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SAT SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05mpplf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05nvb6f (Listen) SAT Boundless, Episode 5 SAT SAT Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her SAT journey as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling SAT through the Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as SAT much an exploration of her own roots as a venture into the SAT arctic ice fields. SAT SAT Episode 5: As the passengers prepare for journey's end, SAT there is an unscheduled stop. SAT SAT Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When SAT she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. SAT Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and SAT a newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short SAT stories. Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was SAT published in 2007 and her first novel 'Annabel' came out SAT three years later. SAT SAT 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian SAT literary prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the SAT Rogers' Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's SAT Award. This year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC SAT Taylor Award for non-fiction. SAT SAT Abridged by Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Teresa Gallagher SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT Author: Kathleen Winter SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05mpplh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05mpplk (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05mpplm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05mpplp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05n1mvj (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05n1mvl (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05mpplr (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05mpplt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b05n1dq1 (Listen) SAT Series 29, Derbyshire - Family Walk SAT SAT Clare Balding travels to Derbyshire this week to ramble with SAT a group of families who gather once a month for a long walk SAT and a pub lunch. Paul Cotton, along with his wife and SAT children, meet with up to seventeen other families - SAT neighbours, colleagues and friends - in any weather, all SAT year round, to share their mutual love of the outdoors. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Taking in the view SAT SAT Puffing up the hill... SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Cotton SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05nk25l (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Rural Affairs and Politics SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05mpplx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05nk25n (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05nk25q (Listen) SAT Jason Donovan SAT SAT The actor and singer, Jason Donovan, joins Richard Coles and SAT Suzy Klein. He talks about his life and a career that has SAT seen him move from Neighbours' soapstar to chart pop idol, SAT jungle survivor to Strictly finalist. In musical theatre SAT he's starred as Joseph and Frank N Furter, and now plays SAT Lionel Logue, the speech therapist to a stammering George SAT VI, in a touring production of The King's Speech. SAT SAT The Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist Lynsey Addario SAT on her life behind the camera. SAT SAT Saturday Live listener Penny Tomlinson describes how she SAT coped with bereavement by joining the I Can't Sing Choir. SAT SAT The former royal harpist Claire Jones describes her struggle SAT with ME Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the role music played SAT in her recovery. SAT SAT Lloyd Buck is accompanied by his Starling, Arnie. For more SAT than 20 years Lloyd and his wife Rose have been world SAT experts of in-flight and tracking filming with birds. He SAT explains his affinity with birds and why he imprints, rather SAT than trains them. SAT SAT Lulu shares her Inheritance Tracks. She chooses Nighttime is SAT the Right Time by Ray Charles and Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson SAT and Bruno Mars. SAT SAT The King's Speech is currently touring the UK, still to SAT visit venues in Manchester, Woking, Sheffield, Belfast, SAT Malvern, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Edinburgh, Leeds and Truro. SAT SAT It's What I Do - A Photographer's Life of Love and War by SAT Lynsey Addario, published by Corsair. SAT SAT The album, Journey: Harp to Soothe the Soul by Claire Jones, SAT is out now. SAT SAT Lulu is celebrating her 50th year as a recording artist with SAT a new album - Making Life Rhyme - to be released next month, SAT followed by a UK tour in May. SAT SAT Produced by: Louise Corley SAT Edited by Alex Lewis. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Jason Donovan SAT Interviewed Guest: Lynsey Addario SAT Interviewed Guest: Penny Tomlinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Claire Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Lloyd Buck SAT Interviewed Guest: Lulu SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Alex Lewis SAT SAT 10:30 The Clocks Go Forward Tonight b05nk5qq (Listen) SAT In The Clocks Go Forward Tonight Stephen Fry takes a look at SAT why we move the time by an hour twice a year. SAT Nearly a century after daylight saving time was first SAT introduced we discover that a version of it was actually SAT designed in the 1700s. Stephen considers how daylight saving SAT time would not exist if we hadn't been able to make clocks SAT that could mark the time accurately and how it took SAT thousands of years to reach that point. Then in the early SAT 20th century an Edwardian property developer came up with SAT the format that we use today. SAT SAT By looking at how time measurement has evolved we learn SAT about the history of daylight saving which has some unusual SAT and quirky moments. We also learn something about ourselves SAT and how the clock now dictates our lives rather than in the SAT past when we simply lived by the sun's light. SAT SAT Nearly a century after it was first used today nearly a SAT billion people in seventy countries go through the twice SAT yearly ritual of adjusting their clocks to shift the SAT sunlight hours to a more convenient time. But are we making SAT time, or killing time? SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b05nk25v (Listen) SAT In the Week In Westminster Peter Oborne looks back at the SAT last week of this parliament, the grand finale to the first SAT coalition government in 70 years, and the first ever fixed SAT term parliament. with memories from departing MPs. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05mppm0 (Listen) SAT A Kafkaesque Nightmare SAT SAT Insight. Analysis. Colour. In this edition, people in the SAT German town of Montabaur try to come to terms with the fact SAT that one of their neighbours, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately SAT crashed an aircraft into the French Alps killing 150-people; SAT two years of negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme SAT reach a climax in Lausanne -- the implications, if there's SAT agreement, could be far-reaching; the Royal Fleet Auxiliary SAT ship Argus is on its way home from Sierra Leone -- its SAT airmen and sailors have spent months helping in the fight SAT against the deadly Ebola virus; have you tried organic SAT kosher shazamazam? We're in LA trying to penetrate a SAT sub-culture with a language of its own and in Africa, he's SAT the man presidents, rebels and villagers alike all want to SAT meet. But they'll find it harder to do so in the future. SAT West Africa correspondent Mark Doyle is leaving the BBC. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05mppm2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05nk25x (Listen) SAT Pension Freedom Special SAT SAT From 6th April those aged 55+ will enjoy much greater SAT freedom over what they can do with their individual pension SAT pots. SAT SAT Paul Lewis talks to a panel of experts from the public, SAT private and charitable sectors about what those approaching SAT retirement can and cannot do with their pension funds. SAT SAT Money Box looks at what the impact of this change is likely SAT to be, the potential dangers, the tax and benefit SAT implications and where to get the free guidance, or whether SAT to opt for paid for regulated advice. SAT SAT Joining the programme will be: Alan Higham, Fidelity; Flora SAT Maudsley-Barton, Parsonage Financial; Michelle Cracknell, SAT TPAS; and Sally West, Age UK. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b05n1lrn (Listen) SAT Series 86, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest SAT panellists including Fred Macaulay and Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Fred MacAulay SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05mppm4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05mppm6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05n1lrs (Listen) SAT Michael Fallon MP, George Galloway MP, Patrick O'Flynn MEP, SAT Rachel Reeves MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Hill House School in Doncaster with the Defence SAT Secretary, Michael Fallon MP, Respect MP George Galloway , SAT UKIP's spokesman on Economic Affairs, Patrick O Flynn MEP, SAT and the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions SAT Rachel Reeves MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05nk2d3 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b05nk2d5 (Listen) SAT The Norman Conquests, Round and Round the Garden SAT SAT The Norman Conquests are considered the masterworks of Alan SAT Ayckbourn, our foremost comedy dramatist. Julian Rhind-Tutt, SAT as the love and sex-mad philanderer, and Helen Baxendale, SAT his prey, lead a stellar cast through these three SAT interlinked, deeply-serious comedies. They can be listened SAT to in any order, or one play may be enjoyed on its own. SAT SAT Music arranged and performed by Stephen Benham SAT SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh SAT SAT Leading a distinguished cast, JULIAN RHIND-TUTT plays the SAT brilliant but mercurial Norman, sewing his seed of discord SAT over a weekend in the country. SAT SAT The new productions, their first broadcast on Radio 4, SAT coincide with Ayckbourn's 5 new interlinked stage plays. SAT SAT With Norman Conquests, 'Table Manners' is traditionally SAT played first. For Radio 4, we're broadcasting Living SAT Together first, to show Norman's lechery and mad drunkenness SAT at full tilt, so annoying to the others, and in the middle SAT of it, his phone call summoning his wife, with whom he is SAT secretly in love, to witness the carnage he has wrought on SAT the household - on the women in particular! SAT SAT Annie (HELEN BAXENDALE) cares for ailing Mother in the SAT family home. She has arranged a weekend away and asked SAT brother Reg (JEFF RAWLE) and his wife Sarah (CLARE SAT LAWRENCE-MOODY) to care for Mother, aided by Annie's shy SAT neighbour and admirer Tom (NIGEL PLANER). SAT SAT Annie has secretly planned the break with her SAT brother-in-law, Norman (JULIAN RHIND- TUTT) married to SAT Annie's scary sister Ruth (TRACY-ANN OBERMAN). But now, as SAT Annie prepares to depart, Norman turns up prematurely, SAT messing up her plans and igniting the fireworks! SAT SAT Credits SAT Norman: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Annie: Helen Baxendale SAT Tom: Nigel Planer SAT Reg: Jeff Rawle SAT Sarah: Clare Lawrence-Moody SAT Ruth: Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Director: Peter Kavanagh SAT Writer: Alan Ayckbourn SAT Composer: Stephen Benham SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05nk2d7 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Kim Cattrall, Modern families, Janet SAT McQueen, Dark Justice SAT SAT Kim Cattrall, the sexy sassy one in Sex and the City, talks SAT about her new role tackling the subject of ageing, the SAT menopause and midlife crisis. SAT SAT Online vigilante group, Dark Justice, have set up fake SAT profiles to catch paedophiles trying to groom young people. SAT Should this vigilante action be encouraged or is it in fact SAT putting lives at risk? SAT SAT We examine the progression of the traditional secretary role SAT and question whether they can be a good way up the career SAT ladder for women or remain a sexist stereotype. SAT SAT Do you need to change your entire wardrobe to feel and look SAT good during pregnancy or are there a few simple tricks to SAT avoid spending a fortune on new garments? SAT SAT Janet McQueen talks about her brother the late Alexander SAT McQueen and explains how she inspired his work. SAT SAT The newest family forms include gay parents or women who SAT have chosen sperm donation and to go it alone - but how do SAT the children being raised in these families fare socially SAT and psychologically? SAT SAT And is the new remake of the film Cinderella still a magical SAT tale of finding true love and overcoming evil or now a SAT makeover myth about shoes and marrying into money? SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Kim Cattrall SAT Kim Cattrall is best known for playing the infamous Samantha SAT Jones in the award winning American TV series Sex and the SAT City. Kim is now staring in the black comedy Sensitive Skin. SAT Her character, Davina Jackson, is a former model and actress SAT dealing with a midlife crisis. After recently portraying a SAT fading Hollywood legend on stage in Tennessee William’s SAT Sweet Bird of Youth, Kim talks to Jane about why she is keen SAT to tackle the subject of ageing in her work, playing against SAT herself as the ‘Other’ Davina, and the legacy of Sex and the SAT City. SAT SAT Vigilantes SAT On Friday, a man who has pleaded guilty to attempting to SAT meet a child following sexual grooming will be sentenced. SAT The internet group Dark Justice set up a fake profile on a SAT dating website – posing as a shy 14 year old girl. SAT 57-year-old John Rudd from Newcastle travelled to meet the SAT girl and was instead “caught” by the online vigilantes. But SAT is such vigilante action to be encouraged? Or could it be SAT counter-productive and in fact, be putting lives at risk? We SAT discuss the issue with a member of Dark Justice and Sharon SAT Girling – the former policewoman who set up CEOP – the Child SAT Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. SAT SAT Women In Admin – A Path To Success? SAT We examine the progression of the traditional ‘secretary’ SAT role to the administrative assistants, PAs and receptionists SAT we see today. Are these roles a good way up the career SAT ladder for women, or are they still met with the sexist SAT secretary stereotype? SAT SAT The Art of Maternity Dressing SAT You’re over the moon, you’re having a baby. But thinking SAT about not being able to fit into that little black dress you SAT truly love and giving up all your trendy clothes is making SAT you cry. You try to forget your partner’s advice about SAT stocking up on some tents from IKEA which according to him SAT would be just perfect… Do you need to change your entire SAT wardrobe to feel and look good during pregnancy? Not SAT anymore. The Duchess of Cambridge made headlines last week SAT in a black and white polka dot maternity dress costing £35 – SAT it was reported to have sold out online within minutes. Jane SAT is joined by maternity fashion blogger Jessica Clark and SAT stylist Melissa Murrell to discuss how to dress well during SAT pregnancy and avoid spending a fortune on new garments. SAT SAT Alexander McQueen SAT "I want people to be afraid of the women I dress” said SAT fashion designer Alexander McQueen, whose work is the SAT subject of the V&A’s major new exhibition, ‘Alexander SAT McQueen: Savage Beauty’. SAT Known to his family as ‘Lee’, Alexander McQueen’s career – SAT first as chief designer at Givenchy, later going on to found SAT his own label – saw the East End boy and unlikely darling of SAT the fashion world become as well known for his ability to SAT shock and provoke as for his creations. His extravagant SAT runway shows featured Gothic makeup, dresses made from fresh SAT flowers, towering heels, butterflies and amputee models, SAT while his designs exaggerated silhouettes and made low-slung SAT jeans fashionable. But the shows also invited controversy - SAT with names like 'Cocaine Nights' and 'Highland Rape', SAT critics labelled his work ‘misogynistic' – something he SAT always denied. In February 2010, on the eve of his SAT mother's funeral, he took his own life, aged just 40. SAT Jane speaks to his sister Janet McQueen, and Andrew Wilson SAT who has written a biography of the designer. SAT ‘Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin’ by Andrew Wilson SAT is out now, published by Simon & Schuster UK SAT SAT Susan Golombok – Modern Families SAT Do gay men make better dads? If so, why? Jenni speaks to SAT Professor Susan Golombok of Cambridge University about her SAT latest research into the newest family forms – including gay SAT father adoptive families and single mothers by choice. SAT Susan says the findings contradict many previous SAT assumptions about how children being raised in these SAT families are affected socially and psychologically. SAT SAT Cinderella – how relevant is this fairy tale to a modern SAT audience? SAT Cinderella – a magical tale of finding true love and SAT overcoming evil or a mooning make-over myth about shoes and SAT marrying into money? We ask whether this fairy tale relevant SAT to a modern audience? SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Kim Cattrall SAT Interviewed Guest: 'Scott' from Dark Justice SAT Interviewed Guest: Sharon Girling SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Reid SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Brazier SAT Interviewed Guest: Melissa Murrell SAT Interviewed Guest: Jessica Clark SAT Interviewed Guest: Janet McQueen SAT Interviewed Guest: Andrew Wilson SAT Interviewed Guest: Susan Golombok SAT Interviewed Guest: Tracy McVeigh SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlie Byrne SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05nk3gh (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b05n1fsp (Listen) SAT Corporate Scandal SAT SAT Phone hacking, financial mis-selling and fraud: How do SAT companies recover from scandal and negative headlines? Evan SAT Davis and guests discuss the skills and strategy required to SAT bounce back. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Niall Booker, CEO, Co-operative Bank SAT SAT Mike Darcey, CEO, News UK SAT SAT Stephen Hester, CEO, RSA SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05mppm8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05mppmb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05mppmd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05nk3gk (Listen) SAT Bill Oddie, Steve Pemberton, Nikki Bedi, Shobana Jeyasingh, SAT Simon Reeve, Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Awna Teixeira SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Bill Oddie, Steve Pemberton, SAT Nikki Bedi & Shobana Jeyasingh and Simon Reeve. With music SAT from Omara Portuondo & Eliades Ochoa and Awna Teixeira. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Simon Reeve SAT SAT 'Caribbean with Simon Reeve' continues on March 29. You can SAT catch up with the first episode on the SAT BBC iPlayer SAT SAT Awna Teixeira SAT SAT Awna Teixeira performs ‘Blue Heart on Your Sleeve’ from her SAT album Wild One. SAT SAT Wild One is available now - SAT check Awna's website for further details SAT SAT Steve Pemberton SAT The next episode of ‘Inside No. 9’ is on Thursday 2 April at SAT 10pm on BBC Two SAT SAT Shobana Jeyasingh SAT SAT 'Bayadère - The Ninth Life' has its final show on March 28 SAT at the Royal Opera House and is touring the UK during April SAT and May - check SAT Shobana's website for details SAT SAT Bill Oddie SAT SAT 'Bill Oddie Unplucked' is published by Bloomsbury and SAT available now SAT Biil Oddie's official website SAT SAT Omara Portuondo & Eliades Ochoa SAT ‘Lost & Found’ by SAT Buena Vista Social Club SAT is out now on World Circuit Records. SAT Omara Portuondo SAT is performing with Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club on SAT their ‘Adios Tour’, which starts at Brighton’s Dome on 4th SAT April and finishes at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on13th SAT April. SAT Eliades Ochoa SAT is performing with Omara on 30th July at London’s Royal SAT Opera House. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Bill Oddie SAT Interviewed Guest: Steve Pemberton SAT Interviewed Guest: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: Shobana Jeyasingh SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Reeve SAT Performer: Omara Portuondo SAT Performer: Eliades Ochoa SAT Performer: Awna Teixeira SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05nk3gm (Listen) SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05nk3gp (Listen) SAT Rules for Living, Blind, Richard III, Acts of the Assassins, SAT Body in Ancient Greek Art SAT SAT Sam Holcroft's new play, Rules For Living, at The National's SAT Dorfman Theatre shows a family full of traits and ticks that SAT define their relationships. How do we react when we're under SAT pressure with our nearest and dearest? SAT SAT The Norwegian film Blind plays around with perception. The SAT lead character loses her sight and has to reassess her SAT relationship with the world and especially those around her. SAT SAT We've been watching Channel 4's coverage of the SAT re-internment of Richard III. How fascinating can many hours SAT of television devoted to the burying of a 500 year old SAT corpse be? SAT SAT The Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard could be boiled SAT down to a police procedural about the deaths of Christ's SAT apostles, but it is set simultaneously in the 1st and 21st SAT centuries SAT SAT Defining Beauty; The Body in Ancient Greek Art at The SAT British Museum looks at the development and influence of SAT Greek sculpture, drawing on their permanent collection and SAT many rarely-loaned works from overseas SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Kamila Shamsie, Emma Woolf and SAT Nicholas Lezard. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Acts of the Assassins SAT The book SAT Acts of the Assassins SAT by Richard Beard is published by Harvill Secker. SAT SAT Blind SAT Written and directed by Eskil Vogt, Blind is in selected SAT cinemas from Friday 27 March, certificate 18. SAT SAT Richard III: The Reburial SAT Coverage of SAT Richard III: The Reburial SAT at Leicester Cathedral was broadcast on Channel 4. SAT SAT Rules For Living SAT A new play by Sam Holcroft, SAT Rules For Living SAT is at the Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre in London until SAT 8 July 2015. SAT SAT Defining Beauty: The Body in Greek Art SAT The exhibition SAT Defining Beauty: The Body in Greek Art SAT is at the British Museum in London until 5 July 2015. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Kamila Shamsie SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Woolf SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicholas Lezard SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05nk3r0 (Listen) SAT Lern Yerself Scouse SAT SAT Writer Paul Farley cooks a pot of Scouse for a party of SAT eminent Liverpudlians to explore the complex flavours and SAT disputed origins of the Scouse accent. In the company of SAT Willy Russell, Gillian Reynolds, Michael Angelis and Roger SAT McGough, Paul explores a rich archive of Scouse voices, SAT charting some of the recent mutations in the accent. SAT SAT Produced by Emma Harding. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05mq8wr (Listen) SAT A Fine Balance, Episode 1 SAT SAT Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about SAT India's underclass. SAT SAT Two tailors - uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om - come to the SAT city to escape from the caste violence in their native SAT village. They are employed by a Parsi woman, Dina Dalal, who SAT runs a sweatshop from her apartment and is struggling to SAT preserve her independence. She has a lodger too - a SAT reluctant student, Maneck, from the mountains. SAT SAT As their initial suspicion of each other turns to friendship SAT and then love, their lives take dramatic and often shocking SAT turns against a backdrop of India in crisis, during "the SAT Emergency" of the mid-1970s - a period marked by huge SAT political unrest and human rights violations. SAT SAT A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human SAT spirit under inhuman conditions. SAT SAT Music: Sacha Putnam SAT Sound Design: Steve Bond SAT SAT Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel SAT by Rohinton Mistry SAT SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Director: John Dryden SAT SAT A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dina: Shernaz Patel SAT Ishvar: Kenneth Desai SAT Om: Anand Tiwari SAT Maneck: Neil Bhoopalam SAT Rustom: Zafar Karachiwala SAT Ibrahim: Rajit Kapur SAT The Thakur: Jayant Kripalani SAT Ashraf: Darshan Jariwala SAT Nusswan: Farid Currim SAT Ruby: Anahita Uberoi SAT Narayan: Vivek Madan SAT Young Dina: Tirtha Kotrial SAT Young Ishvar: Eshan Savla SAT Young Narayan: Samar Uraizee SAT Ensemble: Jim Sarbh SAT Ensemble: Abhishek Saha SAT Ensemble: Meherangiz Acharya-Dar SAT Ensemble: Faezeh Jalali SAT Ensemble: Shivani Tanksale SAT Ensemble: Nadir Khan SAT Author: Rohinton Mistry SAT Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon SAT Adaptor: Kewel Karim SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Director: John Dryden SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05mppmh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b05mtcwt (Listen) SAT Richard III SAT SAT As come backs go, Richard III's has got to rate as possibly SAT miraculous. Vilified for more than 500 years as a SAT psychopathic child killer this week one of history's biggest SAT losers is being paraded through the streets of Leicester as SAT a hero. Tens of thousands of people turned out to watch his SAT coffin pass. As it approached a line of replica cannons for SAT a 21 gun salute the gunners were commanded to get on their SAT knees and honour the king. Some say he's been unfairly SAT traduced by Elizabethan spin doctors, but in any event the SAT Bishop of Leicester said Richard should be buried with the SAT dignity and honour that befits a king of England. Can you SAT separate the person from the office or should we judge those SAT who rise to greatness by different moral standards? Of SAT course part of this is simply a case of turning a blind eye SAT to the sins of the past in the interest of the tourism, but SAT that doesn't entirely explain the hero worship and SAT suspension of moral judgement at the heart of these SAT commemorations. The passing of time has certainly helped SAT Richard III, but this is an issue for our times as well. SAT Think Jeremy Clarkson and Boris Johnson - pantomime villains SAT or lovable rogues? How much leeway should personality and SAT charisma allow? How forgiving should we be to those who SAT stand apart from their fellow man by dint of their SAT achievements, whether in politics, on the field of battle, SAT in the arts, media, sport or business? Should we allow them SAT more moral leeway? Could it be that when it comes to their SAT personal lives we hold them to higher moral standards than SAT we expect of ourselves? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b05mqrcx (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 1, 2015 SAT SAT (13/17) SAT SAT Which chemical element discovered by the Curies in 1898 is SAT five thousand times as radio-active as radium? Russell SAT Davies has the answer - but do the competitors in this SAT week's Brain of Britain? SAT SAT It's the first of the 2015 semi-finals, with three winners SAT from the heats, and one of the top-scoring runners-up over SAT the past three months, returning to play for a place in the SAT Final. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT RODERICK CROMAR, a chartered accountant from Inverurie in SAT Aberdeenshire; SAT SAT JESSICA EASTWOOD, a Hansard reporter from London; SAT SAT MIKE MOONEY, a retired IT professional from Leeds; SAT SAT NEIL WRIGHT, a retired biomedical scientist from the SAT Wirral. SAT SAT 23:30 The Clocks Go Forward Tonight b05nk5qq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today] SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05nkdnt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 My Mother's Visit b05ns7ss (Listen) SUN A new story from South African author Eben Venter. SUN SUN A clash of attitudes in which an ageing mother forces a SUN visit on her son. She lives in a retirement home in South SUN Africa and he's 'dropped out' after abandoning his business SUN in Sydney, Australia. Out of the blue Ma declares her SUN intention to make the 24 hour journey. SUN SUN Yet when she finally arrives she does not find much of which SUN she approves. Both characters are viscerally drawn to one SUN another but keep pushing the other away. This is only SUN further complicated by her occasionally erratic behaviour, SUN the son's anxiety this might be the first signs of dementia, SUN and the growing awareness they share that this will probably SUN be her last visit. SUN SUN Read by Matthew Marsh SUN Produced by Simon Richardson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Matthew Marsh SUN Writer: Eben Venter SUN Producer: Simon Richardson SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05nkdnw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 02:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05nkgww (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05nkdny (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05nkdp0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05ns8p8 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Olave's, Hart Street in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b05n00dl (Listen) SUN Sarah Perry SUN SUN Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN BEHOLD THE MAN SUN SUN SUN SUN Some years ago, on one of those aimless days when you can’t SUN imagine having ever taken pleasure in anything, I went alone SUN to the British Museum, and soon found myself in a dusky SUN corner surveying a case on which there was the handprint of SUN some previous visitor transfixed by the object hanging SUN behind the glass. In the intervening years it has taken on SUN the quality of myth, or of something I once overheard, so SUN that whenever I return I don’t seek it out in case it is SUN gone. SUN "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SUN SUN SUN SUN It was a series of spheres of ivory or bone, each nested SUN within the other, shivering on a thread when I tapped the SUN glass. Each sphere was so intricately carved it might have SUN been lacework, the pattern differing with each layer; SUN sometimes quite jagged as though broken, sometimes SUN suggestive of petals blooming on a bough. It was clear, even SUN in that dim light, that it had been carved from a single SUN piece: there was simply no other way it might have been SUN made. At the centre of the spheres it was possible to make SUN out an empty space, which was both there, and not there; it SUN was an absence, and yet absolutely present. I turned my SUN head left and right – I paced back and forth before the case SUN – and it seemed that as I did so the spheres turned, and SUN altered the substance of the hollow. SUN SUN SUN SUN Those turning spheres in their glass case seem to me to SUN represent the layers of narrative that compose the Passion SUN drama – circuitous, offering glimpses of something at the SUN core, and no two glimpses ever quite the same. And so I do SUN not see the Passion story as one that begins with once upon SUN a time, and ends with the expert story-teller’s double-blind SUN of tragedy and hope; not an ordinary unfolding of time, that SUN began once and now has ended, but an endless attempt to SUN imagine and re-imagine the story in the hope of beholding SUN the suffering man at the crux. SUN SUN SUN SUN Any novelist will tell you that it’s hard to discard the SUN tools of the trade and simply enjoy a tale well told: the SUN temptation is always to pick and pick at a narrative, and SUN discover where it works, and how; and where it doesn’t, and SUN why. So I survey the Passion drama as a bungling craftsman SUN might a masterpiece: how did this story of all stories SUN survive the millennia? Certainly there are other tales that SUN have outlasted the years: that of Persephone dolefully SUN eating her pomegranate in the underworld, or Noah SUN waterproofing his boat. But none have proved so persistent, SUN or so seductive; none have so strongly provoked writers both SUN secular and sacred to say: “No, it would not have been like SUN that, not quite: it would have been more like this.” SUN SUN SUN SUN How then to account for the extraordinary persistence of the SUN Passion story? I think it is because as each layer of story SUN is added – each distinct from the other, but like those SUN ivory spheres still somehow constituting a whole – there SUN remains at the centre the supreme piece of characterisation SUN in the person of Christ. SUN SUN SUN SUN Characterisation is so essential a skill that whole SUN libraries of textbooks have been written on the subject. In SUN overheated seminar rooms across the world writers and tutors SUN are even now examining Moll Flanders and Jane Eyre, the SUN Great Gatsby and the poor fool Cordelia, looking for the SUN stitches and seams that construct their characters, and SUN plucking at exposed bits of stuffing. The merits of an SUN omniscient narrator are set against the problem of the first SUN person; the tricksiness of point of view is deplored and SUN admired. How does this man speak, and is he fond of dogs? SUN What motivates this woman, and how might she vote? Some SUN characters remain elusive, as folk so often do: we think SUN we’d know their voice, if we heard it, but would be hard SUN pressed to say where they were educated, or what is their SUN taste in music. Others are painted with thick bright layers SUN applied with a palette knife, and you could hazard a guess SUN at their shoe size, and whether they passed A level French. SUN What is worse (or better, depending on the writer’s skill SUN and their readers’ good nature) a character alters with the SUN viewpoint of the observer. Henry James’ child heroine Maisie SUN knew her parents were loving and good: our point of view is SUN altogether more astute, and we know otherwise. SUN SUN SUN SUN "No human being is simple”, points out EM Forster, writing SUN on the problem of people in fiction, and nowhere is this SUN more evident than in the Passion’s central character, the SUN man Jesus. Even to say “The man Jesus” proves troublesome, SUN whether reading the drama as history or myth, or a SUN conflation of both: the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, SUN making one of the earliest accounts of the Passion, finds SUN himself equivocating as he introduces “Jesus, a wise man, if SUN it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of SUN wonderful works.” Josephus beholds the man, but finds SUN himself unable to say what kind of man he is. SUN SUN SUN SUN To read the gospel accounts of the Passion is to stand as a SUN fifth observer, with eyes always fixed on Christ: there is SUN Matthew, perhaps the tax-collector of tradition, who records SUN Christ’s last days with a civil servant’s precision; there SUN is Mark, who they say wrote during the years of Nero’s SUN villainy, recording how Christ foresaw the betrayal of SUN hot-headed Peter. And Luke, perhaps a physician, alone of SUN all the gospel writers noting how Christ healed the ear of SUN his enemy when a disciple severed it with a sword. Then SUN there’s John, the disciple whom Jesus loved – by tradition SUN also John the Revelator, John the Divine. Of all the gospels SUN it is John’s which tradition has held likeliest to be an SUN eyewitness account, and it’s possible to perceive there a SUN richer character at the centre of the Passion drama – to SUN behold a man both more completely human, and more divine. SUN The narrative reads as an act of love: it is there we find SUN Christ washing his disciples’ feet as the day of his SUN crucifixion comes near, and encounter a narrator enraptured SUN by his subject. SUN SUN SUN SUN For all that, it’s impossible to conceive of gospel accounts SUN of the Passion photocopied and handed around a creative SUN writing class as exemplars of dramatic characterisation. SUN Where’s the consistency? Why so much repetition? What is he SUN thinking, and why? And what does he look like: could he not SUN just once have looked into a shallow pool and observed his SUN own reflection? The Christ of the Passion is a king and a SUN rebel, a willing self-sacrifice and a man prostrate in a SUN garden with grief and despair, abandoned by his friends. He SUN curses a fig-tree to barrenness when it fails to oblige him SUN with fruit, yet comforts a condemned man in their shared SUN last hours; he’s a teacher, but won’t answer when Pilate SUN asked on behalf of us all, “What is truth?” SUN SUN SUN SUN In its most perfect form, characterisation creates an SUN inevitability within the drama: we not only believe events SUN that befall those we’ve followed through the pages, but see SUN no alternative. Hardy’s Tess may seem a victim, but she is SUN active, not passive – all that unfolds, unfolds because of SUN her. So – despite the inconsistencies, the frustrating SUN elisions, the breaking of narrative rules - it’s possible to SUN see the events from Gethsemane to Calvary not as a timeline SUN along which Christ moved like a tragic hero pursued to his SUN fate, but as having been generated by his character. It is SUN as if because he was as he was, the story could never have SUN been otherwise; that he did not submit to the cross, rather SUN that at the moment of his birth it became necessary to plait SUN the crown of thorns. SUN SUN SUN SUN These gospel accounts of the Passion – squabbled over by SUN historians, laboured over by scribes, handed out with bright SUN illustrations outside Underground stations - are the SUN narratives with which we’re most familiar, but are neither SUN the first nor the last. Scholars and believers have peered SUN through their layers to better see the character at the SUN core, and find him in the ancient book of Job, who speaks of SUN a Redeemer; or in the 22nd Psalm, where David the musician SUN king writes, “They part my garments among them, and cast SUN lots upon my vesture”, as if he’s somehow looked outwards to SUN later stories circling his own, and seen the events of the SUN Passion, and how they gambled for fragments of Christ’s SUN clothes. SUN SUN SUN SUN On and on the Passion story goes, told and re-told in verse SUN and prose, by historian and myth-maker, by those who believe SUN and those who don’t and those anxious on the borderline, SUN circling always about the Christ character as the sky spins SUN round the North star. There’s Josephus with his terse but SUN wondering despatch from history; there’s Julian of Norwich SUN in her anchorite’s cell who “saw His sweet face as it were SUN dry and bloodless with pale dying.” There are the passion SUN plays that began in Latin then slid into the vernacular, in SUN which Judas showed his wickedness by means of a black bird SUN held to the mouth and agitated until it flapped its wings. SUN In 2020 half the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, in SUN gratitude at having once been spared the plague, will play SUN out the Passion; and each year, in certain quarters of the SUN Philippines, young men will be crucified in imitation of SUN Christ, with nails adroitly aimed to avoid severing any SUN essential tendons. SUN SUN SUN SUN In recent years it’s the novel form that’s taken up the SUN endless query “what manner of man is this?” Philip Pullman SUN splits the character into the good man Jesus who dies on the SUN cross, and the sickly mystic Christ, who watches from a SUN scoundrel’s distance, then walks away “very carefully, SUN trying to make no impression on the earth.” In *The Liar’s SUN Gospel*, Naomi Alderman sees Yehoshuah, a wandering healer, SUN a rabble-rouser: “This was how it happened”, she begins. In SUN Richard Beard’s *Lazarus is Dead*, the narrator occupies the SUN mind of the crucified Christ: “I have seen things and done SUN things that other people will never see and do.” So it goes SUN on, and each new imagining of the Passion story tries to SUN pierce through the accumulation of history and myth, doubt SUN and faith, and find what they’ve been looking for: fraud or SUN prophet, carpenter or king, man of sorrows or son of God. SUN SUN SUN SUN I confess it is years since I’ve been what you might call a SUN practising Christian: I cannot with an honest hand sign my SUN name to creed or rule, since what faith I have gutters like SUN a candle in a draughty room and I fear is just as likely to SUN blow out. I find myself living in a state of disgrace, SUN excommunicated by my conscience from church and chapel, but SUN exiled from the lands of reason by that obstinate flame that SUN burns behind my ribs. Even now, as you may have observed, I SUN cannot call him Jesus, which seems to me irreverent, the SUN carpenter’s name but not the Redeemer’s; I must use the SUN title Christ, the anointed. SUN SUN SUN SUN My friends, of course, are largely atheist, baffled and SUN affronted by my failure to accede to their view. Often I say SUN - spreading my hands, aware I have much to apologise for – SUN that faith as I have known it is not adherence to a set of SUN rules and regulations, many of which I despise, and all of SUN which could be readily cast off. Casting about for means to SUN explain myself I say that faith’s nearest equivalence is SUN love: an unbidden, sometimes unwelcome emotion, directed not SUN towards an idea (I do not believe it possible to love an SUN idea) but to a character. Since I could not persuade a SUN stranger to love my loved ones by reason and evidence, nor SUN would I try, how could I persuade others into faith, or SUN myself out of it? SUN SUN SUN SUN I suppose it is for this reason that I read the Passion SUN drama as I do: not as a story that ended, but one endlessly SUN told and retold. I eavesdrop, as you might listen in hope of SUN hearing news of a friend you’ve not seen in a while, whose SUN dear face you’re afraid you’ve forgotten; like the Passion SUN storytellers I circle the Christ character in love and SUN doubt. Sometimes I think I find him, sometimes I’m afraid SUN there are only shadows, often half-hoping one day to hear a SUN voice at my shoulder asking why I seek the living among the SUN dead. SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b05nkdp2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b05ns8pb (Listen) SUN Confession SUN SUN On the last Sunday in Lent, Mark Tully asks if confession is SUN really good for us. He examines the secular and political SUN benefits of owning up to crimes and misdemeanours in public SUN life, as well as talking to religious historian and writer SUN Eamon Duffy about the history of confession as a religious SUN rite. SUN SUN There are stories here of politicians caught red-handed, a SUN priest confessing posthumously to his atheism - and to his SUN hatred for the confessional box - and of the sheer SUN psychological relief of forgiving. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from James Joyce, Elizabeth SUN Jennings and A. C. Clarke, with music by Caroline Barnett SUN and Hans Zimmer among others. SUN SUN The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Arsher Ali SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Author: James SUN Joyce Published by Penguin SUN Title: Mary Magdalene Author: Christina Rosetti Published SUN by Aurum Press in ‘The Illustrated Poets’ SUN Title: Father Meslier’s Confessional Author: A.C. SUN Clarke Published by Overstep Books in ‘Fr Meslier’s SUN Confession’ SUN Title: ForgivenessAuthor: Elizabeth Jennings Published by SUN Carcanet in ‘Moments of Grace’ SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b05ns8pd (Listen) SUN The Severn Project SUN SUN Second chance salad. The Severn Project started 5 years ago SUN as a social enterprise to try and reclaim unused land in the SUN middle of Bristol and convert it to farming endeavours. SUN Moreover it was intended as a first step in to employment SUN for recovering drug and substance abusers. Its founder Steve SUN Glover tells Ruth Sanderson why its so important that SUN sustainable food just a trend, but rather a long term SUN solution - and how a strong business model is the only way SUN for locally produced food to last. Ruth meets some SUN volunteers with the project, who say that whilst the work is SUN hard, its an important routine which is key to stay on the SUN road to recovery. Produced and presented in Bristol by Ruth SUN Sanderson. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05nkdp4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05nkdp6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05ns8pg (Listen) SUN Germanwings Crash, Women Bishops, Child Soldiers SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05ns8pj (Listen) SUN Independent Age SUN SUN Anne Reid presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Independent Age SUN Registered Charity No 210729 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Independent Age'. SUN - cheques should be made to 'Independent Age'. SUN SUN Independent Age SUN Independent Age is a national charity supporting thousands SUN of older people through the ‘ABC’ of advice, befriending and SUN campaigning. We work to combat loneliness and financial SUN poverty among older people, and campaign to make the UK a SUN better country to grow old in. SUN SUN SUN Advice SUN We run a free national advice line with particular expertise SUN in welfare benefits and social care, and produce free SUN factsheets, guides and handbooks. Our popular Wise Guides SUN are full of useful tips on money, staying independent and SUN social, and choosing a care home. SUN SUN SUN Befriending SUN Our volunteers provide much-needed company to older people SUN like Ron, who’s portrayed in this appeal. The 88-year-old is SUN widowed and housebound and was very lonely when he contacted SUN us. He now receives regular visits from Alison and two other SUN volunteer and says, “It was very, very hard not having SUN anyone to talk to.” SUN SUN SUN Campaigning SUN We use the knowledge and understanding gained from our SUN frontline services to campaign on issues that impact on the SUN wellbeing of older people, like abuse and neglect in care, SUN loneliness and carers’ rights. SUN SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05nkdp8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05nkdpb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05ns8pl (Listen) SUN In God's Hands SUN SUN The sixth in a series of Lent services based on this year's SUN Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book - Desmond Tutu's 'In SUN God's hands' and exploring what it means to be made in God's SUN image. SUN From Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, the service led by the SUN Minister, the Revd Richard Frazer, also marks Palm Sunday, SUN with the preacher, Dr Alison Elliot. 'Cadenza' is directed SUN by Philip Redfern and the Organist is Henry Wallace. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN Lent resources for individuals and groups complementing the SUN programmes are available on the Sunday Worship web pages. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05ns9mt (Listen) SUN The Price of Independence SUN SUN Tom Shakespeare says that disabled people's right to SUN independent living is under threat as a result of the SUN imminent winding up of the Independent Living Fund. "I hope SUN that whichever parties are in government after May will have SUN a rethink about social care. The ILF may...have been an SUN anomaly, but one of the glories of living in Britain is that SUN we have a high tolerance of historical anomalies." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x474w (Listen) SUN Rook 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 Bill Oddie presents the rook. High in the treetops buffeted SUN by March winds, rooks are gathering twigs to build their SUN untidy nests. The bustle of a rookery is one of the classic SUN sounds of the UK countryside, especially in farming areas, SUN where rooks are in their element, probing the pastures and SUN ploughed fields with long pickaxe bills. SUN SUN Rook (Corvus frugilegus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05nsb41 (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 b05nsb45 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond 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 Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:16 Desert Island Discs b05nsb47 (Listen) SUN Paul Hollywood SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Paul Hollywood. SUN SUN One of the UK's leading artisan bakers, he's a judge, SUN together with Mary Berry, on BBC One's the Great British SUN Bake Off. The programme enjoyed viewing figures of 15.6m for SUN the 2014 final and has won two BAFTAS. SUN SUN Born and brought up in Wallasey in the Wirral, Paul studied SUN sculpture at art school before joining his father's bakery SUN business. He went on to work at the Chester Grosvenor, SUN Cliveden and was head baker at The Dorchester. Following his SUN success at some of the UK's top hotels, he travelled SUN extensively through Cyprus, Egypt and Jordan discovering SUN ancient techniques for baking bread. It was in Cyprus that SUN he first appeared on camera. On his return to the UK he SUN began his TV career co-presenting two series with the chef SUN James Martin. SUN SUN Paul has judged five series of The Great British Bake Off SUN and celebrity versions for Sport Relief and Comic Relief - SUN all alongside Mary Berry. He has published several SUN best-selling books on baking and is a regular contributor to SUN food magazines and writes a column for The Daily Telegraph. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Paul Hollywood SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05nkdpd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b05mqtj5 (Listen) SUN Series 71, Episode 7 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons asks Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince, Paul SUN Merton and Graham Norton to play Just a Minute this week. SUN Subjects include 'Death and Taxes', The count of Monte SUN Cristo' and 'Why We are Here'. They are here to attempt to SUN speak without hesitation, repetition or deviation of course! SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Panellist: Robin Ince SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Graham Norton SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05nsb49 (Listen) SUN Sweet Britain SUN SUN The nutritional debate over sugar doesn't seem to be putting SUN off a new generation of sweet makers in this country. Sweets SUN sales seem stable, and new treats are being created and SUN exported all over the world. SUN SUN Sheila speaks to sweet makers Freya Sykes and Steven Bletsoe SUN who are giving new life to a forgotten sweet and an old SUN family recipe. She looks at the state of the confectionery SUN market today with help from The Grocer magazine, and Jeremy SUN Dee, Managing Director of family sweets firm Swizzels. And SUN sweets historian Tim Richardson shares a bag of sweets with SUN Sheila that cast light on a long history of sweetness in the SUN UK. SUN SUN Sheila asks what's still driving our love affair with SUN sweeties - young and old, old and new. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon SUN Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN Interviewed Guest: Freya Sykes SUN Interviewed Guest: Steven Bletsoe SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Dee SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Richardson SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05nkdpg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05nsd28 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Moment That Made Putin b05nsd2b (Listen) SUN Vladimir Putin, then a KGB agent, was caught up in dramatic SUN events as East Germany collapsed. He saw crowds take control SUN as communist power collapsed, and had to defend his KGB SUN office in Dresden as demonstrators tried to break in. Chris SUN Bowlby explores how this experience shaped Putin's career SUN and behaviour today - his determination to restore Russian SUN power, his fear of demonstrations, his sense of the power of SUN nationalism. We learn too about the network of colleagues SUN and friends he began to assemble in Germany and how it aided SUN his rise to power and wealth. And we discover the quirkier SUN side too of Putin's love of German order and his enthusiasm SUN for German beer, cake and Western consumer gadgets. SUN Understanding Putin is more vital than ever given current SUN events in Europe. The story of his German years reveals much SUN about where his strongest ambitions - and deepest fears - SUN come from. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05n1l3k (Listen) SUN Buckingham Palace SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the programme from The Queen's Gallery, SUN Buckingham Palace. Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and SUN Christine Walkden answer questions from The Queen's Gallery. SUN SUN Chris explores the 'Painting Paradise' exhibition with SUN curator Vanessa Remington and the panel head out to the SUN garden at Buckingham Palace for some topical tips. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN A Royal Setting - Eric Robson and the panel on stage at The SUN Queen’s Gallery SUN SUN SUN This Week's Questions SUN Q. My garden has been taken over by Lords and Ladies. How SUN can I control them? SUN SUN SUN A. Bob- Instead of trying to get rid of them, try SUN incorporating them into your planting scheme. Ferns are a SUN good accompaniment. SUN SUN SUN Christine – It seeds itself very easily. You will need SUN regular applications of a translocated weed killer. It will SUN need several applications and can take up to four years. SUN SUN Q. How can I transplant a well established, flowering SUN Hellebore? SUN SUN SUN A. Christine – Take out a trench around the plant and fill SUN it with compost. Allow a fibrous root system to develop and SUN move it next year. SUN SUN SUN Chris – Also trying potting on some seedlings as a backup. SUN However, Hellebores do not come true from seed. SUN SUN SUN SUN Q. I have no-dig raised beds on my allotment. When planting SUN chitted potatoes, should I dig a trench or plant them into SUN single holes? SUN SUN SUN A. Bob – I have experimented with both. If you plant into a SUN trench you might get a larger crop but they are harder to SUN find. Planting in single holes is much easier. You can plant SUN them on the surface and cover them with compost. This SUN doesn’t work if you have a slug problem. You can grow them SUN in black plastic bags and turn them out at the end of the SUN season. SUN SUN SUN SUN Q. I have grown Lemon trees from seed. How long will they SUN take to flower? SUN SUN SUN A. Christine – It is very hard to predict when they will SUN flower. Regularly water and feed the tree. Taking it outside SUN during the summer months will encourage ripening growth. SUN SUN SUN Bob - Lemons from seed often produce multiple plants. One is SUN a true seedling and the other is a clone of the parent. The SUN clone grows more slowly but will probably flower sooner. SUN SUN SUN Q. Can the panel recommend some exotic plants suitable for SUN pots? SUN SUN SUN A. Christine: I would try the Pseudopanax. As a juvenile SUN plant it is quite bare but the adult plants are much more SUN interesting with larger leaves that shine in the light. You SUN could also use Acanthus Archers Gold with its golden foliage SUN in the spring and aubergine, spikey flowers. SUN SUN SUN Bob: Cordylines have a palm-like effect. Try bright orange SUN Crocosmia Lucifer, the purple-leaved Phormium or Aubretia. SUN Kniphofias have smaller varieties and very bright flowers. SUN Mirabilis jalapa is a wonderful plant with a lovely scent. SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05nsddb (Listen) SUN Conversations between a mother and daughter, grandparents SUN and granddaughter, and two cooks, from London, Scotland and SUN Devon, are introduced by Fi Glover 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 b05nsgbc (Listen) SUN A Fine Balance, Episode 2 SUN SUN Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about SUN India's underclass. SUN SUN Uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om have come to the city to SUN escape the caste violence in their native village. They SUN start working as tailors in the cramped flat of Dina, a SUN middle-aged Parsi widow. Maneck, a reluctant student from SUN the mountains, rents a room from Dina and the four strangers SUN form an unlikely bond against a backdrop of India in crisis SUN - during "the Emergency" of the mid-1970s, a period marked SUN by huge political unrest and human rights violations. SUN SUN A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human SUN spirit under inhuman conditions. SUN SUN Music: Sacha Putnam SUN Sound Design: Steve Bond SUN SUN Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel SUN by Rohinton Mistry SUN SUN Producer: Nadir Khan SUN Director: John Dryden SUN SUN A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dina: Shernaz Patel SUN Ishvar: Kenneth Desai SUN Om: Anand Tiwari SUN Maneck: Neil Bhoopalam SUN Rustom: Zafar Karachiwala SUN Ibrahim: Rajit Kapur SUN The Thakur: Jayant Kripalani SUN Ashraf: Darshan Jariwala SUN Nusswan: Farid Currim SUN Ruby: Anahita Uberoi SUN Narayan: Vivek Madan SUN Young Dina: Tirtha Kotrial SUN Young Ishvar: Eshan Savla SUN Young Narayan: Samar Uraizee SUN Ensemble: Jim Sarbh SUN Ensemble: Abhishek Saha SUN Ensemble: Meherangiz Acharya-Dar SUN Ensemble: Faezeh Jalali SUN Ensemble: Shivani Tanksale SUN Ensemble: Nadir Khan SUN Author: Rohinton Mistry SUN Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon SUN Adaptor: Kewel Karim SUN Producer: Nadir Khan SUN Director: John Dryden SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05nsgbm (Listen) SUN Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on her novel Dust SUN SUN Mariella is joined by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, who SUN discusses her acclaimed debut novel Dust, about a splintered SUN family in her native Kenya. Richard Beard, whose new book SUN Acts of the Assassins, combines the story of the Crucifixion SUN with a modern day detective novel, and Naomi Alderman, SUN author of The Liars' Gospel, discuss the ways they, and SUN others, have re-imagined Bible stories in their fiction. And SUN Dr Sarah Dillon continues her series of Close Readings by SUN examining a short extract from Katherine Mansfield's The SUN Garden Party. SUN SUN Read the opening pages of 'Dust' by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor SUN 'Dust' opening pages SUN by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor SUN SUN This Week's Close Reading: 'The Garden Party' by Katherine SUN Mansfield SUN It's all the fault, she decided, as the tall fellow drew SUN something on the back of an envelope, something that was to SUN be looped up or left to hang, of these absurd class SUN distinctions. Well, for her part, she didn't feel them. Not SUN a bit, not an atom... And now there came the chock-chock of SUN wooden hammers. Some one whistled, some one sang out, "Are SUN you right there, matey?" "Matey!" The friendliness of it, SUN the - the - Just to prove how happy she was, just to show SUN the tall fellow how at home she felt, and how she despised SUN stupid conventions, Laura took a big bite of her SUN bread-and-butter as she stared at the little drawing. She SUN felt just like a work-girl. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Beard SUN Interviewed Guest: Naomi Alderman SUN Interviewed Guest: Sarah Dillon SUN SUN 16:30 Landmark Poetics b05nsgc2 (Listen) SUN In the early nineties, for a bet, Lemn Sissay wrote a poem SUN for one of his favourite pubs - Hardy's Well in Rusholme in SUN Manchester. Since then, he and many other poets have written SUN more and more for public spaces in Britain - both urban and SUN rural. Travelling to Hebden Bridge, Little Sparta in SUN Lanarkshire, Manchester and London, he asks what these poems SUN are doing in the outdoors, if they really belong there, and SUN who they are for. SUN SUN Interviews include Simon Armitage talking about the Stanza SUN Stones poems he wrote for the Pennine Watershed, text artist SUN Robert Montgomery, Canal Laureate of the UK Jo Bell, and the SUN letter carver Pip Hall. SUN SUN Producer: Philippa Geering SUN Sound Design: Charlie Brandon-King SUN SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b05mt3gt (Listen) SUN Gun Control: Europe's Flooded Market SUN SUN With Britain on heightened alert following Islamist SUN shootings in Paris and Copenhagen, how well prepared are we SUN to deal with a similar attack? SUN SUN Allan Urry discovers how extremists in neighbouring European SUN countries were able to get access to guns and hears concerns SUN about the ready availability of illegal weapons from Eastern SUN Europe and North Africa. SUN SUN So what risk does that pose for the UK? Britain prides SUN itself on tough gun control, but is that enough to prevent SUN determined would-be terrorists getting access to firearms? SUN SUN Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN READ THE PROGRAMME TRANSCRIPT SUN SUN The UK is on heightened alert after recent terrorist SUN shootings. Allan Urry investigates the illegal guns market SUN in Europe and asks what is being done to stop similar SUN attacks here. SUN Read the Transcript SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05nk3gm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05nkdpj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05nkdpl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05nkdpn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05nsgqx (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN SUN A joyous jamboree of drama, comedy and documentary. Tony SUN Pitts offers "Monster", a challenging drama about men and SUN their violence, Rohinton Mistry's exquisite "A Fine Balance" SUN weaves wonder and woe wherever it goes, Lemn Sissay SUN documents public poetry and the brilliant Roger Allam is in SUN therapy. Produced in Salford by Jane Worsley and Stephen SUN Garner. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05nsgqz (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:16 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n1rpw (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, SUN regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things SUN like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his SUN hit sketch show. SUN SUN The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by SUN The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny SUN sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It SUN featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive SUN relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people SUN who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr SUN Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. SUN SUN This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it SUN does feature some other things, and don't worry, they're SUN funny too. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SUN John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, SUN Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced SUN by Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Copenhagen Curios b05nsvd6 (Listen) SUN The Music Box SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi SUN Amsinck, Copenhagen is a place of twilight and shadow. And SUN its antique shops are full of curiosity - and strangeness. SUN SUN Episode 3 (of 3): The Music Box SUN Verner requires one last prize acquisition to complete his SUN collection of antique music boxes. SUN SUN Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, SUN has written numerous short stories for radio including Radio SUN 4's three-story set Copenhagen Confidential in 2012. A SUN graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, SUN University of London, Heidi lives in Surrey. SUN SUN Writer: Heidi Amsinck SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Heidi Amsinck SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b05ns9mr (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton goes behind the scenes at BBC Westminster to SUN see how they're gearing up for the 2015 General Election. He SUN talks to Katy Searle, the Editor of Political News about the SUN pressures on journalists, while Deputy Political Editor SUN James Landale reveals how he got a headline story from Prime SUN Minister David Cameron. SUN SUN And changes to the layout of the BBC news website have SUN dismayed some Feedback listeners who feel they are being SUN force fed certain stories. Robin Pembrooke, the General SUN Manager for News Products, supervised the revamp and SUN explains how the BBC is adapting to changes in the way SUN people access information. SUN SUN After nearly 50 years, a radio institution is coming to an SUN end in July. The Radio 1 Chart Show has been a fixture on SUN Sunday evenings since 1967 but Radio 1's controller Ben SUN Cooper has announced the programme is moving to Friday SUN afternoons and being shortened. He says he had little choice SUN after the Official Charts Company announced they were going SUN to release the chart on Fridays - making a Sunday show seem SUN a little late. Music journalist Pete Paphides gives Feedback SUN his personal memories of a childhood obsession with the SUN Charts. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05ns9mp (Listen) SUN Lee Kuan Yew, Derek Chinnery, Eugenie Clark, Mal Peet, SUN Jackie Trent SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The autocratic founder of modern Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew SUN who held power for more than thirty years. SUN SUN Also Radio 1's first full time Controller Derek Chinnery, SUN who hired Mike Read to present the Breakfast Show. SUN SUN Ichthyologist Eugenie Clark who devoted her life to the SUN study of sharks - and often went swimming with them. SUN SUN Mal Peet who wrote award winning novels for young adults SUN including 'Keeper' and 'Tamar.' SUN SUN And Jackie Trent the pop singer who - with her husband Tony SUN Hatch - wrote hits for artists from Frank Sinatra to Val SUN Doonican. SUN SUN Lee Kuan Yew SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Don Morrison, former editor of Asian SUN edition of Time magazine and to the journalist and blogger SUN Kirsten Han. SUN SUN Born 16 September 1923; died 23 March 23 2015 aged 91. SUN SUN Derek Chinnery SUN SUN Last Word spoke to SUN Former Radio 1 controller Johnny Beerling and to DJ Mike SUN Read. SUN SUN Born 27 April 1925; died 22 March 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Eugenie Clark SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her friend and colleague Dr Kumar SUN Mahadevan and to marine biologist Helen Scales. SUN SUN Born 4 May 1922; died 25 February 2015 aged 92. SUN SUN Mal Peet SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the writer Meg Rosoff. SUN SUN Born 5 October 1947; died 2 March 2015 aged 67. SUN SUN Jackie Trent SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Radio Stoke DJ Tim Wedgwood who has written SUN a musical about Jackie. SUN SUN Born 6 September 1940; died 21 March 2015 aged 74. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05nk25x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05ns8pj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b05mr9mc (Listen) SUN Two-Nation Britain SUN SUN Jeremy Cliffe of The Economist asks if our real political SUN divide is between those who feel comfortable in liberal, SUN diverse, urban Britain and those who do not - the SUN cosmopolitans vs the rest. He argues that the success of SUN UKIP is one sign of this division. At one end are the SUN cosmopolitans - comfortable in diverse Britain, urban and SUN socially liberal. At the other end are the SUN non-cosmopolitans, who tend to be older, white, and socially SUN conservative, This new divide poses a serious problem for SUN the established political parties. How can they appeal to SUN one side without alienating the other? And what role does SUN the traditional left-right split play? SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05nsvd8 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05nsvdb (Listen) SUN George Parker of The Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05nd4ys (Listen) SUN Kenneth Branagh, Noah Baumbach, Wild Tales, Blind SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Kenneth Branagh discusses his live-action version of SUN Cinderella and why he made the stepmother less wicked and SUN more sympathetic, and why test audiences didn't always agree SUN with his decision. SUN SUN While We're Young director Noah Baumbach discusses mid-life SUN crises, Ben Stiller and the enduring influence of Woody SUN Allen. SUN SUN Blind is a new movie from Norway which imagines the internal SUN life of its blind protagonist. Director Eskil Vogt talks SUN about the challenges of filming the imagination of a SUN character who is losing their ability to visualise the SUN outside world. SUN SUN Wild Tales, an anthology of revenge tales, was the most SUN popular film in its native Argentina last year, and director SUN Damian Szifron considers the appeal of righteous anger. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Kenneth Branagh SUN Interviewed Guest: Noah Baumbach SUN Interviewed Guest: Eskil Vogt SUN Interviewed Guest: Damian Szifron SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05ns8pb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 MARCH 2015 MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05nkdqt (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05nkdqw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05nkdqy (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05p79n7 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury. MON MON Script MON MON Good Morning. Perhaps you’ve packed a bag for today or are MON thinking ahead to what you need for the Bank Holiday MON getaway? For Christians this week is about travel. It is a MON week of pilgrimage, spiritual or actual, following Jesus MON from his triumphant entry into Jerusalem to his death on the MON cross outside the city wall - with the promise of new life MON beckoning beyond. Jesus tips for packing are pretty simple MON and pretty fearsome. He is of the minimalist school. No MON purse, no bag, no sandals. MON There is something enormously freeing in this minimalist MON route whatever our journey. My bulging bag is not just MON heavy, or expensive in excess baggage it speaks of greed – MON more than I can possibly read or wear on one week; or by MON vanity – I must look good no matter what; or anxiety – how MON can I get it right? MON Taking the minimalist route, the via negative, as some MON writers on spirituality call it, stepping out without purse MON or bag or sandal, pinpoints that what we leave out is as MON important as what we put in. MON Anxiety can cripple us and vanity can distract us. An Erich MON Fromm line from school hit home: ‘Greed is a bottomless pit MON which exhaust the person in an endless effort to satisfy MON without ever really satisfying.’ MON Lord, help us to travel light, freed from things we can do MON without. Help us to discard baggage which weighs us down and MON be open to those in need. Amen MON MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05nswjf (Listen) MON Fishermen's online fears MON MON From April 1st this year all English fishermen operating MON vessels 12m long or above must log all details of their MON operations and catch online, or face having their licence MON withdrawn. This is called Electronic - or E - logging, and MON replaces paper forms. MON MON The European Commission says the change will mean better MON data on stocks and make it easier to clamp down on illegal MON fishing. MON MON But some fishermen says the system is overcomplicated, and MON difficult to operate - especially while at sea. MON MON A spokeswoman for the Marine Management Organisation - which MON operates the system of behalf of Defra - told us the system MON had been introduced gradually to minimise disruption, and MON the industry has been supported throughout. She added that MON some vessels are already successfully using e-logs. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced in Bristol by MON Sally Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05nkdr0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thswl (Listen) MON Canada Goose MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON John Aitchison tells the story of the Canada goose. These MON large black-necked geese with white cheeks and chinstraps MON are native to Canada and the USA. The first reference to MON them in the UK is in 1665 when English diarist, John Evelyn, MON records that they were in the waterfowl collection of King MON Charles II at St. James' Park in London. MON MON Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05nswn9 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05nsx41 (Listen) MON Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice. MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to Robert MON Douglas-Fairhurst about the life of Lewis Carroll. Alice's MON Adventures in Wonderland has become an influential part of MON our cultural heritage but beneath the fairy tale lies the MON complex history of the author and his subject. Gillian Beer MON explores the links between Darwin and Carroll and the MON struggle to define and classify a changing world. The MON children's author Katherine Rundell enjoys the chaos and MON ambivalence in the Alice stories, and brings a sense of MON adventure to her own work. Centuries earlier, as intrepid MON travellers returned from distant lands with tales of wonder MON and exotic beasts, fearful hybrid monsters were all the rage MON as Damien Kempf describes in his Medieval Monsters. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst MON Interviewed Guest: Gillian Beer MON Interviewed Guest: Katherine Rundell MON Interviewed Guest: Damien Kempf MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05plghr (Listen) MON Landmarks, Episode 1 MON MON Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the MON people and MON 'collect' the words that evoke the area. Abridged for radio MON by Penny MON Leicester. MON MON 1. He recalls happy days at Walnut Tree Farm, Suffolk, home MON to a famous MON swimmer of moats and ponds, lakes and rivers.. MON MON Readers Tobias Menzies and the author MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tobias Menzies MON Reader: Robert Macfarlane MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON Author: Robert Macfarlane MON Abridger: Penny Leicester MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05nsxyq (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON General Election MON The Prime Minister goes to the Palace today to see the Queen MON and Parliament will be dissolved. Over the next six weeks MON the political parties will be after the support of women MON voters. So, what will the parties be saying to them and how MON often will we see a female politician in a prominent MON campaigning role? Jane talks to Allegra Stratton, Political MON Editor of BBC2’s Newsnight programme to look at what we can MON expect over the next few weeks. MON www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015 MON MON Food Banks MON MON 900,000 people took free food parcels last year. In December MON 2012, Steph Hagen set up a food bank “The St Anne’s and MON Sneinton foodstore” on the St Anne’s estate in Nottingham. MON Forty to fifty people use it every week, all with no MON income. The food is donated by local churches, local MON companies and people in the local community. The council MON charge no rent for the building because it is a-hard-to-let MON property, and is going to be knocked down in the MON future. Jane visited St Anne’s to meet Steph Hagen. MON MON Louise Stern MON The writer and artist Louise Stern talks to Jane Garvey MON about her debut novel and the Maya community she visited for MON her research. Ismael and His Sisters, is set in a village in MON Mexico where many of the inhabitants are deaf and both the MON deaf and the hearing communicate in sign language. She also MON tells Jane about falling in love while in Mexico. MON MON One Direction Fans and Self-Harming MON MON After it was announced Zayn Malik was quitting the band One MON Direction, many might have been shocked to see the dramatic MON surge of tweets encouraging fans to self-harm with people MON sharing photos of their injuries. We talk to Lucie Russell MON from the charity Young Minds and London’s Mulberry School MON head Dr. Vanessa Ogden about the role social media plays in MON self-harm with young people today. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05nszld (Listen) MON A Steal, Episode 1 MON MON by Mike Bartlett MON MON Liverpudlian shop assistant Hanna tries to help out a couple MON of friends who are down on their luck, and before she knows MON it, it's turned into a mission to tackle the widening MON economic gap in her community. A comic look at the morality MON of economics and how the financial crisis feels on the MON street. MON MON Director ..... Mary Peate MON MON A Steal explores our reaction to the current economic MON crisis, dramatising how it affects the fabric of society and MON community. What happens if a citizen takes matters into MON their own hands, how would they go about it and how would MON everyone else react? MON MON Mike Bartlett is one of Britain's foremost contemporary MON playwrights. In theatre his most recent productions are the MON highly acclaimed Game (Almeida Theatre) 2015; KING CHARLES MON III (Almeida Theatre/Wyndham's Theatre) 2014/2015 and AN MON INTERVENTION (Paines Plough/Watford Palace Theatre) 2014. MON MON Mike's TV series The Town (December 2012) was nominated for MON a Breakthrough Talent BAFTA. His play Bull (2013) received MON excellent reviews at the Sheffield Crucible, transferred to MON New York and was revived this year at the Young Vic. His MON dramatisation of Chariots of Fire (2012) at Hampstead MON transferred to the Gielgud. Love Love Love at the Royal MON Court won TMA Best Play 2011. Love Contract (2008), Liam MON (2009) and The Core (2011) were three outstanding radio MON listens. Earthquakes In London (2010) and 13 (2011) received MON critical acclaim at the National Theatre. My Child (2007) MON and Cock (2009) won awards at the Royal Court and Cock MON transferred to Broadway. In 2007 'Not Talking' for R3 MON scooped the Imison and Tinniswood Awards for best newcomer MON and best radio play. MON MON Credits MON Hanna: Laura Dos Santos MON Susie: Samantha Robinson MON David: Justin Salinger MON Mark: Shaun Mason MON Director: Mary Peate MON Writer: Mike Bartlett MON MON 11:00 Minecraft: More than a Game b05mqpgl (Listen) MON Jolyon Jenkins asks why our children are hooked on the MON computer game Minecraft. Does its alternate universe MON stimulate creativity, or make them disengage from planet MON Earth? MON MON To the adult onlooker, Minecraft might seem to be a MON low-resolution digital version of Lego, albeit one where you MON never run out of blocks and they never topple over. Yet it's MON very different: here you can walk among your own creations, MON play online with other people who are in the same world, and MON battle monsters when they come out after dark. MON MON But many parents worry that their children find the MON Minecraft universe so rewarding that they are losing MON interest in the real world, in face to face contact, or in MON non-screen-based play. Even when not playing the game MON themselves, millions of children enjoy watching other people MON playing, in Youtube videos. MON MON And there's a darker side to Minecraft - one in which MON children are "griefed" by having their digital property MON vandalised or stolen, and older teenagers go online MON specifically to bully younger children and post the MON resulting videos. Minecraft seems to be inducting children MON into a world with property but no policemen. MON MON But the things children are building in Minecraft are MON extraordinary, and their commitment to understanding the MON game and mastering its technicalities is impressive. Rather MON than having a moral panic about it, maybe we should be MON harnessing children's enthusiasm and taking Minecraft into MON schools, as some educationalists propose? MON MON Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b01qfkh6 (Listen) MON Series 3, It's That Song Again MON MON Ronnie Corbett returns to Radio 4 for a third series of his MON popular sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. MON MON Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along MON with his dog Henry. His grown up children - both married to MON people Sandy doesn't approve of at all - would like him to MON move out of the family home so they can get their hands on MON their money earlier. But Sandy's not having this. He's not MON moving until the dog dies. And not just that, how can he MON move if he's got a lodger? His daughter is convinced that MON his too attractive lodger Dolores is after Sandy and his MON money. MON MON Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a MON friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help MON a granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together MON face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make MON it more so. MON MON Episode Five: It's That Song Again MON MON Sandy is haunted by the song 'Green Grow the Rushes Oh' and MON recent events seem to match its verses. Is it all a MON countdown? What will happen when the song gets to "One"? MON MON Sandy.................................Ronnie Corbett MON Dolores...............................Liza Tarbuck MON Mrs Pompom.......................Sally Grace MON Ellie.....................................Tilly Vosburgh MON Lance...................................Philip Bird MON Walker.................................Matt Addis MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05nkdr4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 A History of Ideas b05nt099 (Listen) MON How Do I Live a Good Life? MON MON A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in MON many voices. MON MON Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different MON backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week he's MON asking 'How do I live a good life'? MON MON Helping him answer it are historian Justin Champion, MON neuropsychologist Paul Broks , theologian Naomi Appleton and MON philosopher Jules Evans. MON MON For the rest of the week Jules, Paul, Justin and Naomi will MON take us further into the history of ideas about the good MON life with programmes of their own. Between them they will MON examine Aristotle's idea of flourishing, selfishness, the MON Protestant work ethic and Buddhism's Four Noble Truths. MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 12:16 You and Yours b05nt09c (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05nkdr6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05nt09f (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Healthy Visions b05pb23c (Listen) MON Do I Need the Doctor? MON MON Healthy Visions offers five expert views of how healthcare MON can and must change if current levels of provision are to be MON maintained and grown - meeting the high level of expectation MON from patients as medical advances continue and as the MON population becomes larger and older. In this edition Dr MON Michael Dixon argues that the idea of doctor as ultimate MON dispenser of all medicine, may have to be sacrificed, with MON the expertise of a wide range of health practitioners called MON upon to get best care. Dixon has been implementing his views MON successfully in his Devon GP practice for a number of years MON and his ideas are now being extended elsewhere. The MON programme visits a Brighton surgery which practices MON "narrative" surgery - instead of patients turning up for MON specific treatment for specific ailments, they tell their MON "health story", throwing up a list of possible medical MON issues which can be treated as a whole. Recommendations MON include singing and writing sessions which can help deal MON with some of the underlying causes of ill health. The MON emphasis is, not just making people "better" in the MON conventional sense, but helping them to be well - in a wider MON and deeper sense. MON MON Producer:Arlene Gregorius MON Presenter:Dr Michael Dixon MON Editor:Andrew Smith. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Julia Johnson MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05nsgqz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b05nt1vb (Listen) MON Far Side of the Moore MON MON Tom Hollander (Rev, Pirates of The Caribbean) stars as MON Patrick Moore, with Patricia Hodge as his mother Gertrude. MON MON It's 1957 and the little known Patrick Moore is living with MON his mother in East Grinstead, from where he studies the MON heavens and writes popular factual works on astronomy, as MON well as science fiction under a pseudonym. MON MON When Moore's latest book 'Suns, Myths and Men' gets a MON terrible review from the stuffy academic Dr Henry King, MON Patrick is in despair and, when the phone rings, he braces MON himself for more bad news. MON MON Sean Grundy's drama is both a moving and at times laugh out MON loud funny telling of a key moment in the life of Patrick MON Moore. MON MON This is the story of how the self taught astronomer, whose MON Moon maps were later used by the Apollo missions, became the MON presenter of The Sky At Night. But it's also the story of a MON mysterious love affair, and a window into the mind of one of MON the nation's favourite broadcasters. MON MON Written by Sean Grundy MON MON Director: Dirk Maggs MON Producer: David Morley MON A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Lorna: Felicity Duncan MON Gertrude Moore: Patricia Hodge MON Patrick Moore: Tom Hollander MON Dr Henry King: Anton Lesser MON Eileen Wilkins: Charlotte Ritchie MON Leonard Miall: David Shaw-Parker MON Arthur C Clarke: Simon Treves MON Paul Johnstone: Daniel Weyman MON Writer: Sean Grundy MON Director: Dirk Maggs MON Producer: David Morley MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b05nt1vd (Listen) MON Semi-Final 2, 2015 MON MON (14/17) MON MON Competitors from Worcestershire, Hampshire, Norfolk and MON North Yorkshire join Russell Davies for the second MON semi-final of the 2015 series. MON MON One of them will take another of the places in the Final, MON and stand a real chance of joining the roll of honour as the MON 62nd Brain of Britain champion. MON MON Russell's questions in this semi-final encompass Indian MON politics, the 2014 football World Cup, and Wagnerian opera - MON among many other topics. There's also the customary chance MON for a listener to outwit the competitors with devious MON questions of his or her own. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05nsb49 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Saffron Censorship: India's Culture Wars b05nt2bx (Listen) MON Is India at a major cultural crossroads? Its Constitution MON states that the country is a secular democracy. Recent MON events, since last year's election of a Hindu nationalist MON government, suggest the reality may be different, and MON changing fast. MON MON The BBC broadcasts a film about India's most notorious case MON of gang rape. The Government gets a court order banning it. MON 'PK', a Bollywood comedy, sends up bogus Indian holy men. MON Cinemas showing the film are trashed. A scholar publishes a MON history that notes the importance of sexuality to Hinduism. MON A lawsuit puts a stop to it. School textbooks are being MON changed to teach Hindu mythology as historical fact. MON Churches and Christian schools are attacked. Muslim men are MON accused of 'love jihad', luring Hindu women into marriage MON and conversion to Islam. A Muslim newspaper editor is in MON hiding, in fear of her life from extremists in her own MON community. The criminality of homosexuality is upheld by MON India's Supreme Court. A list of phrases and words forbidden MON in films is announced - including the word 'Bombay', the old MON name for Mumbai that is still commonly used. Opening a new MON hospital, the recently elected Prime Minister, Narendra MON Modi, hails the Hindu elephant-headed god, Ganesh, as proof MON of ancient Hindu expertise as plastic surgeons - and he's in MON earnest. MON MON In 'Saffron Censorship: India's Culture Wars', Dr Zareer MON Masani talks to artists, film-makers, scholars, politicians MON and the man who brought the law suit against that history MON book, to find out whether growing religious zealotry, moral MON policing and state censorship are threatening freedom of MON expression and cultural pluralism in the world's largest MON democracy. MON MON Producer: Julian May. MON MON Historian Romila Thapar talks to Zareer MON MON Film director Onir who made the first film in India MON featuring homesexual characters MON MON History students of several different faiths at St.Xavier's MON College MON MON The Indo-Saracenic architecture of St. Xavier's College, MON Mumbai MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b05nt9b9 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea in conversation with guests about the place of MON faith in today's complex world. MON MON 17:00 PM b05nt9bc (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05nkdrb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b05nt9bf (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 8 MON MON After an incredibly successful debut earlier in this series, MON David Tennant is back on the show, joining Julian Clary, MON Stephen Fry and Paul Merton. MON MON But will he manage to speak for an entire minute this MON time..? Subjects include "To Be or Not to Be" and "My Dog's MON Got No Nose". MON MON Nicholas Parsons rules over BBC Radio 4's classic panel game MON in which the contestants are challenged to speak on a given MON subject for a minute without hesitation, repetition or MON deviation. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05nt9bh (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:16 Front Row b05ntj7m (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05nszld (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Company vs Country b05ntj7p (Listen) MON Inside the booming and lucrative business of multinational MON companies suing governments. The strangely-named investor MON state dispute settlement (ISDS) system is built into MON thousands of treaties between countries around the world. It MON is a key part of negotiations for a new trade and investment MON treaty between the US and the EU. Yet on both sides of the MON Atlantic, resistance is mounting. Michael Robinson digs into MON the ISDS mechanism to find out if the fears are justified. MON Are these little-known lawsuits threatening the democratic MON process? MON Producer: Rosamund Jones. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b05n1dnc (Listen) MON Saving Gaza's Grand Piano MON MON It has been hidden away in a dusty corner of an abandoned MON theatre, unplayed and almost forgotten - a magnificent MON instrument allowed to moulder away in a territory whose MON Islamist rulers banned public performances of music. But now MON Gaza's only grand piano is getting a new lease of life. A MON small Brussels-based charity is restoring it to its former MON glory and at the same time is working to bring music back MON into schools. With Hamas control steadily weakening the MON charity has begun a unique project to train teachers in Gaza MON to re-introduce music into the curriculum - not through MON music classes but through subjects such as mathematics and MON geography. It is helping disturbed children in this war torn MON territory to concentrate - and it is exciting teachers. Tim MON Whewell gets exclusive access to the story of Gaza and its MON grand piano. MON MON 21:00 Restarting the Antibiotic Pipeline b05mrptb (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Infectious bacteria are becoming resistant to the drugs that MON used to kill them. The last new class of antibiotics was MON discovered in the 1980s. There is little in the development MON pipelines of the world's pharmaceutical industry. Drug MON companies got out of antibiotics as their attention switched MON to much more lucrative daily medicines for chronic diseases. MON Public funding on antibiotic research has also withered. MON MON Now that the gathering crisis of antibiotic resistance is MON becoming recognised by politicians, what are the options? MON Roland Pease explores how business, academia and governments MON might work together to avert a return to the medical dark MON ages. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05nsx41 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05nkdrf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05ntj7r (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05ntzhs (Listen) MON The Ladies of the House, Episode 1 MON MON On a sweltering July day, three people are found dead in a MON dilapidated house in London's elegant Primrose Hill. Reading MON the story in a newspaper as she prepares to leave the MON country, Marie Gillies has an unshakeable feeling that she MON is somehow to blame. MON MON How did these three people come to live together, and how MON did they all die at once? The truth lies in a very different MON England, in the double life of Marie's father Arthur, and in MON the secret world of the ladies of the house... MON MON Read by Susan Jameson MON Written by Molly McGrann MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron MON MON Theme music: MON Track 16, "Patterns" MON CD: Human Behaviour MON Label: BBC Production Music BBCPM029. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Susan Jameson MON Author: Molly McGrann MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Sleepy Tigers b05nv074 (Listen) MON Julia Davis and Marc Wootton star as a couple of maternity MON nurses who run their own business "Sleepy Tigers" in this MON dark comedy drama. As they move into the home of some very MON new parents (played by Alex Macqueen and Rosie Cavaliero) MON the nurses quickly start to take over and dish out the MON advice: "You are setting a pattern for baby's future the MON minute he comes out of the womb. Four days in and you could MON have a serial killer on your hands. Six weeks on and it's a MON lost cause, the personality is formed. But help is at hand!" MON A one off that has series written all over it, this is also MON created by Davis and Wootton and not to be missed. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Julia Davis MON Actor: Marc Wootton MON Actor: Alex MacQueen MON Actor: Rosie Cavaliero MON Writer: Julia Davis MON Writer: Marc Wootton MON MON 23:30 With Great Pleasure b05061z8 (Listen) MON Sanjeev Bhaskar MON MON Sanjeev Bhaskar, star of Goodness Gracious Me, presents his MON favourite pieces of writing and comedy to the audience at MON the Radio Theatre. His readers are Adrian Lester and Claire MON Benedict. Sanjeev's picks include Monty Python, Alan Alda, MON The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a stirring speech MON by Frederick Douglass, who after escaping from slavery MON became a leader of the abolitionist movement. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Sanjeev's choices: MON MON Audio archive: The Argument Sketch by Monty Python MON MON MON MON The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams MON MON MON MON Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda MON MON MON MON If by Rudyard Kipling MON MON MON MON Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare MON MON MON MON Frederick Douglass Independence Day Speech 1852 MON http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=2945 MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Sanjeev Bhaskar MON Reader: Adrian Lester MON Reader: Claire Benedict MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05nkdsc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05plghr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05nkdsg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05nkdsj (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05nkdsl (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05nkdsn (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05pt7tm (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05nv0ld (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03tht7c (Listen) TUE Skylark TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE John Aitchison tells the story of the skylark. No other UK TUE bird is capable of sustaining such a loud and complex song TUE while hovering high above the ground, rapidly beating its TUE wings to stay aloft. Some songs can last 20 minutes or more TUE and their performance is likely to be as much a territorial TUE display as an exhibition of the male's physical fitness to TUE impress a female. TUE TUE Skylark (Alauda arvensis) TUE Webpage image curtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05nv1wb (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b05nv1wd (Listen) TUE Jane Francis TUE TUE Just twenty years ago, the British Antarctic survey (BAS) TUE would not allow women to camp in Antarctica. In 2013, they TUE appointed Jane Francis as their Director. Jane tells Jim TUE Al-Khalili how an intimate understanding of petrified wood TUE and fossilised leaves took her from Dorset's Jurassic coast TUE to this icy land mass. Camping on Antarctic ice is not for TUE everyone but Jane is addicted, even if she does crave celery TUE and occasionally wish that she could wash her hair. Fossils TUE buried under the ice contain vital clues about ancient TUE climates and can be used to check current computer models of TUE climate change. The earth can withstand a great range of TUE temperatures: Antarctica was once covered in lush forest. TUE But the question is: can humans adapt? As the ice caps melt, TUE sea levels will continue to rise. And, says Jane, the time TUE to start planning for that is now. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b05nv23y (Listen) TUE Christina Lamb talks to Ziauddin Yousafzai - Malala's dad. TUE TUE Christina Lamb is an author and foreign correspondent for TUE the Sunday Times and in this series of One to One she TUE explores the issues around family legacies. TUE TUE In the second of three programmes, Christina looks at what TUE can happen when you build a legacy only to find it TUE overshadowed by your child's fame. Ziauddin is father of the TUE world's most famous schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. TUE TUE Malala was shot by the Taleban in Pakistan in October 2012 TUE for standing up for her rights to an education. While TUE extremely proud of his daughter's bravery and her TUE campaigning, he tells Christina where her passion stems from TUE and that for him it's important to return to his home TUE village and continue with his own work. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05pn3sy (Listen) TUE Landmarks, Episode 2 TUE TUE Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the TUE people and TUE 'collect' the words that evoke the area: TUE TUE 2. One day he sees a 'quick dark curve' - and recalls a TUE particular bird of prey, made TUE majestic in print by John Alec Baker.. TUE TUE Readers Tobias Menzies and the author TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tobias Menzies TUE Reader: Robert Macfarlane TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE Author: Robert Macfarlane TUE Abridger: Penny Leicester TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05nv240 (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 b05nxz3f (Listen) TUE A Steal, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Mike Bartlett TUE TUE Liverpool shop assistant Hanna's little bit of wealth TUE redistribution has given her a taste for it. And she is TUE getting fonder of Mark, the teacher she met in her TUE Department Store... TUE TUE Director ..... Mary Peate. TUE TUE Credits TUE Hanna: Laura Dos Santos TUE Susie: Samantha Robinson TUE David: Justin Salinger TUE Mark: Shaun Mason TUE Len: Jude Akuwudike TUE Denise: Annabelle Dowler TUE Director: Mary Peate TUE Writer: Mike Bartlett TUE TUE 11:00 The Lariam Legacy b05nv242 (Listen) TUE An investigation into why the Ministry of Defence continues TUE to use a drug that has been shown to cause psychosis, TUE hallucinations, paranoia and confusion. TUE TUE Lariam, also known by its generic name Mefloquine, is a TUE highly effective anti-malarial drug, but in some people it TUE can cause unpleasant neuropsychiatric reactions, problems TUE with balance and vision, tinnitus and seizures. The drug TUE manufacturer warns that, "Lariam may cause serious mental TUE problems in some people". It also reports a link between TUE Lariam and suicide. TUE TUE In 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration applied the TUE most serious kind of warning to the drug label, adding that TUE the neurologic side effects may "persist or become TUE permanent". US Special Forces soon banned the drug and TUE launched an investigation into potential cases that may have TUE been previously overlooked or misdiagnosed. TUE TUE The wider US Army has "drastically reduced" its use of TUE mefloquine, prescribing it only to soldiers who cannot TUE tolerate the alternative anti-malarial drugs - as is also TUE the case in Australia. TUE TUE So why does the MOD continue to issue it to approximately TUE 2,500 British Service Personnel each year? And is enough TUE being done to ensure its safe use by British Armed Forces? TUE We hear claims from ex-soldiers who felt compelled to use TUE the drug and unable to report the side effects. TUE TUE Producer: Deborah Dudgeon TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 My Pakistani Jazz Orchestra b04n31w6 (Listen) TUE Izzat Majeed could have retired quietly, but instead he TUE formed the Sachal Jazz Ensemble and built a music studio in TUE Lahore. The London-based father of three was born and TUE brought up in Lahore. He recalls a vibrant city full of TUE music and culture. When he was a child, Lollywood - TUE Pakistan's film industry - was producing 100 movies a year. TUE He recalls seeing the Dave Brubeck Trio playing in the city TUE as part of America's Jazz Ambassador's Tour. This was the TUE start of a lifelong affection for jazz. As the years passed, TUE a more religious and less culturally tolerant society took TUE shape in Pakistan. Izzat was extremely disheartened by this. TUE Lollywood all but disappeared, and the classical musicians TUE at it's heart disappeared with it. They had to make ends TUE meet in any way they could. when he retired, he decided to TUE do something about it, and the Sachal Jazz Ensemble was TUE born. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05nkdss (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 A History of Ideas b05nv3t8 (Listen) TUE Philosopher Jules Evans on Aristotle and Flourishing TUE TUE Philosopher Jules Evans wants to prove there's been a TUE revival of Aristotle's ideas about flourishing and how to TUE live a good life. "These ideas, which many of you might TUE think are a bit dusty, they are central to modern politics, TUE so the National Office of Statistics now measures national TUE eudaimonic wellbeing, their flourishing." TUE To prove his point he visits Gus O'Donnell, former head of TUE the civil service, who explains: "If you think of one thing TUE governments could do, it would be to get rid of misery. TUE Making multi-millionaires a little happier, to me that's not TUE one the pressing public policy issues of our age." TUE And James O'Shaughnessy explains why he's helping to set up TUE a chain of schools called Floreat based on Aristotle's TUE flourishing concept. TUE Jules Evans is the author of Philosophy for Life. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 12:16 You and Yours b05nv3tb (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05nkdsv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05nv3td (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Healthy Visions b05q13vv (Listen) TUE The Patient in Charge? TUE TUE 2/5 TUE Most health care is delivered face to face with a highly and TUE expensively qualified practitioner who acts as gatekeeper to TUE any treatment we receive. If we seek advice from our GP, TUE they will generally either prescribe medication, refer us TUE for investigative tests or send us to a specialist TUE consultant who will in turn assess our need for treatment. TUE TUE In the second programme of this Healthy Visions series, Dr TUE Charles Alessi argues that this model of how we access and TUE interact with our health care system will be required to TUE undergo considerable change in the future. Not only do NHS TUE resources need to be saved, but people are becoming TUE increasingly knowledgeable and interested in their health TUE and want to be more involved and in charge of their own TUE care. TUE TUE In the digital age it is now becoming much easier to access TUE and share information about health. Patients Know Best is TUE the world's first patient controlled online medical records TUE system and is based on the premise that patients have the TUE right to, and are best placed to be in control of their own TUE records. By having their own unique profile on a website, TUE patients are able to gain access to their data via a TUE computer or smartphone. Linking together the care teams that TUE treat them, management of any condition is made much easier TUE for all involved. TUE TUE Patients are also becoming more active in their own care as TUE treatment moves away from solely being provided by health TUE care professionals. An illustration of this is the self-care TUE kidney dialysis unit in Harrogate, Yorkshire, the first of TUE its kind in the country, where patients undertake their own TUE dialysis at times that are most convenient for them. This TUE affords them much greater flexibility and can substantially TUE improve their quality of life. TUE TUE Presenter:Dr Charles Alessi TUE Producer:Helena Selby TUE Editor:Andrew Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Julia Johnson TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05nt9bh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b05nvdv0 (Listen) TUE Three Soldiers TUE TUE Three Soldiers by Amanda Dalton is set in Manchester during TUE spring 2015, and in South Sudan in 2013/14 during TUE conflict.The action takes place over one weekend when three TUE teenagers lives intersect. They have all been affected by TUE war in one way or another . Ryan's place, where they meet is TUE a scrap of scrubland just off a neglected path by the river. TUE TUE Sound design Steve Brooke TUE Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts TUE TUE Angel , age 15 is a refugee who has escaped fighting in TUE South Sudan where she was forced to become a child soldier. TUE She takes us back to a vivid sound world of village life, TUE war, music, the natural world, the journey... TUE Angel is traumatised and rarely shows emotion despite the TUE terrible things she has been through. She is volatile and TUE breaks down as she relives moments of her trauma. Beneath TUE this is a warm, eager teenager who was once at ease. TUE TUE Ryan Parr, 15, a solitary boy . He struggles at school but TUE wants to do something with his life that has status; he's TUE desperate to 'do well' and to belong to something bigger and TUE hopes the army will give him this. He loves the outside TUE world - the woods and his birds. He is building a bird hide. TUE He has a natural authority in this place - and it's the one TUE place where he knows more than Carly. TUE TUE Carly also 15, is confused, unhappy, angry, off balance and TUE struggling. She is bright but hates school and has a bad TUE reputation. She is private with a storm of mixed emotions TUE about her home situation. She's always felt lied to and TUE never felt 'let in' or trusted with confidences - until TUE Angel shares her story with her. . TUE TUE Following "Three Soldiers" on BBC Radio 4 Mike Thomson TUE reports from Northern Iraq on the changing role of child TUE soldiers TUE Aid organisations estimate that there are around 300,000 TUE children involved with armed groups worldwide, but with the TUE escalation of the conflict in Syria the number is likely to TUE be much greater. TUE Children are on the Front Line as never before. They're TUE being recruited in new ways and used in more roles. Many TUE will bear arms – others will act as porters or cooks. 40% of TUE them are girls, who may be married off to combatants or TUE otherwise sexually exploited. TUE The traditional image of the child soldier is of the boy TUE forced to fight after being abducted.....now many are TUE volunteering after being ideologically groomed. Others are TUE encouraged by their parents and communities. Should such TUE youngsters continue to be seen as victims or held TUE responsible for their actions? And what can be done to stop TUE this trend and keep children out of conflicts? TUE Tuesday 31st March 15.00 TUE TUE Credits TUE Angel: Marlene Madenge TUE Ryan: Ben Ryan Davies TUE Carly: Shannon Flynn TUE Police Officer: Chris Jack TUE Man: Chris Jack TUE Social Worker: Verity-May Henry TUE Police Officer Operator: Verity-May Henry TUE Director: Susan Roberts TUE Writer: Amanda Dalton TUE TUE 15:00 Children on the Front Line b05nvdv2 (Listen) TUE Following the afternoon play "Three Soldiers," TUE Mike Thomson reports from Northern Iraq on the changing role TUE of child soldiers. TUE TUE Aid organisations estimate that there are around 300,000 TUE children involved with armed groups worldwide, but with the TUE escalation of the conflict in Syria the number is likely to TUE be much greater. TUE Children are on the Front Line as never before. They're TUE being recruited in new ways and used in more roles. Many TUE will bear arms - others will act as porters or cooks. 40% of TUE them are girls, who may be married off to combatants or TUE otherwise sexually exploited. TUE The traditional image of the child soldier is of the boy TUE forced to fight after being abducted.....now many are TUE volunteering after being ideologically groomed or encouraged TUE by their parents and communities. Should such youngsters TUE continue to be seen as victims or held responsible for their TUE actions? And what can be done to stop this trend and keep TUE children out of conflicts? TUE TUE Producer: Rosie Dawson. TUE TUE Three Soldiers TUE TUE Amanda Dalton's drama looks at three teenagers whose lives TUE have been affected TUE by war on BBC Radio 4. TUE Tuesday 31st March 2015 14:15 TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05nvdv4 (Listen) TUE Climate Change: Inconvenient Facts? TUE TUE With arctic sea ice shrinking and Antarctic sea ice growing, TUE Tom Heap asks what is happening to the climate. TUE TUE Despite the consensus of scientists around the world, there TUE are still some anomalies in the computer models of the TUE future climate. Tom Heap is joined by a panel of experts to TUE tackle some of the difficult questions that lead to TUE uncertainties in our understanding of the changing climate. TUE TUE The perceived wisdom in the scientific community is that the TUE climate is warming but evidence shows that even though TUE Arctic sea ice is melting, there has actually been a growth TUE in Antarctic sea ice. That, along with a documented slow TUE down in the warming of the climate since 1998, has been a TUE 'stone in the shoe' of the climate change story. So what is TUE happening? TUE TUE Tom is joined by BBC and Met office weather presenter John TUE Hammond to put these 'difficult' climate scenarios to a team TUE of experts: Mark Lynas is an author and environmental TUE campaigner, Mike Hulme is professor of Climate and Culture TUE at Kings College London and Dr Helen Czerski is a TUE broadcaster and 'bubble physicist' at UCL. TUE TUE With the help of this panel, Costing The Earth discusses how TUE best to communicate anomalies that don't appear in climate TUE models and make the science sometimes hard to comprehend. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Allergic to the 21st Century b05nvfqz (Listen) TUE Every day we're exposed to a multitude of man-made chemicals TUE in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the products we TUE clean our homes and wash our bodies with. For some people, TUE like journalist Jane Little, the burden can be almost too TUE much to bear. Certain chemicals trigger extreme physical TUE reactions, leaving her ill and exhausted for days at a time. TUE It's a debilitating condition for her and many thousands of TUE fellow sufferers. Some estimates suggest that 15% of the TUE American population believe they experience ill effects from TUE domestic chemicals. TUE TUE The trouble is that most members of the medical TUE establishment in the US and the UK refuse to accept that TUE Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is a disease. It's not a TUE straightforward allergy and there's no diagnostic test or TUE clearly defined treatment programme. So what is Jane TUE actually suffering from? To find out she takes a global road TUE trip from the foothills of Cumbria to the deserts of TUE Arizona. TUE TUE Jane suffered her first extreme reaction whilst staying on TUE the family farm in Cumbria. Exposed, alongside her father, TUE to the cocktail of disinfectants used during the Foot and TUE Mouth outbreak of 2001, she believes this could be the TUE origin of her condition. In Texas she meets clinicians who TUE say that they can explain MCS with a new theory of disease TUE whilst in Arizona she drops in on a community that's TUE retreated completely from a chemically-based society. Living TUE in self-built homes stripped of plastics and petro-chemicals TUE they discourage visitors tainted by perfumes, deodorants and TUE detergents. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b05nvfr1 (Listen) TUE Ian Rankin and Joe Boyd TUE TUE Crime writer Ian Rankin and record producer Joe Boyd talk to TUE Harriett Gilbert about some of the great books they've read, TUE including The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch, How to TUE Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid and The TUE Islanders by Pascal Garnier. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Ian Rankin TUE Interviewed Guest: Joe Boyd TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05nvfr3 (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05nkdsy (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ayres on the Air b03t37cz (Listen) TUE Series 5, Beauty TUE TUE Poet Pam Ayres brings her Radio 4 audience half an hour TUE packed with poems, stories and sketches, this week on the TUE subject of beauty and, that newly-coined term, wellness. TUE She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey TUE Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband TUE 'Gordon'. TUE This week Pam talks about meeting Phyllis Diller and finding TUE out about 'chin brown', she recalls buying a very unsuitable TUE outfit having admired it on someone else and explains how TUE you know when you've put on a little too much weight. TUE Poems include: Too much of a Fag, Did I Turn off My Tongs?, TUE Had a Little Work Done, Pilates, Once I Was a Looker And So TUE Was My Spouse, and the legendary I Wish I'd Looked After Me TUE Teeth. TUE Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Claire Jones, TUE Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05nvfr5 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:16 Front Row b05nvfr7 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05nxz3f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Inside the Sex Offenders' Prison b05nvfr9 (Listen) TUE The documentary film-maker Rex Bloomstein gains TUE unprecedented access to HMP Whatton in Nottinghamshire, the TUE largest sex offender prison in Europe, to investigate how TUE its inmates are rehabilitated for release. TUE TUE There are now more sex offenders in the prison system than TUE ever before - around 11, 000 out of a total prison TUE population of nearly 86,000 in England and Wales. HMP TUE Whatton, with its capacity of 841 prisoners, is a specialist TUE treatment centre for sex offenders - 70% of whom have TUE committed offences against children, the rest against TUE adults. TUE TUE Rex Bloomstein has been given a unique opportunity to TUE explore the methods used to get prisoners to confront their TUE offending behaviour and to prepare them to go back into the TUE community. TUE TUE The prison's governor Lynn Saunders describes Whatton as "a TUE great leveller, prisoners come from all walks of life". TUE Offenders against both children and adults are mixed TUE together in the prison's many Sex Offender Treatment TUE Programmes. TUE TUE Candid interviews with prisoners are at the heart of this TUE documentary as they reveal the impact of these treatment TUE programmes. TUE TUE But Bloomstein discovers a paradox. Many sex offenders feel TUE intense shame and guilt about their crimes as society would TUE expect - however, he learns that such emotions can be a huge TUE barrier to the treatment process, as Whatton's staff work TUE hard to restore offenders' self-esteem which is deemed TUE crucial to their rehabilitation. TUE TUE As the majority of Whatton's prisoners will be released, TUE Bloomstein ultimately considers the issue of risk - how TUE certain can we be that these men won't commit terrible TUE crimes again? TUE TUE Producer: Simon Jacobs TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05nvfrc (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Beating the Detector b05nvg7p (Listen) TUE Anjana Ahuja asks if polygraphs - or lie detectors - should TUE be used to monitor sex offenders in the UK, when it can TUE reportedly take just five minutes to learn how to beat them. TUE TUE After successful trials, where sex offenders made more TUE disclosures after their use, legislation was brought in to TUE implement polygraph testing for those with a high risk of TUE reoffending. The tests are now being introduced nationally TUE with members of the police undergoing polygraph training. TUE TUE However, interpretation of the science is under dispute and, TUE according to critics, the test is not only unreliable, but TUE it can easily be beaten. Two of the United States' most TUE notorious serial killers both passed polygraphs. Former US TUE policeman Doug Williams, who has been teaching people how to TUE beat the detector for decades, claims it can be done in just TUE five minutes. He is currently awaiting trial in the United TUE States accused, according to the FBI, of "training customers TUE to lie and conceal crimes during polygraph examinations". TUE TUE Science columnist for the Financial Times, Anjana Ahuja, TUE argues that the introduction of polygraphs for sex offenders TUE in the UK requires further ethical scrutiny and academic TUE oversight. . TUE TUE The programme includes interviews with Doug Williams, TUE psychologist Professor Chris French, polygraph historian Ken TUE Alder, Jeremy Wescombe from the British Polygraph TUE Association, Professor of forensic psychiatry Don Grubin, TUE Professor of criminal justice Phil Rumney and DC Andrew TUE Tinker from South Yorkshire Police, one of the first police TUE forces to trial the use of polygraphs with sex offenders. TUE TUE Producer: Sue Nelson TUE A Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b05nv1wd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05nkdt0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05nvfrn (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05nvfrq (Listen) TUE The Ladies of the House, Episode 2 TUE TUE Rita's story. Born in a northern town, wild and bold and TUE beautiful Rita didn't care what people thought of her. Her TUE good looks brought men's attention - and trouble. In this TUE episode we discover the twists and turns that led her to a TUE Soho peepshow and, eventually, to the door of Arthur TUE Gillies's high-class brothel in Primrose Hill. TUE TUE Molly McGrann's new novel centres around the fallout from TUE the discovery of the double life led by the late Arthur TUE Gillies - on the surface a respectable businessman, whose TUE widow and daughter have no idea that he made a fortune TUE running brothels, for several decades, in some of London's TUE most exclusive areas. TUE TUE Read by Susan Jameson TUE Written by Molly McGrann TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Susan Jameson TUE Author: Molly McGrann TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 Julia Sutherland: Fat Chance b05nvg7r (Listen) TUE Comedian Julia Sutherland spent over a decade battling with TUE eating disorders and obesity. When she finally lost TUE six-and-a-half stone, it felt like she had another shot at TUE life. TUE TUE A new body, a new perspective on the world - but was it TUE really a new Julia? She attempts to find out through stand TUE up, sketches and stories. TUE TUE Producer: Sean Kerwin TUE A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carl Webster: Luke Norris TUE Jack Belmont: Adam Gillen TUE Louly Brown: Samantha Dakin TUE Tony Antonelli: Nathan Osgood TUE Virgil Webster: David Acton TUE Heidi Dilworth: Bettrys Jones TUE Emmet Long: Shaun Mason TUE Marshal Bob McMahon: Ian Conningham TUE Oris Belmont: John Chancer TUE Doris Belmont: Elaine Claxton TUE Norm Dilworth: Paul Heath TUE Nancy Polis: Roslyn Hill TUE Crystal Lee Davidson: Hannah Genesius TUE Mr Deering: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Author: Elmore Leonard TUE Adaptor: Katie Hims TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 23:30 With Great Pleasure b050zy3v (Listen) TUE Carol Klein TUE TUE Writer and gardener Carol Klein shares her favourite pieces TUE of writing, from Graham Greene's 'Our Man in Havana' to TUE Clare Leighton's 'Four Hedges', as well as poetry by Roque TUE Dalton and Seamus Heaney. With inspiration from TUE environmentalist Wangari Maathai and a taste of Carol's TUE beatnik roots from Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'. TUE TUE Funny, touching, lyrical and down-to-earth readings to TUE reflect Carol's taste and personality. TUE TUE With special guest readers Jo Brand and Phil Davis, and TUE music composed and performed by Alastair Caplin. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Carol Klein TUE Reader: Jo Brand TUE Reader: Phil Davis TUE Performer: Alastair Caplin TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 APRIL 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05nkdtv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05pn3sy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05nkdty (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05nkdv0 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05nkdv2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05nkdv4 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05pt4z6 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05nvgg2 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03tht5z (Listen) WED Chough WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED John Aitchison tells the story of the chough. Our healthiest WED chough populations are in Ireland, southwest and north Wales WED and western Scotland. The last English stronghold was in WED Cornwall and Choughs feature on the Cornish coat of arms. WED Even here they became extinct until wild birds from Ireland WED re-colonised the county in 2001. Now the birds breed WED regularly on the Lizard peninsula. WED WED Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b05nvgpy (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05nvgq0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05pntyn (Listen) WED Landmarks, Episode 3 WED WED Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the WED people and WED 'collect' the words that evoke the area: WED WED 3. He travels to the Lake District, to meet another WED collector of words. Beforehand, WED he reads a folk epic called the Kalevala, which makes some WED eerie connections WED with his project.. WED WED Readers Tobias Menzies and the author WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tobias Menzies WED Reader: Robert Macfarlane WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED Author: Robert Macfarlane WED Abridger: Penny Leicester WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05nvhct (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05nxz5k (Listen) WED A Steal, Episode 3 WED WED by Mike Bartlett WED WED Hanna's unorthodox way of helping out some friends in need WED is going from strength to strength. But she's not going to WED be able to get away with it for much longer... WED WED Director ..... Mary Peate. WED WED Credits WED Hanna: Laura Dos Santos WED Susie: Samantha Robinson WED David: Justin Salinger WED Mark: Shaun Mason WED Barry: Sam Dale WED Denise: Annabelle Dowler WED Rogers: David Acton WED Man: Ian Conningham WED Director: Mary Peate WED Writer: Mike Bartlett WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b05nvj7d (Listen) WED Joe and Kevin - Barstool Philosophy WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation about how working in a WED bar in Derry has changed over a generation, and how the WED emigration of Ireland's young continues, in the series that WED shows it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Ken, Madge and the Strange Rock b05nvj7g (Listen) WED In January 2013 on Morecambe beach, Ken Wilman and his dog WED Madge found something they believed to be ambergris - an WED extremely unusual, rare and valuable product of sperm WED whales. What happened next turned Ken's world upside down. WED WED Overnight, the story hit the international news with WED excitement at the prospect of a happy financial outcome for WED Ken. But things turned out not to be so straightforward. WED WED Peregrine Andrews followed the story from the beginning - WED and he discovered that authenticating and selling one of the WED world's most mysterious substances is far from easy. WED WED Produced by Peregrine Andrews WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03vgnjl (Listen) WED Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they WED think is 'Help!'. WED WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED WED This week, Milton has decided to become a wedding planner. WED But when a distraught bride comes to the door with the case WED of the vanishing groom-to-be, Milton is all set to help. WED WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05nkdv9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 A History of Ideas b05nvj7j (Listen) WED Justin Champion on Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic WED WED Hardworking families, alarm clock Britain, shirkers and WED strivers...there's no doubt that ideas about the moral power WED and value of hard work are embedded in our culture. But WED where did these ideas come from? The historian, Justin WED Champion, explores the ideas of the German thinker and WED father of sociology Max Weber. WED WED In his most famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit WED of Capitalism, Weber set out his idea that the roots of our WED beliefs about the value of hard work and material success WED are to be found in the religious thinking of Protestantism, WED the Puritans especially and Calvin in particular. For them WED finding a vocation, working hard and achieving material WED success were evidence that they were one of the elect: the WED people God had saved from eternal damnation. WED WED Those religious ideas have resonance today, albeit WED translated into a secular setting: Justin talks to Steve WED Finn, a former armed robber now involved in running, Blue WED Sky, a social enterprise that offers employment to WED ex-offenders so they can turn their lives around. He also WED hears from the entrepreneur Sara Murray for whom work and WED life are happily intermingled and whose sense of mission WED around the success of her company, Buddi, drives her. WED WED Justin also looks at the darker side. With the writer WED Madeleine Bunting, he explores how our culture's obsession WED with the "work ethic" can leave people unable to participate WED feeling deficient and judged. WED WED Producer: Natalie Steed. WED WED 12:16 You and Yours b05nvj7l (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05nkdvc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05nvj7n (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Healthy Visions b05q1406 (Listen) WED Wellness at Work WED WED Dame Carol Black argues that it is important to promote WED health and well-being at work. Both employers and employees WED need to do their part. If they do, it will benefit everybody WED - companies, staff and the NHS. WED WED Achieving improved health in the workplace, she says, can WED help to significantly reduce demand on stretched NHS WED services. But the benefits are not just for the NHS. WED Healthier staff will feel better, be more productive, and WED happier at work. And employers can save money on sick pay or WED the costs associated with high staff turnover. WED WED Some companies are at the forefront of this, such as the WED Ipswich Building Society. They have a points scheme, for WED example, whereby staff can earn points for walking or WED exercising at lunchtime. These can then be cashed in for WED time off work. They also offer lunchtime team walks, WED pedometers and "couch to 5k" podcasts that help non-runners WED to gradually build up to running five kilometres. One member WED of staff says that as a result, she not only feels more WED valued at work but has also not had a day off sick in seven WED years. WED WED Presenter: Dame Carol Black WED Producer: Arlene Gregorius WED Editor:Andrew Smith. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Julia Johnson WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05nvfr5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jrjfz (Listen) WED Digging for Victory WED WED By Moya O'Shea WED WED When a family decide they have no option than to take WED destiny into their own hands they discover digging another WED room under their flat isn't as simple as they first thought. WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale WED WED Moya O'Shea's radio work includes 'Theo' which was voted WED most popular drama by the listeners of Radio 7 (now Radio WED 4Extra) and 'A Town Like Alice' winner of a Sony Award. Her WED most recent radio play was 'Super Chief' which was broadcast WED last October. WED WED Credits WED Mum: Cathy Murphy WED Dad: Don Gilet WED Gran: Christine Lohr WED Gil: Harry Livingstone WED Alec: Scott Smith WED Henry: Daniel Cooper WED Tess: Rhianna Hosmer WED Mick: Carl Prekopp WED Doctor: Tracy Wiles WED Mr Mowson: Paul Moriarty WED Director: Tracey Neale WED Writer: Moya O'Shea WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b05nvjb2 (Listen) WED Pension Freedom WED WED Wondering what to do with your pension pot? Should you take WED a cash lump sum, buy an annuity, a drawdown plan or maybe WED all three? To ask about pension freedom and retirement WED choices, call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday WED or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED The retirement income market is changing radically and you WED may be faced with an array of options but you need to plan WED carefully so that you don't face surprise tax bills, fees WED and risks or lose out on built in pension guarantees. WED WED If you've got a question or a concern about retirement WED planning, Paul Lewis and guests will be ready to help on WED Wednesday's Money Box Live WED WED Joining Paul to share their experience will be: WED WED Nick Bamford, Chartered Financial Planner, Informed Choice. WED Michelle Cracknell, The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS). WED Tom McPhail, Head of Pensions Research, Hargreaves Lansdown. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Beating the Detector b05nvg7p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05nvjhp (Listen) WED Citizenship Ceremonies WED WED Making citizens: how countries make public rituals out of WED endowing new citizens with citizenship. Laurie Taylor talks WED to Bridget Byrne, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the WED University of Manchester, about her in-depth comparative WED study of citizenship ceremonies. In a mobile, transnational WED world passports and right matter now more than ever. So how WED do states draw and establish the boundaries of citizenship? WED Drawing on empirical research in the UK, the United States, WED Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and Ireland, Dr Byrne WED roots contemporary concepts of national belonging in WED colonial history. WED WED Family ties in genes and stories: Janice McLaughlin, WED Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, discusses WED her study of families referred to a paediatric genetic WED service. An increasing number of children are referred for WED genetic investigation due to physical & learning WED disabilities. This study found that the clinical discussions WED which ensue bring family histories to the fore in surprising WED and unpredictable ways. Sociologists have long recognised WED the importance of narrative to forming and maintaining WED family ties. But how are such stories altered as a result of WED geneticists' involvement in family relations? Which stories WED can and can't be told? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05nvjhr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05nvjht (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05nkdvf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th WED century bet; can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the WED Royal Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour? WED WED Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham. Additional material WED written by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne. Produced by Joe WED Nunnery. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Producer: Joe Nunnery WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: Paul Byrne WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05nvjm9 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:16 Front Row b05nvjmc (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05nxz5k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b05prrvv (Listen) WED Election Special WED WED As the general election campaign formally gets underway, WED Andrew Rawnsley presents a special edition of the live, WED studio-based debate programme which takes the form of a WED newspaper leader conference that decides the editorials WED which will appear the next day. He is joined by prominent WED journalists who write leading articles for major newspapers. WED Three subjects in the news will be chosen and the panel will WED then determine - after lively argument - what should be said WED about them. Two of the leading articles will reflect current WED events and prompt fierce - and witty - exchanges. The third WED subject can be in a lighter vein. Following the discussion WED of each subject, Andrew invites one of his guests to draw up WED on air the leader for that subject and to set out its main WED points. WED WED Producer: Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b05nvkmg (Listen) WED Sir John Eliot Gardiner WED WED Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05nvdv4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05nvgq0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05nvkmj (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05nvkmn (Listen) WED The Ladies of the House, Episode 3 WED WED Molly McGrann's new novel centres around the fallout from WED the discovery of the double life led by the late Arthur WED Gillies - on the surface a respectable businessman, whose WED widow and daughter have no idea that he made a fortune WED running brothels, for several decades, in some of London's WED most exclusive areas. WED WED Tonight's episode flashes back to the arrival of Rita and WED Annetta at one of Arthur's 'houses' in the early 1960s. Then WED moves forward to the present, where a mistake at the bank WED leads Arthur's daughter, Marie, to discover the true value WED of her father's estate, which has been held in trust since WED his death. WED WED Read by Susan Jameson WED Written by Molly McGrann WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Susan Jameson WED Author: Molly McGrann WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 Jigsaw b01qmbk2 (Listen) WED Series 1, Mousetrap WED WED Stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat WED Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together a WED rapid-fire and surreal sketch show. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Dan Antopolski WED Performer: Tom Craine WED Performer: Nat Luurtsema WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b039d1fw (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Richie Webb returns for a third series as WED multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel inherits a life changing sum of money from a distant WED relative leading to him considering jacking it all in and WED starting again. A consideration consistently reinforced by WED the constant stream of useless pupils. WED WED Meanwhile Belinda is keen to keep Nigel on at the Arts WED Centre to run free taster sessions. At any cost. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz 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 Glen: Jim North WED Claude: Joseph Webb WED Emily: Jess Robinson WED Sandra: Jess Robinson WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:30 With Great Pleasure b051ryq6 (Listen) WED Jonathan Coe WED WED The novelist Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters Club and WED What a Carve Up!, chooses the pieces of writing that have WED meant the most to him and inspired his own work. WED WED His choices - including Lydia Davis, ee cummings, Henry WED Fielding and Thomas Hardy - are read by Eleanor Tremain and WED Peter Marinker for an audience at the Birmingham Literature WED Festival. WED WED Producer: Mair Bosworth. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jonathan Coe WED Reader: Peter Marinker WED Reader: Eleanor Tremain WED Producer: Mair Bosworth WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 APRIL 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05nkdwb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05pntyn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05nkdwf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05nkdwh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05nkdwk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05nkdwm (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05p7cqf (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05nxg19 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thtfs (Listen) THU Parrot Crossbill THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU John Aitchison tells the story of the parrot crossbill. The THU Parrot Crossbill lives only in a few native pinewoods in THU Scotland. When they're at the top of pine trees a view of THU the Parrot Crossbill is tricky, so crossbill experts use the THU birds' calls to tell them apart from Common and Scottish THU Crossbills. Parrot crossbills have a deeper call than the THU others. THU THU Parrot crossbill (Loxia pytyopstittacus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Richard Stonier ( THU http://www.birdsonline.co.uk/content/about THU ). THU THU Image © Richard Stonier 2013 THU THU 06:00 Today b05nxgd9 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05nxgdd (Listen) THU The California Gold Rush THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold THU Rush. In 1849 the discovery of gold at Coloma, near THU Sacramento in California, led to a massive influx of THU prospectors seeking to make their fortunes. Within a couple THU of years the tiny settlement of San Francisco had become a THU major city, with tens of thousands of immigrants, the THU so-called Forty-Niners, arriving by boat and over land. The THU gold rush transformed the west coast of America and its THU economy, but also uprooted local populations of Native THU Americans and made irreversible changes to natural habitats. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05pqskb (Listen) THU Landmarks, Episode 4 THU THU Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the THU people and THU 'collect' the words that evoke the area: THU THU 4. He recalls the Victorian author Richard Jeffries, THU inhabitant and walker of Surbiton, which THU made him an early 'edgelander' .. THU THU Readers Tobias Menzies and the author THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tobias Menzies THU Reader: Robert Macfarlane THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU Author: Robert Macfarlane THU Abridger: Penny Leicester THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05nxh9v (Listen) THU Jenni Murray offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05nxzk4 (Listen) THU A Steal, Episode 4 THU THU by Mike Bartlett. THU THU From ordinary young woman to Robin Hood figure. Now THU everything is out in the open, Hannah feels she can really THU make a difference. THU THU Director ..... Mary Peate. THU THU Credits THU Hanna: Laura Dos Santos THU Rogers: David Acton THU Gail: Jane Slavin THU Director: Mary Peate THU Writer: Mike Bartlett THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b05nxh9x (Listen) THU Escaping Tanzania's Cutting Season THU THU In northern Tanzania there is a tradition of FGM - female THU genital mutilation. The 'cutting season' lasts for six THU weeks. Afterwards, the adolescent victims are often expected THU to marry. But girls in Serengeti District are saying 'no' to THU FGM. And dozens of them have fled to a new safe house in the THU town of Mugumu to escape this bloody, life-threatening rite THU of passage. For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly travels THU to Mugumu to meet the girls - and the woman who has given THU them refuge, Rhobi Samwelly. She listens in as Rhobi engages THU in delicate and often emotional negotiations with parents THU intent on mutilating their daughters. Will the girls ever THU feel safe enough to return home? THU THU 11:30 360 Arts b05nxhj4 (Listen) THU Jessica Lack tells the tale of one city's attempt to THU commission their first piece of public art for years and THU discovers a system heavy on stakeholders and short on THU artistic bravery. THU THU She calls nationwide expert witnesses to explain why THU commissioning public art is so much easier said than done - THU and why it matters, even in times of austerity. THU THU Producer: Catherine Carr THU A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05nkdwq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 A History of Ideas b05nxhj6 (Listen) THU Naomi Appleton on the Buddha's Four Noble Truths THU THU Naomi Appleton explores the Buddha's Four Noble Truths in a THU week of programmes asking how do I live a good life. She THU speaks to a buddhist nun in Edinburgh who used to be a THU model, and investigates mindfulness and the rise of THU bourgeois buddhism. THU Naomi Appleton is the Chancellor's fellow in Religious THU Studies at the University of Edinburgh. THU The producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 12:16 You and Yours b05nxhj8 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05nkdws (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05nxj3k (Listen) THU Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Healthy Visions b05pw69t (Listen) THU Healthier Homes? THU THU 4/5. In 1900 about 4% of the population was aged over 65 - THU now it is over 20%. And within the foreseeable future we can THU expect most people to live to the age of 90 . This, says THU Professor John Ashton of the Faculty of Public Health, means THU we need big changes to how older people live - especially THU how they are housed. THU THU In his "Healthy Visions" programme, John Ashton inverts the THU usual terms of the housing debate. He believes that by THU concentrating on the needs of older people, the housing THU problems of younger people can be tackled too. THU THU Living to your dying day in the house you've lived in for THU fifty years will often not be the wisest option. Instead, THU planned new types of housing should be encouraged that THU support living in the neighbourhoods where people have THU recently lived. These new units would be built on a human THU scale, with the flexibility to adapt rooms to changing needs THU as people get older and their health deteriorates. They THU would be close to health centres and would be underpinned by THU local people actively supporting independent living. THU THU Escalating property prices, economic growth and rising THU living standards have all helped many baby boomers get THU richer. Now, argues John Ashton, it's time for them to help THU themselves and other generations in a new compact. The THU properties they move out of can help younger people get on THU the housing ladder. THU THU John Ashton visits examples of future living and community THU support in north-west England to illustrate how his vision THU can be realised. THU THU Presenter: Professor John Ashton THU Producer: Simon Coates THU Editor: Andrew Smith. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Julia Johnson THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05nvjm9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05nxmzy (Listen) THU Duchamp's Urinal THU THU A documentary fiction about how a men's urinal changed the THU face of the art world at the turn of the 20th century. THU THU Presented by art-historian Ben Street, and a cast of other THU subversive characters. THU THU Written by Al Smith and Ben Street THU Produced by Lu Kemp. THU THU A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Ben Street THU Writer: Al Smith THU Writer: Ben Street THU Producer: Lu Kemp THU THU 15:00 Open Country b05nxn00 (Listen) THU CS Lewis Nature Reserve, Oxfordshire THU THU 65 years after the first publication of The Lion the Witch THU and The Wardrobe, Helen Mark discovers a real life Narnia in THU the form of a tranquil Oxfordshire woodland that once THU belonged to CS Lewis. THU THU It is said that Lewis enjoyed wandering here while writing THU his children's book series which includes The Lion, the THU Witch and the Wardrobe and that he and his brother 'Warnie' THU planted trees amongst the woodland. The reserve - now owned THU and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and THU Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust - was Lewis's back garden. At THU that time, the area of Risinghurst was a rural escape on the THU fringes of Oxford. Today, with the A40 nearby and surrounded THU by houses, this small area of land has managed to keep its THU sense of stillness. THU THU Lewis's red brick home 'The Kilns', still nestles to the THU edge of the reserve. Today it is cared for by The CS Lewis THU Foundation and as Helen discovers, it still holds strong THU memories for CS Lewis's former secretary and friend, Walter THU Hooper. THU THU CS Lewis was laid to rest in the grounds of the church where THU he worshipped, just a short walk away, at Holy Trinity THU Church Headington Quarry. THU THU Including interviews with Reserve Warden Mark Bradfield, THU local historian Mike Stranks, Rev David Beckmann and Walter THU Hooper. THU THU Presented by Helen Mark THU Produced by Nicola Humphries. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05ns8pj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05nsgbm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 Cells and Celluloid: A Science and Cinema Special THU b05prsc5 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock return in a sequel of the THU film and science special. This time it's personal. THU THU 17:00 PM b05nxn06 (Listen) THU PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05nkdww (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03hnhjw (Listen) THU Series 9, The Intern THU THU Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, THU complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and the THU curmudgeonly attitude to life that he's mastered over years THU of failure. THU THU This week, the council is taking a holistic approach to THU cost-cutting and decides that Ed's writing class needs to THU get paid for some of their work. When it transpires that the THU class feels that they are wasting their time and thinking of THU joining the 'Bonkers About Baking' class Ed decides to set THU them the task of writing 'Hedgerow Jottings' and 'Tales from THU the Towpath' in an attempt to earn money and become real THU writers. Meanwhile, when the new intern at the agency turns THU out to be more than he seems, Ed finds himself maintaining THU his non-tax paying status by becoming the oldest intern in THU town and sharing an office with Ping. THU THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Alex: Jonathan Bailey THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Keely: Nicola Sanderson THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05nxn08 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:16 Front Row b05nxn0b (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05nxzk4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05nxn0d (Listen) THU Are Russian sanctions dangerous for Britain? THU THU EU sanctions against Russia over the crisis in Ukraine THU expire in September. Sharmini Selvarajah looks at whether it THU is in Britain's security and business interests to see them THU extended, and whether they go far enough to curb Russian THU aggression. THU THU 20:30 In Business b05nxn0g (Listen) THU The Freelance Economy THU THU In Business returns with a new series. THU THU This week Peter Day explores the growing freelance and THU micro-business economy. He asks why so many people are THU setting up on their own and whether it will be a decision THU they'll come to regret? THU Also, what impact will the rise in the number of sole THU traders and micro-business owners have on the strength of THU the UK economy? THU THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 Cells and Celluloid: A Science and Cinema Special THU b05prsc5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05nxgdd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05nxpky (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05nxpl0 (Listen) THU The Ladies of the House, Episode 4 THU THU Molly McGrann's new novel centres around the fallout from THU the discovery of the double life led by the late Arthur THU Gillies - on the surface a respectable businessman, whose THU widow and daughter have no idea that he made a fortune THU running brothels, for several decades, in some of London's THU most exclusive areas. THU THU As Arthur's illegitimate son Joseph fears he'll lose his THU home, his daughter Marie - oblivious to her half-brother's THU existence - makes plans for her future. Meanwhile, one of THU Arthur's former employees, elderly sex worker Rita, prepares THU for a date with a punter. THU THU Read by Susan Jameson THU Written by Molly McGrann THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Susan Jameson THU Author: Molly McGrann THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 Chat Show Roulette b05nxpl2 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Justin Edwards is the host of the new improvised chat show. THU His guests are Charlie Higson, Mike Wozniak and Cariad THU Lloyd, and Matt Lucas - with musical accompaniment from THU James Sherwood. THU THU Devised by Ashley Blaker and Justin Edwards. THU THU Produced by Ashley Blaker THU A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Justin Edwards THU Interviewed Guest: Charlie Higson THU Interviewed Guest: Mike Wozniak THU Interviewed Guest: Cariad Lloyd THU Interviewed Guest: Matt Lucas THU Producer: Ashley Blaker THU THU 23:30 With Great Pleasure b052hptg (Listen) THU Raymond Blanc THU THU Chef Raymond Blanc chooses his favourite writing, with THU readers Sinead Cusack and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Recorded at Le THU Manoir aux Quat'Saisons. Raymond's deep love of literature THU encompasses poetry by Rimbaud, and excerpts from Cooking in THU Ten Minutes by Edouard de Pomiane, The Little Prince by THU Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The THU Belly of Paris by Emile Zola and The Idiot by Fyodor THU Dostoyevsky. Also the words of a song, Ne Me Quitte Pas, by THU Jacques Brel. THU THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU Extracts chosen: THU THU The Belly of Paris by Ếmile Zola, translated by Brian THU Nelson THU THU Le Dormeur du Val by Arthur Rimbaud, from the collection Les THU Riches Heures de la Poesie Française by Luc Decaunes THU THU English translation by Wyatt Mason: A Sleeper in the Valley THU THU Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, edited by Gyles THU Brandreth THU THU The Little Prince / Le Petit Prince by Antoine de THU Saint-Exupéry, translated by Irene Testot-Ferry THU THU Cooking in 10 minutes by Edouard de Pomiane, translated by THU Peggie Benton THU THU The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuff THU THU The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran THU THU SONG: Ne Me Quitte Pas written and sung by Jacques Brel, THU from Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons CD2 THU THU THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Raymond Blanc THU Reader: Sinead Cusack THU Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Producer: Beth O'Dea THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 APRIL 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05nkdxt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05pqskb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05nkdxx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05nkdxz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05nkdy1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05nkdy3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05pr2l4 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Venerable Sheila Watson, Archdeacon of Canterbury. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05p9w7s (Listen) FRI Farming and Climate Change FRI FRI How should British farmers respond to the challenges posed FRI by climate change? Charlotte Smith speaks to Lord Krebs of FRI the Climate Change Committee which advises the government, FRI Helen Browning of the Soil Association and others. FRI FRI Produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thvkt (Listen) FRI Slavonian Grebe FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI John Aitchison tells the story of the Slavonian grebe. In FRI winter, Slavonian Grebes, with their vermilion eyes, bright FRI and shiny as redcurrants, fly south from Scandinavia and FRI Iceland to spend the winter around our coasts. Their winter FRI plumage is black, grey and white but in spring they moult FRI into their breeding plumage with a rich chestnut throat and FRI belly and golden ear-tufts. A small population breed on a FRI few Scottish Lochs where you might hear their trilling FRI calls. FRI FRI Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus) FRI Webpage image courtesy (RSPB) (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05pr2l6 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b05nsb47 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05pr507 (Listen) FRI Landmarks, Episode 5 FRI FRI Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the FRI people and FRI 'collect' the words that evoke the area: FRI FRI 5. Children, he reckons, are uniquely imaginative on their FRI nature rambles, FRI often inventing a language to express their little FRI adventures.. FRI FRI Readers Tobias Menzies and the author FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tobias Menzies FRI Reader: Robert Macfarlane FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI Author: Robert Macfarlane FRI Abridger: Penny Leicester FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05pr389 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05nxzpg (Listen) FRI A Steal, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Mike Bartlett. FRI FRI Hanna is really in trouble now, but at least she'll be able FRI to make her case; tell the world why she has done what she's FRI done. Hopefully. FRI FRI Director ..... Mary Peate. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hanna: Laura Dos Santos FRI Mark: Shaun Mason FRI Susie: Samantha Robinson FRI Reporter: Jude Akuwudike FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Writer: Mike Bartlett FRI FRI 11:00 High Explosive: The Tambora Story b05ny11s (Listen) FRI On its 200th anniversary, the story of far and away the FRI worst volcanic eruption in the record of human history. FRI FRI The Mount Tambora event, in Indonesia, killed tens of FRI thousands in the immediate vicinity. But its impact was felt FRI much further afield. The explosive power of the eruption FRI sent material high into the stratosphere, which then spread FRI around the globe, blocking sunlight and cooling surface FRI temperatures over wide areas. FRI FRI The 'Tambora effect' was also seen in severe drought and FRI way-above-average rainfall elsewhere - 1816 was dubbed 'The FRI Year Without A Summer' in many parts, but at least two more FRI summers were seriously affected. Hunger and disease FRI resulted. FRI FRI BBC weatherman John Hammond tells the Tambora story and then FRI looks at the ongoing significance of volcanos today. His FRI journey takes him to the British Library to trace first-hand FRI accounts of the impact of the eruption, then to Tate Britain FRI to examine a sunset by Turner which may reflect the presence FRI of volcanic dust in the atmosphere at the time he was FRI painting. And was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein a by-product FRI of the Tambora eruption? FRI FRI Hammond visits the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge to FRI examine historic ice cores containing direct evidence of FRI Tambora material. There's also a trip to his HQ, the Met FRI Office in Exeter, to look at research on how even modest FRI volcanoes affect weather, climate and air quality. FRI FRI The programme closes with a look at the recent excavation of FRI a township close to Tambora which took the full force of the FRI 1815 eruption - the 'Pompeii of the East'. FRI FRI Producer: Andrew Green FRI A Singing Wren production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b036vvqy (Listen) FRI The Madrid FRI FRI Part 3 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 3: The Madrid FRI FRI Steve takes an eventful taxi ride to a louche Mayfair night FRI club. FRI FRI Producer Patrick Rayner FRI FRI Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in FRI Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most FRI successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his FRI day. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul Temple: Crawford Logan FRI Steve: Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson FRI Zola: Greg Powrie FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Coral Slater: Francesca Dymond FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05nkdy7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas b05ny11v (Listen) FRI Ayn Rand and Selfishness FRI FRI The Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand believed that FRI behaving rationally meant putting your own interests first: FRI you actually have a moral duty to be selfish. Altruism or FRI self-sacrifice are immoral, she claimed, as is asking for FRI help from others. Clearly this goes against most traditional FRI views of ethics, but Rand's views have become influential, FRI particularly in some corners of American politics. FRI FRI Rand's protege, Nathaniel Branden, developed her ideas to FRI stress the importance of self-esteem - the route to personal FRI fulfilment was feeling good about yourself. Many people, FRI even those who would reject Ayn Rand's core philosophy, have FRI subsequently believed that low self-esteem is at the root of FRI social problems such as crime and educational FRI underachievement, and that we should aim to boost it. FRI FRI But is self-esteem really such a good thing? As Paul Broks FRI discovers, the research suggests that some people have too FRI much self-esteem, not too little. Maybe the route to a good FRI life is not through feeling good about yourself, but being FRI resilient to knocks that fate deals you. FRI FRI 12:16 You and Yours b05pr38c (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05nkdy9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05pr38f (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha FRI Kearney. FRI FRI 13:45 Healthy Visions b05pxbtr (Listen) FRI A Health-Creating Society FRI FRI 5/5. The NHS is under huge strain as it struggles to cope FRI with an ageing population and illnesses caused by unhealthy FRI lifestyles on top of increasingly expensive drugs, FRI procedures and treatments. It's an unsustainable situation, FRI says former NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp, and requires a FRI complete rethink of the way we think about and manage FRI health. FRI FRI In the final programme of the "Healthy Visions" series Lord FRI Crisp develops the ideas covered in the previous four FRI programmes to argue that all of society must take FRI responsibility for health. Citizens must become partners in FRI health promotion and health care. Planners and designers FRI must put health at the centre of new projects. And the NHS FRI must change from a hospital-centred and illness-based system FRI to one where patients and communities are in the driving FRI seat. FRI FRI Lord Crisp visits the St Paul's Way Transformation Project FRI in Tower Hamlets to see how housing, health care facilities, FRI education and leisure can be planned to promote good health FRI and prevent disease, with a particular focus on preventing FRI diabetes. And he suggests practical ways to manage the FRI financial and political implications of this radical shift FRI in focus. FRI FRI Presenter:Lord Crisp FRI Producer: Lucy Proctor FRI Editor: Andrew Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Julia Johnson FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05nxn08 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05ny7nx (Listen) FRI A Book by Lester Tricklebank FRI FRI by Richard Lumsden FRI FRI Lester has never left home, maybe because he's got a secret FRI that's too big to carry around the world, maybe because he FRI loves Derbyshire too much. But now its time to tell all so FRI Lester decides to face up to the past and write a book. But FRI where to start? FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI Richard Lumsden is an actor, writer and musician. His FRI previous plays for radio include the highly praised 'The Six FRI Loves of Billy Binns' starring Tom Courtenay. He also FRI appears as an actor in Clare In The Community. FRI FRI Stephen Tompkinson has appeared in numerous dramas including FRI most recently 'D.I. Banks' and 'Wild at Heart' as well as FRI 'Brassed Off' and 'Ballykissangel'. He won the BBC Radio FRI Carleton Hobbs award straight out of drama school. FRI FRI Credits FRI Lester: Stephen Tompkinson FRI Florence: Rebekah Staton FRI Stanley: Jack Hollington FRI Janice: Jane Slavin FRI Bill: Stephen Critchlow FRI Jean: Jessica Turner FRI Dad: David Hounslow FRI Librarian: Rhiannon Neads FRI Nurse Irene: Ayesha Antoine FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Writer: Richard Lumsden FRI FRI 15:00 Good Friday Meditation b05ny7nz (Listen) FRI To lay down your life for others; we're told there is no FRI greater love than this, and that's the subject of the Good FRI Friday Meditation. 350 years ago, when the Plague tore FRI through the community of Eyam in Derbyshire, the villagers' FRI first instinct was to flee - but their agreement with their FRI local clergy's brave decision that all should stay - keeping FRI the plague within the village - probably saved thousands of FRI lives throughout the North of England... FRI Just last year, self-imposed isolation was also the choice FRI of British doctor, Dr Nathalie MacDermott. She was unsure FRI whether she was incubating the deadly Ebola virus already FRI contracted by two close medical colleagues in Liberia. FRI Emerging from a lonely confinement, at least safe in the FRI knowledge that she did not have the virus - this time - she FRI returned to Liberia for a third tour of duty, struggling to FRI bring care and comfort to communities that have lost FRI thousands to this modern-day plague. Guided by the present FRI Rector of Eyam, the Revd Mike Gilbert, she hears FRI heart-rending stories of this historic sacrifice at FRI locations around the village; but also how genetic research FRI on descendants of Eyam's plague survivors is bringing hope FRI to fight both plague and HIV in the world today. With music FRI and readings illustrating the timeless story of Good Friday, FRI presenter Dr Nathalie McDermott shares her own Christian FRI perspective of why she, too, is still prepared to risk her FRI life for strangers. Reader: Robert Lindsay. Producer: Rowan FRI Morton-Gledhill. FRI FRI 15:30 Witness b05p9w83 (Listen) FRI Series looking at key events in history, featuring archive FRI accounts from the people who were there. FRI FRI 15:45 Stories by Teffi b05ny7p1 (Listen) FRI Marquita FRI FRI A series of tales by Teffi, a literary star in FRI pre-revolutionary Russia who has been published again: FRI FRI 1. In Marquita, translated by Robert Chandler, the shy FRI chanteuse and single mother puts more passion into her date FRI with a wealthy Tartar. Does her new approach succeed? FRI FRI Reader Hattie Morahan FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hattie Morahan FRI Writer: Teffi FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05pbn7z (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b05pb06z (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b05pb1qt (Listen) FRI Celia and Mary-Jane - The Bucket List FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about the many reasons FRI against re-marrying and the many opportunities still to be FRI seized after one reaches a hundred, in the series that shows FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b05pb8hd (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05nkdyc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b05ny7p3 (Listen) FRI Series 86, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, with regular FRI panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest panellists Holly Walsh, Bob FRI Mills and Romesh Ranganathan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Holly Walsh FRI Panellist: Bob Mills FRI Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05ny7p5 (Listen) FRI It's all go at the Bull, and Heather comes to Brookfield. FRI FRI 19:16 Front Row b05p9wjc (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05nxzpg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05ny7p7 (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05ny7p9 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas b05ny7pc (Listen) FRI Omnibus, How Do I Live a Good Life? FRI FRI A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in FRI many voices. FRI FRI Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different FRI backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week he's FRI asking 'How do I live a good life'? FRI FRI Helping him answer it are historian Justin Champion, FRI neuropsychologist Paul Broks , theologian Naomi Appleton and FRI philosopher Jules Evans. FRI FRI For the rest of the week Jules, Paul, Justin and Naomi will FRI take us further into the history of ideas about the good FRI life with programmes of their own. Between them they will FRI examine Aristotle's idea of flourishing, selfishness, the FRI Protestant work ethic and Buddhism's Four Noble Truths. FRI FRI This Omnibus edition has all five programmes together. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05nkdyf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05ny7pf (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05ny7ph (Listen) FRI The Ladies of the House, Episode 5 FRI FRI "Attractive, well-spoken older woman seeks someone to dine FRI with." Elderly sex worker Rita goes on a date, hoping that FRI it might lead to more than just dinner and a room somewhere. FRI FRI Molly McGrann's frank and atmospheric novel centres around FRI the fallout from the discovery of the double life of the FRI late Arthur Gillies - on the surface a respectable FRI businessman, whose widow and daughter have no idea that he FRI made a fortune running brothels, for several decades, in FRI some of London's most exclusive areas. FRI FRI Read by Susan Jameson FRI Written by Molly McGrann FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Susan Jameson FRI Author: Molly McGrann FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b05nvfr1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 With Great Pleasure b0480341 (Listen) FRI Terry Wogan FRI FRI Sir Terry Wogan chooses the prose and poetry that mean the FRI most to him, with the help of special guests, David Jason FRI and Frances Tomelty who read works by a variety of writers FRI from Yeats to Robert Frost and PG Wodehouse. Finbar Furey FRI provides live music. FRI FRI Producer: Maggie Ayre FRI FRI Sir David Jason reads Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt FRI Frances Tomelty reads When You Are Old by WB Yeats FRI Finbar Furey sings Sweet Sixteen FRI Sir David Jason reads an excerpt from Elegy In A Country FRI Churchyard by Thomas Gray FRI Sir David Jason reads Gussie's Prizegiving Speech from Right FRI Ho Jeeves by PG Wodehouse FRI Frances Tomelty reads Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening FRI by Robert Frost and In Westminster Abbey by Sir John FRI Betjeman FRI Finbar Furey sings Raglan Road. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Terry Wogan FRI Performer: David Jason FRI Performer: Frances Tomelty FRI Performer: Finbar Furey FRI Producer: Maggie Ayre FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05ny7pk (Listen) FRI Mike and Pip - Our Place in the Sun FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation about beginning again abroad, FRI and whether there will be more to regret than leaving the FRI cat behind, in the series that proves it's surprising what FRI you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
27 March, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 28/03/2015 - 03/04/2015
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