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SAT SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b05tbngy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b05tq3y6 (Listen) SAT The Weather Experiment, Prognostications and Forecasts SAT SAT Peter Moore's vivid account of the nineteenth century quest SAT to understand the weather. Today, the first forecasts prove SAT controversial among the scientific community, and Robert SAT FitzRoy's reputation is threatened. The reader is Tim SAT McMullan. SAT SAT The abridger is Sara Davies SAT The producer is Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Tim McMullan SAT Author: Peter Moore SAT Abridger: Sara Davies SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05tbnh0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05tbnh2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05tbnh4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b05tbnh6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05tq43y (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister SAT Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b05tq440 (Listen) SAT 'Who can make decisions about a pacemaker once it's in my SAT body?' - After a listener got in touch with an ethical SAT dilemma, we explore what the UK law says about switching off SAT pacemakers and other implanted medical devices. Presented by SAT Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b05tbnhd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b05tbnhg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b05tm4dl (Listen) SAT The ancient sport of hound trailing in Cumbria SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Cumbria to watch the exciting and ancient SAT sport of hound trailing. At the May Day races, she meets SAT owners Wendy and Russell Dawson who treat their dogs like SAT royalty. Cared for like athletes, they eat chicken and SAT rabbit, and are bathed before a race. They are trained from SAT pups to follow a scent, but it's a gamble if any will have SAT the instincts of a champion. SAT Helen walks the trail, which is scented with aniseed and SAT paraffin, and meets owner Margaret Baxter who explains why SAT this traditional male sport is now dominated by women. The SAT actual races can be up to 10 miles long, which the dogs run SAT in about 35 minutes, and from high up on Kirkstone Pass, the SAT owners and followers watch - and place bets - as the dogs SAT speed towards the finish line. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b05v6cyb (Listen) SAT Upland Farming SAT SAT The uplands are the source of 70% of our drinking water. SAT They're also a workplace for farmers, foresters and SAT gamekeepers, and a popular destination for tourists. In this SAT programme, Sybil Ruscoe takes to the hills near Church SAT Stretton in Shropshire, to find out what it's like to farm SAT in the uplands. She also hears from an environmentalist who SAT thinks sheep are too dominant on our hillsides, and would SAT like to see the landscape revert to nature. SAT SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b05tbnhj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b05v6cyd (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT Today's running order SAT 0710 SAT SAT Labour's party bosses in Scotland are meeting today to talk SAT about why they were wiped out in the election. Iain Watson SAT is our political correspondent. SAT 0715 SAT SAT A federal jury in America has sentenced the man who helped SAT carry out the Boston marathon bombing to death. Three people SAT were killed and more than two hundred and sixty others were SAT injured when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother left SAT home-made bombs at the finishing line in 2013. Our SAT Correspondent Gary O'Donaghue is in Boston. SAT 0720 SAT SAT The United States has urged Thailand to consider sheltering SAT stateless Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar and are SAT adrift in boats in the Indian Ocean, and urged countries in SAT the region not to send the migrants back to sea. Nearly 800 SAT migrants were brought ashore in Indonesia on SAT SAT Friday, but other vessels crammed with them were sent back SAT to sea despite a United Nations call to rescue thousands SAT adrift in Southeast Asian waters with dwindling food and SAT water. Jonah Fisher is our correspondent. SAT 0725 SAT SAT The brewery that owns Fosters and Peroni, SAB Miller, has SAT bought the craft brewer Meantime which is based in London. SAT There's a huge growth and interest in craft beers. The SAT market is growing by 60% a year. That compares with very SAT little growth in the regular beer market. Sara Barton is the SAT owner of Brewster's Brewery in Grantham. SAT 0730 SAT SAT The black flag of lslamic State is flying over the main SAT government compound in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, seventy SAT miles west of Baghdad. The militants used suicide car bombs SAT to blast their way through the city, before seizing control SAT of the complex, which includes the police headquarters. Ali SAT Khedery was the longest continuously serving American SAT official in Iraq. SAT 0740 SAT SAT Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has thanked his SAT security forces for halting a coup that tried to oust him. SAT He’s urged an immediate stop to the protests that have SAT erupted in recent weeks since he decided to seek a third SAT term. In a radio address, he said the coup plot and recent SAT protests were related, but protest groups denied this and SAT said they would continue to demonstrate against his decision SAT to seek a third term in office. More than 105,000 people SAT have fled the country since the unrest began last month. SAT Karen Allen reports. SAT 0745 SAT SAT Paavo Järvi this week released a recording of two SAT Shostakvovich Cantatas written in response to Communist SAT oppression in the 1940’s and 50’s which praise Stalin. The SAT world renowned Estonian-born conductor made the recording at SAT a concert in 2011 in his home country, provoking outrage in SAT a nation anxious about potential Russian aggression. He SAT received threats and was provided with a bodyguard. Paavo SAT Jarvi is currently musical director of the Orchestre de SAT Paris and artistic director of the Deutsche SAT Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. SAT 0750 SAT SAT There's no sign of any order yet emerging in the Labour SAT party after its disastrous performance at the General SAT Election last week. Yesterday, Chukka Umunna, seen as one of SAT the leading candidates for the leadership pulled out of the SAT race, saying he didn't anticipate the levels of public SAT scrutiny that went with the job of leader of the Opposition. SAT Today, the party's leader in Scotland, Jim Murphy, is SAT expected to face a vote of no confidence with unions and SAT some Labour MSPs calling for him to go. The Shadow Energy SAT Secretary, Caroline Flint, is today throwing her hat in the SAT ring in the contest to become deputy leader. SAT 0810 SAT SAT A US jury has sentenced Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to SAT death by legal injection. Three people died and more than SAT 260 were wounded when Tsarnaev and his brother set off two SAT shrapnel packed pressure cooker bombs near the finish line SAT of a Marathon race on April 15 2013. A 12 member federal SAT jury unanimously decided on the death penalty. Susan Zalkind SAT is reporter for the Boston Magazine and the Daily Beast. SAT 0815 SAT SAT The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has been urged to make SAT a public apology to the victims of Libyan soldiers brought SAT to the UK for training with the British Army, who carried SAT out a number of horrific sex attacks on locals. Moktar Ali SAT Saad Mahmoud, 33, and Ibrahim Abugtila, 23, were both jailed SAT for 12 years on Friday for acting like "hunting dogs" as SAT they raped a man in central Cambridge last year. On SAT Wednesday three other cadets were jailed for attacking women SAT in the city on the same night in October last year. Alan SAT Page is detective inspector of the Bedfordshire, SAT Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit. Peter SAT Robinson is chairman of Bassingbourn Parish Council. SAT 0820 SAT SAT The last episode of Mad Men is broadcast this weekend in SAT America. It's the seventh series of the programme - that's SAT how successful its been. If you haven't seen Mad Men it's SAT about the advertising business in America in the 1960s. It's SAT funny, its sad, and it's unpredictable, as our New York SAT correspondent Nick Bryant reports. SAT 0830 SAT SAT Scottish Labour's Executive Committee meet on Saturday to SAT begin a review of why Labour was defeated so heavily in the SAT General Election in Scotland. It's thought that the party SAT leader in Scotland, Jim Murphy, will face a vote of no SAT confidence. The Labour-affiliated unions Unite and the SAT Communication Workers Union have called for Mr Murphy to SAT stand down. Ian Murray is shadow Scottish secretary, MP for SAT Edinburgh South, and Labour's only MP in Scotland. SAT 0845 SAT SAT The Conservatives' election strategist, Lynton Crosby, has SAT told the Telegraph that there should be a ban on the SAT publication of public polls for the "two or three weeks" SAT before a general election. An inquiry into why the SAT pre-election polls were so far from how people eventually SAT voted has been set up by the British Polling Council. The SAT leading statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter has written in SAT a blog that the polls brought statistics into disrepute. SAT 0850 SAT SAT Today is Steven Gerrard's final game at Anfield, his home SAT ground for seventeen years. The Liverpool writer Frank SAT Cottrell Boyce looks back at Gerrard's career and explores SAT why he inspires such loyalty among fans. SAT 0855 SAT SAT An exhibition is opening in Oxford about the life and work SAT of the physicist, Henry Moseley, who died fighting at SAT Gallipoli during the First World War. His work contributed SAT to the development of the Periodic Table and the nuclear SAT model of the atom. His death in combat caused an outcry and SAT led to wider changes in the way that science, scientific SAT research, and scientists were used in war. Silke Ackermann SAT is director of the Museum of the History of Science. SAT Professor Andy Parker is head of the Cavendish Laboratory at SAT Cambridge University. SAT SAT * All subject to change.* SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b05v6cyg (Listen) SAT Chris Tarrant SAT SAT Presented by Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. SAT SAT Chris Tarrant has been a household staple since the mid 70s SAT when he shook up Saturday mornings with children's TV series SAT Tiswas. He went on to do Capital Radio breakfast show and SAT was the presenter of ground breaking quiz show Who wants to SAT be a Millionaire, which ran for 15 years, presenting many SAT other programmes along the way. His latest project has been SAT a labour of love - a book about his father's experience in SAT the second world war. But it's a story he only uncovered SAT after his father's death. He'll be talking about writing his SAT father's story, his links with those Millionaire winners and SAT slowing down after a stroke. SAT SAT Listener Glenys Newton won a story telling competition with SAT a story from her childhood, in which her Uncle Meirion's car SAT - with her family inside - was attacked by lions at a Safari SAT Park. She's passionate about family stories, and people's SAT lives. She relives what happened at the Safari park, and how SAT it has inspired her love of storytelling. SAT SAT Dino Martins is an entomologist whose mission is to SAT highlight the key role of pollination in the world. Growing SAT up in rural Kenya his passion was insects from a young age. SAT This enthusiasm, combined with hard work and some luck meant SAT he got an education which culminated with a PhD at Harvard SAT University in America. Over in the UK to receive the 2015 SAT Whitley Gold Award from Princess Anne, he talks about his SAT extraordinary journey which begins and ends in Kenya. SAT SAT Iain Lauchlan has spent 40 years in the TV industry, SAT specialising in pre school television programmes. He SAT presented Playschool, Fingermouse, 'invented' the Tweenies, SAT has numerous producing and writing credits to his name, and SAT for 25 years has played the the pantomime Dame in Coventry, SAT where he also writes the pantomime. He's loaned pieces to a SAT new exhibition about Children's Television in Coventry and SAT joins us to talk about his life in Children's TV. SAT SAT Songwriter Guy Chambers is probably best known for his work SAT with Robbie Williams, with whom he co-wrote hits such as SAT "Rock DJ", "Feel", "Millennium", "Let Me Entertain You", and SAT "Angels". Guy has previously won 3 Ivor Novello awards, and SAT is a member of the committee judging the awards this year. SAT He chooses his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Daniel Parker is a film make up artist, following in the SAT footsteps of his father. His credits include Troy, SAT Apocalypto and Frankenstein, for which he received an Oscar SAT and British Film Award nominations. Among his recent SAT projects are Cloud Atlas, Zero Dark 30, Everly, The Coup and SAT Unlocked. He shares his experiences. SAT SAT Dad's War by Chris Tarrant is published by Virgin books. SAT SAT The Story of Children's Television is at the Herbert Art SAT Gallery & Museum, Coventry from 22 May to 13 September 2015. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Tarrant SAT Interviewed Guest: Glenys Newton SAT Interviewed Guest: Dino Martins SAT Interviewed Guest: Iain Lauchlan SAT Interviewed Guest: Guy Chambers SAT Interviewed Guest: Daniel Parker SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b05v6cyj (Listen) SAT Series 10, Holywood, Northern Ireland SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Holywood, SAT Northern Ireland. SAT SAT Answering questions on cooking and eating from our audience SAT are food scientist Professor Peter Barham, DIY food expert SAT Tim Hayward, Catalan inspired Scottish cook Rachel SAT McCormack, and chef and broadcaster Paula McIntyre. SAT SAT From Cultra Manor at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, SAT we discuss seaweed, the tradition of salt fish, and the SAT origins of the Maris Piper potato. SAT SAT We also find out how to cook the perfect ribs, share SAT memories of the kitchen dresser, and discuss recipes for a SAT caravan holiday. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Produced by Miranda Hinkley SAT Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b05v6cyn (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent takes soundings on why SAT Labour lost the general election and the task facing its SAT next leader. How important are 'one nation' policies to the SAT Conservatives? And how does it feel to arrive at Westminster SAT for the SNP? SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b05tbnhl (Listen) SAT Stranded at Sea SAT SAT Around the world. Today - another migrants crisis: aid SAT workers talk of the increasingly desperate plight of men, SAT women and children who have fled Burma but are being denied SAT permission to go ashore in Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia. SAT Five months after the British and American forces left SAT Afghanistan, instability is growing and the nation's SAT political elite stands accused of failing to give the armed SAT forces the support they need. We learn how part of the war SAT in Jordan against the fighters who call themselves Islamic SAT State is being waged in cyberspace. There's the story of 'a SAT hot Hungarian sex machine on top of a Russian cream cake' SAT causing controversy in the centre of Budapest and one about SAT how the cheap flights revolution has touched down on an SAT archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. And it's causing SAT apprehension! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b05tbnhn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b05v6cyx (Listen) SAT Are you missing out on £200 from the taxman? SAT SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. This financial year sees the start of the SAT new marriage allowance. 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SAT SAT And when pre-booking a car park place at the airport may not SAT be the cheapest option. SAT SAT Gov.UK: Marriage Allowance SAT https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance SAT SAT Paul Lewis Money: Marriage tax breaks SAT http://paullewismoney.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/marriage-breaks SAT html SAT SAT Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): Nuisance calls SAT https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/calls/ SAT SAT Ofcom: Marketing calls SAT http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/phone/tackling-nuisance-calls- SAT nd-messages/live-marketing-calls/ SAT SAT Which? 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Zeb Soanes reads SAT the news. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Presenter: Zebedee Soanes SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Samira Ahmed SAT Panellist: Elis James SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b05tbnhr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b05tbnht (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b05tq1s1 (Listen) SAT Ben Bradshaw MP, Tim Montgomerie, Joan Smith, Sarah SAT Wollaston MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Filleigh Village Hall in North Devon with Labour MP Ben SAT Bradshaw, Times Columnist Tim Montgomerie, Independent SAT Columnist Joan Smith,and Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b05v6cyz (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b042cq8f (Listen) SAT On Her Majesty's Secret Service SAT SAT James Bond seems more interested in gambling at the Casino SAT Royale than tracking down elusive SPECTRE chief Blofeld. SAT Then he meets Tracy, emotionally disturbed daughter of mafia SAT boss Draco. SAT Now he has a double motive: seek and destroy Blofeld, and SAT prevent Tracy killing herself. SAT SAT Impersonating a College of Arms official Bond infiltrates SAT Blofeld's Swiss mountain-top lair. He learns that Blofeld SAT and aide Irma Bunt are brainwashing young women. Why? Is SAT biological warfare involved? Backed by 'M' and Draco, Bond SAT mounts an air assault. But can he pin down monstrous SAT Blofeld? And what will happen to Tracy? SAT SAT Toby Stephens is on top form as 007. A stellar cast includes SAT Joanna Lumley, Alfred Molina, Alex Jennings, Lisa Dillon, SAT John Standing, Janie Dee, Lloyd Owen, Joanna Cassidy, Clare SAT Dunne and Julian Sands, with Jarvis himself as the voice of SAT Fleming. SAT SAT Specially composed music: Mark Holden and Michael Lopez SAT Dramatised by Archie Scottney SAT SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT James Bond: Toby Stephens SAT Blofeld: Alfred Molina SAT Irma Bunt: Joanna Lumley SAT Draco: Alex Jennings SAT Tracy: Lisa Dillon SAT 'M': John Standing SAT Moneypenny: Janie Dee SAT Franklin: Lloyd Owen SAT 'Q': Julian Sands SAT Ruby: Joanna Cassidy SAT Violet: Clare Dunne SAT Sally: Lucy Phelps SAT Anne: Katherine Manners SAT Kirstie: Hannah Donaldson SAT Brit: John Hudson SAT Griffon Or: Nigel Anthony SAT Sable Basilisk: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith SAT Hotel Manager: Jon Glover SAT Consul: John Baddeley SAT Campbell: Darren Richardson SAT Fire Captain: Matthew Wolf SAT Patrolman: Matthew Wolf SAT Voice of Ian Fleming: Martin Jarvis SAT Author: Ian Fleming SAT Adaptor: Archie Scottney SAT Composer: Mark Holden SAT Composer: Michael Lopez SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b05v6czt (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT We launch the 2015 Woman's Hour Power List looking for the SAT ten women who have the greatest influence on the way we live SAT our lives. When children have behavioural problems is it SAT down to bad parenting or an undiagnosed medical condition? SAT We hear from a mother about why she sought the help of a TV SAT programme to get a diagnosis. SAT Naz Shah is a mother of three born and raised in Bradford SAT and now the Labour MP for Bradford West. She talks about her SAT triumph following a bitter and controversial campaign - and SAT her own story involving homelessness. Man Up is the new SAT British Romantic Comedy - we hear from the screenwriter Tess SAT Morris and star of the film Lake Bell. SAT In September 1944, three women arrived in Auschwitz SAT concentration camp, incredibly they all survived and gave SAT birth. The three children met 65 years later and their story SAT is told in Wendy Holden's latest book, Born Survivors. Best SAT selling children's author Liz Kessler talks about her novel SAT about a teenager coming out. 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SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b05v6czy (Listen) SAT Kenneth Cranham, Emma Kennedy, Mark Steel, Zoe Svendsen, SAT Scottee, the Hot Sardines, Cornelia SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests - Kenneth Cranham, Emma Kennedy SAT and Mark Steel- with an eclectic mix of conversation, music SAT and comedy. Also round the Loose Ends table is Scottee SAT talking to theatre director Zoë Svendsen. With music from SAT The Hot Sardines and Cornelia. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Kenneth Cranham SAT SAT ‘The Father’ is at the Tricycle Theatre until 13 June. Full SAT details can be found on the SAT Tricycle Theatre website. SAT SAT SAT Mark Steel SAT SAT Mark Steel's In Town starts Tuesday 19 May at 18:30 on BBC SAT Radio 4 SAT Mark Steel's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Zoë Svendsen SAT SAT World Factory is on at London’s Young Vic theatre until 30 SAT May. Ticket information can be found via the SAT Young Vic website. SAT Further information about World Factory can be found on SAT the SAT World Factory website SAT SAT SAT Emma Kennedy SAT SAT Shoes For Anthony is published by Ebury Press and is out SAT now SAT SAT Emma Kennedy's official website SAT SAT The Hot Sardines SAT SAT The new album 'The Hot Sardines' is out now on Decca. SAT The Hot Sardines' official website SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Cornelia SAT SAT The album ‘Balun’ is released 15th June on Camp Mozart SAT Cornelia's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Kenneth Cranham SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Kennedy SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Steel SAT Interviewed Guest: Zoe Svendsen SAT Performer: The Hot Sardines SAT Performer: Cornelia SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b05v6d08 (Listen) SAT Seymour Hersh SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles the muckraker's muckraker, American SAT journalist Seymour Hersh, who has challenged the official SAT story of how Osama Bin Laden was killed. SAT SAT The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer is one of the world's most SAT famous investigative reporters. He exposed both the My Lai SAT massacre, when US soldiers killed hundreds of civilians SAT during the Vietnam war, and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by SAT US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison. SAT SAT To some he is a hero - a tenacious investigator of SAT uncomfortable truths. To others he is a fantasist - a SAT gullible journalist who sees conspiracy and cover-up SAT wherever he looks. SAT SAT At 78 he shows no sign of slowing down. Now Mark Coles SAT investigates the investigator. SAT SAT Producers: Hannah Barnes and Joe Kent. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b05v6d0b (Listen) SAT Mad Max, Cornelia Parker, Pirates of Penzance, Jonathan SAT Strange and Mr Borrell, TC Boyle SAT SAT Artist Cornelia Parker's contribution to The British SAT Library's Magna Carta octocentennial exhibition is an SAT embroidery interpretation of the Wikipedia page for this SAT cornerstone of the British constitution. What does it add to SAT the commemorations? SAT There's a new Mad Max film, "Fury Road", with Tom Hardy SAT replacing Mel Gibson in the title role - it's two hours of SAT more-or-less non-stop action and taken decades to reach the SAT screen; is it worth the wait? SAT Film director Mike Leigh is a big fan of the operas of SAT Gilbert and Sullivan. He has been working with English SAT National Opera on a staging of The Pirates of Penzance -how SAT does his improvisational working style fit with the SAT formatted world of opera? SAT Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell was Susanna Clarke's 800 SAT page novel of magic in 19th Century England. It's been SAT turned into a 7-part TV series by the BBC SAT American novelist TC Boyle's newest work is The Harder They SAT Come, about gun control and mental illness in the USA. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b05v6d35 (Listen) SAT The Choke SAT SAT The journalist, author and Olympian Matthew Syed blew it big SAT time at the Sydney 2000. A GB medal prospect in table tennis SAT he was thrashed by an opponent he had beaten many times SAT before- he choked. He's been keen to understand ever since SAT why sometimes the brain robs an individual of the ability to SAT do routine tasks - in his case to hit a ping pong ball on SAT the table. SAT SAT You don't have to be a world class sportsman to choke think SAT of that job interview you fluffed or that wildly attractive SAT person at a party that left you unable to do what you do SAT everyday- speak coherently. SAT SAT In The Choke Matthew will explore the neurological and SAT psychological trajectory of a choke illustrated with some SAT dramatic examples where the pressure told at the worst SAT possible time- musicians, politicians, businessmen, actors SAT and sportsmen all feature in this examination of when we SAT fail to do what comes naturally to us. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b05tbw1m (Listen) SAT The Castle, Episode 1 SAT SAT In Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic SAT wonderland, the hapless land-surveyor known only as K SAT answers a summons to work at the mysterious Castle, only to SAT find himself drawn into a labyrinth of terror and absurdity. SAT SAT With the Jackie Palmer Children's Choir SAT SAT Dramatist: Ed Harris SAT SAT Producer: John Taylor SAT A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT K: Dominic Rowan SAT Frieda: Sammy T Dobson SAT Jeremias: Mark Benton SAT Artur: Daniel Weyman SAT Teacher: Stephen Greif SAT Gardena: Rachel Bavidge SAT Amalia: Rachel Bavidge SAT Olga: Victoria Elliott SAT Barnabas: Neil Grainger SAT Chief Superintendent: Jonathan Cullen SAT Hans: Dominic Deakin SAT Author: Franz Kafka SAT Adaptor: Ed Harris SAT Producer: John Taylor SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b05tbnj4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b05tlvbv (Listen) SAT The Law and the Gender Pay Gap SAT SAT Clive Anderson and a panel of senior legal experts discuss SAT the apparent failure of the 1970 Equal Pay Act to bridge the SAT gender pay gap. SAT SAT Among those taking part is solicitor Michael Newman - SAT currently acting on behalf of hundreds of female workers at SAT the supermarket chain Asda, who claim they are being paid SAT less than male colleagues for work of equal value. Since the SAT case began last year, more than 19,000 people have SAT approached the lawyers involved asking for their cases to be SAT taken up. SAT SAT Also taking part are lawyers who act for employers in equal SAT pay disputes and a legal officer with the union Unison. SAT SAT Equal pay is the single biggest issue facing employment SAT tribunals, which have dealt with 700,000 claims in the past SAT 15 years. Barrister and academic Sarah Fraser Butlin tells SAT the programme that court actions have replaced union SAT collective bargaining as a force for social change in this SAT area, but believes that it is an extraordinarily inefficient SAT way to bring fairness to the pay system. SAT SAT Fighting court cases costs local authorities and business SAT millions and the consequences of losing the litigation SAT battle have enormous implications for the wage bill. Why is SAT it necessary for same many individual court cases to be SAT brought? Is there a better way of achieve payroll justice? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b05tkvkd (Listen) SAT Series 5, University of Essex SAT SAT A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three SAT University students take on a team of three of their SAT professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from the University of Essex, The 3rd SAT Degree is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners while SAT delighting the current ones. SAT SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Politics, SAT Literature and 20th Century History, and the questions range SAT from the nihilistic anarchy of both Brothers Karamazov and SAT Chuckle Brothers to My Little Pony and the Epic of SAT Gilgamesh. SAT SAT The show is recorded on location at a different University SAT each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of SAT their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on SAT an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course SAT meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but SAT with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quick-fire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and One Direction. SAT SAT The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on SAT The Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not SAT just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in SAT the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries SAT for Radio 4, including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The SAT Spleen, as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang SAT Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine SAT Particle. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b05tbxk2 (Listen) SAT Miscellany from Persia to Eaglehawk SAT SAT Roger McGough travels from Rumi's 13th century Persia to SAT Banjo Patterson's Eaglehawk, Australia via Thom Gunn's SAT Pacific Ocean with Poetry Please. Poetry from Carol Ann SAT Duffy, Thomas Hardy, Edna St Vincent Millay, Felix Dennis SAT and Michael Hamburger also features. 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SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT River SAT SAT By Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT From Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT Renascence SAT SAT By Edna St Vincent Millay SAT SAT From Collected Poems – Edna St Vincent Millay SAT SAT Published by Harper and Row SAT SAT SAT SAT Something Tapped SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest SAT Poetry SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Longing SAT SAT By Matthew Arnold SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longing/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Discovery of the Pacific SAT SAT By Thom Gunn SAT SAT From Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Travelling I SAT SAT By Michael Hamburger SAT SAT From Michael Hamburger – Collected Poems 1941-1983 SAT SAT Published by Carcanet Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Church Going SAT SAT By Philip Larkin SAT SAT From Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT The Guest House SAT SAT by Rumi SAT SAT Translated by Coleman Barks SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.gratefulness.org/poetry/guest_house.htm SAT SAT SAT SAT Love's Language SAT SAT By Ella Wheeler Wilcox SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-language/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Laughing Buddha SAT SAT By Felix Dennis SAT SAT From Island Dreams – 99 Poems from Mustique SAT SAT Published by Noctua Press SAT SAT SAT SAT A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple of Learning SAT SAT By Sue Boyle SAT SAT Taken from Poems of the Decade – An Anthology of the Forward SAT Books of Poetry SAT SAT Published by Faber & Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Mulga Bill's Bicycle SAT SAT By Banjo Patterson SAT SAT From Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses SAT SAT Published by World Wide School SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 MAY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b05v6g44 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Go West b01rfy5y (Listen) SUN Different Voices SUN SUN Five stories made in Bristol SUN SUN 4. Different Voices SUN by Paula Williams SUN Read by John Telfer SUN SUN Being invisible is no joke, particularly when it's your SUN birthday and everyone's more interested in your clever older SUN brother. The only person who seems to be interested is SUN Grandpa John, the war hero who's now batty and goes shopping SUN in his pyjamas, and what help is he going to be? SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05v6g46 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05v6g48 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05v6g4b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b05v6g4d (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 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SUN SUN We hear from poets and writers who have explored not getting SUN things "entirely" and found a kind of pleasure and peace in SUN that acceptance. There are readings from Louise MacNeice, SUN Kathleen Jamie and Michael Longley, and an interview with SUN Tom Bolton who writes about London's secret rivers and lost SUN neighbourhoods. The music is by You Are Wolf (Kerry Andrew), SUN Toru Takemitsu, Kraftwerk and Elton John. SUN SUN The readers are Peter Marinker, Sirine Saba and Joe SUN Armstrong. SUN SUN Producer: Natalie Steed SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: SUN Entirely SUN Synopsis: SUN Certainty and uncertainty explored in a poem which gives SUN this edition its title. SUN Author: SUN Louis MacNeice SUN Publisher: SUN Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Spring Tide (part 3) SUN Synopsis: SUN The spring tide extends the shoreline beyond its ordinary SUN boundaries. SUN Author: SUN Michael Longley SUN Publisher: SUN Jonathan Cape SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN The Porch SUN Synopsis: SUN Author: SUN R S Thomas SUN Publisher: SUN W&N; New Ed edition SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN extract from “Darkness and Light” included in the SUN collection, Findings SUN Synopsis: SUN The author wants to sail North to experience complete SUN darkness, but finds something else instead. SUN Author: SUN Kathleen Jamie SUN Publisher: SUN Sort Of Books SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN extract from Edgelands: Journeys Into England’s True SUN Wilderness. SUN Synopsis: SUN A manifesto calling for populated landscapes and the SUN wildernesses of edgelands. SUN Author: SUN Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley SUN Publisher: SUN Vintage SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b05v6gjd (Listen) SUN Farm Hack UK SUN SUN Sybil Ruscoe reports from the UK's first Farm Hack, held at SUN Ruskin Mill Farm in Gloucestershire. SUN "Farm Hack" is an initiative from North America, which aims SUN to help farmers and growers from smaller-scale farms to SUN acquire, modify and make appropriate tools for their work. SUN The meetings (there have been nearly 20 in the USA already) SUN network farmers with each other, and with people who have SUN other skills, from computers to blacksmithing to designing. SUN There is also a website which follows open source principles SUN (meaning all information is freely and publicly available) SUN where tools and information are shared, commented on, and SUN improved. SUN SUN Sybil meets Severine von Tscharner Fleming, who co-founded SUN Farm Hack - who has come to Gloucestershire from the USA to SUN be at this event. Severine is the director and founder of SUN Greenhorns, a US organisation that supports a new generation SUN of ecologically-minded farmers with everything from skills SUN to practical information to social gatherings. SUN SUN Sybil also talks to Ed Hamer, a farmer from Devon who SUN organised the day along with The Landworkers' Alliance, SUN tries her hand at welding - and catches up with a group of SUN French farmers who have come along to get involved. SUN SUN Presenter: Sybil Ruscoe SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b05v6g4j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b05v6g4l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b05v6gjg (Listen) SUN Good Religious Leaders, Extremism, Is America Losing Its SUN Religion? SUN SUN On Sunday Pope Francis will canonize two native-born SUN Palestinian nuns at a ceremony at the Vatican. Fr. David SUN Neuhaus, from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, talks to SUN Edward Stourton from a prayer vigil at the shrine of Mother SUN Alphonsine. SUN SUN Astrophysicist and theologian David Wilkinson grapples with SUN the question, how does God answer prayers? SUN SUN The Government has set out a list of new proposals to tackle SUN radicalisation. Kevin Bocquet reports gauges reaction on the SUN latest suggestions. SUN SUN The number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation SUN has grown to nearly a quarter of the adult population SUN according to a report by the Pew Research Center. One of its SUN authors Jessica Martinez explains the trends and how they SUN affect the religious landscape of the United States. SUN SUN A thanksgiving Mass at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday SUN will mark exactly 175 years since the first publication on SUN the Catholic weekly magazine The Tablet. Trevor Barnes has SUN been looking in the archives. SUN SUN What do people want from a religious leader? How influential SUN are they? Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology and SUN Religion at Lancaster University, and Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe SUN Emeritus Professor of Leadership studies at Leeds University SUN discuss. SUN SUN The descendants of a Jewish community exiled from Spain more SUN than 500 years ago will be granted legal rights to apply for SUN Spanish citizenship. Alasdair Fotheringham talks to Edward SUN about their history and how many will come home? SUN SUN Contributors SUN SUN Fr. David Neuhaus SUN David Wilkinson SUN Jessica Martinez SUN Alasdair Fotheringham SUN Linda Woodhead SUN SUN Producers SUN SUN Zaffar Iqbal SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN SUN Editor SUN Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b05v6gjj (Listen) SUN David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation SUN SUN Paul O'Grady presents The Radio 4 Appeal for David Shepherd SUN Wildlife Foundation SUN Registered Charity No 1106893 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to D.S.W.F. SUN SUN Photo: Paul O'Grady with Nkala (credit: Jill Worsley) SUN SUN The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation SUN Founded in 1984 by wildlife artist and conservationist, SUN David Shepherd CBE, to give something back to the animals he SUN loves, the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) works SUN with local communities to find long-term, sustainable SUN solutions to help protect some of the world’s most SUN endangered wildlife including elephant, rhino and tigers. SUN Community outreach, education, undercover investigation and SUN anti-poaching form the core of DSWF’s conservation work. SUN Photo shows David sketching the elephants. SUN SUN Caring for Zambia’s orphaned elephants SUN DSWF established the first elephant orphanage in Zambia in SUN response to the increasing number of baby elephants being SUN orphaned by ivory poachers. Requiring round-the-clock care SUN to nurse them back to health and about ten years of SUN rehabilitation both at the orphanage near Lusaka and at the SUN release facility in Kafue National Park, rescuing elephants SUN is a long-term commitment that needs consistent funding. SUN Photo shows Ele with her keeper (credit Jo Hallett) SUN SUN From grassroots to world stage SUN DSWF funds the everyday basics like boots, equipment, fuel, SUN food and salaries that mean park rangers can safely protect SUN wildlife in the field. On the world stage, DSWF lobbies to SUN end the illegal trade in ivory and, through its TigerTime SUN Campaign, seeks to end the trade in tiger parts from all SUN sources. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b05v6g4n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b05v6g4q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b05v6gjl (Listen) SUN from St Andrew's & St George's West Church, Edinburgh, led SUN by the Revd Ian Gilmour; with former Moderators on the SUN opening weekend of the General Assembly of the Church of SUN Scotland. SUN Introit: O sing unto the Lord a new song (Noel de Jongh) SUN Hymns: Let us with a gladsome mind (Monkland) SUN Love is the touch of intangible joy (Amor dei) SUN Anthem: My life flows on (S Murray Mitchell) SUN Choir directed by Brigitte Harris. Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b05tq1s3 (Listen) SUN Presidents as Monarchs SUN SUN David Cannadine says when Barack Obama's critics accuse him SUN of acting like a king they're forgetting the origins of the SUN office of President. SUN "From the outset, the American presidency was vested with SUN what might be termed monarchical authority, which meant that SUN it really was a form of elective kingship." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Cannadine SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbz0y (Listen) SUN Storm Petrel SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David SUN Attenborough presents the European Storm Petrel. The storm SUN petrels as a group are the smallest seabirds in the world SUN and called "Jesus Christ birds" because they give the SUN appearance they can walk on water as they flutter over the SUN sea surface dangling their legs whilst looking for food. SUN SUN Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b05v6gks (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 b05v6gkv (Listen) SUN Robert and Jim prepare for battle, and things do not go Ed's SUN way. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Will Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Dr Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:16 Desert Island Discs b05v6glq (Listen) SUN Helen Browning SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the farmer, and Chief Executive SUN of the Soil Association, Helen Browning. SUN SUN Born and brought up on the farm in Wiltshire she runs today, SUN she told her father she wanted to be a 'proper farmer' aged SUN just 9. By the time she was 24 her father had passed the SUN reins on to her and not long after, she made it entirely SUN organic. SUN SUN Inspired by five of her great aunts who, after the First SUN World War, began farming themselves, today she continues to SUN run the family farm, her own meat business and the local SUN pub. Awarded the OBE in 1998 for services to farming, she is SUN chair of the Food Ethics Council, has served on the Curry SUN Commission into the Future of Farming and Food and was SUN appointed Chief Executive of the Soil Association in 2010. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Helen Browning SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b05v6g4s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Dilemma b05tkvkn (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 6 SUN SUN Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts SUN the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to see SUN if she can wreck their moral rectitude. This week, it's the SUN turn of comedian Dave Gorman, actor and writer Jessica SUN Hynes, poet and playwright Ian McMillan, and musician, SUN writer and stand-up (and devisor of Dilemma) Danielle Ward. SUN As well as each guest defending something utterly SUN indefensible. they also face moral problems related to SUN fasting children and West End musicals. Episode six 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: Dave Gorman SUN Panellist: Jessica Hynes SUN Panellist: Ian McMillan SUN Panellist: Danielle Ward SUN Producer: Ed Morrish SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b05v6gls (Listen) SUN The Spice Explosion SUN SUN This is more than a story about chicken tikka masala. The SUN UK's palette is changing with a demand for far more spice SUN and pizzazz in our menus and larders. The UK currently SUN imports almost double what it did in the year 2000. Much of SUN that demand has been attributed to the UK's changing and SUN diverse population - not only in home cooking but SUN introducing recipes and dishes to a wider market. Travellers SUN exploring exotic countries have also returned with a taste SUN for spice blends. However spice is more than a simple SUN ingredient - it can also be part of a story about identity, SUN health, family and life. SUN SUN Cyrus Todiwala travels to Easton in Bristol for the Spice SUN Festival to meet those for whom spice is part of their SUN lives. For him spices have been used for health as well as SUN to bring flavour to his dishes while cooking in India and SUN opening restaurants in the UK. He meets the man whose family SUN fled Uganda while under the rule of Idi Amin, losing SUN everything but their love and knowledge of spices led his SUN father to source and share ingredients, eventually serving SUN food and is now an 'Aladdin's cave' of exotic spices and SUN ingredients for individuals and restaurants across the South SUN West. He meets the chai wallahs who now sell on street SUN corners of Bristol as well as Bombay and hears about the SUN backpacker whose craving for the Indian snacks he tasted led SUN him to set up his own business with over 300 products and SUN blends. SUN SUN Get some fire in your belly and hear how spice plays a role SUN in commuity, culture and culinary delights. SUN SUN Presented by Cyrus Todiwala and Produced in Bristol by SUN Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Cyrus Todiwala SUN Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b05v6g4v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b05v6glv (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Shipping Songs b05r401h (Listen) SUN The Shipping Forecast has long provided essential, SUN potentially life-saving, information for those at sea around SUN the British Isles. But the forecast also has a history of SUN sparking the imagination and creativity of those firmly on SUN land - music, poetry and artworks of all kinds have been SUN inspired by it. SUN SUN Award-winning folk artist Lisa Knapp, who has herself SUN written a song inspired by the daily forecast, takes a SUN musical and poetic voyage through the watery regions of the SUN Shipping Forecast and examines the appeal it holds for SUN land-bound musicians, poets and writers. SUN SUN From the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy to the SUN music of Radiohead, Blur and Jethro Tull, the forecast has SUN ingrained itself into Britain's creative arts. Many have SUN employed the Shipping Forecast's natural rhythm and SUN multitude of connotations to conjure up feelings of SUN familiarity and strangeness, of community and alienation, of SUN safety and danger. SUN SUN Lisa reflects on her own fondness for a forecast for which, SUN in reality, she has no need, but which has ignited her SUN imagination and taken her off to distant mythical lands. She SUN hears from fellow musicians and writers who have been SUN influenced by the Shipping Forecast and finds out how this SUN regular informational broadcast captured their imaginations. SUN SUN Poet Sean Street, songwriter Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and SUN composer Cecilia McDowall are among those to share their SUN thoughts on the forecast's appeal. SUN SUN Producer: Lorna Skingley SUN A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05tpy84 (Listen) SUN Garden Show Ireland SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the programme from Garden Show Ireland at SUN Antrim Castle Gardens. Matthew Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and SUN James Wong answer audience questions. SUN SUN Also this week, we go behind the scenes at Matthew Wilson's SUN Chelsea Flower Show garden to uncover some of the secrets SUN behind perfect planting. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I recently bought a lemon tree in a pot. I can’t plant SUN it in a sheltered spot but should I plant it in the garden? SUN Bob SUN – Only if you want to buy another one next year! Keep it in SUN a pot and if you have a sunny bay window put it in there SUN before the first frost in autumn and put it out again after SUN the last frost in spring. SUN James SUN – I have a lemon tree outdoors in London so a different SUN climate but it can be done in the UK. I am also SUN experimenting with a Yuzu – very trendy – if you are SUN desperate to grow a citrus in the garden, it is a gamble but SUN it could pay off. SUN Matt SUN – Also, if you are keeping it in the pot remember to turn SUN the pot from time to time to get balanced growth. SUN SUN SUN Q - My front garden has a box hedge which is being burnt by SUN dogs passing –what can I do to discourage them and will the SUN burnt patches recover? SUN Matt SUN – Box hedges are very nice hedges but they’re not the SUN toughest – what’s much better on a boundary is a hawthorn or SUN even privet. Much hardier and you can raise the base. SUN Bob SUN – To stop more dogs doing the same thing – most garden SUN centres will sell pepper or chilli dust that will provide an SUN unattractive smell to a dog’s sensitive nose. SUN Matt SUN – However, you do need to frequently reapply as it washes SUN away in the rain. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve tried to grow potatoes in raised beds but the yield SUN was poor – a few large but mostly small – what would you SUN suggest to improve yield? SUN Bob SUN – Potatoes like a very rich soil so use fertilizer/muck to SUN improve yields. The disparity in size suggests you are SUN taking them from a warm room to cold soil. It is better to SUN wait a bit longer so the soil is warmer. Try warming up the SUN bed with plastic sheeting first. SUN SUN Also – Raised beds can dry out - most plants need an inch of SUN water a week (much more than you’d think) and a potato is SUN mostly water so make sure there’s plenty of water even if it SUN is damp out! SUN SUN SUN Q – We have grown Trilliums for years but have always bought SUN the plants in and never tried to propagate. Now I want to SUN try vegetative propagation, have you any advice? SUN Bob SUN – Use rich, sandy soil full of leaf mould and position them SUN in dappled shade. Divide them in half if you can. Trilliums SUN are expensive which often means they are hard to reproduce. SUN Matt SUN – I agree, you can be quite brutal with them but then put SUN them into a nice moisture-retentive, free-draining compost SUN in a shady spot so they don’t have too much bright light SUN until they are fully developed. SUN SUN SUN Q – The front of our house faces due north and because of a SUN lot of very sad grass my long-suffering husband has laid SUN slabs. May I have some recommendations for large pots to SUN make it look beautiful? SUN James SUN – I recommend edibles such as sour cherries (Morello is the SUN most popular). Also try the cross between a sour cherry and SUN a sweet one – it’s called May Duke – great flavour and very SUN versatile in cooking. SUN Matt SUN – Also, some topiary – box or bay or even trimmed ivy – it SUN would give some structure during the winter. Also for SUN colour, a lot of the salad crops would grow quite happily. SUN And try coloured pots – so they bring some brightness and SUN beauty too. SUN Bob SUN – Go for a matched set of hollies and work on a geometric SUN effect. Maybe underneath them plant some Euonymus. Hollies SUN don’t cope well with bad drainage. SUN SUN SUN Q – Why can’t I grow parsley? SUN Bob SUN – parsley is notoriously difficult to get to germinate from SUN seed – the best way is to buy a pot-grown plant from a SUN supermarket or garden centre, plant it, and then let it SUN self-seed. SUN SUN Or, if you are doing it from seed, pour boiling water on the SUN site first, let it cool a bit and then sow. Combination of SUN the warmth and the germ killing of the boiling water helps SUN the seeds to grow. SUN Matt SUN – Fluctuating temperatures help trigger germination so maybe SUN go from sunny windowsill to fridge, then fridge to SUN windowsill. SUN James SUN – Try seaweed tonic which you can buy in the garden centre – SUN it contains plant hormones which may induce the germination SUN process. SUN SUN SUN Q – A couple of years ago I took a cutting of a Mexican SUN Firebush and it’s now about 15inches (38cm) tall and in a SUN pot and I’m wondering should I plant it in the garden? My SUN garden is north-west facing and has very heavy clay soil. SUN Matt SUN – Do you mean the Chilean Firebush? Embrothium coccineum? SUN They are beautiful and elegant with orange/red flowers. It’s SUN one of the few members of the protea family that will flower SUN in the UK. It loves cool, moist conditions and is better in SUN a sheltered spot away from cold winds. To get the full SUN benefit of the flowers it’s best to let it grow into its SUN natural shape rather than to cut it back. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b05v6gmz (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears about martial arts, men's apparent SUN difficulty with monitoring their own health, and growing up SUN with parents who serve overseas, from Wales, Birmingham and SUN Devon, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b05v6gn1 (Listen) SUN The Castle, Episode 2 SUN SUN In Franz Kafka's mind-warping novel, set in a bureaucratic SUN wonderland, while K continues to seek a meeting with the SUN elusive official Klamm, his relationship with Frieda is SUN under strain. He suspects her of maintaining a secret tryst SUN with Klamm, and she of a dalliance with Barnabas' two SUN sisters. SUN SUN Dramatist: Ed Harris SUN SUN Producer: John Taylor SUN A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN K: Dominic Rowan SUN Frieda: Sammy T Dobson SUN Jeremias: Mark Benton SUN Artur: Daniel Weyman SUN Teacher: Stephen Greif SUN Amalia: Rachel Bavidge SUN Olga: Victoria Elliott SUN Barnabas: Neil Grainger SUN Papa: Jonathan Cullen SUN Burgel: Jonathan Cullen SUN Momus: Trevor Fox SUN Fire Chief: Trevor Fox SUN Hollister: Ross Waiton SUN Erlanger: Ross Waiton SUN Hans: Dominic Deakin SUN Actor: Alex Taylor-McDowell SUN Actor: Alice Martin SUN Actor: Maddie Hill SUN Actor: Tegan Williams SUN Author: Franz Kafka SUN Adaptor: Ed Harris SUN Producer: John Taylor SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b05v6gn3 (Listen) SUN Julian Barnes - Keeping an Eye Open SUN SUN In his new book Keeping An Eye Open: Essays on Art, the SUN hugely acclaimed novelist Julian Barnes brings together SUN articles he's written on some of his favourite painters. SUN They range from Gericault to Manet to Bonnard to Lucian SUN Freud. He talks to Mariella about his approach to writing on SUN art and trying to be a companion to the reader, about how SUN his novels influence the essays and whether knowing any SUN artists' life story can help us understand their work. SUN SUN Mariella talks to Alex Johnson about the incredible and SUN varied libraries from around the world captured in his book SUN Improbable Libraries, Ramona Koval reports from Australia SUN where authors have developed a surprising habit of giving SUN away prize money and crime writer Attica Locke reveals the SUN Book She'd Never Lend. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on SUN Art by Julian Barnes SUN Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes SUN SUN Close Reading of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love SUN SUN I’m holding back, delaying the information. I’m lingering in SUN the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes SUN were still possible; the convergence of six figures in a SUN flat green space has a comforting geometry from the SUN buzzard’s perspective, the knowable, limited plane of the SUN snooker table. The initial conditions, the force and the SUN direction of the force, define all the consequent pathways, SUN all the angles of collision and return, and the glow of the SUN overhead light bathes the field, the baize and all its SUN moving bodies, in reassuring clarity. I think that while we SUN were still converging, before we made contact, we were in a SUN state of mathematical grace. I linger on our dispositions, SUN the relative distances and the compass point – because as SUN far as these occurrences were concerned, this was the last SUN time I understood anything clearly at all. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Julian Barnes SUN Interviewed Guest: Alex Johnson SUN Interviewed Guest: Ramona Koval SUN Interviewed Guest: Attica Locke SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b05v6gn5 (Listen) SUN Poetry by Heart SUN SUN Poetry Please at the finals of the Poetry by Heart SUN competition. Students recite poetry from memory in a bid to SUN be crowned winner in the 2015 contest. Roger Mc Gough SUN presents, and poetry comes from Craig Raine, Rupert Brooke, SUN Carol Ann Duffy and Thomas Hardy. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN A Life in Dreams SUN SUN by Jacob Sam-La Rose SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-life-in-dreams/ SUN SUN SUN SUN 1914 SUN SUN by Philip Larkin SUN SUN From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Soldier SUN SUN by Rupert Brooke SUN SUN From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SUN SUN Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN Originally SUN SUN by Carol Ann Duffy SUN SUN From New Selected Poems 1984-2004 SUN SUN Published by Picador SUN SUN SUN SUN Invictus SUN SUN by WE Henley SUN SUN From The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN A Martian Sends a Postcard Home SUN SUN by Craig Raine SUN SUN From The New Penguin Book of English Verse SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN Josephine Baker Finds Herself SUN SUN by Patience Agbabi SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/josephine-baker-finds- SUN erself/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Dover Beach SUN SUN by Matthew Arnold SUN SUN From Matthew Arnold – Selected Poems and Prose SUN SUN Published by Everyman SUN SUN SUN SUN The Fish SUN SUN by Elizabeth Bishop SUN SUN Elizabeth Bishop – Complete Poems SUN SUN Published by Chatto and Windus SUN SUN SUN SUN Channel Firing SUN SUN by Thomas Hardy SUN SUN From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest SUN Poetry SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b05tl3k0 (Listen) SUN Who Killed Emma? SUN SUN Emma Caldwell was a young woman from a good home who SUN developed an addiction to heroin after the death of her SUN sister and then descended into street prostitution. When her SUN body was found dumped in a ditch in Lanarkshire in May 2005, SUN the police launched an unprecedented murder hunt. But ten SUN years on, after an investigation costing millions of pounds, SUN no one has ever been convicted of her killing. Eamon O SUN Connor investigates what went wrong. SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b05v6d08 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b05v6g4y (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b05v6g50 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05v6g52 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b05v6gn7 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN On Pick of the Week this week the comedian John Moloney's SUN cat is in for a bit of a shock during a visit to the vet. SUN There's the science behind Choking - what makes people mess SUN up when they are under pressure in public. It's to do with SUN Brains Behaving Badly. SUN Mark Kermode choose his favourite film music, and a man SUN tells 5Live how some DIY went horribly wrong. It could be SUN amongst the most compelling radio you hear this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b05v6gn9 (Listen) SUN It is a sunny day for the cricket, and Jennifer has a SUN mystery to solve. SUN SUN 19:15 Boswell's Lives b05vh1p4 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Boswell's Life of Johnson SUN SUN by Jon Canter SUN SUN Comedy as James Boswell, Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer, SUN pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he attempts to SUN write a biography of another famous Johnson - Boris - but SUN finds him a fiendish opponent especially on the whiff-whaff SUN table. SUN SUN Directed by Sally Avens SUN SUN Following on from the series that saw other celebrities SUN including Sigmund Freud, Maria Callas and Harold Pinter have SUN their lives penned by James Boswell - a one off special - SUN that sees another Johnson, Boris no less, become the subject SUN of Boswell's musings. SUN SUN Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both SUN television and radio. He recently penned the radio series SUN 'Believe It' starring Richard Wilson but his work goes back SUN to Spitting Image. He is also the author of several books SUN and has been called our greatest living comic novelist. SUN SUN Miles Jupp is an actor and stand up. He is best known for SUN playing Nigel in the series 'Rev' and is a regular SUN contributor to R4 panel games and 'Have I Got News For You' SUN on BBC1. He is currently appearing at the National Theatre SUN in 'Rules For Living'. SUN SUN Alistair McGowan is an impressionist, stand-up comic, actor SUN and writer best known to British audiences for 'The Big SUN Impression'. He has recently been seen. He has also featured SUN on 'Bake Off For Comic Relief', 'Mock The Week', has been SUN seen on 'Live At The Apollo' and began his career by SUN providing voices for the iconic 'Spitting Image'. SUN SUN Credits SUN James Boswell: Miles Jupp SUN Boris Johnson: Alistair McGowan SUN Writer: Jon Canter SUN Director: Sally Avens SUN SUN 19:45 Shorts b05v6gpb (Listen) SUN The Time Being, Symphony of Sighs SUN SUN The seventh season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for previously unbroadcast writers. Past series have brought SUN new talent to a wider audience and provided a stepping stone SUN for writers who have since gone on to enjoy further success SUN on radio and in print - including Tania Hershman, Heidi SUN Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe, Joe Dunthorne and Rebecca F. SUN John. SUN SUN 1/3. Symphony Of Sighs by Karen Anstee. SUN An orchestra 'cellist sets off to play at an outdoor concert SUN with something less than enthusiasm. SUN SUN Karen Anstee originally trained as a violinist at the Royal SUN Academy Of Music and in Boston, USA. Her experiences in the SUN music industry have been the inspiration for a series of SUN short stories. Karen graduated from the London Film School SUN in 2012. SUN SUN Reader: Hugh Dennis SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Hugh Dennis SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Karen Anstee SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b05tpz78 (Listen) SUN Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers SUN SUN The news headlines this week suggested there has been an SUN increase in the number of strokes among working age men and SUN women. But is this true? We speak to Tony Rudd, National SUN Clinical Director for Stroke NHS England. He says the SUN headlines were not justified and there is actually evidence SUN the incidence of strokes has gone down. SUN SUN Are 40 percent of teachers leaving their jobs after their SUN first year in post? Based on figures put out by a teaching SUN union, newspapers reported the dire state of teacher SUN retention. But we show how these figures include graduates SUN who did not start jobs in teaching. SUN SUN Big numbers do not just confuse most people - many computers SUN struggle to process them too. Tim Harford talks to Chris SUN Baraniuk who explains how a simple software bug afflicts SUN computers controlling planes, spacecraft and has led to SUN explosions, missing space probes and more. SUN SUN In the aftermath of the general election, many people are SUN calling for an overhaul of the electoral system to make it SUN more representative of the number of votes that each party SUN received. We take a look at how a different system may have SUN affected the outcome. Plus - what questions might improve SUN the quality of opinion polls asking for voter intentions? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b05tpz76 (Listen) SUN BB King, Kenan Evren, Sir Maurice Flanagan, Maya SUN Plisetskaya, Wally Kahn SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN B.B. King whose blues guitar took him from the cotton fields SUN of Mississippi to international stardom. SUN SUN Kenan Evran the Turkish general who took power in a military SUN coup in 1980 and was later sentenced to life imprisonment. SUN SUN Sir Maurice Flanagan who took Emirates Airlines from a two SUN plane cargo operation to a multi billion dollar business. SUN SUN The Soviet ballet star Maya Plisetskaya SUN SUN And the glider pilot Wally Kahn who campaigned to make SUN Lasham - an ex RAF base in Hampshire - into a world beating SUN gliding club. SUN SUN B.B. King (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke live in the studio to Garth Cartwright a SUN music journalist who interviewed Mr King. SUN SUN Born 16 September 1925; died 14 May 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Kenan Evren SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Daniel Dombey who is SUN Turkey correspondent for the Financial Times. SUN SUN Born 17 July 1917; died 9 May 2015 aged 97. SUN SUN Sir Maurice Flanagan KBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Murdo Morrison, editor of Flight SUN International magazine. SUN SUN Born 17 November 1928; died 7 May 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Maya Plisetskaya SUN SUN Last Word spoke ballet critic Clement Crisp and to Vitali SUN Vitaliev, a Ukrainian journalist and former interpreter for SUN Russian Ministry of Culture. SUN SUN Born 20 November 1925; died 2 May 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Wally Kahn MBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend and fellow glider flyer, Michael SUN Bird. SUN SUN Born 24 May 1926; died 15 March 2015 aged 88. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Garth Cartwright SUN Interviewed Guest: Daniel Dombey SUN Interviewed Guest: Murdo Morrison SUN Interviewed Guest: Clement Crisp SUN Interviewed Guest: Vitali Vitaliev SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Bird SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b05v6cyx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b05v6gjj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b05v6gr4 (Listen) SUN Brought to Book SUN SUN Kevin Ashton is a businessman who has just written his first SUN book, about innovation and creativity, with the intriguing SUN title 'How to Fly a Horse'. SUN Charles Handy is an experienced and acclaimed management SUN guru, who has just published a new book, called The Second SUN Curve. Its focus is the big life changes business and SUN individuals need to make to find fulfilment at work. SUN SUN Peter Day hears the ideas behind their books SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Image courtesy of Elizabeth Handy SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b05v6gpz (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b05v6gq1 (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b05tm4dn (Listen) SUN Olivier Assayas; Mad Max; Cannes SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN As Mad Max hits the road again, Kim Newman trawls through SUN his favourite post-apocalyptic cliches. SUN SUN Director Olivier Assayas discusses his drama Clouds Of Sils SUN Maria, which he wrote for his friend Juliette Binoche, and SUN reveals why he also cast Twilight star Kristen Stewart. SUN SUN Critic Tim Robey and film buyer Clare Binns look forward to SUN this year's Cannes festival. SUN SUN Larushka Ivan-Zadeh makes her pick of this month's DVDs. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b05v6ght (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 MAY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b05v6g64 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b05tlvb8 (Listen) MON The Gym: A Social History; Tattoos at Work MON MON The gym: Laurie Taylor explores the social history of the MON gymnasium with the writer and sociologist, Eric Chaline. MON Although this 'temple of perfection' appears primarily as a MON site for producing the 'body beautiful', this study finds it MON has also been a battleground in political, sexual and MON cultural wars. They're joined by Louise Mansfield, MON Sociologist of Sport at Brunel University MON MON Also, tattoos at work: Andrew Timming, Reader in Management MON at the University of St Andrews, talks about prejudices MON towards body art in the service sector. Does possession of a MON tattoo impact on job prospects? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Contributors MON Eric Chaline MON Writer and Journalist MON MON *The Temple of Perfection: A History of the Gym* MON Publisher: Reaktion Books MON ISBN-10: 178023449X MON ISBN-13: 978-1780234496 MON MON Dr. MON Louise Mansfield MON Deputy Director of the Brunel Centre for Sport, Health and MON Wellbeing (BC.SHaW) in the College of Health and Life MON Sciences, Brunel University London MON Andrew Timming MON Reader in Management, School of Management at the University MON of St Andrews MON MON Abstract: MON *Visible tattoos in the service sector: a new challenge to MON recruitment and selection MON * MON doi: 10.1177/0950017014528402 MON Work Employment & Society February 2015 vol. 29 no. 1 60-78 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b05v6ghr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05v6g66 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05v6g68 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05v6g6b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b05v6g6d (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05vt8qk (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister MON Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b05v7tb8 (Listen) MON EU Referendum, Innovation, Ash Dieback MON MON Farmers at the Balmoral show in County Antrim give their MON views to BBC Northern Ireland's Conor Macauley as to whether MON or not farmers could survive if Britain left the EU. Julie MON Girling is the Conservative MEP for the South West and MON Gibralter, and sits on the parliament's agriculture MON committee. She says the halls of power in Brussels are MON buzzing with talk of a British withdrawl and thinks that MON there are both pros and cons in leaving the EU, but MON ultimatley thinks we are better protected if we stay in. MON Ash Dieback is a disease which has been devestating MON woodlands across the UK for over three years. BBC Look MON North's Environment Correspondent Paul Murphy visits one of MON the nurseries involved in a scheme to source seeds and drow MON replacement trees as an alternative to Ash. MON All this week the programme is looking at innovation, and MON how farmers can harness and use new ideas and techniques for MON their business. Katrin Prager from the James Hutton MON Institute in Scotland is a social scientists who has spent MON three years investigating collaboration between UK Farmers. MON She tells Sybil Ruscoe that the crucial part of innovation, MON are farmers acting on new information. MON Presenter Sybil Ruscoe. Producer Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b05v6g6g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk6p (Listen) MON Great Shearwater MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Brett Westwood presents the Great Shearwater; a wanderer of MON the open ocean. They breed on remote islands in the South MON Atlantic and then disperse widely and many follow fish and MON squid shoals northwards, appearing around UK coasts in late MON summer and early autumn. The south-west of Britain and MON Ireland is the best area to look for them. MON MON Great Shearwater (Puffinus gravis) MON Image courtesy of Mike Read (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b05v7tbp (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b05v7tbr (Listen) MON Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr finds out if it's possible to MON create a world less impersonal and more equal. David MON Cameron's former senior adviser, Steve Hilton, believes our MON governments and institutions are too big, and he argues for MON a more human-focused society. The US economist Joseph MON Stiglitz tackles rising inequality in the West and blames MON the unjust and misguided priorities of neoliberalism. The MON Russian writer Masha Gessen looks at the struggle between MON assimilation and alienation as she asks why two brothers MON turned terrorist, bombing the Boston Marathon. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Joseph Stiglitz MON Interviewed Guest: Steve Hilton MON Interviewed Guest: Masha Gessen MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b05v7tbt (Listen) MON Gold Fever, Episode 1 MON MON Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the MON riches it promises, thousands have gone wild in their search MON for it, and since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has MON reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, MON particularly in the US, people with no experience of MON prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, MON tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no MON idea how to use. And off they went mining. MON MON Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 MON he packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the MON 21st century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to MON understand the allure of the metal - and maybe find a bit MON for himself too. MON MON He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who MON left desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river MON in scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of MON striking it rich. Most of them only make enough money to MON scrape a living, but Steve is surprised how happy they seem MON to be. From them, he gets a crash course in small-scale MON prospecting. MON MON He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two MON centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers MON (in particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) MON who abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles MON across perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of MON riches. MON MON Readers: Paul Ritter and Sara Markland MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Gold Rush Routes MON This map shows the gold rush routes of William Swain, Sarah MON Royce and John Borthwick. MON MON Gold Country MON From Downieville to Mariposa on route 49 this map shows the MON heart of Gold Country. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Paul Ritter MON Reader: Sara Markland MON Author: Steve Boggan MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b05v7tbw (Listen) MON Clementine Churchill MON MON A new film Honeytrap tells the story of Layla, a 15 year old MON girl who lures the boy who is in love with her to his death. MON The writer and director gives a girls perspective on gang MON culture in a story inspired by a true events. MON MON 'Women in One' is a new collection of one minute (or MON thereabouts) interviews with strangers that reporter Abigail MON Horlick bumps in to cities across the UK. This week the MON women of Leeds open up about about their love life, MON childhood, regrets and dreams. MON MON The original First Lady of Politics - Clementine Churchill. MON Sonia Purnell on the unusual dynamics of her partnership MON with Winston, who by his own admission, said the the Second MON World War would have been 'impossible without her', MON MON Plus are clogs the shoes of the season? MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Producer Beverley Purcell. MON MON Honeytrap MON Honeytrap MON tells the story of Layla, a 15 year old girl who lures the MON boy who is in love with her to his death. Writer and MON director Rebecca Johnson gives a girls perspective on gang MON culture in a story inspired by a true events. The MON independent British film explores the pressures that many MON young women experience daily and that in this instance have MON tragic consequences. Rebecca joins Jane to explain why she MON felt this story had to be told. MON MON Women in One MON MON Reporter Abigail Hollick was inspired to interview strangers MON and find out what makes them tick after she spent weeks MON pushing her new born son in his buggy up and down the same MON streets and smiling at the same faces, wondering what they MON were thinking and whether they too had had two hours sleep. MON Abigail’s first confessional series, ‘Street Talk’, focused MON on her neighbourhood but this time she turns her attention MON to women around the UK, starting in Leeds. ‘Women in One' is MON a new Woman’s Hour collection of one minute (or thereabouts) MON interviews with strangers Abigail bumps in to. A diverse MON range of women express their fears, loves, losses and answer MON personal questions such as ‘What’s your relationship like MON with your mother?’, ‘Who broke your heart?’ and ‘What keeps MON you up at night?’. The series starts in Leeds where women in MON Roundhay Park, Kirkgate Market, The Corn Exchange and MON Trinity Shopping Centre were more than happy to open up. MON MON To see the whole series click MON here MON MON Clogs MON MON Are clogs the shoes of the summer? Why do these wooden shoes MON which hark back to Roman times keep coming back into MON fashion? We talk to clog importer and designer MON Lotta from Stockholm MON and Stylist magazine’s Fashion Director Alex Fullerton. MON MON Inheritance MON MON Earl Spencer, the brother of the late Diana, Princess of MON Wales, has confirmed he will be leaving his 90-room stately MON home to his son rather than any of his 3 elder daughters. MON Saying he was aware of the “problems” with the concept of MON primogeniture, he argued the traditional system of MON inheritance has “worked” until now to ensure England’s MON finest estates were kept intact. With many aristocratic MON women protesting that they’re no less capable of managing MON the family’s fortune than their brothers, we speak to the MON founding member of an online campaign to make sure every MON inherited name or state of office can be passed on to men or MON women on equal terms. MON MON First Lady MON MON Without Winston Churchill’s inspiring leadership Britain MON could not have survived its darkest hour. But without his MON wife Clementine, he might never have become Prime Minister. MON By his own admission, the Second World War would have been MON ‘impossible without her’ and family friend Bernard Baruch MON said, ‘that he might have succeeded without her but he MON wouldn’t have done so well’. Clementine was Winston’s MON emotional rock and his most trusted confidante. Not only was MON she involved in some of the most crucial decisions of war, MON but she exerted an influence over her husband and the MON Government that would appear scandalous to modern eyes. MON Sonia Purnell talks to Jane about the unusual dynamics of MON this fascinating partnership and about the life of this MON original first lady of politics. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Johnson MON Interviewed Guest: Sonia Purnell MON Interviewed Guest: Lotta Soderholm MON Interviewed Guest: Alex Fullerton MON Producer: Beverley Purcell MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05v7tby (Listen) MON A Small Town Murder, Episode 1 MON MON The seventh series of our crime drama starring Meera Syal as MON family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell. MON MON Jackie Hartwell is tasked to break the news to Connie Hudson MON - a Birmingham based singing star from the 1960's - that her MON troubled daughter Abi has been found murdered. MON MON Written by Scott Cherry MON Produced and Directed by Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Jackie Hartwell: Meera Syal MON Peter: Matthew Marsh MON Connie: Susan Brown MON Laura: Jasmine Hyde MON Tracey: Kellie Shirley MON Bill Kinning: Michael Higgs MON Steve: Scott Cherry MON Writer: Scott Cherry MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Director: Clive Brill MON MON 11:00 Olympic Run b05v7tcg (Listen) MON Rumours swept the Olympic village when the seven Cameroon MON athletes vanished during the Olympics. Despite finding none MON of their personal possessions, officials from Cameroon MON suggested that they might have gone sightseeing. In this MON documentary Peter White tracks what really happened, having MON been alongside the group as they struggle to make new lives MON in this country. MON MON His recordings start early in the disappearance, with the MON entire boxing team seeking support in South London as they MON planned their next move. They had criticised team managers, MON alleging that promised payments for equipment and MON competition expenses had not been made and they worried MON about the repercussions of their protest if they returned MON home as planned. MON MON Now they are building lives in Sheffield and Sunderland and MON Peter follows their progress. Serge Ambomo was in a homeless MON hostel when Peter first meets him - the 26 year old had just MON had his first application for leave to remain in Britain MON turned down and his benefits suspended. He was living on MON handouts from an evangelical church and relying on the MON goodwill of a local boxing club run by Glyn Rhodes, who lets MON him train and tries to sort out his many problems. MON MON Now Serge has been given a five year reprieve by the MON immigration services and a flat by Rotherham Council Not MON that he needs it: he spends most of his time with his MON girlfriend, Sharon, who is already a grandmother but who MON hopes to settle down with Serge. He is currently banned from MON boxing after his antics during a fight in which Jerome MON Wilson, was seriously injured - he kissed Wilson's head as MON his rival lay unconscious. He now plans to get his boxing MON career back on track by joining forces with an Olympic team MON mate training in the North East. MON MON Peter speaks to the athletes and those who have been MON alongside them since 2012. He wonders about the price they MON have paid to stay here and how they have coped away from MON their families in Cameroon. The French speaking country is MON one of the poorest in the world, with the national economic MON output just over seven hundred pounds per person according MON to the International Monetary Fund. Peter finds the boxers MON resting their hopes for economic success on their MON performance in the ring and looks at how they have fared MON since the Games. MON MON Serge tells him that life has been far more difficult here MON than he ever anticipated: "All I want is to fight, that is MON all I know how to do and yet there have been so many MON obstacles. I lost so much by staying here and it is hard to MON know what is going to happen to me now.". MON MON 11:30 On the Rocks b05v7tcj (Listen) MON Series 2, Adventure MON MON by Christopher William Hill. MON MON 1930s comedy set on the Isles of Scilly. Ben tries to prove MON to Morwenna May that he's a man of action. Episode 2: MON Adventure. MON MON director ..... Mary Peate. MON MON Credits MON Frank Gunwallow: Joseph Kloska MON Morwenna-May: Alex Tregear MON Tommy Trenear: Stuart Fox MON Ben: Alex Palmer MON Mary: Bec Applebee MON Len: Ed Gaughan MON Director: Mary Peate MON Writer: Christopher William Hill MON MON 12:00 News Summary b05v6g6k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Welcome to the Quiet Zone b05v7td5 (Listen) MON Into the Valley MON MON Imagine a place without mobile phones. Quiet isn't it. MON People still look at each other when they are talking. It's MON not a dream. It really exists. MON MON Take Highway 250 in West Virginia into the Allegheny MON Mountains and the car radio fades to static. Glance MON illegally at your mobile phone and the signal disappears. MON You're in The National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square MON miles of radio silence, just a few hundred miles from MON Washington DC. No Wi-Fi; no cell phones; no radio signals. MON MON Designated a radio wave free area in the 1950s, the area is MON home to two giant listening stations. One listens to deep MON space, as far back as milliseconds after the Big Bang - the MON Green Bank National Observatory; the other is Naval MON Communications, the NSA listening ear. MON MON Taller than the Statue of Liberty, the Green Bank Telescope MON is the world's largest moving land object. It has the MON sensitivity, says Mike Holstine, "equivalent to a billionth MON of a billionth of a millionth of a watt... the energy given MON off by a single snow flake hitting the ground. Anything MON man-made would overwhelm that signal." Hence the legal MON requirement, for a radio frequency free zone. MON MON Photographer Emile Holba, long fascinated with the edges of MON society, takes a trip into the Quiet Zone where the ability MON to listen in to moments after the creation of the universe, MON means the local population have sacrificed their connection MON to the outside world. MON MON It's not a world without conflict as pressure grows to move MON into the technological future on the one hand, whilst on the MON other, a growing band of electro-sensitive immigrants are MON moving into cabins in the woods. Meanwhile the government MON are considering the viability of a continued large MON investment in searching space. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b05v7tgy (Listen) MON Green Deal Grants MON MON We look at the death of a woman with learning disabilities, MON who lost a 5th of her body weight in less than 3 weeks. The MON family of 26 year old Nicki Rawlinson have received the MON findings of a report by the Health Service Ombudsman who MON investigated a complaint about the care she received at MON Barnet Hospital in London. Our disability reporter, Carolyn MON Atkinson speaks to Nicki's family. MON MON The numbers of women beer drinkers has doubled in the UK in MON recent years. This week the multinational brewing company, MON SABMiller, said it was time to move away from advertising MON campaigns that are dismissive or insulting to women - they MON say that not only women might be offended by overtly MON misogynistic marketing - the brewing companies risk MON alienating a significant number of male customers too. MON MON Citizens Advice has told You and Yours that it's had more MON than two thousand complaints in the last 12 months about MON companies offering work as part of the Green Deal. The Green MON Deal was the last administration's big policy initiative to MON improve homes and cut energy bills. MON The way it works is that accredited companies assess a MON property and identify works that would pay for themselves MON over time through energy savings. Loans are available to MON cover the cost of the works, paid by through electricity MON bills. It isn't simple and take up was disappointing. The MON scheme has been amended, and now offers to pay the majority MON of the costs of certain energy saving measures, payable MON after the work has been done. We speak to one of our MON listeners about his experience. MON MON More and more people sleeping rough are climbing into MON industrial bins. Bin crews are now expected to check bins MON before they empty them to make sure no one is inside. Last MON month a body was found at a recycling plant in Birmingham MON and waste firms say there are hundreds of near misses every MON year as bin men discover rough sleepers just as they're MON about to tip bin contents into the crusher lorries. One of MON the biggest companies, Biffa, is so worried it's trialling MON cameras on lorries to encourage crews to be vigilant. MON Melanie Abbott reports. MON MON We hear from the listener who took Expedia to court in 2010 MON for a refund they didn't pay in 2004 and was successful MON MON Editor: Chas Watkin. MON MON 12:57 Weather b05v6g6m (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b05v7th0 (Listen) MON Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by MON Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05v7th2 (Listen) MON Charaka: On Not Violating Good Judgement MON MON Professor Sunil Khilnani visits a modern-day clinic which MON follows the practices set out by Charaka, a medical pioneer MON whose handbook is still widely used in India today. His MON text, known as the Charaka Samhita or 'Compendium of MON Charaka', is an encyclopaedic work covering different MON aspects of health and how to live a good life. Ayurveda is MON the best known of the Indian subcontinent's three indigenous MON medical traditions and continues to be an important adjunct MON to India's national health system. Today, it is part of MON government policy and a ministry funds Ayurvedic training MON and care. Charaka believed that health depended on the MON balance of basic humours - wind, bile, phlegm - and that "if MON these elements are disturbed from their proper bodily MON locations, illness follows. Such disturbance often occurs MON through our own thoughtlessness, what Charaka calls MON 'violations of good judgement'." MON MON Produced by Mark Savage MON With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. MON Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of MON remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b05v6gn9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Tommies b05v7tjm (Listen) MON 18 May 1915 MON MON by Michael Chaplin. 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 We are now in 1915 and continuing to follow the fortunes of MON Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore MON Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an MON immense machine, one which connects situations across the MON whole theatre of the war, over four long years. MON MON Indira Varma, Pippa Nixon and Parth Thakerar star in this MON story, set on the Eastern Front where the Russian army has MON been routed at Gorlice. The Russians are retreating, but the MON renegade Prince Balashov is determined to wrench some kind MON of victory from defeat. British surgeon Celestine de Tullio MON has found enough new purpose in War, to play a part in this MON plan. MON MON Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: Nandita Ghose. MON MON Credits MON Celestine De Tullio: Pippa Nixon MON Marjorie Blaikeley: Elaine Claxton MON Commentator: Indira Varma MON Prince Balashov: Parth Thakerar MON Capt Maxim Frunze: Matthew Watson MON Kolya Stepniak: David Cann MON Mamasha: Jane Slavin MON Reissner: Damian Lynch MON Nikolai: Michael Bertenshaw MON Producer: David Hunter MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Writer: Michael Chaplin MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b05v7tjp (Listen) MON Series 5, De Montfort 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 De Montfort University, The 3rd Degree MON is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at MON cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners while MON delighting the current ones. MON MON The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Film, Forensic MON Science and Contour Fashion. So there are questions on MON X-rated films, the analysis of blood spatter patterns and MON the history of lingerie. And also Gogglebox. MON MON The show is recorded on location at a different University MON each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of MON their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on MON an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course MON meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but MON with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quick-fire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and One Direction. MON MON The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on MON The Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not MON just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in MON the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries MON for Radio 4, including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The MON Spleen, as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang MON Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine MON Particle. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b05v6gls (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Invisible College b05v7tjr (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Dr Cathy FitzGerald presents a series of lessons in creative MON writing with help from a ghostly array of great novelists, MON poets and playwrights. MON MON Episode Three features mini-lectures on routine, MON concentration and time off. Ian Fleming goes on holiday, MON W.B. Yeats invites everyone to the pub, and Gertrude Stein MON draws inspiration from cows. MON MON Original music by Joe Acheson. MON MON Producer: Cathy FitzGerald MON A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b05v7tjt (Listen) MON Series 7, Silt MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores if we have all become digital MON hoarders. When our digital junk drawers are bigger than we MON can comprehend, do we lose the sense of what is worth MON keeping? MON MON Dr. Dirk Obbink MON MON Dirk is Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek MON Literature at the University of Oxford who’s been studying MON the Oxyrhynchus Papyri since he was an undergraduate. He met MON with Aleks and explained that extraordinary insights into MON ancient lives and literary history had been gleaned from the MON documents, which were rescued from a rubbish tip. MON MON Zahid Rafiq MON MON Zahid is the Founder of JBR Foundation and E-Waste MON Solutions, a charity that recycles and refurbishes old IT MON equipment. He explains just how much digital clutter he MON finds on the old computers – including thousands upon MON thousands of selfies. MON MON Haley Querro MON MON Haley Querro is a writer, graphic designer and MON self-confessed digital hoarder. She explains why she’s kept MON such a huge volume of digital content, including teenage MON poetry and her first website designs, in external hard MON drives and old computers. MON MON *Photo by Becca Jaine, Ruby Ring Media* MON MON Prof. Meg Jones MON MON Meg is assistant professor in Georgetown University's MON Communication, Culture & Technology department. She speaks MON to us about the nature of Digital Ephemera. MON MON Chris Wray MON MON Chris is a Minimalist and creator of Two Less Things, a MON website that gives tips on how to live as a minimalist in MON the UK. He explains how paring back his material MON possessions, and digital distractions, gave him more freedom MON in life. MON MON Prof. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger MON MON Viktor is the Professor of Internet Governance and MON Regulation at Oxford. He talks to us about how our digital MON hoards can hold us back and how it would be better if they MON just faded away over time. MON MON Dr. Amber Cushing MON MON Amber is a Lecturer (assistant professor) at the School of MON Information and Library Studies, University College Dublin. MON She discusses the characteristics of digital possession's MON and differences between digital and physical hoarding. MON MON 17:00 PM b05v7tl0 (Listen) MON News interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05v6g6r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b05v7tl2 (Listen) MON Series 72, Episode 1 MON MON Nicholas Parsons returns to host a new series of the popular MON panel game, recorded at the Shaw Theatre in London. He is MON joined by panellists Paul Merton, Tim Rice, Lisa Tarbuck and MON Graham Norton who will attempt to talk without deviation, MON hesitation or repetition on such diverse topics as English MON Sparkling Wine and Crows Feet. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd MON A BBC Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Tim Rice MON Panellist: Lisa Tarbuck MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b05v7tl6 (Listen) MON Jim and Robert are up with the lark, and Joe confides in MON Emma. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b05v7tm3 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05v7tby (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Can Pay Won't Pay b05v7tm6 (Listen) MON 'Defeating the French was critical' - taxes were often MON levied to fight wars against the French but this didn't mean MON that people always paid them. MON MON All through history people have wanted to get one over on MON the tax man. Whether it was the peasants of the 14th century MON who hid their fellow villagers to avoid the Poll Tax, MON homeowners in the 18th century who promised their votes to MON those tax collectors who would turn a blind eye to the MON window tax or the rich money men of the 1970s who would pay MON clever accountants to construct shell companies to avoid MON income tax. It has created a headache for governments MON throughout the ages. Paul Lewis looks at what can history MON tell us about what is a fair rate of tax, what will bring in MON the most revenue and asks when did paying youtr taxes become MON a moral issue. MON MON Juliet Barker: Author and historian of the ‘Peasants’ MON Revolt’ MON http://julietbarker.co.uk/ MON MON Andrew Glantz’s paper on the window tax MON http://repository.upenn.edu/phr/vol15/iss2/3/ MON MON A history of tea MON http://www.tea.co.uk/tea-a-brief-history MON MON William Pitt and his Taxes MON http://www.taxadvisers.org.uk/content/view.cfm/downloads/BTR MON 04_2010_Pitt_and_his_taxes_Offprint1_1.pdf MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b05tly3m (Listen) MON Peru's Wildlife for Sale MON MON The global trade in wildlife is worth an estimated US$20 MON billion a year. Peru is one of the most biodiverse nations MON on the planet. But its government estimates 400 species of MON fauna and flora are in danger of extinction - illicit MON trafficking is one of the biggest threats. The illegal MON wildlife trade supplies live birds and animals - macaws, MON parrots, monkeys, turtles - for both the local market and MON overseas collectors. It also commercialises body parts - the MON rare Andean bear, and the feathers of condors. So how is MON Peru attempting to protect its precious resources? For MON Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly goes on operations with MON the wildlife police. MON MON Produced by John Murphy. MON MON 21:00 What the Songbird Said b05tz9jr (Listen) MON Could birdsong tell us something about the evolution of MON human language? Language is arguably the single thing that MON most defines what it is to be human and unique as a species. MON But its origins - and its apparent sudden emergence around a MON hundred thousand years ago - remains mysterious and MON perplexing to researchers. But could something called vocal MON learning provide a vital clue as to how language might have MON evolved? The ability to learn and imitate sounds - vocal MON learning - is something that humans share with only a few MON other species, most notably, songbirds. Charles Darwin MON noticed this similarity as far back as 1871 in the Descent MON of Man and in the last couple of decades, research has MON uncovered a whole host of similarities in the way humans and MON songbirds perceive and process speech and song. But just how MON useful are animal models of vocal communication in MON understanding how human language might have evolved? Why is MON it that there seem to be parallels with songbirds but little MON evidence that our closest primate relatives, chimps and MON bonobos, share at least some of our linguistic abilities? MON MON In this programme, Angela Saini meets biologists and MON linguists investigating what research on songbirds and other MON species might have to say about the question of how MON language, with all its beauty and richness, may have MON evolved. MON MON Producer: Rami Tzabar. MON MON Angela Saini MON MON Angela Saini explores the science of birdsong and its MON relationship to human language. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b05v7tbr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b05v6g6v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b05v7tm8 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05v7tmb (Listen) MON The Wolf Border, Episode 1 MON MON Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal MON and political borders - about power, land, family and love. MON At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, untouchable, an expert MON on wolves, and long estranged from her home county of MON Cumbria and her fiery mother and lost brother. Like the MON wolves she protects and champions, she is wary of humanity, MON happy in the untamed wilderness. MON MON Set against the dramatic and artfully drawn backdrops of the MON Lakeland fells and the towering ranges of Idaho, The Wolf MON Border explores issues of ownership and vested power, of MON re-wilding and of family as Rachel reaches a turning point MON in her life and learns that choice and change are possible. MON MON Today: The offer of a job from an eccentric Earl, whose plan MON is to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to England coincides with MON the chance to see her dying mother but is that enough to MON lure Rachel home? MON MON Reader Hattie Morahan MON Abridger Sally Marmion MON MON Producer Di Speirs. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Hattie Morahan MON Author: Sarah Hall MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Di Speirs MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b05tl3jm (Listen) MON Young Women as Linguistic Innovators MON MON How has Kim Kardashian influenced the way you speak? More MON than you'd imagine! Michael Rosen and Laura Wright discuss MON the role of young women in language innovation across MON cultures, with the help of Dr Enam El-Wer of Essex MON University. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 23:30 Blind Man Roams the Globe b03bps1p (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Peter's job as a broadcaster has already taken him to many MON places. At first he thought that he was missing out on not MON being able to see the standard tourist monuments, but when MON he travels now he has an arsenal of strategies to get to MON know a place. He listens to local radio, he takes in the MON sounds of restaurants, travel systems and the voices of the MON locals. He also meets other blind people and uses their MON experiences of an area to understand it better and to MON appreciate the aural clues which help guide them. MON MON Peter realised sightseeing was not for him when, as a twelve MON year, he trailed round the ruins of Berkeley Castle in MON Gloucestershire: "The fact is, sightseeing and I were never MON going to see eye to eye. The plain fact is, though, that MON however good the intentions, touch is not sight - and once MON you've run your hands over one piece of ancient stone, one MON stuccoed wall, one marble floor, well, you've touched them MON all." MON MON It was a wish to try to explain and share what it was that MON could make travelling come alive for a totally blind person, MON unable to see from birth, that gave rise to the series. In MON these programmes Peter hopes to build on its growing MON reputation and its unique take on the world's cities He MON begins by visiting San Francisco, where he uses aural clues MON to sample typical West Coast life - including trips to an MON Oakland baseball game, the Golden Gate park and the beach. MON MON As Peter says: 'the fact is, sightseeing and I were never MON going to see eye to eye. The tragedy is that over the years, MON people have tried so hard to make it work. Specially MON recorded tapes for blind people, rails to follow so that you MON can go round unaided, a huge revolution in what you're MON allowed to touch. MON MON 'The plain fact is, though, that however good the MON intentions, touch is not sight - and once you've run your MON hands over one piece of ancient stone, one stuccoed wall, MON one marble floor, well, you've touched them all. MON The problem with touch really is that the hand is too small. MON You can only touch one little bit at a time. MON MON 'There's too much missing; a sense of size, colour, MON perspective, visual contrast. With the best will in the MON world, you are playing at being able to see, and for me, MON that kind of self-deception has never cut any ice. MON This, nevertheless, does not mean that travelling, visiting MON and poking about in other people's cultures cannot be MON enormous fun for a blind person. It's just that I think you MON have to be honest about what is fun, and what isn't.'. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 MAY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b05v6g7v (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b05v7tbt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05v6g7x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05v6g7z (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05v6g81 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b05v6g83 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05vt8rv (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister TUE Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b05v7tmp (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk6z (Listen) TUE Hobby TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Brett Westwood presents the Hobby. Sickle winged, TUE red-trousered and black-moustached, the hobby is a TUE strikingly beautiful falcon. Hobbies arrive in the UK in TUE late April or May from their wintering grounds in Africa. TUE They are now flourishing in the UK where there are now TUE around 2000 pairs, breeding mainly on farmland and heaths in TUE England and Wales. TUE TUE Hobby (Falco subbuteo) TUE Image courtesy of Mark Sisson (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b05v7tnb (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Soul Music b03kqf04 (Listen) TUE Series 17, Can't Take My Eyes Off You TUE TUE Few songs can claim to be - quite literally - as far TUE reaching as the 1967 classic 'Can't Take My Eyes off You'. TUE In this edition of Radio 4's 'Soul Music', we hear from TUE former astronaut Christopher Ferguson who heard this song as TUE an early morning wake-up call aboard the space shuttle TUE Endeavour. And from mum of two Michelle Noakes who sang this TUE classic piece to the baby she was told she may never be able TUE to carry. We also hear from the honeymoon couple whose TUE marriage proposal began with a hundred strong 'flash mob' TUE performance of this track and from Frankie Valli himself, TUE who reflects on one of the most moving performances he ever TUE gave when he sang 'Can't Take My Eyes off You' to a crowd of TUE recently returned Vietnam Veterans. DJ Mark Radcliff recalls TUE the many artists since Valli that have covered this song TUE (not least his mum as she sang along to the Andy Williams TUE version) and composer Bob Gaudio tells us how this now TUE universally famous piece of music began life in a room over TUE looking Central Park with a melody originally penned for a TUE children's nursery rhyme. TUE TUE Producer: Nicola Humphries. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b05vh4hr (Listen) TUE The Murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero TUE TUE The outspoken Archbishop of El Salvador was killed by gunmen TUE whilst preaching in church in March 1980. Hear from a TUE Salvadoran journalist who was in the church at the time; and TUE from the former US Ambassador to El Salvador, who knew him. TUE Archbishop Romero will be beatified by the Catholic Church TUE later this week - a step on the road to sainthood. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b05vhwp2 (Listen) TUE Gold Fever, Episode 2 TUE TUE Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the TUE riches it promises, thousands have gone wild in their search TUE for it, and since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has TUE reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, TUE particularly in the US, people with no experience of TUE prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, TUE tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no TUE idea how to use. And off they went mining. TUE TUE Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 TUE he packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the TUE 21st century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to TUE understand the allure of the metal - and maybe find a bit TUE for himself too. TUE TUE He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who TUE left desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river TUE in scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of TUE striking it rich. Most of them only make enough money to TUE scrape a living, but Steve is surprised how happy they seem TUE to be. From them, he gets a crash course in small-scale TUE prospecting. TUE TUE He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two TUE centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers TUE (in particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) TUE who abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles TUE across perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of TUE riches. TUE TUE Readers: Paul Ritter and Sara Markland TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Paul Ritter TUE Reader: Sara Markland TUE Author: Steve Boggan TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b05v7tnf (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 b05v7tnp (Listen) TUE A Small Town Murder, Episode 2 TUE TUE The seventh series of our crime drama starring Meera Syal as TUE family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell. TUE TUE Jackie Hartwell is tasked to break the news to Connie Hudson TUE - a Birmingham based singing star from the 1960's - that her TUE troubled daughter Abi has been found murdered. TUE TUE Written by Scott Cherry TUE Produced and Directed by Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jackie Hartwell: Meera Syal TUE Peter: Matthew Marsh TUE Connie: Susan Brown TUE Laura: Jasmine Hyde TUE Tracey: Kellie Shirley TUE Bill Kinning: Michael Higgs TUE Steve: Scott Cherry TUE Writer: Scott Cherry TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Director: Clive Brill TUE TUE 11:00 The Origins of War b05v7tnr (Listen) TUE Is our desire to wage war something uniquely human or can TUE its origins be traced much further back in our evolutionary TUE past? TUE TUE To suggest that warfare is a regular feature of human TUE civilization would be to state the obvious. But just how TUE deeply rooted is our desire to kill others of our species? TUE Is lethal aggression a fixed part of our genetic code, TUE something that has evolved from a common ancestor - and TUE something therefore that has adaptive value? Or is warfare - TUE and more generally, a predilection for lethal violence TUE something that has emerged much more recently in human TUE history? No longer the preserve of historians and TUE philosophers, the question, as Geoff Watts discovers, is now TUE argued over fiercely by anthropologists and biologists. TUE TUE Producer: Rami Tzabar. TUE TUE 11:30 Hip Hop in the Middle East: Rhymes, Revolution and TUE Resistance b05v7tnt (Listen) TUE In 2011 many people in the Middle East took to the streets TUE to demand change. Revolution was in the air and, like many TUE revolutions, there was a soundtrack. TUE TUE Hip Hop, since its inception has been seen by many as the TUE musical voice of modern revolutions. In the Middle East, TUE Arab Hip Hop became a voice of protest as young Arabic TUE people took to the mic and used this vocal art form as a way TUE of expressing their discontent with incumbent governments. TUE TUE Four years since the start of the revolution, which became TUE known in the West as the Arab Spring, music journalist TUE Jackson Allers talks to MC Amin from Egypt, Malikah from TUE Lebanon and Al Sayyed Darwish from Syria. They are all TUE rappers who dared to speak up in a region where freedom of TUE expression can come at a heavy price. TUE TUE Jackson also discusses the political tensions which have TUE divided a once united hip hop movement TUE TUE Producer Liam Bird TUE A Folder Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b05v6g86 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Welcome to the Quiet Zone b05v7tp2 (Listen) TUE Keeper of the Quiet TUE TUE 'The Keeper of the Quiet' - Chuck Niday takes Emile Holba TUE out in his radio wave detector van, as he continues his TUE exploration of 13,000 square miles designated 'the National TUE Quiet Zone' - protecting the Robert C Byrd Telescope in TUE Green Bank, West Virginia. Listening to deep space, using a TUE giant telescope - the largest moveable technological object TUE on land - 2.3 acres in size. TUE TUE Imagine a place without mobile phones. Quiet isn't it. TUE People still look at each other when they are talking. It's TUE not a dream. It really exists. TUE TUE Designated a radio wave free area in the 1950s, the area is TUE home to two giant listening stations. One listens to deep TUE space, as far back as milliseconds after the Big Bang - the TUE Green Bank National Observatory; the other is Naval TUE Communications, the NSA listening ear. TUE TUE Hence the requirement, by law, for a radio frequency free TUE zone since 1954. TUE TUE Photographer Emile Holba, long fascinated with the edges of TUE society, takes a trip into the Quiet Zone where the ability TUE to listen in to moments after the creation of the universe, TUE means the local population have sacrificed their connection TUE to the outside world. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b05v7tp4 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b05v6g88 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b05v7tp6 (Listen) TUE Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by TUE Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05v7tqh (Listen) TUE Aryabhata: The Boat of Intellect TUE TUE Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in TUE London, explores the life and legacy of Aryabhata, the TUE legendary Indian mathematician and astronomer. Unkown in the TUE West until a few decades ago, he is said by some to rank TUE with Euclid and the great Greek mathematicians and TUE astronomers such as Ptolemy. But unlike Euclid, Aryabhata TUE left no proofs, explaining how to recreate his findings. TUE "His ideas, translated into Arabic, influenced Islamic TUE astronomers and mathematicians. But he wasn't working in the TUE idiom of his Western counterparts, so his ideas didn't feed TUE into the global stream of scientific discovery, and TUE eventually Indians forgot Aryabhata too. It was only when TUE science and technology began to flourish in modern India TUE that his reputation got a relaunch," says Professor TUE Khilnani. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Savage TUE Researcher: Manu Pillai TUE Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of TUE remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b05v7tl6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l0glw (Listen) TUE The Odd Job TUE TUE William Ash and Andrew Knott's dark comedy about an aspiring TUE documentary maker who meets a retired couple with a TUE startling secret. TUE TUE Sheila and Barry are desperately trying to raise funds for a TUE sick child; this selfless pursuit has reinvigorated their TUE empty lives with purpose. Sensing a career-defining story, TUE Clive becomes involved in their money making scheme and is TUE soon entrenched in their increasingly perilous world. TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sheila: Joan Kempson TUE Barry: John Henshaw TUE Clive: Burn Gorman TUE Gaz: Iain McKee TUE Claire: Samantha Power TUE Writer: William Ash TUE Writer: Andrew Knott TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b05v6cyj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b05v7tqq (Listen) TUE Electric Island TUE TUE The little Scottish island of Eigg is teaching the world how TUE remote communities can power themselves with clean, green TUE energy. Tom Heap meets the locals who've built the TUE pioneering system and the international vistors who are TUE eager to learn their secrets. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b05v7tr3 (Listen) TUE Food Connections Festival TUE TUE Michael Rosen and guests perform songs, poems and stories TUE about food. With Writer Tania Hershman, singer Simon TUE Panrucker and Cook Barny Haughton. All in front of a family TUE audience at the Food Connections Festival in Bristol. TUE TUE Have you ever wondered what the words raspberry, syllabub or TUE toffee have in common? Did you know that pickle is a Dutch TUE word but tomato, chocolate and chilli come from the Aztecs? TUE TUE Join broadcaster and children's writer Michael Rosen on an TUE adventure into language and food as he discovers how our TUE favourite (and least favourite) dishes got their names in TUE Radio 4's Word of Mouth programme. He'll be joined onstage TUE by writers and singers to entertain us with poems, songs and TUE stories and he'll be working with local schools to find out TUE what makes the children of Bristol go 'yum' and 'yuk'. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b05v7tr5 (Listen) TUE Series 36, US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant TUE TUE Matthew Parris meets the American Ambassador Matthew Barzun TUE whose choice of great life is his wartime predecessor, John TUE Gil Winant, the man widely held to have helped seal the TUE special relationship between Britain and America and to have TUE brought the US into the war effort. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Matthew W Barzun TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre TUE TUE 17:00 PM b05vcxk9 (Listen) TUE Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05v6g8b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b05vcxkc (Listen) TUE Series 6, Fleetwood TUE TUE Mark Steel's In Town - Fleetwood TUE TUE "Welcome to Fleetwood - Where Breastfeeding Is Always TUE Welcome" TUE TUE Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a sixth series of the TUE award winning show that travels around the country, TUE researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns TUE that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and TUE performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local TUE residents. TUE TUE In the first programme, Mark visits the Lancashire Seaside TUE Town of Fleetwood, the first planned town of the Victorian TUE era. Home of Fisherman's Friend lozenges, the first female TUE professional boxer Jane Couch, and trams. Originally built TUE as a port to be the main stop off point between London and TUE Scotland before railway engineers spoilt all that by TUE building a line through the lake district. Mark discovers a TUE proud town full of optimistic people, that is, until you TUE mention Blackpool. TUE TUE Written and performed by ... Mark Steel TUE Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair TUE Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Stirling TUE Producer ... Carl Cooper TUE TUE This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Mark Steel TUE Writer: Mark Steel TUE Writer: Pete Sinclair TUE Producer: Carl Cooper TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b05vcxq0 (Listen) TUE There is a dilemma for Jennifer and David, and Jolene TUE defends her man. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b05vcyvg (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05v7tnp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b05vcyvk (Listen) TUE Minding the Gap: Mental healthcare TUE TUE Mental health services are facing a period of unprecedented TUE change. The Department of Health has committed itself to TUE reducing the disparity between spending on physical and TUE mental illness, and a new payment system means services will TUE be funded differently in the future. In the meantime there TUE are concerns that vulnerable patients are dying because of TUE pressures to release them from hospital too quickly, and a TUE failure to provide adequate support in the community. TUE TUE Can a new focus on what has traditionally been dubbed a TUE 'Cinderella service' reverse the impact of years of cuts? TUE TUE Reporter: Adrian Goldberg TUE Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b05vcyvm (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b05vcyvp (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond with the latest in psychology, neuroscience TUE and mental health. TUE TUE 21:30 Soul Music b03kqf04 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b05v6g8f (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b05vcyvr (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05vy88z (Listen) TUE The Wolf Border, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal TUE and political borders, about power, land, family and love. TUE At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, untouchable, an expert TUE on wolves, and long estranged from her home county of TUE Cumbria and her fiery mother and lost brother. Like the TUE wolves she protects and champions, she is wary of humanity TUE and happiest in the untamed wilderness. TUE TUE Set against the dramatic and artfully drawn backdrops of the TUE Lakeland fells and the towering ranges of Idaho, The Wolf TUE Border explores issues of ownership and vested power, of TUE re-wilding and of family as Rachel discovers that choice and TUE change are possible. TUE TUE Today: Back in Idaho, Rachel faces a new and life-changing TUE dilemma, which a message from home might help to resolve. TUE TUE Reader Hattie Morahan TUE TUE Abridger Sally Marmion TUE TUE Producer Di Speirs. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Hattie Morahan TUE Author: Sarah Hall TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Di Speirs TUE TUE 23:00 The John Moloney Show b05vcyvv (Listen) TUE John Moloney has been headlining comedy clubs all over the TUE world. We've captured him at his very best performing in TUE front of an appreciative audience at The Stand Comedy Club TUE in Edinburgh. TUE TUE This week, there's a joke about a German baby, a tale about TUE his old life as a teacher and a run in with a hen night. TUE TUE Written and performed by John Moloney TUE TUE Produced by Alan Lorraine TUE A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Moloney TUE Producer: Alan Lorraine TUE TUE 23:15 Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets b01rlnj6 (Listen) TUE The Perfect Match TUE TUE Winner of Best Scripted Comedy in the BBC Audio Awards 2014, TUE poet and playwright Richard Marsh fuses poetry and prose to TUE tell a witty and honest story about moving in with his TUE girlfriend Siobhan, planning the perfect proposal, and the TUE build-up to his wedding day. What could be easier? TUE TUE Richard's exhilarating relationship with Siobhan is going TUE from strength to strength, and they are swept up in the TUE heady rush of friends meeting friends and moving in TUE together. Sharing a flat is a whirlwind of excitement, but TUE also throws up problems for the couple - especially when TUE Siobhan's mum comes to stay and doesn't pull her punches TUE when it comes to what she thinks of Richard. TUE TUE But Richard's got bigger things to worry about. He's TUE secretly planning the perfect proposal, and even though when TUE it comes to the big moment things don't go exactly as TUE planned, soon Richard and Siobhan find themselves preparing TUE for the wedding of their dreams. But if planning the perfect TUE proposal was fraught with complications, it's nothing TUE compared to planning the perfect wedding. Richard's just not TUE sure why the joining of two hearts needs to involve TUE Microsoft Excel... TUE TUE Contains some explicit language. TUE TUE Written and performed by Richard Marsh TUE TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Performer: Richard Marsh TUE Writer: Richard Marsh TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Blind Man Roams the Globe b03c240x (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Peter's job as a broadcaster has already taken him to many TUE places. At first he thought that he was missing out on not TUE being able to see the standard tourist monuments, but when TUE he travels now he has an arsenal of strategies to get to TUE know a place. He listens to local radio, he takes in the TUE sounds of restaurants, travel systems and the voices of the TUE locals. He also meets other blind people and uses their TUE experiences of an area to understand it better and to TUE appreciate the aural clues which help guide them. TUE TUE Peter realised sightseeing was not for him when, as a twelve TUE year, he trailed round the ruins of Berkeley Castle in TUE Gloucestershire: "The fact is, sightseeing and I were never TUE going to see eye to eye. The plain fact is, though, that TUE however good the intentions, touch is not sight - and once TUE you've run your hands over one piece of ancient stone, one TUE stuccoed wall, one marble floor, well, you've touched them TUE all." TUE TUE It was a wish to try to explain and share what it was that TUE could make travelling come alive for a totally blind person, TUE unable to see from birth, that gave rise to the series. In TUE these programmes Peter hopes to build on its growing TUE reputation and its unique take on the world's cities. TUE TUE As Peter says: 'the fact is, sightseeing and I were never TUE going to see eye to eye. The tragedy is that over the years, TUE people have tried so hard to make it work. Specially TUE recorded tapes for blind people, rails to follow so that you TUE can go round unaided, a huge revolution in what you're TUE allowed to touch. TUE TUE 'The plain fact is, though, that however good the TUE intentions, touch is not sight - and once you've run your TUE hands over one piece of ancient stone, one stuccoed wall, TUE one marble floor, well, you've touched them all. TUE The problem with touch really is that the hand is too small. TUE You can only touch one little bit at a time. TUE TUE 'There's too much missing; a sense of size, colour, TUE perspective, visual contrast. With the best will in the TUE world, you are playing at being able to see, and for me, TUE that kind of self-deception has never cut any ice. TUE This, nevertheless, does not mean that travelling, visiting TUE and poking about in other people's cultures cannot be TUE enormous fun for a blind person. It's just that I think you TUE have to be honest about what is fun, and what isn't.'. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b05v6g98 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b05vhwp2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05v6g9b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05v6g9d (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05v6g9g (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b05v6g9j (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05vt8sk (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister WED Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b05vcqzs (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 b038qk7c (Listen) WED Turnstone WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Brett Westwood presents the turnstone. A turnstone is a WED stout little wading bird which you'll often see probing WED under seaweed on rocky shores or flipping pebbles over with WED the stout bills...hence their name....Turnstone. In summer WED they are intricately patterned and strikingly coloured like WED a tortoiseshell cat but at other times of year they look WED brownish and can be hard to see against the seaweed covered WED rocks among which they love to feed. WED WED Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) WED Image courtesy of rspb-images.com WED WED 06:00 Today b05vcr49 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b05vcsdc (Listen) WED Libby Purves meets Ingrid von Oelhafen who was taken from WED her family in Yugoslavia as a baby and brought up as an WED Aryan child in the Nazi Party's notorious Lebensborn WED programme. She also meets Tristan Gooley, writer and WED self-styled 'natural navigator'. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED Interviewed Guest: Ingrid von Oelhafen WED Interviewed Guest: Tristan Gooley WED Producer: Paula McGinley WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b05vhxqp (Listen) WED Gold Fever, Episode 3 WED WED Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the WED riches it promises, thousands have gone wild in their search WED for it, and since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has WED reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, WED particularly in the US, people with no experience of WED prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, WED tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no WED idea how to use. And off they went mining. WED WED Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 WED he packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the WED 21st century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to WED understand the allure of the metal - and maybe find a bit WED for himself too. WED WED He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who WED left desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river WED in scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of WED striking it rich. Most of them only make enough money to WED scrape a living, but Steve is surprised how happy they seem WED to be. From them, he gets a crash course in small-scale WED prospecting. WED WED He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two WED centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers WED (in particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) WED who abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles WED across perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of WED riches. WED WED Readers: Paul Ritter and Sara Markland WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Paul Ritter WED Reader: Sara Markland WED Author: Steve Boggan WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b05vcsdg (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b05vcsdj (Listen) WED A Small Town Murder, Episode 3 WED WED The seventh series of our crime drama starring Meera Syal as WED family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell. WED WED Jackie Hartwell is tasked to break the news to Connie Hudson WED - a Birmingham based singing star from the 1960's - that her WED troubled daughter Abi has been found murdered. WED WED Written by Scott Cherry WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Jackie Hartwell: Meera Syal WED Peter: Matthew Marsh WED Connie: Susan Brown WED Laura: Jasmine Hyde WED Tracey: Kellie Shirley WED Bill Kinning: Michael Higgs WED Steve: Scott Cherry WED Writer: Scott Cherry WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Director: Clive Brill WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b05vcsdl (Listen) WED Dayle and Lorraine - Teach Our Children WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between parents of children on WED the autism spectrum who feel that their children deserve WED more specialist help. Another in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 A Short History of Ukrainians in Britain b05vcsdn (Listen) WED Few people in Britain knew much about Ukraine until its WED recent revolution and war with Russian-backed rebels filled WED the news headlines. But, for decades, towns and cities WED across the UK have been home to Ukrainian communities WED created by refugees from a previous attempt to break free of WED Moscow's control. WED WED Award-winning author and journalist Oliver Bullough travels WED from Lockerbie and Edinburgh to Manchester and London to WED hear the stories of Britain's Ukrainians. He hears of the WED prisoners of war arriving after the Second World War - WED Ukrainians who fought with the German army against the WED Soviet Union, and then won asylum in the UK - and how they WED mingled with compatriots already here. WED WED Determined to preserve their culture in exile, they WED established churches and community centres, passing on their WED language, music and folklore to their British-born children. WED They dreamed of one day returning to a free homeland but, WED post-1991, when they could finally do so, it was a WED disappointment - corrupt, blighted and poor. More Ukrainians WED came from Ukraine to Britain, than left Britain for Ukraine. WED WED This is a story told in several voices - a musician who WED teaches the bandura (a traditional Ukrainian stringed WED instrument) to children in Manchester, the caretaker of a WED Ukrainian prisoner of war chapel in Lockerbie, a WED Scottish-Ukrainian SNP politician, a choreographer and a WED London GP. Set between these voices are the sounds of WED music-making, dancing, church services and protests on the WED streets of London. WED WED We hear how the revolution and war in Ukraine have WED galvanised Britain's Ukrainians to raise money and awareness WED for the future of their homeland. WED WED Producer: Cicely Fell WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05vcsdq (Listen) WED Series 10, One Man, Two Charlies WED WED Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, WED complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and the WED curmudgeonly attitude to life that he's mastered over years WED of failure. WED WED Ed finally finds himself homeless. However, all is not lost WED as an unexpected bonus of the recent financial apocalypse is WED that there are many premises in need of temporary WED caretakers. So it is that Ed finds himself residing in a WED furniture warehouse in Berkhamsted, complete with 'dream WED kitchen' fake fruit and a massage chair. He also somehow WED finds himself an author with a two book cookbook deal and a WED three figure advance. WED WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. WED WED Produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED Ed Reardon's Week is a BBC Radio Comedy production. WED WED Credits WED Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas WED Suzan: Raquel Cassidy WED Olive: Stephanie Cole WED Pearl: Brigit Forsyth WED Frank: Simon Greenall WED Charlotte: Celia Imrie WED Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson WED Cliff: Geoff McGivern WED Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Charlie: Phaldut Sharma WED Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead WED Writer: Christopher Douglas WED Writer: Andrew Nickolds WED Producer: Dawn Ellis WED WED 12:00 News Summary b05v6g9l (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Welcome to the Quiet Zone b05vcsl4 (Listen) WED We Are Technological Lepers WED WED Pocohontus County has strict rules about the emission of WED radio signals, so that the Green Bank Telescope can conduct WED observations without interference. WED This can cause some irritation to locals, who might want to WED use mobile phones but can't, but the National Quiet Zone is WED a legally controlled are of radio quiet, so the area has WED remained Wi-Fi free, as the rest of the world get WED increasingly addicted to their smart phones. WED Now a new group of people have started to make their way WED into the area - living in cabins, or 'faraday cages', they WED are the people who believe themselves to be WED electromagnetically hyper sensitive. Mobile phone towers can WED give them headaches; smart metres stop them sleeping. Emile WED Holba heads into the woods to meet the Wi-Fi runaways, and WED self-describing 'technological lepers'. WED WED Producer: Sara Jane Hall. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b05vct0m (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b05v6g9n (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b05vct0p (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by WED Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vct0r (Listen) WED Shankaracharya: A God Without Qualities WED WED Is that a snake or a coiled rope? Intriguingly, that is the WED question which starts Professor Sunil Khilnani's look at the WED life and legacy of Adi Shankaracharya, the philosopher and WED theologian who set Hinduism - the third largest religion in WED the world - on a new course. Shankaracharya's ambition was WED to provide a unified, coherent, single reading of the Hindu WED scriptures. His teachings were not universally embraced but WED they were revived by Indian nationalists looking for a WED muscular response to the monotheistic religions of WED Christianity and Islam. His efforts to capture the oneness WED of the universe produced beautiful, sometimes enigmatic WED sentences - as elusive as the man himself. "I am neither WED earth nor water nor fire nor air nor sense-organ nor the WED aggregate of all these," wrote Shankaracharya, "for all WED these are transient, variable by nature." WED WED Produced by Mark Savage WED Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of WED remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b05vcxq0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p0fpl (Listen) WED Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels WED WED As an ill child, Beryl Burton was told never to exercise. WED And then she met a young cyclist called Charlie: "The first WED year I pushed her, the second year I rode with her, and the WED third year she was at the head of the bunch". WED WED Maxine Peake writes and stars in this true love story of WED Beryl Burton, a working class mum from Morley in Leeds who, WED with no financial backing or training, combined farm work WED with global domination in all areas of cycling competition WED from the 1950s to 1970s. WED WED Drama is intertwined with contributions from Charlie Burton, WED now in his 80s, and their cycling champion daughter, Denise WED Burton Cole. Their perspective provides an intimate, funny WED and moving portrayal of Beryl, recorded on bikes in various WED locations around Saddleworth and in Harrogate. WED WED Cast includes residents of Saddleworth as cyclists and WED Morley Club supporters WED WED Contributors: WED Charlie Burton WED Denise Burton Cole WED WED Sound Engineer Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore WED Assistant Producer: Cath Ames WED Production Assistant: Claire Ennion WED Executive Producer: Melanie Harris WED WED Directed and produced by Justine Potter WED A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Beryl Burton: Maxine Peake WED Charlie Burton: Mark Jordon WED Stan: Tony Pitts WED Young Beryl: Sydney Wade WED Angela: Sydney Wade WED Young Denise: Sophie Downham WED Nim Carlin: John Hollingworth WED Mike McNamara: John Hollingworth WED Policemen: John Hollingworth WED Doctors: John Hollingworth WED Walter Hall: Eden Potter Williams WED Announcer/Commentator: John Hollingworth WED Announcer/Commentator: Markus Uhlig WED Announcer/Commentator: Erica Ryan WED Announcer/Commentator: Cornelia Mueller Claus WED Russian Soldier: Pawlo Wintoniuk WED Director: Justine Potter WED Producer: Justine Potter WED Writer: Maxine Peake WED WED 15:00 Money Box b05vct4g (Listen) WED What do you need to know about student money? Whether you're WED concerned about fees or in need of loans, grants and WED bursaries, Ruth Alexander and guests will be ready to help. WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday with WED questions or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED If you're hoping to start university in the autumn you'll WED need to apply for financial support now if you want your WED money to arrive at the start of term. So what can you claim, WED how are you assessed and what information will you need to WED provide? WED WED How much will you have to pay for tuition fees, WED accommodation and basic living costs? The National Union of WED Students estimate that the difference between potential WED student income and expenditure can be up to £8,000 per year, WED so it's important to look at all sources of financial help. WED WED What's the position if you're a parent or a mature student? WED WED Perhaps you're considering a postgraduate course? A new WED postgraduate loan system is being consulted on at the WED moment. WED WED What happens if your financial circumstances change while WED you are studying? WED WED Whether you're a new or returning student, or perhaps a WED supporting family member, our team can explain how it works. WED Waiting to answer your questions will be: WED WED David Malcolm, National Union of Students. WED Phil Davis, National Association of Student Money Advisers. WED Lorna Caldwell, Student Awards Agency for Scotland. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic call charges WED apply. WED WED National Union of Students WED http://www.nus.org.uk/ WED WED National Association of Student Money Advisers WED http://www.nasma.org.uk/ WED WED Student Awards Agency for Scotland WED http://www.saas.gov.uk/ WED WED Student Loans Company WED http://www.slc.co.uk/ WED WED Student Finance ni WED http://www.studentfinanceni.co.uk/portal/page?_pageid=54,126 WED 897&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL WED WED Student Finance Wales WED http://www.studentfinancewales.co.uk/ WED WED Money Advice Service: Student and graduate money WED https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/categories/student- WED nd-graduate-money WED WED Student Loans Company Repayment WED http://www.studentloanrepayment.co.uk/portal/page?_pageid=93 WED 3866794&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL WED WED GOV.UK: Student finance WED https://www.gov.uk/student-finance WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b05vcyvp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b05vct5z (Listen) WED Poverty in Britain; Unemployment As a Choice WED WED Poverty in Britain: Laurie Taylor talks to Joanna Mack, WED Learning and Teaching producer at the Open University, about WED the largest ever survey of UK levels of economic and social WED deprivation. Her co-authored book, 'Breadline Britain..' WED claims that poverty is at an all time high. WED WED Also, claimants who reject work. Andrew Dunn, Senior WED Lecturer in Social Policy at Lincoln University, has WED conducted research which suggests that some unemployed WED people turn down 'undesirable' work, thus choosing to remain WED in financial hardship. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b05vd03v (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b05vd03x (Listen) WED News interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05v6g9q (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Clare in the Community b03s754k (Listen) WED Series 9, Driven to Extremes WED WED Episode Four - Driven To Extremes WED WED Clare is facing a disciplinary tribunal after a seemingly WED straightforward job goes awry. Can she convince the panel of WED her professionalism? At home, Brian tries to cheer up a WED despondent Nali. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Nali: Nina Conti WED Mr Byrne: Richard Lumsden WED Ms Mellor: Liza Tarbuck WED Mr Plummer: Andrew Wincott WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Hannah: Alex Tregear WED Dermott: Arthur Hughes WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 19:00 The Archers b05vd03z (Listen) WED Rob has a grievance, and Emma is on a mission. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b05vd041 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05vcsdj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b05vds5s (Listen) WED Human Rights on the Battlefield WED WED Clive Anderson and guests discuss the controversial WED suggestion that the UK should withdraw from human rights WED legislation and re-instate 'combat immunity' to protect the WED British Army from legal action. WED WED The British Army may have stepped away from the battlefield, WED but it is still increasingly under major fire in the courts, WED where the Ministry of Defence has suffered a series of WED defeats. Since the landmark case of Smith v MOD in 2013, WED soldiers injured in battle or the families of those killed WED in action may sue the Government for negligence under WED domestic law and for breach of the "Right to Life" under the WED European Convention on Human Rights. WED WED Arguing the case for combat immunity is Dr Jonathan Morgan, WED co-author of the think tank Policy Exchange's report WED Clearing the Fog of War which contends that the judiciary is WED the wrong body to hold the army to account. It says the WED extension of the common law of negligence to military action WED has already had damaging effects on the forces. The result WED will be an excessive degree of caution which is antithetical WED to the war-fighting ethos that is vital for success on the WED battlefield. WED WED Arguing against Dr Morgan are barrister Jessica Simor QC, WED who acted for the appellants in Smith v Ministry of Defence, WED and retired Supreme Court judge Lord Hope, who presided in WED the case. WED WED Also taking part is former Army Legal Service officer Andrew WED Buckham who now represents soldiers suing the military and WED the government. WED WED Have court decisions which extend the reach of human rights WED law beyond the UK undermined the effectiveness of the WED military - and should it be parliament, not the judiciary, WED that holds the army to account? WED WED Produced by Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b05vds5x (Listen) WED Huda Jawad WED WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b05v7tqq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b05vcsdc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b05vds61 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05vy89l (Listen) WED The Wolf Border, Episode 3 WED WED Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about political WED and personal borders - about power, land, family and love. WED At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, untouchable, an expert WED on wolves, and long estranged from her home county of WED Cumbria and her fiery mother and lost brother. Like the WED wolves she protects and champions, she is wary of humanity, WED happy in the wilderness. WED WED Set against the dramatic and perfectly evoked backdrop of WED the Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of WED ownership and vested power, of re-wilding and of family as WED Rachel finds her way home. WED WED Today, now employed on the Earl of Annerdale's estate, it is WED time for Rachel to meet the staff, make up her team and WED reconnect with her brother. And she needs to make a fateful WED decision. WED WED Reader Hattie Morahan WED WED Abridger Sally Marmion WED WED Producer Di Speirs. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Hattie Morahan WED Author: Sarah Hall WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Di Speirs WED WED 23:00 John Kearns b05vhf6x (Listen) WED The Ticket WED WED The first of four 14 minute vignettes in a brand new series WED from John Kearns, the Winner of the Main Prize at the 2014 WED Edinburgh Comedy Festival, as well as the Best Newcomer WED Award in 2013. WED In this episode, we get a glimpse into the oddball mind of WED John as he returns home from work... in "The Ticket." WED WED Producer: Arnab Chanda. WED WED Credits WED Writer: John Kearns WED Performer: John Kearns WED Producer: Arnab Chanda WED WED 23:15 Before They Were Famous b05vdtgg (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Ian Leslie presents the show which brings to light the often WED surprising first literary attempts of the world's best known WED writers. WED WED In this episode we're first treated to graphic novelist Alan WED Moore's early drafts for the popular Fred Bassett cartoon WED strip. WED WED We then turn to crime writer Patricia Cornwell and her WED perhaps excessively gory descriptions of fast food menu WED items, written as an early commission by a high street WED restaurateur when work was scarce. WED WED Finally we hear from great poet Byron as he first plied his WED trade for a quick paycheque, penning headstone verses for WED beloved deceased pets. WED WED To end the show, the first of our disturbingly unseasonal WED Christmas cracker jokes by Henrik Ibsen. WED WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 23:30 Piano Pilgrimage b03nrlyg (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum explores the piano's place in WED modern life. With recent stories about the decline of the WED piano, Jamie delves behind the myths to find out about the WED history of the instrument he is most passionate about and WED looks at how the piano industry is still thriving in the UK. WED WED In the first episode, Jamie begins by focusing on the piano WED itself and traces the story of an old abandoned piano that WED he rescued from a street corner. His journey leads him to WED the London Borough of Camden where piano historian Dr. WED Alastair Laurence takes him on a tour around the area that, WED only a century ago, was the world centre of the piano making WED industry. WED WED After exploring some of the remaining piano retailers in the WED neighbourhood and playing London's most out of tune piano, WED Jamie travels to the Yorkshire Dales to visit one of the few WED places left in the country where pianos are still being made WED from scratch. WED WED At Newark College, Jamie talks to the course leader and WED students at the last piano tuning course in the country and WED learns some surprising facts about the physics of piano WED tuning. WED WED Finally, Jamie visits the Brontë's old family home to play WED on the sisters' own piano that has been carefully restored. WED WED Produced by Andrea Rangecroft. WED A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b05v6gbk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b05vhxqp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05v6gbm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05v6gbp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05v6gbr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b05v6gbt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05vt8sr (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister THU Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b05vfdf1 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk8r (Listen) THU Thrush Nightingale THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Brett Westwood presents the thrush nightingale. Even though THU there's no sign of the whistling crescendos that are a THU hallmark of its close relative, the Nightingale, the song of THU the thrush nightingale is an accomplished performance. They THU are summer visitors to Europe and prefer dense damp thickets THU from which they often sing. THU THU Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) THU Image courtesy of Getty Images. THU THU 06:00 Today b05vfdzj (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b05vfdzl (Listen) THU Josephus THU THU It is said that, in Britain from the 18th Century, copies of THU Josephus' works were as widespread and as well read as The THU Bible. Christians valued "The Antiquities of the Jews" in THU particular, for the retelling of parts of the Old Testament THU and apparently corroborating the historical existence of THU Jesus. Born Joseph son of Matthias, in Jerusalem, in 37AD, THU he fought the Romans in Galilee in the First Jewish-Roman THU War. He was captured by Vespasian's troops and became a THU Roman citizen, accompanying Titus at the Siege of Jerusalem. THU His actions and writings made him a controversial figure, THU from his lifetime to the present day. THU THU With THU THU Tessa Rajak THU Professor Emerita of Ancient History, University of Reading THU THU Philip Alexander THU Professor of Post-Biblical Jewish Literature, University of THU Manchester THU THU And THU THU Martin Goodman THU Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Tessa Rajak THU Interviewed Guest: Philip Alexander THU Interviewed Guest: Martin Goodman THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b05vj09h (Listen) THU Gold Fever, Episode 4 THU THU Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the THU riches it promises, thousands have gone wild in their search THU for it, and since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has THU reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, THU particularly in the US, people with no experience of THU prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, THU tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no THU idea how to use. And off they went mining. THU THU Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 THU he packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the THU 21st century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to THU understand the allure of the metal - and maybe find a bit THU for himself too. THU THU He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who THU left desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river THU in scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of THU striking it rich. Most of them only make enough money to THU scrape a living, but Steve is surprised how happy they seem THU to be. From them, he gets a crash course in small-scale THU prospecting. THU THU He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two THU centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers THU (in particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) THU who abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles THU across perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of THU riches. THU THU Readers: Paul Ritter and Sara Markland THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Paul Ritter THU Reader: Sara Markland THU Author: Steve Boggan THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b05vfdzp (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 b05vfdzr (Listen) THU A Small Town Murder, Episode 4 THU THU The seventh series of our crime drama starring Meera Syal as THU family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell. THU THU Jackie Hartwell is tasked to break the news to Connie Hudson THU - a Birmingham based singing star from the 1960's - that her THU troubled daughter Abi has been found murdered. THU THU Written by Scott Cherry THU Produced and Directed by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Jackie Hartwell: Meera Syal THU Peter: Matthew Marsh THU Connie: Susan Brown THU Laura: Jasmine Hyde THU Tracey: Kellie Shirley THU Bill Kinning: Michael Higgs THU Steve: Scott Cherry THU Writer: Scott Cherry THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Director: Clive Brill THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b05vfdzt (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Folk of the Pennines b05vfdzw (Listen) THU Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm THU THU In 1965, after 30 years of campaigning led by the rambler THU Tom Stephenson, the Pennine Way was officially opened on THU Malham Moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Stretching from Edale in THU Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish borders, the 268 THU mile route has attracted tens of thousands of walkers over THU the intervening years. THU THU To celebrate the 50th anniversary this year, Mark Radcliffe THU travels the route and meets up with poets, folk musicians, THU historians and local people along the way. THU THU In the final programme, Mark travels from Greenhead near THU Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm. THU He visits the Roman ruins of Vindolanda and in Bellingham THU discovers his ancestors may have been amongst the Border THU Reivers. He reaches the end point of the Pennine Way and THU meets up with Scottish folk singer Emily Smith who performs THU the Border Ballad 'The Dowie Dens o'Yarrow'. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Foster/Presenter: Mark Radcliffe. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b05v6gbw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Welcome to the Quiet Zone b05vffp2 (Listen) THU Hunter and the Hunted THU THU Homer Hunter takes Emile down by the creek in Stoney Bottom THU star gazing. Homer remembers before the telescope was built THU and when the Quiet Zone was just a quiet place - apart from THU the moonshine, and the blue grass, and the bear hunting, and THU the preaching. THU THU Producer: Sara Jane Hall. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b05vffp4 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b05v6gby (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b05vffp6 (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by THU Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vffp8 (Listen) THU Rajaraja Chola: Cults of the Imagination THU THU Rajaraja was not the first of the Chola dynasty but he took THU their empire to its zenith - from a relatively small kingdom THU to the dominant empire in India. Professor Sunil Khilnani, THU from the King's India Institute in London, visits Tamil Nadu THU where he finds modern day connections with the ruler whose THU name means 'king of kings'. Professor Khilnani visits the THU temple at Thanjavur which Rajaraja built a thousand years THU ago and named after himself, utilising the profits of trade. THU "For Raja Raja had pulled off something that no Indian ruler THU before him seems to have done," says Professor Khilnani. THU "He'd commandeered trading boats, timber sailed craft and THU launched maritime expeditions, bringing far flung wealth THU back home." The king was lavish with his gifts and used his THU wealth to capture the imaginations of those he ruled. His THU most important gift to art history came at the temple's THU consecration: 60 portable icons of Lord Shiva, the Hindu THU deity. THU THU Producer: Mark Savage THU With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. THU Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of THU remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b05vd03z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b05vfgc8 (Listen) THU Stone, A Cut Above THU THU Third drama in crime series Stone created by Danny THU Brocklehurst. THU THU In A Cut Above by Marcia Layne, when DCI Stone and team THU investigate a suspected case of female genital mutilation, THU they find that no-one is willing to talk to them. THU THU Sound design by Steve Brooke THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU DCI John Stone: Hugo Speer THU DI Mike Tanner: Craig Cheetham THU DS Sue Kelly: Deborah McAndrew THU Fatima: Nisa Cole THU Sukina: Yusra Warsama THU Faisal: Chris Jack THU Mrs Saja-Cole: Carla Henry THU Ameena: Carla Henry THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Writer: Marcia Layne THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b05vfgcb (Listen) THU Series 30, Royal Greenwich Park THU THU In the first of a new series of Ramblings, Clare Balding THU meets a group of parents who regularly share uplifting walks THU in Royal Greenwich Park. The walkers each have children with THU special needs and find that rambling in one of London's most THU beautiful parks is both joyful and supportive. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b05v6gjj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b05v6gn3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b05vfjtf (Listen) THU Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Director Ana Lily Amirpour discusses her Iranian vampire THU spaghetti western, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. THU THU Abderrahmane Sissako talks about the political context of THU his drama Timbuktu, in which an African town is taken over THU by a jihadist group. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b05vfjth (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b05vfjtk (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05v6gc0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Best Behaviour b05vfjtm (Listen) THU Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show that lays down THU the law of modern manners. THU THU The guest panellists are comedians Richard Herring, Helen THU Zaltzman and Lloyd Langford, who are all pitching their THU ideas for new best behaviour rules to tackle modern life. THU THU In this edition, the etiquette of travel is under comic THU scrutiny - including how to solve the phenomenon of THU 'man-spreading' on public transport, the need to ban THU emoticons from text messages, and the modern menace of THU cycling on pavements. THU THU The panel also tackles the tricky etiquette problem of a THU member of the studio audience - 'how do I get out of nodding THU to the stranger I walk past every day when walking to work?' THU THU Producer: Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Mitchell THU Panellist: Richard Herring THU Panellist: Helen Zaltzman THU Panellist: Lloyd Langford THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 19:00 The Archers b05vfjxp (Listen) THU Will makes a decision, and Emma has an unusual hen night. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b05vfjxr (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05vfdzr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b05vfjxx (Listen) THU Aid to Nepal THU THU Aid is pouring in to Nepal in the wake of the earthquake. THU But in a country where corruption is endemic, will the money THU go where it is meant to? Simon Cox investigates. THU THU Producer: Ben Crighton THU Researcher: Aurelia Allen. THU THU 20:30 In Business b05vfk87 (Listen) THU Medellin Miracle THU THU Less than 25 years ago Medellin was the most dangerous city THU on earth; with a reputation for kidnapping and murder, as THU well as a thriving drugs trade. Now Colombia's second city THU has become a top global tourist destination. Peter Day THU reports on a remarkable transformation. THU THU Producer: Keith Moore. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b05vfjth (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b05vfdzl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b05vfkbw (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05vy8bv (Listen) THU The Wolf Border, Episode 4 THU THU Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about power, THU land, family and love. At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, THU untouchable, an expert on wolves, and long estranged from THU her home county of Cumbria and her fiery mother and lost THU brother. Like the wolves she protects and champions, she is THU wary of humanity and happiest in the untamed wilderness. THU THU Set against the dramatic and perfectly evoked backdrop of THU the Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of THU ownership and vested power, of re-wilding and of family as THU Rachel realises she can choose, and change. THU THU Today As the project gets underway, word reaches the local THU community and unleashes a backlash. Meanwhile Rachel has a THU lifechanging first encounter. THU THU Reader Hattie Morahan THU THU Abridger Sally Marmion THU THU Producer Di Speirs. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Hattie Morahan THU Author: Sarah Hall THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Di Speirs THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mqqht (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU In Episode 3: Diane, Joe and David break loose from BBC THU Security and go on the run around Radio 4. We hear them THU crash into the radio station's usual programming (Book At THU Bedtime, The Archers...) before making their getaway with THU Aled Jones. THU THU An animation of their Fishing Sketch by Tom Rourke can been THU seen on the Radio 4 website. THU THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Aled THU Jones, Paul Harry Allen, Bobbie Pryor & Gary Newman. THU THU Producer: Clair Wordsworth. THU THU 23:30 Piano Pilgrimage b03pd2mv (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU In the second part of his pilgrimage, jazz pianist Jamie THU Cullum uncovers the central role pianos have played in our THU communities in the past, and demonstrates the instrument's THU continued importance in many people's lives today. THU THU Beginning at the family home of the Brontë sisters in West THU Yorkshire, he learns what the instrument meant for women in THU terms of courtship and their potential for marriage in the THU 1800s. THU THU Jamie then heads to a school in Northern Ireland where the THU piano still plays a key part in the girls' education and THU wider social lives. After hearing a talented young pianist THU play, he performs an impromptu piece with the school choir THU around their grand piano. THU THU Once a film student himself, Jamie looks at the position of THU the piano in silent cinema and learns about the resurgence THU of the phenomenon today at an open-air event in south THU London. THU THU The pilgrimage eventually takes Jamie and his rescued old THU piano to a London pub to meet Chas and Dave. The three of THU them discuss the instrument's contribution to pub culture, THU before Jamie joins the Rockney duo for a crowd-pleasing THU sing-a-long around the piano. THU THU Produced by Andrea Rangecroft. THU A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 MAY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b05v6gcz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b05vj09h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b05v6gd1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b05v6gd3 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b05v6gd5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b05v6gd7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b05vt8vw (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sister FRI Gemma Simmonds of the Congregation of Jesus. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b05vhq7t (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk90 (Listen) FRI Jay FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Brett Westwood presents the jay. This bird is a colourful FRI member of the crow family. In September and October you'll FRI often see jays flying around woodland with their bills and FRI throats crammed with acorns. Many of these they bury as FRI winter stores but not all are retrieved by Jays and many FRI germinate and grow into young oaks, making the jay a FRI tree-planter on a national scale. FRI FRI Jay (Garrulus glandarius) FRI Image courtesy of rspb-images.com FRI FRI 06:00 Today b05vhh3z (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b05v6glq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:16 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b05vj0r4 (Listen) FRI Gold Fever, Episode 5 FRI FRI Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the FRI riches it promises, thousands have gone wild in their search FRI for it, and since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has FRI reached peaks never seen in history. All over the world, FRI particularly in the US, people with no experience of FRI prospecting began shopping for shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, FRI tents, generators, and all manner of equipment they had no FRI idea how to use. And off they went mining. FRI FRI Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 FRI he packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the FRI 21st century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to FRI understand the allure of the metal - and maybe find a bit FRI for himself too. FRI FRI He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who FRI left desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river FRI in scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of FRI striking it rich. Most of them only make enough money to FRI scrape a living, but Steve is surprised how happy they seem FRI to be. From them, he gets a crash course in small-scale FRI prospecting. FRI FRI He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two FRI centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers FRI (in particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) FRI who abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles FRI across perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of FRI riches. FRI FRI Readers: Paul Ritter and Sara Markland FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Paul Ritter FRI Reader: Sara Markland FRI Author: Steve Boggan FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b05vhh42 (Listen) FRI The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b05vhh44 (Listen) FRI A Small Town Murder, Episode 5 FRI FRI The seventh series of our crime drama starring Meera Syal as FRI family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell. FRI FRI Jackie Hartwell is tasked to break the news to Connie Hudson FRI - a Birmingham based singing star from the 1960's - that her FRI troubled daughter Abi has been found murdered. FRI FRI Written by Scott Cherry FRI Produced and Directed by Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jackie Hartwell: Meera Syal FRI Peter: Matthew Marsh FRI Connie: Susan Brown FRI Laura: Jasmine Hyde FRI Tracey: Kellie Shirley FRI Bill Kinning: Michael Higgs FRI Steve: Scott Cherry FRI Writer: Scott Cherry FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Director: Clive Brill FRI FRI 11:00 Can Pay Won't Pay b05v7tm6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] FRI FRI 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b039q5dx (Listen) FRI Presenting Mr Gregory FRI FRI The tenth and final part of a new production of a vintage FRI 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 10: Presenting Mr Gregory FRI FRI Paul sends out invitations to a very special party at the FRI Madrid club. FRI FRI Producer Patrick Rayner FRI FRI Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in FRI Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most FRI successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his FRI day. FRI FRI Credits FRI Paul Temple: Crawford Logan FRI Steve: Gerda Stevenson FRI Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas FRI Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood FRI Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser FRI Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie FRI Edward Day: Nick Underwood FRI Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson FRI Charlie: Greg Powrie FRI Producer: Patrick Rayner FRI Writer: Francis Durbridge FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b05v6gd9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Welcome to the Quiet Zone b05vhh46 (Listen) FRI Change Must Come FRI FRI Rumours of closure at the Robert C Byrd Telescope at the FRI National Radio Astronomy facility in Green Bank, West FRI Virginia, abound. FRI Emile Holba hears from Karen O'Neill what extraordinary FRI things the telescope can hear, and asks if the Quiet Zone is FRI no longer needed how will that change the lives of those who FRI live in this valley? FRI The telescope is trying to understand the creation of the FRI universe, but there are universal issues pushing against the FRI Quiet Zone. FRI The lives of those in the valley are in the hands of FRI outsiders. The real MIB. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b05vhh48 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b05v6gdc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b05vhh4b (Listen) FRI Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by FRI Mark Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vhh4d (Listen) FRI Basavana: A Voice in the Air FRI FRI A portrait of Basavana, the radical poet and religious guru FRI from the 12th century, whose words have inspired many other FRI Indian poets, writers and dramatists. Professor Sunil FRI Khilnani tells the story of a man whose deceptively simple FRI verses protest against the immorality of the caste system FRI and proclaim the intrinsic value of people who happen to be FRI born poor. "His verses ... are what best explain him. They FRI have a directness that reveals to us a free thinker, social FRI reformer and religious evangelist who sometimes struggled to FRI resist worldly temptations," says Professor Khilnani. FRI Basavana was an inspiration to his followers yet his life FRI came to a bitter end. His teachings are kept alive by a FRI substantial religious community called the Lingayats who are FRI concentrated in Northern Karnataka. FRI FRI Produced by Mark Savage FRI Editor: Hugh Levinson FRI Readings by Sagar Arya FRI Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of FRI remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b05vfjxp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b05vhkbn (Listen) FRI Lizzy Barry's Lesson FRI FRI Lizzy Barry was without doubt the most celebrated and best FRI loved actress of the Restoration. But though Mrs Barry would FRI disagree, it may have been her liaison with the infamous FRI libertine The Earl of Rochester which provided the key to FRI her extraordinary success. FRI FRI Snatched or indeed kidnapped from a theatre where she was FRI playing an unimportant supporting role, Robin Glendinning FRI imagines a period of enforced and brutal tutelage during FRI which Lizzy's exposure to The Earl of Rochester's poetry, FRI stage craft and lovemaking, takes a head-strong but FRI unpolished performer and turns her into the theatrical force FRI which brought to an end the melodramas of Mrs Betterton and FRI blazed a trail for a new generation of actresses who would FRI go on to dominate the London stage as Desdemona, Portia, FRI Rosalind and Lady Macbeth. FRI FRI Robin Glendinning has written around 20 radio plays for BBC FRI including 'Condemning Violence' nominated for a Sony award FRI and 'The Words are Strange' a Giles Cooper Award winner and FRI 'Playing for Time - 3 Days in May 1940' part of the FRI Churchill Season on Radio 4, Jan 2005. His stage credits FRI include: Stuffing It. Gate Dublin, Tricycle London. Culture FRI Vultures Lyric Belfast, Minerva Chichester. Mumbo Jumbo FRI Royal Exchange Manchester, Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric Belfast. FRI Donny Boy Royal Exchange Manchester, Tour with Tinderbox FRI Theatre Belfast, Exeter Theatre, Royal Theatre Oslo. FRI Summerhouse Druid Galway, Arts Theatre Belfast. FRI FRI Writer ..... Robin Glendinning FRI Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Lizzy Barry: Jane Slavin FRI The Earl of Rochester: Tim McInnerny FRI Molly: Lizzy McInnerny FRI Writer: Robin Glendinning FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b05vhkbq (Listen) FRI Chelsea Fringe FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI the Chelsea Fringe Festival. Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood FRI and Anne Swithinbank answer questions at the Tea House FRI Theatre. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Wish You Weren't Here... b05vhkbt (Listen) FRI Small Print FRI FRI Wish You Weren't Here, a series of three original short FRI stories by award-winning writers about that awkward person FRI you'd rather not meet... In the first story Paula's romantic FRI weekend break in the Lake District is derailed when she FRI meets fellow hotel guest Graham. Written and read by Judy FRI Flynn. FRI FRI In our second instalment, a young couple buy a house, but FRI there's a strange clause in the small print and a mysterious FRI guest in their front room. Patrick FitzSymons reads Clare FRI Dwyer Hogg's unsettling tale. FRI FRI The series is concluded with Dermot Bolger's tale of FRI literary fraud; Jack is relieved that his fifth book launch FRI is going well, until an unexpected guest brings a pang of FRI conscience and unwelcome memories of past plagiarism. A FRI stranger, a mystery and an old friend all make us 'wish you FRI weren't here'! FRI FRI Writer ..... Clare Dwyer Hogg FRI Reader ..... Patrick FitzSymons FRI Director ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Patrick Fitzsymons FRI Writer: Clare Dwyer Hogg FRI Director: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b05vhkby (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b05vhkc0 (Listen) FRI Series that investigates the numbers in the news. Presented FRI by Tim Harford. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b05vhkv4 (Listen) FRI Alan and Angela - Having a Voice FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a husband and wife considering how his FRI stutter has featured in their relationship and wondering FRI what will happen now he's found a way of dealing with it. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b05vhkv6 (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b05v6gdf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b05vhkv8 (Listen) FRI Series 87, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests Hugo FRI Rifkind, Mark Steel and Holly Walsh. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Hugo Rifkind FRI Panellist: Mark Steel FRI Panellist: Holly Walsh FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b05vhlc6 (Listen) FRI It is a beautiful May afternoon, and Emma is marrying Ed. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mary Cutler FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Stephan: Serge Soric FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b05vhlc8 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b05vhh44 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b05vhlcb (Listen) FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b05vhlcd (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Archive on 4 b02xyl43 (Listen) FRI Writers and Radio FRI FRI This is the last era of radio-age writers. Authors born in FRI the Forties and the early Fifties grew up with radio not TV; FRI the BBC for them was a thing of sounds and voices, rather FRI than of pictures. Susannah Clapp, of that generation, asks FRI them what they heard and presents an archive essay talking FRI to writers and listening, via the archive, to what they FRI listened to and exploring the effect it had on their work. FRI FRI With Richard Holmes, Andrew Motion, Alan Hollingshurst, Posy FRI Simmonds and others. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b05v6gdj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b05vhlcg (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b05vy8cc (Listen) FRI The Wolf Border, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sarah Hall's new novel is a compelling story about personal FRI and political borders, about power, land, family and love. FRI At its heart is Rachel Caine, tough, untouchable, an expert FRI on wolves, and long estranged from her home county of FRI Cumbria and her fiery mother and lost brother. Like the FRI wolves she protects and champions, she is wary of human FRI connections, happy in the untamed wilderness. FRI FRI Set against the dramatic and artfully drawn backdrops of the FRI Lakeland fells, The Wolf Border explores issues of ownership FRI and vested power, of re-wilding and of family bonds as FRI Rachel discovers that she can choose, and change. FRI FRI Today, with the wolves bonding, the time is approaching for FRI their release into the estate where they must mate to FRI guarantee the success of the project. And Rachel has a new FRI surprise. FRI Reader Hattie Morahan FRI FRI Abridger Sally Marmion FRI FRI Producer Di Speirs. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hattie Morahan FRI Author: Sarah Hall FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Di Speirs FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b05v7tr5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Piano Pilgrimage b03q4mlx (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI In the final part of his pilgrimage, Jamie finds out what FRI the piano means to its biggest fans. Starting outside York FRI Minster, he comes across two fellow jazz pianists whose FRI passion keeps them coming out on to the streets to busk on a FRI specially modified upright. FRI FRI Next, Jamie heads to a retirement village in Sheffield where FRI he performs with musicians from a charity, Lost Chord, that FRI uses the piano to help people living with dementia. FRI FRI Jamie hears from Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger about the FRI piano playing challenge he set himself, before learning FRI about left hand alone repertoire from one-handed pianist FRI Nicholas McCarthy. FRI FRI In Northern Ireland, Jamie meets the talented young piano FRI players being mentored by Adele's piano player, Neil Cowley. FRI Over a pint at Bennigan's Bar, Jamie finds out from the FRI pub's legendary landlord Joe, how a piano turned the place FRI into the heart of Derry's music scene. Jamie then tests the FRI ivories for a moving final performance together with Joe and FRI local musician Põl. FRI FRI Produced by Andrea Rangecroft. FRI A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05vhlck (Listen) FRI Mel and Gary - Being You Being Me FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation which reveals how Gary's FRI dyslexia can put Mel in a role she's uncomfortable with, FRI pretending to be him in business emails... Another in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI 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
16 May, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 16/05/2015 - 22/05/2015
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