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SAT SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01qmbyq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 The Real George Orwell b01qnt5r (Listen) SAT Essays and Journalism, As I Please SAT SAT In this final selection of pieces, Orwell explores SAT gullibility in modern society, ridicules the absurdities of SAT the New Year's Honours List, and recalls a minor incident SAT from his youth which helped to form his socialist outlook. SAT SAT Read by Clive Merrison SAT Producer ..... David Jackson Young. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qmbys (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qmbyv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qmbyx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01qmbyz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qrkky (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with SAT the Rev Dr Karen Smith. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01qwk5n (Listen) SAT "All the energy we'll ever need" SAT A listener with a background in mechanical engineering SAT argues that the UK's energy gap could be plugged by an SAT ignored form of nuclear reactor which would be safer and SAT more efficient than the technology now in use. Presented by SAT Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Your News is read by Zeb SAT Soanes. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01qmbz1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01qmbz3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01qmxfp (Listen) SAT Series 23, Walking with friends SAT SAT Clare Balding explores the beautiful Longdendale Trail in SAT Derbyshire, joining long -term friends, Tracey Standring and SAT Christine Valentine. They explain the vital role walking has SAT played in their lives, cementing their friendship and SAT keeping them sane and healthy. They've been walking together SAT for over a year now and they explore new places each week. SAT Neither are keen or particularly competent map readers and SAT Clare tries to convert them with her own expertise, although SAT with a gale blowing along the valley, it's not all that SAT easy. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01qsph1 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01qmbz5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01qsph3 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys SAT and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01qsph5 (Listen) SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with extraordinary stories SAT and remarkable people. SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b01qsph7 (Listen) SAT Series 4, American Beauty SAT SAT On the eve of this year's Academy Awards, Paul Gambaccini SAT explores a Best Picture Oscar film to find out how and why SAT it won and see what it tells us about society at the time - SAT this week American Beauty. SAT SAT The black comedy American Beauty swept the board at the 2000 SAT Oscars ceremony, pushing aside The Sixth Sense and The Green SAT Mile. It was an unexpected hit for the studio - Steven SAT Spielberg's Dreamworks - and went on to become a popular, SAT critical and commercial success around the world. SAT SAT Telling a story of dysfunction in suburbia it tackled many SAT taboo themes head on: homophobia, drugs, blackmail, SAT infidelity and domestic abuse. Kevin Spacey won an Oscar for SAT Best Actor after giving a landmark performance as suburban SAT everyman who's had enough and embraces his midlife crisis. SAT Annette Benning, who memorably plays his wife, holds onto SAT the facades that make up her world whilst inside she's SAT falling apart. SAT SAT For the director, Sam Mendes, it was his first movie and he SAT picked up an Oscar. He's come a long way in Hollywood since SAT then, having just finished the new James Bond blockbuster SAT Skyfall. Paul talks to Mendes about his vision and the SAT evolution of American Beauty on and off set and reflects on SAT cultural event it soon became. He recalls his Oscar night SAT and the tribute to his hero Billy Wilder. He talks to the SAT producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, who went on to produce SAT Milk, about casting the movie and getting it made. Thomas SAT Newman, of the Hollywood composing dynasty wrote the score SAT and tells him how close to the wire the iconic opening music SAT sequence was. And the young actors in the film Thora Birch SAT and Wes Bentley discuss how, at the start of their careers, SAT they immersed themselves in roles which resonated with their SAT lives at the time. SAT SAT American Beauty still stands out as a bold, classic movie SAT but Paul hears how its legacy is felt more in the cable tv SAT series of the past decade rather than in Hollywood, where it SAT was created. SAT SAT Producer Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01qyfw5 (Listen) SAT Plant and flower shapes SAT SAT What makes flowers so beautiful? Why are some leaves curly, SAT others spiky, and others flat? Bridget Kendall brings SAT together a panel of three experts who have some answers to SAT nature's mysteries. SAT Enrico Coen is a professor of plant genetics who has been SAT running computer simulations of how plant cells turn from SAT bud to bloom. He's found some simple rules of nature and, SAT joining forces with Rob Kesseler, Professor of Ceramic Art & SAT Design at Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design, SAT and PhD student Tilly Eldridge, used them to create some SAT original "organic" objects of his own at his lab at the John SAT Innes Centre in Norwich. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01qspjd (Listen) SAT Living in the Lap of Luxury SAT SAT Correspondents with stories from around the world: SAT When Madeleine Morris returned to her native Australia after SAT twelve years in the UK she knew she'd find things different SAT there, but she didn't realise her wallet would take such a SAT battering! Ian Pannell, in northern Syria, finds a group of SAT little boys sheltering in a Roman-era tomb and asking where SAT their mother's got to. Craig Jeffrey's at the Indian SAT university where once students demonstrated for the right to SAT cheat in exams. Sicily looks like being one of the key SAT battlegrounds in the Italian election - Chris Morris is SAT there communing with the dead ahead of the big vote. And as SAT France prepared to take on England in the Six Nations SAT tournament at Twickenham, Chris Bockman finds the SAT congregation deep in prayer at a church they call 'Our Lady SAT of Rugby.' SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01qspjg (Listen) SAT Beware the money mule scam, cleaning up the annuities SAT industry, and what laws are in place to stop pension fraud? SAT SAT PENSION UNLOCKING SAT For the third week we return to the growing crime of SAT persuading people to transfer their pension savings into SAT recently registered pension schemes and taking huge fees for SAT illegally letting them have some of their money back. This SAT week - the legal aspects. Is the law adequate to help SAT trustees stop the transfer when they suspect a scam? And if SAT not, will the Government pass new laws to protect desperate SAT people from the crooks - and themselves? We speak to a SAT pensions lawyer and Pensions Minister Steve Webb. SAT SAT ANNUITIES SAT The insurance industry is launching a compulsory code of SAT practice to force its members who sell annuities to abide by SAT certain principles of fairness. I talk to the man in charge, SAT Otto Thoresen, Director General of the Association of SAT British Insurers and also to annuities expert, Billy SAT Burrows. SAT SAT MONEY MULES SAT People desperate for work are being offered seemingly SAT lucrative home-working jobs which involve receiving SAT thousands of pounds into their bank accounts and then SAT transferring the money to another account. Of course it's a SAT scam. But how does it work? And what are the dangers of SAT saying 'yes'? We hear from a person recruited as a money SAT mule and speak to a detective from the Dedicated Cheque and SAT Plastic Crime Unit and CIFAS, the UK's Fraud Prevention SAT Service. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01qnvb3 (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Cariad Lloyd, John SAT Finnemore and Mitch Benn to present a comedic breakdown of SAT the week's news. Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01qmbz7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01qmbz9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01qnvb9 (Listen) SAT Jeanette Winterson, Deborah Meaden, Mark Harper MP, Baroness SAT Jan Royall SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Guildhall in Gloucester. Guests include Baroness SAT Jan Royall Shadow Leader of the House of Lords, Mark Harper SAT MP, writer Jeanette Winterson and Dragon and businesswoman SAT Deborah Meaden. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01qspjj (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01qspvq (Listen) SAT Well, He Would, Wouldn't He? SAT SAT By Charlotte Williams. In 1963, at the tender age of 18, SAT Mandy Rice-Davies found herself at the centre of one of the SAT most sensational scandals of the 20th century. She was a SAT witness in the trial of Stephen Ward who was charged with SAT living off the earnings of prostitutes. At the age of 16 SAT Mandy had run away to London and become a dancer at Murray's SAT Club in the West End, where she'd met Christine Keeler and SAT society osteopath, Stephen. Soon she was mixing with SAT London's elite and living as Peter Rachman's mistress. But SAT when there was a shooting incident at Stephen's flat, and SAT news broke of Christine's secret affair with Government SAT Minister John Profumo, events began to spiral out of SAT control. Fifty years later, Mandy looks back at those events SAT and the impact they've had on her life. SAT SAT Mandy (younger) . . . Aimee Ffion-Edwards SAT Christine Keeler . . . Lyndsey Marshall SAT 'Pops' Murray . . . Steven Marzella SAT Stephen Ward/Peter Rachman . . Ewan Bailey SAT Lord Astor . . . Adrian Schiller SAT Eugene Ivanov . . . Alex Dower SAT Johnny Edgecombe . . . Anthony Courier SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01qm2fw (Listen) SAT Series 15, She Moved through the Fair SAT SAT The Irish traditional song She Moved Through The Fair is SAT well loved and well recorded by many. To some it is a ghost SAT story that tells of unfulfilled longings and of hopes and SAT aspirations cut short. Sinead O' Connor and others talk SAT about the haunting beauty of this ancient song and of why SAT its imagery is carved into their souls. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01qspvv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Samira SAT Ahmed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01qspy1 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news presented by Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01qmxg6 (Listen) SAT Business in Africa SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion and spin to present a SAT clearer view of the business world through discussion with SAT people running leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT This week, Evan's three guests discuss the challenges of SAT doing business in and out of Africa. It consists of 54 SAT countries and has more than a billion people but the SAT continent was a sleeping giant for decades. Now it's woken SAT up and could it be on the verge of becoming the economic SAT powerhouse of the 21st Century? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Andrew Rugasira, CEO of the SAT Ugandan coffee company Good African Coffee; Herman SAT Chinery-Hesse, co-founder of the Ghanaian software company SAT SOFTtribe and Rupert Soames, CEO of the temporary power SAT specialists Aggreko. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qmbzc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01qmbzf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qmbzh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01qspy3 (Listen) SAT Peter Bradshaw, David Essex, Dean Atta, Giles Coren, Jo SAT Bunting, Keaton Henson, RKZ SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Peter Bradshaw, David Essex and SAT Dean Atta for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and SAT comedy. With music from Keaton Henson and RKZ. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01qspz0 (Listen) SAT Mike Ashley SAT SAT Mike Ashley began his business career as a teenager with a SAT single shop in 1980s Maidenhead. Now his international SAT Sports Direct empire makes him multi millions. Among his SAT recent acquisitions was Newcastle United football club, SAT where this reclusive figure suddenly tried to become an SAT ordinary fan about town. Chris Bowlby searches for the SAT secret behind Ashley's huge retail success, and discovers SAT what happened when a southerner who hates publicity tried to SAT win over the Geordie faithful. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01qsqfm (Listen) SAT Lichtenstein at Tate Modern and A Chorus Line SAT SAT Lichtenstein at Tate Modern and A Chorus Line. SAT SAT Lichtenstein: A Retrospective continues at the Tate Modern SAT in London until 27th May 2013. SAT SAT Cloud Atlas is in cinemas in nationwide, certificate 15. SAT SAT A Chorus Line continues at the London Palladium, booking SAT until January 2014. SAT SAT Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James SAT Lasdun is published by Jonathan Cape. SAT SAT Broadchurch is on ITV on Monday 4th March at 9pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01qsqfp (Listen) SAT The Devil's Horn SAT SAT The saxophone is the most important musical invention of the SAT last 170 years. Lauded for its adventurous sound, its SAT sensuality and seemingly never-ending versatility, the brass SAT woodwind horn has become one of the most popular instruments SAT in the world. Today, it's at home in classical music as it SAT is in pop with hundreds of famous composers writing SAT significant pieces for its shapely curves. Neither of these SAT musical homes compare to its place in jazz, where its SAT presence is so influential it's hard to think of another SAT instrument more associated with the genre. SAT But for some the sax produces a devilish sound, whether SAT that's down to taste or decency. It's been shunned by polite SAT society, banished from orchestras and even denounced by SAT governments. Much worse, in recent times it has been accused SAT of blandness and crowned the king of elevator music. SAT British jazz musician Soweto Kinch examines the saxophone's SAT place in history in Radio 4's Archive on 4. An alto player SAT himself, Kinch investigates the instrument's captivating and SAT somewhat turbulent journey through musical and spoken SAT archive. Aiding Soweto with expert analysis are his friend SAT and fellow sax player Courtney Pine, leading classical SAT saxophonist Amy Dickson, historian Dr Paul Cohen, director SAT of the 2012 World Saxophone Congress Richard Ingham and SAT comedian David Quantick. SAT SAT 21:00 The Real George Orwell b01qldly (Listen) SAT Nineteen Eighty-Four, Episode 2 SAT SAT Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway SAT SAT Winston Smith has found love and comfort with Julia, and now SAT they are determined to join the Brotherhood, a secret, SAT counter-revolutionary organisation pledged to destroy The SAT Party. But for The Party's enemies, deep in the Ministry of SAT Love, there is the threat of Room 101. SAT SAT Credits SAT Winston Smith: Christopher Eccleston SAT Julia: Pippa Nixon SAT O'Brien: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Parsons: Kim Wall SAT Charrington: Robert Blythe SAT Actor: Christine Absalom SAT Actor: Sam Alexander SAT Actor: Don Gilet SAT Actor: Susie Riddell SAT Actor: Joe Sims SAT Actor: Joshua Swinney SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Writer: Jonathan Holloway SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01qmbzk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01qmb0g (Listen) SAT Private Education SAT SAT Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said last year that "the SAT overwhelming dominance of privately-educated schoolchildren SAT in Britain is corrosive for society." But, interviewed on SAT radio recently, he said that he would not rule out a private SAT school education for his own son. Is it every parent's duty SAT to get their children the best possible education - even SAT despite their political principles? Or is Nick Clegg just a SAT hypocrite? SAT Last week Maria Hutchings, the Conservative candidate in the SAT Eastleigh bye-election, said that it would be impossible for SAT her gifted son to become a surgeon if he were to attend a SAT state school. There were cries of outrage - not least from SAT the medical profession. Some studies show that young people SAT do indeed do better in life if they've been to public SAT school. Is it immoral for parents to be able to buy a SAT competitive advantage for their offspring? Should parents SAT sacrifice their children's future on the altar of their SAT principles, or is it the duty of a parent to get their SAT children the best possible education, irrespective of their SAT own opinions about what should be done to reform the system? SAT Are we as a nation becoming increasingly hostile towards SAT private education? Heads of independent schools say the SAT government wants top universities to tip the balance in SAT favour of admitting candidates from state schools, and SAT that's not fair. These heads are also worried about the SAT threat that their schools might lose their charitable SAT status. Is that - as some have called it - just the politics SAT of envy? SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, Giles SAT Fraser and Matthew Taylor. Witnesses: Francis Gilbert - SAT Local Schools Network, Jan Murray - Guardian SAT writer/contributor, Dr Martin Stephen - Former High Master SAT at Manchester Grammar School and St Paul's School in London, SAT and a former Chairman of the Headmasters' and SAT Headmistresses' Conference, Dreda Say Mitchell - author, SAT broadcaster and educational consultant. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01qlhjr (Listen) SAT (13/17) SAT SAT Russell Davies asks the questions, in the first of this SAT year's semi-finals of the evergreen general knowledge quiz. SAT Today's competitors have all come successfully through the SAT heats, and are vying for a place in the grand Final and the SAT chance to take the title of 'Brain of Britain 2013'. SAT SAT In addition to the twelve outright heat winners, the four SAT top-scoring runners-up across the series also have another SAT chance to try for a place in the Final. SAT SAT The questions get tougher as the contest proceeds: so they SAT will need all the knowledge they can muster, as Russell's SAT questions cover every imaginable field from history and SAT mythology through to sport and popular culture. SAT SAT There will also be the chance for a listener to win a prize SAT by defeating the combined brainpower of the contestants. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT ROB CRUISE, a primary school teacher from Liverpool; SAT SAT CLIVE DUNNING, a college lecturer from Stockton on Tees; SAT SAT JILL GOODWIN, from Swindon, retired from the insurance SAT industry; SAT SAT DARREN MARTIN, a project analyst from Chorley in Lancashire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01qldm2 (Listen) SAT Liz Lochhead was appointed as Makar in January 2011, taking SAT on this role of Scotland's national poet. We find out what SAT it means for this established and highly respected poet and SAT playwright. SAT SAT We join Liz Lochhead on her tour of duty as she attends the SAT Robert Burns Museum in Ayrshire with Carol Ann Duffy, visits SAT schools across Scotland and speaks out at the Poetry Library SAT in Edinburgh. SAT SAT This is a personal observation on her life and work in SAT Scotland, and Liz takes us to visit her favourite corner of SAT the country on the wild and unspoilt west coast near Skye. SAT She reflects on the importance of the job for her, which she SAT accepted as she says, "in grateful recognition of the truth SAT that poetry - the reading of it, the writing of it, the SAT saying it out loud, the learning of it off by heart - all of SAT this matters deeply to ordinary Scottish people everywhere." SAT SAT With readings of Liz Lochhead's poems and contributions from SAT leading writers and critics across Scotland and beyond. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01qsqkk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Dalmatian Trilogy b019f6kg (Listen) SUN The Book of Complaints SUN SUN Episode 3 (of 3): The Book of Complaints by James Hopkin SUN An Englishman takes refuge from his past life on the island SUN of Korcula, where he meets an extraordinary silhouette SUN cutter and learns about mysterious murmur-maids. SUN SUN James Hopkin has lived and travelled widely in Europe, SUN including time spent on the Dalmatian islands off the coast SUN of Croatia. These three specially-commissioned stories SUN explore the history and landscape of the area, as well as SUN providing a colourful journey for the senses. SUN SUN Hopkin gained a First Class honours degree in English and SUN Philosophy in Manchester, then a Distinction in his MA on SUN modern fiction, followed by a British Academy Award for his SUN PhD. In September 2002, he won an Arts Council short story SUN competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. SUN SUN His novel Winter Under Water (2007) was an assured and SUN critically-acclaimed debut marking the arrival of a major SUN new writer. He published a small collection of stories in SUN 2008, along with the paperback of Winter Under Water. SUN SUN James Hopkin's A Georgian Trilogy, also produced by Sweet SUN Talk, was broadcast in 2010. SUN SUN Reader: Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qsqkm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qsqkp (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qsqks (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01qsqkw (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01qsr5c (Listen) SUN The bells of St Peter's Church, Tiverton, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01qm2jg (Listen) SUN Baroness Helena Kennedy SUN SUN Leading human rights lawyer, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, SUN opens a new series of Lent Talks, where six well known SUN figures from public life, the arts, human rights and SUN religion, reflect on how the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry SUN and Passion continues to interact with contemporary society SUN and culture. SUN The 2013 Lent Talks consider the theme of "abandonment". In SUN the Lenten story, Jesus is the supreme example of this - he SUN died an outcast, abandoned and rejected by his people, his SUN disciples and (apparently) his Father - God. But how does SUN that theme tie in with today's complex world? There are many SUN ways one can feel abandoned - by family, by society, by SUN war/conflict, but one can also feel abandoned through the SUN loss of something, perhaps power, job or identity. SUN Speakers in this year's talks include the author Alexander SUN McCall Smith, who explores the sense of being abandoned by SUN society as you grow older; Loretta Minghella, Director of SUN Christian Aid, who considers the abandonment of self and the SUN need to face who we truly are; Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim SUN Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM Forces, who has just SUN returned from Afghanistan and who explores the total SUN abandonment experienced by both sides as a result of war; SUN Ben Cohen, journalist and broadcaster, who reflects on his SUN own personal story of religious rejection through being gay, SUN and Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's Piccadilly, who SUN explores the relationship between abandonment and betrayal. SUN SUN The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for SUN self-examination and reflection on universal human SUN conditions such as temptation, betrayal, greed, forgiveness SUN and love. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01qsql0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01qsr8g (Listen) SUN Yearning SUN SUN The newspaper columnist Lucy Mangan suspects that the human SUN inclination to yearn is as much suited to a stoic soul as a SUN romantic one. SUN SUN She considers what draws us to this state between pleasure SUN and pain, asking what it reveals of our relationship to SUN love, loss and learning, as well as our longing for a sense SUN of completeness. SUN SUN With reference to the writings of, among others, Edmund SUN Spenser, DJ Enright and AE Housman, and music by Townes van SUN Zandt and the Fado singer Mariza. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01qsr8j (Listen) SUN The Wolf Tracker SUN SUN For this week's Living World, presenter Chris Sperring goes SUN in search of a large carnivore he's never seen before in the SUN wild, the grey wolf. To do this he travels to Sweden where SUN he meets up with Pierre Ahlgren a wildlife ranger in the SUN Vastmanland area of Mid Sweden, where they are also joined SUN by Tom Arnbom from WWF Sweden. SUN SUN With thick snow on the ground Chris, Pierre and Tom travel SUN to a snowy woodland 50 km northeast of the town of Vasteras. SUN Heading deep into the woodland almost immediately they SUN stumble across wolf tracks. Closer inspection reveals these SUN tracks are nearly a week old but as this is Chris's first SUN sign of this illusive animal his excitement grows and the SUN pair head off into the woods in the hope of seeing more SUN recent tracks and maybe a wolf. One surprising fact is that SUN wolf plays a vital role in the whole forest ecosystem. Along SUN the way Pierre and Tom discuss with Chris the conservation SUN of these wolves and how Sweden although it did not have any SUN wolves until 1983, it is now one of the best places in SUN Europe to see them with nearly 300 individuals roaming this SUN vast empty country. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01qsql4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01qsql7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01qsr8l (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01qsr8n (Listen) SUN National Association for People Abused in Childhood SUN SUN Michael Mansfield QC presents the Radio 4 Appeal for NAPAC SUN (National Association for People Abused in Childhood) SUN Reg Charity:1069802 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN NAPAC. SUN   SUN In the first 6 weeks of 2013 our 40 Support Line volunteers SUN answered 793 calls, but many more callers were unable to get SUN through. With your help we can train more volunteers and run SUN more Support Groups. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01qsqlb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01qsqld (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01qsr8q (Listen) SUN This Is Our Story: Guided by God's Law SUN SUN 'This is our story' - Guided by God's Law: second in a SUN series for Lent linking stories of faith from the Bible with SUN life today. Live from Gresford Methodist Church in Wrexham. SUN Leader: Rev Patrick Rudden. Preacher: Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. SUN The Rhos Male Voice Choir is directed by Aled Phillips. SUN Download Lent resources from Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland by logging on to bbc.co.uk/sundayworship. SUN Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01qm2k4 (Listen) SUN The Winter Queen SUN SUN Lisa Jardine celebrates the achievements of Elizabeth of SUN Bohemia, the "Winter Queen", and sees her relegation to the SUN margins of history, "despite the pivotal role she played in SUN international politics throughout much of the seventeenth SUN century", as a reflection of our failure to recognise and SUN value powerful women. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01qsrhg (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01qsrhj (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Adrian Flynn SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... 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SUN SUN Uta Frith's groundbreaking work on autism has revolutionized SUN our understanding of the condition; overturning the SUN traditional, long-held belief that the root of the problems SUN are social & emotional; discovering instead that autism is SUN the result of physical differences in the brain. SUN SUN She arrived in Britain from Germany in the early 60s for a SUN two-week course in English. Half a century later, and SUN groaning under the weight of myriad fellowships and awards, SUN with an honorary DBE to her name, she is one of the grand SUN dames of British science. SUN SUN In retirement she continues to mentor and encourage fellow SUN women scientists, not least in her networking group SUN "science&shopping" - an aim being to have some fun. SUN SUN She says her metaphor for the brain "is that of a garden SUN that is full of the most interesting, different things ... SUN that have to be cultivated and constantly checked." SUN SUN Producer: Alison Hughes. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01qlmlb (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 2 SUN SUN Popular comedy panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. SUN Regulars Paul Merton and Gyles Brandreth are joined by the SUN comedian Alun Cochrane and the actor Stephen Mangan. SUN Subjects include the literary 'Treasure Island' and the SUN colloquial 'My Mate Dan'. SUN Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01qsrhn (Listen) SUN The Death of Three Square Meals? SUN SUN Hectic lifestyles are increasing the demand for ready-made, SUN 'grab n go' convenient foods. Today's time pressed commuters SUN buy bagels at the station or carry breakfast bars in their SUN briefcase. Retailers have led this change - offering snack SUN size portions and handy grab packs to stave off hunger. SUN Gourmet 'food on the go' has been identified as a key growth SUN sector and sales are increasing. Sheila Dillon asks if, in SUN our hurry, we've forgotten the value of three square meals a SUN day, eaten at a table at set mealtimes. SUN SUN She meets restaurant guide writer Richard Harden who takes SUN her on a whistle-stop tour of the speedy choices on offer SUN including the fashion for "the small plate menu". There's SUN now no distinction between lunch and dinner - if you fancy a SUN steak at 4pm most cities will be able to help. Consequently SUN people seem to be losing track of when and how much they can SUN eat. It's all just one long munchfest. SUN SUN Sheila also hears from staff and children at a SUN Nottinghamshire school where pupils were arriving having had SUN no breakfast and sometimes no dinner. Their response was to SUN offer free breakfasts to those from families on low incomes SUN but their experience offers some revealing insights into the SUN eating habits of children across all incomes. SUN SUN With so many snacks to choose from, do those "on the go" SUN have more nutritious options than simply crisps and a SUN chocolate bar or should we be asking if there is a more SUN serious cost to this new bite-sized way of eating? What is SUN the true cost of speed and convenience? SUN SUN Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01qsqll (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01qsrhq (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley 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 Lyrical Journey b01qsrp9 (Listen) SUN Series 2, A13, Trunk Road to the Sea SUN SUN Inspired by the jazz and rock standard Route 66, proud Essex SUN boy Billy Bragg used his poetic licence to fashion a version SUN much closer to home - A13, Trunk Road to the Sea, a paean to SUN the tarmacked beauty of A13, which heads east from SUN Whitechapel in the heart of the East End alongside the SUN Thames for forty miles until it hits the wide sands of SUN Shoeburyness. SUN SUN As presenter Jonathan Maitland and Billy travel along the SUN busy arterial, the songwriter explains how when he wrote the SUN song some thirty years ago the A13 was a potent symbol of SUN escape to the big city one way and nostalgia for the seaside SUN idyll of his childhood the other. Billy recounts the sights SUN along the way, such as where the old Beckton Gasworks once SUN stood, and gives his own personal perspective on how the SUN landscape and people have changed. SUN SUN In Stanford-Le-Hope, they meet Thurrock historian Jonathan SUN Catton to discuss the place the author Joseph Conrad once SUN made his home; and, overlooking windswept Hadleigh Castle, SUN historian Judith Williams tells of the area's royal lineage SUN back to medieval times. SUN SUN As the journey concludes in Shoeburyness, Billy performs the SUN song overlooking the atmospheric spot where the Thames SUN Estuary hits the ocean. SUN SUN Presenter/Jonathan Maitland SUN Producer/Stephen Garner. SUN Mastertapes: Billy Bragg SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qnv2r (Listen) SUN Milton Keynes SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs Radio 4's horticultural panel programme SUN with gardeners in Milton Keynes. Chris Beardshaw, Bunny SUN Guinness and Pippa Greenwood are on hand to answer the SUN audience's queries. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01qsrpc (Listen) SUN Dutch school hostage crisis SUN SUN In 1977 independence activists from Indonesia's Molucca SUN islands took an entire Dutch primary school hostage. They SUN wanted to force the Dutch government to support their SUN freedom fight. They held children and teachers captive for SUN days on end. Geert Kruit, was just nine years old at the SUN time and is still traumatised by what happened to him. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01qsrpf (Listen) SUN Pather Panchali - Song of the Road, Episode 1 SUN SUN Pather Panchali: Song of the Road by Bibhuti Bhushan Banerji SUN dramatised by Tanika Gupta from a translation by T.W Clark & SUN Tarapada Mukerji SUN SUN A classic story of poverty and sibling love set in a remote SUN Bengali village at the beginning of the twentieth century. SUN The life of a poor Brahmin family is seen through the eyes SUN of young Opu and his older sister Durga. With their father, SUN Horihor, often away from home in search of work, tension SUN mounts as their mother, Shorbojoya, struggles on her own. SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari SUN SUN It is the vivid and moving story of life in a rural village SUN on the brink of change, seen through the eyes of two SUN children. The novel deals with the relationship between SUN destruction and creation, and is an uplifting tale of growth SUN and love. It is a beautiful and atmospheric novel that SUN inspired an iconic film by Satyajit Ray in 1955. The heart SUN of the novel and this dramatisation is the love between SUN brother and sister. It charts family life through a SUN collection of daily events that cumulatively create a vivid SUN and unforgettable world. In Tanika Gupta's dramatisation SUN Opu, now a grown man narrates the story, looking back on his SUN childhood and to the people he has loved, in particular his SUN older sister Durga.Tanika Gupta is an award-winning writer SUN who has written extensively for radio, theatre, film and SUN television. She was recently awarded an MBE; named Asian SUN Woman of Achievement (Arts and Culture) and nominated for an SUN Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her production of SUN A Doll's House for Radio 3 recently won the best adaptation SUN BBC Audio Drama Award. SUN Radio 4 Blog: Making Pather Panchali - The Song of The Road SUN SUN Credits SUN Adult Opu: Sagar Arya SUN Indir: Meera Syal SUN Durga: Rhea Somaiya SUN Shorbojoya: Ayesha Dharker SUN Horihor: Shiv Grewal SUN Shejbou: Pooja Ghai SUN Dashi: Pooja Ghai SUN Palit: Ace Bhatti SUN Child Opu: Adnan Chowdhury SUN Tunu: Nuha Fabiha Sultana SUN Baby Opu: Ava Taylor SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN Writer: Tanika Gupta SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01qss91 (Listen) SUN Instructions for a Heatwave; obesity in the contemporary SUN novel SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Maggie O'Farrel about her new SUN novel "Instructions For A Heatwave." Set in the infamous SUN droubt of 1976 when it did not rain in the UK for 16 weeks, SUN it opens with recently retired Robert walking out to buy a SUN newspaper and failing to return. With his wife of three SUN decades, Gretta, baffled and distressed, his departure SUN precipates the return of their three estranged children, SUN Aoife, Monica and Micheal Francis forcing past tensions to SUN the surface with far reaching consequences. Maggie O'Farrell SUN has been described as a British Ann Tyler and has written a SUN series of award winning novels since her debut the Betty SUN Trask winning After You'd Gone was published in 2000. Her SUN last novel The Hand That First Held Mine won the Costa Novel SUN Award. SUN SUN With over a quarter of adults in the UK officially classed SUN as obese how are fat characters being presented in the SUN contemporary novel. Wrtier Jami Attenberg, whose novel The SUN Middlesteins features a 300 pounds Jewish mama who is eating SUN herself to death and Michael Kimball author of Big Ray, a SUN novel based on his own experience growing up with a father SUN who when he died - as a result of weight induced illnesses SUN -weighed over 500 pounds, discuss the way in which fiction SUN is responding to a world of fast food, compulsive eating and SUN morbid obesity. How do writers of the 21st century portray SUN what Virginia Woolf described as the "daily drama of the SUN body" in an age in which the body has become the focus of a SUN health crisis on an unprecedented scale? SUN SUN With recent headlines announcing that the new year's high SUN street sales figures are a train wreck, and with well known SUN names such as HMV, Jessops, Blockbuster, Comet and Republic SUN going bust, how is one of the UK's most iconic retailers WH SUN Smiths - over a quarter of whose sales are books - SUN weathering the storm? Journalist and ex-editor of the SUN Bookseller Neill Denny on the secret of Smiths success and SUN other news from the world of books retail, including what SUN are the future prospects for Waterstones and how big a SUN threat is the 20 pence e-book? SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b01qx0d5 (Listen) SUN The Body SUN SUN A new programme introduced by Paul Farley featuring the best SUN of poetry now. The first in the series looks at the body in SUN question - the shapes of poems and the people in them. How SUN does a poet decide on the form of their poem? What do SUN different poetic forms do the subject of a poem? The SUN programme travels the country and anatomises its poetic SUN body. With found poems and field-notes, a diary of failure SUN and success, the sound of the world being taken down in SUN rhyme, and a look into a hive of dead bees in midwinter. SUN With new poems from Sean Borodale, Don Paterson and Alice SUN Oswald. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01qm4pt (Listen) SUN Britain's Plutonium Mountain SUN SUN The Government is currently deciding what to do with the SUN UK's civilian plutonium stockpile - the largest in the SUN world. Some are concerned that it could become the target of SUN terrorists intent on making a dirty bomb. SUN SUN The stockpile has come from nuclear waste that was SUN reprocessed to extract plutonium which was to have been used SUN to power a new generation of fast breeder reactors. But that SUN project failed to be finished and now just over 100 tonnes SUN of it is being stored at Sellafield in Cumbria. The SUN stockpile grew even more when the UK received imports from SUN Japan and Germany which it had hoped to convert into fuel - SUN again this project has failed to deliver. SUN SUN The Government is considering a number of options. SUN SUN Convert the plutonium into mixed oxide (Mox) fuel and then SUN burn the fuel in conventional, nuclear reactors. This would SUN involve the construction of a second Mox fuel plant at SUN Sellafield despite the fact the first plant failed to SUN produce any significant amount of Mox and was closed in SUN 2011. SUN SUN Burn the plutonium in a new breed of Prism fast reactors. SUN But critics say the technology is not proven and therefore SUN risky. SUN SUN Treat it as a deadly waste product and bury the plutonium SUN currently stored at Sellafield deep underground for SUN thousands of years. Again critics say burying waste is risky SUN and even then the plutonium would have to be treated before SUN it could go into the facility. Supporters of plutonium as SUN fuel still claim that would be throwing away a potentially SUN valuable asset. On top of that we are not likely to have a SUN repository for decades and very few local authorities have SUN volunteered to consider having it in their back yard. SUN SUN Rob Broomby investigates the difficult questions facing the SUN Government whose decision will potentially bring in a bill SUN for the taxpayer of billions of pounds. SUN And how much of gamble will it be choosing what to do with SUN this most deadly of substances? SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN Iranian Sanctions SUN Planning Rows SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01qspz0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qsqls (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01qsqlv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qsqlx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01qss95 (Listen) SUN Too often, we listen without hearing. But if the best SUN pictures are truly on radio, we need to adjust our ears to SUN make the most of them. From Profumo to profanity, from SUN ghosts to giggles, from leopards to lyrics, Val McDermid has SUN chosen a gallery of sound pictures. Hear them, feel them and SUN see them this Sunday on Pick of the Week SUN SUN Val McDermid's choices: SUN SUN The Listeners - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music: She Moved Through the Fair - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4 - The Devil's Horn - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week - The Real George Orwell: Essays and SUN Journalism - Radio 4 SUN Susan Calman is Convicted - Radio 4 SUN V by Tony Harrison - Radio 4 SUN Marseille 2013 - Radio 4 SUN Hello, I'm Half Caste - Radio 4Extra SUN Who was Rosalind? - Radio 4 SUN Saturday Drama - Well, He Would, Wouldn't He? - Radio 4 SUN Lyrical Journey - Radio 4 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN The Botanical Vicar - Radio 4 SUN In and Out of the Kitchen - Radio 4 SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please email potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01qss97 (Listen) SUN Lynda makes a big decision, and Alice's actions cause SUN concern. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01f883m (Listen) SUN Series 2, With guest Danny Baker SUN SUN New series of the comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his SUN five piece band and specially written, original music. SUN Guests across this series include Phill Jupitus, Charlie SUN Baker, Nick Mohammed, Doc Brown, Matt Lucas and Danny Baker. SUN SUN The first epsiode explores the theme of 'games' and guest SUN stars Danny Baker who sings with the band and champions an SUN instrument that can't fail to put a smile on your face. Plus SUN the funkiest song you're ever likely to hear about Chess; an SUN Ode to Chris Hoy and music to exercise to. SUN SUN Host .... Alex Horne SUN Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland SUN Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown SUN Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier SUN Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds SUN Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake SUN Guest performers .... Danny Baker and Ben Jones SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Scottish Shorts b01qsv0w (Listen) SUN Series 11, Save the Sea Turtles SUN SUN By Helen Sedgewick. SUN SUN Final story in a series of new writing from Scotland. A SUN retired Professor of Ecology, who is grieving for the loss SUN of his daughter, volunteers at a sea turtle charity based in SUN Kefalonia. The work brings solace, in spite of the uncaring SUN mass of tourists. SUN SUN Helen Sedgwick is a research physicist turned freelance SUN writer. She has been published internationally in over forty SUN magazines, journals and anthologies, and she won a Scottish SUN Book Trust New Writers Award in 2012. She's co-editor of two SUN literary magazines - Gutter and Fractured West - and has SUN performed her work at the Edinburgh International Book SUN Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe, and Glasgow's Aye Write. In SUN a perfect world, she would spend half her life as a writer SUN in Scotland, and the other half on a beach in Kefalonia with SUN the sea turtles. Her writing is about an imperfect world. SUN SUN Read by Paul Young. SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01qnv9z (Listen) SUN Scaremongering or top notch investigative journalism? We SUN hear your views on the BBC's horsemeat coverage. Roger SUN Bolton asks Sheila Dillon, food journalist and presenter of SUN BBC Radio 4's Food Programme, and Jeremy Hayes, the editor SUN of Farming Today and the Food Programme to address your SUN questions and finds out about their approach to covering SUN this complex story. SUN SUN Also in this week's Feedback, is it ok to make jokes about SUN Jimmy Savile on the BBC anymore, whether they are new jokes SUN or from the BBC archives? Last weekend, BBC Radio 4 Extra SUN aired an impression of Jimmy Savile from the 1980s in an SUN archive programme - twice. We find out how this happened and SUN ask David Jordan, the BBC's Director of Editorial Policy and SUN Standards, does the BBC censor the past? SUN SUN 7 million of us wake up to it on a weekly basis, so when the SUN Today programme failed to appear last Monday, it's no wonder SUN many Feedback listeners were thrown off kilter. As a result SUN of industrial action, BBC Radio 4 replaced its usual news SUN programmes like Today, The World at One and PM, with a SUN selection of programmes including a 45 minute documentary SUN about Pope Benedict XVI, re-runs of Soul Music and Loose SUN Ends. We ask Radio 4's Head of Scheduling, Tony Pilgrim, how SUN do you (temporarily) replace Humphrys and co.? SUN SUN And when is bad language ok? Well, according to our inbox, SUN when it's in Radio 4's broadcast of V. by Tony Harrison. The SUN swearword-laden poem received its first ever radio broadcast SUN last Monday, 25 years after it caused a media storm when it SUN was first broadcast on Channel 4. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Read Roger Bolton's post on the Radio 4 blog SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01qnv9x (Listen) SUN A sitcom favourite, a philosopher of law, a founder of SUN Scottish skiing and a singer-songwriter SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The actor Richard Briers. We have tributes from the writer SUN of The Good Life Bob Larbey and Richard's fellow actors SUN Penelope Keith, Peter Egan and John Sessions. SUN SUN Professor of Jurisprudence Ronald Dworkin who argued that SUN judges should take account of morality when applying the SUN law. SUN SUN Eileen Fuchs who, with her husband Karl, pioneered skiing in SUN Scotland SUN SUN And Kevin Ayers, the critically acclaimed singer and SUN songwriter who dropped out to live a bohemian life in the SUN South of France. Mike Oldfield and Paul Morley pay tribute. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01qspjg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01qsr8n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01qlmlg (Listen) SUN Making the Best of a Bad Job SUN SUN David Goodhart considers whether the declining status of SUN basic jobs can be halted and even reversed. SUN SUN Successive governments have prioritised widening access to SUN higher education to try to drive social mobility, without SUN giving much thought to the impact this has on the SUN expectations of young people who, for whatever reason, are SUN not going to take that path. SUN SUN But even in a knowledge-based economy, the most basic jobs SUN survive. Offices still need to be cleaned, supermarket SUN shelves stacked, and care home residents looked after. SUN SUN The best employers know how to design these jobs to make SUN them more satisfying. Are politicians finally waking up to SUN the problem? SUN SUN Contributors in order of appearance: SUN SUN Caroline Lloyd, professor and industrial relations SUN specialist at the University of Cardiff SUN Donna Braithwaite, supermarket worker SUN Bill Mumford, chief executive of care charity MacIntyre SUN Geoff Dench, sociologist and founder of the charity Men for SUN Tomorrow. SUN Sir Peter Lampl, founder of the Sutton Trust SUN Andrew Oswald, professor of economics at the University of SUN Warwick SUN Josie Zerafa, cashier at Iceland supermarket SUN Tracey Vella, cashier at Iceland supermarket SUN Sandra McNamara, store manager at Iceland supermarket SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01qswr9 (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 b01qswrc (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01qmxfr (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet talks to Tom Tykwer SUN SUN Matthew Sweet talks to Tom Tykwer, one of the directors of SUN the much-anticipated film Cloud Atlas. The actress Olga SUN Kurylenko discusses her role in the latest offering from SUN director Terrence Malick, To The Wonder. And the composer SUN Neil Brand is at the piano to delve into the scores of SUN children's films from classics like Mary Poppins to more SUN recent films like Happy Feet and Frankenweenie. Producer: SUN Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01qsr8g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01qsqn8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01qm7pd (Listen) MON 'Ned' Pride in Scotland; Weapon Dogs MON MON Weapon dogs - Laurie Taylor discusses the phenomenon of MON status dogs with Simon Harding, the author of 'Unleashed..' MON Also, the growth of 'Ned' pride in Scotland. 'Ned', or non MON educated delinquent, is the Scottish equivalent of the MON English term 'Chav'. It refers stereotypically to uneducated MON and anti social youth. But the sociologist, Robert Young, MON finds that some young Scots, including middle class MON teenagers, are proudly adopting the 'Ned' label as a mark of MON sub cultural rebellion. Stephanie Lawler, who has also MON studied the 'chav' phenomenon, joins the discussion. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01qsr5c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qsqnb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qsqnd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qsqng (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01qsqnj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qw8bj (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with MON the Rev Dr Karen Smith. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01qw8bl (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01qsqnl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01qw8bn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs presented by Justin Webb MON and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01qw8bq (Listen) MON The Commonwealth - Don McKinnon and Kwasi Kwarteng MON MON On Start the Week Bridget Kendall discusses the role and MON future of the Commonwealth. As its Secretary-General at the MON turn of the century, Sir Don McKinnon reveals its inner MON workings. But the journalist Frances Harrison is critical of MON the organisation for failing to challenge human rights MON abuses. The Ghanaian born MP, Kwasi Kwarteng, questions MON whether the Commonwealth can ever shed the baggage of MON Empire, and Sir Ronald Sanders asks if it can survive the MON rise of China. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01qw8dd (Listen) MON Far From the Tree, Episode 1 MON MON The time-worn adage says that the apple doesn't fall far MON from the tree, meaning that a child resembles his or her MON parents. The children described in this book are apples that MON have fallen elsewhere - some a couple of orchards away, some MON on the other side of the world. Yet myriad families learn to MON tolerate, accept and finally celebrate children who are not MON what they originally had in mind. MON MON Andrew Solomon introduces us to families coping with MON deafness, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, and MON disability - as well as families who have children who are MON prodigies, who are gay, or who become criminals. MON MON While each of these characteristics is potentially MON isolating, Solomon documents the repeated triumphs of human MON love and compassion to show that the shared experience of MON difference is what unites us. MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): MON Growing up gay and also struggling with dyslexia led Andrew MON Solomon to reflect on those situations where a child arrives MON in a family and is immediately an 'outsider'. 'Parenthood,' MON he writes, 'abruptly catapults us into a permanent MON relationship with a stranger'. MON MON Read by Kerry Shale MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qw8m1 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b01qw8m3 (Listen) MON Marking Time, Episode 6 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard MON Dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON MON A German plane crashes near Home Place MON and the children find themselves first on the scene. MON MON Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Polly: Flora Spencer-Longhurst MON Christopher: Will Howard MON Clary: Georgia Groome MON Sybil: Sarah-Jane Holm MON Hugh: Dominic Mafham MON Miss Milliment: Carol Macready MON Mr York: Robert Blythe MON Director: Sally Avens MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Lin Coghlan MON MON 11:00 Crossing the Bay b01qw8m5 (Listen) MON In a walk across the dangerous sands of Morecambe Bay, poet MON Paul Farley collapses time and journeys into the shifting MON geography of this most indeterminate of English places. MON MON Morecambe Bay is a vast coming together of five rivers and MON cuts into the coastline of NW England like a miniature, MON fractal Irish Sea. Seen from the Lancashire shoreline, MON however, it seems vast, a silvery sheet of mudflats and MON saltwater. But the Bay is famously treacherous - everybody MON knows how the incoming tide can travel 'faster than a horse MON can run', and the quicksands here have claimed many lives. MON MON It is possible to cross the Bay on foot, at low tide, if it MON allows you. Weather systems here are very volatile and Paul MON is thrown off course a number of times by the Bay's MON tempestuous nature. He finally strikes out with the MON indispensable help of the Sand Pilot Cedric Robinson. Cedric MON is a locally appointed Queen's Guide to the Sands, a role MON that has existed here for centuries. He has been guiding MON people across the sands - Moses-like with a staff - since MON 1963. Monks used to guide travellers across the bay at low MON water. Today Cedric leads groups of several hundred modern MON pilgrims, raising money for charity. MON Accompanied by an adventurer, a marine biologist and a MON literary geographer Paul ventures out and attempts to chart MON the history of this uncertain landscape: it's geology and MON ecology, its religious associations and its human tragedies. MON This modern day poet deciphers the same sands that struck MON fear into Romantic poet William Wordsworth who crossed them MON 200 years ago. MON MON Produced by Neil McCarthy. MON MON 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qw8m7 (Listen) MON Series 2, On Location MON MON Damien is sent on location to the Lake District to film a MON chunk of his new series for Sky Arts about "poets and their MON palates". MON MON But when the sunshine turns to driving rain, Damien's MON spirits are further dampened when is appears Anthony might MON not be missing him quite as much as he had hoped... MON MON Starring: MON Miles Jupp as Damien Trench MON Justin Edwards as Anthony MacIlveny MON With MON Ben Crowe as Gary McDade/Sound Man MON Toby Longworth as Bill Trumpetz MON Sarah Thom as The Lady MON and MON Lesley Vickerage as Marion Duffett MON MON Written by Miles Jupp MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01qw8m9 (Listen) MON Hidden harm caused by hip implants, and battery-killing MON phone apps MON MON Is the NHS giving hip replacement patients sufficient MON aftercare? We hear from people who have had metal-on-metal MON hip replacements go wrong - sometimes without any outward MON signs to trigger medical intervention. Official guidance MON does not recommend annual checks without due cause, but MON should all metal-on-metal hip implants be X-rayed every year MON - just in case? MON MON Also on the programme - sick of your phone running out of MON juice? We look at which smartphone apps drain the most power MON from your battery? MON MON And why running - that most basic and cheapest physical MON activity - has become such big business. Who cashes in every MON time you go jogging? MON MON 12:57 Weather b01qsqnn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01qw8my (Listen) MON National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Battle for the Airwaves b01qw8ts (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, begins a new series on MON relations between broadcasters and politicians: today, MON radio's early days and the impact of the 1926 General MON Strike. MON MON This first programme of the series shows how John Reith, the MON BBC's first managing director (and later Director General), MON resisted government pressure and maintained the BBC's MON independence, but at a price. The General Strike established MON the BBC as a major source of news, but its impartiality was MON questioned. MON MON In later programmes, Nick Robinson examines some of the key MON battles for the airwaves between politicians and MON broadcasters. In the second programme, he looks at the clash MON over foreign policy in the 1930s and the problems faced by MON Churchill and other critics of appeasement in making their MON voices heard. MON MON In the rest of the series, he explores the clash over the MON Suez crisis in 1956; the row between the Labour Party and MON the BBC in the early 1970s; the clashes over reporting 'The MON Troubles' in Northern Ireland, culminating in the MON broadcasting ban on terrorists; the Falklands War; Iraq; and MON the relationship between broadcasters and politicians in the MON age of 24-hour news. MON MON Producer: Rob Shepherd. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01qss97 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qw8tv (Listen) MON Negative Signs of Progress, Here MON MON The first of three Afternoon Dramas, 'Here' is an MON international thriller about a British aid worker who goes MON missing and her husband's attempts to track her down. His MON search reveals how little he really knew about her as her MON disappearance starts to have repercussions far beyond their MON domestic life. MON MON Here MON Danny is woken in the middle of the night by Paul, a MON security official, who tells him that his wife, Ellie, an MON aid worker, has disappeared. Initially upset, he is MON disturbed by questions which suggest that his wife is not MON who he thought she was. She's not in the country she said MON she was in. In fact she is in Syria. She has been seen in MON the company of an ex lover, with murky business connections. MON Although angry, the evidence raises doubts in Danny's mind. MON What does he really know about the woman he loves? And are MON the competing mindsets of the first, second and third worlds MON irreconcilable? MON MON Dan Rebellato is a playwright and academic whose stageplays MON include Chekhov in Hell, Static, Whistleblower, Mile End, MON and Here is What I Did With My Body One Day. Other radio MON work includes an adaptation of Dead Souls starring Michael MON Palin and Mark Heap. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre MON at Royal Holloway University of London and has written MON widely on contemporary theatre. MON MON Director................Polly Thomas MON Sound designer........Nigel Lewis MON PC.............Willa King MON Writer...........Dan Rebellato MON A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Danny: Khalid Abdalla MON Tony: Tony Gardner MON Director: Polly Thomas MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON Writer: Dan Rebellato MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01qw8tx (Listen) MON (14/17) MON MON In the metamorphosis of arthropods and other organisms, what MON is meant by the word 'exuvia'? And what's the Spanish word MON for summer? MON MON Russell Davies tests the general knowledge of four more MON semi-finalists who have come successfully through the heats MON of this year's competition. One of them will win a place in MON the Final and a real chance of taking the title 'Brain of MON Britain 2013'. MON MON The questions get tougher as the contest proceeds: so they MON will need to draw on all their reserves of knowledge of MON every field from history and mythology, science and MON geography, literature and music, to current affairs and MON contemporary culture. MON MON There will also be the chance for a listener to win a prize MON by coming up with questions that could stump the MON contestants. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01qsrhn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 30 Years of the Bradshaws b01qw8tz (Listen) MON John Henshaw explores the unrelenting popularity and success MON of one of the longest running comedy radio series, and MON reveals why after three decades of laughter The Bradshaws MON continue to strike a chord with audiences worldwide. MON MON The Bradshaws launched on commercial radio in 1983 and the MON stories have been broadcast continuously on numerous UK MON radio stations and overseas and are now available online. MON MON The short nostalgic vignettes of everyday life within the MON house of a small Northern family have influenced many comedy MON writers and inspired serials such as The Royle Family and MON Phoenix Nights. MON MON This is a strange phenomenon. The Bradshaws claim a pivotal MON place in the radio landscape, demonstrating how a series can MON survive with mainly local radio support from the BBC and MON commercial stations. MON MON The other remarkable element is that nothing much happens in MON the Bradshaws' household of a bygone era. However, the MON humdrum adventures of Alf, Audrey and their son Billy MON Bradshaw have captured the imagination of listeners, who MON have snapped up over a million CDs and tapes and currently MON download an average of 2000 episodes per month from the MON website. MON MON The attraction is more than just nostalgia. Adults and MON children of all ages relate to the timeless humour of the MON three characters, all voiced by the same man, Buzz Hawkins, MON who also writes the scripts. MON MON Twice nominated for Sony Radio Awards for best use of comedy MON in radio, the series has also found its way on to television MON and stage, and continues to explore new ways to develop its MON product in sound and vision. MON MON With memorable clips from the series, we chart the story of MON The Bradshaws from its humble beginnings to worldwide MON popularity and we will hear from its creator, along with the MON writers and comedians it has inspired. MON MON We discover why a comedy with its roots and dialogue set MON firmly in the North has survived so long and enjoyed success MON all over the UK and overseas. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01qw8v1 (Listen) MON Islam and Homosexuality MON MON As the bill to allow same sex marriage makes its way through MON Parliament, Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether MON homosexuality is compatible with Islam. The Muslim Council MON of Britain has voiced its opposition, but what does the MON Koran say about homosexuality - is the prohibition MON unequivocal and absolute? MON Ernie's guests are Ibrahim Mogra, one of Britain's leading MON Imams; Pav Akhtar, Muslim politician and the director of UK MON Black Pride and Islamic scholar and Secretary of the Charity MON "Scriptural Reasoning" Sheikh Dr Muhammed al-Hussaini,. MON MON 17:00 PM b01qw93j (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qsqns (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01qw93l (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 3 MON MON How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition & deviation? Julian Clary, Jenny MON Eclair, Richard Herring and Paul Merton attempt to do so MON under the watchful eye of Nicholas Parsons. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01qw93n (Listen) MON There's a tense atmosphere in the village shop. Meanwhile Ed MON has qualms. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01qw93q (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Richard Gere as a MON fraudulent hedge-fund supremo in the film Arbitrage. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b01qw8m3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 This Eurosceptic Isle b01qw93s (Listen) MON James Landale, the BBC's deputy political editor, examines MON how and why Euroscepticism has become an increasingly MON powerful force in UK politics. MON MON He explores recent political developments, including changes MON within the Conservative party and the rise of UKIP. He MON examines the role played by business and the media. He MON considers the impact of the EU's own policies. And he MON reflects on underlying global trends. MON MON Interviewees include Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Peter MON Mandelson and other politicians and commentators. MON MON Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01qw93v (Listen) MON Vulgar Keynesians MON MON Roberto Unger is an American-based thinker who is highly MON critical of the current ideas from left-of-centre MON politicians and thinkers about how to restore advanced MON economies to healthy growth. His devastating attack last MON summer on what he saw as the shortcomings of President MON Obama's plans for a second term made him an overnight MON internet sensation. MON MON For Unger, what he calls "vulgar Keynesianism" - the idea MON that governments should spend more money to kick-start MON growth and create jobs - has little left to offer. It is MON unlikely to have a big enough impact and will disappoint MON both politicians and voters. MON MON Instead, he argues, those who think of themselves as MON progressive need to think much more boldly and creatively. MON And this applies not just to ideas about the economy but MON also to politics and democratic institutions. What he sees MON as a drab, predictable - and failed - approach needs a MON complete overhaul. MON MON In this edition of "Analysis", Tim Finch talks to Roberto MON Unger about his critique of left-of-centre thinking. He asks MON him to justify his criticisms of current ideas and to set MON out his alternative vision. Tim then discovers from figures MON on the left here in Britain how they react to Unger's MON approach and how likely it is that "vulgar Keynesianism" MON will give way to something new. MON MON Producer Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01qmxft (Listen) MON Why does a virus manage to infect us and make us ill so MON quickly? This week on Material World, Quentin Cooper speaks MON with structural biologist from the University of Oxford MON David Stuart who uses special X-rays, created by the Diamond MON Light Source in Oxfordshire, to expose those dirty tricks. MON MON And how on earth do we see the invisible dark energy that MON makes up most of our universe? Astrophysicist Sarah Bridle MON from Manchester University joins Quentin in the studio to MON talk about her involvement in the Dark Energy Survey at an MON observatory in Chile and whether the Hubble Space Telescope MON can help in the search for this mysterious phenomenon. MON MON And with the recent case of the French identical twins who MON have been implicated in serial rape, Quentin asks forensic MON geneticist Gill Tully from the Principal Forensics Services MON how DNA helps the police to find perpetrators. On the same MON topic, Tim Spector, a genetic epidemiologist from King's MON College London, suggests that identical twins might not MON actually be as similar in their genes as we previously MON thought. MON MON Quentin Cooper speaks with structural biologist from the MON University of Oxford David Stuart who uses special X-rays, MON created by the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, to see MON why are able toviruses infect us so quickly. MON MON As the Hubble Space Telescope joins the search for the MON mysterious dark energy Quentin talks to Professor Sarah MON Bridle of Manchester University about the project the UK is MON involved in, the Dark Energy Survey. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01qw8bq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01qsqnv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01qw93x (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qw941 (Listen) MON The Middlesteins, Episode 1 MON MON A layered. bittersweet tragi-comedy about three generations MON of a Jewish family from the Chicago suburbs. MON MON Edie Middlestein is a woman who can't stop eating. Her MON family fear she will eat herself to death. But Edie's heart MON and soul feel full when her stomach is full. And as she MON alternates between eating and grinding all the joy out of MON her memories, relationships around her start to unravel. MON MON The author, Jami Attenberg, grew up in Buffalo Grove, MON Illinois. This is her fourth book. MON MON Episode 1 (of 10) MON Little Edie Herzen was already big for her age, but it did MON not matter. For food was made of love, so how could her MON parents not feed her? MON MON Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Composing LA b01m0lv4 (Listen) MON Young British Composer Tarik O' Regan tells the story of how MON the tradition of Western classical music, its composers and MON maestros, underpinned the golden age of Hollywood film MON score. MON MON More or less the entire Hollywood music scene, as it MON blossomed in the 1930s, looked to serious European and MON Russian composers for film score composition. Stravinsky, MON Schoenberg, two of the greatest composers of 'serious' 20th MON century music, both lived and worked in LA - much to the MON consternation of the European classical music establishment. MON MON Many composers on the run from Europe in the 1930s would MON arrive in New York and, failing to make inroads into the MON concert scene or Broadway (as Kurt Weil had done), continued MON their journey West. Even as early cinema flourished, America MON was still struggling to find its own authentic 'classical' MON music - one that strived to be equal to the European MON symphonic sound but that had its own voice too. The film MON score was precisely that. MON MON Meanwhile most of the Hollywood film orchestras were filled MON with British and European émigré musicians who taught MON American musicians the European symphonic style that became MON the hallmark of Hollywood film music. This programme also MON explores how some of the most successful soundtrack MON composers today - John Williams and others - are completely MON caught up in that sound-world. MON MON Presented by Tarik O'Regan, an émigré composer himself who MON moved to the US, with contributors including Andre Previn, MON Larry Schoenberg, conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen MON and music writer Alex Ross. MON MON Produced by Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qw943 (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01qsqpp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01qw8dd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qsqpr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qsqpt (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qsqpw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01qsqpy (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qw9f7 (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with TUE the Rev Dr Karen Smith. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01qw9f9 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01qw9fc (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01qw9hj (Listen) TUE Sue Ion TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to the former technical director of TUE British Nuclear Fuels, Dame Sue Ion, about a lifetime of TUE working in the nuclear industry. When Sue got her first job TUE at a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in Preston, nuclear TUE power was generally seen as force for good but, during the TUE dark decades post Chernobyl, it was a hard sell. Still, Sue TUE continued to push for investment and innovation in the TUE industry and in 2006 persuaded Tony Blair to change his mind TUE about nuclear power, insisting that if Britain is to have TUE any chance at all of keeping the lights on and cutting its TUE carbon emissions, we will need to invest heavily not only in TUE renewables like offshore wind but also in a new generation TUE of nuclear power stations. TUE TUE 09:30 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b01kbjx5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second in his series on Chinese museums, Roger Law TUE continues his journey through Shanghai. He finds that TUE capitalism seems to be celebrated in some ways in the bank TUE museum, whilst a tobacco museum doesn't allow its visitors TUE to smoke on the premises. He finally ends up in an 'ancient TUE sex museum', filled with the most unusual curiosities. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01qzctg (Listen) TUE Far From the Tree, Episode 2 TUE TUE Many hearing people regard being deaf as a defect or a TUE pathology but, for a large proportion of people who are TUE deaf, it is both a culture and an identity worth celebrating TUE and defending. TUE TUE Read by Kerry Shale TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qw9hl (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b01qw9hn (Listen) TUE Marking Time, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard. TUE Dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE TUE The Germans continue with their bombing raids but Sybil must TUE contend with an enemy even nearer to home. TUE TUE Directed by Rosalynd Ward TUE Produced by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 11:00 The Listeners b01qw9k2 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In 1984, acoustic biologist Katy Payne visited a zoo where TUE three young elephants had been born. To Katy's surprise she TUE found she could not only hear sounds produced by elephants, TUE but also 'feel' them. In the years following that trip to TUE the zoo, Katy and her colleagues discovered how elephants TUE use very low frequency sounds to communicate over long TUE distances. Katy is one of five people we meet in this TUE programme who all 'listen for living' but more than that, TUE they listen to sounds beyond the range of human hearing, TUE namely, infrasound which is below our human hearing range, TUE or ultrasound which is above our range of hearing. The TUE programme heads down into an underground bunker with Brian TUE Baptie, a seismologist from the British Geological Survey to TUE discover how earthquakes can be recorded, and tunes into TUE sounds from outer spaces with astrophysicist Tim O'Brien. We TUE also hear from wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson how TUE using a bat detector transformed a tranquil evening into a TUE scene of carnage, and from bat ecologist, John Altringham TUE about how the high frequency sounds produced by bats which TUE they use to navigate and hunt, can be used as a conservation TUE tool. Listening is about much more than hearing and can TUE offer us fascinating insights into lives beyond our own. As TUE Katy Payne says at the end of the series "I suppose for me TUE listening is the most important thing I can do .. I just TUE wish we were as good listeners as elephants are". TUE Presenter Patrick Aryee Producer:Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01qwb2n (Listen) TUE Series 15, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater TUE TUE The Stabat Mater's imagines the sufferings of the Virgin TUE Mary at the foot of the cross, and Pergolesi's TUE eighteen-century setting remains a choral favourite. TUE TUE Soprano Catherine Bott talks about performing it with James TUE Bowman at St Pancras station for the BBC series 'Why Beauty TUE Matters'. TUE TUE Pam Self tells the moving story of how this piece unites her TUE and her friend Helen Vaughan, both during life and after. TUE TUE The Stabat Mater has been reinterpreted many times over the TUE years: Sasha Lazard recalls singing it in the school choir, TUE before later taking the melody and transforming it into a TUE dance version for her album 'The Myth of Red' rechristening TUE it 'Stabat Mater IXXI' in the wake of the September 11th TUE attacks. TUE TUE Victor Alcantara also sang it as a boy, before returning to TUE the piece as an adult and transforming it into a jazz opus. TUE TUE Soul Music finds the compelling individual stories behind TUE our collective love of music. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field TUE Researcher: Nicola Humphries. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01qwb2s (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01qsqq0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01qwb2v (Listen) TUE National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Battle for the Airwaves b01qx0jp (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Nick Robinson continues his series on the relationship TUE between broadcasters and politicians, In his second TUE programme, he looks at the clash over foreign policy in the TUE 1930s and shows how the maverick Churchill and other TUE critical voices were kept off the BBC. But in wartime, TUE Churchill went on to rally people by repeating his defiant TUE wartime speeches on the radio and helped establish the BBC's TUE worldwide reputation. TUE TUE Producer: Rob Shepherd. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01qw93n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qwc1l (Listen) TUE Negative Signs of Progress, There TUE TUE A junior NGO strategy team is thrown into training for TUE kidnap crisis negotiation. Powerful new drama by Dan TUE Rebellato. TUE TUE The second of three Afternoon Dramas, 'There' is a bold take TUE on one aspect of a kidnapping, set in the head office of an TUE NGO in Europe. A group of junior strategists grapple with TUE the fictional situation that one of their field workers has TUE disappeared and may have been kidnapped. Despite their TUE near-total inexperience, they have to role play scenarios in TUE which they negotiate with the unknown kidnapper, struggling TUE to separate truth from fiction, Aleppo from Hollywood. TUE TUE But when they finally get to grips with the issues, and gain TUE some understanding of the complexities of the situation, the TUE phone rings.. TUE TUE Dan Rebellato is a playwright and academic. His stageplays TUE include Chekhov in Hell, Static, Whistleblower, Mile End, TUE and Here Is What I Did With My Body One Day. Other radio TUE work includes an adaptation of Dead Souls starring Michael TUE Palin and Mark Heap. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre TUE at Royal Holloway University of London and has written TUE widely on contemporary theatre. TUE TUE Director ..... Polly Thomas TUE Sound designer ..... Nigel Lewis TUE PC ..... Willa King TUE Writer ..... Dan Rebellato TUE A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carla: Fenella Woolgar TUE Jeremy: Joseph Kloska TUE Frank: Steffan Rhodri TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE Writer: Dan Rebellato TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01qwc89 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the studio by leading historians TUE and writers to discuss issues from our past that have been TUE raised by new research carried out by listeners, heritage TUE organisations and the academic community. TUE TUE Among the highlights in this series, Tom and his TUE co-presenter Helen Castor will be asking whether the TUE Renaissance began on the 26th April 1336, probably about tea TUE time ... and possibly over a game of cards, investigating TUE how a London conference set up to limit naval fire power in TUE 1930 had the opposite affect, and finding out why you can't TUE necessarily see the wood through the trees in a Royal TUE Forest. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01qwc8c (Listen) TUE Electrifying Africa: The Power Beneath TUE TUE A geothermal revolution is set to electrify Africa. Tom Heap TUE visits the Rift Valley in Kenya, a potential source of TUE abundant energy to find out if promises to light up even the TUE remotest parts of the continent are going to come true. TUE TUE Tom enters Hell's Gate National Park to meet the engineers TUE harnessing the power of hot steam trapped beneath the crust, TUE and heads north to the Menengai Crater to find geologists TUE prospecting for power. TUE TUE Back in Nairobi Tom meets businessmen and shopkeepers held TUE back by a lack of readily available electricity and visits TUE the poor neighbourhood of Kibera to find out how power and TUE light can transform the lives of all Africans living with TUE limited electricity. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01qwc8f (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01qwc8h (Listen) TUE Alistair Appleton and Simon Baron-Cohen TUE TUE Must a book have psychological depth to be worth reading? TUE This question comes up as Harriett Gilbert and her guests, TUE television presenter Alistair Appleton and Professor Simon TUE Baron-Cohen of the department of Psychiatry at Cambridge, TUE swap favourite books. All goes well until Harriett's own TUE choice comes under discussion. "A stinker!" cries Alistair; TUE "Hard going," agrees Simon. But for Harriett, nothing beats TUE curling up on the sofa with a glass of wine and a frivolous TUE detective novel. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01qwc8k (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qsqq2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Elvenquest b01qwc8m (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Fat Hog TUE TUE The Questers find themselves seeking succour at the Fat Hog, TUE a hostelry famed for its excellent cuisine, and run by its TUE quixotic headchef Nigressa. TUE TUE Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is having trouble with his new Ball TUE of Infinite Vision. TUE TUE Starring: TUE Darren Boyd as Vidar TUE Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech TUE Dave Lamb as Amis TUE Stephen Mangan as Sam TUE Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness TUE Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea TUE and TUE Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Nigressa TUE TUE Written by James Cary. TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01qwc8p (Listen) TUE Pip asserts her independence, and Jazzer uses his TUE initiative. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01qwc8r (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who reports on Barry Levinson's film The TUE Bay, a tale of ecological horror, as mutant creatures emerge TUE from the sea. TUE TUE Producer Dymphna Flynn. TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b01qw9hn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01qwc8t (Listen) TUE Britain in Flood TUE TUE Has the Government done enough to protect communities from TUE flooding? Were cuts in river maintenance work responsible TUE for farmers land in Somerset being underwater for months? TUE Why are planners allowing developers to continue to build on TUE floodplains? A committee of MPs accuses the Coalition of TUE being woefully slow to bring in measures to combat the TUE problem. Allan Urry investigates. TUE Producer Nicola Dowling. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01qwc8w (Listen) TUE As the government's Back to Work programme comes under fire TUE from MPs, we hear from the Royal National Institute of Blind TUE people about why an integral part of the scheme, the Work TUE Capability Assessment, is not suitable for blind or visually TUE impaired people. The charity claims it's not a fair test; TUE many blind applicants are considered fit for work under the TUE criteria and subsequently lose their Employment and Support TUE Allowance after 12 months if they've not found work. We TUE speak to a listener who has now had his ESA withdrawn and TUE says he wasn't properly assessed or given the correct TUE information. The RNIB explains how it thinks the test should TUE be adapted to properly measure the capabilities of people TUE with sight disabilities, and we ask the Department for Work TUE and Pensions what jobs it believes visually impaired people TUE can expect to get in this highly competitive jobs market. TUE TUE Following its popularity in Japan and other Asian countries, TUE we hear how blind tennis is becoming a growing game in the TUE UK. Tony Shearman visits the National Tennis Centre in TUE Roehampton to speak to reigning National Champion Odette TUE Batteral about how the game has been adapted, and get some TUE tips on how to improve his game. He'll also meet Dan Absalom TUE of the Tennis Foundation who explains how new facilities TUE around the country will give people the opportunity to get TUE into the sport. TUE TUE The presenter is Peter White. The producer is Katy TUE Takatsuki. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01qwc8y (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01qw9hj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01qsqq4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01qwc90 (Listen) TUE Round-up of the day's news, with Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qzbd9 (Listen) TUE The Middlesteins, Episode 2 TUE TUE Rachelle thinks her mother-in-law needs saving and fast. So TUE what's her husband Benny going to do about it? TUE TUE Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qwc92 (Listen) TUE Depression TUE TUE In a brand new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores TUE issues on which she has strong opinions. TUE When Susan was younger (and more than a little TUE self-obsessed), she thought that the brooding, silent type TUE was the best way to be. Then, whilst trying to deal with TUE depression, she went on a journey of counselling, self-help. TUE even writing poetry - you name it, she did it all. Now she TUE is convinced that bottling things up makes things worse and TUE that we should all talk about everything all the time. Well, TUE not quite. But nearly. TUE But does counselling help or does it encourage self-pity? TUE Should we all just pull ourselves together? TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qwc94 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01qsqr2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01qzctg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qsqr4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qsqr6 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qsqr8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01qsqrb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qwcsx (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with WED the Rev Dr Karen Smith. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01qwcsz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01qwct1 (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports WED Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01qwct3 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01qzctj (Listen) WED Far From the Tree, Episode 3 WED WED A child of exceptional ability, such as a musical prodigy, WED can present as many special needs and challenges to his WED parents as a child who has disabilities or is different in WED some other way. The tensions between these children and WED their parents can create extraordinary pressures and WED dilemmas. WED WED Read by Kerry Shale WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qwcyv (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b01qwcyx (Listen) WED Marking Time, Episode 8 WED WED by Elizabeth Jane Howard WED dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED WED Zoe's attitude to her looks changes after meeting a young WED airman who is horrifically injured. WED WED Directed by Rosalynd Ward WED Produced by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01qwcyz (Listen) WED Series 12, An Occasional Island WED WED The people of Muchelney, Alan Dein discovers, have an WED intimate relationship with water. They live on the flood WED plain of the River Parrett in the Somerset Levels. The name WED of their ancient village, from the Norse and Old English, WED means 'growing great island', and, despite the draining of WED the marshes, it is not unusual for Muchelney to become an WED island again, and the four roads leading to the village WED inundated. WED WED Alan Dein visits in a time of flood and finds the villagers WED take it in their stride: farmer Graham Walker fires up his WED old tractor, puts a sofa on his trailer, and runs a bus WED service, ferrying people to the far shore so they can get to WED work and to school. He picks up food and mail. There's no WED traffic. People stop and talk. They look out for one WED another. It's not just the children who love it. WED WED Widgeon, teal, geese, swans and gulls appear in flocks of WED thousands to the fields that become a lake of tranquil WED beauty. No one worries, the houses are old, built cannily on WED land always a few inches above the flood levels - until now. WED WED In November the flood waters rose higher than anyone could WED remember. The potter John Leach describes how, for the first WED time, the water coming into his house and kiln. Michael WED Brown, eel smoker, who has lived by the river for decades, WED recounts his battle to keep the stealthy enemy out. Thatcher WED Nigel Bunce is thankful that his son's crying, as the waters WED approached the child's cot, woke him in time. Shirley Gore's WED beautiful barn conversion is wrecked. Whenever it rains now, WED she tells Alan, she will be scared. WED WED Something is changing, and Alan Dein finds that the people WED of Muchelney, after centuries of living on their occasional WED island, much preoccupied, and some considering their WED options. WED WED Producer: Julian May. WED WED 11:30 Murder Is Easy b01qwd30 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED by Agatha Christie WED Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson WED WED 2. Luke Fitzwilliam can no longer believe that so many WED deaths in the tiny village of Wychwood-under-Ashe are a WED coincidence, and he's determined to find out the truth. He WED enlists the help of Bridget, Lord Waynflete's attractive WED young fiancee. WED WED Luke ..... Patrick Baladi WED Bridget ..... Lydia Leonard WED Lord Whitfield ..... Michael Cochrane WED Miss Waynflete ..... Marcia Warren WED Miss Pinkerton ..... Marlene Sidaway WED Billy Bones/Rivers ..... Patrick Brennan WED Reverend Wake ..... Thomas Wheatley WED Rose ..... Lizzy Watts WED Abbott ..... Paul Stonehouse WED Ellsworthy ..... Ben Crowe WED Dr Thomas ..... Will Howard WED Major Horton ..... Robert Blythe WED WED Technical presentation was by Anne Bunting and Robin Warren WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01qwd4s (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01qsqrd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01qwg0z (Listen) WED National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Battle for the Airwaves b01qx0m0 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, continues his series on WED relations between broadcasters and politicians. In this WED programme he looks at the bitter clash between the WED broadcasters and Sir Anthony Eden, Prime Minister during the WED Suez crisis in the autumn of 1956. Eden wanted to exert WED greater control over the BBC during what he regarded as a WED national emergency, but the BBC saw Suez as being more of a WED political crisis. WED WED Producer: Rob Shepherd. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01qwc8p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qwg11 (Listen) WED Negative Signs of Progress, Somewhere WED WED A Syrian library, its owner and an aid worker - sharp debate WED about identity and politics. Gripping new drama by Dan WED Rebellato. WED WED The last of three Afternoon Dramas, 'Somewhere' is about the WED mysterious disappearance of a British aid worker and its WED impact on the individuals involved. In this final play, set WED in the autumn of 2012, the complex ways in which the first WED and third worlds view each other are played out in a WED dramatic scenario. WED WED Somewhere WED A frightened western hostage finds herself in a beautiful WED library, the unwilling guest of a man of impeccable WED civility. An extraordinary conversation unfolds as the play WED asks how far the west and the east can understand each WED other; whether the Arab Spring is a projection of western WED liberal wish-fulfilment; and, when the music of Debussy is WED used as an act of prisoner abuse, how easily civilization WED can become a vehicle for brutality. Identities, politics, WED borders and boundaries blend and shift in a perpetual hall WED of mirrors. By the end, there are no answers, just a display WED of genuine compassion and yet more questions. WED WED Dan Rebellato is a playwright and academic. His stage plays WED include Chekhov in Hell, Static, Whistleblower, Mile End, WED and Here Is What I Did With My Body One Day. Other radio WED work includes an adaptation of Dead Souls starring Michael WED Palin and Mark Heap. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre WED at Royal Holloway University of London and has written WED widely on contemporary theatre. WED WED Director ... Polly Thomas WED Sound designer ... Nigel Lewis WED PC ... Willa King WED Writer ... Dan Rebellato WED A BBC Cymru/Wales production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Hussein al-Zawiya: Mido Hamada WED Eleanor: Frances Grey WED Director: Polly Thomas WED Producer: Polly Thomas WED Writer: Dan Rebellato WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01qwglm (Listen) WED Investing for Children WED WED Do you have a question about saving or investing for WED children? Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED With just over a month to go until the start of the new WED financial year, many investors will be seeking the best WED deals for their children or grandchildren. WED WED Many savers have contacted Money Box, annoyed that those WED putting money into Child Trust Funds face higher investment WED charges - sometimes higher than those saving into the newer WED product Junior ISAS. WED WED Are you a parent or grandparent and want advice about saving WED or investing for children? WED Which accounts are paying the best rates? WED What is the best strategy for investing long term? WED WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED Mark Dampier, Hargreaves Lansdown. WED Claire Walsh, Pavilion Financial Services WED and Clare Francis, MoneySupermarket. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01qwc8y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01qwglp (Listen) WED Red Racisms WED WED 'Red Racisms' - Laurie Taylor talks to the Professor of WED Racism and Ethnicity Studies, Ian Law, about his study of WED racism in Communist and Post Communist countries. He hears WED about the battle to challenge the racist underground in the WED Russian Federation, the post war experiences of the Roma in WED Hungary, the emergence of new forms of racism in Cuba and WED Tibetan struggles against Chinese domination. They're joined WED by the historian, Michael Stewart. Also, Katherine WED Appleford's research on class, motherhood and fashion - the WED extent to which mothers influence their daughters' taste in WED style and clothes. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01qwglr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01qwglt (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qsqrg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dilemma b01qwglw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED In Dilemma, Sue Perkins puts four panellists through the WED moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of WED finely-balanced dilemmas and then cross-examining them on WED their answers. So, in the first series, Dominic Lawson was WED asked if he would provide an alibi for someone he hated; Fi WED Glover was offered £25,000 to give a talk to a company that WED once screwed over her husband; John Finnemore was asked if WED he'd grass up a sweet old lady who was shoplifting. (Yes, WED Yes, No, were the answers if you're interested.) WED WED As well as these hypothetical questions, the show also WED features a variety of rounds which may include: Audience WED Dilemmas, where the panel 'solve' any problems the audience WED may be having; What Did I Do?, where each panellist relates WED a dilemma they were faced with in their own lives and the WED others have to guess how they resolved it; Why I Was Right, WED where each panellist is given an indefensible action that WED they must morally justify in 30 seconds; Choose Your Own WED Adventure, where the panellists get a series of dilemmas, WED each one following on from the last as they burrow their way WED deeper into a moral quagmire; and Quickfire, where shades of WED grey are dismissed in favour of a fingers-on-the-buzzers WED binary choice - "Would you rather eat a kitten or fight a WED swan?". WED WED This week's show sees comedian Josie Long deal with a WED catering faux pas; journalist Owen Jones putting a value on WED human life and/or robots; actor, musician and author Clare WED Grogan keeping her back yard tidy; and comedian Andrew WED Maxwell hearing the patter of tiny feet. WED WED The show was devised by the award-winning comedian Danielle WED Ward, and is presented by Sue Perkins. WED WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01qwgly (Listen) WED Brenda feels harassed. Meanwhile Lilian makes herself at WED home. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01qwgm0 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on film-maker Joe Wright's WED first stage production - a new version of Pinero's Trelawny WED of the Wells. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b01qwcyx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01qwgm2 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Anne McElvoy WED and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01qwgm4 (Listen) WED Alexander McCall Smith WED WED In the second of this year's Lent Talks, author Alexander WED McCall Smith considers how you can feel abandoned by WED society, as you grow older. WED WED The Lent Talks feature six well known figures from public WED life, the arts, human rights and religion, who reflect on WED how the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry and Passion WED continues to interact with contemporary society and culture. WED The 2013 Lent Talks consider the theme of "abandonment". In WED the Lenten story, Jesus is the supreme example of this - he WED died an outcast, abandoned and rejected by his people, his WED disciples and (apparently) his Father - God. But how does WED that theme tie in with today's complex world? There are many WED ways one can feel abandoned - by family, by society, by WED war/conflict, but one can also feel abandoned through the WED loss of something, perhaps power, job or identity. The WED Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for WED self-examination and reflection on universal human WED conditions such as temptation, betrayal, greed, forgiveness WED and love, as well as abandonment. WED WED Speakers in this year's talks include Baroness Helena WED Kennedy, QC, who considers what it means to abandon being WED human; Loretta Minghella, Director of Christian Aid, who WED considers the abandonment of self and the need to face who WED we truly are; Imam Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain and Religious WED Adviser to HM Forces, who has just returned from Afghanistan WED and who explores the total abandonment experienced by both WED sides as a result of war; Ben Cohen, journalist and WED broadcaster, who reflects on his own personal story of WED religious rejection through being gay, and Canon Lucy WED Winkett, Rector of St James's Piccadilly, who explores the WED relationship between abandonment and betrayal. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01qwc8c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01qwct3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01qsqrj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01r6bs6 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qzbdc (Listen) WED The Middlesteins, Episode 3 WED WED Richard Middlestein feels he has no choice but to leave his WED wife, Edie. WED WED Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b0151pz1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Travel WED WED A second series of this popular and critically acclaimed WED series from Andrew Lawrence which addresses trying to fit in WED and find your place in society. This week: travel - an WED episode exploring how we go about the various journeys we WED take in everyday life, whether it be the journey to work or WED to a holiday destination, or just down to the shops. WED WED 23:15 Jigsaw b01qwgm6 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat WED Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together a WED rapid-fire and surreal sketch show. Produced by Colin WED Anderson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qwgm8 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01qsqsh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01qzctj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qsqsk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qsqsm (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qsqsp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01qsqsr (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qwgxq (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with THU the Rev Dr Karen Smith. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01qwgxs (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith from the NFU Conference. THU Produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 06:00 Today b01r18r3 (Listen) THU With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports THU Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01qwgxx (Listen) THU Pitt-Rivers THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the THU Victorian anthropologist and archaeologist Augustus THU Pitt-Rivers. Over many years he amassed thousands of THU ethnographic and archaeological objects, some of which THU formed the founding collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at THU Oxford University. His work was a major influence on the THU development of both archaeology and anthropology, and some THU scholars now believe his theory of cultural evolution was THU many years ahead of its time. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01qzctl (Listen) THU Far From the Tree, Episode 4 THU THU What happens to an apparently ordinary family when a child THU commits acts of extreme criminal behaviour? Dylan Klebold THU was one of the two teenagers responsible for the shootings THU at Columbine High School. His parents still live in the THU house where he grew up. THU THU Read by Kerry Shale THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qwh2h (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b01qwh2k (Listen) THU Marking Time, Episode 9 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard THU dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU THU Miss Milliment moves permanently to Home Place to teach the THU girls but worries what will become of her when they are THU grown. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01qwh2m (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Meaning of Liff at 30 b01qjjgw (Listen) THU This year marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of THU The Meaning of Liff, by John Lloyd and Douglas Adams. This THU funny and well-loved dictionary uses placenames as new THU definitions for common experiences which we all know and THU recognize, but for which no words exist. THU THU John Lloyd talks to Matt Lucas about his love of Liff, and THU also gathers new entries from the Radio 4 audience. These THU are then chewed over and sifted down by John and fellow THU Liff-lovers Sanjeev Bhaskar, Helen Fielding and Terry Jones. THU THU And Professor Steven Pinker - Liff devotee - talks about the THU psychological relief and sense of bonding that comes from THU recognising that you're not alone in having these thoughts THU and feelings. THU THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01qjjgy (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01qsqst (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01qwhp3 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Battle for the Airwaves b01qx0px (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, continues his series on THU relations between broadcasters and politicians. In this THU programme he looks at the battle between the BBC and Harold THU Wilson, the then Labour Party leader, over 'Yesterday's THU Men', a documentary programme broadcast in July 1971, a year THU after Labour had lost office to Edward Heath's THU Conservatives. THU THU Relations between Wilson and the BBC had been difficult for THU some time before the documentary was made, and this THU programme provoked a huge row. The title of the programme THU cheekily turned Labour's dismissal of the Conservatives as THU 'Yesterday's Men' against them, and Labour objected to some THU of the programme's content. Although the programme was THU broadcast, relations between Harold Wilson and the BBC never THU fully recovered. The documentary reflected a desire to make THU political coverage more entertaining and heralded further THU tensions between broadcasters and politicians. THU THU Producer: Rob Shepherd. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01qwgly (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qwhp5 (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 4, Tregarrah Head THU THU by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU Episode 2: Tregarrah Head THU THU Birdie continues her war of attrition, leaving a wake of THU innocent victims. Pilgrim has to rescue the Old Man of THU Tregarrah Head from his fate as the changeling baby of THU devoted West Country parents. THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole THU THU A fourth series of four thrillingly dark adventures. THU Pilgrim, cursed with immortality by the King of the THU Greyfolk, is forever forced to walk between the human world THU and the world of Faerie in a never-ending quest to preserve THU the uneasy balance between the two. In this series, armed THU with the Abaeron, a book of incredibly powerful magic that THU protects its owner above all else, he can finally challenge THU Mr Speed who has stolen generations of brides from one THU family, separate devoted parents from their very strange new THU changeling baby, put a giant to sleep, and locate Merlin, THU the figure most feared in all the Faerie world. Hard tasks THU at the best of times, but Pilgrim must also contend with the THU relentless malice of the sorceress Mrs Pleasance and the THU devious cunning of the King of the Greyfolk himself. THU THU Credits THU William Palmer: Paul Hilton THU Birdie: Kate Fleetwood THU Sally: Rebekah Staton THU Gary: Ed Gaughan THU Kingsley: Robert Blythe THU Elaine: Sarah Thom THU Dan: Ben Crowe THU Girl: Agnes Bateman THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01qwhp7 (Listen) THU Series 23, Toyah Willcox THU THU Actress and singer, Toyah Willcox, takes Clare Balding for a THU walk in rural Worcestershire. THU THU The theme for this series of Ramblings is 'self-improvement' THU and for Toyah - who has always had problems with her joints, THU including a recent hip replacement - walking is the perfect THU exercise. She says it helps her keep her weight down and THU remain active. THU THU Clare met Toyah at Croome Landscape Park, a National Trust THU Property famous for its stunning grounds designed by THU Capability Brown. Unfortunately Toyah was injured - 97 THU pantomime performances over Christmas had taken their toll - THU but, crutch in hand, the ramble went ahead. THU THU By the end of the walk, during which Toyah discussed her THU serendipitous route into show business and forthcoming THU performance in a 'bawdy' show called Hormonal Housewives, THU she actually felt better. Proof, she said, that walking is THU one of the best ways to remain healthy. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01qsr8n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01qss91 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01qwhpy (Listen) THU Mark Wahlberg and Broken City THU THU Francine Stock talks to Mark Wahlberg about his latest role THU as an ex-cop in the thriller Broken City which also stars THU Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones. And there's THU discussion of the Italian film Caesar Must Die, with THU Shakespeare's Julius Caesar played by real-life prisoners. THU Plus Fellini post-feminism - the DVD release of City of THU Women, made in 1980. Producer: Elaine Lester. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01qwhtp (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 17:00 PM b01r18ql (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qsqsw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b01qwhx0 (Listen) THU Series 9, How to Exercise Power THU THU Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves THU with a broadcast of national comic import as he asks the THU question "Does power come from the barrel of a gun or from a THU jar of onion marmalade?" THU THU Helping him fail to find the answers will be actor and THU Jeremy regular Gordon Kennedy ("Absolutely", "Sherlock") and THU special guest Katy Brand THU THU Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of THU debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank THU exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, THU erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series THU of his show, famous for lines like - THU THU "Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far THU East. My 12-year old daughter asked me for a new pair of THU trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make THU her own" and, "Islam is no weirder than Christianity. Both THU are just Judaism with the jokes taken out." THU THU Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they THU first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show THU was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on THU a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since THU the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment THU department was besieged, questions were asked in the House THU and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible THU for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with THU Paul Lewis. THU THU Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony THU Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for THU Chemistry. THU THU Written by Jeremy Hardy THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01qwhx2 (Listen) THU Paul refuses to leave empty-handed, and Ruth's patience is THU tested. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01qwhx4 (Listen) THU John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b01qwh2k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01qwc8f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01qwj0b (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 The Listeners b01qw9k2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01qwgxx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01qsqsy (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01qwj0d (Listen) THU Philippa Thomas presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qzbdf (Listen) THU The Middlesteins, Episode 4 THU THU Rachelle instructs Robin to spend more time with her newly THU single, obese, diabetes stricken mother. THU THU Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Guns of Adam Riches b01qwj0j (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Brand new character comedy from Edinburgh Award-winner Adam THU Riches. With fast-paced offbeat sketches, songs (there are THU no songs) and a generous dollop of audience interaction. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qwj0l (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 MARCH 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01qsqtw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01qzctl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qsqty (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qsqv0 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qsqv2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01qsqv4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01qwj97 (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with FRI the Rev Dr Karen Smith. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01qwj99 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01qwj9c (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah FRI Montague. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01qsrhl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01qzctq (Listen) FRI Far From the Tree, Episode 5 FRI FRI Different kinds of families are constructed or conceived in FRI different ways - just as some children choose to identify FRI with a gender other than the one they were born into. Andrew FRI Solomon is married to his partner John and they are happily FRI involved in the parenting of four children, all with FRI differing family circumstances. FRI FRI Read by Kerry Shale FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01qwj9f (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b01qwjjs (Listen) FRI Marking Time, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Elizabeth Jane Howard FRI Dramatised by Lin Coghlan FRI FRI London undergoes a huge air raid whilst Sid's resentment of FRI Rachel's family makes for a difficult visit. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 11:00 An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth b01lswct (Listen) FRI Richard Buckminster Fuller was an eccentric polymath. FRI Perhaps best known for his innovative geodesic dome designs FRI - a version of which feature at the Eden Project in Cornwall FRI - he was also an inventor, a poet and a philosopher, who FRI wrote scores of books and criss-crossed the globe giving FRI idiosyncratic free-wheeling lectures that lasted for hours. FRI FRI In all of his varied work, Buckminster Fuller was dedicated FRI to principles of sustainability, to doing 'more with less' FRI and striving to 'make the world work for 100% of humanity'. FRI He influenced a generation of designers and architects - FRI including Norman Foster and Richard Rogers - and was an FRI inspiration to the environmental movement. FRI FRI Buckminster Fuller was ahead of his time and his principles FRI are arguably more relevant now than ever. But today, almost FRI thirty years after his death, he's a largely forgotten FRI figure. FRI FRI In this programme, the writer Tom Dyckhoff talks to Bucky's FRI colleagues and commentators about what we can learn from FRI Buckminster Fuller today. Featuring Fuller's grandson Jaime FRI Snyder, architect Norman Foster, sculptor Antony Gormley, FRI writers Bryan Appleyard and Alice Rawsthorn, and Andrew FRI Simms of the New Economics Foundation. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b01qwk38 (Listen) FRI Series 4, After Gherkin FRI FRI In the second of the new series of HR by Nigel Willliams, FRI Sam and Peter's dog Gherkin becomes unwell. They decide to FRI spend some of their lottery win on animal welfare. But could FRI their noble ideals backfire? FRI FRI Peter..... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost FRI Francis ..... Dermot Crowley FRI Man / Vet ..... Rick Warden FRI Receptionist / Hungarian Peasant ..... Lizzy Watts FRI FRI Director: Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01qwk3b (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01qsqv6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01qwk3d (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents 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 Battle for the Airwaves b01qx0vj (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, continues his series on FRI relations between broadcasters and politicians. In this FRI programme he looks at the clashes over coverage of 'The FRI Troubles' in Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s, FRI culminating in the broadcasting ban on terrorist FRI organisations and their supporters. FRI FRI Soon after saying that terrorists should be starved of the FRI "oxygen of publicity", Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime FRI Minister, learned that Martin McGuinness, a leading figure FRI in Provisional Sinn Fein and a supporter of the armed FRI struggle, had been interviewed for a BBC Real Lives FRI documentary, At the Edge of the Union. The Home Secretary FRI Leon Brittan, urged the BBC Chairman, Stuart Young, to FRI cancel the broadcast. The BBC Governors viewed it and said FRI could not go out. This was seen as government censorship and FRI BBC staff went on strike. The programme was later broadcast FRI with minor changes. In 1988, the Government banned the FRI broadcast of direct statements by representatives or FRI supporters of 11 Irish political and military organisations. FRI However, the BBC used actors to speak the words of FRI supporters of the banned organisations. FRI FRI Producer: Rob Shepherd. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01qwhx2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01qwk3g (Listen) FRI Fewer Not Less FRI FRI By Sarah Buckley. FRI FRI John, a compulsive traveller, is in Japan for the weekend to FRI see a famous fire festival in Kyoto. It's the last item on FRI his list of "50 Things To Do Before You Die" but he hasn't FRI counted on meeting Sachiko. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI Credits FRI John: Adrian Scarborough FRI Sachiko: Meg Kubota FRI Kazuo: Dai Tabuchi FRI Railwayman: Sadao Ueda FRI Dancer: Jaruka Kuroda FRI Dad: Nicholas Murchie FRI Young John: Will Howard FRI Girlfriend: Lizzy Watts FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Producer: David Hunter FRI Writer: Sarah Buckley FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01qwk3j (Listen) FRI Crickhowell FRI FRI This week Eric Robson takes the Gardeners' Question Time FRI team to Crickhowell in South Wales, with Bob Flowerdew, FRI Matthew Biggs and Christine Walkden taking questions from FRI the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 I Refuse b01qwk3l (Listen) FRI The Fire, the Fire FRI FRI Last in a series of short stories commissioned to mark the FRI centenary of the birth of the American Civil Rights heroine FRI Rosa Parks. Illustrating moments of resistance, the stories FRI are inspired by acts of determination and non-cooperation, FRI committed by people (real or imagined) fighting against FRI prevailing attitudes and political authority. FRI FRI Hisham Matar completes the series with a story that takes a FRI wry look at the pressures brought to bear upon a famous FRI author, who is in exile from his homeland, by fellow FRI countrymen and exiles. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01qwk3n (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01qwk3q (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01qwk3s (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qsqv8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01qwk3v (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 3 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01qwk3x (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Carole Simpson-Solazzo FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Spencer Wilkes ..... Jonny Elsmore. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01qwk3z (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b01qwjjs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01qwk41 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Bradford with David Blunkett MP and the blogger Mo FRI Ansar. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01qwk43 (Listen) FRI Lisa Jardine reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b00pn34n (Listen) FRI Confessions of a Medium FRI FRI Starring Bill Nighy as Thomson and Robert Glenister as Mr. FRI Parker. A gothic, shadowy, and darkly comic drama about FRI illusion, delusion and desire. Based on a true story in FRI 1870's London. Mr. Parker is a sincere and kind man in FRI search of a higher meaning to life. He has moved from FRI conventional religion to séances and spiritualism. He FRI believes he's met his saviour in the guise of Mr. Thomson - FRI a charming, erudite, and utterly mesmerising medium, but FRI unbeknown to Parker, Thomson is a complete and utter fake. FRI FRI DIRECTED BY PAULINE HARRIS FRI BBC DRAMA NORTH FRI FRI Credits FRI Thomson: Bill Nighy FRI Parker: Robert Glenister FRI Morton: Jonathan Keeble FRI Mr Gordon: Jonathan Keeble FRI Gentleman: Jonathan Keeble FRI Wilson: Jonathan Keeble FRI Waiter: Jonathan Keeble FRI Mills: Andrew Westfield FRI Butler: Andrew Westfield FRI Miss Foster: Fiona Clarke FRI Mrs Gordon: Fiona Clarke FRI Lady No.1: Fiona Clarke FRI Miss Blackstone: Daryl Fishwick FRI Woman: Daryl Fishwick FRI Pianist: Daniel Browell FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Writer: AL Kennedy FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01qsqvb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01qwk45 (Listen) FRI Philippa Thomas presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01qzbdh (Listen) FRI The Middlesteins, Episode 5 FRI FRI Robin gains a new insight into her mother's life. FRI FRI Reader: Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01qwc8h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01qwk47 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
23 February, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 23/02/2013 - 01/03/2013
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