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SAT SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0713p6w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b071x1yy (Listen) SAT The Other Paris, Episode 5 SAT SAT Paris, City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive SAT couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently SAT always accompanied by its shadow - the city of the poor, the SAT outcast, the criminal, the eccentric, the wilfully SAT nonconforming. SAT SAT In The Other Paris, Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of SAT that alternative metropolis, which has all but vanished but SAT whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the SAT contemporary city, in the culture of France itself and, by SAT extension, throughout the world. SAT SAT He draws on testimony from a great range of witnesses - from SAT Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers, rabble-rousers, SAT and flaneurs - whose research is matched only by the SAT vividness of Sante's narration. SAT SAT "Paris, a city so beautiful that people would rather be poor SAT there than rich somewhere else." Guy Debord. SAT "This brilliant, beautifully written essay is the finest SAT I've ever read about Paris. Ever. " Paul Auster. SAT SAT Luc Sante was born in Verviers Belgium and emigrated to the SAT United States in the early 1960s. Since 1984, he has been a SAT teacher and writer, and frequent contributor to the New York SAT Review of Books. His publications include Low Life: Lures SAT and Snares of Old New York, The Factory of Facts and Folk SAT Photography. He currently teaches creative writing and the SAT history of photography at Bard College in New York State. SAT SAT Writer: Luc Sante SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Reader: Simon Russell Beale SAT SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Simon Russell Beale SAT Author: Luc Sante SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0713p6y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0713p70 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0713p72 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0713p74 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0717nzj (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon SAT Dr Sarah Rowland Jones, Priest in charge of the City Parish SAT of St John the Baptist, Cardiff. SAT SAT Script: SAT SAT Good morning. Today Anglicans commemorate George Herbert – SAT parliamentarian, priest and poet, for whom I have a SAT particular fondness. SAT SAT He was born in 1593 in Mid-Wales, a few miles from where I SAT grew up. (By coincidence, he also has relatives buried in my SAT church in Cardiff.) SAT SAT George Herbert’s gift with language and rhetoric swept him SAT into politics. He was briefly a Member of Parliament, and it SAT seemed a career at court awaited him. But then he SAT unexpectedly turned to the Anglican Church; and spent the SAT last three years of his life as a parish priest, dying of SAT consumption, aged only 39. SAT SAT Throughout his adult life Herbert was a prolific writer of SAT religious verse, though it was only published after his SAT death, to immediate acclaim. Such was his fluency and SAT lyricism, he was described as ‘a soul composed of SAT harmonies’. SAT SAT Much of Herbert’s poetry enjoys lasting popularity in the SAT words of well-known hymns. For example we still sing ‘Teach SAT me, my God and King, in all things thee to see.’ SAT SAT It’s this capacity to avoid dividing the world into sacred SAT and secular, which is particularly engaging. SAT SAT Herbert reminds us that, wherever life takes us, God reigns SAT over it all. ‘Let all the world, in every corner, sing: my SAT God and King!’ he wrote. It’s no platitude. His writings SAT tell us he often wrestled long and hard with the God he came SAT to know as the love that ‘bade him welcome, though his soul SAT drew back’ – as one poem puts it. SAT SAT Herbert encourages us to keep on striving after God, and his SAT redeeming love in action, not only in church, and not only SAT on Sundays. SAT SAT So in the words of George Herbert… SAT SAT King of glory, king of peace – help us to see you in all SAT situations, and seven whole days, not one in seven, let us SAT praise you. Amen. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0717nzl (Listen) SAT Britain's greatest test pilot SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0713p76 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0713p78 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b0717j1t (Listen) SAT Series 32, Loughrigg Fell SAT SAT Clare Balding explores Loughrigg Fell, in Cumbria with the SAT writer and journalist, Simon Ingrams. With all the passion SAT of a convert, he explains to Clare how he became bitten by SAT the mountain climbing bug and why he wants to pass on his SAT obsession to anyone who'll listen. In the space of a morning SAT they are hit with torrential rain and howling winds but SAT nothing deters them from their walk and Simon also explains SAT how to stay safe while enjoying the mountains of Britain, no SAT matter what the weather. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b071gycq (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: The Future of Farming SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0713p7b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b071gw3z (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b071h07v (Listen) SAT Marian Keyes SAT SAT Marian Keyes joins the Rev. Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir. A SAT columnist, blogger and bestselling author of a dozen novels, SAT she has sold more than 33 million copies worldwide. She SAT shares her passion for "the twitters", collecting drawer SAT knobs, browsing in chemists and "beachouse banjo" - chalk SAT painting old furniture. SAT Gilding the recycled lily, mosaic maker Ed Chapman talks SAT about his portraits which have turned sugar cubes into Alan SAT Sugar, Welsh slate into Richard Burton and gravy stains into SAT Andy Murray. Such inventive thrift will appeal to Jordon SAT Cox, king of the couponeers, and the lad who flew to SAT Sheffield via Berlin to save £8 on the train fare. His SAT passion for couponing began after watching at TV programme. SAT It was watching an inflight movie that inspired Adam Walker SAT to give up his day job as a kettle and toaster salesman, to SAT become the only Briton to have swum the Oceans Seven SAT Challenge. He recalls inventing a new stroke after he torn SAT his bicep, that led to a new career in coaching and teaching SAT technique. SAT JP meets Saturday Live listener, Margaret Ames, to explore SAT her collection of 700 teapots. And the singer Tony SAT Christie's shares his Inheritance Tracks: Come Back To Me, SAT performed by Sammy Davis Jnr, featuring Buddy Rich Live at SAT The Sands; and The Folks Who Live on the Hill, sung by Peggy SAT Lee. SAT SAT Making It Up As I Go Along, by Marian Keyes. SAT The David Beckham mosaic is on show at Phillips Auctioneers SAT in Mayfair. SAT Man -V- Ocean by Adam Walker is out now. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Marian Keyes SAT Interviewed Guest: Ed Chapman SAT Interviewed Guest: Adam Walker SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Margaret Ames SAT Interviewed Guest: Tony Christie SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b071h07x (Listen) SAT Series 6, Slumdog Millionaire SAT SAT Somewhere between Bollywood and Hollywood, 'Slumdog SAT Millionaire', the low budget independent production captured SAT the heart of the world, and 8 Oscars in 2009 . SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini tells the gripping story of the little film SAT that got lucky, talking to some of those central to its SAT creation, from Vikas Swarup, the Indian Diplomat who wrote SAT the original novel, co-director Loveleen Tandem, who helped SAT persuade the studios to let the child actors speak Hindi, SAT and Resul Pookerty, whose magical soundscape of India won SAT him an Oscar and changed his life for ever. SAT SAT It was a film which took a city, a child of the slums, and a SAT game show - and turned it into a star-crossed romance; a SAT film which snuck past the infamous Foreign Language category SAT and into the mainstream Best Picture category at the 81st SAT Academy Awards - despite at least 20% Hindi. SAT SAT Winning 8 Oscars, the film had no star actors, but a cast of SAT millions - the city of Mumbai. The real star name was Danny SAT Boyle, a director who, according to screen writer Simon SAT Beaufoy, discovered in Mumbai a city 'like the inside of his SAT head' - vibrant, frenetic, dazzling, and full of extremes. SAT SAT This was also an independent film which nearly went straight SAT to DVD, but rose again to take Oscar after Oscar, from under SAT the noses of studio films. SAT SAT Paul Smith of Celador Productions, describes how his SAT company, who invented the game show, "Who Wants To Be A SAT Millionaire", got lucky a second time - winning a Best SAT Picture Oscar. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b071h081 (Listen) SAT Tom Newton Dunn of The Sun looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0713p7j (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0713p7q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b0713p7s (Listen) SAT Pension reform or a grab on our pension cash? SAT SAT Lesley Curwen presents discussion on pension reform, the SAT true cost of paying by cash and interest-only mortgages. SAT SAT Related links: SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK: Strengthening the incentive to save: a consultation SAT on pensions tax relief SAT SAT The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) SAT Gov.UK: Pension Wise SAT PensionsChamp SAT SAT SAT Financial Conduct Authority SAT SAT Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) SAT StepChange SAT SAT SAT Gov.UK: Consumer Rights (Payment Surcharges) Regulations SAT 2012 SAT Gov.UK: Find your local Trading Standards office SAT Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) SAT Which? Can I avoid hidden ticket charges? SAT SAT SAT NHS England: Maternity review sets bold plan for safer, more SAT personal services SAT NHS England: National Maternity Review SAT Carers UK SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0717m14 (Listen) SAT Series 89, Episode 8 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 The line-up for this, the final show of the current series SAT is Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter, Hugo Rifkind and Kerry SAT Godliman. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Lucy Porter SAT Panellist: Hugo Rifkind SAT Panellist: Kerry Godliman SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0713p7v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0713p7x (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0717n94 (Listen) SAT Therese Coffey MP, Paul Nuttall MEP, Brendan O Neill, Lucy SAT Powell MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Penkhull in Stoke on Trent with a panel including the SAT food writer and political activist Jack Monroe and the SAT Deputy Leader of UKIP Paul Nuttall MEP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0713p7z (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b071h2x6 (Listen) SAT Trial by Laughter SAT SAT Trial by Laughter by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. SAT William Hone is the forgotten hero of free speech in SAT Britain. He was a bookseller, publisher and satirist. In SAT 1817, he stood trial for 'impious blasphemy and seditious SAT libel'. His crime was to be funny. Worse than that he was SAT funny by parodying religious texts. And worst of all, he was SAT funny about the despotic government and the libidinous SAT monarchy. A comedy drama based on the real trial SAT transcripts. SAT SAT Original music by Conrad Nelson SAT Director/Producer Gary Brown SAT SAT Ian Hislop is the editor of Private Eye and a team captain SAT on 'Have I got News for You'. Nick Newman is a satirical SAT cartoonist for The Sunday Times and Private Eye. They have SAT known each other since their schooldays and have written SAT many successful TV programmes together including 'My Dad's SAT the Prime Minister' and 'The Wipers Times'. SAT SAT Credits SAT Hone: Robert Wilfort SAT Prince Regent: Arthur Bostrom SAT Cruikshank: Conrad Nelson SAT Ellenborough: Jonathan Keeble SAT Shepherd: David Benson SAT Abbott: Malcolm Raeburn SAT Lady Hertford: Melissa Sinden SAT Sarah: Fiona Clarke SAT Reporter: Graeme Hawley SAT Clerk: Graeme Hawley SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT Writer: Ian Hislop SAT Writer: Nick Newman SAT SAT 15:30 Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley SAT b0714nhm (Listen) SAT Stuart Barr uncovers the colourful career of British SAT composer and transgender pioneer, Angela Morley. SAT SAT In 1972, Wally Stott's transition to Angela Morley made SAT front page news. Wally was famous. He was composer for the SAT Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour, and music director to SAT stars like Frankie Vaughan and Shirley Bassey. "TV Music Man SAT changes his sex" screamed the headlines. Where would Angela SAT go from here? Stuart talks to Angela's friends and SAT colleagues to discover how she made her mark in the music SAT business, as a woman and a man. And he explores the special SAT qualities of the music she wrote and arranged, from the SAT famous 'Hancock' tuba theme to her work alongside John SAT Williams on blockbusters like Star Wars and Superman. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0713p81 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0713p83 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0717j24 (Listen) SAT Now We Are Ten SAT SAT The Bottom Line first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February SAT 2006. At the time, Tony Blair was Prime Minister, interest SAT rates were 4.5%, petrol was 90 pence a litre and a first SAT class stamp cost 32p (half today's price). In a special SAT edition, to mark ten years since the programme came on air, SAT Evan Davis and guests discuss some of the big changes that SAT have happened in the past decade, including: the global SAT recession, record high and record low oil prices, a SAT technology boom and China's extraordinary economic growth. SAT How have businesses adapted to the changing world? SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Nicola Horlick, CEO, Money & Co SAT SAT Sir Ian Cheshire, Chairman, Debenhams SAT SAT Nicola Shaw, CEO, HS1 SAT SAT Ken Olisa, Founder and Chairman, Restoration Partners SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0713p85 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0713p87 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0713p89 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b071gy2g (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Stewart Lee, Pam St. Clement, Karl Bartos, SAT Bob Marshall-Andrews, Buena Vista Social Club, GoGo Penguin SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Stewart Lee, Pam SAT St. Clement, Karl Bartos and Bob Marshall-Andrews for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Buena Vista Social Club and GoGo Penguin. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Stewart Lee SAT SAT ‘Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle’ returns to BBC 2 at 22.00 on SAT Thursday 3rd March.. SAT Stewart and other comedians perform a benefit gig on Sunday SAT 6th March at the Arcola Theatre London - to raise money for SAT Crew for Calais - to help shelter and house the refugees in SAT the Calais Jungle. SAT Stewart is curating All Tomorrow's Parties at Pontins, SAT Prestatyn in April. SAT SAT SAT Karl Bartos SAT 'Communication' is available on 25th March on Trocadero. SAT SAT Pam St Clement SAT 'The End of An Earring' is published by Headline and SAT available now. SAT SAT Bob Marshall-Andrews SAT 'Camille' is published by Whitefox and available now. SAT SAT Buena Vista Social Club SAT Buena Vista Social Club's final UK concert is at London's O2 SAT on Wednesday 6th April. SAT SAT GoGo Penguin SAT SAT 'Man Made Object' is out now on Blue Note Records. SAT SAT GoGo Penguin are playing at London's Koko on 5th May, Love SAT Supreme Festival on 3rd July and Farmfest on 30th July. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Stewart Lee SAT Interviewed Guest: Pam St Clement SAT Interviewed Guest: Karl Bartos SAT Interviewed Guest: Bob Marshall-Andrews SAT Performer: Buena Vista Social Club SAT Performer: GoGo Penguin SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b071gwdv (Listen) SAT Series 19, 27/02/2016 SAT SAT As the fixture lists start crowding in on Premier League SAT football clubs, managers and even ex-managers have begun to SAT feel the terrible weight of expectation. In this week's From SAT Fact to Fiction, Mark Lawson imagines how one such manager SAT might deal with the pressure by opening a direct line to SAT 'the man above'. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Mark Lawson SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0713p8c (Listen) SAT Grimsby, Javier Marias, Mark Wallinger, Sarah Kane, Murder SAT and Broken Biscuits SAT SAT Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy Grimsby tells the story of SAT two brothers separated in childhood reunited as adults; one SAT is a spy, the other a lazy git SAT Thus Bad Begins is the latest novel from Javier Marias; one SAT of Europe's finest writers SAT Artist Mark Wallinger's recent work has focussed on religion SAT death and William Blake. He has a new exhibition opening in SAT London SAT Sarah Kane's plays have always excited controversy: a SAT restaging of Cleansed at London's Dorfman Theatre looks set SAT to rouse familiar fury SAT BBC TV has new drama series starting: Murder and Broken SAT Biscuits SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Louise Scodie, Amanda Craig and SAT Kevin Jackson. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Grimsby SAT SAT Grimsby is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT Thus Bad Begins SAT SAT Thus Bad Begins by SAT Javier Marías SAT is available in hard back and ebook now. SAT SAT Image: © EL PAIS SAT SAT Mark Wallinger SAT Mark Wallinger ID SAT is at Hauser & Wirth London until 7 May 2016. SAT SAT Image (main and left): Mark Wallinger, Orrery (film stills), SAT 2016. 4-channel viedo installation. © Mark Wallinger. SAT Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth SAT SAT SAT Murder SAT Murder SAT begins on BBC Two on Thursday 3 March at 9pm. SAT SAT SAT Broken Biscuits SAT SAT Comedy Playhouse’s SAT Broken Biscuits SAT is on BBC One on Friday 4 March at 10.35pm. SAT SAT SAT Cleansed SAT Cleansed SAT is at the National Theatre in London until 5 May 2016. SAT SAT Image: © Stephen Cummiskey SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Louise Scodie SAT Interviewed Guest: Amanda Craig SAT Interviewed Guest: Kevin Jackson SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b071h083 (Listen) SAT SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK SAT SAT In 1982, a publishing phenomenon began with the first SAT appearance of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve SAT Jackson and Ian Livingstone. It would be the first of a SAT series that would sell some 17 million copies in 30 SAT different languages. Which (JK Rowling notwithstanding) SAT might sound unlikely for a set of children's books involving SAT wizards, goblins and elves. SAT SAT What was it that set them apart? They were part of a much SAT wider literary innovation known as interactive fiction. You SAT don't merely read them, page by page, cover to cover. You SAT were asked to make decisions all the way along about what SAT would happen next, where you would go, who you would even SAT fight, which page to turn to. And you often had to keep a SAT notebook and pair of dice close to hand while doing so. You SAT might fail along the way and have to start again (or more SAT likely you'd keep your finger in the previous page until you SAT were satisfied you'd made the right choice). Essentially, SAT they were puzzle books. SAT SAT This sort of text based adventure would make its way very SAT quickly into the digital realm as a very important early SAT genre of computer game. SAT SAT And we have built an interactive version of this programme, SAT over at BBC Taster, if you would like to try your SKILL, SAT STAMINA and LUCK. SAT SAT Naomi Alderman charts the rise and rise of the interactive SAT story, from its beginnings in obscure avant-garde French SAT literary groups through to the virtual worlds of modern SAT video games, and the cult literary form today of Interactive SAT Fiction. SAT SAT Try the interactive SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK game SAT SAT Explore the interactive game of this archive collection on SAT BBC Taster SAT "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SAT SAT 21:00 Riot Girls b0713vvt (Listen) SAT The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Episode 1 SAT SAT by Fay Weldon, adapted by Joy Wilkinson. A darkly comic SAT fairy tale about revenge, sex and power. SAT SAT When Ruth discovers her husband is sleeping with a prettier, SAT richer woman, she makes ingenious and diabolical plans to SAT punish them both. SAT SAT 'The Life and Loves of a She Devil', written in 1983, is a SAT gleefully bawdy satire on the war of the sexes, and a fable SAT about the rewards and dangers of our capacity for SAT transformation. SAT SAT It is part of Riot Girls on Radio 4, a series of SAT no-holds-barred women's writing that includes Erica Jong's SAT 'Fear of Flying' and original plays following three SAT generations of women by Lucy Catherine and Ella Hickson. SAT SAT Adapted by Joy Wilkinson SAT Directed by Abigail le Fleming SAT SAT The Writer SAT Fay Weldon CBE has written 34 novels, numerous TV dramas, SAT several radio plays, 5 full length stage plays and five SAT collections of short stories. She works as Professor SAT teaching creative writing at Bath Spa University. SAT SAT The Adapter SAT Joy Wilkinson was selected as a Screen International Star of SAT Tomorrow 2015. She has several original feature projects and SAT TV series in development, including the thriller KILLER CV, SAT which was selected for the 2014 Brit List. Joy writes SAT extensively for radio, on original dramas and adaptations. SAT In theatre, her work has won prizes including the Verity SAT Bargate Award. SAT SAT Credits SAT Ruth: Hattie Morahan SAT Bobbo: Barnaby Kay SAT Mary Fisher: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Nurse Hopkins: Rosie Cavaliero SAT Mrs Fisher: Susan Jameson SAT Nicola: Evie Killip SAT Andy: Leo Wan SAT Garcia: Chris Pavlo SAT Angus: Gerard McDermott SAT Insurance Man: Gerard McDermott SAT Brenda: Debra Baker SAT Mrs Trumper: Debra Baker SAT Elsie Flower: Katie Redford SAT Girl in Job Centre: Rebecca Hamilton SAT Author: Fay Weldon SAT Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson SAT Director: Abigail le Fleming SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0713p8f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0717cpy (Listen) SAT Who Owns Culture? SAT SAT It may not have the same impact as the Elgin Marbles, but a SAT slightly battered bronze statue of a cockerel has re-ignited SAT a row that has potentially profound implications for our SAT museums and opens a Pandora's Box of moral dilemmas. The SAT statue in question sits in the dining hall of Jesus College SAT Cambridge, but it was originally from the Benin Empire, now SAT part of modern-day Nigeria. It was one of hundreds of SAT artworks taken in a punitive British naval expedition in SAT 1897 that brought the empire to an end. In the same way that SAT Greece has pursued the return of the Elgin marbles, Nigeria SAT has repeatedly called for all the Benin bronzes - which it SAT says are part of its cultural heritage - to be repatriated. SAT The students at Jesus agree with them and are demanding the SAT cockerel be returned. But to whom? There are dozens of high SAT profile campaigns around the world to repatriate cultural SAT artefacts, but the legal issue of rightful ownership is SAT complex and made more so by the value of the objects in SAT question. Does the fact that many of the finest treasures in SAT our museums were acquired during the height of our imperial SAT history mean we're duty bound to return them? If we accept SAT the principle that art looted by the Nazi's should be SAT returned, why not, for example, the Benin Bronzes? Artefacts SAT like the Elgin Marbles are important because they are part SAT of the story or humanity itself. Can any one country claim SAT ownership over that? Would artefacts that have been returned SAT to their original setting take on a new and more authentic SAT cultural meaning that we in the West may not be able to SAT understand, but which is nonetheless important to those who SAT claim ownership? Should repatriation be part of a wider SAT cultural enterprise to re-write our national and SAT imperialistic historical narrative? Chaired by Michael Buerk SAT with Giles Fraser, Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips and Michael SAT Portillo. Witnesses are Dr Tiffany Jenkins, Prof Constantine SAT Sandis, Mark Hudson and Andrew Dismore. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b07142lq (Listen) SAT Heat 7, 2016 SAT SAT (7/17) SAT Which artery takes deoxygenated blood from the heart to the SAT lungs? Which actor was future Vice-President Al Gore's SAT roommate at Harvard? And who wrote the novel on which the SAT Hitchcock film Psycho was based? SAT SAT Russell Davies puts these and a host of other questions to SAT the latest contenders for the Brain of Britain 2016 title. SAT The programme comes from the Radio Theatre in London, with SAT the winner assured a place in the semi-finals of the contest SAT later in the spring. SAT SAT There'll also be the chance for a Brain of Britain listener SAT to outwit the contestants with ingenious questions of his or SAT her own devising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT LIAM DEVINE, a university lecturer from London SAT SAT TOM GIBSON, a fibre-optics engineer from Bideford in Devon SAT SAT JOHN MYHILL, a transport analyst from Northampton SAT SAT ROBERT SPRINGTHORPE, a GP from Tunbridge Wells in Kent. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0713vvy (Listen) SAT Bubble and Squeak 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 Distances SAT SAT By Phillippe Jaccottet SAT SAT Translated by Derek Mahon SAT SAT From Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Atlas SAT SAT By U A Fanthorpe SAT SAT From Collected Poems 1978-2003 SAT SAT Published by Peterloo Poets SAT SAT SAT SAT Sonnet XI SAT SAT By Eleanor Brown SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12275080.DAILY_POEM_SONNE SAT _XI/ SAT SAT SAT SAT September Sun: 1947 SAT SAT By David Gascoyne SAT SAT From David Gascoyne – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Enitharmon SAT SAT SAT SAT The Flight of the Sparrow SAT SAT By James Harpur SAT SAT From The Monk’s Dream SAT SAT Published by Anvil Press Poetry SAT SAT SAT SAT Tree At My Window SAT SAT By Robert Frost SAT SAT From The Poetry of Robert Frost SAT SAT Published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT SAT SAT But These Things Also SAT SAT By Edward Thomas SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The One-Legged Man SAT SAT By Siegfried Sassoon SAT SAT From Siegfried Sassoon - Collected Poems; 1908–1956 SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Miners SAT SAT By Wilfred Owen SAT SAT From The Poems of Wilfred Owen SAT SAT Published by The Hogarth Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Where the Mind is Without Fear SAT SAT (Extract from Gitanjali) SAT SAT By Rabindranath Tagore SAT SAT From An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project SAT Anthology SAT SAT Published by W. 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Norton and Company SAT SAT SAT SAT Winds SAT SAT By Kathleen Raine SAT SAT From The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine SAT SAT Published by Golgonooza SAT SAT SAT SAT The Dream City SAT SAT By Humbert Wolfe SAT SAT Taken from SAT https://thepoetrycollection.wordpress.com/humbert-wolfe-1885 SAT 1940-the-dream-city/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Water SAT SAT By Philip Larkin SAT SAT From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Dover Beach SAT SAT By Matthew Arnold SAT SAT From The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Mamble SAT SAT By John Drinkwater SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://allpoetry.com/Mamble SAT SAT SAT SAT To My Book SAT SAT By Ben Jonson SAT SAT From Ben Jonson – Selected Poetry SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT The Passionate Shepherd to his Love SAT SAT By Christopher Marlowe SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173941 SAT SAT SAT SAT The Indian Serenade SAT SAT By Percy Bysshe Shelley SAT SAT From An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Glory of the Day Was In Her Face SAT SAT By James Weldon Johnson SAT SAT From The Poetry of Black America; Anthology of the 20th SAT Century SAT SAT Published by Harper & Row SAT SAT SAT SAT 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 28 FEBRUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b071lcck (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Modern Welsh Voices b03lntqf (Listen) SUN Brown Jug SUN SUN Brown Jug by Linda Ruhemann. The first of five original SUN stories by writers from Wales. SUN SUN Whilst shopping for souvenirs in a small holiday town a SUN man's past is evoked and it brings a new perspective on the SUN present. SUN SUN Read by Robert Pugh SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Robert Pugh SUN Writer: Linda Ruhemann SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b071lccm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b071lccw (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b071lccy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b071lcd2 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b071lfk3 (Listen) SUN Bells from the Church of St Eustachius, Tavistock in Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b0717cq0 (Listen) SUN The City SUN SUN The Lent Talks are a series of essays on the different SUN perspectives of the passion story. The location for this SUN week's "Lent in the Landscape" talk is the iconic SUN brick-built Victorian Gothic "All Saints Church" just behind SUN Oxford Street in London. Maxwell reflects on Jesus' arrival SUN in Jerusalem and his confrontation at the Temple. Producer: SUN Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN I’m standing in this enchanting alley. It’s a part of SUN London you wouldn’t believe was still here. The buildings SUN facing each other no more than two widths of my arms stretch SUN apart were originally industrial buildings, this part SUN particularly making clothes and the rag trade is still SUN here. Just at the end is London’s Oxford Street which is SUN heaving with people all the year round. The name has become SUN symbolic of retailing, buying things we don’t need with SUN money we haven’t got. SUN SUN I’ve just come out of my convenient little safe alley SUN heading towards London’s Oxford Street, a street of man in SUN the City of Man if ever there was one. St Augustine talks SUN about this contrast between a city founded around the SUN ideals of mankind or those of God. So the city of man is a SUN city based around money, the pursuit of money, sometimes SUN money for its own sake. In his writings St Augustine takes SUN the city of man and contrasts that with the possibility of SUN the City of God, a grouping of people together that base SUN their lives and the way in which they design their lives in SUN a God like way based on the teaching of Jesus Christ. So SUN often in scripture the City is replaced by Jerusalem. SUN Jerusalem the golden with milk and honey blessed, a city as SUN an ideal because people have to learn to live together. So SUN money, greed and ambition are changed through faith and SUN grace into love, compassion, peace, forgiveness and SUN sacrifice. SUN SUN I’m now walking further away from Oxford Street to get a bit SUN of a break from all that City of Man pressing down on me SUN maybe I now need a little bit of the City of God if only I SUN can find it. My father was an architect in rural SUN Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire. So we were SUN building buildings on green field sites. When I decided to SUN follow in his footsteps my vocation was to build buildings SUN in cities because I’d always been fascinated by cities. So SUN I came down here and studied as an architect, not far from SUN Oxford Street, and set up my own practice and started SUN designing buildings in the city. You do need to understand SUN the place to design buildings in this context and it’s not SUN just about a drawing with a vacant site on the corner of a SUN street. Before you can design those buildings you’ve got to SUN get to know how people live in the city and hopefully create SUN homes for them that cater for the undoubted pressure of the SUN city that needn’t be overwhelming and claustrophobic. But SUN in all of this occasionally there is a need to escape which SUN is why I’m coming to a quieter street (as a delivery van SUN almost runs me over) and in front of me is the most SUN wonderful church of All Saints, Margaret Street, which SUN English Heritage recently declared was one of the 10 most SUN important buildings in the country. Most people who SUN frequent this part of London would not know this church as SUN is here. SUN SUN I’ve stepped off the pavement under an arched gateway in a SUN low wall in to the most charming courtyard. The first thing SUN that strikes you about the church is the tall spire and the SUN use of multi-coloured polychromatic brickwork so unlike the SUN rest of the building around it. In fact if I was to see this SUN on a student’s drawing I would wonder whether they have even SUN visited the site at all. It’s as if they’ve dropped it in SUN unthinkingly. But that is part of its absolute joy and it’s SUN beautifully detailed in its Gothic revival form with little SUN pinnacles, arched windows all down in this multi-coloured SUN brickwork. I send my architectural students here not SUN particularly to look at the architecture of the building but SUN to look at the way William Butterfield accommodated all of SUN this on a very tight urban site. SUN SUN There are people sitting in the courtyard and hopefully they SUN are going to do what I’m just about to do which is walk SUN through the door in front of me into the heart of the church SUN itself. At this point I’m reminded of the City of Jerusalem SUN and Solomon’s Temple. I like to imagine that at the time of SUN the crucifixion the atmosphere in Jerusalem was the historic SUN equivalent to what we’re experiencing in London today. It SUN was a city of money, of commerce, of trade, a population SUN from all over the region gathering together. So much so SUN that Christ overturned the tables of the money changers who SUN weren’t content just to populate the city, they even had to SUN come into the sacred space of the Temple itself in the heart SUN of the city. SUN SUN There’s a couple of steps up into the porch. I wonder SUN whether this was how people felt in Jerusalem, whether when SUN they passed through the courtyard of the Temple to go inside SUN they felt the same relief already from city pressure as I’m SUN feeling now. SUN SUN I’m struck first by the smell of frankincense which is a SUN pre-requisite of liturgical practice. I’m moving on to just SUN behind the font to a huge candle. This is the paschal SUN candle. It stands almost 6 ft, it’s adorned with the SUN letters Alpha and Omega “I am the first and the last”, the SUN date, a red cross and 5 little metal blobs. Those are SUN symbolic of the 5 stigmata of Christ and they have within SUN them a piece of incense – 2 wounds for the feet, 2 wounds SUN for the hands and one for Christ’s side. Now this candle is SUN lit outside the church in the courtyard on Easter eve and SUN the deacon brings this huge candle into a darkened church SUN and then the people light their own handheld candles from SUN that light. This is an ancient ceremonial. Here they SUN remember the City of God and how it all could be. SUN SUN Turning round my eye is caught by the multi-coloured tiling SUN around the walls, the architect William Butterfield getting SUN any windows at all in here, he’s put in their place mosaics SUN in tiles particularly the one above the great crossing arch SUN over the transition between the nave and the sanctuary where SUN the high altar is. SUN SUN I’m coming into the middle of the nave. As I’ve sat in this SUN place I’ve watched people being drawn forward to the SUN sanctuary and beyond it the high altar which was always the SUN intention of the architect to focus on the place of the SUN Eucharist which is so important in all Catholic liturgy and SUN worship. It’s a place of solemnity, a sacred place which SUN raises a question in my architectural mind – is the sense SUN that this place has a sanctity and of the divine built into SUN it by the architect by his devices or does it come about SUN through the prayers, dedication and worship or hundreds and SUN thousands of people over the years burdened down by the SUN pressures of the City of Man. Somehow by coming together SUN there is a feeling of a greater power in prayer that is SUN shared and prayer that is shared in a place like this by SUN design or by habit. I remain on the fence. The architect SUN provided a space that seems to have an intrinsic sense of SUN reverence. It couldn’t be used for any other purpose other SUN than that of a place of worship. Even those who are SUN completely unchurched would find it difficult to walk in SUN without feeling a spiritual sense of the divine. SUN SUN The majority of people who come to church for the various SUN services over the Easter period come from the City, they SUN lead city lives, noise and clamour and jostling on buses and SUN trying to find somewhere to park and they leave all that SUN behind and enter this place of solemnity and quiet. But SUN they wouldn’t understand the Easter about which they’re told SUN and reminded without understanding the city as so much of SUN the Easter narrative requires the presence of large numbers SUN of people. SUN SUN It was always God’s intention that the passion, suffering SUN and death of his only son should be set against the backdrop SUN of a busy city. It simply would not have worked in the same SUN way in a quiet backwater or a smaller community. The SUN crucifixion, the central act of redemption and salvation had SUN to be witnessed by as many as possible to start the spread SUN of the good news of the gospel. The baying city crowd was SUN necessary to answer Pontius Pilate’s questions: who should SUN be crucified? Jesus or Barabbas. Christ’s journey from the SUN mocking insults of the centurions to Golgotha along the way SUN of the cross, the Via Dolorosa as it is still marked in SUN Jerusalem today had to be through crowds of witnesses, past SUN the women of Jerusalem and St Veronica and her veil. All of SUN these were real people leading normal city lives in the SUN shadow of the Temple who without notice were drawn into the SUN narrative of salvation as is the intention of the gospel. SUN SUN City life in all its complexity draws me into the Easter SUN story as I reach out for peace, love and harmony, a sense of SUN meaning in the meaningless rush to further metropolitan SUN uncertainty. Hearing the Gospel’s story and imagining the SUN events of the first Easter, it is reassuring to me that they SUN were taking place in a city, a city I believe that I would SUN understand and a city that I might even have felt at home SUN in. It brings home the reality of the crucifixion and SUN resurrection in a way that I would not feel if I was out in SUN the countryside. I need that gritty feel of the city to SUN provide that contrast between everyday life and the joy of SUN the risen Christ. SUN SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b071lcd4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b071lfkd (Listen) SUN A Walk in the Woods SUN SUN Our relationship to the forest is ancient and complex. SUN Woodland offers protection but also harbours some of our SUN deepest fears. SUN SUN Danish radio producer Rikke Houd takes a walk in the forest, SUN in the company of writers including Henry David Thoreau, SUN Pablo Neruda, Dinah Hawken and the Swedish poet Tomas SUN Tranströmer, and discovers a place where we can both lose SUN and find ourselves. SUN SUN With music by Jussi Björling, the Polish composer and SUN dendrophiliac Krzysztof Penderecki and the Swedish musician SUN Victoria Bergsman, who performs as Taken By Trees. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Hope SUN SUN Author: Dinah Hawken SUN SUN Publisher: Victoria University Press SUN Title: Lost in the Forest SUN SUN Author: Pablo Neruda SUN SUN Publisher: Bloodaxe SUN Title: The Clearing (from Truth Barriers) SUN SUN Author: Tomas Tranströmer (trans. Robert Bly) SUN SUN Publisher: Sierra Club Books SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b071lfkn (Listen) SUN Inspiring First Generation Farmers SUN SUN John Terry always dreamed of being a farmer. After many SUN years spent teaching he managed to create a school farm and SUN with his savings he bought a small field. Today he farms 35 SUN acres near Nuneaton in Warwickshire and his prize winning SUN sheep are helping create herds across the world. Hoping to SUN inspire others John has written children's books and the SUN essential guide, 'How to Become a First Generation Farmer'. SUN John tells Ruth Sanderson about his struggle to become a SUN farmer and his hopes that his son will carry on his work. A SUN sense of humour has been essential he says and has even SUN inspired his latest endeavour - a joke book for farmers. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Lennard. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b071lcdj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b071lcdn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b071lh7q (Listen) SUN Modesty goes mainstream, Christian perspectives on the SUN Europe debate, Cardinal Pell faces his critics SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b071lh7s (Listen) SUN Brathay Trust SUN SUN Jeff Prestridge presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN Brathay Trust SUN Registered Charity No 1021586 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Brathay Trust' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Brathay Trust' SUN SUN Photo credit: Phil Ide. SUN SUN Brathay Trust SUN SUN Brathay Trust works with young people in their communities SUN and at residential centres in the Lake District. Many of SUN them are vulnerable; manging the transition from living in SUN care to independence, risking exploitation in unhealthy SUN relationships or lacking the confidence to find work or SUN training. All of them need support and inspiration to fulfil SUN their potential. SUN Less than half of the 10,000 young people leaving care in SUN the UK each year access training or find work. A third leave SUN care under the age of 18 and many will have poor mental SUN health. In 2016, our 70th anniversary year, Brathay is SUN fundraising to support those leaving care. Find out more at SUN www.brathay.org.uk\cyp SUN SUN Keenene SUN SUN Keenene, whose story you hear in the appeal, was his Mum’s SUN carer by the age of 8 and at 13 he was taken into care. SUN Brathay Trust youth workers met him when he joined the Going SUN Places programme to raise educational attainment for young SUN people in care. He went on to work part-time for the SUN charity supporting other young people like him. SUN SUN Changing Horizons SUN SUN Most of our programmes include a residential experience when SUN young people are taken out of their community to one of our SUN Lake District centres. For nearly all of them, being in a SUN new place and being challenged, is life-changing and this SUN shifts the way they see themselves and changes their SUN behaviour. SUN SUN Transforming Young Lives SUN SUN At Brathay we work with young people in groups encouraging SUN them to become aware of themselves and their situation, SUN empowering them to take control of their lives and then to SUN take action for themselves and others. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b071lcfl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b071lcfs (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b071lh7v (Listen) SUN Lent Pilgrimage 3: Becoming Present SUN SUN Whether our journey takes us out onto the road or deep into SUN reflection, how do we discern God's voice speaking to us? SUN The Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the SUN Methodist Church, reflects on how we can become more SUN attentive to God's presence around us. The Rev. Richard SUN Sharples leads the live service from Gresford Methodist SUN Church, Wrexham which includes SS. Wesley's 'Lead Me, Lord', SUN 'The Gift of Life' by John Rutter, and 'Take This Moment' by SUN John Bell and Graham Maule, sung by The Sirenian Singers, SUN directed by Jean Stanley-Jones. Accompanist: Christopher SUN Enston. SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN The Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley SUN SUN Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley is a Methodist minister and has been SUN Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist Church since 2007, SUN having studied at Oxford and Birmingham and then served in SUN churches in Swansea, Aberystwyth and Cardiff. His interests SUN are in historical and ecumenical theology and he has written SUN books on Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar. He is SUN married to Jenny, a priest in the Church in Wales, and they SUN have two grown up sons, Andrew and Crash. Stephen is a SUN regular contributor to religious programmes on BBC Radio SUN Wales and Radio 4. SUN SUN Lent Pilgrimage SUN SUN During Lent Radio 4’s Sunday Worship and Daily Service as SUN well as Sunday Breakfast on BBC local radio are taking the SUN idea of Pilgrimage as inspiration. A link to resources for SUN individuals and groups from Churches Together in Britain and SUN Ireland can be found below. SUN CBTI Lent Resources 2016 SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0717n96 (Listen) SUN Moral Futures SUN SUN Adam Gopnik thinks future generations will be as appalled by SUN some practices that are accepted today as we are by aspects SUN of the past. SUN SUN "Even as we condemn our moral ancestors, we need to hold our SUN ears to the wind, and listen for the faint sounds of our SUN descendants telling their melancholy truths about us." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b0378srp (Listen) SUN House Sparrow 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 Michaela Strachan presents the house sparrow. These birds SUN are more commonly found living alongside us than any other SUN British bird. Perhaps the most enterprising birds were the SUN House Sparrows which bred below ground in a working mine at SUN Frickley Colliery in Yorkshire. SUN SUN House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b071lcg5 (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 b071lmwc (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Caroline Harrington SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott 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 Ursula Titchener: Eleanor Bron SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b071lmwh (Listen) SUN Hugh Bonneville SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Hugh Bonneville. SUN SUN Known around the world for his portrayal of Lord Grantham in SUN ITV's hugely popular Downton Abbey, he made British SUN audiences laugh with his portrayal of the hapless Ian SUN Fletcher in the BBC comedies Twenty Twelve and W1A and SUN charmed audiences of all ages as Mr Brown in the animated SUN film, Paddington Bear. SUN SUN His immense range as an actor has ensured he's seldom been SUN out of work since joining the National Theatre in 1987, but SUN his thespian leanings started much earlier - writing, SUN performing & even creating tickets for his very own dramatic SUN productions - performed for his family at home. He was born SUN in London to a surgeon and a former nurse and grew up with SUN two older siblings. At 13 he went to boarding school where SUN he refused to let a teacher put him off his passion for SUN acting which he continued to pursue while doing a degree in SUN Theology at Cambridge. SUN SUN He chose an acting career over law, and following a brief SUN time at drama school, his first professional role was SUN "bashing a cymbal" in A Midsummer Night's Dream at London's SUN Regent's Park theatre in 1986. He joined the National the SUN following year and achieved his ambition of being a member SUN of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991. His television SUN debut was as a conman in the ITV drama Chancer and his first SUN appearance on the big screen was in Mary Shelley's SUN Frankenstein, directed by Kenneth Branagh. He appeared SUN opposite George Clooney in the 2014 film The Monuments Men SUN and was the voice of Father Christmas in the BBC's SUN adaptation of the Julia Donaldson picture book Stick Man. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Hugh Bonneville SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b071lcg8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b07142lx (Listen) SUN Series 74, Episode 1 SUN SUN New series. Paul Merton, Rufus Hound, Graham Norton and Pam SUN Ayres join Nicholas Parsons for another episode of the SUN classic panel show in which guests must try to speak on a SUN given topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation. SUN SUN Topics tackled this week include Optimism, Humble Pie and SUN The Isle of Man. SUN SUN Just a Minute is the world's longest running panel show, SUN still hosted after 49 years by the inimitable Nicholas SUN Parsons. Appearing in this run of 6 episodes are regulars SUN Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Graham Norton, Pam Ayres, Josie SUN Lawrence, Jenni Eclair, Gyles Brandreth and Tim Rice; while SUN Rufus Hound, Esther Rantzen and Nish Kumar make their first SUN appearances. SUN SUN Rufus Hound is an actor and comedian, best known for his SUN comic performances in One Man Two Guvnors and Dirty Rotten SUN Scoundrels. SUN SUN Esther Rantzen is of course well known to audiences as the SUN host of long running magazine programme That's Life, as well SUN as the founder of the charities ChildLine and The Silver SUN Line. SUN SUN Nish Kumar is a stand up and the host of NewsJack on Radio 4 SUN extra. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Rufus Hound SUN Panellist: Graham Norton SUN Panellist: Pam Ayres SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b071s6np (Listen) SUN Feeding India SUN SUN Dan Saladino explores the fierce debate over how 1.2bn SUN people will be fed in the future. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b071lcgg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b071lcgj (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Simon Schama: The Obliterators b071s6nr (Listen) SUN Simon Schama searches for a religious or political motive SUN behind the destruction of archaeological sites. SUN SUN Last year saw the unprecedented loss of treasured ancient SUN sites in Syria and Iraq. While the conflict and the terrible SUN human suffering it has caused remains the most important SUN issue, there is worldwide concern that temples in Palmyra, SUN the famous winged bulls and carvings of Nimrud, the fabulous SUN contents of the museum at Mosul and antiquities from SUN hundreds of other sites have been lost to the jackhammers SUN and bulldozers of so-called Islamic State. SUN SUN Simon Schama looks for an explanation for this violent spate SUN of iconoclasm. Can it be explained by religion? Would a SUN narrow reading of Islamic texts prompt such action? And, if SUN not religious, what might be the political or criminal SUN motive for destruction that pays no heed to history or SUN beauty? SUN SUN Simon also wonders if our own history of iconoclasm during SUN the Reformation has anything to teach us. SUN SUN Contributors include Dr Abdulkarim, director of antiquities SUN for Syria; Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East editor; John SUN Curtis, former keeper of Middle Eastern department at the SUN British Museum; the historian of religion Karen Armstrong; SUN and imam and Islamic scholar Osama Hasan. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0717lrx (Listen) SUN Royal Academy of Arts SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the SUN Royal Academy of Arts in London, coinciding with the SUN Painting the Modern Garden exhibition. SUN SUN Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and James Wong answer the SUN gardeners' questions - including how to get the most out of SUN your artichokes, how to puppy-proof gardens, and the SUN recommended fruit bushes for a front garden. SUN SUN We also follow James Wong as he takes in the Painting the SUN Modern Garden exhibition at the Academy. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – Our garden runs alongside a wood and in this wood are SUN various animals – rabbits, muntjac, deer etc – and our SUN hedges can’t keep them out. I have tried an electric fence SUN but it didn’t work in keeping them out. What can the panel SUN suggest to grow that the animals might not like? SUN SUN James – Grasses can handle being eaten right back and still SUN survive. Try *Arundo donax*, *panicums*, or* Miscanthu*, - SUN big, lush, fibrous grasses. SUN SUN Bunny – Stale urine is also good as a deterrent. Get a SUN night camera to see exactly where they are getting through SUN the fence/hedge and firm that area up. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have an allotment with south-facing raised beds with SUN gravelly clay. Three years ago I planted three ‘Gros Vert SUN de Laon’ Artichoke seeds in one bed. Two of them grew and SUN we harvested three or four last summer but both plants have SUN a tendency to be bushy and have lots of suckers. How do we SUN get more artichokes? SUN SUN Bob – Lots of well-rotted manure. And lots of water. Thin SUN the side shoots down to maybe three or four main ones (to SUN avoid congestion). In the first year never let them flower SUN as it weakens the plants for the future. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve been puppy walking for guide dogs for the past few SUN years and, as a consequence, our garden is now wrecked. Any SUN advice? SUN SUN Bob – Go over to grass with trees standing in it – that way SUN they can’t do too much damage. Put your plants in raised SUN vases on pedestals. SUN SUN Bunny – Dogs, like children, love to be entertained so think SUN about toys. There are some sophisticated things out there, SUN like bubble machines that blast out beef-flavoured bubbles! SUN Have a limited space that you devote to the dogs – bury SUN bones for them, put toys in there, make it really SUN attractive. Then demarcate your beds with a low hedge or SUN fence and train the dogs not to follow you over the SUN borders. SUN SUN SUN Q – I live in a terraced house with a north-facing front SUN garden. I want to put in a new wall with hedge over the top SUN – what suit of fruit, berry, or nut bushes could you SUN recommend? SUN SUN James – ‘Japanese Quince’ – often planted as short, tightly SUN packed shrubs, and they will give you delicious small fruit SUN too. SUN SUN Bob – Nuts tend to get a bit big so I’d avoid that. I’ve got SUN a small one that is, after 20 years, still 10-15ft either SUN way. There is an English native called *Cornus mas* that SUN would be good, it has yellow flowers and red berries. Or a SUN ‘Japanese Wineberry’. SUN SUN Bunny – You could try a mixed hedge of gooseberries, red SUN currants, black currants, blackberries. It would take a bit SUN of managing to keep it looking good but it’d be lovely, and SUN tasty! For pure aesthetics I’d go for a Medlar, in SUN particular the ‘Iranian Medlar’. SUN SUN SUN Q – I live in a mews house with a huge Honeysuckle on it. SUN It has roots in the ground and it flowers all year round. SUN However, its beauty is skin deep and beneath the flowers SUN there are lots of dead branches – I am afraid it’s a bit of SUN a mess and might be hazardous. Do I need to do anything? SUN SUN SUN James – I think you can cut back – just don’t be too drastic SUN or you’ll miss out on flowers. If you chop too quickly you SUN change the plant’s hormone make up to focus more on growth SUN than flowers. So go slowly. SUN SUN Bunny – I’d be tempted to do now so you then get the massive SUN spring growth. Give it a good feed and water afterwards. SUN SUN Bob – Never cut anything old back too hard without something SUN to grow back with. So lots of feed and water while it grows SUN back. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve had to cut down a 50-year-old Magnolia tree from SUN our front garden as it was implicated in subsidence in a SUN neighbour’s property. Now I need a replacement – what can SUN you suggest? SUN SUN Bunny – if you love grandifloras they will grow well in an SUN air pot which would restrict its root growth. SUN SUN James – There is an evergreen substitute that you could just SUN about get away with in London – and that’s a grapefruit! SUN I’ve also seen avocados in London, so why not experiment. SUN SUN Bob – You’ve had a tree there and you’ve removed it so I SUN would avoid another tree. Try something quick and SUN impressive – think about making a pyramid structure up which SUN you could grow some climbing roses up it. SUN SUN SUN Q – If you were an artist like Monet what flower would you SUN choose for your painting? SUN SUN Bob – Peonies. SUN SUN Bunny – Maybe Lily-of-the-Valley SUN SUN James – I’d go with the water lilies like Monet did. In SUN Monet’s day there was an explosion of the first ever water SUN lilies coming in that weren’t *Nymphaea alba *– the native, SUN northern European form that was very invasive – and Monet SUN was of the first generation to have these wonderful new SUN cross-species. And now, we are having a renaissance of SUN water lilies so I’d go for them! SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b071s6nt (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about a mother's death SUN and a much loved stepmother, a father's suicide, and sons SUN who took their own lives, in the Omnibus edition of the SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN 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 BBC Action Line Information and Support SUN Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide SUN exists to meet the needs and break the isolation of those SUN bereaved by the suicide of a close relative or friend. SUN Phone: 0300 111 5065 (9am to 9pm daily) SUN www.uk-sobs.org.uk SUN Cruse Bereavement Care SUN provides support after the death of someone close including SUN face to face, telephone, group support, as well as SUN bereavement support for children. SUN Phone: 0844 477 9400 (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) SUN 0845 600 2227 (Scotland) SUN www.cruse.org.uk SUN Child Bereavement UK SUN supports families when a baby or child of any age dies or is SUN dying, or when a child is facing bereavement. SUN Phone: 0800 02 888 40 SUN www.childbereavementuk.org SUN The Child Death Helpline SUN offers support to anyone affected by the death of a child of SUN any age, from prebirth to adult, under any circumstances, SUN however recently or long ago. SUN Phone: 0800 282 986 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) SUN www.childdeathhelpline.org.uk SUN Winston's Wish SUN provides of services to bereaved children, young people and SUN their families and offer practical support and guidance to SUN anyone concerned about a grieving child. SUN Phone: 08452 03 04 05 SUN www.winstonswish.org.uk SUN PAPYRUS SUN offer support, practical advice and information to young SUN people considering suicide and can also offer help and SUN advice if you’re concerned about someone you know. SUN Phone: 0800 068 41 41 SUN www.papyrus-uk.org SUN Samaritans SUN is available 24 hours a day for anyone struggling to cope SUN and provide a safe place to talk where calls are completely SUN confidential. SUN Phone: 116 123 SUN Email: SUN jo@samaritans.org SUN www.samaritans.org SUN SUN 15:00 Riot Girls b071s6nz (Listen) SUN The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Episode 2 SUN SUN by Fay Weldon, adapted by Joy Wilkinson. A darkly comic SUN fairy tale about revenge, sex and power. SUN SUN Ruth's campaign to punish her husband and his mistress is SUN well-advanced, and now she will still stop at nothing to get SUN the life, and the body, she desires. 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 Credits SUN Ruth: Hattie Morahan SUN Bobbo: Barnaby Kay SUN Mary Fisher: Lyndsey Marshal SUN Judge Bissop: Brian Protheroe SUN Father Ferguson: Edward MacLiam SUN Mrs Fisher: Susan Jameson SUN Nicola: Evie Killip SUN Andy: Leo Wan SUN Ghengis: Trevor White SUN Vickie: Rebecca Hamilton SUN Policeman: Sean Baker SUN Author: Fay Weldon SUN Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson SUN Director: Abigail le Fleming SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b071s6p5 (Listen) SUN Graham Swift on Mothering Sunday SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Graham Swift, whose new SUN book Mothering Sunday is set all on one day in March 1924. SUN Traditionally domestic staff were sent home on Mother's Day SUN but the heroine of this novel, a housemaid who is also an SUN orphan, spends the afternoon with her secret lover. The SUN events that unfold shape her life. SUN Also on the programme, a guide to the best books about envy SUN and two authors discuss why they were inspired to write SUN historical fiction about the whaling industry. SUN Adrian Searle of Freight Books gives his reading SUN recommendation for March. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Graham Swift SUN Interviewed Guest: Adrian Searle SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b071s6pd (Listen) SUN Fox Running SUN SUN Roger McGough presents the late Ken Smith's reading of his SUN long poem, Fox Running. The recording of this urgent, SUN driving poem about a man adrift in the city was made on SUN cassette tape and given to the programme by Ken's wife Judi SUN Benson. Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poem SUN SUN Fox Running (Abridged version) SUN SUN by Ken Smith SUN SUN Published by Bloodaxe SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b07178gc (Listen) SUN Dementia: What Do We Know? SUN SUN It's estimated there are around 620,000 people in England SUN with dementia. Prime minister David Cameron says fighting SUN the disease is a personal priority and doctors in England SUN have been encouraged to proactively identify people with SUN early stage dementia. SUN SUN The PM says that an early diagnosis allows families to SUN prepare for the care of a relative, but others argue there's SUN no treatment for such a diagnosis and no robust evidence to SUN justify a process that might lead to harm. Deborah Cohen SUN hears from doctors who are concerned the drive to raise SUN diagnosis rates is leading to people being misdiagnosed. SUN SUN The Government has also pledged millions of pounds to help SUN make England "the best place in the world to undertake SUN research into dementia and other neuro-degenerative SUN diseases". Scientists leading the research say they are SUN making progress to find tests which could identify people at SUN risk from the disease and develop a cure. But other SUN researchers say money is being wasted because current SUN directions in drug development are following the same path SUN as those of the past which have ended in failure. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b071gwdv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b071lcgm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b071lcgp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b071lcgr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b071s6pq (Listen) SUN John McCarthy SUN SUN John McCarthy is picking this week's highlights from BBC SUN radio including stories of top journalism that help put the SUN world to rights and put the present and past in sharp and SUN welcome focus. SUN Modern technology, it keeps us in touch - but are personal SUN communications becoming virtual rather than real - can a SUN text replace a hug? SUN Stress-inducing incidents and stress-busting activities. SUN Pele's football boots - where are they now? SUN And who was George Martin producing just before he took on SUN the Beatles? SUN SUN Pick of the Week production team : Kevin Mousley, Kay SUN Bishton and Elodie Chatelain. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b071s6ps (Listen) SUN Bert looks back to the floods of a year ago. And Toby bends SUN Lilian's ear. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01rr48h (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth presides over the comedy panel game where SUN Katy Brand and Alex Horne compete against Richard Herring SUN and Natalie Haynes to find out who knows more about words. SUN SUN This week Katy Brand reveals an unexpected love of Proverbs SUN in the Old Testament and takes a guess at what 'cougar SUN juice' meant at the turn of the 20th century; Richard SUN Herring explains why his favourite West County word from his SUN schooldays is 'wasp'; Natalie Haynes guesses the meaning of SUN the German word 'zechpreller' which has no direct SUN translation in English, and Alex Horne coins his very own SUN onomatopoeia to describe a snowflake landing on a bubble. 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 Leap b071s6q8 (Listen) SUN Leapers SUN SUN Commissioned to mark Leap Day, Richard Beard's story follows SUN Martin Pitter as he decides to go for a walk along Beachy SUN Head on 29th February 2016, to contemplate the implications SUN of this extra day. SUN SUN Written by Richard Beard SUN Read by Stuart McLoughlin SUN SUN Produced by Jill Waters SUN A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Richard Beard SUN Reader: Stuart McLoughlin SUN Producer: Jill Waters SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0717ls1 (Listen) SUN EU coverage, Diversity SUN SUN Roger Bolton with listener questions and comments on the EU SUN referendum coverage, BBC diversity, stultifying sport and SUN the continued furore over Rob and Helen in The Archers. SUN SUN With the EU referendum date set and the battle between SUN 'leave' and 'remain' set to dominate the headlines until SUN June, the BBC's Chief Political Adviser Ric Bailey joins SUN Feedback to address listeners' questions about how the SUN referendum is being covered. Is the BBC biased on EU SUN membership? Is the story being told too much as a battle in SUN the Conservative party? And should pollsters be trusted now SUN after failures at the general election? SUN SUN Gaile Walters and Keon West first appeared on Feedback 18 SUN months ago, when they were being trained as part of the SUN BBC's Expert Voices scheme, which aimed to get experts from SUN more diverse backgrounds into BBC programmes. They return to SUN the programme this week to discuss how they've faired since SUN the training, and whether the BBC is doing enough to improve SUN the diversity of its radio output. SUN SUN Commentators on radio sport often find themselves in the SUN position of having to keep listeners entertained even when SUN the game is not delivering any action. Feedback reporter Rob SUN Crossan speaks to Test Match Special's Jonathan Agnew and 5 SUN Live football commentator Ian Dennis to discover how they SUN find ways to fill air time even if on field events are not SUN up to scratch. SUN SUN And finally, in last week's programme Roger asked listeners SUN for their views on the ongoing Archers' story about Rob SUN Titchener's abuse of his wife Helen. The response has been SUN enormous, as listeners grapple with the question of whether SUN the story is too important to miss, or too unsettling to SUN air. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Dixon SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b071fnwb (Listen) SUN Alex Timpson, Lord Avebury, Douglas Slocombe, Umberto Eco, SUN Pascal Bentoiu SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Alex Timpson, who fostered ninety children over thirty years SUN and helped shape the ethos of the family key cutting and SUN shoe repair business. SUN SUN Douglas Slocombe, the Oscar nominated cinematographer who SUN shot films from Kind and Hearts and Coronets to Indiana SUN Jones. SUN SUN Umberto Eco the Italian academic and best selling author SUN whose works include "The Name Of The Rose". SUN SUN And the liberal peer Lord Avebury who, as Eric Lubbock, won SUN a famous by election victory in Orpington and devoted his SUN life to campaigning for human rights. SUN SUN Lord Avebury SUN Born 29 September 1928; Died 14 February 2016. Aged 87 SUN SUN Douglas Slocombe SUN Born 10 February 1913; Died 22 February 2016. Aged 103 SUN SUN Alex Timpson SUN Born 25 April 1946; Died 5 January 2016. Aged 69 SUN SUN SUN Umberto Eco SUN Born 5 January 1932; Died 19 February 2016. Aged 84 SUN SUN Pascal Bentoiu SUN Born 22 April 1927; Died 21 February 2016. Aged 88 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0713p7s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b071lh7s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b071459c (Listen) SUN Multiculturalism: Newham v Leicester SUN SUN How are councils in two of the UK's most multicultural SUN places managing diversity? Back in the 1970s, the Labour SUN party developed a model of working with ethnic minority and SUN faith community groups to help new immigrants to Britain SUN settle in. Presenter Sonia Sodha, a British Asian SUN journalist, explores how this has worked in Leicester, a SUN city often held up as a beacon of diversity. Has it led to SUN more integration - or less? And does a radical new approach SUN being trialled in Newham - the most diverse place in Britain SUN - offer any lessons? SUN SUN Sonia Sodha is chief leader writer of The Observer and a SUN former Labour party aide. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b071lcgw (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b071s6qn (Listen) SUN Miranda Green analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0717j1w (Listen) SUN The Oscars, A video shop in Greenland SUN SUN With Antonia Quirke. SUN SUN Clare Binns and Tim Robey assess the runners and riders in SUN this year's Academy Awards SUN SUN Antonia talks to Nikolene, an Inuit in Greenland, about why SUN her local video shop is still popular, especially in Winter, SUN and hears from Simon Brzeskwinski, whose decision to close SUN his video shop, Video City, in Notting Hill led to very SUN public displays of grief. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Clare Binns SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Robey SUN Interviewed Guest: Nikolene SUN Interviewed Guest: Simon Brzeskwinski SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b071lfkd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b071lcjt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0717b5n (Listen) MON Refusing adulthood, How young people feel about being poor MON MON Refusing adulthood. Laurie Taylor talks to Susan Neiman, the MON American moral philosopher, who asks, if and why, some MON people refuse to grow up. She argues that being an adult MON allows the opportunity for agency and independence rather MON than signalling decline. Yet a modern tendency to idolise MON youth prevents us from seeing the rewards of maturity. MON They're joined by the writer, Michael Bywater, who wonders MON if we inhabit a culture of creeping infantilisation. MON MON Also, how children and young people feel about being poor. MON Rys Farthing, social policy researcher, explores how young MON people living in low-income neighbourhoods feel about their MON own lives, using data generated as part of a participatory MON policy project with five groups of young people, aged 11-21. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Susan Neiman at the Einstein Forum in Germany MON Michael Bywater, writer and broadcaster MON Rys Farthing MON 'Big Babies' by Michael Bywater (Granta, 2006) MON Rys Farthing's article, " MON *What's Wrong with Being Poor? The Problems of Poverty, as MON Young People Describe them*. MON " (published in the journal "Children and Society", 2014) MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b071lfk3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b071lck0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b071lck3 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b071lck6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b071lck8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072p0wc (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon MON Dr Sarah Rowland Jones, Priest in charge of the City Parish MON of St John the Baptist, Cardiff. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b071s7qk (Listen) MON Lambing MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b071lckc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztpd (Listen) MON Great Tit 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 David Attenborough presents the story of the Great Tit. That MON metallic 'tea-cher, tea-cher' song of the great tit is MON instantly recognisable and you can hear it on mild days from MON mid-December onwards. It's the origin of the old country MON name, 'Saw-Sharpener'. MON MON Great Tit (Parus major) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b071skp3 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b071skp5 (Listen) MON Nature or Nurture? MON MON On Start the Week Mary-Ann Sieghart asks why some people MON succeed while others fail. She talks to the journalist Helen MON Pearson about the Life Project, a study of the health, MON wellbeing and life chances of thousands of British children, MON started in 1946. The television producer Joseph Bullman also MON charts a series of families back to the Victorian times to MON look at social mobility through the generations. The MON psychologist Oliver James wades into the nature/ nurture MON debate by arguing that we are the result of our environment MON and upbringing, but the scientist Marcus Munafò says there MON is increasing evidence of genetic links to who we are and MON what we do. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mary Ann Sieghart MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Pearson MON Interviewed Guest: Oliver James MON Interviewed Guest: Marcus Munafo MON Interviewed Guest: Joseph Bullman MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b071skp7 (Listen) MON The Real Henry James, Europe v America MON MON Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a MON great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews MON and essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the MON centenary of his death, these five anthologies reveal James MON through his letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks. MON MON Episode 1: Europe versus America. MON Was James English or American? The British tend to regard MON him as American, the Americans as British. Although born in MON America, James's wealthy, eccentric father moved the family MON around constantly - to France, England, Switzerland, Boston MON - so the young James never felt settled in America. In fact, MON Henry James lived more of his life in his adopted country of MON England than in his native America. At the end of his life, MON he took British nationality in 1915 as a gesture of MON solidarity and as a protest against American neutrality in MON the First World War. But in some ways he always remained an MON outsider, and felt an outsider in both cultures. MON MON James' writing gives us an insight into both societies. MON After he'd settled in London he composed a negative MON catalogue about his homeland - the tone hovers somewhere MON between real critique and self-mockery of the Englishman's MON snobbery about Americans. MON MON The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of MON University College London, who is founding General Editor of MON a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has MON re-transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new MON edition. MON MON Reader: Henry Goodman MON With introductions by Olivia Williams MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke MON A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Olivia Williams MON Reader: Henry Goodman MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b071skp9 (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b071skpc (Listen) MON Jane Eyre, Episode 1 MON MON Award winning writer Rachel Joyce dramatises this MON beloved novel for the bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte MON Bronte's birth. MON A fantastic mix of injustice, romance, passion and danger MON wrapped MON up in a glorious love story. MON MON Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale MON MON Award winning writer Rachel Joyce and Producer Tracey Neale MON are the team that brought The Professor, Villette and MON Shirley to the Radio 4 airwaves. And now MON for the bicentenary celebrations it is time for the most MON beloved of Charlotte's novels - Jane Eyre. MON MON Starring Amanda Hale (Ripper Street, The White Queen and MON Catastrophe) and Tom Burke (The Musketeers and War and MON Peace) the chemistry between the two as they play Jane and MON Rochester is both sparkling and spell binding. MON MON Credits MON Jane: Amanda Hale MON Rochester: Tom Burke MON Mrs Fairfax: Susan Jameson MON Young Jane: Nell Venables MON John Reed: Tom Taylor MON Mrs Reed: Tracy Wiles MON Bessie: Katie Redford MON Brocklehurst: Gerard McDermott MON Helen Burns: Rebecca Hamilton MON Grace Poole: Debra Baker MON Blanche Ingram: Evie Killip MON Mason: Ewan Bailey MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Producer: Tracey Neale MON Author: Charlotte Bronte MON Adaptor: Rachel Joyce MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr76j (Listen) MON Stacey Jackson: Chasing Dreams MON MON Grace Dent follows pop star and mum Stacey Jackson as she MON launches a career in business. MON MON Stacey Jackson is no ordinary working mum - she's a MON successful pop star with a very wealthy husband. But for MON Stacey, that's not enough. She's about to launch a career in MON business. Why does she keep chasing new dreams when she MON already has all the money anyone could wish for? MON MON Producer: Sara Parker. MON MON 11:30 Dot b071skpf (Listen) MON The Extraordinary Example of the Ha'penny Exchange MON MON by Ed Harris MON MON New comic adventures with Dot and the gals from personnel. A MON little East End snotling has infiltrated the Cabinet War MON Rooms. But Dot's got important propaganda work to do. How MON will she dispose of the little gremlin, whilst MON simultaneously concocting a stirring, yet pithy slogan for MON the war effort? For King and country, she'll bally well try! 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 Ha'penny: Alicia Ambrose-Bayly MON Matron: Susan Jameson MON Right Honourable Washtunrub: Sean Baker MON Director: Jessica Brown MON Producer: Jessica Brown MON Writer: Ed Harris MON MON 12:00 News Summary b071lckp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b071skph (Listen) MON Winged-Bull of Nineveh MON MON The Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 MON antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or MON looted in Iraq and Syria. MON MON With hundreds of thousands of lives lost, millions of people MON displaced and some of the world's most significant heritage MON sites destroyed, the wars in Iraq and Syria have had an MON enormous cost. While the historical artefacts that have been MON bombed, defaced and plundered can never be restored - they MON are very well remembered. Through local histories, legends MON and personal stories, the Museum of Lost Objects recreates MON these lost treasures and explores their significance across MON generations and cultures, from creation to destruction. MON MON The winged-bull was a huge 2,700 year old sculpture that MON stood guard at the gates of one of the most fabled cities in MON antiquity - Nineveh, in modern day Mosul, northern Iraq. MON Militants from the Islamic State group defaced the MON winged-bull in February 2015, almost a year after seizing MON control of the city. We tell the story of the bull and the MON role of Nineveh in the origins of Iraqi archaeology. MON MON Contributors: Mazin Safar, son of Iraqi archaeologist Fuad MON Safar; Mark Altaweel, Institute of Archaeology, UCL; and MON Iraqi archaeologist Lamia al-Gailani, SOAS MON MON Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor MON Producer: Maryam Maruf MON MON Picture: Winged-Bull of Nineveh, drawn by Eugène Flandin MON Credit: The New York Public Library MON MON With thanks to Nigel Tallis and Sarah Collins of the British MON Museum, and Augusta McMahon of the University of Cambridge. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b071lcks (Listen) MON Facebook cloning, Air passenger duty, Travelling during MON pregnancy MON MON One of the biggest complaints from Facebook users is their MON difficulty in trying to report fake or bullying profiles to MON the company and You and Yours has received a number of MON e-mails from listeners who have had their Facebook profiles MON cloned. In the case of Sue Henning, criminals copied her MON Facebook profile and then used it to try and get money out MON of her friends. Sue tells us her story. Winifred is also MON joined by computer security expert Graham Cluley who is a MON computer security expert who gives advice on how to spot the MON fake Facebook accounts. MON MON The easyFoodstore 25p trial comes to an end today but the MON store will continue to trade through March and April with a MON reduced range of items priced at 29p each. Opened with great MON fanfare at the beginning of February, within 48 hours MON Stellios's latest business venture was forced to close MON because it had run out of stock. When it reopened a couple MON of days later, customers were told that they could buy no MON more than ten of any one product. The easyFoodstore's slogan MON is "No expensive brands. Just food honestly priced." But has MON it found a successful business model? Carolyn Atkinson is MON inside the pilot store in North West London with Richard MON Shackleton, Director of Communications at EasyGroup. MON MON Some large companies insist that their smaller suppliers MON sign up with a so-called Portal, or middle-man, who will MON handle payments. But according to the Federation of Small MON Businesses, many of their members are being forced to sign MON punitive contracts with Portal companies. Susie Maynard MON talks about how her business suffered at the hands of one of MON these middle-men. Tim Coleman from the Federation of Small MON Businesses also discusses the problem. MON MON Many people are turning to Massive Open Online Courses MON (MOOCs), many of which are being offered by top MON universities. MOOCs are available in 'free' and a 'paid' MON versions. If you pay for one of these courses, you receive a MON certificate when you complete it. But is this certificate - MON costing anything from £30 to £200 - worth the money? MON E-learning expert Donald Clark takes a look. MON MON From the 1st March, Air Passenger Duty on Economy air MON tickets for all children under 16 is being abolished. Last MON May, the Chancellor removed Air Passenger Duty for children MON under 12 but he caught the the airlines slightly on the hop MON as he'd given them less than six months to change their MON ticketing systems. This meant that parents had to apply for MON refunds as the tax was not automatically removed during the MON booking process. Having had over a year to get ready for the MON removal of Air Passenger Duty for 12 to 16 year olds, why MON have some airlines still not managed to change their MON ticketing software? This means that some parents do not know MON that they have to apply for a refund. Winifred talks to MON Hannah Maundrell, a personal finance expert from MON money.co.uk. MON MON If you are pregnant and travelling on public transport, the MON charity of fellow passengers in offering up their seat can MON be a little bit hit-and-miss. Nina Warhurst, whose baby is MON due in April, has been on trains, trams, buses and tubes, to MON find out how well pregnant women are being looked after when MON they travel. MON MON 12:57 Weather b071lckw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b071skpk (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b071skpm (Listen) MON Ramanujan: The Elbow of Genius MON MON Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the mathematician MON Srinivasa Ramanujan. MON MON We are accustomed to mathematicians as enigmatic beings, but MON the case of Ramanujan, one of the most important MON mathematicians of the twentieth century, is particularly MON mysterious. His life seems to be have been spun from the MON stuff of fiction and film. It's told most often as a tale of MON a deeply religious, largely self-taught savant, rescued from MON an obscure south Indian town and brought to Cambridge by a MON don - where, just as his world changing potential was being MON unlocked, he died at the age of 32, leaving his greatest MON insights still secret. MON MON This idealistic narrative - cut with various quantities of MON exoticism and the miraculous, depending on the teller - even MON involves some lost notebooks, dramatically rediscovered MON decades later, and a cryptic but ultimately revelatory MON deathbed letter. MON MON In most re-tellings, the maths are merely a backdrop to the MON drama and tragedy. But Ramanujan's theoretical discoveries MON are recognized today as being at the forefront of the MON discipline: with implications for scientists at the cutting MON edge of cancer research as well as physicists trying to MON understand the deepest structures of the universe. MON MON Featuring Professor Ken Ono. MON MON Readings by Sagar Arya. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b071s6ps (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b071sn29 (Listen) MON Pilgrim, Clennan Court MON MON By Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON MON William Palmer has been betrayed by evil magician Morgan MON Hambleton. He promised to track him down but so far has done MON nothing, much to the anger of the King of the Greyfolk MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON Credits MON Pilgrim: Paul Hilton MON Laura: Adie Allen MON Coral: Cassie Layton MON Delancey: David Schofield MON Frances: Nicola Ferguson MON Mrs Greeves: Susan Jameson MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b071sn2c (Listen) MON Heat 8, 2016 MON MON (8/17) MON Russell Davies puts another four would-be Brains of Britain MON through the toughest general knowledge test of them all. MON Which is the hottest planet in the solar system? Who painted MON the notorious 80th birthday portrait of Sir Winston MON Churchill, which he hated and which his widow destroyed MON after his death? What type of well is named after a region MON of France near the modern border with Belgium? MON MON The winner today is assured a place in the semi-finals which MON begin after Easter - but all of the competitors will be MON going for as many points as they can, as the top-scoring MON runners-up across the series also go through. MON MON A listener will also be challenging the competitors with his MON or her own questions, in an attempt to Beat the Brains. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b071s6np (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Arts Exodus b071sn2f (Listen) MON What does an artistic presence mean to a community - is it MON the character and lifeblood of an area or the death knell MON for affordable housing? The artist and writer Deborah MON Coughlin examines the impact of gentrification, through her MON own experience and that of other artists in different cities MON and locations from London to Berlin, New York to Margate. MON MON When she left art college in 2000, Deborah couldn't afford MON even the smallest bedsit in an area like Shoreditch, after MON artists like Tracey Emin had made the area desirable in the MON previous decade. She found a place further out of central MON London - in Clapton, with its reputation as 'murder mile'. MON Now Clapton is one of the most gentrified areas in East MON London and she has moved on. MON MON So where can artists, particularly those at the beginning of MON their careers, afford to live and work? Deborah meets some MON in Margate, Kent, where there is a growing community of MON artists who are bringing the dying seaside town back to MON life. "There is space to grow in Margate, not just MON affordable studio space but space to think," says one. MON MON In New York she finds the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council MON was funded 40 years ago to breathe life into the financial MON district and talks to the artist Sophie Matisse MON (great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse), who came to New York MON from Paris 25 years ago. MON MON In Berlin, urban planner Dr Cordelia Polinna tells how the MON city uses rent and planning controls to keep accommodation MON affordable, but still fears the city will go "the same way MON as London". MON MON Meanwhile, the Greater London Authority recognises the value MON of artists to the capital's economy and tourism - and is MON trying to work with developers to build in studio space. MON MON Producer: Sara Parker MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b071sn2h (Listen) MON Saudi Arabia MON MON The UK's ties with Saudi Arabia have come under growing MON strain in recent months over how to balance human rights MON concerns with the government's desire to promote a crucial MON trade and investment relationship. The Arab state sits on MON more than a quarter of the world's known oil reserves, MON making it one of the richest countries in the Middle East MON and a vital strategic partner to many Western nations. It is MON also home to the birthplace of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad MON and the cradle of Islam. Its rulers espouse a strict version MON of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism. The Wahhabi MON interpretation of Islamic law includes harsh punishments MON such as public beheadings and restrictions on women. How did MON Wahhabism gain so much influence in the country? What, in MON turn, has been its effect on the stability of the region and MON the wider world? MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b071lcl5 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b071lcl7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b071sn2k (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 2 MON MON Gyles Brandreth, Tim Rice & Esther Rantzen join Paul Merton MON and Nicholas Parsons as they try to speak without deviation, MON hesitation or repetition on such diverse subjects as Bubble MON & Squeak, Kiwis and A Leap Year in the classic panel game. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Tim Rice MON Panellist: Esther Rantzen MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b071sn2m (Listen) MON Blossom Hill is alive with the sound of interfering. David MON and Pip are busy shearing. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b071lclc (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b071skpc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Europe: Strangers on My Doorstep b071sx1d (Listen) MON A Swedish Tale MON MON Sweden received more asylum seekers per capita than any MON other country last year. But an open borders policy was MON slowly rowed back as accommodation started to run out and MON the authorities struggled to cope with the arrival of so MON many newcomers. MON MON It's not just cities like Stockholm and Malmo that have seen MON an influx of newcomers. Ånge is a community of 9,000 people MON in the north of Sweden which is now home to 1,000 asylum MON seekers. An hour's drive away from the nearest big city, MON it's a place of picturesque natural beauty, but where in MON winter the sun sets as early as 2.30 in the afternoon and MON temperatures can plunge to as low as -30C. MON MON In this programme, Keith Moore spends time in the community MON with locals and asylum seekers and tries to find out how one MON remote place copes with a big change change in such a short MON space of time. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b071sx1h (Listen) MON Labour and the Bomb MON MON Jeremy Corbyn's opposition to the renewal of Britain's MON nuclear deterrent has opened up divisions within the Labour MON Party that run very deep. The issue will come to a head when MON Parliament votes on whether to replace the Trident weapons MON system, following a recommendation from the Government. MON While Labour formally reviews its position, will Corbyn be MON able avoid a damaging split that beset the party in the MON 1980s? MON MON It was a Labour government which decided to make Britain a MON nuclear power. "We've got to have this thing, whatever it MON costs. We've got to have a bloody Union Jack on top of it," MON declared Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary in the postwar MON Labour government. Ever since that decision in 1946, the MON question of whether to keep 'the bomb' has divided the party MON between those who believe it is the cornerstone of Britain's MON defence policy within NATO and others who have long MON campaigned to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Twice before MON in Opposition the party has opted for unilateral MON disarmament, only for the policy to be reversed after a MON period of acrimonious debate and electoral defeat. MON MON In this programme, the veteran political reporter John MON Sergeant examines Labour's troubled relationship with the MON bomb. Former party leader Neil Kinnock and other senior MON figures reflect on how the party discarded unilateralism in MON the late 1980s and offer advice on what lessons can be MON learned. Can Jeremy Corbyn overcome opposition with the MON Parliamentary Labour Party to changing the official policy MON of multilateral disarmament? Does his recent suggestion of MON maintaining submarines without nuclear missiles satisfy MON those who want Britain to disarm come what may? MON MON Producer: Peter Snowdon. MON MON 21:00 Cancer Moonshot b0714mbw (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON President Obama in his State of the Nation address in MON January 2016 announced a "Moonshot" effort to beat cancer. MON His vice-president Joe Biden is in charge of mission MON control, and for Biden, it's personal - his son Beau died MON from brain cancer last year at the age of 46. But there's a MON sense of déjà-vu about this new Moonshot - President Nixon MON declared war on cancer in 1971. MON More than 40 years later, clearly the war is still not won - MON but what has it achieved? MON MON GP Dr Graham Easton tells the story of philanthropist Mary MON Lasker whose campaigning influenced Nixon to start his War MON on Cancer. He hears how the Cancer Plan brought in MON mathematicians and physicists who had worked on the MON Manhattan Project and for NASA to find cures for cancer. MON Curing cancer turned out to be a much harder problem than MON landing men on the moon. MON MON Graham Easton looks back at the treatments available in the MON 1970s and asks if the War on Cancer lead to improved MON therapies. MON In the last forty years the outlook for some cancers, such MON as childhood leukaemia and testicular cancer, has improved MON markedly, but would these developments have happened without MON Nixon's campaign? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b071skp5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b071lclm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b071lclq (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b071sx1k (Listen) MON We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Episode 1 MON MON Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her MON sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there MON were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic found MON its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of MON the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat MON protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the MON villagers. MON MON "If you haven't read We Have Always Lived In The Castle you MON are missing out." Neil Gaiman. MON MON "Her greatest book...at once whimsical and harrowing." Donna MON Tartt. MON MON "A masterpiece of Gothic suspense." Joyce Carol Oates. MON MON Shirley Jackson, who died 50 years ago, was perhaps best MON known for her short story, The Lottery, and her novel, The MON Haunting Of Hill House, twice filmed and thought to be the MON last word in haunted-house tales. Her work has received MON increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. MON She has influenced such writers as Stephen King and Nigel MON Kneale. MON MON Reader: Bryony Hannah MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Bryony Hannah MON Author: Shirley Jackson MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b0714nj0 (Listen) MON Talking or Texting? MON MON We take it for granted that we can maintain our friendships MON and family relationships now in so many ways: phone, MON voicemail, email, text, instant message, Facebook, Skype.. MON but do we have any idea of the effects of these very MON different modes of communication? Michael Rosen and Dr Laura MON Wright look at research into their emotional impact. MON Leslie Seltzer is Research Associate at the University of MON Wisconsin-Madison, and has tested the differing effects of a MON hug, a phone call and a text between mothers and daughters. MON Dr Mirca Madianou is Reader in Media and Communications at MON Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research is into MON mothers from the Philippines who've come to work in the UK MON and then try to look after their children back home by MON Skype. What works best for families living on different MON sides of the world? MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b071sx1m (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 MARCH 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b071lcqd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b071skp7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b071lcqg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b071lcqj (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b071lcqn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b071lcqq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072p0y3 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon TUE Dr Sarah Rowland Jones, Priest in charge of the City Parish TUE of St John the Baptist, Cardiff. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b071syrt (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 b01s89gk (Listen) TUE Song Thrush TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David TUE Attenborough presents the Song Thrush. The male's song in TUE the dawn chorus includes a repertoire of over a hundred TUE different phrases making it one of the richest songs of any TUE British Bird. TUE TUE Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b071t8qb (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 b071t8qd (Listen) TUE George Davey-Smith TUE TUE Professor George Davey Smith of Bristol University talks to TUE Jim al-Khalili about why some of us have long healthy lives TUE and others don't. Is it down to social class or genetics? TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b071t8qg (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson talks to Hannah Witton 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, where journalists and presenters TUE are urged to use the one-letter vertical word. Bloggers, TUE Vloggers and Tweeters lay out 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. TUE TUE Hannah Witton is a history graduate who has been a prolific TUE vlogger, blogger and tweeter since her early twenties. She TUE talks to Mark about making her life, her views and beliefs, TUE ups and downs, all available for public consumption on the TUE net. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b072n0k7 (Listen) TUE The Real Henry James, Dining Out in English Society TUE TUE Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a TUE great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews TUE and essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the TUE centenary of his death, these five anthologies reveal James TUE through his letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks. TUE TUE Episode 2: Dining Out in English Society TUE Entertaining glimpses of English society through the sharp TUE eyes of an American observer. James was an inveterate TUE diner-out, and once managed 107 dinners in a season. He left TUE sharp observations of the people he met at dinner, including TUE the great writers of the day: TUE TUE "The chattering and self-complacent Robert Browning, who I TUE am sorry to say, does not make on me a purely agreeable TUE impression. His transparent eagerness to hold the monopoly TUE of the conversation and a sort of shrill interruptingness TUE which distinguishes him have in them a kind of vulgarity." TUE TUE For James, dining-out wasn't just a chance to meet TUE celebrities - it gave him stories which became the plots in TUE his novels. At one dinner, for instance, he heard the story TUE of a family lawsuit which became The Spoils of Poynton. We TUE hear the excited letter outlining the plot and characters TUE for the novel which have struck him at the dinner table. TUE TUE The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of TUE University College London, who is founding General Editor of TUE a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has TUE re-transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new TUE edition. TUE TUE Reader: Henry Goodman TUE With introductions by Olivia Williams TUE TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Olivia Williams TUE Reader: Henry Goodman TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b071t8qj (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b071tgbh (Listen) TUE Jane Eyre, Episode 2 TUE TUE Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the TUE bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth. TUE Episode Two TUE Life at Lowood School is cruel and harsh TUE and so Jane cherishes her friendship with Helen. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jane: Amanda Hale TUE Young Jane: Nell Venables TUE Helen Burns: Rebecca Hamilton TUE Teacher: Katie Redford TUE Brocklehurst: Gerard McDermott TUE Mrs Fairfax: Susan Jameson TUE Mr Rochester: Tom Burke TUE Director: Tracey Neale TUE Producer: Tracey Neale TUE Author: Charlotte Bronte TUE Adaptor: Rachel Joyce TUE TUE 11:00 Cancer Moonshot b0725d18 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In 1974, President Richard Nixon launched a war on cancer. TUE In 2015, Vice President Joe Biden announced a 'moonshot' on TUE cancer. Graham Easton asks what this campaign can achieve. TUE TUE 11:30 Black, White and Beethoven b071tgbk (Listen) TUE Britain's music scene today is a rich, multi-cultural feast TUE that draws on talent from all corners of society. Unless, TUE that is, your passion is classical music. In Britain, and TUE across Europe, performers, composers, teachers and TUE institutions remain resolutely, predominantly white. TUE TUE Why should this be, and is this a concern? Many believe TUE steps to redress this imbalance are now long overdue, and TUE that urgent action is required. But what should these TUE actions be, and would they be successful? TUE TUE Chi-chi Nwanoku and members of her Chineke! Orchestra, TUE Europe's first professional Black and Minority Ethnic TUE orchestra, talk about their lives in classical music: we TUE also hear from other Black classical musicians about the TUE circumstances of their work. TUE In Black White and Beethoven, Joseph Harker explores these TUE issues - taking stock of where we are, and exploring some TUE ideas that could help classical music to engage and reflect TUE the full diversity of contemporary society. TUE TUE Producer: Lyndon Jones for BBC Wales. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b071lcqs (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b071tgbm (Listen) TUE Palmyra: Temple of Bel TUE TUE The Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 TUE antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or TUE looted in Iraq and Syria. TUE TUE Last May, the Syrian city of Palmyra was captured by the TUE forces of the so-called Islamic State. Few of the group's TUE excesses have won as much attention as their ravaging of the TUE city. They waged a campaign of violence against the local TUE population, and they systematically destroyed many of the TUE city's great monuments, including the 2,000 year old Temple TUE of Bel. We trace the story of the Temple, pay homage to TUE Palmyra's ancient warrior Queen Zenobia - and hear from a TUE modern day Zenobia, daughter of Khaled al-Asaad director of TUE antiquities at Palmyra who was beheaded by IS. She tells us TUE when IS militants took over her home and her last words with TUE her father. TUE TUE Contributors: Nasser Rabat, Massachusetts Institute of TUE Technology; Salam al-Kuntar, University of Pennsylvania TUE Museum; Zenobia al-Asaad, daughter of Khaled al-Asaad, her TUE words read in English by Amira Ghazalla TUE TUE Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor TUE Producer: Maryam Maruf TUE TUE Picture: Temple of Bel, Palmyra TUE Credit: Getty TUE TUE With thanks to Faisal Irshaid of BBC Arabic, Alma Hassoun of TUE BBC Monitoring, Rubina Raja of Aarhus University, TUE Christopher Jones of Columbia University, and Christa TUE Salamandra of City University of New York. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b071lcqv (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b071lcr0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b071tgbp (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b071tgbr (Listen) TUE Tagore: Unlocking Cages TUE TUE Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the Bengali writer and TUE thinker Rabindranath Tagore. TUE TUE Born in 1861 To a prosperous Bengal family, Rabindranath TUE Tagore went on to win India's first Nobel Prize, for TUE literature, in 1913. TUE TUE While India has often been framed in terms of competing TUE groups - whether traditional institutions like caste, TUE religion, and patriarchal families, or imperial subjecthood, TUE or contemporary mass movements for nationalism - Tagore cut TUE through these collectivities and tried to create a space for TUE individual choice that stood apart from imposed groupings. TUE TUE In a nationalist age when many of his contemporaries were TUE preoccupied with independence, Rabindranath Tagore preferred TUE to speak of freedom. TUE TUE But he wasn't a radical individualist, his conception of TUE freedom was related to expressivity, connection, and that TUE deepest of human experience: love. Becoming who you are, he TUE recognised, is not something you do on your own. TUE TUE Featuring Professor Supriya Chaudhuri. TUE TUE Readings by Sheenu Das. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Williams TUE Executive Producer: Martin Smith TUE Original music composed by Talvin Singh. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b071sn2m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b071tgbt (Listen) TUE Pilgrim, Stickton General TUE TUE By Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE TUE Following the death of Laura Tyler, William Palmer has sworn TUE to punish his former close friend Morgan Hambleton for his TUE crimes. But first, he has to track him down. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE Credits TUE Pilgrim: Paul Hilton TUE Morgan: Justin Salinger TUE Camilla: Scarlett Brookes TUE Baxter: Nick Underwood TUE Randell: Carl Prekopp TUE Jackie: Nicola Ferguson TUE Brenda: Susan Jameson TUE Laura: Adie Allen TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b071tgbw (Listen) TUE The latest historical and archaeological research. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b071tgby (Listen) TUE Acoustic Ecology TUE TUE Peter Gibbs asks whether sound could become a vital tool in TUE conservation, helping us understand far more about how TUE wildlife interacts and how it is affected by changes in the TUE environment . Technological advances in recording mean that TUE we can now record huge amounts of data in remote locations. TUE By using algorithms scientists hope to break down complex TUE interactions between animals and their environment and be TUE able to predict change or protect species. This is the TUE emerging science of soundscape ecology. Scientists are TUE hoping to apply big data solutions learnt from fields such TUE as genetics to re-imagine conservation and asking all of us TUE to listen and imagine what a world without natural sounds TUE such as birdsong might be like. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b071tgc0 (Listen) TUE Tip of the Tongue TUE TUE It's an experience we've all had - desperately trying to TUE recall a word. You might know the letter it begins with, the TUE letter it ends with, but it just won't pop into your head. TUE So how will Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright cope as we try TUE and induce this most frustrating state: Tip of the Tongue? TUE TUE They are put under the spotlight by psychologist Dr Meredith TUE Shafto, and try to find ways round it with the help of TUE somebody who can memorise a 1000-digit number in an hour - TUE memory Grandmaster Ed Cooke. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b071tgc2 (Listen) TUE Deborah Bull and Sam Leith TUE TUE Deborah Bull, former Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet, TUE talks about her longstanding affection for Mr Pye by Mervyn TUE Peake, an original and amusing tale set on Sark. Journalist TUE and author Sam Leith, literary editor of The Spectator, TUE advocates 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman, a collection of TUE poetry he's passionate about. Presenter Harriett Gilbert's TUE choice is News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez, a TUE non-fiction work detailing kidnappings in Colombia by the TUE Medellín Cartel and Pablo Escobar. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Deborah Bull TUE Interviewed Guest: Sam Leith TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b071lcrb (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b071lcrd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05wyhnv (Listen) TUE Series 10, Joan of the Junction TUE TUE Week four of Ed Reardon's 'No Fixed Abode' status finds him TUE tramping along the canal trying to find someone to take him, TUE and Elgar, in. When he fortunes upon the somewhat colourful TUE Joan he hits the jackpot in more ways than one as not only TUE does he gain a rather comfortable cabin bed, but as the pair TUE chat about Joan's rather picaresque life over a can of TUE cider, Ed discovers she has lived her life in the manner for TUE a perfect Sunday night TV drama. Cue a call to his agent, TUE Ping. TUE TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE Ed Reardon's Week is a BBC Radio Comedy production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas TUE Suzan: Raquel Cassidy TUE Olive: Stephanie Cole TUE Joan: Pam Ferris TUE Pearl: Brigit Forsyth TUE Bill: Geoff McGivern TUE Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Writer: Christopher Douglas TUE Writer: Andrew Nickolds TUE Producer: Dawn Ellis TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b071tgc4 (Listen) TUE Rob enjoys acting as a mentor, and Ed enjoys some hard TUE graft. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b071lcrr (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b071tgbh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b071tgc6 (Listen) TUE Special guardianship orders are a way of giving legal status TUE to those - usually grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers TUE and sisters - who come forward to care for children when TUE their parents can't. SGOs were designed to let children grow TUE up with family, instead of in care - once a relative is TUE granted special guardianship, the council steps backs and TUE the guardian can raise the child without social services TUE interfering. TUE More than thirteen thousand children have been placed with TUE special guardians. TUE But special guardianship breaks down more often - and more TUE quickly - than adoption. TUE And in some cases children have been neglected, abused, or TUE murdered. TUE The family court service Cafcass and the Association of TUE Directors of Children's Services have warned the government TUE weak assessments of the risks of family placements are a TUE 'real risk' for children. A top judge in the family court TUE has said judges should avoid special guardianship orders TUE until the problems are solved. TUE The government is re-writing the law on how special TUE guardians are assessed. But with court deadlines and growing TUE pressure on social workers and budgets, will it make TUE children safer? Jane Deith investigates. TUE Producer: Emma Forde. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b071lcrw (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b071lcrz (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b071t8qd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b071lcs2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b071lcs4 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b071tgc8 (Listen) TUE We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Episode 2 TUE TUE Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her TUE sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there TUE were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic found TUE its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of TUE the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat TUE protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the TUE villagers. TUE TUE Episode Two: TUE The Blackwoods hold a tea party for Helen Clarke and her TUE friend, Mrs Wright. But conversation takes a dark turn, much TUE to Helen's dismay and Merricat's delight. TUE TUE "If you haven't read We Have Always Lived In The Castle you TUE are missing out." Neil Gaiman. TUE TUE "Her greatest book...at once whimsical and harrowing." Donna TUE Tartt. TUE TUE "A masterpiece of Gothic suspense." Joyce Carol Oates. TUE TUE Shirley Jackson, who died 50 years ago, was perhaps best TUE known for her short story, The Lottery, and her novel, The TUE Haunting Of Hill House, twice filmed and thought to be the TUE last word in haunted-house tales. Her work has received TUE increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. TUE She has influenced such writers as Stephen King and Nigel TUE Kneale. TUE TUE Reader: Bryony Hannah TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Bryony Hannah TUE Author: Shirley Jackson TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 23:00 Andrew O'Neill: Pharmacist Baffler b04v3950 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Comedian Andrew O'Neill is a transvestite or as he prefers TUE to call himself, a "pharmacist baffler", or "correct toilet TUE double-check instigator" or "patriarchal birthright TUE rejecter". Andrew is also heterosexual, married and in a TUE steam punk band. He confounds expectations and TUE preconceptions. TUE TUE In this two-part series of audience, stand-up shows using TUE his own personal experience he examines sexual and gender TUE identity, what they are and how we get them. TUE TUE Andrew is one of the most interesting and articulate voices TUE on the circuit. He came out as a transvestite when he was TUE 19, and now cross-dresses about half the time (the British TUE Union Of Transvestites requires you to cross-dress at least TUE 3 days out of the 7). He wears make-up and jewellery and has TUE long hair. He's usually dressed in black, has lots of TUE tattoos, plays in a steam punk band and has always been TUE heterosexual. He's married and only ever fancies women. This TUE makes him and Eddie Izzard the only out cross-dressing TUE comics in the country. This series would brings his (almost) TUE unique perspective to ideas about gender and sexual TUE identity, He looks at where you get your ideas about what TUE your gender is, and what it should look like, how your TUE sexuality is defined and how other people's sexuality TUE continues to fascinate us and not necessarily in a good way. TUE TUE In the first show he discusses gender identity from a TUE transvestite's point of view and talks about his own TUE experiences growing up. His humorous take on these difficult TUE and thought provoking issues delights the audience whilst TUE occasionally shocking them. TUE TUE Written and performed by Andrew O Neill with on-stage help TUE from Stephen Carlin. Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b071tgcb (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 MARCH 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b071lcvg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b072n0k7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b071lcvj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b071lcvl (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b071lcvn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b071lcvq (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072p10t (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon WED Dr Sarah Rowland Jones, Priest in charge of the City Parish WED of St John the Baptist, Cardiff. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b071v06d (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k72zr (Listen) WED Starling 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 David Attenborough presents the starling. Throughout autumn WED parties of starlings have been crossing the North Sea to WED join our resident birds and as winter's grip tightens they WED create one of Nature's best spectacles. These huge WED gatherings, sometimes a million or more strong, are called WED murmurations and they offer the birds safety in numbers. WED WED Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). WED WED 06:00 Today b071v1l5 (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 b071v1l7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b072n0pg (Listen) WED The Real Henry James, Modern Women WED WED Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a WED great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews WED and essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the WED centenary of his death, these five anthologies reveal James WED through his letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks. WED WED Episode 3: Modern Women WED Henry James was a lifelong bachelor, but many of his closest WED friendships were with women. And his novels are known for WED his sensitive and sympathetic treatment of women's WED experience - very often as his central characters. WED WED His preoccupation with the situation of women, and with WED contemporary debates about women's role in society, emerges WED early in his career. In 1868, the 25-year-old James reviewed WED a book called Modern Women and What Is Said of Them - a WED British collection of anti-feminist articles. The book WED roused James to an angry attack on the marriage market which WED women found themselves in, and a defence of the position of WED women in a patriarchal society. We hear extracts from that WED impassioned review. WED WED We hear too the moving letter which James wrote home to his WED mother after the death of his closest female friend, his WED cousin Minnie Temple. Minnie inspired Isabel Archer, his WED heroine in The Portrait of a Lady, and his heroine Millie WED Theale in The Wings of the Dove would resemble her even more WED closely. WED WED The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of WED University College London, who is founding General Editor of WED a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has WED re-transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new WED edition. WED WED Reader: Henry Goodman WED With introductions by Olivia Williams WED WED Producer: Elizabeth Burke WED A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Olivia Williams WED Reader: Henry Goodman WED Producer: Elizabeth Burke WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b071v1l9 (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b071v58f (Listen) WED Jane Eyre, Episode 3 WED WED Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the WED bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte Bronte's birth. WED Episode Three WED When Jane returns to Thornfield Hall she discovers WED the identity of the tall dark stranger. WED WED Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED Credits WED Jane: Amanda Hale WED Mrs Fairfax: Susan Jameson WED Mr Rochester: Tom Burke WED Director: Tracey Neale WED Producer: Tracey Neale WED Author: Charlotte Bronte WED Adaptor: Rachel Joyce WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b071v58p (Listen) WED Ulrich and Anna - A European Family WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between a GP who moved here WED from Germany in the 1980s and his 18 year old daughter; they WED reflect on whether they feel German, British or European. WED Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 An Eton Experience b071v58t (Listen) WED Pupils at the Newham based Forest Gate Community School have WED been inspired by the success of former pupils like Ishak WED Ayiris, who won a coverted scholarship place in the Eton WED sixth form. It's a success story his parents could hardly WED imagine: Dad was a care worker until he got ill and Mum had WED been a baker before leaving Ethiopia but had struggled to WED learn English because of a hearing problem. Currently, Eton WED spends £6.5m on means-tested bursaries, with 73 of the 1,300 WED pupils have their entire fees paid. WED WED Headmaster Simon Henderson wants more bursaries for boys WED from disadvantaged backgrounds, so that anyone with the WED necessary talent can be financially supported at the WED £35,000-a-year school. Penny joins him and some of the WED pupils to find out what they hope to gain from the WED experience. The transition can be a difficult period and WED some struggle with the move from state schools in run down WED areas an institution which has educated 19 British prime WED ministers, including the present incumbent. WED WED It is a difficult area for heads like Simon Elliott at WED Forest Gate: on the one he wants his pupils to am high, but WED on the other he is keen that standards across state schools WED are constantly improving. With his school having no sixth WED form there is a chance to offer a real alternative and each WED year he establishes a small group of very bright youngsters WED whose own parents are on limited incomes. By working with WED them to broaden their cultural and social experiences he WED believes he can better prepare them for the rigorous WED entrance exams and interview process in the indepedent WED sector. At the same time he is keen that they consider the WED state school alternatives and is interested in finding out WED what they eventually opt for. WED WED 11:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06flmfv (Listen) WED Vorsprung Durch Technik WED WED The final episode of the first series of Edward Rowett's WED sitcom - and things are looking up for Hardacre's. They may WED still be London's worst ad agency, but business has begun to WED trickle in. WED WED Moreover, thanks to a herculean effort by accounts chief WED Amanda Brook, the agency will be featured in an article in WED industry bible Campaign. It's a chance to answer their WED critics and take control of their image. A reporter is WED coming by today to interview the team, and Amanda needs them WED at their very best. Or - failing that - their least WED incompetent. WED WED But the team has other things on their mind. Like Joe's WED divorce lawyer, who seems to have developed a sideline as a WED blacksmith. Or their campaign for Hardacre's mysterious WED gentlemen's club. Or why Teddy is covered in spiders. WED WED Or what to do when the office lift breaks down, stranding WED Joe, Teddy, Amanda, and Hardacre between floors, with the WED woman from Campaign due any minute. WED WED Starring Nigel Havers, Mathew Baynton, Josie Lawrence and WED Rasmus Hardiker. 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 b071lcvv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b071v594 (Listen) WED Tell Qarqur, Hama Province WED WED The Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 WED antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or WED looted in Iraq and Syria. WED WED As archaeological sites go, Tell Qarqur isn't the most WED glamorous, but this mound in Syria is unique. It's in the WED Orontes Valley in the west of the country and it contains WED 10,000 years of continuous human occupation. It is a WED goldmine of information for studying the movements of long WED history in a single place. In 2011, Tell Qarqur was occupied WED by the Assad military and since then, the whole area - the WED province of Hama and neighbouring regions - has been on the WED frontline of the war and many local residents forced to WED flee. Jesse Casana, the archaeologist who ran the excavation WED at Tell Qarqur, talks about monitoring the destruction of WED his site from space using satellite archaeology, and the WED Syrian villagers who worked with him now living as refugees. WED WED Contributors: Jesse Casana, Dartmouth College; the reading WED is by Sargon Yelda WED WED Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor WED Producer: Maryam Maruf WED WED Picture: Tell Qarqur WED Credit: Jesse Casana. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b071lcvx (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b071lcvz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b071v596 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b071v5rx (Listen) WED Visvesvaraya: Extracting Moonbeams from Cucumbers WED WED Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of engineer, WED planner and politician Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. WED WED Visvesvaraya was a frail bureaucrat who walked hunched, as WED if the burden of state-building literally pressed down on WED his shoulders. But in the popular imagination he turned an WED engineering degree into a superhuman world-fashioning WED prowess. He changed the Indian nation with practical and WED enduring improvements for millions of people, including WED innovations in sanitation, statistics, flood control, WED drainage and irrigation. WED WED Austere to the point of dourness, but audaciously hopeful, WED Visvesvaraya sought to frog-march India into modernity. WED WED Featuring Bangalore-based social scientist Chandan Gowda. WED WED Producer: Martin Williams WED Executive Producer: Martin Smith. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b071tgc4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b071v5rz (Listen) WED Pilgrim, Shoulder Hill WED WED By Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED WED William Palmer has promised to dispose of his former friend WED and erstwhile magician, Morgan Hambleton. But things have WED not gone as planned and trouble is coming. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Pilgrim: Paul Hilton WED Linda: Susan Jameson WED Mrs Welbelove: Joanna Monro WED Ronnie: Sam Rix WED Becker: Adeel Akhtar WED Charity: Claire Price WED Delancey: David Schofield WED Queen of the Corn: Rose Hilton Hille WED Mr Shambles: Sean Baker WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED WED 15:00 Money Box b071vjrh (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b071lcrz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b071vjrk (Listen) WED The debt collection industry, Spousal job loss WED WED The debt collection industry: Laurie Taylor explores what WED happens when everyday forms of borrowing, such as credit WED cards, personal loans and store cards, spiral out of WED control. He talks to Joe Deville, Lecturer in Mobile Work at WED the University of Lancaster, and author of a study which WED offers a vivid account of consumer default and the evolution WED of agencies designed to collect people's debts. He's joined WED by Adrienne Roberts, Lecturer in International Politics at WED the University of Manchester, who has researched the growing WED reliance of households on borrowed money. WED WED Also, how do couples react to spousal job loss? Karon Gush, WED Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex, WED considers the ways in which couples re-configure their lives WED and finances in response to one person losing paid WED employment. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b071lcw1 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b071lcw3 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b071lcw5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b071vkwl (Listen) WED Series 11, Al Murray interviews Ian Hislop 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, Pub Landlord creator, Al Murray passes the baton WED to the comedian and satirist Ian Hislop. 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 Al's guest Ian Hislop is much more used to the cut and WED thrust of British politics both as a long-standing team WED captain on 'Have I Got News for You' and as the editor of WED satirical magazine Private Eye. As a dedicated fan and WED student of history, he has made several acclaimed WED documentaries on wide-ranging subjects including WED conscientious objectors and The Beeching Report. WED WED Al grills Ian on his early days writing for such comedians WED as Harry Enfield, asks how we should define the role of the WED satirist and poses the intriguing question, 'what's it like WED being sued?' WED WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b071vkwn (Listen) WED Henry is playing up, and Lynda has a sense of pageantry. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b071lcw7 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b071v58f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b071vjrm (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy WED and Giles Fraser. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b071vjrp (Listen) WED The Dining Room WED WED The Lent Talks are a series of essays on different WED perspectives of the passion story. This year the theme is WED "Lent in the Landscape". Michael Banner visits reflects the WED famous Dining Hall at Trinity College Cambridge to reflect WED on the Last Supper and betrayal. Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b071tgby (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b071v1l7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b071lcw9 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b071vjrr (Listen) WED We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Episode 3 WED WED Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her WED sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there WED were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic found WED its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of WED the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat WED protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the WED villagers.Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with WED her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago WED there were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic WED found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. WED Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where WED Merricat protects her from the curiosity and hostility of WED the villagers. WED WED Episode Three: WED A stranger comes to the house. Merricat fears that WED everything will change for the worse, unless she takes WED command of the situation. WED WED "If you haven't read We Have Always Lived In The Castle you WED are missing out." Neil Gaiman. WED WED "Her greatest book...at once whimsical and harrowing." Donna WED Tartt. WED WED "A masterpiece of Gothic suspense." Joyce Carol Oates. WED WED Shirley Jackson, who died 50 years ago, was perhaps best WED known for her short story, The Lottery, and her novel, The WED Haunting Of Hill House, twice filmed and thought to be the WED last word in haunted-house tales. Her work has received WED increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. WED She has influenced such writers as Stephen King and Nigel WED Kneale. WED WED Reader: Bryony Hannah WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 WED WED Episode Two: WED The Blackwoods hold a tea party for Helen Clarke and her WED friend, Mrs Wright. But conversation takes a dark turn, much WED to Helen's dismay and Merricat's delight. WED WED "If you haven't read We Have Always Lived In The Castle you WED are missing out." Neil Gaiman. WED WED "Her greatest book...at once whimsical and harrowing." Donna WED Tartt. WED WED "A masterpiece of Gothic suspense." Joyce Carol Oates. WED WED Shirley Jackson, who died 50 years ago, was perhaps best WED known for her short story, The Lottery, and her novel, The WED Haunting Of Hill House, twice filmed and thought to be the WED last word in haunted-house tales. Her work has received WED increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. WED She has influenced such writers as Stephen King and Nigel WED Kneale. WED WED Reader: Bryony Hannah WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Bryony Hannah WED Author: Shirley Jackson WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 23:00 The Literary Adventures of Mr Brown b071vjrt (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 Performer: Lola-Rose Maxwell WED Producer: Zoe Rocha WED Writer: Chris Gau WED Writer: Mike Orton-Toliver WED WED 23:15 History Retweeted b03vgnk3 (Listen) WED The Moon Landing WED WED History Retweeted sends us back in time as we hear people WED from the past comment on a series of major world events, in WED 140 characters or fewer. WED WED In this first episode, The Moon Landing: From Launch to WED Landing, we follow the crew of Apollo 11 as they cruise to WED the moon. We're given a snapshot of an internet-savvy 1960s WED - astronauts are trolled, Action Chaps are sold, and America WED wins gold in the space race. WED WED A space-based David Bowie and a caterpillar's eating WED disorder are the trending topics of the day. WED WED History Retweeted transports us to timelines gone by - WED feeding hashtags, trolls and trending topics into moments WED from history. WED WED Featuring the voices of Tim Barnes and Simon Berry, Wayne WED Forester and Annabelle Llewellyn, WED Peter Temple and Jelly Macintosh - with Lucy Beaumont as the WED voice of The Computer. WED WED Written by Tim Barnes and Simon Berry WED WED Produced by Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Tim Barnes WED Actor: Simon Berry WED Actor: Wayne Forester WED Actor: Annabelle Llewellyn WED Actor: Peter Temple WED Actor: Jelly Macintosh WED The Computer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED Writer: Tim Barnes WED Writer: Simon Berry WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b071vgqf (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 MARCH 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b071lczn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b072n0pg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b071lczq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b071lczv (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b071lczx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b071lczz (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072p147 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon THU Dr Sarah Rowland Jones, Priest in charge of the City Parish THU of St John the Baptist, Cardiff. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b071vl2g (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztqr (Listen) THU Collared Dove 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 David Attenborough presents the story of the Collared Dove. THU Although these attractive sandy doves grace our bird-tables THU or greet us at dawn almost wherever we live in the UK, their THU story is one of the most extraordinary of any British bird. THU THU Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b071vl2j (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 b071vl2l (Listen) THU The Dutch East India Company THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vereenigde Oost-Indische THU Compagnie or VOC, known in English as the Dutch East India THU Company. The VOC dominated the spice trade between Asia and THU Europe for two hundred years, with the British East India THU Company a distant second. At its peak, the VOC had a virtual THU monopoly on nutmeg, mace, cloves and cinnamon, displacing THU the Portuguese and excluding the British, and were the only THU European traders allowed access to Japan. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b072n0xp (Listen) THU The Real Henry James, Encounters with Famous People THU THU Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a THU great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews THU and essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the THU centenary of his death, these five anthologies reveal James THU through his letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks. THU THU Episode 4: Encounters with Famous People THU Henry James ended his career in London in the early THU twentieth century as a figure of great dignity, known to his THU admirers as 'the Master'. But as a shy child, and a bashful THU young man, early in his career he had met some of the THU literary giants of the Victorian age. James's father Henry THU James Senior was a well-known and well-connected THU intellectual figure - though very eccentric - so all sorts THU of eminent people passed through the house. Towards the end THU of his life, James still remembers being overwhelmed by THU embarrassment and self-consciousness during an encounter THU with the most famous novelist of the day - the author of THU Vanity Fair. THU THU "Still present to me is the voice proceeding from my THU father's library, in which some glimpse of me hovering, at THU an opening of the door, prompted him to the formidable THU words, 'Come here, little boy, and show me your THU extraordinary jacket!'" THU THU We hear what happened next in that meeting with Thackeray - THU and of meetings with Dickens, Tennyson, and George Eliot. THU THU The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of THU University College London, who is founding General Editor of THU a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has THU re-transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new THU edition. THU THU Reader: Henry Goodman THU With introductions by Olivia Williams THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Burke THU A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Olivia Williams THU Reader: Henry Goodman THU Producer: Elizabeth Burke THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b071vl97 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b071vl99 (Listen) THU Jane Eyre, Episode 4 THU THU After Jane saves Mr Rochester's life she begins THU to sense danger within Thornfield Hall. There's THU something not quite right but what is it? THU THU Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU Credits THU Jane: Amanda Hale THU Mr Rochester: Tom Burke THU Mrs Fairfax: Susan Jameson THU Grace Poole: Debra Baker THU Blanche: Evie Killip THU Mason: Ewan Bailey THU Director: Tracey Neale THU Producer: Tracey Neale THU Author: Charlotte Bronte THU Adaptor: Rachel Joyce THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b071ld01 (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Laverne in the Willows b071vlmg (Listen) THU Lauren Laverne has long been a firm fan of Kenneth Grahame's THU classic children's book 'The Wind in the Willows', in THU particular that most sparky of characters Mr. Toad, whose THU desire to have everything and anything new makes him such a THU vibrant fore-runner of the modern consumer. Lauren sets THU about telling the story of the book and its creator, Kenneth THU Grahame, who came up with the adventures of Mole, Ratty and THU friends as bedtime stories for his headstrong young son THU Alistair - thought by many to be the model for Mr. Toad THU himself. Along the way Lauren will visit the school that THU once was home to the Grahame family, and where he turned the THU stories into the book we're now so familiar with. She'll THU also hear from the author of the 'How to Train Your Dragon' THU series of books, Cressida Cowell, about her own love of THU 'Wind in the Willows', as well as Tom Moorhouse, an Oxford THU University Ecologist who is writing a series of sequels to THU Grahame's classic tale. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b071ld03 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b071vlmj (Listen) THU Minaret of the Umayyad Mosque, Aleppo THU THU The Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 THU antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or THU looted in Iraq and Syria. THU THU Since 2012, Aleppo - Syria's largest city - has been a key THU battleground in the conflict, and hundreds of its residents THU killed or displaced. Aleppo, thought to be the oldest city THU in the world, is now left in ruins. One of the great THU monuments of the city was the minaret of the Umayyad Mosque THU (also known as the Great Mosque) which was toppled in April THU 2013. It's still unclear who was responsible - Syrian THU government forces and rebels blame each other. We tell the THU story of the minaret, a world heritage site that was THU connected to that other great Aleppo landmark, the souk. THU THU Contributors: Nasser Rabat, Massachusetts Institute of THU Technology; Zahed Tajeddin, artist and archaeologist; THU Heghnar Watenpaugh, University of California Davis; Jalal THU Halabi, photographer; Will Wintercross, Daily Telegraph THU THU Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor THU Producer: Maryam Maruf THU THU Picture: Minaret of the Umayyad Mosque THU Credit: Getty THU THU With thanks to Haider Adnan of BBC Arabic, Elyse Semerdjian THU of Whitman College, and Aya Mhanna. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b071ld05 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b071ld07 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b071vlml (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b071vlmn (Listen) THU Periyar: Sniper of Sacred Cows THU THU Sunil Khilnani tells the story of EV Ramaswamy Naicker, THU known to his followers as Thanthai Periyar: the Great Man - THU a self-conscious dig at his nemesis Gandhi, the Great Soul. THU THU Periyar is best known in India as an anti-Brahmin activist, THU a rationalist and a take-no-prisoners orator. He campaigned THU actively and energetically for decades against religion, THU against the caste system and for the equality of women. THU THU Where Gandhi and his followers wore white, Periyar THU instructed his supporters to dress in black. Where Gandhi THU massaged the religious beliefs of his audiences, Periyar THU called his listeners fools, insulted their beliefs and caste THU practices, and threatened to thwack their gods and idols THU with his slippers. And where Gandhi wanted to build a THU national Indian movement, Periyar revelled in the Dravidian THU south. THU THU 'I've got no personal problem with God," Periyar once said. THU "I've never even met him, not once". Occupying conventional THU political office never interested Periyar, but he left a THU massive imprint on modern south Indian politics. THU THU Featuring historian AR Venkatachalapathy. THU THU Producer: Martin Williams THU Executive Producer: Martin Smith. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b071vkwn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b071vlmq (Listen) THU Pilgrim, Caudley Fair THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU William Palmer must do what he can to prevent the marriage THU of Mr Delancey's daughter to the King of the Greyfolk. But THU the king has laid his plans... THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU Credits THU Pilgrim: Paul Hilton THU Delancey: David Schofield THU Mr Hibbens: Joseph Kloska THU Moira: Carolyn Pickles THU India: Scarlett Brookes THU Frank: Nick Underwood THU Boris: Ewan Bailey THU Zach: Sean Baker THU Leila: Nicola Ferguson THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b071vlms (Listen) THU Series 32, Samaritans THU THU Clare Balding walks from the famous dragon at Bures on the THU Essex/Suffolk border to Assington in Suffolk. Joining her is THU a group of volunteers from the Colchester branch of the THU Samaritans charity. It's a supportive walking-group which THU helps volunteers to bond and decompress, something that's THU necessary in an emotionally challenging although rewarding THU role. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b071lh7s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b071s6p5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b071vlmv (Listen) THU The Coen Brothers on communism THU THU The Coen Brothers talk to Antonia Quirke about Hail Caesar, THU a parody of Hollywood in the early 50s and explain why they THU believe there were Reds under the beds in the film industry THU at the time. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Antonia Quirke THU Interviewed Guest: Joel Coen THU Interviewed Guest: Ethan Coen THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b071ld09 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b071ld0c (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b071ld0f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b071whf9 (Listen) THU Susan Calman is the least relaxed person she knows. She has THU no down time, no hobbies (unless you count dressing up your THU cats in silly outfits) and her idea of relaxation is to play THU Grand Theft Auto, an hour into which she is in a murderous THU rage with sky high blood pressure. Her wife had to threaten THU to divorce her to make her go on holiday last year. Her THU first for four years. But she's been told by the same THU long-suffering wife, that unless she finds a way to switch THU off, and soon, she's going to be unbearable. THU THU So Susan is going to look at her options and try to immerse THU herself in the pursuits that her friends find relaxing, to THU find her inner zen and outer tranquillity. Each week she THU will ditch the old Susan Calman and attempt to find the new THU Susan Calm, in a typically British leisure pursuit; this THU week John Finnemore takes her on a spontaneous holiday, and THU in other episodes she goes hillwalking with Muriel Gray, THU watches a cricket match with Andy Zaltzman and visits an art THU gallery with Phil Jupitus. THU THU Keep Calman Carry On is an audience stand up show in which THU Susan reports on how successful she's been - both at THU relaxing and at the pursuit itself - as well as playing in THU and discussing a handful of illustrative clips from her THU efforts. It's an attempt to find out how people find solace THU or sanctuary in these worlds and how Susan can negotiate her THU own place in them. THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU Writer: Susan Calman THU THU 19:00 The Archers b071whfc (Listen) THU Johnny makes a decision, and Helen seems to be busy. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b071ld0h (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b071vl99 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b071whg8 (Listen) THU Dublin's Gangs THU THU Extra armed police have been put on the streets of Dublin THU after two murders within just four days of each other. It's THU being blamed on a flare up of gang wars more akin to Sicily. THU The first involved gunmen carrying Ak47s disguised as police THU who burst into a respectable hotel packed with people. The THU next was assumed to be a swift reprisal: a man was shot THU several times in his own home. Melanie Abbott travels to THU Dublin to find out the background to this bitter gang feud THU and talk to the community caught in the middle. THU THU Producer: Anna Meisel. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b071whgb (Listen) THU Tax Avoidance THU THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b071ld09 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b071vl2l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b071ld0k (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b071x4nw (Listen) THU We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Episode 4 THU THU Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her THU sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there THU were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic found THU its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of THU the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat THU protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the THU villagers. THU THU Episode Four: THU Merricat tries to extinguish Cousin Charles, with dire THU consequences. THU THU "If you haven't read We Have Always Lived In The Castle you THU are missing out." Neil Gaiman. THU "Her greatest book...at once whimsical and harrowing." Donna THU Tartt. THU THU "A masterpiece of Gothic suspense." Joyce Carol Oates. THU THU Shirley Jackson, who died 50 years ago, was perhaps best THU known for her short story, The Lottery, and her novel, The THU Haunting Of Hill House, twice filmed and thought to be the THU last word in haunted-house tales. Her work has received THU increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. THU She has influenced such writers as Stephen King and Nigel THU Kneale. THU THU Reader: Bryony Hannah THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Bryony Hannah THU Author: Shirley Jackson THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 23:00 Small Scenes b071x4ny (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU THU Award-winning sketch series starring Daniel Rigby, Mike THU Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker and Jessica Ransom. THU Featuring more overblown, melodramatic scenes from modern THU life, such as a woman who uncovers the conspiracy behind THU cryptic crosswords, a saxophonist who is tortured by his THU inability to play the solo from Baker Street and what THU happens if you buy Chris de Burgh's old house. THU THU Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak, THU with additional material from the cast. THU THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Daniel Rigby THU Performer: Mike Wozniak THU Performer: Cariad Lloyd THU Performer: Henry Paker THU Performer: Jessica Ransom THU Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer THU Writer: Benjamin Partridge THU Writer: Henry Paker THU Writer: Mike Wozniak THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b071x4p0 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 MARCH 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b071ld2f (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b072n0xp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b071ld2k (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b071ld2m (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b071ld2q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b071ld2s (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072p1gs (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon FRI Dr Sarah Rowland Jones, Priest in charge of the City Parish FRI of St John the Baptist, Cardiff. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b073jgcn (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv5m (Listen) FRI Coot FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Chris Packham presents the story of the Coot. The explosive FRI high-pitched call of the coot is probably a sound most of us FRI associate with our local park lakes. Coot are dumpy, FRI charcoal-coloured birds related to moorhens, though unlike FRI their cousins, they tend to spend more time on open water, FRI often in large flocks in winter. FRI FRI Coot (Fulica atra) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0728l2h (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 b071lmwh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b072n0zp (Listen) FRI The Real Henry James, Childhood and Family FRI FRI Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a FRI great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews FRI and essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the FRI centenary of his death, these five anthologies reveal James FRI through his letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks. FRI FRI Episode 5: Childhood and Family FRI It may seem paradoxical to end a series on Henry James by FRI going back to his childhood - but that's what James himself FRI did in old age. As he approached 70, James began to look FRI back over his life and career - by then he was the only one FRI of five siblings to survive - and found that his early FRI memories and associations multiplied with an almost FRI uncontrollable vividness. FRI FRI We hear memories of how he roamed free as a young boy on the FRI streets of New York, and of his father, an eccentric FRI religious philosopher who detested 'prigs'. FRI FRI We hear too a moving and intimate account of a visit James FRI paid towards the end of his life to the family grave-plot FRI near Harvard - where his parents, his sister Alice, and FRI Wilky, one of his brothers, were buried. James wrote about FRI this only in his private notebooks, which speaks revealingly FRI about the importance of family for him. The programme ends FRI with a passage about the quest for religious faith, and with FRI James's great motto in life, "e kind, be kind, be kind..." FRI The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of FRI University College London, who is founding General Editor of FRI a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has FRI re-transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new FRI edition. FRI FRI Reader: Henry Goodman FRI With introductions by Olivia Williams FRI FRI Producer: Elizabeth Burke FRI A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Olivia Williams FRI Reader: Henry Goodman FRI Producer: Elizabeth Burke FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b071x876 (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b071x878 (Listen) FRI Jane Eyre, Episode 5 FRI FRI Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the FRI bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte Bronte's birth. FRI Episode Five FRI After a ghastly cry in the middle of the night wakes all FRI in Thornfield Hall, Rochester asks for Jane's help. FRI As they climb the stairs he asks if she is afraid of blood. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jane: Amanda Hale FRI Rochester: Tom Burke FRI Mason: Ewan Bailey FRI Blanche: Evie Killip FRI Bessie: Katie Redford FRI Mrs Reed: Tracy Wiles FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI Producer: Tracey Neale FRI Author: Charlotte Bronte FRI Adaptor: Rachel Joyce FRI FRI 11:00 Glad to Be Grey b071x87c (Listen) FRI Professor Mary Beard is a distinguished Cambridge Classical FRI scholar with a string of highly-regarded books on Ancient FRI Rome to her name, so it's slightly irksome to her that she FRI is almost better known for her long grey hair. FRI FRI In this highly-authored Radio Four documentary, Mary Beard FRI investigates a growing reluctance to embrace grey hair. FRI FRI Starting in the Mayfair salon of "hair colourist to the FRI stars", Jo Hansford, she's informed that her hair is FRI "dreadful" and given a personal consultation by Jo herself FRI about how and why she should colour it. FRI FRI In favour of choice and the fun of colouring hair, (she has FRI always hankered after pink streaks), Mary is particularly FRI disturbed by the pressures in society for women to conceal FRI their age. FRI FRI It's not just about women, though. Mary has recently come to FRI recognise that far more men now colour their hair, but why FRI won't any of them talk to her about it? Eventually, fellow FRI Cambridge Classicist, Professor Simon Goldhill, agrees to FRI "come out" on air. In defending his use of colour and FRI challenging Mary's own choice, he gives her a philosophical FRI run for her money. FRI FRI Ultimately, Mary has to admit the paradox of making a radio FRI programme about grey hair, so she turns to a surprise, FRI high-profile television presenter to learn more about the FRI pressures on women in the public sphere to colour their FRI hair. FRI FRI Concluding that ageism may be the new "glass ceiling", Mary FRI insists upon the right to be both an "enfant terrible" and FRI also an "eminence grise". FRI FRI The all-grey production team consists of production FRI coordinator Anne Smith and producer Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 11:30 Dilemma b03vf07z (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 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 Tom Wrigglesworth and FRI Lucy Beaumont, who must resolve problems with dictators and FRI ugly children; journalist Anne McElvoy jumps into a phone FRI booth to deal with a super problem; and comedy writer Joel FRI Morris gets top marks for helping out an audience member. 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 Presenter ... Sue Perkins FRI Devised by ... Danielle Ward FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sue Perkins FRI Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth FRI Panellist: Anne McElvoy FRI Panellist: Lucy Beaumont FRI Panellist: Joel Morris FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b071ld2y (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b071x87f (Listen) FRI The Lion of al-Lat FRI FRI The Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 FRI antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or FRI looted in Iraq and Syria. FRI FRI The Lion of al-Lat was a protective spirit, the consort of a FRI Mesopotamian goddess. This 2,000 year old statue was one of FRI the first things the so-called Islamic State destroyed when FRI they took Palmyra in 2015. The Polish archaeologist Michal FRI Gawlikowski recalls discovering the lion during an FRI excavation in the 1970s, and we explore the wider symbolism FRI of lions and power and how this was appropriated by modern FRI rulers including Bashar al-Assad's own ancestors. FRI FRI Contributors: Michal Gawlikowski, Warsaw University; Zahed FRI Tajeddin, artist and archaeologist; Augusta McMahon, FRI University of Cambridge; Lamia al-Gailani, SOAS FRI FRI Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor FRI Producer: Maryam Maruf FRI FRI Picture: Lion of al-Lat FRI Credit: Michal Gawlikowski FRI FRI With thanks to Sarah Collins of the British Museum. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b071ld30 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b071ld32 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b073lr0m (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b071x87h (Listen) FRI Iqbal: Death for Falcons FRI FRI Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the poet and philosopher FRI Sir Muhammad Iqbal. FRI FRI One of India's most patriotic, eloquent writers, Iqbal is FRI also celebrated as Pakistan's national poet. In his spare FRI time, he wrote one of the first Urdu textbooks on economics; FRI earned a doctorate in philosophy, which he studied for in FRI Lahore, Cambridge and Germany; and became a barrister in FRI London. FRI FRI It was during his time in the west that Iqbal formulated his FRI Islamic critique of Western society that would eventually FRI become famous in Europe, India and the larger Muslim world. FRI FRI To Iqbal, the West's problem was one of love and desire. FRI Like the devil, the West seemed consumed with an insatiable FRI appetite. But the devil's failing, like the failing of FRI Milton's Satan, was that he 'declined to give absolute FRI obedience to the Almighty Ruler of the Universe.' FRI FRI In the same way, the West, by turning away from God and the FRI human brotherhood preached by Christ, had become a terrible FRI inversion of the ideal society. Its desires, severed from FRI the highest things, had become purely material. FRI FRI Iqbal's vision inevitably brought him to loggerheads with FRI those, including the British government and the Congress FRI movement, whose aspirations for India did not extend to an FRI ideal Islamic polity. FRI FRI Partly as a result, although he died almost a decade before FRI its creation, Iqbal's work has often been read as a forceful FRI argument for Pakistan. FRI FRI Featuring Professor Javed Majeed. FRI FRI Readings by Sagar Arya. FRI FRI Producer: Martin Williams FRI Executive Producer: Martin Smith. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b071whfc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b071x87k (Listen) FRI Pilgrim, Bayldon Abbey FRI FRI By Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI FRI Mr Delancey is desperate to prevent the marriage of his FRI daughter India, to the King of the Greyfolk. But both FRI William Palmer and India are trapped within the enchantment FRI of Caudley Fair. FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI Credits FRI Pilgrim: Paul Hilton FRI Delancey: David Schofield FRI Mr Hibbens: Joseph Kloska FRI Juliana: Clare Corbett FRI Zach: Sean Baker FRI Moira: Carolyn Pickles FRI Frank: Nick Underwood FRI India: Scarlett Brookes FRI Boris: Ewan Bailey FRI Leila: Nicola Ferguson FRI Girl: Rose Hilton-Hille FRI Director: Marc Beeby FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b071x87m (Listen) FRI Hadlow College, Kent FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Hadlow College in Kent. Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and FRI Pippa Greenwood answer the questions from the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Imagining Chekhov b071x87p (Listen) FRI The Death of Anton Chekhov 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 Three: FRI This story could be called The Death Of Anton Chekhov By FRI Anton Chekhov. Now very ill, Chekhov travels with Olga to a FRI spa town in Germany in the hope of better treatment. 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 b071x87t (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b071x87y (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b071x883 (Listen) FRI Nikola and Maris - Leaving Latvia FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a father and daughter FRI about the impact his departure from their home in Latvia to FRI work in Guernsey when she was just 7 had on their family. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b071ld34 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b071ld36 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b071x885 (Listen) FRI Series 48, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Gemma FRI Arrowsmith and special guests for a comic romp through the FRI week's news. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b071x887 (Listen) FRI Tony has concerns, and Emma has high hopes for Ed. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b071ld38 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b071x878 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b071x889 (Listen) FRI Clive Lewis MP, Jacob Rees Mogg MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Castle School in Thornbury,Gloucestershire with a FRI panel including the Labour MP Clive Lewis and the FRI Conservative MP Jacob Rees Mogg. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b071x88c (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b071x88f (Listen) FRI Incarnations India in 50 Lives - Omnibus, Episode 2 FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b071ld3b (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b071ld3d (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b071x88j (Listen) FRI We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Episode 5 FRI FRI Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her FRI sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there FRI were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic found FRI its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of FRI the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat FRI protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the FRI villagers. FRI FRI Episode Five: FRI The fire at the Blackwoods' house draws the villagers, a FRI vengeful mob. FRI FRI "If you haven't read We Have Always Lived In The Castle you FRI are missing out." Neil Gaiman. FRI FRI "Her greatest book...at once whimsical and harrowing." Donna FRI Tartt. FRI FRI "A masterpiece of Gothic suspense." Joyce Carol Oates. FRI FRI Shirley Jackson, who died 50 years ago, was perhaps best FRI known for her short story, The Lottery, and her novel, The FRI Haunting Of Hill House, twice filmed and thought to be the FRI last word in haunted-house tales. Her work has received FRI increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. FRI She has influenced such writers as Stephen King and Nigel FRI Kneale. FRI FRI Reader: Bryony Hannah FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bryony Hannah FRI Author: Shirley Jackson FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b071tgc2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b073m1hg (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b071x88l (Listen) FRI Jean and Khursheed - Our Lives as Migrants FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who both FRI immigrated to the UK, one from the US and one fleeing Idi FRI Amin's Uganda, comparing their experiences. Another in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
26 February, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 27/02/2016 - 04/03/2016
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