Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
SAT SATURDAY 09 MARCH 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01qzkh7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01r123k (Listen) SAT Bedsit Disco Queen, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written and read by Tracey Thorn. SAT SAT Tracey Thorn's memoir takes us from her very early teenage SAT diaries, through to juggling school homework with interviews SAT with music journalists, the highs of pop stardom and the SAT lows of being dropped by her record company. This is an SAT insider's insight into the music industry, and also a very SAT personal story which has Tracey's relationship with Ben Watt SAT at the heart of it. SAT SAT Tracey gave up music for motherhood without a second SAT thought, but now finds her experience as a parent has freed SAT her from her teenage anxieties so she can return to singing SAT on her own terms. SAT SAT Abridged by Alison Joseph SAT Produced by Allegra McIlroy. SAT Tracey Thorn Blog post SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01qzkh9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01qzkhc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01qzkhf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01qzkhh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r16q6 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01r16qb (Listen) SAT "Change the world in a small way" SAT On superheroes, altruism and disguise. Ancient music and SAT folk tradition specialist Kate Fletcher took inspiration SAT from meeting the couple who started a movement to encourage SAT people to do good for their community in America by wearing SAT superhero capes. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer SAT Tracey. Your News is read by Shaun Ley. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01qzkhk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01qzkhm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01r11wc (Listen) SAT Series 23, David Sedaris SAT SAT David Sedaris, the American author and comedian, takes Clare SAT Balding on a litter-picking walk in West Sussex. SAT SAT When David Sedaris was a child he would clear up around the SAT house, and keep his own bedroom perfectly tidy. This SAT obsession has, in recent years, been transferred to the SAT outdoors and Sedaris is now a devoted daily litter-picker, SAT cleaning the roadside verges of Pulborough and the SAT surrounding area. SAT SAT Clare imagined that this edition of Ramblings might take her SAT across the South Downs, occasionally reaching for a stray SAT bottle or piece of paper. In reality it involved walking SAT less than two miles, and filling six bin bags full to SAT bursting with all manner of filthy rubbish. All while SAT wearing a fetching hi-viz jacket. A very unusual edition of SAT Ramblings! SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01r4xvz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01qzkhr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01r4xw1 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT Saturday's live page SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01r4xw3 (Listen) SAT Heather Rabbatts; Christopher Purves; Robbie Savage's SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and JP Devlin with businesswoman and Director SAT of the Football Association, Heather Rabbatts; a young woman SAT from the Easterhouse estate in Glasgow who went from being a SAT notorious bad girl to helping other young people turn their SAT lives around, David St John who is the UK's most prolific TV SAT Quiz contestant, and Anthony Cooper who maps sink holes in SAT the UK. There's a Soundsculpture of dressmakers scissors, SAT and a Thing About Me feature from baritone Christopher SAT Purves. Inheritance Tracks are from footballer and pundit SAT Robbie Savage. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 The Etymology of Entomology b01r4xw5 (Listen) SAT Zoologist Dr. George McGavin delves into the strange and SAT often bizarre names given to the planet's insects. SAT SAT There are an estimated 10 million living insect species, SAT with new specimens being discovered almost daily. SAT Entomologists are turning to ever more imaginative names, SAT referencing everything from literary figures, celebrities SAT and politicians to playground puns. SAT SAT George takes us into the complex and intriguing world of the SAT taxonomist. From the 18th century father of modern taxonomy SAT Carl Linnaeus to the present day, he explains why naming the SAT things that surround us is the foundation of all science. SAT SAT There are flies named Pieza kake and S. beyonceae (after the SAT singer); beetles with political connections - A. hitleri, A. SAT bushi, A. cheneyi and A. rumsfeldi; and some entomologists SAT have even named discoveries after romantic conquests. SAT Unsurprisingly, names can prove controversial but, once set, SAT are difficult to change. SAT SAT George pieces together his story at Linnaeus' original SAT collection at The Linnean Society, and at the capital's SAT Natural History Museum and London Zoo. He also reveals some SAT insects named after him at the Oxford University Museum of SAT Natural History. SAT SAT Produced by Andrea Rangecroft. SAT A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01r4xw7 (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of The Daily Telegraph reflects on calls for the SAT resignation of the head of the NHS in England. There's a row SAT over immigration. Is the internet changing politics for good SAT ? And how should we commemorate World War One ? SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01r4xw9 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01r4yth (Listen) SAT Cost of loyalty, payroll reporting shake-up, buy-to-let SAT SAT LOYALTY DOESN'T PAY (II) SAT Complaints about insurers have been coming in thick and fast SAT since we covered the high premiums charged to loyal SAT customers last week. People can save hundreds of pounds by SAT posing as a new as new customer rather than just renewing SAT year after year. We talk to a major supplier of insurance SAT products to pensioners about its approach. SAT SAT REAL TIME TRANSFORMATION SAT In four weeks' time every employer however large or small SAT will have to provide real time information to HM Revenue & SAT Customs about their employees' pay. It is intended to make SAT tax more accurate and help with the introduction of SAT Universal Credit. How will smaller employees cope? The HMRC SAT boss will answer questions. SAT SAT BUY TO LET - THE DEBATE SAT In the Blue corner - great way to make money. In the Red SAT corner - but many have made almost nothing over five years. SAT Is 'Buy to Let' the answer to make money in a low interest SAT rate environment? Or is it too risky for the well-meaning SAT amateur? Ian Potty, Managing Director of the Association of SAT Residential Letting Agents and Brian Hall founder of the SAT Model Works debate. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01r14tx (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Laura SAT Shavin, Matt Forde and Jonny & The Baptists to present a SAT comic look at the week's news. Produced by Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01qzkht (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01qzkhw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01r14v7 (Listen) SAT Ed Davey, Maria Eagle, Andrea Leadsom, Peter Tatchell SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Brighton with activist Peter Tatchell, Secretary of SAT State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey MP, Andrea SAT Leadsom MP and the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, SAT Maria Eagle MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01r4ytk (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01r4ytm (Listen) SAT Hedda Gabler SAT SAT Ibsen's classic drama of passion and desperation. Directed SAT by Psyche Stott from the Old Vic production, starring SAT Sheridan Smith and Adrian Scarborough. SAT SAT Brian Friel's version of Hedda Gabler throws new light on SAT its two female archetypes - Hedda, the beautiful trapped and SAT doomed heroine; and Thea, the less socially admired, yet SAT much freer, new woman. Both women ultimately take their fate SAT into their own hands, in very different ways. SAT SAT The play is set in the drawing room of the richly appointed SAT new home to which George Tesman has brought his bride Hedda, SAT after a lengthy honeymoon, spent mainly visiting research SAT libraries for his current study on 'domestic craft and SAT husbandry as practised in Holland and parts of Belgium in SAT the tenth century'. The very different aspirations of SAT husband and wife are soon apparent as a stream of visitors - SAT family, friends, past lovers, and current admirers - visit SAT them. SAT SAT Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th century Norwegian playwright, SAT often referred to as "the father of realism". His works SAT include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor SAT and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, SAT Rosmersholm and The Master Builder. SAT SAT Brian Friel is a multi award winning Irish dramatist, author SAT and director of the Field Day Theatre Company. Friel is best SAT known for plays such as Philadelphia, Here I Come! And SAT Dancing at Lughnasa. SAT SAT Directed by Psyche Stott from the Old Vic production. SAT SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT Executive producer: Melanie Harris SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Hedda Gabler: Sheridan Smith SAT George Tesman: Adrian Scarborough SAT Aunt Juliana: Anne Reid SAT Thea Elvsted: Fenella Woolgar SAT Judge Brack: Darrell D'Silva SAT Eilert Loevborg: Daniel Lapaine SAT Bertha: Buffy Davis SAT Director: Psyche Stott SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT Writer: Brian Friel SAT SAT 16:30 Woman's Hour b01r4zmr (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Meklit Hadero, Shelby, and what is SAT modern feminism? SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01r4zmt (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news presented by Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01r11wt (Listen) SAT Doing Business with Goverments SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, and spin to present SAT a clearer view of the business world, through discussion SAT with people running leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT From huge infrastructure projects to supplying civil SAT servants with paperclips, there's big money to be made from SAT public sector contracts. Evan Davis meets three business SAT leaders with experience of bidding for - and securing - SAT government contracts and finds out what it's like doing SAT business with the state. How easy is it for smaller SAT companies to get a slice of the public sector pie? And are SAT we - the ultimate customers - really getting a good deal? SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01qzkhy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01qzkj0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01qzkj2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01r4zmw (Listen) SAT Nick Rhodes, Douglas Henshall, Debbie Wiseman, Paul Morley, SAT Danny Wallace, Bridie Jackson and the Arbour, Hot 8 Brass SAT Band SAT SAT Clive's chats to 'Primeval' star Douglas Henshall, who's SAT taken a break from battling the apocalypse to become a SAT detective in BBC One's new murder-mystery 'Shetland'. SAT Douglas plays native Shetlander Jimmy Perez, who finds SAT himself leading a murder investigation, uncovering secrets SAT and lies from the past. 'Shetland' starts on Sunday 10th SAT March at 21.00. SAT SAT Clive tickles the ivories with award winning film and TV SAT composer Debbie Wiseman whose theme tune credits include SAT 'Tom & Viv' and 'Jackanory'. She's one of the UK's most SAT successful female music ambassadors, after composing from SAT the age of eight. Debbie is doing a rare solo piano SAT appearance at St Georges, Bristol on Thursday 14th March. SAT SAT Danny Wallace goes underground with critic and music SAT journalist Paul Morley, who's rock n roll career has seen SAT him also work as a band manager and promoter. Paul's now SAT penned 'Earthbound', one in a series of Penguin Lines; a SAT collection of works to celebrate the 150th anniversary of SAT the London Underground. Each tell their tale of the city, SAT inspired by a different tube line. Mind the gap! SAT SAT Clive talks to one of Duran Duran's Wild Boys, keyboardist SAT Nick Rhodes about being one of "the prettiest boys in rock" SAT and collaborating with the band's former guitarist as TV SAT Mania. They release their concept album 'Bored With Prozac SAT and The Internet?' Nick supports the launch of the project SAT with an exhibition of his photography. BEI INCUBI (Beautiful SAT Nightmares) is at The Vinyl Factory, London until Friday 5th SAT April. SAT SAT With Latin and hip-hop infused music from New Orleans brass SAT funksters Hot 8 Brass Band who perform 'Ghost Town' from SAT their album 'The Life & Times Of....'. SAT SAT And from four lovely ladies from Newcastle, Bridie Jackson & SAT The Arbour who play 'Scarecrow'. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01r5014 (Listen) SAT Justin Bieber SAT SAT Justin Bieber, the 19-year-old Canadian pop star, is an SAT internet phenomenon with 35 million Twitter followers. His SAT first hit is the most-watched video in YouTube history. SAT SAT He has upset fans on his UK tour by keeping them waiting SAT before taking the stage, prompting some to suggest that the SAT pressure of such extraordinary fame, experienced at such a SAT young age, is beginning to show. SAT SAT Although Justin Bieber came to fame as a musical prodigy, SAT who found his audience through the internet, these days his SAT power as a global brand overshadows his reputation as an SAT artist. SAT SAT Business is playing a growing part in his activities as he SAT branches into venture capitalism by buying stakes in tech SAT start-ups like Spotify. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01r5016 (Listen) SAT Helen Mirren in new stage play The Audience; Steven SAT Soderberg's new film Side Effects SAT SAT Helen Mirren plays the Queen again - this time on stage - in SAT The Audience; Steven Soderbergh's film Side Effects, a SAT psychological thriller about the unexpected results of an SAT antidepressant; and Kate Atkinson's latest novel, Life After SAT Life, imagines the same life lived - and not lived.Presented SAT by Tom Sutcliffe. Produced by Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01r5018 (Listen) SAT Iraq Tales: What the Army Learned SAT SAT Chris Parry delves into the US army's unique oral history SAT archive of the Iraq war. Recorded during the war, these oral SAT histories chronicle what the men and women who fought the SAT war thought about it. What was going right? What was going SAT wrong? And what lessons are they learning for the future? SAT SAT The US army has sent military history detachments into every SAT battle since the Second World War. Now, on the tenth SAT anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Archive on 4 has been SAT given unprecedented access to the recordings for the early SAT months of the Iraq war. The interviews reveal fascinating SAT new insights into the conflict, based on contemporaneous SAT views from the front-line, unaffected by hindsight. SAT SAT A former leading strategist for the British military and SAT Rear Admiral, Parry himself analysed and produced the SAT official lessons for the British armed forces immediately SAT after the war. In this programme he explains how the US Army SAT uses these combat histories to derive lessons from SAT conflicts. SAT SAT He also tracks how its Center for Military History ensures SAT that the lessons are applied and, with these oral histories, SAT evolve into military doctrine. With access to everyone from SAT the commanding general of coalition land forces to the SAT logisticians and transport corps supporting the campaign, SAT this programme presents a gripping picture of a modern army SAT at war. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01r0b17 (Listen) SAT Pather Panchali - Song of the Road, Episode 2 SAT SAT Pather Panchali: Song of the Road by Bibhuti Bhushan Banerji SAT dramatised by Tanika Gupta from a translation by T.W. Clark SAT & Tarapada Mukerji SAT SAT A classic story of poverty and sibling love set in a remote SAT Bengali village at the beginning of the twentieth century. SAT The life of a poor Brahmin family is seen through the eyes SAT of young Opu and his older sister Durga. Opu has his first SAT experiences of life outside the village and Durga now a SAT young woman of fourteen begins to look forward to marriage SAT and adult life but with the monsoon rains comes tragedy. SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari SAT SAT It is the vivid and moving story of life in a rural village SAT on the brink of change, seen through the eyes of two SAT children. The novel deals with the relationship between SAT destruction and creation, and is an uplifting tale of growth SAT and love. It is a beautiful and atmospheric novel that SAT inspired an iconic film by Satyajit Ray in 1955. SAT The heart of the novel and this dramatisation is the love SAT between brother and sister. It charts family life through a SAT collection of daily events that cumulatively create a vivid SAT and unforgettable world. In Tanika Gupta's dramatisation SAT Opu, now a grown man narrates the story, looking back on his SAT childhood and to the people he has loved, in particular his SAT older sister Durga.Tanika Gupta is an award-winning writer SAT who has written extensively for radio, theatre, film and SAT television. She was recently awarded an MBE; named Asian SAT Woman of Achievement (Arts and Culture) and nominated for an SAT Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her production of SAT A Doll's House for Radio 3 recently won the best adaptation SAT BBC Audio Drama Award. SAT Radio 4 Blog: Making Pather Panchali SAT SAT Credits SAT Adult Opu: Sagar Arya SAT Durga: Rhea Somaiya SAT Opu: Adnan Chowdhury SAT Horihor: Shiv Grewal SAT Shorbojoya: Ayesha Dharker SAT Niren: Sacha Dhawan SAT Proshonno: Sacha Dhawan SAT Shejbou: Pooja Ghai SAT Palit: Ace Bhatti SAT Gokul: Ace Bhatti SAT Omola: Nuha Fabiha Sultana SAT Hashi: Shaheen Khan SAT Barber's Wife: Shaheen Khan SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT Writer: Tanika Gupta SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01qzkj4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01r0yt8 (Listen) SAT The Ring of Gyges SAT SAT Scientists at a technology conference in Los Angeles this SAT week unveiled an invention that makes things invisible. The SAT press described it as a real-life version of Harry Potter's SAT 'cloak of invisibility'. They could equally well have called SAT it a real-life 'ring of Gyges'. This magic ring which made SAT its wearer invisible was given in ancient Greek mythology to SAT the shepherd Gyges - who promptly used it to seduce the SAT king's wife and take over the kingdom. Plato used the story SAT in his great work 'The Republic' to ask the question: would SAT an intelligent person be just and moral if he were not SAT compelled to be so? It's a question that we're still SAT struggling to answer and that is at the heart of many SAT stories dominating our news at the moment. SAT The NHS is torn between trusting its staff to look after SAT patients properly and policing their work through targets, SAT supervision and sanctions. The controversial banker Bob SAT Diamond defined ethics as 'what you do when nobody's SAT looking'; a sequence of scandals from PPI to LIBOR would SAT suggest to some that banking and ethics are words that don't SAT belong in the same sentence. The resignation of the SAT disgraced Keith O'Brien prompts us to ask whether, if even a SAT Cardinal cannot be trusted to practice what he preaches, SAT there is any point in trusting anyone to do the right thing SAT without being watched and warned. Is it true that there can SAT be no virtue without the freedom to sin? And if that is the SAT case how much of that freedom can society afford to grant? SAT Are humans naturally good or do we need to be pressured into SAT behaving decently? Should we trust to conscience and guilt, SAT or rely on regulation and the threat that those who step out SAT of line will be named and shamed? SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, Melanie SAT Phillips and Claire Fox. Witnesses: John Appleby - Chief SAT economist, Health policy, The King's Fund, Dr Martin O'Neill SAT - Lecturer in Political Philosophy at York University, John SAT Seddon - Managing Director, Vanguard, Rev. Prof. Alister SAT McGrath - Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education at SAT King's College London. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01r0dyq (Listen) SAT (15/17) SAT SAT The book 'Ten Days That Shook The World', by John Reed, is SAT an eyewitness account of which event? And what was the SAT subject of the public inquiry over which the High Court SAT judge Lord Mersey presided in 1912? SAT SAT These are among the questions faced by the semi-finalists, SAT in the third semi-final of Brain of Britain 2013, with SAT Russell Davies in the chair. SAT SAT The winner will take a place in the series Final in just a SAT couple of weeks' time, so the stakes are high. As always, SAT there's also a chance for a listener to outwit the combined SAT brainpower of the contestants, by suggesting devious SAT questions of his or her own. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT JOHN COLMANS, a professional tour guide from Finchley in SAT North London; SAT SAT PAUL JORDAN, a retired teacher from Shaftesbury in Dorset; SAT SAT DAVID STAINER, a solictor from Hertford SAT SAT RUFUS STILGOE, a full-time husband and father from London. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b01r0b3n (Listen) SAT Borders Met and Crossed SAT SAT Adventures in strong language - performed and from the page SAT - introduced by a master of poetic ceremonies, Paul Farley. SAT Borders - met and crossed - are the theme of the day. The SAT River Styx where the dead arrive and the shape-shifting SAT places where people become other animals are among the SAT subjects. Jo Shapcott, James Lasdun and Simon Armitage come SAT to the edge and shout their poems across. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 MARCH 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01r31qh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b012l4nx (Listen) SUN The Foxes Come at Night, Thunderstorm SUN SUN Now in his eightieth year, Cees Nooteboom is one of SUN Holland's leading and most respected authors, a writer of SUN both novels and travel books and a consummate short story SUN writer. The Foxes Come at Night, his recent collection, has SUN won the 2010 Gouden Uil - the most prestigious literary SUN award in Flanders and is now published in English. SUN The collection is set in the cities and islands of the SUN Mediterranean, territory Nooteboom knows well. The stories SUN are linked by their meditations on memory and age, on love SUN won and lost and on the fragments of life treasured in a SUN photograph or a detail. SUN In 'Gondolas' a fine art dealer finds the past stirred by a SUN photograph taken on the same Venetian canal bank forty years SUN ago. In 'Thunderstorm' a couple's own fissures are reflected SUN in a horrific moment on a beach. And in 'Late September' a SUN woman waits on a windblown Spanish cafe terrace before the SUN inevitable conclusion to her lonely day. SUN Written with haunting attention to detail and pitch perfect SUN prose, sensitively translated by Ina Rilke, these stories SUN show one of the European masters of the genre at his best. SUN Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman SUN Abridger Sally Marmion SUN Producer Di Speirs. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r31qk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r31qn (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r31qs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01r31qv (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01r50yf (Listen) SUN The bells of St Petrock's Church, South Brent, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01r0ytb (Listen) SUN Benjamin Cohen SUN SUN In the third of this year's Lent Talks, journalist and SUN broadcaster Benjamin Cohen reflects on the fear of being SUN abandoned by his own Jewish community, for being gay. SUN SUN The Lent Talks feature six well-known figures from public SUN life, the arts, human rights and religion, who reflect on SUN how the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry and Passion SUN continues to interact with contemporary society 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. The SUN 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, as well as abandonment. SUN SUN Speakers in this year's talks include Baroness Helena SUN Kennedy, QC, who considers what it means to abandon being SUN human; Alexander McCall Smith considers how you can feel SUN abandoned by society as you grow older; Loretta Minghella, SUN Director of Christian Aid, considers the abandonment of self SUN and the need to face who we truly are; Imam Asim Hafiz, SUN Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM Forces, who has SUN just returned from Afghanistan, explores the total SUN abandonment experienced by both sides as a result of war SUN and, finally, Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's SUN Piccadilly, explores the relationship between abandonment SUN and betrayal. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01r31qy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01r50yh (Listen) SUN Just Listen SUN SUN Mark Tully encourages us to do something that is not always SUN easy, but often greatly appreciated: hold our tongues to SUN better hear what others have to say. SUN SUN In the process he admits that, in his own profession of SUN journalism, listening skills are not always the ones most SUN called upon; that you don't have to be able to hear in order SUN to listen and that, for some, the pictures really are better SUN on radio than television. SUN SUN With music from the Taize Community, Rossini, Stravinsky and SUN Britten, and featuring writing by Wallace Stevens, Rumi, and SUN Sorley MacLean, this programme is an ample meal for the SUN ears. SUN SUN So - Just Listen! SUN SUN The readers are Grainne Keenan and John McAndrew. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01r50yk (Listen) SUN What do you do if your village's open space is being taken SUN over by waist high brambles and scrub? In Brill, SUN Buckinghamshire, a group of local people decided their SUN common could only be restored through grazing by cattle. SUN They set up a co-operative to own a small herd of cows which SUN are looked after by an army of volunteers. Sarah Swadling SUN meets the Brill Village Herd team and the Dexter cows, who SUN are all named after wild flowers. SUN SUN Presented and Produced: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01r31r2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01r31r4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01r50ym (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01r50yp (Listen) SUN Winston's Wish SUN SUN Ben Brooks-Dutton, who has been helped by the charity, SUN presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Winston's Wish. SUN Reg Charity:1061359 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Winston's Wish. SUN SUN Winston’s Wish, the charity for bereaved children, was SUN established in 1992 to meet the needs of bereaved children SUN and their families. SUN SUN It is a sad fact that every 22 minutes a child in Britain is SUN bereaved of a parent. This equates to over 24,000 newly SUN bereaved children each and every year. The death of a parent SUN or sibling is one of the most fundamental losses a child SUN will ever face. Studies show that if childhood grief is not SUN dealt with appropriately it can have a deep and lasting SUN effect on a child’s emotional well-being and cause problems SUN later in life. SUN SUN Winston’s Wish helps children rebuild their lives after the SUN death of a parent or sibling, enabling them to face the SUN future with confidence and hope. We offer a wide range of SUN practical support and guidance to children, families, SUN professionals and anyone concerned about a bereaved child. SUN We know from experience that the right support offered at SUN the right time can have a life-changing impact on bereaved SUN children and young people. SUN SUN Our professionally qualified clinical practitioners help SUN children and their families before, during and after SUN bereavement so they can understand fully the nature of loss SUN and cope better throughout the grieving process. We believe SUN that expressing grief is a healthy response to death for SUN children as well as adults. We therefore encourage children SUN and families to share their feelings with each other so they SUN can talk confidently about their bereavement. This approach SUN is based on many years’ experience, sound research and SUN evaluation. SUN SUN Celebrations such as Mother's Day can be a particularly SUN difficult time as it heightens the absence of a mother for SUN children. SUN SUN It would be easy to think that the best way to protect SUN children from further sadness is to not mention the day or SUN try and distract children from it. What we know from all the SUN many families we have met with at Winston’s Wish over the SUN past 20 years is that children still want to remember their SUN mothers and the relationship they had with them. Children SUN will be thinking about the fact that their Mum has died, SUN even if nobody mentions it to them. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01r31r7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01r31rc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01r50yr (Listen) SUN This Is Our Story: Mothering Sunday SUN SUN This is our story - Dean Vivienne Faull celebrates Mothering SUN Sunday live from York Minster as the fourth of our Lent SUN series linking stories of faith from the the bible with life SUN today. With members of the Mothers Union in York. Leader: SUN The Revd Canon Peter Moger; Graham Bier directs the chamber SUN choir The 24. Organist: Robert Sharpe. Download Lent SUN resources from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland by SUN logging on to bbc.co.uk/sundayworship; Producer: Simon SUN Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01r14vc (Listen) SUN Dame Mary Cartwright SUN SUN Lisa Jardine celebrates the achievements of the SUN mathematician Dame Mary Cartwright, the first woman SUN mathematician to be elected to the Royal Society. SUN SUN During World War Two, she responded to a request from the SUN British government to address an issue with early and SUN still-secret radar systems. Together with her colleague SUN Professor J. E. Littlewood, they were able to help war-time SUN radar engineers circumvent a problem that was making radar SUN unreliable. SUN SUN Her findings were not fully understood by her peers at SUN first. It would take a generation before mathematicians SUN realised that her discoveries were the foundation of what SUN became a new field of science: chaos theory. SUN SUN Dame Mary Cartwright was very modest and did not want SUN eulogies at her funeral, but Lisa Jardine takes the SUN opportunity of International Woman's Day to blow Dame Mary's SUN trumpet on her behalf. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01r50yt (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paul Mason. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01r50yw (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Rayan Kelly SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron SUN Stephen Maidment ..... Brian Bowles SUN Nancy Applegate ..... Joanna Brookes. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01r50yy (Listen) SUN David Almond SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer David SUN Almond. SUN SUN Most of his work is for children but the adults who populate SUN the juries of heavyweight literary prizes really like it SUN too. The accolades began with his first novel Skellig SUN published in 1998 when he was 47; it won the mighty SUN "Whitbread Children's" award and then many others besides. SUN SUN Ever since, he's been acclaimed for his ability to craft SUN complex, philosophical narratives with strikingly down to SUN earth characterisations. SUN SUN He grew up just outside Newcastle in a big, Catholic family SUN and his childhood features heavily in his stories. SUN SUN He says "Each of my books has had to be written - there was SUN something that had to come out." SUN SUN Producer: Alison Hughes. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01r0dzt (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 4 SUN SUN Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Josie Lawrence, Marcus SUN Brigstocke attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition & deviation under the watchful eye of SUN Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01r50z0 (Listen) SUN Forest foods, Africa's secret ingredients SUN SUN Sheila Dillon explores Africa's forest foods, both an SUN emergency larder and source of wonderful flavours. SUN SUN With the support of Comic Relief and funds raised through SUN Red Nose Day work is underway to tap into the potential of SUN this neglected food source. SUN SUN From Shea butter to Maringa, Sheila tastes her way through SUN this story with Tony Hill of the charity Tree Aid, and SUN Malcolm Riley, "the African Chef", whose cooking career SUN started in Zambia. On the menu, prawns stir-fried in an SUN ingredient from the baobab tree, and as Malcolm explains, SUN it's "modern African cuisine". SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01r31rk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01r50z2 (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 After Saddam b01r50z4 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN After Saddam: Hugh Sykes returns to Iraq SUN It's ten years since the invasion which toppled the regime SUN of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Since then Iraqis have endured an SUN American-led military occupation, a brutal insurgency, SUN intense sectarian violence, hundreds of thousands of violent SUN deaths - and three democratic elections. SUN BBC correspondent Hugh Sykes has been a regular visitor to SUN Iraq since 2003 - exploring the lives of people in a country SUN where security, education, electricity and even the water SUN supply can never be taken for granted. SUN Now Hugh returns to Iraq to find out how their lives have SUN changed over the past decade. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01r1335 (Listen) SUN Batley SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the GQT team visit local gardeners in SUN Batley, West Yorkshire. Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw SUN and Matthew Biggs are on the panel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01r51dy (Listen) SUN History as told by the people who were there. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01r51f0 (Listen) SUN Esther Waters, Episode 1 SUN SUN Esther Waters by George Moore. Dramatised by Sharon Oakes SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Set against a background of gambling and horseracing; Esther SUN Waters is a stirring tale of how a servant girl makes her SUN way in Victorian England.Forced to leave the home of her SUN brutal stepfather, Esther takes a job as a maid at SUN 'Woodview', a country estate owned by a nouveau riche racing SUN family. SUN SUN Producer/Director Gary Brown SUN SUN Celebrated author Colm Toibin championed Esther Waters as a SUN neglected Classic for Radio Four's Open Book programme. He SUN encourages listeners to read the novel again because he SUN thinks it has a wonderful story with fascinating characters, SUN a heroine we'll come to know and love, and it's one of those SUN books you just can't put down. SUN SUN Esther's tale is a slice of Victorian life that is rarely SUN shown; single parenting, wet nursing, divorce, gambling, and SUN religious zealotry. Through her we discover exactly what it SUN feels like to be poor and powerless. The book was banned SUN until Gladstone revoked it, saying it was compassionate, SUN moral and humane; and after that it became a best seller. SUN SUN Credits SUN Esther: Lyndsey Marshal SUN William: Matthew McNulty SUN Sarah: Joanne Froggatt SUN Mrs Rivers: Joanne Froggatt SUN Leopold: Hugh Simon SUN George: Hugh Simon SUN Demon: Stephen Hoyle SUN Peggy: Lisa Brookes SUN Mrs Latch: Melissa Jane Sinden SUN Mrs Barfield: Melissa Jane Sinden SUN Anne: Fiona Clarke SUN Mrs Spires: Fiona Clarke SUN Director: Gary Brown SUN Producer: Gary Brown SUN Writer: Sharon Oakes SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01r51f2 (Listen) SUN AL Kennedy discusses her book On Writing SUN SUN Novelist A L Kennedy talks to Mariella Frostrup about her SUN book On Writing. Based on her Guardian blog, the book SUN follows the writer over a three-year period during which she SUN finished one collection of stories, started another and SUN published a novel. It's a frank and witty portrayal of the SUN highs and lows of being a novelist from the back pain and SUN the brown hotel rooms encountered on tour to the joys of SUN finding that perfect sentence at three in the morning. SUN SUN Pankaj Mishra and Sri Lankan novelist Roma Tearne discuss SUN how much literature can play a role in exposing human rights SUN violations and what kind of pressure do such expectations SUN place on all writers, particularly those who live under SUN authoritarian regimes. SUN SUN As J M Coetzee publishes a new novel, The Childhood of SUN Jesus, author Justin Cartwright provides a Readers' Guide to SUN the Nobel Prize and twice Man Booker winning author of such SUN classics as Life and Times of Michael K, Disgrace and SUN Summertime. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b01r51f4 (Listen) SUN Translations SUN SUN Adventures in strong language - the best of new poetry SUN introduced by Paul Farley. The Echo Chamber has started to SUN resound. Today it is listening to translations of all sorts SUN and hoping to topple the Tower of Babel. Can you transplant SUN a poem from one language to another? Can a man be a woman? A SUN fox a thought? Featuring new poems by Robin Robertson, SUN Leontia Flynn, and Jamie McKendrick and poems journeying SUN into English from Ancient Greece, Rome, Italy, Spanish and SUN German. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 How Iraq Changed the World b01r2qgj (Listen) SUN Writer and broadcaster John Kampfner talks to Tony Blair, SUN the former French foreign Minister Dominque de Villepin and SUN others about the global consequences of war in Iraq. SUN SUN How has the world changed since the fall of Saddam Hussein SUN ten years ago? What effect did the war have on the balance SUN of power, the respect for international institutions and the SUN global standing of the United States and Britain? SUN SUN George W. Bush described the war as 'a central commitment in SUN the war on terror' but some say that, if anything, it has SUN promoted terrorists and their cause. And then there's SUN liberal interventionism. Have we created a tyrant's charter? SUN SUN Leading thinkers from Britain, the United States, China and SUN Russia discuss the impact of the war that has dominated our SUN headlines and reshaped our history. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01r5014 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01r31rq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01r31rs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r31rv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01r51f6 (Listen) SUN Stewart Henderson chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01r51f8 (Listen) SUN Alice faces an anxious wait. Meanwhile Josh won't forgive SUN and forget. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r51fb (Listen) SUN Series 2, With guest Charlie 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 This third episode explores the theme of love including SUN songs on chat up lines and romance in Bognor as well as a SUN foray into drum and bass and a look at the history of the SUN flute. Guest starring Charlie Baker who deconstructs a SUN classic love song. 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 performer .... Charlie Baker SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Go West b01r525t (Listen) SUN 41 Rue Monge SUN SUN Five short stories from Bristol. SUN SUN 2. 41 Rue Monge SUN by Jenny Solomons SUN SUN Victor is a Parisian piano-tuner who has fallen on hard SUN times - people just aren't having their pianos tuned as SUN often as they used to. Now he's behind on his rent and can't SUN think where to turn except to his estranged businessman SUN brother Claude. It's a visit which changes Victor's life. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01r14tn (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. 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 b01r14tb (Listen) SUN A president, a jazz trumpeter, an economist, a socialite and SUN codebreaker and a conductor SUN SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Jazzman Kenny Ball, remembered by bandmate John Bennet. SUN SUN Government minister Oliver Letwin tells us about the work of SUN his American-born father, the economist William Letwin. SUN SUN Sarah Baring, who combined a debutante high-life with SUN code-breaking at Bletchley Park during the war. SUN SUN German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. SUN SUN And as President Hugo Chavez lies is state, we hear from SUN Venezuela about the life of the charismatic and SUN controversial politician. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01r4yth (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01r50yp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01r0f4g (Listen) SUN Islamists International SUN SUN The Muslim Brotherhood is a global ideological network SUN enjoying popular support across the Sunni Muslim world. It, SUN and closely related Islamic groups, are well established SUN across the Muslim world: from North Africa to the Middle SUN East, Turkey, the Indian subcontinent and Malaysia. SUN Christopher de Bellaigue discovers how this community of SUN faith and politics has been influenced by the rise to power SUN of its founding branch: the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. SUN SUN Producer: Sue Davies. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01r525w (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 b01r525y (Listen) SUN David Aaronovitch of The Times analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01r11wf (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Tim Roth and Steven Soderbergh SUN SUN The director Steven Soderbergh, who made Oceans Eleven to SUN Thirteen, Traffic and Che talks to Francine Stock about his SUN new film Side Effects, a thriller exploring the apparent SUN effects of taking anti depressants. The actor Tim Roth on SUN Broken, a British film dealing with adolescence and everyday SUN violence, which marks a memorable debut for theatre director SUN Rufus Norris. And with the re-release of The Princess Bride, SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce explains why he thinks it's one of the SUN best screen plays ever written and the columnist Hadley SUN Freeman on why it's not a film just for the girls. Also the SUN Oscar-winning producer Andrew Ruhemann on his big break - SUN the day Steven Spielberg came to call. SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01r50yh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 MARCH 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01r31vw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01r0h4r (Listen) MON Drugs for Life; Subcultural Identity MON MON Drugs for life - Laurie Taylor talks to the US MON anthropologist, Joseph Dumit, about his research into the MON burgeoning consumption of medicine in the US. Dumit did MON ethnographic research with drug company executives, MON marketers, researchers, doctors and patients, and assessed MON the industry's strategies for expanding their markets. He MON asks if the huge growth in medication ties us to a radically MON new conception of ourselves as intrinsically ill and need of MON treatment. Is this a uniquely American development or does MON it equally apply to the UK and beyond? He's joined by the MON British sociologist, John Abraham. MON MON Also, hanging on to a subcultural identity in later life - MON we hear from listeners who still carry a torch for their MON youthful selves, be it as teds, mods, punks or MON goths....Professor Angela McRobbie analyses the phenomenon. MON MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01r50yf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r31vz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r31w1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r31w5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01r31w7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r54b0 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01r54b2 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01r31w9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01r54q1 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01r54q3 (Listen) MON Ken Loach on post-war Britain MON MON On Start the Week Jonathan Freedland talks to Ken Loach MON about post-war Britain, and the spirit of unity which aimed MON to create a vision of a fairer society. Thirty years on and MON this culture of cooperation descended into fist fights in MON the House of Commons, and James Graham's stage imagining of MON the 1974 hung parliament. David Boyle takes the story on to MON examine the demise of the middle classes, and Harriet MON Sergeant looks at Britain's underclass, and the reasons why MON it's growing. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01r54q5 (Listen) MON The Last Days of Detroit, Episode 1 MON MON The city of Detroit has suffered like no other US city; it's MON post-industrial decline, rapid and relentless, chronicled by MON photographers and journalists alike. MON MON Detroit had been the beacon city of the 20th century, home MON to the massive Ford plant which, in the 20 years from 1908, MON produced 15 million Model T Ford cars, and put a nation on MON the road. In 1928, with skyscrapers dominating the city MON skyline, you could justifiably have called Detroit the most MON modern city in the world. MON MON But by the time Berry Gordy founded Motown Records in 1959 - MON the other great Detroit bequest along with the auto industry MON - the city was already in inexorable decline. The 1967 riots MON - at the time the worst in US history - did not cause the MON problems, but did highlight them. The big three car MON companies had largely gone elsewhere; bereft of finance, MON urban planning was in meltdown; corruption was rife; and MON racial tensions were running high. MON MON After a break of 16 years, Mark Binelli returned to live in MON the city whose suburbs he grew up in. He found an urban MON prairie, with 90,000 ravaged and empty buildings, a school MON system that was impoverished and a crime rate second to none MON in the US. But Binelli also discovered a new Detroit MON emerging; with urban farms and a vibrant arts scene. Is a MON new future, he wondered, being wrought on the MON post-industrial frontier? MON MON Mark Binelli is the author of the novel Sacco and Vanzetti MON Must Die! and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and MON Men's Journal. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he has MON now, after three years back in Detroit, moved to New York MON City. MON MON Read by: John Schwab MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r550q (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01r550s (Listen) MON Writing the Century 21, 1924: Poet of the Coke Ovens MON MON The series which explores the 20th Century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people. The Journals of MON Yorkshire Farm Labourer and aspiring writer Fred Kitchen MON adapted by Stephen Wakelam. Fred struggles to put bread on MON the table but he also has literary ambitions. MON MON 1924: Poet of the Coke Ovens. MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Thirty years ago, while making a film for television about a MON Yorkshire farm labourer called Fred Kitchen (who was born in MON 1890) Fred’s surviving family arrived on location with a MON large cardboard box, containing some thirty neat volumes of MON diaries covering near fifty years of his life, up to his MON death in 1969. I was the writer of the film, having MON suggested Fred’s autobiography ‘Brother to the Ox’ to MON Yorkshire Television. The diaries (which I read and noted MON during a memorable week) dealt with his adult life, which he MON had skated over in his autobiography. I found them very MON moving – I taped extracts - felt privileged to be reading MON them: little red bound Memo notebooks, in neat legible MON handwriting. I have one of them in front of me as I type MON this. MON MON I was busy with other scripts, other films, and then my MON notes and tapes of Fred’s diaries went into storage along MON with other research materials for a number of years. I never MON forgot them but couldn’t see how to proceed. And then, a few MON years ago, having turned to radio and written a couple of MON what are now known as 15 minute dramas - and enjoyed the MON experience - I heard, in that same ‘Woman’s Hour’ slot, a MON serial from the recent past about a young gay man from MON Nottingham – diary form, low key, and, to my ears, riveting. MON I’d not clocked this strand ‘Writing the Century’ before. I MON listened again to my tapes of Fred’s diaries. Though read in MON neutral style, and interrupted with many clicks from the MON tape recorder’s on/off button, I could see the shape of a MON five part week long serial. MON MON Credits MON Fred: Ralph Ineson MON Mother: Liza Sadovy MON Neighbour: Stephanie Racine MON Ethel: Sarah Thom MON Harold: Paul Stonehouse MON Director: David Hunter MON Producer: David Hunter MON Writer: Stephen Wakelam MON MON 11:00 The Maha Kumbh Mela b01r550v (Listen) MON Mark Tully joins the pilgrims at the world's largest MON religious festival. Hindu traditions meet modern India at MON the confluence of the sacred rivers Ganges and Yamuna where MON millions of believers come to bathe. MON MON At the Kumbh Mela he finds that, as the country develops MON into a consumer society and world power, rituals and MON religious practices are flourishing. He asks whether these MON will survive the march of modernity and the consumerism MON which comes with today's economic growth. Could spiritual MON India provide lessons for an increasingly secular world? MON MON This is the third time Mark Tully has attended the Maha MON Kumbh Mela, which happens every twelve years. In this MON programme he continues to document how the old and the new MON intertwine in India, past, present and future. MON MON Producer: Adam Fowler MON An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Thinking of Leaving Your Husband? b00rxf3w (Listen) MON Lobster Thermidor MON MON Sarah's first experience of internet dating has gone MON horribly wrong, but undeterred she continues to use the MON site, and receives a proposal from a high court judge to go MON out and eat lobster thermidor with him. Meanwhile her MON ex-schoolfriend, Tania, is treating her less like a friend MON and more like some sort of hired servant; she is instructed MON to look after a consignment of pedigree cats that Tania MON proposes to sell at a huge profit. Some relief comes in the MON form of an unexpected visit from her two self-centred but MON irrepressible nieces Lucy and Ellie. The second episode of a MON comedy drama by Charlotte Cory starring Henry Goodman and MON Lia Williams. MON MON Sarah ... Lia Williams MON Malcolm - and all Sarah's internet dates ... Henry Goodman MON Mother ... Miriam Margolyes MON Tania ... Frances Barber MON Lucy ... Eleanor Butters MON Ellie ... Hayley Roberts MON Susie ... Elyse Blemmings MON MON Sound Design: Lucinda Mason Brown MON Original Music: David Chilton MON Director: Gordon House MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01r550x (Listen) MON A study suggests that the cost of housing has led to couples MON being forced to continue living together after their MON relationship has failed. Rising rents have made it difficult MON for many to move out and find a place of their own. The MON blood test 'expert' who says he can treat cancer yet can't MON back up his claims. A row is developing over how the MON government ranks universities, with claims that students are MON being encouraged to apply to more prestigious institutions, MON rather than those which offer the most suitable course. What MON does it mean for a university to be within the "Russell MON Group"? MON MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01r31wg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01r550z (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Baroque in Britain b01r55wq (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON It's been called the 'art of extravagance', the ultimate MON expression of status, nationhood, and religious fervour. But MON for many, the word 'Baroque' will always evoke a southern MON European sky, the masterpieces of Caravaggio, Vivaldi, MON Borromini, and Bernini. So what of the British role in this? MON Do the words 'Britain' and 'Baroque' really belong together MON at all? MON MON As part of 'Baroque Spring' on the BBC art historian Tim MON Marlow sets out to discover the essence of British Baroque, MON and the result of the collision of British reserve and our MON Protestant ethic on this most lavish of artforms. His MON journey takes him to many of the nation's greatest art MON treasures, including the summit of London's Monument built MON to commemorate the Great Fire, to the gargantuan 'Great MON Model' commissioned by Sir Christopher Wren as his vision of MON a St Paul's Cathedral which would never be, and also to MON snowy downs on the outskirts of Barnsley where a 'battle of MON the buildings' saw two houses try to outdo each other with MON the grandeur of their architectural projects. And to finish MON the week there's a glimpse of a Baroque shadow in today's MON Britain, courtesy of an extraordinary fantasy house built by MON sculptor Oriel Harwood to fulfil her own 21st-century dreams MON of spectacular art in the home. MON MON To begin the series, Marlow takes the first of five MON snapshots in time. It's 30 January 1649 and at Whitehall MON Palace the nation's balance of power is about to shift MON momentously. As Charles I walks to his execution he catches MON one final view of a masterpiece above his head, Rubens's MON famed Banqueting House ceiling. A royal life may have been MON in its last seconds, but his influence as a connoisseur and MON curator of the very best art of his day was only just MON beginning to be realised. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01r51f8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r55ws (Listen) MON Take Me to Redcar MON MON By Sarah McDonald Hughes MON MON The first in a short series of stories that each take us to MON a different part of the UK. MON MON Student Fiona can't wait to show her Mancunian boyfriend MON around her hometown of Redcar, although as soon as she MON arrives home she realises something isn't right. Her parents MON have vanished and the whole town seems to have closed up for MON the day. A surprising and unexpected answer to the mystery MON awaits her on the beach. MON MON Written by Sarah McDonald Hughes MON Produced by Charlotte Riches. MON MON Credits MON Fiona: Therase Neve MON Danny: John Catterall MON Gary: Steven Hillman MON Michelle: Melissa Jane Sinden MON Leanne: Sarah McDonald Hughes MON Rob: Oliver Devoti MON Reporter: Oliver Devoti MON Producer: Charlotte Riches MON Writer: Sarah McDonald Hughes MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01r55wv (Listen) MON The tension mounts as Russell Davies welcomes the last of MON this year's semi-finalists in the nationwide general MON knowledge quiz. One of them will take the last remaining MON place in next week's Final, and stand a real chance of MON becoming the sixtieth holder of the title Brain of Britain. MON MON Russell's questions will test their knowledge in every MON field. Will they know with which disease the immunologist MON Edward Jenner infected his subjects in the attempt to make MON them immune to smallpox? Or what the Modified Mercalli MON Intensity Scale is used to measure? MON MON As always, a listener will get the chance to win a prize by MON 'Beating the Brains', if his or her questions can stump the MON combined brainpower of the contestants. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01r50z0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Curse of the Confederacy of Dunces b01r55wx (Listen) MON The Confederacy of Dunces is one of the great comic novels MON of the 20th century; unfortunately its author did not live MON to see his work acclaimed. Frustrated by the publishing MON world's rebuffs, John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in MON 1969 unpublished, impoverished and unhinged. Twelve years MON later it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. MON MON The book, beloved by the people of New Orleans, whose people MON and their mores Toole depicted with forensic accuracy, has MON since become the book Hollywood has tried most to film and MON so far failed. The deaths of four leading actors, the murder MON one financier and even Hurricane Katrina have all intervened MON to prevent the cameras rolling. MON MON With yet another Hollywood 'A- lister' signed up to play the MON book's monstrous slob of an anti-hero, Ignatius J Reilly, MON Matthew Wells tells the story of the incredible life of a MON work that has been surrounded by so much tragedy, MON tribulation and ultimately acclaim. He examines the appeal MON of a masterpiece that's up to its 30th edition and can be MON read in 22 languages from Croatian to Catalan. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01r55wz (Listen) MON Restorative Justice MON MON Restorative Justice schemes are increasingly playing a role MON within the Criminal Justice System. They are designed to MON confront the criminal with the consequences of his or her MON actions. Sometimes they involve a meeting between the victim MON and the offenders, where victims can give their perspective MON on what has happened and offenders can seek forgiveness. MON MON Many religious groups believe that Restorative Justice MON principles resonate with their traditions. MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss Restorative Justice are Pavan MON Dhilowal, Head of Public Affairs at the British Humanist MON Society and former policy head at a think tank specialising MON in criminal justice; Khola Hassan, Media Representative at MON the Islamic Sharia Council; and Tim Newell former Governor MON of Grendon, a therapeutic prison. MON MON 17:00 PM b01r55x1 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r31wm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01r55x3 (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 5 MON MON Gyles Brandreth, Alun Cochrane, Stephen Mangan and Paul MON Merton attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, MON repetition or deviation under the watchful eye of Nicholas MON Parsons. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01r55x5 (Listen) MON Jazzer and Ed are celebrating, and Tom tries to talk. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01r55x7 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on The Incredible MON Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carell as a Las Vegas MON magician trying to revive his career. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01r550s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01r55x9 (Listen) MON The 'Easter Rising' - the Dublin Rebellion of 1916 - MON appeared to catch the British Cabinet by surprise. Writer MON and broadcaster Nick Rankin investigates what the British MON Cabinet really knew, and how. MON MON The Easter Rising is the seminal event in modern Irish MON nationalism. The execution of its leadership made it an MON enduring symbol of Irish freedom from British rule. For MON Great Britain it was a rebellion in its own backyard whilst MON fighting World War I; the fact that the Germans were MON involved in supporting the Irish rebels only added to its MON seriousness. MON MON However, it's unclear at what point the British authorities MON knew about the imminent rebellion. The Intelligence Services MON knew a lot but how much were they passing onto the Cabinet? MON MON The Royal Commission into the 1916 Easter Rebellion laid the MON blame firmly at the door of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, MON who duly resigned. Officially, the Cabinet had been caught MON unawares. But in the unpublished private papers of the Prime MON Minister Herbert Asquith's wife, Margot, we hear a different MON story. MON MON Nick Rankin pieces together the events running up to the MON Easter weekend of 1916. Joining the dots between diary MON entries, decoded messages, warning telegrams, a shipment of MON German arms, agents landed by U-Boat off the west coast of MON Ireland, he sees that the PM may well have known about the MON Rebellion in Ireland but chose not to act. He investigates MON why. MON MON Producer: Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01r5g2p (Listen) MON Three Score Years and Twenty MON MON As more and more people look forward to ever longer life, MON Analysis examines what it's like to grow old in Britain and MON what we can learn from other countries facing the same MON challenge. We've heard much about the financial issues MON around pensions or health care. But it also poses more MON fundamental questions - is Britain a good society in which MON to grow old? MON MON Will those precious extra years be a time of wellbeing or MON alienation and loneliness? And, do other parts of the world MON have strengths from which we could learn? MON MON Chris Bowlby talks to those who have a unique perspective on MON this - migrants who came to the UK in the hope of better MON prospects. They can compare British society with other MON places they know as well. Many are now weighing up what to MON do when their working lives are over. And a number do not MON expect to stay here. Their children work long hours and live MON a distance away. The three-generation homes that supported MON their own grandparents as they grew old will not be an MON option for them. Many worry that they face a lonely future. MON MON So is Britain a model for the future of a longer life? Or do MON those with a global perspective believe there are better MON places to spend your later years? MON MON Contributors : Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of MON Population Ageing), Baroness Sally Greengross (International MON Longevity Centre) & Dr Chris Murray (Global Burden of MON Disease Study). MON MON Producer : Rosamund Jones. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01r11wh (Listen) MON The first ever census on deer numbers in the country shows MON that current management of these wild animals isn't MON controlling numbers. Estimates suggest there are 1.5 million MON deer now roaming the countryside, the biggest number since MON the ice age. But to just keep this number stable more than MON 50% would have to be culled every year. Is this the only MON option to controlling these animals which are having a MON significant and detrimental effect on our woodlands and are MON the cause of thousands of road traffic accidents? Dr. Paul MON Dolman, from the University of East Anglia and the lead MON author of the new research, puts forward his case. MON MON Dr. David Clements, from Imperial College London, returns to MON the programme to highlight the success of Herschel - the MON European Space Agency's flagship Space Observatory. He was MON there at the telescope's launch - back in 2009 - and now MON will see its end as the onboard supply of helium, which MON cools the instruments, slowly runs out and the telescope MON loses its sight. MON MON Also this week, why is the potato such a successful MON vegetable that can grow in many different climates? Dr. MON Christian Bachem from the Laboratory of Plant Breeding at MON Wageningen University in the Netherlands and his team have MON found a single gene that could be responsible. Knowing that MON could make it possible to breed even more extreme varieties MON to meet our ever increasing reliance on the humble spud. MON MON Finally Dr Richard Russell, from Gettysburg College in MON Pennsylvania, may have discovered an underlying method by MON which we all guess a person's age. Writing in the Journal MON PLOS One, it seems a higher contrast between lips, eyes and MON the skin makes people look younger - something with which MON lipstick and eye shadow wearers can agree. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01r54q3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01r31wy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01r5g2r (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r5g2t (Listen) MON All the Beggars Riding, Episode 1 MON MON If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) MON MON After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself MON besieged with questions about her childhood that she never MON had the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In MON particular, questions about her father. MON When Lara and her younger brother Alfie were children, their MON father, an eminent surgeon, died in a helicopter crash. He MON had been largely absent from their lives, spending much of MON his time working in Belfast during the Troubles and only MON coming back to London two weekends a month to work at the MON Harley Street Clinic where he had first met their mother MON years before. MON For unbeknownst to her, Lara's father had another life in MON Belfast; a wife, other children: another family. MON As she delves into her parents' lives and the story of their MON relationship, Lara confronts her own past, and theirs, and MON discovers an unexpected legacy from her father's hidden MON double life. MON All the Beggars Riding is Lucy Caldwell's third novel. In MON 2011 Lucy won the The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and MON was awarded the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her MON second novel 'The Meeting Point'. A playwright and novelist MON Lucy's theatre credits include the award-winning 'Leaves', MON 'Guardians' and 'Notes to Future Self'. For radio she has MON written the Imison Award-winning 'Girl from Mars', 'Avenues MON of Eternal Peace', 'Witch Week' a dramatization of Diana MON Wynne Jones' novel for BBC Radio 4 Extra, and most recently MON she adapted her stage play 'Notes to Future Self' for Radio MON 4. MON MON Read by Anne-Marie Duff MON Abridged by Doreen Estall MON Producer Heather Larmour. MON MON 23:00 Rhymes of Passion b01r5g2w (Listen) MON Laura Barton tells the story of the passionate, obsessive MON love affair that inspired the extraordinary poetic novel By MON Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. MON MON Elizabeth Smart chanced across a book of poems by George MON Barker in a Charing Cross Road bookshop in 1939. It MON intoxicated her so much that she decided to marry him there MON and then, whoever he was. She tracked him down in Japan and MON embarked on an affair that would last for two decades and MON which led to Smart bearing four of Barker's 15 children. MON MON She would also produce the passionate prose poem By Grand MON Central Station I Sat Down and Wept detailing the affair. It MON was an underground success when it was published in the MON 1940s but became both celebrated and reviled by the MON generation of feminists in the late 1960s. MON MON Some might say Smart is an appalling role model for women, MON as she seemed utterly submissive to Barker. She was a single MON working mother of four in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. She MON moved to Europe in wartime and went on to become the highest MON paid copywriter in London. In many ways she was ahead of her MON time. MON MON In this programme, Laura Barton discovers the real story MON behind By Grand Central Station... -- a story of deceit and MON disappointment, but also, overridingly, of intense and MON passionate love. MON MON Featuring Christopher Barker, Elspeth Barker, Sebastian MON Barker, Robert Fraser, Rosemary Sullivan and Fay Weldon. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r5g2y (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 MARCH 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01r320d (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01r54q5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r320h (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r320l (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r320n (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01r320q (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r5lmd (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01r5lmg (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 b01r5lmj (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 In Defence of Bureaucracy b01r5lml (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE The former Prime Minister Tony Blair is one of many TUE high-profile contributors to the second part of Gus TUE O'Donnell's series In Defence of Bureaucracy. TUE TUE The relationship between government ministers and TUE bureaucrats in the Civil Service is at an all time low. It's TUE being described as "Whitehall at War" in one broadsheet TUE newspaper as a succession of senior politicians call for TUE wholesale reform of a system they see as dominated by TUE old-style "Sir Humphreys" acting as the permanent TUE opposition. In the second of a two part series, In Defence TUE of Bureaucracy, the former Cabinet Secretary, Gus O'Donnell, TUE argues that we should be proud of our Civil Service which TUE has made British bureaucracy the best in the world; and that TUE hasty reform risks undermining a 150 year-old tradition of TUE fairness, impartiality and accountability. TUE TUE Gus talks to, amongst others, former Prime Ministers Tony TUE Blair and John Major, and goes head to head with the man TUE leading the moves to reform the civil service, the Cabinet TUE Office Minister Francis Maude. TUE TUE Producer: Will Yates TUE A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b01kbm0n (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE In the final programme in the series, Roger Law concludes TUE his journey through China looking for the very best of the TUE country's museums, old and new. He ends up in Beijing, TUE making a visit to the city's 'Tap Water' museum to find out TUE what's on display. From there he heads off to find wonderful TUE Chinese textiles and the extraordinary sound of bells in two TUE more of the city's unusual museums, before ending up in one TUE of the finest collections of art that can be found anywhere TUE in the country. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01r715z (Listen) TUE The Last Days of Detroit, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by: John Schwab TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r5lmn (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5lnm (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 21, 1924: The Farm Near Sheffield TUE TUE The series which explores the 20th Century through the TUE diaries and correspondence of real people. The Journals of TUE Yorkshire Farm Labourer Fred Kitchen adapted by Stephen TUE Wakelam. Frequent moves are often the lot of the rural TUE worker. 1924: The Farm near Sheffield. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 11:00 Who's the Pest? b01r5lmq (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE They make up a mighty 80% of the species on earth, and at TUE any time there are ten QUINTILLION of them living. TUE TUE Meet the six-legged rulers of the world: INSECTS TUE TUE Entomologist Erica McAlister is known as Fly Girl to her TUE friends. As Curator of Flies at the Natural History Museum, TUE she knows what remarkable, strange, and diverse animals TUE insects are. But for most of us, insects are pests - TUE something we swot, or repel, or catch in a jar and hastily TUE eject from the house. In this three part series, Erica will TUE take listeners on an adventure in insect-world. It's our TUE world, but not as we know it. TUE TUE Insect world is populated by beings with superpowers - an TUE amazing sense of smell, lightning reflexes, the ability to TUE fly at dizzying speed or walk on the ceiling. And these TUE superpowers have implications for us humans - in medicine, TUE defence, food, art and architecture. They can help us to TUE live more healthily, more safely, more sustainably. TUE TUE In Episode Two, Erica asks whether we should be eating more TUE insects. TUE TUE 11:30 Feel the Chant: The Brit Funk Story b01r5lms (Listen) TUE David Grant revisits a unique era in British music when jazz TUE funk exploded onto the scene. TUE TUE With contributions from Light of the World's Gee Bello, Hi TUE Tension's Paul P, Shakatak's Bill Sharpe and Jill Saward, TUE Southern Freeez singer Ingrid Mansfield Allman, Level 42's TUE Mark King and DJ's Chris Hill, Mike Shaft and Mark 'Snowboy' TUE Cotgrove. TUE TUE The Jazz Funk scene developed from the Home Counties, TUE principally Essex, along with clubs such as Crackers in TUE London. In the South DJ Chris Hill and his Funk Mafia led TUE the way, and in the North Colin Curtis, among others, were TUE instrumental in its popularity. TUE TUE In this documentary, vocalist and presenter David Grant, who TUE was part of the UK soul outfit Linx, revisits this unique TUE era in British music which saw artists experimenting with a TUE fusion of jazz, funk, urban dance rhythm and pop hooks. TUE TUE He reveals the origins of the phrase 'Brit-Funk' and how the TUE pioneers of this sound, groups Hi Tension and Light of the TUE World, presented their music with a British twist to their TUE instrumentation and vocals. TUE TUE The Jazz funk scene was a British movement, a club culture TUE unique to these shores with no equivalent in the States. As TUE the music became popular, more and more British 12" singles TUE started to appear with a craze for white-labels. TUE TUE Grant acknowledges that Brit Funk, although considered in TUE some quarters as a pale imitation of US Jazz Funk, was TUE nonetheless ours - and heralded a new dawn in dance and pop TUE music. The term evolved from the club DJs - legendary names TUE such as Chris Hill, and James Hamilton of Record Mirror TUE whose column had a major influence in launching new records. TUE TUE With support from the club disc jockeys and labels such as TUE Ensign and Elite, artists including Light of the World, TUE Level 42, Shakatak and Freeez enjoyed chart success and made TUE regular appearances on Top of the Pops alongside the new TUE romantics and punk groups of this period. TUE TUE With club DJs gaining cult status, the scene also created TUE many 'club hits' which, although they never achieved TUE commercial success, are still remembered with great TUE affection today and discussed on music forum websites and TUE uploaded to Youtube. TUE TUE Many British based soul and dance bands found themselves TUE merging under the Brit Funk banner. These included Lynx, TUE Central Line, Imagination and Second Image - and initially TUE pop groups such as Haircut 100 and Wham tapped into the TUE style and sound to help launch their careers. TUE TUE Grant demonstrates how this scene was hugely significant in TUE cutting through racial boundaries in the clubs and was TUE instrumental in raising the profile of black and white TUE musicians working together, notably Spandau Ballet who TUE collaborated with Beggar And Co to produce the classic pop TUE song 'Chant Number One'. TUE TUE He explains how, during the success of the Jazz and Brit TUE Funk period, "chanting" materialised in the discotheque and TUE nightclub. This football crowd style of interacting with the TUE music and DJ underlined the voice of a new generation which TUE can still be felt today. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01r5lmv (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01r320x (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01r5lmx (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Baroque in Britain b01r5lmz (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01r55x5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r5ln1 (Listen) TUE Take Me to Hafod Owen TUE TUE By Meic Povey TUE TUE The second in a short series of dramas that each take us to TUE a different part of the UK. TUE TUE It's many years since Ellis Roberts has been back to Hafod TUE Owen, his childhood home, in the shadow of the mountains of TUE Snowdonia. Now he's returned to confront the reasons his TUE family were driven out of the area nearly 50 years ago, and TUE to reclaim what's rightly his. But as Ellis begins to unpick TUE the past, he discovers that not everything is as he TUE remembers it. TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ellis: Richard Elfyn TUE Davie: Ifan Huw Dafydd TUE Vicky: Christine Bottomley TUE Gwyneth: Sue Roderick TUE Director: James Robinson TUE Writer: Meic Povey TUE TUE 15:00 The Human Zoo b01r80zr (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people led by the TUE head or by the heart? How rational are we? How do we TUE perceive the world and what lies behind the quirks of human TUE behaviour? TUE TUE Michael Blastland presents a curious blend of intriguing TUE experiments to discover our biases and judgements, TUE conversations, explorations and examples taken from what's TUE in the news to what we do in the kitchen - all driven by a TUE large slice of curiosity. TUE TUE Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick TUE University, is on hand as guide and experimenter in chief. TUE TUE Our thoughts, John Milton said, are a kingdom of infinite TUE space and they might take us anywhere -whether our subject TUE is writ large, like the behaviours of public figures or the TUE contradictions of politics, or located in the minutiae of TUE everyday life. We can show how what happens on the big stage TUE is our own behaviour writ large - like the old Linda Smith TUE joke about the Iraq-war coalition's failure to find chemical TUE weapons: "I'm the same with the scissors". TUE TUE The Human Zoo explores why it is that our judgements are so TUE averse to ambiguity, how mental energy is linked to our TUE legs, why we don't want to be in the dock when the judge is TUE hungry - and other thoughts that have nothing to do with TUE anything much beyond the ironing. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01r5ln3 (Listen) TUE The House That Heats Itself TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff looks at new building materials for TUE environmentally-friendly houses and asks where you should TUE start if you want to build your own eco-home. TUE TUE Costing The Earth visits Ashton Vale in Bristol: a TUE self-built community of eco-homes to find out, ten years on, TUE if the project has been a success. TUE TUE Miranda also discovers the latest building materials and TUE techniques available to those embarking on 'grand design' TUE style projects and discovers how difficult and expensive it TUE is to build your own environment-sensitive home. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01r5ln5 (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme presented by Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01r5ln7 (Listen) TUE Robert Peston and Bernadine Evaristo TUE TUE Writer Bernadine Evaristo and BBC Business Editor Robert TUE Peston join Harriett Gilbert to discuss the merits of books TUE about infanticide, an inter-racial love affair and growing TUE up as one of the Mitford girls. TUE TUE Bernadine Evaristo has been described as as 'one of TUE Britain's most talented, innovative and successful TUE contemporary writers', drawing on her dual heritage and TUE London roots to energise and inform her work. Her seven TUE books include 'The Emperor's Babe' and 'Blonde Roots'. Her TUE choice for 'A Good Read' is 'The Boy Next Door' by Irene TUE Sabatini, the story of a turbulent love affair between a TUE mixed race girl and her white, casually racist, neighbour, TUE set in newly independent Zimbabwe. TUE TUE Robert Peston is the BBC's Business Editor, a multi-award TUE winning journalist and writer. He chooses a book by his late TUE wife, Sian Busby which explores the true story of a TUE distressing family secret. Her great-grandmother was sent to TUE Broadmoor for the murder of twin babies in 1919, whom she TUE drowned in a bathtub when suffering from post-natal TUE depression. Busby's book 'The Cruel Mother' explores the TUE personal and historical context of the story. TUE TUE Harriett's choice this week is 'Hons and Rebels' by Jessica TUE Mitford, a memoir of her eccentric upbringing and approach TUE to life as a controversial writer, civil rights activist and TUE political campaigner. TUE TUE The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini TUE TUE Published by Hodder TUE TUE The Cruel Mother by Sian Busby TUE TUE Published by Short Books TUE TUE Hons & Rebels by Jessica Mitford TUE TUE Published by Phoenix Books TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01r5ln9 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r3212 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Elvenquest b01r5lnp (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Bard TUE TUE The Questers find themselves in possession of the magical TUE Dagger of Razzak-Dar, which kills anyone it touches, and TUE realise this might be a golden opportunity to use it on Lord TUE Darkness. The problem is, Lord Darkness' castle is TUE impentrable. TUE TUE Luckily, Lord Darkness is looking for a new bard to soothe TUE his nerves, so decides to hold a talent contest so throws TUE open the doors of his castle to welcome applicants. TUE TUE If only one of the Questers had any musical or acting TUE experience. TUE TUE Enter Penthiselea, stage left... TUE TUE Starring: TUE Darren Boyd as Vidar TUE Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech TUE Dave Lamb as Amis/The Vet/Grunter TUE Stephen Mangan as Sam TUE Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness TUE and TUE Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea TUE TUE Written by James Cary TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01r5lpv (Listen) TUE Elona is feeling low, and Brenda is having a bad day. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01r5lpx (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Penny Murphy. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5lnm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01r5lpz (Listen) TUE Mali: Europe's Terror Threat TUE TUE The French authorities acknowledge their intervention in TUE Mali has made them terrorist target number one. In recent TUE weeks, the country has raised its threat level - with high TUE visibility police patrols at tourist destinations and TUE government buildings - and a number of people suspected of TUE planning to join Islamic extremists in Mali have been TUE arrested. TUE TUE Jenny Cuffe examines concerns in France both about the rise TUE of Islamist extremism and the tough action the authorities TUE are taking in response. Last October, police uncovered bomb TUE making equipment following a grenade attack on a Jewish TUE butchers in Paris. Eight months earlier, extremist Mohamed TUE Merah killed three soldiers and a rabbi and three children TUE outside a Jewish school in Toulouse. Meanwhile more than 100 TUE imams deemed to be dangerous have been deported in the last TUE ten years and several more are currently under threat of TUE being expelled. TUE TUE The programme also examines the threat to the UK. Jihadist TUE groups in North Africa have warned that they will target TUE supporters of the French action in Mali. The British TUE Government is currently seeking to deport a number of TUE Algerian terror suspects and authorities are also TUE investigating reports that a British man has been arrested TUE trying to make his way to join jihadists fighting in Mali. TUE TUE Presenter: Jenny Cuffe TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01r5lq1 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01r5lq3 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 In Defence of Bureaucracy b01r5lml (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01r3217 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01r5lqp (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r76bc (Listen) TUE All the Beggars Riding, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Anne-Marie Duff TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall TUE Producer Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 23:00 Our Woman in Norton Tripton b01r5lqr (Listen) TUE A New Comedy starring Jenny Eclair as jaded community TUE website journalist Ros Moss. TUE TUE Washed up Fleet Street Journalist Ros has ended up back in TUE her childhood village of Norton Tripton. The only job she TUE can get is working for her loathed ex-sister-in-law who runs TUE the local tourist website. Ros and her nerdy cameraman Keith TUE visit Tammington Towers, the location of the cult horror TUE film "Woman in a Petticoat. They discover that things are TUE still going bump in the night ... TUE TUE Ros ..... Jenny Eclair TUE Keith ..... Mark Heap TUE Debra ..... Felicity Montagu TUE Dolly ..... Marlene Sidaway TUE Mrs Tammington ..... Liza Sadovy TUE Mr. Tammington ..... Ben Crowe TUE TUE Written by Jenny Éclair and Julie Balloo TUE Producer: Liz Webb. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r5lqt (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01r3234 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01r715z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r3236 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r3239 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r323c (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01r323f (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r5lmd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01r5nfy (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anna Varle. WED WED 06:00 Today b01r5ng0 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01r5ng2 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01r71hv (Listen) WED The Last Days of Detroit, Episode 3 WED WED Read by: John Schwab WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r5ng4 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5ng6 (Listen) WED Writing the Century 21, 1925: Fresh Pastures WED WED The series which explores the 20th Century through the WED diaries and correspondence of real people. The Journals of WED Yorkshire Farm Labourer Fred Kitchen adapted by Stephen WED Wakelam. Fred is now the Poet of the Cowshed. 1925: Fresh WED Pastures. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01r5ng8 (Listen) WED Series 12, Wheelchair Pusher Needed WED WED "Pusher needed for Silly Old Fart in Wheelchair". WED WED When Terry Chambers became wheelchair-bound after a stroke, WED he needed someone to push him through the streets of Crouch WED End in North London. He already had one carer but it wasn't WED enough. So he placed this jokey advert in the local WED newsagent's window and found Robert. WED WED Terry may describe himself as a silly old fart but he used WED to be a highly successful photographer. He took pictures of WED the Royal Family and many other famous faces. He would WED travel the world, going wherever the work was, too busy for WED a wife or family. And he was a regular in the wine bars and WED restaurants of the West End of London. WED WED But three years ago his career was ended by the stroke. He WED can't walk and has limited movement in his hands. He needs WED help with everything. However, Terry still wants a semblance WED of the life he had before- the wine bars, the alcohol and WED the good lunches in particular.He can't get as far as he WED used to, so he stays around the area of Crouch End where WED he's lived for over 40 years. That's where Robert comes in- WED helping him get out and about. WED WED Robert didn't start out as a carer. For decades, his work WED was in construction, building roads and pavements and WED refurbishing offices. Then a friend suggested he would be WED good at looking after people and he never looked back. At WED the start of the day he helps Terry wash, gets him dressed WED and prepares medicine for him. Then it's time to push the WED wheelchair out of the flat for the day for Terry to visit a WED wine bar- perhaps two- have a good lunch and some fun in the WED afternoon. WED WED Alan Dein follows the pair of them as they navigate the WED streets and finds out how Terry's stroke has altered his WED landscape. How has his view of the world changed now that he WED is sitting in a wheelchair? And what are the qualities that WED make a really good pusher....? WED WED Producer: Emma Kingsley. WED WED 11:30 Twitterpated! b01g4df7 (Listen) WED It's seventy years since Friend Owl (in the film Bambi) WED identified a phenomenon that has been evident in nature WED since the earliest times. With the spring thaw, Bambi and WED Thumper are bewildered by the giddy skittishness of the WED creatures of the forest. Owl enlightens them... WED WED "They're twitterpated! Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in WED the springtime ... you're walking along, minding your own WED business. You're looking neither to the left, nor to the WED right, when all of a sudden you run smack into a pretty WED face. Woo-woo! You begin to get weak in the knees. Your WED head's in a whirl ... You're knocked for a loop!" "Gosh, WED that's awful", says Thumper. WED WED Young couples share their stories of falling in love in the WED springtime - Sandy and Alex are still students, WED head-over-heels and planning a life together; Jo and Amit WED were 'knocked for a loop' under a tree surrounded by WED squirrels and birds. WED WED Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher traces the behaviour WED described by Friend Owl back to humanity's origins and finds WED evidence of its effect in our brain chemistry. Woodland WED ranger Simon Bateman, on a sunny spring morning, finds the WED promise of new life in the flora and fauna under his WED protection. WED WED Produced by Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01r5ngb (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01r323l (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01r5ngd (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Baroque in Britain b01r5ngg (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED He was our greatest Baroque musical hero, and yet Handel WED wasn't even British by birth. Tim Marlow and historian Ruth WED Smith travel back to 1711 and the premiere of the opera WED which was to launch the composer's stage career in England. WED But why did Italian music theatre in the hands of a German WED prove to be exactly what British audiences wanted to hear? WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01r5lpv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r5ngj (Listen) WED Take Me to the North Laine WED WED by Ed Harris. WED The last in a short series of stories that each take us to a WED different part of the UK. WED WED He hasn't told anyone, but today is Charles' last early WED shift, sweeping the streets of the North Laine in Brighton. WED This afternoon he's leaving. Forever. All he wants to do is WED get to the Pavilion Gardens for dawn, to say goodbye WED properly. But it's not going to be that simple. WED WED Directed by Abigail le Fleming WED WED Credits WED Charles: Jeff Rawle WED Dennis: Gerard McDermott WED Ziggy: John MacMillan WED Penny: Lizzy Watts WED Cabbie: Will Howard WED Drunk Man: Will Howard WED Director: Abigail le Fleming WED Writer: Ed Harris WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01r5ngl (Listen) WED Retirement income choices WED WED How can you use your pension savings to maximise your WED retirement income? What are the best options for you? Call WED 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED The National Association of Pension Funds claim that savers WED are being short-changed by an unfair and opaque annuity WED system and that simply shopping around for an annuity could WED boost your annual pension income by 30%. WED WED To help consumers the Association of British Insurers (ABI) WED has this month introduced a compulsory Code of Conduct on WED Retirement Choices, so what should happen as you approach WED retirement and what are the considerations? WED WED When is the best time to take your pension and what are the WED benefits and risks of deferring? WED WED How much can you take as a lump sum and will this reduce WED your future income? WED WED What are the different types of annuity, are you entitled to WED a higher rate due to ill health or lifestyle and are you WED able to provide for a spouse, civil partner or a dependant? WED WED Can you keep your pension fund invested and drawdown money? WED What are the rules and how much will it cost? WED WED To better understand your retirement choices, call 03 700 WED 100 444 on Wednesday, phone lines are open between 1pm and WED 3.30pm. Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from WED mobiles may be higher. WED WED Presenter Vincent Duggleby will put your questions to the WED experts: WED WED Billy Burrows, Director, Better Retirement Group WED Michelle Cracknell, Group Commercial Director, WED Lift-Financial WED Malcolm McLean, Consultant, Barnett Waddingham WED WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED Contact the Money Box Live Team WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01r5lq3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01r5px8 (Listen) WED Guatemalan cemetery; Art auctions WED WED Art Auctions - How do auctioneers and buyers transact sales WED in seconds? Laurie Taylor hears from Professor Christian WED Heath who discusses his detailed study into the tools and WED techniques which lead to the strike of a hammer. They're WED joined by the arts writer and critic, Georgina Adam. Also, WED the Guatemalan cemetery with no more room. The growth of the WED city combined with high death and murder rates means the WED cemetery is overflowing. The anthropologist, Kevin O'Neill, WED talks about the harsh effects of an aggressive policy of WED disinterment when poor relatives can't pay the dues. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01r5pxb (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01r5pxd (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r323r (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dilemma b01r5pxg (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 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 Roisin Conaty changing WED history; journalist Samira Ahmed dip into the archives; WED member of sketch team The Penny Dreadfuls David Reed get WED injust justice; and comedian and host of Radio 4's The WED Infinite Monkey Cage Robin Ince learn about a maths WED teacher's non-standard deviation. 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 b01r5pxj (Listen) WED Emma is ecstatic. Meanwhile Ed springs a surprise. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01r5pxl (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including news of a new Literature Prize WED open to writers in English from around the world. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5ng6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01r5pxn (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Matthew Taylor and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01r5pxq (Listen) WED Loretta Minghella WED WED In the fourth of this year's Lent Talks, the Director of WED Christian Aid, Loretta Minghella, considers the abandonment WED of self and the need to face who we truly are. 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; Alexander McCall Smith considers how you can feel WED abandoned by society as you grow older; the journalist and WED broadcaster, Benjamin Cohen, reflects on the fear of being WED abandoned by his own Jewish community, for being gay; Imam WED Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM WED Forces, who has just returned from Afghanistan, explores the WED total abandonment experienced by both sides as a result of WED war and, finally, Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's WED Piccadilly, explores the relationship between abandonment WED and betrayal. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01r5ln3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01r5ng2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01r323x (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01r5pxs (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r76ll (Listen) WED All the Beggars Riding, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Anne-Marie Duff WED Abridged by Doreen Estall WED Producer Heather Larmour. WED WED 23:00 Terry Pratchett's Eric b01r5pxv (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Adapted by Robin Brooks. WED WED Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a WED technicolour imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially WED when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric. WED WED 2/ 4 Young Eric Thursley wants to rule the world, and junior WED wizard Rincewind actually manages to magic him up a tribal WED kingdom among the Tezumen, in the rainforests of Klatch. But WED all that changes when they meet the Tezumen's bloodthirsty WED deity: Quetzovercoatl. WED WED Rincewind ..... Mark Heap WED Eric ..... Will Howard WED Parrot ..... Ben Crowe WED Ponce Da Quirm ..... Jack Klaff WED Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie WED Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford WED Quetzovercoatl ..... Robert Blythe WED Narrator ..... Rick Warden WED Director ..... Jonquil Panting. WED WED 23:15 Jigsaw b01r5pxx (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine piece together WED a selection of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by WED Colin Anderson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r5pxz (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 MARCH 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01r325v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01r71hv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r3261 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r3265 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r3269 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01r326f (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r5qbv (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01r5qbx (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 06:00 Today b01r5qbz (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01r5qc1 (Listen) THU Chekhov THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of THU Anton Chekhov. Born in 1860, Chekhov trained as a doctor THU and for most of his adult life divided his time between THU medicine and writing. Best known for plays including The THU Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters, he is also celebrated THU today as one of the greatest of short story writers, and as THU an outstanding representative of the literary tradition of THU Russian realism. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01r71z1 (Listen) THU The Last Days of Detroit, Episode 4 THU THU Read by: John Schwab THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r5qc3 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5qc5 (Listen) THU Writing the Century 21, 1933: Hot Spell THU THU The series which explores the 20th Century through the THU diaries and correspondence of real people. The Journals of THU Yorkshire Farm Labourer Fred Kitchen adapted by Stephen THU Wakelam. Fred has been encouraged in his writing by a WEA THU tutor. 1933: Hot Spell. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Fred: Ralph Ineson THU Ethel: Sarah Thom THU Ratcliff: Will Howard THU Director: David Hunter THU Producer: David Hunter THU Writer: Stephen Wakelam THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01r5qc7 (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 I Wandered Lonely as a Cat: Poetry and Jazz b01r5s1p (Listen) THU Ian McMillan has always been intrigued and excited by the THU idea of Poetry and Jazz since he heard an LP of Pete Morgan THU and the Dick Rawdon Quintet in the 1970's. In this THU programme, he explores the history of the form from the THU Harlem Renaissance and the San Francisco beats, via the THU English version of the form with Pete Brown and Michael THU Horovitz; he discusses the relationship between rhythmic THU words and rhythmic music with the jazz singer Barb Jungr and THU by the end of the show he feels confident enough to make his THU own contribution to a minority, but swinging, art, with the THU aid of a walking bass. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01r5s1r (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson and Joel Moors. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01r326y (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01r5s1t (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Baroque in Britain b01r5s1w (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU It's 1734, and a British diplomat has seen an expected THU inheritance slip through his fingers. But Thomas Wentworth THU is ready to put up a fight, in the shape of a 'battle of the THU buildings' with his Yorkshire rival. Tim Marlow visits the THU outskirts of Barnsley to explore the results, guided by THU historian Patrick Eyres. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01r5pxj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r5s1y (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 4, Bleaker Lake THU THU by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU Episode 4: Bleaker Lake THU THU The showdown. At Bleaker Lake, where Merlin is held sealed THU up under the water, Pilgrim hopes to find an end, at least THU to the war of attrition with Birdie, at best to his own THU immortality. THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole THU THU The last of the fourth series of four thrillingly dark THU adventures. Pilgrim, cursed with immortality by the King of THU the Greyfolk, is forever forced to walk between the human THU world and the world of Faerie in a never-ending quest to THU preserve the uneasy balance between the two. In this series, THU armed with the Abaeron, a book of incredibly powerful magic THU that protects its owner above all else, he can finally THU challenge Mr Speed who has stolen generations of brides from THU one family, separate devoted parents from their very strange THU new changeling baby, put a giant to sleep, and locate THU Merlin, the figure most feared in all the Faerie world. Hard THU tasks at the best of times, but Pilgrim must also contend THU with the relentless malice of the sorceress Mrs Pleasance THU and the devious cunning of the King of the Greyfolk himself. THU THU Credits THU William Palmer: Paul Hilton THU Birdie: Kate Fleetwood THU Cliff: Philip Jackson THU Harmony: Lizzy Watts THU Randell: Carl Prekopp THU Hunnicutt: Patrick Brennan THU Girl: Agnes Bateman THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01r5s20 (Listen) THU Series 23, Michael Wettike - Barefoot Walker THU THU Michael Wettike tries to persuade Clare Balding of the THU benefits of barefoot walking on a wintry wander in the West THU Country. THU THU They meet at the church of St Andrew in Compton Bishop, near THU Weston-super-Mare, and walk from there to Crook Peak. THU Accompanied by Michael's permanently barefoot companion, THU Woody, Clare and Michael strip off from the ankles down and THU revel in the unusual pleasure of walking barefoot. THU THU Michael is certain that by 'earthing' himself regularly he THU maintains a high level of health and well-being. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01r50yp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01r51f2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01r5s22 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01r5s24 (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 b01r5s26 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r327b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b01r5s28 (Listen) THU Series 9, How to Be a Man in the 21st Century 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 The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by THU Jeremy's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler. 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 b01r5s2b (Listen) THU Tom hears some home truths, and Josh steps into the breach. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01r5s2d (Listen) THU John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5qc5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01r5ln5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01r5s2g (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 Who's the Pest? b01r5lmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01r5qc1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01r327q (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01r5s2j (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r77x0 (Listen) THU All the Beggars Riding, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Anne-Marie Duff THU Abridged by Doreen Estall THU Producer Heather Larmour. THU THU 23:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b01r5s2l (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Last year, comedian Bridget Christie noticed that misogyny, THU like shiny leggings, had made an unexpected comeback. But THU did it ever really go away? Bridget Christie Minds the Gap THU is a new four-part stand up comedy series on the state of THU British feminism today. THU THU In episode two Bridget considers women and their day-to-day THU relationships with each other, via an organic herb puff THU snack, a church pew and a bag of dirty laundry. THU THU Fred MacAuley helps her remember some of the key incidents THU which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms. THU THU Producers; Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r5s2n (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 MARCH 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01r32b2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01r71z1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r32b4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r32b6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r32bb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01r32bd (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r5q27 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01r5q29 (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 b01r5q3h (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01r50yy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01r7284 (Listen) FRI The Last Days of Detroit, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by: John Schwab FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r5q42 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5q86 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 21, 1938: Remarkable Events FRI FRI The series which explores the 20th Century through the FRI diaries and correspondence of real people. The Journals of FRI Yorkshire Farm Labourer Fred Kitchen adapted by Stephen FRI Wakelam. Writing is beginning to take a bigger role in FRI Fred's life. 1938: Remarkable Events. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 Speculating the Emerald Isle b01r5q88 (Listen) FRI Take a trip around the island of Ireland, to the most FRI picturesque spots: Rathlin Island on the north coast, near FRI the Giant's Causeway; Kerry on the west; south, through FRI Cork; and to the east to Dublin and the exclusive residence FRI of Dalkey. What each of these stunningly beautiful spots FRI have in common is that they are being explored. Not just by FRI tourists though. Oil speculators are on the scene. Could FRI this oil 'bonanza' be the answer to Ireland's economic FRI problems and if so, who will benefit? And at what cost? BBC FRI Ireland reporter Andy Martin investigates. FRI FRI Producer: Claire Burgoyne. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b01r5q9k (Listen) FRI Series 4, Musical FRI FRI by Nigel Williams. Sam has won the lottery and is infatuated FRI with his personal banker who suggests he invest some of his FRI lottery win in a musical. Sam is keen. But Peter refuses to FRI sing from the same sheet. FRI FRI Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost FRI Michael ..... Rick Warden FRI Telephone banker ..... Ben Crowe FRI Telephone voice .... Lizzy Watts FRI FRI Director: Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01r5q9m (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01r32bk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01r5q9p (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 Baroque in Britain b01r5s6p (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Did the Baroque really die out for good or might it still be FRI with us today? Tim Marlow meets a sculptor, a set designer FRI and a modern-day highwayman, all of them imbued with the FRI spirit of Europe's opulence and theatricality of the 17th FRI and 18th centuries. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01r5s2b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r5qgm (Listen) FRI Mr Bridger's Orphan FRI FRI Commissioned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the FRI death of Noel Coward, Mr Bridger's Orphan tells a surprising FRI and little-known story from his life. It's 1968 and Coward FRI is in Dublin to play the chief gangster in the film The FRI Italian Job. But why has the urbane actor and playwright, in FRI failing health, accepted the role? FRI FRI The play tells the story of how his involvement in the movie FRI emerged from a significant encounter during Coward's dynamic FRI and humane twenty-year Presidency of the Actors' Orphanage, FRI revealing the down-to-earth man behind the sometimes waspish FRI and rarefied public persona. FRI FRI Between 2000 and 2008 playwright Marcy Kahan wrote a quintet FRI of comic plays about Noel Coward for BBC R4, each set in a FRI different city at a different stage of his life. Design for FRI Murder was a 1930s backstage murder mystery; Blithe Spy took FRI him to New York on an wartime espionage adventure, FRI consistent with his real-life work for British Security FRI Co-ordination; A Bullet At Balmain's interrupted his 1947 FRI Paris stage debut with the death of a fashion-house FRI mannequin; Death At the Desert Inn distracted him from his FRI 1955 Las Vegas cabaret debut with the death of a chorus FRI girl; Our Man in Jamaica re-enlisted him as a spy in 1961, FRI as part of his neighbour Ian Fleming's outlandish plot to FRI destabilise Fidel Castro. FRI FRI Mr Bridger's Orphan reunites the cast of the Coward quintet: FRI Noel Coward is played by Malcolm Sinclair; his devoted FRI secretary Lorn Loraine by Eleanor Bron; and his devoted Man FRI Friday, Cole Lesley, by Tam Williams. and it also features FRI young Finlay Christie, who's making a name for himself as FRI one of our youngest stand up comedians, and who stars in the FRI Radio 4 comedy series the Gobetweenies. FRI FRI The play is directed by Marilyn Imrie. FRI FRI Producer Marilyn Imrie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Noel Coward: Malcolm Sinclair FRI Lorn Loraine: Eleanor Bron FRI Cole Lesley: Tam Williams FRI Actor: Finlay Christie FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Writer: Marcy Kahan FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01r5ql4 (Listen) FRI Alexandra Palace FRI FRI This week the GQT team visit Alexandra Palace, in North FRI London, with Eric Robson in the chair. On the panel are FRI Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Maiden City Stories b01r5qzc (Listen) FRI Are You Going to Knock? FRI FRI Three new short stories, specially commissioned by BBC Radio FRI 4 to celebrate Derry~Londonderry's status as UK City of FRI Culture, from some of the city's leading literary figures. FRI Seamus Deane, Jennifer Johnston and Brian McGilloway each FRI bring us a new short story, recorded in front of an audience FRI in the city's Verbal Arts Centre. FRI FRI Are you Going to Knock? FRI By Jennifer Johnston FRI Read by Patricia Levenson FRI Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01r5qzm (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01r5r11 (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 b01r5r13 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r32bn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01r5r15 (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Laura FRI Shavin and Nathan Caton to present a comic run through the FRI week's news. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01r5r2k (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Ben Archer ..... Thomas Lester FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond 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 Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Des Chapman ..... Ben Crowe. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01r5r5g (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI Producer Penny Murphy. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01r5q86 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01r5r5j (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Ayr in Scotland with businessman Digby Jones, Bis FRI Minister Jo Swinson MP, Political Editor at The Spectator FRI magazine James Forsyth and Joan McAlpine MSP from the FRI Scottish National Party. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01r5r5l (Listen) FRI Lisa Jardine reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b00fr7kx (Listen) FRI Giving Up the Ghost FRI FRI By Lynne Truss. FRI FRI In a house full of carbon monoxide, firefighter Scott gets FRI separated from his colleagues and begins to experience the FRI last terrible moments of his friend Jacko's life, who had FRI died in similar circumstances eight months earlier. FRI FRI Scott ...... Adrian Bower FRI Alan ...... Struan Rodger FRI Philip ...... Jeff Rawle FRI Giggsy ...... Joe Absolom FRI Mike ...... Brendan Charleson FRI H/Jacko ...... Richard Nichols FRI Lucy ...... Sara McGaughey FRI FRI Directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01r32bw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01r5r8t (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r78by (Listen) FRI All the Beggars Riding, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Anne-Marie Duff FRI Abridged by Doreen Estall FRI Producer Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01r5ln7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r5r8w (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
08 March, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 09/03/2013 - 15/03/2013
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)