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SAT SATURDAY 02 MAY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05rkq8b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05t7kpz (Listen) SAT Words Without Music, Episode 5 SAT SAT Memoir by Philip Glass, the world-renowned composer of SAT symphonies, operas and film scores. SAT SAT Asked to write the score for visionary 1982 documentary SAT Koyaanisqatsi, Glass discovered a new avenue for his musical SAT composition. He later worked with Martin Scorsese, writing SAT the soundtrack for Kundun (1997). SAT SAT Reader: Kerry Shale SAT Writer: Philip Glass SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT Music details: SAT Track: "Evening Song" (from Satygraha) SAT CD: The Essential Philip Glass SAT Label: Sony SAT SAT Track: "The Grid" SAT CD: Koyaanisqatsi SAT Label: Island SAT SAT Track: "Closing" SAT CD: Glassworks SAT Label: CBS. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Kerry Shale SAT Author: Phillip Glass SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05rkq8f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05rkq8h (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05rkq8k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05rkq8m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05s3szf (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Dr Mike Ford. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05s3szh (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05rkq8p (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05rkq8r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b05s3gzd (Listen) SAT Bristol Green City SAT SAT In 1985, Bristol's Brandon Hill became the UK's first ever SAT urban nature reserve. 30 years on, Helen Mark discovers how SAT Avon Wildlife Trust is continuing this tradition of SAT environmental trend setting by creating 'wildlife corridors' SAT throughout the city, supporting communal growing at 'Feed SAT Bristol' and developing a brand new reserve - Bennett's SAT Patch and White's Paddock - out of a disused sports site to SAT coincide the city's status as The 2015 European Green SAT Capital. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05spjs2 (Listen) SAT Farming Today Debate: Farming - the Next Generation SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05rkq8t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05spjs4 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05spjs6 (Listen) SAT Professor Tanya Byron SAT SAT Professor Tanya Byron clinician, journalist, author and SAT broadcaster joins Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. SAT SAT Produced by: Alex Lewis SAT Edited by: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Tanya Byron SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 1914-1918: The Cultural Front b05spjym (Listen) SAT Series 2, War on the Mind SAT SAT In the last in the series covering 1915, Francine Stock SAT looks at how the harrowing effects of World War I began to SAT make themselves apparent in art, music and poetry. For the SAT first time, the condition which would become known as SAT 'shellshock' was becoming apparent, and the full SAT psychological effect of trench warfare on soldiers began to SAT take its toll. SAT SAT We look at Sigmund Freud's Essay 'Reflections on War and SAT Death' and look at how the newly diagnosed mental conditions SAT were being addressed. Poetry, music and art begin to reveal SAT the underlying traumas of this sustained conflict. SAT Propaganda and patriotism did not always win the day, as we SAT find in the German Expressionist paintings revealing the SAT true nightmare of the trenches. SAT SAT In music, we find patriotism still a driving force. British SAT concert parties were travelling to the front to help SAT encourage the troops, headed by the remarkable actress, SAT impresario and suffragette Lena Ashwell. The French composer SAT Debussy was deeply affected by the war, yet managed to make SAT 1915 his most creative year. SAT SAT In poetry, Robert Frost had written 'The Road Not Taken' SAT after taking country walks with an English friend, Edward SAT Thomas. Frost posted a copy of the poem to Thomas as a way SAT of chiding him about indecision, but his friend was not SAT amused. Within a short space of time he decided to enlist SAT and go to war. SAT SAT By the time 1915 drew to a close, any hope of a quick end to SAT the war had faded, and the cultural front revealed a new SAT fragility in the face of the such a bleak outlook. SAT SAT With contributions from Dr David Code, University of SAT Glasgow, Dr Anna Farthing, Professor Edgar Jones of King's SAT College London, John Forrester, Dr Dorothy Price, University SAT of Bristol, and poet Matthew Hollis. SAT SAT Producer Mark Rickards. SAT SAT 11:00 Campaign Sidebar b05spjyp (Listen) SAT A quirky, irreverent take on the twists and turns of the SAT election campaign, presented by Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05rkq8z (Listen) SAT The Lucky Ones SAT SAT The best in news and current affairs story-telling. In this SAT edition: a week after the quake in Nepal huge problems SAT remain but some believe it could all have been much worse; SAT El Salvador has some of the toughest abortion laws in the SAT world - it's meant some women doing time for crimes they SAT never committed; the double life of a far-right Hungarian SAT politician who was both an anti-Semite and a Jew; forty SAT years after the Vietnam War ended the many families still SAT grieving for someone who was lost in the conflict. And the SAT correspondent who set off for Rome on an improbable mission SAT -- to play the Vatican at cricket! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05rkq91 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05spjyr (Listen) SAT Conservative plans for pensions, taxation and benefits SAT SAT Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne talks to Paul SAT Lewis about his record over the past five years and his SAT plans for taxation, benefits and supporting homebuyers, if SAT the Conservatives win the election. SAT SAT The Co-op Bank lowered the bar on the 'how low can they go' SAT mortgage contest this week with a two year fixed rate deal SAT at a record 1.09%. Barclays and HSBC have recently announced SAT 1.99% five year fixed rate mortgages. Money Box looks at the SAT strings attached and asks whether such low rates are here to SAT stay. SAT SAT And Wasps Rugby Club have unveiled an eye-catching 7 year SAT bond designed to raise £35 million. The bonds offer a high SAT rate of return, but could there be a sting in the tail? SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b05s3r6m (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 4 SAT SAT The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect SAT the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes SAT for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's SAT Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the SAT flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the SAT country. SAT SAT Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis SAT MacLeod, Debra Stephenson. SAT SAT Producer: Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Producer: Bill Dare SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05rkq95 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05rkq98 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05s3r6t (Listen) SAT Yvette Cooper, Ed Davey, Paul Nuttall, Priti Patel SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs debate from Wisbech Grammar School SAT in Cambridgeshire with Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for SAT Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey, Deputy Leader of UKIP, SAT Paul Nuttall MEP, and Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, SAT Priti Patel. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05spjzf (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b05spk05 (Listen) SAT Happy Jack SAT SAT John Godber's modern stage classic from 1982 re-unites its SAT original cast to tell the touching and funny story of Liz SAT and Jack's life together. A 60 year roller-coaster of a SAT marriage lived in a Yorkshire mining village unfolds from SAT end to beginning. SAT SAT Liz ..... Jane Godber SAT Jack ..... John Godber SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift. SAT SAT Credits SAT Liz: Jane Godber SAT Jack: John Godber SAT Director: Toby Swift SAT Writer: John Godber SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b05s2x2k (Listen) SAT Series 20, First Cut Is the Deepest SAT SAT Long before it was a worldwide hit for Rod Stewart, the Cat SAT Stevens song 'First Cut is the Deepest' made a name for the SAT former Ike and Tina Turner backing singer, PP Arnold. In an SAT interview for Soul Music she describes the emotional SAT connection she felt to the lyrics, having emerged from an SAT abusive marriage shortly before recording it. SAT SAT Also contributing to the programme is the song's original SAT producer, Mike Hurst. He describes how he achieved the huge SAT 'wall of sound' production using double drums, a huge string SAT section, and a harp instead of a guitar to play the SAT signature riff at the the start of the track. SAT SAT There are many personal stories associated with the track: SAT Carsten Knauff recalls a childhood sweetheart - his first SAT true love - and explains why the Cat Stevens' version brings SAT back bitter-sweet memories for him. SAT SAT Rosemarie Purdy saw PP Arnold give an extraordinary live SAT rendition at a club in Portsmouth in 1967. Never before had SAT she seen such a heartfelt, emotionally charged performance. SAT It's something she's never forgotten. SAT SAT The Sheryl Crow version reminds Rachel Batson of a very SAT difficult phase in her life; it's a song she says reflects SAT her own faith journey. SAT SAT And former Radio Caroline DJ, Keith Hampshire, describes the SAT circumstances that led to him having a No.1 hit with the SAT song in Canada. It was the first time 'First Cut' reached SAT No.1 anywhere in the world. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05spk25 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: The Election Debate SAT SAT The leading women from Britain's 7 major political parties SAT debate some of the key issues ahead of next week's General SAT Election. SAT SAT We hear from an employment lawyer to discuss how common SAT cases of sexual discrimination and harassment are in the SAT City. SAT SAT The number of women becoming Catholic nuns has trebled in SAT the past five years. Theodora Hawksley tells us why at 29 SAT she has decided to enter a convent in London this year. SAT SAT And music from Marika Hackman. SAT SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Theodora Hawksley SAT Performer: Marika Hackman SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05spk27 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b05s3szh (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05rkq9c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05rkq9f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05rkq9h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05spk30 (Listen) SAT Miranda Sawyer, Charley Pride, Tracey Thorn, Samantha Bond, SAT Clare Higgins, the Staves SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Charley SAT Pride and The Staves. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Samantha Bond SAT SAT The new six part drama ‘Home Fires’ starts this Sunday 3rd SAT May at 9pm on ITV. SAT SAT Charley Pride SAT SAT Charley Pride plays a number of select venues in May. All SAT details can be found on Charley's SAT official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Tracey Thorn SAT SAT ‘Naked at the Albert Hall - The Inside Story of Singing' by SAT is published by Virago and out now. SAT Tracey Thorn's official website SAT SAT Clare Higgins SAT ‘Clarion’ is at the Arcola Theatre until Saturday 16 May. SAT SAT The Staves SAT SAT The Staves' album ‘If I Was’ is available now on Atlantic. SAT The Staves' official website SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Performer: The Staves SAT Performer: Charley Pride SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05spk32 (Listen) SAT Loretta Lynch SAT SAT Earlier this week, Loretta Lynch was sworn in as the new US SAT attorney general. Brought up in North Carolina the daughter SAT of a Baptist minister father and a mother who picked cotton SAT as a young girl, Lynch is the first black woman to hold the SAT position of the nation's top law enforcement official. SAT SAT Harvard-educated Lynch worked at several private law firms SAT and has been a federal prosecutor, winning high-profile SAT cases against corrupt New York lawmakers, sex traffickers SAT and mafiosi. Indeed, the film Goodfellas was based on one of SAT Lynch's cases. There's also been much criticism over her SAT handling of the HSBC scandal in which she decided not to SAT prosecute the bank for money laundering offences. SAT SAT Yet despite the high-profile nature of her work, relatively SAT little is known about the 83rd attorney general herself. So SAT who is Loretta Lynch? Edward Stourton speaks to those who SAT know her. SAT SAT Presenter: Edward Stourton SAT Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05spk34 (Listen) SAT Everyman, Far from the Madding Crowd, Empire, Anne Enright, SAT Christopher Williams SAT SAT Carol Ann Duffy has adapted the 16th century morality play SAT Everyman for London's National Theatre, with Chiwetel SAT Ejiofor in the title role There's a new film version of Far SAT From The Madding Crowd, this time with Carey Mulligan as SAT Bathsheba Everdene - is it fair to compare ith with the 1969 SAT version? SAT Empire is a TV phenomenon in the US; a tale of power and SAT intrigue at a hip hop record label - like a black Dynasty SAT crossed with King Lear - it has drawn unprecedented SAT audiences and now it's come to the UK SAT Anne Enright''s novel The Green Road tells the individual SAT stories of a geographically-dispersed Irish family who are SAT brought back togther for a family gathering with all the SAT pressure that unavoidably ensues SAT A retrospective exhibition of Christopher Williams SAT photography at The Whitechapel Gallery in London looks at SAT the unexpected beauty and cultural resonance of commercial, SAT industrial and instructional photography. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4: The Language of Pain b05spk3q (Listen) SAT Virginia Woolf lamented that the English language, so rich SAT in words to describe the passions of love and tragedy, has SAT no adequate words for 'the shiver and the headache'. SAT Physical pains like these dominate our lives and yet our SAT language is insufficient to describe them. SAT SAT Professor Joanna Bourke is fascinated by the way people talk SAT about their pain. Looking back in history, she finds an SAT abundant language through which people have expressed it. SAT Only in recent times has scientific terminology taken over SAT the language of pain, stripping it of its depth and variety. SAT SAT In this programme, Joanna explores archive from the 19th and SAT 20th centuries to illustrate the metaphors that people have SAT used. The obsession with railways in the mid-19th century SAT entered the vocabulary of pain almost immediately, and so SAT did electrical metaphors and comparisons with the telegraph. SAT The way we talk about pain is a product of the times we're SAT living in. SAT SAT Through interviews with clinical pain specialists, SAT historians and artists, Joanna examines how far the language SAT we use to talk about pain influences the way we feel it. SAT SAT Today, pain specialists are increasingly concentrating on SAT the language of their patients. While medicine is now very SAT effective at treating acute pain, chronic pain remains a SAT problem. The experience of chronic pain patients needs to be SAT managed differently and the language we use to talk about it SAT may form part of the answer. SAT SAT Producer: Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05rl3w4 (Listen) SAT Decline and Fall, Episode 1 SAT SAT A real gem in the canon of British comic fiction. SAT Evelyn Waugh's fast paced roller-coaster, dramatised SAT by Jeremy Front, is peopled by larger than life characters SAT and a few grotesques. Paul Pennyfeather, a quiet, earnest, SAT scholarly young student at Oxford knows nothing of 1920's SAT high-life until one night he encounters The Bollinger Club SAT ... SAT SAT Produced by Marion Nancarrow and Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT Set in the early jazz age, the tone of Decline and Fall is SAT Wodehousian with added sex, drugs and alcohol. The central SAT character is Paul Pennyfeather, played by Oxford graduate SAT and young emerging comedian, Kieran Hodgson. Paul is an SAT innocent but nevertheless the engine of the piece. The fuse SAT is lit in Oxford after which the plot moves us quickly to SAT London then out to a tenth rate school in rural Wales where SAT we meet the Headmaster, Dr Fagan and two fellow teachers, SAT Grimes and Prendergast played by comedy stars - Geoffrey SAT Whitehead, John Sessions and James Fleet. SAT SAT From here we are taken to a glass and steel fantasy of SAT excessive modern architecture in the middle of the English SAT countryside, the home of the beautiful Margot, stylish SAT played by Emilia Fox, designed by the eccentric Otto, a SAT cameo played with relish by Tom Hollander in Episode Two. SAT Paul's travels then take him to hot, sweaty Marseille and SAT into trouble which results in him ending up in a British SAT prison. Paul's adventures end in a rather Alice in SAT Wonderland fashion when he is given a new identity and SAT returns to Oxford, exactly where he started, but with the SAT addition of a beard. SAT SAT Decline and Fall is dramatised by Jeremy Front. Jeremy won SAT the Best Dramatisation in the 2014 Drama Audio Awards for SAT Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour. His wonderfully comic touch SAT has been evident in his most recent work for Radio 4 - SAT Charles Paris and Incredible Women. SAT SAT Credits SAT Paul Pennyfeather: Kieran Hodgson SAT Dr Fagan: Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Grimes: John Sessions SAT Prendergast: James Fleet SAT Philbrick: Ben Crowe SAT Margot Beste-Chetwynde: Emilia Fox SAT Peter Beste-Chetwynde: Alex Lawther SAT Flossie: Tilly Vosburgh SAT Lady Circumference: Felicity Montagu SAT Dingy: Felicity Montagu SAT Tangent: Richard Linnell SAT Clutterbuck: Mark Edel-Hunt SAT Cholmondley: Jude Akuwudike SAT Mr Davies: Stephen Critchlow SAT Paul's Guardian: Stephen Critchlow SAT Trumpington: Sam Valentine SAT Sniggs: Sam Dale SAT Postlethwaite: David Acton SAT Levy: Ian Conningham SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT Director: Tracey Neale SAT Author: Evelyn Waugh SAT Adaptor: Jeremy Front SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05rkq9k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Two Rooms b05s385x (Listen) SAT Fi Glover hosts a unique experiment as two groups of people SAT share their contrasting experiences, and voice their inner SAT concerns about the way society is developing, as Britain SAT faces arguably the most unpredictable election of modern SAT times. SAT SAT In the third programme, the groups consider whether they SAT feel the current levels of immigration bring benefits or SAT hindrance to themselves and to Britain. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Jarvis SAT Series Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b05rnx80 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Cardiff University SAT SAT A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three SAT University students take on a team of three of their SAT professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from Cardiff University, The 3rd Degree is SAT a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at cultivating SAT the next generation of Radio 4 listeners while delighting SAT the current ones. SAT SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Biology, SAT Journalism and Astrophysics and the questions range from the SAT intricacies of relativistic length contraction to the SAT idiocies of homeopathy via Grexit, webinars and a man called SAT Walter Plinge. SAT SAT The show is recorded on location at a different University SAT each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of SAT their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on SAT an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course SAT meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but SAT with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quick-fire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and One Direction. SAT The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on SAT The Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not SAT just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in SAT the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries SAT for Radio 4, including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The SAT Spleen, as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang SAT Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine SAT Particle. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 23:30 The Poet and the Murderer b05rl3w8 (Listen) SAT In 1997, a newly discovered and previously unpublished poem SAT by the much-loved American poet Emily Dickinson was SAT auctioned in New York. There was great excitement at the SAT idea that a new work by this iconic artist had come to light SAT - as if a new Shakespeare Sonnet had been found locked in a SAT trunk in a Stratford attic, or an unknown Picasso had been SAT stumbled upon at a car boot sale. SAT SAT After the poem was sold at auction and brought home to Emily SAT Dickinson's home town of Amherst, with much fanfare, it was SAT revealed to be a brilliant fake. It had been created by a SAT man named Mark Hofmann, a convicted double murderer once SAT dubbed the 'greatest forger of the 20th century'. He had not SAT only matched the paper, handwriting and pencil with SAT astounding historical accuracy, he had produced a new SAT Dickinson work that passed off as authentic. SAT SAT How was a convicted double murderer able to craft a poem so SAT perfect that it fooled leading Emily Dickinson scholars and SAT experts in historical documents? Dickinson famously lived SAT much of her life as a recluse, producing her works of SAT concentrated brilliance from the bedroom of her father's SAT house in Amherst, Massachusetts. She chose not to publish SAT during her lifetime and hand-sewn booklets containing some SAT 1,800 poems were discovered in a locked box in her room SAT after her death. Why does Dickinson continue to fascinate, SAT and what might Hofmann's fake poem tell us about the true SAT poet's work and life? SAT SAT The writer and journalist Simon Worrall unfolds a gripping SAT true story of poetry, murder and the art of forgery. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 MAY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05srz1m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Go West b01r525t (Listen) SUN 41 Rue Monge SUN SUN Five short stories from Bristol. SUN SUN 2. 41 Rue Monge SUN by Jenny Solomons SUN SUN Victor is a Parisian piano-tuner who has fallen on hard SUN times - people just aren't having their pianos tuned as SUN often as they used to. Now he's behind on his rent and can't SUN think where to turn except to his estranged businessman SUN brother Claude. It's a visit which changes Victor's life. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05srz1q (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05srz1t (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05srz1w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05srz20 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05ss4r6 (Listen) SUN Church bells from York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b05spk32 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b05srz27 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b05ss4r8 (Listen) SUN Economics is the discipline that politicians obey at all SUN costs. Economists have become the most trusted advisers to SUN those in power. But Mark Tully asks if the economic growth SUN that politicians use to judge their country's state of SUN health is undermining our spiritual well being. SUN SUN What would society look like if spirituality and economics SUN were linked, if religious organisations were more actively SUN engaged with material concerns, or if the purpose of SUN economic policy was not just to maximise production but to SUN increase a sense of inner peace which spirituality can give? SUN SUN Mark examines this question with the help of Joseph Prabhu SUN who studied with some of India's greatest economists and who SUN refuses to place the blame solely at the door of governments SUN and policy advisors. He suggests that those who stress the SUN importance of spirituality are also partly to blame for what SUN he calls 'greed-based economics' because they have ignored SUN our material needs. Maybe this, he feels, is one reason why SUN economic thinking that ignores spirituality has such a grip SUN on us that it seems to be the way of life. SUN SUN A Unique Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Valuing Spirituality in Development SUN SUN Author: The Bahai International Community SUN SUN Published by: www.bahai.org SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Another Story SUN SUN Author: Paul Ableman SUN SUN Published by: Allen & Unwin in The House That Jack Built: SUN Poems for Shelter SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Making Money SUN SUN Author: Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN Published by: Anvil Press in The Other Country SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: To The Utalitarians SUN SUN Author: Wordsworth SUN SUN Published by: Oxford University Press in The Oxford Book of SUN Money SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: On Suicide: A Study in Sociology SUN SUN Author: Émile Durkheim SUN SUN Published by: Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b05ss4rb (Listen) SUN Swifts SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN In 1947 David Lack, Director of the Edward Grey Institute of SUN Field Ornithology began observing swifts around Oxford. His SUN observations, led to the creation of one of the longest SUN continuous studies of a single bird species in the world, SUN the Oxford Swift Research Project. In 2000 Lionel Kelleway SUN joined Chris Perrins high up the Oxford University Museum SUN tower to take Living World closer to these 'devil-birds' SUN than ever before. They begin the programme high up on the SUN outside of the tower, watching swifts feeding in the air. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05srz2b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05srz2d (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05ss4rd (Listen) SUN Nepal, Church Bells, Fossil Fuels SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05ss4rg (Listen) SUN BasicNeeds SUN SUN Helen Lederer presents The Radio 4 Appeal for BasicNeeds SUN Registered Charity No 1079599 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'BasicNeeds'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'BasicNeeds'. SUN SUN BasicNeeds SUN SUN BasicNeeds is an international development organisation SUN founded by Chris Underhill MBE in 2000 to enable people with SUN mental illness and epilepsy to have access to treatment, the SUN opportunity to earn an income and to re-integrate themselves SUN successfully into their families and communities. SUN BasicNeeds’ community based approach to mental health SUN treatment is holistic and innovative, going beyond purely SUN the medical to incorporate social and economic recovery too. SUN Since its foundation, BasicNeeds has transformed the lives SUN of over half a million people with mental illness or SUN epilepsy, their carers and families in 12 countries of Asia SUN and Africa. SUN SUN Francis freed from a log SUN SUN For Francis in Ghana, mental illness meant being held SUN captive with his leg shackled through a hole carved in a SUN log. With the help of BasicNeeds, Francis now has his SUN psychosis under control. He is working as a primary school SUN teacher and advocating for a better understanding of mental SUN illness in his community. SUN SUN Back in the community together with his wife SUN SUN *“I felt very sad and neglected having my leg pinned in a SUN log and it was very painful. But for BasicNeeds, I would not SUN be alive today…I am back to teaching and my wife is helping SUN me cultivate our small piece of land in front of our house. SUN Together we shall regain our dignity”*, says Francis. SUN Photo shows Francis with his wife Yaa. SUN SUN BasicNeeds’ work in Nepal SUN SUN BasicNeeds has been working with local partner SUN LEADS (Livelihoods Education and Development Society) in SUN Nepal since 2011 to promote the recovery of people affected SUN by mental illness, and to engage them and their family SUN members in livelihood activities to ensure a life in the SUN community for all. We are currently mobilising support to SUN ensure that the people in this programme who were affected SUN by the massive earthquake that hit the region on 25th April SUN do not run out of essential supplies of their psychiatric SUN medicines and have access to long-term support to rebuild SUN their lives. SUN SUN This photo was taken in Baglung district. We know that all SUN our project beneficiaries are safe but many houses have been SUN damaged. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05srz2j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05srz2m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05ss4rj (Listen) SUN Methodist Central Hall, Westminster SUN SUN Gerard Brooks directs the renowned Methodist Central Hall SUN Choir in a feast of traditional hymns live from Methodist SUN Central Hall Westminster, directly opposite the Houses of SUN Parliament. Preacher: The Superintendent, the Revd Martin SUN Turner; Leader: The Revd Tony Miles. The service gives SUN thanks for the freedom of choice and rule of law enshrined SUN in our democratic traditions as prayers are expressed for SUN the future of our national life. Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05s3r6x (Listen) SUN Leaders Old and Young SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b041yd42 (Listen) SUN Heather Moorland Dawn Chorus SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN David Attenborough celebrates International Dawn Chorus Day SUN with the second of four recordings marking this event. In SUN this programme, we hear the dawn chorus from the heather SUN moors of Allendale in Northumberland. Songs featured are SUN that of the curlew, skylark, golden plover and redshank. SUN SUN Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) SUN The image shows a Eurasian Curlew which can be heard in the SUN Heather Moorland Dawn Chorus. Image courtesy of RSPB SUN (rspb-images.com). SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05ss5gf (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 b05ss5gh (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Gurpreet Bhatti SUN Director ..... Marina Caldarone SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer.....Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer.....Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer.....Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer.....David Troughton SUN Helen Archer.....Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge.....Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge.....Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge.....Lucy Morris SUN Susan Carter.....Charlotte Martin SUN Joe Grundy.....Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy.....Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy.....Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy.....Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane.....Perdita Avery SUN Fallon Rogers.....Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell.....Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener.....Timothy Watson SUN Jess Titchener.....Rina Mahoney SUN Peggy Woolley.....June Spencer. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:16 The Reunion b05ss5gk (Listen) SUN Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites cast and creatives to recall how SUN director Peter Brook's revolutionary production of A SUN Midsummer Night's Dream at the RSC changed theatre and SUN Shakespeare forever. SUN SUN On 27th August 1970, an expectant audience arrived at the SUN Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Such was SUN the anticipation that the New York Times theatre critic, SUN Clive Barnes, had crossed the Atlantic to join them. He was SUN not to be disappointed. Not only did the performance of A SUN Midsummer Night's Dream receive a resounding standing SUN ovation, it did so at the first interval. SUN SUN "Once in a while, once in a very rare while," wrote a SUN jubilant Barnes the next day, "a theatrical production SUN arrives that is going to be talked about as long as there is SUN a theatre, a production that, for good or ill, is going to SUN exert a major influence on the contemporary stage...It is a SUN magnificent production." SUN SUN Although Peter Brook retained the original text, his method SUN of developing the production was far from conventional. SUN Rejecting the notion of 'director's theatre' he urged his SUN actors to let the play 'work through them and do things to SUN them'. He even tested out his ideas on a crowd in a SUN Birmingham social club. SUN SUN The costumes and scenery were no less radical. Working with SUN designer Sally Jacobs, Brook set the play in a minimalist SUN white space, featuring just two doors at the rear. Actors SUN wore brightly-coloured satin costumes inspired by the SUN Chinese circus and entered on stilts and trapezes. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor is joined by Peter Brook, designer Sally SUN Jacobs and actors Sir Ben Kingsley (Demetrius), Sara SUN Kestelman (Titania/Hippolyta), Frances de la Tour (Helena) SUN and Barry Stanton (Snug). SUN SUN Producer: Matt Taylor SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05srz2v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Dilemma b05rnz1n (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 4 SUN SUN Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts SUN the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to see SUN the direction in their moral compasses point. This week, SUN it's the turn of comedians Iain Stirling and Shappi SUN Khorsandi, journalist Suzanne Moore, and writer and actor SUN Dan Tetsell. Collectively they rate the merits of getting SUN the money or the credit for something's success, as well as SUN quickly resolving issues such as inheritance, racism, SUN childhood dreams and Beyoncé. Episode four of six. SUN SUN Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by SUN Danielle Ward. SUN SUN Devised by ... Danielle Ward SUN Producer ... Ed Morrish. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sue Perkins SUN Panellist: Iain Stirling SUN Panellist: Suzanne Moore SUN Panellist: Dan Tetsell SUN Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi SUN Producer: Ed Morrish SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05ss68g (Listen) SUN The Legacy of the BBC Food and Farming Awards SUN SUN Sheila Dillon reports on how 15 years of the BBC Food and SUN Farming Awards have captured the revolution in the SUN streetfood business, witnessed the rise of a new generation SUN of brewers and distillers, chronicled the rise of new types SUN of food markets and marked major changes in the supermarket SUN supply chain. Over the last decade and a half, through SUN receiving thousands of nominations, the judges have been SUN able to spot early on new ideas and changes in the UK's food SUN culture. Sheila talks to judges past and present and former SUN finalists and winners to describe the big shifts as seen SUN through the awards. SUN SUN Retail analyst and former judge Robert Clark and Policy SUN Director of Sustain, Kath Dalmeny join Sheila to talk about SUN key stories and innovative ideas they've encountered through SUN the awards. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Clark SUN Interviewed Guest: Kath Dalmeny SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05srz31 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05ss68j (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05s3pcj (Listen) SUN South Devon SUN SUN Peter Gibbs is in Devon to chair the horticultural panel SUN programme. Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew SUN Wilson join him to answer an array of gardening conundrums. SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This Week's Questions SUN Q. I have a tall, single-stemmed Cordyline known as a Torbay SUN Palm, I would like it to be multi-stemmed, do I dare cut the SUN top off? SUN SUN A. Matthew – I’d take the axe to the lot of them frankly! If SUN you want to get multi-stem it depends where you want the SUN break to happen. So if you want the break at five feet SUN (1.5m) tall, chop it at five feet. They are very resilient SUN to being chopped so it won’t die. SUN SUN Anne – Just go for it. Now is a good time to do it because SUN it’s got the whole of the growing year to sort itself out. SUN SUN Q. We have an orchard here, very well established, it’s on a SUN north-facing, quite steep slope, the trees are tended and SUN pruned regularly but the grass underneath is mown twice a SUN year. Is this enough? SUN SUN A. Anne – I have a north-facing orchard as well and because SUN we use a sit-down mower we can’t easily get under the SUN branches so we don’t mow under there we just cut it about SUN once a year or even once every two years. You can get away SUN with it if they are mature trees and the soil underneath is SUN good soil. If they are young trees you should maintain a SUN well-kept circle around them. SUN SUN Bunny – during the first four years after a tree is planted SUN the grass and the roots of the tree compete for moisture, SUN beyond that the tree becomes more established. If any of SUN your trees are ailing though there is a lot to be said for SUN putting down a jolly good mulch right out to the canopy edge SUN to aerate the soil and to protect against noxious fungi – a SUN deciduous mulch, not a coniferous mulch. SUN SUN Q. How do I get rid of Cuckoo Pint that’s growing in the SUN garden and has been a pest for 35 years? I have dug it out, SUN pulled the leaves off the emerging young plants, and I have SUN swamped it with Glyphosate but it’s still as vigorous as SUN ever. SUN SUN A. Bunny – It dies down in the spring so I think the SUN glyphocate has killed the main plant but the little SUN seedlings are still sprouting. Attack the plants as they SUN are dying down so the chemical is taken down and then keep SUN an eye out for the newly sprouting plants SUN SUN Matthew – you’re going to struggle to get rid of it SUN completely so it’s going to be a continuing battle I’m SUN afraid SUN SUN Q. Please could you give me suggestions for planting behind SUN and between railway sleepers which edge the drive to a SUN modern barn – this is a predominantly modern garden, the SUN soil is mainly shillet and we brace ourselves regularly for SUN south westerly gales and we’re at the top of a hill. SUN SUN A. Matthew – Shillet is a mixture of stone and clay and junk SUN which is hard to plant into. I would go with something like SUN a Californian Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) which will SUN seed happily around there or the Mexican Daisy. Some of the SUN Artemisias, the low-growing ones, one called Schmidtiana, SUN could be really stunning. SUN SUN Bunny – do you want the sleeper to disappear? In that case SUN something like Euphoria robbiae that grows in anything and SUN just spreads and is evergreen. If you put that along the SUN edge it would flop over with its lime green and cover it up. SUN SUN Q. I have an allotment that faces east on a very steep slope SUN even in the summer its in the shade shortly after midday – SUN does the panel have any suggestions for growing vegetables SUN in shady steep places? SUN SUN A. Bunny – I think your problem will be down to drainage; it SUN will be too sharp. What I would do is line them with black SUN polythene with holes in them – make sure I had a really good SUN depth (400ml) of top soil, add things like biochar and bulk SUN into the soil to retain the water. I don’t think it’s the SUN light levels per se. SUN SUN You could do straw bail gardening - it’s not aesthetically SUN as pleasing but your yields will be better. SUN SUN Q. As I get older I find that shrubs appeal to me for lower SUN maintenance garden. Which three shrubs would you recommend SUN for a small garden and why? SUN SUN A. Matthew – One would be Camellias – invaluable for winter SUN colour but they also have magnificent foliage – and you can SUN prune them quite hard so they are good for a small garden. SUN Also try Euonymous alatus compactus for its intense autumn SUN colour. And, any of innumerable shrub roses – if I had to SUN choose one it would be a Gertrude Jeykll for the smell. SUN SUN Bunny – Hydrangeas like the Hydrangea aspera villosa, or the SUN Hydrangea marveille sanguine. You could also try a Phillyrea SUN (green olive) or Daphne eternal fragrance would work too. SUN SUN Anne – Pittosporum tenuifolium – or ‘Irene Paterson’. SUN SUN A Dwarf lilac called ‘red elf’ which is really hardy. SUN SUN Daphne odora – little bit bigger than the eternal with a SUN better smell. SUN SUN Q. Our new neighbours have erected an 8-foot high wooden SUN fence on our southern boundary leaving us with a cold SUN north-facing area which only gets the sun during summer SUN afternoons. Can the panel suggest plants to grow in front of SUN the fence? SUN SUN A. Bunny – It looks [from the photograph] like the fence is SUN about 20 metres in length so I would try and break up the SUN length a bit with some Yew buttresses or another evergreen SUN hedge. Hydrangea seemanii is a very good evergreen climber SUN that would form a green wall across the fence. In the SUN meantime you could paint the fence with a dark green colour SUN to make it less new and brown. Or you put wire wool in SUN vinegar and water and then you paint it on and it gives it SUN that nice faded oak look. SUN SUN Matthew – if it’s wet you could try three or four willows SUN (not the trees) and if you keep them tight to the fence they SUN would grow higher than the height of the fence and break up SUN its linearity. SUN SUN Anne – Drimys winteri is a tall evergreen shrub – or SUN Zantedeschia might grow quite nicely too. SUN SUN Agatha Christie Garden SUN Peter Gibbs and Matthew Wilson meet Ali Marshall and Carly SUN Mays at Torre Abbey SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05sscm9 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about the changes SUN dementia imposes, the importance of colour, and a family SUN gift for ceramics, from Cumbria, Wales and Northern Ireland, SUN in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN 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 b05sscmc (Listen) SUN Decline and Fall, Episode 2 SUN SUN Captain Grimes finding himself in 'the soup' SUN again has disappeared and Margot has SUN invited Paul to tutor her son Peter during SUN the school holidays. There he meets the SUN eccentric Otto. SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Paul: Kieran Hodgson SUN Margot: Emilia Fox SUN Otto: Tom Hollander SUN Peter: Alex Lawther SUN Grimes: John Sessions SUN Prendergast: James Fleet SUN Dr Fagan: Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Philbrick: Ben Crowe SUN Alastair: Sam Valentine SUN Sir Humphrey: Sam Dale SUN Governor 2: Sam Dale SUN Scout: Sam Dale SUN Inspector Bruce: Stephen Critchlow SUN Warder 1: Stephen Critchlow SUN Lunatic: Ian Conningham SUN Warder 2: Ian Conningham SUN Lucas-Dockerty: David Acton SUN Chaplain: David Acton SUN Jane Grimes: Jessica Turner SUN Bessy: Rhiannon Neads SUN Producer: Marion Nancarrow SUN Director: Tracey Neale SUN Author: Evelyn Waugh SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b05sscmf (Listen) SUN Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to Hisham Matar about his SUN gripping debut novel In The Country Of Men. SUN SUN This international bestseller is set in Colonel Gaddafi's SUN Libya of 1979, as the narrator Suleiman looks back on his SUN childhood summer and tries to makes sense of the bewildering SUN world around him. His best friend's father disappears and is SUN next seen on state television at a public execution, a SUN mysterious man sits outside the house all day, gives him SUN sweets and asks for the names of his father's friends; and SUN it seems his father has finally disappeared for good. SUN SUN Hisham Matar explains now the novel is not autobiographical SUN but that he remembers that time well, how life in Libya SUN 'went indoors' with cinemas closed and access to bookshops SUN restricted. He remembers how fears, secrets and betrayal SUN threatened individuals and families. He also talks about how SUN his own father disappeared in the 1980s. SUN SUN In The Country Of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man SUN Booker Prize. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : Hisham Matar SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN June's Bookclub choice is Do No Harm by Henry Marsh. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Hisham Matar SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 Walt Whitman's War b05sscmh (Listen) SUN Walt Whitman, the great American poet of Leaves of Grass and SUN Song of Myself gave up poetry one hundred and fifty years SUN ago during the American Civil War to volunteer as a wound SUN dresser for the battle injured. What he saw in the bloody SUN field hospitals had a profound impact on Whitman and on his SUN poetry. He went back to words after the war and wrote some SUN of his best poetry and prose in the grim light of what he'd SUN seen. SUN SUN An exploration of Whitman's war with archive recordings of SUN Whitman himself, the music of John Adams and contributions SUN from poets Allen Ginsberg, Mark Ford, Galway Kinnell and SUN Mark Doty. SUN SUN 17:00 The Rape of Berlin b05sfg37 (Listen) SUN As Europe was being liberated from Fascism at the end of SUN World War II, one of the most infamous incidents of mass SUN rape in history was underway. Lucy Ash investigates a story SUN that slipped under the official radar. SUN SUN Winston Churchill spoke for many when he saluted the Soviet SUN army as heroes. Yet the widespread sexual violence - in SUN part, revenge for the devastating Nazi invasion of the USSR SUN - went unacknowledged. Some estimate there were 100,000 SUN rapes in Berlin alone but, although no secret, social SUN stigma, political repression, guilt and fear of revisionism SUN ensured that for decades the subject was untouchable in SUN Germany. Today it's still an explosive topic - virtually SUN taboo in Putin's Russia. Renewed East-West divisions over SUN the conflict in Ukraine are exposing to what extent the SUN 'Great Patriotic War', as Russians call it, is unfinished SUN business. SUN SUN Lucy travels first to Moscow and then to Berlin to meet a SUN veteran and a rape survivor. She discovers letters, abortion SUN records and two remarkably candid diaries from spring 1945: SUN one by a young Red Army officer, and the other by a female SUN German journalist, which caused outrage when it was first SUN published in German in 1959, but rocketed to the bestseller SUN lists in 2003. We confront multiple aspects to the story: SUN that as well as German rape victims there were also the SUN Soviet, Polish and Jewish women who had just been freed from SUN Nazi camps; that sexual violence was committed in different SUN ways on all sides, by the Wehrmacht, the Red Army and the SUN Western Allies; and that sexual encounters ranged from the SUN most brutal gang rape to prostitution to romances across SUN enemy lines. SUN SUN Producer: Dorothy Feaver SUN SUN Image credit: German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, photo SUN correspondent Timofey Melnik. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05spk32 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05srz37 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05srz39 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05srz3f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05ssfv8 (Listen) SUN Chris Hawkins SUN SUN This week, Chris Hawkins selects moments to move you, SUN moments to intrigue you and moments to make you laugh. There SUN are words and looks that lead from trust to betrayal and the SUN tragic real-life story of a psychiatrist and his wife SUN dealing with early on-set dementia. As the anniversary of SUN the Battle of Waterloo approaches, there are the pre-battle SUN battles between re-enactment hobbyists in all their refinery SUN and we contemplate the beauty of Asia's most elegant of SUN national symbols with Mishal Husain talking about her saris. SUN Be charmed by the curmudgeonly ex minor portrayed by John SUN Godber in Happy Jack, meet the babysitter turned 60s pop SUN sensation and listen to Sir Tim Rice as he reveals his worst SUN lyrical rhymes. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05ssfvb (Listen) SUN It is Dawn Chorus Day, and the plot thickens for David. SUN SUN 19:15 The Vote Now Show b05s3sth (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve SUN Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests to give SUN their own unique take on the week's election shenanigans. SUN SUN Episode four features Laura Shavin, John Robins, Ben SUN Partridge, Deborah Orr and Adam Kay. SUN SUN Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. SUN SUN Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Steve Punt SUN Presenter: Hugh Dennis SUN Performer: Laura Shavin SUN Performer: John Robins SUN Performer: Benjamin Partridge SUN Performer: Deborah Orr SUN Performer: Adam Kay SUN Producer: Alexandra Smith SUN Producer: Joe Nunnery SUN Producer: Rachel Wheeley SUN Executive Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith SUN SUN 19:45 Above Ground b05ssfvf (Listen) SUN You Want? SUN SUN Story series in which writers consider themes of age and SUN ageing. The series title, Above Ground, is inspired by a SUN quote from Carol Shields's novel The Stone Diaries: "Here's SUN to another year and let's hope it's above ground." SUN SUN "You Want?" is a vivid short story by Jane Rogers. SUN SUN Nearing retirement, feeling jaded by life, Karl is in France SUN to sell his aunt's rapidly dilapidating house. Caught up in SUN a snowstorm, he finds himself engulfed by a memory of an SUN encounter with a local woman during an earlier visit to the SUN country. SUN SUN The story first appeared in Jane Rogers's story collection SUN Hitting Trees With Sticks, published by Comma Press in 2012. SUN SUN Read by David Acton SUN Written by Jane Rogers SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: David Acton SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN Writer: Jane Rogers SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b05sfd0r (Listen) SUN Polls, Nuns, Life Partners SUN SUN Is the number of Catholic nuns on the up? It was recently SUN reported in the news that the number of Catholic nuns has SUN trebled in the past five years, reaching its highest level SUN since 1990. The number of women training to become Catholic SUN nuns in Great Britain has reached a 25-year high. Are we SUN witnessing the so-called 'Pope Francis effect'? What's the SUN long-term trend - are more women becoming nuns? Tim Harford SUN looks at figures from the UK and across the world. SUN SUN On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford takes a SUN look at what polling data can tell us about predicting SUN elections. SUN SUN Plus, Matt Parker the stand-up mathematician is invited back SUN to the programme to respond to a listener's query about his SUN theory on the best way to find a life partner. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05s49k3 (Listen) SUN Sir Philip Carter, Andrew Lesnie, Margaret Harrison, Tom SUN McCabe MSP, Claire Gordon SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sir Philip Carter the chairman of Everton football club who SUN presided over a successful period in the club's fortunes. SUN SUN Andrew Lesnie the cinematographer who won an Oscar for his SUN work on the Lord of the Rings. SUN SUN Anti nuclear campaigner Margaret Harrison who helped to SUN start the protest camp at Faslane. SUN SUN Tom McCabe, the Labour MSP who brought in the smoking ban in SUN Scotland SUN SUN And Claire Gordon, the actress known as Britain's answer to SUN Brigitte Bardot who married the author of the Henry Root SUN letters. SUN SUN Sir Philip Carter SUN SUN Matthew spoke to BBC Merseyside reporter Mike Hughes; to SUN former Everton footballer Graeme Sharp and to former Everton SUN manager Howard Kendall. SUN SUN Born 8 May 1927; died 23 April 2015 aged 87. SUN SUN Andrew Lesnie (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Ian Christie, SUN Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck University SUN of London. SUN SUN Born 1956; died 27 April 2015 aged 59. SUN SUN Margaret Harrison SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her daughter and son in law, Anne and Eric SUN McArthur and to fellow political activist Bruce Kent. SUN SUN Born 5 May 1918; died 15 April 2015 aged 96. SUN SUN Tom McCabe MSP SUN SUN Last Word spoke to the BBC’s political editor for Scotland, SUN Brian Taylor. SUN SUN Born 8 April 1954; died 19 April 2015 aged 61. SUN SUN Claire Gordon SUN SUN Last Word spoke to the author Terence Blacker who knew her. SUN SUN Born 16 January 1941; died 13 April 2015 aged 74. SUN SUN Ben E King SUN Born 28 September 1938; died 1 May 2015 aged 76. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Mike Hughes SUN Interviewed Guest: Graeme Sharp SUN Interviewed Guest: Howard Kendall SUN Interviewed Guest: Ian Christie SUN Interviewed Guest: Anne McArthur SUN Interviewed Guest: Eric McArthur SUN Interviewed Guest: Bruce Kent SUN Interviewed Guest: Brian Taylor SUN Interviewed Guest: Terence Blacker SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05spjyr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05ss4rg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b05s3kdz (Listen) SUN Immigration - The Business View SUN SUN Immigration is one of the key issues of the General Election SUN campaign. Peter Day asks businesses, big and small, what SUN they think about immigration. How dependent is Britain on SUN workers from other countries in Europe, and beyond? What SUN impact have tighter visa restrictions for migrants from SUN outside Europe had on British business? SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Robert Pascall, owner and Managing Director Clock House SUN Farm SUN SUN Ovidiu Stroe, Supervisor, Clock House, Farm SUN SUN Vali Neagu, Foreman Clock House Farm SUN SUN Madeleine Sumption, Director Migration Observatory, Oxford SUN University SUN SUN Juergen Maier, Chief Executive, Siemens UK SUN SUN Tony Carson, Managing Director TEC Construction SUN SUN John Mills, Chairman and Founder JML SUN SUN Ed Bussey, CEO and Founder Quill SUN SUN Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive, Universities UK SUN SUN Ernesto Jordan, former overseas Masters student, Imperial SUN College SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05ssh14 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05sshbl (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05s3gzg (Listen) SUN Far from the Madding Crowd; Christopher Doyle; Polish SUN Cinema; DVD Review SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses his latest SUN adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd and why he hasn't SUN seen all of John Schlesinger's 1967 version with Terence SUN Stamp and Julie Christie. SUN SUN Cinematographer Christopher Doyle reveals some tricks of his SUN trade and tells Francine what's the colour of love. SUN SUN Director Krzysztof Zanussi talks about what it was like SUN working under state censorship in communist-era Poland. SUN SUN Critic Sophie Monks-Kaufman makes her pick of the best DVDs SUN of the month. SUN SUN MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS MASTERPIECES OF POLISH CINEMA SUN Find the films from the UK tour in your area here: SUN Martin Scorsese presents SUN SUN SUN And an introduction from Martin about the films he's chosen SUN and why: SUN An introduction from Martin SUN SUN CHRISTOPHER DOYLE ART EXHIBITION SUN Cinematographer and film director Christopher Doyle has his SUN first solo art show in Europe. SUN No Glass Twice as Big as It Needs to Be SUN by Christopher Doyle is on display at Rossi & Rossi, London SUN from Friday 17 April until Friday 15 May 2015 SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05ss4r8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 MAY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05srz58 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05s36cg (Listen) MON Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS MON MON Post traumatic stress in male combat veterans: Laurie Taylor MON talks to Nick Caddick, Research Assistant at Loughborough MON University, and co-author of a study exploring the MON relationship between masculinity, militarism and mental MON health. Do conventional notions of male bravery and MON resilience impede soldiers' ability to access to support? MON They're joined by Anthony King, Professor in Sociology at MON the University of Exeter. MON MON Also, managing beds in the NHS. Pressure on beds is an acute MON challenge to the health service. MON Davina Allen, Professor of Healthcare Organisation at MON Cardiff University, discusses her study into bed utilisation MON from the point of view of UK hospital nurses. How is access MON to beds granted or denied and who decides? MON MON Producer: Natalia Fernandez. MON MON Contributors MON Nick Caddick MON Research Assistant, Peter Harrison Centre for Disability MON Sport, Loughborough University MON MON Abstract: * MON Male combat veterans’ narratives of PTSD, masculinity, and MON health MON *Caddick, N., Smith, B. and Phoenix, C. (2015) MON Sociology of Health & Illness, 37: 97–111 MON doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12183 MON Anthony King MON Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter MON MON *The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces: From the Rhine MON to Afghanistan MON *Publisher: Cambridge University Press MON ISBN-10: 1107647681 MON ISBN-13: 978-1107647688 MON Davina Allen MON Professor in the School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff MON University MON MON Abstract: * MON Inside ‘bed management’: ethnographic insights from the MON vantage point of UK hospital nurses MON *Allen, D. (2015) MON Sociology of Health & Illness, 37: 370–384 MON doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12195 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05ss4r6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05srz5b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05srz5g (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05srz5j (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05srz5l (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05tvw32 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Dr Mike Ford. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05ssmn8 (Listen) MON Bunny Guinness's Smallholding MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05srz5p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020vp4h (Listen) MON Little Egret 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 Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Little Egret. The MON colonisation of the UK by these small brilliant-white herons MON with black bills and yellow feet, has astonished MON ornithologists because of its speed. MON MON Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) MON Image courtesy of Jeron Stel (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05ssnfy (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05ssng0 (Listen) MON Vikram Seth MON MON Tom Sutcliffe talks to the Indian writer Vikram Seth about MON his latest collection of poetry, Summer Requiem, which MON traces the dying days of summer and is haunted by loss and MON decay. The cuckoo's song may celebrate the arrival of MON spring, but as Nick Davies explains the cuckoo is also a MON signal of doom, as he explores how cheating evolves and MON thrives in the natural world. The writer Olivia Laing finds MON inspiration in a murmuration of birds to ask questions about MON the beauty of patterns and freedom of movement, and Nick MON Groom celebrates and regrets the passing of the English MON seasons and folklore. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Vikram Seth MON Interviewed Guest: Olivia Laing MON Interviewed Guest: Nick Groom MON Interviewed Guest: Nick Davies MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05ssng2 (Listen) MON Year of the Fat Knight, Episode 1 MON MON Antony Sher recounts the year in which he created and MON performed his version of Shakespeare's Falstaff - despite MON never intending to undertake such an iconic role. MON MON Thirty years ago, a promising young actor published his MON account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard MON III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a MON classic of theatre literature. MON MON In 2014, Sher - now in his sixties - was cast as Falstaff in MON Gregory Doran's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the MON two parts of Henry IV. Both the production and Sher's MON Falstaff were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, with MON Sher winning the Critics' Circle Award for Best MON Shakespearean Performance. MON MON Year of the Fat Knight is Antony Sher's account of MON researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's MON best-known and most popular characters. MON MON He tells us how he had doubts about playing the part at all; MON how he sought to reconcile Falstaff's obesity, drunkenness, MON cowardice and charm; how he wrestled with the fat suit MON needed to bulk him up; and how he explored the complexities MON and contradictions of this comic yet often dangerous MON personality. MON MON On the way, Sher paints a uniquely close-up portrait of the MON RSC at work. MON MON Read by Antony Sher MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Antony Sher MON Author: Antony Sher MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05ssng4 (Listen) MON The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05ssqpj (Listen) MON An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 1 MON MON When farmer Mewa Gul wakes in the night to discover someone MON is stealing his cows, he stops the intruders but not before MON they have shot a valuable animal. Recognising one of the MON intruders as the Khan's son, he gingerly approaches the MON warlord to complain. Instead of compensating him, Akbar Khan MON is outraged by his suggestion, claiming has dishonoured him. MON MON Will the pitifully poor farmer and his family have to flee MON from the village in the face of his threats? It was their MON place of refuge when they fled from the fighting many years MON ago. Now Mewa Gul's son urges him to return to their home MON village and take back their land there. But his sister, MON Zarlakhta, married to the Khan's son, is horrified by this MON possibility. MON MON An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is a slice of village life MON from the wild, mountainous Pakistan-Afghan borders where the MON only law is tribal law and there is no road, electricity or MON phone - and warlords are hard to contain. It is based on MON characters and storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made MON by and for Afghans. MON MON Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt MON Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey MON MON Sound design by David Chilton MON Music by Olivia Thomas MON MON Executive Producer: John Dryden MON Producer: Anne-Marie Cole MON MON An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Mewa Gul: Vincent Ebrahim MON Bakhtawara: Meera Syal MON Taza Gul: Jaz Deol MON Zarlakhta: Balvinder Sopal MON Akbar Khan: Sagar Arya MON Mashal: Muzz Khan MON Outlaw: Narinder Samra MON Writer: Liz Rigbey MON Director: Liz Rigbey MON Producer: Anne-Marie Cole MON MON 11:00 The Audio Describers b05ssqpl (Listen) MON Matthew Sweet enters a whole new cinematic world that MON sighted people know little or nothing about - audio MON description. It's the voice in your ear that tells you MON what's happening if you can't see the pictures. MON MON The audio description profession has its own stars, its own MON virtuosi. How do they allow visionary cinema to exist beyond MON the realm of vision? This is cinema for radio. MON Matthew meets the men and women who do this work - the MON invisible co-stars of the world's greatest actors, invisible MON collaborators of the greatest writers and directors. MON MON In fact, the practice of using evocative and poetic language MON to bring moving pictures to life has a much longer MON tradition. In early 20th-century Japan, Benshi narrators MON would interpret - and often elaborate on - Western and MON home-grown films for Tokyo audiences. The art form continues MON today. MON MON In Edwardian Britain, film explainers would bring an aural MON addition, often with musical accompaniment, to silent films. MON Matthew Sweet finds this tradition is also alive and well - MON at a film festival in Scotland. MON MON Producer: Dom Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice b05ssqpn (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Comedian Deborah Frances-White was adopted as a baby in MON Australia and has only recently discovered her true life MON mother. Now, in the last of the series, Deborah attempts to MON find her real father. MON MON Unfortunately, her birth mother's recall is none too good MON and, despite much probing, she seems unable to remember MON which of her partners could be the true dad. MON MON So, with the voices of Thom Tuck, Alex Lowe and Celia MON Pacqola, Deborah sets out on one last Google-driven attempt MON to complete the circle. MON MON Producer: Alan Nixon MON A So Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05srz5s (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Across the Board b05ssqpq (Listen) MON Series 3, Steve Davis MON MON Across The Board is a series of interviews conducted by MON Dominic Lawson over a game of chess. Today, Dominic MON challenges the snooker legend Steve Davis. Davis dominated MON the green baize for much of the eighties. But can he MON dominate Dominic on the chess board? MON MON Producer: David Edmonds MON Editor: Richard Knight. MON MON ‘His other sport’ MON MON Former world snooker champion Steve Davis takes on Dominic MON Lawson MON MON 12:16 You and Yours b05ssqzg (Listen) MON Removals MON MON Imagine the scene - you arrive at Malaga airport and head MON off with your family of four to pick up the hire car. You MON bought this holiday because it came with a free hire car - a MON Ford Fusion or equivalent. But then you see the car and MON despite what's written on your contract, the car isn't a MON Fusion, or anything like it, it's a tiny Renault Twingo or MON Peugeot 107. This is what happened to listener Reverend MON Richard Hancock when he found he would have to squeeze MON himself his wife and two sons, and 80 kilos of baggage MON allowance into a micro car. MON MON There are around 4000 removal companies across the UK but MON only 500 are signed up with a professional body. There are MON two main trade groups and they both offer resolution and MON arbitration services when things go wrong. If the company MON you use isn't signed up - you're on your own. MON MON Whether it is a little extra help with long division, MON cramming for the 11 plus or after school piano lessons, MON parents are increasingly employing private tutors to help MON with the children's education. The education think-tank The MON Sutton Trust say 23% of young people say they have private MON tutoring, with those better off families 3-4 times more MON likely to pay for this kind of help. Our reporter Catherine MON Carr investigates. MON MON How safe is your wallet? Pickpockets can be a problem in MON crowded tourist destinations the world over. Central London MON is no exception. The Metropolitan Police have just set up a MON new team to try to crack down on high street crime. Is it MON working? MON MON Unfortunately, in England & Wales, an agreement to buy or MON sell a house is worthless until Exchange of Contracts. Until MON then, it is not legally binding. The conveyancing process MON takes weeks, and while the lawyers do their checks, problems MON arise. But now a new service that promises to "end gazumping MON forever" has been launched this week. Can it really live up MON to its promise? MON MON 12:57 Weather b05srz5v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05ssqzj (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05ssfvb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Tommies b05sst61 (Listen) MON 4 May 1915 MON MON by Nick Warburton MON Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. MON MON Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness MON accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at MON war, exactly 100 years ago. MON MON Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and MON his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the MON British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense MON machine, one which connects situations across the whole MON theatre of the war, over four long years. MON MON A day of rest behind the lines is not easy for Mickey Bliss MON and his Signals colleagues. A time for not only parcels, a MON haircut, a drink or two, and the sourcing of valuable MON equipment but also bad temper. MON MON Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross MON Commentator: Indira Varma MON Pavan Jodha: Rudi Dharmalingam MON Spiridon: Adrian Scarborough MON Quartermaster: David Cann MON Madame Robin: Elaine Claxton MON Captain Paddon: Damian Lynch MON Lieutenant Perrin: Matthew Watson MON Sergeant Nixon: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Celestine de Tullio: Pippa Nixon MON Producer: David Hunter MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Nick Warburton MON MON 15:00 Food and Farming Awards b05sst63 (Listen) MON The 2015 BBC Food and Farming Awards MON MON Now in its fifteenth year, the BBC Food and Farming Awards MON continues to shed light on those farmers, food producers, MON suppliers and innovators whose hard work and ingenuity MON highlight the 'best of the best' in British food and drink. MON MON Earlier this year we asked for your nominations, and you MON responded in your thousands. Our judges have travelled the MON length and breadth of the country visiting the finalists and MON sampling food and drink from an array of producers, cooks, MON retailers and markets. MON MON At the ceremony in College Green in Bristol, host Sheila MON Dillon and chefs Tom Kerridge, Angela Hartnett and Thomasina MON Miers take us through the inspirational stories of the MON finalists and announce this year's winners. Award givers MON include Richard Corrigan, Cyrus Todiwala and Hugh MON Fearnley-Whittingstall. MON MON Producer: Anna Miles. MON MON 16:00 The Invisible College b05sst65 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Dr Cathy FitzGerald presents a series of little lessons in MON creative writing with help from a ghostly array of great MON novelists, poets and playwrights. MON MON In episode one, Maya Angelou faces dragons, Ted Hughes MON wrestles goblins, Charles Bukowski interrupts, Susan Sontag MON gets drunk on books, and Elizabeth Bowen catches a bad case MON of Henry James. MON MON Original music by Joe Acheson MON MON Produced by Cathy FitzGerald MON A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b05sstc6 (Listen) MON Series 7, Rear Window MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores the basic human impulse of people MON watching. We are aware how we perform when we know we are MON being looked at online but hear little about those watching. MON MON Agustín Fuentes MON Agustín Fuentes is Professor & Chair of the Department of MON Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He explains MON how primates observe one another, and that they, like MON we, are conscious of that observation. MON MON Linda Wisdom MON Linda is an award winning Street Photographer based in MON London. She took Aleks round Soho to explain how to be MON successful in capturing moments of beauty in everyday MON life, you must be a keen people watcher. MON MON Christine Hine MON Christine Hine is a pioneer of virtual ethnography, and MON studies scientific culture, information technology and the MON Internet. She explains how she goes about observing people MON online, and how people act differently when their observers MON are online and anonymous. MON MON Justin Noble MON Justin is the author of 'Standing Still in a Concrete MON Jungle', which tells the story of some of his marathon MON people watching sessions in New York City, including 14 MON hours straight spend on the subway. He explains why watching MON people can be so fascinating, and what things he sees that MON others may miss. MON MON Michael Bible MON MON Michael Bible is the author of the novel *Sophia*, MON forthcoming from Melville House Books and He is the MON editor-at-large at Nerve and lives in NYC. Last year, while MON battling a bout of writer's block, he found himself in a MON real life Rear Window. He tells us his story, and how his MON constructive narrative about the people he saw on the MON opposite roof began to seep into his own life. MON MON MON MON 17:00 PM b05sstc8 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05srz60 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Dilemma b05sstcb (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON MON Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts MON the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to MON discern their own personal codes of ethics. This week, it's MON the turn of comedians Nathan Caton and Celia Pacquola, MON historian Dan Snow, and writer and broadcaster Natalie MON Haynes. Up for discussion are unusual meals, lying to MON children, and the best way to deal with noisy, but happy, MON neighbours. Episode five of six. MON MON Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by MON Danielle Ward. MON MON Devised by ... Danielle Ward MON Producer ... Ed Morrish. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Nathan Caton MON Panellist: Dan Snow MON Panellist: Natalie Haynes MON Panellist: Celia Pacquola MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05ssth9 (Listen) MON It is May Day on the village green, and David helps out. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b05ssthc (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON Philip Glass MON MON Words Without Music by MON Philip Glass MON is available now in hardback and e-book. MON MON MON MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05ssqpj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Allergic to the 21st Century b05nvfqz (Listen) MON Every day we're exposed to a multitude of man-made chemicals MON in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the products we MON clean our homes and wash our bodies with. For some people, MON like journalist Jane Little, the burden can be almost too MON much to bear. Certain chemicals trigger extreme physical MON reactions, leaving her ill and exhausted for days at a time. MON It's a debilitating condition for her and many thousands of MON fellow sufferers. Some estimates suggest that 15% of the MON American population believe they experience ill effects from MON domestic chemicals. MON MON The trouble is that most members of the medical MON establishment in the US and the UK refuse to accept that MON Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is a disease. It's not a MON straightforward allergy and there's no diagnostic test or MON clearly defined treatment programme. So what is Jane MON actually suffering from? To find out she takes a global road MON trip from the foothills of Cumbria to the deserts of MON Arizona. MON MON Jane suffered her first extreme reaction whilst staying on MON the family farm in Cumbria. Exposed, alongside her father, MON to the cocktail of disinfectants used during the Foot and MON Mouth outbreak of 2001, she believes this could be the MON origin of her condition. In Texas she meets clinicians who MON say that they can explain MCS with a new theory of disease MON whilst in Arizona she drops in on a community that's MON retreated completely from a chemically-based society. Living MON in self-built homes stripped of plastics and petro-chemicals MON they discourage visitors tainted by perfumes, deodorants and MON detergents. MON MON Producer: Alasdair Cross. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b05s3gz2 (Listen) MON Wrestling out of Poverty MON MON In rural India, wrestling often attracts larger crowds than MON cricket. And for poor, farming communities in Maharashtra, a MON wrestler in the family can also mean a ticket out of MON poverty. For Crossing Continents, Rupa Jha meets the young MON fighters and their families, and explores how this ancient MON sport is breaking down caste barriers. Linda Pressly MON producing. MON MON 21:00 Forensics in Crisis b05s2x2h (Listen) MON Crisis in the Lab MON MON There is a growing sense of crisis inside the world of MON forensic science. Recent high profile cases such as Jill MON Dando and Amanda Knox have highlighted serious problems with MON the way testing is carried out. MON MON In this series, science journalist Linda Geddes investigates MON why forensic science has fallen into crisis, and what can be MON done to restore confidence in the field. MON MON Programme 2: MON MON This week, Linda looks at the crisis in the laboratory. MON Leading experts fear that severe budget cuts, together with MON an increased reliance on police laboratories, could throw MON our criminal justice system into jeopardy. MON MON She hears from a former police laboratory worker who says MON that vital tests are being missed, and visits a forensic MON fibre laboratory to find out why specialist techniques used MON to catch killers, paedophiles and rapists, are in danger of MON dying out. MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05ssng0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05srz63 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05ssx05 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05ssx07 (Listen) MON The Green Road, Episode 1 MON MON A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's MON Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne MON Enright. MON MON The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland MON for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New MON York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, MON their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has MON decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult MON children come back for one final Christmas together in the MON family home, with the feeling that their childhoods are MON being erased, their personal history bought and sold. MON MON Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and MON works. She has published two collections of stories (grouped MON together as Yesterday's Weather), one book of non-fiction MON (Making Babies) and five novels, including The Gathering MON (which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish MON Fiction Award along with the 2007 Man Booker Prize) and The MON Forgotten Waltz (which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal MON for Excellence in Fiction). MON MON Read by Brid Brennan MON MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Brid Brennan MON Author: Anne Enright MON Producer: Joanna Green MON MON 23:00 The Vote Now Show b05ssx09 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON MON A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve MON Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests to give MON their own unique take on the week's election shenanigans. MON MON Episode five features Sarah Kendall, Andrew O'Neill, Laura MON Shavin, Philip Collins and Mitch Benn. MON MON Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. MON Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON Producer: Joe Nunnery MON Producer: Rachel Wheeley MON MON 23:30 Word of Mouth b05s3079 (Listen) MON Naming Family Relationships - Step, Half or 'Blended'? MON MON Michael Rosen & Dr Laura Wright consider the names we give MON to our family relationships: stepmother, half-brother or MON "blended" family. Author and social critic Dr Wednesday MON Martin has strong opinions on the effects of these MON linguistic choices. Where do the words we use for our MON relatives come from and what do the choices we make say MON about us? MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Join Michael Rosen at Bristol's Food Connections Festival MON MON Be in the audience for a special family edition of Word of MON Mouth as Michael Rosen entertains us with stories, songs and MON poems about food. He’ll be joined on stage by writers, MON poets, singers and chefs, on an adventure into language as MON he discovers how our favourite (and least favourite) dishes MON got their names. MON MON Taking place on Saturday 2nd May at 5pm at the Imax Theatre MON at Bristol Aquarium. MON MON Tickets are free but limited – for ticketing information go MON to the Bristol Food Connections website ( MON www.bristolfoodconnections.com/whats-on MON ) and look for BBC Events. MON MON And here’s the link to the show: MON http://www.bristolfoodconnections.com/whatson-2015/michael-r MON sen-word-mouth/ MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 MAY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05srz72 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05ssng2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05srz75 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05srz77 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05srz79 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05srz7c (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05twjlt (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Dr Mike Ford. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05stg05 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020vp98 (Listen) TUE Common Sandpiper TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Common Sandpiper. This TUE bird can look slightly pot-bellied as it bobs nervously on TUE the edge of an upland lake or on a midstream boulder. Get TUE too close though and it will be off - flickering low over TUE the surface on bowed wings. TUE TUE Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) TUE Image courtesy of Steve Austin (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05stg07 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture b05t5jxf (Listen) TUE Alistair Cooke was a British journalist and broadcaster, who TUE presented Letter from America on BBC Radio for nearly 60 TUE years. To commemorate his life and work, the BBC has invited TUE historian Prof David Blight of Yale University to present TUE the 2015 Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture. TUE TUE Prof Blight is author of the acclaimed Race and Reunion: The TUE Civil War in American Memory, which explores what he sees as TUE a romanticized history of the American Civil War. TUE TUE Blight says the great issues of the war were never truly TUE resolved - especially the issue of equal rights for TUE emancipated slaves. TUE TUE At a time when the issue of race is at the forefront of TUE debate in America, Prof Blight will explore how the role and TUE experience of African-Americans during and after the war is TUE often overshadowed by stories of brave men from the North TUE and South. TUE TUE Crucially, the schism over equal rights versus states' TUE rights, which continued to divide the country after the war, TUE has often gone ignored in favour of a more positive TUE historical slant. TUE TUE In his lecture, Professor Blight explores the politics of TUE memory and how, 150 years on, the way the American Civil war TUE is remembered continues to haunt American society today. TUE TUE The programme is chaired by Razia Iqbal, and was recorded in TUE front of a live audience at WABE public radio in Atlanta. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith TUE Editor: Hugh Levinson. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05t609j (Listen) TUE Year of the Fat Knight, Episode 2 TUE TUE Antony Sher recounts the year in which he created and TUE performed his version of Shakespeare's Falstaff - despite TUE never intending to undertake such an iconic role. TUE TUE Thirty years ago, a promising young actor published his TUE account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard TUE III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a TUE classic of theatre literature. TUE TUE In 2014, Sher - now in his sixties - was cast as Falstaff in TUE Gregory Doran's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the TUE two parts of Henry IV. Both the production and Sher's TUE Falstaff were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, with TUE Sher winning the Critics' Circle Award for Best TUE Shakespearean Performance. TUE TUE Year of the Fat Knight is Antony Sher's account of TUE researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's TUE best-known and most popular characters. TUE TUE He tells us how he had doubts about playing the part at all; TUE how he sought to reconcile Falstaff's obesity, drunkenness, TUE cowardice and charm; how he wrestled with the fat suit TUE needed to bulk him up; and how he explored the complexities TUE and contradictions of this comic yet often dangerous TUE personality. TUE TUE On the way, Sher paints a uniquely close-up portrait of the TUE RSC at work. TUE TUE Read by Antony Sher TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Antony Sher TUE Author: Antony Sher TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05stg0d (Listen) TUE Ella Woodward, Xinran TUE TUE Tania Branigan discusses attitudes to domestic violence in TUE China; Xinran talks about her new book, Buy Me the Sky, TUE looking at the effect of the one child policy introduced in TUE China in 1980; Karen Patterson presenter of 'Good Morning, TUE Ulster' explains what's happening in the General Election in TUE Northern Ireland; health-eating blogger, Ella Woodward, TUE reveals her first cookery book; the London Festival of TUE Baroque Music 2015: Dr Berta Joncus explains why this year TUE the focus of the celebration is the feminine presence in TUE works composed by women, for women and inspired by women; TUE TUE Presenter : Jane Garvey TUE Producer : Kirsty Starkey. TUE TUE China’s Domestic Violence Problem and One-Child Policy TUE TUE The All-China Women’s Federation estimates that domestic TUE abuse takes place in nearly a quarter of Chinese families; TUE but only very recently has this issue been brought to light TUE in international media. The Guardian’s China Correspondent TUE Tania Branigan joins Jane to discuss the issue. We also TUE discuss China’s one-child policy, in place since 1980, TUE unless under certain circumstances. Chinese journalist and TUE author Xinran’s new book focuses on the impact of being TUE forced to not have siblings had on an entire generation of TUE Chinese people. TUE TUE Xinran’s “Buy Me the Sky” is available to buy from Thursday. TUE TUE Xinran TUE TUE China’s one-child policy is still in place and although TUE there have been softer restrictions in recent years, the TUE policy has left a huge impact on the first generation of TUE Chinese people forced to grow up without siblings. Chinese TUE journalist and author Xinran joins Jane to talk about her TUE new book “Buy Me the Sky” which focuses on that impact. TUE TUE The Election campaign in Northern Ireland TUE TUE On Thursday Northern Ireland will be electing 18 MPs. And TUE tonight voters will have the opportunity to see five of the TUE party leaders in a televised debate. We hear about the role TUE women are playing in this election and about some of the TUE issues that women voters are weighing up. Jane talks to TUE Karen Patterson, Presenter of the BBC’s Good Morning TUE Ulster. TUE BBC Election 2015 TUE TUE TUE Women in Baroque Music TUE The London Festival of Baroque Music 2015 TUE has chosen the theme of ‘Women in Baroque Music’. The TUE programming celebrates the feminine presence in works TUE composed by women, for women and inspired by women. Dr Berta TUE Joncus is a senior lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths TUE University of London, she explains what women of the time TUE were up against in order to get their music out into the TUE public sphere and how these challenges shaped their TUE distinctive contribution to performance and composing. TUE TUE TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE Producer: Kirsty Starkey TUE Interviewed Guest: Tania Branigan TUE Interviewed Guest: Xinran TUE Interviewed Guest: Karen Patterson TUE Interviewed Guest: Ella Woodward TUE Interviewed Guest: Berta Joncus TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05stg0g (Listen) TUE An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 2 TUE TUE Mewa Gul has inadvertently dishonoured the Khan. Now he must TUE flee with his family, leaving his daughter to live with her TUE husband and new family - the family of Akbar Khan. Zarlakhta TUE is devastated by their departure but her brother, Taza Gul, TUE has been finding out about the incentives for returning TUE refugees. He is hopeful that they can claim back their land TUE in the village they fled from many years ago. TUE TUE An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is a slice of village life TUE from the wild, mountainous Pakistan-Afghan borders where the TUE only law is tribal law and there is no road, electricity or TUE phone - and warlords are hard to contain. It is based on TUE characters and storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made TUE by and for Afghans. TUE TUE Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt TUE Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey TUE TUE Sound design by David Chilton TUE Music by Olivia Thomas TUE TUE Executive Producer: John Dryden TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Cole TUE An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mewa Gul: Vincent Ebrahim TUE Bakhtawara: Meera Syal TUE Taza Gul: Jaz Deol TUE Zarlakhta: Balvinder Sopal TUE Akbar Khan: Sagar Arya TUE Shah Bibi: Shaheen Khan TUE Wisal Khan: Donald Slack TUE Writer: Liz Rigbey TUE Director: Liz Rigbey TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Cole TUE TUE 11:00 Forensics in Crisis b05stg0j (Listen) TUE Crisis in Court TUE TUE In this series, science journalist Linda Geddes investigates TUE why forensic science has fallen into crisis, and what can be TUE done to restore confidence in the field. TUE TUE Programme 3: TUE TUE In March 2015, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were TUE finally acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher. The TUE case hinged on DNA results that were later overturned in TUE court. TUE TUE In this episode, Linda Geddes looks at why this evidence was TUE unreliable and how it was misinterpreted in the courtroom. TUE TUE DNA testing is being increasingly relied upon by UK police TUE to secure convictions. But leading experts such as Prof TUE Peter Gill, who helped to pioneer DNA fingerprinting in the TUE 1980s, are concerned that the technique is being TUE overstretched. TUE TUE As we become able to detect ever smaller amounts of DNA, TUE from more than one person, the sources of error and TUE uncertainty are increasing. TUE TUE Defence lawyers fear that DNA evidence isn't being TUE adequately cross-examined in court, due to complexity of the TUE analysis needed to produce results. TUE TUE Could our unwavering faith in DNA evidence be misplaced? TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b05stg0l (Listen) TUE Series 20, Scarborough Fair TUE TUE "Tomorrow we're going in search of a song and in search of a TUE dream of England which has travelled right around the world" TUE - Will Parsons TUE TUE No one can be sure of the true origins of the song TUE Scarborough Fair. It's a melody of mystery, of voices of TUE old, of ancient days. It's travelled through land and time, TUE drawing singers and listeners in where ever they maybe. TUE TUE For Will Parsons and Guy Hayward it's a song that has TUE inspired a pilgrimage through a landscape that is embodied TUE in the lyrics. Setting off from Whitby Abbey, they journey TUE to Scarborough on foot, sensing the song as they go, TUE learning to sing it, interpreting it in a new way just as TUE thousands of traditional singers have done throughout time. TUE TUE This too is the landscape of Martin Carthy, the 'father of TUE folk' who has made his home along the Yorkshire coast. It TUE was from this legendary singer that Paul Simon first learnt TUE Scarborough Fair, creating a version that came to represent TUE a generation continuing its journey far and wide, weaving TUE its spell in many different guises, never truly being pinned TUE down. TUE TUE Decades on Harpist Claire Jones recorded a version of her TUE own. Arranged by her husband, the composer Chris Marshall, TUE hers is a very personal journey through unexpected illness TUE to recovery. Whilst for Mike Masheder it is a song that TUE brings memories of his wife Sally, who approached the TUE journey of life with love and equanimity. TUE TUE "It can change or stay the same. And the more it changes, TUE the more it stays the same" - Martin Carthy TUE TUE Produced by Nicola Humphries TUE With expert contribution from Sandra Kerr, musician and TUE lecturer at Newcastle University School of Arts and Culture. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05srz7j (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Across the Board b05stg0n (Listen) TUE Series 3, Garry Kasparov TUE TUE He dominated the chess world for fifteen years. In Across TUE The Board, Dominic Lawson interviews Gary Kasparov over a TUE game of chess - and asks him not just about the 64 squares, TUE but also about his life post-chess, as a staunch opponent of TUE President Putin. TUE TUE 'A Tough Opponent' TUE TUE Dominic Lawson taken on former world chess champion Gary TUE Kasparov. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05stg0q (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: Did tutoring give you an unfair TUE advantage? TUE TUE The private tuition market in the UK is estimated to be TUE worth six billion pounds, with one in four children being TUE tutored at some point. Is this so-called tiger parenting, TUE imported from cultures where children are expected to work TUE long hours to get into top schools? Or is it just parents TUE doing what they can to ensure a good life for their TUE children? TUE TUE Today we're asking if tutoring gives an unfair advantage in TUE life? Have you paid somebody to get your child into a TUE particular school or to give them the edge in exams? How did TUE that work out? Are you somebody who provides these TUE extra-curricular classes? Do the children you teach thrill TUE to the idea of extra tuition after school? Or are you TUE somebody who was forced into extra tuition as a child and TUE hated every minute of it, even if it got you into the right TUE school. TUE TUE Email the programme now - YouandYours@bbc.co.uk, and join TUE Winifred Robinson at quarter past 12. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05srz7l (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05stg0s (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05ssth9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b05stg0v (Listen) TUE Higher, Year of the Rat TUE TUE Higher: Year of the Rat by Steve May TUE TUE Return of the comedy series about the UK's worst university. TUE Jim is sent to China to recruit new students. But the new TUE interim Vice Chancellor seems to be setting him up to fail. TUE TUE Director/Producer Gary Brown. TUE TUE A break in recording: some of the cast TUE Left to Right: Mark Chatterton (Gary), Julia Rounthwaite TUE (Karen), Jonathan Keeble (Jim) and Sarah Lam (Lu Wen) TUE TUE Credits TUE Jim: Jonathan Keeble TUE Karen: Julia Rounthwaite TUE Lu Wen: Sarah Lam TUE Li Wang: Alex Liang TUE Gary: Mark Chatterton TUE Dame Sheila: Olwen May TUE Director: Gary Brown TUE Producer: Gary Brown TUE Writer: Steve May TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b05stkq6 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Songlines TUE TUE Josie Long hears stories of music and memory. From the song TUE that proves your parents right - rock and roll really will TUE lead you down a dangerous path of drugs and destruction - to TUE Grace Savage's musical memory of her first performance. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05stkq9 (Listen) TUE Britain's Environment: The Debate TUE TUE How will the next government tackle Britain's environmental TUE problems? TUE TUE The politics of the environment and our food supply are TUE vital for the future of the planet. TUE TUE Tom Heap hosts a debate asking if this election campaign has TUE raised the issues that need addressing. TUE TUE What specific commitments have the political parties made on TUE nature? Where are the big ideas to tackle climate change? TUE How can we secure our food supplies without wrecking the TUE planet? TUE TUE Tom Heap will put these challenging issues to a panel that TUE features philosopher, Roger Scruton, former Executive TUE Director of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper, Chief TUE Executive of the Soil Association, Helen Browning, Director TUE of Forum for the Future, Jonathon Porritt and Heather TUE Hancock, lead author of the independent review of the BBC's TUE coverage of rural affairs. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05stkqm (Listen) TUE Colour TUE TUE Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright talk to Dr Carole Biggam TUE about colour words. Where do they come from and how do they TUE vary between cultures and change meanings through time? How TUE can it be that pink used to mean yellow.. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05stkqz (Listen) TUE Series 36, Wendy Cope on John Clare TUE TUE "John Clare, I cried last night for you" wrote Wendy Cope in TUE a poem dedicated to the earlier poet, who overcame TUE monumental setbacks - including a poverty-stricken TUE upbringing and a long struggle with mental illness - to TUE write some of the most sensitive poetry in the English TUE language. At one point he was famous as "the English Robert TUE Burns" but his fame dropped away vertiginously and many TUE people now know him solely for his cri de coeur, "I Am." TUE Clare's biographer, Sir Jonathan Bate, joins Wendy in the TUE studio with Matthew Parris to consider how Clare's life is TUE both inspirational and great. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05stkr5 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05srz7p (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05stkr9 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE We all leave. We all migrate from childhood to adulthood, TUE from village to town to city, from single to married. We all TUE hate and love where we are from. We are all immigrants of TUE time. There are problems with home and a need to leave. TUE There is a love of home and a need to leave. Goodbye is who TUE we are. TUE TUE In Lemn Sissay's Homecoming, Lemn Sissay explores what TUE "home" means through stand-up, poetry and conversation. It's TUE surely not just a physical location - it's the people, the TUE memories, the feeling. It's not home if you don't belong TUE there, it's just where you live. TUE TUE The first of these two shows was recorded at the Ghion TUE Hotel, in Addis Ababa. Addis is a place that Lemn feels at TUE home in - but why? He wasn't born there, doesn't live there, TUE and can't even speak the language. Helping Lemn understand TUE this are two Ethiopians who were brought up in Europe but TUE who, unlike Lemn, moved back to Addis in adulthood; a social TUE anthropologist who is an Ethiopian with a famous English TUE name; and his own sister, who is Addis born and bred. TUE TUE Lemn Sissay is the author of five collections of poetry. He TUE has also written plays for stage and BBC radio. He was the TUE first poet to write for the Olympics 2012 and received an TUE MBE from the Queen for Services to Literature. He is TUE associate artist at the Southbank Centre, and an (hon) TUE doctor of letters. His radio documentary Child of the State TUE was nominated for the 2010 Sony Awards. If you should google TUE "Lemn sissay" all the returning hits will be about him. TUE There is only one person named Lemn Sissay in the world. TUE TUE Written and performed by ... Lemn Sissay TUE Produced by ... Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05stkrf (Listen) TUE Fallon makes a discovery, and Ed has a good idea. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b05stkrh (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05stg0g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b05stkrm (Listen) TUE It's taken a long time to break through the culture of TUE denial, but child sexual exploitation cases from Rochdale to TUE Oxford have shown that grooming of children can happen in TUE any community. TUE TUE There seems to be a growing acceptance that what the Deputy TUE Children's Commissioner says is true: 'there isn't a town, TUE village of hamlet in which children are not being sexually TUE exploited'. TUE TUE Councils that thought they were immune from groomers and TUE traffickers, are now training staff to spot child sexual TUE exploitation. And children are being taught how to avoid TUE falling prey. TUE TUE But, as children become more aware of grooming, are abusers TUE increasingly turning their attention to people with learning TUE disabilities? TUE TUE In the first of a new series, File on 4 hears warnings from TUE disability workers and detectives that abusers are TUE increasingly targeting people with disabilities - because TUE they're less likely to know what grooming is, less likely to TUE tell, and if they do, their case is far less likely to go to TUE court. TUE TUE Jane Deith visits the only safe house in the UK for women TUE with learning disabilities who've been victims of rape and TUE sexual exploitation, and hears even this secret address is TUE now on the radar of gangs trying to groom the residents. TUE TUE Women with learning disabilities tell their stories of being TUE groomed and exploited, how they eventually broke their TUE silence, only to be told the crimes would not be prosecuted. TUE Of an estimated 1400 cases of sexual abuse each year, only TUE 1% result in a conviction. TUE TUE If offenders aren't being punished, can we prevent the abuse TUE by protecting those at risk? Councils worried someone is TUE being exploited can go to the Court of Protection for TUE permission to restrict their relationships on the grounds TUE they don't have the mental capacity to consent to sex. But TUE it's a difficult thing to rule on. File on 4 hears from TUE disability workers who say men and women are being left open TUE to rape and abuse, but also from campaigners who say the TUE state is denying people their fundamental human right to TUE sexual relationships. TUE TUE Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05stkrr (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b05stkrt (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond with the latest in psychology, neuroscience TUE and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture b05t5jxf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05srz7r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05stkry (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05stks0 (Listen) TUE The Green Road, Episode 2 TUE TUE A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's TUE Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne TUE Enright. TUE TUE The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland TUE for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New TUE York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, TUE their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has TUE decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult TUE children come back for one final Christmas together in the TUE family home, with the feeling that their childhoods are TUE being erased, their personal history bought and sold. TUE TUE Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and TUE works. She has published two collections of stories (grouped TUE together as Yesterday's Weather), one book of non-fiction TUE (Making Babies) and five novels, including The Gathering TUE (which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish TUE Fiction Award along with the 2007 Man Booker Prize) and The TUE Forgotten Waltz (which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal TUE for Excellence in Fiction). TUE TUE Read by Brid Brennan TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Brid Brennan TUE Author: Anne Enright TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE TUE 23:00 Open Art b05stl7n (Listen) TUE The Quarryman's Daughters TUE TUE An audio excavation of the island of Portland by artist TUE Katrina Palmer. TUE TUE Since being awarded a commission from Artangel and Radio 4's TUE open call for emerging British artists, Katrina Palmer has TUE based herself on the Isle of Portland in south Dorset to TUE create a major new project on land and on air. The TUE Quarryman's Daughters is the radio element of the project. TUE It tells the story of the Horrocks sisters, eccentric TUE daughters of a dead quarryman who live in two huts on either TUE end of the island. TUE TUE Beginning in the style of an intimate reading enhanced by a TUE spectral soundtrack, the narration is interwoven with the TUE voices of the Horrocks sisters and field recordings from TUE Portland - the swell of the tide, the banging and cutting of TUE quarry work - conveying an unsettling atmosphere. TUE TUE This audio artwork is preceded by a short documentary that TUE explores the historical riches of this unique place. The TUE listener is transported to Portland to hear key chapters TUE from the island's past and to find out why it continues to TUE capture the imagination. Portland has been shaped and TUE hollowed out over centuries by convicts and quarrymen to TUE provide stone for some of London's best-known buildings - TUE one million square feet of Portland stone is said to have TUE been quarried for St Paul's Cathedral. TUE TUE Katrina Palmer has undertaken her own excavations into this TUE elemental place, marked by unsettling absences and deviant TUE goings-on. TUE TUE The other elements in this project are The Loss Adjusters (a TUE site-specific audio walk on Portland), and the book End TUE Matter. TUE TUE Produced by Katrina Palmer and Hana Walker-Brown TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:45 Jigsaw b01r9rtx (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 TUE TUE Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine piece together TUE a selection of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by TUE Colin Anderson. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 MAY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05srz8l (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05t609j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05srz8p (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05srz8r (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05srz8t (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05srz8w (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05tlm36 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Dr Mike Ford. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05stlzq (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 b020xv0f (Listen) WED Savi's 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 Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Savi's Warbler. Count WED yourself very lucky if you hear the buzzing song of a Savi's WED Warbler, these are very rare birds indeed, especially WED breeding pairs and the nests are almost impossible to find, WED so their song is the best clue that they're about. WED WED Savi's Warbler (Locustella luscinioides) WED Image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b05stmml (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05stmmn (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05t620v (Listen) WED Year of the Fat Knight, Episode 3 WED WED Antony Sher recounts the year in which he created and WED performed his version of Shakespeare's Falstaff - despite WED never intending to undertake such an iconic role. WED WED Thirty years ago, a promising young actor published his WED account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard WED III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a WED classic of theatre literature. WED WED In 2014, Sher - now in his sixties - was cast as Falstaff in WED Gregory Doran's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the WED two parts of Henry IV. Both the production and Sher's WED Falstaff were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, with WED Sher winning the Critics' Circle Award for Best WED Shakespearean Performance. WED WED Year of the Fat Knight is Antony Sher's account of WED researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's WED best-known and most popular characters. WED WED He tells us how he had doubts about playing the part at all; WED how he sought to reconcile Falstaff's obesity, drunkenness, WED cowardice and charm; how he wrestled with the fat suit WED needed to bulk him up; and how he explored the complexities WED and contradictions of this comic yet often dangerous WED personality. WED WED On the way, Sher paints a uniquely close-up portrait of the WED RSC at work. WED WED Read by Antony Sher WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Antony Sher WED Author: Antony Sher WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05stnp4 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05stnp6 (Listen) WED An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 3 WED WED When Akbar Khan finds his son has ransacked the village WED shop, he decides it's time for him to grow up - by marrying. WED But Mashal does not want to marry his brother's widow any WED more than she wants to marry him. She stands on her widow's WED rights and hopes to persuade her father to support her at a WED village meeting (the jirga). But her father, shopkeeper WED Sardar Aka and his two wives know that this might be such a WED dangerous course of action that they too, could be forced to WED flee WED WED An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is a slice of village life WED from the wild, mountainous Pakistan-Afghan borders where the WED only law is tribal law and there is no road, electricity or WED phone - and warlords are hard to contain. It is based on WED characters and storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made WED by and for Afghans. WED WED Cast: WED Sardar Aka.....................Madhav Sharma WED Gulnara..........................Rina Fatania WED Sakina............................Rakhee Thakra WED Kashmala.......................Betsabeh Emran WED Akbar Khan....................Sagar Arya WED Durranai........................Sudha Bhucher WED Mashal...........................Muzz Khan WED WED Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt WED Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey WED WED Sound design by David Chilton WED Music by Olivia Thomas WED WED Executive Producer: John Dryden WED Producer: Anne-Marie Cole WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Sardar Aka: Madhav Sharma WED Gulnara: Rina Fatania WED Sakina: Rakhee Thakra WED Kashmala: Betsabeh Emran WED Akbar Khan: Sagar Arya WED Durranai: Sudha Bhucher WED Mashal: Muzz Khan WED Writer: Liz Rigbey WED Director: Liz Rigbey WED Producer: Anne-Marie Cole WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05stp7g (Listen) WED Nancie and Neil - Feeling Cheated WED WED Fi Glover with an emotional conversation in which a WED 90-year-old and her son acknowledge for the first time how WED the loss of a child in 1959 affected them then, and WED continues to. WED WED 11:00 AA: America's Gift to the World b05pmrv0 (Listen) WED Author AL Kennedy tells the story of Alcoholics Anonymous WED and its methods. WED WED Eighty years ago, Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob Smith created a WED route to recovery from a fatal addiction along with an WED enduring organisation. With more than two million members WED worldwide, AA is still considered by the majority to be the WED most effective rehabilitation treatment available to WED alcoholics. In an age of heavily commercialised recovery WED programmes, "The Fellowship" continues to work with no WED active promotion and a consciously anarchistic and WED non-commercial structure. But few of us really know what WED happens. WED WED Through conversations with AA members, their partners, WED parents and children in Al-Anon and Alateen, AL Kennedy WED explores the method and treatment of the organisation, along WED with the story of its foundation and survival. WED WED With statistics showing alcohol consumption in the UK on the WED rise in contrast with the rest of Europe, she asks whether WED AA is still the best 'cure' for addicts given new science WED and treatments. WED WED Contributors include Professor Hugh Montgomery, Dr Andrew WED McQuillin (Molecular Psychiatrist), Dr Mike McPhillips WED (Psychiatrist in addictive disorders) and Professor Sir Ian WED Gilmore. WED WED Producer: Kate Bland WED A Cast Iron production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03yqcws (Listen) WED Books and Booksibility WED WED Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they WED think is 'Help!'. WED WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED WED This week, Milton Jones is asked to help out with the local WED book festival because the townsfolk are too distracted by WED their smartphones to.... Sorry, what was I saying? Sorry, WED just got a text. WED WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05srz8z (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Across the Board b05stqsl (Listen) WED Series 3, Rex Sinquefield WED WED Across The Board is a series of interviews conducted over a WED game of chess. In this programme Dominic Lawson interviews WED the game's leading philanthropist. Mega-rich financier Rex WED Sinquefield is ploughing millions of dollars into the game. WED But why? WED WED 12:16 You and Yours b05stqsn (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05srz91 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05stqsq (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05stkrf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b05stqss (Listen) WED Higher, Creative Solutions WED WED Higher: Creative Solutions by Steve May WED Comedy series about Hayborough University, ranked 132nd in WED the UK. Jim has returned from China in triumph and is WED rewarded by being promoted to Makeshift Vice Chancellor. But WED a rather shady educational company is working with the board WED of governors and wants to do a deal with the university. WED WED Director/Producer Gary Brown. WED WED Julia Rounthwaite (Karen) alongside Jonathan Keeble (Jim). WED WED Credits WED Jim: Jonathan Keeble WED Karen: Julia Rounthwaite WED Liversalt: Andonis James Anthony WED Spitznogel: Emily Pithon WED Gordon: Will Tacey WED Director: Gary Brown WED Producer: Gary Brown WED Writer: Steve May WED WED 15:00 Money Box b05strvj (Listen) WED Consumer Rights WED WED Retail therapy gone wrong? To ask about consumer rights, WED returns and refunds call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail your questions to moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED now. WED WED If you've saved hard to make a purchase, shopped around to WED find value for money, install a new kitchen or send a gift, WED it's frustrating to find poor quality goods and services, or WED wait for a delivery than never arrives. WED WED So what are your rights to redress? Presenter Ruth Alexander WED will waiting for your questions on Wednesday. WED WED Chief Retail Ombudsman Dean Dunham will be here to help with WED complaints about goods and services bought in-store or WED online. WED WED Solicitor Joanne Lezemore can explain your legal rights and WED how to take a claim to the small claims court. WED WED Jane Negus from the UK European Consumer Centre can tackle WED your cross-border disputes about shopping, car hire or WED timeshare and holiday club. WED WED Whatever your problem, for free and impartial advice call WED 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail your WED question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call WED charges apply. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b05stkrt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05strvl (Listen) WED Gentrification and Working Class Residents - Division of WED Domestic Labour WED WED Gentrification: its impact on working class residents. WED Laurie Taylor talks to Kirsteen Paton, lecturer in the WED School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of WED Leeds, about her groundbreaking research in a neighbourhood WED undergoing urban renewal and improvement. Many such studies WED have focused on middle class lifestyles rather than the WED experience of less well off members of the community. Are WED working class residents inevitably displaced by WED gentrification and must traditional ways of life always WED disappear? Or can poorer people re-work the process and gain WED on their own terms? They're joined by Melissa Butcher, WED lecturer in Human Geography at Birkbeck, University of WED London. WED WED Also, 'sharing the load': the division of domestic labour WED amongst couples where women are the higher earners. Clare WED Lyonette, Senior Research Fellow at the University of WED Warwick, asks if men do more when they earn less. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Contributors WED WED Dr WED Kirsteen Paton WED Lecturer, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University WED of Leeds WED WED *Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective WED *Publisher: Ashgate WED ISBN-10: 1472418506 WED ISBN-13: 978-1472418500 WED Dr WED Melissa Butcher WED Lecturer in human geography, Open University WED WED *Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities WED *Melissa Butcher (Editor), Selvaraj Velayutham (Editor) WED Publisher: Routledge WED ISBN-10: 0415665981 WED ISBN-13: 978-0415665988 WED Dr WED Clare Lyonette WED Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Employment WED Research, University of Warwick WED WED Abstract: WED *Sharing the load? Partners’ relative earnings and the WED division of domestic labour WED * WED Work Employment & Society June 10, 2014 WED doi: 0950017014523661 WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05strvn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05sts7b (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05srz93 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Clare in the Community b03pjcyf (Listen) WED Series 9, In Blog We Trust WED WED Episode Two - In Blog We Trust WED WED Clare is convinced that the Sparrowhawk Centre is the home WED of a blogger called 'The Secret Social Worker' and sets out WED to track them down. Meanwhile Brian accepts Simon's help to WED find a date. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Megan: Nina Conti WED Nali: Nina Conti WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Simon: Andrew Wincott WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Delphine: Sarah Thom WED Teacher: Arthur Hughes WED Student: Arthur Hughes WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05stt42 (Listen) WED Pip meets up with some new arrivals, and Caroline is feeling WED low. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b05stt44 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05stnp6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b05stt6d (Listen) WED The Law and Parenthood WED WED In the first of a news series, Clive Anderson and a panel of WED senior lawyers, judges and other experts discuss how the law WED balances the sometimes conflicting interests of parents and WED their children. WED WED The law states clearly that the welfare of the child is WED "paramount", but how is this to be established and what WED happens when the interests of a child conflict with those of WED a parent? Who should decide what is in the best interests of WED a child in the first place - the parents or the state? What WED exactly are the responsibilities and rights of parents in WED relation to a child's education, medical care or home? WED WED Sir Mark Potter, former President of the High Court Family WED Division, and senior lawyers experienced in representing WED children and parents shed light on the difficult decisions WED the courts have to wrestle with - such as the case of Ashya WED King, removed by his parents from Southampton General WED Hospital, raising a raft of legal, ethical and moral issues. WED WED How are legal decisions arrived at when separating parents WED disagree about how a child should be educated, or where one WED parent wants to take the child to another country? And where WED does the law stand with regard to the unborn child, when WED doctors want to perform a caesarean operation against the WED wishes of the mother? Is there an argument for the WED criminalisation of heavy drinking or drug use during WED pregnancy? WED WED And if the welfare of the child is paramount, should it be WED made easier for children to take their parents to court to WED fight for their rights? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b05sttjh (Listen) WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05stkq9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05stmmn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05sttjk (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05stw87 (Listen) WED The Green Road, Episode 3 WED WED A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's WED Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne WED Enright. WED WED The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland WED for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New WED York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, WED their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has WED decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult WED children come back for one final Christmas together in the WED family home, with the feeling that their childhoods are WED being erased, their personal history bought and sold. WED WED Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and WED works. She has published two collections of stories (grouped WED together as Yesterday's Weather), one book of non-fiction WED (Making Babies) and five novels, including The Gathering WED (which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish WED Fiction Award along with the 2007 Man Booker Prize) and The WED Forgotten Waltz (which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal WED for Excellence in Fiction). WED WED Read by Brid Brennan WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Brid Brennan WED Author: Anne Enright WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED 23:00 Book at Bedtime b05stw89 (Listen) WED The Green Road, Episode 4 WED WED A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's WED Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne WED Enright. WED WED The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland WED for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New WED York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, WED their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has WED decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult WED children come back for one final Christmas together in the WED family home, with the feeling that their childhoods are WED being erased, their personal history bought and sold. WED WED Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and WED works. She has published two collections of stories (grouped WED together as Yesterday's Weather), one book of non-fiction WED (Making Babies) and five novels, including The Gathering WED (which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish WED Fiction Award along with the 2007 Man Booker Prize) and The WED Forgotten Waltz (which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal WED for Excellence in Fiction). WED WED Read by Brid Brennan WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Brid Brennan WED Author: Anne Enright WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b03brt31 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel tries to get his online music lessons up and running WED but finds himself hampered by an inability to speak WED Portuguese. Meanwhile, with the Arts Centre having been WED commandeered as a refuge for local flood victims, Belinda is WED attempting to keep four hundred wet members of the public WED from dripping on the carpet. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Lee: Jim North WED Sebastian: Dave Lamb WED Louis: Sam Katz WED Louis's Mum: Jess Robinson WED Beverley: Jess Robinson WED Xavier: Arcindo Guimaraes WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:30 Twin Peaks b05pktlc (Listen) WED Twin Peaks is one of the most influential and innovative WED programmes in television history - writer and broadcaster WED Danny Leigh goes for a walk in the woods to explain why. WED WED Before The Killing, True Detective and The X Files, there WED was Twin Peaks. The programme made its debut in America in WED the spring of 1990. By the time it arrived in the UK six WED months later, millions of people in Britain too were asking WED 'Who killed Laura Palmer? WED WED At first glance Twin Peaks simply looked to be a quirky WED murder mystery. But it soon revealed itself to be much, much WED more. Its creators David Lynch and Mark Frost brought the WED experimental edge of art house cinema into the living room, WED and though the series ran for only 15 months, its 30 WED episodes changed the television landscape and popular WED culture forever. WED WED It's been 25 years since we first entered the 'cherry pie' WED logging town and met Agent Dale Cooper, the Log Lady, and WED the terrifying Bob. To mark the anniversary Danny will have WED 'water-cooler moments' with Lynch-inspired director Richard WED Ayoade and crime writer Denise Mina. We'll pay homage to the WED soundtrack that influenced musicians from the 90s to today WED with DJ Rob da Bank. Andy Burns, author of Twin Peaks WED history Wrapped in Plastic, explains how the programme still WED ripples through popular culture today. And Dr Kirsty WED Fairclough-Isaacs, senior lecturer in media and performance WED at Salford University, gives us a lesson on how Twin Peaks WED transformed television. But in 2015 as in 1990, the owls may WED not be what they seem... WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 MAY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05srzb0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05t620v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05srzb3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05srzb5 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05srzb7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05srzb9 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05twkvh (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Dr Mike Ford. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05sxq9b (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020xvlw (Listen) THU Marsh Warbler THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Marsh Warbler. Marsh THU warblers are astonishing mimics and when you hear one THU singing you could be forgiven for thinking that there's a THU flock of different species in the bush. THU THU Marsh Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) THU Image courtesy of Tony Hamblin (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b05sxv75 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05sxv7b (Listen) THU Tagore THU THU Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a THU Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded largely for Gitanjali, THU his English version of some of his Bengali poems. He was THU celebrated by poets such as WB Yeats, who wrote the THU introduction to this Gitanjali, and Ezra Pound. Born in THU Kolkata in 1861, Tagore was educated partly in Britain and THU was later knighted by the British, an honour he renounced in THU 1919 following the Amritsar Massacre. Tagore denounced the THU Raj, became a friend of Gandhi and a strong nationalist. THU While best known for his poems, he also painted, wrote THU plays, novels, short stories and many songs. Some of his THU poems were used for national anthems. He has been called one THU of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century and the THU greatest poet India has ever produced. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05t63jh (Listen) THU Year of the Fat Knight, Episode 4 THU THU Antony Sher recounts the year in which he created and THU performed his version of Shakespeare's Falstaff - despite THU never intending to undertake such an iconic role. THU THU Thirty years ago, a promising young actor published his THU account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard THU III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a THU classic of theatre literature. THU THU In 2014, Sher - now in his sixties - was cast as Falstaff in THU Gregory Doran's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the THU two parts of Henry IV. Both the production and Sher's THU Falstaff were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, with THU Sher winning the Critics' Circle Award for Best THU Shakespearean Performance. THU THU Year of the Fat Knight is Antony Sher's account of THU researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's THU best-known and most popular characters. THU THU He tells us how he had doubts about playing the part at all; THU how he sought to reconcile Falstaff's obesity, drunkenness, THU cowardice and charm; how he wrestled with the fat suit THU needed to bulk him up; and how he explored the complexities THU and contradictions of this comic yet often dangerous THU personality. THU THU On the way, Sher paints a uniquely close-up portrait of the THU RSC at work. THU THU Read by Antony Sher THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Antony Sher THU Author: Antony Sher THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05sxv7j (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05sxv7l (Listen) THU An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 4 THU THU Mewa Gul and his family have fled Akbar Khan for the home THU village they left during the fighting many years ago. But THU the returning refugees find the village partly ruined by THU war, and their land and house occupied. THU THU They have an agreement with the powerful local Malik that if THU they repay their mortgage they can take back their land - THU but now he shows no sign of honouring that agreement. Worse, THU a local Taliban fighter is anxious to recruit Taza Gul to THU their cause. THU THU In the village they have left on the Pak-Afghan borders, THU their daughter mourns their departure, while Shah Bibi and THU Wisal fear that Kashmala is next in line for Akbar Khan's THU fury. THU THU An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is a slice of village life THU from the wild, mountainous Pakistan-Afghan borders where the THU only law is tribal law and there is no road, electricity or THU phone - and warlords are hard to contain. It is based on THU characters and storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made THU by and for Afghans. THU THU Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt THU Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey THU THU Sound design by David Chilton THU Music by Olivia Thomas THU THU Executive Producer: John Dryden THU Producer: Anne-Marie Cole THU An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Mewa Gul: Vincent Ebrahim THU Bakhtawara: Meera Syal THU Taza Gul: Jaz Deol THU Malik: Narinder Samra THU Shah Bibi: Shaheen Khan THU Wisal Khan: Donald Slack THU Writer: Liz Rigbey THU Director: Liz Rigbey THU Producer: Anne-Marie Cole THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b05sxv7p (Listen) THU Georgia: Orthodoxy in the Classroom THU THU Natalia Antelava asks if the creeping influence of the THU Orthodox Church in Georgia's schools is turning them into a THU breeding ground for radical Christianity. Georgia's liberal THU politicians say only alignment with Europe and US will allow THU Georgia to overcome its post-Soviet past and survive as an THU independent nation. But in the way of Georgia's pro-Western THU course stands its Orthodox neighbour Russia and, THU increasingly, the country's own Orthodox Church. Natalia THU Antelava visits her old school in Tbilisi to see how the THU country's most conservative, anti-Western institution is THU influencing the next generation. Wesley Stephenson THU producing. THU THU 11:30 The Folk of the Pennines b05sxv7r (Listen) THU Edale to Top Withens THU THU In 1965, after 30 years of campaigning led by the rambler THU Tom Stephenson, the Pennine Way was officially opened on THU Malham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Stretching from Edale in THU Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish borders, the 268 THU mile route has attracted tens of thousands of walkers over THU the intervening years. THU THU To celebrate the 50th anniversary this year, Mark Radcliffe THU travels the route and meets up with poets, folk musicians, THU historians and local people along the way. THU THU In the first of three programmes, Mark travels from Edale to THU Top Withens near Haworth. He talks to the poet Simon THU Armitage about his experience of walking the Pennine Way, THU and finds out why the tiny Yorkshire village of Heptonstall THU is the burial place of one of the 20th century's most THU revered authors, Sylvia Plath. Singer Bella Hardy performs THU her song 'Peak Rhapsody' at the starting point of the THU Pennine Way, and Mark bumps into Kate Rusby at Top Withens - THU the supposed inspiration for Emily Bronte's Wuthering THU Heights. Kate and Damien O'Kane perform 'The Lark' sat in THU the ruins of the old farmhouse, looking out over Haworth THU Moor and the Pennine Way. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Mark Radcliffe THU Producer: Elizabeth Foster THU Sound Engineer: Chris Lee THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05srzbd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Across the Board b05sxv7t (Listen) THU Series 3, Antony Beevor THU THU Across The Board is a series of interviews conducted over a THU game of chess. In this programme Dominic Lawson talks to the THU best-selling military historian Antony Beevor. What are the THU parallels between chess and warfare? THU THU 12:16 You and Yours b05sxv7w (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05srzbg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05sxw98 (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05stt42 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05sxx23 (Listen) THU Stone, Dirt THU THU Dirt by Martin Jameson. First drama of Stone: a detective THU series created by Danny Brocklehurst. THU THU When a body is found in a flooded gravel pit DCI John Stone THU and his team embark upon an investigation that leads to the THU discovery of suspicious activity on a remote farm. THU THU But with his personal life in tatters and still reeling from THU the mishandled shooting of Callum Gartside, a gunman who had THU murdered his own family, Stone struggles to hold it all THU together. THU THU Sound design by Steve Brooke THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU DCI John Stone: Hugo Speer THU DI Mike Tanner: Craig Cheetham THU DS Sue Kelly: Deborah McAndrew THU Anthony: Jeff Hordley THU Elaine: Sally Carman THU Trout: Thomas Pickles THU Leo: Darren Kuppan THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Writer: Martin Jameson THU THU 15:00 Open Country b05sxx6z (Listen) THU Landscape Art in Northumberland THU THU Caz Graham visits the Northumberland countryside to discover THU stunning art in the landscape, produced by Iranian artist THU Khosro Adibi. THU THU Khosro is a visual artist from Iran. He's lived in Europe THU for several years now and has created site-specific THU environmental sculptures and land art pieces in the THU landscape. THU THU He has been artist in residence at Tarset in Northumberland THU since August last year. His work involves carving directly THU into sandstone, reminiscent of the pre-historic cup and ring THU marks that can be found in Northumberland. THU THU Caz also meets some archaeologists who spot similarities in THU Khosro's work to the ancient markings that are found in the THU area. THU THU Presenter: Caz Graham THU Producer Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05ss4rg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b05sscmf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05sy25p (Listen) THU Peter Firth THU THU Interviews and analysis from the world of cinema. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05sy25r (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05sy25t (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05srzbk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Best Behaviour b05sy25w (Listen) THU Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show devoted to THU clarifying the etiquette rules for modern life. THU THU The guest panellists are Clive Anderson, Sarah Millican and THU Joe Lycett, who compete to supply the most entertaining THU ideas for best behaviour in the 21st century. THU THU Knowing how to conduct yourself used to be simple - there THU were books, finishing schools and often a stern nanny to THU make sure you did the right thing. But nowadays the world is THU such a social minefield - made worse by the fact that every THU time you mess up, someone's inevitably filming it on a THU camera phone. THU THU In this episode, etiquette at work is under comic scrutiny THU with the notion that 'the customer is NOT always right' THU being one of the main conclusions. The case for never THU sharing food during meals is also up for debate, and the THU panellists solver an etiquette problem from the studio THU audience - 'how can I tell my friends that I'm not as THU interested in their kids as they are?' THU THU Producer: Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Holly Walsh THU Panellist: Clive Anderson THU Panellist: Sarah Millican THU Panellist: Joe Lycett THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05sy25y (Listen) THU Rob gets a result, and Toby rolls the fleeces. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b05sy260 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05sxv7l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05sy262 (Listen) THU Drug Resistance THU THU Why drug resistance is now regarded by the UK government as THU one of the most severe threats to public safety. Peter THU Marshall reports. THU THU Producer: Lucy Proctor THU Researcher: James Melley. THU THU 20:30 In Business b05sy264 (Listen) THU Thinking Machines THU THU One of the most famous computer systems in the world is THU called Watson, developed by IBM. It's best known in for THU beating two human contestants to win the American game show, THU Jeopardy. Watson may now be leading a revolution in 'machine THU learning'. THU Peter Day reports from New York City, fast becoming a high THU tech rival of Silicon Valley, to find out how smart our THU machines are becoming and whether we should be worried about THU the impact Artificial Intelligence will have our lives. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05sy25r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05sxv7b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 Election 2015 b05sy3zh (Listen) THU Comprehensive coverage of the results of the general THU election, with expert analysis, studio guests and live THU results from around the country. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 MAY 2015 FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05sy633 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b05ss5gk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05t67cg (Listen) FRI Year of the Fat Knight, Episode 5 FRI FRI Antony Sher recounts the year in which he created and FRI performed his version of Shakespeare's Falstaff - despite FRI never intending to undertake such an iconic role. FRI FRI Thirty years ago, a promising young actor published his FRI account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard FRI III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a FRI classic of theatre literature. FRI FRI In 2014, Sher - now in his sixties - was cast as Falstaff in FRI Gregory Doran's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the FRI two parts of Henry IV. Both the production and Sher's FRI Falstaff were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, with FRI Sher winning the Critics' Circle Award for Best FRI Shakespearean Performance. FRI FRI Year of the Fat Knight is Antony Sher's account of FRI researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's FRI best-known and most popular characters. FRI FRI He tells us how he had doubts about playing the part at all; FRI how he sought to reconcile Falstaff's obesity, drunkenness, FRI cowardice and charm; how he wrestled with the fat suit FRI needed to bulk him up; and how he explored the complexities FRI and contradictions of this comic yet often dangerous FRI personality. FRI FRI On the way, Sher paints a uniquely close-up portrait of the FRI RSC at work. FRI FRI Read by Antony Sher FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Antony Sher FRI Author: Antony Sher FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05sy636 (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jane Garvey. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05sy638 (Listen) FRI An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 5 FRI FRI Mashal Khan does not want to marry his brother's widow as FRI tradition dictates. And Kashmala asserts her widow's right FRI to choose, persuading her father to argue her case at the FRI village jirga. FRI FRI But the case doesn't get that far. FRI FRI When Akbar Khan learns he is being opposed he sets out to FRI find her and settle matters with his gun. Kashmala must FRI flee, with her father, Sardar Aka, and his two wives. They FRI set off behind Mewa Gul to the village they left long ago FRI during the fighting. For older wife Gulnara this is fine as FRI she has land and family in the old village. But younger FRI Sakina feels she is losing everything. As for Kashmala, she FRI relishes this new beginning. FRI FRI An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is a slice of village life FRI from the wild, mountainous Pakistan-Afghan borders where the FRI only law is tribal law and there is no road, electricity or FRI phone - and warlords are hard to contain. It is based on FRI characters and storylines from PACT Radio's daily soap, made FRI by and for Afghans. FRI FRI Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt FRI Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey FRI FRI Sound design by David Chilton FRI Music by Olivia Thomas FRI FRI Executive Producer: John Dryden FRI Producer: Anne-Marie Cole FRI An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sardar Aka: Madhav Sharma FRI Gulnara: Rina Fatania FRI Sakina: Rakhee Thakra FRI Kashmala: Betsabeh Emran FRI Akbar Khan: Sagar Arya FRI Shah Bibi: Shaheen Khan FRI Wisal Khan: Donald Slack FRI Mashal: Muzz Khan FRI Writer: Liz Rigbey FRI Director: Liz Rigbey FRI Producer: Anne-Marie Cole FRI FRI 11:00 The Glass Delusion b05sy63b (Listen) FRI Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explores the extraordinary FRI psychiatric phenomenon where people believe they have turned FRI into glass. FRI FRI Cases of the delusion spiked across early modern Europe. FRI Even King Charles VI of France was a sufferer and was FRI reported to have wrapped himself in blankets to prevent FRI himself from shattering. FRI FRI Andy Lamejin, a psychiatrist from Leiden in the Netherlands, FRI recalls his search for contemporary cases, and remembers the FRI astonishing moment that a case cropped up in his own FRI hospital and he was offered the chance to probe the meaning FRI of this enigmatic delusion with a living patient. FRI FRI Adam Phillips believes the 'glass delusion' has powerful FRI contemporary resonance in a society where anxieties about FRI fragility, transparency and personal space are pertinent to FRI many people's experience of living in the modern world. The FRI feeling of being made of glass could be a useful way of FRI understanding how we negotiate society - a society that is FRI increasingly crowded, but also one in which modern FRI technological advances isolate us and offer apparently FRI boundary-less communication. FRI FRI Professor Edward Shorter, a historian of psychiatry from the FRI University of Toronto suggests that it is the material of FRI glass itself, and its newness in 17th Century Europe which FRI holds the key to understanding the disorder. Throughout FRI history the inventive unconscious mind has pegged it's FRI delusions onto new materials. In the 19th century cement FRI delusions appeared when cement emerged as a new building FRI material, just as common delusions of recent decades include FRI the fixed, false belief that the CIA or other security FRI services can download thoughts through micro-transmitters. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b038hfpt (Listen) FRI News of Mr Gregory FRI FRI Part 8 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, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory FRI Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the FRI mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. FRI FRI Episode 8: News of Mr Gregory FRI FRI Steve goes in search of a trumpeter at the Hammersford FRI Palais. FRI FRI Producer Patrick Rayner FRI FRI Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in FRI Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most FRI successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his FRI day. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul Temple: Crawford Logan FRI Steve: Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Miss Marcia: Eliza Langland FRI Charlie: Greg Powrie FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05srzcx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Across the Board b05sy63d (Listen) FRI Series 3, Piers Morgan FRI FRI Across The Board is a series of interviews conducted over a FRI game of chess. In this programme Dominic Lawson talks to the FRI outspoken journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan. The game FRI turns out to be a brutal affair. FRI FRI 12:16 You and Yours b05tw1rf (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05srzcz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05t6pn0 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha FRI Kearney. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05sy25y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05syb62 (Listen) FRI Shakespeare's Fire FRI FRI Queens, fools and bickering playwrights set the world alight FRI on the Jacobean South Bank. Jane Horrocks, Adam Gillen and FRI Jasper Britton star in this original comedy by New FRI Generation poet Glyn Maxwell about the burning of the Globe FRI Theatre in 1613. FRI FRI On a hot summer afternoon, the Kings Men in Southwark are FRI performing John Fletcher and William Shakespeare's Famous FRI History of the Life of Henry VIII. On that scorching day in FRI June, the jewel of London's playhouses, The Globe, burnt FRI down. FRI FRI So much we know - we have eye witness accounts. Many FRI questions remain unanswered though. FRI FRI Are rumours of royal involvement to be credited? Did the FRI Burbages really do well out of the fire? What is the FRI connection between these events and the end of the career of FRI England's most illustrious playwright? And where do a FRI clown's trousers come into all this? FRI FRI The cast includes Jane Horrocks (Ab Fab, Little Voice), FRI Jasper Britton (RSC), Adam Gillen (Benidorm) and Simon FRI Greenall (I'm Alan Partridge) FRI FRI Director/ Producer: Frank Stirling FRI A Unique Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Toby Tallboy: Adam Gillen FRI Bess Wicks: Rebecca Collingwood FRI Mary Bodley: Nancy Carroll FRI Cat Peckam: Emma Noakes FRI Burbage: David Westhead FRI Queen Anne: Jane Horrocks FRI Shakespeare: Jasper Britton FRI Henry Condell: Simon Greenall FRI John Fletcher: Simon Greenall FRI Director: Frank Stirling FRI Producer: Frank Stirling FRI Writer: Glyn Maxwell FRI FRI 15:00 VE Day Silence b05vdxl6 (Listen) FRI A two-minute silence to commemorate the seventieth FRI anniversary of VE Day, which marked the end of the Second FRI World War in Europe. FRI FRI 15:02 Gardeners' Question Time b05syb64 (Listen) FRI Lewes FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the programme from Lewes, East Sussex. FRI Matt Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden answer FRI questions from an audience of local gardeners. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Blood, Sweat and Tears b05syb66 (Listen) FRI The Hollow King FRI FRI John Connolly, best known for his series of novels starring FRI Charlie Parker, writes the final episode in a new series of FRI specially commissioned short stories by three of Britain's FRI top crime writers. 'The Hollow King' is a dark and gruesome FRI fantasy tale about a childless King and Queen who possibly FRI love each other too much. FRI FRI These stories were recorded in front of an audience in the FRI MCT theatre, Alleyns School, Dulwich - and introduced by FRI Mark Billingham. FRI FRI Read by Pennie Downie. FRI FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: John Connolly FRI Reader: Pennie Downie FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05t6pnb (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b05syb68 (Listen) FRI Series that investigates the numbers in the news. Presented FRI by Tim Harford. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b05sycdg (Listen) FRI Ade and Kitty - Passing It On FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation where a mother raised in FRI England and Nigeria worries that her daughter doesn't take FRI on the expectations of her Nigerian relatives. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b05t6pnk (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05srzd1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b05sycdj (Listen) FRI Series 14, Episode 5 FRI FRI The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect FRI the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes FRI for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's FRI Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the FRI flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the FRI country. FRI FRI Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis FRI MacLeod, Debra Stephenson. FRI FRI Producer: Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Producer: Bill Dare FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05sycdl (Listen) FRI David does his best, and Joe speaks from the heart. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rachel: Jane Slavin FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b05sycdn (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05sy638 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05sycdq (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05sycds (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Voices of the First World War b05tcjyb (Listen) FRI Omnibus 1 FRI FRI Dan Snow presents the story of World War I through the FRI voices of those who were there. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05srzd5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05sycdv (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05sycdx (Listen) FRI The Green Road, Episode 5 FRI FRI A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's FRI Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne FRI Enright. FRI FRI The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland FRI for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New FRI York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, FRI their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has FRI decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult FRI children come back for one final Christmas together in the FRI family home, with the feeling that their childhoods are FRI being erased, their personal history bought and sold. FRI FRI Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and FRI works. She has published two collections of stories (grouped FRI together as Yesterday's Weather), one book of non-fiction FRI (Making Babies) and five novels, including The Gathering FRI (which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish FRI Fiction Award along with the 2007 Man Booker Prize) and The FRI Forgotten Waltz (which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal FRI for Excellence in Fiction). FRI FRI Read by Brid Brennan FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Brid Brennan FRI Author: Anne Enright FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI FRI 23:00 The Vote Now Show b05sydgp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI FRI The Now Show gang present a series of election specials. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 23:30 Great Lives b05stkqz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05sydgr (Listen) FRI Jackie and Julie - Loss, Love and Living FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a moving conversation between two FRI mothers who both lost daughters to Sanfilippo Syndrome, but FRI who still celebrate the love they have for them. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
01 May, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 02/05/2015 - 08/05/2015
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