19 February, 2016

Radio 4 Listings for 20/02/2016 - 26/02/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0707w9t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b070hsck (Listen) SAT Benjamin Franklin in London, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the middle of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin spent SAT almost two decades in London - at exactly the same time as SAT Mozart, Casanova and Handel. This is an enthralling SAT biography - not only of the man, but of the city when it was SAT a hub of Enlightenment activity. SAT SAT For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin SAT was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his SAT fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a SAT renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to SAT live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. SAT SAT From his house in Craven Street, he mixed with both the SAT brilliant and the powerful - in London coffee house clubs, SAT at the Royal Society, and on his summer travels around the SAT British Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume, SAT Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus SAT Darwin among his friends - and, as an American colonial SAT representative, he had access to successive Prime Ministers SAT and even the King. SAT SAT The early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower SAT status with victory in the Seven Years War and the SAT succession of the young, active George III. This brought a SAT sharp new edge to political competition in London and SAT redefined the relationship between Britain and its colonies. SAT They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually SAT placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. SAT SAT Though Franklin sought to prevent the America's break with SAT Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that SAT very event. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT It is 1775, and Franklin is no longer of any political use SAT in London. He becomes Ambassador to France in the days SAT before the Revolution. SAT SAT Written by George Goodwin SAT Abridged by Barry Johnston SAT Read by Nickolas Grace SAT SAT Produced by David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Nickolas Grace SAT Author: George Goodwin SAT Abridger: Barry Johnston SAT Producer: David Roper SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0707w9w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0707w9y (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0707wb0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0707wb2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b070hxzb (Listen) SAT Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna SAT Magnusson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b070w213 (Listen) SAT I write things I wouldn't tell anyone else SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0707wb4 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0707wb6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b070hktk (Listen) SAT Series 32, Walking with a Purpose: The Surrey Hills SAT SAT Clare Balding joins Jenni Williams and her disabled three SAT year old daughter, Eve, as they take their daily walk in the SAT Surrey Hills. These walks are the highlight of their day as SAT both enjoy being outside, admiring the views and watching SAT the antics of their young and exuberant, golden retriever, SAT Scout. Jenni talks candidly to Clare about how she and her SAT husband, Steve have come to terms with Eve's condition and SAT how they feel blessed to have such a happy and life SAT affirming child. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Jenni Williams SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0713f1d (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0707wb8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0713f1g (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0713m2l (Listen) SAT Laurence Fox SAT SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world. Actor and musician Laurence Fox joins Aasmah Mir SAT and the Rev Richard Coles. SAT SAT Credits SAT Interviewed Guest: Laurence Fox SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b0713m2n (Listen) SAT Series 6, The French Connection SAT SAT Continuing with his look at Oscar-winning films and what SAT they tell us about the society that gave birth to them, Paul SAT Gambaccini turns to the first R-rated movie to win the Best SAT Picture Oscar and one of the earliest to show the newly SAT complete World trade towers. An early example of the new SAT wave in American Films, The French Connection went on to win SAT 5 Oscars and set both its leading man (Gene Hackman) and its SAT young director (William Friedkin) on what were to become SAT glittering careers. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b072jwy1 (Listen) SAT EU Special SAT SAT Steve Richards and guests debate the implications of David SAT Cameron's EU negotiation. SAT Producer: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0707wbb (Listen) SAT A Man Dies Twice SAT SAT Meeting the people populating the world of news. In this SAT edition: thousands were massacred in the Bosnian town of SAT Visegrad during the war there in 1992 - today, as Fergal SAT Keane has been finding out, the authorities there want it to SAT become a tourist destination. Visegrad is also on Nick SAT Thorpe's mind only he's talking about the town by the River SAT Danube in Hungary, where the so-called Visegrad 4, a SAT grouping of regional nations, was born. Nick says that in SAT today's Europe, theirs is now a voice that can no longer be SAT ignored. As the US-election spotlight turns to South SAT Carolina and Nevada, Robert Hodierne examines gun control SAT and why the laws governing it won't be changing any time SAT soon. Beth McLeod is in Malawi travelling on a boat built in SAT Scotland when the country was a British protectorate which SAT continues to provide a vital service to local communities. SAT And he may have lived in Paris for two decades, but our man SAT Hugh Schofield explains why it's only now, finally, that he SAT seems a wield a bit of influence! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0707wbd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0713m2q (Listen) SAT The East-West Energy Divide SAT SAT Why does a family in Cornwall pay more for their energy than SAT a family in Wrexham? It's not because they use more gas and SAT electricity. It's because people in more rural areas, SAT further away from the energy source, are charged more. The SAT cost of sending energy down the lines and pipes is greater SAT for more remote areas, pushing up household prices. But is SAT that fair and why is there not a universal charge? Kevin SAT Peachey reports. SAT SAT Cash or pension? An NHS Trust is offering new recruits SAT enhanced pay if they opt out of the NHS pension. Former SAT pensions minister Steve Webb, who introduced auto-enrolment, SAT tells Lesley Curwen why he thinks this is a worrying SAT precedent. SAT SAT Could property crowdfunding schemes help young people get on SAT the housing ladder? The Social Market Foundation says they SAT provide people with an opportunity to keep up with property SAT market inflation while they save for a deposit. But SAT MoneyWeek editor Merryn Somerset Webb tells Lesley Curwen SAT people need to be aware of the risks. SAT SAT Presenter: Lesley Curwen SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b070hxsn (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 7 SAT SAT Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the SAT chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests SAT take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. SAT This week's panel is Mark Steel, Danny Finkelstein, Holly SAT Walsh and Vicki Pepperdine. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Mark Steel SAT Panellist: Danny Finkelstein SAT Panellist: Holly Walsh SAT Panellist: Vicki Pepperdine SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0707wbg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0707wbj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b070hxss (Listen) SAT Matt Hancock MP, Dan Hannan MEP, John Mills, Emily SAT Thornberry MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Wolfson College, Cambridge University with a panel SAT Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General Matt SAT Hancock MP, Conservative MEP Dan Hannan, the business man SAT and co chair of Vote Leave John Mills and Shadow Defence SAT Secretary Emily Thornberry MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0713m2y (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b0713m30 (Listen) SAT Rebus: A Question of Blood, Episode 2 SAT SAT 2/2. Thriller by Ian Rankin. Dramatised by Chris Dolan. SAT SAT Three pupils are gunned down by an ex-SAS soldier at a SAT private school near Edinburgh. The police are at a loss to SAT explain the motive - until DI Rebus begins to investigate an SAT army helicopter crash on Jura. SAT SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young SAT BBC Scotland. SAT SAT Credits SAT DI Rebus: Ron Donachie SAT DS Siobhan Clarke: Gayanne Potter SAT DI Hogan: Brian Ferguson SAT DCI Templer: Sarah Collier SAT Bell: Brian Pettifer SAT Whiteread: Veronica Leer SAT Brimson: Kenny Blyth SAT James: Alasdair Hankinson SAT Peacock: Gavin Mitchell SAT Rachel: Anita Vetesse SAT DCI Mullen: Simon Tait SAT Steve Holly: Ben Clifford SAT Miss Teri: Nicola Roy SAT Author: Ian Rankin SAT Adaptor: Chris Dolan SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT SAT 15:30 The Beat Women b06084ks (Listen) SAT The forgotten women of the Beat Generation supported, loved, SAT endured, and were creatively overshadowed by their famous SAT male counterparts. More than just muses, they were often SAT authors in their own right. Laura Barton travels to New York SAT to meet some of these women, writers such as Joyce Johnson, SAT who already had a book deal when she met Jack Kerouac as a SAT young woman, but has seen her long career overshadowed by SAT her brief time as Keraouc's girlfriend. Hettie Jones risked SAT everything to defy 1950's convention and her Jewish parents SAT to marry the black poet LeRoi Jones, who later became Amiri SAT Baraka. SAT SAT Then there are writers such as Anne Waldman, from a later SAT generation to Hettie and Joyce, who learnt from the Beat SAT Generation and aims to keep the tradition alive today. SAT SAT While in many cases the work of the women of the Beats was SAT not be as innovative as their male counterparts, Laura SAT argues that we should celebrate the writing of the women who SAT fought to forge their own paths, for whom merely telling SAT their story was a struggle. SAT SAT Presenter: Laura Barton SAT Producer: Jessica Treen. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0713m32 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.presented by Jenni SAT Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0713m34 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b070hns6 (Listen) SAT Data Privacy SAT SAT When you enter personal details onto any website or SAT smartphone app, what happens to it? Where does it get SAT stored, who owns it and who has access to it? These SAT questions are becoming more relevant to ask as we put more SAT details about every facet of our lives onto the internet. SAT With a new piece of legislation passed in the EU dealing SAT with this precise issue, businesses need to be up to speed SAT with their knowledge on effective privacy management SAT SAT Evan Davis and guests discuss why personal data is so SAT valuable to business, and how the individual can also SAT benefit from sharing this information. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Mike Gordon, CEO, Callcredit Information Group SAT SAT Liz Brandt, CEO, Ctrl Shift SAT SAT Eduardo Ustaran, Data Privacy expert and Partner, Hogan SAT Lovells. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0707wbl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0707wbn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0707wbq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0713m36 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Phil Gayle, David Leon, Ian Hislop, Jenny SAT Sealey, Ioan Grillo, Badly Drawn Boy, Yorkston Thorne Khan SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Phil Gayle are joined by David Leon, Ian SAT Hislop, Jenny Sealey and Ioan Grillo for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Badly Drawn SAT Boy and Yorkston Thorne Khan. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Ian Hislop SAT 'Trial By Laughter' is on Saturday 27th February at 14.30 on SAT BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Jenny Sealey SAT 'The Solid Life of Sugar Water' is touring until Saturday SAT 19th March. SAT SAT Ioan Grillo SAT 'Gangster Warlords' is published by Bloomsbury and available SAT now. SAT SAT David Leon SAT ‘Orthodox’ is showing in selected cinemas from Friday 19th SAT February. SAT SAT Badly Drawn Boy SAT SAT The 15th anniversary deluxe re-release of ‘Hour Of The SAT Bewilderbeast’ is out now on XL Recordings. SAT SAT SAT Badly Drawn Boy is performing at Lunar Festival in Warwick SAT between 3rd and 5th June. SAT SAT SAT SAT Yorkston Thorne Khan SAT SAT 'Everything Sacred' is out now on Domino Records. SAT SAT Yorkston Thorne Khan are playing at Yellow Arch, Sheffield SAT on Sunday 21st, Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds on Monday 23rd SAT and Deaf Institute, Manchester on Tuesday 24th February. SAT Check their website for further tour dates. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Phil Gayle SAT Interviewed Guest: David Leon SAT Interviewed Guest: Ian Hislop SAT Interviewed Guest: Jenny Sealey SAT Interviewed Guest: Ioan Grillo SAT Performer: Badly Drawn Boy SAT Performer: James Yorkston SAT Performer: John Thorne SAT Performer: Suhail Yusuf Khan SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b0713m38 (Listen) SAT Series 19, Popping Out SAT SAT Popping Out SAT By Will Self SAT SAT It's the immediate aftermath of the crucial EU summit in SAT Brussels, where Britain has pitched for better terms over SAT sovereignty, migration and the economy. All eyes are now on SAT The Spokesman who will deliver Europe's response to our SAT demands. SAT SAT Read by Will Self. SAT SAT Produced by Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Will Self SAT Writer: Will Self SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0707wbs (Listen) SAT Uncle Vanya, Triple 9, The Night Manager, Mend the Living, SAT Delacroix SAT SAT a bunch of corrupt cops stage a bank heist in Triple 9; but SAT can there honour among thieves in such a high-stakes job? SAT Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at London's Almeida Theatre has been SAT adapted and directed by Robert Icke giving it a fresh SAT contemporary feel. SAT John leCarre's 1993 novel The Night Manager has become a 6 SAT part BBCTV series. Espionage, amoral weapons dealers, SAT beautiful tragic women; all the best ingredients are there, SAT what does it add up to? SAT Award-winning French novelist Maylis de Kerangal's latest SAT work translated into English is Mend The Living - dissecting SAT 24 hours of a human heart. SAT The first major London exhibition of work by - and SAT influenced by - Eugene Delacroix has opened at The National SAT Gallery. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Gillian Slovo, Jason Cowley and SAT Kathryn Hughes. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Triple 9 SAT Triple 9 SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Maylis de Kerangal SAT SAT Mend the Living by SAT Maylis de Kerangal SAT is available in paper back and ebook now. SAT SAT SAT Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art SAT Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art SAT is at the National Gallery in London until 22 May 2016. SAT SAT Image: Eugène Delacroix - Christ on the Sea of Galilee, SAT 1853. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. H. O. SAT Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 SAT SAT The Night Manager SAT The Night Manager SAT begins on BBC One on Sunday 21 February at 9pm SAT SAT SAT SAT Uncle Vanya SAT Uncle Vanya SAT is at the Almeida Theatre in London until 26 March 2016. SAT SAT Image: © Manuel Harlan SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Gillian Slovo SAT Interviewed Guest: Jason Cowley SAT Interviewed Guest: Kathryn Hughes SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0713m3h (Listen) SAT In the Bluff SAT SAT There is, argues poet Paul Farley, something very particular SAT about the bluff that sets it apart from other members of the SAT deception family. More theatrical than a straight-forward, SAT two-dimensional lie, it can be called, it can be doubled, SAT and often times remains mysterious - we never actually find SAT out whether indeed a particular bluff was just that. It SAT permeates our everyday conversation, with nods of the head SAT and affirmative grunts suggesting that yes indeed we have SAT read Proust, and are of course conversant with Scandinavian SAT philosophy; it proves a vital weapon on the sports field and SAT the poker table; and in international relations and military SAT strategy remains an invaluable resource. Paul takes to the SAT poker table himself, and speaks to experts from a variety of SAT fields, including Jonathan Agnew and Bridget Kendal, to SAT delve deeper into the psychology and application of the SAT bluff. Along the way he frequently has need to suggest a SAT degree of knowledge in subjects that in fact remain largely SAT a mystery to him. SAT SAT 21:00 Friday Drama b040yvdq (Listen) SAT The Testament of This Day SAT SAT A new radio play written and directed by Edward Bond, one of SAT our greatest living playwrights, who turns 80 this year. In SAT true Bond style, this confronting and disturbing drama SAT connects with realities of our lives and societies. A young SAT man embarks on two journeys, He is in control of only one. SAT He soon discovers there is no going back, from either. An SAT arresting drama about the world today. SAT SAT As one of the most important and prolific post-war SAT playwrights, Edward Bond has been at the forefront of SAT radical, political and influential drama for over 50 years. SAT He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe. He was SAT born in London in 1934. He had virtually no formal education SAT and left school at 15. The Royal Court Theatre staged Saved SAT in 1965. The play created a national scandal, which was SAT instrumental in the abolition of censorship of the English SAT stage, and established Bond as a major British playwright. SAT He has written more than 50 plays, including Lear, The Sea, SAT Bingo, The Woman, Restoration, The War Plays and 'The Paris SAT Pentad' (Coffee, Crime of the Twenty-first Century, Born, SAT People, Innocence). Many of these have attained the status SAT of radical classics. SAT SAT The Testament Of This Day is Edward Bond's third original SAT radio drama, the previous two, also for Radio 4, Chair, and SAT Existence having both become stage versions that have been SAT translated and performed in many countries. Bond has found a SAT passion and a new voice in the writing of original radio SAT dramas, produced through his long term collaboration with SAT radio drama producer Turan Ali. SAT SAT Producer - Turan Ali SAT Writer and Director - Edward Bond SAT SAT A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT Overflow and notes: SAT SAT Edward Bond has also written poetry as well as texts for the SAT cinema and opera, and a large body of theoretical work on SAT drama. He also works as a director (often of his own work), SAT including this radio drama, his radio directing debut. SAT SAT Credits SAT Father: Roger Allam SAT Mother: Helen Bang SAT Son: Tim O'Hara SAT Woman: Naomi Frederick SAT Taxi Driver: Michael Stevenson SAT Writer: Edward Bond SAT Director: Edward Bond SAT Producer: Turan Ali SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0707wbv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b070fn1y (Listen) SAT Banning Boycotts SAT SAT How far should you be allowed to express your moral and SAT political beliefs through boycotts? There have been high SAT profile boycott campaigns on everything from companies SAT involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, and tobacco SAT products to economic and academic boycotts of Israel. Now SAT the government is planning a law to make it illegal for SAT local councils, public bodies and even some university SAT student unions to carry out boycotts. Under the plan all SAT publicly funded institutions will lose the freedom to refuse SAT to buy goods and services as part of a political campaign. SAT It's said that any public bodies that continue to pursue SAT boycotts will face "severe penalties." The government SAT believes cracking down on town-hall boycotts is justified SAT because they undermine good community relations, poison and SAT polarise debate and fuel anti-Semitism. Beyond the narrow SAT principle of what tax payers money should be spent on, what SAT is wrong with a group of citizens organising to express SAT their moral, philosophical or political objection to a SAT company or country through their economic, intellectual or SAT cultural power? Such boycotts have in the past been very SAT effective. If every pound we spend can on some level be seen SAT as an expression of our individual moral codes, why should SAT we not have a say on where money is spent on our behalf? Are SAT boycotts misguided empty political gestures more designed to SAT make us feel self-righteous? And even if they are is SAT outlawing them justified? Banning the boycott - the Moral SAT Maze. Chaired by Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, SAT Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox and Jill Kirby. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b070cxy8 (Listen) SAT Heat 6, 2016 SAT SAT (6/17) SAT The sixth heat in the current season of the general SAT knowledge quiz comes from Salford, with competitors from SAT Shropshire, Merseyside and Lincolnshire making their bid for SAT the title of Brain of Britain 2016. SAT SAT Russell Davies asks the programme's traditionally testing SAT questions. Could you remember who narrated the original SAT series of The Clangers; who was runner-up in the Sports SAT Personality of the Year award for 2015; or say what the time SAT difference is between Perth and Sydney? SAT SAT Today's winner will go through to the 2016 semi-finals later SAT in the spring. For a bit of light relief the contestants SAT will have to combine their knowledge to answer questions SAT devised by a Brain of Britain listener, who'll win a prize SAT if they can't do so successfully. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT PAUL BENNION, a lorry driver from Market Drayton in SAT Shropshire SAT SAT STEVE BOULDING, a rail campaigner from Baschurch in SAT Shropshire SAT SAT PAULA KEAVENEY, a university lecturer from Liverpool SAT SAT IAN WELHAM, a retired teacher from Middle Rasen in SAT Lincolnshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b070cgkk (Listen) SAT Love and the Rest SAT SAT Roger McGough with poetry of love, hate and everything in SAT between on this Valentine's edition of Poetry Please. SAT Featured poets include Harold Pinter, Carol Ann Duffy and WB SAT Yeats, and there are readings from Fiona Shaw, Alice Arnold, SAT Paul Mundell and Burt Caesar. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT Love and Hate SAT SAT by Elizabeth Siddal SAT SAT From SAT http://allpoetry.com/poem/8517301-Love-and-Hate-by-Elizabeth SAT Eleanor-Siddal SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Modern Love SAT SAT by George Meredith SAT SAT From: SAT http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173969 SAT SAT SAT SAT The Confirmation SAT SAT By Edwin Muir SAT SAT From: Edwin Muir Collected Poems SAT SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT After the Rain SAT SAT by Alfred Williams SAT SAT From: alfredwilliams.org.uk SAT SAT (official website of the Alfred Williams heritage SAT society) SAT SAT SAT SAT Ghetto SAT SAT By Michael Longley SAT SAT From: Gorse Fires SAT SAT Pub: Secker & Warburg SAT SAT SAT SAT Who are my People? SAT SAT by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni SAT SAT From: The Best Loved Poems of the American People SAT SAT Pub: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group SAT SAT SAT SAT The Laboratory SAT SAT by Robert Browning SAT SAT From: Browning: Poems selected by W E Williams SAT SAT Pub: Penguin Books SAT SAT SAT SAT In the Isle of Dogs SAT SAT by John Davidson SAT SAT From: John Davidson A Selection of his Poems SAT SAT Pub: Hutchinson SAT SAT SAT SAT It is Here SAT SAT By Harold Pinter SAT SAT From: Harold Pinter Collected Poems and Prose SAT SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Glove SAT SAT by Angela Topping SAT SAT From: angelatopping.wordpress.com SAT SAT SAT SAT Valentine SAT SAT by Carol Ann Duffy SAT SAT From: Selected Poems SAT SAT Pub: Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Stolen Child SAT SAT By W B Yeats SAT SAT From: The Day Before The Meteor Came – Poems Along the Angel SAT Highway SAT SAT Pub: New Hope International SAT SAT SAT SAT Batter My Heart SAT SAT by John Donne SAT SAT From: Donne SAT SAT Pub: Everyman SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Fiona Shaw SAT Reader: Alice Arnold SAT Reader: Paul Mundell SAT Reader: Burt Caesar SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0713ntz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Stories b0713pqt (Listen) SUN The Easter Lilies SUN SUN Julia McKenzie reads Jane Gardam's classic story in which an SUN elderly spinster dreams of adorning her suburban church with SUN the wild lilies of her time in Malta, with unexpected SUN results... SUN Reader: Julia McKenzie is a distinguished stage and screen SUN actor, with two Olivier awards and Tony and BAFTA SUN nominations. Her most recent TV roles include Miss Marple in SUN the Agatha Christie TV series, and her film roles include SUN Notes on a Scandal and Shirley Valentine. SUN Abridger: Justine Willett SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Born in 1928, Jane Gardam she did not publish her first book SUN until she was in her 40s, but has become one of the most SUN prolific novelists of her generation, with 25 books SUN published over the past 30 years and a number of prestigious SUN prizes to her name (she's twice winner of the Whitbread, and SUN has been shortlisted for both the Booker and Orange prizes). SUN Her novels include Old Filth, Last Friends, God on the Rocks SUN and The Hollow Land. She's been called 'the laureate of the SUN demise of the British Empire', for her poignant and witty SUN portrayals of the end of the era of British imperial SUN adventures. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Julia McKenzie SUN Writer: Jane Gardam SUN Abridger: Justine Willett SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0713nv1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0713nv3 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0713nv5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0713nv7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0713pqw (Listen) SUN Bells from St Martin's Church Desford in Leicester. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b070fn20 (Listen) SUN The Wilderness SUN SUN The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for SUN self-examination and reflection on the events leading up to SUN Jesus' crucifixion. Throughout Lent six writers will reflect SUN on these events through a variety of locations as they SUN explore the theme of "Lent in the Landscape". This week Emma SUN Loveridge, who used to run excursions to the Sinai Desert, SUN takes us to her own private wilderness which she has created SUN in Devon to reflect on Jesus' forty days and forty nights in SUN the wilderness. Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN It’s twilight and I’ve just walked along the old Roman Road SUN near where I grew up on the Devon/Dorset border. It’s a SUN small road, up high following a ridgeway, still straight as SUN an arrow centuries later. Generations of farmers, smugglers, SUN plough horses, dogs, children and now tractors, have SUN journeyed along here from dawn to dusk. The sun has just SUN died but the silky fire streaks still run through the sky. SUN And here I am clambering over an old style five-bar gate. SUN This may not be your idea of a wilderness and it’s certainly SUN very different from the desert wilderness where Jesus spent SUN 40 days and 40 nights. But here, in a small coppice, I’ve SUN created my own version of wilderness – a place of retreat - SUN a traditional shepherd’s hut.* * SUN SUN I know the track ahead really well, yet every time I take a SUN step further between the trees I wonder with anticipation SUN what I will see, hear, think and feel as I turn the corner SUN and arrive at my dusky red hut with its corrugated tin SUN roof. The experience is different every time and that is SUN both the wonderful and terrible thing about a wilderness SUN place; it never treats you the same way twice. It depends SUN in part on the environment and in part on the way you are SUN feeling. SUN SUN Twilight and pre-dawn are the times of day I most love and SUN most fear in any wilderness place. They’re the edges of the SUN day; when I am in London working and in the midst of a busy SUN life, sadly they often just pass me by - but in a wilderness SUN place with all the human distraction gone, they can provoke SUN hopefulness and despair or anything in between without SUN warning. SUN SUN Wilderness; it’s something I am drawn to again and again. SUN Wilderness has always been part of the Christian narrative, SUN the imagery deeply woven into our theology. The story which SUN has given us Lent, the ritual period of 40 days leading up SUN to Easter, tells us that Jesus was “driven” to seek out a SUN desert, a place apart, away from the familiarity, the SUN comfort of his then everyday life. A place where he would SUN be tested and struggle to explore his human SUN limitations. * * SUN SUN It can be a difficult story to engage with unless we too SUN have stepped out of our well-trodden routines. SUN SUN The recent heavy rains here have half flooded this area, but SUN I am standing on a dry tuft of grass that has survived the SUN winter rivulets and I am looking up at the last of the SUN white, winter light shimmering across the land, low on the SUN horizon. It flattens the trees into indistinct forms. SUN Although I am in the heart of Wessex, with deep green hedges SUN waiting to bud, the way the light deceives my eyes reminds SUN me of another wilderness - one I lived in on and off for SUN many years - the Sinai desert in Egypt - rugged, red, SUN desiccating and with the crunch of sand not the squish of SUN wet soil beneath* *my feet. SUN SUN For 20 years I took people from the west to travel and work SUN with the nomadic tribes of the Sinai desert, away from the SUN comfort of their usual lives. My role was to bridge the SUN gulf between settled westerner and roaming Bedu. Sinai is SUN part of that same rift valley desert where Jesus lived in SUN spiritual turmoil before the beginning of his public SUN ministry. Growing up between the gentle rolling hills of SUN the West Country, I had no concept of what it was like to be SUN in a desert. The unpredictability of the terrain; the SUN burnishing heat, pulsing through the valley, every trickle SUN of sweat reminding you that without water you are SUN frighteningly mortal; * * SUN SUN And there were more surprises to come on* *my first Lenten SUN February there, when the frosted ground glistened as the SUN moon set; it was cold right through to the bone. I would SUN walk up to a high pinnacle, similar to the parapets SUN described in the Gospel of Mathew where Jesus was tempted, SUN just to catch the first hint of warmth from the sun’s rays SUN and I have always suspected he did the same. And then I SUN would wish my mind hadn’t been so impaired by that cold, as SUN in the dawn light the way down looked impossible. Then I SUN would breathe sense into myself and look out and remember SUN the lack of anything manmade in sight. To my mind it was SUN stunningly beautiful, but it was empty. An emptiness that SUN sends a wash of fear through your very being as you realise SUN you’re standing on a ledge, a physical and emotional edge, SUN where no one would break your fall should you stumble. SUN SUN The reality was I was never as brave or as foolish as Jesus, SUN I never went too far alone; but I did again and again SUN experience the incredible unpredictability of a wilderness SUN place and the differing states of mind which happen in SUN parallel. Exposing yourself to that experience and the SUN sense of that dread that can come with it, is what entering SUN a wilderness is about. SUN SUN When I came back to England and went in search of a way to SUN create for my family a tiny wilderness experience of our SUN own, a place away from the daily hurly burly, I settled on SUN this beautifully made Shepherd’s hut, and if we step inside SUN now and shake off our muddy boots, the log-burner in the SUN corner sends out its glowing, crackling welcome.* * SUN SUN People have all sorts of romantic ideas about wilderness. We SUN can idealise Jesus’ time in the desert all too easily, as he SUN returns having triumphed over Satan’s temptations. We can SUN too quickly dismiss his terror at having no bread, the SUN symbol of home and hearth, but only stone all around or SUN underestimate his exhaustion as he slid and slipped on the SUN shaly sandstone hills with the giant pointed rocks beneath. SUN SUN It’s a land where transformation of mind and soul can be a SUN reality, a way of life even, especially in that space SUN between darkness and light when the desert offers a time for SUN stillness which no city ever considers. And then twilight SUN and dawn bring an added dimension; a strange light which SUN deforms the world. One morning in the desert, I watched the SUN light strike a sandstone ridge at such an angle that it SUN looked as if it swallowed the world. Every colour was SUN submerged into an optical illusion of shining nothingness. SUN It was as if nothing existed out there. “It’s the time of SUN day in my land” my old Bedu friend, Sabah, almost whispered SUN “you have to decide to live or to die”. I understood what SUN he was saying, the purity of the light, was mesmerising, it SUN felt like you had to choose to breathe again. But it was SUN also distorting and shifting. You could easily get lost in SUN this place, in so many ways, in mind, body and spirit. It SUN was the story of Christ’s struggle in the wilderness; the SUN valley of the shadow of death and the hope of resurrection SUN all rolled into his single sentence. SUN SUN Sabah poked the buried ashes of the acacia wood into life, SUN ashes still warm from the previous night. If buried deeply SUN at the end of the day, they will still be smouldering enough SUN at dawn for the fire to catch the dried broom needles and SUN give some much needed warmth. Sabah boiled the small pot for SUN tea. He had decided to live. I wondered if Jesus had done SUN the same. SUN SUN The desert can be a place of salvation for those who pass SUN through it – and make it to the other side. SUN SUN One of the first Arabic words I ever learnt out in the SUN desert was a colloquial Bedu word for salvation. It has a SUN three-dimensional quality which needs explaining. In trying SUN to help me understand what he meant, a young Bedu acted it SUN out. “It is”, he said, “what we all crave.” He stood up SUN suddenly and stood tall facing a distant horizon. “It is to SUN stand tall”, he said “and to look to the furthest point SUN without needing to look behind, without wondering what is SUN either side, without hunching your back with the weight of SUN your own fear, and it comes from within. It is not to be SUN burdened with fear but to be filled with freedom.” SUN SUN Journeys through a wilderness, whether long and far, or near SUN and short, are often a search for such a moment. I have SUN spent much of my life journeying through such places, SUN seeking them out. When I worked in the desert, however, I SUN learned that it was as important to be able to find your way SUN out of the wilderness as into it. We always created the SUN fire, the safe place to return to in case we might get SUN lost. SUN SUN Every wilderness experience, also needs a home-coming. Every SUN Lenten journey needs a SUN resurrection.* SUN * SUN SUN And actually just thinking about that now, rather than just SUN staying here in the shepherd’s hut, we should go for a walk SUN into this little wilderness. SUN SUN Any place where we feel on the edge *can* be magnificent but SUN it can also be terrible. Coming here I climbed the gate SUN feeling elated, a little time out from the world. I think of SUN the people past and present who have made it possible for me SUN to have this space, I’m filled with affection for those SUN who’ve guided me through the deserts I have travelled and SUN love for my family with whom I share this place. SUN SUN But there is more to this wilderness as well, so now I am SUN going to turn away from the light seductively hanging in the SUN window and take you deeper inside. SUN SUN The dark is just settling over us and I am walking towards SUN the ancient hedge line. An hour ago it beckoned to be SUN peered over, the view beyond expansive, but in the dark it’s SUN creepy and to be honest, a slight panic comes over me. All SUN of a sudden I’m alone and afraid, as if the straggly old SUN hedge, without the light of sun or moon on it, now SUN represents all that is dark within me as well as outside. SUN SUN I feel a tiny inkling again of what it is like to live on SUN the edge, paralysed with fear. My mind and intellect stop SUN protecting me, I tell myself I am safe, grown up, in a place SUN I love - but a wilderness has *its* dark side and in a way SUN that is the very point, to know it’s there but even more so SUN you need to know you can return. The hope of a way out of SUN the wilderness is as important as the way we got in. And SUN surely that is the point of the story of Jesus’ time in the SUN wilderness, that he has to find his way through it, not hide SUN there, but find a way back out to the pathway he chooses to SUN follow. SUN SUN Enough of the fearful dark side of the wilderness. It’s SUN freezing and the ground is already starting to harden under SUN my feet*.* Time to find the fire. So I am going to head SUN back now – I am walking faster through the shadows – and SUN finally, though still outside, I am near enough to the SUN shepherd’s hut to see the glow of the fire, and know that in SUN a minute I *can* step inside. SUN SUN And that’s what time in the wilderness does for me, it gives SUN me moments when I realise how terrifying it is to live on SUN the edge; the edge of resources, the edge of a family, at SUN the edge of Europe as a refugee, on the edge of health or SUN under the edge of a sword across your land stealing the SUN future. And it reminds me how privileged it is to be filled SUN with a hope, a knowledge even, that I can return from the SUN edge and find the welcoming fire. SUN SUN I now run a psychotherapeutic clinic in Central London. I SUN work with individuals and families on their internal journey SUN into their own wilderness, the desert that lies within SUN themselves*. * SUN SUN I like to think of my consulting room as the fireside in the SUN desert. While you visit your own inner wilderness, a place SUN you wouldn’t normally go for fear of getting lost*,* and SUN find emotions you wouldn’t dare to feel in case they SUN overwhelm, someone is waiting for you by the warmth and the SUN light of the fireside. SUN SUN As I sit here in my shepherd’s hut warm, relieved and safe, SUN I know that getting into a wilderness is all too easy, some SUN of us are forced there physically, some of us are neglected SUN in a wilderness without love, some of us just tumble into an SUN emotional hole with not enough help to find a way out and SUN some of us are enticed by a beauty, a deceptive simplicity, SUN and the search for God. SUN SUN And for those of us who believe in salvation, then the SUN symbolic Lenten wilderness of these next few weeks, can be a SUN time to struggle in the way Christ struggled in the desert SUN and to strive for our own freedom and then for the freedom SUN of others who have lost hope along the way. In all my SUN lifelong experience and love of wilderness, I am deeply SUN aware that the freedom I find there is greater than the fear SUN because of those who have lit, and kept alight, the fire SUN beyond. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0713nv9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0713rtc (Listen) SUN Repeat After Me SUN SUN From declarations of love to the descent of words into SUN music, the poet Ross Sutherland explores the consequences of SUN repeating ourselves. SUN SUN Featuring music from Steve Reich and David Lang. SUN SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0713rtf (Listen) SUN Dairy: A More Ethical Alternative? SUN SUN The Ahimsa Dairy Foundation is a not-for-profit company that SUN was set up to provide entirely slaughter-free milk. Ruth SUN Sanderson travels to North Leicestershire to meet SUN co-directors Nicola Pazdzierska and Sanjay Tanna as they SUN prepare to move their herd from Kent to a new site near SUN Groby. It hasn't been a simple journey but as Ruth discovers SUN the people behind Ahimsa are inspired by much more than SUN profit. They are pioneering an approach to dairy that puts SUN animal welfare at the heart of the business with a premium SUN product that appeals to a select but growing market for SUN religious or ethical reasons. SUN SUN A new site will allow them to develop innovative mobile SUN dairy technology and begin training oxen to be used on the SUN land so that they too have a worth but Nicola and Sanjay SUN must tackle many hurdles to get their new machinery SUN approved. Soon after they had moved the cows the spectre of SUN Bovine TB arose on the neighbouring farm and they must now SUN wait to see if their animals are affected. SUN SUN Ruth joins them to discover if their love of their animals SUN and the help of their supporters can help them succeed SUN against some big challenges. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Lennard. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0713nvc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0713nvf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0713rth (Listen) SUN Sikh women and the turban, The Church and the middle classes SUN and Sin SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b0713rtk (Listen) SUN Theatre for a Change SUN SUN Noma Dumezweni makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theatre SUN for a Change SUN Registered Charity No 1104458 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Theatre for a Change' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Theatre for a Change'. SUN SUN Theatre for a Change SUN SUN Theatre for a Change uses drama and interactive learning to SUN empower vulnerable women and girls in Malawi and Ghana with SUN the skills they need to negotiate safer sex and advocate for SUN their rights. SUN SUN Mobile health clinic SUN SUN Theatre for a Change's mobile health clinic stands outside a SUN brothel in Lilongwe, Malawi, as the team engages the women SUN living inside. SUN SUN Demand for the clinic SUN SUN A woman performs to a crowd outside a bar in Lilongwe to SUN drum up demand for the clinic parked nearby. SUN SUN Taking the clinic directly where it is needed SUN SUN A row of rooms at the back of a brothel where women and SUN girls like Chisomo, whose story you hear in the appeal, live SUN and work. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0713nvj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0713nvl (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0713rtm (Listen) SUN Lent Pilgrimage 2: Taking and Leaving SUN SUN How do we choose what to keep, what we require for inner SUN vitality and balance, and what to leave behind on Lent SUN Pilgrimage? Live from the shrine of St Augustine in SUN Ramsgate, Kent. With the Rector, Fr Marcus Holden, and with SUN a reflection by Robert Pugin Purcell, the great grandson of SUN Augustus Pugin, the architect of the shrine which was SUN Pugin's own church and which today holds the relics of St SUN Augustine of Canterbury. With a special poem by Sr Mary SUN Stephen. The Victoria Consort is directed by Thomas Neal. A SUN link to online resources from Churches Together in Britain SUN and Ireland is on the Sunday Worship web page. Producer: SUN Rowan Morton Gledhill. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b070hxsv (Listen) SUN Vanilla Happiness SUN SUN Adam Gopnik says the secret of happiness lies in unexpected SUN pleasures, like finding yoghourt is vanilla when you expect SUN it to be plain. SUN SUN "Are the intrinsic qualities of something more powerful than SUN the context in which we perceive it, or are what we call SUN intrinsic properties really only the effect of expectations SUN and surprise?" SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03mhyzf (Listen) SUN Raven 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 David Attenborough presents the story of the raven. Ravens SUN are one of the most widely distributed birds in the world SUN and can survive Arctic winters and scorching deserts. In the SUN UK, Ravens were once widespread, even in cities but SUN persecution drove them back into the wilder parts of our SUN islands. Now they're re-colonising the lowlands and are even SUN turning up on the outskirts of London where, since Victorian SUN times, the only ravens were the ones kept at the Tower. SUN SUN Raven (Corvus corax) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0713nvs (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0713rtp (Listen) SUN A helping hand for Helen? And it is a big day for SUN Brookfield. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton 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 Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Matthew Holman: Michael Winder SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0713rtr (Listen) SUN Dame Zaha Hadid SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the architect, Dame Zaha Hadid. SUN SUN The first woman to be awarded architecture's highest honour, SUN the Pritzker Prize, she designed the Aquatic Centre for SUN London 2012, Glasgow's Riverside Museum and has twice won SUN the Stirling Prize - first for the MAXXI museum in Rome and SUN secondly for her design for the Grace Academy school in SUN Brixton, London. She recently became the first woman in her SUN own right to receive the RIBA Gold Medal. SUN SUN She was born in Baghdad in 1950 where her father was a SUN prominent member of the opposition National Democratic SUN Party. After attending school there, she travelled to SUN Switzerland and England to boarding school before returning SUN to London in 1972 to study at the Architectural Association. SUN SUN In 1983 she won her first competition to design the Peak SUN Leisure Club in Hong Kong. It gained her international SUN recognition though it was never built: her first building SUN was the Vitra Fire Station in Germany in 1993. In the late SUN 1990s she built a contemporary arts centre in Cincinnati & a SUN BMW car manufacturing plant in Leipzig. She won competitions SUN to design a new opera house in Cardiff but it was never SUN realised and her first permanent building in Britain was a SUN Maggie's Cancer Care Centre in Scotland built in 2006. She SUN has designed stations for the Nordpark Cable Railway in SUN Innsbruck, Austria and in 2010 the Opera House in Guangzhou, SUN China. In 2014 she became the first woman to win the Design SUN Museum's Design of the Year Award for the Heydar Aliyev SUN Cultural Centre, in Baku, Azerbaijan. SUN SUN She was made a Dame in 2012 for services to architecture. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Zaha Hadid SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0713nvx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 The Museum of Curiosity b06zqq9d (Listen) SUN Series 8, Calman, Cooke, Lowe SUN SUN This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his SUN curator Sarah Millican welcome the comedian, Fearer of SUN Raisins and Collector of Thimbles, Susan Calman; an artist SUN who has made an art out of copying art and claims that he SUN has actually slept with the Mona Lisa, Adam Lowe; and a TV SUN naturalist who admits that when she talks to animals, all SUN they want to talk about is food, fighting and, well, mating, SUN Lucy Cooke. SUN SUN This week, the Museum's guests discuss what Fifty Shades of SUN Grey has in common with Capt. Kirk and Mr Spock making sweet SUN exoplanetary love; how salt could be the building material SUN of the future if only it didn't rain; and why living on a SUN small island will either turn you into a pygmy or a giant. SUN SUN The show was researched by Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan of SUN QI. SUN SUN The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. SUN SUN It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Lloyd SUN Presenter: Sarah Millican SUN Interviewed Guest: Susan Calman SUN Interviewed Guest: Adam Lowe SUN Interviewed Guest: Lucy Cooke SUN Producer: Richard Turner SUN Producer: James Harkin SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0713rtt (Listen) SUN The Sake Revelation SUN SUN If your experience of sake has been limited to simply 'a hot SUN cup of alcohol after a meal' like Sheila Dillon it's time to SUN listen without prejudice. With thousands of breweries each SUN producing dozens of varieties there is more range than most SUN of us understand. SUN SUN After a slump in sales in Japan young people are now SUN returning to sake and in the UK interest is growing rapidly SUN with top restaurants listing more choices, plans for SUN specialist bars and more people in the drinks trade now SUN qualifying in sake expertise. SUN SUN But how do you know where to start? A lack of Japanese can SUN make bottles hard to understand and when do you drink it hot SUN or cold? What food can you pair them with? How do you avoid SUN the really bad ones? SUN SUN Sake samurai and sommelier Natsuki Kikuya explains how SUN different varieties should be drunk and how the novice can SUN gain confidence . She's joined by passionate sake convert, SUN drinks writer Anna Greenhous and Techno DJ Richie Hawtin aka SUN Plastikman fell so in love with sake he's now taking it to a SUN new generation of young clubbers around the world. SUN Meanwhile the race is on between 2 breweries to produce the SUN first sake in the UK. Will it be Scotland's Arran brewery or SUN the Japanese Dojima brewery which is investing in a SUN multi-million pound operation in Cambridgeshire? SUN SUN Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Natsuki Kikuya SUN Interviewed Guest: Anna Greenhous SUN Interviewed Guest: Richie Hawtin SUN Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0713nw1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0713nw5 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 The Spoken Image b068tsvg (Listen) SUN The photographer and former Picture Editor at The Guardian, SUN Eamonn McCabe, curates a photo exhibition on the radio, SUN featuring images that have moved and inspired him during his SUN 50 years in the business. Together, the images represent the SUN power photography has to connect us to our past and our SUN humanity - our feats and failures, our memories, emotions, SUN and our humour. SUN SUN Pictures by acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin and SUN portrait photographer David Bailey remind Eamonn of his SUN youth in North London. He talks to the British photographer SUN Michael Kenna about the tricks of light and the merits of SUN black and white versus colour prints. He also offers some SUN very personal reflections on his colleague at the Observer, SUN Jane Bown. SUN SUN We hear from Joel Meyerowitz whose images of the aftermath SUN of the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001 SUN offer a visceral example of photo reportage, despite being SUN taken after the event. Joel's moving account, courtesy of SUN The National September 11 Memorial and Museum, raises SUN questions about whether it is right to make something SUN aesthetic from something tragic. SUN SUN Other photographers featured include French greats Willy SUN Ronis and Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Hungarian colour SUN specialist Nickolas Muray, the Observer sports photographer SUN Chris Smith - famous for his pictures of Muhammad Ali, and SUN the cult British photographer Raymond Moore. SUN SUN (Photo credit: "Boats, Dingle" (c) Michael Kenna/Supervision SUN New York) SUN SUN Producer: Olivia Landsberg SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN The Guvnors, Finsbury Park, London, 1958 © Don McCullin SUN SUN The Kray Twins, 1965 © David Bailey SUN SUN Mohammed Ali In Miami © Chris Smith/Popperfoto SUN SUN Le Nu Provencal, Gordes, 1949 © Willy Ronis/Rapho SUN SUN Soldiers of the Sky © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives SUN SUN Anthony Blunt, 1979 © Jane Bown/The Observer SUN SUN Automobile Delage, Circuit de Dieppe, 26 June 1912. SUN Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue SUN © Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication, France / SUN AAJHL SUN SUN Assembled panorama of the World Trade Center site, Fall 2001 SUN © Joel Meyerowitz, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery SUN SUN Curraghs, Dingle, 1982 © Michael Kenna/Supervision New York SUN SUN Pembrokeshire, 1967 © Raymond Moore SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b070hxsb (Listen) SUN Tutbury Castle SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire. Bunny Guinness, Matthew SUN Wilson and Bob Flowerdew answer this week's questions, SUN including how excessive rain can affect your soil and which SUN seeds are best to grow outdoors. SUN SUN Also, the panellists dispense advice on how to make an SUN effective hot bed and Matthew Wilson takes to the busy SUN streets of Shoreditch to investigate the long-forgotten work SUN of Thomas Fairchild. SUN SUN Produced by Hannah Newton SUN Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – Will this excessive rainfall have affected my light SUN soil? Will I need to give it extra feed to improve it? SUN SUN Matthew – When you get a lot of rain on a light soil it can SUN leech all the nutrients through. When it dries out I would SUN treat it to a really good helping of well-rotted manure – SUN that will help restore the balance of nutrients but it will SUN also add bulk to the soil. SUN SUN Bunny – The best thing you can do when it’s wet is to keep SUN as much plant cover on there as possible. Avoid empty beds. SUN SUN SUN Q – I planted some Rhubarb ‘Timperley Early’ and I didn’t SUN pick any of the stalks. To protect from the weather, I put SUN some straw and an upturned pot over it and I seem to have SUN forced it. Can I get a crop this year or shall I abandon it? SUN SUN Bob – You have a crop for this year! I would make the pot SUN bigger, put more straw in there, and try and get it to grow SUN a bit more. My rhubarb has started early this year – I SUN wouldn’t worry too much. In March/April I’d take away the SUN straw and the pot to encourage it to make new leaves. And SUN give it a good load of muck. Don’t worry too much about the SUN wet and cold either – they are quite hardy. SUN SUN SUN Q – I usually grow plants from seed to sell. However, I no SUN longer have a greenhouse and so I’d like suggestions for SUN plants to grow outside that will look good/sell well at the SUN end of June please. SUN SUN Matthew – You’re going to want plants you can grow from seed SUN directly into the soil. Californian Poppy (*Eschscholzia SUN californica*), *Nigella* ‘Love in a Mist’, *Ammi majus* and SUN *Orlaya grandiflora* (‘Minoan Lace’) in the cow parsley SUN family. SUN SUN Bob – ‘Night-Scented’ Stock. *Hesperis matronalis *(‘The SUN Dame’s Violet’). Hollyhocks and Wallflowers too – for SUN flowering next year. SUN SUN Bunny – Sweet peas. From cuttings I’d do things such as SUN Thyme or French Tarragon. SUN SUN SUN Q – We have three 10-year-old horse chestnut trees. One is SUN stunted and seems to have a bleeding canker. Can it be SUN treated or should I chop it down? SUN SUN Bob – I think a lot of horse chestnuts are grown from seed SUN so there should be some variation – so hopefully only some SUN of them will be prone to diseases. I say keep them going SUN and see what happens. You can get something nasty and SUN recover from it – if it was a rare disease you’d immediately SUN want to get rid of it but as it’s so common I wouldn’t say SUN it’s essential. SUN SUN Bunny – If you put a deciduous mulch around the base that SUN really increases the micro-organisms in the top 7cm (2.75 SUN inches) of soil. That helps the aeration of soil and SUN benefits a sick tree. Do that to all three. SUN SUN SUN Q – Our garden club is in process of deciding our Summer SUN 2016 growing competition. What do the panel think to SUN growing a potato in a pot? The judging/weighing will be in SUN late-July. What variety can you recommend? SUN SUN Bob – Rather than go just for yield go for flavour as well. SUN I’d recommend ‘Dunluce’ variety – one of the best-flavoured SUN earlies – or possibly ‘Concorde’, and see who can make the SUN potato taste best! Also, try growing the tastiest tomato. SUN SUN SUN Q – Can the panel tell me what the best way to put together SUN a hot bed please? SUN SUN Bob – It’s good when it works but it’s a lot of work. SUN Problem is that it heats up and is too hot initially and SUN then it cools down. I’d use a mixture of fresh grass SUN clippings, some leaves, some compost – mix it all up and put SUN it in plastic bags. Then surround that with insulation and SUN then stand a layer of soil in a plastic bowl on that and SUN then stick the plants on that. Then you can keep moving SUN them along because the heat doesn’t last more than a couple SUN of weeks. SUN SUN Bunny – You must get a soil thermometer to make sure you’re SUN getting the right temperature. Straw bale gardening is SUN similar and much easier – and it will last for a whole SUN season. SUN SUN SUN Q – I enjoy the simplicity of Auriculas – can the panel SUN advise me on whether they should overwinter outside or in a SUN greenhouse, and where is the best site for a small Auricula SUN Theatre? Full sun or partial shade? SUN SUN Matthew – An Auricula Theatre is a traditional way of SUN displaying them – and is essentially a large rectangular SUN box, divided up with shelving, painted black, at eye level. SUN The professionals will normally overwinter them in an SUN unheated poly tunnel. Good air circulation is really SUN important. They can be prone to rots so keep them dry. But SUN don’t enclose them because they don’t like humidity. SUN Location-wise – I would say an east-facing location as they SUN don’t like all day sun. Put them in clay pots. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve been growing beetroot for a few years now – using SUN the ‘Boltardy’ variety – the plants do grow but they seem to SUN stay quite small and don’t swell. Also, there seems to be SUN signs of ‘Beet leaf miner’. I was wondering how I could get SUN better success? SUN SUN Bob – Beets are maritime plants originally and have a strong SUN need for minerals so a good dose of seaweed solution during SUN the growing solution would do it some good. SUN SUN Bunny – Put a good mulch on regularly too – don’t be mean SUN with the mulch! SUN SUN SUN Q – My friends insist that I should replace the compost in SUN my patio containers every year. Is this really necessary? SUN SUN Matthew – Not necessarily – depends what you’re growing as SUN some plants are very hungry and others not so much. I’d SUN replace about a third every year so you have some fresh and SUN some old. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0713rtz (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with The Listening Project's first conversation SUN using signing - one of a pair between hearing mothers and SUN deaf children - and another about film versus digital SUN legacy. All in the Omnibus edition 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 Riot Girls b0713vvt (Listen) SUN The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Episode 1 SUN SUN by Fay Weldon, adapted by Joy Wilkinson. A darkly comic SUN fairy tale about revenge, sex and power. SUN SUN When Ruth discovers her husband is sleeping with a prettier, SUN richer woman, she makes ingenious and diabolical plans to SUN punish them both. SUN SUN 'The Life and Loves of a She Devil', written in 1983, is a SUN gleefully bawdy satire on the war of the sexes, and a fable SUN about the rewards and dangers of our capacity for SUN transformation. SUN SUN It is part of Riot Girls on Radio 4, a series of SUN no-holds-barred women's writing that includes Erica Jong's SUN 'Fear of Flying' and original plays following three SUN generations of women by Lucy Catherine and Ella Hickson. SUN SUN Adapted by Joy Wilkinson SUN Directed by Abigail le Fleming SUN SUN The Writer SUN Fay Weldon CBE has written 34 novels, numerous TV dramas, SUN several radio plays, 5 full length stage plays and five SUN collections of short stories. She works as Professor SUN teaching creative writing at Bath Spa University. SUN SUN The Adapter SUN Joy Wilkinson was selected as a Screen International Star of SUN Tomorrow 2015. She has several original feature projects and SUN TV series in development, including the thriller KILLER CV, SUN which was selected for the 2014 Brit List. Joy writes SUN extensively for radio, on original dramas and adaptations. SUN In theatre, her work has won prizes including the Verity SUN Bargate Award. SUN SUN Credits SUN Ruth: Hattie Morahan SUN Bobbo: Barnaby Kay SUN Mary Fisher: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Nurse Hopkins: Rosie Cavaliero SUN Mrs Fisher: Susan Jameson SUN Nicola: Evie Killip SUN Andy: Leo Wan SUN Garcia: Chris Pavlo SUN Angus: Gerard McDermott SUN Insurance Man: Gerard McDermott SUN Brenda: Debra Baker SUN Mrs Trumper: Debra Baker SUN Elsie Flower: Katie Redford SUN Girl in Job Centre: Rebecca Hamilton SUN Author: Fay Weldon SUN Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson SUN Director: Abigail le Fleming SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0713vvw (Listen) SUN Meg Rosoff SUN SUN Meg Rosoff, best known for her books for young people talks SUN to Mariella about her debut novel for adults, Jonathan SUN Unleashed. Booker winner John Banville introduces us to For SUN Two Thousand Years, a classic Romanian novel now available SUN in English for the first time. SUN Crime writer Ann Cleeves discusses the book she'd never lend SUN - a rare volume of the flora and fauna of the tiny Hilbre SUN Island, and there's new trends in book selling with the SUN opening of Libreria - a new mobile phone free bookshop which SUN hopes to win over hearts of the high tech community. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Meg Rosoff SUN Interviewed Guest: John Banville SUN Interviewed Guest: Ann Cleeves SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0713vvy (Listen) SUN Bubble and Squeak SUN SUN Roger McGough with poetry of love, hate and everything in SUN between on this Valentine's edition of Poetry Please. SUN Featured poets include Harold Pinter, Carol Ann Duffy and WB SUN Yeats, and there are readings from Fiona Shaw, Alice Arnold, SUN Paul Mundell and Burt Caesar. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Distances SUN SUN By Phillippe Jaccottet SUN SUN Translated by Derek Mahon SUN SUN From Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN SUN Atlas SUN SUN By U A Fanthorpe SUN SUN From Collected Poems 1978-2003 SUN SUN Published by Peterloo Poets SUN SUN SUN SUN Sonnet XI SUN SUN By Eleanor Brown SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12275080.DAILY_POEM_SONNE SUN _XI/ SUN SUN SUN SUN September Sun: 1947 SUN SUN By David Gascoyne SUN SUN From David Gascoyne – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Enitharmon SUN SUN SUN SUN The Flight of the Sparrow SUN SUN By James Harpur SUN SUN From The Monk’s Dream SUN SUN Published by Anvil Press Poetry SUN SUN SUN SUN Tree At My Window SUN SUN By Robert Frost SUN SUN From The Poetry of Robert Frost SUN SUN Published by Jonathan Cape SUN SUN SUN SUN But These Things Also SUN SUN By Edward Thomas SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The One-Legged Man SUN SUN By Siegfried Sassoon SUN SUN From Siegfried Sassoon - Collected Poems; 1908–1956 SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Miners SUN SUN By Wilfred Owen SUN SUN From The Poems of Wilfred Owen SUN SUN Published by The Hogarth Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Where the Mind is Without Fear SUN SUN (Extract from Gitanjali) SUN SUN By Rabindranath Tagore SUN SUN From An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project SUN Anthology SUN SUN Published by W. W. Norton and Company SUN SUN SUN SUN Winds SUN SUN By Kathleen Raine SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine SUN SUN Published by Golgonooza SUN SUN SUN SUN The Dream City SUN SUN By Humbert Wolfe SUN SUN Taken from SUN https://thepoetrycollection.wordpress.com/humbert-wolfe-1885 SUN 1940-the-dream-city/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Water SUN SUN By Philip Larkin SUN SUN From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Dover Beach SUN SUN By Matthew Arnold SUN SUN From The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN Mamble SUN SUN By John Drinkwater SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://allpoetry.com/Mamble SUN SUN SUN SUN To My Book SUN SUN By Ben Jonson SUN SUN From Ben Jonson – Selected Poetry SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN The Passionate Shepherd to his Love SUN SUN By Christopher Marlowe SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173941 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Indian Serenade SUN SUN By Percy Bysshe Shelley SUN SUN From An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry SUN SUN Published by Oxford University Press SUN SUN SUN SUN The Glory of the Day Was In Her Face SUN SUN By James Weldon Johnson SUN SUN From The Poetry of Black America; Anthology of the 20th SUN Century SUN SUN Published by Harper & Row SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Fiona Shaw SUN Reader: Alice Arnold SUN Reader: Paul Mundell SUN Reader: Burt Caesar SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b070dq8f (Listen) SUN Are international conflicts creating tensions between Sunni SUN and Shia Muslims in the UK? SUN SUN Shabnam Mahmood reports from both Sunni and Shia communities SUN and reveals how divisive messages from the Middle East are SUN fuelling intolerance here. SUN SUN Organisations which monitor hate crimes say sectarian SUN violence, while low level, is increasing. SUN SUN One Shia man tells the programme: "It is now becoming quite SUN dangerous. It is an attack on me as a Shia that really SUN scares me." SUN SUN Mahmood reports from one of an increasing number of unity SUN events being staged across the country to foster good SUN relations. A Sunni imam tells her: "These are dangerous SUN times and the religious leadership need to be seen to be SUN doing things to bring communities together." SUN SUN So can such work prevent tensions escalating in the face of SUN the sectarian propaganda that's increasingly available SUN online and on satellite television channels? SUN SUN Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b0713m38 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0713nw7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0713nw9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0713nwc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0713wlr (Listen) SUN Antonia Quirke SUN SUN Antonia Quirke chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0713wlt (Listen) SUN Is Brookfield all set for change? SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01rlmpt (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN SUN Radio 4's word-obsessed comedy panel game returns for a new SUN series - with stars from across the world of wordplay coming SUN together to score points off each other, under the well-read SUN eye of chairman Gyles Brandreth. SUN SUN This week's panellists are comedians Milton Jones and Alun SUN Cochrane, Dictionary Corner's Susie Dent and Front Row SUN critic Natalie Haynes. SUN SUN On today's show Milton Jones coins his own new fear - the SUN fear of becoming a monk: 'cloisterphobia'; Alun Cochrane's SUN Yorkshire roots help him guess the meaning of the Polish SUN word 'prozvonit';Susie Dent explains the origin of the SUN phrase 'gingering up' and Natalie Haynes tries to ban the SUN word 'guesstimate'. SUN SUN Other panellists appearing in the series include Lloyd SUN Langford, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring, Katy Brand, Robin SUN Ince and Alex Horne - plus there's a very special guest SUN appearance from Ainsley Harriott. SUN SUN They'll be asked to guess the meanings of now-obsolete SUN words, invent their own cliches and cockney rhyming slang, SUN discuss their own favourite words and phrases - and suggest SUN words they would like to ban. SUN SUN Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Gyles Brandreth SUN Writer: Jon Hunter SUN Writer: James Kettle SUN Producer: Claire Jones SUN SUN 19:45 Short Story: Say Yes by Tobias Wolff b0713x9k (Listen) SUN A couple are washing up after their evening meal. A casual SUN conversation reveals a startling difference between them. SUN How well do we know those who we love and live with? SUN SUN Written by Tobias Wolff SUN Read by Henry Goodman SUN SUN Produced by Jill Waters SUN A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tobias Wolff SUN Reader: Henry Goodman SUN Producer: Jill Waters SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b070hxsj (Listen) SUN Junior doctors' strike, David Bowie's death SUN SUN Feedback returns with the BBC Radio issues that matter most SUN to you - from the coverage of Junior Doctors' debate and SUN David Bowie's death, to a tough listen in The Archers and a SUN documentary that invites you to see with your ears. SUN SUN When David Bowie died, Radio 4's news programmes dedicated SUN much of the day's coverage to the star. Many listeners felt SUN the coverage was disproportionate. Jamie Angus, editor of SUN the Today programme, speaks to presenter Roger Bolton to SUN address complaints that the BBC let emotion override SUN objectivity. SUN SUN Jamie Angus also hears listeners' views on how his programme SUN has been covering the Junior Doctors' contract debate. SUN Listeners on both sides have concerns and question whether SUN the BBC is picking the right people to represent the SUN arguments and whether statements from the BMA and the SUN government are being properly scrutinised. SUN SUN Rob Titchener's relentless abuse of his wife Helen has been SUN captivating many of the Ambridge faithful, but has also been SUN forcing some to turn off their radios. Listeners debate SUN whether the storyline is unmissable drama in the best SUN tradition of the programme, or a subject that is just too SUN painful to return to day in, day out. SUN SUN And stop, stand still and listen. That's what listeners did SUN when journalist Helena Merriman told them to during her SUN documentary Batman and Ethan. The programme featured Ethan, SUN a blind ten year old learning to explore the world through a SUN technique called echolocation, which uses sound to create a SUN picture of his environment. Roger Bolton speaks to Helena SUN about recreating something that only blind people can SUN understand, and asks if highlighting the unusual technique SUN risks creating unrealistic expectations for many blind SUN people. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b070hxsg (Listen) SUN Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Norman Hudis, SUN Antonin Scalia, Dan Hicks SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the United Nations Secretary General SUN who had to deal with genocide in Rwanda and the war in the SUN Balkans. SUN SUN Edmonde Charles-Roux, the former resistance fighter who SUN became editor of French Vogue magazine. SUN SUN Norman Hudis, the screenwriter of many of the Carry On SUN comedy films. SUN SUN Antonin Scalia, the conservative US Supreme Court Justice SUN SUN And the influential West Coast musician Dan Hicks. SUN SUN Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Pictured) SUN SUN Born 14 November 1922; Died 16 February 2016 Aged 93 SUN SUN Edmonde Charles-Roux SUN SUN Born 17 April 1920; Died 20 January 2016 Aged 95 SUN SUN Norman Hudis SUN SUN Born 27 July 1922; Died 8 February 2016 Aged 93 SUN SUN Antonin Scalia SUN SUN Born 11 March 1936; Died 13 February 2016 Aged 79 SUN SUN Dan Hicks SUN SUN Born 9 December 1941; Died 6 February 2016 Aged 74 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0713m2q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0713rtk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b070d28w (Listen) SUN Inheritance SUN SUN Why does inheritance arouse such powerful emotions? Family, SUN death and money make for gripping stories - just ask SUN Tolstoy, Austen or Dickens - but our attitudes also reflect SUN the way we feel about society, the state, and even SUN ourselves. SUN SUN Discussions tend to dissolve into rows about levels of tax SUN but in this programme Jo Fidgen explores the values and SUN intuitions that underpin our strength of feeling. SUN SUN Producer: Joe Kent. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0713nwf (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0713x9m (Listen) SUN Hugh Muir of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b070hkyc (Listen) SUN John Lasseter SUN SUN The Film Programme this week explores the work of American SUN animator and film maker John Lasseter. SUN SUN Presenter Francine Stock talks to John about his moving SUN making techniques and films including Toy Story, Frozen and SUN his latest release Zootropolis. SUN SUN John also shares his experiences of working for both Pixar SUN Animations and for Disney. SUN SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Producer: Anna Bailey SUN Editor: Jereome Weatherald. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: John Lasseter SUN Producer: Anna Bailey SUN Editor: Jerome Weatherald SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0713rtc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0713nxj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b070fft5 (Listen) MON Museums and nationalism, Imagining utopias MON MON Museums and the 'nation': What can we learn about MON nationalism by looking at a country's cultural institutions? MON Laurie Taylor talks to Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology MON at Wellesley College, and author of a study which explores MON how museums today represent diversity and make sense of MON immigration and globalisation. She interviewed a range of MON museum directors, curators, and policymakers and heard the MON inside stories of the famous paintings and objects which MON define collections across the globe; from Europe to the MON United States, Asia, and the Middle East. They're joined by MON Julian Spalding, the art critic and writer. MON MON Also, imagining utopias. Professor Craig Calhoun, director MON of the London School of Economics and Political Science, MON considers the role of impossible dreams in shaping our MON reality. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Craig Calhoun, Director and President of LSE MON Peggy Levitt at Wellesley College, USA MON Julian Spalding, writer and former museum director MON Craig Calhoun's lecture at the LSE on Thursday 18th February MON at 6.30pm, "Can Imagination Change the World?" MON Live Webcast of Craig Calhoun's lecture at the LSE (live on MON Thursday 18th February, 6.30pm) MON BBC Radio 3 LSE Literary Festival public discussion on MON Wednesday 17th February at 6.30pm MON BBC Radio 4 Start the Week episode discussing the role of MON museums and culture MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0713pqw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0713nxl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0713nxn (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0713nxq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0713nxs (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0726p96 (Listen) MON Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna MON Magnusson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0713zdx (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by David Gregory-Kumar and produced by Emma MON Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0713nxv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378srp (Listen) MON House Sparrow 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 Michaela Strachan presents the house sparrow. These birds MON are more commonly found living alongside us than any other MON British bird. Perhaps the most enterprising birds were the MON House Sparrows which bred below ground in a working mine at MON Frickley Colliery in Yorkshire. MON MON House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b0713zdz (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0713zf1 (Listen) MON Future Economies MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks ahead to a future MON dominated by automation, cyber security, the 'sharing MON economy' and advanced life sciences with the innovation MON expert Alec Ross, computer scientist Steve Furber and the MON journalist Paul Mason who predicts such changes heralding a MON post-capitalist world. But cutting-edge advances in robotics MON and computers will have a huge but uneven impact on working MON lives: while previous industrial revolutions affected blue MON collar workers, in the future traditionally middle class MON jobs will be under threat. The journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai MON focuses on the most marginalised sector of the white working MON class - the British far right. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Alec Ross MON Interviewed Guest: Steve Furber MON Interviewed Guest: Paul Mason MON Interviewed Guest: Hsiao-Hung Pai MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0713zf3 (Listen) MON The Other Paris, Episode 1 MON MON Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive MON couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently MON always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the MON outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully MON nonconforming. MON MON In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of MON that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but MON whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the MON contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by MON extension, throughout the world. MON MON He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from MON Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, MON and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the MON vividness of Sante's narration. MON MON "Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor MON there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord. MON "This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest MON I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster. MON MON Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the MON United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a MON teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York MON Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures MON and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk MON Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the MON history of photography at Bard College in New York State. MON MON Writer: Luc Sante MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Reader: Simon Russell Beale MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Simon Russell Beale MON Author: Luc Sante MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0713zf5 (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 Riot Girls b0713zf7 (Listen) MON Fear of Flying, Episode 1 MON MON The radio premiere of Erica Jong's bold and bawdy novel MON about a young woman's quest for sexual liberation was a MON controversial best-seller in 1973. MON MON Isadora Wing has been married to psycho-analyst Bennett for MON five years. But's she restless and yearns for the perfect, MON guiltless, zipless sexual encounter. MON MON Dramatised by Annie Caulfield MON MON Directed by Emma Harding. MON MON Credits MON Isadora Wing: Julianna Jennings MON Bennett Wing: Kevin Shen MON Adrian Goodlove: Max Bennett MON Isadora's Mother: Adie Allen MON Marty: Nick Underwood MON Judy: Nicola Ferguson MON Dr Reuben: Sargon Yelda MON Dr Happe: Brian Protheroe MON Author: Erica Jong MON Abridger: Annie Caulfield MON Director: Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr6vh (Listen) MON Darkie Day: Michael and the Mummers MON MON Grace Dent presents untold stories of 21st century Britain. MON Young black film director Michael Jenkins is making a film MON about Padstow's Darkie Day. It's a long standing tradition MON where local residents black up their faces and process MON through the streets singing and dancing. The locals are MON defensive about their celebration which is part of their MON Cornish identity. Despite what outsiders think they say it MON has no racial overtones, but they did change the name to MON Mummers Day after complaints prompted MP Diane Abbott to MON call for the festival to be stopped. As a young Black MON British man Michael wants to experience it for himself and MON capture it on film. Will any of the town's residents accept MON his invitation to sit down and have an honest conversation MON with him about Darkie Day's origins and meaning? Is MON political correctness making it worse? This is a story where MON modern Britain meets medieval history in a clash of MON cultures. MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON 11:30 Dot b0714033 (Listen) MON The Astonishing Adventures of Agent Whiff-Whaff MON MON by Ed Harris MON MON Comic adventures with Dot and the gals from personnel who MON are getting squiffy over Agent Bertie Whiff-Whaff. Bertie MON wants Dot promoted, but can Dot handle life on the other MON side of the hallway? Ed Harris' rollicking new comedy MON starring Fenella Woolgar. MON MON Director/Producer Jessica Brown MON MON Ed Harris has written extensively for radio. In 2013 he won MON the Radio Academy Award for Best Drama for his War time MON thriller, 'The Resistance of Mrs Brown'. In 2011 he won the MON Writer's Guild Award for 'Troll' and was nominated for the MON Prix Europa for his play for BBC Radio 3: 'The Wall'. MON MON Fenella Woolgar won the Clarence Derwent Award for her role MON in 'Hedda Gabler' at the Old Vic and most recently played MON Margaret Thatcher in 'Handbagged' at the Vaudeville Theatre, MON London. MON MON Kate O'Flynn won the Critics Circle Award winner 2013 Most MON Promising Newcomer for 'Port' at the National Theatre, she MON also received an Evening Standard Nomination. MON MON Credits MON Dot: Fenella Woolgar MON Myrtle: Kate O'Flynn MON Peg: Freya Parker MON Millicent: Jane Slavin MON Peabody: David Acton MON Agent Bertie Whiff-Whaff: Adie Allen MON Director: Jessica Brown MON Producer: Jessica Brown MON Writer: Ed Harris MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0713nxx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 One to One b05pn3sw (Listen) MON Christina Lamb talks to Lady Khadija Idi Amin MON MON Christina Lamb is an author and foreign correspondent for MON the Sunday Times and in this series of One to One she MON explores family legacies. MON MON In the final of her three programmes, she explores what it's MON like to grow up the son or daughter of someone regarded as MON one of the most evil people on earth. And what happens if MON you are not aware of that legacy - how do you come to terms MON with it ? MON MON Few people are seen as more of a byword for barbarity than MON Idi Amin, the Ugandan despot whose regime killed as many as MON 400,000 people when he was President from 1971 to 1979. MON MON Christina Lamb talks to Lady Khadija Idi Amin dada, born in MON Saudi Arabia where her father was living in exile until he MON died. She tells Christina about her childhood and not being MON aware of her father's brutal legacy. MON MON Producer: Perminder Khatkar. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b07142lg (Listen) MON Food fraud, London Fashion Week, Subsidised flights, MON Scottish tea MON MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0713nxz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07142lj (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b07142ll (Listen) MON Deen Dayal: Courtier with a Camera MON MON Professor Sunil Khilnani returns with Incarnations. In the MON first programme he profiles the pioneering photographer Lala MON Deen Dayal. MON MON Born in 1855, Lala Deen Dayal would go on to become the MON court photographer for the fabulously wealthy sixth Nizam of MON Hyderabad, who dubbed him the "bold warrior of photography". MON MON Earlier in his career, his images of the historic monuments MON and architecture of India had become a sensation, and a MON means by which Indian landmarks could be appreciated in the MON West. Over subsequent decades, Deen Dayal's carefully MON arranged portraits would open a window on a second aspect of MON a splendid, idealized India: the lifestyles of the late MON nineteenth-century elite. Though India had at this high MON point of the Raj become the world's leading stage for status MON display, which often involved the shooting of tigers, a MON person's status wasn't quite fixed unless the moment itself MON was shot - ideally by Deen Dayal himself. MON MON "Deen Dayal captured a particular moment of elite indulgence MON and excess," says Sunil Khilnani. "Just before it was swept MON away." MON MON Like many successful artists, before him and since, Deen MON Dayal became adept at selling his patrons the images of MON themselves they most wanted to see, and share. And his story MON might be simply a portrait of an artist as a public MON relations man, if his artistry wasn't so compelling and MON historically revealing. MON MON Without him, we wouldn't understand so powerfully the moment MON when India became the world's exotic, wondrous playground MON for the wealthy, before the modern world got in the way. MON MON Featuring interviews with artist Dayanita Singh and art MON historian Deborah Hutton. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams MON Executive Producer: Martin Smith MON Original music composed by Talvin Singh. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0713wlt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Riot Girls b07142ln (Listen) MON Susan MON MON First of three new plays charting British feminism through MON three generations of women. Birmingham, 1975. Susan makes MON the radical decision to leave her husband and take her two MON children, Emma and Tim, to live in a commune. When this MON first commune doesn't work - largely because commune life MON begins to mimic the gender power structures of the outside MON world - Susan feels compelled to move to an all-female MON commune. But this means leaving her 6 year old son. By Lucy MON Catherine. MON MON Director ..... Emma Harding MON Producer ..... Abigail le Fleming. MON MON Credits MON Susan: Sarah Thom MON Derek: Gerard McDermott MON Emma: Harmonie Lloyd MON Tim: Joshua Vaughan MON Anne: Susan Jameson MON Maggie: Katherine Jakeways MON Dave: Ewan Bailey MON Charlie: George Watkins MON Gina: Katie Redford MON Director: Emma Harding MON Producer: Abigail le Fleming MON Writer: Lucy Catherine MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b07142lq (Listen) MON Heat 7, 2016 MON MON (7/17) MON Which artery takes deoxygenated blood from the heart to the MON lungs? Which actor was future Vice-President Al Gore's MON roommate at Harvard? And who wrote the novel on which the MON Hitchcock film Psycho was based? MON MON Russell Davies puts these and a host of other questions to MON the latest contenders for the Brain of Britain 2016 title. MON The programme comes from the Radio Theatre in London, with MON the winner assured a place in the semi-finals of the contest MON later in the spring. MON MON There'll also be the chance for a Brain of Britain listener MON to outwit the contestants with ingenious questions of his or MON her own devising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0713rtt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Gospel Truth b06z2kyc (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Gospel's uplifting and rejoicing sound is world famous, a MON multi million-dollar music genre that in many ways has ended MON up the beating heart of American popular music. But can MON gospel be gospel if it entertains, makes money and praises MON the Lord at the same time? Financial educator Alvin Hall MON explores how this American religious music genre has been MON affected by both commercialisation and secularisation. MON MON In this second part, Alvin explains how gospel became a MON global force in popular music. He reveals how Aretha MON Franklin's marriage of pop to gospel sold millions of MON records, introducing gospel to a world audience in the MON process. He looks at the rise of the gospel choir in the MON 1970s and 80s and discovers how it increasingly became a MON money-making industry. He also meets leading gospel stars MON Kirk Franklin and Donnie McClurkin to ask whether they think MON today's gospel stars have been affected by money and MON celebrity. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b07142ls (Listen) MON Series 13, Climate Change MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by guests Dara O Briain, MON Professor Tony Ryan and Dr Gabrielle Walker to discuss the MON ever-hot topic of Climate Change. They take a forensic look MON at the evidence that the climate is indeed changing, how we MON know that we are responsible, and what can be done to stop MON it. The scientific willing may be there, but is the MON political will finally catching up? MON MON 17:00 PM b07142lv (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0713ny1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b07142lx (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 1 MON MON New series. Paul Merton, Rufus Hound, Graham Norton and Pam MON Ayres join Nicholas Parsons for another episode of the MON classic panel show in which guests must try to speak on a MON given topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or MON deviation. MON MON Topics tackled this week include Optimism, Humble Pie and MON The Isle of Man. MON MON Just a Minute is the world's longest running panel show, MON still hosted after 49 years by the inimitable Nicholas MON Parsons. Appearing in this run of 6 episodes are regulars MON Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Graham Norton, Pam Ayres, Josie MON Lawrence, Jenni Eclair, Gyles Brandreth and Tim Rice; while MON Rufus Hound, Esther Rantzen and Nish Kumar make their first MON appearances. MON MON Rufus Hound is an actor and comedian, best known for his MON comic performances in One Man Two Guvnors and Dirty Rotten MON Scoundrels. MON MON Esther Rantzen is of course well known to audiences as the MON host of long running magazine programme That's Life, as well MON as the founder of the charities ChildLine and The Silver MON Line. MON MON Nish Kumar is a stand up and the host of NewsJack on Radio 4 MON extra. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Rufus Hound MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Panellist: Pam Ayres MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07143dv (Listen) MON Don't be walking on eggshells around Bert, boys. Josh needs MON to use his initiative. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b071fyq9 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Riot Girls b0713zf7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Europe: Strangers on My Doorstep b07143dx (Listen) MON Hungary: At the Cutting Edge MON MON As more European countries follow Hungary's lead and fence MON their borders against irregular migration, Maria Margaronis MON explores Hungarians' responses to the refugee and migration MON crisis. She visits the prison factory that makes most of the MON razor wire used on Europe's borders, and hears how the MON crisis is affecting Hungary's Muslim minority. She travels MON to the Serbian frontier with solidarity activists who MON support the border guards, and meets the Two-Tailed Dog MON Party, an opposition group with a biting analysis. What's MON behind Prime Minister Viktor Orban's hardline response to MON migration? And is Hungary the cutting edge of a new, MON illiberal Europe? MON MON Producer Shabnam Grewal. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b071459c (Listen) MON Multiculturalism: Newham v Leicester MON MON Examining the ideas and forces that shape public policy in MON Britain and abroad. MON MON 21:00 Unhappy Child, Unhealthy Adult b070dksr (Listen) MON We already know that unhappy experiences in childhood are MON more likely to lead to mental health issues in later life. MON MON What's becoming clear, however, is that chronic stress and MON anxiety during this time can trigger dramatic changes in the MON body which contribute to our risk of developing diseases MON like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and stroke. Chronic MON stress in childhood is also associated with a shortened life MON span. MON MON Health-harming behaviours which contribute to disease risk, MON like smoking, drinking alcohol and drug use, are more common MON among those who have endured traumatic experiences in MON childhood. MON MON But scientists are now revealing that these stressful MON childhood experiences have a direct impact on our physical MON health, through their impact on the developing brain and the MON immune system. MON MON The question now is how to use this knowledge to improve the MON nation's health. Should health professionals routinely ask MON patients about traumatic events in their childhoods? And if MON so, who should broach the subject, where and when? MON MON Geoff Watts visits a GP practice which is about to trial MON this novel idea, and looks at the growing body of evidence MON revealing how adverse childhood experiences contribute to MON poor health and shorter lives. MON MON Producer: Beth Eastwood. MON MON BBC Action Line MON Information and Support: MON The National Association for People Abused in Childhood MON offers support, advice and guidance to adult survivors of MON any form of childhood abuse. MON Phone: 0808 801 0331 MON www.napac.org.uk MON HAVOCA – Help for Adult Victims of Child Abuse MON provides support, friendship and advice for any adult whose MON life has been affected by childhood abuse. MON www.havoca.org MON ChildLine MON is a free, 24-hour confidential helpline for children and MON young people who need to talk. MON Phone: 0800 1111 MON www.childline.org.uk MON NSPCC MON provides help, advice and support to adults worried about a MON child. MON Phone: 0808 800 5000 (24/7) MON www.nspcc.org.uk MON Samaritans MON is available 24 hours a day for anyone struggling to cope MON and provide a safe place to talk where calls are completely MON confidential. MON Phone: 116 123 MON Email: MON jo@samaritans.org MON www.samaritans.org MON PAPYRUS MON offer support, practical advice and information to young MON people considering suicide and can also offer help and MON advice if you’re concerned about someone you know. MON Phone: 0800 068 41 41 MON www.papyrus-uk.org MON MON MON MON MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0713zf1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0713ny3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b07145xy (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07145y0 (Listen) MON Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 6 MON MON Rhashan Stone continues reading from the new novel by Meg MON Rosoff, her first for adults, Jonathan Unleashed. The story MON of a young man, Jonathan Trefoil who - aided by his canine MON companions Dante the collie and Sissy the spaniel - is MON struggling to navigate the responsibilities of adulthood and MON the demands of his new life in New York. MON MON Jonathan's stress levels are going through the roof. MON Increasingly unhappy at work, he has hastily accepted his MON girlfriend Julie's commercially sensible proposal: to get MON married and have everything paid for by her employer, MON Bridal-360, in exchange for an eight page spread in the MON magazine and permission to live-stream the ceremony online MON to an audience of 100,000. What could possibly go wrong? MON MON Read by Rhashan Stone. MON MON Written by Meg Rosoff. MON MON Abridged by David Jackson Young. MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Rhashan Stone MON Author: Meg Rosoff MON Abridger: David Jackson Young MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b070dnqr (Listen) MON Mouthpiece: Turning the Spoken Word into Songs MON MON Michael Rosen & Laura Wright hear about Mouthpiece, a MON project in which composer Jennifer Bell has been given MON access to interview people from the Speaker to the barista MON about their working lives in the Houses of Parliament. She's MON then created songs from their words to show the human side MON of life there, and to reflect on the ways in which MON Parliament voices the country. MON There is a tradition of using verbatim speech in music, and MON Michael compares Jennifer's work to the Radio Ballads of MON Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker, in particular Singing The MON Fishing. MON Producer Beth O'Dea MON More information about Jennifer Bell's work can be found on MON her website, www.jenniferbellcompany.com. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b07145y2 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0713nz4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0713zf3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0713nz9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0713nzc (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0713nzj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0713nzl (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072b0nh (Listen) TUE Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna TUE Magnusson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0714mbh (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkgqv (Listen) TUE Carrion Crow TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Carrion TUE Crow. The crow is defined in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary TUE of the English Language as "a large black bird that feeds TUE upon the carcasses of beasts." Crows have always suggested TUE an element of foreboding. They are arch-scavengers and black TUE mobs of them crowd our rubbish tips but they're also birds TUE we admire for their intelligence and adaptability. TUE TUE Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0714mbk (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b0714mbm (Listen) TUE Dr Nick Lane TUE TUE Dr Nick Lane is attempting to answer one of the hardest TUE questions in science. How did life on earth begin? You might TUE think that question had been solved by Darwin in the 19th TUE century. He wrote that he thought life might have started on TUE earth "in a warm little pond", where all the necessary TUE ingredients: water, sunlight and nutrients combined in this TUE "primordial soup" to create the very first biomolecule of TUE life. Others - like Fred Hoyle - thought that life came to TUE earth from elsewhere in space. But Nick Lane has different TUE ideas of how, and where, it happened. The place in question TUE was deep under the sea in hydrothermal vents. Amongst other TUE research he carries out at University College London, he's TUE running an experiment to try to recreate this moment. TUE Nick Lane had an unusual route to this point in his TUE scientific career. For some years he left his research TUE career to become a medical journalist and write popular TUE books. A rare opportunity took him back into the laboratory. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0714mbp (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson talks to Adam Mars-Jones TUE TUE Mark Lawson has a problem. He is writing a memoir but he's TUE always had the habit, when writing or broadcasting, of TUE avoiding the first person pronoun. This rather puts him at TUE odds with modern culture. Journalists and presenters are TUE urged to use the one-letter vertical word. Bloggers, TUE Vloggers and Tweeters lay their lives on-line and TUE autobiography is an ever more crowded literary form. So in TUE his series of One to One, Mark takes the opportunity to TUE discuss self-revelation with artists who - in various ways - TUE have taken themselves as their subject-matter, starting with TUE the writer and critic Adam Mars-Jones. Long admired for his TUE fiction and criticism, Adam has just published a work of TUE non-fiction, Kid Gloves, which describes the experience of TUE becoming end-of-life carer to his father, a retired judge, TUE Sir William Mars-Jones. Mark and Adam reflect on the honesty TUE and self knowledge needed when writing about your own life. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b071x0gp (Listen) TUE The Other Paris, Episode 2 TUE TUE Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive TUE couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently TUE always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the TUE outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully TUE nonconforming. TUE TUE In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of TUE that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but TUE whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the TUE contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by TUE extension, throughout the world. TUE TUE He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from TUE Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, TUE and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the TUE vividness of Sante's narration. TUE TUE "Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor TUE there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord. TUE "This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest TUE I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster. TUE TUE Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the TUE United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a TUE teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York TUE Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures TUE and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk TUE Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the TUE history of photography at Bard College in New York State. TUE TUE Writer: Luc Sante TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE Reader: Simon Russell Beale TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Simon Russell Beale TUE Author: Luc Sante TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0714mbr (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 Riot Girls b0714mbt (Listen) TUE Fear of Flying, Episode 2 TUE TUE New radio dramatisation of Erica Jong's uninhibited 1973 TUE feminist classic about female sexuality. TUE TUE Isadora Wing has overcome her fear of flying to travel to TUE Vienna with husband Bennett to attend a psychoanalysts' TUE conference. Here she meets a charming Englishman called TUE Adrian Goodlove. Could this be the guiltless, zipless sexual TUE encounter she has fantasized about? TUE TUE Dramatised by Annie Caulfield TUE TUE Directed by Emma Harding. TUE TUE Credits TUE Isadora Wing: Julianna Jennings TUE Bennett Wing: Kevin Shen TUE Adrian Goodlove: Max Bennett TUE Isadora's Mother: Adie Allen TUE Marty: Nick Underwood TUE Judy: Nicola Ferguson TUE Dr Reuben: Sargon Yelda TUE Dr Happe: Brian Protheroe TUE Author: Erica Jong TUE Abridger: Annie Caulfield TUE Director: Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Cancer Moonshot b0714mbw (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE In 1974, President Richard Nixon launched a war on cancer. TUE In 2016, Vice President Joe Biden launches a 'moonshot' on TUE cancer. Graham Easton asks if these directed campaigns work. TUE TUE 11:30 Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley TUE b0714nhm (Listen) TUE Stuart Barr uncovers the colourful career of British TUE composer and transgender pioneer, Angela Morley. TUE TUE In 1972, Wally Stott's transition to Angela Morley made TUE front page news. Wally was famous. He was composer for the TUE Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour, and music director to TUE stars like Frankie Vaughan and Shirley Bassey. "TV Music Man TUE changes his sex" screamed the headlines. Where would Angela TUE go from here? Stuart talks to Angela's friends and TUE colleagues to discover how she made her mark in the music TUE business, as a woman and a man. And he explores the special TUE qualities of the music she wrote and arranged, from the TUE famous 'Hancock' tuba theme to her work alongside John TUE Williams on blockbusters like Star Wars and Superman. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0713nzn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 One to One b04n31vy (Listen) TUE Nihal Talks Dogs TUE TUE Broadcaster and DJ Nihal owns a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, TUE a breed that is often perceived as a 'dangerous dog', though TUE they are legal. TUE TUE In the first of his two part series for One to One, Nihal TUE meets Jordan who does have two dogs that are banned under TUE the '1991 Dangerous Dogs Act'. TUE TUE Jordan's mixed pit-bull types were taken away from him by TUE the police as they were deemed to be 'dangerous'. He tells TUE Nihal why he fought to keep them and how he now wants to TUE change people's attitude towards all bull breeds. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Jordan and 'Keelo’ TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0714nhp (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0713nzq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0714nhr (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0714nht (Listen) TUE Jamsetji Tata: Swadeshi Capitalist TUE TUE Professor Sunil Khilnani explores the life and legacy of the TUE industrialist Jamsetji Tata, one of a series of remarkable TUE individuals who have made India what it is today. Tata TUE played a vitally important role in establishing India's TUE manufacturing base and went on to create the conditions for TUE the country's future industrial development. Tata companies TUE now constitute around five per cent of India's gross TUE domestic product from hotels to power generation and IT. In TUE the days of empire, the British dreamed of 'making the world TUE England'; Tata helped to make the world more Indian. TUE TUE Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of TUE remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. TUE Producer: Mark Savage TUE Readings: Sagar Arya. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07143dv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Riot Girls b0717q6v (Listen) TUE Emma TUE TUE Second of three new plays charting British feminism through TUE three generations of women. By Lucy Catherine. TUE TUE Emma is now in her twenties and, despite her unsettled TUE childhood, has soared academically and is now a policy TUE advisor to New Labour. She's on course to career success TUE and, she believes, to changing the world. But when she TUE catches the attention of senior party figure, Mac, she has TUE to contend with regressive attitudes to women in the TUE workplace. TUE TUE Director.....Emma Harding TUE Producer.....Abigail le Fleming. TUE TUE Credits TUE Emma: Sarah Smart TUE Susan: Sarah Thom TUE Gareth: Chris Pavlo TUE Mac: Brian Protheroe TUE Shafiq: Anil Goutam TUE Anders: Leo Wan TUE Tim: Ewan Bailey TUE Receptionist: Rebecca Hamilton TUE Sonographer: Rebecca Hamilton TUE Director: Emma Harding TUE Producer: Abigail le Fleming TUE Writer: Lucy Catherine TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0714nhw (Listen) TUE Tom Holland and guests discuss the stories that are Making TUE History TUE TUE With Syria in turmoil and its largest city battered, Tom TUE Holland is joined by Philip Mansel and Professor Jerry TUE Brotton to discover an age when this place was a TUE cosmopolitan cornerstone of the Middle East. TUE TUE Helen Castor treks west to find out how men and women tamed TUE the wilderness of North America both on the ground and in TUE popular culture. TUE TUE And social historian Juliet Gardiner shares her favourite TUE year from history - 1936. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b0714nhy (Listen) TUE The City That Fell into the Earth TUE TUE How do you move a city? Lesley Riddoch travels to Arctic TUE Sweden to find out. Kiruna is gradually sliding into TUE Europe's biggest iron ore mine. The city has to be rebuilt TUE two miles away. That requires an extraordinary blend of TUE planning, architecture, technology and stoicism. If anyone TUE can do it then it's the Swedes. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b0714nj0 (Listen) TUE Talking or texting? TUE TUE We take it for granted that we can maintain our friendships TUE and family relationships now in so many ways: phone... TUE voicemail... email... text... instant message... Facebook... TUE Skype... but do we have any idea of the effect on our TUE relationships of these very different modes of TUE communication? Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright look at TUE research into their emotional impact. What works best for TUE families living on different sides of the world? TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b07178g6 (Listen) TUE David Greig and Natalie Haynes TUE TUE Natalie Haynes and David Greig join Harriett Gilbert to TUE discuss favourite books. TUE TUE Writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes reveals her love of TUE the Classics through her choice of 'The Lost Books of the TUE Odyssey' by Zachary Mason, which describes itself as TUE 'forty-four variations on the story of Odysseus'. The TUE eponymous hero, liar and storyteller has familiar and TUE repeated encounters with the Cylops and the Sirens; he TUE travels to Troy and back to Ithaca, but there's always a TUE twist in the telling in this magical first book written by a TUE computer scientist Mason. TUE TUE David Greig is a playwright and the recently-appointed TUE Artistic Director at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. He TUE recommends 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again' by TUE David Foster Wallace, a series of dazzling, clever and funny TUE 'essays and arguments' about American life and culture. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: David Greig TUE Interviewed Guest: Natalie Haynes TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 17:00 PM b071g8lk (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0713nzs (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05w000p (Listen) TUE Series 10, My Companion TUE TUE In his continuing quest for somewhere to live, Ed finds TUE himself living in an empty phoneshop, the occupation of TUE which the council hopes will encourage the stakeholders to TUE engage with their creativity. Far from enticing people in to TUE attend 'slam poetry events' Ed has other things on his mind TUE when he and his ex-wife Janet decide to attend the funeral TUE of an old friend - together. Their children are not happy at TUE this prospect, and neither is Elgar when he's left at a TUE cattery called 'Southpaws'. TUE TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE Ed Reardon's Week is a BBC Radio Comedy production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas TUE Cattery Woman: Joanna Brookes TUE Olive: Stephanie Cole TUE Eli: Lisa Coleman TUE Pearl: Brigit Forsyth TUE Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Janet: Nicola Sanderson TUE Jake: Sam Pamphillon TUE Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Writer: Christopher Douglas TUE Writer: Andrew Nickolds TUE Producer: Dawn Ellis TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07178g9 (Listen) TUE It is never too late for a fresh start. And Pip has got her TUE work cut out. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b071fv0f (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Riot Girls b0714mbt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b07178gc (Listen) TUE It's estimated there are around 620,000 people in England TUE with dementia. Prime minister David Cameron says fighting TUE the disease is a personal priority and doctors in England TUE have been encouraged to proactively identify people with TUE early stage dementia. TUE TUE The PM says that an early diagnosis allows families to TUE prepare for the care of a relative, but others argue there's TUE no treatment for such a diagnosis and no robust evidence to TUE justify a process that might lead to harm. Deborah Cohen TUE hears from doctors who are concerned the drive to raise TUE diagnosis rates is leading to people being misdiagnosed. TUE TUE The Government has also pledged millions of pounds to help TUE make England "the best place in the world to undertake TUE research into dementia and other neuro-degenerative TUE diseases". Scientists leading the research say they are TUE making progress to find tests which could identify people at TUE risk from the disease and develop a cure. But other TUE researchers say money is being wasted because current TUE directions in drug development are following the same path TUE as those of the past which have ended in failure. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0713nzw (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b071fs79 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b0714mbm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0713nzy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b071fs7f (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07178gg (Listen) TUE Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 7 TUE TUE The new novel by Meg Rosoff, read by Rhashan Stone. It's the TUE story of a young man, Jonathan Trefoil who - aided by his TUE canine companions Dante the collie and Sissy the spaniel - TUE is struggling to navigate the responsibilities of adulthood TUE and the demands of his new life in New York. TUE TUE After his breakdown at work, Jonathan wakes up in hospital TUE to discover that he's unable to form coherent sentences, TUE generating random text instead. Neurologists are baffled by TUE his case and there's little they can do except recommend TUE strict bed rest. Julie is left responsible for the dogs and, TUE during one of their walks, has a fateful meeting with a tall TUE dark stranger. TUE TUE Read by Rhashan Stone. TUE TUE Written by Meg Rosoff. TUE TUE Abridged by David Jackson Young. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Rhashan Stone TUE Author: Meg Rosoff TUE Abridger: David Jackson Young TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b07142ls (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b071gc06 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0713p0s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b071x0gp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0713p0v (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0713p0x (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0713p0z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0713p11 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072jslc (Listen) WED Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna WED Magnusson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b071ftsn (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2qh (Listen) WED Pied Wagtail WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Martin Hughes-Games presents the Pied Wagtail. In winter, WED pied wagtails can often be seen roosting in towns and cities WED in large flocks. By day, pied wagtails are often obvious in WED fields feeding on insects but they're equally at home on our WED streets gleaning prey from pavements and road surfaces. WED WED Pied Wagtail [also known as White Wagtail] (Motacilla alba) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b071ftsq (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b07179c0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b071x0v1 (Listen) WED The Other Paris, Episode 3 WED WED Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive WED couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently WED always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the WED outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully WED nonconforming. WED WED In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of WED that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but WED whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the WED contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by WED extension, throughout the world. WED WED He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from WED Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, WED and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the WED vividness of Sante's narration. WED WED "Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor WED there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord. WED "This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest WED I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster. WED WED Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the WED United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a WED teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York WED Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures WED and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk WED Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the WED history of photography at Bard College in New York State. WED WED Writer: Luc Sante WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Reader: Simon Russell Beale WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Simon Russell Beale WED Author: Luc Sante WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b071ftss (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 Riot Girls b07179c2 (Listen) WED Fear of Flying, Episode 3 WED WED New dramatisation of Erica Jong's seminal 1973 novel about WED female sexuality. WED WED Poet Isadora Wing is in Vienna, where she keeps travelling WED between the beds of her husband Bennett and her new lover, WED the charming Englishman, Adrian Goodlove. But can Adrian WED offer the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter she's WED always fantasized about? WED WED CAST WED WED Isadora Wing.....Julianna Jennings WED Bennett Wing.....Kevin Shen WED Adrian Goodlove.....Max Bennett WED Isadora's mother.....Adie Allen WED Marty.....Nick Underwood WED Judy.....Nicola Ferguson WED Dr Reuben.....Sargon Yelda WED Dr Happe.....Brian Protheroe WED WED Dramatised by Annie Caulfield WED WED Directed by Emma Harding. WED WED Credits WED Isadora Wing: Julianna Jennings WED Bennett Wing: Kevin Shen WED Adrian Goodlove: Max Bennett WED Isadora's Mother: Adie Allen WED Marty: Nick Underwood WED Judy: Nicola Ferguson WED Dr Reuben: Sargon Yelda WED Dr Happe: Brian Protheroe WED Author: Erica Jong WED Abridger: Annie Caulfield WED Director: Emma Harding WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b07179c4 (Listen) WED Isobel and James - Memories of Mum WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between young siblings WED about their mother who died suddenly 5 years ago and the WED sometimes surprising things they love about their WED stepmother. Another in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that WED proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The WED 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 Verdun - The Sacred Wound b07179qw (Listen) WED Loss and Legacy WED WED How do you mark the sacrifice of so many? How do you live WED with the dead? No other battle so defined the French WED experience of the Great War as Verdun, which raged from WED February to October 1916, and didn't truly end until the war WED did. In the decades that followed both the voices of the WED veterans and a nation's mournful sense of sacrifice played WED out across the landscape of Verdun, most notably in its WED alarming and astonishing ossuary. WED WED This great white tower, resembling a crusaders sword or a WED giant, bone white, I.C.B.M. filled with the remains of WED German & French dead, stands amidst the garden of memory WED that is the national cemetery. Yet the graves are unquiet. WED This was where Marshall Petain, saviour of Verdun, should WED have been buried but can never be. Both Petain and DeGaulle WED were marked by Verdun and their fates would be intertwined WED in the inter-war years. In the 1930s German and French WED veterans would meet and pledge no more war but such pledges WED were hollow promises cynically exploited by veteran trench WED soldier Adolf Hitler who would soon sacrifice his own troops WED in a battle often likened to Verdun, Stalingrad. WED WED The battle and its memory have shifted in meaning over the WED decades, moving from national to trans-national and proving WED the most symbolic of staging grounds for amity and WED understanding between two old foes as they remade Europe WED after 1945. WED David Reynolds stands in the shadow of the great Ossuary of WED Douaumont and journeys through a landscape of loss. WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED 11:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06d2lz5 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3 WED WED Things are getting desperate for the staff of Hardacre's, WED London's worst advertising agency. The work isn't coming in WED and accounts chief Amanda Brook finds herself reduced to WED pleading for the business of old friend/nemesis, India. WED WED Back at the office, hopeless creative team Joe and Teddy WED devise a campaign for an anti-aging cream for men. Worse, WED they must grapple with the most difficult and least WED glamorous form of advertising of all - radio work. WED WED They find themselves unexpectedly assisted by creative WED director Rupert Hardacre who descends from on high at WED Amanda's instruction to give the little people the benefit WED of his creative wisdom. The only trouble is, he seems to WED have forgotten most of it. Fortunately, he wrote it all down WED in a book entitled Hardacre on Advertising and he sets out WED to find a copy for Joe and Teddy. WED WED Director Alan Nixon WED Producer Gordon Kennedy WED An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Rupert Hardacre: Nigel Havers WED Amanda Brook: Josie Lawrence WED Joe: Matthew Baynton WED Teddy: Rasmus Hardiker WED Director: Alan Nixon WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED Writer: Edward Rowett WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0713p13 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 One to One b039px7s (Listen) WED Carolyn Quinn speaks to Stephanie Slater WED WED As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories WED everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is WED live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened WED next. WED WED For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out WED what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the WED media spotlight and have had to live with intense, WED unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media WED caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with WED their lives? WED WED In this first interview, she speaks to Stephanie Slater, who WED survived a violent kidnapping in 1992. Michael Sams, later WED also convicted of murdering Julie Dart, held Stephanie for WED eight days. Following her release, she and her family were WED besieged by the media who camped in the field opposite her WED parents' house for 18 months. In this interview Carolyn WED finds out what impact the experience and subsequent media WED attention had on Stephanie as she attempted to come to terms WED with her ordeal, and rebuild her life. WED WED Producer: Karen Gregor. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b071fstt (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0713p15 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b071ftsv (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0717b5l (Listen) WED Vivekananda: Bring All Together WED WED A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07178g9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Riot Girls b0717pgp (Listen) WED Katy WED WED 2015. Student Katy determines to change the conversation WED about sexual consent - but when traditional campaigning WED proves ineffective, she's tempted to compromise her own WED principles. WED WED Third of three plays charting feminism through three WED generations of women. By Ella Hickson. WED WED All other parts played by Sam Rix, Nick Underwood and WED members of the company WED WED Directed by Emma Harding WED Produced by Abigail le Fleming. WED WED Credits WED Katy: Lorna Nickson Brown WED Emma: Sarah Smart WED Stephen: David Moorst WED Carol: Susan Jameson WED Penny: Scarlett Brookes WED Anna: Nicola Ferguson WED PC Peters: Adie Allen WED Sam: Sargon Yelda WED Actor: Sam Rix WED Actor: Nick Underwood WED Director: Emma Harding WED Producer: Abigail le Fleming WED Writer: Ella Hickson WED WED 15:00 Money Box b071fstw (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b071fs79 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0717b5n (Listen) WED Refusing adulthood, How young people feel about being poor WED WED Refusing adulthood. Laurie Taylor talks to Susan Neiman, the WED American moral philosopher, who asks, if and why, some WED people refuse to grow up. She argues that being an adult WED allows the opportunity for agency and independence rather WED than signalling decline. Yet a modern tendency to idolise WED youth prevents us from seeing the rewards of maturity. WED They're joined by the writer, Michael Bywater, who wonders WED if we inhabit a culture of creeping infantilisation. WED WED Also, how children and young people feel about being poor. WED Rys Farthing, social policy researcher, explores how young WED people living in low-income neighbourhoods feel about their WED own lives, using data generated as part of a participatory WED policy project with five groups of young people, aged 11-21. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b071fsh1 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b071g8x0 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0713p17 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b0717cpt (Listen) WED Series 11, Ed Byrne interviews Al Murray WED WED Series 11 of the show where one week's interviewee becomes WED the next week's interviewer. The first episode of Chain WED Reaction was broadcast on BBC Radio Five in 1991 when John WED Cleese was the first comedian in the hot seat. Now, 25 years WED on, a new series sees another raft of the world's best-loved WED comedians talking to each other about their lives and work. WED This week, two heavyweights of stand-up are in conversation WED as Ed Byrne interviews Al Murray. WED WED Ed Byrne is an Irish stand-up comedian and actor who has WED been a favourite on the international comedy scene for WED twenty years. His celebrated observational routines made him WED a leading light of the UK stand-up circuit in the mid WED nineties and he went on to tour internationally, playing WED festivals and theatres across the world. In 1998 he was WED nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh WED Festival alongside eventual winner Tommy Tiernan, Peter Kay WED and his interviewee today, Al Murray. WED WED After an early foray into stand-up as a character called WED 'The Murderer', Al Murray created his famous Pub Landlord WED character in the mid nineties as part of a touring show with WED Harry Hill. The Pub Landlord went on to tour venues and WED festivals worldwide before making his own chat show and WED sitcom for Sky. Outside of the Pub Landlord, Al is well WED known as a presenter of history documentaries and more WED recently as a candidate for parliament when he stood against WED Nigel Farage in South Thanet during the UK General Election WED of 2015. WED WED In this programme, Ed tackles Al on a vast array of topics WED from Thackeray's attitude to the Irish to the thorny issue WED of offence in comedy via how best to talk to McFly. WED WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0717cpw (Listen) WED Does 'Mum' know best? Clarrie tries to keep her house in WED order. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b071fsty (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Riot Girls b07179c2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0717cpy (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo, WED Claire Fox and Giles Fraser. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b0717cq0 (Listen) WED The City WED WED The Lent Talks are a series of essays on the different WED perspectives of the passion story. The location for this WED week's "Lent in the Landscape" talk is the iconic WED brick-built Victorian Gothic "All Saints Church" just behind WED Oxford Street in London. Maxwell reflects on Jesus' arrival WED in Jerusalem and his confrontation at the Temple. Producer: WED Amanda Hancox. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b0714nhy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b07179c0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b071fsh3 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0717cq2 (Listen) WED Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 8 WED WED The new novel by Meg Rosoff, read by Rhashan Stone. It's the WED story of a young man, Jonathan Trefoil who - aided by his WED canine companions Dante the collie and Sissy the spaniel - WED is struggling to navigate the responsibilities of adulthood WED and the demands of his new life in New York. WED WED Jonathan and Julie's wedding day arrives. With her employer WED Bridal-360 organising everything (including live-streaming WED the ceremony to an audience of 100,000 viewers) and Jonathan WED still unable to form coherent sentences, what could possibly WED go wrong? WED WED Read by Rhashan Stone. WED WED Written by Meg Rosoff. WED WED Abridged by David Jackson Young. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Rhashan Stone WED Author: Meg Rosoff WED Abridger: David Jackson Young WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 The Literary Adventures of Mr Brown b0717dlt (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Imagine if London's genteel literary scene had a bit more WED swag and a gangsta's lean. You've just imagined The Literary WED Adventures of Mr. Brown. WED WED With the help of his naively affable intern, Charlie, the WED heroic, absurd and frankly bad-ass Kurtis Brown fights for WED his clients in London's entertainment industry. WED WED When you need your fights fought and your books bought, who WED are you going to call? The best damn literary agent in the WED world, Kurtis Brown. He'll solve all your problems... For WED 15%. WED WED Written and performed by Chris Gau and Mike Orton-Toliver WED WED Producer: Zoe Rocha WED Executive Producer: Ralf Little WED WED A Little Rock production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Chris Gau WED Performer: Mike Orton-Toliver WED Producer: Zoe Rocha WED Writer: Chris Gau WED Writer: Mike Orton-Toliver WED WED 23:15 Nurse b03yqcx7 (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED WED A new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther Coles, with WED Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and Marcia Warren. WED WED The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse WED in her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service WED Users in today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad WED and often bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, WED whose job is to assess their progress, dispense their WED medication and offer comfort and support. WED WED Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot WED cure her patients, only help them manage their various WED conditions. She visits the following characters throughout WED the series: WED WED Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean WED descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made WED tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, WED who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. WED So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves. WED WED Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of WED affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by WED the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony. WED WED Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating WED disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to WED sugary and fatty snacks at all times. WED WED Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the WED Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a WED product of his imagination. WED WED Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, WED charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if WED he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more WED time he will explode. WED WED Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. WED Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures WED unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead. WED WED Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who WED have collaborated many time in the past, including on The WED Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness. WED WED Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with WED additional material from Esther Coles WED Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani WED A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Graham Downes: Paul Whitehouse WED Ray: Paul Whitehouse WED Herbert: Paul Whitehouse WED Maurice Billy: Paul Whitehouse WED Nurse: Esther Coles WED Janet (Graham's Mum): Rosie Cavaliero WED Lorrie: Cecilia Noble WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Paul Whitehouse WED Writer: David Cummings WED Writer: Esther Coles WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b071gc7y (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0713p2h (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b071x0v1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0713p2k (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0713p2m (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0713p2p (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0713p2r (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072nlk2 (Listen) THU Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna THU Magnusson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b071fxc4 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5bnl (Listen) THU Mute Swan THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Chris Packham presents the Mute Swan. Mute Swans are deeply THU embedded in our culture. They are unique among British birds THU because the Crown retains the rights of ownership of all THU unmarked mute swans in open water. Since the 15th century, THU an annual census of mute swans has been held annually on the THU River Thames. THU THU Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). THU THU 06:00 Today b071fxc6 (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in THU Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0717j1r (Listen) THU Mary Magdalene THU THU Mary Magdalene is one of the best-known figures in the Bible THU and has been a frequent inspiration to artists and writers THU over the last 2000 years. According to the New Testament, THU she was at the foot of the cross when Jesus was crucified THU and was one of the first people to see Jesus after the THU resurrection. However, her identity has provoked a large THU amount of debate and in the Western Church she soon became THU conflated with two other figures mentioned in the Bible, a THU repentant sinner and Mary of Bethany. Texts discovered in THU the mid-20th century provoked controversy and raised further THU questions about the nature of her relations with Jesus. THU THU With: THU THU Joanne Anderson THU Lecturer in Art History at the Warburg Institute, School of THU Advanced Study, University of London THU THU Eamon Duffy THU Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the THU University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College THU THU Joan Taylor THU Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at THU Kings College, London THU THU Producer: Victoria Brignell. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Joanne Anderson THU Interviewed Guest: Eamon Duffy THU Interviewed Guest: Joan Taylor THU Producer: Victoria Brignell THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b071x1vw (Listen) THU The Other Paris, Episode 4 THU THU Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive THU couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently THU always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the THU outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully THU nonconforming. THU THU In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of THU that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but THU whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the THU contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by THU extension, throughout the world. THU THU He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from THU Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, THU and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the THU vividness of Sante's narration. THU THU "Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor THU there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord. THU "This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest THU I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster. THU THU Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the THU United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a THU teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York THU Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures THU and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk THU Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the THU history of photography at Bard College in New York State. THU THU Writer: Luc Sante THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Reader: Simon Russell Beale THU THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Simon Russell Beale THU Author: Luc Sante THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0717gdv (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 Riot Girls b0717gdx (Listen) THU Fear of Flying, Episode 4 THU THU The radio premiere of Erica Jong's exuberantly uninhibited THU novel about a young woman's pursuit of the perfect, THU guiltless, zipless sexual encounter. THU THU It's decision time. Will Isadora go back to New York with THU her husband, Bennett, or will she take off around Europe THU with her new lover, charming Englishman, Adrian Goodlove? THU THU Dramatised by Annie Caulfield THU THU Directed by Emma Harding. THU THU Credits THU Isadora Wing: Julianna Jennings THU Bennett Wing: Kevin Shen THU Adrian Goodlove: Max Bennett THU Isadora's Mother: Adie Allen THU Marty: Nick Underwood THU Judy: Nicola Ferguson THU Dr Reuben: Sargon Yelda THU Dr Happe: Brian Protheroe THU Author: Erica Jong THU Abridger: Annie Caulfield THU Director: Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0713p2t (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Art of Adultery b0717gdz (Listen) THU For centuries, popular culture has been enthralled by THU infidelity, moving from the ancient tales of Helen of Troy THU and Medea through to the popularity of modern day dramas THU like 'The Affair' and 'Doctor Foster'; along the way, few THU artists of note seem to have been able to avoid its dramatic THU appeal, whether Chaucer in Miller's Tale, Shakespeare in THU 'Othello' or Tolstoy in 'Anna Karenina' and 'War and Peace'. THU In 'The Art of Adultery', Natalie Haynes sets out to find THU out what the nature of that appeal might be, and also THU considers whether the way the basic story of unfaithful THU partners tells us anything about the times and places from THU where the particular stories are born. Along the way, she THU meets author Julian Barnes to talk about his own novel THU 'Talking it Over' as well as attitudes to infidelity in 19th THU century France; she visits Tate Britain to find out how THU attitudes on this side of the Channel were changing during THU the same period; filmaker Jane Gillooly talks about her THU documentary 'Suitcase of Love and Same' featuring recordings THU made by a straying couple for each other in 1960s America, THU and hears from novelist Stella Duffy about how recent THU changes in attitudeshave affected how gay and lesbian THU literature has tackled the subject. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0713p2w (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 One to One b03b0wml (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn speaks to Gillian Duffy THU THU As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories THU everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is THU live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened THU next. THU THU For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out THU what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the THU media spotlight and have had to live with intense, THU unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media THU caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with THU their lives?. THU THU In this, her second interview, Carolyn hears from the woman THU who hit the headlines during the general election campaign THU of 2010 when Gordon Brown infamously called her a "bigoted THU woman". That remark, and the subsequent apology from the THU then Prime Minister, made Gillian Duffy a household name. THU Three years on, Carolyn Quinn talks to Gillian Duffy to find THU out how she dealt with persistent doorstepping newshounds, THU how she regards the experience now and whether her THU relationship with the Labour party survived the experience. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b071fxc8 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0713p2y (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b071fxcb (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0717gf1 (Listen) THU Annie Besant: An Indian Tomtom THU THU A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0717cpw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b06fpbxf (Listen) THU Cuttin' It THU THU Charlene James' multi award-winning drama set in South THU London. THU THU Winner of 'Best Single Drama' in the BBC Audio Drama Awards THU 2016, winner of the Alfred Fagon Award for 'Best Play' and THU the George Devine Award for 'Most Promising Playwright' in THU 2015. THU THU Two Somali teenagers, Muna and Iqra, go to the same school. THU They are from the same place but they are strangers; THU strangers who share a secret embedded in their culture. THU THU Producer/Director ..... Jessica Brown. THU THU Find out more about the Awards THU Alfred Fagon award for best new play of the year THU George Devine award for most promising playwright THU THU Credits THU Muna: Susan Wokoma THU Iqra: Nahel Tzegai THU Mr Dennis: Chris Pavlo THU Muna's Mother: Suheba Mohammed THU Leyla: Hermione Amoah-Alexander THU Writer: Charlene James THU Director: Jessica Brown THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b0717j1t (Listen) THU Series 32, Loughrigg Fell THU THU Clare Balding presents walks on the theme of walking with a THU purpose. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0713rtk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0713vvw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0717j1w (Listen) THU Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0713p30 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b071g8yh (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0713p32 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b070hn0t (Listen) THU Susan Calman tries to learn how to unwind, by going hill THU walking with Muriel Gray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU Writer: Susan Calman THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0717j20 (Listen) THU As the Bridge Farm Archers remember John, Tom offers THU brotherly love. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b071fxcd (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Riot Girls b0717gdx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0717j22 (Listen) THU Jimmy Savile and the BBC THU THU How did Jimmy Savile get away with it when so many people THU appear to have known so much? THU THU Media and Arts Correspondent David Sillito tracks down THU former presenters, producers and BBC executives who worked THU with Savile. On the day that the Dame Janet Smith Review is THU published, some speak publicly for the first time and reveal THU a shocking list of missed warning signs. THU THU Producers: Steven Wright THU Researcher: Kirsteen Knight. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0717j24 (Listen) THU Now We Are Ten THU THU The Bottom Line first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February THU 2006. At the time, Tony Blair was Prime Minister, interest THU rates were 4.5%, petrol was 90 pence a litre and a first THU class stamp cost 32p (half today's price). In a special THU edition, to mark ten years since the programme came on air, THU Evan Davis and guests discuss some of the big changes that THU have happened in the past decade, including: the global THU recession, record low interest rates, a technology boom and THU China's extraordinary economic growth. How have businesses THU adapted to the changing world? THU THU Guests: THU THU Nicola Horlick, CEO, Money & Co THU THU Sir Ian Cheshire, Chairman, Debenhams THU THU Nicola Shaw, CEO, HS1 THU THU Ken Olisa, Founder and Chairman, Restoration Partners THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0713p30 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0717j1r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b071fxcg (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0717j26 (Listen) THU Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 9 THU THU The new novel by Meg Rosoff, author of the bestselling "How THU I Live Now". It's the story of a young man, Jonathan Trefoil THU who - assisted by his canine companions Dante the collie and THU Sissy the spaniel - is struggling to navigate the THU responsibilities of adulthood and the demands of his new THU life in New York. THU THU Cured of his speech problems after being jilted at the altar THU by Julie, Jonathan is ready to return to work at Comrade - THU despite the misgivings of his friend Max and work colleague THU Greeley. THU THU Read by Rhashan Stone. THU THU Written by Meg Rosoff. THU THU Abridged by David Jackson Young. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Rhashan Stone THU Author: Meg Rosoff THU Abridger: David Jackson Young THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 Talking to Strangers b0717j28 (Listen) THU Comic monologues in which a range of characters find THU themselves engaging in that most un-British of activities: THU talking to a stranger. THU THU Each piece is a character study: funny, frank, absurd, THU moving... Characters include a sex councillor who loves to THU draw, a spy who loves to share, a woman who likes to help THU too much ('I'm a serial helpist...'), a frustrated falconer, THU and a cheater who has to call her cheatee the morning after. THU And in this show, the listener themselves 'plays' the silent THU stranger in the piece... THU THU Written and performed by Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan, with THU guest stars including Emma Thompson, Olivia Coleman, Jessica THU Hynes, Steve Evets, Sinead Matthews and Joel Fry. THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. A BBC Comedy Production. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Sally Phillips THU Performer: Lily Bevan THU Producer: Sam Bryant THU Writer: Sally Phillips THU Writer: Lily Bevan THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0717j2b (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0713p40 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b071x1vw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0713p42 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0713p44 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0713p46 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0713p48 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072rsrs (Listen) FRI Reflection and prayer with writer and broadcaster, Anna FRI Magnusson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b071fqfn (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b01sbyj8 (Listen) FRI Tawny Owl FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David FRI Attenborough presents young Tawny Owls. Most of us know the FRI "hoot" and "too-wit" of Tawny Owls but might be puzzled if FRI we heard wheezing in the woods, the sound of the young. FRI FRI Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) FRI FRI Image by Richard Brooks (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0717jsl (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0713rtr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b071x1yy (Listen) FRI The Other Paris, Episode 5 FRI FRI Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive FRI couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently FRI always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the FRI outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully FRI nonconforming. FRI FRI In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of FRI that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but FRI whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the FRI contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by FRI extension, throughout the world. FRI FRI He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from FRI Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, FRI and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the FRI vividness of Sante's narration. FRI FRI "Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor FRI there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord. FRI "This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest FRI I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster. FRI FRI Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the FRI United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a FRI teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York FRI Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures FRI and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk FRI Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the FRI history of photography at Bard College in New York State. FRI FRI Writer: Luc Sante FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Reader: Simon Russell Beale FRI FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Simon Russell Beale FRI Author: Luc Sante FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b071fnw4 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 Riot Girls b0717jsn (Listen) FRI Fear of Flying, Episode 5 FRI FRI Erica Jong's frank and funny 1973 novel about female FRI sexuality. FRI FRI Isadora Wing has left her husband, Bennett, and run off with FRI her new lover, Adrian Goodlove, to tour the campsites of FRI Europe. But will this new relationship provide the sexual FRI liberation and fulfilment she's always fantasised about? FRI FRI Dramatised by Annie Caulfield FRI FRI Directed by Emma Harding. FRI FRI Credits FRI Isadora Wing: Julianna Jennings FRI Bennett Wing: Kevin Shen FRI Adrian Goodlove: Max Bennett FRI Isadora's Mother: Adie Allen FRI Marty: Nick Underwood FRI Judy: Nicola Ferguson FRI Dr Reuben: Sargon Yelda FRI Dr Happe: Brian Protheroe FRI Author: Erica Jong FRI Abridger: Annie Caulfield FRI Director: Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Six Degrees of Connection b0717kvf (Listen) FRI Is everyone in the world really connected by only six links? FRI A famous experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram FRI in the 1960s claimed that it took on average only six steps FRI for a message to pass between two strangers in America. FRI Since then the idea has become part of popular culture. But FRI is it true? And if so, does it matter? Julia Hobsbawm FRI investigates how social networks work, whether we should all FRI pay more attention to our network connections, and whether FRI governments can use social networks to promote - for FRI instance - messages about health. Maybe, she discovers, it's FRI not the six degrees of separation that matter, but the three FRI degrees of influence. FRI FRI Presenter: Julia Hobsbawm FRI Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. FRI FRI 11:30 Dilemma b03ts4fp (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI FRI Sue Perkins presents a third series of Dilemma, the panel FRI show where she puts four guests through the moral and FRI ethical wringer by posing a series of finely-balanced FRI dilemmas and then cross-examining them on their answers. FRI FRI This week, Sue is joined by comedians Tony Law and Isy FRI Suttie, who battle with problems about footballing FRI allegiance and supermarket deliveries; Radio One's Gemma FRI Cairney, who must decide how far to go to get free 4G FRI technology; and economist, journalist, and presenter of FRI Radio 4's More Or Less Tim Harford, who reveals the nerdy FRI dilemma that spurred him into a career in statistics. FRI FRI The show was devised by the actor and award-winning comedian FRI Danielle Ward. FRI FRI "A non-irritating, hilarious panel show" (Radio Times). FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sue Perkins FRI Panellist: Tony Law FRI Panellist: Gemma Cairney FRI Panellist: Tim Harford FRI Panellist: Isy Suttie FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0713p4j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 One to One b03bdpl7 (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn speaks to Claire Derry FRI FRI As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories FRI everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is FRI live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened FRI next. FRI FRI For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out FRI what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the FRI media spotlight and have had to live with intense, FRI unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media FRI caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with FRI their lives FRI FRI This week, Carolyn speaks to Claire Derry, the mother of FRI Samuel Woodhead, the British teenager who went missing in FRI the Australian outback in February 2013. FRI FRI Samuel Woodhead was working on a cattle station in rural FRI Queensland - just a few days into his gap year in Australia FRI - when he decided to go for a run. He failed to return and FRI was reported missing. A land and air search eventually found FRI him three days later: three stone lighter, severely FRI dehydrated and apparently 'hours from death'. FRI FRI In this interview Claire Derry describes what it was like to FRI cope with what had happened to her son, at the same time as FRI dealing with intense media interest which - at one stage - FRI turned against her son, accusing him of deliberately getting FRI lost. And has she been able to return to "life as normal" FRI after the experience? FRI FRI Producer: Karen Gregor. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b071fnw6 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0713p4l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b071fnw8 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0717kvm (Listen) FRI Chidambaram Pillai: Swadeshi Steam FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0717j20 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b06kgvc4 (Listen) FRI Fugue State FRI FRI In the heart of the English countryside in a specialist FRI residential hospital. A man, a government agent, is in a FRI fugue state - a psychological shutdown - the result of FRI something seemingly threatening that has taken place in a FRI remote village. FRI FRI Needing to act before the situation escalates and believing FRI the patient can still hear, Doctor Fallon uses sound FRI recordings to recreate events leading up to the point of FRI shutdown, to prompt the patient's brain into remembering FRI what has happened. FRI FRI Julian Simpson's original drama was inspired by a series of FRI talks and workshops at the Wellcome Trust, based around the FRI latest thinking on how the human brain processes inputs - FRI how it builds a model of the world, which we call reality, FRI based on sensory information and our prediction of what we FRI are expecting to see, hear or feel. FRI FRI Scientific Advisor: Paul Fletcher FRI FRI Director: Julian Simpson FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Doctor Fallon: Nicola Walker FRI Patient: Steven Mackintosh FRI Johnson: Tim McInnerny FRI Simon: Ferdinand Kingsley FRI Polly: Phoebe Fox FRI Cyclist: Phoebe Fox FRI Driver: Ben Crowe FRI Butler: Ben Crowe FRI Pilot: Ben Crowe FRI Barman: Ben Crowe FRI Director: Julian Simpson FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI Writer: Julian Simpson FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0717lrx (Listen) FRI Royal Academy of Arts FRI FRI Horticultural panel programme. FRI FRI 15:45 Imagining Chekhov b0717lrz (Listen) FRI Chekhov's Telescope FRI FRI A set of three stories, commissioned specially for Radio 4. FRI Alison MacLeod explores the life and work of one of the FRI finest short story writers of them all - Anton Pavlovich FRI Chekhov. FRI FRI Episode Two: FRI Chekhov and his lover - the actress Olga Knipper - take a FRI holiday in Yalta, unaware that a news reporter is stalking FRI their every move. FRI FRI A note on the letters between Chekhov and Olga. FRI These are fictional composites of the writer's own words and FRI Chekhov's actual letters from the volume Dear Writer, Dear FRI Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper, FRI translated by Jean Benedetti. FRI FRI Alison MacLeod lives in Brighton. She was shortlisted for FRI the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011 and her stories FRI Solo, A Capella and In Praise Of Radical Fish have featured FRI in previous Radio 4 series. Her works include The Changeling FRI and The Wave Theory of Angels. Her novel, Unexploded, was FRI long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was broadcast as FRI Book At Bedtime. Alison is Professor of Contemporary Fiction FRI at the University of Chichester. FRI FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Alison MacLeod FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b071fnwb (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b0717ls1 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0717ls3 (Listen) FRI Katherine and Finlay - Making Dad Proud FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an 11 year old FRI and his mum about life without his dad, who took his own FRI life, and how rugby has forged a link between them. FRI Organised through Child Bereavement UK, this is another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI 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 b071fnwd (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0713p4n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0717m14 (Listen) FRI Series 89, Episode 8 FRI FRI Series 89 of the satirical quiz. Miles Jupp is back in the FRI chair, trying to keep order as an esteemed panel of guests FRI take on the big (and not so big) news events of the week. FRI The line-up for this, the final show of the current series FRI includes Jeremy Hardy, Alan Johnson MP and Kerry Godliman. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI A BBC Radio Comedy Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Alan Johnson FRI Panellist: Kerry Godliman FRI Producer: Richard Morris FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0717m19 (Listen) FRI Rob is always there for Helen, and David feels pretty FRI excited. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Rosemary Watts 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 Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Eleanor Bron FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b071fnwh (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 Riot Girls b0717jsn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0717n94 (Listen) FRI Jack Monroe, Paul Nuttall MEP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Penkhull in Stoke on Trent with a panel including the FRI food writer and political activist Jack Monroe and the FRI Deputy Leader of UKIP Paul Nuttall MEP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0717n96 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0717n98 (Listen) FRI Incarnations India in 50 Lives - Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0713p4q (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b071fnwp (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0717n9x (Listen) FRI Jonathan Unleashed, Episode 10 FRI FRI Final instalment of the ten part abridgement of the new FRI novel by Meg Rosoff, read by Rhashan Stone. FRI FRI Unemployed, single and starting to despair, Jonathan has FRI asked his former colleague Greeley to help him find a new FRI direction for his life. Accompanied by Dante the collie and FRI Sissy the spaniel, the four leave New York behind for a FRI weekend spent deep in the forest. While there, Jonathan FRI receives a series of texts that suggest all is not lost with FRI Dr Clare. FRI FRI Read by Rhashan Stone. FRI FRI Written by Meg Rosoff. FRI FRI Abridged by David Jackson Young. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Rhashan Stone FRI Author: Meg Rosoff FRI Abridger: David Jackson Young FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour b0717nwy (Listen) FRI Late Night Woman's Hour FRI FRI Late-night conversation. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0717nx0 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b0717nx2 (Listen) FRI Ann and Jane - Our Sons FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two mothers FRI whose sons took their own lives and who have drawn strength FRI from their shared experience. Another in the series that FRI 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