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SAT SATURDAY 20 APRIL 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01rw928 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01rz3gc (Listen) SAT She Left Me the Gun, Episode 5 SAT SAT When journalist Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother, SAT Paula, said "One day I will tell you the story of my life SAT and you will be amazed." Growing up in a tranquil English SAT village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before SAT her. She knew she had grown up in South Africa and had seven SAT siblings. She had been told stories about deadly snakes and SAT hailstones the size of golf balls. There was mention, once, SAT of a trial. But most of the past was a mystery. SAT SAT When her mother dies of cancer, Emma - by then a successful SAT journalist at the Guardian - feels the need to uncover her SAT history. She travels to South Africa, to the extended family SAT she has never met, and unravels a daunting tale, the events SAT of which her mother had kept from her - events that, even SAT amongst her mother's siblings, were never discussed. SAT SAT Emma Brockes' story of her mother's past is warm and moving, SAT in moments upsetting, and ultimately redemptive, as she SAT rediscovers her mother. SAT SAT Emma Brockes is a feature writer at the Guardian. She SAT studied English at Oxford University, where she edited SAT Cherwell, the student newspaper, won the Philip Geddes Prize SAT for Journalism, and graduated with a first. In 2001 she won SAT Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards and SAT a year later was voted Feature Writer of the Year, the SAT youngest ever recipient of the award. Outside journalism she SAT has written a one act play called 'The Prompt', and a book SAT on musicals entitled, 'What Would Barbara Do? How Musicals SAT Changed My Life'. SAT SAT Writer: Emma Brockes SAT Reader: Alison Pettitt SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Listen to Emma Brockes on Woman's Hour SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01rw92b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01rw92d (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01rw92g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01rw92j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01rw93y (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr SAT David Stone, Canon Precentor of Coventry Cathedral. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01rw940 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01rw92l (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01rw92n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01rw2zv (Listen) SAT Lyme Regis SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis, along Dorset's Jurassic coast, SAT to explore the Undercliffs, a fascinating jungle-like SAT terrain that's been created by 200 years of landslips, and SAT is still evolving today. SAT SAT She learns that the exceptional rainfall of the last twelve SAT months has increased the geological instability of this area SAT that lies to the west of Lyme Regis, through which passes SAT the South West Coast Path. SAT SAT Helen meets geologists, naturalists, and the wildlife artist SAT Elaine Franks, all of whom are passionate about the striking SAT quality of the Undercliffs - a six mile stretch of land SAT that's the nearest to jungle conditions that can be found in SAT Britain. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01s02wt (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01rw92q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01s02x8 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and SAT Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day, Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01s02xb (Listen) SAT Eoin Colfer, Petula Clark, Mr Gwynne, Ben Fogle SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with the writer Eoin Colfer, SAT poet Luke Wright, strict grammarian Mr Gwynne, and a father SAT and son dealing with facial disfigurement. There's travel SAT with Ben Fogle, young butcher Charlotte Harbottle describes SAT her favourite sound, Pippa Diggle explains how she came to SAT be the subject of an iconic Norman Parkinson photograph, and SAT Petula Clark shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Sheringham. SAT SAT 10:30 Coronation Strasse b01s02xd (Listen) SAT Almost 30 years ago, the format of Coronation Street was SAT uprooted from Manchester and relocated to Munich. This clone SAT went on to become Germany's most popular soap, SAT LindenStrasse. SAT SAT Presenter John Jungclaussen (London correspondent for Die SAT Zeit magazine) heads to Germany to meet the cast and ask SAT whether LindenStrasse has managed to maintain any of its SAT Mancunian origins. SAT SAT He explores the nature of European soap opera and profile SAT what kind of stories they feature. We also compare the SAT sociological aspects of LindenStrasse to its British SAT equivalent and ask how story lines reflect social attitudes. SAT SAT Produced by Howard Shannon. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01s02xg (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01s02xn (Listen) SAT The Libyan Truffle SAT SAT Correspondents' stories: why President Assad may now believe SAT he's winning the argument; the garage man in Jordan SAT recruiting young Islamists to go fight in Syria; why SAT shackles are still being used to restrain some of the SAT mentally ill in Indonesia -- even though officially they are SAT banned; a truffle recipe's handed over at an army camp in SAT Syria and exciting days in the northernmost reaches of SAT Scandinavia as the annual reindeer migration approaches. SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01s02xq (Listen) SAT Bogus solicitor scam; the shine has gone off gold; check SAT your clocks for energy tariffs SAT SAT MORTGAGE FRAUD SAT You are buying a house. The mortgage and your deposit are SAT transferred into your solicitor's account. Your solicitor SAT transfers it to the seller's solicitor. And it disappears. SAT How does this happen? What can be done to stop it? We talk SAT to victims, lawyers and the Solicitors' Regulation SAT Authority. SAT SAT IS GOLD A HOLD? SAT The price of gold has crashed this month in the biggest two SAT day fall since Croesus - well almost. At its peak last year SAT gold approached $2000 dollars a troy ounce. But the price SAT has melted away and now is around $1400. With a fall of 15% SAT on the year but a gain of 52% over five years is now the SAT time to buy? Or to liquidate? And how can small retail SAT investors put real money into the golden nestegg? SAT SAT ECONOMY 7 SAT Between one in eight and one in five electricity customers SAT pay a cheaper rate for their power during the night. While SAT they sleep heaters, washing machines, and dishwashers are SAT busy using up cheap rate power. But is Economy 7 (or 10 or SAT 15) a useful way to save money? Or just a complex and SAT inflexible method of paying for energy? Especially when the SAT day/night clocks seem to pay no attention to summer time. SAT SAT HARGREAVES COSTS SAT The big new thing in online automated annuity quotes is SAT impaired life. In other words the annuity you buy if your SAT health is not good. Because you will a shorter time the SAT annual annuity you get in exchange for your pension lumpsum SAT is bigger - the money has to stretch over a shorter time. SAT Britain's only FTSE 100 financial manager Hargreaves SAT Lansdowne has just launched its own version. But there is SAT already controversy over the higher fees it charges for SAT impaired life quotes. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01rw8y8 (Listen) SAT Series 80, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Justin Moorhouse SAT and Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01rw92s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01rw92v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01rw8yg (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a special edition of Any SAT Questions? from Columbia University, New York, to mark the SAT first 100 days of President Obama's second term. He'll be SAT joined by Congresswoman Donna Edwards, Eliot Spitzer - 54th SAT Governor of New York, Harry Evans, Reuters Editor at Large, SAT and former Congresswoman Dr Nan Hayworth at Columbia SAT University New York. SAT Producer: Miles Ward. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01s02y6 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01s02y8 (Listen) SAT Before the Fact SAT SAT Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a SAT dramatisation of the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his SAT film, 'Suspicion' on. SAT SAT Set in the early 1930s, Emilia Fox plays the part of Lina - SAT a girl in her late twenties, from a wealthy family. In SAT danger of becoming a spinster, life changes for the better SAT when Lina meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who SAT proposes marriage. Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life SAT with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant SAT honeymoon. But on their return Lina begins to discover that SAT Johnnie is not all he seems. His gambling threatens to ruin SAT them but is her growing suspicion that he is also a murderer SAT founded on reality or her imagination? SAT SAT BEFORE THE FACT SAT By FRANCES ILES SAT Dramatised for radio by RONALD FRAME SAT SAT Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. SAT SAT Credits SAT Lina: Emilia Fox SAT Johnnie: Ben Caplan SAT Miss Sedbusk: Patricia Hodge SAT Capt Melbeck: Sam Dale SAT Thwaite: David Timson SAT Ethel: Hannah Wood SAT Dr Fielding: Rick Warden SAT Director: David Neville SAT Producer: David Neville SAT Writer: Ronald Frame SAT SAT 15:30 Lady Gaga v Heavy Metal: The Confusing World of Pop in SAT Indonesia b01rvpkd (Listen) SAT Lady Gaga was banned but Death Metal is cool - from the SAT streets and clubs of Jakarta, we hear the contradictions SAT that make up the burgeoning Indonesian music scene. SAT SAT As many young Indonesians have more cash in their pockets, SAT music promoters are seeing the country as a new opportunity SAT for high profile pop tours. Artists such as Beyoncé and SAT Rihanna have been booked to play in Jakarta, albeit modestly SAT dressed. SAT SAT But there have been frictions. The world took notice when SAT Lady Gaga's recent show in Jakarta was cancelled - local SAT authorities sat on the fence as conservative Islamic groups SAT called her the "devil's messenger." It seemed that despite SAT Jakarta's reputation as the "city of sin" (an unlikely SAT reputation for the capital city of the most populous muslim SAT country in the world) things were changing. SAT SAT Then American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, banned from SAT performing in some countries because of their graphic songs SAT about mutilation and necrophilia, was approved to play in SAT Jakarta. This is one of the contradictions in Indonesian pop SAT - discovering that heavy metal is on the rise amongst young SAT radical muslims. SAT SAT This documentary looks at these opposing forces and how the SAT music scene is taking shape in this influential city. SAT SAT Maria Bakkalapulo talks to the group Tengkorak, a SAT self-styled Islamic metal band sympathetic to FPI, the SAT Islamic Defenders Front, a hard-line Islamic group in SAT Indonesia notorious for vandalising nightclubs and even SAT breaking up concert gigs. Tengkorak & FPI were integral in SAT pushing Lady Gaga's show cancellation in Jakarta. SAT SAT Presenter: Maria Bakkalapulo - who has reporting on music SAT and culture in Indonesia for the past 8 years. SAT SAT Produced In London by Sara Jane Hall from sound recordings SAT by Niall Macaulay in Jakarta. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01s02z0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour - Sheryl Sandberg; Jahmene Douglas; The SAT Politician's Husband SAT SAT Facebook boss Sheryl Sandberg on why she's telling women to SAT 'lean in' if they want to make it to the top, X Factor SAT finalist Jahmene Douglas and his mother on how they survived SAT the trauma of domestic violence, TV writer Paula Milne talks SAT about political marriages ahead of her new BBC Two drama The SAT Politician's Husband, health expert Dr Helen Bedford makes SAT the case for the measles' vaccination, Anne Frank's step SAT sister Eva Schloss describes life beyond the Holocaust, SAT actor Suranne Jones and her role as one half of Scott and SAT Bailey, Jamaica through the eyes of author Kerry Young. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Wallace. SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01s02z2 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01rw940 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01rw92x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01rw92z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01rw931 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01s02z4 (Listen) SAT Julian Clary, Krister Henriksson, David Quantick, Sophie SAT Kinsella, Night Beds, Treetop Flyers SAT SAT There's Scandimania in the studio this week as Clive's SAT joined by Wallander himself, Swedish actor Krister SAT Henriksson. Krister's currently making his West end debut in SAT 'Doktor Glas'. Performed in Swedish with English subtitles SAT and is at Wyndham's Theatre, London until Saturday 11th May. SAT SAT Clive's got a ticket to ride with journalist and writer SAT David Quantick, who's written comedy drama 'Playhouse SAT Presents: Snodgrass' for Sky Arts 1. Based on the novella by SAT Ian R MacLeod, a 50 year old John Lennon sits in a dingy SAT kitchen, smoking a roll up, unemployed and on his uppers. SAT This is the John Lennon who walked out on the Beatles in SAT 1962, before the hits and before they changed music for SAT ever. It's on Thursday 25th April at 21.00 on Sky Arts 1. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi's having a sleepover with chicklit author Sophie SAT Kinsella. Having penned the 'Confessions Of A Shopaholic' SAT series of novels, Sophie's also written 'Sleeping SAT Arrangements' under her real name, Madeleine Wickham. It's SAT been adapted for the stage as a musical and is the story of SAT two families, one holiday villa - but who's sleeping with SAT whom? It's at London's Landor Theatre until Sunday 12th May. SAT SAT Clive has a Sticky Moment with self-proclaimed 'Lord of SAT Mince' and national treasure Julian Clary. Wedding bells are SAT ringing for Julian, whose show flirts in the face of SAT conformity and sees him welcome a selection of eligible SAT bachelors to the stage to win his hand in marriage. SAT 'Position Vacant: Apply Within' is touring until Sunday 2nd SAT June. SAT SAT Music is from London based Treetop Flyers, who perform SAT 'Things Will Change' from their album 'The Mountain Moves'. SAT SAT And from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Winston Yellen, SAT the brainchild of Night Beds, who performs '22' from his SAT album 'Country Sleep'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01s02z6 (Listen) SAT Robert Mueller SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who SAT is taking the lead in investigating the Boston Marathon SAT bombing. SAT SAT The squared-jawed Princeton graduate was decorated for his SAT bravery during the Vietnam War in the late '60s, before SAT training as a lawyer. Dissatisfied with private practice, he SAT landed a government job as assistant US attorney in San SAT Francisco, a move which marked the beginning of a steady SAT climb to the top job at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. SAT Sworn in as Director just one week before the 2001 World SAT Trade Center attacks, he transformed the FBI from an SAT organisation that investigates crime into one that seeks to SAT prevent terrorist attacks. He's now the longest-serving SAT director after J Edgar Hoover, and yet surprisingly little SAT is known about him. His few friends describe him as dutiful, SAT hardworking and dedicated, with a reputation for getting the SAT job done. SAT SAT But when he retires later this year, will he be remembered SAT as someone who won the war on terror at the expense of civil SAT liberties? Those who know him, and have worked alongside SAT him, offer their insights. SAT SAT Producer: Fiona Leach. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01s02z8 (Listen) SAT John le Carré's A Delicate Truth, and Matt Damon in Promised SAT Land SAT SAT John le Carré's new novel A Delicate Truth centres on the SAT aftermath of a counter-terror operation codenamed Wildlife SAT which takes place in Gibraltar. It raises difficult moral SAT and emotional territory for all involved and is described as SAT one of le Carré's most personal novels for many years. SAT SAT Promised Land is set in rural America and centres on whether SAT a community will say yes to fracking when a big corporation SAT arrives to try to buy up their land. Matt Damon and Frances SAT McDormand star; Gus van Sant directs. SAT SAT Ben Elton's first sitcom for 8 years is The Wright Way, set SAT in the Health and Safety department of a local council and SAT starring David Haig. Will it repeat the success of The Thin SAT Blue Line? SAT SAT Howard Brenton's new play focuses on the arrest of Chinese SAT artist Ai Weiwei and was written at his request: #aiww: The SAT Arrest of Ai Weiwei opens at the Hampstead Theatre. SAT SAT And Richard Patterson lost 4 paintings in the warehouse fire SAT that destroyed many of the works in the Saatchi collection SAT in 2004. Now he's re-created one of them and it's amongst SAT the work in his latest exhibition at the Timothy Taylor SAT Gallery. SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer, Bidisha and Christopher Frayling join Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01s02zb (Listen) SAT Dr K SAT SAT Henry Kissinger is the most celebrated figure in US foreign SAT policy, despite having left office over thirty-five years SAT ago. SAT SAT His much-vaunted "opening to China" with President Nixon in SAT 1972, his détente policy with the Soviet Union during the SAT Cold War and his shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East, SAT all saw Dr. Kissinger guiding American interests and seeking SAT durable power balances. Ever since then, each US president SAT has sought out Kissinger's sage advice. SAT SAT But Kissinger's reputation has a darker side. Some critics SAT still find inexcusable the Americans' bombing of Cambodia SAT and involvement in Chile's 1973 military coup. They also SAT deplore what they see as his indifference to human rights. SAT SAT In this programme, Mark Malloch Brown, a former Foreign SAT Office minister and top official at the United Nations, SAT presents a personal perspective on Dr. K. SAT SAT As a young man in the 1960s and 1970s, Mark was repelled by SAT what he saw as Kissinger's ruthless realpolitik and apparent SAT downplaying of the plight of peoples from IndoChina to Latin SAT America. SAT SAT However, over the course of his own long career, Mark's view SAT of Dr K has changed. The collapse of communism, the rise of SAT China and the problems left unresolved by the invasions of SAT Afghanistan and Iraq have led Mark to view Kissinger's SAT insights into foreign policy - and how to achieve stability SAT and security - more sympathetically. SAT SAT As Kissinger's 90th birthday nears, Mark asks: what are the SAT lessons of Dr K's thinking and practice for our own times? SAT SAT Also taking part are the historian, Margaret MacMillan; the SAT colleague and critic of Henry Kissinger, Morton Halperin; SAT the long-standing Kissinger aide, Winston Lord; and the SAT author of the award-winning critique of America's bombing of SAT Cambodia, William Shawcross. SAT SAT Producer Simon Coates. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01rv39j (Listen) SAT The Great Scott, The Fair Maid of Perth SAT SAT by Walter Scott. SAT SAT A beautiful glover's daughter is romantically pursued by a SAT warmongering blacksmith, a poetising prince, a hot-headed SAT clansman and a bumbling bonnet-maker in lawless 14th century SAT Scotland. SAT SAT In Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth, feeble King Robert SAT III is failing to stop his beloved country being torn apart SAT by warring clans and pillaging nobles - chaos reigns SAT supreme. When our heroine, Catharine Glover, suffers SAT heartbreak and tragedy at the hands of the vengeful Earl of SAT March, a terrible dilemma presents itself. SAT SAT Should she follow the dictates of her heart by marrying the SAT man she loves - or should she obey her father's wish and SAT shun a world of 'hard iron and barbaric cruelties' by SAT betrothing herself to Christ? SAT SAT Adapted for Radio by Scott Cherry SAT SAT With David Tennant as Walter Scott SAT SAT All other parts are played by members of the cast. SAT SAT Ruth Wall sings and plays Gaelic Harp. SAT SAT Music composed and performed by Ross Hughes and Esben SAT Tjalve. SAT SAT Produced and directed by Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Catherine Glover: Morven Christie SAT Her father: Hugh Ross SAT Henry Smith: Bryan Larkin SAT King Robert: Clive Russell SAT The Earl of March: Kenneth Cranham SAT Oliver Proudfoot: Forbes Masson SAT Conachar: Callum O'Neil SAT Louise the Minstrel: Olivia Morgan SAT A citizen: Richard Hansell SAT Walter Scott: David Tennant SAT Director: Clive Brill SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Writer: Scott Cherry SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01rw933 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b01rvpvm (Listen) SAT Series 6, Birth Order SAT SAT Does being the eldest child give you an advantage in life? SAT Does the youngest get away with more? Whether you're the SAT youngest or eldest child, or somewhere in the middle, your SAT position in the family may influence your attitude to SAT school, careers and relationships. In this edition of SAT Bringing Up Britain, Mariella and her guests will be looking SAT at the evidence and experience of how important your place SAT in the family pecking order is, and its potential SAT consequences. SAT SAT Why are more astronauts first borns? SAT SAT Can it really be true, as one study revealed that the first SAT born child has an IQ 2.3 points higher than their subsequent SAT siblings and as one longitudinal study has revealed, the SAT younger you are in your family, the shorter you are likely SAT to be. SAT SAT Mariella is joined around the table by anthropologist, SAT Professor Ruth Mace, clinical psychologist, Linda Blair and SAT family relationship counsellor Suzy Hayman to sift and SAT debate the evidence. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01rvnx3 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Leicester SAT SAT A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a SAT team of three University students take on a team of three of SAT their professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Leicester, the SAT specialist subjects are Medicine, Sociology and, quite SAT literally, Rocket Science (well, Astrophysics and Space SAT Physics), with questions ranging from tummy rumbling to SAT black holes via cheese, snooker and T.S. Eliot. 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 The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list. SAT SAT The host Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on SAT The Now Show, is also someone who delights in all facets of SAT knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational SAT background) but in the sciences as well. He has made a SAT number of documentaries for Radio 4, on subjects as varied SAT as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The Spleen" and SAT "Getting The Gongs" (an investigation into awards SAT ceremonies), as well as a comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang Day SAT set in the Large Hadron Collider, called "The Genuine SAT Particle". SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 The Bards of Whitelocks Bar b01rv3ml (Listen) SAT Poet Jean Sprackland visits the characterful Leeds city SAT centre bar, Whitelocks, famous for its poetic punters from SAT Betjeman to T S Eliot. In the company of poets Ian Duhig, SAT Jon Glover, Rommi Smith and Antony Dunn, she explores the SAT legacy of the postwar Leeds poetry renaissance that produced SAT such eminent poets as Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Jon SAT Silkin. SAT SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01s02ms (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Human Cradle b01bmq2x (Listen) SUN The Invisible Map SUN SUN In Maaza Mengiste's new short story, 'The Invisible Map', a SUN young Ethiopian woman, hoping for a better life in Europe, SUN finds herself trapped in a Libyan prison. Read by Adjoa SUN Andoh. SUN The second in our series of contemporary stories from the SUN Horn of Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. SUN Produced by Emma Harding SUN About the author: Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, SUN Ethiopia and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from SUN New York University. Her debut novel, the critically SUN acclaimed 'Beneath the Lion's Gaze', has been translated SUN into several languages and was a finalist for a SUN Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She teaches at NYU and SUN currently lives in New York City. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Emma Harding SUN Writer: Maaza Mengiste SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s02mv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s02mx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s02mz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01s02n1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01s0305 (Listen) SUN The bells of St.John the Baptist Church, Burford, SUN Oxfordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01s02z6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01s02n3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01s0307 (Listen) SUN Humility SUN SUN Classical scholar and Anglican minister Teresa Morgan SUN reflects on the concept of humility and whether or not it SUN remains relevant today. SUN SUN With readings from Aesop, Rudyard Kipling and Charles SUN Dickens, alongside music by Aretha Franklin, James Vincent SUN McMorrow and Hubert Parry. SUN SUN Producer: Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01s0309 (Listen) SUN Eating your garden - the ethnobotanist James Wong guides us SUN through eating the many edible plants in our gardens. There SUN are many crops that we could be growing for food but don't SUN think of eating, because we regard them as ornamental SUN flowers. Dahlia tubers are edible and make a good SUN alternative to potatoes, while hosta shoots are a delicacy SUN in Japan. SUN SUN Presented by James Wong and produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01s02n5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01s02n7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01s030c (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01s030f (Listen) SUN Minority Rights Group International SUN SUN Meera Syal presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Minority Rights SUN Group International SUN Reg Charity:282305 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Minority Rights Group International. SUN SUN Minority Rights Group International campaigns worldwide with SUN around 130 partners in over 60 countries to ensure that SUN disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the SUN poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard. Through SUN training and education, legal cases, publications and the SUN media, we support minority and indigenous people as they SUN strive to maintain their rights to the land they live on, SUN the languages they speak, to equal opportunities in SUN education and employment, and to full participation in SUN public life. SUN SUN We understand how discrimination based on age, class, gender SUN and disability can have a multiple impact on disadvantaged SUN minorities, and our campaigns target governments and SUN communities to eradicate such attitudes. SUN SUN Minority Rights Group International has over 40 years SUN experience of working with non-dominant ethnic, religious SUN and linguistic communities and we bring a long term view of SUN these issues to bear in all the work we do. SUN SUN We work with minorities as diverse as the Batwa in Central SUN Africa, Roma in Europe, Christians in Iraq and Dalits in SUN India and Nepal. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01s02n9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01s02nc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01s030h (Listen) SUN 'The Call of the Good Shepherd.' Fr Christopher Jamison OSB SUN preaches at Mass on this 50th World Day of Prayer for SUN Vocations, live from Our Lady and the English Martyrs, SUN Cambridge. Readings: Revelation 7:9, 14-17; SUN John 10:27-30; Celebrant: Mgr Peter Leeming. Director of SUN Music: Nigel Kerry; Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01rw8yj (Listen) SUN Adam Gopnik's son is about to leave home. His suitcase is SUN already packed. It's not a day Adam is looking forward to. SUN Why is love between parents and their children so SUN asymmetric, he wonders? Why do parents love their children SUN infinitely - while children feel about their parents, at SUN best, a mix of affection, pity, tolerance and forgiveness? SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Richard Knight SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01s030k (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01s030m (Listen) SUN Writer .... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter .... Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens SUN Celia Redwood ..... Anita Dobson SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Des Chapman ..... Ben Crowe SUN 1st Police Officer ..... Ben Whybrow SUN 2nd Police Office ..... Rob Swinton. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01s030p (Listen) SUN Coronation Maids SUN SUN When Britain's 27-year-old newly crowned Queen emerged from SUN Westminster Abbey on June 2 1953, she was flanked by her SUN Maids of Honour: six of the country's most blue-blooded SUN young women, all single, beautiful and, like the Queen, SUN wearing gowns by Hartnell. SUN SUN According to Lady Glenconner, then 20-year-old Lady Anne SUN Coke, daughter of the Earl of Leicester, they were seen as SUN the Spice Girls of their day. SUN SUN The Maids' wardrobes and social lives were gossip-column SUN fodder, and sometimes even front-page news, from the moment SUN their identities were revealed until the day of the SUN Coronation. In their New Look suits and demure hats and SUN heels they would be endlessly photographed as the nation, SUN still in the grip of post-war austerity, hungered for some SUN light relief. SUN SUN Queen Elizabeth followed a precedent set by Queen Victoria SUN by having Maids of Honour instead of pages to bear her SUN Coronation train. It was their duty to unfurl the cumbersome SUN train as she alighted from the Gold State Coach outside SUN Westminster Abbey and hold it aloft using six silk handles SUN invisibly stitched into its underside. SUN SUN 'Ready, girls?' the Monarch asked her attendants as they SUN paused at the Abbey doors to begin their historic procession SUN to the altar. SUN SUN Now, 60 years on from that historic day they join Sue SUN MacGregor in The Reunion. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01rvnxc (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 2 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Rhod Gilbert, Richard Osman, Lucy Beaumont and John SUN Finnemore are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as moles, cabbages, trains SUN and the BBC. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01s0323 (Listen) SUN Food on the Road SUN SUN There's an army of lorries at work right now, transporting SUN food and other goods all over the country. They keep food on SUN our shelves and without them the UK's economy would collapse SUN within days. SUN SUN But what's it like to work, live - and eat - on the road? SUN SUN Reporter Andrew Webb spends a day at the Orwell Crossing SUN truck stop near the port of Felixstowe, with its 24-hour SUN restaurant. Truck driver Dougie Rankine shares an audio SUN diary of his perspective from high up in his cab, searching SUN for the right meal at all times of day and night. Veteran SUN driver John Eden recalls stopping off for nocturnal SUN breakfasts in a notorious truck stop after negotiating SUN 'suicide alley'. SUN SUN In this edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon reveals SUN a food story on very big wheels. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01s02nf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01s0325 (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 The Chinese Grand Tour b01s452x (Listen) SUN Overseas Chinese tourism is on the rise. Around 30 million SUN Chinese took foreign vacations last year. Chinese visitors SUN are venturing to Britain in increasing numbers, encouraged SUN by their home government, keen that Chinese citizens are SUN seen to be enjoying the fruits of the country's economic SUN miracle. SUN And Chinese visitors abroad are left in no doubt that they SUN are representing their country. Official circulars remind SUN them to act as "ambassadors" for their country. Several SUN times in the past few years the Spiritual Civilisation SUN Steering Committee of the Communist Party has issued bossy SUN instructions calling on Chinese tourists to avoid spitting, SUN queue-jumping, loudness or haggling in shops with fixed SUN prices. SUN The favoured mode of travel for Chinese visitors to Britain SUN is the planned bus tour, but the route these bus tours SUN follow is rather idiosyncratic. Whereas most foreign SUN tourists to Britain follow a predictable tourist trail - SUN Buckingham Palace, ruined Castles, beautiful cathedrals and SUN quaint market towns, the Chinese are more interested in SUN seeing places with a Chinese connection. SUN The Willow Tree in Cambridge is famous in China because it SUN is where the modern poet Xu Zhimo wrote his poem "On Leaving SUN Cambridge." Bus loads of Chinese Tourists stop there now. SUN Philip Dodd boards a coach and goes with the Chinese SUN tourists who have an idiosyncratic view of Britain and SUN spends a night with them in Manchester's Chinatown. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01rw8xy (Listen) SUN Ickenham SUN SUN This week Gardeners' Question Time is in Ickenham, Middlesex SUN with Eric Robson in the chair and Chris Beardshaw, Pippa SUN Greenwood and Matthew Wilson taking questions from the SUN audience. SUN SUN While the international debate continues about the alarming SUN decline in numbers of bees and what we can do to help them, SUN Matthew Wilson looks at why bee memory is important and what SUN gardeners can do to encourage bees in their gardens. SUN SUN For more details on pollinator-friendly plants mentioned in SUN the programme, please visit: SUN http://www.lbka.org.uk/pollinator_friendly_plants.html SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01s0327 (Listen) SUN The strength of community, the changes over three SUN generations in Northern Ireland, and memories of the SUN glamorous 1950s are all featured by Fi Glover in this Sunday SUN Edition of Radio 4's series that proves it's surprising what SUN you hear 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 Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01s0329 (Listen) SUN The Great Scott, Rob Roy SUN SUN Rob Roy by Walter Scott SUN Adapted by Robin Brooks SUN SUN Our Rob Roy has dispensed with the Jacobite setting and SUN updates the story to the 20th century. It is 1924 and SUN 20-year-old Frank falls foul of his father. He has spent a SUN year in Paris, supposedly learning the business, but SUN actually hanging out with Imagist poets. When he refuses to SUN join the business his father sends him north to stay with SUN his Uncle - a radical and mixed up in the cause of Irish SUN Nationalism. SUN SUN Scott's book doesn't really depend on the historical SUN trappings on which the author's reputation now rests. A son SUN being banished by his father because he wants to be a SUN long-haired poet is a perennial situation, as is the SUN love-triangle between Frank, Die Vernon and her wicked SUN cousin Rashleigh. With this production the listener is asked SUN to regard Scott as a novelist like any other, concerned with SUN the workings of the human heart and how they play out in a SUN society more like ours. SUN SUN With David Tennant as Walter Scott SUN All other parts were played by members of the cast SUN The music was composed and performed by Ross Hughes and SUN Esben Tjalve SUN SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Frank: Paul Ready SUN Die Vernon: Denise Gough SUN Rob Roy: Mark Bonnar SUN Quentin: Christian Rodska SUN Frank's Father: Christian Rodska SUN Rashleigh: Joe McFadden SUN Owen: Michael Eaves SUN Uncle Hilary: Stuart McGugan SUN Vernon: Stuart McGugan SUN The Post Master: Stuart McGugan SUN O'Brien: Paul Reid SUN Dougal: Callum O'Neill SUN Henry: Callum O'Neill SUN Cummings: Callum O'Neill SUN Walter Scott: David Tennant SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN Writer: Robin Brooks SUN Composer: Ross Hughes SUN Composer: Esben Tjalve SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01s032c (Listen) SUN Harlan Coben on his novel Six Years SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents the best new fiction and SUN non-fiction, talking to writers and unearthing lost SUN classics. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 What I Read to the Dead: Wladislaw Szlengel b01s032f (Listen) SUN Writer Eva Hoffman explores the extraordinary verse and SUN little known life of Wladislaw Szlengel, poet of the Warsaw SUN Ghetto. Before the war and the Nazi invasion of Poland, he SUN had written poetry in his native tongue and witty lyrics for SUN popular tunes sung in the nightclubs of Warsaw. But SUN confinement in the Warsaw Ghetto and its increasingly tragic SUN circumstances changed Szlengel's work into urgent bulletins SUN for both fellow Jews, trapped inside the walls of their SUN prison city, and his former Polish neighbours. SUN SUN Szlengel wrote until his last days which came with the SUN discovery of their hiding place in April 1943. Poems like SUN The Little Station of Treblinka, What I Read to the Dead and SUN Counterattack captured with ruthless immediacy the confused, SUN terrifying, days and nights of Ghetto life until the SUN beginnings of the doomed uprising in 1943 that finally SUN brought total destruction. SUN SUN The station is tiny, SUN Three firs grow in a line, SUN This is Treblinka station, SUN Says the ordinary sign. SUN SUN There's not even a cashier's window, SUN A porter's room? Do not seek it. SUN For a million you won't get SUN A simple return ticket. SUN SUN People read aloud Szlengel's verses in their hiding places. SUN In them they recognized not just their plight but their own SUN humanity as family and friends continued to be deported. His SUN poetry survived in versions committed to memory by a handful SUN of survivors, in a small cache of poems kept safe and buried SUN in a unique, secret archive and, decades later, in the form SUN of a sheaf of pages found hidden inside a table marked for SUN firewood. SUN SUN 'I am looking through and sorting the poems that were SUN written to those who are no more. Read it. This is our SUN history. SUN This is what I read to the dead. SUN SUN Reader Elliot Levey SUN Producer Mark Burman. SUN SUN 17:00 How to Have a Good Death b01rvpq1 (Listen) SUN Death is a certainty for us all, but discussions about it SUN are taboo in Britain today. SUN SUN Where and how most people die has been in the spotlight SUN recently as the media have been publishing criticisms about SUN the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient. The SUN pathway is an end of life care plan - a document designed to SUN help doctors and nurses support people holistically in the SUN last hours or days of life. But concerning reports from SUN relatives and friends have prompted the government to SUN commission an inquiry into how the Pathway is being used. SUN SUN Dr Kevin Fong, consultant anaesthetist and broadcaster, SUN looks into this difficult issue. He goes to Liverpool to SUN speak with the architects of the Liverpool Care Pathway. SUN Kevin also meets palliative care experts from around the UK SUN to discover how to achieve best practice in end of life care SUN and why this sometimes doesn't happen. He hears about both SUN good and bad deaths. Ian Leech talks about how the Liverpool SUN Care Pathway helped his 20-year-old daughter Mel to die SUN peacefully in 2008. Dr Kate Granger, a geriatric registrar SUN who is dying from a rare type of cancer shares her detailed SUN ambitions for a good death, perhaps reminding us of the SUN wider issue - that we and our loved ones need to plan and SUN communicate about the final event of our lives. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01s02z6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01s02nk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01s02nm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s02np (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01s032h (Listen) SUN Caz Graham chooses the best of BBC Radio this week... SUN SUN There's a sharp idea for the Chancellor in Pick of the Week: SUN why not tax pets?! It could pay off the national debt! SUN SUN There's the bus trip of Chinese tourists off to see the UK's SUN iconic sights.like Old Trafford and a certain magical café SUN in Edinburgh. There's jazz from Louis Armstrong, and Banjo, SUN yes, Banjo from actor Steve Martin. SUN SUN And a look "the eroding coastline of British normality' with SUN Jon Ronson and a man who may have "intermittent explosive SUN disorder". Which sounds pretty painful SUN SUN Mark Thomas's Manifesto - Radio 4 SUN The Flea (Afternoon Drama) - Radio 4 SUN A Natural History of Me - Radio 4 SUN Granta Best of Young British Novelists (Book at Bedtime) - SUN Radio 4 SUN She Left Me The Gun (Book of the Week) - Radio 4 SUN The Man Who Turned The World Upside Down - World Service SUN Remembering Humph - Radio 2 SUN The Food Programme - Radio 4 SUN The Chinese Grand Tour - Radio 4 SUN The Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe - Radio 2 SUN Mr Capra Goes To Hollywood - Radio 4 SUN Open Country - Radio 4 SUN John Ronson on..- Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01s032k (Listen) SUN Elona is distraught, and there are more than a few home SUN truths flying around. SUN SUN Producer: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN 19:15 Believe It! b01hxmw4 (Listen) SUN Boots 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 SUN All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are SUN wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery. SUN (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed SUN reference to his famous catchphrase.) SUN SUN Richard is supported by a small core cast viz SUN David Tennant SUN John Sessions SUN Lewis Macleod SUN Arabella Weir SUN and Jane Slavin SUN who play 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 b01s032m (Listen) SUN Fidelity 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 3. Fidelity SUN Victor Cullen is a renowned travel writer, a stickler for SUN research. SUN Then one day he starts making his journeys up.. SUN SUN Reader Peter Marinker SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01rw8y2 (Listen) SUN The measles outbreak in South Wales has been near the top of SUN the national news agenda for weeks. Time was that, whenever SUN the MMR jab was mentioned, so too was the alleged connection SUN to autism. Now, BBC reports state baldly that any suggested SUN link has been "totally discredited". Are they right to be so SUN categoric? Roger discusses the issue with the BBC's Medical SUN Correspondent Fergus Walsh. SUN SUN What makes for a good "quizzer"? We go behind the scenes SUN with Rufus Stilgoe as he prepares for his first appearance SUN on Radio 4's Counterpoint. SUN SUN Local radio listeners upset by their treasured evening shows SUN being replaced by an All England Show go head-to-head with SUN David Holdsworth, the BBC's Controller of English Regions. SUN SUN And we're looking for your questions for Gwyneth Williams, SUN the Controller of Radio 4. We'll be talking to Gwyneth in a SUN week's time, so be sure to send us your questions as soon as SUN possible. Some listeners will even be able to put their SUN points to the Controller directly. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01rw8y0 (Listen) SUN A conductor, a Hillsborough campaigner, an album cover SUN designer, an immunologist and an ethnomusicologist SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The conductor Sir Colin Davis - acclaimed interpreter of SUN Mozart and Berlioz SUN SUN Anne Williams - whose 15 year old son Kevin died in the SUN Hillsborough tragedy. She was a prominent campaigner on SUN behalf of victims. SUN SUN The album cover designer Storm Thorgerson, best known for SUN his work with Pink Floyd. SUN SUN The immunologist Brigitte Askonas whose work led to the SUN development of many new vaccines SUN SUN And Olive Lewin the musicologist who devoted her life to SUN re-vitalising the folk music traditions of Jamaica. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01s02xq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01s030f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01rw3yw (Listen) SUN Indian Identity SUN SUN The government of India has embarked on a huge programme to SUN give the whole population, 1.2 billion people, a unique SUN identity number backed by fingerprint and eyeball scans. SUN Peter Day SUN asks whether the ID scheme will cut poverty as it is SUN intended to or, as critics allege, create a SUN Big Brother state. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01s032p (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 b01s032r (Listen) SUN Tom Newton Dunn of The Sun analyses how newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01rw3yf (Listen) SUN Jeremy Irons on Trashed; new Pierce Brosnan romcom Love Is SUN All You Need SUN SUN This week the Film Programme debates whether films can SUN really change the world. Francine Stock talks to Jeremy SUN Irons about his documentary Trashed which looks at global SUN waste and discusses the feature film Promised Land, starring SUN Matt Damon and Frances McDormand, which tackles fracking. SUN She asks Dave Calhoun, Film Editor of Time Out and Oli SUN Harbottle of Dogwoof films if these films with a mission SUN bring in the audiences. SUN SUN The director Susanne Bier explains why she wanted to SUN reinvent the rom com formula with her new film, Love is All SUN You Need, starring Pierce Brosnan. SUN SUN And we hear from the actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz SUN about his new film Rebellion, based on real events in New SUN Caledonia in 1988 when French soldiers controversially SUN suppressed an uprising by Kanak separatists. Kassovitz, who SUN made the critically-acclaimed La Haine, explains why SUN Rebellion was a labour of love which caused heated reaction SUN when released in France. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01s0307 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 APRIL 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01s02pm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01rvpv7 (Listen) MON English Heritage; Clergy Lives MON MON Heritage politics in the UK - Laurie Taylor talks to Ruth MON Adams, the author of a new study which argues that powerful MON interest groups have championed a 'country house' version of MON our national past in place of a more complex and diverse MON history. Has the heritage lobby transformed the MON architectural heritage of the aristocracy from a minority MON interest to a cause with popular support? And, if so, at MON what cost? Also, Dr Caroline Gatrell discusses her MON sociological exploration of the every day lives of modern MON day parish priests with her co- author, Dr Nigel Peyton, the MON Bishop of Brechin. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01s0305 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s02pp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s02pr (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s02pt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01s02pw (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s4540 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr MON David Stone, Canon Precentor of Coventry Cathedral. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01s09jn (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01s02py (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01s09jq (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah MON Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01s09js (Listen) MON Bernardo Bertolucci MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe looks at the cultural MON history of Italy. The world renowned film director, Bernardo MON Bertolucci discusses his latest film Me and You. The MON journalist and film-maker Annalisa Piras looks back at her MON country's political, economic and social decline over the MON last two decades while the English born conductor with MON Italian roots, Antonio Pappano, talks about the musical soul MON of Italy. And Tim Parks offers a portrait of his adopted MON homeland - the 'charmingly irritating dystopian paradise' of MON Italy - as he travels the country by train. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01s09jv (Listen) MON Letters from Italy, Prof Gustavo Piga MON MON Economist Professor Gustavo Piga is the first contributor in MON a series of Five letters from leading Italians from the MON fields of politics, economics, television, art and MON journalism. MON MON Professor Piga of Rome University is interested, not only in MON the broad economic issues which find Italy struggling near MON the bottom of the European heap, but also in the prevailing MON attitudes of his fellow countrymen and in particular the MON young people he teaches. MON MON He talks about Italy's migration story and how the recent MON troubles have re-ignited a process which sees the best of MON young Italian graduates looking for a future overseas. He MON also tackles the notion that the young are defeated and MON defeatist about the crisis. MON MON At a time when Italy is in the spotlight, both for the MON changing of the Pope but more especially for the recent MON election results and the economic fragility that has brought MON austerity and anger, each of the letter writers talks about MON their sense of Italy today, it's challenges, the dangers it MON faces and the possibilities for the future. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s09jx (Listen) MON Body image; Hadley Freeman; Dorothy Koomson; a Domestic MON Violence Initiative; Ana Moura MON MON Hadley Freeman with tips for modern ladies. Ana Moura sings MON fado. Dorothy Koomson on The Ice Cream Girls. Reporting MON domestic violence - how can housing associations and MON neighbours help? MON MON Presenter Jane Garvey MON Producer Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b01s09jz (Listen) MON Confusion, Episode 1 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard MON dramatised by Sarah Daniels MON MON Polly will not allow herself to grieve over the death of her MON mother. MON MON Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow MON MON 'Confusion' is the third of four compelling Cazalet novels MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard, which together give a vivid MON insight into the lives, hopes and loves of three generations MON during the Second World War and beyond. MON MON As Elizabeth Jane Howard enters her 90th Birthday year, MON Radio 4 are broadcasting dramatisations of all four novels MON between January and August 2013. MON You can catch up with series two, The Cazalets: Marking MON Time, on iplayer. MON MON The third series is set between 1942 and 1945: For the MON Cazalet family the war has brought tragedy; MON Rupert has been missing since Dunkirk and only his daughter MON Clary refuses to believe he is dead, whilst her step-mother MON Zoe has buried her hope and devotes her energy to bringing MON up their daughter Juliet. At home, Sybil has lost her battle MON with cancer leaving Polly bereft and trying to comfort her MON father, Hugh. Even Edward seems wracked with doubt over MON whether he should give up his mistress, Diana, who is MON carrying his child and try and make a go of things with MON Villy once again. The younger generation seems as confused MON as their parents: Louise makes a hasty marriage to society MON painter Michael Hadleigh giving up her dreams of being an MON actress, whilst Polly and Clary finally convince the family MON they can move to London but the girls are soon to discover MON that independence and adulthood brings heartbreak of its MON own. MON MON When Elizabeth Jane Howard began writing the novels her aims MON were modest. "I wanted to write about my youth, and the ten MON years that straddled the Second World War. I also wanted to MON write about what domestic life was like for people at home. MON A lot has been written about the battles and the war in a MON more direct sense, but little had been said about the way MON the whole of England changed. When the war ended, everybody MON was in a different position from where they were when it MON started." MON Two decades later, Howard's quartet of books -- The Light MON Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off - charting MON the family's fortunes between 1937 and 1947 have sold over a MON million copies. MON Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with MON Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her MON generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a MON freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity." MON MON A star cast includes Penelope Wilton as the narrator, Pip MON Torrens, Dominic Mafham, Naomi Frederick, Helen Schlesinger, MON Raymond Coulthard, Zoe Tapper, Alix Wilton Regan, Flora MON Spencer-Longhurst and Georgia Groome. MON MON 'Casting Off' follows in July. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Edward: Pip Torrens MON Hugh: Dominic Mafham MON Polly: Flora Spencer-Longhurst MON Clary: Georgia Groome MON Diana: Lisa Dillon MON Mr Green: Ben Crowe MON Director: Sally Avens MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON MON 11:00 Journeys down My Street b01s09k1 (Listen) MON Ode to Finchleystrasse 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 3.Ode to Finchleystrasse MON MON After the Nazi annexation of Austria, 75 years ago in March MON 1938, Vienna's large Jewish community fled - some to Glasgow MON and Manchester but the vast majority to the area of MON North-West London close to Swiss Cottage. MON MON The area became so full of German-speaking refugees that MON anecdotes tell of war-time bus conductors calling out MON "Finchleystrasse - Passports Please!" as the bus drew up at MON the top of the Finchley Road. MON MON The shops and cafes are no longer there, but a vibrant group MON of elderly refugees share their memories of Finchleystrasse MON with historian Mike Berlin and reflect on their conflicting MON desires to recreate the best of Vienna whilst assimilating MON into British society. MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON 11:30 The Rita Rudner Show b01s09k3 (Listen) MON Diamond Encrusted Turtle Holder MON MON The fourth and final episode of American comedian Rita MON Rudner's new sitcom about her chaotic return to the UK after MON a fifteen year break - written by Rita and her real life MON husband Martin Bergman. MON MON With the help of her husband Martin (Martin Trenaman) Rita MON is forced to cope with a very unfamiliar England and meets MON an array of odd characters, including hotelier Mrs Harrison MON (played by the wonderful Phyllida Law) and various guests at MON the hotel - such as The Fabulous Twins who try to help MON Martin buy a gift for Rita, without much success. MON MON Meanwhile, Rita's agent Phil hopes to get some help from MON Alan Carr - but there's a mix up and eventually Rita is MON forced to host a charity auction. Rita's also frustrated by MON a well - meaning support comedian, Jim Jenson who ends up MON being a major hindrance. MON MON With some more classic stand up from Rita Rudner and a MON stellar supporting cast including Michael Fenton Stevens, MON Alan Carr, Dominic Frisby and Amy Wilson Thomas. MON MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Rita Rudner MON Actor: Martin Trenaman MON Actor: Phyllida Law MON Actor: Michael Fenton Stevens MON Actor: Alan Carr MON Actor: Dominic Frisby MON Actor: Amy Wilson Thomas MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Rita Rudner MON Writer: Martin Bergman MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01s09k5 (Listen) MON Online medical records, doing your bit for charity, the MON hi-tech tea making machine MON MON Could a social media website help NHS patients to take MON control of their medical records? Some charities say they're MON struggling to persuade people to give their time to local MON community work. Why is that so many people are happy to MON donate money, but reluctant to give their time to charities? MON What would it take to persuade you to get involved in MON supporting others in your local community? The woman seeking MON damages from her lawyer after her daughter was left MON partially deaf after a vaccination. The Cambridge engineers MON who've designed a new hi-tech tea-making machine. MON Email the programme via youandyours@bbc.co.uk MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01s02q0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01s09k7 (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 b01s09k9 (Listen) MON Shell Shock MON MON Shell Shock: Episode twenty-six of a thirty-part series made MON in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. MON MON The rumble of artillery bombardment in Northern France could MON be heard as far away as Kent during the First World War. Up MON close in the trenches, soldiers experienced a sonic MON onslaught that continued night and day: howling shells, the MON machine gun's rattle, and the screams of injured men. MON MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex visits MON Flanders to relay echoes from the Front. MON MON Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. MON Producer: Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01s032k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ntg5c (Listen) MON Two Pipe Problems, I Love a Lassie MON MON Sandy decides to travel to Greenock on Clydeside to collect MON his Freedom of the City award. As he has no living relatives MON or close friends, he invites William to accompany him on MON condition he behaves himself. Once again MON Stanley Baxter and Richard Briers play the two elderly MON detectives who solve mysteries by stealth and intuition. MON MON When Sandy and William arrive in the old shipbuilding town, MON they meet the Provost's secretary Moira. It becomes clear MON that his hosts really know virtually nothing about Sandy - MON in fact Moira asks to interview him so she can write up the MON Provost's speech for the ceremony. MON MON The following day, Sandy shows William around his MON birthplace. They visit the tenement where he was born and MON meet a man he was at school with. He isn't wholly friendly MON and, when they return to the hotel, there is a message: "Do MON you know how much pain you left behind. Why?". Sandy is MON anxious, especially when another message appears on the MON morning of the ceremony: "Why, oh why? Now it's your turn to MON feel the pain. You will suffer as others have suffered". MON MON So the race is on to uncover who exactly is out to get Sandy MON and why. The solution to the riddle is finally revealed at MON the Freedom of Greenock ceremony, when the roots of MON everyone's resentment are uncovered. MON MON Director : 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 Provost: John Sessions MON Station Assistant: John Sessions MON Moira: Gabriel Quigley MON Janice: Maureen Beattie MON Macca: Gordon Kennedy MON Train Guard: Gordon Kennedy MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Writer: Michael Chaplin MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01s09kc (Listen) MON Series 3, Bath Spa University MON MON A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a MON team of three University students take on a team of three of MON their professors. MON MON Coming this week from Bath Spa University, the specialist MON subjects are Creative Music Technology, Creative Writing and MON Physical and Environmental Geography, with questions ranging MON from VAT rates and model railways all the way to Meet The MON Kardashians and the Ku Klux Klan - via Mo Farah and Dame MON Nellie Melba. 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 b01s0323 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 And Calm of Mind b01s09kf (Listen) MON Ex-soldiers turn to Shakespeare to tackle the symptoms of MON post-traumatic stress. Chris Ledgard follows The Combat MON Veteran Players as they take Henry V from a community hall MON to a West End theatre. Support comes from the stage combat MON experts at the Royal Shakespeare Company - they come in to MON teach the soldiers how to act to be soldiers. Members of the MON cast tell us their personal stories and one explains why, MON after a young adulthood spent abroad and in the army, "civvy MON street" is his new battleground. Only a few of the group MON have acted before, and we hear them coached in the rhthyms MON of Shakespearean verse. And we're backstage as they prepare MON to go on in front of a paying audience. "I'd rather take a MON patrol around Belfast" says the man playing the French MON herald, Montjoy. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01s09kh (Listen) MON Series 3, Transgression MON MON Here be trolls… MON MON What is it about the digital world that encourages normal MON people to disregard the rules of everyday life? Is it the MON cloak of anonymity the net offers? The social rules of MON online communities? Or simply human nature? MON MON This week, Aleks Krotostki delves into the dark side of the MON digital world to explore whether or not the internet fuels MON the breakdown of social and moral boundaries. MON MON She speaks to a troll who claims Jesus and Socrates as her MON forebears, Dave Eshleman who was one of the guards in the MON infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and Professor Alex MON Haslam who recreated the experiment for the BBC, with MON startlingly different results. MON MON Dave Eshleman MON In 1971 Dave Eshleman was assigned the role of a guard in MON the Stanford Prison Experiment. He tells us about the MON experiment, what factors influenced his actions and shares MON his views of how the anonymity of the online world can lead MON to cruel and hostile behaviour. MON MON Professor Alex Haslam MON Alex Haslam is of Psychology at the University of MON Queensland. In 2002 he led a recreation of the Stanford MON Prison Experiment for the BBC. He explains why the BBC MON experiment was so different from the original Zimbardo study MON and the numerous situational factors that can lead to MON negative behaviour. MON MON Jonathan Mahler MON Jonathan Mahler, journalist and author of 'Ladies and MON Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning' talks to us about the MON dramatically different blackouts in New York in 1965 and MON 1977, and explains how why social decline in the city lead MON to an explosion of anger on the streets. MON MON 17:00 PM b01s09kk (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s02q2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01s09km (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 3 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. Ed Byrne, Mark Watson, Tony Hawks and Lucy MON Porter are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as the horn, windows, MON monkeys and grass. 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 b01s09kp (Listen) MON David makes a discovery, and Tom is having a difficult time. MON MON Producer: Vanessa Whitburn MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01s09kr (Listen) MON Cultural Exchange: Tracey Emin on Vermeer MON MON With Mark Lawson, including the launch of the Cultural MON Exchange project, in which 75 leading creative minds share MON their passion for a book, film, poem, piece of music or MON other work of art. Tonight Tracey Emin on her favourite MON painting - Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON Tracey Emin MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b01s09jz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 How to Run Europe b01s09kt (Listen) MON Charlemagne - Holy Roman Conqueror MON MON In the second of three programmes, Anne McElvoy explores the MON challenges of governing the peoples of Europe across three MON of the continent's great empires ...and the parallels today. MON MON The second leg of Anne's journey through Europe takes her to MON Aachen in Germany. Aachen today lies at a crossroads of the MON continent, a mile or two from both modern-day Belgium and MON the Netherlands; once it was, as Aix-la-Chapelle, part of MON France. And in the late 700s AD it was the capital of MON Europe, of the Holy Roman Empire founded by the Emperor MON Charles 1st, Karolus Magnus, better known as Charlemagne. MON MON Anne McElvoy is joined in Aachen by Professor Rosamond MON McKitterick of Cambridge University to visit the Palatine MON chapel, all that remains of Charles's imperial palace and MON containing the rough-hewn stone throne of the Carolingian MON Emperors. There too they explore how Charlemagne managed to MON run his vast empire, and discover whether some of the MON challenges faced by those today whose job it is to bring MON Europe together had parallels twelve hundred years ago. MON MON Hymned in literature's Song of Roland as the hero of the MON battle of Roncevalles, Charlemagne had dominion far from his MON own lands of Austrasia, of which Aachen was the capital. MON Stretching from Aquitaine in the west, to the Spanish MON Marches in the south and as far south east as Rome, his MON conquests gave him a formidable empire, united by MON Charlemagne's Christian faith - he was Holy Roman Emperor, MON crowned by the Pope - by learning and culture which he MON encouraged, and by Carolingian coinage. So to what extent do MON these unifying characteristics from 800AD have equivalents MON in the Europe of Angela Merkel, David Cameron and the MON euro-crisis? MON MON Producers Simon Elmes & Georgia Catt. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01rw2zg (Listen) MON Mexico's Village Vigilantes MON MON Linda Pressly meets the vigilantes fighting Mexico's MON criminal gangs in Guerrerro State. MON El Salvador's Gang Truce MON A Death in Honduras MON Murder, migration and Mexico MON MON 21:00 Material World b01rw3yh (Listen) MON Iranian Earthquake; Zebrafish; Curiosity Rover MON MON The most powerful earthquake in Iran for half a century MON happened this week. More than 60 times the energy was MON released compared to the one nearby ten years ago which MON destroyed much of the city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. MON Yet so far the death toll from Tuesday's earthquake is far MON far lower. To explain this and more Dr Roger Musson from the MON British Geological Survey joins Quentin Cooper this week. MON MON The genome of the tiny zebrafish has been sequenced in great MON detail, but why is this animal of such biological MON significance to researchers? Two new studies, published in MON the journal Nature, outline just why the zebrafish has MON proved so useful, and how studying and modifying its genome MON may not only lead to new ways of combating human diseases, MON but whole new concepts in biology. Discussing why the MON zebrafish has become the vertebrate model of choice for many MON scientists are Dr Jason Rihel from University College MON London, who uses zebrafish to study autism, schizophrenia MON and sleeping disorders, and Dr Derek Stemple, Head of Mouse MON and Zebrafish genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger MON Institute near Cambridge, whose team has completed this MON latest work. MON MON Earth and Mars are currently in solar conjunction which MON means that the sun is between the two. This makes contacting MON NASA's Curiosity Rover on the Red Planet very tricky. It MON also means Paolo Bellutta, Curiosity's driver, gets a few MON days off work. He's used the free time to come to the UK and MON talk about what he does at the Royal Society of Chemistry in MON London. En route, he dropped into the Material World studio MON to say hello. MON MON Iran has been struck by its most powerful earthquake for MON more than 50 years, with tremors felt across Pakistan, India MON and the Middle East. MON MON The reported sequence of the zebrafish genome, together with MON the production of mutant strains representing more than MON one-third of all its protein-coding regions, will accelerate MON the characterization of human genes. MON MON Mars Rover driver, Paulo Bellutta, drops in to Material MON World to talk to Quentin Cooper. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01s09js (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01s02q4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01s09l4 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective MON with Carolyn Quinn. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s09sh (Listen) MON This Is Where I Am, Episode 1 MON MON When the Scottish Refugee Council assigns Debs to act as MON mentor to a Somali refugee called Abdi, the two are drawn MON into an awkward friendship. They must meet once a month in a MON different part of Glasgow so that the newly widowed Debs can MON open Abdi's eyes to her beloved city and its people. MON MON As they gradually get to know each other their stories are MON revealed. And while Debs helps Abdi come to terms with his MON new life in Scotland, he teaches her about the importance of MON family - and of laying ghosts to rest. MON MON All Abdi has brought with him is his four-year-old daughter, MON Rebecca, who lives in a silence no one can reach. Until, one MON day, little Rebecca starts talking. And they realise why she MON stopped. MON MON Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01rvppn (Listen) MON Language and Politics in India MON MON More than a billion people, twenty two scheduled languages, MON and dozens more mother tongues: In the second of two MON programmes, Chris Ledgard explores the complex and MON passionate politics of language in India. In Delhi and MON Jaipur, we visit schools, business and newspaper offices to MON ask - how do the languages you speak, read and write in MON India influence your life? MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s09sk (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01s02qz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01s09jv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s02r1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s02r3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s02r5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01s02r7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s09yn (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr TUE David Stone, Canon Precentor of Coventry Cathedral. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01s09yq (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01s09ys (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah TUE Montague. TUE TUE 09:00 Stephanomics b01s09yv (Listen) TUE Phone-in edition TUE TUE For the last 5 years economic questions have dominated the TUE news. But do you have questions that haven't been answered? TUE TUE What would happen if a country left the Euro? What do hedge TUE funds actually do? What about quantitative easing? If the TUE Government owns a third of its own debt, why can't it just TUE write it off and solve our debt problem overnight? TUE TUE In a special edition of Stephanomics, the BBC's economics TUE editor Stephanie Flanders and an expert panel including TUE Andrew Dilnott, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, Janet TUE Henry, Chief European Economist at HSBCIB and Peter TUE Antonioni, co-author of 'Economics for Dummies' will try and TUE answer your economics questions in a live phone-in. TUE TUE Get in touch with your questions NOW. Email: TUE stephanomics@bbc.co.uk or tweet @bbcradio4 #stephanomics or TUE call 03 700 100 444 from 8am on Tuesday 23rd April. TUE TUE 09:30 Found b01s09yx (Listen) TUE A Brother's Tale 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 4 (of 5): A Brother's Tale TUE Richard found his mother through the Salvation Army's TUE tracing service only to discover he had a brother he never TUE knew existed. When he was only 7, Richard's parents TUE separated after a row on holiday. His Dad left with Richard TUE and, after that, he had no contact with his mother and TUE sister for 38 years - and no idea where they were. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Parker TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01s687y (Listen) TUE Letters from Italy, Lucia Annunziata TUE TUE Five letters from leading Italians from the fields of TUE politics, economics, television, art and journalism. TUE TUE Today's letter comes from Lucia Annunziata, one of the most TUE senior figures in Italian broadcasting. At the moment she's TUE editor of the Huffington Post, Italy but in her time she was TUE news editor of a major television station and President of TUE the National broadcaster RAI, the equivalent of the BBC. TUE TUE She writes of the last years events, the failed government TUE of Mario Monti, the elections that have left confusion, even TUE amongst the most experienced Italian journalists and TUE political analysts, and the sense of doom that is almost TUE palpable in the city of Rome where she lives. TUE TUE At a time when Italy is in the spotlight, both for the TUE changing of the Pope but more especially for the recent TUE election results and the economic fragility that has brought TUE austerity and anger, each of the letter writer talks about TUE their sense of Italy today, it's challenges, the dangers it TUE faces and the possibilities for the future. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s09yz (Listen) TUE Kate Humble; Rokia Traore TUE TUE Kate Humble on her passion for farming and saving a small TUE part of rural heritage. Rokia Traore performs live. Women TUE and snoring. TUE TUE Presenter Jane Garvey TUE Producer Steven Williams. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b01s09z1 (Listen) TUE Confusion, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard TUE dramatised by Sarah Daniels TUE TUE Louise's engagement to the society painter Michael Hadleigh TUE is announced; whilst Polly finds herself TUE looking at Archie in a new light. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 11:00 Solar Max b01s09z3 (Listen) TUE As we approach 'solar max', when the sun is at its most TUE active and ferocious, astronomer Lucie Green investigates TUE the hidden dangers our nearest star poses to us on Earth. TUE TUE In March 1989, a solar superstorm brought down Quebec's TUE power grid. Six million people were without light and heat, TUE as outside temperatures sank to -15C. After the winter TUE sunrise, subway trains sat still, traffic lights went off TUE and petrol pumps stopped delivering fuel. TUE TUE Two days earlier, a giant bubble of plasma had burst from TUE the surface of Sun traveling at millions of miles per hour. TUE It hit the Earth and disrupted our magnetic field, creating TUE electric currents which knocked out power grids in Canada TUE for nine hours and even damaged two transformers here in the TUE UK. TUE TUE Now, almost a quarter of a century later, our reliance on TUE technology that's vulnerable to solar attack is even higher, TUE from GPS to satellites. 'Severe space weather' is the newest TUE threat to be added to the UK National Risk Register of Civil TUE Emergencies. The potential impacts of solar superstorm could TUE be far-ranging, causing national blackouts, shutting TUE airspace and interrupting financial transactions. TUE TUE Lucie Green looks at what UK industry is doing to minimise TUE the risks from solar superstorms. She visits the newly TUE opened Space Weather Forecasting area at the Met Office and TUE talks to engineers at the National Grid to find out how they TUE are preparing for 'the big one'. TUE TUE But with so many national hazards to deal with, from TUE flooding to pandemic flu, how much importance should we TUE place on solar storms? TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 11:30 Ella in Berlin b01s09z5 (Listen) TUE Jazz singers Cleveland Watkiss and Dame Cleo Laine listen to TUE Ella Fitzgerald's Mac the Knife, when she forgot the words TUE in Berlin on 13 February 1960, and then have a go TUE themselves. TUE TUE For post-war Germany jazz, which had been banned under TUE Hitler, was the music of freedom. When Norman Granz first TUE brought his Jazz at the Philharmonic tours to Europe in the TUE 1950s, Germans flocked to the concerts and Oscar Peterson TUE and Ella Fitzgerald were soon firm favourites. TUE TUE In February 1960, the German part of the tour opened in TUE Berlin. Mac the Knife, from Brecht's Threepenny Opera, had TUE been a number one for Bobby Darin for nine weeks the TUE previous year, and Ella's friend Louis Armstrong had a hit TUE with it in 1956. But Ella had never sung it. As a tribute to TUE the people of Berlin, she decided she would. She did, but TUE not the version they knew. Yet it was this improvisation TUE that would win her two Grammy awards. TUE TUE Cleveland Watkiss, for whom Ella Fitzgerald has always been TUE an inspiration, explores her virtuoso improvisation and TUE scat-singing, in the company of another virtuoso performer, TUE Dame Cleo Laine. They hear from people who were there that TUE night in the Deutschlandhalle, including tour manager, Fritz TUE Rau, pianist Paul Smith and guitarist Jim Hall, and from the TUE author of a forthcoming cultural biography of Ella TUE Fitzgerald, Judith Tick. TUE TUE Cleveland Watkiss won the London Jazz Award for Best TUE Vocalist in 2010 and was voted Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards TUE best vocalist for three consecutive years. He's had a TUE life-long passion for Cleo Laine and finally had the TUE opportunity to meet - and sing with - her in the course of TUE making this programme! TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01s7yy7 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01s02r9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01s09zt (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 b01s09zw (Listen) TUE Radio Everywhere TUE TUE Radio Everywhere! Episode twenty-seven of a thirty-part TUE series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound TUE Archive. TUE TUE In the early days, listening to radio was a magical, uncanny TUE experience. Voices arrived out of thin air from hundreds of TUE miles away. In time, the radio became a trusted part of TUE family life - and by the 1930s and 40s, the perfect medium TUE for propaganda, as Joseph Goebbels recognized. TUE TUE Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers TUE the seductive power of the disembodied voice. TUE TUE Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson TUE TUE Producer Matt Thompson TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01s09kp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00wqfg9 (Listen) TUE Devil in the Fog, Episode 1 TUE TUE Highwaymen, duels, swirling fogs, escaped convicts - part TUE one of a thrilling two-part dramatisation of Leon Garfield's TUE classic 18th C. mystery adventure. TUE TUE Dramatised by Martin Jameson TUE TUE Episode 1 of 2 TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby TUE TUE 14 year-old George is the oldest of the seven Treet TUE children. Captained by their larger-than-life father, the TUE Treets are touring thespians, forever on the edge of TUE poverty. But their normally happy lives are shadowed by the TUE twice yearly arrival of "the Stranger" who hands Mr Treet a TUE sum of money and disappears. This year, however, the TUE Stranger appears for the last time and Mr Treet reveals to TUE George that he is the son of a nobleman, Sir John Dexter. TUE Now, George must, reluctantly, be returned to him. TUE TUE At the gloomy Dexter family home, George is welcomed by Sir TUE John, who is recovering from a pistol wound received in the TUE course of a duel with his black-hearted brother Richard. TUE Richard has been imprisoned as a result. George does his TUE best to settle into life in his forbidding new home. TUE TUE But trouble is waiting in the fog that surrounds the house. TUE Richard Dexter has escaped from Newgate and is hiding in a TUE nearby copse. What's more, it soon becomes clear that TUE someone is trying to kill George... TUE TUE Credits TUE Author: Leon Garfield TUE Mr Treet: Tim McMullan TUE George: Joe Dempsie TUE Lady Dexter: Juliet Aubrey TUE Sir John: Sam Dale TUE Joseph: Sean Baker TUE Dr Newby: Iain Batchelor TUE Mrs Montague: Joanna Monro TUE Captain Richard: Ben Crowe TUE Hotspur: Raymond Karimi Taheri TUE Jane: Lauren Mote TUE Edward: Hugo Docking TUE Rose: Fern Deacon TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE Writer: Martin Jameson TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01s09zy (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the studio by Michelle Brown, TUE Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the University TUE of London. TUE TUE Martin Ellis is on the border of England and Wales to TUE celebrate an iconic landscape feature which doesn't attract TUE the attention that its history warrants. He asks who Offa TUE was, and what made him build a dyke which has become the TUE physical border between two nations. TUE TUE Joining Tom from Ireland is Dr Gillian Kenny from Trinity TUE College in Dublin where she works on research into women in TUE medieval Gaelic society. Remarkably, she has discovered that TUE married women enjoyed a freedom in the Ireland of the middle TUE ages that their English counterparts never had. TUE TUE And Helen Castor is out on the cut finding out about the TUE women who joined a scheme to keep the canals going during TUE the Second World War. But has this middle-class history TUE eclipsed a longer working-class one? TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Produced by Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01s0b00 (Listen) TUE Fish - The Next Fight TUE TUE Tom Heap meets the activists hoping to bring an end to TUE illegal fishing by tackling the problem head on: by getting TUE in the way of pirate fishermen. TUE TUE Tom also meets campaigners who believe that the only way for TUE fish stocks to recover is for a ten year moratorium to be TUE imposed, allowing species of fish to become plentiful once TUE more. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01s0b02 (Listen) TUE Instructions Instructions TUE TUE Michael Rosen (and Allen Key) discover why instruction TUE manuals are so hard to follow. TUE TUE Michael Rosen opens some flat-pack furniture to discover why TUE instruction manuals are so hard to follow. Are they simply TUE badly written or do they reveal something fundamental about TUE how words capture movement. Beset by orphaned bolts and TUE extraneous screws Michael plums for the latter and invites TUE guests in to help explain the conundrum (and sort out his TUE furnishings). TUE TUE Presenter : Michael Rosen TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01s0b04 (Listen) TUE Series 30, David Livingstone TUE TUE Dr David Livingstone was the Victorian equivalent of an TUE astronaut - a man who ventured into the interior of Africa TUE to report on territory that was wholly unknown to Europeans. TUE In this programme, the explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell TUE explains why he admires his predecessor. Matthew Parris TUE chairs the discussion, assisted by Dr Sarah Worden of the TUE National Museum of Scotland. TUE TUE Livingstone went to Africa as a missionary but succeeded in TUE making only one convert, who soon lapsed. Frustrated, he TUE switched his focus to exploration, crossing southern Africa TUE from east to west and back again. He discovered the Victoria TUE Falls, but his attempts to reach the interior by going up TUE the Zambezi were a disaster when he discovered that the TUE rapids he had been warned about were impassable. On his TUE recommendation, missionary families came out from England to TUE settle in what is now Malawi but - as he should have TUE anticipated - many of them died of disease. TUE TUE Despite these failures, he was and is regarded as a hero. As TUE a self-made man who put himself through university on his TUE wages from working in a cotton mill, he embodied the TUE Victorian can-do spirit. His map-making, natural history TUE observations, facility with languages and sheer endurance in TUE the face of overwhelming obstacles made him a formidable TUE character. Above all, his legacy in helping to end the east TUE African slave trade mean that he is still revered in Africa TUE today. TUE TUE Credits TUE Interviewed Guest: John Blashford-Snell TUE Interviewed Guest: Sarah Worden TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01s0dd7 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s02rc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01s0dd9 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Bollywood 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 fourth and final episode, Thom looks at the bright TUE lights of Bollywood: love triangles, comedy and dare devil TUE thrills all set to a background of songs and dancing in a TUE melodramatic extravaganza, a synopsis which heavily TUE influence Thom's stories of his upbringing in Bangladesh. TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01s0df0 (Listen) TUE Paul takes a risk, while Pat and Tony hear some good news. TUE TUE Producer: Vanessa Whitburn TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01s0df2 (Listen) TUE Cultural Exchange: ballerina Tamara Rojo on a pioneering TUE choreographer TUE TUE With John Wilson, including more from the Cultural Exchange TUE project, in which 75 leading creative minds share their TUE passion for a book, film, poem, piece of music or other work TUE of art. Tonight ballerina Tamara Rojo selects the pioneering TUE choreographer who inspired her to dance, Mats Ek. TUE TUE At the age of 10 in Madrid, Tamara saw the Swedish TUE choreographer's groundbreaking ballet Bernarda, based on the TUE Lorca play The House of Bernarda Alba. Tamara was recently TUE Principal dancer at the Royal Ballet and is now Artistic TUE Director of English National Ballet. TUE TUE Producer Dymphna Flynn. TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b01s09z1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Tax Avoidance: The Hidden Cost b01s0df4 (Listen) TUE The revelation of how little tax Google, Starbucks and TUE Amazon have been paying on their global operations has TUE triggered political indignation around the world and thrown TUE fresh light on the aggressive techniques multi-national TUE companies can use to slash their tax bills. TUE TUE More than lost tax is at stake. TUE TUE In this programme, Michael Robinson reports on the TUE additional advantages aggressive tax avoidance can provide TUE to multinationals. TUE TUE With sophisticated systems, shifting their profits to TUE low-tax countries, these multinationals have a competitive TUE edge over nationally-based companies whose tax bills are TUE usually far harder to avoid. TUE TUE The result: more profit for the multinational and squeezed TUE margins for the national competitor. TUE TUE And there's more. With an effective tax-avoiding TUE infrastructure in place, aggressive multinationals are TUE better placed to compete for new markets or to buy up TUE competitors in higher-tax countries - further extending TUE their global reach. TUE TUE For governments around the world, many already facing TUE slowdown and recession, such tax-avoidance powered TUE competition is a disturbing danger. Because as a TUE tax-avoiding company extends its operations, so a country's TUE revenues from corporate tax come under threat. TUE TUE While politicians around the world look for ways to cut back TUE corporate tax avoidance, and with Prime Minister David TUE Cameron promising the issue will be on the agenda when the TUE G8 group of world leaders meet in Northern Ireland in June, TUE this programme assesses their chances of reversing this TUE global trend. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01s0df6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01s0df8 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 Stephanomics b01s09yv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01s02rf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01s0dfb (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective TUE with David Eades. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s109l (Listen) TUE This Is Where I Am, Episode 2 TUE TUE According to her mentor's contract, once a month for a year TUE Debs' must find a suitable place to show to Abdi, a Somalian TUE asylum seeker newly arrived from a refugee camp in Kenya. TUE TUE As she begins to reveal the Scottish culture and its people TUE to him, they embark upon a tentative friendship. TUE TUE First up, is the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in TUE Glasgow, which has painful memories for the newly widowed TUE Debs. TUE TUE Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b01s0dfd (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE Matt Harvey is joined by fellow poets Caroline Bird and Mark TUE Gwynne Jones for more comedy, poetry and music from the Ways TUE with Words festival at Dartington Hall in south Devon. The TUE appreciative audience contribute a crowd-sourced poem, TUE whilst one man band Jerri Hart snipes from the sidelines. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s0dfl (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01s02s8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01s687y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s02sb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s02sd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s02sg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01s02sj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0djn (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr WED David Stone, Canon Precentor of Coventry Cathedral. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01s0djq (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01s0djs (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah WED Montague. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01s0djv (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01s687h (Listen) WED Letters from Italy, Carlo Sibilia WED WED Five letters from leading Italians from the fields of WED politics, economics, television, art and journalism. WED WED Today's letter is unique in that it's a rare chance to hear WED from a member of the new political party in Italian WED politics. Beppe Grillo's Five Stars Movement won an WED astonishing third of the seats in the lower house of WED parliament at their first attempt. It's an impact that, WED amongst other things, has left the political system in WED stalemate because they refuse to negotiate with the other WED parties. WED WED The Five Stars members are not speaking to the Italian press WED or broadcast media, but Carlo Sibilia, a New MP representing WED the region around Naples, gives us a unique insight into the WED thinking of his party. WED WED He describes how he came to be involved in politics, why the WED new party, with its heavy emphasis on Internet WED communication, made such an impact, and why he believes it WED can change politics in both Italy and the rest of Europe. WED WED He acknowledges that much of what he says may sound WED idealistic, but invites listeners to appreciate that he and WED his colleagues have actually achieved far more than most WED protest movements. WED WED At a time when Italy is in the spotlight, both for the WED changing of the Pope but more especially for the recent WED election results and the economic fragility that has brought WED austerity and anger, each of the letter writer talks about WED their sense of Italy today, it's challenges, the dangers it WED faces and the possibilities for the future. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Tom Alban WED Writer: Carlo Sibilia WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s0djx (Listen) WED Older women and style; Typhoid Mary WED WED Older women and dressing with style - glamorous, outrageous WED or dowdy? We discuss with Amber Butchart, Blanche Marvin and WED Katharine Whitehorn and look at listeners with attitude. WED Mary Beth Keane on her book about Typhoid Mary. Bringing up WED a teen in your 50s and 60s - does it make a difference how WED old you are? WED WED Presenter Jenni Murray WED Producer Louise Corley. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b01s0djz (Listen) WED Confusion, Episode 3 WED WED by Elizabeth Jane Howard WED dramatised by Sarah Daniels WED WED Louise discovers she's pregnant but begins to question her WED relationship with Michael. WED WED Produced and directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow WED WED 11:00 The Big Ditch - How the Panama Canal Changed the World WED b01rvps7 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED On passage from the Pacific to Atlantic side, Jonny Dymond WED (BBC Washington DC correspondent) explores how digging the WED so-called "Big Ditch" across the narrow isthmus at Panama WED changed the world. WED WED In this first episode of two he evaluates how, a century ago WED when it was constructed, the canal marked the birth of a new WED global superpower, the United States of America. To what WED extent did the canal ensure its economic and military WED dominance? WED WED Today, however, China's influence grows in Central America, WED a region traditionally America's backyard. What plans are WED afoot for Chinese-backed alternative routes across the WED isthmus to rival Panama's? WED WED Tracing these developments, as well as other strands in this WED fascinating tale, Dymond investigates how the tiny nation of WED Panama, and the rather small waterway that bisects it, WED contains a rather large slice of world history. WED WED The success story belongs to the States, but how did they WED pull off this extraordinary feat of engineering where many WED had failed? In the shady past lay the broken dreams and WED appalling costs of, first, the catastrophic French attempt WED that consumed the lives of tens of thousands of men and, WED centuries before, the failed projects of the Spanish WED Conquistadors and even the bankrupted Kingdom of Scotland. WED WED Moving forward, as Panama improves the canal in an WED impressive $5bn expansion project, what will happen to the WED patterns of world trade? And what of China's plans and other WED trade routes? WED WED Global economics and strategic geopolitics are all reflected WED in what happens on the canal. WED WED Producer: Dom Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b01rvptv (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel game WED where this week Katy Brand & Alex Horne compete with Richard WED Herring & Natalie Haynes for wordy supremacy. WED WED This week Richard Herring decides to reclaim the word WED 'middle class' and tries to decipher the 16th century phrase WED 'a mare's nest'; Natalie Haynes tries to get rid of the word WED 'decimate' and despite being a vegetarian works out what the WED very meaty cookery term 'barding' means; Alex Horne comes up WED with the correct definition for the Victorian phrase 'a WED scraping castle' and asks to take the word 'a' out of the WED dictionary. Meanwhile Katy Brand takes a guess at what the WED unit of measurement 'the Warhol' is and reveals that her WED favourite word is 'plop'. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01s0dk3 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01s02sl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01s0dk5 (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 b01s0dk7 (Listen) WED Music While You Shop, Music While You Work WED WED Music While You Shop, Music While You Work: Episode WED twenty-eight of a thirty-part series made in collaboration WED with the British Library Sound Archive. WED WED Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers WED how music has been used to soothe us, cheer us, and make us WED productive over the past hundred years. Featuring extremely WED rare recordings of wartime episodes of the much-loved BBC WED series, Music While You Work. WED WED Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. WED WED Producer: Matt Thompson WED A Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01s0df0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00wqgms (Listen) WED Devil in the Fog, Episode 2 WED WED What murky secrets lie at the heart of the fog? Who is the WED principal? And who is the Devil? Part two of a dramatisation WED of Leon Garfield's thrilling 18th C. mystery adventure. WED WED Dramatised by Martin Jameson WED WED Epiosde 2 of 2 WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Author: Leon Garfield WED George: Joe Dempsie WED Mr Treet: Tim McMullan WED Captain Richard: Ben Crowe WED Sir John: Sam Dale WED Joseph: Sean Baker WED The Stranger: Sean Baker WED Mrs Montague: Joanna Monro WED Lady Dexter: Juliet Aubrey WED Bertram: George Sanderson WED Aunt Dexter: Claire Harry WED Hotspur: Raymond Karimi Taheri WED Rose: Fern Deacon WED Edward: Hugo Docking WED Jane: Lauren Mote WED Highwayman: Henry Devas WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Writer: Martin Jameson WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01s0dk9 (Listen) WED First Time Buyers WED WED Financial phone-in with Ruth Alexander. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01s0df8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01s0dkm (Listen) WED The Power of Oil WED WED The Power of oil - Laurie Taylor presents a special WED programme which explores the role of oil in shaping our WED society, economy and environment. He talks to James Marriot WED whose research for his book, 'The Oil Road..' took him on a WED journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the WED refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe. They're WED also joined by the Professor John Urry, whose latest work WED pioneers a sociology of energy, analysing our carbon WED addiction in the light of ever dwindling resources. Is a WED society beyond oil a possibility? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01s0dkp (Listen) WED How rosy is the future of TLC, the women-focused channel WED launching in the UK this week? It's big internationally but WED is there demand for it here? Susanna Dinnage is general WED manager of the parent company Discovery Networks UK and WED talks to Steve Hewlett about the channel and what's on offer WED for British audiences. WED WED 17:00 PM b01s0dkr (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s02sn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01s0dld (Listen) WED The Bedroom 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 Staring ... Alun Cochrane and Gavin Osborn WED Written by ... Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton WED Produced by ... Carl Cooper. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01s0dkt (Listen) WED Alan has a lot on his mind and Jazzer has a proposition. WED WED Producer: Vanessa Whitburn WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01s0dlg (Listen) WED Cultural Exchange: Mohsin Hamid on a science fiction classic WED WED With Mark Lawson, including more from the Cultural Exchange WED project, in which 75 leading creative minds share their WED passion for a book, film, poem, piece of music or other work WED of art. WED WED Tonight Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant WED Fundamentalist, selects the groundbreaking sci-fi novel Star WED Maker by Olaf Stapledon. WED WED The 1937 book is a history of life in the universe, in which WED a human from England is transported out of his body and WED finds himself able to explore space and other planets. WED Considered by Arthur C Clarke as one of the finest science WED fiction books ever written, Star Maker also was loved by WED Brian Aldiss, Winston Churchill and Virginia Woolf. WED WED Producer Stephen Hughes. WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b01s0djz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01s0dlj (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley returns with the live, studio-based debate WED series taking the form of newspaper leader conferences. WED WED Each week Andrew is joined by five prominent journalists, WED who write leading articles or editorials for their WED newspapers. The press in the nations of the UK and across WED the English regions are represented during the series, along WED with the leading national newspapers. WED WED Three subjects are decided upon and discussed in each WED programme. Two of these reflect current news events - one WED domestic and the other sometimes foreign - and prompt lively WED and provocative discussion. The third subject offers some WED light relief. WED WED Following the discussion of each of the three subjects, WED Andrew invites one of his guests to draw up on air the WED "leader" for that subject setting out its main points. This WED important component of the programme helps ensure that WED resolution of the debate is achieved for listeners and that WED the full range of views expressed is reflected. WED WED Contributions from listeners are also encouraged throughout WED the programme and particularly at the start for the WED component they shape most: "tomorrow's top story headline" WED which is heard at the end of the programme. WED WED The leaders will be posted online at the Radio 4 website WED following the programme. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01s0dll (Listen) WED Series 4, Mat Paskins: The future in history WED WED Historian Mat Paskins argues that history can be made real WED when we bring back to life the excitement which previous WED generations felt at new developments: to make us, who live WED in our ancestors' future, feel their wonder when first WED confronted with future possibility. And he tells the story WED of two experiments - an ambitious attempt in the eighteenth WED century to use black sand to make steel, and his own WED youthful efforts to see if he could eat everything. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking WED on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a WED live audience. It is recorded in front of a live audience at WED Somerset House in London. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01s0b00 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01s0djv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01s02sq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01s0dln (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective WED with David Eades. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s1f1b (Listen) WED This Is Where I Am, Episode 3 WED WED Debs takes Abdi to Loch Lomond and is surprised when his WED little daughter Rebecca comes too. Though he can't explain WED to her why he is late and stressed, Abdi is enchanted by the WED loch which banishes the unpleasantness he has encountered WED earlier in the day. WED WED Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 I, Regress b01s0dlz (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 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 b015cnz1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED WED Via a Greek chorus, a not eating celery pact and Sir Gawain WED and the Green Knight, the couple spectacularly fail to WED agree. WED WED Credits WED Neil: Frank Skinner WED Kim: Katherine Parkinson WED Director: Polly Thomas WED Producer: Polly Thomas WED Writer: Frank Skinner WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s0dm1 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with news from Westminster, including a report WED on Prime Minister's Questions. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 APRIL 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01s02tk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01s687h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s02tm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s02tp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s02tr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01s02tt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0qmb (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr THU David Stone, Canon Precentor of Coventry Cathedral. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01s0qmd (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01s0qmg (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, THU Thought for the Day. Presented by Evan Davis and Sarah THU Montague. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01s0qmj (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of THU Michel de Montaigne. Best known for his influential Essays, THU Montaigne is regarded as the father of modern sceptical THU thought. His approachable style, intelligence and subtle THU philosophical thought have made him one of the most widely THU admired writers of the Renaissance. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01s687k (Listen) THU Letters from Italy, Dacia Maraini THU THU 5 leading Italians deliver letters about Italy today, the THU dangers and the possibilities. THU THU In this, the fourth letter, we hear from one of Italy's THU leading novelists and playwrights, Dacia Maraini. THU THU Dacia has a reputation as a campaigning literary figure and THU she suggests this might have something to do with her THU extraordinary blend of ancestors from four nations, and her THU early life in Japan where she spent two years with her THU parents in a Japanese concentration camp. THU THU She talks of her concerns about Italy today in terms of what THU she sees as the mis-information of Television which has been THU in the hands of one man for so long. She makes no bones THU about the fact that she's not a fan of Silvio Berlusconi but THU her real concern is that the mentality of winning at all THU costs has been fed by the diet of Television contests and THU ideas about wealth meaning achievement. This, she believes THU is a particular threat to women who have taken a step THU backwards - appearing little more than prizes in the 'game'. THU THU She hopes the new elections herald something very new and THU highlights the presence in parliament of people whose THU interest is in the well-being of others. However, her THU optimism is guarded. THU Italy, she says, has been like sleeping beauty. She hopes it THU can be awakened. THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s0qml (Listen) THU Jody Williams; teenage bloggers THU THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b01s0qmn (Listen) THU Confusion, Episode 4 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard THU Dramatised by Sarah Daniels THU THU 1942: New Year's Eve, but the Cazalet family celebrations THU are marred by deceit and an over developed sense of duty. THU THU Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01s0qmq (Listen) THU Belarus's university in exile THU THU Belarus has been described as the last dictatorship in THU Europe. Few dare speak out against President Alexander THU Lukashenko and his ruling elite. But the opposition has THU found a way of making its voice heard through an academic THU community which has taken refuge abroad. THU THU Lucy Ash visits the European Humanities University which THU teaches Belarusian students on its campus in neighbouring THU Lithuania. She talks to teachers and students, many of whom THU commute back and forth across the border. Is the EHU devoted THU to intellectual freedom and training future leaders of THU Belarus or is it a "trampoline for emigration" to the west? THU THU Producer: Tim Mansel. THU THU 11:30 Bernard Who? b01s0qms (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU This year, the actor Bernard Cribbins celebrates his 85th THU birthday and more than 70 years in showbusiness. In this THU revealing two-part series he talks to his friend and THU producer Martin Jenkins about his extraordinary career, and THU a cast of friends share their memories of working with THU Bernard, including David Tennant, Barbara Windsor, Barry THU Cryer and the late Richard Briers. THU THU He's been directed by Hitchcock, starred alongside a galaxy THU of screen legends including Peter Sellers and Kenneth THU Williams, is good mates with David Tennant, and has THU performed with Barbara Windsor wearing nothing but a bikini. THU THU Somehow Bernard Cribbins has earned a special place in the THU hearts of every generation; whether you're a fan of the THU Carry On films or his 1960s chart hits Right Said Fred and THU Hole in the Ground, grew up watching The Railway Children or THU listened to him read more than 100 classic tales on THU Jackanory. And he has continued to wow younger audiences as THU Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who, and most recently as the THU storytelling sailor Old Jack in the new BBC children's THU television series on CBeebies. THU THU In this, the first of two programmes, Bernard looks back at THU his early career at Oldham Rep, where he started as an actor THU and assistant stage manager aged 13, on his national service THU with the parachute regiment in Palestine, and the big break THU that took him to London's West End, and from there to the THU Carry On films. Barry Cryer, Barbara Windsor, the playwright THU Ray Cooney and Richard Briers, recorded shortly before his THU death, share their memories of Bernard the man and the THU performer, and we hear Bernard's personal recollections of THU working with the legendary Peter Sellers, Alfred Hitchcock THU and Peter Cushing. THU THU Producer: Eve Streeter THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01s0qmv (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01s02tw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01s0qmx (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 b01s0qmz (Listen) THU An Ever Noisier World THU THU An Ever Noisier World: Episode twenty-nine of a thirty-part THU series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound THU Archive. THU THU The twentieth century brought attempts to distinguish THU between 'necessary' and 'unnecessary' noise. In New York, THU the authorities tried to clean up Coney Island fairground, THU banning barkers from using megaphones and targeting street THU sellers, newspaper boys, and buskers. But the volume of THU modern life has risen inexorably. THU THU Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex travels to THU Ghana's capital, Accra, a city so loud that visitors THU describe its streets as a visceral shock, and introduces an THU elegiac recording of the wild soundscape we've lost, THU captured by the celebrated naturalist, Bernie Krause. THU THU Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. THU THU Producer: Matt Thompson. THU A Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01s0dkt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s0qn1 (Listen) THU The Milky Way THU THU Its 1959 and milkman Bob Reilly has dreams of making it big THU as a singer, but after yet another knock-back begins to THU realise that Emceeing at the local pub might be the THU highlight of his career. Until, that is, he discovers his THU son Andy and his mates have formed a band. They're not half THU bad and who better to manage them and lead them to stardom THU than Bob himself? Soon the band, christened The Milky Way, THU begin to have some success, but Bob's hopes and plans for THU the band's future aren't necessarily those of the band THU themselves, causing friction between father and son and Bob THU to reassess his priorities and his long cherished dreams. THU From acclaimed dramatist Doug Lucie a new drama about rock THU 'n' roll, real life, and realising what dreams in life are THU really worth chasing, starring Shaun Dingwall, Belinda THU Stewart-Wilson, Jemima Rooper, Tim McInnerny, David Cardy, THU Ted Reilly, Tony Bignell and Theo Gregrory. THU THU Music by 'The Milky Way' was performed by Doug Lucie, Ian THU Lucie, Dave Hillman and George Stenning, with lead vocals by THU Tony Bignell and backing vocals by Theo Gregory and Ted THU Reilly. THU THU Music was performed by Doug Lucie, Ian Lucie, Dave Hillman THU and George Stenning, with lead vocals by Tony Bignell. THU THU THE MILKY WAY was written by Doug Lucie and directed by THU Heather Larmour. THU THU Credits THU Bob: Shaun Dingwall THU Ann: Belinda Stewart Wilson THU Sarah: Jemima Rooper THU Gerry Crowe: Tim McInnerny THU Vernon: David Cardy THU Andy: Ted Reilly THU Colin: Tony Bignell THU Richard: Theo Gregory THU Philip: George Stenning THU Martin: Michael Shelford THU Dave: Ben Crowe THU Director: Heather Larmour THU Producer: Heather Larmour THU Writer: Doug Lucie THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01s0qn3 (Listen) THU Fens of Cambridgeshire THU THU What is phenology? Felicity Evans visits Fenland THU Cambridgeshire to learn about an influential but largely THU unacknowledged Victorian vicar - the Reverend Leonard Jenyns THU - who made a lasting contribution to science. THU THU Jenyns is certainly not as well known as Charles Darwin, THU even though he passed up the chance of sailing on HMS Beagle THU as the ship's naturalist. In fact, Jenyns never set foot THU outside the UK, yet his contribution to science was THU enormous. Felicity hears how phenology has become a key THU aspect of observing climate change, noting the first and THU last days of the seasons. THU THU She finds out how much Fenland Cambridgeshire has been dried THU out since Jenyns' day, and the ways in which this rural THU vicar bore witness to the habitat destruction and species THU extinction in his own parish in the mid-Victorian period. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01s030f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01s032c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01s0qn5 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Material World b01s0qn7 (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 b01s0qn9 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s02ty (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01s0qnc (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 4 THU THU Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's THU Manifesto using policies suggested by his studio audience. THU THU Producer: Colin Anderson THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01s0qnf (Listen) THU Lilian feels jumpy. Matt is honing his interrogation skills. THU THU Producer: Vanessa Whitburn THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01s0qnh (Listen) THU Cultural Exchange: Adrian Lester on Redemption Song THU THU With Mark Lawson, including more from the Cultural Exchange THU project: tonight actor Adrian Lester on Bob Marley's THU Redemption Song. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b01s0qmn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01s0qnk (Listen) THU You can use it to buy a pizza, or pay a taxi fare. Simon Cox THU looks at the virtual currency Bitcoin, which is exclusively THU online and independent of any government or company and THU where a user can be anonymous. In recent weeks, Bitcoin lost THU half its value due to a panic sell-off, but who are the THU people buying and selling this new currency and how does it THU work? THU THU 20:30 In Business b01s0qnm (Listen) THU Potash of Gold THU THU Nearly one mile underground beneath the North Sea are vast THU supplies of potash and polyhalite waiting to be dug up and THU turned into valuable fertiliser. There's just one snag: the THU planned new mine would be in the North York Moors National THU Park, where such developments are normally prohibited. THU Locals are taking sides for and against, as Peter Day THU reports. THU Producer: Mike Wendling. THU THU 21:00 Solar Max b01s09z3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01s0qmj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01s02v0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01s0r52 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective THU with Philippa Thomas. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s10c2 (Listen) THU This Is Where I Am, Episode 4 THU THU Abdi is unable to face the events of his last day at the THU refugee camp in Dadaab - but the first day is seared on his THU mind. THU THU And, now he is no longer an asylum seeker but has been THU granted refugee status, he and Debs take on the Glasgow THU housing authorities. THU THU Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On b01s0r54 (Listen) THU Series 7, Not Fair THU THU We like to think we live in a fair world - but writer and THU documentary-maker Jon Ronson investigates the way in which THU the least deserving often win the greatest rewards. THU THU Writer Helen Keen opens the programme, describing how she THU won an award for comedy she wrote about working class life THU in a gritty northern town - but, when she met the judges, THU she sensed that her 'poshness' disappointed them and made THU her less deserving of the award. THU THU Jon meets comedian Bob Mortimer who admits that, when he was THU a criminal barrister in Peckham, he couldn't resist asking THU his clients if they were guilty. Astonishingly, he says, all THU fifteen hundred admitted their guilt. Nevertheless, he THU fought their cases in court and a huge proportion of them THU walked free. He was rewarded for his success but it cost him THU dear on other more profound levels. THU THU South Hampstead Synagogue sounds like an unlikely site for THU misplaced rewards. Jon travels there to meet a charismatic THU young rabbi who had a novel idea to increase youth THU attendance. Kids won raffle tickets for turning up and THU joining in. The competition ran over a year, culminating in THU a grand draw. The prizes were massive. Emotions were running THU high. But things went drastically wrong, leaving the THU children asking "how could God let this happen?". THU THU Finally, Jon talks to ex-New York Times reporter Jayson THU Blair, who added fictitious flourishes to his news stories. THU He embellished details, put words in people's mouths and THU created poignant touches about his interviewees' lives. He THU knew it was wrong but his lies started earning him huge THU respect from his bosses and readers - until the whole façade THU dramatically unravelled. THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s0r56 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01s02vv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01s687k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s02vx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s02vz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s02w1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01s02w3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s45y3 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr FRI David Stone, Canon Precentor of Coventry Cathedral. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01s0s6c (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01s0s6f (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and FRI Justin Webb. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01s030p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01s687m (Listen) FRI Letters from Italy, Annalisa Piras FRI FRI 5 leading Italians deliver letters about Italy today, the FRI dangers and the possibilities. FRI FRI The last of five Letters from Italy at a time of huge FRI upheaval in that country. The week ends with the thoughts of FRI Annalisa Piras, the London based journalist and author of FRI the recent TV documentary 'Girlfriend in a Coma'. FRI FRI Annalisa's letter was written while on a recent holiday in FRI her native country and so comes with the distant observation FRI of one who spends time watching developments from a FRI distance. She understands the British view of Italy and is FRI concerned and puzzled that a political system that she used FRI to understand seems to have become even more confusing and FRI unfathomable. FRI FRI Her letter takes her from the Tuscan countryside to Rome, to FRI the coast and then, for her concluding thoughts back to FRI London where she reflects on what is happening and what FRI might happen as Italy continues to teeter on the edge of FRI economic crisis. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s0s6h (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b01s0s6k (Listen) FRI Confusion, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Elizabeth Jane Howard FRI Dramatised by Sarah Daniels FRI FRI Zoe embarks upon a relationship and Louise finds herself FRI alone as she gives birth. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 11:00 Mind Changers b01s0s6m (Listen) FRI Anna Freud and Child Observation FRI FRI Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series FRI which examines the work of the people who have changed our FRI understanding of the human mind. This week she reflects on FRI the enduring impact of Anna Freud's approach. By insisting FRI on observation in her nurseries, she promoted the FRI understanding of the child's perspective. Her continuing FRI legacy can be seen in the way children are cared for in FRI hospital and within the legal system today. FRI FRI Claudia explores how Anna, the only one of Freud's six FRI children to follow him into the field of psychoanalysis, FRI started out as a teacher in 1920s Vienna and soon identified FRI the toddler age as crucial to the child's future emotional FRI development. After she fled to London with her father in FRI 1938, she set up the Hampstead War Nurseries, the foundation FRI for the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic, which FRI became the Anna Freud Centre after her death in 1982. FRI Claudia visits the Centre to meet Nick Midgley, a child FRI psychotherapist there, and Dr Inge Pretorius, who is in FRI charge of the Parent Toddler service. She also meets FRI students training to be child psychotherapists, who are FRI taught to observe in minute detail the interaction between FRI children and carers in the way Anna Freud pioneered. FRI FRI At one of the Centre's therapeutic parent toddler group FRI parents explain what sets it apart from other groups, and FRI discovers that today the Anna Freud Centre is breaking new FRI ground with its Developmental Neuroscience Lab, using EEGs FRI to further their understanding of the psychology of children FRI and adolescents. Co-Director of the Centre, Mary Target, FRI believes Anna Freud would have approved, though many within FRI psychoanalysis are sceptical of this approach. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 11:30 FindthePerfectPartner4u.com b01s0s6p (Listen) FRI e=mc2 - The Mathematics of Speed Dating 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 In the final episode, Professor Tony (Henry Goodman) no FRI nearer to meeting up with "Moody Twoshoes" - the only woman FRI from his internet dating website FRI FindthePerfectPartner4u.com, with whom he seems at all FRI compatible - tries his hand at speed-dating. FRI FRI At the Purple Horse in Holborn he meets, very quickly, an FRI extraordinary succession of unsuitable women - all played, FRI as ever, by the redoubtable Lia Williams. But will Tony find FRI true love? Will he find Moody Twoshoes? FRI FRI Charlotte Cory would like to acknowledge the help of the FRI Mathematics Department of Greenwich University for help with FRI - um, mathematics. FRI FRI Original Music: David Chilton FRI Produced and directed by Gordon House FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Tony: Henry Goodman FRI Sarah: Lia Williams FRI All Tony's internet dates: Lia Williams FRI Miles: Carl Prekopp FRI Medical Orderly: Carl Prekopp FRI Vice-Chancellor: Sam Kelly FRI Bernard: Sam Kelly FRI Dr Bowker: Sam Kelly FRI Solicitor: Sam Kelly FRI Humphrey: Sam Kelly FRI Francis Parker: Roger Hammond FRI Jeff: Alexis White FRI Norwegian Academic: Alexis White FRI Prof Announcer: Alexis White FRI Medical Orderly: Alexis White FRI Speed-dating Administrator: Stephanie Georgeson FRI Producer: Gordon House FRI Writer: Charlotte Cory FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01s0s7s (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01s0s7v (Listen) FRI Lynne and Donna - Flooding and Friendship FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between neighbours whose FRI friendship has been forged through the shared experience of FRI seeing their homes flooded - twice - in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01s02w5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01s0s7x (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 b01s0scn (Listen) FRI The Search for Silence FRI FRI The Search for Silence: The final episode of a thirty-part FRI series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound FRI Archive. FRI FRI In the noisy modern world, silence has become an ever more FRI desirable - and fashionable - state. We read books about it, FRI go on retreats to find it, and soundproof our living and FRI working spaces in its name. But when we have it is it what FRI we want? FRI FRI Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers FRI the modern quest for quiet and asks whether what really FRI makes us humans happy is a little noise. FRI FRI Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. FRI FRI Assistant producer: Cathy FitzGerald. FRI Producer: Matt Thompson. FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01s0qnf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00s3hrm (Listen) FRI The Weighing Room FRI FRI By Justin Hopper. FRI FRI Noel is a jump jockey anxious to get his career back on FRI track after a spell on the sidelines. Just what does it take FRI to survive in the demanding and dangerous world of National FRI Hunt racing? FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI Credits FRI Noel: Lloyd Hutchinson FRI Sean: Michael Legge FRI Wrighty: James Weaver FRI Wozzer: Paul Rider FRI Seddon: David Seddon FRI Fiona Markham: Alison Pettitt FRI Consultant: Nigel Hastings FRI Steward: Joanna Monro FRI Owner: Bruce Alexander FRI Brian: Michael Shelford FRI Mandy: Keely Beresford FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Justin Hopper FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01s0slz (Listen) FRI St Keverne FRI FRI This week, Radio 4's horticultural panel show is in St FRI Keverne, Cornwall, with Eric Robson in the chair and Anne FRI Swithinbank, Toby Buckland and Bunny Guinness on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b00tpv0d (Listen) FRI Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Mr Quin, The Face of Helen FRI FRI Following the success of the first series of The Mysterious FRI Mr Quin, Martin Jarvis reads three more stories about Agatha FRI Christie's personal favourite character. FRI FRI Mr Quin assists his friend Mr Satterthwaite to investigate FRI three mysteries. But one mystery remains - who is Mr Harley FRI Quin himself? FRI FRI Mr Satterthwaite meets Mr Quin at a performance of FRI 'Pagliaccia', sung by the rising tenor star Yoachim. In the FRI audience they see a remarkably beautiful young woman. After FRI the performance Quin mysteriously hints that, once again, FRI they have been witness to a drama. Outside the opera house FRI Satterthwaite offers the young woman a lift home in his car FRI to escape a scuffle between her jealous companion, Philip FRI Eastney and another young man, Mr Burns. FRI FRI Later, Satterthwaite encounters Gillian and Charlie Burns in FRI Kew Gardens; they are now engaged to be married. Gillian is FRI worried that Eastney may be upset. Charlie reveals Gillian's FRI sad history of distressing behaviour by men obsessed with FRI her. FRI FRI That evening, Satterthwaite encounters Eastney who discusses FRI his war work on poison gas manufacture but, mainly, music. FRI Eastney once heard Caruso sing and believes the tenor was FRI able to shatter a glass with a particularly pitched high FRI note. FRI FRI On his way home Satterthwaite realises the significance of FRI Quin's remark at the opera. The latest newspaper announces FRI that tonight's concert on the wireless will include Yoachim FRI singing a song with a particularly high final note. FRI FRI Will Satterthwaite be in time to prevent a tragedy? FRI FRI Producer: Rosalind Ayres FRI A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01s0sm3 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01s0sm5 (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 b01s0smr (Listen) FRI Hannah and Jourvarnii - Learning From the Past FRI FRI Fi Glover presents a conversation between a mother and FRI daughter about the lengths a mother will go to for her FRI children and what her daughter has learned from those FRI decisions, in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01s0smt (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s02w7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01s0ss6 (Listen) FRI Series 80, Episode 3 FRI FRI Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI Producer: Sam Bryant FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01s0ssb (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Simon Frith FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Jazzer McCrearie ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Alec Murray ..... Rick Warden FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Andrew Eagleton ..... John Flitcroft. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01s0ssd (Listen) FRI Cultural Exchange: Jeanette Winterson on the King James FRI Bible FRI FRI With John Wilson, including more from the Cultural Exchange FRI project: tonight writer Jeanette Winterson on the King James FRI Bible. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b01s0s6k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01s0ssg (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Harrow in Middlesex with the Green MP Caroline Lucas FRI and former leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ming FRI Campbell. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01s0ssj (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Noise: A Human History - Omnibus b01s0ssl (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of the episodes from the final week of a FRI six-week series made in collaboration with the British FRI Library Sound Archive. FRI FRI The rumble of artillery bombardment in Northern France could FRI be heard as far away as Kent during the First World War. Up FRI close in the trenches, soldiers experienced a sonic FRI onslaught that continued night and day: howling shells, the FRI machine gun's rattle, and the screams of injured men. FRI Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex visits FRI Flanders to relay echoes from the Front. FRI FRI He also explores the early days of radio and the seductive FRI power of the disembodied voice, coming out of thin air from FRI hundreds of miles away. In time, the radio became a trusted FRI part of family life - and by the 1930s and 40s, the perfect FRI medium for propaganda, as Joseph Goebbels recognized. FRI FRI The programme also considers how music has been used to FRI soothe us, cheer us, and make us productive over the past FRI hundred years - and includes extremely rare recordings of FRI wartime episodes of the much-loved BBC series, Music While FRI You Work. FRI FRI Next, David travels to Ghana's capital, Accra, a city so FRI loud that visitors describe its streets as a visceral shock, FRI and introduces an elegiac recording of the wild soundscape FRI we've lost, captured by the celebrated naturalist, Bernie FRI Krause. FRI FRI And finally, he considers the modern quest for quiet. In the FRI noisy modern world, silence has become an ever more FRI desirable - and fashionable - state. We read books about it, FRI go on retreats to find it, and soundproof our living and FRI working spaces in its name. But when we have it is it what FRI we want? FRI Is is actually a little noise that really makes us humans FRI happy. FRI FRI Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. FRI Producer: Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01s02w9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01s0sx7 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective FRI with Philippa Thomas. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s10d7 (Listen) FRI This Is Where I Am, Episode 5 FRI FRI Abdi introduces Debs to his neighbour Mrs Coutts - and FRI little Rebecca, blossoming in the warmth of the burgeoning FRI friendships all around her, gives them a thrilling surprise. FRI FRI Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01s0b04 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01s0sx9 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the latest news and analysis from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01s0sxc (Listen) FRI Hannah and Ruth - Hannah and Her Sisters FRI FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in Radio 4's series FRI that proves that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
19 April, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 20/04/2013 - 26/04/2013
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