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SAT SATURDAY 14 MARCH 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b054qd2s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b054tl6z (Listen) SAT Birth of a Theorem, The Fields Medal SAT SAT Rock-star mathematician Cédric Villani's quest to tame a new SAT theorem continues. SAT SAT Villani learns he's been awarded the most coveted prize in SAT mathematics, the Fields Medal. SAT SAT Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT SAT Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Author: Cedric Villani SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT Producer: Gemma Jenkins SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b054qd2v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b054qd2x (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b054qd2z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b054qd31 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b054tp5x (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev Dr Lesley SAT Carroll. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b054tp5z (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b054qd33 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b054qd35 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b054t79t (Listen) SAT Series 29, Hertfordshire - Bell-Ringers SAT SAT The theme of this series of Ramblings is 'bonding' and this SAT week Clare walks with a group who bond, not just through SAT walking, but through their shared passion for bell-ringing. SAT Twice a year, Janet Betham and a fellow Janet organise what SAT have become known as "Janets' Jaunts", where a number of SAT bell-ringers gather together for a ramble between two SAT churches. They ring bells at the start of the walk, stop for SAT a pub-lunch mid-way, and ring again at their destination SAT bell-tower. Join Clare Balding for one of her most unusual SAT Ramblings to date. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT The New River Path SAT SAT Janets' Jaunts - the group SAT SAT In the ringing chamber SAT SAT Great Amwell Church SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Janet Betham SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b055766v (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Renewable Energy SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b054qd37 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b055766x (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b055766z (Listen) SAT Gordon Buchanan SAT SAT The wildlife cameraman and presenter, Gordon Buchanan, joins SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. SAT He's spent his life getting close to wild animals - SAT following black bears in Minnesota, travelling to the remote SAT Canadian Arctic to film wolves and coming face to face with SAT a 1000 lb polar bear! SAT SAT Saturday Live listener, Chrissi Kelly, talks about Anosmia: SAT the impact losing her smell has had on her life, the smells SAT that she misses most and how she spends her Saturdays 'smell SAT training'. SAT SAT JP Devlin hears stories from members of the public at SAT Chapelfield Shopping Centre in Norwich. SAT SAT Noel Fitzpatrick is Professor of Orthopaedics and "The SAT Supervet". He describes how growing up on a farm and being SAT unable to save a lamb led to him becoming a vet, how he uses SAT the latest technology to pioneer techniques to save or SAT improve the lives of pets, and some of his handiwork, SAT including building new paws for a cat called Oscar who had SAT an unfortunate encounter with a combine harvester. SAT SAT The actor, Rafe Spall, shares his Inheritance Tracks - SAT Cherry Coloured Funk by the Cocteau Twins & And So Is Love SAT by Kate Bush. SAT SAT And Jerry Grayson talks about his life as the youngest SAT helicopter pilot to serve in the Royal Navy's Search and SAT Rescue force, and working flying in aerial action scenes for SAT films such as Black Hawk Down and the James Bond movie A SAT View to a Kill. SAT SAT Gordon Buchanan is appearing at the Royal Geographic Society SAT on 17 March. SAT The Supervet is on Channel 4 on Thursdays at 8pm. SAT X + Y starring Rafe Spall is in cinemas now. SAT Rescue Pilot - Cheating the Sea, by Jerry Grayson, is SAT published by Bloomsbury. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT JP meets "Alan Partridge" SAT JP meets "Alan Partridge" at Chapelfield Shopping Centre in SAT Norwich. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Gordon Buchanan SAT Interviewed Guest: Chrissi Kelly SAT Interviewed Guest: Noel Fitzpatrick SAT Interviewed Guest: Rafe Spall SAT Interviewed Guest: Jerry Grayson SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Did Douglas Get It Right? b0557671 (Listen) SAT In the year 2000, at the turn of the new millennium, Douglas SAT Adams made a radio series offering a vision of the future SAT that new technology would offer. He looked at the fast SAT changing music scene, the coming of e-books, the future for SAT broadcasting and made his predictions for what he described SAT as 'extreme evolution'. But did he get it right? SAT SAT Best known for 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', SAT Douglas Adams was a huge fan of new technology and predicted SAT an exciting future for the 21st century. Sadly he did not SAT live to see it, as he died aged 49 in 2001. SAT SAT Now Mitch Benn takes on the challenge of seeing what Douglas SAT got right, and what he got wrong. The radio series was SAT called 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future', and 15 years SAT after its first broadcast we hear the voice of Douglas SAT Adams, a passionate advocate for technology, once again. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0557673 (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b054qd39 (Listen) SAT News and current affairs story-telling. In this edition, the SAT foreign fighters signing up to join the battle against SAT Islamic State; China's political event of the year is coming SAT to an end with most people completely unaware of what's been SAT going on there; could Indian Bollywood inspire Pakistan to SAT lavish more attention on one of its ancient cities, SAT crumbling through neglect? There's a close encounter with SAT the surprisingly flexible tax authorities in Bamako, the SAT capital of Mali and with a horseman who could well be the SAT oldest gaucho in Chilean Patagonia. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b054qd3c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0557675 (Listen) SAT New Banking Kids on the Block, Selling Annuities for Cash, SAT Structured Products SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT Twenty firms are queuing up to join the challenge to the big SAT High Street banks. Some names you may not even have heard of SAT before like Charter Savings Bank. Money Box looks at the SAT current crop of challenger banks and outlines how they are SAT trying to attract our custom. Anna Bowes from Savings SAT Champion joins the programme. SAT SAT With all the talk of the pension freedoms coming into force SAT on april 6th, there are six million people excluded as they SAT have already used their pension savings to buy an annuity. SAT There's been much speculation this week that there may be an SAT announcement in the Budget on Wednesday that might allow SAT annuity holders to sell them for cash. Pensions Minister SAT Steve Webb and Chris Noon from Hymans Robertson speak to the SAT programme. SAT SAT The City Regulator, the FCA, has issued a warning about SAT complex investments called structured products. It's ordered SAT a fresh clampdown on the marketing of structured products SAT after research found customers do not understand them and SAT overestimate the return they'll get. Ian Head, Fund SAT Management and finanical services consumer specialist SAT Dominic Lindlay debate the issues. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b054tmrh (Listen) SAT Series 86, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, who is joined by Andy Hamilton, Sara Pascoe and SAT Andrew Maxwell, alongside regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Andy Hamilton SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT Panellist: Andrew Maxwell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b054qd3f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b054qd3h (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b054tmrm (Listen) SAT Ken Clarke MP, Suzanne Evans, Tim Farron MP, Phil Redmond. SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the Wirral SAT Grammar School for Girls with former Chancellor of the SAT Exchequer, Ken Clarke MP, Deputy Chairman of UKIP Suzanne SAT Evans, Former President of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron SAT MP, TV Producer Phil Redmond. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0557677 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b05577qg (Listen) SAT The Norman Conquests, Living Together SAT SAT The Norman Conquests are considered the masterworks of Alan SAT Ayckbourn, our foremost comedy dramatist. Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT and Helen Baxendale lead a stellar cast through the SAT intricacies of these three interlinked comedies about a SAT charming, compulsive philanderer, broadcast over the next SAT three Saturdays. They can be listened to in any order, or SAT one play enjoyed on its own. SAT SAT Music arranged and performed by Stephen Benham SAT SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT Credits SAT Norman: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Annie: Helen Baxendale SAT Tom: Nigel Planer SAT Reg: Jeff Rawle SAT Sarah: Clare Lawrence-Moody SAT Ruth: Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Director: Peter Kavanagh SAT Writer: Alan Ayckbourn SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b055ddk4 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Kristin Scott Thomas, Julie Andrews, SAT Diana Henry SAT SAT Kirsten Scott Thomas will be talking about her latest film SAT Suite Francaise the story of a young woman living with her SAT mother in law whilst her husband is a prisoner of war. SAT SAT We hear from the activist, Oby Ezekwesili, who started the SAT #BringBackOurGirls campaign who explains why she refuses to SAT give up and believes all girls have the right to an SAT education. SAT SAT Ahead of Mothering Sunday we look at "The Daughterhood," a SAT group aimed at helping women improve their relationship with SAT their mum or at least accept the one they currently have. SAT SAT Julie Andrews reflects on her award winning career - 50 SAT years after the release of The Sound of Music. SAT SAT Plus we look at what it means to be a Black Feminist? What SAT separates Black feminism from mainstream feminism and is it SAT necessary? SAT SAT And Diana Henry talks about her latest cookbook called A SAT Bird in the Hand which features just recipes for chicken. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Shoku Amirani SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Kristin Scott Thomas SAT Kristin Scott Thomas stars in a new film "Suite Francaise" SAT based on the international best- selling novel by Irene SAT Némirovsky. The half-finished novel was discovered by her SAT daughter having laid in a suitcase in the attic fifty years SAT after Irene’s death in a concentration camp in 1942. Suite SAT Francaise is a romantic drama set during the Second World SAT War German occupation of France and tells the story of SAT Lucile as she awaits news from her husband – a prisoner of SAT war, whilst leading a stifled existence with her domineering SAT mother-in-law, played by Kristin Scott Thomas. She joins SAT Jenni to talk about the extraordinary story behind the book, SAT the problem of ageism in the film industry and why she is SAT giving up films for the theatre. SAT SAT Bring Back Our Girls SAT The extraordinary activist, Oby Ezekwesili, who started the SAT #BringBackOurGirls SAT campaign to rescue more than 200 Chibok girls who were SAT abducted by Boko Haram in April 2014, arrived in London from SAT Nigeria on Saturday 7th March to speak at the WOW Festival SAT at London’s Southbank Centre. Oby joined Jane in the Woman’s SAT Hour glass box at WOW to highlight that the abducted girls SAT are still missing and the world must not move on until they SAT are home. Oby also explains why she refuses to give up and SAT why she believes all girls have the right to an education. SAT SAT Daughterhood SAT Do you, as a daughter, have a good, bad or guilty SAT relationship with your mother? Do you sometimes wonder how SAT other women manage to navigate this complex, sometimes SAT frustrating and joyous relationship… and want to improve SAT your own? Irish Times columnist Roisin Ingle and confidence SAT expert Natasha Fennell got together to form “The SAT Daughterhood,” a group of women who met monthly to discuss SAT how they got on with their mothers and to work out a SAT strategy for improving or at least accepting their SAT individual circumstances. They join Jenni to discuss what SAT they found. SAT SAT Can Porn Empower Women? Phone-In SAT SAT In a special programme for International Women's Day Jane SAT Garvey hosted the Woman's Hour debate, where guests SAT discussed the motion Porn Can Empower Women. Continuing the SAT conversation, Psychotherapist Philippa Perry joins Jane as SAT listeners discuss the topic. SAT SAT Julie Andrews SAT Fifty years since the iconic film The Sound of Music was SAT released, Julie Andrews reflects on her award winning career SAT in which she has been a child performer, a Broadway star, an SAT Oscar winning film actress and an author of children’s SAT books. A DVD celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film SAT has just been released and includes a new documentary in SAT which Julie returns to Salzburg to retrace the story of the SAT Von Trapp family. SAT SAT Black Feminism SAT If you’re a regular listener of Woman’s Hour, you’ll have SAT heard different women discuss the values that underpin their SAT feminism. We look at what it means to be a Black Feminist. SAT What separates Black feminism from mainstream feminism and SAT is it necessary? Chardine Taylor-Stone is a writer, SAT musician, activist and the curator of an event celebrating SAT Black feminism that’ll be at the Black Cultural Archives in SAT Brixton, South London this Saturday. Heidi Mirza is a SAT professor of Race, Faith & Culture in the Sociology SAT department at Goldsmiths University. SAT SAT Diana Henry SAT Award winning food writer Diana Henry is back in the Woman’s SAT Hour Studio rustling up a tangy Turkish inspired fresh and SAT spicy salsa to be served with the subject of her new book: SAT chicken. *‘A Bird in the Hand’ *is Henry’s 9th cook book and SAT celebrates the meat, with recipes from around the world, and SAT meals ranging from comfort food to celebratory feasts. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Kristin Scott Thomas SAT Interviewed Guest: Oby Ezekwesili SAT Interviewed Guest: Julie Andrews SAT Interviewed Guest: Diana Henry SAT Producer: Shoku Amirani SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b055ddk6 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b054t9hq (Listen) SAT Going Global SAT SAT Whether you're selling breakfast cereals, criminal tags or SAT excavator buckets, expanding your business overseas can be a SAT game changer. But when's the right time to export and which SAT countries should you target? Evan Davis and guests discuss SAT the ups and downs of trading internationally. They'll share SAT their stories on why it can be easier to sell abroad than at SAT home, how to adapt products for a new market and why doing SAT your homework can ensure that nothing is lost in SAT translation. Top tips on how to make exporting a business SAT boost not a foreign flop. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Sara Murray, Founder and CEO, Buddi SAT SAT Giles Turrell, CEO, Weetabix SAT SAT Jacqui Miller, Director, Miller International. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b054qd3k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b054qd3m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b054qd3p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b055ddk8 (Listen) SAT Scottee, Esther Rantzen, Danny Brocklehurst, Rick Edwards, SAT Tyrone Huggins, Jose Gonzalez, C Duncan SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Esther Rantzen, Danny SAT Brocklehurst, Rick Edwards, and Tyrone Huggins for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from José González and C Duncan. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Esther Rantzen SAT ‘Silver Linings’ is available now on U.M.T.V. SAT SAT Tyrone Huggins SAT ‘The Honey Man’ is at The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead on SAT Tuesday 17th, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London on Wednesday SAT 18th and Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds on Thursday 19th SAT March. SAT SAT Danny Brocklehurst SAT ‘Ordinary Lies’ is on Tuesday 17th March at 21.00 on BBC SAT One. SAT SAT Rick Edwards SAT ‘None Of The Above’ is published by Simon & Schuster and SAT available now. SAT SAT C Duncan SAT C Duncan’s playing at The Lock Tavern, London on Thursday SAT 2nd and The Poetry Club, Glasgow on Friday 3rd April. SAT SAT José González SAT ‘Vestiges And Claws’ is out now on Peacefrog Records. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Esther Rantzen SAT Interviewed Guest: Danny Brocklehurst SAT Interviewed Guest: Rick Edwards SAT Interviewed Guest: Tyrone Huggins SAT Performer: Jose Gonzalez SAT Performer: C Duncan SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b055ddkb (Listen) SAT Nigel Dodds SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles the DUP's leader at Westminister, Nigel SAT Dodds, one of a number of possible post-election kingmakers. SAT Dodds, furious to find his party excluded from the leaders' SAT debates, is now being watched carefully to see which - if SAT any - other parties he might support in coalition. Nigel SAT Dodds is conservative and religious. He is opposed to gay SAT marriage and abortion and believes Britain would be better SAT off outside of the EU. But does that really tell us where he SAT might put his support? SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b055ddkd (Listen) SAT Alexander McQueen, Suite Francaise, X+Y, Antigone, Tom SAT McCarthy SAT SAT When an exhibition of the fashion creations of Alexander SAT McQueen opened in New York, visitors queued for up to 5 SAT hours to get in. It's now at London's Victoria and Albert SAT Museum; will it be such a crowd-puller SAT Suite Francaise - Irene Nemerovski's wartime novel SAT (discovered more than six decades after her death) was a SAT best seller. Can it repeat its success as a film? SAT X+Y is a film about a young maths prodigy who is on the SAT autistic spectrum. It deals with his participation in the SAT International Mathematical Olympiad and growing up SAT emotionally SAT Juliette Binoche plays the lead in Antigone at London's SAT Barbican Theatre. Directed by Ivo Von Hove, it's caused a SAT lot of advance excitement. SAT Tom McCarthy's new novel Satin Island is a meditation on SAT contemporary society that some reviewers have accused of SAT ditching tradionally novelistic techniques like plot and SAT character. Is it all the better for it? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Helen Lewis, Dominic Sandbrook SAT and Kit Davis. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty SAT The exhibition SAT Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty SAT is at the V&A Museum in London until 2nd August 2015. SAT Main Image: Alexander McQueen, Jellyfish ensemble and SAT Armadillo shoes, Plato's Atlantis, S/S 2010, Model: Polina SAT Kasina, © Lauren Greenfield/Institute. SAT SAT Suite Francaise SAT Directed by Saul Dibb, the film SAT Suite Francaise SAT is in cinemas from Friday 13 March, certificate 15. SAT SAT X + Y SAT Directed by Morgan Matthews, the film SAT X + Y SAT is in cinemas from Friday 13 March, certificate 12A. SAT SAT Antigone SAT A new translation by Anne Carson, directed by Ivo van Hove, SAT Antigone SAT is at the Barbican Centre in London until 28 March 2015. SAT SAT Satin Island SAT The book SAT Satin Island SAT is published by Jonathan Cape. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Lewis SAT Interviewed Guest: Dominic Sandbrook SAT Interviewed Guest: Kit Davis SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 The Public Philosopher b055dfr8 (Listen) SAT Why Democracy? SAT SAT Harvard professor Michael Sandel is Radio 4's 'Public SAT Philosopher', guiding audiences through complex moral SAT philosophical dilemmas. For the BBC's Democracy Day, SAT Professor Sandel recorded this special edition of The Public SAT Philosopher inside the Palace of Westminster, challenging SAT his audience of MPs, Peers and the public to think deeply SAT about the true nature of democracy. SAT SAT Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 20:45 Afternoon Reading b00826cw (Listen) SAT Alan Howard Reads, The Sentence SAT SAT By Nina Raine. A judge looks back on his childhood and a SAT story that he told his children. Read by Alan Howard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Alan Howard SAT Writer: Nina Raine SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b054pfn7 (Listen) SAT John Gabriel Borkman, Episode 1 SAT SAT Henrik Ibsen's rarely-performed but all-too-pertinent play SAT about the dangerous pursuit of power. A new production from SAT a version by David Eldridge. SAT SAT Part 1. SAT SAT David Threlfall stars as John Gabriel Borkman, a disgraced SAT banker now destitute after a fraud scandal and imprisonment. SAT Whilst trapped in his own home like a wolf in a cage, the SAT living ghosts of his past wrestle to determine his future. SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT John Gabriel Borkman: David Threlfall SAT Miss Ella Rentheim: Susannah Harker SAT Mrs Gunhild Borkman: Gillian Bevan SAT Vilhelm Foldal: Philip Jackson SAT Erhart Borkman: Luke Newberry SAT Mrs Fanny Wilton: Jenny Rainsford SAT Malene: Claire Cage SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT Author: Henrik Ibsen SAT Adaptor: David Eldridge SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b054qd3r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b054qfjx (Listen) SAT The Morality of Social Inclusion SAT SAT While other countries have their violent social revolutions, SAT we in Britain tend to confine our class conflict to less SAT bloody battles. Which door you're expected to use has long SAT been a bone of contention. The term "tradesman's entrance" SAT may have fallen victim to the forces of class war, but the SAT concept is resurfacing in luxury housing developments, SAT especially in London. To get planning permission for these SAT prestigious projects, in some of the most desirable SAT postcodes in the capital, the developers are required to SAT include some affordable or social housing. The less well-off SAT tenants are then expected to use separate entrances - so SAT called "poor doors". This form of social apartheid has been SAT dubbed "Dickensian" in a report out this week. It's argued SAT that so publicly dividing society into the "haves" and "have SAT not's" is a symptom of a much greater harm than being SAT deprived of a 24-hour concierge to salute you when you walk SAT through the door. How should people living in a diverse SAT society relate to and interact with one another? The authors SAT of this week's report believe that promoting social SAT integration is a moral good - in the same way as - we've SAT accepted - diversity is a good thing in other aspects of SAT society. Should it be the business of the state to engineer SAT integration? Developers have to maximize their profits to SAT pay for the subsidised social housing - putting in premium SAT services for those paying the market rate for their flats is SAT part of that. Why should those people who are not paying the SAT market price for their home get the same service as those SAT who are paying the full whack? We're quite happy to accept SAT the principle that you get what you pay for in other areas SAT of life - flying for example - so why not in housing? And if SAT we accept the idea of engineering social integration in SAT housing, why not do it in other areas - for example by SAT bussing school children from deprived areas to schools in SAT more affluent districts? Does trying to promote social SAT integration go against the grain of human nature? Studies of SAT mixed housing in the US show that - far from encouraging SAT integration by some kind of social osmosis - it actually SAT entrenches divisions. And what about in our own lives? Do we SAT as individuals have a moral duty to mix socially with people SAT who are different from us? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b054pp3m (Listen) SAT Heat 11, 2015 SAT SAT (11/17) SAT In the name of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, SAT what does the 'hebdo' part mean? And which two cities did SAT Winston Churchill cite in 1946 as the northern and southern SAT end-points of the newly-created 'Iron Curtain'? SAT SAT The eleventh heat of radio's longest-running general SAT knowledge quiz is chaired by Russell Davies. Competitors SAT from London, Surrey and Bristol vie for one of the few SAT remaining semi-final places, and a chance to take another SAT crucial step towards the title of 62nd Brain of Britain. SAT SAT The Brains will also face a challenge from a listener hoping SAT to defeat their combined knowledge with his or her own SAT question suggestions. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT DIDIER BRUYERE, a scientist from Bristol SAT SAT JESSICA EASTWOOD, a Hansard reporter from London SAT SAT PETER HARDY, a writer and teacher from Mitcham in Surrey SAT SAT ANDREW RUDDLE, a freelance researcher from West Molesey in SAT Surrey SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b054pfnc (Listen) SAT Shakespeare's Sonnets SAT SAT Roger McGough with a selection of Shakespeare's passionate, SAT jealous and lustful sonnets read in new and archive SAT recordings by some favourite Poetry Please actors. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT Sonnet nos: SAT SAT 2, 18, 25, 27, 29, 30, 45, 49, 60, 65, 71, 73, 91, 94, 97, SAT 104, 113, 114, 116, 130, 138 and 141 SAT SAT By William Shakespeare SAT SAT Taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnets SAT SAT Published by Duckworth Overlook SAT SAT And SAT SAT The Sonnets – William Shakespeare SAT SAT Published by Everyman SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b055dgsd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Aunt Mirrie and the Child b055dttn (Listen) SUN A new short story from award-winning author Kate Clanchy SUN about what we inherit, and what we pass on. SUN SUN Kate Clanchy was born and grew up in Scotland but now lives SUN in Oxford. She is an award-winning novelist, short story SUN writer and poet. Her work includes poetry collections SUN 'Slattern', 'Samarkand' and 'Newborn' and the acclaimed SUN novel 'Antigona and Me'. Her first novel, 'Meeting the SUN English', was published by Picador in 2013 and was SUN shortlisted for the 2013 Costa First Book Award. SUN SUN 'Aunt Mirrie and the Child' will appear in her forthcoming SUN collection of short stories, 'The Not-Dead and the Saved', SUN which will be published by Picador in 2015. SUN SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b055dgsg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b055dgsj (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b055dgsl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b055dgsn (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b055dttq (Listen) SUN The bells of the Church of St. Petroc, South Brent in Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b054tfhp (Listen) SUN Michael Symmons Roberts SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN LENT TALK SUN SUN *‘**Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not SUN hope / Because I do not hope to turn**’**... * SUN SUN SUN SUN Perhaps the most famous Lenten poem of the 20th Century, TS SUN Eliot’s ‘Ash Wednesday’ - steeped in Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’ - SUN is full of faith and doubt. As a relatively recent convert SUN at the time of writing, in the late 1920’s, Eliot says he SUN has turned from the world to God, but is all too aware of SUN the risk of turning back. He does not hope to turn again. SUN But he might. SUN SUN SUN SUN When I first read that poem, as a would-be poet in my late SUN teens, an atheist whose faith in godlessness was on the SUN slide, I’m not sure how much of it I understood, but I loved SUN the sound of it, and the smell of it, the reek of ashes. SUN SUN SUN SUN The power of Ash Wednesday, Eliot’s poem, the liturgy, all SUN points towards opposites, polarities: God and the world, SUN life and death, good and evil, the desert and the garden. SUN Those words from the Ash Wednesday liturgy *You are dust, SUN and to dust you shall return *come from the Book of Genesis. SUN They are the last words spoken by God to Adam and Eve as SUN they are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. SUN SUN SUN SUN Is this the role of Lent in the pattern of the year? A SUN reminder of mortality, a foreshadowing of what will come to SUN all of us? I used to see it that way. Now I think it’s the SUN opposite. That visible mark on the brow with imposition of SUN ashes to begin Lent on Ash Wednesday gives the lie to our SUN claimed mastery of the world and of ourselves. Dust. Ash. SUN Body. A re-calibration. It’s a counterweight to extremes of SUN belief and unbelief, a counterweight to violence and hubris, SUN to the risk that we start to believe our own propaganda. If SUN this is spirituality, then it’s not the kind that comes as SUN ether, perfume. It is costly. SUN SUN SUN SUN The German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about ‘costly SUN grace’, and contrasted it with ‘cheap grace’. Cheap grace SUN changes nothing, he said, but true grace costs you your SUN life. It is the pearl of great price, the one you sell SUN everything to buy. Bonhoeffer’s own life was taken in a SUN concentration camp in 1945, for opposing the Nazis. SUN SUN SUN SUN And reminders of that costly grace are everywhere in our SUN culture. You can’t walk more than a few steps in the SUN National Gallery without being confronted by the Passion of SUN Christ. However secular, everyone can marvel at the costly SUN grace of a Raphael painting of the crucifixion. SUN SUN SUN SUN But there are parts of the National Gallery that most of us SUN shuffle past in tight-lipped silence. These paintings depict SUN the same story - the passion of Christ - but as the SUN National’s former Director, Neil McGregor, says in his SUN magisterial book ‘The Image of Christ’, modern viewers may SUN find them ‘disturbing’ and ‘morbid’. These are paintings of SUN the wounds. Thirsty saints pucker up to drink the blood from SUN the spear wound in Christ’s side, or gaze lovingly at lurid SUN close-ups of the nails puncturing his hands and feet. SUN SUN SUN SUN This, perhaps, is the hardest mental leap for a contemporary SUN observer. The medieval tradition of devotion to the wounds SUN of Christ was not simply a shock tactic. Those wounds were SUN also doors, openings onto hope and healing. But also proof. SUN All those paintings of doubting Thomas sticking his finger SUN into the open wound in Christ’s side are meant to underline SUN the flesh and blood reality of Jesus. SUN SUN SUN SUN In my teens and early twenties, as a confirmed atheist, I SUN recall being particularly repulsed by what I felt was a SUN wilful morbidity, a glorying in suffering, at the heart of SUN Christian iconography. SUN SUN SUN SUN But then along came Wim Wenders. Well, it wasn’t just Wim SUN Wenders, but the release of the German director’s fantasy SUN ‘Wings of Desire’ in the late 1980’s certainly helped to SUN shift my perspective. I was first drawn to the film because SUN I’d read it was influenced by the German poet Rilke, and in SUN particular Rilke’s mysterious, terrifying angels. Since I SUN wanted to know more about Rilke’s poetry, I decided to give SUN the film a go. SUN SUN SUN SUN I was in my early twenties at the time, still nominally an SUN atheist, and I was not ‘in a good place’, as they say, SUN emotionally or physically. I was stuck in the wrong job, in SUN the wrong city, in a rented box room in a shared house. I SUN couldn’t afford to go out, and knew no-one there to go out SUN with. I’d had episodes of depression since childhood, but SUN this was a particularly bad one. It’s not an unfamiliar SUN story, and I knew I was more fortunate than many. But it put SUN me in a state of uncertainty and questioning. SUN SUN SUN SUN So I watched, through the blizzard on the screen of my small SUN black and white portable TV, ‘Wings of Desire’. It’s a SUN classic now, and led to many imitations. But at the time it SUN hit home. What it depicts is an angel, wonderfully played by SUN Bruno Ganz, choosing to make a slow and painful descent into SUN becoming earthly, becoming mortal. He falls in love with one SUN of us mortals, a trapeze artist no less, and sacrifices the SUN safe world of the immortals to step into ours. This SUN transition from eternity to broken, beautiful mortality is SUN indicated by a crossing from black and white film to colour. SUN The angel wants to be fully alive, and to be fully alive SUN means risk, woundedness, pain and loss, but he knows this is SUN the price of love, of self-giving, of beauty. SUN SUN SUN SUN Something about that film got to me. Wim Wenders’ angels SUN were a gateway drug to the angels of Rainer Maria Rilke, but SUN Rilke’s angels were different - terrifyingly beautiful, SUN incomprehensible to us. I started reading his poems with a SUN kind of hunger. He wasn’t a conventional religious believer, SUN his work was full of mystical and philosophical power. The SUN film, and the Rilke poems that followed, weren’t any kind of SUN Damascene moment, but they came at a key moment for me as a SUN poet and as a person struggling towards a kind of faith, no SUN longer convinced by materialism. SUN SUN SUN SUN At the time, I felt that many of the poems I was reading in SUN the 1980’s were, well, a bit tame. There were honourable SUN exceptions, of course, but a lot of poems seemed to be SUN content to function as re-hashed diary pages, family SUN anecdotes or ‘a funny thing happened on my way to…’. In SUN comparison, Rilke’s ‘Duino Elegies’, with their opening line SUN ‘If I cried out, who would hear me among the hierarchies of SUN angels?’ their existential struggle between meaning and SUN despair, seemed to be a different art form. It’s no SUN coincidence that for many poets of my generation, Rilke SUN became a key figure. SUN SUN SUN SUN I found myself increasingly drawn to read poems that SUN explored these great themes of suffering and redemption. And SUN they weren’t hard to find. In the imagery and themes of the SUN Christian story, and in particular the Passion, poets found SUN powerful ways to explore human experience. SUN SUN SUN SUN Even in the 20th Century, some of the major poets in Britain SUN and America worked that vein. The first poem I read in SUN Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Collected Poems’ when it came out in the SUN 1980’s was a poem called ‘Genesis’, and the stanza that SUN leapt out at me was this: ‘By blood we live, the hot, the SUN cold, / To ravage and redeem the world: / There is no SUN bloodless myth will hold.’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Is that true? It ran counter to the prevailing sense of SUN spirituality at the time, which seemed to offer more of a SUN lifestyle top-up, a candle or a chant to ease the pressures SUN of a busy life. Since then, the word ‘spirituality’ has been SUN diluted so completely that it seems to mean any heightened SUN emotion, from a nice bit of interior design to an uplifting SUN piece of music. In fact, I’m thinking of campaigning for the SUN word ‘spiritual’ to be given a 10 year moratorium until it SUN recovers its strength. SUN SUN SUN SUN But if real spirituality is not a denial of suffering, but SUN an encounter with it, then what does that mean? And in SUN particular what does it mean for poetry? The only way I can SUN answer that is to say I’m still trying to work it out, SUN through my own writing, and the reading of others. Alongside SUN Rilke, two of the biggest influences on me learning to write SUN in my teens and twenties were two great 20th Century SUN American poets - John Berryman and Marianne Moore. And they SUN seem to point in opposite directions in the way they lived SUN out their vocation. SUN SUN SUN SUN For the tormented Berryman, who took his own life at the age SUN of 57, jumping from the Washington Bridge in Minneapolis SUN onto the frozen banks of the Mississippi below, the SUN relationship between a Christian understanding of suffering, SUN and the practice of writing poetry, was very direct. He SUN believed in what he called ‘the God of rescue’, who had SUN intervened in his own life at times of personal crisis, many SUN of which were bound up with alcoholism. SUN SUN SUN SUN But Berryman’s most infamous ‘theology of poetry’ came in a SUN Paris Review interview in 1970 when he didn’t just seem to SUN accept suffering as part of the price of art, he seemed to SUN court it. Citing Beethoven’s deafness and Milton’s SUN blindness, he says the artist is ‘extremely lucky’ if he SUN suffers a terrible ordeal but isn’t killed by it. ‘At that SUN point’, says Berryman chillingly, ‘he’s in business’. He SUN ends the interview wishing all kind of terrible affliction SUN upon himself for the good of his work, ending with the SUN phrase ‘I hope to be nearly crucified.’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Within a month of John Berryman’s death in 1972, another SUN great American poet was laid to rest in New York. But SUN Marianne Moore died at the ripe old age of 84, having SUN quietly crafted a body of work now seen as one of the key SUN foundation stones of modern poetry. For Moore, who thought SUN it was ‘not possible to live without religious faith’, there SUN was a very different theology of poetry. Not for her SUN Berryman’s wish to be crucified. She described her work more SUN in terms of craft: ‘I am governed by the pull of the SUN sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Berryman’s mad and wonderful Dream Songs are full of hope, SUN despair and the bleakest humour. Moore’s intricate SUN tapestries of sound are no less aware of, or grounded in, SUN human struggle and suffering, but these two poets’ lives SUN could not have been more different. In one of her most SUN famous poems ‘What Are Years’, Moore asks ‘What is our SUN innocence, / what is our guilt? All are / naked, none is SUN safe.’ That last line, ‘All are naked, none is safe’ is for SUN me one of those rare poetic lines that you hear once and SUN never forget. SUN SUN SUN SUN As a poet trying to write in some of the same territory as SUN these two - the ground of faith and doubt inflected through SUN the Christian tradition - I was struck by what they shared, SUN despite the apparent gulf between their different SUN understandings of the poetic vocation. Both believed that SUN poetry should encompass our greatest hopes and fears, our SUN suffering and our joy, and both wrote in a tradition where SUN those big questions are inextricably bound up with one big SUN story, the story of the passion. SUN SUN SUN SUN At various points in my own work, I’ve tried to address the SUN passion. It doesn’t get any easier. The most recent attempt, SUN in my last book ‘Drysalter’ does it through the story of an SUN unknown pilot, crash-landed and wounded on a piece of scrap SUN gorse-land, discovered by the speaker of the poem. In these SUN poems, I tried to keep my eyes fixed on the pilot’s wounds, SUN as the medieval painters had done so determinedly: SUN SUN SUN SUN I pull his right glove off SUN SUN and find a deeper wound. SUN SUN SUN SUN Did this hand flinch SUN SUN in fellow-feeling for the other, SUN SUN SUN SUN upturned like a shucked crab, SUN SUN legs curled in on its agony? SUN SUN SUN SUN His cupped hand holds SUN SUN a catch of blood and rain. SUN SUN SUN SUN Fugitive and parched, SUN SUN I drink from it, SUN SUN SUN SUN and for a moment all the ersatz SUN SUN world, its coincidence and chaos, SUN SUN SUN SUN feels inevitable, utter. SUN SUN SUN SUN This sequence of poems ends with the speaker climbing inside SUN the wound itself, as a place of refuge and healing. But what SUN could that possibly mean? Although I lost my atheism years SUN ago, I still haven’t got to the roots of the extraordinary SUN story of Christ’s passion. And that’s as good a reason as SUN any to keep trying to write about it. SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b055dgsq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b055dtts (Listen) SUN When Soft Voices Die SUN SUN When Soft Voices Die: John McCarthy explores the way smells, SUN tastes and sounds can transport us to our pasts and summon SUN the feelings we had back then. SUN SUN The most famous example of this is Marcel Proust's tasting SUN of a teaspoon of tea and cake crumbs which causes a shudder SUN of pleasure and an involuntary memory of childhood setting SUN him off on a seven volume search of times past. SUN SUN In this programme, John McCarthy reflects on how the SUN experience of involuntary memory can bypass the intellect, SUN surprise us with emotions and sensations we thought we had SUN forgotten and unsettle our sense of self. SUN SUN John remembers how a cool, damp passageway plunged him back SUN into the past, discusses the power of scent with the perfume SUN archivist of Les Senteurs, James Craven, and hears from SUN Justin Champion, a historian, about the music and memories SUN he finds inside and MRI scanner. SUN SUN There are poems by Helen Dunmore, Edward Thomas and Seamus SUN Heaney, music by Schubert and Lou Read and songs sung by SUN Eartha Kitt and Bryan Ferry. SUN SUN The readers are Emily Taaffe, Matthew Addis and Seamus SUN Heaney. SUN SUN Producer: Natalie Steed SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Music, When Soft Voices Die SUN Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN Title: Not Drinking Water SUN Author: Peter Dale SUN Publisher: Anvil Press SUN Title: Digging II SUN Author: Edward Thomas SUN Publisher: Faber SUN Title: Flush (extract) SUN Author: Virginia Woolf SUN Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks SUN Title: Piano SUN Author: DH Lawrence SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Editions SUN Title: Wild strawberries SUN Author: Helen Dunmore SUN Publisher: Bloodaxe SUN Title: Crossings XXXII SUN Author: Seamus Heaney (recording courtesy of RTÉ Radio, SUN Ireland) SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b055dttv (Listen) SUN Starting Again at 67 SUN SUN For Peter and Jill Mortimer, and their son and daughter, SUN it's been a tough few months. 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SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b055dttz (Listen) SUN Comic Relief SUN SUN Emma Freud presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Comic Relief SUN To Give: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope 'Red Nose Day'. SUN Cheques should be made payable to 'Red Nose Day 2015'. SUN SUN Comic Relief SUN SUN Comic Relief is a major charity based in the UK, with a SUN vision of a just world, free from poverty. We work all year SUN round to help make our vision a reality. And in the years SUN since we started out in 1985, with the support of some SUN remarkable people, we’ve achieved amazing things and raised SUN over £950 million for people in great need in the UK and SUN across Africa. SUN SUN The emphasis is on matching up money raised on Red Nose Day SUN with local skills and effort and determination. This Red SUN Nose Day we want to raise money to improve healthcare across SUN Africa and we’d love you to be part of the story, from SUN helping us to provide life-saving vaccines and mosquito nets SUN to training medical staff. SUN SUN Dorothy the Midwife SUN SUN In Iyolwa in Eastern Uganda Dorothy delivered babies at SUN night by the light of her mobile phone. She was so short SUN staffed that one night she even delivered someone’s baby on SUN the same night that she delivered her own. She is so loved SUN that over 50 babies in her town have been called Dorothy, SUN after her. SUN SUN The Old Clinic SUN SUN The old clinic in Iyolwa where there were rats on the SUN floors, bats in the roof and running SUN water and electricity were a distant dream. SUN SUN Building the New Clinic SUN SUN After an appeal on Radio 1, enough money was raised for a SUN new maternity ward in a new Comic Relief funded clinic. This SUN was made possible by 21,000 listeners who donated £3 each SUN after hearing Dorothy tell her story. SUN SUN New Clinic SUN SUN The clinic opened last week and is now ready to serve the SUN 18,000 people who depend on it. It shows what Comic Relief SUN can achieve with the support of people like you. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b055dgsz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b055dgt1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b055dtv1 (Listen) SUN In God's Hands: God Loves Us Even Before We Were Created SUN SUN "God loves even before we were created" - the fourth in a SUN series of Lent services based on this year's Archbishop of SUN Canterbury's Lent Book - Desmond Tutu's 'In God's hands'. SUN Exploring what it means to be made in God's image, the SUN service from St Peter's Cathedral in Belfast also looks SUN forward to St Patrick's Day. The worship is led by Father SUN Ciarán Dallat, with an Address by the Administrator of St SUN Peter's, the Very Rev. Dr, Hugh Kennedy. The St. Peter's SUN Cathedral Schola Cantorum is directed by Nigel McClintock. SUN Producer: Bert Tosh. Lent resources for individuals and SUN groups complementing the programmes are available on the SUN Sunday Worship web pages. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b054tmrp (Listen) SUN Cognitive Decline SUN SUN Tom Shakespeare says increasing wisdom in middle age is at SUN least some compensation for declining cognitive powers. SUN "Wisdom is not the amount you know, it's how you see and how SUN you interpret what you see." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03wpzmk (Listen) SUN Chiffchaff SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Bill Oddie presents the chiffchaff. Chiffchaff are small SUN olive warblers which sing their name as they flit around SUN hunting for insects in woods, marshes and scrubby places. SUN Chiffchaffs are increasing in the UK and the secret of their SUN success is their ability to weather our winters. Many stay SUN in the milder south and south-west of England where the SUN insects are more active. SUN SUN Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b055dzb5 (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 b055dzb7 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Rosemary Watts 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 Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:16 Desert Island Discs b055dzb9 (Listen) SUN Robin Millar SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the record producer, SUN Robin Millar. SUN SUN One of the UK's most successful record producers with over SUN 160 gold, silver and platinum discs, he has over forty-four SUN number one records to his credit. His 1984 production of SUN Sade's debut album, 'Diamond Life', was named one of the SUN best ten albums of the last thirty years at the 2010 Brit SUN Awards. SUN SUN He experienced problems with his eyesight from birth, SUN especially in the dark, and had tunnel vision. Aged 16, a SUN diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa was confirmed and he was SUN told that he would eventually lose his sight completely. On SUN leaving school he studied law at Cambridge before becoming a SUN music producer. The production of Sade's second album SUN coincided with the loss of his remaining sight. In 2012 he SUN underwent a retina implant which gave him some sight but the SUN success was brief and later his body rejected it. SUN SUN He works with a number of charities, mentors young musicians SUN and was given a CBE for services to music in 2010. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Robin Millar SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b055dgt4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b054pq25 (Listen) SUN Series 71, Episode 5 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts this classic comedy panel game with SUN Alun Cochrane, Tony Hawks, Josie Lawrence and Paul Merton, SUN recorded in Canterbury. So naturally, the subjects include SUN 'Canterbury Tales' and 'The Garden of England'. SUN SUN This is series 71 of Radio 4's classic panel game in which SUN the contestants are challenged to speak on a given subject SUN for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, SUN Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and SUN trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth SUN doctor, David Tennant. SUN SUN Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in SUN Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its SUN 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Graham Norton SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Robin Ince SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b055dzbh (Listen) SUN BBC Food and Farming Awards 2015: The Finalists SUN SUN In a special edition Sheila Dillon reveals the finalists for SUN this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards.At the beginning of SUN the year Radio 4 listeners were asked to nominate their SUN favourite producers, farmers and retailers. The response was SUN huge, and from over four thousand nominations the judges SUN have decided on their shortlist.The categories include Best SUN Street Food or Takeaway, You and Your's Retailer of the SUN Year, BBC Cook of the Year, Countryfile's Farming Hero and SUN the Food Game Changer. On 30 April in Bristol at the annual SUN Awards ceremony we'll find out which of these finalists go SUN on to become the winners. Producer: Toby Field. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Toby Field SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b055dgt6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b055dzbk (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Food in the Frame b055dzbm (Listen) SUN Not many art installations have to be sealed in containers SUN and driven deep into the desert because they smell so bad - SUN but when art and food collide the results are often powerful SUN and surprising. Dating back as far as Egyptian tomb art and SUN the Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations, the use of food SUN as a subject has allowed artists to demonstrate their SUN virtuosity as well as deliver religious, metaphysical and SUN political commentary. Food historian Gillian Riley explains SUN to baker and food writer Ruby Tandoh how paintings can offer SUN invaluable clues about what was eaten and how it was eaten SUN in numerous cultures. Ruby visits Tate Britain to look at SUN key examples from the collection there with curator Alison SUN Smith , and learns from 20th century expert Janine Catalano SUN about the way the likes of the Futurists and Surrealists SUN took food from the canvas and turned it into an agent of SUN anxiety and modernity - with examples including the Futurist SUN Cookbook and Dali's 'Autumn Cannibalism'. She finds out how SUN the act of eating itself has more recently become an SUN artistic pre-occupation, and speaks with contemporary SUN artists Hayley Silverman and sonic investigator Caroline SUN Hobkinson, who incorporates the power of noise to change our SUN perception of flavour in her installation feasts. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b054tl7f (Listen) SUN Dartmouth SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Dartmouth, Devon. Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and SUN Matthew Wilson join him to answer the questions from the SUN audience. SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank goes in search of an unusual use for coffee SUN grounds and the team head out to the Royal Avenue Gardens SUN for some topical tips. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Spring has sprung! SUN Peter Gibbs, Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson and Anne SUN Swithinbank on stage in Dartmouth. SUN SUN SUN This Week's Questions SUN Q. Which one plant would the panel take with them when SUN moving to a new house? SUN A. Bunny – I would take an Oak tree rather than a shrub. It SUN would be the semi evergreen Quercus hispanica Fulhamensis. SUN Anne – I would only take my pots and containers with me, SUN rather than trying to transport plants from the ground. SUN Matthew – I think it is unethical to take too much from the SUN garden. I would take cuttings. However, a large leafed SUN perennial Geranium psilostemon has moved with me several SUN times and produces lovely magenta flowers with an almost SUN black centre. SUN Q. I have a white, doubled flowered Camellia that has SUN performed well for the past fifteen years. However, over SUN the past couple of years it has stopped flowering. What SUN has gone wrong? SUN A. Anne – It sounds as though it is in need of some extra SUN care. They often outgrow their pot. You can top dress or SUN trim the roots. Remember that the outside of the container SUN can get very warm, so don’t keep it in direct sunlight. It SUN may be getting too much water. Without enough feed the SUN leaves will turn yellow. Try using an ericaceous fertiliser SUN and a liquid feed. SUN Q. What would the panel suggest growing in a typical SUN Dartmouth garden? We have steep terraces, either east or SUN north facing and very exposed to the wind. SUN A. Bunny – The key is getting enough water to your plants. SUN Add a grid of netting to keep the soil in place. You are SUN best using plug plants. Try ferns such as Polystichum SUN setiferum. The Brachyglottis rotundifolia could do quite SUN well. Plant lots of wildflowers such as Primulas and SUN Cowslips. Choose plants that will self-seed. SUN Matthew – Look for native, shade-loving plants. Try grasses SUN such as Deschampsia. In damper places try Uncinia rubra with SUN its bronze foliage. You could plant Digitalis lutea or SUN Digitalis grandiflora. Try lots of bulbs. SUN Q. I have been told that Pulmonaria should not be planted SUN with spring bulbs. Is this the case? SUN A. Matthew – I have never heard of this and often combine SUN the two. Pulmonaria come in many colours. My favourites are SUN Blue Ensign and Mawson’s Blue. Try planting them with a SUN soft yellow Narcissus jonquilla. SUN Q. Is it ok to remove the tattered old foliage as the new SUN shoots come through on my Hellebore? SUN A. Matthew - Yes. Removing the leaves helps the health and SUN cleanliness of the plant. You also want to be able to see SUN the flowers at their best. Watch out for mice as they often SUN eat the buds during cold weather. Be careful not to snip SUN off the new buds. SUN Q. I like to grow useful plants, whereas my wife has a more SUN artistic approach to the garden. What could we do to SUN reconcile our contradictory styles of gardening? SUN A. Bunny – You could try a parterre design, mixing SUN structures such as pyramids of tomatoes and clipped Olives. SUN Anne – You could try a cultivated form of forest gardening SUN with layers of planting. Mix fruit cordons, shrubs such as SUN White Currant, and lots of herbs. Leave small clearings for SUN your changing crops. SUN Q. I have removed a large clump of Nerine bowdenii. Can they SUN be replanted elsewhere? SUN A. Anne – They grow from a bulb and produce a naked stem of SUN pink flowers. They prefer a south-facing wall with SUN well-drained soil. At this time of year they will be SUN producing new leaves. It is fine to move them but it may be SUN three years before they flower again. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b055f2ld (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations from a monastery in Devon, twin SUN sisters in Northern Ireland, and between a prospective SUN grandmother with Motor Neurone Disease and her pregnant SUN daughter, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves SUN it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b055f2lg (Listen) SUN John Gabriel Borkman, Episode 2 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 Part 2. SUN SUN David Threlfall stars as the disgraced banker finally being SUN made to atone for his sins. Now reunited with his first SUN love, will he be able to find real happiness? Or will the SUN continued pursuit of his ambitions lead to his final SUN destruction? 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 b055f2lj (Listen) SUN Children's Literature SUN SUN The first edition of The Oxford Companion To Children's SUN Literature was published just over 30 years ago. Now Daniel SUN Hahn has taken on the huge task of updating the book to SUN reflect recent developments - including entries on David SUN Walliams, Jeff Kinney and JK Rowling. He talks to Mariella SUN about how he decided what to put in, and what to leave out, SUN and why he tried to include opinion as well as facts. SUN SUN Also on the programme, Charlotte Eyre from The Bookseller, SUN and judge of a new YA prize, tells Mariella about trends in SUN Young Adult fiction and why every author wants a film deal. SUN SUN Award winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce chooses the Book SUN He'd Never Lend, not even to his mother-in-law and two SUN children of novelists- Renny Taylor and Deborah Moggach - SUN celebrate the reissue of their parents' children's books and SUN share memories of growing up with a writer. SUN SUN Read Daniel Hahn's introduction to the Oxford Companion to SUN Children's Literature SUN Daniel Hahn's introduction SUN to the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature SUN SUN Booklist SUN The Oxford Companion to Children's SUN Literature SUN edited by Daniel Hahn SUN The Children Who Stayed Behind SUN by Bruce Carter SUN Mossy Trotter SUN by Elizabeth Taylor SUN The Wheel on the School SUN by Meindert de Jong SUN The Astounding Broccoli Boy SUN by Frank Cottrell Boyce SUN Y A Book Prize SUN for fiction books for teenagers and young adults SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Hahn SUN Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Eyre SUN Interviewed Guest: Renny Taylor SUN Interviewed Guest: Deborah Moggach SUN Interviewed Guest: Frank Cottrell Boyce SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b055f2ll (Listen) SUN Poetry and Religion SUN SUN Roger McGough explores a wide range of poetry about SUN religion, with musings by George Herbert, Jalal al-Din Rumi, SUN William Blake, Billy Collins and Roger McGough. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Love III SUN SUN By George Herbert SUN SUN From George Herbert – The Complete English Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN My Garden SUN SUN By TE Brown SUN SUN From the Collected Poems of T E Brown SUN SUN Published by Macmillan and Co Limited SUN SUN SUN SUN Questions About Angels SUN SUN By Billy Collins SUN SUN From Questions About Angels SUN SUN Published by The University of Pittsburgh Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Granma and the Angels SUN SUN By Roger McGough SUN SUN From As Far as I Know SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Angel that Presided O'er My Birth SUN SUN By William Blake SUN SUN From Blake’s Poetical Works SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Listening SUN SUN By Rumi SUN SUN Translated by Coleman Barks SUN SUN From The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting SUN SUN Published by Viking Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN God's Funeral SUN SUN By Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest SUN Poetry SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN A Hindu to his Body SUN SUN by AK Ramanujan SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of A K Ramanujan SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press. 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SUN SUN SUN SUN God's World SUN SUN By Edna St Vincent Millay SUN SUN From Collected Poems of Edna St.Vincent Millay SUN SUN Published by Harper Perennial SUN SUN SUN SUN I Thank You God SUN SUN By ee cummings SUN SUN From E.E Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962 SUN SUN Published by Liveright SUN SUN SUN SUN As Kingfishers Catch Fire SUN SUN By Gerald Manley Hopkins SUN SUN From Hopkins SUN SUN Published by Everyman’s Library SUN SUN SUN SUN The Red Koran SUN SUN By Mena Abdullah SUN SUN From Songs for All Seasons: 100 Poems for Young People SUN SUN Published by Angus and Robertson SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Psalm 139 SUN SUN Taken from the King James Bible SUN SUN SUN SUN Psalm 92 SUN SUN Taken from the King James Bible and track 3 from the CD SUN ‘Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue’ SUN SUN Label: Folkways Records SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b054qct9 (Listen) SUN A Pensions Patchwork SUN SUN In Canada, everything is big - including powerful pension SUN funds such as the Ontario Teachers fund which owns half of SUN Birmingham airport and other large projects around the SUN world. It's all a far cry from the British pension scene, SUN where a hundred local government pension funds each run SUN their own affairs separately and pay costly fees to City SUN firms for investment advice. SUN Many of them still have financial deficits. Taxpayers have SUN been forced to pick up bills to pay off those shortfalls and SUN already hard-pressed local services have been stretched SUN further. SUN Lesley Curwen investigates how these individual funds are SUN run and asks whether we should have larger funds with SUN cheaper costs - like Canada does. And she asks whether more SUN councils should be using pension money to invest in housing SUN and infrastructure as a way to boost their local economies? SUN SUN Producer: Anna Meisel Reporter: Lesley Curwen. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b055ddkb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b055dgtb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b055dgtd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b055dgtg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b055f76c (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea SUN SUN A sense of loss permeates Ernie Rea's Pick of the Week. We SUN hear the story of a man who cared for a wounded hawk for SUN eight years until it died leaving him bereft. Passenger SUN Pigeons once flew in flocks of two billion but within a SUN generation they were extinct and only Martha survives, her SUN body preserved as a reminder of what once was. There are SUN moving accounts of people living with Alzheimer's and their SUN families as they struggle to come to terms with the gradual SUN loss of personality in a fog of unknowing. And the Liverpool SUN cultural icon with his red Mohican hairdo who at night SUN becomes Mandy Romero and struts her stuff in Liverpool's SUN nightclubs. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b055f76f (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mqqb1 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 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 Of those things, this episode includes another sketch about SUN how the Archers sounds to people who don't listen to the SUN Archers, as well a song about a dog and a sketch about a SUN mathematician's agent. 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. Original music SUN is by Susannah Pearse. It is produced by Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Copenhagen Curios b054tl7h (Listen) SUN The Bird in the Cage SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi SUN Amsinck, Copenhagen is a place of twilight and shadow. And SUN its antique shops are full of curiosity - and strangeness. SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 3): The Bird In The Cage SUN In Christianshavn, Erik covets the caged automaton songbird SUN he sees in a shop window. SUN SUN Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, SUN has written numerous short stories for radio including Radio SUN 4's three-story set Copenhagen Confidential in 2012. A SUN graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, SUN University of London, Heidi lives in Surrey. SUN SUN Writer: Heidi Amsinck SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Heidi Amsinck SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b054tssg (Listen) SUN After a year and half in the driving seat for Radio 4's SUN beloved radio soap opera The Archers, editor Sean O'Connor SUN has created controversy amongst some dedicated listeners - SUN with debate over a number of cast changes and the playing SUN out of a Biblical flood over a week of programmes. This SUN week, Sean O'Connor came into the Feedback studio to answer SUN listeners' questions and comments. SUN SUN C2C, the Country Music Festival, was held in London last SUN weekend bringing the sounds of Nashville to a UK audience. SUN This prompted BBC Radio 2 to launch a pop-up music station SUN playing wall-to-wall Country music which was on-air for just SUN four days. Radio 2 Controller Bob Shennan explains why they SUN did it and whether they'll do it again. SUN SUN And after last week's discussion on how the BBC should SUN receive its funding in future, listeners respond to news SUN from the National Audit Office that the corporation will SUN face more spending cuts. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b054tssd (Listen) SUN Sir Terry Pratchett, Florence Arthaud, Patrick Whitefield, SUN Lord Molyneaux, Sam Simon SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The author Sir Terry Pratchett who created the much loved SUN "Discworld" and in later life contracted Alzheimer's disease SUN which he described as 'An Embuggerance'. SUN SUN Florence Arthaud, who was described as the first great SUN female ocean racing sailor of the modern era. SUN SUN The ecologist Patrick Whitefield, who promoted the idea of SUN permaculture, helped to found the Green Party and, for a SUN time, lived in a tipi. SUN SUN The Ulster Unionist leader Lord Molyneaux who held his party SUN together at the time of the Anglo Irish agreement. SUN SUN And Sam Simon, the comedy writer who co-created the SUN Simpsons. SUN SUN Terry Pratchett SUN SUN Matthew spoke live to the Director of the Hay Festival, SUN Peter Florence. SUN SUN Born 28 April 1948; died 12 March 2015 aged 66. SUN SUN Florence Arthaud SUN SUN Last Word spoke to James Boyd, Editor of TheDailySail.com SUN and to Halvard Mabire who competed against Florence Arthaud SUN in the Route du Rhum sailing race. SUN SUN Born 28 October 1957; died 9 March 2015 age 57. SUN SUN Patrick Whitefield SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his wife Cathy Whitefield and to friend and SUN colleague Sarah Pugh. SUN SUN Born 11 February 1949; died 27 February 2015 aged 65. SUN SUN Baron Molyneaux of Killead SUN SUN Last Word spoke to former BBC NI correspondent Dennis Murray SUN and to Mike Nesbitt who is the leader of the Ulster Union SUN Party. SUN SUN Born 27 August 1920; died 9 March 2015 aged 94. SUN SUN Sam Simon SUN SUN Born 6 June 1955; died 8 March 2015 aged 59. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Fiona Couper SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Florence SUN Interviewed Guest: James Boyd SUN Interviewed Guest: Halvard Mabire SUN Interviewed Guest: Cathy Whitefield SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Pugh SUN Interviewed Guest: Denis Murray SUN Interviewed Guest: Mike Nesbitt SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0557675 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b055dttz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b054pqv8 (Listen) SUN The End of Development SUN SUN Over recent decades, the richer world has poured money SUN towards poorer countries, in the form of aid and loans for SUN development over many decades. But is this top-down solution SUN really effective? Anthropologist Henrietta Moore argues that SUN the age of development is over, and that we need to move to SUN new ideas about how to improve human lives. Professor Moore, SUN who heads the Institute for Global Prosperity at University SUN College London, says that the fatal flaw of "development" is SUN that it is a concept invented by the global North and SUN imposed on the global South. She speaks to students from SUN across the world at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of SUN Government, who and then faces their questions. The lecture SUN is chaired by the school's dean, Professor Ngaire Woods. SUN Producer: Julie Ball. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b055f76h (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b055f76k (Listen) SUN Miranda Green of Newsweek analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b054t7b7 (Listen) SUN Terence Stamp, Joanna Hogg, Benshi SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Terence Stamp reveals why he fell out with director John SUN Schlesinger on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd. SUN SUN Film-makers Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts tell Francine why SUN they have set up their own film club, A Nos Amours, due to SUN the demise of repertory cinema in this country. SUN SUN Clive Bell and Tomoko Komura perform the Japanese art of SUN silent film narration called Benshi. SUN SUN Critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh picks her DVDs of the month. SUN SUN Benshi SUN Clive Bell and Tomoko Komura will be performing SUN Walk Cheerfully at the Flatpack Festival SUN in Birmingham. Walk Cheerfully is also available on DVD. SUN SUN Chantal Akerman SUN Chantal Akerman's SUN Je, Tu, Il, Elle SUN is in cinemas on Tuesday 17 March 2015. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Terence Stamp SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanna Hogg SUN Interviewed Guest: Adam Roberts SUN Performer: Clive Bell SUN Performer: Tomoko Komura SUN Interviewed Guest: Larushka Ivan-Zadeh SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b055dtts (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 MARCH 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b055dgvv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b054qfj6 (Listen) MON Biologising Parenthood - A Lost Avant-Garde, MON MON A lost avant garde: Laurie Taylor examines the tension MON between art & money in the contemporary art museum. He talks MON to Matti Bunzl, Professor of Anthropology at the University MON of Illinois, and author of a study which takes a rare look MON behind the scenes of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. MON He found that a commitment to new and difficult work came MON into conflict with an imperative for growth, leading to an MON excessive focus on the entertaining and profitable. MON MON Also, biologising parenthood: recent years have seen claims MON about children's brains becoming central to child health & MON welfare policies. Pam Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at MON Aston University, Birmingham, argues that this has led to a MON simplistic construction of the child and one which claims MON parenting to be the main factor in child development. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Pam Lowe MON MON Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, Birmingham MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Pam Lowe MON MON Abstract: * MON Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English MON social and public health policy and understandings of the MON child MON *Lowe, P., Lee, E. and Macvarish, J. (2015) MON Sociology of Health & Illness MON doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12223 MON MON Matti Bunzl MON MON Director of Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria MON MON Find out more about MON Matti Bunzl MON MON *In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist MON Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum MON *Publisher: University of Chicago Press MON ISBN-10: 022617381X MON ISBN-13: 978-0226173818 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b055dttq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b055dgvy (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b055dgw0 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b055dgw2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b055dgw4 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b055f9gy (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev Dr Lesley MON Carroll. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b055f9h0 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b055dgw6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zqzsv (Listen) MON Curlew (Spring) MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Kate Humble presents the curlew. The haunting song of the MON curlew instantly summons the spirit of wild places. By MON April, most curlews have left their winter refuge on MON estuaries and marshes and have returned to their territories MON on moorland or upland pastures. Wherever they breed you'll MON hear the male birds singing and displaying. It's often MON called the bubbling song. MON MON Curlew (Numenius arquata) MON Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Parkinson (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b055fkb6 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b055fkb8 (Listen) MON Shame, with Jon Ronson MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe discusses shame and MON betrayal. Jennifer Jacquet argues that modern-day shaming of MON corporations is a powerful tool to bring about change. MON However Jon Ronson believes too many lives have been MON devastated by public shaming and ridicule. Judas is a name MON synonymous with betrayal but Peter Stanford asks whether in MON the 21st century he has become the ultimate scapegoat? MON Arthur Miller's play All My Sons is a classic tale of MON family, loyalty, guilt, and betrayal and is brought to the MON stage by the artistic director of Talawa, Michael Buffong. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Jennifer Jacquet MON Interviewed Guest: Jon Ronson MON Interviewed Guest: Peter Stanford MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b059crs2 (Listen) MON The Utopia Experiment, Episode 1 MON MON A true story that you couldn't make up - one man's attempt MON to survive a global catastrophe by setting up a commune in MON Scotland. MON MON While lecturing in robotics, academic Dylan Evans became MON increasingly concerned by the visible impacts of global MON warming, population increase, terrorism - and by our MON inability to cope with a doomsday scenario in a world MON engineered to just-in-time living. MON MON The concern became an obsession and Evans left his post to MON run an experiment. He set up a camp that would create the MON conditions for a post-apocalyptic world. It was established MON in the Scottish Highlands with a collection of people chosen MON for talents and skills necessary in a life without MON technology or comforts. MON MON The resulting story is a Lord of the Flies for the modern MON day, treating serious and normally sombre topics with dark MON humour. At its heart, however, is one man's well-intentioned MON dream and the price he paid for trying to do something good. MON MON Written and read by Dylan Evans MON Abridged by Barry Johnston MON MON Produced by David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Dylan Evans MON Author: Dylan Evans MON Abridger: Barry Johnston MON Producer: David Roper MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b055fkbf (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Caitlin & Caroline Moran MON Caitlin and Caroline Moran tell Jane about Raised by Wolves MON - the new sitcom they’ve written together. It’s a MON fictionalised modern-day version of their own teenage years MON growing up on a Wolverhampton council estate; one sister a MON gobby extrovert, the other a bookish introvert. Back then MON they were home-schooled, so rarely left the house, and drove MON each other bonkers. Has anything changed? MON MON Kim Gordon MON MON Kim Gordon is best known for being in the American MON alternative rock band MON Sonic Youth MON Formed in 1981 with Thurston Moore, after 30 years the band MON played their final concert in 2011. The split signalled a MON personal and professional separation which Kim explores in MON her memoir ‘Girl in a Band’ - a deeply personal exploration MON of her life, which took her from suburban California to MON cultural icon. MON MON Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? MON MON Adam Smith is considered to be the father of modern MON economics, with his theory based on self-interest and MON ‘economic man’, shaping our lives. Everything, including our MON own bodies, has a value and it comes down to supply and MON demand. *Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?* is the provocative MON title of a new book by Swedish writer Katrine Marcal in MON which she argues that what’s needed is a feminist economic MON overhaul. The answer to the title question, of course, is MON his mum. MON MON Scotland and the General Election MON MON With the General Election just weeks away we continue to MON look at how women around the UK feel about how parties are MON addressing their main concerns. And with only 28% of MON candidates being female, women are heavily under-represented MON among the UK general election candidates selected in MON Scotland. What difference does that make in engaging MON Scottish women with Westminster? Jane Garvey talks to Sarah MON Smith, news reporter for BBC Scotland. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b055fzlp (Listen) MON Ladder of Years, Penny Soup MON MON by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. MON MON Episode Six - Penny Soup MON MON Delia Grinstead's new job in the sleepy town of Bay Borough MON draws her into the business of another fractured family. MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Delia: Nancy Crane MON Narrator: Barbara Barnes MON Belle: Jane Slavin MON Mr Pomfret: Stephen Critchlow MON Noah: Sean McCrystal MON Joel: Sam Dale MON Director: David Hunter MON Author: Anne Tyler MON Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz MON MON 11:00 Voices from Our Industrial Past: Women b055fzlt (Listen) MON Professor Emma Griffin examines the lives of working women MON during the industrial revolution, through a rich body of MON neglected sources - working-class autobiography. MON MON It can be difficult to study the lives of women as the MON historical record often tells us so little about them. But MON there are a handful of wonderful autobiographies, MON rediscovered by Emma Griffin, and in this programme she uses MON them to bring to life the voices of working women during the MON industrial revolution. MON MON We hear from Ellen Johnston, living in Glasgow during the MON cotton boom; Betty Shaw from textile producing Lancashire; MON and Martha Smith, a domestic servant working in London. They MON feature in autobiographies full of fascinating detail about MON their lives and struggles. Emma uses these to show how life MON in the factories led to a transformation in women's MON opportunities for sexual freedom and expression - a MON little-known consequence of the industrial revolution. MON MON Readings: Donna Preston, Adiza Shardow and Jack Whitham MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01q0339 (Listen) MON Series 3, The Secret of Youth MON MON Ronnie Corbett returns to Radio 4 for a third series of his MON popular 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 their money earlier. But Sandy's not having this. 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 after Sandy and his MON money. MON MON Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a MON friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder, can really MON help a Grandad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog MON together face a complicated world. There's every chance MON they'll make it more so. MON MON Episode Three: The Secret Of Youth MON Sandy's neighbour Ken, although ancient, is still winning MON things - hearts, minds and the cup at the Squash Club. In MON fact, he seems to have discovered the secret of eternal MON youth. Only a raid on his garden will reveal the truth! MON MON Sandy.......................Ronnie Corbett MON Dolores......................Liza Tarbuck MON Mrs Pompom..............Sally Grace MON Lance.........................Philip Bird MON Calais.........................Amelia Clarkson MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b055dgw8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b055fzlw (Listen) MON 16 March 1915 - Kitty Lumley MON MON Kitty's life feels like a Gothic novel, complete with MON footprints in the snow, and a haunted lake. MON MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille MON Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor MON Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones MON Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham MON Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready MON Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:16 You and Yours b055fzm0 (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b055dgwb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b055fzm2 (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 When the People Say Not Sure b055g032 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON With the prospect of a closely fought general election on MON 7th May, Peter Hennessy, the historian, invites senior MON figures with experience of, or expertise in, the MON constitution, parliament and government, to discuss how a MON government would be formed if no single party wins an MON overall majority in the House of Commons. MON The possibility of a hung parliament raises urgent questions MON about how the country would be governed during a period of MON political uncertainty. MON Peter Hennessy's first guest is Lord O'Donnell - Gus MON O'Donnell - the former Cabinet Secretary. MON This series examines the ground-rules - conventions, laws, MON precedents and principles - for deciding whether a prime MON minister and government can remain in office, or a new prime MON minister should be appointed and a new government formed. MON When no party won an overall majority in 2010, it took five MON days of talks before a coalition was formed between the MON Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Their agreement enabled MON the Queen to appoint David Cameron as prime minister, MON because he could command the confidence of the House of MON Commons. MON In the hung parliament of 1974, the leader of the largest MON party in the Commons, Harold Wilson, formed a 'minority MON government'. In effect, the prime minister of a minority MON government commands the confidence of the House by calling MON the other parties' bluff, defying them to defeat the MON government in a confidence vote, thereby triggering an MON election. However, it has become more difficult for a prime MON minister to engineer an early election since 2011, when MON Parliament passed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Peter MON Hennessy and his guests examine how a government would be MON formed in the event of a hung parliament and weigh the risks MON of a constitutional and political crisis. MON Producer: Rob Shepherd. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b055f76f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b055g1jq (Listen) MON Now, Love MON MON Denise, a recently divorced middle-aged woman, falls head MON over heels for an older Polish man. But is he really who he MON says is, and can her desire to start afresh and love again MON have the happy ending she so longs for? MON MON Reeling from a recent divorce, Denise falls passionately in MON love with an enigmatic Polish émigre, Karol. But Karol, a MON man full of secrets, is in flight from the realities of his MON own life - a life that had been lived, for the most part, MON behind the Iron Curtain: a life of moral compromise and MON collusion and the slow erosion of his better self, which MON only now, with the belated opening of the former state files MON in Poland, is coming to light. As truths about him begin to MON surface, Denise is forced to confront the fact that her MON longed-for fairy tale may not have a happy ending. MON MON Now, Love is the story of Denise's powerful desire to love MON and live again after divorce has shattered her confidence MON and wrenched a sense of identity away from her. MON MON NOW, LOVE MON By Virginia Gilbert MON MON Producer/director: David Ian Neville. MON MON Credits MON Denise: Sorcha Cusack MON Karol: Christopher Rozycki MON Patrick: Patrick Baladi MON Mikolaj: Jack Klaff MON Seamus: Jack Klaff MON Lizzie: Jane Slavin MON Olenka: Jane Slavin MON Magdalena: Marta Kielkowicz MON Fiona: Lucy Wells MON Adam: Rafael Ferenc MON Director: David Neville MON Producer: David Neville MON Writer: Virginia Gilbert MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b055g12p (Listen) MON Heat 12, 2015 MON MON (12/17) MON The 2015 season of the nationwide general knowledge quiz MON reaches the last of the heats, with Russell Davies in the MON questionmaster's chair. With just one more automatic place MON in the semi-finals to be decided, and four places available MON to the top-scoring runners-up of the series, it all hinges MON on the outcome of today's contest. MON MON Russell's unpredictable questions include which three words MON appear in the centre of the Brazilian flag, and what type of MON motion is described by the Navier-Stokes equations. MON MON The contestants in this final heat are from London, Oxford, MON High Wycombe and Bristol. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b055dzbh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Giving Up Music for Lent b055g10j (Listen) MON Will Trevor Cox be able to give up music for Lent? This will MON prove difficult as he uses music to illustrate his lectures MON as a Professor of Acoustics, and he is a keen amateur MON musician who usually practices his saxophone every day. He MON will also find it hard to avoid music in public places like MON bars, restaurants, shopping malls and tube stations. He will MON have to avoid theatre, cinema and concerts but even at home MON he will need to be careful about watching TV and listening MON to the radio. MON MON Trevor considers what effect music has on us, and whether MON the fact that music has become so ubiquitous is a good MON thing. And he asks what music actually is - how can he be MON sure what he has to avoid? MON MON With contributions from Tom Service, Professor Lauren MON Stewart, Professor Charles Spence, Dr Victoria Williamson MON and film/TV music composer Debbie Wiseman. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b055g10l (Listen) MON Religious Literacy MON MON In Britain we're sometimes nervous about talking about MON religion, lacking the tools to talk about it in a society of MON many faiths and none. But how can we begin to understand one MON another if we cannot talk about those things which form the MON bedrock of so many peoples' lives. MON Joining Ernie to discuss Religious Literacy are Dr James MON Conroy, Vice Principal of the University of Glasgow and lead MON author of the publication, "Does Religious Education Work?"; MON Dr Adam Dinham, Professor of Faith and Public Policy at MON Goldsmith's, University of London; and Dr Abby Day, Reader MON of Race, Faith and Culture at Goldsmiths, and author of MON "Believing and Belonging." MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b055g10n (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b055dgwd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b055g10q (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 6 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON MON 19:00 The Archers b055g10s (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:16 Front Row b055g10v (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b055fzlp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Saudi Arabia: Sands of Time b055g1js (Listen) MON The Saudi Arabian Spring MON MON Saudi Arabia has been in the public eye recently, not least MON because of the death of King Abdullah. In the final part of MON his new series, Egyptian writer Tarek Osman examines the MON last few years of this desert Kingdom and asks why it is MON still so relevant and yet so misunderstood. MON MON His journey has taken him from the origins of the modern MON Kingdom through the oil boom and threats to the stability of MON Saudi Arabia during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait to the fallout MON from 9/11 - where 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi MON nationals - when Al Qaeda conducted a terrorist campaign MON inside the Kingdom. MON MON This week Osman considers how the impact of the Arab MON Uprisings of 2011 was felt in Saudi Arabia. A growing youth MON population with high unemployment and well adapted to social MON media did not take to the streets as in other Arab MON countries. As regimes fell in the region, the late King MON Abdullah injected billions of dollars into welfare MON programmes and introduced certain reforms as a pre-emptive MON measure to ward off potential unrest. MON MON But as we'll see, Saudi society - including the youth - MON consists of large sections who want gradual change and large MON sections who strongly resist it. The Kingdom moves forward MON internally at its own pace, whilst the region has gone up in MON flames with wars raging in Iraq and Syria. And, eyeing up MON its ideological rival Iran, Saudi Arabia has become more MON assertive then ever in its foreign policy the region. MON MON As King Salman takes power the royal family comes towards MON the end of the line of sons of the founder of the Kingdom, MON Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud. Tarek considers the future of this MON traditional society and global banker of oil as a new MON generation of leaders and citizens waits in the wings. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b055g1jv (Listen) MON Caring in the New Old Age MON MON Is it time to rethink how we care for older people, to MON enable them to have fulfilling lives? MON In recent years the media has highlighted terrible cases of MON paid carers abusing and neglecting vulnerable, older people. MON Is it now time for a more fundamental re-examination of how MON society should care for older people? Much is made of the MON poor status, low wages and lack of training of workers in MON the care system. Why are older people entrusted to them in a MON way which we would never allow for children? Should we MON tackle the view that old age is simply a period of decline MON that has to be managed rather than an opportunity for a MON fulfilling final chapter of life? Sonia Sodha examines new MON thinking from Japan, the US and closer to home about how MON care might be done differently. And she considers whether we MON need to change our approach to how we look after the elders MON in our society. MON Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. MON MON 21:00 Martha: An Endling's Tale b054qc1r (Listen) MON Wildlife cameraman and filmmaker John Aitchison sets up his MON hide near a partially-frozen lake in Missouri, Midwestern MON United States, and waits for flocks of Lesser Snow Geese to MON fly over. Its spring and the birds are on migration. Lesser MON Snow Geese are one of the commonest birds in America; there MON are more than 5 million breeding pairs. Watching their huge MON flocks has been likened to watching snowflakes in a storm; MON there are just too many birds to count, and yet when the MON first Europeans arrived in America, populations of the MON Passenger Pigeon numbered billions not just millions. The MON early settlers could look up at the sky and see flocks of MON passenger pigeons as dense as these geese pass over, not MON just for minutes but for hours or even days. It's hard to MON imagine such a huge abundance of birds. One nesting colony MON reportedly covered 850 square miles. MON The last passenger pigeon, a bird called Martha who was born MON and lived in captivity at Cincinnati zoo, died just over 100 MON years ago on Sept 1st 1914. In this programme, John travels MON to the States to see Martha, (after her death, she was MON packed in ice and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in MON Washington DC where she was preserved and is now kept) and MON learns about the history and lives of the Passenger Pigeons MON and discovers the causes of their extinction (a combination MON of deforestation, hunting, railroads, refrigeration and MON human greed). A century on, John reflects on what lessons we MON have learned from the birds' demise and explores the MON possibility of bringing the passenger pigeon back from MON extinction, using genomic technology and a living relative, MON the band-tailed pigeon. It's a fascinating and sobering MON journey; as John says when he comes face to face with MON Martha; "Extinction is a terrible thing". Producer Sarah MON Blunt. MON MON John Aitchison - Presenter MON John Aitchison MON is a wildlife cameraman, photographer, writer and MON broadcaster. He has worked on many television series MON including Frozen Planet, Hebrides, Life, Big Cat Diary, MON Springwatch and Yellowstone MON He has presented several radio series called MON * MON A View through a Lens MON * MON for BBC Radio 4 based on his filming experiences. MON MON Martha - the last passenger pigeon MON Photography by John Aitchison MON MON Chris Milensky - Interviewee MON Chris Milenksy MON is a Museum Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, MON Washington DC where Martha is kept. He is responsible for MON collection management activities, including specimen MON preparation, cataloguing, curation, loans, information MON requests, and assisting visitors. Interests are in field MON work, specimen preparation, bird song recording and MON archiving, and South American birds. MON MON Mark Avery - Interviewee MON MON Mark Avery describes himself as a scientist by training and MON a naturalist by inclination. He writes about and comments on MON environmental issues. Mark worked for the RSPB for 25 years MON until he decided to go freelance. He was the RSPB’s MON Conservation Director of nearly 13 years. Mark lives in MON Northamptonshire and is a member of the RSPB, the Wildlife MON Trusts the National Trust, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, MON Plantlife, Pond Conservation, the BTO and the Wildfowl and MON Wetlands Trust. MON MON He is also author of * MON A message from Martha – the extinction of the Passenger MON Pigeon and its relevance today MON .* MON MON MON Paul Sweet - Interviewee MON Paul Sweet MON is Collections Manager in the MON Division of Vertebrate Zoology - Ornithology at the American MON Museum of Natural History. His interests outside of the MON museum include birding and gardening. MON MON Ben Novak- Interviewee MON MON Ben Novak is Lead Researcher, The Great Passenger Pigeon MON Comeback. MON MON Ben graduated from Montana State University studying Ecology MON and Evolution (2005). Novak specialized in paleontology, MON genetics, ecology and ornithology. Novak was trained in MON paleogenomics laboratory protocols at the McMaster Ancient MON DNA Centre under Dr. Hendrik Poinar, exploring DNA MON extraction and sequencing of Mastodon fossils (2010-2012). MON It was at this laboratory that Ben began his first studies MON of passenger pigeon genomics. With this experience he has MON taken on the challenge of leading The Great Passenger Pigeon MON Comeback which began in 2012. In 2013 he joined the UCSC MON Paleogenomics Laboratory, under Dr. Beth Shapiro, to MON initiate genome studies for passenger pigeon de-extinction. MON Revive and Restore’s The Great Passenger Pigeon Project MON MON MON John Aitchison meeting Martha MON Photograph by John Aitchison MON MON David Acton - Reader MON MON Most recently on tour in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The MON Comedy of Errors with the all male Shakespeare company MON Propeller. MON MON Previously with Propeller: Henry V and Twelfth Night. Other MON theatre includes: The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre); MON Anjin: The Shogun and the Samurai (Tokyo and Sadler’s MON Wells); The League of Youth, Vertigo, Burial at Thebes and I MON Have Been Here Before (Nottingham Playhouse); Relatively MON Speaking and Copenhagen (Newbury Watermill); The Dark Things MON (Edinburgh Traverse); Richard II (Old Vic Company); Much Ado MON About Nothing (Peter Hall Company); for the RSC: Hamlet, The MON Comedy of Errors, The Constant Couple, The Man of Mode, The MON Love of the Nightingale, King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V, MON Edward III, Eastward Ho!, The Roman Actor. MON MON TV includes: Diaries of the Great War (to be broadcast in MON August 2014), Doctors, EastEnders, Silent Witness, Passage, MON Hollyoaks, Tchaikovsky, The Bill, Blair on Trial, Class of MON ’76, Casanova’s Love Letters, Fooling Hitler, The Wyvern MON Mystery, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Film includes: MON After Death, Volume, Persuasion MON MON Michael Bertenshaw - Reader MON MON Michael’s childhood was split between Lancashire and MON Yorkshire and he was educated at a minor public school in MON Cambridge from the ages of 13 to 18. He studied English and MON Fine Art at the University of Leeds then Lectured in General MON Studies, English and Art at a College of Further Education MON in Portsmouth until the winning of two consecutive New MON Writer competitions for BBC (one Radio and one TV) somehow MON turned him towards acting at around the age of thirty. MON MON He entered RADA on a scholarship and left as Ronson Award MON Winner (Most Promising Actor of The Year) in 1977. He spent MON three years with the RSC and since then has worked MON consistently in theatre, film and TV. For reasons he doesn’t MON quite understand he has apparently appeared in more MON productions at The Theatre Royal Stratford East than any MON other actor EVER (involving about 19 pantos as Villain, Dame MON or Wolf along with appearances in a multitude of straight MON plays). His other main stamping ground of recent years has MON been at Shakespeare’s Globe and the past five years have MON been spent very happily summering at Shakespeare’s Globe and MON wintering at Stratford East with the odd TV and regional MON theatre job slotted in. MON MON Elaine Claxton - Reader MON MON Apart from a busy career in theatre, television and radio, MON including long seasons at the National Theatre, Elaine MON previously taught sight-reading and radio technique at RADA MON for five years and is proud to have taught quite a number of MON previous Carleton Hobbs Winners during that time. She has MON recently completed a very successful sell-out run of MON Carthage, a new play by Chris Thompson at the Finborough MON Theatre. MON MON Martha and George on display at the Smithsonian Institution MON Photograph by John Aitchison MON MON Chris Watson – wildlife sound recordist MON MON Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School MON and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the MON influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret MON Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound MON recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees MON Television. Since then he has developed a particular and MON passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of MON animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As MON a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, MON Watson specialises in natural history and documentary MON location sound together with sound design in MON post-production. MON MON His television work includes many programmes in the David MON Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ MON which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. MON More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with MON David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which MON also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). MON MON Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio MON productions including; ‘ The Listeners’ and ‘The Wire’ which MON won him the Broadcasting Press Guild’s Broadcaster of The MON Year Award (2012), NATURE, MON Tweet of the Day MON and MON The Cliff MON His music is regularly featured on the BBC Radio 3 programme MON ‘Late Junction’. MON MON Extracts heard in the programme MON Columbus Ohio 1855 – witness account MON MON As the watchers stared, the hum increased to a mighty MON throbbing. ….The thunder of wings made shouting necessary MON for human communication” MON MON MON Several extracts including the description of the bird being MON hunted were taken from the writings of MON John James Audubon (1785-1851) Birds of America – a MON collection MON (1827–1839). Eg. MON MON The pigeons arriving by thousands, alighted everywhere, one MON above another, …..It was a scene of uproar and confusion. MON MON John Muir 1838 – 1914 from The Story of my Boyhood and MON Youth MON Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. MON MON The breast of the male is a fine rosy red, the lower part of MON the neck and behind ….. The females are scarcely less MON beautiful! MON John Wheaton 1841- 1887 MON MON In the fall of 1859… I had an opportunity of observing a MON large flock while feeding. ….The noise was deafening and the MON sight confusing to the mind. MON MON Simon Pokagon 1830-99) was a native Potawatomi from MON southwest Michigan who campaigned for Native American rights MON and wrote many books articles. Of the passenger pigeon he MON wrote MON MON .. I have seen them move in one unbroken column for hours MON ….sounding as though a whirlwind was abroad in the land. MON MON Commonwealth – a newspaper on Fond du lac, Wisconsin MON MON "Imagine a thousand threshing machines running under full MON headway, ….. and you possibly have a faint conception of MON the terrific roar of a passenger pigeon flock ," MON MON MON Charles Bendire 1836-1897 in the Life of American Birds MON published in a series Washington, Smithsonian Institution MON 1892-1895 MON The largest nesting ever visited was in 1876 or 1877. ….For MON the entire distance of 28miles every tree of any size had MON more or less nests and many trees were filled with them. MON None were lower than 15 feet above the ground. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b055fkb8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05n89xz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b055g1vx (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05h3pmm (Listen) MON The Leipzig Affair, Episode 1 MON MON A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of MON the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the MON fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and MON encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. MON MON Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his MON highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His MON counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look MON back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, MON when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. MON MON Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German MON state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig MON University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a MON student with secret plans to escape to the West. MON MON As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a MON web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi MON is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and MON everyone has their price. MON MON Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's MON death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in MON revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of MON his Leipzig Affair. MON MON Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The MON Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia MON prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in MON English. MON MON Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Douglas Henshall MON Reader: Indira Varma MON Author: Fiona Rintoul MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON 23:00 The Human Zoo b01r9cr5 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON MON Life will be so much better when we move to Spain, buy a new MON car, elect a different government, acquire those new MON shoes..... MON MON We can all succumb to the promise of the new - change will MON be all we need to live the perfect lives. But we also know MON the reality rarely lives up to the promise. Shoes are MON scuffed, endless sun becomes wearisome and new governments - MON well lets just say they rapidly tarnish. MON MON Yet disappointment after disappointment never seems to MON banish the lurking conviction that the grass is always MON greener on the other side. It appears we have within us a MON bias towards change. MON MON Much of this is about the pursuit of happiness, but our own MON judgement about what makes us happy is often flawed. MON This bias can manifest in the most unlikeliest of ways. The MON elation of winning that nick-nack in an online auction MON rapidly diminishes when we realise we've overbid MON significantly. MON MON In the Human Zoo this week, you'll hear this lust for change MON in action, illustrated by experiment and discussed by some MON of the greatest minds in the field. We hear from perhaps the MON world's leading psychologist, Nobel Laureate Daniel MON Kahneman. You'll hear how our bias for change interacts with MON our fickle memories which has led to a radical approach to MON making that hospital stay not feel quite so bad after all. 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 Online experiment MON This week’s online experiment is on the theme of our MON inherent bias for change. That ill-defined itch that tries MON to convince us that that the world will be a better place if MON only we... MON Go try it out and see how you turn out MON The Human Zoo Experiment 3 MON MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b055g2hf (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b055dgxc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b059crs2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b055dgxf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b055dgxh (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b055dgxk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b055dgxm (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b055g4f6 (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev Dr Lesley TUE Carroll. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b055g4f8 (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 b03zr00f (Listen) TUE Bittern TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Kate Humble presents the bittern. As the first shoots of TUE spring appear in the reed-beds, you might hear the booming TUE sound of a bittern. The bittern's boom is lower pitched than TUE any other UK bird and sounds more like a distant foghorn TUE than a bird. Today these birds are on the increase, thanks TUE to the creation of large reed-beds. TUE TUE Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b055g5hz (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 b055g5j1 (Listen) TUE Matt Taylor TUE TUE Matt Taylor talks to Jim Al-Khalili about being in charge of TUE the Rosetta space mission to the distant comet, 67P. It is, TUE he says, 'the sexiest thing alive', after his wife. He TUE describes his joy when, after travelling for ten years and TUE covering four billion miles, the robot, Philae landed on the TUE speeding comet 67P; and turned the image tattooed on his TUE thigh from wishful thinking into a triumph for science. TUE Matt's father, a builder, encouraged him to do well at TUE school. He wanted him to get a job in science and Matt TUE didn't disappoint, joining the European Space Agency in June TUE 2005. His charm and exuberance have brought competing teams TUE together as they fight for their science to have priority on TUE Rosetta. His enthusiasm has helped to spark and fuel a TUE global interest in the mission and he deeply regrets his TUE choice of shirt on one occasion. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b054qc1k (Listen) TUE Zubeida Malik meets Sister Christine Frost TUE TUE Zubeida Malik is a journalist who works mostly as a reporter TUE for the Today programme. For the next two weeks she's taking TUE over the One to One microphone to explore the nature of TUE Britain's changing communities. In this first programme she TUE meets Sister Christine Frost, a Roman Catholic nun who has TUE lived and worked in east London for over forty years. Based TUE at the St Matthias Community Centre on the Will Crooks TUE Estate in Tower Hamlets, Sister Christine has seen huge TUE changes in the four decades she's worked there: an estate TUE that was mostly white British and black Caribbean is now TUE predominantly Bengali. Zubeida asks how this 77 year old nun TUE from Ireland has adapted, and what challenges these changes TUE have brought to her life and work. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b055fkbc (Listen) TUE The Utopia Experiment, Episode 2 TUE TUE A true story that you couldn't make up - one man's attempt TUE to survive a global catastrophe by setting up a commune in TUE Scotland. TUE TUE While lecturing in robotics, academic Dylan Evans became TUE increasingly concerned by the visible impacts of global TUE warming, population increase, terrorism - and by our TUE inability to cope with a doomsday scenario in a world TUE engineered to just-in-time living. TUE TUE The concern became an obsession and Evans left his post to TUE run an experiment. He set up a camp that would create the TUE conditions for a post-apocalyptic world. It was established TUE in the Scottish Highlands with a collection of people chosen TUE for talents and skills necessary in a life without TUE technology or comforts. TUE TUE The resulting story is a Lord of the Flies for the modern TUE day, treating serious and normally sombre topics with dark TUE humour. At its heart, however, is one man's well-intentioned TUE dream and the price he paid for trying to do something good. TUE TUE In this second episode, the commune has only just begun to TUE establish itself in its Highlands base but is already TUE afflicted by competing visions for its future - even though TUE there are only two members. TUE TUE Written and read by Dylan Evans TUE Abridged by Barry Johnston TUE TUE Produced by David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Dylan Evans TUE Author: Dylan Evans TUE Abridger: Barry Johnston TUE Producer: David Roper TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b055g5j5 (Listen) TUE Jenni Murray 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 b055g5j7 (Listen) TUE Ladder of Years, Ketchup on His French Fries TUE TUE by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. TUE TUE Episode Seven - Ketchup on his French Fries TUE TUE Delia Grinstead's new life and equilibrium are disturbed by TUE an unexpected visitor to town. TUE Delia ..... Nancy Crane TUE Narrator ..... Barbara Barnes TUE Noah ..... Sean McCrystal TUE Binky ..... Rhiannon Neads TUE Nat ..... David Hounslow TUE Joel ..... Sam Dale TUE Carroll ..... Sam Valentine TUE Rick Rack ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Belle ..... Jane Slavin 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 Restarting the Antibiotic Pipeline b055g5j9 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In the first part of this two part series, science TUE journalist Roland Pease looks at the key scientific issues TUE behind why increasing numbers of antibiotic drugs are TUE becoming useless. He examines the disturbing lack of new TUE drugs that are becoming available to doctors to replace the TUE obsolete ones. TUE TUE The discovery and deployment of antibiotic drugs in the mid TUE twentieth century led some medics to predict the end of TUE infectious diseases. But the bacteria fought and continue to TUE fight back, evolving resistance to many of the drugs that TUE used to kill them. TUE TUE Public health officials warn that without new drugs, TUE medicine will return to the days where 'a cut finger on TUE Monday leads to death of Friday'. Without protective TUE antibiotics to keep infections at bay, scores of standard TUE surgical operations, chemotherapy for cancer, organ TUE transplants and kidney dialysis will become too risky. Sally TUE Davies, the chief medical officer for England, has described TUE this scenario as the end of modern medicine and has compared TUE the dangers of the antibiotic crisis to threat from TUE international terrorism. TUE TUE The injudicious use of these drugs means that TUE antibiotic-resistant forms are now everywhere. Human bodies, TUE rivers and soils are environments where antibiotic-resistant TUE forms can flourish in the absence of drug-susceptible TUE bacterial brethren. TUE TUE The problem is a global one and the conditions which TUE encourage the emergence of resistant bugs exist in many TUE environments, not just in patients and on unclean hospital TUE floors. Liz Wellington of the University of Warwick monitors TUE the prevalence of antibiotic resistant bugs lurking in the TUE mud of rivers in the UK. They've got there from us via the TUE UK's sewage systems. TUE TUE Prevalence of some drug-resistant bugs is high enough in TUE British rivers but the situation in rivers such as India and TUE China is "horrendous" according to Liz Wellington. One TUE pharmaceutical factory in China was found to be flushing TUE extraordinary amounts of the antibiotic fluoroquinolone into TUE a local river. The quantity dumped by this one factory every TUE day was equal to the amount consumed by all the patients in TUE Scandinavia in a year. TUE TUE With international air travel, resistant bacteria which TUE emerged after this level of exposure in China could be in TUE Copenhagen, Stockholm or London within 24 hours. TUE TUE While the wider world is awash in antibiotics and antibiotic TUE resistance is on the rise, there is little comfort to be TUE gained from looking at the prospects for new drugs coming to TUE the market. The last new class of antibiotic was discovered TUE in a lab the 1980s and it took almost 30 years to get to the TUE clinic. Most new drugs coming to market are chemical TUE variants of existing types of drugs. TUE TUE After his young son almost died of a multidrug-resistant TUE infection following appendicitis, medicinal chemist Michael TUE Kinch looked at the historical trends in antibiotic TUE invention by the pharmaceutical industry since the mid 20th TUE century. There was a sharp decline 15 years ago. From the TUE 1950s through to the end of the 1990s, three new antibiotic TUE medicines came onto the market every year. In the first TUE decade of the 21st century, the number plummeted to one new TUE drug every other year - a sixfold decrease. Even worse, TUE antibiotics are falling out of use at twice the rate of new TUE ones are becoming available to doctors. TUE TUE More bad news comes from Professor Laura Piddock at the TUE University of Birmingham, the scientific task of inventing TUE novel kinds of antibiotics is much more challenging than it TUE once was: "The low hanging fruit has been picked". TUE TUE (The second part of the series will look at why TUE pharmaceutical companies have turned away from antibiotic TUE research and development, and ideas now being discussed by TUE government and industry to restart the antibiotic pipeline TUE and avert the looming resistance crisis.). TUE TUE 11:30 Gareth Gwynn's Little Book of Welsh Rock b055g69f (Listen) TUE All the things you thought you knew about "Welsh music" are TUE wrong. TUE TUE Forget Tom Jones, Bread of Heaven, male voice choirs, TUE Shirley Bassey: in 2015, the most vibrant and confident TUE place that "Welshness" is articulated in music...is in TUE Welsh-language rock. TUE TUE There is a whole world of musical activity happening that TUE almost no-one across Offa's Dyke has any idea about. This TUE isn't some niche pursuit - the Welsh-language music scene is TUE young, contemporary and thriving, and has fired off in TUE hugely inventive and original paths that the English TUE language rock scene hasn't; few realise that the TUE internationally-renowned bands Catatonia and Super Furry TUE Animals released songs in their first language of Welsh as TUE well as English. For English music lovers in the know (like TUE the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel) - "roc cymraeg" is TUE fascinating in being completely British yet completely TUE 'other' - in a way few parts of British culture can match. TUE Most crucially, for teenage Welsh-language speakers, it's TUE the medium through which express their cultural and TUE political nationalism - their 'otherness' - most freely. TUE TUE But Welsh-language rock is a political hot potato, mired in TUE the same cultural and linguistic controversies that dog the TUE idea of "Welshness" across the nation's culture. As the TUE Scottish debated their independence referendum last year, TUE no-one argued that not speaking Gaelic made anyone 'less TUE Scottish'. But in Wales - where around a tenth of the TUE population speak Welsh as a first language - there remains TUE amongst some the idea that you're not truly Welsh unless you TUE speak the national tongue. With the roots of contemporary TUE Welsh rock lying in the protest movements of the 1960s, TUE there remains a highly political - some say Anglophobic - TUE strain to the music scene. If rock music in Welsh is a TUE medium for the Welsh national psyche to truly express itself TUE - who is it leaving out? TUE TUE Satirist Gareth Gwynn has an identity crisis. He's a proper, TUE paid-up music geek and a proud Welshman. But his iPod's full TUE of English bands...and he doesn't speak Welsh. Can Gareth TUE embrace his inner 'cymro' and immerse himself in a world TUE through the looking-glass? Does he even need to? Gareth TUE embarks on a twisted, often faintly surreal journey through TUE the heart of Welsh-language rock. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b055dgxp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b055g5vr (Listen) TUE 17 March 1915 - Cressida Marshall TUE TUE Cressida hits the roof when she realises what her mother and TUE aunt have kept from her. TUE TUE Cast TUE Cressida Marshall ..... Bettrys Jones TUE Geoffrey Marshall ..... Dominic Mafham TUE Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf TUE Phyllis Marshall ..... Christine Absalom TUE Sylvia Graham ..... Barbara Flynn TUE TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sylvia: Deborah Findlay TUE Dorothea: Rachel Shelley TUE Esme: Katie Angelou TUE Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Hilary: Craige Els TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Juliet: Lizzie Bourne TUE Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw TUE Ralph: Nicholas Murchie TUE Pallbearer: Clive Haywood TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:16 You and Yours b055g5vw (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b055dgxr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b055g5vy (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 When the People Say Not Sure b055g5w0 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE With the prospect of a closely fought general election on TUE 7th May, Peter Hennessy, the historian, is joined by Kenneth TUE Clarke, former Chancellor, Lord Chancellor and Home TUE Secretary, and an MP since 1970, to discuss how a government TUE would be formed if no single party wins an overall majority TUE in the House of Commons. The possibility of a hung TUE parliament raises urgent questions about how the country TUE would be governed during a period of political uncertainty. TUE They examine the ground-rules - conventions, laws, TUE precedents and principles - for deciding whether a prime TUE minister and government remain in office, or a new prime TUE minister is appointed and a new government formed. When no TUE single party won an overall majority in 2010, it took five TUE days before talks between the parties produced a coalition TUE between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Their TUE agreement enabled the Queen to appoint David Cameron as TUE prime minister, because he could command the confidence of TUE the House of Commons. TUE In the hung parliament of 1974, the leader of the largest TUE party in the Commons, Harold Wilson, formed a 'minority TUE government'. In effect, the prime minister of a minority TUE government commands the confidence of the House by calling TUE the other parties' bluff, defying them to defeat the TUE government in a confidence vote, thereby triggering an TUE election. However, it has become more difficult for a prime TUE minister to engineer an early election since 2011, when TUE Parliament passed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. TUE Peter Hennessy and his guests examine how a government would TUE be formed in the event of a hung parliament and weigh the TUE risks of a constitutional and political crisis. TUE Producer: Rob Shepherd. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b055g10s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00yync9 (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 7, The Firebrand TUE TUE New series of Victorian detective mysteries starring Brian TUE Cox as Inspector James McLevy. TUE TUE Written by David Ashton. TUE TUE Episode one: The Firebrand. McLevy investigates the kidnap TUE of a women's rights campaigner. TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE McLevy: Brian Cox TUE Jean Brash: Siobhan Redmond TUE Mulholland: Michael Perceval-Maxwell TUE Roach: David Ashton TUE Hannah: Colette O'Neill TUE Seth Brady: John Kazek TUE Mary: Vicki Liddelle TUE Martha: Irene Allan TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: David Ashton TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b055g73w (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b055g73y (Listen) TUE Lava: A Dangerous Game TUE TUE A report from the United Nations published this week TUE highlights for the first time the international impacts of TUE volcanoes. Previously regarded as a local problem for people TUE in Iceland, Indonesia or Central America the UN now TUE recognises that our interconnected world can be split TUE asunder by relatively small eruptions. TUE TUE The 2010 eruptions in Iceland disrupted air travel for TUE weeks, costing the global economy an estimated $4.9bn. In TUE response enormous improvements are being made in the TUE technology used to detect imminent volcanic eruptions. But TUE is the technology enough on its own? Do changes need to be TUE made in the way that vulnerable communities in the TUE developing world are taught about the dangers on their TUE doorstep? Can more be done to communicate risk without TUE inducing panic? TUE TUE From Nicaragua to Iceland, Montserrat to Santorini, Tom Heap TUE hears from the scientists on the frontline, men and women TUE enchanted by the stunning beauty of volcanoes but well aware TUE of their potential to destroy communities and change our TUE climate. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 In Search of Moderate Muslims b055g740 (Listen) TUE Sarfraz Manzoor asks if moderate Muslims exist and, if not, TUE where did they go? TUE TUE Sarfraz describes himself as a moderate Muslim. He says he TUE can't get too offended by a cartoon and belongs firmly among TUE the liberal and progressive. But he wonders if he is now TUE something of an oddity. TUE TUE Is the idea of tolerance and integration a hopeful myth and TUE the reality something more troubling?We're often told the TUE vast majority of Muslims in Britain are moderate - but what TUE exactly does that mean? TUE TUE Producer: Natalie Steed TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b055g742 (Listen) TUE Claire Skinner and Louise Welsh TUE TUE Actress Claire Skinner, who plays the mum in BBC One's TUE Outnumbered, and Glaswegian author Louise Welsh, talk TUE favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. They include A Death TUE in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde TUE by Robert Louis Stevenson and Strong Poison by Dorothy L TUE Sayers. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Claire Skinner TUE Interviewed Guest: Louise Welsh TUE TUE 17:00 PM b055g8z9 (Listen) TUE M at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b055dgxt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ayres on the Air b03qfzgg (Listen) TUE Series 5, Horses TUE TUE Pam Ayres regales her Radio 4 audience with poems, stories TUE and sketches, this week on a subject close to her heart: TUE Horses. 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 memories of going to the TUE races as a little girl, about the significance of leg TUE positioning in statues of horses, and she shares an TUE intriguing story of being flattered by a stranger's TUE attentions at the Badminton Horse Trials. TUE TUE Poems include: The Racehorse Fred, The Stuffed Horse & TUE Dreaming of Fresh Fields. TUE TUE Sketch writers: James Bugg, Jan Etherington, Grainne TUE McGuire, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. TUE TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b055g8zc (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b055g8zf (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b055g5j7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b055g8zh (Listen) TUE Sick of School TUE TUE Is the pressure on teachers reaching crisis point? TUE Record numbers are leaving the classroom and thousands of TUE teachers recently responded to the Government's workload TUE survey to say they were struggling with their workload. They TUE blamed the pressure of Ofsted inspections and pressure from TUE school management. TUE Official absence statistics are silent on the causes of sick TUE leave - but now File on 4 reveals new figures on the number TUE of teachers off long-term because of stress. TUE Jane Deith hears from those who say they were pushed to the TUE brink by the pressure - some suicidal and others TUE hospitalized or diagnosed with depression. TUE Teaching has always involved long hours and heavy workloads TUE but, with schools' performance open to unprecedented TUE scrutiny, some education academics argue that the TUE 'surveillance culture' is now seriously harming teacher's TUE health and their ability to provide high quality education. TUE Are they right? How alarmed should we be about the mental TUE well-being of our children's teachers? TUE Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Matt Precey. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b055g8zk (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b055g8zm (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 b055g5j1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b055dgxw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b055g8zp (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05h4n8d (Listen) TUE The Leipzig Affair, Episode 2 TUE TUE A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of TUE the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the TUE fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and TUE encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. TUE TUE Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his TUE highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His TUE counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look TUE back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, TUE when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. TUE TUE Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German TUE state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig TUE University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a TUE student with secret plans to escape to the West. TUE TUE As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a TUE web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi TUE is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and TUE everyone has their price. TUE TUE Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's TUE death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in TUE revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of TUE his Leipzig Affair. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Magda's plan to escape to the West suffers a major setback. TUE Meanwhile, Bob is inspired to leave his Scottish university TUE and study in Leipzig. TUE TUE Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The TUE Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia TUE prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in TUE English. TUE TUE Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Douglas Henshall TUE Reader: Indira Varma TUE Author: Fiona Rintoul TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE 23:00 The Hot Kid b055g8zr (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Drama. Katie Hims adapts Elmore Leonard's criminal odyssey. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carl Webster: Luke Norris TUE Jack Belmont: Adam Gillen TUE Louly Brown: Samantha Dakin TUE Tony Antonelli: Nathan Osgood TUE Virgil Webster: David Acton TUE Heidi Dilworth: Bettrys Jones TUE Emmet Long: Shaun Mason TUE Marshal Bob McMahon: Ian Conningham TUE Oris Belmont: John Chancer TUE Doris Belmont: Elaine Claxton TUE Norm Dilworth: Paul Heath TUE Nancy Polis: Roslyn Hill TUE Crystal Lee Davidson: Hannah Genesius TUE Mr Deering: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Author: Elmore Leonard TUE Adaptor: Katie Hims TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b055g8zt (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b055dgyq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b055fkbc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b055dgys (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b055dgyv (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b055dgyx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b055dgyz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b055g98w (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev Dr Lesley WED Carroll. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b055g98y (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr0ly (Listen) WED Grasshopper Warbler WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Kate Humble presents the grasshopper warbler. The reeling WED song of the grasshopper warbler sounds more like an insect WED than a bird. Like the paying out of an angler's line from a WED reel, the grasshopper warbler's song spills out from the WED bush or bramble clump in which he sits. You'll hear it most WED often at dawn or dusk in overgrown scrubby or marshy areas. WED WED Grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b055g9mq (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 b055g9ms (Listen) WED Gerald Scarfe, Greg Wise WED WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b059crlx (Listen) WED The Utopia Experiment, Episode 3 WED WED A true story that you couldn't make up - one man's attempt WED to survive a global catastrophe by setting up a commune in WED Scotland. WED WED While lecturing in robotics, academic Dylan Evans became WED increasingly concerned by the visible impacts of global WED warming, population increase, terrorism - and by our WED inability to cope with a doomsday scenario in a world WED engineered to just-in-time living. WED WED The concern became an obsession and Evans left his post to WED run an experiment. He set up a camp that would create the WED conditions for a post-apocalyptic world. It was established WED in the Scottish Highlands with a collection of people chosen WED for talents and skills necessary in a life without WED technology or comforts. WED WED The resulting story is a Lord of the Flies for the modern WED day, treating serious and normally sombre topics with dark WED humour. At its heart, however, is one man's well-intentioned WED dream and the price he paid for trying to do something good. WED WED In this third episode, the commune is opened to the public WED and inspires unexpectedly dark thoughts about what might WED happen if an angry, hungry, post-apocalyptic mob did WED actually fall upon the community. WED WED Written and read by Dylan Evans WED Abridged by Barry Johnston WED WED Produced by David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Dylan Evans WED Author: Dylan Evans WED Abridger: Barry Johnston WED Producer: David Roper WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b055g9mv (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 10:41 15 Minute Drama b055g9mx (Listen) WED Ladder of Years, Green Light, Green Light WED WED by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. WED WED Episode Eight - Green Light, Green Light. WED WED Increasingly enmeshed in their family matters, Delia's WED encounter with Noah's mother proves to be fraught with WED injury and danger. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Delia: Nancy Crane WED Narrator: Barbara Barnes WED Ellie: Lucy Newman-Williams WED Noah: Sean McCrystal WED Joel: Sam Dale WED Susie: Roslyn Hill WED Director: David Hunter WED Author: Anne Tyler WED Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b01dzw3k (Listen) WED Memories: Willie and Alison WED WED A shared moment of tenderness between Willie and Alison, a WED couple who have shared a rich life together, but now face WED the challenges of an uncertain future as old age approaches. WED Another 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 offers a snapshot of contemporary WED Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a WED conversation with someone close to them about a subject WED they've never discussed intimately before. Listeners are WED given a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on these moments of WED closeness that capture the essence both of a special WED relationship and of something that really matters to them WED both. WED WED The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams WED of producers from local and national radio stations who WED facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not WED BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts WED up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment WED of connection between the participants. Many of the long WED conversations are being archived by the British Library WED which they will use to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium, while Radio 4 is broadcasting three of WED these jewel-like moments each Friday, with an omnibus on WED Sundays at 2.45pm. You can upload your own conversations or WED just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. WED WED 11:00 Sounds up There b055g9r2 (Listen) WED In late 2010, Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented WED Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic WED sound design in the vacuum of space. In 2014, Glenn won an WED Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for his work on the WED film. Now, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the WED first-ever spacewalk, Glenn sonically recreates the stories WED of real-life spacewalkers. WED WED Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov completed a major Space Race hurdle WED by performing the first-ever spacewalk in March 1965. Alexey WED ran into serious problems with his suit pressure and was WED barely able to re-enter the airlock. Since Leonov's tense WED inaugural moments, there have been 175 successful spacewalks WED devoted to maintenance of the International Space Station WED alone. WED WED In this programme, we'll meet some of the spacewalkers and WED walk through what the experience is like floating in zero WED gravity above the earth. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield WED describes his awe at flying weightless above the earth. WED Record-holding astronaut Sunita Williams describes her WED spacewalking experiences accumulated over more than fifty WED hours. Steven Smith describes the enormous pressure helping WED repair the Hubble Space Telescope. And Italian astronaut WED Luca Parmitano describes his dramatic 2013 spacewalk, when WED he almost drowned in his helmet. WED WED Along the way, Glenn will use sound to help us feel the WED vacuum of space, punctuated by breaths, heartbeats, WED vibration, the radio crackle, the whoosh of the airlock. The WED thoughts and feelings of the spacewalkers describing the WED most awe-inspiring visions of their lives is dramatically WED contrasted with the odd sounds around them. WED WED Produced by Colin McNulty WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Dot b055gcl6 (Listen) WED by Ed Harris WED WED Dot's had quite enough of making tea in the Cabinet War WED Rooms. When she finds a cryptic message in the newspaper she WED enlists the help of her gals Myrtle and Pearl. Can they WED catch the spy? And will it prove to be the big break Dot's WED been waiting for? WED WED Director/Producer Jessica Brown WED WED Ed Harris has written extensively for radio. In 2013 he won WED the Radio Academy Award for Best Drama for his War time WED thriller, 'The Resistance of Mrs Brown'. In 2011 he won the WED Writer's Guild Award for 'Troll' and was nominated for the WED Prix Europa for his play for BBC Radio 3: 'The Wall'. WED WED Fenella Woolgar won the Clarence Derwent Award for her role WED in 'Hedda Gabler' at the Old Vic and most recently played WED Margaret Thatcher in 'Handbagged' at the Vaudeville Theatre, WED London. WED WED Kate O'Flynn won the Critics Circle Award winner 2013 Most WED Promising Newcomer for 'Port' at the National Theatre, she WED also received an Evening Standard Nomination. WED WED Credits WED Myrtle: Kate O'Flynn WED Pearl: Roslyn Hill WED Millicent: Jane Slavin WED Peabody: David Acton WED Ken: Stephen Critchlow WED Director: Jessica Brown WED Producer: Jessica Brown WED Writer: Ed Harris WED WED 12:00 News Summary b055dgz1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b055gbsq (Listen) WED 18 March 1915 - Alan Lowther WED WED Some particularly mean bullying on the factory floor reveals WED an extraordinary truth. WED WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Alan Lowther: David Seddon WED Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont WED Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman WED Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham WED Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready WED Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan WED Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott WED Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone WED Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian WED Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner WED Wally Woodthorpe: Kris Deedigan WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 Budget 2015 b055gbss (Listen) WED Live coverage of the chancellor's Budget speech with WED analysis and reaction. WED WED 13:56 Weather b055gcbc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b055g8zc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00z5hr8 (Listen) WED McLevy - Series 7, Dead Reckoning WED WED Brian Cox, Siobhan Redmond and Stella Gonet star in the WED latest episode of the detective series set in Victorian WED Edinburgh and Leith. Written by David Ashton. WED WED 2/4. Episode Two: Dead Reckoning. Inspector McLevy WED investigates a curious case of grave robbing. WED WED Producer/director: Bruce Young. WED WED Credits WED McLevy: Brian Cox WED Jean Brash: Siobhan Redmond WED Emma: Stella Gonet WED Mulholland: Michael Perceval-Maxwell WED Roach: David Ashton WED Caskie: Brian Pettifer WED McMaster: Sean Scanlan WED Simms: John Kielty WED Director: Bruce Young WED Producer: Bruce Young WED Writer: David Ashton WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b055gbsv (Listen) WED Saving and Investing WED WED Savings and investing dilemma? To talk to Paul Lewis and WED guests about your choices and ideas, call 03700 100 444 from WED 1pm and 3pm on Wednesday 18 March or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Will Chancellor George Osborne unveil any surprises for WED savers when he delivers his final budget before the election WED on Wednesday? WED WED Last year's budget introduced the 65+ Guaranteed Growth WED Bonds, raised the ISA savings limit to £15,000 and cut the WED 10% tax on savings income to 0% for savings income up to WED from £2,880 from April 2015. WED WED Child Trust Funds can also be moved to Junior ISAs from WED April but where will you find the best interest rates and WED what are the pros and cons of stock market investments? WED WED What are the options if you are prepared to take a risk on WED the highs and lows of stock markets? The FTSE 100 has WED already risen from 6,298 on 15 January to 6,974 on 2 March WED and fallen back again. As well as volatility there will be WED charges to consider. WED WED Whatever your saving and investing question, joining WED presenter Paul Lewis to share their views and experience WED will be: WED WED Anna Bowes, Director, SavingsChampion. WED Patrick Connolly, Certified Financial Planner, Chase de WED Vere. WED Justin Modray, Director, Candid Financial Advice. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b055g8zm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b055gbt8 (Listen) WED Hoarders WED WED Hoarders: the sociological meaning of 'clutter'. Laurie WED Taylor talks to Scott Herring, Associate Professor in the WED Department of English at Indiana University, and author of a WED book which provides an in depth account of how modern WED hoarders came into being. He suggests that they attract WED attention primarily because they disrupt our notions of how WED things should be organised, rather than because of anxieties WED about mental health. WED WED Also, Thomas Thurnell-Read, Lecturer in Sociology at WED Coventry University, discusses his study of microbreweries WED and the revival of traditional beer in the UK. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Scott Herring WED WED Associate Professor in the Department of English at Indiana WED University WED WED Find out more about WED Scott Herring WED WED *The Hoarders: Material Deviance In Modern American Culture WED *Publisher: University of Chicago Press WED ISBN-10: 022617171X WED ISBN-13: 978-0226171715 WED WED Thomas Thurnell-Read WED WED Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Coventry University WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Thomas Thurnell-Read WED WED Abstract: WED *Craft, tangibility and affect at work in the microbrewery WED * WED Emotion, Space and Society WED Volume 13, November 2014, Pages 46–54 WED doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2014.03.001 WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b055gcbf (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b055gcbh (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b055dgz5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b055gcbk (Listen) WED Series 10, Olivia Colman talks to Sharon Horgan 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 fifth episode of the series star of Broadchurch, WED Twenty Twelve and Peep Show Olivia Colman, talks to creator, WED writer and star of BBC's BAFTA nominated sitcom Pulling, and WED winner of the British Comedy Award for best actress, Sharon WED Horgan. WED WED Producer ... Charlie Perkins. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b055gcbm (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:16 Front Row b055gcbp (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b055g9mx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b055gccb (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b055gccd (Listen) WED Quentin Letts WED WED Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b055g73y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b055g9ms (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b05n8b8p (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b055gcdn (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b055g2hc (Listen) WED The Leipzig Affair, Episode 3 WED WED A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of WED the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the WED fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and WED encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. WED WED Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his WED highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His WED counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look WED back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, WED when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. WED WED Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German WED state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig WED University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a WED student with secret plans to escape to the West. WED WED As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a WED web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi WED is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and WED everyone has their price. WED WED Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's WED death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in WED revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of WED his Leipzig Affair. WED WED Episode 3: WED Magda meets her boyfriend Marek and tells him the bad news WED about her escape plan. Bob crosses the border into East WED Germany and arrives in Leipzig. WED WED Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The WED Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia WED prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in WED English. WED WED Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Douglas Henshall WED Reader: Indira Varma WED Author: Fiona Rintoul WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED WED 23:00 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown b055gcdq (Listen) WED Michaelangelo's David WED WED Art historian Hannah Gadsby continues her radio series of WED comedy lectures about four masterpieces. This week she looks WED at Michelangelo's 'David', the 17ft statue he created WED between 1501 and 1504. WED WED Born in Tasmania, Hannah got to know a lot about art from WED books. But it was only in her 20s when she visited Europe WED for the first time, that she saw the art she'd studied 'in WED the flesh', so to speak. WED WED There in Florence she fell in love with David and in this WED programme she shares her affection for and knowledge of him, WED with all his imperfections. WED WED Hannah is joined on stage by her very own 'Quotebot' who is WED inputted with every quote that's ever been written about WED art. WED WED Quotebot sounds remarkably like comedy legend and all-round WED boffin John Lloyd. WED WED Written by Hannah Gadsby WED Performed by Hannah Gadsby with her Quotebot aka John Lloyd WED Script edited by Jon Hunter WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED 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 b055gcds (Listen) WED Series 3, Sleep WED WED The concept of sleep is the focus of this week's episode, WED and Tim is broadcasting from the bedroom of his WED long-suffering guitarist, Tom Basden. Tim hopes Tom's wife WED Megan will wake up, so he can interview her about her WED dreams. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden and Katy Wix 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: Katy Wix WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b055gcjq (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b055dh03 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b059crlx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b055dh05 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b055dh07 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b055dh09 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b055dh0c (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b055j5zq (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev Dr Lesley THU Carroll. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b055j5zs (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr0qn (Listen) THU Great Grey Shrike THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Kate Humble presents the great grey shrike. Great grey THU shrikes feed on small birds, which they can catch in flight. THU They also eat mice, voles and shrews and, as spring THU approaches, they'll include bees and larger beetles in their THU diet. Shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of THU their habit of impaling their prey on thorns, just as a THU butcher hangs his meat on hooks. THU THU Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) THU Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) THU THU Recording sourced from The Macaulay Library at the Cornell THU Lab of Ornithology. THU THU This programme contains an audio recording of the Great Grey THU Shrike which was kindly provided by The Macaulay Library at THU the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. THU THU THU THU Source credit: ML130991: The Macaulay Library at the Cornell THU Lab of Ornithology, recorded by Gerrit Vyn on 07 Jun 2006. THU THU 06:00 Today b055j9rs (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 b055j9rv (Listen) THU Al-Ghazali THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of THU Al-Ghazali, a major philosopher and theologian of the late THU 11th century. Born in Persia, he was one of the most THU prominent intellectuals of his age, working in such centres THU of learning as Baghdad, Damascus and Jerusalem. He is now THU seen as a key figure in the development of Islamic thought, THU not just refining the theology of Islam but also building on THU the existing philosophical tradition inherited from the THU ancient Greeks. THU THU With: THU THU Peter Adamson THU Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU THU in Munich THU THU Carole Hillenbrand THU Professor of Islamic History at Edinburgh and St Andrews THU Universities THU THU Robert Gleave THU Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter THU THU Producer: Victoria Brignell. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Peter Adamson THU Interviewed Guest: Carole Hillenbrand THU Interviewed Guest: Robert Gleave THU Producer: Victoria Brignell THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b059dfhy (Listen) THU The Utopia Experiment, Episode 4 THU THU A true story that you couldn't make up - one man's attempt THU to survive a global catastrophe by setting up a commune in THU Scotland. THU THU While lecturing in robotics, academic Dylan Evans became THU increasingly concerned by the visible impacts of global THU warming, population increase, terrorism - and by our THU inability to cope with a doomsday scenario in a world THU engineered to just-in-time living. THU THU The concern became an obsession and Evans left his post to THU run an experiment. He set up a camp that would create the THU conditions for a post-apocalyptic world. It was established THU in the Scottish Highlands with a collection of people chosen THU for talents and skills necessary in a life without THU technology or comforts. THU THU The resulting story is a Lord of the Flies for the modern THU day, treating serious and normally sombre topics with dark THU humour. At its heart, however, is one man's well-intentioned THU dream and the price he paid for trying to do something good. THU THU In this fourth episode, the commune comes face to face with THU the challenges of local authority planning permission. That, THU however, is the least of Dylan's problems. THU THU Written and read by Dylan Evans THU Abridged by Barry Johnston THU THU Produced by David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Dylan Evans THU Author: Dylan Evans THU Abridger: Barry Johnston THU Producer: David Roper THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b055j9rx (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 b055j9rz (Listen) THU Ladder of Years, I'm Calling about Susie THU THU by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. THU THU Episode Nine - I'm Calling about Susie THU THU After more than a year away Delia finds herself feeling THU drawn back to the fractured family in Baltimore. THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Delia: Nancy Crane THU Narrator: Barbara Barnes THU Susie: Roslyn Hill THU Sam: Nathan Osgood THU Noah: Sean McCrystal THU Joel: Sam Dale THU Linda: Jane Slavin THU Eliza: Jessica Turner THU Telephone Voice: Jude Akuwudike THU Director: David Hunter THU Author: Anne Tyler THU Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b055dh0f (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Inconspicuous Consumption b055j9s1 (Listen) THU Exist Through the Gift Shop THU THU This series aims to look at the cultural consumption that THU other media ignore. We treasure our great museums and THU galleries, but they increasingly depend on income and we THU increasingly depend on purchases to somehow validate our THU visit. THU THU So what's in a postcard, a piece of replica jewellery or a THU tin of Rosetta Stone Mints? When we give a gift from a THU museum shop, what are we telling the recipient? THU THU Nick Baker visits museums and galleries in London and THU Liverpool, hanging around gift shops and quizzing customers THU on how their purchases relate to what they've seen in the THU exhibitions to which they relate. If they relate. Some THU gallery gift shops feature stuff that's not really connected THU to the exhibits within. Others offer expensive replicas, THU like the British Museum's Elgin Marble gifts. THU THU Andy Warhol famously predicted that one day, "All department THU stores will become museums, and all museums will become THU department stores." At a Warhol exhibition in Tate THU Liverpool, this seems to be becoming true. Shoppers there THU reflect on their purchases, how they relate to the THU consumer-focused artist who inspired them, and what they'll THU do with them when they get them home. THU THU Sharon Macdonald, a cultural anthropologist and keen museum THU shopper explains how museums simultaneously are and aren't THU like department stores, and we visit the V&A jewellery THU department to ask people whether, when they look at the THU exhibits, they imagine themselves wearing them. THU THU Produced and Presented by Nick Baker THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b055dh0h (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b055jmlz (Listen) THU 19 March 1915 - Joyce Lyle THU THU Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a THU fury like Joyce Lyle scorned THU THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell THU Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron THU Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley THU Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell THU Pastor Vincent Surtees: Shaun Prendergast THU Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:16 You and Yours b055jmm1 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues. THU THU 12:57 Weather b055dh0k (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b055jmm3 (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 When the People Say Not Sure b055jmm5 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU With the prospect of a closely fought general election on THU 7th May, Peter Hennessy, the historian, is joined by Lord THU Adonis - Andrew Adonis - the former Cabinet Minister, who THU was one of Gordon Brown's advisers after the 2010 election, THU and who is a constitutional and political historian in his THU own right. They discuss how a government would be formed if THU no single party wins an overall majority in the House of THU Commons and look at the ground-rules - conventions, laws, THU precedents and principles - for deciding whether a prime THU minister and government remain in office, or a new prime THU minister is appointed and a new government formed. THU When no single party won an overall majority in 2010, it THU took five days before talks between the parties produced a THU coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. THU Their agreement enabled the Queen to appoint David Cameron THU as prime minister, because he could command the confidence THU of the House of Commons. In the hung parliament of 1974, the THU leader of the largest party in the Commons, Harold Wilson, THU formed a 'minority government'. In effect, the prime THU minister of a minority government commands the confidence of THU the House by calling the other parties' bluff, defying them THU to defeat the government in a confidence vote, thereby THU triggering an election. THU However, it has become more difficult for a prime minister THU to engineer an early election since 2011, when Parliament THU passed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Peter Hennessy and THU his guests examine how a government would be formed in the THU event of a hung parliament and weigh the risks of a THU constitutional and political crisis. THU Producer: Rob Shepherd. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b055gcbm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b055jpnh (Listen) THU Big Sky THU THU Thriller by Anna Maloney. Ambitious Australian lawyer, THU Lindsey Regan, wants to get her client out of Guantanamo THU prison and back to his family in Australia. He claims he was THU beaten and tortured somewhere abroad until he confessed to a THU terrorism plot. He also claims he briefly escaped his THU captors during a refuelling stopover at a Scottish airport. THU THU Other parts played by the cast. THU Producer/ director: Bruce Young THU BBC Scotland. THU THU Credits THU Lindsey Regan: Kerry Fox THU Rob Quinn: Andy Clark THU Youssef Mohammed: Umar Ahmed THU Major Mirksy: Grant O'Rourke THU Green: Greg Powrie THU Col: John Buick THU Maggie: Helen Mackay THU Mrs Campbell: Molly Innes THU Director: Bruce Young THU Producer: Bruce Young THU Writer: Anna Maloney THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b055jpnk (Listen) THU Series 29, Nordic Walking in Bramcote Park, Nottingham THU THU Clare Balding takes a lesson in Nordic Walking as she joins THU national coach, Catherine Hughes, in one of her classes in THU Bramcote Park in Nottingham. Some of those who regularly THU attend, are a group of mothers with their daughters, all of THU whom have learning difficulties. Nordic walking has proved THU to be an ideal activity for them all to enjoy. The poles THU give confidence to those who find walking difficult, the THU fresh air is beneficial to all and the chance for mothers THU and daughters to be able to exercise together has made the THU group very popular. THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Catherine Hughes THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b055dttz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b055f2lj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b055jpnn (Listen) THU The latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b055jpnq (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b055jpns (Listen) THU With the latest news interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b055dh0m (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Alex Edelman: Millennial b055jpnw (Listen) THU Alex Edelman, the 25 year-old Bostonian Native and Winner of THU the prestigious Best Newcomer Award at the 2014 Edinburgh THU Comedy Festival, presents a special half-hour version of his THU award winning show about the much misunderstood and THU ridiculed "Millennial" generation, and how he's used his THU smart-arse wit to bite back. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b055jpt2 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:16 Front Row b055jpt4 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b055j9rz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b055jslq (Listen) THU Trouble at the Telegraph THU THU The Daily Telegraph's political commentator Peter Oborne THU resigned in February 2015, accusing the paper of shying away THU from stories that might upset its advertisers. Reporter THU Robin Aitken asks whether the accusation is fair and traces THU the Telegraph's evolution from a broadsheet newspaper THU designed to appeal to middle England to a multimedia "news THU content provider". THU THU Reporter: Robin Aitken THU Producer: Tom Randall. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b055jsls (Listen) THU Football's Billions THU THU Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore joins Evan THU Davis and guests to discuss the economics and business of THU football. THU THU In light of the recent Premier League TV deal, worth a THU staggering £5 billion pounds, this week Evan and guests THU discuss its implications for football both in the UK and in THU other markets. Whilst the top players can expect even bigger THU salaries, how will the deal impact on fans and clubs outside THU the top division? Three top football executives discuss THU including Premier League Chief Executive, Richard Scudamore. THU THU Producer: Jim Frank. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b055jpnq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b055j9rv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b05n8bdv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b055jslv (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05h2gyf (Listen) THU The Leipzig Affair, Episode 4 THU THU A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of THU the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the THU fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and THU encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. THU THU Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his THU highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His THU counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look THU back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, THU when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. THU THU Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German THU state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig THU University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a THU student with secret plans to escape to the West. THU THU As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a THU web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi THU is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and THU everyone has their price. THU THU Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's THU death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in THU revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of THU his Leipzig Affair. THU THU Episode 4: THU Bob meets Magda for the first time and is smitten with her. THU But Magda and Marek already have plans for him that they THU must keep secret. THU THU Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The THU Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia THU prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in THU English. THU THU Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Douglas Henshall THU Reader: Indira Varma THU Author: Fiona Rintoul THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU THU 23:00 Chat Show Roulette b055jslz (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Justin Edwards is the host of the new improvised chat show. THU His guests are Susan Calman, Marek Larwood and Kevin Eldon, THU with musical accompaniment from James Sherwood. THU THU Devised by Ashley Blaker and Justin Edwards. THU THU Produced by Ashley Blaker THU A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Justin Edwards THU Interviewed Guest: Susan Calman THU Interviewed Guest: Marek Larwood THU Interviewed Guest: Kevin Eldon THU Performer: James Sherwood THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b055jsmj (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 MARCH 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b055dh28 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b059dfhy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b055dh2b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b055dh2d (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b055dh2g (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b055dh2j (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b055jthy (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer, with the Rev Dr Lesley FRI Carroll. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b055jtj2 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zr1zj (Listen) FRI Common Whitethroat FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat. Whitethroats FRI are warblers which winter in the Sahel region south of the FRI Sahara desert and spend spring and summer in Europe. When FRI they arrive in April the males establish a territory by FRI singing that scratchy song from hedgerow perches or by FRI launching themselves into the air. FRI FRI Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Malcolm Hunt (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b055jtwh (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 b055dzb9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b059jjn6 (Listen) FRI The Utopia Experiment, Episode 5 FRI FRI A true story that you couldn't make up - one man's attempt FRI to survive a global catastrophe by setting up a commune in FRI Scotland. FRI FRI While lecturing in robotics, academic Dylan Evans became FRI increasingly concerned by the visible impacts of global FRI warming, population increase, terrorism - and by our FRI inability to cope with a doomsday scenario in a world FRI engineered to just-in-time living. FRI FRI The concern became an obsession and Evans left his post to FRI run an experiment. He set up a camp that would create the FRI conditions for a post-apocalyptic world. It was established FRI in the Scottish Highlands with a collection of people chosen FRI for talents and skills necessary in a life without FRI technology or comforts. FRI FRI The resulting story is a Lord of the Flies for the modern FRI day, treating serious and normally sombre topics with dark FRI humour. At its heart, however, is one man's well-intentioned FRI dream and the price he paid for trying to do something good. FRI FRI In this final episode, Dylan finds himself sectioned in a FRI hospital's psychiatric unit. It's not quite dystopia, but FRI it's certainly not the future he had imagined. FRI FRI Written and read by Dylan Evans FRI Abridged by Barry Johnston FRI FRI Produced by David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Dylan Evans FRI Author: Dylan Evans FRI Abridger: Barry Johnston FRI Producer: David Roper FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b055jtwk (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 b055jtwm (Listen) FRI Ladder of Years, The Wedding Day Hitch FRI FRI by Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. FRI FRI Episode Ten - The Wedding Day Hitch FRI FRI After more than a year away Delia Grinstead is drawn back FRI into the remnants of her fractured family. She is badly FRI needed. FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI Credits FRI Delia: Nancy Crane FRI Sam: Nathan Osgood FRI Joe: Jude Akuwudike FRI Linda: Jane Slavin FRI Eleanor: Carol Macready FRI Susie: Roslyn Hill FRI Driscoll: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Carroll: Sam Valentine FRI Noah: Sean McCrystal FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Author: Anne Tyler FRI Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz FRI FRI 11:00 The Quietest New Year on Earth b055jy1k (Listen) FRI Black-clad security men stalk the streets hunting down FRI people making noise and silencing them. FRI No music, no laughter, no engines, no computer games. FRI Instead maybe a barking dog, a fly buzzing against a window FRI pane, or a mother stifling a child's cry. In the paddy FRI fields the crickets, the frogs and the beetles chirrup on, FRI but the roads are empty, the skies free from vapour trails. FRI No human noise at all. Just silence. FRI FRI This is not a scenario from some chilling science-fiction FRI tale, but New Year's Day on the Hindu island of Bali, where FRI Nyepi, as the day is known, is welcomed in by a day of FRI silence - a day to fool the evil spirits into believing that FRI everyone has gone and their work is done. FRI FRI Of course, in one of the fastest growing property markets in FRI the world, there is pressure for change, as overseas FRI visitors exert more influence, and Muslim influence from the FRI Indonesian mainland increases. But somehow Nyepi still has a FRI powerful hold on the lives and imaginations of the Balinese, FRI as the entire population falls silent for 24 hours - an FRI island population known for one of the noisiest music FRI traditions in the world - gamelan. FRI It's a tradition that most locals take part in gladly, FRI taking a chance to contemplate the year to come and using FRI the time to meditate - whilst increasingly tourists are FRI drawn to experience this unique atmosphere. Would you prefer FRI a day of contemplating or a hangover to start the New Year? FRI FRI From the exorcisms the night before, through the day of FRI silence itself, we hear the tensions mount - till the FRI morning after. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b0368fwf (Listen) FRI With the Compliments of Mr Gregory FRI FRI Part 1 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. FRI FRI From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave FRI amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve FRI solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most FRI popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures FRI survive in the archives. FRI FRI In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to FRI life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and FRI Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and FRI recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the FRI production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to FRI sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have FRI done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so FRI popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, FRI Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, FRI and A Case for Paul Temple. FRI FRI Now it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair from FRI 1946, in which Paul and Steve come to the aid of a baffled FRI Scotland Yard in pursuit of a deadly and mysterious criminal FRI mastermind. Not only has the recording disappeared but also FRI the scripts of Episodes 1, 2 and 6. This new production is FRI made possible by the recent discovery by a colleague in FRI Norwegian radio of a complete set of scripts in an old store FRI cupboard in Oslo. FRI FRI Episode 1: With the Compliments of Mr Gregory FRI FRI The daughter of an eminent physician disappears after a FRI night out at the Alpine Club. FRI FRI Producer Patrick Rayner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul Temple: Crawford Logan FRI Steve: Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Charlie: Greg Powrie FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b055dh2l (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b055jy1m (Listen) FRI 20 March 1915 - Edie Chadwick FRI FRI Edie wants excitement in her life, and finds it in an odd FRI place, when an exotic and exciting cargo washes up on Long FRI Sands in Tynemouth. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner FRI Stella Wardle: Ava Bell FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:16 You and Yours b055k3qy (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b055dh2n (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b055k3r0 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 When the People Say Not Sure b055jy1p (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI With the prospect of a closely fought general election on FRI 7th May, Peter Hennessy, the historian, is joined by Peter FRI Riddell, Director of the Institute for Government and former FRI Chief Political Commentator for 'The Times', and Professor FRI Robert Hazell, Founder and Director of the Constitution Unit FRI at University College, London. to discuss how a government FRI might be formed if there's another hung parliament. FRI In the final programme of this series, they examine the FRI ground-rules - conventions, laws, precedents and principles FRI - for deciding whether a prime minister and government can FRI remain in office, or a new prime minister should be FRI appointed and a new government formed. When no single party FRI won an overall majority in 2010, it took five days before FRI talks between the parties produced a coalition between the FRI Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Their agreement enabled FRI the Queen to appoint David Cameron as prime minister, FRI because he could command the confidence of the House of FRI Commons. FRI In the hung parliament of 1974, the leader of the largest FRI party in the Commons, Harold Wilson, formed a 'minority FRI government'. In effect, the prime minister of a minority FRI government commands the confidence of the House by calling FRI the other parties' bluff, defying them to defeat the FRI government in a confidence vote, thereby triggering an FRI election. However, it has become more difficult for a prime FRI minister to engineer an early election since 2011, when FRI Parliament passed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Peter FRI Hennessy and his guests examine how a government would be FRI formed in the event of a hung parliament and weigh the risks FRI of a constitutional and political crisis. FRI Producer: Rob Shepherd. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b055jpt2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b04cfkv4 (Listen) FRI Recent Events at Collington House, Episode 1 FRI FRI Collington House is a secondary school in a Midlands town FRI with a large proportion of its students from the Muslim FRI community. New head teacher Roz Taylor, eager to be FRI inclusive and accommodate all faiths and cultures, finds FRI herself increasingly at odds with one of the parent FRI governors. FRI FRI This is a drama that gets behind the news headlines and FRI political wrangles to examine what is actually meant by FRI "Islamisation" and the difference is between radicalisation FRI and the co-existence of different faiths in schools on a FRI day-to-day level. FRI FRI Writer: Matthew Solon FRI Researcher: Eva Kryslak FRI Sound: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Roz Taylor: Heather Craney FRI Abdul Lateef Shah: Neil D'Souza FRI Jaffer n Sadiq: Sam Dastor FRI Folasade Olabode (Sade): Tracy Ifeachor FRI John Roberts: Philip Jackson FRI Mrs Barlow: Becci Gemmell FRI PC Khan: Jaz Deol FRI Writer: Matthew Solon FRI Director: John Dryden FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b055jykf (Listen) FRI Oxford FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs this week's episode of the horticultural FRI panel programme from Oxford. Chris Beardshaw, Matt Biggs and FRI Pippa Greenwood answer questions from an audience of local FRI gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Shorts b055jykh (Listen) FRI New Irish Writing, The Blackthorn Tree 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 ..... Rosemary Jenkinson FRI Reader ..... Maggie Cronin FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Rosemary Jenkinson FRI Reader: Maggie Cronin FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b055k3r2 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b055k3r4 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01hxt9q (Listen) FRI Arranged Marital Bliss: Jasmit and Jaswant FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between Jasmit and FRI Jaswant from Lincolnshire about their 34 year-long arranged FRI marriage which is still going strong, proving again that FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project offers a snapshot of contemporary FRI Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a FRI conversation with someone close to them about a subject FRI they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations FRI are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from FRI local and national radio stations who facilitate each FRI encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, FRI and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, FRI and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection FRI between the participants. Many of the long conversations are FRI being archived by the British Library which they will use to FRI build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait FRI of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can FRI upload your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b055k866 (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b055dh2s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b055jyzj (Listen) FRI Series 86, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests Bob FRI Mills, Elis James and Samira Ahmed. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Bob Mills FRI Panellist: Elis James FRI Panellist: Samira Ahmed FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b055jyzl (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:16 Front Row b05j5r8j (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b055jtwm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b055jyzn (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby with political debate and discussion from FRI Aston University in Birmingham. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05j5r8l (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b055jyzq (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 16-20 March 1915 FRI FRI A week of discoveries, and some exotic flotsam that washes FRI up on Long Sands. FRI FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille FRI Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Pastor Vincent Surtees: Shaun Prendergast FRI Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian FRI Stella Wardle: Ava Bell FRI Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor FRI Wally Woodthorpe: Kris Deedigan FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b055dh2v (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05h2zbf (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05h2jv5 (Listen) FRI The Leipzig Affair, Episode 5 FRI FRI A tale of love, betrayal and redemption in the dying days of FRI the Cold War. Set in Germany both in the years before the FRI fall of the Berlin Wall as well as post-unification, and FRI encompassing the excesses of life in 1980's Britain. FRI FRI Bob McPherson is Scottish and unemployed. He lost his FRI highly-paid job in the City because of his alcoholism. His FRI counsellor at the Alcohol Advisory Service suggests he look FRI back to a pivotal point in his life - Leipzig in the 1980s, FRI when the GDR held its citizens in an iron grip. FRI FRI Naive, and innocent of the machinations of the East German FRI state, Bob embraces life as a PhD student at Leipzig FRI University. There he falls in love with Magda Reinsch, a FRI student with secret plans to escape to the West. FRI FRI As their love affair deepens, Magda and Bob are drawn into a FRI web of deception and betrayal. In a country where the Stasi FRI is always watching, no-one is quite who they seem and FRI everyone has their price. FRI FRI Bob leaves the GDR thinking he is responsible for a man's FRI death and that he lost Magda because of it. Now, in FRI revisiting the past, Bob may be able to uncover the truth of FRI his Leipzig Affair. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Bob's dislike of Marek grows. Meanwhile, Magda and Marek FRI make new plans for her to escape East Germany. FRI FRI Fiona Rintoul is a financial journalist and translator. The FRI Leipzig Affair is her first novel, and won the 2013 Virginia FRI prize for the best new fiction by a woman writing in FRI English. FRI FRI Readers: Douglas Henshall and Indira Varma FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Douglas Henshall FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI Author: Fiona Rintoul FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b055g742 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b05h2k1l (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01g65gx (Listen) FRI Gender and Identity: Michelle and Cilla FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces Michelle from Humberside, chatting FRI about being a transsexual and her life as a woman with her FRI best friend, Cilla. FRI FRI The Listening Project offers a snapshot of contemporary FRI Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a FRI conversation with someone close to them about a subject FRI they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations FRI are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from FRI local and national radio stations who facilitate each FRI encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, FRI and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, FRI and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection FRI between the participants. Many of the long conversations are FRI being archived by the British Library which they will use to FRI build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait FRI of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can FRI upload your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer Simon Elmes. FRI
13 March, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 14/03/2015 - 20/03/2015
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