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SAT SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0400s87 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03zdkjz (Listen) SAT Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Episode 5 SAT SAT A definitive account by Thomas Brothers of Louis Armstrong, SAT his life and legacy, during the most creative period of his SAT career. SAT SAT Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene SAT under the tutelage of Joe 'King' Oliver, Louis Armstrong is SAT recognized as one of the most influential artists of the SAT twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, SAT and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation SAT for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations. But SAT his story would be incomplete without examining how he SAT struggled in a society seething with brutally racist SAT ideologies, laws, and practices. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT Louis befriends Al Capone. He's singing and dancing for SAT white audiences, and embracing the popular big band sound, SAT but is he selling out? SAT SAT Reader: Colin McFarlane SAT Abridged by Eileen Horne SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Colin McFarlane SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Abridger: Eileen Horne SAT Author: Thomas Brothers SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0400s89 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0400s8c (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0400s8f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0400s8h (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0400sf1 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt SAT Revd David Walker, Bishop of Manchester. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0400sf3 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0400s8k (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0400s8m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04009c8 (Listen) SAT Brecon Beacons, Waterfall Country SAT SAT Felicity Evans visits the waterfalls and swallow holes at SAT the western end of the Brecon Beacons, and discovers that SAT besides its natural beauty, it's an area with a rich SAT industrial heritage. Today its deep, mossy ravines are of SAT great interest to walkers and potholers. But the waterfalls, SAT Felicity discovers, gave rise to local industries - SAT including a gunpowder works, and the silica mines provided SAT firebricks that were shipped around the world. SAT SAT She even walks behind one of the waterfalls, Sgwd Y Eira, SAT the waterfall of snow. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b040h149 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Animal health SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0400s8p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b040h14c (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b040h14f (Listen) SAT Fern Britton SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by TV presenter and SAT novelist Fern Britton. Tom Hart Dyke recalls his traumatic SAT kidnap experience in the jungles of Colombia and how it led SAT to the creation of a world garden, Gary Enstone relishes his SAT job as a conservator of Kipling's old home and Antonia SAT Bolingbroke-Kent explains why she rode the Ho Chi Minh Trail SAT alone on a pink motorbike. Jimmy Osmond chooses his SAT inheritance tracks, JP meets an Abba super-fan and a bunch SAT of city lawyers get down and dirty in their office roof-top SAT allotment. SAT SAT Fern Britton reveals her passion for gardening as 'The Big SAT Allotment Challenge' begins on BBC1 and the accompanying SAT book is published. She talks about her life as a writer and SAT her love of Cornwall as her fourth novel, 'A Seaside Affair' SAT is out on April 24th. SAT SAT Tom Hart Dyke's book about his kidnap and the idea to create SAT a world garden at his ancestral home Lullingstone Castle is SAT 'The Cloud Garden'. Lullingstone Castle has just opened for SAT the summer season. http://www.lullingstonecastle.co.uk/ SAT SAT Gary Enstone, as House Steward and conservator at Bateman's SAT in East Sussex explains how dust, water, and 10,000 visitors SAT a year can play havoc with historic properties if not SAT meticulously tended, and why he likes to taste the dust. SAT Bateman's is open all year round. SAT https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/batemans/ SAT SAT Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent says the biggest challenge on her SAT two thousand mile motor-bike ride through Vietnam, Laos and SAT Cambodia was going it alone. SAT SAT JP Devlin meets Abba super-fan, Jason Tuazon-McCheyne from SAT Melbourne, and Jimmy Osmond, chooses his Inheritance Tracks SAT - Moon River by Andy Williams and 'He Ain't Heavy He's My SAT Brother' by The Osmonds, reflecting how close he is both to SAT his siblings and his four children. SAT SAT Producer: Dilly Barlow. SAT SAT Studio Guest: Fern Britton SAT SAT Grow, Make, Eat: The Great Allotment Challenge starts on SAT 15th April on BBC2, 8pm. The accompanying book by Tessa SAT Evelegh is out on 10 April, Hodder & Stoughton. SAT SAT Fern's fourth novel 'A Seaside Affair' is published on 24th SAT April 2014 by Harper Fiction. SAT SAT Fern will host the SAT Great North Passion SAT on BBC1 on 18th April SAT SAT Guerilla Report- Urban Roof Garden SAT SAT A leading law firm in the city of Londonturned its rooftop SAT into a vegetable and bee garden for its employees and SAT clients. SAT SAT It has been a bit of a life-changing experience for some of SAT them, opening their eyes to the work-life balance. SAT SAT SAT SAT Anna Bailey spoke to senior lawyers Benjamin Shore, SAT Jacqueline Roodyn and Legal PA Alison Delaney who set up the SAT garden a few years ago. SAT SAT SAT SAT Photo by Mark Bourdillon SAT SAT Interview: Tom Hart- Dyke SAT SAT Fourteen years ago, when orchid hunting in Colombia, SAT Tom Hart-Dyke SAT and his companion, Paul Winder, were kidnapped and kept SAT prisoners in the jungle for 9 months. During captivity, to SAT keep himself sane, Tom conceived the idea of creating a SAT “World Garden”. After their release Tom returned to his SAT ancestral home, SAT Lullingstone Castle SAT in Kent, where he created this garden. SAT SAT SAT SAT His book, “The Cloud Garden” was a Sunday Times bestseller. SAT Last Month Tom returned to Columbia for the first time since SAT his kidnap ordeal. SAT SAT Interview: Gary Enstone SAT SAT Gary is a historic buildings SAT conservator and House Manager at SAT Bateman’s SAT a National Trust House in East Sussex and the erstwhile SAT home of Rudyard Kipling. It’s his job to ensure all the SAT precious artifacts in the house are in perfect condition. SAT SAT SAT SAT His biggest bugbears are dust, water and humidity, and he SAT has his own particular ways of identifying and dealing with SAT them. He likes to taste dust. SAT SAT JP Meets: ABBA Superfan SAT SAT On the week which sees the 40th anniversary of Abba’s SAT Eurovision win and the 15th anniversary of Mamma Mia hitting SAT the London stage. JP meets Abba Super Fan SAT Jason Tuazon-McCheyne SAT from Melbourne. SAT SAT Inheritance Track: Jimmy Osmond SAT Jimmy Osmond SAT chooses his Inhertiance Tracks. He inherits Moon Rover by SAT Andy Williams and he passes on He Ain't Heavy, He's My SAT Brother, by the Osmonds. SAT SAT Travel: Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent SAT SAT Antonia is a travel writer and travel programme producer. SAT Whilst producing a TV programme about the Ho Chi Minh SAT Trail, she had the idea to travel alone along this legendary SAT trail in Vietnam on a basic, but very pink, old Honda C50. SAT SAT SAT SAT Her book “A Short Ride in The Jungle” recounts her SAT adventures over 2,000 miles of inhospitable terrain and SAT curious encounters. SAT SAT Thank You SAT This week Helen, Peter and Elaine say thanks for a good deed SAT done. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Fern Britton SAT Interviewed Guest: Tom Hart Dyke SAT Interviewed Guest: Gary Enstone SAT Interviewed Guest: Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent SAT Interviewed Guest: Donny Osmond SAT Interviewed Guest: Jason Tuazon-McCheyne SAT Producer: Dilly Barlow SAT SAT 10:30 Zeitgeisters b040h14h (Listen) SAT Series 2, Rem Koolhaas SAT SAT BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz meets the cultural SAT entrepreneurs whose aesthetic sense infects and influences SAT our daily lives... who know what we want, even when we do SAT not... the men and women whose impact goes beyond mere SAT commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. SAT SAT Programme 2. Rem Koolhaas - the world renowned starchitect SAT whose first step in the profession was not to design a SAT building, but to write a book. 'Delirious New York', became SAT an instant cult hit among avant-garde hipsters... but also SAT became his own manifesto that has shaped his work and that SAT of many others for over thirty years. Now though, as he SAT launches his directorship of this year's Venice Architecture SAT Biennale, he presents a new manifesto - one that takes SAT architecture into a new future which also recognises the SAT past. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b040h14k (Listen) SAT Sue Cameron of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b040h14m (Listen) SAT A Happy Ending SAT SAT The stories behind the stories. In this edition: why SAT Germany's ambivalence towards Russia may emerge as east SAT meets west to discuss Ukraine next week; West Bengal plans SAT to restore the lost glory of Kolkata - the idea is, we hear, SAT to make it a bit more like London; life gets harder in the SAT Gaza Strip as the interim government in neighbouring Egypt SAT cranks up the pressure on Hamas; 'Isn't that you know who?' SAT A chance meeting, in a Budapest hospital, with the man who SAT is arguably Europe's most controversial leader. And what SAT happened when our man in Marrakech asked the king to step in SAT to save an ancient tradition from oblivion. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b040h14p (Listen) SAT Barclays overdrafts SAT SAT Over-the-top-drafts SAT Barclays is changing its overdraft charges, moving away from SAT a high percentage on the money owed to a daily fee. The SAT result will be it is as cheap to borrow £1000 as £100. And SAT the cost of borrowing £16 for a month will be a staggering SAT 4,749,271.5% APR. What will Barclays say to us? SAT SAT Flipping heck SAT The Government is consulting on changing the rules about SAT Capital Gains Tax charged on a second home. Your main home SAT (known as a Principal Private Residence or PPR) is exempt SAT from CGT when it is sold. But there is no such exemption for SAT a second home. At the moment owners of a second home can SAT nominate which is the main home and which the second. There SAT are constraints but often the freedom can be used to avoid SAT or reduce CGT. But now the Government says that may change. SAT SAT Alien vs Predator SAT It's the classic battle between two powerful tax avoidance SAT forces - Pension vs New ISA. Which is stronger and who will SAT save your financial world? Spreadsheets out, round one. SAT SAT The Intangibles SAT PayPal is no longer inflexible about making intangibles SAT ineligible. Its indefensible policy is infeasible and SAT invertible. A change is incontrovertible, ineludible, and SAT irreversible. But is what it is doing inducible? Find out. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0400qf7 (Listen) SAT Series 83, Episode 9 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Susan SAT Calman (standing in for Sandi Toksvig), with regular SAT panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest panellists Andrew Maxwell, SAT Tom Wrigglesworth and Holly Walsh. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Andrew Maxwell SAT Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0400s8r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0400s8t (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0400qff (Listen) SAT Dr Liam Fox MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP, Norman Lamb MP, Baroness SAT Royall SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from St Mary's Church in Chard, Somerset, with former SAT Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox MP, and Care Minister Norman SAT Lamb MP, the leader of Plaid Cymru at Westminster Elfyn SAT Llwyd MP and Baroness Royall Labour Leader in the House of SAT Lords. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b040h14r (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b040h14t (Listen) SAT CS Forester's London Noir, Plain Murder SAT SAT C. S. Forester's London Noir: SAT Plain Murder SAT by C.S. Forester, dramatised by Paul Mendelson SAT SAT Most famous for his Hornblower series, C.S. Forester wrote SAT three seminal psychological thrillers at the start of his SAT career that took crime writing in a new direction, SAT portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous SAT acts, and showing events spiralling terribly, chillingly, SAT out of control. SAT SAT Plain Murder, set in 1928, takes us into a London SAT advertising agency. Morris, Oldroyd and Reddy, have been SAT caught taking bribes. One of their colleagues threatens to SAT blow the whistle on them. Instant dismissal will inevitably SAT be the result, and at a time of severe unemployment, their SAT future prospects are bleak. Morris, a menacing bully, offers SAT them a road out of their dilemma - a perfect murder, SAT cleverly disguised as a tragic accident. But is there such a SAT thing as the perfect murder? SAT SAT All other parts were played by members of the cast. SAT SAT Music composed by Gary C. Newman SAT Clarinet: Samantha Baldwin SAT Producer/director: David Ian Neville. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Greg Wise SAT Charles Morris: Bryan Dick SAT Mary: Susie Riddell SAT Campbell: Crawford Logan SAT Oldroyd: David Seddon SAT Reddy: Christopher Webster SAT Harrison: David Holt SAT Mr Reddy: David Holt SAT Flora: Cassie Layton SAT Molly: Imogen Barnes SAT Director: David Neville SAT Producer: David Neville SAT Adaptor: Paul Mendelson SAT Author: CS Forester SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b03zy246 (Listen) SAT Series 18, Crazy SAT SAT "It's the kind of music that makes you feel like you're just SAT hurting so good" SAT SAT People of different ages reflect on why the pop country SAT classic 'Crazy' made famous by Patsy Cline brings out such SAT strong emotions in them, including a young woman mourning SAT the loss of a father's love after divorce, broadcaster Fiona SAT Phillips on losing her father to Alzheimers and 87 year old SAT Wayne Rethford who as a young man in 1961 met Patsy Cline SAT and two years later happened upon the crash site where she SAT died after her plane came down in a heavy storm in SAT Tennessee. SAT SAT "That music becomes embedded in your soul" he says. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b040h1cx (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor Anne Peacock. SAT SAT Doreen Lawrence SAT SAT Doreen Lawrence is named number one game changer in our SAT Woman's Hour Power List 2014 SAT Top Ten. SAT SAT The Great British Sewing Bee SAT Jane is joined by Patrick Grant and May Martin, judges SAT of the SAT Great British Sewing Bee SAT to discuss why a skill which was once deemed unfashionable SAT is now back in vogue. SAT SAT Meena Kandasamy SAT Meena Kandasamy SAT is a poet, writer, translator and activist from Tamil Nadu SAT in India. She has now published her first novel, The Gypsy SAT Goddess, set in 1968 about a true-life massacre. The novel SAT tells the story of landless villagers, communist activists SAT and paddy owners and the events which led to the terrible SAT massacre that killed 42 men, women and children from the SAT village of Kilvenman in Tamil Nadu. Meena talks about her SAT passion for activism and poetry and how novel writing fits SAT into the mix. SAT SAT SAT Women in Combat Roles SAT SAT Many roles in the army are open to women, but they are still SAT not allowed to join front line combat roles. The Chief of SAT the General Staff, General Sir Peter Wall, has said that SAT it’s time to reconsider. Jenni speaks to Major Webb, a SAT retired Army Officer, and Doctor Cheng, a Lecturer from the SAT King’s College London War Studies Department. SAT SAT Claire Goose SAT SAT Actress Claire Goose joins Jane to talk about starring in a SAT 2 part thriller ‘Undeniable’. Claire plays Jane Phillips, a SAT woman who recognises her mother’s murderer - 23 years after SAT the crime. SAT SAT Male sex workers SAT SAT It has been twenty years since the laws on prostitution have SAT been looked at and over the past few weeks Woman’s Hour has SAT investigated the proposals to get England and Wales to adopt SAT the ‘Nordic model’. This would mean the criminalisation of SAT those who pay for sex and the decriminalisation of those who SAT sell it. As a part of our series of interviews and SAT discussions on prostitution Jane Garvey speaks to Benedict SAT and Greg, to find out what led them to be sex workers and SAT their response to the proposed criminalisation of those who SAT pay for sex. SAT Anti criminalisation SAT Pro criminalisation SAT The academic perspective SAT The political perspective SAT Men who pay for sex SAT SAT Cooking with Tinned Food SAT SAT Tinned food is the ultimate convenience food, but it’s often SAT looked down on as inferior quality, and at home it’s hidden SAT away in the larder or store cupboard. But sales of tinned SAT foods are increasing. Last year shoppers spent £2.4 billion SAT on cans – a £3.2 million increase on the previous year. So SAT when we are continually being urged to eat more fruit and SAT vegetables can tinned food be a good substitute for fresh? SAT Does it provide the same levels of taste and SAT nutrition? Jenni discuses with Charlotte Pike, food writer SAT and cook, and author of The Hungry Student and nutritionist, SAT Amanda Hamilton. SAT SAT Charlotte's recipes... SAT Cherry and Almond Pudding SAT Serves 4 generously SAT SAT Simple to make but stunning to eat, this is a surefire way SAT to wow your friends with not much effort required. Make it SAT in advance if you can, as this actually tastes better the SAT day after it’s been cooked. Reheat if you wish. Save some SAT for leftovers for the same reason. SAT SAT Vegetable oil or butter, for greasing SAT SAT 400g cherries, stoned SAT SAT 150g butter, softened SAT SAT 150g caster sugar SAT SAT 2 large eggs, beaten SAT SAT 150g ground almonds SAT SAT 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional) SAT SAT 2 tbsp flaked almonds (optional) SAT SAT SAT SAT Ovenproof dish, SAT 1.5-litre capacity SAT (or 23cm square cake tin) SAT Preheat the oven to 180°C Fan/Gas Mark 6. Grease an SAT ovenproof dish, about 1.5 litres in capacity, or a 23cm SAT square cake tin. Set aside. SAT If you are using cherries from a tin or a jar, drain them SAT well. If you need to remove the stones from fresh cherries, SAT do so now. SAT Place the prepared cherries in the baking dish or tin, so SAT that they cover the base evenly. Set aside. SAT In a mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until SAT pale and fluffy. SAT In a small bowl, whisk the eggs. Add them a little at a time SAT to the butter and sugar mixture, beating well after each SAT addition. SAT Add the ground almonds and stir in. You should now have a SAT thick mixture, like cake batter. If you are using the SAT vanilla extract, add this to the mixture now and stir in. SAT Dollop the mixture, a tablespoon at a time, evenly over the SAT cherries. Smooth over with a spoon to create an even finish. SAT If you fancy topping the pudding with some extra flaked SAT almonds, scatter them over now. SAT Place the pudding in the oven to cook for about 30 minutes SAT until the sponge is golden brown. SAT Enjoy this pudding hot or cold, with custard, cream, yoghurt SAT or ice cream. SAT Tip: SAT This is a great way to use up any fresh cherries that are SAT past their prime. But if you can’t afford or get hold of SAT fresh cherries, it’s also fine to use stoned cherries from a SAT jar or tin, but drain them first. SAT SAT SAT Homemade Falafel SAT Makes: 8–10 falafel (Vegan) SAT SAT Making falafel yourself costs a lot less than buying SAT pre-made ones, and they tend to stay fresh for longer. Eat SAT as a quick wholesome lunch with salad, pitta and houmous. SAT SAT 1 small red onion, SAT peeled and roughly chopped SAT SAT 1 garlic clove, peeled SAT SAT ½ red chilli, deseeded SAT SAT 1 tsp ground cumin SAT SAT 1 tsp ground coriander SAT SAT 400g can chickpeas, SAT drained, rinsed and dried SAT SAT 4 tsp plain flour SAT SAT 50g dried breadcrumbs SAT SAT 6 tsp fresh herbs, SAT such as coriander or parsley, finely chopped SAT SAT 100ml sunflower SAT or vegetable oil SAT If using a food processor, place the onion, garlic and SAT chilli into the machine and blitz until very finely chopped. SAT If you don’t have a processor, just chop the onion, garlic SAT and chilli finely. SAT Add the spices, chickpeas, flour, breadcrumbs and herbs and SAT blitz until very finely chopped. Again, if you don’t have a SAT processor, mash together well using a potato masher. SAT Bring the mixture together and squash to form golf SAT ball-sized falafel. Place onto a plate, cover with cling SAT film and refrigerate for at least an hour. SAT When you are ready to cook the falafel, pour the oil into a SAT large frying pan so that it is around 1cm deep (you may need SAT a little more or less than 100ml). SAT Heat the oil and then add the falafel. Fry until they are a SAT deep golden brown on all sides, taking care when turning as SAT they can be fragile. It should take around 5 minutes to fry SAT the falafel. SAT Once cooked, place on a plate covered with a couple of SAT sheets of kitchen paper to drain. SAT Allow to cool a little before serving as they will be very SAT hot. They keep very well for a couple of days in the fridge. SAT Tip: SAT If you have a food processor, it will really speed up this SAT recipe. SAT Store-Cupboard Salmon Fishcakes SAT Serves: 2 (makes 4 large fishcakes) SAT SAT Stock your cupboard with a few key ingredients and you can SAT rustle up these delicious fishcakes whenever you're running SAT low on fresh supplies. If you feel like jazzing these up, SAT add a tablespoon of capers, chopped parsley or coriander, or SAT some thinly sliced spring onions to the mixture before SAT cooking. SAT SAT 350g large floury potatoes, peeled and cut into halves SAT SAT 215g can salmon, well drained SAT SAT 1 tbsp mayonnaise, SAT plus extra to serve SAT SAT 1 tbsp capers, chopped parsley or coriander, or sliced SAT spring onions (optional) SAT SAT 3 tbsp plain flour SAT SAT 1 egg, beaten SAT SAT 75g dried breadcrumbs SAT SAT 2–3 tbsp sunflower oil SAT SAT Salt and pepper SAT SAT Lemon wedges, to serve SAT SAT SAT Boil the potatoes for around 15–20 minutes until cooked. SAT Drain well, then mash them and set them aside to cool SAT slightly. SAT Place the salmon in a mixing bowl and flake the fish using a SAT fork to break it up. Ensure any skin or bones are removed SAT from the bowl before moving on to the next step. SAT Add the cooled mashed potato to the bowl, followed by the SAT mayonnaise and a generous pinch of salt and pepper and mix SAT to combine all the ingredients evenly. If you wish to add SAT capers, parsley or coriander or spring onions, now is the SAT time. SAT Sprinkle the flour on one plate, put the beaten egg in a SAT shallow bowl and spread the dried breadcrumbs on another SAT plate. SAT Divide the fishcake mixture into four and roll into balls SAT roughly the size of tennis balls. SAT Flatten each ball with your hands and then coat first in SAT flour, then egg and then breadcrumbs in that order. Repeat SAT with the remaining fishcakes. SAT In a large frying pan, warm the oil over a medium heat. SAT Cook the fishcakes until they are golden, which will take SAT roughly 4–5 minutes on each side. Try not to move the SAT fishcakes too much when they are cooking as they will be SAT quite soft. SAT Once cooked, serve immediately with salad or vegetables, SAT and possibly a lemon wedge and another dollop of mayonnaise. SAT Tip: SAT The uncooked fishcakes can be frozen individually (take care SAT not to squash them!) and then pan-fried once defrosted. SAT SAT SAT Homemade Houmous SAT Serves: 4–6 (Vegetarian) SAT SAT Everyone loves houmous, and although it’s easy to pick up a SAT tub from the supermarket, it’s much cheaper and tastier to SAT make your own – and your mates will be impressed. To achieve SAT a really smooth, silky houmous, you need a blender or food SAT processor, but for a rough-textured houmous, a potato masher SAT works just fine. SAT SAT 2 x 400g cans chickpeas, drained SAT SAT 2 tbsp lemon juice SAT SAT 2 small garlic cloves, SAT peeled and finely chopped SAT SAT 2 tsp tahini paste SAT SAT 60ml good-quality olive oil SAT SAT Salt and pepper SAT Place all the ingredients into a food processor or blender SAT and blitz for a minute or two until you have a smooth purée. SAT Serve with crisps, breadsticks, toasted pitta bread or raw SAT vegetable sticks to dip in, with an extra drizzle of olive SAT oil on the top, if desired. SAT This houmous will keep for 5 days in the fridge in a SAT well-sealed plastic container. SAT Tip: SAT If you prefer your houmous with a stronger flavour, add a SAT little more garlic and lemon juice. SAT SAT SAT Sunken Apricot Cake SAT Serves 8 SAT SAT This light, fruity and elegant cake is so-called because, SAT when baked, it looks as though all the apricots have sunk to SAT the bottom. In reality, they are arranged in the base of the SAT tin at the start and the sponge mixture is simply spooned on SAT top of them. It’s a super-easy method that is ideal for new SAT bakers. SAT SAT Vegetable oil or butter, SAT for greasing SAT SAT 1 tin apricot halves in fruit juice (drained weight 240g) SAT SAT 135g butter, softened SAT SAT 135g caster sugar SAT SAT 1 tsp vanilla extract SAT SAT 2 large eggs, beaten SAT SAT 135g self-raising flour SAT SAT 1 tsp baking powder SAT SAT SAT SAT 20cm round cake tin SAT SAT Non-stick baking paper SAT Preheat the oven to 180°C Fan/Gas Mark 6. Grease a 20cm cake SAT tin and line with non-stick baking paper. Set aside. SAT Drain the apricot halves and lay them cut-side down in the SAT bottom of the cake tin. SAT In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and sugar SAT until pale and fluffy. SAT Whisk the vanilla extract into the egg mixture. Add this to SAT the butter and sugar mixture a little at a time, beating SAT well after each addition. SAT When all the egg has been added, sift in the flour and SAT baking powder and gently fold in. SAT Carefully spoon the mixture over the top of the apricots in SAT the tin. Use the back of a spoon or a spatula to ensure the SAT cake batter is spread smoothly and is level. SAT Bake for 25–30 minutes until risen and browned. Test to see SAT if the cake is cooked by inserting a skewer or cocktail SAT stick into the centre. If it comes out clean, the cake is SAT cooked. If not, return it to the oven for a further 3 SAT minutes and then test again. SAT Once the cake is cooked, cool in the tin for 30 minutes SAT before carefully removing from the tin and allowing the cake SAT to cool fully on a wire rack. SAT Store in an airtight container and eat within 3−5 days. Once SAT cool, can be frozen in sealed freezer bags for up to 3 SAT months. SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Anne Peacock SAT SAT 17:00 PM b040h1cz (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0400sf3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0400s8w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0400s8y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0400s90 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b040h1d1 (Listen) SAT Rufus Hound, Cathy Tyson, Andrea Calderwood, Paul SAT Mayhew-Archer, Nikki Bedi, Walk, Lyla Foy SAT SAT Prepare to be transported to the French Riviera, where the SAT decadent world of sophisticated conman Lawrence Jameson is SAT set to come crashing down with the arrival of SAT larger-than-life Freddy Benson - a conman of an entirely SAT different order. Clive talks to actor and comedian Rufus SAT Hound about starring in the West End musical 'Dirty Rotten SAT Scoundrels'. SAT SAT Clive talks to film producer Andrea Calderwood, whose film SAT credits include 'The Last King of Scotland' and 'An Ideal SAT Husband'. Her new film 'Half of a Yellow Sun' is an epic SAT love-story weaving together the lives of four people swept SAT up in the turbulence of war in newly independent 1960s SAT Nigeria. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi has a trim with 'Band of Gold' star Cathy Tyson, SAT who shot to fame starring alongside Bob Hoskins in 'Mona SAT Lisa'. Cathy returns to the stage in bitter sweet black hair SAT salon drama 'Snakes and Ladders'; the story of three mixed SAT race sisters and their relationship with their hair. SAT SAT Christmas TV audiences have got a treat in store this year SAT when Roald Dahl's 'Esio Trot', starring Dustin Hoffman and SAT Judi Dench premieres on BBC One. Clive talks to one of the SAT screenplay writers, Paul Mayhew-Archer about his work, and SAT in Parkinson's Awareness week, about the disease he's SAT recently been coming to terms with. SAT SAT With Music from Walk, who perform Please from their self SAT titled EP. And more music from Lyla Foy, who performs SAT 'Impossible' from her album 'Mirrors the Sky.' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Rufus Hound, Cathy Tyson, Andrea SAT Calderwood, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Nikki Bedi, Walk, Lyla Foy SAT (2) SAT SAT Rufus Hound SAT ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ is at London’s Savoy Theatre until SAT Saturday 29th November. SAT SAT Andrea Calderwood SAT ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Cathy Tyson SAT ‘Snakes & Ladders’ is currently touring. Check the website SAT for venues. It’s at Brighton Dome Studio Theatre on Saturday SAT 19th and Sunday 20th April. Check the website for details. SAT SAT Paul Mayhew-Archer SAT Parkinsons Awareness Week runs until Sunday 13th April. SAT Roald Dahl's 'Esio Trot' is on BBC One at Christmas. SAT SAT Walk SAT Walk is available now on Debt Records. SAT Walk are playing at Kraak, Manchester on Friday 25th April, SAT Sounds Of The Other City, Salford on Sunday 4th and Sunrise SAT Festival, Chepstow Estate on Thursday 29th May. SAT SAT SAT Lyla Foy SAT ‘Mirrors the Sky’ is available now on Sub Pop. SAT Lyla is playing at Tea Leaf Shop, Liverpool Sound City on SAT Thursday 1st, Live at Leeds Festival, Leeds College of Music SAT on Saturday 3rd and Kilkenny Roots Festival, Ireland on SAT Sunday 4th May. Check her website for further tour dates. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b040h1d3 (Listen) SAT Narendra Modi SAT SAT Narendra Modi is tipped to become the next Prime Minister of SAT India but he's a controversial character, both loved and SAT loathed. In this edition of Profile, Ritula Shah travels to SAT India to find out more about the son of a tea seller who has SAT become a formidable politician. She speaks to the brother he SAT left behind and the tailor who gives him his signature SAT style. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b040h1d5 (Listen) SAT Calvary, Birdland, Jamaica Inn, Teju Cole, The First SAT Georgians SAT SAT John Michael McDonagh's film Calvary reunites him with SAT Brendan Gleeson after their success together on The Guard in SAT 2011. This time it's about a priest who is told in SAT confession that - in one week's time - he will be killed. It SAT has an allstar Irish cast and was rewarded with prizes at SAT The IFTAs. Does the mix of serious subject matter and SAT offbeat humour work? SAT SAT Simon Stevens is probably best known for his stage SAT adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the SAT Night-Time -which is about to transfer to Broadway. His SAT newest work Birdland opens at London's Royal Court Theatre SAT and features Andrew Scott as a disintegrating rock star; SAT could it achieve the same degree of success? SAT SAT The BBC's new adaptation of Jamaica Inn is a sumptuous SAT brooding production starring Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady SAT Sybil from Downton Abbey). Filmed in Northern Ireland and SAT Cumbria, does it do justice to Daphne du Maurier's Cornish SAT setting? SAT SAT Nigerian-born Teju Cole won widespread acclaim for his first SAT published work Open City, setting a young African man SAT wandering the streets of New York City. His follow-up; Every SAT Day is for the Thief, sends a young African American man SAT back to Nigeria and explores the cultural resonances and SAT differences he experiences. SAT SAT The First Georgians exhibition at The Queen's Gallery SAT Buckingham Palace, reflects the reigns of Kings George I and SAT II (1714-1760) through a range of objects from The Royal SAT Collection. 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SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Billingham SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b040h1d7 (Listen) SAT Dark Horse: An Alec Guinness Archive SAT SAT On the 100th anniversary of Sir Alec Guinness' birth, and in SAT the year when the British Library makes his newly acquired SAT letters and diaries available to the public, Alistair SAT McGowan reveals the private side of this purportedly SAT 'retiring' artist - a man who forged one of the most SAT stunningly successful theatrical and cinematic careers of SAT the last century with intelligence, guile and a deep SAT understanding of the creation of image. SAT SAT One of the most extraordinary aspects of the film, SAT television, stage and radio career that made Sir Alec the SAT most successful British character actor of the 20th century SAT was his apparent talent for anonymity. Laurence Olivier, SAT Alec Guinness' mentor and co-star, famously described him as SAT 'a dark horse' in a leading article in Time Magazine. SAT SAT A remarkably good mimic, Sir Alec preferred, it seemed, to SAT define himself by the roles he played. Was he really the SAT scholarly, unworldly artist he appeared to be? He was a SAT diarist, raconteur, and polished Hollywood operator, who SAT turned self-deprecation into an art-form, took pride in not SAT being recognised and disliked showmanship. SAT SAT Alistair McGowan examines the many contradictions in the SAT life of this enigmatic man through archive of interviews SAT with the actor himself and those who knew him well. SAT SAT Producer: Frank Stirling SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b03xtvtm (Listen) SAT The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio SAT SAT Blake Ritson, David Warner, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt SAT star in Stephen Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - SAT the story of one man's extraordinary journey through Hell, SAT Purgatory and Paradise. SAT SAT In Episode 2: Purgatorio, Dante (Blake Ritson) is led up SAT Mount Purgatory by his guide, the shade of Virgil (David SAT Warner). On their journey, they encounter numerous souls SAT who have embarked on the difficult journey up the mountain - SAT a journey that will eventually lead to their spiritual SAT salvation. SAT SAT Many years later, the older Dante (John Hurt), still in SAT enforced exile from his beloved Florence, reflects on the SAT episodes from his life that have inspired his great poem. SAT SAT All other parts are played by members of the company SAT SAT The Divine Comedy is dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SAT SAT Sound design is by Cal Knightley SAT SAT Directed by Emma Harding and Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dante the Poet: Blake Ritson SAT Older Dante: John Hurt SAT Virgil: David Warner SAT Beatrice: Hattie Morahan SAT Guardian 1: Sam Dale SAT Proud Soul: Sam Dale SAT Cato: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Casella: Steve Toussaint SAT Donati: Steve Toussaint SAT Belacqua: Clive Hayward SAT Pia of Siena: Priyanga Burford SAT Guardian 3: David Cann SAT Sapia: Carolyn Pickles SAT Girl: Cassie Layton SAT Director: Emma Harding SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Adaptor: Stephen Wyatt SAT Author: Dante Alighieri SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0400s92 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Would That Work Here? b04003kz (Listen) SAT New Zealand's Faultless Fix SAT SAT In a new series of thought-provoking debates, Claire SAT Bolderson looks at something another country does well, or SAT differently, and asks whether it could work here. SAT The trend towards a US-style litigation culture in the UK in SAT recent years has been a growing cause for concern. The costs SAT - both financial and social - of legal claims against public SAT services such as heath and education is escalating SAT year-on-year. But the cases that make it to court are only SAT the tip of the iceberg, with countless others taking up SAT precious resources, time and bureaucracy. Is there an SAT alternative to this name, blame and claim culture? SAT SAT Is demanding compensation for accidents now seen as a the SAT only way of holding public services to account? What does SAT the threat of litigation do to transparency and SAT accountability? Is the fear of litigation damaging to the SAT professionalism of doctors, nurses and teachers and the SAT delivery of services? Do we need to take a long, hard look SAT at this trend and where it is likely to lead us? SAT SAT In New Zealand, patients get compensation for all personal SAT injuries and accidents through a no-fault government-funded SAT compensation system. In turn, they relinquish the right to SAT sue for damages arising from personal injury, except in rare SAT cases of misconduct. SAT SAT Advocates of New Zealand's no-fault system claim that it is SAT cheaper to run and provides more-timely compensation to a SAT greater number of patients, as well as a less stressful SAT process for resolving disputes. Straightforward claims are SAT processed in weeks, with a fixed award structure ensuring SAT that similar injuries receive similar compensation. The SAT system is funded through general taxation and employer SAT levies and is mandatory and universal. SAT SAT Would a similar system work in the UK? What would be the SAT advantages and disadvantages? SAT SAT Producers: Ruth Evans and Jennie Walmsley SAT A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b03zy1c4 (Listen) SAT Series 4, The University of Bristol SAT SAT A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three SAT University students take on a team of three of their SAT professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Bristol, "The 3rd SAT Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst SAT delighting the current ones. SAT SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Religion & SAT Theology, English Literature to 1700 and Physics, and the SAT questions range from the Book of Job to the books of Raymond SAT Chandler via scalar bosons & Grumpy Cat SAT SAT The show is recorded on location at a different University SAT each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of SAT their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on SAT an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course SAT meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but SAT with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and One Direction... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT SAT In this series, the universities are Bristol, Kent, SAT Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Nottingham & Aberystwyth. SAT SAT Overflow (incl Cast Lists) SAT The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on SAT The Now Show is also someone who delights in all facets of SAT knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational SAT background) but in the sciences as well. As well as "The Now SAT Show" he has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on SAT subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The SAT Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" - an investigation into SAT awards ceremonies - as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio SAT 4's 2008 Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, SAT called "The Genuine Particle". This makes him the perfect SAT host for a show which aims to be an intellectual, fulfilling SAT and informative quiz, but with wit and a genuine delight in SAT exploring the subjects at hand. SAT SAT The 3rd Degree is a Pozzitive production, produced by David SAT Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm SAT Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, The Brig Society, SAT Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, SAT Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes SAT Off, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, The Castle and SAT even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include SAT Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The SAT Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony SAT Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's SAT dinnerladies. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b03zxw0j (Listen) SAT Series 3, Derek Walcott SAT SAT Paul Farley returns with Radio 4's new poetry programme. SAT Today's edition is devoted to a conversation (with poems and SAT flying fish) with Derek Walcott at home on St Lucia. Walcott SAT is now 84. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. SAT The tropical island of St Lucia has been his home and has SAT defined his work for many years yet he is reluctant to think SAT of himself as a Caribbean poet. His work has travelled far SAT away from his home and his own relationship with St Lucia SAT has been rich but not entirely comfortable. He talks about SAT why and speaks also of his love for the English poets, John SAT Clare and Edward Thomas, whilst, looking out over the SAT Caribbean sea, he recites Walter de la Mare. Producer: Tim SAT Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 APRIL 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b040h2dn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Murals b01pcwqs (Listen) SUN Banana Bread SUN SUN These three stories by Morven Crumlish, commissioned SUN specially for Radio 4, are inspired by the work of the SUN artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. SUN SUN Traquair (1852-1936) was born in County Dublin and, in the SUN 1870s, moved to Edinburgh where she would later become a SUN prominent figure in the Scottish Arts and Crafts movement. SUN SUN Probably her best-known works are the vibrantly-coloured SUN murals in what was formerly the Catholic Apostolic Church in SUN Broughton Street, Edinburgh which Traquair took eight years SUN to complete (1893-1901). When the church fell out of SUN ecclesiastical use, the murals suffered badly through SUN neglect but, following the formation of the Mansfield SUN Traquair Trust, a major restoration was undertaken, SUN completed in 2005. SUN SUN While art is at the core of all three fictions, Murals also SUN mirrors the evolution of a similar building: from church, to SUN brickyard, to present-day use for visitors and as a venue SUN for events. SUN SUN 2/3. Banana Bread SUN SUN The building has fallen into disuse as a church and is now a SUN warehouse for bricks. A builder uncovers some of the SUN neglected murals and relives the life and death of his lost SUN son. SUN SUN Morven Crumlish's stories have been broadcast widely, and SUN she also contributes to the Guardian. Her work has featured SUN in four previous Sweet Talk productions for BBC Radio 4, SUN including Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs - five of her stories - SUN in 2008; and most recently 'Harold Lloyd Is Not The Man Of SUN My Dreams' (Three For My Baby, 2011). Morven lives in SUN Edinburgh. SUN SUN Reader: Mark Bonnar SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Mark Bonnar SUN Writer: Morven Crumlish SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b040h2dq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b040h2ds (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b040h2dv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b040h2dx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b040h47n (Listen) SUN St. Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe SUN SUN The bells of St. Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b04003l1 (Listen) SUN Marina Warner SUN SUN The Power and the Passion - Marina Warner on the power of SUN places. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b040h2dz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b040h47q (Listen) SUN Over and Over SUN SUN John McCarthy considers the pleasures and benefits of SUN repetition. SUN SUN In interview with Taiji teacher Murray Douglas and choral SUN conductor Simon Halsey, John explores the role that SUN repetition has in our lives. He discusses ways in which SUN repeating an action over and over can lead to a deeper SUN understanding and appreciation of our lives and ourselves. SUN And the fact that repetition can bring shape and structure SUN to our passing years. Far from being boring or tedious, SUN repetition affords an opportunity for focused attention and SUN reflection. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from works by Kate Atkinson, SUN Maya Angelou and Portia Nelson. Plus music by Pachelbel, SUN John Coltrane, James Blunt and J.S.Bach. SUN SUN The readers are Jonathan Keeble and Wunmi Mosaku. SUN SUN Produced by Rosie Boulton SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b040h47s (Listen) SUN Food and Farming Awards: Finalist Neil Darwent SUN SUN Neil Darwent is the third finalist vying for the title of SUN 'Outstanding Farmer of the Year' in this year's BBC Food and SUN Farming Awards. He gives judges Adam Henson and Mike Gooding SUN a tour of the dairy farm he manages in Somerset and shares SUN his passion for pasture. SUN SUN The three farmers take a stroll around the fields, sheds and SUN milking parlour and discuss Neil's determination to promote SUN the value of grass-fed milk. He explains why he believes SUN cows have a right to graze on fresh pasture, and why farmers SUN who produce milk according to traditional methods should be SUN rewarded. So is that a rose-tinted, old-fashioned approach SUN to dairying or is Neil onto something new and progressive? SUN SUN Presented by Adam Henson. Produced by Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b040h2f1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b040h2f3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b040h47v (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b040h47x (Listen) SUN Concern Universal SUN SUN Marcus Brigstocke presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Concern SUN Universal. SUN Registered charity No: 272465 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Concern Universal'. SUN SUN Concern Universal SUN SUN There are now over 56,375 families in Malawi using a ‘Flower SUN Pot’ stove thanks to SUN Concern Universal SUN an international development charity based in Hereford, UK. SUN We are leading a national programme to help get 2 million SUN fuel-efficient ‘flower-pot’ stoves out to rural families by SUN 2020. These stoves allow women and children to spend more SUN time at work or at school, they reduce the amount of deadly SUN smoke inhaled, help save wood and encourage tree planting. SUN SUN With nine country programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin SUN America, we find long-term solutions to poverty. Reaching SUN over 2 million people each year, other projects include; SUN providing boreholes for safe water, training families to SUN grow enough food, providing micro-finance loans in rural SUN villages and irrigation schemes for drought areas. These SUN are just some of over a hundred projects that Concern SUN Universal implements to help families living in extreme SUN poverty around the world. SUN SUN SUN Nefa Kaliati SUN Nefa from Ching’ombe village, Makwangwala, Malawi, uses her SUN stove to cook food for her five grandchildren and to keep SUN warm after sunset. SUN SUN Stove Production group SUN Women from Mg’anja village in Dedza stove production group SUN show off their newly fired stoves ready to sell to other SUN villagers. SUN SUN Woman using fuel efficient stoves SUN As the flowerpot stoves use such a small amount of wood, SUN many women use more than one stove at a time to allow them SUN to boil water and cook food. SUN SUN Women making clay stoves SUN SUN Concern Universal trained groups of women in Mbengo village, SUN Balaka, how to mould clay into ‘sausage’ shapes, before SUN using the moulds to produce stoves to a carefully tested SUN template. SUN SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b040h2f5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b040h2f7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b040h47z (Listen) SUN Inside Hope SUN SUN 'Inside Hope' SUN A service for Palm Sunday live from the Church of God of SUN Prophecy, Winson Green, Birmingham. SUN SUN In the last of Radio 4's series 'Inside Lent', Bishop Joe SUN Aldred explores the power of Christian hope, a hope that SUN enables Christians to look beyond the despair of death to SUN Resurrection. As Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the SUN fickleness of the crowd could have tempted him to despair. A SUN millennium and a half later Martin Luther wrote that SUN "everything that is done in the world is done by hope". He SUN understood that hope is no mere emotion but is a carrier of SUN such energy and motivation that it fuels vision and an SUN imagined new future - a future which Jesus knew God had sent SUN him to embrace. SUN SUN Leader: Bishop Paul McCalla. SUN Music directors: Joanne Herlock, Vincent McCalla, SUN Producer: Philip Billson 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 SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0400qfh (Listen) SUN A Tale of Two Elections SUN SUN William Dalrymple reflects on the current pivotal elections SUN in India and Afghanistan where religion, identity and SUN economics will all help to determine the outcomes. Feeling a SUN mixture of unease and optimism, he celebrates, nevertheless, SUN the good news that "democracy is an unstoppable force in SUN south and central Asia." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: William Dalrymple SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zqzsv (Listen) SUN Curlew (Spring) 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 Kate Humble presents the curlew. The haunting song of the SUN curlew instantly summons the spirit of wild places. By SUN April, most curlews have left their winter refuge on SUN estuaries and marshes and have returned to their territories SUN on moorland or upland pastures. Wherever they breed you'll SUN hear the male birds singing and displaying. It's often SUN called the bubbling song. SUN SUN Curlew (Numenius arquata) SUN Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Parkinson (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b040h53d (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 b040h53g (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b040h53l (Listen) SUN Four Weddings and a Funeral SUN SUN In spite of its largely unknown cast, a promiscuous leading SUN female character, a tragic death and a tiny budget, Four SUN Weddings and a Funeral is still one of the most successful SUN British films ever made. SUN SUN It's 20 years since it opened in Britain - making household SUN names of its stars, and taking an estimated $250 million SUN worldwide. SUN SUN The project was on the back burner for years as the SUN determined and faithful production team tried desperately to SUN raise enough money to make it work. The script went through SUN more than 17 re-writes and dozens of actors were auditioned SUN and rejected until exactly the right people were found to SUN play the leading roles. SUN SUN During filming, actors were collected one-by-one across SUN London to save money on individual cars. Aristocrats (who SUN owned their own morning suits) were hired as extras for the SUN wedding scenes and US movie star Andie MacDowell was SUN convinced into accepting a lowly fee, all to ensure that the SUN film came in on budget. SUN SUN Even after filming was complete, in just six weeks, both the SUN film's leading man Hugh Grant and director Mike Newell SUN believed it would flop. No-one anticipated that it would in SUN fact be a box office smash in the US, and around the globe, SUN and win five Baftas. It also succeeded in catapulting the SUN poetry of W.H. Auden to the top of the best-sellers list. SUN SUN Twenty years on, Mike Newell, writer Richard Curtis, SUN producer Duncan Kenworthy and actors Kristin Scott Thomas SUN and James Fleet are reunited to relive a landmark experience SUN for them all. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b03zy1cd (Listen) SUN Series 13, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN Alex Horne, Lucy Beaumont, John Finnemore and Jack Dee are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as birds, witches, pubs and shoes. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN A Random production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Mitchell SUN Panellist: Alex Horne SUN Panellist: Lucy Beaumont SUN Panellist: John Finnemore SUN Panellist: Jack Dee SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b040h55g (Listen) SUN Food in Northern Ireland: A Golden Era? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon meets Northern Ireland's chefs and producers SUN leading a food renaissance. SUN SUN John Toal SUN SUN You can listen to John Toal's Saturday Magazine programme on SUN BBC Radio Ulster or SUN online here SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN or download the SUN Cookery Podcast SUN with John's resident chef Paula McIntyre SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b040h2f9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b040h5nv (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 Anti-Establishment and Uber-Capitalist b03zy4m9 (Listen) SUN From the so-called Silicon Roundabout in east London to SUN Silicon Canal in Birmingham, young tech entrepreneurs are SUN driving a radical shift in the UK's economy, calling SUN themselves disrupters of outdated institutions. SUN SUN Going beneath the hype and rhetoric, Georgia Catt explores SUN what makes the scene so different from the traditional SUN business world the tech founders are keen to avoid. SUN SUN Many of the youngsters behind the boom came of age against SUN the backdrop of high-profile Occupy and G20 protests. SUN SUN Speaking to these keen and fresh-faced entrepreneurs, SUN Georgia discovers that today they're trying to keep the SUN radicalism alive but at the same time - and here's the rub - SUN turn a profit. But how to make money and not sell out? SUN SUN For every Snapchat, Whatsapp, Google and Facebook, there are SUN myriad enterprises that never make the big time. For those SUN that survive, the challenge is retaining the start-up edge SUN and youthful idealism as their businesses grow. SUN SUN Many of them say they've already witnessed many of their SUN role models ditch their principles in the pursuit of hard SUN cash - and they are keen to avoid going the same way. But is SUN that inevitable? SUN SUN Producer: Georgia Catt. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0400qdx (Listen) SUN Chard: Floods Special SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts a special edition of GQT looking at the SUN effects of the winter floods on gardens across the country. SUN Taking questions from local gardeners and correspondents are SUN Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Christine Walkden. SUN SUN Peter visits the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology on the SUN banks of the Thames in Oxfordshire, and Matt Biggs visits an SUN eco-garden designed to use excess rainfall to its advantage. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Q. What would the panel suggest to get my clay soil back to SUN its best condition after a period of flooding? SUN A. It is a matter of adding lots of organic matter and SUN encouraging the worms for aeration. Try to cultivate a SUN really good compost heap to allow you to gradually bring it SUN back to health. SUN Although some plants may come into leaf as normal, it is SUN often twelve months to two years before they actually die. SUN If the roots have been killed off, Anne suggests pruning SUN back to prevent top growth and moisture loss. However, Bob SUN suggests that if the plant has remained dormant, the woody SUN head of the plant will provide the energy needed for new SUN root growth. SUN If you have alkaline soil, a lot of the lime will have SUN washed away and vegetable growers will particularly SUN struggle. The soluble fertility will also have gone, so try SUN adding blood, fish and bone. SUN SUN Q. My garden was underwater for days over Christmas. How can SUN I help the plants that have survived such as Lavender, SUN Alpines and Fatsia Japonica? SUN A. It is a case of waiting and not disturbing the soil. SUN However, you should remove any build up of silt because SUN certain plants won't be able to photosynthesis. Don't SUN fertilize until you have seen a fair amount of growth SUN because feeding after a period of stress can burn the roots. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest some drought resistant plants SUN that could also survive being waterlogged? SUN A. Take a look at the RHS Award of Garden Merit plants. They SUN have undergone rigorous testing in lots of locations and SUN under lots of conditions. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest some colourful plants to be added SUN to a wet area with fast running streams? SUN A. They would need to be quite robust and to knit themselves SUN into the soil. Try Butomus, a flowering rush with lovely SUN pink flower heads. Also look at using Delmera peltata with SUN its parasol-like leaves, or Caltha palustris would do very SUN well. The Troillius family would also do very well such as SUN the Chinensis variety. Thuggish types such as Primula SUN denticulata with their thick root system would bind the soil SUN well. Although considered a weed by many, the Golden Dock SUN loves wet conditions and is a beautiful rare native. SUN SUN Q. My garden was flooded for five hours during the North Sea SUN surge. Most of the plants have died, but can I still save SUN plants such as Flooded Euonymus, Box, Bay and Yews? SUN A. The salt will remain for a while but a small amount can SUN act as a fertiliser. It may have ruined the soil texture. SUN Try adding gypsum. SUN SUN Q. I hate to throw plants away. What should I do with shop SUN bought Hyacinths to ensure that they will flower next year? SUN A. Hyacinths naturalise really well. Keep them watered until SUN they start to die down and then plant them out in the SUN borders. SUN SUN Q. I have kept tubers from last year's Dahlias. I have now SUN noticed tiny pink growths appearing. Is this new growth or SUN something more sinister? SUN A. It appears to be a bacterial infection. It is caused when SUN the initial growth becomes infected and causes cell SUN proliferation. It often stays within the roots, but don't SUN plant it back into your soil. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b040h5nx (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about living with wolves, SUN having gastric surgery, and finding inspiration in David SUN Hockney's art, from Devon, Leeds and London, proving yet SUN again that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b03xtx55 (Listen) SUN The Divine Comedy, Paradiso SUN SUN Blake Ritson, Hattie Morahan and John Hurt star in Stephen SUN Wyatt's dramatisation of Dante's epic poem - the story of SUN one man's extraordinary journey through Hell, Purgatory and SUN Paradise. SUN SUN In Episode 3: Paradiso, Dante's spiritual journey comes to a SUN glorious conclusion as he (Blake Ritson) is led by Beatrice SUN (Hattie Morahan) through the spheres of Paradise and into SUN the presence of God himself. As they ascend, they encounter SUN a number of souls who have also achieved blessedness. SUN SUN Many years later, the older Dante (John Hurt), still in SUN enforced exile from his beloved Florence, reflects on the SUN episodes from his life that have inspired his great poem. 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 SUN Credits SUN Dante the Poet: Blake Ritson SUN Older Dante: John Hurt SUN Beatrice: Hattie Morahan SUN Piccarda: Priyanga Burford SUN Cacciaguida: Sam Dale SUN St Peter: Sam Dale SUN Emperor Justinian: Michael Bertenshaw SUN St Benedict: Michael Bertenshaw SUN St James: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Spirit 1: Clive Hayward SUN Spirit 2: Steve Toussaint SUN Cunizza: Carolyn Pickles SUN Eagle: Cassie Layton SUN St John: David Cann SUN Director: Emma Harding SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Adaptor: Stephen Wyatt SUN Author: Dante Alighieri SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b040h5nz (Listen) SUN Niall Williams, Armistead Maupin, Contemporary Chinese SUN Literature SUN SUN Niall William's talks about his latest book History of the SUN Rain, which tells the story of Ruth Swain who, confined to SUN bed with an unknown illness, is surrounded by almost four SUN thousand books, as she narrates and writes the history of SUN her family. 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SUN SUN We return to our occasional series, the book you'd never SUN lend for fear of not getting it back and hear from author SUN Armistead Maupin about his choice of Christopher Isherwood's SUN Down There on a Visit. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN History of the Rain by Niall Williams - Publisher: SUN Bloomsbury SUN Decoded by Mai Jai SUN Excess Baggage by Karen Ma - Publisher: China Books SUN The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin - Publisher: SUN Doubleday SUN Daughter of the River by Hong Ying SUN Last Quarter of the Moon, by Chi Zijian, translated by Bruce SUN Humes SUN The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver by Chan SUN Koonchung SUN Snow and Shadow by Dorothy Tse - Publisher: Muse SUN Publications SUN Scent to Heaven by Wang Anyi (available in the UK later this SUN year) SUN The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, by Yan Ge (not available in the SUN UK) SUN Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of History of the Rain by Niall SUN Williams SUN History of the Rain: Chapter 1 SUN by Niall Williams SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Niall Williams SUN Interviewed Guest: Armistead Maupin SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b040h5p1 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Jen Hadfield on Shetland SUN SUN Paul Farley meets the poet Jen Hadfield at home and out and SUN about in Shetland taking some of her new poems from her book SUN Byssus back to where they were written, their source. Byssus SUN is the name given to a mussel's beard, it is what anchors SUN the shellfish to its rock. Many poems in the book explore SUN both molluscs and bivalves but also what a home might mean SUN to other creatures including poets. Half the poems need SUN wellington boots, the others a good raincoat, but the Spring SUN is here too and life grows afresh. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 17:00 Rubbish: The Great Waste Crisis b03zy4hn (Listen) SUN Political diarist Chris Mullin became fascinated with how we SUN manage our refuse whilst an Environment Minister. Now he SUN goes on a quest to discover what really happens to our SUN rubbish, and meets the recyclers making millions from the SUN waste we throw away. SUN SUN Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b040h1d3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b040h2fc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b040h2ff (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b040h2fh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b040h5p3 (Listen) SUN The best of BBC Radio this week SUN SUN Manchester: A City United (World Service, 8am Saturday 12th SUN April) SUN SUN Thatcher's Mad Monk or True Prophet? (Radio 4, 8pm Monday SUN 7th April) SUN SUN Book of the Week: Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism SUN (Radio 4, 9.45am All-Week) SUN SUN The Unbelievable Truth (Radio 4, 6.30pm Monday 7th April) SUN SUN Witness: Marian Anderson Sings at the Lincoln Memorial SUN (World Service, 7.50am Tuesday 8th April) SUN SUN Podcasting: The First Ten Years (Radio 4, 11am Friday 11th SUN April) SUN SUN Chrysanthemums (Radio 4, 11am Tuesday 8th April) SUN SUN The Essay: Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects SUN (Radio 3, 10.45pm All-Week) SUN SUN Dark Horse: An Alec Guinness Archive (Radio 4, 8pm Saturday SUN 12th April) SUN SUN Merchant Ivory - Classics, Celluloid and Class (Radio 3, SUN 9:15pm Sunday 6th April) SUN SUN Eric Smith and Clare Ashford (Radio Shropshire, 6am SUN All-week) SUN SUN Soul Music (Radio 4, 11:30am Tuesday 8th April) SUN SUN Chris Hawkins (6Music, 5am Tuesday 8th April). SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b040h6xk (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b040h6xq (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 2 SUN SUN Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 'gamble SUN Anglaise' from 1811, attempting to get a cheeseboard to SUN travel a distance of four and a half miles in under 100 SUN throws. SUN SUN Challenge number one? Getting permission to have the A151 SUN closed down for the purposes of cheeseboard tossing. SUN SUN Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham, with additional SUN material from Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne. Produced by Colin SUN Anderson. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tim FitzHigham SUN Producer: Colin Anderson SUN Writer: Tim FitzHigham SUN Writer: Jon Hunter SUN Writer: Paul Byrne SUN SUN 19:45 Infinite Possibilities and Unlikely Probabilities SUN b040h6xs (Listen) SUN Vacant Possession SUN SUN Three contemporary stories by Anita Sullivan - commissioned SUN specially for Radio 4 - set in a seaside town and exploring SUN a wider world that co-exists with our everyday lives. SUN SUN Episode 1: Vacant Possession SUN Grace is invaluable to a local Estate Agent in helping to SUN sell difficult houses. But what is her special gift? SUN SUN Anita Sullivan has written a number of plays and short SUN stories for BBC Radio, among them Countrysides (2011), The SUN Last Breath (created with Ben Fearnside in 2012), and the SUN adaptation of An Angel At My Table, which won Best Audio SUN Drama Serial at the BBC Audio Drama awards in 2014. SUN SUN Reader: Martina Laird SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Martina Laird SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0400qf1 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0400qdz (Listen) SUN Sue Townsend, Lord Kimball, Peaches Geldof, Prof Lorna SUN Casselton, Mickey Rooney SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The writer Sue Townsend, best known for creating Adrian Mole SUN at the age of 13 and three quarters. SUN SUN Lord Kimball, a leading campaigner on countryside issues who SUN fought against the ban on fox hunting. SUN SUN Peaches Geldof, the socialite, columnist and TV presenter SUN who was found dead at the age of 25. SUN SUN Professor Lorna Casselton, one of the world's leading SUN experts on fungal biology and Foreign Secretary of the Royal SUN Society SUN SUN And the film star Mickey Rooney who had one of Hollywood's SUN longest careers. SUN SUN Sue Townsend SUN SUN Matthew spoke to former John Tydeman, former Head of BBC SUN Radio Drama and to ‘In Touch’ presenter Peter White. SUN SUN Born 2 April 1946; died 10 April 2014 aged 68. SUN SUN Lord Kimball SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his friends Lord Mancroft and Lord SUN Gardiner and to Michael Clayton, former Editor of Horse and SUN Hound. SUN SUN Born 18 October 1928; died 26 March 2014 aged 85. SUN SUN Peaches Geldof SUN SUN Matthew spoke to freelance journalist Daisy Buchanan and to SUN Katie Hind, Showbiz Editor of the Sunday People SUN newspaper. SUN SUN Born 13 March 1989; died 7 April 2014 aged 25. SUN SUN Professor Lorna Casselton SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her friend and colleague, Professor Nick SUN Talbot. SUN SUN Born 18 July 1938; died 14 February 2014 aged 75. SUN SUN Mickey Rooney SUN SUN Born 23 September 1920; died 6 April 2014 aged 93. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: John Tydeman SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter White SUN Interviewed Guest: Benjamin Mancroft SUN Interviewed Guest: Gerald Gardiner SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Clayton SUN Interviewed Guest: Daisy Buchanan SUN Interviewed Guest: Katie Hind SUN Interviewed Guest: Nick Talbot SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b040h14p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b040h47x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04009cq (Listen) SUN The Veneto SUN SUN Crisi is the Italian word for "crisis" and the country has SUN been living through political and economic upheaval for SUN several years. It has meant hard times for Italy's family SUN businesses serving a global marketplace. From the Veneto SUN region north of Venice, Peter Day finds out how these SUN distinctive Italian companies are hanging on. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Paulo Bordin SUN SUN Student Ca’ Foscari University SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Guido Mantovani SUN SUN Professor of banking and finance at Ca’ Foscari University SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Guiseppe Milan SUN SUN Director General, Unindustria, Treviso SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Paulo Menuzzo SUN SUN President, Came SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Elisa Menuzzo SUN SUN Director, Came SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Diletta Cigolini SUN SUN Co-Ordinator “in Oltre” help-line SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Franco Lorenzon SUN SUN Local Secretary General, CISL Union, Treviso and Belluno SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Mario Moretti Polegato SUN SUN Founder and chairman, Geox SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Domenico Scimone SUN SUN General Manager, Carpene Malvolti SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Bruno Vianello SUN SUN founder and president, Texa SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b040h7dt (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b040h7dw (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04009cb (Listen) SUN Life on Mars, Lukas Moodysson, Biyi Bandele, John Michael SUN McDonagh SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Why of all the planets in our solar system does Mars hold SUN the most fascination for film-makers ? As The Last Days On SUN Mars is released, Sir Christopher Frayling, Professor Roger SUN Luckhurst and novelist Naomi Alderman discuss the reasons SUN for our obsession with the red planet and reveal why it all SUN began with a simple mistranslation. SUN SUN A man walks into a confessional and informs the priest that SUN he's going to kill him in seven days time. This is the SUN premise for the new thriller from director John Michael SUN McDonagh who tells Francine why he thinks there's not enough SUN discussion about faith in modern cinema. SUN SUN Playwright Biyi Bandele discusses the problems he had making SUN his adaptation of the best-seller Half Of A Yellow Sun in SUN Nigeria. SUN SUN Lukas Moodysson, the director of We Are The Best, a Swedish SUN coming-of-age drama about a young punk band in the 80s, SUN reveals why he thought it was almost immoral to cast SUN children in a movie. SUN SUN We Are The Best SUN Directed by Lukas Moodysson, SUN We Are The Best SUN is in cinemas from Friday 18 April 2014, certificate 15. SUN SUN Half Of A Yellow Sun SUN Directed by Biyi Bandele, SUN Half Of A Yellow Sun SUN is in cinemas from Friday 11 April 2014, certificate 15. SUN SUN Calvary SUN Directed by John Michael McDonagh, SUN Calvary SUN is in cinemas from Friday 11 April 2014, certificate 15. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b040h47q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 APRIL 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b040h2gs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04001kg (Listen) MON The End of Capitalism; Reforming Capitalism MON MON Capitalism - renewal or decline? Laurie Taylor explores the MON future of our market driven economy. He's joined by David MON Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and MON Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of MON New York and Colin Crouch, Professor Emeritus in Sociology MON at the University of Warwick. Professor Harvey examines the MON contradictions at the heart of capitalism arguing that it's MON far from being the permanent or only way of organising human MON life. Professor Crouch, conversely, suggests that only MON Capitalism can provide us with an efficient and innovative MON economy but it should be re-shaped to better fit a social MON democratic society. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON David Harvey MON MON Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the MON Graduate Center of the City University of New York MON MON MON Find out more about MON David Harvey MON MON MON MON MON MON Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism MON Publisher: Profile Books MON ISBN-10: 1781251614 MON ISBN-13: 978-1781251614 MON MON Colin Crouch MON MON Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Warwick MON MON MON Find out more about MON Colin Crouch MON MON MON MON MON MON Making Capitalism Fit for Society MON Publisher: Polity Press MON ISBN-10: 0745672221 MON ISBN-13: 978-0745672229 MON MON Ethnography Award MON MON Thank you for all your entries. MON MON MON MON These are now being reviewed by the judges for the Award, MON Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise MON Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor MON Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly). MON MON MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays flair, MON originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. The MON work should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON MON MON The finalists will be contacted by telephone early spring of MON 2014 and the winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference in April 2014 MON MON MON MON Please see the MON Terms & Conditions MON for all the rules. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b040h47n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b040h2gx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b040h2gz (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b040h2h1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b040h2h3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040hb35 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt MON Revd David Walker, Bishop of Manchester. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b040hhn5 (Listen) MON Nitrates, Farmland birds, Protected food MON MON Scotland is consulting on plans to reduce the area covered MON by Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs), meaning farmers won't be MON as restricted to the amount of nitrogen-based fertilizer MON they can use in the soil. However, whilst pollution in water MON levels are falling, Dr Mark Sutton from the Centre for MON Ecology and Hydrology says farmers could be doing more to MON prevent nitrate air pollution which is very harmful to flora MON and fauna. MON MON How can getting a protected status for regional food MON specialities increase your revenue as a producer? Matthew MON O'Callaghan from the Protected Food Name Association tells MON Farming Today that it's a hard process which needs a lot of MON work, but ultimately it can pay dividends. MON MON The results are in from the first Big Farmland Bird Count by MON the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. MON MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b040h2h5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrc4v (Listen) MON Swallow (Spring) 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 Kate Humble presents the swallow. A flash of blue across MON farmland or a stableyard and a burst of twittering can only MON mean one thing, the swallows are back after their long MON migration from South Africa. No matter how grey the April MON weather, the sight and sound of a swallow dispels the winter MON blues at a stroke. These agile migrants arrive as the insect MON population is beginning to increase, and they are a delight MON to watch as they hawk for flies in the spring sunshine. MON MON Swallow (Hirundo rustica) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). MON MON 06:00 Today b040hhn7 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b040hhn9 (Listen) MON Lucy Worsley on the Georgians MON MON Tom Sutcliffe looks back three hundred years to the MON Hanoverian succession to the British throne. The curator MON Lucy Worsley explains how the German Georges claimed the MON crown and how they kept it. The Georgian period is also the MON setting for Paula Byrne's biography of Dido Belle, the MON daughter of an aristocrat and a captured West Indian slave. MON Also on the programme, the MP Chris Bryant explores the MON history of Parliament and the movement of power from King to MON democracy. But what of today's Royals? The director Rupert MON Goold's latest production follows the coronation of Prince MON Charles to examine what it means to rule Britannia. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Lucy Worsley MON Interviewed Guest: Paula Byrne MON Interviewed Guest: Chris Bryant MON Interviewed Guest: Rupert Goold MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b040hhnc (Listen) MON B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World, Episode 1 MON MON An essential tool kit for understanding the modern world, by MON the Director of London's Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic. MON MON Not a dictionary, though it attempts to tell you all you MON need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's MON not an autobiography either, though it does offer a MON revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary MON culture. MON MON It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the creation MON of national identities, the mania to collect. It's also MON about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand MON Theft Auto V, and digital ornament and why we value MON imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini MON in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's MON film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics MON and art. MON MON Born in London, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in MON Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the MON Venice architecture biennale, and a curator in Glasgow, MON Istanbul and Copenhagen. He's the author of The Language of MON Things and The Edifice Complex. MON MON Episode 1: MON MON A is for Authentic but how do we decide exactly what that MON means? C is for Car which perhaps more than any other MON consumer object, has shaped the texture and shape of modern MON life. Deyan Sudjic considers both. MON MON What makes an object authentic? Are artists good at MON designing cars? MON Deyan Sudjic considers both. MON MON Read by Deyan Sudjic MON Abridged by Polly Coles MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Deyan Sudjic MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Abridger: Polly Coles MON Writer: Deyan Sudjic MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b040hhnf (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON Anne Archer MON MON The Oscar nominated and Golden Globe award winning actress MON Anne Archer MON is best known for films such as Fatal Attraction, Short MON Cuts and Clear and Present Danger. She has appeared on MON stage as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate and other productions MON such as A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking and the MON Vagina Monologues. She will will make her Edinburgh MON Festival debut this summer, starring as ‘Jane Fonda’ in the MON of MON The Trial of Jane Fonda. MON She joins Jane to discuss her career and what drew her to MON this latest stage role. MON MON MON MON Yulia Tymeshenko: Presidency Bid MON MON On May 25 Ukraine will elect their new president. One of the MON three main candidates is Yulia Tymoshenko. She is the MON ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister who lost to President Yanukovych MON in the 2010 presidential election and ended up in jail on MON corruption charges - widely regarded as trumped-up. The MON broad division is between candidates who favour closer ties MON with the European Union and those who are more pro-Russian. MON Jane speaks to Nina Kuryata, Chief Editor of the BBC’s MON Ukrainian Service in Kiev, to discuss Tymoshenko’s chances MON of election. MON MON Nicci French MON Nicci French is the pseudonym for the husband and wife MON writing team – Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple MON have carved a name for themselves as one of the most MON successful couples writing psychological thrillers and have MON sold 8 million copies of their books worldwide. Their new MON book ‘Thursday’s Children’ was published last week by MON Penguin/Michael Joseph. Jane Garvey speaks to them about MON novel and how being married has influenced their writing and MON perspective. MON MON School Reunions MON Sooner or later, the invite to a school reunion arrives in MON our inbox. Does it evoke a sense of dread - or excitement? MON Is it a way to showcase our achievements or does it play to MON our insecurities? And as reports last month that a school MON reunion got out of control, does it make us regress to our MON younger selves? Jane discusses the perils of the school MON reunion with author, Nicci Gerrard and journalist, Rosamunde MON Urwin. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b040hhnh (Listen) MON All Change, Episode 6 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard MON dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON MON As the firm faces financial problems Hugh attempts to MON improve relations with Edward and Diana by inviting them to MON dinner. MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up MON The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into MON lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the MON Second World War and beyond. MON Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a MON fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly MON Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the MON BBC were to dramatise her final novel. MON MON The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family MON of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now MON 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very MON different type of world. MON MON The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family MON timber firm that their father started. MON Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their MON parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may MON finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, MON Sid, (Margot Sidney). MON MON Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his MON own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has MON remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They MON have a daughter of their own, Laura. MON Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the MON aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her MON husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay MON for the crumbling family Estate. MON MON Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. MON But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the MON joy of their affair. MON Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael MON Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, MON Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but MON she and her father are now on good terms. MON MON Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. MON He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his MON old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and MON still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a MON writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and MON bring up a family. MON MON The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million MON copies. MON Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with MON Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her MON generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a MON freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Hugh: Dominic Mafham MON Edward: Pip Torrens MON Jemima: Alison Pettit MON Rachel: Naomi Frederick MON Sid: Helen Schlesinger MON Diana: Emily Joyce MON Mallinson: Clive Hayward MON Director: Sally Avens MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Adaptor: Lin Coghlan MON Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b040hhnk (Listen) MON Series 16, Waxing and Filing - Jade's Beautiful Dream MON MON Jade has a dream - to run the best beauty parlour in the MON business. MON Just off Oxford Street, shopping mecca of London's West End, MON Jade's salon paints nails to perfection, massages faces, and MON does intimate waxing with aplomb. MON Intimacy with the clients is also what Jade is good at - MON knowing her customers, helping them make the most of their MON bodies, and their day. "Women come in to have their nails MON done," she tells Sangita Myska, "And they tell me I have MON saved their lives!" MON A teenage rebel, she had a child at 14, and her life has had MON ups and downs. Growing up in Southampton she swore she would MON never move to London, but a chance encounter at a rave in MON Hackney, with a handsome Greek Cypriot, Angelo, changed her MON mind. Now she's married and hoping for another child - just MON as soon as she can find a like-minded beauty technician to MON share her passion for perfection. MON Getting new talent is an up-hill battle - but if she can MON find the right person, the sky's the limit. MON MON Presenter: Sangita Myska MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b040hhnm (Listen) MON Growing Pains MON MON Episode 2 of Hilary Lyon's new Edinburgh-based series sees MON business booming in Cafe Culture, the leafy Bruntsfield MON coffee shop that Trisha (played by Julie Graham) has opened MON with her solvent sensible sister, Clare. MON MON Clare (Hilary Lyon) obsessively plans a special themed MON Valentine's Night celebration in the cafe and rises to the MON commercial romance challenge. Trisha can't imagine anything MON more ghastly - she's not a fan of Valentine's nonsense at MON the best of times, but throw in her recent complicated MON relationship break-up in London and it really turns her off. MON MON The sisters are delighted that business is booming, but what MON should they do about the staffing issue? They definitely MON need more help, but can Trisha persuade Clare and MON temperamental Polish chef, Krzysztof (Simon Greenall), that MON kleptomaniac teenager Lizzie (Pearl Appleby) is actually the MON right person for the job? MON MON Valentine's Day duly arrives. Unexpected revelations abound, MON unconventional marriage proposals are made and unwanted MON flowers are delivered. All in all, it's not a very loved-up MON affair. MON MON Directed by: Marilyn Imrie MON Producers: Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy MON An Absolute production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Trish: Julie Graham MON Clare: Hilary Lyon MON Krzysztof: Simon Greenall MON Lizzie: Pearl Appleby MON Delivery Guy: Moray Hunter MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producer: Moray Hunter MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b040hhnp (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b040h2h7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b040h2h9 (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 Martin Wainwright's Myth of the North b03y0l92 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON From the new digital and creative industries in Manchester MON and Cheshire, to the revival of the old textile industry in MON Yorkshire, Martin Wainwright demonstrates why the myth of MON the 'grim' North is vastly outdated. MON MON He proposes that the cause of Britain's uneven productivity MON and wealth may lie in London and the South-East, not the MON North. While London continues to be talked up and the North MON talked down, the divide is entrenched - and the problem with MON concentrating the country's economy in the capital is MON overlooked. MON MON The programme includes politicians Gordon Marsden and Kris MON Hopkins), geographer Danny Dorling, digital innovator Drew MON Hemment, and Barnsley's queen of fashion, Rita Britton. MON MON Producer: Isabel Sutton MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b040h6xk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b040hjy0 (Listen) MON Tempting Faith MON MON Today is one of the most important days in Martin's life. MON His daughter, Elizabeth, whom he has never met, has asked to MON meet him before she emigrates to Australia. MON MON On this prodigious day, more than a little anxious, Martin MON sets off in his Dad's car bright and early, He is determined MON nothing can or will go wrong on this short journey to meet MON his daughter... despite the fact that catastrophe has MON somehow always dogged his best efforts at avoiding trouble. MON MON But Martin has not anticipated coming in contact with the MON whirlwind that is Faith! MON MON For Faith this is also a momentous day. She has finally MON escaped her Guru partner, packed her little car with all of MON her possessions and is determined to take control of her MON life for once and for all... when her car is stolen right MON outside the mall where she has stopped off for a coffee. MON Martin just happens to be parking in the next lot when Faith MON jumps into his car and demands he pursues the thieves in a MON high speed chase - needless to say neither of their days MON ends as either had anticipated. MON MON But they have tempted fate, and it would appear they are MON destined to be together. MON MON Writer ..... Sean Moffatt MON Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON Credits MON Faith: Karen Ardiff MON Martin: Patrick Fitzsymons MON Dad: BJ Hogg MON Nick: Luke Griffin MON Cynthia: Dawn Bradfield MON Elizabeth: Seainin Brennan MON Writer: Sean Moffatt MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b040hjy2 (Listen) MON Series 4, The University of Kent MON MON University of Kent MON MON A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three MON University students take on a team of three of their MON professors. MON MON Coming this week from the University of Kent, "The 3rd MON Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at MON cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst MON delighting the current ones. MON MON The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Anthropology, MON Journalism and Computing, and the questions range from the MON Austro-Hungarian Empire to Engelbert Humperdinck via MON database hacking and Babar the Elephant MON MON The show is recorded on location at a different University MON each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of MON their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on MON an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course MON meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but MON with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes MON posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union MON buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities MON across the UK. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction... In addition, the MON Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, MON and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both MON sides... MON MON The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit MON surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly MON rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more MON than just glanced at that reading list... MON MON In this series, the universities are Bristol, Kent, MON Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Nottingham & Aberystwyth. MON MON Overflow (incl Cast Lists) MON MON The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on MON The Now Show is also someone who delights in all facets of MON knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational MON background) but in the sciences as well. As well as "The Now MON Show" he has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on MON subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The MON Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" - an investigation into MON awards ceremonies - as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio MON 4's 2008 Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, MON called "The Genuine Particle". This makes him the perfect MON host for a show which aims to be an intellectual, fulfilling MON and informative quiz, but with wit and a genuine delight in MON exploring the subjects at hand. MON MON The 3rd Degree is a Pozzitive production, produced by David MON Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm MON Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, The Brig Society, MON Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, MON Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes MON Off, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, The Castle and MON even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include MON Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The MON Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony MON Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's MON dinnerladies. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b040h55g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics b040hjy4 (Listen) MON Aspasia 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 4 : Aspasia. Women in ancient Greece were supposedly MON not seen, not heard and not talked about. Meet the woman who MON broke all the rules - all the more remarkably for the fact MON that she was the partner of one of the most powerful men in MON Greece at the time, Pericles. Natalie explores how writers MON and comedians used Aspasia's reputation as a way of MON attacking the statesman - a practice which hasn't changed MON much over 2,500 years. With classicist Sarah B. Pomeroy, Dr MON Ian Jenkins of the British Museum and Cate Haste, co-author MON with Cherie Booth of a book on the lot of the statesman's MON spouse. MON MON Producer: Christine Hall. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b040hjy6 (Listen) MON Series 5, Voice MON MON In this weeks Digital Human Aleks Krotoski asks if the MON Digital world is robbing us of our voice. When we'd rather MON text or message than speak to someone are we still MON listening? MON MON While radio may well be thriving look at just about every MON other digital device and its pictures , video and text MON communication that dominates. So what is the future for the MON voice? MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Stan Alcorn MON Stan Alcorn MON is a multimedia journalist based in New York City. He MON reports regularly for NPR and WNYC, where he has focused on MON business and the New York tech scene. MON MON MON MON He wrote an article for Digg called 'Is this thing on?' MON about why audio hasn't flourished online, and tells us why MON the artform needs to change for the digital age. MON MON Professor Naomi Baron MON Naomi Baron MON is Professor of Linguistics and Executive Director of the MON Center for Teaching, Research & Learning at American MON University in Washington, DC. She is the author of eight MON books including MON Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. MON MON MON MON Professor Baron explains why people are choosing not to use MON thier voices. MON MON Lucie Potter MON Lucie Potter MON is a sound artist who creates public works of art created MON from human voices. Her past works have used recorded first MON hand accounts and stories, field recordings for listening MON walks and radio programmes. MON MON MON MON She tells us about the visceral power of the human voice. MON MON MON MON Eric Wahlforss MON Eric Wahlforss MON is founder and CTO of SoundCloud, the Web’s leading sound MON platform that gives users access to the world’s largest MON community of music and audio creators. MON MON MON MON He tells us how the voice needs its own infrastructor to MON succeed in the digital world. MON MON Scott Eyman MON Scott Eyman MON is a film historian, author, and former book editor and art MON critic of "The Palm Beach Post. His books, include "John MON Wayne: The Life and Legend, (2014), and The Speed of Sound: MON Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 (1997) and MON with co-author Louis Giannetti, he published "Flashback: A MON Brief History of Film" (1986), now in its seventh edition. MON MON MON MON Scott explains how the coming of voice changed cinematic MON story telling forever. MON MON Margaret Ann Wolf Harris MON Margaret Ann Wolf Harris MON grew up never knowing her father's voice. On January 11th MON 1944, when she was just 17 months old, Sgt. Cody L. Wolf's MON plane was shot down over Germany. Though she had pictures MON and mementos of her father, a silence hung over his memory. MON But in 2013, the Baltimore Sun rebroadcast a Christmas MON recording of American troops stationed in England, and at MON the age of 71, Margaret Ann heard her father say her name MON for the first time. MON MON 17:00 PM b040hjy8 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b040h2hc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b040hjyb (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 2 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Lloyd Langford, Jon Richardson, Katherine MON Ryan and Graeme Garden are the panellists obliged to talk MON with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as whales, MON pigs, Canada and buses. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith. MON A Random production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: Jon Richardson MON Panellist: Katherine Ryan MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b040hk4m (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b040hk4p (Listen) MON Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, MON literature, film, media and music. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b040hhnh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Love Your Country? b040hk4r (Listen) MON Events in Ukraine and the forthcoming referendum in Scotland MON have focused attention on deeply felt ideas of nationalism MON and national sovereignty. MON MON Here, Professor David Cannadine dispatches a few myths about MON nation states - arguing that they a relatively modern MON inventions and that, in part, the loyalty we owe them was a MON carefully constructed political strategy. MON MON He looks at the ways in which nationalism reached a peak at MON the time of WW1 and how the artificially created states that MON emerged after the War were inevitably flawed . MON MON He also asks questions about whether, in a globalised world, MON we couldn't do better in terms of governance - either by MON looking to collections of cities or to groupings of nations MON to solve the problems of the 21st century. MON MON Producer: Susan Marling MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04009c0 (Listen) MON Central African Republic: A Road Through Hatred MON MON How do you restore peace to a country now being torn apart MON by a vicious campaign of ethnic and religious cleansing? Two MON men in the Central African Republic believe they have the MON answer - friendship. Tim Whewell joins the Catholic MON Archbishop of Bangui, Dieudonne Nzapalainga and the MON country's Chief Imam, Oumar Kobine Layama as they travel MON across the country trying to reconcile Christian and Muslim MON communities. MON MON 21:00 Chrysanthemum b03zy22v (Listen) MON Gorgeous, medicinal and edible, Chrysanthemums come with MON whole worlds in their blossoms. Jools Gilson pursues these MON remarkable plants from her Grandad's garden in the 1930s to MON the latest National Chrysanthemum Show in Stafford. Along MON the way, she visits championship grower Ivor Mace's MON greenhouse in the Rhondda Valley and sips chrysanthemum tea MON ceremoniously in London. MON MON What is it that drives people to tend their chrysanthemums MON as if they were newborn babies? And what is the connection MON between these floral shenanigans and the chrysanthemums used MON as ancient Chinese herbal remedies for calming itchy eyes MON and lowering blood pressure? MON MON Jools returns to her roots, to ask her aunties how her MON Grandfather found time to grow something just because it was MON beautiful - between factory shifts, growing vegetables and MON trapping rabbits to feed his ten children. MON MON What blossoms is a story of survival, and the pursuit of MON perfection. MON MON Producer: Adam Fowler MON A Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b040hhn9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b040h2hf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b040hk95 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b040hm7b (Listen) MON History of the Rain, Episode 1 MON MON We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or to keep MON alive those who only live now in the telling. MON MON Nineteen year old Ruth Swain is lying in her childhood home MON in the small Irish village of Faha in the attic room at the MON top of the stairs in the bed which her father had to MON construct in situ and which turned out to be as much boat as MON bed. She has Something Wrong with her, having collapsed MON during her fresher year at Trinity in Dublin, and finds MON herself bedbound in the attic room beneath the rain, in the MON margins between this world and the next. MON MON Ruth is in search of her father. To understand the father MON she has lost. To find him Ruth journeys through the ancestry MON of the curious Swain family - from the Reverend Swain her MON great-grandfather, to her grandfather Abraham to her father MON Virgil - and in doing so discovers an enchanting story of MON pole-vaulting, soldiering, stubbornness, leaping salmon, MON poetry, the pursuit of the Impossible Standard, and the wild MON rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming MON land in Ireland. Above all, Ruth embarks on a journey MON through books. Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight MON books to be precise, which are piled high and line the walls MON of her attic room. As Ruth searches for her father in their MON pages, her story becomes a vital, witty and poignant MON celebration of imagination, books, love and the healing MON power of storytelling. MON MON History of the Rain is the latest novel from Niall Williams, MON the author of bestselling novels including As It is In MON Heaven, The Fall of the Light, Only Say the Word and Four MON Letters of Love which is currently being adapted into a MON film. MON MON Abridged by Doreen Estall MON MON Read by Ailish Symons MON MON Producer Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Ailish Symons MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON Abridger: Doreen Estall MON Author: Niall Williams MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b03zy2kb (Listen) MON Journalese MON MON Why are thugs always vile, market towns always bustling, MON blondes bubbly and tirades foul mouthed? With the help of ex MON Editor Eve Pollard, journalist Robert Hutton and Professor MON John Mullan, Michael Rosen takes a look at the language and MON the cliches of news journalism MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON 23:30 With Great Pleasure b03s6mm3 (Listen) MON Paul Farley MON MON This edition of With Great Pleasure was recorded at the new MON Birmingham Library as part of the Birmingham Literature MON Festival. Poet Paul Farley talks about the words and sounds MON that have inspired his writing. He recalls growing up in MON Liverpool listening to the Radio Four Shipping Forecast as MON well as the football scores on Sports Report, and learning MON to appreciate poetry from the women in his family. MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Paul Farley MON Producer: Maggie Ayre MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b040h2jp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b040hhnc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b040h2jr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b040h2jt (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b040h2jw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b040h2jy (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040hx60 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt TUE Revd David Walker, Bishop of Manchester. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b040hx62 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrc82 (Listen) TUE Meadow Pipit (Spring) 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 meadow pipit. No-one would give the TUE meadow pipit any prizes in a beauty competition but this TUE small streaky bird has its own charm, as it bustles through TUE the turf with a jerky motion. If you're hiking across the TUE moor it will rise ahead of you, dither in mid-air and then TUE dart off, buffeted by the spring breeze. TUE TUE Meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). TUE TUE 06:00 Today b040hx64 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b040hx66 (Listen) TUE Chris Woodhead TUE TUE Chris Woodhead has never ducked an issue in his life, and TUE he's not ducking the ultimate one: how to face death. TUE Diagnosed with the progressive condition of Motor neurone TUE Disease in 2006, he has been blunt in the assertion of his TUE right to die - when, how and where he chooses. As a new bill TUE to legalise assisted dying makes its way through Parliament, TUE he's well aware of the strong emotions it arouses; but TUE upsetting people in a cause he thinks is right has never TUE stood in his way. TUE TUE As chief inspector of schools he became a hate figure TUE amongst some of his former teacher colleagues, as he fought TUE to raise standards in schools and, as he saw it, give TUE children the best education possible. In No Triumph, No TUE Tragedy, he talks to Peter White about his chequered and TUE controversial career, and about his attempts to approach TUE death practically, intelligently, and without self-pity. TUE Before that time comes, he intends to face the gradual TUE waning of physical power with typical practicality; and to TUE make the most, with his partner Christine, of what time he TUE has left. TUE TUE The format allows Peter White to explore their motivation TUE and experiences and the air of irreverence gives the TUE programmes a very original feel. In programme two of the TUE series he meets the Paralympic Gold medallist Sophie TUE Christiansen, who has cerebral palsy after being born two TUE months premature. In the last of the series he catches up TUE with Raul Midon on his European tour. The singer and TUE songwriter was discovered in a New York nightclub: he went TUE on to become a top performer whilst his brother, who is also TUE blind, became a Nasa engineer. TUE TUE Former Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Chris Woodhead talks TUE about the impact Motor Neurone Disease is having on his life TUE TUE The Motor Neurone Disease Association TUE TUE The Motor Neurone Disease Association provides support to TUE people affected by Motor Neurone Disease in England, Wales TUE and Northern Ireland, with a focus on MND care, research and TUE campaigning. MND Connect is their telephone advice, TUE information and support service for people living with MND, TUE people affected by MND, carers and health and social care TUE professionals, providing information on how to access TUE services and information, or someone just to listen. Their TUE online forum is a safe place for people affected by MND to TUE share experiences and support each other. Whether you have TUE been diagnosed with MND or know someone who has, the support TUE of the MND Association services can make a real difference TUE to how you cope in the future. TUE MND Connect Helpline: 08457 626262 TUE MND Connect Email: TUE mndconnect@mndassociation.org TUE The Motor Neurone Disease Association TUE TUE TUE TUE MND Scotland TUE TUE MND Scotland has been established for over 30 years, TUE providing care, information and support for people with TUE Motor Neurone Disease and their families, plus funding for TUE research. TUE Phone: 0141 945 1077 TUE Email: TUE info@mndscotland.org.uk TUE MND Scotland TUE TUE The Brain and Spine Foundation TUE The Brain and Spine Foundation offers information and TUE support on all aspects of brain and spine disorders. Their TUE helpline is run by specialist nurses and covers all brain TUE and spine conditions. The nurses can answer questions about TUE all neurological conditions, from the fairly common to the TUE very rare, and can offer information and support on many TUE medical or emotional concerns you may have. TUE Brain and Spine Helpline: 0808 808 1000 TUE helpline@brainandspine.org.uk TUE Brain and Spine Foundation TUE Information about MND from Brain and Spine Foundation TUE TUE TUE NHS Choices: Motor Neurone Disease TUE NHS Choices: Motor Neurone Disease TUE Information about MND from the NHS TUE TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b040hx68 (Listen) TUE Kathrine Switzer: Women's Marathon Pioneer TUE TUE Series looking at key events in history, featuring archive TUE accounts from the people who were there. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b040rl74 (Listen) TUE B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World, Episode 2 TUE TUE An essential tool kit for understanding the modern world, by TUE the Director of London's Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic. TUE TUE Not a dictionary, though it attempts to tell you all you TUE need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's TUE not an autobiography either, though it does offer a TUE revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary TUE culture. TUE TUE It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the creation TUE of national identities, the mania to collect. It's also TUE about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand TUE Theft Auto V, and digital ornament and why we value TUE imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini TUE in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's TUE film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics TUE and art. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE TUE C is for Chair. Few objects have attracted the attention of TUE designers as much as the chair. Perhaps only the corkscrew TUE and the bicycle have had as many reinventions. F is for film TUE and its depiction of architects and architecture. Deyan TUE Sudjic considers both. TUE TUE C is for how chairs are constantly redesigned and F is for TUE films and architecture. TUE Deyan Sudjic considers both. TUE TUE Born in London, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in TUE Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the TUE Venice architecture biennale, and a curator in Glasgow, TUE Istanbul and Copenhagen. He's the author of The Language of TUE Things and The Edifice Complex. TUE TUE Read by Deyan Sudjic TUE Abridged by Polly Coles TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Deyan Sudjic TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Abridger: Polly Coles TUE Writer: Deyan Sudjic TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b040hx6b (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b040hx6d (Listen) TUE All Change, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard TUE dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE TUE Rachel nurses Sid as she becomes increasingly ill and Clary TUE finds her own way of getting over Archie's infidelity. TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE TUE Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up TUE The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into TUE lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the TUE Second World War and beyond. TUE TUE Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a TUE fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly TUE Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the TUE BBC were to dramatise her final novel. TUE TUE The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family TUE of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now TUE 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very TUE different type of world. TUE TUE The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family TUE timber firm that their father started. TUE Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their TUE parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may TUE finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, TUE Sid, (Margot Sidney). TUE TUE Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his TUE own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has TUE remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They TUE have a daughter of their own, Laura. TUE Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the TUE aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her TUE husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay TUE for the crumbling family Estate. TUE TUE Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. TUE But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the TUE joy of their affair. TUE Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael TUE Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, TUE Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but TUE she and her father are now on good terms. TUE TUE Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. TUE He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his TUE old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and TUE still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a TUE writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and TUE bring up a family. TUE TUE The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million TUE copies. TUE Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with TUE Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her TUE generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a TUE freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Penelope Wilton TUE Rachel: Naomi Frederick TUE Sid: Helen Schlesinger TUE Archie: Greg Wise TUE Clary: Georgia Groome TUE Zoe: Zoe Tapper TUE Rupert: Raymond Coulthard TUE Dr Murphy: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Bertie: Leo Hart TUE Harriet: Nell Herrin TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Producer: Sally Avens TUE Adaptor: Lin Coghlan TUE Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard TUE TUE 11:00 Are You Sitting Comfortably? b0415hbv (Listen) TUE Is prolonged sitting bad for us? Chris Bowlby gets up from TUE his desk to find out. TUE TUE He meets researchers at Leicester University who think that TUE simply standing up increases the metabolic rate and so TUE reduces the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. TUE TUE The Department of Health is watching this and other similar TUE research closely. If the causation is proved there could be TUE serious implications for how we live and work. TUE TUE But as Chris finds out, when he gives up his own chair, it's TUE not easy being a stand-up guy in a world built for sitting. TUE TUE Producer: Daniel Tetlow TUE Presenter: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b040hx6j (Listen) TUE Series 18, Something Inside So Strong TUE TUE Labi Siffre wrote Something Inside So Strong in 1984. Widely TUE believed to have been inspired by seeing film footage from TUE South Africa, of young blacks being shot at by white TUE policeman, he now reveals that the lyrics were also informed TUE by the oppression he had experienced as a homosexual. TUE TUE The song has been taken up by individuals and groups around TUE the world who have suffered from discrimination. The Choir TUE With No Name in Birmingham, made up of homeless singers, TUE always close their concerts with the song. Choir members TUE explain why it's so important to them, giving them a sense TUE of pride and dignity. TUE TUE The American singer Suede, talks about the power she finds TUE in the song and the South African singer, Lira talks about TUE making a special recording of it for the birthday of Nelson TUE Mandela, as it was one of his favourite pieces. We hear how TUE Celtic football fans sing it as an act of solidarity with TUE their beleaguered manager, Neil Lennon. TUE TUE In his first interview for over a decade Siffre explains how TUE he still sings the songs as he tries to put his life back TUE together after the death of his partner, Peter. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b040hx6l (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b040h2k0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b040h2k2 (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 Martin Wainwright's Myth of the North b03ymg9s (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Martin Wainwright overturns the myth that the twentieth TUE century was a continuous story of decline for the North. TUE TUE When people talk about Northern civic pride and pioneering, TUE they inevitably turn straight to the Victorians. In the TUE second episode of his myth-busting series, Martin Wainwright TUE shows that the great era of municipalism did not end with TUE the First World War. TUE TUE Forward-thinking housing projects, such as Wythenshawe in TUE Manchester, set the tone for a century in which the North TUE was leading the way in terms of architectural regeneration TUE and city planning. TUE TUE The programme concludes with some of the best examples of TUE recent regeneration in Leeds and Bradford. With TUE contributions from Tristram Hunt MP, architect Irena Bauman, TUE and historians Charlotte Wildman and Simon Gunn. TUE TUE Producer: Isabel Sutton TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b040hk4m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b040hx6n (Listen) TUE Silk: The Clerks' Room, John TUE TUE By Mick Collins TUE From an original idea by Janice Okoh and Mick Collins TUE TUE Based on the BBC1 series Silk, the radio series tells of the TUE adventures and mishaps in the Clerks' Room at the Shoe Lane TUE chambers. TUE TUE As the battle of supremacy of the clerks' room reaches fever TUE pitch, John finds himself caught in the crossfire. TUE TUE Head Clerk Billy Lamb and Practice Manager Harriet Hammond TUE have made no secret of their disdain for each other's work TUE practices. The conflict passes the point of no return when TUE they both independently conspire to oust each other. As TUE second-in-command, John soon finds out how highly both sides TUE value his allegiance. Forced to pick a side, it's not long TUE before he's embroiled in plotting a devious coup. TUE TUE BBC1's Silk created by Peter Moffat TUE TUE Executive producer: Hilary Salmon TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Credits TUE John: John MacMillan TUE Billy: Neil Stuke TUE Harriet: Miranda Raison TUE Sara: Jeany Spark TUE Bethany: Amy Wren TUE Neville: Sean Murray TUE Judge: Steve Toussaint TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Mick Collins TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b040hx6q (Listen) TUE Series 5, Between TUE TUE Josie Long presents more mini documentaries. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b040hx6s (Listen) TUE Living It Small TUE TUE Did you have a tree house or a den as a child and think you TUE could happily live there? What is the smallest space you TUE could live in without being driven doolally? As the demand TUE for houses and the cost to buy and run them shoots upwards, TUE it seems more of us may be thinking small and bijou is cosy TUE and obtainable...and the environment could be benefitting by TUE default. TUE TUE Tom Heap (6 foot 2 inches tall) explores the world of the TUE micro-home - compact spaces often skimming minimum space TUE standards. Some offering a cheaper way for people who work TUE in expensive areas to live nearby or others boasting their TUE green credentials or amazing design. TUE TUE But is space in the eye of the beholder? Designers claim use TUE of light, storage and some clever little tricks and twists TUE can make a home feel bigger than it is and possibly even TUE make it more desirable for the cool kids. Let's face it, the TUE modern TVs and music and reading collections all require far TUE less space. Using movable walls or mezzanine levels can mean TUE we re-use space, don't waste heat and light and saving on TUE expensive land could mean it's a solution for those priced TUE out of the countryside as well as the city. TUE TUE As our expectation of space has grown over the last century TUE Tom asks if an Englishman's (or anyone else's) home is still TUE his castle. Do the cool kids with clever design have the TUE green answer to housing crisis or are they simple buying TUE into overcrowding? TUE TUE Presented by Tom Heap. TUE Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b040hx6v (Listen) TUE Social Register TUE TUE Michael Rosen questions whether we change the way we speak TUE according to the social class of the person we're speaking TUE to. Novelist Graham Joyce has had an interesting experience TUE with language throughout his life, moving between classes, TUE as has critic Stephen Bayley. Linguists Julia Snell and TUE Vineeta Chand fill in the detail. And the programme features TUE archive clips of comedy making full use of the rich comic TUE potential of this way of behaving. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b040hy59 (Listen) TUE Series 33, Sir Mark Walport on Sir Hans Sloane TUE TUE Sir Mark Walport, the government's Chief Scientific Advisor TUE champions the life of Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the TUE British Museum. Along with expert Marjorie Caygill they tell TUE Matthew Parris why they think Sloane is the mother and TUE father of all collectors. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Mark Walport TUE Interviewed Guest: Marjorie Caygill TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b040hy5c (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b040h2k4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b010626t (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 5 TUE TUE The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by TUE the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators TUE of The Fast Show. TUE TUE Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia TUE Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy TUE Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse. TUE TUE Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Dave Cummings and Adil TUE Ray TUE TUE Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse TUE A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas TUE Actor: Amelia Bullmore TUE Actor: Simon Day TUE Actor: Felix Dexter TUE Actor: Charlie Higson TUE Actor: Lucy Montgomery TUE Actor: Paul Whitehouse TUE Actor: Rosie Cavaliero TUE Actor: Dave Cummings TUE Actor: Adil Ray TUE Producer: Charlie Higson TUE Producer: Paul Whitehouse TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b040hy5f (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b040hy5h (Listen) TUE Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, TUE literature, film, media and music. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kirsty Lang TUE Interviewed Guest: James Graham TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b040hx6d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 How Do Children Learn History? b040hy5k (Listen) TUE Last year, the Government's original proposals for a new TUE history curriculum provoked much intense debate. TUE TUE With schools preparing to introduce the revised version of TUE the new curriculum this September, Adam Smith investigates TUE the question that caused perhaps the greatest controversy: TUE what history should primary school pupils study - and how TUE should it be taught? TUE TUE To find out, he asks educational experts, Education TUE Secretary Michael Gove and his Shadow Tristram Hunt. TUE TUE And he also asks teachers and their pupils. TUE TUE As a Lecturer at University College London Adam teaches TUE history to young adults. But, he asks, what fires interest TUE in the subject among young children? TUE TUE In one East Midlands primary, he watches a lesson on the TUE Vikings which involves pupils going on 'quests' that involve TUE runic tablets and Viking helmets, vector notation and TUE i-Pads. TUE TUE At a south London primary, he sees a very different lesson TUE on the Greek gods - it's based on a single text, and led TUE strongly by the teacher. TUE TUE And at a Northamptonshire country house, Adam dons top hat TUE and tails to find out what pupils can learn from an TUE 'immersive' day spent dressed as Victorian servants. TUE TUE So, Adam asks, what's more useful? Timelines, dressing up - TUE or Horrible Histories? TUE TUE Is it better to set them off on an enquiry in the hope that TUE that will lead them to factual knowledge - or should we TUE teach them facts in the hope that they will start to ask TUE questions? TUE TUE Should children be taught a 'true' narrative? Or should we TUE expect them to learn to question sources? TUE TUE And why teach eight year olds history in the first place? TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b040hy5m (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b040hy5p (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b040hx66 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b040hy5r (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b040hy5t (Listen) TUE History of the Rain, Episode 2 TUE TUE We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or to keep TUE alive those who only live now in the telling. TUE TUE Nineteen year old Ruth Swain is lying in her childhood home TUE in the small Irish village of Faha in the attic room at the TUE top of the stairs in the bed which her father had to TUE construct in situ and which turned out to be as much boat as TUE bed. She has Something Wrong with her, having collapsed TUE during her fresher year at Trinity in Dublin, and finds TUE herself bedbound in the attic room beneath the rain, in the TUE margins between this world and the next. TUE TUE Ruth is in search of her father. To understand the father TUE she has lost. To find him Ruth journeys through the ancestry TUE of the curious Swain family - from the Reverend Swain her TUE great-grandfather, to her grandfather Abraham to her father TUE Virgil - and in doing so discovers an enchanting story of TUE pole-vaulting, soldiering, stubbornness, leaping salmon, TUE poetry, the pursuit of the Impossible Standard, and the wild TUE rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming TUE land in Ireland. Above all, Ruth embarks on a journey TUE through books. Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight TUE books to be precise, which are piled high and line the walls TUE of her attic room. As Ruth searches for her father in their TUE pages, her story becomes a vital, witty and poignant TUE celebration of imagination, books, love and the healing TUE power of storytelling. TUE TUE History of the Rain is the latest novel from Niall Williams, TUE the author of bestselling novels including As It is In TUE Heaven, The Fall of the Light, Only Say the Word and Four TUE Letters of Love which is currently being adapted into a TUE film. TUE TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall TUE TUE Read by Ailish Symons TUE TUE Producer Heather Larmour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Ailish Symons TUE Producer: Heather Larmour TUE Abridger: Doreen Estall TUE Author: Niall Williams TUE TUE 23:00 Shedtown b040hy5w (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE A big, funny, daft poem to the sea, not burdened by common TUE sense or what's gone before. TUE TUE Different realities and different states of consciousness TUE are emerging on Shedtown's new pier. TUE TUE As the waters of change are silently rising - Dave is TUE reunited with a badly behaved childhood 'sweetheart'. 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 Jimmy: Stephen Mangan TUE Barry: Tony Pitts TUE Wes: Warren Brown TUE Father Michael: James Quinn TUE Dave: Shaun Keaveny TUE Diane: Rosina Carbone TUE Diane (in wigs): Debra Stephenson TUE William: Seymour Mace TUE Deborah: Emma Fryer TUE Eugenius: Neil Maskell TUE Norma No Rules: Juliet Oldfield TUE Writer: Tony Pitts TUE Director: Tony Pitts TUE Producer: Sally Harrison TUE TUE 23:30 With Great Pleasure b03srhz4 (Listen) TUE Alexander McCall Smith TUE TUE The popular writer of the Number One Ladies Detective Agency TUE and 44 Scotland Street novels, Alexander McCall Smith TUE chooses his favourite prose, poetry and music. With extracts TUE from Jane Austen, WH Auden and Robert Burns, the pieces are TUE read by actors Bill Paterson and Claire Corbett. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE With Great Pleasure: Alexander McCall Smith with actors TUE Clare Corbett and Bill Paterson TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Alexander McCall Smith TUE Reader: Bill Paterson TUE Reader: Clare Corbett TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 APRIL 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b040h2l0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b040rl74 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b040h2l2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b040h2l4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b040h2l6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b040h2l8 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040hzyl (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt WED Revd David Walker, Bishop of Manchester. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b040hzyn (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrc8z (Listen) WED Green Woodpecker 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 green woodpecker. The maniacal WED laughing call, or 'yaffle', of a green woodpecker was WED supposed to herald rain, hence its old country name of 'rain WED bird'. You can hear their yodelling calls in woods, parks, WED heaths and large gardens throughout most of the UK. Altough WED green woodpeckers do nest in trees they spend a lot of their WED time on the ground, probing lawns and meadows for their main WED food, ants and their pupae. WED WED Green woodpecker (Picus viridis) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). WED WED 06:00 Today b040hzyq (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b040hzys (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b040r18n (Listen) WED B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World, Episode 3 WED WED An essential tool kit for understanding the modern world, by WED the Director of London's Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic. WED WED Not a dictionary, though it attempts to tell you all you WED need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's WED not an autobiography either, though it does offer a WED revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary WED culture. WED WED It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the creation WED of national identities, the mania to collect. It's also WED about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand WED Theft Auto V, and digital ornament and why we value WED imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini WED in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's WED film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics WED and art. WED WED Born in London, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in WED Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the WED Venice architecture biennale, and a curator in Glasgow, WED Istanbul and Copenhagen. He's the author of The Language of WED Things and The Edifice Complex. WED WED Read by Deyan Sudjic WED Abridged by Polly Coles WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Episode 3: WED WED G is for Grand Theft Auto and how its creator might be the WED modern Charles Dickens. H is for Habitat: how Conran changed WED British homes and IKEA made everyone's house look the same. WED Deyan Sudjic considers both. WED WED G is for Grand Theft Auto, a new artform, and how Conran and WED Ikea have transformed domesticity. Deyan Sudjic considers WED both. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Deyan Sudjic WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Abridger: Polly Coles WED Writer: Deyan Sudjic WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b040hzyv (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b040hzyx (Listen) WED All Change, Episode 8 WED WED by Elizabeth Jane Howard WED dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED WED Clary embarks upon a dangerous liaison and Edward's WED financial situation worsens. WED WED Narrator ..... Penelope Wilton WED Directed by Colin Guthrie WED Produced by Sally Avens WED WED Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up WED The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into WED lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the WED Second World War and beyond. WED WED Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a WED fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly WED Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the WED BBC were to dramatise her final novel. WED WED The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family WED of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now WED 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very WED different type of world. WED WED The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family WED timber firm that their father started. WED WED Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their WED parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may WED finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, WED Sid, (Margot Sidney). WED WED Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his WED own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has WED remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They WED have a daughter of their own, Laura. WED WED Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the WED aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her WED husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay WED for the crumbling family Estate. WED WED Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. WED But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the WED joy of their affair. WED WED Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael WED Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old school friend, WED Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but WED she and her father are now on good terms. WED WED Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. WED He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his WED old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and WED still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a WED writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and WED bring up a family. WED WED The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million WED copies. WED WED Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with WED Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her WED generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a WED freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Penelope Wilton WED Clary: Georgia Groome WED Archie: Greg Wise WED Quentin: Wilf Scolding WED Villy: Ruth Gemmell WED Miss Milliment: Carol Macready WED Roland: Alex Lawther WED Edward: Pip Torrens WED Diana: Emily Joyce WED Mallinson: Clive Hayward WED Marigold: Cassie Layton WED Director: Sally Avens WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Adaptor: Lin Coghlan WED Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard WED WED 11:00 Shopping with Mother b040hzyz (Listen) WED Go to any changing room across the country on a Saturday WED afternoon and you'll see them - the mother/daughter couples. WED 'What about this one?' 'No it's horrible!' Tetchy, or WED outright furious, they fight over the clothing racks. And WED yet, shopping is the number one fantasy of mother/daughter WED togetherness, a girly dream which can never be realised. So WED strong is the dream that some pregnant women even say it's WED why they want their baby to be a girl - 'It will be lovely WED to have someone to go shopping with'! WED WED This programme gathers reports from tills and changing rooms WED across the country, to explore the relationship between the WED generations, between dreams and reality. It follows the WED mothers and daughters across a whole lifetime: from young WED girls fighting to wear clothes which are far too adult, WED through young women choosing their wedding dresses, to older WED women taking their elderly mothers shopping. WED WED The programme is larky, fun, full of stories - but with a WED moving undertow. WED WED It explores the depth of the mother/daughter relationship, WED and the way they influence each other, constructing a WED personality for each other - 'Even now that she's died, I WED hear her voice in my head, saying 'I always said you look WED good in red, give us a twirl - oh you look lovely!' WED WED This programme is a collaboration with Woman's Hour; we WED asked listeners to invite us to go with them on significant WED shopping trips across the country. WED WED Presented by Jane Garvey WED Produced by Kim Normanton and Elizabeth Burke. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Gloomsbury b040hzz1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Bonfire of the Jealousies WED WED Vera is consumed with jealousy, because Ginny has won a WED literary prize and is going to be photographed for the front WED cover of Vanity Fair by acclaimed Society photographer Manta WED Ray. To make matters worse, Venus is getting a teeny crush WED on Ginny. So, when Ginny asks for style advice in advance of WED her photographic session, Vera's suggestions have an edge of WED mockery. WED WED Vera, wracked with torment, breaks the habit of a lifetime WED and unburdens herself to Mrs Gosling. But of course Mrs WED Gosling's life has been an endless struggle to suppress her WED jealousy of her employers' wealth and privilege. Even a WED chance encounter with Sigmund Void on Hampstead Heath fails WED to shake Vera from her melancholic mood. In the end it falls WED to Henry and Lionel to try to boost Vera's confidence. 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 Manta Ray: John Sessions WED Dog Owner: Nigel Planer WED Sigmund Void: John Sessions WED Producer: Jamie Rix WED Writer: Sue Limb WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b040hzz3 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b040hzz5 (Listen) WED The Country Rogue WED WED John Waite investigates why dozens of farmers from across WED the UK say they face ruin after borrowing money from a WED Somerset based finance company. The high-interest loans came WED with the promise that cheaper finance would follow. But when WED that promise failed to materialise, farmers were left with a WED spiralling debt that could never be repaid. Many have seen WED their land repossessed and sold off at auction. Some have WED been left homeless. Face the Facts reveals that the man WED behind the company has a history of failed businesses, WED running up large debts and personal bankruptcy. In 2010 he WED managed to form a partnership with a £20 million investment WED scheme backed by some of Britain's biggest pension funds. WED WED 13:00 World at One b040h2lb (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 Martin Wainwright's Myth of the North b03ymhm5 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED The myth of the North has been honed by writers, painters, WED comedians and filmmakers - too many to mention. Martin WED Wainwright takes a few examples - from the paintings of L.S. WED Lowry to BBC 1's Last Tango in Halifax - to illustrate how WED the North has been represented in British culture over the WED twentieth century. WED WED Are today's writers and artists helping to dispel or WED entrench the myth? Speaking to television writer Sally WED Wainwright and poet Helen Mort, Martin asks what a Northern WED identity might mean in the 21st century. WED WED Other contributors include music journalist Paul Morley, WED film critic Matthew Sweet and historian Charlotte Wildman. WED WED Producer: Isabel Sutton WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b040hy5f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b040hzz7 (Listen) WED Bring Her Back WED WED Bring Her Back by Andy Walker WED WED Dr Jay Stark is working on a vaccine for a virus that is WED raging through Britain. But only key workers can receive the WED vaccine, so the whole operation has to remain top secret. WED Jay is one of the lucky ones. But what happens if a loved WED one falls ill? A dystopian thriller about repairing a lost WED love. WED WED Director/Producer Gary Brown WED WED Andy Walker has written two Afternoon Dramas THE MAN WHO WED JUMPED FROM SPACE ('An extraordinary story', The WED Independent. 'Exemplar. filmic.', The Stage) and A SECOND TO WED MIDNIGHT (2x60'). Currently Andy is developing 'MAIDS with WED writer/director Nirpol Bhogal (Misfits) for television. WED WED Credits WED Jay: Jason Done WED Moira: Gillian Kearney WED Eleanor: Erin Shanagher WED Goshka: Melissa Jane Sinden WED Yasmeen: Rina Mahoney WED Minister: Jonathan Keeble WED Writer: Andy Walker WED Director: Gary Brown WED Producer: Gary Brown WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b040j021 (Listen) WED Probate WED WED Questions about probate? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED To answer your questions presenter Ruth Alexander will be WED joined by: WED WED Julia Abrey, Partner & Head of Elder Law, Withers. WED Austin Lafferty, Austin Lafferty Solicitors & Past President WED of the Law Society of Scotland. WED Nicola Plant, Partner, Pemberton Greenish. WED WED Whatever you need to ask, call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b040hy5p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b040j023 (Listen) WED British working class gardens - Why England fails (at WED football) WED WED Gardens of the British Working Class - the historian, WED Margaret Willes, considers the remarkable feats of WED cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the WED land they planted and loved was not their own: From lush WED gardens nurtured outside crumbling workers' cottages to WED 'green' miracles achieved in blackened yards. In doing so, WED she reveals the ingenious ways in which determined workers WED transformed drab surroundings. She's joined by Lisa Taylor, WED Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Leeds WED Metropolitan University, who has explored the ways in which WED struggles over classed and gendered tastes are played out in WED our gardens. WED WED Also, 'Why England Fails At Football' - a sociological WED account of our international 'shame' from Anthony King, WED Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter WED WED Producer: Torquil Macleod. WED WED Margaret Willes WED WED Former editor of New Society, writer and broadcaster, and WED senior research fellow at the Young Foundation WED WED WED The Gardens of the British Working Class WED Publisher: Yale University Press WED ISBN-10: 030018784X WED ISBN-13: 978-0300187847 WED WED WED WED Lisa Taylor WED WED Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Leeds WED Metropolitan University WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Lisa Taylor WED WED WED A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices WED Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited WED ISBN-10: 0754672212 WED ISBN-13: 978-0754672210 WED WED Anthony King WED WED Professor in Sociology at Exeter University WED WED WED Find our more about WED Anthony King WED WED WED Abstract: WED Why England Fails WED WED Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics WED Volume 17, Issue 2, 2014 pages 233-253 WED DOI:10.1080/17430437.2013.828707 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 b040j025 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b040j027 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather WED at 5.57pm. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b040h2ld (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted b040j1lx (Listen) WED Series 2, Intellectual Snobbery WED WED Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong WED opinions. This week, she explains why she is an evangelist WED for embracing the broadest possible spectrum of cultural WED pursuits, and why intellectual snobbery is the one thing WED that makes her angry enough to HULK SMASH in public. WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Susan Calman WED Producer: Lyndsay Fenner WED WED 19:00 The Archers b040j3y0 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b040j3y2 (Listen) WED Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film, media and music. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Kirsty Lang WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b040hzyx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Would That Work Here? b040j3y4 (Listen) WED Norway's Prison Regime 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 Re-offending, or recidivism rates, are difficult to compare WED from country to country because of different methodologies WED and metrics. However, it's clear that rates in the UK are WED amongst the highest in Western Europe, and worryingly high WED amongst criminals who have been released from prison. As WED prisons reach full capacity, the cycle of crime, punishment WED and re-offending needs to be broken. Norway might provide a WED solution, since it boasts a re-offending rate of 20%, the WED lowest in Western Europe. WED WED Prisons appear to play a different role in Norway - less WED about punishment and more a place of rehabilitation. One in WED particular - Bastoy, an open prison on an island south of WED Oslo, where only 16% of released prisoners re-offend - has WED received widespread international attention. How far is its WED success attributable to the environment or a more humane WED philosophy? Guards are trained in criminology and WED psychology, and inmates enjoy a lifestyle described by WED critics as being like a "holiday camp" (despite the fact it WED is cheaper to run than most Norwegian prisons). WED WED What is prison for, and what can we learn from Norway? WED WED Produced by Jennie Walmsley and Ruth Evans WED A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b040j3y6 (Listen) WED Jim Wallis WED WED The Power and the Passion - Jim Wallis on the power of the WED cross. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b040hx6s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b040hzys (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b040h2lg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b040lj84 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b040lj86 (Listen) WED History of the Rain, Episode 3 WED WED We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or to keep WED alive those who only live now in the telling. WED WED Nineteen year old Ruth Swain is lying in her childhood home WED in the small Irish village of Faha in the attic room at the WED top of the stairs in the bed which her father had to WED construct in situ and which turned out to be as much boat as WED bed. She has Something Wrong with her, having collapsed WED during her fresher year at Trinity in Dublin, and finds WED herself bedbound in the attic room beneath the rain, in the WED margins between this world and the next. WED WED Ruth is in search of her father. To understand the father WED she has lost. To find him Ruth journeys through the ancestry WED of the curious Swain family - from the Reverend Swain her WED great-grandfather, to her grandfather Abraham to her father WED Virgil - and in doing so discovers an enchanting story of WED pole-vaulting, soldiering, stubbornness, leaping salmon, WED poetry, the pursuit of the Impossible Standard, and the wild WED rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming WED land in Ireland. Above all, Ruth embarks on a journey WED through books. Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight WED books to be precise, which are piled high and line the walls WED of her attic room. As Ruth searches for her father in their WED pages, her story becomes a vital, witty and poignant WED celebration of imagination, books, love and the healing WED power of storytelling. WED WED History of the Rain is the latest novel from Niall Williams, WED the author of bestselling novels including As It is In WED Heaven, The Fall of the Light, Only Say the Word and Four WED Letters of Love which is currently being adapted into a WED film. WED WED Abridged by Doreen Estall WED Read by Ailish Symons WED Producer Heather Larmour. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Ailish Symons WED Producer: Heather Larmour WED Abridger: Doreen Estall WED Author: Niall Williams WED WED 23:00 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b040lj88 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED The only factually accurate comedy about the history of WED space exploration looks at the forgotten and unacknowedged WED greats of astronomy, the men and (mainly) women who advanced WED our undestanding of the stars but never quite received the WED fame they deserved. People such as 18th Century disabled WED genius Caroline Herschel who polished lenses with dung and WED discovered new stars; and human computer Henrietta Swann WED Leavitt who taught Hubble a method for working out the WED distances between the stars and narrowly missed out on a WED Nobel prize when it turned out she had died some years WED earlier. 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 b040lj8b (Listen) WED Episode 3 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. WED WED From under the bed clothes they play each other music from WED The Residents and Gerry Rafferty, archive of JG Ballard and WED Virginia Woolf. Life, death, work and family are their WED slightly warped 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 With Great Pleasure b03trq89 (Listen) WED Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen WED WED Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, interior designer, fine artist and WED broadcaster, chooses some of his best-loved pieces of WED writing to present to the audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, WED with the help of actors Geoffrey Whitehead and Sian Thomas. WED Readings are from The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, The WED Golden Ass by Apuleius, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di WED Lampedusa, Hints on Household Taste by Charles L Eastlake WED and My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark. WED Producer Beth O'Dea. WED WED Pieces chosen in the programme: WED WED The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, from Alfred Lord Tennyson: WED Selected Poems, publ. Faber & Faber WED WED WED WED The Golden Ass by Apuleius, translated by Robert Graves, WED publ. Penguin Classics WED WED WED WED Song: Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants WED WED WED WED The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, translated by WED Archibald Colquhoun, publ. Vintage WED WED WED WED Hints on Household Taste by Charles L. Eastlake, publ. Dover WED Publications WED WED WED WED My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark, publ. WED HarperPress WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen WED Reader: Geoffrey Whitehead WED Reader: Sian Thomas WED Producer: Beth O'Dea WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 APRIL 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b040h2ml (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b040r18n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b040h2mn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b040h2mq (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b040h2ms (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b040h2mv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040ljsc (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt THU Revd David Walker, Bishop of Manchester. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b040ljsf (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrc9l (Listen) THU Hoopoe 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 hoopoe. The hoopoe, a THU salmon-coloured bird with a long curved bill and a THU black-tipped crest, which it can spread like a fan when THU excited, is so outrageously exotic that its call reminds us THU of the Mediterranean. Several hoopoes arrive in the UK each THU spring and autumn. These are usually birds which have THU overshot their migration routes and almost certainly won't THU find a mate here, though they do breed very occasionally. THU THU Hoopoe (Upupa epops) THU Webpage image courtesy of Gordon Langsbury THU (rspb-images.com). THU THU 06:00 Today b040llv8 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b040llvb (Listen) THU The Domesday Book THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Domesday Book, a THU vast survey of the land and property of much of England and THU Wales completed in 1086. Twenty years after the Battle of THU Hastings, William the Conqueror sent officials to most of THU his new territories to compile a list of land holdings and THU to gather information about settlements, the people and even THU farm animals who lived there. Almost without parallel in THU European history, the resulting document was of immense THU importance for many centuries, and remains a central source THU for medieval historians. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b040qxf4 (Listen) THU B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World, Episode 4 THU THU An essential tool kit for understanding the modern world, by THU the Director of London's Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic. THU THU Not a dictionary, though it attempts to tell you all you THU need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's THU not an autobiography either, though it does offer a THU revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary THU culture. THU THU It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the creation THU of national identities, the mania to collect. It's also THU about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand THU Theft Auto V, and digital ornament and why we value THU imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini THU in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's THU film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics THU and art. THU THU Born in London, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in THU Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the THU Venice architecture biennale, and a curator in Glasgow, THU Istanbul and Copenhagen. He's the author of The Language of THU Things and The Edifice Complex. THU THU Episode 4: THU K is for Kitchens and how they were once at the frontline of THU class warfare. N is for National Identity and the way it is THU somehow provisional and yet also utterly compelling. Deyan THU Sudjic considers both. THU THU K is for kitchens and class warfare and N is for national THU identity and its complexities. Deyan Sudjic considers both. THU THU Read by Deyan Sudjic THU Abridged by Polly Coles THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Deyan Sudjic THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Abridger: Polly Coles THU Writer: Deyan Sudjic THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b040llvd (Listen) THU The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b040llvg (Listen) THU All Change, Episode 9 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard THU Dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU THU The family timber firm faces ruin. THU THU Narrator ..... Penelope Wilton THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up THU The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into THU lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the THU Second World War and beyond. THU THU Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a THU fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly THU Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the THU BBC were to dramatise her final novel. THU THU The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family THU of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now THU 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very THU different type of world. THU THU The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family THU timber firm that their father started. THU THU Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their THU parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may THU finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, THU Sid, (Margot Sidney). THU THU Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his THU own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has THU remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They THU have a daughter of their own, Laura. THU THU Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the THU aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her THU husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay THU for the crumbling family Estate. THU THU Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. THU But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the THU joy of their affair. THU THU Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael THU Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old schoofriend, THU Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but THU she and her father are now on good terms. THU THU Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. THU He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his THU old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and THU still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a THU writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and THU bring up a family. THU THU The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million THU copies. THU THU Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with THU Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her THU generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a THU freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity.". THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Penelope Wilton THU Edward: Pip Torrens THU Hugh: Dominic Mafham THU Rupert: Raymond Coulthard THU Jemima: Alison Pettit THU Rachel: Naomi Frederick THU Louise: Alix Wilton Regan THU Villy: Ruth Gemmell THU Stella: Hannah Taylor-Gordon THU Joseph: Jonathan Keeble THU Mr Twine: David Cann THU Director: Sally Avens THU Producer: Sally Avens THU Adaptor: Lin Coghlan THU Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b040llvj (Listen) THU India: Press for Sale THU THU India's election campaign is under way with more than 800 THU million voters going to the polls. But questions are being THU asked about the news media which will inform their choices. THU For several years, Indian newspapers have been dogged by the THU scandal of "paid news" in which apparently genuine news THU articles turn out to be paid-for content, aimed at THU manipulating public opinion. In this edition of Crossing THU Continents, the BBC's Shilpa Kannan - herself an Indian THU citizen - investigates the phenomenon, it's origins, growth THU and implications. As she discovers, the Indian newspaper THU industry in particular may be uniquely susceptible to this THU kind of problem. However, tackling it is likely to be THU difficult. Some argue that it is now impossible to believe THU anything is printed in good faith. As one veteran journalist THU despairs: "When there's so much money to be made by doing THU fake journalism, why do real journalism?". THU THU 11:30 Tacita Dean: Save This Language b040llzm (Listen) THU Leading British artist, Tacita Dean takes listeners with her THU on a mission to save a language. Not the kind that is spoken THU in a remote community, but an artistic one - photochemical THU film. She travels to UNESCO in Paris, to the Department of THU Intangible Cultural Heritage, to persuade the world's THU heritage keepers to act fast or lose what she considers the THU most important form of artistic expression of the 20th THU century. THU THU As photochemical film heads for extinction, superceded by THU digital technologies, Tacita makes a compelling case for why THU we should do all we can to keep it alive. THU THU "What I love most about film is the spontaneity and the THU blindness. When I made FILM for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, THU everything was filmed inside the camera - different shapes, THU objects and architecture were effectively stencilled with THU light onto the emulsion, which was put through the camera THU multiple times. I couldn't see what I was doing so when I THU saw the results it was full of both miracle and THU disappointment. Some things far exceeded what I could have THU done deliberately, and that is the point - digital is too THU deliberate a medium for me, too intended. It's like working THU with the lights on the whole time and I am someone who THU craves the darkness too, and by that I mean I solicit the THU chance and the accident. THU THU "This is one of many unintended losses that has happened THU with the transition from film to digital, but it is what I THU love the most in film and cinema - the in-between things, THU the things we don't imagine that just happen." THU THU With film makers and artists including Ken Loach, John THU Smith, Ben Rivers, Iain Softley, Robbie Ryan and Guillermo THU Navarro. THU THU Producer: Kate Bland THU A Cast Iron production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b040llzp (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b040h2mx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b040h2mz (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 Martin Wainwright's Myth of the North b03ymhnh (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU The North has always been an outward-looking and open-minded THU place, as Martin Wainwright will show. And today, immigrant THU communities are playing an important part in regenerating THU cities. THU THU Martin travels to Sheffield, recently associated with THU tensions between immigrant communities, but - in fact - a THU very long established haven for newcomers. Martin will find THU out why the first 'City of Sanctuary' still lives up to its THU name. THU THU And how have newcomers helped to shape the image of the THU North? Originally from Ukraine, the novelist Marina Lewycka THU has now been a Sheffielder for much of her life. Many of her THU novels have Northern characters and settings. She speaks to THU us about her identity as a Northerner and how it influences THU her writing. THU THU And in Manchester, Martin meets Peter Kalu, artistic THU director of the writers' development organisation THU Commonword. Together they discuss how Northern writers from THU ethnic minority backgrounds have represented the North in THU literature. THU THU Producer: Isabel Sutton THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b040j3y0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b040lncv (Listen) THU The Interrogation - Series 3, Colin THU THU by Roy Williams, with Kenneth Cranham and Alex Lanipekun. THU The story of Colin. THU THU Colin's wife and daughter have been brutally attacked in THU their home, but no-one seems to have broken in. When the THU truth finally comes out, even Max is taken aback. THU THU Directed by Mary Peate THU Original music by David Pickvance. THU THU Credits THU DS Max Matthews: Kenneth Cranham THU DC Sean Armitage: Alex Lanipekun THU Colin Hamilton: Michael Bertenshaw THU Gemma: Ami Metcalf THU Composer: David Pickvance THU Director: Mary Peate THU Producer: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Roy Williams THU THU 15:00 Open Country b040lnd2 (Listen) THU Heritage Cotton Mills, Derbyshire THU THU Helen Mark visits the Derwent Valley, an area dotted with THU old, looming cotton mill structures to discover what the THU future holds for these 'industrial giants' of the landscape. THU THU At the turn of the 19th Century, Britain was world leader in THU cotton manufacturing and home to the largest industrial THU complexes on the planet. The last spinning machines closed THU in 2003 and the UK now produces zero amount of cotton, but THU the awesome brick structures still tower over the Derbyshire THU Countryside. Stretching 15 miles down the river valley from THU Matlock Bath to Derby, the Derwent Valley World Heritage THU Site contains a fascinating series of historic mill THU complexes, including some of the world's first 'modern' THU factories. But how can these structures remain relevant THU rather than redundant? Visiting Cromford Mills, The Belper THU River Gardens and the beautiful natural landscape that THU surrounds these giant structures, Helen meets the people THU whose passion keeps this history alive. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b040h47x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b040h5nz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b040lnlc (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b040lnlf (Listen) THU Tracey Logan investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b040lnlh (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b040h2n1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01pzv5r (Listen) THU Series 4, Vaduz THU THU Episode 3: THU THU It's a bad time for Carolyn to take a holiday as the crew of THU MJN Air have to face a real live King and a mythical fax THU machine. 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 pilots: THU one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. THU Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, metal sheets to THU Mozambique or an oil exec's cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too THU small but many, many jobs are too difficult. 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 Captain Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch THU Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore THU Captain Hercules 'Herc' Shipwright: Anthony Head THU Princess Theresa: Matilda Ziegler THU Maximilian: Kieran Hodgson THU Karl: Dan Tetsell THU Otto: Dan Tetsell THU Writer: John Finnemore THU Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 19:00 The Archers b040lpdb (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b040lpdd (Listen) THU Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film, media and music. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Wilson THU Interviewed Guest: Paolo Nutini THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b040llvg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b040lpgx (Listen) THU Maria Miller's Expenses THU THU The MPs' expenses debacle has claimed a cabinet minister THU victim - 5 years after the initial revelations about abuse THU of parliamentary allowances. Reporter Melanie Abbott THU investigates the story behind Maria Miller's resignation as THU culture secretary. THU THU Producer: Anna Meisel. THU MPs Expenses THU THU 20:30 In Business b040lpgz (Listen) THU Has the book a future? THU THU International publishing is in the throes of an upheaval it THU has not faced since the advent of the paperback in the THU 1930s. Giant publishers are merging to get even bigger in THU order to square up up to new digital media giants. From the THU London Book Fair Peter Day asks a basic question: Can books THU survive, and if so, how? THU THU Producer: Kent DePinto. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b040lnlf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b040llvb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b040h2n3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b040lprq (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b040lprs (Listen) THU History of the Rain, Episode 4 THU THU We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or to keep THU alive those who only live now in the telling. THU THU Nineteen year old Ruth Swain is lying in her childhood home THU in the small Irish village of Faha in the attic room at the THU top of the stairs in the bed which her father had to THU construct in situ and which turned out to be as much boat as THU bed. She has Something Wrong with her, having collapsed THU during her fresher year at Trinity in Dublin, and finds THU herself bedbound in the attic room beneath the rain, in the THU margins between this world and the next. THU THU Ruth is in search of her father. To understand the father THU she has lost. To find him Ruth journeys through the ancestry THU of the curious Swain family - from the Reverend Swain her THU great-grandfather, to her grandfather Abraham to her father THU Virgil - and in doing so discovers an enchanting story of THU pole-vaulting, soldiering, stubbornness, leaping salmon, THU poetry, the pursuit of the Impossible Standard, and the wild THU rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming THU land in Ireland. Above all, Ruth embarks on a journey THU through books. Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight THU books to be precise, which are piled high and line the walls THU of her attic room. As Ruth searches for her father in their THU pages, her story becomes a vital, witty and poignant THU celebration of imagination, books, love and the healing THU power of storytelling. THU THU History of the Rain is the latest novel from Niall Williams, THU the author of bestselling novels including As It is In THU Heaven, The Fall of the Light, Only Say the Word and Four THU Letters of Love which is currently being adapted into a THU film. THU THU Abridged by Doreen Estall THU Read by Ailish Symons THU Producer Heather Larmour. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Ailish Symons THU Producer: Heather Larmour THU Abridger: Doreen Estall THU Author: Niall Williams THU THU 23:00 A Short Gentleman b018xt55 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU by Jon Canter, adapted by Robin Brooks THU THU Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect THU specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless THU legal logic to his disastrous personal life. THU THU 1/4 THU Robert sails through all his exams, but finding a girlfriend THU is more testing. THU THU Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting THU THU The Writer THU THU Jon Canter read Law at Cambridge, where he was President of THU Footlights, then worked as an advertising copywriter before THU becoming a radio and TV scriptwriter. His comic novels THU include Seeds of Greatness, A Short Gentleman and Worth. THU THU Praise for A Short Gentleman THU THU 'Brilliant, but for God's sake don't let this book fall into THU the hands of any women - if they find out what we're really THU like we'll never hear the end of it.' Charlie Higson THU THU 'A witty, accomplished, and highly entertaining warning THU about the folly of ambition.' Mail on Sunday THU THU 'Elegantly written, civilised and genuinely funny.' The THU Scotsman THU THU 'Robert is infectious. You might just catch yourself THU bringing his loathsome logic to your own domestic dilemmas.' THU Time Out. THU THU Credits THU Father: James Hayes THU Mother: Nichola McAuliffe THU Young Robert: Josef Lindsay THU Pilkington: Ewan Bailey THU Ticky Moxon-Smith: Katherine Jakeways THU Judy Page: Tracy Wiles THU Alan Temperley: Gerard McDermott THU Author: Jon Canter THU Adaptor: Robin Brooks THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU THU 23:30 With Great Pleasure b03vdfyf (Listen) THU AS Byatt THU THU Booker Prize-winning novelist AS Byatt presents a selection THU of her favourite pieces of poetry and prose, at her home in THU London, with the help of her chosen actor Peter Eyre. Her THU choices include Beatrix Potter, Coleridge, Shakespeare, John THU Donne, Emily Dickinson, Alice Oswald and Terry Pratchett. THU THU She talks about her life among books and how reading has THU been a passion from early childhood. THU THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU Pieces chosen in the programme: THU THU The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding by THU Beatrix Potter (extract) THU THU THU THU The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge THU (extract) THU THU THU THU Tempest Act V Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (extract) THU THU THU THU Loves Growth by John Donne THU THU THU THU A narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson THU THU THU THU Memorial by Alice Oswald (extract from CD of sound THU recording read by the poet, published by Faber) THU THU THU THU Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (extract) THU THU Credits THU Presenter: AS Byatt THU Reader: Peter Eyre THU Producer: Beth O'Dea THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b040h2p3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b040qxf4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b040h2p5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b040h2p7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b040h2p9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b040h2pc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b040lqdk (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt FRI Revd David Walker, Bishop of Manchester. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b040lqdm (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrccd (Listen) FRI Little Owl 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 little owl. Little owls really are FRI little, about as long as a starling but much stockier with a FRI short tail and rounded wings. If you disturb one it will FRI bound off low over the ground before swinging up onto a FRI telegraph pole or gatepost where it bobs up and down, FRI glaring at you fiercely through large yellow and black eyes. FRI Today, you can hear the yelps of the birds and their musical FRI spring song across the fields and parks of much of England FRI and Wales. FRI FRI Little owl (Athene noctua) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Dale Sutton (rspb-images.com). FRI FRI 06:00 Today b040lthb (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b040h53l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b040qxkl (Listen) FRI B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World, Episode 5 FRI FRI An essential tool kit for understanding the modern world, by FRI the Director of London's Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic. FRI FRI Not a dictionary, though it attempts to tell you all you FRI need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's FRI not an autobiography either, though it does offer a FRI revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary FRI culture. FRI FRI It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the creation FRI of national identities, the mania to collect. It's also FRI about the world seen from the rear view mirror of Grand FRI Theft Auto V, and digital ornament and why we value FRI imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini FRI in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's FRI film sets. It's about fashion and technology, about politics FRI and art. FRI FRI Born in London, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in FRI Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the FRI Venice architecture biennale, and a curator in Glasgow, FRI Istanbul and Copenhagen. He's the author of The Language of FRI Things and The Edifice Complex. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI FRI W is for War and whether design collections are really the FRI place for weapons? Y asks is Youtube really so democratic? Z FRI is for Zip and how in the thirties it was the height of FRI modernity. Deyan Sudjic considers them all. FRI FRI W is for War: are museums the place for weapons? Y is for FRI Youtube and Z is for Zip. FRI Deyan Sudjic considers t FRI FRI Read by Deyan Sudjic FRI Abridged by Polly Coles FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Deyan Sudjic FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Abridger: Polly Coles FRI Writer: Deyan Sudjic FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b040lthd (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b040lthg (Listen) FRI All Change, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Elizabeth Jane Howard FRI dramatised by Lin Coghlan. FRI FRI The family spend one last Christmas together at Home Place. FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI Last year Radio 4 dramatised the four novels that made up FRI The Cazalet Chronicles. The novels gave a vivid insight into FRI lives, hopes and loves of three generations during the FRI Second World War and beyond. FRI Later that year, age 90, Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote, a FRI fifth and final novel in the saga, All Change. Sadly FRI Elizabeth Jane died in January but was delighted that the FRI BBC were to dramatise her final novel. FRI FRI The Cazalets tells the story of an upper-middle class family FRI of the type prominent in England prior to WW2. It is now FRI 1956 and the family must learn how to live in a very FRI different type of world. FRI The three brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, run the family FRI timber firm that their father started. FRI Their sister, Rachel, has spent her life looking after their FRI parents in Sussex, but now their mother has died she may FRI finally have time to spend with her best friend and lover, FRI Sid, (Margot Sidney). FRI FRI Hugh is now Chairman of the firm. After a long time on his FRI own following the death of his wife, Sibyl, he has FRI remarried, his secretary, Jemima, who is a war widow. They FRI have a daughter of their own, Laura. FRI Polly, Hugh's daughter by Sibyl, has married into the FRI aristocracy and become Lady Fakenham, but she and her FRI husband spend all their time attempting to find ways to pay FRI for the crumbling family Estate. FRI FRI Edward has left his wife, Villy, for his mistress, Diana. FRI But since marrying, Diana, he finds it hard to recapture the FRI joy of their affair. FRI Louise, his daughter by Villy, is now divorced from Michael FRI Hadleigh and is sharing a flat with her old schoofriend, FRI Stella. Her relationship with Villy is still fraught, but FRI she and her father are now on good terms. FRI FRI Rupert lives with his second wife, Zoe and their children. FRI He hates working for the family firm and is envious of his FRI old friend, Archie, who married his daughter, Clary, and FRI still manages to make a living from painting. Clary is a FRI writer, but is finding it increasingly hard to write and FRI bring up a family. FRI FRI The first four Cazalet Novels have sold over a million FRI copies. FRI Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with FRI Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her FRI generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a FRI freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity." FRI FRI Producer Sally Avens. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Penelope Wilton FRI Rachel: Naomi Frederick FRI Edward: Pip Torrens FRI Diana: Emily Joyce FRI Hugh: Dominic Mafham FRI Archie: Greg Wise FRI Clary: Georgia Groome FRI Rupert: Raymond Coulthard FRI Zoe: Zoe Tapper FRI Villy: Ruth Gemmell FRI Roland: Alex Lawther FRI Polly: Flora Spencer-Longhurst FRI Louise: Alix Wilton Regan FRI Bertie: Leo Hart FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Producer: Sally Avens FRI Adaptor: Lin Coghlan FRI Author: Elizabeth Jane Howard FRI FRI 11:00 Caribbean Domino Club b040lthj (Listen) FRI Benjamin Zephaniah explores the passion, community and FRI history of Britain's high-octane Caribbean domino clubs, FRI where each table is a stage and every game tells a story. FRI FRI The mesmerising sound of the dominoes being shuffled keeps FRI many players at the table into the small hours. FRI FRI Benjamin visits his home town of Birmingham to find out how FRI the dominoes scene has changed since his father taught him FRI to play, and learns how the "bones" have been the soundtrack FRI to centuries of Caribbean history, a thread linking slave FRI plantations to south London bus stations. FRI FRI Amid the high-decibel action of the Anglo-Caribbean Domino FRI League Final, clubs from all over the UK battle it out in a FRI fierce showdown of mind games, table slamming and dramatic FRI winning poses. FRI FRI Benjamin hears the stories of some of the nation's finest FRI players - Black Hat, The Enforcer, Lady Sassy, Big C, Virgo, FRI The Screamer - and finds out how the "sweet sound of the FRI shuffle" plays on their subconscious, long after the FRI slamming and cheering have died down. FRI FRI Featuring: Kenneth Ward, Earl John, Kingsley Douglas, Errol FRI Richards, Carlton Witter, Mervin Stuart, Janet Francis, Gary FRI Lewis, Austin Agard, Rudi Page, Millicent Wilks, Clive FRI Milanese, Donald Douglas, Felix Whittley, Vida Tucker. FRI FRI Thanks to Anita Witter, Kingsley Douglas, Norris Mckenzie FRI and the Anglo-Caribbean Domino League. FRI FRI Presenter: Benjamin Zephaniah FRI FRI Producer: Cicely Fell FRI Associate producer: Mark Dormer FRI FRI Executive producer: Lyn Champion FRI A Redlight production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b036wfzx (Listen) FRI Dangerous Driving FRI FRI New sitcom where Britain's longest serving PCSO and its FRI laziest make quite a pairing. FRI FRI Written by Dave Lamb (voice of Come Dine With Me) and FRI starring Richie Webb (Horrible Histories) and Nick Walker. FRI FRI Episode 2: Dangerous Driving FRI Our heroes decide to act on dangerous driving in the town - FRI starting with their wheel-spinning American colleague, FRI Jermain. FRI FRI Written by Dave Lamb FRI FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Geoff: Richie Webb FRI Nigel: Nick Walker FRI The Guv: Sinead Keenan FRI Jermain: Leon Herbert FRI Bernie: Chris Emmett FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: Dave Lamb FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b040lthl (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b040lthn (Listen) FRI Phyliss and Freda - Trains and Tears FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between WW2 evacuees, FRI reflecting on the pain of their childhood experience and FRI wondering how their mothers could have chosen to send them FRI away, proving once more 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 12:57 Weather b040h2pf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b040h2pk (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 Martin Wainwright's Myth of the North b03ymj8g (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final instalment of Martin Wainwright's campaign to FRI bust the damaging myth of the North, he heads to the FRI North-East - the only region of the UK with a positive FRI balance of trade. The future of the car industry, green FRI technology, and the off-shore energy sector are his focus. FRI FRI In Newcastle, Peterlee and Sedgefield, he meets business FRI leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs who are helping to FRI ensure the future of Britain's advanced manufacturing FRI sector. FRI FRI The programme includes economist Bridget Rosewell, business FRI leaders Arnab Basu, Geoff Turnbull, and Harry Bradbury, and FRI chief executive of the North-East Local Economic Partnership FRI Edward Twiddy. FRI FRI Producer: Isabel Sutton FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b040lpdb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0196v3q (Listen) FRI You Drive Me Crazy FRI FRI Once he loved powering down the motorway; now the very FRI thought brings on a cold sweat. Paul Dodgson's play reflects FRI on living with his newly-acquired fear of driving. Looking FRI back on the cars in his life to try and trace the source of FRI his anxiety, he remembers being 'Prince of the back seat' at FRI six years old in his parents' half timbered Morris FRI Traveller. Then, as a teenager, he couldn't wait for his FRI 17th birthday and the chance to get behind the wheel of the FRI family's Austin Princess himself. Later, as a young man in FRI his thirties, he fell in love with his red MG Midget - FRI enjoying nothing more than belting down country lanes FRI blasting music way too loud. Then, something changed, and a FRI fear began to take hold, a fear that would suddenly skew his FRI vision, make the road seem to slide away, and his heart beat FRI violently in his chest - a fear that quickly turned into a FRI debilitating terror. Paul Dodgson writes and narrates his FRI own story of living with driving anxiety disorder. FRI FRI A BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul: Paul Dodgson FRI Dad: Ewan Bailey FRI Mum: Sally Orrock FRI Writer: Paul Dodgson FRI Director: Kate McAll FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Meditation b040lwrs (Listen) FRI Archbishop John Sentamu offers a personal meditation upon FRI the crucifixion of Christ through the sounds, stories and FRI situations he finds as he walks around the historic city of FRI York, on this the most solemn day of the Christian year. As FRI well as the people he encounters, poetry, prayer, and FRI readings from the passion narrative with stunning music FRI recorded by the Choir of York Minster, all help to tell the FRI story. FRI His focus is to see the events of that day through the power FRI of the mob, both then and now. Throughout Jesus' final FRI hours, crowds play a significant role in the story. A crowd FRI is led by Judas to the Garden of Gethsemane to arrest his FRI friend. Hours later, given the opportunity to release Jesus, FRI a crowd instead bays for his blood. And, as Jesus journeys FRI through the streets with his cross, the Roman guard is there FRI to hold the people back as emotions soar. FRI An angry crowd needs a victim, one who is different, somehow FRI deficient or offensive, untouchable. Such situations FRI resonate with the victimised and marginalised around the FRI world today, including some whom the Archbishop himself has FRI sought to defend here in the UK, and in parts of Africa. FRI Crowds have always had the power to draw bystanders into a FRI maelstrom of destructive behaviour. As he travels around FRI York, Archbishop Sentamu explores the story of Clifford's FRI Tower which, in 1190, was the scene of one of the medieval FRI period's most notorious pogroms in the UK when 150 Jews were FRI massacred. FRI Producer: Simon Vivian. FRI FRI 15:30 Witness b040hx68 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 15:45 Sailors' Knots b01k1n52 (Listen) FRI The Head of the Family FRI FRI Written by W.W. Jacobs. FRI FRI Published in 1909, Sailors' Knots 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 FRI Ginger Dick) and often deal with marital spats, FRI misunderstandings, and rascals getting their just rewards. FRI FRI Mark Williams reads the last in the series when, in a case FRI of mistaken identity, a young sailor becomes part of a FRI family he's never met before. 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 wharf manager FRI at the South Devon Wharf at Lower East Smithfield, and his FRI early observation of merchant ships and the behaviour of FRI their 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 Writer: WW Jacobs FRI Abridger: Roy Apps FRI Producer: David Blount FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b040lwrv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b040lwrx (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b040qj5l (Listen) FRI Jeremy and Jessica - Life Goes On FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a father and his FRI daughter, who is determined not to let Type 1 diabetes get FRI in the way of living her life to the full, proving again FRI that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b040qj5n (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b040h2pm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b040lwrz (Listen) FRI Series 43, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Elis FRI James for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch FRI Benn, Pippa Evans and Jon Holmes. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Jon Hunter FRI and Carrie Quinlan. Produced by Alexandra Smith/ m. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: Elis James FRI Panellist: Mitch Benn FRI Panellist: Pippa Evans FRI Panellist: Jon Holmes FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b040lws1 (Listen) FRI Shula tries to persuade Dan. Meanwhile, it's the Passion FRI Play in Ambridge. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Christopher Carter: William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer 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 Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b040lws3 (Listen) FRI Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film, media and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Kirsty Lang FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b040lthg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b040lws5 (Listen) FRI Charles Kennedy MP, Nicky Morgan MP, David Lammy MP, Fiona FRI Hyslop MSP FRI FRI Nick Robinson presents political debate & discussion from FRI the BBC Radio Theatre in London with the former Leader of FRI the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy MP, Equalities and FRI Treasury Minister Nicky Morgan MP, Fiona Hyslop MSP who's FRI the cabinet secretary for Culture and External Affairs in FRI the Scottish Government and Labour MP David Lammy. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b040lws7 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b040yvdq (Listen) FRI The Testament of This Day FRI FRI A new radio play written and directed by Edward Bond, one of FRI our greatest living playwrights, who turns 80 this year. In FRI true Bond style, this confronting and disturbing drama FRI connects with realities of our lives and societies. A young FRI man embarks on two journeys, He is in control of only one. FRI He soon discovers there is no going back, from either. An FRI arresting drama about the world today. FRI FRI As one of the most important and prolific post-war FRI playwrights, Edward Bond has been at the forefront of FRI radical, political and influential drama for over 50 years. FRI He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe. He was FRI born in London in 1934. He had virtually no formal education FRI and left school at 15. The Royal Court Theatre staged Saved FRI in 1965. The play created a national scandal, which was FRI instrumental in the abolition of censorship of the English FRI stage, and established Bond as a major British playwright. FRI He has written more than 50 plays, including Lear, The Sea, FRI Bingo, The Woman, Restoration, The War Plays and 'The Paris FRI Pentad' (Coffee, Crime of the Twenty-first Century, Born, FRI People, Innocence). Many of these have attained the status FRI of radical classics. FRI FRI The Testament Of This Day is Edward Bond's third original FRI radio drama, the previous two, also for Radio 4, Chair, and FRI Existence having both become stage versions that have been FRI translated and performed in many countries. Bond has found a FRI passion and a new voice in the writing of original radio FRI dramas, produced through his long term collaboration with FRI radio drama producer Turan Ali. FRI FRI Producer - Turan Ali FRI Writer and Director - Edward Bond FRI FRI A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4 FRI FRI Overflow and notes: FRI FRI Edward Bond has also written poetry as well as texts for the FRI cinema and opera, and a large body of theoretical work on FRI drama. He also works as a director (often of his own work), FRI including this radio drama, his radio directing debut. FRI FRI Credits FRI Father: Roger Allam FRI Mother: Helen Bang FRI Son: Tim O'Hara FRI Woman: Naomi Frederick FRI Taxi Driver: Michael Stevenson FRI Writer: Edward Bond FRI Director: Edward Bond FRI Producer: Turan Ali FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b040h2pr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b040lwsc (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b040lwwb (Listen) FRI History of the Rain, Episode 5 FRI FRI We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or to keep FRI alive those who only live now in the telling. FRI FRI Nineteen year old Ruth Swain is lying in her childhood home FRI in the small Irish village of Faha in the attic room at the FRI top of the stairs in the bed which her father had to FRI construct in situ and which turned out to be as much boat as FRI bed. She has Something Wrong with her, having collapsed FRI during her fresher year at Trinity in Dublin, and finds FRI herself bedbound in the attic room beneath the rain, in the FRI margins between this world and the next. FRI FRI Ruth is in search of her father. To understand the father FRI she has lost. To find him Ruth journeys through the ancestry FRI of the curious Swain family - from the Reverend Swain her FRI great-grandfather, to her grandfather Abraham to her father FRI Virgil - and in doing so discovers an enchanting story of FRI pole-vaulting, soldiering, stubbornness, leaping salmon, FRI poetry, the pursuit of the Impossible Standard, and the wild FRI rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming FRI land in Ireland. Above all, Ruth embarks on a journey FRI through books. Three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight FRI books to be precise, which are piled high and line the walls FRI of her attic room. As Ruth searches for her father in their FRI pages, her story becomes a vital, witty and poignant FRI celebration of imagination, books, love and the healing FRI power of storytelling. FRI FRI History of the Rain is the latest novel from Niall Williams, FRI the author of bestselling novels including As It is In FRI Heaven, The Fall of the Light, Only Say the Word and Four FRI Letters of Love which is currently being adapted into a FRI film. FRI FRI Abridged by Doreen Estall FRI Read by Ailish Symons FRI Producer Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ailish Symons FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI Abridger: Doreen Estall FRI Author: Niall Williams FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b040hy59 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 With Great Pleasure b007tck8 (Listen) FRI Tony Benn FRI FRI The late Tony Benn on the writing that shaped his character FRI and beliefs. A programme first broadcast in 2007. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b040qj5q (Listen) FRI Faraz and Ahmed - Great Expectations FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two friends who love film, but feel FRI under pressure from their Muslim families to follow more FRI conventional careers in medicine or law, proving again that FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
11 April, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 12/04/2014 - 18/04/2014
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