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SAT SATURDAY 23 MARCH 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01r9wgk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01r9wcb (Listen) SAT The World until Yesterday, Diet and Health SAT SAT Diet and health. SAT SAT Extract from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's SAT powerful new book which suggests that traditional societies SAT offer a window onto how our ancestors lived for millions of SAT years - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - SAT and can provide unique, often overlooked insights into human SAT nature. SAT SAT Read by Crawford Logan. SAT Abridged by Robin Brooks. SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01r9wgm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01r9wgp (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01r9wgr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01r9wgt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01r9wj8 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt SAT Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01r9wjb (Listen) SAT iPM, the programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Eddie Mair. ipm@bbc.co.uk SAT SAT The future of press regulation, two listeners - one who has SAT complained about coverage and one who edits a local SAT newsletter discuss the options. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01r9wgw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01r9wgy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01r9sl3 (Listen) SAT Inishowen SAT SAT In a year when Derry-Londonderry takes centre stage as the SAT UK City of Culture, Helen Mark steps out into the city's SAT back garden to explore the hidden gems of the Inishowen SAT Peninsula. Located at the northernmost tip of Ireland where SAT it meets with the Atlantic Ocean, and with Lough Foyle to SAT the east and Lough Swilly to the west, Inishowen is rich in SAT history, heritage and landscape, with more than its fair SAT share of undiscovered delights. SAT Helen Mark begins her journey at the Glenevin Waterfall with SAT American, Doris Russo. Now in her 90s, Doris first visited SAT Donegal almost 20 years ago when she fell in love with the SAT area and bought Glen House with its adjoining land and SAT beautiful, yet inaccessible, waterfall. Helen hears how SAT Doris took it upon herself to clear the brambles and SAT undergrowth that blocked the route to the waterfall and so SAT began a project that would take years to reach fruition with SAT the help of the local community and volunteers. There are SAT very few people in the area now without a friend or relative SAT who has been involved in the Glenevin Waterfall including SAT farmer, Michael Devlin, who tells Helen of his own SAT experiences of the waterfall as a child. SAT At the northern tip of Inishowen Helen meets writer, Cary SAT Meehan, to visit the atmospheric Bocan Stone Circle at Malin SAT Head. Cary has made a promise with herself to visit a sacred SAT place every week and feels that these are places that give SAT people a divine connection that there really are no words SAT for. SAT Heading back along the shores of Lough Foyle, Helen stops SAT off for a kayak trip out on the waters with Adrian Harkin SAT before making her way back to the border. Before she leaves SAT Inishowen, Helen makes one last stop to meet Dessie SAT McCallion who takes Helen to one of his favourite hidden SAT gems, a woodland near the village of Muff where he walks and SAT feeds the red squirrels who call the woodland home. SAT Presenter: Helen Mark Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01rft3n (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01r9wh0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01rft3q (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 b01rft3s (Listen) SAT Mark Haddon, Sara Wheeler, John Taylor's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams with author Mark Haddon, SAT Will Hadcroft who has Asperger's, and Richard & Alison SAT Warden who remarried each other after 50 years. Travel SAT Writer Sara Wheeler takes a tour of Dunfermline, two SAT Southend schoolgirls explain why they wish they'd grown up SAT in the 80s, there's a Soundsculpture of rowing, Saturday SAT live listeners say thank you for random acts of kindness and SAT Duran Duran's John Taylor shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Mr Jupitus in the Age of Steampunk b01md9fj (Listen) SAT If you've ever encountered a person with flying goggles, SAT clad in tweeds and clutching a mahogany laptop or brass SAT smartphone on a chain, what's the explanation? Phill Jupitus SAT steps into an era where the 19th and 21st centuries SAT charmingly collide, to investigate the time travelling cult SAT known as Steampunk. SAT SAT Travelling back to the steam-powered future, Phill discovers SAT a cast of modern characters - engineers, scientists, SAT writers, artists and inventors - taking their inspiration SAT from the Victorian and Edwardian arts and sciences, and from SAT the fiction of H.G. Wells. SAT SAT "It's still the early twenty-first century. The Victorian SAT world, the Edwardian world carried on", explains Ian SAT Crichton aka Herr Doktor amongst an array of fantastical SAT homemade devices: digital camera modified with rivets, SAT brass-etched ray gun, steam pistol and a space helmet like SAT that worn by Lionel Jeffries in The First Men on The Moon. SAT "We've got steam-powered cars on the streets. We've got huge SAT dirigibles flying to Japan". SAT SAT Steampunk speculates on an imaginary overlap between the SAT 19th century and the present day. Phill investigates at a SAT Steampunk convivial, The Houses of Parliament, on an x-ray SAT ward, at a punk gig and in a shed in suburban Surrey. SAT SAT With Dr Chandrika Nath from the Parliamentary Office of SAT Science and Technology ; consultant radiologist Dr Adrian SAT Thomas; comedian Andrew O'Neill; science fiction author, SAT Adam Roberts and lecturer in 19th Century Literature, Dr SAT Christine Ferguson. SAT SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01rft3v (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01rft3x (Listen) SAT Insight, colour and analysis from reporters around the SAT world. Mark Lowen's in Cyprus where the banks remain closed SAT and the people have been getting angrier. Shahzeb Jillani SAT makes the decision to work as a correspondent in the SAT troubled Pakistani city of Karachi -- his family questions SAT his judgement! Charlotte Pritchard takes a drive through the SAT smuggler borderlands between Colombia and Venezuela. As SAT politicians and community leaders in Yemen discuss the SAT future -- Daniel Owen's been to one town where the talk is SAT mainly about fish and Justin Rowlatt's investigating the SAT mining boom bringing riches to Mongolia - he meets one man SAT he describes as Mongolia's most influential since Genghis SAT Khan! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01rft3z (Listen) SAT Budget lowdown, how safe are my savings, and when is 0% SAT interest not 0%? SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01r9wd3 (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Sara SAT Pascoe, Laura Shavin and Grace Petrie to present a comic run SAT through the week's news. Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01r9wh2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01r9wh4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01r9wd9 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Ellesmere Port in the North West with the former Home SAT Secretary MP Jack Straw and the founder of the Big Issue SAT John Bird, Baroness Susan Kramer and Peter Lilley MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01rft41 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01rft43 (Listen) SAT Hombre SAT SAT By Elmore Leonard SAT Adapted by Robert Ferguson SAT SAT John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his SAT way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach SAT passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with SAT him. That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must SAT rely on Russell to lead them out of the desert. SAT SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT SAT Sound Design: Colin Guthrie SAT Production Co-Ordinator: Selina Ream SAT Studio Managers: Martha Littlehailes, Graham Harper, Michael SAT Etherden SAT SAT Radio 4's Western double-bill continues on Saturday 30 March SAT with Shane, when a mysterious horseman rides into an SAT isolated valley in Wyoming. SAT Hombre SAT SAT Credits SAT Carl Allen: Trevor White SAT John Russell: Elliot Cowan SAT Mr Mendez: Javier Marzan SAT Miss McLaren: Kelly Burke SAT Dr Favor: Nicholas Murchie SAT Frank Braden: Steven Hartley SAT Audra Favor: Laurel Lefkow SAT Lamar Dean: Ben Crowe SAT Early: Will Howard SAT Ex-Soldier: Rick Warden SAT Sheriff Lyons: Michael Shelford SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Writer: Robert Ferguson SAT SAT 15:30 Studio in the Sand b01rft45 (Listen) SAT Foreign correspondent and music journalist Robin Denselow SAT travels to the refugee camps of the Saharawi people in SAT Algeria who were displaced from Western Sahara following SAT land dispute war with Morocco. The Saharawi have been living SAT in the camps for over twenty years, with their young people SAT knowing nothing except life in the camps, where there is SAT little chance of employment or escape. The music of the SAT Saharawi is not as well known as that of neighbouring Mali, SAT but is a powerful expression of their culture, and their SAT desire to return home to the land from which they were SAT displaced, a land whose landscapes and animals many younger SAT Saharawi have never seen and can only dream about in the SAT lyrics and chords of their music. The Saharawi are Muslim, SAT but unlike in other parts of the region, here the women play SAT a lead role in politics and music. SAT Robin speaks to the Prime Minister and the Minister of SAT Culture in the camps about the forgotten struggle of the SAT Saharawi whose plight has vanished off the international SAT agenda, and about the role that their music plays to carry SAT the story of their plight, as well as the haunting energy of SAT their music, to an international audience. Sandblast is a SAT charity run by Danielle Smith and a group of British sound SAT engineers who are setting up recording studios within the SAT refugee camps in order to train musicians in how to produce SAT recorded music which can then be exported to an audience SAT which would otherwise never get to hear its very particular SAT note. Robin follows this initiative as the first trainees SAT learn the ropes in the Studio in the Sand, speaking to SAT trainers and new recruits and hearing electrifying first SAT concerts. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Shepherd SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01rft47 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01rft49 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01r9sw6 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT It's said that the best way to make a small fortune in the SAT wine business is to start with a large one. Evan Davis and SAT his guests explore just how profitable selling crushed SAT grapes really is. How do they convince consumers they are SAT offering quality and value? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Graham Sumeray, CEO Fine + SAT Rare; Dan Jago, Category Director (Beers, Wines and Spirits) SAT at Tesco's; Alok Mathur, co-founder and director Soul Tree SAT Wines. SAT SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01r9wh6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01r9wh8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01r9whb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01rft4c (Listen) SAT Alice Lowe, Anthony Horowitz, Bonnie Tyler, Emma Freud, SAT Soweto Kinch, Cody ChesnuTT SAT SAT Holding out for a hero? Your wait is over! The Loose Ends SAT studio is bursting with rescuers this week. For starters SAT Clive is joined by Bonnie Tyler, the UK's First Lady of Rock SAT and team GB's great hope in this year's Eurovision Song SAT Contest. Bonnie's new album Rocks and Honey is released on SAT May 6th. SAT SAT Anthony Horowitz is a bit of a superman too. With a vast SAT string of titles for both children and adults to his name, SAT his Alex Rider novels and TV shows such as Foyle's War and SAT Midsomer Murders guarantee him a fan-base from 9 to 99 year SAT olds - so that should include Mr Anderson. A brand new SAT series of Foyle's War begins on Sunday 24th April at 8pm on SAT ITV1. SAT SAT Emma Freud will need saving from cutting-edge comedy writer SAT and performer Alice Lowe who plays a killer caravan-er in SAT dark comedy Sightseers. When she's not on a killing spree SAT Alice can be seen carving it up in Hot Fuzz, The Mighty SAT Boosh, Peep Show and The IT Crowd. 'Sightseers' is available SAT on DVD from Monday 25th March. SAT SAT With music from award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch who SAT performs 'Better off Alone' from his album 'The Legend of SAT Mike Smith' and four star soul from Cody ChesnuTT who SAT performs 'Til I Met Thee' from his album 'Landing on a SAT Hundred'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01rftsp (Listen) SAT Magnus Carlsen SAT SAT Chris Bowlby looks at the 22-year old Norwegian chess player SAT Magnus Carlsen. He has the highest rating in the world ever SAT and has been called the Mozart of chess. SAT SAT He is currently in London playing the tournament that will SAT determine which top player gets to challenge the reigning SAT world champion, Vishy Anand, for that title. SAT Carlsen has been amazing the world of chess since he was a SAT child. He became a Grandmaster after just four years of SAT playing, when he was thirteen. He also achieved a draw SAT against chess legend Gary Kasparov at that age. SAT His talent and achievements later caught the attention of SAT the fashion world, and he was asked to model for denim brand SAT G-Star Raw, giving the image of chess a make-over in the SAT process. SAT He is said to have a photographic memory, but uses it to SAT remember sports results and trivia more than chess openings. SAT An instinctive and fast player, he also has extraordinary SAT staying power and can change a game five hours in, when his SAT opponents start to flag. SAT Can this chess wunderkind now become world champion? And SAT what is he actually like? Lesley Curwen talks to those who SAT know him best, from his dad and his first coach, to famous SAT chess players like Nigel Short. SAT SAT Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01rftsr (Listen) SAT The Book Of Mormon on the London stage SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01rfwr1 (Listen) SAT DNA 60 Years On SAT SAT Just 60 years ago, the initials DNA were unknown to the SAT public. A handful of scientists were in a race to discover SAT the structure of this complex molecule which possibly held SAT the secret of life. Today, DNA is a crucial part of our SAT knowledge about health, identity and our whole world. SAT SAT In April 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published SAT their conclusion that the structure of DNA was a double SAT helix. In this programme Robert Winston traces the ways in SAT which DNA has entered our lives, including a new interview SAT with the 85 year old James Watson, who reflects on the SAT consequences of his pioneering work with Crick. SAT SAT The programme begins with archive of Watson and Crick as SAT they talk about their attempts in Cambridge to solve the SAT structure, while their rivals in London, Maurice Wilkins and SAT Rosalind Franklin, competed and contributed to the SAT groundbreaking discovery. SAT SAT Understanding the genetic code of the structure led to the SAT Human Genome project, completed in 2003, which aimed to SAT identify all genes in human DNA. Its application for medical SAT conditions, identifying gene mutations that could lead to SAT disease and disability, has continued to raise questions of SAT ethics as to how this intimate knowledge of people's genes SAT might be used. SAT SAT A further leap forward in the application of DNA was SAT discovered by Alec Jeffreys in 1984, when he realised that SAT each person's DNA fingerprint was unique. Whether it's in SAT solving crimes or paternity issues, working towards a cure SAT for cancer or heart disease, or finding Richard III in a car SAT park, the revolution that was heralded 60 years ago has SAT galloped into our lives. SAT SAT Robert Winston assesses where we are and looks ahead to what SAT DNA might lead to in the future. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Bannerman SAT A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01r95hq (Listen) SAT Esther Waters, Episode 2 SAT SAT Esther Waters by George Moore. Dramatised by Sharon Oakes SAT Episode 2 SAT Set against a background of horseracing and gambling; a SAT stirring tale of how a woman survives and brings up her SAT child in Victorian England. Esther leaves the workhouse with SAT her baby. She is desperate for them to stay together. But SAT how can she earn money? 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 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 Leopold: Hugh Simon SAT Judge: Hugh Simon SAT Fred: Graeme Hawley SAT Demon: Stephen Hoyle SAT Mrs Barfield: Melissa Jane Sinden SAT Mrs Empson: Melissa Jane Sinden SAT Bill: Greg Wood SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT Writer: Sharon Oakes SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01r9whd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01r9rtl (Listen) SAT Business and Displeasure SAT SAT On Friday Prince Charles - on a nine-day tour of the Middle SAT East - arrived in Saudi Arabia to meet his old friend King SAT Abdullah and discuss military collaboration, opportunities SAT for women in society, interfaith dialogue, education and SAT environmental sustainability. Both their Royal Highnesses SAT were conscious of the fact that Britain has sold four SAT billion pounds' worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia in the SAT past five years and that BAe are currently trying to clinch SAT a deal to supply the Kingdom with Typhoon fighter-jets. The SAT Royal agenda did not mention Friday's execution by a Saudi SAT firing squad of seven young men who had been arrested for a SAT robbery in which no-one was hurt. Nor did it include the SAT Saudi human rights activists who have recently been handed SAT long prison sentences. SAT The Prime Minister, who has himself visited the Middle East SAT at the head of an arms trade delegation, says there are "no SAT no-go areas" when discussing the human rights record of SAT Saudi Arabia; but he has also described the country as "a SAT very old ally and partner" and argued that "the defence SAT industry is like any other industry. We are in a global SAT race." SAT Trade and human rights: are they separate issues, never to SAT be confused? Or, when we go into business negotiations, SAT should the way a government treats its citizens be part of SAT the discussion? If it should, how ought we to balance our SAT own interests against the suffering of people for whom we're SAT not responsible? Are there any absolute moral principles to SAT guide us, or will it always be a messy and pragmatic SAT calculation? SAT There are some who say we don't have the right to lecture SAT other countries about human rights. Do we? And, if we do, at SAT what cost in money and jobs to ourselves? SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Kenan SAT Malik and Claire Fox. Witnesses: Howard Wheeldon - SAT Independent defence analyst, Andrew Alexander - Daily Mail SAT columnist, Gabrielle Rifkind - Director of the Middle East SAT programme at Oxford Research Group, David Mepham - Director, SAT Human Rights Watch. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01r9c99 (Listen) SAT (17/17) SAT SAT Russell Davies chairs the general knowledge quiz as it SAT reaches the climax of its 2013 series, at the BBC Radio SAT Theatre in London. Forty-eight contestants have been SAT whittled down to just four Finalists, who are about to find SAT out which of them will be named the 60th Brain of Britain. SAT SAT These contestants being the creme de la creme, they face the SAT toughest questions of the series in their bid to lift the SAT trophy. The broadcaster and Professor of Classics at SAT Cambridge University, Mary Beard, will perform the SAT championship ceremony. SAT SAT The Finalists this year come from London, Leeds, Lancashire SAT and Portsmouth. Will they be stumped by the interval SAT questions set especially to bamboozle them, by last year's SAT Brain of Britain champion? SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT JENNY DUNN, a civil servant from Portsmouth; SAT SAT DARREN MARTIN, a project analyst from Whittle le Woods in SAT Lancashire; SAT SAT BARRY SIMMONS, a former IT manager from Leeds; SAT SAT DAVID STAINER, a solicitor from Hertford. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b01r961r (Listen) SAT Middle Age SAT SAT Are the middle years tough for poets? Paul Farley listens to SAT new poems on the subject. With Paul Muldoon, Kathleen Jamie SAT and Hugo Williams. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 MARCH 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01rfrz0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01b1lv6 (Listen) SUN Eel Pie Island SUN SUN Written by Mark Burgess. SUN SUN Today's story - Eel Pie Island by Mark Burgess - is set in SUN the Summer of 1964 and recalls the heady days when Eel Pie SUN Island, in the middle of the Thames near Richmond, was a SUN favoured venue for rhythm & blues and rock bands. The Who, SUN Rod Stewart, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones all played SUN there. SUN SUN It's a monologue - and a love story - in which a man in his SUN 60's, embracing retirement, remembers his teenage years as a SUN resident of Eel Pie Island and a particular, magical summer, SUN in which everything fell into place. SUN SUN A series of specially commissioned tales inspired by rivers SUN and boats. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rfrz2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rfrz4 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rfrz6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01rfrz8 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01rfy4q (Listen) SUN The bells of St Martin's Church Desford, Leicester. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b01r9rtn (Listen) SUN Imam Asim Hafiz SUN SUN In the fifth of this year's Lent Talks, Imam Asim Hafiz, SUN Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM Forces, who has SUN just returned from Afghanistan, explores the total SUN abandonment experienced by both sides, as a result of war. SUN 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; Benjamin Cohen, SUN journalist and broadcaster, reflects on the fear of being SUN abandoned by his own Jewish community, for being gay; SUN Loretta Minghella, Director of Christian Aid, considers the SUN abandonment of self and the need to face who we truly are SUN and, finally, Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James's SUN Piccadilly, explores the relationship between abandonment SUN and betrayal. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01rfrzb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01rfy4s (Listen) SUN God Bless Our Contradictions SUN SUN Stewart Henderson reflects on our inner contradictions. Can SUN they ever be helpful to us? SUN SUN We often think of contradiction as a bad thing - it means SUN being hypocritical, or struggling with two opposite emotions SUN at the same time. But can that actually have its benefits? SUN SUN Stewart Henderson explores whether our inner contradictions SUN can enrich our lives. He speaks to Richard Holloway, former SUN Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church, who SUN challenged his Church on its attitude to gay and lesbian SUN people and women, yet remained an active member of the SUN institution. Stewart asks him about his persistent refusal SUN to stop questioning Christianity, and if he's come to terms SUN with his uncertainty about the existence of God. Richard SUN thinks faith itself is based on a contradiction: if we could SUN prove our beliefs, we wouldn't need faith - or doubt. SUN SUN Readings from St. Paul and F. Scott Fitzgerald explore the SUN challenges of living with contradictions, and music from SUN Robert Schumann, Steve Reich and Leonard Cohen show us how SUN they can even be beautiful. SUN SUN William Blake wrote "without contraries, no progression". Do SUN we need to contradict ourselves to move forward? SUN SUN Producer: Frances Beere SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01rfy4v (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01rfrzd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01rfrzg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01rfy4x (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01rfy4z (Listen) SUN National Association for Children of Alcoholics SUN SUN Geraldine James presents the Radio 4 Appeal for the National SUN Association for Children of Alcoholics SUN (N.A.C.O.A) SUN Reg Charity:1009143 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN N.A.C.O.A. SUN SUN An estimated 1 million children in the UK are living with a SUN parent whose drinking is a problem.The National Association SUN for Children of Alcoholics provides support for children SUN living with an SUN alcohol dependent parent, who has neither acknowledged nor SUN sought help for their drinking.The core of our work is a SUN free, confidential helpline that aims to provide children SUN with information and advice. SUN For many children, a Nacoa volunteer will be the first SUN person they have told about what is happening at home.We SUN help them to understand that it's okay to talk about the SUN problem and explore ways that they can take care of SUN themselves.Nacoa also aims to support the professionals SUN working with children by offering training about how to talk SUN to them about parental drinking and putting them in touch SUN with local services.The charity relies on trained volunteers SUN to staff the helpline and respond to children in need of SUN support. SUN SUN In 2012 Nacoa was extremely proud to receive the Queens SUN Award for Voluntary Service, SUN a testament to the hard work and dedication of our SUN volunteers. Donations to the Nacoa Radio 4 Appeal will help SUN ensure that we continue to pick up the phone SUN to children who otherwise would have nowhere to turn. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01rfrzj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01rfrzl (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01rfy51 (Listen) SUN This Is Our Story: Living in Hope of the Promised Land SUN SUN 'This is our story' - Living in hope of the promised land: SUN last in our Lent series and marking Palm Sunday live from SUN Methodist Central Hall Westminster. Preacher: The SUN Superintendent Minister, The Revd Martin Turner; Director of SUN Music: Gerard Brooks. SUN SUN Download Lent resources from Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland by logging on to bbc.co.uk/sundayworship; SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01r9wdc (Listen) SUN Turkish notions SUN SUN "Lately I've been thinking a lot about the Turk", writes SUN Adam Gopnik. He's talking - not of the Ottomans - but the SUN famous chess playing machine constructed in the late 18th SUN century. SUN SUN A mechanical figure of a bearded man, dressed in Turkish SUN clothing, appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess SUN against a human opponent. It was - in fact - a mechanical SUN illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to SUN operate the machine. SUN SUN It was a sensation. But the players inside were nothing more SUN than good chess players. SUN SUN "We always over estimate the space between the uniquely good SUN and the very good", Gopnik writes. "We worship one tennis SUN player as uniquely gifted, failing to see that the SUN runners-up, who we scoff at as perpetual losers, are SUN themselves fantastically gifted and accomplished, that the SUN inept footballer we whistle at in despair is a better SUN football player than we have ever seen or ever will meet". SUN SUN As some of the world's top chess players battle it out in SUN London in the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess SUN Championship, Adam Gopnik reflects on why we overrate SUN masters and underrate mastery. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01rfy53 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01rfy55 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Nawal Gadalla SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Rosa Makepeace ..... Anna Piper SUN Spencer Wilkes ..... Jonny Elsmore. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01rfy57 (Listen) SUN Jasvinder Sanghera SUN SUN Jasvinder Sanghera, campaigner, is interviewed by Kirsty SUN Young. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01r9c9k (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 6 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. Just how hard SUN can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, SUN repetition or deviation? SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01rfy59 (Listen) SUN Marmalade SUN SUN Each January, with the arrival of the seville oranges, SUN hundreds of people across the UK ritually boil and jar SUN batches of marmalade, following family recipes and leaving SUN their kitchens sticky and fragrant with citrus. But who's SUN eating it? For years sales figures have been in decline and SUN the under 25s say it's 'boring'. SUN SUN So Tim Hayward heads out to a little corner of Cumbria to SUN the Dalemain estate where the amber preserve is celebrated SUN at the Marmalade Championships. From 'dark and chunky' to SUN 'any citrus' hundreds of home-made and artisan examples have SUN been entered for judging while enthusiasts dressed in orange SUN accessories browse the presentations. SUN SUN He asks whether marmalade, once commonplace on British SUN breakfast tables, is dying a slow death or becoming the SUN preserve of the wealthy or an enthusiastic elite. He also SUN learns a worrying truth - could foreign marmalade makers now SUN be beating us at making the best? SUN SUN Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN To start, put one kilogram of lemons into a pan and boil SUN them for around 2 hours, or until the peel has softened. You SUN will then need to remove the pips. Cut all the fruits SUN together with pulp to very thin slices. Then add one SUN kilogram of sugar mixed with pure citrus pectin, and stir SUN until all the sugar is dissolved. Boil rapidly for 20 SUN minutes until marmalade sets when tested. Finally put the SUN marmalade into the jars, and to each jar add a little bit of SUN enthusiasm and passion! SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01rfrzn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01rfy5c (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 Hunt/Lauda b01rfy5f (Listen) SUN Racing driver and presenter Vicki Butler-Henderson recalls SUN one of sport's most intense rivalries as swashbuckling SUN British playboy James Hunt took on Formula One World SUN Champion Niki Lauda, a man who by the August of 1976 would SUN be fighting for his life in a German hospital. SUN SUN Motorsport legends Murray Walker, journalist Nigel Roebuck SUN and Niki Lauda himself tell how Hunt, in his British SUN Mclaren, chased the Austrian's scarlet Ferrari in a 200mph SUN season-long duel from Brazil to Japan. It wasn't long before SUN the handsome, blonde, badly behaved Hunt became Britain's SUN number one sporting hero, filling the front and back pages SUN of international newspapers in the scorching summer of '76 SUN with his outrageous car control and equally outrageous SUN personal life. SUN SUN Thrilling archive and first hand testimonies from three-time SUN world champion Lauda and famed Austrian commentator and SUN author Heinz Pruller tell how, in the August of that year, SUN Ferrari's golden boy crashed heavily at the notorious SUN Nurburgring circuit in Germany. His car burst into flames, SUN and left Lauda, stricken with terrible burns, to receive the SUN Last Rites. SUN SUN What followed remains one of sport's most heroic chapters as SUN Lauda went from death's door to returning to the track, SUN battle scarred and bleeding, taking the fight with Hunt to SUN the final race of the year and setting up a gladiatorial SUN showdown amid monsoon conditions at the Japanese Grand Prix. SUN SUN Producer: James Wm. Roberts. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01r9wcs (Listen) SUN The Edible Garden Show SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs GQT from The Edible Garden Show in SUN Warwickshire - with Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and SUN James Wong taking the audience's questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01rfy5h (Listen) SUN Life in Ceausescu's Romania SUN SUN During the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, SUN Romanians lived in the shadow of his feared secret police SUN force - the Securitate. Carmen Bugan was a young village SUN girl whose life was turned upside down when her father dared SUN to speak out against the system. From then on police agents SUN recorded everything she and her family, said and did. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01rfy5k (Listen) SUN The Water Babies: A Modern Fairy Tale SUN SUN Paul Farley's playful updating of Charles Kingsley's 150 SUN year old children's novel. SUN SUN Young Tomi is part of the UK's illegal labour market, having SUN been trafficked into the country from Nigeria as a child SUN labourer, but his life is changed forever when he meets a SUN girl from the other side of the tracks, runs away and falls SUN into a river. SUN SUN When he wakes up, he's been transformed - he's amphibious! SUN And so begins a series of strange and exciting underwater SUN adventures in which he meets caddis flies, trout, otters and SUN eels. But Tomi learns that with his new freedom comes choice SUN and responsibility. SUN SUN Credits SUN Tomi: Damson Idris SUN Grimes: Kurt Egyiawan SUN Hitcher: Julia Ford SUN Miss Whatcomesaroundgoesaround: Julia Ford SUN Miss Whatgoesaroundcomesaround: Julia Ford SUN Ellie: Lauren Mote SUN Hotel Manager: Michael Shelford SUN Porpoise: Michael Shelford SUN Farm Salmon: Michael Shelford SUN Housemaid: Hannah Wood SUN Dragonfly: Hannah Wood SUN Eel 3: Hannah Wood SUN Caddis Fly 1: Philippa Stanton SUN Eel 1: Philippa Stanton SUN Caddis Fly 2: Ben Crowe SUN Crayfish: Ben Crowe SUN Trout: Ben Crowe SUN Otter: Jenny Ogilvie SUN Eel 3: Jenny Ogilvie SUN Salmon: Robert Blythe SUN Lobster: Robert Blythe SUN Director: Emma Harding SUN Writer: Paul Farley SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01rfy5m (Listen) SUN Aminatta Forna on The Hired Man, the Russian literary scene, SUN and 150th anniversary of The Water Babies SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Aminatta Forna about her latest SUN book The Hired Man, discusses Russian literature with SUN Russian Booker winner Mikhail Shishkin and Natasha Perova SUN from Glas publishing, and 150 years since the publication of SUN The Water-Babies, why does it remain an all-time favourite SUN children's classic. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Ursula Vaughan Williams, Poet and Muse b01rfy5p (Listen) SUN Ursula Vaughan Williams was most famous for being the SUN composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's second wife. However, she SUN was a published poet who contributed poems for her husband SUN to set and collaborated creatively on various occasions with SUN him and other composers. SUN SUN The writer Irma Kurtz tells her story and looks at her SUN poetry with the help of the Vaughan Williams' friends and SUN colleagues. She discovers a true love story. Ursula met SUN Vaughan Williams when they were both married to other SUN people. He was much older than her. Her husband died during SUN the war and Ralph's wife spent much of her life in a wheel SUN chair. Ursula became the lover and creative collaborator of SUN the composer, even moving into his marital home with the SUN blessing of his first wife. When Adeline Vaughan Williams SUN died, Ralph and Ursula could be married. SUN SUN Ursula's poetry speaks of love, nature and memory . Her SUN masterpiece, The Dictated Theme was written in the days SUN after Vaughan Williams died and she described the feeling SUN that he was with her, dictating the verse. SUN SUN Until her own death in 2007, aged 96, Ursula remained a SUN leading figure on the artistic and social scene of London SUN and continued her husband's work supporting English music. SUN SUN Interviews include Michael Kennedy, biographer of Ralph SUN Vaughan Williams; close friends Joyce Kennedy and Eva SUN Hornstein; Stephen Connock, editor of Ursula Vaughan SUN Williams' collected poems; and Hugh Cobbe, formerly Head of SUN Music Collections for the British Library. SUN SUN Readings by Isla Blair. SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01r9crp (Listen) SUN Dangerous Hospitals? SUN SUN In the wake of the Mid-Staffordshire hospital scandal, SUN investigations are going on at 14 other hospitals in England SUN identified as having above average death rates among their SUN patients. But why has it taken so long for enquiries to SUN begin? Should the Department of Health and the hospitals SUN regulator, the Care Quality Commission, have sounded the SUN alarm much earlier? SUN SUN It took a lengthy public inquiry to get to the bottom of SUN failings in Mid-Staffordshire. Complaints of dangerous SUN clinical practice and shoddy nursing standards were SUN overlooked while whistle-blowers were treated as mere SUN troublemakers and threatened with reprisals if they went SUN public with their concerns. SUN SUN Evidence is now emerging of a similar pattern in other SUN places. SUN SUN Gerry Northam examines the list of hospitals now under SUN investigation and hears from doctors, nurses, patients and SUN bereaved relatives. Have NHS managers done enough to address SUN concern about high death rates? SUN SUN How could it happen that the hospital reported to have the SUN highest rate of excess mortality in the country - 20% above SUN the expected level for its population of patients - was SUN given a full seal of approval only three months earlier by SUN the official regulator? SUN SUN Producer: Rob Cave SUN Reporter: Gerry Northam. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01rftsp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rfrzq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01rfrzs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rfrzv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01rfy5r (Listen) SUN John Waite chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01rfy5t (Listen) SUN Ruth tries to get a sense of perspective. Meanwhile Brenda SUN needs to escape. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rfy5w (Listen) SUN Series 2, With guest Doc Brown 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 fifth episode explores the theme of children including SUN songs on George Formby, the alphabet and Rastafarians. Guest SUN starring Doc Brown who raps with the band and talks to SUN whales. 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 .... Doc Brown SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Go West b01rfy5y (Listen) SUN Different Voices SUN SUN Five stories made in Bristol SUN SUN 4. Different Voices SUN by Paula Williams SUN Read by John Telfer SUN SUN Being invisible is no joke, particularly when it's your SUN birthday and everyone's more interested in your clever older SUN brother. The only person who seems to be interested is SUN Grandpa John, the war hero who's now batty and goes shopping SUN in his pyjamas, and what help is he going to be? SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01r9wcz (Listen) SUN Do BBC reporters know their Higgs boson from their Bunsen SUN burner? Many of you think BBC science reporting is woefully SUN inaccurate. Roger Bolton talks to David Shukman, a year into SUN his role as the BBC Science Editor, to find out what steps SUN the BBC is taking to equip reporters with scientific SUN knowhow. SUN SUN Last week the Crown Prosecution Service published its first SUN ever study into false allegations of rape and domestic SUN violence, which said that such claims are a very small SUN percentage of the overall figure. So why did Newsbeat major SUN on the victims of false claims? Roger talks to Newsbeat SUN presenter Chris Smith. SUN SUN And Radio 2 presenter Stuart Maconie takes us inside the SUN People's Songs, Radio 2's social history of post-war Britain SUN told through 50 pop records, largely determined by SUN listeners. We meet some of the listeners whose stories of SUN love, lust, and life made the run-down. SUN SUN Also, how can a ten-year-old know what it's like to be SUN eighty? Well, the young actors in a new Radio 3 drama, SUN called The Startling Truths of Old World Sparrows, were very SUN convincing according to many listeners who wrote to Feedback SUN to say how moved they were. The play took the testimony of SUN three octogenarians and used child actors to voice their SUN thoughts. Roger speaks to Fiona Evans, its writer, to find SUN out more about this ground breaking approach. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Katherine Godfrey SUN Feedback is a Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01r9wcx (Listen) SUN A famous African author, a horror writer, an actor and an SUN illustrator SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. SUN SUN The actor Frank Thornton - who had a varied stage career but SUN was best known as Captain Peacock in the TV sitcom Are You SUN Being Served. SUN SUN James Herbert, the best selling author of horror stories SUN like The Rats and The Fog. SUN SUN And the children's book illustrator Barbara Firth, who SUN enchanted both parents and children with her work on "Can't SUN You Sleep Little Bear". SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01rft3z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01rfy4z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01rbrtd (Listen) SUN Who decides if I'm a woman? SUN SUN A spat between feminist Suzanne Moore and transgender rights SUN activists played out on social networking sites, and then SUN hit the headlines when journalist Julie Burchill joined in SUN too. SUN SUN Jo Fidgen explores the underlying ideas which cause so much SUN tension between radical feminists and transgender SUN campaigners, and discovers why recent changes in the law and SUN advances in science are fuelling debate. SUN SUN Contributors: SUN SUN James Barrett, consultant psychiatrist and lead clinician at SUN the Charing Cross National Gender Identity Clinic SUN SUN Julie Bindel, feminist and journalist SUN SUN Lord Alex Carlile QC, Liberal Democrat member of the House SUN of Lords SUN SUN Melissa Hines, professor of psychology at Cambridge SUN University SUN SUN Richard O'Brien, writer of the Rocky Horror Show SUN SUN Ruth Pearce, postgraduate researcher in sociology at the SUN University of Warwick SUN SUN Stephen Whittle OBE, professor of equalities law at SUN Manchester Metropolitan University SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01rfyrm (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 b01rfyrp (Listen) SUN Iain Martin of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01r9sl5 (Listen) SUN In the House, Point Blank, Compliance SUN SUN On the Film Programme this week Francine Stock talks to the SUN director Craig Zobel about his disturbing new movie, SUN Compliance. Based on real life events in the US, it portrays SUN a prank call from a supposed police officer to a fast food SUN restaurant. HIs instructions lead to violence perpetrated SUN against a young employee. Zobel explains his fascination SUN with people's responses to authority. The French director SUN Francois Ozon, known for 8 Women and Swimming Pool is back SUN with a new comedy, In The House, which portrays a curious SUN relationship between a student and his literature teacher. SUN The film raises questions about when voyeurism spills into SUN active participation and blurs the lines between fact and SUN fiction. There's debate too on whether narrative really SUN matters in film-making with Mexican director Carlos Reygadas SUN who discusses his film Post Tenebras Lux, a film which has SUN split the critics despite a Best Director accolade at Cannes SUN last year. If you don't get it the first time, you should SUN watch it again, he insists. His previous films include SUN Battle in Heaven and Silent Light. We also re-visit Point SUN Blank, a cult crime film starring Lee Marvin and first SUN released in 1967. Director John Boorman describes the making SUN of the film including his wrangles with the studio, who at SUN one point called in a psychiatrist. Boorman is currently the SUN subject of a British Film Institute season which opens on 25 SUN March. Producer Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01rfy4s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 MARCH 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01rfs0v (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01r9r49 (Listen) MON Language of food politics; Italian food market MON MON An Italian food market - Rachel Black talks to Laurie Taylor MON about her ethnographic account of Porto Palazzo, one of MON Europe's largest outdoor markets. She watched and spoke to MON its vendors, shoppers and passers-by to find out how a MON multi-ethnic market fosters a culinary culture and social MON life. Professor Sophie Watson is currently studying street MON markets and joins the discussion. MON Also, Guy Cook analyses the language of food and food MON politics; from baby food labels to organic marketing. How MON our choices and beliefs about what we eat are influenced by MON the persuasive power of words. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01rfy4q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rfs0x (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rfs0z (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rfs11 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01rfs13 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rfz5j (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt MON Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01rfz5l (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 b01rfs15 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01rfz5n (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Open Air b01rg1mb (Listen) MON Christian Marclay MON MON An artist reimagines how broadcast space might be used: MON Christian Marclay MON MON Radio 4's focus on arts continues with a series of five MON playful and surprising audio interventions, across the week MON after the Today programme. MON MON Radio 4 and London-based arts organisation Artangel have MON commissioned artists known for their singular approach to MON performance, sound, sculpture, installation and film-making MON to respond to a particular moment in the morning radio MON schedule and re-interpret how broadcast space might be MON thought about and listened to. MON MON The artists are: Christian Marclay (Monday), Ruth Ewan MON (Tuesday), Peter Strickland (Wednesday), Susan Hiller MON (Thursday) and Mark Wallinger (Friday). An omnibus edition MON of all five pieces and interviews with the artists MON discussing their involvement will be broadcast at 11am on MON Easter Saturday. MON MON Open Air marks a month until the submission deadline for MON Open, a call for new ground-breaking site-specific projects MON to transform the UK's cultural landscape. Further MON information available here: MON http://www.artangel.org.uk/open/about MON MON Produced by Russell Finch and Joby Waldman MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON Open Air MON MON 09:05 Start the Week b01rfz5q (Listen) MON Mohsin Hamid talks about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising MON Asia MON MON On Start the Week Allan Little talks to Pakistani novelist, MON Mohsin Hamid about 'how to get filthy rich in rising Asia', MON and his self-help manual of rags to riches. The playwright MON Bruce Norris dramatises an entrepreneur's quest for wealth MON with priceless ambition, while Katherine Boo explores the MON slums of Mumbai to question the impact of the volatility of MON the market. And the turbulent times of an English village MON throughout the 20th century is the subject of Peter Moffat's MON latest television series. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01rk8tm (Listen) MON Comandante, Episode 1 MON MON The political career of Hugo Rafael Chávez FrÃas had an MON inauspicious start. A failed coup in 1992 led to a two-year MON prison sentence. But ChÃ¥vez was nothing less than resilient. MON He returned to win the 1999 election and remained in power MON until his death from cancer on March 5th this year. MON MON Throughout his presidency he made friends and enemies in MON almost equal measure. To the Venezuelan working classes, who MON benefited from many of his social reforms, he was an heroic MON figure. To other elements of Venezuelan society, he was MON considered manipulative and autocratic. Abroad, his MON reputation was similarly polarised - the US in particular, MON fired by his alliance with Cuba, found Chávez an MON antagonistic figure. MON MON As Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez wrote in 1999, after flying from MON Cuba to Caracas with the new president, "While he sauntered MON off with his bodyguards of decorated officers and close MON friends, I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I had just MON been travelling and chatting pleasantly with two opposing MON men. One to whom the caprices of fate had given an MON opportunity to save his country. The other, an illusionist, MON who could pass into the history books as just another MON despot." MON MON Rory Carroll joined The Guardian as a reporter in 1997. MON After spells in Rome, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Irishman MON took over the paper's Baghdad bureau. On October 19th, 2005 MON Carroll was abducted, but released unharmed a day later. In MON April 2006, he was appointed The Guardian's Latin American MON correspondent, and worked out of Caracas for the next six MON years. In 2011, he was long-listed for The Orwell Prize. MON MON Writer: Rory Carroll MON Reader: Jack Klaff MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rfz5v (Listen) MON Emma Brockes; Kate Schermerhorn; the makeover MON MON Jane Garvey asks if we're making too much of the makeover; MON journalist Emma Brockes reveals her mother's secret past and MON why she inherited her gun; we visit a Scottish project MON taking teachers into prisons; film maker Kate Schermerhorn MON asked couples for their tips on making marriage work, then MON turned the camera on her own disintegrating relationship; MON and the campaign to give Mary Barbour a statue. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rg1gf (Listen) MON The Kneebone Bonanza, Episode 1 MON MON When scrap dealer Jed Kneebone dies his three children are MON left in serious trouble. Could an old family legacy, The MON Kneebone Bonanza, be the answer? A wildly inventive Cornish MON comedy about family, death, love and hope, by outstanding MON Cornish writer Carl Grose. MON MON Meet The Kneebones. a squabbling, financially ruined family MON trying to survive in St. Day, Cornwall. Their father, Jed MON Kneebone (scrap yard merchant and Country & Western addict) MON has died, leaving his three children (Slick, Dwight and MON Maddy) in serious debt. Maddy reluctantly runs the yard, MON Slick tries to find work (there isn't any) and Dwight does MON dodgy deals. MON MON Credits MON Maddy: Alex Tregear MON Slick: Michael Shelford MON Dwight: Ed Gaughan MON Duke: Ed Gaughan MON Loretta: Amanda Lawrence MON Bailiff: Carl Grose MON Receptionist: Philippa Stanton MON Director: Claire Grove MON Producer: Claire Grove MON Writer: Carl Grose MON MON 11:00 Out of the Ordinary b01rg1gh (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Jolyon Jenkins reports on the world of electronic voice MON phenomena (EVP) - the community of people who believe that MON the dead can speak to us through radio transmissions and MON white noise. The technique was introduced to the English MON speaking world by a mysterious Latvian, Dr Konstantin MON Raudive, who travelled to Britain in 1969 with recordings of MON Hitler, Churchill and Stalin speaking from beyond the grave. MON The method is now a mainstay of paranormal investigators. MON Jolyon unearths tapes from 40 years ago made at a key séance MON held by Dr Raudive in Gerrards Cross. Raudive eventually MON came to believe that a budgerigar called Putzi was passing MON on messages from a dead 14 year old girl. Jolyon speaks to MON EVP current practitioners, and to a man who believes that MON his recordings of animal noises also contain messages. MON MON The claims are improbable, but they tell us interesting MON things about human perception: about our ability to MON construct meaning from meaningless sound, and about how our MON brains naturally fill in the gaps where information is MON incomplete. Optical illusions are well known, but we are MON equally prone to being fooled by audio illusions. Sound MON artist Joe Banks suggests that, while EVP researchers may be MON carrying out parapsychology experiments, they are MON unwittingly doing conventional psychology experiments. MON MON 11:30 Thinking of Leaving Your Husband? b00s2w20 (Listen) MON A Mathematical Improbability MON MON Thinking of Leaving Your Husband is a four-part comedy drama MON by Charlotte Cory which explores a middle-aged woman's MON attempts to find herself a new romantic interest by joining MON an internet dating site. The series gives us two virtuoso MON acting performances by Lia Williams, who as Sarah, our MON heroine, appears in every scene, and Henry Goodman who not MON only plays Sarah's ex-husband Malcolm, but every one of her MON would-be lovers. MON MON Sarah is distraught that she has been so deceived by her MON lying Dutchman. She is all for giving up the search to find MON a perfect partner. But Tania persuades her, for MON self-interested reasons, to go on a 'speed-dating' evening, MON where Sarah finally meets Tony, the mathematics professor MON and lover of ballroom dancing, whom she knows on the MON internet as 'Midnight Magic'. They are immediately attracted MON to each other - but leave without exchanging contact numbers MON and Sarah finds that Tania has wiped her details from the MON internet dating site. What are the mathematical chances of MON Sarah and Tony ever meeting again? MON MON Sarah ..... Lia Williams MON Tony, and all Sarah's internet dates ..... Henry Goodman MON Mother ..... Miriam Margolyes MON Tania ..... Frances Barber MON Francis Parker ..... Roger Hammond MON Phoebe-Jane ..... Hayley Roberts MON MON Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown & MON Original Music by David Chilton. MON Series initiated by Nick Russell Pavier MON MON Director: Gordon House MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01rg1gk (Listen) MON Cold calls for health supplements, 50 years of Beeching, MON fare dodging and cheese labelling MON MON Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. Today: the company MON that sends health supplements to the elderly, charging MON hundreds of pounds, whether they want them or not. Fifty MON years of Beeching's cuts to the railways - we'll be hearing MON what the impact of those cuts was and how many of the lines MON that were closed are reopening. Why you should read the MON labels carefully on supermarket cheese and the protestors MON who advocate fare dodging on public transport. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01rfs17 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01rg1gm (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 b01rg1gp (Listen) MON Epic Tales MON MON Episode Six of a thirty-part series made in collaboration MON with the British Library Sound Archive. MON MON In 1933, a young classics scholar called Milman Parry made a MON journey through the hill villages of the Balkans to record MON poets and singers. He captured an oral tradition that has MON all but died out - peasant performers who recited epic tales MON over days without any form of prompt. MON MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explains MON how ancient tales were remembered and passed down, and MON travels to the ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Greece to MON find out what the audience would have made of it all up in MON the 'gods'. MON MON Featuring archive extracts of traditional stories from the MON Balkans, Kyrgyzstan, West Africa, and India. MON MON Series producer: Matt Thompson. MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01rfy5t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rg1gr (Listen) MON Lost in Mexico, Episode 1 MON MON British backpackers, Rachel (Olivia Darnley) and Sally (Lucy MON May Barker) falsely claim they have been robbed in order to MON get a pay-out from their travel insurance when they get MON home. MON MON Unfortunately, they get caught out when the Mexican police MON decide to go back to their hotel and search their room. MON Charged and arrested for insurance fraud, unable to speak MON Spanish, the girls are sucked into the vortex of the Mexican MON penal system. MON MON It's a life-changing experience that tests their friendship MON to the limit, in this two-part coming-of-age drama by MON Ingeborg Topsøe, recorded in Mexico. MON MON Written by Ingeborg Topsøe MON MON Casting: Marilyn Johnson and David Psalmon MON Script Editor: Mike Walker MON Sound Design: Steve Bond and Rodrigo Hernández Cruz MON Production manager in Mexico: David Psalmon, assisted by MON Patricia Madrid MON MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Rachel: Olivia Darnley MON Sally: Lucy May Barker MON Rachel's Mother: Saskia Wickham MON The Policeman: Joaquin Cosio MON The Lawyer: Enrique Arreola MON Eduardo: Emilio Savinni MON Auntie Claudia: Norma Angelica MON Ana: Aida Lopez MON Alejandro: Israel Islas MON Diego: Diego Hernandez MON The American Girl: Karla Souza MON Actor: Brian Alvarez MON Actor: Ruben Olivarez MON Actor: Claudia Nin MON Actor: Patricia Madrid MON Actor: Sebastian Policanti MON Actor: Leon Ockenden MON Director: John Dryden MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Writer: Ingeborg Topsoe MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01rg1gt (Listen) MON Series 3, Anglia Ruskin University MON MON A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a MON team of three University students take on a team of three of MON their professors. MON MON Coming this week from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, MON the specialist subjects are Film Studies, Social Work and MON Graphic Design and the questions range from gherkins and MON Gummi Bears to David Cronenberg and Delacroix, via Morris MON Dancing and Beyoncé. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds, and the MON 'Highbrow and Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction. MON MON The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit MON surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly MON rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more MON than just glanced at that reading list. MON MON The host Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on MON The Now Show, is also someone who delights in all facets of MON knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational MON background) but in the sciences as well. He has made a MON number of documentaries for Radio 4, on subjects as varied MON as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The Spleen" and MON "Getting The Gongs" (an investigation into awards MON ceremonies), as well as a comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang Day MON set in the Large Hadron Collider, called "The Genuine MON Particle". MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01rfy59 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Butterfly Effect b01rg1gw (Listen) MON Soprano Amanda Roocroft explores the impact of Madame MON Butterfly in performance and popular culture. MON MON Leading British Soprano Amanda Roocroft explores the story MON of Japanese girl Cio Cio San, who evolving from a short MON novel was brought to the stage by Italian composer Giacomo MON Puccini in his opera Madama Butterfly. In this programme MON soprano's Angela Gheorghiu, Anne Sophie Duprels and Victoria MON De Los Angeles reveal why performing as Butterfly is one of MON the most exacting roles in the operatic repertory. MON MON Author and Japanese expert Lesley Downer and opera MON enthusiast Rod Wood provide details of the origins of her MON tragic story and present fascinating insights into the life MON and work of Puccini. MON MON Madame Butterfly's impact in performance is also discussed MON by members of Northern Ballet and Opera North and her MON incredible influence in the world of popular culture is MON revealed; including the time she caused a stir in the pop MON charts when music impresario Malcolm Mclaren introduced her MON to a whole new audience. MON MON Using archive and new interviews along with stand-out vocal MON performances, Roocroft takes a captivating journey through MON one of the world's best loved operas. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01rg1gy (Listen) MON Evangelical MON MON When Justin Welby was appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury MON there were two things we quickly learned about him. The MON first was that he has a business head on him and used to MON work in the oil industry - that's significant for a country MON grappling with issues of financial morality. MON The second was that he is an Evangelical - that's important MON for the wider Anglican church which is battling splits MON between evangelicals and liberals over the issue of MON homosexuality - and for the church of England where there's MON an internal debate among Evangelicals about the very meaning MON of that term. MON Joining Ernie to discuss Evangelicals, especially within an MON Anglican context are the Rev Dr Rob Munroe, who is a member MON of the Anglican evangelical group, Reform: Vicky Beeching, a MON Theologian and Visiting Research Fellow at Durham University MON ; and Jonathan Bartley, co-director of the think tank MON Ekklesia. MON MON 17:00 PM b01rg1h0 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rfs19 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01rg1h2 (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 7 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01rg1h4 (Listen) MON Helen's night out takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile Alice MON is keen to please. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01rg1h6 (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including a review of Trance, Danny MON Boyle's new film about a missing stolen painting. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rg1gf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Inside the Bonus Culture b01rg1h8 (Listen) MON Decades ago, bankers' bonuses might have been Christmas MON hampers containing paté and some glacé fruit. Then, the MON story goes, the Americans arrived in the City bringing with MON them the "eat what you kill" compensation culture, and the MON feast changed. Former City analyst Geraint Anderson offers MON his take on bonuses, asking bankers, historians, economists MON and a social anthropologist why they think this culture took MON such a deep hold on the City. He recalls annual battles to MON make sure his own payment was better than what his peers MON were getting, walking away with half a million pounds. His MON superiors were getting a lot more, the millions we read MON about in newspaper headlines. Tales of excess and expert MON analysis are combined in this City portrait; and, as MON politicians in Brussels try to impose strict caps on MON bonuses, Geraint asks - how will the bankers of tomorrow be MON paid? MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01rg1hb (Listen) MON Nudge theory in practice MON MON Politicians are wary of forcing us to do the things they MON think we should such as drinking less, saving more for our MON pensions or using public transport. But they are also MON reluctant to do nothing. The theories expounded in the book MON Nudge, published in 2008, suggested there was a third way: a MON "libertarian paternalist" option whereby governments made MON doing the right thing easier but not obligatory. Rather than MON making pensions compulsory, for example, governments could MON make saving for one the default option whilst preserving the MON right to opt out. MON MON Nudge theory appealed to our better selves and to our MON politicians. The book's ideas were taken up by those inside MON government in Britain and the US. MON MON One of the book's authors, Cass Sunstein, answers questions MON from an audience at the Institute for Government in London MON and tells presenter Edward Stourton how well he thinks his MON theories are working in practice. MON MON Producer: Rosamund Jones. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01r9sl7 (Listen) MON Adam Rutherford discusses new science results from the MON Planck space telescope; a spectacular new map of the "oldest MON light" in the sky has just been released by the European MON Space Agency. Its mottled pattern confirms much of the MON standard model of cosmology, but some of the new data MON challenges current thinking and may imply a need for some MON completely new physical theories. In particular, a large MON asymmetry in the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation may MON even be a shadow of something that happened before the Big MON Bang. Professor George Efstathiou and Dr. Joanna Dunkley, MON both of the Planck science collaboration, discuss the MON findings. MON MON Could the elusive giant squid be just one single species? MON Professor Tom Gilbert from the Museum of Natural History of MON Denmark in Copenhagen explains how his team have analysed MON giant squid mitochondrial DNA and found it to be almost the MON same in samples taken from across the globe. The research is MON published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society MON Biology. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01rfz5q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:05 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01rfs1c (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01rg1hd (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rg1hg (Listen) MON How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 1 MON MON Paul Bhattacharjee reads Mohsin Hamid's keenly awaited MON follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a MON groundbreaking novel on modern Asia, which follows one boy's MON rise from impoverished villager to corporate tycoon. MON MON The book steals its shape from the business self-help books MON devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia', and follows its MON nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to MON amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly MON scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on MON something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises MON alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a MON love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that MON careen their fates along. MON MON In today's episode: the move to the city, and seizing an MON education. MON MON Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist MON and Moth Smoke. His fiction has been adapted for the cinema, MON translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, MON and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Born and MON mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in MON California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law MON School, and has since lived between Lahore, London and New MON York. MON MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee MON Abridger: Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01r9cr9 (Listen) MON The University of Babel MON MON Generations of students have left lecture halls wondering MON whether they understood what they just heard. Now, a growing MON proportion of these learners don't consider English their MON first language. In the first episode in a new series, MON Michael Rosen visits Birmingham University to investigate MON how well the English spoken by foreign students equips them MON for British university life. And to see how lecturers are MON adapting to their multilingual audience. And there's feature MON on Special English, the slowed down, limited vocabulary MON version of the language developed more than half a century MON ago as a radio experiment, and which the Voice of America MON network still uses in its programmes. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01rk3f5 (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 MARCH 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01rfs28 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01rk8tm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rfs2b (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rfs2d (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rfs2g (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01rfs2j (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rg21r (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt TUE Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01rg21t (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01rg21w (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Open Air b01rmnn9 (Listen) TUE Ruth Ewan TUE TUE An artist reimagines how broadcast space might be used: Ruth TUE Ewan TUE TUE Produced by Russell Finch and Joby Waldman TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Open Air TUE TUE 09:05 The Public Philosopher b01rg21y (Listen) TUE Is rape worse than other violent crime? TUE TUE Is rape a worse crime than other forms of violent assault? TUE Should verbal sexual harassment be banned? These are two TUE questions put by Harvard's Michael Sandel - BBC Radio 4's TUE 'Public Philosopher' - who takes the programme to an TUE audience at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The discussion TUE follows the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi TUE at the end of last year, a crime that provoked a national TUE outcry in India. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01rpgfj (Listen) TUE Comandante, Episode 2 TUE TUE Writer: Rory Carroll TUE Reader: Jack Klaff TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rg222 (Listen) TUE Woman or lady? Bidisha and Rachel Johnson discuss; Saira TUE Shafi; Joanna Adams TUE TUE Should we call women "ladies" ? Rachel Johnson and Bidisha TUE debate. Saira Shafi's novel The Mouseproof Kitchen draws on TUE her experiences of bringing up a disabled child; can TUE meditation in schools help stressed teenagers cope better TUE with exams ? Joanna Adams from England Netball talks about TUE getting girls playing more sport. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rg224 (Listen) TUE The Kneebone Bonanza, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Carl Grose. The Kneebones are in serious financial TUE trouble. Could a lost gold mine in Arizona be the answer? TUE And who is the mysterious American with the snake skin TUE boots? TUE TUE Directed by Claire Grove. TUE TUE 11:00 On the Trail of the American Honeybee b01rg226 (Listen) TUE Dr Adam Hart meets the migratory bee keepers of America as TUE they travel to the annual Almond bloom in California, the TUE largest single pollination event on Earth. TUE TUE Each year, from the end of February to early March, a TUE thousand square miles of almond orchards bloom in unison, TUE turning much of California's Central Valley white. 75 per TUE cent of the world's almonds come from these orchards and to TUE ensure successful pollination, farmers need bees - a lot of TUE bees. Around 1.5 million hives, over 30 billion bees, swarm TUE over the bloom for three weeks a year, before they're packed TUE up and driven on to pastures new, be it Washington Apples, TUE Maine Cranberries or Florida Citrus. Welcome to the TUE extraordinary world of migratory beekeeping. This isn't TUE about the honey, it's about the money. TUE TUE David Mendes is the 'marathon man' of migratory beekeeping. TUE Every year, he moves 15-20 thousand hives from Florida to TUE California, on dozens of flat-bed trucks, at a cost of half TUE a million dollars. It's the start of a ten-thousand mile TUE journey which entails many risks, not least the possibility TUE of spilt bee hives. Beset by viral diseases, pesticides, TUE starvation and the ever-present threat of colony collapse TUE disorder or CCD, even a vigilant bee-keeper can expect 20-30 TUE per cent of their hives to die-off in any given year. So why TUE bother? "This is what we do" says John Miller, "I was born TUE to keep bees in a box". Miller's great-grandfather invented TUE migratory beekeeping, which thanks to increasing demands TUE from farmers, can earn even small to medium-sized keepers, TUE millions of dollars just from almonds alone. TUE TUE As Adam discovers on his 1000-mile journey through the TUE Central Valley, life is far from honeyed for keepers or TUE their bees. The industrial nature of migratory beekeeping in TUE the US, means many are forced to split and even kill off TUE some their own colonies in order to create younger, more TUE productive ones, in a process referred to as "nuking the TUE hive". Over thirty per cent of American agriculture is TUE dependent on pollination but once the bloom is over, most TUE beekeepers struggle to find suitably diverse forage for TUE their beloved bees, in a world of monoculture that has TUE become America's farming reality. TUE TUE Producer: Rami Tzabar. TUE TUE 11:30 Flashmob Flamenco b01rg228 (Listen) TUE In recent years, flamenco has become an increasingly TUE respectable art-form, both in Spain and internationally. But TUE it has also been used as a voice of protest against the TUE current financial meltdown, which is hitting the Andalucia TUE region particularly hard. TUE TUE Most notable is the flamenco flashmob, a sudden public TUE assembly of dancers and musicians performing in branches of TUE Spain's under-fire banks, with massive YouTube success. TUE TUE This continues a long tradition of political dissent within TUE flamenco that's little known beyond its inner circle - and TUE even here, it is often played down. TUE TUE Author and erstwhile flamenco student Jason Webster explores TUE this history, meeting musicians who have protested against TUE the Franco regime and the contemporary economic situation, TUE and examining some of the contradictions of Spain's recent TUE past along the way. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Elcombe TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01rg22b (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01rfs2l (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01rg22d (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 b01rg22g (Listen) TUE Persuasion TUE TUE Episode seven of a thirty-part series made in collaboration TUE with the British Library Sound Archive. TUE TUE From Cicero to Martin Luther King, over the centuries, great TUE orators have changed our minds, given us hope, and sent us TUE to the barricades. TUE TUE Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex reveals TUE their rhetorical tricks, and explains why President Obama's TUE sharp ear for dialogue is one of his greatest assets as a TUE speaker. TUE TUE Series producer: Matt Thompson. TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01rg1h4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rjlky (Listen) TUE Lost in Mexico, Episode 2 TUE TUE British backpackers Sally and Rachel, have been arrested in TUE Mexico City after going to a police station and falsely TUE claiming to have been robbed - in order to receive a pay-out TUE on their travel insurance. TUE TUE Having been caught out, they are now in prison awaiting TUE trail, their friendship tested to the limit and their hopes TUE of a speedy return home fading. TUE TUE Written by: Ingeborg Topsøe TUE TUE Casting: Marilyn Johnson and David Psalmon, TUE Script Editor: Mike Walker, TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond and Rodrigo Hernández Cruz TUE Production manager in Mexico: David Psalmon, assisted by TUE Patricia Madrid TUE TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Directed by John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 The Human Zoo b01rg22j (Listen) TUE Episode 4 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 b01rg22l (Listen) TUE Exotic Pets TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff looks at the impact of taking animals TUE from the wild to be kept as pets. She asks if the trade in TUE reptiles and amphibians could or should be banned. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01rg22n (Listen) TUE The Persuaders TUE TUE Michael Rosen explores propaganda and the language of TUE persuasion. He previews a major new propaganda exhibition at TUE the British Library which examines the international use of TUE propaganda in the 20th and 21st centuries. He re-examines TUE the public health messages produced in response to the AIDS TUE epidemic, and we hear from a Salford company specialising in TUE modern, multi-platform public health campaigns. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01rg22q (Listen) TUE Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin TUE TUE Writers Gervase Phinn and Moni Mohsin talk to Harriett TUE Gilbert about books they love. TUE TUE Gervase Phinn is an author and raconteur of tales of his TUE life as a schools inspector in the Yorkshire Dales. His TUE choice is the extraordinary autobiography of an ordinary man TUE - A Ragged Schooling by Robert Roberts. It's a funny, wise TUE and life-enhancing story of growing up in the slums of TUE Salford in the 1900s. TUE TUE Moni Mohsin is a Pakistani writer who lives in the UK. Her TUE Indian bestseller The Diary of a Social Butterfly is based TUE on her column in Pakistan's Friday Times. Her selection for TUE A Good Read is Rudyard Kipling's novel, Kim. TUE TUE Presenter Harriett Gilbert brings along Angela Carter's TUE sparkling comedy Wise Children. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE A Ragged Schooling by Robert Roberts TUE Published by Manchester University Press TUE TUE Kim by Rudyard Kipling TUE Published by Penguin Books TUE TUE Wise Children by Angela Carter TUE Published by Vintage Books TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01rg22s (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rfs2n (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Trevor Noah: The Racist b01rg22v (Listen) TUE Coming of age in post-apartheid South Africa, Trevor Noah TUE shares his story with this exploration of race and place. TUE TUE Following on from a ground breaking total sell-out season at TUE the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, South African comedian Trevor TUE Noah brings his critically acclaimed show, The Racist, to TUE the BBC Radio Theatre for a one off recording for BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE Trevor's explosion onto the South African entertainment TUE scene has been nothing short of meteoric. His sharp wit, TUE intelligent commentary, unmistakable charm and clinical TUE delivery have established him as an extremely popular TUE performer with undoubted world class potential. TUE TUE Written and Performed by Trevor Noah TUE Produced by Katie Tyrrell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01rg22x (Listen) TUE Elona is desperately worried, and Elizabeth issues an TUE invitation. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01rg22z (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reviews Kristin Scott Thomas in TUE François Ozon's film In The House, the story of a teacher, TUE his wife and a pupil's beguiling essays about the family of TUE a class-mate. TUE TUE Producer Dymphna Flynn. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rg224 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01rg231 (Listen) TUE Rochdale Abuse: Failed Victims? TUE TUE The high profile child sex abuse case in Rochdale last TUE summer - in which nine men were jailed for more than 70 TUE years for grooming underage girls - has been defined as a TUE watershed moment in how the authorities deal with this kind TUE of abuse. TUE But were there crucial failings? TUE In an exclusive interview for File on 4, one of the police TUE officers involved in the case claims that flaws in the way TUE it was handled meant important witness evidence was dropped TUE and some abusers were never prosecuted - leaving a new TUE generation of girls potentially at risk and victims TUE seriously let down. TUE Jane Deith also hears complaints that witnesses were left TUE without adequate support to help them re-build their lives. TUE Earlier this month the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir TUE Starmer, published new guidelines for police and prosecutors TUE in such cases. But have they come too late for many victims? TUE TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth TUE Reporter: Jane Deith. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01rg233 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01rg235 (Listen) TUE As part of NHS reforms doctors will be holding the purse TUE strings from April 1st. In a special edition of the TUE programme Dr Mark Porter finds out what the changes actually TUE mean in practice. He meets GPs who have already been TUE piloting some of the ways in which health services are TUE commissioned to find out what they will mean for services on TUE the ground. He also hears from GPs and hospital doctors TUE about their concerns. One doctor says implementing GP TUE commissioning is like flying a plane while it's being built. TUE Why are GPs concerned and what could the changes mean for TUE the future of our health services? TUE TUE 21:30 The Public Philosopher b01rg21y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:05 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01rfs2q (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01rg237 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rg239 (Listen) TUE How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode: love threatens to derail the quest to TUE become filthy rich./par TUE TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 James Acaster's Findings b01rg23c (Listen) TUE NEW SERIES TUE TUE Stand-up comedian James Acaster presents the results of his TUE in-depth research into the subject of 'bread', assisted by TUE his trusty sidekick Nathaniel Metcalfe, in this brand new TUE comedy show for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE We'll find out why the French struggle to come up with a TUE snappy slogan to advertise Brioche, learn why the Bagel is TUE so trendy, and discover the hidden anti-bread propaganda TUE pushed at children through the medium of fairytales. TUE TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01rg23f (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01rfs3g (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01rpgfj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rfs3j (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rfs3l (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rfs3n (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01rfs3q (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rggps (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt WED Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01rggpv (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01rggpx (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Open Air b01rmnnc (Listen) WED Peter Strickland WED WED An artist reimagines how broadcast space might be used: WED Peter Strickland WED WED Produced by Russell Finch and Joby Waldman WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED Open Air WED WED 09:05 Midweek b01rggpz (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01rpgbm (Listen) WED Comandante, Episode 3 WED WED Writer: Rory Carroll WED Reader: Jack Klaff WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rggq3 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rggq5 (Listen) WED The Kneebone Bonanza, Episode 3 WED WED By Carl Grose. The Kneebones are in serious financial WED trouble. Slick has been carted off to a special unit to cool WED his temper and Maddy finds a long lost relative. WED WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED WED 11:00 A Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong b01rggq7 (Listen) WED The planet Mars boasts the most dramatic landscapes in our WED solar system. Kevin Fong embarks on a grand tour around the WED planet with scientists, artists and writers who know its WED special places intimately- through their probes, roving WED robots and imaginations. WED WED As we roam Mars' top tourist spots, Kevin explores why the WED spell of the Red planet grips so many. Beyond its alien WED topographic beauty and its 'pornographic geology - Mars WED bares all' (as one woman scientist puts it), Mars inspires WED the bigger questions: are we alone in the cosmos, and what WED is the longer term destiny of humanity? Was there more than WED one life genesis? Will humans ever live on more than one WED planet? WED WED The travel itinerary includes the solar system's greatest WED mountain - Olympus Mons, a volcano more than twice the WED height of Everest with a summit crater that could contain WED Greater Los Angeles. WED Olympus Mons' lava flows helped to create Mars' grand canyon WED - Vallis Marineris - an almighty gash in the planet's crust WED 4000 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep. WED WED A little to the east lies an extraordinary region called WED Iani Chasma, a vast realm of closely spaced and towering WED rock stacks and mesas, several hundreds of metres high. This WED unearthly shattered terrain was created billions of years WED ago when immense volumes of water burst out from beneath the WED surface. WED WED The catastrophically sculpted landscape is part of plentiful WED evidence that in its early days, Mars was awash with water WED and, in theory, environments in which life could evolve and WED survive. That is what the latest robot rover on Mars - WED Curiosity - is exploring at the dramatic Gale Crater with WED its central peak, Mount Sharp. Kevin meets some of the NASA WED scientists driving the robot up the mountain in search of WED signs that Mars was a cradle for life. WED WED Other Mars guides in the programme include hard sci-fi WED novelist Kim Stanley Robinson whose rich invocations of WED Martian landscapes form a narrative bedrock of his Mars WED Trilogy. Kevin Fong also meets William Hartmann, a Mars WED scientist since 1971 and also an artist who paints WED landscapes of the Red Planet. WED WED Other leading planetary scientists and Mars obsessives such WED as NASA's Chris McKay and Pascal Lee (another researcher who WED visits Mars through painting) lead Kevin to places where the WED first human visitors might set up a base safely. Options WED include the water-rich Martian Arctic: the shelter of giant WED hollowed lava tubes, or cratered plains in the southern WED hemisphere where local fossil magnetic fields might shield WED the human body from the dangerous radiation pouring through WED the planet's peachy pink skies. WED WED 11:30 The Architects b01rgj12 (Listen) WED New comedy by Jim Poyser and Neil Griffiths. Architect Sir WED Lucian made his name 50 years ago as the most brutal of all WED brutalists. But times have moved on and so have most of his WED staff. Those who remain must contemplate escape from a WED malfunctioning multi-storey car park in Esher and the pure WED aesthetic of the open sandwich. WED WED Sarah ..... Laura Solon WED Dan ..... Ben Willbond WED Sir Lucian ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Rasmus ..... Ewan Bailey WED Tim ..... Tim Downie WED Mayoress ..... Joanna Brookes WED Car Park Attendant ..... Ben Crowe WED WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01rgj14 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01rgj16 (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rgj18 (Listen) WED Babble WED WED Episode eight of a thirty-part series made in collaboration WED with the British Library Sound Archive. WED WED As the Roman empire grew, the city at its heart sucked in WED exotic goods, tastes, smells, colours, and - of course - WED sounds from all around the world. Professor David Hendy of WED the University of Sussex asks what we would have heard if WED we'd visited the city in its heyday and walked its streets - WED passageways so narrow it was possible for upstairs dwellers WED to reach out and touch their neighbour opposite. WED WED Bellowing animals, street-hawkers, the babble of a dozen WED languages, many now dead. Some inhabitants loved this WED sensory overload, but others ran from it. Where could a rich WED Roman go to get some peace? WED WED Series producer: Matt Thompson. WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01rg22x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rgj1b (Listen) WED The Manhattan Bee Testimonials WED WED For as long as anyone can remember, there have been rumours WED of a man living somewhere on the island of Manhattan and WED keeping 250,000 bees in his apartment. Max Callaghan is WED obsessed with finding him and has spent 15 years building up WED an audio library of sometimes contradictory accounts - The WED Manhattan Bee Testimonials. WED WED When Daisy Lucas overcomes a severe case of meningitis WED thanks to a pot of honey left anonymously by her hospital WED bed, she tries to find the donor, her father, who she WED believes to be the Manhattan Bee Man. WED WED Featuring the real voices of New Yorkers describing their WED version of the story, alongside original drama written by WED Sebastian Baczkiewicz. WED WED Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Sound design: Eloise Whitmore WED Producer and Director: Joby Waldman WED Executive Producer: Polly Thomas WED WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Max: Simon Lee Phillips WED Daisy: Sasha Pick WED Muldoon: Stuart Milligan WED Lorna: Nancy Crane WED Gloria: Nancy Crane WED Director: Joby Waldman WED Producer: Joby Waldman WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01rgj1d (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01rg235 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01rgj1g (Listen) WED Industrial ruination; Gang labour in the UK WED WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01rgj1j (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01rgj1l (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rfs3s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dilemma b01rgj1n (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED WED Sue Perkins presents a second series of the panel show that WED has no right answers - just deeply damning ones. With Miles WED Jupp, Annie Nightingale and Sarah Kendall. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01rgj1q (Listen) WED Pip receives a wake-up call, and Darrell tries to explain. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01rgj1s (Listen) WED Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED Producer Stephen Hughes. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rggq5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01rgj1v (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Giles Fraser, Matthew Taylor WED and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b01rgj1x (Listen) WED Lucy Winkett WED WED Canon Lucy Winkett, Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, ends WED this year's series of Lent Talks, where six well known WED figures from public life, the arts, human rights and WED religion, reflect on how the Lenten story of Jesus' ministry WED and Passion continues to interact with contemporary society WED and culture. WED 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. WED WED Speakers in this year's talks have included the leading WED human rights lawyer, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, who WED considered what it means to abandon being human; the author WED Alexander McCall Smith, who explored the sense of being WED abandoned by society, as you grow older; Loretta Minghella, WED Director of Christian Aid, considered the abandonment of WED self and the need to face who we truly are; Imam Asim Hafiz, WED Muslim Chaplain and Religious Adviser to HM Forces, who had WED just returned from Afghanistan, explored the total WED abandonment experienced by both sides, as a result of war, WED and Benjamin Cohen, journalist and broadcaster, who WED reflected on how you can be abandoned by your religion for WED being gay. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01rg22l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01rggpz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:05 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01rfs3v (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01rgj21 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rgj23 (Listen) WED How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode: idealism presents a further hurdle in WED the quest to become filthy rich. WED WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee WED Abridger: Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 Terry Pratchett's Eric b01rgj25 (Listen) WED Episode 4 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 4/4 Demon King Astfgl surfs the space-time continuum in a WED rage, determined to lure Eric and Rincewind finally to Hell. WED But when they arrive at the Dread Portal, there's a bit of a WED staff motivation issue. WED WED Rincewind ..... Mark Heap WED Eric ..... Will Howard WED Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie WED Urglefloggah ..... Jack Klaff WED Duke Vassenego ..... Ben Crowe WED Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford WED Drazometh ..... Robert Blythe WED Narrator ..... Rick Warden WED Director ..... Jonquil Panting. WED WED 23:15 Jigsaw b01rgj27 (Listen) WED Episode 6 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 b01rgjbb (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 MARCH 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01rfs4r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01rpgbm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rfs4t (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rfs4w (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rfs4y (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01rfs50 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rgjkh (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt THU Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01rgjkk (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 06:00 Today b01rgjkm (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Open Air b01rmnnf (Listen) THU Susan Hiller THU THU An artist reimagines how broadcast space might be used: THU Susan Hiller THU THU Produced by Russell Finch and Joby Waldman THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:05 In Our Time b01rgm9g (Listen) THU Water THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss one of the simplest and THU most remarkable of all molecules: water. Water is among the THU most abundant substances on Earth, covering more than THU two-thirds of the planet. Consisting of just three atoms, THU the water molecule is superficially simple in its structure THU but extraordinary in its properties.  It is a rare example THU of a substance that can be found on Earth in gaseous, liquid THU and solid forms, and thanks to its unique chemical behaviour THU is the basis of all known life. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01rpgbp (Listen) THU Comandante, Episode 4 THU THU Writer: Rory Carroll THU Reader: Jack Klaff THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rgm9l (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rgm9n (Listen) THU The Kneebone Bonanza, Episode 4 THU THU By Carl Grose. The Kneebones are in serious financial THU trouble. The bailiffs are back and there are cracks THU appearing in the walls of house. THU THU Directed by Claire Grove. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01rgm9q (Listen) THU The Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia's freezing Gobi Desert is THU one of the the world's biggest - extracting a vast seam of THU copper, gold and silver the size of Manhattan. It's turned THU this country of camel and yak herders into the world's THU fastest growing economy. Fancy boutiques, top-end car THU dealerships and coffee shops are springing up across the THU capital. But, as Justin Rowlatt discovers, riding the boom THU is not easy. He meets a rapper who says the government is THU simply selling the country's assets to its old rival, China. THU And there are fears from foreign investors about attempts by THU the government to increase its income from the Oyu Tolgoi THU mine. Can Mongolia become prosperous while sharing its THU new-found wealth - or will it kill the goose before it has THU laid any gold (or copper) eggs? THU Producer: Kent DePinto. THU THU 11:30 Foot Notes b01rgm9s (Listen) THU Writer, journalist and passionate shoe collector Rowan THU Pelling takes us on a journey through her personal shoe THU collection to tell us the extraordinary story that lies THU behind footwear. THU THU She discovers that, far from being simple functional objects THU that we put on our feet, shoes can communicate our sexual THU desire, aesthetic sense, social status and personality. They THU not only reflect social history and changing fashions, but THU are also a personal record of our lives - a touchstone that THU evokes a time, a place and an emotion. THU THU In language and throughout literature, they can be magical THU as in The Red Shoes, transform lives as in Cinderella, and THU used as punishment in the Twelve Dancing Princesses. THU THU Shoes have been made from jewels, can cost thousands and are THU often bought in the wrong size - just because we love them. THU THU Fancy shoes, comfy shoes, old shoes, new shoes - they can THU change an attitude and define a generation and mean THU something different to us all. THU THU Presenter: Rowan Pelling THU Producer: Angela Hind THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01rgm9v (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01rfs52 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01rgm9x (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 b01rgm9z (Listen) THU The Roaring Crowd THU THU Episode nine of a thirty-part series made in collaboration THU with the British Library Sound Archive. THU THU 'And the crowd roars...' THU THU The London Olympics were a reminder of the barrage of sound THU that we noisy humans can make when we get together. THU Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex travels to THU one of history's great amphitheatres - the ruins of the THU Roman Colosseum - to explain the power of the crowd: how it THU showed approval and what happened when it was displeased. THU THU Series producer: Matt Thompson. THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01rgj1q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rgmb1 (Listen) THU Sullom Voe THU THU by Nicola McCartney. THU THU A drama based on the true story of what would have been the THU Provisional IRA's greatest coup had it worked - the THU assassination of the Queen and the destruction of Shetland's THU new Sullom Voe oil terminal in 1981. Can it really have been THU foiled by the fog and the Royal Mail? THU THU Producer/director Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Martin: Simon Donaldson THU Jimmy: Liam Brennan THU Linda: Lesley Hart THU Mimie: Anne Lacey THU Sandy: John Buick THU Stewart: Mark McDonnell THU Bingham: Kenny Blyth THU Richards: Kenny Blyth THU Director: Gaynor MacFarlane THU Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane THU Writer: Nicola McCartney THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01rgmb3 (Listen) THU Nuns of Yorkshire THU THU Solar panels and sheep may not be the first things that THU spring to mind when you think of a monastery but at THU Stanbrook Abbey you'll find these alongside a woodchip THU boiler and a roof covered in sedum grass to insulate the THU building and attract local wildlife. THU THU The sisters at Stanbrook Abbey (and the sheep) live very THU much in harmony with their North Yorkshire Moors National THU Park surroundings. The community of sisters embraced their THU new, high tech, high spec, eco-friendly home after leaving THU their more traditional, gothic style 20-acre site in THU Worcestershire in 2009. Having lived there for 171 years, THU this was not an easy decision to make but the need to THU down-size and provide a more practical style of THU accommodation for the future lead them to this setting in THU Yorkshire, a place with a strong Cistercian heritage, where THU in their own words they '...seek to become 'lovers of the THU place', working in harmony with the National Park ethos to THU conserve and enhance the natural beauty and cultural THU heritage of this landscape'. THU THU Helen Mark meets with the sisters of Stanbrook as they care THU for their livestock, explain the challenges of cultivating THU moorland, the joys of reflecting nature in art and the THU excitement of new beginnings. THU THU Produced by Nicola Humphries. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01rfy4z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01rfy5m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01rgmb5 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01rgmb7 (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 b01rgmb9 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rfs56 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Wondermentalist Cabaret b01lstsm (Listen) THU Edinburgh Special THU THU Comedy, bonhomie, poetry, music and audience creativity in THU the company of Matt Harvey and guests. THU THU Another chance to hear last summer's special Edinburgh THU Festival edition of Wondermentalist - the slightly THU interactive, comedy-infused poetry cabaret. THU THU Showcasing Matt Harvey's peerless poetry, meet his nemesis, THU side-kick and one man house band Jerri Hart, and peerless THU guest poets, Kate Fox and Elvis McGonagall. THU THU Kate Fox is the poet with Northern vowels and a love of THU puns, buns and rhymes, while Elvis McGonagall, stand-up poet THU and armchair revolutionary strolls in to the BBC's Festival THU site, on bail from The Graceland Caravan Park, near Dundee. THU THU Like luxury muesli, Wondermentalism is a faith that contains THU sparkly, shiny multigrains of truth, wit, wisdom and THU laughter. Vitamin supplements for the soul. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01rgm2m (Listen) THU Iftikar is tempted. Meanwhile Brenda finds an excuse. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01rgmbc (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rgm9n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01rgmbf (Listen) THU Bulgarian and Romanian Immigration THU THU Bulgarian and Romanian citizens will have the same rights to THU work in the UK as other EU nationals from next year. THU Victoria Derbyshire investigates how prepared the government THU is for a new influx of migrants and asks what the stories of THU those who've already made the move tell us about what may THU happen in 2014. THU THU Reporter: Victoria Derbyshire THU Producer: Phil Kemp. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01rgmbh (Listen) THU Evan Davis chairs a round-table discussion providing insight THU into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 On the Trail of the American Honeybee b01rg226 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01rgm9g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:05 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01rfs58 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01rgmf8 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rgmfb (Listen) THU How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode: the next step to becoming filthy rich - THU learn from a master. THU THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee THU Abridger: Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b01rgmfd (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Comedian Bridget Christie gives a very personal take on the THU state of modern feminism. THU THU 23:30 GI Britain b01nnw7y (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Based on new interviews with surviving GI's and their THU brides, and more than 150 archive interviews from both the THU Imperial War Museum and the National Library of Congress, THU Martha Kearney presents the first of two programmes THU exploring the wartime GI years and their social and cultural THU impact. THU THU Marking the 70th anniversary, Martha tells the story of how THU the number of American servicemen based in the UK grew to THU more than 1.5 million from the start of 1942 through to THU 1944. The programme evaluates the military importance of the THU GI's, the integration of British and American troops and the THU sometimes difficult relationship between their commanders. THU THU The arrival of large numbers of ebullient young men from an THU alien culture inevitably made a huge impression on British THU society. For many Britons the GI's were 'over sexed, over THU paid and over here' and misunderstandings on both sides THU frequently led to tension and hostility. THU THU Racial tensions sometimes spilled over into violence, THU notably at the so-called Battle of Bamber Bridge in 1943 THU when Black and White GI's fought in the streets of the THU village near Preston. THU THU The programme evokes Rainbow Corner, the American Red Cross THU Club near London's Piccadilly Circus where servicemen went THU for food, entertainment or even just a hot shower. Luxuries THU were available there of which most Britons could only dream. THU THU In the aftermath of VE day, it is believed that around THU 70,000 British girls married American GI's with many girls THU emigrating immediately. Unofficial estimates also suggest THU that around 9,000 illegitimate children were born after the THU war as a result of relationships with serving GI's. THU THU Producer: David Prest THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 MARCH 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01rfs69 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01rpgbp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rfs6c (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rfs6f (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rfs6k (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01rfs6m (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rgjhk (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt FRI Revd Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01rgjhm (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01rgjj6 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Open Air b01rmnnh (Listen) FRI Mark Wallinger FRI FRI An artist reimagines how broadcast space might be used: Mark FRI Wallinger FRI FRI Produced by Russell Finch and Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:05 Desert Island Discs b01rfy57 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01rpgbt (Listen) FRI Comandante, Episode 5 FRI FRI Writer: Rory Carroll FRI Reader: Jack Klaff FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rgjq2 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rgjq4 (Listen) FRI The Kneebone Bonanza, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Carl Grose. The Kneebone's house has collapsed into a FRI mine shaft. Will they get out before the bulldozers flatten FRI the site? FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 11:00 Daughters From Afar b01rgjq6 (Listen) FRI Emily Buchanan meets three families with children adopted FRI from overseas orphanages. They discuss how they are FRI grappling with the challenges of raising adopted children of FRI a different race and culture in the UK. FRI FRI She first met these parents, all of them white British, six FRI years ago when making an earlier series for Radio 4 about FRI families trying to adopt children from China. Back then, the FRI families were going through the lengthy initial preparation FRI and complex bureaucracy of the process. FRI FRI In this programme she revisits them to hear the latest FRI chapter in their personal stories. Between them, these FRI transracial families now have adopted children from China, FRI Ethiopia and the UK, with ages ranging from two to nine, and FRI the parents are focusing on bringing up their children to FRI the best of their ability. FRI FRI They talk revealingly of the emotional ups and downs of FRI adopting, with the complication of interracial adoption FRI thrown in. They also discuss the attitudes of the FRI authorities and those around them to their unusual families. FRI FRI The themes brought out in the programme are especially FRI timely given the government's recent proposal to make FRI transracial adoption easier for those wanting to adopt FRI domestically, a move which has alarmed some adoption FRI experts. FRI FRI Producer Jane Ashley. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b01rgjq8 (Listen) FRI Series 4, The Return of Martina Guerre FRI FRI by Nigel Williams. Sam and Peter agree they need variation FRI in their lifestyle and domestic routine. But will a ring on FRI the doorbell herald major change? FRI FRI Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost FRI Kate ..... Kate Fahy. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01rgjqb (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01rfs6p (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01rgm2h (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 b01rgm2k (Listen) FRI The Ecstatic Underground FRI FRI Episode ten of a thirty-part series made in collaboration FRI with the British Library Sound Archive. FRI FRI Christianity was just one of several cults that sprang up in FRI ancient Rome. So the sound-world of the first Christians FRI probably wasn't filled with the subdued voices, measured FRI singing and solemn prayers that would later echo through the FRI medieval churches and cathedrals of Western Europe. It was FRI more Eastern in flavour - or more pagan. FRI FRI Professor David Hendy explores the ecstatic soundscapes of FRI underground house churches in ancient Rome. FRI FRI Series producer: Matt Thompson. FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01rgm2m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rgm2p (Listen) FRI The Minister FRI FRI Verse drama by Welsh poet R.S.Thomas, marking the centenary FRI of his birth which falls on Good Friday. When a new minister FRI arrives in a small community in the Welsh moors, he has to FRI learn the true place of religion in the lives of his flock. FRI Starring Sian Phillips as the Narrator and introduced by FRI poet Gwyneth Lewis, the first National Poet of Wales, the FRI drama is followed by The Airy Tomb, also by R.S.Thomas and FRI read by poet Nigel Jenkins. FRI FRI Minister ..... Richard Lynch FRI Job Davies ..... Ifan Huw Dafydd FRI Buddug ..... Rebecca Killick FRI FRI Director ..... Alison Hindell FRI Sound design ..... Nigel Lewis FRI Literary advisor ..... Professor M.Wynn Thomas, University FRI of Swansea FRI FRI This is the only verse drama written by R.S.Thomas, the FRI great twentieth century Welsh poet. Commissioned for radio FRI and first broadcast in 1952, the same year as the first FRI performance of Under Milk Wood by another Thomas (Dylan), it FRI captures the struggle between Man's faith in God and the FRI power and forces of the natural world. FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Liturgy b01rgm2r (Listen) FRI On the most solemn day of the Christian Calendar, marking FRI the death of Christ, Bishop Stephen Oliver explores the FRI language of grief and bereavement. Reflecting on his own FRI experience following the death of his wife, Bishop Stephen FRI challenges often inadequate language and emotions which try FRI to hide and avoid the realities of losing a loved one. FRI Producer: Mark O'Brien. FRI FRI 15:30 In Pursuit of Spring b01rgm2t (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Edward Thomas (1878-1917) was arguably the most accomplished FRI and profound writer of English rural prose, with a unique FRI poetic-prose style. His reputation rests almost entirely FRI today on his poetry, the one hundred and forty four poems FRI which he wrote in the last two years of his life, between FRI December 1914 and December 1916. In January 1917 he embarked FRI for France and the Battle of Arras in which he was killed on FRI April 9th, 1917. FRI FRI As a prose writer Edward Thomas is often overshadowed by his FRI poetry, but over Easter 1913, he set off on a cycle ride of FRI personal self-discovery across Southern England. In doing so FRI he was hoping to reconnect with the countryside he felt he FRI had become disconnected from, having lived in London for FRI some time. This journey was published in 1914 in his book FRI "In Pursuit of Spring" and it remains a poignant reminder of FRI one of our greatest countryside writers, who just a few FRI years later would die on the battlefields of World War One. FRI FRI Over Easter 2013, naturalist Matthew Oates pursues his own FRI personal homage to Thomas by following in the literacy cycle FRI tracks of the Edwardian writer one hundred years before. FRI Throughout the series, academic and travel writer Robert FRI MacFarlane, an admirer of Thomas himself, will read passages FRI from Thomas's work which illustrate the man within. Rather FRI than faithfully recreating the earlier journey, Matthew aims FRI to recapture the spirit of self-discovery as he travels FRI through southern England to meet people who can explain FRI Thomas, the man behind the writing. FRI FRI In this series of four programmes Matthew Oates will be FRI travelling to Steep in Hampshire, where Thomas lived, and FRI where he wrote his most famous works. Not far away in Coate FRI near Swindon is the home of Richard Jefferies, whom inspired FRI Thomas. In Gloucestershire, Thomas lived for a few short FRI weeks in 1914 with the Dymock poets, here it is believed he FRI began to reject prose for poetry under the influence of his FRI great friend Robert Frost. The series ends by the Quantocks FRI in Somerset, the scene of the great romantic nature FRI partnership between Coleridge and Wordsworth. FRI FRI But as Thomas travelled across southern England in 1913, was FRI he aware that the life he had known, and more importantly FRI the countryside which gave him solace from his depression, FRI was about to abruptly end. Unwittingly, Thomas has provided FRI today's reader with 'Mirror of England' taking us back to a FRI simpler time when the horrors of a European conflict were FRI yet still beyond comprehension. FRI FRI Presented by Matthew Oates. FRI Produced by Andrew Dawes. FRI FRI 15:45 BS5 b01rk5qb (Listen) FRI My Girl, by Emily Bullock FRI FRI The Bristol Short Story Prize has been running in the city FRI for five years, and attracts entries from all over the FRI world. 'My Girl', by Emily Bullock, won first prize in 2011, FRI and opens a short series of stories celebrating the range of FRI writers and talent attracted to the prize. FRI FRI In 'My Girl' a mother watches from the corner as her FRI daughter fights in a brutal boxing match: "My job is to stop FRI the blood, cool her off, wash her down". As the punches FRI land, memories come like blows. FRI FRI Reader: Lynda Rooke FRI Producer Sara Davies FRI FRI Since winning first place in the 2011 Bristol Short Story FRI Prize Emily Bullock has been finishing a novel as part of FRI her Creative Writing PhD with the Open University. Set in FRI 1950s London, it also has a boxing theme. She is also FRI currently working on a collection of short stories. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01rgm2w (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by John Wilson. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01rgm2y (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 b01rgm30 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rfs6r (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01rgm32 (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 7 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 b01rgm34 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01rgm36 (Listen) FRI Anne Tyler in conversation with Mark Lawson FRI FRI A rare interview with writer Anne Tyler, who talks to Mark FRI Lawson in her home in Baltimore. She reflects on her FRI approach to writing novels, including Dinner at the Homesick FRI Restaurant and The Accidental Tourist. FRI FRI Producer Penny Murphy. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rgjq4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01rgm7f (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from FRI Chatham in Kent on Good Friday with Bob Marshall Andrews QC, FRI Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Angela Eagle MP, Lord FRI Trimble, and the Political Editor of The Sun Tom Newton FRI Dunn. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01rgm7h (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Noise: A Human History - Omnibus b01rgm7k (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the second week of David Hendy's series, FRI with the sounds of ancient Rome. FRI FRI As the Roman empire grew, the city at its heart sucked in FRI exotic goods, tastes, smells, colours, and - of course - FRI sounds from all around the world. Professor David Hendy of FRI the University of Sussex asks what we would have heard if FRI we'd visited the city in its heyday and walked its streets. FRI FRI He travels to one of history's great amphitheatres - the FRI ruins of the Roman Colosseum - to explain the power of the FRI noisy crowd: how it showed approval and what happened when FRI it was displeased. And he explores the ecstatic soundscapes FRI of underground house churches in ancient Rome. FRI FRI Also, from Cicero to Martin Luther King, over the centuries, FRI great orators have changed our minds, given us hope, and FRI sent us to the barricades. David reveals their rhetorical FRI tricks, and explains why President Obama's sharp ear for FRI dialogue is one of his greatest assets as a speaker. FRI FRI Noise: a Human History is a six week series made in FRI collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. FRI FRI Series producer: Matt Thompson. FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01rfs6t (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01rgm7m (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rgm7p (Listen) FRI How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode: the next step to becoming filthy rich in FRI rising Asia - work for yourself. FRI FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01rg22q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 GI Britain b01nsygq (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Producer: David Prest FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
22 March, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 23/03/2013 - 29/03/2013
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