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SAT SATURDAY 22 MARCH 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03y3lmy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03zrdtd (Listen) SAT Free at Last - The Benn Diaries 1991 to 2001, Episode 5 SAT SAT Tony Benn reads the final extracts from "Free at Last- SAT Diaries 1991 - 2001", first broadcast in 2003. SAT SAT Today's episode is profoundly personal as it recounts the SAT final illness of his beloved wife Caroline. Yet this SAT intensely moving account of their 51-year marriage as it is SAT transformed by the imminence of death is not all sadness. SAT There is much joy, humour to be shared ... and even a little SAT bit of political gossip. SAT SAT Read by Tony Benn SAT Produced by Jane Ray. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Tony Benn SAT Producer: Jane Ray SAT Author: Tony Benn SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03y3ln0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03y3ln2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03y3ln4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03y3ln6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03y3lyl (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Richard Littledale. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03y3lyn (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03y3ln8 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03y3lnb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b03y38kf (Listen) SAT Series 26, Over the Hill walkers, Windsor Great Park SAT SAT This series is themed 'Ramblings Revisited' as Clare Balding SAT walks again with some of her favourite and most memorable SAT guests. SAT SAT In the spring of 2006, Clare went rambling with a female SAT hockey team who had been walking together for 15 years. In SAT this time they'd developed enduring friendships on as well SAT as off the pitch. SAT SAT Now, eight years on - and with most of the original walkers SAT now retired - Clare is going back to catch up with the 'Over SAT the Hill' club. The group started-up after an advertisement SAT was placed on the hockey club wall; it stipulated that the SAT requirements of those attending were 'A sense of humour, SAT walking boots or strong shoes, haversack, waterproof SAT clothing and approximately £65 plus beer and lunch money'. SAT SAT The group walk in a different location each time they SAT gather, this week they'll be in Windsor Great Park. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Totem Pole in Windsor Great Park SAT SAT Uphill SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03ygtyw (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Hill Farming in the Peak District SAT SAT Making a living from the hills - Charlotte Smith travels SAT into the Peak District National Park to meet Michael SAT Longworth and Diane Atkinson, tenants of a 1,200 acre hill SAT farm. With a flock of 300 Swaledale sheep and a fledgling SAT herd of Highland cattle, the young couple have signed a SAT 10-year tenancy with the National Park Authority, and SAT committed themselves to making a life - and a profit - on SAT wild, windswept moorland. SAT SAT Charlotte sees for herself the challenges of farming in one SAT of Britain's most popular tourist destinations as Michael SAT finds a gate left open, and all his sheep missing from the SAT field. SAT SAT But the visitors also bring opportunity. Michael and Diane SAT are in the final stages of getting planning permission to SAT serve tea and cake on their lawn for the ramblers and SAT climbers who pass by on their way to Stannage Edge. Their SAT rented accommodation will also attract the literature fans - SAT the brooding North Lees Hall was inspiration for Rochester's SAT home in Bronte's Jane Eyre. While admitting to finding it "a SAT bit creepy", Diane hopes it'll add extra profit to their SAT diversification. SAT SAT Is farming alone enough to support a life in the hills, SAT wonders Charlotte. Definitely not according to the SAT entrepreneurial team of two - but it's certainly the best SAT bit. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03y3lnd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03ygtyy (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03ygtz0 (Listen) SAT Photographer Don McCullin SAT SAT John McCarthy and Suzy Klein meet veteran photographer Don SAT McCullin to talk about wars zones, life in Somerset and how SAT being born and raised in Finsbury Park shaped his life. John SAT Wildey is a seventy seven year old grandfather who took over SAT the controls to land a plane when the pilot took ill. SAT Felicity Warner is a soul midwife who helps people have a SAT peaceful death. There are tales of homelessness from the SAT streets of London, Claudia Winkleman shares her Inheritance SAT Tracks and we hear how the helmet belonging to a young SAT soldier killed in Vietnam ended up for sale in Portobello SAT Market. We take a trip on a train run by children in SAT Budapest and find out if the Quiff, the hairstyle so beloved SAT of the Teddy Boys is about to make a comeback. SAT SAT Produced by Maire Devine. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Studio guest: Don McCullin SAT The SAT veteran photographer SAT and photojournalist talks about wars zones, life in SAT Somerset, his love of landscape photography and how being SAT born and raised in Finsbury Park shaped his life. SAT BBC One documentary: SAT McCullin SAT SAT Interview: John Wildey SAT John Wildey is a seventy seven year old grandfather who had SAT never flown a plane before, took over the controls to land a SAT plane when the pilot took ill. SAT 'May Day- The passenger who landed a plane' SAT will be broadcast on Ch4 on 27th March 2014. SAT SAT Interview: Felicity Warner SAT Felicity Warner is a ' SAT soul midwife' SAT who helps people have a peaceful death. SAT SAT Crowdscape: Homeless in London SAT Our reporter Paul Walters meets four homeless people in SAT London, including a man who sings to the public to cheer SAT them up. SAT SAT Inheritance Tracks: Claudia Winkelman SAT Claudia Winkelman shares her inheritance tracks. She SAT inherits the ET theme tune by John Williams and she passes SAT on 'As' by Stevie Wonder. SAT SAT Vietnam Helmet SAT And the story of how the image of a Vietnam helmet posted on SAT the BBC's ' SAT A History Of the World in 100 Objects' SAT website brought together the man who bought it in Portobello SAT market and the nephew of the young soldier who was killed in SAT Vietnam. SAT SAT Travel: Budapest Children's Train SAT John McCarthy takes a trip on a train run by children in SAT Budapest. SAT SAT SAT School Report : The Quiff SAT BBC School Reporter SAT Andy explains why the Quiff, the hairstyle so beloved of the SAT Teddy Boys is about to make a comeback. SAT BBC School Report Day is on 27th March SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Don McCullin SAT Interviewed Guest: John Wildey SAT Interviewed Guest: Felicity Warner SAT Interviewed Guest: Claudia Winkleman SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT SAT 10:30 1914-1918: The Cultural Front b03th7g9 (Listen) SAT Kandinsky, Khaki and Kisses SAT SAT At the beginning of the twentieth century, young artists in SAT so many countries were finding their own revolutionary way SAT forward. France had the cubism movement, in Germany the SAT expressionists were in vogue, in Britain the vorticists were SAT finding a voice. It was an exciting time for painters and SAT sculptors. The outbreak of World War 1 fractured the SAT international artistic community with many of the artists SAT enlisting to fight. SAT SAT In the third programme of the series, Francine Stock SAT explores what was happening in the international artistic SAT community in the run up to World War 1, and how the SAT commencement of hostilities affected artists either side of SAT the conflict. In some cases, it led painters to create some SAT of their most powerful and arresting work. SAT SAT Francine also hears how the publishing world responded to SAT the outbreak of war. The magazine industry was quick to turn SAT copy around and fashion tips included how to dress SAT appropriately to raise morale. SAT SAT The book industry, whilst threatened with a lack of staff SAT and supplies, filled the need for entertaining popular SAT fiction. There was a fine trade in sending books to the SAT front, and back home, women's popular fiction was awash with SAT khaki and kisses tales of women falling in love with SAT soldiers. As the first fighting men returned invalided and SAT disabled, there's also a rise in the 'heroic veteran' tale SAT where a missing limb or scarred face is no barrier to SAT virility and love. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT Contributors SAT Dr Jane Potter SAT author Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print. Clarendon Press, SAT OUP (ISBN 0-19-927986-1 978-0-10-927986-9) SAT SAT SAT David Boyd Haycock SAT author A Crisis of Brilliance, Old Street SAT Publishing, (ISBN-13:978-1-906964-32-0) SAT SAT SAT Richard Cork SAT author A Bitter Truth, avant-garde art and the Great War SAT Yale University Press (ISBN 0-300-05704-0) SAT SAT SAT Dr. Stacy Gillis SAT (University of Newcastle) SAT SAT SAT Dr. Stefan Goebel SAT (University of Kent) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Dr Jane Potter with presenter Francine Stock SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03ygwjh (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of The Telegraph looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03ygwjk (Listen) SAT Hirsute History and Desert Verse SAT SAT Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories from around the SAT world. Today, Jamie Coomarasamy meets the man who once was SAT Crimea's one and only President and dreams of a new SAT landscape; James Menendez goes to the city where month-long SAT demonstrations started in Venezuela; Shahida Bari find SAT camels, dogs, four by fours, twitter and verse in the SAT deserts of the UAE; Rajan Datar is in Goa, trying his best SAT to help pick up the rubbish; and Stephen Mulvey's memories SAT of Ukrainian independence don't match President Putin's. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03ygwjm (Listen) SAT Pensions revolution; Cash is king; Paying for childcare SAT SAT The Chancellor unveiled the biggest pensions revolution for SAT almost a century. From April 2015, people will be able to SAT take money out of their pension pots of any size with no SAT restriction. No one will have to take an annuity on SAT retirement. While certain rules are being relaxed from next SAT week, just what should people due to make a decision about SAT their retirement pot in the next few months need to SAT consider? The Pensions Minister, Steve Webb and other SAT pension experts join the programme. SAT SAT Cash is king. SAT SAT Although cash isas have always been more popular than their SAT riskier cousins stocks and Shares isas people have been able SAT to put much less into them each year. But that restriction SAT is being ended. From 1 July, the ISA limit will rise by SAT several thousand pounds to £15,000 in 2014/15 and all of SAT that can go into cash. But how easy will it be to swap bits SAT of investments into cash? And vice versa? SAT SAT VOUCHERS OR TAX-FREE? SAT The Government calls it 'Tax-free Child Care' but of course SAT it is not. The new system to subsidise childcare announced SAT this week begins on 1 September 2015 and will apply to SAT children up to the age of 12 in registered childcare. SAT Despite its name it is not really tax-free. First, it SAT applies to non-taxpayers. Second, higher rate taxpayers only SAT get 20% off - not 40%. And third it is not free of National SAT Insurance. People with the current vouchers may prefer to SAT stick with them. So what options should parents consider? SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03y3lkl (Listen) SAT Series 83, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest SAT panellists Mark Steel, Elis James and David Mitchell. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Mark Steel SAT Panellist: Elis James SAT Panellist: David Mitchell SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03y3lng (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03y3lnj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03y3lks (Listen) SAT Sajid Javid MP, Andy Street, Frances O'Grady, Rachel Reeves SAT MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Birmingham City University with Financial Secretary to SAT the Treasury, Sajid Javid MP; Shadow Work & Pensions SAT Secretary, Rachel Reeves MP; Managing Director of John SAT Lewis, Andy Street; and General Secretary of the TUC, SAT Frances O'Grady. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03ygwjp (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00m0grg (Listen) SAT Trumbo SAT SAT Christopher Trumbo's drama about his father, the American SAT screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo's ordeal at the SAT hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee and its SAT anti-communist witch-hunt. SAT SAT Trumbo was one of the original Hollywood Ten - those accused SAT in 1947 and subsequently blacklisted, ostracised and forced SAT into poverty, obscurity and in some cases exile, because of SAT their beliefs. SAT SAT The play is based on transcripts of those now notorious HUAC SAT hearings and the extraordinary letters written by his father SAT during this period, both to his son and to others. SAT SAT Directed by Roger Mitchell. SAT SAT A Catherine Bailey Limited production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dalton Trumbo: Corin Redgrave SAT Narrator: Nick Waring SAT Director: Roger Mitchell SAT Writer: Christopher Trumbo SAT SAT 15:30 Rejection Notes: The Movie Scores That Never Were SAT b03y10gs (Listen) SAT The movie world has a hidden story of musical carnage that SAT every composer has come to experience and dread! Ever since SAT the end of the studio system the film score, an essential SAT part of the film making process, has been subject to the SAT vagaries of the volatile world of film making. The very last SAT chance to make or break a movie is beset with pitfalls, no SAT one is safe and many composers refuse to talk about this SAT bitter but brutal reality of composing for film- your score SAT is ultimately their score to be subject to all the vagaries SAT of film making. Scores by legendary composers as varied as SAT Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Hermann, Jerry Goldsmith, James SAT Horner and William Walton have been abandoned. Directorial SAT disagreements, the much loathed temp track, studio SAT interference, last minute meltdowns and other, even more SAT unlikely, factors have led to hundreds of scores being SAT discarded. Every year, if you look hard enough, you can find SAT another trail of wrecked notes. SAT SAT Take just two films only a year apart: Kubrick's legendary SAT 2001: A Space Odyssey seems impossible now without its SAT Strauss and Ligeti but despite Stanley Kubrick knowing he SAT was in thrall to the past masters he allowed the brilliant SAT Alex North to feverishly compose an original score for it SAT that became a sacrificial cause celebre. In 1969 one of SAT Britain's finest, William Walton, scored The Battle of SAT Britain only to find himself unceremoniously replaced by the SAT more hummable Ron Goodwin. He never forgot the slight. SAT SAT Some scores get unlikely resurrections. Original sessions SAT kept by canny recordists can resurface decades later but SAT some remain forever silent. Christopher Cook hears from SAT acclaimed composer Howard Blake who has experienced just SAT about everything the world of film music can throw at a film SAT composer whilst editor Terry Rawlings reveals what it took SAT to make Alien sound even more terrifying at the expense of SAT upsetting Jerry Goldsmith who had just composed one of his SAT most imaginative scores. SAT SAT Producer Mark Burman. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03ygwjr (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Messy bedrooms, friendship bracelets and Grease sing-alongs. SAT The writer and comedian Grace Dent will look back on her SAT childhood and give a Guide to Growing Up a Girl. She'll be SAT reminiscing about being a brownie guide, learning to swim in SAT pyjamas and wanting to snog a boy. SAT SAT The author Shereen El Feki will discuss the ever changing SAT attitudes towards sex in the Arab world. SAT SAT Also the political debate about buying and selling sex - SAT what, if anything, should be illegal? We'll hear from three SAT men who use prostitutes about why they do it. SAT SAT And when it comes to taking a sickie, women it seems are SAT more likely to indulge than men? In fact 42 per cent are SAT more likely to take a day off work than men. We'll be SAT finding out why? SAT SAT It's Shakespeare Week and the Royal Shakespeare Company SAT tours schools with The Taming of the Shrew with Kate being SAT played by a man and Petruchio by a woman. So what difference SAT will it make to teenagers' understanding of the play? SAT SAT Plus as music in the workplace becomes more popular you can SAT get a chance to hear the Woman's Hour team exercise their SAT vocal cords. And why men ought to be better dancers than SAT women? SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Grace Dent SAT Interviewed Guest: Shereen El Feki SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03ygwjt (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03yqktw (Listen) SAT Energy Upstarts SAT SAT Turning up the heat: the new energy companies breaking into SAT a market dominated by big established firms. Evan Davis SAT meets two small entrants to the sector to find out how SAT they're gaining market share. Is the strategy to compete on SAT price, customer service or green credentials? He'll discuss SAT the role of the price comparison websites in encouraging SAT customers to switch providers and hear how some smaller SAT companies are cutting gas and electricity bills when their SAT bigger rivals aren't. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Dale Vince, Founder and CEO, Ecotricity SAT SAT Stephen Fitzpatrick, Founder and Managing Director, Ovo SAT Energy SAT SAT Ann Robinson, Director of Consumer Policy at uSwitch.com SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT Evan Davis SAT Presenter of The Bottom Line SAT SAT Dale Vince SAT Founder and CEO, Ecotricity SAT SAT Stephen Fitzpatrick SAT Founder and Managing Director, Ovo Energy SAT SAT Ann Robinson SAT Director of Consumer Policy at uSwitch.com SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03y3lnl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03y3lnn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03y3lnq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03ygwjw (Listen) SAT Louis Theroux, Engelbert Humperdinck, Steve Brown, Tracy SAT Chevalier, Arthur Smith, Button Eyes, LuAmi SAT SAT Clive talks to legendary singer Engelbert Humperdinck about SAT his new album 'Engelbert Calling' which comes forty five SAT years after his number one single and signature tune, SAT 'Please Release Me'. SAT SAT Bestselling author Tracy Chevalier explains how research for SAT her latest novel The Last Runaway ignited her love of quilts SAT and quilting and has led her to curate an exhibition of SAT quilt works 'Things We Do In Bed' that celebrates quilts and SAT their continuing links to what goes on behind the bedroom SAT door. SAT SAT Arthur Smith talks to Louis Theroux about his three new BBC SAT films that put Los Angeles under the microscope ' Louis SAT Theroux's LA Stories'. Continuing his diverse exploration of SAT life in America, Louis looks at LA's problem with neglected SAT and feral dogs; the experiences of patients with SAT life-threatening conditions at the city's most famous SAT hospital; and examines how California deals with sex SAT offenders after they are released from prison. SAT SAT Award winning writer and composer Steve Brown talks to Clive SAT about co-writing a brand new musical comedy 'I Can't Sing!' SAT an X Factor Musical with Harry Hill. SAT SAT Button Eyes, the eclectic London/Brighton folktronica SAT collective perform their latest single 'Simple Days.' SAT SAT With more music from unsigned singer/songwriter LuAmi who SAT performs her track ''Precious Love.' SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Engelbert Humperdink SAT SAT 'Engelbert Calling' is available now on Conehead. SAT SAT Louis Theroux SAT SAT 'Louis Theroux's LA Stories' starts on Sunday 23rd March at SAT 21.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Tracy Chevalier SAT SAT 'Things We Do In Bed' - An exhibition of quilt works, SAT curated by Tracy Chevalier is at Danson House, Bexleyheath, SAT Kent from Tuesday 1st April until Friday 31st October. SAT SAT Steve Brown SAT SAT 'I Can’t Sing' is at The London Palladium until Saturday SAT 25th October. SAT SAT Button Eyes SAT SAT 'Simple Days' and the EP 'Chemicals' are available now on SAT Western Decadence. SAT SAT Lu'Ami SAT SAT Lu'Ami is playing at Sticky Mikes Frog Bar on the 10th April SAT and Green Door Store in Brighton on 2nd May as part of the SAT Foreclosure Festival. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03ygwk2 (Listen) SAT Matteo Renzi SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles Matteo Renzi, the new Italian prime SAT minister. He asks if this former boy scout - nicknamed SAT "demolition man" for his desire to smash the political SAT establishment- can turn around Italy's fortunes. At 39, he SAT is Italy's youngest PM, wears jeans and a leather jacket and SAT models himself on Tony Blair. Can he live up to his SAT promises? SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03ygwm8 (Listen) SAT Angela Lansbury in the West End; Kate Winslet in Labor Day; SAT Sebastian Barry's new novel SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs sharp, critical discussion of the SAT week's cultural events. SAT SAT Blithe Spirit SAT SAT Directed by Michael Blakemore, SAT Blithe Spirit SAT is at the Gielgud Theatre in London until 7 June 2014. SAT SAT The Temporary Gentleman SAT The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry is published by SAT Faber & Faber on 3 April 2014. SAT SAT Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice SAT The exhibition SAT Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice SAT is at The National Gallery London, 19 March - 15 June 2014. SAT SAT Labor Day SAT Directed by Jason Reitman, SAT Labor Day SAT is in cinemas from Friday 21 March, certificate 12A. SAT SAT The Widower SAT A three part drama series, The Widower continues on Monday SAT 24 March 2014, 9pm on ITV 1. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03ygwmb (Listen) SAT Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst SAT SAT On 17 May 1974, in the district of Compton in Los Angeles, SAT American network television broadcast live the longest SAT gunfight in the nation's history, in a scene worthy of the SAT studios of nearby Hollywood. SAT SAT It marked the beginning of the end for the Symbionese SAT Liberation Army (SLA), a leftist guerrilla group that sprang SAT to fame three months earlier after kidnapping heiress SAT Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the newspaper magnate, SAT William Randolph Hearst. SAT SAT This saga - described as "probably the mystery story of the SAT 20th Century" - is one of the most bizarre episodes of SAT recent American history. Within hours of Patty's kidnapping SAT the media arrived outside the Hearst mansion, where they SAT would camp out in a self-styled 'press city'. Communiqués SAT issued by the SLA on cassette tapes, often spoken by Patty SAT herself, were broadcast in full. The family posted a sign SAT that read 'Please don't feed reporters'. SAT SAT After 57 days in captivity, sympathy for the captive heiress SAT turned to shock as she declared herself a member of the SLA, SAT denounced her family and was pictured wielding a gun as the SAT gang robbed a bank in San Francisco. 18 months later Patty SAT was arrested, and convicted in what the press called 'The SAT Trial of the Century'. SAT SAT Four decades on, Benjamin Ramm explores how this sensational SAT story was driven by exhaustive daily media coverage. He asks SAT to what extent it changed the way news was reported and SAT anticipated many of today's debates about the ethics and SAT appetites of rolling news. SAT SAT Interviewees include Linda Deutsch, renowned court reporter; SAT John Lester, a news anchor who became the Hearst family SAT spokesman; Bill Deiz, who reported the LA shootout using new SAT camera technology; and former member of the SLA, Mike SAT Bortin. SAT SAT Produced by Rebecca Maxted. SAT A Sparklab Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Friday Drama b02yqqd9 (Listen) SAT The Forbidden SAT SAT A run down housing estate fizzes with supernatural forces. SAT SAT The Forbidden is a chilling, urban horror dramatised for SAT radio by Duncan MacMillan. It's adapted from SAT Clive Barker's original novella, first published in 1985 and SAT the inspiration for the cult 1992 horror film, Candyman. SAT SAT The film was set in America, but the original short story SAT was located in Britain, on a dilapidated council estate. SAT This radio dramatisation takes it back to its roots: the SAT story has been modernised, but set in a post-riot Britain, SAT where materialism and greed are increasingly prevalent in SAT all spheres of society. SAT SAT Helen and her husband Trevor have recently moved into a SAT gated community in the area where she originally grew up. SAT She is becoming more and more disturbed by a nightmare, SAT where she finds herself in a basement on her old estate and SAT knows someone else is there. But who? And what do they want SAT from her? SAT SAT As Helen insists on exploring the old estate, meeting an old SAT friend and encountering mysterious, frightened teenagers, SAT her home life is affected badly. As she grows increasingly SAT suspicious that Trevor is being unfaithful, she returns to SAT the basement which now haunts her sleep. What she discovers SAT there is both a horrific shock and a sense of coming home, SAT at last. SAT SAT Recorded on location in London, with an original score from SAT composer John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized). SAT SAT Music composed by John Coxon, recorded and mixed by Rupert SAT Clervaux and John Coxon. SAT Sound design by Eloise Whitmore. SAT SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SAT SAT A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Author: Clive Barker SAT Adaptor: Doug MacMillan SAT Helen: Nadine Marshall SAT Trevor: Michael Begley SAT Bernadette: Fenella Woolgar SAT Anne Marie: Fenella Woolgar SAT Archie: Danny Lee Wynter SAT Kerry: Adam Rojko SAT Candyman: David Judge SAT Young Helen: Annie Ackermann SAT Composer: John Coxon SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03y3lns (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b03y15hy (Listen) SAT Victimless Crime SAT SAT Is there such a thing as a victimless crime? This issue is SAT at the heart of two campaigns that have been attracting a SAT lot of coverage recently. At the moment the sale and SAT purchase of sex is legal in Britain, but there's a growing SAT demand to criminalise those who pay for sexual services. We SAT are also seeing around the world calls to legalise the use SAT of cannabis for personal use. The definition of a "victim" SAT in both cases is complex and contested, but how should we SAT use the law in these circumstances when there's a conflict SAT between individual liberty and the policing of social norms SAT and harms? Since 1960 laws criminalising homosexuality, SAT suicide and blasphemy have all been consigned to history. Is SAT that the way it should be In a liberal progressive society? SAT Or should we and the state take a much more robust view of SAT harm and listen more to the voices of victims, extending SAT principles like "hate crimes" in the law? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Michael Portillo, Giles SAT Fraser, Anne McElvoy. SAT SAT Witnesses are Ian Driver, Sean Gabb, Kathy Gyngell and Finn SAT Mackay. SAT SAT Produced by Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03y0l96 (Listen) SAT (15/17) SAT The third semi-final of the nationwide general knowledge SAT quiz comes from the Radio Theatre in London, with Russell SAT Davies in the chair. The competitors have all either won SAT their heats or been among the top-scoring runners-up in this SAT year's series. Today's winner will go through to the grand SAT Final, and into the home straight in the race for the title SAT of 61st Brain of Britain. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S SEMI-FINALISTS SAT SAT MARCUS CAVALIER, a patent attorney from Stadhampton in SAT Oxfordshire; SAT SAT ROBERT CHARLESWORTH, a retired financial consultant from SAT London; SAT SAT DAVID HESP, a semi-retired college lecturer from Blackpool; SAT SAT IAN ORRISS, a management consultant from Egham in Surrey. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b03xzzc8 (Listen) SAT Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew, Walter de la Mare SAT SAT Roger McGough introduces a selection of requested poetry SAT from three poets who were active one hundred years ago: SAT Edward Thomas, Charlotte Mew and Walter de la Mare. In 1914, SAT Charlotte Mew, who had one of the saddest lives in all SAT poetry, was cautiously assembling poems for her first SAT collection, The Farmer's Bride. Walter de la Mare had just SAT published Peacock Pie, a book of his children's poems, which SAT has remained immensely popular, with many reprints ever SAT since. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03ymr4p (Listen) SUN Inside Anger SUN SUN 'Inside anger.' In the third of Radio 4's series 'Inside SUN Lent,' Martin Palmer, Secretary General of the Alliance of SUN Religions and Conservation reflects on the difference SUN between blind and righteous anger. From the Syrian Orthodox SUN Cathedral in West London with His Eminence Archbishop Mar SUN Athanasius, Patriarchal Vicar of the Syrian Orthodox Church SUN in Great Britain. With comments from the Prince of Wales SUN from his speech given last December in support of the SUN Christian Communities in Syria and the Holy Land generally. SUN SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley SUN SUN Through programmes on BBC Radio 4, local radio and online SUN resources for individuals and groups, BBC Religion & Ethics' SUN 'Inside Lent', devised by Bishop Stephen Oliver, invites SUN listeners to join a journey of discovery through this SUN Christian season by reflecting on the nature of a number of SUN very human feelings. bbc.co.uk/religion SUN SUN Lent: Inside love (30th March) SUN Lent: Inside fear (6th April) SUN Lent: Inside hope (13th April) SUN Easter Day - Inside joy (20th April). SUN SUN Lent: Inside anger SUN SUN Martin Palmer is a theologian, author, broadcaster and SUN environmentalist. SUN SUN He is Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and SUN Conservation (ARC), a secular non-governmental organisation SUN founded by His Royal Highness Prince Philip in 1995 to help SUN faiths to develop environmental and conservation projects SUN based on their own beliefs and practices. He is the author SUN of more 20 than books on religious and environmental topics. SUN SUN Syrian Orthodox Church 23/03/14 SUN SUN Please note: SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement SUN : SUN BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past eight and time for Sunday SUN Worship which today includes a contribution from the Prince SUN of Wales. The third in our Lent Series comes from the SUN Syrian Orthodox Cathedral in West London. It’s led by SUN Martin Palmer, Secretary-General of the Alliance of SUN Religions and Conservation. SUN Martin SUN : SUN SUN Good morning. Five years ago I had the honour of leading SUN Sunday Worship from Syria. Through prayers, reflections and SUN readings by not just leading Syrian Christians but also from SUN ordinary people in the street and from the Grand Mufti, the SUN foremost Muslim leader of Syria we entered into the complex SUN and fascinating multi-religious world of Syria. A world of SUN mixed Christian and Muslim life stretching back nearly SUN fourteen hundred years. SUN SUN All those who took part five years ago, many of whom were SUN old friends of mine, have been victims of the terrible SUN violence and rage that has descended upon Syria. Some are SUN dead; some in exile; some have been kidnapped and we don’t SUN even know by whom; and some have simply disappeared SUN altogether. An ancient world of mutual respect between SUN faiths has been shattered. SUN SUN To remind ourselves of what has been destroyed, we hear now SUN a section of that programme, from just five years ago, SUN talking about a world which has now been blown apart. SUN 2009 Recording: SUN SUN Syrian Chant SUN SUN The chant we’ve just heard is the final hymn which is sung SUN at the end of communion - in part extemporised by the singer SUN reflecting on the service. Its similarity to the Muslim call SUN to prayer is perhaps not an accident. There is a distinct SUN line of continuity between the melody of the early Church SUN and the call to prayer because Syria was the first Christian SUN area to be conquered by Islam. This continuity between SUN Christianity and Islam is nowhere better expressed than here SUN in Damascus the capital city of Syria and in the Great SUN Mosque. For this former Roman temple to Jupiter was SUN converted into a Cathedral in the 4th Century and into the SUN Grand Mosque in the 8th Century yet it is here that SUN Christians and Muslims have come side by side for over a SUN Millennium to venerate a Christian Saint and a Prophet SUN honoured in Islam, John the Baptist. SUN Martin: SUN SUN That was then. Now millions of ordinary citizens in Syria SUN are refugees – the largest refugee crisis of the 21st SUN century. Millions are in camps outside Syria but many more SUN are refugees within Syria itself trying to escape the SUN violence that the various warring parties are inflicting SUN upon the people. The experience of exile is one which the SUN Israelites knew from both their time in Egypt their time as SUN exiles in captivity in Babylon in the 6th century BC. One of SUN the most famous psalms tells of their desperate sadness at SUN being exiled from their beloved country. But it is also a SUN terrible invocation of anger. SUN SUN It is Psalm 137. SUN Music: Psalm 137 (sung in Arabic) SUN SUN Reading (in English): SUN SUN By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered SUN Zion. SUN 2 SUN There on the poplars we hung our harps, SUN 3 SUN for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors SUN demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs SUN of Zion!" SUN 4 SUN How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign SUN land? SUN 8 SUN O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he SUN who repays you for what you have done to us-- SUN 9 SUN he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the SUN rocks. SUN Martin: SUN SUN The anger in the psalm is palpable. We might even say SUN righteous anger at being made captives. But the final few SUN lines are a terrible call for revenge against those who have SUN oppressed the people and are usually left unsung or unsaid. SUN To understand what is happening in the Middle East and SUN especially in Syria with so many groups drawing upon a sense SUN of righteous anger and on a belief that God blesses their SUN anger. We need to listen to those words and we need to find SUN a faithful response to counter them. SUN SUN Gracious God, slow to anger and of great kindness, deliver SUN us from the blind anger that seeks to destroy and give us SUN courage to confront every injustice with the righteous SUN energy to overcome all evil in the power of Jesus Christ our SUN Saviour. Amen. SUN Music: Lenten Hymn (sung in Syriac) SUN Martin: SUN SUN Back announce hymn. SUN SUN Our choir this morning is comprised of Syrian Orthodox SUN Christians living in the UK who worship here at the SUN Cathedral. The music has been sung for at least 1800 SUN years. SUN SUN The reading for this third Sunday in Lent is from the letter SUN to the Ephesians and is at the heart of our reflections on SUN anger in its many different forms – and the Christian way of SUN dealing with such anger. SUN Reading (in English): Ephesians 4 SUN SUN Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your SUN anger, and do not make room for the devil. Put away from SUN you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and SUN slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one SUN another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in SUN Christ has forgiven you. SUN Martin: SUN SUN As long ago as the mid 19th century, the Church of England SUN reached out to the Syrian Orthodox Church throughout what SUN was then the Ottoman and Persian Empires. The bonds created SUN then have meant that Britain now has a thriving Syrian SUN Orthodox community whose cathedral was dedicated in 2010. SUN The leader of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Britain is SUN Archbishop Athanasius whose own family in the Middle East SUN has suffered in the religious and ethnic turmoil of the last SUN few years. We are honoured that he has invited us to his SUN cathedral from where this service is coming and that he is SUN willing to share some of his own personal experiences and SUN reflections. SUN Archbishop Athanasius: SUN SUN During this Holy time of Lent we reminisce in our thoughts SUN and hearts about the Middle East the fountain and foundation SUN of our faith established for us by our Lord and redeemer SUN Jesus Christ who taught us the message of true love and SUN sacrifice. SUN SUN Regrettably, we see today raging wars, killings and SUN destruction. We find that our people and loved ones are SUN being displaced, massacred or kidnapped, our homes, churches SUN and heritage are being destroyed. These situations make us SUN feel sad and angry. However, as Christians and children of SUN hope we must remember Jesus’ saying on the cross “Father, SUN forgive them, for they know not what they do”. (Luke 23:34). SUN SUN Anger can explode anytime in our hearts which will lead to SUN revenge. Anger will lead to corruption and killings. If for SUN any reason, we find ourselves feeling angry, we should SUN immediately remember St Paul’s words about not letting the SUN sun go down while you are still angry. This means that Jesus SUN Christ is the sun that shines in our lives and we should not SUN block His radiance by our anger. SUN SUN I ask you to pray for peace in Syria, Iraq and the whole SUN world. Let us pray for the release and safe return of the SUN kidnapped especially the two Archbishops of Aleppo Mor SUN Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim and Mor Bolous Yaziji along with SUN the priests, nuns and all the innocent people. Let us pray SUN for the Martyrs and for the victims, orphans, widows, SUN elderly, children and poor. Please pray for the governments SUN of the world so they may have enlightened conscience to lead SUN the people along the path of peace, security and justice. SUN Amen. SUN Music: Lenten Hymn (sung in Syriac) SUN SUN SUN Martin: SUN SUN Back announce hymn. SUN SUN The Grand Mufti is the most senior Islamic figure in Syria. SUN Five years ago he spoke to us about his vision of the SUN multi-faith world of his country and his role within that. SUN SUN What you will hear first of all is a brief excerpt from the SUN original service broadcast on Sunday Worship five years ago. SUN SUN In the Reflection by the Grand Mufti, he had this to say: SUN 2009 Recording : SUN SUN Jesus Christ did not build all these churches but we as SUN humans and religious leaders build our temples like the SUN Caesars and kings of old. We have forgotten that the most SUN holy house of God is in our hearts. Take the real and true SUN Islam and the real and true Christianity and then you will SUN find yourself in one common place which is the holiness of SUN God and the dignity of human beings. Therefore Jesus was not SUN a Protestant, or Anglican or Orthodox or Catholic and the SUN prophet Mohammed was not a Sunni or Shi’i. You as Christian SUN and Muslim Europeans go back to the origins of your religion SUN and you will discover that God is our God and we are all SUN brothers. SUN Martin: SUN SUN Throughout the terrible years since, he has remained SUN faithful to his vision and has spoken out fearlessly against SUN those who bring violence and death to his land. Here we hear SUN his words of reflection on the murder of his son by SUN extremists and his understanding of forgiveness and his SUN vision of being the Grand Mufti of all faiths in Syria. The SUN texts have been taken from some of his most recent speeches. SUN Reading (in English): SUN SUN ‘I met those men who assassinated my own son – and they told SUN me they didn’t even know whom they were killing. I went to SUN see the two men in the court and they said they’d just been SUN given the number of the car’s registration plate, that they SUN didn’t know whom they had killed until they went home and SUN watched the news on television.” SUN SUN He was only 21, my youngest son. I am trying to forget that SUN he is dead. In fact I feel as if Saria is still living. On SUN that day, he was to be betrothed to his future wife. She was SUN a student of medicine, he was in the politics and economics SUN department. SUN SUN SUN The two men said that in all 15 were involved in planning my SUN son’s death. They said they were told he was a very SUN important man. I said to them: ‘I forgive you’ and I asked SUN the judge to forgive them. But he said they were guilty of SUN 10 times as many crimes and must be judged.” SUN SUN I have never killed any man and I don’t intend to kill any SUN man but I regard myself as a bridge of reconciliation. A SUN Mufti must be a father to all. SUN SUN I am the Mufti of all Syrians – Sunni Muslims, Christians, SUN Alawites, Druze – of all the diversity of sects we had SUN before the war. There is no choice other than SUN reconciliation; it is the only way back. SUN SUN I am ready to go anywhere in the world to say that war is SUN not a sacred deed. And those who have fought under the name SUN of Jesus, Mohamed or Moses are lying. Prophets come to give SUN life, not death. SUN Music: Lenten Hymn (sung in Syriac) SUN Martin: SUN SUN Back announce hymn. SUN SUN One of my oldest and dearest friends is – or possibly was SUN Metropolitan – Archbishop – Yohanna Ibrahim. He gave the SUN sermon in our broadcast five years ago. Just under a year SUN ago he along with the Melkite Archbishop was kidnapped SUN returning from helping to distribute aid to refugees on the SUN Turkish/Syrian border. The priest driving them was shot dead SUN and the two Archbishops kidnapped. We have heard nothing SUN about them since and no-one even knows who did this. My SUN prayer is that he is alive and will return to us with his SUN passion, warmth, humanity and vision of God’s people. But I SUN also fear that he is dead. SUN SUN We could not think of any better message to have than to SUN hear again his sermon of five years ago. I hope you will SUN join me in holding him and all those whose lives have been SUN shattered by this violence, in your prayers. SUN 2009 Recording SUN SUN The Lord’s Prayer in the Syrian Orthodox Church is one of SUN the most important prayers we have. It is central to our SUN education as we believe that a person who recites this SUN prayer will be able to understand the meaning of belonging SUN to the Christian church. SUN SUN The opening of the prayer starts with SUN Our Father SUN rather than SUN My SUN Father SUN it continues saying SUN Give us our daily bread SUN rather than SUN Give me my daily bread. SUN From this request onwards the prayer is a call to start SUN thinking of our bodies and souls together in order to be SUN fully united in the service of God. SUN SUN We are people who still speak the Aramaic language in our SUN prayers which was the language that Jesus Christ used. We SUN feel we have a deeper understanding of the way the prayer SUN unfolds. SUN SUN The Lord’s Prayer is a source of power for the faithful SUN Christian; we live with the Heavenly Father and ask him to SUN make his will as it is in Heaven so on earth. This does not SUN mean that we must surrender our own individuality and unique SUN contribution but rather that through the power of God become SUN active in creating his kingdom. SUN Music: Lord’s Prayer (sung in Aramaic) SUN Martin: SUN SUN Our intercessions are led by members of the Syrian Orthodox SUN Cathedral. The framework for the prayers comes from the SUN writings of one of the Syrian Orthodox Church’s finest poet SUN theologians, John the Solitary who lived in Syria in the 5th SUN century. SUN SUN SUN Reader: SUN SUN Although he worshipped with the Father, SUN SUN he was sent as a messenger; SUN SUN spoke as a teacher; SUN SUN listened as a student; SUN SUN fought as a mighty man, SUN SUN succumbed as a vanquished one; SUN SUN Bidding : SUN SUN Lord, we know ourselves as weak… SUN SUN Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. SUN SUN SUN Reader: SUN SUN he was sold as a vassal, SUN SUN he freed as a lord; SUN SUN with the fasters fasting, SUN SUN with the diners dining, SUN SUN with the persecuted he was persecuted, SUN SUN with the fighters he fought; SUN SUN SUN Bidding: SUN SUN Lord, we ask for peace and security…. SUN SUN Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. SUN SUN SUN Reader: SUN SUN with those subject to the law keeping the law, SUN SUN with God a rewarder of those who labour; SUN SUN with the departed slain, SUN SUN with God raising the dead; SUN SUN with the persecuted persecuted, SUN SUN with God vindicating the persecuted; SUN SUN SUN Bidding: SUN SUN Lord, we ask you to comfort…. SUN SUN Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. SUN SUN SUN Music: Kyrie Eleison SUN SUN Martin: SUN SUN In December last year HRH The Prince of Wales accompanied by SUN Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan visited the Coptic and SUN Syrian Orthodox Cathedrals in Stevenage and London to SUN express solidarity with the Christian communities. We are SUN delighted that Prince Charles has allowed us to use his SUN reflection, delivered at an event at Clarence House, when he SUN spoke of his own thoughts and feelings about what has SUN happened in Syria and in the Middle East. SUN SUN SUN Reflection: HRH The Prince of Wales SUN SUN I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing SUN difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts SUN of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the SUN fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, SUN being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist SUN militants. Christianity was, literally, born in the Middle SUN East and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and SUN sisters in Christ. SUN SUN In saying all this about the difficulties facing the SUN Christian churches in the Middle East I am, of course, SUN conscious that they are not the only faith community in this SUN region suffering at the moment, nor is the Middle East the SUN only part of the world in which Christians are suffering, SUN but, given the particularly acute circumstances faced by the SUN church communities in the Middle East to-day, I felt it SUN worthwhile to draw attention to their current plight. It is SUN important to note, above all, that the decline of Christians SUN in the region represents a major blow to peace as Christians SUN are part of the fabric of society, often acting as SUN bridge-builders between other communities. This crucial role SUN throughout Middle Eastern society is one recognized by many SUN Muslims (who are not extremists), both Shia or Sunni, who SUN attest to the fact that Christians are their friends and SUN that their communities are needed. SUN SUN Jordan has set a wonderful example in this regard and, as my SUN wife and I saw for ourselves during our visit, has again SUN taken in a huge number of refugees, this time from Syria SUN during the present troubles. SUN SUN For twenty years, I have tried to build bridges between SUN Islam and Christianity and to dispel ignorance and SUN misunderstanding. The point though, surely, is that we have SUN now reached a crisis where the bridges are rapidly being SUN deliberately destroyed by those with a vested interest in SUN doing so – and this is achieved through intimidation, false SUN accusation and organized persecution – including to SUN Christian communities in the Middle East at the present SUN time. SUN SUN Let us remember we are talking about Arab Christians – SUN Syrian, Iraqi, Palestinian, Egyptian and Saudi Christians, SUN as well as those from other Arab countries and from Iran – SUN not Western Christians living in the Middle East. SUN SUN My prayer is for all beleaguered communities and I believe SUN that Western Christians ought to pray earnestly for SUN fellow-believers in the Middle East. I am reminded that SUN to-day in the Eastern Christian calendar it is the festival SUN of Daniel and the three boys in the fiery furnace, Shadrach, SUN Meshach, and Abednego. They symbolize all those who are SUN persecuted for their faith. But the important point is: they SUN survived! SUN Martin: SUN SUN That was His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales speaking on SUN 17th December. For many in Syria and other deeply troubled SUN places in the world, it is only human to cry with Jesus on SUN the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” SUN SUN The words from the cross come from the opening of Psalm 22 SUN which starts with a dreadful cry of pain and distress. The SUN psalm honestly poses the huge questions of why does this SUN happen and has some of the most powerful and disturbing SUN images of the experience of violence, of persecution and of SUN fear. Slowly, it moves from this to a vision of how by faith SUN in God it is possible to dream of a world made whole again. SUN Psalm 22. SUN Music: Psalm 22 (sung in Arabic) SUN Reading (in English): SUN SUN My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far SUN from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning? SUN 2 SUN O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, SUN and am not silent. SUN 7 SUN All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their SUN heads: SUN 8 SUN "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him SUN deliver him, since he delights in him." SUN 19 SUN But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly SUN to help me. SUN 22 SUN I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation SUN I will praise you. SUN 27 SUN All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the SUN LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down SUN before him, SUN 28 SUN for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the SUN nations. SUN Martin: SUN SUN Anger is a terrible thing. But it is also a natural human SUN response. I feel anger welling up in me when I think of SUN families – children – I knew in Syria who have been blown SUN apart or taken and tortured or of whom I have heard nothing SUN for the last few years. I feel anger at the killing of SUN Muslim friends who do not belong to what others think is the SUN only true form of the faith. SUN SUN So what as a Christian does one do with this anger? The SUN Letter to the Ephesians we heard earlier offers one set of SUN answers. But so does the Christ whose death upon the cross SUN we will encounter again on Good Friday. And that for the SUN Christian is the point. The destruction, violence and SUN torture of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are the doorway SUN to Easter itself. Death and destruction do not have the SUN final say. Hope and love do. SUN SUN Our final hymn, after the Blessing, captures this tension SUN between fear, pain, distress and hope which Psalm 22 has SUN touched upon. It was written in the 5th century by a great SUN Orthodox theologian and poet, Synesius of Cyrene. But SUN first we hear in Syriac and then in English the Blessing SUN from the Archbishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church in SUN Britain. SUN Blessing (Archbishop) SUN Hymn: Lord Jesus think on Me (sung in English) SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03y3lkv (Listen) SUN Heavy Weather SUN SUN Sarah Dunant compares our reaction today to climate change SUN with responses in the seventeenth century to extreme SUN weather. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sarah Dunant SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x457w (Listen) SUN Grey Partridge 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 Bill Oddie presents the Grey partridge. The grey partridge, SUN a plump game bird, is now a rarity across most of the UK. SUN Found on farmland, a partridge pair will often hold SUN territory in a few fields beyond which they seldom stray SUN during their whole lives. They should be doing well but SUN increasing field sizes, which reduce nesting cover and the SUN use of pesticides, which kill off vital insects, have taken SUN their toll. SUN SUN Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03ymr4s (Listen) SUN As tensions continue over Crimea, we put Russia in the SUN Psychiatrist's Chair to see what makes the country tick. SUN SUN Caroline Wyatt listens to the National Youth Orchestra of SUN Afghanistan. SUN SUN As the world of science is rocked by a big bang echo, we SUN test how much the news has been understood outside this SUN logical universe. SUN SUN Reviewing the papers: stargazer Maggie Aderin-Pocock, tennis SUN player and Labour peer Baroness Billingham plus House of SUN Cards author and Conservative peer Michael Dobbs. 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SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch 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 Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03ymr52 (Listen) SUN Dame Claire Bertschinger SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the nurse & humanitarian Dame SUN Claire Bertschinger. SUN SUN She's worked for The Red Cross in over a dozen countries SUN including Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Afghanistan, Lebanon SUN and Liberia amid the sort of raw human suffering that most SUN of us find - even on the TV - almost unbearable to witness. SUN It was through Michael Buerk's landmark news reports of the SUN Ethiopian famine 30 years ago that she first grabbed our SUN attention. We saw her as a young nurse surrounded by SUN thousands of starving people and forced, daily, to make the SUN truly terrible decision of choosing who to feed. SUN SUN Throughout the years she's won numerous plaudits and awards: SUN her Florence Nightingale Medal is given "to honour those SUN "who've distinguished themselves in times of war by SUN exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or SUN disabled." SUN SUN She says, "I don't live just to eat and sleep and get money SUN to have a nice house ... I have to create value - I have to SUN do something in life." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Claire Bertschinger SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b03y0n88 (Listen) SUN Series 68, Episode 6 SUN SUN Radio 4's classic panel game continues its run. SUN SUN Sheila Hancock, Richard herring, Paul Merton and Josie SUN Lawrence attempt to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, SUN repetition & deviation under the watchful eye of Nicholas SUN Parsons. SUN Subjects include 'Unanswerable Questions' and 'The Very SUN First Telephone'. SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Richard Herring SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Josie Lawrence SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03ymr54 (Listen) SUN Micro-Bakeries SUN SUN The rise and rise of the micro-bakery. How home baked bread SUN became a business opportunity. SUN SUN Jane Mason's 5-step guide to starting your own Micro-Bakery SUN SUN Fancy starting up your own Micro-Bakery? Here's Jane Mason, SUN home baker entrepreneur 5 –step guide... SUN SUN SUN SUN 1. Start off simply - bake a small range and bake it well. SUN Consistency is the key when you are starting out. SUN SUN SUN SUN 2. Do your food hygiene certificate and get to know the SUN Environmental Health officers. They are there to help you. SUN SUN SUN SUN 3. Don't buy expensive kit. Beg, borrow, look in your SUN granny's attic, go on e bay. Save your money for when you SUN expand and then you can spend it on an oven, a big mixer, SUN bun roller, etc! SUN SUN SUN SUN 4. Walk around your neighbourhood and just see how many SUN people there are to have as customers. Houses, shops, SUN restaurants, kindergardens, day care centres, offices - SUN these are all sources of business. SUN SUN SUN SUN 5. Learn how to use social media. It's your number one SUN promotional tool - and it's free! SUN SUN SUN SUN Tempted? Check out some of the SUN BBC Food bread recipes SUN for inspiration. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03yhcyg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03ymxz3 (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 Piano Movements b03nt8hx (Listen) SUN Nick Baker experiences some moving stories involving pianos, SUN their owners, and the people who move them around. There's SUN nothing more likely to crystallise feelings towards a piano SUN than having to move it - up or downstairs - from one place SUN to another. SUN SUN Siobhan is faced with shifting an old family upright into a SUN new first floor flat. Alison is overseeing the removal of a SUN Steinway B from the home of her late employer, a famous SUN orchestral conductor. Nick Baker follows their progress as SUN pianos are lugged sweatily up stairs or craned out of SUN windows, suspended temporarily 30ft above the street. Indeed SUN Nick himself has had a difficult experience moving a piano. SUN He still feels responsible for Lesley losing more than her SUN dignity in an ill-fated piano moving exercise. She lost part SUN of a finger as well. SUN SUN Nick witnesses the back-breaking exploits of Marek, Bartek SUN and Jacek as they negotiate a cramped Victorian conversion SUN with a family upright in Catford, London. And there's Penny, SUN organiser of the Two Moors classical music festival, who SUN watched as a 9 foot Bösendorfer grand - twenty six grand, to SUN be precise - fell off the back of a lorry and 13 feet into a SUN Devon ditch. SUN SUN So, forget Laurel and Hardy, chimps and Bernard Cribbins. SUN Piano movement is a serious business. It can also be SUN seriously expensive. SUN SUN High end piano removals expert Julian Rout is on a mission SUN to turn piano logistics into an art form. He's intent on SUN harnessing the complementary strengths of humans and SUN technology. Less muscle, more machines. But he's battling SUN against the man and van trade. SUN SUN It turns out, the piano movements that tug most at the SUN heartstrings are not those of Beethoven or Bartok - but SUN piano movements like these. SUN SUN Producer: Tamsin Hughes SUN A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03y3lk8 (Listen) SUN Correspondence at Sparsholt SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts from the GQT potting shed at Sparsholt SUN College as Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank, Christine SUN Walkden and Rosie Yeomans tackle listeners' questions sent SUN in by post, email and social media. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q. I am providing posies for a wedding in August. I have SUN chosen Sweet Peas but was wondering when to get them SUN germinating (in our airing cupboard) so they will be ready SUN in time? SUN SUN A. Ideally they would have been sown last month because they SUN can be quite slow. The other issue is that they may have SUN stopped flowering by August, so keep cutting every bloom off SUN until about two weeks before the occasion and then let it SUN flower freely. Make sure you keep them watered and well fed. SUN The airing cupboard may be too dark and warm, and they may SUN shoot up very quickly and create a spindly plant. A SUN windowsill would probably be better. Some varieties require SUN the seeds to be soaked first. SUN SUN Q. I recently found a packet of apple seeds dated 1991. Is SUN there a chance that they are still viable and how would I go SUN about germinating them? SUN SUN A. Divide them into several lots and try out different SUN conditions. Plant one lot in well-drained seed compost and SUN only cover it by its own size. Try some others in normal SUN greenhouse temperatures. Thirdly, try another pot out in the SUN cold frame. Beware that they will probably have gone off SUN unless they have remained cool and sealed. If you are SUN successful, grow it in a pot, buy a tree and try approach SUN grafting. The graft takes place while the plant is still SUN potted and you remove the pot at a later date. SUN SUN Q. I have a large garden that is becoming infested with SUN Cuckoo Pint. I have dug it out where I can but it is SUN multiplying. How can I control it? SUN SUN A. Often you only remove the leaf and stem, and the tuber SUN remains. Even if you do remove the tuber, little bits get SUN left behind. You can use weed killers but you will have to SUN physically remove it if it is amongst other plants. It SUN thrives in shady, damp gardens, so perhaps it is time to SUN have the hedges and trees pruned. If you repeatedly hoe them SUN off then you will eventually weaken the bulb. SUN SUN Q. I will soon be leaving the UK and there will be no family SUN left here to look after my parents' gravesite. I have SUN thought of bulbs and herbs but would like some advice for SUN this clay spot. SUN SUN A. As long as the clay-soil is well drained, then stick to SUN Alpines and short varieties like Houseleeks. In shadier SUN spots try something like Primula Marginata. Alpines are SUN self-cleaning, have a long flowering season and remain SUN prostrate. You could go for a mixture of bulbs because they SUN will endure almost longer than anything else. SUN SUN Q. I am holding a party at the beginning of November this SUN year. Could the panel suggest plants that could be used for SUN cut flower arrangements or in pots. I'm looking for white SUN flowers, and scent would be great. SUN SUN A. Try the beautiful Schizostylis Coccinea 'Alba' with its SUN pure white flower or the white Cyclamen Hederifolium. There SUN is always the option of sowing annuals but don't sow them SUN until June. Something such as Gypsophila sown late could SUN work. Chrysanthemums are ideal for that time of year. White SUN Dahlias might also work if given some protection. SUN SUN Q. We run an allotment in old bathtubs. We grow vegetables SUN to make "audience soup" for the community theatre. This year SUN we are expanding our allotment to include a small mobile SUN orchard. We intend to plant apple and pear trees in large SUN containers, which would then be carefully moved around to SUN areas for outdoor performances. Could the panel recommend SUN varieties that will stand up to these unusual circumstances? SUN SUN A. Discovery is the best early apple. Many of the apples SUN don't keep long after being picked from the tree. You could SUN try cherries, such as the Morello. Make sure they are well SUN fed and watered. Ashmead's Kernel or Crispin will provide SUN apples later in the season. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03ymxz5 (Listen) SUN The Failed Kidnapping of Princess Anne SUN SUN On March 20th 1974 Princess Anne escaped a kidnap attempt as SUN she was returning to Buckingham Palace. SUN SUN The royal bodyguard, Inspector Jim Beaton, helped fend off SUN the attacker, who was intending to seek a ransom from the SUN Queen for the Princess' safe return. SUN SUN Jim Beaton was shot three times by Ball during the incident. SUN SUN 15:00 Saturday Drama b01slm1l (Listen) SUN The Prince SUN SUN Five hundred years after writing his most provocative SUN political tract, Niccolo Machiavelli appears before an SUN infernal court to appeal against the harsh treatment his SUN works have received over time. SUN SUN Rather than being seen as a description of political SUN cynicism and opportunism, he argues that "Machiavellian" SUN should be a compliment and The Prince has in fact been an SUN infallible guidebook followed closely by all successful SUN leaders. SUN SUN The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli SUN Adapted by Jonathan Myerson SUN SUN Produced and directed by Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Machiavelli: Damian Lewis SUN Judge: Nigel Cooke SUN Prosecution: Christian Rodska SUN Defence: Helen McCrory SUN Clerk: Meera Syal SUN Cesare Borgia: Joseph Kloska SUN Plato: Joseph Kloska SUN Defendant: Joseph Kloska SUN Kerensky: Theo Fraser Steele SUN Bertrand Russell: Theo Fraser Steele SUN Director: Clive Brill SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN Writer: Jonathan Myerson SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03ymxz7 (Listen) SUN Anita Shreve, Rebecca Mead SUN SUN Anita Shreve talks to Mariella Frostrup about her latest SUN novel The Lives of Stella Bain and Rebecca Mead explains why SUN George Eliot's Middlemarch answers fundamental questions SUN about life and love SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of The Lives of Stella Bain by SUN Anita Shreve SUN Chapter 1: The Lives of Stella Bain SUN by Anita Shreve SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Anita Shreve SUN Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Mead SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Idol b03ymxz9 (Listen) SUN Poetry has always had an essential role to play in Arab SUN literature, and the tradition is thriving in unexpected SUN ways. Shahidha Bari travels to Abu Dhabi to join the SUN audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised SUN competition to find the best poet in the Middle East. SUN SUN Every year this huge contest takes place under the spotlight SUN of the television cameras in Abu Dhabi. Million's Poet is SUN broadcast live across the Middle East and has a huge SUN following, with judges and viewers both having the chance to SUN vote for their favourite poet. There's plenty at stake, as SUN the top prize is an eye-watering five million United Arab SUN Emirate dirhams, a figure getting close to one million SUN pounds. SUN SUN So how did this TV contest get started, and why do people SUN tune in to hear poets reading their work? It's not the sort SUN of show that would be likely to take off in the west. SUN Shahidha Bari talks to judges, competitors, and the audience SUN to find out the secret of Million Poet's success. SUN SUN Poetry, she finds, has a particular role in the Middle East SUN as a valued art form in a changing world. an outlet for SUN expression for anyone from the ruler to the doorman, all of SUN whom are free to enter Million's Poet. SUN SUN 17:00 Gay Rights: Tying the Knot? b03yggdf (Listen) SUN The first same-sex weddings in England and Wales take place SUN on 29th March - yet marriage was the last thing on the minds SUN of pioneering gay rights crusaders in the 60s and 70s. SUN Reverend Richard Coles looks at how gay marriage became the SUN defining issue of recent years - and asks whether it SUN represents the last crusade of the campaign for gay rights. SUN SUN He speaks to senior Stonewall figures Ben Summerskill, SUN Michael Cashman and Angela Mason. He also hears from Peter SUN Tatchell, the Conservative Party's first openly gay MP Alan SUN Duncan and former Prime Minister Tony Blair who introduced SUN Civil Partnerships. SUN SUN Richard discovers that for many early activists, marriage SUN was not only a far off prospect, it wasn't a very desirable SUN one either, as many gay men and women sought the downfall of SUN traditional institutions. SUN SUN So where along the line did the idea of gay marriage become SUN the number one campaigning issue? And with this last major SUN legislative milestone passed, is it time for gay rights SUN campaigners to pack up and go home? SUN SUN Producer: Laurence Grissell. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03ygwk2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03yhcyj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03yhcyl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03yhcyn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03ymy2s (Listen) SUN Journalist and writer Liz Barclay presents the best of BBC SUN Radio this week. SUN SUN There are some hairy moments in Pick of the Week - and it's SUN not just Sir Bradley Wiggins who's responsible. Three big SUN black hairy figures - the tallest 9 foot - what on earth SUN could they be? SUN SUN And hairy creatures that inspired a hit song in the 80's - SUN usually found on a common? SUN SUN Liz Barclay's also been consorting with Benedict Cumberbatch SUN and Bertie Wooster, the composer Howard Blake and an 808 SUN drum machine. SUN SUN Produced by a clean-shaven Stephen Garner. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03ymy2v (Listen) SUN Helen tries to broker a peace, and Lily is curious. SUN SUN 19:15 Just William - Live! b03ymzcl (Listen) SUN Series 4, The Outlaws and the Triplets SUN SUN As a highlight of last year's Cheltenham Festival of SUN Literature, Martin Jarvis performed the first of two Richmal SUN Crompton comic classics, live on-stage. SUN SUN In 'The Outlaws and The Triplets', Henry's mother demands he SUN takes his baby sister out in her pram. The Outlaws loyally SUN join him on this 'walk of shame'. The problem is that they SUN end up with three babies and three prams. Which one is SUN theirs? SUN SUN A packed house rocks with laughter as Jarvis, genius of the SUN spoken word, dazzles his audience with Just William as a SUN 'stand-up' classic. SUN SUN Performed by Martin Jarvis SUN SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres. SUN A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Actor: Martin Jarvis SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN Author: Richmal Crompton SUN SUN 19:45 Time b03yn0ds (Listen) SUN A Family Visit SUN SUN These three new tales by Olga Grushin - commissioned SUN specially for BBC Radio 4 - touch upon the lives of five SUN generations and explore the effects of time on one Russian SUN family. SUN SUN " ... I found a small alarm clock with square black numbers SUN and a picture of a tiny butterfly in the middle of its round SUN face, I took it. SUN SUN "The hands didn't move at first, but my mother said you just SUN had to wind it; only when she did, I saw that it was broken, SUN because the second hand ran backward, and if you stared at SUN the clock long enough to notice, so did the minute hand." SUN SUN Programme 1. A Family Visit SUN Visiting Russia from America after the death of his SUN grandfather, a young boy observes the tensions between his SUN mother and her siblings. SUN SUN Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her SUN childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first SUN Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United SUN States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was SUN shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named SUN one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She SUN has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) SUN and The Concert Ticket (2010). Her story 'The Homecoming' SUN featured in the series 'Platform Three' on Radio 4 (2010) SUN and The Dream Life of Sukhanov was a Book At Bedtime in SUN 2012. Olga lives in Washington D.C. SUN SUN Reader: Joshua McGuire SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Joshua McGuire SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Olga Grushin SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03y3lkg (Listen) SUN How does Radio 4 decide when to change the schedule? The SUN death of Tony Benn last week disrupted some listeners when SUN an Inspector Rebus drama was cancelled in favour of a SUN documentary about the Labour grandee. Then, on Monday SUN morning, the advertised Book of the Week was removed to make SUN way for a re-run of Benn's diaries. Listeners have SUN complained in the past about similar changes to scheduled SUN programmes when Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela died. SUN Roger Bolton asks the Head of Planning and Scheduling, Tony SUN Pilgrim, why Radio 4 does it. SUN SUN Roger will also be getting lost in the issue of the week at SUN the Moral Maze with presenter Michael Buerk, producer Phil SUN Pegum, and panellists Claire Fox, Giles Fraser, Anne SUN McElvoy, and Michael Portillo. SUN SUN When Radio 4 announced that one of its most popular SUN comedies, Cabin Pressure, would take to the air no more, SUN many listeners wanted to know why. The dream cast of SUN Benedict Cumberbatch , Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam and John SUN Finnemore have just recorded their final episode - and SUN 23,000 people applied for tickets. We'll be asking writer SUN John Finnemore if he has any regrets about ending the SUN series. SUN SUN And the BBC Director General, Tony Hall, wants fifty percent SUN of all BBC local radio breakfast shows to have at least one SUN woman presenter - either solo or as co-host - by the end of SUN 2014. Roger speaks to the man who has to instigate those SUN changes David Holdsworth, the Controller of English Regions. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03y3lkd (Listen) SUN Clarissa Dickson Wright, Lord Ballyedmond, L'Wren Scott, SUN Mohammed Fahim, Peter Callander SUN SUN On Last Word with Julian Worricker: SUN SUN Clarissa Dickson Wright, one half of the forthright SUN on-screen duo, 'Two Fat Ladies'. Former BBC2 controller, SUN Jane Root, pays tribute to a woman described by many as SUN 'utterly non-PC'. SUN SUN Lord Ballyedmond, who became one of Northern Ireland's SUN richest men, and was a politician at Westminster and in SUN Dublin. SUN SUN Peter Callander who wrote hits for the likes of Cliff SUN Richard, Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield. SUN SUN Mohammed Qasim Fahim, one of Afghanistan's two SUN vice-presidents. The BBC's chief international SUN correspondent, Lyse Doucet, reflects on his role. SUN SUN And the model who became a stylist and then an acclaimed SUN fashion designer, L'Wren Scott. SUN SUN Clarissa Dickson Wright SUN SUN Julian spoke to friend and fellow presenter Sir John Scott, SUN to singer Dillie Keane who went to school with her and to SUN Jane Root, former Controller of BBC 2. SUN SUN Born 24 June 1947; died 15 March 2014 aged 66. SUN SUN Lord Ballyedmond SUN SUN Julian spoke to his friend Lord Empey and to the BBC’s SUN Northern Ireland Economic Editor, John Campbell. SUN SUN Born 5 January 1944; died 14 March 2014 aged 70. SUN SUN L'Wren Scott SUN SUN Julian spoke to Lisa Armstrong, Fashion Editor at the SUN Telegraph newspaper. SUN Born 28 April 1964; died 17 March 2014 aged 49. SUN SUN Mohammed Fahim SUN SUN Julian spoke to the BBC Chief International Correspondent, SUN Lyse Doucet. SUN SUN Born 1957; died 9 March 2014 aged 56 or 57. SUN SUN Peter Callander SUN SUN Julian spoke to Mitch Murray with whom he wrote many SUN successful hits. SUN SUN Born 10 October 1939; died 25 February 2014 aged 74. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Julian Worricker SUN Interviewed Guest: John Scott SUN Interviewed Guest: Dillie Keane SUN Interviewed Guest: Jane Root SUN Interviewed Guest: Mitch Murray SUN Interviewed Guest: Lyse Doucet SUN Interviewed Guest: Lisa Armstrong SUN Interviewed Guest: John Campbell SUN Interviewed Guest: Reg Empey SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03ygwjm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03ymr4k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03y0n8j (Listen) SUN Eldar Shafir: Scarcity SUN SUN (Image credit: Jerry Nelson) SUN SUN Jo Fidgen interviews Eldar Shafir, professor of psychology SUN and public affairs at Princeton University, and co-author of SUN Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much in front of an SUN audience at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford SUN University. Jo will explore the book's key idea: that not SUN having enough money or time, shapes all of our reactions, SUN and ultimately our lives and society. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN Life by Lottery SUN Roberto Unger SUN Edward Snowden: Leaker, Saviour, Traitor, Spy? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03yn0n9 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03yn0nc (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03y38kh (Listen) SUN Starred Up; Mica Levi; The future of film; Emergency cinema SUN from Syria SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to the Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn SUN about British prison drama Starred Up which co-stars Jack SUN O'Connell. He explains how he finds virtue in the most SUN unlikely characters, from Pope in Animal Kingdom to Russell SUN in Killing Them Softly. SUN SUN The musician and composer Mica Levi on her first film sound SUN track working with Jonathan Glazer on sci fi Under the Skin, SUN with Scarlett Johansson. We visit her in the studio where SUN she dissects the alien soundscape she created for the film. SUN SUN Producer Jeremy Thomas looks back on his career, the subject SUN of a season at the BFI in London, Made In Britain. He has SUN worked with directors from David Cronenberg to Wim Wenders SUN and Bernardo Bertolucci. He recalls his earliest memories as SUN a child hanging out in Pinewood studios and looks forward to SUN the industry's future. SUN SUN As the conflict in Syria continues, two film makers reflect SUN on their contrasting responses to the situation - Charif SUN Kiwan of the Abounaddara collective which makes films of a SUN few minutes duration focussing on real lives and avoiding SUN the gory blood on the streets approach of the news channels SUN and Orwa Nyrabia, producer of The Return to Homs, a SUN documentary following young men who become radicalised by SUN the destruction of their neighbourhood. SUN SUN Starred Up SUN Directed by David Mackenzie, SUN Starred Up SUN is in cinemas from Friday 21 March, certificate 18. SUN SUN Made In Britain: Jeremy Thomas SUN Made In Britain: Jeremy Thomas. SUN A season of films at the BFI Southbank, celebrating UK SUN filmmakers, 31 March - 29 April 2014. Photo: Dennis Hopper SUN and Jeremy Thomas, Credit: Angus Forbes. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Ben Mendelsohn SUN Interviewed Guest: Mica Levi SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Thomas SUN Interviewed Guest: Charif Kiwan SUN Interviewed Guest: Orwa Nyrabia SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03ymr4b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 MARCH 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03yn1jr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03y152h (Listen) MON Race in Police Disciplinaries; Protestant Fishermen in MON Scotland MON MON Race in police 'misconduct' proceedings - Laurie Taylor MON considers new research exploring the perception that ethnic MON minority police officers are disproportionally subjected to MON such investigations. Graham Smith, Senior Lecturer at MON University of Manchester School of Law, looked at data MON provided by 3 English police services over a 4 year period MON between 2008 and 2011. MON MON Also, Evangelical Fishermen - the lives and beliefs of MON fundamentalist Christians living in a remote Scottish MON fishing village. Joseph Webster, Lecturer in Anthropology, MON Queen's University Belfast, discusses his study of an MON austere community of Protestant Brethren struggling with the MON crisis of the contemporary fishing industry whilst also MON focusing on the 'End of Days'. How does this most demanding MON form of religious faith survive in the midst of the tough MON and perilous work at sea? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Graham Smith MON MON Senior Lecturer in Regulation, School of Law, University of MON Manchester MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Graham Smith MON MON MON MON MON Ethnic Minority Police Officers and Disproportionality In MON Misconduct Proceedings MON Graham Smith, Harry Hagger Johnson & Chris Roberts (2014) MON Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research MON and Policy MON DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2014.895349 MON MON MON Joe Webster MON MON Lecturer in Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Joe Webster MON MON MON MON MON The Anthropology of Protestantism: Faith and Crisis among MON Scottish Fishermen MON Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan MON ISBN-10: 1137336536 MON ISBN-13: 978-1137336538 MON MON Music in today's programme MON CD Title: MON The Bright Mississippi MON Artist: MON Allen Toussaint MON Track No: MON 3 MON Track Title: MON St. James Infirmary MON Label: MON Nonesuch 7559799287 MON Composer: MON Irving Mills MON MON MON MON MON CD Title: MON Tatties And Herrin' (The Sea) MON Artist: MON Isla St Clair MON Track No: MON 15 MON Track Title: MON Will Your Anchor Hold? MON Label: MON Greentrax CDTRAX 146 MON Composer(s): MON William James Kirkpatrick, Priscilla Owens MON MON Ethnography Award MON MON Thank you for all your entries. MON MON MON MON These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, MON Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise MON Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor MON Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). MON MON MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, MON originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The MON work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON MON MON The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of MON 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 MON MON MON MON Please see the MON Terms & Conditions MON for all the rules. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03ymr48 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03yn1jt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03yn1jw (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03yn1jy (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03yn1k0 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03yn661 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Richard Littledale. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03yn663 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03yn1k2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45m5 (Listen) MON Egyptian Goose 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 Bill Oddie presents the Egyptian goose. Although Egyptian MON geese are common throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa and MON in Egypt, they are now officially a British bird. These MON striking birds attracted the attention of wildfowl MON collectors and the first geese were brought to the UK in the MON 17th century. By the 1960's it became obvious that the geese MON were breeding in the wild in East Anglia and since then MON they've spread in south and eastern England. MON MON Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) MON Webpage image courtesy of Guy Rogers (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03yn665 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03yn667 (Listen) MON Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East MON MON Anne McElvoy explores the roads not taken with the historian MON Richard Evans. Counterfactual history began as an MON Enlightenment parlour game and has become a serious academic MON pursuit, but Evans argues against endless speculation as to MON what might have been. The final meeting between Lawrence of MON Arabia and Faisal I of Iraq was an anti-climax which belied MON their history. The biographers of these two leaders, Scott MON Anderson and the former Iraqi politician Ali Allawi, place MON these men at the centre of the making of the modern Middle MON East. The writer Malu Halasa offers an alternative view of MON the violent events in Syria as she curates a book of MON political posters, comic strips, blogs and plays. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Richard Evans MON Interviewed Guest: Malu Halasa MON Interviewed Guest: Scott Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Ali Allawi MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03y0f02 (Listen) MON A Spy Among Friends, Episode 1 MON MON With access to newly released MI5 files and previously MON unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former MON officers of MI6 and the CIA, author Ben Macintyre unlocks MON the last great secret of the Cold War. MON MON Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and MON Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and MON enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the MON Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two MON closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott MON of MI6 and James MON Jesus Angleton the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew MON Philby better than anyone - only to discover they had not MON known him at all. MON MON This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and MON treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle MON waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in MON the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and MON Washington; of male friendships forged, and then MON systematically betrayed. MON MON The story begins in Beirut 1963, a bugged room. Two men MON who've known each other for thirty years face one another. MON Both are spies, but one is a traitor. The first episode of A MON Spy Among Friends starts with Kim Philby's confession to his MON best friend. MON MON Read by: Simon Russell Beale MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Simon Russell Beale MON Producer: David Roper MON Author: Ben Macintyre MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03yn66c (Listen) MON Anita Roddick MON MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03yn66f (Listen) MON Five Fever Tales, The Question of Why MON MON A new drama serial by Lavinia Greenlaw about one of the MON oldest of human diseases. MON MON Malaria has blighted human life in parts of the world for as MON long as humans have been humans. The mosquito, the parasite MON it carries, and the human bloodstream are evolving together. MON In many places the parasite still has the upper hand. The MON Question of Why: the first of five dramas based on facts and MON taking in ancient historical itches and ideas about the MON disease and the latest scientific attempts to understand and MON outwit it. MON MON The disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of MON female mosquitoes came to humans probably from gorillas a MON long time ago. Through recorded history the fever-prompting MON disease has shadowed humans almost everywhere warm enough MON for mosquitoes to live between the Poles. We have evolved MON together. It is still the biggest killer of children in MON parts of the world. MON MON Made in collaboration with Wellcome Trust. MON MON Medical/science adviser: Julian Rayner, Sanger Institute. MON Music and sound design: Jon Nicholls MON Narrator: Siobhan Redmond. MON Other parts: Russell Boulter, Richard Bremmer, David MON Collins, Jasmine Hyde, John Mackay MON Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Siobhan Redmond MON Actor: Russell Boulter MON Actor: Richard Bremmer MON Actor: David Collins MON Actor: Jasmine Hyde MON Actor: John Mackay MON Producer: Tim Dee MON Writer: Lavinia Greenlaw MON MON 11:00 Workspace Revolution b03yn66h (Listen) MON They're called co-working spaces. Open space, MON rent-a-workstation complexes for sole traders, freelancers MON and micro businesses of all kinds. There are more than 5000 MON operating worldwide and the sector doubled in size last MON year. Nick Baker asks, is this a workspace revolution? MON MON From London to Berlin and from Bridgend to Singapore, MON co-working is the choice for more and more people. Nick MON visits the Hub in London, Indycube in Wales and Betahaus in MON Berlin, to see how these spaces operate. A high proportion MON of co-workers are in digital media. But there are also MON architects, jewellery traders and charity workers. For a MON monthly fee they get a desk, internet, light, heat and MON access to facilities like meeting rooms, cafes and even ping MON pong tables and cocktail bars. Beyond the practicalities the MON principal draw here are the huge networking opportunities. MON The home-working revolution didn't take off in the way we MON expected at the beginning of the century. Now cities round MON the world need regeneration for their old buildings, new MON technology is extending opportunities and more people have a MON right to ask for flexible working. Co-working has found a MON niche. MON MON Behind each space are social entrepreneurs - modern MON philanthropists looking for a modest return. Many aren't MON interested in developing these spaces into chains though. MON They genuinely want to change the way people work. Others, MON mostly in the digital sector, are encouraging a profit MON oriented future for these spaces. MON MON In this programme Nick asks is co-working a true workspace MON revolution? Or is this a kind of "social engineering" which MON only interests workers in "approved" occupations? Does ethos MON limit growth? And, most importantly, is co-working offering MON a brighter working future? MON MON Produced by Sarah Cuddon MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 11:30 Ordeal by Innocence b03yqn0n (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON by Agatha Christie MON dramatised by Joy Wilkinson MON MON Episode 2. Dr. Calgary joins forces with Inspector Huish to MON try to find out the truth about Rachel Argyle's murder. But MON the family is still resisting his investigation. MON MON directed by Mary Peate. MON MON Credits MON Calgary: Mark Umbers MON Gwenda: Jacqueline Defferary MON Kirsten: Wanda Opalinska MON Hester: Phoebe Waller-Bridge MON Leo: Sean Murray MON Mickey: Joel MacCormack MON Tina: Carys Eleri MON Philip: John Norton MON Mary: Priyanga Burford MON Huish: Michael Bertenshaw MON Maureen: Georgie Fuller MON Director: Mary Peate MON Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson MON Author: Agatha Christie MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03yn66k (Listen) MON Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03yn1k4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03yn1k6 (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yn6xm (Listen) MON Gossips and Goodfellows MON MON Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of MON friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr MON Thomas Dixon presents a timely, major new history of how the MON meaning and experience of friendship have changed over the MON centuries. MON MON Episode One: Gossips and Goodfellows MON MON In the 16th century, friendships were generally limited to MON an overlapping network of family members and neighbours, who MON lived and worked in close proximity, and shared their lives MON at home, in church, at the well, the bake-house and the MON tavern. MON MON Today, our friendships often extend across the globe, and MON our Social Networks can extend to thousands. MON MON Thomas Dixon launches the series by talking with the MON anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, MON whose influential research explores the number of people MON with whom each individual is cognitively capable of MON sustaining a meaningful relationship. MON MON The newly named "Dunbar's Number" is around 140, and Thomas MON maps this figure onto the historical picture of village MON life. He speaks with historians Bernard Capp and Naomi MON Tadmor about close-knit, real-life friendships in the MON sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He learns how a group MON of female "Gossips" supported their friend Mary Freeman when MON her husband accused her of giving him the pox; and about two MON young "Goodfellows"in 1617, who got so drunk that they MON pissed into a chamber pot and shared the contents. MON MON This is the beginning of an absorbing story in which both MON the similarities and the differences between friendship past MON and present emerge. MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens MON MON Presenter: historian Dr Thomas Dixon is the Director of the MON Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, MON University of London. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Further Reading MON MON Barbara MON Caine (ed.), MON Friendship: A History MON (Equinox, 2009) MON MON MON MON Bernard MON Capp, MON When Gossips Meet: Women, the MON Family and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England MON (Oxford University Press, MON 2003) MON MON MON MON Robin MON Dunbar, MON How Many Friends Does One Person MON Need? Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks MON (Faber & Faber, MON 2011) MON MON MON MON Naomi MON Tadmor, MON Family and Friends in MON Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and MON Patronage MON (Cambridge MON University Press, 2001) MON MON MON MON Mark Vernon, MON The Meaning of Friendship MON (Palgrave MON Macmillan, 2005) MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03ymy2v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Hamlet b03xhkyv (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON by William Shakespeare MON MON Part One MON MON As part of Character Invasion, a new production of the play MON in 5 episodes broadcast each afternoon this week. MON MON The Castle of Elsinore in Denmark. The court is uneasy. The MON king of Denmark has recently died and the throne has been MON claimed by the king's brother, Claudius. Prince Hamlet, MON still in mourning for his father, distrusts Claudius and MON believes that what has happened at the court 'cannot come to MON good' MON MON Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula MON MON The director is Marc Beeby. MON Character Invasion MON MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from Episode 1 (2) MON MON The cast of Hamlet MON MON Credits MON Hamlet: Jamie Parker MON Horatio: David Seddon MON Claudius: Paul Hilton MON Gertrude: Anastasia Hille MON Polonius: James Laurenson MON Laertes: Tom Mison MON Ophelia: Lizzy Watts MON The Ghost: Robert Blythe MON Marcellus: Ben Crowe MON Barnardo: Michael Shelford MON Actor: Will Howard MON Actor: Nicholas Murchie MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Writer: William Shakespeare MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03yn6xp (Listen) MON (16/17) MON Which star, noted for roles in Alfred Hitchcock films, is MON the mother of the actress Melanie Griffith? And with which MON waterway is the nautical mirage known as the Fata Morgana MON most closely associated? MON MON These are among the general knowledge questions Russell MON Davies puts to the semi-finalists in today's contest, which MON will decide who gets the one remaining place in the 2014 MON Final. Today's competitors are from Bristol, Bromley in MON Kent, Skipton in North Yorkshire, and Oswestry in MON Shropshire. MON MON As ever, there'll also be a chance for a listener to win a MON prize by stumping the contestants with questions of his or MON her own devising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03ymr54 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics b03yn6xr (Listen) MON Petronius MON MON A fresh look at the ancient world. MON MON Natalie Haynes, critic, writer and reformed stand-up MON comedian, brings the ancient world entertainingly up to MON date. In each of the four programmes she profiles a figure MON from ancient Greece or Rome and creates a stand-up routine MON around them. She then goes in search of the links which make MON the ancient world still very relevant in the 21st century. MON MON Episode 1: The worst dinner party in history. Natalie MON investigates the work of the writer Petronius, creator of MON the infamous Satyricon, later made into a film by Fellini. MON It's all about excess; as a vegetarian, Natalie's MON particularly revolted by the way in which the Romans MON insisted on making edible food look disgusting. With MON satirical cartoonist Martin Rowson, Fellini fan Richard Dyer MON and historian Victoria Rimell. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03yn6xt (Listen) MON The Environment MON MON A new word has entered into our common vocabulary recently. MON Fracking is the process whereby shale gas can be released MON from beneath the earth's surface. On the one hand, it's MON argued that fracking could give us enough gas to meet our MON short to medium term energy needs; on the other hand, there MON are those who fear it will do lasting environmental damage. MON How do you balance short term needs with long term MON environmental priorities? Western Christianity has been MON accused of promoting an exploitative relationship with the MON environment. Has Religion anything to contribute to the MON debate? MON Joining Ernie Rea are the Rev Michael Roberts, who trained MON as a geologist; Martin Palmer, Founder of the Alliance of MON Religions and Conservation: and the Rev Chris Halliwell, MON Rural and Environment Officer for the Diocese of Blackburn. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b03yn6xw (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03yn1k8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b03yn83j (Listen) MON Series 68, Episode 7 MON MON This week, the panellists attempting to speak for 60 seconds MON with no hesitation, repetition & deviation are Paul Merton, MON Rebecca Front, Alun Cochrane and Russell Kane. MON MON They do so, as always, under the watchful ear of Nicholas MON Parsons. MON MON Subjects include 'The Metaphysical Poets', 'A Benign MON Dictatorship' and the less erudite 'Bingo Wings' MON MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Richard Herring MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03yn83l (Listen) MON Kirsty is getting excited. Meanwhile Tom is furious. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03yn83n (Listen) MON John Wilson with news, interviews and reviews from the arts MON world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Producer: Timothy Prosser MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03yn66f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Stigma: A Political History b03yn83q (Listen) MON Journalist Peter Hitchens examines the social and cultural MON revolution that has taken place in Britain over the last MON four decades. How did many of the old stigmas, particularly MON those surrounding the family, simply disappear? Peter argues MON that, while many of the old taboos have been done away with, MON all we've done is replace them with another set. MON MON As the sociologist Patricia Morgan suggests, "nature abhors MON a vacuum", if you remove stigma from one thing it attaches MON itself to something else. MON MON Peter challenges "the Godfather of the sociology of the MON swinging sixties", Laurie Taylor and the former editor of MON the Archers, Vanessa Whitburn, to explain how the enormous MON social changes of the 1960s and ensuing years happened, and MON he questions left wing author Owen Jones and former MON Conservative cabinet minister John Redwood on whether, as a MON society, we should be satisfied with the outcome. MON MON Peter pays a visit to St Mellons in Cardiff, the estate made MON famous in a speech by John Redwood in 1993. Mr Redwood MON thought he'd focused on the duties of fathers, but the wider MON world saw it as an attack on single mothers. Peter asks why MON there was such a fuss and whether it would be possible to MON make that speech today. He suggests that we have got to a MON stage where there is such pressure to conform that no-one MON dares express views that are outside accepted mainstream MON thinking. MON MON In throwing off the chains of the past, have we saddled MON ourselves with a form of liberal bigotry? MON MON Producer: Max O'Brien MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b03yn83s (Listen) MON Why Minsky Matters MON MON American economist Hyman Minsky died in 1996, but his MON theories offer one of the most compelling explanations of MON the 2008 financial crisis. His key idea is simple enough to MON be a t-shirt slogan: "Stability is destabilising". But TUC MON senior economist Duncan Weldon argues it's a radical MON challenge to mainstream economic theory. While the MON mainstream view has been that markets tend towards MON equilibrium and the role of banks and finance can largely be MON ignored, Minsky argued that in the good times the seeds of MON the next crisis are sown as the financial sector engages in MON riskier and riskier lending in pursuit of profit. In the MON aftermath of the financial crisis, this might seem obvious - MON so why did Minsky die an outsider? What do his ideas say MON about the response to the 2008 crisis and current policies MON like Help to Buy? And has mainstream economics done enough MON to respond to its own failure to predict the crisis and the MON challenge posed by Minsky's ideas? MON MON Producer: James Fletcher. MON Analysis: Economics MON Profits Before Pay MON Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction? MON MON 21:00 Nature b03y0qkl (Listen) MON Series 8, Bigfoot: Not a Bear MON MON A "Nature" with a bit of a difference. Instead of looking at MON rare species and conservation measures, this week's MON programme focuses on perhaps the most elusive (if not MON non-existent) creature of all - Bigfoot, the supposed ape MON like or hominid creature that people believe lives in the MON North West of the United States. With reports of sightings MON of strange man-like beasts that go back as far as 1920 if MON not stretching back into the 18th century, and the 1967 MON famous, if not infamous, film shot at Bluff Creek in MON California, there's as much interest in finding evidence of MON Bigfoot today as there's ever been amongst those convinced MON of its existence. But rebuffs of misidentification, MON assumption and hoaxes abound. MON Invited to the annual Beachfoot Camp 2013, BBC journalist MON Matthew Hill hears of Bigfoot encounters from people who've MON had experiences across decades and heads out with Bigfoot MON researchers with all the latest technology in their quest to MON be the ones to capture that one piece of vital indisputable MON evidence. He also has a confounding experience that leaves MON him unsure what to think and tries to understand what it is MON in the human psyche that needs to hold to the belief that MON these man-like monsters exist. MON MON Produced by Sheena Duncan. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03yn667 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03yn1kb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03yn879 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03ynt76 (Listen) MON The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, A Book Event MON MON The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry is the enchanting, funny MON and touching novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Set in Island Books, MON a struggling independent bookshop at the heart of an island MON community off the American coast, it is the place where life MON lessons gleaned from reading are passed on. Today, events MON take a curious turn when A.J. plays host to an author. MON Madeleine Potter and Hari Dhillon read. Madeleine Potter and MON Hari Dhillon read. MON MON Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Madeleine Potter MON Reader: Hari Dhillon MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Author: Gabrielle Zevin MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b03dsk4z (Listen) MON Series 4, The Trip MON MON Josie Long goes on a series of unusual journeys as she MON presents a sequence of mini documentaries about adventurous MON trips. MON MON From searching for teenage misadventure through to finding MON yourself, we travel from the British seaside to the freezing MON landscape of Minnesota altering minds and bodies along the MON way. MON MON Frank Education MON Feat. Philip Bill Bruckner MON Prod. Hana Walker-Brown MON MON St Audries MON Feat. Margaret Pepper MON Prod. Olivia Humphreys MON MON My Father Takes a Vacation MON Prod. Martin Johnson MON MON Cold in Minnesota MON Originally broadcast on the Unfictional Podcast MON Prod. Bob Carlson MON MON Series producer: Eleanor McDowall MON MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03yn87f (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 MARCH 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03yn1lc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03y0f02 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03yn1lf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03yn1lh (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03yn1lk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03yn1lm (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03ynf4c (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Richard Littledale. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03ynf4l (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45pj (Listen) TUE Alpine Swift TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Bill Oddie presents the alpine swift. Alpine swifts are TUE impressive anchor-shaped birds, the colour of coffee above TUE and milk-white below. In the UK Alpine swifts are annual TUE visitors, appearing in Spring, but they don't breed here. TUE They spend the winter in Africa and on their journey north TUE in spring some birds overshoot their breeding areas. Alpine TUE swifts can be seen as they arc through the skies and because TUE they travel so fast they can turn up almost anywhere from TUE central London to Shetland. TUE TUE Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba) TUE Webpage images courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03ynf4t (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b03ynf4y (Listen) TUE Alf Adams TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life TUE and work. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03ynf54 (Listen) TUE David Loyn talks to Hekmat Karzai TUE TUE Next month, Afghanistan goes to the polls and its president, TUE Hamid Karzai steps down. The BBC's Kabul correspondent, TUE David Loyn, talks to his cousin, political analyst Hekmat TUE Karzai. Western-educated and urbane, Hekmat Karzai TUE nonetheless has to operate in a system where what your TUE grandfather did can be more important than your own TUE achievements, and where blood feuds can cut short a TUE political career - both his father and his nephew were TUE assassinated. What chance does Afghanistan have of moving TUE towards a stable democracy? TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03y3mlh (Listen) TUE A Spy Among Friends, Episode 2 TUE TUE With access to newly released MI5 files and previously TUE unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former TUE officers of MI6 and the CIA, author Ben Macintyre unlocks TUE the last great secret of the Cold War. TUE TUE Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and TUE Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and TUE enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the TUE Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two TUE closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott TUE of MI6 and James TUE Jesus Angleton the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew TUE Philby better than anyone - only to discover they had not TUE known him at all. TUE TUE This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and TUE treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle TUE waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in TUE the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and TUE Washington; of male friendships forged, and then TUE systematically betrayed. TUE TUE The story begins in Beirut 1963, a bugged room. Two men TUE who've known each other for thirty years face one another. TUE Both are spies, but one is a traitor. In the second episode TUE of A Spy Among Friends, Philby's charm and intelligence make TUE him many friends inside the Intelligence Service, where his TUE career enjoys an irresistible rise even as he is plotting TUE his deadliest betrayals. TUE TUE Reader: Simon Russell Beale TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Simon Russell Beale TUE Producer: David Roper TUE Author: Ben Macintyre TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03ynf5c (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03ynf5h (Listen) TUE Five Fever Tales, The Wrongly Named Tree TUE TUE A new drama serial by Lavinia Greenlaw about one of the TUE oldest of human diseases. TUE Malaria has blighted human life in parts of the world for as TUE long as humans have been humans. The mosquito, the parasite TUE it carries, and the human bloodstream are evolving together. TUE In many places the parasite still has the upper hand. The TUE Wrongly Named Tree: the second of five dramas based on facts TUE and taking in ancient historical itches and ideas about the TUE disease and the latest scientific attempts to understand and TUE outwit it. TUE The disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of TUE female mosquitoes came to humans probably from gorillas a TUE long time ago. Through recorded history the fever-prompting TUE disease has shadowed humans almost everywhere warm enough TUE for mosquitoes to live between the Poles. We have evolved TUE together. It is still the biggest killer of children in TUE parts of the world. TUE Made in collaboration with Wellcome Trust. TUE Medical/science adviser: Julian Rayner, Sanger Institute. TUE Music and sound design: Jon Nicholls TUE Narrator: Siobhan Redmond. TUE Other parts: Russell Boulter, Richard Bremmer, David TUE Collins, Jasmine Hyde, John Mackay TUE Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Siobhan Redmond TUE Actor: Russell Boulter TUE Actor: Richard Bremmer TUE Actor: David Collins TUE Actor: Jasmine Hyde TUE Actor: John Mackay TUE Producer: Tim Dee TUE Writer: Lavinia Greenlaw TUE TUE 11:00 The Great Global Warming Gold Rush b03ynf5n (Listen) TUE The most convincing evidence that someone really believes TUE something is when they are willing to risk their own money TUE on it. Businesses around the world are doing just that; TUE betting that they can profit from the effects of climate TUE change. Justin Rowlatt meets the entrepreneurs who believe TUE there is money to be made from the world's changing climate. TUE Producer: Sandra Kanthal. TUE TUE 11:30 Swinging Addis b03ynfpl (Listen) TUE 'There is Swinging Addis just like there is Swinging London, TUE bell-bottom trousers, mini skirts...' TUE TUE In the 1960s and early 70s, unknown to most of the outside TUE world, Addis Ababa's nightlife was electrified by a blend of TUE traditional folk music, jazz, swing, rhythm and blues. Clubs TUE were full, dance floors packed with young people moved by TUE the music of a new generation of Ethiopian pop stars who TUE were inspired by Elvis and James Brown but gave their sound TUE a unique twist. TUE TUE '...When we played the record on the loudspeakers, the TUE traffic police had to be sent to disperse the young people TUE dancing on the street.' TUE TUE The story begins in 1896, following Ethiopia's victory TUE against the invading Italians at the Battle of Adwa, when TUE the Russian tsar Nicolas II sent Emperor Menelik 40 brass TUE instruments. It became the imperial music - and planted a TUE seed. TUE TUE Then, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1924, the prince who TUE would become Emperor Haile Selassie met a marching band of TUE young Armenians orphaned in the recent Ottoman massacres. He TUE shipped the "Arba Lijoch" ("Forty Kids") back to Addis Ababa TUE and installed them as the imperial band. The emperor's new TUE big band ensembles proved to be incubators for the stars of TUE a new sound craved by a young generation demanding musical - TUE as well as social and political - change. In 1969, a TUE 26-year-old music producer called Amha Eshete defied an TUE imperial decree giving the state a monopoly over the TUE reproduction of music to release Ethiopia's first-ever TUE independent record with Alemayehu Eshete. When the pair TUE played it on a loudspeaker from Amha's music shop, the young TUE people dancing in the street stopped the traffic. The rest TUE was history. TUE TUE In Addis Ababa, Courtney Pine meets some of the veterans of TUE the Swinging Addis golden age of Ethiopian jazz, including TUE Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete - the 'Ethiopian Elvis'. TUE These Ethiopian heroes, now in their 70s, are like the Buena TUE Vista Social Club stars of their country. Courtney speaks to TUE the legendary Ethiopian music producer Amha Eshete, while TUE his guide on his musical journey of discovery is Francis TUE Falceto, the French music producer who 'rediscovered' these TUE artists and brought their music to the west, and has now TUE compiled 30 albums in the Ethiopiques series. Courtney finds TUE Addis Ababa is still swinging, and meets one of the new TUE generation of Ethiopian jazz musicians who are picking up TUE the beat, the young pianist Samuel Yirga, to jam Ethiopian TUE style. TUE TUE Presenter: Courtney Pine TUE Producer: Eve Streeter TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03ynfpn (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03yn1lp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03yn1lr (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yns3j (Listen) TUE A Marriage of Minds TUE TUE Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of TUE friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr TUE Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning TUE and experience of friendship have changed over the TUE centuries. TUE TUE Episode Two: A Marriage of Minds TUE TUE Having launched the series by exploring the close-knit but TUE instrumental friendships which most people experienced in TUE the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Dr Thomas Dixon TUE turns to the elite ideal of friendship as expressed in TUE classical writers such as Aristotle and Cicero, and as lived TUE out by Renaissance men such Thomas More and Erasmus. TUE TUE He looks into the continuing influence of these emotional TUE "friendships of choice". Today we take such friendships for TUE granted but in the seventeenth century they were available TUE only to those who had the time, money and education to TUE pursue them. TUE TUE It was commonly believed that only men had the capacity for TUE such friendships but Thomas Dixon reveals how women too were TUE beginning to spread their social wings. He tells the story TUE of the Welshwoman Katherine Philips, a published poet and TUE the wife of a wealthy landowner, who argued that since the TUE soul has no gender, then friendship - a mingling of souls - TUE was equally available to both men and women. TUE TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE Further Reading TUE TUE Alan Bray, TUE The Friend TUE (University of Chicago Press, 2003) TUE TUE TUE Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds), TUE Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 TUE (Palgrave, 2005) TUE TUE TUE TUE Frances Harris, TUE Transformations of TUE Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin TUE (Oxford TUE University Press, 2002) TUE TUE TUE TUE Keith Thomas, TUE The Ends of TUE Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England TUE (Oxford TUE University Press, 2009), Chapter 6: ‘Friendship and TUE Sociability’ TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03yn83l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Hamlet b03yns3l (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE by William Shakespeare TUE TUE Part Two TUE TUE A part of Character Invasion. The ghost of Hamlet's father TUE has told Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius. Hamlet TUE wants revenge but is what the ghost has told him true? TUE TUE Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula TUE TUE The director is Marc Beeby. TUE Character Invasion TUE TUE Credits TUE Hamlet: Jamie Parker TUE Horatio: David Seddon TUE Claudius: Paul Hilton TUE Gertrude: Anastasia Hille TUE Polonius: James Laurenson TUE Ophelia: Lizzy Watts TUE Guildenstern: Carl Prekopp TUE Rosencrantz: Harry Myers TUE The Player: Robert Blythe TUE Actor: Will Howard TUE Actor: Nicholas Murchie TUE Actor: Michael Shelford TUE Actor: Rik Warden TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE Writer: William Shakespeare TUE TUE 14:55 Five Writers in Search of Their Character b03yns4d (Listen) TUE Adil Ray TUE TUE As part of Radio 4's Character Invasion Day Adil Ray, who TUE created and acts the part of Citizen Khan, talks about why TUE Mr Khan is his favourite character. Citizen Khan is a TUE family-based British sitcom produced by the BBC, set in TUE Sparkhill, Birmingham, described by its lead character a TUE Pakistani Muslim Mr Khan as "the capital of British TUE Pakistan". TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b03ynt6h (Listen) TUE Series 6, Leicester TUE TUE Jay Rayner and the team are in Leicester for this episode of TUE the culinary panel programme. TUE TUE The team takes questions from a local audience on all TUE aspects of cooking and eating. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Shepherd TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b03ynt6k (Listen) TUE Britain's Green Capital 2015 TUE TUE In 2015 Bristol will be European Green Capital. We discover TUE exactly what the title means to the city and what makes TUE Bristol so environmentally friendly. TUE TUE The 'Green Capital' award is new. It's been going for the TUE last five years and next year Bristol will become the sixth. TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff discovers why Bristol was successful TUE in it's bid and what makes the city stand out from the rest TUE of the country for it's environmental credentials. TUE TUE Miranda visits last year's winning city, Nantes to find out TUE what makes a city European Green capital and what the legacy TUE is for future generations living in Nantes. She discovers TUE how the Green Capital award is spreading the environmental TUE message across Europe and what Bristol can learn from TUE previous winners. TUE TUE In this week's Costing The Earth Miranda Krestovnikoff talks TUE to the team behind the bid to find out what big plans they TUE have in store for Bristol as they prepare to become European TUE Green Capital for 2015 and meets Bristol's flamboyant and TUE eco-thinking mayor, George Ferguson, as he sets out the TUE green agenda for the years to come. TUE TUE Presenter: Miranda Krestovnikoff TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b03ynt6m (Listen) TUE The Policing Debate TUE TUE How have recent stories like undercover policing, the deaths TUE of Mark Duggan and Ian Tomlinson, and "Plebgate" affected TUE public confidence in the police? Do the police have the TUE right powers to do their job and do they use them as they TUE should? Has the introduction of Police and Crime TUE Commissioners in England and Wales helped to make the police TUE more accountable? TUE TUE Ahead of fresh inquests into the deaths of 96 men, women and TUE children at Hillsborough, Joshua Rozenberg chairs a panel TUE with legal, policing and political perspectives in front of TUE an audience in Liverpool and asks: can we trust the police? TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b03ynt6p (Listen) TUE Annie Mac and Kathy Lette TUE TUE DJ Annie Mac and author Kathy Lette discuss their favourite TUE books with Harriett Gilbert. TUE Annie's choice is The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, an TUE international hit. TUE Kathy nominates Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, TUE whose heroine Becky Sharp she loves. TUE Harriett picks Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, which is her TUE Booker Prize-winning novel. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS BROADCAST TUE TUE TUE TUE Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray TUE TUE Publisher: Wordsworth Editions TUE TUE TUE TUE The Fault In Our Stars by John Green TUE TUE Publisher: Penguin TUE TUE TUE TUE Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald TUE TUE Publisher: Fourth Estate TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Annie Mac TUE Interviewed Guest: Kathy Lette TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03ynt6r (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03yn1lt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b00zlhhz (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 2 TUE TUE The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by TUE the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators TUE of The Fast Show. TUE TUE Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia TUE Bullmore, Simon Day, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, and TUE Paul Whitehouse. TUE TUE Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Kevin Eldon, Robert TUE Popper and Adil Ray. TUE TUE Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Contact The Show TUE Email the show at downtheline@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Credits TUE Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas TUE Actor: Amelia Bullmore TUE Actor: Simon Day TUE Actor: Charlie Higson TUE Actor: Lucy Montgomery TUE Actor: Paul Whitehouse TUE Actor: Rosie Cavaliero TUE Actor: Kevin Eldon TUE Actor: Robert Popper TUE Actor: Adil Ray TUE Producer: Paul Whitehouse TUE Producer: Charlie Higson TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03ynt6t (Listen) TUE Tony is on the back foot. Meanwhile Elizabeth is apologetic. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03ynt6w (Listen) TUE John Wilson with news, interviews and reviews from the arts TUE world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Wilson TUE Producer: Claire Bartleet TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03ynf5h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 PPI: Britain's Biggest Banking Scandal b03yqp8d (Listen) TUE In February, Lloyds Banking Group set aside a further £1.8bn TUE to compensate its customers who were mis-sold Payment TUE Protection Insurance. It's the sixth time in less than three TUE years the bank has had to revise upwards the level of TUE compensation due and brings the bill so far for Lloyds alone TUE to £9.8bn. Across Britain's banks as a whole, compensation TUE costs have now reached more than £22bn - a sum so large, TUE some economists ironically even credit these payments with TUE having helped boost the economic recovery. How did Britain's TUE biggest ever mis-selling scandal happen and why did it lead TUE to claims management companies being able to rake in TUE billions of pounds from the disaster? TUE TUE With testimony from insiders, Michael Robinson tells the TUE unbelievable story of PPI. How in their greed to make more TUE and more profit from selling the protection, the banks TUE demanded ever bigger commission payments from providers of TUE cover while ensuring it was less and less likely a claim TUE would ever succeed. The programme hears how industry TUE whistleblowers were repeatedly ignored and asks why the TUE regulators failed to act sooner. And it shows how the banks' TUE reluctance to acknowledge what they'd done opened up the TUE floodgates to complaints and spawned a whole new breed of TUE claims management companies making vast profits from TUE customers who had already fallen victim to bankers' greed. TUE TUE While the banks now insist they've learned the lesson of the TUE PPI disaster, Michael Robinson asks if they have really TUE changed their ways. TUE The Accountant Kings TUE Predatory or prudent? TUE Faith, Hope and... Tax Avoidance TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03ynt70 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03ynt72 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b03ynf4y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03ynt74 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03yn87c (Listen) TUE The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, A Twist TUE TUE Gabrielle Zevin's funny and touching novel is set in a TUE quirky New England bookshop and is about the transformative TUE power of books and reading. Today, a celebration and a TUE reckoning. Madeleine Potter and Hari Dhillon read. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Madeleine Potter TUE Reader: Hari Dhillon TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Author: Gabrielle Zevin TUE TUE 23:00 Turf Wars b00zsjyj (Listen) TUE The Accidental Head TUE TUE The Accidental Head by Jeremy Front TUE TUE Beth just wants what's best for her 11 year old son; a solid TUE secondary education at the kind of school that recognises TUE his genius, as well as his aptitude for baroque music. A TUE school like Folgate. But when the family is edged out of TUE Folgate's catchment area, a battle begins. TUE TUE Beth takes on the might of the council with a mixture of TUE community action, ancient by-laws and sheep. TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Beth: Katherine Parkinson TUE Jake: Darren Boyd TUE Ruth Willith: Emma Fryer TUE Journalist: Alex Tregear TUE Helen: Sally Orrock TUE Farmer: Brian Bowles TUE Hughes: Brian Bowles TUE Writer: Jeremy Front TUE Director: James Robinson TUE Producer: James Robinson TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03ynt78 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03yn1mz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03y3mlh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03yn1n1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03yn1n3 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03yn1n5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03yn1n7 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03yntrt (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Richard Littledale. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03yntrw (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bickerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45q5 (Listen) WED Ruff WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Bill Oddie presents the ruff. The glory of the ruff lies in WED its extravagant courtship displays. For most of the year WED these waders look similar to our other long-legged WED water-birds such as redshanks or sandpipers but in the WED breeding season the males sprout a multi-coloured ruff. The WED impressive ruffs of feathers come in infinite variety, WED black, white, ginger, or a mixture of these. The males WED gather at traditional spring leks with the aim of winning WED one or more mates. WED WED Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED Recording of ruff by Patrik Åberg (Xeno-canto.org) WED WED This programme contains a recording of a ruff, which was WED recorded by Patrik Åberg and sourced via the website WED Xento-canto.org. WED WED WED WED Reference XC58549 / Original recording accessible at WED www.xeno-canto.org/58549. WED WED 06:00 Today b03yntry (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03ynts0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03y36vh (Listen) WED A Spy Among Friends, Episode 3 WED WED With access to newly released MI5 files and previously WED unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former WED officers of MI6 and the CIA, author Ben Macintyre unlocks WED the last great secret of the Cold War. WED WED Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and WED Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and WED enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the WED Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two WED closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott WED of MI6 and James WED Jesus Angleton the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew WED Philby better than anyone - only to discover they had not WED known him at all. WED WED This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and WED treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle WED waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in WED the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and WED Washington; of male friendships forged, and then WED systematically betrayed. WED WED In today's episode, who is "The Third Man"? When Burgess and WED Maclean break for Moscow fear and paranoia grip MI6. In the WED third episode of A Spy Among Friends the spotlight shines on WED Kim Philby WED WED Reader: Simon Russell Beale WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Simon Russell Beale WED Producer: David Roper WED Author: Ben Macintyre WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03ynts2 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03ynts4 (Listen) WED Five Fever Tales, What the Doctor Saw WED WED A new drama serial by Lavinia Greenlaw about one of the WED oldest of human diseases. WED Malaria has blighted human life in parts of the world for as WED long as humans have been humans. The mosquito, the parasite WED it carries, and the human bloodstream are evolving together. WED In many places the parasite still has the upper hand. What WED the Doctor Saw: the third of five dramas based on facts and WED taking in ancient historical itches and ideas about the WED disease and the latest scientific attempts to understand and WED outwit it. WED The disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of WED female mosquitoes came to humans probably from gorillas a WED long time ago. Through recorded history the fever-prompting WED disease has shadowed humans almost everywhere warm enough WED for mosquitoes to live between the Poles. We have evolved WED together. It is still the biggest killer of children in WED parts of the world. WED Made in collaboration with Wellcome Trust. WED Medical/science adviser: Julian Rayner, Sanger Institute. WED Music and sound design: Jon Nicholls WED Narrator: Siobhan Redmond. WED Other parts: Russell Boulter, Richard Bremmer, David WED Collins, Jasmine Hyde, John Mackay WED Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Siobhan Redmond WED Actor: Russell Boulter WED Actor: Richard Bremmer WED Actor: David Collins WED Actor: Jasmine Hyde WED Actor: John Mackay WED Producer: Tim Dee WED Writer: Lavinia Greenlaw WED WED 11:00 The Great Space Hunt b03ynts6 (Listen) WED Last year, an asteroid with the explosive power of 40 WED nuclear bombs exploded in the sky over the Russian city of WED Chelyabinsk. No one saw it coming, because it was one of the WED smaller asteroids, and it was approaching from the wrong WED direction. Luckily, it exploded high up in the atmosphere, WED and the only injuries were from the flying glass of WED thousands of broken windows. If it had exploded lower down, WED it could have been a different story. WED WED Subsequent research suggested that there are 10 times more WED asteroids out there like the Chelyabinsk one than we WED previously thought. Hardly any of them have been found. NASA WED is trying to find all the big asteroids that could WED potentially wipe out life on earth, and is making good WED progress, but the smaller ones are virtually unknown. WED WED So what is Britain doing about the asteroid threat? At the WED top of a hill in mid-Wales is an observatory called WED Spaceguard UK. It's run by a retired army major called Jay WED Tate. Despite being officially designated as the "National WED Near Earth Objects Information Centre", it gets no state WED funding and subsists only from Mr Tate's pension, and the WED sales of keyrings and pencils in the gift shop. Mr Tate is WED one of an army of amateur astronomers who scans the skies WED looking for asteroids that might come close to the earth. WED The safety of the earth is in these amateurs' hands, he WED says. WED WED The most prolific asteroid observer in the world is Peter WED Birtwhistle, who operates from a hut in his Berkshire WED garden. He spends over 100 nights a year looking for WED asteroids, often barely sleeping. When he finds one, he WED sends his observations to the Minor Planets Centre at WED Harvard, which logs known asteroids. Despite this, only two WED incoming asteroids have ever been detected before they WED arrived. One exploded over the Sudanese desert in 2008; the WED world got a few hours' warning because Gareth Williams at WED the Minor Planets Centre was woken in the night by his dog WED needing to go outside, and happened to check his computer. WED WED Jolyon Jenkins speaks to the unsung army of people who are WED trying to keep us safe from the threat from outer space, and WED asks whether it's right that we depend so much on WED enthusiasts. WED WED Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED 11:30 HR b03ynts8 (Listen) WED Series 5, Til Death Do Us Part WED WED Nigel Williams' comedy. Kate now questions her love for WED Peter. But she's not the only commitment-phobe. Can a visit WED to a shrink sort out relationship woes? WED WED Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED WED Credits WED Peter: Jonathan Pryce WED Sam: Nicholas Le Prevost WED Kate: Kate Fahy WED Ed: David Haig WED Dr Schnitzel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Mary: Christine Absalom WED Director: Peter Kavanagh WED Writer: Nigel Williams WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03yntsb (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03ynvd8 (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03ynvdb (Listen) WED Love Your Enemies WED WED Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of WED friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr WED Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning WED and experience of friendship have changed over the WED centuries. WED WED Episode Three: Love Your Enemies WED WED At a time when Christianity taught a gospel of universal WED love, including loving your enemy, individuals might still WED find themselves drawn to particular friendships. The Bible WED itself contained such contradictions, as the 17th century WED Anglican poet George Herbert put it: "David had his WED Jonathan, Christ his John." These apparent contradictions WED were the cause of real anxiety amongst devout Christians. WED WED The role of individual friendships became even more apparent WED after the Reformation, when personal friendships began to WED assume the confessional role once held by priests. WED WED Thomas Dixon takes up the story during the Civil War, and WED considers this tension within particular religious WED communities such as the Quakers. WED WED He talks with the historian Naomi Tadmor and also hears from WED Anglican-turned-Quaker, Terry Waite, who movingly recalls WED the meaning of friendship and of learning to love himself as WED a friend, during years of solitary confinement after being WED taken hostage in 1987. WED WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED WED Further Reading WED WED Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds), WED Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 WED (Palgrave, 2005) WED WED WED WED Amanda E. Herbert, WED Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and WED Friendship in Early Modern Britain WED (Yale University Press, 2014) WED WED WED WED Terry Waite, WED Taken on Trust WED (Coronet, 1994) WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03ynt6t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Hamlet b03ynvdd (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED by William Shakespeare WED WED Part Three WED WED A part of Character Invasion. In an attempt to discover WED whether Claudius murdered his father, Hamlet has arranged WED for a play featuring a similar murder to be performed before WED the court. WED WED Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula WED WED The director is Marc Beeby. WED Character Invasion WED WED Credits WED Hamlet: Jamie Parker WED Horatio: David Seddon WED Claudius: Paul Hilton WED Gertrude: Anastasia Hille WED Polonius: James Laurenson WED Ophelia: Lizzy Watts WED Guildenstern: Carl Prekopp WED Rosencrantz: Harry Myers WED The Ghost: Robert Blythe WED Actor: Rik Warden WED Actor: Nicholas Murchie WED Actor: Robert Blythe WED Actor: Will Howard WED Actor: Hannah Wood WED Actor: Michael Shelford WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Writer: William Shakespeare WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03ynvdj (Listen) WED Pension Planning WED WED Has the Budget overhaul brought new life to your pension WED plans? To talk to Paul Lewis and guests call 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED Chancellor George Osborne has promised greater freedom and WED choice at retirement, changing the rules about how and when WED people can access their defined contribution pension WED schemes. WED WED If you've a question about cashing in a small pension pot or WED drawdown of income, our guests will be here to explain the WED rules. WED WED Should you decide to release your pension fund you'll be WED faced with tax considerations and serious choices about WED where to invest your money. What are the pros and cons? WED WED To answer your questions, Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Michelle Cracknell, Chief Executive, The Pensions Advisory WED Service. WED Mark Meldon, Independent Financial Advisors, R C Gray & Co WED Ltd. WED Tom McPhail, Head of Pensions Research, Hargreaves Lansdown. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or WED e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic charges WED apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b03ynt72 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03yqcwl (Listen) WED Poverty and 'Shame'; Small-Scale Technology in India WED WED Race in police 'misconduct' proceedings - Laurie Taylor WED considers new research exploring the perception that ethnic WED minority police officers are disproportionally subjected to WED such investigations. Graham Smith, Senior Lecturer at WED University of Manchester School of Law, looked at data WED provided by 3 English police services over a 4 year period WED between 2008 and 2011. WED WED Also, Evangelical Fishermen - the lives and beliefs of WED fundamentalist Christians living in a remote Scottish WED fishing village. Joseph Webster, Research Fellow in Social WED Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Cambridge, WED discusses his study of an austere community of Protestant WED Brethren struggling with the crisis of the contemporary WED fishing industry whilst also focusing on the 'End of Days'. WED How does this most demanding form of religious faith survive WED in the midst of the tough and perilous work at sea? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Elaine Chase WED WED Research Officer, Department of Social Policy and WED Intervention, University of Oxford WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Elaine Chase WED WED WED WED WED Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences WED Edited by Elaine Chase and Grace Bantebya-Kyomuhendo WED Oxford University Press (forthcoming) WED WED Sohail Choudhry WED WED Lead Researcher, Pakistan for global 'Poverty and Shame' WED project at the University of Oxford WED WED WED WED Find out more about WED Sohail Choudhry WED WED WED WED WED WED Chapter six: WED Pakistan: a journey of poverty-induced shame by Sohail WED Choudhry WED In The Shame of it: Global Perspectives on Anti-Poverty WED Policies WED Erika K. Gubrium (Author, Editor), Sony Pellissery (Editor), WED Ivar Lodemel (Editor) WED Publisher: Policy Press WED ISBN-10: 1447308700 WED ISBN-13: 978-1447308706 WED WED David Arnold WED WED Professor emeritus of Asian and global history in the WED Department of History at the University of Warwick WED WED WED Find out more about WED David Arnold WED WED WED Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's WED Modernity WED Publisher: University of Chicago Press WED ISBN-10: 0226922022 WED ISBN-13: 978-0226922027 WED WED Ethnography Award WED WED Thank you for all your entries. WED WED WED WED These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, WED Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise WED Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor WED Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). WED WED WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, WED originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The WED work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED WED WED The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of WED 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 WED WED WED WED Please see the WED Terms & Conditions WED for all the rules. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03yqcwn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b03yqcwq (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03yn1n9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03yqcws (Listen) WED Books and Booksibility WED WED Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they WED think is 'Help!'. WED WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED WED This week, Milton Jones is asked to help out with the local WED book festival because the townsfolk are too distracted by WED their smartphones to.... Sorry, what was I saying? Sorry, WED just got a text. WED WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03yqcwv (Listen) WED It is Tom's stag night, but will Ian and Rob bury the WED hatchet? WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03yqcwx (Listen) WED Kirsty Lang with news, interviews and reviews from the arts WED world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Kirsty Lang WED Producer: Rebecca Nicholson WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03ynts4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03yqcwz (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Michael WED Portillo and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b03yqcx1 (Listen) WED Nicholas Shakespeare WED WED The Power and the Passion - Worldly Power. Jesus in the WED wilderness was offered it and turned it down, but most of us WED think it's worth having. Novelist, biographer and WED travel-writer Nicholas Shakespeare considers what power can WED do for us - and to us. WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b03ynt6k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03ynts0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03yn1nc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03yqcx3 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03yqcx5 (Listen) WED The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, Creative Writing WED WED The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry is the enchanting, funny WED and touching love story by Gabrielle Zevin. Set in Island WED Books, a quirky independent bookshop at the heart of an WED island community off the American coast, it is the place WED where life lessons gleaned from reading are learned. Today, WED Maya reflects on her past and the mother she never knew. WED Madeleine Potter and Hari Dhillon read. WED WED Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Madeleine Potter WED Reader: Hari Dhillon WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Author: Gabrielle Zevin WED WED 23:00 Afternoon Reading b013f972 (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, A Difference of Opinion WED WED By Bridget Christie. WED WED When Bridget's husband is assaulted by the ghost of a long WED dead European leader, it highlights the vast differences in WED interpretation between a believer and an atheist. WED WED Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC's own venue at WED Potterrow, as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03yqcx7 (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED WED A new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther Coles, with WED Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and Marcia Warren. WED WED The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse WED in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service WED Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad WED and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, WED whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their WED medication and offer comfort and support. WED WED Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot WED cure her patients, only help them manage their various WED conditions. She visits the following characters throughout WED the series: WED WED Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean WED descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made WED tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, WED who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. WED So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves. WED WED Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of WED affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by WED the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony. WED WED Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating WED disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to WED sugary and fatty snacks at all times. WED WED Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the WED Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a WED product of his imagination. WED WED Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, WED charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if WED he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more WED time he will explode. WED WED Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. WED Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures WED unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead. WED WED Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who WED have collaborated many time in the past, including on The WED Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness. WED WED Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with WED additional material from Esther Coles WED Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani WED A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Graham Downes: Paul Whitehouse WED Ray: Paul Whitehouse WED Herbert: Paul Whitehouse WED Maurice Billy: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Janet (Graham's Mum): Rosie Cavaliero WED Lorrie: Cecilia Noble WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED Writer: Esther Coles WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03yqcx9 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 MARCH 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03yn1p9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03y36vh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03yn1pc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03yn1pf (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03yn1ph (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03yn1pk (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03yqj2v (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Richard Littledale. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03yqj2x (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 b03x45r3 (Listen) THU Little Ringed Plover THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Bill Oddie presents the little ringed plover. In 1938, there THU was great excitement at a Hertfordshire reservoir. On the THU gravelly shoreline a pair of birds, which had never bred in THU the UK before, were showing signs of nesting. They were THU little ringed plovers, summer visitors to Continental Europe THU and they'd been attracted to the reservoirs' shingle banks THU where they laid their clutch of four eggs. Today there are THU around a thousand pairs in the UK. THU THU Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b03yqj2z (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03yqj31 (Listen) THU Weber's The Protestant Ethic THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Max Weber's book the THU Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Published in THU 1905, Weber's essay proposed that Protestantism had been a THU significant factor in the emergence of capitalism, making an THU explicit connection between religious ideas and economic THU systems. Weber's argument has come in for some criticism THU since he published the work, but is still seen as one of the THU seminal texts of twentieth-century sociology. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03y36vt (Listen) THU A Spy Among Friends, Episode 4 THU THU With access to newly released MI5 files and previously THU unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former THU officers of MI6 and the CIA, author Ben Macintyre unlocks THU the last great secret of the Cold War. THU THU Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and THU Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and THU enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the THU Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two THU closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott THU of MI6 and James THU Jesus Angleton the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew THU Philby better than anyone - only to discover they had not THU known him at all. THU THU This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and THU treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle THU waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in THU the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and THU Washington; of male friendships forged, and then THU systematically betrayed. THU THU In the fourth episode of A Spy Among Friends, Nicholas THU Elliott secures Kim Philby's return to MI6 and a posting in THU Beirut. Philby makes contact with Moscow Centre, but now the THU net is finally closing in. THU THU Read by: Simon Russell Beale THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Simon Russell Beale THU Producer: David Roper THU Author: Ben Macintyre THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03yqj35 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03yqj37 (Listen) THU Five Fever Tales, Little White Crosses THU THU A new drama serial by Lavinia Greenlaw about one of the THU oldest of human diseases. THU THU Malaria has blighted human life in parts of the world for as THU long as humans have been humans. The mosquito, the parasite THU it carries, and the human bloodstream are evolving together. THU In many places the parasite still has the upper hand. Little THU White Crosses: the fourth of five dramas based on facts and THU taking in ancient historical itches and ideas about the THU disease and the latest scientific attempts to understand and THU outwit it. THU THU The disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of THU female mosquitoes came to humans probably from gorillas a THU long time ago. Through recorded history the fever-prompting THU disease has shadowed humans almost everywhere warm enough THU for mosquitoes to live between the Poles. We have evolved THU together. It is still the biggest killer of children in THU parts of the world. THU THU Made in collaboration with Wellcome Trust. THU Medical/science adviser: Julian Rayner, Sanger Institute. THU Music and sound design: Jon Nicholls THU Narrator: Siobhan Redmond. THU Other parts: Russell Boulter, Richard Bremmer, David THU Collins, Jasmine Hyde, John Mackay THU Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Siobhan Redmond THU Actor: Russell Boulter THU Actor: Richard Bremmer THU Actor: David Collins THU Actor: Jasmine Hyde THU Actor: John Mackay THU Producer: Tim Dee THU Writer: Lavinia Greenlaw THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03yqj39 (Listen) THU Syria: The Silent Enemy THU THU Reports from around the world. THU THU 11:30 Scotland Meet Murray Lachlan Young b03m3ntr (Listen) THU 20 years ago, a young man named Murray Lachlan Young, who THU had been born in the United States to a Scottish father and THU an English mother, went in search of his Scottish roots. THU THU As a reedy 20 something in a tweed cap, he toured around a THU Scotland still recovering from the downturn of the 1980s and THU 90s, meeting his Scottish relatives from dank Glasgow to THU mystical Skye, sometimes bemusing them with his enthusiasm THU for all things Scottish. His encounters spurred him into an THU outpouring of poetry and a re-examination of the role his THU Scottish roots played in his life. "The trip was to write a THU poem that captured the wild heart of Scotland and delivered THU my Scottishness to me." THU THU 20 years on, Murray is ready to undertake that trip again. THU This time, the cultural context is the forthcoming THU referendum on Scottish Independence. Murray is now an award THU winning poet and a well known voice on the airwaves - BBC THU Radio 4's Saturday Live and BBC 6 Music. But he is still THU struggling to grasp his own cultural identity. THU THU Murray retraces his steps from Edinburgh, via Lochgilphead, THU to Islay in search of the answers to his personal THU predicament of what it means to be an Anglo-Scot in a time THU of deep historical change. All the while, he'll be exploring THU what Scottishness means for the people he encounters along THU the way. And the end result will be a new poem to reflect THU his journey. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03yqj3c (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03yn1pm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03yn1pp (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yqj3f (Listen) THU Webs of Loyalty THU THU Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of THU friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr THU Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning THU and experience of friendship have changed over the THU centuries. THU THU Episode Four: Webs of Loyalty THU THU Renaissance thinkers insisted that friendships were purely THU about emotional ties, but, in reality, friendships are often THU formed for more instrumental reasons - to give practical THU support in times of need. "That's what friends are for", THU observes one speaker in the opening montage of this episode. THU THU Thomas Dixon takes up his story to explore the impact of THU expanding commerce and politics on friendship in the 18th THU century. THU THU He learns about the friendship of the midwife and THU money-lender, Elizabeth Hatchett, with the pawn-broker, THU Elizabeth Carter, who lived and worked together in London in THU the early 18th century. And he looks into the circles of THU friendship of a Sussex shopkeeper, Thomas Turner, during the THU 1761 General Election, as an example of friendship within THU political life. Historians Alex Shepard and Naomi Tadmor THU share their research and vivid examples of such complex webs THU of loyalty. THU THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU THU Further Reading THU THU Barbara THU Caine (ed.), THU Friendship: A History THU (Equinox, 2009), Chapter 5, ‘From Christian Friendship to THU Secular THU Sentimentality: Enlightenment Re-evaluations’, by David THU Garrioch. THU THU THU THU Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds), THU Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 THU (Palgrave, 2005) THU THU THU THU Naomi THU Tadmor, THU Family and Friends in THU Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and THU Patronage THU (Cambridge THU University Press, 2001) THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03yqcwv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Hamlet b03yqj3h (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU by William Shakespeare THU THU Part Four THU THU A part of Character Invasion. Following Hamlet's accidental THU murder of Polonius, Laertes returns to Elsinore bent on THU revenge. THU THU Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula THU THU The director is Marc Beeby. THU Character Invasion THU THU Credits THU Hamlet: Jamie Parker THU Horatio: David Seddon THU Claudius: Paul Hilton THU Gertrude: Anastasia Hille THU Laertes: Tom Mison THU Ophelia: Lizzy Watts THU Guildenstern: Carl Prekopp THU Rosencrantz: Harry Myers THU Fortinbras: Rik Warden THU Actor: Nicholas Murchie THU Actor: Robert Blythe THU Actor: Will Howard THU Actor: Ben Crowe THU Actor: Michael Shelford THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: William Shakespeare THU THU 14:55 Five Writers in Search of Their Character b03ywg6p (Listen) THU Alexander McCall Smith THU THU As part of Radio 4's Character Invasion Day, Alexander THU McCall Smith talks about why Precious Ramotswe, of The No.1 THU Ladies Detective Agency series of novels, is his favourite THU character. The No.1 Ladies detective Agency has been THU translated into forty six languages and Precious Ramotswe THU has been dramatised both for radio and television. Alexander THU talks about where the character comes from and what he loves THU most about Precious. THU THU 15:00 Radio 4 Appeal b03ymr4k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:05 Open Country b03yqj3k (Listen) THU Chelford Cattle Market THU THU Helen Mark travels to Chelford Cattle Market in Cheshire, THU along with hundreds of buyers and sellers from across the THU UK. It was first formed over a century ago and has weathered THU the storms of the foot and mouth outbreak and BSE crisis THU which resulted in many others closing down altogether. It THU still nestles on the edge of the village of Chelford, next THU to the station, as livestock used to be delivered by rail. THU Like many others though, it has plans to move out to newer THU facilities closer to the motorway network. THU THU The market has sales of more than just cattle - sheep, pigs, THU poultry and goats but also machinery and horticulture. Helen THU joins auctioneer Gwyn Williams as he balances 'on the plank' THU above the pigs and sheep but even from that vantage point THU the subtle nods and winks of the bidders can be hard to spot THU for a novice. THU THU Not everyone is a buyer though. Helen meets some farmers THU simply scouting the market for prices and for many it's a THU great social occasion and an opportunity to catch up on THU gossip. But keep that between us. THU THU Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03ymxz7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03yqjgn (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03yqjgq (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b03yqjgs (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03yn1pr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks b03yqjgv (Listen) THU Pregnancy and In-Laws THU THU The Emperor of Entertainment and Archduke of Geordie, Jason THU Cook is joined by his regular guests, Zoe Harrison and Neil THU Grainger, to guide the audience through the murky waters and THU unseen eddies that bedevil the waters of life. THU THU This time he looks at the trials and tribulations of finding THU out your partner is pregnant, and the perils and THU preoccupations that go into meeting your in-laws for the THU first time. THU THU Using his own experiences to illustrate what, and THU importantly what not, to do in these situations, Jason will THU teach you everything he knows about surviving them, so that THU your life can be happier and more successful. Well, THU possibly. THU THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Jason Cook THU Ensemble: Zoe Harrison THU Ensemble: Neil Grainger THU Producer: Sam Michell THU Writer: Jason Cook THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03yqktr (Listen) THU Fallon sees red, and Kenton feels a long way from home. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03yqktt (Listen) THU Kirsty Lang with news, interviews and reviews from the arts THU world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Kirsty Lang THU Producer: Olivia Skinner THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03yqj37 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b03ynt6m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b03y38ky (Listen) THU Serving the Super-Rich THU THU Serving the super-rich: what do the seriously wealthy do THU with their money? How do they preserve or spend their THU multi-million or even billion pound fortunes? And who is THU helping them manage those assets? With more billionaires in THU the world than ever before, working for the very rich is a THU growth industry. Whether finding staff for their superyacht THU or helping them give away the money, there's a raft of THU businesses ready to serve the ultra high net worth THU individual. Evan Davis talks to three firms whose job is to THU serve the wealthy elite. THU THU Guests: THU THU Richard Wilson, CEO, Billionaire Family Office THU THU Karen Clark, Director and Head of Private Clients, SandAire THU THU Lucy Challenger, Manager, Bespoke Bureau THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03yqjgq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03yqj31 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03yn1pt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03yqkty (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03yqkv0 (Listen) THU The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, Unwanted Discoveries THU THU The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry is the beguiling and THU touching novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Set in Island Books, a THU quirky independent bookshop at the heart of an island THU community off the American coast, it is the place where life THU lessons gleaned from reading are passed on. Today, there are THU new beginnings and some unwelcome news. Madeleine Potter and THU Hari Dhillon read. THU THU Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Madeleine Potter THU Reader: Hari Dhillon THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Author: Gabrielle Zevin THU THU 23:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zslfj (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the panel show devoted to the art of THU being wrong with comedians Rufus Hound, Sharon Horgan and THU Fergus Craig competing to give the best in wrong answers. THU THU Charlie's favourite hobby - the computer game - comes in for THU the So Wrong It's Right treatment this week. Asked to pitch THU a terrible idea for a computer game, who will triumph in the THU battle between Fergus' Football Player Liaison Officer, THU Sharon's Breast Feeding game and Rufus' innovative third THU person shooter - You Should Have Seen It Man Like Wow? THU THU Also up for examination are the panel's nominations for THU modern woes - how will Charlie react to Rufus' nomination THU for his greatest modern irritant: 'Charlie Brooker'. THU THU The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also THU writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series THU Newswipe & Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's You Have Been THU Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards THU 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press THU Awards for his newspaper columns. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Charlie Brooker THU Panellist: Rufus Hound THU Panellist: Sharon Horgan THU Panellist: Fergus Craig THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03yqkv2 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 MARCH 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03yn1qr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03y36vt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03yn1qt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03yn1qw (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03yn1qy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03yn1r0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03yqv6m (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Richard Littledale. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03yqv6p (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 b03x45s5 (Listen) FRI Black Redstart FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Bill Oddie presents the black redstart. It was the German FRI Luftwaffe which enabled black redstarts to gain a real FRI foothold here. The air-raids of the Blitz created bombsites FRI which mimicked their rocky homes and the weeds that grew FRI there attracted insects. In 1942 there over twenty singing FRI males in London alone and now they're being encouraged by FRI the creation of 'green roof' habitats, rich in flowers and FRI insects. FRI FRI Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03yqv6r (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03ymr52 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03y3g8t (Listen) FRI A Spy Among Friends, Episode 5 FRI FRI With access to newly released MI5 files and previously FRI unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former FRI officers of MI6 and the CIA, author Ben Macintyre unlocks FRI the last great secret of the Cold War. FRI FRI Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and FRI Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and FRI enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the FRI Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two FRI closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott FRI of MI6 and James FRI Jesus Angleton the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew FRI Philby better than anyone - only to discover they had not FRI known him at all. FRI FRI This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and FRI treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle FRI waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in FRI the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and FRI Washington; of male friendships forged, and then FRI systematically betrayed. FRI FRI In the final episode of A Spy Among Friends Nicholas Elliott FRI confronts Kim Philby who finally admits the scale and depth FRI of his betrayal, the greatest in the twentieth century. FRI FRI Read by: Simon Russell Beale FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Simon Russell Beale FRI Producer: David Roper FRI Author: Ben Macintyre FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03yqwhd (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03yqwhg (Listen) FRI Five Fever Tales, Emergency Prescriptions Kept up One's FRI Sleeve FRI FRI A new drama serial by Lavinia Greenlaw about one of the FRI oldest of human diseases. FRI Malaria has blighted human life in parts of the world for as FRI long as humans have been humans. The mosquito, the parasite FRI it carries, and the human bloodstream are evolving together. FRI In many places the parasite still has the upper hand. FRI Emergency Prescriptions Kept up One's Sleeve: the last of FRI five dramas based on facts and taking in ancient historical FRI itches and ideas about the disease and the latest scientific FRI attempts to understand and outwit it. FRI The disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of FRI female mosquitoes came to humans probably from gorillas a FRI long time ago. Through recorded history the fever-prompting FRI disease has shadowed humans almost everywhere warm enough FRI for mosquitoes to live between the Poles. We have evolved FRI together. It is still the biggest killer of children in FRI parts of the world. FRI Made in collaboration with Wellcome Trust. FRI Medical/science adviser: Julian Rayner, Sanger Institute. FRI Music and sound design: Jon Nicholls FRI Narrator: Siobhan Redmond. FRI Other parts: Russell Boulter, Richard Bremmer, David FRI Collins, Jasmine Hyde, John Mackay FRI Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Siobhan Redmond FRI Actor: Russell Boulter FRI Actor: Richard Bremmer FRI Actor: David Collins FRI Actor: Jasmine Hyde FRI Actor: John Mackay FRI Producer: Tim Dee FRI Writer: Lavinia Greenlaw FRI FRI 11:00 The Chinese Grand Tour b01s452x (Listen) FRI Overseas Chinese tourism is on the rise. Around 30 million FRI Chinese took foreign vacations last year. Chinese visitors FRI are venturing to Britain in increasing numbers, encouraged FRI by their home government, keen that Chinese citizens are FRI seen to be enjoying the fruits of the country's economic FRI miracle. FRI And Chinese visitors abroad are left in no doubt that they FRI are representing their country. Official circulars remind FRI them to act as "ambassadors" for their country. Several FRI times in the past few years the Spiritual Civilisation FRI Steering Committee of the Communist Party has issued bossy FRI instructions calling on Chinese tourists to avoid spitting, FRI queue-jumping, loudness or haggling in shops with fixed FRI prices. FRI The favoured mode of travel for Chinese visitors to Britain FRI is the planned bus tour, but the route these bus tours FRI follow is rather idiosyncratic. Whereas most foreign FRI tourists to Britain follow a predictable tourist trail - FRI Buckingham Palace, ruined Castles, beautiful cathedrals and FRI quaint market towns, the Chinese are more interested in FRI seeing places with a Chinese connection. FRI The Willow Tree in Cambridge is famous in China because it FRI is where the modern poet Xu Zhimo wrote his poem "On Leaving FRI Cambridge." Bus loads of Chinese Tourists stop there now. FRI Philip Dodd boards a coach and goes with the Chinese FRI tourists who have an idiosyncratic view of Britain and FRI spends a night with them in Manchester's Chinatown. FRI FRI 11:30 The Architects b03yqyz5 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Mad Helene FRI FRI Comedy by Jim Poyser and Neil Griffiths. Sir Lucien's FRI blossoming romance with a French serial divorcee was FRI worrying already. Then the 'men in black' arrive to assess FRI his assets and more besides. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI Credits FRI Matt: Dominic Coleman FRI Sarah: Ingrid Oliver FRI Sir Lucien: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Tim: Alex Carter FRI Hayley: Aisling Bea FRI Helene: Carolyn Pickles FRI Mr Douglas: Sean Murray FRI Mr McCoy: Harry Myers FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Jim Poyser FRI Writer: Neil Griffiths FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03yqyz7 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03yn1r4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03yn1r6 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yqyz9 (Listen) FRI When William Met Mary FRI FRI Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of FRI friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr FRI Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning FRI and experience of friendship have changed over the FRI centuries. FRI FRI Episode Five: When William Met Mary FRI FRI The famous 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally, crystallised for FRI modern viewers the key question of whether a man and woman FRI can truly be friends without any sexual element. FRI FRI This was a question which radical and educated people were FRI beginning to ask in the 18th century, alongside its mirror FRI image - can a husband and wife also be friends? FRI FRI Thomas Dixon traces the changing face of friendship and the FRI new idea of "companionate marriage" during this era, through FRI the linked histories of the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and FRI the radical philosopher William Godwin. FRI FRI With the help of the historian Barbara Taylor, he considers FRI three moving stories: Mary's early friendship with Fanny FRI Blood, of whom she declared: "To live with this friend is FRI the height of my ambition"; the halting start, close FRI friendship and devoted but tragically short marriage of FRI Wollstonecraft with Godwin, who described their relationship FRI as "friendship melting into love"; and the marriage of their FRI daughter, Mary, who wrote of her desolation after the death FRI by drowning of her husband, the poet Percy Shelley: "I have FRI now no friend." FRI FRI Thomas Dixon brings together issues of friendship and FRI marriage in this most contemporary of historical series. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI Further Reading FRI FRI Barbara FRI Caine (ed.), FRI Friendship: A History FRI (Equinox, 2009), Chapter 6, ‘Taking up the Pen: Women and FRI the Writing of FRI Friendship’, by Barbara Caine. FRI FRI FRI FRI Amanda E. FRI Herbert, FRI Female Alliances: Gender, FRI Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain FRI (Yale University Press, FRI 2014). FRI FRI FRI FRI Claudia FRI Johnson (ed.), FRI The Cambridge Companion to FRI Mary Wollstonecraft FRI (Cambridge University Press, 2002) FRI FRI FRI FRI Simon May, FRI Love: A History FRI (Yale, 2011), Chapter 4: FRI ‘Love as Perfect Friendship’ FRI FRI FRI FRI Barbara FRI Taylor, FRI Mary Wollstonecraft and the FRI Feminist Imagination FRI (Cambridge University Press, 2003) FRI FRI FRI FRI Ralph M. Wardle (ed.) FRI Godwin & Mary: Letters of FRI William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft FRI (University of Nebraska FRI Press, 1977) FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03yqktr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Hamlet b03yqyzc (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI by William Shakespeare FRI FRI Part Five FRI FRI A part of Character Invasion. Hamlet has returned FRI unexpectedly to Elsinore where Claudius and Laertes have FRI laid plans to murder him at a fencing match. FRI FRI Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula FRI FRI The director is Marc Beeby. FRI Character Invasion FRI FRI Credits FRI Hamlet: Jamie Parker FRI Horatio: David Seddon FRI Claudius: Paul Hilton FRI Gertrude: Anastasia Hille FRI Laertes: Tom Mison FRI The Gravedigger: Ben Crowe FRI 2nd Gravedigger: Will Howard FRI Osric: Carl Prekopp FRI Fortinbras: Rik Warden FRI Actor: Nicholas Murchie FRI Actor: Michael Shelford FRI Director: Marc Beeby FRI Writer: William Shakespeare FRI FRI 14:55 Five Writers in Search of Their Character b03yqyzf (Listen) FRI Lee Hall FRI FRI Lee Hall is an English playwright and screenwriter, best FRI known for the 2000 film Billy Elliot. As part of Radio 4's FRI Character Invasion Day, Lee talks about why Billy Elliot is FRI his favourite character. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03yqyzh (Listen) FRI Nottinghamshire FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs GQT from Nottinghamshire. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Matt Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer a FRI range of horticultural questions from an audience of local FRI gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 New Irish Writing b03yqyzk (Listen) FRI Jigsaw FRI FRI A series of new readings by some of Ireland's most exciting FRI and talented writers. Clare Dwyer-Hogg, Michèle Forbes, Paul FRI McVeigh and Martin Meenan bring us a range of stories where FRI human emotions are tested, and memories are forged, FRI forgotten or found, all the while taking a humorous and FRI poignant look at how people withdraw, connect and reconnect FRI with one another throughout the course of their lives. FRI FRI Missing jigsaw pieces bring three generations of a family FRI together in Martin Meenan's 'Jigsaw' read by Ciaran FRI McMenamin. Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ciaran McMenamin FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI Writer: Martin Meenan FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03yqyzm (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03yqyzp (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03yqyzr (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03yn1r8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03yqyzt (Listen) FRI Series 83, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest FRI panellists including Susan Calman. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03yqyzw (Listen) FRI Fallon is proving popular, and Jill attends to the bees. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lily Pargetter: Georgie Feller FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03yqyzy (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with news, interviews and reviews from the arts FRI world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Kirsty Lang FRI Producer: Timothy Prosser FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03yqwhg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b040715t (Listen) FRI Francis Maude MP, Camilla Cavendish, Emily Thornberry MP and FRI Lord Hennessy. FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Sedgeford in Norfolk with Cabinet Office Minister FRI Francis Maude MP, journalist Camilla Cavendish, Shadow FRI Justice Secretary Emily Thornberry MP and the historian and FRI cross bench peer Lord Hennessy. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03yqz02 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yqz04 (Listen) FRI Five Hundred Years of Friendship: Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI The changing meaning of friendship over the centuries: the FRI weekly omnibus edition of Dr Thomas Dixon's timely history. FRI FRI From social networks involving perhaps 150 friends around FRI the well or at the bake-house, to contemporary Social FRI Networks which might extend over the globe and include a FRI thousand Friends, Thomas Dixon's history considers both the FRI differences and similarities between friendships as we FRI experience them today and as people lived them out in the FRI sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. FRI FRI This first of three omnibus editions takes on board FRI questions of the function of friendship - emotional or FRI instrumental; the Biblical contradictions about friendships FRI - universal or individual; the impact of commerce and FRI politics on friendship; and whether men and women can really FRI be friends without a sexual element. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03yn1rb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03yqz06 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03yqz08 (Listen) FRI The Collected Works of AJ Fikry, A Secret FRI FRI The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry is the enchanting, funny FRI and touching novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Set in Island Books, FRI a struggling independent bookshop at the heart of an island FRI community off the American coast, it is the place where life FRI lessons gleaned from reading are passed on. Today, secrets FRI are revealed. Madeleine Potter and Hari Dhillon read. FRI FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Madeleine Potter FRI Reader: Hari Dhillon FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Author: Gabrielle Zevin FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b03ynt6p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03yqz0b (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
21 March, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 22/03/2014 - 28/03/2014
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