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SAT SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0532fl1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b053c3nw (Listen) SAT Shop Girl, Episode 5 SAT SAT Mary Portas reads her moving and hilarious memoir of her SAT early years. SAT SAT Mary has finally found her calling as a window dresser at SAT Harrods. Under Berge, the Armenian Rudolf Nureyev/Freddie SAT Mercury look-alike who's known as Queen of the Store, she SAT learns to create windows which will make dreams become SAT reality and entice customers over the threshold into the SAT magic kingdom. SAT SAT She thrives in the frenetic, creative environment, but now SAT that her dad has sold the family home to move in with his SAT new wife, she's always desperate for money and lonely in her SAT tiny flat. SAT SAT Then, one night, her step mother turns up - with shocking SAT news. SAT SAT Read by the author SAT Abridged by Jo Coombs SAT SAT Produced by Hannah Marshall SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Mary Portas SAT Author: Mary Portas SAT Abridger: Jo Coombs SAT Producer: Hannah Marshall SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0532fl3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0532fl5 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0532fl7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0532fl9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b053c3vw (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Rev'd Rosa Hunt. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b053c3vy (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0532flc (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0532flf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b053bv5n (Listen) SAT Series 29, Philip Marsden, Truro, Cornwall SAT SAT Clare Balding walks with the writer Philip Marsden from his SAT home near the banks of the River Fal out to the Cornish SAT coastal path. Clare and Philip discuss why we react so SAT strongly to certain places and why layers of stories and SAT meaning build up around particular features in the SAT landscape. SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Philip Marsden SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b053rz59 (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 Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0532flh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b053rz5c (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. 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One SAT day she logged onto her rota and noticed that her co-pilot SAT on a flight to Tenerife was none other than her dad. SAT SAT Charles Hill is the former police officer, now a freelance SAT detective who spends his time tracking down lost or stolen SAT art SAT SAT You may have noticed that we're quite nosey. We don't just SAT want you to listen to Saturday Live - we want to know what SAT you do with the rest of your Saturdays. We know that some of SAT you are members of running clubs, some of you knit, sing, go SAT to football matches - but what about learning a language? SAT Brighton might not be the most obvious place to find a Welsh SAT language class but there is one - and as it's St David's day SAT tomorrow, we sent Pete Ross to find out why. Clun glun Hwre! SAT SAT Patrick Grant Savile Row designer and presenter of The Great SAT British Sewing Bee, shares his Inheritance Tracks. He SAT inherited Rolling Stones' 'Sympathy for The Devil' and is SAT passing on 'Packt Like Sardines In A Crush'd Tin Box' by SAT Radiohead SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Laura and Peter Elliott SAT A selfie of Laura and Peter Elliott on the flightdeck. SAT SAT Learning Welsh SAT The group meet once a week in various locations in and SAT around Brighton and the South East. Find them on Twitter SAT @CACENcymraeg SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Aasmah Mir SAT Richard Coles SAT Scott Mills SAT Mike Farley SAT Charles Hill SAT Pete Ross SAT Patrick Grant SAT Maire Devine SAT Karen Dalziel SAT Laura Elliott SAT SAT 10:30 Julia, Dear Boy... 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The SAT Tory party used to march together towards the sound of SAT gunfire and that instinctive loyalty has gone. Certainly in SAT my party." SAT SAT Jack Straw talks of his regret at some of the modernisation SAT brought in under the Blair administration, and criticises SAT all three main party leaders for not increasing MPs SAT salaries. SAT SAT Ken Clarke recalls how his intake of Tory MPs drank beer SAT with their Labour opponents in The House of Commons' SAT Strangers Bar, which had historically been held so firmly by SAT the Left that it had been dubbed The Kremlin Bar. SAT SAT Baroness Williams says her mother Vera Brittain would have SAT been pleased with the changes in opportunities for women in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT Other interviewees include former Clerk of the House of SAT Commons Lord Robert Rodgers, Rachel Sylvester of The Times, SAT Baroness Lynda Chalker and Lord Peter Snape. SAT SAT Producer: David Morley SAT A Bite Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b053rz5k (Listen) SAT Steve Richards Looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT What MPs earn and how much should they be allowed to earn SAT outside parliament is now an explosive issue again, but what SAT does the public want from its parliamentarians? And how SAT onerous is the work of the Intelligence And Security SAT Committee formerly chaired by Sir Malcolm Rifkind? plus SAT Labour's new policy on reducing tuition fees-what difference SAT will it make? SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0532flk (Listen) SAT The Devil's Building Site SAT SAT Around the world in less than half an hour! Today: a SAT four-day trek through the remotest parts of Argentina in SAT search of an old man who might have a story to tell; SAT communal activities finally return to the agenda in Liberia SAT now the fear of Ebola is fading; the Israeli prime SAT minister's about to address the joint Houses of Congress in SAT Washington - the White House is not enthusiastic; a journey SAT underground in the Iranian capital Tehran - it provides a SAT picture of Iranian society most tourists will never see and SAT as American and Cuban representatives resume diplomatic SAT negotiations, there's hope in Havana it might all result in SAT better menus! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0532flm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b053rz5m (Listen) SAT Misleading pension websites; Care fees shake-up in England; SAT HMRC Letters cause concern SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul lewis: SAT SAT We investigate a pension advice website which looks and SAT feels official but in fact just generates leads for SAT financial advisers. What are the dangers of people getting SAT advice via unofficial websites just five weeks before the SAT new pension freedoms begin? Michelle Cracknell from The SAT Pensions Advisory Service joins the programme. SAT SAT People in long term care who defer their fees so they are SAT paid from the value of their own home after their death, SAT will leave their heirs a bill of possibly thousands of SAT pounds on top of the high cost of the fees. New rules which SAT begin on 1 April in England allow councils to charge SAT interest and an administration fee. At the moment neither is SAT charged. The new rules do not apply in rest of UK where SAT deferment will still be free. Adam Hillier, Advice and SAT Information Development Advisor, First Stop and SAT David Pearson, Association of Directors of Adult Social SAT Services, discuss the issues. SAT SAT Thousands of single parents are being written to by an SAT American outsourcing company on behalf of HMRC demanding SAT proof that they are not cohabiting. Concentrix is writing SAT the letters to single parents who get tax credits and asking SAT for dozens of pages of information to prove they live alone SAT on threat of suspending their money. Mike Spencer from the SAT Child Poverty Action Group outlines people's concerns. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b053c3px (Listen) SAT Series 86, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Andy Hamilton, Sara Pascoe, SAT journalist Sam Leith and regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Andy Hamilton SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0532flp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0532flr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b053c3q3 (Listen) SAT Natalie Bennett, David Coburn MEP, Ed Davey MP, Emma SAT Reynolds MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby hosts political debate from the Wills SAT Memorial Building at Bristol University with the Leader of SAT the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, UKIP's MEP for Scotland SAT David Coburn, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate SAT Change Ed Davey MP, and the Shadow Housing Minister Emma SAT Reynolds MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b053rz5p (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b053rz5r (Listen) SAT Unmade Movies, Harold Pinter's Victory SAT SAT The world premiere of Harold Pinter's screenplay of Josef SAT Conrad's last major novel, in a special adaptation for radio SAT by Sir Richard Eyre. SAT SAT It's 1900 in the Dutch East Indies. Disenchanted with life SAT and humanity, Heyst, a mysterious Swedish Baron, lives alone SAT on a deserted island. SAT SAT He believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off SAT from others, but his life is altered when he visits the SAT neighbouring island for a doctor's check up. Here he meets SAT and falls in love with Lena, a young English violinist, SAT travelling across the Pacific with a small commercial ladies SAT Orchestra. SAT SAT Surrounded by predatory older men, including the hotel SAT manager Schomberg, she is drawn to Heyst and the sense of SAT mystery that surrounds him. Together, in the middle of the SAT night, they escape by boat to his island. SAT SAT Sound Design: John Leonard and Wilfredo Acosta SAT SAT Director: Richard Eyre SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Bowen SAT SAT A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Simon Russell Beale SAT Heyst: Bjarne Henriksen SAT Lena: Vanessa Kirby SAT Davidson: Matthew Marsh SAT Ricardo: Mark Strong SAT Jones: Robert Portal SAT Schomberg: Patrick O'Kane SAT Mrs Schomberg: Helen Schlesinger SAT Pedro: Martin Marquez SAT Chang: Paul Chan SAT Mrs Zangiacomo: Flaminia Cinque SAT Author: Joseph Conrad SAT Writer: Harold Pinter SAT Adaptor: Richard Eyre SAT Director: Richard Eyre SAT Producer: Laurence Bowen SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b053rz5t (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT If you have a racial preference when dating can it ever be SAT considered racist? SAT Chronic pain affects more women than men but are women more SAT likely to suffer in silence because they fear doctors won't SAT take them as seriously as men? SAT Cerys Matthews gives us her top five female singer SAT songwriters. SAT Joanna Jepson was pulled into the media spotlight in 2003 SAT when she challenged the late abortion of a foetus with cleft SAT palate. She recalls that time. SAT The poet and novelist Elaine Feinstein discusses her SAT favourite female poets. SAT We hear what it's like to have a double mastectomy at the SAT age of 27. SAT And how common is it not to like your child's friends? SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Racial Preferences and Dating SAT If you have a racial preference when dating, is it a matter SAT of sexual attraction or can it ever be considered racist? SAT Jenni speaks to Bim Adewunmi, Culture Editor at Buzzfeed and SAT Head of Dating at Time Out, Charly Lester about whether our SAT dating preferences say something about us. SAT SAT Gender and Pain SAT SAT A new film starring Jennifer Aniston explores what it’s like SAT to live with chronic pain. In it Aniston’s character Claire SAT is not just physically affected - her condition impacts on SAT her emotional and psychological health as well. Chronic SAT pain affects more women than men, but are women treated SAT sympathetically by medical practitioners, or are they more SAT likely to suffer in silence because they fear doctors won’t SAT take them as seriously as men? Maria Mansfield has SAT suffered from chronic pain for 17 years, Joanna Bourke has SAT explored how gender has influenced the treatment of pain in SAT her book, *The Story of Pain,*and Liam O’Toole is CEO of SAT Arthritis Research. SAT SAT Arthritis Research UK SAT For more information visit SAT www.arthritisresearchuk.org/painreport SAT SAT Cerys Matthews on Carole King SAT Who is the greatest female singer-songwriter? As ‘Beautiful SAT – the Carole King musical’ opens in London tonight, ahead of SAT the Brit awards later in the week and the centenary of SAT Billie Holiday’s birth in April, musician Cerys Matthews SAT reveals her top 5 all-time favourites. SAT SAT Joanna Jepson SAT SAT Joanna Jepson is a Church of England priest who was born SAT with a jaw abnormality which led to years of bullying and SAT low-esteem throughout her childhood. In her new memoir, ‘A SAT Lot Like Eve’ Joanna discusses how her evangelical SAT upbringing, painful reconstructive facial surgery and her SAT time in a Welsh convent inspired her to become a vicar and SAT the first Chaplain to the London College of Fashion. She SAT joins Jane to discuss how she was pulled into the media SAT spotlight in 2003 when she challenged the late abortion of a SAT foetus with a cleft palate, her experience of sexism in the SAT Church and why she is passionate about fashion. SAT SAT A Lot Like Eve: Fashion, Faith and Fig-Leaves: A Memoir is SAT published by Bloomsbury on 26 February 2015 SAT http://www.joannajepson.com SAT SAT Elaine Feinstein SAT Poet and novelist Elaine Feinstein has said of her work that SAT writing about people has always been ‘the most intense of my SAT preoccupations’. In her new collection, ‘Portraits’, she SAT brings together poems that describe a myriad of writers whom SAT she has known, or has loved through their work. Jenni SAT speaks to her about female poets and maintaining a love for SAT writing alongside family life. SAT SAT Double Mastectomy SAT SAT When Claira Hermet was nine years old she lost her mother to SAT breast cancer and three years ago she lost her sister to the SAT same illness. Claira then discovered that she carried the SAT BRCA1 gene mutation meaning she had an 85 percent life SAT chance of getting breast cancer herself. And so, at the age SAT of 27, Claira recently opted to have a double mastectomy. A SAT documentary on Radio 1, being aired tonight, (24th February) SAT has followed her story from making the decision to have the SAT double mastectomy right through to the operation itself. SAT Jane speaks to her about her experience. SAT Bye Bye Boobs: SAT http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05300dh SAT For more information about BRCA and breast cancer go to SAT Breast Cancer Campaign SAT SAT http://www.breastcancercampaign.org/about-breast-cancer/brea SAT t-cancer-risk-factors/family-history-and-genetics/brca-gene- SAT utations-and-breast-cancer SAT SAT Disliking your child’s friends SAT How common is it not to like your child’s friends? Do you SAT have to like them? And if you really don’t, how do you SAT handle it? Writer Lucy Cavendish has four children and SAT comedian Jenny Eclair has one grown-up daughter. They join SAT Jenni to discuss getting on - or not getting on - with their SAT kid’s mates. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Cerys Matthews SAT Interviewed Guest: Joanna Jepson SAT Interviewed Guest: Elaine Feinstein SAT SAT 17:00 PM b053rz5w (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b053bxy9 (Listen) SAT Waiting in Line: The Business of Queuing SAT SAT The science and psychology of the queue. This week Evan and SAT his guests look at how businesses manage queuing. SAT SAT We're often told that queuing is one of those quintessential SAT British habits which embodies our sense of fair play: that SAT we should wait our turn. Despite technological innovation. SAT queuing remains one of those unavoidable things we all have SAT to do: be that on-line, waiting for a bus or to pay for our SAT groceries at the check-out. But what does it mean for SAT businesses? How do they go about managing queues and our SAT expectations of those as customers? SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0532flt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0532flw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0532fly (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b053rzvs (Listen) SAT John Sergeant, Alex Wheatle, Odaline de la Martinez, Judy SAT Finnigan, Emma Freud, Carleen Anderson, Dennis Greaves, SAT Mark Feltham SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Carleen Anderson, Odaline de la SAT Martinez, Judy Finnigan and Alex Wheatle for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Carleen SAT Anderson. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT John Sergeant SAT 'Barging Round Britain' by John Sergeant and David Bartley SAT is published by Michael Joseph and available now. SAT The next episode of 'Barging Round Britain' is on Friday 6th SAT March at 20.00 on ITV. You can catch up with previous SAT episodes on ITV Player. SAT SAT Alex Wheatle SAT ‘Liccle Bit’ is published by Atom on 5th March. SAT SAT Judy Finnigan SAT ‘I Do Not Sleep’ is published by Sphere and available now. SAT SAT Odaline de la Martinez SAT 'Lontano' perform at Radio 3’s Coffee Concert, live from the SAT Broadcasting House Radio Theatre on Sunday 8th March to SAT celebrate International Women’s Day. SAT SAT Carleen Anderson SAT SAT Carleen is performing at the Bristol International Jazz & SAT Blues Festival on Saturday 7th March. SAT SAT On 22nd May Carleen will be performing at Brighton Festival SAT in a special one-off show paying tribute to her hero Sarah SAT Vaughan, accompanied by Laura Mvula, the Julian Joseph Trio SAT and special guests. SAT SAT Dennis Greaves and Mark Feltham SAT ‘Duo’ is available now on Zed Records. SAT Duo is available now on Zed Records. Dennis and Mark are SAT touring in March. They are playing a number of venues SAT including Kingskerswell Parish Church, Devon on Saturday SAT the 14th and Prince Albert, Stroud on Wednesday 25th SAT March. Check the Nine Below Zero website for further dates. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Carleen Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Odaline de la Martinez SAT Interviewed Guest: Judy Finnigan SAT Interviewed Guest: Alex Wheatle SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b053s0zh (Listen) SAT Natalie Bennett SAT SAT After a rocky campaign launch, the Green leader Natalie SAT Bennett has been in the headlines this week. Mark Coles SAT hears how she moved from journalism in provincial Australia SAT to British politics, and has combined a love of cricket with SAT feminist campaigning. How is she likely to fare amid the SAT intense scrutiny of the coming election? SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b053s0zl (Listen) SAT Ishiguro, Man and Superman, It Follows, Matt Lucas - SAT Pompidou, Sculpture Victorious SAT SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Man and Superman SAT SAT Main Image: Tim McMullan as Mendoza and Ralph Fiennes as SAT John Tanner. Photographer: Johan Persson. SAT SAT Directed by Simon Godwin, the play SAT Man and Superman SAT is at the Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre in London SAT until 17 May 2015. On 14 May 2015, there will be a SAT National Theatre live SAT broadcast in venues across the UK. SAT SAT The Buried Giant SAT The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro is published by Faber & SAT Faber on 3 March 2015. SAT SAT It Follows SAT Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, the film SAT It Follows SAT is in cinemas from Friday 27 February, certificate 15. SAT SAT Sculpture Victorious SAT The exhibition SAT Sculpture Victorious SAT is at Tate Britain in London until 25 May 2015. SAT SAT Pompidou SAT The visual comedy series SAT Pompidou SAT begins Sunday 1 March, 6.30pm on BBC Two. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b053s0zp (Listen) SAT The Petticoat Vote SAT SAT Jo Fidgen explores how the women's vote has changed British SAT politics and society. SAT SAT In the 1929 general election, women voted on the same terms SAT as men for the first time. It was dubbed the Flapper Vote SAT and had an instant effect on how politicians went about SAT their business. With women now the majority of the SAT electorate, there was talk of "petticoat government" and SAT dire predictions that politics would be reduced to a narrow SAT preoccupation with the cost of living. SAT SAT It soon became clear that women do vote differently from SAT men. For decades, they swung the country Right. Without SAT them, there would have been no Conservative governments SAT between 1945 and 1979. But that all began to change, and it SAT was women who thrust Tony Blair to power. SAT SAT Jo Fidgen delves into the archives in search of the female SAT voter and the ways politicians have sought to win her over. SAT She digs up rare archive from the 1929 campaign trail, SAT overhears a conversation between a young Margaret Thatcher SAT and a prospective voter, and eavesdrops on a discussion SAT between Tony Benn and his father about how female voters had SAT changed the job of constituency MPs, and curtailed their SAT drunken behaviour. SAT SAT Neil Kinnock reflects on his struggle to get the Labour SAT party to change its attitude to women. There's a personal SAT take from Emma Nicholson on the soul-searching in the SAT Conservative party as it started to lose the housewives' SAT vote. SAT SAT Many things have been said about female voters - including SAT that they have made politics petty and personality-driven. SAT Academics and pollsters consider the evidence, and bring us SAT up-to-date with women's voting preferences. SAT SAT Producers: Jo Fidgen and Kate Taylor SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 War and Peace b04w89v9 (Listen) SAT Episode 9 SAT SAT As the Rostovs pack up ready to leave Moscow, Natasha SAT invites all the wounded soldiers to stay in their house. SAT Nikolai is still in love with Marya but feels he cannot go SAT back on his promise to Sonya. That night, a wounded officer SAT is wheeled into the courtyard - Prince Andrei - who Sonya is SAT told won't live long. She and the Countess decide not to SAT reveal the news to Natasha. SAT SAT Meanwhile, Pierre returns to the Queen-less hive that is SAT Moscow where he receives a letter from Countess Bezukhov SAT requesting a divorce. The French Army arrive to find Moscow SAT deserted and completely out of control while Pierre wanders SAT through the now-empty city, in disguise, as he initiates his SAT solo mission to assassinate Napoleon. But fate could be SAT about to interrupt his grand plan. SAT SAT A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by SAT Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes SAT of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic SAT War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and SAT Harriet Walter. SAT SAT The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, SAT Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the SAT events that shaped their lives and the lives of every SAT Russian who lived through these troubled times. SAT SAT War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level SAT of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th SAT Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, SAT social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale SAT never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake SAT Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in SAT ten episodes. SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT Executive Producer: Peter Hoare SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Lesley Manville SAT Actor: John Hurt SAT Actor: Alun Armstrong SAT Actor: Harriet Walter SAT Actor: Paterson Joseph SAT Author: Leo Tolstoy SAT Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0532fm0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b053bq5c (Listen) SAT Freedom of Expression on the Internet SAT SAT While the hunt still goes on for the three teenage girls SAT from London believed to be travelling to Syria to join IS SAT there are calls for Twitter and other social media to do SAT more to shut down websites used to disseminate IS propaganda SAT and aid recruitment. One of the missing girls was reportedly SAT following more than 70 Twitter accounts belonging to SAT terrorist fighters or IS sympathisers; one of those is a SAT British woman who tweets about life as a jihadi bride. IS SAT has deployed social media in the battle for ideas as SAT effectively as it has boots on the ground and there's a SAT terrible, but inescapable irony that they're using one of SAT the values that we hold most dear - freedom of expression SAT -against us. Twitter says that it has a policy of not SAT monitoring user content, but takes action when alerted to SAT inappropriate posts by other users. Many social media sites SAT see themselves as platforms rather than publications, and SAT argue that it's not their job to police people's views. But SAT is that a morally sustainable argument when vulnerable young SAT people are being groomed online? Is it morally inconsistent SAT to defend the rights of publications like Charlie Hebdo, but SAT at the same time demand that the views of those who support SAT IS are supressed? How far should we be willing to sacrifice SAT freedom of speech and our privacy in the fight against SAT terrorists on the internet? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b053721h (Listen) SAT Heat 9, 2015 SAT SAT (9/17) SAT Which two English cathedrals hold original copies of Magna SAT Carta? And which science fiction novel's title is a direct SAT reference to the temperature at which books spontaneously SAT ignite? SAT SAT Russell Davies chairs the ninth heat in the current season SAT of the ever-popular general knowledge quiz, with contestants SAT from the North of England competing at the BBC's Salford SAT studios for a place in the semi-finals in the spring. SAT SAT Every point counts, as it's not just the heats winners who SAT go through but also the runners-up with the highest scores SAT across the series. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT JOANNE HANCOX, a civil servant from Burntwood in SAT Staffordshire; SAT SAT RICHARD KNOWLES, a retired accountant from Otley in West SAT Yorkshire; SAT SAT NICK REED, a charity administrator and fundraiser from SAT Masham in North Yorkshire; SAT SAT NEIL WRIGHT, a retired biomedical scientist from the Wirral. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b053693b (Listen) SAT Teenagers SAT SAT Roger McGough presents poetry by, for and about, teenagers SAT including works by Thomas Chatterton, Adrian Mitchell, Wendy SAT Cope, Imtiaz Dharker and Foyle Young Poets winner Ila SAT Colley. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower SAT SAT By Dylan Thomas SAT SAT From Dylan Thomas -The Poems SAT SAT Published by Dent & Sons 1971 SAT SAT SAT SAT O Captain my Captain SAT SAT By Walt Whitman SAT SAT From Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Dover Publications 1991 SAT SAT SAT SAT Mother, any distance greater than a single span SAT SAT By Simon Armitage SAT SAT From Book of Matches SAT SAT Publised by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Walking Away SAT SAT By C. Day Lewis SAT SAT From C.Day Lewis Selected Poems, SAT SAT Published by Enitharmon Press 2004 SAT SAT SAT SAT She Pops Home SAT SAT By Cal Clothier SAT SAT Unpublished SAT SAT SAT SAT Outgrown SAT SAT By Penelope Shuttle SAT SAT From Unsent SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe 2012 SAT SAT SAT SAT A Puppy Called Puberty SAT SAT By Adrian Mitchell SAT SAT From Blue Coffee SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe 1996 SAT SAT SAT SAT The Concerned Adolescent SAT SAT By Wendy Cope SAT SAT From Serious Concerns SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber 1992 SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from A Balade of Charitie SAT SAT By Thomas Chatterton SAT SAT From Chatterton’s Poetical Works SAT SAT Published by The Aldine Edition of The British Poets SAT SAT SAT SAT New Vibrations SAT SAT By Ila Colley SAT SAT SAT SAT Father and Son I & II SAT SAT By John Thompson SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from A Shropshire Lad SAT SAT By AE Housman SAT SAT Published by Hesperus 2008 SAT SAT SAT SAT Odi et Amo SAT SAT By Catullus SAT SAT From Catullus The Complete Poems SAT SAT Published by Oxford paperbacks 2008 SAT SAT SAT SAT Salome SAT SAT By Carol Anne Duffy SAT SAT From The World’s Wife SAT SAT Published by Picador 2010 SAT SAT SAT SAT Blessing SAT SAT By Imtiaz Dharker SAT SAT From Modern Women Poets SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe 2005 SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b053s85f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Annika Stranded b01q7gz7 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Deep Six SUN SUN Annika Strandhed is a leading light in the murder squad of SUN the Oslo police. Her neuroses - and she has a few - are SUN mostly hidden by a boisterous manner and a love of motor SUN boats. And she thinks she's funny - although her colleagues SUN aren't so sure. SUN SUN Commissioned specially for Radio 4, these three stories by SUN Nick Walker introduce us to a new Scandinavian detective: SUN not as astute as Sarah Lund or Saga Norén perhaps, but SUN probably better company. SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 3): Deep Six SUN After a tip off from a witness on a passing train, police SUN divers bring up a mysterious crate from the depths of the SUN Oslofjord. SUN SUN Nick Walker is part of the Coventry-based mixed media SUN experimentalists, Talking Birds, whose work has been SUN presented extensively in the UK as well as in Sweden, SUN Ireland, and the USA. He has worked with some of the SUN country's leading new work theatre companies both in the UK SUN and abroad, including Stan's Cafe, Insomniac, and Theatre SUN Instituut Nederlands. SUN SUN He is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels SUN 'Blackbox' and 'Helloland'. His plays and short stories are SUN often featured on BBC Radio 4 including: Arnold In A Purple SUN Haze (2009), the First King of Mars stories (2007 - 2010), SUN the Afternoon Play Life Coach (2010), and the stories Dig SUN Yourself (2011) and The Indivisible (2012) - all of them SUN Sweet Talk productions. SUN Reader: Nicola Walker SUN Sound Design: Jon Calver SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b053s85h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b053s85k (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b053s85m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b053s85p (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b053s8z1 (Listen) SUN The bells of Exeter Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b053bq5f (Listen) SUN James Runcie SUN SUN Our series begins with the writer and director James Runcie SUN who looks at the Passion through the prism of mystery drama. SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN James Runcie SUN "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SUN SUN SUN SUN THE PASSION AS MYSTERY DRAMA SUN SUN SUN SUN Five years ago, I started to write a series of detective SUN novels with the provisional title *The Grantchester SUN Mysteries*. The stories begin in an English village in 1953 SUN - when the death penalty was still extant, homosexuality was SUN illegal, and human relationships were probably conducted in SUN a more private manner than they are in our contemporary SUN world of relentless self-disclosure. SUN SUN SUN SUN What I wanted to do was to tell a tale of post-war Britain SUN using the mystery story as a framework. It was to be an SUN account of social and ethical change – with murder, theft, SUN betrayal and injustice. SUN SUN SUN SUN Crime writing is helpful for this. It gives the author the SUN opportunity to put characters under extreme pressure and see SUN how they react to the constant threat of death and disaster. SUN SUN SUN SUN The precariousness of the human condition, the awareness of SUN time and mortality, and the ability to react to abrupt SUN shifts in fortune, whether good or bad, are paramount. SUN SUN SUN SUN They would be morality tales, parables even, aiming for the SUN economy of storytelling found in the Bible; meditations on SUN the sin and suffering that underpin religious thinking, SUN particularly in Lent. SUN SUN SUN SUN When I began to plan the stories, I realised that the SUN central character could easily have been a doctor or a SUN teacher but I chose a priest. I wanted someone with easy SUN access to personal secrets; present at key moments of birth, SUN marriage and death; someone who also had sufficient freedom SUN of movement to go where the police could not. SUN SUN SUN SUN I also wanted religion to be taken seriously as a subject. I SUN hoped to escape the sit com clichés of All Gas and Gaiters SUN and Bless me Father and to have, as the main character, a SUN questioning, thoughtful Church of England vicar - rather SUN than the kind once played by Derek Nimmo, Dick Emery or SUN Rowan Atkinson in * Four Weddings and a Funeral.* SUN SUN SUN SUN That didn’t mean comedy would not have its place, but it SUN would be a world in which the comic and the tragic, the SUN profound and the trivial could exist side by side. SUN SUN SUN SUN This genre of writing is often belittled as “cosy crime” - SUN historically these are stories in which one doesn’t need to SUN worry too much about the graphic depiction of the violence SUN found in “hardboiled” alternatives – and, indeed, in the SUN Bible. SUN SUN SUN SUN “Cosy crime” is not a term I like very much. One has to SUN remember that under the cosy, the pot may be scalding and SUN the tea poisoned. Violence, and the consequences of crime, SUN cannot be ignored so easily. SUN SUN SUN SUN Having decided on the fictional character – Canon Sidney SUN Chambers - and a real setting – the village of SUN Grantchester, just outside Cambridge - one of the most vital SUN things I had to do was to find a tone with which the reader SUN could trust and feel at home. SUN SUN SUN SUN One way of doing this is to see how others have done it SUN before. And so I looked to the past, particularly to novels SUN that featured clergymen or people of faith - the work of SUN Trollope, Dostoevsky, Dorothy L Sayers and G.K Chesterton. SUN SUN SUN SUN In all of them there is a natural authority. Even if the SUN writer claims to be mystified by the events that are being SUN revealed, the authorial voice dominates the material. SUN Clarity and confidence matter. SUN SUN SUN SUN There was then the small matter of plot. SUN SUN SUN SUN In 1929 Ronald Knox, a Catholic priest and author of *The SUN Viaduct Murder, The Body in the Silo *and* Still Dead*, SUN advised that a detective story "must have as its main SUN interest the unravelling of a mystery; a mystery whose SUN elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early SUN stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to SUN arouse *curiosity*, a curiosity which is gratified at the SUN end." SUN SUN SUN SUN He came up with what he called “The Ten Commandments” of SUN writing a detective story. Here are just five of them: SUN SUN SUN SUN The criminal must be mentioned in the early part of the SUN story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has SUN been allowed to know. SUN SUN SUN SUN The detective himself must not commit the crime. SUN SUN SUN SUN Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable. SUN SUN SUN SUN Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless SUN we have been duly prepared for them. SUN SUN SUN SUN and bizarrely, SUN SUN SUN SUN No Chinaman must figure in the story. SUN SUN SUN SUN While taking heed of some of his advice (twins *are* a SUN definite no-no - far too obvious) I also turned back to a SUN much earlier form of mystery drama for inspiration; the SUN religious plays of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. SUN SUN SUN SUN The English Mystery Cycles were popular broad-brush SUN representations of key Biblical scenes, told by the people SUN and for the people. Performed in English rather than Latin, SUN these dramatic representations were taken out of the SUN churches and into the streets. They were staged in tents and SUN carts and on makeshift stages for promenade performances in SUN town centres and around cathedrals. Often taking place on SUN the feast of Corpus Christi, between late May and early SUN June, they featured a series of short scenes, from the SUN Creation of the World until Doomsday, involving speech, SUN dialogue, music, dancing, special effects and even SUN wrestling. Four complete series of these plays - what would SUN today be called “the DVD boxed sets” - survive; from SUN Chester, Towneley, York and Coventry. SUN SUN SUN SUN As in the contemporary mystery drama, the focus is on human SUN fallibility. Whether it be temptation, fear or pure evil, SUN crime is never far away. Take Cain’s murder of Abel, SUN Lamech’s killing of Cain, Abraham’s near miss with Isaac, or SUN Herod’s Massacre of the Innocents. The stories chosen mixed SUN murder with morality, so by the time the narrative reached SUN the Passion of Christ, audiences were well attuned to a SUN multi-genre mixture of tension, mystery and revelation. SUN SUN SUN SUN The structure of these stories has an archetypal SUN timelessness; so much so that looking at the Easter story SUN through the prism of mystery drama, it is extraordinary how SUN clearly Biblical events follow the methodology of a SUN contemporary thriller. SUN SUN SUN SUN Imagine it on film. A close up of a bare and twisted tree. A SUN wide shot of the hot and dusty road to Jerusalem. High sun, SUN baked earth. It’s a bit like a western. In the distance we SUN see twelve men, a gang of insurgents, with their charismatic SUN leader, tired and struggling. They’ve been on the road a SUN long time. The camera lingers on one of the men. We think it SUN might be Jesus but it’s not. It is Judas, an early version SUN of the police informer. SUN SUN SUN SUN Before they enter Jerusalem the characters make camp and SUN tell each other a series of stories so the audience can get SUN to know them. There are a few minor crimes and petty thefts: SUN the stealing of an ass - and a colt; the wanton destruction SUN of a fig tree. On reaching the city there’s a bit of a SUN scuffle with the scribes, pharisees and hypocrites. The gang SUN approach the temple and attack the money changers. It’s like SUN a heist movie except there’s a twist. The gang don’t take SUN the loot. SUN SUN SUN SUN What are they after? Something bigger, more political, SUN religious- something that no one can understand. It’s a SUN mystery. SUN SUN SUN SUN Jesus warns that the Temple will be destroyed within three SUN days. This institutes the ticking-clock scenario, the race SUN against time – when, how and why will the Temple be SUN destroyed – or can it be saved? SUN SUN SUN SUN You’ve got three days. SUN SUN SUN SUN The story now switches to focus on the panic amongst the SUN city’s religious and business leaders. This is the SUN threatened establishment. They have to move fast to protect SUN their own interests. They meet up to discuss ways in which SUN they can restore order and get rid of the trouble-makers; SUN either legally or illegally. SUN SUN SUN SUN This initiates the murder plot. SUN SUN SUN SUN They decide to infiltrate the gang. They find Judas. He’s SUN the mole, the snitch, the rat: paid with blood money to let SUN the forces of law and order know when and where Jesus can be SUN kidnapped. SUN SUN SUN SUN Jesus calls his supporters together, and, in the kind of SUN upper room of a restaurant where a group of Mafioisi might SUN meet, he tells his people of a conspiracy theory. SUN SUN SUN SUN His behaviour is unsettling. He talks enigmatically. He has SUN had visions. He is, perhaps, a little paranoid - convinced SUN that his best-loved disciple will abandon him. SUN SUN SUN SUN The next scene ratchets up the tension and takes place, as SUN in all good *film noir*, at night. Christ is alone and SUN unguarded in a remote location that’s hard to protect. A SUN garden. A group of vigilantes arrive, together with the SUN chief priests and the elders of the Temple. Judas is in SUN their midst. The camera stays on him for the kiss of SUN betrayal, we cut to Jesus’s reaction, and he is led away. A SUN reaction shot shows the disciples left in disarray in the SUN dark. SUN SUN SUN SUN Under unofficial arrest, Jesus endures a mock trial in which SUN he is “ fitted up” by two false witnesses. He is accused of SUN blasphemy and beaten up. SUN SUN SUN SUN Now there’s a switch of genre. The story becomes a SUN traditional court-room drama. Pontius Pilate washes his SUN hands of the whole event, submits to popular pressure, SUN organizes an exchange of prisoners, and issues the death SUN sentence. In the words of Matthew’s Gospel “See ye to it.” SUN SUN SUN SUN We then cut to a Tarantino-style blood-bath finale. In SUN prison, Christ is beaten and tortured. There is no last SUN minute reprieve. He is crucified. Two thieves die with him. SUN Judas hangs himself. The veil of the Temple is torn in two. SUN We see the face of Christ. Rain. Cut back wide. Lightning. SUN Fade to Black. Credits. SUN SUN SUN SUN It’s all over. SUN SUN SUN SUN Except that it isn’t. SUN SUN SUN SUN Like all good mystery drama there has to be a final reel, an SUN Act 5, a twist – and in the drama of the Passion there are SUN three: SUN SUN SUN Twist One: SUN *The Body Disappears*. In this ultimate version of a SUN “locked-room mystery” Jesus, who is, officially dead, SUN manages to escape from a sealed tomb that’s guarded by SUN soldiers 24 hours a day. How has he done this? SUN SUN SUN Twist Two SUN : *The revelation of the Murderer*. In all the night-time SUN confusion of the drama the viewer is left wondering who is SUN ultimately responsible for Christ’s death; is it Caiaphas, SUN Herod, Judas, Pontius Pilate, or the soldiers who nailed him SUN to the cross? Could any of these suspects admit their guilt SUN or become the solution to the mystery? SUN SUN SUN SUN Well, it turns out *none* of them can claim responsibility SUN because all of these actions were plotted by an over-arching SUN mastermind who has been behind the whole thing all along. SUN That mastermind is, of course, God. SUN SUN SUN SUN This is the plain and shocking truth of the Passion. SUN SUN SUN SUN God is the murderer of Jesus. He may not have physically SUN nailed his Son to the cross, but death was inevitable. SUN SUN SUN SUN “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and SUN only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not SUN perish but have eternal life.” SUN SUN SUN SUN This leads to SUN SUN SUN Twist Three SUN : *It’s not death, but life*. SUN SUN SUN SUN The final twist is one of transformation. The mystery genre SUN is subverted. Through the Resurrection we have a happy SUN ending; tragedy is transformed into what, in its broadest SUN sense, we can call a comedy, the happy ending that is the SUN salvation of mankind. SUN SUN SUN SUN In St Paul’s words: “Behold, I shew you *a mystery*. We SUN shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a SUN moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for SUN the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised SUN incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” SUN SUN SUN SUN Whereas crime drama often depends on the resolution of the SUN narrative - with all the loose ends being tied up - this a SUN tale of redemption that throws its final responsibility back SUN on to the reader. SUN SUN SUN SUN For this is not just a story of what happens to other SUN people. It is about what happens to us once we have become, SUN through the simple act of reading and being mortal, an SUN accessory to the crime. SUN SUN SUN We SUN shall be changed. SUN SUN SUN SUN The reader of the gospels, like the audience at the mystery SUN plays, becomes *part* of the narrative – left to decide if SUN this experience is fiction or, in fact, true reality. SUN SUN SUN SUN Can *you* - *believe* it? SUN SUN SUN SUN Whatever we end up deciding - whether we appreciate the SUN story of the passion as divine revelation or simply as SUN poetry or metaphor - it is SUN SUN the archetypal presentation of the ultimate “mystery drama”: SUN the mystery of what it means to be alive. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b053s85r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b053sbq3 (Listen) SUN The Divinity of Monkeys SUN SUN Mark Tully returns to the theme of animals, following recent SUN programmes devoted to dogs, cats, horses and elephants and SUN their close bonds with humans. SUN SUN This week, Mark considers the monkey - and animal that has SUN been widely worshipped in Africa, the Americas, China and SUN India - either as a companion of God or indeed as a god SUN itself. He examines the belief in the divinity of monkeys SUN and the varying attitudes towards idol worship in the major SUN faiths. SUN SUN There is music from Ella Andall, Dr. John and Amitab SUN Bachchan, along with poetry from Susan Wicks and Oz SUN Hardwick. The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Arsher Ali. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Snow Monkeys SUN Author: Susan Wicks SUN Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd in ‘Night Toad: New and SUN Selected Poems’ SUN Title: The Praises of Baboon, the Totem Animal SUN Author: Shona, Zimbabwe – translated by George Fortune SUN Published by Mambo Press in ‘The Oxford Book of Animal Poems SUN Title: In The Shadow of Man SUN Author: Jane Goodall SUN Published by Collins SUN Title: Hanuman’s Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey SUN Author: Philip Lutgendorf SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN Title: In Praise of Monkeys SUN Author: Oz Hardwich SUN Published by Bluechrome in The Kind Ghosts SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b053sbq5 (Listen) SUN Dabbling Ducks SUN SUN In winter, the UK's estuaries and wetlands play host to many SUN species of 'dabbling,' or surface feeding, ducks. Chris SUN Sperring visits the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve at SUN Slimbridge in Gloucestershire to find out more about them. SUN In the company of Richard Hearn, Head of Species Monitoring SUN for the Trust, he sees flocks of wigeon and hears their SUN 'whistling' calls. SUN SUN Although teal are resident in the British Isles, their SUN numbers are swelled in winter by a migrant population that SUN take advantage of milder weather and a plentiful food source SUN found in wetlands. Chris also comes close to the most SUN elegant of dabbling ducks, the pintail, and encounters the SUN UK's most common species of duck, the mallard. SUN SUN Richard Hearn SUN Rich joined the SUN Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust SUN in 1995, following an expedition to Argentina looking for SUN Brazilian Mergansers SUN and has worked on species monitoring projects for most of SUN the time since. SUN He currently manages the Species Monitoring team, and also SUN represents WWT on a number of groups including the SUN CMS Flyway Working Group SUN Waterbird Harvest Specialist Group Board SUN and African-Eurasian Waterbird Monitoring Partnership SUN Steering Group. SUN He has particular interest in improving global status SUN assessments of waterbirds and the sustainable management of SUN huntable species. He considers himself very fortunate to SUN have taken part in waterbird surveys and research in a range SUN of countries, from Botswana to China and is also an SUN experienced bird ringer and current member of the BTO’s SUN Cannon-netting Technical Panel. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b053s85t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b053s85w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b053sbq7 (Listen) SUN Sikh regiment; God and Thatcher; Cardinal Vincent Nichols SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b053sbq9 (Listen) SUN African Initiatives SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents The Radio 4 Appeal for African SUN Initiatives SUN Registered Charity No 1064413 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'African Initiatives'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to African Initiatives. SUN SUN African Initiatives SUN SUN Established in 1997, African Initiatives is an international SUN development charity based in Bristol, UK. SUN Working with local partners in Africa, we support SUN marginalised individuals and communities to exercise their SUN rights. Over the last 17 years we have built trusting and SUN equitable relationships with civil society groups in SUN Tanzania and Ghana through programmes in girls’ education, SUN women’s rights, secure livelihoods and access to health SUN rights. We have successfully changed the lives of thousands SUN of women, men and children for the better. SUN We share our learning with communities in the UK to change SUN perceptions, challenge inequality and increase understanding SUN of global issues. SUN SUN Maria Nookoren , 15, Ngorongoro, northern Tanzania SUN SUN In July 2013 I underwent female genital mutilation against SUN my will, because of traditional cultural practices in my SUN country. Once I have an education, I will remove all these SUN oppressions from my family and society. To me, education SUN means revolution and change; people must respect us as SUN equals not because of being a girl or boy. SUN SUN Victoria Nyaba, 48, northern rural Ghana SUN Victoria is a recently widowed grandmother. She is a SUN magashia, an elected woman leader in her community, and also SUN an advocate for African Initiative’s access to health rights SUN project. Through this she helped a 12-year old girl who was SUN pregnant but afraid to attend a pre-natal clinic for fear of SUN people’s judgement. So Victoria took her to the back SUN entrance of the clinic, and upon arrival claimed that it was SUN she that was pregnant. Once inside, Victoria and the girl SUN were able to tell the doctor the truth. SUN SUN Emanyata Secondary School, Ngorongoro, northern Tanzania. SUN Emanyata Secondary school, near the Serengeti national park SUN in Tanzania, is designed to give Maasai students an SUN education while maintaining traditional values, with a focus SUN on cattle farming and agriculture. Working with their SUN partner the Pastoral Womens Council, African Initiatives SUN supports girls through secondary school, ensuring they are SUN able to learn in a safe and supportive environment. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b053s85y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b053s860 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b053sbqc (Listen) SUN In God's Hands: We Are Created for Togetherness SUN SUN 'We Are Created For Togetherness' - the second in a series SUN of Lent services based on this year's Archbishop of SUN Canterbury's Lent Book - Desmond Tutu's 'In God's hands'. SUN Exploring what it means to be made in God's image the SUN service also marks the Feast Day of the Patron Saint of SUN Wales. From the ancient place of pilgrimage St. David's SUN Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. Worship is led by the Rev'd Canon SUN Dorrien Davies, with an Address by the Dean of St. David's, SUN the Very Rev. Jonathan Lean, and music from the Cathedral SUN Choir directed by Oliver Waterer. Organist: Simon Pearce. SUN Producer: Karen Walker. Lent resources for individuals and SUN groups complementing the programmes are available on the SUN Sunday Worship web pages. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b053c3q5 (Listen) SUN Post-Image SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5c3r (Listen) SUN Sanderling SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN David Attenborough presents the sanderling. Twinkling along SUN the tideline, so fast that their legs are a blur, SUN sanderlings are small waders. It's the speed with which they SUN dodge incoming waves that catches your attention as they run SUN after the retreating waters and frantically probe the sand. SUN SUN Sanderling (Calidris alba) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b053sbv6 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b053sbv8 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b053sbvb (Listen) SUN Julia Samuel SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the psychotherapist, SUN Julia Samuel. SUN SUN Counsellor for Paediatrics at London's St Mary's hospital, SUN Paddington, she works with parents whose children have died SUN and children who've experienced loss themselves. She is a SUN Vice President of the British Association of Counselling and SUN Psychotherapy, an Honorary Fellow of Imperial College and SUN Founder Patron of The Child Bereavement Trust - now Child SUN Bereavement UK. SUN SUN One of five children, she was born into the banking line of SUN the Guinness family. She describes her childhood as rather SUN old-fashioned - her governess was an important figure in her SUN life. As a young woman she worked in Paris and then set up SUN her own interior decorating business. But it was her work SUN with the charity, Birthright that lead to her finding her SUN vocation as a counsellor. In the late 1980s she met and SUN became close friends with Princess Diana who was both a SUN supporter of the Child Bereavement Trust and godmother to SUN her son. Today Julia Samuel is one of Prince George's SUN godparents. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Julia Samuel SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b053s862 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b053721t (Listen) SUN Series 71, Episode 3 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation? Gyles Brandreth, Marcus SUN Brigstocke, Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi try their SUN best. Subjects include 'Animal Husbandry', 'The Rights of SUN Spring' and 'The Goons'. SUN SUN This is this third episode in series 71 of Radio 4's classic SUN panel game in which the contestants are challenged to speak SUN on a given subject for a minute without hesitation, SUN repetition or deviation. SUN SUN This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, SUN Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and SUN trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth SUN doctor, David Tennant. SUN SUN Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in SUN Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its SUN 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke SUN Panellist: Jenny Eclair SUN Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b053zsn1 (Listen) SUN The 'Clean Label' Question SUN SUN For over a decade consumers have become finely attuned to SUN E-numbers, flavourings, colourings and additives in our SUN food. Food manufacturers have changed the way they do things SUN in pursuit of 'clean label' - a more natural sounding SUN ingredients list. But do we fully understand the new SUN processes involved, the terms used and how safe they really SUN are? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon talks to Joanna Blythman, in her first SUN broadcast interview about her new book 'Swallow This' in SUN which she investigates some of the processes involved in SUN making products taste and look good and last longer and her SUN concerns about the ingredients and the secrecy that often SUN surrounds them. We hear reports from food development teams SUN about how they find new ways to produce food and ask the SUN regulators if we can be sure they're safe. SUN SUN Photo by Alan Peebles. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanna Blythman SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b053s864 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b053zsn3 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Business of Film with Mark Kermode b053zsn5 (Listen) SUN Getting to the Screen SUN SUN Close to 700 movies opened in the UK last year. SUN Blockbusters, franchises, documentaries, debuts, SUN experiments, low-budget indies and beyond. It's never been SUN easier to make a film and it's said there is an audience for SUN everything. But what is the likely size of that audience? In SUN the second part of this series, film critic Mark Kermode SUN talks to the film financiers and the distributors. SUN SUN According to the head of Film Four, David Kosse, the film SUN industry is a "break-even business" - the trick is to SUN identify a winner and ensure it's not just a one off. The SUN independent film world - most of the British film industry - SUN spreads the risk of making a film across independent SUN distributors, equity financiers and other tax benefits. We SUN hear from the BFI, Film Four and BBC Films on what films SUN they are looking to finance. SUN SUN Since the early days of film, rich outsiders have financed SUN the industry. Now, producers who don't fit the studio model SUN are looking to a multitude of ways to finance their film - SUN from crowdfunding to rich kids with cheque books. Director SUN Shane Carruth tells how he distributed his film Upstream SUN Color himself, road-showing cinema screenings and bringing SUN the film out on Blu-ray. And with much talk of Video on SUN Demand, what role will Netflix and Amazon play in the future SUN of film? SUN SUN Marketing is crucial to the life and death of a movie but it SUN remains the one hard cost in moviemaking. The trailer can be SUN of vital importance and we hear what we respond to and what SUN scenes should be left out. SUN SUN Producers: Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones SUN A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b053c3pj (Listen) SUN Preston SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN the village of Whitechapel, Preston. Bob Flowerdew, Bunny SUN Guinness and Anne Swithinbank answer the audience questions. SUN SUN Katie Rushworth goes in search of prizewinning, mammoth SUN vegetables and the panel shares some topical tips for the SUN coming week. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Show-stopping Vegetables SUN Katie Rushworth meets sisters Margaret and Susan Robinson of SUN W. Robinson and Son Seeds. SUN SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN Q. I am unable to grow successful Lupins whether from plants SUN or seedlings. Blackfly, slugs, snails and other pests love SUN them. Could the panel offer some advice? SUN A. Bunny – One of the biggest problems when growing Lupins SUN is controlling the slugs and snails. Try using mineralised SUN straw mulch. SUN Bob – You may have a problem with your heavy clay soil. SUN Lupins like a poor, dry and sandy soil. SUN Q. Can you move rhubarb? SUN A. Bob – Rhubarb is a very tough plant. Don’t dig the whole SUN plant up but take chunks from the outside with buds. Leave SUN the older central part of the plant behind. You will need to SUN move them within the next few weeks and don’t attempt to SUN move them after they have come into growth. SUN Bunny – Rhubarb likes a rich soil and a sunny position. You SUN could try mulching the ground. SUN Q. I need to replace three old apple trees. Could you SUN suggest both dessert and cooking varieties that will do well SUN in clay soil? SUN A. Bob – Apple trees won’t take on old ground where trees SUN have been removed and will be at risk of replant disease. SUN You may have some success if you change the type of fruit. I SUN would recommend the Irish Peach variety of Apple. SUN Eric – I would recommend Ashmead's Kernel, Keswick Codlin, SUN Ribston Pippin. SUN Bunny – For clay soil, I would plant them on a mound because SUN the trees will be water sensitive. I would also choose a SUN rigorous rootstock. SUN Q. I have a Penstemon in a pot. It has flowered profusely SUN for two years but the leaves always fall off. It is kept on SUN a west-facing patio. SUN A. Anne – Cut them back after frosts to allow for new SUN growth. Then cut them back again after the first flowering. SUN You can also take cuttings from these new stems. SUN Bunny – They may not be getting enough water. Try planting SUN them out in the garden. SUN Q. I have a vigorous Candicans aurora. It needs to be pruned SUN but I don’t want to lose the shape. SUN A. Bob – Poplar trees always send out lots of suckers when SUN they are pruned. SUN Anne – Inevitably you are going to end up with a funny SUN shape. The options are to cut back the branches to origin SUN and thin them out, or to cut all the way back to the ground. SUN Q. How can I successfully grow Parsley? SUN A. Buy a Parsley plant and let it self -seed. You may have SUN an issue with carrot root fly. Try growing them under SUN netting. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04gnjw4 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about life as an SUN immigrant, adoptiing a child, and surviving sexual abuse, SUN from Wales and Leeds in the Omnibus edition of the series SUN that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b053zwq6 (Listen) SUN Reading Europe - Spain: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN When Marta dies in his arms during an illicit sexual SUN encounter, Victor flees the scene leaving a 2 year old child SUN alone in the apartment. Now Marta's husband, Eduardo, has SUN returned from London. He is close to discovering Victor's SUN identity and about to force a meeting at which he has some SUN unexpected and surprising news to impart. SUN SUN Writer Javier MarÃas, Europe's master of secrets and of what SUN lies reveal and truth may conceal, is on sure ground in this SUN profound, brilliantly imagined and hugely intricate novel. SUN SUN From the novel by Javier MarÃas SUN Translated by Margaret Jull Costa SUN Dramatised for radio by Michael Butt SUN SUN Produced by Eoin O'Callaghan SUN A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Victor: Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN Marta: Lizzy McInnerny SUN Luisa: Emma Fielding SUN Eduardo: Malcolm Sinclair SUN Vicente: Jonathan Tafler SUN Celia: Jasmine Hyde SUN Receptionist: Jasmine Hyde SUN Eva: Rebecca Saire SUN Shop Assistant: Rebecca Saire SUN Ruiberriz: Danny Webb SUN Tellez: John Rowe SUN Author: Javier Marias SUN Adaptor: Michael Butt SUN Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b053zwq8 (Listen) SUN Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds SUN SUN Wilbur Smith discusses his novel When the Lion Feeds with SUN James Naughtie and a group of readers. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b053zwqc (Listen) SUN Journeys SUN SUN Roger McGough goes on a journey in the company of Alfred, SUN Lord Tennyson, CP Cavafy, Matthew Arnold and Sir Gawain. SUN Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Ulysses SUN SUN by Alfred Lord Tennyson SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN The Spell of The Yukon SUN SUN by Robert Service SUN SUN From The Best of Robert Service SUN SUN Published by Ernest Benn SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from The Golden Journey to Samarkand SUN SUN by James Elroy Flecker SUN SUN From Selected poems of James Elroy Flecker SUN SUN Published by Rowan Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from The Canterbury Tales SUN SUN by Geoffrey Chaucer SUN SUN Translated by David Wright SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Sohrab and Rustum SUN SUN by Matthew Arnold SUN SUN From The Everyman Book of Narrative Verse, SUN SUN Published by JM Dent & Sons SUN SUN SUN SUN A Sea Song SUN SUN by Allan Cunningham SUN SUN From A Book of Scottish Verse SUN SUN Published by St Martin’s Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Ithaka SUN SUN by CP Cafavy SUN SUN translated by John Mavrogordato SUN SUN From A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Mort D’Artur SUN SUN by Alfred Lord Tennyson SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin Classics SUN SUN SUN SUN Citizen of The World SUN SUN by Dave Calder SUN SUN From A Big Bunch of Poems by Dave Calder SUN SUN Published by Other Publications SUN SUN SUN SUN The Road not Taken SUN SUN by Robert Frost SUN SUN From Frost: Poems SUN SUN Published by Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets SUN SUN SUN SUN Extracts from Gawain and the Green Night SUN SUN From both traditional and Simon Armitage Translation SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Old Woman of The Roads SUN SUN by Padraic Colum SUN SUN From Irish Verse: An Anthology SUN SUN Published by Dover Publications SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b0537662 (Listen) SUN Insurance and Child Abuse SUN SUN With a growing number of compensation claims arising from SUN cases of historic sexual abuse and more recent high profile SUN cases of sexual grooming, Tim Whewell investigates the key SUN role which insurance companies play. In representing the SUN local authorities where scandals occurred, insurers SUN naturally seek to limit liability but are they doing so at a SUN cost to victims? Lawyers say they have to battle to get SUN access to files and other information - causing further SUN distress and delaying help for those damaged by abuse. Some SUN say the fight is getting harder as insurance companies have SUN toughened their approach in recent years. And, with a SUN national inquiry into historic cases of child sex abuse, how SUN much influence did insurance companies have on the way some SUN past investigations were carried out? File on 4 talks to SUN senior local authority insiders who say they were told to SUN alter their approach to abuse investigations to protect the SUN insurers' interests. But was that at the expense of children SUN at risk? SUN Reporter: Tim Whewell Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b053s0zh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b053s866 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b053s868 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b053s86b (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b053zwqk (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes SUN SUN Fear stalks both the back streets and wide tree-lined SUN boulevards that make up this week's programme. Fear itself; SUN fear of contracting ebola; fear at the prospect of meeting SUN Sigmund Freud; fear of how exhausted you think you'll be SUN when you give birth to twins; fear of eating too much roast SUN chicken and finally, fear of not making it in Hollywood. So, SUN be fearful, be very, very fearful... SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b053zwqn (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Gloomsbury b01nlbff (Listen) SUN Series 1, He's Got to Be Stopped SUN SUN Vera Sackcloth-Vest is bracing herself for the departure of SUN her adored husband Henry on a Foreign Office posting to SUN Romania. SUN SUN Her friends Ginny and Lionel Fox have come down to SUN Sizzlinghurst to support her, along with her slightly SUN demented devotee Venus Traduces. Whilst maintaining a veneer SUN of cheerful serenity, Vera is inwardly desperate and hatches SUN several intricate plots to detain him: an ominous dream, a SUN succession of spurious telegrams, an extensive repertoire of SUN ailments. She even attempts, disastrously, to persuade the SUN cook to stage a staff crisis. SUN SUN Meanwhile, down in the gazebo at midnight, Venus encourages SUN Henry to resist all Vera's attempts to detain him as she SUN will surely give in at the last moment and go with him to SUN Romania. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes SUN Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy SUN Mrs Gosling ..... Alison Steadman SUN Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks SUN Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer SUN Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman SUN Mr Gosling ..... Nigel Planer SUN SUN Produced by Jamie Rix SUN A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts b053zwqr (Listen) SUN New Writing from Africa, Jagged Edges of a Disappearing SUN Woman SUN SUN A series of three specially commissioned stories by new SUN writers from the African continent - writers who are part of SUN an emerging literary scene bursting with young, talent. SUN SUN In 'Jagged Edges of a Disappearing Woman' by the Kenyan SUN author Ndinda Kioko, a man regains consciousness barely able SUN to recognise himself. SUN SUN Ndinda Kioko was brought up in Zimbabwe. This is her first SUN story to be broadcast on radio. SUN SUN Reader: Cornelius Macarthy SUN SUN Commissioned for radio by Ellah Allfrey SUN Directed by Jill Waters SUN A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Cornelius Macarthy SUN Writer: Ndinda Kioko SUN Director: Jill Waters SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b053c3pq (Listen) SUN Next week sees the last ever episode of Radio 4's long SUN running investigative series Face the Facts. Radio 4 says SUN it's part of an ongoing effort to cut costs. Presenter John SUN Waite recounts his most memorable moments during his 30 SUN years on the frontline of investigative journalism. SUN SUN The Green Party was hoping to launch their election campaign SUN in a blaze of positive publicity earlier this week. But SUN after leader Natalie Bennett experienced what she called an SUN "excruciating mind blank" in an interview, the story took a SUN very different direction. The BBC ran the story throughout SUN the day - but was this too much coverage of Bennett's 'brain SUN fade' at the expense of serious analysis of party policy? SUN Katy Searle, the Editor of Political Newsgathering for BBC SUN News, explains why the story deserved its airtime and place SUN on the news agenda. SUN SUN And while the rest of the BBC is giving up on broadcasting SUN children's radio, BBC Radio Cymru has launched Tic Toc, a SUN new programme aimed at a younger audience. Can Radio Cymru SUN find success where others have failed? Head of Radio Cymru, SUN Betsan Powys, explains what makes her venture different. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b053c3pn (Listen) SUN Dan Topolski, Lady Villiers, John Davies, Tim Lusty, Clark SUN Terry SUN SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN Daniel Topolski SUN SUN Andrea spoke to his friend, the novelist Patrick Robinson SUN and to Chris Dodd, historian at the Henley River Museum. SUN SUN Born 4 June 1945; died 21 February 2015 aged 69. SUN SUN Lady Villiers SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her daughter, Anne Martin and to SUN Professor Hanna Diamond, an expert on women in the SUN Resistance. SUN SUN Born 30 April 1916; died 1 February 2015 aged 98. SUN SUN John Davies SUN SUN Last Word spoke to BBC presenter Huw Edwards and to John’s SUN friend and former colleague, Professor Prys Morgan of SUN Swansea University. SUN SUN Born 25 April 1938; died 16 February 2015 aged 76. SUN SUN Dr Tim Lusty SUN SUN Andrea spoke to Paddy Coulter and Pat Diskett, who both SUN worked with Dr Lusty at Oxfam. SUN SUN Born 7 October 1938; died 30 January 2015 aged 76. SUN SUN Clark Terry (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to jazz cornettist, author and broadcaster, SUN Digby Fairweather. SUN SUN Born 14 December 1920; died 21 February 2015 aged 94. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b053rz5m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b053sbq9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b05372sx (Listen) SUN Artificial Intelligence SUN SUN Should we beware the machines? Professor Stephen Hawking has SUN warned the rise of Artificial Intelligence could mean the SUN end of the human race. He's joined other renowned scientists SUN urging computer programmers to focus not just on making SUN machines smarter, but also ensuring they promote the good SUN and not the bad. How seriously should we take the warnings SUN that super-intelligent machines could turn on us? And what SUN does AI teach us about what it means to be human? Helena SUN Merriman examines the risks, the opportunities and how we SUN might avoid being turned into paperclips. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Abrahams. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b053zx02 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b053zxcw (Listen) SUN Sarfraz Manzoor analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b053bv5q (Listen) SUN Stephanie Beacham on Marlon Brando, Catch Me Daddy, SUN Hinterland, When Animals Attack SUN SUN With Antonia Quirke. SUN SUN Stephanie Beacham reveals why Marlon Brando wore y-fronts SUN and wellington boots during their love scenes for The SUN Nightcomers, a little-seen prequel to Henry James' Turn Of SUN The Screw. SUN SUN Catch Me Daddy director Daniel Wolfe discusses the reasons SUN that he made a modern-day western set in Yorkshire about the SUN controversial subject of honour killings. SUN SUN Actor Harry MacQueen has made his directorial debut, SUN Hinterland, with just £10,000 that he received from an SUN inheritance. He explains how he did it. Industry insider SUN Charles Gant considers whether micro-budget movies are the SUN future for the British film industry. SUN SUN White God is the latest movie to picture what happens when SUN animals attack, whether it's dogs, birds, bees, sharks, SUN piranhas or ten feet chicken. Andrew Collins imagines what SUN would occur if they all launched an offensive on the same SUN day. SUN SUN Antonia Quirke SUN Antonia Quirke is one of the presenters on Film 2015 on BBC SUN One and film critic for The One Show. She writes on film for SUN the Financial Times and is a columnist at the New Statesman. SUN Her book about the movie Jaws is a BFI best-selling title, SUN and her novel - Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers SUN - is being made into a film by the team behind the SUN Oscar-nominated An Education. She also presents Pick of the SUN Week on Radio 4 and reports for From Our Own Correspondent SUN on the World Service. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Stephanie Beacham SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Wolfe SUN Interviewed Guest: Harry Macqueen SUN Interviewed Guest: Charles Gant SUN Interviewed Guest: Andrew Collins SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b053sbq3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 MARCH 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b053s878 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b053bq4z (Listen) MON The British in South Africa - Romanian Economic Migrants in MON London MON MON Migration: the complexities of transnational movement, MON identity and belonging. Laurie Taylor explores migration in MON contrasting contexts. He talks to Daniel Briggs, Professor MON of Criminology at the Universidad Europea, Madrid, about his MON study of Romanian economic migrants in Britain. Leaving MON behind the debt and corruption of their home in life in the MON hope of finding something better, what kinds of lives do MON they end up living in the UK? Also, Daniel Conway, Lecturer MON in Politics & International Studies at the Open University, MON discusses his research into the lives, histories and MON identities of white British-born immigrants in South Africa, MON twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took MON office. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Daniel Briggs MON MON Professor in Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, MON Universidad Europea MON MON Find our more about Dr MON Daniel Briggs MON MON *Culture and immigration in context: An ethnography of MON Romanian migrant workers in London MON *Daniel Briggs, Dorina Dobre (Authors) MON Publisher: Palgrave Pivot UK MON ISBN-10: 1137380608 MON ISBN-13: 978-1137380609 MON MON Daniel Conway MON MON Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, Open MON University MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Daniel Conway MON MON *Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British MON in South Africa MON *Daniel Conway, Pauline Leonard MON Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan MON ISBN-10: 023034657X MON ISBN-13: 978-0230346574 MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b053s8z1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b053s87b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b053s87d (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b053s87g (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b053s87j (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0542xw6 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Rev'd Rosa Hunt. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05401t5 (Listen) MON Gangmasters, Predators, Badgers MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b053s87l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03ths4v (Listen) MON Chaffinch MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON John Aitchison presents the chaffinch. The name chaffinch MON refers to its habit of flocking in stubble fields, often in MON the company of other birds, to sort through the chaff for MON seeds. In less tidy times when spilled grain was a regular MON feature in farmyards and stubble was retained for longer MON periods, these winter flocks were widespread. MON MON Chaffinch MON MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05403lc (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05403lf (Listen) MON From Fringe to Frontline? MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe explores the fracturing MON political landscape and the rise of anti-establishment MON parties. The politics lecturer Robert Ford explains the MON increasing support for the SNP, UKIP, and the Greens and MON what that means for the forthcoming General Election. MON Catherine De Vries is a Professor of European politics and MON compares what's happening across the Channel. Srdja Popovic MON was one of the leaders of Otpor - the movement that played a MON pivotal role in bringing down Slobodan Milosevic - and he MON advises how using humour, rice pudding and lego men can MON change the world. The Royal Opera House is staging Brecht MON and Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a satire MON on money, morality and pleasure-seeking, and its director MON John Fulljames seeks out the contemporary resonances in this MON story of consumerism and loss of humanity. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Robert Ford MON Interviewed Guest: Catherine de Vries MON Interviewed Guest: Srdja Popovic MON Interviewed Guest: John Fulljames MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0540b3h (Listen) MON Girl in the Dark, The Beginnings of the Darkness MON MON Hattie Morahan reads Anna Lyndsey's astonishing account of MON how her life was irrevocably changed when she was diagnosed MON with an extreme sensitivity to light, and the ways in which MON she made her impossible life possible. Today, adapting to MON new ways of living. MON MON Hattie Morahan is the reader. MON Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Hattie Morahan MON Abridger: Julian Wilkinson MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0540b3k (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Women in Classical Music MON To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th, BBC MON Radio 3 will be celebrating female composers and history’s MON great musical trailblazers. Jane is joined by Dr Kate MON Kennedy who is championing the life and works of Lady Maud MON Warrender, a composer whose philanthropy and passion paved MON the way for The Arts Council and Lise Critaiani, whose MON talent and beauty caught the eye of Felix Mendelssohn. She MON will also be discussing the work and life of Élisabeth MON Jacquet de La Guerre, a lesser known BBC Radio 3's 'Composer MON of the Week'. MON BBC Radio 3 is putting the spotlight on female composers MON for International Women's Day 2015. Find out more at: MON www.bbc.co.uk/programmes MON MON MON Rene Denfeld MON MON How do you find enchantment and beauty on death row, and why MON do some people survive terrible childhoods, while others MON succumb to rage and violent crime? These are just two of MON the many questions that author Rene Denfeld tackles in her MON award winning debut novel The Enchanted. Rene herself has MON first-hand experience of working with prisoners on death row MON in the US. She’s a death penalty investigator employed to MON examine the stories of the accused to see if the right MON sentence has been passed as well as to try and help the MON Judge and Jury understand why some of the most terrible MON crimes, imaginable and unimaginable, have been committed. MON Jane Garvey speaks to her on Woman’s Hour on Monday. MON MON The Enchanted is published in paperback in the UK 2nd March MON 2015, Weidenfeld&Nicolson MON www.renedenfeld.com/ MON MON Election issue No 5 - Education MON MON A poll for Woman’s Hour looking at how women voters are MON feeling ahead of the General Election, identified Education MON as the 5th most important area of concern. Jane talks to MON Gillian Hargreaves, the BBC’s Education Correspondent, about MON the big challenges that politicians will have to tackle MON affecting schools and universities in the run up to May 7th MON – and the different approaches the parties are offering. MON And, we hear what a focus group of women think about the MON value of a university education versus an apprenticeship. MON MON MON MON Jo Milne MON MON The video of Jo Milne hearing for the very first time became MON an internet sensation and became a global news story last MON year. She’d been born profoundly deaf, and just before her MON thirtieth birthday was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare MON genetic and progressive condition that would also rob her of MON her sight. In 2014 she made a life-changing decision to MON undergo major surgery and had cochlear implants fitted. Her MON memoir, Breaking the Silence, describes growing up deaf and MON the discoveries she has made since the operation. She joins MON Jane to talk about her experiences. MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0540b3m (Listen) MON The Haunted Road, Episode 1 MON MON "Nothing goes away in this world any more. Nothing gets MON lost. If you don't want a record of it, then don't do it." MON MON When police camera operator Leslie Burden receives a call MON from a colleague concerning the disappearance of a young MON Polish woman, he uses his surveillance expertise to help MON track sightings of the missing woman, unaware he is being MON drawn into a web of murder and revenge even he doesn't see MON coming. MON MON With David Caves (Silent Witness) and Niamh McGrady (The MON Fall, Holby City). MON MON Eoin McNamee won the Imison Award for his debut radio drama, MON 'The Road Wife', which he followed with 'No Trampy MON Immigrants', an episode of From Fact to Fiction: 'Heroes', MON and most recently 'North of Riga'. A novelist and MON screenwriter, Eoin's novels include 'Resurrection Man' MON (which he adapted for film), 'The Blue Tango', 'The Ultras', MON '12:23' and 'Orchid Blue'. He also writes thrillers under MON the pseudonym John Creed. MON MON Writer ..... Eoin McNamee MON Producer ..... Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Leslie Burden: David Caves MON Lisa Knox: Niamh McGrady MON Johnston: Stuart Graham MON Lavery: Peter Ballance MON Unit 5: Michael Liebmann MON The Pathologist: Kieran Lagan MON Young Klara: Julia Powaszynska MON Father: Jacek Powaszynski MON Writer: Eoin McNamee MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON MON 11:00 The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack MON b0540b3p (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Robert McCrum journeys into his own brain to understand more MON about stroke. MON MON Ever since he suffered a severe stroke in 1995, Robert has MON been living with its consequences. He says, "It's one of the MON remorseless side-effects of the affliction that, if you MON survive it, you will live with its after-effects and the MON conundrum about existence it poses, for the rest of your MON life." The demands of an ongoing recovery still have to be MON met. MON MON This two part series is a reflection and continued MON discovery, twenty years on, of Robert McCrum's condition. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio4. MON MON Robert McCrum's brain scan MON Image supplied by the MON PLORAS MON research team MON MON Support Organisations MON Different Strokes MON A Charity set up by younger stroke survivors for younger MON stroke survivors (below retirement age) empowering younger MON stroke survivors, their families and friends to reclaim MON their lives and ambitions through active support. MON MON Helpline: 01908 317618 or 0845 130 7172. Monday to Friday MON 9am – 5pm, or leave a message. MON Find out more about Different Strokes online text-chat MON Different Strokes MON The Stroke Association MON . Every year there are approximately 152,000 strokes in the MON UK. Most people affected are over 65, but anyone can have a MON stroke, including children and even babies. The Stroke MON Association provides up-to-date stroke information for MON stroke patients, their families and carers. MON MON Helpline: 0303 3033 100 MON The Stroke Association MON MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01m5nlx (Listen) MON Series 3, Where There's a Will MON MON Ronnie Corbett returns for a third series of his popular MON sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. MON MON Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along MON with his dog Henry. His grown up children - both married to MON people Sandy doesn't approve of at all - would like him to MON move out of the family home so they can get their hands on MON the money earlier. But Sandy's not having it. He's not MON moving until the dog dies. And not just that, how can he MON move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced that MON his too attractive lodger Dolores is also after Sandy and MON his money. MON MON Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and, sometimes, a MON friendly word or a kindly hand on the shoulder can really MON help a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog MON together face a complicated world. And there's every chance MON they'll make it more so. MON MON Episode One - Where there's A Will MON Sandy has made a new will and son-in-law Blake can't wait to MON see what it says. Dolores suggests a phoney will to give MON Blake the shock of his life. When the penny drops, Blake MON exacts his revenge. MON MON Sandy................Ronnie Corbett MON Dolores..............Liza Tarbuck MON Blake................Jonathan Aris MON Mrs Pompom.....Sally Grace MON Ellie..................Tilly Vosburgh MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b053s87n (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b0540bv3 (Listen) MON 2 March 1915 - Phyllis Marshall MON MON Folkestone arrives in Tynemouth as the Graham and Wilson MON clans arrive for the christenings of Peter and Rosalind. MON MON Written by Richard Monks MON Directed by Lucy Collingwood. MON MON Credits MON Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom MON Adam Wilson: Leo Montague MON Albert Wilson: Harry Myers MON Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones MON Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook MON Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw MON Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Mr Potter: Sam Dale MON Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn MON Writer: Richard Monks MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0540bv5 (Listen) MON Welfare Deaths; High Street Homes; Smart Meters MON MON Radio 4's consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b053s87q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0540bv7 (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b05447pc (Listen) MON The Moral Power of Debt MON MON Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has MON shaped society over 5000 years. In this episode, he examines MON the moral power that debt holds over us. MON MON David argues that whenever we think about debt we end up in MON a deep moral confusion. We resent the "deadbeats" who fail MON to pay us back and yet many of us believe that people who MON get us into debt - money lenders - are immoral if not MON downright evil. MON MON Gangsters like Don Corleone frame what they do in terms of MON debt. They do so in the knowledge that debt is a powerful MON tool for taking even pure extortion and making it seem like MON it's the debtor who is in the wrong. We can't help but MON believe Don Corleone when he tells us we owe him one. MON MON It's not just gangsters who utilise the moral power of debt. MON Over the course of history commanders of foreign armies, MON wealthy landlords, corrupt officials, and local thugs have MON been able to tell their victims that those victims owe them MON something. If nothing else, they "owe them their lives" (a MON telling phrase) because they haven't killed them. MON MON For most of human history, most human beings have been told MON that they are debtors. In this series, David examines the MON human consequences which have profound implications for the MON politics of the present day. MON MON Producer: Max O'Brien MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b053zwqn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b0540gzv (Listen) MON My Name Is... MON MON In 2006 newspaper reports that a young Scottish girl had MON been abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan created MON headlines around the world. The story seemed to represent a MON clash of religious and cultural values between East and MON West. But the problem was - the girl hadn't been abducted. MON In an effort to find the story behind the headlines the MON actress and playwright, Sudha Bhuchar, interviewed the three MON main family members involved. Her play is inspired by those MON real-life events. MON MON Music composed by Arun Ghosh MON Director: Philip Osment MON Producer: Bruce Young MON BBC Scotland. MON MON Credits MON Suzy: Karen Bartke MON Ghazala: Kiran Sonia Sawar MON Farhan: Umar Ahmed MON Director: Philip Osment MON Producer: Bruce Young MON Writer: Sudha Bhuchar MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0540gzx (Listen) MON Heat 10, 2015 MON MON (10/17) MON Which Pharaoh ordered the construction of the Great Pyramid MON at Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world? And MON which familiar two-word term was first coined by the film MON critic Nino Frank, when discussing films such as The Maltese MON Falcon and Double Indemnity? MON MON The competitors in today's heat will have to answer these MON and many other questions to stand a chance of qualifying for MON the semi-final stage of this year's tournament. Russell MON Davies is in the chair, and the contestants come from MON Huddersfield, Liverpool, Leeds and Kendal. MON MON They'll also face questions suggested by a listener, with MON the aim of 'Beating the Brains' and winning a book token MON prize. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b053zsn1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Jock Purdon, the Miners' Poet b0540gzz (Listen) MON The miners strike gripped the country through the winter of MON 1984 and into 1985, Billy Bragg, fired up with his own MON political views travelled to the coal fields of South Wales, MON Yorkshire and the North East to play benefit gigs to help MON the raise funds for the striking families MON MON By his own admission Billy thought he was going to show the MON miners what it was to be a radical but one meeting changed MON all that MON MON He came across a singer called Jock Purdon sitting on a MON chair on stage with a finger in his ear, singing songs that MON were much more radical and much more political than anything MON he had heard before MON MON Purdon was a singer and poet who wrote about what it was MON like for people like him, people who worked down the mines MON and who lived in mining communities MON MON From that moment Bragg says he had to step back and MON re-assess my idea of what it was to be a protest singer and MON that meeting thirty years ago shaped his career as a singer MON songwriter MON MON Bragg explores who Purdon was, how this uneducated Scotsman MON was able write songs and poems that encapsulated what it was MON to be a miner. MON MON But as he find Purdon was just one of the latest in a long MON fertile line of writers poets and singers concentrated ins a MON remarkably small area, who used their experiences deep MON underground as inspiration for their work MON MON There is a famous story of how the Durham miners opened an MON envelope in 1985 to find a cheque for £16,000 from Bruce MON Springsteen another singer who has written songs from the MON perspective of working class families. But according to MON Bragg, Purdon and the long line of poets who went before him MON were the real protest singers, singing real, human songs MON about what they were, and what they experienced MON MON By exploring who Purdon was and how he r altered his MON outlook, Billy Bragg will reflect on his own career as the MON UK's foremost radial singer songwriter. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b0540h01 (Listen) MON Purgatory MON MON Is Purgatory a religious place or a psychological concept? MON MON Even in this so-called secular age, people with little or no MON religious belief often revert to religious terminology to MON describe their experience. After a difficult time, someone MON will say, "I've been to Hell and back." And after a time of MON testing or of waiting, they might say they've been through MON Purgatory. MON The word Purgatory comes from the Latin word meaning to MON "Purge," and refers in Catholic teaching to a place or state MON between heaven and hell. It has no place in Protestant or MON Orthodox teaching. How did the idea develop? What was its MON purpose? Does it have any contemporary meaning? MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the concept of Purgatory are MON Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History MON at Queen Mary University, London: Father Paul Keane, Vice MON Rector of Oscott Catholic Seminary in Birmingham: and the MON historian of religions, Martin Palmer. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b0540h03 (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b053s87s (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b0540h05 (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 4 MON MON Radio 4's classic panel game, in which the contestants are MON challenged to speak on a given subject for a minute without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton, Paul Merton and The Infinite MON Monkey Cage's Robin Ince are trying their hand at the game MON under the watchful eye of Nicholas Parsons. Although none of MON them seem to know very much about Marco Polo... MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Robin Ince MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0540h07 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0540h09 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0540b3m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Saudi Arabia: Sands of Time b0540h0c (Listen) MON The Rise of the Kingdom MON MON Saudi Arabia has been in the public eye recently, not least MON because of the death of King Abdullah. In the first part of MON a new series, Egyptian writer Tarek Osman examines the MON history of this desert kingdom and asks why it is still so MON relevant and yet so misunderstood. MON MON His journey takes him from the origins of the modern Kingdom MON to the current reign of King Salman. MON MON Tracing a line back to the desert sands of the Arabian MON Peninsula in the 18th century and a pact made between the Al MON Saud royal family and the founders of an austere school of MON Islam, Wahhabism, we see how an alliance between monarchy MON and religion forms the core of the nation's existence in a MON volatile region. MON MON Drawing on this religious legitimacy, the founder of the MON modern Kingdom, Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud embarks on a conquest of MON the Arabian Peninsula in the early 20th century and after a MON dramatic desert campaign, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is MON born. MON MON With the discovery of oil Tarek charts the rise of the MON Kingdom and its place as a global energy power. An enduring MON relationship with the United States based on 'oil for MON security' is rocked during the 1973 Oil Crisis, when King MON Faisal uses energy prices as leverage against the West in MON response to American involvement with Israel in the MON Arab-Israeli War. MON MON Larger and larger oil revenues lead to rapid development and MON reforms. However this modernization comes at a cost and MON incurs a backlash by conservative Saudi forces which shakes MON the foundations of the Kingdom. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0540h85 (Listen) MON When Robots Steal Our Jobs MON MON Technology has been replacing manufacturing jobs for years. MON Is the same about to happen to white-collar work? Will new MON faster, smarter computers start destroying more jobs than MON they create? MON MON Technologists and economists are now arguing that we are MON approaching a turning point, where professional jobs are MON becoming automated, leaving less and less work for humans to MON do. David Baker investigates the evidence and asks what this MON means for society, the individual and equality. MON Producer: Charlotte McDonald. MON MON 21:00 Ebola Junction b053749b (Listen) MON Dr Wright is one of the 30 NHS volunteers who set off for MON Sierra Leone in November. His took the decision to volunteer MON in the fight against Ebola after the United Nations warned MON that the world has just 60 days to get the virus under MON control or face an "unprecedented situation for which we MON don't have a plan" The report, issued by the organisation's MON health arm, said the virus was "running faster than us and MON it is winning the race." MON MON The UN identified the opening of Ebola Treatment Centres and MON more effective community containment as key to success and MON in Bradford where Dr Wright is director of the Institute for MON Health Research, it was a rallying call that saw him MON immediately volunteer. He worked in southern Africa in the MON early 1990's, when HIV was endemic and has continued to MON visit. He's in charge of opening the Moyamba treatment MON centre: a million pound British Government funded hospital MON built by the Royal Engineers in just six weeks. MON MON In this second programme in the series his recordings start MON at the December opening of the hospital. On day one three MON patients arrive: two of them exposed during a funeral. The MON young man, Ibrahim, seems the strongest and the team prepare MON to use the training they received in the York military MON barracks. His audio recordings take listeners onto the wards MON and through the last moments as Ibrahim loses his fight MON against the terrible disease. There's no time to take stock MON before more patients are arriving and throughout Christmas MON Dr Wright records what happens. MON MON Working in the community is a key element of the job, with a MON major push to reinforce messages about safe burials and hand MON washing: MON "One of the concerns with all of this is that we have this MON European army of clinicians going out all dressed up in MON scary protective equipment and it could be very alienating." MON MON Professor Wright and the team get word that in a nearby area MON unsafe burials are still taking place: they travel there MON with the army and explain the dangers to local chiefs. On MON Christmas Eve the chiefs send him and the medical team a MON pig, which they can kill and feast on. But soon after this MON Dr Wright develops a temperature and is quickly on the other MON side of the "scary" bio hazard suits, where he remains in MON isolation awaiting the results of his own test for Ebola. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05403lf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0540h87 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0540j17 (Listen) MON The Buried Giant, Episode 1 MON MON David Suchet reads The Buried Giant, the powerful new novel MON by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of MON the Day. MON MON "It's queer the way the world's forgetting people and things MON from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness MON come over us all." MON MON The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily MON declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of MON mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping MON away from them. They live in an uneasy peace but memories of MON the wars that once ravaged the country are stirring. MON MON In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and MON Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their MON life together. MON MON Ishiguro's first new novel in a decade is a moving, MON mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies MON remember and forget. MON MON Read by David Suchet MON Abridged by Sara Davies MON Produced by Mair Bosworth. MON MON Credits MON Reader: David Suchet MON Author: Kazuo Ishiguro MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Mair Bosworth MON Composer: David Ridley & Becky Ripley MON MON 23:00 The Human Zoo b01r0gj4 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 1 MON MON The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that MON never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people led by the MON head or by the heart? How rational are we? How do we MON perceive the world and what lies behind the quirks of human MON behaviour? MON MON Michael Blastland presents a curious blend of intriguing MON experiments to discover our biases and judgements, MON conversations, explorations and examples taken from what's MON in the news to what we do in the kitchen - all driven by a MON large slice of curiosity. MON MON Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick MON University, is on hand as guide and experimenter in chief. MON MON Our thoughts, John Milton said, are a kingdom of infinite MON space and they might take us anywhere -whether our subject MON is writ large, like the behaviours of public figures or the MON contradictions of politics, or located in the minutiae of MON everyday life. We can show how what happens on the big stage MON is our own behaviour writ large - like the old Linda Smith MON joke about the Iraq-war coalition's failure to find chemical MON weapons: "I'm the same with the scissors". MON MON The Human Zoo explores why it is that our judgements are so MON averse to ambiguity, how mental energy is linked to our MON legs, why we don't want to be in the dock when the judge is MON hungry - and other thoughts that have nothing to do with MON anything much beyond the ironing. MON MON Producer: Toby Murcott MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Change Blindness Experiment MON In the first episode of The Human Zoo, we are looking at how MON difficult it can be to do more than one thing at a time. But MON it turns out that it is also difficult even to pay attention MON to the various elements of a scene, even though we feel that MON we are "taking it all in" at once. MON One demonstration of this is the phenomenon of "change MON blindness," which is the subject of this week's experiment. MON You will soon see how strange change blindness can be. MON Change blindness experiment MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0540j19 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b053s88q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0540b3h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b053s88s (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b053s88v (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b053s88x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b053s88z (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0540nb1 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Rev'd Rosa Hunt. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0540nbf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03ths74 (Listen) TUE Wren 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 John Aitchison presents the wren. You'll often see the male TUE wren, with its tail cocked jauntily, singing from a TUE fence-post or shrub, bill wide and trembling with the effort TUE of producing that ear-splitting territorial advertisement. TUE It's the extrovert side of what can be an introvert bird TUE that normally creeps, like a mouse, among banks of foliage TUE or in crevices between rocks. They can live almost anywhere TUE from mountain crags and remote islands to gardens and city TUE parks. TUE TUE Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0540tr5 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b0540tr7 (Listen) TUE Episode 88 TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili discusses the scientific life with fellow TUE scientists. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0540tr9 (Listen) TUE Zubeida Malik meets Raja Tahir Masood TUE TUE Zubeida Malik is a journalist who works mostly as a reporter TUE for the Today programme. For two weeks she's taken over the TUE One to One microphone to explore the nature of Britain's TUE changing communities. TUE TUE Today's interview is with Raja Tahir Masood, a chronicler of TUE Peterborough's Pakistani community. Originally from TUE Pakistan, Masood has lived in Peterborough for forty years. TUE In that time he's worked closely with the Pakistani TUE community and has seen it grow and change. He's also seen TUE new immigrants arrive in Peterborough, from southern and TUE eastern Europe. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0540trf (Listen) TUE Girl in the Dark, New Ways of Living TUE TUE Hattie Morahan reads Anna Lyndsey's astonishing account of TUE how her life was irrevocably changed when she was diagnosed TUE with an extreme sensitivity to light, and the ways in which TUE she made her impossible life possible. Today, an unexpected TUE delight and a new and shattering revelation. TUE TUE Hattie Morahan is the reader. TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Hattie Morahan TUE Abridger: Julian Wilkinson TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0540trh (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 b0540trk (Listen) TUE The Haunted Road, Episode 2 TUE TUE "Nothing goes away in this world any more. Nothing gets TUE lost. If you don't want a record of it, then don't do it." TUE TUE When police camera operator Leslie Burden receives a call TUE from a colleague concerning the disappearance of a young TUE Polish woman, he uses his surveillance expertise to help TUE track sightings of the missing woman, unaware he is being TUE drawn into a web of murder and revenge even he doesn't see TUE coming. TUE TUE With David Caves (Silent Witness) and Niamh McGrady (The TUE Fall, Holby City). TUE TUE Eoin McNamee won the Imison Award for his debut radio drama, TUE 'The Road Wife', which he followed with 'No Trampy TUE Immigrants', an episode of From Fact to Fiction: 'Heroes', TUE and most recently 'North of Riga'. A novelist and TUE screenwriter, Eoin's novels include 'Resurrection Man' TUE (which he adapted for film), 'The Blue Tango', 'The Ultras', TUE '12:23' and 'Orchid Blue'. He also writes thrillers under TUE the pseudonym John Creed. TUE TUE Writer ..... Eoin McNamee TUE Producer ..... Heather Larmour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Leslie Burden: David Caves TUE Lisa Knox: Niamh McGrady TUE Johnston: Stuart Graham TUE Lavery: Peter Ballance TUE Customs: Allan Gildea TUE Mannix: Michael Liebmann TUE The Psychiatrist: Fo Cullen TUE Unit 6: Kieran Lagan TUE Young Klara: Julia Powaszynska TUE Father: Jacek Powaszynski TUE Writer: Eoin McNamee TUE Producer: Heather Larmour TUE TUE 11:00 Holding Back the Sea b04pbmk1 (Listen) TUE On December 5th last year, thousands of homes and businesses TUE along Britain's east coast were flooded by the sea when the TUE first of that winter's great storms combined with a TUE particularly high tide. TUE TUE Close to year on, BBC News Science Editor David Shukman TUE travels around the Lincolnshire and Norfolk coast of the TUE Wash, talking to residents, farmers and business owners TUE about the problems of protecting their lives and livelihoods TUE from future inundations by the sea. TUE TUE The port town of Boston was one of the worst hit communities TUE last December. The surge poured over its defences into 700 TUE houses. Some families are only now returning to their ruined TUE homes. Fortunately for Boston, the government has agreed to TUE pay some £90 million to build a barrier across the tidal TUE river which flows through the town. Some locals say this TUE flood defence should have been in place years ago. TUE TUE Elsewhere in Lincolnshire, communities are feeling less well TUE shielded by the nation. North of Boston, at Friskney, a TUE breach in a frontline sea bank let in a tsunami of seawater TUE which flooded 500 acres of prime arable farmland to a depth TUE of 1 metre. Around the Wash, thousands of square kilometres TUE of Fenland farmland and rural communities lie at or below TUE sea level behind soil embankments facing the sea. These TUE walls were built by farmers as they claimed the country's TUE most productive arable land from the Wash's salt marsh. TUE TUE After the inundation at Friskney, farmers all around the TUE Wash are now campaigning to be allowed to raise the height TUE and width of their frontline banks. If they are granted TUE permission, they will receive at best only a modest TUE percentage contribution from central government. The TUE Treasury will only fully fund flood defence work if the TUE return on the money it puts up is £8 for every £1 spent. The TUE farmers argue that the economic value and food security TUE importance of what they produce is not taken into account in TUE the calculations. TUE TUE Alternatively, conservation organisations such as the RSPB TUE argue that rather than bolstering defences, sections of TUE these embankments should be deliberately breached to allow TUE Wash salt marsh to expand. As sea level rises, more TUE embankments will become more vulnerable. A managed retreat TUE of the defences would do two important things, they argue. TUE It would provide more habitat for the many thousands of TUE wintering birds which make the Wash one of most important TUE wildlife areas in Europe. The extra expanse of salt marsh TUE created would also make a natural flood defence, better TUE protecting the new bank further inland. Not surprisingly the TUE farmers of the Wash Frontage are not sold on this idea. TUE TUE On the east coast of the Wash in Norfolk, the people living TUE and running businesses in the shoreline communities south of TUE Hunstanton are faced with their own pressing threats. Their TUE defences were breached in several places last December and TUE in 1953, the great tidal surge of that year drowned dozens TUE of people in the area. TUE TUE The funds to maintain their shingle sea wall run out in TUE early 2016. They have been told by the Environment Agency TUE that the only means to finance this work and any future TUE upgrading after 2016 is to pay for most of it themselves. If TUE enough caravan park owners, landowners and residents are TUE able to amass a viable fund voluntarily, the government will TUE then top up the money available by 25%. A group of local TUE businesses is now in the process of setting up a body to TUE collect and pay out the money - a body called a Community TUE Interest Company. It will be the first of its kind TUE established for local flood defence. Needless to say, some TUE in the neighbourhood regard this as an inappropriate and TUE fragile arrangement by which to protect lives and TUE livelihoods from the sea. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE Sea pouring through gap in bank at RSPB Freiston Shore TUE TUE Image credit: RSPB TUE TUE 11:30 Tales From the Stave b0540trm (Listen) TUE Series 11, Smetana - Ma Vlast TUE TUE When the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana set about his famous TUE symphonic cycle Ma Vlast - My Country or My Land, in the TUE early 1870s, he was tapping into a national tradition TUE surviving under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His TUE evocations of historic landmarks like the rocky fortress of TUE Vysehrad which overlooks another subject, the Vltava TUE (Moldau) river have become familiar far beyond his Bohemian TUE homeland. TUE Frances Fyfield is joined by the leading young Czech TUE conductor Jakub Hrusa and the Czech Philharmonic orchestra TUE violinist Magdalena Maslanova to unpick the handwritten TUE manuscripts of his tone poems. They tell a story of a TUE brilliant orchestral imagination which was still making TUE alterations in this final version of one of his most TUE celebrated works. But the autographs, with their agonisingly TUE personal marginal notes also tell of a man who was losing TUE his hearing. TUE To what extent this new isolation unleashed a passionate and TUE vivid musical imagination is open to debate. Be that as it TUE may the scores are treated with reverence by all Czech TUE musicians for whom Smetana was an immense figure. The music TUE sweeps all nationalities along in its familiar currents. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b053s891 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b0540trp (Listen) TUE 3 March 1915 - Fraser Chadwick TUE TUE Fraser finds being a union representative at Marshalls' TUE Factory the easiest part of his life. TUE TUE Written by Richard Monks TUE Directed by Lucy Collingwood. TUE TUE Credits TUE Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman TUE Alan Lowther: David Seddon TUE Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont TUE Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready TUE Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan TUE Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone TUE Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian TUE Writer: Richard Monks TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0540trr (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b053s893 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0540trt (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b054420y (Listen) TUE What Is Debt? TUE TUE In the second episode, anthropologist David Graeber asks the TUE obvious question - what actually is a debt? TUE TUE It might seem that the answer is perfectly simple - a debt TUE is a promise by one person to pay another person a certain TUE sum of money, usually under certain specified terms and TUE conditions, at some point in the future. But what about TUE other forms of debt that have nothing to do with money? We TUE also speak of debts to society, debts of honour and debts of TUE gratitude. TUE TUE Attitudes to debt vary wildly across the globe. We hear an TUE account written by a European missionary in a distant land TUE of a situation in which he saved a native's life only to TUE find that, as a result, he was now in the native's debt. TUE TUE Debts have a very different meaning when there is a power TUE imbalance between debtor and creditor. Normally, when a debt TUE is between equals it can be renegotiated and even written TUE off entirely. However when the creditor has all the power, TUE debts transform into absolute imperatives that must be TUE repaid, no matter what the cost. TUE TUE Crucially, David argues that a debt is an obligation which TUE can be quantified. It's not just a matter of owing someone a TUE favour. We can specify exactly what is owed. This has the TUE advantage that we can know precisely when the debt has been TUE paid. But it has further effects - it means a debt is TUE impersonal, and transferable. TUE TUE Producer: Max O'Brien TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0540h07 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04d1kvs (Listen) TUE How to Say Goodbye Properly TUE TUE by E V Crowe. Winner of the 2015 Imison Award for best debut TUE radio drama. Lucy feels as if she's been in the army her TUE whole life. Her father swears this is their last posting. TUE But can she believe him? And if not, can she cope with TUE another tour of duty? TUE TUE Director ..... Abigail le Fleming TUE TUE The Writer TUE E V Crowe's most recent play, VIRGIN, played at the Watford TUE Palace Theatre from September - October 2013. TUE Prior to that, LIAR, LIAR, played at the Unicorn Theatre TUE from January to March 2013 and HERO played at the Royal TUE Court at the end of 2012 in a production directed by Jeremy TUE Herrin. The play was developed with the support of the NT TUE Studio and Schauspiel in Frankfurt. TUE She made her Royal Court debut in 2010 with KIN (also TUE directed by Jeremy Herrin), and was shortlisted for the Most TUE Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. TUE Credits elsewhere include YOUNG PRETENDER, produced by TUE nabokov at the Edinburgh Fringe and on tour. A graduate of TUE the Young Writer's Programme, she is currently under TUE commission to the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, TUE Watford Palace Theatre and the Unicorn Theatre. TUE She was on attachment to the Royal Court in the summer of TUE 2007 and is also a graduate of their Young Writers Programme TUE and Super Group. TUE E V is also part of the writing team that's headed up by TUE Jack Thorne for a new 8 part series called GLUE (E4 / Eleven TUE Films). TUE TUE Credits TUE Lucy: Ellie Kendrick TUE Angela: Hermione Norris TUE Martin: Stuart McQuarrie TUE Toby: Alex Lawther TUE Writer: EV Crowe TUE Director: Abigail le Fleming TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0540v5c (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b0540w3c (Listen) TUE Hunting the Beefalo TUE TUE A failed breeding experiment has led to a hybrid creature TUE running riot in the Grand Canyon. The Beefalo is now growing TUE in number rapidly and causing damage to the landscape, TUE threatening the environment and eco-system and trashing TUE ancient monuments of Native Americans. Yet with a hunting TUE ban in the National Park how can they be controlled? Tom TUE Heap goes in search of the legendary creature and the TUE answers. TUE TUE The iconic bison is on the emblem on the National Parks yet TUE in 1906 its numbers in America were falling so low 'Buffalo TUE Jones' tried a cross-breeding programme with cattle to TUE create the hardy 'beefalo' hybrid. The state eventually took TUE over the herd and kept numbers down through limited hunting. TUE But the beefalo is wise it seems and has learnt it can TUE escape that threat inside the Grand Canyon National Park. TUE TUE An estimated population of around 600, and growing by up to TUE 50% a year, is causing huge damage to the park. Its herds TUE concentrate the damage in sensitive areas - drinking dry TUE water holes, polluting them, over grazing and leaving bare TUE soil, their success is damaging the landscape and TUE eco-system. Now they're also kicking down ancient monuments TUE of Native American tribes for whom the canyon is a spiritual TUE home. Meanwhile tourists hoping to catch sight of the TUE creatures have found their cars attacked. TUE TUE So how do you solve a problem like the beefalo? A massive TUE consultation has begun to look at the lethal and non-lethal TUE options and consider if a cull is a viable option despite TUE the sensitivities in the park. Tom Heap goes tracking the TUE beefalo and asks how much damage will be done before a TUE solution is found. TUE TUE Presented by Tom Heap and produced in Arizona by Anne-Marie TUE Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Good News Is No News b051r7j4 (Listen) TUE Former news editor Charlie Beckett explores whether there is TUE an unrelenting negativity in the mainstream news agenda, TUE preoccupied with violent crime, human accident, misfortune TUE and disaster. He asks why alternative, so-called positive or TUE solutions-based, ideas for news are so readily dismissed by TUE journalists, broadcasters and editors. TUE TUE More than twenty years ago, the news broadcaster Martyn TUE Lewis made a very public speech calling for journalists to TUE rethink the instinctive diet of unrelentingly negative TUE stories. He argued for more good news, focussing on TUE solutions. The speech was vilified across the profession. TUE But now, with questions raised more widely about the TUE potential distortive effects, and addictive or pacifying TUE aspects of 24 hour news consumption is the unrelenting TUE negativity of mainstream news a question for psychologists TUE as much as for editors? Can news actually inhibit free TUE thinking, divest people of their agency, making them feel TUE helpless and inducing a retreat from the wider world. TUE TUE The programme examines the story so far of the 'positive TUE news' movement - a movement that's growing quickly, TUE especially in the United States. The Washington Post, New TUE York Times and Huffington Post all now have sections TUE explicitly devoted to more positive or constructive stories. TUE Charlie Beckett asks why there's such a visceral resistance TUE to the arguments for change among many professional TUE journalists and editors. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0540w3f (Listen) TUE Anita Rani and Katharine Whitehorn TUE TUE Anita Rani and Katharine Whitehorn talk books, including TUE Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel and F Scott TUE Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby, with Harriett TUE Gilbert. TUE TUE Books Featured in the Programme: TUE TUE The Vagrants by Yiyun Li TUE TUE The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett TUE TUE The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Anita Rani TUE Interviewed Guest: Katharine Whitehorn TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0540w3h (Listen) TUE M at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b053s895 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b048nr1v (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Nominated for Best Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama Awards TUE 2015, Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' is a comedy sketch TUE show written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd, TUE stars of Radio 4's Showstoppers. TUE TUE This week Ruth gets carried away when she's put in charge of TUE the sound effects for Lucy's serious radio drama; Adam and TUE Oliver finally build up the courage to speak their minds TUE about their tiny roles in the show, and there's an advert TUE for a decisiveness course. Probably. TUE TUE Written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd TUE TUE Supporting cast: Adam Meggido and Oliver Senton TUE TUE Script Editor: Jon Hunter TUE TUE Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Ruth Bratt TUE Performer: Lucy Trodd TUE Actor: Adam Meggido TUE Actor: Oliver Senton TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Writer: Ruth Bratt TUE Writer: Lucy Trodd TUE Composer: Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05410wn (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b05410wq (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0540trk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b05410ws (Listen) TUE Secure children's homes look after some of the country's TUE most vulnerable youngsters. Largely run by local TUE authorities, they provide safe accommodation for children TUE placed on custody grounds or for welfare reasons because TUE they present a danger to themselves or others. The demand TUE for places is rising but the number of beds is falling. So TUE where does that leave those they are meant to cater for? TUE With the government currently conducting a review into the TUE system, File on 4 gets rare access to one home in the TUE Midlands to meet children and staff; and talks to those TUE struggling to find places for children across the UK. TUE Reporter: Fran Abrams TUE Producer: Emma Forde. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05410wv (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b05410wx (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b0540tr7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b053s897 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05410wz (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05410x1 (Listen) TUE The Buried Giant, Episode 2 TUE TUE David Suchet reads The Buried Giant, the powerful new novel TUE by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of TUE the Day. TUE TUE "It's queer the way the world's forgetting people and things TUE from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness TUE come over us all." TUE TUE The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily TUE declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of TUE mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping TUE away from them. They live in an uneasy peace but memories of TUE the wars that once ravaged the country are stirring. TUE TUE In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and TUE Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their TUE life together and have set out to find their long-lost son. TUE Their memory of him is hazy, as it is of many things. They TUE know their journey may be a long one. TUE TUE Ishiguro's first new novel in a decade is a moving, TUE mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies TUE remember and forget. TUE TUE Read by David Suchet TUE Abridged by Sara Davies TUE Produced by Mair Bosworth. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Suchet TUE Author: Kazuo Ishiguro TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Mair Bosworth TUE Composer: David Ridley & Becky Ripley TUE TUE 23:00 The Hot Kid b05410x3 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE By Elmore Leonard TUE Adapted by Katie Hims TUE TUE Elmore Leonard's enthralling criminal odyssey is set against TUE the dusty, sun-kissed backdrop of Oklahoma and Kansas during TUE America's Great Depression. TUE TUE Carl Webster is a rising star in the U.S Marshals Service, TUE one of the elite man-hunters currently chasing the likes of TUE Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and Pretty Boy Floyd across TUE America's Depression-ravaged heartland. Meanwhile, Jack TUE Belmont, the wayward son of an oil millionaire, wants to be TUE public enemy number one. The lives of the cop and robber TUE criss-cross repeatedly before finally confronting in an TUE inevitable show down. TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE Critical praise for Elmore Leonard's novel: TUE TUE "Elmore Leonard is our Prospero, a magician who has given us TUE inspired fun for 50 years. He floats above the action, TUE amused; his motto is surely Puck's "What fools these mortals TUE be." In The Hot Kid, Oklahoma is his version of TUE Shakespeare's enchanted isle in "The Tempest," a brave new TUE world where maids and monsters, outlaws and oilmen, strange TUE creatures all, act out their dubious destinies." - The TUE Washington TUE Post TUE TUE "As always, Leonard's prose seems effortless, his dialogue TUE is perfect, and his humor is as dry as a moonshine TUE martini....a terrific pleasure." - Booklist TUE TUE "The whole sepia-toned caravan, in fact, is so relaxed that TUE even the most violent felonies may leave you smiling. TUE Leonard's gentle epic is as restorative as a month in the TUE country." - Kirkus Reviews. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carl Webster: Luke Norris TUE Jack Belmont: Adam Gillen TUE Louly Brown: Samantha Dakin TUE Tony Antonelli: Nathan Osgood TUE Virgil Webster: David Acton TUE Heidi Dilworth: Bettrys Jones TUE Emmet Long: Shaun Mason TUE Marshal Bob McMahon: Ian Conningham TUE Oris Belmont: John Chancer TUE Doris Belmont: Elaine Claxton TUE Norm Dilworth: Paul Heath TUE Nancy Polis: Roslyn Hill TUE Crystal Lee Davidson: Hannah Genesius TUE Mr Deering: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Author: Elmore Leonard TUE Adaptor: Katie Hims TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b05410x5 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b053s8bg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0540trf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b053s8bj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b053s8bl (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b053s8bn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b053s8bq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05411nq (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Rev'd Rosa Hunt. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05411ns (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 b03thsbj (Listen) WED Dunnock 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 John Aitchison presents the dunnock. You'll often see WED dunnocks, or hedge sparrows, as they were once called, WED shuffling around under a bird table or at the bottom of a WED hedge. They're inconspicuous birds being mostly brown with a WED greyish neck and breast. They aren't, as you might imagine, WED closely related to sparrows, many of their nearest relatives WED are birds of mountainous regions in Europe and Asia. WED WED Dunnock (Prunella modularis) WED Webpage image is courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b05413jv (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05413jx (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05413jz (Listen) WED Girl in the Dark, A Descent into Darkness WED WED Hattie Morahan reads Anna Lyndsey's astonishing account of WED how her life was irrevocably changed when she was diagnosed WED with an extreme sensitivity to light, and the ways in which WED she made her impossible life possible. Today, the WED disquieting persistence of the light. WED WED Hattie Morahan is the reader. WED Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Hattie Morahan WED Abridger: Julian Wilkinson WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05413k1 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:40 15 Minute Drama b05413k3 (Listen) WED The Haunted Road, Episode 3 WED WED "Nothing goes away in this world any more. Nothing gets WED lost. If you don't want a record of it, then don't do it." WED WED When police camera operator Leslie Burden receives a call WED from a colleague concerning the disappearance of a young WED Polish woman, he uses his surveillance expertise to help WED track sightings of the missing woman, unaware he is being WED drawn into a web of murder and revenge even he doesn't see WED coming. WED WED With David Caves (Silent Witness) and Niamh McGrady (The WED Fall, Holby City). WED WED Eoin McNamee won the Imison Award for his debut radio drama, WED 'The Road Wife', which he followed with 'No Trampy WED Immigrants', an episode of From Fact to Fiction: 'Heroes', WED and most recently 'North of Riga'. A novelist and WED screenwriter, Eoin's novels include 'Resurrection Man' WED (which he adapted for film), 'The Blue Tango', 'The Ultras', WED '12:23' and 'Orchid Blue'. He also writes thrillers under WED the pseudonym John Creed. WED WED Writer ..... Eoin McNamee WED Producer ..... Heather Larmour. WED WED Credits WED Leslie Burden: David Caves WED Lisa Knox: Niamh McGrady WED Johnston: Stuart Graham WED Klara: Kamila Dydyna WED Lavery: Peter Ballance WED Hughes: Allan Gildea WED Radio Announcer: Fo Cullen WED Unit 6: Kieran Lagan WED The Rose Girl: Louise Parker WED Young Klara: Julia Powaszynska WED Father: Jacek Powaszynski WED Writer: Eoin McNamee WED Producer: Heather Larmour WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b05413k5 (Listen) WED Victoria and Lisa - Sitting Tall WED WED An enlightening conversation between two physiotherapists WED about the importance of posture and how differently it's WED viewed by different cultures, introduced by Fi Glover, in WED the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Recycled Radio b05413rw (Listen) WED Series 3, Recycled: Bohemia WED WED Welcome to the chopped up, looped up, sped up world of WED Recycled Radio, introduced by cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. WED Follow him down down the rabbit hole as we delve into the WED archives in search of bohemia, with a small "b". WED WED Way back when, in the darkest depths of November 2014, David WED Hockney said something on Radio 4's Today programme: "That's WED what's gone now, bohemia's gone..." WED Expect profound reflections on the nature of Jeremy Paxman's WED beard, hear Jeffrey Bernard exploring the nature of the WED advertising executive, picture Ed Balls playing the piano, WED and is that Andrew Marr contemplating the size of Virginia WED Woolf's bed? WED WED What has any of this got to do with bohemia? What has WED bohemia got to do with anything else? WED WED Recycled Radio might explain. WED WED Producer: Polly Weston. WED WED 11:30 Boswell's Lives b05415pv (Listen) WED Boswell's Life of Callas WED WED by Jon Canter WED WED Comedy as James Boswell Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer WED pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he meets Maria WED Callas and her poodle and finds himself in an opera of his WED own making. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both WED television and radio. He recently penned the radio series WED 'Believe It' starring Richard Wilson but his work goes back WED to Spitting Image. He is also the author of several books WED and has been called our greatest living comic novelist. WED WED Miles Jupp is an actor and stand up. He is best known for WED playing Nigel in the series 'Rev' and is a regular WED contributor to R4 panel games and 'Have I Got News For You' WED on BBC1. In March he will open in a new play at the National WED Theatre: 'Rules For Living'. WED WED Arabella Weir is best known for her roles in The Fast Show WED and Posh Nosh (written with Jon Canter) and for writing WED several books including the international best seller Does WED My Bum Look Big in This? WED WED Credits WED James Boswell: Miles Jupp WED Maria Callas: Arabella Weir WED Writer: Jon Canter WED Director: Sally Avens WED WED 12:00 News Summary b053s8bs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b05415px (Listen) WED 4 March 1915 - Robert Lyle WED WED The harmony of Robert's home life is threatened when he WED intervenes to help Davy's little boy. WED WED Written by Richard Monks WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley WED Amy Robinson: Jane Slavin WED Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont WED Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron WED Baxter: Kris Deedigan WED Mrs Baxter: Bettrys Jones WED Josseff al-Assadi: Paul Chahidi WED Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell WED Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell WED Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone WED Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian WED Stationmaster: Joe Caffrey WED Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips WED Writer: Richard Monks WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b05415pz (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b053s8bv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05415q1 (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b054423q (Listen) WED The Origin of Money WED WED In this episode, anthropologist David Graeber explores the WED origin of money. Defining money is a surprisingly tricky WED task. We use it all the time and yet, even among economists, WED there's no consensus about what money actually is. WED WED You'll commonly hear that money is a measure of value, a WED store of value and a means of account. David argues that WED this all boils down to a central question - is money merely WED an abstraction, an accounting technique, a way of saying WED five of these things equal six of those, or is it primarily WED an object, a commodity, a physical thing, that passes from WED hand to hand? WED WED We're so familiar with money, we rarely stop to think about WED how it actually originated. Those who do tend to come across WED the same story: "Once upon a time there was no money, so WED everyone had to make do with barter. People would simply WED swap things directly with one another and prices could be WED negotiated by supply and demand." WED WED This barter story appears in every economics textbook. But WED there's a problem - it simply isn't true. David Graeber WED reveals that the barter narrative is in fact a myth and that WED when anthropologists fanned out across the globe, nowhere WED did they find people swapping goods as the economists WED describe. WED WED We tend to think of buying on credit as a modern phenomenon, WED however David reveals that the earliest transactions were WED all carried out on credit. He concludes by arguing that WED money itself emerged not from barter, but as a way of WED measuring debts. WED WED Producer: Max O'Brien WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05410wn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b043wz2m (Listen) WED Original British Dramatists, Magpie WED WED ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMATISTS WED Discover 10 new voices over 10 Afternoon Dramas WED WED Magpie by Lee Mattinson WED WED Jack Deam stars as Lance in this quirky, comedy drama. Lance WED is making changes. With new-found techniques to resist his WED urge to eat metal and a sensible job at the council secured, WED his life is on the mend. Until a little boy moves into his WED street, a little boy with a big secret. WED WED Lee Mattinson has written for the Bush and Soho Theatres, WED National Theatre, Paines Plough, Live Theatre and BBC Three. WED His new stage play Crocodiles opens this Autumn. WED WED Director/Producer Sharon Sephton WED Sound Design by Paul Cargill. WED WED Credits WED Lance: Jack Deam WED Max: Sam Hattersley WED Rhona: Melanie Hill WED Mum: Kathryn Hunt WED Gladys: Kathryn Hunt WED Sophie: Kate Coogan WED Wendy: Kate Coogan WED Dr Tate: Eric Potts WED Director: Sharon Sephton WED Producer: Sharon Sephton WED Writer: Lee Mattinson WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b05417l7 (Listen) WED Rights and Pay for New Parents WED WED Know your rights to maternity, paternity, adoption or shared WED parental leave and pay? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm and 3pm WED on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED If you're expecting a baby or adopting, we'll have a team WED advisers ready to explain your employment rights and WED entitlement to time off and pay. WED WED From April there are greater benefits for adoptive parents. WED WED A new system of shared parental leave is available for some WED parents of babies born or adopted after the 5 April. How WED will it work and how much could you receive? WED WED If you don't want to share your leave what are your WED maternity and paternity rights? WED WED Or perhaps you're returning to work and want to work WED flexibly, where do you stand? WED WED Whatever your question, joining Ruth Alexander to answer WED your questions will be: WED WED Stewart Gee, Head of Information and Guidance, ACAS. WED Will Hadwen, Rights Adviser at Working Families. WED Sarah Veale, Head of Equality and Employment Rights, TUC. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b05410wx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05417l9 (Listen) WED Commercial Surrogacy in India; Money WED WED Wombs for Sale: commercial surrogacy in India & beyond. WED Couples from all over the world can now hire Indian women to WED bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy WED elsewhere. Laurie Taylor talks to Amrita Pande, Senior WED Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cape Town, and WED author of a detailed study into a burgeoning business which WED has little or no government regulation. She talked to WED surrogates, their families, clients, doctors and brokers to WED capture the full mechanics of a labour regime rooted in WED global gender & economic inequality. They're joined by WED Michal Nahman, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the WED University of the West of England, who has studied WED reproductive tourism. WED WED Also, the transformation of money in the post crisis world. WED Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology at the London School of WED Economics and Political Science, highlights the WED proliferation of new forms and systems of money, from local WED currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. WED Why has our understanding of money failed to keep pace with WED these changes? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Amrita Pande WED WED Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Cape WED Town WED WED Find out more about WED Amrita Pande WED WED *Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India WED *Publisher: Columbia University Press WED ISBN-10: 0231169914 WED ISBN-13: 978-0231169912 WED WED Michal Nahman WED WED Senior Lecturer, Department of Health and Social Sciences, WED University of the West of England WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Michal Nahman WED WED *Extractions: An ethnography of reproductive tourism WED *Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan WED ISBN-10: 0230319297 WED ISBN-13: 978-0230319295 WED WED Nigel Dodd WED WED Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics WED WED Find out more about WED Nigel Dodd WED WED *The Social Life of Money WED *Publisher: Princeton University Press WED ISBN-10: 0691141428 WED ISBN-13: 978-0691141428 WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05417lc (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05417lf (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b053s8bx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b05417lh (Listen) WED Series 10, Bob Mortimer talks to Vic Reeves WED WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED WED In the third episode of the series one half of comedy WED double-act Vic & Bob, Bob Mortimer, talks to the other half WED of comedy double-act Vic & Bob, Vic Reeves. Vic & Bob are WED best know as the creators and stars of The Smell of Reeves WED and Mortimer, Shooting Stars and House of Fools. WED WED Producer ... Charlie Perkins. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05417lk (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b05417lm (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05413k3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b05418y4 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Giles Fraser, Anne McElvoy WED and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b05418y6 (Listen) WED Kate Saunders WED WED Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b0540w3c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05413jx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05418y8 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05419jh (Listen) WED The Buried Giant, Episode 3 WED WED David Suchet reads The Buried Giant, the powerful new novel WED by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of WED the Day. WED WED "It's queer the way the world's forgetting people and things WED from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness WED come over us all." WED WED The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily WED declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of WED mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping WED away from them. They live in an uneasy peace but memories of WED the wars that once ravaged the country are stirring. WED WED In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and WED Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their WED life together and have set out on a journey to find their WED long-lost son. Beatrice has guided them to a Saxon village WED where they can shelter for the night and where she hopes to WED consult a medicine woman about the pain that has been WED troubling her. On reaching the village, they find a WED community in turmoil. WED WED Ishiguro's first new novel in a decade is a moving, WED mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies WED remember and forget. WED WED Read by David Suchet WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED Produced by Mair Bosworth. WED WED Credits WED Reader: David Suchet WED Author: Kazuo Ishiguro WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Mair Bosworth WED Composer: David Ridley & Becky Ripley WED WED 23:00 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown b05419l4 (Listen) WED Edouard Manet's Olympia WED WED Art historian Hannah Gadsby kicks off her radio series of WED comedy lectures about four masterpieces, with Edouard WED Manet's masterpiece 'Olympia'. She shares her first WED encounter with the art work as well as looking at what WED critics had to say about it at the time it was created. WED WED Born in Tasmania, Hannah's first encounters with art was WED solely through books. These books taught her the language of WED art appreciation but they also legitimised her desire to WED look at 'boobs'. This was just as well as Hannah realised in WED her teens that she was 'a little bit lesbian' but WED homosexuality was still illegal in Tasmania at that time. WED WED The painting 'Olympia' was first exhibited in Paris in 1865. WED It made a lot of people very angry at the time. Here was a WED reclining nude but this woman had attitude, looking right at WED the observer with no embarrassment or demureness. She was a WED whore - what of it? WED WED The woman who posed for the painting was Victorine Meurent, WED not a prostitute but an artist in her own right and, says WED Gadsby, surely she had a major influence on Manet's WED considerably feminist approach to 'the reclining nude' in WED this painting. WED WED Hannah explains what makes 'Olympia' a cornerstone of modern WED art and what bring her personally back to this painting WED again and again. WED WED Hannah Gadsby is assisted in this series by her very own WED 'Quotebot' who has been inputted with every quote that's WED ever been written about art. WED WED Quotebot sounds remarkably like comedy legend and all-round WED boffin John Lloyd. WED WED Written by Hannah Gadsby WED Performed by Hannah Gadsby with her Quotebot aka John Lloyd WED Script edited by Jon Hunter WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED Edouard Manet's Olympia WED WED Credits WED Performer: Hannah Gadsby WED Performer: John Lloyd WED Producer: Claire Jones WED Writer: Hannah Gadsby WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b05419jk (Listen) WED Series 3, Cookery WED WED This week the comic poet has left the studio for the WED kitchen, as he peers into 'Tim's shopping bag' and attempts WED to cook up a feast. He is assisted by his guitarist and WED comis chef, Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden and Yasmine Akram WED WED Produced by James Robinson WED WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production WED WED The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning comedian returns for a WED third series of his Late Night Poetry Programme. Since WED series two Tim has been busy touring his latest acclaimed WED live show, Single White Slut, thrilling audiences at the Old WED Vic in Daniel Kitson's Tree, as well as filming movies such WED as Steve Coogan's Alpha Papa and Richard Ayoade's The WED Double. But now he's back on late night Radio 4 doing what WED he does best - attempting to recite poetry whilst tormenting WED his friend and musician, the equally brilliant Tom Basden. WED WED Praise for Tim Key WED WED "...You never know when Key will suddenly toss you a WED fantastic joke or startlingly well-constructed line." Radio WED Times WED WED "The show... has a kind of artistry and strange beauty that WED makes it unlike any other hour of stand-up you are likely to WED see." The Observer WED WED "In any other sphere apart from comedy, we'd probably class WED this way of looking at the world as certifiable. Here it WED feels like genius." The Telegraph. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Performer: Yasmine Akram WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b05419jm (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 MARCH 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b053s8cn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05413jz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b053s8cq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b053s8cs (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b053s8cv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b053s8cx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0542xpm (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Rev'd Rosa Hunt. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0542xpp (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thsc6 (Listen) THU Long-Eared Owl 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 John Aitchison presents the long-eared owl. The low moaning THU hoot of a long-eared owl filters through the blackness of a THU pine wood. Long-eared owls are nocturnal and one of our most THU elusive breeding birds. They nest in conifer woods, copses THU and shelter-belts of trees near wide open grasslands and THU heaths where they hunt for rodents. THU THU Long-eared owl (Asio otus) THU Webpage image courtesy of Dean Bricknell (rsob-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b0542xt5 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0542xt7 (Listen) THU Beowulf THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the epic poem Beowulf, THU one of the masterpieces of Anglo-Saxon literature. Composed THU around a thousand years ago by an anonymous poet, the work THU tells the story of a Scandinavian hero whose feats include THU battles with the fearsome monster Grendel and a THU fire-breathing dragon. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0542ztt (Listen) THU Girl in the Dark, Remission THU THU Hattie Morahan reads Anna Lyndsey's astonishing account of THU how her life was irrevocably changed when she was diagnosed THU with an extreme sensitivity to light, and the ways in which THU she made her impossible life possible. Today, remission and THU the first cautious forays into a twilit world. THU THU Hattie Morahan reads. THU Abridged by Julian Wilkinson THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Hattie Morahan THU Abridger: Julian Wilkinson THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0542ztw (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 b0542zty (Listen) THU The Haunted Road, Episode 4 THU THU "Nothing goes away in this world any more. Nothing gets THU lost. If you don't want a record of it, then don't do it." THU THU When police camera operator Leslie Burden receives a call THU from a colleague concerning the disappearance of a young THU Polish woman, he uses his surveillance expertise to help THU track sightings of the missing woman, unaware he is being THU drawn into a web of murder and revenge even he doesn't see THU coming. THU THU With David Caves (Silent Witness) and Niamh McGrady (The THU Fall, Holby City). THU THU Eoin McNamee won the Imison Award for his debut radio drama, THU 'The Road Wife', which he followed with 'No Trampy THU Immigrants', an episode of From Fact to Fiction: 'Heroes', THU and most recently 'North of Riga'. A novelist and THU screenwriter, Eoin's novels include 'Resurrection Man' THU (which he adapted for film), 'The Blue Tango', 'The Ultras', THU '12:23' and 'Orchid Blue'. He also writes thrillers under THU the pseudonym John Creed. THU THU Writer ..... Eoin McNamee THU Producer ..... Heather Larmour. THU THU Credits THU Leslie Burden: David Caves THU Lisa Knox: Niamh McGrady THU Johnston: Stuart Graham THU Lavery: Peter Ballance THU Coastguard: Allan Gildea THU Diver: Michael Liebmann THU The Psychiatrist: Fo Cullen THU The Pathologist: Kieran Lagan THU The Rose Girl: Louise Parker THU Young Klara: Julia Powaszynska THU Father: Jacek Powaszynski THU Writer: Eoin McNamee THU Producer: Heather Larmour THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0542zv0 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Writing a New South Africa b0542zv2 (Listen) THU Cape Town: Place and Contested Space THU THU Johannesburg-based poet Thabiso Mohare travels to Cape Town THU to meet a new generation of writers, poets and playwrights THU and look at the theme of place and contested space in their THU work and the history of the city. In a city dominated by the THU huge table mountain which still ensures a certain amount of THU segregation, he talks to Lauren Beukes, whose sci-fi visions THU of South African cities are internationally successful, THU playwright and novelist Nadia Davids about the undealt-with THU legacy of slavery in the city, and up-and-coming playwright THU Amy Jephta whose parents were forcibly removed from District THU 6. Thabiso explores the status of Afrikaans amoung the THU younger generation now with poet Toni Stuart and short story THU writer SJ Naude, uncovering the roots of a language that was THU appropriated as a tool of oppression but is still felt to be THU a language of struggle and resistance among the communities THU where it originated. And there is uncompromisingly political THU work from Nathan Trantraal and Ronelda Kamfer. THU THU In a three part series, street poet 'Afurakan' Thabiso THU Mohare explores the major cities of Johannesburg and Cape THU Town, talking to 'Born Frees', writers of the freedom THU generation - those born under apartheid but whose adult THU years have been spent in a new democracy - and gaining THU insights from an older generation who only began to publish THU their work in the new democratic era. Thabiso looks at South THU Africa two decades after the fall of apartheid, through the THU themes writers are choosing to engage with in their work. THU These authors, poets and playwrights are exploring the past THU and present, from apartheid's legacy to political THU corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some are THU exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or THU looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write THU about after the end of the struggle. THU Thabiso talks to new voices who are just making their names, THU and those who are already established, addressing the THU problems they face, causes for optimism, and the way THU conditions and opportunities have changed for writers in the THU past two decades. He looks at what they feel to be their THU literary heritage, and who they take inspiration from in a THU culture still feeling the inequalities of the educational THU legacy of apartheid. Literacy issues for some and the lack THU of a culture of reading more widely mean that the market for THU books is small, and the road to the arts truly blossoming THU into normalcy in South Africa after the end of apartheid has THU been uneven and complex. Other outlets for storytelling too THU - poetry and spoken word events, plugging into older THU traditions - are supporting the flowering of a diversity of THU voices as hoped for when the political landscape changed so THU radically in 1994, with writers of all ethnicities pitching THU in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the range of voices now THU being heard and the picture they present. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b053s8cz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b0542zv4 (Listen) THU 5 March 1915 - Adam Wilson THU THU Rosalind Marshall and Peter Samuel Lumley are welcomed into THU the church, but some of the congregation feel a lot less THU welcome. THU THU Written by Richard Monks THU Directed by Lucy Collingwood. THU THU Credits THU Adam Wilson: Leo Montague THU Albert Wilson: Harry Myers THU Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones THU Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Reverend: Sam Dale THU Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn THU Writer: Richard Monks THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 Face the Facts b0542zv6 (Listen) THU Life in Gangland London THU THU Original investigations into social injustice, public THU policy, inefficiency and fraud. THU THU 12:57 Weather b054vc35 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0542zv8 (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b0544243 (Listen) THU The Theology of Debt THU THU Anthropologist David Graeber explores the theology of debt. THU THU The Bible is peppered with the language of debt. Sin, THU forgiveness, reckoning, redemption - all of these words THU actually derive from the language of ancient finance. What's THU more, this seems to be true in all the great religious THU traditions - not just Judaism and Christianity, but THU Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam - all of their texts THU are filled with financial metaphors, many of which relate to THU issues surrounding debt. THU THU We tend to think of these religions as teaching us that we THU must repay our debts. But the truth is that the financial THU metaphors in religious texts are oddly ambivalent. The THU original translation of the Lord's Prayer from 1381 reads THU "Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, THU as we also have forgiven our debtors". But do we forgive our THU debtors? Actually, most of us don't. THU THU David Graeber explains that the great religions talk about THU the forgiveness of debt more than the repayment of debt and THU that the deeper teachings they offer is that it is the THU annihilation of debt which is ultimately divine. To THU understand why all the religious texts discuss the THU forgiveness of debt with such frequency, David examines the THU historical context of when these works were written and THU reveals that, in the ancient world, the institutionalised THU forgiveness of debts was commonplace. THU THU Producer: Max O'Brien THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05417lk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05435s7 (Listen) THU Mrs Pickwick's Papers THU THU by Mike Walker. Mrs Joyce Pickwick, roving commissioner for THU local government, has been a thorn in the side of the civil THU service for years, and try as he might, Mr Scrope can't seem THU to get rid of her. But now, as Mrs P gets in too deep in an THU investigation into the waste disposal business, he thinks he THU is in with a chance. THU THU Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. THU THU Credits THU Mrs Pickwick: Annette Badland THU Sam Weller: Susan Wokoma THU Tracy Tupman: Jane Slavin THU Gus Snodgrass: Stephen Critchlow THU Mr Legion: Stephen Critchlow THU Scrope: Sam Dale THU Alfie 'Jingle' Bell: Ian Conningham THU Director: Jeremy Mortimer THU Writer: Mike Walker THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b05435sd (Listen) THU Series 29, Cardiac Walkers THU THU In today's programme Clare Balding walks with a group of THU medics who have all suffered - as they put it - a 'cardiac THU event'. With good humour and no real restraint, they gather THU as often as possible to explore new and familiar routes for THU friendship and health. The group is made up of GPs, hospital THU doctors, surgeons and a psychiatrist, and their cardiac THU experiences range from living with angina to surviving a THU severe heart-attack. They joke about whose turn it is to THU carry the defibrillator, but the truth is, they don't let THU their medical conditions get in the way of a good ramble. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b053sbq9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b053zwq8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05435sl (Listen) THU The latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05435sp (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b0543b0s (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b053s8d1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Britain Versus the World b04ybblk (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 5 THU THU Episode Five: THU THU The fifth episode of the new comedy panel show - Britain THU Versus The World - that pits two British comedians against a THU team of comics from overseas to find out which side is THU superior. Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is THU the English comedian Zoe Lyons while the captain of the Rest THU of the World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Australian THU stand-up Tony Law. The contest is overseen by Irishman Ed THU Byrne who does his very best to stay impartial. THU THU Host THU Ed Byrne THU THU Guests THU Hal Cruttenden THU Henning Wehn THU Zoe Lyons THU Tony Law THU THU Programme Associate Bill Matthews THU THU Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Ed Byrne THU Panellist: Hal Cruttenden THU Panellist: Henning Wehn THU Panellist: Zoe Lyons THU Panellist: Tony Law THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0543b0v (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0543b0x (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0542zty (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0543b0z (Listen) THU Anti-Semitism in the UK: Is It Growing? THU THU Anti-Semitism in the UK: Simon Cox investigates the changing THU face of prejudice against Jewish people after recent lethal THU attacks in Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels. With the Israeli THU Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for European THU Jews to move to Israel, we look at whether there is more THU dangerous anti-Semitism online and on the streets of the UK. THU THU Producer: James Melley THU Researcher: Kirsteen Knight. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0543b11 (Listen) THU Whatever Happened To? THU THU Sock Shop, Golden Wonder and Lehman Brothers: big names that THU once dominated the high street, the supermarket shelves and THU the financial world. They faded from view, yet still exist THU today. What prompted their demise? How did they lose market THU share? Evan Davis and guests discuss the rise and fall of THU these iconic companies and explore whether they can ever THU reach the success of their golden years. THU THU Guests: THU THU Vimal Ruia, Managing Director, Sock Shop THU THU Paul Allen, CEO, Tayto THU THU Tony Lomas, Chief Administrator, Lehman Brothers in the UK THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05435sp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0542xt7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0543b13 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0543b15 (Listen) THU The Buried Giant, Episode 4 THU THU David Suchet reads The Buried Giant, the powerful new novel THU by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of THU the Day. THU THU "It's queer the way the world's forgetting people and things THU from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness THU come over us all." THU THU The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily THU declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of THU mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping THU away from them. They live in an uneasy peace but memories of THU the wars that once ravaged the country are stirring. THU THU In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and THU Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their THU life together and have set out to find their long-lost son. THU Hoping to pass a restful night at a Saxon village, they find THU the community there in turmoil after an ogre attack. A Saxon THU warrior named Wistan, a stranger from a distant country to THU the East, frees a village boy named Edwin from the ogres, THU only to see his own people turn on him in fear. The THU villagers say the boy has been bitten by an ogre and claim THU he will turn fiend himself with disastrous consequences. THU THU Axl and Beatrice agree to help take the boy to safety, and THU Wistan and Edwin join the old pair of Britons as they THU continue on their journey. THU THU Ishiguro's first new novel in a decade is a moving, THU mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies THU remember and forget. THU THU Read by David Suchet THU Abridged by Sara Davies THU Produced by Mair Bosworth. THU THU Credits THU Reader: David Suchet THU Author: Kazuo Ishiguro THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Mair Bosworth THU Composer: David Ridley & Becky Ripley THU THU 23:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mk5nk (Listen) THU Series 2, Hermicia THU THU by Bill Dare THU THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre THU adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in THU Hermicia where charity is strangely in abundance. THU THU Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale THU Kalfa ..... Colin Hoult THU Mena ..... Nina Conti THU Boria ..... Martin Treneman THU Doctor ..... Patrick Brennan THU Rimanda ..... Amaka Okafor THU THU Producer ..... Steven Canny THU THU This is the second series of this satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and including, Duncan Wisby, Vicki THU Pepperdine, Lisa Dillon, Colin Hoult, Toby Longworth, Adrian THU Scarborough, Dan Tetsell, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Debra THU Stephenson, Colin Hoult, Nina Conti, Jo Bobin and Marcus THU Brigstocke. THU THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0543b17 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 MARCH 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b053s8dz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0542ztt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b053s8f1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b053s8f3 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b053s8f5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b053s8f7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0543k00 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Rev'd Rosa Hunt. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0543k02 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thsg9 (Listen) FRI Waxwing 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 John Aitchison presents the waxwing. Waxwings are winter FRI visitors from Russia and Scandinavia where they breed in FRI conifer forests. They head south to feed on berries and FRI other fruits, and if these are in short supply on the FRI Continent, the birds flood into the UK. It happens every few FRI years or so and the sight of these punk-crested plunderers FRI swarming over rowan and other berry-producing trees is sure FRI to attract your attention. FRI FRI Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0543k04 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b053sbvb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0543k06 (Listen) FRI Girl in the Dark, Relapse FRI FRI Hattie Morahan reads Anna Lyndsey's astonishing account of FRI how her life was irrevocably changed when she was diagnosed FRI with an extreme sensitivity to light, and the ways in which FRI she made her impossible life possible. Today, the eternal FRI return, and the power of things to remain the same. FRI FRI Hattie Morahan reads. FRI Abridged by Julian Wilkinson FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hattie Morahan FRI Abridger: Julian Wilkinson FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0543k08 (Listen) 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 b0543k0b (Listen) FRI The Haunted Road, Episode 5 FRI FRI "Nothing goes away in this world any more. Nothing gets FRI lost. If you don't want a record of it, then don't do it." FRI FRI When police camera operator Leslie Burden receives a call FRI from a colleague concerning the disappearance of a young FRI Polish woman, he uses his surveillance expertise to help FRI track sightings of the missing woman, unaware he is being FRI drawn into a web of murder and revenge even he doesn't see FRI coming. FRI FRI With David Caves (Silent Witness) and Niamh McGrady (The FRI Fall, Holby City). FRI FRI Eoin McNamee won the Imison Award for his debut radio drama, FRI 'The Road Wife', which he followed with 'No Trampy FRI Immigrants', an episode of From Fact to Fiction: 'Heroes', FRI and most recently 'North of Riga'. A novelist and FRI screenwriter, Eoin's novels include 'Resurrection Man' FRI (which he adapted for film), 'The Blue Tango', 'The Ultras', FRI '12:23' and 'Orchid Blue'. He also writes thrillers under FRI the pseudonym John Creed. FRI FRI Writer ..... Eoin McNamee FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Leslie Burden: David Caves FRI Lisa Knox: Niamh McGrady FRI Johnston: Stuart Graham FRI Skipper: Peter Ballance FRI Coastguard: Allan Gildea FRI Diver: Michael Liebmann FRI The Psychiatrist: Fo Cullen FRI The Pathologist: Kieran Lagan FRI Young Klara: Julia Powaszynska FRI Father: Jacek Powaszynski FRI Writer: Eoin McNamee FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 11:00 Don't Log Off b0543k0d (Listen) FRI Series 6, Who Am I? FRI FRI Alan Dein connects with the world online, linking up with FRI people across the globe to discover dramas of personal FRI identity, including an American whose roots might be more FRI tangled than he first thought, thanks to the Cold War. FRI FRI Producer Mark Burman. FRI FRI 11:30 Cleaning Up b0543k0g (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI Sitcom about a group of night-time office cleaners in FRI Manchester. FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b053s8f9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b0543k0j (Listen) FRI 6 March 1915 - Esther O'Leary FRI FRI Esther loves her new job, scavenging in Tynemouth, and is FRI delighted to see her dad there. FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Mary Threlkeld: Hannah Wood FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0543k0l (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b053s8fc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0543yj5 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b05442ft (Listen) FRI The Classical World FRI FRI Anthropologist David Graeber examines debt in the Classical FRI period. It was during this age that coinage first emerged as FRI an efficient way of paying soldiers. FRI FRI The spread of coinage had enormous political and FRI intellectual consequences. It was invented on the fringes of FRI military operations - whether in Greece, India, or China - FRI but was quickly taken up by enterprising kingdoms, some of FRI which gradually gobbled up their neighbours. Eventually, FRI vast empires emerged - the Athenian, Hellenistic, and Roman FRI empires, Magadha, Nanda, the Qin, the Han. Armies are FRI expensive to run and, in the end, we witnessed a cycle of FRI violence and repayment in coinage. FRI FRI Debt has an important role to play in the story of coinage. FRI While coins were invented to pay soldiers, it was through FRI taxation that they became embedded in the lives of entire FRI populations. Ancient rulers indebted their subjects by FRI demanding taxes which had to be paid in coinage. David FRI reveals that this system of taxation was in fact an FRI ingenious ploy to make subjects feed and provide for the FRI army by creating a universal need for coinage. FRI FRI Under ancient conditions, keeping say 50,000 men supplied FRI with provisions was an extremely challenging undertaking. By FRI distributing coins to soldiers, which could be exchanged FRI with locals for provisions, ancient rulers co-opted their FRI populations into keeping their armies fed, watered and FRI primed to keep on conquering. FRI FRI Producer: Max O'Brien FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0543b0v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b0543yj7 (Listen) FRI The Mark FRI FRI The Mark FRI by Karen Brown FRI FRI Inspired by a true story - An ambitious policeman is duped. FRI Dean Ellis believes his life is coming together; he gets the FRI new job in Fraud, the new girlfriend, and then everything FRI falls apart. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dean Ellis: Matthew McNulty FRI Jen: Rachel Leskovac FRI Ian: Craig Gallivan FRI Laura: Rachel Austin FRI Sgt Walker: Roger Morlidge FRI DI Edwards: Hugh Simon FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Writer: Karen Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0543yj9 (Listen) FRI Wellesbourne, Warwickshire FRI FRI Robson host the horticultural panel programme programme from FRI the village of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden FRI answer questions from an audience of local gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Sitters' Stories b0543yjc (Listen) FRI That Moment FRI FRI Captured in a moment in time with faces forever staring at FRI them and fingers ever pointing, the sitters from some FRI well-known paintings get a chance to escape from the canvas, FRI set the story straight, or tell us their particular version FRI of the story behind the image. FRI FRI Characters from famous paintings finally get a chance to FRI tell their story in this series of readings from Elizabeth FRI Kuti, Sophia Hillan, and Niall Williams. FRI FRI That Moment by Niall Williams FRI FRI Painting: Nu a Contre-Jour by Pierre Bonnard, Royal Museums FRI of Fine Arts of Belgium. FRI FRI http://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collection/pierre-bonna FRI d-nu-a-contre-jour FRI FRI When a young woman meets artist Pierre Bonnard in a Paris FRI street, she creates an alter-ego for herself, one that lasts FRI for thirty years and will see her immortalised in countless FRI paintings. FRI FRI Man Booker long-listed novelist Niall Williams (The History FRI of the Rain) explores the relationship between French artist FRI Pierre Bonnard and his muse - and later wife - Marthe, FRI taking us back to a moment when he captured first captured FRI her on canvas, in a small flat on the Rue Lepic in Paris. FRI FRI Writer ...... Niall Williams FRI Reader ..... Selma Brook FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Selma Brook FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI Writer: Niall Williams FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0543yjf (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b0543yjh (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0543yjk (Listen) FRI Grace and Emmy - No Box to Tick FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces friends who describe themselves as FRI gender-queer and who find it trying that society expects FRI them to conform to being labelled male or female. Another FRI conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0543yjm (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b053s8fh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0543yjp (Listen) FRI Series 86, Episode 3 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest FRI panellists including Susan Calman and Bob Mills. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Bob Mills FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0543yjr (Listen) FRI Adam is not sure which way to turn, and David is on his way. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0543yjt (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0543k0b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0543yjw (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Monmouth in FRI Wales. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0544070 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b0544072 (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 2-6 March 1915 FRI FRI A hundred years ago this week, Germany declared a submarine FRI blockage of Great Britain, and - for reasons of their own - FRI our characters begin to feel hemmed in. FRI FRI Cast FRI Josseff al-Assadi ..... Paul Chahidi FRI Baxter ..... Kris Deedigan FRI Mrs Baxter ..... Bettrys Jones FRI Edie Chadwick ..... Kathryn Beaumont FRI Duncan Chadwick ..... Mark Stobbart FRI Fraser Chadwick ..... Edmund Wiseman FRI Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Sylvia Graham ..... Barbara Flynn FRI Alan Lowther ..... David Seddon FRI Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Robert Lyle ..... Deka Walmsley FRI Joyce Lyle ..... Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle ..... Richard Riddell FRI Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready FRI Geoffrey Marshall ..... Dominic Mafham FRI Cressida Marshall ..... Bettrys Jones FRI Phyllis Marshall ..... Christine Absalom FRI Esther O'Leary ..... Amy Cameron FRI Violet O'Leary ..... Jacqueline Phillips FRI Mr Potter ..... Sam Dale FRI Amy Robinson ..... Jane Slavin FRI Kenny Stokoe ..... Dean Logan FRI Mary Threlkeld ..... Hannah Wood FRI Marion Wardle ..... Laura Elphinstone FRI Davy Wardle ..... Stephen O'Raullian FRI Florrie Wilson ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Adam Wilson ..... Leo Montague FRI Albert Wilson ..... Harry Myers FRI Stationmaster ..... Joe Caffrey FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Josseff al-Assadi: Paul Chahidi FRI Baxter: Kris Deedigan FRI Mrs Baxter: Bettrys Jones FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Mr Potter: Sam Dale FRI Amy Robinson: Jane Slavin FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Mary Threlkeld: Hannah Wood FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adam Wilson: Leo Montague FRI Albert Wilson: Harry Myers FRI Stationmaster: Joe Caffrey FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b053s8fk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0544074 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05440ch (Listen) FRI The Buried Giant, Episode 5 FRI FRI David Suchet reads The Buried Giant, the powerful new novel FRI by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of FRI the Day. FRI FRI "It's queer the way the world's forgetting people and things FRI from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness FRI come over us all." FRI FRI The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily FRI declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of FRI mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping FRI away from them. They live in an uneasy peace but memories of FRI the wars that once ravaged the country are stirring. FRI FRI In this time of forgetting, one elderly couple - Axl and FRI Beatrice - are determined to hold onto memories of their FRI life together and have set out to find their long-lost son. FRI They have been joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious FRI Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in FRI peril. After their encounter with Sir Gawain, the group FRI journey on to reach an isolated monastery where the monks FRI give them a reluctant welcome. FRI FRI Ishiguro's first new novel in a decade is a moving, FRI mysterious and deeply philosophical book about how societies FRI remember and forget. FRI FRI Read by David Suchet FRI Abridged by Sara Davies FRI Produced by Mair Bosworth. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Suchet FRI Author: Kazuo Ishiguro FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI Composer: David Ridley & Becky Ripley FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b0540w3f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b05440ck (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05440p7 (Listen) FRI Mel and Garry - The Importance of Being First FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a husband and FRI wife who have been together since they were teenagers and FRI have done all the important things together - apart from FRI one. Another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
27 February, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 28/02/2015 - 06/03/2015
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