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SAT SATURDAY 17 MAY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04368l3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b043kj32 (Listen) SAT Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy, SAT Episode 5 SAT SAT It is twelve years since Tim Moore, the ultimate amateur, SAT slogged around the route of the Tour de France. At SAT forty-eight years old, and distraught by those riders who SAT are despoiling the heroic image of cycling, he decides it's SAT time to reacquaint his feet with cleats and show these soft SAT modern-day cyclists what a real challenge is. SAT SAT A brief internet search later, he discovers the 1914 Giro SAT d'Italia, the hardest bike race in history. Eighty-one SAT riders started and only eight finished, after enduring SAT cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails and even the SAT loss of an eye by one competitor. SAT SAT Undeterred, Tim sets off to cycle all 3,200km of it. For SAT authenticity, he decides to do it on a 100-year-old bike, SAT which, unburdened by relevant experience, he opts to build SAT himself. Wearing period leather goggles, a woollen jersey, SAT and with an account of the 1914 Giro as his trusty SAT companion, Tim sets off to tell the story of this historic SAT race, as well as the travails of a middle-aged man cycling SAT up a lot of large mountains on a mainly wooden bicycle. SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Stephen Mangan SAT Author: Tim Moore SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04368l5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04368l7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04368l9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04368lc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04368pq (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and SAT broadcaster Anna Magnusson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04368ps (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04368lf (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04368lh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0435kkn (Listen) SAT Life on Coquet Island SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Coquet Island, a sanctuary for some of SAT Britain's rarest nesting sea birds. It's also home to the SAT world's first 'puffin piano'... SAT SAT Coquet Island is an RSPB reserve which due to the rarity of SAT some of its winged visitors, is protected under European Law SAT and no-one is allowed to set foot on it without special SAT permission. There's no running water and no mains SAT electricity, but every summer a small, dedicated team of SAT wardens and volunteers lead by Paul Morrison take up SAT residence on Coquet Island to ensure that the thousands of SAT birds who migrate there will thrive and live secularly for SAT the duration of their stay, including Britain's rarest SAT nesting sea bird, the roseate tern. SAT SAT Just a mile off the coast of Amble, Northumberland, the SAT reserve is also rich in human history and has been occupied SAT since the 7th Century, initially as a monastic cell and SAT later a lighthouse station. The buildings now provide simple SAT accommodation for those who come to care for the birds. SAT There's no running water or mains power but should they SAT become stranded, assistant warden Wesley Davies has created SAT a board game called 'Coquet-opoly' to while away the SAT hours... and that's not all... SAT SAT Many thousands of nesting Sandwich, Arctic and common terns SAT accompany the roseates in May, June and July, whilst SAT thousands of puffins occupy the main part of the island - SAT and this year they will be treated to their own, fully SAT functioning piano... SAT SAT Each year Wesley creates new items for these naturally SAT curious creatures to play with (there's also been an Olympic SAT stadium and a pirate ship), the filming of which feeds into SAT social media outlets to raise awareness about the valuable SAT conservation work that takes place on Coquet to protect this SAT precious environment. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b043tg99 (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 b04368lk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b043tg9c (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b043tg9f (Listen) SAT Lulu SAT SAT Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein with singer Lulu SAT SAT Produced by Liz Pearson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Lulu SAT Producer: Liz Pearson SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b043tg9h (Listen) SAT Series 7, Golders Green, London SAT SAT This week Jay Rayner and the team are in Golders Green, an SAT area of North London known for its Jewish community. SAT SAT Answering questions on food and cooking from our audience SAT are school food adviser and restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, SAT Catalan inspired Scottish cook Rachel McCormack, food SAT historian Annie Gray and, for the first time, Israeli chef SAT Itamar Srulovich. SAT SAT The menu includes Chicken Soup, Salt Beef, Broad Beans and SAT Cheese Cake. Plus the panel discuss how to inspire a weary SAT Mum to keep cooking and whether there's such a thing as SAT traditional British-style food. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. SAT Produced by Peggy Sutton. SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Golders Green, London (2) SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b043tg9k (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b043tg9m (Listen) SAT The Tourists Have Gone SAT SAT Stories from reporters around the world. In this edition: SAT empty hotels and a deserted holiday coastline in Kenya as SAT tourists head home after a Foreign Office terrorism warning; SAT five years after the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, the SAT Sri Lankan government says the country's on the path to SAT ethnic reconciliation - but is it? The coming European SAT elections: will they reflect a growing wave of scepticism SAT about the effectiveness of pan-continental government? How a SAT huge public investment in art and culture has transformed SAT the once grimy port of Nantes into France's most vibrant SAT city and the disaster far from home which put an end to the SAT last independent kingdom of Scotland three hundred years SAT ago. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b043tg9p (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b04368fk (Listen) SAT Series 43, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the SAT week's news. With Mitch Benn, Pippa Evans and David SAT Quantick. SAT SAT Written by the cast with additional material from Gareth SAT Gwynn, Nadia Kamil and Bec Hill. Produced by Alexandra SAT Smith. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Panellist: Mitch Benn SAT Panellist: Pippa Evans SAT Panellist: David Quantick SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04368lm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04368lp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04368fr (Listen) SAT Sir Menzies Campbell MP, Lisa Duffy, Michael Fallon MP, SAT Sadiq Khan MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from St Anselms SAT Catholic School in Canterbury, Kent, with UKIP's Party SAT Director Lisa Duffy, Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan MP, SAT Energy Minister Michael Fallon MP & former Leader of the SAT Liberal Democrats Sir Ming Campbell MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b043w51b (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT Producer: Alex Lewis. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b015ms42 (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, The High Window SAT SAT By Raymond Chandler SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks SAT SAT When rare gold coin is stolen from her collection, Mrs SAT Murdoch hires private eye Philip Marlowe to find it. The SAT tough matriarch is convinced about the identity of the SAT thief, but Marlowe's own enquiries lead him elsewhere. He's SAT soon caught in the crossfire of a family at war with itself. SAT SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Produced by Claire Grove SAT SAT This series brings all the Philip Marlowe novels to Radio SAT 4's Saturday Play. The Big Sleep 1939, Farewell My Lovely SAT 1940, The High Window 1942, The Lady in the Lake 1943, The SAT Little Sister 1949 and The Long Goodbye 1953, and two lesser SAT known novels, Playback 1958 and Poodle Springs, unfinished SAT at the time of his death in 1959. SAT SAT Toby Stephens is best known for playing megavillain Gustav SAT Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) and SAT Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of SAT Jane Eyre (2006). In autumn 2010 Toby starred as a detective SAT in Vexed, a three-part comedic television series for BBC SAT Two. He also made his debut at the National Theatre as SAT George Danton in Danton's Death. SAT SAT Credits SAT Philip Marlowe: Toby Stephens SAT Mrs Murdoch: Judy Parfitt SAT Merle Davis: Jessica Raine SAT Leslie Murdoch: Patrick Kennedy SAT Detective Breeze: Joe Montana SAT Alex Nash: Stuart Milligan SAT Linda Conquest: Susie Riddell SAT Elisha Morningstar: Peter Polycarpou SAT Apartment Manager: Gerard McDermott SAT Lou Vannier: Carl Prekopp SAT Lois Nash: Alex Tregear SAT George Philips: James Lailey SAT Mr Shaw: Sean Baker SAT Delmar Hench: Alun Raglan SAT John: Simon Bubb SAT Author: Raymond Chandler SAT Abridger: Robin Brooks SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Producer: Claire Grove SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b043w51d (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Michelle Knight was held prisoner by Ariel Castro for 11 SAT years. She suffered unimaginable cruelty which included SAT almost daily rape and being chained up in the basement for SAT months on end. She talks about how she managed to survive SAT the ordeal. SAT SAT Ben Brooks-Dutton's wife was knocked down and killed by a SAT car in London as he walked home with her pushing their young SAT son in his buggy. He describes how he has helped his son SAT cope with losing his mother and why he decided to share his SAT grief with others on his blog. SAT SAT The format of the English and Welsh marriage Certificate has SAT remained unchanged since 1837 where only the name and SAT occupation of fathers and not mothers is registered. So why SAT are women now campaigning for this to change? SAT SAT As a new Patricia Highsmith film is about to be released who SAT was the creator of so many amoral icons? SAT Music and chat from the South African opera star Pretty SAT Yende who was inspired as a child by a TV advert. SAT SAT Nasa's chief scientist Dr Ellen Stofan on growing lettuce in SAT space and the latest on the mission to Mars. SAT SAT And the reflections of a telegraphist Annie May Martin on SAT her role in the Women's Army Auxilary in 1918 and about a SAT project being launched to create a digital memorial to mark SAT the lives of more than 8 million people in WW1. SAT SAT Music from Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Soderberg also SAT known as First Aid Kit. SAT SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT Editor : Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Michelle Knight SAT Interviewed Guest: Benjamin Brooks-Dutton SAT Interviewed Guest: Pretty Yende SAT Interviewed Guest: Ellen Stofan SAT Interviewed Guest: Annie May Martin SAT Performer: First Aid Kit SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b043w51g (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04368ps (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04368lr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04368lt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04368lw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b043w51j (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nick Frost, Francesca Martinez, Terry Deary, SAT Heather O'Neill, Nikki Bedi, Lee Fields, The Handsome SAT Family SAT SAT Clive kicks off with the star of 'Spaced', 'Shaun of the SAT Dead',' Hot Fuzz', and 'The World's End', actor, comedian SAT and screenwriter Nick Frost. Mr Sloane is a touching love SAT story about social misfits, Jeremy Sloane and Robin. Sloane SAT is a recently separated middle-aged man, Robin a SAT twentysomething American girl lost in Watford. While Sloane SAT finds refuge in Gilbert and Sullivan, Robin yearns for the SAT free-loving 70s. As a bonus, the incomparable Olivia Colman SAT plays estranged wife Janet. SAT SAT Clive chats to author Terry Deary, whose style of gory SAT history has been popular with children since the early SAT 1990s. Terry now brings his unique telling of history to SAT adults with 'Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways'; a SAT concise and witty history of feuds, frauds, robberies, riots SAT and dangerous drivers. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi sings Lullabies for Little Criminals with author SAT Heather O'Neill, whose new book 'The Girl who was Saturday SAT Night' tells the story of Nouschka, the TV child star SAT daughter of Quebec's most famous musician. A high school SAT drop-out at sixteen and a Beauty Queen at nineteen, SAT Nouschka's back in night school at twenty, with a SAT documentary crew filming her life. SAT SAT Clive joins the wobbly revolution with award-winning SAT comedian Francesca Martinez, whose new book asks 'What The SAT **** is Normal?! Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of SAT two, Francesca ponders what you do when you're labelled SAT abnormal in a world obsessed with normality and what the SAT **** do you do if you're, gasp... disabled? The wobbly SAT revolution starts here! SAT SAT With Music from Lee Fields, who performs 'Magnolia' from new SAT album Emma Jean. And from The Handsome Family who perform SAT Far From Any Road, soundtrack to the TV series 'True SAT Detective', from their classic album Singing Bones. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Clive Anderson, Nick Frost, Francesca SAT Martinez, Terry Deary, Heather O'Neill, Nikki Bedi, Lee SAT Fields, The Handsome Family (2) SAT SAT Nick Frost SAT ‘Mr Sloane’ is on Sky Atlantic on Friday 23rd May at 21.00. SAT 'Cuban Fury' is available on DVD on Monday 9th June. SAT SAT Terry Deary SAT ‘Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways’ is published by SAT W&N and available now. SAT SAT Heather O'Neill SAT 'The Girl who was Saturday Night' is published by Quercus SAT and available now. SAT SAT Francesca Martinez SAT ‘What The **** is Normal?!’ is published by Virgin Books and SAT available on 22nd May. SAT SAT The Handsome Family SAT The Handsome Family's albums‘Singing Bones’ and 'Wilderness’ SAT are available now on Loose Music. SAT SAT Lee Fields SAT ‘Emma Jean’ is available on 2nd June on Truth & Soul. SAT Lee Fields & The Expressions are playing at XOYO, London on SAT Wednesday 4th June. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b043w51l (Listen) SAT Series 16, Putting the House in Order SAT SAT Topical drama. Writers create a fictional response to a SAT story in the week's news. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b043w51n (Listen) SAT David Hepworth; Andreas Gursky exhibition; Ned Beauman's new SAT novel SAT SAT When Albert Einstein died in 1955, the pathologist SAT performing his autopsy stole the brain , hoping to find out SAT truths about the nature of genius. A new play by Nick Payne SAT at London's Bush Theatre uses it as a starting point for an SAT exploration of how our mind makes us who we are.Touchy Feely SAT is the latest film from leading mumblecore director Lynn SAT Shelton. It's the story of a masseuse who develops a SAT loathing for skin and a dentist who seems to have SAT extraordinary unprecedented gift for healing. How much of SAT their skill lies in their own minds or those of their SAT customers? SAT In 2013 Ned Beauman was the youngest name on Granta's 20 SAT best authors under 40. His previous novel The Teleportation SAT Accident was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His latest - SAT Glow - is about an imaginary brand new psychotropic drug SAT flooding the streets of London, but who is the sinister SAT force behind its development and ubiquity? SAT Penny Dreadful is a new TV series that creates a gory SAT fictionalised Victorian London where many famous figures SAT congregate - Frankenstein, Jack The Ripper, Dorian Grey and SAT characters from Dracula. It's a high budget production, with SAT a big name cast and screenwriter; how can they put a new SAT twist on the ewll-trodden gothic horror genre? SAT Andreas Gursky is a German photographer whose work is SAT characterised by large scale manipulated images. Recently SAT his Rheine 2 became the most expensive photograph ever sold SAT at auction. An exhibition of his work at London's White Cube SAT Gallery in Bermondsey shows a range of his montages. Does SAT their size and scope captivate or alienate our reviewers? SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by David Hepworth, Kit Davis and SAT Michael Arditti. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Glow SAT Glow by Ned Beauman is published by Sceptre. SAT SAT Andreas Gursky SAT Andreas Gursky SAT exhibition is at White Cube Gallery London, 30 April - 6 SAT July 2014. SAT SAT Touchy Feely SAT Written and directed by Lynn Shelton, Touchy Feely is in SAT cinemas from Friday 16 May, certificate 15. SAT SAT Incognito SAT Written by Nick Payne, Directed by Joe Murphy, SAT Incognito SAT is at the Bush Theatre London until 21 June 2014. SAT SAT Penny Dreadful SAT An eight part series, SAT Penny Dreadful SAT begins on Tuesday 20 May, 9pm, Sky Atlantic. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: David Hepworth SAT Interviewed Guest: Kit Davis SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Arditti SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b043w51q (Listen) SAT Rebel Rebel SAT SAT Jonathan Agnew, the BBC's cricket correspondent and host of SAT Test Match Special, looks back at the rebel cricket Tours to SAT Apartheid era South Africa. Between 1981-1990 teams SAT 'representing' England, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Australia SAT all toured South Africa, despite a well established sporting SAT boycott being in place. SAT SAT The Tours were often shrouded in secrecy and rumour with SAT many of the cricketing authorities and players in South SAT Africa unaware the tours were actually taking place until SAT the teams landed. Those players that decided to tour were SAT richly rewarded with rumours some of the more high profile SAT names were offered as much as $250,000 to tour, but the SAT decision to play came with consequences. The tours caused a SAT public outcry with headlines on the front and back pages, SAT questions and debates in parliaments, players were banned SAT from cricket and some, especially the West Indian players, SAT were totally ostracised by their communities and had to make SAT a new life elsewhere. SAT SAT Rebel Rebel tells the story of these tours and finds out SAT from those who decided to play was it, with the benefit of SAT hindsight, worth the risks to their careers and reputations. SAT Interviewees include Sir Vivian Richards, John Emburey, SAT Clive Rice, Richard Ellison, Franklyn Stephenson, Nigel SAT Felton and Andre Odendaal. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Sharman SAT A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The Barchester Chronicles b042z668 (Listen) SAT Anthony Trollope's Dr Thorne, Episode 2 SAT SAT Anthony Trollope's Dr Thorne by Michael Symmons Roberts SAT SAT Back from a term at Cambridge, young Frank Gresham is more SAT determined than ever to win the hand of Mary Thorne. Frank's SAT mother Lady Arabella, is equally determined that such a SAT match will never take place, for Frank must marry money to SAT save the indebted Greshambury estate. SAT SAT Dr Thorne is the third instalment in a new series of SAT dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's complete Barchester SAT Chronicles. Dr Thorne has always kept the parentage of his SAT niece and ward Mary a secret. When young Frank Gresham, the SAT heir to the aristocratic Greshambury estate, expresses his SAT desire to marry Mary, she suddenly finds her standing in SAT society under scrutiny. Dr Thorne realises that the secret SAT he has concealed for so long can no longer stay secret. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SAT Dr Thorne: Iain Glen SAT Frank Gresham: Doug Booth SAT Mary Thorne: Pippa Bennett-Warner SAT Roger Scratcherd: Ron Cook SAT Lady Scratcherd: Lisa Tarbuck SAT Louis Scractherd: Keiran Hodgson SAT Lady Arabella: Pippa Haywood SAT Squire Gresham: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Revered Oriel: Nick Haverson SAT Patience Oriel: Jaimi Barbakoff SAT Director: Susan Roberts SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches SAT Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SAT Author: Anthony Trollope SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04368m0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b0435j93 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Mark Graham SAT SAT Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. SAT SAT 22:30 Wireless Nights b01sdrrr (Listen) SAT Series 2, Nightwatch SAT SAT Jarvis Cocker becomes a nightwatchman in a high rise office SAT block as he continues his nocturnal exploration of the human SAT condition. SAT SAT Decked out in regulation uniform and armed with a powerful SAT torch, Jarvis starts his rounds protecting London's 36 SAT storey Euston Tower. Along the way, he hears tales from SAT others keeping watch during the dark hours. SAT SAT Among those who share their stories of late night vigilance SAT are the parents of a young girl with a rare condition which SAT causes her to stop breathing when she falls asleep; a man at SAT a control centre in Portsmouth who monitors the Indian Ocean SAT for Somali pirates and a former spy recalling a dangerous SAT meeting with a Middle Eastern agent. SAT SAT For Jarvis, the strain of this late lonely night starts to SAT takes its toll as he attempts to play table tennis - with SAT himself. SAT SAT As ever, the stories in tonight's dark vigil are accompanied SAT by Jarvis' own musical selections. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b042zcqm (Listen) SAT Series 4, Birmingham 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 Birmingham, "The 3rd SAT Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst SAT delighting the current ones. SAT SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are History of SAT Medicine, Social Policy and American Studies and the SAT questions range from the Russo-Japanese war of 1805 and SAT Tristan & Isolde to Candy Crush Corner and monkey glands... SAT SAT The show is recorded on location at a different University SAT each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of SAT their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on SAT an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course SAT meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but SAT with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and One Direction... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT SAT In this series, the universities are Bristol, Kent, SAT Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Nottingham & Aberystwyth. SAT SAT Overflow (incl Cast Lists) SAT The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on SAT The Now Show is also someone who delights in all facets of SAT knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational SAT background) but in the sciences as well. As well as "The Now SAT Show" he has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on SAT subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The SAT Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" - an investigation into SAT awards ceremonies - as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio SAT 4's 2008 Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, SAT called "The Genuine Particle". This makes him the perfect SAT host for a show which aims to be an intellectual, fulfilling SAT and informative quiz, but with wit and a genuine delight in SAT exploring the subjects at hand. SAT SAT The 3rd Degree is a Pozzitive production, produced by David SAT Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm SAT Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, The Brig Society, SAT Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, SAT Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes SAT Off, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, The Castle and SAT even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include SAT Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The SAT Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony SAT Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's SAT dinnerladies. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive Television production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b042z66d (Listen) SAT Food Glorious Food SAT SAT Roger McGough introduces delicious poems to make your mouth SAT water from the Bristol Food Connections Festival, with SAT readers John Telfer, Katy Sobey and James Fleet. SAT SAT There's fruit: Wild Strawberries by Robert Graves and SAT Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney; something substantial SAT to get your teeth into: Bread by Brendan Kennelly, A Jar of SAT Honey by Jacob Polley, and a sweet treat: Chocs by Carol Ann SAT Duffy. SAT SAT Perfectly balanced and nutritious: join the audience at SAT Bristol's Food Connections Festival for this delightful SAT feast of poetic treats. SAT SAT Presenter...Roger McGough SAT Readers...John Telfer, Katy Sobey and James Fleet SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT The Poetry Diet SAT SAT By Cathy Bryant SAT SAT Available online here: SAT http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/cathybryant SAT SAT A Jar of Honey SAT SAT By Jacob Polley SAT SAT From SAT The Brink SAT SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT Be Gentle When You Touch Bread SAT SAT Anon SAT SAT SAT Bread SAT SAT By Brendan Kennelly SAT SAT From SAT Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems (1960-2004) SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe Books SAT SAT Blackberry-Picking SAT SAT By Seamus Heaney SAT SAT From SAT Selected Poems 1966–1987 SAT SAT Published by SAT SAT Farrar, Straus and Giroux SAT SAT Rhubarb Pie SAT SAT By Ruth Pitter SAT SAT From SAT Poems 1926-1966 SAT SAT Published by Barrie & Rockcliff (The Cresset Press) SAT SAT Loveliest of Pies SAT SAT By Peter de Vries SAT SAT From SAT The SAT Oxford Book of American Light Verse SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT The Rhyming Diner SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT From SAT Slapstick SAT SAT Published by Puffin SAT SAT SAT Go to Bed with a Cheese and Pickle Sandwich SAT SAT By Mandy Coe SAT SAT From SAT 101 Poems that Could Save Your Life SAT Published by Harper Collins SAT SAT SAT Pour Commencer SAT SAT By Jon Stallworthy SAT SAT From SAT The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry SAT SAT Published by Norton SAT SAT SAT Mermaid and Chips SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT Unpublished SAT SAT SAT Henry King SAT SAT By Hilaire Belloc SAT SAT From SAT The Faber Book of Nonsense Verse SAT SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT SAT Wild Strawberries SAT SAT By Robert Graves SAT SAT From SAT The Faber Book of Children’s Verse SAT SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT SAT Chocs SAT SAT By Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT From SAT Sensational! Poems Inspired by the Five Senses SAT SAT Published by Macmillan SAT SAT SAT The After Dinner Speaker SAT SAT By Roger McGough SAT SAT From SAT Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: John Telfer SAT Reader: Kate Sobey SAT Reader: James Fleet SAT Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 MAY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b043pw99 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Hidden Agendas b01ghgk9 (Listen) SUN Reading the Signs SUN SUN Three stories from Wales about secrets and lies, even when SUN they're with good intentions. When Gwyn goes to investigate SUN a fire on a Welsh farm, he suspects the owners are hiding SUN something, but discovers they are not the only ones. SUN SUN Alix Nathan's story is read by Keiron Self. SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Nigel Lewis. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Keiron Self SUN Producer: Nigel Lewis SUN Writer: Alix Nathan SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b043pw9c (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b043pw9f (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b043pw9h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b043pw9k (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b043w5t3 (Listen) SUN St Mary's, Ilmington SUN SUN The bells of St. Mary's Church, Ilmington, Warwickshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b0435j93 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 22:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b043pw9m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b043w5t5 (Listen) SUN Labyrinths SUN SUN John McCarthy makes his way to the centre of the labyrinth. SUN SUN Labyrinths have been created and used throughout the world SUN in many countries, cultures and spiritual contexts. Carved SUN onto rock, dug into the earth and built into cathedral SUN floors these ancient patterns have been used for meditation, SUN to tell stories and as a metaphor for life's journey. SUN SUN John McCarthy walks a labyrinth with Jan Sellers, a Quaker SUN and labyrinth facilitator, and discusses the search for SUN peace and stillness as well as the fear that we might SUN encounter a monster at the centre. SUN The programme includes readings from works by Ellen Meloy, SUN Ted Hughes, Charles Rangley-Wilson and John Ashberry with SUN music from Johnny Cash, The Unthanks, Gluck and Paul Giger. SUN SUN The readers are Peter Marinker and Emily Taaffe. SUN SUN Producer: Natalie Steed SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b043w5t7 (Listen) SUN A Shell Nesting Bee SUN SUN Solitary bees build their nests in some interesting places, SUN but none more so than Osmia bicolor, a mason bee that's SUN preferred real estate is the empty shells of snails. SUN Emerging in spring a few weeks after the males, the mated SUN female spends two days lining and provisioning the shell SUN before laying her eggs and sealing the shell. But she's not SUN finished yet. Perhaps to prevent hungry predators in search SUN of its original slimy occupant from destroying her nest, the SUN snail bee hides the shell under a wigwam of twigs and SUN sticks. Join presenter Trai Anfield and naturalist John SUN Walters as they look for this pioneering little bee on the SUN chalk hillsides above Cerne Abbas. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b043pw9p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b043pw9r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b043wk06 (Listen) SUN Homophobia in Church Schools; Pope in the Holy Land; Baha'i SUN Cemetery Bulldozed SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b043wk08 (Listen) SUN Anthony Nolan SUN SUN Olivia Colman presents The Radio 4 Appeal for the charity SUN Anthony Nolan. SUN Registered charity: 803716/SC038827 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Anthony Nolan'. SUN SUN Anthony Nolan SUN Every 20 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a SUN blood cancer, such as leukaemia. For many, a bone marrow SUN transplant is their last chance of survival – but only if SUN they can find a matching donor. SUN Anthony Nolan SUN the UK’s blood cancer charity, has been saving lives for SUN four decades by matching remarkable people willing to donate SUN their bone marrow to patients in desperate need of a SUN transplant. SUN At the moment, for every person Anthony Nolan helps, there's SUN another they can't find a match for. The charity’s vision is SUN to save the life of everyone who needs a bone marrow SUN transplant. SUN SUN SUN Making transplant matches SUN SUN Anthony Nolan has over 500,000 people on their register and SUN every time someone comes to them in need of a transplant, SUN they check their register for a match. The charity SUN facilitates more than 1,000 transplants every year. SUN SUN SUN SUN Research SUN SUN Anthony Nolan undertakes ground-breaking research to make SUN transplants as successful as possible, including how to make SUN the best matches between patients and donors, and how to SUN ensure patients have the best quality of life possible after SUN their transplant. SUN SUN SUN Vital information services SUN SUN They provide information to patients and their families SUN regarding all aspects of stem cell or bone marrow SUN transplantation through their booklets, website and online SUN forum. They offer support for patients throughout their SUN transplant journey from finding a match to life after SUN transplant. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b043pw9w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b043pw9y (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b043wk0b (Listen) SUN Finding healing for wounded people SUN SUN From King's College Chapel, Aberdeen, with the Chaplain, the SUN Rev Easter Smart, and the Director of the University's SUN Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability, Professor SUN John Swinton who explores the links between brokenness and SUN wholeness in body mind and spirit. Gospel Reading: Luke 19: SUN 1-10 SUN SUN With the Chapel Choir directed by Professor David Smith. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04368ft (Listen) SUN Testing Times SUN SUN As hundreds of thousands of young people get ready to sit SUN exams, Mary Beard reflects on exam season - past and SUN present. SUN SUN The Cambridge don describes how the "tough, engaging and SUN intelligent young people" she has taught for years "suddenly SUN morph into nervous wrecks, hanging a bit pathetically on SUN your every word, as they have never, quite rightly, done SUN before". SUN SUN She talks about the extraordinary similarities between exams SUN in the 1800s and today...the "curmudgeonly gloom that SUN greeted the students' efforts" sounds very familiar. SUN SUN Michael Gove and his friends - she suggests - might like to SUN take note that complaints about poor performance have been SUN around for quite some time! SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01s8mng (Listen) SUN Swift SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David SUN Attenborough presents the Swift. Swifts live in the sky, SUN feeding, mating and sleeping on the wing. Their feet are so SUN reduced they cannot stand particularly well on land, only SUN the near vertical surfaces on which they build their nest. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Swift (Apus apus) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b043wk0d (Listen) SUN We ask when will there be a cure for cancer? hear a radio SUN station made up entirely of breakfast shows; look at the SUN geo-politics of space and Susan Rae makes a Summer pudding. SUN Reviewing the papers: columnist Christina Odone, Barbican SUN boss Sir Nicholas Kenyon and broadcaster Nihal. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Paddy O'Connell SUN Editor-of-the-Day: Amanda Lewis SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b043wk0g (Listen) SUN Eddie treats Clarrie, and Bridge Farm in inspected. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Maurice Horton: Philip Fox SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Lindsey Peters: Lisa Ellis SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b043wk0j (Listen) SUN Alison Moyet SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer, Alison Moyet. SUN SUN She's won three Brit awards, sold tens of millions in record SUN sales and her career has spanned over 30 years. It all SUN kicked off in 1981; just three months after forming her SUN first band "Yazoo" she was on Top of The Pops performing her SUN first hit. SUN SUN Given that remarkably smooth start it might be tempting to SUN think her achievements have come easy - they haven't. She SUN found growing up tough, had prolonged agoraphobia and SUN depression and weight problems cast their shadow. SUN SUN Now in her early fifties she says, "I was always an odd SUN girl, I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a SUN square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created SUN a lot of neurosis for myself." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Alison Moyet SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b042zcqt (Listen) SUN Series 13, Episode 6 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. Tony Hawks, Susan Calman, Phill Jupitus and SUN Miles Jupp are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: School, SUN Bears, Underwear and Bottles. 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: Tony Hawks SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Phill Jupitus SUN Panellist: Miles Jupp SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b043wk0l (Listen) SUN Fish Farming SUN SUN Fields of Fish - The huge rise in farmed fish and the people SUN trying to make it sustainable. The world is now producing SUN more farmed fish than farmed beef. Sheila Dillon discovers SUN how fish farming works and hears concerns about its impact SUN on the environment and fish welfare. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b043pwb0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b043wk0n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Invention of Brazil b043wk0q (Listen) SUN Getulio Vargas and the USA SUN SUN From giant factory farm for Europeans to modern BRIC SUN economy, the story of Brazil's transformation is captured in SUN this final programme in the life of Getulio Vargas - SUN moderniser, dictator, and finally democratically elected SUN president. In the final part of the Invention of Brazil, SUN Misha Glenny explores the life of Vargas, the man who SUN changed Brazil. SUN SUN "I was struck by how short he was ... the crowd went wild SUN with adulation, an enormous mass of people. Their SUN spontaneous shouts made me think I was in Italy, watching SUN one of those fascist rallies." Unnamed public official, SUN seeing Vargas for the first time. SUN SUN Vargas came to power in 1930 and proved an expert at keeping SUN himself in power. Initially he styled himself on Mussolini - SUN the story of why he took Brazil into the Second World War on SUN the side of the Allies is central here. As also are the SUN events leading up to his suicide while still in power. With SUN contributions from anthropologist Lilia Schwarz, Professor SUN David Brookshaw, Peter Fry, and author Ana Maria Machado SUN whose father was arrested by Vargas several times. SUN SUN Presenter: Misha Glenny SUN Producer: Miles Warde. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04368fc (Listen) SUN Bristol Food Connections Festival SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the SUN Bristol Food Connections Festival. Answering the audience SUN questions are Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew SUN Wilson. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Q: When should I plant my tomatoes? SUN A: Don't put them out too early. Put them out in the day and SUN bring them back in at night until the second week of May. SUN SUN Q: Can old feather duvets be recycled in the garden? SUN A: You can compost the feathers in layers. The feathers are SUN nearly 50% nitrogen, so it's very nutritious. You could SUN cover the feathers with grass clippings and it would work as SUN a feed for roses. Or you could bury the duvet beneath thin, SUN sandy soil and this would act as a buffer, retaining SUN moisture and nutrients. SUN SUN Q. I have Spanish Bluebells in my garden, and there are wild SUN native Bluebells across the fence. What should I do? SUN A. If you were concerned about cross-pollination, you could SUN dig your Spanish Bluebells up, but it may well be too late. SUN Research does suggest that cross-pollination is perhaps not SUN as much of a threat as initially thought. SUN SUN Q. What's the best way to prune a mature Magnolia SUN Soulangeana? SUN A. Prune cautiously and gently. Remove a couple of branches SUN and see how the plant reacts. SUN SUN Q. How can I get a Swiss Cheese Plant - Monstera Delicosa - SUN to flower? SUN A. Put in a big pot and ease the plant into a position where SUN it gets lots of light. Be careful, because if you move it SUN straight into the bright light, the leaves could scorch. Use SUN seaweed spray to encourage growth and maintain a high SUN humidity level. The fruit that follows the flower is SUN delicious too! SUN SUN Q. How can I get my Rhubarb (transplanted two years ago) to SUN thrive? SUN A. Make sure it gets enough water, consider feeding it and SUN be patient. Make sure you never let it flower and don't SUN plant it in full sun. Take the best buds off the edges of SUN the crown and replant those. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b043wk0s (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about the silence around SUN childhood sexual abuse, love and marriage late in life, and SUN childhood friends rediscovered, from Devon, Birmingham and SUN London. 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 The Barchester Chronicles b043wk0v (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's Dr Thorne, Episode 3 SUN SUN Anthony Trollope's Dr Thorne by Michael Symmons Roberts SUN SUN After an enforced year away from Mary Thorne, Frank returns SUN to Greshambury. Yet, with rumours that Frank did not spend SUN his year alone and Louis deciding to re-direct his SUN attentions to Mary, Lady Arabella is ever hopeful that Frank SUN will do his duty and marry money. SUN SUN Written by Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Directed by Susan Roberts SUN Produced by Charlotte Riches SUN SUN The Barchester Chronicles are Anthony Trollope's much-loved SUN series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life SUN set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and SUN the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the SUN lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural SUN gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful SUN set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately SUN involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of SUN love and friendship across the years. SUN SUN Credits SUN Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SUN Dr Thorne: Iain Glen SUN Frank Gresham: Doug Booth SUN Mary Thorne: Pippa Bennett-Warner SUN Lady Scratcherd: Lisa Tarbuck SUN Louis Scractherd: Keiran Hodgson SUN Lady Arabella: Pippa Haywood SUN Squire Gresham: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Miss Dunstable: Hattie Morahan SUN Patience Oriel: Jaimi Barbakoff SUN Director: Susan Roberts SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches SUN Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b043wk0x (Listen) SUN Joseph O'Connor - who first came to international fame with SUN his 2002 historical novel "Star of the Sea" - joins Mariella SUN Frostrup to talk about his new book, The Thrill Of It All, SUN an account of the rollercoaster life of a fictional band in SUN the 80s. Four musicians who meet in the unglamourous SUN surrounding of Luton Poly and form a band called The Ships SUN in the Night take the eighties music world by storm although SUN success brings inevitable conflict - and disillusion soon SUN sets in. Told in the distinctive style of a faux music SUN biography, Joseph discusses his own experiences of the music SUN world as older brother to his pop star sister Sinead. SUN SUN As Patricia Highsmith's novel The Two Faces of January hits SUN the cinema screens this week crime writer Louise Welsh and SUN biographer Andrew Wilson discuss the life and personality of SUN the writer who is credited with creating the first likeable SUN psychopath in popular fiction - Tom Ripley. Why does the SUN moral ambivalence that lies at the heart of Highsmith's work SUN continue to resonate, and why - as she said herself - did SUN she like to write about "cruel deeds"? SUN SUN Another in the occasional series of insider tip offs from SUN the publishing world, Chatto and Windus publisher Clara SUN Farmer recommends Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. SUN SUN And inside novelist, comedian and broadcaster David SUN Baddiel's writing room the celebrated author talks about the SUN distractions posed by the internet - and his exercise bike! SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Beautiful Shadow A life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew SUN Wilson - Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson SUN The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh - Publisher: John Murray SUN A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh - Publisher: John SUN Murray SUN SUN SUN SUN By Patricia Highsmith - Publisher: Little, Brown SUN Strangers on a Train SUN Carol SUN The Talented Mr Ripley SUN This Sweet Sickness SUN The Two Faces of January SUN The Glass Cell SUN SUN SUN SUN The Thrill of It All by Joseph O'Connor - Publisher: SUN Bloomsbury SUN Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of The Thrill of it All by Joseph SUN O'Connor SUN The Thrill of it All: Chapter 1 SUN by Joseph O'Connor SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Joseph O'Connor SUN Interviewed Guest: Louise Welsh SUN Interviewed Guest: Andrew Wilson SUN Interviewed Guest: Clara Farmer SUN Interviewed Guest: David Baddiel SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b043wk0z (Listen) SUN Live Audience Requests at Bristol Food Connections Festival SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of the programme's SUN most-requested poems, as chosen by the audience at Bristol SUN Food Connections festival. SUN SUN With readers James Fleet, Alex Lanipekun and Pippa Haywood. SUN SUN No emailing or posting requests this time: here Roger comes SUN eyeball-to-eyeball with his listeners to find out why they SUN want the poem they've chosen. SUN SUN Will it be WB Yeats, Maya Angelou, Shakespeare or Robert SUN Frost? Roger and readers won't know until the audience make SUN their choice. SUN SUN Readers...James Fleet, Alex Lanipekun and Pippa Haywood SUN Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN Still I Rise SUN SUN By Maya Angelou SUN SUN SUN The Lake Isle of Innisfree SUN SUN By WB Yeats SUN SUN SUN Timothy Winters SUN SUN By Charles Causley SUN SUN SUN To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train SUN SUN By Frances Cornford SUN SUN SUN To His Coy Mistress SUN SUN By Andrew Marvell SUN SUN SUN ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’ SUN SUN By Elizabeth Barrett Browning SUN SUN SUN When You are Old SUN SUN By WB Yeats SUN SUN SUN The Naming of Parts SUN SUN By Henry Reed SUN SUN SUN Not Waving but Drowning SUN SUN By Stevie Smith SUN SUN SUN Tarantella SUN SUN By Hilaire Belloc SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: James Fleet SUN Reader: Alex Lanipekun SUN Reader: Pippa Haywood SUN Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b042ztrk (Listen) SUN Street Slaves SUN SUN The Government has introduced a draft Modern Slavery Bill SUN which is aimed at making it simpler to prosecute human SUN traffickers and which will bring in life sentences for such SUN offences. SUN SUN But who are the victims of modern day slavery in the UK and SUN how organised are the gangs who prey upon them? SUN SUN While much concern has focused on people trafficked into the SUN country, Jane Deith reveals how the most vulnerable in SUN society such as the homeless and people with learning SUN difficulties are being targeted by gangs who pick them off SUN the streets with the offer of money and accommodation. But SUN many say they end up working long hours for little or no pay SUN and are too frightened to leave. Some - including people SUN from the UK - are taken abroad to countries such as Sweden SUN and Norway to pave driveways and other labouring jobs. SUN Others are working in the construction industry here but SUN being paid much less than the minimum wage. SUN SUN Police say the traffickers and those who exploit the SUN homeless and vulnerable are highly organised and often use SUN their victims' identities to open bank accounts and commit SUN further crimes such as benefit fraud, netting thousands of SUN pounds and leaving their victims with huge debts. SUN SUN So who's monitoring the marginalised? Will the new Bill do SUN enough to deal with the dark side of Britain's labour SUN market? SUN SUN Reporter: Jane Deith SUN SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN Domestic Servitude SUN The Brixton Maoists SUN Up to the Job? SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b043w51l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b043pwb2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b043pwb4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b043pwb6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b043wk11 (Listen) SUN Well I'm Peter Curran and I'm presenting Pick of the Week SUN and what we really set out to do, and the feeling I hope the SUN listener will take away is a lasting impression of the a SUN week in radio from which the best bits have been... picked. SUN Personally I was enchanted by - Debbie Harry, Hip Hop, SUN Cycling, stories of Sleep, Modern Slavery...and an elephant SUN playing a piano. It's is of course down to the individual to SUN make their own choice, but I do hope people feel willing to SUN be part of that essential presenter/listener equation. SUN SUN The Birth of Blondie (Radio 2, 10 pm, Wednesday 14 May) SUN SUN Word of Mouth (Radio 4, 4 pm, Tuesday 13 May) SUN SUN Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section 2/6 (Radio 4, 6.30 pm, SUN Tuesday 13 May) SUN SUN Ghost Writing in Hip Hop (Radio 1xtra, 11 pm, Sunday 11 May) SUN SUN Today (Radio 4 at 6 a.m, all week) SUN SUN In Touch (Radio 4, 8.40pm, 13 May) SUN SUN Can A Computer Write Shakespeare (Radio 4, 11.30 pm, SUN Wednesday 14 May) SUN SUN File on 4 (Radio 4 at 8 p.m., Tuesday 13th May) SUN SUN Arts Extra (Radio Ulster 6.30 pm, Wednesday 14 May) SUN SUN Try A Little Tenderness: The Lost Legacy of Little Miss SUN Cornshucks (Radio 4, 11.30am, Tuesday 13 May) SUN SUN Book of the Week: Gironimo! (Radio 4, 9.45 am, all week) SUN SUN Outlook (World Service, all week). SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b043wk13 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Bird Island b043wk17 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN SUN EPISODE THREE: SUN SUN Ben, a young scientist working in Antarctica, tries to adapt SUN to the loneliness by keeping a cheery audio diary on his SUN Dictaphone. This week, Graham teaches Ben to abseil and the SUN bathroom lock in the Unit base is broken. SUN SUN Written by ..... Katy Wix SUN Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani SUN SUN ABOUT BIRD ISLAND: SUN SUN An atmospheric comedy about a cheery scientist based in SUN Sub-Antarctica. Starring Reece Shearsmith, Julian SUN Rhind-Tutt, Alison Steadman and Katy Wix. SUN SUN On the one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime. On the SUN other, he's trapped in a vast icy landscape with a dodgy SUN internet connection and a dictaphone. Loneliness is SUN something of a problem. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us SUN in the form of an audio 'log'. SUN SUN His fellow scientist Graham should alleviate this sense of SUN isolation, but the tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy SUN blokes, so they stumble through yet another mumbled SUN exchange. Not to mention the new arrival Jane, who Ben is SUN even more awkward around, for reasons that aren't entirely SUN clear to him. SUN SUN Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the SUN Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an SUN earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very SUN endearing. We eavesdrop as he chats awkwardly with Graham or SUN Jane, phones his mother or talks to himself, as he often SUN does. We also hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the SUN Squawks and screeches of the birds and the vast expanse SUN outside. Oh, and ice. Lots of ice. SUN SUN Bird Island is written by Katy Wix, half of sketch comedy SUN Duo 'Anna and Katy'. Katy is also an actress who stars in SUN 'Miranda', 'Outnumbered' and 'Not Going Out'. SUN SUN Credits SUN Ben: Reece Shearsmith SUN Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN Jane: Katy Wix SUN Mother: Alison Steadman SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani SUN Writer: Katy Wix SUN SUN 19:30 Don't Start b01mwvld (Listen) SUN Series 2, Pillow Talk SUN SUN A potential burglary brings out Frank's inner hero. SUN SUN What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new SUN comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. SUN Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. SUN SUN The first series of Don't Start met with instant critical SUN and audience acclaim: SUN "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with SUN such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a SUN writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, SUN he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that SUN would be lost in his stand-up routines" - Jane Anderson, SUN Radio Times. SUN SUN "Writing and starring in the four-parter Don't Start (Radio SUN 4) Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic SUN comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a SUN bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly SUN precise dissection of a relationship" - Daily Mail. SUN SUN "a lesson in relationship ping-pong".. - Miranda Sawyer, The SUN Observer. SUN Series 2 follows hard on its heels. Well observed, clever SUN and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a SUN deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our SUN couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - SUN the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. Each week, the SUN stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these SUN are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with SUN increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references SUN (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs Rochester, SUN to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's SUN weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an SUN unmistakable tenderness. SUN SUN Frank says: SUN "Having established, in the first series, that Neil and Kim SUN are a childless academic couple who, during their numerous SUN arguments, luxuriate in their own, and each other's, SUN learning and wit, I've tried, in the second series, to dig a SUN little deeper into their relationship. Love and affection, SUN occasionally splutter into view, like a Higgs boson in a big SUN tunnel-thing, but can such emotions ever prevail in a SUN relationship where the couple prefers to wear their brains, SUN rather than their hearts, on their sleeves? Is that too much SUN offal imagery?" SUN SUN Directed and Produced by Polly Thomas SUN Executive Producer: Jon Thoday SUN An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Neil: Frank Skinner SUN Kim: Katherine Parkinson SUN Writer: Frank Skinner SUN Director: Polly Thomas SUN Producer: Polly Thomas SUN SUN 19:45 Stories from Songwriters b043wk19 (Listen) SUN The Announcer's Daughter SUN SUN Hattie Morahan reads Eliza Carthy's unusual and playful SUN fairy tale, 'The Announcer's Daughter'. Eliza has been SUN nominated for the Mercury Prize twice and grew up immersed SUN in the world of traditional music - her parents are folk SUN legends Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. She approaches the SUN tradition in new and innovative ways creating utterly SUN contemporary work. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Hattie Morahan SUN Writer: Eliza Carthy SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0436h18 (Listen) SUN Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats SUN SUN With Take That singer Gary Barlow in hot water over tax SUN avoidance, Tim Harford looks at the numbers to see if SUN there's any truth in the post that's been doing the rounds SUN on social media suggesting HMRC employs only 300 people to SUN chase £70bn of tax evasion, while the DWP employs 3250 SUN people to chase £1.2bn of benefits fraud? SUN SUN Did the number of people around the world living in extreme SUN poverty fall by half a few weeks ago?That's one SUN interpretation of newly released figures for purchasing SUN power parity around the world, but does it stack up? Should SUN the World Bank be lowering its global poverty estimates? SUN SUN Forget Conchita and the Polish milkmaids, the most exciting SUN thing about Eurovision this year is that they've released SUN more data than ever before! We crunch the numbers to find SUN out what the results would have been if only the public had SUN their say. SUN SUN What are the chances of winning one of Willy Wonka's coveted SUN 'Golden Tickets'? One More or Less listener's 9-year-old SUN daughter wanted to know, so we sent Rob Eastaway to explain SUN probability to her school class. SUN SUN And Boris Johnson recently claimed there are 400,000 French SUN people living in London. He also likes to say that he's the SUN mayor of the 6th biggest French city on earth. But as we SUN find out, the real numbers are rather less flattering to SUN Boris's Gallic mayoral pretensions. SUN SUN Chapters SUN DWP vs HMRC SUN How many people chase tax evasion at HMRC compared to SUN benefits fraud at the DWP. SUN Poverty SUN Does greater purchasing power in developing countries mean SUN there are fewer poor people? SUN Charlie SUN What are the chances of winning one of Willy Wonka's coveted SUN 'Golden Tickets'? SUN Eurovision SUN We find out what the results would have been if only the SUN public had their say. SUN London 6th biggest French city? SUN Boris Johnson recently claimed there are 400,000 French SUN people living in London. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0436h16 (Listen) SUN Prof Colin Pillinger, Antony Hopkins, Bev Evans, Sir Ben SUN Gill and Stan Kelly-Bootle SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Professor Colin Pillinger, the space scientist who led the SUN failed Beagle 2 mission to investigate life on Mars. SUN SUN Antony Hopkins, the composer and award winning presenter of SUN Radio 3's Talking About Music. SUN SUN Bev Evans, the teacher who set up a website offering free SUN resources for teaching children with learning difficulties. SUN SUN Sir Ben Gill, who led the National Farmers Union during the SUN BSE and Foot and Mouth crises. SUN SUN And Stan Kelly-Bootle, the computer pioneer who was also a SUN Scouse folk singer. SUN SUN Professor Colin Pillinger (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Dr Paul Abel of the University of Leicester SUN who presents SUN The Sky at Night SUN and to SUN the SUN impressionist and amateur astronomer Jon Culshaw. SUN SUN Born 9 May 1943; died 7 May 2014 aged 70. SUN SUN Antony Hopkins SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend and musical collaborator, John SUN Turner. SUN SUN Born 21 March 1921; died 6 May 2014 aged 93. SUN SUN Bev Evans SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her husband, Paul Evans and to Ann Mroz, SUN Editor of TES Magazine. SUN SUN Born 15 April 1967; died 18 March 2014 aged 46. SUN SUN Sir Ben Gill SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Anna Hill, presenter of SUN Farming Today SUN to his colleague Tim Bennett who is Chair of the Food SUN Standards Agency and to his friend and colleague Lord Curry. SUN Born 1 January 1950; died 8 May 2014 aged 64. SUN SUN Stan Kelly-Bootle SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend Bill Leece. SUN SUN Born 15 September 1929; died 16 April 2014 aged 84. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul G Abel SUN Interviewed Guest: Jon Culshaw SUN Interviewed Guest: John Turner SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Evans SUN Interviewed Guest: Ann Mroz SUN Interviewed Guest: Anna Hill SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Bennett SUN Interviewed Guest: Donald Curry SUN Interviewed Guest: Bill Leece SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b043tg9p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b043wk08 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0435p0t (Listen) SUN Price Conscious SUN SUN Manufacturers were banned by law from fixing retail prices SUN 50 years ago, ushering in a revolution in British retailing. SUN So what do prices mean now? How are they set and how much SUN are we prepared to pay for things? Peter Day finds out. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Steve Smith SUN SUN founder Poundland, Estates DIrect SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Bryan Roberts SUN SUN Kantar Retail SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Patrick Barwise SUN SUN Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing , London SUN Business School SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Robert Polet SUN SUN Former CEO and Chairman, Gucci Group SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Nancy Puccinelli SUN SUN Professor and fellow in consumer marketing at Said Business SUN School , Oxford. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Paul Dillon SUN SUN Head of Travel and Transportation practice, Accenture, UK SUN and Ireland SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b043wl89 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b043wl8c (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0435kkq (Listen) SUN Viggo Mortensen, Cannes Film Festival, Jia Zhangke SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Viggo Mortensen discusses film noir and Greek mythology and SUN the part they have to play in his new thriller The Two Faces SUN Of January. SUN SUN Producer Rebecca O'Brien has walked down the red carpet at SUN the Cannes Film Festival with director Ken Loach on ten SUN separate occasions. She takes us behind the scenes at the SUN festival, as she prepares to jet off to the South Of France SUN with Loach's new drama Jimmy's Hall. SUN SUN Clare Binns is going to Cannes for a very different reason, SUN to buy films for Picturehouse Cinemas, and reveals how SUN business gets done at the festival; while critic Tim Robey SUN is getting in training to watch 7 movies a day for over a SUN week. SUN SUN Director Jia Zhangke tells Francine why his new blood-soaked SUN epic A Touch Of Sin is not being shown in his home country SUN of China, and why the film could not have been made without SUN the Chinese version of Twitter, Weibo. SUN SUN Two historical advisers let us in on some trade secrets SUN about what an adviser actually does on a film set. SUN SUN The Two Faces Of January SUN Directed by Hossein Amini, SUN The Two Faces Of January SUN is in cinemas from Friday 16 May, certificate 12A. SUN SUN H R Giger SUN H R Giger SUN winner of an Academy Award for his visual effects in Ridley SUN Scott's SUN Alien SUN has died at the age of 74. Giger began his career as an SUN artist until cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky asked him to SUN design the sets for SUN Dune SUN his adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Viggo Mortensen SUN Interviewed Guest: Rebecca O'Brien SUN Interviewed Guest: Clare Binns SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Robey SUN Interviewed Guest: Jia Zhangke SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b043w5t5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 MAY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b043pwc6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0435hrg (Listen) MON 'Illicit' Dance; The Purpose of War MON MON 'Illicit' dance in India. Laurie Taylor talks to Anna MON Morcom, Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of MON London, about her extensive research into marginalised MON dancers in contemporary South Asia. From bar dancers to MON transgender erotic performers, she has chronicled their MON relationship with 'legitimate' performing arts; their MON struggles against stigma and the ways in which post colonial MON nation building has excluded these 'non elite' carriers of MON culture. Also, can war ever be a force for good? The MON historian, Ian Morris, argues that war, as well as provoking MON countless deaths & horrors, has also, in the very long term, MON allowed us to create peaceful societies. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Anna Morcom MON MON Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, Royal Holloway MON University of London MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Anna Morcom MON MON MON Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion MON Publisher: Oxford University Press MON ISBN-10: 0199343543 MON ISBN-13: 978-0199343546 MON MON Ian Morris MON MON Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Department MON of Classics, Stanford University, USA MON MON MON Find out more about MON Ian Morris MON MON MON War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in MON civilisation, from primates to robots MON Publisher: Profile Books MON ISBN-10: 184668417X MON ISBN-13: 978-1846684173 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b043w5t3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b043pwc8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b043pwcb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b043pwcd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b043pwcg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044bkvn (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and MON broadcaster Anna Magnusson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b043wvx6 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. MON MON 05:56 Weather b043pwcj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sby02 (Listen) MON Nightingale MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David MON Attenborough presents the extraordinary duet between cellist MON Beatrice Harrison and a nightingale recorded live as an MON outside broadcast and the first broadcast of any wild animal MON not in captivity. MON MON Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) MON Image courtesy of RSPB MON MON 06:00 Today b043wvx8 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b043wvxb (Listen) MON Alien Invaders MON MON Anne McElvoy talks to the biologist Ken Thompson who MON dismisses attempts to control invasive species and questions MON the veracity of dividing plants and animals into 'native' MON and 'alien'. However the Director of the Kew Innovation Unit MON Monique Simmonds warns that alien pests and diseases can MON have a devastating effect on much-loved plants, and that MON it's vital to maintain and support diverse environments. The MON farmer John Lewis-Stempel records the passage of the seasons MON in his account of the life of an English meadow and he MON laments the decline of some of his favourite birds from his MON childhood. The woolly mammoth used to be native in Europe MON before it became extinct, and the palaeontologist Victoria MON Herridge confounds expectations by identifying the smallest MON mammoth ever known to have lived. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Ken Thompson MON Interviewed Guest: Monique Simmonds MON Interviewed Guest: Victoria Herridge MON Interviewed Guest: John Lewis-Stempel MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b043wvxd (Listen) MON Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, First MON Impressions MON MON Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery MON and danger in the heart of Africa. In 2005, at the age of MON 22, the decision to become a journalist takes Sundaram to MON Congo where he spends a year and a half cutting his teeth as MON a reporter for a news agency. With the 2006 elections MON approaching he immerses himself in the everyday life of this MON lawless and war torn country. This intense period takes him MON deep into the shadowy parts of Kinshasa, to the dense rain MON forest with an Indian businessman hunting for his fortune, MON and culminates in the historic and violent elections of MON 2006. MON MON Anjan Sundaram is an award-winning journalist who has MON reported from Africa and the Middle East for the New York MON Times and the Associated Press. He received a Reuters MON journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on Pygmy tribes MON in Congo's rain forest. MON MON Read by Riz Ahmed who is best known for his work in film. He MON has starred in The Road to Guantanamo, Shifty, Four Lions, MON Ill Manors and The Reluctant Fundamentalist which he also MON read for Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. MON MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Riz Ahmed MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Author: Anjan Sundaram MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b043wvxg (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Falling Sexual Assault Conviction Rates MON MON Last week it was announced that the MON conviction rate for sexual offences in England and Wales MON have dropped sharply. MON In 2013, 55% percent of people prosecuted for this type of MON offence pleaded MON guilty or were found guilty – down from 61% of those MON prosecuted in 2012. A joint police and Crown Prosecution MON action MON plan is to be published shortly to improve the way sexual MON offence cases are MON handled. But why do we still have one of the very lowest MON conviction MON rates of sexual assault in Europe? And how will the review MON change MON that? Jane speaks to criminologist Dr Marian Fitzgerald. MON MON Clean Fuel for Women in the Developing World MON MON In the developing MON world, 3 billion people cook on wood or charcoal stoves and MON outdoor fires MON resulting in the premature death of 4 MON million people every year from inhaling smoke. That’s MON double the amount of MON people who die from malaria every year. Women and children MON are worst affected. An MON International Conference in London on Tuesday is bringing MON together women energy MON leaders from Southeast Asia, Africa and India who are MON leading the way in MON designing clean energy products. Jenni is joined by Neha MON Juneha CEO of an MON Indian company Greenway Grameen which manufactures clean MON cook stoves and by Dr MON Anne Wheldon, Research Adviser to the charity MON Ashden MON who champion sustainable MON energy solutions. MON MON MON Wedding Dress Shopping with Mum MON MON As wedding season kicks off, we visit MON a bridal shop in Liverpool and meet two mum and daughter MON couples shopping for MON the big day. Reporter Kim Normanton talks to the brides to MON be about why shopping MON with mum is crucial to finding the right dress. We also MON hear from Maria Johnson MON Sach on what it’s like to run a wedding shop and the joys MON and pressures of the MON job. MON MON The Art of Conversation MON MON What MON happens when you run out of things to say to your long term MON partner? Olivia Fane fell in love with and married the MON wittiest and MON cleverest man she had ever met. But a few years into their MON marriage, she noticed MON they were no longer having the great conversations they had MON when they first MON met. When she married a second time and she noticed the MON same thing happening again, she decided to do something MON about it. She joins MON Jane to talk about how reviving the art of conversation can MON help bring about MON more intimacy and help us get to know the people we share MON our lives MON with. In her book ‘The Conversations’ she offers the MON starting points for 66 thought provoking conversations to be MON had with a MON partner, friend, or stranger on subjects such as happiness, MON infidelity, MON jealousy, education, free will, human rights, trust or MON death. MON MON ‘The Conversations, MON 66 Reasons to Start Talking’ – by Olivia Fane is published MON by Vintage. MON MON Parenting A Young Person With Cancer MON MON 19 year old Stephen Sutton – who died of bowel cancer on MON Wednesday – showed incredible positivity as he dealt with MON his illness, drawing MON up a "bucket list" of things he wanted to achieve before he MON died, and MON in doing so raising millions for charity. But of course the MON experience of MON cancer for a young person will differ for everyone and on MON every day with good days as well as bad. So how important MON – and realistic - is it to remain positive? How do you help MON your child MON cope with cancer, whilst you as a parent may also be MON struggling? Jane is joined by studio guests to talk about MON parenting a young person with cancer. MON Teenage Cancer MON Trust MON CLIC Sargent MON Macmillan Cancer MON Care MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b043wvxj (Listen) MON The Seventh Test, The Proposition MON MON 1) The Proposition MON MON A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog MON Millionaire". MON Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in MON New Delhi. Being the only breadwinner in the family she MON works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and MON younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an MON extraordinary proposition: pass seven tests and he will make MON her the CEO of his global empire. Sapna is suspicious. MON Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The MON Accidental Apprentice". MON MON Writers: MON Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling MON novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar MON winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award MON winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . MON MON Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX MON SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. MON She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, MON UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her MON stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was MON developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged MON by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. MON MON John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series MON SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won MON the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His MON dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best MON Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A MON HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated MON dramas on R4 Extra. MON MON Production: MON Sound Design - Steve Bond MON Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera MON Script Editor - Mike Walker MON Assistant Producer - Toral Shah MON MON Music - Sacha Putnam MON MON Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel MON "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. MON MON Producer - Nadir Khan MON Director - John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Sapna: Rasika Dugal MON Acharya: Vijay Chrishna MON Karan: Neil Bhoopalam MON Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital MON Rosie: Radhika Mital MON Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel MON Raja: Sumeet Vyas MON Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur MON Roaji: Rajit Kapur MON Neha: Amrita Puri MON Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza MON Pushpa: Ayesha Raza MON Female Judge: Ayesha Raza MON Badan Singh: Kenny Desai MON Politician: Kenny Desai MON Constable: Kenny Desai MON Madan: Vivek Madan MON Neelam: Preetika Chawla MON Babli: Preetika Chawla MON Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik MON Director: John Dryden MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon MON Adaptor: John Dryden MON Author: Vikas Swarup MON MON 11:00 Rise of the Willies b043wvxl (Listen) MON As a result of the decline of the financial sector in MON Edinburgh (the latest Global Financial Sectors rating saw MON the city fall 17 points to number 54) Scotland has seen the MON growth of a new breed of super commuter who go under the MON acronym WILLIES because they Work in London, Live in MON Edinburgh. With their kids in local private schools and MON houses in the city, they fly or train up and down at the MON ends of the week from jobs in London. MON MON Alan Cochrane, the Scottish editor of the Daily Telegraph MON gave the breed their cheeky nickname. Here he speaks to the MON WILLIES about their work and lifestyle choice. MON MON 11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00xhh6w (Listen) MON Series 3, No Richie, No Cry MON MON Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record MON shop in Birmingham. MON MON Adam and his Dad, Rudy attempt to fill the gap left by MON Richie having gone to University with Salsa evening classes. MON MON Adam ...... Lenny Henry MON Rudy ...... Larrington Walker MON Richie ...... Joe Jacobs MON Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon MON Doreen ...... Claire Benedict MON MON Written by Danny Robins MON Produced by Lucy Armitage. MON MON Music used in this episode: MON MON Miss Jamaica - Jimmy Cliff MON Soon You'll Be Gone - The Blues Busters MON River Jordan - Clancy Eccles with Hersang & The City MON Slickers MON Ease My Mind - Arrested Development MON Orinoco Flow - Enya MON Be What You Are - The Staples Singers MON Don't You Miss Me A Little Bit Baby? - Marvin Gaye MON High-Heel Sneakers - Eddie Floyd MON Zun Zun Paloma - Vieja Trova Santiaguera MON Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches and Herb MON Leave Her Alone - Derrick Morgan MON Amor De Loca Juventud - Buena Vista Social Club MON Got My Mojo Working - Jimmy Smith MON MON Credits MON Adam: Lenny Henry MON Rudy: Larrington Walker MON Richie: Joe Jacobs MON Tasha: Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton: Jeffery Kissoon MON Doreen: Claire Benedict MON Writer: Danny Robins MON Producer: Lucy Armitage MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b043wvxn (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b043pwcn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b043wvxq (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and MON the Mind b043wvxs (Listen) MON The Criminal Mind MON MON In the final week of the series, Martin Sixsmith starts by MON investigating the criminal mind and how psychology is used MON in the police and justice system. MON MON He interviews one of Britain's leading forensic profilers MON Julian Boon about the early days of profiling, from Jack the MON Ripper in Victorian London to the capture of 'Mad Bomber' MON George Metesky in1940s New York. MON MON He looks at criminal responsibility and witness MON suggestibility and he asks about the place of modern MON neuroscience in ensuring a fair trial. MON MON Produced by Sara Parker MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b043wk13 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b043wvxv (Listen) MON Original British Dramatists, The Cloistered Soul MON MON ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMATISTS MON Discover 10 new voices over 10 Afternoon Dramas MON MON Set in a Benedictine Convent, Rachel Connor's lyrical drama MON is a glimpse into the rarely seen world of an enclosed MON religious order. MON MON When new postulant Bridget arrives, Sister Agatha is MON assigned to look after her. But Bridget's questions force MON Agatha to confront the truth about herself and her faith. MON MON Rachel Connor is a novelist and playwright. Her first novel MON Sisterwives was published in 2011 and she recently won the MON Hebden Shorts Competition with her play 'Synchronous' that MON will be staged at the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival in June. MON 'The Cloistered Soul' is Rachel's first drama for radio. MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON Original British Dramatists Collection MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Credits MON Sister Agatha: Susan Lynch MON Sister Geraldine: Leanne Best MON Bridget: Rachel Austin MON Mother Marie-David: Eileen O'Brien MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON Writer: Rachel Connor MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b043wvxx (Listen) MON (1/12) MON The evergreen cryptic quiz returns to the airwaves, with Tom MON Sutcliffe in the chair. This week the game of lateral MON thinking and cryptic connections pits Marcel Berlins and MON Fred Housego of the South of England against Polly Devlin MON and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland. MON MON They have just a few minutes to unravel each of the MON programme's trademark questions, which combine snippets of MON knowledge from unlikely fields, ranging from science and the MON natural world to popular culture and literature. They get MON six points if they can solve the question unaided, and MON points are taken away depending on how much help the MON chairman has to give to nudge them towards the solution. MON MON In future programmes, the defending champions Wales (Myfanwy MON Alexander and David Edwards) will be back to discover MON whether they can hold off strong challenges from the other MON regional teams. The North of England, Scotland and the MON Midlands also all take part in the coming weeks. MON MON You can send us your own question ideas for the programme, MON and Tom will be giving the details of how you can do so - MON which are also on the programme's webpages. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b043wk0l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 In Godzilla's Footsteps b01y1gxj (Listen) MON Godzilla, the giant green lizard which levels Tokyo MON skyscrapers with a sweep of his enormous tail, was the MON response of Japan's film makers in the 1950s to the national MON trauma of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In MON the wake of 2011's Tsunami, the nation's artists have been MON similarly inventive in turning the disaster into art. The MON "post 3/11 movement" takes inspiration from the devastating MON images of flooded cities, smoking nuclear reactors and grief MON stricken victims which emerged after the earthquake and MON tsunami. MON MON Mark Rickards meets artists and musicians who have turned MON the disaster into art, and asks whether they have found a MON suitable response to the devastating events which shook MON Japan. MON MON 27-year-old installation artist Tsubasa Kato volunteered to MON visit Fukushima to help clear up the rubble. With the help MON of 300 local residents who had lost their homes, Kato MON recently constructed a three storey lighthouse from the MON rubble of ruined houses and schools. The lighthouse now MON stands looking out over the sea, as a symbol of what MON happened in March 2011. MON MON The performance artists Chim Pom, a six person collective, MON donned protective radioactive suits and visited the MON devastated Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, holding up symbolic MON referees' red cards in front of the cracked dome of the MON nuclear reactor. Videoed for a performance art piece they MON admitted they were frightened of the radiation levels but MON "wanted to respond to these life changing events by placing MON ourselves in the middle of the radiation zone." MON MON The video artist Kota Takeuchi took a job at the devastated MON nuclear plant. His work includes a video which shows a MON worker pointing an accusing finger at the video camera which MON keeps watch over the site. Later he called a press MON conference to harangue Tepco, operator of the plant about MON the conditions of workers inside. MON MON With contributions from Tsubasa Kato, Chim Pom, Kota MON Takeuchi amongst others, Mark Rickards explores Japan's MON artistic response to the tragedy. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b043wvxz (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the heady mix of football and MON religion in Brazil in the first of a new series of Beyond MON Belief. MON MON For a month from the 12th June there will be a football MON match on television just about every evening during the MON World Cup. The host nation, Brazil, are among the favourites MON to win. Many of their players will be looking to a higher MON power to help their efforts on the field, because Brazil is MON an intensely religious country and some of its finest MON footballers are signed up "Ambassadors for Jesus." MON MON Brazil has the largest population of Catholics in the world, MON but things have been changing as Brazilians migrate from MON rural areas to the cities and the country becomes a major MON player on the world economic stage. MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss the Changing Face of Religion in MON Brazil are Daniel Clark, a Baptist minister and citizen of MON Brazil as well as Britain; Bettina Schmidt, Senior Lecturer MON in the Study of Religions at the University of Wales, MON Trinity St David ; and Andrew Dawson, Senior Lecturer at MON Lancaster University who has been researching Religion in MON Brazil since the early 1990s. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b043wvy1 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b043pwcq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b043wvy3 (Listen) MON Series 69, Episode 1 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? Paul Merton, Jenny MON Eclair, Julian Clary and Vanessa Feltz find out. Nicholas MON Parsons watches the clock and keeps the scores. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Jenny Eclair MON Panellist: Julian Clary MON Panellist: Vanessa Feltz MON MON 19:00 The Archers b043wvy5 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b043wvy7 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b043wvxj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invention of Brazil b043wk0q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0435jz1 (Listen) MON The Reykjavik Confessions MON MON In 1974, police launched one of the biggest murder MON investigations Iceland has ever seen. The case was MON eventually solved when six people confessed to their parts MON in the murders of two men whose bodies have never been MON found. Forty years on, a government review has found that MON the confessions were unreliable and a campaign is underway MON to quash the convictions. But some of those who were wrongly MON convicted are struggling to accept their innocence. Simon MON Cox investigates what's seen by many as a stain on Iceland's MON justice system and finds out how it's possible to confess to MON the murder of someone you have never met. Helen Grady MON producing. MON Forced Confessions in Japan MON The Primorsky Partisans MON Nepal: Getting Away with Murder MON MON 21:00 Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different MON b042zsxv (Listen) MON Born Different MON MON Adam Rutherford asks what, in the future, the genetics of MON intelligence could mean for educational policy. Are we right MON to fear streaming at birth? Or could an understanding of the MON genetics of intelligence be used to promote the kind of MON society we wish to live in. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b043wvxb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b043pwcs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b043wvy9 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b043wvyc (Listen) MON Fallout, Who Would Not Free a Caged Creature? MON MON Hayley Atwell reads Sadie Jones' acclaimed new novel set MON during the birth of radical theatre in 1970s London; a world MON in which the four central characters swirl, ambitious, eager MON yet all facing their own demons. MON Today: there's interest in Luke's play Paper Pieces, but his MON only interest is Nina. MON MON Reader: Hayley Atwell is an acclaimed stage and screen MON actor, who has been nominated for Olivier Awards for her MON roles in A View from the Bridge, and most recently for Pride MON at the Trafalgar Studios in London. Her screen roles include MON Cassandra's Dream, The Duchess, Captain America: The First MON Avenger and The Pillars of the Earth. MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Written by Sadie Jones' whose debut, The Outcast, the story MON of a broken young man set in the repressed 50s, won a Costa MON Book Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2008. MON This is her fourth novel. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Hayley Atwell MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Author: Sadie Jones MON MON 23:00 Singing with the Nightingales b044m17b (Listen) MON Late in the evening on 19th May, 1924, the BBC made its MON first live wildlife outside broadcast, from the cellist MON Beatrice Harrison's garden. A nightingale joined in, singing MON as she played. Listeners were so entranced by this duet that MON the cello and nightingale concerts were broadcast annually, MON eagerly awaited by listeners around the globe. MON MON To celebrate the 90th anniversary of this remarkable musical MON event, the folk musician Sam Lee finds, somewhere in MON southern England, "some melodious plot/ Of beechen green, MON and shadows numberless", as Keats puts it in his 'Ode to a MON Nightingale', and himself sings "of summer with full MON throated ease". Sam, with the cellist Francesca Ter-Berg, MON violinist Flora Curzon and viola player Laurel Pardue, sings MON songs that feature nightingales, such as 'The Tan Yard MON Side', to the nightingales as they sing in the thickets. MON MON Sam considers our relationship with this amazing songster, MON which itself appears in so many songs and poems, and we MON hear, too, Beatrice's reminiscence of that first nightingale MON broadcast, 90 years ago. MON MON Producer: Julian May. MON MON 23:15 Four Thought b0418p80 (Listen) MON Series 4, Benet Brandreth MON MON Benet Brandreth argues that our current political discourse MON is bankrupt, so he proposes a novel solution: a legislature MON by lot. MON Four Thought is a series of thought-provoking talks in which MON speakers air their thinking, in front of a live audience, on MON the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect MON culture and society. MON MON Presenter:Ben Hammersley MON Producer: Sheila Cook. MON MON 23:30 Three Pounds in My Pocket b03ws7gm (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In the 1950s, tens of thousands of migrants came to Britain MON from the Indian subcontinent. Many arrived with no more than MON £3 in their pocket - the limit set by the Indian MON authorities. They came to work in Britain's factories, MON foundries, and new public services. It was a time when the MON country desperately needed workers from its former colonies MON to regenerate its post-war economy. Presenter Kavita Puri, MON whose own father Ravi came with just a few pounds himself, MON hears his and other stories of the pioneering men who MON arrived in the 50s. They recall their first impressions of MON the country that once ruled over their own: the shocking MON housing conditions, the curiosity of neighbours and kindness MON of strangers and also the memories of casual racism and MON animosity. These men led the way for the three million MON people of South Asian descent who live in Britain today. MON MON Producer Smita Patel MON Editor Bridget Harney. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 MAY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b043pwdq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b043wvxd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b043pwds (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b043pwdv (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b043pwdx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b043pwdz (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044bkpt (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and TUE broadcaster Anna Magnusson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b043wx2n (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp2b (Listen) TUE Kittiwake TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Kittiwake. In June you TUE can find kittiwakes breeding on sea-cliffs around the coast. TUE You may well hear them before you see them, shouting their TUE name from vertiginous cliffs. TUE TUE Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b043wx2q (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Public Philosopher b043wx2s (Listen) TUE Series 3, Why Vote? TUE TUE Should it be compulsory to vote? Should we fine people who TUE don't vote? Should we pay people to vote? This is the week TUE that the UK goes to the polls - amid ongoing concerns about TUE the level of democratic participation. In this edition of TUE The Public Philosopher, Harvard professor Michael Sandel TUE hosts a discussion about voting, with an audience at the TUE London School of Economics and Political Science. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b043wz23 (Listen) TUE Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, Changes of TUE Fortune TUE TUE Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery TUE and danger. In 2005, at the age of 22, the decision to give TUE up a maths Phd to become a journalist takes Sundaram to war TUE torn Congo ahead of the first democratic elections for forty TUE years. Today, a tense encounter compels him to redouble his TUE efforts to find work as a reporter. TUE TUE Read by Riz Ahmed TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Riz Ahmed TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Author: Anjan Sundaram TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b043wz25 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04471l3 (Listen) TUE The Seventh Test, The Choice TUE TUE Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in TUE New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she TUE works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and TUE younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an TUE extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his TUE choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the TUE tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. TUE TUE 2) The Choice TUE TUE A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog TUE Millionaire". TUE TUE As Sapna struggles to support her widowed mother and sister, TUE she decides to go ahead and sign a contract which will TUE subject her to a series of "life tests". What the tests are TUE and when they will come, she does not know. TUE TUE Writers: TUE Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling TUE novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar TUE winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award TUE winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . TUE TUE Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX TUE SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. TUE She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, TUE UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her TUE stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was TUE developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged TUE by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. TUE TUE John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series TUE SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won TUE the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His TUE dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best TUE Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A TUE HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated TUE dramas on R4 Extra. TUE TUE Production: TUE Sound Design - Steve Bond TUE Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera TUE Script Editor - Mike Walker TUE Assistant Producer - Toral Shah TUE TUE Music - Sacha Putnam TUE TUE Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel TUE "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. TUE TUE Director - John Dryden TUE Producer - Nadir Khan TUE A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sapna: Rasika Dugal TUE Acharya: Vijay Chrishna TUE Karan: Neil Bhoopalam TUE Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital TUE Rosie: Radhika Mital TUE Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel TUE Raja: Sumeet Vyas TUE Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur TUE Roaji: Rajit Kapur TUE Neha: Amrita Puri TUE Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza TUE Pushpa: Ayesha Raza TUE Female Judge: Ayesha Raza TUE Badan Singh: Kenny Desai TUE Politician: Kenny Desai TUE Constable: Kenny Desai TUE Madan: Vivek Madan TUE Neelam: Preetika Chawla TUE Babli: Preetika Chawla TUE Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik TUE Director: John Dryden TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon TUE Adaptor: John Dryden TUE Author: Vikas Swarup TUE TUE 11:00 Personality Politics b043wz27 (Listen) TUE Timandra Harkness investigates how our political views are TUE linked to the way our brains function. TUE The psychology of ideology is now an active topic of TUE research, not least amongst neuroscientists. Recent TUE brain-scan studies have linked political attitudes to TUE different brain structures and patterns of mental activity. TUE Discovering the cutting edge brain research into how we make TUE such choices, Timandra explores what its implications could TUE be for the conduct of political debate and campaigning, how TUE to influence people, the psychology of decision-making, and TUE understanding ourselves. TUE TUE Producer: Jonathan Brunert. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b043wz2c (Listen) TUE Series 10, West Side Story TUE TUE Frances Fyfield is joined by Conductor Marin Alsop, writer TUE Nigel Simeone and Librarian Mark Horowitz to explore the TUE boxes full of scores and sketches from Leonard Bernstein's TUE 1957 Broadway smash - West Side Story. They're the proud TUE property of the Library of Congress in Washington DC where TUE the musical was first tried in an 'out-of-town' run before TUE hitting Broadway. TUE It was something of a tortured collaboration between writer TUE Arthur Laurents, choreographer and director Jerome Robbins TUE and Bernstein himself along with a young Stephen Sondheim. TUE The manuscripts tell the story of Bernstein's ambitions for TUE an operatic score thwarted according to the composer or TUE channelled and controlled according to history. Time and TUE again numbers are cut back, honed, re-worked and refined TUE until we reach the familiar show hits 'Somewhere', TUE 'America', 'Tonight' and 'Somethings coming' which are so TUE familiar today. TUE Librarian Horowitz also reveals the examples of music TUE Bernstein culled from earlier works and other bits that were TUE composed for the show but ended up in his later Chichester TUE Psalms. TUE The writing is always neat but increasingly hectic as the TUE rehearsals start in the summer of 1957. TUE The programme is intercut with extracts from Bernstein's TUE letters to his wife in which he divulged his frustration at TUE what was happening to 'my poor little score'. In the event TUE he rejoiced with his team when the reviews were beyond their TUE wildest dreams. TUE And there are gems beyond the musical scores. Bernstein's TUE audition books reveal that Warren Beatty was amongst those TUE who tried out for a part. 'Charming as hell' according to TUE the composer but ultimately not quite right. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b043wz2f (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b043pwf1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b043wz2h (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and TUE the Mind b043wz2k (Listen) TUE Power and Persuasion TUE TUE Martin Sixsmith looks at how psychology is used in shaping TUE our behaviour and desires through advertising, information TUE campaigns and propaganda. TUE TUE He talks to Professor David Welch about the history of TUE propaganda, particularly in war and times of social change, TUE and examines the impact of advertising and the retail TUE environment on our choices with the help of consumer TUE behaviourist Nancy Puccinelli from Oxford University's Said TUE Business School - and uncovers some surprising influences. TUE TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b043wvy5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b043wz2m (Listen) TUE Original British Dramatists, Magpie TUE TUE ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMATISTS TUE Discover 10 new voices over 10 Afternoon Dramas TUE TUE Magpie by Lee Mattinson TUE TUE Jack Deam stars as Lance in this quirky, comedy drama. Lance TUE is making changes. With new-found techniques to resist his TUE urge to eat metal and a sensible job at the council secured, TUE his life is on the mend. Until a little boy moves into his TUE street, a little boy with a big secret. TUE TUE Lee Mattinson has written for the Bush and Soho Theatres, TUE National Theatre, Paines Plough, Live Theatre and BBC Three. TUE His new stage play Crocodiles opens this Autumn. TUE TUE Director/Producer Sharon Sephton TUE Sound Design by Paul Cargill. TUE Original British Dramatists Collection TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Credits TUE Lance: Jack Deam TUE Max: Sam Hattersley TUE Rhona: Melanie Hill TUE Mum: Kathryn Hunt TUE Gladys: Kathryn Hunt TUE Sophie: Kate Coogan TUE Wendy: Kate Coogan TUE Dr Tate: Eric Potts TUE Director: Sharon Sephton TUE Producer: Sharon Sephton TUE Writer: Lee Mattinson TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b043tg9h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b043x48q (Listen) TUE Britain's Overseas Wildlife TUE TUE Britain's Overseas Territories from the Caribbean to the TUE Falkland Islands contain a treasure trove of wildlife. A new TUE report from the RSPB reveals that 94% of unique UK species TUE live beyond our shores. But many of those astonishing TUE creatures are at great threat from tourist development and TUE invasive species. TUE TUE To discover whether we are doing enough to protect our TUE secret garden of species Tom Heap visits the Turks and TUE Caicos Islands, 150 miles to the east of Cuba. TUE TUE 16:00 Disabled and Broody: My Impossible Choice b043x48s (Listen) TUE Award-winning presenter Julie Fernandez draws on personal TUE experience to explore an agonising decision: whether to have TUE children, if it means passing on disabilities? TUE TUE Julie's children would have a 50/50 chance of inheriting her TUE brittle bone disease and she and her husband decided not to TUE take the risk. It was a painful choice - at odds with TUE Julie's strongly-felt beliefs about disability equality. TUE TUE In this programme she talks with disarming honesty to others TUE faced with a similar choice, including actor Warwick Davis TUE and wife Sam who have two children - both have inherited TUE Warwick's condition, a rare form of dwarfism. She also TUE follows a couple embarking on a complex form of reproductive TUE medicine. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis is a type of TUE IVF treatment which involves screening embryos for genetic TUE defects at only 8 cells. It offers many disabled parents TUE their only chance of having the healthy baby they long for. TUE But making the choice not to pass on disability raises TUE complex issues. As Julie herself says, "If my parents had TUE made that choice, I would not be here." TUE TUE Whilst some fear the recent developments in genetic TUE screening are a form of eugenics, contributors also talk TUE about the painfully raw feelings passing on a disability can TUE evoke. TUE TUE Julie Fernandez asks the big questions about a TUE philosophically challenging issue which divides disabled TUE people in this country; and reveals our attitudes to TUE disability generally. TUE TUE Presenter: Julie Fernandez TUE TUE Contributors: Roberto Ruiz, Sophie Ruiz, Mike, Aurelia, TUE Micheline Mason, Lucy Mason, Warwick Davis, Sam Davis. TUE TUE Producers: Elizabeth Burke Hilary Dunn TUE A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b043x48v (Listen) TUE Series 33, Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell TUE TUE Soprano Emma Kirkby discusses the life of English composer TUE Henry Purcell with Matthew Parris. Despite dying at the age TUE of 36, Purcell was arguably the first composer to become a TUE national figure, as shown by his funeral at Westminster TUE Abbey. Living through turbulent times, and through the reign TUE of three monarchs, Purcell had to cope with shifting TUE Catholic and Protestant regimes while producing a steady TUE output of religious music. But he also did some of his most TUE memorable and enduring work for the commercial theatre. Few TUE composers have set the English language to music so TUE felicitously. After his death, Britain produced few world TUE class composers for 200 years. To discuss his legacy, Emma TUE and Matthew are joined by Purcell scholar Michael Burden TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Emma Kirkby TUE Interviewed Guest: Michael Burden TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins TUE TUE 17:00 PM b043x48x (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b043pwf3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b043x48z (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE Stand-up Alex Horne and his 5-piece band explore fashion and TUE trends through live music and comedy. This week there's a TUE ceilidh and songs about Alex's car and the first dance at TUE his wedding amongst others. They're joined by special guest TUE comedian Marcus Brigstocke and singer Vula Malinga. TUE TUE Host... Alex Horne TUE Band... Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben TUE Reynolds, Ed Sheldrake TUE Guest... Marcus Brigstocke and Vula Malinga TUE Producer... Charlie Perkins. TUE TUE Clips TUE empty TUE empty TUE See all clips from Episode 3 (2) TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Alex Horne TUE Performer: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Performer: Vula Malinga TUE Producer: Charlie Perkins TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b043x491 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b043x493 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04471l3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b043x495 (Listen) TUE How effective is the system for investigating miscarriages TUE of justice in England and Wales? TUE TUE Critics say the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body TUE charged with examining potential wrongful convictions, lacks TUE teeth and needs to be thoroughly reformed. TUE TUE Are they right? TUE TUE Allan Urry examines cases in which prisoners, campaigners TUE and lawyers say the CCRC doesn't do enough for those who TUE continue to protest their innocence. TUE TUE Should the Commission be making more use of the latest DNA TUE techniques to re-examine verdicts which relied on TUE circumstantial evidence? TUE TUE And why did the CCRC twice refuse to pursue the case of a TUE man who spent 17 years in prison for a serious sex crime he TUE didn't commit? TUE TUE Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b043x497 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b043x499 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond hears from another pair of finalists in the TUE All in the Mind awards. She also talks to the senior City TUE executives who are calling for urgent changes to mental TUE health provision for workers in the Square Mile. TUE TUE 21:30 The Public Philosopher b043wx2s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b043x49c (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b043x49f (Listen) TUE Fallout, Episode 7 TUE TUE Hayley Atwell reads Sadie Jones' acclaimed new novel set TUE during the birth of radical theatre in 1970s London; a world TUE in which the four central characters swirl, ambitious, eager TUE yet all facing their own demons. TUE TUE Today: While Luke's play finally opens in Oxford, Nina finds TUE herself entering into a rather unholy arrangement with Tony. TUE TUE Reader: Hayley Atwell TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Written by Sadie Jones' whose debut, The Outcast, the story TUE of a broken young man set in the repressed 50s, won a Costa TUE Book Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2008. TUE This is her fourth novel. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Hayley Atwell TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Author: Sadie Jones TUE TUE 23:00 Act Your Age b043x49h (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 4 TUE TUE Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy TUE generations to find out which is the funniest. Will it be TUE the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard who TUE will be crowned, for one week at least, as the Golden Age of TUE Comedy. This week Holly Walsh is joined by Tom Deacon, Rufus TUE Hound teams up with Henning Wehn and Ted Robbins is paired TUE with Billy Pearce. TUE TUE Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Simon Mayo TUE Panellist: Holly Walsh TUE Panellist: Tom Deacon TUE Panellist: Rufus Hound TUE Panellist: Henning Wehn TUE Panellist: Ted Robbins TUE Panellist: Billy Pearce TUE Producer: Ashley Blaker TUE Producer: Bill Matthews TUE TUE 23:30 Three Pounds in My Pocket b03xgslp (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE We tell the untold story of the women and children from the TUE Indian subcontinent who came to Britain in the 1950s and TUE 1960s. Many remember arriving with little more than £3 in TUE their pockets because of currency restrictions imposed by TUE their governments back home. Kavita Puri hears the story of TUE the pioneer women of this three-pound generation: their TUE first impressions of Britain, the unlikely friendships, and TUE their struggles at work. And we learn how in 1966 when TUE England won the World Cup, these women were more excited by TUE Miss India winning Miss World; which they said, put Indian TUE women on the map! TUE TUE Producer Smita Patel TUE Editor Bridget Harney. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b043pwfv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b043wz23 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b043pwfx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b043pwfz (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b043pwg1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b043pwg3 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044bkq9 (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and WED broadcaster Anna Magnusson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b043x69q (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bickerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp38 (Listen) WED Puffin WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Puffin. Far better-known WED for its comical looks than its calls, the puffin is a bird WED that that is recognised by many and has earned the nickname WED "sea-parrot" or "clown of the sea". WED WED Puffin (Fratercula arctica) WED Image courtesy of RSPB WED WED 06:00 Today b043x86b (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b043x86d (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b043xnx3 (Listen) WED Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, A Journey on WED the River Congo WED WED Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery WED and danger. In 2005, at the age of 22, the decision to give WED up a maths Phd to become a journalist takes Sundaram to war WED torn Congo ahead of the first democratic elections for 40 WED years. Today, Sundaram leaves the city of Kinshasa behind WED and travels along the River Congo into the jungle where a WED chance encounter leaves him unsettled. WED WED Read by Riz Ahmed WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Riz Ahmed WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Author: Anjan Sundaram WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b043x86g (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04471lv (Listen) WED The Seventh Test, The Wedding WED WED Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in WED New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she WED works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and WED younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an WED extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his WED choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the WED tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. WED Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas WED Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". WED WED 3) The Wedding WED WED A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog WED Millionaire". WED WED Sent to a village outside Delhi to install electrical WED appliances, TV sales assistant, Sapna Sinha, discovers a WED wedding about to take place - and that the young bride is WED being married against her will. What Sapna decides to do WED about it will be a matter of life and death. Could this be WED one of the seven tests that she has signed up for? WED WED Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The WED Accidental Apprentice". WED WED Writers: WED Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling WED novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar WED winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award WED winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . WED WED Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX WED SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. WED She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, WED UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her WED stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was WED developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged WED by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. WED WED John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series WED SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won WED the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His WED dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best WED Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A WED HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated WED dramas on R4 Extra. WED WED Production: WED Sound Design - Steve Bond WED Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera WED Script Editor - Mike Walker WED Assistant Producer - Toral Shah WED WED Music - Sacha Putnam WED WED Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel WED "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. WED WED Director - John Dryden WED Producer - Nadir Khan WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Sapna: Rasika Dugal WED Acharya: Vijay Chrishna WED Karan: Neil Bhoopalam WED Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital WED Rosie: Radhika Mital WED Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel WED Raja: Sumeet Vyas WED Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur WED Roaji: Rajit Kapur WED Neha: Amrita Puri WED Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza WED Pushpa: Ayesha Raza WED Female Judge: Ayesha Raza WED Badan Singh: Kenny Desai WED Politician: Kenny Desai WED Constable: Kenny Desai WED Madan: Vivek Madan WED Neelam: Preetika Chawla WED Babli: Preetika Chawla WED Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon WED Adaptor: John Dryden WED Author: Vikas Swarup WED WED 11:00 The Bronze Age Man of Jodrell Bank b043x86j (Listen) WED The writer, Alan Garner lives in a medieval building on a WED Bronze Age site, within a mile of the Jodrell Bank radio WED telescope. In this documentary he explains how the Bronze WED Age legacy of his home and its proximity to Jodrell Bank WED have been the inspiration for his writing over the last 50 WED years. He describes how it gives him a unique sense of WED place, and a perspective on the passage of time which is WED reflected in his most recent book Boneland, set in and WED around Jodrell Bank, where the main character works. The WED novel is the third and final part of a trilogy that first WED propelled Garner to fame with the children's classic fantasy WED story, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen over 50 years ago. WED WED As he approaches his 80th birthday in October 2014, this WED profile of the author is presented by Martin Goodman, WED Professor of Creative Writing at Hull University. He visits WED Jodrell Bank with Garner to find out more about the timeline WED Garner traces from the Bronze Age artefacts he has found WED around his home, through to the contemporary exploration of WED space which the telescope undertakes today. Garner takes WED inspiration from making these connections and expresses them WED through his fantasy stories. WED WED Goodman also re-visits the places which make Garner's books WED so memorable, including the locations on Alderley Edge WED itself, an outcrop of rock in Cheshire, with dramatic views WED of the Pennines. Goodman explores locations on Alderley WED Edge, as they are recorded in Garner's novels - the physical WED features of this landscape, such as stones and hidden WED places, which have been given a mythical dimension by WED Garner, who explains how the Edge has cast a spell over him WED since his childhood. WED WED Producer: Philip Reevell WED A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 When the Dog Dies b043x86l (Listen) WED Series 4, The Call of the Wild WED WED Ronnie Corbett returns for the final series of his popular WED sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. WED Ronnie is granddad Sandy and his old dog is Henry. If the WED dog dies or his lodger moves on, Sandy's children want him WED to downsize. He doesn't. WED WED To help his finances, Sandy, still in the family home, took WED in a young couple as lodgers. But then the man left - WED leaving the attractive Dolores behind. And she, Sandy's WED children are quite sure, is a gold-digger. Sandy's opinion WED that it would be inhuman to move Henry somewhere unfamiliar WED is wearing a bit thin - as is the old dog himself. Keeping WED the dog alive and keeping the lodger happy are one thing; WED what really concerns Sandy deeply is providing a guiding WED hand to his whole family, advising here, prompting there, WED responding to any emergency callout... If he kept himself to WED himself, of course, things would be a lot simpler and WED smoother. But a lot duller too... WED WED Episode Two - The Call Of The Wild WED Henry the dog takes up running away and then granddaughter WED Calais runs away too. Sandy realises that for Calais' sake, WED her mother Victoria, his fearsome wildcat daughter-in-law, WED must be confronted. What Henry's up to nobody knows... WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Sandy: Ronnie Corbett WED Dolores: Liza Tarbuck WED Mrs Pompom: Sally Grace WED Lance: Philip Bird WED Blake: Dave Lamb WED Calais: Grace Vance WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED Writer: Ian Davidson WED Writer: Peter Vincent WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b043x86n (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 13:00 World at One b043x86q (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and WED the Mind b043x86s (Listen) WED Bedside Manners WED WED In this programme, Martin Sixsmith examines the ways in WED which thinking, emotions and mental events can affect our WED physical state, and the efforts of doctors and nurses to WED deploy psychological levers in the fight for wellbeing. WED WED He discovers how medical students at Manchester University WED are being trained in better communication with patients and WED he looks at different ways of encouraging empathy in the WED next generation of doctors through poetry and music. WED WED Produced by Sara Parker WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b043x491 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b043xjl3 (Listen) WED Original British Dramatists, The Shining Heart WED WED Original British Dramatists. WED Discover ten new voices over ten Afternoon Dramas. WED WED When Louis, a schizophrenic, decides to stop taking his WED meds, his world becomes infused with wonder. His WED intoxicating mental universe furnishes him with everything WED he lacks in real life: friends to watch over him, unfettered WED adventure, supernatural powers. His happiness is complete WED when his girlfriend returns. WED WED But his caseworker Robert knows where it'll end. Can Louie WED pull himself back from the blissful intensity of psychosis WED and save himself from institutionalisation? WED WED Based on a true story and made in collaboration with the WED real 'Louie'. WED WED by Matt Haynes and Conor McCormack WED WED BIFA nominated for his documentary work, Conor is currently WED undertaking a psychoanalytic training with the Centre for WED Freudian Analysis and Research. WED WED A veteran of many punk and hip hop groups, Matt is a Bristol WED based screen writer, script editor and music video director. WED WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery WED WED Original guitar music composed and performed by Errol Hewitt WED Additional music by oneohtrix point never. WED Original British Dramatists Collection WED WED Clips WED empty WED empty WED See all clips from The Shining Heart (2) WED WED Credits WED Louie: Carl Prekopp WED Robert: Russell Boulter WED Becky: Katy Sobey WED Carina: Mercedes Grower WED Grace: Sydney Wade WED Laura: Sally Orrock WED George: Mark Meadows WED Director: Mary Ward-Lowery WED Writer: Matt Haynes WED Writer: Conor McCormack WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b043xl9h (Listen) WED Buying and Selling a Home WED WED Buying or selling a home? If you have a question about WED mortgages, conveyancing or estate agents call 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED Contact the Money Box Live Team WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b043x499 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b043xl9k (Listen) WED Islamaphobia and Anti-Semitism - similarities and WED differences. Comparisons of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim WED sentiment are strikingly absent in British accounts of race WED and racism. Laurie Taylor talks to Nasar Meer, Reader in WED Comparative Social Policy at Strathclyde University, about a WED new study which attempts to remedy this omission. They're WED joined by Rumy Hasan, Senior Lecturer at the Sussex Centre WED for Migration Research at the University of Sussex. WED Also, the sociology of 'sleep'. How does sleep fit into our WED wired awake world? Catherine Coveney, Senior Research Fellow WED at the University of Warwick, explores the sleeping WED experiences & strategies of shift workers and students. WED WED Producer: Torquil MacLeod. WED WED Nasar Meer WED WED Reader in Comparative Social Policy at Strathclyde WED University WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Nasar Meer WED WED WED Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity WED Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd (23 Aug 2014) WED ISBN-10: 0857028685 WED ISBN-13: 978-0857028686 WED Racialization and Religion: Race, Culture and Difference in WED the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia WED Edited by Nasar Meer WED Publisher: Routledge WED ISBN-10: 0415715016 WED ISBN-13: 978-0415715010 WED WED Rumy Hasan WED WED Senior Lecturer, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, SPRU WED - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of WED Sussex WED WED WED WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Rumy Hasan WED WED WED WED WED Dangerous Liaisons: The Clash Between Islamism and Zionism WED Publisher: New Generation Publishing WED ISBN-10: 1909593141 WED ISBN-13: 978-1909593145 WED WED Catherine Coveney WED WED Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the WED University of Warwick WED WED WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Catherine Coveney WED WED WED WED WED WED Abstract: WED Managing sleep and wakefulness in a 24-hour world WED Sociology of Health & Illness, 36: 123–136 WED doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12046 WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b043xl9m (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b043xl9p (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b043pwg5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01s8cp3 (Listen) WED Series 2, George and Louise 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 final episode of the series, Isy recounts the tale WED of George and Louise, set against the backdrop of the WED Matlock Ceilidh over Christmas / New Year 2014. 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 b043xl9r (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b043xl9t (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04471lv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b043xl9w (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley presents the fourth programme in a new WED series of the live, studio-based debate programmes which WED take the 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 b043xl9y (Listen) WED Series 4, SF Said WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b043x48q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b043x86d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b043pwg7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b043xlb0 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b043xlb2 (Listen) WED Fallout, She Does Hurt Me WED WED Hayley Atwell reads Sadie Jones' acclaimed new novel set WED during the birth of radical theatre in 1970s London; a world WED in which the four central characters swirl, ambitious, eager WED yet all facing the demons of their pasts. WED Today: while Luke's success as a playwright grows, he WED struggles with having to share Nina with her husband. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Hayley Atwell WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Author: Sadie Jones WED WED 23:00 Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side WED b043xlb4 (Listen) WED Go Wild in the Country 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 Episode 4. Go Wild in the Country. The Graceland Caravan WED Park is beset by second home owners trying to 'keep it WED real'. Surrounded by Laura Ashley wheelie bins, he begins to WED wonder what's so great about country life anyway. I mean WED what are you supposed to do - run with the deer or shoot WED them? 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', which was recorded on location as well. WED WED (further info at www.elvismcgonagall.co.uk) WED WED Written by Elvis MacGonagall, with Richard Smith, Helen WED Braunholtz-Smith and Frank Stirling. WED WED Director: Frank Stirling 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 I, Regress b019fxbc (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED WED A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an WED unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees WED Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff WED Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking WED unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through WED their subconscious. WED WED Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client WED who has come to him for a different problem (quitting WED smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under WED hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various WED situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played WED out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) WED like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is WED disturbing. WED WED Episode 3: Ms Taffgoon (Morgana Robinson) finds her WED appointment with Dr Berry to cure a fear of heights takes a WED strange path, taking in a talking pigeon (Derek Griffiths) WED and an interplanetary trip. And a field. WED WED The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT WED Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall WED (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes WED Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's WED Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter WED Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, WED and The Royal Exchange). WED WED A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone WED else's head! WED WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED Credits WED Dr Berry: Matt Berry WED Ms Taffgoon: Morgana Robinson WED Actor: Derek Griffiths WED Producer: Sam Bryant WED WED 23:30 Three Pounds in My Pocket b03y3kgl (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Men and women arriving from the Indian subcontinent in the WED 1950s and 1960s with as little as three pounds in their WED pockets recall their first impressions of Britain. In this WED final programme in the series, Kavita Puri talks to this WED pioneer generation who have spent most of their lives in WED Britain. Where is home now, she asks them, and how do you WED hold onto your own culture? WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 MAY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b043pwh2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b043xnx3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b043pwh4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b043pwh6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b043pwh8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b043pwhb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044bksl (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and THU broadcaster Anna Magnusson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b043xpk8 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp50 (Listen) THU Razorbill THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Razorbill. Smart as a THU dinner-jacketed waiter and with a deep blunt patterned bill, THU the razorbill is a striking bird - though its looks could be THU compensation for its voice. THU THU Razorbill (Alca torda) THU Image courtesy of RSPB THU THU 06:00 Today b043xpkb (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b043xpkd (Listen) THU The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Rubaiyat of Omar THU Khayyam. In 1859 the poet Edward FitzGerald published a THU volume of poetry based on the verses of the 11th-century THU Persian scholar Omar Khayyam. Although only loosely based on THU the original, the Rubaiyat made Khayyam the best-known THU Eastern poet in the English-speaking world. FitzGerald's THU version is itself one of the most admired works of Victorian THU literature, praised and imitated by many later writers. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b043xpkg (Listen) THU Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, An Interview THU THU Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery THU and danger. In 2005, at the age of 22, the decision to give THU up a maths Phd to become a journalist takes Sundaram to war THU torn Congo ahead of the first democratic elections for forty THU years. Today, he heads east towards the conflict and THU conducts an extraordinary interview. THU THU Read by Riz Ahmed. THU Abridged by Richad Hamilton. THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Riz Ahmed THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Author: Anjan Sundaram THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b043xpkj (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04471qc (Listen) THU The Seventh Test, The Ring THU THU Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in THU New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she THU works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and THU younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an THU extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his THU choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the THU tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. THU Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas THU Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". THU THU 4) The Ring THU THU A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog THU Millionaire". THU THU Bollywood actress Priya Capoor arrives at the showroom to THU promote a new range of TV's. But when her diamond ring goes THU missing, the suspicion falls on Sapna. THU THU Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The THU Accidental Apprentice". THU THU Writers: THU Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling THU novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar THU winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award THU winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . THU THU Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX THU SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. THU She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, THU UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her THU stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was THU developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged THU by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. THU THU John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series THU SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won THU the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His THU dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best THU Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A THU HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated THU dramas on R4 Extra. THU THU Production: THU Sound Design - Steve Bond THU Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera THU Script Editor - Mike Walker THU Assistant Producer - Toral Shah THU THU Music - Sacha Putnam THU THU Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel THU "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. THU THU Director - John Dryden THU Producer - Nadir Khan THU A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Sapna: Rasika Dugal THU Acharya: Vijay Chrishna THU Karan: Neil Bhoopalam THU Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital THU Rosie: Radhika Mital THU Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel THU Raja: Sumeet Vyas THU Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur THU Roaji: Rajit Kapur THU Neha: Amrita Puri THU Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza THU Pushpa: Ayesha Raza THU Female Judge: Ayesha Raza THU Badan Singh: Kenny Desai THU Politician: Kenny Desai THU Constable: Kenny Desai THU Madan: Vivek Madan THU Neelam: Preetika Chawla THU Babli: Preetika Chawla THU Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik THU Director: John Dryden THU Producer: Nadir Khan THU Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon THU Adaptor: John Dryden THU Author: Vikas Swarup THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b043xpkl (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Woolf in the Jungle b043xpqt (Listen) THU Overshadowed for the greater part of his life by his THU brilliant wife Virginia, Leonard Woolf is largely remembered THU as a devoted husband and member of the Bloomsbury set. Yet THU he was a gifted writer in his own right. THU THU As a young man, Woolf worked as a colonial civil servant in THU Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then known. After his return to THU England in 1911 he wrote 'The Village in the Jungle', the THU first English novel to portray sympathetically the plight of THU the rural poor in a remote corner of Empire. Published a THU decade before Forster's A Passage to India and two decades THU before Orwell's Burmese Days, it is also seen by some as the THU first novel to criticise British imperialism. Whilst the THU book has always been highly regarded in Sri Lanka because it THU is written from the indigenous perspective, Woolf's novel THU remains virtually unknown in this country. THU THU A century or so on from the novel's first publication, the THU writer and broadcaster Nicholas Rankin explores why this is THU so and asks whether the book and its author deserve a more THU prominent place in literary history. Among the contributors THU are the writer Romesh Gunesekera, Woolf's biographer THU Victoria Glendinning, and Woolf's nephew, publisher Cecil THU Woolf. THU THU Producer: Dan Shepherd THU A Far Shoreline Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b043xpqw (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b043pwhd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b043xpqy (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and THU the Mind b043xpr0 (Listen) THU The Sex Factor THU THU As celebrity candour around mental illness fights stigma and THU promotes better understanding, Martin Sixsmith looks at the THU public perception of psychology with the help of comedian THU Ruby Wax. THU THU He examines what it is that interests us about human THU thinking, including the pioneering research into sexual THU relationships by Kinsey, Masters and Johnson in 1950s and THU 1960s, as well as the social impact of a rising interest in THU gender differences. THU THU He uncovers how the work of women psychologists went largely THU unrecognised in the early history of the science and THU compares it with the feminisation of psychology these days. THU THU Produced by Sara Parker THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b043xl9r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b043xqcj (Listen) THU Original British Dramatists, Lost or Stolen THU THU ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMATISTS THU Discover 10 new voices over 10 Afternoon Dramas THU THU Sarah and Dan meet when they a share a taxi after a night THU out in London. They are drawn to each other. But Sarah can't THU resist stealing his phone. So begins an unorthodox love THU story. A two-hander, about finding love in the big city. THU THU Jessica Brown is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers THU programme. Her debut play Chocolate Bounty won the Write Now THU New Writing Competition and premiered at The Brockley Jack THU Studio Theatre to great reviews. Jessica then won the THU competition for the second year running with her play THU Skinhead. She has since had work produced at the Southwark THU Playhouse. THU THU Written by Jessica Brown THU Directed by James Robinson THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU Original British Dramatists Collection THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Sarah: Annabel Scholey THU Dan: Tom Bennett THU Actor: Michael Bertenshaw THU Director: James Robinson THU Writer: Jessica Brown THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b043xqcl (Listen) THU Series 27, Thundersley, Essex THU THU There's a watery theme to this new series of Ramblings, as THU Clare Balding walks along rivers, lakes and streams. In this THU first programme we find her exploring part of the Thames THU estuary in Essex, with local enthusiast, Eileen Peck. THU Eileen's written a book of local walks around her village of THU Thundersley trying to encourage locals to enjoy walking in THU their own area, rather than feeling they have to travel THU further a field. Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Eileen Peck THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b043wk08 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b043wk0x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b043xqcn (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b043xqcq (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b043xqcs (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b043pwhg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b043xqry (Listen) THU Grain THU THU How do you make economics funny? How do you put the comedy THU in commodity? Simon Evans has the answer in this new series THU which asks us to get involved in investment. THU Rather than being cowed by an apparently complicated and THU overwhelming system, Simon jumps right in. He takes as his THU focus four commodities which are so intrinsic to our lives THU they have an almost elemental significance - land, gold, oil THU and grain. Yet, despite the fact we encounter them THU everywhere we look, very few people have been able to build THU a fortune on them. THU All that's about to change as, Simon enlists help from the THU experts. Each week he will be joined by Tim Harford, Merryn THU Somerset Webb and a guest specialist as they examine the THU chequered social and economic histories of these THU commodities. By looking at four such fundamental products, THU Simon brings us to a closer understanding of how global THU economic forces have a far-reaching and often surprising THU impact on our lives. THU In this episode, Simon looks at commodities markets in THU grain. How moral is it to trade in food? how much of it is THU animal feed and what is the future of food? THU THU Performed by ..... Simon Evans, with regular guests Tim THU Harford and Merryn Somerset-Webb, and to talk about grain THU markets, Kanes Rajah and Jim Rogers. THU Written by ..... Simon Evans with Benjamin Partridge and THU Andy Wolton THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Simon Evans THU Interviewed Guest: Tim Harford THU Interviewed Guest: Merryn Somerset Webb THU Interviewed Guest: Kanes Rajah THU Interviewed Guest: Jim Rogers THU Writer: Simon Evans THU Writer: Benjamin Partridge THU Writer: Andy Wolton THU Producer: Tilusha Ghelani THU THU 19:00 The Archers b043xqs0 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b043xqt1 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04471qc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b043xqt3 (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b043xr77 (Listen) THU Packaging in a Pickle THU THU Modern living generates ever increasing amounts of packaging THU to wrap up the things we purchase and that generates THU widespread criticism of the packaging industry. But THU packaging companies are trying to innovate to respond to THU both environmental and marketing needs. Peter Day THU investigates what is wrapped around the products we all buy. THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b043xqcq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b043xpkd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b043pwhj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b043xrng (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b043xrnj (Listen) THU Fallout, Is there anything I can do to change your mind? THU THU Hayley Atwell reads Sadie Jones' acclaimed new novel set THU during the birth of radical theatre in 1970s London; a world THU in which the four central characters swirl, ambitious, eager THU yet all facing their own demons. THU Today: As interest gathers for his next play, Luke makes the THU ultimate sacrifice. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Hayley Atwell THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Author: Sadie Jones THU THU 23:00 Men About the House b043xsl6 (Listen) THU Men About the House THU THU 'Desert Storm in a Teacup' THU THU Sitcom set in a parallel world where women are THU unquestionably in charge. THU THU PM, Eve would really like to launch a missile strike on an THU evil Middle East dictator who has been using banned chemical THU weapons. She's very excited about this. But will Parliament THU back her? THU THU Written by Arthur Mathews. THU THU Credits THU Eve Feevis: Ingrid Oliver THU Sue Brush: Morgana Robinson THU Adam: Fergus Craig THU Tony Props: Geoff McGivern THU Hilary Crench: Selina Cadell THU Writer: Arthur Mathews THU THU 23:30 Podcasting - The First Ten Years b03zdkk5 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Stuck for a definition of online on demand radio shows, THU journalist Ben Hammersley coined the term 'podcasting'. Ten THU years on it's become a global phenomenon. THU THU In this 2-part series, award-winning podcasters Helen THU Zaltzman and Olly Mann, trace its origins among the THU geek/tech community, its arrival in mainstream media thanks THU to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Fry and its development into THU the niches where conventional broadcasting can't reach. THU THU From the whistle blowing air hostess Betty With A Suitcase THU to comedian Marc Maron's WTF, from Phil Cornwell's Spurs THU Show to sex advice on the Savage Lovecast, from the THU weirdness of Night Vale and Radiolab to personalities like THU The Grammar Girl and One Bad Mother, it's a whole new world THU of audio production where programmes meet listeners without THU the need for radio stations. THU THU In the first of two programmes, Ben Hammersley explains why THU he regrets inventing the word, self-styled 'podfather' Adam THU Curry talks about the early pre-iPod days in the US and, THU while recording their own podcast, Answer Me This!, Helen THU and Olly take an audio journey through the podosphere. THU THU Producer: Trevor Dann THU A Trevor Dann production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 MAY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Vote 2014 b0444wmw (Listen) FRI Coverage of the 2014 UK local elections. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b043pwjm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b043pwjp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b044bktn (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and FRI broadcaster Anna Magnusson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04413g4 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Jones. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp6d (Listen) FRI Goldfinch FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Goldfinch. With its FRI bright yellow wing-flashes and face painted black, white and FRI red, the goldfinch is one of our most colourful birds. FRI FRI Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04416rr (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b043wk0j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b041zzq7 (Listen) FRI Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo, The Elections FRI FRI Stringer is Anjan Sundaram's vivid account of self-discovery FRI and danger. In 2005, at the age of 22, the decision to give FRI up a maths Phd to become a journalist takes Sundaram to war FRI torn Congo ahead of the first democratic elections for forty FRI years. Today, he observes the elections and is caught up in FRI their disturbing aftermath. FRI FRI Read by Riz Ahmed. FRI Abridged by Richad Hamilton. FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Riz Ahmed FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Author: Anjan Sundaram FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04416rw (Listen) FRI Twins; teenage etiqette 1950's style FRI FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04471vk (Listen) FRI The Seventh Test, The Candy Van FRI FRI Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in FRI New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she FRI works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and FRI younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an FRI extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his FRI choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the FRI tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas FRI Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". FRI FRI 5) The Candy Van FRI A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog FRI Millionaire". FRI A van appears in Sapna's neighbourhood, luring children away FRI with sweets, to work in factories. Sapna intervenes, but in FRI so doing sets off a chain of events that lead her into the FRI path of danger. Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling FRI novel "The Accidental Apprentice". FRI FRI Writers: FRI Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling FRI novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar FRI winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award FRI winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . FRI FRI Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX FRI SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. FRI She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, FRI UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her FRI stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was FRI developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged FRI by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. FRI FRI John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series FRI SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won FRI the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His FRI dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best FRI Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A FRI HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated FRI dramas on R4 Extra. FRI FRI Overflow and notes: FRI FRI Production: FRI Sound Design - Steve Bond FRI Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera FRI Script Editor - Mike Walker FRI Assistant Producer - Toral Shah FRI FRI Music - Sacha Putnam FRI FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel FRI "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. FRI FRI Director - John Dryden FRI Producer - Nadir Khan FRI A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sapna: Rasika Dugal FRI Acharya: Vijay Chrishna FRI Karan: Neil Bhoopalam FRI Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital FRI Rosie: Radhika Mital FRI Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel FRI Raja: Sumeet Vyas FRI Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur FRI Roaji: Rajit Kapur FRI Neha: Amrita Puri FRI Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza FRI Pushpa: Ayesha Raza FRI Female Judge: Ayesha Raza FRI Badan Singh: Kenny Desai FRI Politician: Kenny Desai FRI Constable: Kenny Desai FRI Madan: Vivek Madan FRI Neelam: Preetika Chawla FRI Babli: Preetika Chawla FRI Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik FRI Director: John Dryden FRI Producer: Nadir Khan FRI Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon FRI Adaptor: John Dryden FRI Author: Vikas Swarup FRI FRI 11:00 First There Was the Word b04416ry (Listen) FRI Author Yasmin Hai combines personal storytelling with FRI journalistic analysis exploring British Muslim fiction, FRI memoir, readerships and publishing and the forging of a FRI literary 'Islamic gaze'. FRI FRI In the twenty five years following the Rushdie affair there FRI has been an explosion of 'Muslim' books and bookshops FRI catering for the believer's newly born literary needs. But FRI what is that need exactly? In a culture seeped in the FRI nuances of the oral tradition, what is the modern day FRI Muslim's attitude towards books - the literal word - and the FRI genre of fiction especially? FRI FRI In this feature, Yasmin tells the story of her community's FRI troubled relationship with the written word - and her own FRI story within it. From her early years when she was made to FRI read the Koran by barely literate mullahs, to her teenager FRI years when she saw her usually timid local community rise up FRI against The Satanic Verses, to current times, hailed by FRI western publishers as an authentic 'Muslim writer,' despite FRI being a non believer. FRI FRI Yasmin will explore if what she has witnessed over the years FRI is a Muslim community coming into its own in the modern FRI world and building a literary infrastructure of book prizes, FRI writers groups and independent publishing houses as it does FRI so. But can current British Muslim writers bridge a gap FRI between Islam and the West, and most importantly, modern FRI literary traditions, underpinned by secular values? Or would FRI the literary 'Islamic gaze' ultimately end up producing FRI books for a niche market? As the battle for the Muslim word FRI continues, it's a question which has yet to be answered. FRI FRI Presenter: Yasmin Hai FRI FRI Producer: Simon Hollis FRI A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Guests Are Like Fish b04416s0 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI Guests are like Fish by Shelagh Stephenson FRI FRI When ANNA and JIM left London to move to the country, they FRI blithely issued invitations to come up and see us any time! FRI to all and sundry. FRI FRI Unfortunately, most of those who take them at their word are FRI the ones they never in a million years dreamt would turn up, FRI with predictably disastrous results. FRI FRI Each weekend, over 4 episodes, a different couple pitches up FRI on their doorstep demanding food, more food, wine and FRI roaring fires, when what they really need is prolonged FRI therapy. And each week Anna and Jim swear they'll never do FRI it again...Guests, like fish, tend to go off after three FRI days. FRI FRI Produced and directed by: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Anna: Haydn Gwynne FRI Jim: Tim McInnerny FRI Emma: Issy van Randwyck FRI Feather: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Writer: Shelagh Stephenson FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b04416s2 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b04416s4 (Listen) FRI Eddie and Leigh - A Fresh Start FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a father and daughter who both face new FRI horizons: he's coming out of rehab, she's leaving school, FRI and they're both hoping their relationship will grow. 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 b043pwjr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04416s6 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b04416s8 (Listen) FRI The Happiness Project FRI FRI In the concluding programme of this 25-part series, Martin FRI Sixsmith looks at where we are now in terms of understanding FRI what makes us think, feel and act the way we do. FRI FRI He re-visits the Government's 2010 pledge to increase FRI happiness and well-being and talks to former 'happiness FRI tsar' Richard Layard. He examines initiatives such as the FRI provision of thousands of newly-trained CBT therapists to FRI make treatment for mental health problems more widely FRI available and other ways in which we are being encouraged to FRI modify our behaviour, asking 'what is happiness' and whether FRI it's achievable both for an individual and society . FRI FRI Produced by Sara Parker FRI Series consultant: Professor Daniel Pick of Birkbeck, FRI University of London FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b043xqs0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04416sb (Listen) FRI Original British Dramatists, From A to Z FRI FRI Original British Dramatists : Discover 10 new voices over 10 FRI Afternoon Dramas FRI Suzie and Paul have been together for ten years, since they FRI were kids really. But at the ripe old age of 29 it's all FRI gone a bit rubbish. Can A to Z dating help reignite their FRI relationship? Even if Susie's idea of fun is H (hang FRI gliding) and Paul's is K (knitting). Will it end in D for FRI disaster or S for success? FRI Romantic-comedy starring Catrin Stewart and Alex Carter. FRI FRI Rose Heiney won the 4Talent Award for Best New Comedy Writer FRI in 2008 and was a Broadcast Hotshot in 2009. Her first FRI novel, The Days of Judy B was nominated for The Times/South FRI Bank Show Breakthrough Award. Rose's TV writing includes FRI Miranda, Fresh Meat and Big Bad World. FRI FRI Directed by..... Helen Perry FRI FRI The cast is led by Catrin Stewart (best known for her roles FRI in Stella and Doctor Who) and Alex Carter (known for his FRI long term role in Hollyoaks and his regular appearances on FRI the BBC 6 Music Shaun Keaveny breakfast show ). FRI Original British Dramatists Collection FRI FRI Clip FRI empty FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul: Alex Carter FRI Suzie: Catrin Stewart FRI Big Jim: Alun Raglan FRI The Therapist: Claire Cage FRI Gavin: Sabrina Jones FRI Director: Helen Perry FRI Writer: Rose Heiney FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04416sd (Listen) FRI Chelsea Fringe FRI FRI Eric Robson and the GQT team are at Oxford House in Bethnal FRI Green for the Chelsea Fringe. Taking questions from the FRI audience are Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew FRI Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 After Milk Wood b04416sg (Listen) FRI Hares in the Old Plantation FRI FRI After Milk Wood: three stories by acclaimed writers which FRI take their inspiration from Dylan Thomas's greatest work, FRI 'Under Milk Wood'. The stories have been commissioned to FRI commemorate the centenary of the birth of the great Welsh FRI writer, Dylan Thomas. FRI FRI Today: Kevin Barry's 'Hares in the Old Plantation' - a FRI teenage boy suffers the torments of unrequited love in rural FRI Ireland. FRI FRI Writer: Kevin Barry - Barry's debut novel, City of Bohane, FRI won the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; he's FRI winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel award, winner FRI of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2012, and was FRI shortlisted for the Costa Award. FRI FRI Irvine Welsh claims he's: 'The most arresting and original FRI writer to emerge from these islands in years', and Roddy FRI Doyle calls him 'Hilarious and unpredictable - and always FRI brilliant'. FRI FRI The Reader is Kevin Trainor FRI The producer is Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Kevin Trainor FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Writer: Kevin Barry FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04416sj (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04416sl (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04416sn (Listen) FRI Jonny and Neil - Chance Meeting FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces the pair reunited by the #findmike FRI campaign, who first met on Waterloo Bridge when one talked FRI the other out of committing suicide. They are now good FRI friends, proving once again that it's surprising what you FRI 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 b04416sq (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b043pwjt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b04416ss (Listen) FRI Series 43, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Sara FRI Pascoe for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch FRI Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. FRI FRI Written by the cast with additional material from Gareth FRI Gwynn, Nadia Kamil and Matt Green. Produced by Alexandra FRI Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: Mitch Benn FRI Panellist: Laura Shavin FRI Panellist: Jon Holmes FRI Panellist: Sara Pascoe FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04416sv (Listen) FRI Charlie surprises Adam, while Pat and Tony get a shock. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Peter Wild FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04416sx (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04471vk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04418mc (Listen) FRI Angela Eagle MP, Sir Malcolm Bruce MP, Justine Greening MP, FRI Patrick O'Flynn FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the BBC FRI Radio Theatre in London with Shadow Leader of the House of FRI Commons Angela Eagle MP, Secretary of State for FRI International Development Justine Greening, Director of FRI Communications for UKIP Patrick O'Flynn and Deputy Leader of FRI the Liberal Democrats Sir Malcolm Bruce. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04418mf (Listen) FRI Why we should be religious but not spiritual FRI FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b04418mh (Listen) FRI Omnibus Edition, Episode 5 FRI FRI In this final week of In Search of Ourselves, Martin FRI Sixsmith looks at the practical and applied use of FRI psychology. He examines the use of psychological FRI understanding in all areas of society, from forensic FRI profiling and the criminal justice system to the ways in FRI which thinking, emotions and mental events can affect our FRI physical state, and the efforts of doctors and nurses to FRI deploy psychological levers in the fight for wellbeing. FRI FRI He also considers the power of persuasion employed in FRI advertising, propaganda and information campaigns, as well FRI as the influence of celebrity in tackling the stigma FRI surrounding mental illness and changing public attitudes and FRI perception. FRI FRI Finally he revisits the Government's 2010 happiness and FRI well-being agenda - and asks where are we now and what is FRI the future of psychology in tomorrow's society? FRI FRI Produced by Sara Parker FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b043pwjw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04418mk (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04418mm (Listen) FRI Fallout, I had no idea what to do with you FRI FRI Hayley Atwell reads Sadie Jones' acclaimed new novel set FRI during the birth of radical theatre in 1970s London; a world FRI in which the four central characters swirl, ambitious, eager FRI yet all facing their own demons. FRI Today: Nina finds the courage not to be saved - and Luke and FRI Leigh find an ending in New York. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hayley Atwell FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Author: Sadie Jones FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b043x48v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Podcasting - The First Ten Years b0400l5q (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI The First Ten Years Pt 2 FRI FRI Part 2 of a two-part investigation of the phenomenon of FRI 'podcasting', a word first coined ten years ago. Helen FRI Zaltzman & Olly Mann, co-hosts of Britain's favourite FRI home-made podcast, Answer Me This! (500,000 downloads a FRI week), talk to popular podcasters Richard Herring, Marc FRI Maron, Roman Mars, the stars of The Bugle, One Bad Mother FRI and Betty In the Sky, and the writers of Welcome To Night FRI Vale about obsessive fans and how to make podcasting pay. FRI Radio 4's Nigel Smith discusses the role of podcasts at the FRI BBC and commentators Nate Lanxon, Jemima Kiss and Ben FRI Hammersley (who coined the word podcasting) look forward to FRI another ten years of downloadable radio programmes. FRI FRI Producer: Trevor Dann FRI A Trevor Dann production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04418mp (Listen) FRI Lucy and Stephen - Family Planning FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who FRI already have a daughter, but are trying to decide whether FRI they want another child. 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
16 May, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 17/05/2014 - 23/05/2014
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