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SAT SATURDAY 02 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b074vttq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b074zw3t (Listen) SAT This Orient Isle, Episode 5 SAT SAT Professor Jerry Brotton, one of the UK's leading experts on SAT cultural exchange, examines Queen Elizabeth I's fascination SAT with the Orient. He shows that England's relations with the SAT Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more SAT amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their SAT influence was felt across the political, commercial and SAT domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. SAT SAT Derek Jacobi reads the captivating account of how Britain SAT sent ships, treaties and gifts to the royal families of SAT Morocco and Turkey, including a gold carriage and a SAT full-size pipe organ. SAT SAT In this episode, we visit the London stage to discover the SAT Elizabethan fascination with the little-known world of SAT Islam, particularly by Shakespeare and Marlowe. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Jerry Brotton SAT Reader: Derek Jacobi SAT Producer: David Roper SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b074vtts (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074vttv (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074vttx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b074vttz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b074zz4j (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The SAT Revd Laurence Twaddle SAT SAT Producer Mo McCullough. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b074zz4l (Listen) SAT 'I was stalked for ten years' SAT SAT One iPM listener's story of how a perfectly normal SAT friendship turned into something she never expected. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b074vtv1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b074vtv3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b074zdd5 (Listen) SAT Series 32, Isle of Dogs SAT SAT An unusual urban walk to finish the series: Clare Balding is SAT in London on the Isle of Dogs for a ramble along the banks SAT of the River Thames. It's not a true island, rather it's SAT enclosed on three sides by the river, and has a rich and SAT fascinating history. SAT SAT Clare is joined by Sarah Wynne, her sister and a friend. SAT Sarah moved to the Isle of Dogs when she was six and grew up SAT there. People are intrigued when she tells them this, they SAT want to know what her childhood entailed: did she ever play SAT outside, or go to the countryside, how did she get to SAT school? SAT SAT For Sarah, walking gives her a breathing space in fast-paced SAT London life. She often walks with only a vague idea of where SAT she is going, and likes to see where she'll end up. She SAT finds it empowering to simply follow her instincts about SAT which direction to take. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Mudchute Farm SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Wynne SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b075lx09 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b074vtv5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b075lx0c (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b075lx0f (Listen) SAT Paul Young SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Paul Young. SAT SAT His music was the sound of the 80's, with a multitude of SAT chart topping hits, he won Best British Male at the Brit SAT awards, toured Europe and America, and sang the opening SAT lines of "Do they know it's Christmas" for Band Aid in 1984. SAT Paul Young talks about his passion for music, performing, SAT 'Tex Mex' and Soul, the theme of the first solo album he's SAT released for 20 years. SAT SAT Deta Hedman is ranked number one by the World Darts SAT Federation. An unexpected achievement given that she was SAT born in Jamaica and works full time for Royal Mail. She'll SAT join us in the studio to talk about the competitive spirit SAT that has seen her become a legend in darts. SAT SAT Growing up in Fleetwood, Lancashire, almost surrounded by SAT water, Neil Howard Pritchard was fascinated with the sea. SAT Then, a near-death experience on the lifeboat slip when he SAT was eight years old triggered an interest in boat making, SAT and he's been crafting intricate model boats ever since. SAT He'll join us from Liverpool to talk about his work and SAT passion for lifeboats. Today is Get Creative day with SAT hundreds of events happening all over the country and if you SAT want to find out what is happening in your area there is a SAT link at the bottom right of this web page, together with a SAT link for more information about Fleetwood lifeboats. SAT SAT James Massiah is a spoken word artist who is fronting the SAT BBC Turn it Up campaign. He joins us to talk about the power SAT of radio and expression. SAT SAT Sherlock and Mr Selfridge actor Amanda Abbington chooses her SAT inheritance tracks. She inherits Dear Prudence by The SAT Beatles and passes on Furious by Joan as Police Woman. SAT SAT Peter Shilton talks about his love of oysters and how he met SAT his partner. SAT SAT And we'll have your Thank yous. SAT SAT Paul Young's album is 'Good Thing' and will be released on SAT 15 April SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Young SAT Interviewed Guest: Deta Hedman SAT Interviewed Guest: Neil Howard Pritchard SAT Interviewed Guest: James Massiah SAT Interviewed Guest: Amanda Abbington SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Shilton SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Miles Jupp and the Plot Device b06sny8v (Listen) SAT How many stories are there in the world? According to SAT William Wallace Cook, dime novelist and prolific producer of SAT American pulp, there were precisely 1,462 and in Plotto, his SAT "Master Book of All Plots", he anatomised them all in the SAT service of struggling writers everywhere. Plotto, published SAT in 1928, was nothing less than a manual of fictional SAT devices, intended to sit on a writer's shelf between the SAT dictionary and the thesaurus. Any writer stuck for SAT inspiration could leaf through Plotto to discover plots like SAT "a ventriloquist, captured by savages and threatened with SAT death, makes an animal talk-and is given his freedom" or "a SAT reporter, writing up an imaginary interview as fact, quotes SAT a man as being in town on a certain day. The man, SAT subsequently accused of a crime, establishes an alibi SAT through an interview innocently faked by the reporter." SAT SAT Cook hailed his own book as "an invention which reduces SAT literature to an exact science." But it was weird science. SAT Nevertheless it worked for Cook, who churned out up to 50 SAT novels a year. It also worked for Perry Mason creator Earl SAT Stanley Gardner who borrowed liberally from Plotto. Even the SAT young Alfred Hitchcock had a copy. And if imitation is the SAT sincerest form of flattery then Cook must have been SAT delighted by the appearance of "The Plot Robot," whose name SAT promised much but which, rather disappointingly was a SAT cardboard circle with a pointer attached to it. SAT SAT Miles Jupp investigates the Plot Device that promises to SAT make writing easy, with the help of crime writers Val SAT McDermid and John Harvey. SAT SAT Producer - David Stenhouse SAT Actor - David Jackson Young. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b076nx1l (Listen) SAT The Power of Wind SAT SAT Wind is all around us on earth and in a different form, out SAT in space; a powerful force which shapes our environment and SAT which increasingly, we are trying to tame and harness. SAT With Bridget Kendall to explore some aspects of wind, Dr. SAT Max Platzer, the distinguished aerospace engineer, once SAT involved in Nasa's iconic space launches, who is now focused SAT on how to harvest energy from the powerful winds of the SAT world's oceans using a massive fleet of sailing ships with SAT the ability to convert wind energy into hydrogen. SAT SAT Earth and space meteorologist Professor Chris Scott from SAT Reading University in the UK, who tracks the solar winds SAT which come to us from space to probe how they affect us on SAT earth and who has new research linking wind with lightening. SAT SAT And from Boston in the USA, artist Nathalie Miebach, who SAT weaves extraordinary sculptures out of storm data she takes SAT from weather stations. SAT SAT Chris Scott SAT Chris Scott is Professor of Space and Atmospheric Physics at SAT the University of Reading. SAT His research focuses on space weather, with a particular SAT interest in solar wind and coronal mass ejections but he SAT also talks about wind and weather patterns here on Earth. SAT Chris has worked for the Science and Technology Facilities SAT Council in Oxfordshire, leading the Solar Terrestrial SAT Relations Observatory (STEREO) - Heliospheric Imagers. In SAT partnership with NASA, Scott coordinated the 2006 launch of SAT the twin STEREO rockets. The STEREO spacecraft analyse SAT discharge from the Sun. The mission’s aim was to spot any SAT mass and energy emitted from the Sun which could penetrate SAT the Earth and interfere with technology. Energy emitted from SAT the Sun, officially known as coronal mass ejection, is vast SAT clouds of ionised gas. Each CME may carry 1,000,000,000 SAT tonnes of gas into space at speeds that can approach 2000 SAT km/s. CME disrupts the flow of solar wind. The two STEREO SAT spacecraft circle the Sun, gathering images. SAT In 2014 Chris lead research in solar winds and lightning. SAT His research, published in the Journal of Environmental SAT Letter, suggested that solar winds can increase lightening SAT on Earth. SAT SAT Nathalie Miebach SAT Nathalie Miebach is a Boston based artist who converts SAT ecological data into complex music and sculptures. SAT When she studied physics and astronomy she found herself SAT fascinated, especially by astronomy and wanted to learn SAT more. Her interest in space was quickly hampered by her SAT inability to go out and actually experience it. So she SAT decided to use the weather, somewhat influenced by activity SAT in space, as a new way to channel her creative impulses. In SAT 2000 Nathalie first started using meteorological data to SAT produce art. For four years she collected weather data and SAT created complex helix sculptures and installations. Despite SAT being unable to read music, in 2009 Nathalie started to use SAT the same data to produce musical scores. She works in SAT collaboration with a collection of musicians and composers. SAT Her sculptures therefore act as both visual works of art, SAT and musical notations and she is interested in how art can SAT represent science in interesting and intriguing ways and SAT also how science might learn from artistic interpretation. SAT SAT Max Platzer SAT Professor Max Platzer is a mechanical and aerospace SAT engineer. In 1995 Professor Platzer was made Distinguished SAT Professor Emeritus at the Naval Postgraduate School in SAT Monterey, California. He taught aeronautics and astronautics SAT at the institution for more than thirty four years. He is SAT Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of California SAT Davis. SAT Professor Platzer’s research interests are relatively SAT widespread. His studies focus on: fluid mechanics; gas SAT dynamics; aeroelasticity; flight mechanics; aerodynamics and SAT propulsion. SAT Professor Platzer has enjoyed a long and respectable carer SAT in academia. However his early career contained some SAT significant work for NASA. Platzer spent six years working SAT with renowned German engineer, Wernher von Braun. There, SAT Platzer helped to develop the Saturn-V rocket. The Saturn-V SAT (pro Saturn 5) was in use by the Americans from 1966-73. It SAT launched SkyLab, the first American space station, and SAT supported Apollo 17 in early exploration of the moon. He is SAT also a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and SAT Astronautics. SAT Professor Platzer, now in his 80s, has developed an idea to SAT create a huge fleet of sailing ships with the ability to SAT harvest ocean winds and convert this wind energy into SAT electricity and then into hydrogen, on board the ships. He SAT believes it could be a major provider of The World’s energy SAT and help to tackle many environmental challenges. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b074vtv7 (Listen) SAT Even the Dead Cannot Escape Politics SAT SAT Insight, colour, analysis. Steve Evans visits a cemetery SAT which poignantly illuminates present day politics in the SAT troubled Korean peninsula; Owen Bennett Jones has the story SAT of a young Pakistani man who left home to see a film and SAT ended up with the Taliban in Afghanistan; Jonah Fisher in SAT Myanmar explains how Aung San Suu Kyi has turned the tables SAT on the generals and taken on a string of top government SAT jobs; Rachel Wright has been in Colombia where they're SAT preparing a case for the UN saying the war on drugs isn't SAT working and it's time for a radical change and Neal SAT Razzell's been talking to cowboys out in the canyonlands of SAT eastern Oregon. There's a plan to turn a huge tract of it SAT into a national park. So why are the ranchers so SAT unenthusiastic? SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b074vtv9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b074vtvc (Listen) SAT How having a flutter is about to get less attractive SAT SAT The latest personal finance news, including why having a SAT flutter is about to get less attractive and why banks don't SAT always press charges against staff involved in theft. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b074zy9k (Listen) SAT Series 48, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical SAT stand-up and sketches. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Producer: Joe Nunnery SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b074vtvf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b074vtvh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b074zy9s (Listen) SAT Tim Farron MP, Andrea Jenkyns MP, Jess Phillips MP, John SAT Timpson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the University of Worcester with the Leader of the SAT Liberal Democrats Tim Farron MP, Conservative MP Andrea SAT Jenkyns, Labour MP Jess Phillips, and the businessman John SAT Timpson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b074vtvk (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04j9z7c (Listen) SAT Denmark Hill SAT SAT Alan Bennett's idiosyncratic take on the Hamlet story SAT adapted for radio. Seen largely through the beady eyes of a SAT 15 year old schoolgirl, this is Bennett in black comedy SAT mode. SAT SAT The play is set in a leafy south London suburb, in the year SAT of an election. Gwen's husband, Frank, lies ill in bed SAT upstairs while downstairs Harriet, her daughter, is SAT struggling with an essay on "Shakespeare's view of the SAT family". In the aftermath of Frank's death we slowly realise SAT we are being drawn into a strangely familiar story - a SAT suburban Hamlet. In different guises here come Claudius, SAT Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Polonius and SAT Ophelia. Even the players play their part. SAT SAT Denmark Hill was originally written as an uncommissioned SAT TV/film screenplay in 1981/2. For whatever reasons, Bennett SAT can't remember, he kept it in a drawer until it went with SAT all his papers to the Bodleian library for archival storage. SAT Honor Borwick urged Tristram Powell, with Bennett's SAT permission, to search the archives. At last Powell unearthed SAT the hand typed script. SAT SAT Denmark Hill is Bennett's own kind of observational comedy, SAT the Hamlet connections are never heavy, just lightly touched SAT on. It is narrated by Alan Bennett, directed by Tristram SAT Powell, adapted for radio by Honor Borwick and produced by SAT Marilyn Imrie. SAT SAT Written by Alan Bennett SAT SAT Produced by Marilyn Imrie SAT A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Alan Bennett SAT Harriet: Bryony Hannah SAT Gwen: Penny Downie SAT George: Robert Glenister SAT Charles: Samuel Barnett SAT Canon Everest: Geoffrey Palmer SAT Frank: Geoffrey Palmer SAT Drunk: Geoffrey Palmer SAT Vicar: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Nightingale: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Player 1: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Rogers: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Green Party Canvasser: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Gilliatt: Stephen Critchlow SAT Gary: Stephen Critchlow SAT Stanley: Stephen Critchlow SAT Player 2: Stephen Critchlow SAT Labour Canvasser: Stephen Critchlow SAT Mourner 1: Stephen Critchlow SAT Nicola: Cathy Sara SAT Lillian: Cathy Sara SAT Woman in Church: Cathy Sara SAT Cons. Canvasser: Cathy Sara SAT Writer: Alan Bennett SAT Adaptor: Honor Borwick SAT Director: Tristram Powell SAT Producer: Marilyn Imrie SAT SAT 15:30 Suck It and See b074x4tc (Listen) SAT Grammy Award-Winning songwriter Amy Wadge fell in love with SAT the harmonica after winning one in a fancy dress competition SAT (she was dressed in a bin liner!). Now she investigates the SAT history and potential of the diatonic instrument, a European SAT the toy which in the hands of expert players became the the SAT iconic sound of the Mississippi Delta and the Chicago Blues. SAT Not bad for what was originally a child's toy produced then, SAT as now, in Germany! SAT SAT As music historian Christoph Wagner explains, the very first SAT example of the instrument goes back to Vienna. But millions SAT would soon find their way to the USA, taken there by German SAT emigres fleeing poverty. The poor person's introduction to SAT music, the harmonica would soon find its way to around the SAT globe, from Britain to Australia and even China. But it was SAT in America that it scored its biggest success. And it was SAT there that harmonica technique underwent a transformation, SAT as Chicago -based Joe Filisko explains. Instead of exhaling SAT air, blues players would draw air in, and bend notes to SAT achieve the characteristic sounds of the blues. SAT SAT Amy tries her hand at bending, under the expert tutelage of SAT Steve Lockwood - one of very few people to have studied the SAT harmonica to degree level, and she speaks to one of SAT Britain's best-known players, Paul Jones. SAT SAT It may be the sound of the amplified harmonica popularised SAT the instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, but has it moved on SAT from Chicago Blues and Beatles covers? Canadian beat-boxer SAT Benjamin Darvill - "Son of Dave" - has explored new SAT possibilities with the instrument, and with an original SAT sound that's been heard in edgy TV dramas and commercials. SAT Just going to prove that for all its limitations - 10 holes SAT and 3 octaves - there's life yet the harmonica. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b074vtvm (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b074vtvp (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b074zz4l (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b074vtvr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b074vtvt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074vtvw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b075m6p1 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Arthur Smith, Alice Lowe, James Norton, Tom SAT Rosenthal, Peggy Shaw, James McCartney, The James Hunter SAT Six SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Alice Lowe, SAT James Norton, Tom Rosenthal and Peggy Shaw for an eclectic SAT mix of conversation, music and comedy. with music from James SAT McCartney and The James Hunter Six. SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT James Norton SAT BUG is at Found111, a pop-up venue in London until Saturday SAT 7th May. SAT SAT Alice Lowe SAT Black Mountain Poets is in cinemas now. SAT SAT Peggy Shaw SAT RUFF is at the Silk Street Theatre in London’s Barbican SAT Centre from 14th to 16th April. SAT SAT Tom Rosenthal SAT The Flat TV boxset is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer SAT and Plebs returns to ITV 2 on Monday 4 April at 10pm SAT SAT The James Hunter Six SAT SAT Hold On! is available now on Daptone Records. SAT The James Hunter Six begin their tour on 21st April at O2 SAT Academy Oxford, the O2 institute, Birmingham on the 22nd SAT and the O2 ABC in Glasgow on 23rd April. Check their website SAT for further tour dates. SAT SAT James McCartney SAT SAT The Blackberry Train is available now on Kobalt Music. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Alice Lowe SAT Interviewed Guest: James Norton SAT Interviewed Guest: Tom Rosenthal SAT Interviewed Guest: Peggy Shaw SAT Performer: James McCartney SAT Performer: The James Hunter Six SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:02 Profile b075m6p3 (Listen) SAT Sophie Okonedo SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles the actress, Sophie Okonedo, star of the SAT new Sunday night drama, Undercover. She plays a successful SAT barrister who discovers her life is based on a series of SAT lies. SAT SAT Okonedo has a career encompassing stage, screeen and SAT television, with parts as diverse as a future Queen SAT Elizabeth (Liz Ten) in Doctor Who, to playing Winne Mandela. SAT She was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Hotel Rwanda. SAT SAT Director Dominic Cooke, fellow actor Adjoa Andoh and writer SAT Peter Moffat tell us why they describe Okonedo as a SAT trailblazer. SAT SAT Producers: Smita Patel and Phoebe Keane. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b074vtvy (Listen) SAT Ran, Long Day's Journey into Night, Camping, 6 Facets of SAT Light, Museum of Brands SAT SAT Akira Kurosawa's Ran,originally released in 1985, was - at SAT the time - the most expensive Japanese film ever made. It SAT won awards galore and is considered a classic. Is it still SAT as breathtaking as on first release? SAT Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey Into Night is at SAT Bristol's Old Vic starring Jeremy Irons and Lesly Manville. SAT It's directed by Richard Eyre. SAT Julia Davis' newest TV comedy Camping follows several SAT couples (with varying degrees of dysfunction in their SAT relationships) as they spend a ghastly holiday under canvas SAT Ann Wroe's book 6 Facets of Light is a series of meditations SAT on the essential nature of light. SAT The Museum of Brands offers a peculiar and unique view of SAT 200 years of British society through packaging, design, SAT toys, magazines and other items. Formerly in Gloucester, it SAT has now moved to a new location in London SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Andrea Rose, Geoffrey Durham and SAT Maev Kennedy. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Long Day's Journey SAT Written by Eugene O'Neill, SAT Long Day's Journey SAT is at the Bristol Old Vic until 23 April 2016. Photo: Hugo SAT Glendinning. SAT SAT Ran SAT Directed by Akira Kurosawa, Ran is re-released in selected SAT cinemas from 1st April, certificate 12A. SAT SAT Six Facets Of Light SAT The book SAT Six Facets Of Light SAT by Ann Wroe is published by Jonathan Cape. SAT SAT Camping SAT A new comedy series from Julia Davis, SAT Camping SAT starts on Tuesday 12 April, 10pm, Sky Atlantic. SAT SAT Museum Of Brands SAT The SAT Museum of Brands SAT is in Notting Hill, London. Open Tuesday-Sunday. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Andrea Rose SAT Interviewed Guest: Geoffrey Durham SAT Interviewed Guest: Maev Kennedy SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0765dy0 (Listen) SAT Optimism - Our Enemy SAT SAT Journalist Bryan Appleyard presents a polemic that tilts at SAT the current cult of optimism, of positive thinking and the SAT relentlessly upbeat mantras of corporations. SAT SAT Optimism is trumpeted in books, from the walls of yoga SAT studios, the podiums of leadership conferences and in SAT political life, especially in the United States. The SAT optimistic cast of mind is key, apparently, to marital SAT success, health and progress at work. SAT SAT Pessimism is stigmatised. But if we could only dump our SAT current and historical imperative to look on the bright side SAT of life, Bryan argues, we'd all be a lot happier. SAT SAT We weren't always so positive. Bryan points to post-war SAT Britain, when we embraced a pessimism, a philosophy of SAT endurance and amiably black humour. This was reflected in SAT our cinema which, contrary to many Hollywood movies, SAT embarked on a dark celebration of the fragilities exposed by SAT the war, with films such as Brief Encounter. SAT SAT We hear from the philosophers Roger Scruton and John Gray on SAT the pleasures of pessimism. Writer Barbara Ehrenreich traces SAT the origins of the American positive thinking industry from SAT Norman Vincent Peale's sermons to multimillion-selling books SAT such as Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence SAT People and Rhonda Byrne's The Secret. Psychologist Tali SAT Sharot explains how optimism and pessimism drive our economy SAT and Dragons' Den's Deborah Meaden reveals the dangers of SAT blind optimism in business. SAT SAT Bryan, a committed pessimist, also considers how learning to SAT be more optimistic could enhance his life. He meets sales, SAT marketing and personal growth strategist Bruce King for a SAT class in positive thinking. SAT SAT With archive including Noel Coward, Tony Blair, Peter Cook SAT and Frank Muir. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Smith SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b074w040 (Listen) SAT The Magus, Episode 2 SAT SAT Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate runs away from his SAT monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small SAT Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure SAT of Maurice Conchis and slowly gets drawn into a world full SAT of strange encounters and elaborate tricks on Conchis's SAT estate at Bourani. When Conchis introduces Nicholas to the SAT enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery who bears a SAT striking resemblance to Conchis's long dead fiancée, reality SAT and illusion begin to intertwine, but what strange game is SAT Conchis playing with Nicholas? Moreover, in this world SAT coloured by artifice and deception, who is really telling SAT him the truth? SAT SAT First published in 1965 John Fowles's novel 'The Magus' soon SAT achieved cult status, but has only been dramatized once SAT before in a film of 1968. Now acclaimed dramatist and SAT screenwriter Adrian Hodges (My Week with Marilyn, The SAT Go-Between, Peter and Wendy, The Musketeers, Survivors, SAT Primeval,) has adapted the novel for this new three-part SAT dramatisation starring Tom Burke (War and Peace, The SAT Musketeers) as Nicholas Urfe, Charles Dance (And Then There SAT Were None, Game of Thrones) as Maurice Conchis, and Hayley SAT Atwell (Agent Carter, Brideshead Revisited) as Lily. SAT SAT Harpsichordist ..... Maggie Cole SAT Written by ..... John Fowles SAT Adapted by ..... Adrian Hodges SAT Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour. SAT SAT Credits SAT Nick: Tom Burke SAT Conchis: Charles Dance SAT Lily: Hayley Atwell SAT Alison: Anna Skellern SAT Margaret: Josie Taylor SAT Anton: Maarten Dannenberg SAT German Colonel: Bodo Friesecke SAT Greek Resistance Fighter: Andreas Karras SAT Author: John Fowles SAT Adaptor: Adrian Hodges SAT Director: Heather Larmour SAT Producer: Heather Larmour SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b074vtw0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Global Philosopher b075f7qp (Listen) SAT Should Borders Matter? SAT SAT Michael Sandel explores the philosophical justifications SAT made for national borders. Using a pioneering SAT state-of-the-art studio at the Harvard Business School, SAT Professor Sandel is joined by 60 participants from over 30 SAT countries in a truly global digital space. SAT SAT Is there any moral distinction between a political refugee SAT and an economic migrant? If people have the right to exit a SAT country, why not a right to enter? Do nations have the right SAT to protect the affluence of their citizens? And is there SAT such a thing as a 'national identity'? SAT SAT These are just some of the questions addressed by Professor SAT Sandel in this first edition of The Global Philosopher. SAT SAT Audience producer: Louise Coletta SAT Producer: David Edmonds SAT Editor: Richard Knight SAT SAT (Image taken by Rose Lincoln) SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b074x71v (Listen) SAT Heat 12, 2016 SAT SAT (12/17) SAT What's the better known name for the Flavian Amphitheatre? SAT Which football stadium has the smallest capacity in Premier SAT League history? And which 19th century composer's third SAT symphony is known as the 'Rhenish' because it was inspired SAT by a Rhine excursion? SAT SAT Contestants from Middlesbrough, Nottingham, Liverpool and SAT York face Russell Davies' notoriously challenging questions, SAT in the final heat of 2016. 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Strange horses arrive from nowhere, "stubborn and shy, SAT as if they had been sent/ By an old command to find our SAT whereabouts". They offer themselves in service to the SAT humans, to bear loads and pull their ploughs, restoring a SAT lost relationship between man and beast. SAT SAT Edwin Muir's career was bookended by two poems with almost SAT the same title - 'Horses' and 'The Horses' - and these two SAT poems encapsulate Muir's life and work. 'Horses' was SAT published in his debut collection in 1925 and evokes Muir's SAT childhood home on the tiny island of Wyre in Orkney. 'The SAT Horses', his post-apocalyptic fable, comes from his final SAT collection published in 1956. Yet both poems highlight the SAT same theme: a lost paradise. SAT SAT In this programme Kenneth Steven visits Wyre to explore the SAT fears and dreams Muir distilled into those two poems. At the SAT age of fourteen, Muir was forced to leave Orkney as his SAT father sought work in Glasgow. The shock of encountering SAT Glasgow, in his eyes an industrial Hell, had a profound SAT effect on him. Worse still, his parents and his two brothers SAT died in quick succession within a few years of moving to the SAT city. Muir saw Glasgow as part of a fallen world and it SAT brought about a breakdown from which he never fully SAT recovered. SAT SAT This programme is the story of Edwin Muir's Orkney, real and SAT imagined, and how it came to symbolise the lost Eden which SAT was the recurring theme throughout his work. Kenneth Steven SAT visits Wyre and Glasgow to unravel the two Horses poems and, SAT through them, Edwin Muir's life. Kenneth talks to poets, SAT theologians and a psychologist. And we hear the voices of SAT Orkney - including Muir's childhood home on the island of SAT Wyre - reading his masterpiece, The Horses. SAT SAT Presenter: Kenneth Steven SAT Reader: Paul Young SAT Producer: Jeremy Grange. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 APRIL 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b075mdlk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Shorts b03srddr (Listen) SUN Series 13, Paint Fumes SUN SUN Scottish Shorts, the best writing from Scotland. SUN Paint Fumes by Kirstin Innes SUN A young footballer from an oppressive home seeks escape SUN through Argentina's urban art scene. SUN Reader Simon Donaldson. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie SUN SUN Kirstin Innes is a novelist and playwright based in Glasgow. SUN Her first novel, FISHNET,was published in 2015. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Simon Donaldson SUN Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SUN Writer: Kirstin Innes SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b075mdlm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b075mdlp (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b075mdlr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b075mdlt (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b075mfc1 (Listen) SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b075m6p3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:02 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b075mdlw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b075mfc3 (Listen) SUN Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College Cambridge and SUN the former Archbishop of Canterbury, explores reunions and SUN recognitions in the context of the Easter narratives. SUN SUN The Sunday after Easter, traditionally known as Low Sunday, SUN is a time when Christians reflect more deeply on the SUN celebrations of the previous weekend. Rowan Williams SUN describes the human story as full of creating, breaking and SUN restoring relationships and illustrates his thinking with SUN powerful moments of reconciliation in War and Peace when SUN Natasha seeks forgiveness from Prince Andrei, and in King SUN Lear where the King is revisited by his daughter, as well as SUN with the reuniting of Jacob and Esau in Genesis. SUN It is this mending of brokenness that Dr Williams uses to SUN link in to the Easter stories. "They move us - and challenge SUN us as well," he says, "because they echo these deep feelings SUN around finding and losing, separating and reuniting, SUN recognising and failing to recognise and discovering that SUN what seemed completely lost has not been destroyed. They are SUN good news for us because they say that there is no SUN relationship beyond mending in God's providence and God's SUN time - that even the most final of separations or the most SUN bitter of betrayals will not stifle the possibility of the SUN reconciliation we long for." SUN SUN The programme also features the poetry of Wilfred Owen, as SUN well as Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro where the unfaithful SUN Count is forgiven by his wife, accompanied by music, which SUN has been described as the sound of God absolving the world. SUN SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: War and Peace SUN SUN Author: Leo Tolstoy SUN SUN Publisher: Vintage Classics SUN Title: Genesis 33.1-10, New International Version SUN Title: King Lear IV, 6, II, 44-77 SUN SUN Author: William Shakespeare SUN SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Editions SUN Title: Strange Meeting (From The Poems of Wilfred Owen) SUN SUN Author: Wilfred Owen SUN SUN Publisher: Chatto and Windus SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b075mfc5 (Listen) SUN Marlborough Downs SUN SUN In 2012 twelve government-backed landscape-scale pilot SUN projects were rolled out across the UK. Only one of these SUN three year long projects was set up by farmers, for farmers, SUN for the benefit of conservation. Covering an area of 10,000 SUN hectares twenty-seven farmers and a number of other land SUN owners joined the scheme with a single aim, to provide SUN targeted wildlife initiatives for the benefit of key species SUN such as tree sparrow and corn bunting. SUN SUN Working at a landscape level, each member farms their land SUN as they have always done, but now they act as a group for SUN wildlife. They initiate community involvement and activities SUN such as Open Farm Sunday, all of which has raised a certain SUN amount of healthy competition among the farmers themselves SUN who now discuss lapwing numbers alongside wheat prices. SUN SUN Caz Graham travels to East Farm within the Avebury World SUN Heritage area of Wiltshire where she meets up with Robert SUN Cooper, the chair of what became the Marlborough Downs SUN Nature Improvement Area, and his daughter Laura who now runs SUN the farm. SUN SUN The project came to an end in 2015 and as Caz learns from SUN project facilitator Jemma Batten, far from being a one off SUN project, their success has spurred farmers to relaunch as SUN the Marlborough Downs Space for Nature. SUN SUN Producer: Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b075mdly (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b075mdm0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b075mdm2 (Listen) SUN Cathedral money makers, Donald Trump and the religious SUN right, Managing Britain's mosques SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b075mfyr (Listen) SUN Toybox SUN SUN The Reverend Richard Coles presents The Radio 4 Appeal on SUN behalf of Toybox. SUN Registered Charity No 1084243 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Toybox' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Toybox'. SUN SUN Toybox SUN SUN Toybox is a UK charity with a mission to end the injustice SUN of children living and working on the streets. Street SUN children are one of the world’s most vulnerable groups. We SUN currently work across Latin America, India and Kenya to help SUN to prevent children from taking the final step to street SUN living, to rescue them when they do and to help them to SUN restore their lives and build a new future for themselves SUN away from the streets. Find out more at SUN www.toybox.org.uk/Radio4 SUN SUN The XXX Children SUN SUN In Guatemala, one of the most violent countries in the SUN world, an estimated 700,000 children do not have birth SUN certificates and are simply known as “the XXX children”. SUN Without this official identity street children are open to SUN being used, neglected and abused by gangs and criminals. SUN SUN Birth certificates – no child invisible SUN SUN Without a birth certificate a child can’t see a doctor when SUN they are ill, advance at school, get a job, get married or SUN even be buried in an official cemetery. No matter how they SUN try, these children will always be outside of society. SUN SUN A gift that lasts a lifetime SUN SUN Toybox was able to help Silvia get her birth certificate. SUN With the help of Radio 4 listeners we aim to raise enough to SUN secure birth certificates for over 500 more children. By SUN supporting this Appeal you’ll be giving children the SUN opportunity of a new future away from the streets. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b075mdm4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b075mdm6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b075mfyt (Listen) SUN Our Father, who art in heaven SUN SUN In the first of an occasional series exploring the Lord's SUN Prayer, the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths reflects upon the way SUN in which the global Christian family is united through this SUN most familiar of all prayers, and how everyone enjoys the SUN privilege of calling God 'Father.' The service comes live SUN from Wesley's Chapel in the heart of the City of London SUN where over 20 languages may be heard in its diverse SUN international congregation. SUN SUN With: St Martin's Voices SUN Music Director: Andrew Earis SUN Organist: Elvis Pratt SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b074zy9v (Listen) SUN Virtual Violence SUN SUN Will Self draws no comfort from an alleged drop in violence SUN in the real world, as he sees us increasingly expressing our SUN innate tendency towards violence in the virtual and online SUN worlds. SUN " I don't think watching violence drives us to commit SUN violent acts - I think it is a violent action in and of SUN itself." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b02tt1kv (Listen) SUN Yellowhammer SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Steve Backshall presents the yellowhammer. The yellowhammer SUN is a member of the bunting family and its name comes from SUN "ammer" the German for bunting. It's one of the few British SUN birds to have its song transcribed into words and seems to SUN be saying ..a little bit of bread and no cheese". SUN SUN Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b075mdm8 (Listen) SUN News presented by Paddy O'Connell. Bridget Kendall makes her SUN last appearance on the programme as Diplomatic Correspondent SUN and describes how Russia has changed during her career. SUN Reviewing the papers: presenter turned novelist Janet Ellis, SUN political columnist Sue Cameron and science writer Roger SUN Highfield. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b075mhgm (Listen) SUN It's all the fun of the fair, and Helen uncovers some SUN truths. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Gillian Richmond SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Dan Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Dorothy: Keziah Joseph SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b075mhgp (Listen) SUN The Nuclear Submarines SUN SUN Sue MacGregor meets the pioneers of Britain's first nuclear SUN submarines. SUN SUN Fifty years ago, the first all-British designed nuclear SUN submarine HMS Valiant went into service. Known SUN affectionately as "The Black Pig" for the frequency with SUN which she needed repairs, she featured a revolutionary SUN noise-limiting design that allowed her to hide at sea for SUN long periods, undetected. Valiant paved the way for the SUN Polaris submarines that followed. Based on the Valiant SUN design, they carried Britain's nuclear deterrent underwater SUN for the first time. SUN SUN Valiant was beaten to sea by another nuclear submarine, HMS SUN Dreadnought. Although British-built, much of Dreadnought's SUN machinery, including her nuclear reactor, was American - the SUN result of a deal to speed up Britain's nuclear propulsion SUN project and give the Americans a nuclear ally in the Cold SUN War against the Soviet Union. SUN SUN Nuclear technology revolutionised life at sea. Whereas SUN conventional diesel submarines regularly had to surface in SUN order to recharge their batteries and suck in fresh air, SUN nuclear submarines could stay submerged for months, under SUN their own power and creating their own fresh air. Valiant SUN and her successors embarked on Cold War games of cat and SUN mouse, following Soviet ships, and sliding underneath to SUN photograph their hulls or propellers. SUN SUN Joining Sue to discuss the building and early days of the SUN first British nuclear submarines are six of the men who SUN designed and worked on them - Admiral Peter (SPAM) SUN Hammersley, David Wixon, John Jacobsen, Bas Bowyer, Harry SUN Brazier and Wally Whymark. They recall the early teething SUN problems, life underwater, and Cold War espionage. SUN SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b075mdmb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b074x721 (Listen) SUN Series 74, Episode 6 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game, SUN where contestants must speak for 60 seconds without SUN deviation, hesitation or repetition. This week the guests SUN are Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Jenny Eclair and Nish Kumar. SUN SUN Topics on the cards this week include Homer, Russian Dolls, SUN and My First Love. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Stephen Fry SUN Panellist: Jenny Eclair SUN Panellist: Nish Kumar SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b075mhgr (Listen) SUN Food in Extreme Places: Antarctica SUN SUN Across all of the world, weather doesn't get more extreme SUN than the Antarctic winter. The continent is plunged into 24 SUN hour darkness from from March to October with strong polar SUN winds and temperatures that can dip to minus 50. But for the SUN staff of the Halley Research station, work and life goes on. SUN SUN In 2014 experienced Antarctic chef Gerard Baker joined the SUN base for the cold Antarctic winter to cook for the team. In SUN the first of a special Food Programme series documenting SUN food in extreme environments, Gerard shares his diary with SUN Sheila Dillon. She hears what it takes to be an Antarctic SUN chef. From the daily baking bread, to planning for months of SUN mealtimes with no contact, or supplies, from the outside SUN world. When crisis strikes on base, we hear the real SUN importance of a good meal. SUN SUN Next week, Sheila Dillon is in an underwater kitchen on SUN board a submarine. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon SUN Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Gerard Baker SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b075mdmd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b075mdmg (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 In Search of Southern Hospitality b075mlth (Listen) SUN The hospitality of the Southern States of America is SUN renowned the world over and the phrase "Southern SUN Hospitality" represents a time honoured tradition of warmth, SUN kindness and selfless hospitality to strangers. SUN SUN But what does Southern Hospitality mean today? Can a SUN stranger still expect a genuinely warm welcome or is all SUN that remains a cynical marketing tool perpetuated to improve SUN the dogged image of the south? SUN SUN Comedian Rich Hall knows a few things about this region of SUN the world. He grew up south of the Mason Dixie Line but, SUN having called London home for the past 20 years, the south SUN is now a very long way away. In this programme, Rich heads SUN into the deep south to see if he can still find the "ma'am" SUN saying, cap dipping people of old. SUN SUN Rich talks to Professor Charles Wilson about the origins of SUN southern hospitality. He finds himself drinking on the porch SUN with some southern belles, puts the theory of southern SUN hospitality to the test at the side of the road and also SUN finds out what happens when you poke an alligator with a big SUN stick! SUN SUN Producer: Liam Bird SUN A USP Content/Folder Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b074zy95 (Listen) SUN Prince Charles at Highgrove SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a special correspondence edition of the SUN horticultural panel programme recorded at His Royal Highness SUN The Prince of Wales' garden at Highgrove in Gloucestershire. SUN SUN The programme features an exclusive interview with The SUN Prince of Wales about his new Highgrove Garden Festival in SUN April. SUN SUN Throughout the programme, the team will explore what advice SUN the amateur gardener can glean from the royal gardens, and SUN panellists Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson SUN take questions from listeners, which were sent in by post, SUN email and social media. 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. My daughter has a small east-facing flowerbed by the SUN pavement. It is likely to be affected by salt spray after SUN the gritters have been at work. Does the panel have any SUN suggestions for salt-resistant plants, preferably SUN perennials? SUN SUN A. Bob – I would go for pampas grass. It is a tough plant SUN and I have seen it growing along the coast. The white SUN variety provides more flowers than the pink. Use daylilies SUN for additional colour. SUN SUN Matthew – It is important to remember that by the time the SUN perennials have started to grow the gritters will hopefully SUN have gone. However, some salt may remain in the soil. At the SUN end of autumn I would add a thick layer of mulch to protect SUN any plants that remain in the bed. SUN SUN Bunny - Crambe maritima or sea kale would survive. Try SUN Nepeta Summer Magic, which will flower from May to SUN September, or the pink flowers of the cirsiums. SUN SUN SUN Q. I've recently moved to a West Yorkshire town, and have a SUN small, south-facing front garden with a cemented stonewall. SUN Some neighbouring houses have Asplenium growing in the SUN cracks in their garden walls. How can I encourage these and SUN other suitable varieties to grow in the shady areas of my SUN wall? SUN SUN A. Bunny – the Polystichum setiferum will thrive in a dry SUN sunny position. You will need to add some compost to a hole SUN in the wall and make sure the plants are nicely rooted. You SUN might want to add fleece to reduce moisture loss. SUN SUN Matthew – you can line the hole with some polythene to SUN reduce the moisture loss. I would try London Pride Saxifraga SUN urbium, which is a flowering, low-growing plant. You could SUN use toadflax or navelwort. SUN SUN SUN Q. I recently inherited a tired old lilac tree, which is SUN completely smothered by very established ivy, to the extent SUN that the two can't be separated. I am planning to remove SUN both but fear I may disrupt the birds that are busy building SUN nests. SUN SUN Bob – it is too late as the birds will have already started SUN to build their nests. SUN SUN Bunny – I would keep the lilac and ivy because they will SUN probably be fine growing together and an old lilac can be SUN very beautiful. SUN SUN Matthew – Birds start to choose a site for their nests as SUN early as January and they start to build from late February. SUN It is illegal to knowingly disturb a nest. SUN SUN SUN Q. Can the panel recommend a grass seed to plant under SUN Wellingtonias and any other tips to maintain a healthy lawn SUN in these conditions? SUN SUN A. Bunny – it is very difficult to get grass to grow under SUN the Wellingtonias. It is difficult for any plant to compete SUN with the tree root system. You will need to keep the area SUN well irrigated when planting there. SUN SUN Debs - Cyclamen coum, primroses, Scilla Spring Beauty, and SUN winter aconites all do well in the Highgrove arboretum. SUN SUN Bob – Comfrey orientale will do a very good job of covering SUN the area. SUN SUN SUN Q. Can the panel give us any tips and advice on the best SUN varieties to grow and how to grow the biggest pumpkin. SUN SUN A. Bob – Dig a big hole and add as much muck and compost as SUN possible. Raise the temperature by placing plastic sheeting SUN over the top. Once the fruits appear, remove all but one and SUN water it as much as possible. Make sure the plant has enough SUN space. Mammoth is a good variety. SUN SUN Bunny – I would keep it covered in fleece until the weather SUN has warmed up. SUN SUN SUN Q. I have a very successful lemon tree, producing around SUN thirty lemons of a good size. Although the lemons look SUN excellent they are not juicy. How can we improve this? SUN SUN A. Bob – it probably has too many lemons on it and you will SUN need to thin it out. Make sure you don’t underwater them. If SUN the lemon feels soft to squeeze then it needs watering. SUN SUN Bunny – make sure you have a variety that is known to be SUN juicy. SUN SUN SUN Q. I have just received my bare rooted hop plant and have SUN planted it on my allotment. Does the panel have any advice SUN for how to care and feed the plant? SUN SUN Bob – you need to make sure they are female plants as they SUN provide the fruits you require for making beer. You need to SUN provide adequate supports for the plants to climb up. They SUN are also very hungry plants. SUN SUN Bunny – the flowers can be protected with hairspray and then SUN be used as decorations for up to twelve months. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b075mltk (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces three conversations about the joys of SUN still being alive, despite the odds, from Manchester, SUN Cumbria and Wales, in the Omnibus of the series that proves SUN it's 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 b075mltm (Listen) SUN The Magus, Episode 3 SUN SUN Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate runs away from his SUN monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small SUN Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure SUN of Maurice Conchis and slowly gets drawn into a world full SUN of strange encounters and elaborate tricks on Conchis's SUN estate at Bourani. When Conchis introduces Nicholas to the SUN enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery who bears a SUN striking resemblance to Conchis's long dead fiancée, reality SUN and illusion begin to intertwine, but what strange game is SUN Conchis playing with Nicholas? Moreover, in this world SUN coloured by artifice and deception, who is really telling SUN him the truth? SUN First published in 1965 John Fowles's novel 'The Magus' soon SUN achieved cult status, but has only been dramatized once SUN before in a film of 1968. Now acclaimed dramatist and SUN screenwriter Adrian Hodges (My Week with Marilyn, The SUN Go-Between, Peter and Wendy, The Musketeers, Survivors, SUN Primeval,) has adapted the novel for this new three-part SUN dramatisation starring Tom Burke (War and Peace, The SUN Musketeers) as Nicholas Urfe, Charles Dance (And Then There SUN Were None, Game of Thrones) as Maurice Conchis, and Hayley SUN Atwell (Agent Carter, Brideshead Revisted) as Lily. SUN SUN Writen by .....John Fowles SUN Adapted by ..... Adrian Hodges SUN Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour. SUN SUN Credits SUN Nick: Tom Burke SUN Conchis: Charles Dance SUN Lily: Hayley Atwell SUN Alison: Anna Skellern SUN Anton: Maarten Dannenberg SUN Margaret: Josie Taylor SUN Lily De Seitas: Beth Goddard SUN Kemp: Rachel Atkins SUN Briggs: Michael Shelford SUN Meli: Chris Pavlo SUN Mrs Marks: Elaine Claxton SUN Margaret: Josie Taylor SUN Greek Ticket Seller: Andreas Karras SUN Benji: Rudi Goodman SUN Author: John Fowles SUN Adaptor: Adrian Hodges SUN Director: Heather Larmour SUN Producer: Heather Larmour SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b075mltp (Listen) SUN Elizabeth Strout on Olive Kitteridge SUN SUN American author Elizabeth Strout discusses her novel Olive SUN Kitteridge which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize and was made SUN into a successful HBO TV series. SUN SUN The novel is a collection of thirteen short stories linked SUN by the character Olive Kitteridge, a retired Maths teacher. SUN What makes Olive striking is the variation in her roles SUN throughout the book. In some of the stories, Olive is the SUN main character. In others, Olive is only a supporting SUN figure, a foil, or nothing more than a name mentioned in SUN passing conversation. SUN SUN Most of the stories are set in and around the small town of SUN Crosby, Maine. It's a seemingly placid New England town that SUN is in fact wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, SUN all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and SUN harsh demeanour mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch SUN moral centre. SUN SUN The stories span 25 years and focus on Olive's relationships SUN with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town SUN pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's SUN approach to parenting; and other members of their community. SUN SUN With James Naughtie and a group of readers. SUN SUN May's Bookclub choice : The Infatuations by Javier Marias SUN (2013) SUN SUN Interviewed guest : Elizabeth Strout SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Murmur b075mly5 (Listen) SUN Julia Blackburn reads her poem about the death of her SUN husband and flocks of winter starlings. Not long after her SUN husband died she found herself drawn to write a series of SUN poems about his last years and his life. At the same time SUN near their Suffolk home Julia watched the great seething and SUN pulsing of winter starling murmurations. Without expecting SUN it she also found that the starlings flew into her poem and SUN began to help her make sense of her husband's death. Her SUN book of poems is called: Murmurations of Love, Grief and SUN Starlings. She reads it, talks about her husband and tries SUN to hear the sound of ten thousand starlings wheeling through SUN the dusk of a winter's day. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 How to Turn Your Life Around b074xbs4 (Listen) SUN What does it take to succeed if you are born into poverty SUN and neglect? Two people who have done just that explore SUN whether it was down to personality, circumstances or plain SUN luck. Why do so few people manage it? SUN SUN Byron Vincent, a writer and poet, and Dr Anna Woodhouse, a SUN university lecturer and outreach worker, talk to experts to SUN try and discover if their own triumph over lives that were SUN blighted by abuse, drug addiction, homelessness and hunger SUN could have been predicted. They talk to experts about the SUN sort of traits an individual needs to overcome adversity, SUN things like resilience, grit and will power, and discover SUN the latest thinking on what really helps. They explore the SUN way science is looking at the role of genes in determining SUN character. And they look at the importance of outside SUN forces; education, family support, mentors and the role of SUN the Government. At the end, they discuss what they have SUN found with former Welfare Minister and current Chair of the SUN Work and Pensions Select Committee Frank Field, to see what SUN government can do to help lift individuals out of poverty SUN and get them to turn their lives around. SUN SUN Producer: Jenny Sneesby. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b075m6p3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:02 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b075mdmj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b075mdml (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b075mdmn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b075mmdy (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon SUN SUN Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b075mmqr (Listen) SUN Rob asserts his viewpoint, and Helen reacts. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b075mnxs (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN SUN Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SUN it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to SUN find out more about it. SUN SUN Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate SUN Williams, Frank is joined by a selection of celebrity guests SUN who help him navigate his way through the annals of time, SUN picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and most SUN interesting moments in history. SUN SUN The guests are Katy Brand and Pierre Novellie, who discuss SUN Hodge - the cat belonging to Doctor Samuel Pepys, Nelson and SUN Lady Hamilton, and the Lyme Missal. SUN SUN Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard SUN An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Frank Skinner SUN Interviewed Guest: Katy Brand SUN Interviewed Guest: Pierre Novellie SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Mark Augustyn SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Infinite Possibilities and Unlikely Probabilities SUN b040h6xs (Listen) SUN Vacant Possession SUN SUN Three contemporary stories by Anita Sullivan - commissioned SUN specially for Radio 4 - set in a seaside town and exploring SUN a wider world that co-exists with our everyday lives. SUN SUN Episode 1: Vacant Possession SUN Grace is invaluable to a local Estate Agent in helping to SUN sell difficult houses. But what is her special gift? SUN SUN Anita Sullivan has written a number of plays and short SUN stories for BBC Radio, among them Countrysides (2011), The SUN Last Breath (created with Ben Fearnside in 2012), and the SUN adaptation of An Angel At My Table, which won Best Audio SUN Drama Serial at the BBC Audio Drama awards in 2014. SUN SUN Reader: Martina Laird SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Martina Laird SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b074zy97 (Listen) SUN The Great EU Cabbage Myth SUN SUN Could there really be 26,911 words of European Union SUN regulation dedicated to the sale of cabbage? This figure is SUN often used by those arguing there is too much bureaucracy in SUN the EU. But we trace its origins back to 1940s America. It SUN wasn't true then, and it isn't true today. So how did this SUN cabbage myth grow and spread? And what is the real number of SUN words relating to the sale of cabbages in the EU? SUN SUN After the recent announcement that all schools would be SUN converted to academies, a number of listeners have asked us SUN to look into the evidence of how they perform. Education SUN Secretary Nicky Morgan wrote a guest post on Mumsnet and SUN More or Less were called upon to check her numbers. SUN SUN The popular TV show The Only Way is Essex claimed in its SUN 200th episode that it had contributed more than a billion SUN pounds to the UK economy. We investigate if this is true. SUN SUN Plus, can we trust food surveys? Stories about which foods SUN are good and bad for you, which foods are linked to cancer SUN and which have beneficial qualities are always popular. But SUN how do experts know what people are eating? Tim Harford SUN speaks to Christie Aschwanden, FiveThirtyEight's lead writer SUN for science, about the pitfalls of food surveys. She kept a SUN food diary and answered nutrition surveys and found many of SUN the questions were really hard to answer. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b074vtqn (Listen) SUN Dame Zaha Hadid, Ronnie Corbett, General Meir Dagan, Joan SUN Loraine, Gary Shandling SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The internationally acclaimed architect Dame Zaha Hadid, SUN known to some as "the queen of the curve". SUN SUN Ronnie Corbett, whose partnership with Ronnie Barker made SUN him one of the UK's best loved comedians. SUN SUN General Meir Dagan, head of the Israeli secret service SUN Mossad when it was credited with carrying out the SUN assassination of five Iranian nuclear scientists. SUN SUN Joan Loraine who created a much admired garden at Greencombe SUN in Somerset SUN SUN And Gary Shandling who satirised the vanities and SUN insecurities of celebrity in his fictional TV chat show. SUN SUN Dame Zaha Hadid SUN SUN Born 31 October 1950; died 31 March 2016 Aged 65 SUN SUN Ronnie Corbett CBE (Pictured) SUN SUN Born 4 December 1930; died 31 March 2016 Aged 85 SUN SUN Joan Loraine SUN SUN Born 17 April 1924; died 19 February 2016 SUN SUN Aged 91 SUN SUN General Meir Dagan SUN SUN Born 30 January 1945; died 17 March 2016 Aged 71 SUN SUN Garry Shandling SUN SUN Born 29 November 1949; died 24 March 2016 Aged 66 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b074vtvc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b075mfyr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b074zgr2 (Listen) SUN Economic Rebellion SUN SUN Why is there so much dissatisfaction about how economics is SUN taught at universities? Since the financial crash, many SUN students have been in revolt in the UK and overseas, SUN determined to change the content of their courses. They are SUN not alone. Employers and some economists share many of their SUN concerns. Peter Day explores why the subject has changed SUN over a generation and why that might matter. SUN Producer: Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b075mdmv (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b074vtmx (Listen) SUN Terence Davies on Doris Day, Aidan Moffat on folk music SUN SUN With Antonia Quirke. SUN SUN Ex-Arab Strap front man Aidan Moffat talks about his SUN controversial attempts to re-write traditional Scottish folk SUN songs, as documented in the new film Where You're Meant To SUN Be SUN SUN Terence Davies, the director of Distant Voices, Still Lives, SUN talks about his love for Doris Day as a sing-a-long version SUN of Calamity Jane is about to released in cinemas SUN SUN Sebastian Schipper describes how exactly he made Victoria, a SUN heist movie that sprawls across Berlin and was shot in just SUN one take. SUN SUN Where You're Meant to Be SUN SUN Where to see: SUN Where You're Meant To Be SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Aidan Moffat SUN Interviewed Guest: Terence Davies SUN Interviewed Guest: Sebastian Schipper SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b075mfc3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 APRIL 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b075mdpc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b074xvfn (Listen) MON Dance halls, Pick-up artists MON MON Dance halls: a social and cultural history. James Nott, MON Lecturer in History at the University of St. Andrews, talks MON to Laurie Taylor about the origins, meaning and decline in a MON ritual which was once central to many young people's MON romantic lives and leisure time. He's joined by Caspar MON Melville, Lecturer in Global, Creative and Community Studies MON at SOAS. MON MON The 'Seduction Community': a study into the mores and codes MON of self styled, male 'pick up artists'. Rachel O'Neill, Phd MON graduate at Kings College London, interviewed men whose MON attitudes to women have attracted considerable condemnation MON in the wake of the banning of Julien Blanc, US 'pick up MON artist', from the UK. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Rachel O'Neill, King's College London MON James Nott at the University of St Andrews MON Caspar Melville at SOAS, University of London MON MON MON MON James Nott,*Going to the Palais. A Social And Cultural MON History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960 MON *(OUP, 2015) MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b075mfc1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b075mdpf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b075mdph (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b075mdpk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b075mdpm (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076z5jg (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The MON Revd Laurence Twaddle MON MON Producer Mo McCullough. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b075pb4m (Listen) MON Shooting Dogs on Farms MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sally Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b075mdpp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj1l (Listen) MON Swallow 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 swallow. You can see Swallows at MON this time of year gathering on telegraph wires, strung out MON like musical notes on a stave, before their long journey MON south to Africa. The female swallow often rears two broods MON of young each year but in sunny weather when there are MON plenty of flying insects, she may manage three broods. MON MON 06:00 Today b075pb4p (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b075pb4r (Listen) MON Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the state of the MON Eurozone and the politics of austerity with the economist MON and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the MON Director of the Institute of Global Affairs Erik Berglof and MON the Mayor of London's Chief Economic Advisor, Gerard Lyons. MON Yanis Varoufakis tracks the problems of the Eurozone to its MON woeful design and its continued reliance on debt and MON austerity, rather than reform. The classicist Paul Cartledge MON explores the history of democracy back to its birthplace in MON Athens and traces the long slow degradation of the original MON Greek concept. Since the crisis in 2008 Greece has been in MON economic and political turmoil but there has also been a MON cultural renaissance. The academic Karen Van Dyck has MON brought together the best of contemporary Greek poetry by MON multi-ethnic poets in a new anthology. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Yanis Varoufakis MON Interviewed Guest: Paul Cartledge MON Interviewed Guest: Karen Van Dyck MON Interviewed Guest: Erik Berglof MON Interviewed Guest: Gerard Lyons MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b075pb4t (Listen) MON Beethoven for a Later Age, An Audition MON MON Edward Dusinberre is the Tackas Quartet's first violinist MON and in his illuminating account he takes us inside the daily MON life of a string quartet and explores his creative, musical MON and personal relationships with his fellow players. He also MON looks at the challenges of performing Beethoven's MON extraordinary quartet music which was composed against the MON backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. MON MON Recordings of the Tackas Quartet playing Beethoven's string MON quartets will be interwoven into each programme. Tim MON McMullan is the reader. MON MON Abridged by Sara Davies MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tim McMullan MON Author: Edward Dusinberre MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b075mdpr (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b075pb4w (Listen) MON How Does That Make You Feel?, Episode 1 MON MON In this the 7th series of 'How Does that Make You Feel?' MON Martha's clients have made few changes to their MON circumstances. MON MON Richard's PA Genevieve has advised him to get a Twitter and MON Facebook account to help raise his profile. And despite some MON initial abuse from disgruntled constituents his profile does MON seem to rise - a little. But when he is contacted by an old MON friend from school; a female friend for whom he once had a MON big passion. This turns out to be a major mistake. MON MON Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of MON Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio MON 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory MON of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her MON plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote MON Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the MON Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2. She is currently writing, MON new plays for Hampstead Theatre and Live Theatre in MON Newcastle, a number of feature films and a TV series for BBC MON 1. MON MON Richard Fallon ..... Roger Allam MON Martha ..... Frances Tomelty MON MON Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson MON Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan MON Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON Credits MON Richard Fallon: Roger Allam MON Martha: Frances Tomelty MON Writer: Shelagh Stephenson MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan MON MON 11:00 A Dirty Secret b075pc0h (Listen) MON Almost two-and-a-half billion people lack access to an MON adequate toilet, and around one billion have no sanitation MON facilities whatsoever. Poor sanitation kills a child under MON five every 100 seconds. Anthropologist and broadcaster MON Mary-Ann Ochota visits Bangladesh and India to understand MON the challenges involved in achieving sanitation for all. MON MON It's a problem that is often addressed without any sustained MON success. The United Nations' Millennium Development Goal MON aimed to halve the proportion of people without access to MON basic sanitation by 2015 - a goal that failed by some 700 MON million people. MON MON Bangladesh has achieved much in its sanitation coverage over MON recent years, in spite of many challenges, but its capital MON Dhaka is one of the most densely populated cities in the MON world. Like many cities in an increasingly urbanised world, MON it struggles to cope with the demands of a rapidly growing MON population. MON MON India has a separate challenge - how to stop 600 million MON people relieving themselves outdoors. Prime Minister MON Narendra Modi has pledged to end the practice of open MON defecation by October 2019, in time to mark the 150th MON anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. MON MON Presenter: Mary-Ann Ochota MON Producer: Nick Minter MON An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Boswell's Lives b075pddm (Listen) MON Series 2, Boswell's Life of Madonna MON MON by Jon Canter MON MON Produced by Sally Avens MON MON Comedy as James Boswell, Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer, MON pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he meets Madonna MON and lives to tell the tale. MON MON Credits MON James Boswell: Miles Jupp MON Madonna: Debra Stephenson MON Writer: Jon Canter MON Director: Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 News Summary b075mdpt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b075pddp (Listen) MON 4 April 1916 - Isaac Cox MON MON On this day in 1916, strikers returned to work at the Clyde MON shipyards, and at Halecot Farm the future of Isaac Cox's MON family hangs in the balance. MON MON Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON NOTES MON This season of Home Front is set in a farming community in MON South Devon, where Gabriel's sister Cora lives, and - MON coincidentally - where Adam Wilson headed at the end of MON Season Six, running away from his crime, and looking for MON Dieter. Our characters' stories take place against the MON backdrop of history, in this case, a notable shift in the MON preoccupations of the Home Front. MON MON April 1916 marks the moment in the First World War when MON recruitment was no longer voluntary, and conscription into MON the military began to take hold. And with conscription came MON objection, and the war witnessed over two million tribunals MON looked into the merits of men appealing against the draft. MON Devon was one of the counties most resistant to joining up, MON voluntarily or not. MON MON Season 7 of Home Front is story-led by Richard Monks (STONE, MON INQUEST) and written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (PILGRIM, MR MON RAINBOW), Lucy Catherine (THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, RIOT MON GIRLS), Shaun McKenna (THE FORSYTES, THE COMPLETE SMILEY), MON and Sarah Daniels (THE CAZALETS, EATING FOR ENGLAND). MON MON Credits MON Isaac Cox: James Lailey MON Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy MON Cyrus Colville: Anton Lesser MON Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams MON Hetty Cox: Adie Allen MON John Rossiter: Mark Carey MON Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards MON Morris Battley: Sean Baker MON Auctioneer: Ewan Bailey MON Man: Brian Protheroe MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b075mdpw (Listen) MON Stolen mobiles, Living wage, Microchipped dogs, GP shortage MON MON The mobile phones stolen using innocent people's names. MON What's being done to stop it? MON MON As UK workers get a new 'living' wage, how did a similar MON scheme work out in Germany? MON MON And which motorists will lose the most from the government's MON shake up of car tax? MON MON Presenter: Winifred Robinson MON Producer: Jon Douglas. MON MON 12:57 Weather b075mdpy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b075pddr (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Inglorious Isolation: A European's History of Britain MON b075pddt (Listen) MON Italy MON MON Italian architect Francesco da Mosto presents a humorous and MON thoughtful take on the history of Britain from his Italian MON perspective. MON MON From the roots of the British stiff upper lip found in Roman MON stoicism, to the Venetian skies of a Canaletto painting that MON seem to evoke those he saw during his time in Britain, and MON seeking out a Rolling Stones record sung in Italian in MON London's Portobello market - a modern nod to the century's MON old cultural connection between Britain and Italy. MON MON With contributions from historian Professor Eugenio Biagini MON from the University of Cambridge, Dr Lucia Rinaldi from the MON Italian department of University College London, and Mariano MON Rubinacci the head of the second generation of tailors who MON have made their mark on British and Italian fashion. MON MON Across this series, five mainland Europeans give their take MON on Britain's historical relationship with their home country MON - the historical moments and popular culture that have MON created the image of the Brit in the mind of continental MON Europeans. MON MON The notion of Britain being separated in splendid isolation MON from the continent is fundamental to many of the historical MON misunderstandings and strains on the relationship with MON Europe. Yet as frequently as the British appear to be the MON haughty thorn in Europe's side, our authors find moments of MON intertwined history that have drawn the island closer to the MON mainland - from how the Brits live to how they dress and MON their ability to get a good cup of coffee. MON MON Each author reflects on the moments in their own lives that MON have drawn them to Britain and Britishness - The Beatles, MON psychologist Hans-Jürgen Eysenck, or the call of Aberdeen MON from the most westerly part of Denmark. MON MON Producer: Katherine Godfrey MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b075mmqr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b075pm3x (Listen) MON The Final Call MON MON By Matt Hartley MON MON A disgruntled customer, driven to despair by his internet MON service provider, takes matters into his own hands by MON confronting the staff at its call centre. Very quickly, MON events spiral out of his control. MON MON Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON Credits MON Danny: Felix Scott MON Mark: Blake Harrison MON Debbie: Bettrys Jones MON Rhys: Craig Gallivan MON Peter: Sargon Yelda MON Walker: Ewan Bailey MON Carol: Adie Allen MON Philip: James Lailey MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON Writer: Matt Hartley MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b075pm3z (Listen) MON Semi-Final 1, 2016 MON MON (13/17) MON The competition steps up a gear with the start of the 2016 MON semi-finals, chaired by Russell Davies. Three heat winners MON and one of the top-scoring runners-up across the series MON compete for a place in the 2016 Final. MON MON On which of the Hawaiian islands is Pearl Harbor? How many MON players are there on a Gaelic football team? And which MON character in Disney's original cartoon of The Jungle Book MON was voiced by the actor George Sanders? MON MON As always, there's also a chance for a Brain of Britain MON listener to 'Beat the Brains' by suggesting devious MON questions of his or her own with which to outwit the MON competitors. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b075mhgr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Dancer Dies Twice b075pm41 (Listen) MON "A dancer dies twice", the legendary choreographer Martha MON Graham said, "once when they stop dancing, and this first MON death is the more painful." MON MON This is a documentary about first deaths and last dances, MON about what happens when an instrument as finely tuned as a MON dancer's body begins to change. MON MON From the music which prompts a twitch of muscle memory to MON the comedown which follows a burst of performance MON adrenaline, we hear stories of the last dances and what MON comes next from Gabriella Schmidt, Isabel Mortimer from MON Dancers' Career Development, and former principal ballerinas MON Natasha Oughtred and Wendy Whelan. MON MON We eavesdrop on the training of young dancers at the Royal MON Ballet School as they shape muscle and bone into elegant MON lines, diving into the visceral excitement of pounding MON pointe shoes and powerful leaping bodies. And we visit Sage MON Dance Company and the Company of Elders as they work with MON dancers who move with grace and beauty in defiance of their MON changing bodies. MON MON From the first anxious glance in the mirror to the last MON touch - how does the language of our bodies change as we MON age? MON MON Produced by Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b075pm43 (Listen) MON Series 9, Work MON MON In the 1st of a new series Aleks Krotoski gets down to work. MON From micro-taskers paid pennies to be the janitors of our MON digital services to car drivers jumping on the Uber MON bandwagon. MON MON Aleks speaks to technology writer Kashmir Hill who spent a MON month as an invisible girlfriend writing loving texts to MON service subscribers for a few cents per message. This is MON just one example of 'micro-tasking' made famous by Amazon's MON Mechanical Turk service. For Vili Lehdonvirta of the Oxford MON internet institute they're examples of the hidden human MON effort going into services we would assume were automated. MON Its a new form of piece work undertaken by a causal MON workforce doing it where and when it suits them. MON MON This type of work treats you like part of a system managed MON by algorithms an artificial, artificial intelligence. In MON some senses this isn't anything new as work historian MON Richard Donkin explains using the examples of the time and MON motion studies pioneered by Fredrick Winslow Taylor and MON later taken up by Henry Ford. MON MON What is new is that having an algorithm as a boss runs the MON risk of having only the appearance of freedom and MON flexibility. Its what attracts people to the so called gig MON economy, where tasks are farmed out by the app to a willing MON freelance workforce. Aleks hears both sides of that MON experience from two people who make their living off a MON digital platform; one by day and the other by night. MON MON So what promise do these new forms of digital work offer? MON Aleks discovers they have the potential to be both a race to MON the bottom for labour markets and usher in a new era for MON those currently unable to work. MON MON Producer: Peter McManus. MON MON 17:00 PM b075mdq0 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b075mdq2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b0731bsv (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as tattoos, milk, supermarkets and MON Vladimir Putin. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Jon Richardson MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Jack Dee MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b075pm47 (Listen) MON Kirsty is called to action, and Pat is confused. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b075mdq4 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b075pb4w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Spy Tape b076v1zq (Listen) MON BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera with new insights MON into a Cold War scandal. MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b074zdcv (Listen) MON Thai Buddhism - Monks, Mercs and Women MON MON An unholy spat is stirring the Sangha, Thailand's top MON Buddhist authority - who will become the next Supreme MON Patriarch, Thailand's most senior monk? Meanwhile, MON allegations of 'cheque-book Buddhism', cronyism and MON corruption abound - including allegations about tax-evasion MON on an imported vintage Mercedes car. In Thailand, where the MON majority of the population profess Buddhism, seeking MON ordination isn't unusual. But salacious stories about monks MON who commit serious crimes - everything from sex offences to MON wildlife trafficking - continue to shock. Watching quietly MON from the side-lines is the Venerable Dhammananda - female, MON and a Buddhist monk since 2003. Although the Sangha bars MON women from ordination, there are now around 100 bhikkhunis, MON as female monastics are known, in Thailand. And their MON growing acceptance by some Buddhist believers might partly MON be explained by a widespread disillusionment with the MON behaviour of some male monks. For Crossing Continents, Linda MON Pressly explores the rifts and sexual politics challenging MON Thai Buddhism and its devotees. MON MON 21:00 Goodbye Mosquito b074x4t9 (Listen) MON Over a million people die from mosquito-borne diseases every MON year. Hundreds of millions more people suffer from the MON illnesses transmitted by mosquitoes. MON MON Malaria, the most widespread mosquito-borne disease, affects MON 350-500 million people each year. The Zika virus, which has MON been linked to birth defects in children is spreading. MON Dengue Fever infects nearly 400 million people each year, MON causing an estimated 25,000 deaths and an enormous economic MON cost in affected countries. Chikungunya, Yellow Fever and MON Eastern Equine Encephalitis are also transmitted by MON mosquitoes and are on the rise. These are painful and MON debilitating diseases which can, in some cases, prove fatal. MON MON Although malaria is transmitted by several different species MON of mosquito, Zika, Dengue Fever, Yellow fever and MON Chikungunya are carried by just two related species, of MON mosquito - Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (the Asian MON Tiger Mosquito). MON MON So would they be missed if they were wiped off the face of MON the planet? MON MON Biologist Professor Adam Hart knows only too well how MON complex and interconnected nature is. If we wipe out an MON entire species, how will the rest of the natural environment MON cope? Well, it seems the public enemy number one mosquito - MON Aedes aegyptii, wouldn't be missed very much at all. It's a MON mosquito that has evolved fairly recently. The females MON nearly always feed on humans and they breed in and near our MON homes, often in small pots of water and car tyres. MON MON In Goodbye Mosquito, Adam Hart discovers some of the latest MON technological advances being trialled to rid us of these MON winged-beasts; including genetically engineering male A. MON aegypti mosquitoes so that their offspring don't survive. MON MON Producer: Fiona Roberts. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b075pb4r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b075mdq6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b075mdq8 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b075pp31 (Listen) MON Mothering Sunday, Episode 1 MON MON Booker prize-winner Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous MON and sensual meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a MON writer. MON MON Berkshire, 1924. On the one day of the year when servants MON are given leave to visit their families, orphaned maid Jane MON languishes in the bed of her lover. MON MON Read by Eileen Atkins MON Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Eileen Atkins MON Author: Graham Swift MON Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 23:00 Looking For Charlie Williams b060bctv (Listen) MON Ian McMillan sets out on a personal quest to find out more MON about the late professional footballer turned TV comedy MON star, Charlie Williams, who rose to national fame in the MON early 1970s with appearances on The Comedians and The Golden MON Shot, delivering his trademark 'me old flower' in his broad MON Yorkshire accent. MON MON At 14, Charlie went down the pit and excelled at football, MON playing for the Upton Colliery team. This led to a MON successful career as a professional footballer in the 1950s MON when he made 151 appearances for Doncaster Rovers and was MON one of the first black footballers in the country. MON MON After retiring from football, he turned his hand to singing MON in the local Working Men's Clubs. He soon realised his MON in-between song banter was going down much better than his MON singing and a new career in comedy was born. He made his TV MON debut in 1971, starring in the Comedians alongside Bernard MON Manning and Frank Carson, and had a six month residence at MON the London Palladium. MON MON Ian talks to Doncaster Rovers' club historian Tony Bluff to MON find out just why the club's fans voted him 'all time club MON cult hero' in a 2004 Football Focus poll. He visits MON Charlie's widow Janice and learns about the day he received MON his MBE from Prince Charles. We also hear from writer and MON broadcaster Dotun Adebayo, who wrote and starred in a play MON based on Charlie, and from Charlie's best mate and one-time MON agent Neil Crossland. MON MON The combination of a black man with a broad Yorkshire accent MON and first-hand experience of working class life made Charlie MON Williams unique. Some say his gags reinforced racial MON stereotypes of the time, but nevertheless he was a pioneer MON and role model for a new generation of British black MON comedians. MON MON Producer: Kellie While MON A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Short Cuts b06pb74b (Listen) MON Series 8, Wild Water MON MON From finding your way in a cold, dark sea swim to coping MON with the isolation at the bottom of the ocean, Josie Long MON hears stories of wild water. MON MON Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON The items featured in the programme are: MON MON Mirage MON Produced by Cicely Fell MON MON Pool Party MON Produced by Phil Smith MON MON Diver MON Produced by Andrea Rangecroft MON MON The Swim MON Produced by Jodie Taylor with Jenny Horwell. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 APRIL 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b075mdrw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b075pb4t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b075mdry (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b075mds0 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b075mds2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b075mds4 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076zzcp (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The TUE Revd Laurence Twaddle TUE TUE Producer Mo McCullough. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b075psp0 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02twhqd (Listen) TUE Coal Tit TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve TUE Backshall presents the coal tit. TUE TUE Coal tits often visit our bird-tables but don't hang around. TUE They dart off with food to hide it in crevices and crannies. TUE What the bird is doing is hiding or cache-ing food to be TUE eaten later. Coal tits are smaller than their relatives and TUE have lower fat reserves, so they store food to compensate TUE for any future shortages. In the winter they store seeds and TUE in summer they will hide small insects. TUE TUE Coal Tit (Periparus ater) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b075pszy (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Deobandis b06gqr66 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE The Deobandis are virtually unknown to most British people, TUE yet their influence is huge. As the largest Islamic group in TUE the UK, they control over 40% of mosques and have a near TUE monopoly on Islamic seminaries, which propagate a TUE back-to-basics, orthodox interpretation of Islam. TUE TUE Founded in a town called Deoband in 19th Century India, it's TUE a relatively new tradition within the Islamic faith, but has TUE spread throughout the world, with the UK being a key centre. TUE Migrants from India and Pakistan brought Deobandi Islam to TUE the UK during the 1960s and 1970s, setting up mosques and TUE madrassas in the mill towns of Bury and Dewsbury, from which TUE a national network grew. TUE TUE The Deobandi movement is large and diverse: from the TUE quietest and strictly non-violent missionary group the TUE Tablighi Jamaat to the armed sectarian and jihadist groups TUE of Pakistan. TUE TUE The BBC's former Pakistan correspondent Owen Bennett Jones TUE investigates which strands of Deobandi opinion have TUE influence in the UK, speaking to people from within the TUE British Deobandi community, from scholars to missionaries to TUE madrassa students. TUE TUE In the first of two programmes he explores claims that TUE Deobandi Islam is intentionally isolationist and that its TUE strict beliefs put it at odds with mainstream British TUE culture, leaving the community segregated from wider British TUE society. Though if true, is that really the fault of TUE Deobandi Muslims? TUE TUE Producers: Richard Fenton-Smith & Sajid Iqbal TUE Researcher: Holly Topham. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b075pt02 (Listen) TUE Beethoven for a Later Age, The First Season TUE TUE Edward Dusinberre recalls his first season as the Takacs TUE Quartet's first violinist. As he and his three fellow TUE performers set out to perfect their performance of TUE Beethoven's Opus 18, no 1 he is preoccupied by questions of TUE more individual and more integrated expression in the TUE musical ensemble. He also finds that adapting to life as a TUE touring musician has it's challenges. TUE TUE Read by Tim McMullan TUE Abridged by Sara Davies TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tim McMullan TUE Author: Edward Dusinberre TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b075mds6 (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b075pt3d (Listen) TUE How Does That Make You Feel?, Episode 2 TUE TUE In this the 7th series of 'How Does that Make You Feel?' TUE Martha's clients have made few changes to their TUE circumstances. TUE TUE Having completed his rehabilitation course, following TUE accusations of sexism and cruelty to his employees, Tony has TUE returned to Martha's sessions a new man - or so he thinks. TUE He has even launched a women only menu in his restaurant to TUE cater for the female obsession with calories - with special TUE attention and advice to be given to ladies whom he considers TUE overweight. He is mystified as to why this considerate TUE gesture is not met with the acclaim he feels it deserves. TUE TUE Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of TUE Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio TUE 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory TUE of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her TUE plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote TUE Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the TUE Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2. She is currently writing, TUE new plays for Hampstead Theatre and Live Theatre in TUE Newcastle, a number of feature films and a TV series for BBC TUE 1. TUE TUE Tony ..... Tim McInnerny TUE Martha ..... Frances Tomelty TUE TUE Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson TUE Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan TUE Director ......Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Tony: Tim McInnerny TUE Martha: Frances Tomelty TUE Writer: Shelagh Stephenson TUE Director: Eoin O'Callaghan TUE TUE 11:00 Rewinding the Menopause b0643vfl (Listen) TUE Dr Aarathi Prasad looks at how new research into women's TUE fertility may help stave off the menopause, improving health TUE and quality of life. TUE TUE The conventional wisdom is that a woman has a finite number TUE of eggs which begin dying off before she is even born. TUE Researchers in the 1950s counted the number of healthy eggs TUE in human ovaries over the course of a life time. After the TUE menopause none remain. TUE TUE In 2004, Dr Jonathan Tilly's lab at the Massachusetts TUE General Hospital challenged this assumption when they TUE identified cells they believed could replenish a woman's TUE bank of eggs. The research is controversial as it has yet to TUE be convincingly replicated, although scientists like Dr TUE Evelyn Telfer - once sceptical of Dr Tilly's claims - have TUE isolated the cells and already produced some promising TUE results. TUE TUE Meanwhile, medical colleagues in Edinburgh have been TUE freezing ovarian tissue, harvested from patients who - TUE either through illness or medical treatment such as TUE chemotherapy - face an early menopause. The aim is to use TUE the patient's ovarian tissue at a later date to reverse the TUE menopause and restore their fertility. TUE TUE In the long-term, such research could have implications for TUE all menopausal women. However, obstetrician Dr Susan Bewley TUE warns that benefits could come at a cost. She believes the TUE menopause is a natural part of aging and there are risks in TUE trying to reverse it. TUE TUE So what might the future hold for the application of this TUE new research? TUE TUE Producer: Sara Parker TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b075pxfx (Listen) TUE Series 22, Bring Him Home TUE TUE Bring Him Home, from Les Miserables, is a beautiful and TUE moving prayer-in-song that has developed meaning and TUE identity outside the hit musical. TUE TUE Taking part in the programme: TUE TUE The celebrated tenor, Alfie Boe, has sung this many times in TUE the West End and on Broadway; he discusses what the song TUE means to him. TUE TUE Herbert Kretzmer talks about the agonising process of TUE writing the lyrics. TUE TUE The Greater Manchester Police Male Voice Choir recorded a TUE version especially for the programme; one of their members TUE describes singing Bring Him Home at the funeral of PC Dave TUE Phillips in November 2015. TUE TUE The original Cosette, from Les Miserables, Rebecca Caine now TUE sings this song - written for a male voice - regularly as TUE part of international recitals. TUE TUE And for Becky Douglas it will forever be a reminder of her TUE daughter whose death inspired the foundation of a leprosy TUE charity. TUE TUE Jeremy Summerly, Director of Music at St Peter's College, TUE Oxford plays through the piece and describes why it moves us TUE emotionally. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Bring Him Home TUE TUE Rebecca Caine, the first 'Cosette' in Les Mis TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b075mds8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b075pxg0 (Listen) TUE 5 April 1916 - John Rossiter TUE TUE On this day in 1916, a Zeppelin raid dropped bombs on the TUE North East coast, while at Spittal End Farm conscription TUE appears on the horizon. TUE TUE Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Directed by Allegra McIlroy TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE John Rossiter: Mark Carey TUE Ambrose Nichols: Steve Clark TUE Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro TUE Derek: Ewan Bailey TUE Donald Fox: Jayson Benovichi-Dicken TUE Gert Battley: Maggie Steed TUE Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe TUE Morris Battley: Sean Baker TUE Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant TUE Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b075mdsb (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b075mdsd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b075pxg3 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Inglorious Isolation: A European's History of Britain TUE b075t8b1 (Listen) TUE France TUE TUE French journalist Catherine Guilyardi presents her TUE thoughtful take on the history of Britain from her French TUE perspective. It's the story of two countries who like to see TUE themselves as exceptional but find common ground in this TUE exceptionality. The interplay between Winston Churchill and TUE Charles De Gaulle speaks to this long-standing relationship TUE between old rivals - one that oscillates between admiration TUE and irritation. TUE TUE With contributions from historian Professor Eugenio Biagini TUE from the University of Cambridge and French author and TUE journalist Agnès Poirier, Catherine presents a view of the TUE relationship between these pragmatic isolationists who are TUE more than happy to go it alone but ready to build bridges, TUE or tunnels, when it serves their interests. TUE TUE Catherine Guilyardi is a French journalist and author who TUE lives in both Paris and London. TUE TUE Across this series, five mainland Europeans give their take TUE on Britain's historical relationship with their home country TUE - the historical moments and popular culture that have TUE created the image of the Brit in the mind of continental TUE Europeans. TUE TUE The notion of Britain being separated in splendid isolation TUE from the continent is fundamental to many of the historical TUE misunderstandings and strains on the relationship with TUE Europe. Yet as frequently as the British appear to be the TUE haughty thorn in Europe's side, our authors find moments of TUE intertwined history that have drawn the island closer to the TUE mainland - from how the Brits live to how they dress and TUE their ability to get a good cup of coffee. TUE TUE Each author reflects on the moments in their own lives that TUE have drawn them to Britain and Britishness - The Beatles, TUE psychologist Hans-Jürgen Eysenck, or the call of Aberdeen TUE from the most westerly part of Denmark. TUE TUE Producer: Katherine Godfrey TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b075pm47 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03zb4b4 (Listen) TUE Silk: The Clerks' Room, Jake TUE TUE By Mick Collins TUE TUE Jake thinks that barristers' clerks and Italian-American TUE gangsters are cut from the same cloth. They both demand TUE loyalty, run people's lives and if you want your business to TUE survive, you have to pay them a chunk of your earnings. In TUE the first part of a series on based on the TV drama Silk, TUE Jake inadvertantly continues the analogy, when he finds TUE himself in the firing line after double-crossing Head Clerk TUE Billy. TUE TUE Based on the BBC1 series Silk created by Peter Moffat. TUE TUE Executive producer: Hilary Salmon TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jake: Theo Barklem-Biggs TUE Billy: Neil Stuke TUE Amy: Jessica Henwick TUE John: John MacMillan TUE Bethany: Amy Wren TUE Chris: Anthony Welsh TUE Jury Forewoman: Carolyn Pickles TUE Tannoy: Priyanga Burford TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Mick Collins TUE TUE 15:00 The Design Dimension b075pxg6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Playing 'God' TUE TUE In the first of a new series, Tom Dyckhoff looks at the doll TUE and how we represent ourselves both individually and TUE socially. He goes from the doll's ethnographic roots in TUE stylised fertility to a future of personalised dolls - TUE demonstrated as he has a life-like model created of himself TUE through 3-D printing in a supermarket booth. TUE TUE He questions gender and stereotypes, looking at the design TUE features of successful dolls and meeting the voice of TUE talking Barbie from the 1960s. TUE TUE Not all dolls are for children, and Tom visits the workshop TUE of a doll-maker who designs for adults with her re-born TUE babies, also discovering how dolls can be used in education TUE as well as therapeutically, with dementia patients in care TUE homes. TUE TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b075pxg8 (Listen) TUE From Iceland with Love TUE TUE The Ice Link interconnector would link Iceland's cheap and TUE carbon free electricity from hydro and geothermal to the UK. TUE It could provide the equivalent power of a medium sized TUE power plant through a copper cable laid under the sea TUE between the two countries. Crucially the power would be TUE reliable and available when other renewable sources such as TUE wind and solar are not. However, as Tom Heap discovers when TUE he visits the land of fire and ice, environmental TUE campaigners like Bjork fear that this green solution for UK TUE homes could create a need to develop into the pristine TUE wilderness of Iceland's Highlands. Should we pursue our TUE global climate goals even if it has the potential to affect TUE untouched and fragile landscape elsewhere? Tough decisions TUE for Iceland and for us all. TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b075pz7x (Listen) TUE Steven Pinker on Language TUE TUE Professor Steven Pinker joins Michael Rosen and Dr Laura TUE Wright in the studio for a wide-ranging talk about his love TUE of, and life working in, language. Steven is Johnstone TUE Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and he's come TUE up with some of the biggest and most exciting ideas about TUE language. His books include The Language Instinct, How the TUE Mind Works, and most recently, The Sense of Style: The TUE Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Michael Rosen, Dr Laura Wright and Professor Steven Pinker TUE (l-r) TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b075pz7z (Listen) TUE Series 39, Anthony Horowitz chooses the life of Alfred TUE Hitchcock TUE TUE Anthony Horowitz regards Alfred Hitchcock as a genius who TUE changed the language of cinema and made some of the most TUE memorable films of the twentieth century. TUE However, the film director is also seen as a troubled man TUE who was at times abusive towards some of his leading ladies. TUE The expert witness is Nathalie Morris; Senior Curator at the TUE BFI, National Archive. The presenter is Matthew Parris and TUE the producer is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Anthony Horowitz TUE Interviewed Guest: Nathalie Morris TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b075mdsg (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b075mdsj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b062n4nb (Listen) TUE Series 10, Sisters TUE TUE Episode Three- Sisters TUE TUE Clare and her estranged sister are forced to co-operate with TUE one another, in between some Sparrowhawk team lead TUE self-defence training. TUE TUE Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all TUE the right jargon but never a practical solution. TUE TUE A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering TUE in other people's lives on both a professional and personal TUE basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and TUE heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of TUE discomfort to her. TUE TUE Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control TUE both her professional and private life In today's Big TUE Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an TUE involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer Alexandra Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Clare: Sally Phillips TUE Brian: Alex Lowe TUE Nali: Nina Conti TUE Megan: Nina Conti TUE Ray: Richard Lumsden TUE Helen: Pippa Haywood TUE Simon: Andrew Wincott TUE Libby: Sarah Kendall TUE Joan: Sarah Thom TUE Sarah Barker: Sarah Thom TUE Scarlett: Eleanor Curry TUE Stine Wetzel: Amelia Lowdell TUE Hunter: Neet Mohan TUE Dylan: Elliot Steel TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b075pz81 (Listen) TUE Jazzer is working hard, and Helen encounters a new face. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b075mdsl (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b075pt3d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Panama Papers b075pz83 (Listen) TUE Some of the world's most notorious regimes face sanctions to TUE stop them doing business. Simon Cox reveals how secretive TUE shell companies allow them to continue moving money around. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b075mdsn (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Joy of 9 to 5 b06pbw9v (Listen) TUE Lucy Kellaway looks at the UK's long hours office culture TUE and asks what happened to the 9 to 5? TUE TUE In 1930 John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by 2030, we'd TUE all be working a 15 hour week. And yet, almost half of us in TUE the UK put in over a 40 hour week and most of those who work TUE over 48 hours say they're unhappy. TUE TUE In part one of a new series on modern work culture, Lucy TUE Kellaway, management columnist for the Financial Times, TUE discovers the origins of the eight hour working day. TUE TUE She finds out what people are actually up to when they're in TUE the office at all hours and argues much of the typical TUE working day is taken up with time-wasting. For Lucy, our TUE self image has become so intertwined with our job that we TUE bolster it by putting the hours in - even if in doing so TUE we're less happy and productive. TUE TUE Speaking to business leaders, management researchers, and TUE office workers, Lucy asks whether it's time to re-define our TUE notion of 'hard work', and explores the idea that working TUE less could actually be better for everyone. TUE TUE Written and presented by Lucy Kellaway TUE TUE Producer: Gemma Newby TUE Executive Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 21:30 The Deobandis b06gqr66 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b075mdst (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b075mdsw (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b075q02n (Listen) TUE Mothering Sunday, Episode 2 TUE TUE Booker prize-winner Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous TUE and sensual meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a TUE writer. TUE TUE Maid Jane Fairchild answers a telephone call at Beechwood TUE which will change not only the course of her Mothering TUE Sunday but, in time, also her life. TUE TUE Read by Eileen Atkins TUE Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Eileen Atkins TUE Author: Graham Swift TUE Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 23:00 Love in Recovery b075q02q (Listen) TUE Series 2, Coming Clean TUE TUE Second series of the award-nominated comedy drama set in TUE Alcoholics Anonymous, written by Pete Jackson and inspired TUE by his own road to recovery. Stars Sue Johnston, John TUE Hannah, Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul Kaye and Julia TUE Deakin. TUE TUE Love in Recovery follows the lives of five very different TUE recovering alcoholics. Taking place entirely at their weekly TUE meetings, we hear them moan, argue, laugh, fall apart, fall TUE in love and - most importantly - tell their stories. TUE TUE In this fourth episode, Julie (Sue Johnston) is having a TUE tough time with her new bloke, and Danno (Paul Kaye) has a TUE secret to share with the group. A big secret. A shameful TUE secret. A secret he thought he'd never have to reveal. TUE TUE Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent TUE time in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found support TUE from the unlikeliest group of disparate souls - with one TUE common bond. As well as offering the support he needed TUE throughout a difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, TUE sometimes daily, dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and TUE friendship. TUE TUE There are lots of different kinds of AA meetings. Love in TUE Recovery is about meetings where people tell their stories. TUE There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small TUE victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, TUE and those stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but TUE still do, along with the storyteller. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Marion...........Julia Deakin TUE Fiona.............Rebecca Front TUE Simon............John Hannah TUE Julie...............Sue Johnston TUE Danno............Paul Kaye TUE Andy..............Eddie Marsan TUE TUE Written and created by Pete Jackson TUE Producer/Director: Ben Worsfield TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Marion: Julia Deakin TUE Fiona: Rebecca Front TUE Simon: John Hannah TUE Julie: Sue Johnston TUE Danno: Paul Kaye TUE Andy: Eddie Marsan TUE Writer: Pete Jackson TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Director: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 With Great Pleasure b06vk6nf (Listen) TUE Phill Jupitus TUE TUE Comedian Phill Jupitus takes us through his life in books, TUE comedy, poetry and songs, from the Sex Pistols to Steve TUE Martin and the speech that has changed his life. With TUE readers Thom Tuck and Cariad Lloyd, and live music by Boo TUE Hewerdine. Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC's TUE Maida Vale studios. TUE Phill's readings are from Clothes Music Boys by Viv TUE Albertine, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, Genesis by TUE Billy Collins, Bossypants by Tina Fey and The House at Pooh TUE Corner by AA Milne. TUE Sound archive is of Professor Richard Demarco accepting his TUE honorary degree as Doctor of Arts from Southampton Solent TUE University. TUE Live song is Bell Book and Candle by Boo Hewerdine. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Phill Jupitus TUE Reader: Thom Tuck TUE Reader: Cariad Lloyd TUE Performer: Boo Hewerdine TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 APRIL 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b075mdv9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b075pt02 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b075mdvc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b075mdvf (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b075mdvh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b075mdvk (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b077jtt7 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The WED Revd Laurence Twaddle WED WED Producer Mo McCullough. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b075qflp (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378tmb (Listen) WED Long-Tailed Tit WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Michaela Strachan presents the long-tailed tit. They are WED sociable birds and family ties are vital. They even roost WED together at night, huddled in lines on a branch, and this WED behaviour saves lives in very cold winter weather. The nest WED of the Long-Tailed Tit is one of the most elaborate of any WED UK bird, a ball of interwoven moss, lichen, animal hair, WED spider's webs and feathers. WED WED Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b075qflr (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b075qflt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b075qflw (Listen) WED Beethoven for a Later Age, Irretrievably Fractured WED WED The Takacs Quartet's first violinist Edward Dusinberre WED recalls a time of loss and grief. He finds solace and a WED changed perspective in performing Beethoven's turbulent Opus WED 59, no 2. WED WED Read by Tim McMullan WED Abridged by Sara Davies WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tim McMullan WED Author: Edward Dusinberre WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b075mdvm (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b075qfly (Listen) WED How Does That Make You Feel?, Episode 3 WED WED In this the 7th series of 'How Does that Make You Feel?' WED Martha's clients have made few changes to their WED circumstances. WED WED Caroline is mildly disturbed by the fact that her recently WED returned husband is building a guillotine in the spare room. WED However she hasn't yet figured out what he might want to use WED it for. Meanwhile her blog on how to stay thin and be WED successful, which largely involves eating kale and shaved WED cardboard clippings, seems to be gaining a growing WED readership. Caroline's philosophy is that if people want to WED pay her be told how to eat rubbish in the deluded belief WED that its doing them some good, then who is she to deny them WED the recipes... WED WED Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of WED Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio WED 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory WED of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her WED plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote WED Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the WED Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2. She is currently writing, WED new plays for Hampstead Theatre and Live Theatre in WED Newcastle, a number of feature films and a TV series for BBC WED 1. WED WED Caroline ..... Rebecca Saire WED Martha ..... Frances Tomelty WED WED Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson WED Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED Credits WED Tony: Tim McInnerny WED Martha: Frances Tomelty WED Writer: Shelagh Stephenson WED Director: Eoin O'Callaghan WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b075qjff (Listen) WED Linsey and Tamsyn - Theatrical Friends WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who both WED work for the British Library, but who formed their strong WED bond through their commitment to amateur dramatics. Another WED in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED 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 Sport and Fitness: Running in Circles b0736vv6 (Listen) WED The Olympic legacy has failed to translate into greater WED sporting opportunities for our children and in this WED programme Peter White hears from them and their counterparts WED in the United States. In Britain there is still a mismatch WED between funding for elite sports and the fitness and WED activity that health experts say youngsters need. With audio WED diaries tracking the weekly activity of pupils, Peter WED unpicks what was promised in the run up to the Olympics and WED what has actually transpired: asking what more, if anything, WED could be done? WED WED Billboards across the country tell us: "This girl can", to WED encourage younger women to participate in sport. But why WED should this succeed when, according to the former Minister WED for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, the billions spent on the WED 2012 Games failed to deliver a legacy of sporting WED engagement? WED WED She believes that we squandered a once in a lifetime WED opportunity. But perhaps the writing was already on the wall WED even before the cheers for Farah, Ennis, Rutherford and co WED had died on our lips. A Freedom of Information request WED revealed in September 2012 that one-third of Councils in the WED UK said they had recently cut grass-roots sports facilities, WED or raised charges for them: playing-fields, parks and sports WED centres. Meanwhile, according to numerous head teachers, WED sport hardly gets a look-in when the Ofsted inspector comes WED calling. WED WED Although the chief Medical Officer of Health has said he WED wants children to be taking five or six hours of exercise WED each week, PE lessons are struggling to reach two hours; WED there's also evidence that the numbers of disadvantaged WED children taking part in sport is falling. And yet every week WED there are headlines about the crisis in childhood obesity. WED WED As Rio approaches Peter asks why we should believe that an WED Olympic gold medallist will encourage a thirteen-year-old WED boy to set aside his play station on a wet December evening WED and go for a run? Some, such as former Olympic coach Tom WED McNab, claim that we are mired in a very fundamental WED confusion about elite sport and elite sporting competition, WED both of which actually have little to do with health-related WED fitness: to assume that one will influence the other is WED misguided. WED WED He feels that Government stats which group together WED dedicated club athletes with people who like a run round the WED block now and again are just misleading. Local authorities WED and schools could do much more to encourage health and WED fitness, but this has nothing to do with elite sport, and WED most national sporting bodies are aimed at national WED competitors, not people who want to lose a bit of weight or WED improve their general health. WED WED So can this ever be untangled? If we're hoping to tackle our WED predicted obesity epidemic through exercise, then some WED solutions are absolutely necessary. This programme seeks WED answers through recordings with sports scientists, WED administrators, doctors, politicians, and children; and by WED exploring whether other countries, like the United States, WED are doing better at navigating the current gaps in provision WED and performance. WED WED 11:30 Chain Reaction b03nt8bk (Listen) WED Series 9, Frankie Boyle talks to Grant Morrison WED WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED WED The chain continues this week with comedian Frankie Boyle WED talking to comic book legend Grant Morrison. WED WED They talk Batman, where ideas come from and the future of WED humanity. WED WED Producer ... Carl Cooper. WED WED 12:00 News Summary b075mdvp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b075qjfj (Listen) WED 6 April 1916 - Sylvia Graham WED WED On this day in 1916, Britain intercepted £56,000 of Swedish WED herring on its way to Germany, while at Staverley Court WED Sylvia Graham wants to enjoy an English summer's day. WED WED Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Sylvia Graham: Joanna David WED Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard WED Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro WED Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw WED Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe WED Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b075mdvr (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b075mdvt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b075qjfl (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Inglorious Isolation: A European's History of Britain WED b075thlq (Listen) WED Germany WED WED Developmental psychiatrist Uta Frith presents her take on WED the history of Britain - from a German perspective in which WED scientific and intellectual history between the two nations WED looms large. WED WED In her own career, she was drawn to the Institute of WED Psychiatry in London by the presence of German-British WED psychologist Hans-Jürgen Eysenck, and the close academic WED connection between nations is exemplified by the figure of WED Lord Dahrendorf, the German-born political scientist who had WED the rare distinction of belonging to both the German and WED British parliaments. WED WED But, as Uta and contributors explore, this relationship has WED historically become strained when the fundamental difference WED between the British and the German political mindset comes WED into play. As Winston Churchill and German Chancellor Konrad WED Adenauer grappled with what Europe meant in the wake of the WED devastation of World War II, the British isolationist WED perspective with a pragmatic rather than ideological WED commitment to the European Community rubbed up against WED Germany's position at the heart of Europe. WED WED With contributions from German journalist and historian WED Thomas Kielinger; Daniel Kehlmann, international bestselling WED author of Measuring the World; and historian Professor WED Eugenio Biagini from the University of Cambridge. WED WED Across this series, five mainland Europeans give their take WED on Britain's historical relationship with their home country WED - the historical moments and popular culture that have WED created the image of the Brit in the mind of continental WED Europeans. Dame Uta Frith is a German-born scientist, WED currently working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience WED at University College London, and has pioneered research WED into autism and dyslexia. WED WED Producer: Katherine Godfrey WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b075pz81 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b075qjfp (Listen) WED Day Release, Safe Space WED WED by Peter Jukes WED WED Lenny Henry plays Frank Watt, who is getting ready to face WED life on the outside after 30 years in prison. Frank is WED looking forward to coming out, but things have changed a lot WED in 30 years and he's institutionalised. He quite likes his WED bookish, monk-like life inside and the anger he was boiling WED over with when he went to prison is down to a manageable WED simmer. Frank has already had a few days out on day release WED and it was full on; almost unbearably intense compared to WED the quiet order of his cell. WED WED 1. Safe Space. Can Frank cut loose from his prison WED dependencies? WED WED Director ..... Mary Peate WED WED Press for pilot episode: WED WED Radio Choice - Joe Clay in THE TIMES: WED "Lenny Henry is brilliant as a lifer on day release in Peter WED Jukes' potent drama." WED WED RADIO TIMES - Jane Anderson WED "A testing role for Lenny Henry [whose] performance is WED thoughtful and entirely convincing.". WED WED Credits WED Frank Watt: Lenny Henry WED Geoff Hoagland: Ralph Ineson WED Shudi Misir: Deeivya Meir WED Haani Said: Danny Rahim WED Barry Gibbons: Sargon Yelda WED Solomon Dunn: Burt Caesar WED Eileen O'Connor: Scarlett Brookes WED Director: Mary Peate WED Writer: Peter Jukes WED WED 15:00 Money Box b075qjl2 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 The Joy of 9 to 5 b06pbw9v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b075qjl5 (Listen) WED The BSA and Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award Shortlist WED WED The Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in WED association with the British Sociological Association, WED presents a special programme devoted to the academic WED research which has been short listed for our third annual WED award for a study that has made a significant contribution WED to ethnography, the in-depth analysis of the everyday life WED of a culture or sub culture. Laurie Taylor is joined by WED three of the judges: Claire Alexander, Professor of WED Sociology at the University of Manchester, Helen Sampson, WED Director of the Seafarers International Research Centre at WED Cardiff University and Olivia Sheringham, Postdoctoral WED Research Fellow in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, WED University of London. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b075mdvw (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b075mdvy (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b075mdw0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04l0zq7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Counter Plot WED WED 1/6: Counter Plot. In this first episode of the series, WED Richard is alarmed to discover that Uljabaan has WED commandeered six allotments for some sort of experiment, WED while Katrina is more concerned that he's arrested Lucy. But WED what kind of plants is he planting inside the building he WED has built? WED WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force-field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force-field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Charles Edwards WED The Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Ron: Dave Lamb WED Lawrence: Michael Bertenshaw WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 19:00 The Archers b075szsm (Listen) WED Susan stirs the pot, and Fallon has unwanted company. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b075mdw2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b075qfly (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Agree to Differ b075szsp (Listen) WED Series 2, Trident WED WED A final decision to commit to the successor programme to WED Britain's nuclear weapons programme, Trident, is expected WED this year. For supporters, Trident is the ultimate security WED guarantee in the unpredictable strategic environment of the WED next forty-to-fifty years. For those against, Trident is WED militarily nonsensical, financially insane, and morally WED intolerable. You might feel you have heard a great deal on WED this subject and yet public opinion is still divided over WED the issue. In this programme the aim is to give listeners a WED completely new way to understand the debate and to decide WED where they stand. Two experts who passionately disagree on WED Trident renewal are challenged to reach agreement over their WED differences and bring clarity over what the disagreement is WED fundamentally about. Sir Malcolm Rifkind is a former Defence WED and Foreign Secretary and was once third in line to 'push WED the button'. Dr Rebecca Johnson is a life-long peace WED activist and Chief Executive of the Acronym Institute for WED Disarmament Diplomacy. They join Matthew Taylor for the WED first in a new series of Agree to Differ. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0761d4g (Listen) WED Talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b075pxg8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b075qflt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b075mdw4 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b075szsr (Listen) WED Mothering Sunday, Episode 3 WED WED Set in the aftermath of the Great War, Booker prize-winner WED Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous and sensual WED meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a writer. WED WED On the traditional servants' holiday maid Jane has been WED summoned by her lover Paul, the only surviving son of WED neighbouring Upleigh House. WED WED Read by Eileen Atkins WED Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Eileen Atkins WED Author: Graham Swift WED Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 23:00 Nurse b075szst (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED A bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health WED nurse created by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings. WED WED Liz (played by Esther Coles), the community psychiatric WED nurse of the title makes her rounds to visit "service users" WED in their homes. Most of those patients are played by comedy WED chameleon Paul Whitehouse himself - with supporting roles WED for Rosie Cavaliero, Vilma Hollingbery and Cecilia Noble. WED WED Whitehouse brings us an obese bed-bound mummy's boy, an WED agoraphobic ex-con, a manic ex-glam rock star, ageing rake WED Herbert who hoards his house with possessions and memories, WED a Jewish chatterbox in unrequited love with his Jamaican WED neighbour, and a long-suffering carer and his WED Alzheimer's-afflicted mother. WED WED There are new characters too in the guise of a WED self-proclaimed DJ and a Geordie struggling with his wife's WED job in the world's oldest profession. WED WED We follow their humorous, sometimes sad and occasionally WED moving interactions with Liz, whose job is to assess their WED progress, dispense medication and offer support. WED WED Nurse gives a sympathetic insight into the world of some of WED society's more marginalised people in a heartfelt and WED considered way. WED WED A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Paul Whitehouse WED Actor: Esther Coles WED Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Actor: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Sue Elliott-Nicholls WED Actor: Charlie Higson WED Actor: Vilma Hollingbery WED Actor: Jason Maza WED Actor: Cecilia Noble WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED WED 23:15 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03pjfj7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Magic WED WED This week comic poet Tim Key jettisons his poems in favour WED of magic. He is assisted by a glamorous assistant in a WED sequin dress called Emerald, much to the annoyance of his WED guitarist Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden and Diane Morgan WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim Key WED Performer: Tom Basden WED Performer: Diane Morgan WED Producer: James Robinson WED Writer: Tim Key WED WED 23:30 With Great Pleasure b06vk6fm (Listen) WED Helen Baxendale WED WED Actress Helen Baxendale chooses favourite pieces of writing, WED including poems by WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney and Edward Lear. WED Readers are fellow-'Cuckoo' stars, Esther Wilson and the WED comedian Greg Davies. WED WED Star of 'Cold Feet', 'Friends' and 'An Unsuitable Job for a WED Woman', Helen reveals how she experienced love at first WED sight when she was introduced to fellow actor, David L WED Williams, at a rehearsal for one of her choices, 'La Ronde', WED by Arthur Schnitzler. On the preview night for the play, the WED director asked Helen and David to appear naked in one of the WED scenes together. This was Helen's parents' first WED introduction to the father of their grandchildren, naked on WED stage. WED WED Helen's other book choices include 'The Poisonwood Bible' by WED Barbara Kingsolver, 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by John WED Irving, and the lyrics to 'The Whole of the Moon' by The WED Waterboys. WED WED Funny, touching and revealing about one of Britain's great WED comic actresses, Helen's 'With Great Pleasure' was recorded WED in her home and reflects a more intimate atmosphere. WED WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Helen Baxendale WED Reader: Esther Wilson WED Reader: Greg Davies WED Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 APRIL 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b075mdxn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b075qflw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b075mdxq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b075mdxs (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b075mdxv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b075mdxx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076zd8v (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The THU Revd Laurence Twaddle THU THU Producer Mo McCullough. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b075t5mj (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sally Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyhp (Listen) THU Greenfinch THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David THU Attenborough presents the Greenfinch. Often seen singing THU from the tops of garden trees looking large for a finch with THU a heavy bill, these are sadly a declining garden bird. THU THU Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris) THU Image courtesy of RSPB THU THU 06:00 Today b075t5ml (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b075t5mn (Listen) THU The Sikh Empire THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the Sikh Empire THU in the 18th Century under Ranjit Singh, who unified the Sikh THU kingdoms as the Mughal Empire declined. He became Maharaja THU of the Panjab at Lahore in 1801, capturing Amritsar the THU following year. His empire flourished until 1839, after THU which a decade of unrest ended with the British annexation. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b075t5mq (Listen) THU Beethoven for a Later Age, Recreation THU THU The Takacs Quartet's first violinist Edward Dusinberre takes THU us into the recording studio and away from the stage as he THU and his fellow musicians set about recreating Beethoven's THU extraordinary music for CD. THU THU Read by Tim McMullan THU Abridged by Sara Davies THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tim McMullan THU Author: Edward Dusinberre THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b075mdxz (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b075t5ms (Listen) THU How Does That Make You Feel?, Episode 4 THU THU In this the 7th series of 'How Does that Make You Feel?' THU Martha's clients have made few changes to their THU circumstances. THU THU Philip's mum is still caring for him but he believes he may THU have found a new career in the form of acting. Obviously his THU vast experience on the shopping channel makes him something THU of a celebrity with his amateur group, though so far they THU seem disinclined to let him play King Lear. However, he THU feels it's only a matter of time before they come round to THU the idea. THU THU Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of THU Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio THU 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory THU of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her THU plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote THU Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and Shirley (the THU Shirley Bassey story) for BBC2. She is currently writing, THU new plays for Hampstead Theatre and Live Theatre in THU Newcastle, a number of feature films and a TV series for BBC THU 1. THU THU Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson THU Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan THU Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU Credits THU Philip: Tim McInnerny THU Martha: Frances Tomelty THU Writer: Shelagh Stephenson THU Director: Eoin O'Callaghan THU Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b075t5mv (Listen) THU Born Free, Killed by Hate in South Africa THU THU In 1994 apartheid ended in South Africa and Nelson Mandela THU was elected president. He promised in his inauguration THU speech to "build a society in which all South Africans will THU be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts ... a THU rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world." These THU promises were enshrined in South Africa's post-apartheid THU constitution, the first in the world to outlaw all forms of THU discrimination. THU THU In 1994 Motshidisi Pascalina Melamu was born, making her one THU of the first of the so-called 'born free generation'. Pasca, THU as she was known, dreamed of becoming a politician, and THU studied hard at school. She loved singing, dancing and THU football. And girls - Pasca was a lesbian. THU THU In December last year, Pasca's body was found in a field. THU She had been beaten and mutilated. She was one of three THU LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex) THU people murdered in a six-week period last year. Hate crimes THU against the LGBTI community have long been a problem in THU South Africa, and the government has tried to tackle them. THU But activists say these recent crimes are just one sign that THU things aren't getting better. James Fletcher travels to the THU townships south of Johannesburg to speak with Pasca's family THU and friends, and to ask whether the government is failing THU LGBTI South Africans. THU THU 11:30 Will Gompertz Gets Creative b061p38c (Listen) THU Life Drawing THU THU Will Gompertz meets people with a passion for art at a THU life-drawing class in Brighton, with expert advice from THU artist Humphrey Ocean, and Sue Tilley, who modelled for THU Lucian Freud, and has now taken up art herself. THU THU If you are inspired to get involved in drawing or painting, THU or any other art, there's lots to discover at the BBC's Get THU Creative website THU http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative THU THU Producer Clare Walker. THU THU The Draw Brighton group draw Frankie THU THU A range of different pictures by Draw Brighton THU THU Will is captured in a sketch THU THU Will attempts a sketch of Frankie THU THU Louise Byfield shows us her life drawing THU THU 12:00 News Summary b075mdy1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b075t5mz (Listen) THU 7 April 1916 - Elspeth Tavener THU THU On this day in 1916, newspapers reported the discovery in THU Chicago of an anarchist plot to assassinate the rulers of THU Europe, while at Halecot Farm, more old feuds are reignited. THU THU Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams THU Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy THU Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables THU Hetty Cox: Adie Allen THU Isaac Cox: James Lailey THU Morris Battley: Sean Baker THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b075mdy3 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b075mdy5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b075t5n1 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Inglorious Isolation: A European's History of Britain THU b075thmf (Listen) THU Spain THU THU Mexico-born author Laia Jufresa, reflects on her experience THU of being a 'global European' and the connection between THU Spanish and British history that runs through her heritage. THU THU She grew up in Mexico, studied in Paris and lived in Spain - THU but her dual citizenship comes from her grandfather's THU experience in the Spanish Civil War when he became a refugee THU in Mexico. Here she reflects on the feeling of being at home THU in Europe - but not quite - and how the somewhat alien THU nature of working in the English language informs her THU writing style and career, which began when she would eagerly THU await deliveries of Roald Dahl books as a child. THU THU The programme also explores the allure of swinging London THU for a young British woman, the relief at finally finding a THU good cup of coffee as Britain developed a Latin cafe THU culture, and how the Brit image was transformed from the THU English gent to the lager lout and the Costa del Crime THU became a destination. THU THU With contributions from historian Dr Graciela Iglesias THU Rogers from the University of Oxford and the University of THU Winchester, and Spanish author Lala Isla. THU THU Across this series, five mainland Europeans give their take THU on Britain's historical relationship with their home country THU - the historical moments and popular culture that have THU created the image of the Brit in the mind of continental THU Europeans. Laia Jufresa is the critically acclaimed author THU of Umami. She was a writer in residence at Hay Festival THU 2015. THU THU Producer: Katherine Godfrey THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b075szsm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b075t6kg (Listen) THU Day Release, Killing Time THU THU by Peter Jukes. THU THU Lenny Henry plays lifer Frank Watt who is coming to the end THU of his prison sentence. THU THU 2. Killing Time. Frank has planned a full day of activity THU for Geoff's first day release - but it turns out that Geoff THU has different plans. THU THU Directed by Mary Peate. THU THU Credits THU Frank Watt: Lenny Henry THU Geoff Hoagland: Ralph Ineson THU Shudi Misir: Deeivya Meir THU Karen Atkins: Adjoa Andoh THU Dan Trebor: Ewan Bailey THU Jacqui Montgomery: Adie Allen THU Director: Mary Peate THU Writer: Peter Jukes THU THU 15:00 Open Country b075t6kj (Listen) THU Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys THU THU Forget Texas! There's oil in the plains of Lincolnshire. But THU not many people seem to notice. THU THU Helen Mark travels to the market town of Gainsborough to THU discover more about the nodding donkeys that pepper its THU landscape. Oil wells sit comfortably fringed by a housing THU estate, the leisure centre and the golf course. THU THU It turns out that the East Midlands is the UK's second THU largest inshore oil producing area, courtesy of the THU Gainsborough Trough, once a deep and dirty patch of sea. Now THU it produces twelve hundred barrels of high quality oil a THU day, mostly pumped up by nodding donkeys. THU THU Whereas fracking attracts protest and controversy, local THU people seem quite content to live alongside these nodding THU pumps, perhaps because they look so benign - friendly even - THU and work away quietly with apparently little human THU intervention. THU THU Helen meets local teacher and long-distance runner Nigel THU Bowler, for whom the donkeys are a landmark on his running THU routes. There's artist Verity Barrett, who loved the pumps THU as a child, part of the 'scenic route' on trips to visit her THU granddad. THU THU Julie Barlow from i-gas explains the business of oil THU extraction and geologists Malcom Fry and Paul Hildreth slice THU through the soil to bring alive the geological layers that THU led to the Gainsborough Trough. Then there are Daniel Ashman THU and Louise Hammond, who've spent the last week camping THU outside a new exploratory oil boring site near the village THU of Laughton, as part of an anti-fracking protest. THU THU As the dustbin lorry and the postman do their rounds of the THU Park Springs Housing Estate on the edge of Gainsborough, THU another few barrels of oil are drawn up from 1500m THU underground. The nodding donkeys aren't bad neighbours, it THU seems. 'I think they're wonderful' says Paul Hildreth. THU THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b075mfyr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b075mltp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b075mdy7 (Listen) THU Jacques Audiard THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Director Jacques Audiard discusses Dheepan, which won the THU Palme D'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Jacques Audiard THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b075mdy9 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b075mdyc (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b075mdyf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) THU Fidelity THU THU Hal Cruttenden stars as a forty-something husband and father THU who, years ago, decided to give up his job and become a stay THU at home father. His wife, Sam, has a successful business THU career which makes her travel more and more. His children, THU Lilly and Molly, are growing up fast, and his role as their THU father and mentor is diminishing by the day. THU THU So what can Hal do as he reaches a crossroads in his life? THU Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - THU Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local THU curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly THU never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs. THU THU Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of THU his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to THU engage in increasingly frustrating conversations. THU THU In this last episode of the series, Hal faces a new THU challenge - unwanted romantic attention. Happily married to THU Sam and with two adoring daughters, life is a picture of THU roses at home. But how will Hal cope with the romantic THU attention of a new, attractive neighbour Angie? THU THU The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Ronni THU Ancona, Anna Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel THU Caseley and Emily and Lucy Robbins. THU THU Produced by Paul Russell THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Hal: Hal Cruttenden THU Actor: Dominic Holland THU Actor: Ed Byrne THU Actor: Ronni Ancona THU Actor: Anna Crilly THU Actor: Gavin Webster THU Actor: Dominic Frisby THU Actor: Samuel Caseley THU Actor: Emily Robbins THU Actor: Lucy Robbins THU Writer: Hal Cruttenden THU Writer: Dominic Holland THU Producer: Paul Russell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b075t6kl (Listen) THU Christine has some words of advice, and Henry makes a new THU friend. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b075mdyh (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b075t5ms (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Psychedelic Science b076v9zj (Listen) THU Jamie Bartlett asks if new research into psychedelic drugs THU will lead to them being accepted as mainstream medical THU treatment - or whether their controversial history will THU prove insuperable. THU THU After lying dormant for decades, scientific research into THU psychedelics is experiencing a renaissance. Academics at THU some of the world's leading institutions are exploring the THU potential of these drugs to treat a variety of medical THU conditions, from addiction to anxiety and depression. The THU findings so far are astonishing. Admittedly the sample sizes THU are small and there are methodological problems, yet it THU appears that psychedelics can help where other treatments THU before them have failed. So is there any chance that THU substances like LSD and psilocybin - the psychedelic THU ingredient in magic mushrooms - will ever become accepted THU medical treatments? THU THU We have been here before. In the 1960s, researchers THU published thousands of scientific papers on the potential THU medical benefits of psychedelics and there were four THU international conferences on the subject. Within the space THU of just a few years these efforts came shuddering to a halt, THU as the recreational use of the drugs ballooned and stories THU of 'bad trips' hit the headlines, leading to strict legal THU restrictions, which still remain in force. THU THU Jamie examines the latest scientific findings and asks THU whether the drugs' cultural stigma can ever be overcome. THU THU Producer: Hannah Barnes. THU THU 20:30 In Business b075t6kq (Listen) THU Why don't we talk about our pay? THU THU Companies that fail to address pay differences between male THU and female employees are going to be highlighted in league THU tables. THU THU Those with more than 250 employees will be forced to reveal THU their pay gap. THU THU But in some countries pay transparency goes much further. In THU places like Norway, individual's financial records are THU publicly available for all to see. THU THU And, as Jonty Bloom discovers, this can have a profound THU effect on business practice and wider society. THU THU Presenter: Jonty Bloom THU Producer: Ruth Alexander. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b075mdy9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b075t5mn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b075mdyk (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b075t6ks (Listen) THU Mothering Sunday, Episode 4 THU THU Set in the aftermath of the Great War, Booker prize-winner THU Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous and sensual THU meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a writer. THU THU After spending the morning in bed together, Jane accepts THU that her lover Paul Sheringham must leave her to meet his THU wealthy fiancée. THU THU Read by Eileen Atkins THU Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Eileen Atkins THU Author: Graham Swift THU Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b01s8mq6 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 2 THU THU The ground-breaking Radio 4 phone-in show, hosted by the THU legendary Gary Bellamy and brought to you by the creators of THU The Fast Show. THU THU Starring Rhys Thomas, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix THU Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, Adil Ray, Robert THU Popper and Paul Whitehouse. THU THU Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse THU A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Gary Bellamy: Thomas Rhys THU Actor: Amelia Bullmore THU Actor: Simon Day THU Actor: Felix Dexter THU Actor: Charlie Higson THU Actor: Lucy Montgomery THU Actor: Adil Ray THU Actor: Robert Popper THU Actor: Paul Whitehouse THU Producer: Charlie Higson THU Producer: Paul Whitehouse THU THU 23:30 With Great Pleasure b06wcsnd (Listen) THU Rebecca Front THU THU Comedy actress Rebecca Front, star of Alan Partridge and The THU Thick of It, takes the audience at the Radio Theatre through THU her life in reading and comedy. Her readers are Nicola THU Stephenson and Ben Willbond. The pieces she loves are from THU How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran, The Code of the Woosters THU by P.G. Wodehouse, Rabbi Hugo Gryn and The Wind in the THU Willows. Rebecca also sings a song by the songwriter she THU most admires, Stephen Sondheim. It's Could I Leave You?, THU from the musical Follies, for which she's accompanied on THU piano by Benjamin Frost THU THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Rebecca Front THU Performer: Rebecca Front THU Performer: Nicola Stephenson THU Performer: Ben Willbond THU Producer: Beth O'Dea THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b075mf02 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b075t5mq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b075mf04 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b075mf06 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b075mf08 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b075mf0b (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b077nrct (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with The FRI Revd Laurence Twaddle FRI FRI Producer Mo McCullough. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b075thg5 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Vernon Harwood. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qjrh (Listen) FRI Meadow Pipit 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 Meadow Pipit. The thin but FRI penetrating calls of the meadow pipit can be heard on a FRI remote mountainside or high above the city streets on an FRI autumn day. Meadow pipits are often the main hosts for the FRI parasitic Cuckoos and many a pipit pair ends up stuffing FRI insects into a much larger cuckoo chick. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b076w25y (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b075mhgp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b075tddr (Listen) FRI Beethoven for a Later Age, Convalescence FRI FRI The Takacs Quartet's first violinist Edward Dusinberre FRI reflects on his career with his fellow players; taking a FRI leap of faith, and Beethoven's late and transcendent music. FRI FRI Read by Tim McMullan FRI Abridged by Sara Davies FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tim McMullan FRI Author: Edward Dusinberre FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b075mf0d (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b075tddt (Listen) FRI How Does That Make You Feel?, Episode 5 FRI FRI In this the 7th series of 'How Does that Make You Feel?' FRI Martha's clients have made few changes to their FRI circumstances. FRI FRI Richard Fallon MP has been on a quest for self-knowledge. He FRI has pored over some recent publications in the self-help FRI section of the bookshop but has found little comfort. As a FRI result he has begun re-examining some painful and FRI humiliating incidents from his past. But this re-examination FRI has provided little in the way of solace. Nor has it, as FRI Martha had hoped, done much to help build Richard's FRI desperately needed resilience in the face of adversity. And FRI Richard needs a lot of resilience. FRI FRI Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson FRI Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Richard Fallon: Roger Allam FRI Martha: Frances Tomelty FRI Writer: Shelagh Stephenson FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI FRI 11:00 Three-sided Football b075tddw (Listen) FRI All over the world people are getting together to play a FRI game that seems quite baffling - a version of football in FRI which three sides take part at the same time on one pitch. FRI FRI The invention of the Danish artist Asger Jorn, a member of FRI the 1960's Situationist group, the game now has its own FRI monthly league matches in London. Ian McMillan is tempted to FRI become a fan - but can he get his head round it? FRI FRI Three-sided football was initially a metaphor for a better FRI version of society. Nobody tried playing it for real until FRI the 1990's. Now the game has given rise to the most FRI philosophical , least corporate football league in the UK - FRI and it has staged its first World Cup. FRI FRI In this action packed programme, Ian McMillan meets some of FRI Britain's best teams, including Philosophy Football FC, the FRI Deptford Three-Sided Football Club , the Strategic Optimists FRI FC, Aesthetico Athletico, the New Cross Irregulars and the FRI London-based Polish side, Hussaria. FRI FRI From a distance, Ian thinks it looks like a normal kickabout FRI in the park. But when he gets closer and tries to work out FRI what on earth is going on, he discovers a bewildering twist FRI on the beautiful game. Imagine a hexagonal pitch, with three FRI goal-mouths, around which three teams of five players are FRI not deliberately attempting to score, but trying to avoid FRI conceding goals by forming temporary defensive alliances FRI with one or other opposing team. FRI FRI A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure b075tddy (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI FRI Sitcom written by and starring Josie Long. FRI FRI Credits FRI Josie: Josie Long FRI Writer: Josie Long FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b075mf0g (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b075tdf0 (Listen) FRI 8 April 1916 - Alexander Gidley FRI FRI On this day in 1916, an escaped German POW was re-captured, FRI and Alexander Gidley is shaken by an encounter with a young FRI war hero. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Cyrus Colville: Anton Lesser FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI Martin Ogden: Jamie Wilkes FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b075mf0j (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b075mf0l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b075thg7 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Inglorious Isolation: A European's History of Britain FRI b075thg9 (Listen) FRI Scandinavia FRI FRI Danish fiction author Dorthe Nors casts her eye across the FRI North Sea towards Aberdeen - and across the centuries - to FRI consider the wars fought and connections forged between the FRI Scandinavian countries and Britain. FRI FRI She reflects on the island mentality from a different FRI perspective living as she does in Jutland, which shares its FRI borders with Germany, but also being from a region with a FRI strong island sensibility - "the continent" has always been FRI something that Swedes, Norwegians and the rest of Denmark FRI cross the water to get to, just like the British. FRI FRI But it hasn't always been a comfortable relationship with FRI Britain - the close cultural connection, perhaps most FRI strongly felt in Norway, threatened to be severed by FRI widespread protests at Margaret Thatcher's visit to Oslo. FRI FRI Dorthe Nors is the acclaimed author of fiction including FRI Minna Needs Rehearsal Space and the short story collection FRI Karate Chop. Yes, she is a Danish writer with a darkness to FRI her fiction but, in this programme, she considers how FRI British Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle are the FRI grandparents of Nordic noir. FRI FRI With contributions from Øivind Bratberg, Senior Lecturer in FRI Political Science at the University of Oslo, and Magnus FRI Englund, co-founder of the British retailer of Scandinavian FRI design Skandium and Director of the Isokon Gallery Trust. FRI FRI Across this series, five mainland Europeans give their take FRI on Britain's historical relationship with their home country FRI - the historical moments and popular culture that have FRI created the image of the Brit in the mind of continental FRI Europeans. FRI FRI Producer: Katherine Godfrey FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b075t6kl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b075thgc (Listen) FRI Day Release, Back to Life FRI FRI by Peter Jukes. FRI FRI Lenny Henry as Frank Watt, a lifer coming to the end of a 30 FRI year prison sentence. FRI FRI 3. Back To Life. Frank tries to prevent the real identity of FRI his daughter leaking out during the London Mayoral FRI elections. FRI FRI Directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank Watt: Lenny Henry FRI Geoff Hoagland: Ralph Ineson FRI Shudi Misir: Deeivya Meir FRI Charla May: Karla Crome FRI Aisha Davies: Petra Letang FRI Stella Hemmings: Adie Allen FRI Hanna Asprey: Scarlett Brookes FRI Sam Wallace: Sam Rix FRI Dennis Dyke: Sargon Yelda FRI Mick Todd: James Lailey FRI Gideon Torun: James Lailey FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Writer: Peter Jukes FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b075thgf (Listen) FRI A panel of experts answer listeners' horticultural queries. FRI FRI 15:45 In Another Country b075thgh (Listen) FRI Tom Courtenay reads this story in which a young woman falls FRI to her death in the Alps. Sixty years later, the man who FRI accompanied her receives a letter. A body has been FRI discovered. But what was the relationship of these two naïve FRI teenagers? And how will memories of their flight from Nazi FRI Germany affect this man's relationship with his long FRI suffering wife? FRI FRI David Constantine's masterful story of unearthed memories, FRI In Another Country was the inspiration behind the recent FRI Oscar-nominated film 45 Years starring Tom Courtenay and FRI Charlotte Rampling. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tom Courtenay FRI Author: David Constantine FRI Abridger: Lisa Martinson FRI Producer: Simon Richardson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b075mf0n (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b075thgl (Listen) FRI The Great EU Cabbage Myth FRI FRI Could there really be 26,911 words of European Union FRI regulation dedicated to the sale of cabbage? This figure is FRI often used by those arguing there is too much bureaucracy in FRI the EU. But we trace its origins back to 1940s America. It FRI wasn't true then, and it isn't true today. So how did this FRI cabbage myth grow and spread? And what is the real number of FRI words relating to the sale of cabbages in the EU? FRI FRI After the recent announcement that all schools would be FRI converted to academies, a number of listeners have asked us FRI to look into the evidence of how they perform. Education FRI Secretary Nicky Morgan wrote a guest post on Mumsnet and FRI More or Less were called upon to check her numbers. FRI FRI The popular TV show The Only Way is Essex claimed in its FRI 200th episode that it had contributed more than a billion FRI pounds to the UK economy. We investigate if this is true. FRI FRI Plus, can we trust food surveys? Stories about which foods FRI are good and bad for you, which foods are linked to cancer FRI and which have beneficial qualities are always popular. But FRI how do experts know what people are eating? Tim Harford FRI speaks to Christie Aschwanden, FiveThirtyEight's lead writer FRI for science, about the pitfalls of food surveys. She kept a FRI food diary and answered nutrition surveys and found many of FRI the questions were really hard to answer. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b075thgq (Listen) FRI Kathy and Nuala - Colour of Life FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who grew FRI close when one of them battled with cancer, but whose FRI support for each other is now mutual. Another in the series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b075mf0q (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b075mf0s (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b075thgv (Listen) FRI Series 48, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b075thgx (Listen) FRI There is an unexpected visitor at the village shop, and Tom FRI wonders what might have been. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Bruce Titchener: Michael Byrne FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b075mf0v (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b075tddt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b075thgz (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby with topical debate from Holy Trinity FRI Church in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b075thh1 (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b075thh3 (Listen) FRI 4-8 April 1916 FRI FRI In the week in 1916 when a Zeppelin raid dropped bombs on FRI the North East coast, old feuds are reignited in Ashburton. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Story-led by Richard Monks FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI Credits FRI Hetty Cox: Adie Allen FRI Derek: Ewan Bailey FRI Morris Battley: Sean Baker FRI Alexander Gidley: Matthew Beard FRI Cora Gidley: Joanna Monro FRI Donald Fox: Jayson Benovichi-Dicken FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Tobias Holden: Toby Bryant FRI John Rossiter: Mark Carey FRI Ambrose Nichols: Steve Clark FRI Sylvia Graham: Joanna David FRI Lewis Cox: Dylan Edwards FRI Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy FRI Isaac Cox: James Lailey FRI Cyrus Colville: Anton Lesser FRI Primrose Rutter: Jade Matthew FRI Hector Gidley: Brian Protheroe FRI Effie Taverner: Lizzie Stables FRI Gert Battley: Maggie Steed FRI Martin Ogden: Jamie Wilkes FRI Elspeth Taverner: Kelly Williams FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b075mf0x (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b075mf0z (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b075thh5 (Listen) FRI Mothering Sunday, Episode 5 FRI FRI Set in the aftermath of the Great War, Booker prize-winner FRI Graham Swift's new novel is a luminous and sensual FRI meditation on truth, loss and the forging of a writer. FRI FRI As Jane languishes in Paul Sheringham's bed, her lover FRI dresses with meticulous care in preparation for meeting his FRI fiancée. FRI FRI Read by Eileen Atkins FRI Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Eileen Atkins FRI Author: Graham Swift FRI Abridger: Eilidh McCreadie FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b075pz7z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 With Great Pleasure b06ybg82 (Listen) FRI Craig Brown FRI FRI Satirist Craig Brown takes us through his life in reading, FRI with humorous and touching extracts read by Simon Russell FRI Beale and Eleanor Bron. Craig, who's best known for the FRI parodies he writes for Private Eye, chooses an extract from FRI The Story-teller by Saki; Evelyn Waugh's description of FRI sunset from Labels: A Mediterranean Journey; The Mermaid by FRI WB Yeats; extracts from The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leo FRI Rosten and Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino, translated by FRI William Weaver, a short poem from The Rattle Bag collection FRI called And the days are not full enough by Ezra Pound; Our FRI Frank from Letters of Note and an extract from Enjoy by Alan FRI Bennett. FRI Producer Beth O'Dea. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Craig Brown FRI Reader: Simon Russell Beale FRI Reader: Eleanor Bron FRI Producer: Beth O'Dea FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b075thh7 (Listen) FRI Kate and Ian - Country Girl, City Boy FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends whose FRI different outlooks on life don't affect the strength of FRI their relationship at all. Another in the series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
01 April, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 02/04/2016 - 08/04/2016
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