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SAT SATURDAY 29 MARCH 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03yqz1y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03y3g8t (Listen) SAT A Spy Among Friends, Episode 5 SAT SAT With access to newly released MI5 files and previously SAT unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former SAT officers of MI6 and the CIA, author Ben Macintyre unlocks SAT the last great secret of the Cold War. SAT SAT Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and SAT Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and SAT enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the SAT Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two SAT closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott SAT of MI6 and James SAT Jesus Angleton the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew SAT Philby better than anyone - only to discover they had not SAT known him at all. SAT SAT This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and SAT treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle SAT waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in SAT the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and SAT Washington; of male friendships forged, and then SAT systematically betrayed. SAT SAT In the final episode of A Spy Among Friends Nicholas Elliott SAT confronts Kim Philby who finally admits the scale and depth SAT of his betrayal, the greatest in the twentieth century. SAT SAT Read by: Simon Russell Beale SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Simon Russell Beale SAT Producer: David Roper SAT Author: Ben Macintyre SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03yqz20 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03yqz22 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03yqz24 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03yqz26 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03yqzdw (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Dr Janet Wootton. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03yqzdy (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03yzxjk (Listen) SAT Big Bird SAT SAT As part of Radio 4's Character Invasion, Chris Packham SAT presents a unique Tweet of the Day to tell the story of Big SAT Bird. SAT SAT Avis giganteus, is , as its scientific name suggests, a SAT large, conspicuous and highly vocal species, and one of the SAT few birds for which binoculars are redundant. At a SAT staggering 249 cm high, it is over-topped only by the male SAT ostrich. But while the ostrich is an athletic creature of SAT wild open spaces, our bird is a denizen of urban SAT thoroughfares and film studios. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT Big Bird (Avis giganteus) SAT SAT Find out more about SAT Big Bird SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Image ™/© 2014 Sesame Workshop. All Rights Reserved. SAT SAT What is Radio 4's Character Invasion? SAT SAT On SAT Saturday 29 March SAT Radio 4 explores all things character. Combining an on-air SAT celebration of how the characters we love have been written, SAT created and bought to life with a day of free events in all SAT the BBC sites that make Radio Drama. SAT SAT SAT SAT You can SAT listen SAT at home or come to an SAT event SAT at one of our Radio Drama making sites across the country. SAT SAT SAT SAT Writers' creations will take over the air waves, invading SAT Radio 4’s programmes throughout the day, beginning with SAT Tweet of the Day SAT and through SAT Any Answers? SAT and SAT Loose Ends SAT SAT SAT SAT Alongside this an exciting range of free events will be held SAT in SAT Belfast SAT Birmingham SAT Bristol SAT Cardiff SAT Glasgow SAT London SAT and SAT Salford SAT SAT SAT SAT Meet writers, actors and programme makers as we explore our SAT love of character together. SAT SAT SAT SAT To find out more about Radio 4's Character Invasion Day, SAT click SAT here SAT to vist the website. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03yqz28 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03yqz2b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03yqj3k (Listen) SAT Chelford Cattle Market SAT SAT Helen Mark travels to Chelford Cattle Market in Cheshire, SAT along with hundreds of buyers and sellers from across the SAT UK. It was first formed over a century ago and has weathered SAT the storms of the foot and mouth outbreak and BSE crisis SAT which resulted in many others closing down altogether. It SAT still nestles on the edge of the village of Chelford, next SAT to the station, as livestock used to be delivered by rail. SAT Like many others though, it has plans to move out to newer SAT facilities closer to the motorway network. SAT SAT The market has sales of more than just cattle - sheep, pigs, SAT poultry and goats but also machinery and horticulture. Helen SAT joins auctioneer Gwyn Williams as he balances 'on the plank' SAT above the pigs and sheep but even from that vantage point SAT the subtle nods and winks of the bidders can be hard to spot SAT for a novice. SAT SAT Not everyone is a buyer though. Helen meets some farmers SAT simply scouting the market for prices and for many it's a SAT great social occasion and an opportunity to catch up on SAT gossip. But keep that between us. SAT SAT Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03z3fdn (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03yqz2d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03z3g2z (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03z3g31 (Listen) SAT Paul Whitehouse SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with comedian Paul Whitehouse, SAT Lady Churchill's secretary Heather White-Smith, polar SAT explorer Ben Saunders and Francis Urquhart's Inheritance SAT Tracks. Plus JP Devlin in the BBC Radio Theatre with SAT audience members from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT Paul Whitehouse SAT SAT Comedian and writer Paul Whitehouse discusses the multitude SAT of characters SAT he’s created for shows including SAT Harry Enfield’s Television Programme SAT The SAT Fast Show SAT Down The Line SAT and SAT Nurse SAT SAT SAT Churchill's Secretary: Heather White-Smith SAT SAT Heather White-Smith spent three years working with the SAT Churchills at Downing Street. SAT SAT My Years With the Churchills - A Young Girl's Memories is SAT published by Cotesworth Publishing SAT SAT Polar Explorer: Ben Saunders SAT In February 2014, SAT Ben Saunders SAT became the first person in history to complete Captain SAT Scott's Terra Nova SAT expedition to the South Pole SAT and back. In doing so, he and his teammate Tarka SAT L'Herpiniere set the world record for the longest ever polar SAT journey on foot, covering 1800 miles in 105 days. He talks SAT about what it takes to be a polar explorer and to test the SAT limits of human endurance. SAT Read Ben’s Antarctic blog from the SAT Scott Expedition here SAT SAT Inheritance Tracks : Francis Urquhart SAT For Radio 4’s SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT House of Cards SAT ’ SAT Francis Urquhart shares his Inheritance Tracks, courtesy of SAT his creator SAT Michael Dobbs SAT and actor Ewan Bailey. SAT SAT Crowdscape: JP Devlin meets 'Hitchhikers Guide' fans SAT JP talks to fans of SAT The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy SAT at a special live event in London's BBC Radio Theatre, as SAT part of SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Whitehouse SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart SAT Interviewed Guest: Heather White-Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Ben Saunders SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT SAT 10:15 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy b03xky8s (Listen) SAT Some of the most enduring characters ever created for radio SAT will be heard in a special, live broadcast from London's BBC SAT Radio Theatre, as part of Character Invasion. SAT SAT The two-headed smooth-talking alien Zaphod Beeblebrox, SAT bemused Earthling Arthur Dent, and Marvin the Paranoid SAT Android will relive some of their adventures, with a very SAT special appearance by the original producer John Lloyd as SAT The Voice of the Book. SAT SAT Adapted and Directed by Dirk Maggs SAT SAT Producer: David Morley SAT A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. SAT 42 Things You Need To Know About H2G2 SAT Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on 4 Extra SAT Character Invasion SAT Play the Hitchhiker's Game! SAT SAT Credits SAT Arthur Dent: Simon Jones SAT Zaphod Beeblebrox: Mark Wing-Davey SAT Marvin the Paranoid Android: Stephen Moore SAT Trillian: Sue Sheridan SAT Ford Prefect: Geoffrey McGivern SAT The Voice of the Book: John Lloyd SAT Director: Dirk Maggs SAT Adaptor: Dirk Maggs SAT Author: Douglas Adams SAT SAT 11:30 Week in Westminster b03z3g3q (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 12:00 From Our Own Correspondent b03z3g3s (Listen) SAT Are the Russians Coming? SAT SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03yqyzt (Listen) SAT Series 83, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest SAT panellists Susan Calman, Phill Jupitus and Lucy Porter. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Phill Jupitus SAT Panellist: Lucy Porter SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 13:00 News b03yqz2j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b040715t (Listen) SAT Lord Hennessy, Emily Thornberry MP, Camilla Cavendish, SAT Francis Maude MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Sedgeford in Norfolk with Cabinet Office Minister SAT Francis Maude MP, journalist Camilla Cavendish, Shadow SAT Justice Secretary Emily Thornberry MP and the historian and SAT cross bench peer Lord Hennessy. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03z3g4h (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 14:30 Friday Drama b008zbxx (Listen) SAT The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles SAT SAT The Heroic Pursuits of Darleen Fyles SAT SAT Esther Wilson's drama is inspired by a true story. SAT SAT Darleen is a young woman with learning difficulties who has SAT become obsessed with the emergency services and who SAT occasionally sets fire to things. Helen is a volunteer SAT helper trying to help Darleen to rebuild her life, but she SAT too has her own secret reasons for volunteering. SAT SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT Character Invasion SAT The 20 Most Memorable Characters From Radio 4 SAT SAT Credits SAT Darleen: Donna Lavin SAT Helen: Claire Rushbrook SAT Jamie: Edmund Davis SAT Treena: Siobhan Finneran SAT Tony: Craig Cheetham SAT Will: Craig Cheetham SAT PC: Craig Cheetham SAT Nurse: Sue Kelly SAT Writer: Esther Wilson SAT Director: Pauline Harris SAT SAT 15:30 Letting Go b03z3g8l (Listen) SAT As part of Radio 4's Character Invasion, Paul Allen meets a SAT collection of well-known authors to explore the pleasures SAT and pain of releasing their best loved characters. SAT SAT For the writer, their characters can be akin to adored SAT children, shaped and nurtured with deep bonds formed. But SAT what happens when these characters are invited to leave the SAT page and adapted for stage and screen or even killed off? SAT What do writers feel when they let go of their creations? SAT SAT We hear contributions from PD James, Michael Morpurgo, SAT Joanne Harris, Louis De Bernieres, Mark Haddon, Judith Kerr SAT and William Boyd. We also learn how their readers are SAT affected by seeing characters such as Adam Dalgliesh, SAT Captain Corelli and Logan Mount Stewart distorted and SAT changed as they leave the page. SAT SAT When an author undergoes the process of letting go, some are SAT heavily involved in the production and casting while others SAT have little control, simply hoping the new interpretation SAT does justice to their creation. As Allen discovers this has SAT sometimes caused resentment and reluctance to continue this SAT practice. SAT SAT He also examines how writers and readers emotions differ SAT when a decision is made to kill off a character and we hear SAT readings by the author themselves of some of their best SAT known work. SAT SAT Produced by Stephen Garner SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03z3g9g (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Fatal Attraction; Anita Roddick SAT SAT We discuss women, equality and Islam with Sara Khan from SAT Inspire, Salma Yaqoob, Mirina Paananen and Julie Bindell. SAT British Muslim women have low employment rates and poor SAT health compared to many women in the UK. What can or should SAT be done and what role does feminism play? SAT SAT Fatal Attraction starts a run in the West End - how does the SAT bunny boiler fit into 21st century sexual politics? Sam SAT Roddick on her mum Anita and the impact she had on business SAT ethics and the beauty industry. SAT SAT BBC News School Reporters discuss exam pressure with Andrew SAT Halls, head teacher at King's College School in Westminster. SAT Business Secretary Vince Cable on the efforts being made to SAT get more women on company boards. Hilary Mantel talks about SAT her favourite character, Thomas Cromwell as part of Radio SAT 4's Character Invasion. SAT SAT And now lesbians can marry: how to decide what to wear on SAT the big day and what to call yourself when you're a married SAT woman, married to another woman. Melanie Rickie, Alice SAT Arnold and Sue Wilkinson discuss. SAT SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT Women, Equality and Islam SAT SAT The Muslim women's charity, SAT Inspire SAT is setting up a SAT new website SAT designed to encourage Muslim women to write about gender SAT discrimination and inequality and we hear from listeners SAT from the SAT BBC Asian Network SAT about their experiences. Jane Garvey is joined by Asian SAT Network presenter Tina Daheley; Sara Khan, director of SAT Muslim Human Rights organisation, Inspire; Salma Yaqoob, SAT former Vice Chair of the Respect Party and Birmingham city SAT councillor, Mirina Paananen who is training to be an Islamic SAT scholar and Julie Bindel, journalist and founder of SAT Justice for Women SAT to discuss feminism, equality, women and Islam. We will SAT also be hearing from two girls who set up the website SAT MeandmyHijaab SAT . SAT Muslim Women's Network SAT Islam and Feminism SAT Inclusive Mosque Initiative SAT SAT Fatal Attraction SAT A stage version of the iconic 1980’s film Fatal Attraction SAT opened this week in London’s West End. Its creator, James SAT Dearden, says the central character Alex Forrest - portrayed SAT as a ‘bunny-boiler’ in the original movie - will be seen in SAT a far more sympathetic light in the stage version. What SAT issues does it raise for a modern audience…? SAT SAT Anita Roddick SAT We hear a SAT Woman’s Hour Archive Collection interview with Dame Anita SAT Roddick SAT and Observer journalist Lucy Siegle discusses the extent to SAT which she was a game changer in the beauty industry. SAT SAT Exam Pressure SAT Are we putting too much pressure on teenagers to perform in SAT exams? BBC School Reporters at Richmond Park Academy in SAT London talk about the strain they’re under and interview SAT their head teacher about the ranking system at their school. SAT And we hear from Andrew Halls, Head Teacher at King’s SAT College School, Wimbledon about the wider extent of stress SAT at school and how to help pupils deal with pressure. SAT SAT Women on Boards SAT The latest annual SAT Female FTSE Report SAT reveals female participation rates have risen to 20.7 per SAT cent of board positions in the FTSE100 – up from 17.3 per SAT cent since nearly a year ago. The report’s author, former SAT Trade Minister, Lord Davies, originally set a target of SAT achieving 25 per cent for 2015 which they’re on course to SAT achieve if the current improvements continue. The report SAT states there’s still a noticeable discrepancy between SAT executive directorships held by women in comparison with SAT women holding non-executive Directorships and 48 all-male SAT boards remain. So does the lack of increased female SAT visibility on executive boards indicate women’s successes SAT aren’t wide-reaching enough and what should the government SAT do to make it happen? Could women do more to put themselves SAT in line for leadership? Business Secretary Vince Cable – SAT who’s responsible for the report’s launch - and founder of SAT The Women's Business Forum, Heather Jackson, join Jenni to SAT discuss. SAT SAT Nina Nesbitt SAT The 19 year old singer-songwriter and guitarist from SAT Edinburgh performs live in the studio. SAT SAT Lesbian Wives SAT On Saturday 29th March the first same sex marriage SAT ceremonies will take place in England & Wales. For the first SAT time, gay and lesbian people who choose to get married will SAT have the same rights as heterosexual married couples, SAT including the right to legally refer to their spouse as SAT “husband” or “wife”. But, given the history of patriarchy SAT connected with marriage, when in the past many wives were in SAT fact seen as the property of their husbands, how comfortable SAT will lesbians feel using the term “wife” to refer both to SAT their partner and to themselves? Many heterosexual married SAT couples prefer alternative terms like “other half” or SAT “significant other” – but are these terms appropriate for SAT lesbians, or should they insist on using “wife” in order to SAT mark the social milestone that is their marriage? Jenni SAT speaks to former BBC Radio 4 newsreader Alice Arnold, who is SAT currently in a civil partnership with the broadcaster Clare SAT Balding and plans to marry in the future, and Sue Wilkinson, SAT who married her partner Celia Kitzinger in Canada in 2003 SAT and subsequently fought to have their marriage legally SAT recognised in the UK. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Sara Khan SAT Interviewed Guest: Mirina Paananen SAT Interviewed Guest: Salma Yaqoob SAT Interviewed Guest: Julie Bindel SAT Interviewed Guest: Bel Mooney SAT Interviewed Guest: Karen Krizanovich SAT Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke SAT Interviewed Guest: Sam Roddick SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Siegle SAT Interviewed Guest: Andrew Halls SAT Interviewed Guest: Vince Cable SAT Interviewed Guest: Hilary Mantel SAT Interviewed Guest: Melanie Rickie SAT Interviewed Guest: Alice Arnold SAT Interviewed Guest: Sue Wilkinson SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03z3g9j (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b03y38ky (Listen) SAT Serving the Super-Rich SAT SAT Serving the super-rich: what do the seriously wealthy do SAT with their money? How do they preserve or spend their SAT multi-million or even billion pound fortunes? And who is SAT helping them manage those assets? With more billionaires in SAT the world than ever before, working for the very rich is a SAT growth industry. Whether finding staff for their superyacht SAT or helping them give away the money, there's a raft of SAT businesses ready to serve the ultra high net worth SAT individual. Evan Davis talks to three firms whose job is to SAT serve the wealthy elite. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Richard Wilson, CEO, Billionaire Family Office SAT SAT Karen Clark, Director and Head of Private Clients, SandAire SAT SAT Lucy Challenger, Manager, Bespoke Bureau SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT Evan Davis SAT Presenter of The Bottom Line SAT SAT Richard Wilson SAT CEO, Billionaire Family Office SAT SAT Karen Clark SAT Director and Head of Private Clients, SandAire SAT SAT Lucy Challenger SAT Manager, Bespoke Bureau SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03yqz2l (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03yqz2n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03yqz2q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03z3gh5 (Listen) SAT Caroline Quentin, Ade Edmonson, Antonio Carluccio, Julian SAT Garner, Sara Cox, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, London Afrobeat SAT Collective SAT SAT Clive's a Man Behaving Badly with actress Caroline Quentin, SAT who's currently starring as Moxie in Noel Coward's 'Relative SAT Values.' Set in the early 1950's, Relative Values is about SAT the uproarious culture clash between the glittering world of SAT Hollywood and the stiff upper lip of the English SAT aristocracy. SAT SAT Clive drops the anchor with Bad Shepherd and former Young SAT One Ade Edmonson, who sets sail to explore Britain's SAT maritime past for his new series 'Ade at Sea.' He discovers SAT how it continues to influence the lives of the people who SAT still depend on the sea. SAT SAT Sara Cox finds the recipe for perfect pasta with Italian SAT chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio, whose new book, SAT 'Antonio Carluccio's Pasta' shares his love of Italy's SAT favourite food, providing innovative and exciting recipes SAT for soups, main courses, salads and even desserts. SAT SAT Clive talks to writer and director Julian Garner about SAT 'Father Nandru and the Wolves', a topical production in SAT light of the recent prejudices about Romanians arriving in SAT the UK. This magical show features larger than life puppetry SAT and a live Gyspy music score to bring to life the whole of SAT Wilton's Music Hall SAT SAT With Music from London Afrobeat Collective, who perform SAT Prime Minister from their EP of the same name. And more SAT music from Rodrigo y Gabriela who perform The Soundmaker SAT from their album '9 Dead Alive.' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Caroline Quentin, Ade Edmonson, Antonio SAT Carluccio, Julian Garner, Sara Cox, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, SAT London Afrobeat Collective (2) SAT SAT Caroline Quentin SAT 'Relative Values’ is at London's Harold Pinter Theatre from SAT Monday 14th April until Saturday 21st June. SAT SAT Julian Garner SAT ‘Father Nandru and the Wolves’ is at Wilton’s Music Hall SAT until Friday 18th April. SAT SAT Antonio Carluccio SAT ‘Antonio Carluccio's Pasta’ is published by Quadrille and SAT available now. SAT SAT Ade Edmonson SAT ‘Ade at Sea’ is on Thursday 3rd April at 20.30 on ITV1. SAT SAT London Afrobeat Collective SAT ‘Prime Minister’ EP is available now on the band’s own SAT label. SAT London Afrobeat Collective are playing Hideaway Jazz Club, SAT London on 11th April, Cheltenham Jazz Festival on 5th May SAT and How The Light Gets In - Philosophy & Music Festival, SAT Hay-on-Wye on 26th May. SAT SAT SAT Rodrigo y Gabriela SAT ‘9 Dead Alive’ is available on Rubyworks / Because Music on SAT Monday 28th April. SAT Rodrigo Y Gabriela are playing two sold out shows at SAT London’s Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 20th and Wednesday SAT 21st May. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03z3gh7 (Listen) SAT Noah SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles Noah. As a new Hollywood movie opens SAT starring Russell Crowe, and as part of a celebration of SAT characters on BBC Radio 4, Mark Coles explores the many SAT sides of a figure we keep returning to. SAT Character Invasion SAT The 20 Most Memorable Characters From Radio 4 SAT SAT 19:15 A Question of Character b03z3gh9 (Listen) SAT As a part of Radio 4's Character Invasion, Saturday Review SAT heads to Salford to debate, in front of a live studio SAT audience, whether we are living in a golden age in the SAT invention of fictional characters - or if, on the other SAT hand, the current crop falls short by comparison with former SAT highpoints such as the Victorian novel or the Elizabethan SAT stage. Can modern literature really offer anyone to match SAT Anna Karenina, David Copperfield and so many other eponymous SAT heroes? And if the really strong characters in the modern SAT day come from TV and cinema - such as Walter White in SAT Breaking Bad - or children's books like Harry Potter - does SAT that make them any less significant? Tom Sutcliffe plays SAT host to two teams tussling it out to discover who should SAT have bragging rights - Raskalnikov or Tony Soprano, SAT Elizabeth Bennett or Bridget Jones, Romulus or Rebus? SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03z3ghc (Listen) SAT Portraying Real Lives SAT SAT As a part of Radio 4's Character Invasion, , actress Maxine SAT Peake meets with actors and, in a series of one to one SAT conversations, discusses the challenges of portraying the SAT real-life character as opposed to the fictional. SAT SAT Maxine Peake has tackled many factual roles, including SAT Tracey Temple in Confessions of a Diary Secretary, Joan le SAT Mesurier in Hancock and Joan, the title role in The Secret SAT Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Anne Scargill in Queens of the SAT Coal Age, Stephen Hawking's secretary in the 2015 film The SAT Theory of Everything, and her infamous portrayal of Myra SAT Hindley in See No Evil. SAT SAT Most actors will only face a critical backlash if their SAT portrayal of King Lear or Jimmy Porter does not meet SAT expectation, but what happens if their subject is real? How SAT does this change the actor's approach to the character SAT research, is it better or worse to meet them, does this SAT restrict the boundaries or increase the empathy? And what SAT happens if that character is regarded as evil in the public SAT psyche? SAT SAT In discussion with friends and colleagues such as Michael SAT Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Patricia Hodge, Monica Dolan, Shaun SAT Evans and Anne Scargill we discover how different the SAT approach can and has to be. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Foster. SAT Character Invasion SAT SAT 21:00 Friday Drama b01694p2 (Listen) SAT Recordings Recovered from the House of Leaves SAT SAT Adapted by Mike Walker. SAT SAT "The Navidson Record now stands as part of this country's SAT cultural experience and yet, in spite of the fact that SAT hundreds of thousands of people have seen it, the film SAT continues to remain an enigma. Some insist it must be true, SAT others believe it is a trick on a par with the Orson Welles SAT radio romp The War of the Worlds. Many more have never even SAT heard of it." SAT SAT With these words Zampano preludes the excerpts from an SAT extraordinary film, cut together by Will Navidson from SAT cameras located within his house and those he took with him SAT into the labyrinth that had sprung up there over the course SAT of a few days. SAT SAT According to the Navidson record, it was when the family SAT returned to the house from a trip to Seattle that they first SAT discovered the additional door and the space behind it. Will SAT Navidson, celebrated adventure photographer, was intrigued, SAT his partner Karen insisted that the door be permanently SAT locked. But one night after a row, Navidson opened the door SAT and went in. He found rooms beyond rooms, all windowless, SAT all unlit, and only narrowly escaped becoming lost forever SAT in the labyrinth. Not long afterwards the spiral staircase SAT appeared, corkscrewing downwards to a dark infinity. So SAT Navidson equipped his brother Tom and others for an SAT expedition, as if they were embarking on a quest into some SAT architectural jungle. The cameras rolled and they descended, SAT and here's the audio. SAT SAT House of Leaves is the remarkable cult novel by Mark Z SAT Danielewsky, a labyrinth of its own kind with its multiple SAT interwoven narratives and textual tricks. This dramatic SAT piece re-imagines the terrifying heart of the story. SAT SAT The narrator in this production is Jim Norton who recently SAT received both an Olivier award for the National Theatre SAT production and a Tony for the hit Broadway production of SAT Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, and is currently appearing SAT again at the National in McPherson's new play The Veil. SAT SAT Producer/Director: John Taylor SAT A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Zampano: Jim Norton SAT Navidson: William Hope SAT Karen: Debora Weston SAT Tom Navidson: Martin McDougall SAT Jed Leeder: Jeff Mash SAT Holloway: Richard Ridings SAT Reston: Vinta Morgan SAT Daisy: Eleanor Blaney SAT Author: Mark Z Danielewski SAT Director: John Taylor SAT Producer: John Taylor SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03yqz2s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b03yqcwz (Listen) SAT Class SAT SAT What place should class have in Britain today? If you've SAT been living in hope of creating a society where the moral SAT character of a man is judged by his actions and not the SAT colour of his old school tie, you may have been sorely SAT disappointed over the last week or so. Too many toffs in the SAT cabinet and patronising adverts about the pastimes enjoyed SAT by hardworking people might suggest that for our politicians SAT at least, it seems class still matters. There was a time SAT when a person's class was defined by their job, but that's SAT become much more tricky since the demise of large scale SAT industries like coal mining. It hasn't though stopped many SAT people from defining themselves as working class - and SAT claiming a Prolier-than-Thou kind of moral superiority, - SAT even though by most measures like income, education and SAT profession, they're anything but. We've all experienced that SAT kind of reverse snobbery, but how many of us would be SAT comfortable in a socially mixed group of saying they were SAT middle class and proud of it? Let alone upper class? It was SAT Alan Clarke who famously dismissed his fellow Conservative SAT MP Michael Heseltine as the kind of person "who bought his SAT own furniture". Not all of us are blessed with his patrician SAT perspective, so what should be the modern indicators of SAT class? Is our obsession with class a sign of our deep sense SAT of fairness and desire for a more open society, or a SAT prejudice that should be consigned to the dustbin? Or is the SAT problem that we need more subtle categories? Beer and bingo? SAT Bolly and ballet? Class on the Moral Maze. SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Michael SAT Portillo and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT Witnesses are Kate Fox, Owen Jones, Alwyn Turner and James SAT Delingpole. SAT SAT Produced by Phil Pegum. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b03yn6xp (Listen) SAT (16/17) SAT Which star, noted for roles in Alfred Hitchcock films, is SAT the mother of the actress Melanie Griffith? And with which SAT waterway is the nautical mirage known as the Fata Morgana SAT most closely associated? SAT SAT These are among the general knowledge questions Russell SAT Davies puts to the semi-finalists in today's contest, which SAT will decide who gets the one remaining place in the 2014 SAT Final. Today's competitors are from Bristol, Bromley in SAT Kent, Skipton in North Yorkshire, and Oswestry in SAT Shropshire. SAT SAT As ever, there'll also be a chance for a listener to win a SAT prize by stumping the contestants with questions of his or SAT her own devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S SEMI-FINALISTS SAT SAT PETER ALMOND, a solicitor from Bristol SAT SAT MARK GRANT, an analyst from Bromley SAT SAT PETER WATSON, a retired teacher from Skipton SAT SAT GARETH WILLIAMS, a retired solicitor from Llansilin near SAT Oswestry SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Idol b03ymxz9 (Listen) SAT Poetry has always had an essential role to play in Arab SAT literature, and the tradition is thriving in unexpected SAT ways. Shahidha Bari travels to Abu Dhabi to join the SAT audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised SAT competition to find the best poet in the Middle East. SAT SAT Every year this huge contest takes place under the spotlight SAT of the television cameras in Abu Dhabi. Million's Poet is SAT broadcast live across the Middle East and has a huge SAT following, with judges and viewers both having the chance to SAT vote for their favourite poet. There's plenty at stake, as SAT the top prize is an eye-watering five million United Arab SAT Emirate dirhams, a figure getting close to one million SAT pounds. SAT SAT So how did this TV contest get started, and why do people SAT tune in to hear poets reading their work? It's not the sort SAT of show that would be likely to take off in the west. SAT Shahidha Bari talks to judges, competitors, and the audience SAT to find out the secret of Million Poet's success. SAT SAT Poetry, she finds, has a particular role in the Middle East SAT as a valued art form in a changing world. an outlet for SAT expression for anyone from the ruler to the doorman, all of SAT whom are free to enter Million's Poet. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 MARCH 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03z3gz6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 After Wonderland b03z3kt0 (Listen) SUN Yellow Brick Road SUN SUN The last of three monologues by Sheila Yeger imagining the SUN adult lives of characters from children's literature. SUN SUN Dorothy de la Rue has become a Grande Dame of Romantic SUN Fiction. But this sharp-tongued southern empress holds a SUN terrible, wonderful secret. SUN SUN Dorothy is played by Sandra Dickinson; the producer is James SUN Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dorothy: Sandra Dickinson SUN Producer: James Cook SUN Writer: Sheila Yeger SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03z3gzg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 02:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03z3kzs (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03z3gzq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03z3gzs (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03z3kt2 (Listen) SUN Our Lady and St Nicholas, Liverpool SUN SUN The bells of the Parish Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas, SUN Pier Head, Liverpool. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b03yqcx1 (Listen) SUN Nicholas Shakespeare SUN SUN The Power and the Passion - Worldly Power. Jesus in the SUN wilderness was offered it and turned it down, but most of us SUN think it's worth having. Novelist, biographer and SUN travel-writer Nicholas Shakespeare considers what power can SUN do for us - and to us. SUN SUN Producer: Peter Everett. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03z3gzv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03z3lkl (Listen) SUN Temptation SUN SUN In this second of two special programmes for Lent, Mark SUN Tully examines the role Temptation plays as a driving force SUN in both spiritual and secular life. Just as all the major SUN faiths encourage periods of abstinence from time to time, so SUN too they all struggle with the perils of temptation. SUN SUN The Buddha struggled with the temptations of asceticism, SUN Christianity and Islam are shot through with the temptations SUN set by the devil, and in Hinduism demons tempt the gods SUN themselves. However, writers as disparate as Shakespeare and SUN Martin Luther are at pains to emphasise the positive SUN dynamics of temptation. SUN SUN The programme includes music by Franz Liszt, Nina Simone and SUN Hubert Parry, and readings from the work of R.S. Thomas, SUN John Betjeman and Rosalind Coward. SUN SUN The readers are Robert Glenister, Francis Cadder and Julie SUN Covington. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03z3kt4 (Listen) SUN Food and Farming Awards: Finalist Luke Hasell SUN SUN Adam Henson and fellow judge Mike Gooding meet the first of SUN this year's BBC Food and Farming awards 'Farmer of the Year' SUN finalists. SUN SUN They join Luke Hasel on his farm in Chew Magna and take a SUN tour of his 550 acre farm. Luke farms organic beef cattle SUN and collaborates with local farmers to provide vegetable and SUN meat boxes for customers in and around Bristol and Bath. He SUN runs a company called 'The Story' and he aims to connect his SUN customers with where their food comes from. SUN SUN He also runs a community farm which allows volunteers to SUN come and work on the land and he regularly welcomes school SUN children onto his farm tom teach them more about food SUN production. SUN SUN His business is successful and he is a huge advocate of the SUN whole 'field-to-fork' ethos and regularly stages food events SUN and takes part in pop-up restaurants and local food SUN festivals throughout the South West. SUN SUN Adam and Mike take a look around Luke's farm and follow his SUN produce from the muddy vegetable beds overlooking the SUN picturesque Chew Valley Lake, via his pack house where a SUN small army of volunteers fill vegetable boxes, to one of his SUN customers: Josh Eggleton, Michelin-starred chef at the SUN nearby Pony and Trap pub. SUN SUN Presenter: Adam Henson SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN The BBC Food and Farming Awards are back! SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03z3gzx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03z3gzz (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03z3ky2 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03z3ky4 (Listen) SUN Sightsavers SUN SUN Lorraine Kelly presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Sightsavers. SUN Reg Charity: 207544 (England/Wales); and SC038110 (Scotland) SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Sightsavers'. SUN SUN Sightsavers SUN Sightsavers SUN works to eliminate avoidable blindness and get equality for SUN people with disabilities. The charity helps blind people to SUN see, prevents others from going blind unnecessarily, and SUN supports people to live independently if their sight loss SUN can’t be undone. SUN SUN A huge 80 per cent of visual impairment could be prevented SUN or cured, and Sightsavers works in more than 30 of the SUN world’s poorest countries to tackle the causes of avoidable SUN blindness and campaign for the rights of people with SUN disabilities. SUN SUN For this appeal, we’re focusing on the blinding disease SUN trachoma, which is the world’s leading cause of avoidable SUN blindness. It’s a bacterial infection that’s easily spread, SUN especially between mothers and children. SUN SUN Repeated infections cause your eyelashes to turn inwards, SUN scratching your eye painfully with every blink and SUN eventually making you go blind. Surgery to treat the problem SUN and restore sight can cost as little as £8. SUN SUN Trachoma currently affects 40 million people across Africa, SUN and Sightsavers wants to eliminate the disease in the SUN countries it works in by 2020. SUN SUN Hadiya Salehe SUN SUN Hadiya, a farmer, put up with trachoma for many years. When SUN the condition develops to the advanced stages, it’s so SUN painful people often pluck out their eyelashes to stop them SUN turning in and so scratching the cornea. After seeing an SUN advert for an eye camp funded by Sightsavers, Hadiya SUN attended and was referred for surgery. After the half-hour SUN operation, her first question was “When can I return to SUN work?” SUN SUN Hafe Mbaue SUN SUN When we met Hafe, not only were his eyes in agony with every SUN blink, but his house had just been destroyed by a flood. It SUN was sheer coincidence that a sanitation inspector assessing SUN the damage recognised Hafe had advanced trachoma and told SUN him it could be treated. Now he’s able to see properly and SUN work again, thanks to an £8 operation. SUN SUN Mass and Babacar SUN Brothers Mass (14) and Babacar (21) had trachoma so advanced SUN that they needed eye lid operations, usually required by SUN people decades older. “All day long we had pain and tears,” SUN says Babacar. “It felt like there was a foreign body in my SUN eye that I couldn't get out." Mass is now back at school SUN and Barbacar is awaiting results after finishing his SUN agricultural studies fieldwork. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03z3h01 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03z3h03 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03z3ky6 (Listen) SUN Inside Love SUN SUN "Inside Love" - Live from St George's College Weybridge, the SUN 4th of Radio 4's Lent series for Mothering Sunday with the SUN award winning St George's choir directed by Tansy SUN Castledine. SUN Leader: Sarah Beresford (Assistant Chaplain); Preacher: Fr SUN Martin Ashcroft (School Chaplain). SUN SUN Love is universal but love is also complex. SUN The Greeks used several words to describe different kinds of SUN love expressed, for example in friendship, romance or family SUN love. On occasion, as with a mother and her child, the SUN feeling of love can be overwhelming. A mother will go to any SUN lengths even sacrificing her own good in order to protect SUN and nurture her child. Some have seen in that love a glimpse SUN of what the love of God might be. SUN Isaiah 66:10-13; Ruth 1:9b-11, 14-16, 18-19a; Luke 6:27-36. SUN Tell out my soul (Woodlands) SUN Psalm 27 SUN Magnificat in D (Wood) SUN For the beauty of the earth (Rutter) SUN Praise my soul the King of Heaven (Praise my Soul) SUN SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss SUN SUN Through programmes on 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 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 08:48 A Point of View b03yqz02 (Listen) SUN A Disease Called Fame SUN SUN Sarah Dunant reflects on fame and the cult of celebrity SUN following the recent success of the film "20 feet from SUN Stardom". SUN SUN The film about backing singers - the unsung heroes of pop SUN music - scooped best documentary at the Oscars. Sarah SUN discusses how celebrity culture has given us a society where SUN the dream is no longer to be the backing singer, but to take SUN centre stage. "Andy Warhol" she writes "with his fifteen SUN minutes of fame, has turned out to be a prophet as much as SUN an artist". SUN SUN But "in a world where everyone wants to be the lead singer" SUN she asks "who is left to swell the sound? Or more SUN importantly to appreciate it". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45m5 (Listen) SUN Egyptian Goose 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 Egyptian goose. Although Egyptian SUN geese are common throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa and SUN in Egypt, they are now officially a British bird. These SUN striking birds attracted the attention of wildfowl SUN collectors and the first geese were brought to the UK in the SUN 17th century. By the 1960's it became obvious that the geese SUN were breeding in the wild in East Anglia and since then SUN they've spread in south and eastern England. SUN SUN Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of Guy Rogers (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03z3l2b (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03z3l2d (Listen) SUN Fallon sees red, and will Ian and Rob bury the hatchet? SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lily Pargetter: Georgie Fuller SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03z3l2g (Listen) SUN Sir Andre Geim SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Nobel Prize-winning SUN physicist, Professor Sir Andre Geim. SUN SUN Born in the Soviet Union, his early years were spent in SUN Sochi with his grandmother, a meteorologist. And it was SUN perhaps her small weather station on the beach that sparked SUN an early interest in science. As a student his intellect was SUN rigorous but his timing was also spot on:"glasnost", the SUN political movement that swept open the Iron Curtain, enabled SUN him to travel and study throughout Europe, finally settling SUN at Manchester University. SUN SUN It was his work developing the substance graphene that won SUN him science's highest prize. Graphene has many exciting SUN properties: it is the thinnest and strongest material ever SUN discovered; using it, electricity can travel a million SUN meters a second; it has unique levels of light absorption SUN and is flexible and stretchable. SUN SUN Of his research he says, "It's like being Sherlock Holmes SUN but being a detective of science. It's trying to find things SUN out using very limited information ... like a hair on your SUN coat, or dirt on your shoes, or some lipstick - the winner SUN is the one who needs the fewest hints to get the answer". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Andre Geim SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b03yn83j (Listen) SUN Series 68, Episode 7 SUN SUN This week, the panellists attempting to speak for 60 seconds SUN with no hesitation, repetition & deviation are Paul Merton, SUN Rebecca Front, Alun Cochrane and Russell Kane. SUN SUN They do so, as always, under the watchful ear of Nicholas SUN Parsons. SUN SUN Subjects include 'The Metaphysical Poets', 'A Benign SUN Dictatorship' and the less erudite 'Bingo Wings' 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 b03z3l4f (Listen) SUN Wild Beer SUN SUN Dan Saladino meets the brewers transforming the flavours and SUN styles of British beer. From experiments with new SUN ingredients to finding lost recipes, the pace of change is SUN striking. The brewers at the forefront of this movement SUN explain where their ideas come from and what they're trying SUN to achieve. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03z3h05 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03z3l4h (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 Swinging Addis b03ynfpl (Listen) SUN 'There is Swinging Addis just like there is Swinging London, SUN bell-bottom trousers, mini skirts...' SUN SUN In the 1960s and early 70s, unknown to most of the outside SUN world, Addis Ababa's nightlife was electrified by a blend of SUN traditional folk music, jazz, swing, rhythm and blues. Clubs SUN were full, dance floors packed with young people moved by SUN the music of a new generation of Ethiopian pop stars who SUN were inspired by Elvis and James Brown but gave their sound SUN a unique twist. SUN SUN '...When we played the record on the loudspeakers, the SUN traffic police had to be sent to disperse the young people SUN dancing on the street.' SUN SUN The story begins in 1896, following Ethiopia's victory SUN against the invading Italians at the Battle of Adwa, when SUN the Russian tsar Nicolas II sent Emperor Menelik 40 brass SUN instruments. It became the imperial music - and planted a SUN seed. SUN SUN Then, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1924, the prince who SUN would become Emperor Haile Selassie met a marching band of SUN young Armenians orphaned in the recent Ottoman massacres. He SUN shipped the "Arba Lijoch" ("Forty Kids") back to Addis Ababa SUN and installed them as the imperial band. The emperor's new SUN big band ensembles proved to be incubators for the stars of SUN a new sound craved by a young generation demanding musical - SUN as well as social and political - change. In 1969, a SUN 26-year-old music producer called Amha Eshete defied an SUN imperial decree giving the state a monopoly over the SUN reproduction of music to release Ethiopia's first-ever SUN independent record with Alemayehu Eshete. When the pair SUN played it on a loudspeaker from Amha's music shop, the young SUN people dancing in the street stopped the traffic. The rest SUN was history. SUN SUN In Addis Ababa, Courtney Pine meets some of the veterans of SUN the Swinging Addis golden age of Ethiopian jazz, including SUN Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete - the 'Ethiopian Elvis'. SUN These Ethiopian heroes, now in their 70s, are like the Buena SUN Vista Social Club stars of their country. Courtney speaks to SUN the legendary Ethiopian music producer Amha Eshete, while SUN his guide on his musical journey of discovery is Francis SUN Falceto, the French music producer who 'rediscovered' these SUN artists and brought their music to the west, and has now SUN compiled 30 albums in the Ethiopiques series. Courtney finds SUN Addis Ababa is still swinging, and meets one of the new SUN generation of Ethiopian jazz musicians who are picking up SUN the beat, the young pianist Samuel Yirga, to jam Ethiopian SUN style. SUN SUN Presenter: Courtney Pine SUN Producer: Eve Streeter SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03yqyzh (Listen) SUN Nottinghamshire SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs GQT from Nottinghamshire. Chris SUN Beardshaw, Matt Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer a range of SUN horticultural questions from an audience of local gardeners. SUN SUN Matt and Pippa explore one of Britain's most famous forests, SUN and Peter Gibbs visits Attingham Walled Garden to find out SUN everything you need to know about growing against a wall. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions: SUN SUN Q: Can the team suggest how to restrict the growth of a SUN Picea Erich Frahm (Colorado Spruce) or recommend a suitable SUN replacement? SUN SUN A: These trees are difficult to prune without affecting SUN their shape, so it is best to leave the tree and chop it SUN down when it has grown too big. A replacement tree could be SUN the Picea Abies Nana, which is very small indeed. SUN SUN Q: What would be the best way to get rid of Viburnum beetles SUN from a hedge of Vibernum Tinus which is 8ft (2.4m) high, 2ft SUN (60cm) wide and 10ft (3m) long? SUN SUN A: Try to bring small birds such as blue tits into the area. SUN They will eat the beetles. Attract the small birds with SUN peanut feeders. It is an option to treat the hedge with a SUN contact insecticide, but this might be difficult considering SUN the size of the hedge. SUN SUN Q: What advice does the panel have for a gardener attempting SUN to grow sweet peppers in an unheated greenhouse in a SUN north-facing garden? Currently, the flowers are dropping SUN just as the buds are forming. SUN SUN A: This plant likes the warmth; it does not like drafts or SUN overwatering (especially with cold water). The plant would SUN ideally be grown in a bright, sunny spot with consistently SUN warm temperatures. High potash fertiliser would also help. SUN If grown from seed, it might also be worth moving the plants SUN outside later in the season when temperatures are warmer. SUN Fleece may be used to protect them from cold nights. The SUN flowers will drop if they have not been pollinated, so SUN opening the door to insects on warmer days or pollinating by SUN hand could prevent the flowers from dropping. SUN SUN Q: Can the team recommend a Eucalyptus plant that does not SUN need drastic pollarding at least twice a year to retain a SUN compact and attractive shape? SUN SUN A: All Eucalyptus trees are hard work and need a lot of SUN pruning. Most people go for Eucalypts Gunnii as it is the SUN easiest to manage. Another way to keep the Eucalyptus SUN manageable would be to make a little knife cut in the side SUN of the trunk when it is very young. This small incision into SUN the bark just a few centimetres above the ground encourages SUN early multi-stemming. Other Eucalyptus options include SUN Eucalyptus Coccifera or a Eucalyptus Dalrympleana which are SUN both hardy varieties. SUN SUN Q: Would the team recommend pruning Twisted Willows, which SUN are getting out of hand? And when would the panel recommend SUN replanting the trees from their pots, into the garden? SUN SUN A: Pruning twisted willows is not recommended. The sooner SUN they are replanted into ground, the better. SUN SUN Q: Does the panel have any tips to stop onion sets bolting SUN (going to seed)? SUN SUN A: Make sure the bulbs have been heat-treated. However, some SUN years, onions will go to seed and there is not much you can SUN do about it. If there is dry spell at the beginning of the SUN season, make sure the soil is kept moist. SUN SUN Q: What is the best way to prune a Pyracantha? SUN SUN A: Prune a portion of the plant after it has finished SUN flowering, but only prune back to where the flower heads SUN were formed and no further. This will ensure the next round SUN of flowers will not be affected. SUN SUN Q: Could the panel give any advice for growing tall, SUN straight Gladioli? SUN SUN A: Make sure the plant gets plenty of sun, that it is SUN planted in free draining soil and make sure not to give it SUN too much fertilizer. Weed vigilantly around the plant to SUN make sure it gets as much light as possible. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b03z3l4k (Listen) SUN Germany's Guest Workers SUN SUN In the 1960s Germany recruited hundreds of thousands of SUN foreign workers to help power the country's economic SUN regeneration. Most of them came from Turkey, or Southern SUN Europe. It was a move that meant huge changes for German SUN society, and for the immigrants themselves - like Yilmaz SUN Atalay and Idil Lacin. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03xtvdp (Listen) SUN The Divine Comedy, Inferno SUN SUN Blake Ritson, David Warner and John Hurt star in Stephen SUN Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of SUN one man's incredible journey through Hell, Purgatory and SUN Paradise. SUN SUN Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita SUN mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, SUN ché la diritta via era smarrita. SUN SUN In Episode 1: Inferno, the thirty-five year old Dante (Blake SUN Ritson) finds himself in the middle of a dark wood, in SUN extreme personal and spiritual crisis. But hope of rescue SUN appears in the form of the venerable poet Virgil (David SUN Warner), now a shade himself, who offers to lead Dante on an SUN odyssey through the afterlife, that begins in the terrifying SUN depths of Hell. SUN SUN Many years later, the older Dante (John Hurt), still in SUN enforced exile from his beloved Florence, attempts to finish SUN his great poem and reflects on the events that have led him SUN to its writing. SUN SUN All other parts are played by members of the company SUN SUN The Divine Comedy is dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SUN SUN Sound design is by Cal Knightley SUN SUN Directed by Emma Harding and Marc Beeby. SUN Making Inferno SUN SUN Credits SUN Dante the Poet: Blake Ritson SUN Older Dante: John Hurt SUN Virgil: David Warner SUN Ulysses: Sam Dale SUN Giant: Sam Dale SUN Charon: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Pope Nicholas III: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Francesca da Rimini: Priyanga Burford SUN Count Ugolino: David Cann SUN Tree: Clive Hayward SUN Adam: Clive Hayward SUN Vanni Fucci: Steve Toussaint SUN Angel: Cassie Layton SUN Director: Emma Harding SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Adaptor: Stephen Wyatt SUN Author: Dante Alighieri SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03z3lbp (Listen) SUN Damon Galgut, Kate Colquhoun, Judith Flanders, AL Kennedy, SUN Julian Gough, Stella Duffy SUN SUN Twice Man Booker-shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut talks to SUN Mariella Frostrup about his latest novel Arctic Summer which SUN evokes the life and work of EM Forster, plus Kate Colquhoun SUN and Judith Flanders on the appeal of Victorian True Crime SUN for modern writers. SUN SUN Producer: Justine Willett. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut - Publisher: Atlantic Books SUN SUN Did She Kill Him? by Kate Colquhoun - Publisher: Little, SUN Brown SUN SUN Mr Brigg's Hat by Kate Colquhoun - Publisher: Little, Brown SUN SUN Writer's Block by Judith Flanders - Publisher: Allison and SUN Busby SUN SUN The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders - Publisher: SUN Allison and Busby SUN SUN SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut SUN Arctic Summer: Chapter 1 SUN by Damon Galgut SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Damon Galgut SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Colquhoun SUN Interviewed Guest: Judith Flanders SUN Interviewed Guest: AL Kennedy SUN Interviewed Guest: Julian Gough SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Interviewed Guest: Stella Duffy SUN SUN 16:30 Ask Me - The Poetry of William Stafford b03z3lbr (Listen) SUN William Stafford's achievement is extraordinary. He wrote SUN more than 20,000 poems, of which more than 4,000 have been SUN published, in more than 80 books and 2,000 periodicals. But SUN it is the quality of his work that distinguishes him. SUN Stafford was the poetry consultant to the Library of SUN Congress - the post that became the Poet Laureate of the SUN United States, for years he was Oregon's Laureate and he won SUN the National Book Award. SUN SUN Stafford was born in Kansas one hundred years ago. He grew SUN up during the Depression and, a conscientious objector, SUN spent the Second World War in camps, working in forestry. SUN Too exhausted after work he took to rising early to write, SUN and he continued this practice of daily writing until his SUN death in 1993. For Stafford it was the act of writing that SUN mattered most. Writers who got stuck he advised to, "Lower SUN your standards - and carry on." SUN SUN His poems are mostly short and accessible, but acquire great SUN depth. They can be tough, too. He was sensitive to SUN landscape, people, animals, nature and history. So it is not SUN surprising that Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were both SUN admirers. SUN SUN The poet Katrina Porteous, who also writes daily, visits to SUN Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where for SUN decades Stafford taught, wrote and developed his ideas. SUN There she meets his son, Kim, who takes her to places that SUN were important to him. She visits the huge William Stafford SUN Archive, hears recordings of his readings, meets people who SUN knew him, and students and poets he continues to influence - SUN Mary Szybist, a recent winner of the National Book Award, SUN and the highly praised young poet Matthew Dickman. And she SUN goes out into the wilderness of Oregon to investigate and SUN reflect on the life, outlook and work of this great American SUN poet. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN William Stafford SUN SUN Katrina Porteous and Kim Stafford SUN Katrina Porteous interviewing William Stafford’s son, Kim, SUN in the Special Collections Room of the library at Lewis and SUN Clark College, where his father taught for many years and SUN where his archive is kept SUN SUN The poet Matthew Dickman, Katrina Porteous, and Grace and SUN Paul Merchant SUN SUN SUN SUN The cover of William Stafford's book ASK ME. A hundred of SUN his poems to mark his centenary SUN SUN 17:00 PPI: Britain's Biggest Banking Scandal b03yqp8d (Listen) SUN In February, Lloyds Banking Group set aside a further £1.8bn SUN to compensate its customers who were mis-sold Payment SUN Protection Insurance. It's the sixth time in less than three SUN years the bank has had to revise upwards the level of SUN compensation due and brings the bill so far for Lloyds alone SUN to £9.8bn. Across Britain's banks as a whole, compensation SUN costs have now reached more than £22bn - a sum so large, SUN some economists ironically even credit these payments with SUN having helped boost the economic recovery. How did Britain's SUN biggest ever mis-selling scandal happen and why did it lead SUN to claims management companies being able to rake in SUN billions of pounds from the disaster? SUN SUN With testimony from insiders, Michael Robinson tells the SUN unbelievable story of PPI. How in their greed to make more SUN and more profit from selling the protection, the banks SUN demanded ever bigger commission payments from providers of SUN cover while ensuring it was less and less likely a claim SUN would ever succeed. The programme hears how industry SUN whistleblowers were repeatedly ignored and asks why the SUN regulators failed to act sooner. And it shows how the banks' SUN reluctance to acknowledge what they'd done opened up the SUN floodgates to complaints and spawned a whole new breed of SUN claims management companies making vast profits from SUN customers who had already fallen victim to bankers' greed. SUN SUN While the banks now insist they've learned the lesson of the SUN PPI disaster, Michael Robinson asks if they have really SUN changed their ways. SUN The Accountant Kings SUN Predatory or prudent? SUN Faith, Hope and... Tax Avoidance SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03z3gh7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03z3h07 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03z3h09 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03z3h0c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03z3lhq (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon selects highlights from the previous seven SUN days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03z3lhs (Listen) SUN David tries to help Ruth, and Tom's fed up with his Dad. SUN SUN 19:15 Just William - Live! b03z3lhv (Listen) SUN Series 4, The New Neighbour SUN SUN As a highlight of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in SUN October, Martin Jarvis performed the second of two of SUN Richmal Crompton's comic classics, live on-stage. SUN SUN In The New Neighbour, William Brown is at his SUN lateral-thinking best. How to rid the village of a horrific SUN newcomer who torments his neighbours? William, master of SUN human psychology, devises a brilliant plan. But, when the SUN local policeman intervenes, will it work? SUN SUN Dazzling stand-up from Jarvis - as William, and every other SUN character. A comic tour de force. SUN SUN Performed by Martin Jarvis SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres. SUN 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 b03z3lkn (Listen) SUN Father Time 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 2. Father Time SUN Strange things happen to Professor Lebedev in the middle of SUN the concert hall. Is he dreaming or is there a greater force SUN at work? 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 b03yqyzp (Listen) SUN A Today interview is never an easy ride for politicians. But SUN listeners tuning in this week felt Evan Davis's interview SUN with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain SUN Duncan Smith, too things too far. We hear those views. SUN SUN It's an altogether more civilised affair as Roger Bolton SUN drops in on Radio 3's 'pop up' studio at the Royal Festival SUN Hall in London's Southbank Centre. For the past fortnight, SUN Radio 3 have broadcast their live programmes from a perspex SUN box. Radio 3's editorial team, producers and presenters have SUN been meeting audiences. We'll be speaking to In Tune SUN presenter Sean Rafferty and some of his adoring public. SUN SUN Radio drama can transport you thousands of miles with the SUN power of the voices, evocative music and sound effects. So SUN why was the recent Afternoon Drama serial 'A Kidnapping' SUN recorded on-location in Manila? Many Feedback listeners SUN loved the production, but some felt recording in the SUN Philippines was a waste of their licence fee. 'A Kidnapping' SUN Director John Dryden discusses the serial and the costs of SUN recording radio drama abroad. SUN SUN Many of you will be more familiar with Jane Garvey, Eddie SUN Mair, and Julian Worricker on Radio 4, but they were all SUN part of the original team at 5Live when it launched in 1994 SUN - twenty years ago this week. While they may have flown the SUN nest to join Radio 4, Peter Allen (Jane Garvey's co-host at SUN 5Live Breakfast) has remained. We'll be speaking to Peter SUN about his memories of the station's early days. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03yqyzm (Listen) SUN Mickey Duff, John Tyson, Jill Sinclair, Adolfo Suarez, SUN Oswald Morris SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Mickey Duff, the East End character who, for decades, was SUN one of the most powerful figures in boxing. SUN SUN John Tyson, the cartographer and explorer who set out to SUN chart the unmapped region of Kanjiroba Himal. SUN SUN Jill Sinclair, the business brains behind the ZTT record SUN label. They had a string of hits in the eighties and SUN nineties, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax". SUN SUN Adolfo Suarez, the Prime Minister who oversaw Spain's SUN transition from Franco's dictatorship to democracy. SUN SUN And Oswald Morris, the cinematographer who won an Oscar for SUN his work on "Fiddler on The Roof". SUN SUN Mickey Duff (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to boxing historian John McDonald and to SUN sports promoter Barry Hearn. SUN SUN Born 7 June 1929; died 22 March 2014 aged 84. SUN SUN John Tyson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to fellow mountaineer John Earl. SUN SUN Born 7 April 1928; died 10 March 2014 aged 85. SUN SUN Jill Sinclair SUN SUN Last Word spoke to musician Anne Dudley and to music SUN journalist Pierre Perrone. SUN SUN Born 5 april 1952; died 22 March 2014, aged 61. SUN SUN Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez SUN SUN Last Word spoke to historians Dr Gregorio Alonso and Prof SUN Paul Preston CBE. SUN SUN Born 25 September 1932; died 23 March 2014 aged 81. SUN SUN Oswald Morris SUN SUN Matthew spoke to cinematographer Brian Tufano. SUN SUN Born 22 November 1915; died 17 March 2014 aged 98. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Philip Sellars SUN SUN 21:00 How You Pay for the City b0381hnw (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Institutional investors such as pension funds are the most SUN dominant force in world markets. But how much do we know SUN about the different intermediaries involved in managing our SUN pensions and how much money they take for their work? SUN SUN David Grossman asks what the data about the dozens of funds SUN in the Local Government Pension Scheme tells us about how SUN all our pensions are being managed. And he investigates the SUN role of the most important bank you've never heard of - the SUN global custodian. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03z3ky4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b03yn83s (Listen) SUN Why Minsky Matters SUN SUN American economist Hyman Minsky died in 1996, but his SUN theories offer one of the most compelling explanations of SUN the 2008 financial crisis. His key idea is simple enough to SUN be a t-shirt slogan: "Stability is destabilising". But TUC SUN senior economist Duncan Weldon argues it's a radical SUN challenge to mainstream economic theory. While the SUN mainstream view has been that markets tend towards SUN equilibrium and the role of banks and finance can largely be SUN ignored, Minsky argued that in the good times the seeds of SUN the next crisis are sown as the financial sector engages in SUN riskier and riskier lending in pursuit of profit. In the SUN aftermath of the financial crisis, this might seem obvious - SUN so why did Minsky die an outsider? What do his ideas say SUN about the response to the 2008 crisis and current policies SUN like Help to Buy? And has mainstream economics done enough SUN to respond to its own failure to predict the crisis and the SUN challenge posed by Minsky's ideas? SUN SUN Producer: James Fletcher. SUN Analysis: Economics SUN Profits Before Pay SUN Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03z3lkq (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b03z3lks (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03yqjgn (Listen) SUN Director Sally Potter and Muppets production designer Eve SUN Stewart SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to director Sally Potter as Bradford SUN Film Festival shows a retrospective of her work which SUN include Orlando, Rage and The Tango Lesson. BAFTA winning SUN Production Designer Eve Stewart shares the tricks of the SUN trade in her latest project The Muppets Most Wanted. SUN Although Eve has previously worked on the Kings Speech, the SUN Damned United and Les Miserables, she tells how the lure of SUN Miss Piggy and Kermit was too much to resist. Finnish SUN documentary maker Petri Luukkainen talks to the The Film SUN Programme about the experience of putting all his SUN possessions in storage for his film My Stuff. Iranian born SUN writer and critic Fahri Bradley gives her verdict on Asghar SUN Farhadi's latest offering, The Past. SUN SUN Muppets Most Wanted SUN Directed by James Bobin, SUN Muppets Most Wanted SUN is in UK cinemas from Friday 28 March 2014, certificate U. SUN SUN The Past SUN Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, SUN The Past SUN is in UK cinemas from Friday 28 March 2014, certificate 12A. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Sally Potter SUN Interviewed Guest: Eve Stewart SUN Interviewed Guest: Petri Luukkainen SUN Interviewed Guest: Fahri Bradley SUN Producer: Fiona Couper SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03z3lkl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 31 MARCH 2014 MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03z3h3b (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03z3h3d (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03z3h3g (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03z3lvs (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Dr Janet Wootton. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03z3lvv (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03z3h3j (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45tq (Listen) MON Ring Ouzel 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 ring ouzel. Ring ouzels are related MON to blackbirds and because they nest in the uplands, they're MON sometimes known as the 'mountain blackbird'. The male ring MON ouzel is a handsome bird, sooty black with a broad white MON ring called a 'gorget' right across his chest that stands MON out like a beacon. Unfortunately these summer visitors are MON becoming harder to find even in their strongholds, which MON include the North York Moors and several Scottish and Welsh MON mountains. MON MON Ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b03z8ynr (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03z8ynt (Listen) MON AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart MON MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to AL Kennedy about her latest MON collection of short stories of love and hurt. The poet MON Lavinia Greenlaw retells the tragic love story of Chaucer's MON Troilus and Criseyde. The philosopher Simon Blackburn MON unpicks the idea of self-love from the myth of Narcissus to MON today's tv hair adverts: 'because you're worth it', while MON the humorist David Sedaris uses his own life and loves as MON the focus of his writing. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: AL Kennedy MON Interviewed Guest: Lavinia Greenlaw MON Interviewed Guest: David Sedaris MON Interviewed Guest: Simon Blackburn MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03yqrhy (Listen) MON The Unexpected Professor, Episode 1 MON MON From Biggles to bee-keeping, John Carey threads together the MON chapters of his life in books - taking in politics, social MON history and the skirmishes of academia along the way. MON MON Vignettes of pre-war Hammersmith and Barnes accompany MON affectionate accounts of Saturday jobs which he was expected MON to do to compensate the household for staying on at school. MON MON The book is also partly a tribute to the grammar school MON system. He skewers the snobbishness of Oxford in the 50s but MON also gives us endearing portraits of the writers and MON scholars he met and was taught by - including Graves, Larkin MON and Heaney. MON MON Later in his life, his politics and his sometimes MON controversial cultural criticism take centre stage, MON producing a commentator who is not afraid to move between MON genres and labels, always saying something refreshing and MON frequently unexpected. MON MON Episode 1 MON Family fortunes had dwindled into a genteel memory of former MON wealth by the time the young Carey was born in pre-war south MON London. MON MON Read by Nicholas Farrell MON Abridged and directed by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Nicholas Farrell MON Director: Jill Waters MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Author: John Carey MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03z91wy (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON Prostitution – an International Perspective MON MON It has been twenty years since the laws on prostitution have MON been looked MON at and over the past few weeks Woman’s Hour has MON investigated the proposals for MON England and Wales to follow the ‘Nordic model’. MON Implementing this would mean MON the criminalisation of those who pay for sex and the MON decriminalisation of those MON who sell it. We have spoken to many involved in the MON industry and today we speak MON to two academics Professor Sheila Jeffreys from Melbourne MON University and Dr MON Jackie West, senior sociologist from Bristol University, to MON give us a MON perspective on how other countries deal with prostitution MON and how successful, MON or not, different approaches have been. MON MON Policewomen in Afghanistan MON MON Jane talks to journalist Sally Williams about the tiny but MON growing number of policewomen in Afghanistan. Recruited to MON do the jobs that men can’t, not only risk death in the line MON of MON duty, they also face personal attack from extremists and MON bigotry within. MON MON Michelle Collins MON MON Michelle MON joins Jane to talk about starring in two of the UK’s most MON famous soaps and MON growing up in working-class London with her young single MON mother in the MON 60s and 70s. Michelle’s path towards acting success has MON included being a punk MON and starting out as a backing singer. As a single mother, MON Michelle says she’s been accused of being a man eater and MON having a bad northern MON accent, but despite such criticism, she explains how she MON carved out a successful career in such a MON competitive industry and how she and her 18 year old MON daughter are committed MON feminists. MON MON Rebecca Curtis and Teaforthree MON MON Next MON Saturday sees a highlight of the horse racing calendar when MON the Grand National MON is run. At the moment the favourite is a horse called MON Teaforthree. His trainer is a woman – Rebecca Curtis – is MON based at Newport in MON Pembrokeshire. She’s in her early thirties and only set up MON as a trainer MON six years ago. If Teaforthree wins at Aintree, Rebecca MON will be only MON the fourth woman trainer to have won the National. So MON what’s it MON like to have the favourite in your yard? Louise Adamson has MON been to MON West Wales to meet her …. And, of course, Teaforthree. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03z91x0 (Listen) MON Soloparentpals.com, I Do Like to B and B MON MON SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern MON MON Episode 1. I Do Like To B and B MON MON With their wedding imminent and a nascent B and B business MON things should be looking up for singleparents Rosie and Tom. MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Rosie: Liz White MON Tom: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Tash: Karina Jones MON Rugby Ryan: David Seddon MON Ginny: Priyanga Burford MON Director: David Hunter MON Producer: David Hunter MON Writer: Sue Teddern MON MON 11:00 The Enfield Thunderbolt b03jsrm8 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Peter Curran has bought the 40 year old remains of a piece MON of motoring history. The Enfield 8000 was a prototype MON electric car built in the early 1970s at the height of the MON energy crisis, when the British Government feared that the MON country would grind to a halt at the hands of the oil MON producing nations of the world. MON MON The car was the result of a secret deal brokered between a MON Greek shipping billionaire and the Electricity Boards, and MON was aimed at creating a revolution in the way we thought MON about transportation. MON MON The Enfield 8000 was shorter than a Mini but had bold MON styling and came in a range of classic 70's shades. It was MON powered by four giant tractor batteries and applied the MON latest electrical circuitry to control the car. It had no MON gear stick, just a tiny toggle switch which flicked it MON instantly from forward to reverse. Just over a hundred MON vehicles were produced, and enthusiastic early owners talked MON about its delicate handling, impressive pick up speed and MON natty aero-dynamics. MON MON Peter Curran tells the story of this ground-breaking British MON car and tries to breathe life into his 40 year old Enfield MON for one final challenge. MON MON Producer: David Prest MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 11:30 Ordeal by Innocence b03z91x2 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON by Agatha Christie MON dramatised by Joy Wilkinson MON MON Episode 3. MON MON Now Philip has been found dead, most of the family members MON now believe that Dr. Calgary was right when he said that MON their late mother's killer is still amongst them and MON everyone is on their guard. 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 Mary: Priyanga Burford MON Huish: Michael Bertenshaw MON Constable: Arthur Hughes MON Director: Mary Peate MON Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson MON Author: Agatha Christie MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03z91x4 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03z3h3l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03z3h3n (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 b03z91x6 (Listen) MON Felons and Oddfellows MON MON As the nature and depth of our friendships comes under MON scrutiny in an era of Social Networking, Dr Thomas Dixon MON presents a major new history of the changing meaning of MON friendship over the centuries. MON MON Episode 6: Felons and Oddfellows MON MON Thomas Dixon traces the idea of friendship as a form of MON practical self-help back to the Friendly Societies of the MON 18th and 19th centuries. At their peak, there were 9000 of MON these grass-roots institutions - many with quaint, archaic MON names, such as The Manchester Unity of Oddfellows - and it MON is estimated that 40% of the adult male population belonged MON to one - mobilising the power of friendship in a sort of MON forerunner of the Welfare State. MON MON The importance of the idea of friendship emerges through the MON colourful vocabulary of friendship in the period - from MON cronies, trumps and bloaters to culliles, marrows and MON rib-stones, and the more familiar, chums and pals. MON MON With contributions from Dr Helen Rogers and Professor Hugh MON Cunningham. MON MON Producer Beaty Rubens MON MON Dr Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of MON the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, with a MON particular expertise in the histories of emotions, science, MON philosophy and religion. MON MON Further Reading MON Barbara Caine (ed.), MON Friendship: A History MON (Equinox, 2009), Chapter 7, ‘Class, Sex and Friendship: The MON Long Nineteenth Century’, by Marc Brodie and Barbara Caine MON Simon Cordery, MON British Friendly Societies MON 1750-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) MON R. A. Houston, MON Bride Ales and Penny Weddings: Recreations, Reciprocity, and MON Regions in MON Britain from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries MON (Oxford University Press, 2014) MON Heather Shore, MON Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century MON (Boydell Press, 2002) MON E. P. Thompson, MON The Making of the English Working Class MON (Victor Gollancz, 1963) MON MON The History of Emotions blog MON Read a series of specially commissioned blog posts MON supporting this series. MON Helen Rogers, ‘Thick as thieves MON ’ MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03z3lhs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03z91x8 (Listen) MON Chiwawa MON MON by Melissa Murray MON MON When a writer is discovered to have written scathing reviews MON of his rivals' work his wife persuades their young assistant MON to take the blame - with unexpected consequences. MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby MON MON Writers have historically attacked their rivals' work - MON sometimes their friends' work - via anonymous reviews. But MON the internet has taken the practice to a whole level. MON Serious reputable people have been found guilty of slating MON fellow writers' work, or writing grotesquely self-praising MON pieces, and publishing these remarks in some very public MON places. And they are just the ones who got caught... MON MON Credits MON Jane: Pippa Nixon MON Monica: Fenella Woolgar MON Gordon: Michael Bertenshaw MON Bea: Cassie Layton MON Mum: Elaine Claxton MON John: Clive Hayward MON Steph: Heather Craney MON Writer: Melissa Murray MON Director: Marc Beeby MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03z9gtg (Listen) MON (17/17) MON The four competitors who have come through heats and MON semi-finals unscathed now face each other in the 2014 Final MON - with the 61st annual Brain of Britain title at stake. MON MON Russell Davies asks the questions in what promises to be a MON nail-biting contest between four of the brightest and most MON determined quizzing minds in Britain. As usual the questions MON fall entirely at random, and the only rule is that a MON contestant's turn is over once he or she has answered five MON correctly in a row. MON MON There's also the usual interval in which the Brains pool MON their knowledge to tackle a pair of questions as a team MON rather than as rivals - and, by tradition, the questions for MON the Final have been set by the reigning Brain of Britain MON champion. MON MON The programme comes from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03z3l4f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics b03z9gmm (Listen) MON Sophocles 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 2: Sophocles invents modern drama with Oedipus the MON King. Spoiler alert! - it doesn't end well. This episode MON includes handy hints on how to get in the mood for a MON classical tragedy (bring a bottle.) With Professor Edith MON Hall, poet and playwright Frank McGuinness and TV critic MON Andrew Collins. MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b03z9gmp (Listen) MON Indian Elections MON MON India is about to go to the polls. 788 million people are MON eligible to vote in the world's largest democracy. The role MON of regional, local and caste-based parties is important in MON Indian politics where Governments tend to rule by coalition, MON but this election is being represented as an epic struggle MON between the Indian National Congress party and Bharatiya MON Janata Party (BJP) led by the controversial figure of MON Narendra Modi, a Hindu Nationalist. MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the role of religious MON nationalism in Indian politics are William Gould, Professor MON of Indian History at the University of Leeds, Atreyee Sen, MON lecturer in Contemporary Religion and Conflict at the MON University of Manchester, and Zoya Hasan formerly Professor, MON Jawaharlal Nehru University and currently National Fellow of MON the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b03z9gmr (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03z3h3q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b03z9gmt (Listen) MON Series 68, Episode 8 MON MON In the last edition this series, the panellists attempting MON to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition & MON deviation are Miles Jupp, Paul Merton, Graham Norton and MON relative newcomer Holly Walsh. MON They do so, as always, under the chairmanship of Nicholas MON Parsons. MON MON Subjects include 'A Shotgun Wedding' and 'Personal Hygiene MON in the Tenth Century' 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 b03z9gmw (Listen) MON Brian's being pestered by Borchester Land, and Dan's keeping MON fit. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03z9gn0 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03z91x0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Clearing the Air b03z9gn8 (Listen) MON Ten years ago, Ireland became the first country in the world MON to ban smoking in the workplace. On 29 March 2004, the air MON cleared in Ireland's bars, restaurants and other buildings - MON and there was hardly any backlash. The pub-loving nation MON became the model for a global health revolution. In the MON decade since, countries across the world have passed MON smoke-free laws of their own. In this programme, the BBC's MON former Ireland Correspondent Denis Murray looks at the MON impact of this type of anti-smoking legislation across MON Europe - and considers the future of tobacco. MON MON Denis's journey begins in Dublin, where he recalls how MON radical a move the smoking ban was at the time. His old MON haunt, Mulligan's bar, used to be memorable for its blue, MON reeking fug. And the success of the ban in Ireland made MON international news - leading other countries to follow suit. MON MON So Denis travels to two very contrasting cities to compare MON attitudes to smoking ten years on. MON MON The Czech Republic has the most liberal smoking laws in the MON European Union. In Prague, going to a bar can feel like MON stepping back in time - many of them permit smoking. MON MON France, so long synonymous with romantic movies featuring MON characters speaking to each other through clouds of smoke, MON has followed Ireland's lead and banned smoking in public MON places. Paris is a city with a fascinating relationship with MON tobacco - where the debate is often about philosophy as much MON as science. MON In a journey across three countries, with a cast list of MON doctors, politicians and businesspeople - with the odd MON musician and philosopher thrown in - "Clearing the Air" MON poses and answers many questions about the effect which MON smoke-free laws are having on health and society. MON MON Producer: Chris Page. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03yqj39 (Listen) MON Syria: The Silent Enemy MON MON There's a silent enemy at work in the civil war in Syria and MON it's threatening the lives of young children. The war has MON placed the country's health system under intense pressure MON and in certain areas vaccination programmes against a range MON of preventable diseases have not taken place. In October MON 2013 the Syrian Ministry of Health verified the first polio MON case in 15 years. Now there are 25 laboratory confirmed MON cases in the country with another 13 confirmations pending. MON With the huge movement of populations across regional MON borders there are fears that polio, along with other MON infectious diseases, is spreading. In March UNICEF announced MON a massive polio vaccination campaign for the whole region. MON For Crossing Continents Tim Whewell travels to the Turkish MON border and to Lebanon to talk to the doctors and health care MON workers struggling to cope with a growing crisis. MON MON 21:00 The Great Global Warming Gold Rush b03ynf5n (Listen) MON The most convincing evidence that someone really believes MON something is when they are willing to risk their own money MON on it. Businesses around the world are doing just that; MON betting that they can profit from the effects of climate MON change. Justin Rowlatt meets the entrepreneurs who believe MON there is money to be made from the world's changing climate. MON Producer: Sandra Kanthal. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03z8ynt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03z3h3s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03z9j9n (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03z9j9q (Listen) MON Unexploded, Episode 1 MON MON A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. MON MON "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off MON the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was MON immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an MON enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and MON Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an MON excellent place to land." MON MON In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, MON anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. MON Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment MON camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by MON fear and then quiet but growing desperation. MON MON A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. MON MON Episode 1: MON With Brighton braced for an imminent invasion on its MON beaches, Geoffrey comes home with some shattering news. MON MON Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for MON the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story MON 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in MON the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her MON previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of MON Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize MON in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the MON University of Chichester. MON MON Reader: Emma Fielding MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Emma Fielding MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Author: Alison MacLeod MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b03f9dbr (Listen) MON Series 4, The Fear MON MON Josie Long gets scared as she presents a sequence of MON frightening mini documentaries. MON MON From the sound of fear to the feel of terror, we hear the MON story of a sleepwalking menace stalking through an American MON summer camp late at night and tales of how the young David MON O'Doherty was terrorised by his older brother. MON MON Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON The items featured in the programme are: MON MON Dead Man's Hand MON Feat. David O'Doherty MON Prod. Sophie Black MON MON Welcome to the Inn MON Feat. Wolfgang Georgsdorf MON Prod. Phil Smith MON MON The Casserole MON Music by Cabinet of Living Cinema featuring Zac Gvirtzman MON Prod. Sarah Cuddon MON MON Die MON From the podcast Random Tape MON Prod. David Weinberg MON MON Wilder MON Feat. Dave Benson MON Prod. Sophie Black. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03z9j9s (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 APRIL 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03z3h60 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03yqrhy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03z3h62 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03z3h64 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03z3h66 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03z3h68 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03zqvlx (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Dr Janet Wootton. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03z9jxx (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03z9k44 (Listen) TUE Woodcock 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 Kate Humble presents the woodcock. Woodcocks are waders, TUE thickset, long-billed, and superbly camouflaged. On the TUE woodland floor, where they hide by day, their rust, fawn and TUE black plumage conceals them among the dead leaves of winter. TUE Often the first sign that they're about is a blur of russet TUE and a whirr of wings as a woodcock rises from almost under TUE your feet and twists away between the tree-trunks. TUE TUE Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03z9k46 (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 b03z9k48 (Listen) TUE Veronica van Heyningen TUE TUE Charles Darwin described the eye as an 'organ of extreme TUE perfection and complication'. How this engineering marvel of TUE nature forms out of a few cells in the developing embryo has TUE been the big question for Veronica van Heyningen, emeritus TUE professor at the MRC's Institute of Genetics and Molecular TUE Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. TUE TUE Veronica is a world lead in the genetics of the development TUE of the eye. She tells Jim Al Khalili about her part in the TUE discovery of a gene called Pax-6 which turned to be a master TUE builder gene for the eye, in all animals which have eyes - TUE from humans to fruit flies. TUE TUE As she explains, further research on this gene may TUE eventually help people with the genetic vision impairment, TUE Aniridia. It was Veronica's research on patients with this TUE condition which led to the gene's final discovery. She tells TUE Jim about why it's important for scientists to engage in TUE public discussion on the ethical implications of their work. TUE TUE Veronica also talks about her arrival in Britain as an 11 TUE year old. Her family escaped from communist Hungary in 1958. TUE Both of her Jewish parents had been sent to Nazi TUE concentration camps during the Second World War. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b03zb49p (Listen) TUE Jane Hill meets Caroline Harding TUE TUE BBC presenter Jane Hill's father and uncle both lived with TUE Parkinson's disease and, in the first of two programmes TUE about people from families with inherited genetic disorders, TUE she meets Caroline Harding. Caroline talks about her TUE decision whether or not to have her second and third TUE children tested after her first child was born with the rare TUE condition HED (hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia). TUE TUE Producer: Sally Heaven. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03yqrk2 (Listen) TUE The Unexpected Professor, Episode 2 TUE TUE From Biggles to bee-keeping, John Carey threads together the TUE chapters of his life in books - taking in politics, social TUE history and the skirmishes of academia along the way. TUE TUE Vignettes of pre-war Hammersmith and Barnes accompany TUE affectionate accounts of Saturday jobs which he was expected TUE to do to compensate the household for staying on at school. TUE TUE The book is also partly a tribute to the grammar school TUE system. He skewers the snobbishness of Oxford in the 50s but TUE also gives us endearing portraits of the writers and TUE scholars he met and was taught by - including Graves, Larkin TUE and Heaney. TUE TUE Later in his life, his politics and his sometimes TUE controversial cultural criticism take centre stage, TUE producing a commentator who is not afraid to move between TUE genres and labels, always saying something refreshing and TUE frequently unexpected. TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE Rummaging in the study produced not just books but bullets TUE too. TUE TUE Read by Nicholas Farrell TUE Abridged and directed by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Nicholas Farrell TUE Director: Jill Waters TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Author: John Carey TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03zb49t (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03zb49w (Listen) TUE Soloparentpals.com, Flood Damage TUE TUE SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern TUE TUE Episode 2. Flood Damage TUE TUE Should Rosie be concerned? With days to go to the wedding TUE Tom has decided to stay in the house of his ex-wife Ginny TUE and help her with the flood damage. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rosie: Liz White TUE Tom: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Tash: Karina Jones TUE Ginny: Priyanga Burford TUE Director: David Hunter TUE Producer: David Hunter TUE Writer: Sue Teddern TUE TUE 11:00 The Enfield Thunderbolt b03kp470 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Peter Curran has bought the 40 year old remains of a piece TUE of motoring history. The Enfield 8000 was a prototype TUE electric car built in the early 1970s at the height of the TUE energy crisis, when the British Government feared that the TUE country would grind to a halt at the hands of the oil TUE producing nations of the world. TUE TUE The car was the result of a secret deal brokered between a TUE Greek shipping billionaire and the Electricity Boards, and TUE was aimed at creating a revolution in the way we thought TUE about transportation. TUE TUE The Enfield 8000 was shorter than a Mini but had bold TUE styling and came in a range of classic 70's shades. It was TUE powered by four giant tractor batteries and applied the TUE latest electrical circuitry to control the car. It had no TUE gear stick, just a tiny toggle switch which flicked it TUE instantly from forward to reverse. Just over a hundred TUE vehicles were produced, and enthusiastic early owners talked TUE about its delicate handling, impressive pick up speed and TUE natty aero-dynamics. TUE TUE Peter Curran tells the story of this ground-breaking British TUE car and tries to breathe life into his 40 year old Enfield TUE for one final challenge. TUE TUE Producer: David Prest TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b03zb49y (Listen) TUE Series 18, Rhapsody in Blue TUE TUE "I'm convinced it's the best thing ever written and recorded TUE in the history of things written and recorded" - Moby. TUE TUE Rhapsody in Blue was first heard exactly 90 years ago when TUE it premiered on February 12, 1924, in New York's Aeolian TUE Hall. Through its use at the opening of Woody Allen's TUE 'Manhattan' it has become synonymous with the city that TUE inspired its creation. But for people around the world, TUE George Gershwin's "experiment in modern music" has become TUE imbued with the most personal of memories. TUE TUE LA based screen writer Charles Peacock reflects on how this TUE piece has become entwined with his life and how, on an TUE evening at the Hollywood Bowl this music "healed him". When TUE Adela Galasiu was growing up in communist Romania, Rhapsody TUE in Blue represented "life itself, as seen through the eyes TUE of an optimist". For world speed champion Gina Campbell, the TUE opening of that piece will forever remind her of the roar of TUE the Bluebird's ignition as it flew through the "glass like TUE stillness of the water" and brings back the memories of her TUE father, the legendary Donald Campbell - it was played at his TUE funeral when he was finally laid to rest decades after his TUE fatal record attempt on Coniston Lake. TUE TUE Featuring interviews with Professor of Music Howard Pollock TUE and musician Moby. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03zb4b0 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03z3h6b (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03z3h6d (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 b03zb4b2 (Listen) TUE Education of the Heart TUE TUE As the nature and depth of our friendships comes under TUE scrutiny in an era of Social Networking, Dr Thomas Dixon TUE presents a major new history of the changing meaning of TUE friendship over the centuries. TUE TUE Episode 7: Education of the Heart TUE TUE Today, we tend to view friendships among children as a good TUE thing, but in the 18th century, improving "conduct manuals" TUE tended to warn children off friendship, seeing it as fraught TUE with danger. In an era of large families, friendships among TUE siblings were considered far safer. TUE TUE Thomas Dixon learns from the distinguished expert on the TUE history of childhood, Professor Hugh Cunningham, how the TUE reduction of family size and the spread of mass education in TUE the 19th century began, inevitably to challenge this notion. TUE TUE But the idea of the dangers of friendship for children TUE persisted. TUE TUE Thomas Dixon goes on to explore with children's literature TUE specialist, Dr Matthew Grenby, how the classic school TUE stories of the 19th century - from Matthew Arnold's Tom TUE Brown's Schooldays to Angela Brazil's A Fourth Form TUE Friendship - continued to provide moral advice about TUE friendship, buried within their depiction of algebra, TUE lacrosse and midnight feasts in the dorm. TUE TUE Producer Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE Related Reading TUE Hugh Cunningham, TUE The Invention of Childhood TUE (BBC Books, 2006) TUE Ginger S. Frost, TUE Victorian Childhoods TUE (Praeger, 2009) TUE Matthew Grenby, TUE The Child Reader TUE 1700–1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) TUE TUE The History of Emotions blog TUE Read a series of specially commissioned blog posts TUE supporting this series. TUE Beaty Rubens, ‘Stranger danger in the 18th Century’ TUE Thomas Dixon, ‘Leaving the magic kingdom’ TUE Helen Rogers and the Writing Lives project, ‘Memories of TUE improvement’ TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03z9gmw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03zb4b4 (Listen) TUE Silk: The Clerks' Room, Jake TUE TUE By Mick Collins TUE TUE Jake thinks that barristers' clerks and Italian-American TUE gangsters are cut from the same cloth. They both demand TUE loyalty, run people's lives and if you want your business to TUE survive, you have to pay them a chunk of your earnings. In TUE the first part of a series on based on the TV drama Silk, TUE Jake inadvertently continues the analogy, when he finds TUE himself in the firing line after double-crossing Head Clerk TUE Billy. TUE TUE Based on the BBC1 series Silk created by Peter Moffat. TUE TUE Executive producer: Hilary Salmon TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE As the third series of BBC1's Silk concludes in a dramatic TUE finale on Monday 31 March, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama picks TUE up the reins and broadcasts three plays that focus on life TUE in the Clerks' Room at the Shoe Lane chambers. TUE TUE As Head Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke) would have it known, TUE the Clerks' Room is the epicentre of everything that happens TUE in a successful set of chambers like Shoe Lane. Barristers' TUE clerks act as their agents; they get the cases, distribute TUE the work, and can make or break careers. To some, they're a TUE gang of wide-boys with an inflated sense of their own TUE importance. To others, they're an essential pillar that TUE dates back to the beginnings of the Inns of Court. Now, as TUE modern management supersedes tradition, their livelihoods TUE may be under threat, and our drama reflects this through the TUE ongoing battle between Head Clerk Billy Lamb and Practice TUE Manager Harriet Hammond (Miranda Raison). TUE TUE With Clive (Rupert Penry-Jones) and Martha (Maxine Peake) TUE engaged elsewhere, the three radio dramas centre around life TUE in the Clerks' Room, and each play focuses on the TUE professional tribulations of the three Junior Clerks; Jake, TUE Bethany and John. TUE TUE In 'Jake', Theo Barklem-Biggs' character becomes embroiled TUE in a desperate tangle when his best friend is arrested for TUE ABH. Against everyone's advice, Jake goes behind Billy's TUE back and instructs one of Shoe Lane's junior barristers to TUE represent him, placing his own career in jeopardy. TUE TUE In the second drama, Bethany's (Amy Wren) private ambitions TUE of becoming a barrister come under the spotlight when she's TUE forced to drag an under-performing barrister through a TUE trial. TUE TUE And in the final play, John (John Macmillan) sees his TUE professional and private life heading for a spectacular TUE collision when Billy and Harriet embark on a battle to bring TUE his barrister-girlfriend to Shoe Lane. TUE TUE Each of the plays feature the same core cast and characters TUE from the TV show's Clerks' Room: Neil Stuke, Miranda Raison, TUE Theo Barklem-Biggs, Amy Wren. Guest appearances from Charles TUE Edwards, Anthony Welsh, Jeany Spark, Flaminia Cinque. TUE TUE The television series concludes on Monday 31 March and the TUE Radio 4 series begins the following day at 2.15pm on Tuesday TUE 1 April. The subsequence episodes are broadcast on Tuesday 8 TUE April and Tuesday 15 April. TUE TUE The television show Silk is created by Peter Moffat, and the TUE writers of the radio dramas are Mick Collins and Janice TUE Okoh. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Credits TUE Jake: Theo Barklem-Biggs TUE Billy: Neil Stuke TUE Amy: Jessica Henwick TUE John: John MacMillan TUE Bethany: Amy Wren TUE Chris: Anthony Welsh TUE Jury Forewoman: Carolyn Pickles TUE Tannoy: Priyanga Burford TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Mick Collins TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b03zb4b6 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Waking Life TUE TUE Josie Long presents a sequence of brief encounters, true TUE stories and short documentaries in which the boundaries blur TUE between real life and dreaming. TUE TUE From the addictive, perception-altering qualities of TUE romantic love through to a surreal story about recording TUE dreams, we hear from the legendary film editor and director TUE Walter Murch about the dreamlike qualities of cinematic TUE narratives and the psychologist Susan Blackmore's experience TUE of looking down from the ceiling at her own body. TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE TUE Waking Life TUE Feat. Susan Blackmore TUE Prod. Sara Parker TUE TUE Dreaming TUE Feat. Walter Murch TUE TUE The Man Who Could Record Your Dreams TUE Prod. Bob Carlson TUE Originally broadcast on Unfictional TUE An extended version of this story can he found here: TUE http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/uf/uf110909the_man_who_coul TUE _re TUE TUE Last Words TUE Feat. Kester Brewin TUE TUE Love is a Drug TUE Feat. Helen Fisher TUE Prod. Hana Walker Brown TUE TUE Answer Machine TUE Found sound from Tape Findings TUE http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/ TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b03zb4b8 (Listen) TUE A Resilient World? TUE TUE Following the publication of the latest report from the TUE Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change, a panel of TUE climate experts debates how nations and populations around TUE the world will have to adapt and prepare for the affects of TUE climate change in the coming decades. TUE TUE Recent extreme weather events suggest that the affects of TUE climate change are beginning to show and so what can be done TUE to mitigate the impact of major climate event? TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b03zb4bb (Listen) TUE Creating Characters TUE TUE Michael Rosen gathers a gaggle of writers, actors and TUE directors to discuss what makes a great character in a book, TUE on the stage and on the radio. Recorded in front of an TUE audience at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol, as part of TUE Radio 4 Character Invasion Day. TUE Contributors: Andrew Hilton, Founder & Artistic Director of TUE Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, who's also acted in TUE radio, theatre, TV and films. TUE Helen Cross, author of radio plays, novels, stories and TUE screenplays. Her first novel, My Summer of Love, became a TUE BAFTA award winning feature film. TUE Paul Dodgson, actor in and writer of radio dramas, and also TUE a composer and teacher. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03zb4bd (Listen) TUE Series 33, Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline Du Pre TUE TUE Evelyn Glennie, solo percussionist talks about her TUE admiration for the cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with presenter TUE Matthew Parris. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Evelyn Glennie TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03zb4bj (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03z3h6g (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b00zshns (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 3 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 Simon TUE Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery and Paul TUE Whitehouse, TUE TUE Special guests are Lee Mack, Adil Ray and Fiona Whitehouse. TUE TUE Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson. TUE TUE Contact the show TUE Email the show at downtheline@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Credits TUE Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas TUE Actor: Simon Day TUE Actor: Felix Dexter TUE Actor: Charlie Higson TUE Actor: Lucy Montgomery TUE Actor: Paul Whitehouse TUE Actor: Lee Mack TUE Actor: Adil Ray TUE Actor: Fiona Whitehouse TUE Producer: Paul Whitehouse TUE Producer: Charlie Higson TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03zb7dk (Listen) TUE Ruth needs her Mum, and an April Fool gets serious. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03zb7dp (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03zb49w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Country Formerly Known as London b03zb7dr (Listen) TUE The year is 2030. What began as a whimsical notion, floated TUE in the long aftermath of the banking crisis, has gathered TUE steam as London powered ahead and the rest of Britain TUE remained in perma-austerity. The campaign to break London TUE and the southeast away from the rest of Britain has TUE triumphed - like Singapore, London is now an independent TUE city-state. TUE TUE This new country has a population the size of Switzerland, TUE and a banking industry just as dominant. Its population is TUE among the most multicultural in the world. But the new TUE country also has world-class problems - the highest TUE inequality of any rich economy with simmering social TUE tensions to match, and house prices so high that London's TUE cleaners and baristas and firemen commute in from Hastings TUE or further afield. TUE TUE This programme is a despatch from the future, sketching out TUE the contours of independent London in 2030 - an affluent TUE country with more liberal attitudes, and far more diverse, TUE transient population than Britain, but with a lopsided TUE economy all too dependent on financial services and an TUE increasingly hollowed-out society. The programme also serves TUE as a parable about what could happen if Britain continues TUE along an economic divide between London and the rest. What TUE might the rest of the UK look like in 2030, if London TUE continues to suck in the spending? 'When you pass Stevenage, TUE it's like someone turned the lights out', we're told. TUE TUE Presenter: Aditya Chakrabortty TUE TUE Producer: Eve Streeter TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03zb7dw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b03zx7nd (Listen) TUE With a replacement of the controversial Liverpool Care TUE Pathway expected over the next few months Professor Keri TUE Thomas, National Clinical lead for End of Life Care, debates TUE the need for change and calls for a more personalised care TUE for the dying. TUE TUE And Following Germany's announcement last year that new TUE parents can register their baby as being of 'indeterminate TUE gender' Inside Health examines differences in sexual TUE development; why this may happen, advice from specialists TUE and the impact on the family in the early days when it is TUE unclear if a baby is a boy or a girl. TUE TUE Plus, does the environment of your GP's surgery increase or TUE alleviate anxiety? TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b03z9k48 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03zb7f0 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03zwyjv (Listen) TUE Unexploded, Episode 2 TUE TUE A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. TUE TUE "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off TUE the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was TUE immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an TUE enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and TUE Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an TUE excellent place to land." TUE TUE In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, TUE anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. TUE Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment TUE camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by TUE fear and then quiet but growing desperation. TUE TUE A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE After a difficult evening and a restless night, Geoffrey TUE wakes up hoping to reconcile with Evelyn. TUE TUE Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for TUE the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story TUE 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in TUE the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her TUE previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of TUE Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize TUE in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the TUE University of Chichester. TUE TUE Reader: Emma Fielding TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Emma Fielding TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Author: Alison MacLeod TUE TUE 23:00 Shedtown b03zb7f4 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE The Shedists have fallen off the edge, abandoned ship; TUE they're clinging to driftwood and floating out to sea. TUE TUE A big, funny, daft poem to the sea. Not burdened by common TUE sense or what's gone before; our Shedists spot a structure TUE in the distance - and are swept up in a dream populated by a TUE pier, no rules, and of course beds, to rest their heads, in TUE brand new made-to-measure 'omnisheds'. TUE TUE Narrated by Maxine Peake TUE Written and Directed by Tony Pitts TUE Music by Richard Hawley and Paul Heaton TUE TUE Produced by Sally Harrison TUE A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Maxine Peake TUE Director: Tony Pitts TUE Producer: Sally Harrison TUE Writer: Tony Pitts TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03zb7f6 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 APRIL 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03z3h7c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03yqrk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03z3h7f (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03z3h7h (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03z3h7k (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03z3h7m (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03zqvnj (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Dr Janet Wootton. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03zbtzx (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zbtzz (Listen) WED Black Grouse 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 Kate Humble presents the story of the black grouse. A black WED grouse lek is one of Nature's spectacles. Charged with WED testosterone, the males, known as 'black cocks', compete on WED 'jousting lawns' for the females or grey hens. Fanning their WED lyre-shaped tails and displaying a flurry of white undertail WED feathers, the males rush towards their rivals with harsh WED scouring sneezes and bubbling cries, known as 'roo-kooing'. WED WED Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b03zbv01 (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 b03zbv03 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03yn669 (Listen) WED The Unexpected Professor, Episode 3 WED WED From Biggles to bee-keeping, John Carey threads together the WED chapters of his life in books - taking in politics, social WED history and the skirmishes of academia along the way. WED WED Vignettes of pre-war Hammersmith and Barnes accompany WED affectionate accounts of Saturday jobs which he was expected WED to do to compensate the household for staying on at school. WED WED The book is also partly a tribute to the grammar school WED system. He skewers the snobbishness of Oxford in the 50s but WED also gives us endearing portraits of the writers and WED scholars he met and was taught by - including Graves, Larkin WED and Heaney. WED WED Later in his life, his politics and his sometimes WED controversial cultural criticism take centre stage, WED producing a commentator who is not afraid to move between WED genres and labels, always saying something refreshing and WED frequently unexpected. WED WED Episode 3 WED National Service in Egypt was an odd sort of prelude to an WED Oxford degree. WED WED Read by Nicholas Farrell WED Abridged and directed by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Nicholas Farrell WED Director: Jill Waters WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Author: John Carey WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03zbv07 (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03zbv09 (Listen) WED Soloparentpals.com, It's a Family Affair WED WED SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern WED WED Episode 3. It's a Family Affair WED WED Rosie and Tom have started running a B & B business in his WED mother's house. However, they haven't told her and her WED arrival for their wedding is imminent. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Rosie: Liz White WED Tom: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED SPP.com: Karina Jones WED Ginny: Priyanga Burford WED Pat: Carolyn Pickles WED Lily: Isadora Dooley Hunter WED Calum: Arthur Hughes WED Director: David Hunter WED Producer: David Hunter WED Writer: Sue Teddern WED WED 11:00 Rockets in the Desert b03zbv0c (Listen) WED At a desolate airfield in the Mojave Desert, a group of WED entrepreneurs, engineers and rocket scientists is attempting WED to build a new industry of private spaceflight and WED exploration. WED WED Some are calling the small town of Mojave the Silicon Valley WED of space. Others compare what is happening here with Kitty WED Hawk and the early days of the aviation industry. WED WED Space journalist Richard Hollingham goes inside the WED workshops and hangars at the Mojave Air and Space Port, WED where he discovers rockets, space planes and a culture where WED risk is encouraged. WED WED Richard talks to Virgin Galactic and tours the sixty-year WED old wooden hangar of lesser-known rivals, XCOR. Both WED companies are hoping to fly tourists into space. He sees the WED unremarkable shed where a new lunar lander is taking shape WED and meets the locals who are pinning their hopes on rocket WED scientists to revive the depressed local economy. WED WED If the projects being developed in this small desert town WED are successful, they could ultimately transform access to WED space and make a difference to all our lives. WED WED Producer: John Watkins WED A Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Gloomsbury b03zby85 (Listen) WED Series 2, Anarchy Looms over Staplehurst WED WED Talk of a General Strike is in the air as Lionel and Ginny WED Fox pay a visit to Sizzlinghurst Castle to see Vera WED Sackcloth-Vest and Henry Mickleton. WED WED Green-fingered Sapphist Vera Sackcloth-Vest shares a bijou WED castle in Kent with her devoted husband Henry, but longs for WED exotic adventures with nervy novelist Ginny Fox and wilful WED beauty Venus Traduces. It's 1921, the dawn of modern love, WED life and lingerie, but Vera still hasn't learnt how to boil WED a kettle. WED WED Ginny is writing a new book and wants to pick Vera's brains WED about her aristocratic childhood. But all is not well. Henry WED thinks that Ginny is a bad influence on Vera because Ginny WED is so highly strung and Lionel thinks that Vera is too WED aristocratic and not socialist enough for Ginny. WED WED Terrified that the oppressed people of Staplehurst will rise WED up and storm the castle, they flirt with a posh kind of WED socialism until the working class DH Lollipop pops in with WED his demi-mondaine Venus Traduces and tells them that he WED likes them just the way they are. WED WED Producer: Jamie Rix WED A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes WED Gosling: Roger Lloyd-Pack WED Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy WED Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman WED Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd-Pack WED Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman WED Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks WED DH Lollipop: John Sessions WED Producer: Jamie Rix WED Writer: Sue Limb WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03zby87 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03z3h7p (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 b03zby89 (Listen) WED Darwin's Best Friend WED WED Dr Thomas Dixon presents a timely new history of the WED changing meaning and experience of friendship over the WED centuries WED WED Episode 8: Darwin's Best Friend WED WED Charles Darwin loved his dog and praised her in letters to WED friends as "the beloved and beautiful Polly". He believed WED that dogs shared qualities such as a sense of shame, honour WED and affection with humans, and wrote about them in The WED Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. WED WED It was in this era that dogs were, for the first time, given WED the title of "man's best friend". WED WED Thomas Dixon traces the impact of Darwin's own relationship WED with animals on his theory of evolution, and compares it WED with his ideas about other, "savage" human beings, whom he WED encountered in Tierra Del Fuego, during his trip on the WED Beagle. WED WED He also considers Darwin's deeply affectionate and intimate WED friendship with his fellow-scientist, Joseph Hooker, at a WED time when it is often believed men were disinclined towards WED displays of emotion. WED WED With contributions from Emma Townshend, author of Darwin's WED Dogs, and Hooker expert Dr Jim Endersby. WED WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED WED Related Reading WED Adrian Desmond and James Moore, WED Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human WED Origins WED (Allen Lane, 2009) WED Jim Endersby, WED Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of WED Victorian Science WED (University of Chicago Press, 2008) WED Vanessa Smith, WED Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific WED Encounters WED (Cambridge University Press, 2010) WED Emma Townshend, WED Darwin’s Dogs: How Darwin’s Pets Helped form a WED World-Changing Theory of Evolution WED (Francis Lincoln, 2009) WED WED WED The History of Emotions blog WED Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this WED series. WED Emma Townshend, ‘From the same animal pattern’ WED Liz Gray, ‘Loyalty and a dog called Bobby’ WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03zb7dk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03zby8c (Listen) WED The Great British Bridge Scandal WED WED By Deborah Davis WED It is 1965, at the World Bridge Championships in Buenos WED Aires, and the American team believe they have cracked a WED code. Could it be true that two British players are guilty WED of cheating? WED WED Terence Reese ..... Nick Waring WED Boris Schapiro ..... Stephen Critchlow WED Dorothy Hayden ..... Laurel Lefkow WED Ralph Swimer ..... Clive Hayward WED Leonard Caplan ..... David Cann WED Sir John Foster ..... Michael Bertenshaw WED Simon Goldblatt ..... Jot Davies WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale WED WED The Story: WED WED In 1965, at the World Bridge Championships in Buenos Aires, WED the American team led by Dorothy Hayden observed Britain's WED top players, Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro, using finger WED signals during bidding. Hayden cracked the code: the British WED pair were signalling the number of cards they held in their WED hearts suits. Ralph Swimer, Britain's non-playing Captain, WED was informed. He observed his team playing and confirmed WED Hayden's suspicions. They reported their findings to the WED World Bridge Federation. Reese and Schapiro were summoned to WED defend the accusations and chose to remain silent. The WBF WED found them guilty of cheating. Swimer conceded the WED championship on behalf of Great Britain. Reese and Schapiro WED returned to London, their international reputations WED destroyed. WED WED But for the four participants, the drama had only just WED begun. The British Bridge Federation set up its own inquiry WED under Sir John Foster QC who imposed a criminal burden of WED proof; the prosecution was required to prove its case beyond WED reasonable doubt. WED WED Deborah Davis picks up the story as the case unfolds and the WED battle for the truth begins. WED WED The Writer: WED WED Deborah Davis, a qualified lawyer and freelance journalist, WED has written five plays for Radio 4 and a stage play, Court WED Pastoral, selected for the International Playwriting WED Festival. Her radio drama, Balance of Power, was selected WED for the Brit List in 2009 coming in joint 4th place. The WED script is now in film development. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03zd3hx (Listen) WED Paying for Childcare WED WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on personal WED finance. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b03zx7nd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03zd3hz (Listen) WED Kissing; The British Hitman WED WED Kissing - a cultural history. How do we make sense of the WED kiss and why did it become a vital sign of romance and WED courtship? Laurie Taylor talks to Marcel Danesi, Professor WED of Linguistic Anthropology about his new book 'The History WED of the Kiss' which argues that kissing was the first act of WED "free romance" liberated from the yoke of arranged unions. WED When the kiss first appeared in poetry and songs of the WED medieval period, it was as a desirable but forbidden act. WED Since then it has evolved into the quintessential symbol of WED love-making in the popular imagination. From early poems and WED paintings to current films, its romantic incarnation WED coincides with the birth of popular culture itself. They're WED joined by Karen Harvey, Reader in Cultural History at the WED University of Sheffield, who has studied the meaning of the WED kiss across different cultures and periods. WED WED Also, hitmen for hire: David Wilson, Professor of WED Criminology, examined 27 cases of contract killing committed WED by 36 men (including accomplices) and one woman. Far from WED involving shadowy, organised criminals, the reality of WED killing for cash turned out to be surprisingly mundane. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Marcel Danesi WED WED Professor of Semiotics and Communication Theory, and WED coordinator of the University of Toronto WED WED WED Find out more about WED Marcel Danesi WED WED WED WED WED The History of the Kiss: The Birth of Popular Culture WED Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan WED ISBN-10: 1137376848 WED ISBN-13: 978-1137376848 WED WED Karen Harvey WED WED Reader in Cultural History, Department of History, WED University of Sheffield WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Karen Harvey WED WED WED WED WED The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in WED Eighteenth-Century Britain WED Publisher: OUP Oxford WED ISBN-10: 0199686130 WED ISBN-13: 978-0199686131 WED WED David Wilson WED WED Professor of Criminology, Centre for Applied Criminology, WED School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University WED WED WED Find out more about WED David Wilson WED WED WED WED WED WED Abstract: WED The British Hitman: 1974–2013 WED Donal Macintyre, David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley and Liam WED Brolan WED The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice WED doi: 10.1111/hojo.12063 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 b03zd3j1 (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 b03zd3j3 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03z3h7r (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted b03zd3j5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Children WED WED In a new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores issues on WED which she has strong opinions. This week, she explains that WED she has never been interested in having children, and why WED they frighten her. WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Susan Calman WED Producer: Lyndsay Fenner WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03zd3j7 (Listen) WED Shula's speculating about Dan, and there's a crisis at WED rehearsal. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03zd3j9 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03zbv09 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Would That Work Here? b03zd3jc (Listen) WED Estonian E-Democracy WED WED In a new series of thought-provoking debates, Claire WED Bolderson looks at something another country does well, or WED differently, and asks whether it could work here. WED WED The last few decades have seen declining participation in WED the electoral process, particularly among the younger WED generation. Only 44% of 18-24 year-olds voted in 2010 WED compared with 76% of over 65s, and the Hansard Society is WED predicting it could be as low as 12% in the next election. WED Could adopting an Estonian style e-democracy re-engage the WED population? WED WED Estonia is credited with being the world's leading WED e-democracy, having embraced a determined policy of WED digitalisation, including electronic internet voting, as WED part of the push to make itself competitive in the 21st WED Century. The UK political system is positively antiquarian WED by comparison. What can the UK learn from the Estonian WED experience? WED WED The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, recently WED suggested the UK might follow suit, but what would be the WED advantages and disadvantages - and how much would it cost? WED Is our current system fit for purpose, or is it out of touch WED with the way we live now, already doing our shopping, WED banking, betting and much else online? Would digitalisation WED re-engage the young, or merely serve the established WED political elite? WED WED The Estonian system relies on an ID card system. Would that WED be a barrier to our adoption of something similar? Could WED technology liberate us from a 19th Century political rut, or WED would we lay ourselves open to 21st Century problems of WED technology - fraud, insecurity and governmental control? WED WED Produced by Jennie Walmsley and Ruth Evans WED A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b03zd3jf (Listen) WED Andrew Adonis WED WED The Power and the Passion - Andrew Adonis on people power. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b03zb4b8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03zbv03 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03z3h7t (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03zd3jh (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03zx5jw (Listen) WED Unexploded, Episode 3 WED WED A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. WED WED "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off WED the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was WED immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an WED enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and WED Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an WED excellent place to land." WED WED In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, WED anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. WED Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment WED camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by WED fear and then quiet but growing desperation. WED WED A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. WED WED Episode 3: WED Who is the other patient - hidden behind a screen - in the WED internment camp infirmary? WED WED Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for WED the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story WED 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in WED the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her WED previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of WED Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize WED in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the WED University of Chichester. WED WED Reader: Emma Fielding WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Emma Fielding WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Author: Alison MacLeod WED WED 23:00 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b03zd3jk (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED A new series of Helen Keen's comic but scientifically WED accurate look at the science and history of space WED exploration. WED WED This week's episode looks at how we might one day travel to WED Mars and beyond, and discusses the problems of long space WED voyages, with tips on a rather unsavoury way to stop cosmic WED rays and what to do if you feel like eating your crewmates. WED WED Starring Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Helen Keen WED Actor: Peter Serafinowicz WED Actor: Susy Kane WED Producer: Gareth Edwards WED Writer: Helen Keen WED Writer: Miriam Underhill WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b03zd5lx (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not WED applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. WED Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts WED which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be WED followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, WED in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. WED WED This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and WED Peter Curran. Here they endeavour to get the heart of things WED in an entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the WED place for typical male banter. From under the bed clothes WED they play each other music from The Residents and Gerry WED Rafferty, archive of JG Ballard and Virginia Woolf. Life, WED death, work and family are their slightly warped WED conversational currency. WED WED Writers/Performers: WED WED PETER CURRAN is a publisher, writer and documentary maker. A WED former carpenter, his work ranges from directing films about WED culture in Africa, America and Brazil to writing and WED presenting numerous Arts and culture programmes for both WED radio and television. WED WED PATRICK MARBER co-wrote and performed in On The Hour and WED Knowing Me, Knowing You..with Alan Partridge. His plays WED include Dealer's Choice, After Miss Julie, Closer and Don WED Juan in Soho. Marber also wrote the Oscar-nominated WED screenplay for the film Notes on a Scandal. WED WED Producer: Peter Curran. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03zd5lz (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 APRIL 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03z3h8s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03yn669 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03z3h8v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03z3h8x (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03z3h8z (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03z3h91 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03zqvpc (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Dr Janet Wootton. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03zdbqy (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zdbr0 (Listen) THU Willow Warbler 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 Kate Humble presents the willow warbler. The first willow THU warblers return from Africa in late March. Willow warblers THU were once the commonest and most widespread summer migrant THU to the UK but in the last two decades numbers in the south THU and east of England have dropped by two thirds. Fortunately THU in Scotland, Ireland and the west, numbers seem to be THU holding up. THU THU Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b03zdbr2 (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 b03zdbr4 (Listen) THU States of Matter THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of matter THU and the states in which it can exist. Most people are THU familiar with the idea that a substance like water can exist THU in solid, liquid and gaseous forms. But most of the matter THU in the universe is in a fourth state, plasma, and science THU now recognises a number of other, more exotic states. THU Melvyn's guests, including Andrea Sella, Professor of THU Materials and Inorganic Chemistry at UCL, explore what THU defines these states of matter and the differences between THU them. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Andrea Sella THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03yqj33 (Listen) THU The Unexpected Professor, Episode 4 THU THU From Biggles to bee-keeping, John Carey threads together the THU chapters of his life in books - taking in politics, social THU history and the skirmishes of academia along the way. THU THU Vignettes of pre-war Hammersmith and Barnes accompany THU affectionate accounts of Saturday jobs which he was expected THU to do to compensate the household for staying on at school. THU THU The book is also partly a tribute to the grammar school THU system. He skewers the snobbishness of Oxford in the 50s but THU also gives us endearing portraits of the writers and THU scholars he met and was taught by - including Graves, Larkin THU and Heaney. THU THU Later in his life, his politics and his sometimes THU controversial cultural criticism take centre stage, THU producing a commentator who is not afraid to move between THU genres and labels, always saying something refreshing and THU frequently unexpected. THU THU Episode 4 THU Reviewing television programmes meant having to acquire one. THU THU Read by Nicholas Farrell THU Abridged and directed by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Nicholas Farrell THU Director: Jill Waters THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Author: John Carey THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03zdbr8 (Listen) THU The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03zdbrb (Listen) THU Soloparentpals.com, Rosie Loves Tim THU THU SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern THU THU Episode 4. Rosie Loves Tim THU THU With only two days to go to their wedding Tom's ex-wife THU Ginny has turned up on the doorstep. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Rosie: Liz White THU Tom: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU SPP.com: Karina Jones THU Lily: Isadora Dooley Hunter THU Ginny: Priyanga Burford THU Pat: Carolyn Pickles THU Director: David Hunter THU Producer: David Hunter THU Writer: Sue Teddern THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03zdbrd (Listen) THU Ukraine: The Paper Trail to Corruption THU THU Reports from around the world. THU Ukraine's HIV/Aids Epidemic THU THU 11:30 A Tale of Two Theatres b03zdbrg (Listen) THU Mehmet Ergen is best known to UK theatre audiences as THU Artistic Director of London's Arcola Theatre. In this THU programme we learn that his pioneering work in Hackney is THU only half the story. We follow him to his Turkish homeland, THU post Gezi Park and post Arab Spring, caught between the THU Syrian conflict and EU aspirations; an emerging economy with THU freedom of speech still in jeopardy. THU THU An Istanbul-born former DJ, Mehmet became the toast of THU London's theatre scene by creating venues- and careers- from THU scratch. In 2000 he transformed a derelict clothing factory THU in Dalston into a destination venue, twice recognised by the THU Peter Brook Empty Space Award. Not content to run 'a THU powerhouse of new work' (in the words of theatre critic THU Susannah Clapp) in his adopted city, he later opened its THU opposite number back in his hometown. THU THU Tensions have been rising in Turkey between artists and THU politicians ever since the Prime Minister's daughter was THU mocked on stage, allegedly for wearing a headscarf to the THU Ankara State Theatre in 2011. In 2012, a performance of THU Chilean play Secret Obscenities was censored by Istanbul's THU Mayor Kadir Topbas. Prime Minister Erdogan then threatened THU to withdraw subsidies of up to 140 million Turkish Lira from THU approximately 50 venues, employing roughly 1500 actors, THU directors and technicians. Although wholesale privatisation THU has yet to be enacted, theatre companies openly opposed to THU Government tactics during 2013's Gezi Park protests promptly THU had their funding withdrawn. THU THU Entrepreneurial expat Mehmet Ergen acts as our guide to this THU politically charged arts scene, as he negotiates national THU and cultural borders to stage work that is as unpretentious THU as it is provocative. THU THU Produced by Kirsty McQuire THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03zdbrj (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03z3h93 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03z3h95 (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 b03zdbrl (Listen) THU Comrades and Lovers THU THU Dr Thomas Dixon presents a timely new history of the THU changing meaning and experience of friendship over the THU centuries THU THU Episode 9: Comrades and Lovers THU THU Drawing on the intriguingly ambiguous relationship of THU Frances Power Cobbe with Mary Lloyd and the more open THU relationship of Edward Carpenter with George Merrill, Thomas THU Dixon explores the Victorian borderland between Platonic THU friendship and homosexual love. THU THU Professor Barbara Caine discusses Frances Power Cobbe, the THU largely forgotten Anglo-Irish feminist and journalist, who THU wrote articles with titles such as, "The Woman Question", THU "What Shall We Do With Our Old Maids" and "Wife Torture in THU England". She explains how Cobbe reclaimed friendship for THU women after centuries of classical and renaissance THU assumptions that only men had a true capacity for it. THU THU Dr Matt Cook tells the story of Edward Carpenter, whose own THU unconventional lifestyle and 1908 book, The Intermediate THU Sex, brought homosexual love out into the open and even THU introduced the contemporary notion, celebrated in tv series THU such as Will and Grace, of women enjoying having a "gay best THU friend". THU THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Related Reading THU THU Barbara Caine (ed.), THU Friendship: A History THU (Equinox, 2009), Chapter 7, ‘Class, Sex and THU Friendship: The Long Nineteenth Century’, by Marc Brodie THU and Barbara Caine THU THU THU THU THU Matt THU Cook, THU London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 THU - 1914 THU (Cambridge University Press, 2003) THU THU THU THU Matt THU Cook (ed.), THU A Gay History of Britain: THU Love and Sex Between Men since the Middle Ages THU (Greenwood, 2007) THU THU THU THU THU Sharon THU Marcus, THU Between Women: Friendship, THU Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England THU (Princeton University Press, THU 2007) THU THU The History of Emotions blog THU THU Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this THU series. THU Angharad THU Eyre, ‘Creating a circle of friendship: Constance Maynard’ THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03zd3j7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b013qzpj (Listen) THU The Lighthouse THU THU By Alan Harris. THU THU It's 1801 and Lighthouse keepers Howell and Griffith are THU posted to 6 weeks on the Smalls - a desolate rock 20 miles THU off the Pembrokeshire coast. But the two men share a past. THU Because of what happens next, lighthouses would never again THU have only a crew of two. Based on a true story. THU THU Directed by James Robinson. THU THU Credits THU Howell: Paul Rhys THU Griffith: Ifan Huw Dafydd THU Writer: Alan Harris THU Director: James Robinson THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03zdc9x (Listen) THU British Raj in the Peak District THU THU We might think we know the Peak District quite well, but in THU reality it has many secrets and many stories still to tell, THU such as its connection with British Imperial India. Helen THU Mark travels with National Park Ranger Chamu Kuppuswamy as THU they discover the Indian heritage tucked amongst the wild THU hills of The Peak District National Park. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03z3ky4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03z3lbp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03zdc9z (Listen) THU Darren Aronofsky on Noah; Mark Cousins on Children and Film THU THU Francine Stock talks to director Darren Aronofsky on his new THU film Noah. Plus Mark Cousins on A Story of Children and THU Film. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03zddns (Listen) THU Tracey Logan investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b03zdfbb (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03z3h97 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01l02j9 (Listen) THU Series 4, Timbuktu THU THU Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world THU of a tiny, one plane, charter airline; staffed by two THU pilots: one on his way down, and one who was never up to THU start with. Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, THU metal sheets to Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu THU Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too THU difficult... THU THU Episode 1: THU THU Hooray hooray, it's Birling Day once more, where the crew THU traditionally swap their dignity for cash! But where have THU all the camels gone? And why is Arthur reading a book? THU THU Written by John Finnemore THU Produced and directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole THU First Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam THU Capt Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch THU Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore THU Mr Birling: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Giancarlo: Steve Brody THU Writer: John Finnemore THU Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03zdfbd (Listen) THU Brian's on the back foot, and Kirsty discovers an error. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03zdfbg (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03zdbrb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03zdfgw (Listen) THU The Mystery of Flight 370 THU THU It may never be known why MH370 crashed into the Indian THU Ocean with the loss of everyone on board. Melanie Abbott THU asks how a plane can disappear in the 21st Century, and why THU nearly a month on we are still no nearer to solving the THU mystery of what happened on that flight. THU Air Crashes THU THU 20:30 In Business b03zdfgy (Listen) THU The New Manufacturing THU THU UK Manufacturing has been under heavy pressure for decades THU but now there are signs of resurgence. Peter Day reports THU from Britain's former steel capital, Sheffield, on what it THU takes to survive and prosper in an intensely globalising THU world. THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03zddns (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03zdbr4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03z3h99 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03zdfwc (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03zx5lp (Listen) THU Unexploded, Episode 4 THU THU A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. THU THU "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off THU the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was THU immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an THU enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and THU Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an THU excellent place to land." THU THU In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, THU anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. THU Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment THU camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by THU fear and then quiet but growing desperation. THU THU A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. THU THU Episode 4: THU Relations between Evelyn and Geoffrey remain strained - but THU Evelyn plans a brief diversion from everyday pressures. THU THU Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for THU the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story THU 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in THU the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her THU previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of THU Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize THU in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the THU University of Chichester. THU THU Reader: Emma Fielding THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Emma Fielding THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Author: Alison MacLeod THU THU 23:00 So Wrong It's Right b0100ljr (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong THU side of life with comedians Frank Skinner and Josie Long THU plus Harry Hill TV Burp writer Daniel Maier competing to THU suggest the best in bad ideas. THU THU Charlie's challenges in this episode see the panel recall THU 'the most embarrassing thing they've done in public' plus THU suggesting concepts for a terrible chain of shops. Can THU anyone top Frank Skinner's suggestion of the drinking THU accessory franchise 'Oddbinge'? THU THU Added to this are the panel's nominations for the worst THU irritants of modern life - including Josie Long selection of THU 'comment' sections on the web or as she calls them 'the THU bottom half of the internet'. THU THU The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also THU presents BBC4's acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series - THU and is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also THU won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Charlie Brooker THU Panellist: Frank Skinner THU Panellist: Josie Long THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03zdfwf (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 APRIL 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03z3hb7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03yqj33 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03z3hb9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03z3hbc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03z3hbf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03z3hbh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03zqvpm (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Dr Janet Wootton. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03zdkjs (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 b03zdkjv (Listen) FRI Snipe 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 Kate Humble presents the snipe. The snipe is an intricately FRI patterned wader, not much bigger than a blackbird but with FRI an enormously long bill. In the breeding season they fly FRI high above their territories before dashing earthwards and FRI then sweeping upwards again. Throughout this display you'll FRI hear a bleating sound, known as 'drumming'. Find out how the FRI sound is made in today's programme. FRI FRI Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03zdkjx (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 b03z3l2g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03yqwhb (Listen) FRI The Unexpected Professor, Episode 5 FRI FRI From Biggles to bee-keeping, John Carey threads together the FRI chapters of his life in books - taking in politics, social FRI history and the skirmishes of academia along the way. FRI FRI Vignettes of pre-war Hammersmith and Barnes accompany FRI affectionate accounts of Saturday jobs which he was expected FRI to do to compensate the household for staying on at school. FRI FRI The book is also partly a tribute to the grammar school FRI system. He skewers the snobbishness of Oxford in the 50s but FRI also gives us endearing portraits of the writers and FRI scholars he met and was taught by - including Graves, Larkin FRI and Heaney. FRI FRI Later in his life, his politics and his sometimes FRI controversial cultural criticism take centre stage, FRI producing a commentator who is not afraid to move between FRI genres and labels, always saying something refreshing and FRI frequently unexpected. FRI FRI Episode 5 FRI The perils of being outspoken in the national press FRI sometimes led to unhappy fractures. FRI FRI Read by Nicholas Farrell FRI Abridged and directed by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nicholas Farrell FRI Director: Jill Waters FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Author: John Carey FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03zdkk1 (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03zdkk3 (Listen) FRI Soloparentpals.com, Something Old FRI FRI SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern FRI FRI Episode 5. Something Old FRI FRI With only a day to go to the wedding and nursing a badly FRI bruised finger Rosie really doesn't want Tom's ex-wife Ginny FRI in the house. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI Credits FRI Rosie: Liz White FRI Tom: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Tash: Karina Jones FRI Lily: Isadora Dooley Hunter FRI Calum: Arthur Hughes FRI Ginny: Priyanga Burford FRI Pat: Carolyn Pickles FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Producer: David Hunter FRI Writer: Sue Teddern FRI FRI 11:00 Podcasting - The First Ten Years b03zdkk5 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Stuck for a definition of online on demand radio shows, FRI journalist Ben Hammersley coined the term 'podcasting'. Ten FRI years on it's become a global phenomenon. FRI FRI In this 2-part series, award-winning podcasters Helen FRI Zaltzman and Olly Mann, trace its origins among the FRI geek/tech community, its arrival in mainstream media thanks FRI to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Fry and its development into FRI the niches where conventional broadcasting can't reach. FRI FRI From the whistle blowing air hostess Betty With A Suitcase FRI to comedian Marc Maron's WTF, from Phil Cornwell's Spurs FRI Show to sex advice on the Savage Lovecast, from the FRI weirdness of Night Vale and Radiolab to personalities like FRI The Grammar Girl and One Bad Mother, it's a whole new world FRI of audio production where programmes meet listeners without FRI the need for radio stations. FRI FRI In the first of two programmes, Ben Hammersley explains why FRI he regrets inventing the word, self-styled 'podfather' Adam FRI Curry talks about the early pre-iPod days in the US and, FRI while recording their own podcast, Answer Me This!, Helen FRI and Olly take an audio journey through the podosphere. FRI FRI Producer: Trevor Dann FRI A Trevor Dann production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Architects b03zdkk7 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Multi-Faith FRI FRI Comedy by Jim Poyser and Neil Griffiths. 25 years on, Sir FRI Lucien is still bitter about the rejection of his designs FRI for Shakespeare's Globe in reinforced concrete. Finally he's FRI going to do something about it. 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 Justin: Ben Crowe FRI Planning Officer: Carolyn Pickles FRI Dawn: Susie Riddell FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Jim Poyser FRI Writer: Neil Griffiths FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03zdkk9 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03zm52v (Listen) FRI Andy and Hilary - Second Best FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces teenage sweethearts who got together FRI again in later life and discovered that compromise - at FRI least from one partner - is what makes a relationship work, FRI proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03z3hbk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03z3hbm (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 b03zdkkc (Listen) FRI A Battalion of Pals FRI FRI Dr Thomas Dixon presents a timely new history of the FRI changing meaning and experience of friendship over the FRI centuries FRI FRI Episode 10: A Battalion of Pals FRI FRI Dr Thomas Dixon tells two contrasting stories for this FRI examination of the impact of World War One on male FRI friendship. FRI FRI He begins and ends with the pacifist Bloomsbury Group, FRI focussing on E.M Forster and his famous remark, "If I had to FRI choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, FRI I hope I should have the guts to betray my country". Dr Matt FRI Cook places this remark - shocking at the time - in the FRI context of Forster's hidden sexual orientation. FRI FRI Forster began his masterpiece, A Passage to India, before FRI the war, in optimism about the possibility of friendships FRI and love across the nations. As Dr Santanu Das explains, he FRI completed it, after the War, in a far bleaker mood. FRI FRI Meanwhile, amongst the less highly educated classes, groups FRI of work-mates were being conscripted into the army. Thomas FRI Dixon explores this new role for friendship - as a FRI recruiting sergeant - and its tragic consequences. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI Related Reading FRI FRI Peter FRI Chapman, FRI Grimsby’s Own: The Story of the FRI Chums FRI (Grimsby Evening Telegraph and Hutton Press, 1991) FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI Sarah FRI Cole, FRI Modernism, Male Friendship, and the FRI First World War FRI (Cambridge University Press, 2007) FRI FRI FRI FRI Santanu FRI Das, FRI Touch and Intimacy in First World FRI War Literature FRI (Cambridge University Press, 2008) FRI FRI FRI FRI Peter FRI Simkins, FRI Kitchener’s Army: The Raising of FRI the New Armies 1914-1916 FRI (Pen and Sword Military, 2007) FRI FRI The History of Emotions blog FRI FRI Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this FRI series. FRI Santanu Das, FRI ‘The dying kiss’ FRI FRI FRI Paul Reed, FRI ‘Looking for the Grimsby Chums FRI ’ FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03zdfbd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0156nfx (Listen) FRI Portrait of Winston FRI FRI By Jonathan Smith. Dan Stevens and Benjamin Whitrow star in FRI an entertaining drama about a portrait of Winston Churchill FRI by leading British artist Graham Sutherland. FRI FRI For his 80th birthday on 30th November 1954, an all-party FRI committee of MPs decided to present Churchill, still the FRI Prime Minister, with a portrait of himself. It was to be FRI Churchill's for his lifetime but then to hang in the House FRI of Commons. The commission was given to Graham Sutherland, FRI aged 51, then at the height of his fame. It was a painting FRI which was to prove highly controversial. FRI FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young FRI FRI "A Portrait Of Winston" is a follow-up to Jonathan Smith's FRI previous Radio 4 play about Winston Churchill, "The Last FRI Bark Of the Bulldog" which dealt with Churchill's stroke in FRI 1953 while he was still Prime Minister. "The Last Bark Of FRI the Bulldog" - which also starred Benjamin Whitrow as FRI Churchill - was first broadcast in 2003. FRI FRI Jonathan Smith is a former Head of English at Tonbridge FRI School in Kent. He has written many radio plays over the FRI years, including two series of plays about a headmaster, FRI "The Head Man". His most recent plays for Radio 4 are "The FRI Trenches Trip" (2010) and "The Tennis Court" (2008). His FRI latest book, "The Following Game" was published recently. FRI FRI Credits FRI Winston Churchill: Benjamin Whitrow FRI Graham Sutherland: Dan Stevens FRI Clementine Churchill: Diane Fletcher FRI Kathleen Sutherland: Katherine Igoe FRI Actor: Gerard McDermott FRI Actor: James Lailey FRI Actor: Carl Prekopp FRI Writer: Jonathan Smith FRI Director: Bruce Young FRI Producer: Bruce Young FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03zdktv (Listen) FRI The Edible Garden Show FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs GQT from The Edible Garden Show at FRI Alexandra Palace, London. Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and FRI Bunny Guinness take questions from the audience. FRI FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Sailors' Knots b01jqbff (Listen) FRI Self-Help FRI FRI Written by W.W. Jacobs. Read by Mark Williams. FRI FRI Sailors' Knots, published in 1909, is an anthology of comic FRI stories set around London and the Thames Estuary at the turn FRI of the last century. The 'knots' are the various mix-ups FRI that occur between sailors on shore leave and the local FRI residents. The tales are great fun, full of entertaining FRI characters with names like Silas Winch, Sam Small and Ginger FRI Dick, and often deal with marital spats, misunderstandings, FRI and rascals getting their just rewards. FRI FRI W.W. Jacobs is best know for his horror story, The Monkey's FRI Paw (1902), but the majority of his writing is comic. He was FRI born in Wapping in 1863, where his father was manager at the FRI South Devon Wharf at Lower East Smithfield, and his early FRI observation of merchant ships and the behaviour of their FRI crews informed his many humorous tales. FRI FRI Mark Williams is well-known as one of the stars of BBC TV's FRI The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role of Ron FRI Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. FRI FRI Abridged by Roy Apps FRI FRI Producer: David Blount FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Mark Williams FRI Producer: David Blount FRI Abridger: Roy Apps FRI Author: WW Jacobs FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03zdm5y (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03zdm60 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b03zm52x (Listen) FRI Tommy and Rhys - Knowing Your Own Mind FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a grandfather FRI who's sure that, once he's no longer active, he'll want to FRI call it a day, and his grandson who understands him FRI perfectly, proving again that it's surprising what you hear FRI when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03zdm62 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03z3hbr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03zdm64 (Listen) FRI Series 83, Episode 8 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 Kevin Day and Romesh Ranganathan. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Kevin Day FRI Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03zdm66 (Listen) FRI Dan drops a bombshell, and David and Ruth turn a corner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor 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 Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Christopher Carter: William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Heather Pritchard: Margaret Jackman FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Annabelle Schrivener: Julia Hills FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03zdm68 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03zdkk3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03zdm6b (Listen) FRI Kirsty Williams AM, Leanne Wood AM, Peter Hain MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Chepstow with the leader of the Liberal Democrats in FRI Wales Kirsty Williams AM, Labour MP for Neath Peter Hain and FRI the Leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood AM. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03zdm6d (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zdm6g (Listen) FRI Five Hundred Years of Friendship: Omnibus, Episode 2 FRI FRI Dr Thomas presents this omnibus edition of his history about FRI the changing meaning and experience of friendship over the FRI centuries FRI FRI He explores working class Friendly Societies - pre-Welfare FRI State, grassroots insurance schemes - in the 18th and 19th FRI centuries; children's friendships and the invention of the FRI idea of the best friend; the idea of dogs being "man's best FRI friend"; the Victorian borderland between platonic and FRI homosexual love; and the tragic impact of the First World FRI War on male friendships. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03z3hbt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03zdm6j (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03zx663 (Listen) FRI Unexploded, Episode 5 FRI FRI A tale of love, art and prejudice set in wartime Brighton. FRI FRI "Fear was an infection - airborne, seaborne - rolling in off FRI the Channel, and although no one spoke of it, no one was FRI immune to it. Fifty miles of water was a slim moat to an FRI enemy that had taken five countries in two months, and FRI Brighton, regrettably, had for centuries been hailed as an FRI excellent place to land." FRI FRI In May 1940, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their Philip, FRI anxiously await news of invasion on the beaches of Brighton. FRI Geoffrey, a banker, becomes Superintendent of the internment FRI camp on the edge of town while Evelyn is gripped first by FRI fear and then quiet but growing desperation. FRI FRI A discovery widens a fault-line in family life. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI The Beaumonts are set on ever-diverging paths. Geoffrey has FRI begun to see Leah, while Evelyn - against his wishes - has FRI decided to visit the internment camp. FRI FRI Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for FRI the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her story FRI 'Solo, A Capella', about the Tottenham riots, featured in FRI the Radio 4 series 'Where Were You ...' in 2012. Her FRI previous works include The Changeling and The Wave Theory of FRI Angels. Unexploded was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize FRI in 2013. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the FRI University of Chichester. FRI FRI Reader: Emma Fielding FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Emma Fielding FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Author: Alison MacLeod FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03zb4bd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03zdm91 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03zm52z (Listen) FRI Nathan and Sue - One More Match FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about how an 18 year FRI old's life was changed by a rugby accident -for the better, FRI he insists; he's certainly an inspiration to his mother, FRI proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
28 March, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 29/03/2014 - 04/04/2014
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