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SAT SATURDAY 16 MARCH 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01r524n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01r7284 (Listen) SAT The Last Days of Detroit, Episode 5 SAT SAT The city of Detroit has suffered like no other US city; it's SAT post-industrial decline, rapid and relentless, chronicled by SAT photographers and journalists alike. SAT SAT Detroit had been the beacon city of the 20th century, home SAT to the massive Ford plant which, in the 20 years from 1908, SAT produced 15 million Model T Ford cars, and put a nation on SAT the road. In 1928, with skyscrapers dominating the city SAT skyline, you could justifiably have called Detroit the most SAT modern city in the world. SAT SAT But by the time Berry Gordy founded Motown Records in 1959 - SAT the other great Detroit bequest along with the auto industry SAT - the city was already in inexorable decline. The 1967 riots SAT - at the time the worst in US history - did not cause the SAT problems, but did highlight them. The big three car SAT companies had largely gone elsewhere; bereft of finance, SAT urban planning was in meltdown; corruption was rife; and SAT racial tensions were running high. SAT SAT After a break of 16 years, Mark Binelli returned to live in SAT the city whose suburbs he grew up in. He found an urban SAT prairie, with 90,000 ravaged and empty buildings, a school SAT system that was impoverished and a crime rate second to none SAT in the US. But Binelli also discovered a new Detroit SAT emerging; with urban farms and a vibrant arts scene. Is a SAT new future, he wondered, being wrought on the SAT post-industrial frontier? SAT SAT Mark Binelli is the author of the novel Sacco and Vanzetti SAT Must Die! and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and SAT Men's Journal. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he has SAT now, after three years back in Detroit, moved to New York SAT City. SAT SAT Read by: John Schwab SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r524q (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r524s (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r524v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01r524x (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r5rj0 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father SAT Martin Graham. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01r5rj2 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01r524z (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01r5251 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01r5s20 (Listen) SAT Series 23, Michael Weltike - Barefoot Walker SAT SAT Michael Weltike tries to persuade Clare Balding of the SAT benefits of barefoot walking on a wintry wander in the West SAT Country. SAT SAT They meet at the church of St Andrew in Compton Bishop, near SAT Weston-super-Mare, and walk from there to Crook Peak. SAT Accompanied by Michael's permanently barefoot companion, SAT Woody, Clare and Michael strip off from the ankles down and SAT revel in the unusual pleasure of walking barefoot. SAT SAT Michael is certain that by 'earthing' himself regularly he SAT maintains a high level of health and well-being. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01r91qc (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01r5253 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01r91qf (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01r91qh (Listen) SAT Alain de Botton and JJ Williams' Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams talk to Alain de Botton SAT about his new 'Manifesto for Atheists' and his desire to SAT popularise challenging subjects like science, philosophy and SAT architecture- amongst other things. They hear from two SAT former Birmingham gang members about how they got out of the SAT vicious cycle of gang life, meet Devon based composer David SAT Haines and find out about how he brings popular engagement SAT with science through song- he's the songwriter in residence SAT at the MIT science festival in the US in a few weeks time, SAT thrill to a Saturday Live Society: this week the 'Friends of SAT the Newport Ship' who rescued, conserved and now plan to SAT rebuild a 15th ship found when the orchestra pit for a SAT theatre was being dug next to the river Usk in Newport, SAT Wales, listen to Welsh rugby legend J.J. Williams as he SAT shares his Inheritance Tracks and journey with John McCarthy SAT to the Watts Gallery in Compton Surrey to explore the SAT largely forgotten genius of Victorian artist, GF Watts. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 I Dressed Ziggy Stardust b01r91qk (Listen) SAT For more than four decades, David Bowie has entranced his SAT followers. As he releases his first new material in ten SAT years, Samira Ahmed looks at his particular appeal for SAT British Asian women. SAT SAT Across the generations, they have been inspired by the SAT skinny South Londoner who challenged gender barriers and who SAT played with alien identity and other worldliness. Beneath SAT the make up and exotic costumes, he was also the SAT intelligent, politely spoken suburban young man who you SAT could potentially introduce to your mother. SAT SAT As Samira explores Bowie's impact on British Asian SAT teenagers, she talks to Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of SAT 'Liberty', about Bowie's changing identities. Sociologist SAT Rupa Huq tackles his suburban psychoses and Shyama Perera SAT takes Samira on a journey to explain how her teenage SAT obsession with Bowie even extended to sending costume SAT designs to her hero - enabling her arguably to claim that "I SAT Dressed Ziggy Stardust". SAT SAT Presenter: Samira Ahmed SAT Producer: Alice Bloch SAT A Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01r91qm (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT Budgets create a great flurry of expectation around them, SAT but more often than not it's the politics rather than the SAT sums that matter. That at least is former chancellor Lord SAT Lawson's view, which he takes up with financial journalist SAT Bill Keegan. SAT Ed Miliband announced a new policy of creating regional SAT banks this week so is he now moving forward on fleshing out SAT Labour policy for the next election? Labour MP Tristram Hunt SAT and Demos chief David Goodhart with their views. SAT And speaking of election campaigns how will the campaign for SAT and against Independence for Scotland manage to keep going SAT until the autumn of 2014? MP and deputy leader of the SAT Scottish Labour party Anas Sarwar, and Yes Scotland chief SAT Executive Blair Jenkins, on how they'll do it. SAT Plus loyalty and friendship amongst MPs. 2 Liberal SAT Democrats, MP Annette Brooke and former MP Evan Harris SAT reflect on the Chris Huhne case. SAT SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01r91qp (Listen) SAT Millions of Zimbabweans vote on a new constitution - Andrew SAT Harding, in Harare, quotes one government minister saying SAT the document is the 'midwife' to a brand new future for the SAT country. Jonathan Head talks of Burma's most famous SAT resident, the Nobel prizewinner Aung San Suu Kyi. Once SAT revered as an icon, now she's having to get used to being SAT heckled as she goes about her work as a politician. Louisa SAT Loveluck talks of the crumbling Egyptian railway system and SAT how it is starting to tarnish the reputation of the new SAT government led by Mohammed Morsi. More than a billion SAT Indians are about to get bran d new state of the art SAT identity cards. Peter Day says it's a bold move by the SAT government -- but will it be a successful one? People in SAT Jerusalem are awaiting the imminent arrival of Barack Obama. SAT Kevin Connolly speculates on what may emerge from the trip SAT and wonders if, afterwards, streets will be named in honour SAT of the American president! SAT The programme is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01r91qr (Listen) SAT Pricey phone lines, shock council tax bills, insurers SAT overcharging, and investing tips SAT SAT DWP pricey phone lines, shock council tax bills for empty SAT homes, senior MP hits out at insurers that routinely SAT overcharge loyal customers, and investing tips for the new SAT tax year. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01r5r15 (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin, Maeve Higgins and Nathan Caton to present the a SAT comic run through the week's news. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01r5255 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01r5257 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01r5r5j (Listen) SAT Margaret Curran, James Forsyth, Joan McAlpine, Jo Swinson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Ayr in Scotland with businessman Digby Jones, Bis SAT Minister Jo Swinson MP, Political Editor at The Spectator SAT magazine James Forsyth and Joan McAlpine MSP from the SAT Scottish National Party. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01r91qt (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere b01r527b (Listen) SAT London Below SAT SAT Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A SAT subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube SAT stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere. SAT SAT An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his SAT ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of SAT London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, SAT Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the SAT strange world of London Below. SAT SAT So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath SAT the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube SAT cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the SAT inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen SAT through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. SAT Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and SAT Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of SAT the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of SAT London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington. SAT SAT Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, SAT the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard SAT embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the SAT clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to SAT discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the SAT while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in SAT London Above. SAT SAT A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk SAT Maggs for Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra, sees James McAvoy as SAT Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, SAT David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, SAT Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard SAT Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy SAT Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis. SAT SAT All episodes will be available to catch up on demand until SAT 29 March 2013. SAT SAT Credits SAT Richard Mayhew: James McAvoy SAT Lady Door: Natalie Dormer SAT Marquis de Carabas: David Harewood SAT Hunter: Sophie Okonedo SAT Croup: Anthony Head SAT Vandemar: David Schofield SAT Old Bailey: Bernard Cribbins SAT Jessica: Romola Garai SAT Gary: Paul Chequer SAT Anaesthesia: Yasmin Page SAT Lord Ratspeaker: Johnny Vegas SAT Iliaster: Paul Stonehouse SAT Varney: Stephen Marcus SAT Letting Agent: Stephen Marcus SAT Sylvia: Karen Archer SAT Lord Portico: John Glover SAT Mr Figgis: Neil Gaiman SAT Fop (with no name): Neil Gaiman SAT Director: Dirk Maggs SAT Producer: Heather Larmour SAT Writer: Neil Gaiman SAT SAT 15:30 Feel the Chant: The Brit Funk Story b01r5lms (Listen) SAT David Grant revisits a unique era in British music when jazz SAT funk exploded onto the scene. SAT SAT With contributions from Light of the World's Gee Bello, Hi SAT Tension's Paul P, Shakatak's Bill Sharpe and Jill Saward, SAT Southern Freeez singer Ingrid Mansfield Allman, Level 42's SAT Mark King and DJ's Chris Hill, Mike Shaft and Mark 'Snowboy' SAT Cotgrove. SAT SAT The Jazz Funk scene developed from the Home Counties, SAT principally Essex, along with clubs such as Crackers in SAT London. In the South DJ Chris Hill and his Funk Mafia led SAT the way, and in the North Colin Curtis, among others, were SAT instrumental in its popularity. SAT SAT In this documentary, vocalist and presenter David Grant, who SAT was part of the UK soul outfit Linx, revisits this unique SAT era in British music which saw artists experimenting with a SAT fusion of jazz, funk, urban dance rhythm and pop hooks. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01r93sf (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01r93sh (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01r5s2g (Listen) SAT Turnarounds SAT SAT Evan Davis asks his guests what it takes to rescue a sinking SAT company. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01r5259 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01r525c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r525f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01r93sk (Listen) SAT Joey Skaggs, Kevin Eldon, Pippa Haywood, Ed Stafford, Arthur SAT Smith, Stornoway, Julie Hawk SAT SAT Clive's duped by satirist, prankster and media critic Joey SAT Skaggs. As one of the originators of culture jamming, Joey's SAT famously disrupted or subverted media culture and its SAT mainstream cultural institutions. He tells Clive how he SAT managed to pull off his famous pranks, such as Cathouse for SAT Dogs and Brooklyn Bridge Lottery. Joey's a guest speaker at SAT Advertising Week Europe, which runs from Monday 18th to SAT Thursday 21st March. SAT SAT Clive needs to talk about Kevin with actor and comedian SAT Kevin Eldon, who has appeared in countless comedies; Brass SAT Eye, Big Train and Nighty Night to name just a few. He now SAT has his own sketch show, a veritable catnip for comedy SAT nerds, starring the likes of Julia Davis and Simon Day. SAT 'It's Kevin' starts on BBC 2 on Sunday 17th March at 22.30 SAT SAT Arthur Smith's castaway this week is explorer, adventurer SAT and real life Robinson Crusoe, Ed Stafford. After Walking SAT the Amazon, Ed's latest extreme survival challenge sees him SAT washed up on a desert island, south east of Fiji, with only SAT his brain, bare hands and a camera to keep him alive. 'Naked SAT and Marooned With Ed Stafford' is on each Thursday on SAT Discovery Channel at 21.00. SAT SAT Clive's banged up with actress and Mrs Brittas Pippa SAT Haywood, who's starring in the second series of BBC One's SAT 'Prisoner's Wives'. There's more porridge for Pippa, as she SAT returns to our screens as Harriet, a respectable middle-aged SAT upstanding member of the local community whose son is in SAT jail. 'Prisoner's Wives' is on Thursdays at 21.00. SAT SAT With music from Oxford Indie folksters Stornoway who lay SAT their first single 'Knock Me On The Head' from their album SAT 'Tales From Terra Firma'. SAT SAT And more musical bling from Julie Hawk who performs the SAT title track of her EP 'The Value of Gold'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01r93sm (Listen) SAT Zhang Xin SAT SAT Chris Bowlby profiles the British-educated Chinese property SAT billionaire Zhang Xin, one of the most powerful women in SAT business. She is in advanced talks to buy 40 per cent of SAT Manhattan's iconic General Motors building. SAT SAT Zhang Xin stands out as the high-profile CEO of the SAT prominent, upmarket property developer SoHoChina, which she SAT founded with her husband. Unusually for Chinese SAT billionaires, she is also a philanthropist and speaks out SAT about issues ranging from democracy to smog, in the SAT international media and on her micro-blog. SAT SAT A rags to riches story, she grew up in very modest SAT circumstances, particularly after her Chinese-Burmese SAT translator parents split up, and her mother moved her from SAT Beijing to a tiny room in Hong Kong, where she worked in a SAT factory. SAT SAT After saving up for the airfare to the UK, she was then SAT educated at Sussex and Cambridge universities, worked for SAT Goldman Sachs, and returned to China where she built up her SAT business with her husband. SAT SAT What motivates this billionaire mother-of-two to carry on SAT working, particularly as property developers are often SAT reviled in China? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01r93sp (Listen) SAT Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy SAT SAT Lee Daniels' film The Paperboy has attracted praise and boos SAT in equal measure - the latter when it was shown at Cannes. SAT It's a steamy Southern thriller with powerful performances SAT from Nicole Kidman and John Cusack. SAT SAT Kevin Maher's debut novel The Fields has already - SAT inevitably - led to comparisons with Roddy Doyle. It's a SAT darkly funny account of growing up in 80s Dublin and SAT attracting attention - some desirable, some not so. SAT SAT George Bellows is best known for his paintings of boxers but SAT he also has a reputation for capturing the lives of all SAT sorts of ordinary New Yorkers about their business or SAT leisure: diving into the polluted East River or standing at SAT the shore edge waiting for work. The first retrospective of SAT his work in this country has just opened at the Royal SAT Academy in London. SAT SAT A Thousand Miles of History is a new play on at the Bussey SAT Building in Peckham, South London. It's a portrait of the SAT lives of Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and the SAT circle of Andy Warhol - who's played in this production by SAT comedian Adam Riches. SAT SAT And In the Flesh is a new drama from BBC3 in which zombies SAT rise... and then are rehabilitated into society. But is SAT society ready for them? And will this satisfy those mourning SAT Being Human? Luke Newberry and Ricky Tomlinson star. SAT SAT The writer and broadcaster Bidisha, and novelists Deborah SAT Moggach and Dreda Say Mitchell join Tom Sutcliffe to review. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01r93sr (Listen) SAT Twenty years ago, Charles Wheeler and David Taylor, his SAT Washington based producer, were told that Richard Nixon had SAT secretly sabotaged the Vietnamese peace talks in the autumn SAT of 1968, to continue the war and ultimately strengthen his SAT chances of claiming the presidency. It was an act of SAT political espionage that cost thousands of American lives. SAT SAT Back in 1994, Wheeler and Taylor conducted their own SAT investigation, tracking down those involved to piece the SAT story together. Then they waited for the classified material SAT to be released to confirm one of the greatest acts of SAT political subterfuge in American history. SAT SAT Charles Wheeler died in 2008, before the release of key SAT White House tapes relating to the affair. Now, using these SAT newly released recordings, as well as many of the interviews SAT they recorded at the time, David Taylor pieces together this SAT intriguing story. SAT SAT On a White House tape, secretly recorded on November 2nd SAT 1968, LBJ denounces Richard Nixon as a traitor, a man with SAT blood on his hands. His Secretary of Defence, Clark SAT Clifford, tells Johnson the candidate's actions threaten SAT American democracy. Johnson fears the country is too fragile SAT to learn the truth about the Republican candidate's exploits SAT and remained silent about the affair until his death in SAT 1973. SAT SAT Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01r51f0 (Listen) SAT Esther Waters, Episode 1 SAT SAT Esther Waters by George Moore. Dramatised by Sharon Oakes SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Set against a background of gambling and horseracing; Esther SAT Waters is a stirring tale of how a servant girl makes her SAT way in Victorian England.Forced to leave the home of her SAT brutal stepfather, Esther takes a job as a maid at SAT 'Woodview', a country estate owned by a nouveau riche racing SAT family. SAT SAT Producer/Director Gary Brown SAT SAT Celebrated author Colm Toibin championed Esther Waters as a SAT neglected Classic for Radio Four's Open Book programme. He SAT encourages listeners to read the novel again because he SAT thinks it has a wonderful story with fascinating characters, SAT a heroine we'll come to know and love, and it's one of those SAT books you just can't put down. SAT SAT Esther's tale is a slice of Victorian life that is rarely SAT shown; single parenting, wet nursing, divorce, gambling, and SAT religious zealotry. Through her we discover exactly what it SAT feels like to be poor and powerless. The book was banned SAT until Gladstone revoked it, saying it was compassionate, SAT moral and humane; and after that it became a best seller. SAT SAT Credits SAT Esther: Lyndsey Marshal SAT William: Matthew McNulty SAT Sarah: Joanne Froggatt SAT Mrs Rivers: Joanne Froggatt SAT Leopold: Hugh Simon SAT George: Hugh Simon SAT Demon: Stephen Hoyle SAT Peggy: Lisa Brookes SAT Mrs Latch: Melissa Jane Sinden SAT Mrs Barfield: Melissa Jane Sinden SAT Anne: Fiona Clarke SAT Mrs Spires: Fiona Clarke SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT Writer: Sharon Oakes SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01r525h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01r5pxn (Listen) SAT The Morality of Poverty SAT SAT The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend SAT Justin Welby, has criticised the Government's plans to hold SAT welfare payment increases below inflation. SAT Along with more than 40 bishops, he argues that we have "a SAT duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in SAT need." Is that true? If it is, what does that duty demand? SAT Must we guarantee a minimum standard of living for all? SAT Should it be an absolute priority to protect children from SAT poverty? Should the government redistribute wealth from the SAT richest to the poorest, even if that damages the collective SAT prosperity of the nation? SAT Bishops in the House of Lords will attack the welfare plans SAT when they are debated on Tuesday next week. The following SAT day the Budget offers another chance to think about SAT conflicting demands. We might consider whether, in times of SAT austerity, we have a moral duty to spread the misery as SAT fairly as possible. We might also look at what we mean by SAT 'poverty'. Is the official EU definition - 'a household SAT income below 60 per cent of median income' - a trustworthy SAT guide to the point at which the state should offer its help? SAT Or should we give hand-outs only to those who would starve SAT without them? SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, SAT Matthew Taylor and Kenan Malik. Witnesses: Dr Stuart White - SAT Director of the Public Policy Unit at Oxford University, The SAT Right Rev'd Tim Stevens - Bishop of Leicester, Daniel SAT Johnson - Editor, Standpoint magazine, Dr Sheila Lawlor - SAT Director of the think-tank Politeia. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01r55wv (Listen) SAT The tension mounts as Russell Davies welcomes the last of SAT this year's semi-finalists in the nationwide general SAT knowledge quiz. One of them will take the last remaining SAT place in next week's Final, and stand a real chance of SAT becoming the sixtieth holder of the title Brain of Britain. SAT SAT Russell's questions will test their knowledge in every SAT field. Will they know with which disease the immunologist SAT Edward Jenner infected his subjects in the attempt to make SAT them immune to smallpox? Or what the Modified Mercalli SAT Intensity Scale is used to measure? SAT SAT As always, a listener will get the chance to win a prize by SAT 'Beating the Brains', if his or her questions can stump the SAT combined brainpower of the contestants. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b01r51f4 (Listen) SAT Translations SAT SAT Adventures in strong language - the best of new poetry SAT introduced by Paul Farley. The Echo Chamber has started to SAT resound. Today it is listening to translations of all sorts SAT and hoping to topple the Tower of Babel. Can you transplant SAT a poem from one language to another? Can a man be a woman? A SAT fox a thought? Featuring new poems by Robin Robertson, SAT Leontia Flynn, and Jamie McKendrick and poems journeying SAT into English from Ancient Greece, Rome, Italy, Spanish and SAT German. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 MARCH 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01r90kv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b012lkkq (Listen) SUN The Foxes Come at Night, Late September SUN SUN Cees Nooteboom is one of Holland's leading and most SUN respected authors, a writer of both novels and travel books SUN and a consummate short story writer. The Foxes Come at SUN Night, his recent collection, has won the 2010 Gouden Uil - SUN the most prestigious literary award in Flanders and is now SUN 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 Hannah Gordon SUN Abridger Sally Marmion SUN Producer Di Speirs. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r90kx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r90kz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r90l1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01r90l3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01r94kc (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Maidstone, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01r5pxq (Listen) SUN Loretta Minghella SUN SUN In the fourth of this year's Lent Talks, the Director of SUN Christian Aid, Loretta Minghella, considers the abandonment SUN of self and the need to face who we truly are. 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; the journalist and SUN broadcaster, Benjamin Cohen, reflects on the fear of being SUN abandoned by his own Jewish community, for being gay; Imam SUN Asim Hafiz, Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM SUN Forces, who has just returned from Afghanistan, explores the SUN total abandonment experienced by both sides as a result of SUN war 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 b01r90l5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01r95gy (Listen) SUN Into the Dark SUN SUN John Agard, who has recently received the Queen's Gold Medal SUN for Poetry, offers some of his own work in a programme that SUN reflects on the way we interpret lightness and darkness. SUN SUN With reference to literature, mythology and religious SUN thought, as well as music by Nina Simone, Johnny Cash and SUN Richie Havens, he considers what it means to embrace the SUN darkness. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01r95h0 (Listen) SUN Caz Graham investigates the latest farm research at the SUN Roslin Institute, creators of Dolly the Sheep - the world's SUN first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham. Producer: Moira Hickey. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01r90l7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01r90l9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01r95h2 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01r95h4 (Listen) SUN Comic Relief SUN SUN Jane Garvey presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Comic Relief. SUN SUN Reg Charity:326568 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Red Nose Day 2013. SUN  SUN Comic Relief was launched on Christmas Day in 1985, live on SUN BBC One. At that time, a devastating famine was crippling SUN Ethiopia and something had to be done. That something was SUN Comic Relief. The idea was simple – Comic Relief would make SUN the public laugh while they raised money to help people in SUN desperate need. Before too long, Red Nose Day was created SUN and the first ever event in 1988 raised a staggering £15m. SUN  SUN 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of Comic Relief’s first-ever SUN Red Nose Day which has raised over £600m and helped to SUN change lives both in the UK and Africa. SUN  SUN Comic Relief’s impact over the years: SUN  SUN •        Over the past 25 years the money raised by the SUN public will have helped 50 million people across Africa, the SUN world’s poorest countries and here in the UK SUN •        At least 7 million people living in urban poverty SUN in slums in Africa and the world’s poorest countries have SUN been helped SUN •        In the UK, Comic Relief helped to establish the SUN National Domestic Violence Helpline, which has received SUN 1.2million calls since it was set up in 2003 SUN •        In the last five years, half a million people with SUN mental health problems have been helped to get their needs SUN met and voices heard in decisions that affect their lives SUN  SUN Red Nose Day 2013 is taking place Friday 15th March when the SUN great British public have again been asked to Do Something SUN Funny for Money. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01r90lc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01r90lf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01r95h6 (Listen) SUN This Is Our Story: Saved from Death 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 b01r5r5l (Listen) SUN Celestial Bodies SUN SUN When two spectacular comets appeared in the night sky in SUN 1664 and 1665, many feared they were harbingers of doom. Not SUN long afterwards, the Great Plague and the Great Fire were SUN visited on London. SUN SUN Lisa Jardine has been looking upwards this week in an SUN attempt to catch sight of the Pan-Starrs comet, which is SUN thought to have been hurtling towards the sun for millions SUN of years. Later this year, another comet is expected to SUN grace our skies. SUN SUN Her concern is not that they might bring with them a modern SUN day plague, but whether we have learned the lessons early SUN astronomers taught us about sharing scientific information. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01r95h8 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01r95hb (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Ben Archer ..... Thomas Lester SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Des Chapman ..... Ben Crowe. SUN Alice & Chris - the story so far SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01r95hg (Listen) SUN Julie Goodyear SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actress Julie SUN Goodyear. SUN SUN For a quarter of a century her Coronation Street character SUN Bet Lynch set the gold plated standard for big, brassy, back SUN chatting blondes. Behind the bar of the Rovers Return her SUN bosom swathed in leopard-print and her head piled high with SUN platinum curls she was Manchester's answer to Mae West. Her SUN MBE was awarded for her services to drama - and when she SUN left the series in 1995, her departure pulled in 19 million SUN viewers. SUN SUN Yet whatever the scriptwriters came up with it was never as SUN dramatic as the life she's lived beyond The Street. She got SUN pregnant at 17, her second husband abandoned her for their SUN best man, and in 1979 she was diagnosed with cancer and told SUN she'd a year to live. She's now married to her fourth SUN husband. SUN SUN She says, "If anyone should be interested in an epitaph for SUN my life, I would like them to consider, 'At least she SUN tried." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01r55x3 (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 5 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth, Alun Cochrane, Stephen Mangan and Paul SUN Merton attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, SUN repetition or deviation under the watchful eye of Nicholas SUN Parsons. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01r95hj (Listen) SUN Our Changing Taste SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at how our sense of taste develops SUN throughout our lifetimes, and what happens when we lose it, SUN through old age, illness or injury. Two hundred thousand SUN people a year seek medical help over loss of taste, Sheila SUN hears the story of Marlena Spieler, a food writer who lost SUN her sense of taste following a road accident. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01r90lh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01r95hl (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 Soul Music b01r0g4h (Listen) SUN Series 15, Shipbuilding SUN SUN The song from 1982 was written by Elvis Costello and Clive SUN Langer for Robert Wyatt and has been recorded in several SUN versions by Elvis Costello himself, Suede, June Tabor, Hue SUN and Cry, Tamsin Archer and The Unthanks. SUN SUN The blend of subtle lyrics and extraordinary music makes SUN this a political song like no other. It transcends the SUN particular circumstances of its writing: the Falklands War SUN and the decline of British heavy industry, especially SUN ship-building. SUN SUN Clive Langer and Elvis Costello describe how the song came SUN to be written and how the legendary jazz trumpeter and SUN flugelhorn player, Chet Baker, came to perform on Costello's SUN version. SUN SUN Richard Ashcroft is a philosopher who wants the song, which SUN he describes as a kind of secular hymn, played at his SUN funeral because it gives a perfect expression of how he SUN believes we should think about life. Not being able to feel SUN the emotion of the song would, he feels, be like being SUN morally tone-deaf. If you don't like this song, he'd find it SUN hard to be your friend. SUN SUN The song's achingly beautiful final couplet about "diving SUN for pearls" makes the MP Alan Johnson cry and has also SUN inspired an oral history and migrant integration project in SUN Glasgow. Chris Gourley describes how the participants found SUN a way to overcome their lack of English and communicate SUN through a shared understanding of ship-building practice. SUN SUN Other contributors include Hopi Sen, a political blogger who SUN was an unusually political child, and the Mercury Prize SUN winning folk group The Unthanks. They toured their version SUN to towns with ship-building connections as part of a live SUN performance of a film tracing the history of British SUN ship-building using archive footage. SUN SUN Producer: Natalie Steed. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01r5ql4 (Listen) SUN Alexandra Palace SUN SUN This week the team visits Alexandra Palace in North London, SUN with Eric Robson in the chair. On the panel are Matthew SUN Wilson, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness. SUN SUN At 'Ally Pally', Matthew Wilson also takes time to visit the SUN rose gardens, originally planted by German prisoners of war SUN during WWI. We also prepare for the season ahead, with SUN advice on soil TLC from Chris Beardshaw, weather protection SUN from Peter Gibbs, and planting fruit bushes with Matthew SUN Biggs. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01r95hn (Listen) SUN The Lebanon hostage crisis SUN SUN In 1991 Giandomenico Picco, a United Nations envoy, went to SUN Beirut to try to free Western hostages. To talk to the SUN kidnappers face to face, he had to allow himself to be SUN abducted. His negotiations led to the release of 11 people, SUN including John McCarthy and Terry Waite. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01r95hq (Listen) SUN Esther Waters, Episode 2 SUN SUN Esther Waters by George Moore. Dramatised by Sharon Oakes SUN Episode 2 SUN Set against a background of horseracing and gambling; a SUN stirring tale of how a woman survives and brings up her SUN child in Victorian England. Esther leaves the workhouse with SUN her baby. She is desperate for them to stay together. But SUN how can she earn money? 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 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 Leopold: Hugh Simon SUN Judge: Hugh Simon SUN Fred: Graeme Hawley SUN Demon: Stephen Hoyle SUN Mrs Barfield: Melissa Jane Sinden SUN Mrs Empson: Melissa Jane Sinden SUN Bill: Greg Wood SUN Director: Gary Brown SUN Producer: Gary Brown SUN Writer: Sharon Oakes SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01r961p (Listen) SUN Kate Atkinson on Life After Life SUN SUN Kate Atkinson discuss her latest novel Life After Life with SUN Mariella Frostrup, in which we follow her central character SUN Ursula as she lives her life over and over again, each SUN version altered by one, sometimes small event. During her SUN myriad different lives and deaths Ursula experiences two SUN world wars from both the British and German perspectives, SUN the loss of friends and family as well as the many hardships SUN experienced by that generation and discovers that trying to SUN change the future isn't always as easy as you think. SUN SUN For many people their first memories of Westerns are from SUN films -John Wayne protecting his land and his gold in The SUN Spoilers, roaming gunfighters in A Fistful of Dollars and SUN Gary Cooper as The Marshall alone against killers bent on SUN revenge in High Noon. SUN With the dramatization on Radio 4 of two classic Western SUN novels, Hombre by Elmore Leonard and Shane by Jack Schaefer, SUN Open Book explores the Wild West in books old and new with SUN Michael Carlson and novelist Ace Atkins. SUN SUN People may have the occasional flutter on the Grand National SUN or the Cheltenham races, but what about the Man Booker, the SUN Costa or the Women's Prize for Fiction? It seems many people SUN are now betting on the outcome of our leading literary SUN prizes, but as Grahame Sharpe, Media Relations Director of SUN William Hill, who sets their prices for these events SUN explains, picking the winning author can be more difficult SUN than a winning horse. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b01r961r (Listen) SUN Middle Age SUN SUN Are the middle years tough for poets? Paul Farley listens to SUN new poems on the subject. With Paul Muldoon, Kathleen Jamie SUN and Hugo Williams. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01r5lpz (Listen) SUN Mali: Europe's Terror Threat SUN SUN The French authorities acknowledge their intervention in SUN Mali has made them terrorist target number one. In recent SUN weeks, the country has raised its threat level - with high SUN visibility police patrols at tourist destinations and SUN government buildings - and a number of people suspected of SUN planning to join Islamic extremists in Mali have been SUN arrested. SUN SUN Jenny Cuffe examines concerns in France both about the rise SUN of Islamist extremism and the tough action the authorities SUN are taking in response. Last October, police uncovered bomb SUN making equipment following a grenade attack on a Jewish SUN butchers in Paris. Eight months earlier, extremist Mohamed SUN Merah killed three soldiers and a rabbi and three children SUN outside a Jewish school in Toulouse. Meanwhile more than 100 SUN imams deemed to be dangerous have been deported in the last SUN ten years and several more are currently under threat of SUN being expelled. SUN SUN The programme also examines the threat to the UK. Jihadist SUN groups in North Africa have warned that they will target SUN supporters of the French action in Mali. The British SUN Government is currently seeking to deport a number of SUN Algerian terror suspects and authorities are also SUN investigating reports that a British man has been arrested SUN trying to make his way to join jihadists fighting in Mali. SUN SUN Presenter: Jenny Cuffe SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01r93sm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01r90lk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01r90lm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r90lp (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01r961t (Listen) SUN On Pick of the Week this week with Sheila McClennon. SUN SUN How an Icelandic composer has converted knitting SUN instructions into music, a master class in yodelling and SUN Radio Three turns up Handel's volume for a Comic Relief one SUN off. There's the Death rattle of the American dream in SUN downtown Detroit and the late great Charles Wheeler on what SUN he believed was President Richard Nixon's worse deed - and SUN it wasn't Watergate. And on the 40th anniversary of Noel SUN Coward's death - a heart-warming drama on the caring man SUN behind the clipped tones. SUN That's Pick of the Week with Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Neverwhere - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: Last Days of Detroit 3/5 - Radio 4 SUN I Wandered Lonely as a Cat - Poetry and Jazz - Radio 4 SUN Baroque Spring Drama on 3: Moliere's The Misanthrope - Radio SUN 3 SUN The Curse of the Confederacy of Dunces - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: Wheeler-The Final Word - Radio 4 SUN Beastly Baroque for Comic Relief-Handel with Care - Radio 3 SUN The Strand - Music From Iceland - BBC World Service SUN Richard Bacon - Radio 5 Live SUN Chris Evans - Radio 2 SUN Feel The Chant: The Brit Funk Story - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: Mr Bridger's Orphan - Radio 4 SUN The Maha Kumbh Mela - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01r961w (Listen) SUN Pip turns over a new leaf, and Darrell does his best. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r961y (Listen) SUN Series 2, With guest Nick Mohammed 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 fourth episode explores the theme of destiny including SUN songs on allergies and chance meetings as well as showcasing SUN Alex Horne's skills as a dream interpreter. Guest starring SUN comedian Nick Mohammed who plays with the band and has a SUN trick up his sleeve. 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 .... Nick Mohammed and The Middle School SUN Choir from Hall School, Hampstead SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Go West b01r9620 (Listen) SUN Of All the Whole Wild World SUN SUN Five stories made in Bristol SUN 3. Of All the Whole Wild World SUN by Kerry Hood SUN SUN Jodie comes to offer her commiserations to her neighbour SUN Peta, who has just lost her mother. She's made a card: "This SUN comes to say I'm sad, Someone has died and that's quite SUN bad." From this inauspicious start, things can really only SUN improve. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01r5r11 (Listen) SUN This week in Feedback, we ask when music should be censored SUN by the BBC. After a listener spotted that Oliver's Army by SUN Elvis Costello had the 'n' word cut out abruptly during a SUN 6Music show, we decided to look into how and why music is SUN edited for offensive language. Roger Bolton visits Radio 1 SUN and 1Xtra to meet DJ Trevor Nelson and Head of Music George SUN Ergatoudis. George explains how they fulfil listener demand SUN for the more controversial hip hop, rap, and pop songs, SUN without offending the audience. And DJ legend Mike Read SUN weighs in on the debate. SUN SUN And are analogue listeners missing out on the best of new SUN drama on BBC radio? This weekend the star-studded adaptation SUN of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere finally arrives on Radio 4 and 4 SUN Extra amid much excitement. But its scheduling has raised SUN some eyebrows from Feedback listeners. Neverwhere begins on SUN Saturday on Radio 4 but episodes two to six will only be SUN available on the digital station Radio 4 Extra. We asked SUN Tony Pilgrim, Head of Planning and Scheduling for Radio 4 SUN and 4 Extra, to explain why. SUN SUN NB: Radio 4 Extra is available on Freeview and Freesat SUN SUN Also, how should the Today programme cover mental health SUN issues? After a recent item about new findings from the SUN human genome project, which suggested a genetic component to SUN some mental illnesses, we heard from listeners who felt the SUN report needed more balance. SUN SUN And you come to comedian Jeremy Hardy's defence. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01r5qzm (Listen) SUN A Swedish princess, a Khmer Rouge leader, a sports SUN commentator, an HIV/Aids counsellor, and a blues-rock SUN guitarist SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN Ieng Sary - number three in Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge SUN regime, he died while on trial for crimes against humanity SUN SUN Princess Lilian of Sweden - she was the daughter of a SUN Swansea miner who fell in love with Prince Bertil of Sweden, SUN but wasn't allowed to marry him for more than thirty years SUN because she was a commoner. SUN SUN The versatile sports commentator Tony Gubba - who found new SUN fans later in life with his work on Dancing on Ice. SUN SUN John Shine who co-founded the London Lighthouse as a safe SUN haven for people dying of AIDS in the 1980s. SUN SUN And Alvin Lee - lead guitarist and singer of Ten Years After SUN who gave a legendary performance at Woodstock. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01r91qr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01r95h4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01r5g2p (Listen) SUN Three Score Years and Twenty SUN SUN As more and more people look forward to ever longer life, SUN Analysis examines what it's like to grow old in Britain and SUN what we can learn from other countries facing the same SUN challenge. We've heard much about the financial issues SUN around pensions or health care. But it also poses more SUN fundamental questions - is Britain a good society in which SUN to grow old? SUN SUN Will those precious extra years be a time of wellbeing or SUN alienation and loneliness? And, do other parts of the world SUN have strengths from which we could learn? SUN SUN Chris Bowlby talks to those who have a unique perspective on SUN this - migrants who came to the UK in the hope of better SUN prospects. They can compare British society with other SUN places they know as well. Many are now weighing up what to SUN do when their working lives are over. And a number do not SUN expect to stay here. Their children work long hours and live SUN a distance away. The three-generation homes that supported SUN their own grandparents as they grew old will not be an SUN option for them. Many worry that they face a lonely future. SUN SUN So is Britain a model for the future of a longer life? Or do SUN those with a global perspective believe there are better SUN places to spend your later years? SUN SUN Contributors : Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of SUN Population Ageing), Baroness Sally Greengross (International SUN Longevity Centre) & Dr Chris Murray (Global Burden of SUN Disease Study). SUN SUN Producer : Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01r9622 (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 b01r9624 (Listen) SUN Steve Richards of The Independent on Sunday analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01r5s22 (Listen) SUN The Spirit of '45; difficult second films; Shell SUN SUN Francine Stock discusses the challenges of making a second SUN film after a successful debut with award winning director of SUN Shifty, Eran Creevy, and Telegraph film critic Tim Robey. SUN Eran Creevy's second film after Shifty - a low budget film SUN set on a council estate similar to where he himself grew up SUN - is Welcome To The Punch, a glossy thriller set in a 21st SUN century financial centre of glass and steel, starring James SUN McAvoy and David Morrisey. Also out this week is Lee SUN Daniel's The Paperboy starring Nicole Kidman and John SUN Cusack. Paperboy is Lee Daniels' follow up film after the SUN hugely successful Precious about an obese teenager in SUN Harlem. As a director's reputation may depend on the SUN follow-up film, what are the pressures and what are the SUN pitfalls? Scottish director Scott Graham talks about Shell, SUN his debut film set on a lonely fuel station road in the SUN Scottish Highlands. Shell is the nickname of a 17 year old SUN living with her father after her mother abandoned them both SUN years earlier, and provides a moving account of a complex SUN close relationship set against the backdrop of a landscape SUN which is paradoxically panoramic yet also claustrophobic. SUN Producer Rebecca O'Brien and editor Jonathan Morris discuss SUN the challenges of putting together archive in Ken Loach's SUN new archive documentary The Spirit of '45, an evocative SUN portrait of a moment of British political history, the end SUN of war and the creation of the Welfare State. The film SUN combines archive from the time with fresh interviews from SUN people who remember it. What are the particular constraints SUN in accessing archive which has to be assembled digitally, SUN compared to Ken Loach's preferred way of working on SUN celluloid? And continuing our occasional series in which SUN people in the industry talk about how they got started, Col SUN Needham reveals how the internet movie website IMDb, which SUN he founded and is now the CEO of, came into being. Producer: SUN Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01r95gy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 MARCH 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01r90mp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01r5px8 (Listen) MON Guatemalan cemetery; Art auctions MON MON Art Auctions - How do auctioneers and buyers transact sales MON in seconds? Laurie Taylor hears from Professor Christian MON Heath who discusses his detailed study into the tools and MON techniques which lead to the strike of a hammer. They're MON joined by the arts writer and critic, Georgina Adam. Also, MON the Guatemalan cemetery with no more room. The growth of the MON city combined with high death and murder rates means the MON cemetery is overflowing. The anthropologist, Kevin O'Neill, MON talks about the harsh effects of an aggressive policy of MON disinterment when poor relatives can't pay the dues. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01r94kc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r90mr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r90mt (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r90mw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01r90my (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r9900 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father MON Martin Graham. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01r9902 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01r90n0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01r9904 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01r9906 (Listen) MON Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon MON MON On Start the Week Lisa Jardine asks whether the writing of MON history has been dominated by conflict and difference. The MON Professor of History, David Cannadine argues against the MON predominant 'them and us' agenda, and for a common humanity. MON While the Balkan writer Aleksandar Hemon splits his life MON between Sarajevo and Chicago. Ed Vulliamy reported on the MON war in Bosnia and explores a journalist's role in historical MON events, and Margaret MacMillan discusses the teaching of MON history. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01r993b (Listen) MON The World until Yesterday, Episode 1 MON MON The first of five extracts from Pulitzer Prize-winning MON author Jared Diamond's powerful new book, that asks what can MON traditional societies teach us about how we in the west live MON now? MON MON Drawing upon several decades of experience living and MON working in Papua New Guinea, Professor Diamond shows how MON traditional societies can offer an extraordinary window into MON how our ancestors lived for millions of years - until MON virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and provide MON unique, often overlooked insights into human nature. MON Exploring how tribal peoples approach essential human MON problems, from childrearing to old age to conflict MON resolution to health, Diamond reminds us that the West MON achieved global dominance due to specific environmental and MON technological advantages, but Westerners do not necessarily MON have superior ideas about how to live well. MON MON Read by Crawford Logan. MON Abridged by Robin Brooks. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r993d (Listen) MON Baroness Sue Campbell; the Baker Brothers; Mollie Moran MON MON Teenage mothers discuss postnatal depression with MON psychotherapist Dr Amanda Jones. Baroness Sue Campbell, from MON our Power List, talks about encouraging sport. The Baker MON Brothers Cook The Perfect Treacle Tart. 96 year old Mollie MON Moran's book Aprons and Silver Spoons depicts her life in MON service. She joins Jane Garvey in the studio. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rbtnb (Listen) MON Soloparentpals.com: Series 4, If It Ain't Broke MON MON by Sue Teddern MON MON After much turbulence Rosie and Tom are now living together MON in Bolton. Rosie is happy in her job but Tom finds being a MON house-husband a challenge. MON MON Episode 1. If it ain't Broke. MON MON Despite moving in together, Tom and Rosie's relationship is MON still lacking in synchronicity. The pressures of Tom's MON relocation, the complications of stepparenthood and the task MON of being full-time housefather in a less than spacious MON Bolton terraced house slowly begin to have their effect. At MON the same time, for Rosie the world is opening up MON professionally and she even becomes capable of embracing MON marriage. MON MON One year on, Tom and Rosie live together in Bolton with MON Rosie's 15-year-old son, Calum, and baby Finn. Care home MON manager Rosie is climbing the greasy pole at work, while Tom MON initially enjoys his new role as a stay-at-home-Dad. MON MON They aren't the only solo parents who are now a couple: Tash MON has tied the knot with 'lush' Jamie and Gill's almost moved MON in with Tony Macaroni. So it makes sense that they're all MON now regulars on the soloparentpals.com website. They can MON keep in touch and seek advice on how to deal with the MON problems, awkwardnesses and sheer logistical and emotional MON complications of 21st Century family life. MON MON Naïve as ever, at first Tom thinks marriage will glue MON everything together. Pessimistic as ever, Rosie reckons that MON if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Once again we have the MON "will-they-won't-they?" scenario but this time the tables MON are turned and the advice from their soloparentpals.com MON confidantes is not always helpful or without its own agenda. MON How will they resolve this situation? And along the way more MON complications arise. MON MON Once again the framework is the soloparentpals.com website MON but as in the third series of SOLOPARENTPALS.COM the scenes MON are a rich mixture of face-to-face scenes, phonecalls, MON texts, forum pages and chatrooms. MON MON Credits MON Rosie: Liz White MON Tom: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Tash: Karina Jones MON Gill: Joanna Brookes MON Lily: Isadora Dooley Hunter MON Calum: Keaton Lansley MON Debbie: Philippa Stanton MON Director: David Hunter MON Producer: David Hunter MON Writer: Sue Teddern MON MON 11:00 Out of the Ordinary b01r993j (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In a new documentary series uncovering stories from the left MON field, Jolyon Jenkins reports on the extreme treatments bald MON men are putting themselves through. They are commissioning MON laboratories in China to manufacture unproven, untested, and MON potentially dangerous drugs to cure their hair loss. Is it a MON hiding to nothing or will they succeed where the drug MON companies haven't? MON MON Men have always gone bald but now they're not putting up MON with it. An explosion of online forums has created a "hair MON loss community". "It's a silent epidemic", says Spencer MON Kobren, founder of The Bald Truth forum. "Hair loss doesn't MON physically hurt, but we liken it to a cancer of the spirit". MON Kobren runs a weekly radio show in which callers express MON their pain and frustration. Joe isn't sure whether it would MON be worse to have actual cancer: "I'd rather have one or two MON good years of hair," he says. "I want to hear the birds MON sing, I want to walk on the beach, I want to be free of this MON terrible disease." MON MON In an attempt to deal with encroaching baldness, some young MON men are reading up on the latest medical research into hair MON loss and seeking out chemists to manufacture molecules they MON hope will work. There's no guarantee that the chemicals they MON are buying are pure, and the buyers have no real idea of the MON correct dose; but it speaks to their desperation. Some of MON them report unpleasant side effects. Few of them can show MON convincing hair regrowth. MON MON Presenter Jolyon Jenkins, a "hair loss sufferer" for two MON decades, investigates this subculture. Along the way he has MON a consultation for a hair transplant (£10-£15,000) and looks MON into "hair systems" - or as some call them, wigs. Does loss MON of hair really decrease a man's attractiveness MON significantly? And how did a normal part of being a man MON become a debilitating disease? MON MON 11:30 Thinking of Leaving Your Husband? b00s0b31 (Listen) MON The Flying Dutchman MON MON Sarah continues to go on a variety of internet dates with an MON assortment of highly contrasting men. All prove very MON unsatisfactory until she meets Paul, a Dutch pilot, who has MON been brought up in South Africa but now lives in Amsterdam. MON Paul is handsome, charismatic and charming and Sarah MON convinces herself that finally she has found the man of her MON dreams. But a romantic night is followed by complete silence MON from the elusive Paul. Could Sarah's Flying Dutchman be a MON lying Dutchman? MON MON Sarah ... Lia Williams MON Paul - and all Sarah's internet dates ... Henry Goodman MON Mother ... Miriam Margolyes MON Tania ... Frances Barber MON Francis Parker ... Roger Hammond MON Lucy ... Eleanor Butters MON Ellie ... Hayley Roberts MON Angie ... 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 b01r9c91 (Listen) MON Beach for sale, weedkiller, second-hand pianos and the MON 'right to light' law MON MON Consumer news presented by Julian Worricker. Michael Mosley MON looks at health advice on diet, drink and exercise, and aks MON if the science behind them still holds true. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01r90n2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01r9c93 (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 Noise: A Human History b01r9c95 (Listen) MON Echoes in the Dark MON MON Episode one of Noise: A Human History, a thirty-part series MON made in collaboration with the British Library Sound MON Archive. MON MON What do caves tell us about the mind and beliefs of MON Neolithic people? With no scientific explanation to hand for MON the phenomenon of the echo, it was natural to assume it was MON a spirit voice. MON MON Certain echoes sounded like the galloping hooves of beasts; MON others like the fluttering wings of birds. These echoes MON appeared to come from the rocks themselves. They moved, they MON were uncanny - all this hinting at a 'spirit world' within. MON MON Professor David Hendy from the University of Sussex visits MON the caves of Arcy-sur-Cure in Burgundy with musicologist MON Iegor Reznikoff to listen to evidence deep underground next MON to paintings of bison and birds. MON MON Series Producer: Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01r961w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r9c97 (Listen) MON The Road from Herat: A Life Story MON MON A moving docu-drama starring Harriet Walter as poet and MON traveller Clare Holtham. MON MON Clare Holtham died in 2010 leaving a volume of poems which MON form an intimate, spare record of a very unusual life. She MON also left a mass of minutely documented travel material: MON clothing lists, itineraries, meticulous journals of where MON she went and who she met, hand-drawn maps. She left photos MON that she took on her travels - but very few of herself. The MON most remarkable shows her sitting cross-legged on the rough MON floor of a courtyard in Afghanistan, large glasses perched MON on her nose, next to a very handsome young man wearing MON traditional Uzbek robes and turban. It was the early 1970s, MON Clare was 23 and an undergraduate at Cambridge; in her MON journal she notes that her handsome companion owned '700 MON sheep, 200 camels, 25 horses and the same number of rifles'. MON MON Clare's childhood was marked by loss and unhappiness, and MON her adolescence by dogged rebellion. Having run away from MON home at 14, her intelligence and determination to succeed MON took her to Cambridge, where she was a brilliant, but MON utterly unconventional student. As other undergraduates MON found their feet at University, she was planning summer MON vacation trips to Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. Her poems MON are a moving record of her journeys and the happiness she MON found in the wild landscapes and ancient cities of Asia. The MON memories of her tutor, Jean Gooder, and her close friend, MON Felicity Rosslyn, thread through Clare's poetry and travel MON writing, to create an unforgettable portrait of the making MON of a poet. MON MON Writer: Abigail Youngman MON Producer: Sara Davies MON MON Thanks to Anne Thomson at Newnham College Archive, Oriole MON Parker-Rhodes, Joan Hall, Dr Christine van Ruymbeke, Philip MON Hague, Leyla Pureli, Neil Jeffares, Mark Jeffares, Diana MON Holtham. MON MON Credits MON Young Clare: Harriet Walter MON Poet Clare: Harriet Walter MON Abdul Aziz Khan: Sharif Dorani MON Shirin: Viss Elliot Safavi MON Customs officer: Kaveh Beyk MON Turkish man: Hakan Silahsizoglu MON Father Joe: Paul Dodgson MON Producer: Sara Davies MON Writer: Abigail Youngman MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01r9c99 (Listen) MON (17/17) MON MON Russell Davies chairs the general knowledge quiz as it MON reaches the climax of its 2013 series, at the BBC Radio MON Theatre in London. Forty-eight contestants have been MON whittled down to just four Finalists, who are about to find MON out which of them will be named the 60th Brain of Britain. MON MON These contestants being the creme de la creme, they face the MON toughest questions of the series in their bid to lift the MON trophy. The broadcaster and Professor of Classics at MON Cambridge University, Mary Beard, will perform the MON championship ceremony. MON MON The Finalists this year come from London, Leeds, Lancashire MON and Portsmouth. Will they be stumped by the interval MON questions set especially to bamboozle them, by last year's MON Brain of Britain champion? MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON Shortlisting for Brain of Britain MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01r95hj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Arthur Cravan Memorial Society b01r9c9c (Listen) MON Arthur Smith pieces together an unreliable portrait of MON Arthur Cravan - charlatan and genius, the Dada James Dean. MON MON Arthur Cravan was - as he never tired of telling people -- MON the nephew of Oscar Wilde. A self-declared citizen of twenty MON countries, he was a dandy, forger, flaneur, critic, sailor, MON prospector, card sharp, thief, editor and chauffeur. He was MON the true father of dada and surrealism whose real work of MON art was himself. MON MON Between 1911 and 1915, Cravan wrote and published the MON magazine Maintenant in Paris, which he filled with MON belligerent diatribes and scandalous braggadocio. He gave MON lectures, during which he insulted, mooned and fired guns at MON the audience. As an act of artistic bravado, he fought the MON heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, and was knocked MON out as soon as Johnson tired of the charade. MON MON On the run from the First World War, Cravan set sail from MON Mexico in 1918, intending to reach South America. He was MON never seen again. But no one knows what happened to him and MON no body was ever found. But poems and paintings attributed MON to Cravan continued to surface. And who exactly was the MON person identified as Arthur Cravan spotted in different MON parts of the world for decades? MON MON Arthur Smith is beguiled by Cravan's sense of provocation, MON by his desire to live a rich and full life, a poetic life, MON in spite of it all. And in this programme he'll call the MON final meeting of the Arthur Cravan Memorial Society to order MON as he tries to cobble together the truth about this MON mysterious and fascinating figure. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01r9c9f (Listen) MON Religion and Addiction MON MON Addiction to alcohol costs the UK around £22 billion per MON annum in health, welfare, social care and prison costs. The MON expectation is that more than 200,000 people will die MON prematurely in this country of alcohol related liver disease MON in the next 20 years. Is addiction a disease or does it MON signify an absence of will power? Alcoholics Anonymous MON famously claims that the cycle of addiction can only be MON broken by surrendering to a higher power. So is a spiritual MON approach to the problem effective? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss the spiritual dimension to alcohol MON addiction and its treatment are Mike Williams, General MON Director of Stauros Foundation, a Christian Charity which MON offers fellowship to people suffering or recovering from MON addiction; Maia Szalavitz a neuro-science journalist with MON Time.com; and Dr Wendy Dossett Senior Lecturer in Religious MON Studies at Chester University who has just completed a MON Research Project on Spirituality and Addiction. MON MON 17:00 PM b01r9c9h (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r90n4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01r9c9k (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 6 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. Just how hard MON can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, MON repetition or deviation? MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01r9c9m (Listen) MON Elona tries to be proactive. And will Tom's arguments win MON the day? MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01r9c9p (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rbtnb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b01r9c9r (Listen) MON Votes for Victorian Women MON MON Popular history tells us that women did not get the vote MON until 1918. MON MON Though they could technically vote in local elections before MON that, many historians have argued that in practice they had MON no vote until the 1860s at the earliest. And evidence that MON they ever did vote has proved almost impossible to find. MON MON But now a poll book, discovered in a box of papers in a MON local record office, clearly shows 25 women voting in MON elections for important local posts in Lichfield in 1843. MON MON In this week's Document, the historian Sarah Richardson MON follows the trail of these women, to reveal a picture of MON Victorian women's involvement in politics which challenges MON many of our assumptions. MON MON She discovers that they represented a surprising MON cross-section of society - old and young, poor and MON prosperous - and attempts to trace their descendants today. MON MON She finds out how, when even universal manhood suffrage was MON seen as a radical, dangerous idea, these women may have been MON just a few of many more who could vote at a local level. MON MON And she explores how, decades later, campaigners for Votes MON for Women at the Westminster level had to contend with this MON complex legacy. MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01rbrtd (Listen) MON Who decides if I'm a woman? MON MON A spat between feminist Suzanne Moore and transgender rights MON activists played out on social networking sites, and then MON hit the headlines when journalist Julie Burchill joined in MON too. MON MON Jo Fidgen explores the underlying ideas which cause so much MON tension between radical feminists and transgender MON campaigners, and discovers why recent changes in the law and MON advances in science are fuelling debate. MON MON Contributors: MON MON James Barrett, consultant psychiatrist and lead clinician at MON the Charing Cross National Gender Identity Clinic MON MON Julie Bindel, feminist and journalist MON MON Lord Alex Carlile QC, Liberal Democrat member of the House MON of Lords MON MON Melissa Hines, professor of psychology at Cambridge MON University MON MON Richard O'Brien, writer of the Rocky Horror Show MON MON Ruth Pearce, postgraduate researcher in sociology at the MON University of Warwick MON MON Stephen Whittle OBE, professor of equalities law at MON Manchester Metropolitan University MON MON Producer: Ruth Alexander. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01r5s24 (Listen) MON Clay on Mars, Neanderthals, Cholera, Tapeworms MON MON Dr. Matthew Balme from the Open University talks to Quentin MON Cooper about the latest results from the Mars Curiosity MON Mission. The finding of neutral water, he says, indicates MON that many more types of microorganism may have once MON inhabited the Red Planet. MON MON Ellie Pearce, from the Institute of Cognitive and MON Evolutionary Anthropology in Oxford, explains why big eyes MON in Neanderthals may have led to a stunted social life, and MON eventually their extinction. MON MON Is John Snow, born 200 years ago this week, really the man MON who should be remembered as the father of modern MON epidemiology? He is credited with tracing the source of a MON cholera outbreak in Soho in 1854 to a single water supply in MON Broad Street (now Broadwick Street). Canadian bioethicist MON and author of "Disease Maps" Professor Tom Koch argues that MON there were others involved, and that such findings are MON seldom so straightforward. MON MON Finally a novel approach to finding drugs for tapeworms. MON Scientists have sequenced the genomes of four tapeworms and MON have published their work in the journal Nature. They are MON now trying to identify drugs that interact with human MON proteins and seeing if they would also work in the same way MON in tapeworms. Dr. Magdalena Zarowiecki, from the Wellcome MON Trust Sanger Institute, explains how this method could be a MON cheap and quick way of finding a treatment for some of the MON world's most neglected diseases. MON MON A study of Neanderthal skulls suggests that they became MON extinct because they had larger eyes than our species. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01r9906 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01r90n6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01r9cb6 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r9cb8 (Listen) MON All the Beggars Riding, Episode 6 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 The Voice of God b01k9qbv (Listen) MON The Rev. Richard Coles Richard explores the various ways MON that the way God speaks is depicted in literature, the MON theatre and film and what this reveals about our ideas of MON the deity. Coles is a priest, a broadcaster and was a pop MON star. Who better, then, to explore the different ways that MON the way God speaks is depicted within literature, theatre MON and film, and within sacred texts? MON MON In the 'Book of Kings' the prophet Elijah is wrung by MON earthquake, wind, fire and thunder, but God is in not in any MON of these. It is in the silence following that Elijah hears MON God in a 'still, small voice'. In Britain Quakers have been MON listening for God in silence since the 1650s. This hasn't MON been how artists usually imagine the Almighty communicating. MON In the theatre and cinema God tends more to the Brian MON Blessed - or Brian Glover, pronouncing from on high, in the MON earthy demotic of Yorkshire, atop a fork-lift truck in a MON famous production of 'The Mysteries' at the National MON Theatre. With the cinema historian Matthew Sweet Richard MON explores the variety of divine utterance as depicted in MON popular culture. MON MON Muslims believe Allah spoke to Mohammed in Arabic via the MON angel Gabriel. One of his earliest followers was convinced MON of the truth of Islam by the language - it was so beautiful MON it had to be true. At Pentecost the Holy Spirit spoke MON through the Christian disciples, yet every listener heard MON their own language. Jahweh spoke to certain Jews, but they MON could never utter his name. MON MON Richard Coles talks to Rowan Williams, who was the MON Archbishop of Canterbury when this programme was made, the MON Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks and the Muslim commentator, MON Mohammed Ansar, exploring their their faiths', and their MON personal experiences of the voice of the creator. MON MON Producer: Julian May MON (Repeat). MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r9cbb (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 MARCH 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01r90p3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01r993b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r90p5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r90p7 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r90p9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01r90pc (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r9cd0 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father TUE Martin Graham. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01r9cd2 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01r9cd4 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Christianity at the Crossroads b01r9cd6 (Listen) TUE Christianity at the Crossroads? TUE TUE This is an historic week in the history of Christianity, TUE with both the Catholic and Anglican churches celebrating the TUE installation of new leaders. TUE To have both a new Pope in Rome and a new Archbishop in TUE Canterbury within days of each other has never happened TUE before and is highly unlikely to happen again for a long TUE time. This is an unusual - perhaps unique - moment for the TUE worldwide church. TUE For the faithful it's a time of celebration and TUE anticipation, a welcome relief from the problems of recent TUE times. Recent decades have seen both churches beset by a TUE series of issues and scandals: child sex abuse and TUE ecclesiastical cover-ups; the place and role of women within TUE the church; falling congregations; tensions arising from TUE human rights and equality legislation. All have caused TUE factionalism and infighting within the churches that have TUE dogged recent Archbishops and Popes, and seemingly placed TUE them on the margins of society. Where once, the West placed TUE their trust in faith, hope and charity, today we value TUE different, secular articles of faith, such as choice, TUE freedom and equality. The new pope and Archbishop Justin TUE Welby have certainly got a lot on their plates. TUE And yet, the storms are raging not only within these two TUE churches. The banking crisis and recession, the breakdown in TUE public trust, particularly in institutions and advances in TUE science and technology - all ask huge moral questions with TUE greater urgency than ever before - all present major TUE challenges for us in the 21st century. TUE Are these crises too serious to overcome or too good to TUE waste? Can the new pope and archbishop not only heal the TUE rifts within their own churches but also find ways to speak TUE meaningfully to societies that no longer automatically see TUE them as moral authorities? Have these churches got anything TUE to say to a culture that is unprecedentedly diverse and more TUE secular than before? And is anyone still listening? Chaired TUE by John Humphrys. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01r9cd8 (Listen) TUE The World until Yesterday, War and Peace TUE TUE War and peace. TUE TUE Second extract from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared TUE Diamond's powerful new book that draws upon his several TUE decades of experience living and working in Papua New TUE Guinea. Professor Diamond argues that traditional societies TUE offer a window onto how our ancestors lived for millions of TUE years - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - TUE and can provide unique, often overlooked insights into human TUE nature. TUE TUE Read by Crawford Logan. TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r9cdb (Listen) TUE Women nominated for an architecture prize join Jane Garvey; TUE bereavement leave campaigner Lucy Herd; is the menopause a TUE taboo topic of conversation ? Nazi women are depicted in new TUE novels by Jane Thynne and Magda Goebells. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rdb97 (Listen) TUE Soloparentpals.com: Series 4, London Calling TUE TUE Rosie's unexpected redundancy is a blow and means that Tom TUE is forced to look far afield to bring home the bacon. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 11:00 Who's the Pest? b01r9cdd (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 Three, Erica explores how insect technology can TUE solve human design problems. TUE TUE 11:30 Studio in the Sand b01rft45 (Listen) TUE Foreign correspondent and music journalist Robin Denselow TUE travels to the refugee camps of the Saharawi people in TUE Algeria who were displaced from Western Sahara following TUE land dispute war with Morocco. The Saharawi have been living TUE in the camps for over twenty years, with their young people TUE knowing nothing except life in the camps, where there is TUE little chance of employment or escape. The music of the TUE Saharawi is not as well known as that of neighbouring Mali, TUE but is a powerful expression of their culture, and their TUE desire to return home to the land from which they were TUE displaced, a land whose landscapes and animals many younger TUE Saharawi have never seen and can only dream about in the TUE lyrics and chords of their music. The Saharawi are Muslim, TUE but unlike in other parts of the region, here the women play TUE a lead role in politics and music. TUE Robin speaks to the Prime Minister and the Minister of TUE Culture in the camps about the forgotten struggle of the TUE Saharawi whose plight has vanished off the international TUE agenda, and about the role that their music plays to carry TUE the story of their plight, as well as the haunting energy of TUE their music, to an international audience. Sandblast is a TUE charity run by Danielle Smith and a group of British sound TUE engineers who are setting up recording studios within the TUE refugee camps in order to train musicians in how to produce TUE recorded music which can then be exported to an audience TUE which would otherwise never get to hear its very particular TUE note. Robin follows this initiative as the first trainees TUE learn the ropes in the Studio in the Sand, speaking to TUE trainers and new recruits and hearing electrifying first TUE concerts. TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Shepherd TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01r9cdj (Listen) TUE Consumer news with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01r90pf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01r9cr3 (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 Noise: A Human History b01rdzhz (Listen) TUE The Beat of Drums TUE TUE Episode two of a thirty-part series made in collaboration TUE with the British Library Sound Archive. TUE TUE Words are only one way to communicate - humans have found TUE many more. TUE TUE Professor David Hendy travels to Ghana to hear the talking TUE drum, a language made of drumbeats that once carried TUE messages through the rainforest like a telegraph signal. TUE TUE There's also a treasure from the Pitt Rivers Sound Archive - TUE the sound of BayAka pygmies of the Central African Republic TUE preparing for a net hunt. How do non-verbal sounds carry TUE information and how do they bind us together as a group? TUE TUE Series Producer: Matt Thompson. TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01r9c9m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rgld4 (Listen) TUE Love's Worst Day TUE TUE Somewhere along the way, Geordie and Jane have lost each TUE other. Life has swallowed them up in the daily grind of TUE screaming kids, unpaid bills and a teenage son who hates the TUE world. Whatever happened to them? They were so happy, full TUE of plans for the future and looking forward to having a TUE family together. Now it is an endless cycle of bad luck and TUE struggling to make ends meet. Jane is trying to cope, TUE Geordie can't cope, but maybe just somewhere - in a little TUE moment in this day - Geordie and Jane are about to find each TUE other again. TUE TUE Gary Mitchell is a writer and director for television, film, TUE radio and theatre. In 1995, he won the Stewart Parker Award TUE for radio. In a Little World of our Own won the 1998 Irish TUE Times Theatre Award for 'best new play'. In the same year, TUE Gary won the Belfast Drama Award for In a Little World of TUE our Own and Sinking and was made writer-in-residence at the TUE Royal National Theatre, London. TUE Suffering, a film written and directed by Gary, was chosen TUE as the best short film at the Belfast Festival in 2003. His TUE script, As the Beast Sleep won a Belfast Arts Award for TV TUE and was placed 3rd at the 2002 Prix Europa European TV TUE Awards in Berlin. In 2006, Remnants of Fear won the Aisling TUE Award for Art and Culture. He has written numerous radio TUE plays for RTE and BBC and his most recent stage play will TUE premiere this year in Derry to mark the UK City of Culture TUE 2013. TUE TUE Loves Worst Day was written by Gary Mitchell and directed in TUE Belfast by Gemma McMullan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Geordie: Adrian Dunbar TUE Jane: Zara Turner TUE Henry: Ryan McParland TUE Bridget: Maggie Cronin TUE Mr Boyd: Kieran Lagan TUE Civil Servant: Andrew Simpson TUE Sarah: Amy Lee Farmer TUE Charlie: Jack Raan TUE Director: Gemma McMullan TUE Producer: Gemma McMullan TUE Writer: Gary Mitchell TUE TUE 15:00 The Human Zoo b01r9cr5 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 b01r9cr7 (Listen) TUE Green Babies TUE TUE 2013 is predicted to see the biggest baby boom in 40 years. TUE Whether it's the Royal baby or an after effect of the TUE Olympics nobody is certain. But what does this mean for the TUE planet? Dr Alice Roberts, who is herself expecting, finds TUE out whether population really is the biggest threat to our TUE environment. TUE The UK really is bucking the trend. In the US fears of a TUE baby bust are coupled to predictions of economic decline. TUE These are after all tiny unborn consumers. This is perhaps TUE why many eminent nature watchers from David Attenborough to TUE James Lovelock believe that over population is the biggest TUE threat to our planet. No one can predict what a sustainable TUE number of people would be but many agree that the predicted TUE 10 billion plus is too many. At least, that is, if global TUE rates of consumption increase to Western levels. George TUE Monbiot points out that most growth in population is in the TUE developing world where carbon footprints are often TUE negligible. TUE Paradoxically the key to lowering the birth rate is higher TUE standards of living and that inevitably means increased TUE consumption. The recent Royal Society Paper concludes that TUE population and consumption must be tackled together. So can TUE these new baby boomers become more sustainable? Alice TUE Roberts takes a look at prams, poop and purees to find out TUE if there is such a thing as an 'eco baby'. If there is, she TUE discovers, it may not be in what we purchase on their behalf TUE but about how they connect with the natural world. TUE More and more evidence suggests being outdoors creates TUE healthier, happier children and 'Project Wildthing' is an TUE attempt to repackage and sell the concept of nature in order TUE to compete with the marketing heavy worlds of toys and TV. TUE Perhaps a new generation of nature lovers might want less TUE stuff and enjoy the planet more. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01r9cr9 (Listen) TUE The University of Babel TUE TUE Generations of students have left lecture halls wondering TUE whether they understood what they just heard. Now, a growing TUE proportion of these learners don't consider English their TUE first language. In the first episode in a new series, TUE Michael Rosen visits Birmingham University to investigate TUE how well the English spoken by foreign students equips them TUE for British university life. And to see how lecturers are TUE adapting to their multilingual audience. And there's feature TUE on Special English, the slowed down, limited vocabulary TUE version of the language developed more than half a century TUE ago as a radio experiment, and which the Voice of America TUE network still uses in its programmes. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01r9crc (Listen) TUE Konnie Huq and Pat Kane TUE TUE Konnie Huq is a former Blue Peter presenter and co-writer of TUE an episode of Black Mirror. She joins Pat Kane, writer and TUE singer of the group Hue & Cry, to talk about the books they TUE love. Konnie's choice is Hangover Square by Patrick TUE Hamilton, a dark novel of seedy low-life set in 1930's Earls TUE Court. TUE TUE Pat's is a treatise on work and the joy of simply making TUE something, The Craftsman by Richard Sennett. TUE TUE And presenter Harriett Gilbert chooses a disturbing but TUE compelling satire on how far modern parents will go to TUE protect their children, even after they have committed a TUE terrible crime - The Dinner by Herman Koch. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE The Dinner by Herman Koch TUE Published by Atlantic Books TUE TUE Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton TUE Published by Penguin TUE TUE The Craftsman by Richard Sennett TUE Published by Penguin TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01r9crf (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r90ph (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Elvenquest b01r9crh (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Great Escape TUE TUE The Questers discover the Sword of Asnagar but no sooner has TUE Amis had time to wield it than they fall into one of Lord TUE Darkness' evil traps and are marched off to the most TUE escape-proof prison camp in all of Lower Earth. TUE TUE Meanwhile, with the Sword of Asnagar finally in his hands, TUE Lord Darkness will soon be declared supreme Ruler and TUE commander of the Forces of Evil. But first, he has to TUE organise a festival... TUE TUE Starring: TUE Darren Boyd as Vidar TUE Louise Delamere as Penthiselea's mother TUE Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech TUE Dave Lamb as Amis/The Gatekeeper TUE Stephen Mangan as Sam TUE Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness TUE Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea TUE and TUE Mike Wozniak as Bunny TUE TUE Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01r9crk (Listen) TUE Alan is down in the dumps, and Shula seeks reassurance. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01r9crm (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson presents arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rdb97 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01r9crp (Listen) TUE Dangerous Hospitals? TUE TUE In the wake of the Mid-Staffordshire hospital scandal, TUE investigations are going on at 14 other hospitals in England TUE identified as having above average death rates among their TUE patients. But why has it taken so long for enquiries to TUE begin? Should the Department of Health and the hospitals TUE regulator, the Care Quality Commission, have sounded the TUE alarm much earlier? TUE TUE It took a lengthy public inquiry to get to the bottom of TUE failings in Mid-Staffordshire. Complaints of dangerous TUE clinical practice and shoddy nursing standards were TUE overlooked while whistle-blowers were treated as mere TUE troublemakers and threatened with reprisals if they went TUE public with their concerns. TUE TUE Evidence is now emerging of a similar pattern in other TUE places. TUE TUE Gerry Northam examines the list of hospitals now under TUE investigation and hears from doctors, nurses, patients and TUE bereaved relatives. Have NHS managers done enough to address TUE concern about high death rates? TUE TUE How could it happen that the hospital reported to have the TUE highest rate of excess mortality in the country - 20% above TUE the expected level for its population of patients - was TUE given a full seal of approval only three months earlier by TUE the official regulator? TUE TUE Producer: Rob Cave TUE Reporter: Gerry Northam. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01r9crr (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01r9crt (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 Christianity at the Crossroads b01r9cd6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01r90pk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01r9crw (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r9cry (Listen) TUE All the Beggars Riding, Episode 7 TUE TUE Read by Anne-Marie Duff TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall TUE Producer Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 23:00 For One Night Only b01ng098 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! TUE TUE Paul Gambaccini re-lives Thanksgiving 1969 when The Rolling TUE Stones played Madison Square Garden and recorded an album TUE later reviewed as 'the best rock concert ever put on TUE record'. TUE TUE In the company of many who were there on the night, TUE including the tour promoter Ronnie Schneider, sound engineer TUE Glyn Johns, Mick Jagger's assistant at the time Jo Bergman, TUE Chip Monck who looked after the lighting, tour manager Sam TUE Cutler, photographer Ethan Russell, and rock journalist TUE Michael Jahn, Paul Gambaccini re-creates the occasion. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess TUE (Repeat). TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r9cs0 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01r90qg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01r9cd8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r90qj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r90ql (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r90qn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01r90qq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r9pzx (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father WED Martin Graham. 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Ben Crowe WED WED Produced by Sally Avens WED WED A wildlife documentary crew attempt to break in a new WED presenter who is intent on keeping as far away from the WED wildlife as possible. Whilst the camera is pointed at the WED wildlife we're more busy watching the antics of the crew and WED it's eerie how their behaviour echoes that of the animals. WED WED 12:00 Budget 2013 b01rdbkm (Listen) WED Live coverage of the Chancellor's Budget speech with WED analysis and reaction. WED WED 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rdzlc (Listen) WED The Singing Wilderness WED WED Episode three of a thirty-part series made in collaboration WED with the British Library Sound Archive. WED WED Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores WED our relationship with noisy nature. WED WED How do we interact with what the American nature writer WED Sigurd Olsen called 'The Singing Wilderness'? WED WED Hear the Bosavi people of Papua New Guinea sing a 'gisalo' WED in the darkness of a forest longhouse, and extraordinary WED recordings from around the world, including musical trees, WED the bluesy singing of the pootoo bird, and a real frog WED chorus. WED WED Series Producer: Matt Thompson. WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01r9crk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r9r45 (Listen) WED No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, A Man from a Far Place WED WED written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith. WED WED Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi receive a visit from an WED extremely important person - a hero, as it happens, of the WED two detectives at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma WED Potokwani has had bad news at the Orphan Farm. And one of Mr WED J.L.B. Matekoni's apprentices, Fanwell, gets himself into WED deep water. WED WED produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED Credits WED Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict WED Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall WED Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe WED Charlie: Maynard Eziashi WED Fanwell: Beru Tessema WED Mma Potokwani: Janice Acquah WED Chobie: Babou Ceesay WED Clovis Andersen: Sam Dale WED Mma Soleti: Eleanor Crooks WED Phuti Radiphuti: Jude Akuwudike WED Director: Gaynor MacFarlane WED Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane WED Writer: Alexander McCall Smith WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01r9r47 (Listen) WED Investing WED WED Wondering where to invest your money? Should you pick an WED ISA, funds or shares and is it worth paying for advice or WED can you do-it-yourself? Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED If you are tempted to put some of your money in stocks and WED shares you will have questions about the level of risk WED involved, how much of your capital will be taken in charges WED and the jargon involved. 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She watched and spoke to WED its vendors, shoppers and passers-by to find out how a WED multi-ethnic market fosters a culinary culture and social WED life. WED Also, Guy Cook analyses the language of food and food WED politics; from baby food labels to organic marketing. How WED our choices and beliefs about what we eat are influenced by WED the persuasive power of words. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01r9rt8 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01r9rtb (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r90qv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dilemma b01r9rtd (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED Sue Perkins presents a second series of the panel show that WED has no right answers - just deeply damning ones. With Jason WED Cook, Cerys Matthews, David Aaronovitch and Sara Pascoe. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01r9rtg (Listen) WED David is angry, and Rosa tries to help. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01r9rtj (Listen) WED Alan Bennett, in conversation with Mark Lawson, reflects on WED his recent work for the National Theatre, the inspiration of WED his parents, and why his writing has become increasingly WED autobiographical. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01r993g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01r9rtl (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Kenan WED Malik and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01r9rtn (Listen) WED Imam Asim Hafiz WED WED In the fifth of this year's Lent Talks, Imam Asim Hafiz, WED Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM Forces, who has WED just returned from Afghanistan, explores the total WED abandonment experienced by both sides, as a result of war. 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; Benjamin Cohen, WED journalist and broadcaster, reflects on the fear of being WED abandoned by his own Jewish community, for being gay; WED Loretta Minghella, Director of Christian Aid, considers the WED abandonment of self and the need to face who we truly are WED 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 b01r9cr7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01r9q03 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01r90qx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01r9rtq (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r9rts (Listen) WED All the Beggars Riding, Episode 8 WED WED Read by Anne-Marie Duff WED Abridged by Doreen Estall WED Producer Heather Larmour. WED WED 23:00 Terry Pratchett's Eric b01r9rtv (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 3/ 4 Eric has summoned a demon and wished to meet the most WED beautiful woman in the world. Unfortunately, this lands him WED in a wooden horse in the middle of a rather famous siege. WED Fortunately, he is accompanied by junior wizard Rincewind, WED and his indefatigable Luggage. WED WED Rincewind ..... Mark Heap WED Death ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Eric ..... Will Howard WED Lavaeolus ..... Rick Warden WED Elenor ..... Christine Absalom WED Sergeant ..... Ben Crowe WED Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie WED Creator ..... Robert Blythe WED Director ..... Jonquil Panting. WED WED 23:15 Jigsaw b01r9rtx (Listen) WED Episode 5 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 b01r9rtz (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 MARCH 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01r90rr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01r9q05 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r90rt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r90rw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r90ry (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01r90s0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r9rxk (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father THU Martin Graham. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01r9rxm (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b01r9rxp (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 b01r9rxr (Listen) THU Alfred Russel Wallace THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of Alfred THU Russel Wallace, a pioneer of evolutionary theory. Born in THU 1823, Wallace travelled extensively, charting the THU distribution of animal species throughout the world. This THU fieldwork enabled him to formulate a theory of evolution THU through natural selection which anticipated the work of THU Charles Darwin. Despite his visionary work, Wallace has THU been overshadowed by the greater fame of his contemporary THU Darwin. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01r9skn (Listen) THU The World until Yesterday, Treatment of the Elderly THU THU Treatment of the elderly. THU THU Extract from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared THU Diamond's new book which suggests that traditional societies THU offer us a window onto how our ancestors lived for millions THU of years - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms THU - and can provide unique, often overlooked insights into THU human nature. THU THU Read by Crawford Logan. THU Abridged by Robin Brooks. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r9skq (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rdb6s (Listen) THU Soloparentpals.com: Series 4, Sex and the City THU THU Not only is Tom working 4 days a week in London to pay the THU mortgage in Bolton but now his mother has broken her arm in THU Hove THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01r9sks (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 Destination Freedom b01r9skv (Listen) THU It's often assumed that the drive for black emancipation in THU America began with Martin Luther King and the civil rights THU movement. This documentary challenges that perception, THU taking us back years earlier to the arts broadcasting of THU Chicago radio's Destination Freedom. THU THU Appearing a whole decade before the civil rights movement, THU Destination Freedom was truly the first of its kind. THU THU It launched in 1948, a weekly series of 30 minute radio THU dramas that showcased the lives and accomplishments of THU prominent African Americans - from Louis Armstrong, Joe THU Lewis and Duke Ellington, to the 18th century icon of the THU anti-slavery movement Crispus Attucks and Harriet Tubman, an THU abolitionist who fought for women's suffrage. The THU programme's founder and writer, Richard Durham, described it THU as radio that was "rebellious, biting, scornful and cocky". THU THU Artistically, as well as politically, it was years ahead of THU its time. Never heavy handed or simple propaganda, the THU broadcasts were even, on rare occasions, acoustically THU innovative to the point of being sound-art surreal. The THU profile of the world class African-American heart surgeon THU Daniel Hale Williams, for example, is told from the point of THU view of one of his patient's hearts (in an episode called THU 'The Heart of George Cotton'). THU THU The show walked a daring line between reform and revolution, THU and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and THU anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting. THU THU As well as drawing on the archive of Destination Freedom, THU this programme illuminates a largely unknown, but important, THU chapter in the history of civil rights and tells how radio THU drama played its part from the very beginning. THU THU Presenter: Donnie Betts THU Producer: Simon Hollis THU A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 Budget Call b01r9skx (Listen) THU You and Yours and Money Box join forces to analyse Budget THU 2013, and explain what it will mean for you. Email your THU questions to youandyours@bbc.co.uk THU THU Winifred Robinson will be joined by Paul Lewis and a panel THU of experts to answer your questions. THU THU You can call the programme when lines open on Thursday at THU 10:30 GMT. The number is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic THU charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01r90s2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01r9skz (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 Noise: A Human History b01rdzq0 (Listen) THU A Ritual Soundscape THU THU Orkney's Neolithic sites feel like theatre stages, THU encouraging us to move through them in unfamiliar ways. If THU the people noticed striking sound effects, they must have THU been tempted to exploit them. But exploit them how, exactly? THU THU Were these the kind of places where our ancestors came to THU make a spectacular din - or places where they came in search THU of silence and sensory deprivation? THU THU Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores THU the ritualistic use of sound in episode four of Noise: A THU Human History - a thirty-part series made in collaboration THU with the British Library Sound Archive. THU THU Series Producer: Matt Thompson. THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01r9rtg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r9sl1 (Listen) THU No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Limpopo Academy of THU Private Detection THU THU written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith. THU THU Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have received a visit from an THU extremely important person - a hero of the two detectives at THU the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma Potokwani has had bad THU news at the Orphan Farm and the ladies are determined to THU help her. And Mr J.L.B. Matekoni sets out to clear the name THU of his apprentice, Fanwell. THU THU produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict THU Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall THU Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe THU Mma Potokwani: Janice Acquah THU Charlie: Maynard Eziashi THU Fanwell: Beru Tessema THU Clovis Andersen: Sam Dale THU Mr Ditso Ditso: Obi Abili THU Secretary: Adjoa Andoh THU Lawyer: Nyasha Hatendi THU Magistrate: Jude Akuwudike THU Chobie: Babou Ceesay THU Director: Gaynor MacFarlane THU Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane THU Writer: Alexander McCall Smith THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01r9sl3 (Listen) THU Inishowen THU THU In a year when Derry-Londonderry takes centre stage as the THU UK City of Culture, Helen Mark steps out into the city's THU back garden to explore the hidden gems of the Inishowen THU Peninsula. Located at the northernmost tip of Ireland where THU it meets with the Atlantic Ocean, and with Lough Foyle to THU the east and Lough Swilly to the west, Inishowen is rich in THU history, heritage and landscape, with more than its fair THU share of undiscovered delights. THU Helen Mark begins her journey at the Glenevin Waterfall with THU American, Doris Russo. Now in her 90s, Doris first visited THU Donegal almost 20 years ago when she fell in love with the THU area and bought Glen House with its adjoining land and THU beautiful, yet inaccessible, waterfall. Helen hears how THU Doris took it upon herself to clear the brambles and THU undergrowth that blocked the route to the waterfall and so THU began a project that would take years to reach fruition with THU the help of the local community and volunteers. There are THU very few people in the area now without a friend or relative THU who has been involved in the Glenevin Waterfall including THU farmer, Michael Devlin, who tells Helen of his own THU experiences of the waterfall as a child. THU At the northern tip of Inishowen Helen meets writer, Cary THU Meehan, to visit the atmospheric Bocan Stone Circle at Malin THU Head. Cary has made a promise with herself to visit a sacred THU place every week and feels that these are places that give THU people a divine connection that there really are no words THU for. THU Heading back along the shores of Lough Foyle, Helen stops THU off for a kayak trip out on the waters with Adrian Harkin THU before making her way back to the border. Before she leaves THU Inishowen, Helen makes one last stop to meet Dessie THU McCallion who takes Helen to one of his favourite hidden THU gems, a woodland near the village of Muff where he walks and THU feeds the red squirrels who call the woodland home. THU Presenter: Helen Mark Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01r95h4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01r961p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01r9sl5 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01r9sl7 (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 b01r9sl9 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r90s4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b01r9slc (Listen) THU Series 9, Episode 4 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 In this show, Jeremy is joined by special guests Paul B THU Davies and Pauline McLynn as he examines how to speak, when THU to speak and when not to speak - via the medium of speaking. 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 b01r9slf (Listen) THU Tom is full of surprises. Meanwhile Darrell refuses to talk. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01r9sw2 (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including an interview with comedian and THU writer Lee Mack, star of the TV sit-com Not Going Out. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rdb6s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01r9sw4 (Listen) THU Pension Liberation Schemes THU THU It can begin with a simple text inviting you to release THU money from an old pension before you are fifty five, the THU earliest age at which you can officially access your money. THU People in financial difficulties may be tempted to sign up, THU but will they ever see their money again? THU Simon Cox investigates the dangers of "pension liberation" THU schemes. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01r9sw6 (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? b01r9cdd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01r9rxr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01r90s6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01r9sw8 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r9swb (Listen) THU All the Beggars Riding, Episode 9 THU THU Read by Anne-Marie Duff THU Abdriged by Doreen Estall THU Producer Heather Larmour. THU THU 23:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b01r9swd (Listen) THU Episode 3 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 three Bridget considers women and their THU relationship with their bodies via a lap dance, TOWIE and a THU fish called Michael. 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 Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r9swg (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01r90t7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01r9skn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r90t9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r90tc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r90tf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01r90th (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r9wc4 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Father FRI Martin Graham. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01r9wc6 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01r9wc8 (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 b01r95hg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01r9wcb (Listen) FRI The World until Yesterday, Diet and Health FRI FRI Diet and health. FRI FRI Extract from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's FRI powerful new book which suggests that traditional societies FRI offer a window onto how our ancestors lived for millions of FRI years - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - FRI and can provide unique, often overlooked insights into human FRI nature. FRI FRI Read by Crawford Logan. FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01r9wcd (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rdbxn (Listen) FRI Soloparentpals.com: Series 4, Be It Ever So Humble FRI FRI Tom's plans to propose were scuppered when Rosie discovered FRI he had accepted a permanent job on London. It looks like FRI they are living apart again FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 11:00 Forgotten Black Cowboys b01r9wcg (Listen) FRI Hollywood shows us a wild west populated only by white FRI cowboys. But it's only part of the story, as Sarfraz Manzoor FRI discovers as he goes in search of America's black cowboys. FRI FRI On his journey through Texas, he finds that the west was FRI populated by both African Americans and Hispanic cowboys, FRI and that their legacy lives on today. He joins a trail ride FRI with black cowboys as they make their way across the dusty FRI plains following the routes of their ancestors. Complete FRI with twelve covered wagons and up to 200 riders on FRI horseback, Sarfraz finds a great pride in this black FRI heritage. FRI FRI In Wichita, Kansas, he meets one remarkable performer, the FRI very first actor to appear as a black cowboy in the movies FRI of the 1930s. At a time of racial segregation in the United FRI States, few white cinema goers would ever have heard of Herb FRI Jeffries, but he was the hero in films such as 'Harlem on FRI the Prairie'. Today Herb Jeffries is about to turn 100. FRI FRI So how did this part of America get airbrushed out of the FRI movies and the history books? He talks to experts and FRI archivists, as well as those who have lived the life of the FRI range, to find a true life story hidden from sight for many FRI years. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b01r9wcj (Listen) FRI Series 4, Lamb of My Father FRI FRI by Nigel Williams. Sam, having won the lottery, casts around FRI for another project to invest his and Peter's energies and FRI cash in. This time they hit on haute cuisine, Welsh style. FRI FRI Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost FRI Peter ... Jonathan Pryce FRI Myfanwy ..... Lizzy Watts FRI Welshman ..... Steffan Rhodri. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01r9wcl (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01r90tk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01r9wcn (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 Noise: A Human History b01rdzx0 (Listen) FRI The Rise of the Shamans FRI FRI Episode five of a thirty-part series made in collaboration FRI with the British Library Sound Archive. FRI FRI Around the world charismatic individuals claim the ability FRI to change the weather, heal illness and help crops grow. FRI Professor David Hendy explains how sound - and its FRI manipulation - is central to the shaman's power. FRI FRI David introduces the eerie rituals of Siberian reindeer FRI herders as they summon spirits, before coming closer to home FRI to hear a mysterious singing angel high in the facade of FRI Wells Cathedral. FRI FRI Series Producer: Matt Thompson. FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01r9slf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01r9wcq (Listen) FRI The Edison Cylinders FRI FRI Rhona Forrester, a physicist in a sound laboratory, is FRI persuaded by an old flame to restore some early wax cylinder FRI recordings. But the voice that emerges begins to exert a FRI malevolent influence. FRI FRI Written by Mike Walker FRI FRI Directed by John Taylor FRI FRI A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Rhona Forrester: Clare McCarron FRI Liam: Jonjo O'Neill FRI Miles Hautigan: Harry Hadden-Paton FRI Feveral: Stephen Critchlow FRI Ice Cream Seller: Laura Hyde FRI Director: John Taylor FRI Writer: Mike Walker FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01r9wcs (Listen) FRI The Edible Garden Show FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs GQT from The Edible Garden Show in FRI Warwickshire, with Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and FRI James Wong taking the audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Maiden City Stories b01r9wcv (Listen) FRI Peace Reigns Supreme 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 'Peace reigns supreme' by Seamus Deane. FRI FRI Read by Sean McGinley and Kerr Logan FRI Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01r9wcx (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01r9wcz (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 b01r9wd1 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r90tm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01r9wd3 (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Sara FRI Pascoe, Laura Shavin and Grace Petrie to present a comic run FRI through the week's news. Produced by Colin Anderson. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01r9wd5 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Nawal Gadalla FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Rosa Makepeace ..... Anna Piper FRI Spencer Wilkes ..... Jonny Elsmore. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01r9wd7 (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including a review of the musical The Book FRI of Mormon, the Broadway hit from the creators of South Park, FRI which has now opened in the UK. FRI FRI Producer Olivia Skinner. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rdbxn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01r9wd9 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Ellesmere Port in the North West with MP Jack Straw, IT FRI Businessman Ken Olisa, Secretary of State for International FRI Development Justine Greening MP and Matthew Sinclair the FRI chief executive of the Tax Payers Alliance. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01r9wdc (Listen) FRI Adam Gopnik reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Noise: A Human History - Omnibus b01r9wdf (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI A six-week series made in collaboration with the British FRI Library Sound Archive. FRI FRI Professor David Hendy from the University of Sussex visits FRI the caves of Arcy-sur-Cure in Burgundy with musicologist FRI Iegor Reznikoff to listen to evidence of the mind and FRI beliefs of Neolithic people. FRI FRI He travels to Ghana to hear the talking drum and explores FRI our relationship with noisy nature. FRI FRI Orkney's Neolithic sites feel like theatre stages, FRI encouraging us to move through them in unfamiliar ways. Were FRI these the kind of places where our ancestors came to make a FRI spectacular din - or places where they came in search of FRI silence and sensory deprivation? FRI FRI Finally, David explains how sound - and its manipulation - FRI is central to the shaman's power. FRI FRI Series Producer: Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01r90tp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01r9wdh (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01r9wdk (Listen) FRI All the Beggars Riding, Episode 10 FRI FRI Read by Anne-Marie Duff FRI Abridged by Doreen Estall FRI Producer Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01r9crc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01r9wdm (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
15 March, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 16/03/2013 - 22/03/2013
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