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SAT SATURDAY 07 MARCH 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b053s8h8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0543k06 (Listen) SAT Girl in the Dark, Relapse SAT SAT Hattie Morahan reads Anna Lyndsey's astonishing account of SAT how her life was irrevocably changed when she was diagnosed SAT with an extreme sensitivity to light, and the ways in which SAT she made her impossible life possible. Today, the eternal SAT return, and the power of things to remain the same. SAT SAT Hattie Morahan reads. SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Hattie Morahan SAT Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b053s8hb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b053s8hd (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. 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It began when one young man, far from SAT his own land, was confronted by a small group of homeless SAT children. He heard the call of God on his life to “look SAT after orphans in their distress ” and to provide a home for SAT them. With little money and no support, he took them in. SAT Now, fifty years later, the project houses nine hundred SAT children at any one time and it's one of the most beautiful, SAT peaceful, and wholesome places I know. SAT SAT It's where I saw Aashira dance. Aged about ten, she could SAT perform highly-technical, traditional dance with the energy SAT and controlled passion that made the audience hold its SAT breath on that festival day. SAT SAT Aashira was born HIV positive. That's why I met her SAT outside the doctor's. She'd been in for a check-up. She’ll SAT need both anti-retro viral drugs and a loving home to keep SAT her jumping and spinning, learning and living. SAT SAT So, Lord God, we pray today for all who work on the SAT frontiers of science, determined to understand disease and SAT overcome it. We thank you for that young man, now old and SAT coming to the end of his life, who responded to your call. SAT Help us to do the same. Amen. (290) SAT SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b054412d (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b053s8hl (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b053s8hn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b05435sd (Listen) SAT Series 29, Cardiac Walkers SAT SAT In today's programme Clare Balding walks with a group of SAT medics who have all suffered - as they put it - a 'cardiac SAT event'. With good humour and no real restraint, they gather SAT as often as possible to explore new and familiar routes for SAT friendship and health. 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SAT SAT And how Denise Bentley, a former City Foreign Exchange SAT Trader, ended up running the Tower Hamlets Foodbank on SAT behalf of the Trussell Trust. With the help of Comic Relief SAT funding its unique hub model means it can offer more than SAT just food, including benefits and housing advice. SAT SAT **Stewart's tracks are : 'Solitary Man' by Neil Diamond SAT recorded live at The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles for his SAT album Hot August Night and 'Chicken Nuggets for me' by The SAT Fish Police.** SAT SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Kirstie Allsopp SAT Interviewed Guest: Robert Alleyne SAT Interviewed Guest: Billy Gibbons SAT Interviewed Guest: Stewart Lee SAT Interviewed Guest: Denise Bentley SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Ben Ainslie's Big Gamble b054gnrf (Listen) SAT Can sailor Sir Ben Ainslie change history by creating the SAT first British crew to win the America's Cup? After leading a SAT US boat to victory in 2013, he decided to build a team in SAT Britain from scratch. To do this he needs to raise £80 SAT million, construct a purpose-built headquarters and inspire SAT a local maritime workforce, all on the basis of his SAT reputation and determination. Carolyn Quinn gets exclusive SAT access to Britain's greatest competitive sailor and his team SAT as they set about the task. 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SAT SAT Pensions Lib SAT HM Revenue & Customs is busy this week sending out letters SAT demanding thousands of pounds to hundreds of people who were SAT sold pension liberation plans. These schemes - often sold by SAT regulated financial advisers - claimed to let people get SAT money out of their pension funds before the legal age limit SAT of 55. They were quickly ruled unlawful but not before SAT hundreds of people had unwisely liberated some of their SAT money. HMRC is now demanding 55% tax on the amount they SAT took. SAT SAT Smart meters SAT MPs have warned this week that the £11 billion programme to SAT replace every electricity and gas meter in the UK with a new SAT 'smart' meter is running late and could be "a costly SAT failure" unless the Government gets a grip on it. But what SAT is a smart meter? And will it work without even smarter SAT humans? SAT SAT The cost of giving SAT Online donations to charity are big business. 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SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Camilla Long SAT Panellist: Bob Mills SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b053s8hx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b053s8hz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0543yjw (Listen) SAT Sal Brinton, Chris Bryant MP, Mark Harper MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Monmouth SAT School in Wales with the President of the Liberal Democrats SAT Sal Brinton, Labour's Shadow Culture Minister Chris Bryant SAT MP, Minister for Disabled People Mark Harper MP and the SAT leader of the Plaid Cymru group at Westminster Elfyn Llwyd SAT MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b054gnrm (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b054gxpb (Listen) SAT Unmade Movies, Harold Pinter's The Dreaming Child SAT SAT The world premiere of Harold Pinter's unproduced film SAT screenplay, based on Karen Blixen's elusive and mysterious SAT short story of love and loss. SAT SAT It's Bristol in 1868 and Emily, married to wealthy Tom SAT Carter, is haunted by her passionate first love affair with SAT a young soldier who subsequently dies at sea. Seven years SAT later and unable to have children themselves, they decide to SAT adopt a boy from the slum. Jack however is not an ordinary SAT child - and seems to know everything about his new home and SAT family. SAT SAT Adapted by Joanna Hogg and Laurence Bowen SAT SAT Director: Joanna Hogg SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Bowen SAT SAT A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Anne Reid SAT Emily: Lydia Leonard SAT Tom: Bertie Carvel SAT Charlie: Joshua Silver SAT Mrs Jones: Joanna Scanlan SAT Miss Scott: Susan Woolridge SAT Jack: Jack Hollington SAT Peggy: Rose Leslie SAT Bess: Bryony Hannah SAT Mr Rudd: Karl Johnson SAT Mr Carter: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Child: Flynn Allen SAT Child: Esme Allen-Quarmby SAT Child: Isabella Blake-Thomas SAT Child: Joey Price SAT Director: Joanna Hogg SAT Producer: Laurence Bowen SAT Author: Karen Blixen SAT Writer: Harold Pinter SAT Adaptor: Joanna Hogg SAT Adaptor: Laurence Bowen SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b054gxpd (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: A special live edition from Southbank SAT Centre's WOW - Women of the World Festival SAT SAT A special edition of the programme live from the Southbank SAT Centre's WOW - Women of the World Festival. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor; Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b054gxpg (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0543b11 (Listen) SAT Whatever Happened To? SAT SAT Sock Shop, Golden Wonder and Lehman Brothers: big names that SAT once dominated the high street, the supermarket shelves and SAT the financial world. They faded from view, yet still exist SAT today. What prompted their demise? How did they lose market SAT share? Evan Davis and guests discuss the rise and fall of SAT these iconic companies and explore whether they can ever SAT reach the success of their golden years. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Vimal Ruia, Managing Director, Sock Shop SAT SAT Paul Allen, CEO, Tayto SAT SAT Tony Lomas, Chief Administrator, Lehman Brothers in the UK SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b053s8j1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b053s8j3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b053s8j5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b054gxpj (Listen) SAT Arthur Smith, David Mitchell, Arlene Phillips, Sandi SAT Toksvig, Yasmin Evans, John Shuttleworth, Spoek Mathambo, SAT Fantasma SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Arthur Smith, David Mitchell, SAT Arlene Phillips, Sandi Toksvig, Spoek Mathambo and Yasmin SAT Evans for a special Comic Relief edition of Loose Ends, in SAT the BBC Radio Theatre. With music from Fantasma and John SAT Shuttleworth. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT David Mitchell SAT ‘The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice’ is on Friday SAT 13th March on BBC Two. SAT SAT Spoek Mathambo SAT Spoek is doing DJ sets at The Islington, Manchester on SAT Friday 13th and Convergence Event, London on Thursday 19th SAT March. SAT SAT Yasmin Evans SAT BBC 1 Xtra Breakfast With Twin B and Yasmin Evans is every SAT weekday at 0700. SAT SAT Arlene Phillips SAT ‘Comic Relief Danceathon’ is on Sunday 8th March at London’s SAT SSE Arena and in locations across the country. SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig SAT The News Quiz is on Friday’s at 18.30 and Saturday’s at SAT 12.30 on BBC Radio 4. SAT Sandi will be performing at the Southbank Centre as part of SAT the Mirth Control / Women of the World Festival 2015 on SAT Sunday 8th March. SAT SAT Fantasma SAT ‘Free Love’ is available on Soundway Records on Monday 9th SAT March. SAT Fantasma are playing at Colston Hall, Bristol on Monday 9th SAT and Band On The Wall, Manchester on Thursday 12th March. SAT SAT John Shuttleworth SAT ‘A Wee Ken To Remember’ is touring until 28th March. John’s SAT performing at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury on Sunday 8th, SAT Wyvern Theatre, Swindon on Monday 9th and Quay Theatre, SAT Peterborough on Wednesday 11th March. Check his website for SAT further dates. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: David Mitchell SAT Interviewed Guest: Arlene Phillips SAT Interviewed Guest: Spoek Mathambo SAT Interviewed Guest: Yasmin Evans SAT Performer: Fantasma SAT Performer: John Shuttleworth SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b054gxpl (Listen) SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b054gxpn (Listen) SAT Still Alice, Game, Nurse, David Vann, Forensics SAT SAT Julianne Moore won an Oscar for her performance as Alice, SAT who has Early Onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice. Does SAT a great performance make a great movie? SAT Mike Bartlett's new play Game at London's Almeida theatre SAT raises questions about how desperate people become when SAT they're looking for somewhere to live. SAT Paul Whitehouse plays multiple characters in his TV series SAT Nurse which is transferring from Radio 4 to BBC2. It deal SAT with the travails of a Community Psychiatric Nurse and her SAT patients. SAT David Vann's novel Aquarium is told from the point of view SAT of a 12 year old girl whose happy life with her single SAT mother is thrown into disarray by a chance encounter SAT Forensics - The Anatomy of Crime, has opened at The Wellcome SAT Collection in London, and it looks at crime from being SAT committed to criminal conviction. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Tracy Chevalier, Catherine SAT O'Flynn and Craig Raine. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Still Alice SAT The film SAT Still Alice SAT is in cinemas from Friday 6 March, certificate 12A. SAT SAT Game SAT Written by Mike Bartlett, the play SAT Game SAT is at the Almeida Theatre Islington until Saturday 4 April SAT 2015. SAT SAT Nurse SAT The comedy drama series SAT Nurse SAT begins on Tuesday 10 March, 10pm on BBC Two. SAT SAT Aquarium SAT The book SAT Aquarium SAT by David Vann is published by William Heinemann. SAT SAT Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime SAT The exhibition SAT Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime SAT is on display at the Wellcome Collection in London until 21 SAT June 2015. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Tracy Chevalier SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine O'Flynn SAT Interviewed Guest: Craig Raine SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b054gxpq (Listen) SAT A Brief History of Anger SAT SAT American satirist Joe Queenan follows up his Brief Histories SAT of Irony and Blame with A Brief History of Anger - spats, SAT tantrums and explosions from the archive. Good anger, bad SAT anger, creative anger, and the occasional childish moment SAT caught on microphone. With contributions from Christopher SAT Hitchens, Conrad Black, Russell Crowe, Joan Rivers, Joan SAT Bakewell, and Johnny Cash. Plus new interviews with John SAT Sergeant, Natalie Haynes and Matthew Parris, and a running SAT commentary of anger from the presenter himself. SAT SAT " My kids make me angry. My job makes me angry. The producer SAT makes me angry. Then there's my wife, other people's wives, SAT other drivers, airports, and worst of all my football team SAT ... And then there are interviewers. Interviewers always SAT make me angry." SAT SAT The producer is Miles Warde. SAT SAT 21:00 War and Peace b04w89vd (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT SAT In this concluding episode, Pierre recalls his time in the SAT barracks - a surprisingly happy time where he meets a SAT prisoner, Platon Karateev. Kutuzov reluctantly leads the SAT Battle of Tarutino, a Russian victory by a series of SAT accidents. SAT SAT Meanwhile, Sonya is left little choice but to return her SAT promise to Nikolai so that he can marry his true love, SAT Marya. Countess Rostov receives shocking news and Natasha is SAT still suffering from the death of her beloved Prince Andrei. SAT Kutuzov is called upon once again by the Emperor, this time SAT to 'save Europe'. What will be the General's ultimate SAT decision for Russia? 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 Actor: Roger Allam SAT Actor: Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Author: Leo Tolstoy SAT Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b053s8j7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b05418y4 (Listen) SAT The Morality of the Imagination SAT SAT When is an idea so objectionable that we should be stopped SAT from expressing it or hearing it? That's the question at the SAT heart of the debate about how Mohammed Emwazi turned from a SAT quiet and hardworking schoolboy into a psychopathic SAT murderer. The focus has been turned on his time at the SAT Westminster University and the extremist preachers who had SAT been invited to talk there. The government is in the process SAT of drawing up guidance for vice chancellors as part of a new SAT statutory requirement on universities to combat SAT radicalisation on campus. Some universities have been SAT accused of being too liberal and ignoring the damage that SAT can be done to vulnerable people by those who promulgate SAT extremist views. Others argue that especially in SAT universities you must and should be able to debate ideas SAT freely, rather than simply banning those who believe them. SAT There are many examples of thought, knowledge or imagination SAT being criminalised. They include: cartoon images of child SAT abuse; the arrests of street preachers; this week's proposal SAT to turn a moral duty to report suspicions of child abuse SAT into a legal duty; so-called predictive policing, which SAT takes incident reports and turns out a computer analysis of SAT where crimes are most likely to occur and who might be the SAT likely perpetrators. Are we living in more censorious times SAT or is this a recognition that to be truly virtuous we need SAT to possess mens sana in corpore sano? Is it simply a matter SAT of distinguishing clearly between thoughts and deeds? Can SAT our thoughts, ideas and imagination live in a world beyond SAT notions of right and wrong and consequences? Or can thoughts SAT be immoral irrespective of whether they're associated with SAT actions? The moral maze this week: the morality of the SAT imagination and the public sphere. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b0540gzx (Listen) SAT Heat 10, 2015 SAT SAT (10/17) SAT Which Pharaoh ordered the construction of the Great Pyramid SAT at Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world? And SAT which familiar two-word term was first coined by the film SAT critic Nino Frank, when discussing films such as The Maltese SAT Falcon and Double Indemnity? SAT SAT The competitors in today's heat will have to answer these SAT and many other questions to stand a chance of qualifying for SAT the semi-final stage of this year's tournament. Russell SAT Davies is in the chair, and the contestants come from SAT Huddersfield, Liverpool, Leeds and Kendal. SAT SAT They'll also face questions suggested by a listener, with SAT the aim of 'Beating the Brains' and winning a book token SAT prize. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT REV WAYNE CLARKE, a Baptist minister from Huddersfield; SAT SAT BARRIE HARDY, a retired college lecturer from Liverpool; SAT SAT MICHAEL MOONEY, a retired IT professional from Leeds; SAT SAT DIANNE WHITEHEAD, a retired local government officer from SAT Kendal. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b053zwqc (Listen) SAT Journeys SAT SAT Roger McGough goes on a journey in the company of Alfred, SAT Lord Tennyson, CP Cavafy, Matthew Arnold and Sir Gawain. SAT Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Ulysses SAT SAT by Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT SAT From Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin Classics SAT SAT SAT SAT The Spell of The Yukon SAT SAT by Robert Service SAT SAT From The Best of Robert Service SAT SAT Published by Ernest Benn SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from The Golden Journey to Samarkand SAT SAT by James Elroy Flecker SAT SAT From Selected poems of James Elroy Flecker SAT SAT Published by Rowan Books SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from The Canterbury Tales SAT SAT by Geoffrey Chaucer SAT SAT Translated by David Wright SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Sohrab and Rustum SAT SAT by Matthew Arnold SAT SAT From The Everyman Book of Narrative Verse, SAT SAT Published by JM Dent & Sons SAT SAT SAT SAT A Sea Song SAT SAT by Allan Cunningham SAT SAT From A Book of Scottish Verse SAT SAT Published by St Martin’s Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Ithaka SAT SAT by CP Cafavy SAT SAT translated by John Mavrogordato SAT SAT From A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Mort D’Artur SAT SAT by Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT SAT From Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin Classics SAT SAT SAT SAT Citizen of The World SAT SAT by Dave Calder SAT SAT From A Big Bunch of Poems by Dave Calder SAT SAT Published by Other Publications SAT SAT SAT SAT The Road not Taken SAT SAT by Robert Frost SAT SAT From Frost: Poems SAT SAT Published by Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets SAT SAT SAT SAT Extracts from Gawain and the Green Night SAT SAT From both traditional and Simon Armitage Translation SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Old Woman of The Roads SAT SAT by Padraic Colum SAT SAT From Irish Verse: An Anthology SAT SAT Published by Dover Publications SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b054p6lf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Annika Stranded b01qdr74 (Listen) SUN Series 1, An Echo 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 3 (of 3): An Echo SUN A body is found in a metro carriage - but Annika's judgments SUN are being clouded by personal matters. 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 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 b054p6lh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b054p6ll (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b054p6ln (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b054p6lq (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b054p93v (Listen) SUN The bells of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Hanbury in SUN Worcestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b05418y6 (Listen) SUN Kate Saunders SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN SMELLS AND BELLS SUN SUN The arts of storytelling and performance have always been SUN central to Christian worship, and they've played a huge part SUN in my own experience - I was once a professional actor, and SUN I'm now a professional writer of stories. You could say that SUN my working hours have been spent either pretending to be SUN someone else, or making things up - both, I imagine, SUN officially frowned upon by the church, but unofficially SUN inspired by it. SUN SUN Like millions of other people, my first encounter with SUN Christianity was also my first taste of theatre, when I took SUN part in a Nativity play at the Montessori nursery school in SUN Highgate. I was only four, and only had one line - "Husband, SUN what about the stable?" - but I like to think my Innkeeper's SUN Wife was a perfectly-incised little cameo. SUN SUN It's a shame that the traditional school Nativity play is SUN falling out of fashion - it's the last remnant of the great SUN medieval Mystery Plays, where the Gospels were presented in SUN the form of popular drama for the benefit of people who SUN couldn't read. The Mass itself is set out in the form of a SUN play, in which the priest takes the 'role' of Jesus and SUN re-enacts the high drama of the Last Supper. SUN SUN These days, however, any element of theatricality in church SUN is often treated with suspicion and dismissed as shallow, SUN posturing, insincere. Modern worshippers don't think of SUN themselves as any kind of audience - they expect to be SUN 'included' in the show. The general style is intimate and SUN informal, and very nice too. When services get too informal, SUN however, I always feel there's something missing - just as I SUN would at the theatre, if someone spoiled the magic by SUN forgetting to turn down the house lights. I want a sense of SUN mystery, of awe, of tragedy and redemption. Being a SUN Christian means believing in the world's most thrilling SUN story - so let's have some thrills. SUN SUN My fondness for a properly stage-managed Performance in SUN church might have something to do with the fact that I'm a SUN recovered actor. But it's mainly because I'm a lifelong SUN Anglo-Catholic. Let me try to explain. Anglo-Catholics are SUN not Protestants; we like to think of ourselves as Catholics SUN within the Church of England. You know the bit in the SUN Creed, where we say we believe in a 'catholic and apostolic SUN church? Well, this is an argument that began in the 16th SUN century and will probably rumble on until the Last Trump - SUN namely, is the Church of England a Protestant church, or are SUN we actually reformed Catholics who sacked the Pope? To put SUN it crudely, if you believe the latter, you're an SUN Anglo-Catholic. SUN SUN And the traditional Anglo-Catholic High Mass is an elaborate SUN performance complete with clouds of incense, lavish music, SUN gorgeous vestments and occasional bursts of Latin. Not for SUN nothing are we known as Smells and Bells. SUN SUN The Christian drama reaches its climax in Holy Week, and a SUN full-on Anglo-Catholic Holy Week should be a glorious SUN theatrical experience. We kick off with a Palm Sunday SUN procession through the streets - with a real donkey if you SUN can get one. Larry, the only donkey in my London deanery, is SUN booked solid for years, and never fails to make the front SUN page of the local paper, causing widespread donkey-envy SUN throughout the neighbouring churches. SUN SUN Anglo-Catholics are not shy about this sort of public SUN display, though taking part often involves swallowing a good SUN helping of traditional British embarrassment - I must admit SUN I never really enjoyed carrying an enormous palm in a SUN straggling procession through my local streets, trying to SUN sing 'Ride on, Ride on in Majesty', while all the normal SUN people were jogging or walking their dogs. SUN SUN But I knew this wasn't the same as 'acting', a word that SUN implies pretence; the idea was that we were re-enacting an SUN event that actually happened. An outward show doesn't SUN mean there's nothing on the inside. It's a way of setting SUN the scene and encouraging people to look beyond the SUN ordinary. Lent is a time of penitence and mourning, and that SUN is taken quite literally in an Anglo-Catholic church, where SUN all the statues and Crucifixes wear purple shrouds. SUN SUN The colour and theatre burst back on Maundy Thursday, the SUN Thursday before Easter Sunday, arguably the most dramatic SUN performance of the year. We're commemorating the origin of SUN the Mass itself; the Passover supper that Jesus shared with SUN his disciples in an upper room in Jerusalem, where he first SUN consecrated the bread and wine, and gave it to his disciples SUN as his body and blood. In an Anglo-Catholic church, the SUN scene will be set with a choir and possibly an orchestra and SUN crowds of servers in satin and lace. SUN SUN After the singing and bells, however, comes the solemn SUN Stripping of the Altars, where everything decorative in the SUN church is ceremoniously removed - like striking the set at SUN the end of a run in the theatre, or clearing the table after SUN Christmas lunch. After the Stripping comes the Vigil - that SUN is, hours of silent worship in the Chapel of the Reserve SUN Sacrament. Technically the Vigil should last all that night. SUN I've never been hard enough to go through a decent vigil - SUN by that stage in the week, I'm half-dead from incense-fumes SUN and my knees have callouses - but I can't tell you how SUN beautiful the Chapel looks in the candlelight - how hushed SUN and mysterious. SUN SUN On Good Friday, an Anglo-Catholic church is in ostentatious SUN mourning - bare and desolate, purple and black. What better SUN way to represent the world after the death of God? SUN Thankfully, we know there's a happy ending to look forward SUN to - I'm sure the way the Christian story plays out through SUN the year is an unconscious model for my own storytelling. SUN SUN SUN We're building up to the first Mass of Easter; in an SUN Anglo-Catholic church, that happens on Saturday evening and SUN is the greatest show on earth. The church is decked with SUN flowers, the vestments gleam with gold embroidery; SUN yesterday's bare wooden altar is now dressed in silk. I'm SUN always reminded of the big wedding scene at the end of a SUN pantomime, when the actors change into white costumes and SUN sing 'Search for the Hero Inside Yourself." SUN SUN I'm not being irreverent; the Mass came first and every SUN other form of drama over the past two millennia is a pale SUN echo of that sacred source. For me, the all-out grandeur of SUN the Anglo-Catholic service conjures up words like 'mystery' SUN and 'awe' and 'power'. SUN SUN This is my version of Christianity, the tradition I grew up SUN with; all I know is that the smells and bells have been an SUN inspiration to me, both as a performer and a writer. SUN Anglo-Catholic worship is designed to fire up the SUN imagination - to unfold the ultimate plot with a true sense SUN of its importance. A friend of mine, who grew up with a more SUN prosaic and informal kind of Christianity, once told me she SUN had been 'disgusted' when she went to an Anglo-Catholic High SUN Mass - as far as she was concerned, the elaborate ceremony SUN was nothing more than empty play-acting, and she felt SUN 'excluded'. I can absolutely see what she meant, but it's SUN more complicated than it looks - an Anglo-Catholic SUN congregation is not a passive audience; it's more like the SUN chorus in a musical. We're constantly bowing and kneeling SUN and crossing ourselves on cue, which makes us a vital part SUN of the show. SUN SUN We like to think we're harking back to the customs of the SUN medieval church, but we're not medieval at all - and this is SUN another reason why I love being an Anglo-Catholic. We're SUN actually incredibly Victorian. SUN SUN It all began in the 1830s with the Oxford Movement; a group SUN of priests who argued for the revival of certain ancient SUN forms of worship. They were also known as 'Tractarians' SUN after a series of radical sermons called 'Tracts for the SUN Times'. The turning point came with John Henry Newman's SUN famous 'Tract 90', when he claimed that the doctrines of the SUN Roman Catholic Church, as defined by the Council of Trent SUN back in the 1550s, were compatible with the 39 Articles of SUN Faith in the Book of Common Prayer. SUN SUN It sounds ludicrously obscure and dusty now, but at the time SUN it caused a national outcry, and led to an explosion of SUN catholic revivalism that tried to be exotic, but came to SUN epitomise the typical Victorian suburb. Our poet is SUN Christina Rossetti, our painter is Burne-Jones, our music is SUN by Sullivan and Stainer, we worship in redbrick gothic SUN hangars designed by Butterfield and Barry. We have SUN polite-looking Victorian gargoyles and genteel Victorian SUN saints. We are as cosily British as Gardener's Question SUN Time. SUN SUN For as long as I can remember, full-on Anglo-Catholicism has SUN been in gentle decline; there's something ghostly and faded SUN about it, like the scent of ancient lavender in a drawer. I SUN grew up associating church with an atmosphere of nostalgia, SUN always harking back to the glories of the past. Once upon a SUN time, in the high old Victorian days, our now empty pews SUN were so thronged that it was standing-room only at Corpus SUN Christi. There were thriving orders of Anglo-Catholic nuns - SUN I remember seeing them in the town where we went on holiday SUN in the 1970s. They were old ladies, usually rather posh, who SUN still wore their quaint old medieval habits long after Roman SUN nuns had swapped theirs for jeans. SUN SUN Further back, when I was a little girl in the 1960s, I SUN remember my mother taking me and my brother and sister to an SUN Anglican convent, to visit a very old lady who was being SUN cared for by the nuns. The old lady was the widow of my SUN mother's splendid childhood vicar - the source of her SUN Anglo-Catholicism, and therefore mine. We still display a SUN photograph of him, posing sternly in his cassock and SUN biretta. SUN SUN Before we could go home, us three children were sent out SUN into the chilly convent garden, because the elderly nuns SUN longed to see children playing - just like Miss Havisham in SUN Dickens' 'Great Expectations'. And just like young Pip, we SUN had no idea how to play; we stood about awkwardly until we SUN were allowed back inside. It left a picture in my mind of SUN wet brown leaves and wistfulness - of sterility and SUN spinsterhood and faded gentility. But I suspect that the SUN whole Anglo-Catholic movement has always had this whiff of SUN mould - it was part of the original design, like furniture SUN that is 'distressed' to look antique. SUN SUN For me, there is also an endearing whiff of Ealing Comedy - SUN it's inevitable, really. Solemnity and dressing up attract SUN comedy; when I was an actor, it was always the most serious SUN plays that caused the most giggling onstage. When I knelt in SUN church beside my devout mother, the more elaborate SUN high-church antics would send us both into agonies of SUN giggling. Our worst attack came during the sombre stripping SUN of the altars on Maundy Thursday. While the stripping took SUN place, we had to intone an endless list of responses from SUN the psalms - and we completely lost it when we had to say 'I SUN am surrounded by the Fat Bulls of Bashan". SUN SUN All silliness aside, the modern Church of England owes a lot SUN to the Anglo-Catholic movement. The fact that priests wear SUN vestments during the services is entirely due to that SUN Victorian catholic revival. Before the Tractarians, the SUN Church was heavily influenced by ultra-Protestant SUN Evangelicals, and people only took Holy Communion a few SUN times a year. 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SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b054p93x (Listen) SUN Consider the Lilies SUN SUN Samira Ahmed explores our representations of flowers, and SUN our relationships with them. SUN SUN Focusing on the flowers that have had a particular SUN importance in her own life, she considers the meanings and SUN cultural resonances of several species - passion-flower, SUN bluebells, tulips and the exotically perfumed champa flower SUN or frangipani. SUN SUN Through music and poetry she explores how certain blooms SUN have been thought to embody emotional, spiritual and SUN philosophical ideas - and been used and subverted by SUN artists, musicians and writers around the globe. She SUN investigates how different countries have developed complex SUN codes of communication through the gift of flowers and asks SUN if sometimes it is better not to 'say it with flowers'. How SUN can the giving and receiving of floral tributes be SUN transformed from a simple gesture of affection to one of SUN potential threat or insult? SUN SUN The programme includes poetry by Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope SUN and Rabindranath Tagore, along with music from Katherine SUN Jenkins, Ben E. King and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. SUN SUN The readers are Olivia Onyehara, Matthew Wynn, and Haruka SUN Kuroda. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Brazilian Fazenda SUN Author: P.K. Page SUN From: The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN SUN Title: The Champa Flower SUN Author: Rabindranath Tagore SUN Publisher: Forgotten Books SUN SUN Title: The Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers, from SUN Collected Poems SUN Author: Sylvia Plath SUN Publisher: Harper Collins SUN SUN Title: Villette SUN Author: Charlotte Bronte SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Editions; SUN SUN Title: The Language of Flowers SUN Author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh SUN Publisher: Macmillan; First Edition SUN SUN Title: 'Flowers'; from the New Penguin Book of Love poetry SUN Author: Wendy Cope SUN Publisher: Penguin; 2Rev Ed edition SUN SUN Title: The Semantics of Flowers on Memorial Day, from SUN Insomnia Diary SUN Author: Bob Hicok SUN Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press SUN SUN Title: The Bluebell SUN Author: Anne Bronte SUN Publisher: W&N; New Ed edition SUN SUN Title: Tanka, from 'Disheveled Hair' (1901) SUN Author: Yosano Akiko SUN Translations and Text by Roger Pulvers SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b054p93z (Listen) SUN Lord Henry Plumb, the Elder Statesman of British Farming SUN SUN Henry Plumb had to leave school at the age of 15 to work the SUN family farm during the Second World War. Thirty years later SUN he'd become one of the most important figures in British SUN agriculture, steering UK farmers into the Common Market in SUN 1973 as President of the NFU. He later spent 20 years as an SUN MEP, is the only Briton to have been President of the SUN European Parliament, and is still active in the House of SUN Lords. Now almost 90, Baron Plumb of Coleshill - Henry to SUN all who know him - shares reflections on his life in farming SUN and on current issues in the world of agriculture with Caz SUN Graham, in a programme which revisits his Warwickshire SUN family farm fifty years on from On Your Farm's first visit SUN there back in 1965. With excerpts from that original SUN programme offering a fascinating glimpse into farming and SUN society fifty years ago, we hear how, despite a career that SUN placed him on the world stage at the forefront of farming SUN policy, Henry is still a stocksman at heart. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Caz Graham. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b054p6lv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b054p6lx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b054p941 (Listen) SUN Pope Francis, Legal Aid, Faith and Fashion SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b054p996 (Listen) SUN Environmental Justice Foundation SUN SUN Benedict Allen presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Environmental SUN Justice Foundation SUN Registered Charity No 1088128 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'EJF''. SUN SUN Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) SUN SUN The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is a UK-based SUN charity working internationally to protect the environment SUN and defend human rights. SUN SUN EJF works to: SUN SUN Listen to Benedict's appeal for the Environmental Justice SUN Foundation (EJF), to find out how EJF works with fishermen SUN like Jean-Marie (pictured above) to capture evidence to SUN combat illegal pirate fishing. SUN Jean-Marie is an artisanal fisherman from the town of Grand SUN Lahou in Ivory Coast. He is one of many fishermen across SUN West Africa reporting dramatic declines in the size and SUN quantity of fish being caught due to the presence of foreign SUN trawlers carrying out Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated SUN (IUU) or pirate fishing. SUN Credit: Photograph copyright Environmental Justice SUN Foundation (EJF) SUN SUN Working with local communities SUN SUN Fishers unload their catch at Grand Bassam in Ivory Coast. SUN Some of the fish landed here are transported to the main SUN city, Abidjan, but most will be sold locally to feed local SUN families. 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SUN Credit: Photograph copyright Environmental Justice SUN Foundation (EJF) SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b054p6m0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b054p6m2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b054p998 (Listen) SUN In God's Hands: We Worship a God in Favour of the Powerless SUN and Despised SUN SUN 'We worship a God in favour of the powerless and despised' - SUN Dr Rowan Williams, Chair of Christian Aid, preaches for the SUN third in a series of Lent services based on this year's SUN Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book - Desmond Tutu's 'In SUN God's hands' and exploring what it means to be made in God's SUN image. Seventy Years ago out of the ashes of World War II, SUN churches across the UK came together to work for a better SUN world. From this a renewed sense of Christian responsibility SUN was born. Led by the Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe from Emmanuel SUN Church, Didsbury in Manchester. Director of Music: Andrew SUN Earis. Producer: Katharine Longworth. Lent resources for SUN individuals and groups complementing the programmes are SUN available on the Sunday Worship web pages. SUN SUN Emmanuel Church, Didsbury 08/03/2015 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4. Our preacher on Sunday Worship now is Dr Rowan SUN Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and Chair of SUN Christian Aid. This morning’s service comes live from SUN Emmanuel Church, Didsbury in Manchester, and begins with a SUN setting by James Whitbourne of words by Desmond Tutu, voiced SUN by the leader of today’s service, the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. SUN SUN MUSIC 1: Whitbourne – A Prayer of Desmond Tutu – Choir (with SUN speech and bongos) SUN SUN Goodness is stronger than evil; SUN love is stronger than hate; SUN light is stronger than darkness; SUN life is stronger than death. SUN Victory is ours through him who loved us. SUN SUN Speech – KT SUN Good morning. SUN Seventy years ago, at the end of World War Two, much of SUN Europe lay in ruins, and a massive refugee crisis demanded SUN action. The churches came together in new ways to respond to SUN the plight of those suffering and to work for a better world SUN in the future. Those months were probably a key turning SUN point in Christian witness and practice in these islands. SUN SUN The words of Desmond Tutu we’ve just heard set our theme for SUN today ‘we worship a God in favour of the powerless and SUN despised.’ For God has a bias towards the powerless, poor SUN and suffering of our world. Many of the humanitarian SUN agencies and organisations we know well now have their roots SUN in that time. People then prayed for God’s help in the face SUN of overwhelming need. We join in prayer now too: SUN SUN Speech: Prayer – Reader SUN SUN God of love, SUN you stood beside your people at the end of war, SUN and held them while they looked at the world that was left. SUN We are privileged to stand with you now, SUN after seventy years, and to look back at what they saw. SUN SUN They saw then SUN the depths of human cruelty and suffering, SUN and heard the call of your Son SUN to love not only neighbour but even enemy. SUN SUN We rejoice that there were people then SUN who recognised your irresistible love for any who suffer, SUN for the refugees and the broken, for the lost and the SUN hungry, SUN and encouraged others to answer your call. SUN As we know the strength of your love with us today, SUN and as we lift voices and hearts in praise, SUN may we be stirred once more to love both our neighbours SUN and our enemies, that your will may be done. SUN SUN The Lord’s Prayer SUN SUN Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy SUN kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our SUN trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And SUN lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For SUN thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and SUN ever. Amen. SUN SUN Speech – KT SUN SUN As World War Two ended many people had lost not just loved SUN ones and homes but their hopes and dreams too. Bomb sites, SUN rubble and rationing would last for years to come. The scars SUN left on family relationships, on people’s bodies and minds, SUN were less visible but just as real. SUN SUN As accounts began emerging of what had happened during the SUN war, the toll of misery mounted. People were shaken by SUN stories from the concentration camps. If they tried to take SUN in the whole picture of continued suffering in Europe they SUN could easily have been overwhelmed. SUN SUN How amazing, then, that some in the Churches not only faced SUN this desperate crisis but also responded to it, including as SUN they did so the needs of those in countries which were SUN former enemies. We sing the hymn: ‘There’s a wideness in SUN God’s mercy’. SUN MUSIC 2: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy – congregation SUN Tune: Coverdale SUN Speech: Reading - Female SUN SUN Genesis 1:26-27 (NRSV) SUN 26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, SUN according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over SUN the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over SUN the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the wild SUN animals of the earth.” 27 So God created humankind in his SUN image, in the image of God he created them; male and female SUN he created them. SUN SUN Speech - KT SUN SUN These verses powerfully remind us that all people are made SUN in the image of God. It was the total denial of this truth SUN that allowed people to dehumanise others, and to kill them SUN in millions. At the end of the war many people in the SUN churches, and beyond them, re-emphasised the peril of SUN forgetting that we are all made in the image of God. They SUN acted on the basis of their firm conviction that all people, SUN without exception, have inherent dignity and worth. SUN SUN In May 1945 the leaders of all the main churches asked that SUN on the Sunday after VE Day Christians should resist SUN celebrating a victory and instead donate what they could to SUN help reconstruct Europe. More than £3 million in today’s SUN money was raised that week-end. SUN Christians formed organisations such as Sword of the Spirit, SUN the Ecumenical Refugee Commission, the Oxford Committee for SUN Famine Relief and Christian Aid, which is commemorating its SUN 70th anniversary this year. Later they helped to create SUN Voluntary Service Overseas, the World Development Movement SUN and the Disasters Emergency Committee. SUN SUN Seventy years ago people who had suffered much themselves, SUN and who had few resources, raised their eyes from their own SUN needs and resolved to help create a better future – with SUN remarkable generosity and energy. They didn’t want to repeat SUN the mistakes made after the first world war. Rather than SUN punishing the defeated by reparations they found ways to SUN ‘love even their enemies’ and tried to build a true peace. SUN Here is a story of one such act of courage and compassion, SUN told in the words of a Scottish chaplain in Germany, Douglas SUN Lister. SUN SUN Speech – SW Douglas Lister Reading 2’16” (read by Robin SUN Laing) SUN SUN [From: The Luneburg Story by Douglas Lister published by Wm SUN Culross and SonLtd, 2003] SUN SUN Music 3: When I needed a Neighbour - Choir SUN Speech - KT SUN SUN Sydney Carter’s When I needed a Neighbour arranged by Barry SUN Rose, sung today by the Ad Solem, the Chamber Choir of the SUN University of Manchester, who are directed this morning by SUN Andrew Earis. SUN SUN It’s impossible for us to understand completely now what it SUN was like to come through six years of war, what people SUN dreamed of for the future and what it was like to be a part SUN of the church then. Anne Booth-Clibborn has vivid memories SUN from that time. SUN SUN Speech - Anne Booth-Clibborn: SUN SUN When the war ended in 1945 I was a 19 year old army SUN ambulance driver in London SUN For 18 months I had been driving through the destruction in SUN the East end of London – often with the reality of the SUN explosion of ‘doodle bugs’ [pilot less planes] SUN SUN A month later I was a staff car driver in occupied Germany, SUN and nothing had prepared me for the devastation I saw. SUN Mile upon mile through the Ruhr without a roof on a SUN building; bridges blown; Hamburg where more bombs had been SUN dropped in one weekend than in London over months; the SUN roads and railways clogged with refugees; the opening of the SUN concentration camps, the collapse of the currency and people SUN bartering for food with cigarettes. SUN SUN For our safety we were surrounded by barbed wire, and one SUN day an elderly German woman, grey with hunger, beckoned to SUN me and handed me a small German New Testament. We had no SUN common language but I gave her an English New Testament. A SUN vivid reminder to me that the Confessing Church had opposed SUN Hitler at the risk of their lives, and that the great German SUN pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who had visited SUN my cousin in Scotland before the war, had been executed for SUN trying to get rid of Hitler. SUN SUN In 1946 I was sent from Germany to march in the Victory SUN Parade in London, with representatives from all the Allied SUN nations. Afterwards in a train to Cambridge a violent SUN argument broke out over help being given to the Germans when SUN we were still rationed. Having seen the scale of SUN suffering, I was glad the churches were playing a leading SUN role in sharing what we had - even with our former enemies. SUN SUN This experience of the churches working together to respond SUN to human need- wherever it is - has stayed with me all my SUN life. SUN SUN Speech - KT SUN SUN Seventy years ago, Christians were motivated both by the SUN needs they saw around them and by their Christian faith. SUN They were transformed by the God whose image is to be found SUN in everyone. In Jesus they could see how God blesses the SUN poor, living among and for those who are destitute, hungry SUN and longing for peace. Everyone has dignity, worth and value SUN – and God finds special significance in those we might be SUN tempted to despise or forget. SUN SUN The churches found again how Jesus declares God’s blessing SUN and bias for the poor and they stirred themselves to follow SUN him. In a few moments, former Archbishop of Canterbury, The SUN Most Revd Rowan Williams, will give the address, which was SUN recorded a few days ago. But first a reading from the Gospel SUN of Luke, Chapter 6, beginning at verse 20. SUN SUN Reading: Luke 6:20-23 SUN SUN Luke 6:20-23 Revised Standard Version (NRSV) SUN SUN Then he looked up to his disciples, and said: SUN “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of SUN God. SUN “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be SUN filled. SUN “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. SUN “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they SUN exclude you, revile you, and defame you, on account of the SUN Son of man. SUN Rejoice on that day, and leap for joy, for surely your SUN reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors SUN did to the prophets’. SUN SUN Music 4: Chilcott – The Beatitudes – Choir SUN Sermon: SW Rowan Williams sermon 6’49” SUN SUN ‘I’m going to let you into a secret’, says Jesus: ‘you SUN think you know who matters to God and why – but the secret SUN is that the one who are blessed, the ones who are in tune SUN with God’s will and God’s world, they’re the ones you don’t SUN expect.’ When Jesus spells out who is ‘blessed’ in his SUN great address to the crowd of friends and followers and all SUN the curious people who’ve travelled from all over the region SUN to listen to him, we should think of him as lifting the veil SUN for a moment on a truth we still find pretty difficult. SUN It’s not a moral or political program that he outlines, it’s SUN a glimpse of reality. And, as the poet said, ‘humankind SUN cannot bear very much reality.’ SUN SUN Jesus lets us into the secret that God sees things SUN differently from us. Sounds obvious when you put it like SUN that – but it’s very far from obvious if you look at the SUN ways we usually do things and fix priorities as individuals SUN or as whole societies. And what we’re asked to do as SUN believers is to see freshly – to see people as God sees SUN them, and then to work out what actions follow. SUN At the end of the Second World War, the people we remember SUN today, people like Douglas Lister, whose story we heard SUN earlier, saw things. They saw unspeakably terrible things SUN when the death camps were discovered in Auschwitz and SUN elsewhere. They saw what happened when a whole race was SUN written out of human fellowship and sympathy in the attempt SUN to exterminate the Jews – and the Roma as well; when people SUN with disabilities or unacceptable views or unacceptable SUN sexuality were relegated to the category of subhumans. They SUN saw the results of generations of lazy prejudice and SUN contempt transformed into mass murder. SUN SUN They saw the sheer facts of suffering in the wake of war: a SUN devastated Germany betrayed by its rulers; unprecedented SUN numbers of refugees, families left stranded on the stony SUN shore as the tide of war retreated, children who seemed to SUN have no future. SUN They saw and they responded. But they didn’t just see a lot SUN of poor suffering victims who needed help from prosperous SUN and generous people. They saw men, women and children who SUN needed above all to have their dignity recognised when SUN everything had been working against it. After many years in SUN which human dignity had been so drastically undermined – by SUN legal discrimination, in the camps, in mass bombing SUN campaigns, in the often heartless shifting around of SUN populations because of new political settlements – those we SUN remember today resolved to set a new standard, to give the SUN suffering, the hungry, the forgotten and displaced, the SUN honour and significance they deserved just because they were SUN human. They saw for a wonderful and grace-filled moment SUN with God’s eyes. SUN SUN When we talk of men and women being made in God’s image, we SUN don’t just mean that men and women have a few things in SUN common with God. Perhaps it helps to think of the image we SUN see when we look into a mirror. It’s there because we’re SUN there, looking at it. And so when God makes human beings SUN ‘in his image’, he looks at what he’s making and sees his SUN own beauty and generosity reflected back to him. When he SUN looks at us and we look back, that’s when the secret becomes SUN clear: he asks us to mirror him, to reflect the way he acts SUN and the way he sees. SUN SUN So when we look away from God, we stop seeing things or SUN people truthfully. We see them as if they had nothing to do SUN with God - because we’ve cut ourselves off from God. We see SUN them as raw material for our projects and ambitions; we SUN don’t see the dignity and the beauty. And St Paul has a SUN wonderful phrase about how when we turn to God, the veil is SUN removed from our own faces: we discover who we are; and so SUN we discover who and what everything and everyone else is in SUN the light of God. SUN SUN Jesus invites us to look – to see him and then so to see SUN everything else in his light. That’s when we begin to see SUN each other properly. We see others as called into the same SUN adventure we’re called to, capable of love and generosity. SUN Nothing wrong with talking about enterprise and initiative SUN here – we don’t want other people to be there just so that SUN we can Do Good to them (you remember the old joke – ‘If SUN we’re put on earth to do good to other people, what on earth SUN are the other people for?’). The vision that inspired the SUN Sword of the Spirit, Christian Aid, the Ecumenical Refugee SUN Commission, Oxfam and many other groups during and after the SUN war was more demanding. It was the vision of helping the SUN poor and forgotten to take their proper place again as SUN partners in the great work of humanising the world and SUN guaranteeing the well-being of all. SUN SUN That’s the vision to which we’re being asked to commit SUN ourselves again today. But it’s a vision; it means we need SUN to learn to see better, to see where prejudice and SUN thoughtless indifference today may lead us to turn away from SUN the face of God and start seeing the world falsely. To see SUN better we need a bit of sitting still, looking again into SUN the face of God so that the veil of ignorance and sin can SUN fall away for a moment. And from this comes the energy to SUN work for a time when others will have the freedom to do what SUN they were created to do – to show God’s action and God’s SUN joy, living out their human dignity to the full in giving SUN nurture and love to each other. SUN SUN Jesus reminds us not only that seeing like this isn’t easy SUN but that isn’t popular either. A lot of the world – well, SUN actually, a lot inside each one of us – will be frightened SUN and resentful at the idea that we can’t see straight, that SUN there is a great secret we’re missing, a secret we can only SUN discover when we stop hoarding our resources and our SUN prejudices and our fears. But don’t be paralysed by this, SUN says the Lord: you know just a little of what it is to look SUN into the face of God. You know what it is to see reality, SUN instead of the fictions we make to keep ourselves safe and SUN warm. What our predecessors at the end of the war SUN discovered was both the horror of a world where people have SUN surrendered to poisonous falsehoods about what human beings SUN are – and the unexpected, poignant truth of the immeasurable SUN dignity that is half-hidden in every human face, even or SUN especially the most powerless and abused. And once you see SUN these things, the world starts changing. SUN SUN Stop, look, listen – that was the advice schoolchildren were SUN given in my childhood for crossing a road. It’s good advice SUN for all of us today. Pause to let go of the anxieties and SUN obsession and fears; look at the faces of God’s children, SUN God’s images; listen to the voice calling you to set God’s SUN children free. Then cross over to the new creation, the SUN Kingdom of God that belongs to the poor. SUN SUN Music 5 : Jesus Christ is waiting - congregation SUN TUNE: Noel Nouvelet SUN SUN ©1988 WGRG, Iona Community, Govan, Glasgow G51 3UU, SUN Scotland SUN SUN Speech - KT SUN SUN As we pray for the world, we remember the seventieth SUN anniversary of Anne Frank’s death in Bergen-Belsen, sometime SUN in March 1945. Her diary, and her testimony, speak deeply of SUN our shared humanity and the sense that ‘this must not happen SUN again’. SUN SUN Following our prayers we hear music from ‘Annalies’, James SUN Whitbourne’s setting of passages from the writings of Anne SUN Frank. SUN SUN Speech – Prayer 1 SUN SUN We give thanks, O God, SUN for those who, seventy years ago, SUN became servants of their neighbours, SUN and found ways to restore SUN a world wounded by war. SUN We celebrate those who today SUN give, act and pray, SUN in charity that seeks justice SUN inspired by faith SUN in your unconditional love. SUN Music - Kyrie SUN SUN Speech - Prayer 2 SUN SUN We pray for all the agencies SUN whose stories began at the end of war, SUN and whose work continues still. SUN May they go on being inspired SUN by the blessings you promised to the poor. SUN Strengthen all who reveal the causes of poverty, SUN and those who bring humanitarian aid, SUN or advocate and promote development goals, SUN and campaign for justice and a renewed earth. SUN SUN Music - Kyrie SUN SUN Speech – Prayer 3 SUN SUN We pray for those who live in poverty now, SUN and for whom war still rages. SUN In our unequal world, SUN let us never forget the scandal of poverty, SUN or tire in the task of ending it. SUN Let the powerless find their strength SUN and those wounded by violence rise to a new day. SUN Give all your people joy together, SUN as neighbours together in creation. SUN SUN Music - Kyrie SUN SUN Speech – Prayer 4 SUN SUN We give thanks for those who respond SUN when help is asked for; SUN who collect money or rally for a cause, SUN who pray and speak and protest, SUN For generous people responding to your generous love, SUN for seventy years of giving, campaigning and praying, SUN and for the promise and hope of a new future, we give SUN thanks. SUN SUN Music 6: James Whitbourne – Annalies - Choir SUN SUN Speech- KT SUN SUN We have celebrated the resource sharing, reconciliation and SUN reconstruction that happened because of so many people of SUN faith seventy years ago. As we look around at our own world, SUN we acknowledge with regret the evidence of renewed SUN destruction – the rubble of communities – in Ukraine, in SUN Syria, in South Sudan and many other places. SUN SUN In the face of such brokenness our continued need for God – SUN and for courage and hope to respond to suffering – take us SUN forward into God’s future. SUN SUN Music 7: Beauty for brokenness SUN Graham Kendrick (b. 1950 SUN Speech: Blessing - KT SUN SUN God of all creation, renew us in your image. SUN Jesus Christ, may we see your face in friend and stranger. SUN Holy Spirit, set our hearts on fire with your love, SUN that, through you, the life of the world SUN may truly be transformed. SUN AMEN. SUN SUN Music 8: ORGAN: Voluntary - Nun Danket Alle Gott - Sigfrid SUN Karg-Elert SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0544070 (Listen) SUN The Nature of Time SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the unsettling nature of time. "What SUN gives our human cultures any sense of cohesion at all is an SUN almost relentless effort to shore up our collective memory SUN of the past against the remorseless depredations of time." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03thsbj (Listen) SUN Dunnock 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 John Aitchison presents the dunnock. You'll often see SUN dunnocks, or hedge sparrows, as they were once called, SUN shuffling around under a bird table or at the bottom of a SUN hedge. They're inconspicuous birds being mostly brown with a SUN greyish neck and breast. They aren't, as you might imagine, SUN closely related to sparrows, many of their nearest relatives SUN are birds of mountainous regions in Europe and Asia. SUN SUN Dunnock (Prunella modularis) SUN Webpage image is courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b054p99p (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 b054pbb1 (Listen) SUN It is busy at St Stephen's and Grey Gables. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b054pbb3 (Listen) SUN Bryan Stevenson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's guest this week is Bryan Stevenson. SUN SUN An American lawyer, he is the founder and executive director SUN of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, not-for-profit SUN organisation working on death penalty cases, cases of SUN children sentenced as adults, prison and sentencing reform, SUN and issues of race and poverty. SUN SUN His great grandparents were slaves and he himself went to a SUN segregated school in southern Delaware. Although from a poor SUN African American background he made it to Harvard Law SUN School. Since then he has secured relief for over a hundred SUN prisoners sentenced to death. He has argued in front of the SUN Supreme Court six times and won landmark rulings about the SUN sentencing of children for both homicide and non-homicide SUN offences. His TED talk from March 2012 has been viewed over SUN two million times. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Bryan Stevenson SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b054p6m4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b0540h05 (Listen) SUN Series 71, Episode 4 SUN SUN Radio 4's classic panel game, in which the contestants are SUN challenged to speak on a given subject for a minute without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton, Paul Merton and The Infinite SUN Monkey Cage's Robin Ince are trying their hand at the game SUN under the watchful eye of Nicholas Parsons. Although none of SUN them seem to know very much about Marco Polo... SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Graham Norton SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Robin Ince SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b054pbb5 (Listen) SUN Reconsider the Oyster! SUN SUN Oysters are receiving renewed attention around the world, SUN with new ideas for producing more, and eating more. Dan SUN Saladino finds out what's driving this oyster enthusiasm. SUN SUN As Drew Smith, author of Oyster: A World History explains, SUN "they oyster is older than us, they're older than grass, SUN they go back into pre-history and it's quite mind boggling SUN how we've forgotten we really survive on this planet because SUN of oysters". SUN SUN From discoveries of middens (piles of oyster shells left by SUN our ancesters) through to tales of the Victorian Britain's SUN enoromous appetite for the oyster, Dan hears the evidence of SUN why we used to have a much more intimate relationship with SUN the bivalve. SUN SUN Overfishing, disease and parasites turned something that was SUN abundant into a rarity a century ago, but now people around SUN the world are making an effort to bring the oyster back into SUN mainstream. SUN SUN In Denmark, where there still is an abunance of oysters in SUN their waters, a national park along the Wadden Sea, on the SUN north west coast of Denmark has started to encourage people SUN to wade in the water and gather as many oysters as they can SUN carry and eat. It's hoped the experience will help people SUN understand the oyster more and also fight to protect the SUN environment it lives in. SUN SUN Meanwhile on the British Isles the oyster is seeing interest SUN from brewers and shellfish farmers alike, all convinced we SUN need to reconsider how delicious and import the animal has SUN been in our food culture. SUN SUN In New York, the most ambitious oyster mission of all is SUN underway, the "billion oyster project", an effort to return SUN the oyster to New York City's harbour, once a breeding SUN ground for trillions of oysters. SUN SUN Listen to the programme and hear why these efforts are SUN underway, and why a gold speckled jar of marmite could be SUN the oysters' best friend. SUN SUN Produced and presented by Dan Saladino. SUN SUN A Beginner's Guide to the Oyster SUN Listen here to Drew Smith's guide to cooking and eating SUN oysters. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b054p6m6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b054pbb7 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Business of Film with Mark Kermode b054pbwz (Listen) SUN The Business of Showing SUN SUN In this final programme, Mark Kermode considers the business SUN of showing films. The route from script to finance to screen SUN can be a long one - but then it all comes down to one SUN nervous opening weekend. SUN Marketing may convince us of a film's merit but, one comment SUN on social media can ruin even the most inventive campaign. SUN SUN Film festivals are vital for launching a film. The Autumn SUN festival season is where artistic creators battle for the SUN first showing of the most talked about films. For many SUN independent film makers exposure through awards is seen as a SUN crucial - or perhaps only - means of survival. The artistic SUN director of the Toronto Film festival reveals how film SUN makers plead with him to admit their films. SUN SUN The decline in DVD sales has led to nearly a halving of SUN studio profits. Vincent Bruzzese runs a research SUN entertainment firm and believes there is a disconnect SUN between the film makers and the audience. By analysing data, SUN it's possible to work out why a certain scene works. Hit on SUN certain story tropes and a film will do well. SUN SUN Netflix and Amazon's are all about giving customers what SUN they want. Their algorithms are set to challenge the SUN studios' dominance. How long is it until the streaming SUN services become major studios themselves? SUN Meanwhile, the growth of cinema multiplexes have paved the SUN way for boutique cinemas and the notion of the film as an SUN event. Audiences today are engaging with films in very SUN different ways, so how do UK cinemas make most of their SUN money? SUN SUN Producers: Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones SUN A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0543yj9 (Listen) SUN Wellesbourne, Warwickshire SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme SUN programme from the Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. Chris SUN Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden answer SUN questions from an audience of local gardeners. SUN SUN Christine visits a 170 year old allotment to find out what SUN the current custodians are up to now that spring is upon us. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This Week's Questions SUN Q. Do the panel have any planting suggestions to celebrate a SUN ruby wedding anniversary in August? SUN SUN A. Pippa – Try the Hebe called Ruby Mound. It will provide SUN you with longevity. SUN SUN Christine - Astrantia Ruby Wedding has lovely claret SUN –coloured flowers. There will also be ruby varieties of SUN Echinacea, Gladioli and Dalias. There are many red varieties SUN of Lettuce. SUN SUN Chris - Allium sphaerocephalon is later flowering. You can SUN plant them very densely because the foliage dies back before SUN the plant is in full bloom. SUN Q. Are the leaves on my Privet hedge supposed to fall off SUN over winter? SUN SUN A. Chris- There are several species of Ligustrum. Ligustrum SUN vulgare is the British native. It keeps a green appearance SUN on the outside but the inner branches do defoliate. The SUN leaves are the size of a twenty pence piece and are matt in SUN appearance. The Japanese variety is much more lush all year SUN round and has larger waxy leaves. SUN Q. I am moving house and would like to take my Aliums with SUN me. Will they survive if I transfer them into pots? SUN SUN A. Pippa – You may get setback but they will come back in SUN later years. Aliums do better in open ground but can survive SUN in containers if they have adequate drainage and fertility. SUN SUN Chris - I would remove any signs of flowering. The bulb is SUN very vulnerable when disturbed and you don’t want it to SUN waste energy. You will then get fantastic flowering next SUN year. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b054pfn5 (Listen) SUN The importance of posture, teenage romance becoming adult SUN love, and which box to tick when you are gender-queer are SUN discussed in conversations from Birmingham, Cumbria and SUN London, as Fi Glover presents the Omnibus edition of the SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN 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 b054pfn7 (Listen) SUN John Gabriel Borkman, Episode 1 SUN SUN Henrik Ibsen's rarely-performed but all-too-pertinent play SUN about the dangerous pursuit of power. A new production from SUN a version by David Eldridge. SUN SUN Part 1. SUN SUN David Threlfall stars as John Gabriel Borkman, a disgraced SUN banker now destitute after a fraud scandal and imprisonment. SUN Whilst trapped in his own home like a wolf in a cage, the SUN living ghosts of his past wrestle to determine his future. SUN SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN John Gabriel Borkman: David Threlfall SUN Miss Ella Rentheim: Susannah Harker SUN Mrs Gunhild Borkman: Gillian Bevan SUN Vilhelm Foldal: Philip Jackson SUN Erhart Borkman: Luke Newberry SUN Mrs Fanny Wilton: Jenny Rainsford SUN Malene: Claire Cage SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN Author: Henrik Ibsen SUN Adaptor: David Eldridge SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b054pfn9 (Listen) SUN Robert Macfarlane on his new book Landmarks SUN SUN Award winning travel and nature writer Robert Macfarlane SUN discusses his latest book, which celebrates the language of SUN our landscape. He talks to Mariella about why this is his SUN most argumentative book yet, about his admiration for the SUN writer Nan Shepherd and why he hopes that words like SUN 'conker' and 'acorn' don't fall out of use. SUN SUN The Danish writer Dorthe Nors sends Open Book a literary SUN postcard from the west coast of Denmark, where minimalism is SUN 'hot'; and novelist Sarah Bannan and critic Suzi Feay SUN discuss bullying in literature - from the cruel words of SUN Emma to Miss Bates, up to Sarah's book Breathless which SUN explores the dreadful impact of cyber bullying on one young SUN student. SUN SUN And voices in their heads - how novelists hear their SUN characters. SUN SUN Read the opening pages of 'Landmarks' by Robert Macfarlane SUN Opening pages of 'Landmarks' SUN by Robert Macfarlane SUN SUN Booklist SUN Landmarks SUN by Robert Macfarlane SUN Weightless SUN by Sarah Bannan SUN Karate Chop SUN by Dorthe Nors SUN Minna Needs Rehearsal Space SUN by Dorthe Nors SUN Myslexia Magazine SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Macfarlane SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b054pfnc (Listen) SUN Shakespeare's Sonnets SUN SUN Roger McGough with a selection of Shakespeare's passionate, SUN jealous and lustful sonnets read in new and archive SUN recordings by some favourite Poetry Please actors. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Sonnet nos: SUN SUN 2, 18, 25, 27, 29, 30, 45, 49, 60, 65, 71, 73, 91, 94, 97, SUN 104, 113, 114, 116, 130, 138 and 141 SUN SUN By William Shakespeare SUN SUN Taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnets SUN SUN Published by Duckworth Overlook SUN SUN And SUN SUN The Sonnets – William Shakespeare SUN SUN Published by Everyman SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 Woman's Hour b054yklg (Listen) SUN The Woman's Hour Debate: Can Porn Empower Women? SUN SUN Can porn empower women? Can it liberate, celebrate or SUN enhance or does it enslave, debase or corrupt? Jane Garvey SUN hosts a debate at the Women of the World Festival at the SUN Southbank Centre in London. Guests include artist, activist SUN and erotic emporium founder Sam Roddick; feminist porn SUN performer and producer Pandora Blake; Dr Heather SUN Brunskell-Evans, who researches and writes about pornography SUN at the University of Leicester and is a founder member of SUN Resist Porn Culture; and Clarissa Smith, Professor of Sexual SUN Cultures at Sunderland University and a member of Onscenity SUN . SUN SUN Presenter: Jane Garvey SUN Producer: Claire Bartleet. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jane Garvey SUN Interviewed Guest: Sam Roddick SUN Interviewed Guest: Pandora Blake SUN Interviewed Guest: Heather Brunskell-Evans SUN Interviewed Guest: Clarissa Smith SUN Producer: Claire Bartleet SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b054gxpl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b054p6mc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b054p6mf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b054p6mh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b054pfx4 (Listen) SUN Caz Graham SUN SUN There's some very angry people in this week's Pick of the SUN Week. Joan Rivers, Jeremy Paxman and James Baldwin, spitting SUN mad, the lot of them, but we've music from the harmonica SUN capital of the world and Bjork to sooth the troubled soul. SUN There's the Spy who came in from Al Qaeda, Billy Bragg's in SUN the north east in pursuit of the granddaddy of protest SUN songs, we're foraging for oysters in Jutland and hearing how SUN hobbits may be the ones to save the world. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b054pfx6 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01l1dl0 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN SUN John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, SUN regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things SUN like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his SUN hit sketch show. SUN SUN The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by SUN The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny SUN sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It SUN featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive SUN relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people SUN who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr SUN Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. SUN SUN This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it SUN does feature an awkward celestial relationship, surprisingly SUN easy contract negotiations, and a trailer for a film about SUN the only mode of transport that hasn't had a film made about SUN it yet. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SUN John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, SUN Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced SUN by Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts b054ph5d (Listen) SUN New Writing from Africa, A Tranquil Mind 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 In The Tranquil Minds by the Zimbabwean author Tonderai SUN Munyevu, a recently widowed therapist prepares to return to SUN work. SUN SUN Tonderai Munyevu was brought up in Zimbabwe. This is his SUN first story to be broadcast on radio. SUN SUN Reader: Adjoa Andoh 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 Writer: Tonderai Munyevu SUN Reader: Adjoa Andoh SUN Director: Jill Waters SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0543yjh (Listen) SUN Is there a formula to successful comedy on Radio 4? Before SUN leaving her post as Commissioning Editor of Comedy on Radio SUN 4 and 4Extra, Caroline Raphael talks about her 17 years in SUN the job and reveals which hugely successful comedy almost SUN didn't make it to air because the Controller of Radio 4 at SUN the time turned it down. SUN SUN Also, the debate over the licence fee has been ignited by a SUN report from the Commons Media Select Committee. It suggests SUN replacing the licence fee with a universal levy for all SUN households. Listeners are divided over the issue and Steven SUN Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of SUN Westminster in London breaks down the pros and cons of the SUN different ways the BBC might be funded in the future. SUN SUN And on New Year's Day, a number of listeners were dismayed SUN by their favourite Radio 4 programmes being moved to long SUN wave to accommodate ten hours of War and Peace. Partly, they SUN were concerned about the reception quality on long wave. SUN This prompted vintage radio aficionado Sean Stevens to get SUN in touch to set the record straight about what he sees as SUN the joys of long wave. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0543yjf (Listen) SUN Yasar Kemal, Maureen Guy, Professor Oliver Rackham, Sir Noel SUN Davies, Leonard Nimoy SUN SUN Andrea Catherwood tells the life stories of international SUN author and master of Turkish storytelling Yasar Kemal, SUN Maureen Guy the Welsh opera singer who performed at Prince SUN Charles' investiture, environmental historian Professor SUN Oliver Rackham, Sir Noel Davies, the engineer who built SUN Britain's fleet of Trident nuclear submarines and Leonard SUN Nimoy the actor better know simply as "Spock". SUN SUN Yaşar Kemal SUN SUN Andrea spoke to Mehmet Ergen, cultural commentator and SUN artistic director of the Arcola Theatre and to novelist Kaya SUN Genç who is a contributing editor to Index on Censorship. SUN SUN Born 6 October 1923; died 28 February 2015 aged 91. SUN SUN Maureen Guy SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her husband John Mitchinson and to Sir SUN John Tooley SUN former director of the Royal Opera who was secretary of the SUN Guildhall School of Music when she studied there. SUN SUN Born 10 July 1932; died 14 February 2015 aged 82. SUN SUN Professor Oliver Rackham SUN SUN Andrea spoke to ecologist Professor Peter Grubb of Cambridge SUN University who knew Oliver as a student, and to fellow SUN conservationist and friend Louise Bacon. SUN SUN Born 17 October 1939; died 12 February 2015 aged 75. SUN SUN Sir Noel Davies SUN SUN Andrea spoke to his son, Roger Davies and to his colleague SUN at VSEL, Peter Martin. SUN SUN Born 2 December 1933; died 10 February 2015 aged 81. SUN SUN Leonard Nimoy (pictured) SUN SUN Film writer Matthew Sweet pays tribute. SUN SUN Born 26 March 1931; died 27 February 2015 aged 83. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Andrea Catherwood SUN Interviewed Guest: Mehmet Ergen SUN Interviewed Guest: Kaya Genc SUN Interviewed Guest: John Mitchinson SUN Interviewed Guest: John Tooley SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Grubb SUN Interviewed Guest: Louise Bacon SUN Interviewed Guest: Roger Davies SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Martin SUN Interviewed Guest: Matthew Sweet SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b054gnrk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b054p996 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0540h85 (Listen) SUN When Robots Steal Our Jobs SUN SUN Technology has been replacing manufacturing jobs for years. SUN Is the same about to happen to white-collar work? Will new SUN faster, smarter computers start destroying more jobs than SUN they create? SUN SUN Technologists and economists are now arguing that we are SUN approaching a turning point, where professional jobs are SUN becoming automated, leaving less and less work for humans to SUN do. David Baker investigates the evidence and asks what this SUN means for society, the individual and equality. SUN Producer: Charlotte McDonald. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b054ph5g (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b054ph5j (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05435sl (Listen) SUN Chappie, Short films, Final films, Neil Brand on Morricone SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Neill Blomkamp, the creator of science fiction satire SUN Chappie, tell us why we should learn to stop worrying and SUN love Artificial Intelligence. SUN SUN Neil Brand reveals why the spaghetti western would not have SUN been the same without Ennio Morricone's memorable scores. SUN SUN BAFTA winner Daisy Jacobs discusses her short film The SUN Bigger Picture which combines animation, stop-motion, papier SUN mache pigs and her mum's kitchen table. SUN SUN As Life Of Riley, the final film from auteur Alain Resnais, SUN is released in cinemas, critic Jonathan Romney considers the SUN last works of other great directors. SUN SUN BAFTA Shorts Tour SUN Click SUN here SUN for details of the BAFTA Shorts Tour. Image: The Bigger SUN Picture, Daisy Jacobs. BAFTA British Short Animation SUN nominee. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Neill Blomkamp SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Interviewed Guest: Daisy Jacobs SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Romney SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b054p93x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 MARCH 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b054p6np (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05417l9 (Listen) MON Commercial Surrogacy in India, Money MON MON Wombs for Sale: commercial surrogacy in India & beyond. MON Couples from all over the world can now hire Indian women to MON bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy MON elsewhere. Laurie Taylor talks to Amrita Pande, Senior MON Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cape Town, and MON author of a detailed study into a burgeoning business which MON has little or no government regulation. She talked to MON surrogates, their families, clients, doctors and brokers to MON capture the full mechanics of a labour regime rooted in MON global gender & economic inequality. They're joined by MON Michal Nahman, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the MON University of the West of England, who has studied MON reproductive tourism. MON MON Also, the transformation of money in the post crisis world. MON Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology at the London School of MON Economics and Political Science, highlights the MON proliferation of new forms and systems of money, from local MON currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. MON Why has our understanding of money failed to keep pace with MON these changes? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Amrita Pande MON MON Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Cape MON Town MON MON Find out more about MON Amrita Pande MON MON *Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India MON *Publisher: Columbia University Press MON ISBN-10: 0231169914 MON ISBN-13: 978-0231169912 MON MON Michal Nahman MON MON Senior Lecturer, Department of Health and Social Sciences, MON University of the West of England MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Michal Nahman MON MON *Extractions: An ethnography of reproductive tourism MON *Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan MON ISBN-10: 0230319297 MON ISBN-13: 978-0230319295 MON MON Nigel Dodd MON MON Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics MON MON Find out more about MON Nigel Dodd MON MON *The Social Life of Money MON *Publisher: Princeton University Press MON ISBN-10: 0691141428 MON ISBN-13: 978-0691141428 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b054p93v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b054p6nr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b054p6nt (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b054p6nw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b054p6ny (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0552c0h (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. MON MON The Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason MON MON Good morning. Today I'm thinking about Thilaka. I've never MON seen anyone handle a power-drill with her speed and MON precision. Mind you, there was a moment when she pulled it MON on me with the speed of a gunslinger. MON MON Thilaka and I had no language in common so the drill was MON helping her make a point. She wanted me to know how a MON development loan, tiny by our standards, had changed her MON life. MON MON Thilaka had not been married long when a natural disaster MON killed her husband leaving her with a young son. She was MON reduced to becoming a subsistence farmer, making enough to MON eat but little else - certainly there was no possibility of MON her son remaining at school. Thilaka also lives in a MON culture where it's almost impossible for a woman to start a MON business of her own. MON MON A charity, committed to liberating people imprisoned by MON poverty , offered her a micro-finance loan; she jumped at MON the chance. She knew that rich people liked to decorate MON their homes with arrangements of imitation flowers. She MON also had an idea. She thought of a way of making much MON larger displays than were currently available if only she MON could buy some power tools. MON MON The loan helped her to do just that. To avoid sexual MON harassment from men in the market, she made herself look as MON unattractive as possible. Then she set to work under the MON guidance of a mentor provided by the charity. MON MON Now Thilaka has repaid the loan, secured her future and her MON son is going to university. MON So, heavenly Father, defend us today from the cynicism that MON makes us think we can never make a difference. We pray for MON people we know who set their will to overcome tragedy and MON prejudice. Make us faithful in supporting them and generous MON in encouragement. Amen. MON MON MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b054phtm (Listen) MON Rural Payments Agency, Renewable Energy, Women Rural MON Entrepreneurs MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. MON MON 05:56 Weather b054p6p0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03whpln (Listen) MON St Kilda Wren MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Bill Oddie presents the St Kilda wren. The Island of St MON Kilda is not where you'd expect to see wrens but the wrens MON that sing along the cliffs of St Kilda are the same species MON as the common wren, but after 5000 years of isolation MON they've evolved a different song and are slightly larger and MON slightly paler than the mainland wrens. Bill Oddie remembers MON an encounter with the St Kilda Wren. MON MON St Kilda Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b054pj6w (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b054pj6y (Listen) MON The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe finds out what goes on MON inside the mind of a mathematician. Cédric Villani explains MON the obsession and inspiration which led him to being awarded MON the Fields Medal, 'the mathematicians' Nobel Prize' in 2010. MON Zia Haider Rahman combines pure maths, investment banking MON and human rights in his exploration of how abstract theory MON can impact on real life. Vicky Neale reveals the beauty of MON prime numbers, while the director Morgan Matthews finds love MON in his film x+y at the International Mathematics Olympiad. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Cedric Villani MON Interviewed Guest: Zia Haider Rahman MON Interviewed Guest: Vicky Neale MON Interviewed Guest: Morgan Matthews MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b054pmgr (Listen) MON Birth of a Theorem, The Most Beautiful Equation in the World MON MON Rock-star mathematician Cédric Villani's magical mystery MON tour through the world of mathematics. MON MON He describes the journey which sees him wrestling with and MON taming a new theorem that will win him the most coveted MON prize in his field. MON MON Along the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses MON of faith and even brushes with madness. His story is one of MON courage and partnership, elation and despair. MON MON His account unlocks what goes on inside the head of a MON mathematician and captures where inspiration comes from. MON Blending science with history, biography with myth, Villani MON conjures up a cast of mathematical greats including the MON omnipresent Einstein and Villani's personal hero, John Nash. MON MON Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt MON MON Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Gemma Jenkins MON MON Cédric Villani is a French mathematician who has received MON many international awards for his work. In 2010 he was MON awarded the Fields Medal, the International Medal for MON Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, for his work on MON Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. MON MON Often called 'the mathematicians' Nobel Prize', it is MON awarded every four years and is viewed by some as the MON highest honour a mathematician can achieve. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Author: Cedric Villani MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Gemma Jenkins MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b054pmgt (Listen) MON Can Porn Empower Women? MON MON In a special programme for International Women's Day Jane MON Garvey hosted the Woman's Hour debate, where guests MON discussed the motion Porn Can Empower Women. Continuing the MON conversation, Psychotherapist Philippa Perry joins Jane. If MON you would like discuss your opinions and experiences on this MON topic then the number is 03700 100 444 [the lines open at MON 8am and calls cost no more than to 01, 02 landline numbers], MON you can also tweet the show using @BBCWomansHour or send an MON email via the website, leaving a contact number. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b054pmgw (Listen) MON Ladder of Years, At the Family's Edges MON MON By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. MON MON Episode One - At The Family's Edges MON MON An unexpected romantic encounter in the grocery aisle is the MON beginning of a new adventure for homely Delia Grinstead. MON MON Director: David Hunter MON MON The story of the Novel MON MON "Delaware State Police announced early today that Cordelia MON F. Grinstead, 40, wife of a Roland Park physician, has been MON reported missing while on holiday with her family on Bethany MON Beach. A slender, small-boned woman with curly fair or light MON brown hair, Mrs. Grinstead stands 5'2" or possibly 5'5" and MON weighs either 90 or 110 pounds. Her eyes are blue or gray or MON perhaps green. " MON MON In fact, Delia has simply walked off down the beach, out of MON her own life and away from her husband, Sam, and her three MON almost grown-up children. As long as she can remember, Delia MON has been patronised, organised and taken for granted. That MON day something which had already begun to fray quietly snaps. MON In a nearby town, she buys new clothes and re-invents MON herself as a serious and independent-minded woman without MON ties. But living the fantasy that many would love to try MON does not prove so simple. MON MON An unsettling story about marriage, families and the triumph MON of hope over experience, this is ideal material for the 15' MON Drama slot . Following in the wake of her earlier classic MON tale DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT in the same slot this MON would again be brought to the listener through the MON dramatization skills of Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Rebecca is ideal MON to explore the subtle, unshowy emotional depths of Anne MON Tyler's writing and to expose the humour and pain bound up MON in this lucid portrayal of one woman's crisis. MON MON Tyler works her magic through deftly flawed characters, MON through just the right little details, through perfectly MON carved and selective dialogue and through small sharply MON related incidents. Anne Tyler is an exquisite chronicler of MON the everyday - many would say the modern-day Jane Austen. MON Her latest, eagerly awaited novel, A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD, MON has just been published. Anne Tyler has recently been MON interviewed for the World Book Programme and prominent MON articles have been featured in the press. MON MON You can hear Anne Tyler on her novel Dinner at the Homesick MON Restaurant on World Book Club Sunday 8th March at 20.05. MON MON http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003jhsk MON MON Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON At the recent OSCARS and BAFTA Awards Rebecca's MON collaboration with Pawel Pawlikowksi, IDA, was successful in MON winning the best foreign film category. MON MON HER NAKED SKIN by Rebecca Lenkiewicz was the first play to MON be performed on the Olivier stage by a living female MON playwright. THE NIGHT SEASON won the Critics Circle Theatre MON Award for Most Promising Playwright. SARAH AND KEN (Drama on MON 3) was awarded a special commendation at the 2012 BBC Audio MON Drama Awards. Other radio work includes CARAVAN OF DESIRE, MON BLUE MOON OVER POPLAR and DRACULA for the Classic serial. MON MON There is a synergy between Rebecca and Anne Tyler - a common MON precision of language, an understanding of character, a MON shared angle on the poetry of language and image and a MON similar sense of fascination with the quirky and the MON offbeat. MON MON Credits MON Delia: Nancy Crane MON Adrian: Ian Conningham MON Sam: Nathan Osgood MON Eliza: Jessica Turner MON Rosemary: Rhiannon Neads MON Skipper: David Acton MON Carroll: Sam Valentine MON Driscoll: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Susie: Roslyn Hill MON Director: David Hunter MON Author: Anne Tyler MON Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON 11:00 The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack MON b054pmgy (Listen) MON Episode 2 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 In the second programme, we follow Robert through an MON intensive two week long rehabilitation course to rejuvenate MON his left side. This is conducted by Consultant Neurologist MON Dr Nick Ward at the National Hospital for Neurology and MON Neurosurgery in London. Ward is at the cutting edge of MON neurological research, but Robert is sceptical that his MON condition can be improved when part of his brain, roughly MON the size of a lime, is dead and sending no signals to the MON rest of his body. MON MON In the process, Robert explores stroke rehabilitation more MON generally and seeks to understand more about the brain's MON "plasticity"- its capacity to find fresh neural pathways and MON repair itself. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Robert McCrum's brain scan MON Image supplied by the MON PLORAS MON research team MON MON Support Organisation 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 MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01pw5s2 (Listen) MON Series 3, Auntie's Ashes 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 Two - Auntie's Ashes MON Sandy has a solemn duty to perform, but the spot which MON Auntie chose for her last resting place is not what is was. MON Neither, for that matter, is her widowed husband Uncle MON Arthur! MON MON Sandy...........................Ronnie Corbett MON Dolores..........................Liza Tarbuck MON Blake.............................Jonathan Aris MON Mrs Pompom................. Sally Grace MON Ellie...............................Tilly Vosburgh MON Arthur.............................Paul Chapman MON Tyson............................Daniel Bridle MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b054p6p2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b054pmtm (Listen) MON 9 March 1915 - Geoffrey Marshall MON MON Some news close to home leaves Geoffrey reeling. MON MON Written by Richard Monks MON Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones MON Edgar Bates: Sam Dale MON Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham MON Leonard Proctor: Chris Garner MON Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom MON Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn MON Travers Fielding: David Acton MON Writer: Richard Monks MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b054pmtp (Listen) MON Living Longer MON MON Ever checked out the reviews for the latest app and found MON people don't rate it and are demanding refunds? Well up MON until now its been up to individual app stores to decided MON what to do. The new consumer rights bill which gets its MON final reading in the Commons this afternoon will give you MON digital rights for the first time. It is expected to get MON royal assent fairly soon after and then get enshrined in law MON in October. It simplifies and draws together a whole raft of MON consumer rights across eight different bits of legislation . MON But for the first time gives consumers rights which cover MON digital content. We talk to Jo Swinson the Consumer Affairs MON Minister MON MON Women have traditionally lived longer than men, but that may MON reverse in the next decade, and it's partly due to how we MON spend money. Find out why? MON MON Buying a car on Hire Purchase is nothing new, but how about MON paying for a car you'll never own? PCP (Personal Contract MON Purchase) means you pay a deposit and then pay monthly for MON the car - but at the end of the contract you don't own it. MON This way of buying cars is the driving force behind an MON increase in sales. 2014 sales figures were the best for a MON decade with 2.5 million new cars on the roads. Seventy six MON percent were bought on credit, and the majority of those MON were PCP sales. We look at the popular ways of owning a car. MON MON When someone dies in custody or care, an inquest is held to MON find out how it happened. MON MON There's no legal aid for bereaved families at inquests - MON unless the case is exceptional and there's a wider public MON interest at stake. Families must pay for themselves. MON MON 12:57 Weather b054p6p5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b054pmtr (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b054pn4v (Listen) MON The Medieval Period MON MON Anthropologist David Graeber examines the medieval period MON when coinage largely disappeared and money become virtual MON once again. MON MON During this period, the great popular religious movements of MON the Ancient world - Christianity, Islam in the West, MON Buddhism in Asia - became the dominant force in society. MON Religious authorities took over the management of the new MON credit systems because, during the Middle Ages, the economy MON did not, as text-books have long assumed, "revert to MON barter." What the Middle Ages really saw was the rise of an MON endless variety of credit arrangements. MON MON In the West, tally sticks were commonly used to facilitate MON credit based transactions. These were short pieces of hazel MON wood which served as a receipt for payment. The stick would MON be notched in order to indicate the amount that had been MON paid, then the stick would be split lengthways and both the MON payer and the receiver would receive one half. This was MON quite a convenient sophisticated system as they were easy to MON store and they were very hard to forge. A tally stick could MON act as a receipt for money advanced, as a receipt for a MON loan, or as evidence of a debt and could later be proffered MON in court if there was a dispute. MON MON With transactions carried out on credit, the religious MON authorities had to act in order to prevent those with the MON means to create credit from enslaving entire populations. MON Their response was to ban the charging of interest. MON MON David Graeber pays particular attention to Islamic attitudes MON towards interest and finance, revealing the surprising fact MON that Adam Smith's free market ideology was heavily MON influenced by the work of medieval Islamic scholars. MON MON Producer: Max O'Brien MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b054pfx6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b054pp3b (Listen) MON Kingdom of Cloud MON MON by Matthew Hurt MON MON Why has Daniel been sitting in a car outside his own house MON for hours? What is it he can't admit to his wife - or MON himself? An investigation of love in crisis, set against the MON backdrop of the banking crisis. MON MON Daniel ..... Neil Pearson MON Juliet ..... Anne-Marie Duff MON MON Producer/Director ..... Marion Nancarrow MON MON This new drama is a 2-hander starring Neil Pearson ("Between MON the Lines" and "Waterloo Road") and Anne-Marie Duff MON ("Shameless" and "The Virgin Queen"). MON It's Matthew Hurt's second play for radio. He's most MON recently received rave reviews for "The Man Jesus", a MON one-man show performed by Simon Callow and for his MON adaptation for the Young Vic Theatre of Conrad's "The Secret MON Agent". MON MON Credits MON Daniel: Neil Pearson MON Juliet: Anne-Marie Duff MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Matthew Hurt MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b054pp3m (Listen) MON Heat 11, 2015 MON MON (11/17) MON In the name of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, MON what does the 'hebdo' part mean? And which two cities did MON Winston Churchill cite in 1946 as the northern and southern MON end-points of the newly-created 'Iron Curtain'? MON MON The eleventh heat of radio's longest-running general MON knowledge quiz is chaired by Russell Davies. Competitors MON from London, Surrey and Bristol vie for one of the few MON remaining semi-final places, and a chance to take another MON crucial step towards the title of 62nd Brain of Britain. MON MON The Brains will also face a challenge from a listener hoping MON to defeat their combined knowledge with his or her own MON question suggestions. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b054pbb5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Man with the Mohican b054pp6c (Listen) MON One man inspired a teenage David Morrissey to become an MON actor. His name is Roger Hill. But in Liverpool, from the MON late 1970s to the early 1990s, he was known as the Man with MON the Mohican. MON MON Presenting this celebration of Roger Hill, David Morrissey MON reveals how the extraordinary Liverpool-based theatre MON director, DJ and transvestite performance artist inspires MON other artists, including actors, musicians and playwrights. MON MON Hill's period as director at the Everyman Youth Theatre MON produced an explosion of creative talent - from David MON Morrissey, Ian Hart, Kathy Tyson and Stephen McGann, to MON performance poet Gerry Potter, journalists and playwrights. MON Janice Long, who worked alongside Hill at BBC Radio MON Merseyside, refers to him as an icon and, along with former MON punk singer turned nightclub and cultural entrepreneur Jayne MON Casey, thinks of him as "Liverpool's John Peel". MON MON Roger Hill still helps shape arts policy and the next MON generation of actors, and continues to inspire as a MON performance artist. His alter ego, Mandy Romero, has MON travelled the world and was Liverpool's unofficial Queen of MON Culture in 2008. MON MON Morrissey reminisces with Hill about the long lost Mohican, MON hears from those whose careers he has helped to shape, and MON pays a personal tribute to an unsung hero of the British MON arts scene. MON MON Producer: Sue Nelson MON A Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b054pq21 (Listen) MON End Time Beliefs in Islam MON MON According to Islamic teaching, there will a be a Day of MON Judgement when all of humanity will be judged by Allah. It MON will be preceded by divisions within the body of Islam and MON battles throughout the Middle East, particularly in Syria. MON Little wonder that some Muslims are speculating that the End MON Times are upon them. The leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr MON Al Baghdadi, uses the language of End Times to underpin his MON organisation's legitimacy. So are we really experiencing the MON signs of the End Time? Why are the end time beliefs in Islam MON similar to those in Christianity? Does Islamic State believe MON they are hastening the Last Judgement? MON MON Producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b054pq23 (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b054p6p7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b054pq25 (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 5 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts this classic comedy panel game with MON Alun Cochrane, Tony Hawks, Josie Lawrence and Paul Merton, MON recorded in Canterbury. So naturally, the subjects include MON 'Canterbury Tales' and 'The Garden of England'. MON MON This is series 71 of Radio 4's classic panel game in which MON the contestants are challenged to speak on a given subject MON for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, MON Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and MON trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth MON doctor, David Tennant. MON MON Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in MON Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its MON 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. 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 b054pqv2 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b054pqv4 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b054pmgw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Saudi Arabia: Sands of Time b054pqv6 (Listen) MON The Balance of Power MON MON Saudi Arabia has been in the public eye recently, not least MON because of the death of King Abdullah. In the second 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 through to the current reign of King Salman. MON MON Having followed the dramatic events that led to the MON establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its rise, MON in less than 50 years, to the status of global power, Tarek MON sees how that establishment was suddenly challenged. At the MON end of the 1970's - when Saudi Arabia was experiencing MON immense affluence and rapid development - a conservative MON religious backlash struck at the foundations of the Kingdom. MON MON In 1979, religious extremists stage an armed takeover of the MON Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Iranian Revolution took place on MON the other side of the Persian Gulf and the Soviets invaded MON Afghanistan. These three events, in different ways, posed MON significant challenges to Saudi Arabia, made the Kingdom MON change course and led to a more conservative balance of MON power in the Saudi establishment. MON MON The 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait coincided with the return MON of thousands of Saudi jihadis who had been fighting in MON Afghanistan only to find half a million US military MON personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia, shoring up its MON defences. The following decade witnessed repeated attempts MON by jihadi groups to strike the US that has sullied Islam's MON sacred land, a campaign that culminated in 9/11, 15 of the MON 19 hijackers being Saudi nationals. A few years later, the MON "jihad abroad" was brought back home. Saudi Arabia was to MON endure ferocious jihadist strikes. MON MON Having successfully suppressed extremist violence, again the MON Kingdom is poised for another period of shock and MON uncertainty as the wave of Arab uprisings and their MON aftermath rocks the region. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b054pqv8 (Listen) MON The End of Development MON MON Over recent decades, the richer world has poured money MON towards poorer countries, in the form of aid and loans for MON development over many decades. But is this top-down solution MON really effective? Anthropologist Henrietta Moore argues that MON the age of development is over, and that we need to move to MON new ideas about how to improve human lives. Professor Moore, MON who heads the Institute for Global Prosperity at University MON College London, says that the fatal flaw of "development" is MON that it is a concept invented by the global North and MON imposed on the global South. She speaks to students from MON across the world at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of MON Government, who and then faces their questions. The lecture MON is chaired by the school's dean, Professor Ngaire Woods. MON Producer: Julie Ball. MON MON 21:00 The Life Sub-Aquatic b04fzc7m (Listen) MON Marine biologist and avid scuba diver, Helen Scales, MON explores the human obsession with inhabiting the depths and MON meets aquanauts who want to go down and stay down. From MON Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau, the dream of a life MON sub-aquatic has endured. But could it ever become a reality? MON MON At the moment, there is one place on Earth where you can MON live deep underwater for weeks at a time: The Aquarius Reef MON Base, a research station run by Florida International MON University which sits on the seabed some 20 metres down. As MON Helen discovers herself on a short visit to Aquarius, this MON is paradise for marine scientists who can wave goodbye to MON the surface and conduct experiments in situ, 24/7. It also MON hosts astronauts who use the unique conditions to train for MON life on the International Space Station as well as voyages MON deeper into space. Helen talks to Commander Chris Hadfield MON (recently made famous through his rendition of Space Oddity) MON about his time testing space suits for NASA and meeting MON sharks face to face on night time sorties. MON MON Aquarius stands alone today but the dream of working - and MON living - under the sea has a rich history that began years MON before we ever stepped foot on the surface of the moon. It MON was undersea pioneer Jacques Cousteau, co-inventor of the MON Aqua-Lung, who captured the world's imagination when he MON created the Conshelf underwater village in the Red Sea. This MON was followed by the US Navy's Sea Lab and NASA's own MON 'Tektite' house (built in 1969 by General Electric and MON described by inhabitant Sylvia Earle as looking like a giant MON kitchen appliance). MON MON More recently, an upsurge in interest from philanthropists, MON corporations and even individuals is keeping alive the dream MON of life as an aquanaut. Helen meets Lloyd Godson, a young MON Australian adventurer who is working on his third project - MON BioSub 3 - a submerged habitat powered by sustainable MON energy. As Helen discovers, there's a long way to go to meet MON the many challenges this hostile environment throws up - not MON least how our bodies and our brains cope with the pressure MON and confined conditions that come with living underwater. MON MON Presenter Helen Scales on dry land MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b054pj6y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b054pqvb (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b054ps0b (Listen) MON The Buried Giant, Episode 6 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 and have set out to find their long-lost son. MON They have been joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious MON Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in MON peril. The group take shelter at an isolated monastery, MON where they learn the cause of the mist of forgetting that MON has fallen over the land. Pursued by foes, can the group MON trust their hosts? 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 b01r80zr (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 2 MON MON Can we explain a wide variety of human behaviour - from MON unwillingness to go for health screening, to opposition to a MON new railway - as different versions of what is called MON 'status quo bias'? MON MON What does it mean to say that we are biased towards the MON status quo? We all think we have our reasons for our MON preferences. And we do. But is one of them a feeling of MON which we can be entirely unaware - a tendency to resist MON change and prefer things just the way they are, simply MON because that's the way they are now? MON MON In the Human Zoo this week, we'll hear the experiments that MON seem to show people clinging on to what they've got - even MON when they are certain to gain from changing. In other words, MON a suggestion that we don't judge the merits of a choice in MON an even-handed way, but are biased in favour of where we MON start from, even when that bias clearly costs us. MON MON So, does status quo bias also suggest that we are MON irrational? Possibly. Although some argue that it often MON makes sense. Even so, it has implications for everything MON from the businesses who go on taking ever bigger risks to MON attempt to avoid the horror of a loss, to people's MON scepticism of new building, technology, or change of any MON kind. It might even help to explain why you can't seem to MON stop yourself arriving habitually late. MON MON The Human Zoo, where we see public decisions viewed through MON private thoughts, is presented by Michael Blastland, with MON the trusted guidance of Nick Chater, Professor of MON Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. MON MON Presenter: Michael Blastland MON Producer: Toby Murcott MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Status quo bias MON This week's online experiment is on the theme of status quo MON bias, that is the bias inherent in all of us that tends to MON make us plump for the status quo. Go try it out and MON explore your own status quo bias MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b054ptdk (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b054p6q8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b054pmgr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b054p6qb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b054p6qd (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b054p6qg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b054p6qj (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0552mg9 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b054q5hf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03wphhd (Listen) TUE Blackbird (Spring) TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Bill Oddie presents the blackbird. Blackbirds are thrushes TUE and the brown female often has a few speckles on her throat TUE to prove it. Velvety, black and shiny, the males sport an TUE eye-ring as yellow as a spring daffodil and a bill glowing TUE like a buttercup. Happily blackbirds aren't doing too badly. TUE There's so many of them that their territories often overlap TUE so that where one song leaves off, another song begins. TUE TUE Blackbird (Turdus merula) TUE Webpage image courtesy fo RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b054qc1f (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 b054qc1h (Listen) TUE John O'Keefe TUE TUE John O'Keefe tells Jim Al-Khalili how winning the Nobel TUE Prize was a bit of a double-edged sword, especially as he TUE liked his life in the lab, before being made famous by the TUE award. TUE TUE John won the prize for his once radical insight into how we TUE know where we are. When he first described the idea of TUE 'place cells' in the brain back in 1971, many scoffed. Today TUE it's accepted scientific wisdom that our spatial ability TUE depends on these highly specialized brain cells. TUE TUE A keen basketball player,John says, he has put this TUE principle to the test by trying to shoot hoops with his eyes TUE closed. But this belies the years of painstaking experiments TUE on rats that John performed to prove that a rat's ability to TUE know where it is depends not only on its sense of smell, but TUE also on a cognitive map, or internal GPS, inside the rat's TUE brain. TUE TUE He describes how he listened in on the unique firing TUE patterns of individual rat brain cells using the tiniest TUE electrodes: "You almost imagine they are singing to you", he TUE says, as he imitates the different sounds made by individual TUE neurons. And, he says, he misses them when they fall silent. TUE TUE It's important to John, and for his results, that his rats TUE are happy and John welcomes the strong controls over animal TUE experiments in the UK. Computer models are useful but, he TUE says, they could never replace the need for experiments on TUE animals, in the work that he does. And,while it need not TUE necessarily have been the case, experiments on rats' brains TUE have provided valuable insight into the workings of the TUE human brain. John's research was entirely curiosity-driven TUE but it could provide vital clues to understanding dementia TUE and is already being used to develop a test for the earliest TUE stages of Alzheimer's. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. 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 b054qc1m (Listen) TUE Birth of a Theorem, Landau Damping: The Cold, Unattainable TUE Beauty TUE TUE Rock-star mathematician Cédric Villani's quest to tame a new TUE theorem continues. TUE TUE Villani relishes months of uninterrupted research at TUE Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. TUE TUE Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE TUE Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Author: Cedric Villani TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Gemma Jenkins TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b054qc1p (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 b0552k56 (Listen) TUE Ladder of Years, The Felson Girls TUE TUE by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. TUE TUE Episode 2 - The Felson Girls TUE TUE Her chance meeting with a younger man has focussed Delia TUE Grinstead's dissatisfactions with her husband and her TUE disjointed Baltimore household. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE Credits TUE Delia: Nancy Crane TUE Sam: Nathan Osgood TUE Mr Maxwell: David Hounslow TUE Adrian: Ian Conningham TUE Linda: Jane Slavin TUE Eliza: Jessica Turner TUE Eleanor: Carol Macready TUE Carroll: Sam Valentine TUE Woman: Barbara Barnes TUE Ramsay: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Director: David Hunter TUE Author: Anne Tyler TUE Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz TUE TUE 11:00 Martha: An Endling's Tale b054qc1r (Listen) TUE Wildlife cameraman and filmmaker John Aitchison sets up his TUE hide near a partially-frozen lake in Missouri, Midwestern TUE United States, and waits for flocks of Lesser Snow Geese to TUE fly over. Its spring and the birds are on migration. Lesser TUE Snow Geese are one of the commonest birds in America; there TUE are more than 5 million breeding pairs. Watching their huge TUE flocks has been likened to watching snowflakes in a storm; TUE there are just too many birds to count, and yet when the TUE first Europeans arrived in America, populations of the TUE Passenger Pigeon numbered billions not just millions. The TUE early settlers could look up at the sky and see flocks of TUE passenger pigeons as dense as these geese pass over, not TUE just for minutes but for hours or even days. It's hard to TUE imagine such a huge abundance of birds. One nesting colony TUE reportedly covered 850 square miles. TUE The last passenger pigeon, a bird called Martha who was born TUE and lived in captivity at Cincinnati zoo, died just over 100 TUE years ago on Sept 1st 1914. In this programme, John travels TUE to the States to see Martha, (after her death, she was TUE packed in ice and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in TUE Washington DC where she was preserved and is now kept) and TUE learns about the history and lives of the Passenger Pigeons TUE and discovers the causes of their extinction (a combination TUE of deforestation, hunting, railroads, refrigeration and TUE human greed). A century on, John reflects on what lessons we TUE have learned from the birds' demise and explores the TUE possibility of bringing the passenger pigeon back from TUE extinction, using genomic technology and a living relative, TUE the band-tailed pigeon. It's a fascinating and sobering TUE journey; as John says when he comes face to face with TUE Martha; "Extinction is a terrible thing". Producer Sarah TUE Blunt. TUE TUE John Aitchison - Presenter TUE John Aitchison TUE is a wildlife cameraman, photographer, writer and TUE broadcaster. He has worked on many television series TUE including Frozen Planet, Hebrides, Life, Big Cat Diary, TUE Springwatch and Yellowstone TUE He has presented several radio series called TUE * TUE A View through a Lens TUE * TUE for BBC Radio 4 based on his filming experiences. TUE TUE Martha - the last passenger pigeon TUE Photography by John Aitchison TUE TUE Chris Milensky - Interviewee TUE Chris Milenksy TUE is a Museum Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, TUE Washington DC where Martha is kept. He is responsible for TUE collection management activities, including specimen TUE preparation, cataloguing, curation, loans, information TUE requests, and assisting visitors. Interests are in field TUE work, specimen preparation, bird song recording and TUE archiving, and South American birds. TUE TUE Mark Avery - Interviewee TUE TUE Mark Avery describes himself as a scientist by training and TUE a naturalist by inclination. He writes about and comments on TUE environmental issues. Mark worked for the RSPB for 25 years TUE until he decided to go freelance. He was the RSPB’s TUE Conservation Director of nearly 13 years. Mark lives in TUE Northamptonshire and is a member of the RSPB, the Wildlife TUE Trusts the National Trust, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, TUE Plantlife, Pond Conservation, the BTO and the Wildfowl and TUE Wetlands Trust. TUE TUE He is also author of * TUE A message from Martha – the extinction of the Passenger TUE Pigeon and its relevance today TUE .* TUE TUE TUE Paul Sweet - Interviewee TUE Paul Sweet TUE is Collections Manager in the TUE Division of Vertebrate Zoology - Ornithology at the American TUE Museum of Natural History. His interests outside of the TUE museum include birding and gardening. TUE TUE Ben Novak- Interviewee TUE TUE Ben Novak is Lead Researcher, The Great Passenger Pigeon TUE Comeback. TUE TUE Ben graduated from Montana State University studying Ecology TUE and Evolution (2005). Novak specialized in paleontology, TUE genetics, ecology and ornithology. Novak was trained in TUE paleogenomics laboratory protocols at the McMaster Ancient TUE DNA Centre under Dr. Hendrik Poinar, exploring DNA TUE extraction and sequencing of Mastodon fossils (2010-2012). TUE It was at this laboratory that Ben began his first studies TUE of passenger pigeon genomics. With this experience he has TUE taken on the challenge of leading The Great Passenger Pigeon TUE Comeback which began in 2012. In 2013 he joined the UCSC TUE Paleogenomics Laboratory, under Dr. Beth Shapiro, to TUE initiate genome studies for passenger pigeon de-extinction. TUE Revive and Restore’s The Great Passenger Pigeon Project TUE TUE TUE John Aitchison meeting Martha TUE Photograph by John Aitchison TUE TUE David Acton - Reader TUE TUE Most recently on tour in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The TUE Comedy of Errors with the all male Shakespeare company TUE Propeller. TUE TUE Previously with Propeller: Henry V and Twelfth Night. Other TUE theatre includes: The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre); TUE Anjin: The Shogun and the Samurai (Tokyo and Sadler’s TUE Wells); The League of Youth, Vertigo, Burial at Thebes and I TUE Have Been Here Before (Nottingham Playhouse); Relatively TUE Speaking and Copenhagen (Newbury Watermill); The Dark Things TUE (Edinburgh Traverse); Richard II (Old Vic Company); Much Ado TUE About Nothing (Peter Hall Company); for the RSC: Hamlet, The TUE Comedy of Errors, The Constant Couple, The Man of Mode, The TUE Love of the Nightingale, King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V, TUE Edward III, Eastward Ho!, The Roman Actor. TUE TUE TV includes: Diaries of the Great War (to be broadcast in TUE August 2014), Doctors, EastEnders, Silent Witness, Passage, TUE Hollyoaks, Tchaikovsky, The Bill, Blair on Trial, Class of TUE ’76, Casanova’s Love Letters, Fooling Hitler, The Wyvern TUE Mystery, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Film includes: TUE After Death, Volume, Persuasion TUE TUE Michael Bertenshaw - Reader TUE TUE Michael’s childhood was split between Lancashire and TUE Yorkshire and he was educated at a minor public school in TUE Cambridge from the ages of 13 to 18. He studied English and TUE Fine Art at the University of Leeds then Lectured in General TUE Studies, English and Art at a College of Further Education TUE in Portsmouth until the winning of two consecutive New TUE Writer competitions for BBC (one Radio and one TV) somehow TUE turned him towards acting at around the age of thirty. TUE TUE He entered RADA on a scholarship and left as Ronson Award TUE Winner (Most Promising Actor of The Year) in 1977. He spent TUE three years with the RSC and since then has worked TUE consistently in theatre, film and TV. For reasons he doesn’t TUE quite understand he has apparently appeared in more TUE productions at The Theatre Royal Stratford East than any TUE other actor EVER (involving about 19 pantos as Villain, Dame TUE or Wolf along with appearances in a multitude of straight TUE plays). His other main stamping ground of recent years has TUE been at Shakespeare’s Globe and the past five years have TUE been spent very happily summering at Shakespeare’s Globe and TUE wintering at Stratford East with the odd TV and regional TUE theatre job slotted in. TUE TUE Elaine Claxton - Reader TUE TUE Apart from a busy career in theatre, television and radio, TUE including long seasons at the National Theatre, Elaine TUE previously taught sight-reading and radio technique at RADA TUE for five years and is proud to have taught quite a number of TUE previous Carleton Hobbs Winners during that time. She has TUE recently completed a very successful sell-out run of TUE Carthage, a new play by Chris Thompson at the Finborough TUE Theatre. TUE TUE Martha and George on display at the Smithsonian Institution TUE Photograph by John Aitchison TUE TUE Chris Watson – wildlife sound recordist TUE TUE Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School TUE and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the TUE influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret TUE Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound TUE recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees TUE Television. Since then he has developed a particular and TUE passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of TUE animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As TUE a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, TUE Watson specialises in natural history and documentary TUE location sound together with sound design in TUE post-production. TUE TUE His television work includes many programmes in the David TUE Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ TUE which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. TUE More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with TUE David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which TUE also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). TUE TUE Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio TUE productions including; ‘ The Listeners’ and ‘The Wire’ which TUE won him the Broadcasting Press Guild’s Broadcaster of The TUE Year Award (2012), NATURE, TUE Tweet of the Day TUE and TUE The Cliff TUE His music is regularly featured on the BBC Radio 3 programme TUE ‘Late Junction’. TUE TUE Extracts heard in the programme TUE Columbus Ohio 1855 – witness account TUE TUE As the watchers stared, the hum increased to a mighty TUE throbbing. ….The thunder of wings made shouting necessary TUE for human communication” TUE TUE TUE Several extracts including the description of the bird being TUE hunted were taken from the writings of TUE John James Audubon (1785-1851) Birds of America – a TUE collection TUE (1827–1839). Eg. TUE TUE The pigeons arriving by thousands, alighted everywhere, one TUE above another, …..It was a scene of uproar and confusion. TUE TUE John Muir 1838 – 1914 from The Story of my Boyhood and TUE Youth TUE Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. TUE TUE The breast of the male is a fine rosy red, the lower part of TUE the neck and behind ….. The females are scarcely less TUE beautiful! TUE John Wheaton 1841- 1887 TUE TUE In the fall of 1859… I had an opportunity of observing a TUE large flock while feeding. ….The noise was deafening and the TUE sight confusing to the mind. TUE TUE Simon Pokagon 1830-99) was a native Potawatomi from TUE southwest Michigan who campaigned for Native American rights TUE and wrote many books articles. Of the passenger pigeon he TUE wrote TUE TUE .. I have seen them move in one unbroken column for hours TUE ….sounding as though a whirlwind was abroad in the land. TUE TUE Commonwealth – a newspaper on Fond du lac, Wisconsin TUE TUE "Imagine a thousand threshing machines running under full TUE headway, ….. and you possibly have a faint conception of TUE the terrific roar of a passenger pigeon flock ," TUE TUE TUE Charles Bendire 1836-1897 in the Life of American Birds TUE published in a series Washington, Smithsonian Institution TUE 1892-1895 TUE The largest nesting ever visited was in 1876 or 1877. ….For TUE the entire distance of 28miles every tree of any size had TUE more or less nests and many trees were filled with them. TUE None were lower than 15 feet above the ground. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales From the Stave b054qc1t (Listen) TUE Series 11, Beethoven's Spring Sonata TUE TUE Although the Austrian National Library has a spectacular TUE array of autographed classical music manuscripts by TUE Bruckner, Brahms, Schubert, Mozart and Richard Strauss, the TUE choice for this final programme in the latest series of TUE Tales from the Stave comes from the Librarian Dr Thomas TUE Leibnitz. TUE TUE Beethoven's Spring Sonata of 1801 might lack the grandeur of TUE his 7th or 9th Symphony but it was commissioned by the same TUE Viennese banker as the former. It's not even his most taxing TUE Violin sonata. That accolade usually goes to the Kreutzer. TUE However the manuscript, complete with a relatively young TUE Beethoven's grumblings about his copyist, is full of TUE examples of detailed reworking and careful crafting that TUE give a vivid insight into a man with far more than a sense TUE of Sturm und Drang, gravity and drama. TUE TUE Violinist Florian Zwiauer and pianist Jan Jiracek von Arnim TUE join Dr Leibnitz as they work through the three manuscript TUE movements of a work which was eventually published in four. TUE As well as trying to establish where the missing movement TUE has gone they examine the unusually neat handwriting which TUE makes it equally unusually clear how the composer set about TUE his work and sought to refine it and deliver a meticulous TUE score for the publisher. TUE TUE While the opening theme was later described, and more TUE importantly marketed by 19th century publishers, as an TUE evocation of Spring, Florian Zwiauer believes it's the slow TUE and reverential second movement that should have given the TUE piece an altogether more anglophile name - the Evensong TUE sonata. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b054p6ql (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b054qc1w (Listen) TUE 10 March 1915 - Robert Lyle TUE TUE Luke refuses to tow the line with his father. TUE TUE Written by Richard Monks TUE Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley TUE Baxter: Kris Deedigan TUE Driver: David Acton TUE Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart TUE Fannon: Shaun Prendergast TUE Josseff al-Assadi: Paul Chahidi TUE Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell TUE Stationmaster: David Acton TUE Writer: Richard Monks TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b054qc1y (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b054p6qn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b054qc20 (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b054qc22 (Listen) TUE The Conquistadors and the Birth of the Modern World Economy TUE TUE Anthropologist David Graeber examines the importance of debt TUE during the conquest of South America and the birth of the TUE modern world economy. TUE TUE Eurasian history has pivoted back and forth between periods TUE dominated by credit, when people buy things without using TUE physical money, and those periods dominated by coinage which TUE see cash pass from hand to hand. TUE TUE After around 1450, the pendulum began to swing back again TUE towards a period of physical money. Huge amounts of gold and TUE silver bullion soon began to flow across the Atlantic and TUE Pacific oceans, laying the foundations for what we have come TUE to know as the world economy. The entire process was driven TUE by debt. TUE TUE David Graeber reveals that the Spanish conquest of Mexico TUE was made possible by the desire for silver in China under TUE the Ming dynasty. He notes that, reading accounts of the TUE immediate results of the conquest of Peru or Mexico, reveals TUE scenes of human cruelty - such an extreme and systematic TUE destruction of societies that it's hard to imagine how human TUE beings could be capable of inflicting such things on one TUE another. TUE TUE Today, the Conquistadors are remembered as a kind of TUE apotheosis of human greed. David explains that their TUE insatiable appetite for plunder was in fact fuelled by debt. TUE Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of Mexico, had been living TUE beyond his means for years. His men found themselves tricked TUE into a debt trap and most ended up in severely indebted TUE following the campaign, when the Aztec treasure they had TUE been promised failed to materialise. TUE TUE Producer: Max O'Brien TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b054pqv2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jhnzl (Listen) TUE People Don't Do Such Things TUE TUE It is 1979 and hapless accountant Arthur (a winning Reece TUE Shearsmith) and his wife Gwen (Laura Pyper) have made a new TUE friend. TUE TUE Flashy novelist Reeve (Michael Maloney) is everything TUE they're not - carefree, charismatic and seemingly TUE irresistible. At first, his friendship seems to offer an TUE enticing window into a world beyond their cloistered TUE suburban existence, but it doesn't take long for the TUE relationship to slip into rather more sinister territory. TUE With unfussy performances and a rumbling documentary-style TUE soundscape, the grimness of late-70s suburbia is palpable TUE throughout. TUE TUE From the moment colossal egotist Reeve arrives on the scene, TUE it's clear that Arthur and Gwen don't stand a chance, and TUE it's this festering inevitability, lurking in awkward pauses TUE and fidgety middle-class tics, that gives this play its most TUE haunting moments. TUE TUE Dramatised by Mike Walker from a short story by Ruth TUE Rendell. TUE TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond TUE TUE Directed by John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Arthur: Reece Shearsmith TUE Gwen: Laura Pyper TUE Reeve: Michael Maloney TUE Actor: Rachel Atkins TUE Actor: David Holt TUE Director: John Dryden TUE Author: Ruth Rendell TUE Adaptor: Mike Walker TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b054qc24 (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b054qc26 (Listen) TUE Greening the Green Belt TUE TUE The UK's housing crisis is acute. We need to build but TUE where? Many critics point to the ample green space which TUE surrounds some of our most overcrowded cities and towns. The TUE green belt celebrates 60 years since it became part of TUE National Policy but its history stretches back far further. TUE The idea of a stretch of land which separates the urban from TUE the rural has been commended as the defining planning policy TUE of the nation. This legislation is at the core of our notion TUE of what it is to live in a 'green and pleasant land'. But is TUE it fit for purpose in the 21st Century? Many critics feel TUE that it is now time to reassess the lines upon which these TUE boundaries were drawn and make a strategic plan for how we TUE want people to live and commute in the near future. The TUE green belt protects many environmental assets closest to our TUE cities but Tom Heap asks whether we are making the most of TUE this vital natural asset. TUE TUE 16:00 State of Grace b045y41s (Listen) TUE The girls' name Grace fell out of fashion in the1930s but TUE has recently become very popular again. The journalist Grace TUE Dent sets out to discover what makes her name - and the TUE notion - so captivating, by exploring the modern state of TUE grace. TUE TUE Grace's Nan once told her she was related to real-life TUE Victorian heroine, Grace Darling. It was the first time TUE Grace sensed her name had enviable properties, after years TUE of wanting to be called Joanne. TUE TUE The word 'grace' is associated with more than twenty TUE different meanings and phrases. Many are theological, but TUE one early definition - of pleasing quality - suggests Grace TUE has some work to do if she wants to achieve the standards TUE inherent in her name. She's not entirely sure she does. TUE TUE From Greek mythology to Grace Jones, via philosophical TUE reasoning and a morning at The Royal Ballet, Grace reflects TUE on the modern merits of charm, poise and elegance as she TUE searches for inner calm and acceptance in a more secular TUE age. TUE TUE With contributions from Olivia 'damegrace' Cowley, a soloist TUE with The Royal Ballet; names expert, Carole Hough; Grace TUE Kelly fan and film studies academic, Stella Bruzzi; TUE philosophy professor Miranda Fricker; and Grace Maxwell, TUE whose memoir Falling and Laughing documents the recovery of TUE her husband Edwyn from a near-fatal brain haemorrhage. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Baker TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b054qc28 (Listen) TUE Rebecca Front and Laura Dockrill TUE TUE Actress Rebecca Front and poet and writer Laura Dockrill TUE talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. All TUE three guests choose books with a strong female protagonist, TUE but settings range from wartime England to Seattle in the TUE digital age. TUE TUE Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple TUE Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther TUE Runaway by Alice Munro TUE TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Front TUE Interviewed Guest: Laura Dockrill TUE TUE 17:00 PM b054qc2b (Listen) TUE M at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b054p6qr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ayres on the Air b03pmk77 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Home TUE TUE Pam Ayres regales her Radio 4 audience with poems, stories TUE and sketches, this week on the subject of Home. TUE TUE She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey TUE Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband TUE 'Gordon'. TUE TUE This week Pam talks about her first home, about the impact TUE of her grown up sons leaving home and about the unwelcome TUE prospect of downsizing. There are also looks at how making TUE your home more 'vintage' can go too far, some handy hints on TUE how to make your child feel more at home if they have to TUE return to the nest post-university, and how your homelife TUE changes when both partners have retired. We are also treated TUE to some wry observations on how our homes have now become so TUE hi-tech we can barely change channels on the TV, and how to TUE approach the thorny issue of moving into single beds when TUE your partner's snoring becomes too much to bear. TUE TUE Poems include: A September Song, My Little Grandson & Pollen TUE on the Wind TUE TUE Sketch writers: James Bugg, Jan Etherington, Claire Jones, TUE Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. TUE TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b054qct5 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b054qct7 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0552k56 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b054qct9 (Listen) TUE In Canada, everything is big - including powerful pension TUE funds such as the Ontario Teachers fund which owns half of TUE Birmingham airport and other large projects around the TUE world. It's all a far cry from the British pension scene, TUE where a hundred local government pension funds each run TUE their own affairs separately and pay costly fees to City TUE firms for investment advice. TUE Many of them still have financial deficits. Taxpayers have TUE been forced to pick up bills to pay off those shortfalls and TUE already hard-pressed local services have been stretched TUE further. TUE Lesley Curwen investigates how these individual funds are TUE run and asks whether we should have larger funds with TUE cheaper costs - like Canada does. And she asks whether more TUE councils should be using pension money to invest in housing TUE and infrastructure as a way to boost their local economies? TUE TUE Producer: Anna Meisel Reporter: Lesley Curwen. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b054qctc (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b054qctf (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 b054qc1h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b054p6qt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b054qcth (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b054qctk (Listen) TUE The Buried Giant, Episode 7 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 They have been joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious TUE Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in TUE peril. After an attack on the monastery where they were TUE sheltering, the group have been separated. Wistan is still TUE fighting off Lord Brennus's soldiers and Edwin slips back to TUE find him. 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 b054qctm (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE By Elmore Leonard TUE Adapted by Katie Hims TUE TUE Elmore Leonard's enthralling criminal odyssey is set against TUE the dusty, sepia-toned backdrop of Oklahoma and Kansas TUE during America's Great Depression. TUE TUE Louly Brown tells of how her letters to Pretty Boy Floyd in TUE prison led to her stealing her step-father's car and running TUE away from home with a bank robber, before meeting the TUE handsome Deputy Marshal Carl Webster at a fatal motel TUE shoot-out. Meanwhile, Jack Belmont's illegal moonshine TUE operation is threatened when his roadhouse is attacked by TUE members of the Klan. TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jack Belmont: Adam Gillen TUE Louly Brown: Samantha Dakin TUE Tony Antonelli: Nathan Osgood TUE Carl Webster: Luke Norris TUE Joe Young: Joe Jameson TUE Norm Dilworth: Paul Heath TUE Pretty Boy Flloyd: Shaun Mason TUE Virgil Webster: David Acton TUE Heidi Dilworth: Bettrys Jones TUE Nestor Lott: Ian Conningham TUE Sylvia Hagenlocker: Elaine Claxton TUE Filling Station Woman: Jane Slavin TUE Author: Elmore Leonard TUE Adaptor: Katie Hims TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b054qctp (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b054qcxz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b054qc1m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b054qcy1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b054qcy3 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b054qcy5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b054qcy7 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b055658w (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b054qd47 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03wpzmk (Listen) WED Chiffchaff WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Bill Oddie presents the chiffchaff. Chiffchaff are small WED olive warblers which sing their name as they flit around WED hunting for insects in woods, marshes and scrubby places. WED Chiffchaffs are increasing in the UK and the secret of their WED success is their ability to weather our winters. Many stay WED in the milder south and south-west of England where the WED insects are more active. WED WED Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b054qd7x (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 b054qd7z (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b054qd81 (Listen) WED Birth of a Theorem, Breakthroughs and Setbacks WED WED Rock-star mathematician Cédric Villani's quest to tame a new WED theorem continues. WED WED A series of breakthroughs and set-backs as the proof of WED Landau damping remains elusive. WED WED Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt WED WED Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Author: Cedric Villani WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Gemma Jenkins WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b054qd9k (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 b0552khz (Listen) WED Ladder of Years, The Ocean WED WED by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. WED WED Episode Three - The Ocean WED WED Aren't we all tempted at one time or another to leave our WED old lives behind? Delia Grinstead makes an impulsive WED decision on the annual family vacation. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Delia: Nancy Crane WED Narrator: Barbara Barnes WED Sam: Nathan Osgood WED Belle: Jane Slavin WED Eliza: Jessica Turner WED Carroll: Sam Valentine WED Vernon: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Debbi: Rhiannon Neads WED Director: David Hunter WED Author: Anne Tyler WED Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b054qdmw (Listen) WED Christopher and Thomas - Monastery Men WED WED Two monks from Buckfast Abbey in Devon reflect on how WED monastic life has changed over the past half century, in WED this conversation introduced by Fi Glover, in the series WED that proves it's surprising what you hear when 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 African Students Abroad b054qf74 (Listen) WED Over 35 000 African students studied at British universities WED last year - part of a growing number of foreign students WED coming to the UK. Bola Masuro charts the progress of four WED students from Africa. What do they want to take back with WED them from the British way of life? And what we could learn WED from Africa? WED WED Mayowa is 19 and from Lagos, Nigeria. She's studying WED Politics and History at Edinburgh University. Student life WED is cheap compared with the more affluent circles she's used WED to at home. "If you have the means in Lagos you can spend a WED lot of money. Boys are buying to impress the girls so they WED buy the best champagne. But here people buy their own drinks WED and only spend about £2 on shots." WED WED Bob is from Kenya and studying for a Masters in Architecture WED and Environmental Design at Cambridge. He was immediately WED struck by the order of the town. "People walking on the WED pavements rather than the road and crossing at particular WED crossing points. In Nairobi it's more chaotic." WED WED Mauricia is studying Engineering for Sustainable Development WED at Cambridge supported by a Cambridge Trust Scholarship. She WED found the more informal relationship with lecturers helpful. WED "It's so free here compared to how we do things back in WED Uganda." WED WED James is studying Sustainable Energy Systems at Edinburgh. WED "I'm not used to having power for 24 hours. At home when you WED want to go out and need to iron your shirt there's no WED electricity. So even if it's the middle of the night, as WED soon as the light comes back on, I get up and iron twelve WED shirts. Here I iron things at any time I want to." WED WED Through their moving, insightful and humorous observations WED we explore what Britain is like through African eyes. WED WED Producer: Kim Normanton WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Boswell's Lives b0547ntj (Listen) WED Boswell's Life of Pinter WED WED by Jon Canter WED WED Comedy as James Boswell Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer WED pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he attempts to WED write the biography of Pinter but finds himself the victim WED of a betrayal. WED WED James Boswell ..... Miles Jupp WED Harold Pinter ..... Harry Enfield 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 Harry Enfield is a Bafta award winning performer, writer and WED director. He starred with Paul Whitehouse in Harry and WED Paul's Story of the Two's last year winnng a British Comedy WED Award for best sketch show. WED WED Credits WED James Boswell: Miles Jupp WED Harold Pinter: Harry Enfield WED Writer: Jon Canter WED Director: Sally Avens WED WED 12:00 News Summary b054qcy9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b054qf76 (Listen) WED 11 March 1915 - Luke Lyle WED WED The Lyles are in for a nasty shock. WED WED Written by Richard Monks WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell WED Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart WED Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron WED Fannon: Shaun Prendergast WED Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell WED Mhairi Marchant: Jane Slavin WED Morgue Attendant: Leon Scott WED Writer: Richard Monks WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b054qf78 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b054qcyc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b054qf7b (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b054qf7d (Listen) WED The Birth of Capitalism WED WED Anthropologist David Graeber examines the influence of debt WED during the birth of capitalism and the centrality of debt to WED the slave trade. WED WED The conventional view is that the innovations during the WED birth of capitalism led to greater material prosperity WED enabling us to lead happier lives. David argues that, in WED fact, these times were marked by extraordinary levels of war WED and violence. This was an age of giant empires, standing WED armies and chattel slavery - a time when money came to be WED seen as a physical thing and debts had to be repaid. WED WED The enormous productivity of the era was only made possible WED by the existence of extraordinary mechanisms designed to WED pump out more and more disciplined labour. The history of WED the Atlantic slave trade is a perfect example and debt WED underpinned the entire process. WED WED In the late 17th century, ship owners based in Liverpool or WED Bristol would acquire goods such as copper wires and brass WED rods on easy credit terms from local wholesalers, expecting WED to make good by selling slaves (also on credit) to WED plantation owners in the Antilles and North America. Ship WED owners would then transport their wares to African ports WED like Ouidah, Bonny, or Calabar. The goods were then advanced WED to African merchants, again on credit, and those African WED merchants would pay back what they owed in slaves. WED WED David Graeber also discusses the foundation of the Bank of WED England, the first successful experiment to create a WED central, national bank. Since the first loan that the WED bankers made to King William III, bringing the Bank of WED England into existence, money has been essentially WED circulating government debt. WED WED Producer: Max O'Brien WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b054qct5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b054qfj2 (Listen) WED Earworm WED WED By Simon Passmore WED WED Tasked with producing an item for a television show about WED Britain's worst film director, researcher Mia goes in search WED for the fabled horror film Earworm and its creator. Urban WED myths surround this little known video nasty, with rumours WED that cast and crew suffered unexplained accidents during WED production, its director went into hiding after destroying WED all known copies of the film, and that its soundtrack is WED capable of affecting the viewer in sinister ways. Spurred on WED rather deterred by the myths, Mia seeks out the film's WED secret, and in doing so, puts herself in danger. WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED Credits WED Mia: Chloe Pirrie WED Josh: Shaun Mason WED James: Justin Salinger WED Lena: Jane Slavin WED Charlie: Ian Conningham WED Craig: David Acton WED Lois: Bettrys Jones WED Bookseller: Paul Heath WED Producer: Jude Akuwudike WED Nurse: Roslyn Hill WED Writer: Simon Passmore WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b054qfj4 (Listen) WED Paying for Child Care WED WED Need help with childcare costs or employing a nanny? Call WED 03700 100 444 from 1pm and 3pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b054qctf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b054qfj6 (Listen) WED A Lost Avant Garde, Biologising Parenthood WED WED A lost avant garde: Laurie Taylor examines the tension WED between art & money in the contemporary art museum. He talks WED to Matti Bunzl, Professor of Anthropology at the University WED of Illinois, and author of a study which takes a rare look WED behind the scenes of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. WED He found that a commitment to new and difficult work came WED into conflict with an imperative for growth, leading to an WED excessive focus on the entertaining and profitable. WED WED Also, biologising parenthood: recent years have seen claims WED about children's brains becoming central to child health & WED welfare policies. Pam Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at WED Aston University, Birmingham, argues that this has led to a WED simplistic construction of the child and one which claims WED parenting to be the main factor in child development. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Matti Bunzl WED WED Director of Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria WED WED Find out more about WED Matti Bunzl WED WED *In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist WED Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum WED *Publisher: University of Chicago Press WED ISBN-10: 022617381X WED ISBN-13: 978-0226173818 WED WED Pam Lowe WED WED Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, Birmingham WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Pam Lowe WED WED Abstract: * WED Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English WED social and public health policy and understandings of the WED child WED *Lowe, P., Lee, E. and Macvarish, J. (2015) WED Sociology of Health & Illness WED doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12223 WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b054qfj8 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b054qfjb (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b054qcyf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b054qfjd (Listen) WED Series 10, Vic Reeves talks to Olivia Colman 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 fourth episode of the series one half of comedy WED double-act Vic & Bob, Vic Reeves, talks to three-time BAFTA WED Award winning actress Olivia Colman. WED WED Producer ... Arnab Chanda. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b054qfjg (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b054qfjj (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0552khz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b054qfjx (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b054tfhp (Listen) WED Michael Symmons Roberts WED WED Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b054qc26 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b054qd7z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b054tfhr (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b054tfht (Listen) WED The Buried Giant, Episode 8 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 to find their long-lost son. WED They were joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious WED Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in WED peril, but the group have been separated. They have learned WED that the source of the mist of forgetting is the dragon WED Querig, and Wistan has vowed to slay the beast. The journey WED is taking its toll on Beatrice and Axl is afraid of losing WED her. 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 b054tfhw (Listen) WED Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait WED WED Aussie comedian and art historian Hannah Gadsby continues WED her comedy lectures about art, looking this week at Jan Van WED Eyck's masterpiece 'The Arnolfini Portrait'. She shares how WED she first came to study the portrait, the mystery behind it WED and why people have remained so fascinated by it down the WED years. WED WED Born in Tasmania, Hannah's first encounters with art was WED solely through books. When she worked in a bookshop after WED graduating, she realised the craze for Dan Brown's 'The Da WED Vinci Code' had parallels with critics' sleuth-like WED 'readings' of 'The Arnolfini Portrait'. WED WED In this episode, Hannah explains what makes The Arnolfini WED Portrait, painted in 1434, so important in the canon of art WED history. Plus she puts an image of Vladimir Putin in your WED head that you will find hard to shake. WED WED Hannah is supported by her very own 'Quotebot' on the show. WED Quotebot has been inputted with everything that has ever WED been written or said about art, ever. He also sounds WED remarkably like comedy supremo and all-round boffin John WED 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 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 b054tfhy (Listen) WED Series 3, Space WED WED This week Tim Key is broadcasting from a space simulator in WED St Albans, while grappling with the concept of space through WED the medium of his poetry. Musical accompaniment is provided WED by Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden and Yasmine Akram WED WED Produced by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. 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 b054tfj0 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 MARCH 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b054qcz8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b054qd81 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b054qczb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b054qczd (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b054qczg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b054qczj (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0556761 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b054t0kn (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03wq2nz (Listen) THU Lapwing 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 Bill Oddie presents the lapwing. The lovely iridescent THU greens and purples of the lapwing: with its delicate crest THU and broad rounded wings that almost seem to twinkle in level THU flight, they are seen less often on our farmland today. At THU one time they were so common that their freckled eggs were THU harvested and sent off to the cities to pamper the palettes THU of urban epicures. THU THU Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b054t3s0 (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 b054t3s2 (Listen) THU Dark Matter THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the THU mysterious and invisible substance which is believed to make THU up most of the Universe. In 1932 the Dutch astronomer Jan THU Oort noticed that the speed at which galaxies moved was at THU odds with the amount of material they appeared to contain. THU He hypothesized that much of this 'missing' matter was THU simply invisible to telescopes. Today astronomers and THU particle physicists are still fascinated by the search for THU dark matter and the question of what it is. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b054t3s4 (Listen) THU Birth of a Theorem, Eureka THU THU Rock-star mathematician Cédric Villani's quest to tame a new THU theorem continues. THU THU Rejection by prestigious journal Acta Mathematica proves to THU be a turning point. THU THU Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt THU THU Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Author: Cedric Villani THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Gemma Jenkins THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b054t3s6 (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 b0556763 (Listen) THU Ladder of Years, The Executive Secretary THU THU by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. THU THU Episode Four - The Executive Secretary THU THU Delia Grinstead left her family on the beach this morning. THU Now is the chance to start a new, simpler life. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Delia: Nancy Crane THU Narrator: Barbara Barnes THU Mr Pomfret: Stephen Critchlow THU Eliza: Jessica Turner THU Clerk: Sam Valentine THU Assistant: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Mother: Rhiannon Neads THU Director: David Hunter THU Author: Anne Tyler THU Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b054qczl (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Inconspicuous Consumption b054t3s8 (Listen) THU Framing Device THU THU A series exploring the cultural consumption that other media THU ignore. THU THU Sarah Cuddon looks at - and through - a diversity of frames THU to understand what they're for, how they work and why we THU develop such strong feelings about them. In galleries, THU framers shops and people's homes, she meets those involved THU in negotiations over frames. THU THU In a local London framing shop, Sarah hears about a request THU to frame a (human) ponytail, and meets the man who had his THU pacemaker framed. She tries to understand the allure of the THU ornate gold frame and considers the modern day opposite - THU framelessness. THU THU She hears how Europe's galleries have obsessed over the THU 'white box frame' and she meets an artist for whom frames THU are merely an old-fashioned decoration. THU THU What emerges is as much about how people see their THU possessions as it is about framing. Choosing the right frame THU for a deceased love one for example, is a revealing THU business. Which is why Robert's story is so telling. For THU him, the very business of framing provides a metaphorical THU framing device for his life story. THU THU Produced and Presented by Sarah Cuddon THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b054qczn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b054t3sb (Listen) THU 12 March 1915 - Phyllis Marshall THU THU Collingwood Park is prepared for a home coming. THU THU Written by Richard Monks THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille THU Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor THU Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Leonard Proctor: Chris Garner THU Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn THU Writer: Richard Monks THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b054t3sd (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues. THU THU 12:57 Weather b054vckj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b054t3sg (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b054t56t (Listen) THU The International Politics of Debt THU THU Anthropologist David Graeber examines the rise of virtual THU money since the 1970s and the power of international THU creditors. THU THU When Nixon abandoned the gold standard in 1970, he THU kick-started a process by which money has become a virtual THU commodity rather than a physical thing to be held in the THU hand. THU THU But this is not a new, unprecedented phenomenon, made THU possible by the advent of computers. Periods of virtual THU money have occurred many times over the course of history. THU David explains that, ordinarily, periods dominated by THU virtual credit money have also seen the creation of THU overarching mechanisms designed to protect debtors from THU creditors, so that the system does not descend into THU continual social crisis. Where money is understood to be not THU a thing but a promise, there has to be a way to prevent THU those with the means to create credit from simply enslaving THU everyone else - hence the ancient Middle Eastern jubilees THU and debt cancellations, or the Medieval bans on THU interest-taking and debt peonage. THU THU However, David Braeber argues that the last half century has THU been marked by exactly the opposite - the western powers THU have overseen the creation of great overarching mechanisms THU tasked with protecting creditors. THU THU It was the outrage at this situation that led to the rise of THU the Global Justice Movement in the late 1990s. Beginning THU with popular uprisings against austerity policies, and THU gradually galvanizing into a planetary network of popular THU groups, the movement aimed to expose the global bureaucratic THU structure that enforced debt arrangements, and emphasized THU how they made any form of democratic self-governance THU impossible. THU THU Producer: Max O'Brien THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b054qfjg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b054t79g (Listen) THU The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Handsome Man's THU Deluxe Cafe THU THU A new two-part dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's THU latest No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency book, 'The Handsome THU Man's Deluxe Cafe'. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi return to THU Radio 4 for an eleventh series based on the popular novels THU set in Bostwana, dramatised by the author. THU THU Episode 1 : The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe THU THU New mother Mma Makutsi expands her business portfolio in an THU unexpected direction. Meanwhile Mma Ramotswe meets a client THU with a problematic house guest. THU THU Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict THU Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall THU Mma Potokwani/Mrs: Janice Acquah THU Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe THU Charlie: Maynard Eziashi THU Phuti Radiphuti: Jude Akuwudike THU Mr Sengupta: Kulvinder Ghir THU Miss Rose: Sudha Bhuchar THU Disang: Steve Toussaint THU Director: Eilidh McCreadie THU Author: Alexander McCall Smith THU Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b054t79t (Listen) THU Series 29, Hertfordshire - Bell-Ringers THU THU The theme of this series of Ramblings is 'bonding' and this THU week Clare walks with a group who bond, not just through THU walking, but through their shared passion for bell-ringing. THU Twice a year, Janet Betham and a fellow Janet organise what THU have become known as "Janets' Jaunts", where a number of THU bell-ringers gather together for a ramble between two THU churches. They ring bells at the start of the walk, stop for THU a pub-lunch mid-way, and ring again at their destination THU bell-tower. Join Clare Balding for one of her most unusual THU Ramblings to date. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Janet Betham THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b054p996 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b054pfn9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b054t7b7 (Listen) THU The latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b054t9hd (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b054t9hg (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b054qczq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Britain Versus the World b050crxj (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 6 THU THU Episode Six: THU THU The final episode of the comedy panel show - Britain Versus THU The World - that pits two British comedians against a team THU of comics from overseas to find out which side is superior. THU Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is the English THU comedian Roisin Conaty while the captain of the Rest of the THU World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with his fellow German THU stand-up Christian Schulte-Loh. The contest is overseen by THU Irishman Ed 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 Roisin Conaty THU Christian Schulte-Loh 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 b054t9hj (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b054t9hl (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0556763 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b054t9hn (Listen) THU Trouble at the Telegraph THU THU A once great British institution is in real trouble - Her THU Majesty's Daily Telegraph. The paper that used to appeal to THU barristers is courting clicks with headlines like 'A bondage THU masterclass? Sure, just show me the ropes' and facing THU accusations it's letting advertisers dictate its news THU agenda. What went so wrong? Many are pointing the finger at THU the newspaper's reclusive owners, The Barclay Brothers, and THU CEO, Murdoch MacLennan. The Report investigates. THU THU Reporter: Robin Aitken THU Producer: Tom Randall. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b054t9hq (Listen) THU Going Global THU THU Whether you're selling breakfast cereals, criminal tags or THU excavator buckets, expanding your business overseas can be a THU game changer. But when's the right time to export and which THU countries should you target? Evan Davis and guests discuss THU the ups and downs of trading internationally. They'll share THU their stories on why it can be easier to sell abroad than at THU home, how to adapt products for a new market and why doing THU your homework can ensure that nothing is lost in THU translation. Top tips on how to make exporting a business THU boost not a foreign flop. THU THU Guests: THU THU Sara Murray, Founder and CEO, Buddi THU THU Giles Turrell, CEO, Weetabix THU THU Jacqui Miller, Director, Miller International. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b054t9hd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b054t3s2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b05n8bvn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b054t9hs (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b054t9hv (Listen) THU The Buried Giant, Episode 9 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 They were joined on their quest by Wistan, a mysterious THU Saxon warrior from the East, and Edwin, a young boy in THU peril, but the group have been separated. They have learned THU that the source of the mist of forgetting is the dragon THU Querig, and Wistan has vowed to slay the beast. Axl and THU Beatrice also hope to kill the dragon but begin to fear a THU time when the mist lifts, and memory returns. 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 b01mqq6h (Listen) THU Series 2, Kognitia 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 Kognitia where selective memory is taken to a new extreme. THU THU Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale THU Kalmena ..... Debra Stephenson THU Lamet ..... Duncan Wisbey THU Door ..... Harry Livingstone THU PA ..... 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 b054t9hx (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b054qd0n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b054t3s4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b054qd0q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b054qd0s (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b054qd0v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b054qd0x (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0552bqv (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b054tss2 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03ws7gc (Listen) FRI Nuthatch 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 Bill Oddie presents the nuthatch. Nuthatches are the only UK FRI birds that can climb down a tree as fast they can go up and FRI you'll often see them descending a trunk or hanging beneath FRI a branch. Nuthatches are unmistakable: blue-grey above, FRI chestnut under the tail and with a black highwayman's mask. FRI FRI Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b054tss4 (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 b054pbb3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b054tl6z (Listen) FRI Birth of a Theorem, The Fields Medal FRI FRI Rock-star mathematician Cédric Villani's quest to tame a new FRI theorem continues. FRI FRI Villani learns he's been awarded the most coveted prize in FRI mathematics, the Fields Medal. FRI FRI Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI FRI Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Author: Cedric Villani FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b054tss6 (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 b05564zs (Listen) FRI Ladder of Years, The Filling of White Hours FRI FRI by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. FRI FRI Episode Five - The Filling of White Hours FRI FRI Little by little Delia Grinstead's new life in the sleepy FRI town of Bay Borough is beginning to feel less solitary. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI Credits FRI Delia: Nancy Crane FRI Narrator: Barbara Barnes FRI Sam: Nathan Osgood FRI Mr Pomfret: Stephen Critchlow FRI Belle: Jane Slavin FRI Eliza: Jessica Turner FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Author: Anne Tyler FRI Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz FRI FRI 11:00 Don't Log Off b054tl71 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Dependence FRI FRI Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing FRI the real life dramas of strangers he randomly encounters. In FRI this episode he explores dependency, hearing from a young FRI German woman who fell into a coma while in Ireland, and a FRI workaholic in Singapore punishing his body with drink. FRI FRI Producer Emma Betteridge. FRI FRI 11:30 Cleaning Up b054tl73 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI Sitcom about a group of night-time office cleaners in FRI Manchester. FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b054qd0z (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b054tl75 (Listen) FRI 13 March 1915 - Davy Wardle FRI FRI The men at Marshalls are spoiling for a fight. FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Fannon: Shaun Prendergast FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner FRI Paul(ine) Caffrey: Daniel Weyman FRI Sergeant Ryker: Simon Harrison FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b054tss8 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b054qd11 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b054tssb (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Promises, Promises: A History of Debt b054tl77 (Listen) FRI Hope FRI FRI To conclude his series, anthropologist David Graeber FRI examines recent events in the context of the long history of FRI debt. FRI FRI According to David, we are currently living in the early FRI years of a new era in which physical money - cash passing FRI from hand to hand - will be replaced by virtual money. There FRI have been many eras of virtual money over the past 5000 FRI years and David argues that we cannot yet know what this FRI latest phase will mean as we are just a few decades years FRI into a historical epoch likely to last 500 years. FRI FRI To put the matter in perspective, capitalism's existence as FRI an economic system has been entirely within one oscillation FRI back and forth between physical and virtual money. There is FRI every reason to believe that, if we are indeed heading FRI towards a long period of virtual money, the predominant FRI economic system in this period might also be something FRI different. FRI FRI David Graeber argues that, when the creditor has all the FRI power, the repayment of debt becomes a sacrosanct principle FRI and writing it off becomes inconceivable. The events of the FRI 2008 financial crash provide us with a perfect example. When FRI the banks were poised to go under, they were bailed out even FRI if it meant making billions of pounds worth of debt FRI disappear through a taxpayer funded injection of cash. By FRI contrast, no matter what the circumstances, the requirement FRI for small-scale debtors to pay back at agreed rates of FRI interest was considered a matter of simple morality. FRI FRI The financial crash might be over, but the international FRI debt crisis continues. David concludes by arguing that we FRI need to reinstate the ancient and medieval customs of FRI institutionalised debt forgiveness in order to get out of FRI our current malaise. FRI FRI Producer: Max O'Brien FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b054t9hj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b054tl7c (Listen) FRI The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Dish of Yesterday FRI FRI A new two-part dramatisation of Alexander McCall Smith's FRI latest No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency book, 'The Handsome FRI Man's Deluxe Cafe'. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi return to FRI Radio 4 for an eleventh series based on the popular novels FRI set in Botswana, dramatised by the author. FRI FRI Episode 2 : The Dish of Yesterday FRI FRI Mma Ramotswe decides to put her new intern on the case, FRI while Mma Makutsi's distinctive approach to the restaurant FRI business raises eyebrows. FRI FRI Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict FRI Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall FRI Mma Potokwani: Janice Acquah FRI Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe FRI Charlie: Maynard Eziashi FRI Phuti Radiphuti: Jude Akuwudike FRI Alice Bombwe: Amaka Okafor FRI Mr Sengupta: Kulvinder Ghir FRI Chef: Obi Abili FRI Maria: Anna Bengo FRI Violet: Anna Bengo FRI Director: Eilidh McCreadie FRI Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith FRI Author: Alexander McCall Smith FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b054tl7f (Listen) FRI Dartmouth FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Dartmouth, Devon. Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and FRI Matthew Wilson join him to answer the questions from the FRI audience. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b0552bqx (Listen) FRI New Irish Writing, Tommy and Moon FRI FRI A new series of original stories from some of Ireland's most FRI exciting writers. FRI FRI Donal Ryan (The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December) FRI brings us to Limerick where a young writer befriends a local FRI octogenarian, Tommy, and discovers the beauty within the FRI man. Eimear McBride (A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing) takes us FRI into a world of dark family secrets and revenge, while FRI playwright Rosemary Jenkinson reflects on the changing FRI landscape of Belfast and its mythology as a young girl FRI believes she's discovered the fairy folk in the hill behind FRI her home. FRI FRI Writer ..... Donal Ryan FRI Reader ..... Liam O'Brien FRI Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Donal Ryan FRI Reader: Liam O'Brien FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b054tssd (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b054tssg (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b054tmrf (Listen) FRI Jan and Kate - A Bolt from the Blue FRI FRI Jan's diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease has been balanced FRI to a certain extent by the news that she will soon be a FRI grandmother. She and her daughter face their uncertain FRI future, introduced by Fi Glover in another conversation in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI 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 b054tssj (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b054qd13 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b054tmrh (Listen) FRI Series 86, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, who is joined by Andy Hamilton, Sara Pascoe and FRI Andrew Maxwell, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Andy Hamilton FRI Panellist: Sara Pascoe FRI Panellist: Andrew Maxwell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b054tmrk (Listen) FRI Fallon is thinking outside the box, and Shula has a FRI difficult call to make. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Rosemary Watts 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 Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b054tssl (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05564zs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b054tmrm (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Wirral High School. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b054tmrp (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b054tnzn (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 9-13 March 1915 FRI FRI The Battle of Neuve Chapelle drew to a close while the men FRI at Marshalls are spoiling for a fight. FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Gladys Lowther: Elaine Claxton FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Arnold Reynolds: Neil Grainger FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Dr Stratham: Sam Dale FRI Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian FRI Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor FRI Andrew Williams: Neil Grainger FRI Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield FRI Beth: Hannah Wood FRI Telegram: Shaun Mason FRI Workman: Gerard McDermott FRI Martha: Chelsea Halfpenny FRI Clyde: Tom Mannion FRI Landlord: Neil Grainger FRI Man: Simon Harrison FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b054qd15 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b054tnzq (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b054tnzs (Listen) FRI The Buried Giant, Episode 10 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 On their journey they encounter knights, holy men and FRI warriors. With the she-dragon Querig slain and memory FRI restored, the land faces a dark future as old wounds are FRI laid bare. With Beatrice weakening, the couple continue FRI their journey to find their son but buried memories of their FRI own lives are also stirring. 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 b054qc28 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b054tnzv (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b054tp01 (Listen) FRI Emma and Claire - The Importance of Being First FRI FRI Even now they are nearing forty, people still confuse these FRI twins. Yet they make it clear how much they differ from each FRI other in this conversation introduced by Fi Glover, in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
06 March, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 07/03/2015 - 13/03/2015
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