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SAT SATURDAY 09 MAY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05srzft (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05t67cg (Listen) SAT Year of the Fat Knight, Episode 5 SAT SAT Antony Sher recounts the year in which he created and SAT performed his version of Shakespeare's Falstaff - despite SAT never intending to undertake such an iconic role. SAT SAT Thirty years ago, a promising young actor published his SAT account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard SAT III. Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a SAT classic of theatre literature. SAT SAT In 2014, Sher - now in his sixties - was cast as Falstaff in SAT Gregory Doran's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the SAT two parts of Henry IV. Both the production and Sher's SAT Falstaff were acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, with SAT Sher winning the Critics' Circle Award for Best SAT Shakespearean Performance. SAT SAT Year of the Fat Knight is Antony Sher's account of SAT researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's SAT best-known and most popular characters. SAT SAT He tells us how he had doubts about playing the part at all; SAT how he sought to reconcile Falstaff's obesity, drunkenness, SAT cowardice and charm; how he wrestled with the fat suit SAT needed to bulk him up; and how he explored the complexities SAT and contradictions of this comic yet often dangerous SAT personality. SAT SAT On the way, Sher paints a uniquely close-up portrait of the SAT RSC at work. SAT SAT Read by Antony Sher SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Antony Sher SAT Author: Antony Sher SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05srzfx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05srzfz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05srzg1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05srzg3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05sydqm (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. SAT SAT BBC Radio 4 – Prayer for the Day – Saturday 9 May 2015 SAT SAT Good morning SAT SAT Almost every day we are faced with dilemmas: choices between SAT doing the expedient thing and the right thing. SAT SAT For most of us, moral choices are domestic: reminding the SAT person behind the till that they’ve forgotten to ring in SAT that item; keeping the expenses claim straight; noticing SAT dishonesty and calling it out. SAT SAT When it comes to conscience, few are called to make life or SAT death choices even once in our lives. SAT SAT Yesterday, the anniversary of VE day commemorated those who SAT did; and rightly celebrated the valour and stamina of allied SAT forces and civilians - most poignantly those who sacrificed SAT their lives for liberty. SAT SAT Their victory, in a sense, was also the triumph of those SAT Germans who were driven by conscience to resist the Nazi SAT state from within – many of whom didn’t live to see the SAT liberation which they craved. SAT SAT The gestures of people like the theologian Dietrich SAT Bonhoeffer, hanged in 1945 or the 21 year old kindergarten SAT teacher Sophie Scholl, beheaded in 1943, to name but two SAT German resistors seemed futile at the time. Their choices SAT ended in execution for them and many of their companions. SAT SAT Now their actions of defiance seem like beacons of nobility SAT in the darkness of Nazi tyranny. And their bravery to show SAT that redemption was not impossible even for a nation so SAT complicit in evil. SAT SAT What good did their sacrifices do? They asserted that for a SAT strong society to exist, people of powerful conscience are SAT needed; because only they will ensure that honesty and right SAT dealing – not expediency – are the foundation for freedom. SAT SAT Creator and Sustainer of all there is: you made us to live SAT together; you speak to us in the depths of our consciences; SAT may they guide our individual choices; and may these create SAT a just and strong society. SAT SAT AMEN SAT SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05sydqp (Listen) SAT 'The last moments of peaceful perfection.' - An iPM listener SAT tells her story of surviving a natural disaster. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. With thanks to 'Global SAT BC' for the use of their archive footage. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05srzg5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05srzg7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b05sxx6z (Listen) SAT Landscape Art in Northumberland SAT SAT Caz Graham visits the Northumberland countryside to discover SAT stunning art in the landscape, produced by Iranian artist SAT Khosro Adibi. SAT SAT Khosro is a visual artist from Iran. He's lived in Europe SAT for several years now and has created site-specific SAT environmental sculptures and land art pieces in the SAT landscape. SAT SAT He has been artist in residence at Tarset in Northumberland SAT since August last year. His work involves carving directly SAT into sandstone, reminiscent of the pre-historic cup and ring SAT marks that can be found in Northumberland. SAT SAT Caz also meets some archaeologists who spot similarities in SAT Khosro's work to the ancient markings that are found in the SAT area. SAT SAT Presenter: Caz Graham SAT Producer Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05tbf5c (Listen) SAT Small Farms SAT SAT Anna Hill visits Greenham Reach on the Devon/Somerset SAT border. It's 22 acres of former agricultural land, bought up SAT by the Ecological Land Cooperative (ELC) and divided into SAT three smallholder plots. Three families work and live on the SAT land - aiming to make a living growing and selling anything SAT from medicinal herbs, to goats cheese, to specialist salad SAT leaves. SAT The ELC either rents or sells them the land, and supports SAT the families through getting planning permission for SAT dwellings, and offering mentors to help set up their SAT businesses. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05srzg9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05tbf5f (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05tbf5h (Listen) SAT Edith Bowman SAT SAT Presented by Richard Coles and Suzy Klein. SAT SAT DJ and veteran festival-goer Edith Bowman on her love for SAT the sonic boom of Green Man and Glastonbury. For the past SAT twenty years Edith's taken in two or three festivals a year SAT - and after attending more than 80 of them, seeing 1,500 SAT bands and having two children she explains why her passion SAT is as great as ever. SAT SAT Grammy award winning jazz singer Gregory Porter describes SAT how his mother inspired his move of careers, and the music SAT that stirs his soul. SAT SAT Camping fan Phoebe Smith reveals what defines a truly wild SAT night out - and why she decided to set herself the Extreme SAT Sleeps Challenge - from Ben Nevis to the "Middle of SAT Nowhere." And travelling to The National Quiet Zone - SAT photographer Emile Holba on what a world without mobile SAT phones really sounds like. SAT SAT JP Devlin meets Dr. Sandy Saunders one of the last survivors SAT of Archibald McIndoe's Guinea Pig Club. SAT SAT And 'Queen of Shops', Mary Portas shares her Inheritance SAT Tracks: Into the Mystic by Van Morrison and Crazy on the SAT Weekend by Sunhouse. SAT SAT Great British Musical Festivals by Edith Bowman is published SAT by Blink. SAT SAT Wild Nights - Camping Britain's Extremes by Phoebe Smith, SAT published by Summersdale. SAT SAT Sandy Saunders and the survivors of the Guinea Pig Club were SAT given a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Soldiering on SAT Through Life Trust. SAT SAT Welcome to the Quiet Zone - a five part series starting on SAT Radio 4 on Monday 18 May. SAT SAT A deluxe edition of Liquid Spirit includes an additional 4 SAT tracks of collaborations and covers and a brand new remix, SAT featuring Jamie Cullum, Ben L'Oncle Soul and Laura Mvula. SAT SAT Shop Girl A Memoir by Mary Portas, is published by SAT Doubleday. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Edith Bowman SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Portas SAT SAT 10:30 The Lost Art of the TV Theme b05tq6zy (Listen) SAT Few people who grew up in the 1960s could not now - fifty SAT years on - hum you the tunes from The Persuaders, SAT Crossroads, The Avengers, Blue Peter, Top of the Form, SAT Grandstand, The Saint, University Challenge, Panorama, Dave SAT Allen At Large, The Onedin Line, Department S, Tomorrow's SAT World, Dad's Army, Sportsnight - the list goes on and on. SAT The 1970s gave us Fawlty Towers, Colditz, Mr and Mrs, The SAT Two Ronnies, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served, The SAT Goodies, The Wombles, Blake's Seven, Some Mothers Do 'Ave SAT 'Em - and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, whose theme SAT tune perfectly captured the affectionate nostalgia of the SAT comedy. The melodies became so iconic that those shows which SAT survived into the 21st century - Coronation Street, SAT Mastermind, Match of the Day - have never ditched the theme SAT music familiar to generations of viewers. And we haven't SAT even mentioned Dr Who, whose pulsing theme generated by the SAT BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1963 has since regenerated SAT itself many times over, and inspired enough new music to SAT provide a programme for an entire Prom. SAT SAT Rich Morton acknowledges that his age defines his taste in SAT themes, as in so many other things. As a composer of very SAT plausible tunes for TV shows and films which never existed, SAT he favours the thrilling, brassy action themes of the 1960s SAT or the jaunty hipster tunes of the 1970s. Yet his suspicion SAT is that programme-makers in the 1980s - perhaps as a result SAT of squeezed budgets - stopped commissioning SAT specially-written music and turned instead to cheaper SAT alternatives, such as adapting instrumental extracts from SAT pre-existing pop records. SAT SAT Rich argues that, while there are still memorable themes SAT around, far too many shows now have bland or generic music SAT which would defy most people's attempts to hum it, let alone SAT remember it in fifty years' time. In an age when many SAT viewers access TV shows from Netflix, iPlayer or YouTube, SAT the need for an instantly-recognisable theme as a clarion SAT call to gather round and watch no longer applies. SAT SAT In this programme Rich sets out to ask what it was that made SAT those old themes so memorable, and why the TV theme may have SAT diminished in importance as an art form. He's helped in his SAT exploration by some of the great practitioners of the SAT classic TV theme, such as Tony Hatch and Alan Hawkshaw, and SAT also by one of the most successful TV composers working SAT today, Debbie Wiseman. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b05tz5p5 (Listen) SAT George Parker of the FT looks at the 2015 General Election SAT results. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05srzgc (Listen) SAT Turning Back the Ageing Process SAT SAT Now where have I put the car keys? A Japanese SAT neuro-scientist believes a regular brain 'workout' can SAT improve the lives, and the memories, of older people who SAT might otherwise fall victim to dementia; Italy's planning to SAT tell the UN Security Council next week that the country's in SAT urgent need of more help in dealing with the tide of SAT migrants washing up on its shores - we're in a port in SAT Sicily where boatloads of them now arrive almost every day; SAT the authorities in Saudi Arabia show our correspondent round SAT a high security jail near Riyadh where, they say, they are SAT succeeding in reforming extremists from IS and al-Qaeda; SAT farmer suicides in India - many possible reasons are cited SAT for their decisions to kill themselves but but it's clear SAT that distress among the agricultural community is part of a SAT wider malaise afflicting the countryside. And on the Dutch SAT Caribbean island of Aruba we find out why boa constrictors, SAT snakes which can grow to four metres in length, have taken SAT to travelling by car. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05srzgf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05tbfmc (Listen) SAT How safe is your vault? What tax changes can we expect? And SAT pension freedom a month on. SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT How safe is your vault? The owners of 56 safety deposit SAT boxes in London's Hatton Garden met this week to see what SAT can be done to recover their stuff - or at least its value. SAT The safe deposit security centre was raided over the Easter SAT weekend. So what insurance do you need to have in place to SAT protect your valuables? SAT SAT The Conservatives have won the General Election. Money Box SAT looks at the known knowns of what tax changes we can expect SAT in the post-election Budget, probably in June. Inheritance SAT tax and tax allowances will be made more generous. And the SAT Prime Minister has pledged they will take no more from us in SAT income tax, VAT, or National Insurance. So where will the SAT extra money needed to clear the deficit be raised from? SAT SAT A new mutual insurance company has opened for business. But SAT to use it, you must have a connection with the armed forces. SAT The target customers for the Military Mutual are people SAT currently or recently in the services and their close SAT relatives. Frequent changes of address and serving abroad SAT are inevitable aspects of military life that can make it SAT hard to get insurance from mainstream firms. The Military SAT Mutual hopes to fill that gap. SAT SAT What are millions of over 55s doing with their new pension SAT freedom a month after it began? How easy is it to get hold SAT of your own cash? What barriers are being put in the way? SAT And when people do get the money what are they using it for? SAT SAT Safety Deposit Association SAT http://www.safetydepositassociation.com/ SAT SAT British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) SAT http://www.biba.org.uk/ SAT SAT The Conservative Party: Manifesto SAT https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto SAT SAT Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales SAT http://www.icaew.com/ SAT SAT Pension Wise SAT https://www.pensionwise.gov.uk/ SAT SAT The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) SAT http://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/ SAT SAT Forces Financial SAT http://www.forcesfinancial.com/ SAT SAT The Royal British Legion SAT http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/ SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b05sycdj (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 5 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 b05srzgh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05srzgm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05sycdq (Listen) SAT Charles Clarke, Michael Howard, Shirley Williams, Gordon SAT Wilson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the Radio Theatre at London's Broadcasting House with SAT former Home Secretary, Charles Clarke; former Leader of the SAT Conservatives, Lord Howard of Lympne; the Liberal Democrat SAT peer, Baroness Williams of Crosby; and former Leader of the SAT Scottish National Party, Gordon Wilson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05tbgkv (Listen) SAT Presenter is Anita Anand. SAT Producer is Alex Lewis. SAT Editor is Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT 14:30 Roddy Doyle on Radio 4 b041v063 (Listen) SAT The Guts SAT SAT Twenty six years on and we are back in Dublin with Jimmy SAT Rabbitte, the ex-manager of The Commitments. Jimmy is now SAT 47, married to Aoife and has 4 kids. Life has been rather SAT good since we last met him, keeping a foot in the music SAT industry and doing well during the boom. However, life is SAT about to change for them all as Jimmy has just discovered he SAT is ill. This is a story about friendship and family, about SAT facing death and opting for life and maybe, just maybe, SAT realising you can still live the dream. SAT SAT Going To Hell was performed by More Than Conquerors. SAT Adapted by Peter Sheridan SAT Producer: Gemma McMullan SAT Directed by: Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jimmy: David Wilmot SAT Aoife: Dawn Bradfield SAT Jimmy Snr: Gerry O'Brien SAT Outspan: Conleth Hill SAT Les: Liam Carney SAT Des: Patrick Fitzsymons SAT Lochlainn: Stuart Graham SAT Noleen: Ali White SAT Marv: Lloyd Cooney SAT Jimmy Jnr: Gavin Drea SAT May: Kelly Thornton SAT Brian: Scott Graham SAT Author: Roddy Doyle SAT Adaptor: Peter Sheridan SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT Producer: Gemma McMullan SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05tbgkz (Listen) SAT Women's influence on GE2015, Nancy Sinatra and Minette SAT Walters SAT SAT We discuss women's influence on the 2015 Election with SAT Professor Sarah Childs from Bristol University and Michelle SAT Harrison of TNS. Nancy Sinatra is interviewed by Jane Garvey SAT and Cerys Matthews. SAT SAT Crowd-funded breast augmentation - we talk to a woman who SAT raised money for implants by chatting to men online and a SAT man who's given money. SAT SAT The Guardian's China Correspondent Tania Branigan on what's SAT being done to reduce high levels of domestic abuse in SAT Chinese families. SAT SAT Minette Walters, 'the Queen of Crime' on her new novel The SAT Cellar. Sheila Kitzinger's daughters Celia and Jenny discuss SAT her legacy. SAT SAT Women in Clothes - Leanne Shapton and Kira Jolliffe - on the SAT book that asked more than 600 women why they choose to dress SAT as they do. SAT SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Childs SAT Interviewed Guest: Michelle Harrison SAT Interviewed Guest: Tania Brannigan SAT Interviewed Guest: Suzi Godson SAT Interviewed Guest: Minette Walters SAT Interviewed Guest: Celia Kitzinger SAT Interviewed Guest: Jenny Kitzinger SAT Interviewed Guest: Leanne Shapton SAT Interviewed Guest: Kira Jolliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Nancy Sinatra SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05tbgl1 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b05sydqp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05srzgp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05srzgr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05srzgt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05tbgl3 (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Mike Leigh, Stephen Mangan, Terry Waite, Sandy SAT Grierson, Stealing Sheep, Spiro SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests - Mike Leigh, Stephen Mangan, SAT Sandy Grierson - with an eclectic mix of conversation, music SAT and comedy. Also round the Loose Ends table is Nikki Bedi SAT talking to humanitarian and author Terry Waite. With music SAT from Stealing Sheep and Spiro. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Stephen Mangan SAT SAT Episode One of 'Episodes' series 4 is at 10pm, Monday 11 May SAT on BBC 2. SAT SAT Terry Waite SAT ‘The Voyage Of The Golden Handshake’ is published by SAT Silvertail Books and out now. SAT SAT Mike Leigh SAT SAT *Credit: Simon Mein* SAT SAT The Pirates of Penzance opens Saturday 9 May at 7.30pm at SAT London Coliseum. Full details can be found at on the SAT ENO website SAT SAT The play is also broadcast live in cinemas across UK and SAT Ireland, and selected cinemas worldwide, as part of ENO SAT Screen on Tuesday 19 May at 7.30pm. SAT SAT SAT Sandy Grierson SAT SAT The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler is at the Theatre Royal SAT as part of the Brighton Festival from the 13th to 17th May. SAT SAT SAT SAT Stealing Sheep SAT SAT *Credit: Charlotte Rutherford* SAT SAT The new album 'Not Real' out now on Heavenly recordings. SAT Stealing Sheep's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Spiro SAT SAT The new album 'Joy and Sorrow' is out now on Real World. SAT Spiro's official website SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Terry Waite SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05tbgq1 (Listen) SAT Sir Christopher Geidt SAT SAT The last couple of weeks of the election campaign - and the SAT erroneously narrow polls which highlighted the role of The SAT Queen in the event of a hung parliament - brought to the SAT attention of the public a man who has held arguably one of SAT the most important jobs in Britain since 2007, but who SAT remains largely unknown. He's Sir Christopher Geidt, Private SAT Secretary to The Queen. He is her adviser on political and SAT constitutional matters, and her line of communication to the SAT Government. But who is he? SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles SAT Producers: Joe Kent and Charlotte Pritchard. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05tbgq3 (Listen) SAT The Vote, The Crow Eaters, Girlhood, Brighton Festival, SAT Grace and Frankie SAT SAT The Vote is a comedy set in a polling station on election SAT night, performed live at the Donmar Warehouse and SAT simulatneously broadcast on More4. Starring Mark Gatiss, SAT Judi Dench, Catherine Tate and nearly 40 more actors, can it SAT have a life after we announce our verdict? SAT Bapsi Sidhwa's novel The Crow Eaters is a classic of SAT Pakistani writing; a darkly humorous tale of a family in SAT Lahore in the early 1900s. fans include Salman Rushdie, SAT Hanif Kureishi and Fatima Bhutto. What will our panel make SAT of it? SAT The French film Girlhood tells the story of the lives of a SAT group of young black Parisiennes; a group notably SAT underrepresented in French cinema. Does this film do SAT something orginal with the idea? SAT We look at a couple of works at this year's Brighton SAT Festival on an avian theme: Dawn Chorus, humans reproducing SAT birdsong and Murmuration looking at birdwatching and spying SAT Grace and Frankie is a new comedy series starring Jane Fonda SAT and Lily Tomlin as two septuagenarians who are surprised SAT when their husbands announce that they're gay and intend to SAT marry each other. SAT SAT Image: Mark Gatiss as Steven Crosswell in The Vote, Donmar SAT Warehouse SAT Photo Credit: Johan Persson. SAT SAT THEATRE: The Vote SAT SAT Now finished, the production was on at the SAT Donmar Warehouse SAT London from Friday 24 April until Thursday 7 May 2015. SAT SAT Image: Catherine Tate and Timothy West. Photo Credit: Johan SAT Persson SAT SAT BOOK: The Crow Eaters SAT By Bapsi Sidhwa, published by Daunt Books SAT SAT FILM: Girlhood SAT SAT Released in cinemas nationwide on Friday 8 May 2015, SAT certificate 15 SAT SAT Image: Karidja TourĂ©, Assa Sylla, Karamoh Adiatou & TourĂ© SAT Fily in Girlhood (2014) SAT SAT EXHIBITION: Brighton Festival: A Murmuration SAT By Sarah Wood and Lucy Harris, in collaboration with writers SAT Helen Macdonald and Olivia Laing is on at the SAT Brighton Festival SAT from Saturday 2 May until Sunday 24 May 2015 SAT SAT EXHIBITION: Brighton Festival: Dawn Chorus SAT By British artist Marcus Coates is on at the SAT Brighton Festival SAT from Saturday 2 May until Sunday 24 May 2015 SAT SAT TV: Grace and Frankie SAT SAT Released on SAT Netflix SAT on Friday 8 May 2015 SAT SAT SAT Image: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Photo Credit: Melissa SAT Moseley for Netflix SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05tbh5k (Listen) SAT The Entomology of Gregor Samsa SAT SAT Gregor Samsa, as we all now know, woke up one morning to SAT find himself transformed into an insect. But what kind of SAT insect precisely? SAT SAT Franz Kafka does not give much help to readers of The SAT Metamorphosis (100 years old in 2015). In German Samsa finds SAT himself transformed into an "Ungezeifer" - "monstrous SAT vermin." Early translations identify Samsa as an insect (and SAT the fact that he crawls over the ceiling of the Samsa family SAT home make it easy to imagine him as a kind of man sized SAT cockroach) but literary critics have persisted in seeing SAT Gregor's transformation as symbolic of his alienation. SAT SAT The reader though registers Samsa as very corporeal, and SAT that body is leathery and insectoid. SAT SAT The hunt is deadly serious: much of the vertiginous pleasure SAT of reading The Metamorphoses comes from the naturalistic, SAT physical description of the creature which Samsa becomes. We SAT are told on the first page that his carapace is hard, convex SAT on both sides, and that his stomach is divided into rigid SAT banded segments. But what kind of insect this denotes has SAT concerned Kafka scholars since the book was published. SAT SAT David Baddiel travels to Prague to meet the experts at the SAT world's largest insect fair, on the trail of the insect SAT Gregor. Will he be able to pin the insect form down? SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05sscmc (Listen) SAT Decline and Fall, Episode 2 SAT SAT Captain Grimes finding himself in 'the soup' SAT again has disappeared and Margot has SAT invited Paul to tutor her son Peter during SAT the school holidays. There he meets the SAT eccentric Otto. SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale. SAT SAT Credits SAT Paul: Kieran Hodgson SAT Margot: Emilia Fox SAT Otto: Tom Hollander SAT Peter: Alex Lawther SAT Grimes: John Sessions SAT Prendergast: James Fleet SAT Dr Fagan: Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Philbrick: Ben Crowe SAT Alastair: Sam Valentine SAT Sir Humphrey: Sam Dale SAT Governor 2: Sam Dale SAT Scout: Sam Dale SAT Inspector Bruce: Stephen Critchlow SAT Warder 1: Stephen Critchlow SAT Lunatic: Ian Conningham SAT Warder 2: Ian Conningham SAT Lucas-Dockerty: David Acton SAT Chaplain: David Acton SAT Jane Grimes: Jessica Turner SAT Bessy: Rhiannon Neads SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT Director: Tracey Neale SAT Author: Evelyn Waugh SAT Adaptor: Jeremy Front SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05srzgx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b05stt6d (Listen) SAT The Law and Parenthood SAT SAT In the first of a news series, Clive Anderson and a panel of SAT senior lawyers, judges and other experts discuss how the law SAT balances the sometimes conflicting interests of parents and SAT their children. SAT SAT The law states clearly that the welfare of the child is SAT "paramount", but how is this to be established and what SAT happens when the interests of a child conflict with those of SAT a parent? Who should decide what is in the best interests of SAT a child in the first place - the parents or the state? What SAT exactly are the responsibilities and rights of parents in SAT relation to a child's education, medical care or home? SAT SAT Sir Mark Potter, former President of the High Court Family SAT Division, and senior lawyers experienced in representing SAT children and parents shed light on the difficult decisions SAT the courts have to wrestle with - such as the case of Ashya SAT King, removed by his parents from Southampton General SAT Hospital, raising a raft of legal, ethical and moral issues. SAT SAT How are legal decisions arrived at when separating parents SAT disagree about how a child should be educated, or where one SAT parent wants to take the child to another country? And if SAT the welfare of the child is paramount, should it be made SAT easier for children to take their parents to court to fight SAT for their rights? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b05tbjt2 (Listen) SAT Series 5, University of Manchester SAT SAT A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three SAT University students take on a team of three of their SAT professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Manchester, The 3rd SAT Degree is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners while SAT delighting the current ones. SAT SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Biology, SAT American Studies and Medicine and the questions range from SAT the sound of bats to the films of Eddie Redmayne, via The SAT Beggar's Opera and Morph. 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 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 Walt Whitman's War b05sscmh (Listen) SAT Walt Whitman, the great American poet of Leaves of Grass and SAT Song of Myself gave up poetry one hundred and fifty years SAT ago during the American Civil War to volunteer as a wound SAT dresser for the battle injured. What he saw in the bloody SAT field hospitals had a profound impact on Whitman and on his SAT poetry. He went back to words after the war and wrote some SAT of his best poetry and prose in the grim light of what he'd SAT seen. SAT SAT An exploration of Whitman's war with archive recordings of SAT Whitman himself, the music of John Adams and contributions SAT from poets Allen Ginsberg, Mark Ford, Galway Kinnell and SAT Mark Doty. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 MAY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05tbn52 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Go West b01r9620 (Listen) SUN Of All the Whole Wild World SUN SUN Five stories made in Bristol SUN 3. Of All the Whole Wild World SUN by Kerry Hood SUN SUN Jodie comes to offer her commiserations to her neighbour SUN Peta, who has just lost her mother. She's made a card: "This SUN comes to say I'm sad, Someone has died and that's quite SUN bad." From this inauspicious start, things can really only SUN improve. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05tbn54 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05tbn56 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05tbn58 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05tbn5b (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05tbs6h (Listen) SUN Church bells from St Mary's Redcliffe, Bristol. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b05tbgq1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b05tbn5d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b05tbs6k (Listen) SUN Mirth of Nations SUN SUN From musical jokes and harmless limericks to the offence SUN that can be caused by religious, sexual or racist humour, SUN Mark Tully asks what makes us laugh, when it's OK to find SUN something funny, and when a joke goes too far. SUN SUN It's not always easy to draw the line between acceptable and SUN unacceptable humour. For many, ethnic humour is inevitably SUN racial humour and therefore automatically forbidden. But is SUN it always as straightforward as that? With sociologist SUN Christie Davies, Mark discusses how different nations form SUN their own brand of jokes, how stereotypes emerge and how SUN some groups become targets for humour. SUN SUN Gilbert and Sullivan help us to laugh at those in authority, SUN Daphne Du Maurier makes us squirm at the cruelty of a SUN practical joke, and Mozart's Divertimento for Two Horns and SUN String Quartet provides the punchline. SUN SUN Produced by Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: Butterflies and Caustic Asides SUN SUN Author: Maggie Andrews SUN SUN Published by: Routledge in Because I Tell A Joke or Two SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Rebecca SUN SUN Author: Daphne du Maurier SUN SUN Published by Penguin Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Comic Racism and Violence SUN SUN Author: Michael Billig SUN SUN Published by Palgrave in Beyond A Joke SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Screwtape Letters SUN SUN Author: CS Lewis SUN SUN Published by HarperOne SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b05tbs6m (Listen) SUN James Rebanks, the Herdy Shepherd SUN SUN Three years ago farmer James Rebanks got a smart phone and SUN started taking pictures of his herdwick sheep and his life SUN as a shepherd on the Cumbrian fells. A friend reckoned they SUN were quite good and encouraged him to tweet them. Today SUN sixty thousand Twitter followers from all over the world SUN check out what he, his dogs and his sheep are up to on a SUN daily basis. Someone suggested a book - and after bidding SUN wars in both the States and the UK, A Shepherd's Life is has SUN become a best seller and was recently Radio 4's Book of the SUN Week. SUN SUN Caz Graham meets the man behind the tweets and hears how SUN James couples his passion for herdwick sheep and writing SUN with a parallel career; he's an expert advisor to UNESCO on SUN sustainable tourism advising rural communities all around SUN the world. Caz joins James herding sheep back to the fells SUN for summer, meets a newly born lamb and some of the UKs most SUN famous puppies! SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05tbn5g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05tbn5j (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05tbs6q (Listen) SUN General Election, VE Day, Real Benefits Street SUN SUN What will the outcome of the General Election mean for SUN religious people in Britain? Edward Stourton explores the SUN issues from a cross-party and multi-faith perspective. SUN SUN Ahead of the National Service of Thanksgiving to mark the SUN 70th anniversary of VE Day, Trevor Barnes hears from two SUN veterans of Bomber Command about their memories of the day. SUN SUN The Reverend Prebendary Roderick Thomas, who led the SUN campaign against women bishops in the Church of England, has SUN himself been appointed as a bishop. His job will be to SUN oversee conservative evangelical congregations who don't SUN accept the authority of a woman on theological grounds. SUN Edward talks to him about the new role. SUN SUN Germany's Roman Catholic Church has decided lay Catholic SUN employees who divorce and remarry or form gay civil unions SUN should no longer automatically lose their jobs. German SUN Catholic journalist Daniel Deckers explains why. SUN SUN Of the thousands of Yazidis who have fled Iraq to SUN neighbouring Turkey, many are shunning official Turkish SUN state camps for those run by the country's pro-Kurdish SUN movement. Dorian Jones reports. SUN SUN And with the second series of 'Benefits Street' starting on SUN Channel 4 on Monday, the Christian charity Church Action on SUN Poverty is launching a rival YouTube channel called 'Real SUN Benefits Street'. Jackie Cox from the charity explains the SUN idea behind the project. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Dan Tierney SUN David Cook SUN SUN Series producer: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Rev Prebendary Roderick Thomas SUN Dr Daniel Deckers SUN Tim Montgomerie SUN Paul Bickley SUN Nazir Afzal SUN Jackie Cox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05tbs6x (Listen) SUN Help Musicians UK SUN SUN Lesley Garrett presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Help SUN Musicians UK SUN Registered Charity No 228089 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Help Musicians UK'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Help Musicians UK. SUN SUN Help Musicians UK (formerly Musicians Benevolent Fund) SUN SUN Being a musician can seem like a glamorous lifestyle, but SUN for many it’s a tough business. SUN The outlook for musicians in the UK continues to be SUN challenging, with cuts in public funding for the arts and SUN the music industry going through many changes, not least SUN with the impact of the digital age on the record industry. SUN For many musicians, this means that work is harder to come SUN by. SUN With a largely freelance lifestyle which often involves SUN working away from home and family, adding injury or SUN long-term illness to the mix can be devastating. SUN Financial rewards are also surprisingly poor. Professional SUN musicians are highly skilled and yet most earn very little. SUN A 2012 survey by the Musicians’ Union of 2,000 musicians SUN found that more than half earned less than £20,000 a year SUN and only 35% could afford to pay towards a pension. SUN That’s why most have nothing to fall back on when things go SUN wrong and that’s where Help Musicians UK steps in. SUN Since 1921, we’ve helped thousands of musicians establish SUN themselves in the music business, get through a serious SUN crisis, cope with long-term difficulties and enjoy SUN retirement. SUN As well as providing advice and guidance, we give financial SUN and emotional support. For many, we are a lifeline. SUN SUN Help for musicians in crisis and their families SUN SUN When a musician has an accident, injury or illness, it can SUN have an overwhelming impact. Last year we helped 374 SUN musicians facing a crisis, an increase of 17% on 2013. SUN We always tailor our support according to the needs of each SUN individual musician. Following assessment, we can help with SUN financial grants to pay for medical treatment, specialist SUN therapies and living costs. SUN Our aim is to step in and support before things spiral out SUN of control, helping musicians to get back to work quickly SUN but sometimes a long-term illness or disability makes this SUN impossible. SUN Like William, 47, who enjoyed a successful career as a SUN professional singer with the world-renowned ensemble, The SUN Sixteen, until a brain haemorrhage left him paralysed and SUN unable to speak. He has four children and lives with his SUN wife Jane. We were able to cover the costs of adapting the SUN family home to meet Williams’ needs. SUN *"Help Musicians UK supported our family when my husband SUN became seriously ill. Now he is back home with his family SUN where he belongs for which we will always be grateful." SUN *Jane (William’s wife), Music Teacher SUN SUN Help for Emerging Musicians SUN SUN We know that it’s hard to get started as a musician. SUN Training is time-consuming and expensive and there’s intense SUN competition for those all-important opportunities that open SUN up a career. Our Talent Programme offers targeted financial SUN support and opportunities when people need them most. SUN Whether they are in the final stages of advanced training or SUN in the early years of a promising career, we invest in SUN talented young artists and help them thrive. SUN In 2014 we helped 650 young people either directly or SUN through our partnerships. SUN *“Without the help from Help Musicians UK, I would not have SUN been able to afford to study as a member of the Royal SUN College of Music International Opera School; preparing me SUN for a career in opera.”* Soraya, 26, Singer SUN SUN Help for Retired Musicians SUN SUN For many professional musicians, the financial rewards are SUN not as great as the artistic rewards. All too often, SUN musicians are unable to save for their retirement. Our work SUN with older musicians is crucial for those who can’t afford a SUN decent standard of living, have unexpected needs or are ill. SUN In 2014 we were able to improve the quality of life for 538 SUN older musicians. Many received regular grants towards living SUN costs, home visits and advice. Others were given help with SUN unexpected one-off costs to help them continue to live SUN independently. SUN *"Help Musicians UK has helped me financially with my piano SUN tuning, domestic help and friendly visits, never forgetting SUN my birthday or Christmas, little kindnesses that make such a SUN difference to my well-being."* Lauretta, 92, Singer and SUN pianist SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05tbn5l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05tbn5n (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05tbs70 (Listen) SUN What Kind of Victory? SUN SUN To mark the 70th anniversary celebrations for VE Day, The SUN Revd Elizabeth Adekunle, Chaplain of St John's College SUN Cambridge and Major General (retired) Tim Cross CBE, explore SUN the kind of victory that can bring real hope for the future. SUN A victory that charts a path to forgiveness and restores SUN community. With the choir of St John's College Cambridge. SUN Director of Music: Andrew Nethsingha; Organ Scholar: Edward SUN Picton-Turbervill. Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN Major General (retired) Tim Cross CBE is a Lay Minister in SUN the Church of England, Chairman of the Board of Theos - a SUN public theology Think Tank - and a Visiting/Honorary SUN Professor at three UK Universities. On the Ethics Board of a SUN major UK technology company, he works with a number of SUN international companies and aid agencies. He was SUN commissioned into the British Army in 1971, led a small Bomb SUN Disposal Team in Northern Ireland in the 1970's and SUN commanded a Division of 30,000 in 2004/07, with further SUN operational tours in Cyprus, Kuwait, Iraq (twice), and the SUN Balkans (3 times). He has been an adviser to the House of SUN Commons Defence Committee for the last 7 years. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05sycds (Listen) SUN Election View SUN SUN The American writer PJ O'Rourke gives his view of the UK SUN election. "In the once solidly red-rosette glens and braes SUN and lochs and heather the Scottish National Party snatched SUN the sporran, ripped the kilt off and walked away in the SUN ghillie brogues of Labour" SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: P.J O'Rourke SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b020xv0f (Listen) SUN Savi's Warbler SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Savi's Warbler. Count SUN yourself very lucky if you hear the buzzing song of a Savi's SUN Warbler, these are very rare birds indeed, especially SUN breeding pairs and the nests are almost impossible to find, SUN so their song is the best clue that they're about. SUN SUN Savi's Warbler (Locustella luscinioides) SUN Image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05tbsq6 (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 b05tbsq8 (Listen) SUN The plot thickens for David, and Joe speaks from the heart. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rachel: Jane Slavin SUN SUN 11:16 Desert Island Discs b05tbsqb (Listen) SUN Sir Bradley Wiggins SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins. SUN SUN Winner of four Olympic gold medals, six track World SUN Championship gold medals and the first Briton to win the SUN Tour de France, cycling is in his blood. His parents met SUN through the sport - his Australian father was himself a SUN professional, his British mother a keen follower. His father SUN left the family when Bradley was still a toddler and it was SUN his mum, Linda, who helped him pursue his dreams of being a SUN champion cyclist. Inspired by Chris Boardman's success at SUN the 1992 Barcelona Olympics by the age of 16 he'd won gold, SUN silver and bronze at the Junior National Track Championships SUN and was called up to the National Squad. He was Junior World SUN Champion at 18. SUN SUN Knighted following his achievements in 2012, he's soon to SUN attempt the world record for the furthest distance cycled in SUN an hour and plans to return to the track in the Team Pursuit SUN at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Bradley Wiggins SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05tbn5q (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Dilemma b05sstcb (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 5 SUN SUN Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts SUN the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to SUN discern their own personal codes of ethics. This week, it's SUN the turn of comedians Nathan Caton and Celia Pacquola, SUN historian Dan Snow, and writer and broadcaster Natalie SUN Haynes. Up for discussion are unusual meals, lying to SUN children, and the best way to deal with noisy, but happy, SUN neighbours. Episode five 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: Nathan Caton SUN Panellist: Dan Snow SUN Panellist: Natalie Haynes SUN Panellist: Celia Pacquola SUN Producer: Ed Morrish SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05tbsqd (Listen) SUN Jane Grigson - A Tribute SUN SUN Jane Grigson was a unique and pioneering voice in food SUN writing. Twenty-five years after her death, Sheila Dillon is SUN joined by three special guests to explore her life, food and SUN legacy. SUN SUN Jane was a self-taught cook whose books and journalism SUN changed British food culture. Sheila is joined by Geraldene SUN Holt, a food writer who will reveal recently uncovered SUN archive material, the award-winning chef Shaun Hill who has SUN cooked his way through Jane's books and also cooked for her, SUN as well James Beard-nominated author and cook Diana Henry. SUN SUN Readings by Kerry Elkins SUN SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Geraldene Holt SUN Interviewed Guest: Shaun Hill SUN Interviewed Guest: Diana Henry SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05tbn5s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05tbst1 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05syb64 (Listen) SUN Lewes SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the programme from Lewes, East Sussex. SUN Matt Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden answer SUN questions from an audience of local gardeners. SUN SUN Eric goes in search of a bohemian garden and we follow SUN Matthew Wilson's journey to the Chelsea Flower Show. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN RHS Lily Better Beetle Survey SUN Click here for the link to the RHS Lily Better Beetle Survey SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05tbt1l (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about the impact of the SUN death of a child and about being torn between two cultures, SUN from Edinburgh, Devon and Essex, in the Omnibus edition of SUN the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN 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 b05tbw1m (Listen) SUN The Castle, Episode 1 SUN SUN In Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic SUN wonderland, the hapless land-surveyor known only as K SUN answers a summons to work at the mysterious Castle, only to SUN find himself drawn into a labyrinth of terror and absurdity. SUN SUN With the Jackie Palmer Children's Choir SUN SUN Dramatist: Ed Harris SUN SUN Producer: John Taylor SUN A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN K: Dominic Rowan SUN Frieda: Sammy T Dobson SUN Jeremias: Mark Benton SUN Artur: Daniel Weyman SUN Teacher: Stephen Greif SUN Gardena: Rachel Bavidge SUN Amalia: Rachel Bavidge SUN Olga: Victoria Elliott SUN Barnabas: Neil Grainger SUN Chief Superintendent: Jonathan Cullen SUN Hans: Dominic Deakin SUN Author: Franz Kafka SUN Adaptor: Ed Harris SUN Producer: John Taylor SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05tbwsg (Listen) SUN Anne Enright on The Green Road SUN SUN Anne Enright joins Mariella Frostrup to discuss her novel SUN The Green Road, a family saga which travels from County SUN Clare to New York and Africa, and her inaugural role as the SUN Irish fiction laureate. And to celebrate an exciting time in SUN Irish literature - with lots of new publishers and new SUN writers emerging - she is joined by debut novelist Sara SUN Baume and broadcaster Sinead Gleeson to discuss whether the SUN new generation of young writers marks a renaissance in the SUN country's literature. SUN SUN Read the opening pages of The Green Road by Anne Enright SUN The Green Road SUN : opening pages by Anne Enright SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Anne Enright SUN Interviewed Guest: Sara Baume SUN Interviewed Guest: Sinead Gleeson SUN Producer: Kirsten Locke SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b05tbxk2 (Listen) SUN Miscellany from Persia to Eaglehawk SUN SUN Roger McGough travels from Rumi's 13th century Persia to SUN Banjo Patterson's Eaglehawk, Australia via Thom Gunn's SUN Pacific Ocean with Poetry Please. Poetry from Carol Ann SUN Duffy, Thomas Hardy, Edna St Vincent Millay, Felix Dennis SUN and Michael Hamburger also features. SUN Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN River SUN SUN By Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN From Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Renascence SUN SUN By Edna St Vincent Millay SUN SUN From Collected Poems – Edna St Vincent Millay SUN SUN Published by Harper and Row SUN SUN SUN SUN Something Tapped SUN SUN By Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest SUN Poetry SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Longing SUN SUN By Matthew Arnold SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longing/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Discovery of the Pacific SUN SUN By Thom Gunn SUN SUN From Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Travelling I SUN SUN By Michael Hamburger SUN SUN From Michael Hamburger – Collected Poems 1941-1983 SUN SUN Published by Carcanet Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Church Going SUN SUN By Philip Larkin SUN SUN From Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Guest House SUN SUN by Rumi SUN SUN Translated by Coleman Barks SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.gratefulness.org/poetry/guest_house.htm SUN SUN SUN SUN Love's Language SUN SUN By Ella Wheeler Wilcox SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-language/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Laughing Buddha SUN SUN By Felix Dennis SUN SUN From Island Dreams – 99 Poems from Mustique SUN SUN Published by Noctua Press SUN SUN SUN SUN A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple of Learning SUN SUN By Sue Boyle SUN SUN Taken from Poems of the Decade – An Anthology of the Forward SUN Books of Poetry SUN SUN Published by Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Mulga Bill's Bicycle SUN SUN By Banjo Patterson SUN SUN From Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses SUN SUN Published by World Wide School SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b05stkrm (Listen) SUN Targeting the Vulnerable SUN SUN It's taken a long time to break through the culture of SUN denial, but child sexual exploitation cases from Rochdale to SUN Oxford have shown that grooming of children can happen in SUN any community. SUN SUN There seems to be a growing acceptance that what the Deputy SUN Children's Commissioner says is true: 'there isn't a town, SUN village of hamlet in which children are not being sexually SUN exploited'. SUN SUN Councils that thought they were immune from groomers and SUN traffickers, are now training staff to spot child sexual SUN exploitation. And children are being taught how to avoid SUN falling prey. SUN SUN But, as children become more aware of grooming, are abusers SUN increasingly turning their attention to people with learning SUN disabilities? SUN SUN In the first of a new series, File on 4 hears warnings from SUN disability workers and detectives that abusers are SUN increasingly targeting people with disabilities - because SUN they're less likely to know what grooming is, less likely to SUN tell, and if they do, their case is far less likely to go to SUN court. SUN SUN Jane Deith visits the only safe house in the UK for women SUN with learning disabilities who've been victims of rape and SUN sexual exploitation, and hears even this secret address is SUN now on the radar of gangs trying to groom the residents. SUN SUN Women with learning disabilities tell their stories of being SUN groomed and exploited, how they eventually broke their SUN silence, only to be told the crimes would not be prosecuted. SUN Of an estimated 1400 cases of sexual abuse each year, only SUN 1% result in a conviction. SUN SUN If offenders aren't being punished, can we prevent the abuse SUN by protecting those at risk? Councils worried someone is SUN being exploited can go to the Court of Protection for SUN permission to restrict their relationships on the grounds SUN they don't have the mental capacity to consent to sex. But SUN it's a difficult thing to rule on. File on 4 hears from SUN disability workers who say men and women are being left open SUN to rape and abuse, but also from campaigners who say the SUN state is denying people their fundamental human right to SUN sexual relationships. SUN SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05tbgq1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05tbn5y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05tbn60 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05tbn62 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05tbxk4 (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam SUN SUN In Pick Of The Week, snooker champion Steve Davis puts aside SUN his 'Mr Boring' image as he challenges Dominic Lawson across SUN the chess board. There's music from Gershwin and Mozart; SUN advice for bartenders - remember that the customer is never SUN right; and the extraordinary delusion which makes patients SUN convinced they are made of glass. SUN Shakespeare and Queen Anne together on the day The Globe SUN theatre burned to the ground; and Sir Anthony Sher explains SUN how hard it was to turn himself into Falstaff. SUN Join Gerry Northam for his Pick Of The Week at 6.15. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05tcmhc (Listen) SUN Rob means what he says - and who is that coming for lunch? SUN SUN 19:15 The Vote Now Show b05wpwcn (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 6 SUN SUN The last in a series of election specials from the Now Show SUN team. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special SUN guests to give their own unique take on the week's SUN shennanigans and the election outcome. SUN SUN Episode six features John Finnemore, Holly Walsh, Isabel SUN Hardman and Pippa Evans. 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: John Finnemore SUN Performer: Holly Walsh SUN Performer: Isabel Hardman SUN Performer: Pippa Evans SUN Producer: Alexandra Smith SUN Producer: Joe Nunnery SUN Producer: Rachel Wheeley SUN Executive Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith SUN SUN 19:45 Above Ground b05tcmhg (Listen) SUN The Manicure 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 In "The Manicure" by Elizabeth Buchan, forty-something Nell SUN puts the disappointments of her life behind her thanks to SUN the encouragement and camaraderie of her Walk And Talk SUN group. SUN SUN Read by Jane Slavin SUN Written by Elizabeth Buchan SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Jane Slavin SUN Writer: Elizabeth Buchan SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b05syb68 (Listen) SUN Election and Adultery Special SUN SUN On the day after the election, Tim Harford hosts a live SUN edition of More or Less. We bring together a panel of SUN experts to discuss how the pre-election opinion polls SUN tallied up to the results. Plus, researchers and journalists SUN tell Tim about the process of fact checking the election, SUN and give examples of some of the more dubious uses of SUN statistics by the parties. SUN SUN And, is Beeston in Nottinghamshire really the most SUN adulterous town in the country? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05t6pnb (Listen) SUN Jean Nidetch, Baroness Ruth Rendell, Geoff Duke OBE, SUN Katharine Worth, Errol Brown SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The founder of Weight Watchers Jean Nidetch who turned a SUN self help group in her basement into a multimillion dollar SUN global business. SUN SUN The crime novelist and Labour peer Baroness Rendell. SUN SUN The motorcyclist Geoff Duke who won both the Isle of Man TT SUN and the World Championships six times. SUN SUN The drama professor Katharine Worth who was a close friend SUN of Samuel Beckett and produced his work. SUN SUN And the Hot Chocolate singer Errol Brown, best known for SUN hits like "You Sexy Thing" and "Everyone's A Winner". SUN SUN Jean Nidetch SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Lauren Cohen, a Weight Watchers group SUN leader who knew Jean Nidetch and to AP journalist Matt SUN Sedensky who interviewed her. SUN SUN Born 12 October 1923; died 29 April 2015 aged 92. SUN SUN Baroness Ruth Rendell SUN SUN Born 17 February 1930; died 2 May 2015 aged 85. SUN SUN Geoff Duke OBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son Peter Duke. SUN SUN Born 29 March 1923; died 1 May 2015 aged 92. SUN SUN Katharine Worth SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Elizabeth Schafer, Professor of Drama and SUN Theatre Studies at Holloway College, University of London SUN and to the actor Tim Pigott-Smith who worked with her. SUN SUN Born 4 August 1922; died 28 January 2015 aged 92. SUN SUN Errol Brown (Pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to the broadcaster Paul Gambaccini who met SUN him SUN SUN Born 12 November 1943; died 6 May 2015 aged 71. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Duke SUN Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Schafer SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Pigott-Smith SUN Interviewed Guest: Lauren Cohen SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Gambaccini SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05tbfmc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05tbs6x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b05sy264 (Listen) SUN Thinking Machines SUN SUN One of the most famous computer systems in the world is SUN called Watson, developed by IBM. It's best known in for SUN beating two human contestants to win the American game show, SUN Jeopardy. Watson may now be leading a revolution in 'machine SUN learning'. SUN Peter Day reports from New York City, fast becoming a high SUN tech rival of Silicon Valley, to find out how smart our SUN machines are becoming and whether we should be worried about SUN the impact Artificial Intelligence will have our lives. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Image credit: Science Photo Library SUN SUN Programme includes clips from: SUN Clip 1 SUN Her, director: Spike Jonze, producers: Spike Jonze, Megan SUN Ellison and Vincent Landay, distributed by Warner Bros. SUN Pictures SUN Clip 2 SUN Mayor Bloomberg via "We Are Made In Ny" campaign SUN Clip 3 SUN Jeopardy!, Sony Pictures SUN SUN Programme includes: SUN SUN Andrew McAffee, Associate Director, Center for Digital SUN Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author SUN – Second Machine Age. SUN SUN Rob Merkel, Vice President and Healthcare Leader, IBM SUN Watson Group SUN SUN Fredrik Tunvall, Technology Evangelist, IBM Watson Group SUN SUN Lauri Saft, Director, IBM Watson Group SUN SUN Dr. Mark Kris, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre SUN SUN Shivon Zilis, Investor, Bloomberg Beta. SUN SUN Professor Tony Jebara, Columbia University SUN SUN Max Kesin, NYC Machine Learning SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05tcmvq (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05tcmvs (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the papers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05sy25p (Listen) SUN Peter Firth, Raging Bull, Celine Sciamma, The Secrets of ADR SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Peter Firth talks about bringing Spooks to the big screen SUN and a film career that's included Equus and Roman Polanski's SUN Tess and tells Francine why his mother was proud of his nude SUN scenes in the stage production of Equus. SUN SUN Neil Brand explains why a famous Italian opera provided the SUN unlikely soundtrack for the boxing movie Raging Bull SUN SUN Director Celine Sciamma explains why she auditioned over 300 SUN non-professional actresses to play the lead in her SUN hard-hitting Parisian tale of gang life, Girlhood SUN SUN Glen Cathard and Peter Hanson reveal some secrets of ADR SUN (automated dialogue replacement) and why most movies are SUN re-dubbed after shooting. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05tbs6k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 MAY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05tbn74 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05strvl (Listen) MON Division of Domestic Labour - Gentrification amd MON Working-Class Residents MON MON Gentrification: its impact on working class residents. MON Laurie Taylor talks to Kirsteen Paton, lecturer in the MON School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of MON Leeds, about her groundbreaking research in a neighbourhood MON undergoing urban renewal and improvement. Many such studies MON have focused on middle class lifestyles rather than the MON experience of less well off members of the community. Are MON working class residents inevitably displaced by MON gentrification and must traditional ways of life always MON disappear? Or can poorer people re-work the process and gain MON on their own terms? They're joined by Melissa Butcher, MON lecturer in Human Geography at Birkbeck, University of MON London. MON MON Also, 'sharing the load': the division of domestic labour MON amongst couples where women are the higher earners. Clare MON Lyonette, Senior Research Fellow at the University of MON Warwick, asks if men do more when they earn less. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Contributors MON MON Dr MON Kirsteen Paton MON Lecturer, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University MON of Leeds MON MON *Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective MON *Publisher: Ashgate MON ISBN-10: 1472418506 MON ISBN-13: 978-1472418500 MON Dr MON Melissa Butcher MON Lecturer in human geography, Open University MON MON *Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities MON *Melissa Butcher (Editor), Selvaraj Velayutham (Editor) MON Publisher: Routledge MON ISBN-10: 0415665981 MON ISBN-13: 978-0415665988 MON Dr MON Clare Lyonette MON Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Employment MON Research, University of Warwick MON MON Abstract: MON *Sharing the load? Partners’ relative earnings and the MON division of domestic labour MON * MON Work Employment & Society June 10, 2014 MON doi: 0950017014523661 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05tbs6h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05tbn76 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05tbn78 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05tbn7b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05tbn7d (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05trj60 (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05tkchc (Listen) MON General Election and Farming, VE Day MON MON The dust is still settling after the surprise General MON Election results of last week. As the political parties MON re-group, and some start the search for new leaders, Farming MON Today asks what the main issues are likely to be for MON farmers, post-election. She speaks to Alistair Driver, chief MON political analyst at Farmers Guardian, and the president of MON the NFU, Meurig Raymond. MON MON It's now seventy years since VE Day, which marked the end of MON the Second World War in Europe - but the legacy of the war MON still lives on in the landscape to this day. When the war MON started, two thirds of the food eaten in Britain was MON imported, so the government started a massive push for the MON country to produce more, and the Ministry of Agriculture set MON up local committees to improve inefficient farms. Anna Hill MON has a look back through archives of the time. MON MON Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05tbn7g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01slvgp (Listen) MON Spotted Crake MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David MON Attenborough presents the Spotted Crake. If it weren't for MON its whiplash song, the spotted crake could win a prize as MON our least visible bird. Unlike its showy relatives the coot MON and the moorhen, this polka-dotted skulker is notoriously MON hard to find and only rarely betrays itself by singing. MON MON Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) MON Image by Michael Gore (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05tkchf (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05tkchh (Listen) MON Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem MON MON On Start the Week Mariella Frostrup talks to the academic MON Hamid Dabashi about his critique of European intellectual MON heritage and identity. In his polemic Can Non-Europeans MON Think? Dabashi argues that those outside the West are often MON marginalised and mis-represented. Ancient Greece dominates MON the intellectual landscape in Europe and Edith Hall looks MON back to explore what made this civilisation so successful. MON The Greeks of Ancient Athens were always questioning their MON society and asking what makes people happy, and Douglas MON Murray wonders whether the secular West has stopped asking MON those questions, and is the shallower for it. The artist MON Glenn Ligon takes inspiration from black writers and MON abstract expressionists to give a fresh perspective on the MON values of contemporary America. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mariella Frostrup MON Interviewed Guest: Hamid Dabashi MON Interviewed Guest: Edith Hall MON Interviewed Guest: Douglas Murray MON Interviewed Guest: Glenn Ligon MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05tkllh (Listen) MON The Weather Experiment, Stormy Weather MON MON Peter Moore's lively account tells the story of the MON adventurous quest to understand the atmosphere. Today we are MON never far from a weather forecast, but as meteorology MON evolved as a science in the nineteenth century it was often MON controversial; reputations were made and destroyed, and bold MON men driven by their obsession with the laws of nature took MON death defying risks. In the first episode, the charismatic MON naval officer, Robert FitzRoy, confronts storms on the high MON seas. The reader is Tim McMullan. MON MON Abridged by Sara Davies MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tim McMullan MON Author: Peter Moore MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05tkllk (Listen) MON Emily Watson, Caroline Criado-Perez MON MON Emily Watson and her new film 'A Royal Night Out'. MON Newsnight's Political Editor, Allegra Stratton and the MON outcome of the General Election for women. Caroline MON Criado-Perez & her new book, 'Do It Like A Woman'. Dr Berta MON Joncus talks about Women in Baroque Music. And 'Born MON Naughty', a new Channel 4 series that helps parents cope MON their children who misbehave. MON MON Presenter : Jane Garvey MON Producer; Kirsty Starkey. MON MON Emily Watson MON MON Two-time Academy Award nominee and four-time BAFTA award MON nominee Emily Watson first rose to fame in her debut film MON performance in Breaking the Waves. She joins Jane to discuss MON acting and her latest role as mother of the princesses MON Elizabeth and Margaret in new film A Royal Night Out. MON MON A Royal Night Out is in cinemas from Friday, certificate 12A MON MON Women In Political Power MON MON Three days after an election result that no-one expected, MON Jane speaks to Newsnight’s Political Editor, Allegra MON Stratton. Are there any new women MPs we should keep an eye MON on? With the leadership for the Labour Party, the Lib Dems, MON and UKIP now in contention, which women from those parties MON could be considering putting themselves forward for the MON role? MON MON Caroline Criado-Perez MON MON After the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez MON successfully ran a campaign to have a woman on a Bank of MON England note, the new £10 note will see Jane Austen’s face MON on it from 2017. Caroline joins Jane to discuss her first MON book Do It Like A Woman, which features interviews with MON extraordinary women campaigners from around the world, MON including Afghanistan’s first female military helicopter MON pilot and the first woman to cross Antarctica alone. MON Caroline discusses why it is important to speak out, how she MON coped with being stalked online and receiving twitter abuse MON in 2013, and the importance of female role models. MON MON Women In Baroque Music MON MON The London Festival of Baroque Music 2015 has chosen the MON theme of Women In Baroque Music. The programming celebrates MON the feminine presence in works composed by women, for women, MON and inspired by women. Dr Berta Joncus is a Senior Lecturer MON in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. She explains MON what women of the time were up against in order to get their MON music out into the public sphere and how these challenges MON shaped their distinctive contribution to performance and MON composing MON MON The London Festival of Baroque Music is 15 - 19 May 2015 MON MON Born Naughty? MON MON New Channel 4 series Born Naughty focuses on children with MON behavioural problems and their parents who are desperate for MON help. GP Dr Dawn Harper and Consultant Paediatrician Dr Ravi MON Jayarem meet eight children with serious behavioural MON problems and spend time with the families to find out if the MON problem is an undiagnosed medical condition or whether MON parenting is an issue. Jane talks to Dr Dawn and to Stella, MON whose daughter Honey suffers from a rare form of Autism. MON MON The four part Channel 4 series Born Naughty starts on 14 May MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Emily Watson MON Interviewed Guest: Allegra Stratton MON Interviewed Guest: Caroline Criado-Perez MON Interviewed Guest: Berta Joncus MON Interviewed Guest: Stella MON Interviewed Guest: Dawn Harper MON Producer: Kirsty Starkey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05tkllm (Listen) MON Lunch, The Old 5:2 MON MON by Marcy Kahan MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON Award winning comedy about two old flatmates, Bill and MON Bella, who meet once a month for lunch and talk about MON everything except how much they love each other. After a MON Summer which saw economist Bill retreat to Connecticut to MON stop his son dealing drugs he is back in London and eager to MON catch up with Bohemian Bella. MON MON Stephen Mangan can currently be seen at The National Theatre MON in 'Rules For Living' and is about to be in Season 4 of MON Episodes. MON Claire Skinner is best known for 'Outnumbered' she can MON currently be seen at The Tricycle in 'The Father' with Ken MON Cranham and has recently appeared on our TV's in 'Critical' MON and 'Inside Number 9'. MON MON Marcy Kahan is a British playwright and radio dramatist, who MON is half-Canadian and half-American. She is a prolific author MON of urbane comedies for the BBC including Incredibly Guilty MON and Twenty Cigarettes. MON MON Credits MON Bill: Stephen Mangan MON Bella: Claire Skinner MON Director: Sally Avens MON Writer: Marcy Kahan MON MON 11:00 Drags to Riches b05tkllp (Listen) MON The British drag scene has moved from working men's clubs to MON lucrative mainstream. Kim Normanton meets three very MON different drag entrepreneurs, and presents an entertaining MON and moving portrait of a booming industry. She talks to the MON men behind the wigs and lashes and explores questions about MON gender identity in modern Britain. MON MON Lee Sanderson, aka 'Peggy Lee', had a market stall in MON Blackpool but now runs a flourishing drag business with MON venues across the Canary Islands, which entertained 90,000 MON tourists last year. He was inspired to join the world of MON drag when he sneaked into a local pub, aged 13, and saw his MON first drag queen. "The pub was packed, I saw this man MON standing on the bar in the spotlight looking all glamorous MON and the audience adoring him - he was being respected and I MON thought I'd like some of that kind of attention. And it was MON the money, to be honest." MON MON Back in the UK, Walt Utz is the founder of the Supreme MON Fabulettes - four young drag queens who travel the world MON performing close-harmony singing. One new business MON opportunity Walt is keen to exploit is gay weddings - but MON it's not just weddings which bring in the bookings. Vicki of MON the Fabulettes comments, "Gay weddings are fun, but we MON performed at four funerals last year. I was dancing round a MON coffin! Whenever we get invited it's a celebration." MON MON The third entrepreneur, Amy Redmond, is the manager of a new MON kind of drag business Sink The Pink. She organizes huge drag MON balls and fills venues with 3,000 drag queens. "To MON physically look at there's a very strong difference from a MON traditional camp northern drag queen to a Sink The Pink drag MON queen. They have beards and a hairy leg sticking through the MON fishnet." MON MON Producers: Elizabeth Burke and Kim Normanton MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 On the Rocks b05tkllr (Listen) MON Series 2, Sirens MON MON 'Sirens' by Christopher William Hill. MON MON Second series of 1930s Isles Of Scilly comedy. It's 1938 and MON with all this talk of war, G.P.O. man Frank Gunwallow MON returns to see if all is still in order at the St. Martin's MON Post Office. MON MON Director ..... Mary Peate MON MON It's 1938 and even on the remote island of St Martin's war MON seems inevitable, but the islanders have their own battles MON to contend with, stuck on a rock flung twenty-seven miles MON out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and MON gallows humour to see them through. MON MON Credits MON Frank Gunwallow: Joseph Kloska MON Morwenna-May: Alex Tregear MON Tommy Trenear: Stuart Fox MON Ben: Alex Palmer MON Mary: Bec Applebee MON Len: Ed Gaughan MON Director: Mary Peate MON Writer: Christopher William Hill MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05tbn7l (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Thought Chamber b05tkllt (Listen) MON Grayson Perry MON MON The Thought Chamber is a room devoid of light and sound, MON where a guest is left on their own for up to an hour. During MON that time, they are asked to vocalise the thoughts that come MON into their head, resulting in a snapshot of the inner MON workings of their mind. MON MON In many ways, the results are much more revealing than a MON traditional interview, as no one can anticipate the subject MON matters or the direction of where the mind is going. We hear MON memories, fears, concerns, ambitions, insights, dreams, MON fantasies - as well as the day-to-day mundane problems that MON everyone faces. MON MON One minute the guest may be dreaming about flying around the MON universe - the next he or she is worrying about what to get MON the kids for tea tonight. MON MON There's no script, no questions, no stimulus - just the MON random workings of the brain. MON MON Guests during the series include: award winning artist MON Grayson Perry; scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night, MON Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock; and musician and drummer from MON Radiohead, Phillip Selway. MON MON Presented by Sian Williams MON Producer: Mark Sharman MON A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b05tkvk6 (Listen) MON Passport Service Website, Gas Meter Mix-Up, Mortgages for MON the Self Employed, Avios Points MON MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON Green Gas MON A feed hopper at JV Energen, Dorset. The site is home to the MON UK's first commercial biomethane to grid plant. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05tbn7p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05tkvk8 (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents analysis of current affairs reports. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05rptcs (Listen) MON The Buddha: Waking India Up MON MON Over the course of 50 episodes, Sunil Khilnani, director of MON the King's India Institute in London, takes listeners on a MON whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century MON through the prism of the life stories of 50 remarkable MON individuals. He will also explore their surprising MON afterlives, which illuminate both the astonishments and MON urgent conflicts of India today. He begins with the Buddha, MON exploring the story of his life and how he has been MON reinvented in modern India by those who oppose the caste MON system. "Buddha's solution to suffering lay in the MON individual mind. But he was also sketching a new form of MON society," says Professor Khilnani. "He was a moral MON meritocrat, and to an extent a social one too." MON Produced by Mark Savage MON Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of MON remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05tcmhc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Tommies b05tkvkb (Listen) MON 11 May 1915 MON MON by Jonathan Ruffle. MON 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 Indira Varma, Danny Rahim and Avin Shah star in this story, MON as signaller Ahmadullah Khan is posted from the immoveable MON wall of the Western Front, to join the very start of the MON Gallipoli campaign, where the Allies will attempt to dash MON round the back of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and win the MON war from the south. But there's a steep hill to climb from MON Gully Beach to victory - and not all the British forces want MON to climb it. MON MON Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Ahmadullah Khan: Danny Rahim MON Commentator: Indira Varma MON Zarbab Grewal: Avin Shah MON Sidney Mauldon: Nicholas Murchie MON Lieutenant Haston: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Natha Singh: Parth Thakerar MON Copplestone: Neet Mohan MON Washbrook: Deven Modha MON Producer: David Hunter MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Writer: Nick Warburton MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b05tkvkd (Listen) MON Series 5, University of Essex MON MON A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three MON University students take on a team of three of their MON professors. MON MON Coming this week from the University of Essex, The 3rd MON Degree is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at MON cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners while MON delighting the current ones. MON MON The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Politics, MON Literature and 20th Century History, and the questions range MON from the nihilistic anarchy of both Brothers Karamazov and MON Chuckle Brothers to My Little Pony and the Epic of MON Gilgamesh. MON MON The show is recorded on location at a different University MON each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of MON their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on MON an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course MON meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but MON with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quick-fire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction. MON MON The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on MON The Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not MON just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in MON the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries MON for Radio 4, including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The MON Spleen, as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang MON Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine MON Particle. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05wpn58 (Listen) MON Jane Grigson - A Tribute: Part Two MON MON Jane Grigson's writing in The Observer and book English Food MON make up part 2 of this tribute to her work, recorded in MON Bristol as part of the Bristol Food Connections food MON Festival. Guests include chef Shaun Hill and food writers MON Diana Henry and Geraldine Holt. MON MON Presenter: Sheila Dillon MON Producer: Rich Ward. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Sheila Dillon MON Interviewed Guest: Shaun Hill MON Interviewed Guest: Geraldene Holt MON Interviewed Guest: Diana Henry MON Producer: Rich Ward MON MON 16:00 The Invisible College b05tkvkg (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Dr Cathy FitzGerald presents a series of lessons in creative MON writing with help from a ghostly array of great novelists, MON poets and playwrights. MON MON Episode Two features mini-lectures on character, plot and MON style. Graham Greene has a sore thumb, Baroness Orczy meets MON the Scarlet Pimpernel on a tube platform, and Ray Bradbury MON fires a (metaphorical) gun. MON MON Original music by Joe Acheson MON MON Producer: Cathy FitzGerald MON A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b05tkvkj (Listen) MON Series 7, Seduction MON MON Online dating, including dating apps are now the second most MON likely place to meet a partner, but is the decision making MON process as to who and how we court and woo changing? MON MON 17:00 PM b05tkvkl (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05tbn7t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Dilemma b05tkvkn (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON MON Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts MON the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to see MON if she can wreck their moral rectitude. This week, it's the MON turn of comedian Dave Gorman, actor and writer Jessica MON Hynes, poet and playwright Ian McMillan, and musician, MON writer and stand-up (and devisor of Dilemma) Danielle Ward. MON As well as each guest defending something utterly MON indefensible. they also face moral problems related to MON fasting children and West End musicals. Episode six 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: Dave Gorman MON Panellist: Jessica Hynes MON Panellist: Ian McMillan MON Panellist: Danielle Ward MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05tkvkq (Listen) MON Robert and Jim prepare for battle, and Rex has news for Ed. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b05tkvks (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05tkllm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Following the Floating Voters b05tbt1j (Listen) MON Shaun Ley follows the floating voters. MON MON Over the past year BBC Radio 4 has been recording the MON political thoughts and observations of a diverse group of MON men and women from different parts of the country, and MON different walks of life, who however have one thing in MON common: they were uncertain about how they would vote in the MON 2015 General Election. MON MON As British politics itself appears to be in a state of MON indecision and flux, we find out how these floating voters MON have followed political developments, what influences them, MON and what decision they eventually came to and why. MON MON Producer: Marie Jessel. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b05sxv7p (Listen) MON Georgia: Orthodoxy in the Classroom MON MON Natalia Antelava asks if the creeping influence of the MON Orthodox Church in Georgia's schools is turning them into a MON breeding ground for radical Christianity. Georgia's liberal MON politicians say only alignment with Europe and US will allow MON Georgia to overcome its post-Soviet past and survive as an MON independent nation. But in the way of Georgia's pro-Western MON course stands its Orthodox neighbour Russia and, MON increasingly, the country's own Orthodox Church. Natalia MON Antelava visits her old school in Tbilisi to see how the MON country's most conservative, anti-Western institution is MON influencing the next generation. Wesley Stephenson MON producing. MON MON 21:00 Forensics in Crisis b05stg0j (Listen) MON Crisis in Court 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 3: MON MON In March 2015, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were MON finally acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher. The MON case hinged on DNA results that were later overturned in MON court. MON MON In this episode, Linda Geddes looks at why this evidence was MON unreliable and how it was misinterpreted in the courtroom. MON MON DNA testing is being increasingly relied upon by UK police MON to secure convictions. But leading experts such as Prof MON Peter Gill, who helped to pioneer DNA fingerprinting in the MON 1980s, are concerned that the technique is being MON overstretched. MON MON As we become able to detect ever smaller amounts of DNA, MON from more than one person, the sources of error and MON uncertainty are increasing. MON MON Defence lawyers fear that DNA evidence isn't being MON adequately cross-examined in court, due to complexity of the MON analysis needed to produce results. MON MON Could our unwavering faith in DNA evidence be misplaced? MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05tkchh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05tbn7x (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05tkw88 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05tkw8b (Listen) MON The Green Road, Episode 6 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 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 Word of Mouth b05stkqm (Listen) MON Colour Words MON MON Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright talk to Dr Carole Biggam MON about colour words. Where do they come from and how do they MON vary between cultures and change meanings through time? How MON can it be that pink used to mean yellow.. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Out of the Ordinary b01rl5r4 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON MON Who do you want to be able to read your old emails when you MON die? Are the dead entitled to privacy? Jolyon Jenkins MON reports on the increasingly contentious issue of our digital MON legacy. MON MON As we lead more of our lives online, we leave behind an ever MON bigger digital footprint when we go. There are the public MON parts - the blogs, the tweets, the forum posts - but also MON the private things such as the emails stored on servers MON owned by companies like Google. Sorting out the digital MON legacy is becoming as onerous as being a traditional MON executor. MON MON But it brings entirely new problems: in the case of people MON who have died suddenly or mysteriously, relatives sometimes MON feel that they are entitled to get access to the email MON accounts of dead person to try to find a clue to what was MON happening in their lives. But many email providers resist MON handing over this material because of a confidentiality MON clause in their terms and conditions. Jolyon Jenkins talks MON to the Stassen family in Wisconsin who took both Facebook MON and Google to court to gain access to the accounts of their MON son Benjamin who committed suicide. He also talks to Esther MON in Kenya who similarly would like to get into her dead MON sister's email account to try to find a clue to her MON unexplained death. But unlike the Stassens, Esther has had MON no luck. MON MON These are uncharted waters, where analogies with old MON technology quickly break down, where the principles are MON unclear, and where important private and personal matters MON seem to be left to the discretion of big corporations. MON MON Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05tbn8y (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05tkllh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05tbn91 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05tbn93 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05tbn95 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05tbn97 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05trj6j (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05tkxq0 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyzk (Listen) TUE Guillemot TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David TUE Attenborough presents the Guillemot. Guillemots breed on TUE cliff ledges and the chick is encouraged to make its first TUE flight at the pointing of fledging by being encouraged to TUE jump by its mother or father calling from the sea below. TUE TUE Guillemot (Uria aalge) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05tky90 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Things Fall Apart b05tky92 (Listen) TUE WB Yeats was born 150 years ago. His biographer Roy Foster TUE explores why The Second Coming, one of his celebrated poems, TUE written in 1919, has continued to capture the zeitgeist. TUE Once more, as so many times before, a beast seems to be TUE slouching towards Bethlehem. With readings by Sinead Cusack TUE and Stephen Rea. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b05vf74p (Listen) TUE Iran Hostage Rescue Mission TUE TUE In April 1980, the US launched Operation Eagle Claw - a TUE daring but ultimately disastrous attempt to free dozens of TUE hostages held captive in the US Embassy in Tehran. The TUE rescue mission ended in chaos almost as soon as it began. TUE Witness speaks to Mike Vining, a member of the US special TUE forces team. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05v389v (Listen) TUE The Weather Experiment, The Weather Report TUE TUE Peter Moore's lively account tells the story of the TUE adventurous quest to understand the weather. Today Captain TUE FitzRoy's star is in the ascent, and there is innovation at TUE the observatory in Greenwich. The reader is Tim McMullan. TUE TUE Abridged by Sara Davies TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tim McMullan TUE Author: Peter Moore TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05tky94 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05tky96 (Listen) TUE Lunch, Crazy Cat Lady TUE TUE by Marcy Kahan TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE TUE Award winning Comedy: Old flatmates Bill and Bella meet once TUE a month for lunch and clever conversation. But this month TUE Bella needs cheering up because someone close to her has TUE died and Bill reveals he too may be dying. TUE TUE Credits TUE Bill: Stephen Mangan TUE Bella: Claire Skinner TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Writer: Marcy Kahan TUE TUE 11:00 What the Songbird Said b05tz9jr (Listen) TUE Could birdsong tell us something about the evolution of TUE human language? Language is arguably the single thing that TUE most defines what it is to be human and unique as a species. TUE But its origins - and its apparent sudden emergence around a TUE hundred thousand years ago - remains mysterious and TUE perplexing to researchers. But could something called vocal TUE learning provide a vital clue as to how language might have TUE evolved? The ability to learn and imitate sounds - vocal TUE learning - is something that humans share with only a few TUE other species, most notably, songbirds. Charles Darwin TUE noticed this similarity as far back as 1871 in the Descent TUE of Man and in the last couple of decades, research has TUE uncovered a whole host of similarities in the way humans and TUE songbirds perceive and process speech and song. But just how TUE useful are animal models of vocal communication in TUE understanding how human language might have evolved? Why is TUE it that there seem to be parallels with songbirds but little TUE evidence that our closest primate relatives, chimps and TUE bonobos, share at least some of our linguistic abilities? TUE TUE In this programme, Angela Saini meets biologists and TUE linguists investigating what research on songbirds and other TUE species might have to say about the question of how TUE language, with all its beauty and richness, may have TUE evolved. TUE TUE Producer: Rami Tzabar. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b05tkzn5 (Listen) TUE Series 20, The Lord Is My Shepherd TUE TUE This much-loved hymn based on Psalm 23 has been set to music TUE many times, including Brother James' Air and Crimond. The TUE Queen requested the Crimond version at her wedding. Harriet TUE Bowes Lyon's tells the story that her mother, Lady Margaret TUE Colville, ( formerly Lady Margaret Egerton) taught the TUE descant to the Queen and Princess Margaret, and was summoned TUE to sing it when, two days before the wedding, the descant TUE music could not be found. Howard Goodall, who wrote a new TUE setting for 'The Vicar of Dibley' describes how he composed TUE it in a taxi. Selina Scott says that the Crimond always puts TUE her in mind of her Scottish grandmother. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05tbn9c (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Thought Chamber b05trf7y (Listen) TUE Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock TUE TUE The Thought Chamber is a room devoid of light and sound, TUE where a guest is left on their own for up to an hour. During TUE that time, they are asked to vocalise the thoughts that come TUE into their head, resulting in a snapshot of the inner TUE workings of their mind. TUE TUE In many ways, the results are much more revealing than a TUE traditional interview, as no one can anticipate the subject TUE matters or the direction of where the mind is going. We hear TUE memories, fears, concerns, ambitions, insights, dreams, TUE fantasies - as well as the day-to-day mundane problems that TUE everyone faces. TUE TUE One minute the guest may be dreaming about flying around the TUE universe - the next he or she is worrying about what to get TUE the kids for tea tonight. TUE TUE There's no script, no questions, no stimulus - just the TUE random workings of the brain. TUE TUE Guests during the series include: award winning artist TUE Grayson Perry; scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night, TUE Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock; and musician and drummer from TUE Radiohead, Phillip Selway. TUE TUE Presented by Sian Williams TUE TUE Producer: Mark Sharman TUE A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:16 You and Yours b05tkzn7 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05tbn9g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05tkzn9 (Listen) TUE Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by TUE Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05tkznc (Listen) TUE Mahavira: Soldier of Nonviolence TUE TUE Professor Sunil Khilnani of the King's India Institute TUE explores the life and legacy of Mahavira Jain. Born more TUE than two thousand years ago, Mahavira is the inspiration for TUE millions of followers of the Jain religion. It teaches that TUE the way to liberation and bliss is to live a life of TUE non-violence and renunciation. At its heart is a belief that TUE the entire world, from the ground we tread on to the air we TUE breathe, is filled with life: our duty is to protect this TUE universe of living souls through non-violent action. TUE Mahavira is the last in the line of Tirthankars, beings who TUE were said to be able to cross over from the world of human TUE suffering into the realm of spiritual liberation. Unlike the TUE other Tirthankars, we can be certain that he existed. TUE "Mahavira asked his followers to renounce untruths and sex, TUE to give up greed and attachment to worldly things - and stop TUE all forms of killing or violence," says Professor Khilnani. TUE "In short, the normal, devious, grasping and aggressive self TUE had to be conquered." TUE Produced by Mark Savage TUE Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of TUE remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05tkvkq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nb1rx (Listen) TUE Rock and Doris and Elizabeth TUE TUE On the 15th July 1985 Rock Hudson appeared at a press call TUE on the first day of filming for the TV show Doris Day's Best TUE Friends as a favour to his old friend. His ravaged TUE appearance shocked the world. At the same time another old TUE friend, Elizabeth Taylor, was beginning a crusade to raise TUE awareness of the little-understood AIDS. TUE TUE Tracy Ann Oberman's new play is inspired by these events, TUE imagining how they might have played out and exploring the TUE relationships between Hollywood icons - the professional TUE virgin, the all American man and the woman condemned as an TUE "erotic vagrant" by the Pope. TUE TUE It marks the end of one Hollywood era and the start of TUE another, presenting a vivid snapshot of stardom and TUE sexuality, love and loss. TUE TUE Writer: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Script Editor: David Spicer TUE TUE Produced by Liz Anstee TUE A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rock Hudson: Jonathan Hyde TUE Doris Day: Frances Barber TUE Elizabeth Taylor: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Terry Melcher: James Lance TUE Reporter: Jonathan Hart TUE Writer: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b05tkzng (Listen) TUE Series 7, Investigation TUE TUE Josie Long presents stories of investigations - both amateur TUE and professional. TUE TUE The comedian Alex Edelman describes his search for a missing TUE cult legend, a German historian talks about the trouble of TUE tracking down Hitler's head and a group of young mothers TUE gather together to solve the mystery of disappearing TUE teething powder. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05tl3jk (Listen) TUE The Ozone Hole Thirty Years On TUE TUE In May 1985 Joe Farman, Jonathan Shanklin and Brian Gardiner TUE of the British Antarctic Survey published their paper in the TUE scientific journal Nature. It revealed there was a large and TUE expanding hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic and TUE that the cause was the chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs then TUE commonly used in aerosols and refrigerants. TUE TUE The size and speed at which the hole had formed was alarming TUE and the paper helped convince governments across the globe TUE to take action. The resulting Montreal Treaty of 1987 has TUE been called the most successful environmental legislation TUE ever passed. CFCs were effectively banned and their TUE prevalence in our atmosphere has been slowly decreasing. The TUE ozone layer hole does appear to be healing but the process TUE is slow and increasingly complicated. TUE TUE Today the interplay between ozone and the greenhouse effect TUE is only just becoming understood and even more worrying is TUE new research which points to previously unknown CFCs and TUE other ozone depleting substances accumulating in the TUE stratosphere. BBC weather forecaster, Peter Gibbs celebrates TUE the discovery which saved millions from skin cancer and TUE hears about the need for continued vigilance. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05tl3jm (Listen) TUE Young Women as Linguistic Innovators TUE TUE How has Kim Kardashian influenced the way you speak? More TUE than you'd imagine! Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss TUE the role of young women in language innovation across TUE cultures, with the help of Dr Enam El-Wer of Essex TUE University. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05tl3jp (Listen) TUE Series 36, Antonia Quirke on Marlon Brando TUE TUE Marlon Brando - greatest actor of the twentieth century ? TUE Film critic Antonia Quirke definitely thinks he is. But the TUE star of the Godfather, On the Waterfront and A Streetcar TUE Named Desire divides opinion in this lively assessment of TUE his life. With contributions from writer Robyn Karney and TUE Joe Queenan in the United States. Matthew Parris presents. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke TUE Interviewed Guest: Robyn Karney TUE Interviewed Guest: Joe Queenan TUE Producer: Miles Warde TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05tl3jr (Listen) TUE News interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05tbn9k (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05tl3jt (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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 second of these two shows was recorded in front of an TUE audience in Lemn's adopted home of London. But he is still TUE perhaps more closely associated with Manchester. He arrived TUE there at the age of 18 with a birth certificate, a fist full TUE of poems and a mouth. It was about to become Madchester. He TUE grew into the talented adopted son of a wonderful, TUE dysfunctional family and thrived. His poems have become TUE landmarks throughout the city. He's tattooed its body. And TUE then he left. He just left. TUE TUE Talking to Lemn about his journey are Mancunian broadcaster TUE Terry Christian, and artistic director of the Southbank TUE Centre, Jude Kelly. 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 b05tl3jw (Listen) TUE Rob does Pip a favour, while Kenton is feeling low. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b05tl3jy (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05tky96 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b05tl3k0 (Listen) TUE Who Killed Emma? TUE TUE Emma Caldwell was a young woman from a good home who TUE developed an addiction to heroin after the death of her TUE sister and then descended into street prostitution. When her TUE body was found dumped in a ditch in Lanarkshire in May 2005, TUE the police launched an unprecedented murder hunt. But ten TUE years on, after an investigation costing millions of pounds, TUE no one has ever been convicted of her killing. Eamon O TUE Connor investigates what went wrong. TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05tl3k2 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b05tl3k4 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond with the latest in psychology, neuroscience TUE and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 Things Fall Apart b05tky92 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05tbn9m (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05tl3k6 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05tl3k8 (Listen) TUE The Green Road, Episode 7 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 The John Moloney Show b05tl3kb (Listen) TUE John Moloney has been headlining comedy clubs all over the TUE world. We've captured him at his very best performing in TUE front of an appreciative audience at The Stand Comedy Club TUE in Edinburgh. TUE TUE This week, there's a joke about a bank robber and a story TUE about his cat called Edward. TUE TUE Written and performed by John Moloney TUE Featuring Julia Sutherland, Gareth Waugh and Fred MacAulay TUE TUE Produced by Alan Lorraine TUE A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Moloney TUE Performer: Julia Sutherland TUE Performer: Gareth Waugh TUE Performer: Fred MacAulay TUE Producer: Alan Lorraine TUE TUE 23:15 Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets b01rl8p1 (Listen) TUE Love From Afar TUE TUE Richard Marsh plays a character called Richard ("We're not TUE exactly alike, although we do look similar") and fuses TUE poetry and prose to tell witty and honest tales of his TUE whirlwind romance with Siobhan. From the excitement and TUE silliness of young love, to cars covered in sweets, broken TUE dreams, trans-American road trips and a seductive-looking TUE lady called Sorrow. TUE TUE Richard is an award-winning poet and playwright, and a new TUE voice for Radio 4. He's a magnetic personality whose TUE beautifully crafted stories are hilarious one moment and TUE heart-breaking the next. TUE TUE Richard and Siobhan meet sharing sweets at their dead-end TUE temp job. They quickly become friends, but Richard's nervous TUE of taking the plunge and declaring that he has feelings for TUE her. After he finally plucks up the courage to (drunkenly) TUE woo her, they embark on an exhilarating new relationship. TUE Richard begins to fall for Siobhan, but he's worried - she TUE wants to keep their relationship a secret at work. Will a TUE grand romantic gesture in the corner shop win her heart? TUE TUE Written and performed by Richard Marsh TUE TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Richard Marsh TUE Writer: Richard Marsh TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Out of the Ordinary b03wp5j4 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Asperger's Syndrome or Not? TUE TUE Why do so many women think their men have Asperger's TUE syndrome? Is there a hidden mental health epidemic, or have TUE the rules of relationships changed? Asperger's only entered TUE the textbooks in 1994, but since then there's been an TUE explosion in the number of people diagnosed. Mostly it's TUE male children, but increasingly, women seem to be diagnosing TUE their adult partners as being "on the spectrum". TUE TUE But the diagnostic criteria for Asperger's are vague and, TUE some argue, arbitrary. One criterion is that the person is TUE bad at social interaction. The other is that they have to TUE have restricted interests. In the case of the mature male, TUE it's hard to work out what distinguishes Asperger's - which TUE is in the textbooks as a "mental disorder" - from the TUE behaviour of a "neurotypical" man who tends towards shyness, TUE introversion, or selfishness. Today's men are required to be TUE more emotional in relationships than their fathers and TUE grandfathers. Does the fact that some struggle in this TUE respect mean that Asperger's is being uncovered where TUE previously it would have been hidden? TUE TUE Jolyon Jenkins talks to women frustrated at their husbands' TUE lack of empathy, sociability, and romantic impulses, and to TUE clinicians who specialise in the diagnosis and counselling TUE of people with Asperger's. He also talks to the man largely TUE responsible for getting Asperger's into the psychiatric TUE textbooks, who now regrets his role and believes that it had TUE led to the "pathologising of normal behaviour". TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE Aspergers, men and women TUE TUE Maxine Aston, the therapist featured in the programme, can TUE be found here: TUE http://www.maxineaston.co.uk/ TUE TUE Professor Tony Attwood is here: TUE http://www.tonyattwood.com.au/ TUE TUE TUE "Muddling Through Aspergers" blog: TUE http://muddlingthroughaspergers.blogspot.co.uk/ TUE TUE The "mind in the eyes" test: TUE http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/well-quiz-the-mind- TUE ehind-the-eyes/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05tbnbh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05v389v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05tbnbk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05tbnbm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05tbnbp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05tbnbr (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05trbfk (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05tllvf (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbz0y (Listen) WED Storm Petrel WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David WED Attenborough presents the European Storm Petrel. The storm WED petrels as a group are the smallest seabirds in the world WED and called "Jesus Christ birds" because they give the WED appearance they can walk on water as they flutter over the WED sea surface dangling their legs whilst looking for food. WED WED Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) WED Image courtesy of RSPB WED WED 06:00 Today b05tllvh (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05tlv99 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05v38lg (Listen) WED The Weather Experiment, Shipwreck and Storm Warnings WED WED Peter Moore's lively account tells the story of the WED adventurous quest to understand the weather. Today peril on WED the high seas leads Robert FitzRoy to devise an innovative WED storm warning system. The reader is Tim McMullan. WED WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tim McMullan WED Author: Peter Moore WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05tlv9f (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 b05tlv9h (Listen) WED Lunch, Fractured WED WED by Marcy Kahan WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Award winning comedy about old flatmates, Bill and Bella, WED who meet once a month for lunch to catch up. This month Bill WED has had an unexpected encounter with a Romanian nymphet and WED Bella is worried about losing her job. WED WED Credits WED Bill: Stephen Mangan WED Bella: Claire Skinner WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Marcy Kahan WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05tlv9m (Listen) WED Brian and Joe - It's Not About Fighting WED WED Fi Glover with two Tae Kwon Do experts - one four-times WED world champion - reflecting on the attitudes of the parents WED of the children they teach and the misconceptions about the WED art. Another in the series that proves it's surprising what WED you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Following the Floating Voters b05tbt1j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05tlv9r (Listen) WED Series 10, The Go-To Destination WED WED Ed Reardon returns to Radio 4 in a new series and whatever WED happens you can guarantee he'll be scrimping, scraping and WED ranting in order to keep mind, soul and cat together. WED WED When we last met Ed he was happily involved with BBC Radio WED producer Laura and her BBC expenses. As we meet again, the WED pair seem to be enjoying a state of not uncomfortable, WED slightly drunken, bliss and the relationship has enabled Ed WED to reconnect with life in London whilst keeping a toehold, WED and a cat, in Berkhamstead. But good things never last for WED Ed and the course of the series sees him and Elgar having to WED take advantage of the numerous empty premises in need of WED temporary caretakers and live-in guardians, or guardian WED angels as Ed likes to think of them as Stan throws him out WED on the street. WED WED Things have also changed for Ping who is suffering the WED biggest disaster to hit the office since they stopped making WED pens shaped like bananas - she has a new boss in the form of WED Suzan -pronounced 'Suzanne'. Ed, of course, wastes no time WED trying to get on the right side of Suzan in the hope of some WED work whilst Jaz Milvane continues to be his nemesis, WED plaguing his every move. WED WED The regular cast are joined this series by guests including WED Raquel Cassidy, Pam Ferris, Celia Imrie and Jeremy Paxman WED WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. WED WED Produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED Ed Reardon's Week is a BBC Radio Comedy production. WED WED Credits WED Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas WED Suzan: Raquel Cassidy WED Olive: Stephanie Cole WED Pearl: Brigit Forsyth WED Doorman: Simon Greenall WED Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson WED Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Laura Pope: Vicki Pepperdine WED Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead WED Writer: Christopher Douglas WED Writer: Andrew Nickolds WED Producer: Dawn Ellis WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05tbnbv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Thought Chamber b05trhpf (Listen) WED Philip Selway WED WED The Thought Chamber is a room devoid of light and sound, WED where a guest is left on their own for up to an hour. During WED that time, they are asked to vocalise the thoughts that come WED into their head, resulting in a snapshot of the inner WED workings of their mind. WED WED In many ways, the results are much more revealing than a WED traditional interview, as no one can anticipate the subject WED matters or the direction of where the mind is going. We hear WED memories, fears, concerns, ambitions, insights, dreams, WED fantasies - as well as the day-to-day mundane problems that WED everyone faces. WED WED One minute the guest may be dreaming about flying around the WED universe - the next he or she is worrying about what to get WED the kids for tea tonight. WED WED There's no script, no questions, no stimulus - just the WED random workings of the brain. WED WED Guests during the series include: award winning artist WED Grayson Perry; scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night, WED Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock; and musician and drummer from WED Radiohead, Phillip Selway. WED WED Presented by Sian Williams WED WED Producer: Mark Sharman WED A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b05tlv9w (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05tbnby (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05tlv9y (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by WED Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05tlvb2 (Listen) WED Panini: Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint WED WED Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in WED London, looks at the life and legacy of Panini, a master of WED the ancient Sanskrit language who lived around two and a WED half thousand years ago. His grammar, known as the WED Astadhyayi, had a lasting impact and helped to make Sanskrit WED the lingua franca of much of Asia for more than a thousand WED years - not through conquest or colonisation but because it WED served a purpose. Panini's grammar relied on a system that WED functioned like a powerful algorithm, or a computer WED programme today. He created, "in a mere forty-pages, the WED most complete linguistic system in history and helped to WED make Sanskrit the lingua franca of much of Asia for more WED than a thousand years". WED Produced by Mark Savage WED With incidental music by composer Talvin Singh. WED Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of WED remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05tl3jw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ng7s4 (Listen) WED Forever Mankind WED WED It's 1973 and the American public wants to honour the bodies WED of the heroic astronauts who made it to the moon, but died WED unexpectedly, four years earlier. WED WED After much lobbying, NASA gets the funds to launch a new WED mission with better technology. Three lucky astronauts are WED delighted that they have the responsibility of reviving WED popular interest in the space race. They are Clyde, Frank WED and Scott - three patriots who are all professionals and WED aware that sometimes a mission goes beyond what the public WED is told. WED WED Ellen, an ambitious Houston TV reporter, documents their WED preparations and is convinced that this story will give her WED a national scoop. As the mission develops, she gets more WED than she bargains for. WED WED In Jonathan Mitchell and Judith Kampfner's alternative WED history, all doesn't go according to plan and the second WED Moon expedition opens up questions about the Cold War and WED competing motives for space journeys, which have a sinister WED edge. WED WED Recorded on location in New York City WED WED Produced by Judith Kampfner and Jonathan Mitchell WED A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED Credits WED Ellen: Amy Warren WED Danny: Eddie Schweighart WED George: John Henry Cox WED Clyde: David Slavin WED Frank: Christian Paluck WED Scott: Mike Iveson WED Dean: Mike Iveson WED Maggie: Chet Siegel WED Sergei: Moti Margolin WED President: John Ottavino WED Granma: Dorothy Stinette WED Buzz Aldrin: Ed Herbstman WED Walt: Ed Herbstman WED Neil Armstrong: Matt Evams WED Writer: Judith Kampfner WED Writer: Jonathan Mitchell WED Producer: Jonathan Mitchell WED Producer: Judith Kampfner WED WED 15:00 Money Box b05tlvb4 (Listen) WED What do you want to know about Equity Release? Freeing up WED cash from the value of your home can be a way of paying for WED retirement when savings are gone, but there are short and WED long term costs to consider. WED WED The Equity Release Council say that £325.7m was lent in the WED first quarter of this year alone, with customers using the WED money to make home improvements, pay off debt or cover an WED outstanding mortgage. WED WED If you're considering equity release and want to find out WED about the pros and cons, you can put your questions to Ruth WED Alexander and guests on Wednesday's programme. WED WED When is equity release suitable and are there alternatives WED you should consider first? WED WED Will releasing cash affect your state benefits? WED WED What's the difference between a lifetime mortgage and a home WED reversion plan? WED WED Are there any set up costs and exit penalties? WED WED How much interest will be charged and when will it be paid? WED WED Are there any risks? WED WED Whatever you want to know about equity release, you can talk WED to the team on Wednesday. Ruth Alexander will be joined by: WED WED Tom Moloney, StepChange Financial Solutions. WED Vanessa Owen, Head of Retirement Products, LV. WED Dean Mirfin, Key Retirement. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges WED apply. WED WED Money Advice Service: What is equity release? WED https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/equity-rel WED ase WED WED Money Advice Service WED https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en WED WED GOV.UK: State Pension WED https://www.gov.uk/browse/working/state-pension WED WED GOV.UK: Heating and housing benefits WED https://www.gov.uk/browse/benefits/heating WED WED Independent Age WED http://www.independentage.org/ WED WED StepChange Debt Charity WED http://www.stepchange.org/Howwecanhelpyou/Mortgagesandequity WED elease/Equityrelease.aspx WED WED National Debtline WED https://www.nationaldebtline.org/EW/Pages/default.aspx?gclid WED COeoqZX6scUCFRQatAod4FgAkA WED WED Equity Release Council WED http://www.equityreleasecouncil.com/home/ WED WED Which? Equity Release Explained. WED http://www.which.co.uk/money/retirement/guides/equity-releas WED -explained/ WED WED Age UK WED http://www.ageuk.org.uk/ WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b05tl3k4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05tlvb8 (Listen) WED The Gym: A Social History; Tattoos at Work WED WED The gym: Laurie Taylor explores the social history of the WED gymnasium with the writer and sociologist, Eric Chaline. WED Although this 'temple of perfection' appears primarily as a WED site for producing the 'body beautiful', this study finds it WED has also been a battleground in political, sexual and WED cultural wars. They're joined by Louise Mansfield, WED Sociologist of Sport at Brunel University WED WED Also, tattoos at work: Andrew Timming, Reader in Management WED at the University of St Andrews, talks about prejudices WED towards body art in the service sector. Does possession of a WED tattoo impact on job prospects? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Contributors WED Eric Chaline WED Writer and Journalist WED WED *The Temple of Perfection: A History of the Gym* WED Publisher: Reaktion Books WED ISBN-10: 178023449X WED ISBN-13: 978-1780234496 WED WED Dr. WED Louise Mansfield WED Deputy Director of the Brunel Centre for Sport, Health and WED Wellbeing (BC.SHaW) in the College of Health and Life WED Sciences, Brunel University London WED Andrew Timming WED Reader in Management, School of Management at the University WED of St Andrews University WED WED Abstract: WED *Visible tattoos in the service sector: a new challenge to WED recruitment and selection WED * WED doi: 10.1177/0950017014528402 WED Work Employment & Society February 2015 vol. 29 no. 1 60-78 WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05tlvbd (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05tlvbj (Listen) WED News interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05tbnc0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Clare in the Community b03q98yj (Listen) WED Series 9, Away Day Wey Hey WED WED Episode Three - Away Day Wey Hey WED WED Clare and the rest of the Sparrowhawk team are forced to WED take part in a team-building away day, much to Clare's WED disapproval. 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 In today's Big WED Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an WED 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 Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Simon: Andrew Wincott WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Student: Alex Tregear WED Young Clare: Alex Tregear WED Jenny: Carolyn Pickles WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05tlvbn (Listen) WED Robert is impressive, and Ed confides in Charlie. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b05tlvbq (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05tlv9h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b05tlvbv (Listen) WED The Law and the Gender Pay Gap WED WED Clive Anderson and a panel of senior legal experts discuss WED the apparent failure of the 1970 Equal Pay Act to bridge the WED gender pay gap. WED WED Among those take part is solicitor Michael Newman - WED currently acting on behalf of hundreds of female workers at WED the supermarket chain Asda, who claim they are being paid WED less than male colleagues for work of equal value. Since the WED case began last year, more than 19,000 people have WED approached the lawyers involved asking for their cases to be WED taken up. WED WED Also taking part are lawyers who act for employers in equal WED pay disputes and a lawyer with Unison, a union that has to WED wrestle with the problem that taking action to support the WED interests of their female members potentially discriminates WED against male members. WED WED Equal pay is the single biggest issue facing Employment WED Tribunals, which have dealt with 700,000 claims in the past WED 15 years. Barrister and academic Sarah Fraser Butlin tells WED the programme that court actions have replaced union WED collective bargaining as a force for social change in this WED area, but believes that it is an extraordinarily inefficient WED way to bring fairness to the pay system. WED WED Fighting court cases costs local authorities and business WED millions and the consequences of losing the litigation WED battle have enormous implications for the wage bill. Why is WED it necessary for same many individual court cases to be WED brought? Is there a better way of achieve payroll justice? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b05tlvbx (Listen) WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05tl3jk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05tlv99 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05tlvc1 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05tlvc3 (Listen) WED The Green Road, Episode 8 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 Jigsaw b01rgj27 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 6 WED WED Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine piece together WED a selection of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by WED Colin Anderson. WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b03c49xt (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 6 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED As the local church's bicentennial concert bears down on all WED at the Arts Centre, Nigel finds himself with an interesting WED offer from Belinda and a room gradually filling with WED instruments to boot. WED WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Directed by Nick Walker 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 Clive: Dave Lamb WED Lenny: Adrian Decosta WED Guy: Jim North WED Rachel: Jess Robinson WED Elliot: Ben Katz WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:30 Out of the Ordinary b04yb2x0 (Listen) WED Series 3, Desperately Seeking Sperm WED WED Annie, 35, wants a baby, but she doesn't have a partner. If WED she could afford it, she could go down the official and WED regulated route to a fertility clinic and get pregnant using WED donor sperm. But that could cost thousands of pounds. So WED instead, she's gone online and entered the world of WED unregulated sperm donation. WED WED Jolyon Jenkins investigates this shadowy world. It's illegal WED to sell sperm, but some men are making a living doing so. WED Others offer free sperm in return for "natural WED insemination", i.e. sex. Some women report that men who WED start by appearing to offer free sperm, gradually exert WED pressure on them to have sex. WED WED But what of those who want neither money nor sex in return WED for their sperm? Jolyon discovers the world of the "super WED donor" - men who compete to inseminate as many women as WED possible, in an acknowledged bid to spread their genes as WED widely as they can. Their activity can border on the WED obsessive."It is a bit like stamp collecting really," says WED one. "I devote three hours per day to it, through travelling WED to donate or arranging my spreadsheets or doing my photo WED albums of the children". WED WED The risks to women and their children are obvious - sexually WED transmitted infection, hereditary conditions unwittingly WED passed on, and accidental incest between half-siblings. If WED women could afford to use the official channels, they would WED be much safer. Instead, they are being driven into the hands WED of sexual adventurers, serial liars, and hobby eugenicists. WED WED Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED Sperm on tap WED WED Street art in Leipzig, Germany. The pipes in fact carry WED water WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 MAY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05tbncx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05v38lg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05tbncz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05tbnd1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05tbnd3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05tbnd5 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05trj7m (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. THU THU BBC Radio 4 – Prayer for the Day – Thursday 14 May 2015 THU THU GOOD MORNING THU THU The foundation - through the amalgamation of two earlier THU societies - of the National Society for the Prevention of THU Cruelty to Children on this day in 1889, makes me think of THU faces from the families under stress I have known. THU THU Like the mother with three autistic children who described THU with an absence of self-pity, an existence in which she has THU been out of the house alone only twice in eighteen months; THU and went for weeks without an uninterrupted night’s sleep. THU THU Like the widowed mother of another young person with severe THU learning difficulties, whom I asked: did she get some THU respite when he went to bed? THU THU No, she said: because I have to go to bed with him and tie THU myself to him: it’s the only way of making sure he is safe. THU THU How would I cope without a break, a holiday, a day off - THU while dealing with the most challenging behaviour often in THU isolation? THU THU Much of what enriches our community depends on volunteers - THU often galvanised by charitable organisations supporting THU them: from marriage guidance to bereavement counselling, THU from manning the helpline to training the team, unpaid THU volunteers strengthen the invisible bonds that connect our THU society and enrich it. THU THU Practical neighbourliness, a personal decision to take THU responsibility for the local needs we know, and the caring THU expressed in volunteering is important for our community. THU THU Often the help needed by those in desperate need is as THU little as an hour or two in the week providing an oasis; as THU simple as a bit of company lifting from isolation. THU THU The face of the other in need challenges me to ask what, THU practically, am I going to do for the people around me? THU THU Author of life, teach us compassion for others; protect THU children in danger; lift the burdens of families under THU stress this day. THU THU AMEN THU THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05tlw5b (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbz1g (Listen) THU Sedge Warbler THU THU David Attenborough presents the Sedge Warbler. Sedge THU warblers like tangled vegetation near water. They're summer THU visitors here but seek out similar habitats in Africa where THU they spend the winter. Before leaving our shores in autumn, THU they gorge on insects, often doubling their weight. THU THU Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB THU THU 06:00 Today b05tly3c (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05tly3f (Listen) THU The Lancashire Cotton Famine THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cotton Famine in THU Lancashire from 1861-65. The Famine followed the blockade of THU Confederate Southern ports during the American Civil War THU which stopped the flow of cotton into mills in Britain and THU Europe. Reports at the time told of starvation, mass THU unemployment and migration. Abraham Lincoln wrote, "I know THU and deeply deplore the sufferings which the working-men of THU Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this THU crisis." While the the full cause and extent of the Famine THU in Lancashire are disputed, the consequences of this and the THU cotton blockade were far reaching. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05v38yp (Listen) THU The Weather Experiment, A Balloon Ascent THU THU Peter Moore's lively account tells the story of the THU adventurous quest to understand the weather. In today's THU episode lives are imperilled when scientific enquiry into THU the upper atmosphere leads to an ascent in a balloon called THU Mammoth. Tim McMullan reads. THU THU Abridged by Sara Davies THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tim McMullan THU Author: Peter Moore THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05tly3h (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 b05tly3k (Listen) THU Lunch, The Introvert THU THU by Marcy Kahan THU THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU Award winning comedy about Bill and Bella, old flatmates, THU who meet once a month for lunch. Bill is grumpy due to still THU being on a starvation diet whilst Bella is glowing with THU sexual fulfillment - who is the lucky man? THU THU Credits THU Bill: Stephen Mangan THU Bella: Claire Skinner THU Director: Sally Avens THU Writer: Marcy Kahan THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b05tly3m (Listen) THU Peru's Wildlife for Sale THU THU The global trade in wildlife is worth an estimated US$20 THU billion a year. Peru is one of the most biodiverse nations THU on the planet. But its government estimates 400 species of THU fauna and flora are in danger of extinction - illicit THU trafficking is one of the biggest threats. The illegal THU wildlife trade supplies live birds and animals - macaws, THU parrots, monkeys, turtles - for both the local market and THU overseas collectors. It also commercialises body parts - the THU rare Andean bear, and the feathers of condors. So how is THU Peru attempting to protect its precious resources? For THU Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly goes on operations with THU the wildlife police. THU THU Produced by John Murphy. THU THU 11:30 The Folk of the Pennines b05tly3p (Listen) THU Malham to Greenhead 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 second of three programmes, Mark travels from Malham THU to the village of Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall. He visits THU the Wensleydale Creamery to find out how they make Wallace THU and Gromit's favourite cheese and goes in search of THU Britain's highest pub. He meets up with Teesside folk group THU The Young'uns, who give a rousing performance of the Graeme THU Miles' song 'Jack Ironside'. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Foster/Presenter: Mark Radcliffe. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05tbnd7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Thought Chamber b05tzdy8 (Listen) THU Irvine Welsh THU THU The Thought Chamber is a room devoid of light and sound, THU where a guest is left on their own for up to an hour. During THU that time, they are asked to vocalise the thoughts that come THU into their head, resulting in a snapshot of the inner THU workings of their mind. THU THU In many ways, the results are much more revealing than a THU traditional interview, as no one can anticipate the subject THU matters or the direction of where the mind is going. We hear THU memories, fears, concerns, ambitions, insights, dreams, THU fantasies - as well as the day-to-day mundane problems that THU everyone faces. THU THU One minute the guest may be dreaming about flying around the THU universe - the next he or she is worrying about what to get THU the kids for tea tonight. THU THU There's no script, no questions, no stimulus - just the THU random workings of the brain. THU THU Guests during the series include: award winning artist THU Grayson Perry; scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night, THU Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock; and musician and drummer from THU Radiohead, Phillip Selway. THU THU Presented by Sian Williams THU THU Producer: Mark Sharman THU A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b05tm4db (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05tbndb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05tm4dd (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by THU Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05tm4dg (Listen) THU Kautilya: The Circle of Power THU THU Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in THU London, looks at the life and legacy of Kautilya, whose THU treatise on political power dates back at least two thousand THU years. The Indian political strategist has been compared to THU Machiavelli. Some say he is more ruthless. Kautilya's text, THU written on dried palm leaves, lay forgotten for more than a THU millennium until it turned up at a library in Mysore at the THU turn of the twentieth century, providing inspiration for THU early Indian nationalists. "The discovery summarily exploded THU a Western clichĂ©: that Indians were primarily ethereal, THU spiritual thinkers," observes Professor Khilnani. "Here was THU a strategic text--focused on worldly ends, advocating THU ruthless means to achieve power." THU Producer: Mark Savage THU With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. THU Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of THU remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05tlvbn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05tm4dj (Listen) THU Stone, Blood Money THU THU The second drama in the crime series Stone created by Danny THU Brocklehurst. THU THU In Blood Money by Richard Monks when DCI John Stone THU investigates a hit and run of a cyclist he soon realises THU that there are several people who wanted him dead. 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 Alan: Hugh Simon THU Lucy: Olwen May THU Gilchrist: Stephen Fletcher THU Carol: Emily Pithon THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Writer: Martin Jameson THU THU 15:00 Open Country b05tm4dl (Listen) THU The ancient sport of hound trailing in Cumbria THU THU Helen Mark visits Cumbria to watch the exciting and ancient THU sport of hound trailing. At the May Day races, she meets THU owners Wendy and Russell Dawson who treat their dogs like THU royalty. Cared for like athletes, they eat chicken and THU rabbit, and are bathed before a race. They are trained from THU pups to follow a scent, but it's a gamble if any will have THU the instincts of a champion. THU Helen walks the trail, which is scented with aniseed and THU paraffin, and meets owner Margaret Baxter who explains why THU this traditional male sport is now dominated by women. The THU actual races can be up to 10 miles long, which the dogs run THU in about 35 minutes, and from high up on Kirkstone Pass, the THU owners and followers watch - and place bets - as the dogs THU speed towards the finish line. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05tbs6x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05tbwsg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05tm4dn (Listen) THU Mad Max, Cannes, Olivier Assayas THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU As Mad Max hits the road again, The Film Programme trawls THU through the most familiar post-apocalyptic cliches. THU THU Director Olivier Assayas discusses his drama Clouds Of Sils THU Maria, for which Twilight star Kristen Stewart won a Cesar THU award, the first American actress to win the French THU equivalent of an Oscar. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05tm4dq (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05tm4ds (Listen) THU News interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05tbndd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Best Behaviour b05tm8wt (Listen) THU Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show that defines the THU dos and don'ts of modern manners. THU THU The guest panellists are comedians Mark Steel, Isy Suttie THU and Tom Allen - who are all seeking to supply the top tips THU for best behaviour in the twenty first century. THU THU In this edition, the social minefield of parties is up for THU debate - including the suggestion of a new rule banning all THU small talk, and the desperate need for the end to THU evening-only wedding invitations. THU THU The panel also have the opportunity to offer advice on the THU social conundrum from a member of the studio audience: 'My THU friend has hijacked my baby-sitting job. How can I can I win THU it back?' THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Mitchell THU Panellist: Mark Steel THU Panellist: Isy Suttie THU Panellist: Tom Allen THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05tm8ww (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b05tm8wy (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05tly3k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 A Celebration for Ascension Day b05tm8x0 (Listen) THU The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev'd and Rt Hon THU Justin Welby preaches at a service celebrating the Ascension THU of Jesus Christ live from the church of St THU Martin-in-the-Fields in London's Trafalgar Square. Leader: THU the Vicar, The Revd Dr Sam Wells. Hundreds of Radio 4 THU listeners gather to join the Daily Service Singers and the THU Choir of St Martin's, where the English Baroque THU architectural setting is complemented by the music of GF THU Handel, who inaugurated the original St Martin's organ in THU 1727. Excerpts from Handel's Utrecht Te Deum and Messiah - THU including the Hallelujah Chorus - reflect the majesty of THU Jesus' Ascension into Heaven to reign as King of Kings. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05tm4dq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05v4h2f (Listen) THU The Lancashire Cotton Famine THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cotton Famine in THU Lancashire from 1861-65. The Famine followed the blockade of THU Confederate Southern ports during the American Civil War THU which stopped the flow of cotton into mills in Britain and THU Europe. Reports at the time told of starvation, mass THU unemployment and migration. Abraham Lincoln wrote, "I know THU and deeply deplore the sufferings which the working-men of THU Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this THU crisis." While the the full cause and extent of the Famine THU in Lancashire are disputed, the consequences of this and the THU cotton blockade were far reaching. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05tm9c9 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05tm9cc (Listen) THU The Green Road, Episode 9 THU THU A story of family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's THU Atlantic coast, from the Man Booker Prize-winner, Anne THU Enright. THU THU The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland THU for lives they never could have imagined, in Dublin, New THU York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, THU their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she has THU decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult THU children come back for one final Christmas together in the THU family home, with the feeling that their childhoods are THU being erased, their personal history bought and sold. THU THU Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and THU works. She has published two collections of stories (grouped THU together as Yesterday's Weather), one book of non-fiction THU (Making Babies) and five novels, including The Gathering THU (which was the Irish Novel of the Year and won the Irish THU Fiction Award along with the 2007 Man Booker Prize) and The THU Forgotten Waltz (which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal THU for Excellence in Fiction). THU THU Read by Brid Brennan THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Brid Brennan THU Author: Anne Enright THU Producer: Joanna Green THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mk9nz (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU In Episode 2: We pick up with 'Two Episodes of Mash' (Diane THU Morgan, Joe Wilkinson and David O'Doherty) a week after THU David barricaded them inside the Radio 4 studio. He's taken THU all the Radio 4 microphones hostage in an attempt to make THU the network give them their own radio series. They fill THU air-time in their own unique way with their version of the THU news, weather, sport, traffic and a fly on the wall THU documentary about working behind the scenes on a sketch THU show. Things take a turn for the worse when David receives a THU call from the Radio 4 Negotiator. THU THU An online animation of their Fishing Sketch by Tom Rourke is THU available on the Radio 4 website. THU THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Paul THU Harry Allen, Bobbie Pyor & Gary Newman. Producer: Clair THU Wordsworth. THU THU 23:30 Out of the Ordinary b0505zw9 (Listen) THU Series 3, Esperanto THU THU Jolyon Jenkins explores Esperanto, the language designed to THU bring world peace and harmony. THU THU Invented in the late 19th century, Esperanto is simple to THU learn, with a logical grammar, a vocabulary drawn from THU European languages, and no irregularities. Its creator, THU Ludovic Zamenhof, hoped that it would become a second THU language that everyone could speak, eliminating THU international misunderstandings. For a while, Esperanto THU flourished, and there was even a tiny Esperanto-speaking THU state in what is now Belgium, but both Stalin and Hitler saw THU it as subversive and tried to crush it. THU THU Jolyon tries to learn the language and to discover what THU remains of those early ideals. He finds elderly Esperantists THU playing word games in a Cardiff pub, Brazilian spiritists THU who believe that Esperanto is the language in which the dead THU converse, and a small Esperanto-speaking enclave in Goma, in THU the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (some of THU whom learned it under the misapprehension that Esperanto was THU an organisation that handed out money). Is Esperanto a THU blindingly obvious and sensible idea, or a ludicrously THU utopian one? THU THU Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 MAY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05tprzv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05v38yp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05tprzx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05tprzz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05tpsbr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05tpsbt (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05trj8l (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05vhq8c (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbz27 (Listen) FRI Cuckoo - Female FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents the female Cuckoo. The "cuckoo" call FRI of the male is perhaps one of the most recognisable of all FRI bird sounds. But the sound of "bathwater gurgling down a FRI plughole" is much familiar and is the call of the looking FRI for somewhere to lay her eggs. FRI FRI Cuckoo - Female (Cuculus canorus) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05tpwc1 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b05tbsqb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05tq3y6 (Listen) FRI The Weather Experiment, Prognostications and Forecasts FRI FRI Peter Moore's vivid account of the nineteenth century quest FRI to understand the weather. Today, the first forecasts prove FRI controversial among the scientific community, and Robert FRI FitzRoy's reputation is threatened. The reader is Tim FRI McMullan. FRI FRI The abridger is Sara Davies FRI The producer is Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tim McMullan FRI Author: Peter Moore FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05tpwc3 (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jane Garvey. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05tpwc5 (Listen) FRI Lunch, What a Swell Party FRI FRI by Marcy Kahan FRI FRI Comedy as old flatmates, Bill and Bella, meet up once a FRI month for lunch. Following Bill's party he's keen to know FRI whether Bella thinks his wife is having an affair but Bella FRI has a bombshell of her own to drop. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bill: Stephen Mangan FRI Bella: Claire Skinner FRI Writer: Marcy Kahan FRI FRI 11:00 Teatime at Peggy's b05tpwc7 (Listen) FRI The Alice in Wonderland world of the Anglo-Indians, a FRI marginalised community in India, focussing around an FRI extraordinary nonogenarian widow, Peggy Cantem. Over tea and FRI seed cake, Clare Jenkins talks to "Auntie Peggy" at her home FRI in Jhansi, an important railway town nearly 300 miles south FRI of Delhi. She hears tales of moonlight picnics, pet FRI mongooses, Mulligatawny soup - and Monsoon Toad Balls. FRI FRI It's an endangered way of life - there are just 30 FRI Anglo-Indian families left in Jhansi, and around 100,000 FRI people throughout India. Before Partition, they were the FRI mainstay of the Indian railways, postal and FRI telecommunications services. Today, they are a minority FRI community. And if Jhansi is their heartland, Peggy Cantem is FRI at their heart. FRI FRI In this town of half a million inhabitants, everyone seems FRI to know "Peggy Auntie", daughter and widow of railwaymen, FRI former stenographer turned English teacher, community care FRI worker, doughty overseer of the town's large European FRI cemetery (with its memorials to British men, women and FRI children who died during the 1857 Mutiny/First Indian War of FRI Independence). Having meals with Peggy is like the Mad FRI Hatter's Tea Party, a truly eccentric world and one that FRI Clare has captured on numerous visits. FRI FRI Peggy and her friends reflect on Anglo-Indian life. In its FRI heyday, it was famous for its dances, amateur dramatics, May FRI Queen balls (the women have always been famed for their FRI beauty), fashion shows and country music festivals. Then FRI there were the meals of goats' brain stew, Mulligatawny FRI soup, toad in the hole - as well as the homes filled with FRI mounted tiger's heads and Sacred Heart statues, aviaries of FRI parakeets, plaster flying ducks and souvenirs of Britain. FRI FRI Producer: Clare Jenkins FRI A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b038xx7d (Listen) FRI Millgate Steps FRI FRI Part 9 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 9: Millgate Steps FRI FRI Temple and Sir Graham take to the river in the hunt for the FRI missing girl. 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 Charlie: Greg Powrie FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson FRI Virginia van Cleeve: Francesca Dymond FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05tbndx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Thought Chamber b05tzglq (Listen) FRI June Brown FRI FRI The Thought Chamber is a room devoid of light and sound, FRI where a guest is left on their own for up to an hour. During FRI that time, they are asked to vocalise the thoughts that come FRI into their head, resulting in a snapshot of the inner FRI workings of their mind. FRI FRI In many ways, the results are much more revealing than a FRI traditional interview, as no one can anticipate the subject FRI matters or the direction of where the mind is going. We hear FRI memories, fears, concerns, ambitions, insights, dreams, FRI fantasies - as well as the day-to-day mundane problems that FRI everyone faces. FRI FRI One minute the guest may be dreaming about flying around the FRI universe - the next he or she is worrying about what to get FRI the kids for tea tonight. FRI FRI There's no script, no questions, no stimulus - just the FRI random workings of the brain. FRI FRI Guests during the series include: award winning artist FRI Grayson Perry; scientist and presenter of The Sky at Night, FRI Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock; and musician and drummer from FRI Radiohead, Phillip Selway. FRI FRI Presented by Sian Williams FRI FRI Producer: Mark Sharman FRI A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b05tpy7y (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05tbnf0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05tpy80 (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05tpy82 (Listen) FRI Ashoka: Power and Persuasion FRI FRI Professor Sunil Khilnani of the King's India Institute in FRI London looks at the life and legacy of the emperor Ashoka, FRI who ruled over a large part of the Indian sub-continent. He FRI came to power around the time the Romans were fighting FRI Carthage and the Chinese were building their Great Wall but FRI faded from view over time. Rediscovered by the British, he FRI went on to become an inspiration to India's nationalists. FRI Ashoka's symbol of four lions, each facing in a different FRI direction, can be found on official Indian documents and the FRI nation's currency. His most remarkable legacy is the rock FRI edicts, public instructions to his people on correct FRI behaviour - including religious tolerance and his own FRI principle of Dhamma. "Dhamma described the ruler's duty to FRI interest himself in the welfare of his people, their health FRI and happiness. It even committed him to planting banyan FRI trees and mango groves along the roads, to provide water and FRI resting places for travellers . . an early statement about FRI the private faith of a leader and the responsibilities of FRI public office" FRI Producer: Mark Savage. FRI With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. FRI Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of FRI remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05tm8ww (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nxwn2 (Listen) FRI The Mysterious Case of Maria FRI FRI by Florence Vincent, Emer Kenny, Corey Montague-Sholay, FRI Wemmy Ogunyankin and Sandra Townsend. FRI FRI A romantic comedy noir by a team of five young writers. FRI FRI Ellie's dropped out of law college without telling her FRI parents. She's found refuge in a down-at-heel bar where she FRI devours thrillers featuring kick-ass detective Bianca Kane. FRI When charismatic bartender Maria goes missing, Ellie starts FRI her own eccentric investigation. FRI FRI Directed by Abigail le Fleming FRI Studio production by Graham Harper and Robin Warren FRI FRI ABOUT THE WRITERS FRI FRI The writers met while working on the online BBC drama E20, a FRI spin-off from BBC One's EastEnders. FRI FRI Emer Kenny was selected as the youngest ever writer for the FRI BBC Writers Academy in 2012. Her first EastEnders episode FRI was aired in 2012. Acting credits include EastEnders and FRI Pramface. FRI FRI Corey Montague-Sholay is an actor and writer studying Arts FRI Management at the BRIT School and developing plays for FRI theatre. His play Aisle 26/Painrelief was performed at the FRI Warehouse Theatre. FRI FRI Wemmy Ogunyankin is at college and was the youngest writer FRI on E20. FRI FRI Sandra Townsend is working on a series of online science FRI documentaries and has completed the Royal Court's Young FRI Writers Programme. FRI FRI Florence Vincent also worked as a story writer for FRI EastEnders on BBC One. She completed a Creative Writing FRI Masters at Edinburgh where she co-wrote Remember This for FRI Bedlam Theatre. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ellie: Alex Tregear FRI Maria: Stephanie Racine FRI Ben: Adam Nagaitis FRI Michael: Alex Lanipekun FRI Esteban: Ben Crowe FRI Jake: Ben Crowe FRI Director: Abigail le Fleming FRI Writer: Florence Vincent FRI Writer: Emer Kenny FRI Writer: Corey Montague-Sholay FRI Writer: Wemmy Ogunyankin FRI Writer: Sandra Townsend FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05tpy84 (Listen) FRI Garden Show Ireland FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the programme from Garden Show Ireland at FRI Antrim Castle Gardens. Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and FRI James Wong answer audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Wish You Weren't Here... b05tpz74 (Listen) FRI No Mountain High Enough FRI FRI Wish You Weren't Here, a series of three original short FRI stories by award-winning writers about that awkward person FRI you'd rather not meet... In the first story Paula's romantic FRI weekend break in the Lake District is derailed when she FRI meets fellow hotel guest Graham. Written and read by Judy FRI Flynn. FRI FRI In our second instalment, a young couple buy a house, but FRI there's a strange clause in the small print and a mysterious FRI guest in their front room. Patrick FitzSymons reads Clare FRI Dwyer Hogg's unsettling tale. FRI FRI The series is concluded with Dermot Bolger's tale of FRI literary fraud; Jack is relieved that his fifth book launch FRI is going well, until an unexpected guest brings a pang of FRI conscience and unwelcome memories of past plagiarism. A FRI stranger, a mystery and an old friend all make us 'wish you FRI weren't here'! FRI FRI Writer ..... Judy Flynn FRI Reader ..... Judy Flynn FRI Director ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Judy Flynn FRI Reader: Judy Flynn FRI Director: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05tpz76 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b05tpz78 (Listen) FRI Series that investigates the numbers in the news. Presented FRI by Tim Harford. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b05tpz7b (Listen) FRI Jodie and Rebekah - Fathers in the Forces FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two teenagers with fathers in the army FRI and navy, sharing how they've dealt with their parents' FRI prolonged absences and the worry that never goes away. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b05tpz7d (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05tbnf3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b05tq1kh (Listen) FRI Series 87, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests FRI Susan Calman, Samira Ahmed and Elis James. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Samira Ahmed FRI Panellist: Elis James FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05tq1kk (Listen) FRI Pip is on tenterhooks, and things do not go Ed's way. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Dr Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b05tq1km (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05tpwc5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05tq1s1 (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05tq1s3 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Voices of the First World War: Omnibus b05tq1s5 (Listen) FRI Dan Snow presents the story of World War I through the FRI voices of those who were there. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05tbnf6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05tq1v1 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05tq34s (Listen) FRI The Green Road, Episode 10 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 Great Lives b05tl3jp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Out of the Ordinary b050zpwt (Listen) FRI Series 3, Brain Hacking FRI FRI Jolyon Jenkins meets the people zapping their brains with FRI DIY electrical devices, lasers and electromagnets. They want FRI to learn faster, dream better, and even have spiritual FRI experiences. FRI FRI Some of it might even work. There's evidence that putting a FRI weak electric current through your skull can help you learn, FRI and induce a "flow" state. The US military is experimenting FRI with devices that seem to help snipers improve their FRI marksmanship. One woman who tried it says that what she FRI found was that "electricity might be the most powerful drug FRI I've ever used in my life." FRI FRI Such talk is just what the garage experimenters want to FRI hear. Real drugs are hard to get licensed, but many of the FRI experimenters hope that a strap-on electrical head gadget FRI will be able to give the same kind of effects, but without FRI having to go through the regulatory hoops. There's money to FRI be made, they hope, from early adopters who see their brains FRI as just another device that can be improved through a bit of FRI hacking. FRI FRI Producer/presenter: Jolyon Jenkins. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05tq3c3 (Listen) FRI Jeanne and Stu - Getting Checked Out FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces Dave's widow and his friend, FRI remembering the lively man who died from prostate cancer, FRI and discussing why men seem so reluctant to monitor their FRI own health. Dave founded ProstAid with Stu's help, and now FRI Stu keeps it going in his memory. 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
09 May, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 09/05/2015 - 15/05/2015
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