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SAT SATURDAY 19 MAY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01hl4zp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01hl415 (Listen) SAT The Uke of Wallington, Episode 5 SAT SAT Read by Hugh Dennis SAT SAT The one man ukulele tour of Great Britain nears its end at SAT the Smoo Cave Hotel in Cape Wrath and as Mark Wallington SAT walks along the beautiful curve of Balnakeil Bay he reflects SAT on his journey. Not only had he learnt a great deal about SAT the music of the British Isles, but people had been really SAT kind and he decided the ukulele really did make them smile. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hl4zr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hl4zt (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hl4zw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01hl4zy (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hl548 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister SAT Gemma Simmonds, of the Congregation of Jesus. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01hl54b (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01hl500 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01hl502 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01hl29p (Listen) SAT Navigation Skills SAT SAT More of us are being encouraged to explore the British SAT countryside but how many navigation skills should we have SAT before we venture out? Helen Mark travels to Northern SAT Snowdonia to meet the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue SAT Organisation who are called out to an incident every 3 days. SAT Some they say are simply avoidable with people venturing out SAT unprepared and lacking the navigation skills to get SAT themselves back on track when lost. SAT Helen joins a navigation course to test her own skills which SAT she admits may be rusty since her Duke of Edinburgh award to SAT see if the compass is mightier than the GPS. She asks how to SAT ensure people are properly equipped without putting off SAT newcomers from the countryside. SAT SAT Produced in Birmingham by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01hw21z (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Angela Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01hl506 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01hw221 (Listen) SAT Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01hw3z7 (Listen) SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with chef Angela Hartnett, SAT Sally Becker who was dubbed 'The Angel of Mostar' who was SAT reunited via Facebook with the baby she saved 20 years SAT before, Jackie Green who had a sex-change on her 16th SAT birthday and is now in the running for Miss England, and SAT Sandra Jenkins and Mavis Smith who saw their village SAT demolished and their community scattered in the 1970's; John SAT McCarthy goes Plane-spotting, there's a Soundsculpture about SAT cicadas, and Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond's SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle b01cjm50 (Listen) SAT A hundred years ago Edgar Rice Burroughs created the SAT character of Tarzan who quickly became a global sensation - SAT when the books were first adapted for the big screen in SAT 1918, the resulting film was one of the first ever to take SAT over a million dollars at the box office. Way ahead of his SAT time, Burroughs ignored the advice of business 'experts' who SAT told him not to roll out the character across different SAT formats. By doing so, he was one of the true pioneers of the SAT multi-media franchises that have since become the norm. SAT SAT Tarzan himself has been as troubling as he has been popular SAT - the different characterisations that have appeared in the SAT hundreds of books, films, radio shows, comic books, cartoons SAT etc., make it very hard to pinpoint one single, authentic SAT character. Some critics have derided him for his affirmation SAT of white, colonial assumptions, while others have championed SAT his eco-warrior credentials. One thing is for sure - with a SAT range of new books and films appearing, the character of SAT Tarzan has lost little of his original appeal. John Waite SAT talks with, among others, James Sullos of ERB Inc., Desmond SAT Morris to find out about the plausibility of the notion of a SAT baby being raised by apes, and cultural historian Jeffrey SAT Richards. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01hw3z9 (Listen) SAT Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail reports on a turbulent SAT political week. SAT SAT The senior Conservative David Davis and Labour's Margaret SAT Beckett reflect on the economic threat from the Eurozone and SAT question whether David Cameron was right to offer advice in SAT public on the subject. SAT SAT Tory backbenchers George Hollingbery and Stewart Jackson SAT lift the veil on the election among Conservative MPs to the SAT 1922 committee. SAT SAT Labour peer David Lipsey and political writer Paul Richards SAT offer their views on how Ed Miliband could cement his SAT growing lead in the opinion polls. SAT SAT And the former Lib Dem leader David Steel sounds a gloomy SAT note on his party's ambition to see an elected House of SAT Lords. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01hw3zc (Listen) SAT Kevin Connolly's in Luxor wondering if the military, which SAT has controlled proceedings in Egypt since 1952, really will SAT hand over power to civilians once the elections, starting SAT next week, are over. SAT SAT Jonathan Head in Turkey notes that talks about joining the SAT European Union have started up again. But does Turkey really SAT need to join an EU worrying about economic catastrophe? SAT SAT David Belton's been to a remote part of New York state where SAT the Amish religious sect has taken the question: can God SAT really be wrong to a court for judgement. SAT SAT Fuchsia Dunlop's been to one part of China where they don't SAT find cheese alien and revolting SAT SAT And Mary Harper's been mingling with the Somali population SAT in Dubai. And taking a drive, in some style, around the SAT gleaming emirate. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01hw3zf (Listen) SAT In the week that sixteen Spanish banks and the UK branch of SAT Santander had their credit rating downgraded, Greece plunged SAT further into political and financial turmoil after failing SAT to form a new government, and the governor of the Bank of SAT England, Sir Mervyn King, warned that the UK will not escape SAT unscathed from the crisis in the Eurozone, Money Box asks SAT what this all means for ordinary Britons. How is the euro SAT crisis affecting the UK - from savers to holiday makers, SAT mortgages to investments and annuities? And what about SAT people who own holiday apartments abroad? In a Money Box SAT Euro Special, Paul Lewis and a panel of guests, including SAT banking expert Ralph Silva, economist Vicky Pryce, annuities SAT expert Billy Burrows, pensions expert Ray Boulger and the SAT Independent travel writer, Simon Calder, answer your SAT questions and reflect on the fallout from the latest twists SAT and turns of the euro crisis. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Rippon. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01hl4h8 (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Bob Mills and Matt SAT Forde. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01hl508 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01hl50b (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01hl4hg (Listen) SAT Hexham SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Hexham Abbey, Northumberland, with Labour MP SAT Gisela Stuart; Conservative Peer and journalist, Patience SAT Wheatcroft; businessman and chairman of the Institute of SAT Directors, Ian Dormer; and associate editor of the Daily SAT Mirror, Kevin Maguire. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01hw3zh (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01hw3zk (Listen) SAT Kind Hearts and Coronets - Like Father, Like Daughter SAT SAT Natalie Walter is pursuing a title and Alistair McGowan SAT plays the seven members of a family standing in her way in a SAT sequel to the famous Edwardian comedy by Roy Horniman. SAT SAT The action of this new radio sequel to a classic comedy SAT takes place some years after the death of the 10th Earl of SAT Chalfont, a man who has systematically murdered his family SAT in order to inherit his title. The twentieth century rolls SAT on and even against a backdrop of international conflict and SAT revolution, an Earldom is still not to be sniffed at SAT apparently. It is rather to be fought for by fair means and SAT foul. There are at least eight claimants to the Chalfont SAT title, all of them ruthless. The Gascoyne family is a big SAT one, its sense of entitlement enormous, its appetite for SAT violence impressive and the family resemblance at times SAT uncanny. A fresh modern take on a great comic plot, this SAT Saturday Drama draws both on the Edwardian novel 'Israel SAT Rank' by Roy Horniman for inspiration. SAT SAT David Spicer's entirely new version of this brilliantly SAT simple story has something to offer both those who know the SAT original and those who come to it for the first time. SAT SAT The cast includes Natalie Walter, Simon Greenall, Jane SAT Whittenshaw, Sally Orrock, David Holt, Steve Hodson....and SAT Alistair McGowan as the entire Gascoyne family. SAT SAT Producer: Frank Stirling SAT A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b01hjs0v (Listen) SAT Series 8, Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra SAT SAT When Benjamin Britten was asked to contribute to an SAT educational film about the symphony orchestra, he turned to SAT a theme by that other great British composer, Henry Purcell. SAT SAT The resulting theme and variations - a 'Young Person's SAT Guide' - has become, over the years, a staple of concerts SAT for young and old alike - such as its appearance in the most SAT recent BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2011. SAT SAT But the composing manuscript on which Britten worked out his SAT brilliant and buoyant series of instrumental illustrations SAT was given to a young lady working on the projec,t while SAT Britten turned his attention to a full orchestral score. SAT SAT It's only in the past few months that the manuscript showing SAT the composer at work came to light and was saved from SAT overseas sale by the British Library. SAT SAT Frances Fyfield is joined by conductor and friend of SAT Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford, as well as the young SAT musician and scholar Christopher Milton and hand-writing SAT analyst Ruth Rostron to decipher the composer's working out SAT of a piece - as familiar now as it has ever been. SAT SAT Rather than a tidy, fair-copy this is the composer in full SAT creative flight. All the more surprising then that it isn't SAT punctuated by the scrubbings and editing of uncertainty. SAT Instead, it's full of confidence and suggests a man at work SAT on a lifelong project - making his music accessible to the SAT ears and minds of the young. SAT SAT And Frances also gets to meet the lady who looked after the SAT score for half a century, with little idea of what it might SAT be worth. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01hw44m (Listen) SAT Germaine Greer SAT SAT Actor Chloe Sevigny on her new series Hit and Miss. Germaine SAT Greer on why looks really do matter in you're a woman in the SAT public eye. Does Sweden really live up to its reputation as SAT an egalitarian, feminist utopia.? SAT The mother who sent her son to be shot in an effort to help SAT him escape the vigilante groups in Londonderry. Could more SAT women than previously thought have autism? Susie Wolff the SAT Formula One Williams "development driver". Plus does social SAT media make it impossible to break free of relationships? And SAT music from Anais Mitchell's folk opera Hadestown. SAT SAT Producer Laura Northedge SAT Editor Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01hw44p (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports SAT headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01hl54b (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01hl50d (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01hl50g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hl50j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01hw44r (Listen) SAT Clive's on the road with historian Michael Wood, whose BBC SAT Two series 'The Great British Story: A People's History' SAT charts Great Britain's remarkable past, from the perspective SAT of ordinary people. Accompanying the series is a BBC SAT Learning tour, with experts at each event to help interpret SAT historical artefacts and give tips on how they can be SAT preserved. 'The Great British Story: A People's History' SAT starts on Friday 25th May at 21.00. SAT SAT Clive Attacks The Block with actress Jodie Whittaker, who's SAT about to perform the title role of Antigone at London's SAT National Theatre. Jodie stars alongside Christopher SAT Eccleston as Creon, who, desperate to gain control over a SAT city ravaged by civil war, condemns his niece Antigone to be SAT buried alive. 'Antigone' is at the Olivier from 30th May SAT until 21st July. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi has a lousy night out with restaurant critic and SAT broadcaster Jay Rayner, who has a bee in his bonnet about a SAT fly in his soup! Jay's new ebook is a collection of his most SAT scathing and hilarious restaurant reviews. He's eaten there SAT so that you don't have to! 'My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways To SAT Have A Lousy Night Out' is available from 1st June. SAT SAT Clive's Game On with actor Neil Stuke, who's currently SAT starring in 'Six Actors In Search Of A Director'. Steven SAT Berkoff's latest play sees six actors on a movie set waiting SAT for their call. Until then, they are in limbo, needing the SAT director to bring them to life. 'Six Actors In Search Of A SAT Director' is currently at Charing Cross Theatre until 23rd SAT June. "Action!" SAT SAT Music comes from folk and ethnic rhythm collective The SAT Imagined Village, who perform 'Winter Singing' and 'The SAT Guvna' from their album 'Bending The Dark'. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01hw44t (Listen) SAT Andy Denwood profiles a person who is currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01hw44w (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests James Runcie, Julia SAT Peyton-Jones and David Schneider review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT THEATRE The Sunshine Boys - Savoy Theatre SAT SAT FILM The Dictator SAT SAT BOOK The Forrests - Emily Perkins SAT SAT EXHIBITION Photographers' Gallery reopening SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01hw44y (Listen) SAT A History of the Stiff Upper Lip SAT SAT Emotion is no longer private. Whether a marital collapse on SAT reality TV or real-time twitter updates on the progress of SAT an abortion, emotions are hung out there for all to witness. SAT Whatever element of self-restraint may exist in our cultural SAT DNA, it's increasingly under siege. SAT SAT We've come a long way from when the ruling classes saw SAT reticence and fair play as virtues uniquely their own and SAT lamented 'the emotionally-uncontrolled and latently-violent SAT working class'; when English public schools were created SAT specifically to educate boys into showing submission, SAT courtesy and devotion to their superiors; and when there SAT lurked a real fear of the working class 'losing control', SAT rebelling, and giving rise to anarchy. SAT SAT Louisa Foxe goes on a journey through the archives - SAT sometimes horrifying or amusing, always revealing and SAT perceptive - and reveals how and why the British attitudes SAT towards the expression of emotion have changed; how the SAT nation has swung in and out of its penchant for repression SAT over 600 years; and how that first Victorian stiff upper SAT lip, far from being entrenched, was actually the product of SAT post-Romantic pragmatism, anxiety about manliness and SAT colonial necessity. SAT SAT Taking their toll on the stiff upper lip, Louisa argues, SAT have been two world wars, the socialist project, the rise of SAT therapy culture, and the demise of the aristocracy's moral SAT influence. SAT SAT The results? Exclusively positive, some would say. But SAT archive from World War One to Princess Diana, and SAT interviewees including Frank Furedi, Ralph Fiennes, David SAT Starkey, Andrew Motion, Peter Hitchens, and Thomas Dixon SAT suggest that results are mixed at best and that we haven't SAT changed as much as we believe. SAT SAT Producer: David Coomes SAT A CTVC Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01hdyq0 (Listen) SAT The Great Gatsby, Episode 2 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. SAT SAT Nick has fallen in with the wealthy crowd on Long Island. SAT His neighbour, Gatsby, asks Nick to engineer a meeting with SAT his lost love, Nick's cousin, Daisy. 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/Michaelis ..... Sam Dale SAT Wilson/Gatz ..... Gerard McDermott SAT Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell SAT Alice ..... Amaka Okafor SAT SAT Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01hl50l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01hkz2x (Listen) SAT Series 3, Martin Cassini SAT SAT Campaigner Martin Cassini argues that our system for SAT managing traffic is overdue for radical reform and should be SAT based on trust in human nature rather than an obsession with SAT controlling it. He says a drastic cut in the number of SAT traffic lights would begin the transformation, saving lives, SAT time and money. SAT Four Thought is a series of talks with a personal viewpoint SAT recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London. SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 22:30 The Bishop and the Prisoner b019h3xs (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT In this three part series the BBC is given a rare degree of SAT access to prisons as it accompanies The Rt Revd James Jones, SAT the Church of England's "Bishop for prisons," into the SAT country's jails. Conversations with prisoners and SAT ex-offenders- voices rarely heard on radio - are the SAT centrepieces of these programmes, but the Bishop also talks SAT to prison staff, politicians and opinion-formers about what SAT prison should be for, how prisoners can be helped to become SAT useful citizens and whether community sentences can ever win SAT the public's confidence as a viable alternative to prison. SAT SAT In the final programme, James Jones meets ex-offenders SAT taking part in a variety of probation initiatives in SAT Merseyside designed to cut re-offending and "pay back" the SAT community for crimes committed. Three men on the Persistent SAT Priority Offender scheme commend the programme for providing SAT the supervision they found lacking on earlier probation SAT orders. In a moving interview a mentor with the service, SAT Lynsey, says probation saved her from prison, crime and SAT alcoholism and her children from life in care. The Bishop SAT visits the North Liverpool Justice Centre, a kind of SAT one-stop-Justice shop which residents say has transformed SAT their community but which the Government considers too SAT expensive to replicate elsewhere. SAT SAT This programme was first broadcast on January 16th 2012. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01hjgdt (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 4 SAT SAT (4/13) SAT Which was President John F. Kennedy's favourite musical? And SAT which British orchestra became the first to win a Queen's SAT Award for Exports in the 1990s? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini welcomes contestants from Surrey, Essex and SAT the Isle of Wight to the BBC Radio Theatre for the latest SAT heat of the wide-ranging music quiz. SAT SAT Musicals, film themes, jazz, sixty years of pop music and SAT the classical repertoire are all fair game for question SAT material, and the contestants will have to identify plenty SAT of musical extracts of all kinds. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01hdyq4 (Listen) SAT The first in a new series of Poetry Please. Roger McGough is SAT joined in the studio by Wendy Cope, who reads a selection of SAT her love poems and two requests from her latest collection. SAT The readers are Nigel Anthony, Lucy Briers and Stuart SAT McLoughlin. SAT SAT Produced by Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 MAY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01hw1qt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Danish Noir b01hw4lx (Listen) SUN The Light from Dead Stars 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 SUN Detective Viggo Jensen retires today. For the last 28 years SUN he has asked himself the question: who killed Leif SUN Heinemann? A journalist has described this case as the one SUN significant failure of his career. But as he clears his SUN desk, Viggo receives a mysterious phone call which gives him SUN a new lead. 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 b01hw1qw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hw1qy (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hw1r0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01hw1r2 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01hw62l (Listen) SUN The bells of St Clement Danes, The Strand, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01hw44t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01hw1r4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01hw62n (Listen) SUN Darkness SUN SUN In Something Understood this week, poet and broadcaster SUN Stewart Henderson celebrates the power of true darkness. SUN With streetlamps dominating our modern industrialised world, SUN few people in Britain now have the chance to experience real SUN darkness, but Stewart believes it can have a transformative SUN effect. SUN SUN Some people fear darkness, others find it disorienting and SUN confusing. These days, we fill our world with electric light SUN and it's only in the deepest countryside that we find true SUN darkness. Yet when we do immerse ourselves in the dark, it SUN can bring another form of illumination, heightening our SUN physical senses and our sense of self. Our surroundings take SUN on new meaning and significance. And the darkness can be SUN inspirational - as Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother SUN Theo in 1888, 'I often think that the night is more alive SUN and more richly coloured than the day'. Other readings come SUN from astronauts, scientists and pilots, all of whom have SUN embraced the dark and found riches and depth within it. SUN SUN Stewart speaks to Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the SUN Royal Observatory, Greenwich. As a child he was fascinated SUN by the natural world, and now his job is to explain the SUN latest discoveries in space to the public. Darkness is SUN essential to Marek's work, but it also has a spiritual SUN dimension for him. As someone who seeks out dark places from SUN which to see the stars, he regrets the light pollution which SUN is driving true darkness out of many places. Marek is a SUN supporter of the International Dark Sky Association which SUN aims to identify and protect those places which still enjoy SUN truly dark skies. Without darkness to heighten our SUN awareness, are we left with a loss of inner sight? SUN SUN Producer: Jo Coombs SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01hw62q (Listen) SUN Lesser Horseshoe Bats SUN SUN Lesser horseshoe bats live in close proximity to people SUN because their maternity roosts are found almost exclusively SUN in buildings. Since the 1900's their population has declined SUN and now they can only be seen in south west Wales and in SUN parts of south west England. SUN SUN Sarah Pitt visits the Usk Valley in Wales on the edge of the SUN Brecon Beacons, to talk to Henry Schofield from the Vincent SUN Wildlife Trust. Henry is part of a team leading a number of SUN initiatives to involve the wider community in protecting SUN these bats by building a sustainable bat-friendly SUN environment. In Spring lesser horseshoe bats move from their SUN cooler hibernation sites into their warmer summer or SUN maternity roosts. Visiting a roost offers the opportunity to SUN examine these tiny, delicate bats with their butterfly like SUN flight as they emerge at dusk to forage for insects or pick SUN their prey off foliage. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01hw1r6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01hw1r8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01hw62s (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01hw62v (Listen) SUN Multiple Sclerosis Trust SUN SUN Chris Jones presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN Multiple Sclerosis Trust. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1088353 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Multiple Sclerosis Trust. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Multiple Sclerosis Trust SUN SUN The Multiple Sclerosis Trust is dedicated to making life SUN better for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), the SUN most common neurological disabling condition affecting young SUN adults. We provide expert information and support to anyone SUN affected by MS and we support the health professionals who SUN work with people with MS. SUN SUN How will my donation help people with MS? SUN SUN “The MS Trust offers help and support when you need it most. SUN When I was scared and unsure about how my life was going to SUN be, they offered a shoulder to lean on and ears to listen. SUN By helping them you are helping any number of people like me SUN who are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and don't know SUN where to turn to find out the facts and the ways to cope SUN with our condition.†Mel, a user of our enquiry service SUN SUN The money raised through this appeal will help to fund our SUN freephone enquiry service – a lifeline for people with MS SUN and their loved ones. Anyone with a question about MS can SUN call us and we will find them the information they need, as SUN and when they need it. When you are living with a SUN frightening and unpredictable condition like MS, this can SUN make a big difference. SUN SUN The MS Trust’s freephone enquiry service costs £200 a day to SUN run and helps around 50 people with their personal enquiries SUN every week. This unique service can only keep going thanks SUN to the support of people like you who give so generously. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01hw1rb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01hw1rd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01hw62x (Listen) SUN Hearts Strangely Warmed SUN SUN 'Hearts strangely warmed' - Live from Methodist Central Hall SUN Westminster on this special day of celebration for SUN Methodists, Aldersgate Sunday. "I felt I did trust in SUN Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was SUN given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and SUN saved me from the law of sin and death (John Wesley); SUN Leader: The Revd Tony Miles; preacher: The Revd Mark SUN Wakelin, President Designate of the Methodist Conference. SUN Director of Music: Andrew Earis; Organ scholar: Jeremy SUN Lloyd; Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01hl4hj (Listen) SUN Europe and my quadriga-spotting tour SUN SUN Will Self ponders the future of Europe as he stands by SUN Berlin's Brandenburg gate. SUN SUN "As in Greek mythology" he writes, "the sun god Apollo SUN Helios drives his chariot across the skies...so the SUN charioteer and four horses that surmount the Brandenburg SUN Gate...embody the idea of contemporary German nationhood". SUN SUN On his "quadriga-spotting tour", Will weaves his way through SUN the complex history of this symbol and its relevance for the SUN rest of Europe. SUN SUN In the end, he controversially asks whether "an end to the SUN European Union in its current banjaxed form might allow all SUN of us to experience a new dawn, drawn by a new charioteer". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01hw62z (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 b01hw631 (Listen) SUN Editor...John Yorke and Vanessa Whitburn SUN Writer.....Tim Stimpson SUN Director..... Julie Beckett SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer..... Colin Skipp SUN Tom Archer..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Peggy Woolley..... June Spencer SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy..... Rosalind Adams SUN Nic Grundy..... Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell SUN Phoebe Aldridge..... Lucy Morris SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary..... Ryan Kelly SUN Alan Franks..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks..... Jennifer Daley SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur SUN Elona Makepeace..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace....Dan Hagley. SUN Caller..... Joe Sims. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01hw633 (Listen) SUN Peter Ackroyd SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the novelist, historian and SUN biographer, Peter Ackroyd. SUN SUN As a child he used to walk the streets of London with his SUN grandmother - an experience that, he believes, fostered his SUN own love for the city. He was appointed literary editor of SUN The Spectator when he was just 23 and has gone on to write SUN dozens of books since. He has written a biography of London, SUN as well as books about people he calls 'cockney visionaries' SUN such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and, now, Charlie SUN Chaplin. Yet, of the work he's produced so far, he says: SUN "Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will SUN finally be closed on the day of my death. So that final book SUN is the one which gives me a sense of achievement." SUN SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01hjq76 (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 1 SUN SUN Chairman Nicholas Parsons is back with the classic panel SUN game Just A Minute SUN SUN Panellists this series include Paul Merton, Graham Norton, SUN Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth, Alun Cochrane, Julian Clary, SUN Jenny Eclair, Tony Hawks and Greg Proops. SUN SUN Nicholas asks the panellists to speak on various subjects SUN for 60 seconds with out hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN On today's show the panellists Paul Merton, Julian Clary, SUN Sue Perkins and Greg Proops are asked to speak on the SUN subjects of How I Would describe myself on a Dating Website, SUN Surprise Parties, Robin Hood, The Best Thing About Hollywood SUN and How I Like My Coffee. SUN SUN Devised by Ian Messiter SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01hw635 (Listen) SUN The Life of Pie SUN SUN For many years the symbol of stodgy service station fare, SUN the humble pie is enjoying a renaissance as chefs and public SUN alike discover the joys of a lovingly made pastry containing SUN top quality ingredients. SUN SUN The Food Programme meets piemakers and connoisseurs at the SUN annual British Pie Awards and hears why top chefs and food SUN writers are extolling the virtues of the pie SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01hw1rg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01hw637 (Listen) SUN James Robbins presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 100 Years of the Royal Flying Corps b01h5xcq (Listen) SUN After receiving its Warrant from King George V, the Royal SUN Flying Corps came into being in May 1912. Peter and Dan Snow SUN look at the centenary of this corps of the British Army and SUN how it advanced from primitive balloons and flimsy biplanes SUN to sophisticated long range bombers. SUN SUN Dan looks back on the experience of flying in a World War SUN One trainer and Peter explores the aircraft of the SUN Shuttleworth Collection, all working examples of trainers, SUN fighters and bombers. Professor Richard Overy and General SUN Sir Mike Jackson explain how the RFC's pioneering work SUN altered the course of warfare, and documents from the Museum SUN of Army Flying chart the tragic loss of life that went hand SUN in glove with extreme bravery and remarkable technical SUN development. In a few short years the RFC went from being SUN perceived as a fad to a major component of 20th century SUN warfare, and eye witness accounts tell of artillery SUN spotting, photo reconnaissance and the carnage on the Somme. SUN SUN More importantly, rather than focusing on the RFC as a SUN curtain-raiser to the creation of the Royal Air Force in SUN 1918, the programme looks at the Corps in its own right and SUN what it brought in terms of intelligence, sophisticated SUN mapping and air supremacy to the British Army in the field. SUN SUN Producer: Alyn Shipton SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01hl4gw (Listen) SUN Thornbury, South Gloucestershire SUN SUN Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN gardening questions in Thornbury. Eric Robson is in the SUN chair. SUN How perpetual is perpetual spinach? What makes asparagus SUN spears bend and curl? SUN In addition, Anne Swithinbank revisits Jenie Eastman as part SUN of our Listeners' Gardens series. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01hw639 (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 Ray and his half-sister Joan; their conversation SUN about the father they shared but Ray never knew was recorded SUN by Radio Merseyside. And from Radio Lincolnshire, a SUN conversation between two brothers who have farmed the same SUN piece of land south of Skegness for more than 60 years. SUN While Radio Humberside brings us Jill and Michael, brought SUN together by the loss of a husband and a brother in the 1968 SUN triple trawler disaster in Hull. And we meet David Reeves, SUN the producer who recorded two of the conversations. 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 b01hw63c (Listen) SUN Mrs Dalloway, From Breakfast to Luncheon SUN SUN Dramatised by Michelene Wandor SUN SUN Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. SUN Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa SUN Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important SUN party. SUN SUN 1 of 2: From breakfast to luncheon SUN SUN Mrs Dalloway ..... Fenella Woolgar SUN Richard ..... Sam Dale SUN Septimus ..... Paul Ready SUN Rezia ..... Susie Riddell SUN Peter ..... Scott Handy SUN Sally ..... Liza Sadovy SUN Elizabeth ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Lucy ..... Amaka Okafor SUN Hugh ..... Patrick Brennan, SUN Dr Holmes ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer, SUN Miss Brush ..... Christine Absalom SUN Miss Pym ..... Tracy Wiles SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01hw63f (Listen) SUN Orlando Figes on his new book Just Send Me Word SUN SUN Historian Orlando Figes discusses his book Just send me SUN word, the story of a young Muscovite exiled to a Soviet SUN arctic gulag and his relationship through over one thousand SUN five hundred letters with his wife to be. These letters are SUN the largest ever found about gulag life and give a SUN fascinating insight into conditions there and in 1950s SUN Soviet Russia. SUN SUN Long summer days, the sound of leather on willow, googlies, SUN ducks and silly mid offs.... the game of cricket has SUN captured the imagination of writers from Dickens, LP Hartley SUN and P. G Wodehouse to Douglas Adams and Joseph O'Neill. SUN Authors Anthony Quinn and Shehan Karunatilaka discuss how SUN the game of cricket has inspired their latest books SUN SUN Writing Britain; Wastelands to Wonderlands is a new SUN exhibition at the British Library, where they have one SUN hundred and fifty original items exploring how writers view SUN Britain in six literary inspired themes, from Rural Dreams SUN to the Industrial Muse. In today's programme the SUN exhibition's lead curator Jamie Andrews discusses "Cockney SUN Visions," - the role London has played in the literary SUN landscape. SUN Writing Britain continues at the British Library until the SUN 25th of September. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01hw63h (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry SUN requests read by Seán Gleeson, Barbara Barnes and Samuel SUN West. SUN Roger kicks things off with a salute to Edward Lear, marking SUN two hundred years since his birth. The poem is 'How Pleasant SUN to Know Mr. Lear'. It was written by Lear himself and SUN describes the poet's visage as hideous and his body as SUN 'perfectly spherical'. Roger makes a plea for requests for SUN Lear poems for a special bicentennial edition planned for SUN later in the year. SUN The poet Anna Crowe also joins the programme to read her SUN poem 'Punk With Dulcimer' about an unusual encounter with a SUN stranger on a train. A poem by Elizabeth Bishop in honour of SUN her mentor, Marianne Moore, conjures up images of the poet SUN flying over the New York skyline with a 'black capeful of SUN butterfly wings and bon-mots' to offer poetic inspiration to SUN her young protégé. There are also some bird poems, with SUN works by Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin and perhaps the most SUN famous poem about a bird ever written; Samuel West reads Ode SUN to a Nightingale by Keats. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Things Ain't What They Used To Be b01hjs15 (Listen) SUN David Aaronovitch examines the persistent popularity of SUN 'declinism' - the idea that individuals and society are not SUN as good as they used to be. Why are we so drawn to this SUN idea? Is it a purely negative and pessimistic view of the SUN world or does it perform a valuable function? SUN SUN A self-confessed optimist and progressive, David meets SUN people with views very different from his own as he explores SUN some of the most important contemporary forms of declinism - SUN from concern about the collapse of British manufacturing and SUN the impact of materialism on the planet to unease about SUN immigration and calls for a return to Victorian economic SUN values. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01hw44t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01hw1rj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01hw1rl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hw1rn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01hw63k (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN On Pick of the Week, Ernie Rea discovers the answers to some SUN intriguing questions. Why does one piece of Mozart reduce us SUN to tears while another makes us want to jump for joy? Why do SUN the English pride themselves on the stiff upper lip and SUN could that lip be starting to quiver? Whatever happened to SUN composer and singer Bobby Gentry after she wrote the Ode to SUN Billy Joe? Why was the diarist Samuel Pepys consumed by the SUN Green Eyed Monster? And what happened 250 million years ago SUN which very nearly destroyed life on earth? SUN SUN Archive on 4:The History of the Stiff Upper Lip - Radio 4 SUN The Trouble with Kane - Radio 4 SUN Whatever Happened to Bobby Gentry? - Radio 2 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN Poetry Texas - Radio 4 SUN Things Ain't What they Used to Be - Radio 4 SUN Extinct - Radio 4 SUN The Diary of Samuel Pepys ep 3 -Radio 4 SUN Key Matters - Radio 4 SUN Strap In- It's Clever Peter - Radio 4 SUN Follow Up Albums - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Tales from the Stave - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01hw63m (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b01hl2bd (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 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 does both. SUN SUN This is half an hour of stand-up, sketches, and SUN investigative satire. And at the core of the show are Rory's SUN incisively funny interviews with the most informed guest SUN commentators on the current political scene. SUN SUN More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with SUN the word fiscal in them and some truly brilliant impressions SUN - a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. SUN SUN Producers: Simon Jacobs and Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Copenhagen Confidential b01hw63p (Listen) SUN The Climbing Rose SUN SUN By Heidi Amsinck 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 Climbing Rose SUN Postman Brian Larsen has made a nice little side-earner SUN doing odd-jobs for the rich and grateful old ladies of SUN Klampenborg. Mrs Hoffman looks like a promising target - but SUN there is something creepy about the rose in her front SUN garden. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01hl4h2 (Listen) SUN Are 120,000 families responsible for a disproportionate SUN share of society's ills? SUN SUN Troubled families SUN SUN The government says it has identified 120,000 troubled SUN families who are responsible for a disproportionate share of SUN society's ills. It's set up a "Troubled Families Team" to SUN deal with them. But in fact the government has counted SUN extremely deprived families and then announced that it has SUN counted extremely disruptive families instead. SUN SUN Nursing numbers SUN SUN This week government ministers have been arguing with the SUN Royal College of Nursing about job losses in the NHS in SUN England. It seems they've also been arguing between SUN themselves. We unravel the numbers. SUN SUN The mathematical consequences of unneutered cats SUN SUN If one unneutered female cat was allowed to go about her SUN business, how many cats would she and her descendants have SUN created in two years? Would you believe that it was as many SUN as 370,000, as a new advertising campaign claims? Neither SUN would we. SUN SUN Greek taxis. Again. SUN SUN The former Greek finance minister has said he thinks the SUN Greek rail system is so inefficient it would be cheaper to SUN send each passenger by taxi. We examined his idea and found SUN it was almost - but not quite - true. But many listeners SUN sent us their thoughts about other ways of looking at the SUN problem. So, this week, we revisit our calculations. SUN SUN Preenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01hl4h0 (Listen) SUN Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Horst Faas, Carlos Fuentes, Lord SUN Glenamara and Donna Summer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The most-recorded singer of the 20th century, German SUN baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. SUN SUN Horst Faas, who won a Pulitzer prize for his combat SUN photography during the Vietnam War. SUN SUN Lord Glenamara who as the Labour MP Ted Short was the Chief SUN Whip who kept Harold Wilson in power. SUN SUN The Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, a leading light in the SUN flowering of Latin American literature in the 60s and 70s SUN SUN And Donna Summer - the disco queen of the 70s who later SUN became a born again Christian. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01hw3zf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01hw62v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01b9hjs (Listen) SUN Do schools make a difference? SUN SUN The government's brought in new style league tables to help SUN parents choose schools. But do we really know what makes a SUN good school? And how far can schools really transform lives? SUN Researchers have long believed in a so-called 'school SUN effect' that counters, at least in part, factors such as SUN social and family background. But how easy is it to measure SUN this kind of effect, and can parents really be given a clear SUN guide as to which school is best for their child? Or has too SUN much emphasis on factors such as social background made SUN schools complacent about what they can achieve? SUN Fran Abrams talks to head teachers, educational experts, the SUN schools minister and the new head of Ofsted as she SUN investigates what difference schools can really make. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01hw66q (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 b01hw66s (Listen) SUN Episode 104 SUN SUN John Kampfner of The Independent analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01hl29r (Listen) SUN A celebration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The SUN Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, considered by many to be SUN Britain's Citizen Kane. With contributions from director SUN Martin Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and filmmaker SUN Kevin Macdonald. Presented by Francine Stock. SUN SUN Produced by Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01hw62n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 MAY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01hw1sl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01hkz2g (Listen) MON Why Love Hurts MON MON The agony of love is a classic trope of romantic literature MON and popular journalism. The suffering caused by failures in MON our personal lives seems timeless. But the sociologist, Eva MON Illouz, argues that the nature of romantic suffering has MON changed radically in the modern era. Her book 'Why Love MON Hurts' argues that the individual misery of the 'broken MON hearted' should be subjected to scrutiny by social MON scientists. Failures in our private lives are shaped by MON social forces much larger than ourselves; they can't be MON explained by our individual psyches and histories alone. MON Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychosocial studies, also joins MON the discussion. Laurie Taylor puts love under the MON sociological microscope. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01hw62l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hw1sn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hw1sq (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hw1ss (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01hw1sv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hw6fv (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister MON Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01hw6fx (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Clare Freeman. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01hw1sx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01hw6fz (Listen) MON Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01hw6g1 (Listen) MON Michael Sandel on Money and Morality MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the relationship MON between markets and morals with the political philosopher MON Michael Sandel. In his latest book, What Money Can't Buy, MON Sandel questions the dominance of the financial markets in MON our daily lives, in which everything has a price. But the MON economist Diane Coyle stands up for her much maligned MON profession, and points to the many benefits of a market MON economy. The Russian economist Grigory Yavlinksy argues MON against viewing the world of money as separate from culture MON and society: he believes the financial crisis was merely a MON symptom of a wider moral collapse, and that it is time to MON examine the way we live. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01hw6g3 (Listen) MON Hedge Britannia, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. MON MON Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across MON Britain to explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. MON MON The checkerboard pattern of lowland Britain as seen from the MON air reveals a history of boundaries and enclosures. The MON author's childhood weekends were spent contributing to this MON millennia old obsession for tidy borders by clipping the MON hedges of his parents suburban garden. MON MON Over the course of his travels he discovers how hedges are MON amongst our most ancient monuments, meets hedgelaying MON champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to MON which some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Along the MON way he tells how a connection between paradise and the MON garden hedge grew up, why the British Army planted a barrier MON hedge hundreds of miles long in India, and how the notorious MON enclosures during the Industrial Revolution turned the MON country upside-down. MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hw6g5 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01hw6g7 (Listen) MON In the Van, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Clare Bayley. MON MON Recently promoted MI5 agent, Yasmin Zafiri is on her first MON stake out facing weeks, rather unglamorously, in a van, and MON with an unexpected supervisor. On Yasmin's first day in the MON MI5 surveillance van, she discovers her lover Jonathan is MON also on the case. They begin to eavesdrop on secret lives MON and test their own relationship. MON MON Yasmin has the same pressures of many young professional MON women, but she also has the safety of hundreds of ordinary MON citizens in her hands. She's an MI5 agent making decisions MON to prevent a terrorist attack while struggling to preserve MON her relationship with fellow agent Jonathan. MON MON It gives an insight into the pressures and preoccupations of MON an ordinary woman doing an extraordinary job for MI5. By MON hearing the conversations she is intercepting, we glimpse MON the invasion of privacy that phone tapping involves. MON Increasingly identifying with this loving, resourceful MON immigrant family, Yasmin's success in MI5 and her future MON marriage come at the cost of their happiness. MON MON The drama was recorded on location in a flat and a vehicle MON parked in the streets of north London, creating the MON believable,tense interior world of one woman in a crisis, MON living the life of a spy. More real than TV's Spooks, and MON more movingly up-to-the-minute than Smiley. MON MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Camel Country b01hw6g9 (Listen) MON Camels are the heart and soul of Arabic culture. Even in an MON age of four-wheel drive and oil-money opulence they're a MON powerful symbol of wealth. In 'Camel Country' the field MON biologist Tessa McGregor travels through the deserts of Oman MON with one of the last of the frankincense caravans. MON MON For centuries camel trains have climbed from the coastal MON plain to the high plateau of Dhofar to collect the annual MON frankincense harvest. The trade has declined as the young MON Omanis shun the tough world of the desert for the comforts MON of urban life but even in the cities the camel is still MON venerated. Camels are raced, songs are composed in their MON honour, they're displayed in beauty contests and photos of MON favourite camels are swapped on mobile phones and Facebook. MON MON In two generations the people of the Arab peninsula have MON gone from nomadic poverty when the camel was the difference MON between life and death to an age of air-conditioned luxury MON but even today, as Tessa discovers, the camel herders are MON regarded as princes of the desert. MON MON Producer: Alasdair Cross. MON MON 11:30 With Nobbs On b01j0zzj (Listen) MON From Badger to Frost MON MON Written and presented by David Nobbs. MON MON David Nobbs is the comic genius behind Reggie Perrin, The MON Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Radio 4's The MON Maltby Collection. In With Nobbs On he presents a three-part MON series of entertaining, joke-laden, insider observations on MON his comedy career to a studio audience - along with guest MON readings, archive material and unpredictable delights. MON MON Episode 1 - From Badgers to Frost MON A young David realizes there's more to writing a novel than MON just the title, and TV fame beckons when cabs are sent to MON collect David's sketches for an iconic, groundbreaking MON satirical show. MON MON Featuring Martin Trenaman and Mia Soteriou MON MON Produced by Andrew McGibbon MON A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01hw6gc (Listen) MON Practical steps to protect children online MON MON How can you stop your children accessing pornography and MON other inappropriate sites online? Practical advice from a MON teenager and an online security expert. MON MON The payday loans company Wonga is launching a service for MON businesses. Are small firms that are unable to get bank MON loans using Wonga to expand or as a stop-gap? MON MON A report from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is calling MON for pharmacists to have more power to review prescriptions MON in Scotland. Are people in care homes taking medication they MON don't need? MON MON Does removing the traditional segregation of cars, MON pedestrians and other road users make using the roads any MON safer? We discuss the "shared space" approach to street MON design. MON MON And 12,000 tents were dumped at the end of a music festival MON last year. We hear from the campaigners who want you to MON "Love Your Tent". MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Olivia Skinner. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01hw1sz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01hw6gf (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents the 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 Our Daily Bread b01hw6gh (Listen) MON A Half-Baked History MON MON It's the staff of life, the body of Christ, the foundation MON of Western civilization, the thing we work to put on our MON table; it's our daily bread. MON MON It was so central to our ancestors that it became a sacred MON object, a political totem, and infused their language - the MON difference between feast and famine. Yet now it's almost MON universally taken for granted. MON MON And because bread was there as a witness to every stage of MON our transformation, from hunter gatherer to 21st century MON creatures of the cyber age, it has a lot to tell us. MON MON In Our Daily Bread the journalist and broadcaster Jonathan MON Kent takes bread as a starting point for an exploration of MON human history, health, faith, culture and relationships. MON MON A Half-Baked History of the World in Seven Loaves (and a MON crumb) takes eight slices from twenty five thousand years of MON bread. MON MON Producer: Jonathan Kent MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01hw63m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0qy3 (Listen) MON Troll MON MON by Ed Harris. MON MON Adult cares mix with childhood fears, in this comic twisted MON fairytale, which won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio MON Drama of 2011. In the middle of a family crisis, Olivia MON discovers a troll under her mother's kitchen sink. A troll MON to whom, in the magic days of childhood, she once promised MON herself as a meal. MON MON Olivia ..... Rosie Cavaliero MON James ..... Ewan Bailey MON Troll ..... Jack Klaff MON Mum ..... Marcia Warren MON Matt ..... Michael Shelford MON MON Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01hw6gk (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 5 MON MON (5/13) MON Which major Russian composer's music was performed at the MON BBC Proms last summer alongside music by his British-born MON grandson? MON MON Which performer has most recently won the Mercury Music MON Prize, becoming the first person to do so twice? MON MON Paul Gambaccini welcomes competitors from London and Reading MON to the BBC Radio Theatre for the latest heat of the MON wide-ranging music quiz. They'll be asked these musical MON teasers and many others besides - with plenty of musical MON extracts to identify, both familiar and obscure. Today's MON winner will take another of the places in this summer's MON semi-finals, and thus be a step closer to the title of MON Counterpoint champion 2012. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01hw635 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Miles Jupp in a Locked Room b01hw6h8 (Listen) MON There's a fresh corpse! But that room hasn't been opened for MON years! Locked Room Mysteries astonished and delighted crime MON fans in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. But as Miles MON Jupp discovers, the Locked Room continues to infuriate and MON delight, inspiring writers in Japan and France. But how many MON ingenious solutions can be wrung out of a body, a sealed MON chamber, and the imagination of a dedicated writer? You'll MON be surprised... MON MON 16:30 The Digital Human b01hw75k (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON In this weeks edition of The Digital Human Aleks looks at MON what we believe and why. With a search for God throwing up MON nearly 2billion hits the claims that the internet would be MON death of religion seem a little hollow. So why does our web MON search for answers bring some people to god and turn others MON away? And why do we invest such faith in the answer we find MON online anyway? Aleks will look at technology as a force MON multiplier for religions and discover if we ever need to go MON to church again to practice a faith. MON MON 17:00 PM b01hw75m (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn presents full coverage and analysis of the MON day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hw1t1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01hw75p (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 2 MON MON Graham Norton, Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth and Alun MON Cochrane join Nicholas Parsons who asks them to speak on a MON subject for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or MON deviation. MON MON This week Graham Norton describes his Favourite Smells; Alun MON Cochrane talks about Graffiti; Gyles Brandreth declaims on MON the subject of Wales and Paul Merton explains The Importance MON of Eyebrows. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01hw7md (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01hw7mg (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, who meets novelist Joanne Harris, whose MON new book Peaches for Monsieur le Curé returns to the French MON village which was the setting of her bestseller Chocolat. MON MON Producer Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01hw6g7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Trouble with Kane b01hw7mj (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Recordings following a 12-year-old cannabis user who becomes MON one of the first people in Britain to be dealt with through MON a combination of family therapy and home drug testing. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01hl29c (Listen) MON China: Too Old to Get Rich? MON MON In this week's Crossing Continents, Mukul Devichand tells MON the stories of Shanghai's rapidly ageing population. MON China's natural ageing process has been accelerated by the MON One Child Policy. Mukul tells the stories of an ageing city MON and asks whether China's rapid economic growth could be MON undermined. MON MON Shanghai's image is youthful and contemporary, of a MON globalised metropolis buying into a new lifestyle at chains MON like Ikea. But the Ikea Shanghai store is home to a MON different category -- and age -- of customer. The store MON canteen has become a meeting point for elderly singles, MON looking for love and friendship. It's a story repeated MON across Shanghai: in places you may expect to millions of MON young people, you'll see the elderly. MON MON Like the rest of urban China, Shanghai is growing old. A MON quarter of the city's resident population is now retired, MON putting it in the same demographic league as countries like MON the UK or Germany. But ageing in China is different. Its MON fertility rates have dropped at a speed unprecedented in MON modern history because its "One Child" policy. 30 years MON after the policy started, the speed of ageing is faster in MON China than anywhere else. The burden of ageing is not only MON coming faster, it's also much also harsher here, because MON China is still a developing country -- with hundreds of MON millions of poor people to support, as well as hundreds of MON millions of additional elderly. That has led to a deep MON seated anxiety in China: will the country grow too old to MON get rich? MON MON Nestled amid skyscrapers, Mukul tells the stories of the old MON Shanghai of inner city districts, a place of tumbledown old MON blocks where the elderly are concentrated. He meets the MON couples and families struggling with new complaints, such as MON dementia and alzheimers, under the burden of low incomes and MON limited welfare. This story of poverty amid plenty MON symbolises the deeper worry: of the expense of an ageing MON China in a country where elderly care has traditionally been MON managed by the family. MON MON In the same city districts, public and private nursing homes MON are now opening their doors. These cater to a growing demand MON from families who can't manage the traditional custom of MON "many generations under one roof" and represent a big MON cultural change in China. But who will pay for this kind of MON care nationally? Mukul tells the stories of the rural MON migrants, caught between the gaps of China's welfare system MON -- the millions for whom such care is simply not an option. MON MON What can be done? One solution is to encourage more babies MON in each family. But that is antithetical to China's MON historically draconian "One Child" family planning, which is MON now deeply entrenched in the culture. Mukul visits a family MON planning centre, which now encourages some couples to have MON more than one -- and finds the couples aren't always MON listening. He speaks to Shanghai's leading family planning MON officials to ask if they are changing the "One Child" MON policy, and how fast. MON MON At its root, the real problem is not just too many elderly. MON Rather it's a shortage of young workers, threatening China's MON economic model itself. A lack of willing youth is a huge MON issue for a country whose entire business model is based on MON millions of cheap workers. In the industrial zones south of MON Shanghai, Mukul tells the stories of a crisis in labour. MON Will China's factory of the world collapse under the burden MON of ageing? MON MON 21:00 Material World b01hw7ml (Listen) MON This Week Quentin Cooper looks at why research into the MON distribution of pollen around Srebrenica forms a key part of MON the evidence in the Bosnian war crimes tribunals. Tony MON Brown, now Professor of Geography at Southampton University MON led a UN sponsored project with the grisly task of examining MON pollen samples found on many of the bodies disinterred after MON the conflict. MON MON The number of science advisors is expanding, many government MON departments now have one, and the number working MON internationally is also on the increase. But why the sudden MON rise and what influence can science advisors have over MON government policy. Anne Glover science advisor to the MON European Union discusses the issue with James Wilsdon, MON Professor of science and democracy at Sussex University. MON MON With Munch and Rothko paintings selling for record prices in MON the past couple of weeks, we return to our So You Want to Be MON a Scientist experiment on art and emotion. MON MON Dara Djavan Khoshdel, aged 24 from Bournemouth, is hoping to MON find out if people viewing expensive artworks experience a MON greater emotional reaction. But to make sure the study is MON 'blind' none of the participants have been allowed to know MON the price beforehand. Dara and his mentor, physiologist MON Andrew Parker from the University of Oxford, gathered their MON data at Modern Art Oxford's Graham Sutherland exhibition in MON March. MON MON While Dara is busy crunching the numbers, Quentin is joined MON by Chris McManus, a Professor of Psychology at UCL and MON Dara’s other mentor, art historian Prof Martin Kemp. They MON discuss the science of aesthetics and whether there's reason MON to believe that expensive art moves us more emotionally. MON MON And finally, subway systems around the world work as MON self-organising systems says a team of Theoretical MON physicists from France’s National centre for scientific MON research. They applied a mathematical analysis to the MON structure and development of 14 of the world’s biggest major MON underground railway systems and concluded that no matter how MON or when they were built they all exhibit the same underlying MON structure, one that has developed without pre planning and MON has led to the common mathematical relationships between MON lines and stations. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01hw6g1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01hw1t5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01hw7mn (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01hw7mq (Listen) MON Fitzgerald Short Stories, Babylon Revisited: Part 1 MON MON By F. Scott Fitzgerald. MON MON Read by Stuart Milligan. MON MON Written in 1930, "Babylon Revisited" is considered to be one MON of the finest short stories ever written. An intensely MON personal portrait of a man who has squandered his life (his MON fortune dissipated, his marriage broken, his young daughter MON lost to him) it was written in the aftermath of the Wall MON Street Crash and still resonates deeply. MON MON Part One. American businessman Charles Wales has returned to MON Paris, the city where his life fell apart, to make the case MON for regaining custody of his daughter, Honoria. She's being MON looked after by his dead wife's sister, a woman who will be MON hard to convince that his life is fully back under control. MON MON Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00s2ylf (Listen) MON Michael Rosen on the language used by and about disabled MON people, and the modern trend in humour of using disability MON to produce laughs. MON With Victoria Wright, Francesca Martinez and Colin Barnes. MON Also Louise Wallis and Jackie Ryan from the campaign against MON the "R-word". MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hw7nm (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 MAY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01hw1v4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01hw6g3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hw1v6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hw1v8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hw1vb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01hw1vd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hw7yr (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister TUE Gemma Simmonds, of the Congregation of Jesus. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01hw7yt (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presenter is Anna Hill. Producer is Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01hw7yw (Listen) TUE Presented by Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including TUE Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01hw7yy (Listen) TUE Episode 23 TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili meets British Antarctic Survey scientist TUE Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders. They and other TUE small animals grow far bigger than usual in the extreme TUE cold. Diving is an important part of Lloyd's job and we hear TUE what it's like to play football under the ice. Studies TUE suggest that the sea temperature is rising, and Lloyd TUE investigates whether the animals he researches will be able TUE to adapt and survive. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01hwcw8 (Listen) TUE Fi Glover talks to Tom Allason 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 she talks to the men and women TUE responsible for this boom. She wants to know more about this TUE generation of tech gurus, as part of our economic future TUE lies in their hands and in their dreams. In this final TUE programme in her series she talks to Tom Allason, chief TUE executive of Shutl, a courier business that's grown 50% TUE month on month since it started two years ago. Tom explains TUE that it's his past failures that have led to his present TUE success. Fi begs an invite to his exit event. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01j6qs0 (Listen) TUE Hedge Britannia, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. TUE TUE Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across TUE Britain to explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. TUE TUE Our Neolithic ancestors figured out how to bend trees to TUE their will and developed the art of coppicing. A skill that TUE is renewing itself in 21st century competitions. TUE TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hwcwb (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01j10h2 (Listen) TUE In the Van, Episode 2 TUE TUE MI5 agents Yasmin and her fiance Jonathan are on TUE surveillance of suspected terrorists in a van in North TUE London. They continue eavesdropping on targets Rachid and TUE Samira, probing their daily lives and questioning their own. TUE Are they onto something big? Have they really stumbled TUE across bomb making supplies being collected from the party TUE balloon suppliers? TUE TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Extinct! b01hwcwd (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE There have been five great mass extinction events in the TUE geological history, when at least three quarters of all TUE species of animal on the planet became extinct suddenly TUE (geologically speaking). Many conservation biologists claim TUE that hunting, habitat destruction and climate change have TUE launched a sixth great mass extinction event. This one would TUE be quite different from the previous global mega-death TUE episodes in that the past ones were caused by crash-landing TUE astronomical objects or colossal volcanic eruptions. The TUE current crisis is caused by a single species of creature. TUE TUE But is the great sixth extinction really happening? Where TUE are we on the trajectory towards 75% global species loss and TUE if we are, can we get off it. TUE TUE One of the greatest difficulties in assessing these TUE questions is that measuring species extinction is a hard TUE thing to do, even with relatively large sized animals. The TUE programme visits a project in India which is monitoring one TUE of the few surviving populations of the Ganges River TUE Dolphin. The project is a partnership between the Indian TUE conversation group Aaranyak and the Zoological Society of TUE London. This dolphin's closest relative - the Yangtze River TUE Dolphin - was one of the most recent mammals declared TUE extinct. The Ganges species itself is endangered, down to an TUE estimated 2,000 individuals. A few decades ago these TUE freshwater dolphins were a common sight in the Ganges and TUE Brahmaputra. Today you are lucky to find one. TUE TUE But assessing the extinction risk and statistics of large TUE animals such as dolphins is easy compared to doing that for TUE the vastly more numerous species of smaller creatures in the TUE rainforests and coral reefs. Exactly how many species are TUE being lost today has become a contentious issue even among TUE ecologists, as Adam Rutherford hears - although the debate TUE does boil down to whether the situation is really bad or TUE extremely bad. TUE TUE Aside from the slippery figures, what should the TUE conservation priorities be? Should conservation agencies and TUE organisations be spending resources on saving individual TUE endangered species such as the Ganges River Dolphin, the TUE Tiger and the Black Rhino? Or does the science suggest that TUE more species will be saved and more good done by focusing TUE funds and effort on less charismatic organisms and, if needs TUE be, letting the river dolphins and the big cats go the way TUE of the dinosaurs? TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b01hwfnd (Listen) TUE Series 8, Hummel's Trumpet Concerto TUE TUE Johann Hummel was a hugely important figure in the musical TUE landscape of the early 19th century. He worked alongside TUE Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, had a love-hate relationship with TUE Beethoven. He taught and inspired the likes of Felix TUE Mendelssohn and was both a celebrated pianist and composer. TUE But today he's best known for composing one of the two great TUE trumpet concertos of the Classical age. Along with the TUE Haydn, composed a couple of years earlier in 1801, Hummel's TUE Trumpet concerto was a response to the new technology being TUE pioneered by the instrument designer and player Anton TUE Weidinger. TUE TUE There are many challenges throughout the modern trumpet TUE repertoire but the Hummel is still a proving ground and TUE Alison Balsom is one of those to have mastered it. She joins TUE Frances Fyfield and the musicologist Thomas Schmidt to find TUE out how the original manuscript differs from the version TUE performed today which benefits from the later development of TUE the valved, rather than the keyed, trumpet. TUE TUE Nicolas Bell of the British Library reveals how Hummel's TUE concerto came to be housed here and, with her trumpet on TUE hand to illustrate, Alison Balsom explains the finer points TUE of 'double-tonguing' a technique vital to the performance of TUE the concerto's dazzling third movement. TUE TUE Above all else the easy, dancing music Hummel created for TUE the newly versatile Trumpet of the 19th century is given a TUE welcome celebration. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01hwfng (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01hw1vg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01hwfnj (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Our Daily Bread b01hzn5z (Listen) TUE Bread Kills TUE TUE 'Bread Kills' considers the impact food has on human health TUE by looking at two deadly loaves from history. It unveils TUE groundbreaking new research and sets 'real bread' TUE campaigners against the food industry to thrash out the case TUE for and against modern industrialised bread. TUE TUE Producer: Jonathan Kent TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01hw7md (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01hwfnl (Listen) TUE The Eggy Doylers TUE TUE by Jane Purcell TUE TUE A saucy comedy about the pre-PC age. It's 1979, before the TUE National Curriculum, lesson plans or risk assessment forms. TUE In those heady days, when flares were still fashion items TUE rather than emergency equipment, child-hating PE teacher TUE Peter Gunn finds himself leading a school biology field trip TUE which veers a long way from the straight and narrow TUE educational path. TUE TUE Peter Gunn ..... Ralph Ineson TUE Maggie Beecham ..... Lydia Leonard TUE Ferret ..... Joseph Drake TUE Ellen ..... Amaka Okafor TUE Linda ..... Louise Brealey TUE Wayne ..... Alex Lanipekun TUE with Sam Alexander, Robert Blythe, Guy Rudin and Joe Sims. TUE TUE Producer/Director Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01hwfnn (Listen) TUE Historian Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Join in by contacting the programme: TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01hwfnq (Listen) TUE Jellyfish Invasion! TUE TUE Jellyfish are taking over the world's oceans, eating baby TUE fish and driving marine ecosystems back to the primitive TUE Cambrian era. Or are they? Although incidents of TUE human-jellyfish interaction are on the increase, it's hard TUE to be sure that the jellies are really increasing in number TUE over the long term. But then again, if we wait till we are TUE sure, won't it be too late? Miranda Krestovnikoff TUE investigates. TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 16:00 Reading between the Lines b01hxh6w (Listen) TUE Easy as ABC? TUE TUE Michael Morpurgo explores how the seminal experience of TUE learning to read has changed over the last 70 years. TUE TUE In June 2012, all Year One children in English primary TUE schools will sit a compulsory new "Phonics Screening Check". TUE TUE Meanwhile, authoritative studies show British ten year olds TUE performing less well and expressing less enthusiasm for TUE reading than many of their international peers. TUE TUE Michael Morpurgo - hugely popular children's author, former TUE Children's Laureate and passionate advocate for children's TUE reading - explores how the experience of learning to read TUE has changed since the 1944 Butler Education Act. Michael's TUE starting point is a passionate interest in the subject, TUE forged over decades as a father, grandfather, teacher and TUE writer. TUE TUE 1. Easy as ABC? TUE TUE In the first of two programmes, Michael finds out just what TUE Systematic Synthetic Phonics are and why some, not least TUE Nick Gibb, the Minister for Schools in the Coalition TUE Government, are so keen on them - while others, in the TUE educational establishment and the world of children's books, TUE are less enthusiastic. TUE TUE He talks to the Minister, and to phonics expert Ruth Miskin, TUE and hears from writers Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen and TUE Julia Donaldson. He visits a primary school in South London, TUE rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted, which has embraced the new TUE system, and talks with pupils and teachers. TUE TUE Ultimately, Michael Morpurgo tries to square the circle TUE between getting children reading and getting them to love TUE reading - not only because this is a widely recognised TUE prerequisite for success in secondary education, but also TUE because of the pleasure and fulfilment it brings children TUE everywhere. TUE TUE Producer : Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01hxh6y (Listen) TUE Series 27, Sebastian Walker TUE TUE Lynn Barber first met Sebastian Walker at Oxford. "He was TUE the first person I'd ever met who was gay...quite funny TUE looking with a big adam's apple and bespeckled face...he TUE dressed in a very dandy way." TUE TUE He formed Walker Books in 1978 which, in Lynn's words, TUE "launched a whole new era of children's book publishing." He TUE took every opportunity to reinvent the rules of publishing - TUE he paid the illustrators more money than anyone else, TUE befriending the likes of Maurice Sendak and Helen Oxenbury TUE till they agreed to work for him. He struck a deal to sell TUE books through Sainsbury's supermarkets and justified it in TUE the name of child literacy. Titles like 'We're Going on a TUE Bear Hunt' and 'Where's Wally? would establish Walker Books TUE as a major player in children's book publishing. Walker TUE would describe the financial side of business as a "bore" TUE preferring to spend his money on lavish parties for his TUE friends. TUE TUE Lynn Barber talks to Matthew Parris about why Sebastian TUE Walker remains such a memorable friend. They're joined by TUE Walker's sister and biographer Mirabel Cecil who says her TUE brother "..had very little sense of his own identity", and TUE that his one true love was really the piano. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01hxh70 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hw1vl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01293c9 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Paris TUE TUE When a bottle of highly-expensive whisky goes missing, TUE Martin becomes the Miss Marple of MJN Air with Arthur TUE assisting as his trusty Doctor Watson and Douglas hindering TUE as his untrusty prime suspect. 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 Mr Birling ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Mrs Birling ..... Flip Webster TUE Phil ...... Ewan Bailey TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore TUE Producer/Director: David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for the BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01hxh72 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01hxh74 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01j10h2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The End of Drug Discovery b01hxh76 (Listen) TUE As bringing new and improved drugs to patients becomes more TUE difficult and more expensive, Geoff Watts asks if the source TUE of better pharmaceutical treatments is drying up. TUE TUE Editor: Deborah Cohen. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01hxh78 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01hxh7b (Listen) TUE What impact will neuroscience have on the novel ? Claudia TUE Hammond talks to science writer, Jonah Lehrer, and to TUE academic psychologist and writer, Charles Fernyhough, about TUE the emergence of brain science in literature and considers TUE whether new understandings of the brain can enrich fiction TUE in the same way that Darwinism or Psychoanalysis did. TUE How much does knowing about our neurons contribute to our TUE knowledge of who we are, of the essence of being human ? Or TUE will explanations from neuroscience always seem inadequate TUE when they're used to address the human condition. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01hw7yy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01hw1vn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01hxh7d (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j0y5j (Listen) TUE Fitzgerald Short Stories, Babylon Revisited: Part 2 TUE TUE By F. Scott Fitzgerald. TUE TUE Read by Stuart Milligan. TUE TUE Part Two. Charles Wales has returned to Paris, the city TUE where his life fell apart, to meet with his dead wife's TUE family. He needs to persuade his sister-in-law that he's fit TUE once more to take custody of his daughter, Honoria. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 23:00 The Pickerskill Reports b012r6tw (Listen) TUE Series 2, Paul Whitney Beauchamp TUE TUE Darkly comic drama written by Andrew McGibbon. Ian McDiarmid TUE stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill retired English master of TUE Haunchurst School for boys, looking back on his most TUE favourite pupils, their formative moments in the college and TUE what became of them in the adult world. TUE TUE When day boy Beauchamp is picked on repeatedly and brutally TUE by Castlereagh House bullies, his mother Lady Sylvia TUE Beauchamp puts Dr Pickerskill on the spot by arriving TUE unannounced at Haunchurst requesting her child attend a TUE different school. TUE TUE Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid TUE Lady Paula Whitney Beauchamp ...... Sheridan Smith TUE Paul Whitney Beauchamp ........ James Rowland TUE A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne TUE Stealgroynes ....... Jack Edwards TUE Calman ....... Kris Saddler TUE Moorcroft/Udwin Parminter ....... Joe Cooper TUE Matron ......... Mia Soteriou TUE Honorable Vivian Wainfleet ....... Jonathan Ruffle TUE TUE Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon TUE Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon TUE A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hxkfd (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 MAY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01hw1wh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01j6qs0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hw1wk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hw1wm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hw1wp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01hw1wr (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hxmvh (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister WED Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01hxmvm (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presenter is Anna Smith. Producer is Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01hxmvp (Listen) WED Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including WED Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for WED the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01hxmvs (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01j6qth (Listen) WED Hedge Britannia, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. WED WED Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across WED Britain to explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. WED WED Topiary - was probably brought to these islands by the WED Romans, the controversy lingers on. WED WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hxmvx (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01j116p (Listen) WED In the Van, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Clare Bayley. WED WED Yasmin Zafiri, and her supervisor and fiance Jonathan, are WED getting frustrated both with the lack of progress on their WED stake out and with each other. Yasmin discovers Jonathan's WED parents and their boss know nothing of their relationship. WED But the suspects they are following are expecting a visitor WED from abroad which will change everything. A breakthrough is WED just around the corner. WED WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01hxmw1 (Listen) WED Series 10, Steel Spring WED WED Steel Spring. In 1990 Alan Dein travelled the length and WED breadth of Britain to document lives in steel- already an WED industry in decline. His then employer British Steel is, WED itself, now history. Decline, closure and layoffs have been WED the depressingly familiar litany of modern British industry. WED When they mothballed the blast furnace at Redcar, on the WED iron coast of Teesside, in 2010 it felt like just another WED death. "Like killing a creature" one worker says but this WED Easter Redcar witnessed a remarkable and fiery resurrection. WED A billion and a half dollars from Thailand brought back WED steel making and now the new blast furnace belches smoke and WED fire as the grey waves crash against the sands of Redcar. WED Alan Dein returns to a landscape he hasn't visited for a WED quarter of a century to journey from the iron shore where WED dark grey waves complement the coils of pale smoke beyond WED before trailing the black path to the steelworks and its WED fiery heart, the blast furnace. Dein picks his way through WED the vast metal realm of 'Queen Bess' vomiting sparks, smoke WED and flame to hear from new and old lives in steel, from WED those who forever left behind a world of generational toil WED and from those reborn in the shadow of the fire. WED WED Producer Mark Burman. WED WED 11:30 Believe It! b01hxmw4 (Listen) WED Boots WED WED Richard Wilson narrates his fictional autobiography. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01hxmw6 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01hw1wt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01hxmwb (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents the 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 Our Daily Bread b01j0srq (Listen) WED The Bread of Life WED WED Today's episode brings together a bishop, an imam and a WED rabbi for an interfaith bake-in and a chance not just to WED talk about what bread means to their respective religions WED but, through small moments of mutual recognition, to find WED out how much they have in common. WED WED Producer: Jonathan Kent WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01hxh72 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0fzn (Listen) WED The Diabolical Gourmet WED WED Death by fine dining: the true story of Pere Gourier and his WED string of perfectly legal murders in the finest restaurants WED of 1790s Paris. WED WED Bored with his wife and home life, the well-off landowner WED begins to amuse himself by taking hard-up acquaintances WED every day to the best restaurants in Paris and dining them WED to death. Everyone knows about it but - as he isn't doing WED anything against the law - no one can stop him. WED WED Dealing with a succulent batch of topics - food, wine, fine WED dining, the effects of over-indulgence, a loophole in the WED law and a murderer who can't be stopped - this true story WED unfolds from the perspective of Ameline, the executioner's WED assistant who volunteers to take on the murdering bon vivant WED Gourier at his own game in the richest restaurants in Paris. WED WED The intensity and opulence of Gourier's deadly feasts (he WED would order 15 steaks at a sitting, trying to kill off his WED fellow diner) lead to a final dining-room confrontation WED between him and Ameline, the table groaning under the weight WED of course after course of rich, deadly food - the murder WED weapon of a rich, deadly gourmet. WED WED Historical drama, written by Alex Shearer. WED WED Ameline ..... Mark Benton WED Gourier ..... Ian McNeice WED Chavette ..... Royce Mills WED Gaston/Bayard/Antoine/Victor/Hubert/Henri/Charles ..... Jon WED Glover WED Widow/Magdalene/Madame Cambertin ..... Rachel Atkins WED WED Director: Neil Cargill WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01hxmwf (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01hxh7b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01hxmwh (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01hxmwm (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 b01hxmwp (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hw1ww (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b01hxmws (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show that seeks the WED finest wrong answers. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01hxmwx (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01hxmwz (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on a stage version of the WED Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, the tale of two WED athletes in the 1924 Olympics. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01j116p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01hxmx1 (Listen) WED The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on WED the process by which controversial decisions are reached WED behind closed doors in Whitehall. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01hxmx5 (Listen) WED Series 3, Kate Smurthwaite WED WED Comedian Kate Smurthwaite argues it's time to stop laughing WED at sexism and time to stop prejudice against women WED comedians, because comedy is a key part of UK culture, WED affecting our opinions and values. 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 b01hwfnq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01hxmvs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01hw1wy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01hxmxf (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j0y6h (Listen) WED Fitzgerald Short Stories, Babylon Revisited: Part 3 WED WED By F. Scott Fitzgerald. WED WED Read by Stuart Milligan. WED WED Part Three. Charles waits to hear whether he has done enough WED to convince his sister-in-law that he's fit to regain WED custody of his daughter, Honoria. WED WED Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:00 It Is Rocket Science b01hxmxk (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED This comic but informative look at the history of space WED exploration looks this week at the role that leaps of the WED imagination have played in the science of rocketry, WED including the strange story of Russian Cosmism, and how WED their mission to bring back to life everyone who has ever WED lived produced pioneering work on multi-stage rockets: and WED the even stranger story of a plan in the 1950s for a giant WED spaceship capable of carrying a hundred and fifty people WED that could have been built using existing technology - WED Project Orion. There was just one snag - it was to be WED fuelled by nuclear bombs. WED WED Starring Helen Keen, Peter Serafnowicz and Susy Kane WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:15 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01hxmxt (Listen) WED Barry WED WED Strap in for 15inutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever Peter WED bring you a health and safety blow dart, a killer whale and WED a souffle. WED WED Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning WED sketch team - get their own Radio 4 show. WED WED From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another WED Case of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny WED Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of WED tri-coloured jerseys. WED WED Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and Dominic Stone WED WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hxmxy (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 MAY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01hw1xv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01j6qth (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hw1xx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hw1xz (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hw1y1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01hw1y3 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hxpx9 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister THU Gemma Simmonds, Congregation of Jesus. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01hxpxc (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01hxpxf (Listen) THU Presented by John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including THU Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01hxpxh (Listen) THU Marco Polo THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the celebrated Venetian THU explorer Marco Polo. In 1271 Polo set off on an epic journey THU through Asia. He was away for more than twenty years; when THU he returned to Venice an account of his travels was written THU down by his contemporary Rustichello da Pisa. The Travels of THU Marco Polo was one of the most popular books published in THU the age before printing; its early readers included THU Christopher Columbus. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01j6qvz (Listen) THU Hedge Britannia, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. THU THU Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across THU Britain to explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. THU THU An enthusiast's account of how Britain's history has been THU mapped by hedges. Today we hear about Captain Leyland's THU legacy. THU THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hxpxk (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01j0z63 (Listen) THU In the Van, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Clare Bayley. THU THU MI5 officer Yasmin finds her sympathy for her suspects THU growing - but an unwanted guest forces Rachid to jeopardise THU everything he loves and brings the Yasmin's new career into THU harsh reality. THU THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01hxpxm (Listen) THU Correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the THU headlines. THU THU 11:30 Follow-Up Albums b01hxpxp (Listen) THU Fleetwood Mac - Tusk THU THU Programme 2: Fleetwood Mac - Tusk THU THU How do you follow a record that sells 21 million copies THU worldwide and spends over 30 weeks at number one in the US THU album chart? THU THU The answer is Tusk - the album Fleetwood Mac recorded in the THU wake of 1976's Rumours. THU THU Despite joining the band just three years previously, this THU was the record that saw Lindsey Buckingham impose his will THU on Fleetwood Mac using the studio as a crucible in which he THU shovelled intra-band infidelities and his new-found love of THU punk. THU THU In 1979 it was deemed a failure, nicknamed "Lindsey's folly" THU from industry insiders. After 35 years, it has been THU reappraised as their boldest, most forward-looking release, THU "a peerless piece of pop art", influencing Radiohead and THU REM. THU THU Produced by Laura Parfitt THU A White Pebble Media Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01hxpxr (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01hw1y5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01hxpxt (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Our Daily Bread b01j0v4w (Listen) THU The Bread of Nations THU THU 'The Bread of Nations' takes us on a journey across the THU northern European plain, from Paris via Cologne to Krakow, THU to discover what bread has to tell us about three great THU European peoples. THU THU Producer: Jonathan Kent THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01hxmwx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01hxpxw (Listen) THU The Grudge THU THU Two hundred years ago this month, a British prime minister THU was shot as he entered the House of Commons. And, as the THU turbulent elections of 1997 loom, that event is set to THU change the political landscape of a sleepy rural THU constituency, its settled incumbent and unwitting THU electorate. THU THU Henry Bellingham ..... Robert Bathurst THU Roger Percival ..... Stephen Critchlow THU Corrine ..... Christine Absalom THU Georgia ..... Lizzy McInnerny THU Café owner/Librarian/Reporter ..... David Holt THU Party Chairman/George Turner ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer THU Marjorie ..... Tracy Wiles THU Martin ..... Harry Livingstone THU Labour Candidate ..... Gerard McDermott THU THU Director ..... Peter Kavanagh. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01hxpxy (Listen) THU Series 21, Flamborough Head to Bridlington THU THU Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in THU this new series of Ramblings. THU THU Programme 1: Flamborough Head to Bridlington with Stuart THU Jessup, Kate Atkin and Poppy the springer spaniel. THU THU Stuart Jessup and his springer spaniel, Poppy, started an 8 THU month, 2,500 mile walk around the English coast in October THU 2011. Occasionally joined by Stuart's wife, Kate, Stuart is THU walking as part of a campaign to reduce the stigma THU associated with mental illness, and to raise money for Sane THU and Anxiety UK. Clare Balding joined Stuart, Kate and Poppy THU for a stretch of the walk from Flamborough Head to THU Bridlington on the Yorkshire Coast, to hear more about his THU adventures. Poppy has been central to the success of the THU walk; her friendliness encourages conversations between THU Stuart and other walkers, who often reveal their own THU problems with depression - both parties leaving the THU encounter enriched. THU Producer Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01hw62v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01hw63f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01hxpy0 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01hxpy2 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b01hxpy4 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hw1y7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01hxpy6 (Listen) THU Series 2, Junk Mail THU THU Sony Award-winning comic Tom Wrigglesworth performs the last THU in his series of open letters. This week, he takes issue THU with his local curry house and their addiction to junk mail. THU Tom also tracks the development of advertising and marketing THU - a development trajectory which has now led us to the THU rather ridiculous stage where we can be "Facebook friends" THU with Jacob's Crackers. THU THU Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp. THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01hxpy8 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01hxpyb (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01j0z63 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01hxpyd (Listen) THU Death of an MI6 Officer THU THU Gareth Williams was found dead in his central London flat, THU inside a locked holdall, in August 2010. The 31-year old had THU been seconded from his full-time job at Government listening THU post GCHQ to MI6. THU THU An inquest earlier this month concluded that 'on the balance THU of probabilities' Mr Williams was unlawfully killed and that THU it was unlikely he got into the bag by himself. THU THU However, the Coroner in charge, Dr Fiona Wilcox, expressed THU doubt that Gareth Williams' death would ever be explained. THU His body was so badly decomposed when it was discovered that THU subsequent pathology reports proved inconclusive. THU THU This week, The Report asks whether the investigation into THU what happened two years ago was hampered by mistakes from THU the outset. THU THU Reporter Phil Kemp questions whether the police ruled out THU legitimate lines of inquiry too early. He explores the role THU of MI6 and the impact their delay in notifying anyone of his THU disappearance subsequently had on forensic testing. THU THU Producer: Hannah Barnes. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01hxpyg (Listen) THU Japan Gone Grey THU THU Japan is ageing faster than any other country in the world. THU In addition young Japanese people are having fewer babies so THU the population is shrinking too. So what will be the effects THU on the economy and the prospects for young people in the THU rigid Japanese work culture if older people are working THU longer. Peter Day reports from Shikoku in the south of Japan THU and Tokyo. THU Producer Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 Extinct! b01hwcwd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01hxpxh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01hw1y9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01hxr10 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j0z65 (Listen) THU Fitzgerald Short Stories, The Sensible Thing: Part 1 THU THU By F. Scott Fitzgerald. THU THU Read by Stuart Milligan. THU THU First published in 1924, Fitzgerald's beautifully observed THU short story explores the changing nature of love. THU THU An ambitious young man is desperate to get on with his THU career, so that he can gain the status and money to win the THU hand of the girl he loves. THU THU Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 23:00 Tonight b01hxr12 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU Rory Bremner and the team return for another series of THU Tonight, the topical satire show that digs that bit deeper THU into national and international politics. THU THU Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of THU things as it is to make fun of them. With a team that THU includes veteran satirists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody and THU versatile impressionist and character comedian Kate THU O'Sullivan, Tonight promises to do both. This is half an THU hour of stand-up, sketches, and investigative satire. And at THU the core of the show are Rory's incisively funny interviews THU with the most informed guest commentators on the current THU political scene. THU THU More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with THU the word fiscal in them - and some truly brilliant THU impressions: a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. THU THU Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hxr14 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 MAY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01hw1zj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01j6qvz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hw1zl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hw1zn (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hw1zq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01hw1zs (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hxt5d (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister FRI Gemma Simmonds, Congregation of Jesus. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01hxt5g (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Clare Freeman. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01hxt5j (Listen) FRI Presented by John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01hw633 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01j6qz4 (Listen) FRI Hedge Britannia, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. FRI FRI Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across FRI Britain to explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. FRI FRI Hedge People - from those who created the extravagantly FRI absurd hedges of stately homes to those who campaign today FRI for the preservation of our living margins. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01hxt5l (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01j0xm8 (Listen) FRI In the Van, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Clare Bayley. FRI FRI MI5 officer, Yasmin, on her fist stake out, is deeply FRI compromised. Acceptance in MI5 and her future marriage to FRI Jonathan come at the cost of suspects Rachid and Samira's FRI happiness. Can Yasmin bring herself to carry out the FRI decisive move? FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Mapping Britain's Underworld b01hxt5n (Listen) FRI Four million holes are dug every year in the UK. Five FRI billion pounds are lost through the economic effects of FRI disruption and traffic hold ups, while hitting a utility FRI pipe or cable can prove fatal for those working on the road. FRI Adam Hart- Davies reports on a major research project which FRI is trying to solve the problems. FRI FRI He takes us underground from his ancient ice house at the FRI bottom of his Devon garden to report on Mapping the FRI Underworld, the £3.5m programme involving universities FRI throughout Britain. The aim is to improve how we locate the FRI increasingly confusing and complex array of pipes, cables FRI and sewers beneath our streets, and assess their condition - FRI as well as ultimately providing a better map of what is FRI beneath our cities to improve planning both above and below FRI ground. FRI FRI At the moment it's often difficult to know where such FRI utilities are - an estimated one in four of all holes are FRI dug in the wrong place. Maps may not be accurate because FRI original records of where the pipes and cables are located FRI often use reference points on the surface which have long FRI since gone. FRI FRI Existing sensors may have problems finding what is FRI underground because of soil or weather conditions, while FRI modern materials such as plastic or fibre optics pose a FRI challenge to existing technologies. FRI FRI Adam Hart-Davies tries out the prototype of a multi-sensor FRI cart where four different sensors operate together to FRI produce an all-in-one solution, so if one technology doesn't FRI work well in certain conditions and with particular FRI materials, another one will. FRI FRI It is not an easy undertaking for the research teams or, as FRI it turns out, for Adam testing the multi-sensor cart. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Parker FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01hxt9l (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' is a brand new sitcom set in FRI a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with FRI the three greatest events in anybody's life. FRI FRI Written by David Schneider ('The Day Today', 'I'm Alan FRI Partridge'), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is FRI a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any FRI wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health FRI and safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's FRI married thousands of women. FRI FRI Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been FRI parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and FRI Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her marriage isn't just FRI about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit FRI in our new age of austerity. FRI FRI There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried FRI he'll end up like Malcolm one day while ditzy Anita may get FRI her words and names mixed up occasionally but as the only FRI parent in the office, she's a mother to them all. FRI FRI In the first episode, Malcolm meets a mysterious client who FRI persuades him to start taking risks while Lorna tries to FRI break the Woodborough Register Office record for the most FRI weddings in one day. FRI FRI Malcolm ..... David Schneider FRI Lorna ......Sarah Hadland FRI Anita .....Sandy McDade FRI Luke ...... Russell Tovey FRI Mary ..... Sally Bretton FRI Madame Clare/Hannah ..... Mel Hudson FRI Michael/Fairground man ...... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Julie/Jessica .....Gina Peach FRI Peter/man ....... Arran Glass FRI FRI Producer: Simon Jacobs FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01hxt9n (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01hxt9q (Listen) FRI Arranged Marital Bliss: Jasmit and Jaswant FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today Jasmit and Jaswant from Lincolnshire on FRI a 34 year-long arranged marriage which is still going FRI strong. 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 b01hw1zv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01hxt9s (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Our Daily Bread b01j0w2h (Listen) FRI Companionship FRI FRI In 'Companionship' Jonathan looks at how bread works as a FRI lingua franca of human relations - a universal, and FRI nurturing meeting place for people building communities, FRI friendships and wellbeing. FRI FRI Producer: Jonathan Kent FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01hxpy8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00sm8tv (Listen) FRI Prospero, Ariel, Reith and Gill FRI FRI Gary Brown's comedy about artist Eric Gill's clash with the FRI BBC over his famous sculpture of Prospero and Ariel stars FRI Anton Lesser as the artist and Tim McInnerny as Sir John FRI Reith, the first Director General of the Corporation. FRI Inspired by real events, the play charts a clash between the FRI BBC's Governors and the artist over the propriety of the FRI sculpture's appearance. FRI FRI Gill became quite a celebrity as he carved the statue in FRI situ on scaffolding in front of Broadcasting House. In his FRI trademark smock and beret, he drew the attention of the FRI tabloid papers and became known as the "Married Monk". The FRI play imagines conversations between Sir John and the artist FRI as he passes him on his way into Broadcasting House each FRI morning. FRI FRI Framed with a period newsreel-style commentary, the comedy FRI playfully deals with the perennial tension between the FRI Establishment and the Artist. The strange and mysterious FRI Gill contrasts with the authoritarian but often troubled FRI figure of Reith, but in the end the sculpture focuses their FRI thoughts about the role of Art in the life of mankind. While FRI this is a comedy, the play touches a little on the FRI well-documented darker side of both men's nature, and offers FRI an insight into one of the more celebrated events of early FRI BBC history. FRI FRI Brown's play speculates on how Reith struggled with the FRI Governors and with his own psyche in dealing with one of the FRI trickier events in the early days of the BBC. It also looks FRI at how Gill, the artist, struggled with reconciling his FRI unusual beliefs and lifestyle with a major commission from FRI the heart of the Establishment. FRI FRI The cast is completed by Jon Glover as the Newsreel FRI Reporter, David Seddon as Charlie, Stephen Darcy as Father FRI Sean, Tina Gray as Lady Snowden and Alison Pettitt as the FRI Nanny. FRI FRI Written by Gary Brown. FRI FRI Eric Gill . . . . . Anton Lesser FRI John Reith . . . . . Tim McInnerny FRI Newsreel Reporter . . . . . Jon Glover FRI Lady Snowden . . . . . Tina Gray FRI Charlie . . . . . David Seddon FRI Father Sean . . . . . Stephen Darcy FRI Nanny . . . . . Alison Pettitt FRI FRI Producer/Director . . . . . Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01hxtmh (Listen) FRI RHS Chelsea Flower Show FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the programme from the biggest gardening FRI event of the year. Joining him on the panel are Matthew FRI Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon and Lucy Dichmont. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Half-Light b01hxtmk (Listen) FRI The White Hour FRI FRI By Neil M. Gunn, first published in 1924. FRI FRI Read by Ann Louise Ross. FRI FRI An elderly Highland woman is comforted in her final hours by FRI the companionable nearness of her beloved granddaughter and FRI the young woman's lover. FRI FRI Second 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 b01hxtmm (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 b01hxtmp (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01hxtmr (Listen) FRI Farewell to the Herd: Michael and Don FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today Berkshire farmers Mike and Don, friends FRI since they first met at Young Farmers, share their thoughts FRI on giving up their dairy herds. Mike has already sent his FRI cows to market. Now Don must decide whether or not to follow FRI suit. 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 b01hxtmt (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hw1zx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01hxtmw (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 8 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and Ed Byrne. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01hxtn0 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01hxtn2 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01j0xm8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01hxtn4 (Listen) FRI Rugby FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Rugby High School, as part of the BBC's FRI Schools Questions and Answers challenge. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01hxvnk (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00qx5rk (Listen) FRI After the Accident FRI FRI By Julian Armitstead. A couple's young daughter is killed in FRI a head-on car crash. Four years later the parents summon the FRI courage to meet the young lad responsible. FRI FRI Leon ...... Jack O'Connell FRI Petra ...... Lia Williams FRI Jimmy ...... Russell Boulter FRI Mr E ...... Duncan Bonner FRI Leon's Mum ...... Amanda Horlock FRI FRI Directed by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01hw1zz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01hxvnm (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j0zd5 (Listen) FRI Fitzgerald Short Stories, The Sensible Thing - Part 2 FRI FRI By F. Scott Fitzgerald. FRI FRI Read by Stuart Milligan. FRI FRI One year on from Jonquil's rejection, George returns to FRI Tennessee as a much improved man: a man with prospects. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01hxh6y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01hxvnp (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01hxvnr (Listen) FRI Coming Clean: Lily and Francis FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: in today's last visit Francis and Lily from FRI Glasgow remember the years of Francis' addiction to heroin FRI and its terrible consequences. Throughout everything - even FRI prison - his mum, Lily, remained constant and supplied the FRI strength to pull him through. Recorded by Radio Scotland, FRI this is Francis' opportunity to say thankyou. 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
18 May, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 19/05/2012 - 25/05/2012
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