangold and asked his SUN help in solving the crime. SUN SUN Mangold, off work with a knee operation and bored, became SUN intrigued by the story and flew to Mayfield, a dry town in SUN the heart of America's bible belt, to work with Susan. SUN Together the odd couple worked tirelessly from an SUN ultra-modest room in a motel frequented by Hells Angels and SUN interstate truckers, determined to crack the case. Within SUN ten days it had become obvious not only that the local SUN police had completely failed to mount a proper SUN investigation, and charged an innocent man with the murder, SUN but that the real identity of the killer was reasonably well SUN known on the street. After two weeks, the couple handed SUN their evidence to the Kentucky State Police, and both waited SUN for results. But nothing happened. The police didn't act, SUN the culprits weren't arrested, and the killers remained SUN free. Why? SUN SUN In "Something Rotten In Mayfield" Tom returns to Kentucky to SUN tell the remarkable story of how he and Susan finally got SUN justice for Jessica and reports on how some detectives, SUN mired in scandal, could not or would not solve the crime on SUN their doorstep. SUN SUN Produced by Gemma Newby. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01hdp9b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01hdn4r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01hdn4t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hdn4w (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01hdyq6 (Listen) SUN Catherine Bott makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01hdyq8 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b01h77nt (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN SUN Rory Bremner and the team return for another series of SUN Tonight, the topical satire show that digs that bit deeper SUN into national and international politics. SUN SUN Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SUN things as it is to make fun of them. With a team that SUN includes veteran satirists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody and SUN versatile impressionist and character comedian Kate SUN O'Sullivan, Tonight promises to do both. This is half an SUN hour of stand-up, sketches, and investigative satire. And at SUN the core of the show are Rory's incisively funny interviews SUN with the most informed guest commentators on the current SUN political scene. SUN SUN More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with SUN the word fiscal in them - and some truly brilliant SUN impressions: a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. SUN SUN Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Copenhagen Confidential b01hdzqy (Listen) SUN The Suitcase SUN SUN Read by Jack Klaff SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi SUN Amsinck, Copenhagen and its surrounds are places of twilight SUN and shadows: mysterious places where strange, occasionally SUN bad things happen. SUN SUN The Suitcase SUN Hopkins is a commercial traveller on his first trip to SUN Copenhagen, but things go awry after his baggage goes SUN missing at Kastrup airport. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01h7cf2 (Listen) SUN Are CEOs worth it? SUN SUN This is a question which has been widely discussed this SUN week, after Andrew Moss - chief executive of the insurance SUN firm Aviva - was forced out by shareholders who are, it SUN seems, no longer content to watch him trouser £50,000 a SUN week. SUN SUN Greek rail SUN SUN In recent editions of More or Less we've tackled a lot of SUN 'Eurostats' - some of the wad of statistics which have SUN emerged, with increasing frequency, as the Euro crisis has SUN deepened. How about this one: it's said the Greek railways SUN are so expensive to run, it would be cheaper to send all its SUN the passengers by taxi instead. Can it possibly be true? SUN SUN Chess puzzle SUN SUN Forget the Olympics, the World Chess Championship match has SUN just started. The champion is a man. His challenger is a SUN man. In fact there is only one woman in the world's top 100 SUN chess players. Why? SUN SUN Dilnot returns SUN SUN The first in a regular series of interview with former SUN presenters of the show. Actually, it may be a short series, SUN because there is only one: Andrew Dilnot. He's gone on to SUN better things as the new chairman of the UK Statistics SUN Authority. (Broadcast in the May 13 and podcast versions SUN only.) SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01h7cf0 (Listen) SUN Vidal Sassoon, Angelica Garnett, Maurice Sendak and Lloyd SUN Brevett SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Vidal Sassoon - who revolutionised the world of hairdressing SUN during the swinging sixties. We'll hear his own memories of SUN fighting the blackshirts in London's East End and Mary Quant SUN recalls their trend setting collaboration.. SUN SUN Also the artist Angelica Garnett, only daughter of the SUN Bloomsbury Group painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and SUN niece of Virginia Woolf SUN SUN Maurice Sendak, the children's writer best known for "Where SUN The Wild Things Are". Michael Rosen pays a literary tribute. SUN SUN And Lloyd Brevett, the bass player behind the ska rhythm SUN that gave birth to reggae. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01hdnqv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01hdplj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01h77lx (Listen) SUN Bank to Basics SUN SUN Britain's big four banks are being challenged by newcomers. SUN Peter Day asks what new arrivals on the high street have to SUN do to prize customers away from their traditional loyalties. SUN SUN The Government wants more competition in banking with the SUN aim of getting a better deal for customers who have been SUN complaining about the service they receive in record SUN numbers. There are key developments taking shape but will SUN they be enough to create bigger banks to compete with the SUN big boys? SUN SUN Well, Virgin Money has bought Northern Rock and Lloyds is SUN currently negotiating to sell more than 630 branches, SUN possibly to Co-Op Bank. Meanwhile, newer banking players SUN like Handelsbanken and Metro are expanding, promising better SUN local customer service and in some cases, that elusive thing SUN - a bank manager. Big retail names like Tesco and SUN Sainsbury's have banking licences and hope to grow the SUN business from the financial products they currently offer. SUN Shawcross Bank and Aldermore Bank aim to take small business SUN customers away from the high street banks. SUN SUN But there are big stumbling blocks to competition. The big SUN four - Lloyds Banking Group, RBS/Natwest, Barclays and HSBC SUN have an eye watering 77% market share of personal current SUN accounts, and 85% of Small and Medium Enterprises current SUN accounts. SUN SUN There are other factors too which complicate the picture. SUN While the technology may be cheaper to create a new banking SUN platform, banks will shortly have to hold more ready capital SUN to prevent any future financial crises. SUN SUN So can the newcomers really make a dent in the big four's SUN domination of UK banking? SUN Producer Lesley McAlpine SUN Editor Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01hdzr0 (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 b01hdzr2 (Listen) SUN Episode 103 SUN SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01h77lg (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Jonny Lee Miller to discuss his SUN role in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows. SUN SUN Screenwriter Paul Laverty talks about his Bolivian epic, SUN Even the Rain, starring Gael Garcia Bernal. SUN SUN Nigel Havers looks back at his time in Borneo with a wild SUN Nick Nolte. SUN SUN Julie Delpy on 2 Days in New York, and why she wants to SUN direct Woody Allen in her next film. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01hdplb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 MAY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01hdn5t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01h75d1 (Listen) MON Hebden Bridge; neighbours MON MON Hebden Bridge was once a working class textile town shaped MON by a culture of chapel and self help. But a new book finds MON its character transformed by a wave of incomers - from MON hippies to home workers. The writer Paul Barker talks to MON Laurie Taylor about community, past and present, in Hebden MON Bridge. Also, the social historian, Emily Cockayne explores MON relations between neighbours down the ages. As long as MON people have lived in shelters they have had people living MON next door. But how has the support, as well as the noise and MON nuisance of neighbours changed over time? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01hdpl8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hdn5w (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hdn5y (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hdn60 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01hdn62 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hf09r (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer to begin the day with Andrea MON Rea. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01hf09t (Listen) MON As the drought continues in parts of England, Anna Hill MON hears farmers are being put off building reservoirs because MON planning regulations put the environment ahead of food. MON MON And Farming Today reports from one of the 414 rural MON communities which now rely on just one bank. MON MON Presenter: Anna Hill. Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01hdn64 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01hf09w (Listen) MON Presented by Justin Webb and John Humphrys. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01hf09y (Listen) MON Spain in Crisis MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses Spain's economic MON crisis, and the legacy of Franco. In the last decade Spain MON has begun to unearth some of the mass graves of the hundreds MON of thousands of people who were killed in the 1930s by both MON sides in the civil war. Paul Preston discusses what he calls MON the Spanish Holocaust and its impact on Spain today. Maria MON Delgado argues that the significance of Franco's reign MON transcends politics, and can be felt strongly in Spain's MON cultural landscape. The MEP Daniel Hannan sees the country's MON strong support for Europe as the legacy of repression MON following the civil war, but believes that its present MON financial crisis would be eased by rejecting the euro. While MON the economist Iain Begg discusses Spain's problems within MON the wider Eurozone and the effect of political changes in MON France and Greece. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01hf0b0 (Listen) MON The Uke of Wallington, Episode 1 MON MON Read by Hugh Dennis. MON MON When his children leave home Mark Wallington decides to MON embark on the rock and roll tour he never had. But with no MON band to play with, and lacking the skills required to play MON the guitar, he settles for a 42 night road trip round the MON open mic sessions of Great Britain with his ukulele. And so, MON as he meanders through the British summer from Brighton to MON Cape Wrath, his tour bus the first public transport that MON comes along he tests to the limit, the theory that you can't MON hear a ukulele without smiling. MON MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hf0d5 (Listen) MON Chloe Sevigny Hit and Miss MON MON Oscar nominee Chloe Sevigny talks about her new TV role in MON the series Hit & Miss, in which she plays a transgender MON contract killer. Author Michele Roberts on her new novel set MON in provincial France during the second World War. MON Entrepreneur Liz Earle on mentoring young people for the MON Prince's Trust. Plus live music from folk singer Anais MON Mitchell. MON MON Producer Laura Northedge MON Presenter Jenni Murray. MON MON Chloe Sevigny MON MON The American actress and fashion and style icon Chloe MON Sevigny made her film debut seventeen years ago as an HIV MON positive teenager in the controversial yet critically MON acclaimed film 'Kids'. Known for her many independent film MON roles - she was Oscar nominated for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ where MON she played the girlfriend of a cross-dressing teenager. She MON joins Jenni to talk about her latest TV role, set in MON Manchester in which she herself plays a transgender contract MON killer. MON MON Liz Earle MON MON The skincare specialist Liz Earle is one of a number of MON celebrities, including Zandra Rhodes and Wayne Hemingway, MON involved in The Prince’s Trust Tomorrow campaign to support MON and encourage talented young entrepreneurs. She’s acting as MON a mentor to 26 year-old Rebecca Taylor who runs The Original MON Lash & Nail Bar in Doncaster. Rebecca left school at 15 with MON no qualifications; at 20 she was pregnant and sleeping on MON her Grandmother’s sofa; as a young single Mum she approached MON The Prince’s Trust for help and with a loan of £3,000 set up MON her company. She now employs eight staff. Liz Earle’s range MON of products have almost cult status – she’s working with MON Rebecca to come up with a new product to be sold to raise MON money for The Prince’s Trust. MON MON Anais Mitchell MON MON Following on from her critically acclaimed folk opera album MON ‘Hadestown’, the American singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell MON who grew up on a sheep farm in Vermont joins Jenni to talk MON about her latest music ‘Young Man in America’. Known for her MON storytelling, this album touches on themes of relationships, MON identity and the recession. She joins Jenni to talk about MON her music and why she often writes from the male MON perspective. She sings live in the studio. MON MON Young Man in America is out now MON She will be touring the UK from 29th May to 12 June. MON MON Michele Roberts MON MON A recent newspaper interview with Michele Roberts pointed MON out that the title of one of her early collections of MON essays, 'Food, Sex & God', could happily serve as a summary MON of her themes. Her work is sensuous and playful and led one MON critic to say that she is descended “perhaps as much from MON Monet and Debussy as Virginia Woolf or Keats”. She is MON half-French, half-English and her twelve novels, poetry, MON short stories and memoirs have won great acclaim, most MON notably when “Daughters of the House” was shortlisted for MON the Booker Prize. Her latest novel, “Ignorance”, shares MON some of the terrain of that novel: it is set in France and MON takes us back to the dangerous, secretive world of village MON life in France during the Second World War. Two girls, MON Jeanne and Marie-Angele share experiences as children but MON their place in the world is shaken dramatically by the war MON and what it asks of them. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01hf0d7 (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4, Episode 1 MON MON 1663 gets off to an unpromising start when Sam and Elizabeth MON have a furious row, culminating in him burning all her old MON love letters in the fire. Then Elizabeth is robbed in the MON street, and Sam has a writ issued against him on a false MON charge. He avoids arrest, until he can prove his innocence, MON by hiding next door at Sir William's house. MON MON Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways MON Captain Ferrers ..... Ewan Bailey MON Mrs Sarah ..... Eiry Thomas MON Man with writ ..... Lee Mengo MON Lord Sandwich ..... Blake Ritson MON Sir William Batten ..... Richard Mitchley MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON Adapted by Hattie Naylor. MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and MON produced by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 The Perfumed Mountaineer b01hf12x (Listen) MON Hayden Lorimer explores the double life of Walter Poucher: MON mountain photographer and perfumer. Poucher invented the MON perfume 'Bond Street' and also wrote upland guidebooks. He MON was a pioneer of mountain photography from the 1930s onwards MON and devised guidebooks that used photos to help hillwalkers MON and climbers. But he had a second life as well - in 1923 he MON had published a three volume handbook on perfumes and MON cosmetics that remains in print and, working for the MON perfumers Yardley, he invented one of their signature MON smells, the perfume Bond Street. These unlikely twin lives MON came together when he field tested his fragrances and MON make-up across the hills and fells of Britain. Sweaty MON mountaineers were not quite sure what to make of Walter but MON he resolutely and happily continued to mix his two lives and MON interests. In a celebrated moment of TV history in 1980 the MON pop singer Grace Jones attacked the chat show host Russell MON Harty live on air, the other guest on camera at the time was MON a befuddled looking Walter Poucher. Yet when it came to MON staging and managing your life Walter perhaps was ahead of MON the game and knew things that would have surprised both MON Grace Jones and Russell Harty. Here was a metrosexual man MON decades before he was supposed to have evolved. Hayden MON Lorimer, geographer at Glasgow University and committed MON hill-runner, explores the life and times of the Perfumed MON Mountaineer. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b01hf12z (Listen) MON Series 2, On Your Wedding Day 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 is MON always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his wife MON of 19 years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows all MON too well. Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter family a MON series of sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the positive side. MON It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees it, instead of MON dealing with the problems of their marriage and their MON teenage kids, Harvey's optimism is actually his way of MON 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 It's the day before Charlie and Kill-R's wedding day. While MON Rakesh makes Jax an unexpected offer and the bride gets cold MON feet, Harvey's plan to write his speech is interrupted by a MON distress call from the groom at Gatwick. 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 Dr Ray Marsh ..... Justin Edwards MON Sean Calhoun ..... Michael Legge MON Registrar ..... Simon Day MON Custom's Official ..... Greg Davies MON MON Produced by: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01hf131 (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01hdn66 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01hf133 (Listen) MON Martha Kearney 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 Key Matters b01hl41k (Listen) MON Series 3, B Minor MON MON In "Key Matters" Ivan Hewett explores the way in which MON different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics MON of their own. In this first programme, Ivan is joined by MON choral conductor, Simon Halsey, to explore the serious and MON somewhat austere key of B minor. This key seemed to acquire MON its flavour from Bach's use of it in his famous B Minor Mass MON and this tradition continued through Liszt's Piano Sonata in MON B minor and the final heartbreaking movement of MON Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony. MON MON Producer: Rosie Boulton. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01hdyq8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vvx21 (Listen) MON Severed Threads, God's Clothing Firm MON MON Jim Nostrand, proprietor of Cheap Threads, a church-owned MON clothing firm in Minnesota, becomes the scapegoat when MON news-reports implicate the company in a child-labour MON scandal. MON MON Four thousand miles away, in a boarding school in the MON British countryside, troubled twelve-year-old loner Ben, MON seems obsessed with school-shootings and vengeance. MON MON In India, British/Asian journalist Prem Sharma is making a MON radio documentary for the BBC about children working in MON factories. But after rescuing a young boy and taking him MON back to his village, the reception he gets there is not what MON he expected. MON MON Over three episodes, these three stories interweave and MON revolve around each other revealing connections and layers MON as they build to one climatic resolution. MON MON Jim ..... Brian d'Arcy James MON Prem ..... Ameet Chana MON Ben ..... Hugo Docking MON MON US Cast: MON Ruth ..... Marsha Dietlein MON Faith ..... Amanda Scot Ellis MON Pastor McGiven ..... Tom Tammi MON Kyle ..... Matt Bennett MON Sheila ..... Janet Foster MON News Anchor ..... John Leonard Thompson MON Billy ..... Jacob Knoll MON Harry ..... Craig Bockhorn MON Casey/Waitress ..... Felicity Jones MON Prison Priest ..... Miles Chapin MON MON India Cast: MON Rahul ..... Ankur Vikal MON Amit .....Vijay Yadav MON Amit's mother ..... Ayesha Raza MON Amit's brother ..... Sagar Shinde MON Welfare Officers ..... Veruschka Menon, Pushan Kripalani MON Dr Khunna ...... Shaikh Sami Usman MON Factory Owner ..... Kenneth Desai MON Factory Workers ..... Rupa Kasbe, Jyoti Reddy, Shabana MON Sheikh, MON Rita John, Neeta Chavan, Eisy T. John, Pramod Yedke MON MON and children from the Akanksa Foundation, Mumbai MON MON UK Cast: MON Fiona .... Natasha Little MON Timms ..... Henry Goodman MON Elgood ..... Francois Testory MON Jones ..... Gethin Anthony MON Psychologist ..... Kate Fitzgerald MON Travel Agent ..... Joanne Ferguson MON Heyward ..... Daniel Bridle MON Boy .....Callum Francis MON MON Production Team: MON India Line Producer ..... Nadir Khan MON Assistant Director ..... Tasneem Fatehi MON India Sound ..... Ayush Ahuja MON MON US Producer ..... David Rapkin MON US Line Producer ..... Kim Moarefi MON US Casting ..... Janet Foster MON US Sound ..... Frederick Greenhaigh MON MON UK Broadcast Assistant ..... Sarah Tombling MON UK Production Assistant ..... Lucy Howe MON Music ..... Sacha Puttnam MON MON Written and Directed by John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01hjgdt (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 4 MON MON (4/13) MON Which was President John F. Kennedy's favourite musical? And MON which British orchestra became the first to win a Queen's MON Award for Exports in the 1990s? MON MON Paul Gambaccini welcomes contestants from Surrey, Essex and MON the Isle of Wight to the BBC Radio Theatre for the latest MON heat of the wide-ranging music quiz. MON MON Musicals, film themes, jazz, sixty years of pop music and MON the classical repertoire are all fair game for question MON material, and the contestants will have to identify plenty MON of musical extracts of all kinds. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01hdypt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Poetry, Texas b01h6467 (Listen) MON Poetry expresses the universal, and history only the MON particular - Aristotle, Poetics MON MON Poetry, Texas, is a radio documentary by Pejk Malinovski. MON It's about Poetry. What is Poetry? MON MON "Haaard work." According to Rick Rice. He lives alone in a MON trailer with his dog, in the small Texan town of that name. MON "It's a lot of haaard working people. You can see that just MON driving up and down the road. The bales of hay sitting MON there. The cattle. It's just a lot of hard working people, MON trying to make an honest dime." MON MON Malinovski, a third generation Danish poet, came across MON Poetry on Google and decided to venture out there to find MON the poetry of Poetry. MON MON Poetry is not really a town, it's a bunch of houses along a MON road with a gas station in the middle, three churches and a MON school. And a Taxidermist. MON MON "It's hard to know where poetry starts and where poetry MON stops now, back in the day it was well defined." Says Rick MON Salisbury of Poetry Taxidermy MON MON Pejk Malinovski takes the listeners gently and humorously by MON the hand and shows them a fresh way to look at Poetry. Free MON from dusty books and literary experts, free even from poets. MON But full of life. MON MON Produced by Pejk Malinovski MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Digital Human b01hjq72 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON What is the biggest threat to our privacy: governments, MON corporate entities or our friends? And do people have MON different attitudes towards privacy depending on their MON culture? MON MON 17:00 PM b01hjq74 (Listen) MON Joanna Carr and Eddie Mair present full coverage and MON analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hdn68 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01hjq76 (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 1 MON MON Chairman Nicholas Parsons is back with the classic panel MON game Just A Minute MON MON Panellists this series include Paul Merton, Graham Norton, MON Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth, Alun Cochrane, Julian Clary, MON Jenny Eclair, Tony Hawks and Greg Proops. MON MON Nicholas asks the panellists to speak on various subjects MON for 60 seconds with out hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON On today's show the panellists Paul Merton, Julian Clary, MON Sue Perkins and Greg Proops are asked to speak on the MON subjects of How I Would describe myself on a Dating Website, MON Surprise Parties, Robin Hood, The Best Thing About Hollywood MON and How I Like My Coffee. MON MON Devised by Ian Messiter MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01hjq78 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01hjq7b (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the MON Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries, announced today. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01hf0d7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Trouble with Kane b01hq80p (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Kane is just twelve when he and thirteen year old friend are MON arrested in possession of cannabis. His drug use and his MON temper have spiralled out of control and he is now in MON trouble with the courts and at school, where he's on the MON brink of exclusion. He's also causing great upset to his MON parents, both from Bangladesh, who can't understand why he MON has gone so far from their control when his older sister has MON achieved good academic results and is very career focused. MON But none of this would make his story that unusual - instead MON we are following Kane because he's one of the first MON youngsters in Britain to be given intensive family therapy, MON coupled with home drug testing, as an alternative to MON custody. This series eavesdrops on the work of therapist MON Amanda Singh, from the Brandon Centre, as she attempts to MON change Kane's behaviour over a five month period. MON MON This could well be his last chance to avoid being placed in MON secure accommodation and although the work going on with him MON and his family is costly it has been shown to be a very MON effective way of reducing re-offending by young people on MON the brink of being taken into custody. It also has the added MON advantage of stream-lining the various agencies already MON involved with a young person: Amanda places his parents at MON the centre of his care and effectively teaches them how to MON control him. His cannabis use is contributing to violent MON outbursts at home and at school and everyone - from teachers MON to parents - expresses dismay at how this once quiet and shy MON boy has spiralled so quickly out of control MON MON Amanda is one of a team of multi-systemic therapists working MON under the London based Brandon centre but this approach is MON now offered in other parts of the country. She visits MON families three times a week and is contactable 24 hours a MON day as she sorts out how things have got so bad and tackles MON the family dynamics involved. This is not counselling - MON instead it's a mixture of strict parenting coupled with a MON zero tolerance of drug use. A behaviour contract is MON introduced - laying down acceptable and non- acceptable MON behaviour and home drug testing. Kane's compliance is either MON rewarded with treats and money or punished with the MON withdrawal of things like internet access, his mobile phone MON and even his favourite meals. MON MON The power in the home shifts as a result but it isn't an MON easy transition and Kane's parents have to struggle with MON increased levels of violence as their son fights against the MON new order. They agree to the recording continuing because MON throughout the whole period they maintain some hope that MON things will work out and that their experiences might help MON others. Listeners eavesdrop on various aspects of the MON process - from work going in the home to meetings between MON teachers, the police and even the parents of other boys MON involved in drug dealing. Amanda also encounters the MON cynicism of some police officers who feel that Kane is one MON of a growing number of boys who have gone too far to be MON helped. MON MON Kane's family are from Bangladesh and had high hopes that he MON would do well in school. His teachers trace the start of his MON troubles to the onset of puberty, when he suddenly shot up MON in height, towering above friends and feeling awkward about MON both his body and his racial identity. His head of year is MON keen to stop him from being permanently excluded but she MON tells Amanda that she fears what might happen next: "We've MON got nothing; we've got nothing to hold him. I was just MON thinking about all the routes, both punitive and MON non-punitive, that we could go down and I cannot see any of MON them making any difference to him. There is nothing that MON touches him - I am worried and I am worried about having him MON back here. I think it's right that we do take him back but MON I'm worried something bad will happen." MON MON Amanda Singh is use to such concern but has seen tremendous MON results with families using this method: "Kane thinks he can MON threaten them, intimidate them and control the house. They MON have to not listen to those threats - but when he's being MON sensible you can see that he does want a different MON relationship with his parents, he wouldn't be standing in MON the room if he didn't. And they want a different MON relationship with him; they just need help to get to it, MON that's all. MON MON Producer: Sue Mitchell. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01h75xt (Listen) MON Russia's New Energy Frontier MON MON Lucy Ash visits Russia's new energy frontier in the Arctic MON Yamal region and explores the impact oil and gas extraction MON is having on the indigenous people there. MON MON Gradually but inexorably, reindeer give way to railroads and MON gas rigs. She goes to stay with a family of herders near the MON base of the Yamal Peninsula, whose name in the local Nenets MON language means "the end of the earth." Yamal is home to the MON largest single area of reindeer husbandry in the world and MON unlike many indigenous people of the north in Canada, the MON USA and other parts of Russia, the Nenets herders have MON proved remarkably resilient. They survived both MON collectivisation in Soviet times and the chaos of the MON transition to a market economy in the 1990s. But now there MON is a new threat as Vladimir Putin has vowed to "turn Yamal MON into the new oil and gas province of Russia." MON MON Lucy's host in the tundra, Nikolai Khudi, is philosophical MON about the changing world around him and wary of criticising MON the state monopoly Gazprom. The flow of oil and gas revenue MON to the region has brought social benefits such as decent MON schools and hospitals. Many nomads have willingly given up MON their traditional lives, and even those who've remained on MON the tundra now enjoy snow mobiles, satellite dishes and MON mobile phones. But Nikolai's brother Yevgeny worries their MON way of life is endangered and that fish may soon disappear MON from lakes and rivers because of the drilling. MON MON But Moscow is determined to exploit the treasures under the MON permafrost. The president elect is heavily dependent on MON hydrocarbons and is counting on them to fulfil recent MON campaign promises. At the current levels of price and MON consumption, the natural gas reserves in Russia's Arctic MON region, would generate enough fuel to feed Europe for around MON 75 years, with a total value of almost $17 trillion. The MON fate of this frozen territory thousands of miles from the MON Kremlin speaks volumes about the Russian state both past and MON present. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01h77lj (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper looks at alchemy. Ancient and now somewhat MON discredited, early alchemic experiments led to the MON development of many of today’s scientific disciplines. Base MON metals may not have been turned into gold, but the fields of MON chemistry and metallurgy have their roots in Alchemy MON according to Cambridge researcher Jenny Rampling. MON MON 'The hour of dog and wolf' is a new book by Neuroscientist MON John Coates. A former Wall Street trader, he argues that MON financial decision making may owe rather more to the bodies MON hormonal response to success and stress than prudent MON financial planning. He argue the recent financial crisis was MON worsened by hormones designed primarily to keep us alive in MON dangerous situations, and his experimental work with traders MON shows a direct link between hormone secretions and profit MON levels. MON MON Afghanistan is a great place to watch the stars because of MON the high altitude and clear skies due to the lack of light MON pollution. Now a new international project ‘Reach For The MON Stars’ is aiming to put astronomy on the Afghan school MON curriculum. Through distributing astronomy text books in MON local languages and giving practical demonstrations, the MON organisers hope to encourage wider interest in science MON amongst Afghanistan’s schoolchildren. Mike stone worked in MON Afghanistan for the UN before becoming involved in the MON project. MON MON Do people with similar faces also have similar voices? ‘So MON You Want to be a Scientist?’ finalist William Rudling was at MON the Bang Goes the Theory roadshow in Sheffield over the bank MON holiday to find out what visitors thought. MON MON Almost 900 people took part in William’s test, including MON Andy Kershaw from BBC Radio Sheffield. MON MON If you were not able to make it to Sheffield last weekend, MON you can take part in William’s online experiment now – just MON click on 'The Experiment' link below. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01hf09y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01hdn6b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01hjq7d (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hjq7g (Listen) MON Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 6 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, busying himself with work at the family MON 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"). MON MON Surprised by the different stages of his grief, and watching MON his sister begin a relationship with his builder, Aaron MON recalls the first few tentative dates he had with his late MON wife, Dorothy. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01h6676 (Listen) MON Chugger Chat MON MON Michael Rosen investigates the language of chuggers and MON street vendors. If you stop people in the street to ask them MON to donate to your charity, come to your show or buy your MON goods, which words work best? The word "chugging" was coined MON by a journalist ten years ago to describe what some MON charities would rather call "face to face fundraising". But, MON as Michael discovers, others in the charity world have MON decided to embrace the "ch" word and give it a positive MON spin. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hjq7k (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 MAY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01hdn77 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01hf0b0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hdn79 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hdn7c (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hdn7f (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01hdn7h (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hjqhk (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer to begin the day with Andrea TUE Rea. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01hjqhm (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presenter is Anna Hill. Producer is Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01hjqhp (Listen) TUE Presented by Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Including TUE Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01hjqhr (Listen) TUE Frances Ashcroft TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to this year's winner of the L'Oreal TUE -UNESCO Woman in Science award, Frances Ashcroft. TUE TUE After decades spent studying the link between blood sugar TUE and insulin, she talks about the absolute thrill of TUE discovery as well as the long lean years "in a cloud of not TUE knowing". It's very rare indeed for a scientist to see any TUE medical benefit from their research but Frances Ashcroft has TUE been lucky. Her scientific understanding of a key TUE biochemical mechanism in our pancreatic cells has helped TUE transform the lives of hundreds of children who are born TUE with diabetes, enabling them to come off insulin injections TUE and instead take a daily pill. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01hjs0j (Listen) TUE Fi Glover talks to Alice Taylor TUE TUE As a resident of Hackney, Fi Glover has been fascinated by TUE the way her home patch is being turned into one of the TUE world's most important internet start up centres. Old Street TUE Roundabout has been renamed Silicon Roundabout. In this TUE series of One to One Fi talks to the men and women TUE responsible for this boom . She wants to know more about TUE this generation of tech gurus, who they are and what TUE inspires them. Part of our economic future lies in their TUE hands and the products and services they're developing now, TUE we may well be using daily in less than a decade. Makie Lab, TUE founded by Alice Taylor, is a smart toy company. With 3D TUE printing Alice believes that we'll soon be able to customise TUE our own toys, making dolls in our own image or from our own TUE imagination. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01hjs0l (Listen) TUE The Uke of Wallington, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Hugh Dennis TUE TUE Feeling slightly out of place on his tour bus without a free TUE pass, Mark Wallington meanders along the coast to Portsmouth TUE and takes the ferry to Ryde. Having never quite got over TUE missing the famous performance by Jimi Hendrix at the Isle TUE of Wight Festival in 1970, he has some ghosts to lay to TUE rest. But performing on his ukulele at the Sandown Tap puts TUE a whole new perspective on life. TUE TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hjs0n (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01hjs0q (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sam goes to see an autopsy at the Surgeons Hall and finds TUE the cold body fascinating. His wife Elizabeth, meanwhile, TUE who is rowing with the neighbours over the use of a water TUE cock, decides to distract herself by learning to dance. So TUE Sam engages the services of a Dancing Master, Mr Pembleton - TUE a decision he will later come to regret. TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and TUE produced by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Extinct! b01hjs0s (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Why did almost all life go extinct 250 million years ago? TUE Why on four other occasions in the geological history has TUE the living world experienced sudden episodes of global TUE mega-death with the majority of species being annihilated? TUE These are two of the questions Adam Rutherford explores in TUE this new series on extinction. TUE TUE The programme travels to an unassuming suburban development TUE in the middle of Pennsylvania in search of the traces of one TUE of these mass extinction events. Geologist Paul Olsen is as TUE familiar a sight in the neighbourhood as the local school TUE bus, the generously proportioned identikit homes and neat TUE lawns. Beneath the veneer of suburban banality here he's TUE uncovered a thin layer of rock recording one of the great TUE five episodes of global catastrophe in the history of life TUE on Earth. During this event 202 million years ago at least TUE three quarters of the species of animals and plants died TUE out. TUE TUE The mass extinction is called the End Triassic event. On TUE land, an entire diverse and planet-dominating group of TUE crocodile like creatures were wiped out. The ecological TUE roles they left empty were then filled by dinosaurs, some of TUE which survived the extinction event. In fact the global TUE mega-death event enabled the rise of the dinosaurs to world TUE domination for the next 140 million years on the planet. TUE TUE The root cause of this little known extinction event seems TUE to have been a vast volcanic outpouring of lava in what is TUE now the eastern United States and Morocco (the two were TUE joined together back then). TUE Some of the ancient lavas jut through the shorn grass verges TUE of Dr Olsen's suburban study area. They are just fragments TUE of a colossal eruption of lavas which covered an area as TUE large as the surface of the Moon. TUE TUE An even more enormous volcanic episode in Siberia appears to TUE be the most likely suspect for the most disastrous TUE extinction moment in the history of the living world - a TUE brief episode 250 million years ago when, according to some TUE estimates, 96% of species both on the land and in the sea TUE became extinct. It was the day (or at least several thousand TUE years) when life almost died out on Earth. TUE TUE But why did these volcanoes cause the diversity of life such TUE trauma? That's the question under investigation by TUE scientists such as Paul Olsen of Columbia University, New TUE York featured in the programme. Jennifer McElwain of the TUE University of Dublin, Jonathan Payne of Stanford University, TUE Mike Benton of Bristol University and Paul Wignal at Leeds TUE University are on the case. TUE TUE There is still debate about the species death toll at these TUE times of great dying. As Peter Wagner of the Smithsonian TUE explains, palaeontologists can be led astray by tricky TUE fossils known in the trade as Lazarus taxa and Elvis taxa. TUE Also enlivening the extinction discourse are the Red Queen TUE and the Court Jester. For a full explanation of the charming TUE jargon of mega-death, tune in. TUE TUE As presenter Adam Rutherford explains, recognition of the TUE profound importance of mass extinction events in shaping the TUE evolution of life is something that's quite recent - within TUE the last three decades. It was something Darwin had TUE dismissed. Adam also asks if the study of mass extinction TUE events in deep time has any relevance and offers insights on TUE the levels of man-made extinction of species on the planet TUE today and how our biodiversity crisis may develop in the TUE future. The interviewees in this programme say yes. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b01hjs0v (Listen) TUE Series 8, Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra TUE TUE When Benjamin Britten was asked to contribute to an TUE educational film about the symphony orchestra, he turned to TUE a theme by that other great British composer, Henry Purcell. TUE TUE The resulting theme and variations - a 'Young Person's TUE Guide' - has become, over the years, a staple of concerts TUE for young and old alike - such as its appearance in the most TUE recent BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2011. TUE TUE But the composing manuscript on which Britten worked out his TUE brilliant and buoyant series of instrumental illustrations TUE was given to a young lady working on the project while TUE Britten turned his attention to a full orchestral score. TUE TUE It's only in the past few months that the manuscript showing TUE the composer at work came to light and was saved from TUE overseas sale by the British Library. TUE TUE Frances Fyfield is joined by conductor and friend of TUE Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford, as well as the young TUE musician and scholar Christopher Milton and hand-writing TUE analyst Ruth Rostron to decipher the composer's working out TUE of a piece - as familiar now as it has ever been. TUE TUE Rather than a tidy, fair-copy this is the composer in full TUE creative flight. All the more surprising then that it isn't TUE punctuated by the scrubbings and editing of uncertainty. TUE Instead, it's full of confidence and suggests a man at work TUE on a lifelong project - making his music accessible to the TUE ears and minds of the young. TUE TUE And Frances also gets to meet the lady who looked after the TUE score for half a century, with little idea of what it might TUE be worth. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01hjs0x (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01hdn7k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01hjs0z (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 Key Matters b01hy2wg (Listen) TUE Series 3, G Minor TUE TUE Ivan Hewett explores the way in which different musical keys TUE appear to have unique characteristics of their own. In this TUE second programme, Ivan is joined by musicologist Cliff Eisen TUE to explore the key of G minor, a favourite key of Mozart's TUE for expressing failure, anger and loss. TUE TUE Producer: Rosie Boulton. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01hjq78 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vhg5r (Listen) TUE Severed Threads, If Thy Hand Offend Thee TUE TUE Second part of John Dryden's epic story of inter-connected TUE lives, set on three continents. TUE TUE When journalist Prem Sharma rescues a child working in a TUE textile factory outside Delhi, seven thousand miles away in TUE Minnesota, Jim Nostrand, proprietor of church-owned clothing TUE firm Cheap Threads, becomes the scapegoat. Meanwhile, in a TUE private boarding school in England, troubled twelve-year-old TUE Ben seems obsessed with school-shootings and vengeance. TUE TUE Producer/Director: John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01hjs11 (Listen) TUE Historian Helen Castor presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01hjs13 (Listen) TUE Pushing Water TUE TUE There's a drought in most of England but plenty of water TUE elsewhere. Why not move it? Yes, water is heavy, but it's TUE also slippery and moves down hill. Tom Heap investigates why TUE water companies seem so reluctant to trade with each other. TUE Some suggest it's because they make their profits by pouring TUE concrete in their own patch, rather than by doing deals with TUE their neighbours. Others think it's because they don't pay a TUE realistic price for the water they take out of rivers in the TUE first place. So are the problems of water shortage as much TUE to do with the economics of the industry as with the lack of TUE rain? TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 16:00 Recycled Radio b01cjm4m (Listen) TUE Recycled Radio - old BBC programmes chopped up and recycled TUE into something new, featuring the voices of Sheila Hancock, TUE David Attenborough, Beryl Bainbridge, Matthew Parris, John TUE Humphries, Margaret Thatcher, Joe Queenan, Bill Clinton, TUE Armando Iannucci, Jeremy Paxman and Gordon Brown on the TUE theme of Failure. TUE TUE Failure is a subject we can all understand - the programme TUE features quiz show contestants, divorcees, politicians, as TUE well as an explanation of the the death of the dodo, and the TUE voice of the man who discovered Scott's body in his tent in TUE the Antarctic. But these are not stories told in a TUE conventional sense - they have been chopped up and broken TUE down, slowed down, and then placed against each other to TUE create something new. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01hjs17 (Listen) TUE Series 27, Goya TUE TUE Diana Athill joins Matthew Parris to explore the life of the TUE Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya with the help of art TUE historian Dr Sarah Symmons and reader Javier Marzan. TUE TUE Goya was a 'mighty celebrant of pleasure' whose depictions TUE of hell are 'always genuinely frightening'. He has been TUE chosen by the celebrated memoirist and literary editor Diana TUE Athill for his courage in bearing witness truthfully to the TUE horrors of war, for the tenderness of his observations as a TUE painter and for his desire to keep learning all through his TUE life. Goya's letters, most recently edited by biographer TUE Sarah Symmons, reveal a passionate and delightful man, TUE playful, sensual, fascinated by people and every incarnation TUE of human life and behaviour. Caught up in the horrors of the TUE French invasion of Spain, some of his greatest works were TUE produced as an elderly man, including his series of etchings TUE 'The Disasters of War'. TUE TUE Diana Athill OBE helped establish the publishing company TUE Andre Deutsch and worked with some of the twentieth TUE century's greatest writers in her long career. Her six TUE volumes of memoirs include the 2009 winner of the Costa TUE Biography award 'Somewhere Towards the End', an examination TUE of what it means to be old. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01hjs19 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hdn7m (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b0124qtf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Qikiqtarjuaq TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE When MJN Air flies a party of tourists near the North Pole, TUE Arthur goes hunting for polar bears, Carolyn for a rogue TUE lemon and Martin for a believable French accent. Meanwhile, TUE Alfred Hitchcock makes a surprise appearance. TUE TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam TUE Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore TUE Nancy Dean Liebhart ..... Melanie Hudson TUE Mrs. Cook ..... Kosha Engler TUE Mr. Peary ..... Ewan Bailey TUE TUE Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01hjs1c (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01hjs1f (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01hjs0q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Things Ain't What They Used To Be b01hjs15 (Listen) TUE David Aaronovitch examines the persistent popularity of TUE 'declinism' - the idea that individuals and society are not TUE as good as they used to be. Why are we so drawn to this TUE idea? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01hjs1h (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01hjs1k (Listen) TUE Clinical Psychologist, Charlie Alcock, took months to get TUE young gang members on a London estate to trust her. But TUE after being spat at and having stones thrown at her head, TUE she finally succeeded in making contact with this hardest of TUE hard-to-reach groups. TUE Determined to make mental health services available to these TUE young people - most of whom were involved in extreme TUE anti-social behaviour - she and her team developed "street TUE therapy", a new model of treatment moulded around the often TUE chaotic lives of their clients. TUE Claudia Hammond sees for herself "street therapy" in action, TUE and talks to the former gang members who are now key members TUE of MAC-UK, the charity delivering this new kind of "care in TUE the community". TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01hjqhr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01hdn7p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01hjs1m (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hjs1p (Listen) TUE Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 7 TUE TUE By Anne Tyler. TUE TUE Read by William Hope. TUE TUE Emerging slowly from his grief, Aaron is spending a lot of TUE time thinking about the early days of his marriage. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 23:00 Tidal Talk from the Rock Pool b01hjs1r (Listen) TUE The Limpet and the Lugworm TUE TUE 3. The Limpet and the Lugworm. TUE The Limpet (played by Samantha Bond) and the Lugworm (played TUE by Tony Robinson), reveal the truth about life in a rock TUE pool, in the third of three very funny salty tales, written TUE and introduced by Lynne Truss, with a soundscape by Chris TUE Watson, and recorded at the QEH Theatre in Bristol as part TUE of BBC Radio 4's 'More than Words' festival. TUE The Limpet is perched as usual on her rock, looking out at TUE the horizon across the sea and dreaming of love and TUE adventure. She's a wistful soul, a poet riven with angst. TUE The Common Limpet has perfected the art of "staying put'. TUE Its only when the tide comes in, that she can lift her heavy TUE shell a fraction and move on a slime trail across the rock. TUE But it's not all melancholic reflections, especially when TUE she catches sight of her brasher neighbour, the American TUE Slipper Limpet, and she heaves her shell across the rock in TUE order to secure a romantic shell-a-shell! TUE The Lugworm spends his days burrowing in the sand. Lugworms TUE live in U-shaped tunnels which they excavate by ingesting TUE sand, passing it through their body and ejecting it. The TUE ejected sand forms the little coiled castings of sand seen TUE on sandy beaches near rock pools. It's a pretty lonely TUE existence living in a burrow, swallowing sand all day, but TUE the Lugworm amuses himself by singing gloomy hymns. Between TUE the hymns, he wonders what life would be like outside his TUE burrow and talks with religious fervour of 'THE GREAT BEAK TUE ', and then much to his excitement, the discovers the truth TUE about 'The Great Beak' with dramatic consequences. TUE TUE Limpet : Samantha Bond TUE Lugworm : Tony Robinson TUE Written and introduced by Lynne Truss TUE Sound design by Chris Watson TUE Produced by Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hjs1t (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 MAY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01hdn8j (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01hjs0l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hdn8l (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hdn8n (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hdn8q (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01hdn8s (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hjs42 (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer to begin the day with Andrea WED Rea. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01hjs44 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presenter is Anna Hill. Producer is Clare Freeman. WED WED 06:00 Today b01hjs46 (Listen) WED Presented by Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including WED Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for WED the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01hjt98 (Listen) WED Libby Purves is joined by guests including Angela Rippon. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01hjt9b (Listen) WED The Uke of Wallington, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Hugh Dennis WED WED Having been warned not to go to Wales, when passing through WED Shrewsbury, Mark Wallington finds himself filling for half WED an hour in Bangor whilst they wait for the belly dancer to WED turn up. Then, as he heads for the Wirral, he finds himself WED playing the ukulele in a bikers' pub in Birkenhead. WED WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hjt9g (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Anne McElvoy. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01hjt9j (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4, Episode 3 WED WED Sam goes riding in Hyde Park but his horse starts fighting WED with other horses so he has to make a hasty exit. A keen WED scholar, he's learning the duodecimal system but it's not WED enough to distract him from his current obsession, his WED jealousy of his wife's dancing teacher, Mr Pembleton, which WED is beginning to run out of control. He's even coming home at WED lunchtime to check if the beds are rumpled. WED WED Historical consultant: Liza Picard WED Sound by Nigel Lewis WED Adapted by Hattie Naylor WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and WED produced by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01hjtm4 (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 3 WED WED Golf has put Portrush on the map once again. The seaside WED town in Northern Ireland is home to two stars of the sport, WED Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke. Their names are proudly WED displayed on the 'Welcome to Portrush' road signs. WED WED Along with fellow Northern Ireland player, Rory McIlroy, the WED two men have reinvigorated the local sports scene, so much WED so that the Irish Open golf tournament is coming to the WED Royal Portrush Golf Club at the end of June 2012. For four WED days the town will turn into a golf lover's paradise. Most WED of the hotels are booked out and people are renting out WED their houses. WED WED The Irish Open was last held at Royal Portrush in 1947 when WED the town was a popular holiday resort. But the advent of WED package holidays and affordable foreign travel eventually WED lead to a slow-down in the local tourism trade. For this WED Lives in a Landscape Alan Dein is in Portrush as it carries WED out a major spring-clean. Derelict buildings, described as WED 'eyesores', are one legacy of the recent property boom and WED bust. Now an injection of cash from the government is paying WED for their demolition and many of the town's buildings are WED being repainted. Some in Portrush fear this will be a WED temporary patch-up job and that once the big sporting event WED ends, and the world's TV cameras depart, things will return WED to normal. Others are hoping the Irish Open will breathe new WED life into Portrush. WED WED Producer: Claire Burgoyne. WED WED 11:30 Believe It! b01hjtm8 (Listen) WED Rivals 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 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 WED Richard is supported by a small core cast: WED David Tennant WED John Sessions WED Lewis Macleod WED Arabella Weir WED and Jane Slavin WED who play anyone and everyone! WED WED Produced by: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01hjtmb (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01hjtmd (Listen) WED Investigative series looking at consumer and social stories WED from the UK. Presented by John Waite. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01hdn8v (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01hjtmg (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Key Matters b01hy2xt (Listen) WED Series 3, E Major WED WED In "Key Matters" Ivan Hewett explores the way in which WED different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics WED of their own. In this third programme, Ivan is joined by WED violinist, Professor Paul Robertson, to explore the bright WED and energetic key of E major. This key has traditionally WED been employed by composers for ecstatic music, such as WED Spring in Vivaldi's Four Seasons. But as Paul points out, WED sometimes a really great composer will take the key of E WED major and combine it with such subtle ideas, that the WED results become sublime, such as the slow movement of WED Schubert's String Quintet. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01hjs1c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vh9hx (Listen) WED Severed Threads, The Reckoning WED WED Vengeance is all that's on schoolboy Ben's mind as he pieces WED together the events surrounding his father's death. Four WED thousand miles away in India, journalist Prem is drawn WED deeper into a dangerous world of exploitation and WED corruption. In the US, as Jim's life takes a nose-dive and WED he is gradually stripped of all he holds dear, his WED unquestioning faith turns to simmering rage. As these three WED stories converge, they build towards a terrifying and WED climatic resolution. WED WED Written and Directed by John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01hjtmx (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01hjs1k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01hkz2g (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01hkz2j (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 b01hkz2l (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hdn8x (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b01hkz2n (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show celebrating one WED of Britain's favourite subjects - failure. WED WED He plunders his guests' pasts and creativity over a series WED of rounds in which panellists have to be wrong to be right. WED In this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong WED each other with their ideas and stories are comedians Lee WED Mack, Susan Calman and "Harry Hill's TV Burp" writer Daniel WED Maier. WED WED In this edition the phrase 'keep calm and carry on' and WED ridiculous things to get angry about both come under the WED 'wrong' spotlight - as well as the best ideas for the worst WED new concept albums. Will anyone beat Susan Calman's pitch WED for an album based on her cat's bid to take part in the 2012 WED Olympics? WED WED The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also WED presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You WED Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The WED Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year' at the 2009 British WED Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the WED British Comedy Awards 2009. WED WED Produced by: Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01hkz2q (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01hkz2s (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, presented by Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01hjt9j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01hkz2v (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley returns to chair a new series of the live WED discussion programme featuring top journalists who debate WED what should be said in three newspaper-style leading WED articles about the key stories of the moment. The WED contributors reflect the newspaper industry in London and WED elsewhere in the UK, the broadsheet and tabloid press and WED the differing political and other perspectives. WED WED The programme follows a simple format. After Andrew WED Rawnsley's introduction, all the contributors debate which WED of the news stories of the day merit a leading article. The WED first they choose to discuss in detail is usually the key WED British issue of the moment. They then move on to another WED major talking point - which may be an international story - WED and decide what the following day's newspaper should say WED about it. The final leader strikes a lighter note being WED about the week's offbeat, whimsical or peculiar story or an WED issue in the arts, science, entertainment or sport. WED WED All journalists contribute to each of the three subjects WED under discussion and one of them is nominated by Andrew to WED sum up the debate and set out for listeners what the main WED points of the leading article will be in each case. The WED leading article is later published on the Radio 4 website. WED WED Listeners are invited to contribute their views in advance WED and throughout the live programme via Twitter and the Radio WED 4 website. In particular, they are encouraged to say what WED the main front-page headline for the next morning should be. WED The panel offers its thoughts on these ideas at the end of WED the programme. WED WED The panel this week is: Kamal Ahmed of the "Sunday WED Telegraph"; Anne Johnstone of "The Herald"; Joe Watts of the WED "Eastern Daily Press"; Kevin Maguire of the "Daily Mirror" WED and Anushka Asthana of "The Times". WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01hkz2x (Listen) WED Series 3, Martin Cassini WED WED Campaigner Martin Cassini argues that our system for WED managing traffic is overdue for radical reform and should be WED based on trust in human nature rather than an obsession with WED controlling it. He says a drastic cut in the number of WED traffic lights would begin the transformation, saving lives, WED time and money. WED Four Thought is a series of talks with a personal viewpoint WED recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01hjs13 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01hjt98 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01hdn8z (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01hkz2z (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hkz31 (Listen) WED Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 8 WED WED By Anne Tyler. WED WED Read by William Hope. WED WED Aaron has been distracted from his grief by a series of WED reassuringly solid, and ordinary, visits from his dead wife. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:00 It Is Rocket Science b01hkz33 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Helen Keen stars alongside Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane WED for a second series of the factually-correct but funny WED exploration of the science and history of space travel. This WED week examines the Fermi paradox - if the universe is really WED infinite it should contain infinite life, and yet we have WED had no contact from alien civilisations. It also takes a WED look at different ideas through history of what life might WED be like on other planets, and some of the more surprising WED suggestions scientists have had on how to get in touch with WED it, from giant burning parallelograms in the Sahara to WED sending nude pictures into space.... WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Garth Edwards. WED WED 23:15 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01hkz35 (Listen) WED Nigel WED WED Strap in for fifteen minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever WED Peter bring you a pygmy hippo, a mystery voice, some house WED eyes & the Pope. WED WED Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and special guest Catriona Knox WED WED Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED & Dominic Stone WED WED Produced & directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hkz37 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 MAY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01hdn9t (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01hjt9b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hdn9w (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hdn9y (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hdnb0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01hdnb2 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hkzdq (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer to begin the day with Andrea THU Rea. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01hkzdv (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01hkzdx (Listen) THU Presented by Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including THU Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01hl293 (Listen) THU Clausewitz and On War THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss On War, a treatise on THU the theory and practice of warfare written by the Prussian THU soldier and intellectual Carl von Clausewitz. First THU published in 1832, Clausewitz's magnum opus is commonly THU regarded as the most important book about military theory THU ever written. Its influence is felt today not just on the THU battlefield but also in politics and business. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01hl295 (Listen) THU The Uke of Wallington, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Hugh Dennis THU THU Having meandered through Yorkshire, enjoyed a wonderful Harp THU quartet in York and promised, in a most un-rock 'n' roll THU fashion, to be back at his digs by eleven, Mark Wallington's THU one man ukulele tour round Great Britain finally hits THU Edinburgh at the height of the Festival. With no venue THU booked, Mark finds himself taking part in a talent contest THU and is proudly awarded the title, Uke of Edinburgh. THU THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hl297 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01hl299 (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU Sam is disappointed to discover the truth behind Lord THU Sandwich's strange behaviour, and Elizabeth finds that her THU new companion is less than honest. They can still enjoy a THU day out together, though, seeing the curious entertainments THU of Bartholomew Fair. THU THU Adapted by Hattie Naylor THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and THU produced by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01hl29c (Listen) THU China: Too Old to Get Rich? THU THU In this week's Crossing Continents, Mukul Devichand tells THU the stories of Shanghai's rapidly ageing population. THU China's natural ageing process has been accelerated by the THU One Child Policy. Mukul tells the stories of an ageing city THU and asks whether China's rapid economic growth could be THU undermined. THU THU Shanghai's image is youthful and contemporary, of a THU globalised metropolis buying into a new lifestyle at chains THU like Ikea. But the Ikea Shanghai store is home to a THU different category -- and age -- of customer. The store THU canteen has become a meeting point for elderly singles, THU looking for love and friendship. It's a story repeated THU across Shanghai: in places you may expect to millions of THU young people, you'll see the elderly. THU THU Like the rest of urban China, Shanghai is growing old. A THU quarter of the city's resident population is now retired, THU putting it in the same demographic league as countries like THU the UK or Germany. But ageing in China is different. Its THU fertility rates have dropped at a speed unprecedented in THU modern history because its "One Child" policy. 30 years THU after the policy started, the speed of ageing is faster in THU China than anywhere else. The burden of ageing is not only THU coming faster, it's also much also harsher here, because THU China is still a developing country -- with hundreds of THU millions of poor people to support, as well as hundreds of THU millions of additional elderly. That has led to a deep THU seated anxiety in China: will the country grow too old to THU get rich? THU THU Nestled amid skyscrapers, Mukul tells the stories of the old THU Shanghai of inner city districts, a place of tumbledown old THU blocks where the elderly are concentrated. He meets the THU couples and families struggling with new complaints, such as THU dementia and alzheimers, under the burden of low incomes and THU limited welfare. This story of poverty amid plenty THU symbolises the deeper worry: of the expense of an ageing THU China in a country where elderly care has traditionally been THU managed by the family. THU THU In the same city districts, public and private nursing homes THU are now opening their doors. These cater to a growing demand THU from families who can't manage the traditional custom of THU "many generations under one roof" and represent a big THU cultural change in China. But who will pay for this kind of THU care nationally? Mukul tells the stories of the rural THU migrants, caught between the gaps of China's welfare system THU -- the millions for whom such care is simply not an option. THU THU What can be done? One solution is to encourage more babies THU in each family. But that is antithetical to China's THU historically draconian "One Child" family planning, which is THU now deeply entrenched in the culture. Mukul visits a family THU planning centre, which now encourages some couples to have THU more than one -- and finds the couples aren't always THU listening. He speaks to Shanghai's leading family planning THU officials to ask if they are changing the "One Child" THU policy, and how fast. THU THU At its root, the real problem is not just too many elderly. THU Rather it's a shortage of young workers, threatening China's THU economic model itself. A lack of willing youth is a huge THU issue for a country whose entire business model is based on THU millions of cheap workers. In the industrial zones south of THU Shanghai, Mukul tells the stories of a crisis in labour. THU Will China's factory of the world collapse under the burden THU of ageing? THU THU 11:30 Follow-Up Albums b01hl29f (Listen) THU Dexys Midnight Runners: Don't Stand Me Down THU THU Music critic Pete Paphides tells the story behind three THU 'follow-up' albums - from Dexys Midnight Runners, Fleetwood THU Mac and Suede - with tales of musical pressure, creative THU differences, personal politics and mixed results. THU THU How many bands have found themselves with a massive and THU often unexpected hit album, only to struggle with the THU creation of their next opus? Sometimes the follow-up exceeds THU the first album, but often nerves kick in and bands are THU removed from the very stimulus that created their magic in THU the first place, finding themselves in a world of creative THU confusion, sycophants and accountants. THU THU Pete Paphides talks to musicians, producers, and critics to THU explore the stories of follow-up albums with the same expert THU knowledge he brought to Lost Albums. THU THU Programme 1: Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down. THU Kevin Rowland and Helen O'Hara give rare interviews about a THU pivotal time in Dexys Midnight Runners' history. Having been THU the best selling UK band of 1982 with their massive hit THU single Come On Eileen and the hugely popular album THU Too-Rye-ay, Dexys took some time to consider what to do THU next. THU THU Don't Stand Me Down was brave and different to Too-Rye-Ay. THU Rowland had a clear vision and went to great lengths to THU record and mix it to his own specifications. THU THU His interest in his Irish roots and Irish politics was one THU of the themes of the record. Misunderstood in its day, it THU received poor reviews but has since gone on to receive THU critical acclaim. THU THU Produced by Laura Parfitt THU A White Pebble Media Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01hl29h (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01hdnb4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01hl29k (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Key Matters b01hy2zr (Listen) THU Series 3, F Minor THU THU In "Key Matters" Ivan Hewett explores the way in which THU different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics THU of their own. In this third programme, Ivan is joined by THU violinist, Professor Paul Robertson, to explore the bright THU and energetic key of E major. This key has traditionally THU been employed by composers for ecstatic music, such as THU Spring in Vivaldi's Four Seasons. But as Paul points out, THU sometimes a really great composer will take the key of E THU major and combine it with such subtle ideas, that the THU results become sublime, such as the slow movement of THU Schubert's String Quintet. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01hkz2q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01hl29m (Listen) THU Dream Repair THU THU Emma uses a powerful, illegal, and highly addictive device THU to try to alleviate the pain of her disturbing nightmares. THU As her dependency spirals out of control she is prepared to THU betray her loved ones, until finally she's forced to face THU the real reason behind her addiction. THU THU Georgia Taylor ..... Emma THU David Gysai ..... D.I. Ambrose THU Matthew Gravelle ..... Sam THU Carl Prekopp ..... Chet THU Lynne Seymour ..... Vicky THU THU Written by Thomas Legendre THU A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Emma Bodger. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01hl29p (Listen) THU Navigation Skills THU THU More of us are being encouraged to explore the British THU countryside but how many navigation skills should we have THU before we venture out? Helen Mark travels to Northern THU Snowdonia to meet the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue THU Organisation who are called out to an incident every 3 days. THU Some they say are simply avoidable with people venturing out THU unprepared and lacking the navigation skills to get THU themselves back on track when lost. THU Helen joins a navigation course to test her own skills which THU she admits may be rusty since her Duke of Edinburgh award to THU see if the compass is mightier than the GPS. She asks how to THU ensure people are properly equipped without putting off THU newcomers from the countryside. THU THU Produced in Birmingham by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01hdplj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01hdyq2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01hl29r (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01hl29t (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU 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 b01hl29w (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hdnb6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01hl29y (Listen) THU Series 2, Compensation Culture THU THU Sony Award-winning comedian Tom Wrigglesworth delivers an THU open letter to Ken Clarke MP and asks whether compensation THU culture is actually directly opposed to the theory of THU evolution. THU THU Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01hl2b0 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01hl2b2 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including a review of comedian Omid THU Djalili starring in a new staging of Joe Orton's farce What THU The Butler Saw. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01hl299 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 A Celebration for Ascension Day b01hl2b6 (Listen) THU John Rutter directs the BBC Daily Service Singers, the Choir THU of St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Royal Philharmonic THU Orchestra Brass for a live Eucharist on Ascension Day from THU St Sepulchre's - the Musicians' Church - in London. THU Preacher: The Revd. Prof. Richard Burridge, Dean of King's THU College London; Celebrant: The Revd Rosemary Lain-Priestley. THU The music will be a setting of the Mass by Imogen Holst with THU anthems by John Rutter. THU Producer: Mark O'Brien. THU THU 21:00 Extinct! b01hjs0s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01hl293 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01hdnb8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01hl2b8 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hl2bb (Listen) THU Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 9 THU THU By Anne Tyler. THU THU Read by William Hope. THU THU Aaron is waiting patiently for Dorothy's next appearance. THU He's staying with his sister while repairs are being done to THU the house, but her relationship with Gil is becoming more THU serious it's starting to dawn on him that he may have THU outstayed his welcome. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 23:00 Tonight b01hl2bd (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 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 does both. THU THU This is half an hour of stand-up, sketches, and THU investigative satire. And at the core of the show are Rory's THU incisively funny interviews with the most informed guest THU commentators on the current political scene. THU THU More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with THU the word fiscal in them and some truly brilliant impressions THU - a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. THU THU Producers: Simon Jacobs and Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hl2bg (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 MAY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01hdnc3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01hl295 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hdnc5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hdnc7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hdnc9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01hdncc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hl40z (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer to begin the day with Andrea FRI Rea. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01hl411 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01hl413 (Listen) FRI Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including FRI Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for FRI the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01hdqmd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01hl415 (Listen) FRI The Uke of Wallington, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Hugh Dennis FRI FRI The one man ukulele tour of Great Britain nears its end at FRI the Smoo Cave Hotel in Cape Wrath and as Mark Wallington FRI walks along the beautiful curve of Balnakeil Bay he reflects FRI on his journey. Not only had he learnt a great deal about FRI the music of the British Isles, but people had been really FRI kind and he decided the ukulele really did make them smile. FRI FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hl417 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01hl419 (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sam decides to put himself on the line and confront Lord FRI Sandwich about his recent behaviour but he's anxious about FRI where this will lead. Meanwhile, a stranger tries to abduct FRI Elizabeth in broad daylight and the Queen has the spotted FRI fever. Sam goes to buy a periwig but disapproves of the wig FRI he's offered - made of greasy old woman's hair! FRI FRI Adapted by Hattie Naylor. FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and FRI produced by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 The Lost Art of Churches b01hl41c (Listen) FRI Large amounts of important, modernist visual art FRI commissioned by the Church in the twentieth century are in FRI danger of being forgotten. No central record exists of these FRI artworks - paintings, sculptures, stained glass, murals, FRI tapestries and icons - many of which have even been shut FRI away, victims of a change in fashion or worries about their FRI vulnerability. FRI FRI Paul Bayley of the ACE Trust (Art and Christian Enquiry, FRI promoting contemporary art in UK churches) locates examples FRI that illustrate the variety of art that can be found if you FRI look for it. FRI FRI In Hayes, Middlesex, at the Church of the Immaculate Heart FRI of Mary, he finds Annigonni's late 1950s painting of the FRI Madonna and Child featuring an atomic explosion rendered in FRI gold leaf in the background. At St Johns, Waterloo, he FRI examines two paintings by the German Jewish refugee from the FRI Nazis, Hans Feibusch, who became probably the most prolific FRI church artist in Britain in the last century. And in Soho, FRI in the French-speaking Church of Notre Dame, Paul meets art FRI restorers who have been rescuing unique murals painted by FRI Jean Cocteau, which were damaged by graffiti and spilt soft FRI drinks. FRI FRI One of the discoveries that most excites Paul is a large FRI crucifixion painted by Graham Sutherland in St Aidan's East FRI Acton, in the early 1960s. But not all church art, Paul FRI discovers, is situated in church buildings. The Methodist FRI Art Collection was set up to be taken around the country and FRI exhibited in different venues, and is still commissioning FRI new work. Paul also travels to Northumberland, where, at the FRI tiny church of St John, Healey, he sees award-winning new FRI work in two windows created by James Hugonin and the FRI Danish-born Anne Vibeke Mou. FRI FRI Producer: Bob Dickinson FRI A Pennine Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00rtf9n (Listen) FRI Series 4, Weatherman! FRI FRI In this episode, Milton proves that you don't need to be a FRI weatherman to know which way the wind blows - you just need FRI a fully-working anemometer and a mouse called Tim. FRI FRI Hurricanes, eclipses and a box of Duchy Originals are just FRI some of the hideous forces of nature Milton has to reckon FRI with. So if you like talking about the weather - and what FRI English person doesn't - then wrap up warm and make sure you FRI catch Another Case Of Milton Jones. FRI FRI Milton's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom FRI Goodman-Hill (Camelot), Dan Tetsell (Mongrels) and Lucy FRI Montgomery (Down The Line). FRI FRI Written by Milton with James Cary (Think The Unthinkable, FRI Miranda) FRI Produced and directed by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01hl41f (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01hl41h (Listen) FRI Bub and Tun FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today brothers Gerald and Roland, who have FRI spent a lifetime working their farmland near Skegness on the FRI Lincolnshire coast together. They've been a good team, even FRI if there's still a fiver owing, and a question of wills to FRI sort out... FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01hdncf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01hl4gr (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 Key Matters b01hy302 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI In "Key Matters", Ivan Hewett explores the way in which FRI different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics FRI of their own. In this last programme Ivan is joined by FRI pianist Peter Donohoe, to explore the key of C minor. They FRI start with one of the most famous C minor pieces of all, FRI Beethoven's 5th Symphony. They explore pieces which start in FRI one key and work their way towards C minor,such as the FRI opening of Racmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto. Ivan and Peter FRI conclude by looking at pieces which start in C minor but FRI travel triumphantly towards C major at their end ; FRI Betthoven's 5th Symphony, being the ultimate example. This FRI brings this last Key Matters series full circle as Ivan FRI began this series back in 2008 by looking at the key of C FRI major. FRI FRI Producer - Rosie Boulton. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01hl2b0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01hl4gt (Listen) FRI The Sensitive - The Protector FRI FRI Alastair Jessiman's gentle psychic detective returns for FRI another investigation - one which will surprise him more FRI than anyone. FRI FRI Thomas Soutar is asked to investigate the disappearance of a FRI family friend. It's believed the missing man may have FRI committed suicide. The voices in Thomas's head suggest a FRI different explanation - but before he can solve the mystery FRI he's shocked by a revelation about a secret hidden deep in FRI his own past. FRI FRI Thomas........Robin Laing FRI Mrs Soutar......Sheila Donald FRI Kat...........Julie Duncanson FRI Jean Harvey.....Anne Downie FRI David/Minister.....John Buick FRI FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01hl4gw (Listen) FRI Thornbury, South Gloucestershire FRI FRI Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew answer FRI gardening questions in Thornbury. Eric Robson is in the FRI chair. FRI FRI Anne Swithinbank revisits Jenie Eastman as part of our FRI Listeners' Gardens series. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Half-Light b01hl4gy (Listen) FRI The Black Woollen Gloves FRI FRI By Neil M. Gunn, first published in 1928. FRI FRI Read by Claire Knight. FRI FRI A newly qualified school-mistress, just arrived in the FRI Highland town of Inverness, chances upon the love of her FRI life in the reading room of the local library. FRI FRI First in a series of three short stories by one of FRI Scotland's finest writers, Neil M. Gunn (best known for his FRI 1941 novel, The Silver Darlings). Gunn was born in 1891, in FRI the coastal village of Dunbeath, in Caithness, and wrote FRI prolifically over a period that spanned the recession of the FRI 1920s through to the aftermath of the second world war. He FRI died in 1973. FRI FRI The stories in this series are taken from Half-Light, a new FRI collection of Gunn's short fiction compiled by his nephew FRI Dairmid Gunn and published by Caithness-based Whittles FRI Publishing. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01hl4h0 (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 b01hl4h2 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01hl4h4 (Listen) FRI Lost Hull Trawlermen: Michael and Jill FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: Michael was just 14 when he lost his brother FRI in 1968; Jill lost her husband the same year. Both were FRI victims of the triple trawler disaster in Hull. Dealing with FRI these losses at sea, with no body to provide 'closure', has FRI brought them close. They share their memories of the Hessle FRI Road community and the coping strategies they've learned. FRI The final visit to the Listening Project is at 11.55pm this FRI evening. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01hl4h6 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hdnch (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01hl4h8 (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Bob Mills and Matt FRI Forde. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01hl4hb (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01hl4hd (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01hl419 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01hl4hg (Listen) FRI Hexham FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Hexham Abbey, Northumberland. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01hl4hj (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00kkdqd (Listen) FRI Sunny Afternoon FRI FRI The normality of a sunny London afternoon is brutally FRI shattered when a man is killed in the street, in broad FRI daylight. Screams fill the air as passers-by try to help the FRI victim or helplessly observe the drama unfold before them. FRI Their lives will never be the same again. FRI FRI Doug Lucie's powerful and satirical drama examines the FRI impact of such a shocking event, as recounted by passers-by FRI and residents who witnessed it: Roy the local window FRI cleaner; Johnny, an Investment Banker; Kayleigh, a young FRI part-time beauty therapist; WPC Flanagan; Pam who cares FRI full-time for her husband Brian, and Avelina, the victim's FRI wife. Their testimonies unfold revealing not only the FRI personal repercussions of such an event but contemporary FRI attitudes to violence, immigration, and community, across FRI the social and cultural strata which jostle for space in our FRI cities. FRI FRI Johnny ..... Tom Hollander FRI Pam ..... Cheryl Campbell FRI Roy ..... Michael Begley FRI Kayleigh ..... Tashie Jackson FRI David ..... Richard McCabe FRI Avelina ..... Christianne Oliverira FRI Translator ..... Teresa Gallagher FRI WPC Flannagan ..... Colette Brown FRI Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01hdnck (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01hl4hl (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. Presented by FRI Alistair Burnett and Ritula Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hl4hn (Listen) FRI Beginner's Goodbye, Episode 10 FRI FRI By Anne Tyler. FRI FRI Read by William Hope. FRI FRI Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler's novel is the FRI story of Baltimore publisher Aaron Woollcott's recovery from FRI the death of his wife, Dorothy. FRI FRI After a number of visits from Dorothy - who appeared to FRI Aaron in reassuringly solid and non-supernatural form - the FRI pair have made their peace. Aaron is finally ready to move FRI on to the next stage of his life and finds love in an FRI expected quarter. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01hjs17 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hl4hq (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01hl4hs (Listen) FRI Shared Paternity: Ray and Joan FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: in today's last visit Joan and Ray reflect on FRI their widely differing relationships with their late father. FRI Although in his final years their Dad lived just round the FRI corner from Ray, he never met him. But getting to know his FRI half-sister, Joan, has brought the father he never knew into FRI his life for the first time. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Marya Burgess. FRI
11 May, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 12/05/2012 - 18/05/2012
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