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SAT SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0418zs8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0418wy7 (Listen) SAT The Land Where Lemons Grow, Episode 5 SAT SAT A journey to Calabria, in the deep south of Italy, to SAT discover one of the rarest and most precious of citrus SAT fruits: the bergamot. SAT SAT Bergamot is the product of a natural cross-pollination SAT between a lemon tree and a sour orange that occurred in SAT Calabria in the mid-seventeenth century. It's very SAT particular about its environment and fruits successfully SAT only on a thin strip of land that runs for seventy-five SAT kilometres from the Tyrrhenian coast to the shores of the SAT Ionian Sea. SAT SAT Mixing travel writing, history and horticulture, Helena SAT Attlee's celebratory journey through Italy explores the SAT special place that citrus holds in the Italian imagination. SAT SAT Reader ... Francesca Dymond SAT SAT Writer ... Helena Attlee SAT SAT Abridger ... Laurence Wareing SAT SAT Producer ... Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Francesca Dymond SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Writer: Helena Attlee SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0418zsb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0418zsd (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0418zsg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0418zsj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0419018 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Andrew Martlew. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b041901b (Listen) SAT 'He says I'm a liar and it's all made up. I'm going to have SAT to prove that it isn't.' One listener describes facing her SAT father in court. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer SAT Tracey. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0418zsl (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0418zsn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0418rck (Listen) SAT Walking on Water, Isles of Scilly SAT SAT Without quite walking on water, Helen Mark uses a very low SAT spring tide to walk between Tresco and Bryher, two of the SAT Isles of Scilly. She meets people who delight in what is SAT revealed on the seabed, such as 3,000 year old Neolithic SAT field walls, indicating the time when the islands were a SAT single landmass. SAT Local harbour master Henry Birch stands with Helen at the SAT mid point between the islands which normally sits 5 meters SAT below the sea. SAT SAT Helen hears how it's all possible because of what must SAT surely be one the best words to have up your sleeve during a SAT game of Scrabble: syzgy, which is when the sun, moon and SAT earth are aligned creating the extreme highs and lows known SAT as spring tides. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b041txvf (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0418zsq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b041txvh (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b041txvk (Listen) SAT Alex Bellos SAT SAT Rev Richard Coles and Andrea Catherwood with maths writer SAT Alex Bellos, English-speaker Caroline Sarll who decided to SAT bring her children up to be bilingual, Charlie Corr whose SAT childhood dream came true when he met Pele, Frank McCauley SAT from lowly Salford City FC who've caught the eye of SAT Manchester United's famous 'Class of '92', Ken Jones who was SAT caught in an avalanche, and Simon Duncan and Mark Atkinson SAT whose band's name earned them a Banksy. Plus the Inheritance SAT Tracks of writer and broadcaster Judy Finnigan. SAT SAT Alex Bellos's new book is Alex Through the Looking-Glass. SAT His first maths book was the hugely acclaimed Alex's SAT Adventures in Numberland. He set up favouritenumber.net, a SAT global survey to find the world's favourite number. His book SAT on Brazilian football Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life has SAT been revised and updated with a new chapter for the 2014 SAT World Cup. He ghostwrote Pele: The Autobiography. He blogs SAT about maths for The Guardian. SAT SAT On June 25 1966, 13 year-old Charlie Corr ran onto the pitch SAT at Hampden to meet his football idol Pele. The moment was SAT captured on camera and the picture was printed recently in SAT the Sunday Mail in Scotland. SAT SAT Caroline Sarll and her husband are both native English SAT speakers but she decided to bring up their two daughters to SAT be bilingual in German. SAT SAT Ken Jones survived an avalanche in Transylvania in 2003. His SAT book Darkness Descending is out now. SAT SAT Simon Duncan and Mark Atkinson's original band name was Exit SAT Via The Giftshop. They changed it to Brace Yourself and SAT gained a Banksy SAT SAT Writer and broadcaster Judy Finnigan's book Eloise is out SAT now. SAT SAT Frank McCauley has been involved with Salford City FC for 30 SAT years and is now a member of the committee. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT The moment I met Pele SAT SAT A 13-year-old Charlie Corr (left) runs towards Pele as he SAT swaps shirts with Stevie Chalmers in1966. SAT SAT SAT SAT (Photo courtesty of the Sunday Mail) SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Andrea Catherwood SAT Interviewed Guest: Alex Bellos SAT Interviewed Guest: Caroline Sarll SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlie Corr SAT Interviewed Guest: Frank McCauley SAT Interviewed Guest: Ken Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Duncan SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Atkinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Judy Finnigan SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart SAT SAT 10:30 Zeitgeisters b03z081s (Listen) SAT Series 2, Sonia Friedman 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 4. Sonia Friedman - the prolific West End and SAT Broadway producer whose shows Ghosts, Chimerica, Book of SAT Mormon and Merrily We Roll Along have just scooped fourteen SAT Olivier awards. In fact, it was Laurence Olivier who SAT interviewed her for her first job as a stage manager at the SAT National Theatre. Since when she co-founded the theatre SAT company Out of Joint before forming her own production SAT company in 2002 and becoming possibly one of the most SAT powerful impresarios of the West End and Broadway. SAT SAT Producer: Clare Walker. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b041txvp (Listen) SAT Zooming Out SAT SAT It is easy to be hoodwinked into thinking the world you see SAT and experience is the most important part of reality. This SAT week you are invited to leave the perspective of earth and SAT zoom out into space to discover what can be seen from SAT thousands of miles away. Joining Bridget Kendall for the SAT journey are space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, artist Mishka SAT Henner, and cosmologist Max Tegmark. (Photo: Planet Earth SAT from space courtesy of Nasa/ Getty images) SAT SAT Max Tegmark SAT Max Tegmark is Professor of Theoretical Physics at MIT in SAT Boston in the US, and one of the world’s leading SAT cosmologists. In his new book SAT Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature SAT of Reality SAT Max argues that the reason mathematics describes reality so SAT perfectly, is because it IS reality. SAT SAT Mishka Henner SAT SAT Award-winning photographic artist Mishka Henner zooms out SAT from the particular to the astronomical in his work. He has SAT created a scale model of our solar system in book form, and SAT also stitches together freely available satellite images to SAT create his own aerial perspectives; for example on SAT controversial intensive cattle feedlots in the Midwest of SAT the US. (see our Reality Gallery on the right for examples SAT of Mishka’s work) SAT SAT Sarah Parcak SAT SAT Dr Sarah Parcak is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the SAT University of Alabama at Birmingham in the US, and a SAT National Geographic Fellow SAT . Her specialism is in remote sensing - satellite SAT archaeology, or as she puts it ‘Space archaeology’. She SAT tells how this emerging field is not only uncovering ancient SAT Egyptian lost cities, but also the looting of artefacts from SAT archaeological sites, a crime that has increased by 1000% SAT since the Arab Spring in 2011. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b041txvr (Listen) SAT Dilemma in Damascus SAT SAT Despatches: Syrians, exhausted by a seemingly unending SAT conflict, face agonising decisions over their future, Lyse SAT Doucet. Misha Glenny's in Rio as violent protests continue SAT less than two months before the Brazilian city hosts the SAT World Cup. The far-right Front Nationale could emerge from SAT next month's European elections as the best-supported party SAT in France -- Emma Jane Kirby encounters Euroscepticism, SAT verging on Europhobia, in the south of the country. Matthew SAT Teller's in Qatar: its economy's growing at nearly twenty SAT per cent a year but its people are finding it hard to cope SAT with a rapid pace of change. And Simon Worrall in the United SAT States hears a love song as he witnesses the annual SAT migration of Hispanic workers to Long Island. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b041txvt (Listen) SAT Selftrade, Co-Op Bank, Pensions advice, Buy-to-let SAT SAT SELFTRADE SAT Customers of the online investment platform Selftrade have SAT been complaining about being told they must answer 39 SAT detailed personal questions about their identity and wealth SAT or risk having their accounts and their investments frozen. SAT They say many of the 39 questions are unnecessary and SAT intrusive such as 'total net worth' and 'over what timeframe SAT was this wealth generated?' and in which country did it SAT arise. Why are they being asked these questions? And does SAT the firm have the right to do so under threat of freezing SAT their assets? SAT SAT CO-OP BANK SAT The Labour Party stamped its foot this week and announced it SAT will leave the Coop Bank - and take its overdraft with it. SAT The party cites 'commercial reasons'. Some local authorities SAT have already gone. So should individual Co-op customers SAT leave too? Just how safe is SAT money/mortgage/loan/insurance/funeral plan with the Coop SAT Bank or Group? SAT SAT PENSIONS ADVICE SAT The Chancellor promised in March that everyone reaching SAT pension age would be given "free, impartial, face-to-face SAT advice" about what to do with their pension pot. And he SAT would spend £20 million working out how to achieve it. One SAT of the first things the money was used for was to change the SAT word 'advice' to the word 'guidance'. And to describe the SAT pensions industry as 'cool' on the idea would be to redefine SAT absolute zero as quite chilly. So will it happen? And how? SAT SAT BUY TO LET.. SAT ...or borrowing to invest as it might be called, was SAT invented 18 years ago by mortgage lenders and the lettings SAT industry to help people buy property on a mortgage to rent SAT it out - and to boost both their businesses. The industry SAT wants to celebrate this 'coming of age' by showing that buy SAT to let is one of the best asset classes when it comes to SAT getting a return on an investment. But is it? SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b0418x6g (Listen) SAT Series 43, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Holly SAT Walsh for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch SAT Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. SAT SAT Written by the cast, with additional material from Sarah SAT Morgan, Carrie Quinlan and Kev Core. Produced by Alexandra SAT Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Panellist: Mitch Benn SAT Panellist: Laura Shavin SAT Panellist: Jon Holmes SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0418zss (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0418zsv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0418xyk (Listen) SAT Grant Shapps MP, Tim Aker, Baroness Grender, Dan Jarvis MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Casterton SAT Business and Enterprise College in Great Casterton, Rutland SAT with the head of the UKIP Policy Unit Tim Aker, the new Lib SAT Dem Peer Baroness Grender, Shadow Justice Minister Dan SAT Jarvis MP and the Conservative Chairman Grant Shapps MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b041txvw (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions. SAT SAT Presenter: Anita Anand SAT Producer: Angie Nehring. SAT SAT 14:30 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b041v063 (Listen) SAT The Guts SAT SAT Twenty six years on and we are back in Dublin with Jimmy SAT Rabbitte, the ex-manager of The Commitments. Jimmy is now SAT 47, married to Aoife and has 4 kids. Life has been rather SAT good since we last met him, keeping a foot in the music SAT industry and doing well during the boom. However, life is SAT about to change for them all as Jimmy has just discovered he SAT is ill. This is a story about friendship and family, about SAT facing death and opting for life and maybe, just maybe, SAT realising you can still live the dream. SAT SAT Going To Hell was performed by More Than Conquerors. SAT Adapted by Peter Sheridan SAT Producer: Gemma McMullan SAT Directed by: Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jimmy: David Wilmot SAT Aoife: Dawn Bradfield SAT Jimmy Snr: Gerry O'Brien SAT Outspan: Conleth Hill SAT Les: Liam Carney SAT Des: Patrick Fitzsymons SAT Lochlainn: Stuart Graham SAT Noleen: Ali White SAT Marv: Lloyd Cooney SAT Jimmy Jnr: Gavin Drea SAT May: Kelly Thornton SAT Brian: Scott Graham SAT Author: Roddy Doyle SAT Adaptor: Peter Sheridan SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT Producer: Gemma McMullan SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b041v09k (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Juliette Binoche; Midwives; Victoria SAT Coren SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Producer : Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Juliette Binoche SAT SAT The Award winning French actress, nicknamed “La Binoche” by SAT the French Press, talks to Jane Garvey about her new SAT film, 'A Thousand Times Goodnight' where she plays one of SAT the world’s top female photographers who has to choose SAT between her job and family. She explains to Jane Garvey why SAT she was interested in this latest role, how her rebellious SAT spirit has shaped her working life and the love-hate SAT relationship between Britain and France. SAT SAT A Thousand Times Goodnight is on general release from 2nd SAT May. SAT SAT Midwives Special SAT SAT A midwives special - live from the Liverpool Women's SAT Hospital presented by Jenni Murray. SAT We'll be unveiling the findings of a Freedom of Information SAT request submitted to NHS Trusts in England which looked at SAT vacancy rates for midwives, and get reaction from the health SAT minister and the Royal College of Midwives. We'll discuss SAT the impact of these figures on staff moral, recruitment and SAT the number of people leaving the profession. We'll talk to SAT midwives about what their job actually involves, what SAT patients now expect from them and the pressures they face SAT delivering a first class service for all women no matter SAT what their needs. Plus what do mum's think about maternity SAT services - what are their priorities? And what might SAT maternity care in the future look like? SAT SAT Victoria Coren Mitchell SAT SAT Victoria Coren Mitchell has made history by becoming the SAT first two-time winner of one of poker's most prestigious SAT tournaments – the European Poker Tour, one of the three SAT biggest tournaments in the world. A member of the elite Team SAT PokerStars Pro, Coren Mitchell rose from relative unknown to SAT poker superstar in 2006 when she became the first female SAT winner of the EPT. And now in her second victory, on Sunday SAT night, she beat 555 competitors to win a cash prize of SAT £391,932, and a watch worth more than £4,000, taking her SAT lifetime winnings to £1.43million and putting her in the SAT all-time top ten of female poker players. So what does it SAT take to be a great poker player, and what’s it like to be a SAT female player at the table? Victoria speaks to Jenni between SAT tournaments to offer her views on the game. SAT SAT When did the Breton stripe become a wardrobe staple? SAT As the Barbican launch the first ever exhibition devoted SAT to the work of the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, we SAT look at his enduring motif – the Breton stripe – and ask how SAT this piece of French sailor kit ended up as a wardrobe SAT staple for everyone from the Duchess of Cambridge to Kate SAT Moss. Fashion historian Amber Butchart and fashion editor SAT Melanie Rickey discuss the timeless appeal of the nautical SAT stripe. SAT SAT Julie Bailey SAT SAT In 2007, after Julie Bailey’s mother Bella died at Stafford SAT Hospital, appalled at what her mother went through, Julie SAT went on to expose the failings at the hospital and set up SAT Cure The NHS. Her ‘whistleblowing’ led to a public inquiry SAT by Robert Francis QC which uncovered cases of neglect and SAT abuse at Stafford Hospital. This eventually resulted in new SAT rules and regulations being introduced into the NHS to SAT ensure higher standards of care. But she faced a torrent of SAT personal and online abuse, and last year was forced to sell SAT her business and move away from Stafford. On Woman’s Hour SAT two weeks ago Julie Bailey was chosen as the second of the SAT ten most significant of Woman’s Hour Game Changers for her SAT courage and resilience in daring to speak out, and because SAT she has “changed the game for the care of older people”. SAT SAT Celia Birtwell SAT Celia Birtwell joins Jenni to talk about her life as a SAT leading textile designer in the late 60s and early 70s, in SAT partnership with her then husband, the iconic fashion SAT designer Ossie Clark, up to designing special ranges for SAT high street retailers today. She shares her views on the SAT impact of print, fabric, and colour on how we dress, and how SAT now in her seventies, she sees a need for more stylish yet SAT practical clothes for the modern older woman. SAT SAT Ben and Ellen Harper SAT SAT Blues musician Ben Harper has teamed with his mum, Ellen SAT Harper, to record a duet album “Childhood Home.” The album SAT addresses different aspects of love, the duality of love and SAT human nature. As the title implies, the project traces its SAT roots to Ben Harper’s childhood: his grandparents in 1958 SAT opened a folk music centre in Claremont, California, which SAT Ellen Harper still runs. Because she was a single mother, SAT Ben Harper used to spend time there after school and on SAT weekends, which both have credited with shaping his own SAT musical path. Ben Harper wrote six of the songs on the SAT album, and Ellen wrote the other four. “Childhood Home” is SAT due May 6 on Concord Records. They join Jenni in the studio. SAT SAT SAT Ben Harper SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b041v272 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Emma Jane SAT Kirby. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b041901b (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0418zsx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0418zsz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0418zt1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b041v276 (Listen) SAT Brenda Blethyn, Marion Bailey, Phina Oruche, Emma Freud, SAT Birds of Chicago, La Chiva Gantiva SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Brenda Blethyn, Marion Bailey SAT and Emma Freud for an eclectic mix of conversation, music SAT and comedy. With music from Birds of Chicago and La Chiva SAT Gantiva. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Brenda Blethyn, Marion Bailey, Phina SAT Oruche, Emma Freud, Birds of Chicago, La Chiva Gantiva (2) SAT SAT Marion Bailey SAT Handbagged is at the Vaudeville Theatre, London until August SAT 2nd. SAT SAT Tim Hayward SAT SAT The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2014 is on Radio 4 on Monday SAT 5th May at 3pm. And there’s a special Food & Farming Awards: SAT Behind the Scenes programme on Sunday 4th May at 12:30. SAT SAT Phina Oruche SAT Phina Oruche launches her new talkshow venture The Phina SAT Oruche Show in the heart of Liverpool. SAT SAT Phina’s autobiography, Liberating Character, is out now. SAT SAT Brenda Blethyn SAT SAT The new series of Vera starts on Sunday 27 April at 8pm on SAT ITV. SAT SAT Birds of Chicago SAT SAT ‘Live From Space’ is available now on Birds of Chicago. SAT SAT The Elephant & Castle, Lewes on Saturday 26th, The Kitchen SAT Garden Cafe on Sunday 27th, The Brasenose Arms, Cropredy on SAT Monday 28th April. Check their Facebook page for further SAT dates. SAT SAT La Chiva Gantiva SAT SAT ‘Vivo’ is available now on Crammed Discs. SAT SAT La Chiva Gantiva are playing at The Jazz Café, London on SAT Tuesday 29th April, Wychwood Festival Oxon on Saturday 31st SAT May and Larmer Tree Festival, Wiltshire on Saturday 19th SAT July. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b041v278 (Listen) SAT The Glazer Family SAT SAT The owners of Manchester United find themselves under the SAT spotlight once again following the sacking of manager David SAT Moyes, Alex Ferguson's replacement. American billionaire SAT Malcolm Glazer and his family faced a hostile reaction from SAT many fans when they took over the club in 2005. The Glazers SAT control a large business empire in the US including shopping SAT centres and an American football team, The Tampa Bay SAT Buccaneers. They have attempted to keep their liives private SAT but have been unable to avoid media attention. Jo Fidgen SAT talks to friends, foes and observers. SAT SAT Produced by Rebecca Kesby. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b041v27b (Listen) SAT John Simm in Prey; Privacy at the Donmar; Simon Armitage's SAT Troy; Exhibition; Chris Marker SAT SAT Privacy is a new play at London's Donmar Warehouse, looking SAT at the way we inadvertently give away valuable private SAT information through our use of modern communication SAT technology - phones, computers. Is this a surprise? SAT SAT Director Joanna Hogg's third film, Exhibition, continues her SAT exploration of a very British awkwardness in the ways we SAT relate to each other and our environment. It's a quiet film SAT but does it have an important message? SAT SAT The Last Days of Troy is Simon Armitage's theatrical SAT reimagining of Greek Legend; telling timeless tales in SAT modern language. SAT SAT John Simm plays a policeman framed for a crime he didn't SAT commit and determined to clear his name in Prey. The SAT creative team behind it have tried to make it edgier and SAT visually unconventional. Is it a cut above the usual police SAT drama? SAT SAT Chris Marker was a French artist whose work influenced SAT film-makers including Terry Gilliam and James Cameron. An SAT exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery looking back at SAT his life is crammed full of imaginative peculiarities and SAT controversial items. SAT SAT Privacy SAT Privacy SAT by James Graham, is at the Donmar Warehouse in London until SAT 31 May 2014. SAT SAT Exhibition SAT Directed by Joanna Hogg, SAT Exhibition SAT is in cinemas from Friday 25 April 2014, certificate 15. SAT SAT Prey SAT Prey starts on ITV on Monday 28 April 2014 at 9pm. SAT SAT The Last Days of Troy SAT The Last Days of Troy, SAT by Simon Armitage, is published in hardback on 1 May 2014 by SAT Faber & Faber. SAT SAT Chris Marker SAT Chris Marker: A Grin Without a Cat SAT is on display at Whitechapel Gallery in London until 22 SAT June 2014. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Producer: Philip Sellars SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b041v27d (Listen) SAT The Siege of Dien Bien Phu SAT SAT After the humiliations of WW2 France was insistent on SAT reasserting itself as a world power. In their Vietnamese SAT colony the nationalists led by Ho Chi Minh were just as SAT determined to gain independence. The showdown to a SAT seven-year guerrilla war came in 1954 at the battle of Dien SAT Bien Phu. Survivors, politicians and historians explain how SAT the horrors of a 56-day siege ended with the French garrison SAT being virtually wiped out. In Paris desperate politicians SAT even considered using American atomic weapons to try to save SAT Dien Bien Phu. SAT SAT Julian Jackson, Professor of Modern French History at Queen SAT Mary, London, recounts how French soldiers lost an empire in SAT the mountains of Vietnam and how 60 years later the defeat SAT still resonates in contemporary France. For the other SAT European powers it marked the beginning of the end for their SAT colonies in Africa and the Far East. Dien Bien Phu was the SAT first time native forces had defeated a modern well-equipped SAT army. The lessons were not lost on rebels from Kenya to SAT Malaya. SAT SAT It also had profound implications for the onset of the Cold SAT War. In Washington the battle led to President Eisenhower's SAT first articulation of the domino theory about the possible SAT expansion of communism. For Moscow and Beijing, Dien Bien SAT Phu represented a great leap forward. For the USA the SAT political vacuum left by the French abandonment of Indochina SAT was to lead to their own 10-year war in Vietnam. SAT SAT Produced by Keith Wheatley SAT A Terrier Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0414qty (Listen) SAT Ring for Jeeves, Episode 1 SAT SAT Brilliantly funny comedy-thriller. SAT SAT Jeeves is on loan to young Lord Rowcester (Bill). Wooster is SAT absent, attending a school designed to teach the aristocracy SAT to fend for itself. Jeeves has to exert his gigantic SAT fish-fed brain to help his new master raise money by selling SAT his crumbling pile to a wealthy American widow. SAT SAT She thinks the Abbey is wonderful, full of ghosts. (Her SAT hobby: psychic phenomena.) Will she buy it? There are SAT complications. It's damp. She has fibrositis. Plus Bill's SAT fiancée Jill mistrusts 'Rosie's' motives. There's also bluff SAT Captain Biggar on the trail of a bookie and his clerk, who SAT conned him at Epsom races and have somehow gone to ground in SAT the Abbey. They are in fact Bill and Jeeves. Will he unmask SAT them? Will Jeeves be on hand to provide more than brandy? SAT SAT Dazzling star cast; witty production. Martin Jarvis having SAT played Jeeves on Broadway now brings his award-winning SAT characterization to the Classic Serial, abetted by Rufus SAT Sewell, Joanne Whalley, Glenne Headly, Jamie Bamber and Ian SAT Ogilvy. SAT SAT Dramatised by Archie Scottney SAT Director Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT RING FOR JEEVES. R4 Classic Serial - 2 Episodes SAT SAT Episode 1 - Sun 20th April 3pm. Wk 16. Rptd 9pm Sat 26th SAT April 2014. Wk 17. SAT Episode 2 - Sun 26th April 3pm. Wk 17. Rptd Sun 4th May 9pm. SAT Wk 18. SAT SAT An all-star cast brings P.G. Wodehouse supremely funny 1950s SAT horse-racing novel to galloping life. Dramatised by Archie SAT Scottney. Jeeves, on loan to young Lord Rowcester (Bill), SAT devises a plan to assist his impoverished new master sell SAT his crumbling pile to a wealthy American widow. But will she SAT buy it? SAT SAT There's also White Hunter Captain Biggar on the trail of a SAT bookie and his clerk who conned him at Epsom races. Who are SAT they? Could they in fact be Bill and Jeeves? Will the SAT captain unmask them? Will Jeeves and his gigantic fish-fed SAT brain win the day? SAT SAT Finally our impeccable 'gentleman's personal gentleman' has SAT a solution to dazzle and amaze us all. A stellar cast in SAT Rosalind Ayres' sparkling production. Martin Jarvis, having SAT played Jeeves on Broadway and in various one-man SAT performances, now brings his award-winning characterisation SAT to the Classic Serial, abetted by Rufus Sewell, Joanne SAT Whalley, Glenne Headly, Jamie Bamber, Christopher Neame and SAT Ian Ogilvy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Rory: Rufus Sewell SAT Monica: Joanne Whalley SAT Rosie: Glenne Headly SAT Captain Biggar: Ian Ogilvy SAT Bill: Jamie Bamber SAT Jeeves: Martin Jarvis SAT Jill: Moira Quirk SAT Ellen: Daisy Hydon SAT Colonel Wyvern: Christopher Neame SAT Bulstrode: Darren Richardson SAT Commentator: Matthew Wolf SAT Director: Rosalind Ayres SAT Adaptor: Archie Scottney SAT Author: PG Wodehouse SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0418zt3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Would That Work Here? b0418p7y (Listen) SAT Japan: Cashless Community Care for the Elderly SAT SAT Japan: cashless community care for the elderly SAT SAT Claire Bolderson concludes a series of thought-provoking SAT debates which look at something another country does well, SAT or differently, and ask would that work here? SAT SAT The UK, like many countries, faces the problems of an SAT increasingly ageing society. The number of people aged 65 SAT and over is projected to rise by 23% from 10.3 million in SAT 2010 to 16.9 million by 2035. How can we provide and pay for SAT their care? SAT SAT Japan is at the forefront of the ageing crisis, with the SAT highest proportion of elderly citizens in the world. By SAT 2030, almost a third of the population will be 65 or older. SAT At the same time the overall population is shrinking, SAT leaving fewer young working people to shoulder the burden of SAT paying for care for the elderly. SAT SAT One creative response to this challenge at local level has SAT been a cash-less system of time-banking. Under the fureai SAT kippu system, individuals donate time to looking after the SAT elderly, and earn credits which they can - in theory at SAT least - "cash in" later for their own care, or transfer to SAT elderly relatives in other parts of the country. SAT SAT Could something similar work here, or do we have very SAT different attitudes to community and volunteering? Who would SAT benefit from such a cash-less scheme, and who might lose SAT out? Could it be scaled up to meet the escalating needs of a SAT growing elderly population? SAT SAT Produced by Ruth Evans and Jennie Walmsley SAT A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b0415hbb (Listen) SAT Series 4, University of Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire, "The SAT 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed SAT at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners SAT whilst delighting the current ones. SAT SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Psychology, SAT Theatre and Sports Science and the questions involve SAT Konstantin Stanislavski, Geoff Hurst, osmium and SAT cauliflowers. 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 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 b0414qv2 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT SAT In Belfast, Paul Farley and fellow poets remember Seamus SAT Heaney six months after his death. With contributions from SAT Michael Longley, Don Paterson, Leontia Flynn and Ciaran SAT Carson. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 APRIL 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b041v2dx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 8.51 to Brighton b01l7mc3 (Listen) SUN Along the Line SUN SUN A series of short stories written by new writers to radio. SUN Each writer has taken the 8.51 to Brighton and given the SUN journey their own twist, introducing us to characters whose SUN lives have changed by taking that particular train. SUN SUN Episode 1 of 3: Along the Line by Alison Fisher. SUN This is the story of generations following in each others SUN footsteps. How journeys are repeated time after time and SUN extraordinary things happen in unextraordinary ways. The SUN 8.51 to Brighton has meant more to the family in Alison SUN Fisher's story than they will ever know. SUN SUN Read by Deborah Findlay and recorded in front of an audience SUN at The Old Courtroom as part of 2012's Brighton Festival. SUN The stories are introduced by Lynne Truss. SUN SUN Director: Celia De Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Deborah Findlay SUN Presenter: Lynne Truss SUN Writer: Alison Fisher SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b041v2dz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b041v2f1 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b041v2f3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b041v2f5 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b041v54q (Listen) SUN St Wilfred's, York SUN SUN The bells of St Wilfred's Roman Catholic Church, York. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b041v278 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b041v2f7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b041v54s (Listen) SUN The Elephant SUN SUN Mark Tully investigates the significance of the ancient SUN cultural and spiritual connections between humans and SUN elephants. SUN SUN Demon, god, Lord of the Jungle, beast of war and of SUN servitude, both temple and carnival attraction, the elephant SUN inspires awe, affection and fear in equal measure. We SUN worship elephants and enslave them, love them and kill them SUN in their thousands. SUN SUN In conversation with photographer, conservationists and SUN founder of The World Wide Fund for Nature, Belinda Wright, SUN he discusses the myriad qualities of the elephants of Asia SUN and Africa. SUN SUN The programme includes literature and music from Africa, SUN India, Europe and America, with work by D.H Lawrence, SUN Heathcote Williams, George Orwell, Jack Mapango, Claude SUN Debussy, June Tabor and Henry Mancini. SUN SUN The Readers are Adjoa Andoh, Michael Feast and Francis SUN Cadder. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b041v54v (Listen) SUN Mendip Voles SUN SUN Living World presenter Chris Sperring this week joins Dr SUN Fiona Mathews, Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biology at SUN Exeter University on a quest to unravel the secrets behind SUN one of the most abundant if secretive mammals in the UK - SUN the vole. Travelling to the Mendip Hills in Somerset their SUN journey begins with the knowledge that there are five types SUN of vole found in the UK, water voles, bank voles, Orkney SUN voles, Guernsey voles and field voles; five species not to SUN be confused with similarly sized mice. At nearly 1000 feet SUN above sea level, the Mendip Hills is a hotspot for both SUN field and bank voles and as Chris and Fiona set out to see a SUN vole for themselves it proves much harder than they think. SUN Despite an estimated population of 75 million field voles in SUN the UK these animals lead a precarious and all too brief SUN life. Living for just a few months voles are prolific SUN breeders and populations can fluctuate up to tenfold on a SUN three to four year cycle which can have drastic effects on SUN the species which prey on them including arguably Britain's SUN most loved bird, the barn owl. SUN SUN Produced by Jim Farthing. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b041v2f9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b041v2fc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b041vcpx (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b041vcpz (Listen) SUN The Prison Radio Association SUN SUN Jon Snow and Lyn Knapton present The Radio 4 Appeal for the SUN Prison Radio Association. SUN Registered Charity: 1114760 (England/Wales). SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Prison Radio Association'. SUN SUN The Prison Radio Association SUN SUN The SUN Prison Radio Association SUN aims to reduce reoffending using the power of radio. The SUN multi award-winning charity launched and runs the world’s SUN first and only national radio station for prisoners. SUN SUN National Prison Radio’s programming is inspired, developed, SUN produced and presented by prisoners working alongside SUN professional radio producers. The station therefore delivers SUN content that is meaningful to its audience. SUN SUN Programming can challenge and motivate prisoners; helping SUN them face up to what they have done to themselves, their SUN families, their victims, and society as a whole. It provides SUN vital information and support to help the audience turn SUN their backs on crime, and rebuild their lives in preparation SUN for release. SUN SUN SUN National Prison Radio: made by prisoners – for prisoners. SUN SUN Prison radio offers an innovative way to draw educationally SUN hard to reach prisoners back into the classroom. They are SUN trained in radio production and play an integral part in SUN ensuring programming is relevant and credible. As a result SUN National Prison Radio reaches prisoners directly in their SUN cells in a way that no other intervention can. SUN SUN SUN SUN A prisoner recording a radio programme inside HMP Brixton. SUN SUN What the Prison Radio Association does works. National SUN Prison Radio broadcasts to over 100 prisons – to more than SUN 73,000 prisoners. 99% of those prisoners have heard of SUN National Prison Radio with some 84% tuning in on a regular SUN basis. 85% of listeners say they have heard something on SUN National Prison Radio which has increased their awareness of SUN support services in prison, while 69% claim to have heard SUN something that’s made them think about making a positive SUN change to their lives. SUN SUN SUN Women prisoners are often inadequately prepared for release. SUN SUN In a deliberate effort to reflect National Prison Radio’s SUN diverse audience on-air, the PRA set up a radio project SUN within Styal prison in Cheshire. This project, officially SUN opened by Princess Anne, offers female prisoners an SUN empowering voice and provides a vital source of information SUN to women serving sentences across the prison estate. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b041v2ff (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b041v2fh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b041vcq1 (Listen) SUN Mass from Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge SUN reflecting on saints present and past: St Thomas and Pope SUN John Paul II and Pope John XXIII. Cardinal Cormac SUN Murphy-O'Connor describes the atmosphere in Rome as two SUN former Popes are canonised today. Father Christopher G. SUN Colven from St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place SUN in London gives the homily. Monsignor Peter Leeming SUN presides. The Director of Music is Nigel Kerry. The organist SUN is James Dixon. SUN SUN Our Lady and the English Martyrs 27/04/2014 SUN Due to copyright restrictions for the Mass a full script is SUN not available. Details of the music and homily are below. SUN SUN SUN Recording played into church: Introduction – HE Cardinal SUN Cormac Murphy O’Connor SUN SUN SUN (O sons and daughters) SUN SUN (Choir) Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison SUN SUN (Choir) Gloria (Missa Brevis K275 – W.A.Mozart) SUN SUN (PL) We are delighted to welcome as our preacher this SUN morning, Father Christopher Colven, Rector of Saint James, SUN Spanish Place, London. SUN Homily – (Father Christopher Colven) SUN SUN Cardinal Murphy O’Connor reminded us in his introductory SUN remarks, that as we share in our Mass here in Cambridge the SUN crowds are gathering in Rome for the canonisation of two SUN great Popes of recent times – John XX111 and John Paul 11. SUN Those of us who watched the Polish Pope’s funeral in 2005 SUN saw the placards all around St Peter’s Square asking simply SUN " SUN santo subito SUN " – " SUN make him a saint as SUN quickly as possible SUN " – and those prayers are being answered this morning. SUN SUN But things aren’t always quite what they seem. We think of SUN John Paul as the Pilgrim Pope traversing the world, the SUN universal pastor, encouraging, challenging, the voice of SUN Solidarity - speaking up for the marginalised and the SUN persecuted everywhere. One story shows that the coin has SUN another side. When Karol Wojtyla was Archbishop of Krakow he SUN used to visit Rome often as a member of several of the SUN Catholic Church’s central councils. When in Rome he stayed SUN with a friend, also a Polish Archbishop, who worked in the SUN Vatican. The friend loved to have the future Pope as his SUN guest. But there was a downside to these frequent visits. – SUN for whenever Cardinal Wojtyla stayed for any length of time SUN a new carpet had to be bought for his friend’s chapel. SUN SUN Why? Because John Paul would spend hours each night lying in SUN front of the altar in prayer: often crying out in emotion, SUN the agitated movements of his body would soon cause the SUN carpet to fray. It is clear that this depth of prayer – SUN perhaps mirroring that of Jesus in Gethsemane – involved a SUN terrible struggle to understand and accept God’s will – SUN something manifesting itself in the interaction of body, SUN mind and spirit. SUN SUN If struggle was at the heart of John Paul’s relationship SUN with God, it certainly characterises Saint Thomas’s reaction SUN to the resurrection of Jesus as we have just heard in this SUN morning's Gospel reading. Thomas wanted so much to believe – SUN but he just could not bring himself to do so. He had seen SUN the death of the Man he had come to accept as his Saviour: SUN he was not going to risk being disappointed again: he knew SUN what the grave meant and he was convinced there could be no SUN return from it. Thomas’s hopes had died on Good Friday and, SUN whatever his friends told him about what they had seen and SUN touched on Easter Day, he reasoned that their minds had been SUN turned by grief – what they thought they were witnessing was SUN no more than an illusion, mere wish-fulfilment on their SUN part. " SUN Unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe SUN ". Saint Thomas and Pope John Paul stand with and for the SUN rest of us as we struggle to believe, as we try to SUN understand the ways of God. SUN SUN And where does Pope John XX111 fit into this picture? His SUN then secretary, who is still very much alive, tells us that SUN when John was elected as the Successor of Saint Peter he SUN sobbed, saying that at 78 he had begged God to allow him SUN time to retire to " SUN weep over my poor soul". SUN The conventional picture of him remains, though, as someone SUN formed in an older piety, where the certainties far SUN outweighed any doubts, a rather cuddly, grand-fatherly SUN figure, someone to look to for reassurance and a gentle SUN word. But his spiritual diaries reveal something more SUN complex. He could write: " SUN If I have done any good in my life, it has all been by God’s SUN grace, which would have obtained better results if I had not SUN hampered and impeded it" SUN and, with reference to his own upbringing, " SUN at the sight of such poverty, in the midst of such SUN suspicions, weighed down by so many anxieties, I often sigh SUN and sometimes am driven to tears". SUN Perhaps the most revealing of all the passages is this: " SUN No one sees my sufferings, save Jesus alone SUN ". SUN SUN The stories of the Doubting Apostle, and the two Popes being SUN canonised this morning in Rome, is that saintliness comes, SUN not because we are free from uncertainties and questioning, SUN but because the human journey is riddled with them. There is SUN nothing to be ashamed of in struggling to understand God’s SUN ways: the doubts and the fears, the indecision, the circles SUN of the mind, the just not-knowing – all this is the path SUN which those in Heaven have already walked before us. Our SUN hope remains that with Saint Thomas, as with John Paul II SUN and John XXIII, we shall one day look into the face of Jesus SUN and hear him say to each one of us: " SUN doubt no longer but believe SUN ". SUN Hymn – (Hark the sound of holy voices) SUN SUN (Choir anthem) SUN SUN My beloved spake and said unto me SUN Hymn – (Lift high the Cross) SUN SUN ____________________ SUN SUN Organ Voluntary: SUN Carillon de Longpont SUN by Louis Vierne SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0418xym (Listen) SUN Mile Milestone SUN SUN Mary Beard looks forward to the 60th anniversary of the SUN first "four minute mile". But in the midst of the SUN celebrations, she argues that we should also remember that SUN Roger Bannister's victory was a "glaring display of class SUN division". SUN SUN Maybe appropriate then that this month also sees the return SUN of that "wonderful working-class... comic-strip hero, Alf SUN Tupper". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcdf (Listen) SUN Little Grebe 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 little grebe. Little grebes are our SUN smallest grebes. They're dumpy birds with dark brown SUN feathers and in the breeding season have a very obvious SUN chestnut patch on their necks and cheeks. Little grebes are SUN secretive birds, especially in the breeding season when they SUN lurk in reeds and rushes or dive to avoid being seen. SUN SUN Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b041vcq3 (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 b041vcq5 (Listen) SUN Helen and Alice come to the rescue. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Christopher Carter: William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Writer: Joanna Toye SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b0076y1y (Listen) SUN World Cup 1966 SUN SUN Even if you weren't there, or watching it on television, SUN even if you weren't born on the 30th July 1966, it's a date SUN etched on the heart of every England football fan. It's the SUN day England, at Wembley, after progressing through a SUN tournament full of controversy, excitement and some SUN extraordinary upsets, won the World Cup. SUN SUN Inside the stadium were almost 94,000 fans. On television, SUN the audience was 400 million. Watching it now, it seems SUN somehow more than four decades away. It's not just the SUN grainy black and white film - it's the cropped hair and SUN short shorts of the players, the lack of logos on the SUN England shirts - just three heraldic lions; it's also the SUN measured, understated commentary of Kenneth Wolstenholme, SUN all on his own throughout the match. SUN SUN The goals, when they came, produced little jumping about and SUN no hysteria - it was more a case of a rather satisfied jig. SUN When Bobby Moore took the trophy from the Queen and held it SUN up for the crowd to see, he didn't forget to wipe his hands SUN first. It was, without doubt, England's greatest sporting SUN victory. SUN SUN In this episode of The Reunion, originally transmitted in SUN 2006, Sue MacGregor gathers five men - three of them players SUN - who made that day so extraordinary. SUN SUN Hat-trick goal scorer Sir Geoff Hurst, and his fellow West SUN Ham player Martin Peters; George Cohen, known as Mr. SUN Dependable, who played for Fulham; the man in charge of BBC SUN television's coverage of the match, Alan Weeks; and one of SUN the all important admin men - the team liaison manager for SUN the London matches throughout the tournament, Alan Leather. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Green SUN Series Producer: David Prest. SUN THE REUNION is a Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b0415hbl (Listen) SUN Series 13, Episode 3 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. Alex Horne, Lucy Beaumont, John Finnemore SUN and Jack Dee are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Legs, The SUN Internet, Dogs and The Middle Ages. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN A Random 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 b041vcq9 (Listen) SUN Plantains and pleasure; Jamaican food in the UK SUN SUN Tim Hayward on the evolution of Jamaican food in the UK with SUN chefs and cooks in Bristol. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tim Hayward SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b041v2fk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b041vcqc (Listen) SUN News and analysis presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Shaun Ley SUN Editor-of-the-Day: Amanda Lewis SUN SUN 13:30 India Uncorrupted? b041vcqf (Listen) SUN It's one of the most exciting general elections that India SUN has ever seen, thanks to a new party born out of the India SUN Against Corruption movement that swept the country in 2011. SUN The Aam Aadmi Party - the party of "the common people"- is SUN challenging everything about how politics is done in India. SUN Although the party is not predicted to win many seats this SUN time, it is constantly in the media and has radically SUN changed the political debates of this Election with its SUN message of transparency, accountability and addressing the SUN needs of India's poorest. SUN SUN With an old fashioned twig broom as its logo and a white SUN Gandhi cap with the words "I am a common man" as its SUN trademark, the new party seems to have captured the mood of SUN the country. But how lasting will its impact be beyond the SUN General Election? Mukti Jain Campion reports from New Delhi. SUN SUN Producer Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise Production. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0418wym (Listen) SUN Nissan Car Factory SUN SUN Peter Gibbs presents GQT from the Nissan Car Factory in SUN Sunderland. Taking audience questions are Matt Biggs, Bob SUN Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank. SUN SUN Bob Flowerdew takes on the ultimate scrapheap challenge, and SUN Matt Biggs gives advice on transporting plants from the SUN garden centre. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Q. What should I plant in my garden to get colour in the SUN Autumn? SUN A. You could try planting Chrysanthemums, in particular SUN Korean Chrysanthemums. You could also try Dahlias. Asters SUN also bring colour in the autumn months. Aster Andenken An SUN Alma Pötschke is a particularly bright variety, as are the SUN King George Aster, the New England Aster and the Aster SUN Michaelmas Daisy. You could also try planting Nerines, the SUN Clerodendrum Bungei is a good variety. SUN All these plants will need hardier plants nearby to provide SUN wind protection. Sea Buck Thorn (Hippophae Rhamnoides) would SUN be a good option. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel suggest vegetables to grow in a shady SUN garden? SUN A. Most vegetables will have a hard time growing in the SUN shade. It would be better to grow soft fruits such as SUN Raspberries, Blackcurrants, Tae Berries, Strawberries and SUN Bramble Berries which all grow well in dappled shade. You SUN might also try growing Mint, Parsley, Jerusalem Artichokes SUN and Globe Artichokes. To increase the light in the plot, you SUN could paint the walls white to increase light reflection. SUN Raising the bed would also increase light exposure. SUN SUN Q. Could the panel recommend a perennial Fuchsia that would SUN thrive on a south-facing wall in a pot? SUN A. The gold-leafed Fuchsia Magellanica would be a good SUN option when put with some Actea (formerly known as SUN Cimicifuga). Lady Boothby and Lady Bacon are also good SUN varieties. SUN SUN Q.I have been growing Marigolds alongside my tomatoes to SUN keep away the white fly, but have recently read criticisms SUN of this technique. What is the panel's opinion on companion SUN growing to keep away garden pests? SUN A. French or African Marigolds will keep the whitefly away. SUN Petunias can also trap white fly and green fly to prevent SUN the spread of this pest, as will types of White Tobacco. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b041vcqh (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from Cumbria, Wales and SUN Leicester about life with unstable epilepsy, work with SUN search and rescue dogs, and a family predisposed to SUN adventure. All in the Omnibus edition of the series that SUN proves 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 b041vcqk (Listen) SUN Ring for Jeeves, Episode 2 SUN SUN In this classic comedy-thriller Jeeves is on loan to young SUN Lord Rowcester (Bill). SUN SUN Jeeves is exerting his fish-fed brain to the utmost to SUN assist Bill to raise money. His lordship must pay the debts SUN he has accrued while working, in disguise, as an Epsom SUN bookie. Might obtaining Rosie Spottsworth's valuable diamond SUN pendant help? Would it be useful for Bill to dance the SUN Charleston with Rosie? Could the ghost of Lady Agatha SUN further the cause? Will Rosie purchase the Abbey? SUN SUN Finally Jeeves has a solution to dazzle and amaze us all. SUN SUN A stellar cast in Rosalind Ayres' sparkling production. SUN Martin Jarvis as Jeeves now brings his award-winning SUN Broadway characterization to the Classic Serial, abetted by SUN Jamie Bamber, Joanne Whalley, Rufus Sewell, Glenne Headly, SUN Christopher Neame and Ian Ogilvy. SUN SUN RING FOR JEEVES. R4 Classic Serial - 2 Episodes SUN SUN Episode 1 - Sun 20th April 3pm. Wk 16. Rptd 9pm Sat 26th SUN April 2014. Wk 17. SUN Episode 2 - Sun 26th April 3pm. Wk 17. Rptd Sun 4th May 9pm. SUN Wk 18. SUN SUN An all-star cast brings P.G. Wodehouse supremely funny 1950s SUN horse-racing novel to galloping life. Dramatised by Archie SUN Scottney. Jeeves, on loan to young Lord Rowcester (Bill), SUN devises a plan to assist his impoverished new master sell SUN his crumbling pile to a wealthy American widow. But will she SUN buy it? SUN SUN There's also White Hunter Captain Biggar on the trail of a SUN bookie and his clerk who conned him at Epsom races. Who are SUN they? Could they in fact be Bill and Jeeves? Will the SUN captain unmask them? Will Jeeves and his gigantic fish-fed SUN brain win the day? SUN SUN Finally our impeccable 'gentleman's personal gentleman' has SUN a solution to dazzle and amaze us all. A stellar cast in SUN Rosalind Ayres' sparkling production. Martin Jarvis, having SUN played Jeeves on Broadway and in various one-man SUN performances, now brings his award-winning characterisation SUN to the Classic Serial, abetted by Rufus Sewell, Joanne SUN Whalley, Glenne Headly, Jamie Bamber, Christopher Neame and SUN Ian Ogilvy. SUN SUN Dramatised by Archie Scottney SUN Director Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Rory: Rufus Sewell SUN Monica: Joanne Whalley SUN Rosie: Glenne Headly SUN Captain Biggar: Ian Ogilvy SUN Bill: Jamie Bamber SUN Jeeves: Martin Jarvis SUN Jill: Moira Quirk SUN Ellen: Daisy Hydon SUN Colonel Wyvern: Christopher Neame SUN Bulstrode: Darren Richardson SUN Commentator: Matthew Wolf SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN Adaptor: Archie Scottney SUN Author: PG Wodehouse SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b041vcqm (Listen) SUN Sadie Jones, Peter Buwalda, Will Self SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Sadie Jones, author of The SUN Outcast, about her latest novel Fallout, which tells the SUN story of four young friends trying to forge their way in SUN 1970s London theatreland. She discusses what drew her to a SUN decade when radical theatre makers challenged the system, SUN why romantic love was so powerful, and destructive, then and SUN recalls the music that fuelled the novel. SUN SUN The best-selling 'Bonita Avenue', by the Dutch writer Peter SUN Buwalda, has taken Europe by storm and is now being SUN published in English. He reveals why he chose to put SUN internet porn at the heart of a novel which many have SUN compared to Franzen and Roth and he discovers something he SUN didn't know about his own work. SUN SUN Does where you write, shape what you write? Will Self takes SUN listeners on a tour of the garrett that has been his SUN bolthole for nearly twenty years. And the renowned SUN publisher, Philip Gwyn Jones, tips a forthcoming book for SUN this year's prizes. SUN SUN Producer: Di Speirs. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Fallout by Sadie Jones - Publisher: Chatto and Windus SUN SUN The Outcast by Sadie Jones - Publisher: Vintage SUN SUN Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda - Publisher: Pushkin Press SUN SUN Heroes' Welcome by Louisa Young - Publisher: Harper Collins SUN SUN SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of Fallout by Sadie Jones SUN Fallout - Chapter 1 SUN by Sadie Jones SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Sadie Jones SUN Producer: Sarah Johnston SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b041vcqp (Listen) SUN Series 3, Cross-dressing Poets SUN SUN Paul Farley asks some poets, Kate Clanchy Adam Foulds and SUN Patrick McGuinness, about their trafficking in prose. What SUN does moving from one to the other do to each? Meanwhile the SUN artist Richard Long reads some of his walks in words. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Teachers vs Government: Seventy Years of Education SUN Policy b03ynt6y (Listen) SUN The 1944 Education Act laid the foundations for the modern SUN education system. It extended free secondary education to SUN all and introduced the tripartite system (grammar, technical SUN and modern). It also set in train a common national SUN distinction between primary and secondary education at 11. SUN SUN It was welcomed by teachers as it recognised the importance SUN of education for all children and it was a consensus policy SUN that was part of the optimism about what could be achieved SUN after the war. SUN SUN But fifty years later the relationship between the teaching SUN profession and the Government had changed to be one based on SUN conflict. In 1999 David Blunkett was booed at the NUT SUN conference and taunted with chants of "bring back the SUN Tories". When the electorate finally did give the teachers a SUN Conservative Education Secretary, relations between the SUN Government and the teachers sank to an all-time low. SUN SUN Roy Blatchford is Director of the National Education Trust. SUN He has worked in education over the last five decades as a SUN teacher, head teacher and inspector. In this programme he SUN tells the story of modern education from 1944 to the present SUN day and how it went from consensus to conflict, and from a SUN world where qualifications were for just a tiny elite to one SUN where all students are in school or training until the age SUN of 18, with close on 50% going on to higher education. He SUN speaks to key decision-makers from the period, including SUN several former secretaries of state to ask how much of the SUN original vision has survived and what the story of education SUN over the last 70 years tells us about what the future might SUN hold for Britain's schools. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b041v278 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b041v2fm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b041v2fp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b041v2fr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b041vcqr (Listen) SUN This past week brought one of the most moving programmes I SUN can recall, based on the Welsh choral classic Myfanwy. And a SUN wonderfully comic series of dramas written by and starring SUN Rebecca Front and her brother Jeremy. We also heard: Jack SUN Dee's masterclass in the art of the put-down; the Indian SUN jazz trumpeter Chic Chocolate, the Satchmo of Bombay; and SUN the man who teaches Glaswegian English to newly-arrived SUN Polish bus-drivers. All that and Kenneth Branagh ablaze in SUN Shakespeare. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b041vcqt (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b041vcqw (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 SUN SUN Comedian and adventurer Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th SUN Century bet, attempting to travel 25mph on water using only SUN the means available to a gentleman in 1765. History books SUN record of the original attempt, "Something snapped, there SUN was a fatality and the wager was abandoned." Last in series. 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 b041vcqy (Listen) SUN Serving Children 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 Serving Children: SUN SUN Lem waits tables at a local restaurant, but he brings so SUN much more than food to the customers. SUN SUN Anita Sullivan has written a number of plays and short SUN stories for BBC Radio, among them 'Countrysides' (2011), SUN 'The Last Breath' (created with Ben Fearnside, 2012) and the SUN adaptation for 'An Angel At My Table', which won Best Audio SUN Drama (series or serial) at the BBC Audio Drama awards in SUN 2014. SUN SUN Reader: Tom Riley SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tom Riley SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0418x12 (Listen) SUN With The Archers taking a dramatic turn this week (switch SUN off if you don't want to hear a spoiler before the omnibus SUN on Sunday!), listeners question its recently appointed SUN editor, Sean O'Connor, about whether he's making their SUN favourite programme too tabloid. Are some characters SUN undergoing personality transplants? And why, on Good Friday, SUN were some Archers listeners left upset by what they felt was SUN an irreverent approach to the Passion story? SUN SUN Also this week, we hear from just some of the many listeners SUN who felt that BBC Radio news went over the top with the SUN story that Manchester United manager David Moyes' had been SUN sacked. Football fans and phobics alike want to know why it SUN was placed at the top of bulletins and news programmes SUN throughout the day, rather than in the sports bulletin. SUN SUN And Roger Bolton pays a visit to the nerve centre of BBC SUN Radio 4 Extra to find out how they resurrect the radio SUN legends of the past. The predominantly archive station is in SUN its second decade, so are there still treasures to be found SUN in the BBC archives? And is some comedy from a different era SUN too offensive to be broadcast? SUN SUN It's our last programme of this series but please keep your SUN comments and questions about BBC Radio coming in. We'll be SUN back in the summer. SUN SUN Producer: Lizz Pearson SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0418x10 (Listen) SUN Mark Shand, Mrs Pilkington Garimara, Derek Cooper, Wally SUN Olins, Julian Wilson SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The playboy and conservationist Mark Shand who devoted his SUN life to saving the Asian elephant. SUN SUN The aboriginal author Mrs Pilkington Garimara, whose book SUN "Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence" highlighted the experiences SUN of Australia's 'stolen generation'. SUN SUN The Radio 4 presenter Derek Cooper, who founded The Food SUN Programme. SUN SUN Wally Olins who pioneered the business of brand consultancy SUN in the UK, advising companies like Bovis and British SUN Telecom. Sir Martin Sorrell pays tribute. SUN SUN And the BBC's former racing correspondent Julian Wilson. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Mark Shand (pictured with elephant Tara) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Dan Bucknall, Head of Conservation and SUN Campaigns at Elephant Family and to Mark’s friend Belinda SUN Wright who is the founder and director of the Wildlife SUN Protection Society of India. SUN SUN Born 28 June 1951; died 23 April 2014 aged 62. SUN SUN Mrs Pilkington Garimara SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Dr Ian Henderson, Lecturer in Australian SUN Literature and Film, Kings College London and to Philip SUN Noyce, director of the film Rabbit Proof Fence. SUN SUN Born c. 1 July 1937; died 10 April 2014 aged 76. SUN SUN Derek Cooper SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend and colleague, John Miller. SUN SUN Born 25 May 1925; died 19 April 2014 aged 88. SUN SUN Wally Olins SUN SUN Patrick Burgoyne, Editor of Creative Review; to his Editor SUN Jamie Camplin and to Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive SUN officer of WPP Group. SUN SUN Born 19 December 1930; died 14 April 2014 aged 83. SUN SUN Julian Wilson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the horse racing pundit John McCririck and SUN to horse trainer William Haggas. SUN SUN Born 21 June 1940; died 20 April 2014 aged 73. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Dan Bucknall SUN Interviewed Guest: Belinda Wright SUN Interviewed Guest: Ian Henderson SUN Interviewed Guest: Phillip Noyce SUN Interviewed Guest: John Miller SUN Interviewed Guest: Patrick Burgoyne SUN Interviewed Guest: Jamie Camplin SUN Interviewed Guest: Martin Sorrell SUN Interviewed Guest: John McCririck SUN Interviewed Guest: William Haggas SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b041txvt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b041vcpz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0418rd0 (Listen) SUN Korea Change: The End of the South Korea Model? SUN SUN South Korea is at a turning point. The country is one of the SUN economic miracles of the twentieth century, transforming SUN itself from extreme poverty at the end of the Korean War to SUN one of the richest nations in the world. The government SUN supported families to establish huge 'chaebol' companies SUN which are now world renowned names such as Samsung, Hyundai SUN and LG. These companies epitomise the development of South SUN Korea as a nation - Samsung started as a general store and SUN is now one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones in SUN the world. SUN SUN However South Korea is now the country with the highest SUN suicide rate in the world. The Koreans work the longest SUN hours in the OECD group of rich nations and these chaebol SUN companies are no longer creating enough jobs. Are these SUN signs of a society in stress? SUN SUN For In Business this week, Peter Day travels to Seoul to SUN find out about the Korean government's strategy to solve SUN these economic issues: 'The Creative Economy'. Korea aims to SUN become Asia's 'start-up nation' in the next three years, and SUN is throwing vast sums of money into the technology sector to SUN encourage people to become entrepreneurs. But this is a SUN career choice that has until recently been seen as a failing SUN in South Korean society. Can a government change a culture? SUN SUN How is the 'creative economy' working out? And what does SUN Korea's experience tell other nations, such as China, which SUN are en route to transform from a developing economy to a SUN rich, established one? SUN SUN Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Kim Sang-Jo SUN SUN Professor of Economics at Hansung University & Chairman of SUN ‘Solidarity for Economic Reform’ SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Soonyong Park SUN SUN President of the National IT Industry Promotion Agency SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Jungwook Lim SUN SUN Managing Director of Startup Alliance Korea SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Hardworking commuters in the Seoul subway SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Yong Joon Hyoung SUN SUN Serial Entrepreneur; Co-founder of the world’s first social SUN network Cyworld SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Students at Seoul English Village SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN David Park & Eyal Victor Mamu SUN SUN Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of SUN KOISRA: Korea-Israel Business Solutions SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Sirgoo Lee SUN SUN Co- CEO of Kakao Talk SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Jake Park & Edward Lee SUN SUN VCNC (Value Creators and co) the creators of Between SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Hyungjin Lee SUN SUN Managing Director of the Asan Nanum Foundation SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b041vcr0 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b041vcr2 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0418rcm (Listen) SUN Mia Wasikowska; Joanna Hogg; Neil Brand on Noah SUN SUN Actress Mia Wasikowska talks about acting with camels in SUN Tracks, the true story of Robyn Davidson who walked 1700 SUN miles across the Australian desert. SUN SUN Director Joanna Hogg discusses her latest dissection of SUN middle-class alienation in Exhibition about two artists who SUN have to leave their dream home, a modernist house in West SUN London. SUN SUN Composer Neil Brand unpicks Clint Mansell's score for Noah SUN and discovers the "God chord". SUN SUN The Film Programme follows two teams competing in Sci-Fi SUN London's 48 hour film challenge, in which they have to make SUN a short movie in only two days. SUN SUN Tracks SUN Directed by John Curran, SUN Tracks SUN is in cinemas from Friday 25 April 2014, certificate 12A. SUN SUN Exhibition SUN Directed by Joanna Hogg, SUN Exhibition SUN is in cinemas from Friday 25 April 2014, certificate 15. SUN SUN Noah SUN Directed by Darren Aronofsky, SUN Noah SUN is in cinemas now, certificate 12A. SUN SUN 48hr Film Challenge SUN SUN The awards ceremony for SUN SCI-FI-LONDON's 48hr Film Challenge SUN will be held on 1 May 2014 at Stratford Picture House. SUN SUN SUN SUN The Film Programme followed two teams competing in the SUN challenge: SUN Back Issue SUN SUN SUN Director: Tiernan Hanby SUN SUN Producer: Tom Worth SUN SUN SUN 2:17AM SUN SUN Director: Robert Francis Müller SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b041v54s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 APRIL 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b041v2gs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0418p7k (Listen) MON The Ethnography Award 'Short List' MON MON The Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in MON association with the British Sociological Association, MON presents a special programme devoted to the academic MON research which has been short listed for our new annual MON award for a study that has made a significant contribution MON to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the everyday life MON of a culture or sub culture. Laurie Taylor is joined by MON three of the judges: Professor Beverley Skeggs, Professor MON Dick Hobbs and Dr Louise Westmarland. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Beverley Skeggs MON MON Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths at the University of MON London MON MON MON Find out more about MON Beverley Skeggs MON MON Dick Hobbs MON MON Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex MON MON MON MON MON MON Find out more about MON Dick Hobbs MON MON Louise Westmarland MON MON Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Social Policy and MON Criminology at the Open University MON MON MON MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Louise Westmarland MON MON MON MON ETHNOGRAPHY AWARD: THE SHORTLIST MON Heidi Hoefinger MON - MON Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia: Professional Girlfriends MON and Transactional Relationships MON MON MON MON Coretta Phillips MON - MON The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social MON Relations among Prisoners MON MON MON Tanya Bunsell MON - MON Strong and Hard Women: An ethnography of female bodybuilding MON MON MON Marloes Janson MON - MON Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia - The Tablighi MON Jama'at MON MON MON Helen Sampson MON - MON International seafarers and transnationalism in the MON twenty-first century MON MON MON Jeremy Morris MON - MON Beyond coping? Alternatives to consumption within a social MON network of Russian workers MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b041v54q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b041v2gv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b041v2gx (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b041v2gz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b041v2h1 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b041vhbx (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Andrew Martlew. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b041vvv9 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b041v2h3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcnt (Listen) MON Red-Throated Diver 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 red-throated diver. The eerie wails MON of a red-throated diver were supposed to foretell rain. In MON Shetland the red-throated diver is called the "rain goose" MON but anyone who knows the island knows that rain is never far MON away. Like all divers, red-throats are handsome birds with MON sharp bills, perfect for catching fish. In summer they have MON a rusty throat patch and zebra-stripes on the back of their MON neck but in winter they're mainly pearly grey and white. MON MON Red-throated diver (Gavia stellata) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). MON MON 06:00 Today b041vvvc (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b041vvvf (Listen) MON The Future of Capitalism MON MON Anne McElvoy talks to the social theorist Jeremy Rifkin who MON foresees the gradual decline of capitalism and the rise of a MON collaborative economy. As new technology enables greater MON sharing of goods and services, Rifkin argues that it MON provides a challenge to the market economy. The sociologist MON Saskia Sassen warns that the majority of people may not MON enjoy the fruits of this new world as increasing inequality, MON land evictions and complex financial systems lead to their MON expulsion from the economy. The Conservative MP Kwasi MON Kwarteng looks back at the history of international finance MON and how gold and war have shaped the economic order of MON today. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Rifkin MON Interviewed Guest: Saskia Sassen MON Interviewed Guest: Kwasi Kwarteng MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b041vvvh (Listen) MON The Valley, Episode 1 MON MON Abridged from Richard Benson's epic family saga The Valley, MON the focus of this Book of the Week is on the story of the MON author's grandmother - Winnie Hollingworth (1909 - 2002) - MON and her life in the mining villages of the Dearne Valley in MON South Yorkshire. MON MON This remarkable social history draws on years of research, MON interviews and anecdote which chart generations of carousing MON and banter, tears and fights all set against the background MON of a close-knit community where almost everybody worked MON either in the mines or the mills. MON MON Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the MON story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in MON the Yorkshire Wolds was described as ' an extraordinary MON mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog.. wonderful MON ' Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield. It went on to be a no.1 MON bestseller. MON MON This new book is a powerful and moving achievement - it MON follows Winnie from her first romantic encounter: 'her heart MON beating hard and fast down in her whalebone and elastic' to MON her final years sitting in the lounge of a long rubber-tiled MON room with high-backed chairs around the walls.. ' where 'the MON residents either roost mutely or chat while their eyes MON search the room for a younger person who might play the MON piano for them.' MON MON Ep. 1 : Miner, Walter Parkin brings his wife Annie to the MON Dearne Valley; at the age of fourteen their daughter Winnie MON goes into service, but her father's unpredictable temper MON exacerbated by war injuries, does not make her life easy. MON MON Read by Richard Stacey MON Producer: Jill Waters MON Abridged and directed by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Richard Stacey MON Director: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b040yzlm (Listen) MON Woman's Hour Takeover, J.K. Rowling MON MON J.K. Rowling shines a light on the issue of orphanages and MON asks why so many children continue to be cared for in MON institutions worldwide. Her programme will also look at the MON power and myth of the shoe in popular culture, and why MON Scotland has the highest number of multiple sclerosis MON sufferers in the world. MON J.K. Rowling on Desert Island Discs MON Front Row - J.K. Rowling MON Woman's Hour Power List 2013 - J.K. Rowling MON MON Multiple Sclerosis, Women and Scotland MON MON J.K. Rowling’s mother, Anne, was diagnosed with multiple MON sclerosis (MS) when she was 35. She had an aggressive form MON of the disease and died in 1990, aged 45. In memory of her MON mother J.K. Rowing has helped to fund the MON Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic MON part of the University of Edinburgh, which is pioneering MON research into neural regeneration and patient care. MON Multiple Sclerosis affects roughly 100,000 people in the UK MON and three times as many women as men will develop the MON disease. The incidence of MS is higher in Scotland than in MON any other country in the world. MON MON MON MON Jane Garvey speaks to BBC journalist MON Elizabeth Quigley MON who was diagnosed with MS in 2000 and to Professor Charles MON ffrench-Constant of the MON Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh MON to discuss the new research into the disease and why MON Scottish women have the greatest risk of developing MS. MON MON MON http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ MON http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18164858 MON MON Scottish Women's Rugby MON MON Scottish Rugby is not something that many J.K Rowling fans MON may know she’s fanatical about, but it's MON 20 years ago this month that Scotland’s hosted the Women’s MON Rugby World Cup and J.K. is a fan. Scottish Women’s Player MON Heather Lockhart joins Jane to discuss the current state of MON Scottish Women’s Rugby, what is being done to make the sport MON more attractive to women and how to create more of an MON impact. MON MON Orphanages in Moldova MON MON The UN estimates that up to 8 million children around the MON world live in institutions. These are often called MON orphanages or children’s homes, although at least four out MON of five of those children in institutional care have living MON parents. We go to MON Moldova MON the poorest country in Europe MON to investigate why so many children end up living under the MON care of the state. What is life like inside an MON institution? What impact do institutions have a child’s MON development, and what are the alternatives to housing MON children this way? Jane talks to the author J.K. Rowling MON about why she set up a charity, MON Lumos MON to end the institutionalisation of children. And, Valentina MON Buliga, Minister of Labour, Social Protection and Family in MON Moldova explains the government’s standpoint. MON MON What is the Power and Myth of the Shoe? MON MON Shoes. They hurt our feet and our bank balance, and yet to MON so many of us they are objects of desire. MON J.K.Rowling is no exception, but she’s often wondered why MON women are so fond of this particular item of clothing. MON MON MON MON Fashion historian Caroline Cox and shoe designer Georgina MON Goodman join Jane to investigate what makes shoes so MON appealing to women. From high heels to statement brogues, MON we explore the complex and fascinating world of women and MON their relationship to their footwear. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: JK Rowling MON Producer: Kat Wong MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b041vvvk (Listen) MON Le Donne, Episode 1 MON MON Set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque, and for MON some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in MON virtually every enterprise, - Series Two of 'Le Donne' ('The MON Women') focuses on Caterina Riccardi, a beautiful, MON privileged wife and mother. In Series One, she discovered MON that her husband Franco was actually a vicious Camorra boss. MON Her eldest son Nino was murdered and Caterina herself was MON forced to kill rival boss Vito Caporrino in an ultimately MON futile attempt to save her thirteen-year-old son Amedeo from MON being killed. MON MON Now, she has to face the consequences of her actions, and MON come to terms with her grief and guilt while trying to MON maintain a close relationship with her daughter Antonella, MON who still believes that her father is innocent. MON MON Torn between wanting to confess all to the authorities; run MON away and start a new life; or take on her husband's MON murderous mantle while he is in prison, Caterina finds her MON morality, courage and resourcefulness tested to the limit... MON MON 1/5. Set in contemporary Naples. With her husband Franco in MON prison, Caterina must decide whether to join the Camorra and MON become leader of the Riccardi clan. MON MON Written by Chris Fallon. Based on an original idea by MON Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. MON MON Chris Fallon is a writer and director. He has previously MON written for film and television as well as writing MON adaptations for radio. He has sold and optioned scripts to MON Paramount and Warner Bros. His short film 'Killing Joe' was MON nominated for an Academy Award. MON MON Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell. MON MON Produced by Rosalynd Ward. MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Caterina Riccardi: Indira Varma MON Salvatore: Anton Lesser MON Franco: Danny Webb MON Antonella: Rebecca Callard MON Pirenesi: Juliet Aubrey MON Ferrezano: Rufus Wright MON Newsreader: Vaughan Savidge MON Writer: Chris Fallon MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b041vvvm (Listen) MON Series 16, Getting the House Ready MON MON 74 year old Myf Barker is turning her enormous home into a MON wedding venue in the hope that it will make money. Kate MON Lamble meets the family and uncovers memories amid the MON chaos. MON MON Purton House has been lived in by Myf, her late husband and MON her children for decades. It's a rambling family mansion MON with grounds, and an organic farm attached. But Myf has an MON eye to the future and wants to leave the house to her MON children as a viable business. So she's working to turn the MON property into a venue where weddings can be held and bridal MON families can stay the night. MON MON Her main job is to convert the upstairs rooms so that they MON meet the standards of the most exacting couples. Old MON furniture has to be renovated, walls have to be painted and MON new bathrooms are being put in. Myf will even have to move MON out of her own bedroom which is being turned into a sitting MON room. MON MON It's a daunting workload. Will it be ready on time? MON MON Kate Lamble meets Myf, some of her grown up children MON including daughters Rowie and Talia and also Glenn, the son MON she fostered. She hears about the renovations and finds out MON what the house and its landscape symbolises for all of them, MON especially since the death of Rowie's husband Alex several MON years ago. MON MON Producer; Emma Kingsley. MON MON Purton House MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b041vvvp (Listen) MON Heart Failures MON MON Episode 4. Heart Failures MON MON It's the Edinburgh festival in episode 4 of Hilary Lyon's MON new BBC Radio 4 comedy narrative series, 'Secrets and MON Lattes' and it's drama and fireworks all round. MON MON Business is booming in the Edinburgh cafe that erstwhile MON free spirit Trisha (played by Julie Graham) has recently MON opened with her sensible solvent older sister, Clare, MON (Hilary Lyon) but, sadly, things seem to be unravelling for MON everybody else on the personal front. MON MON Trisha finds herself not only propping up her sister as she MON becomes increasingly distraught about her husband's MON behaviour, but she also ends up providing refuge for teenage MON waitress Lizzie ( Pearl Appleby) who, despite her buoyant MON facade, is definitely in need of some tlc. MON MON Thankfully, temperamental opera-loving Polish chef, MON Krzyzstof (played by Simon Greenall) is back on top form MON again and it appears that, even for the broken-hearted, MON eating birthday cake and drinking fizz on the top of a hill MON can actually be good for you.......... MON MON Directed by: Marilyn Imrie MON 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 Producer: Marilyn Imrie MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b041vvvr (Listen) MON Equity release mortgages MON MON Equity release mortgages are getting increasingly popular MON but they come at a cost. Hear how you can get stung by big MON fees if you want to repay early. Despite new rules coming MON into force in January people are still getting big bills MON because their children are spending hundreds of pounds - MON often accidently - on online games. Plus, Talk Talk MON increases its broadband prices. MON MON 12:57 Weather b041v2h5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b041v2h7 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and MON the Mind b041vvvt (Listen) MON Lock 'Em Up MON MON This week, Martin examines the evolution of psychology's MON medicalised model, clinical psychiatry. MON MON In this programme, he traces the origins of the asylum MON movement, visiting London's 'Bedlam' hospital, the York MON Retreat, the centre of 'moral treatment' in the late MON Eighteenth Century, and the dark Victorian buildings of the MON former Winwick asylum. MON MON Produced by Alan Hall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b041vcqt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b041vvvw (Listen) MON Higher, The Price of Partnership MON MON Higher: Ep 1 The Price of Partnership by Joyce Bryant MON Teaching has become a dirty word at Hayborough University MON and when a new Dean of Research Development comes on board MON she urges partnerships abroad. So an international research MON centre for Pier and Wharf ethics is mooted. The only problem MON is the person sent to set it up - academic snob and MON sociopath, Professor David Poll. MON MON Produced by Gary Brown MON MON More barbed satire from the higher education establishment MON ranked 132nd in the University league tables. The Department MON of Geography at the new University of Hayborough is under MON pressure to find new sources of funding and to broaden its MON horizons. So when a new Dean of Research Development, Cherry MON Swat comes on board she urges partnerships abroad. An MON international research centre for Pier and Wharf ethics is MON mooted in the African Republic of Epithea. Everything seems MON to be going smoothly for the university until they realise MON the student they have recently expelled just happens to be MON the President of Epithea's son. MON MON Starring Sophie Thompson, Jeremy Swift and Jonathan Keeble. MON MON Credits MON Karen: Sophie Thompson MON Jim: Jonathan Keeble MON David: Jeremy Swift MON Cherry: Caroline Burns Cooke MON President: Cyril Nri MON Abdi: Marlon G Day MON Producer: Gary Brown MON Writer: Joyce Bryant MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b041vvvy (Listen) MON Series 4, Aberystwyth University 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 Aberystwyth University, "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 Welsh Literature MON & Folklore, Information Management and Art History and the MON questions involve alien visitations, a mechanical lifesize MON doll, a perfect circle, a shark, some scorpions and Swedish MON massage. 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 b041vcq9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The First Action Movie b041vvw0 (Listen) MON The Mottershaws of the Sheffield Photo Co are not as famous MON as Hollywood but they made their mark. In this programme - MON The First Action Movie - filmmaker Penny Woolcock brings the MON Mottershaws' most pioneering work back to life - a MON little-known silent film called Daring Daylight Burglary MON that they say influenced the classic Great Train Robbery. MON Making it, the Mottershaws worked out how to tell fictional MON stories on location and tell them well: chase sequences, MON revenge motives, trains leaving stations pursued and just MON missed or caught as they pull away... these are just some of MON the thriller tropes we take for granted now: the Mottershaws MON made them work in 1903. MON MON Two generations of Mottershaw did it, both called Frank, MON using a camera built by young Arthur. Penny meets the next MON two generations of Mottershaw, both still in pictures, MON father and son, both called John. MON MON The Mottershaws' early films sold internationally, but then MON the States - with its sunshine and crowds and money - took MON over from European independents like the Sheffield Photo MON Co.. What happened to the film-makers, after their few years MON of success and to the Sheffield Photo Co.? MON MON With Judith Buchanan, Professor of Film and Literature at MON the University of York and Audio Descriptions by Radio 3's MON Louise Fryer. MON MON Producer - Frances Byrnes MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b041vvw2 (Listen) MON Series 5, Quantize MON MON Aleks Krotoski asks how human beings can cope with a world MON saturated by data. For some it is clay to be moulded and MON built while for others it is the route to self knowledge. MON But it exists in overwhelming volumes like grains of sand on MON a beach. Turning it into things we can understand is now an MON imperative and artists and designers around the world are MON constantly looking for ways to summarise and symbolise what MON we are learning about the world around us through this MON tsunami of numbers. MON MON The programme's contributors include designers Brendan Dawes MON and Nicholas Feltron, Professor of philosophy at the Oxford MON Internet Institute Luciano Floridi, Scientist and composer MON Domenico Vicinanza, writer Amelia Abreu, quantified self MON advocate Dan Hon and life long diary writer John Gadd. MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Domenico Vicinanza MON Domenico Vicinanza MON is a physicist and a MON composer, working for DANTE/GÉANT and Cambridge University. MON MON MON We talk to him about his sonification work, MON where he translates data into stunning melodies using MON everything from the MON smallest cells in our bodies to the infinite expanse of the MON cosmos MON MON Amelia Abreu MON Amelia Abreu MON lives in Portland is a PhD MON candidate at University of Washington's School of MON Information, where her MON dissertation research looks at the social aspects of data MON collection. MON MON MON She explains the limitations of MON quantification, and the value of the day to experiences MON that are not MON meticulously recorded. MON MON Brendan Dawes MON Brendan Dawes MON is a designer and artist MON exploring the interaction of objects, people, technology MON and art using an MON eclectic mix of digital and analog materials. MON MON MON He tells us why data alone is not enough, it MON needs poetry. MON MON Nicholas Felton MON Nicholas Felton MON is an infographic designer MON and the author of several Personal Annual Reports, known as MON the Feltron Report, MON that translate his day to day activities into beautiful MON graphs and maps. MON MON MON He tells us about how little details can MON really tell the story of a year, or even a life. MON MON Luciano Floridi MON Professor Luciano Floridi MON is the Director of MON Research and Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of MON Information at the Oxford MON Internet Institute and author of ‘The Forth Revolution – MON How the infosphere is MON reshaping human reality’. MON MON MON MON He explains why humans have always been drawn MON to quantification as a way to understand the universe, but MON that too much data, MON and too much certainty can be a bad thing. MON MON 17:00 PM b042wv7q (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b041v2h9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b041vvw6 (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 4 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: Wales, MON Fish, Mouths and Perfume. 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 Radio4. 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 b041vvw8 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b041vvwb (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 Interviewed Guest: Jon Ronson MON Producer: Timothy Prosser MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b041vvvk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Suicide Watch b041ysdk (Listen) MON More American veterans of the conflicts in Afghanistan and MON Iraq dying by their own hands than dying in combat in recent MON years. What's behind the surge in suicides by veterans of MON America's wars of the 21st century? MON MON Michael Goldfarb interviews veteran families who have lost MON children or spouses to suicide, speaks with military MON psychiatrists, and visits volunteer suicide helplines MON staffed by veterans to find out what stresses are unique to MON the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. he asks, are today's young MON soldiers cut from a different cloth than those who fought in MON Vietnam or Korea? MON MON He also looks ahead asking if the psychological traumas from MON service over the last 14 years are a problem that will MON continue to unfurl deep into the 21st century. MON MON Producer: Julia Hayball MON A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0418rcc (Listen) MON South Korea: Sex in the Sunset Years MON MON It's the generation that raised South Korea from the ashes MON of war to one of the richest, most technologically advanced MON countries on earth. Even without a Confucian tradition of MON filial piety, you'd think they'd at least be made MON comfortable in their old age. But they're not. South Korea MON has the highest rates of suicide and relative poverty among MON seniors in the rich world. For some this has meant finding a MON second career to make ends meet. At a park in Seoul, Lucy MON Williamson finds an old profession getting some surprising MON new recruits. MON MON Drinking and playing MON Here’s the 82-year-old who told us he was out for an MON afternoon of ‘drinking and playing’ in Seoul’s Jongmyo Park. MON Lots of retired men gather here for the same reason. They MON say it beats staying home alone. Now a growing number of MON older women are gathering as well - not to play, but to earn MON money by selling sex. MON MON 21:00 Save the Moon! b0418kft (Listen) MON Professor Chris Riley speaks to space lawyers, scientists MON and commercial spaceflight entrepreneurs and argues that we MON need to act now to preserve the Moon for all mankind. MON MON There is a new race to the Moon. Companies around the world MON are competing to get there first and anyone with enough cash MON can book their place on a lunar break. Alongside tourism, MON there are commercial interests. The Moon contains valuable MON rare minerals as well as a potential source of fuel. MON MON The Moon is under threat. It is supposed to belong to all of MON us yet thousands of people have already bought lunar plots. MON One former astronaut believes he can legally claim ownership MON of a piece of lunar soil. MON MON As the Moon opens for business, so does the potential for MON commercial exploitation. What can be done to save it? MON MON Producer: Sue Nelson MON A Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b041vvvf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b041v2hc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b041vvwd (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b041vvwg (Listen) MON A Lovely Way to Burn, Episode 1 MON MON Apocalyptic thriller by award-winning novelist Louise Welsh. MON MON At the height of a hot London summer, in which people are MON falling seriously ill from a highly contagious virus, TV MON shopping channel presenter Stevie Flint goes in search of MON her boyfriend, who has stopped returning her calls. MON MON Louise Welsh is the author of six highly acclaimed novels MON including "The Cutting Room" and "The Girl on the Stairs". MON She is the recipient of several awards including The John MON Creasey Memorial Dagger, the Saltire First Book Award, the MON Glenfiddich/Scotland on Sunday, Spirit of Scotland Writing MON Award and the City of Glasgow Lord Provost's Award for MON Literature. In 2007 she was included in Waterstone's list of MON Twenty-five Authors for the Future. MON MON Reader ..... Nadine Marshall MON Abridger ..... Siân Preece MON Writer ..... Louise Welsh MON Producer ..... Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Nadine Marshall MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Author: Louise Welsh MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b0418kg6 (Listen) MON Scots MON MON Michael Rosen goes to Glasgow to learn the language of Scots MON and discovers that Scotland's second language is enjoying MON greater usage among young people and foreigners. He speaks MON to Glasgow bus driver James Lillis who has been giving MON classes to Polish drivers to help them understand MON passengers, student Lorna Wallis whose online poem Tae A MON Selfie, written in the style of Robert Burns went viral, and MON to comedian Sanjeev Kohli, a proponent of the Scots MON vernacular. MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b041vvwj (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster, as MPs return from MON their Easter break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 APRIL 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b041v2j6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b041vvvh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b041v2j8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b041v2jb (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b041v2jd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b041v2jg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b041vyyh (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Andrew Martlew. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b041vyyl (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcq9 (Listen) TUE Fulmar TUE TUE Series of stories about British birds, inspired by their TUE calls and songs. Kate Humble presents the fulmar. TUE TUE Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). TUE TUE 06:00 Today b042wrmd (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b041w2p9 (Listen) TUE Raul Midon TUE TUE Raul Midón has been described by the New York Times as "a TUE one-man band who turns a guitar into an orchestra and his TUE voice into a chorus." He has collaborated with Herbie TUE Hancock and Stevie Wonder, along with contributing to TUE recordings by Jason Mraz, Queen Latifah and Snoop Dogg and TUE the soundtrack to Spike Lee's She Hate Me. The New Mexico TUE native, blind since birth, has released seven albums since TUE 1999, including State of Mind, his break-through album TUE TUE He tells Peter White about his determination to shatter TUE stereotypes - including those encountered as a child when he TUE was told that his blindness meant "you can't do this, you TUE can't do that," He and his twin brother Marco are both blind TUE - the result of damage caused after being placed in TUE incubators following their premature birth. Their Mum, TUE Sandra, was adamant from the outset that her sons should be TUE given every opportunity to achieve and the boys eventually TUE went on to college together. TUE TUE Raul tells Peter of his shyness as a boy growing up in rural TUE New Mexico and the wasted opportunities when it came to TUE meeting girls, for example. But he embraces the life he has TUE achieved and says that he would not take the chance to see TUE if it was offered to him now: "My life has been set up TUE around this and I would not want my life to be about TUE figuring out how to deal with seeing - I want my life to be TUE about what it's about right now." TUE TUE Peter questions Raul about the benefits and disadvantages of TUE having a twin brother who is also blind: "there was this TUE knowledge that you weren't totally alone in the world as a TUE blind person.". TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b041xbx5 (Listen) TUE The Fall of Idi Amin TUE TUE In April 1979, the brutal Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, was TUE ousted by invading Tanzanian troops. It was the culmination TUE of a six month conflict between the two countries, which had TUE been triggered by Amin's ill-fated invasion of northern TUE Tanzania. TUE TUE In parts of Uganda, the invading troops were greeted as TUE liberators. During the eight years of Idi Amin's rule, it's TUE estimated that up to 400,000 Ugandans were killed by the TUE regime. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b042bfnl (Listen) TUE The Valley, Episode 2 TUE TUE Abridged from Richard Benson's epic family saga The Valley, TUE the focus of this Book of the Week is on the story of the TUE author's grandmother - Winnie Hollingworth (1909 - 2002) - TUE and her life in the mining villages of the Dearne Valley in TUE South Yorkshire. TUE TUE This remarkable social history draws on years of research, TUE interviews and anecdote which chart generations of carousing TUE and banter, tears and fights all set against the background TUE of a close-knit community where almost everybody worked TUE either in the mines or the mills. TUE TUE Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the TUE story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in TUE the Yorkshire Wolds was described as ' an extraordinary TUE mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog.. wonderful TUE ' Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield. It went on to be a no.1 TUE bestseller . TUE TUE This new book is a powerful and moving achievement - it TUE follows Winnie from her first romantic encounter: 'her heart TUE beating hard and fast down in her whalebone and elastic' to TUE her final years sitting in the lounge of a long rubber-tiled TUE room with high-backed chairs around the walls.. ' where 'the TUE residents either roost mutely or chat while their eyes TUE search the room for a younger person who might play the TUE piano for them.' TUE TUE Ep.2. On a summer evening in 1929 Winnie goes to her first TUE dance at the Miners' Welfare Hall. TUE TUE Read by Richard Stacey TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE Abridged and directed by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Richard Stacey TUE Director: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b040yzsh (Listen) TUE Woman's Hour Takeover, Kelly Holmes TUE TUE Kelly Holmes focuses on one of the subjects she is most TUE passionate about: healthy eating and wellbeing. What can we TUE all learn from athletes about how exercise and staying TUE motivated can change the game in our own lives? TUE Dame Kelly Holmes on Desert Island Discs TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kelly Holmes TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b041xbx9 (Listen) TUE Le Donne, Episode 2 TUE TUE Set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque, and for TUE some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in TUE virtually every enterprise, from prostitution and drug TUE running, to rubbish collection and street vendors. Series TUE Two of 'Le Donne' ('The Women') focuses on Caterina TUE Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother. In Series TUE One, she discovered that her husband Franco was actually a TUE vicious Camorra boss. Her eldest son Nino was murdered and TUE Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito TUE Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her TUE thirteen-year-old son Amedeo from also being killed. TUE TUE Now, she has to face the consequences of her actions, and TUE come to terms with her grief and guilt while trying to TUE maintain a close relationship with her daughter Antonella, TUE who still believes that her father is innocent. TUE TUE 2/5. Caterina is now the reluctant head of the Riccardi clan TUE but rival family, the Caporrinos, pose a threat to her TUE authority and possibly her life. TUE TUE Written by Chris Fallon. TUE Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. TUE TUE Chris Fallon is a writer and director. This is his second TUE series of 'Le Donne'. He has previously written for film and TUE television as well as writing adaptations for radio. His TUE short film 'Killing Joe' was nominated for an Academy Award. TUE TUE Original music........................................Simon TUE Russell. TUE Pianist...................................................Is TUE bel Tombling TUE Writer....................................................Ch TUE is Fallon TUE TUE Producer/Director: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Caterina Riccardi: Indira Varma TUE Salvatore Beccafichi: Anton Lesser TUE Franco Riccardi: Danny Webb TUE Antonella Riccardi: Rebecca Callard TUE Marisa Pirenisi: Juliet Aubrey TUE Leo: Danny Mahoney TUE Carlo Caporrino: Carl Prekopp TUE Senator Ferrezano: Rufus Wright TUE TV Reporter: Federay Holmes TUE Newsreader: Vaughan Savidge TUE Writer: Chris Fallon TUE Composer: Simon Russell TUE Musician: Isobel Tombling TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE 11:00 Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different TUE b041xbxc (Listen) TUE Born Smart TUE TUE To say one's child might be brighter than the norm is TUE obnoxious. To suggest it's genetic, just adds insult to TUE injury. To publish scientific findings confirming that the TUE reason some children do better than others at school is due TUE to differences in their DNA, is controversial. Share these TUE findings with Michael Gove's education advisor and, it TUE seems, you're asking for trouble. When, at the end of last TUE year, scientists did just that, there was a furore: what if TUE it leads to streaming at birth, gross inequality, eugenic TUE dystopia? TUE TUE Adam Rutherford charts the rise, fall and rise of scientific TUE interest in this area over the last hundred years, picking TUE his way through an inordinate amount of historical and TUE political baggage to find out why we find it so difficult to TUE have a sensible discussion about the genetics of TUE intelligence. TUE TUE At best, he might be told to check his privilege. At worst, TUE he'll be a Nazi sympathizer. But for all Adam's liberal TUE views, and perhaps because of them, he is determined to TUE tackle this elephant in the classroom. TUE TUE By pretending there are no differences between us, we risk TUE other prejudices. Watching children work really hard and TUE fail to achieve much academically is painful. At the lower TUE end of the intellectual spectrum, there's broad acceptance TUE that you don't shout at a child with special needs: "Could TUE do better!". But in the middle of a middle class world TUE hell-bent on creating little miracles, the notion that there TUE are losers as well as winners in the genetic lottery, is not TUE welcome. TUE Is a deep-seated and morally-upright desire for social TUE justice a good reason to avoid a whole area of scientific TUE inquiry? Let alone a rather less morally-upright desire for TUE there to be no barriers, genetic or otherwise, to the genius TUE of one's own children? TUE TUE Scientists who studied the genetic basis of intelligence in TUE the 70s and 80s describe how they were howled down by TUE colleagues, accused of being Nazis, and victims of a TUE scientific witch-hunt. The main focus of scientific interest TUE was on things that could be changed: the environment at home TUE or at school, our ability to nurture, not our nature. The TUE social not the biological sciences. TUE TUE Today, there's a renewed interest in our genetic TUE inheritance: how it links us to our ancestors or an TUE increased risk of cancer. And a tentative resurgence of TUE interest in the genetics of intelligence. TUE TUE One great fear is that the winners in this genetic lottery TUE will become ever more advantaged and obnoxious. Not fears TUE that were shared by Darwin's half-cousin, Francis Galton, TUE who coined the term eugenics. In 1869, he published TUE Hereditary Genius, the first scientific study of the TUE inheritance of intelligence. Himself a child genius, he TUE wondered if his prodigious talent was inherited from his TUE very clever ancestors. TUE TUE Worried by the poor quality of recruits for the Boer War, TUE Galton fantasised about a world in which children were TUE subjected to countless physical and mental tests. Those who TUE were deemed fit were given permission to reproduce, while TUE the unfit were sent to labour camps. Not surprising then TUE that we are a bit anxious about the science of human TUE genetics that he founded. TUE TUE Today, worried that our children are falling behind in the TUE global league tables on academic performance, perhaps we TUE have our own fears about degeneration? Meantime, there's a TUE renewed interest in standards and measuring in schools and TUE in the genetic basis of intelligence. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b041xbxf (Listen) TUE Series 18, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor TUE TUE Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, is one of the most popular and TUE moving pieces of music but, as academic and composer Andrew TUE Gant explains, it wasn't written by Albinoni and is now TUE attributed to the twentieth century Italian composer, TUE Giazotto. TUE TUE Award-winning veteran BBC foreign correspondent, Malcolm TUE Brabant recalls the ' cellist of Sarajevo', Vedran TUE Smailovic, playing it everyday for weeks amidst the wreckage TUE of the beautiful city, as Serbian gunfire raged around. TUE TUE Virginia McKenna explains how the piece became so special to TUE her and her late husband, Bill Travers, who died twenty TUE years ago this month, the piece was played at the beginning TUE and end of his memorial service. TUE TUE And TV producer, Gareth Gwenlan reveals why it was chosen as TUE the theme for the character played by Wendy Craig, in the TUE seventies sitcom, Butterflies. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b041xbxh (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b041v2jj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b041v2jl (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and TUE the Mind b041xbxk (Listen) TUE The Cuckoo's Nest TUE TUE From the late Eighteenth Century, the treatment - or TUE containment - of mentally ill people was taken out of the TUE hands of the church and into the hands of doctors. TUE TUE Martin talks to psychiatrist Professor Tom Burns about TUE changing models of treatment and to Joanna Moncrieff, author TUE of The Myth of the Chemical Cure. TUE TUE Producer: Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b041vvw8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b041xbxm (Listen) TUE Higher, Restructure TUE TUE Higher: Episode 2 Restructure by Joyce Bryant TUE TUE The Vice Chancellor wants to restructure three departments TUE into two, so one of the Deans is for the chop. Jim Blunt is TUE determined it is not going to be him. But he hasn't reckoned TUE on the Dean of Arts, baby faced killer Roland Keith Chubb. TUE TUE Producer Gary Brown TUE TUE The Vice Chancellor has to restructure the faculties of TUE Arts, Humanities and Performing Arts into two faculties. TUE This means "Scoping synergies using robust but flexible TUE procedures so that they can maintain a missionary posture". TUE In other words - someone's for the chop. TUE TUE Meanwhile in Epithea David is preparing to launch his Centre TUE for Pier and Wharf ethics. But the President keeps on TUE mentioning 'Baksheesh'. TUE TUE Starring Sophie Thompson, Jonathan Keeble and Jeremy Swift. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jim: Jonathan Keeble TUE Karen: Sophie Thompson TUE David: Jeremy Swift TUE President: Cyril Nri TUE VC: Russell Dixon TUE Lara: Melissa Jane Sinden TUE Torturer: Hamilton Berstock TUE Producer: Gary Brown TUE Writer: Joyce Bryant TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b041xbxp (Listen) TUE Series 5, Mystery TUE TUE Josie Long investigates small mysteries in this sequence of TUE mini documentaries. TUE TUE Hearing tales of ghost ships, hidden underground kingdoms TUE and the disappointment of discovering the banality of your TUE family's secrets. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b041xbxr (Listen) TUE Chemical Weapons: 100 Years On TUE TUE With the end of April being the deadline for Syria's TUE President Assad to sacrifice his entire arsenal of chemical TUE weapons, Tom Heap finds out the nitty-gritty of how they're TUE going to be disposed of. This involves previously untried TUE methods such as neutralising the most dangerous chemicals on TUE board an American vessel, the MV Cape Ray. This, as we'll TUE hear, presents its own problems. Other Syrian chemicals will TUE be destroyed in Port Ellesmere in Cheshire, as well as in TUE the United States, Germany and Finland. TUE TUE Tom puts these efforts of the Organisation for the TUE Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into a historical TUE perspective, exactly 99 years after the first recorded use TUE of chemical weapons in Ypres during the First World War. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b041xbxt (Listen) TUE Time TUE TUE Michael Rosen's version of a Brief History of Time, well TUE sort of ...! He asks what is time and explores the words we TUE use to talk about it. He looks at some of the earliest TUE devices for measuring time and talks to some who believe TUE they've got an answer to the question of what it is and when TUE it began. Oh and along the way Michael gets in a muddle over TUE a maths equation! TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b041xdgm (Listen) TUE Series 33, Deborah Moggach on Arnold Bennett TUE TUE Biographical series presented by Matthew Parris. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Deborah Moggach TUE TUE 17:00 PM b041xc1w (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b041v2jn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Down the Line b010m9tg (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 7 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, Julia Davis, Robert TUE Popper, Adil Ray and Arabella Weir. 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: Julia Davis TUE Actor: Robert Popper TUE Actor: Adil Ray TUE Actor: Arabella Weir TUE Producer: Charlie Higson TUE Producer: Paul Whitehouse TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b041xdgp (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b041xdgr (Listen) TUE Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, TUE literature, film, media and music. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Wilson TUE Producer: Claire Bartleet TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b041xbx9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Party of No b041xdgt (Listen) TUE When the Democrats and Barack Obama won the US Presidency in TUE 2008 - relatively comfortably - many in the Republican Party TUE were genuinely shocked and they retreated to lick their TUE painful wounds. A new political movement emerged, the Tea TUE Party, which re-invigorated the defeated, demoralized TUE Republicans, the GOP. The Tea Party dedicated itself to TUE complete opposition both to Obama's presidency and to anyone TUE they felt were compromising with the president. TUE Long-standing Republican politicians were removed and many TUE of those who remained shifted to the right, adopting Tea TUE Party rhetoric. Republican opposition, encouraged by the Tea TUE Party, destroyed many of President Obama's hopes in the last TUE six years. In 2013, US federal lawmaking was brought to TUE gridlock, shutdown, and impotence. Now, though, there's a TUE growing sense that the Tea Party is a threat to the GOP's TUE future - that it is weird and backward looking. TUE "Establishment" Republicans are fighting back. TUE As the Republicans set out to regain the White House, BBC TUE North America Editor Mark Mardell asks if the GOP can change TUE sufficiently to regain power or whether it will remain The TUE Party of No? TUE TUE Producer: John Murphy. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b041xtm9 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b041xtmc (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond discusses some of the entries to the All in TUE the Mind mental health awards and she hears from one of the TUE shortlisted entries. Also in the programme in World War I TUE the Craiglockhart hospital near Edinburgh was a military TUE psychiatric hospital treating shell shocked soldiers. TUE Claudia travels to the hospital to see recently discovered TUE editions of The Hydra - a magazine produced by patients and TUE edited by Wilfred Owen with poems by Siegfried Sassoon who TUE were both patients. Claudia hears how the magazine didn't TUE talk directly about treatment or how soldiers were ill, TUE referring instead to someone feeling a little seedy or not TUE at the top of their game. And while the celebrated poets TUE have made the magazine famous she finds out that the other TUE contributions from regular soldiers are as equally moving. TUE TUE 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b041w2p9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b041xtmf (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b041xtmh (Listen) TUE A Lovely Way to Burn, Episode 2 TUE TUE At the height of a hot London summer, in which people are TUE falling seriously ill from a highly contagious virus, TV TUE shopping channel presenter Stevie Flint has discovered the TUE body of her boyfriend, Simon Sharkey, lying dead in his bed. TUE Still in shock, Stevie waits for the emergency services to TUE arrive. TUE TUE Apocalyptic thriller by the award-winning writer Louise TUE Welsh. TUE TUE Reader: Nadine Marshall TUE TUE Abridger: Siân Preece TUE TUE Writer: Louise Welsh TUE TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Nadine Marshall TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Author: Louise Welsh TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 Act Your Age b041xtmk (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 1 TUE TUE Simon Mayo's battle of comedy generations. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b041xtmm (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b041v2kj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b042bfnl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b041v2kl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b041v2kn (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b041v2kq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b041v2ks (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b041xttw (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Andrew Martlew. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b041xyjt (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcqw (Listen) WED Stone Curlew WED WED Series of stories about British birds, inspired by their WED calls and songs. Kate Humble presents the stone curlew. WED WED Stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). WED WED Recording of stone curlew by RSPB WED This programmes contains audio archive of a stone curlew WED that was sourced through the RSPB. The original recording WED is not available online to listen to. WED WED 06:00 Today b041xyjw (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b041xyjy (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b042bg3x (Listen) WED The Valley, Episode 3 WED WED Abridged from Richard Benson's epic family saga The Valley, WED the focus of this Book of the Week is on the story of the WED author's grandmother - Winnie Hollingworth (1909 - 2002) - WED and her life in the mining villages of the Dearne Valley in WED South Yorkshire. WED WED This remarkable social history draws on years of research, WED interviews and anecdote which chart generations of carousing WED and banter, tears and fights all set against the background WED of a close-knit community where almost everybody worked WED either in the mines or the mills. WED WED Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the WED story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in WED the Yorkshire Wolds was described as ' an extraordinary WED mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog.. wonderful WED ' Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield. It went on to be a no.1 WED bestseller. WED WED This new book is a powerful and moving achievement - it WED follows Winnie from her first romantic encounter: 'her heart WED beating hard and fast down in her whalebone and elastic' to WED her final years sitting in the lounge of a long rubber-tiled WED room with high-backed chairs around the walls.. ' where 'the WED residents either roost mutely or chat while their eyes WED search the room for a younger person who might play the WED piano for them.' WED WED Ep 3. Winnie's pregnancy, the catalyst for her marriage WED turns out to be a false alarm, but when she becomes pregnant WED again, she and Harry decide they can just about afford to WED move into their own home. WED WED Read by Richard Stacey WED Producer: Jill Waters WED Abridged and directed by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Richard Stacey WED Director: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b040z014 (Listen) WED Woman's Hour Takeover, Naomi Alderman WED WED Naomi Alderman celebrates some of the game changing women in WED science and technology, and also turns her attention to WED public speaking - why is it so dominated by men? WED Naomi Alderman on The Liar's Gospel WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Naomi Alderman WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b041xyk2 (Listen) WED Le Donne, Episode 3 WED WED Set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque, and for WED some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in WED virtually every enterprise, from prostitution and drug WED running, to rubbish collection and street vendors. Series WED Two of 'Le Donne' ('The Women') focuses on Caterina WED Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother. In Series WED One, she discovered that her husband Franco was actually a WED vicious Camorra boss. Her eldest son Nino was murdered and WED Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito WED Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her WED thirteen-year-old son Amedeo from also being killed. WED WED Now, she has to face the consequences of her actions, and WED come to terms with her grief and guilt while trying to WED maintain a close relationship with her daughter Antonella, WED who still believes that her father is innocent. WED WED 3/5. Set in contemporary Naples. Franco is released from WED prison for Antonella's eighteenth birthday party. Caterina WED has to hide her true feelings about him. But the party does WED not quite go according to plan. WED WED Written by Chris Fallon. WED WED Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. WED WED Chris Fallon is a writer and director. This is his second WED series of 'Le Donne'. He has previously written for film and WED television as well as writing adaptations for radio. His WED short film 'Killing Joe' was nominated for an Academy Award. WED WED Credits WED WED Caterina WED Riccardi........................................Indira Varma WED Salvatore Beccafichi...................................Anton WED Lesser WED Franco WED Riccardi...........................................Danny WED Webb WED Antonella WED Riccardi.......................................Rebecca WED Callard WED Marisa WED Pirenisi............................................Juliet WED Aubrey WED Leo......................................................... WED ...Danny Mahoney WED Carlo WED Caporrino..........................................Carl WED Prekopp WED Senator Ferrezano.....................................Rufus WED Wright WED TV WED Reporter................................................Fede WED ay Holmes WED Newsreader................................................Va WED ghan Savidge WED WED Original WED music.............................................Simon WED Russell WED Pianist..................................................... WED ..Isobel Tombling WED Writer...................................................... WED ..Chris Fallon WED WED Producer/Director.......................................Rosa WED ynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Caterina Riccardi: Indira Varma WED Salvatore Beccafichi: Anton Lesser WED Franco Riccardi: Danny Webb WED Antonella Riccardi: Rebecca Callard WED Marisa Pirenisi: Juliet Aubrey WED Leo: Danny Mahoney WED Carlo Caporrino: Carl Prekopp WED Senator Ferrezano: Rufus Wright WED TV Reporter: Federay Holmes WED Newsreader: Vaughan Savidge WED Director: Rosalynd Ward WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED Writer: Chris Fallon WED WED 11:00 Voices from Our Industrial Past b041xyk4 (Listen) WED The industrial revolution was possibly the single most WED significant event in world history - the moment when one WED small nation left behind its agrarian past and entered WED decisively on the pathway to modernity. But what did it all WED mean for the ordinary people, who with their strong backs WED and nimble fingers did the most to power it? WED WED All the great Victorian commentators - Engels, Dickens, WED Blake - painted Britain's industrial times in a very dark WED hue: the introduction of new working patterns which WED compelled men to work at the relentless pace of the WED machines; families squeezed into dark, disease-ridden cities WED and nothing but the workhouse for those who slipped through WED the net. Since then and although there were a few dissenting WED voices, for the most part this collective chorus of doom WED continues to colour the way we think about our industrial WED past. WED WED In this programme, Professor Emma Griffin unpicks the dark WED myth of Britain's industrial revolution using accounts of WED everyday life written by working people. If we stop, and WED really listen to what these voices are trying to tell us, WED she says, we hear a version of our industrial past that WED contains a few surprises. They were often quick to gain WED advantage from industrialisation and as individuals, they WED expressed their own agency in many different ways. WED WED Emma explores the lives of four men living and working WED during the industrial revolution - John Lincoln, Benjamin WED Shaw, William Marcroft and Emanuel Lovelin. While all come WED from desperately poor backgrounds and suffer though many WED adversities, their lives are by no mean downtrodden and all WED have benefitted from the opportunities that WED industrialisation brings. We bring John, Benjamin, William WED and Emanuel's voices to life once more. WED WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway Productions. WED WED 11:30 Gloomsbury b041xyk6 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Theory and Practice of Hanky Panky WED WED Vera and Henry are undecided about whether it is time for WED their Eton-educated sons, Charlie and Fred, to be told the WED facts of life. Neither parent feels that they are WED sufficiently qualified to discuss the birds and bees with WED their sons, so they go in search of somebody who is. Ginny WED and Lionel, conveniently staying, are invited to contribute, WED but it soon becomes clear that they are urgently in need of WED sex education themselves. WED WED The Goslings deliver conflicting opinions: Mrs Gosling is WED affronted by the very mention of the facts of life, whilst WED Gosling, dealing with pollination on a daily basis, would WED happily talk of nothing else all year. WED WED Finally a willing educator is found. Venus, deeply broody WED for her first child, volunteers to rush down to Eton and WED enlighten Charlie and Fred over ginger beer and crumpets. WED Worried lest they should suddenly become grandparents before WED their time, Henry and Vera swiftly call a halt to the whole WED scheme and pack Venus off to climb Everest instead. WED WED GLOOMSBURY - THE SERIES WED Green-fingered Sapphist Vera Sackcloth-Vest shares a bijou WED castle in Kent with her devoted husband Henry, but longs for WED exotic adventures with nervy novelist Ginny Fox and wilful WED beauty Venus Traduces. It's 1921, the dawn of modern love, WED life and lingerie, but Vera still hasn't learnt how to boil WED a kettle. WED WED Producer: Jamie Rix WED A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes WED Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy WED Mrs Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman WED Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd-Pack WED Mrs Gosling, Vera's Housekeeper: Alison Steadman WED Gosling, Vera's Gardener: Roger Lloyd-Pack WED Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks WED Producer: Jamie Rix WED Writer: Sue Limb WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b041xyk8 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 13:00 World at One b041v2kw (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and WED the Mind b041xykb (Listen) WED The Snake Pit WED WED Martin talks to clinical psychologist Vaughan Bell about WED different forms of mental disturbance - psychoses and WED neuroses - and their manifestation in popular culture, WED including the Polanski film Rosemary's Baby and the poetry WED of Spike Milligan. And he meets Dolly Sen, a film-maker WED who's experienced psychosis for most of her life. WED WED Producer: Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b041xdgp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b041xykd (Listen) WED Higher, Rebrand, Relaunch WED WED Higher: Ep 3 Rebrand, Relaunch by Joyce Bryant WED WED To Jim's dismay Roland becomes Vice Chancellor and image WED consultants 'Harsover Tutt' are brought in to rebrand the WED university. Jim feels he's being forced out. Will he find an WED ally in Karen? WED WED Producer Gary Brown WED WED In the subsequent fall out from the University's dealings WED with a discredited African Dictator, it is decided to WED rebrand and relaunch the University. The first thing to do WED is sack the Vice Chancellor and ease Roland Chubb in. This WED makes Jim's position very tenuous, but Roland determines to WED get him out. He sneakily offers Karen the Deanship - is this WED the end of Jim Blunt? WED WED Starring Sophie Thompson and Jonathan Keeble. WED WED Credits WED Karen: Sophie Thompson WED Jim: Jonathan Keeble WED Roland: Lloyd Peters WED Dame Sheila: Brigit Forsyth WED Clive: Malcolm Raeburn WED Radio Announcer: Luke Jerdy WED Producer: Gary Brown WED Writer: Joyce Bryant WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b041xykg (Listen) WED DIY Investing WED WED Want to be a DIY Investor? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Whether you're new to investing and wondering where to start WED or you would like to expand the range of investments you WED already hold why not ask the panel for their view. WED WED Should you consider gilts, funds, investment trusts, bonds WED or shares? WED WED What are the choices if you're looking for a lower risk WED investment to buy and hold? WED WED Or perhaps you want to keep an eye on your cash and trade WED more frequently? WED WED Maybe you want to ask about the New ISA rules? WED WED Whatever your question, joining presenter Ruth Alexander to WED share their views and experience will be: WED WED Darius McDermott, Managing Director, Chelsea Financial WED Services. WED Rebecca O'Keeffe, Head of Investment, Interactive Investor. WED Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor-in-Chief, MoneyWeek. WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b041xtmc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b041y1mx (Listen) WED The Ethnography Award Winner WED WED The winner of Thinking Allowed's first Ethnography award, in WED association with the British Sociological Association. WED WED Laurie Taylor and a team of esteemed academics - Professor WED Beverley Skeggs, Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta WED Moore and Dr Louise Westmarland - set themselves the task of WED finding the study that has made the most significant WED contribution to ethnography over the past year. In the past, WED ethnographic studies have cast light on hidden or WED misunderstood worlds, from the urban poor in 1930s Chicago WED to the mods and rockers in British seaside towns in the WED 1950s. This year they considered submissions of startling WED range, colour and diversity, in the process learning much WED about the struggles of the war wounded 'amputees' of Sierra WED Leone; the ties between mothers and daughters on a working WED class housing estate in South Wales; the hedonistic excess WED of young holidaymakers in Ibiza; and the dreams and desires WED of young women in hostess bars in Cambodia. After much WED passionate debate, finally the winner can be revealed. WED WED Laurie Taylor presents a programme about the winning entry WED which, in the judges' view, has made the most significant WED contribution to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the WED everyday life of a culture or sub culture. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b041y1mz (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b041y1n1 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b041v2ky (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b041y1n3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Isy Suttie returns to BBC Radio 4 with a brand new series of WED her Sony Award Winning show, recounting a series of love WED stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, WED told partly through song. WED WED Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; WED quite often she's intervened, changing the action WED dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these WED stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, WED often disastrous, love life. WED WED In this episode, Isy returns to her home town of Matlock and WED observes the unfolding romance between Eleanor, a dinner WED lady, and Mr Woodfield, a teacher - both of whom are WED unhappily married, but find solace in their workplace WED friendship. WED WED With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied WED by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving WED world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love. WED WED "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Isy Suttie WED Writer: Isy Suttie WED Producer: Lyndsay Fenner WED WED 19:00 The Archers b041y1n5 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b041y1n7 (Listen) WED Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film, media and music. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED Interviewed Guest: David Haig WED Producer: Nicola Holloway WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b041xyk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b041yjnt (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley presents the first programme in a new series WED of the live, studio-based debate programmes which take the WED form of newspaper leader conferences. WED WED He is joined by five prominent journalists, who write WED leading articles or editorials for their newspapers, WED representing the press in the nations of the UK and across WED the English regions as well as the leading national WED newspapers. WED WED Three subjects in the news will be decided upon and WED discussed. Two of these reflect current events at home and WED abroad - and prompt lively and provocative discussion. The WED third subject is in a lighter vein. WED WED Contributions from listeners are also encouraged throughout WED the programme and particularly at the start for the WED component they shape most: that final leader which is heard WED towards the end of the programme. WED WED Following the discussion of each of the three subjects, WED Andrew invites one of his guests to draw up on air the WED "leader" for that subject setting out its main points. This WED important component of the programme helps ensure that WED resolution of the debate is achieved for listeners and that WED the full range of views expressed is reflected. WED WED The leaders are posted online at the Radio 4 website WED following the programme. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b041yjnw (Listen) WED Series 4, Philippa Perry WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b041xbxr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b041xyjy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b041v2l1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b041yjny (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b041yjp0 (Listen) WED A Lovely Way to Burn, Episode 3 WED WED At the height of a hot London summer, in which people are WED dying from a highly contagious virus, TV presenter Stevie WED Flint has discovered the body of her boyfriend, Simon WED Sharkey, lying dead in his flat. WED WED Stevie has herself been laid low by the virus and, after WED eight days in bed, has finally recovered enough to act upon WED instructions left for her in a letter from Simon. She must WED deliver a mysterious package to his colleague, Malcolm Reah, WED at St Thomas' Hospital. WED WED Extracts from the tense new thriller by the award-winning WED author Louise Welsh. WED WED Reader: Nadine Marshall WED WED Abridger: Siân Preece WED WED Writer: Louise Welsh WED WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Nadine Marshall WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Author: Louise Welsh WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side WED b041yjp2 (Listen) WED A Dog's Dinner WED WED Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary, comedian and WED broadcaster Elvis McGonagall (aka poet and performer Richard WED Smith) is determined to do something about his bitter, WED dyspeptic and bloody minded view of contemporary life. There WED are good things out there, if he could only be bothered to WED find them. WED WED From his home in the Graceland Park near Dundee, the WED Scottish punk poet goes in search of the brighter side of WED life. With the help of his dog,Trouble, his friend, Susan WED Morrison, and his own private narrator, Clarke Peters, Elvis WED does his very best to accentuate the positive - he really WED does. Recorded almost entirely on location, in a caravan on WED a truly glamorous industrial estate somewhere in Scotland. WED WED In the first episode, A Dog's Dinner, Elvis finds out what's WED so good about haute cuisine and celebrity chefs. WED WED As Elvis, poet Richard Smith is the 2006 World Poetry Slam WED Champion, the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran WED Club and appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 ("Saturday Live", WED the "Today Programme", "Arthur Smith's Balham Bash", "Last WED Word", "Off The Page" and others as well as writing and WED presenting the popular arts features "Doggerel Bard" on the WED art of satiric poetry and "Beacons and Blue Remembered WED Hills" on the extraordinary resonance of A.E. Housman's WED 'Shropshire Lad') WED WED Written by Elvis MacGonagall, with Richard Smith, Helen WED Braunholtz-Smith and Frank Stirling. WED WED Producer: Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Clarke Peters WED Elvis MacGonagall: Richard Smith WED Susan the Postie: Susan Morrison WED Actor: Lewis Mcleod WED Actor: Gabriel Quigley WED Producer: Frank Stirling WED Writer: Richard Smith WED Writer: Helen Braunholtz-Smith WED Writer: Frank Stirling WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b041yjp4 (Listen) WED Episode 5 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 Today in Parliament b041yjp6 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports, as David Cameron and Ed Miliband face WED each other for PMQs. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 MAY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b041v2m4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b042bg3x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b041v2m6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b041v2m8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b041v2mf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b041v2mh (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b041ybhv (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Andrew Martlew. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b041ybhx (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b041ybhz (Listen) THU Woodland Dawn Chorus THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU David Attenborough presents a dawn chorus recorded in THU Rutland Water. The outpouring of song is so dense that it is THU almost impossible to single out individual species but THU includes blackbirds, song thrushes, robins and newly-arrived THU migrants like garden warblers. THU THU Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) THU The image shows a Nightingale which can be heard in the THU Woodland Dawn Chorus. Image courtesy of RSPB THU (rspb-images.com). THU THU 06:00 Today b041ybj1 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b041ybj3 (Listen) THU The Tale of Sinuhe THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss The Tale of Sinuhe, one THU of the most celebrated works of ancient Egyptian literature. THU Written around four thousand years ago, the poem narrates THU the story of an Egyptian official who is exiled to Syria THU before returning to his homeland in old age. The number of THU surviving versions of this work suggests that it was seen as THU an important literary work, although contemporary scholars THU are divided as to whether it is a work of fiction or depicts THU the life of a real person. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b042bjp5 (Listen) THU The Valley, Episode 4 THU THU Abridged from Richard Benson's epic family saga The Valley, THU the focus of this Book of the Week is on the story of the THU author's grandmother - Winnie Hollingworth (1909 - 2002) - THU and her life in the mining villages of the Dearne Valley in THU South Yorkshire. THU THU This remarkable social history draws on years of research, THU interviews and anecdote which chart generations of carousing THU and banter, tears and fights all set against the background THU of a close-knit community where almost everybody worked THU either in the mines or the mills. THU THU Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the THU story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in THU the Yorkshire Wolds was described as ' an extraordinary THU mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog.. wonderful THU ' Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield. It went on to be a no.1 THU bestseller. THU THU This new book is a powerful and moving achievement - it THU follows Winnie from her first romantic encounter: 'her heart THU beating hard and fast down in her whalebone and elastic' to THU her final years sitting in the lounge of a long rubber-tiled THU room with high-backed chairs around the walls.. ' where 'the THU residents either roost mutely or chat while their eyes THU search the room for a younger person who might play the THU piano for them.' THU THU Ep 4. Life in the Dearne changes with the outbreak of the THU Second World War. Harry continues to develop his musical and THU entertaining career, with more nights out on the circuit. THU THU Read by Richard Stacey THU Abridged and directed by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Richard Stacey THU Director: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b040z035 (Listen) THU Woman's Hour Takeover, Doreen Lawrence THU THU Doreen Lawrence (this year's number one game changer on the THU Power List) talks about the people who inspired her, from THU Maya Angelou to Barack Obama. She also investigates health THU issues and identifies some of the most important skills THU young people need to have in this changing society. THU Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Game Changers THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Doreen Lawrence THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b041ybj5 (Listen) THU Le Donne, Episode 4 THU THU Set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque, and for THU some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in THU virtually every enterprise, from prostitution and drug THU running, to rubbish collection and street vendors. Series THU Two of 'Le Donne' ('The Women') focuses on Caterina THU Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother. In Series THU One, she discovered that her husband Franco was actually a THU vicious Camorra boss. Her eldest son Nino was murdered and THU Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito THU Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her THU thirteen-year-old son Amedeo from also being killed. THU THU Now, she has to face the consequences of her actions, and THU come to terms with her grief and guilt while trying to THU maintain a close relationship with her daughter Antonella, THU who still believes that her father is innocent. THU THU 4/5. Set in contemporary Naples. Senator Ferrezano has been THU murdered. Caterina knows that her rival, Carlo Caporrino, is THU to blame and that she must act before he kills again. THU THU Written by Chris Fallon. THU THU Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. THU THU Chris Fallon is a writer and director. This is his second THU series of 'Le Donne'. He has previously written for film and THU television as well as writing adaptations for radio. His THU short film 'Killing Joe' was nominated for an Academy Award. THU THU Original THU music................................................Simon THU Russell THU Pianist..................................................... THU .....Isobel Tombling THU Writer...................................................... THU .....Chris Fallon THU THU Producer/Director:Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Caterina Riccardi: Indira Varma THU Salvatore Beccafichi: Anton Lesser THU Franco Riccardi: Danny Webb THU Antonella Riccardi: Rebecca Callard THU Marisa Pirenisi: Juliet Aubrey THU Leo: Danny Mahoney THU Carlo Caporrino: Carl Prekopp THU Senator Ferrezano: Rufus Wright THU TV Reporter: Federay Holmes THU Newsreader: Vaughan Savidge THU Director: Rosalynd Ward THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU Writer: Chris Fallon THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b041ybj7 (Listen) THU Arizona: The Missing Migrants THU THU Each year, thousands of illegal migrants try to enter the THU United States via a treacherous journey across the Arizona THU desert. Some succeed, while others are captured by US border THU patrols and are immediately deported - but not everyone is THU so fortunate. A growing number simply drop dead from THU exhaustion. THU THU The Missing Migrant Project works on identifying the THU deceased, piecing together clues found in the personal THU effects collected alongside the decomposed bodies found in THU the desert. THU THU In this programme, the BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant THU travels to Tucson, Arizona to meet project co-founder Robin THU Reineke to learn of the challenges facing her office in the THU small southwestern city of Tucson - which has the THU third-highest number of unidentified bodies in the United THU States, after New York and Los Angeles. THU THU Migrant rights groups say the vast expansion of the US THU Border Patrol has exacerbated the problem because the THU heightened policing of the border along traditional urban THU crossing points has forced clandestine border crossers out THU into the wilds of the desert. THU THU Such tough border protection is popular among many American THU voters, especially in conservative border states like THU Arizona and Texas - but some locals have shown sympathy, THU heading out into the desert to leave water, food and THU blankets in the hope of saving the lives of desperate THU migrants. THU THU In Mexico, Crossing Continents also meets the relatives of THU those who have died in the desert, revealing their THU motivations to move north - motivations which they share THU with many men, women and children from across Latin America, THU who are still willing to risk their lives embarking on this THU increasingly dangerous and potentially deadly trip. THU THU Reporter: Will Grant THU Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. THU THU 11:30 Getting the Picture b03phd4f (Listen) THU The Camera Has Attitudes THU THU (Image: David Bailey self-portrait. Credit: David Bailey.) THU THU David Bailey's portrait photographs are world famous, THU instantly recognisable and have charted decades of fashion, THU celebrity and notoriety. THU THU "You can't be judgmental and be a photographer," Bailey says THU in the first of two programmes in which he tells presenter, THU Tim Marlow, how he has gone about producing the images which THU have defined our times. THU THU Bailey reveals in the first programme how he got started and THU how the portraiture that shot him to fame makes fashion THU photography more potent. "I thought the best way to sell the THU frock is through the girl. If the girl doesn't work, the THU picture doesn't work," he says. THU THU As he lights Tim's own photographic portrait and selects the THU cameras for the shoot, Bailey discusses how he has gone THU about portraiture over the last fifty years or more. THU THU In the central London studio which houses his archive of THU images, Bailey also reveals to Tim how he made his name with THU photographs of such stars as Marianne Faithfull, most THU notably for "Vogue". THU THU And Tim talks to Marianne Faithfull herself about the two THU striking images of her which Bailey shot - in youth and in THU later years - and the sharply contrasting views she has of THU them now. THU THU As this first programme draws to a close, the first shots of THU Tim's photographic session with Bailey are taken. THU THU Producer Simon Coates. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b041ybj9 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b041v2mk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b041v2mm (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and THU the Mind b041ybjc (Listen) THU Sane in Insane Places THU THU Psychiatric treatments have had their fair share of THU controversy. THU THU In this episode, Martin looks at the extraordinary THU popularity of lobotomies during the middle of the last THU century, the continued use of Electroconvulsive Therapy and THU the 'anti-psychiatry movement' of RD Laing in the 1960s. THU THU Producer: Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b041y1n5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b041ybjf (Listen) THU The Interrogation - Series 3, Kellie THU THU by Roy Williams, with Kenneth Cranham and Alex Lanipekun. THU The story of Kellie. THU THU Sean agrees to go for a drink with his old schoolfriend, THU Kellie. Little does he know what he's letting himself in THU for. Exciting series-ender. 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 Kellie: Cush Jumbo THU Alan Parke: Clive Hayward THU Composer: David Pickvance THU Director: Mary Peate THU Writer: Roy Williams THU THU 15:00 Open Country b041yjy5 (Listen) THU The Avon Gorge, Bristol THU THU With Brunel's iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge towering over THU head, pull on your hiking boots and join Felicity Evans as THU she steps away from Bristol's busy city streets and delves THU into the dense undergrowth of the Avon Gorge. THU THU As a haven for rare plant species, it's been classed as one THU of the top three botanical sites in England and with THU peregrine falcons circling overhead and goats roaming the THU land below, you could be forgiven for thinking you are in THU the most wild of rural landscapes - but in reality you are THU just a stone's throw from Bristol's City Centre. THU THU Felicity meets with botanist and rock climber Libby Houston, THU who for over 30 years has explored the craggy edges of the THU Avon Gorge, identifying and even discovering rare plant THU species - one of which, 'Houston's White Beam', bears her THU name. THU THU Further along the gorge Felicity joins Ben Scouse as he does THU his daily check on his six 'hairy conservationists' THU otherwise known as the six billy goats who have been bought THU in to graze the land in order to support the cultivation of THU the rare plants. THU THU Looking upwards, author and naturalist Ed Drewitt takes THU Felicity peregrine spotting and reveals their history with THU the gorge and their royal connections and finally, Merchant THU Venturer Francis Greenacre explains how this land - so close THU to a city - came to be preserved as a wild and wonderful THU open space. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b041vcpz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b041vcqm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b041yjy7 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b041yjy9 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b041yjyc (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news, presented by Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b041v2mp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Cabin Pressure b01qdzc4 (Listen) THU Series 4, Xinzhou THU THU Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny charter THU airline. THU THU It's cold, it's dark & there's no food on board. What better THU time for Gertie to decide to fall to bits? And what worse THU time for Arthur to try out his maths skills? THU THU Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world THU of a tiny, one plane, charter airline; staffed by two THU pilots: one on his way down, and one who was never up to THU start with. Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, THU metal sheets to Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu THU Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too THU difficult... THU THU Written by John Finnemore THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for the BBC. THU THU Credits THU Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole THU 1st Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam THU Capt Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch THU Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore THU ATC: Lobo Chan THU Writer: John Finnemore THU Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 19:00 The Archers b041yf8j (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b041yjyf (Listen) THU Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film, media and music. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Matthew d'Ancona THU Producer: Timothy Prosser THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b041ybj5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b041yjyh (Listen) THU Sexual harassment in Westminster THU THU Simon Cox investigates allegations of abuse of power, a THU culture of silence, a lack of protection for junior staff THU and how effective measures introduced to combat the problem THU are likely to be. THU THU 20:30 In Business b041yjyk (Listen) THU Battery Matters THU THU Out of juice? THU THU Perhaps the biggest problem facing makers of new technology THU is battery power.....or lack of it. The battery is so THU critical that engineers design handheld devices around the THU battery, rather than the other way round. It's not just THU mobile phone and wearable technology manufacturers that are THU striving for longer lasting batteries, the electric vehicle THU is stalling (so to speak) because of the short distances THU between recharging and a limited service life of the THU battery. THU THU So what are businesses doing to reinvent the battery? Is an THU average annual gain in capacity of 6% really the best we can THU do? THU THU We'll ask whether Lithium-Air batteries can revitalise the THU electric car market, explore whether flexible graphene THU batteries and solar cells hold the key to enhancements in THU mobile phone battery life and look at the 3D printing of THU micro batteries the size of a grain of sand. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b041yjy9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b041ybj3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b041v2mr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b041yjym (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b041yjyp (Listen) THU A Lovely Way to Burn, Episode 4 THU THU Apocalyptic thriller by the award-winning novelist Louise THU Welsh. THU THU London is in meltdown as the deadly virus known as "The THU Sweats" spreads rapidly through the population. Despite the THU danger, survivor Stevie Flint is determined to continue her THU search for answers to the mysterious death of her boyfriend, THU Dr Simon Sharkey. THU THU Reader: Nadine Marshall THU THU Abridger: Siân Preece THU THU Writer: Louise Welsh THU THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Nadine Marshall THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Author: Louise Welsh THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 A Short Gentleman b019fxjh (Listen) THU Episode 3 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 3/4 THU When dealing with his wife's lover, Robert employs his THU deadliest weapon: being a gentleman. THU THU Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU Credits THU Elizabeth: Lyndsey Marshal THU Max: Ted Allpress THU Isobel: Lauren Mote THU Mona: Katherine Jakeways THU Ticky: Katherine Jakeways THU Geoffrey: Paul Moriarty THU Anthony: Carl Prekopp THU Penelope: Tracy Wiles THU Actor: Adjoa Andoh THU Actor: Ewan Bailey THU Actor: Adam Billington THU Actor: James Hayes THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU Adaptor: Robin Brooks THU Writer: Jon Canter THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b041yjyr (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 MAY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b041v2np (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b042bjp5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b041v2nr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b041v2nt (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b041v2nw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b041v2ny (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b041yd3y (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Andrew Martlew. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b041yd40 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b041yd42 (Listen) FRI Heather Moorland Dawn Chorus FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI David Attenborough celebrates International Dawn Chorus Day FRI with the second of four recordings marking this event. In FRI this programme, we hear the dawn chorus from the heather FRI moors of Allendale in Northumberland. Songs featured are FRI that of the curlew, skylark, golden plover and redshank. FRI FRI Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) FRI The image shows a Eurasian Curlew which can be heard in the FRI Heather Moorland Dawn Chorus. Image courtesy of RSPB FRI (rspb-images.com). FRI FRI 06:00 Today b041yd44 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b0076y1y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b042bjzl (Listen) FRI The Valley, Episode 5 FRI FRI Abridged from Richard Benson's epic family saga The Valley, FRI the focus of this Book of the Week is on the story of the FRI author's grandmother - Winnie Hollingworth (1909 - 2002) - FRI and her life in the mining villages of the Dearne Valley in FRI South Yorkshire. FRI FRI This remarkable social history draws on years of research, FRI interviews and anecdote which chart generations of carousing FRI and banter, tears and fights all set against the background FRI of a close-knit community where almost everybody worked FRI either in the mines or the mills. FRI FRI Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the FRI story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in FRI the Yorkshire Wolds was described as ' an extraordinary FRI mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog.. wonderful FRI ' Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield. It went on to be a no.1 FRI bestseller. FRI FRI This new book is a powerful and moving achievement - it FRI follows Winnie from her first romantic encounter: 'her heart FRI beating hard and fast down in her whalebone and elastic' to FRI her final years sitting in the lounge of a long rubber-tiled FRI room with high-backed chairs around the walls.. ' where 'the FRI residents either roost mutely or chat while their eyes FRI search the room for a younger person who might play the FRI piano for them.' FRI FRI Ep 5. Children become adults, and Winnie and Harry grow FRI frail, but there are still surprises in store. FRI FRI Read by Richard Stacey FRI PRODUCER: JILL WATERS FRI FRI Abridged and directed by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC 4Extra. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Richard Stacey FRI Director: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b040z1cq (Listen) FRI Woman's Hour Takeover, Lauren Laverne FRI FRI Lauren Laverne presents the final programme in the Takeover. FRI She engages Caitlin Moran (this year's number 10 on the FRI Power List) in conversation about her power as a role model FRI and discusses whether we need high-street feminism just as FRI much as highbrow feminism. She puts 'Girl Power' and FRI consumerism under the spotlight, and interviews Jane FRI Shepherdson, a game changer in the fashion world. FRI Lauren Laverne on 6Music FRI Follow Lauren on BBC Playlister FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b041yd46 (Listen) FRI Le Donne, Episode 5 FRI FRI Set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque, and for FRI some, terrifying - where the Camorra has its hands in FRI virtually every enterprise, from prostitution and drug FRI running, to rubbish collection and street vendors. Series FRI Two of 'Le Donne' ('The Women') focuses on Caterina FRI Riccardi, a beautiful, privileged wife and mother. In Series FRI One, she discovered that her husband Franco was actually a FRI vicious Camorra boss. Her eldest son Nino was murdered and FRI Caterina herself was forced to kill rival boss Vito FRI Caporrino in an ultimately futile attempt to save her FRI thirteen-year-old son Amedeo from also being killed. FRI FRI Now, she has to face the consequences of her actions, and FRI come to terms with her grief and guilt while trying to FRI maintain a close relationship with her daughter Antonella, FRI who still believes that her father is innocent. FRI FRI 5/5. Set in contemporary Naples. Franco is about to be FRI released from prison; Carlo Caporrino is planning another FRI murder. Trapped and confused, Caterina wants to reject the FRI Camorra for good but can she do it? FRI FRI Written by Chris Fallon. FRI Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. FRI FRI Chris Fallon is a writer and director. This is his second FRI series of 'Le Donne'. He has previously written for film and FRI television as well as writing adaptations for radio. His FRI short film 'Killing Joe' was nominated for an Academy Award. FRI FRI Original music....................................Simon FRI Russell. FRI Pianist...............................................Isobel FRI Tombling FRI FRI Writer................................................Chris FRI Fallon FRI Producer/Director...............................Rosalynd FRI Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Caterina Riccardi: Indira Varma FRI Salvatore Beccafichi: Anton Lesser FRI Franco Riccardi: Danny Webb FRI Antonella Riccardi: Rebecca Callard FRI Marisa Pirenisi: Juliet Aubrey FRI Leo: Danny Mahoney FRI Carlo Caporrino: Carl Prekopp FRI Senator Ferrezano: Rufus Wright FRI TV Reporter: Federay Holmes FRI Newsreader: Vaughan Savidge FRI Writer: Chris Fallon FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI Director: Rosalynd Ward FRI Composer: Simon Russell FRI Musician: Isobel Tombling FRI FRI 11:00 With Humble Duty Reports... b041yd48 (Listen) FRI After Labour's election victory in 1997, the MP and new FRI government whip Janet Anderson found herself in a role FRI unique in the British constitution. As Vice-Chamberlain of FRI the Royal Household, Janet was charged with writing a daily FRI message to Her Majesty the Queen on the proceedings in FRI Parliament. Janet's messages went beyond the usual humdrum, FRI regaling the Queen with a daily soap opera of life in the FRI House of Commons, from the disappearing transport minister FRI to the secret deals done with the Opposition to prevent the FRI viewing of a critical world cup match being interrupted by FRI parliamentary votes. Her accounts make vivid the characters, FRI rivalries and absurdities of the Palace of Westminster in FRI the first year of Tony Blair's government. FRI FRI Producer: Adam Bowen. FRI FRI 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b037jn8d (Listen) FRI Dangerous Dogs FRI FRI New sitcom where Britain's longest serving PCSO and FRI Britain's laziest make quite a pairing. FRI FRI Written by Dave Lamb (voice of Come Dine With Me) and FRI starring Richie Webb (Horrible Histories) & Nick Walker. FRI FRI This week, our heroes are dispatched to investigate a FRI nuisance caller and her dangerous dog - but stumble into the FRI local drugs racket. 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 b041yd4b (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b041yf8d (Listen) FRI Alyssia and Jessica - Time to Hit Delete FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who FRI believe it's high time to call time on their engagement with FRI social media - another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b041v2p0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b041v2p2 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b041yf8g (Listen) FRI Care in the Community FRI FRI At the end of this week of programmes examining psychiatry, FRI the medicalised model for treating mental illness, Martin FRI outlines the impact of reforms during the latter half of the FRI Twentieth Century that resulted in the closure of Britain's FRI Victorian asylums and a new policy of 'care in the FRI community'. FRI FRI Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, FRI University of London. FRI FRI Producer: Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b041yf8j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b041yr8t (Listen) FRI The Right Call FRI FRI Sally Griffiths' gripping drama about keeping secrets in a FRI tight-knit family. Following a sudden move to Swansea, Jo FRI and Adrian are forced to reassess their relationship with FRI their teenage daughter, Lexie. Trying to appear normal under FRI immense pressure begins to take its toll. FRI FRI Directed by Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI The writer FRI Sally and her screenwriting partner, Rachel Cuperman, are in FRI the middle of writing their third script for the TV series, FRI Midsomer Murders. Sally's Afternoon Dramas, Haunted and FRI Clean Slate both garnered excellent reviews. She is also a FRI Senior Script Reader for Working Title. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jo: Anastasia Hille FRI Adrian: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Lexie: Tamsin Topolski FRI Mair: Eiry Thomas FRI Becky: Carys Eleri FRI Director: Gemma Jenkins FRI Writer: Sally Griffiths FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b041yf8l (Listen) FRI Gloucestershire FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Gloucestershire. Answering local gardeners' questions are FRI Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 State of the Nation b041yf8n (Listen) FRI Pot Luck FRI FRI The second in a series of hard-hitting stories looking at FRI the lives of those living on the economic margins of society FRI in Britain today. In Lisa Blower's 'Pot Luck', a mother FRI finds self-worth through those who have nothing in FRI austerity-struck Stoke-on-Trent. The reader is Jaqueline FRI Redgewell. FRI FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Reader: Jacqueline Redgewell FRI Writer: Lisa Blower left full-time academia to become a FRI writer in 2006. Her story 'Broken Crockery' won The FRI Guardian's National Short Story Competition in 2009, and her FRI story 'Barmouth' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short FRI Story Award in 2013. Her first novel is titled 'Sitting FRI Ducks'. FRI FRI Some background to Pot Luck: seven questions with Lisa FRI Blower FRI FRI Why did FRI you respond to the brief in the way you did? What inspired FRI you? FRI I've FRI recently been writing a lot of working class fiction - a FRI novel, FRI short stories - so have been locked into reflecting FRI a working FRI class way of life for some time, more specifically, FRI in exploring my working class roots in Stoke-on-Trent and FRI the FRI impact of family and friends and their storytelling FRI ways upon my FRI fiction. So when asked to write a monologue for Radio 4, I FRI immediately FRI heard the voice of a working class matriarch who kept FRI company by feeding FRI the street whilst her private life was in disarray: the FRI idea being that there FRI is a public persona seeking some sort of status in the FRI community as part FRI of her veiling of a personal grief. FRI It FRI was not a character based upon anyone I knew. Rather, Mrs FRI Johnson was a FRI resurrection of a character in a novel I wrote for my PhD FRI back in 2010 and FRI she'd been bugging me for a while to get back on a page. FRI She was garrulous and FRI full of scruffy wisdom, politically minded but a voice FRI silenced by industrial FRI decline, and I've long been writing about women like this - FRI those that scramble FRI about the edges for the titbits, relatively unnoticed but FRI no FRI less full of life - wanting to reflect their generosity of FRI spirit and FRI their desire to matter and go on mattering. FRI FRI How, if at FRI all, did you research your story? FRI I've FRI been writing working class fiction for the past five years FRI so have been doing a FRI lot of research - academically, historically, socially - FRI with a particular FRI focus on the Potteries where I grew up: not because of FRI nostalgia, but because FRI Stoke intrigues me as a writer. It has such a history, a FRI wealth of FRI characters and stories, and no-one since Arnold Bennett has FRI any writer FRI really given it a voice. FRI FRI FRI FRI What FRI personal experience have you or people you know had of the FRI recession? FRI What's FRI the phrase? Professional poverty? Aren't we all living on FRI the never-never FRI someway or another? I think I'm more aware of how the cuts FRI have created FRI personal recessions, be it because of pensions, social FRI housing FRI reforms, redundancy, zero-hours contracts, hiked FRI up household FRI bills & university fees ... Peter robs Paul to pay FRI Peter and FRI the money has to come from somewhere... Though I do know FRI people who have had FRI their homes repossessed, had experience with bailiffs, been FRI rehoused in a place FRI run on meters, have gone to a food bank with a cap over FRI their eyes. FRI FRI FRI FRI Who are FRI your favourite historical writers on this theme? Do you FRI think it gets enough FRI attention from contemporary writers? FRI I FRI am a big fan of Alan Bennett, of Alan Sillitoe, of Nell FRI Dunn, and have long FRI attempted to channel their voices by updating their FRI characters in contemporary FRI situations. For me, they were writers writing about the FRI state by focusing upon FRI single households and the family dynamics within that FRI household, of the wider FRI politics affecting that household, of their class FRI expectations and failed ambitions. Do we write enough about FRI that now? FRI I am certainly. Getting it out there is another thing FRI entirely! FRI FRI FRI FRI Are FRI claimants of benefits are unfairly stereotyped? FRI I FRI don't think certain newspapers help. A good proportion of FRI benefit claimants are FRI ashamed to be doing so. FRI FRI FRI FRI What, if FRI any, place should food banks have in society? FRI There FRI have always been food banks. The church, charities, social FRI services, soup FRI kitchens... like everything on the margins of society, FRI until it affects you FRI directly you're not really aware of them or how much they FRI actually help FRI people. FRI FRI FRI FRI In some FRI areas of the country economic decline has been the reality FRI for generations. How FRI does a person in a depressed area like Stoke relate to the FRI global recession? FRI I FRI wouldn't call Stoke depressed. I'd call it hanging in there FRI and dusting itself FRI down. It's just been a city that hasn't had the cash FRI injections that the likes FRI of Manchester and Liverpool have enjoyed. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jaqueline Redgewell FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Writer: Lisa Blower FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b041yf8q (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b041yf8s (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b041yf8v (Listen) FRI Abbe and Eyal - Pen to Paper FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation remembering a courtship FRI conducted via pen and ink, and its romantic advantages over FRI today's glib communications via social media, proving once FRI again 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 b041yf8x (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b041v2p4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b041yr8w (Listen) FRI Series 43, Episode 3 FRI FRI Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team present a comic take on FRI the week's news. With guests Marcus Brigstocke, John FRI Finnemore, Laura Shavin and Grace Petrie. FRI FRI Written by the cast, with additional material from Sarah FRI Morgan and Andy Wolton. Produced by Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Panellist: John Finnemore FRI Panellist: Laura Shavin FRI Panellist: Grace Petrie FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b041yr8y (Listen) FRI The village hall is buzzing. Meanwhile, Jazzer and Roy make FRI a discovery. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee 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 Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b041yr90 (Listen) FRI Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film, media and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Razia Iqbal FRI Interviewed Guest: Fiona Shaw FRI Producer: Dymphna Flynn FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b041yd46 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b041yr92 (Listen) FRI George Eustice MP, Mary Creagh MP, Mark Goodway FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the Knowle FRI West Media Centre in Bristol as part of the Food Connections FRI Festival. With Farming Minister George Eustice MP, Shadow FRI Transport Secretary, Mary Creagh MP, and Mark Goodway from FRI the Bristol charity the Matthew Tree project. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b041yr94 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b041yr96 (Listen) FRI Omnibus Edition, Episode 2 FRI FRI In the second week of his series about the history of FRI psychology and the mind, Martin examines the medicalised FRI model for the care of mentally disturbed patients, FRI psychiatry. He visits a Victorian asylum, traces changing FRI treatments - from lobotomies and Electroconvulsive Therapy FRI to pharmacological solutions - and he considers the impact FRI of reforms that led to 'care in the community'. FRI FRI Producer: Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b041v2p6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b041yr98 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b041yr9b (Listen) FRI A Lovely Way to Burn, Episode 5 FRI FRI Stevie Flint has survived "The Sweats", a deadly virus FRI spreading rapidly through the population of London. FRI Convinced that her boyfriend, Dr Simon Sharkey, has been FRI murdered, she ignores the chaos on the streets around her to FRI continue her investigation into his death. FRI FRI Worryingly, it appears that she has herself become a target, FRI attacked in the car park at work. Now she is pinning her FRI hopes on the expertise of a computer hacker to gain access FRI to the secrets she believes lie within Simon's laptop. FRI FRI Apocalyptic thriller by the award-winning author Louise FRI Welsh. FRI FRI Reader: Nadine Marshall FRI FRI Abridger: Siân Preece FRI FRI Writer: Louise Welsh FRI FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nadine Marshall FRI Abridger: Sian Preece FRI Author: Louise Welsh FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b041xdgm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b041yr9d (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b041yr9g (Listen) FRI Suzanne and Julie - Rustic Rites FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between former May FRI Queens from Lustleigh in Devon, reflecting upon the pagan FRI roots of the coronation that marked their transition into FRI womanhood, and proving once again that it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
25 April, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 26/04/2014 - 02/05/2014
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