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SAT SATURDAY 12 MARCH 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b072hm3l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b072n8dv (Listen) SAT Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI, Episode 5 SAT SAT Seamus Heaney was working on a translation of book VI of SAT Virgil's Aeneid in the last months of his life . SAT SAT Ian McKellen reads the poet's posthumously published final SAT work in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the SAT spirit of his father. It's a story that had captivated SAT Seamus Heaney from his schooldays. But the work took on a SAT special significance for him after the death of his own SAT father, becoming a touchstone to which he would return as an SAT adult. His noble and moving translation of Book VI bears the SAT fruit of a lifetime's concentration upon it: he began SAT translating passages in the 1980s, and was finalising the SAT work right up to the summer of his death. SAT SAT Given the themes of the posthumously released Book VI, there SAT is added poignancy in this final gift to his readers - a SAT work which marks the end of Heaney's poetic journey. SAT SAT Then as her fit passed away and her raving went quiet, SAT Heroic Aeneas began: 'No ordeal, O Sibyl, no new SAT Test can dismay me, for I have foreseen SAT And foresuffered all. But one thing I pray for SAT Especially: since here the gate opens, they say, SAT To the King of the Underworld's realms, and here SAT In these shadowy marshes the Acheron floods SAT To the surface, vouchsafe me one look, SAT One face-to-face meeting with my dear father. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Ian McKellen SAT Author: Virgil SAT Translation: Seamus Heaney SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b072hm3r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b072hm3t (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b072hm46 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b072hm4r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b072n96g (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b072n96l (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b072hm4x (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b072hm4z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b072n5xk (Listen) SAT Series 32, Trent, Dorset SAT SAT Clare joins a lively primary school walking club as they SAT ramble through the Dorset countryside. Pupils, teachers, SAT local farmers and parents join the group which has been SAT helping to draw the local community together for twelve SAT years. Starting at a farm near the school, Trent Young's C SAT of E near Sherborne, they walk on footpaths and over private SAT farmland - made accessible by the farmers who help lead the SAT walk - learning about the countryside as they go. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Walking through Trent village SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b072zjpc (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b072hm54 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b072zjpf (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 b072zjph (Listen) SAT Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at SAT the world. Actress Anita Dobson joins Aasmah Mir and the Rev SAT Richard Coles. SAT SAT 10:30 Laura Barton's Notes from a Musical Island b072zjpk (Listen) SAT Put a Donk on It! 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 Crossing into Lancashire through the Upper Calder Valley, SAT Laura visits the Great Bride Stones with musician and SAT cultural geographer Rob St John, who's attuned to the unique SAT sound qualities of this rural-industrial landscape. SAT SAT Then she visits the Queen Street Mill Museum in Burnley and SAT meets Colin, a weaver of fifty years and lover of elegiac SAT Vaughan Williams, and listens to the loom-inspired music of SAT Chaines. SAT SAT She musically unpicks the origins of Donk, a high bpm (beats SAT per minute) dance style unique to the North-West, with Tony SAT Sabanskis of The Blackout Crew, and attends a band practice SAT of a former colliery brass band, a more traditional musical SAT emblem that flourishes still in post-industrial Haydock. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall. SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b072zjpm (Listen) SAT Paul Waugh of The Huffington Post looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b072hm5f (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b072hm5s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b072hm5y (Listen) SAT Switching Water Company SAT SAT The UK Government wants to give everyone the chance to SAT choose their water supplier. How would this work and how SAT much could you save? Ruth Alexander investigates and finds SAT out why the only tariff where people pay no standing charge SAT is being withdrawn. SAT SAT Fair Fuel UK wrote to the Chancellor this week urging him to SAT cut fuel duty. Another letter to land on his desk was from SAT Saga urging him to do the opposite - to increase fuel duty SAT but to abolish vehicle excise duty. Saga's Paul Green and SAT Fair Fuel UK founder Howard Cox discuss what George Osborne SAT should do with fuel duty in Wednesday's budget. SAT SAT Would you give up some of your salary in return for non-cash SAT benefits like childcare vouchers, extra pension SAT contributions or the chance to buy a bike? More and more SAT people are, and concern is growing at the treasury about SAT salary sacrifice schemes. SAT SAT And from April 6th UK taxpayers will be able to earn up to SAT £1,000 interest from their savings tax-free. Anita Monteith, SAT of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and SAT Wales, answers some of your questions about how this will SAT work. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b072n8fq (Listen) SAT Series 48, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical SAT stand-up and sketches. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b072hm62 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b072hm64 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b072n8fv (Listen) SAT Peter Davis, Kate Hoey MP, Norman Lamb MP, Anna Soubry MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from the South Holland Cetnre in Spalding, Lincolnshire, SAT with a panel including the Lincolnshire businessman Peter SAT Davis, Labour MP Kate Hoey, former Care Minister and Liberal SAT Democrat MP Norman Lamb MP and the Small Business Minister SAT Anna Soubry MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b072hm6f (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b072zkst (Listen) SAT Wide Sargasso Sea SAT SAT Set against the sumptuous backdrop of 19th century Jamaica, SAT Jean Rhys' stirring prequel to Jane Eyre envisages the life SAT of the first Mrs Rochester before she became the 'mad woman SAT in the attic.' SAT SAT A new version by multi-award winning writer Rebecca SAT Lenkiewicz SAT SAT Sold in to marriage with a dashing young Englishman, Creole SAT heiress Antoinette Cosway senses danger. But how could SAT anyone have predicted the devastating future that awaited SAT her. As their honeymoon becomes infected by vicious rumours, SAT her new husband's paranoia begins to grow. The cultural SAT divide between them increases and his desire to turn her SAT into the perfect Victorian wife ultimately becomes a battle SAT for her soul. Until eventually Antoinette is torn from her SAT home, stripped of her identity and transformed into the SAT ghoulish Bertha Rochester. SAT SAT Original score composed and performed by Lucy Rivers with SAT guitar by Dan Lawrence. SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production SAT SAT Winner of the WH Smith Literary Award in 1967 and named by SAT Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language SAT novels, Wide Sargasso Sea holds its own as a beautiful work SAT on human frailty and oppression. SAT SAT Credits SAT Antoinette Cosway: Lara Rossi SAT Edward Rochester: Trystan Gravelle SAT Christophine: Martina Laird SAT Young Antoinette: Eleanor Worthington-Cox SAT Amelie: Alexandria Riley SAT Grace Poole: Jaimi Barbakoff SAT Annette: Sirine Saba SAT Mr Mason: Don Gilet SAT Tia: Emily Burnett SAT Richard Mason: Eric Abrefa SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT Author: Jean Rhys SAT Adaptor: Rebecca Lenkiewicz SAT SAT 15:30 Turntable Tales b072jfcr (Listen) SAT Berliner to Gramophone SAT SAT In the first of two programmes telling the story of the SAT record-playing turntable, Colleen Murphy spins through its SAT early history and the dramatic take-up of this new SAT technology in Edwardian society. It was an enthusiasm as SAT spectacular as the computer's rise at the end of the same SAT century and its impact on the music industry was profound. SAT SAT Colleen talks to John Liffen of the Science Museum and SAT Christopher Proudfoot of the British Phonograph and SAT Gramophone Society about the earliest machines arriving from SAT the United States by way of the German Emigre inventor Emile SAT Berliner. She finds out why the HMV (His Master's Voice) SAT image wasn't initially created for the Gramophone at all, SAT and most important of all she gets to hear the sound SAT qualities of the machines that developed in the first two SAT decades of the 20th century. SAT SAT As the Gramophone company took hold the potential for SAT preserving singers, performers, speech makers but above all SAT music was eagerly realised. Colleen discovers that by the SAT outbreak of the First World War some forty percent of SAT households had some sort of Gramophone, however primitive, SAT and not surprisingly, travelling versions went with the SAT troops to the bunkers behind the front lines. SAT SAT That capacity to bridge the performer with the audience when SAT the two were hundreds of miles apart was the great miracle SAT of the early years and allowed the easy spread of musical SAT styles from Ragtime to Jazz to the first superstars of the SAT Turntable world - the Opera stars. And yet, as ever, it was SAT popular culture that dominated the market and drove sales. SAT SAT She also touches on the new opportunities for the Blues and SAT Ragime musicians of African-American society to be heard SAT beyond their geographical centres in the Southern States, SAT and the preservation of performances which would go on to SAT inspire British Rhythm and blues half a century later. SAT SAT And Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury talks about the SAT Gramophone as a blend of home furnishing and status symbol SAT and why what appear to be exotic survivors of the period are SAT actual part of a massive number of machines that were on SAT sale from bike shops to music emporia. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT Photo: Camilo Fuentealba SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b072hm74 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor:Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b072hm76 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b072n66d (Listen) SAT Horse Racing SAT SAT Horse racing is the second most popular spectator sport in SAT the UK but it is also a business. Presenter Evan Davis and SAT guests discuss who makes the money: the horse owners, the SAT jockeys, the race courses or the bookmakers? SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Simon Bazalgette, Chief Executive, The Jockey Club SAT SAT Rachel Hood, Director, The Horsemen's Group SAT SAT Ciaran O'Brien, Group Communications Director, William Hill SAT bookmakers SAT SAT Producer: Julie Ball. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b072hm7c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b072hm7v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b072hm87 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b072zlxv (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, Rob Brydon, Alexei Sayle, SAT Spencer Jones, Rebecca Ryan, Lianne La Havas, Motown the SAT Musical SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Jocelyn Jee Esien are joined by Alexei SAT Sayle, Spencer Jones and Rebecca Ryan for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Lianne La SAT Havas and 'The Supremes' of Motown The Musical. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Rob Brydon SAT 'The Painkiller' is at London's Garrick Theatre until SAT Saturday 30th April. SAT SAT Rebecca Ryan SAT 'Beryl' is at Rose Theatre, Kingston from 8th to 19th March. SAT SAT Alexei Sayle SAT 'Thatcher Stole My Trousers' is published by Bloomsbury and SAT available now. SAT SAT Spencer Jones SAT 'Spencer Jones is The Herbert in 'Proper Job' is at London's SAT Soho Theatre on 11th and 12th and 15th to 19th March. SAT SAT Motown The Musical SAT 'The Supremes' are currently performing in 'Motown The SAT Musical' at London's Shaftesbury Theatre. SAT SAT Lianne La Havas SAT SAT 'Blood' is available now on Warner Music. SAT SAT Lianne is hosting a Masterclass as part of London's Royal SAT Albert Hall’s Albert Sessions initiative and is performing SAT there on Monday 14th March. Lianne is also playing at Lianne SAT is also playing Cheltenham Jazz Festival on Thursday 28th SAT May, Love Supreme Jazz Festival, East Sussex on the first SAT weekend of July and Citadel Festival, London on Sunday 17th SAT July. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Jocelyn Jee Esien SAT Interviewed Guest: Rob Brydon SAT Interviewed Guest: Alexei Sayle SAT Interviewed Guest: Spencer Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Ryan SAT Performer: Lianne La Havas SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b072zlxx (Listen) SAT Ted Cruz SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b072hm89 (Listen) SAT Motown the Musical, Anomalisa, Giorgione, Eileen, Art of SAT Scandinavia SAT SAT Motown, The Musical - with one of the best pop songbooks to SAT draw on; how could this stage show fail? SAT Charlie Kaufman's latest film is a stop-motion tale of SAT loneliness, isolation and the possibility of redemptive SAT love: Anomalisa SAT In The Age of Giorgione at London's Royal Academy, examines SAT the development of The Venetian Renaissance, through works SAT by Giorgione and his contemporaries such as Titian and Durer SAT The central character of Ottessa Moshfegh's novel Eileen is SAT a lonely self-loathing secretary at a boy's prison, looking SAT after her alcoholic father and then along comes hope... SAT Art of Scandinavia on BBC4: Andrew Graham Dixon looks at the SAT art of Denmark, Norway and Finland SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Lisa Appignanesi, Rowan Pelling SAT and Elizabeth Day. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Lisa Appignanesi SAT Interviewed Guest: Rowan Pelling SAT Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Day SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b072zn42 (Listen) SAT The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Anarchy Must Be Organised SAT SAT 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah SAT Band going "professional" - kick-starting the chaos with a SAT performance on the bastion of psychedelia and avant-garde: SAT Blue Peter. SAT SAT The legendary Neil Innes looks back at the influence and SAT influences of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and the collision SAT of art, humour, music, language and anarchy that permeated SAT the band's career. SAT SAT Archive interviews and performances accompany new interviews SAT with Legs Larry Smith, Rodney Slater, Vernon Dudley Bowhay SAT Nowell, Sam Spoons, and Bob Kerr and contributions from SAT friends and fans including Terry Gilliam, Adrian Edmondson, SAT Kevin Eldon, Diane Morgan, Rick Wakeman and Stephen Fry. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b072htqt (Listen) SAT Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell, Episode 1 SAT SAT Sylvia Dobson's cousin, Philip, lives for her, he loves her SAT totally but Sylvia is in love with seafaring whaler, Charlie SAT Kinraid. Gaskell's last (completed) novel is set in SAT Yorkshire. Set in the 1790's - the time of the Napoleonic SAT wars. It takes place in Monkshaven (ie.Whitby). The Press SAT Gangs were always lurking when the whale boats were SAT returning from Greenland with their cargo. They intercepted SAT the boats, seized the men and pressed them into service with SAT the Royal Navy to fight the French. SAT SAT Elizabeth Gaskell ...... Barbara Flynn SAT Sylvia ...... Jodie Comer SAT Philip ...... Graeme Hawley SAT Charlie Kinraid ...... Chris Connel SAT Bell ...... Siobhan Finneran SAT Daniel ..... Paul CopleySylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell SAT Dramatised by Ellen Dryden SAT Sylvia Dobson's cousin, Philip, lives for her, he loves her SAT totally but Sylvia is in love with seafaring whaler, Charlie SAT Kinraid. Gaskell's last (completed) novel is set in SAT Yorkshire. Set in the 1790's - the time of the Napoleonic SAT wars. It takes place in Monkshaven (ie.Whitby). The Press SAT Gangs were always lurking when the whale boats were SAT returning from Greenland with their cargo. They intercepted SAT the boats, seized the men and pressed them into service with SAT the Royal Navy to fight the French. SAT SAT Kester/Donkin ...... Jonathan Keeble SAT Molly ...... Nichola Burley SAT Mrs. Corney ....... Olwen May SAT Produced/directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT Credits SAT Elizabeth Gaskell: Barbara Flynn SAT Sylvia: Jodie Comer SAT Philip: Graeme Hawley SAT Charlie Kinraid: Chris Connel SAT Bell: Siobhan Finneran SAT Kester: Jonathan Keeble SAT Donkin: Jonathan Keeble SAT Molly: Nichola Burley SAT Mrs Corney: Olwen May SAT Director: Pauline Harris SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT Author: Elizabeth Gaskell SAT Adaptor: Ellen Dryden SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b072hm8j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b072mz5r (Listen) SAT Is Science Morally Neutral? SAT SAT In 1816, when Mary Shelley sat down to write her Gothic SAT novel Frankenstein, it was a time of social, political and SAT scientific upheaval. It has given us the archetypal image of SAT the mad scientist single-mindedly pursing his grotesque SAT experiments whatever the cost. "Frankenstein Science" has SAT even become its own category, especially beloved by tabloid SAT headline writers. 200 years on and the pace of scientific SAT development has increased exponentially; the fact that SAT Shelley's Frankenstein still has such a hold reflects the SAT powerful role science plays in modern life and also, SAT perhaps, the fear that we don't understand it or know how to SAT control it. Now the head of the Science Council has said SAT that scientists need their own version of the Hippocratic SAT Oath and a regulation system of ethical standards and SAT principles similar to doctors. Would more control give us SAT better, more ethical scientists, or just restrain creativity SAT and academic freedom? If we control scientists more closely, SAT is there a case for arguing that we should exercise more SAT control over the research they carry out? Is science morally SAT neutral? Is it just the choices about how to apply SAT scientific knowledge that are truly moral? In a world where SAT advances in science have the power to profoundly change our SAT lives and the lives of future generations, can scientists SAT still rely on that distinction? This week scientists are SAT meeting in America to discuss the controversial SAT "gain-of-function" research on highly infectious viruses SAT such as avian flu. Do we need more moral, ethical and SAT democratically accountable oversight of research? Chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Giles Fraser, Claire Fox, Mathew Taylor SAT and Michael Portillo. Witnesses are Belinda Phipps, Prof SAT Terence Kealey, Prof Andy Stirling and Bryan Roberts. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b072j34f (Listen) SAT Heat 9, 2016 SAT SAT (9/17) SAT The quest for the 63rd BBC Brain of Britain reaches heat SAT nine, with Russell Davies in the question master's chair and SAT four contestants from the Home Counties and the West SAT Midlands. SAT SAT What name for a type of seafarer or pirate is thought to SAT derive from a Caribbean word meaning 'to dry meat on a SAT barbecue'? Which was the first western to win an Oscar for SAT Best Picture? SAT SAT The contestants face these and many other tough teasers on SAT their way to a possible semi-final place. A Brain of Britain SAT listener also stands a chance of being a winner by providing SAT fiendish questions with which to try and 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT DAVID DANSKIN, a solicitor from North Buckinghamshire SAT SAT JOHN GRANT, a voluntary worker from West London SAT SAT MADELEINE HOARE, a teacher and museum educator from North SAT London SAT SAT PETER WILSON, an international development advisor from SAT Stratford. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b072htxz (Listen) SAT Women Poets SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry written by SAT women including Charlotte Mew, Wendy Cope and Kathleen SAT Jamie. Maya Angelou reads her own work in a recording from SAT the archives. Other readers are Lucy Black and Fiona Shaw. SAT Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT Now I become myself SAT SAT by May Sarton SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/now-i-become-myself/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Phenomenal Woman SAT SAT By Maya Angelou SAT SAT From Maya Angelou - The Complete Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Virago SAT SAT SAT SAT The Creel SAT SAT by Kathleen Jamie SAT SAT Taken from SAT https://thisteacherslife.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/the-creel/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Names SAT SAT By Wendy Cope SAT SAT From Two Cures for Love SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Storm Warnings SAT SAT By Adrienne Rich SAT SAT From The Fact of a Doorframe – Poems Selected and New SAT 1950-1984 SAT SAT Published by Norton SAT SAT SAT SAT Dreamwood SAT SAT By Adrienne Rich SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244130 SAT SAT SAT SAT The Coat SAT SAT by Vicki Feaver SAT SAT From Close Relatives SAT SAT Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT Rain After Drought SAT SAT By Mary Morison Webster SAT SAT From SAT http://nimnod.org/poetry/others/mmwebster SAT SAT SAT SAT The Train SAT SAT Mary Elizabeth Coleridge SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-train-18/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Hatred SAT SAT By Wislawa Szymborska SAT SAT Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh SAT SAT From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT May 1915 SAT SAT By Charlotte Mew SAT SAT From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT June 1915 SAT SAT By Charlotte Mew SAT SAT From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd SAT SAT SAT SAT Courage SAT SAT By Anne Sexton SAT SAT From The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton SAT SAT Published by Houghton Mifflin SAT SAT SAT SAT When I Shall Die SAT SAT By Olive Fraser SAT SAT Sent in by requester SAT SAT SAT SAT Stargazer SAT SAT By Jo Shapcott SAT SAT From Of Mutability SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Hello SAT SAT By Sheenagh Pugh SAT SAT Taken from Sheenagh Pugh – Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Seren Books SAT SAT SAT SAT Home SAT SAT By Elaine Feinstein SAT SAT From Elaine Feinstein – Collected Poems and Translations SAT SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SAT SAT Enough for Me SAT SAT by Fadwa Tuqan SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.angelfire.com/rant/truthaboutpalestine/enough.htm SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Italia, Io Ti Saluto! SAT SAT By Christina Rossetti SAT SAT From Christina Rossetti – Poems and Prose SAT SAT Published by Everyman SAT SAT SAT SAT Bird SAT SAT By Myra Schneider SAT SAT Taken from Poetrymagazines.org.uk SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Maya Angelou SAT Reader: Lucy Black SAT Reader: Fiona Shaw SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 MARCH 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0735pzf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Modern Welsh Voices b03mclqk (Listen) SUN Snowstorm SUN SUN Snowstorm by Niall Griffiths SUN SUN Perry and his elderly mother are snowed in, isolated in the SUN hills of the Welsh countryside. As the last of the firewood SUN burns, Perry's mother is determined to force her layabout SUN son to go and fetch supplies. SUN SUN The third of five original stories by writers from Wales. SUN SUN Read by Eiry Thomas SUN Directed by James Robinson SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Eiry Thomas SUN Director: James Robinson SUN Writer: Niall Griffiths SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0735pzh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0735pzk (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0735pzm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0735pzp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0735xtf (Listen) SUN The Church of the Holy Cross in Woodchurch on the Wirral SUN SUN From the Church of the Holy Cross in Woodchurch on the SUN Wirral. The present bells were recast in 1971 from the old SUN peal of 6 by the Whitechapel Foundry. The tenor weighs three SUN and three quarter hundred-weight and is tuned to D. The SUN Woodchurch bells are one of the lightest peals in the UK, SUN this week ringing 'Cambridge Surprise Major'. SUN SUN 05:45 Lent Talks b072mz5t (Listen) SUN The Garden SUN SUN Madeleine takes a night-time walk along the River Lea and SUN the "edgelands" of the Hackney Marshes in east London as she SUN reflects on Jesus' last night in the garden of Gethsemane SUN for "Lent in the Landscape" a series of talks from six SUN writers on different aspects of the passion story. Producer: SUN Phil Pegum. SUN SUN Transcript SUN SUN It’s dark and cold here by the river. In the distance I can SUN hear the dull murmur of the traffic in its steady stream SUN into the heart of London. Beyond the adjacent playing SUN fields, I can see the orange glow of the street lights. I SUN walk out here across the marshes often and sometimes fall SUN into conversations with others who appreciate this lost SUN river on the city’s edge. SUN SUN I remember one summer day, I stood on this bridge over the SUN river with an elderly Asian man and he pointed out the fish SUN he could see in the river. ‘It’s just like home’ he declared SUN delightedly. It’s a place full of references to transition, SUN movement and migration. SUN SUN This river in east London may seem an unlikely parallel to SUN the Gethsemane of Christ’s Passion, the olive grove where he SUN went to pray after the Last Supper on the night that the SUN religious authorities arrested him. But they share several SUN characteristics. Most importantly, they're both places on SUN the edge of the city. Such edgelands are betwixt and SUN between, neither countryside proper nor the city, and as SUN such they're used in multiple ways, as places of both threat SUN and opportunity. SUN SUN We know Gethsemane was a place of work; John’s Gospel refers SUN to an olive grove and the name Gethsemane is from the Greek SUN for olive press. None of the gospels mention Gethsemane as a SUN garden; that convention emerged later. It was a place where SUN people met to talk; we are told that Jesus had often visited SUN with his disciples. Some used it for rest and quiet. After SUN the Last Supper, Jesus had come to pray and his disciples SUN fell asleep. SUN SUN Similarly, this part of the River Lea is a workplace for SUN some. On the bank opposite, there are huge warehouses where SUN trucks are loaded up. But it is also a place of rest and SUN retreat. I’ve been here walking in the morning and seen SUN someone pack up their tent and sleeping bag after a night SUN out in the undergrowth beside the quiet movement of the SUN river. You often come across fishermen down on the water’s SUN edge. These are men with tired faces and East European SUN accents; perhaps builders catching a rare few hours of peace SUN at the weekend before returning to their long hours of work. SUN SUN Gethsemane and the events of the night before Christ was SUN crucified are arguably the most compelling episode of Holy SUN Week. After more than 2000 years, they still speak SUN powerfully to both believer and non believer alike; the SUN playwright David Hare used the name for his play in 2008 SUN exploring the betrayal of ideals in the Labour party. SUN SUN Gethsemane takes up fewer than twenty verses in Mark’s SUN Gospel, even less in those of Luke and Matthew. But the SUN brevity of the passage belies the complexity and SUN significance of what happened in the olive grove; every word SUN counts in these verses and they encompass some of the most SUN important teachings of Christ’s life. Most famously, SUN Gethsemane was the setting for Christ’s betrayal by Judas SUN Iscariot. Even before Iscariot betrayed Christ with a kiss, SUN Jesus had experienced another form of betrayal. He told his SUN disciples ‘my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point SUN of death’ and he asked them to ‘stay here and keep watch’. SUN But they fell asleep; three times Jesus returned to his SUN disciples to ask them to stay awake with him, and each time SUN they let him down. SUN SUN One of these betrayals is infamous: Iscariot betrayed Jesus SUN to his enemy, the chief priests, for thirty pieces of SUN silver. But the sleeping disciples is perhaps a more common SUN form of betrayal; it reflects the many small ways in which SUN we can feel let down by those we are closest to. There is no SUN doubting Jesus’ disappointment but his response was gentle: SUN ‘the spirit is willing but the body is weak’. SUN SUN As Jesus was led away from Gethsemane by the high priest’s SUN servants, Mark’s Gospel concludes that ‘everyone deserted SUN him and fled,’ and for final emphasis he adds a verse with a SUN vivid image: one young man following Jesus was wearing SUN nothing but a white cloth, when he was seized by the high SUN priests’ men, he fled naked. The recurring theme through SUN that night is abandonment. Jesus knew worse was to come; he SUN had predicted a few hours earlier that his closest disciple, SUN Peter would disown him three times before the cock crowed at SUN dawn. SUN SUN Leaving the bridge, I’m heading down to the water’s edge. It SUN is almost pitch black and it’s easy to stumble in the SUN undergrowth and the slippery mud underfoot from this wet SUN spring. I can just catch the sound of the water gliding down SUN to the Thames between the muddy banks of this estuary. A SUN coot occasionally cries out its uncanny call as the wind SUN rustles in the bare branches. SUN SUN Adjacent to major roads east, this kind of edgeland is often SUN derelict, scattered with litter, and dangerous. In the past, SUN the marshes were infamous for highway men, including the SUN notorious Dick Turpin, who preyed on travellers. On such SUN urban outskirts, normal conventions of behaviour are SUN transgressed and give way to the illegal, illicit and the SUN criminal. Such places often carry associations with untimely SUN death: there have been murders, suicides here, and SUN historically, the city might bury plague victims in such SUN wastelands. SUN SUN Betrayal, abandonment and loneliness: these are the themes SUN of Gethsemane and they are such essential elements of the SUN human condition that it gives this passage of Jesus’ life a SUN significance which transcends creed or religion. The SUN abandonment is all the more painful because it comes at SUN Christ’s moment of desperate need. Through much of the SUN Gospels, Christ comes across as a powerful man, an eloquent SUN speaker, someone of natural authority and presence. But in SUN this sentence, Christ is expressing a terrified SUN vulnerability; he's bewildered and full of anguish, talking SUN of a sorrow which breaks the heart and which seems SUN unbearable – hence his reference to death. This is Christ at SUN his most human. It is akin to the agony described by the SUN poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins: SUN SUN ‘No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, SUN More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.’ SUN SUN A priest once told me that for all of us, there is a passage SUN in the Gospel which resonates most powerfully; one episode SUN which seems to speak directly to our life experience. SUN Mercifully, for most of us the events of Holy Week – trial SUN and unjust conviction, whipping, mockery, crucifixion – are SUN not things we are likely to directly experience ourselves, SUN but many can recognise the agony of that sorrow felt by SUN Jesus in Gethsemane at that bleak point in the early hours SUN of the morning. SUN SUN It’s cold down here by the river. Part of the sorrow was SUN fear. Jesus was familiar with the torture, humiliation and SUN brutal deaths meted out to enemies of the religious SUN authorities and Romans. He prayed that God would rescue him: SUN But he moves swiftly on in a sequence of sentences which SUN compress huge significance. He shifts from the terror and a SUN desperate desire to escape, right through to acceptance, SUN ‘Yet not what I will but what you will.’ SUN SUN Christ transforms aversion to suffering into acceptance. SUN It’s a transition which can mark months, years, even a SUN lifetime in many people’s experience. Here, it is summarized SUN in two sentences, but it sets the stage for everything that SUN follows. In that acceptance, he finds the courage and SUN strength to face the hours that lie ahead of his trial and SUN death. SUN SUN This language of submission to the will of God can be seen SUN as a form of fatalism, but that would be to lose a vital SUN insight. The greatest wisdom lies in distinguishing between SUN the suffering we have to accept – death for example – and SUN the suffering we must challenge and reject such as abuse. It SUN is wisdom to grasp the nature of that acceptance, SUN relinquishing the panicky desire to escape, and in its SUN stead, find the narrow rocky path which leads to SUN transformation: a humbling of the spirit and a heart which SUN expands and reaches out to share in the distress and SUN suffering of others. The poet John Donne captures the SUN paradox in his sonnet as he calls upon God to ‘batter my SUN heart’: SUN SUN ‘That I may rise and stand, o’er throw me and bend SUN Your force to break blow burn and make me new.’ SUN SUN In this chilly dark, I remember how in summer, the SUN neighbouring poplar trees shed their seed, and the drifts of SUN white spread across the ground like a light snow; along the SUN river, the path twists through weeds six foot tall, and SUN there’s a sweet scent. SUN SUN This is the promise of Gethsemane, that we can be made new. SUN But at this stage of the Passion it is a promise of blind SUN faith, there is nothing in this night spent in the olive SUN grove to give Christ hope, and no suggestion that he SUN understood why it was God’s will he die an ignominious death SUN on a cross. Even his closest disciples had struggled to SUN understand his teaching and were failing to remain SUN steadfast. He must have asked himself, how much of his SUN teaching would be remembered, how much would be distorted SUN and corrupted? Within a few hours, he had yet even more SUN reason to reflect on this. As the high priests’ men came to SUN arrest Jesus with clubs and swords, one of Jesus’ followers SUN cut off the ear of the high priest’s servant. This was not SUN to be a violent rebellion, Jesus reminded him. ‘Put your SUN sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die SUN by the sword.’ How many of Christ’s followers down the ages SUN would abide by or even remember his words? SUN SUN Fear, failure and loneliness: these are elements which make SUN up what St John of the Cross describes as the ‘dark night of SUN the soul’. All too often, the temptation is to numb the SUN intensity of these moments of pain – with alcohol, drugs, SUN distraction. The beer cans crunched up in the undergrowth. SUN Gethsemane was on the edge of the desert, just beyond the SUN olive groves; could Jesus have slipped away into the night, SUN and what would we have known of him if he had? Christ SUN didn’t deny his pain. He recognised it, named it and then we SUN are told he withdrew from his disciples a short way to pray, SUN and significantly to my mind, we are told ‘he fell with his SUN face to the ground’ a detail which appears in several SUN gospels. SUN SUN Tonight, I am not going to fall to the ground, but I find a SUN bench and I sit for a while, listening to the patter of rain SUN on the sparse leaves, a long way from the deserts of first SUN century Palestine. I think about the ground and how it holds SUN us steady; a physical reality of earth and rock but also SUN used as a metaphor – grounded – to describe the SUN steadfastness of a person in the face of the overwhelming SUN moments of suffering we all encounter at some point in the SUN course of our lives. All we can do is have the courage to SUN hold steady and have faith that the agony will pass, and SUN seek to glimpse, like Donne, that it will ‘make us new’. SUN SUN On my way to this edgeland, I’ve walked across the sports SUN fields of Hackney Marshes. It’s one of London’s biggest open SUN spaces. Beneath my feet in this ground lies the rubble of SUN London’s Blitz: the hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed SUN in five years of bombing in the Second World War, shovelled SUN off the streets and trucked out here, representing millions SUN of terrified lives and thousands of dead. Across the sea, SUN their counterpart must be buried in Germany, Russia and SUN across Europe. Now, on weekend mornings, this stark expanse SUN of football pitches is speckled with the brightly coloured SUN shirts of dozens of different teams. Across this ground, SUN the wind brings the sound of the shouts, occasional cheers SUN and referee’s whistle, and one glimpses those everyday SUN possibilities of resurrection. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0735pzr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0735xth (Listen) SUN I Sat Down and Wept SUN SUN Samira Ahmed explores the ambiguous power of tears in myth SUN and music. SUN SUN Weeping is a pivotal act in cultures across the world and SUN throughout history. SUN SUN The Israelites recalling the promised land by the River SUN Euphrates; Niobe condemned to eternal mourning for her lost SUN children, transformed into a rocky waterfall; Picasso's Dora SUN Marr transformed into the iconic weeping woman, the SUN embodiment of suffering in wartime; King Lear railing SUN against his treacherous tears that "un -man him". SUN SUN Writers, theologians, scientists, psychologists have been SUN fascinated for centuries by tears and what they reveal about SUN human emotion and human experience. SUN SUN Tears are paradoxical - they are produced by laughter and by SUN sadness, are understood as both a sign of weakness and of SUN strength and, perhaps most confusingly, are used as evidence SUN of the veracity of an experience or of the falseness of a SUN witness, who weeps 'crocodile tears'. SUN SUN Weeping is powerful, endlessly fascinating to many, but SUN still not fully understood. SUN SUN Samira Ahmed considers some for the ways tears have been SUN represented in culture, music and religion. She discusses SUN masculinity, politics and tears with poet Andrew McMillan. SUN She explores different culturally acceptable ways of SUN grieving. In the wake of public displays of mourning for SUN public figures, such as Princess Diana and David Bowie, has SUN the UK moved from having a stiff upper lip to a teary eye? SUN SUN The programme includes writing by Lewis Carroll, John Donne SUN and William Shakespeare, poetry by Grace Nichols and Les SUN Murray, and music by Nick Cave, and Debussy. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0735xtk (Listen) SUN Sutherland Crofter SUN SUN Helen Mark travels to the far north-west of Scotland to meet SUN crofters Martin and Mary Mackay and the shepherd who takes SUN care of their flock as well as the rest of the sheep in the SUN sheep-stock club, Janet Roberts. Oh, and they're all SUN sheep-dog mad. SUN SUN Martin's family have been crofters since the Highland SUN clearances, making a partial living off the tiny strips of SUN land between their house and the cliffs, in the village of SUN Durness in Sutherland. But Martin's sheep range over SUN thousands of acres of uncultivatable land over towards Cape SUN Wrath, where thousand foot cliffs attract tourists every SUN year. These sheep are part of the sheep-stock club Martin SUN belongs to. They employ three shepherds, including Janet SUN Roberts, who regularly walks for nine hours over mountains, SUN bogs and moors when she's gathering in the sheep. SUN SUN Both Martin and Janet love their sheepdogs and, somewhat SUN unusually, treat them as pets as well as working companions. SUN Mary hosts visitors from all over the world in her bed and SUN breakfast visitors, some of whom send Christmas cards to the SUN dogs every year. They are particularly fond of the retired SUN sheepdog, Shep, who enjoys watching television, particularly SUN the programmes featuring sheepdog trials that Mary records SUN for him to watch. He's also fond of 'Countryfiile' SUN apparently, as well as gaelic music. SUN SUN Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0735pzt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0735pzy (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0735xtm (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b0735xtp (Listen) SUN KIDS SUN SUN Author David Mitchell presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf SUN of KIDS SUN Registered Charity No 275936 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'KIDS' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'KIDS'. SUN SUN KIDS SUN KIDS gives direct and practical support to over 8,000 SUN disabled children, young people and their families every SUN year across the country. KIDS is dedicated to providing an SUN extensive range of services to disabled children and young SUN people, aged 0-25 years, irrespective of their condition. SUN KIDS has delivered over 60,000 hours of short breaks to hard SUN pressed families last year. Find out more at SUN www.kids.org.uk SUN SUN “You become desperate for a break” SUN SUN Short Breaks help relieve the strain on families and reduce SUN stress for parents. They give the disabled child an SUN opportunity to get away from the family home, enjoy new SUN experiences and meet new people. Last year, KIDS provided SUN over 60,000 hours of Short Breaks to hard pressed families SUN like Danny’s (in the picture). Danny, whose story you hear SUN in the appeal, is 17 and has been going on Short Breaks for SUN over 3 years. SUN SUN “KIDS has really unlocked what Danny can do” SUN SUN When he first started going on Short Breaks, he struggled SUN with speaking and would get frustrated easily. Ruby who SUN works with him said, *“When I first met him, he wouldn’t SUN look at me. Now he is a totally different person. He will SUN shake my hand, ask questions and has the confidence to go SUN out on his own with his buddies. He even supports the KIDS SUN team when we organise group outings* (see picture)*.”* SUN SUN “Udanya is more engaged,calm and confident” SUN SUN Udanya is 12 and has Down’s syndrome. Gina has been working SUN with Udanya for over a year, regularly taking her to the SUN Belmont Farm. *“Since we’ve started visiting the farm, she SUN has learnt to name the animals unaided. She is showing SUN compassion, and our visits there allow her to improve her SUN social skills, through engaging with the other children.”* SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0735q00 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0735q02 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0735xtr (Listen) SUN Lent Pilgrimage 5: Living with Uncertainty SUN SUN On Passion Sunday, an exploration of living with uncertainty SUN as we pilgrim through Lent. On this Passion Sunday the SUN Bishop of Connor, the Right Rev. Alan Abernethy considers SUN how we can live with unanswered questions and find hope SUN during those times of separation and alienation that are SUN common to us all. Led by the Rev Brian Lacey. SUN SUN Isaiah 43.16-21 SUN St Mark 14.32-42 SUN Praise to the holiest in the height (Chorus Angelorum) SUN Psalm 126 SUN Ah! Holy Jesu, how hast thou offended (Herzliebster Jesu) SUN How bright those glorious spirits shine (Beatitudo) SUN God so loved the world (Chilcott) SUN SUN With the Priory Singers directed by Robert Thompson. From St SUN Peter's Church, Belfast. Producer: Bert Tosh SUN A link to this year's Lent resources from Churches Together SUN in Britain and Ireland can be found on the Sunday Worship SUN web pages. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b072n8fx (Listen) SUN Human Hybrids SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03wphhd (Listen) SUN Blackbird (Spring) 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 Bill Oddie presents the blackbird. Blackbirds are thrushes SUN and the brown female often has a few speckles on her throat SUN to prove it. Velvety, black and shiny, the males sport an SUN eye-ring as yellow as a spring daffodil and a bill glowing SUN like a buttercup. Happily blackbirds aren't doing too badly. SUN There's so many of them that their territories often overlap SUN so that where one song leaves off, another song begins. SUN SUN Blackbird (Turdus merula) SUN Webpage image courtesy fo RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0735q04 (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 b0735y60 (Listen) SUN On Mother's Day, Rob and Henry roll their sleeves up. And SUN Helen puts her foot in it. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Peter Leslie Wild SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Sasha Locke: Megan McCormick SUN Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0735y62 (Listen) SUN Yinka Shonibare SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. SUN SUN His work has populated museums around the globe, with a SUN vivid, subversive and often tragi-comic presence; exploring SUN themes of cultural identity, post colonialism and the impact SUN of globalisation. A Turner Prize nominee in 2004, he has SUN exhibited at the Venice Biennial and internationally. SUN SUN His 'Nelson's Ship in a Bottle' became his first public art SUN commission when it was one of the art works chosen for the SUN Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. SUN SUN Born in London, his parents moved the family back to Nigeria SUN when he was three. Later he returned to Britain to finish SUN his education but his plans to study art were brutally SUN interrupted when he was 19 contracted the disease, SUN Transverse Myelitis, which attacked his central nervous SUN system and rendered him paralysed from the neck down. He had SUN three years of intensive rehabilitation before beginning SUN again at art school. SUN SUN He went on to study at Goldsmiths and was part of the Young SUN British Artist generation. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Yinka Shonibare SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0735q06 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b072j3g2 (Listen) SUN Series 74, Episode 3 SUN SUN Stephen Fry, Jenny Eclair, Josie Lawrence and Nish Kumar SUN join host Nicholas Parsons to play Britain's longest running SUN and best loved panel game. Topics tackled without deviation, SUN hesitation or repetition include Salvador Dali, The Great SUN Fire of London and The Easter Bunny. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Stephen Fry SUN Panellist: Jenny Eclair SUN Panellist: Josie Lawrence SUN Panellist: Nish Kumar SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b073655s (Listen) SUN Ferment SUN SUN Fermentation is one of our oldest methods for preserving SUN food. All around the world people have been transforming SUN food with the help of microbes for thousands of years. The SUN problem is, this simple method has had an identity crisis. SUN We tend either see it as a fashionable fad, or a strange SUN science. But there are people who want things to change. So SUN in this programme Sheila Dillon meets 'The fermenters'. SUN Ukranian food writer and chef Olia Hercules, who grew up SUN with fermented foods; Roopa Gulati, using fermentation to SUN explore her Indian heritage; entrepreneur Deborah Carr, SUN whose fermentation business is going from strength to SUN strength; and seasonal chef Tom Hunt who is putting seasonal SUN ferments back on his restaurant menu. In 2016, It's time to SUN rethink fermentation. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN Interviewed Guest: Olia Hercules SUN Interviewed Guest: Roopa Gulati SUN Interviewed Guest: Deborah Carr SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Hunt SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0735q08 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0735q0b (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 The Day the Refugees Came b073655v (Listen) SUN Michael Palin tells the story of the little Somerset town of SUN Wincanton and the group of refugees that its Postmaster, GP SUN and Parish Priest rescued from war ravaged Bosnia at the SUN height of the Balkan Wars. SUN SUN Producers: Alasdair Cross and Lisa Lipman. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b072n8f9 (Listen) SUN Northamptonshire SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Northamptonshire. Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and SUN Matthew Wilson answer questions from an audience of local SUN gardeners. SUN SUN The panellists also share their topical tips for the coming SUN weekend and Matthew Wilson goes on a quest to mend his SUN grandfather's dung fork. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b073655x (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces three clips from a conversation between SUN an employer and a disabled employee, about how her job in SUN the company has changed both their outlooks. in the Omnibus SUN of the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b0736566 (Listen) SUN Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell, Episode 2 SUN SUN Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell SUN Dramatised by Ellen Dryden SUN Sylvia marries Philip, believing Charlie to be dead. But SUN chaos descends when Charlie returns, and Sylvia discovers SUN Philip has lied to her. Set in Yorkshire in the 1790's - the SUN time of the Napoleonic wars, in Monkshaven (ie.Whitby), SUN during the time of the Press Gangs, who intercepted the SUN fishing boats, seized the men and pressed them into service SUN with the Royal Navy to fight the French. SUN SUN Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris SUN SUN Further info: This was Gaskell's last (completed) and only SUN historical novel, set in 1790's Whitby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Elizabeth Gaskell: Barbara Flynn SUN Sylvia: Jodie Comer SUN Philip: Graeme Hawley SUN Bell: Siobhan Finneran SUN Daniel: Paul Copley SUN Charlie: Chris Connel SUN Kester: Jonathan Keeble SUN Duncan: Jonathan Keeble SUN Molly: Nichola Burley SUN Hester: Verity Henry SUN Mrs Kinraid: Verity Henry SUN Director: Pauline Harris SUN Producer: Pauline Harris SUN Author: Elizabeth Gaskell SUN Adaptor: Ellen Dryden SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0736568 (Listen) SUN Javier Marias on Thus Bad Begins SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to award winning Spanish novelist SUN Javier Marias whose latest book Thus Bad Begins explores an SUN intimate, even suffocating, relationship between a film SUN maker, his wife and a family friend all observed by the film SUN maker's assistant. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Javier Marias SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b073656b (Listen) SUN George Mackay Brown SUN SUN Roger McGough with a programme dedicated to the Orkney poet SUN and prose writer George Mackay Brown, who died twenty years SUN ago this year. He wrote poems full of wonderful imagery, SUN capturing the life and characters of those islands. Producer SUN Sally Heaven. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN Prologue to 'The Storm' SUN SUN Hamnavoe SUN SUN The Death of Peter Esson SUN SUN Peat Cutting SUN SUN The Old Women SUN SUN Hamnavoe Market SUN SUN Beachcomber SUN SUN Stella Cartwright (for her birthday - 15 May 1982) SUN SUN Further Than Hoy SUN SUN The Poet SUN SUN Kirkyard SUN SUN Countryman SUN SUN SUN SUN All by George Mackay Brown SUN SUN Taken from The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown SUN SUN Published by John Murray SUN SUN SUN SUN The Horses SUN SUN By Edwin Muir SUN SUN From Edwin Muir – Collected Poems SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Producer: Sally Heaven SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b072n9s7 (Listen) SUN UK Asylum: A Systems Failure? SUN SUN As more and more migrants seek asylum in the UK, is the SUN system for processing their applications reaching breaking SUN point? Allan Urry investigates the impact of a drastic SUN reduction in the numbers of courts hearing cases. At the SUN same time, appeals are going up and key rulings against Home SUN Office decisions to return people to other countries are SUN also piling on the pressure. SUN With Europe now bracing itself for a fresh wave of refugees SUN fleeing conflict, why is it taking so long and costing so SUN much to decide who should be granted asylum here? SUN Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b072zlxx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0735q0d (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0735q0g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0735q0j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b073656d (Listen) SUN Stewart Henderson SUN SUN Stewart Henderson chooses his BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b073656g (Listen) SUN Bert and Lynda have a difference of opinion. And is it time SUN for Rex to seize the day? SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01s6c9z (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel game SUN where this week Katy Brand & Alex Horne compete with Richard SUN Herring & Natalie Haynes for wordy supremacy. SUN SUN This week Richard Herring decides to reclaim the word SUN 'middle class' and tries to decipher the 16th century phrase SUN 'a mare's nest'; Natalie Haynes tries to get rid of the word SUN 'decimate' and despite being a vegetarian works out what the SUN very meaty cookery term 'barding' means; Alex Horne comes up SUN with the correct definition for the Victorian phrase 'a SUN scraping castle' and asks to take the word 'a' out of the SUN dictionary. Meanwhile Katy Brand takes a guess at what the SUN unit of measurement 'the Warhol' is and reveals that her SUN favourite word is 'plop'. 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: Richard Herring SUN Panellist: Natalie Haynes SUN Panellist: Alex Horne SUN Panellist: Katy Brand SUN SUN 19:45 Reader, I Married Him b07369s9 (Listen) SUN Reader, I Freed Him SUN SUN To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte's birth SUN three writers provide their own take on the famous ending to SUN Jane Eyre, 'Reader, I Married Him'. SUN SUN Philip Hensher sends Jane into the capitalist clamour of SUN nineteenth-century Manchester, Isy Suttie has her do battle SUN with the ghost of Bertha and Elizabeth Kuti introduces an SUN extra gothic twist with the appearance of another famous SUN Victorian novelist... SUN SUN Writer ..... Isy Suttie SUN Reader ..... Isy Suttie SUN Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Isy Suttie SUN Reader: Isy Suttie SUN Producer: Jenny Thompson SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b072n8fk (Listen) SUN US Elections, In Tune SUN SUN Radio 4's forum for audience comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b072n8fh (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b072hm5y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0735xtp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0736vv8 (Listen) SUN Power to the People? SUN SUN Will devolution bring back the power to England's cities and SUN regions that they once had? And, if so, will all local SUN authorities fare equally? Michael Robinson explores the SUN history of local government and asks if old freedoms are now SUN set to return under the new deal promised by the Chancellor SUN of the Exchequer, George Osborne. SUN SUN Producer : Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0735q0n (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b07366yl (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the big stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b072n5xm (Listen) SUN Anomalisa, The Witch, Women in Love SUN SUN With Antonia Quirke. SUN SUN Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson discuss their stop-motion SUN comedy Anomalisa, how they made a love scene with puppets SUN and why it took 6 months. SUN SUN Cinematographer Billy Williams recalls the tensions behind SUN the scenes of the notorious naked wrestling bout between SUN Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Women In Love. SUN SUN Director Robert Eggers reveals the difficulties of working SUN with a goat on his supernatural horror The Witch, and why SUN ravens are better actors. SUN SUN Billy Williams SUN SUN Billy will be presenting Sunday Bloody Sunday and Women In SUN Love at this year’s SUN Festival Of British Cinema SUN at Hay-On-Wye this weekend SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Charlie Kaufman SUN Interviewed Guest: Duke Johnson SUN Interviewed Guest: Billy Williams SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Eggers SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0735xth (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 MARCH 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0735q2m (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b072my2m (Listen) MON Small towns, Patient rescue and resuscitation MON MON Small towns: Laurie Taylor talks to Steve Hanson, Associate MON Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lincoln, and MON author of an ethnographic study of Todmorden in 'austere' MON times. Dr Hanson returned to his home town, on the border of MON Lancashire and Yorkshire, to immerse himself in the life and MON times of a place which has almost halved since its MON industrial heyday. He finds micro worlds that never MON encounter each other, debunking the myth that people in MON small towns all know each other's business. They're joined MON by Katherine Tyler, Lecturer in Anthropology at the MON University of Exeter. MON MON Rescuing 'acute' patients: what happens when patients in a MON hospital ward become acutely unwell? Nicola Mackintosh, MON Research Fellow at Kings College, London, interviewed MON doctors, nurses, health care assistants and managers at two MON UK hospitals, in order to explore the practice of 'rescue' MON and patient safety on the front line. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Steve Hanson at the University of Lincoln MON Katharine Tyler at the University of Exeter MON Nicola Mackintosh at King's College, London MON Nicola Mackintosh, Mackintosh, N., & Sandall, J. (2015). The MON social practice of rescue: the safety implications of acute MON illness trajectories and patient categorisation in medical MON and maternity settings. Sociology of health & illness. MON Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages: 252–269 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0735xtf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0735q2r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0735q2w (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0735q30 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0735q34 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0736pk5 (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0736pk7 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sally Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0735q3b (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03tht7c (Listen) MON Skylark 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 John Aitchison tells the story of the skylark. No other UK MON bird is capable of sustaining such a loud and complex song MON while hovering high above the ground, rapidly beating its MON wings to stay aloft. Some songs can last 20 minutes or more MON and their performance is likely to be as much a territorial MON display as an exhibition of the male's physical fitness to MON impress a female. MON MON Skylark (Alauda arvensis) MON Webpage image curtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b0736pk9 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0736pkc (Listen) MON The Easter Rising: 100 Years On MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe looks back a hundred years MON to Easter Rising of 1916. Ruth Dudley Edwards explores the MON lives of Ireland's founding fathers and questions how they MON should be remembered, while Heather Jones places this MON historical moment in the context of the Great War. David MON Rieff praises forgetting in his study of the uses and abuses MON of historical memory, and its often pernicious influence on MON the present. And the Irish commentator Fintan O'Toole MON examines the present fortunes of a country once famed as the MON Celtic Tiger. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Ruth Dudley Edwards MON Interviewed Guest: Heather Jones MON Interviewed Guest: David Rieff MON Interviewed Guest: Fintan O'Toole MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0736pkf (Listen) MON Quicksand, Episode 1 MON MON Henning Mankell was creator of Wallander, the fictional MON detective. His posthumous essays, translated by Laurie MON Thompson with Marlaine Delargy, and abridged by Katrin MON Williams, refer to his illness and explore much more MON besides: MON MON An unexpected car accident, diagnosis, then rich MON recollections of his school-days, which includes a MON life-changing revelation.. MON MON Reader Tim Pigott-Smith MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON Author: Henning Mankell MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0735q3q (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0736pkh (Listen) MON Charlotte Bronte in Babylon, Episode 1 MON MON Charlotte Brontë in Babylon by Charlotte Cory MON MON Episode One MON MON Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made MON to London. After being accused of deceit by the publisher of MON Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë and her sister Anne, leave MON Haworth and rush down to London to put the matter right. MON MON Directed by Charlotte Riches MON Produced by Susan Roberts MON MON Charlotte Brontë made 5 trips down to London in the course MON of her momentous, shortlived but meteoric literary career. MON These trips chart the story of her relationship with her MON young publisher (and his watchful, horrified Mama), MON Charlotte's wide-eyed enthusiasm at visiting the place of MON her childhood dreams at long last and being lionized as a MON writer by readers. We see her difficult relationships with MON other authors and critics - and then the gradual MON disillusionment setting in as this intense, painfully honest MON and gauche Yorkshire novelist gradually acquires self MON knowledge and a clear-eyed view of the cruel and shallow MON fashionable literary world she had long aspired to be part MON of. MON MON Credits MON Charlotte: Samantha Power MON Anne: Sara Bahadori MON Mrs Smith: Claire Brown MON George: Ben Lamb MON Patrick: Robert Pickavance MON Shop Assistant: Robert Pickavance MON Director: Charlotte Riches MON Producer: Susan Roberts MON Writer: Charlotte Cory MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr7gs (Listen) MON The Goldman MON MON Grace Dent presents a new series documenting the untold MON stories of 21st century Britain. MON MON Today she follows the Gold Man of Farnworth market as he MON tries to save his business. John Hill is a gold trader who MON set up a stall at a traditional market, in Farnworth near MON Bolton, six years ago. He is a big character who isn't MON afraid to fight for what he believes in. John turned his MON back on an IT career to run his own stall and has led the MON battle to keep the traditional market going but now the MON local Council has written to John and his fellow traders to MON tell them their time is up: February 26th is their last day. MON John has consistently come up with alternative plans to keep MON the market going but, right now, it looks as if he will be MON the last man fighting. He needs a new site to keep his tribe MON of traders together but that means getting the council's MON permission and the other traders on side. Grace Dent wants MON to know if John can persuade them to go with him as he MON searches for hope, even at the 11th hour. MON MON Producer: Karen Gregor. MON MON 11:30 Dot b0736pkk (Listen) MON Eenie Meenie Miney... Spy! MON MON by Ed Harris MON MON New war time comedy series by Ed Harris. Dot and the gals MON are tasked with an important mission, to monitor the Russian MON Ambassador, Comrade Pavlenti Lavovich. But Lavovich seems MON more interested in singing sensation, Harriet Pertly. MON MON Director/Producer Jessica Brown. MON MON Credits MON Dot: Fenella Woolgar MON Myrtle: Kate O'Flynn MON Peg: Freya Parker MON Millicent: Jane Slavin MON Peabody: David Acton MON Comrade Pavlenti Lavovich: Nick Underwood MON Miss Harriet Pertly: Scarlett Brookes MON Bomber Johnson: Sean Baker MON Director: Jessica Brown MON Producer: Jessica Brown MON Writer: Ed Harris MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0735q3v (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Syrian Voices b0736s56 (Listen) MON Lyse Doucet talks to those who have survived - or are MON surviving - the conflict in Syria. MON MON Five years ago, protests in Syria as part of the Arab MON Spring, were put down with violence by the Syrian MON Government. The mass protests quickly became an armed MON rebellion, with increasing sectarian involvement. As the MON conflict escalated, other countries became involved with MON Russia commencing air strikes in September 2015, and areas MON of the country becoming strongholds of so-called Islamic MON State militants. MON MON The Syrian conflict has changed people's lives irrevocably MON and, in this series of interviews, they reflect on the MON situation in which they find themselves. MON MON Producer: David Prest MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0735q3z (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0735q43 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0736wr1 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0736s58 (Listen) MON Bhimrao Ambedkar: Building Palaces on Dung Heaps MON MON Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute, MON looks at the life of Bhimrao Ambedkar, champion of the MON community previously known as 'untouchables' whom he renamed MON as Dalits. Ambedkar, who was a Dalit himself and fought MON against caste discrimination. His face can be found on MON posters, paintings and coloured tiles in tens of millions of MON Dalit homes. To Indian schoolchildren, he is the man who MON wrote the country's constitution; and to India's politicians MON he is a public emblem of how far India has come in MON addressing the blight of caste. "Both readings MON simultaneously exaggerate and ghettoize Ambedkar's MON contribution," says Professor Khilnani. "He was a MON sophisticated, long-sighted Constitutional collaborator MON whose interests extended past caste to the very structure MON and psychology of Indian democracy." MON Producer: Mark Savage. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b073656g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b0736vtt (Listen) MON My Life and Other Stories MON MON My Life and Other Stories MON by Merryn Glover MON MON What happens when someone falls in love with a version of MON you that is all made up? MON When Kevin joins Jilly's writing course by mistake, he MON tangles them both in a mess of tall tales and twisting MON fortunes. Literary licence and love collide in this romantic MON comedy. MON MON Instead of attending the first class of a new Book-keeping MON course, Kevin gets his dates muddled and finds himself in MON "Life Writing". The lovely tutor, Jilly, is thrilled by his MON last-minute addition because without him there wouldn't be MON enough participants. He is so captivated by her and so MON loathe to disappoint the others - Gus, Diane, Marta and Faye MON - that he stays. Desperate to impress Jilly and to hide the MON 'boring' reality of his life he invents a more bohemian MON upbringing as makes his contribution to the class. But he's MON not the only one who is not quite telling the truth! MON Starring John Kielty as Kevin and Shonagh Price as Jilly. MON MON Producer/director: David Ian Neville. MON MON Credits MON Kevin: John Kielty MON Jilly: Shonagh Price MON Diane: Noreen Leighton MON Faye: Bridget McCann MON Gus: Iain Agnew MON Jean: Alison Peebles MON Marta: Juliet Cadzow MON Director: David Neville MON Producer: David Neville MON Writer: Merryn Glover MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0736vtw (Listen) MON Heat 10, 2016 MON MON (10/17) MON Russell Davies puts four more would-be Brains of Britain MON through the toughest of general knowledge tests, at the MON Radio Theatre in London. MON MON Why is the chemical element argon so named? In which TV MON series did the heroes have to defeat the lumbering MON Cybernauts, even before the Cybermen made their first MON appearance in Dr Who? Who, according to the title of the MON play in which they feature, were Bob Acres and Captain Jack MON Absolute? MON MON The winner today will win a place in the semi-finals in a MON few week's time, but there could be a chance for a runner-up MON to go through too, if any of them scores highly enough to be MON one of the top scorers of the series. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b073655s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Actors' Gang on the Outside b0736vty (Listen) MON We followed actor Tim Robbins' work with prisoners on the MON inside of LA's tough prison system in the acclaimed Radio 4 MON documentary The Actor's Gang. Three of the actors who we MON heard in the first documentary have now been released. MON In the Actor's Gang on the Outside, Rajesh Mirchandani MON catches up with them to hear their stories. Has taking part MON in the The Actor's Gang Prison Project helped them turn MON their lives around and has the acting course had any long MON term effects on helping with their rehabilitation and MON adapting to life outside prison? MON This promises to be a compellingly gritty portrait of crime, MON second chances and the power of drama. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b0736vv0 (Listen) MON Mercy MON MON Pope Francis has declared 2016 a "Holy Year of Mercy" and MON described it as "a privileged moment, so that the church may MON learn to choose only that which pleases God most"; that is MON forgiveness and mercy. What exactly do we mean by mercy? Why MON has the Pope singled it out as the virtue we need the most MON to build a better society? If it is a central theme in the MON great religious traditions, how are we to apply it in MON everyday life? Ernie Rea and guests discuss the nature of MON mercy. MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b0735q4f (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0735q4k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b0736vv2 (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 4 MON MON Graham Norton, Rufus Hound, Paul Merton and Pam Ayres join MON host Nicholas Parsons, and attempt to speak without MON repetition, deviation or hesitation. Produced by Victoria MON Lloyd. MON MON On the cards today Copernicus, The Rat Pack, and Toast. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Panellist: Rufus Hound MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Pam Ayres MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0736vv4 (Listen) MON Mr Grundy goes to college. And Helen has an appointment. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0735q4p (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0736pkh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Life inside 'Islamic State' b074b4xv (Listen) MON Ever since so-called Islamic State took full control of the MON city of Raqqa in north eastern Syria little has been known MON about day-to-day life there. Having declared it the capital MON of their self-proclaimed Capital, IS are determined to keep MON things that way. The penalty for speaking to the western MON media is beheading and at least 10 activists or journalists MON have lost their lives in this awful way. Few people now dare MON to talk. MON In addition IS forbids people in Raqqa from leaving the city MON without permission, so the only way out for many to get out MON is to put themselves in the hands of local people smuggling MON groups. To complete the isolation of people there, IS has MON introduced much tougher controls over local internet cafes, MON tightened monitoring of mobile phone networks and even MON banned the sale of televisions. MON But over the last year Today Programme Correspondent Mike MON Thomson has managed to make intermittent contact with a MON small anti-IS activist group in Raqqa called Al-Sharqiya 24, MON whose members are determined to speak out. He initially MON carried short interviews from London with a couple of their MON members. These were broadcast on Radio 4's Today programme MON and this gave us all a glimpse of what is happening there on MON the ground. MON But the outside world was still left without much idea of MON what day-to-day life was like in Raqqa. So one of the MON group's members agreed to write a series of personal diaries MON for the BBC about life for him and his family and friends MON there. What followed is an extraordinary and at time MON chilling insight into how so called Islamic State's MON brutality and injustices permeate just about every level of MON life in their now infamous capital. MON In order to protect the identity of the diarist. As well as MON his friends, family and fellow activists, all names and some MON other details have been changed. MON Mohammed, which is not his real name, takes us from life in MON what had been a relatively peaceful city, in the first two MON years of the war, to the takeover by so-called Islamic MON State. He reveals that within days women were being stopped MON in the street by IS fighters for failing to completely cover MON their bodies, while men, rather bizarrely, were ordered to MON always keep their trousers above ankle length. Both genders MON would be flogged, fined or made to attend compulsory Sharia MON classes for breaking such rules. MON IS brutality, our diarist tells us, soon gets very much MON worse. He passes a woman accused of adultery being stoned in MON the street and men alleged to have talked to foreign MON journalists or to have links with IS's enemies, being MON beheaded. He himself is subjected to forty lashes after MON cursing out loud on witnessing one of these public MON executions. MON Mohammed recounts how one day a friend came into the shop he MON works in and advised him to take a different route home that MON night, saying there was something he did not want him to MON see. Unable to resist his curiosity, Mohammed says he MON ignored this warning and took his normal way home, only to MON discover the beheaded body of an activist friend on public MON display. MON We learn how ever increasing taxes imposed by IS are pushing MON food prices beyond the reach of many ordinary people in MON Raqqa and that many shops have been forced to close because MON so much of the population are too afraid to walk the MON streets. Mohammed tells us that IS has even banned shops MON from selling televisions in order to limit what they know MON about life outside the city. Smoking has also been MON forbidden. MON We also hear of the air strikes that have killed so many in MON Raqqa. From bombing by President Assad's forces prior to MON IS's takeover of the city which killed his father, to the MON ongoing ones by Russia that continue to cause panic, alarm MON and loss of life. MON Getting the diaries out of Raqqa was often a heart-stopping MON experience. For days on end calls to try and contact our MON diarist and his group would go unanswered. The BBC team MON often wondered if he and many others had been caught by IS. MON It was a horrible feeling. On one occasion there was news MON that two anti-IS activists who had managed to get over the MON border into Turkey had been beheaded. Mike and his MON colleagues feared at first that one of them might be our MON diarist. Fortunately, we did manage to contact him the MON following day. MON What makes somebody speak out in the way Mohammed has, MON knowing that he is putting at risk the lives of almost ever MON he holds dear by doing so? MON From his diaries the answer to that question soon becomes MON very clear. Having seen friends and relatives butchered, the MON life of his community shattered and the local economy ruined MON by these notorious extremists, our courageous diarist MON believes he's fighting back by telling the BBC what is MON happening to his beloved city. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b072j3g6 (Listen) MON The End of Free MON MON Andrew Brown of The Guardian asks if the dramatic rise of MON ad-blocking software will undermine the commercial model MON behind most free news on the internet. He finds an industry MON in deep concern over the "Ad-blockalypse" - with these new MON programmes meaning that advertisers may refuse to continue MON to subsidise online news providers if consumers are now no MON longer seeing their online adverts. Can the industry MON persuade people to pay for what was previously available at MON no charge? And if not, can commercial online news services MON survive? MON Producer: Katie Inman. MON MON 21:00 Saving Science from the Scientists b072jdqm (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Is science quite as scientific as it's supposed to be? MON MON After years of covering science in the news, Alok Jha began MON to wonder whether science is as rigorous as it should be, MON and in this two-part series, he will try to find out. MON MON Many of us might be forgiven for assuming that the pursuit MON of scientific knowledge is a precise and controlled process, MON one that involves detailed experiments, careful analysis, MON peer review and demonstrable evidence. But what if it's not MON as simple as that? MON MON Scientists are human beings after all, so what if they are MON prone to the same weaknesses, failings and uncertainties as MON everyone else? And what would that mean for their findings? MON MON Alok delves into dodgy data, questionable practices and MON genuine ambiguity to ask if human decision making is MON impeding scientific progress, and if anything can be done MON about it. MON MON Along the way he hears from academics who think almost all MON science is wrong, scientists who think the system is in MON crisis and those who say error and uncertainty are actually MON an integral part of science's creative process. He'll also MON talk to a former professor caught out after going to the MON ultimate extreme - faking his data - to find out what drives MON someone to betray their entire field. MON MON Producer: Faizal Farook. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0736pkc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0735q4y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0735q52 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0736wr3 (Listen) MON Trading Futures, Episode 1 MON MON Matthew Oxenhay has spent most of his life taking risks. MON Trading futures in the City has earned him a large house in MON Barnet equipped with a loving wife and two grown-up children MON to whom he is an embarrassment. MON MON Seizing on his 60th birthday party as an opportunity to MON deliver some rather crushing home truths to his assembled MON loved ones, it seems as though Matthew might have hit rock MON bottom. MON MON The truth, however, is that he has some way to go yet . MON MON Jim Powell's short novel is a miniature tragi-comedy, MON blending elements of King Lear and Reggie Perrin. Mordant MON wit accompanies a spiralling mania with flashes of brilliant MON perception. Love and hope battle with a fear of change and MON the perilous appeal of an ending. MON MON Author : Jim Powell MON Reader : Toby Jones MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Toby Jones MON Author: Jim Powell MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 23:00 Outsourced Radio b07375cb (Listen) MON "Welcome to Outsourced Radio, broadcasting in a new MON financial age. We are a crack team of radio professionals, MON but now you have the chance to make content for us. We can MON pay you but not very much, because that's how outsourcing MON works. So if you are smart and have something amazing to MON say, then contact us today. This is our very first MON programme, and the theme is something you'll all understand MON - money! So send us your ideas today." MON MON Outsourced Radio has contributions from all round the world, MON including a skip diver looking for free food; a Jamaican DJ MON on why money doesn't bring love; and a pregnant woman in MON Boston explaining why she plans to to give away half her MON income this year. Plus the running philosophical thoughts of MON two little boys. MON MON Mesmerising radio, from the makers of Recycled Radio .... MON only cheaper. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0736vvb (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 MARCH 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0735q8k (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0736pkf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0735q8m (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0735q8r (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0735q8t (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0735q8w (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07378c9 (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07378cc (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 b03thsbj (Listen) TUE Dunnock TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE John Aitchison presents the dunnock. You'll often see TUE dunnocks, or hedge sparrows, as they were once called, TUE shuffling around under a bird table or at the bottom of a TUE hedge. They're inconspicuous birds being mostly brown with a TUE greyish neck and breast. They aren't, as you might imagine, TUE closely related to sparrows, many of their nearest relatives TUE are birds of mountainous regions in Europe and Asia. TUE TUE Dunnock (Prunella modularis) TUE Webpage image is courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b074b8r4 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b07378cf (Listen) TUE Helen Sharman TUE TUE Before Helen Sharman replied to a rather unusual radio TUE advertisement her life was, in many ways, quite ordinary. TUE She was working as a chemist in a sweet factory, creating TUE and testing flavours. Much to her surprise, her application TUE to be an astronaut was successful and two years later, TUE following an intense 18 month training course at a military TUE base just outside Moscow, she was selected for Project Juno, TUE the 1991 mission to the Soviet space station, MIR. And so TUE became the first British astronaut. On the 25th anniversary TUE of this historic mission, Helen talks to Jim about her life TUE before MIR; some of the less glamorous aspects of being in TUE space; and the difficult process of coming down to earth. TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b07378ch (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson talks to Rachel Cusk 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. Here he talks TUE to writer and novelist Rachel Cusk who found herself TUE branded, 'the worst mother in Britain' for writing candidly TUE about her experience of motherhood. TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b07378cm (Listen) TUE Quicksand, Episode 2 TUE TUE Henning Mankell was creator of Wallander, the fictional TUE detective. His posthumous essays, translated by Laurie TUE Thompson with Marlaine Delargy, and abridged by Katrin TUE Williams, refer to his illness and explore much more TUE besides: TUE TUE One day at school, struggling with Latin, he decides to up TUE sticks and make for Paris. With no French, no money and a TUE vague address to head for. But it's certainly an adventure.. TUE TUE Reader Tim Pigott-Smith TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE Author: Henning Mankell TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0735q8y (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07378cp (Listen) TUE Charlotte Bronte in Babylon, Episode 2 TUE TUE Charlotte Brontë in Babylon by Charlotte Cory TUE TUE Episode Two TUE TUE Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made TUE to London. After the death of her brother and sisters, TUE Charlotte Brontë returns to London to face the critics of TUE her second novel Shirley. TUE TUE Directed by Charlotte Riches TUE Produced by Susan Roberts TUE TUE Charlotte Brontë made 5 trips down to London in the course TUE of her momentous, shortlived but meteoric literary career. TUE These trips chart the story of her relationship with her TUE young publisher (and his watchful, horrified Mama), TUE Charlotte's wide-eyed enthusiasm at visiting the place of TUE her childhood dreams at long last and being lionized as a TUE writer by readers. We see her difficult relationships with TUE other authors and critics - and then the gradual TUE disillusionment setting in as this intense, painfully honest TUE and gauche Yorkshire novelist gradually acquires self TUE knowledge and a clear-eyed view of the cruel and shallow TUE fashionable literary world she had long aspired to be part TUE of. TUE TUE Credits TUE Charlotte: Samantha Power TUE George: Ben Lamb TUE Mrs Smith: Claire Brown TUE Thackeray: Jonathan Keeble TUE Eliza: Emily Pithon TUE Sarah: Suzie Grimsdick TUE Critic: Hamilton Birstock TUE Director: Charlotte Riches TUE Producer: Susan Roberts TUE Writer: Charlotte Cory TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Science from the Scientists b07378cr (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Is science quite as scientific as it's supposed to be? ITV TUE Science Correspondent Alok Jha takes a look at how science TUE research is really carried out, to find out if it is really TUE as rigorous as scientists would like us to think. TUE TUE In the second and concluding part of this series, Alok looks TUE at the practices and cultures undermining the integrity of TUE scientific research. TUE TUE Are scientists being pushed into shortcuts and unethical TUE behaviour by the competitiveness of their field? TUE TUE Producer: Faizal Farook. TUE TUE 11:30 Turntable Tales b07378ct (Listen) TUE Turntablists and Turntable Survival TUE TUE In the second part of her history of the Record Turntable DJ TUE and broadcaster Colleen Murphy brings the story up to the TUE present. After the war there was a steady improvement in the TUE quality of Turntables and their attendant amps and speakers TUE but the biggest step was the introduction of small, TUE self-contained units that allowed teenagers to find and TUE refine their musical tastes in the relative seclusion of TUE their bedrooms. TUE TUE Colleen also tracks the recent rise in Turntable sales and TUE visits a surviving and now thriving niche producer, TUE Nottingham Analogue, to see how they go about creating the TUE perfect Deck. TUE TUE But there's been another revolution in the Turntable story TUE which began on a very particular day in 1975 when DJ Grand TUE Wizzard Theodore, with the help of his mother, developed the TUE 'scratch'. Colleen chats to Grand Wizzard about his TUE scratching discovery and the Turntablism which developed TUE from it. She also hears from JFB, the UK DJ who's a three TUE times British DMC Turntablist champion and the master of a TUE myriad of scratching techniques. TUE As well as their own DJ world, of which Colleen is a part, TUE the likes of JFB have also inspired classical compositions TUE using Turntables. Gabriel Prokofiev talks to her about his TUE concerto that's now on a list of pieces recommended for TUE Secondary Schools. TUE TUE It was the DJ's who, back in the nineties helped sustain the TUE production of vinyl. Now it's the audiophiles who lead the TUE charge. Turntable sales have turned a corner and the TUE Turntable Tale is very far from over. TUE TUE In searching for the magic of what the Turntable is, can be TUE and has been, Colleen hears again from the Antiques TUE Roadshow's Paul Atterbury about a memorable moment during TUE his time on the show involving an old, wind-up Gramophone. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0735q90 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Syrian Voices b07378cw (Listen) TUE Lyse Doucet talks to those who have survived - or are TUE surviving - the conflict in Syria. TUE TUE Five years ago, protests in Syria as part of the Arab TUE Spring, were put down with violence by the Syrian TUE Government. The mass protests quickly became an armed TUE rebellion, with increasing sectarian involvement. As the TUE conflict escalated, other countries became involved with TUE Russia commencing air strikes in September 2015, and areas TUE of the country becoming strongholds of so-called Islamic TUE State militants. TUE TUE The Syrian conflict has changed people's lives irrevocably TUE and, in this series of interviews, they reflect on the TUE situation in which they find themselves. TUE TUE Producer: David Prest TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0735q92 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0735q97 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b074bqzm (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b07378cy (Listen) TUE Raj Kapoor: The Politics of Love TUE TUE Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute, TUE looks at the life of the celebrated actor and movie director TUE Raj Kapoor who attracted a huge following well before the TUE term 'Bollywood' became known. Kapoor started making films, TUE just as India became independent in 1947. Back then, the TUE medium was more than mere entertainment. In a country where TUE the literacy rate was 12 per cent, film was also a crucial TUE medium of education and exposure. "Kapoor brought romance, TUE sexuality, song and soul to Indian socialism," says TUE Professor Khilnani. TUE Producer: Mark Savage. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0736vv4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03vdfy9 (Listen) TUE When the Laughter Stops TUE TUE Rhakeele sees a return to Africa for a tour of her and TUE husband Musondi's stand-up act as a chance to reignite their TUE careers and their marriage. He's not as keen. And it turns TUE out he may be right - as they find themselves caught in a TUE culture clash which threatens everything, including their TUE freedom. TUE TUE by Sibusiso Mamba, co-created with Daliso Chaponda, with TUE additional material by Ava Vidal TUE TUE Director: Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE Real-life stand up comedians Daliso Chaponda and Ava Vidal TUE play married couple Musondi and Rhakeele in this new play TUE which Sibusiso Mamba co-created with Daliso, with additional TUE material by Ava. Rhakeele has a secret desire to go back to TUE the country she was born in - in Africa, but for husband TUE Musondi who has never lived there, it initially holds no TUE attraction. Once there, however, the differences between TUE life in the UK and life in Africa become polarised and they TUE find themselves in direct opposition, using what they do TUE best - stand up - to prove which of them is the stronger. TUE But unwittingly they're making a tense situation in a TUE country Rhakeele no longer understands far worse than they TUE could ever realise and putting their closest friends in TUE jeopardy. TUE TUE Credits TUE Musondi: Daliso Chaponda TUE Rhakeele: Ava Vidal TUE Migzy: Sibusiso Mamba TUE Ranger: Sibusiso Mamba TUE Kapeni: Lucian Msamati TUE Zindy: Nikki Amuka-Bird TUE Detective Lungo: Tonderai Munyevu TUE Thoko: Tonderai Munyevu TUE Reverend: Steve Toussaint TUE Heckler: Steve Toussaint TUE Writer: Sibusiso Mamba TUE Writer: Daliso Chaponda TUE Writer: Ava Vidal TUE Director: Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b07378d1 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor and guests discuss the stories that are Making TUE History TUE TUE Helen Castor and guests discuss the latest historical and TUE archaeological research. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b07378d3 (Listen) TUE The Environment after Exit TUE TUE From Roman Snails and Great Crested Newts in East Anglia to TUE the lemon sole of the English Channel and the wind turbines TUE of Fife, European legislation has a significant impact on TUE the look and health of our wildlife and landscape. TUE TUE Tom Heap examines the potential impact on the British TUE environment of an exit from the European Union. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b07378d5 (Listen) TUE The End of Legal Highs? TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg with the legal magazine programme featuring TUE reports and discussion. TUE TUE On today's programme, will new legislation deal effectively TUE with the problem of so-called legal highs? Or will it just TUE drive the issue further underground? TUE TUE In a rare interview, Joshua talks to the Chief Coroner for TUE England and Wales. Does the inquest system need reform? TUE TUE And we hear from departing Director of Liberty, Shami TUE Chakrabarti. TUE TUE Producers: Jim Frank and Ben Crighton. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b07378d7 (Listen) TUE Dame Evelyn Glennie and Sarah Churchwell TUE TUE Dame Evelyn Glennie and Professor Sarah Churchwell discuss TUE favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Internationally renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie's TUE rather surprising choice of a good read is Napoleon Hill's TUE best-selling self-improvement book 'Think and Grow Rich' . TUE First published in 1937, it's a classic of the genre and TUE still has wide appeal to the book-buying public. TUE TUE Sarah Churchwell is a journalist and academic, Professor of TUE American Literature at the University of East Anglia. She TUE recommends Henry James' classic 'The Ambassadors'. A darkly TUE comic story about the seductive charms of Europe and TUE learning to 'live all you can', it's one of James' TUE best-loved novels. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is 'Curious' by the comic actress Rebecca TUE Front. It's a collection of beautifully-observed stories TUE about life's absurdities, funny, thoughtful and touching. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Evelyn Glennie TUE Interviewed Guest: Sarah Churchwell TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0735q9c (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0735q9f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b05y0m0p (Listen) TUE Series 10, The New Thirty TUE TUE Ed is facing a milestone in his life as he's about to turn TUE 60. As he reflects on his life he decides that things aren't TUE half bad. He finally has a bed to lay his head on, his cat TUE is in rude health and he is leading a busy and fulfilling TUE literary life. However, as with all things Ed, this state of TUE equanimity can't last and after a curious encounter with TUE Jeremy Paxman Ed decides to make some changes. 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 Olive: Stephanie Cole TUE Eli: Lisa Coleman TUE Pearl: Brigit Forsyth TUE Jaz Mivain: Philip Jackson TUE Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy TUE Jake: Sam Pamphilon TUE Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Himself: Jeremy Paxman TUE Writer: Christopher Douglas TUE Writer: Andrew Nickolds TUE Producer: Dawn Ellis TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07378d9 (Listen) TUE Lynda hits the rehearsal room. And Pip worries about her TUE relationship. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0735q9h (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07378cp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b07378dc (Listen) TUE Two months ago a File on 4 investigation into match-fixing TUE in tennis made headlines around the world. TUE The programme revealed how tennis authorities had received TUE repeated alerts in the past decade about 16 players, all of TUE whom have been in the top 50. TUE It also questioned the effectiveness of the sport's TUE watchdog, the Tennis Integrity Unit. TUE Now, in a follow up programme, Simon Cox reveals new TUE allegations of corruption and further evidence of the TUE involvement of gambling syndicates in trying to influence TUE the outcome of matches. TUE Officials from the governing bodies of tennis have already TUE been interviewed by MPs about the findings of the original TUE programme. They have also appointed a prominent London TUE barrister to head an independent review into anti-corruption TUE policies and practices. TUE Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0735q9k (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b0735q9m (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b07378cf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0735q9p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0735q9r (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074cdqy (Listen) TUE Trading Futures, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sacked from his job but maintaining the fiction of work, TUE sixty year old Matthew encounters an old friend as he whiles TUE away an afternoon at Tate Modern. TUE TUE Anna, it's the girl - well, woman now - he fell for in 1967. TUE The girl who asked him to go to Europe with her, the one who TUE got away. TUE TUE But Matthew isn't sure that he should level with her and TUE confess that they have met before. Maybe he deserves a bit TUE of inside information. He also deserves a glass of wine. TUE TUE As Matthew contemplates the unending horrors of retirement, TUE his mind lures him back to a past when the future he was TUE gambling on seemed full of promise and excitement. TUE TUE Jim Powell's short novel is a miniature tragi-comedy, TUE blending elements of King Lear and Reggie Perrin. Mordant TUE wit accompanies a spiralling mania with flashes of brilliant TUE perception. Love and hope battle with a fear of change and TUE the perilous appeal of an ending. TUE TUE Author : Jim Powell TUE Reader : Toby Jones TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Toby Jones TUE Author: Jim Powell TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 23:00 Love in Recovery b07378df (Listen) TUE Series 2, Starting Over TUE TUE Second series of the award-nominated comedy drama set in TUE Alcoholics Anonymous, written by Pete Jackson and inspired TUE by his own road to recovery. Stars Sue Johnston, John TUE Hannah, Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul Kaye and Julia TUE Deakin. TUE TUE Love in Recovery follows the lives of five very different TUE recovering alcoholics. Taking place entirely at their weekly TUE meetings, we hear them moan, argue, laugh, fall apart, fall TUE in love and - most importantly - tell their stories. TUE TUE In this first episode of the series, Fiona (Rebecca Front) TUE has a problem she thinks only Danno (Paul Kaye) can solve. TUE But Danno has his own problems - and he's on the run. TUE TUE Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent TUE time in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found support TUE from the unlikeliest group of disparate souls - with one TUE common bond. As well as offering the support he needed TUE throughout a difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, TUE sometimes daily, dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and TUE friendship. TUE TUE There are lots of different kinds of AA meetings. Love in TUE Recovery is about meetings where people tell their stories. TUE There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small TUE victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, TUE and those stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but TUE still do, along with the storyteller. TUE TUE Written and created by Pete Jackson TUE TUE Producer/Director: Ben Worsfield TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Marion: Julia Deakin TUE Fiona: Rebecca Front TUE Simon: John Hannah TUE Julie: Sue Johnston TUE Danno: Paul Kaye TUE Andy: Eddie Marsan TUE Writer: Pete Jackson TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Director: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b07378dh (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0735qc2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b07378cm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0735qc4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0735qc6 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0735qc8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0735qcb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0738hlm (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0738hlp (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 b03x46sm (Listen) WED Treecreeper WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Bill Oddie presents the treecreeper. Treecreepers are common WED woodland birds but because their high-pitched almost WED whispering song, is often drowned out by the dawn chorus, WED they're often overlooked. The first glimpse may be a WED silhouette, its belly close to the bark, braced by stiff WED tail feathers. It has a curved, tweezer-like bill with with WED which it delicately probes for hidden insects and spiders WED deep in the crevices of the bark. WED WED Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris) WED Webpage image courtesy of Roger Tidman (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b07413d6 (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 b0738hlr (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0738hlt (Listen) WED Quicksand, Episode 3 WED WED Henning Mankell was creator of Wallander, the fictional WED detective. His posthumous essays, translated by Laurie WED Thompson with Marlaine Delargy, and abridged by Katrin WED Williams, refer to his illness and explore much more WED besides: WED WED The author is travelling through Spain and stops off in WED Salamanca. Eating alone at a restaurant, he witnesses the WED strange and spontaneous behaviour of a waiter. It's food for WED thought.. WED WED Reader Tim Pigott-Smith WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED Author: Henning Mankell WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0738hlw (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b0738hly (Listen) WED Charlotte Bronte in Babylon, Episode 3 WED WED Charlotte Brontë in Babylon by Charlotte Cory WED WED Episode Three WED WED Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made WED to London as a published author. When Charlotte Brontë's WED publisher George takes her on a whirlwind tour of London, WED she begins to question if pleasure is replacing business in WED their relationship. WED WED Directed by Charlotte Riches WED Produced by Susan Roberts WED WED Charlotte Brontë made 5 trips down to London in the course WED of her momentous, shortlived but meteoric literary career. WED These trips chart the story of her relationship with her WED young publisher (and his watchful, horrified Mama), WED Charlotte's wide-eyed enthusiasm at visiting the place of WED her childhood dreams at long last and being lionized as a WED writer by readers. We see her difficult relationships with WED other authors and critics - and then the gradual WED disillusionment setting in as this intense, painfully honest WED and gauche Yorkshire novelist gradually acquires self WED knowledge and a clear-eyed view of the cruel and shallow WED fashionable literary world she had long aspired to be part WED of. WED WED Credits WED Charlotte: Samantha Power WED George: Ben Lamb WED Mrs Smith: Claire Brown WED Thackeray: Jonathan Keeble WED Eliza: Emily Pithon WED Sarah: Suzie Grimsdick WED Lady Davenham: Ursula Holden Gill WED Director: Charlotte Riches WED Producer: Susan Roberts WED Writer: Charlotte Cory WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b0738hm0 (Listen) WED Callum and Adam - The Guilty Pleasure of Computer Gaming WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between computer gamers WED who admit to being selfish and non-productive, but can still WED find positive reasons to continue. Another in the series WED that 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 b0738hm2 (Listen) WED Series 4, Mindfulness and Madness WED WED Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether meditation could do you WED more harm than good. Mindfulness is being promoted to WED everyone as a kind of mental detox, but he speaks to people WED have had disturbing experiences, including being WED hospitalised and sectioned under the mental health act after WED going on meditation retreats. WED WED Even less extreme forms of meditation have proved WED challenging for some people; rather than being a liberating WED experience, they find their sense of identity and grasp on WED reality dissolving as they meditate. These problems are well WED known in some spiritual traditions where they are seen as WED necessary milestones on the road to enlightenment. But WED western medicine seems keen to take on board the supposed WED benefits of meditation without understanding the risks. WED WED Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins. WED WED 11:30 Charles Paris Mystery b0738j25 (Listen) WED A Decent Interval, Episode 2 WED WED by Jeremy Front WED based on Simon Brett's novel WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Charles is playing The Ghost and the Gravedigger in Hamlet WED but when the reality star playing the young Dane is badly WED injured he begins to suspect that the accident may have been WED deliberate and other members of the cast may be in danger. 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 Tony: Ewan Bailey WED Will: Caolan McCarthy WED Katrina: Katie Redford WED Doug: Richard Pepple WED Director: Sally Avens WED Author: Simon Brett WED Adaptor: Jeremy Front WED WED 12:00 News Summary b0735qcd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Syrian Voices b0738j27 (Listen) WED Lyse Doucet talks to those who have survived - or are WED surviving - the conflict in Syria. WED WED Five years ago, protests in Syria as part of the Arab WED Spring, were put down with violence by the Syrian WED Government. The mass protests quickly became an armed WED rebellion, with increasing sectarian involvement. As the WED conflict escalated, other countries became involved with WED Russia commencing air strikes in September 2015, and areas WED of the country becoming strongholds of so-called Islamic WED State militants. WED WED The Syrian conflict has changed people's lives irrevocably WED and, in this series of interviews, they reflect on the WED situation in which they find themselves. WED WED Producer: David Prest WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:15 Budget 2016 b073bg88 (Listen) WED Live coverage of the chancellor's Budget speech, presented WED by Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:56 Weather b0735qcj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07378d9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b0738k6q (Listen) WED Positive Affect WED WED by Daniel Davies WED WED Kelly is unemployed; she's also cripplingly shy - a WED combination that makes everyday difficulties hard enough, WED never mind the madness of job interviews, work programmes WED and the threat of sanctions. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Kelly: Rebecca Hamilton WED Jason: Chris Pavlo WED Luigi: Chris Pavlo WED Andrea: Debra Baker WED Jane: Debra Baker WED Debbie: Amelia Lowdell WED Ian: Brian Protheroe WED Annie: Evie Killip WED Richard: Ewan Bailey WED Pete: Leo Wan WED Brian: Caolan McCarthy WED Participant 1: Caolan McCarthy WED Security Guard: Gerard McDermott WED Participant 2: Gerard McDermott WED Zoe: Katie Redford WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Writer: Daniel Davies WED WED 15:00 Money Box b0738k6s (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 The Listening Project b0709v4p (Listen) WED Women and Community WED WED Fi Glover introduces conversations between women in Derry, WED Barry and Grantham about community action, public office and WED life skills in the Omnibus of the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 15:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0738jwb (Listen) WED Sheikh Abdullah: Chains of Gold WED WED A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0738k6v (Listen) WED Philanthropy - Charity WED WED Philanthropy & charitable giving: Is there such a thing as a WED free gift? Laurie Taylor talks to Linsey McGoey, Senior WED Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and author WED of a study of contemporary philanthropy. The amount of money WED placed in philanthropic trusts helps make the charitable WED sector one of the fastest growing global industries. Is this WED a new 'golden age' of giving which promises to replace the WED role of government as provider of social welfare? What are WED the potential conflicts between good deeds and hard profit? WED They're joined by Tom Hughes Hallett, philanthropist and Non WED Executive Chair of the Marshall Institute at the London WED School of Economics and Political Science. WED WED Also, John Mohan, Professor of Social Policy at the WED University of Birmingham, discusses his British study into WED the logic of charity in 'hard times'. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0735qcl (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0735qcn (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0735qcq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b0738kq0 (Listen) WED Series 11, Victoria Coren-Mitchell interviews Sandi Toksvig 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 writer and WED presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell asks the questions to WED comedian, writer and erstwhile News Quiz chair, Sandi WED Toksvig. WED WED Victoria Coren-Mitchell is a columnist for The Observer and WED GQ amongst other publications and has presented myriad WED documentaries on subjects as varied as The Bohemians and WED 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 Sandi Toksvig is a prolific writer and broadcaster who WED chaired the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 for nine years and over WED 220 episodes. In 2015 she was a founder member of the WED Women's Equality Party and, later that year was announced as WED the new host of the long-running BBC television series, QI. WED WED In this installment of the hostless chat show, Victoria WED talks to Sandi about her long career in broadcasting, her WED recent foray into politics and gets some advice on how to WED behave when you're staying at the Icelandic Prime Minister's WED house. WED WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0738kq2 (Listen) WED Helen is vulnerable and out of the loop. Shula and Dr Locke WED talk families. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0735qcs (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0738hly (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0738kq4 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo, WED Matthew Taylor and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b0738kq6 (Listen) WED The Execution WED WED In the fifth edition of "Lent in the Landscape", a series of WED talks on different perspectives of the passion story, WED Cristina Odone visits the Chapel Royal of Saint Peter Ad WED Vincula at the Tower of London. She reflects on the figure WED of Mary, the mother of Jesus, at the foot of the cross as WED her son is crucified. Producer: Phil Pegum. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b07378d3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0738hlr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0735qcv (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074cdvh (Listen) WED Trading Futures, Episode 3 WED WED In the months following his sixtieth birthday party, Matthew WED Oxenhay has lost his job and - by chance - met a woman he WED was in love with before he went to university. His former WED boss Rupert has offered him the use of his old office and WED found a few intern-like jobs for him to do, while he WED negotiates the transition from work to retirement. WED WED Matthew has still not told his wife, Judy, that he is no WED longer employed in trading futures in the City. In any case, WED the world of finance is in imploding turmoil. WED WED Neither does Matthew confess to Anna that they have met WED before. Nevertheless, he sets off to visit her with some WED notion of romance in mind. WED WED Jim Powell's short novel is a miniature tragi-comedy, WED blending elements of King Lear and Reggie Perrin. Mordant WED wit accompanies a spiralling mania with flashes of brilliant WED perception. Love and hope battle with a fear of change and WED the perilous appeal of an ending. WED WED Author : Jim Powell WED Reader : Toby Jones WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Toby Jones WED Author: Jim Powell WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 23:00 The Croft & Pearce Show b0738kr6 (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 second episode, a failed novelist is unable to hide WED her bitterness when confronted with an old friend's success, WED maths teacher Miss Trent falls hopelessly and publicly in WED love with a new member of staff, and an IT manager is WED baffled at the technical ineptitude of his colleague. WED WED Written and performed by Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce WED Producer: Liz Anstee 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 b03wq2j5 (Listen) WED The Great Pyramid WED WED The programme that sends us back in time as we hear people WED from the past comment on a series of major world events, in WED less than 140 characters. WED WED In The Great Pyramid - the Nile turns into video streams, WED order your pet mummification online, and find out how WED Pharaoh Khufu built that great feat of mankind while WED maintaining a hashtag game with his followers? 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, WED Peter Temple and Jelly Macintosh. With Lucy Beaumont as the WED voice of The Computer. WED WED Written by Tim Barnes and Simon Berry WED WED Produced by Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Tim Barnes WED Actor: Simon Berry WED Actor: Wayne Forester WED Actor: Annabelle Llewellyn WED Actor: Peter Temple WED Actor: Jelly Macintosh WED The Computer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED Writer: Tim Barnes WED Writer: Simon Berry WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0738kst (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0735qg2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0738hlt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0735qg4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0735qg6 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0735qg9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0735qgd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0739j7w (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0739j7y (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 b03bkfhy (Listen) THU Common Pheasant THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Common THU Pheasant. The crowing of pheasants is a sound inseparable THU from most of the UK countryside yet these flamboyant birds THU were introduced into the UK. The pheasant's coppery plumage THU and red face-wattles, coupled with a tail that's as long THU again as its body, make the cock pheasant a strikingly THU beautiful bird. THU THU Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b0739j81 (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 b0739rfg (Listen) THU Bedlam THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early years of Bedlam, THU the name given to the London hospital of St Mary of THU Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate, described in 1450 by the Lord THU Mayor of London as a place where may "be found many men that THU be fallen out of their wit. And full honestly they be kept THU in that place; and some be restored onto their wit and THU health again. And some be abiding therein for ever.". THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0739pg9 (Listen) THU Quicksand, Episode 4 THU THU Henning Mankell was creator of Wallander, the fictional THU detective. His posthumous essays, translated by Laurie THU Thompson with Marlaine Delargy, and abridged by Katrin THU Williams, refer to his illness and explore much more THU besides: THU THU The author explains his long-standing interest in cave THU paintings and what they tell us now. He also witnesses a THU search for fresh water within saltwater - which again, tells THU us something new.. THU THU Reader Tim Pigott-Smith THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU Author: Henning Mankell THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0739pgc (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0739pgf (Listen) THU Charlotte Bronte in Babylon, Episode 4 THU THU Charlotte Brontë in Babylon by Charlotte Cory THU THU Episode Four THU THU Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made THU to London. Charlotte Brontë arrives in London excited to see THU her publisher George again and keen to take things further. THU George's Mama however, seems determined to keep the pair THU apart. THU THU Directed by Charlotte Riches THU Produced by Susan Roberts THU THU Charlotte Brontë made 5 trips down to London in the course THU of her momentous, shortlived but meteoric literary career. THU These trips chart the story of her relationship with her THU young publisher (and his watchful, horrified Mama), THU Charlotte's wide-eyed enthusiasm at visiting the place of THU her childhood dreams at long last and being lionized as a THU writer by readers. We see her difficult relationships with THU other authors and critics - and then the gradual THU disillusionment setting in as this intense, painfully honest THU and gauche Yorkshire novelist gradually acquires self THU knowledge and a clear-eyed view of the cruel and shallow THU fashionable literary world she had long aspired to be part THU of. THU THU Credits THU Charlotte: Samantha Power THU George: Ben Lamb THU Mrs Smith: Claire Brown THU Thackeray: Jonathan Keeble THU Eliza: Emily Pithon THU Director: Charlotte Riches THU Producer: Susan Roberts THU Writer: Charlotte Cory THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0735qgg (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Setting the Past Free b0739pgh (Listen) THU Rudolf Kastner's story outside Israel THU THU For some Rudolf Kastner is a hero, for others a traitor. THU Mark Lawson explores the cultural retellings of a story that THU began in Nazi occupied Hungary in 1944. At the time Kastner, THU a lawyer and a journalist, was deputy chairman of the Relief THU and Rescue Committee. He negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to THU save Jewish lives but did he pay for them with other Jewish THU lives? THU THU This question has been the subject of court trials, books, THU poetry, documentaries, television dramas, and plays - each THU one retelling Kastner's story from a new perspective. Two of THU those cultural retellings, one in the UK - the 1987 play THU Perdition, and the other in Israel - the 1994 television THU drama The Kastner Trial, managed to make headlines of their THU own. THU THU And still the retellings continue with one of Israel's most THU celebrated playwrights, Motti Lerner, in the process of THU writing a new version of Kastner's story. The new play will THU be staged at Israel's National Theatre in 2017, thirty years THU after Jim Allen's play, Perdition, led to one of the most THU incendiary episodes in British theatre history. THU THU In part 1, Mark Lawson talks to those, outside Israel - THU including the film directors Ken Loach, and Claude Lanzmann, THU the historian Professor Derborah Lipstadt, and the theatre THU critic Michael Billington - who have wrestled with Kastner's THU story and the issues it raises. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0735qgj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Syrian Voices b0739pgm (Listen) THU Lyse Doucet talks to those who have survived - or are THU surviving - the conflict in Syria. THU THU Five years ago, protests in Syria as part of the Arab THU Spring, were put down with violence by the Syrian THU Government. The mass protests quickly became an armed THU rebellion, with increasing sectarian involvement. As the THU conflict escalated, other countries became involved with THU Russia commencing air strikes in September 2015, and areas THU of the country becoming strongholds of so-called Islamic THU State militants. THU THU The Syrian conflict has changed people's lives irrevocably THU and, in this series of interviews, they reflect on the THU situation in which they find themselves. THU THU Producer: David Prest THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b0735qgn (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0735qgq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0739pgp (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b0739pgr (Listen) THU Krishna Menon: Sombre Porcupine THU THU Professor Sunil Khinani, from the King's India Institute in THU London, looks at the life of Krishna Menon, the abrasive THU Indian diplomat and statesman who invented the concept of THU non-alignment. He was one of the most reviled figures of the THU Cold War era. The Americans regarded Menon as a "mischief THU maker"; the British thought he was in bed with the Soviets THU while the Soviets thought he was a lackey of the British; THU and the Chinese resented his attempts to school them in THU international affairs. The diplomat, who was the voice of THU India's foreign policy for almost two decades, pursued an THU agenda which deeply unsettled the superpowers. But, says THU Professor Khilnani, "Menon's approach helped give India an THU influential voice at the global diplomatic table, dominated THU by the big four powers." THU Producer: Mark Savage THU Music: Talvin Singh. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0738kq2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b0739rfj (Listen) THU The Strange Vanishing of Julian Quark THU THU By Tom Wainwright THU THU After reneging on all of his election pledges, newly-elected THU Prime Minister Julian Quark is alarmed to discover that his THU right ear is missing. And that's just the start of it. It THU seems that there's a correlation between his dishonesty and THU the continual disappearance of body parts. As his own THU physical being diminishes so do his chances of halting the THU curse. THU THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU Credits THU Julian Quark: Toby Jones THU Sarah: Doon Mackichan THU Marazion: Michael Bertenshaw THU Nobinson: Ewan Bailey THU Prickett: Brian Protheroe THU Tanya: Adie Allen THU Jeremy: Nick Underwood THU TV Reporter: Nicola Ferguson THU Australian Prime Minister: James Lailey THU Aide: Sam Rix THU Director: Sasha Yevtushenko THU Writer: Tom Wainwright THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b0739rfm (Listen) THU Series 32, Oxfordshire: In Memory of Catherine THU THU Clare Balding joins a group of women in Oxfordshire, who THU meet every year to remember their friend Catherine, who died THU of breast cancer at forty-five. Some in the group knew each THU other before Catherine's death; others have met, and become THU good friends since. There are her friends from her school THU days, her book club and from her career as a nurse. THU Catherine would have been fifty this year and her daughter THU Sarah now sixteen explains how she has derived comfort from THU helping to raise money for research into the disease and by THU getting together with her mother's friends to share memories THU while walking together. THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0735xtp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0736568 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0739rfp (Listen) THU Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0735qgs (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b0735qgv (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0735qgx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Hal b04p5vl1 (Listen) THU Career THU THU Comedian Hal Cruttenden stars and co-writes a new four-part THU sitcom about a stay at home father who is having a mid-life THU crisis. Hal stars as himself, married to Sam and father to THU two lovely girls. The problem is that, as Sam's career THU blossoms internationally and daughters Lilly and Molly grow THU up and are no longer dependent on their loving and caring THU father, Hal feels restless. THU THU Having decided to give up his career and be a House Husband THU many years ago, the appeal of being around his family more THU is wearing thin. THU THU So, with the help of his ever unreliable mates Doug, Fergus THU and Barry, Hal decides to try new things in his life. But, THU inevitably, things don't go to plan! THU THU Further challenges come from Hal's now deceased father, who THU was a true adventurer and all-round hero (something his son THU sadly is not) and is starting to appear to Hal at the most THU inopportune times to give unwelcome advice. THU THU So, with the help of his ever unreliable mates Doug, Fergus THU and Barry, Hal decides to try new things in his life. But, THU inevitably, things don't go to plan. THU THU In this first episode, Hal is arranging a special romantic THU getaway for Sam with some difficulty, Lilly and Molly are THU becoming almost strangers to Hal, his friend Fergus thinks THU he's finally found love, and Hal is forced to replace Sam in THU making a talk at the girls' school as Sam has to go on a THU work trip abroad. THU THU The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, together with THU Ronni Ancona, Ed Byrne, Anna Crilly, Jonathan Kydd, Gavin THU Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel Caseley and Emily and Lucy THU Robbins. THU THU Produced by Paul Russell THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Hal: Hal Cruttenden THU Actor: Dominic Holland THU Actor: Ronni Ancona THU Actor: Ed Byrne THU Actor: Anna Crilly THU Actor: Jonathan Kydd THU Actor: Gavin Webster THU Actor: Dominic Frisby THU Actor: Samuel Caseley THU Actor: Lucy Robbins THU Actor: Emily Robbins THU Writer: Hal Cruttenden THU Writer: Dominic Holland THU Producer: Paul Russell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0739rfs (Listen) THU Rob is thinking about the future. Will Helen reach out to a THU friend? THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0735qgz (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0739pgf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b07378d5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0739rfv (Listen) THU Lonely at the Top? THU THU Many senior executives now employ personal coaches to help THU them through their toughest business challenges. Coaches can THU provide confidential, independent support for senior THU managers who find life lonely at the top. But shouldn't the THU boss be capable of making decisions on his or her own? And THU are coaches sometimes the hidden power behind the senior THU executive throne? THU THU Guests: THU THU Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT Group THU THU Melanie Richards, Vice Chairman and Partner of KPMG UK THU THU Jonathan Bowman-Perks, Coach and Mentor THU THU Producer: Ruth Edwards. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0735qgs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0739rfg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0735qh1 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074cf38 (Listen) THU Trading Futures, Episode 4 THU THU Anna is uncertain what to make of Matthew. Matthew is not THU quite sure what he wants. As his world begins to whirl in THU unnerving ways, he struggles to make a decision about his THU future while grappling with what he understands of his past. THU THU Jim Powell's short novel is a miniature tragi-comedy THU blending elements of King Lear and Reggie Perrin. Mordant THU wit accompanies a spiralling mania with flashes of brilliant THU perception. Love and hope battle with a fear of change and THU the perilous appeal of an ending. THU THU Author : Jim Powell THU Reader : Toby Jones THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Toby Jones THU Author: Jim Powell THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 23:00 Small Scenes b0739rfy (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 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 man who can't get enough towels, a THU saxophonist who is tortured by his inability to play the THU solo from Baker Street and a late night visit from a charity THU burglar. 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 b0739rg1 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 MARCH 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0735qjf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0739pg9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0735qjh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0735qjk (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0735qjm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0735qjp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b074cgty (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0739w6g (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 b03mztnb (Listen) FRI Crossbill 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 David Attenborough presents the story of the Crossbill. FRI Crossbills are large finches that specialise in eating FRI conifer seeds. To break into the pine or larch cones, FRI they've evolved powerful bills with crossed tips which help FRI the birds prise off the woody scales of each cone. FRI Crossbills breed very early in the year and incubating birds FRI sometimes have snow on their backs. FRI FRI Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Nigel Blake (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b073qzj7 (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 b0735y62 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b073b18m (Listen) FRI Quicksand, Episode 5 FRI FRI Henning Mankell was creator of Wallander, the fictional FRI detective. His posthumous essays, translated by Laurie FRI Thompson with Marlaine Delargy, and abridged by Katrin FRI Williams, refer to his illness and explore much more FRI besides: FRI FRI He was a novelist, who also ran a theatre in Maputo, FRI Mozambique. One of his 'happiest times' was staging a Greek FRI drama, performed by local people. It all began in October FRI 1992.. FRI FRI Reader Tim Pigott-Smith FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI Author: Henning Mankell FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b073b18r (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b073b18t (Listen) FRI Charlotte Bronte in Babylon, Episode 5 FRI FRI Charlotte Brontë in Babylon by Charlotte Cory FRI FRI Episode Five FRI FRI Drama charting five momentous visits Charlotte Brontë made FRI to London. Charlotte Brontë arrives to an awkward reception FRI in the Smith household. It seems her hosts are not at all FRI pleased with their depiction in Charlotte's new novel FRI Villette. FRI FRI Directed by Charlotte Riches FRI Produced by Susan Roberts FRI FRI Charlotte Brontë made 5 trips down to London in the course FRI of her momentous, shortlived but meteoric literary career. FRI These trips chart the story of her relationship with her FRI young publisher (and his watchful, horrified Mama), FRI Charlotte's wide-eyed enthusiasm at visiting the place of FRI her childhood dreams at long last and being lionized as a FRI writer by readers. We see her difficult relationships with FRI other authors and critics - and then the gradual FRI disillusionment setting in as this intense, painfully honest FRI and gauche Yorkshire novelist gradually acquires self FRI knowledge and a clear-eyed view of the cruel and shallow FRI fashionable literary world she had long aspired to be part FRI of. FRI FRI Credits FRI Charlotte: Samantha Power FRI George: Ben Lamb FRI Mrs Smith: Claire Brown FRI Thackeray: Jonathan Keeble FRI Eliza: Emily Pithon FRI Sarah: Suzie Grimsdick FRI Director: Charlotte Riches FRI Producer: Susan Roberts FRI Writer: Charlotte Cory FRI FRI 11:00 The Easter Rising 1916 b073b5c6 (Listen) FRI Could You Not Just Have Waited? FRI FRI In 1916 the United Kingdom came under attack from within. A FRI group of Irish nationalist rebels allied with Germany seized FRI control of Dublin - then part of the UK. They wanted an FRI Irish Republic. The first blow for Irish freedom on that FRI Easter Monday came outside the gates of Dublin Castle. The FRI symbol of British rule. A holiday with many in authority at FRI the races. The long reach of British intelligence failed to FRI foresee tumultuous events in its own backyard. As rebels FRI tried to storm the castle gates their first victim was an FRI Irishman.Their action, violent, daring, chaotic, would FRI change the majority of Irish public opinion radically FRI towards demanding full independence from British rule and FRI push northern Ireland's unionists further towards partition. FRI This was Britain's war within the war. The British FRI authorities rapidly crushed the insurrection in six days, FRI executing the leaders. But their repression was to snatch FRI defeat from the jaws of victory. Irish public opinion was FRI appalled by the ruthlessness of the British response. The FRI wartime uprising became the foundational myth of today's FRI Irish Republic. One hundred years on, the L.S.E's Heather FRI Jones reassesses the events of the Rising in light of the FRI opening of new archives and asks was it a necessary 'blood FRI sacrifice' and why it had such a dramatic impact. FRI FRI Producer FRI Mark Burman. FRI FRI 11:30 Dilemma b03wpjg8 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sue Perkins presents a third series of Dilemma, the panel FRI show where she puts four guests through the moral and FRI ethical wringer by posing a series of finely-balanced FRI dilemmas and then cross-examining them on their answers. FRI FRI This week sees Al Murray being asked to decide between two FRI distinct forms of environmentalism; Cbeebies presenter FRI Cerrie Burnell is taken back to school; "Nerd evangelist" FRI Ben Goldacre has a taxing time; and comedian (and devisor of FRI Dilemma) Danielle Ward looks like she's got a decision to FRI make. FRI FRI The show was devised by the actor and award-winning comedian FRI Danielle Ward. FRI FRI "A non-irritating, hilarious panel show" (Radio Times) FRI FRI Presenter ... Sue Perkins FRI Devised by ... Danielle Ward FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sue Perkins FRI Panellist: Al Murray FRI Panellist: Cerrie Burnell FRI Panellist: Ben Goldacre FRI Panellist: Danielle Ward FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0735qjr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Syrian Voices b073b5c8 (Listen) FRI Lyse Doucet talks to those who have survived - or are FRI surviving - the conflict in Syria. FRI FRI Five years ago, protests in Syria as part of the Arab FRI Spring, were put down with violence by the Syrian FRI Government. The mass protests quickly became an armed FRI rebellion, with increasing sectarian involvement. As the FRI conflict escalated, other countries became involved with FRI Russia commencing air strikes in September 2015, and areas FRI of the country becoming strongholds of so-called Islamic FRI State militants. FRI FRI The Syrian conflict has changed people's lives irrevocably FRI and, in this series of interviews, they reflect on the FRI situation in which they find themselves. FRI FRI Producer: David Prest FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0735qjt (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0735qjw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0745xpn (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b073b5cb (Listen) FRI Subbalakshmi: Opening Rosebuds FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0739rfs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03s76cr (Listen) FRI Karma FRI FRI Kulvinder Ghir and Shobu Kapoor star in Samina Baig's FRI powerful new drama. When a shocking discovery is made FRI outside a rural village in northern Rajasthan, an elderly FRI couple are forced into the spotlight, confronted with a FRI moral dilemma that is shaped by deeply embedded attitudes FRI and customs. FRI FRI Karma emerged from Samina Baig's long held interest in the FRI position of women in India. The seed was sewn for this FRI compelling and heartfelt drama when in 2012 the shocking FRI rape of a 23 year old student on a bus in New Delhi provoked FRI worldwide outrage and led women to take to India's streets FRI to demand social and political change and the right to live FRI in safety. FRI FRI Samina Baig is an established writer with a track record in FRI television and radio drama. Her radio plays include, Tall FRI Stories, Husud (Jealousy) and Migrant Memory. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ram Gopal: Kulvinder Ghir FRI Sanjana: Shobu Kapoor FRI Veeru: Jaz Deol FRI Charu: Vineeta Rishi FRI Lal Bhai: Adeel Akhtar FRI The Doctor: Adeel Akhtar FRI Pratibha: Ayesha Dharker FRI Roopa: Ayesha Dharker FRI Mohan: Sacha Dhawan FRI Laxmi: Jerry Dufficy FRI Writer: Samina Baig FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b073bb51 (Listen) FRI Horticultural panel programme. FRI FRI 15:45 Friday Firsts b073bb53 (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Wallets FRI FRI In The Wallets by Colin Barrett, a lad called Doon roams the FRI streets and finds a bar. A spikey encounter ensues and some FRI skulduggery. Then it's time to meet his Mum again.. FRI FRI Reader Caolon McCarthy FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Colin Barrett FRI Reader: Caolan McCarthy FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b073bb55 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b073bb57 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b073bb59 (Listen) FRI Jane and Bella - It's Never Your Fault FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a teenager and FRI her mother about the way the daughter gets harassed on the FRI street and how unprepared they both were. Another in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0735qjy (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0735qk0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b073bb5c (Listen) FRI Series 48, Episode 3 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 b073bb5f (Listen) FRI Birthday boy Eddie is on cloud nine, and Kirsty has an idea. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Gwenda Hughes 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 Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Alf Grundy: David Hargreaves FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood FRI Lauren: Polly Lister FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0735qk2 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b073b18t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b073bb5h (Listen) FRI Richard Murphy, Chuka Umunna MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Sheffield Cathedral with the the economist Richard FRI Murphy and the former Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna FRI MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b073bb5l (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b073bb5n (Listen) FRI Incarnations India in 50 Lives - Omnibus, Episode 4 FRI FRI A history of India told through 50 remarkable lives. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0735qk4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0735qk6 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074cfbp (Listen) FRI Trading Futures, Episode 5 FRI FRI The road unravels in front of Matthew Oxenhay. The decades FRI of his retirement are upon him. He calls home and speaks to FRI Judy. FRI FRI Jim Powell's short novel is a miniature tragi-comedy FRI blending elements of King Lear and Reggie Perrin. Mordant FRI wit accompanies a spiralling mania with flashes of brilliant FRI perception. Love and hope battle with a fear of change and FRI the perilous appeal of an ending. FRI FRI Author : Jim Powell FRI Reader : Toby Jones FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Toby Jones FRI Author: Jim Powell FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b07378d7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b073qzj9 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b073bb5s (Listen) FRI Jason and Alice - Dungeons, Dragons and Daughters FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a father and FRI daughter about their shared interests during her childhood FRI and the foundation they built for their continued FRI relationship. Another in the series that proves it's FRI 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
11 March, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 12/03/2016 - 18/03/2016
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