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SAT SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05qvz8f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05pr1jd (Listen) SAT Skyfaring - A Journey with a Pilot, Episode 5 SAT SAT Mark Vanhoenacker always had a passion for flying, but SAT didn't ever really consider it as a job, until his research SAT as a young academic began to frustrate him and the tug of SAT the skies once more made its presence felt. SAT SAT Today he is a long distance pilot for one of the world's SAT major airlines. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT Landing, flying blind and coming home. SAT SAT Read by William Hope SAT Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: William Hope SAT Author: Mark Vanhoenacker SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05qvz8h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05qvz8k (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05qvz8m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05qvz8p (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05r728b (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Rev'd Dr Craig Gardiner. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05r728d (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05qvz8r (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05qvz8t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b05r4088 (Listen) SAT The Solway Shore SAT SAT Caz Graham visits the shores of Solway Firth to discover the SAT folk and wildlife that live around the stunning coastline. SAT SAT Caz pulls on her wellies and heads to the shoreline at low SAT tide with the help of Ann Lingard. SAT SAT Ann is a 'low-tide' guide and leads Caz on a tromp through a SAT rarely explored landscape: one of rock pools and rare reefs. SAT Ann shows Caz the home of the honeycomb worm, Sabellaria. SAT The creature creates a reef close to the low water mark and SAT it is exposed at low tide. They also visit a submerged SAT forest that the sea reveals when the tide rolls back. SAT SAT Caz meets former miner Tom Norman to find out more about the SAT Solway coast's industrial heritage. At the site of the SAT former Haig Colliery in Whitehaven Tom recounts tales of SAT mining under the sea dating back to the 1700s. Mining was SAT enormously important in shaping the industrial past of SAT Whitehaven and the towns along the coast. It, along with SAT fishing, was the main employer in the area. SAT SAT Further up the Solway Firth, where England and Scotland are SAT a stone's throw away, Caz is given a lesson in Haaf Net SAT fishing by Mark Messenger and Mark Graham. They are two of a SAT dying breed fishing using a method that dates back to Viking SAT times that involves standing chest-deep in the Solway Firth SAT with a wide net to catch salmon and trout. SAT SAT Presenter: Caz Graham SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05rk5tb (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05qvz8w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05rk5td (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05rk5tg (Listen) SAT Conchita SAT SAT In the studio with Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles this week is SAT Conchita Wurst. When she won the Eurovision Song Contest in SAT 2014 with her song "Rise Like A Phoenix" she gained SAT international fame - and also became a gay icon to the LGBT SAT community all over the world. Conchita is a Drag Queen and SAT not transgender and is the alter ego of Tom Neuwirth. SAT SAT The 35th edition of the London Marathon will take place on SAT Sunday, April 26, 2015 and long distance runner Jo Pavey SAT takes time out of her busy schedule to join us in the SAT studio. Jo has proved it's never too late to realise your SAT dreams. The veteran mother of two shocked everyone, herself SAT included, to become the oldest female European champion in SAT history aged 40 years and 325 days. Jo has competed in four SAT Olympics and won bronze in the 10,000m at the 2014 Glasgow SAT Commonwealth Games, and then gold in the European SAT Championships. She is currently focusing on getting to Rio SAT for her fifth Olympics. SAT SAT Jon Frost is an experienced customs officer and has served SAT as a HM Customs Preventive Officer in London airports, an SAT Operational Intelligence Specialist, an SAT Investigation/Surveillance Specialist (Drugs), an SAT Anti-Corruption Manager and National Intelligence SAT Co-ordinator, and an Investigation Specialist for the SAT Serious Organised Crime Agency. In his time as a uniformed SAT officer Jon seized many weird and wonderful things: SAT presidential aircraft, a working tank, cars, lorries, boats SAT and coffins; and uncovered wild animals, killer snakes, bush SAT meat, poisonous vodka, dodgy medicine, bootleg SAT prescriptions, pirated pills, toxic alcohol, firearms, SAT side-arms, swords, explosives, stolen gold, dirty money. But SAT when Jon went undercover things became really interesting. SAT SAT Carrie Hope Fletcher is currently playing the role of SAT Eponine in Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre in the West SAT End and received the 2014 WhatsOnStage Award for Best SAT Takeover in a Role in recognition of her performance.Through SAT her phenomenally popular YouTube channel, SAT ItsWayPastMyBedtime, Carrie has created a safe and positive SAT space for young people to discuss their hopes and concerns SAT online and now she will share her most personal thoughts and SAT experiences in her first book. Part memoir, part advice SAT guide, All I Know Now includes Carrie's thoughts on some of SAT the topics she's asked about regularly: bullying, body SAT image, relationships and perhaps the scariest question of SAT all: what does the future hold for me? With warmth, wit and SAT a sprinkling of hard-won wisdom, Carrie will provide the SAT essential tools for growing up gracefully . . . most of the SAT time. SAT SAT This week the Inheritance Tracks comes from the creator of SAT the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Scottish author SAT Alexander McCall Smith. He has chosen to inherit We'll Meet SAT Again sung by Vera Lynn and handing on Terzettino 'Soave sia SAT il vento' from Cosi Fan Tutte'. SAT SAT 10:30 1914-1918: The Cultural Front b05rk5tj (Listen) SAT Series 2, A Cubist War SAT SAT The First World War was the great military and political SAT event of its time; but it was also an imaginative event, an SAT occasion when writers and painters were pulled from their SAT homelands to fight on the front line. SAT SAT In 1915 we start to see how artists, like poet Guillaume SAT Apollinaire and Rudyard Kipling, are responding to war, and SAT explore an unlikely alliance of the avant-garde and the SAT military. SAT SAT World War One altered the ways in which men and women SAT thought about the world, and about culture and its SAT expressions. SAT SAT During the bloody battle at Gallipoli, Australia's sense of SAT identity started to take shape. But national bonds were also SAT beginning to weaken as war shattered allegiances and SAT fractured borders. SAT SAT We look at the ways in which new perspectives entered the SAT public consciousness as France and Britain drew on soldier SAT from Empire and colony. SAT SAT The poetry of Rabindranath Tagore was read by people around SAT the globe. American ragtime has reached British shores with SAT popular African-American musicians like Dan Kildare and Joe SAT Jordan. SAT SAT In episode 2 of The Cultural Front, Francine Stock explores SAT a fragmented world through the prism of the art it created. SAT SAT With contributions from James Taylor, Nicholas Rankin, Susan SAT Harrow, Santanu Das, Peter Stanley and Christian Liebl. SAT SAT Producer: Caitlin Smith. SAT SAT 11:00 Campaign Sidebar b05rk5tl (Listen) SAT A quirky, irreverent take on the twists and turns of the SAT election campaign, presented by Hugo Rifkind. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05qvz8y (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05qvz90 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05rk5tn (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT Money Advice Service: Cashback Credit Cards SAT https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/cashback-c SAT edit-cards SAT SAT Money Saving Expert: Cashback Credit Cards SAT http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/cashback-credi SAT -cards SAT SAT Shelter SAT http://www.shelter.org.uk/ SAT SAT National Landlords Association SAT http://www.landlords.org.uk/ SAT SAT GOV:UK: Solve a residential property dispute SAT https://www.gov.uk/housing-tribunals/overview SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b05r71xc (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 3 SAT SAT The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect SAT the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes SAT for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's SAT Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the SAT flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the SAT country. SAT SAT Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis SAT MacLeod and Debra Stephenson. SAT SAT Producer: Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Producer: Bill Dare SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05qvz92 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05qvz94 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05r71xk (Listen) SAT Lord Falconer, Dr Liam Fox, Stewart Hosie MSP, Jo Swinson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs political debate from Logie SAT Coldstone in Aberdeenshire with the former Lord Chancellor, SAT Lord Falconer, former Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, Deputy SAT Leader of the Scottish National Party, Stewart Hosie MSP, SAT and the Liberal Democrat Equalities Minister Jo Swinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05rk5tq (Listen) SAT Anita Anand takes listeners' calls and emails in response to SAT this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT Get in touch: SAT Call: 03700 100 444 (Calls will cost no more than calls to SAT 01 and 02 geographic landlines. Lines open Sat 12:30 - SAT 14:30). SAT Text: 84844 SAT Tweet: Follow us @BBCAnyQuestions or tweet using #bbcaq SAT Email: anyanswers@bbc.co.uk SAT SAT Producer: Angie Nehring SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03sr0wy (Listen) SAT Seance on a Wet Afternoon SAT SAT Myra Savage conducts séances for a dwindling number of SAT clients. If only there were some way of persuading the wider SAT public of her paranormal abilities - then she'd enjoy the SAT fame and wealth she deserves. She and her husband Bill plan SAT a publicity stunt. They will kidnap the daughter of a SAT prominent businessman. At the critical moment Myra will tap SAT into her psychic powers, contact the distressed parents and SAT provide the police with the vital clues they need to find SAT the girl. What could go wrong? SAT SAT Mark McShane's novel was made into a 1964 film directed by SAT Bryan Forbes. This new version for radio is dramatised by SAT Adrian Bean. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT Myra: Caroline Strong SAT Bill: Robert Glenister SAT DS Payne: Carl Prekopp SAT Clayton: Nick Underwood SAT Rita: Jasmine Hyde SAT Adriana: Lizzy Watts SAT Supt. Watts: Gerard McDermott SAT Mrs Wintry: Jane Whittenshaw SAT Writer: Mark McShane SAT Adaptor: Adrian Bean SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b05r3tf3 (Listen) SAT Series 20, Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G Major SAT SAT Bach's Cello Suite No I in G major is one of the most SAT frequently performed and recognisable solo compositions ever SAT written for cello. Yet it was virtually unknown for almost SAT two hundred years until the Catalan cellist, Pablo Casals SAT discovered an edition in a thrift shop in Barcelona. Casals SAT became the first to record it and the suites are now SAT cherished by musicians across the globe. SAT SAT The world renowned cellist, Steven Isserlis describes his SAT relationship with the piece and why it still surprises and SAT excites him. Fellow cellists Richard Jenkinson and Jane SAT Salmon talk about the challenge of playing it and we hear SAT from the Dominic Martens, a member of the National Youth SAT Orchestra and his teacher, Nick Jones as they explore the SAT piece together. SAT SAT Garden designer Julie Moir Messervy, describes how Yo-Yo SAT Ma's recording inspired her to design The Toronto Music SAT Garden and doctor Heidi Kimberly explains why she chose the SAT piece for her wedding and why she believes the suite to have SAT healing powers. SAT SAT While historian and author, Eric Siblin, reveals the SAT extraordinary history of the suites and why some still argue SAT that they was written by Bach's second wife Anna Magdalena. SAT SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05rk5tt (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b05rk5tw (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b05r728d (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05qvz96 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b05qvz98 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05qvz9b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05rk6m2 (Listen) SAT Catherine Tate, Arthur Smith, David Nicholls, Matthew SAT Bourne, Lindsey Davies, Dan Mangan and Blacksmith, Veronica SAT Valerio SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Catherine Tate, Matthew Bourne, SAT David Nicholls, Arthur Smith and Lindsey Davies for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Dan Mangan and Blacksmith and from Veronica Valerio SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Catherine Tate SAT Interviewed Guest: Matthew Bourne SAT Interviewed Guest: David Nicholls SAT Interviewed Guest: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Lindsey Davies SAT Performer: Dan Mangan SAT Performer: Blacksmith SAT Performer: Veronica Valerio SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05rk6m4 (Listen) SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05rk6m6 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05qvr63 (Listen) SAT Black Aquarius SAT SAT Matthew Sweet explores the dawning of the age of Black SAT Aquarius - the weirdly great wave of occultism that swept SAT through British popular culture in the 1960s-70s. From SAT journals like the Aquarian Arrow to the diabolical novels of SAT Dennis Wheatley, lurid accounts of satanic cults in the SAT Sunday papers and the glut of illustrated books, SAT part-magazines, documentary film and TV drama, it was a SAT wildly exuberant seam of British pop culture. SAT SAT Flowering from the more arcane parts of the hippy movement SAT but mutating into something quite different, why was there SAT such a huge crossover appeal for the British public? Was SAT this a continuation of the Sixties cultural battleground of SAT restrictive morality being secretly titillated, or was it SAT something else - something darker? These questions certainly SAT puzzled factual television at the time. SAT SAT The age of Black Aquarius matched the late Victorian craze SAT for the occult in its intensity and popularity, and SAT certainly drew from some of that era's obsessions - dark SAT dimensions, secret rites, unearthly energy - but filtered SAT through 'the permissive society', through a hugely eclectic SAT counterculture, swinging sexual liberation and new kinds of SAT consumption and lifestyle. And while dark forces were SAT summoned in the grooviest of Chelsea flats they were being SAT unearthed in the countryside too, a fantasy of pagan ritual SAT and wicker men, of tight-lipped locals and blood sacrifice SAT at harvest time. SAT SAT Contributors include Mark Gatiss, Katy Manning, Caroline SAT Munro, Kim Newman, Highgate Vampire hunter David Farrant and SAT Piers Haggard, director of 'The Blood on Satan's Claw'. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Hollis SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05qynrl (Listen) SAT The Left Hand of Darkness, Episode 2 SAT SAT Adapted by Judith Adams SAT SAT In the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world two friends SAT flee across endless snow plains on a journey that will take SAT them to the edge of their physical and emotional endurance. SAT The stakes are high - to save a world from war, and save SAT their own lives. SAT SAT This is the first radio dramatisation of Ursula Le Guin's SAT novel which is as groundbreaking in its approach to gender SAT as when it was first published over 45 years ago. Genly Ai SAT has arrived from Earth onto the planet Gethen, a world in SAT which humans are ambigendered - everyone can be a mother and SAT everyone can be a father. In coming to terms with their SAT otherness - and also their sameness - Genly must let go of SAT everything he understood about his own identity. SAT SAT Director: Allegra McIlroy. SAT SAT Credits SAT Estraven: Lesley Sharp SAT Genly Ai: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith SAT Ashe: Ruth Gemmell SAT Gaum: Louise Brealey SAT Obsle: David Acton SAT Shusgis: Stephen Critchlow SAT Esvans and Asra: Sam Dale SAT Sorve: Ayesha Antoine SAT Doctor: Rhiannon Neads SAT Skipper: David Hounslow SAT Author: Ursula Le Guin SAT Adaptor: Judith Adams SAT Director: Allegra McIlroy SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05qvz9d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Two Rooms b05r3zbw (Listen) SAT Fi Glover hosts a unique experiment as two groups of people SAT share their contrasting experiences, and voice their inner SAT concerns about the way society is developing, as Britain SAT faces arguably the most unpredictable election of modern SAT times. SAT SAT In the second programme, the groups explore whether they SAT feel the UK is providing opportunity for its citizens SAT through access to education and personal development for SAT all. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Jarvis SAT Series Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b05r3srp (Listen) SAT The Final, 2015 SAT SAT (17/17) SAT The 2015 season of the most durable general knowledge quiz SAT of them all reaches its climax, with the Final from the SAT Radio Theatre in London. Russell Davies welcomes the four SAT competitors who have come unscathed through heats and SAT semi-finals, and could now be just half an hour away from SAT becoming the 62nd BBC Brain of Britain. SAT SAT Will they be able to name the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the SAT first female US Secretary of State, or the town where Dylan SAT Thomas is buried? SAT SAT Every point could be crucial - and the gleaming 2015 Brain SAT of Britain trophy awaits the winner. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT The 2015 Finalists SAT SAT BRIAN CHESNEY, a retired librarian from Malvern in SAT Worcestershire; SAT SAT DAVID GOOD, a software developer from High Wycombe in SAT Buckinghamshire; SAT SAT NIGEL JONES, a retired computer programmer from Bath; SAT SAT NEIL WRIGHT, a retired biomedical scientist from The Wirral. SAT SAT 23:30 We Real Cool: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks SAT b05qynrq (Listen) SAT Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet whose SAT imagination, conscience and passion for words made her the SAT first black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950. SAT Narrated by her daughter Nora Brooks Blakely, this is a SAT portrait of her life through the voices of friends and SAT fellow poets - including Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti and SAT Sharon Olds. SAT SAT Gwendolyn Brooks published her first poem at thirteen and by SAT the time she was sixteen she was publishing in local SAT newspapers serving Chicago's black population. Early critics SAT welcomed Brooks as a new voice, 'a real poet writing SAT poignant social documents.' SAT SAT Her poems are portraits of the ordinary people she observed SAT from day to day. She moulded them into memorable characters SAT like Annie Allen, Rudolph Reed and Satin Legs Smith. Her SAT deepest compassion though was for young people, particularly SAT struggling youth. Her most famous poem, We Real Cool, is SAT about children skipping school. It's still spoken aloud SAT today by school children who learn it by heart. SAT SAT Brooks believed she had a social and political role as a SAT poet and became one of the most visible articulators of the SAT "black aesthetic" as the Black Arts Movement took off in the SAT late 1960s. Her commitment to nurturing black literature led SAT her to leave major publisher Harper & Row in favour of a SAT fledgling black company. When she was appointed to the post SAT of poet laureate of Illinois in 1968, she used her role to SAT visit schools, prisons, and rehabilitation centres to help SAT people 'see the poetry in their lives.' She always claimed SAT her greatest achievement was teaching people that poetry SAT isn't a formal activity but an art form within the reach of SAT everybody. SAT SAT Produced by Sarah Cuddon SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 APRIL 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05rkptv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Go West b01r0c5w (Listen) SUN A Story to Be Told SUN SUN Five new stories produced from Bristol SUN SUN 1. A Story to be Told SUN by Gillian Tindall SUN SUN Read by Wendy Brierley SUN SUN Swimming up through layers of post-operative anaesthetic, SUN Jennifer judges it time to tell an important secret about SUN her past life before it vanishes with her. SUN SUN Produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05rkptx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05rkptz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05rkpv1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05rkpv3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b05rktyw (Listen) SUN The bells of St Lawrence's Church in Towcester. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b05rk6m4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b05rkpv5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b05rktyy (Listen) SUN The Fabric of Each Other SUN SUN "The friendships of women have been not merely unsung but SUN mocked, belittled and falsely interpreted." (Vera Brittain SUN in Testament of Friendship, 1940) SUN SUN Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland, who form the theatre SUN company RashDash, reflect on the nature of their strong SUN friendship. They've been the best of friends and close SUN artistic collaborators since meeting at university and SUN explore how their experience relates to that of other women, SUN including 19th Century social reformers and feminists Susan SUN B Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton. SUN SUN They also draw on the writings of Vera Brittain, Winifred SUN Holtby and Tina Fey, as well as music from Alison Goldfrapp, SUN Kate Bush and Amy Winehouse. SUN SUN Presented by Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland SUN Readers: Heather Long and Jacqueline King SUN Produced by Hana Walker-Brown SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: How I Go To The Woods SUN SUN Author: Mary Oliver SUN SUN Publisher: Beacon Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Bossypants SUN SUN Author: Tina Fey SUN SUN Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Epigram to Vera Brittain SUN SUN Author: Winifrid Holtby SUN SUN Publisher: Cambridge Scholars SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Letters SUN SUN Author: Susan B Anthony SUN SUN Publisher: Central Library of Rochester SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Fair Play SUN SUN Author: Tove Janson SUN SUN Publisher: Sort of Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Foolish Clocks SUN SUN Author: Winifrid Holtby SUN SUN Publisher: Cambridge Scholars SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: In Blackwater Woods SUN SUN Author: Mary Oliver SUN SUN Publisher: Beacon Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Readers are: Heather Long and Jacqueline King SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b05rktz0 (Listen) SUN Polecats SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN Victorian Britain saw animals like the polecat persecuted SUN almost to extinction surviving only in a few isolated upland SUN areas of Wales. By the time in 1996 that Lionel Kelleway SUN joined Johnny Messenger on a farm in mid-Wales farm, polecat SUN numbers had begun to recover. It's a fact of life when SUN studying shy mammals that most of the time is spent grubbing SUN around for the signs of activity rather than seeing the SUN animal itself. But for this Living World Johnny has brought SUN Lionel to possibly the best place to see a polecat in SUN Britain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05rkpv7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05rkpv9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05rktz2 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05rl3dd (Listen) SUN Suzy Lamplugh Trust SUN SUN Tricia Bernal presents The Radio 4 Appeal for the Suzy SUN Lamplugh Trust SUN Registered Charity No 802567 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Suzy Lamplugh Trust'. SUN - Cheques should be payable to 'Suzy Lamplugh Trust'. SUN SUN Suzy Lamplugh Trust SUN Suzy Lamplugh Trust is the national charity for personal SUN safety: for nearly 30 years, we have been campaigning, SUN educating and supporting people to avoid violence and SUN aggression. Since 2010 we have operated the National SUN Stalking Helpline, which offers information on the law, how SUN to report stalking and how to stay safe. To date we have SUN responded to over 10,000 requests for help from victims of SUN stalking and their loved ones. SUN SUN Helpline Operator SUN At the National Stalking Helpline, trained operators offer SUN information to nearly 3,000 victims of stalking each year. SUN SUN Survivors SUN The Helpline was launched in April 2010, with the help of SUN stalking survivors and bereaved families. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05rkpvc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05rkpvf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05rl3dg (Listen) SUN A Love without Ending SUN SUN William Booth and Catherine Mumford were two fervent young SUN Christians, and when they met in 1852 so started a love SUN story not only for each other, but also for the SUN disadvantaged and downtrodden which would overflow across SUN the world. Live from Sunderland Millfield Salvation Army and SUN Celebrating 150 years since William and Catherine Booth SUN founded this worldwide movement. Preacher: General André SUN Cox. The International Staff Songsters are directed by SUN Dorothy Nancekievill. Within days of their first meeting SUN William and Catherine were writing love letters to each SUN other. William was determined to be a Christian preacher and SUN evangelist and Catherine was not only wholeheartedly behind SUN him, she effectively helped to mould the man he became. They SUN were people of their time - Victorians - but their letters SUN show that under the surface they were passionate individuals SUN who loved deeply, felt strongly about their spiritual and SUN other convictions, and were determined to follow what they SUN believed was God's leading for their lives. Initially the SUN Booths did not plan to create a church but a 'movement' of SUN people who, once converted to Christian faith, would go back SUN to their own congregations, or join an established church. SUN Very quickly, though, it became clear that this 'movement' SUN was developing its own personality and distinctiveness. The SUN Salvation Army today is still officially a 'movement' SUN although now it is also an established Protestant SUN evangelical denomination with deep roots in both big SUN conurbations and smaller towns right across the world. SUN Producer: Andrew Earis. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05r71xm (Listen) SUN Commemorative Style SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcgb (Listen) SUN Capercaillie 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 Kate Humble presents the capercaillie. The bizarre SUN knife-grinding, cork-popping display of the male SUN capercaillie is one of the strangest sounds produced by any SUN bird. The name 'Capercaillie' is derived from the Gaelic for SUN 'horse of the woods', owing to the cantering sound, which is SUN the start of their extraordinary mating display. These are SUN the largest grouse in the world and in the UK they live only SUN in ancient Caledonian pine forests. SUN SUN Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05rl3dy (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 b05rl3j6 (Listen) SUN Shula meets a friend, and Pip drops a bombshell. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Dan Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Dr Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN SUN 11:16 The Reunion b05rl3j8 (Listen) SUN Far East Prisoners of War SUN SUN Sue MacGregor's guests remember their time as Far East POWs SUN during the Second World War. SUN SUN Early in the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese made SUN major military advances throughout the Far East. The fall of SUN Singapore in February 1942 resulted in the single largest SUN surrender of British-led military personnel. Winton SUN Churchill called it "the worst disaster and largest SUN capitulation in British history". In total, the Japanese SUN took 140,000 Allied prisoners, including 67,000 British. SUN SUN The prisoners were sent to forced labour camps throughout SUN South-East Asia. The Thailand-Burma Railway is perhaps the SUN best known project, but many more POWs were shipped via SUN "hell ships" to islands like Java and Ambon. The Japanese SUN captors treated the prisoners horrifically, subjecting them SUN to brutal beatings, intense work, starvation, disease and SUN searing heat. Over a quarter of POWs died in the camps. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor's guests include: Bob Morrell, who remembers SUN his "coffin duty" on the island of Ambon; centenarian Bill SUN Frankland, who was a medical officer treating prisoners near SUN Singapore.; William Mumby who was shipped throughout the SUN region, and Tony Lucas, who was sent to the Thailand-Burma SUN Railway and helped carve "Hellfire Pass". Sue is also joined SUN by historian Sibylla Jane Flower who made a special study of SUN Allied prisoners held by the Japanese. SUN SUN After the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and SUN V-J Day, the POWs undertook the arduous journey back to SUN Britain. Many were reunited with their families who were SUN unaware of their survival. In the following decades, many SUN former prisoners of war kept quiet about their experiences. SUN SUN Producer: Colin McNulty SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05rkpvh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Dilemma b05r3ssw (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 3 SUN SUN Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts SUN the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel, SUN finding the tipping point of their personal morality. This SUN week, it's the turn of comedians Jo Brand and Michael Legge, SUN musician and Radio 3 presenter Mara Carlyle, and journalist SUN Matthew Parris. They discuss, among other things, SUN unfortunate children's names and bad birthday presents, and SUN help the audience with their real life dilemmas - although SUN with "help" like this... Episode three of six. SUN SUN Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by SUN Danielle Ward. SUN SUN Devised by ... Danielle Ward SUN Producer ... Ed Morrish. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sue Perkins SUN Panellist: Jo Brand SUN Panellist: Mara Carlyle SUN Panellist: Matthew Parris SUN Panellist: Michael Legge SUN Producer: Ed Morrish SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05rl3jb (Listen) SUN Diet and Diabetes SUN SUN In the UK, there are 3.2 million people who are living with SUN Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and a further 600,000 who have SUN Type 2 but just don't know it yet. And those numbers SUN continue to rise. SUN SUN In the first few months of this year, the charity Diabetes SUN UK received over 300 calls from newly diagnosed diabetics SUN asking what they can and can't eat. It seems there's plenty SUN of confusion about what foods need to be eaten to maintain SUN healthy blood sugar levels and a misconception that a SUN diabetes diagnosis means never eating sugar again. SUN SUN This week, Felicity Evans is discussing some of the issues SUN surrounding diet and diabetes. Her guests in the studio are; SUN G.P, author and broadcaster, Dr Hilary Jones, dietician, SUN Azmina Govindji, Simon O'Neill from Diabetes UK and Saturday SUN Live's J.P Devlin, a Type 1 diabetic for more than 30 years. SUN SUN They will offer practical tips on some of the best food SUN choices, debunk a few myths and look at how it can change SUN someone's life. Plus what does the latest research say about SUN the type of diet diabetics should be eating. SUN SUN Presented by Felicity Evans and produced in Bristol by Julia SUN Hayball. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Felicity Evans SUN Interviewed Guest: Hilary Jones SUN Interviewed Guest: Azmina Govindji SUN Interviewed Guest: Simon O'Neill SUN Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SUN Producer: Julia Hayball SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05rkpvk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05rl3jd (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05r6zy1 (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a correspondence edition of the programme SUN from Matthew Wilson's garden in Rutland. Matthew is joined SUN by Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden to SUN answer questions sent in by post, online and through social SUN media. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05rl3w2 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about coming to terms with not SUN having grandchildren, not living where you want to, and SUN negotiating a relationship, from Devon, Derry and Shap, in SUN the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b05rl3w4 (Listen) SUN Decline and Fall, Episode 1 SUN SUN A real gem in the canon of British comic fiction. SUN Evelyn Waugh's fast paced roller-coaster, dramatised SUN by Jeremy Front, is peopled by larger than life characters SUN and a few grotesques. Paul Pennyfeather, a quiet, earnest, SUN scholarly young student at Oxford knows nothing of 1920's SUN high-life until one night he encounters The Bollinger Club SUN ... SUN SUN Produced by Marion Nancarrow and Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN Set in the early jazz age, the tone of Decline and Fall is SUN Wodehousian with added sex, drugs and alcohol. The central SUN character is Paul Pennyfeather, played by Oxford graduate SUN and young emerging comedian, Kieran Hodgson. Paul is an SUN innocent but nevertheless the engine of the piece. The fuse SUN is lit in Oxford after which the plot moves us quickly to SUN London then out to a tenth rate school in rural Wales where SUN we meet the Headmaster, Dr Fagan and two fellow teachers, SUN Grimes and Prendergast played by comedy stars - Geoffrey SUN Whitehead, John Sessions and James Fleet. SUN SUN From here we are taken to a glass and steel fantasy of SUN excessive modern architecture in the middle of the English SUN countryside, the home of the beautiful Margot, stylish SUN played by Emilia Fox, designed by the eccentric Otto, a SUN cameo played with relish by Tom Hollander in Episode Two. SUN Paul's travels then take him to hot, sweaty Marseille and SUN into trouble which results in him ending up in a British SUN prison. Paul's adventures end in a rather Alice in SUN Wonderland fashion when he is given a new identity and SUN returns to Oxford, exactly where he started, but with the SUN addition of a beard. SUN SUN Decline and Fall is dramatised by Jeremy Front. Jeremy won SUN the Best Dramatisation in the 2014 Drama Audio Awards for SUN Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour. His wonderfully comic touch SUN has been evident in his most recent work for Radio 4 - SUN Charles Paris and Incredible Women. SUN SUN Credits SUN Paul Pennyfeather: Kieran Hodgson SUN Dr Fagan: Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Grimes: John Sessions SUN Prendergast: James Fleet SUN Philbrick: Ben Crowe SUN Margot Beste-Chetwynde: Emilia Fox SUN Peter Beste-Chetwynde: Alex Lawther SUN Flossie: Tilly Vosburgh SUN Lady Circumference: Felicity Montagu SUN Dingy: Felicity Montagu SUN Tangent: Richard Linnell SUN Clutterbuck: Mark Edel-Hunt SUN Cholmondley: Jude Akuwudike SUN Mr Davies: Stephen Critchlow SUN Paul's Guardian: Stephen Critchlow SUN Trumpington: Sam Valentine SUN Sniggs: Sam Dale SUN Postlethwaite: David Acton SUN Levy: Ian Conningham SUN Producer: Marion Nancarrow SUN Director: Tracey Neale SUN Author: Evelyn Waugh SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05rl3w6 (Listen) SUN Caryl Phillips on The Lost Child SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to award winning novelist Caryl SUN Phillips whose latest book is influenced by Wuthering SUN Heights. Set largely in Yorkshire in 1960's Britain it also SUN flashes back to the eighteenth century to imagine SUN Heathcliff's impoverished childhood. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Caryl Phillips SUN SUN 16:30 The Poet and the Murderer b05rl3w8 (Listen) SUN In 1997, a newly discovered and previously unpublished poem SUN by the much-loved American poet Emily Dickinson was SUN auctioned in New York. There was great excitement at the SUN idea that a new work by this iconic artist had come to light SUN - as if a new Shakespeare Sonnet had been found locked in a SUN trunk in a Stratford attic, or an unknown Picasso had been SUN stumbled upon at a car boot sale. SUN SUN After the poem was sold at auction and brought home to Emily SUN Dickinson's home town of Amherst, with much fanfare, it was SUN revealed to be a brilliant fake. It had been created by a SUN man named Mark Hofmann, a convicted double murderer once SUN dubbed the 'greatest forger of the 20th century'. He had not SUN only matched the paper, handwriting and pencil with SUN astounding historical accuracy, he had produced a new SUN Dickinson work that passed off as authentic. SUN SUN How was a convicted double murderer able to craft a poem so SUN perfect that it fooled leading Emily Dickinson scholars and SUN experts in historical documents? Dickinson famously lived SUN much of her life as a recluse, producing her works of SUN concentrated brilliance from the bedroom of her father's SUN house in Amherst, Massachusetts. She chose not to publish SUN during her lifetime and hand-sewn booklets containing some SUN 1,800 poems were discovered in a locked box in her room SUN after her death. Why does Dickinson continue to fascinate, SUN and what might Hofmann's fake poem tell us about the true SUN poet's work and life? SUN SUN The writer and journalist Simon Worrall unfolds a gripping SUN true story of poetry, murder and the art of forgery. SUN SUN 17:00 Does the House Always Win? b05r3w43 (Listen) SUN Betting on the outcome of sporting fixtures is so last SUN century. Now you can take a punt on practically anything SUN that happens within a game - from who will win the first set SUN in tennis to who will score the first goal in a football SUN match. SUN Welcome to the world of in-game betting where gamblers test SUN their skill and luck almost as the action happens. It's SUN growing fast as the lucrative new frontier for the betting SUN world, and is particularly popular in the huge Asian market. SUN With events unfolding so quickly, time is everything. But SUN because the television pictures are always a few seconds SUN behind the real-time action, punters at live events will SUN have an advantage over those watching at home or in a SUN betting shop. SUN In this documentary Simon Cox looks at how some exploit the SUN TV delay either by betting online directly from the event or SUN by sending in scouts with hidden devices to feed the SUN information about what's happening ahead of the official SUN television pictures. He speaks to the first person to be SUN arrested whilst court-siding in Australia and accused of SUN trying to corrupt a betting outcome. SUN So what lengths are people prepared to go to gain those SUN crucial seconds that give them an advantage? And what SUN evidence is there that in-game betting poses a threat to the SUN integrity of some our most popular sports? SUN Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: Anna Meisel. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05rk6m4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05rkpvn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05rkpvq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05rkpvs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05rl414 (Listen) SUN Pauline Black SUN SUN Pauline Black chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the past SUN week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05rl416 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:16 The Vote Now Show b05r3zc4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN SUN A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve SUN Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests to give SUN their own unique take on the week's election shennanigans. SUN SUN Episode two features Pippa Evans, Mitch Benn, Andy Zaltzman, SUN Julia Hartley-Brewer and Lolly Adefope. SUN SUN Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. SUN SUN Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Steve Punt SUN Presenter: Hugh Dennis SUN Panellist: Pippa Evans SUN Panellist: Mitch Benn SUN Panellist: Andy Zaltzman SUN Panellist: Julia Hartley-Brewer SUN Panellist: Lolly Adefope SUN Producer: Alexandra Smith SUN Producer: Joe Nunnery SUN Producer: Rachel Wheeley SUN Executive Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith SUN SUN 19:45 Above Ground b05rl4fy (Listen) SUN Licence to Kill SUN SUN Stephanie Cole reads a new short story by Penelope Lively. SUN SUN Eighty-six-year-old Pauline requires a little help with SUN daily tasks. Her teenaged care assistant, Cally, is employed SUN to take her shopping. Their easy routine stutters when, out SUN of the blue, Pauline reveals a secret about her past. SUN SUN This is the first in a new series of stories in which SUN writers consider the theme of age and ageing. The series SUN title, Above Ground, is inspired by a quote from Carol SUN Shields novel The Stone Diaries: "Here's to another year and SUN let's hope it's above ground." SUN SUN Read by Stephanie Cole SUN Written by Penelope Lively SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Stephanie Cole SUN Writer: Penelope Lively SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b05r6zy7 (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for listener comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05r6zy5 (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05rk5tn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05rl3dd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b05r40r7 (Listen) SUN Circular Economy SUN SUN As Dame Ellen MacArthur circumnavigated the globe she got SUN first-hand knowledge of the finite nature of the world's SUN resources. When she retired from sailing she created a SUN foundation to promote the concept of a 'Circular Economy' - SUN where resources are re-used and waste reduced to zero. Many SUN companies around the world - including some of the biggest, SUN like Unilever - are responding to her ideas. SUN SUN Peter Day talks to the record-breaking sailor, to Unilever, SUN and to the creators of an innovative urban farm in New SUN Jersey about why these concepts are so important and how SUN businesses can take them on board. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05rl4qr (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05rl4qt (Listen) SUN Iain Martin of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05r40dj (Listen) SUN Joss Whedon on Avengers; Roy Andersson; Foley; The Falling SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Avengers' director Joss Whedon discusses the challenges of SUN writing a film with not one, not two, but eight SUN super-heroes. SUN SUN Swedish auteur Roy Andersson on A Pigeon Sat On A Branch SUN Reflecting On Existence and why the Swedes are really glum. SUN SUN As part of the BBC's Get Creative campaign, Francine tries SUN her hand at making sound effects with household objects, SUN ably assisted by Foley artist Barnaby Smyth. SUN SUN In the week that The Falling is released, Kier-La Janisse SUN and Sandra Hebron consider the depiction of mass hysteria in SUN cinema history, from The Devils to Picnic At Hanging Rock. SUN SUN The Falling SUN The Falling – written and directed by Carol Morley - is SUN released in cinemas on Friday, cert 15 SUN SUN DIY Foley SUN Ripping flesh SUN – take a bunch of celery and give it a Chinese burn. Add dog SUN barking effects for added authenticity SUN Walking in snow SUN – throw dishwasher salt and meringue nests on an old shirt SUN and walk up and down while squeezing a small bag of SUN cornflour SUN Riding a horse SUN – as above, but imitate the movement of a horse, and twist SUN an old wallet and jangle a belt for the sound of reins SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Joss Whedon SUN Interviewed Guest: Roy Andersson SUN Interviewed Guest: Barnaby Smyth SUN Interviewed Guest: Kier-La Janisse SUN Interviewed Guest: Sandra Hebron SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05rktyy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 APRIL 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05rkpwt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05r3z43 (Listen) MON Stories Behind Immigration - Winner of the Ethnography Award MON MON This year, the BBC's Thinking Allowed, in association with MON the British Sociological Association, launched the second MON year of its award for a study that has made a significant MON contribution to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the MON everyday life of a culture or sub-culture. Laurie Taylor MON presents a special edition of Thinking Allowed to mark the MON announcement of the winner of the 2015 award. MON MON Laurie and a team of leading academics - Professor Beverley MON Skeggs, Professor Adam Kuper, Dr Coretta Phillips and Dr MON Louise Westmarland - were tasked with judging the study that MON has made the most significant contribution to ethnography MON over the past year. Ethnographic studies in the past have MON often illuminated lives which were little understood or MON stigmatised such as the urban poor in 1930s Chicago and the MON mods and rockers of 50s Britain. MON MON This year the judges combed through an extraordinary MON diversity of entries to arrive at a shortlist of 7: MON MON Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads by MON Caroline Knowles. MON MON The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern MON the American Penal System by David Skarbek MON MON Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia by Francesca MON Stella. MON MON Illegality Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of MON Bordering Europe by Ruben Andersson. MON MON Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture and Resistance by MON Marek Korczynski MON MON Human Rights as War by Other Means: Peace Politics in MON Northern Ireland by Jennifer Curtis. MON MON Educational Binds of Poverty: The Lives of School Children MON by Ceri Brown. MON MON After much passionate and lively debate, the winner can be MON announced. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Ruben Andersson MON Anthropologist, London School of Economics and Political MON Science MON Find out more about MON Ruben Andersson MON * MON **Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business MON of Bordering Europe MON *Publisher: University of California Press MON ISBN-10: 0520282523 MON ISBN-13: 978-0520282520 MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05rktyw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05rkpww (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05rkpwy (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05rkpx0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05rkpx2 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05rnh8s (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Rev'd Dr Craig Gardiner. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05rnhzb (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05rkpx4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0423j3r (Listen) MON Pied Flycatcher MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON David Attenborough presents the story of the pied MON flycatcher. The pied flycatcher is the voice of western MON woods, as much a part of the scenery as lichen-covered MON branches, mossy boulders and tumbling streams. When they MON arrive here in spring from Africa the black and white males, MON which are slightly smaller than a house sparrow, take up MON territories in the woodland and sing their lilting arpeggios MON from the tree canopy. MON MON Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). MON MON 06:00 Today b05rnx7c (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05rnx7f (Listen) MON On Start the Week Anne McElvoy discusses our obsession with MON violence. The historian Richard Bessel explores its past MON ubiquity, but argues that our modern attitudes towards it MON have changed. There's little change in the attitudes towards MON women in the armed forces, according to a play by the MON academic Helen Benedict. Diana Preston sees history MON repeating itself as weapons of mass destruction continue to MON be used in much the same way as a century ago. For June MON Oscar, an Indigenous leader from North Western Australia, MON the history of her people has been dominated by the violent MON struggle with settlers from the 1770s. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Interviewed Guest: Richard Bessel MON Interviewed Guest: Diana Preston MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Benedict MON Interviewed Guest: June Oscar MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05rnx7h (Listen) MON Words Without Music, Episode 1 MON MON The long-awaited memoir by the world-renowned composer of MON symphonies, operas and film scores. MON MON 'If you go to New York City to study music, you'll end up MON like your uncle Henry,' Glass's mother warned her incautious MON and curious nineteen-year-old son. It was the early summer MON of 1956, and Ida Glass was concerned that her precocious MON Philip, already a graduate of the University of Chicago, MON would end up an itinerant musician, playing in vaudeville MON houses and dance halls all over the country, just like his MON cigar-smoking, bantamweight uncle. One could hardly blame MON Mrs. Glass for worrying that her teenage son would end up as MON a musical vagabond after initially failing to get into MON Juilliard. Yet, the transformation of a young man from MON budding musical prodigy to world-renowned composer is the MON story of this memoir. MON MON From his childhood in post-World War II Baltimore to his MON student days in Chicago, at Juilliard, and his time in MON Paris, where he studied under the formidable Nadia MON Boulanger, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors while MON reconstructing the places that helped shape his artistic MON consciousness. Then, to the gritty streets of New York in MON the 1970s, where the composer worked as a cabbie, leading MON the life of a Parisian bohemian artist transported to MON late-twentieth-century America. MON MON Yet even after Glass's talent was first widely recognized MON with the sensational premiere of Einstein on the Beach in MON 1976, even after he stopped renewing his hack license and MON gained international recognition for his operatic works, the MON son of a Baltimore record store owner never abandoned his MON earliest universal ideals, all of the highest artistic MON order. MON MON Reader: Kerry Shale MON Writer: Philip Glass MON Abridger: Laurence Wareing MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON Music details: MON Track: "Opening" MON CD: Glassworks MON Label: CBS MON MON Track: "Bebop" MON CD: Charlie Parker, The Original Bird: The Best Of Charlie MON Parker 1944-1949 MON Label: Savoy. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Kerry Shale MON Author: Phillip Glass MON Abridger: Alan Wareing MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05rnx7k (Listen) MON The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05rnx7m (Listen) MON The Enchanted April, Episode 1 MON MON By Elizabeth von Arnim MON Dramatised by Vivienne Allen MON While at their Shaftesbury Avenue club MON on a rainy February day, Rosie and Lottie MON discover they have been reading the same MON advertisement in The Times:- MON MON To Those who Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine. MON Small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the MON Mediterranean to be let Furnished for the month of MON April. MON MON Can they seize this opportunity and escape to the MON sunny Italian Riviera or is it just an impossible dream? MON MON Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale MON MON An advertisement in The Times, addressed to 'Those who MON Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine' is the impetus for a MON revelatory month for four very different women. High above MON the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a MON mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Lotty, Rose, MON Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline Dester, each craving escape. MON Lulled by the Mediterranean spirit, they gradually shed MON their skins and discover a harmony each of them has longed MON for. MON MON As soon as we arrive in Italy from rainy London the warmth, MON colour and smells of this enchanting place take over. The MON descriptions are intoxicating. The four women blossom in the MON sunshine but there are a few surprises in store for them. MON MON Although these women live in the 1920s, their worries and MON concerns are as relevant today as they have always been. MON Times change, fashions change, but people do not change so MON much. Who wouldn't say no when given the chance to escape MON from the dismal gloomy rain to the sunshine of the Italian MON Riviera and have a welcome break from their day to day MON lives. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Jenny Funnell MON Lotty: Pippa Nixon MON Rose: Lyndsey Marshal MON Mrs Fisher: Joanna Monro MON Caroline (Scrap): Rhiannon Neads MON Mellersh: Stephen Critchlow MON Briggs: Neet Mohan MON Frederick: Chris Pavlo MON Domenico: Chris Pavlo MON Francesca: Jessica Turner MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Producer: Tracey Neale MON Author: Elizabeth von Arnim MON Adaptor: Vivienne Allen MON MON 11:00 Vive l'Empereur! b05rnx7p (Listen) MON As thousands of men and horses gear up to recreate the MON Battle of Waterloo for its bicentenary in June, Max Cotton MON goes inside the world of Napoleonic re-enactment. MON MON The real fighting may have stopped two hundred years ago, MON but the skirmishing over the battle's authentic recreation MON and its political meaning intensifies. Max meets the MON re-enactors as they prepare for their biggest "battle" in MON the fields and villages south of Waterloo. MON MON It is a tale of genuine passions and obsessions. Max MON explores the difference between "stitch-counters" and MON "FARBs", discusses the rival merits of those who seek to MON play Bonaparte (and meets the real version), and discovers MON the subtle diplomacy surrounding the bicentenary, as MON ambassadors across Europe work hard to make sure the British MON aren't offended, the French turn-up and no-one is MON humiliated. MON MON Producer: Adam Bowen. MON MON 11:30 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice b05rnx7r (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Comedian Deborah Frances-White was born in Australia but now MON lives in London. Continuing her series of true life tales, MON she recalls her struggles to get back into England and stay MON here. MON MON In the company of Thom Tuck, Alex Lowe and Cariad Lloyd, she MON recalls how pretending to marry a gay man, and pay him for MON it, seemed the only way to satisfy the authorities. MON MON Then, when she accidentally meets the true love of her life MON and gets married for her visa, Deborah had not anticipated MON worse troubles looming with both his parents and the Home MON Office. MON MON Producer: Alan Nixon MON A So Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05rkpx8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Listeners' Election b05s2x2m (Listen) MON Litter MON MON BBC Radio 4's Listeners' Election project culminates with a MON week-long series of programmes. Chris Mason brings together MON contributions from listeners across the country on MON particular themes that concern them. MON MON In this first edition, some listeners explain why they think MON litter is becoming a serious political issue. This raises MON the question of who is responsible for clearing cans and MON crisp packets from our streets and verges: the state, MON society acting together, or the individual? MON MON And, as he explores this wider question of where MON responsibility lies, Chris also hears from those who think MON state efforts to stop individuals smoking are completely MON inappropriate. MON MON In the other editions in the series, Chris explores such MON issues as Housing and Population Distribution, Farmland vs. MON the Countryside, Disengagement and Young Adults, and Caring MON for Children and the Elderly. MON MON PRODUCERS: PHIL TINLINE AND SARAH KEATING. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b05rnx7w (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05rkpxb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05rnx7y (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05rl416 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Tommies b03thc6p (Listen) MON 27 April 1915 MON MON by Nick Warburton MON Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. MON MON Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness MON accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at MON war, exactly 100 years ago. MON MON Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and MON his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the MON British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense MON machine, one which connects situations across the whole MON theatre of the war, over four long years. MON MON Under the constant threat of gas attack in the village of La MON Brique just north of Ypres, Mickey Bliss and his signals MON colleagues are trying to work out why the enemy are always MON one step ahead. MON MON Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross MON Commentator: Indira Varma MON Pavan Jodha: Rudi Dharmalingam MON Spiridon: Adrian Scarborough MON Ahmadullah Khan: Danny Rahim MON Pillow Wallah: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Leonie Vergeron: Aurelie Amblard MON Officer: Damian Lynch MON Gilbert Grosse: Matthew Watson MON Signaller: Neet Mohan MON Producer: David Hunter MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Nick Warburton MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b05rnx80 (Listen) MON Series 5, Cardiff University MON MON A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three MON University students take on a team of three of their MON professors. MON MON Coming this week from Cardiff University, The 3rd Degree is MON a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at cultivating MON the next generation of Radio 4 listeners while delighting MON the current ones. MON MON The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Biology, MON Journalism and Astrophysics and the questions range from the MON intricacies of relativistic length contraction to the MON idiocies of homeopathy via Grexit, webinars and a man called MON Walter Plinge. MON MON The show is recorded on location at a different University MON each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of MON their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on MON an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course MON meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but MON with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quick-fire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction. MON The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on MON The Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not MON just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in MON the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries MON for Radio 4, including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The MON Spleen, as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang MON Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine MON Particle. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05rl3jb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Twenty Years of Hate b05rnyz0 (Listen) MON 'La Haine' ('Hate') was one of the most shocking films to MON come out of France in decades when it was released in 1995. MON Not only was it a brilliant work of fiction - the story of MON three young men who come across a police gun in the day MON following a riot- the film's portrayal of violent tensions MON between police and residents of the troubled banlieue MON outside of Paris, and the tension between the city and the MON suburbs, caused a political storm; French ministers were MON made to watch it at a special screening in the Elysee Palace MON to get an insight into the tough social conditions affecting MON so many people, and such was the hostility felt by the MON police at their depiction, officers present at the Cannes MON Festival when brash young director Mathieu Kassovitz picked MON up his best director award literally turned their back on MON him in disgust. In 'Twenty Years of Hate', Andrew Hussey MON sets out to find out what the film has to say to us today MON about the state of contemporary France, meeting members of MON the original cast and visiting the cité where it was filmed MON - Chanteloup les Vignes. Now that Kassovitz has announced MON his plans to make 'La Haine 2' in response to the Charlie MON Hebdo attacks, Hussey also asks how different the follow up MON might need to be in order to reflect changes in French MON society, and in particular the rise of radical Islam. MON MON La Haine MON 1995 MON Director: Mathieu Kassovitz MON Produced By: Christophe Rossignon MON Production Companies: MON Canal+ MON Cofinergie 6 MON Egg Pictures MON Kasso Inc. Productions MON La Sept Cinéma MON Les Productions Lazennec MON Polygram Filmed Entertainment MON Studio Image. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b05rnyz2 (Listen) MON Series 7, Breathe MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores the overlap between technology and MON the natural world and how the two co-exist. MON MON 17:00 PM b05rnyz4 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05rkpxd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Dilemma b05rnz1n (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 4 MON MON Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts MON the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to see MON the direction in their moral compasses point. This week, MON it's the turn of comedians Iain Stirling and Shappi MON Khorsandi, journalist Suzanne Moore, and writer and actor MON Dan Tetsell. Collectively they rate the merits of getting MON the money or the credit for something's success, as well as MON quickly resolving issues such as inheritance, racism, MON childhood dreams and Beyoncé. Episode four of six. MON MON Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by MON Danielle Ward. MON MON Devised by ... Danielle Ward MON Producer ... Ed Morrish. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Iain Stirling MON Panellist: Suzanne Moore MON Panellist: Dan Tetsell MON Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05rnzct (Listen) MON Jolene and Kenton are under a cloud, and Ed has got his suit MON sorted. MON MON 19:16 Front Row b05rnzl3 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05rnx7m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Lore's Story b05s2pbf (Listen) MON A moving story of love and the struggle to find meaning when MON faced with a terrible illness. MON MON Paul Wolfson was bright, funny, sparky, unconventional - a MON psychiatrist living in South London with his second wife and MON two young children. Family life was rich and busy. But he'd MON begun to have to search for words. Finally, at the age of MON only 60, he was diagnosed with a rare form of early onset MON dementia. MON MON He knew the prognosis - he would lose the ability to speak MON and then to understand words, his character would change and MON eventually he would no longer be able to recognise his MON children. His wife Lore entered a strange new world - a MON world of hospital appointments and carer-support groups as MON she slowly began to realise what Paul's illness was going to MON mean for their marriage and their family. MON MON With clear-sightedness and wit, Lore and Paul talked MON together over his last six months - and recorded those MON conversations. The recordings are unexpectedly upbeat and MON life-affirming. Paul embarked on a series of trips around MON the country to see old friends and talks about the value of MON friendship, and family. Movingly, we hear Paul's voice MON become slower as he searches for words and loses language. MON MON They discuss his illness, and what to do. He is reluctant to MON go into a home: his first wife was living with Huntingdon's, MON a neurodegenerative disease. She had already spent almost MON twenty years in a home immobilised but conscious, kept alive MON by a feeding tube. Paul feared a similar fate. MON This programme is Lore's story, and she introduces the MON recordings they made together. How do you find meaning in MON such tragedy? That is the question Lore tries to answer. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke MON An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b05r401f (Listen) MON 'Police State' Portugal MON MON Does Portugal have a problem with police brutality and MON racism? In February a group of young black men from the MON Lisbon suburb of Cova da Moura allege they were beaten and MON racially abused at a police station. Police claim the men MON tried to invade the station. Residents of Cova da Moura are MON mostly from immigrant backgrounds, and they say this is just MON the latest of a number of serious incidents in the past few MON years, and claim that the neighbourhood has become a 'police MON state'. James Fletcher travels to Cova da Moura to MON investigate whether police are too heavy handed towards MON black and immigrant communities, and whether those MON communities are bearing the brunt of Portugal's austerity MON driven spending cuts. MON MON (Warning: Contains strong language). MON MON 21:00 Forensics in Crisis b05r3tf1 (Listen) MON Crisis in Research MON MON There is a growing sense of crisis inside the world of MON forensic science. Recent high profile cases such as Jill MON Dando and Amanda Knox have highlighted serious problems with MON the way testing is carried out. MON MON Techniques from fingerprint analysis to DNA identification MON have been found wanting, as cases collapse and are MON overturned. Plummeting forensic spending by police forces MON has left a newly privatised industry in England and Wales on MON the brink of failure. MON MON In this series, science journalist Linda Geddes investigates MON why forensic science has fallen into crisis, and what can be MON done to restore confidence in the field. MON MON Programme 1: MON MON The UK was once a world leader in forensic research, with MON DNA fingerprinting invented at the University of Leicester MON in 1984, a technique which revolutionised the investigation MON of crime. MON MON Now forensic scientists claim we are falling dangerously MON behind the rest of the world in terms of research and MON development, relying on outdated equipment and unvalidated MON techniques. MON MON Linda Geddes hears from leading researchers who are speaking MON out to try and prevent more miscarriages of justice. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05rnx7f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05rkpxj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05s2pbk (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05s2pbm (Listen) MON The History of the Peloponnesian War, War Begins MON MON 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the MON taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for MON ever,' Thucydides MON MON Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' spellbinding first-hand MON account chronicles the devastating 27-year-long war between MON Athens and Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a MON life-and-death struggle that reshaped the face of ancient MON Greece and pitted Athenian democracy against brutal Spartan MON militarism. MON MON Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general MON who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all MON time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for MON myth admired by historians today. Looking at why nations go MON to war, what makes a great leader, and whether might can be MON better than right, he became the father of modern MON Realpolitik. His influence fed into the works of MON Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War MON and beyond. MON MON Thucydides' masterful account of the end of Greece's Golden MON Age, depicts an age of revolution, sea battles, military MON alliances, plague and massacre, but also great bravery and MON some of the greatest political orations of all time. MON Today: With Spartan distrust of the rising power of Athens, MON is war inevitable? MON MON Abridger: Tom Holland is an award-winning novelist and MON historian, specialising in the classical and medieval MON periods. He is the author of 'Rubicon: The Triumph and MON Tragedy of the Roman Republic', which was shortlisted for MON the Samuel Johnson Prize, as well as 'Persian Fire', MON 'Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of MON Christendom', 'In the Shadow of the Sword', as well as MON several novels. His latest non-fiction book, 'Dynasty', MON chronicling the Roman Emperors, will be published in 2015. MON He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for MON the BBC. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013. MON In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association MON prize, awarded to 'the individual who has done most to MON promote the study of the language, literature and MON civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome'." MON Reader: David Horovitch MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON Credits MON Reader: David Horovitch MON Author: Thucydides MON Abridger: Tom Holland MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 23:00 The Vote Now Show b05s2pbq (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve MON Punt and Hugh Dennis host a series of six shows spread MON across four weeks in the lead up to the General Election. MON With the help of Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn, Liam MON Williams and special guest Danny Finklestein, they'll give MON their own unique take on the election news and shenanigans. MON MON Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. MON MON Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Panellist: Jon Holmes MON Panellist: Laura Shavin MON Panellist: Mitch Benn MON Panellist: Liam Williams MON Panellist: Danny Finkelstein MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON Producer: Joe Nunnery MON Producer: Rachel Wheeley MON MON 23:30 Word of Mouth b05r3w3q (Listen) MON A Language Without Words MON MON Michael Rosen & Laura Wright ask Julian Barratt of The MON Mighty Boosh and director Steve Oram about inventing a MON language for their new film, which has no dialogue but MON instead uses a kind of ape language.. How do you communicate MON without words, and how have other films and TV programmes MON tackled the challenge? And what does this tell us about how MON language works? MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 APRIL 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05rkpys (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05rnx7h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05rkpyw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05rkpyy (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05rkpz0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05rkpz2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05s2prl (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Rev'd Dr Craig Gardiner. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05s2prn (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b041ybhz (Listen) TUE Woodland Dawn Chorus TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE David Attenborough presents a dawn chorus recorded in TUE Rutland Water. The outpouring of song is so dense that it is TUE almost impossible to single out individual species but TUE includes blackbirds, song thrushes, robins and newly-arrived TUE migrants like garden warblers. TUE TUE Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) TUE The image shows a Nightingale which can be heard in the TUE Woodland Dawn Chorus. Image courtesy of RSPB TUE (rspb-images.com). TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05s2x26 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Great War of Words: Peace before Annihilation? TUE b05s2x28 (Listen) TUE Michael Portillo explores the possibilities for peace & TUE protest during the Great War. The war that engulfed the TUE world in the summer of 1914 laid bare the failure of TUE European politicians to negotiate their way out of crisis. TUE They weren't the only ones who failed. Pacifism & peace TUE making had been a passionate liberal cause at the dawn of TUE the new century. The growing power of the international TUE labor movement had contained the threat to refuse to bear TUE arms for a capitalist war. But the war had swept all before TUE it. Who now would try and seek any way out of this conflict TUE and at what cost? TUE TUE Producer Mark Burman. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05t7k4c (Listen) TUE Words Without Music, Episode 2 TUE TUE Memoir by acclaimed American composer Philip Glass. TUE TUE Funding himself by working in a Baltimore steel mill, the TUE young Glass secures a place at Juilliard and begins his TUE music studies in earnest. New York City in the late 1950s TUE was a heady place, offering a range of creative TUE opportunities. He soon found himself immersed in the city's TUE vibrant contemporary art scene. TUE TUE In this long-awaited memoir, Philip Glass recalls his early TUE mentors while reconstructing the places that helped shape TUE his artistic consciousness. TUE TUE Reader: Kerry Shale TUE Writer: Philip Glass TUE Abridger: Laurence Wareing TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE Music details: TUE Track: "Metamorphosis One" TUE CD: Philip Glass: Solo Piano Music TUE Label: Sony. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Kerry Shale TUE Author: Phillip Glass TUE Abridger: Alan Wareing TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05s2x2c (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 b05s2x2f (Listen) TUE The Enchanted April, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Elizabeth von Arnim TUE Dramatised by Vivienne Allen TUE TUE Having arrived at their mediaeval castle in darkness, TUE Lotty and Rose wake up to the radiance of April in Italy. TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale TUE TUE An advertisement in The Times, addressed to 'Those who TUE Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine' is the impetus for a TUE revelatory month for four very different women. High above TUE the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a TUE mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Lotty, Rose, TUE Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline Dester, each craving escape. TUE Lulled by the Mediterranean spirit, they gradually shed TUE their skins and discover a harmony each of them has longed TUE for. TUE TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Jenny Funnell TUE Lotty: Pippa Nixon TUE Rose: Lyndsey Marshal TUE Mrs Fisher: Joanna Monro TUE Caroline (Scrap): Rhiannon Neads TUE Director: Tracey Neale TUE Producer: Tracey Neale TUE Author: Elizabeth von Arnim TUE Adaptor: Vivienne Allen TUE TUE 11:00 Forensics in Crisis b05s2x2h (Listen) TUE Crisis in the Lab TUE TUE There is a growing sense of crisis inside the world of TUE forensic science. Recent high profile cases such as Jill TUE Dando and Amanda Knox have highlighted serious problems with TUE the way testing is carried out. TUE TUE In this series, science journalist Linda Geddes investigates TUE why forensic science has fallen into crisis, and what can be TUE done to restore confidence in the field. TUE TUE Programme 2: TUE TUE This week, Linda looks at the crisis in the laboratory. TUE Leading experts fear that severe budget cuts, together with TUE an increased reliance on police laboratories, could throw TUE our criminal justice system into jeopardy. TUE TUE She hears from a former police laboratory worker who says TUE that vital tests are being missed, and visits a forensic TUE fibre laboratory to find out why specialist techniques used TUE to catch killers, paedophiles and rapists, are in danger of TUE dying out. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b05s2x2k (Listen) TUE Series 20, First Cut Is the Deepest TUE TUE Long before it was a worldwide hit for Rod Stewart, the Cat TUE Stevens song 'First Cut is the Deepest' made a name for the TUE former Ike and Tina Turner backing singer, PP Arnold. In an TUE interview for Soul Music she describes the emotional TUE connection she felt to the lyrics, having emerged from an TUE abusive marriage shortly before recording it. TUE TUE Also contributing to the programme is the song's original TUE producer, Mike Hurst. He describes how he achieved the huge TUE 'wall of sound' production using double drums, a huge string TUE section, and a harp instead of a guitar to play the TUE signature riff at the the start of the track. TUE TUE There are many personal stories associated with the track: TUE Carsten Knauff recalls a childhood sweetheart - his first TUE true love - and explains why the Cat Stevens' version brings TUE back bitter-sweet memories for him. TUE TUE Rosemarie Purdy saw PP Arnold give an extraordinary live TUE rendition at a club in Portsmouth in 1967. Never before had TUE she seen such a heartfelt, emotionally charged performance. TUE It's something she's never forgotten. TUE TUE The Sheryl Crow version reminds Rachel Batson of a very TUE difficult phase in her life; it's a song she says reflects TUE her own faith journey. TUE TUE And former Radio Caroline DJ, Keith Hampshire, describes the TUE circumstances that led to him having a No.1 hit with the TUE song in Canada. It was the first time 'First Cut' reached TUE No.1 anywhere in the world. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05rkpz5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Listeners' Election b05rnx7t (Listen) TUE Housing and Population TUE TUE BBC Radio 4's Listeners' Election project culminates with a TUE week-long series of programmes. Chris Mason brings together TUE contributions from listeners across the country on TUE particular themes that concern them. TUE TUE In this edition, some listeners explain why they think TUE overpopulation is an issue we are foolish to ignore - it is TUE a problem, they argue, that underpins others, from house TUE prices through pollution to hospital waiting times. TUE TUE And Chris also hears from other listeners for whom the TUE opposite issue - underpopulation - is a more pressing TUE question. TUE TUE PRODUCERS: PHIL TINLINE AND SARAH KEATING. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05s2x2p (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05rkpz9 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05s2x2r (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05rnzct (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ljylg (Listen) TUE The Third Eye and the Private Eye TUE TUE by David Lemon and Mark Eccleston. TUE Based on real events, this is the story of one of TUE literature's greatest and most long-lived hoaxes, featuring TUE yetis, owls and talking cats. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby TUE TUE This is the remarkable story of one of literature's greatest TUE hoaxes; a tale of auras and astral projection; of jealous TUE rivals and embarrassed publishers. TUE According to his bestselling 1956 autobiography 'The Third TUE Eye', Tuesday Lobsang Rampa was born into Tibetan TUE aristocracy and chosen as a boy to become a Lama. According TUE to others, including the private detective employed to delve TUE into his background, he was somebody else entirely... TUE Lobsang Rampa's books are still in print and have sold TUE millions of copies. TUE TUE Credits TUE Warburg: David Haig TUE David: Patrick Brennan TUE Pamela: Christine Absalom TUE Burgess: Joe Sims TUE Rampa: Don Gilet TUE Harrer: Ben Crowe TUE Buttercup: Susie Riddell TUE Macrae: Robert Blythe TUE Writer: David Lemon TUE Writer: Mark Eccleston TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b05s3075 (Listen) TUE Series 7, The Conversation TUE TUE Josie Long presents stories of intimate conversations. A TUE thirty year long conversation comes to an end, an undercover TUE agent reveals how to flatter someone into prison and we TUE discover the secrets of the 'dual form'. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05s3077 (Listen) TUE China's Water Revolution TUE TUE China has powered its development with water. When it needed TUE energy for industry it built the largest hydro-electric dams TUE in the world. When the farmland and factories of northern TUE China were threatened with drought an enormous canal was TUE built to pipe supplies from the south. China has the TUE engineering skill, the capital and the will to challenge the TUE limits that nature sets on development. But the exploitation TUE of China's water resources has come at a great cost, forcing TUE millions from their homes, polluting natural lakes and TUE rivers and pushing rare animal species to the brink of TUE extinction. TUE TUE Isabel Hilton, editor of the China Dialogue website, TUE assesses the progress of China's water revolution and asks TUE where its water will come from in the future. Can TUE large-scale engineering continue to provide the answers or TUE must government teach industry and the public to live within TUE their means? TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05s3079 (Listen) TUE Naming Family Relationships: Step or Blended? TUE TUE Michael Rosen & Dr Laura Wright consider the names we give TUE to our family relationships, for example step or blended? TUE Author and social critic Wednesday Martin has strong TUE opinions on that point.. Where do the words we use for our TUE relatives come from and what do the choices we make say TUE about us? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05s307c (Listen) TUE Series 36, Dame Helen Ghosh on James Lees-Milne TUE TUE Matthew Parris's guest is Dame Helen Ghosh, Director General TUE of the National Trust, who chooses as her Great Life that of TUE James Lees-Milne who worked for the Trust between 1936 and TUE 1966. He was responsible for acquiring many of the Trust's TUE most iconic properties and his particular talent was his TUE ability to persuade the aristocratic owners of the houses TUE into handing them over to the Trust for protection. His TUE other talent was for writing, and it is his deliciously TUE indiscreet diaries for which many people know him. Merlin TUE Waterson, who was a friend of Lees-Milne's, is the expert TUE witness. TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Ghosh Helen TUE Interviewed Guest: Merlin Waterson TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05s307f (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05rkpzf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan b05s307h (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Max and Ivan are private detectives for whom no case is too TUE small....Sorry, for whom no fee is too small. Reece TUE Shearsmith joins them as they investigate ghoulish goings on TUE in a condemned bookshop. TUE TUE Driven by their love of truth, justice (and the need to pay TUE off their terrifying landlord, Malcolm McMichaelmas), they TUE take on crimes that no-one else would consider. In this TUE case, they investigate a ghostly apparition that might save TUE a condemned bookshop. TUE TUE Max and Ivan - comedians and actors Max Olesker and Ivan TUE Gonzalez - are a critically acclaimed, award-winning double TUE act who have quickly established themselves as one of the TUE most exciting comedy duos on the circuit. Over the course of TUE the series they are dropped into new worlds, and have to use TUE their skills to penetrate deep into each community. If that TUE means Ivan dressing up as a 14 year old German girl, so be TUE it! TUE TUE Cast: TUE Max................Max Olesker TUE Ivan...............Ivan Gonzalez TUE Elliott..............Reece Shearsmith TUE Malcolm..........Lewis MacLeod TUE Pat Cooper....David Reed TUE Luna..............Jessica Ransom TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd TUE A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05s307k (Listen) TUE Adam is ambitious. Meanwhile, has Fallon made the right TUE decision? TUE TUE 19:16 Front Row b05s307m (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05s2x2f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Rape of Berlin b05sfg37 (Listen) TUE As Europe was being liberated from Fascism at the end of TUE World War II, one of the most infamous incidents of mass TUE rape in history was underway. Lucy Ash investigates a story TUE that slipped under the official radar. TUE TUE Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke for many when he TUE saluted the Soviet army as heroes. Yet the widespread sexual TUE violence - in part, revenge for the devastating Nazi TUE invasion of the USSR - went unacknowledged. Some estimate TUE there were 100,000 rapes in Berlin alone but, although no TUE secret, social stigma, political repression, guilt and fear TUE of revisionism ensured that for decades the subject was TUE untouchable in Germany. Today it's still an explosive topic TUE - virtually taboo in Putin's Russia. Renewed East-West TUE divisions over the conflict in Ukraine are exposing to what TUE extent the 'Great Patriotic War', as Russians call it, is TUE unfinished business. TUE TUE Lucy travels first to Moscow and then to Berlin to meet a TUE veteran and a rape survivor. She discovers letters, abortion TUE records and two remarkably candid diaries from spring 1945: TUE one by a young Red Army officer, whose son is currently TUE campaigning to get the diary published in Russia, and the TUE other by a female German journalist, which caused outrage TUE when it was first published in German in 1959, but rocketed TUE to the bestseller lists in 2003. We confront multiple TUE aspects to the story: that as well as German rape victims TUE there were also the Soviet, Polish and Jewish women who had TUE just been freed from Nazi camps; that sexual violence was TUE committed in different ways on all sides, by the Wehrmacht, TUE the Red Army and the Western Allies; and that sexual TUE encounters ranged from the most brutal gang rape to TUE prostitution to romances across enemy lines. TUE TUE Producer: Dorothy Feaver. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05s310k (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b05s310m (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond with the latest in psychology, neuroscience TUE and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 The Great War of Words: Peace before Annihilation? TUE b05s2x28 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05rkpzj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05s310p (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05s310r (Listen) TUE The History of the Peloponnesian War, From Funerals to TUE Plague TUE TUE 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the TUE taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for TUE ever,' Thucydides TUE TUE Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand TUE account of the three decades of war between Athens and TUE Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death TUE struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted TUE Athenian democracy against brutal Spartan militarism. TUE TUE Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general TUE who went on to chronicle what he saw as the greatest and TUE most devastating war of all time, applying a passion for TUE accuracy and a contempt for myth admired by historians and TUE journalists today. As the father of modern Realpolitik, his TUE influence fed into the works of Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs TUE and the politics of the Cold War and beyond. TUE TUE Thucydides' masterful account of the end of Greece's Golden TUE Age, depicts an age of revolution, sea battles, military TUE alliances, plague and massacre, but also great bravery and TUE some of the greatest political oratory of all time. TUE TUE Today: from the glorification to the devastation of Athens - TUE Pericles' great funeral speech and the plague that followed. TUE TUE Abridger: Tom Holland is an award-winning novelist and TUE historian, specialising in the classical and medieval TUE periods, who has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and TUE Virgil for the BBC. TUE Reader: David Horovitch TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Horovitch TUE Author: Thucydides TUE Abridger: Tom Holland TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 Tom Wrigglesworth: Utterly at Odds with the Universe TUE b04g8rhd (Listen) TUE Adapted from his sell-out Edinburgh show Tom Wrigglesworth TUE takes an emotional journey exploring his profound TUE relationship with his granddad, and comes to fully TUE understand the influence he has had on his life. TUE TUE 23:30 Recycled Radio b02m7fzh (Listen) TUE Series 1, Money TUE TUE What connects Ken Clarke, Chris Moyles, and Sue MacGregor, TUE along with Brenda Blethyn, Milton Friedman and The Goons ? TUE The answer is MONEY, the subject of this week's Recycled TUE Radio. TUE TUE We've chopped, looped and teased tales as diverse as Aesop's TUE fable about the goose that lay the golden egg to Ian Duncan TUE Smith being asked to live on £53 a week. There's music from TUE Buddy Ella and the Johnsons, Phoenix, and Chitty Chitty Bang TUE Bang. John Major claims that lottery fever will make Britain TUE a better place to live; Melvyn Bragg asks if money is the TUE root of all evil; and the American economist Milton Friedman TUE asks what is greed. TUE TUE "Of course none of us are greedy," he says, "it's only the TUE other fellow who is greedy." TUE TUE That's Recycled Radio - the money edition. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05rkq0s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05t7k4c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05rkq0w (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05rkq0y (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05rkq10 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05rkq13 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05s3375 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Rev'd Dr Craig Gardiner. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05s3377 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b041yd42 (Listen) WED Heather Moorland Dawn Chorus WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED David Attenborough celebrates International Dawn Chorus Day WED with the second of four recordings marking this event. In WED this programme, we hear the dawn chorus from the heather WED moors of Allendale in Northumberland. Songs featured are WED that of the curlew, skylark, golden plover and redshank. WED WED Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) WED The image shows a Eurasian Curlew which can be heard in the WED Heather Moorland Dawn Chorus. Image courtesy of RSPB WED (rspb-images.com). WED WED 06:00 Today b05s3379 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05s337c (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05t7kbz (Listen) WED Words Without Music, Episode 3 WED WED Philip Glass recalls his early mentors while reconstructing WED the places that helped shape his artistic consciousness. WED WED In the mid-1960s, and keen to expand his musical knowledge WED further, Glass went to Paris to study with the acclaimed WED teacher of musical composition Nadia Boulanger. While there, WED and working with the likes of Samuel Beckett, he developed WED his life-long interest in composing music for theatre. WED WED Reader: Kerry Shale WED Writer: Philip Glass WED Abridger: Laurence Wareing WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED Music details: WED Track: "Facades" WED CD: Glassworks WED Label: CBS. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Kerry Shale WED Author: Phillip Glass WED Abridger: Alan Wareing WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05s33xg (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05s33xj (Listen) WED The Enchanted April, Episode 3 WED WED By Elizabeth Von Arnim WED Dramatised by Vivienne Allen WED WED Lotty and Rose begin to bask in the WED delicate warmth and beautiful WED fragrance of San Salvatore but WED Mrs Fisher is still finding things to try WED her patience and Scrap still wants to WED hide herself away. WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale WED WED An advertisement in The Times, addressed to 'Those who WED Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine' is the impetus for a WED revelatory month for four very different women. High above WED the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a WED mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Lotty, Rose, WED Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline Dester, each craving escape. WED Lulled by the Mediterranean spirit, they gradually. WED WED Credits WED Narrator: Jenny Funnell WED Lotty: Pippa Nixon WED Rose: Lyndsey Marshal WED Mrs Fisher: Joanna Monro WED Caroline (Scrap): Rhiannon Neads WED Director: Tracey Neale WED Producer: Tracey Neale WED Author: Elizabeth von Arnim WED Adaptor: Vivienne Allen WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05s345w (Listen) WED Mandy and John - No Longer the Man I Met WED WED Fi Glover introduces an uncompromising conversation about WED how dementia changes a person, and the pressures that puts WED on a relationship, in the series that proves it's surprising WED 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 Lives in a Landscape b05s35wr (Listen) WED Series 19, Herd under the Hammer WED WED Alan Dein meets farmer Steve Graham as he sells his herd of WED 1000 dairy cows - the largest UK sale this year. Having WED woken at dawn for 35 years to milk the cows, he has decided WED to sell - but how will he adjust to life without them? WED WED Steve's life has been governed by the relentless pattern of WED milking twice a day, and the pressures of rearing the cows WED from birth and caring for them throughout their lives. On WED his farm in Devon, he says "There are a lot easier ways of WED making money than milking cows. But if you don't look after WED them, they won't look after you." WED WED Alan joins Steve on the farm on the final days with his herd WED and travels with him to the market. When the cows hit the WED ring, it is not just them being judged, but Steve's WED reputation on the line. WED WED At auction, Alan hears from fellow farmers about the state WED of the dairy industry and the pressures put upon them by a WED falling milk price. But Steve reveals that his reasons for WED leaving the industry are more personal. WED WED Producer: Clare Walker. WED WED 11:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03y152p (Listen) WED Big Farmer WED WED Long Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing WED they think is 'Help!'. WED WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED WED This week, Milton Jones is asked for help because there are WED ugly rumours about the local farm going too far with its GM WED crops. At least, that's what the vegetables are saying. 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 b05rkq1b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Listeners' Election b05sjs33 (Listen) WED The Rural Environment WED WED BBC Radio 4's Listeners' Election project culminates with a WED week-long series of programmes. Chris Mason brings together WED contributions from listeners across the country on WED particular themes that concern them. WED WED In this edition, some listeners explain why they think WED climate change is an under-rated political issue. WED WED But this leads Chris on to contributions from other WED listeners which raise a more close-up question about the WED environment: which is more valuable - farmland or the WED countryside? WED WED PRODUCERS: PHIL TINLINE AND SARAH KEATING. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b05s35wt (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05rkq1g (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05s35ww (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of current affairs with Martha Kearney, WED plus Election Call with Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood. WED WED Editor: Nick Sutton. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05s307k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b05s35wy (Listen) WED 13A, 13B WED WED When Jess turns up in the seat next to Phil on a flight to WED Rome, it soon becomes clear that it's not a coincidence. But WED even the best-laid plans can be derailed by mysterious WED strangers and a fear of flying. New romcom by award-winning WED playwright Peter Souter. WED WED Director Alison Hindell WED WED Peter Souter's best-known radio play is Goldfish Girl which WED won both the Sony Gold and the Tinniswood Award. He has WED written extensively for Radio 4 and for ITV wrote Married, WED Single, Other. His recent debut stage play Hello/Goodbye was WED produced at the Hampstead Theatre and was a development of a WED radio play called That's Mine, This is Yours. WED WED Ruth Jones became a household name starring in Gavin and WED Stacey which she co-wrote with James Corden. Previously she WED had appeared in many radio and stage plays and featured in WED Fat Friends on ITV for which she subsequently also wrote. WED She is currently filming the fourth series of Stella which WED she created, stars in and produces for Sky. WED WED Stephen Tompkinson began his acting career on radio and WED rapidly became a well-known tv star in Ballykissangel. He WED has rarely been absent from television since, most recently WED starring in DCI Banks on ITV, as well as making frequent WED radio and stage appearances including Spamalot and A Book by WED Lester Tricklebank. WED WED BBC Cymru Wales production. WED WED Credits WED Jess: Ruth Jones WED Phil: Stephen Tompkinson WED Mr Tuttopetto: John Rowe WED Pilot: Simon Armstrong WED Director: Alison Hindell WED Writer: Peter Souter WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b05s36cd (Listen) WED Wills and Inheritance Tax WED WED Planning a will or puzzled by inheritance tax? Talk to Paul WED Lewis and guests, call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED WED WED Money Advice Service WED https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en WED WED GOV.UK: Wills, Probate and Inheritance. WED https://www.gov.uk/wills-probate-inheritance WED WED GOV.UK: Inheritance Tax WED https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax WED WED GOV.UK: Making a Will WED https://www.gov.uk/make-will/overview WED WED Citizens Advice: Wills WED http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/wales/relationships_w/relation WED hips_death_and_wills_e/wills.htm WED WED The Law Society: Making a Will WED http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/for-the-public/common-legal-iss WED es/making-a-will/ WED WED Which? Writing a Will. WED http://www.which.co.uk/money/retirement/guides/writing-a-wil WED / WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b05s310m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05s36cg (Listen) WED Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS WED WED Post traumatic stress in male combat veterans: Laurie Taylor WED talks to Nick Caddick, Research Assistant at Loughborough WED University, and co-author of a study exploring the WED relationship between masculinity, militarism and mental WED health. Do conventional notions of male bravery and WED resilience impede soldiers' ability to access to support? WED They're joined by Anthony King, Professor in Sociology at WED the University of Exeter. WED WED Also, managing beds in the NHS. Pressure on beds is an acute WED challenge to the health service. WED Davina Allen, Professor of Healthcare Organisation at WED Cardiff University, discusses her study into bed utilisation WED from the point of view of UK hospital nurses. How is access WED to beds granted or denied and who decides? WED WED Producer: Natalia Fernandez. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05s36cj (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05s36cl (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05rkq1p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Clare in the Community b03nt9vm (Listen) WED Series 9, Stand By Your Man WED WED Episode One - Stand By Your Man WED WED Clare has mysteriously abandoned her honeymoon and come back WED to work at Sparrowhawk Family Centre. The rest of the social WED workers have an unfortunate experience on a community WED project, and Brian struggles to enjoy a holiday on his own. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Jill: Nina Conti WED Petra: Nina Conti WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Queenie: Hannah Gordon WED Hazel: Hannah Gordon WED Ben: John Norton WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05s385g (Listen) WED Peggy has bought a present, and Rob has got the upper hand. WED WED 19:16 Front Row b05s385j (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05s33xj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Two Rooms b05s385x (Listen) WED Fi Glover hosts a unique experiment as two groups of people WED share their contrasting experiences, and voice their inner WED concerns about the way society is developing, as Britain WED faces arguably the most unpredictable election of modern WED times. WED WED In the third programme, the groups consider whether they WED feel the current levels of immigration bring benefits or WED hindrance to themselves and to Britain. WED WED Producer: Emma Jarvis WED Series Producer: David Prest WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b05s3c5l (Listen) WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05s3077 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05s337c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05s3c5n (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05s3c5q (Listen) WED The History of the Peloponnesian War, Spartan Surrender at WED Pylos WED WED 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the WED taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for WED ever,' Thucydides WED WED Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand WED account chronicles the devastating wars between Athens and WED Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death WED struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted WED Athenian democracy against Spartan militarism. WED WED Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general WED who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all WED time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for WED myth admired by historians today. And as father of modern WED Realpolitik, his influence fed into the works of WED Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War WED and beyond. WED WED Today: the shocking defeat of the Spartans on the island of WED Pylos. WED Abridger: Tom Holland WED Reader: David Horovitch WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED Credits WED Reader: David Horovitch WED Author: Thucydides WED Abridger: Tom Holland WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 23:00 Jigsaw b01r5pxx (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED WED Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine piece together WED a selection of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by WED Colin Anderson. WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b03bfkcx (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher WED Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel is somewhat distracted from his teaching duties by his WED temporary homelessness, his illegally parked rented transit WED van and Arts Centre Manager Belinda's increased security WED measures. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Harvey: Dave Lamb WED Holly: Jess Robinson WED Avril: Jess Robinson WED Betty: Isobel Webb WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:30 Recycled Radio b05413rw (Listen) WED Series 3, Recycled: Bohemia WED WED Welcome to the chopped up, looped up, sped up world of WED Recycled Radio, introduced by cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. WED Follow him down down the rabbit hole as we delve into the WED archives in search of bohemia, with a small "b". WED WED Way back when, in the darkest depths of November 2014, David WED Hockney said something on Radio 4's Today programme: "That's WED what's gone now, bohemia's gone..." WED Expect profound reflections on the nature of Jeremy Paxman's WED beard, hear Jeffrey Bernard exploring the nature of the WED advertising executive, picture Ed Balls playing the piano, WED and is that Andrew Marr contemplating the size of Virginia WED Woolf's bed? WED WED What has any of this got to do with bohemia? What has WED bohemia got to do with anything else? WED WED Recycled Radio might explain. WED WED Producer: Polly Weston. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 APRIL 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05rkq2v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05t7kbz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05rkq2y (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05rkq30 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05rkq32 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05rkq34 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05s3d2c (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Rev'd Dr Craig Gardiner. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05s3gyq (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b042300k (Listen) THU Wetland Dawn Chorus THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU David Attenborough celebrates International Day Chorus Day THU with the third of four recordings marking this event. In THU this programme, we hear a dawn chorus from the marshes of THU North Warren in Suffolk. On clear moonlit nights the chorus THU can be an almost continuous chatter and includes reed and THU sedge warblers, reed bunting and even a bittern, with its THU booming, foghorn-like call. THU THU Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) THU The image shows a Sedge Warbler which can be heard in the THU Wetland Dawn Chorus. Image courtesy of RSPB THU (rspb-images.com). THU THU 06:00 Today b05s3gys (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05s3gyv (Listen) THU The Earth's Core THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Earth's Core. The THU inner core is an extremely dense, solid ball of iron and THU nickel, the size of the Moon, while the outer core is a THU flowing liquid, the size of Mars. Thanks to the magnetic THU fields produced within the core, life on Earth is possible. THU The magnetosphere protects the Earth from much of the Sun's THU radiation and the flow of particles which would otherwise THU strip away the atmosphere. The precise structure of the core THU and its properties have been fascinating scientists from the THU Renaissance. Recent seismographs show the picture is even THU more complex than we might have imagined, with suggestions THU that the core is spinning at a different speed and on a THU different axis from the surface. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05t7kdv (Listen) THU Words Without Music, Episode 4 THU THU Memoir by American composer, Philip Glass. THU THU After decades working day jobs to fund his music, Philip THU Glass finally broke through with the opera "Einstein on the THU Beach". Collaborating with director Robert Wilson, the THU five-hour production sold out each night during its 1976 THU European and American tour and made the pair's careers. THU THU Reader: Kerry Shale THU Writer: Philip Glass THU Abridger: Laurence Wareing THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU Music details: THU Track: "Knee Play 1" THU CD: Glass: Einstein on the Beach THU Label: Sony Classical THU THU Track: "Knee Play 3" THU CD: Glass: Einstein on the Beach THU Label: Sony Classical. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Kerry Shale THU Author: Phillip Glass THU Abridger: Alan Wareing THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05s3gyy (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05s3gz0 (Listen) THU The Enchanted April, Episode 4 THU THU By Elizabeth von Arnim THU Dramatised by Vivienne Allen THU THU San Salvatore is working its magic on THU Mellersh too and he in turn has managed THU to charm both Scrap and Mrs Fisher as the THU beautiful golden days drop gently one by one. THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale THU THU An advertisement in The Times, addressed to 'Those who THU Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine' is the impetus for a THU revelatory month for four very different women. High above THU the bay on the Italian Riviera stands San Salvatore, a THU mediaeval castle. Beckoned to this haven are Lotty, Rose, THU Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline Dester, each craving escape. THU Lulled by the Mediterranean spirit, they gradually. THU THU Credits THU Narrator: Jenny Funnell THU Lotty: Pippa Nixon THU Rose: Lyndsey Marshal THU Mrs Fisher: Joanna Monro THU Caroline (Scrap): Rhiannon Neads THU Mellersh: Stephen Critchlow THU Director: Tracey Neale THU Producer: Tracey Neale THU Author: Elizabeth von Arnim THU Adaptor: Vivienne Allen THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b05s3gz2 (Listen) THU Wrestling out of Poverty THU THU In rural India, wrestling often attracts larger crowds than THU cricket. And for poor, farming communities in Maharashtra, a THU wrestler in the family can also mean a ticket out of THU poverty. For Crossing Continents, Rupa Jha meets the young THU fighters and their families, and explores how this ancient THU sport is breaking down caste barriers. Linda Pressly THU producing. THU THU 11:30 My Mother's Sari b05s3gz4 (Listen) THU Every morning, Dr. Shahidha Bari wakes up and dresses for THU work, travelling into London on a packed tube looking much THU like the people around her. But, as the child of immigrants THU growing up in a determinedly Bengali Muslim household in THU southeast England, she has also been accustomed to wearing THU entirely different sorts of clothes, reflective of her THU particular ancestry and cultural traditions. THU THU These days, a stack of elaborate silk saris, embroidered THU shawls and ornate bangles languish in a remote part of THU Shahidha's wardrobe, now only rarely worn at weddings and THU religious ceremonies. But, in many ways, these are the most THU precious items of clothing she owns, profoundly bound up THU with memory and meaning, and connecting her to a life from THU which she has inevitably grown apart. Shahidha's most vivid THU recollections of her childhood are those of her mother THU bringing up 6 boisterous young children, always immaculately THU dressed in pressed and pleated saris of varied colours, THU textures and designs. THU THU Shahidha examines her own complex relationship with THU traditional dress growing up in modern Britain, and she THU embarks on an investigative journey to research the history THU of the sari. Through this cultural and historical THU exploration of the sari, Shahidha examines the ways in which THU her life, like that of many women her age, is so different THU from that of her mother, and explores how items of clothing THU can frame our feelings of nostalgia, love and loss about the THU families we outgrow and leave behind, whichever background THU we come from. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05rkq37 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Listeners' Election b05sjrvs (Listen) THU The Political Disengagement of Young Adults THU THU BBC Radio 4's Listeners' Election project culminates with a THU week-long series of programmes. Chris Mason brings together THU contributions from listeners across the country on THU particular themes that concern them. THU THU In this edition, one older listener explain she thinks THU politics in Britain is biased against the young. THU THU And this prompts Chris to talk to some of those young people THU the BBC is following as part of 'Generation 2015'. Why are THU some so engaged in politics, but many so disconnected? What THU really lies at the root of this? Who is at fault? And how THU can it be tackled? THU THU PRODUCERS: PHIL TINLINE AND SARAH KEATING. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b05s3gz6 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05rkq39 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05s3gz8 (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of current affairs with Martha Kearney, THU plus Election Call with The Labour Party's Yvette Cooper. THU THU Editor: Nick Sutton. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05s385g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05s3gzb (Listen) THU Credit Card Baby THU THU Sally sometimes wonders if she has inadvertently put a spell THU on Sean, the kind, diligent man who has made her life so THU suddenly and unexpectedly great. But she's five years older THU than his forty, and he wants to be a father. It took them so THU long to find each other, and now she's worried she's going THU to let him down over something so significant: a baby. THU THU The only option, according to their pompous, God-like THU gynaecologist, is to try using a donor egg from a Spanish THU clinic, where donors and eggs are plentiful. THU THU The Spanish egg belongs to Ines, who understands the need THU for children. She and her husband Rai are suffering from THU Spain's economic troubles and selling her DNA seems like a THU solution. But she also has a generous spirit. THU Annie Caulfield's drama parallels these two women's thoughts THU and experiences: they never meet but are closely bound THU together. THU THU Funny, poignant and true. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Annie Caulfield THU Sally: Helen Baxendale THU Sean: Ciaran McMenamin THU Ines: Beatriz Romilly THU Rai: Ben Cura THU Director: Mary Ward-Lowery THU THU 15:00 Open Country b05s3gzd (Listen) THU Bristol Green City THU THU On the eve of Bristol's Food Connections Festival Helen Mark THU discovers how nature and wildlife are thriving in this urban THU landscape. THU THU In 1985, Bristol's Brandon Hill became the UK's first ever THU urban nature reserve. 30 years on, Helen Mark discovers how THU Avon Wildlife Trust is continuing this tradition of THU environmental trend setting by creating 'wildlife corridors' THU throughout the city, supporting communal growing at 'Feed THU Bristol' and developing a brand new reserve out of a disused THU sports site to mark the city's status as The 2015 European THU Green Capital. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05rl3dd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05rl3w6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05s3gzg (Listen) THU Far from the Madding Crowd THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses his latest THU adaptation of Far From The Madding Crowd. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05s3gzj (Listen) THU The news in science and science in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05s3gzl (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05rkq3c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03lnzxk (Listen) THU Series 9, The Bride of Auntie THU THU Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, THU complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his THU never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever THU scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and THU cat together. THU THU Ed discovers that he can put his extensive general knowledge THU to good use when he finally finds his niche and becomes a THU contestant on the Radio 4 seminal quiz 'What Do You Know'. THU Not only is his general knowledge excellent, but he's also THU being paid a fee to the grand sum of £43. Is his luck THU turning at last? THU THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Northern Ireland Voice: Simon Greenall THU Jaz: Philip Jackson THU Steve Plant: Dan Mersh THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Laura Pope: Vicki Pepperdine THU Neil Hardacre: Duncan Preston THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Janet: Nicola Sanderson THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05s3kds (Listen) THU Ed is hoping he will get a deal, while Brian just does not THU get it. THU THU 19:16 Front Row b05s3kdv (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05s3gz0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05s3kdx (Listen) THU Sexism in the City THU THU City banker, Svetlana Lokhova, is awarded a £3 million THU payout for sexual harassment at work. Her boss spread THU vicious lies to colleagues and clients that she was a Class THU A drug user, ruining her career in finance and causing her THU extreme mental illness. In an exclusive interview, Svetlana THU tells Simon Cox how she discovered the extent of his THU campaign against her, her efforts to resolve the problem and THU explains why, despite the huge compensation, there are no THU winners in this case. Talking to others whose claims have THU reached an Employment Tribunal, Simon investigates how THU common such cases are and why they continue to happen, THU despite laws and policies designed to prevent it. THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams THU Researcher: James Melley. THU THU 20:30 In Business b05s3kdz (Listen) THU Immigration - The Business View THU THU Immigration is one of the key issues of the General Election THU campaign. Peter Day asks businesses, big and small, what THU they think about immigration. How dependent is Britain on THU workers from other countries in Europe, and beyond? What THU impact have tighter visa restrictions for migrants from THU outside Europe had on British business? THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05s3gzj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05s3gyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05s3ltd (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05s3ltg (Listen) THU The History of the Peloponnesian War, An Athenian Atrocity THU THU 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the THU taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for THU ever,' Thucydides THU Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand THU account charts the devastating wars between Athens and THU Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death THU struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted THU Athenian democracy against Spartan militarism. THU Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general THU who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all THU time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for THU myth admired by historians today. And as father of modern THU Realpolitik, his influence fed into the works of THU Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War THU and beyond. THU Today: after an Athenian atrocity in Melos, both sides THU prepare for war in Sicily. THU Abridger: Tom Holland THU Reader: David Horovitch THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU Credits THU Reader: David Horovitch THU Author: Thucydides THU Abridger: Tom Holland THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mdl9r (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU The show is a mix of silly, surreal sketches and banter. The THU series also has an absurd narrative, which makes fun of its THU new home at Radio 4. In Episode 1: Diane and Joe discover THU they don't actually have a radio series at all. You can also THU see an animation of one sketch on the Radio 4 website - it's THU a fishy tale. THU THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Paul THU Harry Allen, Peter Donaldson, Ken Bruce, Bobbie Pryor & Gary THU Newman. Animation: Tom Rourke. Producer: Clair Wordsworth. THU THU 23:30 Recycled Radio b04d1kvd (Listen) THU Series 2, Hell THU THU Welcome to the chopped up, looped up, sped up world of THU Recycled Radio, old BBC broadcasts turned into something THU new. Today cartoonist Scarfe scavenges round his studio for THU depictions of the fiery realms of Satan, Hades and THU Mephistopheles, otherwise known as Recycled Hell. THU THU This is the archive hour at breakneck speed, and our journey THU to the underworld makes surprising visits to both THU Glastonbury and Heathrow Terminal 5. Expect to hear from THU Dante, Milton and Eddie Mair, along with Tony Blair, Melvyn THU Bragg and Germaine Greer. Fun, silly, thoughtful radio about THU a place that exerts an enormous grip on the imagination of THU people everywhere. THU THU The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 MAY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05rkq4v (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05t7kdv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05rkq4y (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05rkq50 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05rkq52 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05rkq54 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05s48pc (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Rev'd Dr Craig Gardiner. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05s48pf (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b042326r (Listen) FRI Urban Dawn Chorus FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI David Attenborough introduces the final recording marking FRI International Dawn Chorus day. The urban dawn chorus was FRI recorded by Chris Watson in Whitechapel, London as part of a FRI project to enable the children of the Royal London FRI Children's Hospital to hear the wildlife sounds on their FRI doorstep. Birds featured include the robin, blackbird, great FRI tit and house sparrow. FRI FRI Blackbird (Turdus merula) FRI The image shows a Blackbird which can be heard in the Urban FRI Dawn Chorus. Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05s48ph (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b05rl3j8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05t7kpz (Listen) FRI Words Without Music, Episode 5 FRI FRI Memoir by Philip Glass, the world-renowned composer of FRI symphonies, operas and film scores. FRI FRI Asked to write the score for visionary 1982 documentary FRI Koyaanisqatsi, Glass discovered a new avenue for his musical FRI composition. He later worked with Martin Scorsese, writing FRI the soundtrack for Kundun (1997). FRI FRI Reader: Kerry Shale FRI Writer: Philip Glass FRI Abridger: Laurence Wareing FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI Music details: FRI Track: "Evening Song" (from Satygraha) FRI CD: The Essential Philip Glass FRI Label: Sony FRI FRI Track: "The Grid" FRI CD: Koyaanisqatsi FRI Label: Island FRI FRI Track: "Closing" FRI CD: Glassworks FRI Label: CBS. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Kerry Shale FRI Author: Phillip Glass FRI Abridger: Alan Wareing FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05s3nmr (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jane Garvey. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05s3nmt (Listen) FRI The Enchanted April, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Elizabeth von Arnim FRI Dramatised by Vivienne Allen FRI FRI The arrival of Mr Briggs, the owner of FRI the castle, charms everyone but Scrap. FRI Then another visitor threatens to bring FRI disharmony too. Can the enchantment FRI of San Salvatore win through? FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Jenny Funnell FRI Lotty: Pippa Nixon FRI Rose: Lyndsey Marshal FRI Mrs Fisher: Joanna Monro FRI Caroline (Scrap): Rhiannon Neads FRI Briggs: Neet Mohan FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI Producer: Tracey Neale FRI Author: Elizabeth von Arnim FRI Adaptor: Vivienne Allen FRI FRI 11:00 Britain's Hidden Talent: Women Engineers b05s3nmw (Listen) FRI Susan Marling asks why the UK has the lowest proportion of FRI female engineers in Europe. In 2014, only 6% of the UK's FRI engineers were women. FRI FRI Over the last century, the Woman's Engineering Society has FRI promoted and supported female engineers - but the Society's FRI current president Dawn Bonfield cites a myriad of barriers FRI preventing women from entering and staying in the sector. FRI She says not enough girls are studying STEM subjects at FRI school, universities lack female engineering faculty FRI members, and outdated recruitment processes can alienate FRI female job applicants. For those women who do enter the FRI field upon graduation, she argues that a poor working FRI culture, including lackadaisical or even hostile attitudes FRI towards maternity leave, can hamper career progression. FRI FRI While a shortage of women in engineering isn't specific to FRI the UK, we're faring particularly badly when compared with FRI the rest of Europe. In Sweden, women account for 25% of the FRI engineering workforce. Women there can successfully combine FRI professional and family life and engineering is viewed as FRI one of society's most desirable and respected jobs. FRI FRI Susan meets some of the UK's accomplished female engineers. FRI Jane Wernick runs her own practice and played a pivotal role FRI in the construction of the Millennium Wheel. Professor Dame FRI Ann Dowling is the President of the Royal Academy of FRI Engineering, where her work involves giving lectures across FRI the country where she explains the diversity of engineering, FRI from food manufacturing to cyber security and from FRI developing renewable energy to designing medical equipment. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Smith FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b03847yb (Listen) FRI A Woman's Intuition FRI FRI Part 7 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 7: A Woman's Intuition FRI FRI Gunfire at the Madrid nightclub - and a dying man's FRI confession. 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 Madison: Robin Laing FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Zola: Greg Powrie FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05rkq59 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Listeners' Election b05sjsm2 (Listen) FRI Caring for Children and the Elderly FRI FRI BBC Radio 4's Listeners' Election project culminates with a FRI week-long series of programmes. Chris Mason brings together FRI contributions from listeners across the country on FRI particular themes that concern them. FRI FRI In this edition, some listeners explain the issues they face FRI caring for children and the elderly, from the lack of FRI childcare in school holidays, and its impact on parents' FRI work prospects, to the difficulties of coping with a FRI parent's dementia. FRI FRI PRODUCERS: PHIL TINLINE AND SARAH KEATING. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b05sxvwl (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05rkq5c (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05s48s3 (Listen) FRI Rigorous analysis of current affairs with Martha Kearney, FRI plus Election Call with SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon. FRI FRI Editor: Nick Sutton. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05s3kds (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05s3pcg (Listen) FRI Mayday Mayday FRI FRI A true, life-affirming story charting one man's journey from FRI paralysis to recovery. FRI FRI During the dying minutes of April 2004, as the Cornish town FRI of Padstow celebrated the coming of summer, actor Tristan FRI Sturrock broke his neck falling off a wall. Paralysed in FRI hospital and about to become a father for the first time, he FRI was told he may never walk again. FRI FRI This incredible true story charts his journey from the first FRI of May to his first step, starring the real voices of all FRI those who helped him to walk again. It is based on the stage FRI play by Tristan Sturrock and Katy Carmichael, and adapted FRI for radio by Becky Ripley. FRI FRI Composer.................Aaron May FRI Director....................Becky Ripley. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Tristan Sturrock FRI Actor: Katy Carmichael FRI Actor: Andy Carnegie FRI Actor: Jo Eastley FRI Actor: Ruth Arscott FRI Actor: Tim Germon FRI Actor: Katrina Edwards FRI Actor: Kelvin Edwards FRI Director: Becky Ripley FRI Writer: Tristan Sturrock FRI Writer: Katy Carmichael FRI Adaptor: Becky Ripley FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05s3pcj (Listen) FRI South Devon FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is in Devon to chair the horticultural panel FRI programme. Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew FRI Wilson join him to answer an array of gardening conundrums. FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Blood, Sweat and Tears b05s3pcl (Listen) FRI Like a Glass Jaw FRI FRI Mark Billingham writes the second episode in a new series of FRI specially commissioned short stories by three of Britain's FRI top crime writers. 'Like A Glass Jaw' is the story of an FRI ex-boxer who finds himself caught up in an emotional FRI situation that leads to him realise old habits die hard. FRI FRI Mark is best known for his series of novels featuring FRI Detective Tom Thorne, as well as being an accomplished actor FRI and stand up comedian. FRI FRI These stories were recorded in front of an audience in the FRI MCT theatre, Alleyn's School, Dulwich. FRI FRI Read by Robert Glenister FRI FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mark Billingham FRI Reader: Robert Glenister FRI Producer: Celia de Wolff FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05s49k3 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b05sfd0r (Listen) FRI The Election in Numbers FRI FRI On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford FRI examines some of the biggest statistics discussed by FRI politicians in their campaigns. From zero hours contracts to FRI the benefits of scrapping non-dom tax status, we attempt to FRI demystify and unpick some of the figures behind a number of FRI policies announced. Plus, how will people vote on the night? FRI We give our thoughts on trends to watch for on the night. FRI FRI How much sex do we have? David Spiegelhalter explains the FRI bedroom habits of the British - what are we doing, how FRI often, and has it changed? FRI FRI Have 40% of newly qualified teachers quit after their first FRI year of work? This is a statistic that was widely reported FRI earlier this year that gives the impression that teaching FRI profession is suffering a crisis. But do the figures really FRI suggest this dramatic exodus of new teachers? FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b05s3r6h (Listen) FRI Elaine and Megan-Rose - Ceramics in the Blood FRI FRI Fi Glover with a mother and daughter who took the same FRI course in ceramics, but not in the expected order, on how FRI they coped when the daughter was in the year above the FRI mother - another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI 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 b05s4bqf (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05rkq5j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b05s3r6m (Listen) FRI Series 14, Episode 4 FRI FRI The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect FRI the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes FRI for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's FRI Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the FRI flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the FRI country. FRI FRI Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis FRI MacLeod, Debra Stephenson. FRI FRI Producer: Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Producer: Bill Dare FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05s3r6q (Listen) FRI Pip is stressed, and what will Clarrie wear for the wedding? FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:16 Front Row b05s4bqh (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05s3nmt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05s3r6t (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05s3r6x (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Drama b05s3rs2 (Listen) FRI Fight Club FRI FRI First there was the insomnia. FRI Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep. FRI Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel FRI cancer and ruined everything. FRI Then he met Tyler Durden. FRI Then came Fight Club. FRI FRI Mild mannered product-recall-specialist by day, tortured FRI insomniac by night, Fight Club is the psychological story of FRI one man's descent into an underground world of violence. FRI Together with Tyler Durden - part-time projectionist, FRI banquet waiter, soap-maker and anarchic genius - he creates FRI Fight Club. In Fight Club our narrator, and men like him, FRI can escape the monotony of their daily work-dominated, FRI consumer-driven, image-obsessed lives. In Fight Club you can FRI escape who the world thinks you ought to be. FRI FRI Soon there are fight clubs in basement bars in towns and FRI cities across the country; men with cuts, bruises, stitches, FRI missing teeth wherever you look, and Tyler Durden has become FRI an urban legend. But when Tyler invents Project Mayhem and FRI things begin to escalate, there's only one thing to do: shut FRI down Fight Club. FRI FRI But have they created a monster they can't control? FRI FRI Chuck Palahniuk's visceral and unflinching cult novel is FRI dramatized by Tracey Malone and Ed Whitmore and stars FRI Patrick Kennedy, Sam Hazeldine and Elaine Cassidy. FRI FRI Producer .... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI The Narrator: Patrick Kennedy FRI Tyler Durden: Sam Hazeldine FRI Marla Singer: Elaine Cassidy FRI Big Bob: Martin T Sherman FRI Doctor: Nigel Whitmey FRI Boss: Nigel Whitmey FRI Recruit One: Danny Mahoney FRI Mechanic: John Schwab FRI Ted: Sam Dale FRI Glenda: Jane Slavin FRI Chloe: Ayesha Antoine FRI Author: Chuck Palahniuk FRI Adaptor: Tracey Malone FRI Adaptor: Ed Whitmore FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05rkq5l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05s3stc (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05s3stf (Listen) FRI The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Beginning of the FRI End FRI FRI 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the FRI taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for FRI ever,' Thucydides FRI Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand FRI account chronicles the devastating wars between Athens and FRI Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death FRI struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted FRI Athenian democracy against Spartan militarism. FRI Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general FRI who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all FRI time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for FRI myth admired by historians today. And as father of modern FRI Realpolitik, his influence fed into the works of FRI Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War FRI and beyond. FRI Today: an expedition to conquer Sicily spells the beginning FRI of the end of Athenian power. FRI Abridger: Tom Holland FRI Reader: David Horowitch FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Horovitch FRI Author: Thucydides FRI Abridger: Tom Holland FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 The Vote Now Show b05s3sth (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI FRI The Now Show gang present a series of election specials. FRI FRI 23:30 Great Lives b05s307c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05s3stm (Listen) FRI Chris and Suzanne - Life is Full of Patterns FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who FRI could never paint their walls magnolia. For them pattern is FRI essential and life-affirming, proving once again that it's FRI 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
25 April, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 25/04/2015 - 01/05/2015
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