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SAT SATURDAY 05 MARCH 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b071ld6b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b072n0zp (Listen) SAT The Real Henry James, Childhood and Family SAT SAT Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a SAT great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews SAT and essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the SAT centenary of his death, these five anthologies reveal James SAT through his letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks. SAT SAT Episode 5: Childhood and Family SAT It may seem paradoxical to end a series on Henry James by SAT going back to his childhood - but that's what James himself SAT did in old age. As he approached 70, James began to look SAT back over his life and career - by then he was the only one SAT of five siblings to survive - and found that his early SAT memories and associations multiplied with an almost SAT uncontrollable vividness. SAT SAT We hear memories of how he roamed free as a young boy on the SAT streets of New York, and of his father, an eccentric SAT religious philosopher who detested 'prigs'. SAT SAT We hear too a moving and intimate account of a visit James SAT paid towards the end of his life to the family grave-plot SAT near Harvard - where his parents, his sister Alice, and SAT Wilky, one of his brothers, were buried. James wrote about SAT this only in his private notebooks, which speaks revealingly SAT about the importance of family for him. The programme ends SAT with a passage about the quest for religious faith, and with SAT James's great motto in life, "e kind, be kind, be kind..." SAT The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of SAT University College London, who is founding General Editor of SAT a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has SAT re-transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new SAT edition. SAT SAT Reader: Henry Goodman SAT With introductions by Olivia Williams SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Olivia Williams SAT Reader: Henry Goodman SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b071ld6d (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b071ld6g (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b071ld6j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b071ld6l (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 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SAT SAT The Dragon at Bures SAT SAT Walking with the Colchester Samaritans SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0729rqj (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b071ld6s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0729rql (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 b0729rqn (Listen) SAT Rebecca Front SAT SAT Bafta award winning actress Rebecca Front joins us on SAT Saturday Live to talk about being funny, playing dislikeable SAT characters and claustrophobia. SAT SAT Chef and writer Allegra McEvedy has been cooking SAT professionally for over 20 years, in London and the USA. 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SAT SAT and JP meets a couple who met over mutual admiration for SAT Ipswich Town Football Club. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Front SAT Interviewed Guest: Allegra McEvedy SAT Interviewed Guest: Henry Iddon SAT Interviewed Guest: Hannah Velten SAT Interviewed Guest: David Troughton SAT SAT 10:30 Laura Barton's Notes from a Musical Island b0729rqq (Listen) SAT Living by Water SAT SAT The music writer Laura Barton visits four corners of Britain SAT and listens closely to the music found in different SAT landscapes. SAT SAT In this first episode, Laura visits parts of the rugged SAT countryside of Northumberland and the coastal city of SAT Sunderland on Tyne and Wear to explore how music and SAT landscape are intimately related. SAT SAT In an environment defined by a beautiful coastline and great SAT northern rivers, Kathryn Tickell, the violinist and SAT Northumbrian piper, and Adrian McNally of the folk group The SAT Unthanks share their experiences of performing and arranging SAT traditional tunes that seem to have emerged from the sea and SAT been hewn from the soil. SAT SAT Members of the Sunderland band Frankie and the Heartstrings SAT take Laura on a tour of the shop they established in the SAT heart of the old industrial city to sell coffee, artworks SAT and records, as well as to provide a rehearsal and gig SAT space. They also perform acoustically in the famous Watch SAT House, from which volunteer lifeboatmen would keep an eye on SAT the Roker seashore. SAT SAT And Peter Brewis of Field Music, based in a former SAT industrial unit on the banks of the River Wear, tells Laura SAT about the distinctive accents of music from this part of the SAT North-East. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0729rqs (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b071ld6v (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b071ld6x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b071ld6z (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b071x885 (Listen) SAT Series 48, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Gemma SAT Arrowsmith and special guests for a comic romp through the SAT week's news. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b071ld71 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b071ld73 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b071x889 (Listen) SAT Juliet Davenport, Clive Lewis MP, Mark Littlewood, Jacob SAT Rees Mogg MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate Thornbury in SAT Gloucestershire with a panel including the CEO of Good SAT Energy Juliet Davenport, Labour Energy Minister Clive Lewis SAT MP,the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs SAT Mark Littlewood, and the Conservative MP Jacob Rees Mogg MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b071ld75 (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04c9gsl (Listen) SAT His Master's Voice SAT SAT By James Maw and Tim Sullivan. Rob Brydon is ventriloquist SAT Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews in a new play that SAT tells the true story behind one of the most successful radio SAT shows of all time. With Fenella Woolgar as Peggy Brough. SAT SAT The 1950s BBC Radio show Educating Archie - with 16 million SAT listeners - catapulted the ventriloquist Peter Brough from SAT suburban obscurity to the heights of high society. The Royal SAT Family were fans. His show introduced the world to Eric SAT Sykes (writer), Tony Hancock (Archie's Tutor), Max Bygraves SAT (another tutor) and Julie Andrews (Archie's girlfriend). SAT SAT After eight years on radio, Educating Archie transferred to SAT television. And yet, one day in 1961, Peter Brough locked SAT the dummy in a suitcase and left him on the top of a SAT wardrobe for forty years until, six years after the SAT ventriloquist's death, Archie Andrews was put up for SAT auction. SAT SAT His Master's Voice tells the true story of what went wrong SAT in the world of Archie Andrews and Peter Brough. SAT SAT Written by James Maw and Tim Sullivan SAT SAT Director and Producer: Jeremy Mortimer SAT A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Peter Brough: Rob Brydon SAT Archie Andrews: Rob Brydon SAT Peggy Brough: Fenella Woolgar SAT Arthur Brough: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Christopher Brough: Thomas Williams-Boyle SAT Romey Brough: Eliza Harrison-Dine SAT Liz: Stephanie Racine SAT Hattie Jacques: Stephanie Racine SAT William Haley: James Lailey SAT Max Bygraves: Ewan Bailey SAT Edith: Harriet Collings SAT Cloakroom Girl: Harriet Collings SAT Writer: James Maw SAT Writer: Tim Sullivan SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Producer: Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT 15:30 Black, White and Beethoven b071tgbk (Listen) SAT Britain's music scene today is a rich, multi-cultural feast SAT that draws on talent from all corners of society. Unless, SAT that is, your passion is classical music. In Britain, and SAT across Europe, performers, composers, teachers and SAT institutions remain resolutely, predominantly white. SAT SAT Why should this be, and is this a concern? Many believe SAT steps to redress this imbalance are now long overdue, and SAT that urgent action is required. But what should these SAT actions be, and would they be successful? SAT SAT Chi-chi Nwanoku and members of her Chineke! Orchestra, SAT Europe's first professional Black and Minority Ethnic SAT orchestra, talk about their lives in classical music: we SAT also hear from other Black classical musicians about the SAT circumstances of their work. SAT In Black White and Beethoven, Joseph Harker explores these SAT issues - taking stock of where we are, and exploring some SAT ideas that could help classical music to engage and reflect SAT the full diversity of contemporary society. SAT SAT Producer: Lyndon Jones for BBC Wales. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b071ld77 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jenni SAT Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b071ld79 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b071whgb (Listen) SAT Tax Avoidance SAT SAT Global firms like Amazon, Google and Starbucks have been SAT criticised for using clever accounting tricks to reduce SAT their tax bills in the UK. But how much tax should they be SAT paying? Evan Davis and guests discuss the whys and SAT wherefores of the international tax regime, including the SAT role of tax havens. Along the way, they'll digest the "Dutch SAT sandwich" and the "double Irish" tax avoidance devices used SAT by some multinationals. And given the widespread perception SAT that many firms don't pay their fair share of tax, they'll SAT assess efforts by the world's major economies to rewrite the SAT rules on corporate tax. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Heather Self, Tax Partner, Pinsent Mason SAT SAT Rolf Rothuizen, Partner, RPS Legal, Amsterdam SAT SAT Anthony Travers, Chairman, Cayman Islands Stock Exchange SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b071ld7k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b071ld7m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b071ld7p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0729t61 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Danny Wallace, Bridget Christie, Dennis SAT Morris, Luke Wright, Carla-Marie Williams, Emilie & Ogden, SAT The Eskies SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Danny Wallace are joined by Bridget SAT Christie, Dennis Morris, Luke Wright and Carla-Marie SAT Williams for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and SAT comedy. With music from Emelie & Ogden and The Eskies. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Bridget Christie SAT SAT 'A Book for Her' is published by Arrow and available now. SAT Bridget's touring 'A Book For Her' until 12th May. Check her SAT website for dates. SAT Bridget also appears as part of the WOW Women of the World SAT 2016 Festival at London’s Southbank, on Tuesday 8th March. SAT SAT SAT Carla-Marie Williams SAT 'Girls I Rate' launches on Tuesday 8th March (International SAT Women’s Day) SAT SAT SAT Dennis Morris SAT 'PiL – First Issue to Metal Box' is at ICA Fox Reading Room, SAT London from 23rd March to 15th May. SAT SAT Luke Wright SAT ‘What I Learned From Johnny Bevan’ is at the Soho Theatre SAT until 12 March. The accompanying book is published by Penned SAT In The Margins and available now. SAT SAT The Eskies SAT SAT 'After the Sherry Went Round' is available now on Parochial SAT Dancehall Records. SAT SAT SAT The Eskies are touring this month. They're playing The SAT Stables, Milton Keynes on Sunday 6th, The Finsbury, London SAT on Tuesday 8th and The Prince Albert, Stroud on Wednesday SAT 9th. Check their website for further dates. SAT SAT Emilie & Ogden SAT '10,000' is available now on Secret City. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Danny Wallace SAT Interviewed Guest: Bridget Christie SAT Interviewed Guest: Dennis Morris SAT Interviewed Guest: Luke Wright SAT Interviewed Guest: Carla-Marie Williams SAT Performer: Emilie & Ogden SAT Performer: The Eskies SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0729t63 (Listen) SAT Jenny Beavan SAT SAT For more than 30 years Jenny Beavan has been designing SAT beautiful and historically accurate costumes, for film and SAT stage. But though she cares intensely how the costumes look SAT on the actors and on screen, she has little interest in SAT fashion or dressing up herself. So despite being called a SAT bag lady at the Baftas she went along to collect her second SAT Oscar in comfortable clothes. SAT SAT Presenter - Becky Milligan SAT Producer- Shabnam Grewal and Elizabeth Cassin. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b071ld7t (Listen) SAT Hail Caesar, Don Quixote, Ta Nehisi Coates, Botticelli, SAT Thirteen SAT SAT Hail Caesar is the Coen Brothers' newest film - recalling SAT the Golden Age of Hollywood: the scandal, the vice and the SAT Studios' men who handled the catastrophes. SAT The RSC has adapted Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote in a SAT new production in Stratford. Can they do justice to a book, SAT more than 4 centuries old, which is often hailed as the The SAT Greatest Work Of The Spanish Language? SAT Ta Nehisi Coates writes about the experience of young black SAT America. His work is admired by the likes of Barack Obama SAT and he's been described as The Young James Joyce of the SAT hip-hop generation. We look at his latest work: The SAT Beautiful Struggle SAT Botticelli Reimagined at The V+A examines the enduring SAT impact of the Fifteenth century Florentine genius, SAT BBC Three is dramatising Thirteen, a thriller written by SAT young rising star Marnie Dickens. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Liz Jensen, Crystal Mahey Morgan SAT and Nicholas Rankin. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Main Image: Ivy Moxam (played by Jodie Comer), from SAT Thirteen, BBC Three. Credit: BBC/Todd Anthony. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Liz Jensen SAT Interviewed Guest: Crystal Mahey-Morgan SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicholas Rankin SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0729t65 (Listen) SAT A Brief History of Disobedience SAT SAT "Oh my goodness, look at that sign over there. Keep Off The SAT Grass. Makes me wonder who put it there. Makes me wonder why SAT I should keep off the grass. And it makes me want to go on SAT the grass!" SAT American satirist Joe Queenan presents A Brief History of SAT Disobedience, the follow up to his programmes on Blame, SAT Shame, Anger and Irony. He travels in time from the Old SAT Testament to Tarrytown, his home in suburban New York. He SAT aims to discover the importance of not doing what we are SAT told. So let your life be a counter friction to stop the SAT machine. SAT SAT With notable contributions from the archive - Gandhi, the SAT Suffragettes, the Greenham Common Peace protestors. Our SAT Heroes of Disobedience include Martin Luther, Geronimo, SAT Woody Guthrie and The Doors. Plus Matthew Parris on Margaret SAT Thatcher, Bill Finnegan on his barbarian days as a surfer SAT and Karen Moline on writing dirty books. And finally, SAT helpful hints about how to be usefully disobedient in SAT everyday life. SAT SAT Joe Queenan is an Emmy award winning broadcaster and writer. SAT The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. SAT SAT 21:00 Riot Girls b071s6nz (Listen) SAT The Life and Loves of a She Devil, Episode 2 SAT SAT by Fay Weldon, adapted by Joy Wilkinson. A darkly comic SAT fairy tale about revenge, sex and power. SAT SAT Ruth's campaign to punish her husband and his mistress is SAT well-advanced, and now she will still stop at nothing to get SAT the life, and the body, she desires. 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 Credits SAT Ruth: Hattie Morahan SAT Bobbo: Barnaby Kay SAT Mary Fisher: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Judge Bissop: Brian Protheroe SAT Father Ferguson: Edward MacLiam SAT Mrs Fisher: Susan Jameson SAT Nicola: Evie Killip SAT Andy: Leo Wan SAT Ghengis: Trevor White SAT Vickie: Rebecca Hamilton SAT Policeman: Sean Baker SAT Author: Fay Weldon SAT Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson SAT Director: Abigail le Fleming SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b071ld7w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b071vjrm (Listen) SAT Historical Sex Abuse SAT SAT The idea that we shouldn't speak ill of the dead has an SAT ancient heritage dating as far back as 600BC. It's SAT attributed to the Greek philosopher Chilon of Sparta, but SAT judging by recent headlines around allegations of historic SAT sex abuse it might not have much more of a shelf life. SAT Police forces keen to redress claims that in the past they SAT haven't treated victims fairly and to demonstrate they're SAT not part of a an establishment cover up, are devoting huge SAT resources to cases often dating back many decades and even SAT when the alleged perpetrator is dead. Combine that with a SAT press hungry for salacious gossip knowing that the dead SAT can't sue for libel and it's open season on people who are SAT not only unable to defend themselves, but who will never be SAT brought to trial. The most famous example is the former SAT Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, but there are numerous SAT others. Should the dead have the same rights as the living? SAT Should they be presumed innocent until proven guilty? Is SAT this just vindictive muck raking or do we owe the many SAT victims of child abuse a duty to try to expose the truth, SAT even after so many years have passed? If we aren't willing SAT to expose what really happened 50 years ago, then what are SAT the chances that we will ever face up to the truth of what SAT happens today? There are those who argue that for too long SAT the victim's voice has been ignored in our legal system and SAT that these investigations help them get closure. But is that SAT the same as justice? Should we hear these cases in court, or SAT would they be better suited to some kind of truth and SAT justice commission? In an increasingly victim-focused SAT climate is our pursuit of historic crimes distorting the SAT meaning of justice? SAT Chaired by Michael Buerk with Giles Fraser, Claire Fox, Anne SAT McElvoy and Mathew Taylor. Witnesses are Barbara Hewson, SAT Peter Hitchens, Mark Watts and Malcolm Johnson. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b071sn2c (Listen) SAT Heat 8, 2016 SAT SAT (8/17) SAT Russell Davies puts another four would-be Brains of Britain SAT through the toughest general knowledge test of them all. SAT Which is the hottest planet in the solar system? Who painted SAT the notorious 80th birthday portrait of Sir Winston SAT Churchill, which he hated and which his widow destroyed SAT after his death? What type of well is named after a region SAT of France near the modern border with Belgium? SAT SAT The winner today is assured a place in the semi-finals which SAT begin after Easter - but all of the competitors will be SAT going for as many points as they can, as the top-scoring SAT runners-up across the series also go through. SAT SAT A listener will also be challenging the competitors with his SAT or her own questions, in an attempt to Beat the Brains. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT MARK CAIRNS, a writer and photographer from London SAT SAT ROY ISWORTH, a surgeon from Tenterden in Kent SAT SAT JOHN WEBLEY, a dentist from Southampton SAT SAT WENDY YOUNG, an NHS worker and performance poet from London. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b071s6pd (Listen) SAT Fox Running SAT SAT Roger McGough presents the late Ken Smith's reading of his SAT long poem, Fox Running. The recording of this urgent, SAT driving poem about a man adrift in the city was made on SAT cassette tape and given to the programme by Ken's wife Judi SAT Benson. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poem SAT SAT Fox Running (Abridged version) SAT SAT by Ken Smith SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 MARCH 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b072hlgv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Modern Welsh Voices b03m3nv0 (Listen) SUN The Eyas SUN SUN The Eyas by Jim Perrin. The second of our original stories SUN by modern Welsh writers. SUN When a young boy becomes obsessed with taming wild birds SUN nature finds a way of retaliating. SUN SUN Read by Stefan Rhodri SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Stefan Rhodri SUN Writer: Jim Perrin SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b072hlgx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b072hlgz (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b072hlh1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b072hlh3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b072hs5l (Listen) SUN St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide SUN SUN Bells on Sunday, which this week comes from St Francis SUN Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide, Australia. Founded in 1856, SUN The Roman Catholic Cathedral lies in the heart of the city SUN in Victoria Square. The church's bell tower was completed in SUN 1966. The tower contains a peal of twelve bells from the SUN Whitechapel Foundry. Seven were cast in 1881, three in 1995 SUN and the tenor weighing twenty-eight and a half hundredweight SUN in the key of D was cast in 1992. This week ringing SUN 'Cambridge Surprise Maximus.'. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b071vjrp (Listen) SUN The Dining Room SUN SUN The Lent Talks are a series of essays on different SUN perspectives of the passion story. This year the theme is SUN "Lent in the Landscape". Michael Banner visits reflects the SUN famous Dining Hall at Trinity College Cambridge to reflect SUN on the Last Supper and betrayal. Producer: Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN Standing by the fountain here in the large court of Trinity SUN College, Cambridge, two buildings stand out. Away to my SUN right, with battlements, which I always think is a little SUN bit odd, is the Chapel. In front of me – also with SUN battlements - taller than the Chapel, with an altogether SUN more ornate entrance up a grand flight of stairs, is the SUN Hall, where we eat. The stature of these two imposing SUN buildings suggest their importance to the life of the SUN College when they were built. We are headed to the Hall SUN where the Fellows and students are eating right now - but SUN I’m not going to forget the Chapel, since I want to explore SUN how these two different buildings – one for praying and one SUN for eating – are connected, and connected by the Last SUN Supper. SUN SUN The Bible doesn’t say much about the venue for that event – SUN all we’re told is that in what we call holy week, on the SUN night before he died, Jesus ate a Passover meal with his SUN very closest disciples in a large upper room. The rest is SUN left to our imaginations. In my mind’s eye, when I think of SUN the Last Supper I picture a plain and simple room – SUN certainly not the Hall I see in front of me now – gilded SUN wood panelling, large windows filled with stained glass, SUN portraits hanging on the walls, and to top it all a SUN minstrel’s gallery, which is where I’m standing spying down SUN on the scene. SUN SUN This grand building was plainly meant to be more than a SUN merely functional space for eating. In the background you SUN can hear the regular lunchtime noise of students going into SUN a servery and carrying out trays with ordinary food – fish, SUN chips and peas by the look of it today – but the Hall was SUN not built to be a cafeteria, but for more formal eating. SUN And on many evenings we live up to the clichéd image of SUN Oxbridge dining, with rows of cutlery and glasses for SUN different courses and different wines, silver decorating the SUN tables, academic gowns, and a Latin prayer at beginning and SUN end – and if it really is a very special occasion, a feast, SUN there is a choir up here in this gallery to sing an even SUN longer and more solemn grace. SUN SUN But why do we have this theatre-set for eating, a building SUN built not for snacking or grazing, but for staging meals as SUN grand events or big occasions? What formal eating is about – SUN whether in this Hall or elsewhere - is about enjoying, SUN strengthening, indeed celebrating our social bonds and SUN ties. The banquet, the feast, the formal dinner, even the SUN old fashioned Sunday lunch, all have their own rules and SUN rituals. And these rules and rituals combine to make eating SUN into a special event, an occasion, helping a group of SUN individuals become and maintain itself as a community. SUN SUN But let me go back to the Chapel and to the Last Supper. I SUN have admitted that this grand Hall isn’t the simple and SUN plain room which I imagine as the venue for the Last Supper, SUN but there is a connection with the Last Supper - and I can SUN get at it by quoting the remark of a noted historian writing SUN about life in the middle ages, when halls similar to this SUN one were found in every castle, manor house, monastery, SUN convent or college in the land – she remarks that back then SUN ‘the eucharist hovered behind every banquet’. SUN SUN Now the eucharist, or Holy Communion, is the reenactment of SUN Christ’s Last Supper with his disciples, the occasion when SUN he gave his disciples bread and wine - his body and his SUN blood as he shockingly designated them – and when he SUN commanded them to repeat this simple meal in his memory. And SUN throughout the College’s history the eucharist has been SUN celebrated day by day, or week by week, over on the other SUN side of the Court in the Chapel. But though the reenactment SUN went on over there, it mattered over here too – it hovered SUN behind every banquet, every meal, in this Hall and in all SUN those like it. SUN SUN In some places, just in case, the connection between the SUN everyday meal and the Last Supper was underlined rather SUN heavily. Indeed that most famous painting of the Last SUN Supper, the one by Leonardo da Vinci, was actually painted SUN on the wall of a refectory similar to this Hall, facing the SUN diners on the top table. I really can’t imagine a more SUN powerful nudge but how did the eucharist’s hovering behind SUN every meal matter? What difference did it make? Christ’s SUN last meal on earth was shared with his closest disciples – SUN the twelve closest in fact, the Apostles. Numbers are SUN rarely random in the Bible, and the number of the Apostles SUN matches the number of the tribes of Israel. Thus this SUN gathering of twelve individuals symbolized the gathering of SUN the whole nation – but as the Christian imagination came to SUN see it, this was a gathering of a new Israel, not limited to SUN those twelve tribes, but open to any tribe. Symbolically SUN then, this first meal, and its ritual reenactment in the SUN eucharist, was a bringing together of all in a common meal. SUN SUN Humans have always used the sharing of food as a way to SUN strengthen kinship and social bonds; but we also very SUN effectively use meals as a way to make and mark particular SUN identities and so to circumscribe our social worlds – SUN marking some as in and some as out, as people we would SUN invite to eat at our tables, or not. Jesus, of course, SUN caused controversy and offence by flouting the rules SUN governing such matters in his day, eating with those who SUN were normally excluded from table fellowship by respectable SUN people. And the Last Supper, when reenacted as a meal to SUN which all are called, encouraged people to follow that lead, SUN by extending community beyond existing boundaries. We are, SUN says St Paul, all one because we share one bread – and the SUN ideal unity created by the eucharist begged to become a SUN social reality in the face of divisions of race and class SUN and status and gender. SUN SUN Christian practice rarely lived up to that ideal – but the SUN ideal expressed in the eucharist exerted a subtle influence SUN even on meals in this grand Hall. SUN SUN The other day I came across a nice story which illustrates SUN an important feature of collegiate eating. An undergraduate SUN at Trinity in the late 1920s (I will tell you his name in a SUN minute), spent a vacation acting as a tutor to the children SUN of a wealthy Parisian family passing the summer in the SUN Italian lakes. This undergraduate had attended a well-known SUN public school. He was a scholar of this College. But while SUN the family dressed for dinner every night and ate in SUN considerable splendour in their dining room, he was made to SUN eat his dinners all alone in the kitchen. Of course, SUN undergraduates have always formed cliques shaped by SUN distinctions of status and social rank but Colleges have SUN generally practiced what is known as ‘commensality’, the SUN habit of eating at the same table. Indeed the formal rules SUN and regulations of this College refer to ‘the common table’ SUN – and the word ‘common’ has the same root as the word SUN ‘communion’. SUN SUN I’ve been spying on the Hall from up in this minstrel’s SUN gallery, but let’s go down into the body of the Hall. Down SUN there is a small feature of the building which reminds me of SUN another side of the Last Supper - not the high ideal of SUN communion but the darker side - the story of betrayal which SUN occurred on that same evening in Holy week. And I haven’t SUN forgotten by the way that I must tell you the name of the SUN undergraduate I mentioned. SUN SUN I’ve come down from the gallery and I’m standing three SUN quarters of the way up the Hall just below the table where SUN Fellows eat – the High Table as it is known, though in SUN actual fact it’s not very high. There is only one step up SUN to it, amounting to four or five inches. Even this little SUN step witnesses well enough I think to an irrepressible human SUN desire to mark distinctions, to claim places of honour and SUN prestige – and so it calls to mind that other side of the SUN story of the Last Supper, and a betrayal we’re inclined to SUN overlook. SUN SUN The betrayal we immediately think of is the betrayal of SUN Christ by Judas. Most paintings of the Last Supper choose SUN to represent the very moment when Christ announces to the SUN Apostles that one of their number will betray him. They SUN depict the consequent discombobulation of the diners – but SUN if the Apostles are wondering ‘whodunnit’ - the viewer is SUN rarely left in any doubt. Sometimes Judas has a little SUN devil coming out of his mouth. In other pictures he is the SUN only one of the Apostles without a halo – or his halo is SUN black rather than gold. Or he looks so arch and dastardly SUN that you are left wondering how come he wasn’t spotted as a SUN bad’un when he was taken on as an Apostle. And even SUN paintings which don’t feature a pantomime or cartoon baddie, SUN very often place Judas all by himself on one side of the SUN table. We aren’t left to guess who is on the wrong side. SUN SUN I’m looking at a picture of a rather corpulent Henry VIII SUN but I’m still thinking about Leonardo. He made an early SUN sketch for his picture which has Judas all by himself on the SUN far side of the table but in the finished work, he put Judas SUN back in the middle and so does leave us guessing . We are SUN obliged to cast a suspicious eye over all the disciples in SUN search of the traitor – and to my mind, having a Judas who SUN doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb, produces an altogether SUN darker Last Supper to haunt our eating. SUN SUN Those who looked up from their food at Leonardo’s picture SUN would have known their Bibles well enough to know that in SUN Luke’s telling of the story of this meal, no sooner had the SUN apostles begun to wonder who it might be who’d betray Christ SUN than ‘a strife arose amongst them as to which of them should SUN be regarded as the greatest.’ It’s an extraordinary moment – SUN for the so-you-would-have-thought shocked disciples quickly SUN recover sufficiently to pick up an old dispute, indulge SUN their rivalries and jockey for position. Judas betrays SUN Christ in one way; but these others also betray the man in SUN this moment of crisis, and his teaching and example, with SUN this petty contention over rank and status. Judas the SUN betrayer is not as much one alone as some of those other SUN pictures suggest. SUN SUN What faces us as we face up to the Last Supper then, is not SUN an unalloyed vision of human society and communion, but also SUN a rather painful reminder of our human failure to sustain SUN communion. In the Last Supper we see the ideal sociality of SUN the common table; but along with that ideal fellowship, SUN comes the possibility of the bitter experience of SUN betrayal. I can after all only be betrayed by a supposed SUN friend, not by a known enemy. In John’s telling of the SUN story Jesus quotes the poignant words of a psalm – ‘He who SUN ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ SUN SUN Oh – and by the way – that undergraduate I mentioned, the SUN one who was made to sit alone in the kitchen while the SUN family dined in splendour next door – that was Anthony SUN Blunt. Sir Anthony Blunt as he became – an undergraduate, SUN Fellow and eventually Honorary Fellow of this College, and SUN one of three notorious spies Trinity contributed to the SUN infamous quartet comprising Philby, Burgess, Blunt and SUN Maclean. As a young Fellow, and again as an Honorary SUN Fellow, Blunt got to sit here at the High Table – though SUN when he was exposed as a traitor, before my time, the SUN Fellows voted to strip him of his Honorary Fellowship, SUN putting him out in the cold all over again. SUN SUN And now I’m out in the cold too, looking back at the Chapel SUN because I’m about to get all religious. SUN SUN In Leonardo’s picture, Jesus’ face is tinged with sadness, SUN but he remains a calm presence at the centre. He indicates SUN with his hands the bread and wine which symbolise his body SUN and blood, which he will very shortly give for this fickle SUN crew. It is as if he is presiding over all their betrayals SUN – and when his action is repeated, it is as if is he is SUN presiding over ours too - presiding over them, and SUN overruling them by his offering of himself for the sake of SUN our sins, summoning back into communion even those who have SUN plotted, schemed, or intrigued against him. SUN SUN Blunt, ironically, belonged as a student to a secret and SUN celebrated society known as the Apostles. But the irony SUN goes deeper still when we remember that real apostles, as it SUN turns out, are traitors too. Their eating together, and our SUN eating together, is haunted by disloyalties, by divisions, SUN by infidelities. But the one who presided over the first SUN Last Supper, so Christians believe, presides too at its SUN reenactment - in the rite of the eucharist – and this SUN reenactment continues to stand at the centre of Christian SUN existence just because in the eucharist Christians hear SUN afresh the words and actions of one who graciously calls us SUN to return to the common table, no matter that we have SUN rebelled against it. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b072hlh5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b072hs5n (Listen) SUN On Reflection SUN SUN John McCarthy is joined by painter Ken Currie to explore the SUN act of encountering our own self-image. SUN SUN This craving to come face to face with ourselves - to see SUN what we really are at the bottom of our souls, to discover SUN our identity and meaning - is perhaps the work of our lives. SUN SUN Sometimes pleasurable, occasionally surprising or SUN reassuring, often strangely disconcerting, this act of SUN looking at oneself in a reflective surface is so fundamental SUN in our ongoing assessment of ourselves. It might be just a SUN quick glance to check, "Do I look OK in this jacket? Do I SUN look as tired as I feel?" Or a longer stare to assess the SUN progress of the wrinkles around the eyes or emergence of SUN grey in one's hair. SUN SUN But sometimes we take a long look. Perhaps at times when SUN we're disconcerted by life - apprehensive, frightened or SUN ill. Then we ask questions like, "Is this what the world SUN sees when it sees me? Is this really me?" SUN SUN The programme includes readings from works by Angela Carter, SUN Ted Hughes, and Elizabeth Jennings. There's music by SUN Britten, Bill Evans and Debussy. The readers are Michael SUN Lumsden and Chetna Pandya. SUN SUN Produced by Rosie Boulton SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN POEM: Dark Pines Under Water by Gwendolyn MacEwen SUN SUN From: The Shadow-Maker. SUN SUN Toronto: Macmillan, 1972 SUN SUN Staring at trees reflected in a lake takes the poet deep SUN into her unconscious dreams. SUN SUN SUN POEM: Transmutation SUN SUN Gael Turnbull SUN SUN A girl is troubled by the lack of symmetry in her face SUN SUN SUN POEM: Love After Love by Derek Walcott SUN SUN Collected Poems SUN SUN Pub: Faber and Faber SUN SUN After heartbreak comes self-reflection and healing SUN SUN SUN POEM: Rembrandt’s Late Self-Portraits SUN SUN Elizabeth Jennings SUN SUN The poet addresses the painter about the process of self SUN portraiture SUN SUN SUN READING: The Erl-King SUN SUN Angela Carter SUN SUN Catching sight of her reflection in his monstrous eye she SUN senses great danger SUN SUN SUN POEM: Narcissus - Ovid, SUN SUN Translated by Ted Hughes SUN SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN SUN Narcissus falls for his own reflection SUN SUN SUN READING: Job chapter 38 SUN SUN Old Testament SUN SUN God appears to Job and reveals himself in a set of SUN spectacular images. At last Job can see himself clearly. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b072hs5q (Listen) SUN Goat Curry SUN SUN As a child Adam Wright asked for farm toys every Christmas, SUN his sole ambition was always to become a farmer. For a SUN working class boy with no land, no connnections and no SUN experience it's proven to be a tough task but with his SUN partner, Vicky he now runs a thriving online business, SUN raising goats and selling their meat all over the country. SUN SUN Nancy Nicholson visits Adam and Vicky's farm at Keith in the SUN North-East of Scotland. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b072hlh7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b072hlh9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b072hs5s (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b072hs5v (Listen) SUN All We Can SUN SUN Dr Jill Barber presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of All SUN We Can SUN Registered Charity No 291691 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'All We Can' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'All We Can'. SUN SUN All We Can SUN SUN All We Can is a pioneering international development, relief SUN and advocacy organisation that believes in the power of SUN partnership. It has its roots in the British Methodist SUN Church and is inspired by Christian principles to focus on SUN those in greatest need. Find out more at SUN www.allwecan.org.uk SUN SUN SUN All Rita wants is a future for her daughter SUN If you’re born a girl in Rita’s village, in the Jharkhand SUN state of eastern India, you’re likely to be married before SUN the age of 16. You are denied a voice in decision-making and SUN have little access to finance or land. More than a third are SUN victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse, and many fear SUN being ostracised or punished if they are seen talking to SUN others. SUN SUN “I'm no longer scared. I can speak out.” SUN Life is now changing in Rita’s village, thanks to All We SUN Can’s local partner organisation, the Srijan Foundation. SUN They helped women find a new source of income, trained them SUN in leadership skills and increased their understanding of SUN the laws in place to protect them from domestic violence. SUN SUN Inspiring change for their children SUN SUN Now Rita is working with other women in her village to SUN change their community for the better. They set up a goat SUN rearing co-operative which has given them more independence SUN and built their confidence. Now they are putting their SUN energy into urgent matters, like healthcare for under-fives, SUN clean drinking water in schools, and protection for those SUN suffering abuse. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b072hlhc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b072hlhf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b072hs5x (Listen) SUN Lent Pilgrimage 4: Alone and Together SUN SUN On Lent pilgrimage, Mothering Sunday's service comes live SUN from St Martin-in-the-Fields, taking the theme from the CTBI SUN Lent resources: 'Alone and Together.' On the great SUN pilgrimage of life, it is often necessary to journey alone, SUN whilst at other times, we share our path with others. Never SUN is this more apparent than within the family setting where SUN there is a delicate balance between community and SUN independence. Reflecting on the line "A Sword will Pierce SUN your own Soul Too", the Revd. Dr. Anna Poulson considers her SUN own experience of motherhood. The service is led by the Rev. SUN Dr. Sam Wells with music from St. Martin's Voices, directed SUN by Andrew Earis. SUN SUN Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b071x88c (Listen) SUN The Love of Honours SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztpd (Listen) SUN Great Tit SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN David Attenborough presents the story of the Great Tit. That SUN metallic 'tea-cher, tea-cher' song of the great tit is SUN instantly recognisable and you can hear it on mild days from SUN mid-December onwards. It's the origin of the old country SUN name, 'Saw-Sharpener'. SUN SUN Great Tit (Parus major) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b072hlhk (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 b072ht0m (Listen) SUN Ambridge looks back to the floods of a year ago and Blossom SUN Hill's alive with the sound of interfering. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b072ht0p (Listen) SUN Dr Dame Sue Ion SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and nuclear SUN scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion. SUN SUN The first woman to be awarded the highly prestigious SUN President's Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering, she SUN has worked her way to the heart of an industry that remains SUN very contentious. SUN SUN Her passion for understanding how and why the world works SUN the way it does first began as she tinkered for hours at her SUN parents' kitchen table with a little chemistry set. SUN SUN Today she goes into schools to encourage more girls to take SUN up engineering and her enthusiasm for the subject has SUN galvanised many to take up the discipline. SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Sue Ion SUN Producer: Paula McGinley SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b072hlhs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b071sn2k (Listen) SUN Series 74, Episode 2 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth, Tim Rice & Esther Rantzen join Paul Merton SUN and Nicholas Parsons as they try to speak without deviation, SUN hesitation or repetition on such diverse subjects as Bubble SUN & Squeak, Kiwis and A Leap Year in the classic panel game. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Tim Rice SUN Panellist: Esther Rantzen SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b072ht0r (Listen) SUN BBC Food and Farming Awards 2016: The Finalists SUN SUN Sheila Dillon unveils the list of this year's BBC Food & SUN Farming Awards finalists. SUN SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b072hlhv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b072hlhx (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Back to the Ice b072htqp (Listen) SUN In 1979, as a 21-year-old graduate, BBC weather presenter SUN Peter Gibbs was sent to the end of the Earth, spending more SUN than two years at the British Antarctic Survey's Halley SUN Research Station. It was an experience that shaped his life. SUN Half a lifetime later, he's returning for the first time. SUN SUN Halley is celebrating its 60th anniversary. First SUN established in 1956 on the Brunt Ice Shelf - a floating mass SUN of ice hundreds of metres thick in parts, which flows off SUN the Antarctic continent to the sea - Halley is the SUN cornerstone of the British Antarctic Survey's scientific SUN research on the white continent. SUN SUN At Cape Town, Peter boards the Royal Research Ship 'Ernest SUN Shackleton' for a two-week voyage across the vast Southern SUN Ocean. Docking beside the ice shelf, he rides a snowcat to SUN the Halley site to find out more about how the science being SUN done today compares with the observations he took himself SUN three decades ago, and how a new generation is coping with SUN life in the coldest, driest, windiest, most isolated place SUN on Earth. SUN SUN Peter talks to scientists including space weather expert SUN Richard Horne, glaciologist Hilmar Gudmundsson, and polar SUN mapping specialist Andrew Fleming to understand more about SUN Halley's vital role in data collection and analysis. He SUN explores Halley's architecture - a bold new design of linked SUN modules elevated above the snow on hydraulic legs fitted SUN with giant skis - and asks whether the millions spent at SUN Halley is money well spent. SUN SUN Finally, for old times' sake, Peter repeats an experiment he SUN himself performed hundreds of times during his Antarctic SUN posting, working with meteorologist Amy Valach to launch a SUN weather balloon loaded with scientific instruments into the SUN chilly Antarctic skies. SUN SUN Producer: Matthew Teller SUN A Whistledown Production. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b071x87m (Listen) SUN Hadlow College, Kent SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Hadlow College in Kent. SUN SUN Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood answer the SUN questions from the audience on trees suitable for small SUN gardens, making peace with pests, and plants fit for a SUN queen. They also take time to reminisce on their own days as SUN horticultural students. SUN SUN And Eric takes a look around Down House, home of keen SUN botanist Charles Darwin and where he penned On the Origin of SUN Species. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – As a professional gardener I am often asked for a plant SUN that flowers for twelve months of the year, is evergreen, SUN does well in full sun or deep shade, wet or dry, and needs SUN no maintenance… how would the panel answer this question? SUN SUN Pippa – I always point out that one plant would be boring! SUN Seasonal differences keep things interesting. SUN SUN Matt – You can get one plant with lots of different elements SUN – *Amelanchiers* for example SUN SUN SUN Q – My fifteen-year-old ‘Autumn Bliss’ raspberries no longer SUN fruit very much. Should I dig up and start again? SUN SUN Pippa – Much as I hate getting rid of things I think the SUN writing is on the wall for them. Raspberry canes are SUN remarkably inexpensive for how much you get from them. Put SUN them on a new piece of ground. ‘Autumn Bliss’ is great. SUN ‘Joan J’ too. SUN SUN Anne – Make sure the ground is well-drained. Raspberries SUN need good drainage. SUN SUN SUN Q – Do the panel have suggestions for trees for small SUN gardens which are good for wildlife and attractive? SUN SUN Anne – Apple trees. I would go for an edible or cooking SUN variety. SUN SUN Matt – *Pyrus* ‘Chanticleer’. *Malus* – there’s a little one SUN called ‘Evereste. *Sorbus* are great for flowers and fruit – SUN there’s one called *Sorbus commixta* which is very good. SUN SUN Pippa – Most of the ornamental Malus too. Also, make sure SUN you’ve got some Ivy running up and through things too – SUN great for birds and insects. Not a tree, but for bees there SUN is nothing better than *Ceanothus*. SUN SUN SUN Q – Can the panel suggest ways of keeping peace in the SUN garden, as waging war on pests could be creating SUN super-pests? SUN SUN Anne – That does apply to things like Whitefly because they SUN have such short life cycles they are able to breed so fast SUN and breed immunity to pesticides. Really, to avoid this SUN you’d have to stop spraying and you’d have to rely on forest SUN garden principles and stop tampering with the soil so as to SUN avoid disturbing mycorrhizal fungi. Some plants are good at SUN fixing nitrogen deficiency – plants like the Sweet Gale or SUN *Myrica gale *a native that will live in swampy places. SUN This will make the plants more resistant and you won’t have SUN to rely on sprays and insecticides as much. SUN SUN Pippa – Gardening is desperately artificial but gently so! SUN I’m an advocate of biological control – nematodes, SUN encouraging ladybirds to control aphids, putting up barriers SUN to stop pigeons eating brassicas etc – and that isn’t going SUN to have a significant effect on the evolution of pests. SUN SUN SUN Q – I’ve got quite a lot of *Montbretia* – it grows very SUN well and has lots of foliage but not much in the way of SUN flowers. How can I encourage more flowers? Soil is clay but SUN with lots of organic material in it and it’s in mixed light. SUN SUN SUN Eric – This is what we call *Crocosmia* these days SUN SUN Anne – It might depend on what type you have SUN SUN Matt – ‘Lucifer’ is the strongest type of *Crocosmia*. SUN Continue improving the soil to avoid too much water in SUN winter and not enough in summer – a problem with clay. Go SUN for a vigorous sort like ‘Solfatare’. ‘Norwich Canary’ too. SUN ‘Spitfire’, ‘Lucifer’, ‘Hellfire’ are good options as well. SUN SUN SUN Q – For the last couple of years some of my *Azaleas* have SUN had Azalea Gall – I’ve rubbed them off but it seems to SUN weaken the plants. Am I wasting my time? SUN SUN SUN Pippa – It’s an exciting looking fungus! It’s a fungus SUN called *Exobasidium* which causes this swelling and SUN distortion but I’ve never seen it cause a significant change SUN in flowering or the general vigour of the plant. I suggest SUN you pick them off when they’re still green, wash your hands, SUN keep an eye out for fungus gnats – they can spread the SUN infection as they zig-zag around, water a bit less, then SUN concentrate on a little extra TLC – maybe a little extra SUN feed – and it should be fine. SUN SUN SUN Q – My garden will be open on June 10th for the Queen’s 90th SUN birthday – what can I plant for a good show at that time? SUN SUN Anne – You haven’t got very long! You won’t get anything SUN from seed so you’ll need to buy bedding plants. Slightly SUN larger ones like *Osteospermums* or* Dimorphotheca* – the SUN African Daisies – they should move pretty quickly. SUN SUN Matt – Hanging baskets filled with *Petunias*, *Fuchsias*, SUN blue *Lobellias*, white *Alyssum*, red *Salvias*. Make sure SUN you cram the baskets full so you get a nice sphere of SUN colour. SUN SUN Pippa – If you have a greenhouse, I’d pot up lots of things SUN into good-sized pots, bring them on the greenhouse and then SUN put them out on the day! Otherwise you’ll be running a risk SUN with the unpredictable weather! SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b072htqr (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about the reasons for SUN migration, the impact on those left behind and the question SUN of identity in your new homeland, in the Omnibus 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 15:00 Drama b072htqt (Listen) SUN Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell, Episode 1 SUN SUN Sylvia Dobson's cousin, Philip, lives for her, he loves her SUN totally but Sylvia is in love with seafaring whaler, Charlie SUN Kinraid. Gaskell's last (completed) novel is set in SUN Yorkshire. Set in the 1790's - the time of the Napoleonic SUN wars. It takes place in Monkshaven (ie.Whitby). The Press SUN Gangs were always lurking when the whale boats were SUN returning from Greenland with their cargo. They intercepted SUN the boats, seized the men and pressed them into service with SUN the Royal Navy to fight the French. SUN SUN Elizabeth Gaskell ...... Barbara Flynn SUN Sylvia ...... Jodie Comer SUN Philip ...... Graeme Hawley SUN Charlie Kinraid ...... Chris Connel SUN Bell ...... Siobhan Finneran SUN Daniel ..... Paul CopleySylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell SUN Dramatised by Ellen Dryden SUN Sylvia Dobson's cousin, Philip, lives for her, he loves her SUN totally but Sylvia is in love with seafaring whaler, Charlie SUN Kinraid. Gaskell's last (completed) novel is set in SUN Yorkshire. Set in the 1790's - the time of the Napoleonic SUN wars. It takes place in Monkshaven (ie.Whitby). The Press SUN Gangs were always lurking when the whale boats were SUN returning from Greenland with their cargo. They intercepted SUN the boats, seized the men and pressed them into service with SUN the Royal Navy to fight the French. SUN SUN Kester/Donkin ...... Jonathan Keeble SUN Molly ...... Nichola Burley SUN Mrs. Corney ....... Olwen May SUN Produced/directed by Pauline Harris. SUN SUN Credits SUN Elizabeth Gaskell: Barbara Flynn SUN Sylvia: Jodie Comer SUN Philip: Graeme Hawley SUN Charlie Kinraid: Chris Connel SUN Bell: Siobhan Finneran SUN Kester: Jonathan Keeble SUN Donkin: Jonathan Keeble SUN Molly: Nichola Burley SUN Mrs Corney: Olwen May SUN Director: Pauline Harris SUN Producer: Pauline Harris SUN Author: Elizabeth Gaskell SUN Adaptor: Ellen Dryden SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b072htqw (Listen) SUN Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History SUN SUN Michael Holroyd is one of our leading biographers. He SUN discusses A Strange Eventful History, his revealing SUN biography of some of British theatre's most influential SUN figures, Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. SUN SUN Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of SUN British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first SUN theatre appearance as soon as she could walk, were the king SUN and queen of the Victorian stage. Creatively interdependent, SUN they founded a power-house of arts at the Lyceum Theatre, SUN with Bram Stoker as business manager, where they recast SUN Shakespeare's plays on an epic scale and took the company on SUN lucrative and exhilarating international tours. SUN SUN In this 2009 group biography Michael Holroyd explores the SUN public and private lives of the two actors, showing how SUN their artistic legacy and their brilliant but troubled SUN children came to influence the modern world. SUN SUN Presented by James Naughtie. SUN SUN April's Bookclub choice : Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth SUN Strout (2009) SUN SUN Interviewed guest : Michael Holroyd SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b072htxz (Listen) SUN Women Poets SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry written by SUN women including Charlotte Mew, Wendy Cope and Kathleen SUN Jamie. Maya Angelou reads her own work in a recording from SUN the archives. Other readers are Lucy Black and Fiona Shaw. SUN Producer Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN SUN Now I become myself SUN SUN by May Sarton SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/now-i-become-myself/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Phenomenal Woman SUN SUN By Maya Angelou SUN SUN From Maya Angelou - The Complete Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Virago SUN SUN SUN SUN The Creel SUN SUN by Kathleen Jamie SUN SUN Taken from SUN https://thisteacherslife.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/the-creel/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Names SUN SUN By Wendy Cope SUN SUN From Two Cures for Love SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Storm Warnings SUN SUN By Adrienne Rich SUN SUN From The Fact of a Doorframe – Poems Selected and New SUN 1950-1984 SUN SUN Published by Norton SUN SUN SUN SUN Dreamwood SUN SUN By Adrienne Rich SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244130 SUN SUN SUN SUN The Coat SUN SUN by Vicki Feaver SUN SUN From Close Relatives SUN SUN Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN Rain After Drought SUN SUN By Mary Morison Webster SUN SUN From SUN http://nimnod.org/poetry/others/mmwebster SUN SUN SUN SUN The Train SUN SUN Mary Elizabeth Coleridge SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-train-18/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Hatred SUN SUN By Wislawa Szymborska SUN SUN Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh SUN SUN From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN May 1915 SUN SUN By Charlotte Mew SUN SUN From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN June 1915 SUN SUN By Charlotte Mew SUN SUN From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd SUN SUN SUN SUN Courage SUN SUN By Anne Sexton SUN SUN From The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton SUN SUN Published by Houghton Mifflin SUN SUN SUN SUN When I Shall Die SUN SUN By Olive Fraser SUN SUN Sent in by requester SUN SUN SUN SUN Stargazer SUN SUN By Jo Shapcott SUN SUN From Of Mutability SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Hello SUN SUN By Sheenagh Pugh SUN SUN Taken from Sheenagh Pugh – Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Seren Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Home SUN SUN By Elaine Feinstein SUN SUN From Elaine Feinstein – Collected Poems and Translations SUN SUN Published by Carcanet SUN SUN SUN SUN Enough for Me SUN SUN by Fadwa Tuqan SUN SUN Taken from SUN http://www.angelfire.com/rant/truthaboutpalestine/enough.htm SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Italia, Io Ti Saluto! SUN SUN By Christina Rossetti SUN SUN From Christina Rossetti – Poems and Prose SUN SUN Published by Everyman SUN SUN SUN SUN Bird SUN SUN By Myra Schneider SUN SUN Taken from Poetrymagazines.org.uk SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Maya Angelou SUN Reader: Lucy Black SUN Reader: Fiona Shaw SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b071tgc6 (Listen) SUN Special Guardianships: Keeping Things in the Family? SUN SUN Special guardianship orders are a way of giving legal status SUN to those - usually grandparents, aunts and uncles, brothers SUN and sisters - who come forward to care for children when SUN their parents can't. SGOs were designed to let children grow SUN up with family, instead of in care - once a relative is SUN granted special guardianship, the council steps backs and SUN the guardian can raise the child without social services SUN interfering. SUN The use of special guardianship orders has been rising-last SUN year more than 3,000 of them were made. SUN But special guardianship breaks down more often - and more SUN quickly - than adoption. SUN And in some cases children have been neglected, abused, or SUN murdered. SUN The family court service Cafcass and the Association of SUN Directors of Children's Services have warned that weak SUN assessments of the risks of family placements are a 'real SUN risk' for children. SUN The government has re-written the law on how special SUN guardians are assessed. But with court deadlines and growing SUN pressure on social workers and budgets, will it make SUN children safer? Jane Deith investigates. SUN Producer: Emma Forde. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0729t63 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b072hlhz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b072hlj1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b072hlj3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b072hvmy (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay SUN SUN Liz Barclay chooses his BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b072hvn0 (Listen) SUN On Mother's Day, Rob and Henry roll up their sleeves. David SUN tries to cheer a lovesick Pip. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01rvptv (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel. Lloyd SUN Langford & Susie Dent, compete against Dave Gorman & Natalie SUN Haynes to find out who has the most word know-how. SUN SUN This week Dave Gorman guesses the meaning of the phrase SUN 'living on Queen Street' from the late 1800s; Natalie Haynes SUN unravels the word 'autodysomophobia'; Lloyd Langford guesses SUN the meaning of the Yiddish word 'farpotshket'; and Susie SUN Dent shares her love of the current Liverpool word SUN 'twirlies' and explains the meaning of the word SUN 'quockerwodger'. SUN SUN Both teams also have a go at coming up with modern phrases SUN to replace the old cliches 'When life give you lemons, make SUN lemonade' and 'Beauty is only skin deep'. 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 Panellist: Dave Gorman SUN Panellist: Natalie Haynes SUN Panellist: Lloyd Langford SUN Panellist: Susie Dent SUN SUN 19:45 Leap b072hvn2 (Listen) SUN Our Italics SUN SUN The idea of 'leap' can include conceptual leaps of faith, or SUN hope, as well as the crossing over from one side to another. SUN Stuart Evers explores the stages or leaps in a child's SUN development and in particular that first momentous occasion SUN when a parent recognises that his child has told a SUN deliberate untruth. SUN SUN From then on, the parent learns about the lies and loves of SUN their offspring and, in this story, a single parent father SUN reflects on what he has learned from his daughter. SUN SUN Written by by Stuart Evers SUN Read by Anton Lesser SUN SUN Produced by Lizzie Davies SUN A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Stuart Evers SUN Reader: Anton Lesser SUN Producer: Lizzie Davies SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b071x87y (Listen) SUN Fear of Flying, Evan Davis SUN SUN Radio 4's forum for audience comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b071x87t (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b071ld6z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b072hs5v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b071sx1h (Listen) SUN Labour and the Bomb SUN SUN Jeremy Corbyn's opposition to the renewal of Britain's SUN nuclear deterrent has opened up divisions within the Labour SUN Party that run very deep. The issue will come to a head when SUN Parliament votes on whether to replace the Trident weapons SUN system, following a recommendation from the Government. SUN While Labour formally reviews its position, will Corbyn be SUN able avoid a damaging split that beset the party in the SUN 1980s? SUN SUN It was a Labour government which decided to make Britain a SUN nuclear power. "We've got to have this thing, whatever it SUN costs. We've got to have a bloody Union Jack on top of it," SUN declared Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary in the postwar SUN Labour government. Ever since that decision in 1946, the SUN question of whether to keep 'the bomb' has divided the party SUN between those who believe it is the cornerstone of Britain's SUN defence policy within NATO and others who have long SUN campaigned to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Twice before SUN in Opposition the party has opted for unilateral SUN disarmament, only for the policy to be reversed after a SUN period of acrimonious debate and electoral defeat. SUN SUN In this programme, the veteran political reporter John SUN Sergeant examines Labour's troubled relationship with the SUN bomb. Former party leader Neil Kinnock and other senior SUN figures reflect on how the party discarded unilateralism in SUN the late 1980s and offer advice on what lessons can be SUN learned. Can Jeremy Corbyn overcome opposition with the SUN Parliamentary Labour Party to changing the official policy SUN of multilateral disarmament? Does his recent suggestion of SUN maintaining submarines without nuclear missiles satisfy SUN those who want Britain to disarm come what may? SUN SUN Producer: Peter Snowdon. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b072hlj7 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b072hvn4 (Listen) SUN George Parker of The Financial Times looks at how the SUN newspapers are covering the big stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b071vlmv (Listen) SUN The Coen brothers on synchronised swimming and communism SUN SUN The Coen Brothers talk to Antonia Quirke about Hail Caesar, SUN a parody of Hollywood in the early 50s and explain why they SUN believe there were Reds under the beds in the film industry SUN at the time. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN Interviewed Guest: Joel Coen SUN Interviewed Guest: Ethan Coen SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b072hs5n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 MARCH 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b072hlkn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b071vjrk (Listen) MON The debt collection industry, Spousal job loss MON MON The debt collection industry: Laurie Taylor explores what MON happens when everyday forms of borrowing, such as credit MON cards, personal loans and store cards, spiral out of MON control. He talks to Joe Deville, Lecturer in Mobile Work at MON the University of Lancaster, and author of a study which MON offers a vivid account of consumer default and the evolution MON of agencies designed to collect people's debts. He's joined MON by Adrienne Roberts, Lecturer in International Politics at MON the University of Manchester, who has researched the growing MON reliance of households on borrowed money. MON MON Also, how do couples react to spousal job loss? Karon Gush, MON Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex, MON considers the ways in which couples re-configure their lives MON and finances in response to one person losing paid MON employment. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b072hs5l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b072hlkq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b072hlks (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b072hlkv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b072hlkx (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b073mhmm (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day Shirley MON Jenner, Lecturer at the University of Manchester. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b072hwfw (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b072hlkz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03wphhd (Listen) MON Blackbird (Spring) 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 Bill Oddie presents the blackbird. Blackbirds are thrushes MON and the brown female often has a few speckles on her throat MON to prove it. Velvety, black and shiny, the males sport an MON eye-ring as yellow as a spring daffodil and a bill glowing MON like a buttercup. Happily blackbirds aren't doing too badly. MON There's so many of them that their territories often overlap MON so that where one song leaves off, another song begins. MON MON Blackbird (Turdus merula) MON Webpage image courtesy fo RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b072j0mj (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b072j0ml (Listen) MON Scotland MON MON Start the Week comes from Glasgow this week. As the debate MON over the EU Referendum continues Kirsty Wark looks back at MON the Scottish Referendum with the historians Tom Devine and MON Chris Whatley. How much did the history of the union from MON 1707 and Scotland's sense of identity play a role in the MON public vote and imagination? The poet Kathleen Jamie wrote a MON poem a week to mark the momentous changes taking place in MON Scotland last year. Jamie is well-known for her celebration MON of the country's wild landscape, but the artist Angus MON Farquhar is focused on transforming a very different piece MON of Scottish heritage - the 60s modernist ruin, St Peter's MON Seminary. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Wark MON Interviewed Guest: Tom Devine MON Interviewed Guest: Chris Whatley MON Interviewed Guest: Kathleen Jamie MON Interviewed Guest: Angus Farquhar MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b072j0mn (Listen) MON Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI, Episode 1 MON MON Seamus Heaney was working on a translation of book VI of MON Virgil's Aeneid in the last months of his life . MON MON Ian McKellen reads the poet's posthumously published final MON work in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the MON spirit of his father. It's a story that had captivated MON Seamus Heaney from his schooldays. But the work took on a MON special significance for him after the death of his own MON father, becoming a touchstone to which he would return as an MON adult. His noble and moving translation of Book VI bears the MON fruit of a lifetime's concentration upon it: he began MON translating passages in the 1980s, and was finalising the MON work right up to the summer of his death. MON MON Given the themes of the posthumously released Book VI, there MON is added poignancy in this final gift to his readers - a MON work which marks the end of Heaney's poetic journey. MON MON Then as her fit passed away and her raving went quiet, MON Heroic Aeneas began: 'No ordeal, O Sibyl, no new MON Test can dismay me, for I have foreseen MON And foresuffered all. But one thing I pray for MON Especially: since here the gate opens, they say, MON To the King of the Underworld's realms, and here MON In these shadowy marshes the Acheron floods MON To the surface, vouchsafe me one look, MON One face-to-face meeting with my dear father. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Ian McKellen MON Author: Virgil MON Translation: Seamus Heaney MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b072j0mq (Listen) MON Jude Kelly MON MON Jude Kelly, artistic director of Southbank Centre, discusses MON highlights of Women of the World Festival 2016. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b072j325 (Listen) MON Jane Eyre, Episode 6 MON MON Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the MON bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte Bronte's birth. MON Romance, passion and danger wrapped up in a MON glorious love story. MON Episode Six MON When Jane returns to Thornfield she realises she has MON never loved Rochester more. But she knows he will MON marry Blanche and she will leave and MON never see him again. MON MON Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON Credits MON Jane: Amanda Hale MON Rochester: Tom Burke MON Mrs Fairfax: Susan Jameson MON Bertha: Tracy Wiles MON Mason: Ewan Bailey MON Priest: Gerard McDermott MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Producer: Tracey Neale MON Author: Charlotte Bronte MON Adaptor: Rachel Joyce MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr7ft (Listen) MON Be My Baby MON MON Grace Dent presents untold stories of 21st century Britain. MON MON After a week-long fling with a girl he met on Tagged, 21 MON year old Thomas is shocked to hear she is pregnant. MON MON He stands up to the mark, offering support and going with MON her to the scans, but she suddenly cuts off all MON communication. She doesn't return his calls or messages and MON Thomas can only guess what is going on. Has he done MON something wrong? Does she just want to do this on her own? MON The ex- boyfriend has moved back so perhaps the child isn't MON actually his? MON MON In October he sees a baby girl being pushed around town. He MON sees her photos on Facebook. He knows his life will change MON forever if he is found to be the father, but Thomas can't MON cope with not knowing. MON MON He is going to court to force a DNA test to find out one way MON or another. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen. MON MON 11:30 Dot b072j327 (Listen) MON The Mystery at St Horribly-Vulture's School for Boys MON MON by Ed Harris MON MON Comedy in the Cabinet War Rooms. Dot's been sent to St MON Horribly Vulture's School for Boys to enlist a teacher for MON 'Shhhh Bletchley Park'. But is he the right sort of chap for MON the job? MON MON Director/Producer Jessica Brown. MON MON Credits MON Dot: Fenella Woolgar MON Myrtle: Kate O'Flynn MON Millicent: Jane Slavin MON Peabody: David Acton MON Mr Belltower: Brian Protheroe MON Apsley: Sam Rix MON Director: Jessica Brown MON Producer: Jessica Brown MON Writer: Ed Harris MON MON 12:00 News Summary b072hll1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b072j329 (Listen) MON Mar Elian Monastery 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 This monastery in the remote Syrian town of Qaryatayn held MON the 1,000 year old tomb of a saint, Mar Elian, who was MON revered by Christians and Muslims alike. After the Islamic MON State group took Palmyra, they came to the monastery of Mar MON Elian, kidnapped its priest and later bulldozed the site. A MON British archaeologist who lived and worked there for many MON years tells the legends of Mar Elian and her close MON relationship with the community. MON MON Contributors: Emma Loosley, University of Exeter; Father MON Jacques Murad, formerly priest at Mar Elian MON MON Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor MON Producer: Maryam Maruf MON MON Picture: Doorway to Mar Elian MON Credit: Emma Loosley MON MON With thanks to Shadi Atalla. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b072hll3 (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b072hll5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b072j32c (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b072j32f (Listen) MON Amrita Sher-Gil: This Is Me MON MON Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the painter Amrita MON Sher-Gil - 20th century India's first art star - who died MON under shrouded circumstances in 1941 at the age of just 28. MON MON Sher-Gil left a vortex of stories behind her: about her MON narcissism and her love affairs. But even more compelling MON than the stories are the canvasses she left behind. MON MON Drawing from European artists like Cezanne, Gauguin, and MON Brancusi, and from Indian ones - the makers of the Buddhist MON wall paintings in the caves of Ajanta, and the miniature MON painters of the Pahari tradition - Amrita Sher-Gil managed MON to do something radical within Indian culture: to declare MON her own vision - a woman's vision - vital in the history of MON art. MON MON She endowed successive generations of Indians with something MON scarce in the culture: an example of an autonomous, creative MON female. MON MON Featuring interviews with artists Bharti Kher and Vivan MON Sundaram. MON MON Readings by Sheenu Das. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams MON Executive Producer: Martin Smith MON Original music composed by Talvin Singh. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b072hvn0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03nt8n9 (Listen) MON Dead in the Water MON MON In a bustling fairground best friends Holly and Nicole are MON recording sounds for a school science project. Amongst the MON melee of people, rides and music Holly overhears snippets of MON a conversation between two men, the words MON "poison...shooting...dead in the water". Could she have just MON stumbled on a murder plot? With Nicole's help Holly sets out MON to investigate and when the girls identify the voices on the MON recording, they have their first clue. But can they stop the MON murder in time? As Holly and Nicole try and discover the MON intended victim before time runs out they begin to realise MON they might just have stumbled on something even more MON sinister than they could ever have imagined. MON MON A thriller from Tony McHale starring Yasmin Paige MON (Submarine, Pramface) as Holly and Lily Lovelace (The Fades, MON Skins) as Nicole. MON MON Writer ..... Tony McHale MON Director ..... Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Holly: Yasmin Paige MON Nicole: Lily Loveless MON Vickers: Gary Amers MON Joel: Jody Latham MON Kay: Jo Hartley MON Maria: Kacey Ainsworth MON Police Officer: Paul Stonehouse MON Keely: Sinead Michael MON Writer: Tony McHale MON Director: Heather Larmour MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b072j34f (Listen) MON Heat 9, 2016 MON MON (9/17) MON The quest for the 63rd BBC Brain of Britain reaches heat MON nine, with Russell Davies in the question master's chair and MON four contestants from the Home Counties and the West MON Midlands. MON MON What name for a type of seafarer or pirate is thought to MON derive from a Caribbean word meaning 'to dry meat on a MON barbecue'? Which was the first western to win an Oscar for MON Best Picture? MON MON The contestants face these and many other tough teasers on MON their way to a possible semi-final place. A Brain of Britain MON listener also stands a chance of being a winner by providing MON fiendish questions with which to try and 'Beat the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b072ht0r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Greatest Ever Faker b072j3fy (Listen) MON He was a 19th century historian, poet and activist. He MON founded the modern Eisteddfod - at a gathering atop London's MON Primrose Hill - uncovered medieval poems, an ancient MON alphabet and numerous manuscripts that stand as a lodestone MON of Welsh literary culture and decisively shaped modern MON Wales's idea of itself. MON MON The thing is: it was mostly fiction - lies and forgeries. MON MON Gareth Gwynn sets out on the trail of Ned of Glamorgan, aka MON Iolo Morganwg, to find out whether a modern Welsh man can MON really be an honest Welshman when his national traditions MON are based on falsehood. Along the way he can't resist the MON temptation to create a few traditions of his own, leading MON down some blind and dangerous philosophical alleys..... MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b072j3g0 (Listen) MON Storytelling in Christianity MON MON In a special programme recorded at the the Bloxham Literary MON Festival, William Crawley and guests explore the rich MON history of Judeo-Christian storytelling. How old are some of MON the most popular and familiar biblical stories and where did MON they come from? How important has the telling, re-telling MON and adaptation of stories been throughout the history of MON Christianity? What challenges do they pose to people of MON faith? MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b072hll7 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b072hll9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b072j3g2 (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 3 MON MON Stephen Fry, Jenny Eclair, Josie Lawrence and Nish Kumar MON join host Nicholas Parsons to play Britain's longest running MON and best loved panel game. Topics tackled without deviation, MON hesitation or repetition include Salvador Dali, The Great MON Fire of London and The Easter Bunny. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Stephen Fry MON Panellist: Jenny Eclair MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Panellist: Nish Kumar MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b072j3g4 (Listen) MON Lynda's garden gets the creative juices flowing, and the MON Grundys plan a celebration for Eddie. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b072hllc (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b072j325 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Brexit: What Happens to Scotland? b072w537 (Listen) MON Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already MON signalled that a BREXIT carried on English votes would MON trigger a second Scottish independence referendum, but that MON raises a whole host of fascinating questions. Would Scots MON actually have an appetite to leave the Union with England so MON soon after being bounced out of the Union with Brussels? If MON they did, would Brussels, smarting at the ignominious MON withdrawal of the UK, fast-track Scottish membership of MON Europe as a snub to London? If Scotland was let (back) in, MON how would it sit with regards to the single currency and the MON Schengen area? MON Sarah Smith explores the impact of Brexit on Scotland. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0736vv8 (Listen) MON Power to the People? MON MON Will devolution bring back the power to England's cities and MON regions that they once had? And, if so, will all local MON authorities fare equally? Michael Robinson explores the MON history of local government and asks if old freedoms are now MON set to return under the new deal promised by the Chancellor MON of the Exchequer, George Osborne. MON MON Producer : Rosamund Jones. MON MON 21:00 Cancer Moonshot b0725d18 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON US Vice President Joe Biden is leading a Cancer Moonshot MON with $1 billion injection of cash. He is asking researchers MON to work more closely together and share their data to MON develop better ways of detecting cancer and to come up with MON new treatments. On this side of the Atlantic, Cancer MON Research UK has announced a series of Grand Challenges to MON find innovative therapies. MON MON Even veterans of false dawns in the war against cancer MON believe that these campaigns have arrived at a good time. MON They say that we're on the cusp of a new era of a brighter MON outlook for cancer patients. This new era depends on earlier MON diagnosis, more accurate surgery and radiotherapy, and some MON new kinds of drugs. MON MON Dr Graham Easton talks to doctors and scientists about how MON technology now allows them to read the genetic signature of MON each individual cancer, which can lead to personalised MON treatments. He finds out about how treatments that harness MON the body's immune system are leading to some remarkable MON recoveries for a handful of patients with some specific MON cancers, such as melanoma. MON MON Graham also asks if prevention could be better than cure, MON and if the extra funding going into cancer research is MON enough to make a difference. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b072j0ml (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b072hllf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b072hllh (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 15 Minute Drama b04lpsbx (Listen) MON The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Letter MON MON In Rachel Joyce's best selling novel, The Unlikely MON Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Queenie Hennessy is told she has MON days to live. She sends a letter of rose pink paper in which MON she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires MON a walk, a cast of well-wishers, a journey of its own. Harold MON will save her. MON MON Harold's story began its life as an award winning Radio 4 MON play so it only seems apt that this companion novel should MON grace the airwaves too. MON MON In this novel there is a second letter - a quieter, longer, MON more complicated letter. It is in this one that Queenie MON reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life. It is MON Queenie's story and it is a love song to the man she loves. MON MON 'It's all very well for a man to step out of his front door MON and tell his friend to wait while he walks the length of MON England. It's an entirely different kettle of fish when you MON are the woman at the other end.' MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON Credits MON Queenie: Sophie Thompson MON Harold: Paul Venables MON Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill MON David: Monty d'Inverno MON Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton MON Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius MON Finty: Jane Slavin MON Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw MON Napier: Shaun Mason MON Author: Rachel Joyce MON Director: Tracey Neale MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b071tgc0 (Listen) MON Tip of the Tongue MON MON It's an experience we've all had - desperately trying to MON recall a word. You might know the letter it begins with, the MON letter it ends with, but it just won't pop into your head. MON So how will Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright cope as we try MON and induce this most frustrating state: Tip of the Tongue? MON MON They are put under the spotlight by psychologist Dr Meredith MON Shafto, and try to find ways round it with the help of MON somebody who can memorise a 1000-digit number in an hour - MON memory Grandmaster Ed Cooke. MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b072j4cd (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 MARCH 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b072hln3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b072j0mn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b072hln5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b072hln7 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b072hln9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b072hlnc (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b073m7nq (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day Shirley TUE Jenner, Lecturer at the University of Manchester. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b072jdq9 (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 b01sby29 (Listen) TUE Grey Heron 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 Grey Heron. The Grey Heron makes a TUE loud croaking sound, often standing in an ungainly way on a TUE tree-top which it might share with many others for nesting - TUE the heronry. TUE TUE Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b073m7ns (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 b072jdqc (Listen) TUE Venki Ramakrishnan TUE TUE All the information that's needed for life is written in our TUE DNA. But how do we get from DNA code to biological reality? TUE That's the job of the ribosomes - those clever molecular TUE machines that are found in every living cell. And in 2008 TUE Venki Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize for TUE determining their structure. Jim talks to Venki about the TUE frantic race to crack the structure of the ribosome, TUE probably the most important biological molecule after DNA; TUE why he thinks the Nobel Prize is a terrible thing for TUE science; and his new job as President of the Royal Society. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b072jdqf (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson talks to Marvin Gaye Chetwynd 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 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 Here he talks to the artist and Turner Prize nominee, Marvin TUE Gaye Chetwynd. TUE TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b072jdqh (Listen) TUE Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI, Episode 2 TUE TUE Seamus Heaney was working on a translation of book VI of TUE Virgil's Aeneid in the last months of his life . TUE TUE Ian McKellen reads the poet's posthumously published final TUE work in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the TUE spirit of his father. It's a story that had captivated TUE Seamus Heaney from his schooldays. But the work took on a TUE special significance for him after the death of his own TUE father, becoming a touchstone to which he would return as an TUE adult. His noble and moving translation of Book VI bears the TUE fruit of a lifetime's concentration upon it: he began TUE translating passages in the 1980s, and was finalising the TUE work right up to the summer of his death. TUE TUE Given the themes of the posthumously released Book VI, there TUE is added poignancy in this final gift to his readers - a TUE work which marks the end of Heaney's poetic journey. TUE TUE Then as her fit passed away and her raving went quiet, TUE Heroic Aeneas began: 'No ordeal, O Sibyl, no new TUE Test can dismay me, for I have foreseen TUE And foresuffered all. But one thing I pray for TUE Especially: since here the gate opens, they say, TUE To the King of the Underworld's realms, and here TUE In these shadowy marshes the Acheron floods TUE To the surface, vouchsafe me one look, TUE One face-to-face meeting with my dear father. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Ian McKellen TUE Author: Virgil TUE Translation: Seamus Heaney TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b072hlnf (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b072jdqk (Listen) TUE Jane Eyre, Episode 7 TUE TUE Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the TUE bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte Bronte's birth. TUE Episode Seven TUE Mr Rochester has a wife. And where is the Jane Eyre TUE of yesterday? TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jane: Amanda Hale TUE Rochester: Tom Burke TUE Mason: Ewan Bailey TUE Priest: Gerard McDermott TUE Grace Poole: Debra Baker TUE Bertha: Tracy Wiles TUE Director: Tracey Neale TUE Producer: Tracey Neale TUE Author: Charlotte Bronte TUE Adaptor: Rachel Joyce TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Science from the Scientists b072jdqm (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Is science quite as scientific as it's supposed to be? TUE TUE After years of covering science in the news, Alok Jha began TUE to wonder whether science is as rigorous as it should be, TUE and in this two-part series, he will try to find out. TUE TUE Many of us might be forgiven for assuming that the pursuit TUE of scientific knowledge is a precise and controlled process, TUE one that involves detailed experiments, careful analysis, TUE peer review and demonstrable evidence. But what if it's not TUE as simple as that? TUE TUE Scientists are human beings after all, so what if they are TUE prone to the same weaknesses, failings and uncertainties as TUE everyone else? And what would that mean for their findings? TUE TUE Alok delves into dodgy data, questionable practices and TUE genuine ambiguity to ask if human decision making is TUE impeding scientific progress, and if anything can be done TUE about it. TUE TUE Along the way he hears from academics who think almost all TUE science is wrong, scientists who think the system is in TUE crisis and those who say error and uncertainty are actually TUE an integral part of science's creative process. He'll also TUE talk to a former professor caught out after going to the TUE ultimate extreme - faking his data - to find out what drives TUE someone to betray their entire field. TUE TUE Producer: Faizal Farook. TUE TUE 11:30 Turntable Tales b072jfcr (Listen) TUE Berliner to Gramophone TUE TUE In the first of two programmes telling the story of the TUE record-playing turntable, Colleen Murphy spins through its TUE early history and the dramatic take-up of this new TUE technology in Edwardian society. It was an enthusiasm as TUE spectacular as the computer's rise at the end of the same TUE century and its impact on the music industry was profound. TUE TUE Colleen talks to John Liffen of the Science Museum and TUE Christopher Proudfoot of the British Phonograph and TUE Gramophone Society about the earliest machines arriving from TUE the United States by way of the German Emigre inventor Emile TUE Berliner. She finds out why the HMV (His Master's Voice) TUE image wasn't initially created for the Gramophone at all, TUE and most important of all she gets to hear the sound TUE qualities of the machines that developed in the first two TUE decades of the 20th century. TUE TUE As the Gramophone company took hold the potential for TUE preserving singers, performers, speech makers but above all TUE music was eagerly realised. Colleen discovers that by the TUE outbreak of the First World War some forty percent of TUE households had some sort of Gramophone, however primitive, TUE and not surprisingly, travelling versions went with the TUE troops to the bunkers behind the front lines. TUE TUE That capacity to bridge the performer with the audience when TUE the two were hundreds of miles apart was the great miracle TUE of the early years and allowed the easy spread of musical TUE styles from Ragtime to Jazz to the first superstars of the TUE Turntable world - the Opera stars. And yet, as ever, it was TUE popular culture that dominated the market and drove sales. TUE TUE She also touches on the new opportunities for the Blues and TUE Ragime musicians of African-American society to be heard TUE beyond their geographical centres in the Southern States, TUE and the preservation of performances which would go on to TUE inspire British Rhythm and blues half a century later. TUE TUE And Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury talks about the TUE Gramophone as a blend of home furnishing and status symbol TUE and why what appear to be exotic survivors of the period are TUE actual part of a massive number of machines that were on TUE sale from bike shops to music emporia. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE Photo: Camilo Fuentealba TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b072hlnh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b072jfct (Listen) TUE Al-Ma'arri the Poet 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 In 2013, Islamic militants decapitated the statue of an 11th TUE Century Arabic poet that stood in his hometown of Maarat TUE al-Nu'man, a city that's seen heavy fighting during the TUE Syrian conflict. The poet al-Ma'arri was one of the most TUE revered in Syria, and poetry enthusiasts tell his story - he TUE was blind, vegetarian, atheist, and some even claim that his TUE work inspired Dante's Divine Comedy. TUE TUE Contributors: Nasser Rabbat, Massachusetts Institute of TUE Technology; Mahmoud al-Sheikh, BBC Arabic; the reading is by TUE Susan Jameson TUE TUE Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor TUE Producer: Maryam Maruf TUE TUE Picture: Statue of al-Ma'arri with the sculptor Fathi TUE Mohammed in the 1940s, and the statue after its decapitation TUE in 2013. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b072hlnk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b072hlnm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b072jfcw (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b072jfcz (Listen) TUE Subhas Chandra Bose: A Touch of the Abnormal TUE TUE A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b072j3g4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b072jlgn (Listen) TUE An Open Return TUE TUE Anne Reid and Vincent Franklin star as mother and son in TUE Daniel Thurman's new comedy. It's been 30 years since they TUE last saw each other when Ian suddenly turns up at the TUE parental home. A man on a mission, he soon finds out that TUE things have changed in ways he could never have imagined. TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ian: Vincent Franklin TUE Jean: Anne Reid TUE Kevin: Alex Carter TUE Deb: Adie Allen TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE Writer: Daniel Thurman TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b072jlgq (Listen) TUE The latest historical and archaeological research. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b072jlgs (Listen) TUE New York's Big Green Clean TUE TUE Tom Heap visits New York to find out how the city is TUE cleaning up its dirty waterways and bringing back oysters to TUE the harbour. TUE TUE New York is highly populated. The 8 and a half million TUE inhabitants of the five boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, TUE Brooklyn, The Bronx and Staten Island use a lot of water and TUE create a lot of waste. As a result the myriad of waterways, TUE streams and creeks that all flow around the city, the TUE network of 'sewersheds' that meander below the sidewalks, TUE not to mention the vast rivers: the Hudson and the East TUE River have all, over several centuries become increasingly TUE dirty, polluted with litter, oil and worst of all raw TUE sewage. Each time rainfall exceeds around half an inch, the TUE aged Combined Sewage Overflow systems discharge into the TUE rivers. TUE TUE But in light of 'Super Storm' events such as Sandy and TUE Irene, New York has begun to tackle the problem. TUE TUE The city's Department of Environmental Protection has TUE embarked on on a 'Green Infrastructure Plan'. Over the next TUE 15 or so years $2.4 billion dollars will be spent on TUE rebuilding the city to help it deal with high rainfall. TUE There are 'green roof' projects, tree-planting programmes, TUE and 'bioswales' are being constructed: all measures to try TUE and reduce the impact of a storm of a similar ferocity TUE wreaking such havoc in the future. TUE TUE Meanwhile a group of plucky scientists are attempting to TUE bring oysters back to New York harbour: once home to the TUE largest oyster beds in the world, New York produced more TUE oysters than the rest of the world combined. New Yorkers TUE rich and poor alike dined on the shellfish. The waters of TUE the harbour became so polluted that they no longer thrive TUE there, but scientists from the Billion Oyster Project aim to TUE have a billion oysters living in the harbour by 2030, so TUE convinced are they that the water quality will have improved TUE sufficiently by then. TUE TUE Recent storms in the UK have shown that basic infrastructure TUE struggles to cope when facing a deluge of heavy rain and TUE strong winds, and so when a major storm event hits a major TUE urban centre the results can be devastating. TUE TUE Tom Heap discovers what knowledge could be gained from the TUE New York project and whether similar sorts of measures could TUE be taken in towns and cities in the UK. TUE TUE Presenter: Tom Heap TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b072jlgv (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b072jlgx (Listen) TUE John O'Farrell and Joe Dunthorne TUE TUE Writers John O'Farrell and Joe Dunthorne recommend great TUE books with Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE John O'Farrell has written for Have I Got News for You, as TUE well as novels like The Best a Man Can Get. His choice of TUE book is less comic, a powerful memoir about life with a TUE brother in a coma: The Last Act of Love by Cathy TUE Rentzenbrink. TUE TUE Joe Dunthorne's novel Submarine was adapted for film by TUE Richard Ayoade, and he recommends a slim collection of TUE evocative short stories, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson. TUE TUE Harriett introduces them both to a modern classic: TUE Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, and asks why it is that TUE men don't seem to read one of the greatest living TUE novelists.. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: John O'Farrell TUE Interviewed Guest: Joe Dunthorne TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b072hlnp (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b072hlnr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05xglm4 (Listen) TUE Series 10, Moby Dave TUE TUE Ed's fortunes have taken a turn for the better as he's been TUE given an advance to write a projected television series TUE perfect for Sunday night viewing. He has comfortable TUE lodgings, money in his pocket and a warm glow, in fact all TUE is going very well indeed until Suzan decides that her new TUE assistant, Jonathan, should help Ed with 'the scripty TUE stuff'. At which suggestion someone loses their temper, and TUE for once it isn't Ed. TUE TUE Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. TUE Produced by Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE Ed Reardon's Week is a BBC Radio Comedy production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas TUE Suzan: Raquel Cassidy TUE Olive: Stephanie Cole TUE Jonathan: Jack Farthing TUE Joan: Pam Ferris TUE Pearl: Brigit Forsyth TUE Frank: Simon Greenall TUE Jaz Mivain: Philip Jackson 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 b072jmpp (Listen) TUE Helen puts her foot in it, and Josh puts his best foot TUE forward. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b072hlnt (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b072jdqk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b072n9s7 (Listen) TUE As more and more migrants seek asylum in the UK, is the TUE system for processing their applications reaching breaking TUE point? Allan Urry investigates the impact of a drastic TUE reduction in the numbers of courts hearing cases. At the TUE same time, appeals are going up and key rulings against Home TUE Office decisions to return people to other countries are TUE also piling on the pressure. TUE With Europe now bracing itself for a fresh wave of refugees TUE fleeing conflict, why is it taking so long and costing so TUE much to decide who should be granted asylum here? TUE Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b072hlnw (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b072hlny (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b072jdqc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b072hlp0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b072hlp2 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 15 Minute Drama b04m0q75 (Listen) TUE The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Harold Fry TUE TUE By Rachel Joyce TUE TUE While Harold Fry walks from Devon to the hospice in TUE Berwick-upon-Tweed, Queenie makes notes and Sister Mary TUE Inconnue types them up. They won't stop until he arrives and TUE that is how Queenie will keep waiting. TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE Credits TUE Queenie: Sophie Thompson TUE Harold: Paul Venables TUE Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill TUE Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton TUE Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius TUE Finty: Jane Slavin TUE Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Napier: Shaun Mason TUE Author: Rachel Joyce TUE Director: Tracey Neale TUE TUE 23:00 Andrew O'Neill: Pharmacist Baffler b04vf439 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Comedian Andrew O'Neill looks at what makes up our sexual TUE identity and why some people are so offended by TUE homosexulaity. He is a married, heterosexual transvestite. TUE As such he totally confuses some people who assume he's gay, TUE offends some who can't cope with the outfits and baffles TUE people who aren't sure what he's all about. TUE TUE He asks why people are so offended by homosexuality, what TUE lies underneath their hostility and what other sorts of TUE sexuality there might be. TUE TUE With Stephen Carlin. TUE TUE Written and Performed by Andrew O' Neill TUE Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b072n9s9 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 MARCH 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b072hlrj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b072jdqh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b072hlrl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b072hlrn (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b072hlrq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b072hlrs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b073m7g9 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day Shirley WED Jenner, Lecturer at the University of Manchester. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b072mls7 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03wpzmk (Listen) WED Chiffchaff WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Bill Oddie presents the chiffchaff. Chiffchaff are small WED olive warblers which sing their name as they flit around WED hunting for insects in woods, marshes and scrubby places. WED Chiffchaffs are increasing in the UK and the secret of their WED success is their ability to weather our winters. Many stay WED in the milder south and south-west of England where the WED insects are more active. WED WED Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b073m7gc (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 b072mls9 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b072mlsc (Listen) WED Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI, Episode 3 WED WED Seamus Heaney was working on a translation of book VI of WED Virgil's Aeneid in the last months of his life . WED WED Ian McKellen reads the poet's posthumously published final WED work in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the WED spirit of his father. It's a story that had captivated WED Seamus Heaney from his schooldays. But the work took on a WED special significance for him after the death of his own WED father, becoming a touchstone to which he would return as an WED adult. His noble and moving translation of Book VI bears the WED fruit of a lifetime's concentration upon it: he began WED translating passages in the 1980s, and was finalising the WED work right up to the summer of his death. WED WED Given the themes of the posthumously released Book VI, there WED is added poignancy in this final gift to his readers - a WED work which marks the end of Heaney's poetic journey. WED WED Then as her fit passed away and her raving went quiet, WED Heroic Aeneas began: 'No ordeal, O Sibyl, no new WED Test can dismay me, for I have foreseen WED And foresuffered all. But one thing I pray for WED Especially: since here the gate opens, they say, WED To the King of the Underworld's realms, and here WED In these shadowy marshes the Acheron floods WED To the surface, vouchsafe me one look, WED One face-to-face meeting with my dear father. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Ian McKellen WED Author: Virgil WED Translation: Seamus Heaney WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b072mm0c (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b072mq8n (Listen) WED Jane Eyre, Episode 8 WED WED Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the WED bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte Bronte's birth. WED Episode Eight WED Jane has run from Thornfield and Rochester. She WED has barely eaten and has been sleeping on the WED moors in the pouring rain. Her strength is failing fast. WED WED Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED Credits WED Jane: Amanda Hale WED St John Rivers: George Watkins WED Diana: Katie Redford WED Mary: Rebecca Hamilton WED Rosamund: Evie Killip WED Director: Tracey Neale WED Producer: Tracey Neale WED Author: Charlotte Bronte WED Adaptor: Rachel Joyce WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b072mq8q (Listen) WED Jason and Kim - The Person, Not the Disability WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between an employer and WED employee about how a 6 month placement turned into a WED permanent job; once Kim's confidence increased her ability WED shone through. Another conversation in the series that WED proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Out of the Ordinary b072mq8s (Listen) WED Series 4, The Red Pill WED WED Jolyon Jenkins reports on the men fighting a liberation war WED against what they see as female tyranny, and the separatist WED "men going their own way" - who've given up on women. WED WED Such men take their principles from the film "The Matrix", WED in which only those who take the "red pill" see the true WED nature of reality, while those who take the "blue pill" live WED in ignorance of the true state of affairs - which, in this WED case, is that society is organised for the benefit of women, WED and that men are seen as disposable and worthless. We live, WED they think, in a "gynocracy", thanks to the remorseless WED march of feminism. WED WED But the movement is split. Some of them think that there is WED still time to organise and fight back. They think that the WED system can be changed, and that relationships between men WED and women recalibrated. But others are more radical. They WED believe that male/female relationships are inherently toxic, WED the system is unbeatable, and that the only sane strategy WED for a man is to exit from the gynocracy while he still can, WED even if this means "living as a ghost" within broader WED society. WED WED Producer/presenter: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED 11:30 Charles Paris Mystery b070htsr (Listen) WED A Decent Interval, Episode 1 WED WED by Jeremy Front WED based on the novel by Simon Brett WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Charles, bit part actor and amateur sleuth, returns to the WED stage as the Ghost in Hamlet, but rehearsals are fraught as WED both Ophelia and Hamlet are being played by reality TV stars WED and soon it's not only Shakespeare's lines that are being WED murdered. As the body count rises so do Charles suspicions. WED Whilst at home Frances fears she may have come to the end of WED allowing her semi-detached husband to remain as her lodger. WED WED Jeremy Front (Magnificent Women, Sword of Honour) continues WED his successful adaptations of Simon Brett's novels starring WED Bill Nighy (Marigold Hotel, Dad's Army)as Charles Paris WED Suzanne Burden (Fresh Meat, Tis Pity she's A Whore) as WED Frances - Charles ex-wife from whom he's never been able to WED detach himself WED Amelia Bullmore (Scott and Bailey, Down The Line) as WED Geraldine - an actress that Charles finds very attractive WED and who moves in to Frances' house. WED Jon Glover (Episodes, Hitchhikers) as Maurice - Charles' WED long suffering agent. WED WED Credits WED Charles: Bill Nighy WED Frances: Suzanne Burden WED Maurice: Jon Glover WED Geraldine: Amelia Bullmore WED Milly: Rebecca Hamilton WED Sam: George Watkins WED Ned: Brian Protheroe WED Jared: Leo Wan WED Will: Caolan McCarthy WED Katrina: Katie Redford WED Director: Sally Avens WED Author: Simon Brett WED Adaptor: Jeremy Front WED WED 12:00 News Summary b072hlry (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b072mq8v (Listen) WED The Genie of Nimrud 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 The ancient Assyrians were fond of protective spirits. They WED had sculptures of all manner of mythological creatures WED lining the walls of their palaces. One such sculpture was a WED stone relief of a genie. This was a powerful male figure - a WED bountiful beard and muscular thighs but with huge wings WED sprouting from his back. Three thousand years ago, it WED adorned the walls of Nimrud, one of the great strongholds of WED Mesopotamia, near Mosul in modern day Iraq. During the WED 1990s, this genie disappeared - believed to have been taken WED during the chaos of the first Gulf war - and ended up in WED London around 2002 - just before the mire of the second Gulf WED war. It's been kept by Scotland Yard for these last 14 years WED - locked in legal limbo, and unlikely to ever re-emerge or WED return to Iraq. We explore the cost of looting to a WED country's cultural heritage, and tell the story of another WED valuable Mesopotamian antiquity that was looted, eventually WED uncovered, but managed to stay in Iraq. This is a tablet, WED and holds a new chapter from the oldest tale ever told - the WED Gilgamesh epic. WED WED Contributors: Mark Altaweel, Institute of Archaeology UCL; WED Augusta McMahon, University of Cambridge; Mina al-Lami, BBC WED Monitoring; the readings are by Martin Worthington, George WED Watkins, and Susan Jameson WED WED Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor WED Producer: Maryam Maruf WED WED Picture: Assyrian winged-genie from Nimrud, very similar in WED style to the genie in possession of Scotland Yard WED Credit: Brooklyn Museum WED WED With thanks to Vernon Rapley of the V&A, Sarah Collins of WED the British Museum, Andrew George of SOAS, and John Russell WED of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b072hls1 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b072hls3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b072w6jh (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b072mvvr (Listen) WED Gandhi: In the Palm of Our Hands WED WED Professor Sunil Khilnani explores the life and legacy of the WED Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, politician and leader of the WED nationalist movement against British rule in India. He is WED generally admired outside India, but is the subject of WED heated debate and contention in his homeland. Some view him WED as an appeaser of Muslims, and blame him for India's WED partition. Others regret Gandhi's induction of Hindu WED rhetoric and symbols into Indian nationalism, revile him for WED his refusal to disavow caste, believe he betrayed the WED labouring classes, and are appalled at his views on women. WED "It's unsurprising that Gandhi provokes such a barrage of WED attacks," says Professor Khilnani. "His entire life was an WED argument - or rather, a series of arguments - with the WED world." WED Producer: Mark Savage. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b072jmpp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b072my2h (Listen) WED The Reserve Rope, Episode 1 WED WED The Matterhorn was conquered on 14th July 1865 by Edward WED Whymper. But four men died on the descent. Damian Lewis WED stars as Whymper, forever tormented by the tragedy. WED WED Jonathan Myerson's drama speculates on what went wrong and WED why. The climbing team were roped together on the way down WED but at least two were inexperienced and - for reasons never WED fully explained - attached together with rope that was WED unsuitable for holding the weight of a man. WED WED A swift inquest was held and Whymper was exonerated. But WED some people never forgave him - especially the 8th Marquess WED of Queensbury, father to Douglas Hadow, one of the dead. WED WED Produced and directed by Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Edward Whymper: Damian Lewis WED Zipporah: Olivia Darnley WED Douglas: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd WED Guide: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd WED Queensbury: Joseph Kloska WED Pession: Joseph Kloska WED Taugwalder: Joseph Kloska WED McCormick: Joseph Kloska WED Josiah: Christian Rodska WED Club Man 3: Christian Rodska WED Favre: Christian Rodska WED Seiler: Christian Rodska WED Hudson: Dominic Rye WED Meynet: Dominic Rye WED Wills: Tom Gordon WED Croz: Tom Gordon WED Robertson: Tom Gordon WED Tyndall: Tom Gordon WED Club Man 2: Tom Gordon WED Macdonald: Tom Gordon WED Hadow: Sean Delaney WED Carrel: Gabriel Lo Giudice WED Peter: Gabriel Lo Giudice WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Writer: Jonathan Myerson WED WED 15:00 Money Box b072my2k (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b072hlny (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b072my2m (Listen) WED Small towns, Patient rescue and resuscitation WED WED Small towns: Laurie Taylor talks to Steve Hanson, Associate WED Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lincoln, and WED author of an ethnographic study of Todmorden in 'austere' WED times. Dr Hanson returned to his home town, on the border of WED Lancashire and Yorkshire, to immerse himself in the life and WED times of a place which has almost halved since its WED industrial heyday. He finds micro worlds that never WED encounter each other, debunking the myth that people in WED small towns all know each other's business. They're joined WED by Katherine Tyler, Lecturer in Anthropology at the WED University of Exeter. WED WED Rescuing 'acute' patients: what happens when patients in a WED hospital ward become acutely unwell? Nicola Mackintosh, WED Research Fellow at Kings College, London, interviewed WED doctors, nurses, health care assistants and managers at two WED UK hospitals, in order to explore the practice of 'rescue' WED and patient safety on the front line. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b072hls7 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b072hls9 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b072hlsc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b072my2p (Listen) WED Series 11, Ian Hislop interviews Victoria Coren-Mitchell 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 and entertainment personalities talking to each WED other about their lives and work. This week, the comedian WED and satirist Ian Hislop turns interviewer as he talks to the WED writer and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell. WED WED Ian Hislop is a long-standing team captain on 'Have I Got WED News for You' and the editor of the satirical magazine WED Private Eye. As a dedicated fan and student of history, he WED has made several acclaimed documentaries on wide-ranging WED subjects including conscientious objectors and The Beeching WED Report. WED WED Ian's guest Victoria Coren-Mitchell is a columnist for The WED Observer and GQ amongst other publications and has presented WED myriad documentaries on subjects as varied as The Bohemians WED and Mary Poppins. As well as a prolific writing career, she WED keeps order on the popular and fiendishly difficult WED television quiz, 'Only Connect'. She is also well-known as WED one of the world's top professional poker players and has WED achieved huge success at the card table. WED WED In this link in the chain, Ian talks to Victoria about her WED wide and varied career in writing, quizzing and cards. WED WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b072mz5p (Listen) WED Lilian has a brainwave, and Elizabeth meets an intriguing WED young visitor to Ambridge. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b072hlsf (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b072mq8n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b072mz5r (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 b072mz5t (Listen) WED The Garden WED WED Madeleine takes a night-time walk along the River Lea and WED the "edgelands" of the Hackney Marshes in east London as she WED reflects on Jesus' last night in the garden of Gethsemane WED for "Lent in the Landscape" a series of talks from six WED writers on different aspects of the passion story. Producer: WED Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b072jlgs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b072mls9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b072hlsh (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 15 Minute Drama b04m0rzf (Listen) WED The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, David WED WED By Rachel Joyce WED WED As Harold walks, Queenie writes. She tells of how she fell WED in love with Harold twenty four years ago and the day she WED met his son, David. WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED Credits WED Queenie: Sophie Thompson WED Harold: Paul Venables WED Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill WED David: Monty d'Inverno WED Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton WED Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius WED Finty: Jane Slavin WED Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw WED Author: Rachel Joyce WED Director: Tracey Neale WED WED 23:00 The Croft & Pearce Show b072mz5w (Listen) WED A brand new sketch show from award-winning duo Croft and WED Pearce, rising stars of the UK comedy scene. WED WED These Edinburgh Fringe favourites were the break-out hit of WED BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama and have performed sell-out shows WED in London, New York and around the UK. WED WED Packed with sharply observed characters, this debut from WED writer-performers Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce is not to be WED missed. WED WED In the opening episode we meet June and Jean, two WED middle-class ladies driven to the brink by the strain of WED village life in the Home Counties, as well as a rowdy WED Geordie Brown Owl and an over-excited work experience girl. WED WED Written and performed by Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED WED A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Hannah Croft WED Performer: Fiona Pearce WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED Writer: Hannah Croft WED Writer: Fiona Pearce WED WED 23:15 History Retweeted b03w18g1 (Listen) WED The Premiere of Romeo and Juliet 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 It's the opening night of Romeo and Juliet and you are WED cordially invited to the premiere of a brand new play by the WED up-and-coming playwright Billy Shakespeare. Much the same as WED any other playwright, Shakespeare ponders how the play will WED be received. He needn't worry anymore as the 16th century WED now comes complete with wifi. WED WED Bloggers review the show, fan-made plays are rife and the WED stars are interviewed on YouTube as one of Shakespeare's WED greatest blockbusters is 're-tweeted'. WED WED Turning statuses into sounds, History Retweeted transports WED us to timelines gone by, feeding hashtags, trolls and WED trending topics into moments from history. WED WED Featuring the voices of Tim Barnes and Simon Berry, Wayne WED Forester and Annabelle Llewellyn, Peter Temple and Jelly WED Macintosh - with Lucy Beaumont as the 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 b072mz5y (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 MARCH 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b072hlvn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b072mlsc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b072hlvq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b072hlvs (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b072hlvv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b072hlvx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0747d8t (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day Shirley THU Jenner, Lecturer at the University of Manchester. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b072n5x1 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03ws7gc (Listen) THU Nuthatch 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 Bill Oddie presents the nuthatch. Nuthatches are the only UK THU birds that can climb down a tree as fast they can go up and THU you'll often see them descending a trunk or hanging beneath THU a branch. Nuthatches are unmistakable: blue-grey above, THU chestnut under the tail and with a black highwayman's mask. THU THU Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b072w4bf (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 b072n5x3 (Listen) THU The Maya Civilization THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya Civilization, THU developed by the Maya people, which flourished in central THU America from around 250 AD in great cities such as Chichen THU Itza and Uxmal with advances in mathematics, architecture THU and astronomy. Long before the Spanish Conquest in the 16th THU Century, major cities had been abandoned for reasons THU unknown, although there are many theories including THU overpopulation and changing climate. The hundreds of Maya THU sites across Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and THU Mexico raise intriguing questions about one of the world's THU great pre-industrial civilizations. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b072n5x5 (Listen) THU Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI, Episode 4 THU THU Seamus Heaney was working on a translation of book VI of THU Virgil's Aeneid in the last months of his life . THU THU Ian McKellen reads the poet's posthumously published final THU work in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the THU spirit of his father. It's a story that had captivated THU Seamus Heaney from his schooldays. But the work took on a THU special significance for him after the death of his own THU father, becoming a touchstone to which he would return as an THU adult. His noble and moving translation of Book VI bears the THU fruit of a lifetime's concentration upon it: he began THU translating passages in the 1980s, and was finalising the THU work right up to the summer of his death. THU THU Given the themes of the posthumously released Book VI, there THU is added poignancy in this final gift to his readers - a THU work which marks the end of Heaney's poetic journey. THU THU Then as her fit passed away and her raving went quiet, THU Heroic Aeneas began: 'No ordeal, O Sibyl, no new THU Test can dismay me, for I have foreseen THU And foresuffered all. But one thing I pray for THU Especially: since here the gate opens, they say, THU To the King of the Underworld's realms, and here THU In these shadowy marshes the Acheron floods THU To the surface, vouchsafe me one look, THU One face-to-face meeting with my dear father. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Ian McKellen THU Author: Virgil THU Translation: Seamus Heaney THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b072n5x7 (Listen) THU Caitlin Moran, Yasmin Kadi THU THU Caitlin Moran discusses new book Moranifesto and series two THU of Raised by Wolves, plus Perfect Imperfection - music by THU Yasmin Kadi. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b072n5x9 (Listen) THU Jane Eyre, Episode 9 THU THU Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the THU bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte Bronte's birth. THU Episode Nine THU Has St John discovered Jane's secret? THU THU Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU Credits THU Jane: Amanda Hale THU St John: George Watkins THU Mary: Rebecca Hamilton THU Diana: Katie Redford THU Director: Tracey Neale THU Producer: Tracey Neale THU Author: Charlotte Bronte THU Adaptor: Rachel Joyce THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b072hlvz (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms and That's All THU b072n5xc (Listen) THU Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) is one of Russia's great lost THU absurdists - a writer whose world still alarms, shocks and THU bewitches more than half a century after he died in prison THU during the siege of Leningrad. THU THU In his short, almost vignette-like writings, nothing is THU sacred or as it seems. His narrators dip in and out of THU moments, describing curious, often disturbing events before THU getting bored and leaving his characters to their fates. Old THU ladies plummet from windows, townsfolk are bludgeoned to THU death with cucumbers, others wander around in search of THU glue, sausages or nothing. By turns pointless and harrowing, THU they are funny. Very funny. And they are funny now. THU THU Comedian, Russophile and crumpled polymath Tim Key has been THU entranced by Kharms' beautiful, horrible, hilarious world THU for years. But is there more to Kharms than a series of THU curious happenings cooked up by an eccentric mind in a THU troublesome world? Key suspects there is. And he's prepared THU to delve. THU THU As he delves, he encounters Noel Fielding, Alice THU Nakhimovsky, Matvei Yankelevich, Peter Scotto, Tony Anemone THU and Daniil Kharms. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b072hlw1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b072n5xf (Listen) THU Armenian Martyr's Memorial, Der Zor 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 The Armenian martyr's memorial in Der Zor, Syria was a THU tribute to the Armenians who perished in the mass killings THU of 1915. It was consecrated in 1991 and then completely THU destroyed in 2014 by Islamic militants. A British Armenian THU writer recalls her visits to Der Zor, and tracing the THU harrowing journey of her ancestors through the Syrian THU desert. THU THU Contributors: Nouritza Matossian, writer; Heghnar THU Watenpaugh, University of California Davis THU THU Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor THU Producer: Maryam Maruf THU THU Picture: Armenian Martyr's Memorial, Der Zor THU THU With thanks to Elyse Semerdjian of Whitman College. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b072hlw3 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b072hlw5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b073hjsy (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b072n5xh (Listen) THU Jinnah: The Chess Player THU THU Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in THU London, looks at the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, THU the founder of Pakistan. Descriptions of his early life do THU not sound like someone who would go on to lead India's THU Muslims: he spoke English, dressed impeccably in Western THU clothes from Savile Row, smoked cigarettes and, according to THU some accounts, consumed alcohol and ate pork. Yet it was THU Jinnah who, along with others, publicly assented to the THU partition of India which, carried out in haste, would give THU roughly half of India's Muslims political autonomy, cause THU around a million deaths, displace some 14 million people and THU transform the geopolitics of the world. THU Producer: Mark Savage THU Music: Talvin Singh. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b072mz5p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b072z7vp (Listen) THU The Reserve Rope, Episode 2 THU THU The Matterhorn was conquered on 14th July 1865 by Edward THU Whymper. But four men died on the descent. Damian Lewis THU stars as Whymper, forever tormented by the tragedy. THU THU Jonathan Myerson's drama speculates on what went wrong and THU why. The climbing team were roped together on the way down THU but at least two were inexperienced and - for reasons never THU fully explained - attached together with rope that was THU unsuitable for holding the weight of a man. THU THU A swift inquest was held and Whymper was exonerated. But THU some people never forgave him - especially the 8th Marquess THU of Queensbury, father to Douglas Hadow, one of the dead. THU THU Produced and directed by Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Edward Whymper: Damian Lewis THU Zipporah: Olivia Darnley THU Douglas: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd THU Guide: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd THU Queensbury: Joseph Kloska THU Pession: Joseph Kloska THU Taugwalder: Joseph Kloska THU McCormick: Joseph Kloska THU Josiah: Christian Rodska THU Club Man 3: Christian Rodska THU Favre: Christian Rodska THU Seiler: Christian Rodska THU Hudson: Dominic Rye THU Meynet: Dominic Rye THU Wills: Tom Gordon THU Croz: Tom Gordon THU Robertson: Tom Gordon THU Tyndall: Tom Gordon THU Club Man 2: Tom Gordon THU Macdonald: Tom Gordon THU Hadow: Sean Delaney THU Carrel: Gabriel Lo Giudice THU Peter: Gabriel Lo Giudice THU Director: Clive Brill THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Writer: Jonathan Myerson THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b072n5xk (Listen) THU Series 32, Trent, Dorset THU THU Clare joins a lively primary school walking club as they THU ramble through the Dorset countryside. Pupils, teachers, THU local farmers and parents join the group which has been THU helping to draw the local community together for twelve THU years. Starting at a farm near the school, Trent Young's C THU of E near Sherborne, they walk on footpaths and over private THU farmland - made accessible by the farmers who help lead the THU walk - learning about the countryside as they go. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b072hs5v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b072htqw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b072n5xm (Listen) THU Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b072hlw8 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b072hlwb (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b072hlwd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b072n5xp (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 she visits the Scottish National Portrait Gallery with THU Phill Jupitus, and in other episodes goes hillwalking with THU Muriel Gray, watches a cricket match with Andy Zaltzman and THU takes a spontaneous holiday with John Finnemore. 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 b072n5xr (Listen) THU Ed feels he is on the right track, and the Bull's punters THU are not going hungry. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b072hlwg (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b072n5x9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b072jlgv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b072n66d (Listen) THU Horse Racing THU THU Horse racing is the second most popular spectator sport in THU the UK but it is also a business. Presenter Evan Davis and THU guests discuss who makes the money: the horse owners, the THU jockeys, the race courses or the bookmakers? THU THU Guests: THU THU Simon Bazalgette, Chief Executive, The Jockey Club THU THU Rachel Hood, Director, The Horsemen's Group THU THU Ciaran O'Brien, Group Communications Director, William Hill THU bookmakers THU THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b072hlw8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b072n5x3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b072hlwj (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 15 Minute Drama b04m3ckm (Listen) THU The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Poems THU THU By Rachel Joyce THU THU Harold Fry has been walking forty days and Queenie waits. THU She writes and Sister Mary types. Did David steal the poems THU and will Queenie's secret be revealed? THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU Credits THU Queenie: Sophie Thompson THU Harold: Paul Venables THU Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill THU David: Monty d'Inverno THU Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton THU Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius THU Finty: Jane Slavin THU Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw THU Author: Rachel Joyce THU Director: Tracey Neale THU THU 23:00 Small Scenes b072n66g (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 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, the real reason that dairy products have THU pictures of cows on them and a man who's addicted to giving THU lifts. 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 b072n66j (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 MARCH 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b072hly1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b072n5x5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b072hly3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b072hly5 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b072hly7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b072hly9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b073m31p (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day Shirley FRI Jenner, Lecturer at the University of Manchester. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b072n8ds (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sally Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x474w (Listen) FRI Rook 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 Bill Oddie presents the rook. High in the treetops buffeted FRI by March winds, rooks are gathering twigs to build their FRI untidy nests. The bustle of a rookery is one of the classic FRI sounds of the UK countryside, especially in farming areas, FRI where rooks are in their element, probing the pastures and FRI ploughed fields with long pickaxe bills. FRI FRI Rook (Corvus frugilegus) FRI Webpage image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b072zgn0 (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 b072ht0p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b072n8dv (Listen) FRI Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI, Episode 5 FRI FRI Seamus Heaney was working on a translation of book VI of FRI Virgil's Aeneid in the last months of his life . FRI FRI Ian McKellen reads the poet's posthumously published final FRI work in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the FRI spirit of his father. It's a story that had captivated FRI Seamus Heaney from his schooldays. But the work took on a FRI special significance for him after the death of his own FRI father, becoming a touchstone to which he would return as an FRI adult. His noble and moving translation of Book VI bears the FRI fruit of a lifetime's concentration upon it: he began FRI translating passages in the 1980s, and was finalising the FRI work right up to the summer of his death. FRI FRI Given the themes of the posthumously released Book VI, there FRI is added poignancy in this final gift to his readers - a FRI work which marks the end of Heaney's poetic journey. FRI FRI Then as her fit passed away and her raving went quiet, FRI Heroic Aeneas began: 'No ordeal, O Sibyl, no new FRI Test can dismay me, for I have foreseen FRI And foresuffered all. But one thing I pray for FRI Especially: since here the gate opens, they say, FRI To the King of the Underworld's realms, and here FRI In these shadowy marshes the Acheron floods FRI To the surface, vouchsafe me one look, FRI One face-to-face meeting with my dear father. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ian McKellen FRI Author: Virgil FRI Translation: Seamus Heaney FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b072n8dx (Listen) FRI Women and Power FRI FRI Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyds, is the first woman to run the FRI insurance market in its 327-year history. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b072n8dz (Listen) FRI Jane Eyre, Episode 10 FRI FRI Rachel Joyce's 10 part dramatisation for the FRI bicentenary celebrations of Charlotte Bronte's birth. FRI Jane has to make a decision but what should FRI she do. As the pressure from St John grows, Jane FRI pleads for more time. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jane: Amanda Hale FRI Rochester: Tom Burke FRI St John: George Watkins FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI Producer: Tracey Neale FRI Author: Charlotte Bronte FRI Adaptor: Rachel Joyce FRI FRI 11:00 Ghosts of the Tsunami b072n8f1 (Listen) FRI Five years after Japan's Tsunami, some survivors report FRI seeing the ghosts of the dead. FRI FRI Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor of the Times, has lived in FRI Japan for 20 years. After the 2011 Tsunami he began to hear FRI strange stories from the survivors. One woman said she was FRI possessed by 25 different spirits, including a chained dog FRI which had starved within the Fukushima fallout zone. A young FRI builder saw people, plastered in mud, walking endlessly past FRI his house. A cab driver's fare disappeared from the back FRI seat, as soon as the car arrived at the abandoned address. FRI FRI Now, Richard revisits the region to talk to those who claim FRI to have seen ghosts. FRI FRI Their stories - sometimes frightening, sometimes beautiful - FRI reveal deeply-held elements of Japanese faith and FRI spirituality, such as the cult of the ancestors, and Richard FRI quickly comes to understand the role the dead play in the FRI lives of the living. FRI FRI Almost 20,000 people died in the disaster and for many FRI survivors it felt selfish to express their personal grief. FRI We hear how, for those trying to help people struck by the FRI tragedy, part of the challenge has been to prompt them to FRI express how they feel. Perhaps this is what the ghosts are FRI doing. FRI FRI So, as well as those directly affected, Richard talks those FRI who try to comfort them - such as publisher Masashi FRI Hijikata, who has revived an old literary tradition of FRI Kaidankai or weird tale parties, bringing people together to FRI tell their ghost tales in a kind of group therapy. There's FRI also Reverend Kaneta, a charismatic Zen priest who has FRI performed exorcisms on the 'possessed' and travelled the FRI coastline, encouraging people to talk about their trauma FRI while drinking coffee and listening to the dissonant jazz of FRI Thelonius Monk records. FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Dilemma b03xf0gm (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 6 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 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 Devised by ... Danielle Ward FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sue Perkins FRI Panellist: Bridget Christie FRI Panellist: Michael Rosen FRI Panellist: Laura Dockrill FRI Panellist: Adil Ray FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b072hlyc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Museum of Lost Objects b072n8f3 (Listen) FRI Looted Sumerian Seal, Baghdad 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 This is the oldest and smallest object in the series: a tiny FRI Sumerian cylinder seal depicting a harvest festival. It was FRI carved in 2,600 BC and was part of the collection of ancient FRI cylinder seals which disappeared when the Iraq Museum in FRI Baghdad was looted during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. We tell FRI the story of this seal and the pillaging of the country's FRI most important museum. FRI FRI Contributors: Lamia al-Gailani, SOAS; Mazin Safar, son of FRI Iraqi archaeologist Fuad Safar; John Curtis, Iran Heritage FRI Foundation FRI FRI Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor FRI Producer: Maryam Maruf FRI FRI Picture: Sumerian harvest seal FRI Credit: Lamia al-Gailani FRI FRI With thanks to Augusta McMahon of Cambridge University, Mark FRI Altaweel of the Institute of Archaeology UCL, and Sarah FRI Collins of the British Museum. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b072hlyf (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b072hlyh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0745xtj (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b072n8f5 (Listen) FRI Manto: The Unsentimentalist FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b072n5xr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b072n8f7 (Listen) FRI Burn Baby Burn FRI FRI Sean Grundy's satirical drama inspired by the Momart FRI warehouse fire that destroyed works by Damien Hirst, Tracey FRI Emin, the Chapman Brothers and others of the Young British FRI Artists movement. FRI FRI "I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing." FRI Damien Hirst FRI FRI On 24th May 2004, a fire in an East London warehouse FRI destroys key works from the famous BritArt movement. Seminal FRI works by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Chris Offili and the FRI Chapman Brothers go up in smoke. The collection is mainly FRI owned by advertising guru Charles Saatchi. The art world is FRI devastated. Many in the general public are highly amused. FRI FRI Writer: Sean Grundy FRI Director: Dirk Maggs FRI Producer: David Morley FRI FRI A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Tracey Emin: Ronni Ancona FRI Nigella: Ronni Ancona FRI Dinos Chapman: Wilf Scolding FRI Vic Hislop: Wilf Scolding FRI Damien Hirst: Ben Crompton FRI Dante Skirmish: Ben Crompton FRI Brian Sewell: Jon Culshaw FRI Death: Jon Culshaw FRI Hardy: Steven Hartley FRI Jake Chapman: Carl Prekopp FRI Charles Saatchi: Carl Prekopp FRI Jacqui: Alana Ramsey FRI Writer: Sean Grundy FRI Director: Dirk Maggs FRI Producer: David Morley FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b072n8f9 (Listen) FRI Horticultural panel programme. FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b072n8fc (Listen) FRI Series 3, Delamere's Meadow FRI FRI In Delamere's Meadow by Nina Stibbe, two sisters have to FRI find new grazing ground for their ponies and this marks the FRI start of horsey intrigue with Mrs Luckie-Bryant.. FRI FRI Reader Amelia Bullmore FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Nina Stibbe FRI Reader: Amelia Bullmore FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b072n8fh (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b072n8fk (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b072n8fm (Listen) FRI Jason and Kim - I Just Want to Be Like Everyone Else FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an employer and FRI a disabled employee, neither of whom expected they would be FRI having this conversation. Another in the series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b072hlyk (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b072hlym (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b072n8fq (Listen) FRI Series 48, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b072n8fs (Listen) FRI Temperatures are raised behind closed curtains. Meanwhile, FRI the curtains at the village hall are proudly hung. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Peter Leslie Wild FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Sasha Locke: Megan McCormick FRI Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b072hlyp (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b072n8dz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b072n8fv (Listen) FRI Norman Lamb MP, Anna Soubry MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Spalding in Lincolnshire with a panel including the FRI former Care Minister and Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb MP FRI and the Small Business Minister Anna Soubry MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b072n8fx (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b072n8fz (Listen) FRI Incarnations India in 50 Lives - Omnibus, Episode 3 FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b072hlyr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b072hlyt (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 15 Minute Drama b04m3cf2 (Listen) FRI The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Arrival FRI FRI By Rachel Joyce FRI FRI Queenie is waiting for Harold Fry to arrive but she is FRI running out of time. As she writes we discover why she has FRI hidden away from him for over twenty years. FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI Credits FRI Queenie: Sophie Thompson FRI Harold: Paul Venables FRI Sister Mary Inconnue: Roslyn Hill FRI Sister Catherine: Elaine Claxton FRI Sister Lucy: Hannah Genesius FRI Finty: Jane Slavin FRI Mr Henderson: Michael Bertenshaw FRI David: Monty d'Inverno FRI Author: Rachel Joyce FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b072jlgx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b072n8g1 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b072n8g3 (Listen) FRI Jason and Kim - A New Town, a New Life FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an employer and FRI a disabled employee which makes clear the prejudice she's FRI been subjected to but also the power of new beginnings. 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
04 March, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 05/03/2016 - 11/03/2016
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