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SAT SATURDAY 30 MARCH 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01rgjxv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01rpgbt (Listen) SAT Comandante, Episode 5 SAT SAT The political career of Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías had an SAT inauspicious start. A failed coup in 1992 led to a two-year SAT prison sentence. But Chåvez was nothing less than resilient. SAT He returned to win the 1999 election and remained in power SAT until his death from cancer on March 5th this year. SAT SAT Throughout his presidency he made friends and enemies in SAT almost equal measure. To the Venezuelan working classes, who SAT benefited from many of his social reforms, he was an heroic SAT figure. To other elements of Venezuelan society, he was SAT considered manipulative and autocratic. Abroad, his SAT reputation was similarly polarised - the US in particular, SAT fired by his alliance with Cuba, found Chávez an SAT antagonistic figure. SAT SAT As Gabriel García Márquez wrote in 1999, after flying from SAT Cuba to Caracas with the new president, "While he sauntered SAT off with his bodyguards of decorated officers and close SAT friends, I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I had just SAT been travelling and chatting pleasantly with two opposing SAT men. One to whom the caprices of fate had given an SAT opportunity to save his country. The other, an illusionist, SAT who could pass into the history books as just another SAT despot." SAT SAT Rory Carroll joined The Guardian as a reporter in 1997. SAT After spells in Rome, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Irishman SAT took over the paper's Baghdad bureau. On October 19th, 2005 SAT Carroll was abducted, but released unharmed a day later. In SAT April 2006, he was appointed The Guardian's Latin American SAT correspondent, and worked out of Caracas for the next six SAT years. In 2011, he was long-listed for The Orwell Prize. SAT SAT Writer: Rory Carroll SAT Reader: Jack Klaff SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rgjxx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rgjy1 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rgjy3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01rgjy5 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rgmcs (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt SAT Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01rgmcv (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01rgjy7 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01rgjy9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01rgmb3 (Listen) SAT Nuns of Yorkshire SAT SAT Solar panels and sheep may not be the first things that SAT spring to mind when you think of a monastery but at SAT Stanbrook Abbey you'll find these alongside a woodchip SAT boiler and a roof covered in sedum grass to insulate the SAT building and attract local wildlife. SAT SAT The sisters at Stanbrook Abbey (and the sheep) live very SAT much in harmony with their North Yorkshire Moors National SAT Park surroundings. The community of sisters embraced their SAT new, high tech, high spec, eco-friendly home after leaving SAT their more traditional, gothic style 20-acre site in SAT Worcestershire in 2009. Having lived there for 171 years, SAT this was not an easy decision to make but the need to SAT down-size and provide a more practical style of SAT accommodation for the future lead them to this setting in SAT Yorkshire, a place with a strong Cistercian heritage, where SAT in their own words they '...seek to become 'lovers of the SAT place', working in harmony with the National Park ethos to SAT conserve and enhance the natural beauty and cultural SAT heritage of this landscape'. SAT SAT Helen Mark meets with the sisters of Stanbrook as they care SAT for their livestock, explain the eco workings of Stanbrook, SAT the joys of reflecting nature in art and the excitement of SAT new beginnings. SAT SAT Produced by Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01rkxhp (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 b01rgjyc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01rgmh8 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01rkxhr (Listen) SAT Suzy Klein and JP Devlin with author Sebastian Faulks. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 South Africa Spits Back b01rkxht (Listen) SAT Roger Law, the co-creator of Spitting Image, heads to Cape SAT Town to meet South Africa's satirical puppets. What happens SAT when he meets the rubber version of Nelson Mandela? SAT SAT In a small studio under Table Mountain a dedicated group of SAT puppeteers are keeping the satirical flame burning for South SAT Africa. With rubber versions of their politicians. old and SAT new, and the backing of one of the country's finest SAT cartoonists Zapiro, they are making waves for the SAT establishment. But how easy is this to do in a democracy SAT that is so new? Comedy can be tricky in a country where race SAT and politics are so highly sensitive. SAT SAT Roger Law goes on set to talk to the writers and the SAT performers of ZA News, South Africa's puppet show, as well SAT as stand up comedians. He finds out what can - and can't be SAT - said on air and on stage, and what really upsets the SAT country's political elite. A portrait of South Africa SAT through its evolving satirical scene, with a democracy only SAT now finding that perhaps it can laugh at itself. SAT SAT 11:00 Open Air b01rkxhw (Listen) SAT Omnibus SAT SAT Five artists re-imagine how broadcast space might be used. SAT Front Row's John Wilson hears their works and meets the SAT artists: Christian Marclay, Ruth Ewan, Peter Strickland, SAT Susan Hiller and Mark Wallinger. SAT SAT Radio 4's focus on arts continues with a series of five SAT playful and surprising audio interventions, broadcast SAT throughout the week. Radio 4 and London-based arts SAT organisation Artangel have commissioned artists known for SAT their singular approach to performance, sound, sculpture, SAT installation and film-making to respond to a particular SAT moment in the morning radio schedule and re-interpret how SAT broadcast space might be thought about and listened to. This SAT programme brings all five works together and hears from the SAT artists. SAT SAT Open Air marks a month until the submission deadline for SAT Open, a call for new ground-breaking site-specific projects SAT to transform the UK's cultural landscape. More details are SAT available at http://www.artangel.org.uk/open/about SAT SAT Produced by Russell Finch, Phil Smith and Joby Waldman SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Five audio artworks by five artists SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01rkxhy (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01rkxj0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01rgm32 (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 7 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Marcus SAT Brigstocke, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin to present the week SAT via topical stand-up, sketches and song. Producer: Colin SAT Anderson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01rgjyf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01rgjyh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01rgm7f (Listen) SAT Angela Eagle, Lord Trimble, Clare Gerada, Tom Newton Dunn SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from SAT Chatham in Kent on Good Friday with Shadow Leader of the SAT House of Commons Angela Eagle MP, Lord Trimble, the SAT Political Editor of The Sun Tom Newton Dunn and Chair of the SAT Royal College of General Practitioners Clare Gerada. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01rkxj2 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01rkxxy (Listen) SAT Shane SAT SAT Following on from 'Hombre', last week's Classic Western, SAT today's drama is the first radio production of 'Shane'. It's SAT been adapted from Jack Shaefer's novel by Frances Byrnes. SAT SAT A mysterious horseman, all dressed in black and wearing a SAT six shooter, rides into an isolated valley in Wyoming. Call SAT me Shane, he says. He's a skilled gunslinger, and soon finds SAT himself drawn into a conflict between homesteaders Marian SAT and Joe Starrett and ruthless cattle baron Fletcher, who SAT wants to force the Starretts off the land. Marian is caught SAT between the strong, dependable husband whom she loves, and SAT the lean, handsome stranger whom she needs if she's to save SAT her family. SAT SAT Recorded by Mark Holden SAT Post production by Nigel Lewis SAT SAT With music by Fernando Macias-Jimenez SAT Produced and Directed by Kate McAll SAT SAT The Oscar winning film 'Shane' starred Paramount idol Alan SAT Ladd in the title role, with Jean Arthur as Marian and Van SAT Heflin as Joe. SAT SAT Although the story of 'Shane' is fictional, elements of it SAT are based on the 1892 Johnson County War between the small SAT settlers in Wyoming and the bigger, wealthier ranchers. SAT SAT Credits SAT Shane: Joshua Stamberg SAT Marian Starrett: Jennifer Westfeldt SAT Joe Starrett: Jeff Mash SAT Bobby: Finley Jacobsen SAT Actor: Gordon Clapp SAT Actor: Rod McLachlan SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT Producer: Kate McAll SAT Writer: Frances Byrnes SAT SAT 15:30 In Pursuit of Spring b01rkyv5 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Edward Thomas (1878-1917) was arguably the most accomplished SAT and profound writer of English rural prose, with a unique SAT poetic-prose style. His reputation rests almost entirely SAT today on his poetry, the one hundred and forty four poems SAT which he wrote in the last two years of his life, between SAT December 1914 and December 1916. In January 1917 he embarked SAT for France and the Battle of Arras in which he was killed on SAT April 9th, 1917. SAT SAT As a prose writer Edward Thomas is often overshadowed by his SAT poetry, but over Easter 1913, he set off on a cycle ride of SAT personal self-discovery across Southern England. In doing so SAT he was hoping to reconnect with the countryside he felt he SAT had become disconnected from, having lived in London for SAT some time. This journey was published in 1914 in his book SAT "In Pursuit of Spring" and it remains a poignant reminder of SAT one of our greatest countryside writers, who just a few SAT years later would die on the battlefields of World War One. SAT SAT Over Easter 2013, naturalist Matthew Oates pursues his own SAT personal homage to Thomas by following in the literacy cycle SAT tracks of the Edwardian writer one hundred years before. SAT Throughout the series, academic and travel writer Robert SAT MacFarlane, an admirer of Thomas himself, will read passages SAT from Thomas's work which illustrate the man within. Rather SAT than faithfully recreating the earlier journey, Matthew aims SAT to recapture the spirit of self-discovery as he travels SAT through southern England to meet people who can explain SAT Thomas, the man behind the writing. SAT SAT In this series of three programmes Matthew Oates will be SAT travelling to Steep in Hampshire, where Thomas lived, and SAT where he wrote his most famous works. Not far away in Coate SAT near Swindon is the home of Richard Jefferies, whom inspired SAT Thomas. In Gloucestershire, Thomas lived for a few short SAT weeks in 1914 with the Dymock poets, here it is believed he SAT began to reject prose for poetry under the influence of his SAT great friend Robert Frost. The series ends by the Quantocks SAT in Somerset, the scene of the great romantic nature SAT partnership between Coleridge and Wordsworth. SAT SAT But as Thomas travelled across southern England in 1913, was SAT he aware that the life he had known, and more importantly SAT the countryside which gave him solace from his depression, SAT was about to abruptly end. Unwittingly, Thomas has provided SAT today's reader with 'Mirror of England' taking us back to a SAT simpler time when the horrors of a European conflict were SAT yet still beyond comprehension. SAT SAT Presented by Matthew Oates. SAT Produced by Andrew Dawes. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01rkyv7 (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 b01rkyv9 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01rgmbh (Listen) SAT The Education Business SAT SAT Education and how to make a profit from it is the focus for SAT Evan and his three guests this week - each of them business SAT leaders in the learning sector. SAT SAT From low-cost private schools in Ghana to no-frills law SAT courses and a University of Liverpool campus in China, our SAT guests will share their business lessons on how to build a SAT reputation and how to price a good education. They'll also SAT talk about the challenges of taking on traditional, public SAT institutions as well as the technological advances that look SAT set to transform learning over the next 20 years. SAT SAT As usual, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion and spin to SAT present a clearer view of the business world. SAT SAT Guests this week are Carl Lygo, Chief executive of BPP; SAT Professor Sir Howard Newby, Vice Chancellor of the SAT University of Liverpool and Professor James Tooley, chairman SAT of Omega Schools. SAT SAT Series producer: Helen Grady SAT Series editor: Innes Bowen SAT Series researcher: Ben Carter. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rgjym (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01rgjyp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rgjyr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01rkyvc (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Maxine Peake, Howard Marks, Andrew Motion, SAT Sheila Hancock, Jacob Banks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club SAT SAT Nikki Bedi is joined by Maxine Peake, Howard Marks, Andrew SAT Motion and Sheila Hancock for conversation and comedy. Music SAT from Jacob Banks and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. SAT SAT Producer: Paula McGinley. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01rkyvf (Listen) SAT Mary Ann Sieghart presents a profile of someone currently SAT making headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01rkyvk (Listen) SAT Judi Dench in Peter and Alice and Danny Boyle's film Trance SAT SAT Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum arrives at the SAT British Museum to huge advance ticket sales and great SAT anticipation: a moving illumination of the lives that were SAT stopped short in AD79. SAT SAT Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw become Alice in Wonderland and SAT Peter Pan, in Skyfall writer John Logan's new play Peter and SAT Alice, exploring the themes of lost childhood and becoming SAT public property. SAT SAT Danny Boyle's film Trance is a rollercoaster heist movie SAT starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson. It's got energy SAT and twists and turns... will it be the crowd pleaser that SAT his Olympic opening ceremony proved to be? SAT SAT Ghana Must Go is a feted first novel from Taiye Selasi, set SAT in America, Ghana and Nigeria. It revolves around the death SAT of a father before his relationships with other family SAT members have truly been resolved. SAT SAT And The Village, BBC1's new series created by Peter Moffatt, SAT takes the working class view of 20th century history. Does SAT its ambition, restrained pace and realism work for an SAT audience more accustomed to costume fare? SAT SAT Saturday Review today is presented by Sarfraz Manzoor. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01rkyvm (Listen) SAT In Event of Moon Disaster SAT SAT Last year, as American election day drew nearer, SAT Presidential candidate Mitt Romney told the media he'd only SAT prepared one speech: a 1,018 word victory address. He never SAT got to make it of course. SAT SAT Thankfully President Nixon was never called upon to deliver SAT the speech entitled 'In event of moon disaster' and fate SAT prevented John F.Kennedy from delivering a speech on trade SAT policy in Dallas in November 1963. SAT SAT In this Archive Hour former speech writer and Times SAT columnist Daniel Finkelstein listens to the world's greatest SAT speeches that never saw the light of day, from Winston SAT Churchill to David Miliband. SAT SAT Through the many voices of impressionist Jon Culshaw, Radio SAT 4 will bring forgotten speeches to life, exploring the SAT context and the ramifications had circumstances not SAT intervened. SAT SAT Producer Caitlin Smith. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01rfy5k (Listen) SAT The Water Babies: A Modern Fairy Tale SAT SAT Paul Farley's playful updating of Charles Kingsley's 150 SAT year old children's novel. SAT SAT Young Tomi is part of the UK's illegal labour market, having SAT been trafficked into the country from Nigeria as a child SAT labourer, but his life is changed forever when he meets a SAT girl from the other side of the tracks, runs away and falls SAT into a river. SAT SAT When he wakes up, he's been transformed - he's amphibious! SAT And so begins a series of strange and exciting underwater SAT adventures in which he meets caddis flies, trout, otters and SAT eels. But Tomi learns that with his new freedom comes choice SAT and responsibility. SAT SAT Directed by Emma Harding. SAT SAT Credits SAT Tomi: Damson Idris SAT Grimes: Kurt Egyiawan SAT Hitcher: Julia Ford SAT Miss Whatcomesaroundgoesaround: Julia Ford SAT Miss Whatgoesaroundcomesaround: Julia Ford SAT Ellie: Lauren Mote SAT Hotel Manager: Michael Shelford SAT Porpoise: Michael Shelford SAT Farm Salmon: Michael Shelford SAT Housemaid: Hannah Wood SAT Dragonfly: Hannah Wood SAT Eel 3: Hannah Wood SAT Caddis Fly 1: Philippa Stanton SAT Eel 1: Philippa Stanton SAT Caddis Fly 2: Ben Crowe SAT Crayfish: Ben Crowe SAT Trout: Ben Crowe SAT Otter: Jenny Ogilvie SAT Eel 2: Jenny Ogilvie SAT Salmon: Robert Blythe SAT Lobster: Robert Blythe SAT Director: Emma Harding SAT Writer: Paul Farley SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01rgjyt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01rgj1v (Listen) SAT George Orwell (who is soon to have his statue erected SAT outside New Broadcasting House) said 'Who controls the past SAT controls the future. Who controls the present controls the SAT past.' SAT SAT Education Secretary Michael Gove is bringing in a new school SAT history syllabus. The story of Britain will be taught in SAT chronological order from the first year of primary school to SAT the age of 14, finishing with the election of Margaret SAT Thatcher. The emphasis will be on facts and dates. There SAT will be no more of those essay assignments that begin SAT 'Imagine you're a slave bound for the West Indies ...' SAT SAT Is it right to put Britain at the centre of the story and to SAT mention foreigners only insofar as they have impinged upon SAT our nation (and vice very much versa)? Or is it more moral SAT to teach children the history of the planet because we are SAT all citizens of the world? SAT SAT Should history teachers be aiming to turn out good citizens SAT with shared moral values? If so - whose values? Is it more SAT important to teach national pride or national humility? Is SAT an emphasis on 'cultural sensitivity' just left-wing SAT propaganda in disguise? SAT SAT And is it right that a politician should be able to dictate SAT the history syllabus in the first place? Some of the SAT precedents for it - in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany and Mao's SAT China - are not encouraging. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Giles Fraser, Matthew Taylor SAT and Anne McElvoy. Witnesses: Chris McGovern - Chairman, The SAT Campaign for Real Education, Antony Beevor - Historian, Sir SAT Richard Evans - Regius Professor of History and President of SAT Woolfson College, University of Cambridge, Matthew Wilkinson SAT Director and Principal Researcher SAT Curriculum for Cohesion. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01rg1gt (Listen) SAT Series 3, Anglia Ruskin University SAT SAT A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a SAT team of three University students take on a team of three of SAT their professors. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Ursula Vaughan Williams, Poet and Muse b01rfy5p (Listen) SAT Ursula Vaughan Williams was most famous for being the SAT composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's second wife. However, she SAT was a published poet who contributed poems for her husband SAT to set and collaborated creatively on various occasions with SAT him and other composers. SAT SAT The writer Irma Kurtz tells her story and looks at her SAT poetry with the help of the Vaughan Williams' friends and SAT colleagues. She discovers a true love story. Ursula met SAT Vaughan Williams when they were both married to other SAT people. He was much older than her. Her husband died during SAT the war and Ralph's wife spent much of her life in a wheel SAT chair. Ursula became the lover and creative collaborator of SAT the composer, even moving into his marital home with the SAT blessing of his first wife. When Adeline Vaughan Williams SAT died, Ralph and Ursula could be married. SAT SAT Ursula's poetry speaks of love, nature and memory . Her SAT masterpiece, The Dictated Theme was written in the days SAT after Vaughan Williams died and she described the feeling SAT that he was with her, dictating the verse. SAT SAT Until her own death in 2007, aged 96, Ursula remained a SAT leading figure on the artistic and social scene of London SAT and continued her husband's work supporting English music. SAT SAT Interviews include Michael Kennedy, biographer of Ralph SAT Vaughan Williams; close friends Joyce Kennedy and Eva SAT Hornstein; Stephen Connock, editor of Ursula Vaughan SAT Williams' collected poems; and Hugh Cobbe, formerly Head of SAT Music Collections for the British Library. SAT SAT Readings by Isla Blair. SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 MARCH 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01rkpj4 (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 b01b8zw5 (Listen) SUN Broad Reach SUN SUN Written by Roy Apps. SUN SUN Today's story - Broad Reach by Roy Apps - is the second in a SUN series of specially commissioned stories which take boats SUN and boating as their theme. SUN SUN Nick has lost both legs in a car crash - and all his SUN confidence as well. With the help of Jamie, his son, he SUN starts sailing again - and manages to get the better of a SUN pompous Yacht Club Commodore into the bargain.... 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 b01rkpj6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 02:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rpf29 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rkpj8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01rkpjb (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01rl0rj (Listen) SUN The bells of Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01rkyvf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01rkpjd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01rl0yv (Listen) SUN Rising from the Ashes SUN SUN This Easter edition of Something Understood examines some of SUN the themes associated with the Passion and Resurrection of SUN Christ, and asks what we can learn from them today. SUN SUN The forgiveness of sin, overcoming great obstacles and SUN learning to move on are all ideas represented in the story SUN of Easter. SUN SUN Mark Tully asks whether we can learn from the Easter SUN narrative only on a symbolic level or whether it offers us SUN lessons of a more practical or physical kind. He discusses SUN the art of rediscovering the story of Easter week with SUN Bishop of Bradford, Nick Baines, and a mix of readings and SUN music. SUN SUN The readers are Monica Dolan and Mark Quartley. SUN SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 Sunrise Service b01rl0yx (Listen) SUN from Liverpool Anglican cathedral led by Canon Myles Davies SUN and Pastor Dr Tani Omideyi with the Love and Joy gospel SUN choir. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01rkpjg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01rkpjj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01rl0yz (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01rl0z1 (Listen) SUN Freedom from Torture SUN SUN Thandie Newton presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Freedom from SUN Torture SUN Reg Charity:1000340 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Freedom from Torture. SUN SUN Freedom from Torture is dedicated to the rehabilitation and SUN therapeutic care of survivors of torture who have fled to SUN the UK seeking sanctuary, working also to protect and SUN promote their rights. It has treatment centres in London, SUN Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow and is SUN developing a new presence in Yorkshire and the Humber. SUN Survivors of torture and organised violence at Freedom from SUN Torture’s five treatment centres have often stood up to SUN appalling violence and intimidation with great bravery. Most SUN have been targeted because of their ethnicity, religion, SUN gender, sexuality or political stance. All have been SUN subjected to savage physical, sexual or psychological SUN violence at the hands of others. The psychological impact of SUN torture is immense and long-lasting. SUN There are no quick fixes for the devastating consequences of SUN torture. The complex needs of survivors are often beyond the SUN scope of one professional and can require a holistic SUN approach and a coordinated team effort, for many months or SUN even years. At Freedom from Torture everything possible is SUN done to help survivors rebuild their lives. SUN SUN Since its inception in 1985, known then as the Medical SUN Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, more than SUN 50,000 individuals have been referred for help. Last year, SUN Freedom from Torture received referrals from more than 80 SUN different countries, with the largest numbers coming from SUN Iran, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of SUN Congo. The organisation helped more than 1,600 survivors - SUN men women and children - to piece their lives back together. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01rkpjl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01rkpjn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01rl0z3 (Listen) SUN Easter Sunday Worship SUN SUN Easter Eucharist live from Liverpool Cathedral. Preacher: SUN The Bishop of Liverpool The Right Revd James Jones. SUN Celebrant: The Very Revd Dr Pete Wilcox, Dean of Liverpool. SUN The choir of Liverpool Cathedral, directed by David Poulter, SUN sing Jonathan Dove's joyful Missa Brevis and a wealth of SUN Easter carols and hymns. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01rl0z5 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01rl0z7 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01rl0z9 (Listen) SUN Sir Sydney Kentridge SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Sir Sydney Kentridge SUN QC. SUN SUN Widely regarded as a leading advocate of the 20th century, SUN he continues to make his mark in the 21st; he recently SUN appeared for the first time in the European Court of Justice SUN and at the end of last year he spent the actual day of his SUN 90th birthday working in the English Supreme Court. SUN SUN Born in South Africa, he was first called to the bar there SUN at the end of the 1940s and played a leading role in some of SUN the most significant political trials of the apartheid era. SUN 'Understated, controlled, relentlessly rational' - and with SUN devastating cross-examination skills - the verdict of one of SUN his clients - Nelson Mandela. SUN SUN He himself says "I hope there's only one thing about my SUN professional life of which I've boasted and which I think, SUN as a lawyer, is unique on my part - I have acted as an SUN advocate for three winners of The Nobel Peace Prize. I don't SUN think anyone else has done that." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01rg1h2 (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 7 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition and deviation? SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01rl1dl (Listen) SUN Fasting, old and new SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the practice of fasting - then and SUN now - from a religious and medical perspective SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01rkpjq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01rl1dn (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 Medicalising Grief b01rl1q8 (Listen) SUN The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - SUN or DSM - is a book full of lists of symptoms, strange SUN sounding names, codes and guidelines. It's also a book that SUN changes lives. Its champions say it is simply a system of SUN classification, a diagnostic tool. Its critics claim it is SUN more - it decides what is and isn't a disease and that every SUN time a new version is published an increasing number of SUN people are labelled mentally ill. SUN SUN And for every diagnosis in the DSM, there is a corresponding SUN medical treatment waiting in the wings. SUN SUN In May 2013, the American Psychiatric Association will SUN publish the latest edition of their DSM and it is likely to SUN cause tension within the American psychiatric establishment. SUN SUN But why is this medical-looking manual causing such SUN controversy? SUN SUN Where some say the previous DSM was responsible for SUN pathologising childhood, critics of the new edition will SUN medicalise grief. SUN SUN Are the intense feelings most people experience after the SUN death of a loved one misery or melancholia? That is the SUN ongoing debate, the result of which will have an impact on SUN millions of people and our understanding of a fundamental SUN human reaction. SUN SUN In a post-Prozac world, when normal becomes abnormal, SUN medication generally follows. An estimated 8 to 10 million SUN people lose a loved one every year and something like a SUN third to a half of them suffer depressive symptoms for up to SUN a month afterward. How much does the pharmaceutical industry SUN stand to benefit if an extra 5 million people a year are SUN prescribed anti-depressants? SUN SUN Matthew Hill investigates the DSM, its decisions over what SUN is and is not a mental illness, and the people behind it. SUN SUN Producer: Gemma Newby SUN A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01rl1qb (Listen) SUN Jodrell Bank SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs questions from local gardeners at The SUN Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre. Chris Beardshaw, Anne SUN Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood form the panel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 In Pursuit of Spring b01rl1qd (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Presented by Matthew Oates. SUN Produced by Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01rp96t (Listen) SUN A Larkin Double, Jill SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 2): Jill SUN SUN Dramatised for the first time on BBC Radio 4 by Robin Brooks SUN (Ulysses, I Claudius, The Chandler Season). Starring Samuel SUN Barnett as John Kemp. With Jessica Raine , Richard Goulding SUN and Frank Dillane, and introducing Grace Englert as Jill. SUN SUN Jill was Philip Larkin's first novel, written when he was 21 SUN and just out of Oxford. John Kemp, a Northern Grammar boy SUN arrives at Oxford for his first term. Socially awkward and SUN inexperienced, he finds he is sharing rooms with the upper SUN class Christopher Warner, whose brash loutish behaviour both SUN intimidates and attracts him. SUN SUN Jill is a subtle and moving account of a young man facing SUN the big issues of life - sex and class - and retreating into SUN the world of the imagination. In effect, Jill is about SUN Larkin finding himself as a writer - a book about the craft SUN of writing and a young man's journey from boyhood to SUN maturity. SUN SUN Dramatised by Robin Brooks SUN Producer/Director: Fiona McAlpine SUN Sound: Alisdair McGregor SUN An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN John Kemp: Samuel Barnett SUN Christopher Warner: Richard Goulding SUN Elizabeth Dowling: Jessica Raine SUN Patrick Dowling: Frank Dillane SUN Whitbread: Nigel Pilkington SUN Jill: Grace Englert SUN Mrs Warner: Sarah Eedle SUN Porter: Andrew Wincott SUN Minerva: Violet Taylor SUN Ruth: Molly Drnec SUN Maisie: Cressida Sowerbutts SUN Joan: Victoria Easey SUN Director: Fiona McAlpine SUN Producer: Fiona McAlpine SUN Writer: Robin Brooks SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01rl1qj (Listen) SUN Patrick Ness on The Crane Wife SUN SUN Patrick Ness talks to Mariella Frostrup about his novel The SUN Crane Wife SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN The Crane Wife – Patrick Ness SUN Publisher: Canongate Books SUN SUN 16:30 Rhyme and Reason b01rl1ql (Listen) SUN Poet and DJ Mr Gee talks to songwriters about poetry and how SUN it influences their work. SUN SUN The performance poet, DJ and broadcaster, Mr Gee - familiar SUN from his work on Saturday Live and Russell Brand's Radio 2 SUN show - is fascinated by poetry and songwriting, the SUN similarities and the differences between these crafts. He SUN seeks out songwriters who love poetry and hears from them SUN about the importance of poetry in their lives and the way it SUN influences their songwriting. SUN SUN Cerys Matthews, who came to fame two decades ago as the SUN singer in Catatonia, is a Welsh speaker, in which language SUN poetry is written in strict, elaborate forms. But Cerys also SUN speaks French, Spanish and English, and reads poetry in all SUN of them. The poets she cites as influential include Walt SUN Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, whose work, formally, ranges as SUN wide as the plains of America, with enormously long lines SUN and patterns like mountain ranges. These poets inspire her SUN directly, she tells Mr Gee, then she picks up her guitar and SUN sings a song featuring a spider - the same one, perhaps, SUN that Whitman famously wrote about. SUN SUN For Richard Thompson the influence of the poets he loves - SUN Eliot, Yeats and John Clare - is more tangential. It colours SUN the mood and tone of his great songs of modern England. SUN Sometimes the rhythms of poems find their way into his SUN songs. He is struck by the power of traditional songs, how SUN they evoke characters, and unfold stories in images. He SUN models some of his own ballads, such as 'Beeswing', on them. SUN SUN Mr Gee hears, too, from someone working the other way SUN around. Ian McMillan, enthusiast of what his wife calls SUN 'squeaky gate music' by, for instance, Captain Beefheart, SUN reveals how songs have influenced the poetry he writes, some SUN of which is then set to music. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01rg231 (Listen) SUN Rochdale Abuse: Failed Victims? SUN SUN The high profile child sex abuse case in Rochdale last SUN summer - in which nine men were jailed for more than 70 SUN years for grooming underage girls - has been defined as a SUN watershed moment in how the authorities deal with this kind SUN of abuse. SUN But were there crucial failings? SUN In an exclusive interview for File on 4, one of the police SUN officers involved in the case claims that flaws in the way SUN it was handled meant important witness evidence was dropped SUN and some abusers were never prosecuted - leaving a new SUN generation of girls potentially at risk and victims SUN seriously let down. SUN Jane Deith also hears complaints that witnesses were left SUN without adequate support to help them re-build their lives. SUN Earlier this month the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir SUN Starmer, published new guidelines for police and prosecutors SUN in such cases. But have they come too late for many victims? SUN SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth SUN Reporter: Jane Deith. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01rkyvf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rkpjs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01rkpjv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rkpjx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01rl1qn (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01rl1y1 (Listen) SUN Easter Day inspires rivalry, and Ruth wants Pip to get her SUN priorities right. SUN SUN 19:15 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rl1y3 (Listen) SUN Series 2, With guests Matt Lucas and Liane Carroll 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 sixth episode explores the theme of the four seasons. SUN Guest starring Matt Lucas who performs some songs with the SUN band and jazz singer Liane Carroll who is conducted by Alex SUN with the aid of a ping pong ball. SUN SUN Host .... Alex Horne SUN Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland SUN Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown SUN Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier SUN Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds SUN Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake SUN Guest performers .... Matt Lucas and Liane Carroll SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN SUN 19:45 Go West b01rl1y5 (Listen) SUN The Most Beautiful Man in the World SUN SUN Five stories made in Bristol SUN SUN 5. The Most Beautiful Man in the World SUN by Katherine Mitchell SUN SUN A comic monologue recorded at the Bath Literature Festival SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01rgm2y (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01rgm2w (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. Presented by John Wilson. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01rkxj0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01rl0z1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01rg1hb (Listen) SUN Nudge theory in practice SUN SUN Politicians are wary of forcing us to do the things they SUN think we should such as drinking less, saving more for our SUN pensions or using public transport. But they are also SUN reluctant to do nothing. The theories expounded in the book SUN Nudge, published in 2008, suggested there was a third way: a SUN "libertarian paternalist" option whereby governments made SUN doing the right thing easier but not obligatory. Rather than SUN making pensions compulsory, for example, governments could SUN make saving for one the default option whilst preserving the SUN right to opt out. SUN SUN Nudge theory appealed to our better selves and to our SUN politicians. The book's ideas were taken up by those inside SUN government in Britain and the US. SUN SUN One of the book's authors, Cass Sunstein, answers questions SUN from an audience at the Institute for Government in London SUN and tells presenter Edward Stourton how well he thinks his SUN theories are working in practice. SUN SUN Producer: Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01rl1y7 (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 b01rl1y9 (Listen) SUN Sam Coates of The Times analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01rgmb5 (Listen) SUN Danny Boyle special; new film Trance plus a reflection on SUN his career to date SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Oscar winning film director Danny SUN Boyle about a lifetime spent making films, including his SUN latest "Trance", a noirish art heist starring James McAvoy SUN and Rosario Dawson, in which a fine art auctioneer (McAvoy) SUN joins forces with a hypnotherapist (Dawson) to recover a SUN lost painting. It's a psychological crime drama, a glossier SUN 21 st century take on a theme he's visited before in his SUN work - a trio of characters locked in a hell of their own SUN making. In this free ranging interview Boyle discusses films SUN from Shallow Grave to Oscar winning box office hit Slumdog SUN Millionaire to the triumph of his staging of the 2012 SUN Olympic Opening Ceremony.Danny Boyle talks about his respect SUN for actors and the ancient art of performance, acknowledging SUN that the director's role is a relatively recent innovation. SUN He also discusses the important role of sound in the SUN evolution of cinema, how making movies for a 20 million SUN dollar budget gives him directorial freedom and why he still SUN has faith in the power of the big screen to attract SUN audiences despite the vast changes heralded by the digital SUN revolution.Danny Boyle's films include Shallow Grave, SUN Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions, The Beach, Slumdog SUN Millionaire and 127 Hours.Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01rl0yv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 APRIL 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01rkpky (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01rgj1g (Listen) MON Gang labour in UK - Industrial ruination MON MON Industrial Ruination - the landscapes and legacies of post MON Industrial decline. Laurie Taylor talks to Alice Mah about MON her comparative study into urban dereliction in 3 MON contrasting contexts - Newcastle, Uk; Niagara Falls, Canada; MON and Ivanova, Russia. Also, the geographer, Kendra Strauss, MON discusses her research into the origins and rise of gang MON labour in the UK. She's joined by Ben Rogaly who has done MON extensive research into forced labour and exploitation in MON British horticulture. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01rl0rj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rkpl0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rkpl2 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rkpl4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01rkpl6 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rrff6 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt MON Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01rl45r (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01rkpl8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01rl45t (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and MON John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought MON for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01rl45w (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe discusses the 'myth' of MON progress with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and MON John Gray. MON MON The poet and novelist James Lasdun talks about his MON experience of being cyber-stalked and the terrifying MON opportunities new technology offers. Mary Beard looks back MON to classical times to see how far the relationship between MON persecutor and persecuted have changed. MON MON Playwright Mark Ravenhill discusses his comic reworking of MON Voltaire's 'Candide'. But is everything in the 21st century MON still for 'the best in the best of all possible worlds?' MON John Gray argues that ethical progress in human civilisation MON is easily reversible and yet people need to believe in myths MON to shape their lives and give them meaning. MON MON Producer: Natalia Fernandez. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01rfz5s (Listen) MON The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, Episode 1 MON MON Simon Morrison's new biography of Lina Prokofiev tells the MON story of the remarkable woman who married the brilliant MON composer Serge Prokofiev. Today, music and romance. MON MON Lina Prokofiev's compelling story unfolds with the intrigue MON of a spy novel. Serge Prokofiev's glamorous wife fell madly MON in love with the brilliant composer while she was working as MON a secretary in Brooklyn where she lived with her Russian MON emigre parents. She soon followed him to Paris where his MON star continued to rise, and where they married and started a MON family. Their sophisticated lifestyle was irrevocably MON altered when Serge was lured back to Moscow in 1936 by false MON promises of artistic and personal freedom. After Serge and MON Lina's marriage crumbled, she fell foul of the worst MON excesses of Stalin's regime and ended up spending eight MON years in the Gulag. MON MON Simon Morrison is Professor of Music History at Princeton. MON He is the author of The People's Artist, a definitive MON account of Prokofiev's career. MON MON The reader is Sian Thomas. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rl5r0 (Listen) MON Women and the Christian faith MON MON Jane Garvey looks at the position of women in the Christian MON faith. Jane visits the Coventry parish of the Reverend MON Katrina Scott. Also taking part are the Rev'd Lorna Hood, MON Moderator Designate of the General Assembly of the Church of MON Scotland and also on the Woman's Hour Powerlist; the Rev'd MON Anne Stevens, Vicar of St Pancras Parish Church, London, and MON part of the current consultation on women bishops and a MON member of WATCH (Women And The Church) which is campaigning MON for women bishops; Sister Catherine Wybourne, a Roman MON Catholic nun who runs a contemplative community in MON Herefordshire and Tweets under the name DigitalNun. MON MON Woman’s Hour has been pretty dogged in its coverage of the MON debates surrounding women bishops in the Church of England MON and on Easter Monday Jane Garvey takes a look at what MON leadership roles are available to women in the Christian MON church in the UK and what they actually do. Jane spends the MON day with the Rev’d Katrina Scott in her parish, St John The MON Divine Willenhall in Coventry. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rl5r2 (Listen) MON A Small Town Murder, Series 5, Episode 1 MON MON By Scott Cherry MON MON When married woman, Anna Pyne, is violently abducted from MON home, Family Liaison Officer DC Jackie Hartwell is tasked to MON support her husband, Martin - brother of West Midlands drug MON lord, Jimmy Pyne. MON MON Jackie tries to discover if the kidnapping could be related MON to Jimmy's criminal activities. Is Martin the respectable MON businessman he makes himself out to be? Has he really had MON nothing to do with his criminal brother? MON MON When an unexpected twist during the ransom drop makes it MON clear Martin's withholding vital information, Jackie has to MON work hard to get him to reveal everything he knows - and she MON soon finds herself uncovering a heartbreaking story of MON murder, betrayal and revenge. MON MON Episode 1 (of 5) MON MON As Jackie supports Martin by keeping him informed of the MON investigation's progress, she also tries to discover if he MON has any information which might lead to the identification MON of any possible suspects. But why should he? He has no MON criminal convictions. Perhaps he's just being targeted for MON being Jimmy Pyne's brother. One thing's for sure, the amount MON of blood at the scene indicates Anna was seriously hurt when MON she was abducted - so Jackie and her team must do everything MON they can to find her as soon as possible. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Out of the Ordinary b01rl5r4 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Who do you want to be able to read your old emails when you MON die? Are the dead entitled to privacy? Jolyon Jenkins MON reports on the increasingly contentious issue of our digital MON legacy. MON MON As we lead more of our lives online, we leave behind an ever MON bigger digital footprint when we go. There are the public MON parts - the blogs, the tweets, the forum posts - but also MON the private things such as the emails stored on servers MON owned by companies like Google. Sorting out the digital MON legacy is becoming as onerous as being a traditional MON executor. MON MON But it brings entirely new problems: in the case of people MON who have died suddenly or mysteriously, relatives sometimes MON feel that they are entitled to get access to the email MON accounts of dead person to try to find a clue to what was MON happening in their lives. But many email providers resist MON handing over this material because of a confidentiality MON clause in their terms and conditions. Jolyon Jenkins talks MON to the Stassen family in Wisconsin who took both Facebook MON and Google to court to gain access to the accounts of their MON son Benjamin who committed suicide. He also talks to Esther MON in Kenya who similarly would like to get into her dead MON sister's email account to try to find a clue to her MON unexplained death. But unlike the Stassens, Esther has had MON no luck. MON MON These are uncharted waters, where analogies with old MON technology quickly break down, where the principles are MON unclear, and where important private and personal matters MON seem to be left to the discretion of big corporations. MON MON Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 The Rita Rudner Show b01rl5r6 (Listen) MON Are We There Yet? MON MON American comedian Rita Rudner stars as herself in a new MON four-part sitcom where she returns to the UK with her MON husband, played by Martin Trenaman. MON MON The series has been written by Rita and her real life MON husband Martin Bergman. As she tries to re-establish herself MON in the UK, things go from bad to worse as she's joined by a MON group of colleagues who try and make her return as MON successful as possible. Not helped by her inept management, MON her eccentric hotel owner and her bizarre cockney comedy MON opening act - her visit doesn't go to plan! MON MON In this opening episode, Rita and her husband Martin have an MON unexpectedly lengthy flight to London and find the hotel MON they're staying in is unusual to say the least - MON encapsulated by it's odd owner Mrs Harrison (the wonderful MON Phyllida Law). They realise their UK management haven't MON quite realised who Rita is and she is forced to work with a MON failing comedian who's been chosen as her support act. MON MON With a supporting cast that includes Michael Fenton Stevens, MON co-writer Martin Bergman, Mike Wilmot and Vivienne Avramoff, MON the series mixes sitcom with classic stand up routines from MON Rita. MON MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01rl5r8 (Listen) MON Made in Britain: Does it still make sense to manufacture in MON the UK? MON MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01rkplb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01rl5rb (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rl5rd (Listen) MON The Bells MON MON The Bells: Episode eleven of a thirty-part series made in MON collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. MON MON The peal of the church bell was one of the most dominant MON features in the Medieval soundscape. Every time it rang out, MON religion's hold over the secular world was signalled loud MON and clear. Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex MON visits one of the oldest church bells in the UK and argues MON the sound's power lay in ancient, pagan associations. MON MON Series producer: Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01rl1y1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0132p85 (Listen) MON Two-Pipe Problem, Here Doggie MON MON Anne Reid and Honor Blackman join Richard Briers and Stanley MON Baxter in this latest Two Pipe Problem, written by Michael MON Chaplin. MON MON The Old Beeches care-worker Karen has a new pet; Poppet, a MON rambunctiously badly behaved Scottie dog. MON Manager Mary issues an ultimatum - the pet goes, or you both MON go, and Sandy persuades another resident ,a retired variety MON artiste called Norman Naylor who once had a dog-novelty act, MON to start training the dog on the nearby common. MON MON His wife Nelly, who also lives in the home, sees this as yet MON another opportunity for her husband to return to his old MON philandering ways. MON MON And one day, he doesn't return, and neither does Poppet. MON MON William and Sandy follow Norman's trail to an elegant home MON near the Common, belonging to a retired BBC Home Service MON announcer called Diana, with whom Norman and Poppet have MON taken residence. Norman confesses he met her on the common MON where she was exercising her dog. MON MON Nelly appears, and tells Diana of Norman's skill at picking MON up women via 'his bloody dogs'. Norman sadly acknowledges MON it's always been the best way to go a-wooing. Meanwhile MON Poppet takes off through an open door and heads for a main MON road nearby, followed by Norman. Tune in to find out what MON happens next! MON MON Credits MON Sandy Boyle: Stanley Baxter MON William Parnes: Richard Briers MON Karen: Tracy Wiles MON Norman: Sam Dale MON Postie: Sam Dale MON Post Office Clerk: Sam Dale MON Mary: Jillie Meers MON Poppet the Dog: David Holt MON PC Marlowe: David Holt MON Tedious Customer: David Holt MON Diana: Honor Blackman MON Nellie: Anne Reid MON Writer: Michael Chaplin MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01rl5rg (Listen) MON Series 3, University of Exeter 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 the University of Exeter, the MON specialist subjects are Psychology, Philosophy and MON Biosciences, and the questions range from whistling sailors MON and George Orwell to Pythagoras and guano. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01rl1dl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 What Is It about Judy Blume? b01rl5rj (Listen) MON Self-assured, sexually frank and sometimes controversial, MON American writer Judy Blume has been inspiring passion and MON devotion among her millions of fans for over forty years. MON MON Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Blubber, Deenie, It's Not MON The End of The World, Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself, MON and, of course, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret - MON whether it was books about boys, first bras, bullying or MON best friend break ups, Judy accompanied her young readers on MON the awkward passage from childhood to adolescence. MON MON Sarah Cuddon talks to Judy Bloom - and also to Grace Dent, MON Devorah Baum, Sarah Sheldon and Retta Bowen about the MON lasting impact Judy had on their lives. MON MON Say 'Judy Blume' and 'Forever' to a bunch of MON thirty-something women and, chances are, they will glance MON dreamily into the middle distance, a few seconds before an MON embarrassed smirk hits their face. MON Sarah hears from children's librarian Ferelith Hordon and MON children's book critic Nicholas Tucker, who once suggested MON in the Times Literary Supplement that Forever might more MON accurately be described as 'Five Go On An Orgy'. MON MON Producer: Tamsin Hughes MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01rl6ck (Listen) MON Series 3, Mischief MON MON Aleks Krotoski returns with a new series exploring our lives MON in a digital age and on April Fool's day she explores MON whether mischief is an essential part of the online world. MON Mischief performs many functions in our society; the MON individual can use it to find their place in the world, MON while the group might use it to bring people inside and bond MON with them. It can also level the playing field between the MON powerful and powerless. And there's never been a greater MON engine of mischief than the internet. Aleks hears first from MON writers Tim Wright and Rob Bevan. Like all writers, MON procrastination and distraction are constant companions but MON if your speciality is digital storytelling, the temptation MON to play tricks can be irresistible. When Tim decided to MON construct a hoax for Rob, little did he know just how MON consuming it would become and how it would affect how they MON go about storytelling. We also hear from US history MON professor T Mills Kelly about his course 'Lying about the MON Past' where he prepares his students for sifting through all MON the historical mischief making online. Lewis Hyde is a MON respected author whose titles include Trickster Makes This MON World or How The Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture. He MON explains the role of the trickster in myth and legend and MON what we can learn from these figures about the evolution of MON the digital world.Throughout the programme Aleks will also MON hear from psychiatrist turned stand-up comedian Taylor Glenn MON about what's like to be a professional mischief maker and MON how her background gives her a unique perspective on the MON pranks people play. Looking ahead in the series, Aleks will MON be looking at subjects such as isolation in a digital world MON and asks can you ever really disappear now? Producers for ep MON 1: Victoria McArthur and Peter McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b01rl6cm (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rkpld (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01rl6cp (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 8 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition & deviation? Jason Manford, Paul MON Merton, Grahan Norton and Sue Perkins demonstrate, as MON Nicholas Parsons hosts. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01rl6cr (Listen) MON Chris has a lot on his mind, and Helen exercises her powers MON of persuasion. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01rl6ct (Listen) MON Kirsty Lang reports on how British musicals, films, TV, MON music and architecture plan to reach new audiences in China. MON MON Producer Penny Murphy. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rl5r2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Me and My Dog b01rl6cw (Listen) MON Dog fighting and so-called 'status'dogs for protection has MON increased the popularity of 'bull-type' breeds such as MON Staffordshire bull terriers, and their crosses, on urban MON housing estates. Nearly half the dogs rescued by Battersea MON Dogs Home are 'staffies' and can be more difficult to MON re-home. MON MON Presenter Mike Embley discovers how an unlikely alliance MON between teenage offenders and unwanted or abused dogs can MON give them both a second chance. MON MON In Britain, a number of initiatives are following the lead MON of American schemes like Project Pooch, which has proved MON successful in preventing re-offending and teaching teenage MON offenders to take responsibility for their behaviour - while MON also helping the better-trained dogs find new homes. MON MON Mike meets animal organisations leading the way, like The MON Dogs Trust which works with young offenders who have been MON sentenced to community service. The charity is also about to MON start another programme inside Feltham Young Offender MON Institution, while a similar scheme is already underway in MON Polmont Prison in Scotland. MON MON He also speaks to Scottish veterinarian Elizabeth Ormerod, MON chair of the Society for Companion Animal Studies, who MON believes such programmes give offenders hope for the future MON when they see dogs they have trained being re-homed as MON 'model doggy citizens'. She believes interaction with dogs MON not only helps them understand animal behaviour but their MON own behaviour and the actions of others. MON MON Producer: Sara Parker MON A White Pebble production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01rgm9q (Listen) MON The Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia's freezing Gobi Desert is MON one of the the world's biggest - extracting a vast seam of MON copper, gold and silver the size of Manhattan. It's turned MON this country of camel and yak herders into the world's MON fastest growing economy. Fancy boutiques, top-end car MON dealerships and coffee shops are springing up across the MON capital. But, as Justin Rowlatt discovers, riding the boom MON is not easy. He meets a rapper who says the government is MON simply selling the country's assets to its old rival, China. MON And there are fears from foreign investors about attempts by MON the government to increase its income from the Oyu Tolgoi MON mine. Can Mongolia become prosperous while sharing its MON new-found wealth - or will it kill the goose before it has MON laid any gold (or copper) eggs? MON Producer: Kent DePinto. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01rgmb7 (Listen) MON Clay on Mars, Neanderthals, Cholera,Tapeworms MON MON Quentin Cooper is at the Edinburgh International Science MON Festival which runs until April 7th. With Professor Colin MON Blakemore and Professor Chris Rapley, he discusses MON "dangerous" ideas in science. MON MON And what is the lasting value of science festivals? Are they MON any more than "feel-good" events for the committed? Quentin MON discusses this theme with Ian Wall - who claims to have MON invented the Science Festival over 20 years ago and - Keir MON Liddle of Edinburgh Skeptics, an organisation which runs MON science events alongside arts festivals, including the MON Edinburgh Fringe. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01rl45w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01rkplg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01rl6z6 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective MON with Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rl6z8 (Listen) MON How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 6 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 In today's episode: the next step to becoming filthy rich in MON rising Asia - be prepared to use violence. MON Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist MON and Moth Smoke. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent MON part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton MON University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived MON between Lahore, London and New York. MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee MON Abridger: Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro b01rl708 (Listen) MON Mark Thomas' award-winning show about his opera-loving MON father and their relationship. The story of how Mark came to MON book Royal Opera House singers in his parent's bungalow. MON Not many South London builders play Opera at work but Mark MON Thomas' father did. A rough sometimes violent man who swore MON 'like Cleo Laine with Tourettes', took enormous pride in MON being working class and yet developed a passion for opera. MON When he became ill with MON Progressive Suprnuclear palsy - PSP, a degenerative disease MON leading to paralysis and dementia this giant in Mark's life MON was reduced to a bed -ridden dependent almost totally unable MON to communicate with his family. Mark decided to get Royal MON Opera House singers to perform in his parent's bungalow as a MON gift to his father. This show is the story of that MON performance and the lives of his family leading up to it. MON MON This is a moving but very funny testament to the love MON between father and son and the ambiguous relationships we MON all have with our parents. MON MON This recording was of a live performance of the show at the MON Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera house MON and features Mark Thomas, recorded interviews with his MON family and the live performance of Soprano Catherine May, MON Tenor Michael Bracegirdle and Pianist Jill Farrow. MON MON The director of the stage show was Hamish Pirie and the MON Producer for Radio 4 is Alison Vernon-Smith. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 APRIL 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01rkpmb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01rfz5s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rkpmd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rkpmg (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rkpmj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01rkpml (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rrfs4 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt TUE Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01rl753 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01rl755 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and John TUE Humphrys. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Making News b01rl757 (Listen) TUE What's the Story? TUE TUE Journalist and broadcaster Steve Richards presents a new, TUE three part series examining the News. TUE TUE From bulletins to rolling news and citizen journalism, from TUE sensation to public service: what was News, what is it now TUE and what will it become. Why is something 'news' and TUE something else not, and what's the real thinking behind its TUE production? Is the news a public service, a self-fulfilling TUE cycle, an entertainment with its roots in sensation, a TUE constant narrative of 'breaking' events, or a form of TUE national communion and shared belonging? TUE TUE Once a daily fix, now a 24/7 multimedia blitz, the news is TUE ubiquitous, constant, insistent, updated every moment, TUE multi-channelled and delivered in ever widening and more TUE intimate formats. Perhaps one of the reasons we watch the TUE news, beyond wanting actual information, is a need to feel TUE incorporated into the world, a sense that we have TUE internalised or are included in events on some level. Or is TUE the picture a little darker - a deeper psychological TUE appetite for images of disaster, reports of violence and TUE intense distress that have no decipherable pattern or TUE obvious national significance. TUE TUE The series talks to reporters, journalists, editors, news TUE producers, historians and experts - including Jon Snow, TUE Sarah Sands, Alistair Campbell, Will Self, Adam Boulton, TUE Ceri Thomas, Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes), Ed Stourton, TUE Debora Turness, Kevin Williams, Roger Alton, John Birt, TUE Andrew Pierce and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Found b01rl759 (Listen) TUE The Two Sisters TUE TUE A five part series of stories following family members who TUE are reunited after separation through family circumstance, TUE tragedy or conflict. TUE TUE As well as hearing the emotional stories of people who have TUE been searching for others for many years, we also hear the TUE stories of the organisations who help them - including the TUE Red Cross, Salvation Army and Missing Person's Bureau. TUE TUE The internet has increased the possibility of finding people TUE through social networking and other websites - such as a TUE site set up recently by Missing Person's Bureau and TUE featuring details of unidentified bodies. TUE TUE The stories have a range of outcomes, not always happy. TUE TUE Episode 1 (of 5): The Two Sisters TUE Jan and Evie were reunited through Facebook after sixty TUE years. They had spent most of their adult lives trying to TUE trace each other after Jan was adopted and moved to Canada TUE with her new family. Their story is one of co-incidences, TUE heartache and injustice when their mother, who left the TUE family home pregnant with Evie after abuse by their father, TUE had very little say in what happened to her other two TUE children. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Parker TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01rg220 (Listen) TUE The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, Episode 2 TUE TUE The reader is Sian Thomas. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rl75c (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE It’s nearly 14 years since Friends, the US sitcom was first TUE aired but it’s still as popular as ever – at least amongst TUE tweens and very young teenagers who, if they have access to TUE satellite TV, can watch virtually wall to wall coverage of TUE the series. What is it about Friends that makes it such TUE appealing viewing for the very young? Sue Elliott Nichols TUE speaks to some young aficionados between the ages of 11 and TUE 13. Arabella Weir and Natalie Haynes discuss. TUE TUE New research by Alison Parkes from the Medical Research TUE Council suggests children do not develop psychological TUE problems from long hours spent in front of the TV. She TUE discusses her findings. TUE TUE The 7th century saint St Hilda or Hild had great religious TUE and political influence and was in charge of a monastery TUE the size of a small town in which both monks and nuns lived TUE and future bishops were trained. Why did the power of women TUE in the early church like Hild disappear? TUE TUE Barbara Yorke is Professor of Early Medieval history at the TUE University of Winchester. TUE TUE Back in December, newsreader and continuity announcer, TUE Carolyn Brown, a voice familiar to Radio 4 listeners for TUE more than twenty years, joined Jane in the Woman’s Hour TUE studio with her new husband Bruce Connell. They explained TUE why Bruce needed a kidney transplant and how Carolyn was TUE about to donate one of her kidneys. Carolyn and Bruce return TUE to give us a post-operation update. TUE TUE Journalist, broadcaster and five times marathon runner Alex TUE Heminsley thinks there’s a runner in all of us and has TUE written a book about it. It’ called Running Like A Girl. She TUE joins Jane and provides tips for any woman thinking of TUE taking up long distance running. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rl75f (Listen) TUE A Small Town Murder, Series 5, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Scott Cherry TUE TUE Jackie Hartwell finds herself caught between Martin wanting TUE to co-operate with the kidnapper's financial demands, and a TUE hostage negotiator wanting them to adopt a tougher stance TUE and make demands of their own. Meanwhile, DI Peter Sanders TUE presses Jackie to find out if Martin has any idea who's TUE responsible. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Dr Watson, I Presume b01rl75h (Listen) TUE Dr John Watson was the founder of Behaviourism - which TUE argues that an individual's destiny is in his or her own TUE hands, and not dependent on class, genes, or gender. His TUE huge influence on psychology remains close to that of TUE Freud's. TUE TUE The year 1907 found this 29-year-old professor at Johns TUE Hopkins University, in Baltimore, the world at his feet. But TUE his public and private lives collided, and his academic TUE career ended prematurely. TUE TUE Publicly, he conducted an iconic but controversial TUE experiment on a baby known as Little Albert. This used rats TUE and loud noises to demonstrate that behaviour is nothing TUE more than a matter of stimulus and response. But he misled TUE observers on Little Albert's health. TUE TUE Privately, a messy divorce followed his affair with a TUE student, Rosalie, who was to become his second wife. The TUE huge scandal caused by this 'celebrity adultery' made lurid TUE front-page newspaper headlines. TUE TUE So Watson moved into advertising, with the J Walter Thompson TUE advertising agency. Revolutionising Madison Avenue, he TUE linked three human instincts (rage, fear, love) to three TUE human needs (food, shelter, sex), and ran major campaigns TUE accordingly. TUE TUE Dr Watson, dissatisfied with what he saw as the shallowness TUE of advertising, turned to writing the influential and TUE best-selling 'Psychological Care of the Infant Child'. This TUE warned of dangers in mother love and stressed the importance TUE of treating children as young adults. He lived out his own TUE philosophy, but his family life was unhappy and one of his TUE sons was to commit suicide. TUE TUE Louisa Foxe begins Dr John Watson's riches-to-rags story TUE among revealing correspondence in the archives of Johns TUE Hopkins University. TUE TUE Producer: David Coomes TUE A CTVC production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Julie Fowlis' Heritage Well b01rl7cy (Listen) TUE Acclaimed Gaelic singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie TUE Fowlis has taken the songs she learnt from her native Outer TUE Hebrides to Hollywood. TUE TUE Her music, learnt from oral tradition and archives of an TUE almost extinct way of life, now graces the screens of hit TUE movies such as Disneyland Pixar's Brave and entertains TUE audiences at major international events such as the Ryder TUE Cup. TUE TUE Since a very young girl, Julie has been on a mission to TUE celebrate and preserve her culture through its music. She TUE now wants to encourage the next generation of Scots to do TUE the same. TUE TUE Tobar an Dulchais/Kist o Riches (well of heritage) is an TUE ambitious project that aims to preserve and make accessible TUE several thousand hours of Gaelic and Scots recordings from TUE the School of Scottish Studies, BBC and the National Trust TUE for Scotland's Canna Collection. There are already more than TUE 30,000 songs, stories and tunes available online for anyone TUE to hear. TUE TUE Julie's role as Gaelic Artist in Residence for Tobar an TUE Dualchais involves working with students and this immense TUE online archive of recordings to create new songs and TUE interpretations. Many of these students will never have TUE heard this traditional material before so the outcome is TUE bound to be exciting, contemporary and surprising. TUE TUE As we follow the students through this process from TUE beginning to end, Julie remembers trawling through the TUE archives herself, searching for material for her early TUE recordings. She takes us back to her home - the Island of TUE North Uist - and takes a trip to the tiny Island of Scalpay TUE to talk to one of the great experts on Gaelic song Morag TUE MacLeod. She also hears from the BBC's former head of Gaelic TUE Jo MacDonald and singer Eddi Reader. TUE TUE Producer: Kellie While TUE A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01rl8l5 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: Should we involve children and young TUE people in decisions that affect them? TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Winifred Robinson: Today we are TUE asking 'should we involve children and young people in TUE decisions that affect them?'Next year, anyone over the age TUE of 16 will be able to vote in the Scottish independence TUE referendum that takes place in the autumn. The Children's TUE Commissioner for England has said that more schools should TUE involve pupils in the recruitment of teachers and only last TUE week produced a report highlighting the need for health TUE bodies to do more to involve children and young people in TUE strategic decision-making. What areas of their life should TUE children and young people be involved in making decisions TUE about? Delivering sex education? Their teachers? How the TUE school is run? What age they can vote? How healthcare is TUE delivered? Or closer to home, should they have a say in the TUE family finances? What activities they do? Where the family TUE goes on holiday? And if children are to be involved in TUE making decisions, where should that stop? Are children and TUE young people always mature enough to be involved in decision TUE making? And what do we, the grown-ups, need to do in order TUE to nurture children so that they are capable of making those TUE decisions? To take part, 03700 100 444 is the number or you TUE can e-mail via the Radio 4 website or text us on 84844. TUE Join Julian Worricker at four minutes past twelve. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01rkpmn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01rl8l7 (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rl8l9 (Listen) TUE Tuning the Body TUE TUE Tuning the Body: Episode twelve of a thirty-part series made TUE in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. TUE TUE In the Middle Ages, sound played a key role in the battle TUE between Good and Evil. There were horrible sins of the TUE tongue - idle words, boasting, flattery, lying and TUE blaspheming - as well as sins of the ear, such as TUE eavesdropping and the seduction of devilish words. The ears TUE were the gateway not just to the body, but also to the soul. TUE TUE Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers TUE the importance of sound to Medieval morality. TUE TUE Series producer: Matt Thompson TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01rl6cr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00fbkp9 (Listen) TUE Quartet, Autumn Leaves TUE TUE By Donna Franceschild. TUE TUE A series of four comic dramas following the fortunes of a TUE jazz quartet in the remote west Highlands of Scotland. TUE TUE Robbie used to be a professional jazz pianist, now he's a TUE much-abused and miserable music teacher. On the edge of TUE despair, and just about to sit down to a microwave meal for TUE one, he hears a strange noise. It's a sheep farmer playing TUE double bass in his bathroom. TUE TUE A moving comedy about a musician who, having lost TUE everything, accidentally gains a jazz quartet. TUE TUE Pianist: Eoin Millar TUE Original music composed by Eoin Millar TUE Director: Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE Credits TUE Robbie: Gerry Mulgrew TUE Stuart: Callum Cuthbertson TUE Iain: Stephen McCole TUE Delilah: Katy Murphy TUE Director: Kirsty Williams TUE Writer: Donna Franceschild TUE TUE 15:00 The Human Zoo b01rl8n2 (Listen) TUE Episode 5 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 b01rl8n4 (Listen) TUE The Urban Farmers TUE TUE Alice Roberts revisits the - quite literally - ground TUE breaking 'Incredible Edibles' concept of Todmorden and finds TUE that their inspiration has spread across the UK. TUE TUE Wasteland throughout our cities is being turned into TUE productive agricultural land. Forget roof top gardens, green TUE walls and window boxes, what we're talking about here is TUE derelict, often hazardous brown field sites hidden within TUE our urban landscapes that are now becoming a valuable link TUE in our food chain. But that's not all, in reclaiming this TUE land whole neighbourhoods are being regenerated. No site is TUE too small or too large. From back-alleys on terraced streets TUE in Middlesbrough to acres of polytunnel-lined, disused TUE railway banks in Bristol, these once unproductive - and TUE often hazardous - plots are now feeding their communities TUE via vegetable boxes and even restaurant supply chains. TUE TUE With a little effort, could our cities really feed TUE themselves? Could this be the answer to both our food TUE security and the improvement of our urban environments? TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01rl8n6 (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen talks to himself - and other people as well - TUE to find out why it is that many of us habitually talk to TUE ourselves. It can be for reassurance or exhortation; It's TUE cited as evidence of a psychological disorder but can also TUE help to unclutter and order the mind. People use it as an TUE aid to prayer and a way to enjoy our own company. TUE TUE Most people will admit to talking to themselves every now TUE and then. We do it to steel ourselves to do a difficult task TUE or it can help to organise our thoughts. Some people think TUE through past dilemmas aloud testing out different points of TUE view and many berate themselves for mistakes. Some use it to TUE say all the things they wish they'd said but didn't. TUE TUE But what does this self talk do to the individual? Is it TUE healthy and to what extent are our perceptions of it damaged TUE by the old adage that talking to yourself is the first sign TUE of madness? After all, therapy encourages us to ask TUE questions of ourselves rather than seek external solutions. TUE And to what extent does self talk play a part in prayer and TUE confession? Michael talks to psychologists, priests, actors, TUE stand ups and writers to find out. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01rl8n8 (Listen) TUE Series 30, George Bell TUE TUE "I remember seeing him sitting on the bishops' bench, and I TUE went to him and said, George, I believe you are going to TUE make a speech. He replied, yes I am. I said, George, there TUE isn't a soul in this House who doesn't wish you wouldn't TUE make the speech ..." Lord Woolton, 1944 TUE TUE George Bell, bishop of Chichester, was the most famous TUE churchman of his day. His brave speech attacking the allies' TUE bombing tactics in World War Two is justly remembered here TUE by Peter Hitchens as one of the clearest, most coherent and TUE measured statements ever made about the war. But his TUE contemporaries did not see it quite the same way. "Don't TUE let's be beastly to the Germans," sang Noel Coward, in part TUE inspired by Bell's anti-war stance. TUE TUE But George Bell was not a pacifist - he just believed that TUE the British should not be as barbaric, as he saw it, as the TUE Nazis who had provoked the war. In his speech Bell said, TUE "... to justify methods inhumane in themselves by arguments TUE of expediency smacks of the Nazi philosophy that Might is TUE Right." The controversy surrounding the tactics of bomber TUE command remain alive today. TUE TUE Peter Hitchens is a columnist on the Mail on Sunday, and was TUE once described by a contemporary as a 'deeply compassionate TUE man with the air of a prophet about him; and like all TUE prophets, doomed to be scorned by so many'. The programme TUE discussion also includes Andrew Chandler, director of the TUE George Bell Institute; and the presenter Matthew Parris. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01rl8nb (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rkpmq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01rl8nd (Listen) TUE Series 1, Steven Seagal TUE TUE In his debut solo Radio 4 show, comedian Thom Tuck recounted TUE heart-rending tales of loves lost while drawing comparisons TUE with 54 Straight-to-DVD Disney movies he'd watched, so we TUE don't ever have to. TUE TUE Thom now turns his attention to other genres of TUE Straight-to-DVD movies - seeking out further underrated gems TUE and drawing parallels with captivating personal tales from TUE his own life experience, backed by cinematic music, so we TUE can rest easy. TUE TUE In this first episode, Thom looks at the action film genre. TUE Steven Seagal has made 27 sub-masterpieces of TUE Straight-to-DVD action films. Thom has managed to extricate TUE himself from the same number of scrapes during his life. He TUE grabbed a man's face! Seagal punched a man's face! TUE TUE "...a seductive experience" The Guardian TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01rl8ng (Listen) TUE Brenda feels under pressure, and Paul has an unexpected TUE call. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01rl8nj (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the contenders for the TUE Art Fund Museum of the Year 2013 prize, announced this TUE evening. TUE TUE Producer Olivia Skinner. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rl75f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Deprofessionals b01rl8nl (Listen) TUE What does it mean to be a professional today, at a time when TUE the public services are in a state of turmoil? TUE TUE Time was when a professional was easily recognised for what TUE he or she did by virtue of their qualifications and TUE experience, when their competence could be measured against TUE an established set of standards. Not any more. TUE TUE The British public have been used to interacting with TUE warranted police officers, state registered nurses, teachers TUE with their PGCEs, and qualified social workers. But that TUE picture has become blurred in recent years by the TUE introduction of lower paid, less well qualified colleagues, TUE such as Police Community Support Officers or PCSOs, cover TUE supervisors in schools, care assistants on the wards, and TUE sessional workers alongside qualified social workers. TUE TUE Does this, asks Mathew Hill, the BBC's Health Correspondent TUE in the west of England, amount to a 'deprofessionalisation' TUE of the professions, or has it in fact opened up the public TUE service professions to people who would previously never TUE have been able to enter these fields? TUE TUE We hear what it means to be a public service professional TUE today, with contributions from people on all sides of the TUE debate. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01rl8nn (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01rl8nq (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter reports on the latest health stories. TUE TUE 21:30 Making News b01rl757 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01rkpms (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01rl8ns (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective TUE with Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rl8nv (Listen) TUE How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 7 TUE TUE In today's episode: the next step to becoming filthy rich in TUE rising Asia - befriend a bureaucrat. TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b01rl8nx (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE Recorded at Radio 4's 'More than Words' festival of TUE listening in front of an audience at St George's, Bristol, TUE Matt Harvey returns with his comedy-infused, TUE musically-enhanced, interactive poetry cabaret. The series TUE begins, suitably enough, with this show on the theme of TUE listening, exploring the spaces between words. TUE TUE Joined by one man house band, Jerri Hart, and fellow poets TUE Byron Vincent and Sally Jenkinson, Matt Harvey encourages TUE the Bristol audience to surprise themselves with their own TUE creativity, as they crowd-source and group-think a poem on TUE the subject of ears: "as hearing fades, with hand I cup, TUE they are what hold my glasses up". TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets b01rl8p1 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Richard Marsh plays a character called Richard ("We're not TUE exactly alike, although we do look similar") and fuses TUE poetry and prose to tell witty and honest tales of his TUE whirlwind romance with Siobhan. From the excitement and TUE silliness of young love, to cars covered in sweets, broken TUE dreams, trans-American road trips and a seductive-looking TUE lady called Sorrow. TUE TUE Richard is an award-winning poet and playwright, and a new TUE voice for Radio 4. He's a magnetic personality whose TUE beautifully crafted stories are hilarious one moment and TUE heart-breaking the next. TUE TUE Richard and Siobhan meet sharing sweets at their dead-end TUE temp job. They quickly become friends, but Richard's nervous TUE of taking the plunge and declaring that he has feelings for TUE her. After he finally plucks up the courage to (drunkenly) TUE woo her, they embark on an exhilarating new relationship. TUE Richard begins to fall for Siobhan, but he's worried - she TUE wants to keep their relationship a secret at work. Will a TUE grand romantic gesture in the corner shop win her heart? TUE TUE Written and performed by Richard Marsh TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:45 The Cornwell Estate b00g053q (Listen) TUE Series 1, Dave Kafka TUE TUE The ups and downs of life on a fictional housing estate, TUE told from the perspective of characters played by the TUE comedian Phil Cornwell. TUE TUE After being released from prison, Dave has moved in with his TUE grandfather, Syd a big London gangster in the 1960s. But as TUE Dave swaggers around the estate, he receives an unwelcome TUE visit from a benefits officer. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 APRIL 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01rkpnn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01rg220 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rkpnq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rkpns (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rkpnv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01rkpnx (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rrn0h (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt WED Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01rlmph (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01rlmpk (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and John WED Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 The Long View b01rqhd9 (Listen) WED Jonathan Freedland and guests take the Long View of the WED Francis Report into failings at Stafford General Hospital, WED and the culture of the NHS. WED WED Producer: Phil Tinline. WED WED 09:30 Eat, Pray, Write a Memoir b01r1331 (Listen) WED Memoirs top the non-fiction best selling lists and memoir WED writing courses are bursting at the seams. WED WED Ian McMillan goes in search of how to write a memoir. He WED meets Helena Drysdale - a memoirist who teaches the skill, WED and Helena Tym who decided to write her memoir ' Chin up, WED Head down,' after her son was killed in Afghanistan. WED WED Writers from the Ty Newydd writers centre in Wales talk WED about starting their memoirs, and Ian encourages Radio 4 WED listeners to stop whatever they're doing, and put down the WED first words of their own . WED WED Producer: Janet Graves WED A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. WED Submit the first lines of your memoir WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01rggq1 (Listen) WED The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, Episode 3 WED WED The reader is Sian Thomas. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rlmpm (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rlmpp (Listen) WED A Small Town Murder, Series 5, Episode 3 WED WED By Scott Cherry WED WED It's been 24 hours since Anna Pyne was abducted and the WED kidnappers are demanding that Family Liaison Officer, Jackie WED Hartwell, delivers the ransom money in person. Jackie's to WED wait in front of the Birmingham Town Hall for instructions. WED But will they do as they say and release Anna? It's only WED when they get to Steelhouse Lane that Jackie finally WED realises the kidnappers are after more than just money. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Putting the Black Country on the Map b01rlmpr (Listen) WED Adrian Goldberg becomes detective as he sets out on a WED geographical and anthropological investigation into the WED origins and boundaries of the Black Country. WED WED The coal and iron of the Black Country helped build the WED nation; its factories made the locks, nails and rivets that WED sustained the British Empire (not to mention the chains for WED the Titanic) and it stands at the heart of Britain's canal WED network. But where exactly is it? Even local inhabitants WED can't agree. WED WED Adrian Goldberg sets out to gather the evidence to work out WED where its boundaries lie and on his way he uncovers the WED story of one of the UK's most maligned, neglected and WED misunderstood regions: a place whose darkness was said to WED appal Queen Victoria. WED WED Where does the Black Country end and the Midlands begin and WED how and when did it get this name? WED WED Presenter: Adrian Goldberg WED Producer : Perminder Khatkar. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b01rlmpt (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Radio 4's word-obsessed comedy panel game returns for a new WED series - with stars from across the world of wordplay coming WED together to score points off each other, under the well-read WED eye of chairman Gyles Brandreth. WED WED This week's panellists are comedians Milton Jones and Alun WED Cochrane, Dictionary Corner's Susie Dent and Front Row WED critic Natalie Haynes. WED WED On today's show Milton Jones coins his own new fear - the WED fear of becoming a monk: 'cloisterphobia'; Alun Cochrane's WED Yorkshire roots help him guess the meaning of the Polish WED word 'prozvonit';Susie Dent explains the origin of the WED phrase 'gingering up' and Natalie Haynes tries to ban the WED word 'guesstimate'. WED WED Other panellists appearing in the series include Lloyd WED Langford, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring, Katy Brand, Robin WED Ince and Alex Horne - plus there's a very special guest WED appearance from Ainsley Harriott. WED WED They'll be asked to guess the meanings of now-obsolete WED words, invent their own cliches and cockney rhyming slang, WED discuss their own favourite words and phrases - and suggest WED words they would like to ban. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01rlmpw (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01ry9n7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01rlmpy (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rlmq0 (Listen) WED Heavenly Sounds WED WED Heavenly Sounds: Episode thirteen of a thirty-part series WED made in collaboration with the British Library Sound WED Archive. WED WED Worshipers in the Middle Ages would have been struck not WED just by the visual spectacle of great churches and WED cathedrals, but also by their sound. Medieval churches in WED the west had very different acoustics to the low-roofed, WED wattle and daub homes where most of their congregation WED lived. WED WED Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores WED how preachers and singers created sounds that fitted these WED holy spaces beautifully, from Romanesque churches to the WED musical pillars of Hampi, and an extraordinary 16th century WED experiment in stereo in St Mark's in Venice. WED WED Series producer: Matt Thompson WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01rl8ng (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rlmsg (Listen) WED Quartet, The Gig at the Red Stag WED WED By Donna Franceschild. WED WED A series of four comic dramas following the fortunes of a WED jazz quartet in the remote west Highlands of Scotland. WED WED Robbie used to be a professional pianist, now he's a WED miserable music teacher who has accidentally found himself WED at the centre of an over-enthusiastic, amateur jazz quartet. WED WED On the verge of playing their first gig, the lead singer's WED home-life spins out of control, and, with it, the hopes and WED dreams of her fellow musicians. WED WED Piano: Jim Clelland WED Double Bass: Eoin Millar WED Drums: Ken Mathieson WED WED Original music composed by Eoin Millar WED Director: Kirsty Williams. WED WED Credits WED Delilah: Katy Murphy WED Robbie: Gerry Mulgrew WED Stuart: Callum Cuthbertson WED Iain: Garry Collins WED Mother: Ann Scott Jones WED Murdo: Gavin Mitchell WED Director: Kirsty Williams WED Writer: Donna Franceschild WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01rlmsj (Listen) WED Personal Banking WED WED Got a question about personal banking? To ask Paul Lewis and WED guests for their view, call 03700 100 444 from 1pm-3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01rl8nq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01rlnhh (Listen) WED Women in combat - the US secretary of defense announced in WED January 2013 that, from 2016, women will be allowed to serve WED in ground-combat roles in the US armed forces. The UK is WED likely to soon be faced with the need to make a similarly WED historic decision. WED WED Laurie Taylor talks to Anthony King, Professor in Sociology WED at the University of Exeter; Christopher Coker, Professor of WED International Relations at the London School of Economics WED and Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College. WED WED This special programme explores the history of the female WED soldier and the implications of womens' increasing WED involvement on the 'frontline'. How central is war to WED cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity? Is there WED something stubbornly masculine at the centre of the WED dominant, military ethos with its emphasis on courage, WED honour and valour . Or are these questions becoming WED redundant as the nature of war itself changes, so that an WED emphasis on the winning of' hearts and minds' in the WED Afghanistan context and elsewhere, could be said to signify WED a feminisation of war? And is the growth in technology WED assisted warfare actually sidelining the 'human' altogether, WED regardless of gender. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01rlnhk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01rlnhm (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rkpnz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01rlnhp (Listen) WED The Kitchen WED WED Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25 year mortgage which he can WED only pay off by being funny. In this series he takes us on a WED room by room, stand up tour of his house. WED WED He has a fridge that beeps at him when he doesn't move WED quickly enough and a fire alarm he can't reach. His WED relationship with his house is a complicated one. WED WED A hoarder of funny and original observations on everyday WED life, Alun invites us to help him de-clutter his mind and WED tidy his ideas into one of those bags that you hoover all WED the air out of and keep under your bed. This show will help WED Alun and his house work through their relationship issues WED and prevent a separation that Alun can ill afford; at least WED not until the market picks up anyway. WED WED Writers: Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton WED Producer: Carl Cooper. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01rlnhr (Listen) WED Peggy gives her opinion, and Chris confides in Roy. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01rlnht (Listen) WED Julian Barnes in conversation with Mark Lawson WED WED Julian Barnes discusses his new book, Levels of Life, which WED draws on history, fiction and personal memoir, in WED conversation with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rlmpp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b01rlnhw (Listen) WED Series 6, Parenting and Pornography WED WED As pornography becomes more available to youngsters through WED the internet and mobiles, Mariella Frostrup and guests WED discuss how we can best equip the next generation to deal WED with it. WED WED Reports show that the numbers of children accessing explicit WED sexual images are growing. There's increasing concern that WED youngsters who watch pornography regularly may be tempted to WED act out scenes of abuse on other children, and that many WED kids' ideas about relationships and bodies are being WED affected by the images they are watching. WED WED So what can parents and society do about it? Can we stop WED children watching pornography altogether? If not, what kinds WED of conversations should we have with our children about it, WED and what is the role for schools? WED WED Joining Mariella are psychotherapist John Woods, Claire WED Perry MP, Leonie Hodge from Family Lives, the Deputy WED Children's Commissioner for England Sue Berelowitz and Jim WED Killock from the Open Rights Group. WED WED We also hear the experiences of parents and teenagers and WED find out what they think about the effects of pornography. WED WED Producer: Emma Kingsley. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01rlnhy (Listen) WED Series 4, Ranjini Obeyesekere: Lost in Translation? WED WED William Dalrymple introduces Ranjini Obeyesekere in Four WED Thought at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Obeyesekere - the WED Sri Lankan writer, translator and academic - argues that WED "translations are often considered a second-class activity, WED done by hacks" but that, however imperfect the result, WED making a work written in one language available in another, WED is a profoundly important art. But there are difficult WED questions. Is a bad translation better than no translation? WED Is true translation, in fact, the art of the impossible? WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01rl8n4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 The Long View b01rqhd9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01rkpp1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01rlnj0 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective WED with Ritula Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rlnj2 (Listen) WED How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 8 WED WED In today's episode: the next step to becoming filthy rich in WED rising Asia - patronise the artists of war. WED WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee WED Abridger: Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 I, Regress b01rlnj4 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an WED unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees WED Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff WED Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking WED unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through WED their subconscious. WED WED Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client WED who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient WED is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the WED various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are WED played out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or WED nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny WED as it is disturbing. WED WED The cast across the series include Bob Mortimer, Daisy WED Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy-Ann Oberman. WED WED A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone WED else's head! WED WED 23:15 Don't Start b015p875 (Listen) WED Series 1, Hat WED WED Neil's approach to sartorial elegance is this week's WED flashpoint for an argument. WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner. A masterclass in the great art of WED arguing. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted WED comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each WED week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial WED flashpoint - a text from a friend, a trilby and a bad WED night's sleep. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim WED battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The WED two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, WED unexpected literary references (Androcles and the Lion pop WED up at one point) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's WED weaknesses. WED WED Cast: WED Neil ..... Frank Skinner WED Kim ..... Katherine Parkinson WED WED Producer/Director: Polly Thomas WED An Avalon UK production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets b01rlnj6 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Written and performed by Richard Marsh WED Producer: Ben Worsfield WED A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:45 The Cornwell Estate b00g3dtx (Listen) WED Series 1, Keith Butler WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 APRIL 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01rkppw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01rggq1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rkppy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rkpq0 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rkpq2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01rkpq4 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rrn12 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt THU Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01rlpt9 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01rlptc (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and THU John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought THU for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01rlptf (Listen) THU Japan's Sakoku Period THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan's Sakoku period, THU two centuries when the country deliberately isolated itself THU from the outside world. Sakoku began with a series of edicts THU in the 1630s which restricted the rights of Japanese to THU leave their country and expelled Europeans living there. It THU was not until 1858 and the "gunboat diplomacy" of the THU American Commodore Matthew Perry that Japan's international THU isolation finally ended. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01rgm9j (Listen) THU The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, Episode 4 THU THU Today, difficult times lie ahead. THU THU The reader is Sian Thomas. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rlpth (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rlptk (Listen) THU A Small Town Murder, Series 5, Episode 4 THU THU By Scott Cherry THU THU Anna Pyne is still being held by kidnappers who are implying THU that her husband, Martin, has been bribing police officers. THU Why are they making this claim when Martin insists he's a THU respectable, law-abiding businessman who's never had THU anything to do with his brother's criminal activities? THU Family Liaison Officer, Jackie Hartwell, has to make Martin THU realise that, if that he's to have any chance of getting his THU wife back alive, then he's going to have to tell her the THU truth. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01rlptm (Listen) THU Nepal: Getting Away with Murder THU THU The fate of hundreds of people who went missing during THU Nepal's brutal civil war is threatening to undermine the THU country's fragile democracy. Around 100,000 people were THU displaced during the bloody insurgency and an estimated 17 THU thousand were killed. A peace agreement was signed six years THU ago in which both sides promised that war crimes would not THU go unpunished. But relatives are still waiting for justice. THU Joanna Jolly finds out why the scars from the conflict are THU still raw despite attempts by both sides to bury the past. THU Producer: Mark Savage. THU THU 11:30 Messy, Isn't It? - The Life and Works of Richard THU Brautigan b01mqms4 (Listen) THU When Jarvis Cocker selected 'Sombrero Fallout' as his Desert THU Island novel, it's no surprise many people were left THU scratching their head, as the novel's author Richard THU Brautigan had fallen so dramatically out of public and THU critical favour in the years since his huge success and THU eventual suicide. Brautigan was a child of the Depression THU who grew up in such dire poverty he ended up throwing a rock THU through the window of a police station in order to be THU arrested so he could eat. The judge however sent him to an THU asylum where he underwent electro-shock therapy before THU getting out and heading straight to San Francisco, just as THU the counter-culture was making its home there. Eventually THU his sometimes whimsical, often beautiful and always uniquely THU singular style saw him build up a massive following, with THU sell-out concerts packed with acolytes who saw him not so THU much as a poet but as a literary guru. Brautigan himself THU always considered himself a writer not a hippy, and so the THU decline in interest that the end of flower power brought THU with it hurt deeply. Alcoholism and depression led to gory THU suicide - he deliberately set it up so that people wouldn't THU discover his body for days and possibly weeks after he shot THU himself in the head with a 44 magnum. Jarvis Cocker sets out THU to show that the irony of this most grisly end is that it THU came via the same hand that had penned some of the gentlest THU and most sublime lines in post war literature. Cocker meets THU fellow enthusiasts and musicians 'The Lovely Eggs', as well THU as speaking with Brautigan's own daughter Ianthe. The THU programme is also furnished with some of the recordings that THU Richard Brautigan himself made for his album 'Here Are The THU Sounds of My Life in San Francisco'. THU Wireless Nights THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01rlptp (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01rkpq6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01rlptr (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rlptt (Listen) THU Carnival THU THU Carnival: Episode fourteen of a thirty-part series made in THU collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. THU THU Feast days in Medieval Europe were noisy affairs - the THU streets filled with processions, animal baiting, games and THU mystery plays. Professor David Hendy of the University of THU Sussex tells the story of a Somerset town where a church ale THU got out of hand and the party went on for eight weeks. Then, THU as now, being raucous in the streets was a way for the THU dispossessed to make themselves heard - and revelry could THU easily tip into revolt. THU THU Series producer: Matt Thompson THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01rlnhr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rlptw (Listen) THU Quartet, The Music Festival THU THU By Donna Franceschild. THU THU A series of four comic dramas following the fortunes of a THU jazz quartet in the remote west Highlands of Scotland. THU THU Robbie used to be a professional pianist, now he's a THU miserable music teacher who has accidentally found himself THU at the centre of an over-enthusiastic, amateur jazz quartet. THU THU As the band prepare for their biggest ever gig, Iain, the THU drummer, is given some potentially life-changing news when a THU young woman walks into the local pub claiming to be his THU daughter. THU THU Piano: Jim Clelland THU Double Bass: Eoin Millar THU Drums: Ken Mathieson THU THU Director: Kirsty Williams. THU THU Credits THU Iain: Garry Collins THU Delilah: Katy Murphy THU Robbie: Gerry Mulgrew THU Stuart: Callum Cuthbertson THU Poppy: Sally Reid THU Murdo: Gavin Mitchell THU Wilma: Wendy Seager THU Director: Kirsty Williams THU Writer: Donna Franceschild THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01rlpty (Listen) THU Springtime in Galloway THU THU The Dumfries and Galloway 10th annual Wild Spring Festival THU takes place this month and Helen Mark goes to find out THU what's on offer in south east Scotland this springtime. THU THU Helen rides on horseback around the Craigengillan Estate, THU Dalmellington, to hear how Mark Gibson has involved the THU local community in his restoration of the 3000 acre estate. THU Craigengillan falls within the United Nations designated THU UNESCO Biosphere for Galloway and Southern Ayrshire, which THU celebrates the area's combination of special landscapes and THU wildlife areas, rich cultural heritage and communities that THU care about their environment and culture. THU THU The Biosphere also contains the UK's only Dark Sky Park in THU Galloway Forest, and Helen meets observatory manager Robert THU Ince to enjoy the night sky. THU THU "Food Town" Castle Douglas is also playing a part in the THU Wild Spring Festival and Helen Mark finds out from Wilma THU Finlay and Clint Burgess about the local, seasonal produce THU on offer in the region, and talks to Mark Williams about his THU wild food foraging. THU THU The Galloway Red Kite Trail makes an important contribution THU to the local economy and RSPB's Calum Murray takes Helen to THU see the daily feeding spectacle at Bellymack Hill Farm near THU Laurieston. THU THU Produced by Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01rl0z1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01rl1qj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01rlpv0 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01rlpv2 (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 b01rlpv4 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rkpq8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01rlrjj (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 1 THU THU Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's THU Manifesto using policies suggested by his studio audience. THU Producer: Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01rlrjl (Listen) THU Kathy shares her insights, and Elizabeth is taken by THU surprise. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01rlrjn (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rlptk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01rlrjq (Listen) THU Cypriot Banks THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01rlrjs (Listen) THU Productivity Puzzle THU THU Something strange is happening to the economy. In Britain, THU recession is not hitting the total number of people in THU employment, which means that the nation's vital productivity THU rate is falling. In the USA, productivity has gone on THU rising, detaching itself from the rise in jobs for the first THU time since World War Two. Behind the figures, Peter Day has THU been trying to find out what's going on and why it matters THU to a country's standard of living. THU THU 21:00 Dr Watson, I Presume b01rl75h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01rlptf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01rkpqb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01rlrjv (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective THU with Carolyn Quinn. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rlrjx (Listen) THU How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 9 THU THU In today's episode: after the rise to filthy richness - the THU fall. THU THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee THU Abridger: Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On b01rlrjz (Listen) THU Series 7, Voices in the Head THU THU Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another THU five-part series of fascinating stories shedding light on THU the human condition. THU THU In the first programme, he investigates confirmation bias - THU or why so many people look for evidence that confirms their THU pre-existing beliefs. THU THU Jon believes he may be susceptible to confirmation bias THU himself. Over the last two years he has kept noticing that THU the time on his phone is 11.11. After looking on the THU internet, he found out there are many other people also THU doing this, including Uri Geller who first started noticing THU the number 11 over twenty years ago. Jon has also discovered THU that a particular community of people believe 11.11 is a THU sign for a new spirit guide who will come to earth, THU coincidentally known as Monjoronson. He speaks to the owner THU of the Monjoronson web domain, Ron Besser, and asks if it is THU possible that Jon himself is the spirit guide they're THU looking for. THU THU Jon talks to other people who have been affected by THU confirmation bias, including an Oxford academic who believes THU her fate can be determined by looking at two lip balm pots. THU THU The journalist David Aaronovitch says he believed the THU delusions he had while suffering intensive care psychosis THU after a routine operation were real. THU THU Lotfi Raissi, the first person to be charged in connection THU with the September 11th attacks, tells Jon he believes his THU arrest was down to confirmation bias because he fitted a THU certain profile. A judge found there was no evidence to link THU Raissi to any form of terrorism. THU THU Finally Jon speaks to the lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who THU believes people who are prone to confirmation bias are more THU likely to be recruited to police forces. THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets b01rlrk1 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Written and performed by Richard Marsh THU Producer: Ben Worsfield THU A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:45 The Cornwell Estate b00gdhnp (Listen) THU Series 1, Jasper Lengthe THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 APRIL 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01rkpr5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01rgm9j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rkpr7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rkpr9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rkprc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01rkprf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rrn1b (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt FRI Revd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01rlrs8 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01rlrsb (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01rl0z9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01rgmcq (Listen) FRI The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today, a parcel delivery changes everything. FRI FRI The reader is Sian Thomas. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rlsv0 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rlsv2 (Listen) FRI A Small Town Murder, Series 5, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Scott Cherry FRI FRI Family Liaison Officer, Jackie Hartwell, finally gets Martin FRI to reveal details of the awful tragedy which led to the FRI arrest of his brother and the brutal kidnapping of his wife. FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 A Spring Clean Symphony b01rlsv4 (Listen) FRI Love it or hate it, cleaning is part of our everyday lives FRI and, in Spring in particular, there's a surge in cleaning FRI activities as we throw open the windows and purge our lives FRI of the accumulated winter grime. Someone, somewhere, is FRI scrubbing, wiping, brushing or zapping. FRI FRI In this composed feature, Nina Perry brings to light the FRI rituals and personal stories of the spring clean and FRI interweaves them with specially composed music. FRI FRI How has cleaning changed over the generations? Is our FRI attitude to cleaning nature or nurture? To what extent are FRI our cleaning habits indicative of an inward state? And is FRI cleaning about goodness, purity and perfection - or about FRI living a healthy, germ free existence? FRI FRI Nina rolls up her sleeves and spring cleans with her FRI 96-year-old grandmother, Gwen. She speaks to Angela Levin FRI about the significance of spring cleaning within the Jewish FRI faith. And she asks Professor Sally Bloomfield and Dr Robert FRI Aunger, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical FRI Medicine, what is "clean"? FRI FRI Produced by Nina Perry FRI A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 FindthePerfectPartner4u.com b01rlsv6 (Listen) FRI Dinner Parties & Dancing Partners FRI FRI Following on from Charlotte Cory's Thinking of Leaving Your FRI Husband, this romantic comedy series explores the perils of FRI internet dating for the middle-aged man. FRI FRI Professor Tony (Henry Goodman), a recently-widowed professor FRI who teaches in the University Mathematics Department of East FRI Greenwich and Lewisham Combined, is struggling to understand FRI the mathematical basis for social interaction. FRI FRI A former student, who runs a thriving estate agency, FRI introduces him to the website FindthePerfectPartner4u.com, FRI and Tony's introduction to the dangerous and exciting game FRI of internet dating begins. FRI FRI All his internet dates are played by Lia Williams. FRI FRI Tony.................................Henry Goodman FRI Kylie and all Tony's internet dates..Lia Williams FRI Marjory / Miss Elwes / Arabella......Marcia Warren FRI Miles / Intelligent Boy..............Carl Prekopp FRI Waiter / Vice-Chancellor / Police Sergeant..Sam Kelly FRI FRI Original Music: David Chilton FRI Director: Gordon House FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01rlsv8 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01rlsvb (Listen) FRI Stu and Rod - True Grit FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between a father and son FRI as they reflect on the horror of a violent robbery that FRI changed their lives, in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01rkprh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01rlsvd (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Noise: A Human History b01rlsvg (Listen) FRI Restraint FRI FRI Restraint: Episode fifteen of a thirty-part series made in FRI collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. FRI FRI The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought a new FRI emphasis on self-discipline in every day life - and with it FRI a revulsion against noise of every kind. City authorities FRI banned singing and feasting from public squares and tore FRI down maypoles, while town-dwellers raised petitions against FRI noisy neighbours. Spitting, snorting and breaking wind - FRI once part of everyday life - were now a cause for wrinkled FRI noses and dismay. Professor David Hendy of the University of FRI Sussex cocks a genteel ear to the polite sound-world of the FRI sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. FRI FRI Series producer: Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01rlrjl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rlsvj (Listen) FRI Quartet, Autumn Leaves FRI FRI By Donna Franceschild. FRI FRI A series of four comic dramas following the fortunes of a FRI jazz quartet in the remote west Highlands of Scotland. FRI FRI Robbie used to be a professional pianist, now he's a FRI miserable music teacher who has accidentally found himself FRI at the centre of an amateur jazz quartet. FRI FRI As the band try desperately to get a gig, Stuart, the bass FRI player, finds his home and livelihood in jeopardy. FRI FRI Piano: Jim Clelland FRI Double Bass: Eoin Millar FRI Drums: Ken Mathieson FRI FRI Original music composed by Eoin Millar FRI Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI Credits FRI Stuart: Callum Cuthbertson FRI Delilah: Katy Murphy FRI Robbie: Gerry Mulgrew FRI Iain: Garry Collins FRI Catriona: Anne Lacey FRI Lou: Gavin Mitchell FRI Fiona: Anita Vettesse FRI Director: Kirsty Williams FRI Writer: Donna Franceschild FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01rlsvl (Listen) FRI Newcastle FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team visit the North of England FRI Beekeepers' convention in Newcastle, with Bob Flowerdew, FRI Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 BS5 b01rlsvn (Listen) FRI Alone in Bloemfontein FRI FRI 2/3 Alone in Bloemfontein by Mary Teague, read by Tracy-Ann FRI Oberman. The second of three stories celebrating five years FRI of the Bristol Short Story prize. 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. Alone in Bloemfontein won second prize in 2009, and FRI is a tender story about the creation of a garden, and with FRI it the growth of a love affair across a racial divide. FRI FRI Producer Sara Davies FRI FRI Since winning second place in the Bristol Short Story FRI Competition in 2009, Mary Teague has continued to write, and FRI to look after her family. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01rlsvq (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01rlsvs (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 16:55 The Listening Project b01rlsvv (Listen) FRI Don and Mary - Remembering the Omagh Bombing FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between two cousins who FRI remember the Saturday in August 1998 when the Real IRA FRI bombed their town of Omagh, killing 29 and injuring 220 FRI people. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01rlsvx (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rkprk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01rlsvz (Listen) FRI Series 39, Episode 8 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch FRI Benn, Matt Forde and Cariad Lloyd to present a comic review FRI of the week's news. Producer: Colin Anderson. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01rlsw1 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Ben Archer ..... Thomas Lester FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Heather Pritchard ..... Joyce Gibbs FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens FRI Celia Redwood ..... Anita Dobson FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01rlsw3 (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including a report on the re-opening of FRI the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, after a decade of renovations FRI and new building work. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rlsv2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01rlsw5 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Abingdon in Oxfordshire with Shadow Public Health FRI Minister Diane Abbott MP, Lord Heseltine, and columnist FRI Peter Hitchens. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01rlsw7 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Noise: A Human History - Omnibus b01rlsw9 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI David Hendy continues his six-week series on the history of FRI sound. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01rkprm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01rlswc (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective FRI with Carolyn Quinn. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rlswf (Listen) FRI How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Episode 10 FRI FRI In today's episode: after the rise and fall from filthy FRI richness - love, and an exit strategy. FRI FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Reader: Paul Bhattacharjee FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01rl8n8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets b01rlswh (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI Written and performed by Richard Marsh FRI Producer: Ben Worsfield FRI A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:40 The Cornwell Estate b00glqw2 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Mike Duggan FRI FRI The ups and downs of life on a fictional housing estate, FRI told from the perspective of characters played by the FRI comedian Phil Cornwell. FRI FRI Veteran musician Mike Duggan makes ends meet by giving FRI guitar lessons in a local school. But then a record company FRI boss offers the him chance of a recording contract. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01rlt11 (Listen) FRI Tumi and Tilly - Best Cousin Ever FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between cousins Tumi and FRI Tilly, cousins who have very different views of life, yet FRI support each other throughout, proving that it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
29 March, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 30/03/2013 - 05/04/2013
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