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SAT SATURDAY 24 MAY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04418qm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b041zzq7 (Listen) SAT Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, The Elections SAT SAT Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery SAT and danger. In 2005, at the age of 22, the decision to give SAT up a maths Phd to become a journalist takes Sundaram to war SAT torn Congo ahead of the first democratic elections for forty SAT years. Today, he observes the elections and is caught up in SAT their disturbing aftermath. SAT SAT Read by Riz Ahmed. SAT Abridged by Richad Hamilton. SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Riz Ahmed SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Author: Anjan Sundaram SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04418qp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04418qr (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04418qt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04418qw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04418sb (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop SAT Stephen Oliver. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04418sd (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04418qy (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04418r0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b043xqcl (Listen) SAT Series 27, Thundersley, Essex SAT SAT There's a watery theme to this new series of Ramblings, as SAT Clare Balding walks along rivers, lakes and streams. In this SAT first programme we find her exploring part of the Thames SAT estuary in Essex, with local enthusiast, Eileen Peck. SAT Eileen's written a book of local walks around her village of SAT Thundersley trying to encourage locals to enjoy walking in SAT their own area, rather than feeling they have to travel SAT further a field. Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Coastal view at Leigh on Sea SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Eileen Peck SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b044b1zj (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: British Breeding at the Devon SAT County Show SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04418r2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b044b29m (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b044b29p (Listen) SAT Adventurer Ed Stafford; Inheritance Tracks of Ziggy Marley SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with adventurer Ed Stafford SAT whose latest book 'Naked and Marooned' charts 60 days SAT completely alone with nothing but a camera. Ed discusses his SAT world travels and the profound psychological impact SAT enforced, albeit self imposed, solitude, had on him. SAT SAT Lady Catherine Meyer lost both of her sons when her former SAT husband abducted them and took them to Germany against the SAT ruling of a British court. Years of legal battles ensued but SAT Catherine couldn't get the boys back. Years later they got SAT back in touch and are now reunited. Catherine set up a SAT charity, 'PACT' to campaign for fundamental improvements in SAT child protection policies and practices and help people in SAT similar circumstances. SAT SAT Peter Hodes is a volunteer stem cell courier for The Anthony SAT Nolan Trust. He travels the world delivering vital human SAT material for transplant operations and talks to us about his SAT work and travels. SAT SAT Joanne Harris suffered with Motor Neurone Disease. She'd SAT written about her condition in the Guardian Newspaper and SAT was planning to record an audio column for us here at SAT 'Saturday Live' but sadly died before she could complete it. SAT Since she very much wanted to broadcast her piece, a close SAT friend, Anne, agreed to do it and both Anne and Jo's brother SAT discuss Jo's life and how she coped with such a debilitating SAT condition. SAT SAT JP Devlin goes to Hay on Wye to talk to people just before SAT the Hay Literary Festival descends on the town. SAT SAT Listener Chris Markiewicz talks about the joy of hearing a SAT 1967 1275 cc Austin Healey Sprite engine. SAT SAT Ziggy Marley, son of Bob Marley, shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks, choosing a piece by his Dad and a song he wrote and SAT performed himself. Africa Unite (Bob Marley) and I Dont SAT Wanna Live on Mars (Ziggy Marley). SAT SAT Produced by Chris Wilson. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Ed Stafford SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine Meyer SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Hodges SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Markiewicz SAT Interviewed Guest: Ziggy Marley SAT Producer: Chris Wilson SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b044b29r (Listen) SAT Series 7, Bristol Food Connections Festival SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b044b29t (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b044b29w (Listen) SAT A Little Less Freedom, a Little More Stability SAT SAT Correspondents telling us more: how there's always been SAT someone lying awake in Egypt waiting for the policeman's SAT midnight knock; on mounting anger in Nigeria that the SAT authorities aren't doing enough to counter the threat posed SAT by the militants of Boko Haram; why the fishing communities SAT of the far west of Ireland feel it's not just distance which SAT separates them from the bureaucrats in Brussels and SAT Strasbourg; why, in Brazil as the World Cup approaches, so SAT many feel disillusioned, disrespected and discriminated SAT against and our reporter's in Texas, flipping pancakes with SAT the oldest Congressman in the House of Representatives. At SAT 91, the veteran politician says, he's certainly not too old SAT to continue serving the public. Tony Grant is the SAT programme's producer. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b044b29y (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b04416ss (Listen) SAT Series 43, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Sara SAT Pascoe for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch SAT Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. SAT SAT Written by the cast with additional material from Gareth SAT Gwynn, Nadia Kamil and Matt Green. Produced by Alexandra SAT Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Panellist: Mitch Benn SAT Panellist: Laura Shavin SAT Panellist: Jon Holmes SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04418r4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04418r6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04418mc (Listen) SAT Angela Eagle MP, Sir Malcolm Bruce MP, Justine Greening MP, SAT Patrick O'Flynn SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the BBC SAT Radio Theatre in London with Shadow Leader of the House of SAT Commons Angela Eagle MP, Secretary of State for SAT International Development Justine Greening, Director of SAT Communications for UKIP Patrick O'Flynn and Deputy Leader of SAT the Liberal Democrats Sir Malcolm Bruce. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b044b3fh (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions. Presented by Julian SAT Worricker. Produced by Angie Nehring. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b015yf3n (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, The Little Sister SAT SAT A small, neat girl walks into Philip Marlowe's office. SAT Orfamay Quest is looking for her brother Orrin. She gives SAT Marlowe twenty dollars and lots of moral disapproval. SAT Marlowe takes the case and finds himself drawn into the SAT glamorous world of the Hollywood film studios. Toby Stephens SAT plays Philip Marlowe in a landmark series bringing all SAT Raymond Chandler's Marlowe novels to Radio 4. SAT SAT Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SAT Directed by Claire Grove SAT SAT This series brings all the Philip Marlowe novels to Radio SAT 4's Saturday Play. The Big Sleep 1939, Farewell My Lovely SAT 1940, The High Window 1942, The Lady in the Lake 1943, The SAT Little Sister 1949 and The Long Goodbye 1953, and two lesser SAT known novels, Playback 1958 and Poodle Springs, unfinished SAT at the time of his death in 1959. SAT SAT Toby Stephens is best known for playing megavillain Gustav SAT Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) and SAT Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of SAT Jane Eyre (2006). In autumn 2010 Toby starred as a detective SAT in Vexed, a three-part comedic television series for BBC SAT Two. He also made his debut at the National Theatre as SAT George Danton in Danton's Death. SAT SAT Credits SAT Philip Marlowe: Toby Stephens SAT Oramay Quest: Kelly Burke SAT Mavis: Fenella Woolgar SAT Clausen: Peter Polycarpou SAT Dolores: Ginita Jimenez SAT Lagardie: John Guerrasio SAT Lagardie: Jonathan Forbes SAT Director: Claire Grove SAT Adaptor: Stephen Wyatt SAT Author: Raymond Chandler SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b044b3fk (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Have you run out of things to say to your partner? What SAT happened to those long nights confiding secrets and baring SAT your soul? We discuss the lost art of conversation. SAT SAT Mary Portas on the regeneration of the High Street and how SAT two women are trying to change things in Chislehurst and SAT Market Rasen. SAT SAT Richard Scudmaore says he's sorry for his sexist emails and SAT he's still the boss of the Premier League. Dame Tanni Grey SAT Thompson tells us what she thinks of that. SAT SAT The Rich List named a thousand of Britian's wealthiest SAT people but just over a hundred were women, and only two of SAT them made their own fortune. Why are women still reluctant SAT entrepreneurs? SAT SAT Stealthy Freedoms in Iran. We discuss what the impact will SAT be of women showing themselves on Facebook unveiled? SAT SAT Should you have children if it means passing on SAT disabilities? We debate the ethics surrounding genetic SAT testing. SAT SAT Is violence on TV crime drama's too excessive and SAT predominately aimed at women? Sally Wainwright the writer of SAT Happy Valley discusses. SAT SAT And we eavesdrop in a posh wedding shop in Liverpool. SAT SAT Producer :Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Portas SAT Interviewed Guest: Tanni Grey-Thompson SAT Interviewed Guest: Sally Wainwright SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b044b3fm (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04418sd (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04418r8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04418rb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04418rd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b044b3fp (Listen) SAT Tamsin Greig, Nina Wadia, Tanya Byron, Scottee, Nathan SAT Penlington, Real Estate, Rae Morris SAT SAT Emma's fresh from a Friday Night Dinner with actress Tamsin SAT Greig, who is reunited with her 'Green Wing' co-star, SAT Stephen Mangan, for the third series of 'Episodes'. Sean and SAT Beverly Lincoln are an English couple whose hit UK sitcom is SAT remade for US audiences and corrupted beyond recognition, SAT and in which Matt LeBlanc plays an outrageous version of SAT himself. SAT SAT Emma examines the mind of clinical psychologist Professor SAT Tanya Byron, whose new book is about the years she spent SAT training as a clinical psychologist. In 'The Skeleton SAT Cupboard', Tanya experiences some of the toughest placements SAT of her career and she shares the fascinating stories of some SAT of the people she treated. SAT SAT Scottee fantasises with writer and performer Nathan SAT Penlington, whose book 'The Boy in the Book' materialised SAT from his obsession with 'Choose Your Own Adventure' novels. SAT When he came across the very first in the series, he SAT anticipated a nostalgia trip. But what he discovered sent SAT him off on an adventure all of his own. SAT SAT Emma's going out for an English with actress Nina Wadia, SAT who's starring a one off special of the ground-breaking SAT British Asian sketch show 'Goodness Gracious Me', as part of SAT BBC 2's 50th Anniversary Celebrations. It features all the SAT favourite characters from the original series and includes SAT some very competitive Grandmothers, a bit of politics with SAT the Kapoors and a high-tech use for an aubergine. SAT SAT With Music from Real Estate, who perform 'Crime' from their SAT album 'Atlas'. And from Rae Morris, who performs new single SAT 'Cold' from her forthcoming album SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Tamsin Greig, Nina Wadia, Tanya Byron, SAT Scottee, Nathan Penlington, Real Estate, Rae Morris (2) SAT SAT Tamsin Greig SAT ‘Episodes’ is on Wednesday 28th May at 22.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Professor Tanya Byron SAT ‘The Skeleton Cupboard’ is published by Pan Macmillan and SAT available now. SAT SAT Nathan Penlington SAT ‘The Boy in the Book’ is published by Headline and available SAT now. SAT ‘Choose Your Own Documentary’ is at London’s Soho Theatre SAT Upstairs from Monday 26th May until Sunday 1st June. SAT SAT Nina Wadia SAT ‘Goodness Gracious Me Special’ is on Monday 26th May at SAT 22.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Real Estate SAT ‘Atlas’ is available now on Domino Records. SAT Real Estate are playing Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol on SAT Saturday 24th, Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham on Sunday SAT 25th and Classic Grand, Glasgow on Monday 26th May. SAT SAT SAT Rae Morris SAT Rae's forthcoming debut album is available on 22nd September SAT on Atlantic. SAT She's playing at The Curious Arts Festival, Lymington on SAT Sunday 20th July, Secret Garden Party at the end of July and SAT on a UK tour in September. Check Rae's website for details. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b044b3fr (Listen) SAT Series 16, The Joy of Anhedonia SAT SAT In light of elections this week for the European parliament SAT and for a Ukrainian president, novelist Will Self imagines a SAT country called Anhedonia, where its new First Minister is SAT about to address citizens on the vexing questions of SAT neighbours Diplopia and Beluga, and on matters of culture, SAT tradition and the country's sense of 'pride'. SAT SAT First Minister - Will Self SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT First Minister: Will Self SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT Writer: Will Self SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b044b3ft (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs sharp, critical discussion of the SAT week's cultural events. SAT SAT Kenneth Clark SAT An exhibition at Tate Britain in London, SAT Kenneth Clark - Looking for Civilisation SAT 20 May - 10 August 2014. Main Image: Detail: John Constable, SAT Sketch for 'Hadleigh Castle' SAT c1828-9, Tate. SAT SAT Eyrie SAT Eyrie by Tim Winton is published by Picador on 22 May 2014. SAT SAT Heli SAT Directed by Amat Escalante, Heli is in cinemas from Friday SAT 23 May, certificate 18. SAT SAT Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be SAT Directed by Terry Johnson, SAT Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be SAT is at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, until 8 June SAT 2014. SAT SAT Mr Sloane SAT A six episode series, SAT Mr Sloane SAT begins on Friday 23 May, 9pm, Sky Atlantic. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b044b3lj (Listen) SAT The Benjamin Broadcasts SAT SAT The German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin is best known SAT as the author of seminal texts such as "The Work of Art in SAT the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and for his influence on SAT Theodor Adorno and the "Frankfurt School" of philosophy. But SAT behind the much-mythologised figure of Benjamin the SAT philosopher, there lies the little-known historical reality SAT of Benjamin the broadcaster... SAT SAT When the Gestapo stormed Walter Benjamin's last apartment in SAT 1940, they stumbled upon a cache of papers which the fleeing SAT philosopher had abandoned in his hurry to escape Paris. SAT Amongst these papers were the scripts for an extraordinary SAT series of radio broadcasts for children covering everything SAT from toy collecting to the politics of tenement housing, SAT from the psychology of witch hunts to human responses to SAT natural catastrophes. Designed to encourage young listeners SAT to think critically, to question sources and to challenge SAT clichés, Benjamin's broadcasts stand in stark contrast to SAT the fascist propaganda which would come to take their place. SAT SAT Benjamin committed suicide in 1940, when his flight out of SAT Europe was blocked at the Spanish border. He died believing SAT that most - if not all - of his writings were lost. SAT SAT Here Radio4 listeners have an exclusive chance to discover SAT them in this Archive on Four documentary presented by SAT Michael Rosen, and with Henry Goodman as the voice of Walter SAT Benjamin. It's the first ever English recreation of his SAT pre-war broadcasts to children. SAT SAT Producer: Kate Schneider SAT A Made in Manchester Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The Barchester Chronicles b043wk0v (Listen) SAT Anthony Trollope's Dr Thorne, Episode 3 SAT SAT Anthony Trollope's Dr Thorne by Michael Symmons Roberts SAT SAT After an enforced year away from Mary Thorne, Frank returns SAT to Greshambury. Yet, with rumours that Frank did not spend SAT his year alone and Louis deciding to re-direct his SAT attentions to Mary, Lady Arabella is ever hopeful that Frank SAT will do his duty and marry money. SAT SAT Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SAT Gallant SAT SAT Written by Michael Symmons Roberts SAT Directed by Susan Roberts SAT Produced by Charlotte Riches SAT SAT The Barchester Chronicles are Anthony Trollope's much-loved SAT series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life SAT set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and SAT the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the SAT lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural SAT gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful SAT set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately SAT involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of SAT love and friendship across the years. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SAT Dr Thorne: Iain Glen SAT Frank Gresham: Doug Booth SAT Mary Thorne: Pippa Bennett-Warner SAT Lady Scratcherd: Lisa Tarbuck SAT Louis Scractherd: Keiran Hodgson SAT Lady Arabella: Pippa Haywood SAT Squire Gresham: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Miss Dunstable: Hattie Morahan SAT Patience Oriel: Jaimi Barbakoff SAT Director: Susan Roberts SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches SAT Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SAT Author: Anthony Trollope SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04418rg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b043xl9y (Listen) SAT Series 4, SF Said SAT SAT Children's author SF Said believes the power of fiction can SAT help to bridge the divide when people identify themselves as SAT "Us" and reject everyone else as "Them". SAT SAT Four Thought is a series of thought-provoking talks in which SAT speakers air their thinking, in front of a live audience, on SAT the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect SAT culture and society. SAT SAT Presenter: Rohan Silva SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 22:30 Wireless Nights b01sjk6v (Listen) SAT Series 2, Nights of Passage SAT SAT Tonight, Jarvis Cocker's award winning nocturnal exploration SAT of the human condition takes to the sea. Join him on the SAT midnight sailing of a Channel ferry as he contemplates night SAT crossings mythic and modern. SAT SAT As he moves across dark waters he hears the miraculous story SAT of Jeni, a castaway lost and found in the North Sea whose SAT epic struggle took place at night. He meets Sean, a young SAT wrestler who slips through the ropes of the ring for his SAT first fight night and embarks on his own rite of passage. SAT Also on board, a wise old man of the sea, Swilly Billy, SAT keeps Jarvis on course. SAT SAT The ferryman of dead souls across the ancient River Styx SAT also shadows the vessel but fear not, sea sickness tablets SAT are available the lights of Calais are not far off. SAT SAT Produced by Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b043wvxx (Listen) SAT (1/12) SAT The evergreen cryptic quiz returns to the airwaves, with Tom SAT Sutcliffe in the chair. This week the game of lateral SAT thinking and cryptic connections pits Marcel Berlins and SAT Fred Housego of the South of England against Polly Devlin SAT and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland. SAT SAT They have just a few minutes to unravel each of the SAT programme's trademark questions, which combine snippets of SAT knowledge from unlikely fields, ranging from science and the SAT natural world to popular culture and literature. They get SAT six points if they can solve the question unaided, and SAT points are taken away depending on how much help the SAT chairman has to give to nudge them towards the solution. SAT SAT In future programmes, the defending champions Wales (Myfanwy SAT Alexander and David Edwards) will be back to discover SAT whether they can hold off strong challenges from the other SAT regional teams. The North of England, Scotland and the SAT Midlands also all take part in the coming weeks. SAT SAT You can send us your own question ideas for the programme, SAT and Tom will be giving the details of how you can do so - SAT which are also on the programme's webpages. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b043wk0z (Listen) SAT Live Audience Requests at Bristol Food Connections Festival SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of the programme's SAT most-requested poems, as chosen by the audience at Bristol SAT Food Connections festival. SAT SAT With readers James Fleet, Alex Lanipekun and Pippa Haywood. SAT SAT No emailing or posting requests this time: here Roger comes SAT eyeball-to-eyeball with his listeners to find out why they SAT want the poem they've chosen. SAT SAT Will it be WB Yeats, Maya Angelou, Shakespeare or Robert SAT Frost? Roger and readers won't know until the audience make SAT their choice. SAT SAT Readers...James Fleet, Alex Lanipekun and Pippa Haywood SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT Still I Rise SAT SAT By Maya Angelou SAT SAT SAT The Lake Isle of Innisfree SAT SAT By WB Yeats SAT SAT SAT Timothy Winters SAT SAT By Charles Causley SAT SAT SAT To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train SAT SAT By Frances Cornford SAT SAT SAT To His Coy Mistress SAT SAT By Andrew Marvell SAT SAT SAT ‘How do I love thee? 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SUN SUN Neil Hartman and Tony Haynes' story is read by Iestyn Jones SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Nigel Lewis. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Iestyn Jones SUN Writer: Neil Hartman SUN Writer: Tony Haynes SUN Producer: Nigel Lewis SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b044b1h1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b044b1h3 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b044b1h5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b044b1h7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b044bb3h (Listen) SUN All Saints Church, Maidstone SUN SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Maidstone, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b043xl9y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 22:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b044b1h9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b044bc9h (Listen) SUN The Shelter of Each Other SUN SUN The Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama considers an old Irish saying SUN : "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." SUN The word for word translation is 'we live in each other's SUN shadow'. But there is a beautiful ambivalence to this SUN proverb thrown up by an island culture. The ambiguity lies SUN in the word 'scáth' which can mean either shadow and shade SUN or shelter and protection. SUN SUN In a crowded rural culture, neighbourliness must have SUN sometimes been a constricting shadow and sometimes a SUN comforting shelter and protection. SUN SUN With music from The Divine Comedy, Rita Connolly and Sinead SUN O'Connor and extracts from the writings of Philip Pullman, SUN Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Irish President Michael D Higgins, SUN he considers how shelter and shadow can co-exist in our SUN lives. SUN SUN Produced by Rachel Hooper. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b044bc9k (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b044b1hc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b044b1hf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b044bc9m (Listen) SUN Pope in Holy Land, Integrated Education, The Vicar of Fleet SUN Street SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b044bc9p (Listen) SUN Feed the Minds SUN SUN Michael Morpurgo presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Feed the SUN Minds. SUN Registered Charity 291333 (England and Wales) and SC041999 SUN (Scotland) SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Feed the Minds'. SUN SUN Feed the Minds SUN Feed the Minds SUN equips people in Africa and Asia who have missed out on an SUN education with knowledge and skills they can use to change SUN their lives and communities for the better. We do this by SUN working with local organisations to deliver ‘Education for SUN Change’ projects that integrate literacy training with civic SUN education, health education, vocational training or SUN peacebuilding. We focus our efforts on adults, as few SUN educational initiatives target the 774 million people over SUN the age of 15 worldwide who lack basic reading and writing. SUN We prioritise work with women, as they find it particularly SUN difficult to access educational opportunities and represent SUN 2/3 of the world’s non-literate. SUN SUN SUN Feed the Minds’ education project SUN SUN The majority of people missing out on education are women. SUN Feed the Minds’ education project reaches just over 100,000 SUN people in Africa and Asia every year. SUN SUN Helina Yoto sells doughnuts in the market in Maridi, South SUN Sudan. SUN Helina hopes to achieve reading and writing skills. She SUN explains one of her reasons for this: “I did vote in the SUN last election. I got the message about voting through public SUN rallies but I couldn't actually read the name of the person SUN I was voting for. I hope it was the right person” SUN SUN Foye, Getarude and Obi SUN Being able to write down your story helps with healing the SUN wounds of the war in South Sudan, which Foye, Getarude and SUN Obi all have personal experience of. But it also means they SUN can help their children in school and fully take part in SUN society. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b044b1hh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b044b1hk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b044bc9r (Listen) SUN Living Tradition SUN SUN The Rev'd Mary Stallard explores tradition and faithful SUN change, in a service live from St. Margaret's Church, SUN Wrexham, led by Canon John Lomas. Music by the Cantorian SUN Sirenian Singers, conducted by Jean Stanley Jones. Organist: SUN John Hoskins. SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04418mf (Listen) SUN Why we should be religious but not spiritual SUN SUN A growing number of people are describing themselves as SUN spiritual but not religious. This is not a trend of which SUN Tom Shakespeare approves. In this week's Point of View he SUN argues, rather, that we should be religious but not SUN spiritual. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp38 (Listen) SUN Puffin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Puffin. 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SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Peter Wild SUN Actor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b044bcc5 (Listen) SUN Rene Redzepi SUN SUN Rene Redzepi, Danish chef, is interviewed by Kirsty Young SUN for Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN His restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen has been named 'best in SUN the world' for a fourth time, and holds two Michelin stars. SUN His cooking captures not just the essence of his homeland - SUN using ingredients like reindeer tongue, sea buckthorn or SUN fish scales - but also a strong flavour of 'now'. He SUN believes traditional notions of luxury are outdated. A sense SUN of 'time and place' are his kitchen's guiding principles. SUN SUN His childhood was split between Denmark and Macedonia, where SUN he spent his summers foraging in the woods. He as good as SUN stumbled into catering, because he couldn't think of SUN anything better to do, but pretty quickly realised that SUN cooking allowed him to dream. SUN SUN He says, "The day when there is no more to do is the day SUN when you're burned out. There are endless possibilities - SUN it's just whether you can see them or not ... and right now SUN I see plenty.". SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Rene Redzepi SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b043wvy3 (Listen) SUN Series 69, Episode 1 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation? Paul Merton, Jenny SUN Eclair, Julian Clary and Vanessa Feltz find out. Nicholas SUN Parsons watches the clock and keeps the scores. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Jenny Eclair SUN Panellist: Julian Clary SUN Panellist: Vanessa Feltz SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b044bckf (Listen) SUN Wild Booze SUN SUN Writer and forager Andy Hamilton leads a journey hunting for SUN plants to make incredible drinks, and looks again at the SUN wild world all around us. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Andy Hamilton SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b044b1hm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b044bckh (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 Try a Little Tenderness: The Lost Legacy of Little SUN Miss Cornshucks b042zsxx (Listen) SUN Try A Little Tenderness: The Lost Legacy of Little Miss SUN Cornshucks SUN SUN Chicago. It's the late 1930's and a young Mildred Cummings SUN from Dayton, Ohio is barefoot, standing in the spotlight on SUN stage, wearing that same old shabby dress and a broken straw SUN hat. This is Little Miss Cornshucks and she has the audience SUN in the palm of her hand, a unique act and larger than life SUN personality. By the 1940's she made top-billing at SUN nightclubs across America, performing heartbreaking ballads. SUN The great Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, the man who SUN pioneered the rhythm and blues said "She could sing the SUN blues better than anybody I've ever heard." SUN SUN But who remembers her now? SUN SUN Author and poet Salena Godden invites you to join her in SUN downtown Chicago as she goes in search of the missing legacy SUN of Little Miss Cornshucks, the best blues singer you never SUN heard. SUN SUN She meets unofficial biographer Barry Mazor, who spent years SUN tracing her tale. 98-year old former dancer Lester Goodman SUN remembers the 'black and tan' nightspots that Cornshucks SUN commanded, now long-gone. And taking a road trip on Route 65 SUN to Indianapolis, Salena visits the home of Mildred's family, SUN her daughter Francey and grand-daughter Tonya, filled with SUN pictures, music and memories. SUN SUN Why did this unique voice, that could so easily lift or SUN reduce an audience to laughter and tears, die in complete SUN obscurity, with her influence unmarked and unrecognised? SUN SUN The song 'Try A Little Tenderness' became a powerhouse hit SUN for both Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding. With SUN musicologists, Cerys Matthews and Russell Davies, Salena SUN invites us to take a moment to listen back to the inimitable SUN Little Miss Cornshucks earlier version, to make the case for SUN a lost legend of blues. SUN SUN Produced by Rebecca Maxted. SUN A Wise Buddah Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Try A Little Tenderness: The Lost Legacy of Little Miss SUN Cornshucks (Storify) SUN Radio 4 On Music: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? SUN Radio 4 On Music: When the Levee Breaks SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04416sd (Listen) SUN Chelsea Fringe SUN SUN Eric Robson and the GQT team are at Oxford House in Bethnal SUN Green for the Chelsea Fringe. Bunny Guinness, Anne SUN Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson take questions from the SUN audience. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q: What is better, stone or lawn for a shaded garden? SUN SUN A: You could grow some shade-loving plants in the stones to SUN green things up a bit. But if you did want a lawn, you could SUN try growing Micro Clovers, which are lot more tolerant of SUN poor conditions than regular grass. SUN SUN Q: What can I plant with my 25feet (7.6 meters) tall SUN Phyllostachis Bamboo, other than the Clematis that is SUN already growing there? SUN SUN A: The only thing you can really plant, is another voracious SUN grower, perhaps a Buddleia. But you could put some long SUN troughs in front of the bamboo and grow things in there SUN instead. You could also try growing Arum Italicum Pictum SUN Marmoratum around the base of the Bamboo, or Leycesteria SUN (Himalayan Honeysuckle) or soft shield ferns. SUN SUN Q: What can the panel suggest to replace a fallen Robinia SUN Pseudoacacia in a north-facing space about 3.5 by 1.5 SUN metres? I'd like something with good shape and colour in the SUN summer. SUN SUN A: You could go for a crab apple tree or an Amerlanchier. SUN SUN Q: What's the best way to move my fruit bushes? I have to SUN move allotments by the beginning of next year. SUN SUN A: Prune the bushes hard and then move them in the autumn, SUN planting them in early September. This will stem root growth SUN before you move them and then encourage root growth when SUN replanted. If it's a very hot dry summer and the plants go SUN into dormancy, then you could try putting them into pots SUN placed on capillary matting and put shade netting over the SUN top. Be sure to prepare the ground before you move. Cut the SUN roots now with a spade (about a spade head's circumference SUN around the plant) and this will also make the move easier. SUN SUN Q: What would the panel recommend growing in out small SUN garden, which is in direct sunlight from about 11:30 am SUN until 6:30 pm but is in the shade the rest of the time? We SUN are looking to plant a cottage garden that can handle these SUN contrasts. SUN SUN A: Don't worry too much about the light contrast; this is SUN enough sun for sun-loving plants. Even real sun-lovers like SUN the silvery leaved Brachyglottis would do well with this SUN much sun. Roses might be a little less floriferous, but SUN Lupins, Delphiniums, and other cottage plants would be fine. SUN To encourage plants such as Sweet Peas you need to have very SUN fertile soil. Cat Mint might be another plant to try. SUN SUN Q: What do you have to do to Tulips in pots to make them SUN flower again the following year? SUN SUN A: It's very difficult to get Tulips to perform well in pots SUN year after year. You could try moving the tulips from the SUN pots into the ground and getting new Tulip bulbs for the SUN pots. The Queen of the Night variety tends to come back year SUN after year. SUN SUN Q: What can I do with my empty greenhouse? SUN SUN A: You could plant a Passion Flower in there, a Cucumber SUN plant, an Aubergine plant, Chilli Peppers and cacti and SUN succulents could also work. You could also try salad crops SUN such as Ameranthus callaloo. Sweet potato would also be a SUN good plant to try in the greenhouse. You could try planting SUN out seeds, but it's probably better to buy in some plants SUN now. SUN SUN Q: What suggestions can the panel make for keeping foxes SUN away? SUN SUN A: An electric wire would keep foxes out. Chilli powder also SUN keeps them away. Robust plants with irritable sap like SUN Euphorbias can also help keep foxes at bay. Lemon rind is SUN also an idea for deterring foxes and cats. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b044bckk (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about clean breaks from SUN drugs, making friends with the person who talked you out of SUN suicide, and whether one child is enough, from Scotland, SUN London and Leeds, proving again that 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 b044ghp2 (Listen) SUN Barnaby Rudge, Captain Midnight SUN SUN Dramatised by Mike Walker from Charles Dickens's novel set SUN against the background of the anti-catholic riots of the SUN 1780s. When young Ned Chester is set upon by a highwaymen SUN no-one thinks that his assailant might be connected to the SUN violent murder of his beloved Emma's father, Reuben SUN Haredale. The murderer that night, five years ago, was SUN assumed to be William Rudge, who has disappeared without SUN trace, leaving his wife and son Barnaby to fend for SUN themselves. SUN SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN Credits SUN Charles Dickens: Iain Glen SUN Barnaby Rudge: Daniel Laurie SUN Grip: Joanna Horton SUN Miggs: Joanna Horton SUN Mary Rudge: Heather Craney SUN Captain Midnight: Tony Bell SUN Simon Tappertit: Bryan Dick SUN Gabriel Varden: Ron Cook SUN Dolly Varden: Amaka Okafor SUN Geoffrey Haredale: David Cann SUN Solomon Daisy: David Cann SUN Emma Haredale: Jaimi Barbakoff SUN John Chester: John Mackay SUN Ned Chester: Hubert Burton SUN John Willet: David Schofield SUN Joe Willet: Matthew Watson SUN Hugh: Ashley Kumar SUN Director: Jeremy Mortimer SUN Adaptor: Mike Walker SUN Author: Charles Dickens SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b044ghp4 (Listen) SUN Mariella explores a literary world shaped by political SUN intrigue, psychological manipulation and mysterious malign SUN forces beyond human control - the conspiracy thriller - with SUN two of the forms latest exponents. Nick Harkaway's latest SUN novel Tigerman is set in a post colonial enclave on the SUN verge of environmental collapse and Ned Beauman, one of SUN Granta's Best Young British novelists of 2013, has set his SUN novel Glow on the streets of London where an imaginary SUN psychotropic drug is gaining the upper hand. What is the SUN appeal of writing a conspiracy thriller in the post cold war SUN era and what are the defining elements of the genre itself? SUN SUN As the first ever Australia and New Zealand Festival of SUN Literature and Arts is staged in the UK this week writer and SUN journalist Ramona Koval sends us a post-card from Melbourne SUN about current literary goings on down under. SUN SUN This year's winner of the 2014 Kim Scott Walwyn prize - SUN commissioning editor of genre fiction at Hodder and SUN Stoughton Anne Perry - reveals how to blaze a trail in SUN today's multi platform publishing world. Awarded to SUN exceptional female publishers Perry was described in the SUN judge's citation as the "acme of today's multi talented and SUN multi tasking publisher - a fearless pathfinder who has set SUN a standard to which we should all aspire." Passionate about SUN sci fi and fantasy fiction Perry runs her own sci fi SUN publishing imprint, has founded an award winning scifi blog SUN and back in 2008 launched The Kitchies - the ironically SUN named UK genre prize for "speculative and fantastic" SUN fiction. SUN SUN And Bernadine Evaristo, award winning writer of The SUN Emperor's Babe reveals the book she would never lend, and SUN how it has influenced her own writing. SUN Why do we love a good conspiracy? SUN We hear from Anne Perry, winner of the Kim Scott Walwyn SUN Prize SUN Bernardine Evaristo speaks of her love for Under Milk Wood SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of Tigerman by Nick Harkaway SUN Tigerman Chapter 1 SUN by Nick Harkaway SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of Glow by Ned Beauman SUN Glow Chapter 1 SUN by Ned Beauman SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Conspiracy thrillers: SUN SUN Tigerman by Nick Harkaway - Publisher: William Heinemann SUN SUN Glow by Ned Beauman - Publisher: Sceptre SUN SUN Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre SUN SUN SUN SUN Postcard from Australia: SUN SUN Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts SUN SUN Helen Garner The First Stone SUN SUN Elizabeth Harrower The Watch Tower SUN SUN SUN SUN Bernadine Evaristo - Book I would never lend: SUN SUN Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Ned Beauman SUN Interviewed Guest: Nick Harkaway SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b044ghp6 (Listen) SUN Poetry by Heart SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of poems recited by SUN finalists at Poetry by Heart, a competition for students at SUN school and college in England to learn and recite poems from SUN memory. Also featuring Jean Sprackland, Andrew Motion and SUN Roger himself, all treating us to some of their favourite SUN poetry without using any words on a page to prompt them. SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from Poetry by Heart (2) SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN Those Winter Sundays SUN SUN By Robert Hayden SUN SUN From SUN The Oxford Book of American Poetry SUN SUN Published by Oxford UP SUN SUN Read by Jean Sprackland SUN SUN The Shout SUN SUN By Simon Armitage SUN SUN From SUN The Universal Home Doctor SUN SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN Read by Anna Offiah SUN SUN SUN The Cleaner SUN SUN By UA Fanthorpe SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems 1978-2003 SUN SUN Published by Peterloo Poets SUN SUN Read by Ellie Macdonald SUN SUN Musee des Beaux Arts SUN SUN By WH Auden SUN SUN From SUN Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN Read by Sofia di Lorenzo SUN SUN SUN The God Abandons Antony SUN SUN By CP Cavafy SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Chatto & Windus SUN SUN Read by Kobby Adi SUN SUN I Look into my Glass SUN SUN By Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From SUN The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy SUN SUN Published by Macmillan SUN SUN Read by Sir Andrew Motion SUN SUN The Way Through the Woods SUN SUN By Rudyard Kipling SUN SUN From SUN The Faber Book of Children’s Verse SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN Read by Matilda Neill SUN SUN A Supermarket in California SUN SUN By Allen Ginsberg SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems 1947-1980 SUN SUN Published by Harper & Row SUN SUN Read by Logan Jones SUN SUN SUN The Galloping Cat SUN SUN By Stevie Smith SUN SUN From SUN Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by New Directions SUN SUN Read by Isabel Brooks SUN SUN SUN Cargoes SUN SUN By John Masefield SUN SUN From SUN Everyman’s Book of Evergreen Verse SUN SUN Published by Everyman SUN SUN Read by Roger McGough SUN SUN Porphyria’s Lover SUN SUN By Robert Browning SUN SUN From SUN An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry SUN SUN Published by Oxford UP SUN SUN Read by Fey Popoola SUN SUN The Wedding SUN SUN By Alice Oswald SUN SUN From SUN Being Alive SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books SUN SUN Read by Kadedra Duffus SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Jean Sprackland SUN Reader: Andrew Motion SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b043x495 (Listen) SUN Miscarriage of Justice SUN SUN How effective is the system for investigating miscarriages SUN of justice in England and Wales? SUN SUN Critics say the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body SUN charged with examining potential wrongful convictions, lacks SUN teeth and needs to be thoroughly reformed. SUN SUN Are they right? SUN SUN Allan Urry examines cases in which prisoners, campaigners SUN and lawyers say the CCRC doesn't do enough for those who SUN continue to protest their innocence. SUN SUN Should the Commission be making more use of the latest DNA SUN techniques to re-examine verdicts which relied on SUN circumstantial evidence? SUN SUN And why did the CCRC twice refuse to pursue the case of a SUN man who spent 17 years in prison for a serious sex crime he SUN didn't commit? SUN SUN Producer: Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b044b3fr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b044b1hp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b044b1hr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b044b1ht (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b044ghp8 (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea with his best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b044ghpb (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Bird Island b044ghpd (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN EPISODE FOUR: SUN SUN Ben, a young scientist working in Sub-Antarctica, tries to SUN adapt to the loneliness by keeping a cheery audio diary on SUN his Dictaphone. This week, Ben gets a new telescope, and SUN Graham has some big news. SUN SUN Written by ..... Katy Wix SUN Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani SUN SUN ABOUT BIRD ISLAND: SUN SUN An atmospheric comedy about a cheery scientist based in SUN Sub-Antarctica. Starring Reece Shearsmith, Julian SUN Rhind-Tutt, Alison Steadman and Katy Wix. SUN SUN On the one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime. On the SUN other, he's trapped in a vast icy landscape with a dodgy SUN internet connection and a dictaphone. Loneliness is SUN something of a problem. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us SUN in the form of an audio 'log'. SUN SUN His fellow scientist Graham should alleviate this sense of SUN isolation, but the tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy SUN blokes, so they stumble through yet another mumbled SUN exchange. Not to mention the new arrival Jane, who Ben is SUN even more awkward around, for reasons that aren't entirely SUN clear to him. SUN SUN Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the SUN Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an SUN earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very SUN endearing. We eavesdrop as he chats awkwardly with Graham or SUN Jane, phones his mother or talks to himself, as he often SUN does. We also hear the Squawks and screeches of the birds SUN and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and ice. Lots of ice. SUN SUN Bird Island is written by Katy Wix, half of sketch comedy SUN Duo 'Anna and Katy'. Katy is also an actress who stars in SUN 'Miranda', 'Outnumbered' and as Daisy in 'Not Going Out'. SUN SUN Credits SUN Ben: Reece Shearsmith SUN Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN Jane: Katy Wix SUN Beverley: Alison Steadman SUN Robin: Richard Aldridge SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani SUN Writer: Katy Wix SUN SUN 19:30 Don't Start b01n1qyz (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Bathroom SUN SUN Kim calls Neil into the bathroom for an impromptu debate SUN about shaving, the Krankies and Phantom of the Opera - but SUN to what end? SUN SUN What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new SUN comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. SUN Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. SUN SUN The first series of Don't Start met with instant critical SUN and audience acclaim: SUN "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with SUN such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a SUN writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, SUN he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that SUN would be lost in his stand-up routines". Jane Anderson, SUN Radio Times SUN SUN "Writing and starring in the four-parter Don't Start (Radio SUN 4) Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic SUN comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a SUN bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly SUN precise dissection of a relationship". Daily Mail SUN SUN .. "a lesson in relationship ping-pong" .. - Miranda Sawyer, SUN The Observer SUN Series 2 follows hard on its heels. Well observed, clever SUN and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a SUN deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our SUN couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - SUN the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. Each week, the SUN stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these SUN are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with SUN increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references SUN (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs Rochester, SUN to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's SUN weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an SUN unmistakable tenderness". SUN SUN Frank says: SUN "Having established, in the first series, that Neil and Kim SUN are a childless academic couple who, during their numerous SUN arguments, luxuriate in their own, and each other's, SUN learning and wit, I've tried, in the second series, to dig a SUN little deeper into their relationship. Love and affection, SUN occasionally splutter into view, like a Higgs boson in a big SUN tunnel-thing, but can such emotions ever prevail in a SUN relationship where the couple prefers to wear their brains, SUN rather than their hearts, on their sleeves? Is that too much SUN offal imagery?" SUN SUN Directed and Produced by Polly Thomas SUN Executive Producer: Jon Thoday SUN An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Neil: Frank Skinner SUN Kim: Katherine Parkinson SUN Director: Polly Thomas SUN Producer: Polly Thomas SUN Writer: Frank Skinner SUN SUN 19:45 Introductions b044gkbf (Listen) SUN Naz SUN SUN 'Introductions' is a fresh exploration of what an SUN introduction means for British South Asian culture in SUN contemporary society, where the internet, cultural SUN diversity, and freedoms previously unavailable to members of SUN that society bounce off established traditions of arranged SUN matches or family marriages. SUN SUN Written by three authors from The Whole Kahani, a British SUN South Asian writers group, the stories in 'Introductions' SUN explore what it means to be mixed race, the tensions between SUN modern independence and family traditions, and the impact of SUN really going it alone in the face of family expectations. SUN SUN In Naz by Iman Qureshi, Naz forges a life alone, except for SUN her precious dog Doris. Rejecting her own parents' SUN compromised marriage, she shuns relationships until one day SUN Doris takes a shine to the most unlikely of people... SUN SUN Reader: Rita Das SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: David Roper SUN Writer: Iman Qureshi SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04416sl (Listen) SUN Romanian Crime SUN SUN UKIP have put concerns about Romanian crime back in the SUN news. Tim Harford investigates whether the statistics SUN they're quoting are accurate. And what about the broader SUN point - is it true that Romanians are responsible for more SUN crime than other nationalities? SUN SUN We discuss a famous probability puzzle involving goats and SUN game shows with German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Is he SUN right to suggest in his new book 'Risk Savvy' that we really SUN don't understand risk and uncertainty. SUN SUN Is it true, as our listeners heard on the Today programme, SUN that globally 24,000 people die every year from lightning SUN strikes? SUN SUN More or Less listeners also test their analytical abilities SUN on another problem - how old will you be before you're SUN guaranteed to celebrate a major, round-number birthday (like SUN 40 or 50) on a weekend? SUN SUN And is the divorce rate in the US state of Maine linked to SUN margarine consumption? It sounds ridiculous, but you might SUN be tempted to believe it if you saw the graphs side by side. SUN It's one of many pairs of statistics featured on the SUN 'Spurious Correlations' website started recently by Tyler SUN Vigen. We talk to him about some of the funniest SUN correlations he's found and the serious point he's trying to SUN make. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04416sj (Listen) SUN Sir Jack Brabham, Prof Louise Wilson, Dick Douglas, Harry SUN Stopes-Roe and Mary Stewart SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sir Jack Brabham, the Australian Formula One driver who SUN built and raced his own car. SUN SUN Louise Wilson, Professor of Fashion at Central Saint Martins SUN School of Art, who launched the careers of many leading SUN designers. SUN SUN Dick Douglas, the abrasive Glasgow-born Labour MP, who SUN defected to the Scottish Nationalists. SUN SUN Harry Stopes-Roe, a philosopher and leading humanist whose SUN mother was the controversial birth control pioneer Marie SUN Stopes. SUN SUN And the best-selling novelist Mary Stewart, who invented the SUN romantic suspense genre of fiction. SUN SUN Sir Jack Brabham (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend, the English motoring journalist SUN and author Doug Nye. SUN SUN Born 2 April 1926; died 19 May 2014 aged 88. SUN SUN Prof Louise Wilson OBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Anne Smith, Dean of Fashion at Central SUN Saint Martins, to Sarah Mower, US Vogue’s correspondent in SUN London and British Fashion Council’s first Ambassador for SUN Emerging Talent, and to designer Mary Katrantzou who studied SUN with Louise Wilson. SUN SUN Born 23 February 1962; died 17 May 2014 aged 52. SUN SUN Dick Douglas SUN SUN Matthew spoke to fellow politician Tam Dalyell and to the SUN Political Editor for BBC Scotland, Brian Taylor. SUN SUN Born 4 January 1932; died 3 May 2014 aged 82. SUN SUN Harry Stopes-Roe SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his wife, Mary Stopes-Roe and to his friend SUN and fellow humanist David Pollock. SUN SUN Born 27 March 1924; died 10 May 2014 aged 90. SUN SUN Mary Stewart SUN SUN Born 17 September 1916; died 9 May 2014 aged 97. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b044b29y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b044bc9p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b043xr77 (Listen) SUN Packaging in a Pickle SUN SUN Modern living generates ever increasing amounts of packaging SUN to wrap up the things we purchase and that generates SUN widespread criticism of the packaging industry. But SUN packaging companies are trying to innovate to respond to SUN both environmental and marketing needs. Peter Day SUN investigates what is wrapped around the products we all buy. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Robert Opie SUN SUN Founder, Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Helene Roberts SUN SUN Marketing Director Benson Group SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Lisa Caroll SUN SUN Director of Technology Rexam SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN John Revess SUN SUN Director of Sustainability, Rexam SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Grant Montague SUN SUN Vice President Europe, Perception Research Services SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Simon Oxley SUN SUN Packaging Technologist Marks and Spencer SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Jane Bickerstaffe SUN SUN Director, Incpen SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Sam Clough SUN SUN Creative Design Studio Director, Benson Group SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Europe Votes 2014 b044gkbh (Listen) SUN Coverage of the European elections. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 MAY 2014 MON MON 03:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b044b1jy (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b044b1k0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b044b1k2 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044v515 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop MON Stephen Oliver. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b044gksk (Listen) MON Scottish Independence Referendum MON MON It's less than four months now until voters in Scotland have MON their say on whether it should become an independent country MON or stay as part of the UK. In this programme, Farming Today MON looks at what that decision might mean for farmers and for MON rural communities. Where would it leave Scotland in terms of MON EU membership and therefore farm subsidies? What are the MON implications of a possible separate currency, especially for MON farms on the border between England and Scotland? And what MON do young farmers getting the vote for the first time make of MON it? Caz Graham talks to Jim Fairlie from the MON pro-independence group Farming for Yes, and Willie Porter, MON who speaks on behalf of the Rural Better Together campaign, MON which is in favour of maintaining the current United MON Kingdom. MON MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b044b1k4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tnrx (Listen) MON Nightjar MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Nightjar. Take a walk on MON a heath on a warm summer evening and you may hear the MON strange churring sound of the nightjar. MON MON Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB MON MON 06:00 Today b044gmf6 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b044gmf8 (Listen) MON Charleston Festival MON MON Picture taken by Axel Hesslenberg MON Start the Week is at the Charleston literary Festival with MON the novelists Tim Winton, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Nicola Barker MON and the poet and publisher Michael Schmidt. The death of the MON novel has been predicted since the early twentieth century MON but in a special programme recorded in front of an audience MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to three leading novelists from around MON the world about their latest works. They discuss their MON influences and their divergent styles, from Knausgaard's MON minute examination of his life to Tim Winton's tale of MON disillusionment and redemption, and Nicola Barker's humorous MON eccentrics. Michael Schmidt has written a biography of the MON novel, charting its ups and downs, its personalities and MON relationships and argues the form is in rude health. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Tim Winton MON Interviewed Guest: Karl Ove Knausgaard MON Interviewed Guest: Nicola Barker MON Interviewed Guest: Michael Schmidt MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b044gmfb (Listen) MON Doubling Back, Dancing, Kicking Up Her Legs MON MON A beautiful and moving memoir where the author retraces MON walks undertaken by others, from the Highlands of Scotland MON to the Swiss Alps and Kenya. MON MON In 1952 Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through MON the Swiss Alps. Fifty years later Linda retraces that MON fateful journey, following the trail of the man she barely MON knew. This collection of walking tales takes its theme from MON that pilgrimage. The walks trace the contours of history, MON following writers, relations and retreading ways across MON mountains, valleys and coasts formerly trodden by drovers, MON saints and adventurers. Each walk is about the reaffirming MON of memories, beliefs and emotions, and especially of the MON connection that one can have with the past through MON particular places. MON MON Part One : Dancing, Kicking Up Her Legs MON The author visits a hillside above Loch Ness following in MON the footsteps of the Scottish novelist, Jessie Kesson. MON MON Credits MON Author: Linda Cracknell MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane MON Reader: Teresa Gallagher MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b044gmfd (Listen) MON A celebration of wedding dresses at a new exhibition at the MON V&A in London. It traces the development of the fashionable MON white dress and its interpretation by leading designers over MON the last two centuries. Calls for Civil Partnerships to be MON available to heterosexual couples. Are opposite sex couples MON being discriminated against or would opening this relatively MON new institution be a threat to the sanctity of marriage? Why MON do weddings remain so popular, despite the high divorce MON rate? A wedding planner and agony aunt and author of The MON English Marriage; Tales of Love, Money and Adultery reveal MON all. Plus brides-to-be Petra and Rosie tell us about their MON plans for their big day and listeners share their experience MON of things not quite going to plan on what they'd hoped would MON be the "best day of their life". MON MON Civil Partnerships MON MON Civil partnerships for same sex couples have existed MON since 2005 and earlier this year same sex marriages became MON legal. There are now MON calls for heterosexual couples to also be allowed to have MON civil partnerships. MON So are opposite sex couples being discriminated against or MON would opening this MON relatively new institution be a threat to the sanctity of MON marriage? Jane speaks MON to Rebecca Steinfeld and Charlie Keidan a couple who have MON already announced MON their forthcoming civil partnership in the hope the law MON will change. Tim MON Loughton MP explains why he thinks civil partnerships MON should be accessible to MON all. MON MON Brides-to-Be MON MON Two brides-to-be discuss tendencies toward ‘bridezilla’ MON behaviour, and why, despite high rates of divorce, many MON women continue to harbour MON the notion of their ideal wedding day. How do they respond MON to recent MON research from Interflora suggesting that many women start MON planning their MON wedding from the age of 13 and more than half of single MON women have already MON planned their wedding before they have found a groom? And MON how much of MON traditional marriage ceremonies will they be including in MON their forthcoming MON special day? MON MON Wedding Dresses Exhibition MON MON A new exhibition opened at the V&A at the beginning MON of this month - Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 - tracing the MON development of the MON fashionable white wedding dress and its interpretation by MON leading couturiers MON and designers, offering a panorama of fashion over the last MON two centuries. The MON exhibition is displayed chronologically over two floors and MON features over 80 of MON the most romantic, glamorous and extravagant wedding MON outfits from the V&A’s MON collection. The curator Edwina Ehrman accompanies Jane MON around the display. MON MON Why do we marry? MON MON Why do we marry? Was there always such a fuss and so much MON time and money spent? Why do weddings remain so popular MON despite the high MON divorce rate? The numbers have fallen MON but the ONS says it is expected 42% of couples will MON permanently separate. What MON are the main stresses couples face in planning that special MON day? Jane is joined MON by author of The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and MON Adultery, Maureen MON Waller and wedding planner/ agony aunt, Sarah Haywood. MON MON Listener Wedding Stories MON MON We asked listeners to write in with their wedding day MON experiences and here are Cath, Terry, and Lynne telling us MON their stories of MON marrying Tom, Christine, and Bill. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Kirsty Starkey MON Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Steinfeld MON Interviewed Guest: Charles Keidan MON Interviewed Guest: Petra Fried MON Interviewed Guest: Rosie Swash MON Interviewed Guest: Maureen Waller MON Interviewed Guest: Sarah Haywood MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b044gmfg (Listen) MON The Seventh Test, Pop Star No 1 MON MON Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in MON New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she MON works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and MON younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an MON extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his MON choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the MON tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. MON Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas MON Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". MON MON 6) The Talent Show MON MON A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog MON Millionaire". MON When Sapna's sister, Neha enters India's top musical talent MON show "Pop Star No 1", she attracts the attention of blind MON music producer, Raoji. But not in the way she would have MON hoped. Sapna must come to her rescue. Dramatised from Vikas MON Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". MON MON Writers: MON Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling MON novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar MON winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award MON winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . MON MON Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX MON SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. MON She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, MON UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her MON stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was MON developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged MON by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. MON MON John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series MON SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won MON the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His MON dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best MON Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A MON HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated MON dramas on R4 Extra. MON MON Production: MON Sound Design - Steve Bond MON Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera MON Script Editor - Mike Walker MON Assistant Producer - Toral Shah MON MON Music - Sacha Putnam MON MON Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel MON "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. MON MON Director - John Dryden MON Producer - Nadir Khan MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Sapna: Rasika Dugal MON Acharya: Vijay Chrishna MON Karan: Neil Bhoopalam MON Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital MON Rosie: Radhika Mital MON Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel MON Raja: Sumeet Vyas MON Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur MON Roaji: Rajit Kapur MON Neha: Amrita Puri MON Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza MON Pushpa: Ayesha Raza MON Female Judge: Ayesha Raza MON Badan Singh: Kenny Desai MON Politician: Kenny Desai MON Constable: Kenny Desai MON Madan: Vivek Madan MON Neelam: Prerna Chawla MON Babli: Preetika Chawla MON Janet: Preetika Chawla MON Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik MON Director: John Dryden MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon MON Adaptor: John Dryden MON Author: Vikas Swarup MON MON 11:00 Little Chechnya on the Steppes b044gmfj (Listen) MON Award-winning travel writer Oliver Bullough journeys into MON the frozen heart of Central Asia to meet the 'White Hats'. MON This exiled community of Chechens survived everything that MON Stalin threw at them and now live an isolated and ascetic MON life on the steppes of Kazakhstan. MON MON These Chechens were uprooted from their home in the Caucasus MON mountains in 1944 by a Soviet government determined to MON destroy them. Deprived of their belongings, their history, MON and the most basic of rights, they responded with a defiant MON commitment to their leader, a Sufi Sheikh whose memory MON continues to bind the community together and whose grave MON provides a reason to remain in this harsh environment even MON though a return to their homeland is now possible. MON MON The sheikh gave them more than just ascetic rules for MON living, however. He also gave them a tumultuously spiritual MON ritual - the zikr - when men and women alike gather to chant MON and sing prayers to Allah. The ritual is at the heart of MON this community, haunting, powerful and totally their own. MON Once heard, it is never forgotten. MON MON The few old men who still remember 1944 recall how, herded MON into cattle trucks, they survived the deportation, but many MON of their friends did not. They describe their lives on the MON bleak steppes of the Akmola region of Kazakhstan. Just MON reaching their village - Krasnaya Polyana - is a challenge, MON as the road through the fields is often cut by blizzards. MON The White Hats rely only on themselves. They love receiving MON visitors, but they ask for no help from the outside world. MON MON Forced exile by Stalin has evolved into voluntary exile, a MON home on the steppe where they find freedom in the most MON exacting of circumstances. MON MON Producer: Cicely Fell MON An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00xpp6b (Listen) MON Series 3, It's a Family Affair MON MON Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record MON shop in Birmingham. MON MON While attempting a bit of spring cleaning, Adam discovers a MON bundle of long lost love letters addressed to his late Mum - MON and they're definitely not from his Dad. MON MON Adam ...... Lenny Henry MON Rudy ...... Larrington Walker MON Richie ...... Joe Jacobs MON Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon MON Doreen ...... Claire Benedict MON MON Written by Danny Robins MON Produced by Lucy Armitage. MON MON Music used in this epsiode (in order) MON MON Miss Jamaica - Jimmy Cliff MON Put Yourself In My Place - The Elgins MON Daddy Pop - Prince & The New Power Generation MON Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone MON The Price Is Too High - Slim Harpo MON It's You (Ska Version) - Toots & The Maytals MON All Out To Get You - The Beat MON Hard Man Fe Dead - Prince Buster MON Love Me Forever - Carlton & The Shoes MON MON Credits MON Adam: Lenny Henry MON Rudy: Larrington Walker MON Richie: Joe Jacobs MON Tasha: Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton: Jeffery Kissoon MON Doreen: Claire Benedict MON Writer: Paula Hines MON Producer: Lucy Armitage MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b044gmfl (Listen) MON Are electric cars the future? MON MON Are electric cars the future of motoring in the UK? The MON government has announced £500 million of investment for low MON emission vehicles, including more charging points and extra MON incentives for those who drive them. We travel to Oslo and MON see why Norway has the largest market share for electric MON cars in the world. We test the new Tesla Model S and drive MON 200 miles in a Nissan Leaf to see how the UK's charging MON infrastructure stands up. Top Gear's James May joins us in MON the studio to talk about why he's decided to buy an electric MON car. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg talks about the MON government's plans for low emission vehicles. Are electric MON cars really the technology that will change the future of MON driving or will it be something else? We talk to Toyota MON about Hydrogen Fuel Cells and other technology experts about MON the future. MON MON 12:57 Weather b044b1k6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b044gmfn (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 The History of Brazil Is Round b044j7ml (Listen) MON Futebol Nation MON MON David Goldblatt tells the story of Brazil through its MON abiding passion for the game of football, a game that has MON both shaped and been shaped by the dreams of generations of MON Brazilians. 1: Futebol Nation, In 1934, despite over a MON hundred years of Brazilian independence and nearly half a MON century as republic, poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade was MON still asking "Are there any Brazilians?" MON The authoritarian regime of Getullio Varags which would rule MON the country from 1930 to 1945, and create the institutional MON structures of the modern Brazilian nation was asking the MON same question. Spared the horrors of industrial war, Brazil MON had no martial tradition from which to invent itself. Given MON the very low levels of literacy, a national press and MON literary culture were equally ineffective. For most of the MON twentieth century the nation's intelligentsia had thought MON that Brazil might be a new white Europe in the tropics, but MON as the nation's rapidly expanding cities filled with black, MON mulatto and indigenous Brazilians this simply did not make MON sense. Brazil's unique music, dance and religious moment MON reflected its real ethnic mix, but none could capture a MON sense of modernity or provide a source of international MON triumph. In football and in the World Cup above all, Brazil MON would find both. MON MON Producer: Mark Burman. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b044ghpb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b015zm9l (Listen) MON All the Dark Corners, The Desk MON MON All the Dark Corners: The Desk by Andrew Readman MON The first in our chilling series of three plays. Davis Finch MON is a hack TV writer with aspirations to write a novel. In MON order to be a real writer he feels he needs a proper desk. MON The one he buys changes his life. He becomes a success - but MON at what price? A spooky psychological thriller. MON MON Producer/Director Gary Brown MON MON Davis Finch covets a desk he has seen in an antique shop. He MON feels it will somehow magically help him write his novel. MON Make him complete. He gets sacked for his TV hack work and MON sets to write his novel at the new desk. Then he finds a MON secret drawer... MON MON Credits MON Actor: Graeme Hawley MON Actor: Tim McInnerny MON Actor: Karen West MON Actor: Greg Wood MON Actor: Melissa Jane Sinden MON Actor: Russell Richardson MON Director: Gary Brown MON Producer: Gary Brown MON Writer: Andrew Readman MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b044gp69 (Listen) MON (2/12) MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, as the Midlands take on the MON North of England for the first time in the 2014 series. MON Writer Rosalind Miles and the City of Birmingham Symphony MON Orchestra's Chief Executive, Stephen Maddock, play against MON author Adele Geras and Durham University academic Diana MON Collecott. As always, they'll be called upon to dredge the MON most arcane information from their memory banks in order to MON tackle the programme's trademark cryptic questions. The more MON help Tom has to give them in working out the answers, the MON fewer points they'll score. MON MON The programme includes a selection of questions suggested by MON listeners, and ideas are always gratefully received via the MON Round Britain Quiz website. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b044bckf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Melencolia b044gp6c (Listen) MON Albrecht Durer was the Steve Jobs of his day. Master MON engraver, painter and unafraid of mixing creativity with a MON keen eye for business. He was well regarded in his own MON lifetime and acknowledged as the most important artist of MON the Northern Renaissance. Among his many works, it's his MON master print Melencolia 1 which is the most written about MON and which continues to intrigue those who look at it. MON Created in 1514, it has perplexed and inspired some of the MON greatest minds in history. The print adorned the studies of MON both Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. MON MON Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is fascinated by this work MON and the secrets it contains from the brooding angel to the MON magic square. In this programme she's on a quest to find out MON if it's possible to decode this intricate engraving. She MON sees a couple of prints at the British Museum with Giulia MON Bartrum and Dora Thornton. We hear how the work inspired MON composer, Sir Harrison Birtwistle to compose his Melencolia MON I for his friend, the clarinettist, Alan Hacker. Janina MON lectures her students on the work and hears their initial MON response to the symbols and she meets former art student, MON David Lol Perry who had the print on his wall and became MON mesmerised by it. MON MON Writer and art historian, Patrick Doorly, author of The MON Truth about Art sheds light on the print and suggests that MON in order to truly understand it, you also need to know your MON Plato. MON MON Join Janina on her quest to decode Durer. MON MON Producer: Sarah Taylor MON MON Patrick Doorly: The Truth about Art: Reclaiming quality MON (Zero Books, 2013) ISBN 978-1-78099-841-1. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b044gp6f (Listen) MON Mindfulness MON MON Mindfulness is a form of meditation which is designed to MON anchor us in the present. it has a growing fan club at MON Westminster where overloaded MPs hope it will help them MON focus on the things that really matter. It has its roots in MON religious practice; but can it be adapted to a secular MON environment? MON Joining Ernie Rea are Christopher Titmuss, co-founder of MON Gaia House, a Buddhist retreat centre in Devon; Chris MON Cullen, a Teacher at the Oxford University Mindfulness MON Centre; and Rebecca Crane, Director of the Centre for MON Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b044gp6h (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b044b1k8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b044gp6k (Listen) MON Series 69, Episode 2 MON MON How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without MON hesitation, repetition and deviation? Very! As Gyles MON Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi, Patrick Kielty and Paul Sinha MON find out. Nicholas Parsons keeps the score and the peace. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi MON Panellist: Patrick Kielty MON Panellist: Paul Sinha MON MON 19:00 The Archers b044gp6m (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b044gpxf (Listen) MON Sir Tim Rice MON MON With John Wilson. MON MON In a special edition of Front Row the multi award-winning MON lyricist Sir Tim Rice looks back at the hit musicals he MON created with Andrew Lloyd Webber, such as Joseph and the MON Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Super Star, and MON Evita. He discusses his work for animated films including MON The Lion King and gives an insight into the writing of some MON of his best known lyrics, from Don't Cry For Me Argentina, MON to Hakuna Matata. MON MON Produced by Ella-mai Robey. MON MON From Here To Eternity MON From Here To Eternity MON will be screened in selected MON UK cinemas MON on Thursday 3 July 2014. MON MON MON MON Photo Credit: Johan Persson MON MON Tim Rice: A Life in Song MON Time Rice: A Life in Song MON is on at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London MON on Tuesday 8 July 2014 at 19:30. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Interviewed Guest: Tim Rice MON Producer: Ella-mai Robey MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b044gmfg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Educating Ulster b044gpxh (Listen) MON Andrea Catherwood examines the movement for integrated MON schools in Northern Ireland. She visits schools in MON traditionally divided areas of Belfast and asks whether MON educating children together is a key step towards a MON permanent peace. Do integrated schools work? Who chooses MON them? And why are there so few of them? MON Producer: Helen Grady. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b044gqzb (Listen) MON Deirdre McCloskey MON MON Evan Davis interviews economic historian Deirdre McCloskey MON in front of an audience at the London School of Economics, MON where she argues that poverty matters more than inequality. MON She describes how at the beginning of the 19th century most MON people who had ever lived had survived on $3 a day. Today, MON on average, people in Western Europe and North America live MON on over $100 a day. Although Professor McCloskey is an MON economic historian, she says we can't explain this 'Great MON Enrichment' using economics alone. She also argues that MON capitalism is an inherently ethical system, and that it MON would be a mistake to prioritise equality over innovation. MON Prof McCloskey talks about the role of ideas and attitudes MON in creating modern prosperity and discusses what her study MON of history tells us about where our priorities should lie MON today. MON MON Producer: Luke Mulhall. MON Why Minsky Matters MON Steve Keen: Why Economics is Bunk MON Manuel Castells: Alternative Economic Cultures MON MON 21:00 Personality Politics b043wz27 (Listen) MON Timandra Harkness investigates how our political views are MON linked to the way our brains function. MON The psychology of ideology is now an active topic of MON research, not least amongst neuroscientists. Recent MON brain-scan studies have linked political attitudes to MON different brain structures and patterns of mental activity. MON Discovering the cutting edge brain research into how we make MON such choices, Timandra explores what its implications could MON be for the conduct of political debate and campaigning, how MON to influence people, the psychology of decision-making, and MON understanding ourselves. MON MON Producer: Jonathan Brunert. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b044gmf8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b044b1kb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b044gs0n (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b044gs0q (Listen) MON Longbourn, Episode 1 MON MON By Jo Baker. The story of 'Pride and Prejudice from the MON servants' point of view. MON MON It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House and MON Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. MON MON 'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats', MON Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to tramp MON through muddy fields.' MON MON The peace - or monotony - of domestic life below stairs is MON about to be disturbed the the arrival of a new footman, MON James. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sophie Thompson MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery MON Writer: Jo Baker MON MON 23:00 The Human Zoo b03phrwj (Listen) MON Series 3, Can we control our behaviour? MON MON The days have just started to lengthen, it's the time for MON vague notions of New Year, New Me. All it takes is a bit of MON willpower - setting us up perfectly for failure a few days MON or weeks down the road. MON MON Exercising willpower is enormously difficult - not because MON we are weak, but because the effort required to change our MON habits is big. There's also a myriad of subtle environmental MON influences that can knock our good intentions off course. MON MON While it might feel as if we have failed when we let our gym MON membership lapse and hit the chocolate, there are some very MON good reasons why this might be so. And knowing about them MON might just give us the edge and allow us to make real MON change. MON MON Michael Blastland returns with The Human Zoo, exploring and MON exposing what makes us tick. MON MON Producer: Toby Murcott MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Weekly experiment MON MON The psychologists at Warwick Business School have developed MON some online experiments that you can do for yourself. MON Take part in the weekly experiment MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b038xmd1 (Listen) MON Series 14, The Longest Walk MON MON It's rambling, but not as we know it. Every year the Long MON Distance Walkers' Association organises a 100 mile walk. It MON has to be completed in 48 hours, which for most people means MON walking through two nights with no sleep. By the end, MON hallucination is common, and many of the 500 who started out MON drop out or by the time they finish can barely walk any MON more. MON MON Lives in a Landscape follows two participants in this year's MON walk, from Wadebridge in Cornwall to Teignmouth in Devon. MON One, George Foot, is 76, and has done 24 100-mile walks MON already. The other, Josh Wainwright, is 18. This is his MON first 100. Will either of them complete the walk, or will MON they have to "retire" early? MON MON As George walks, he talks to presenter Alan Dein about his MON long-dead father - a distinguished public school headmaster. MON It becomes clear that George has spent much of his life in MON his father's shadow, feeling that he was a permanent MON disappointment to him. As a child, George was told by his MON father that he was "a bad walker". Now, completing the 100 MON mile walk is a way of redeeming himself in his father's MON eyes. MON MON Josh, on the other hand, is walking the 100 miles with his MON father, Dave, a 21st century parent. Will Dave be more MON forgiving of failure, and more willing to praise success? An MON exploration not just of the challenges of walking and MON endurance, but of the changing nature of fatherhood. MON MON Producer: Jolyon Jenkins MON Presenter: Alan Dein. MON MON George Foot MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 MAY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b044b1l2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b044gmfb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b044b1l4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b044b1l6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b044b1l8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b044b1lb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044v4yv (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop TUE Stephen Oliver. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b044gtk1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby0q (Listen) TUE Garden Warbler TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David TUE Attenborough presents the Garden Warbler. Garden warblers TUE aren't very well named .these are birds which like overgrown TUE thickets of shrubs and small trees and so you're more likely TUE to find them in woodland clearings especially in newly- TUE coppiced areas. TUE TUE RSPB - Garden Warbler TUE Image by Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b044gtk3 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Public Philosopher b044gtk5 (Listen) TUE Series 3, National Guilt TUE TUE Imagine a country guilty of past crimes. What obligations do TUE its current citizens have to make amends? In this edition of TUE The Public Philosopher, Michael Sandel poses that question TUE to an audience in Japan. The discussion involves students TUE from Japan and from China and South Korea - countries which TUE were victims of Japanese aggression during the Second World TUE War. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b044jhsf (Listen) TUE Doubling Back, Baring Our Soles TUE TUE A beautiful and moving memoir where the author retraces TUE walks undertaken by others, from the Highlands of Scotland TUE to the Swiss Alps and Kenya. TUE TUE In 1952 Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through TUE the Swiss Alps. Fifty years later Linda retraces that TUE fateful journey, following the trail of the man she barely TUE knew. TUE TUE This collection of walking tales takes its theme from that TUE pilgrimage. The walks trace the contours of history, TUE following writers, relations and retreading ways across TUE mountains, valleys and coasts formerly trodden by drovers, TUE saints and adventurers. Each walk is about the reaffirming TUE of memories, beliefs and emotions, and especially of the TUE connection that one can have with the past through TUE particular places. TUE TUE Part Two: Baring Our Soles TUE While walking barefoot through Kenya, the author discovers TUE the connection between feet and politics. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Teresa Gallagher TUE Author: Linda Cracknell TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b044gtk7 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Women And The 2014 Elections TUE TUE With European and local elections taking place across much TUE of TUE England last week, we hear how women fared, what is TUE changing and what the TUE results might mean. Jane talks to Drude Dahlerup, professor TUE of TUE political science at Stockholm University and Polly Trenow, TUE senior TUE policy and campaigns officer for the Fawcett Society. TUE TUE Incontinence After Childbirth TUE TUE The TUE Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and the Royal TUE College of Midwives (RCM) TUE have launched a joint initiative to prevent and reduce TUE incontinence among women TUE following pregnancy and birth. One in two women responding TUE to a recent survey TUE by Netmums said they had never spoken to anyone about their TUE problem. Six in ten TUE women felt the subject was taboo and three quarters of TUE women said they had TUE never sought help from a health professional for the TUE easily-treatable TUE condition. So why aren’t women seeking help? How much is TUE this to do with TUE embarrassment, shame or just plain ignorance? And what can TUE be done to improve TUE the situation? Jane is joined by Jo and Aimee, both of whom TUE have experienced TUE problems with leaking urine and by physiotherapist Katie TUE Mann, clinical TUE specialist physiotherapist in the North West. TUE TUE Lynn Forester de Rothschild TUE How TUE can capitalism work better for more people? The financial TUE crisis and corporate excesses mean TUE that we've lost trust in the system and its values. Lynn TUE Forester de Rothschild, Founder and co-host of a conference TUE on the subject this week, joins Jane Garvey to talk about TUE why she thinks it is possible to tackle inequality and keep TUE shareholders TUE happy at the same time. TUE TUE Lorrie Moore TUE Lorrie TUE Moore is one of the leading writers of the short story TUE today and ‘Bark’ is her TUE first collection in fifteen years. The American writer who TUE has also taught TUE creative writing for three decades has won praise from the TUE critics and the TUE book-buying public for her acute observation, which is TUE often precise and TUE humorous. Jane talks to Lorrie Moore about the art of TUE writing the short story – TUE and the pleasures of reading it. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b044gty3 (Listen) TUE The Seventh Test, The Protest TUE TUE Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in TUE New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she TUE works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and TUE younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an TUE extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his TUE choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the TUE tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. TUE Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas TUE Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". TUE TUE 7) The Protest TUE TUE A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog TUE Millionaire". TUE Increasing rent prices, send Sapna's elderly neighbour, TUE Nirmila Ben on a crusade against corruption. But when no one TUE notices her protest and her frail health begins to fail, TUE Sapna must find a way to save her. Dramatised from Vikas TUE Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". TUE TUE Writers: TUE Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling TUE novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar TUE winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award TUE winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . TUE TUE Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX TUE SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. TUE She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, TUE UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her TUE stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was TUE developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged TUE by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. TUE TUE John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series TUE SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won TUE the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His TUE dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best TUE Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A TUE HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated TUE dramas on R4 Extra. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Sapna ... Rasika Dugal TUE Acharya ... Vijay Chrishna TUE Karan ... Neil Bhoopalam TUE Nirmila Ben / Rosie ... Radhika Mittal TUE Sapna's Mother ... Shernaz Patel TUE Raja ... Sumeet Vyas TUE Kuldeep Singh / Roaji ... Rajit Kapur TUE Neha ... Amrita Puri TUE Priya Capoor / Pushpa / Female Judge ... Ayesha Raza TUE Badan Singh / Politician / Constable ... Kenny Desai TUE Madan ... Vivek Madan TUE Neelam / Babli ... Prerna Chawla TUE Rent Collector ... Satchit Puranik TUE TUE Production: TUE Sound Design - Steve Bond TUE Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera TUE Script Editor - Mike Walker TUE Assistant Producer - Toral Shah TUE TUE Music - Sacha Putnam TUE TUE Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel TUE "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. TUE TUE Director - John Dryden TUE Producer - Nadir Khan TUE A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sapna: Rasika Dugal TUE Acharya: Vijay Chrishna TUE Karan: Neil Bhoopalam TUE Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital TUE Rosie: Radhika Mital TUE Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel TUE Raja: Sumeet Vyas TUE Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur TUE Roaji: Rajit Kapur TUE Neha: Amrita Puri TUE Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza TUE Pushpa: Ayesha Raza TUE Female Judge: Ayesha Raza TUE Badan Singh: Kenny Desai TUE Politician: Kenny Desai TUE Constable: Kenny Desai TUE Madan: Vivek Madan TUE Neelam: Prerna Chawla TUE Babli: Preetika Chawla TUE Janet: Preetika Chawla TUE Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik TUE Director: John Dryden TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon TUE Adaptor: John Dryden TUE Author: Vikas Swarup TUE TUE 11:00 Is Journalism Healthy? b044v73k (Listen) TUE Health journalists must take their duty to explain their TUE subject very seriously. Getting it wrong can put their TUE audience at risk. Reporting that the MMR vaccine could lead TUE to autism, against the overwhelming body of medical opinion, TUE contributed to a return of measles, mumps and rubella. TUE Reporters can rely too heavily on easy sources lined up by TUE increasing numbers of PR agents. TUE TUE The Care Bill proposes to make it a criminal offence for the TUE NHS to act unprofessionally and unethically. Yet one in six TUE press officers in a survey of 81 trusts carried out by the TUE University of Coventry said they had been asked to act TUE unethically in their dealings with journalists. Does the TUE same legal duty apply to the increasing number of private TUE companies involved in delivering the NHS? TUE TUE And given the Coventry findings where is the ethical TUE framework for health PRs? Can Jeremy Hunt's duty of candour TUE in the NHS have a chance of becoming a reality? Given the TUE size and organisational complexity of the NHS how can TUE openness be ensured ? TUE TUE In his 20th year as BBC Health Correspondent in the West of TUE England, Matthew Hill discusses these questions with a range TUE of medics, managers and whistleblowers, and draws on his own TUE dealings with press officers who handed him the Bristol TUE Heart Scandal on a plate. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b044gvzf (Listen) TUE Series 10, Elgar's Salut D'Amour TUE TUE In this tenth series of Tales from the Stave Frances Fyfield TUE takes her musical investigation of the handwritten TUE manuscripts of our greatest composers back to the birthplace TUE of the man who was the subject of the first ever programme. TUE The cottage in which Edward Elgar was born in Lower TUE Broadheath, near Worcester, is now a museum in his honour, TUE and amongst the rich archive of his life and that of his TUE wife Alice is the piece that confirmed their relationship. TUE Salut D'Amour was Elgar's response to a poem 'Love's Grace' TUE that Alice had written to him in 1888. The museum has both TUE the original poem and the careful perfection of Elgar's TUE autograph score of Salut D'Amour which was sent to the TUE publisher Schott. It has all the hallmarks of Elgar's TUE elegant hand, complete with detailed corrections pasted over TUE the manuscript and the composers confident list of potential TUE versions of the piece for piano and violin, piano solo and TUE orchestra. Originally called Liebesgruss - or love's TUE greeting, it was translated into French on the advice of the TUE publisher. Elgar and Alice both spoke good German but TUE French, they suggested, would sell better. Sell it certainly TUE did. In Elgar's lifetime it was one of his most famous TUE compositions. TUE TUE Frances is joined at the Birthplace museum by Pianist Lucy TUE Parham, Violinist and scholar Rupert Marshall Luck who has TUE been working on a new edition of the piece, and handwriting TUE analyst Ruth Rostron. TUE The museum supervisor Chris Bennett invites Frances' guests TUE to play the piece from the score in the composers own hand, TUE a unique and moving moment for both. TUE But it's the importance of Alice Elgar in the life of the TUE composer that sings through this tiny musical gem. It's a TUE piece often dismissed by those who would only have Elgar as TUE the grandest of grand artists, as mere Salon music. However TUE as Frances discovers it contains the very best of him for TUE the very best of her, and in spite of rumours of friction TUE and distance in later married life, the bond between them TUE remained solid. It was cemented first in Salut D'Amour. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b044gvzh (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b044b1ld (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b044gvzk (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The History of Brazil Is Round b044jk5t (Listen) TUE Serious Play TUE TUE David Goldblatt tells the story of Brazil through its TUE abiding passion for the game of football, a game that has TUE both shaped and been shaped by the dreams of generations of TUE Brazilians. 1: Futebol Nation, In 1934, despite over a TUE hundred years of Brazilian independence and nearly half a TUE century as republic, poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade was TUE still asking "Are there any Brazilians?" TUE The authoritarian regime of Getullio Varags which would rule TUE the country from 1930 to 1945, and create the institutional TUE structures of the modern Brazilian nation was asking the TUE same question. Spared the horrors of industrial war, Brazil TUE had no martial tradition from which to invent itself. Given TUE the very low levels of literacy, a national press and TUE literary culture were equally ineffective. For most of the TUE twentieth century the nation's intelligentsia had thought TUE that Brazil might be a new white Europe in the tropics, but TUE as the nation's rapidly expanding cities filled with black, TUE mulatto and indigenous Brazilians this simply did not make TUE sense. Brazil's unique music, dance and religious moment TUE reflected its real ethnic mix, but none could capture a TUE sense of modernity or provide a source of international TUE triumph. In football and in the World Cup above all, Brazil TUE would find both. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Burman. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b044gp6m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b015zq4p (Listen) TUE All the Dark Corners, Something in the Water TUE TUE All the Dark Corners: Something in the Water by Paul TUE Cornell. TUE TUE The second in our chilling series All the Dark Corners. TUE TUE When crusading scientist and committed atheist James Woolmer TUE is sacked from his job as a columnist, he decides to up TUE sticks and move his family to the country to get away from TUE it all. What he finds is a village gripped by hysteria and TUE fear and a lucrative tourist industry surrounding TUE Standlake's resident lake monster, Lachey. Despite the weird TUE skin abrasions and the rumbling in the pipes James is TUE utterly sceptical, until he sees something in the water. TUE TUE James.....James Nickerson TUE Erica.....Zara Turner TUE Ben.....Joel Davies TUE Ruskin.....Conrad Nelson TUE Peter.....Jonathan Keeble TUE Batley.....Stephen Hoyle TUE Helen.....Ruth Alexander Rubin TUE TUE directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b044b29r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 The Shared Experience b03nt8j5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE "That first drink and it was like woohoo, a party going off TUE in my head" Three people with different addictions talk TUE frankly to Fi Glover about falling off the wagon. In Lisa's TUE case, one cocktail was all it took to get her back on hard TUE drugs and alcohol. For Richard, it was putting a one pound TUE coin into a slot machine and winning the jackpot, while TUE Simon was in such denial about his addiction that he used TUE drugs as a way of abstaining from alcohol, so that TUE technically he could say he wasn't relapsing. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 Rooms with a View b044h6nn (Listen) TUE Few things show our social status as clearly as windows. TUE From ancient stained glass to towering skyscraper, windows TUE are the ultimate luxury item. TUE Writer and architectural historian Tom Dyckhoff tells the TUE history of these holes in the wall. TUE Tom visits an Elizabethan mansion built when glass was as TUE valuable than gold. He pushes up a Georgian sash window and TUE handles the pulleys from 10 Downing Street. He speaks to an TUE estate agent and finds out the cost of a south-facing window TUE in the suburbs. TUE Standing in one of the world's tallest glass buildings, he TUE asks what price we pay for a room with a view. TUE TUE Producer: Hannah Sander. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b044h6nq (Listen) TUE Series 33, Michael Palin on Ernest Hemingway TUE TUE Michael Palin first came across his Great Live when he was TUE studying for school exams, his love of Ernest Hemingway has TUE never gone away. He along with expert Naomi Wood tell TUE Matthew Parris why this twentieth century legend is a Great TUE Live . TUE TUE Producer :Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Emma Kirkby TUE Interviewed Guest: Michael Burden TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins TUE TUE 17:00 PM b044h6ns (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather TUE at 5.57pm. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b044b1lg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b044h6nv (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE Music and comedy presented by Alex Horne and his 5-piece TUE band. This week they tackle the theme of money, shopping and TUE consumerism with an advert for milk, a sea shanty and a song TUE about cheese dreams. They're joined by special guest TUE comedian Adam Buxton. TUE TUE Host... Alex Horne TUE Band... Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben TUE Reynolds, Ed Sheldrake TUE Guests... Adam Buxton and Saxophonist Pedro TUE Producer... Charlie Perkins. TUE TUE Clips TUE empty TUE empty TUE See all clips from Episode 4 (2) TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Alex Horne TUE Performer: Adam Buxton TUE Producer: Charlie Perkins TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b044h6nx (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b044h6nz (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b044gty3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b044h6p1 (Listen) TUE GPs are under pressure do more. The Government wants TUE surgeries to open seven days a week and the Labour Party say TUE they'll ensure people get appointments within 48 hours. But, TUE at the same time, there are warnings that the family doctor TUE service in England is on the brink of extinction because of TUE a "perfect storm" of funding cuts and growing demand. TUE TUE Jenny Cuffe meets two doctors - one in rural Yorkshire, who TUE is about to lose a quarter of his funding and does not know TUE how he can keep his surgery doors open and the other TUE struggling to cope with the volume of patients in her busy TUE urban practice in Salford. TUE TUE One in seven primary care practices in England reports TUE having to make redundancies as a result of the Government TUE spending squeeze. TUE TUE Recruitment for new GPs is still to hit Government targets TUE and more doctors are leaving general practice through TUE retirement or to work abroad. TUE TUE So are the promises of greater access to your GP really TUE deliverable? TUE TUE Reporter: Jenny Cuffe. Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b044h6p3 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b044h6p5 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond hears from another pair of finalists in the TUE All in the Mind 25th anniversary awards. And she chairs a TUE discussion about professional boundaries between therapists TUE and their clients. TUE TUE 21:30 The Public Philosopher b044gtk5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b044h6p7 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b044jhsh (Listen) TUE Longbourn, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Jo Baker. Sarah is suspicious of the new footman, James TUE Smith, even though his presence lightens her workload. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sophie Thompson TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Author: Jo Baker TUE TUE 23:00 Act Your Age b044h6pc (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 5 TUE TUE Simon Mayo hosts a three-way battle to find out which is the TUE funniest comedy generation. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Simon Mayo TUE Panellist: Holly Walsh TUE Panellist: Tom Deacon TUE Panellist: Rufus Hound TUE Panellist: Henning Wehn TUE Panellist: Ted Robbins TUE Panellist: Billy Pearce TUE Producer: Ashley Blaker TUE Producer: Bill Matthews TUE Producer: Mr Matthews TUE TUE 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b039pdt2 (Listen) TUE Series 14, St James' Gardens in Liverpool TUE TUE In the shadow of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral sits St TUE James' Gardens, an oasis of green space in the heart of the TUE busy city. TUE TUE The Gardens have been several things over the centuries. It TUE was first a quarry from which the docks and much of the city TUE of Liverpool was built. Once all the rock that could be TUE removed had been excavated, a large hole was left and so in TUE 1829 it was consecrated as a cemetery for the city. TUE TUE Young and old, rich and poor, the city's dead ended up here. TUE Between 1829 and 1936, nearly 58,000 bodies were buried in TUE the cemetery. But by 1936 the cemetery was considered full TUE and it became a garden. Over time the garden fell into a TUE state of disrepair and became derelict: a haven for the TUE homeless, drug dealers, prostitutes, drinkers and addicts. TUE It was a no-go zone for most people of the city. TUE TUE But ten years ago a plucky bunch of locals decided to take TUE matters into their own hands. Robin Riley, a local sculptor, TUE organised a group of friends and neighbours and over time TUE cleaned the park up, restoring it to the beautiful setting TUE that it is today. TUE TUE Now it's a place people go to find peace and tranquillity, TUE away from the hustle and bustle of the city. TUE TUE Alan Dein visits St James' and meets Robin and the team that TUE have reshaped the space, plus the band of dedicated TUE dog-walkers who meet daily in the park. Among the walkers TUE Alan meets Tommy, Frank and Aaron, a trio who met at the TUE park and have since forged friendships. TUE TUE Aaron shares his experiences of living near and using the TUE park and tells Alan how visiting St James' has been TUE therapeutic, not just for him in helping him in the tough TUE times he's been through, but also for his mother who is TUE suffering from leukaemia. TUE TUE Alan also meets harmonica-playing Kevin: the last of the TUE park's rough sleepers, Kevin inhabits one of the garden's TUE abandoned catacombs. TUE TUE Presenter: Alan Dein TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b044b1m6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b044jhsf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b044b1m8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b044b1mb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b044b1md (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b044b1mg (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044v4x4 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop WED Stephen Oliver. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b044h76f (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby1j (Listen) WED Blackcap WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David WED Attenborough presents the Blackcap. Many Blackcaps winter in WED sub-Saharan Africa, but increasingly birds have been WED wintering in the Mediterranean and over the last few decades WED spent the winter in the UK. WED WED Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) WED Image by Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b044h9b7 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b044h9b9 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b044j7p6 (Listen) WED Doubling Back, Outlasting Our Tracks WED WED A beautiful and moving memoir where the author retraces WED walks undertaken by others, from the Highlands of Scotland WED to the Swiss Alps and Kenya. WED WED In 1952 Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through WED the Swiss Alps. Fifty years later Linda retraces that WED fateful journey, following the trail of the man she barely WED knew. WED WED This collection of walking tales takes its theme from that WED pilgrimage. The walks trace the contours of history, WED following writers, relations and retreading ways across WED mountains, valleys and coasts formerly trodden by drovers, WED saints and adventurers. Each walk is about the reaffirming WED of memories, beliefs and emotions, and especially of the WED connection that one can have with the past through WED particular places. WED WED Part Three: In His Footsteps WED Today, Linda bravely retraces the Alpine ascent made by her WED father in 1952 and in doing so discovers some truths about WED the past and about her relationship with her lost father. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Teresa Gallagher WED Author: Linda Cracknell WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b044h9bc (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b044h9bf (Listen) WED The Seventh Test, Acid Rain WED WED Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in WED New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she WED works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and WED younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an WED extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his WED choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the WED tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. WED Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas WED Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". WED WED 8) Acid Rain WED A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog WED Millionaire". WED Having passed six of the "life tests", Sapna is within reach WED of changing her life forever - but not in the way she had WED anticipated. As the consequences of her Faustian pact become WED apparent, she realizes there is no escape. Dramatised from WED Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental WED Apprentice". WED WED Writers: WED Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling WED novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar WED winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award WED winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . WED WED Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX WED SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. WED She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, WED UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her WED stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was WED developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged WED by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. WED WED John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series WED SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won WED the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His WED dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best WED Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A WED HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated WED dramas on R4 Extra. WED WED Cast: WED Sapna ... Rasika Dugal WED Acharya ... Vijay Chrishna WED Karan ... Neil Bhoopalam WED Nirmila Ben / Rosie ... Radhika Mittal WED Sapna's Mother ... Shernaz Patel WED Raja - Sumeet Vyas WED Kuldeep Singh / Roaji ... Rajit Kapur WED Neha ... Amrita Puri WED Priya Capoor / Pushpa / Female Judge ... Ayesha Raza WED Badan Singh / Politician / Constable ... Kenny Desai WED Madan ... Vivek Mada WED Neelam / Babli ... Prerna Chawla WED Rent Collector ... Satchit Puranik WED WED Production: WED Sound Design - Steve Bond WED Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera WED Script Editor - Mike Walker WED Assistant Producer - Toral Shah WED WED Music - Sacha Putnam WED WED Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel WED "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. WED WED Director - John Dryden WED Producer - Nadir Khan WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Sapna: Rasika Dugal WED Acharya: Vijay Chrishna WED Karan: Neil Bhoopalam WED Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital WED Rosie: Radhika Mital WED Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel WED Raja: Sumeet Vyas WED Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur WED Roaji: Rajit Kapur WED Neha: Amrita Puri WED Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza WED Pushpa: Ayesha Raza WED Female Judge: Ayesha Raza WED Badan Singh: Kenny Desai WED Politician: Kenny Desai WED Constable: Kenny Desai WED Madan: Vivek Madan WED Neelam: Prerna Chawla WED Babli: Preetika Chawla WED Janet: Preetika Chawla WED Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon WED Adaptor: John Dryden WED Author: Vikas Swarup WED WED 11:00 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Primary Colours b044h9bh (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED In collaboration with the National Gallery in London whose WED summer show is about the history and theory of COLOUR, WED Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looks beneath the surface of our WED colour-saturated world to investigate what we're actually WED looking at when we see red, yellow and blue. WED WED In the first programme he returns to a period when most WED people were dressed in drab dye stuffs, derived from plants, WED and painters had to work hard to source mineral pigments for WED paint. WED WED Deep in the National Gallery, he visits senior conservator WED Jill Dunkerton to discuss how she goes about restoring WED pictures from the early Renaissance. What does she WED substitute for the original lapis lazuli blue found so often WED in pictures of the Madonna? Any why was this colour so WED prized by artists of this period? WED WED Victoria Finlay has travelled the world in search of the WED sources of coloured minerals. She tells of searching for WED lapis in Afghanistan and the cochineal beetle (source for WED red dye) in Mexico. These were the exotic lands from which WED the early ingredients for pigments came. WED WED Laurence takes his explorations forward in time to the WED nineteenth century when the science of colour was becoming WED properly understood. Professor Martin Kemp explains how the WED Impressionists began to imitate the effects of light WED reflecting off coloured surfaces onto the eye. WED WED Ella Hendriks is a curator at the Van Gogh museum and she's WED in charge of preserving the colours in his paintings. She WED explains that the colours in his paintings are completely WED different to how they looked originally. WED WED One of Laurence's final contributors is Professor Anya WED Hurlbert, who researches our perceptions of colour. She's WED interested in how we explain the way our brains can identify WED colours despite dramatic differences in lighting. WED WED The programmes visit the Matisse exhibition in London, the WED Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, and the churches of Florence. WED As Laurence discovers, colour is much more slippery and WED complicated than you might think. WED WED Producer: Susan Marling, Isabel Sutton WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 When the Dog Dies b044h9bk (Listen) WED Series 4, Ships That Pass WED WED Ronnie Corbett returns for the final series of his popular WED sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. WED Ronnie is granddad Sandy and his old dog is Henry. If the WED dog dies or his lodger moves on, Sandy's children want him WED to downsize. He doesn't. WED WED To help his finances, Sandy, still in the family home, took WED in a young couple as lodgers. But then the man left - WED leaving the attractive Dolores behind. And she, Sandy's WED children are quite sure, is a gold-digger. Sandy's opinion WED that it would be inhuman to move Henry somewhere unfamiliar WED is wearing a bit thin - as is the old dog himself. Keeping WED the dog alive and keeping the lodger happy are one thing; WED what really concerns Sandy deeply is providing a guiding WED hand to his whole family, advising here, prompting there, WED responding to any emergency callout... If he kept himself to WED himself, of course, things would be a lot simpler and WED smoother. But a lot duller too... WED WED Episode Three - Ships That Pass WED WED Sandy is worried about memory loss. His son has a morbid WED fear of sofas. Sandy could help but he's booked a holiday in WED an igloo with a man he doesn't really like. When Sandy takes WED a fashionable memory cure he remembers some things that were WED better left forgotten... WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4 WED Pronunciations: Liza - Leeza. WED WED Credits WED Sandy: Ronnie Corbett WED Dolores: Liza Tarbuck WED Mrs Pompom: Sally Grace WED Lance: Philip Bird WED Roy: Paul Chapman WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED Writer: Ian Davidson WED Writer: Peter Vincent WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b044h9bm (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 13:00 World at One b044h9bp (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The History of Brazil Is Round b044jkvy (Listen) WED Playing the Hardline WED WED David Goldblatt explores the history of Brazil through its WED passion for football. 3: Playing the Hardline. WED WED The Junta that came to power in 1964 purged Congress & the WED senior civil service. Political parties were dissolved. At WED first football's only place on the government's agenda was WED as a source of unpaid taxes. Yet by 1969, when the Junta's WED presidential successor General Costa e Silva, was dying of a WED stroke, the highest circles in government were pondering if WED they should announce his illness prior to Brazil's last WED qualifying game for the 1970 World Cup. WED WED Afraid how the news would affect the political mood of the WED crowd and the performance of the team. By then the WED dictatorship had faced an outbreak of protest and responded WED with a massive backlash. Censorship of the media was WED intensified. The security services arrested and tortured WED thousands of opponents. Congress was effectively closed WED down. The legitimacy of the regime came to rest on WED supercharged economic growth and a grandiose nationalism WED that relied on football for its successes. WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b044h6nx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b015zrrz (Listen) WED All the Dark Corners, The Dying Wish WED WED The Dying Wish WED by Rosemary Kay WED WED Fran and her partner Abe are befriended by a lonely old WED woman, Joy, who lives in the flat above. WED Joy persuades them to perform an ancient ritual after she's WED died. They unwittingly agree without WED realising the terrifying consequences of their action. A WED quest for eternal life and the living dead WED permeate this chilling horror story. WED WED Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED Credits WED Fran: Sarah Smart WED Abe: Jonathan Keeble WED David: Robert Pickavance WED Joy: Janice McKenzie WED Jack: James Quinn WED Director: Pauline Harris WED Writer: Rosemary Kay WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b044h9ps (Listen) WED Tax WED WED Puzzled by tax? Let Vincent Duggleby and guests sort out WED your tax queries on Money Box Live. Call 03700 100 444 from WED 1pm to 3:30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED Two months into the new tax year and you may have a question WED about tax planning. WED WED Do you know how to check that your new tax code is correct? WED WED What documents from your employer should you keep to ensure WED you have the correct information to fill in your next tax WED return? WED WED You may have a question about benefits in kind or tax WED credits? WED WED Joining Vincent Duggleby will be: WED WED Mike Warburton, Tax Director, Grant Thornton WED and Jane Moore, Technical Manager at the Institute of WED Chartered accountants in England and Wales. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b044h6p5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b044h9pv (Listen) WED Gender Inequality in China; Smokestack Nostalgia WED WED Chinese women & the resurgence of gender inequality. Laurie WED Taylor talks to Leta Hong Fincher, about 'Leftover Women', WED her study of the pressures facing Modern Chinese women who WED are often locked out of social equality, property rights, WED and legal protection from domestic abuse. WED WED Also, 'smokestack nostalgia' - the meaning of WED post-industrial imagery. Tim Stangleman, Professor of WED Sociology at the University of Kent, questions the WED continuing desire to reflect back and find value in our WED industrial past. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Leta Hong Fincher WED WED Journalist and Sociologist Sociology at WED Tsinghua University WED China WED WED WED Find out more about Leta Hong Fincher WED WED WED WED Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China WED Publisher: Zed Books Ltd WED ISBN-10: 1780329210 WED ISBN-13: 978-1780329215 WED WED Tim Strangleman WED WED Professor in Sociology and Director of Employability and WED Enterprise at the University of Kent WED WED WED Find out more about Professor WED Tim Strangleman WED WED WED Abstract: WED “Smokestack Nostalgia,” “Ruin Porn” or Working-Class WED Obituary: The Role and Meaning of Deindustrial WED Representation WED International Labor and Working-Class History, 84, pp 23-37 WED doi:10.1017/S0147547913000239. WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b044h9px (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b044h9pz (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b044b1mj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Start/Stop b039dbjr (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the WED sunset. And sinking. This week a trip to a classical concert WED poses difficulties for everyone. WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED Jack Docherty WED WED Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. WED He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe WED with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to WED write for radio and television including: Spitting Image, WED Alas Smith and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, WED The Lenny Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News WED Huddlines and a ton of other things. WED WED He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows WED including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks WED Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and WED Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies WED Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has WED appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got WED News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented WED his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on WED Channel 5. WED WED Credits WED Barney: Jack Docherty WED Cathy: Kerry Godliman WED Fiona: Fiona Allen WED David: Charlie Higson WED Evan: John Thomson WED Alice: Katherine Parkinson WED Producer: Steven Canny WED Writer: Jack Docherty WED WED 19:00 The Archers b044h9r8 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b044h9rb (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b044h9bf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Fit for Purpose b045bwrm (Listen) WED The Unions WED WED John Harris and Anne McElvoy host a new series of debates on WED institutions under pressure. The series begins with the WED current state of the trade unions. What are they for ? How WED do they work ? Could we make them better ? WED WED Union membership has fallen sharply in recent years, so John WED Harris of the Guardian and Anne McElvoy of the Economist WED gather key insiders and members of the public to rethink the WED state of the unions. With Frances O'Grady, General Secretary WED of the TUC; Alan Johnson MP, Britain's most famous former WED postman and one time General Secretary of the Unions of WED Communication Workers; David Skelton of Renewal, which aims WED to broaden the appeal of the Conservative Party; and Guy WED Standing, author of A Precariat's Charter. WED WED "I would introduce a power that would allow a worker in a WED backstreet fish processing factory in Hull who wanted to WED join a union to ring up just one number ... at the moment it WED is very difficult for a worker in that situation to know how WED to begin to join up." Alan Johnson MP WED WED Recorded in front of an audience at the London Review WED Bookshop. WED WED The producer is Miles Warde. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b044j3gg (Listen) WED Series 4, Rachel Armstrong WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Maths and Magic b03ls7y2 (Listen) WED Maths and magic go back a long way - the oldest written card WED trick was by Luca Pacioli, a friend of Leonardo, and appears WED in a treatise which also contains the first account of WED double entry book keeping. Many tricks in the working WED magician's repertoire rely on maths. WED WED But this is surprising. Maths is about logic, magic is about WED illusion. How can it be possible to fool someone with logic? WED What does it tell us about the way our minds work? Can WED things seem magical just because we don't understand them? WED WED Magician Jolyon Jenkins investigates the link between these WED two apparently disparate worlds. He learns of the simple WED algebra-based trick that repeatedly fooled Albert Einstein. WED And he sets himself the challenge of learning a maths-based WED trick that can not only fool working mathematicians, but WED seems genuinely magical. It culminates in a public WED performance in front of a group of mathematicians at the WED MathsJam festival. WED WED Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED The nuts and bolts WED WED The programme featured a number of maths-based magic tricks, WED but it wasn't always possible to explain them in detail. WED Here are some links to video explanations which may make WED things clearer. WED Rule of 9 calculator trick WED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbBymb4NU38 WED WED The Trick that Fooled Einstein WED http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-stone/the-trick-that-fool WED d-ein_b_1669408.html WED WED Also a video demonstration here WED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BqaucX-8vc WED De Bruijn Sequences WED WED This is the version of the trick which was performed by WED Jolyon Jenkins. This is by James Grime WED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWG6e-yBL94 WED WED You can find a more complicated version of the trick (and WED much more) in Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis WED WED WED 21:30 Midweek b044h9b9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b044b1ml (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b044j3gj (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b044j3gl (Listen) WED Longbourn, Episode 3 WED WED By Jo Baker. Sarah notices that the presence of the Militia WED in Meryton is making the new footman, James, uncomfortable. WED What secrets is he keeping? WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sophie Thompson WED Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Writer: Jo Baker WED WED 23:00 Mission Improbable b044j3gn (Listen) WED Series 2, India! WED WED Jane Roberts' (Catriona Knox) career in journalism has WED stalled. Wanting a high-profile, hard-hitting crime column WED in which she revives and then solves long since given-up-on WED cold cases, all she gets offered is the chance to review a WED spa in the Himalayas for a minor fitness magazine. WED WED Lucy (Lizzie Bates) is delighted and desperate to come along WED in order to lose weight for her forthcoming school reunion. WED Amelia (Anna Emerson) is in too, as she is desperate to see WED a real life tiger in the wild. So a reluctant Jane and her WED excited companions head for India and find themselves in a WED yoga class. WED WED Inevitably Lucy falls heavily and inappropriately in love WED with their highly bendy instructor and tries to get him to WED notice her by noisily running through a series of stretches WED directly in his eye-line. Jane is also intrigued by him too. WED She recognises him from somewhere. When all this attention WED spooks the instructor, he makes a run for it and the team WED set off in hot pursuit - a pursuit which will see them WED journey on trains, in a rickshaw and into an extremely close WED encounter with a fully grown tiger. WED WED Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Produced by Dave Lamb and Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Jane: Catriona Knox WED Lucy: Lizzie Bates WED Amelia: Anna Emerson WED Mrs Roberts: Felicity Montagu WED Mr Thompson: Anil Desai WED Ringmaster: Anil Desai WED Train Guard: Anil Desai WED Writer: Anna Emerson WED Writer: Lizzie Bates WED Writer: Catriona Knox WED Producer: Dave Lamb WED Producer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:15 I, Regress b019rqcx (Listen) WED Series 1, 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 problem (quitting WED smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under WED hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various WED situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played WED out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) WED like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is WED disturbing. WED WED Episode 4: Ray Highknock (Alex Lowe) goes to Dr Matt Berry WED hoping that his experimental regressive hynotherapy will WED cure his smoking addiction. The result is a series of WED strange encounters that all seem strangely familiar... WED WED The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT WED Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall WED (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes WED Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's WED Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter WED Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, WED and The Royal Exchange). WED WED A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone WED else's head! WED WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b03ktz0c (Listen) WED Series 15, Rooms for Rent WED WED Alan Dein returns with more extraordinary stories of WED ordinary life in Britain. In Rooms for Rent, he meets Helga WED and her daughter Melody in a small Norfolk town who, ever WED since husband - a Cliff Richard impersonator - upped sticks WED and left, rent out rooms. They've got two men in situ, and a WED newcomer has just turned up. WED WED But as the 'family' gather round the communal dinnertable, WED they dream of a fulfilling future beyond this often noisy WED house of song and dance. And how will the five of them get WED on as the Christmas season sets everyone on edge? WED WED Producers: Sarah Bowen and Simon Elmes WED WED Also in this series: The Auction - sale of the century, WED Yorkshire style, and Christmas at 'Sandringham' - a popular WED seaside hotel puts up the streamers and doles out puds by WED the Santa-sackful... But are the guests having fun? WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b044b1nl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b044j7p6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b044b1nn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b044b1nq (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b044b1ns (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b044b1nv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044tx2y (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop THU Stephen Oliver. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b044j7p8 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby29 (Listen) THU Grey Heron THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David THU Attenborough presents the Grey Heron. The Grey Heron makes a THU loud croaking sound, often standing in an ungainly way on a THU tree-top which it might share with many others for nesting - THU the heronry. THU THU Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) THU Image courtesy of RSPB THU THU 06:00 Today b044j7pb (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b044j7pd (Listen) THU The Talmud THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and contents of THU the Talmud, one of the most important texts of Judaism. THU Dating from the 2nd century, the Talmud contains the THU authoritative text of the traditional oral law, and also an THU account of early Rabbinic discussion of these laws. In later THU centuries scholars wrote important commentaries on these THU texts, which remain central to many strands of modern THU Judaism. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b044j7pj (Listen) THU Doubling Back, The Heaven Above and the Road Below THU THU A beautiful and moving memoir where the author retraces THU walks undertaken by others, from the Highlands of Scotland THU to the Swiss Alps and Kenya. THU THU Doubling Back is a fascinating and moving account of walking THU in the footsteps of others. In 1952 Linda Cracknell's father THU embarked on a hike through the Swiss Alps. Fifty years later THU Linda retraces that fateful journey, following the trail of THU the man she barely knew. THU THU This collection of walking tales takes its theme from that THU pilgrimage. The walks trace the contours of history, THU following writers, relations and retreading ways across THU mountains, valleys and coasts formerly trodden by drovers, THU saints and adventurers. Each walk is about the reaffirming THU of memories, beliefs and emotions, and especially of the THU connection that one can have with the past through THU particular places. THU THU Part 4 : The Heaven Above and the Road Below THU Linda sets out to walk from her front door to the Isle of THU Skye and, in doing so, uncovers memories of the past and THU finds inspiration for the future. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Teresa Gallagher THU Author: Linda Cracknell THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b044j7pl (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b044j7pn (Listen) THU The Seventh Test, The Visitor THU THU Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in THU New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she THU works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and THU younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an THU extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his THU choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the THU tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. THU Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas THU Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". THU THU 9) The Visitor THU A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog THU Millionaire". THU In jail for murder, Sapna is trying to make sense of the THU past few months. But there is hope in an unexpected visit THU from someone she has helped in the past. Dramatised from THU Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental THU Apprentice". THU THU Writers: THU Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling THU novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar THU winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award THU winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . THU THU Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX THU SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. THU She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, THU UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her THU stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was THU developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged THU by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. THU THU John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series THU SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won THU the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His THU dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best THU Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A THU HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated THU dramas on R4 Extra. THU THU Cast: THU Sapna ... Rasika Dugal THU Acharya ... Vijay Chrishna THU Karan ... Neil Bhoopalam THU Nirmila Ben / Rosie ... Radhika Mittal THU Sapna's Mother - Shernaz Patel THU Raja ... Sumeet Vyas THU Kuldeep Singh / Roaji ... Rajit Kapur THU Neha ... Amrita Puri THU Priya Capoor / Pushpa / Female Judge ... Ayesha Raza THU Badan Singh / Politician / Constable ... Kenny Desai THU Madan ... Vivek Madan THU Neelam / Babli ... Prerna Chawla THU Rent Collector ... Satchit Puranik THU THU Production: THU Sound Design - Steve Bond THU Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera THU Script Editor - Mike Walker THU Assistant Producer - Toral Shah THU THU Music - Sacha Putnam THU THU Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel THU "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. THU THU Director - John Dryden. THU Producer - Nadir Khan THU A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Sapna: Rasika Dugal THU Acharya: Vijay Chrishna THU Karan: Neil Bhoopalam THU Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital THU Rosie: Radhika Mital THU Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel THU Raja: Sumeet Vyas THU Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur THU Roaji: Rajit Kapur THU Neha: Amrita Puri THU Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza THU Pushpa: Ayesha Raza THU Female Judge: Ayesha Raza THU Badan Singh: Kenny Desai THU Politician: Kenny Desai THU Constable: Kenny Desai THU Madan: Vivek Madan THU Neelam: Prerna Chawla THU Babli: Preetika Chawla THU Janet: Preetika Chawla THU Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik THU Director: John Dryden THU Producer: Nadir Khan THU Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon THU Adaptor: John Dryden THU Author: Vikas Swarup THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b044j7pq (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 A German Genius in Britain b044j7pt (Listen) THU Born in Bavaria in 1944, W.G Sebald moved to England in THU 1966, where he worked first at the University of Manchester, THU and then at the newly established University of East Anglia. THU Sebald began publishing relatively late in life, and was THU still developing his unique literary style at the time of THU his death in a road accident in 2001. His work combines THU fiction, memoir, history and travelogue, the prose is THU studded with black and white photographs, presented THU caption-free, to often haunting effect. Sebald's work is THU concerned with memory, and frequently touches on the THU dreadful silence of the German people concerning the THU Holocaust. THU THU Iain Sinclair first visits Manchester, meeting the writer THU Nicholas Royle to look for remnants of the post-industrial THU landscape which features in 'The Emigrants', the first book THU by Sebald to appear in English translation in 1996. In THU Norfolk, Sinclair meets Jo Catling, a colleague of Sebald's THU at UEA. Finally in London, with Sebald's friend, the poet THU Stephen Watts, Sinclair walks the East London streets and THU cemeteries featured in his last book, 'Austerlitz'. THU THU Presenter: Iain Sinclair THU Producer: Jessica Treen. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b044j7pw (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b044b1nx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b044j7py (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The History of Brazil Is Round b044j7q0 (Listen) THU Magic and Dreams Are Dead THU THU David Goldblatt unravels the history of Brazil through its THU obsession with football. In the first half of the 20th THU Century the beautiful game had helped define the shimmering THU promise and possibilities of this vast nation but now, after THU years of dictatorship, rampant inflation and corruption THU could the bewitching promise of the ball revive a nation? THU THU In 1994, twenty-four years since they had last won, Brazil THU went to the World Cup under coach under Carlos Alberto THU Parreira. We will play in the way modern football demands. THU Magic and dreams are finished in football. We have to THU combine technique and efficiency.' Magic and dreams looked THU finished everywhere in Brazilian society in the 1990s. In THU the years after the end of military rule Brazil began to THU repair the damage wrought by the dictatorship. Inflation was THU finally brought under control, but Brazil endured two THU decades of slow growth, widespread poverty and rising THU inequality, and a crime wave to match. Brazilian democracy THU was consolidated and the military seemingly neutered, but it THU was a highly dysfunctional polity in many ways. Pragmatism THU and realism could get one elected, they could even win a THU World Cup, but they came at a cost. In football and THU politics, legitimacy came to rest on results alone: rouba THU mas faz - It's ok to steal if you get things done. THU THU Producer: Mark Burman. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b044h9r8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b044j7q2 (Listen) THU Missing in Action THU THU by Clare Lizzimore THU THU Natalie's husband went Missing In Action, in Helmand THU Province. Then one day, she spots him in a supermarket. He THU swears he's someone else. But she knows it's him. THU THU Is this love, or obsession? Is he who he says he is? And THU what will he do with the new life she's offering him? THU THU Clare Lizzimore's first play for radio explores the fight THU which begins back home, after the guns fall silent. THU THU Writer and director Clare Lizzimore's first stage play, THU 'Mint', starring Sam Troughton, debuted in the Royal Court's THU Weekly Rep season last year, to rave reviews. Clare has been THU resident director at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow; staff THU director at the Royal National Theatre, and she is currently THU an Associate Director at Hampstead Theatre. As a director, THU her credits include 'Bull' by Mike Bartlett at Sheffield THU Crucible and in New York, 'One Day When We Were Young' by THU Nick Payne as part of the Paines Plough Roundabout Season, THU and 'Lay Down Your Cross' by Nick Payne at Hampstead THU Theatre. At the Royal Court, she directed 'Faces in the THU Crowd' by Leo Butler in 2008, and has worked extensively THU with the International department. THU THU Daniel ..... Sam Troughton THU Laura ..... Liz White THU Natalie ..... Anna Madeley THU Commanding Officer ..... Clive Hayward THU Brian ..... Craige Els THU Foreman ..... Michael Bertenshaw THU THU Produced by Claire Grove and Jonquil Panting THU Directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b044j944 (Listen) THU Series 27, Hay-on-Wye THU THU Today on Ramblings, Clare Balding walks with a group of THU women who met while on a horse-trekking trip in Outer THU Mongolia. Firm friendships were formed on that adventure, THU and since then the group has met many times. For the past THU five years they've been walking Offa's Dyke bit-by-bit, and THU they've now reached the section that runs close to Hay on THU Wye, which is where Ramblings is based this week. THU THU The theme for this series of Ramblings is 'water ways'. This THU week and next, we explore two different sections of the THU River Wye. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b044bc9p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b044ghp4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b044j946 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b044j948 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b044j94b (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b044b1nz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b044j94d (Listen) THU Gold THU THU How do you make economics funny? How do you put the comedy THU in commodity? Simon Evans has the answer in this new series THU which asks us to get involved in investment. THU THU Rather than being cowed by an apparently complicated and THU overwhelming system, Simon jumps right in. He takes as his THU focus four commodities which are so intrinsic to our lives THU they have an almost elemental significance - land, gold, oil THU and grain. Yet, despite the fact we encounter them THU everywhere we look, very few people have been able to build THU a fortune on them. THU THU All that's about to change as, Simon enlists help from the THU experts. Each week he will be joined by Tim Harford, Merryn THU Somerset Webb and a guest specialist as they examine the THU chequered social and economic histories of these THU commodities. By looking at four such fundamental products, THU Simon brings us to a closer understanding of how global THU economic forces have a far-reaching and often surprising THU impact on our lives. THU THU In this episode, Simon looks at why we buy and sell gold all THU around the world. When did that begin? Why do we continue THU now we have paper money? THU THU Performed by ..... Simon Evans, with regular guests Tim THU Harford and Merryn Somerset-Webb, and to talk about the THU trade in gold, Dominic frisby. THU THU Written by ..... Simon Evans with Benjamin Partridge, Guy THU Venables and Andy Wolton THU THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Simon Evans THU Interviewed Guest: Tim Harford THU Interviewed Guest: Merryn Somerset Webb THU Interviewed Guest: Kevin Cahill THU Writer: Simon Evans THU Writer: Benjamin Partridge THU Writer: Guy Venables THU Writer: Andy Wolton THU Producer: Tilusha Ghelani THU THU 19:00 The Archers b044j94g (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b044j94j (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b044j7pn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 A Celebration for Ascension Day b044j94l (Listen) THU Hundreds gather in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, THU Trafalgar Square to celebrate Ascension Day, marking the THU moment when the risen Jesus ascended into heaven, leaving THU his disciples with the joyful promise of the gift of his THU Holy Spirit. THU THU Featuring Bob Chilcott's 'A Little Jazz Mass' sung by the THU BBC Daily Service Singers and the Choir of St Martin-in-the THU Fields directed by Bob Chilcott. Organist: Andrew Earis. THU THU The preacher is Dominican Fr Timothy Radcliffe, author and THU former Master of the Order of Preachers. THU The celebrant is the Vicar of St Martin's, the Revd Dr Sam THU Wells. THU Producer: Simon Vivian. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b044j948 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b044j7pd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b044b1p1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b044j94q (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b044j94s (Listen) THU Longbourn, Episode 4 THU THU By Jo Baker. Sarah is charmed by Ptolemy, the Bingleys' THU black footman. James and Mrs Hill have both noticed how he THU looks at her and each has their reasons to be worried. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sophie Thompson THU Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Author: Jo Baker THU THU 23:00 Plum House b044j94v (Listen) THU Every year thousands of tourists flock to the Lake District. THU But one place they never go to is Plum House - the former THU country house of minor 18th century poet George Pudding. Now THU a crumbling museum, it struggles to stay open under its THU eccentric curator, Peter Knight. THU THU Eager young museum administrator Tom Collyer arrives THU determined to turn the place round, but finds the THU incompetent staff very resistant to the C-Word - change. A THU new comedy written by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna. THU THU Written by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna THU Directed by Paul Schlesinger THU THU Producer: Sarah Cartwright THU A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Peter: Simon Callow THU Julian: Miles Jupp THU Maureen: Jane Horrocks THU Tom: Tom Bell THU Alan: Pearce Quigley THU Emma: Louise Ford THU Des: Rob Jarvis THU Charles: Rob Jarvis THU Director: Paul Schlesinger THU Producer: Sarah Cartwright THU Writer: Ben Cottam THU Writer: Paul Mckenna THU THU 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b039zg2m (Listen) THU Series 14, Freeminers in the Forest of Dean THU THU Alan Dein meets the "free miners" of the Forest of Dean, THU still digging coal in their seventies. They're a dying THU breed, but one woman's attempt to join the club has stirred THU up strong feelings. THU THU Once a major industry, coal mining in this corner of THU Gloucestershire is down to a handful of diehard THU individualists, who relish the freedom that comes from THU owning your own coal mine in the woods, and being answerable THU to no one. THU THU "Free miners" have ancient birthrights that date back to THU Edward II - rights that have persisted through coal THU nationalisation, privatisation, and closure of almost the THU entire coal mining industry. THU THU One man, Robin Morgan, is still digging coal at the age of THU 78. Robin tried to turn one of his mines into a tourist THU attraction, but got few visitors, lost a lot of money, and THU has now returned to doing what he loves best: hewing coal THU from narrow seams in much the same way as his ancestors did. THU THU But tradition says that only men can be free miners. When THU Elaine Morman tried to become one, the miners still active THU were almost unanimously opposed. Mining is no job for a THU woman, they say, and in any case, Elaine is not a true THU miner, since she works in caves that are a tourist THU attraction, where she does not dig coal, but scrapes small THU quantities of ochre for artists' pigments from the walls. THU Thanks to equality legislation, Elaine has succeeded in THU having her name entered on the free miners' roll, but is THU shunned by the male free miners. THU THU So on the one hand, we have Robin, with his failed tourist THU mine and his deep attachment to tradition. On the other THU Elaine, with her successful tourist caves, and her THU determination to apply 21st century values to ancient THU customs. Who is the true free miner? THU THU Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. THU THU Free miners at Monument Pit THU Ray Ashly (left) operates Monument pit with the occasional THU help of Rich Daniels (right). The picture shows them with THU presenter Alan Dein, after emerging from underground. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 MAY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b044j9ph (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b044j7pj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b044j9pk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b044jb0f (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b044b1pm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b044b1pp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044v4vl (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop FRI Stephen Oliver. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b044jb0h (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby2t (Listen) FRI Dartford Warbler FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents the Dartford Warbler. Dartford FRI Warblers prefer Mediterranean wine-producing climates, which FRI means ice and snow is bad news for them. The harsh winters FRI of 1961 and 1962 reduced the population to just 11 pairs, FRI but fortunately the numbers have since recovered. FRI FRI Dartford Warbler (Sylvia undata) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB FRI FRI 06:00 Today b044jbjc (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b044bcc5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b044jbjf (Listen) FRI Doubling Back, Walking Home FRI FRI A beautiful, fascinating and moving memoir where the author FRI retraces walks undertaken by others, from the Highlands of FRI Scotland to the Swiss Alps and Kenya. FRI FRI In 1952 Linda Cracknell's father embarked on a hike through FRI the Swiss Alps. Fifty years later Linda retraces that FRI fateful journey, following the trail of the man she barely FRI knew. This collection of walking tales takes its theme from FRI that pilgrimage. The walks trace the contours of history, FRI following writers, relations and retreading ways across FRI mountains, valleys and coasts formerly trodden by drovers, FRI saints and adventurers. Each walk is about the reaffirming FRI of memories, beliefs and emotions, and especially of the FRI connection that one can have with the past through FRI particular places. FRI FRI Part Five: Walking Home FRI Linda Cracknell looks to the future as she walks the FRI pilgrimage route of St Cuthbert's Way between Scotland and FRI England and as she follows her own footsteps around her home FRI town of Aberfeldy in Perthshire. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Teresa Gallagher FRI Author: Linda Cracknell FRI Abridger: Sian Preece FRI Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b044jh6j (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b044jh6l (Listen) FRI The Seventh Test, The Noose FRI FRI Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in FRI New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she FRI works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and FRI younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an FRI extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his FRI choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the FRI tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas FRI Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". FRI FRI 10) The Seventh Test FRI A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog FRI Millionaire". FRI Sapna must revisit her past to make sense of her present. FRI But nothing can prepare her what she finds there. Dramatised FRI from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental FRI Apprentice". FRI FRI Writers: FRI Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling FRI novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar FRI winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award FRI winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . FRI FRI Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX FRI SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. FRI She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, FRI UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her FRI stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was FRI developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged FRI by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. FRI FRI John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series FRI SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won FRI the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His FRI dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best FRI Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A FRI HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated FRI dramas on R4 Extra. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Sapna ... Rasika Dugal FRI Acharya ... Vijay Chrishna FRI Karan ... Neil Bhoopalam FRI Nirmila Ben / Rosie ... Radhika Mittal FRI Sapna's Mother ... Shernaz Patel FRI Raja ... Sumeet Vyas FRI Kuldeep Singh / Roaji ... Rajit Kapur FRI Neha ... Amrita Puri FRI Priya Capoor / Pushpa / Female Judge ... Ayesha Raza FRI Badan Singh / Politician / Constable ... Kenny Desai FRI Madan ... Vivek Madan FRI Neelam / Babli ... Prerna Chawla FRI Rent Collector ... Satchit Puranik FRI FRI Production: FRI Sound Design - Steve Bond FRI Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera FRI Script Editor - Mike Walker FRI Assistant Producer - Toral Shah FRI FRI Music - Sacha Putnam FRI FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel FRI "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. FRI FRI Director - John Dryden FRI Producer - Nadir Khan FRI A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sapna: Rasika Dugal FRI Acharya: Vijay Chrishna FRI Karan: Neil Bhoopalam FRI Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital FRI Rosie: Radhika Mital FRI Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel FRI Raja: Sumeet Vyas FRI Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur FRI Roaji: Rajit Kapur FRI Neha: Amrita Puri FRI Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza FRI Pushpa: Ayesha Raza FRI Female Judge: Ayesha Raza FRI Badan Singh: Kenny Desai FRI Politician: Kenny Desai FRI Constable: Kenny Desai FRI Madan: Vivek Madan FRI Neelam: Prerna Chawla FRI Babli: Preetika Chawla FRI Janet: Preetika Chawla FRI Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik FRI Director: John Dryden FRI Producer: Nadir Khan FRI Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon FRI Adaptor: John Dryden FRI Author: Vikas Swarup FRI FRI 11:00 For All the TV in China b044jh6n (Listen) FRI Paul Jackson investigates the TV industry in China and the FRI international producers trying to tap this enormous market. FRI As China reaches out to the West for new formats, how are FRI those ideas changed to reflect Chinese tastes and cultural FRI sensitivities and which shows become winners with the FRI audience? Paul also discovers how programme makers within FRI China are trying to create original content and bring it to FRI our screens too. FRI FRI Producer Clare Walker. FRI FRI 11:30 Guests Are Like Fish b044jh6q (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI Guests are like Fish by Shelagh Stephenson FRI FRI When ANNA and JIM left London to move to the country, they FRI blithely issued invitations to come up and see us any time! FRI to all and sundry. FRI FRI Unfortunately, most of those who take them at their word are FRI the ones they never in a million years dreamt would turn up, FRI with predictably disastrous results. FRI FRI Each weekend, over 4 episodes, a different couple pitches up FRI on their doorstep demanding food, more food, wine and FRI roaring fires, when what they really need is prolonged FRI therapy. And each week Anna and Jim swear they'll never do FRI it again...Guests, like fish, tend to go off after three FRI days. FRI FRI Produced and directed by: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Anna: Haydn Gwynne FRI Jim: Tim McInnerny FRI Petra: Lizzy McInnerny FRI Jake: Leon Ockendon FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Writer: Shelagh Stephenson FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b044jh6s (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b044v4vp (Listen) FRI Bev and Gill - Me and My MS FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a former fitness instructor and her FRI pupil. They met at a Legs, Bums and Tums class years ago, FRI and were brought back together by a diagnosis of multiple FRI sclerosis. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b044b1pr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b044v4vr (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The History of Brazil Is Round b044jh6v (Listen) FRI Chronicle of a Mess Foretold FRI FRI David Goldblatt ends his exploration of the history of FRI Brazil through its obsessive love of the beautiful game of FRI football with the prospect of this years World Cup haunted FRI by the shadows of last year's mass protests. Did the FRI beautiful game die out there on the pitch or can the nation FRI find any solace on the possibility of triumph with a round FRI ball? FRI FRI The events of June 2013 in Brazil were the largest wave of FRI social protest the country had ever seen. At their peak FRI demonstrations took place simultaneously in 120 cities. The FRI crowds were overwhelmingly made up of the urban middle FRI classes, a category that stretches from downtown junior FRI officer workers to university professors, who were paying, FRI in their own words, "European taxes to get Mozambiquean FRI services" and despaired of the venality and incompetence of FRI the police and public administration. This had all been the FRI case for some time. Why then should the protests have FRI erupted in June 2013? FRI FRI What gave rhythm and focus to the protests was the FRI simultaneous staging of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. FRI What allowed the many grievances of the Brazilian public to FRI coalesce into this public wave of outrage were the economic FRI costs and the social impact of staging the 2014 World Cup to FRI come? FRI FRI Producer: Mark Burman. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b044j94g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b044jh6x (Listen) FRI The Other Simenon, A New Lease of Life FRI FRI Three new dramatisations by Ronald Frame of stories by FRI Georges Simenon. FRI FRI When he wasn't writing Maigret, Georges Simenon produced a FRI huge body of novels, often tough, gripping and FRI psychologically-penetrating dissections of lives confounded FRI by fate. In, The Other Simenon, we explore three more of his FRI intriguing tales. FRI FRI In A New Lease Of Life Maurice Dudon, a reclusive bachelor, FRI who works as an accountant with no emotional or private life FRI except for furtive and ritualistic visits to a prostitute FRI every Friday finds his life changing after he is seriously FRI injured in a car accident. In a private nursing home he FRI forms a growing relationship with a nurse. But is it all FRI fate or is his life being manipulated? FRI FRI THE OTHER SIMENON FRI SERIES 3 FRI FRI A New Lease of Life FRI by Georges Simenon FRI FRI Dramatised for radio by Ronald Frame FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the cast. FRI FRI Producer/director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI Credits FRI Maurice Dudon: Alun Raglan FRI Anne-Marie: Selina Boyack FRI Philippe Lacroix-Gibet: Richard Addison FRI Madam: Eliza Langlands FRI Mother: Eliza Langlands FRI Monsieur Mallard: Michael Mackenzie FRI Priest: Kirk Bage FRI Director: David Neville FRI Producer: David Neville FRI Adaptor: Ronald Frame FRI Author: Georges Simenon FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b044jh6z (Listen) FRI Whitehaven, Cumbria FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the FRI Whitehaven Festival, Cumbria. Answering the audience FRI questions are Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Christine FRI Walkden. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 After Milk Wood b044jh71 (Listen) FRI London Choral Celestial Jazz FRI FRI 'After Milk Wood': three stories by acclaimed writers which FRI take their inspiration from Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk FRI Wood'. The stories have been commissioned to commemorate the FRI centenary of the birth of the great Welsh writer, Dylan FRI Thomas, and were recorded at the Laugharne Festival in FRI Wales. FRI FRI Today, from the Laugharne Festival, Bernardine Evaristo FRI reads her own short story in verse set in the high-octane, FRI adrenaline-charged streets of contemporary London, which FRI takes its inspiration from Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood'. FRI FRI The Reader is Bernardine Evaristo. Writer and poet FRI Bernardine Evaristo's awards include: the EMMA Best Book FRI Award, Big Red Read, Orange Youth Panel Award, a NESTA and FRI the Arts Council Writer's Award. Her books have been a 'Book FRI of the Year' twelve times in British newspapers and FRI magazines and The Emperor's Babe was a Times 'Book of the FRI Decade'. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of FRI Literature in 2004, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in FRI 2006, and she received an MBE in 2009. Her most recent novel FRI is Mr Loveman. FRI FRI The producer is Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bernardine Evaristo FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Writer: Bernardine Evaristo FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b044jh73 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b044jh75 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b044v4vt (Listen) FRI JohnPaul and Michael - No Holding Back FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a journalist and FRI the director of a friendship and dating website about living FRI with learning disabilities and dealing with prejudice. 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 b044jh77 (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's FRI news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b044b1pt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b044jh79 (Listen) FRI Series 43, Episode 7 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw are joined by special guest Andy FRI Zaltzman for a comic romp through the week's news. With FRI Mitch Benn, Pippa Evans and Jon Holmes. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Gareth FRI Gwynn, Jane Lamacraft and Steve Bugeja. Produced by FRI Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Jon Culshaw FRI Panellist: Andy Zaltzman FRI Panellist: Mitch Benn FRI Panellist: Pippa Evans FRI Panellist: Jon Holmes FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b044jh7c (Listen) FRI It's a happy day for Lynda, but Helen throws down the FRI gauntlet. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Mr Stevens: Paul Thornley FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b044jh7f (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b044jh6l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b044jh7h (Listen) FRI Claire Fox, Trevor Kavanagh, Benedicte Paviot, Billy Bragg FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Steyning in West Sussex with FRI the Director of the Institute of Ideas, Claire Fox, FRI Associate Editor of The Sun, Trevor Kavanagh, French FRI journalist, Benedicte Paviot, and singer songwriter Billy FRI Bragg. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b044jh7k (Listen) FRI Should we be frightened of disability? FRI FRI Many people assume that disabled people must be unhappy. But FRI the empirical evidence doesn't back this up. In A Point of FRI View, Tom Shakespeare argues that disability is nothing to FRI fear. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Tom Shakespeare FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01s02y8 (Listen) FRI Before the Fact FRI FRI Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a FRI dramatisation of the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his FRI film, 'Suspicion' on. FRI FRI Set in the early 1930s, Emilia Fox plays the part of Lina - FRI a girl in her late twenties, from a wealthy family. In FRI danger of becoming a spinster, life changes for the better FRI when Lina meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who FRI proposes marriage. Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life FRI with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant FRI honeymoon. But on their return Lina begins to discover that FRI Johnnie is not all he seems. His gambling threatens to ruin FRI them but is her growing suspicion that he is also a murderer FRI founded on reality or her imagination? FRI FRI BEFORE THE FACT FRI By FRANCES ILES FRI Dramatised for radio by RONALD FRAME FRI FRI Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Ronald Frame FRI Lina: Emilia Fox FRI Johnnie: Ben Caplan FRI Miss Sedbusk: Patricia Hodge FRI Capt Melbeck: Sam Dale FRI Thwaite: David Timson FRI Ethel: Hannah Wood FRI Dr Fielding: Rick Warden FRI Director: David Neville FRI Producer: David Neville FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b044b1pw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b044jh7p (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b044jh7r (Listen) FRI Longbourn, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Jo Baker. The Bennet family receive an invitation from FRI Netherfield. For Sarah, it's a chance to better get to know FRI Ptolemy, the Bingleys' footman. FRI FRI Reader...Sophie Thompson FRI Abridger...Sara Davies FRI Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Jo Baker FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b044h6nq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Lives in a Landscape b03mg873 (Listen) FRI Series 15, Sirens of Yorkshire - Community First Responders FRI FRI It's Friday night in Hornsea, a small village in East FRI Yorkshire; the air is cold and the stars seem to go on FRI forever. FRI FRI Just off the High Street, a small accountancy firm is FRI closing up; Andy, a man who loves the challenges of VAT, has FRI finished the filing, and is having a cup of tea, chatting on FRI the phone to a friend about the plan to save the Floral FRI Hall. FRI FRI Suddenly a siren blasts out. FRI FRI It's coming from a mobile phone, connected directly to the FRI ambulance service. FRI FRI Andy is not a paramedic, but he is a Community First FRI Responder - someone trained in life saving techniques, who FRI has volunteered to drop everything to go and be the first on FRI the scene in an emergency. FRI FRI The actions he takes over the next few minutes could mean FRI the difference between life and death. Within seconds he's FRI donned a high-vis jacket and, weighed down with a rucksack FRI of life saving equipment, is running for his car. By the FRI time the ambulance services arrives from the nearest FRI hospital he may have been at the scene for some time - FRI administering life-saving first aid. FRI FRI First Responders come from every walk of life, and are all FRI highly trained volunteers. But it's a huge commitment, and FRI responsibility, and over Christmas and New Year, a busy one. FRI So what motivates someone to take on such a role? Good FRI Samaritans on the surface, but is it the adrenalin rush many FRI say they feel that makes them addicted to saving lives? FRI FRI Julie Gatenby meets the Community First Responders of East FRI Yorkshire. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b044v4vy (Listen) FRI Louis and Ashley - Darker Sides FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a theatre and a FRI film director, both of whom major in horror. It's their FRI passion, but is it good for them...? 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
23 May, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 24/05/2014 - 30/05/2014
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