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SAT SATURDAY 06 APRIL 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01rlrnk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01rgmcq (Listen) SAT The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, Episode 5 SAT SAT Simon Morrison's new biography of Lina Prokofiev tells the SAT story of the remarkable woman who married the brilliant SAT composer Serge Prokofiev. Today, a parcel delivery changes SAT everything. SAT SAT Simon Morrison is Professor of Music History at Princeton. SAT He is the author of The People's Artist, a definitive SAT account of Prokofiev's career. SAT SAT The reader is Sian Thomas. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rlrnm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rlrnp (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rlrnr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01rlrnt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rm8g2 (Listen) SAT Anna Magnusson, writer and broadcaster, with spiritual SAT comment and prayer to start the day. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01rlt1w (Listen) SAT 'The great certainty' - The impact of not talking about SAT death, why we don't, and how we should. Voices include a SAT grieving widow who kept her husband's body after he died at SAT home, a mother who found mourners at her son's funeral SAT failed to deliver on their promises of support. Presented by SAT Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01rlrnw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01rlrny (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01rlpty (Listen) SAT Springtime in Galloway SAT SAT The Dumfries and Galloway 10th annual Wild Spring Festival SAT takes place this month and Helen Mark is there to find out SAT what's on offer in south west Scotland as the days lengthen. SAT SAT Helen rides on horseback around the Craigengillan Estate, SAT Dalmellington, to hear how Mark Gibson has involved the SAT local community in his restoration of the 3000 acre estate. SAT Craigengillan falls within the United Nations designated SAT UNESCO Biosphere for Galloway and Southern Ayrshire, which SAT celebrates the area's combination of special landscapes and SAT wildlife areas, rich cultural heritage and communities that SAT care about their environment and culture. SAT SAT The Biosphere also contains the UK's only Dark Sky Park in SAT Galloway Forest, and Helen meets observatory manager Robert SAT Ince to enjoy the night sky. SAT SAT "Food Town" Castle Douglas is also playing a part in the SAT Wild Spring Festival and Helen Mark finds out from Wilma SAT Finlay and Clint Burgess about the local, seasonal produce SAT on offer in the region, and talks to Mark Williams about his SAT wild food foraging. SAT SAT The Galloway Red Kite Trail makes an important contribution SAT to the local economy and the RSPB's Calum Murray takes Helen SAT to see the daily feeding spectacle at Bellymack Hill Farm SAT near Laurieston. SAT SAT Produced by Beatrice Fenton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01rqb1p (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01rlrp0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01rqb1r (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and SAT Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the SAT Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01rqb1t (Listen) SAT Imogen Stubbs; Mick Fleetwood's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams with actress Imogen Stubbs, SAT and poet Mr Gee. There's a Thing About Me feature about Mary SAT Horsley's Rolling Stones LP, Maire Doyle from York tells the SAT story of finding a bundle of her parents' love letters, SAT Clare Scott explains how she moved house by barge, Frank SAT Griffiths recalls stumbling onto a filmset with Richard SAT Burton and Sophia Loren, Saturday live listeners say thank SAT you for random acts of kindness and Fleetwood Mac's Mick SAT Fleetwood shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Tom Lehrer at 85 b01rqb1w (Listen) SAT Tom Lehrer turns 85 on April 9th 2013. He rarely speaks in SAT public but, as we celebrate his birthday, he reflects on the SAT songs that made him a world famous comedy name. SAT SAT Featuring songs such as The Vatican Rag, Poisoning Pigeons SAT in the Park and Be Prepared, together with contributions SAT from Cameron Mackintosh, Harry Shearer, Randy Newman and SAT Stephen Sondheim. SAT SAT Presented by Ellin Stein and Produced by Clive Brill. SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01rqb1y (Listen) SAT The vanishing world of our ancestors SAT SAT The ways of our ancestors are still alive in many parts of SAT the world and they can teach us a thing or two. A child in SAT New Guinea could rival a child in New York for their ability SAT to negotiate with adults, for example. But there are SAT drawbacks too - particularly for the elderly or the weak. SAT Bridget Kendall is given a tour of a vanishing world by SAT three experts who have explored the boundaries of modern and SAT traditional societies in places as far apart as New Guinea, SAT Zanzibar and Sikkim. SAT Polymath Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at UCLA. SAT He's been visiting the remote tropical island of New Guinea SAT for the past fifty years. He says that the tribal way of SAT life there, for all its problems, provides unique insights SAT that could serve us modern humans well. SAT Prajwal Parajuly is a writer from Sikkim, a small Indian SAT state high up in the Himalayan mountains, on the borders of SAT Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. It's a part of the world with lots SAT of ethnic diversity and ancient traditions and in his short SAT stories, Prajwal explores the ambiguous role traditions play SAT in people's lives. SAT Rhodes University anthropologist Rose Boswell is originally SAT from the island of Mauritius. She has studied women's SAT traditions on other Indian Ocean islands, especially SAT Zanzibar and Madagascar. She tells us what makes the SAT inhabitants of Zanzibar remain faithful to traditional SAT birthing rituals, while people elsewhere adapt a more SAT Western way of life. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01rqb20 (Listen) SAT It Could Have Been Much Worse SAT 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 b01rqb22 (Listen) SAT Energy company fine, vouchers for burglary victims, the new SAT ISA season SAT SAT SSE Compensation SAT Energy firm SSE took adverts in the newspapers on Thursday. SAT Here's the gist of it. "Sorry we fibbed to get your custom. SAT But others were doing it too. And you know what? If you give SAT us a call we'll consider giving you your money back." Tens SAT of thousands of people may be able to claim an average £200 SAT from a £5 million fund. SAT SAT Insurers give burglary victims vouchers SAT If your home was burgled and you lost £3000 of stuff would SAT you expect a cheque or perhaps a bank transfer for, errr, SAT £3000? Think again. Many insurers now pay you in vouchers. SAT And you have to spend them in certain shops. What are your SAT rights to demand cash? SAT SAT ISAs rise slowly SAT Too late for this year but if you want to put your cash SAT promptly into a 2013/14 ISA - up to £5,760 - on 6 April what SAT choice is there? ISAs have been rising like unleavened bread SAT recently but we find the yeasty ones that just might beat SAT inflation. SAT SAT Truth, nothing but the truth, but no longer the whole truth SAT If you take out an insurance product from 6 April the Marine SAT Insurance Act 1906 will not apply. Phew. That was the Act SAT which said even if the insurer did not ask you something you SAT still had to tell them about it even if you thought it SAT wasn't relevant to your claim. The new Consumer Insurance SAT (Disclosure and Representations) Act means the burden is now SAT on the insurer to ask the right questions. And even if SAT something emerges later it cannot just refuse to pay out the SAT whole claim. SAT SAT Packaged accounts SAT From this week new rules will control how packaged accounts SAT are sold. Banks will have to write once a year to all those SAT with one to make sure they are still eligible for any SAT insurance bundled in. That letter will come by 31 March SAT 2014. But have these products been mis-sold in the past. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01rlsvz (Listen) SAT Series 39, Episode 8 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch SAT Benn, Matt Forde and Cariad Lloyd to present a comic review SAT of the week's news. Producer: Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01rlrp2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01rlrp4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01rlsw5 (Listen) SAT Michael Heseltine, Norman Lamb, Diane Abbott, Peter Hitchens SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Abingdon in Oxfordshire with Shadow Public Health SAT Minister Diane Abbott MP, Lord Heseltine, and columnist SAT Peter Hitchens. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01rqb24 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01rtc8p (Listen) SAT Present Laughter SAT SAT Often thought of as semi autobiographical, Noël Coward's SAT 'Present Laughter' follows a few days in the life of SAT successful and self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine as he SAT prepares to go on tour to Africa. SAT SAT Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry must deal SAT with interruptions including the numerous women who want to SAT seduce him, a young aspiring actress, Daphne, and Joanna who SAT is the wife of his manager Henry and who is already having SAT an affair with his producer Morris. SAT SAT He must also deal with placating his long suffering SAT secretary Monica, avoiding his estranged wife Liz Essendine, SAT being confronted by the obsessed young playwright Roland SAT Maule and the unbearable inevitability of all that comes SAT with turning forty. SAT SAT "Present Laughter" by Noël Coward SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Garry Essendine: Samuel West SAT Monica: Frances Barber SAT Roland Maule: Freddie Fox SAT Liz Essendine: Janie Dee SAT Fred: Kim Wall SAT Daphne: Lily James SAT Joanna: Susannah Harker SAT Henry: Jonathan Coy SAT Morris: Anthony Calf SAT Miss Erikson: Hazel Ellerby SAT Lady Saltburn: Sarah Badel SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT Producer: Celia de Wolff SAT Writer: Noel Coward SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01rqb26 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Cook the Perfect Kofta; Tine Thing SAT Helseth; Daisy Waugh SAT SAT Jane Garvey presents highlights from the Woman's Hour week SAT including older mothers - the potential problems with SAT conceiving in your 40's; a day in the life of a female SAT vicar; an impassioned call for us all to take up running, SAT and music from trumpeter Tine Thng Helseth. Writer Daisy SAT Waugh talks about her new novel; Woman's Hour Power List SAT scientist Sue Ion goes back to school and Silvena Rowe cooks SAT the perfect kofta. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01rqb5t (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01rlt1w (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rlrp6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01rlrp8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rlrpb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01rqbhj (Listen) SAT Lynda La Plante, Ian Anderson, Murray Lachlan Young, Lembit SAT Öpik, Jo Bunting, Edwyn Collins, Sarah Blasko SAT SAT Clive Anderson meets Lynda La Plante; Ian Anderson; Lembit SAT Opik and poet Murray Lachlan Young. Music comes from Edwyn SAT Collins and Sarah Blasko. SAT SAT Author and screenwriter Lynda La Plante is being honoured by SAT the Forensic Science Society this month. She will become the SAT first person inducted into the professional body outside of SAT its traditional membership of forensic scientists, scene of SAT crime officers, police and other related disciplines. La SAT Plante wrote the TV series Trial and Retribution and brought SAT DCI Jane Tennison to the screen in Prime Suspect. SAT SAT Former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik is appearing in The SAT Political Party With Matt Forde at St James Studio in SAT London. Opik, who is as famous for his antics outside SAT Parliament as his achievements inside, is currently trying SAT his luck as a stand-up. SAT SAT Ian Anderson is the front man and flautist with Jethro Tull. SAT His distinctive stance - standing on one foot playing the SAT flute - put him and Jethro Tull on the musical map. In 1972 SAT Jethro Tull released the album Thick as a Brick, and last SAT year Ian put out the sequel, Thick as a Brick 2 - Whatever SAT happened to Gerald Bostock which will be performed at the SAT Royal Albert Hall in June. SAT SAT Jo Bunting interviews performance poet Murray Lachlan Young. SAT His new play The Incomers follows the story of Gordon and SAT Celia on the night of their wedding anniversary. What starts SAT as a simple celebration quickly unravels with one revelation SAT after another until it becomes clear that no one has been SAT telling the truth to anyone about anything for a very long SAT time. The show is on tour in April and May. SAT SAT Musician Edwyn Collins performs Dilemma from his new album SAT Understated. Australian singer and songwriter Sarah Blasko SAT performs God Fearing from her album I Awake. SAT SAT Producer: Paula McGinley. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01rqbhl (Listen) SAT Jeff Bezos SAT SAT Amazon first became the world's biggest bookshop and then SAT went on to revolutionise shopping as we know it. What began SAT in 1994 as a small start-up in a Seattle suburb has become SAT arguably the most significant technology company on the SAT planet. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, is now a billionaire SAT many times over. SAT SAT Bezos rarely makes public pronouncements and avoids media SAT interviews. Those who have worked with him describe him as a SAT hands-on manager, who plans the grand strategy as a well as SAT the tiny details. His wealth has given him the opportunity SAT to pursue a passion for space travel. He has been building SAT research facilities in a remote part of Texas for a SAT secretive space programme. But who exactly is Jeffrey SAT Preston Bezos? SAT SAT Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01rqc5x (Listen) SAT Julian Barnes' new novel Levels of Life and A Late Quartet SAT with Christopher Walken SAT SAT Julian Barnes' new novel Levels of Life; A Late Quartet, a SAT film starring Christopher Walken; and an exhibition of the SAT photographs of Bert Hardy. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01rqc5z (Listen) SAT Riding into Town SAT SAT The excitement and romance of the wild west was a powerful SAT force on the imaginations of the British from the 1930s SAT until the '70s. Samira Ahmed reflects on the love of the SAT Western. SAT SAT The American Film Institute defines western films as those SAT "set in the American West that embody the spirit, the SAT struggle and the demise of the new frontier". The term SAT Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to SAT have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture SAT World Magazine. SAT SAT In this personal exploration, Samira Ahmed will see how SAT Westerns nourished post-war British children and how they SAT explored the politics and fears of their day. Samira says, SAT "I remember sitting at an uncle's house in Hillingdon, SAT possibly celebrating Eid, with lots of Hyderabadi relatives, SAT and we were all - kids and adults alike - gathered round the SAT TV watching the end of the original True Grit." SAT SAT The programme considers the central cast of characters in SAT the western form. Samira explores her interest in the weird SAT and wonderful women and their ranches full of outlaws, such SAT as Marlene Dietrich in Rancho Notorious: "I especially loved SAT the strong Indian and Mexican women - Katy Jurado in High SAT Noon, as opposed to anaemic Grace Kelly. And there were SAT always strong women in Westerns, holding their own in a SAT deeply macho world. Then there were those secretly gay, SAT camp, polysexual or just plain wacko Westerns - Johnny SAT Guitar, the French critics' favourite, and The Singer Not SAT the Song featuring Dirk Bogarde's highly unlikely Mexican SAT bandido in black leather jeans and gloves." SAT SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT How The West Was Fun: When Britain loved cowboys SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01rp96t (Listen) SAT A Larkin Double, Jill SAT SAT Episode 1 (of 2): Jill SAT SAT Dramatised for the first time on BBC Radio 4 by Robin Brooks SAT (Ulysses, I Claudius, The Chandler Season). Starring Samuel SAT Barnett as John Kemp. With Jessica Raine , Richard Goulding SAT and Frank Dillane, and introducing Grace Englert as Jill. SAT SAT Jill was Philip Larkin's first novel, written when he was 21 SAT and just out of Oxford. John Kemp, a Northern Grammar boy SAT arrives at Oxford for his first term. Socially awkward and SAT inexperienced, he finds he is sharing rooms with the upper SAT class Christopher Warner, whose brash loutish behaviour both SAT intimidates and attracts him. SAT SAT Jill is a subtle and moving account of a young man facing SAT the big issues of life - sex and class - and retreating into SAT the world of the imagination. In effect, Jill is about SAT Larkin finding himself as a writer - a book about the craft SAT of writing and a young man's journey from boyhood to SAT maturity. SAT SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks SAT Producer/Director: Fiona McAlpine SAT Sound: Alisdair McGregor SAT An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT John Kemp: Samuel Barnett SAT Christopher Warner: Richard Goulding SAT Elizabeth Dowling: Jessica Raine SAT Patrick Dowling: Frank Dillane SAT Whitbread: Nigel Pilkington SAT Jill: Grace Englert SAT Mrs Warner: Sarah Eedle SAT Porter: Andrew Wincott SAT Minerva: Violet Taylor SAT Ruth: Molly Drnec SAT Maisie: Cressida Sowerbutts SAT Joan: Victoria Easey SAT Director: Fiona McAlpine SAT Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT Writer: Robin Brooks SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01rlrpd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b01rlnhw (Listen) SAT Series 6, Parenting and Pornography SAT SAT As pornography becomes more available to youngsters through SAT the internet and mobiles, Mariella Frostrup and guests SAT discuss how we can best equip the next generation to deal SAT with it. SAT SAT Reports show that the numbers of children accessing explicit SAT sexual images are growing. There's increasing concern that SAT youngsters who watch pornography regularly may be tempted to SAT act out scenes of abuse on other children, and that many SAT kids' ideas about relationships and bodies are being SAT affected by the images they are watching. SAT SAT So what can parents and society do about it? Can we stop SAT children watching pornography altogether? If not, what kinds SAT of conversations should we have with our children about it, SAT and what is the role for schools? SAT SAT Joining Mariella are psychotherapist John Woods, Claire SAT Perry MP, Leonie Hodge from Family Lives, the Deputy SAT Children's Commissioner for England Sue Berelowitz and Jim SAT Killock from the Open Rights Group. SAT SAT We also hear the experiences of parents and teenagers and SAT find out what they think about the effects of pornography. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01rl5rg (Listen) SAT Series 3, University of Exeter SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Exeter, the SAT specialist subjects are Psychology, Philosophy and SAT Biosciences, and the questions range from whistling sailors SAT and George Orwell to Pythagoras and guano. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds, and the SAT 'Highbrow and Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and One Direction. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 Rhyme and Reason b01rl1ql (Listen) SAT Poet and DJ Mr Gee talks to songwriters about poetry and how SAT it influences their work. SAT SAT The performance poet, DJ and broadcaster, Mr Gee - familiar SAT from his work on Saturday Live and Russell Brand's Radio 2 SAT show - is fascinated by poetry and songwriting, the SAT similarities and the differences between these crafts. He SAT seeks out songwriters who love poetry and hears from them SAT about the importance of poetry in their lives and the way it SAT influences their songwriting. SAT SAT Noel Gallagher recalls going to see poets such as John SAT Cooper Clarke and Lemn Sissay perform, and explains how his SAT songs are metaphorical and imagistic, using the techniques SAT of poetry. SAT SAT Cerys Matthews, who came to fame two decades ago as the SAT singer in Catatonia, is a Welsh speaker, in which language SAT poetry is written in strict, elaborate forms. The poets she SAT cites as influential include Walt Whitman and Allen SAT Ginsberg, whose work, formally, ranges as wide as the plains SAT of America, with enormously long lines and patterns like SAT mountain ranges. These poets inspire her directly, she tells SAT Mr Gee, then she picks up her guitar and sings. SAT SAT For Richard Thompson the influence of the poets he loves - SAT Eliot, Yeats and John Clare - is more tangential. It colours SAT the mood and tone of his great songs of modern England. SAT Sometimes the rhythms of poems find their way into his SAT songs. He is struck by the power of traditional songs, how SAT they evoke characters, and unfold stories in images. SAT SAT Akala plays a game, firing quotes from Shakespeare and rap SAT songs and challenging Mr Gee to identify which is which. SAT This leads to serious discussion about the common ground SAT between Shakespeare and Hip-hop, and the poetic richness of SAT contemporary popular culture. SAT SAT And Rapper Jordan Stephens, from Rizzle Kicks, reveals how SAT poetry was at the centre of his upbringing and how one poem SAT is so important to him that he's had it tattooed on his SAT forearm. SAT SAT Mr Gee hears, too, from someone working the other way SAT around. Ian McMillan, enthusiast of what his wife calls SAT 'squeaky gate music' by, for instance, Captain Beefheart, SAT reveals how songs have influenced the poetry he writes, some SAT of which is then set to music. SAT SAT Producer: Julian May SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 07 APRIL 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01rq8xl (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 b01bpjj5 (Listen) SUN Backwards and Forwards SUN SUN Written by Cathy Feeny. SUN SUN Today's story - Backwards And Forwards by Cathy Feeny - is SUN the last in a series of specially commissioned stories which SUN take boats and boating as their theme. SUN SUN When Danny - an American academic working in London - takes SUN his family on holiday to the banks of a Scottish loch, SUN there's an uninhabited island to visit across the water. But SUN Danny's the only one who can row. And the boat can only SUN carry one other person at a time. As he rows backwards and SUN forwards, Danny has a unique opportunity to discover a SUN little more about each of his family in turn. 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 b01rq8xn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rq8xq (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rq8xs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01rq8xv (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01rqgyl (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Stephen's Church, Brannel, Cornwall. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01rqbhl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01rq8xx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01rqgyn (Listen) SUN John McCarthy explores the significance of the Pietà in art SUN and life. With Antony Gormley SUN SUN John McCarthy discusses the significance of the Pietà in art SUN and in life with sculptor Antony Gormley, and the act of SUN carrying others in times of adversity. SUN SUN Gormley's love of Pietàs begins with Michelangelo's work of SUN the same name which can be seen in St Peter's Basilica in SUN the Vatican City. But his real affection is for SUN Michelangelo's last sculpture: The Rondanini Pieta, where SUN the relationship between the figures of Mary and Christ is SUN much more ambiguous. SUN SUN Also in the programme, Paul and Ruth describe the way in SUN which they've carried their daughter Maddie for many years SUN due to her multiple disabilities. She's now a teenager and SUN they regard the carrying of her as an on going act of their SUN love for her. SUN SUN The programme includes music by Vivaldi, Prophets of the SUN Fall, Sarah McLachlan, The Hollies and Morten Lauridsen. And SUN writing by Elizabeth Jennings, Tess Gallagher and Sebastian SUN Faulks. SUN SUN Produced by Rosie Boulton SUN Presented by John McCarthy SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01rqgyq (Listen) SUN Sybil Ruscoe is in Llanfairfechan in North Wales to talk to SUN farmers who have fought bitter cold and snowdrifts to save SUN their flocks . The worst conditions for fifty years, during SUN the lambing season, have seen thousands of sheep and lambs SUN perish . She asks what's kept farmers going during the last SUN ten days and assesses the impact on their businesses and SUN their long term future. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01rq8y1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01rq8y3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01rqgys (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01rqgyv (Listen) SUN The Environmental Investigation Agency SUN SUN Ronni Ancona presents the Radio 4 Appeal for The SUN Environmental Investigation Agency SUN Reg Charity:1145359 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN EIA. SUN SUN Evidence gathered from field investigations is used to SUN campaign for changes to environmental laws and consumer SUN behaviour, more investment in enforcement and better SUN enforcement practices to target the criminal gangs SUN responsible for environmental destruction. SUN SUN EIA also works with grass roots NGOs around the world, SUN helping them to expose and campaign against the issues that SUN affect them, like illegal land seizure, often providing SUN training for local communities in skills such as documentary SUN filming and advocacy. SUN SUN The evidence presented in EIA’s campaigns has directly SUN brought about changes in international laws and the policies SUN of governments and companies, including ground-breaking laws SUN banning the import of illegal timber products to Europe and SUN the USA; the 1989 ban on international ivory trade and more SUN recently stopped internet retailers from selling whale SUN products. SUN SUN Gathering this evidence is often dangerous work but EIA is SUN committed to standing up against corruption wherever it is SUN found. Despite its relatively small size EIA’s contribution SUN to protecting the environment is well recognised. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01rq8y7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01rq8yc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01rqgyx (Listen) SUN A service from St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, exploring SUN the theme of 'Doubt' based on the experience of Thomas SUN following the Resurrection. John 20: 24-31. Preacher: Canon SUN Stuart Bell. Musical Director: Harry Strange. Organist: SUN David Evans. SUN Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01rlsw7 (Listen) SUN The Irrationality of Nations SUN SUN Every nation has a core irrationality - a belief about SUN itself which no amount of contrary evidence can shift - says SUN Adam Gopnik. Adam tries to uncover the core irrationality of SUN the four nations he knows best: the United States, France, SUN Canada and the UK. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01rqgyz (Listen) SUN The Sunday morning magazine programme with Britain's best SUN newspaper review. Presented by Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01rqgz1 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Ben Archer ..... Thomas Lester SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Heather Pritchard ..... Joyce Gibbs SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens SUN Celia Redwood ..... Anita Dobson SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01rqgz3 (Listen) SUN Doctor Who SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites five people who created and starred SUN in the first series of a television landmark, Doctor Who. SUN Fifty years later, those who crammed nervously into the SUN BBC's Lime Grove Studios in 1963 recount the triumphs and SUN disasters that ushered in the longest running SUN science-fiction series in the world. SUN SUN When Canadian TV executive Sydney Newman was drafted in to SUN revitalise the BBC Drama department in the early 1960's, his SUN idea for an ageing time-traveller who would illuminate both SUN human history and Alien civilisations struggled to be SUN successfully realised. SUN SUN After a number of other directors refused to work on the SUN project, a 24 year-old Waris Hussein took the job. The only SUN Indian-born director within the BBC at that time, he felt SUN the stern gaze of the 'old order' upon his work. SUN SUN The first episode was recorded on the day President Kennedy SUN was assassinated and transmitted the next day, despite SUN concerns that the show might be postponed. SUN SUN Doctor Who was played by the British actor William Hartnell. SUN His sharp, sometimes grumpy demeanour came out of his SUN increasing difficulty in learning the scripts, but the SUN audience immediately took him to their hearts and the series SUN had nearly six million viewers by Christmas. SUN SUN Joining Sue MacGregor is Waris Hussein, the director of the SUN episode, Carole Ann Ford who played the Doctor's SUN granddaughter and companion Susan, William Russell who SUN played the Doctor's right hand man Ian Chesterton, actor SUN Jeremy Young who was the first Doctor Who enemy Caveman Kal, SUN and television presenter Peter Purves who travelled with SUN William Hartnell in the mid 60's as companion Steven Taylor. SUN SUN Produced by Peter Curran SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01rl6cp (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 8 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition & deviation? Jason Manford, Paul SUN Merton, Grahan Norton and Sue Perkins demonstrate, as SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01rqgz5 (Listen) SUN Madhur Jaffrey, a life through food SUN SUN Sheila Dillon meets Madhur Jaffrey, Indian cooking legend, SUN who's just returned from the sub-continent on her latest SUN adventures into its vast food culture. SUN SUN This year the actress, broadcaster and food writer turns SUN eighty. She left Delhi sixty years ago to pursue a career in SUN the west, but still remains the world's most influential and SUN respected exponents of Indian cuisine. SUN SUN With her BBC television series and more than fifteen books SUN she's managed to convey the rich history and flavours of SUN authentic Indian regional cooking. Now, as India becomes one SUN of the most important economies in the world, and a nation SUN increasingly interested in western tastes and modern brands, SUN Sheila meets Madhur to reflect on her early food life in SUN Delhi and to ask her about a rapidly changing India. SUN SUN This is a life story of exquisite family meals in the 1930's SUN that mixed British and Indian traditions, of school lunches SUN where food would be shared between friends from very SUN different food backgrounds and where watching a mushroom SUN dish, "devoured by greedy men" was one of the images that SUN led her to leave India. SUN SUN The programme also includes a fascinating encounter between SUN Madhur and a British food tradition, chips with curry sauce. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01rq8yh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01rqgz7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Flashmob Flamenco b01rg228 (Listen) SUN In recent years, flamenco has become an increasingly SUN respectable art-form, both in Spain and internationally. But SUN it has also been used as a voice of protest against the SUN current financial meltdown, which is hitting the Andalucia SUN region particularly hard. SUN SUN Most notable is the flamenco flashmob, a sudden public SUN assembly of dancers and musicians performing in branches of SUN Spain's under-fire banks, with massive YouTube success. SUN SUN This continues a long tradition of political dissent within SUN flamenco that's little known beyond its inner circle - and SUN even here, it is often played down. SUN SUN Author and erstwhile flamenco student Jason Webster explores SUN this history, meeting musicians who have protested against SUN the Franco regime and the contemporary economic situation, SUN and examining some of the contradictions of Spain's recent SUN past along the way. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Elcombe SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01rlsvl (Listen) SUN Postbag edition SUN SUN In this postbag edition Peter Gibbs, Christine Walkden and SUN Anne Swithinbank visit Bob Flowerdew's garden in Norfolk. SUN They are joined by Sparsholt College's lecturer in SUN horticulture, Rosie Yeomans. SUN SUN As well as taking listeners' questions through post and SUN email, the team head off into Bob's garden to talk about SUN soil preparation and some of Bob's most recent trials and SUN experiments including his double polytunnel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01rqgz9 (Listen) SUN Teenage sexuality, stepmothers and organ donation are all SUN covered in the conversations Fi Glover introduces between SUN friends, mothers and children in this Sunday Edition of SUN Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear SUN when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01rqhvz (Listen) SUN A Larkin Double, A Girl in Winter SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 2): A Girl in Winter SUN SUN Philip Larkin's second and final novel which he wrote in SUN 1946, aged 24, and dramatised for the first time on BBC SUN Radio 4 by Richard Stevens. SUN SUN In wintery wartime Britain, Katherine Lind, exiled and SUN alone, endures her job as an assistant in an obscure SUN provincial library with an unpleasant boss and unfriendly SUN colleagues. Frozen in time and tragedy, her past is gone - SUN and with it her family, her friends, her old life. She is SUN living moment by moment. But on this cold, bleak Saturday, SUN news from an English family she once knew forces her to SUN relive the idyllic summer she spent with them six years SUN before. Will Katherine's icy heart finally start to melt? SUN SUN A Girl in Winter is a beautiful evocation of the icy SUN claustrophobia that Philip Larkin himself endured, working SUN in a provincial library in his early twenties, when his SUN career as a poet was only just beginning. SUN SUN This new radio adaptation stars Carolyn Genzkow, a young SUN German film and television star, based in Berlin. Meeting SUN British radio actors for the first time and performing in SUN English, Carolyn brings wonderful authenticity to the role SUN of the isolated émigré Katherine Lind. SUN SUN Dramatised by Richard Stevens SUN Sound by Alisdair McGregor SUN Producer/Director: Fiona McAlpine SUN SUN An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Katherine Lind: Carolyn Genzkow SUN Robin Fennel: Jolyon Coy SUN Jane Fennel: Clare Corbett SUN Mr Anstey: Nicholas Woodeson SUN Miss Brooks: Jill Cardo SUN Miss Green: Sinead Matthews SUN Veronica Parbury: Matilda Ziegler SUN Jack Stormalong: Clive Brill SUN Director: Fiona McAlpine SUN Producer: Fiona McAlpine SUN Writer: Richard Stevens SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01rqhw1 (Listen) SUN Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love SUN SUN Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her SUN novel The Forty Rules of Love. SUN SUN The novel is about finding love and is written in two SUN strands. One is the friendship between a whirling dervish SUN and the Sufi poet Rumi in 13th century Anatolia; the other SUN is about a mother in contemporary America who finds SUN inspiration in the historical story to break away from an SUN unhappy life. SUN SUN Amazingly, Elif wrote the book in English, which she first SUN learnt at the age of ten. She then worked with professional SUN translators to write it again in Turkish. SUN SUN Elif Shafak explains the importance of Sufi mysticism in the SUN novel and in her life. She talks about the influence of her SUN grandmother's superstitions, about the transformation of SUN modern Turkey and how she was prosecuted - and acquitted - SUN in 2006 for 'denigrating Turkish national identity' because SUN of her writing. SUN SUN First published in 2010, The Forty Rules of Love has now SUN been translated into over 30 languages. SUN SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the SUN questions. SUN SUN May's Bookclub choice : Ice by Gillian Clarke SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Broken Paradise b01rqhw3 (Listen) SUN To mark the fourth anniversary of the ending of Sri Lanka's SUN civil war, in May 2009, translator Lakshmi Holmström SUN introduces some of the most powerful Tamil poetry to emerge SUN from the 26 year long conflict, in which an estimated 70,000 SUN people were killed as militant Tamil Tigers fought to SUN establish a separate Tamil state in the north of the island. SUN SUN These poems bear witness to the atrocities committed by both SUN sides and reflect on some of the war's most significant SUN turning points, from the deadly introduction of female SUN suicide bombers to the final bloody showdown on a beach near SUN Jaffna, where government forces conclusively defeated the SUN Tamil Tigers. SUN SUN Poets featured include Cheran, probably the most significant SUN living Tamil poet, whose poems chart the history of the war SUN and of a landscape once idyllic, now devastated. There is SUN also a poem by S. Sivaramani, a promising young woman poet SUN who committed suicide in 1991. In Oppressed by Nights of War SUN she describes the impact of the violence and fear on SUN children. SUN SUN Presenter Lakshmi Holmström MBE is a widely acclaimed SUN translator of Tamil fiction and poetry. A collection of her SUN translations of Cheran's poetry is to be published this SUN summer, titled In a Time of Burning. SUN SUN Readings by Hiran Abeysekara, Vayu Naidu and Vignarajah SUN SUN Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Deprofessionals b01rl8nl (Listen) SUN What does it mean to be a professional today, at a time when SUN the public services are in a state of turmoil? SUN SUN Time was when a professional was easily recognised for what SUN he or she did by virtue of their qualifications and SUN experience, when their competence could be measured against SUN an established set of standards. Not any more. SUN SUN The British public have been used to interacting with SUN warranted police officers, state registered nurses, teachers SUN with their PGCEs, and qualified social workers. But that SUN picture has become blurred in recent years by the SUN introduction of lower paid, less well qualified colleagues, SUN such as Police Community Support Officers or PCSOs, cover SUN supervisors in schools, care assistants on the wards, and SUN sessional workers alongside qualified social workers. SUN SUN Does this, asks Mathew Hill, the BBC's Health Correspondent SUN in the west of England, amount to a 'deprofessionalisation' SUN of the professions, or has it in fact opened up the public SUN service professions to people who would previously never SUN have been able to enter these fields? SUN SUN We hear what it means to be a public service professional SUN today, with contributions from people on all sides of the SUN debate. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01rqbhl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rq8yk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01rq8ym (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rq8yr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01rqhw5 (Listen) SUN Christopher Douglas chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01rqhw7 (Listen) SUN Tom keeps himself busy, and Shula takes a walk down memory SUN lane. SUN SUN 19:15 Believe It! b01h73pg (Listen) SUN Drink SUN SUN Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has SUN always said he'd never write one. SUN Based on glimmers of truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, SUN bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity SUN radiography of Richard Wilson. SUN SUN He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised SUN scenes from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily SUN exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national SUN treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, SUN theatre and Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant SUN of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a SUN drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, SUN monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for SUN governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery (not true). SUN All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are SUN wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery. SUN SUN (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed SUN reference to his famous catchphrase.) SUN Richard is supported by a small core cast viz: SUN SUN David Tennant SUN John Sessions SUN Lewis Macleod SUN Arabella Weir SUN And Jane Slavin SUN Who plays anyone and everyone! SUN SUN Ghost written by Jon Canter SUN Produced by: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Three Stories by Edith Pearlman b01rqhw9 (Listen) SUN Binocular Vision SUN SUN "These stories are an exercise in imagination and SUN compassion.. a trip around the world.." SUN ANN PATCHETT, author of Bel Canto SUN SUN Edith Pearlman has been writing stories for decades and is SUN in her mid seventies. Recognition duly arrived in America SUN with various awards, but only recently has her collection, SUN Binocular Vision, been acclaimed in Britain. Now there's SUN chance to hear three of the tales on radio, and be SUN acquainted with a voice that is compelling and new to us.. SUN SUN 1. Binocular Vision SUN A young girl picks up her father's binoculars and observes SUN the neighbours SUN across the road. There are surprises in store.. SUN SUN Reader Lydia Wilson SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01rlsvs (Listen) SUN Does Radio 4 need to replenish its audience with an SUN injection of young blood? Roger talks to the station's SUN Network Manager Denis Nowlan about attracting new audiences SUN and gets the views of age-aware Feedback listeners. SUN SUN And for many concert goers, the most taxing decision during SUN the interval is whether to have a G&T or a glass of wine. SUN But for Radio 3 producers, there's a tricky balance to be SUN struck between entertaining the audience in the stalls and SUN the listeners at home. We talk to Radio 3's Head of Speech SUN Matthew Dodd and hear your suggestions for how to keep the SUN interval interesting. SUN SUN Also - the case of the disappearing drama. The scheduling of SUN the lavish adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere across SUN Radio 4 and then the digital-only station 4Extra drew SUN criticism from some Feedback listeners when the series aired SUN in March. Nevermind, many were content to access the drama SUN online having seen that it would be available for over a SUN year. But when they settled down to listen, Neverwhere was SUN nowhere to be found. Feedback investigates. SUN SUN And we hear your views on the first interview with the new SUN BBC Director General, Tony Hall, who went into the Today SUN studio to talk to John Humphrys. Many felt it wasn't exactly SUN a warm welcome. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producers Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01rlsvq (Listen) SUN A screenwriter, a champagne maker, a learning disabilities SUN campaigner, a president, a Welsh poet and a music producer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who won SUN the Booker prize for Heat and Dust - and Oscars for two of SUN her Merchant Ivory scripts. James Ivory pays tribute. SUN SUN Henri Krug who led the blending process that made his SUN family's acclaimed champagne. SUN SUN Mabel Cooper - who spent the first thirty years of her life SUN in institutions, but later became a campaigner for the SUN rights of people with learning disabilities. SUN SUN The Liberian politician Moses Blah - vice President under SUN Charles Taylor - and briefly President himself in the SUN handover to a transitional government. SUN SUN And Anthony Conran the Welsh poet who was born with cerebral SUN palsy. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01rqb22 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01rqgyv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01rlrjs (Listen) SUN Productivity Puzzle SUN SUN Something strange is happening to the economy. In Britain, SUN recession is not hitting the total number of people in SUN employment, which means that the nation's vital productivity SUN rate is falling. In the USA, productivity has gone on SUN rising, detaching itself from the rise in jobs for the first SUN time since World War Two. Behind the figures, Peter Day has SUN been trying to find out what's going on and why it matters SUN to a country's standard of living. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01rqhyk (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 b01rqhym (Listen) SUN John Rentoul of The Independent on Sunday analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01rlpv0 (Listen) SUN Spring Breakers; Bird's Eye View film festival SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Harmony Korine about his new and SUN most commercial film to date, Spring Breakers, starring SUN James Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. It explores SUN what happens to a group of teenage girls who break away from SUN the drudgery of studies for that North American ritual, SUN Spring Break. SUN SUN Elhum Shakerifar talks about her role as director of the SUN UK's Women's film festival, Birds Eye View, which this year SUN is celebrating female Arab filmmakers, including Palestine, SUN Egypt Algeria, Lebanon and Syria. She discusses the SUN challenges that Haifaa Al Mansour had in filming Wadjda on SUN location in Saudi Arabia; she had to direct some sequences SUN from a van via walkie talkie due to prohibitions on women in SUN public spaces. Wadjda is a moving film about a ten year old SUN girl whose goal in life is to buy a bicycle. SUN SUN Neil Brand discusses film composer Alex North's ground SUN breaking score to the 1952 film Viva Zapata. Directed by SUN Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn the SUN film told the story of revolutionary Mexican Emiliano SUN Zapata. The score by Alex North so impressed the man who SUN would go on to write some of the best known screen themes of SUN the 60s and 70s - Lalo Schifrin, composer of the Dirty Harry SUN scores amongst others, and for tv, The Man from UNCLE, SUN Mission Impossible and many more. SUN SUN And two founding films of the French New Wave, both released SUN within a month of each other in 1959: Le Beau Serge and Les SUN Cousins, directed by Claude Chabrol. We discusses the SUN profound impact these two films had at the time, and the SUN ways in which they heralded one of the most exciting SUN movements in the history of cinema. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01rqgyn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 08 APRIL 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01rq90k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01rlnhh (Listen) MON Women and the Armed Forces MON MON Women in combat - the US secretary of defence announced in MON January 2013 that, from 2016, women will be allowed to serve MON in ground-combat roles in the US armed forces. The UK is MON likely to soon be faced with the need to make a similarly MON historic decision. MON MON Laurie Taylor talks to Anthony King, Professor in Sociology MON at the University of Exeter; Christopher Coker, Professor of MON International Relations at the London School of Economics MON and Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College. MON MON This special programme explores the history of the female MON soldier and the implications of women's increasing MON involvement on the 'frontline'. How central is war to MON cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity? Is there MON something stubbornly masculine at the centre of the MON dominant, military ethos with its emphasis on courage, MON honour and valour? Or are these questions becoming redundant MON as the nature of war itself changes, so that an emphasis on MON the winning of' hearts and minds' in the Afghanistan context MON and elsewhere, could be said to signify a feminisation of MON war? And is the growth in technology assisted warfare MON actually sidelining the 'human' altogether, regardless of MON gender. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01rqgyl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rq90p (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rq90r (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rq90t (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01rq90w (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rqnd8 (Listen) MON Anna Magnusson, writer and broadcaster, with spiritual MON comment and prayer to start the day. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01rqndb (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01rq910 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01rqndd (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin MON Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01rqndg (Listen) MON 'Home' and cultural identity with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie MON MON On Start the Week Stephanie Flanders talks to the MON award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, about the MON notion of 'home' in today's globalised world. It's a theme MON taken up on stage in 'Paper Dolls' directed by Indhu MON Rubasingham, which follows a Filipino drag act working in MON Tel Aviv. David Goodhart explores the British Dream and the MON successes and failures of post war immigration. And from the MON movement of people, to the trade in powders, salts, paints MON and cures, the poet Michael Symmons Roberts's latest MON collection is called Drysalter. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01rqndj (Listen) MON Mom and Me and Mom, Episode 1 MON MON Maya Angelou has chronicled her life in a series of MON bestselling autobiographies. Now, finally, she shares the MON deepest personal story of her life - her relationship with MON her mother, the extraordinary and feisty Vivian Baxter. MON MON "The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great MON time to be born black and poor and female in St Louis, MON Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to MON black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be MON called beautiful." MON MON Read by Adjoa Andoh MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rqndl (Listen) MON Samira Ahmed presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Naomi Long was working as a civil engineer MON MON Isy Suttie is an award winning stand-up comedian, actress, MON writer, composer and musician. She is best known for playing MON the role of Dobby in the sitcom Peep Show. She currently MON has a series on Radio 4Extra, with tales of love stories, MON told partly through song, and often including real-life MON anecdotes from her own, often disastrous, love life. Isy MON joins Samira Ahmed, along with the journalist and MON broadcaster Anne Atkins, to discuss the pros and perils of MON ‘meddling’ in the love lives of others. MON MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rqndn (Listen) MON The Little Ottleys, Episode 1 MON MON Series Four (5 episodes) MON MON It is early Autumn in the year 1916. MON Bruce Ottley, having gone to America to MON escape the Zeppelins and to live with MON Madame Frabelle, has returned to MON England. Though divorced from Edith he MON is still residing in the spare room of the MON very concise house in Sloane Street, MON Knightsbridge. Much to the dismay of Aylmer. MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale MON MON Credits MON Ada: Haydn Gwynne MON Edith: Juliet Aubrey MON Bruce: Ifan Meredith MON Alymer: Jonathan Firth MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Producer: Tracey Neale MON Writer: Martyn Wade MON MON 11:00 Journeys down My Street b01rqndq (Listen) MON The Polish Community in Bradford MON MON Amidst all the coverage of contemporary migration to MON Britain, it is easy to forget the older generations of MON immigrants from across the world who have settled here and MON made Britain their home. MON MON Journeys Down my Street is a new series in which Mike MON Berlin, an urban historian from Birkbeck College, University MON of London, visits individual streets at the heart of such MON communities, to hear the stories of earlier immigrants - MON their arrival, their early lives and their observations on MON Britain today. MON MON 1.A Little bit of Poland in Bradford MON MON The story of the Polish political refugees who settled in MON Britain in the late 1940s has been largely forgotten. MON MON It involves invasion by both Germany and Russia and MON deportation to Siberia, followed by a brave share of the MON armed combat of World War Two. In spite of this, Stalin's MON influence after the war meant they had no home to return to MON and were excluded from the victory parades. MON MON They tell Mike Berlin about the lives they made in Bradford, MON the community they built around Edmund Street, and their MON thoughts on a younger generation of economic immigrants, who MON have the one thing they craved - the choice to return home, MON if they wished, to Poland. MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON 11:30 The Rita Rudner Show b01rqnds (Listen) MON Who's Your Daddy? MON MON In the second episode of American comedian Rita Rudner's new MON sitcom (written with her real life husband Martin Bergman), MON Rita continues to try and re-establish herself in the UK MON after a long absence. MON MON She's come to the UK with her husband Martin (Martin MON Trenaman) and, from the start, things go awry! Staying at a MON bizarre hotel - The Richester - Rita is further confused by MON its eccentric owner Mrs Harrison (the wonderful Phyllida MON Law). MON MON Rita and Martin meet some of the hotel's guests including MON The Fabulous Twins, who take oddness to another level! Rita MON and Martin are invited for dinner by their friends David MON Baddiel and Morwenna Banks (playing themselves) and, in so MON doing, Rita finds out some starting revelations about her MON husband. MON MON This episode also features a memorable karaoke rendition of MON a classic Beyonce track - memorable for all the wrong MON reasons! MON MON Once again mixing sitcom with Rita's infamous stand-up, The MON Rita Rudner Show is a classic old fashioned sitcom with a MON sterling cast that includes Michael Fenton Stevens, MON co-writer Martin Bergman and Vivienne Avramoff. MON MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01rqndv (Listen) MON Hijacked phone lines, shared ownership housing and pop MON artefacts MON MON There's been a sharp increase in the number of phone lines MON being hijacked by criminals. We reveal what they're doing, MON how they're doing it and why innocent bill-payers are being MON left to pick up the tab. MON MON Shared ownership housing schemes are sold as a good way to MON get onto the property ladder. But a decline in prices has MON left some homeowners unable to sell or even rent out their MON homes. We report on the pros and cons of part buying / part MON renting a property. MON MON And after a signed Beatles LP sold for a record amount how MON do you spot a pop artefact which might sell well in the MON future? MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Jon Douglas. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01rq914 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01rqndx (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 b01rqndz (Listen) MON Colonists MON MON Colonists: Episode Sixteen of a thirty-part series made in MON collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. MON MON Settlers arriving in America in the 17th century decreed the MON songs and sounds of native American Indians to be barbaric MON and wild - bloodcurdling hollering that might presage the MON most brutal of deaths. MON MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores MON the colonial politics of sound. MON MON Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. MON MON Produced by Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01rqhw7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0132pk9 (Listen) MON Two-Pipe Problem, The Case of the Missing Meerschaum MON MON In tribute to Richard Briers, who co-starred in this series MON for six years. MON MON Starring the late Richard Briers and Stanley Baxter. MON MON William and Sandy are to appear at a Sherlock Holmes MON Convention, held at a hotel just around the corner from MON Baker Street. Sandy isn't keen but succumbs to William's MON desperate need to be in the spotlight once more. Sandy finds MON the display of 'fandom' absurd - the packed memorabilia MON stalls and one fan's observation that he thought he'd died MON years before. He also finds the political infighting MON threatening to tear the Society apart faintly ridiculous. MON But William is in his bombastic element, to such an extent MON that he has a very public and painful row with Sandy, who MON quits the convention and catches the Metropolitan Line back MON to the Old Beeches. MON MON William occupies centre-stage at that night's dinner, MON flourishing the Society's prized meerschaum used by Basil MON Rathbone in the Holmes films. After a bibulous evening, MON William rolls into bed still with the precious pipe in his MON possession. MON MON He wakes up the following morning and discovers that it's MON gone. He travels to the Old Beeches in a panic, begging MON Sandy to return to the Convention to help him solve the MON mystery - which he does using Holmesian precepts, and MON restoring their friendship in the process. MON MON Written by Michael Chaplin MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Sandy Boyle: Stanley Baxter MON William Parnes: Richard Briers MON Mortimer Tregennis: Geoffrey Palmer MON Roger Butterworth: James Fleet MON Beryl Butterworth: Joanna David MON Underground Worker: Matt Simandl MON Hotel Receptionist: Matt Simandl MON Autograph Hunter: James McGregor MON Souvenir Stallholder: James McGregor MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producer: Catherine Bailey MON Writer: Michael Chaplin MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01rqnf1 (Listen) MON Series 3, University of Edinburgh MON MON Coming this week from the University of Edinburgh, the MON specialist subjects are Biological Sciences, History of Art MON and International Relations and the questions range from MON Lady Chatterley and Aubrey Beardsley through to laughing gas MON and Carly Rae Jepson. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds, and the MON 'Highbrow and Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01rqgz5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Concrete and the Divine b01rqnf3 (Listen) MON Under the umbrella of Glasgow architects Gillespie Kidd & MON Coia, Isi Metzstein and Andrew MacMillan seized on the MON momentary experimentalism of the Catholic Church after World MON War II to revolutionise church design. MON MON This was a brave new world and the Catholic Church wanted MON their places of worship to meet the needs of a new era. MON MON In a culture never quite comfortable with the high modern MON influences of Europe and America, Metzstein and MacMillan MON drew on the ideas of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright MON with unparalleled freedom. MON MON Their masterpiece was St Peter's Seminary at Cardross, which MON stood out like a spaceship in the modest construction yards MON of British architecture. It's a ghost space now, abandoned MON in 1980 just 14 years after completion. MON MON While most of their churches are still in use, their MON Modernist design and location means they stand like MON monuments to a very different time; a time when Catholicism MON in Scotland was expected to spread its wings. MON MON Jonathan Glancey explores Scotland's physical and spiritual MON landscape to discover more about the extraordinary lives of MON two of Britain's most talented architects. MON MON Producer: Caitlin Smith. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01rqnf5 (Listen) MON Series 3, Engagement MON MON Aleks Krotoski looks at what the designers of our digital MON worlds can learn from those with an intuitive grasp of what MON engages us. Increasingly digital technology is reaching out MON from behind the screen to meet us in the real world. Aleks MON explores the techniques old and new for engaging us. Follow MON and join the conversation on Twitter with #digihuman and MON find even more background on MON http://thedigitalhuman.tumblr.com/. MON MON In the programme Aleks hears from roller coaster designers - MON preparing us to be terrified before we even step on the ride MON and fragrance designers - engineering our behaviour without MON us even realising it and games builders using sound alone to MON make gameplay an entirely physical experience. Aleks also MON discovers what can be learnt from the great showmen of the MON past when she speaks to Terry Castle daughter of the horror MON move director and king of the gimmick William Castle. MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b01rqnj1 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rq918 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01rqnj3 (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Katherine Ryan and Graeme MON Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Sharks, Photography, MON Sugar and Jeremy Clarkson. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01rqnvs (Listen) MON Maurice turns out to be Job's comforter, and Jim needs some MON ideas. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01rqnvv (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including the verdict on Ryan Gosling, Eva MON Mendes and Bradley Cooper in the film The Place Beyond The MON Pines. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rqndn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Looking for Luddites b01rqnvx (Listen) MON In 1813, 17 Luddites were hanged in York for MON machine-breaking and/or murder. MON MON Ask people on the street if they're Luddites and the odds MON are they'll refer to whether or not they hate the intrusion MON of new technology into their lives. Which does a disservice MON to the original Luddite textile workers. These MON machine-breakers didn't hate new technology per se - rather, MON the way it was being used by factory owners to drive down MON wages, create unemployment and create an inferior product. MON They saw governments side with employers by doing away with MON guaranteed wages and union rights. MON MON In Looking for Luddites, technology writer Bill Thompson MON assesses how far this authentic representation of the MON Luddite mindset can apply to a 21st century environment in MON which technology is ever more intrusive. MON MON Has the introduction of new technology created modern-day MON factory environments which are as de-humanising in their own MON way as those of the early 19th centuries? What are the MON appropriate models for the introduction of new technology in MON terms of industrial relations? Has capitalism's insatiable MON need to lower costs, combined with consumer demand for MON competitive prices, meant that we ignore the fact that MON workers in the developing world have conditions imposed on MON them which Luddites would have baulked at? MON MON Bill Thompson pursues the Luddite trail to the prison and MON execution sites in York and to the Huddersfield area, where MON some of the worst machine-breaking took place. He hears from MON RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, Minister of State for MON Universities and Science, David Willetts, extreme MON anti-technology campaigner John Zerzan, and Luddite MON descendant Alan Brooke. MON MON Producer: Andrew Green MON An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01rlptm (Listen) MON Nepal: Getting Away with Murder MON MON The fate of hundreds of people who went missing during MON Nepal's brutal civil war is threatening to undermine the MON country's fragile democracy. Around 100,000 people were MON displaced during the bloody insurgency and an estimated 17 MON thousand were killed. A peace agreement was signed six years MON ago in which both sides promised that war crimes would not MON go unpunished. But relatives are still waiting for justice. MON Joanna Jolly finds out why the scars from the conflict are MON still raw despite attempts by both sides to bury the past. MON Producer: Mark Savage. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01rlpv2 (Listen) MON Next week, representatives of the 188 nations that have MON signed the Chemical Weapons Convention meet in the Hague for MON its third review. Professor Leiv Sydnes, from the University MON of Bergen in Norway, chaired last year's international MON assessment of the impact of scientific advances on the MON Convention. He has expressed his concerns in the journal MON Nature that chemical and biological weapon advancement has MON gone beyond current legislation. MON MON From chemical to biological warfare, Quentin Cooper moves to MON the nuclear threat posed by North Korea. Dr. David Keir, MON Scientist and Programme manager at VERTIC - an NGO which MON monitors the development, implementation and effectiveness MON of international agreements - talks about the scientific MON credibility of plans by North Korea to restart its plutonium MON reactor. Are the on-going claims of increasing their nuclear MON capabilities realistic? MON MON President Obama announced a major new scientific project to MON push forward the field of neuroscience. The BRAIN project is MON a $100million initiative to unlock the mysteries of our grey MON matter. Professor John Hardy, from UCL's Institute of MON Neurology, is one of the leading global Alzheimer's MON scientists in the UK and explains how significant MON technological progress has allowed this project to be MON created. MON MON Foot and Mouth disease spreads quickly through livestock MON populations costing up to $4billion every year in developing MON countries, and also regularly infects animals in the MON developed world. Current vaccines are effective but MON difficult to make and administer. A completely new type of MON vaccine, much safer, easier and cheaper to make than the MON current one, has been developed by UK researchers. Professor MON Ian Jones, from the University of Reading and Dr. Bryan MON Charleston, from the Pirbright Institute explain their work. MON MON Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative MON Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) is the formal name for the $100 MON million dollar initiative just announced by President Obama. MON What kind of difference could this make to research? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01rqndg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01rq91b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01rqnvz (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective MON with Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rqnw1 (Listen) MON How Many Miles to Babylon?, Episode 1 MON MON As a child Alexander, heir to the big house and only son of MON a bitter marriage, formed a close friendship with Jerry, a MON village boy who shared his passion for horses. In 1914 both MON enlisted in the British Army - Alexander goaded by his MON beautiful, cold mother to fight for King and Country, Jerry MON to learn his trade for the Irish Nationalist cause. But amid MON the mud of Flanders, their relationship is tested by an MON ordeal beyond the horror of the battlefield... MON MON How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston has never MON been out of print since it was first published in 1974. MON Against the backdrop of the First World War, Jennifer MON Johnson masterfully takes you back in time to the depleted MON battlefields to tell the truly remarkable story of a MON friendship. MON MON Jennifer Johnston remains one of Ireland's most prolific MON writers. Johnston established her reputation with a series MON of short prize-winning novels: The Captains and the Kings MON (1972), which won the Evening Standard Award for Best First MON Novel; The Gates (1973); How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974); MON Shadows on our Skin (1977), shortlisted for the Booker Prize MON for Fiction; and The Old Jest (1979), winner of the MON Whitbread Novel Award. Later novels include: The Invisible MON Worm (1991) Grace and Truth (2005), This is not a Novel MON (2002) and Foolish Mortals (2007). Jennifer lives in Derry MON and has just written a new short story for Radio 4 which MON will broadcast as part of the Derry~Londonderry UK City of MON Culture 2013 Celebrations. MON MON Read by Andrew Scott MON Producer Gemma McMullan. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01rl8n6 (Listen) MON Speaking to Yourself MON MON Michael Rosen talks to himself - and other people as well - MON to find out why it is that many of us habitually talk to MON ourselves. It can be for reassurance or exhortation; It's MON cited as evidence of a psychological disorder but can also MON help to unclutter and order the mind. People use it as an MON aid to prayer and a way to enjoy our own company. MON MON Most people will admit to talking to themselves every now MON and then. We do it to steel ourselves to do a difficult task MON or it can help to organise our thoughts. Some people think MON through past dilemmas aloud testing out different points of MON view and many berate themselves for mistakes. Some use it to MON say all the things they wish they'd said but didn't. MON MON But what does this self talk do to the individual? Is it MON healthy and to what extent are our perceptions of it damaged MON by the old adage that talking to yourself is the first sign MON of madness? After all, therapy encourages us to ask MON questions of ourselves rather than seek external solutions. MON And to what extent does self talk play a part in prayer and MON confession? Michael talks to psychologists, priests, actors, MON stand ups and writers to find out. MON MON Producer Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 With Great Pleasure b01ks3v3 (Listen) MON Cerys Matthews MON MON Cerys Matthews, singer and broadcaster, shares some of the MON poetry and music which she finds inspirational - and it's a MON very eclectic and exhilarating selection, woven together by MON Cerys in her own inimitable style. With her on stage at the MON More than Words Festival at Bristol are the poet John MON Siddique and the cellist Julia Kent. MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 09 APRIL 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01rq931 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01rqndj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rq935 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rq937 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rq939 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01rq93c (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rqpk1 (Listen) TUE Anna Magnusson, writer and broadcaster, with spiritual TUE comment and prayer to start the day. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01rqnwr (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01rqpk3 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought TUE for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Making News b01rqpk5 (Listen) TUE The Endless Cycle TUE TUE Journalist and broadcaster Steve Richards presents a new, TUE three-part series examining the News: from bulletins to TUE rolling news and citizen journalism, what News was, what it TUE is now and what it will become. TUE TUE What makes something News and something else not? Is the TUE News a public service, a cycle, an entertainment built on TUE sensation, a constant rush of 'breaking' news or a form of TUE national communion and shared belonging? TUE TUE Driven by changes in technology and in news culture itself, TUE and as the news cycle becomes ever faster, the question of TUE what News is is also about how we consume it, and who 'we' TUE are becoming as a result. TUE TUE The series talks to reporters, journalists, editors, news TUE producers and experts, including Jon Snow, Alistair TUE Campbell, Adam Boulton, editors Sarah Sands and Ceri Thomas, TUE Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes), Ed Stourton and TUE psychotherapist Adam Phillips. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Found b01rqpk7 (Listen) TUE The Missing Brother 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 2 (of 5): TUE Michael went missing 23 years ago. He was very depressed and TUE had attempted suicide several times, so his sister Ann TUE feared the worst but always hoped that he might still be TUE alive. This is a story of the use of DNA to identify him TUE more than two decades after his body was washed up 80 miles TUE from his Grimsby home on a Norfolk beach. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Parker TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01rtz8r (Listen) TUE Mom and Me and Mom, Episode 2 TUE TUE As a young mother with a marriage on the rocks, Vivian TUE Baxter sent her two young children to be looked after by TUE their grandmother in Stamps Arkansas. TUE TUE Nine years later a reluctant Maya has to return to TUE California to live with a mother she barely knows. TUE TUE Read by Adjoa Andoh TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rqpk9 (Listen) TUE Northern Ireland peace and women today TUE TUE What difference has 15 years of Northern Ireland's Good TUE Friday Agreement made to women's lives? Professor Monica TUE McWilliams looks back at its signing, the role of the TUE women's coalition and its legacy. Women in east and west TUE Belfast discuss their lives today and given recent TUE disturbances, how they view the future in both communities. TUE Provision of abortion remains strictly controlled, how TUE likely are calls to review legislation to succeed? Acclaimed TUE singer songwriter SOAK performs live. How does the TUE Londonderry teenager, who's grown up with the agreement, TUE view life ahead for her generation? TUE TUE Presented by Wendy Austin. TUE Producer: Anne Peacock. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rqpkc (Listen) TUE The Little Ottleys, Episode 2 TUE TUE Series Four (5 episodes) TUE TUE Edith's radical proposal - that she should TUE alternate between Aylmer and Bruce on a TUE monthly basis - is about to be implemented TUE and Bruce is not happy. TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale TUE TUE 11:00 Solos on Loneliness b01rqpkf (Listen) TUE Loneliness affects all of our society - not just the elderly TUE - but also those who have plenty of human contact. TUE TUE This revelatory feature sheds light on the true impact of TUE loneliness in Britain, exploring its experience and effects TUE through interwoven personal accounts. We hear from experts TUE working in mental health and from individuals across the TUE country whose differing circumstances paint a picture of TUE loneliness as a serious national epidemic. TUE TUE Around one in ten people in Britain feel seriously lonely, TUE and around a quarter of us are at significant risk of being TUE lonely at any one time, according to a recent study by the TUE Mental Health Foundation. Increasingly, we live alone, work TUE more and see each other less. As a result, all manner of TUE people find themselves without quality human contact. TUE TUE Loneliness in Britain appears to be getting worse because of TUE the geographical fragmentation of our families, our longer TUE working hours and the contraction of our social networks. TUE But this is a condition that can be embarrassing to discuss TUE with others. In spite of the huge progress in other areas of TUE mental health, very few figures in the public eye admit to TUE feeling lonely. TUE TUE Broadcaster Andy Kershaw talks about his experience of TUE loneliness both before and after his well-publicised family TUE breakdown. TUE TUE We also hear the Chief Executive of the Mental Health TUE Foundation, Dr Andrew McCulloch, on the steps we need to TUE take to reduce the impact of loneliness on our population TUE and the progress the UK is making in destigmatising mental TUE health issues. TUE TUE Through these stories we reflect on the nature of our TUE relationships with others, and their crucial role in TUE maintaining our mental health. TUE TUE Produced by Iain Chambers TUE A Like It Is production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Comme Je Suis - Sketches of Juliette Greco b01rqpkh (Listen) TUE The singer Juliette Greco emerged in post-war Parisian TUE society as an embodiment of the bohemian ideas and ideals TUE that gripped the Left Bank. TUE TUE A shy girl from the provinces, she had been part of the TUE Resistance, before pursuing a career as singer and actress. TUE Jean-Paul Sartre described her voice as containing "a TUE million poems". Miles Davis famously fell for her, but TUE wouldn't marry her, saying he "loved her too much to make TUE her unhappy"! TUE TUE Laura Barton has always been drawn to what Greco represents TUE - that voice, her black-clad kohl-eyed image - and presents TUE a sequence of sketches, impressions, portraits of the TUE octogenarian singer. TUE TUE With contributions from Ginette Vincendeau, Philip Sweeney, TUE Pascal Grierson and others. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall. TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01rqpkk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01rq93k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01rqpkm (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 b01rqpkp (Listen) TUE Shutting In TUE TUE Shutting In: Episode seventeen of a thirty-part series made TUE in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. TUE TUE In the eighteenth century, Edinburgh was one of most TUE overcrowded cities in Europe. Narrow alleys or 'wynds' TUE separated looming tenement buildings, each housing multiple TUE families. Individuals of very different classes and ways of TUE life had to rub along in cramped conditions. Professor David TUE Hendy of the University of Sussex squeezes in among them, TUE and explains how a similar situation in Paris led to a TUE surreal and brutal massacre of cats. TUE TUE Produced by Matt Thompson TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01rqnvs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rqpkr (Listen) TUE Chopin in Manchester by Jim Poyser TUE TUE Chopin's agent gets him a gig in England to escape the TUE revolting peasants in Paris. Except it isn't London, it's TUE Manchester. And to top it all, his host is a porky TUE philistine and his hostess has the hots for Polish pianists. TUE A rollicking romp of what happens when a cosmopolitan TUE artiste meets the industrial revolution. TUE TUE Director/Producer Gary Brown TUE TUE Based on a true event, Jim Poyser has created a zany comedy TUE about how Chopin might have reacted to industrial Manchester TUE and its citizens. Jim Poyser is a well known comedy writer TUE and TV producer. He has written countless comedies for Radio TUE 4 including co-writing 'Everyone Quite Likes Justin' and has TUE recently produced the Sue Perkins vehicle 'Heading Out' TUE currently running on BBC 2. TUE TUE Chopin is played by Neil Stuke, best known for his starring TUE roles in 'Game on' and 'Silk'. TUE TUE Credits TUE Chopin: Neil Stuke TUE Julia: Verity-May Henry TUE Salis: Ian Puleston-Davies TUE Simon: Ben Crompton TUE Old Man: Ben Crompton TUE Delabiliere: Eric Potts TUE Bright: Eric Potts TUE Director: Gary Brown TUE Producer: Gary Brown TUE Writer: Jim Poyser TUE TUE 15:00 The Human Zoo b01rr36q (Listen) TUE Episode 6 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 The programme is a curious blend of intriguing experiments TUE to discover our biases and judgements, conversations, TUE explorations and examples taken from what's in the news to TUE what we do in the kitchen - all driven by a large slice of TUE curiosity. TUE TUE The presenter, Michael Blastland, submits his own thoughts TUE and behaviours to scrutiny and to some devious TUE manipulations, and extends some of these experiments to the TUE audience. TUE TUE We're guided by experts like Nick Chater, Professor of TUE Behavioural Science at Warwick University, who will be on TUE hand as guide and experimenter in chief. Together we'll TUE explore and review some of the latest findings in a TUE fast-growing subject in academia and the bookstores. 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 We'll explore why it is that our judgements are so averse to TUE ambiguity, how mental energy is linked to our legs, why you TUE don't want to be in the dock when the judge is hungry, and TUE other thoughts that have nothing to do with anything much TUE beyond the ironing. TUE TUE Presenter: Michael Blastland TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01rr36s (Listen) TUE CSI Rhino TUE TUE Tom Heap finds an unlikely battle line in the fight to TUE protect remaining wild rhino populations being fought here TUE in the UK. Rhino horn is now worth twice as much as gold TUE because of its perceived value in Asian medicine. New TUE markets in Vietnam have increased the pressure from poaching TUE on wild populations but also on horn found in museums and TUE zoos in the UK. Museums are now warned not to display real TUE rhino horn and zoos like Colchester have had to increase TUE security measures to protect their live rhino. To help TUE prevent illegally obtained horn from leaving the country and TUE encouraging the market for rhino horn scientists in the UK TUE are setting up a DNA database of all the horn kept here in TUE museums, private collections and on the heads of living TUE rhino in zoos. TUE Tom discovers that these highly threatened animals can be TUE surprisingly gentle given their size and that thefts from UK TUE museums have become increasingly common. The criminal gangs TUE looking to profit from horn theft are highly organised and TUE DNA forensics could be vital in achieving convictions. TUE It is hoped that less illegal horn feeding the market will TUE help put an end to the demand but there are also new TUE arguments for a legal trade to sate the demand using farmed TUE rhino whose horns could be regularly shaved. The debate TUE around legalisation remains live but most people agree that TUE a worldwide DNA database would be the only way to regulate TUE and prevent poached rhino horn being traded legally. TUE Wildlife crime officers say that DNA forensics could be TUE vital in helping protect rhinos and many other endangered TUE species in the future. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01rr36v (Listen) TUE More than a billion people, twenty two scheduled languages, TUE and dozens more mother tongues: In the first part of two TUE programmes, Chris Ledgard explores the complex and TUE passionate politics of language in India. In Delhi and TUE Jaipur, we visit schools, business and newspaper offices to TUE ask - how do the languages you speak, read and write in TUE India influence your life? TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01rr36x (Listen) TUE Series 30, Galileo TUE TUE Bobby Friction - DJ and radio presenter better known for his TUE Bhangra music remixes - champions Galileo Galilei in this TUE weeks Great Lives. Often known as the father of modern TUE science, Galileo was held under house arrest for proposing TUE that the earth revolved around the sun. The presenter is TUE Matthew Parris, with contributions from Dr David Berman from TUE Queen Mary, University of London. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01rr36z (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rq93p (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01rr371 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Faith Films 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 second episode, Thom looks at the strangely TUE lucrative world of faith films, and draws parallels to the TUE narrative in these underrated gems with stories of his own TUE experiences as a child growing up whilst his family TUE travelled the globe through Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and TUE Yorkshire. TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01rr373 (Listen) TUE Pat wants to talk, and Paul's mind is in turmoil. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01rr375 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who reports on a major new exhibition from TUE photographer Sebastião Salgado, with a focus on landscapes TUE and remote communities. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rqpkc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Prozac Economy b01rr377 (Listen) TUE Prozac is 25 years old. It has been taken by over 40 million TUE people around the world and made billions of dollars for Eli TUE Lilly, the company that created it. But does it work? And TUE what effect has the promise of a "happiness pill" had on TUE society? TUE TUE Will Self examines the legacy of the so-called 'wonder TUE drug'. As he sets off on a personal exploration of the TUE conflicting and sensational stories that surround Prozac, he TUE talks to those who make the drug, those who take it and TUE those who prescribe it. TUE TUE Anti-depressant use in the UK is rising sharply but, as Will TUE discovers when he talks to Eli Lilly's Dr Robert Baker, we TUE still don't really know exactly how Prozac works. Dr David TUE Wong, one of the fathers of the drug, reveals to Will that TUE he believes too many people are taking it. Psychotherapist TUE Susie Orbach diagnoses a generation of "Prozac children" TUE raised on the promise of on-demand happiness. TUE Dr David Healy, one of Prozac's most outspoken critics, TUE tells Will why he thinks that the drug and its siblings are TUE responsible for hundreds of unnecessary deaths in this TUE country each year and Linda Hurcombe explains to Will why TUE she believes Prozac is linked to the death of her teenage TUE daughter, Caitlin. TUE TUE But Will also meets Dorothy Neilson who explains how the TUE drug saved her from a horrifying pit of depression. Leading TUE psychiatrist Professor David Nutt tells Will that Prozac has TUE been a revolution in patient safety and deserves to be TUE celebrated. And Will's own GP, Dr Dominic Stevens, argues TUE that Prozac can save jobs, save marriages and save lives. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Taylor TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01rr379 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01rr37c (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter reports on the latest health stories. TUE TUE 21:30 Making News b01rqpk5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01rq93t (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01rr3b2 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective TUE with Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rr3b4 (Listen) TUE How Many Miles to Babylon?, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Andrew Scott TUE Producer Gemma McMullan. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b01rr3b6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE There's more poetry-infused comedy and cabaret from Matt TUE Harvey, who is joined by Alex Horne, fellow poet Mab Jones, TUE and an appreciative audience at the Swindon Festival of TUE Literature, whilst being needled by his one man house band, TUE Jerri Hart. For their part, the audience have no choice but TUE to be creative, by contributing a crowd-sourced poem. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 With Great Pleasure b01l04db (Listen) TUE John Hegley TUE TUE Poet and mandolin player, advocate of everyday joys such as TUE pets and NHS glasses, John Hegley exuberantly shares his TUE most loved poems and novels with an appreciative audience at TUE Bristol's Arnolfini. He is helped by the folk singer June TUE Tabor and actors Noni Lewis and Alun Raglan. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01rq953 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01rtz8r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rq955 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rq957 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rq95b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01rq95d (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rr481 (Listen) WED Anna Magnusson, writer and broadcaster, with spiritual WED comment and prayer to start the day. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01rr483 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01rr485 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and WED John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought WED for the Day. WED WED 09:00 The Man Who Made Scotland b01rr487 (Listen) WED To celebrate the return of Rossini's La Donna del Lago to WED the Royal Opera House for the first time in almost 30-years, WED James Naughtie argues that Sir Walter Scott is more relevant WED now than ever to how Scotland tells the story of itself. WED WED The question of what it means to be Scottish is now more WED pressing and timely question than ever, and in these WED bewildering times, James Naughtie says it's time to consult WED Sir Walter Scott. Once ubiquitous - and now almost entirely WED unread - the common view is that Scott rewrote the story of WED this small nation and left a trail of sentimentality and WED naval-gazing in his wake. But, says Naughtie, Scott's WED branding of Scotland is the mark of a thoroughly modern WED thinker and it's been a lot more useful to us than we might WED think. WED WED His work inspired other works, including more than two dozen WED operas. The first was Rossini's 'La Donna del Lago,' based WED on Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'. Taking its cue from WED Ossian and Arthurian legend, it's a perfect example - says WED Naughtie - of "how we tell the national story". In Scott's WED poem, King James V wanders incognito through the countryside WED in the battle for supremacy with the Douglas family. Ellen WED is the beautiful 'Lady of the Lake', daughter of the king's WED sworn enemy. Naughtie thinks we can see Scotland in the WED character of Ellen. WED WED While the nation has occasionally struggled to escape this WED 'Balmorality', Naughtie believes that Scott - through his WED work - reminds everyone, in countries a long way from WED Scotland, how important the idea of a national story can WED become. WED WED 09:30 A Scribbled Aside b01qtfrl (Listen) WED Ian Sansom can chart his life through his notebooks - he's WED been writing in them for 20 years. WED WED He used to keep his notebooks in the freezer in case the WED house burnt down - until the notebooks in the freezer got WED damp. The current run of notebooks is stacked against the WED walls in his office and once a year he goes through them, WED harvesting for ideas and misplaced telephone numbers. WED WED The notebook is - or has traditionally been - the crucible WED of creativity, a 'commonplace book', the first resort, and WED the last word in portable technology. They're where writers WED and artists begin. WED WED In this short, carefully scribbled history, Ian looks at his WED own and other people's and asks whether their time is now WED coming to an end. WED WED With the advent of phones, iPads and laptops, is this the WED end of the notebook as we know it? And how will it change WED the creative process? WED WED Produced by Rachel Hooper WED WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Toad: Stephen Mangan WED Mole: Claire Skinner WED Badger: Philip Jackson WED Rat: Carl Prekopp WED Otter: Patrick Brennan WED Bargee: Liza Sadovy WED Judge: Paul Stonehouse WED Girl: Stephanie Racine WED Director: David Hunter WED Producer: David Hunter WED Writer: Neil Brand WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01rtz8f (Listen) WED Mom and Me and Mom, Episode 3 WED WED The teenage Maya Angelou is settling into her new life with WED her mother in California but, when she's tempted to stay out WED late, she gets into trouble with a feisty Vivian Baxter who WED has learned the hard way how to stand up for herself. WED WED Read by Adjoa Andoh WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rr489 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01s0xfh (Listen) WED The Little Ottleys, Episode 3 WED WED Series Four (5 episodes) WED WED Feeling abandoned by both Edith and Madame Frabelle, Bruce WED finds himself at a loose end but then while travelling WED through Piccadilly he spots a face from the past. WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale WED WED 11:00 The Thrilla in Manila b01rr48f (Listen) WED Manila, 1975. President Ferdinand Marcos maintains a tight WED grip over his nation. For three years martial law has WED silenced opposition and strengthened his rule but what he WED longs for most is international prestige and national love. WED What he needs is the greatest sporting event his nation has WED ever seen. A titanic clash between the two greatest WED heavyweights of their day, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. The WED whole world would watch as one of boxing's most brutal and WED legendary fights unfolded but how on earth did the fight WED ever take place? John McDonald gets the inside story from WED those commanded by the Philippines dictator to make boxing WED history WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b01rr48h (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Gyles Brandreth presides over the comedy panel game where WED Katy Brand and Alex Horne compete against Richard Herring WED and Natalie Haynes to find out who knows more about words. WED WED This week Katy Brand reveals an unexpected love of Proverbs WED in the Old Testament and takes a guess at what 'cougar WED juice' meant at the turn of the 20th century; Richard WED Herring explains why his favourite West County word from his WED schooldays is 'wasp'; Natalie Haynes guesses the meaning of WED the German word 'zechpreller' which has no direct WED translation in English, and Alex Horne coins his very own WED onomatopoeia to describe a snowflake landing on a bubble. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01rr48k (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01ry9qj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01rr4w2 (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 b01rr4w4 (Listen) WED Master and Servant WED WED Master and Servant: Episode eighteen of a thirty-part series WED made in collaboration with the British Library Sound WED Archive. WED WED Grand town houses in the eighteenth century seemed to WED promise privacy. But in fact they offered anything but - the WED family home often included not just parents and children, WED but also elderly relatives, unmarried sisters, paying WED lodgers, and the nosiest neighbours of the lot, the WED servants. WED WED Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex eavesdrops WED on the whispers, gossip and scandal of the eighteenth WED century house, and tells the salacious tale of John Burt, a WED navy captain from Canterbury, who took his young wife WED Harriet to court for impropriety - on the evidence of his WED cook. WED WED Produced by Matt Thompson WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01rr373 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rr4w6 (Listen) WED The Fewness of His Words WED WED Benedictine trouble-shooter Fr Richard Mercer is charged WED with tracking down fugitive fellow priest and child abuser WED Fr George Lawson who, in his 75th year, has jumped bail and WED sought sanctuary in an Italian monastery. WED WED Mercer seeks Lawson out and despite the opposition of the WED Abbot who has for years provided sanctuary for Lawson, WED gradually begins to win the confidence of the renegade WED priest. But as he unravels the knot of denial in the heart WED of Lawson, the old man suddenly surprises him, forcing WED Mercer to confront the question of what it means to show WED true compassion. WED WED Hugh Costello presents us with a dilemma worthy of Graham WED Greene by invoking Benedictine dictum that 'the wise man is WED known by the fewness of his words' and challenges the WED rightness of evasiveness when accused of a crime. WED WED The Writer WED WED Hugh Costello wrote the Emmy-nominated original screenplay WED for Bernard and Doris (HBO), starring Susan Sarandon and WED Ralph Fiennes. He is currently writing three feature films, WED including period romance The Witch of Cologne, and a feature WED comedy, Colin Farrell Ruined My Life. His TV writing credits WED include The Ambassador (BBC1), On Home Ground (RTE) and WED Holby City (BBC1) as well as the short films The Rope Trick WED and Auto da Fe. He has written numerous plays for Radio 4, WED most recently 'Belarus' and 'What the Bishops Knew'. WED WED Credits WED Richard: Declan Conlon WED Fr George Lawson: Andrew Sachs WED Cardinal Vargas: Gerard Murphy WED David: Thomas Finnegan WED Abbot Desiato: Ian McElhinney WED Caroline: Philippa Stanton WED Director: Eoin O'Callaghan WED Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan WED Writer: Hugh Costello WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01rr4w8 (Listen) WED Paying for childcare WED WED Paying for childcare isn't cheap but for many families it's WED a necessity. If you need advice about the schemes which can WED help or the best way to employ a nanny, call 03700 100 444 WED on Wednesday from 1pm-3.30pm or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED A full-time nursery place for a child under two costs around WED £11,000 per year and it can cost £4,000 per year for two WED children to attend a before and after school club, according WED to the Daycare Trust's annual survey. WED WED With childcare costs rising faster than income in many WED households, it could be worth signing up for childcare WED vouchers or direct payments through your employer. WED WED Whether you are employed or self-employed you may be WED eligible for the childcare element of Working Tax Credit. WED WED If you would rather employ a nanny you will also have to WED consider tax and national insurance plus holiday, sick or WED maternity pay. WED WED To find out more why not talk to our panel. Presenter Ruth WED Alexander will be joined by: WED WED Parveen Akhtar, Money Adviser, Money Advice Service WED Helen Harvey, Payroll Services Director from Nannytax WED Anand Shukla, Chief Executive, Daycare Trust/Family and WED Parenting Institute WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm-3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01rr37c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01rr4wb (Listen) WED Remembering Princess Diana - Professor of Sociology, Victor WED Seidler, talks to Laurie Taylor about the cultural impact of WED Diana's death. In his latest book, he argues that a new WED multicultural and intimate citizenship took shape as WED ordinary people took to the streets and rejected the usual WED conventions of royal funerals. Urban spaces became spaces of WED grief and emotions and feelings were seen as credible WED sources of knowledge. He's joined by the writer, Beatrix WED Campbell, who has also explored the legacy of Princess WED Diana's death. Also, media and cultural studies lecturer, Dr WED Tracey Jensen charts the rise of 'new thrift' projects in WED popular culture which promise to show us how to do 'more WED with less'. Austerity politics has, she claims, generated a WED range of TV shows, advice manuals and weblogs which have WED turned thrift from a means of survival into a chic, middle WED class, lifestyle choice. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01rr4wd (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01rr4wg (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rq95m (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01rr555 (Listen) WED The Living Room 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 b01rr557 (Listen) WED Helen enjoys an evening out, and there's a surprise speaker WED at the WI. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01rr559 (Listen) WED Maya Angelou WED WED Writer and poet Maya Angelou, who has just celebrated her WED 85th birthday, reflects on her life and career, in WED conversation with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Penny Murphy. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01s0xfh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b01rr55c (Listen) WED Series 6, Character WED WED Character can be broadly defined as the collection of WED strengths and weaknesses that form and define who we are. WED But to get an idea of what constitutes "good" character we WED have to go back to the ancient Greek philosophers like WED Aristotle, who said that the potential for good character is WED by nature in humans but whether virtues come to be present WED or not is not determined by human nature but as a WED consequence of following the right habits. WED WED Fast forward a couple of millennia and the role of character WED is again a hot topic. As a generation of children emerge WED into an adult world of fierce competition, shrinking job WED markets and over-subscribed and costly higher education, WED questions are being asked about how prepared they are for WED this strange new world. And with anxiety at epidemic levels WED and a huge rise in cases of depression in teenagers; could WED focus on character and character education be as important WED as grades in equipping children for an uncertain future. WED WED Joining Mariella Frostrup to discuss this are Baroness WED Claire Tyler, Lib Dem peer from the Social Mobility All WED Party Parliamentary Group; Tom Harrison, the Deputy Director WED of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values at the WED University of Birmingham; Tim Gill, a writer and consultant WED on childhood issues; Sue Atkins, a parenting expert, writer WED and coach , and Dr Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington WED College. WED WED Producer: Alison Hughes. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01rr55f (Listen) WED Series 4, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy: Forget Impartiality WED WED William Dalrymple introduces the Oscar-winning WED documentary-maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, in Four Thought at WED the Jaipur Literature Festival. Obaid Chinoy, whose films WED include Saving Face, argues that although her work is WED reportage, she cannot be - and should not be - impartial. WED There is a difference, she says, "between story-telling and WED journalism". WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01rr36s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 The Man Who Made Scotland b01rr487 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01rq95p (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01rr62m (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective WED with Ritula Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rr62p (Listen) WED How Many Miles to Babylon?, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Andrew Scott WED Producer Gemma McMullan. WED WED 23:00 I, Regress b01rr6cg (Listen) WED Series 2, Cats 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 Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 23:15 Don't Start b015zrks (Listen) WED Series 1, Dream WED WED Kim's bad dream sparks a heated debate that incorporates WED Elvis on fire, Stoke on Trent car washes and the literary WED merits of the New Testament. 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 production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 With Great Pleasure b01l7qk9 (Listen) WED June Tabor WED WED Eminent folk singer (and former librarian) June Tabor WED movingly explores the links between literature and song, WED presenting extracts from her favourite books and poems to an WED audience at Bristol's Arnolfini. The readers are Alun Raglan WED and Noni Lewis. WED WED Producer: Mark Smalley. WED WED THU THURSDAY 11 APRIL 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01rq979 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01rtz8f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rq97c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rq97f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rq97h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01rq97l (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rr7r1 (Listen) THU Anna Magnusson, writer and broadcaster, with spiritual THU comment and prayer to start the day. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01rr7r3 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01rr7r5 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01rr7r7 (Listen) THU The Amazons THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Amazons, a tribe of THU formidable female warriors first described in Greek THU literature. In later centuries, particularly in the THU Renaissance, the Amazons became a popular theme of THU literature and art. After the discovery of the New World, THU the largest river in South America was named the Amazon, THU since the warlike tribes inhabiting the river's margins THU reminded Spanish pioneers of the warriors of classical myth. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01rtz8h (Listen) THU Mom and Me and Mom, Episode 4 THU THU By the age of 22, Maya Angelou has left home with her five THU year old son to live in rented rooms with cooking privileges THU down the hall. THU THU But, in spite of her independence, her mother is always on THU hand to support her. And it's her support that gives Maya THU the courage to live her life with pizzazz THU THU Read by Adjoa Andoh THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rr7r9 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rr7rc (Listen) THU The Little Ottleys, Episode 4 THU THU Series Four (5 episodes) THU THU Bruce's curiosity has led to him being trapped in Aylmer's THU pantry. Will he escape in time for his performance in THU 'The Mystery of the Countess of Carmarthenshire's Emerald THU Snake Bracelet' or will Aylmer have to come to the rescue THU so the show can go on? THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01rr7rf (Listen) THU Ukraine's HIV battle THU THU Twelve years ago Lucy Ash investigated Ukraine's fight THU against HIV infection, which was mainly caused by injecting THU drug users. After the Orange Revolution in late 2004, the THU government promised to do everything it could to fight the THU disease and the situation seemed to improve. But now Ukraine THU has the second highest infection rate in Europe, surpassed THU only by Russia. Around the world, other countries are THU managing to reduce rates of HIV infection and AIDS-related THU deaths. Lucy Ash travels to Kyiv and Odessa to see why THU fighting HIV is so difficult in Ukraine. THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 11:30 Norway's Soul: Re-evaluating Knut Hamsun b01rr7rh (Listen) THU The unlikely career and Startling fall from grace of a THU great writer. THU THU The Norwegian author Knut Hamsun was a self taught farm boy THU who beat James Joyce and Virginia Woolf to Modernism. With THU his groundbreaking novel, Hunger, published in 1890, he THU revolutionized world literature. THU By 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and THU was one of the most famous writers in the world, feted by THU everyone from Kafka to Hemmingway. Yet he ended his life in THU poverty and disgrace after his public admiration of the THU Nazis. He even sent Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal. Today THU he is largely unknown outside of his native country. Per THU Kristian Olsen considers the best of Hamsun's writing THU against the worst of his political thoughts and deeds and THU asks whether it is possible to separate life from art. THU THU Presenter: Per Kristian Olsen THU Producer: Jessica Treen. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01rr7rk (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01rq97q (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01rr7rm (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 b01rr7rp (Listen) THU Slavery and Rebellion THU THU Slavery and Rebellion: Episode nineteen of a thirty-part THU series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound THU Archive. THU THU Many slaves would have heard the sounds of home for the last THU time as they waited at Ghana's Gate of No Return to be THU herded onto a ship to the new world. Far away on the THU Carolina plantations, they were expected to be quiet or to THU sing to demonstrate contentment with their lot. But in 1739, THU one of the largest and most violent revolts in American THU history took place - and for a brief time the slaves were THU anything but silent. THU THU Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex tells the THU story of the Stono River revolt. THU THU Produced by: Matt Thompson THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01rr557 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rr7rr (Listen) THU Once upon a Time There Was a Beatrix THU THU Once Upon A Time There Was A Beatrix THU by Lavinia Murray THU THU Combining fact with fantasy we imagine a day in the life of THU the young Beatrix Potter as a child, and glimpse at the THU roots of her creativity. THU THU 19th century London: Helen Beatrix Potter is 14 years old THU and lives in Kensington with her parents. Her younger THU brother, Bertram has just gone off to boarding school. Life THU has changed irrevocably and Beatrix realises she faces years THU of isolation and parental indifference. She is on the verge THU of vanishing within the social mores around her. Today, THU Beatrix has to find her own life. When she visits the local THU cemetery she finds herself at the centre of a rather THU frightening hunt for a young rabbit, and discovers a way to THU excel. THU THU Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris THU THU Further info:- THU THU Producer and writer team have created two other dramas about THU creative geniuses in childhood - The Tyger Hunt - about the THU young William Blake, and The Beautiful Ugly, about the young THU Hans Christian Anderson. THU THU Credits THU Beatrix: Amelia Clarkson THU McKenzie: Fiona Clarke THU Boiling Fox: Fiona Clarke THU Mrs Potter: Fiona Clarke THU Mr Potter: David Fleeshman THU Cat: David Fleeshman THU Mr Hardee: Conrad Nelson THU Millais: Conrad Nelson THU Beatrix's Grandmama: Brigit Forsyth THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Writer: Lavinia Murray THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01rr7rt (Listen) THU Graham Sutherland's Pembrokeshire THU THU The great abstract artist Graham Sutherland lived and work THU for many years in the far-west of South Wales. For 'Open THU Country' Felicity Evans follows his footsteps, discovering THU the landscapes, people and harsh geology that inspired his THU work. THU THU Producer: Nicola Humphries. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01rqgyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01rqhw1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01rr7rw (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01rr7ry (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 b01rr7z6 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rq97w (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01rr7z8 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 2 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 b01rr7zb (Listen) THU Lilian receives an apology, and Alice has an offer she can't THU refuse. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01rr7zd (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rr7rc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01rr7zg (Listen) THU Pope Francis THU THU For the past few weeks there's been excitement across the THU Catholic world over the election of the first Latin American THU Pope - a man who wants to put the poor at the centre of the THU Church's teaching. But a series of difficult questions have THU been raised about Pope Francis's role during Argentina's THU "Dirty War" and the military dictatorship of the 1970s and THU early 1980s. In this week's Report journalist and former THU Dominican monk Mark Dowd travels to Buenos Aires to find out THU the truth about Pope Francis. Mark speaks to those close to THU the new Pontiff, his former colleagues, friends and sister THU about his motivations and character. He talks to key players THU in the case of two Jesuit priests who were seized and THU tortured by the dictatorship to find out what Pope Francis THU really knew and did when they went missing. And he hears THU from a family whose pregnant relative was kidnapped by THU agents of the dictatorship. The baby was taken away and THU relatives appealed to the then Father Bergoglio for help in THU finding the child. But what happened - and when did Father THU Bergoglio become aware of the stolen babies scandal? THU THU 20:30 In Business b01rr7zj (Listen) THU The Sick Note THU THU Until recently, doctors filled in a sick note for people off THU work. But now things are changing. The sick note has turned THU into a fit note, and from next year a government-backed THU scheme will try to help ill people get back to work as THU quickly as possible, even if it is only part time. Peter Day THU finds out what's behind the changes, and why they matter. THU Producer Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Solos on Loneliness b01rqpkf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01rr7r7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01rq97z (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01rr7zl (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective THU with Carolyn Quinn. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rr7zn (Listen) THU How Many Miles to Babylon?, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Andrew Scott THU Producer Gemma McMullan. THU THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On b01rr7zq (Listen) THU Series 7, Brainstorming THU THU Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for the THU second episode of his latest series of fascinating stories THU shedding light on the human condition. THU THU In this programme, he looks at brainstorming and asks THU whether it really works. THU THU He travels to Latvia to investigate the story of how media THU PR agency Inspired came up with a bizarre idea after a THU mobile phone company asked them for a concept to advertise THU their new tariff. Their brief was that it had to have a THU superhero theme. The agency decided then to fake a meteorite THU landing in a field outside Riga by digging a giant hole in THU the middle of the night and setting fire to it. THU THU Jon finds out what happened when the stunt backfired. THU THU He also speaks to the author Susan Cain who says forty years THU of research into brainstorming in groups has shown it THU doesn't work. THU THU And Jon considers other brainstormed ideas that have gone THU wrong - such as the decision by the American restaurant THU chain Hooters, known for its young waitresses dressed in THU revealing outfits, THU to go into the airline business. THU THU Finally Jon asks whether we should listen more to quiet, THU thoughtful introverts who say little in brainstorming THU meetings, rather than the extroverts who shout loudest? THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 With Great Pleasure b01lhbgq (Listen) THU John Sessions THU THU The actor John Sessions introduces a selection of his THU favourite prose and poetry to an audience at the BBC Maida THU Vale studios. The readers are Roger Allam and Amanda Root. THU There are pieces that reflect on spirituality, including THU work by the metaphysical poets, like and John Donne's moving THU poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Lighter choices THU spring from John's childhood with extracts from Three Men in THU a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and a history lesson from 1066 And THU All That by Sellar and Yeatman. There's also Larkin's THU stunning poem 'Aubade', and a surprise archive appearance by THU the legendary blues man John Lee Hooker. THU Producer: Sarah Langan. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01rq99l (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01rtz8h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rq99q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rq99s (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rq99v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01rq99x (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rrc0s (Listen) FRI Anna Magnusson, writer and broadcaster, with spiritual FRI comment and prayer to start the day. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01rt4zx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01rrc0v (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah FRI Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01rqgz3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01rtz8m (Listen) FRI Mom and Me and Mom, Episode 5 FRI FRI When Maya Angelou is in Sweden for the filming of her first FRI screenplay she finds she needs some motherly support. The FRI formidable Vivian Baxter is on the next plane out. FRI FRI Read by Adjoa Andoh FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01rrc0x (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01rrc0z (Listen) FRI The Little Ottleys, Episode 5 FRI FRI Series Four (5 episodes) FRI FRI Madame Frabelle is keeping a very close eye on Miss FRI Flummerfelt. Neither aware that Bruce is trying to win FRI Edith back. Aylmer, fretting for the safety of his soldier FRI son, is desperate for Edith to stay with him and break her FRI promise to Bruce. FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI 11:00 Mind Changers b01rrc11 (Listen) FRI James Pennebaker and Expressive Writing FRI FRI Claudia Hammond returns with the history of psychology FRI series examining the work of the people who have changed our FRI understanding of the human mind. This week she meets the FRI American social psychologist, James Pennebaker, to discuss FRI his work on expressive writing. FRI FRI Pennebaker's ground-breaking experiment was published in FRI 1986; he showed that simply writing about one's emotions can FRI significantly improve one's health. His work revolutionised FRI how emotions are viewed within psychology. FRI FRI Claudia travelled to New Orleans, to the American Society FRI for Personality and Social Psychology annual gathering, to FRI speak to James Pennebaker, who was there to receive a FRI Distinguished Scholar Award and to take up the Society's FRI Presidency. She also met others who have worked with him and FRI taken his work on expressive writing forward in various FRI directions. These include Annette Stanton -Professor of FRI Psychology and Psychiatry at UCLA, Laura King - Professor of FRI Psychology at the University of Missouri at Columbia, Kent FRI Harber - Associate Professor of Psychology at Rutgers FRI University, Sam Gosling - Professor of Psychology at the FRI University of Texas at Austin, Adriel Boals - Associate FRI Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, FRI Matthias Mehl - Associate Professor of Psychology at the FRI University of Arizona, and John Weinman, Professor of FRI Psychology as Applied to Medicine at King's College. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 11:30 FindthePerfectPartner4u.com b01rrc13 (Listen) FRI Finding the Perfect Equation 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 Cast: FRI Tony..............................Henry Goodman FRI Angela and all Tony's internet dates.......Lia Williams FRI Mother / Marjory..................Marcia Warren FRI Miles.............................Karl Prekopp FRI Vice-Chancellor / Joanne's Husband / FRI Cast Member.......................Sam Kelly FRI Ricky / Banquo....................Tom Painter FRI Lady Macbeth......................Alexis White FRI Posh Girl at disco................Stephanie Georgeson FRI FRI Original Music: David Chilton FRI FRI Director: Gordon House FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01rrc15 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01rrc17 (Listen) FRI Val and Kelly - A Lasting Friendship FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between Val and FRI Kellymarie, who came together from different backgrounds to FRI face life's hardest challenges, including cancer and FRI multiple sclerosis. 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 b01rq9b1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01rrc19 (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 b01rrc1c (Listen) FRI Revolution and War FRI FRI Revolution and War: Episode twenty of a thirty-part series FRI made in collaboration with the British Library Sound FRI Archive. FRI FRI Paris 1789: Politics moves out of the palaces and into the FRI streets - as the hushed voice of court diplomacy gives way FRI to the angry howls of the crowd. FRI FRI Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex introduces FRI the noises of revolutionary Paris, before travelling to the FRI USA to explain how an 'acoustic shadow' helped the FRI Confederate forces launch a surprise attack during the FRI American Civil War. Also, there's the eerie sound of the FRI 'rebel yell'. FRI FRI Produced by Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01rr7zb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01rrc1f (Listen) FRI Legacy, Eden FRI FRI Legacy: Eden by Cath Staincliffe. FRI When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published FRI probate detectives, ex-police officer Dan and his ruthless FRI sister Rachel, hunt for a body backwards through the family FRI line to find the true heir and get a slice of the fortune. FRI FRI When Gordon Willshaw dies intestate Dan and Rachel's only FRI lead to an heir is through a woman's journal from 1952 FRI written in Kenya. Their investigation leads them to a FRI shocking discovery of the terrible events of the Mau Mau FRI rebellion and their search for an heir unearths long buried FRI secrets. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dan: William Ash FRI Rachel: Jo Hartley FRI Pauline: Alexandra Mathie FRI Young Pauline: Olivia Cooke FRI Gordon: Henry Devas FRI Mary: Yusra Warsama FRI Douglas: Hugh Simon FRI Gregory: Hugh Simon FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Writer: Cath Staincliffe FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01rrc2z (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition FRI FRI In this postbag edition, Eric Robson, Christine Walkden and FRI Anne Swithinbank visit Bob Flowerdew's garden in Norfolk. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 BS5 b01rrcs5 (Listen) FRI Only the Sure of Foot FRI FRI 3/3: Only the Sure of Foot by Ian Madden, read by John FRI Mackay. The last of three prizewinning stories from the FRI Bristol Short Story prize held in the city for the last five FRI years. 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. Only the Sure of Foot by Ian Madden won second prize FRI in 2010. Set in the Highlands of Scotland after the war, it FRI tells a quietly moving story of a long-standing family feud, FRI and one woman's efforts to heal it. FRI FRI Reader: John Mackay FRI Producer Sara Davies FRI FRI Since winning second place in the 2010 Bristol Short Story FRI prize, Ian Madden has won first prize in By Invitation Only: FRI A Collection of Short Stories published to celebrate the FRI inaugural National Short Story Week in 2010. He is working FRI on a novel. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01rrcs7 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01rrcs9 (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 b01rrcsc (Listen) FRI Andrew and Wendy - Picking Up the Pieces FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between Andrew and Wendy, FRI two railway managers, who speak candidly about dealing with FRI fatalities on the network, and the impact it has on their FRI lives. 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 b01rrcsf (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rq9b5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01rrcsh (Listen) FRI Series 80, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus, Daniel FRI Finkelstein, and Roisin Conaty. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01rrd88 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Adrian Flynn FRI Director ..... Peter Leslie Wild FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Shula Hebden LLoyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan .....Michael Fenton Stephens FRI Celia Redwood ..... Anita Dobson FRI Maurice Horton ..... Philip Fox FRI Jonathan Roberts ..... James Howard FRI Janice Longfield ..... Susan Jeffrey FRI Callum Longfield ..... Tommy Jessop. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01rrd8b (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Penny Murphy. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01rrc0z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01rrd8d (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Exeter with UKIP supporter Christine Hamilton, John FRI Cooper QC, and former Home Secretary Alan Johnson MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01rrd9c (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Noise: A Human History - Omnibus b01rrd9f (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI An omnibus edition of episodes from the fourth week of a FRI six-week series made in collaboration with the British FRI Library Sound Archive. FRI FRI Settlers arriving in America in the 17th century decreed the FRI songs and sounds of native American Indians to be barbaric FRI and wild - bloodcurdling hollering that might presage the FRI most brutal of deaths. Professor David Hendy of the FRI University of Sussex explores the colonial politics of FRI sound. FRI FRI He also squeezes among the crowded narrow alleys or 'wynds' FRI of 18th Century tenement buildings in Edinburgh and explains FRI how a similar cramped conditions in Paris led to a surreal FRI and brutal massacre of cats. FRI FRI David eavesdrops on the whispers, gossip and scandal of the FRI eighteenth century house, and tells the salacious tale of FRI John Burt, a navy captain from Canterbury, who took his FRI young wife Harriet to court for impropriety - on the FRI evidence of his cook. FRI FRI This week also includes the soundscapes of slavery, and of FRI civil conflict in 18th century Paris and 19th century FRI America. FRI FRI Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. FRI Produced by Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01rq9b9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01rrd9h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective FRI with Carolyn Quinn. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01rrd9k (Listen) FRI How Many Miles to Babylon?, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Andrew Scott FRI Producer Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01rr36x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 With Great Pleasure b01lswv2 (Listen) FRI Dr Phil Hammond FRI FRI Dr Phil Hammond's interests in comedy, journalism and the FRI world of medicine are reflected in his choice of literature FRI in this edition of With Great Pleasure. We hear from the man FRI who was his mentor in the world of comedy, Miles Kington; FRI there are extracts from the journalistic writings of Clive FRI James and Martha Gellhorn; and from the preface of The FRI Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw comes a salutary lesson for FRI contemporary medicine that was written over one hundred FRI years ago. FRI Producer Paul Dodgson. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01rrdbj (Listen) FRI Nigel and Roger - Peak Experiences FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between Nigel and Roger, FRI who climbed Mount Everest together, yet each found it to be FRI a very different experience. 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
05 April, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 06/04/2013 - 12/04/2013
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