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SAT SATURDAY 26 MARCH 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b07414qz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0745xkq (Listen) SAT The Onlooker SAT SAT Paris at the outbreak of World War Two. Hugo is a classic SAT dandy in the European tradition. He spends his time dining SAT with aristocrats, enjoying all the delicacies and fine art SAT Paris has to offer. But he is an outsider, an American with SAT an international heritage. It's a status he enjoys and that SAT he believes - along with his wealth - insulates him from the SAT imminent war. But that war eventually comes to get him. SAT SAT Irene Némirovsky is best known for her novel Suite SAT Francaise. She was also a highly accomplished short story SAT writer, and this is an example of her mastery of the form. A SAT story of exquisite taste with a sting in its tale, made even SAT more poignant in the knowledge that Némirovsky herself SAT perished in a Nazi death camp. SAT SAT Author: Irene Némirovsky SAT Reader: David Suchet SAT Translator: Bridget Patterson SAT Abridger: Lisa Martinson SAT Producer: Simon Richardson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: David Suchet SAT Author: Irene Nemirovsky SAT Abridger: Lisa Martinson SAT Producer: Simon Richardson SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07414r2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07414r4 (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07414r6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b07414r8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0746914 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Right Reverend Rachael Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0746916 (Listen) SAT They'd clearly been hit by smoke SAT SAT Ambulance convoys, fluorescent uniforms and complete focus, SAT Cailin Mackenzie describes her day volunteering with the Red SAT Cross in the aftermath of the Brussels attacks. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b07414rb (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b07414rd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b0745gt3 (Listen) SAT Series 32, Eyam, Derbyshire SAT SAT Clare Balding walks to Eyam this week - the Derbyshire SAT village best known for its heroic approach to the bubonic SAT plague in the 17th century. She rambles along the brand-new SAT Peak Pilgrimage long distance footpath, devised to SAT commemorate the 350th anniversary of the plague, during SAT which Eyam famously put itself into quarantine to stop the SAT disease spreading further. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b074vrns (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Coastal Farming SAT SAT Sybil Ruscoe is at the newly created Steart Marshes on the SAT Severn Estuary to talk about coastal farming. With our SAT coastline under threat of erosion and flooding, we find out SAT what farmers and others are doing to manage the land. At SAT Steart Marshes the Environment Agency and the Wildfowl and SAT Wetlands Trust have worked together to allow some of the SAT farmland to flood, creating wetland habitat for birds, and SAT salt marsh grazing for cattle and sheep. SAT We also hear from farmers in Lincolnshire who are only now SAT re-planting their land following the tidal surge three years SAT ago; and Sybil Ruscoe meets the people of Fairbourne in Mid SAT Wales: it's a village that will eventually be lost to the SAT rising sea level when flood defences are no longer SAT maintained. SAT The producer is Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b07414rg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b074vrnv (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 b074vrnx (Listen) SAT Dexter Fletcher and Shazia Mirza SAT SAT Presented by Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein. Dexter Fletcher's SAT big break came as a child actor when he was cast a BabyFace SAT in Bugsby Malone. He talks about his acting career, move SAT into directing and the technical challenges of making his SAT latest film Eddie the Eagle. SAT Shazia Mirza is an award winning stand-up comedian, a writer SAT and columnist. Brought up in a strict Muslim household, she SAT trained as a science teacher, while honing her stand-up act SAT in secret. Toby Little and his mother Sabine talk about his SAT mission to write a letter to every country in the world. JP SAT Devlin meets Saturday Live listener Ann Ward, to hear how a SAT letter about the great-great grandfather inspired her to SAT volunteer for the lambing season in his home village. Tim SAT Birkhead describes why a bird's egg is the most perfect SAT thing. And businessman Theo Paphitis shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks: Nobody Does it Better, sung by Carly Simon; and Over SAT the Rainbow, performed by Eva Cassidy. SAT SAT Eddie the Eagle is out on 1 April. SAT Shazia Mirza is on tour with her show The Kardsahians Made SAT Me Do It. SAT Dear World, How Are You? by Toby Little is published on 7 SAT April. SAT The Most Perfect Thing, by Tim Birkhead is out now. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT JP goes lambing SAT JP goes lambing in Dumfries and Galloway with Saturday Live SAT listener Ann Ward. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Dexter Fletcher SAT Interviewed Guest: Shazia Mirza SAT Interviewed Guest: Toby Little SAT Interviewed Guest: Sabine Little SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Ann Ward SAT Interviewed Guest: Tim Birkhead SAT Interviewed Guest: Theo Paphitis SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Laura Barton's Notes from a Musical Island b074vrp1 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT The music writer Laura Barton visits four corners of Britain SAT and listens closely to the music found in different SAT landscapes. In this final programme, Laura explores two SAT aspects of musical life in the capital. SAT SAT Musical migrants, such as the Nigerian-born guitarist Femi SAT Temowo, found a route into London's music scene via the SAT church, whereas the American composer Nico Muhly has been SAT adopted by the city's cosmopolitan contemporary music and SAT arts milieu. SAT SAT Their experiences contrast with archetypal London musicians SAT Chas 'n' Dave, who made a point of singing in their own SAT accents and created 'rockney' - a hybrid of cockney rock. SAT SAT Laura examines immigrant and indigenous music within the SAT landscape of London. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall. SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b074vrp7 (Listen) SAT Peter Oborne of the Daily Mail looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster and examines the fallout from the resignation of SAT Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. How serious SAT are the consequences for the party and what is the future SAT now of the universal credit system . SAT The chair of the Foreign affairs Select Committee, Crispin SAT Blunt, explains his committee's inquiry into political Islam SAT in the context of the horrific events in Brussels this week. SAT Andrew Tyrie Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on SAT Extraordinary Rendition reports on his committee's progress SAT on this issue. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b07414rk (Listen) SAT Correspondents around the world tell their stories and SAT examine news developments in their region. Presented by Kate SAT Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b07414rm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b07414rp (Listen) SAT Smart Energy Meters SAT SAT On Money Box with Lesley Curwen: new improved energy smart SAT meters will be rolled out later this year. We'll see our SAT energy use and its exact cost - doing away with the need for SAT estimated bills. But just who benefits from the £11bn SAT project? The costs will be borne by consumers who in return SAT get projected savings of £26 a year off their energy bills. SAT It's expected there will be new tariffs as well - called SAT Time of Use tariffs. We are likely to be paying far more for SAT our energy during peak periods in the early evening. SAT Meanwhile energy will be cheaper overnight and during the SAT morning. Will customers be flexible enough to radically SAT change when they use gas and electricity to save money? SAT Lesley Curwen and a panel of experts discuss the issues. SAT Smart meters - smart or dumb? SAT SAT Joining Lesley Curwen are: Sacha Deshmukh, Chief Executive SAT of Smart Energy GB; Stephen Thomas, Emeritus Professor of SAT Energy Policy at the University of Greenwich; and Rosie SAT McGlynn, director of new energy service from Energy UK. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b07466lj (Listen) SAT Series 48, Episode 4 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 b07414rr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b07414rt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b07466ln (Listen) SAT Laura Bates, Minette Batters, Frederick Forsyth, John King SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents topical debate and discussion from the SAT Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London, with Laura SAT Bates from the Everyday Sexism Project, Deputy President of SAT the National Farmers' Union Minette Batters, the the authors SAT Frederick Forsyth and John King. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b07414rw (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b074vrpd (Listen) SAT All That Fall SAT SAT A playful, mysterious journey of words and sounds - one of SAT Samuel Beckett's most naturalistic plays, inspired by SAT memories of his native Foxrock in Ireland. SAT SAT All That Fall is a play about faltering journeys - an old SAT woman sets out to greet her husband at the station on his SAT birthday, only for events to take a deeply unsettling SAT turn... SAT SAT Tony Award-winner Bríd Brennan leads the cast as the SAT unforgettable Maddy Rooney - crotchety and funny, self SAT pitying and self-important, and defiant in her small, SAT strained act of love. Beckett described his radio plays as SAT "coming out of the dark". SAT SAT Internationally acclaimed director Max Stafford-Clark takes SAT the listener on a rare radiophonic journey. This production SAT was created for the Happy Days Enniskillen International SAT Beckett Festival and is now brought to Radio 4. SAT SAT Written by Samuel Becket SAT SAT Sound Design by Dyfan Jones SAT Directed by Max Stafford-Clark SAT SAT An Out of Joint Theatre production and produced for radio by SAT Catherine Bailey. SAT A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mrs Rooney: Brid Brennan SAT Tommy: Killian Burke SAT Miss Fitt: Tara Flynn SAT Christie: Frank Laverty SAT Mr Rooney: Gary Lilburn SAT Mr Slocumb: Ciaran McIntyre SAT Writer: Samuel Beckett SAT Director: Max Stafford-Clark SAT Producer: Catherine Bailey SAT SAT 15:30 The Women Who Wrote Rock b07428bt (Listen) SAT Kate Mossman tells the story of the long-overlooked female SAT pop and rock writers of the 1960s. SAT SAT As a music journalist herself, when Kate entered the SAT profession she found herself surrounded by men - men who had SAT very definite ideas about how it should be done... writing SAT for monthly magazines that were aimed at men and covering SAT artist who were mainly men. The whole industry of writing SAT about 'serious' popular music seemed to have been SAT established in the late 1960s and the mid-1970s with the SAT writer-characters of Rolling Stone and our own New Musical SAT Express. SAT SAT But there was a time before all this - a time when the newly SAT invented teenagers were finding their feet... and a new kind SAT of journalism was emerging to chronicle the rapidly changing SAT time. A journalism spearheaded by women. SAT SAT There was Nancy Lewis, who wrote for Fabulous and the NME; SAT June Harris, who wrote for Disc, then went to New York and SAT contributed to Rave (as well as marring legendary rock agent SAT and promoter Frank Barsalona); Maureen O'Grady who began her SAT career as a music journalist at Boyfriend and progressed SAT onto Rave, where she also joined Dawn James. And the SAT doyennes of them all was the Evening Standard's Maureen SAT Cleave, to whom John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were SAT bigger than Jesus. SAT SAT Kate Mossman meets them and celebrates the tone of their SAT writing that was so fascinatingly different from rock SAT journalism as we came to know it, and yet captured all the SAT confusion, excitement and social changes of the time. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b07414ry (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b07414s0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0745q4l (Listen) SAT Life after a Blockbuster SAT SAT Whether it's creating Angry Birds, the best-selling mobile SAT app, or developing the best-selling Alzheimer's drug or SAT discovering one of the world's biggest oil fields in recent SAT years, every company dreams of blockbuster success. SAT SAT But what happens after you hit the jackpot? How do you SAT sustain that level of success? And what's needed to adapt SAT from small start-up to big business? SAT SAT Evan Davis and guests share the secrets of success and SAT explore their experiences of trying to maintain their market SAT position. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Kati Levoranta, CEO, Rovio Entertainment (creators of Angry SAT Birds) SAT SAT Dr David Jefferys, Global Senior Vice President, Eisai SAT Pharmaceuticals SAT SAT Jón Ferrier, CEO, Gulf Keystone Petroleum SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07414s3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b07414s5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07414s7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b074vrpg (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Jim Cartwright, James Cartwright, Tom Allen, SAT Vinette Robinson, Courtney Pine, Soweto Kinch SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Jim Cartwright, James SAT Cartwright, Vinette Robinson, Tom Allen and Ioan Grillo for SAT an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With SAT music from Courtney Pine & Zoe Rahman and Soweto Kinch. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Jim and James Cartwright SAT 'Raz' is at London's Trafalgar Studios until Saturday 16th SAT April and then touring. SAT SAT Vinette Robinson SAT 'The A Word' is on Tuesday 29th March at 21.00 on BBC One. SAT SAT Tom Allen SAT The BBC Radio New Comedy Awards Live final will be broadcast SAT on Radio 4 on Sunday 14th August. SAT SAT Courtney Pine and Zoe Rahman SAT SAT 'Song (The Ballad Book)' is available now on Destin-E. SAT SAT Courtney and Zoe perform at Cheltenham Town Hall on Saturday SAT 30th April as part of the 20th Anniversary Cheltenham Jazz SAT Festival. SAT SAT Soweto Kinch SAT SAT 'The Legend of Mike Smith' is available now on Soweto Kinch SAT Recordings. SAT The Soweto Kinch Trio will be playing at the Parabola Arts SAT Centre on Friday 29th April as part of the 20th Anniversary SAT Cheltenham Jazz Festival. SAT SAT SAT Soweto is presenting 'Jazz Now' every Monday night from 4th SAT April at 23.00 on BBC Radio 3. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Jim Cartwright SAT Interviewed Guest: James Cartwright SAT Interviewed Guest: Tom Allen SAT Interviewed Guest: Vinette Robinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Ioan Grillo SAT Performer: Courtney Pine SAT Performer: Zoe Rahman SAT Performer: Soweto Kinch SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:02 Profile b074vs18 (Listen) SAT Nick Denton SAT SAT n 2002 the British journalist Nick Denton created Gawker in SAT the US, a website which made its name breaking news and SAT celebrity gossip. SAT SAT Last week a US court ordered the site to pay Hulk Hogan $140 SAT million in damages, after Gawker ran a clip from a sex tape SAT involving the wrestling star. SAT SAT Mark Coles profiles the man friends describe as being "ahead SAT of his time" and a "visionary". SAT SAT But Mark also discovers how, as a journalist, Nick Denton SAT reveals other people's secrets, while carefully guarding his SAT own. SAT SAT Producers: Katie Inman and David Rhodes. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b07414s9 (Listen) SAT Hamlet, Paul Strand, Hot Milk, Court, Undercover SAT SAT Paapa Essiedu is the first black actor to play Hamlet for SAT the RSC in a new production opening in Stratford directed by SAT Simon Godwin. SAT Booker short listed writer Deborah Levy explores the complex SAT emotional dynamics of the mother / daughter relationship in SAT her new novel Hot Milk. SAT Court is Mumbai born Chaitanya Tamhane's feature film debut SAT - an Indian courtroom drama film which explores the SAT limitations of Indian legal system through the trial of an SAT elderly folk singer at a Sessions Court in Mumbai. SAT Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century at SAT the V&A in London shows how the pioneering American SAT photographer defined the way in which fine art and SAT documentary photography is understood and practised today in SAT the first major retrospective of his work for 40 years. SAT And barrister turned writer Peter Moffat's new political SAT thriller Undercover on BBC One, stars Sophie Okonedo as SAT Maya, who is about to be appointed as the first black SAT Director of Public Prosecutions. Adrian Lester plays her SAT husband Nick, an under cover police officer with a complex SAT past. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Arts Editor at the New Statesman, SAT Kate Mossman, novelist Patrick Gale and writer Susan SAT Jeffreys. SAT SAT Court SAT Court SAT is in cinemas now, certificate PG. SAT SAT SAT Paul Strand SAT Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century SAT is at the V&A in London until the 3 July 2016 SAT SAT Image: Milly, John and Jean MacLellan, South Uist Hebrides, SAT 1954 by Paul Strand. © Paul Strand Archive Aperture SAT Foundation. Photograph Victoria and Albert Museum London. SAT SAT SAT Hamlet SAT Hamlet SAT is at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon until 8 June 2016. SAT SAT Image: Photo by Manuel Harlan, © RSC SAT SAT SAT Deborah Levy SAT SAT Hot Milk by SAT Deborah Levy SAT is available in hardback and ebook. SAT SAT SAT Undercover SAT Undercover begins on BBC One on Sunday 3 April. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Mossman SAT Interviewed Guest: Patrick Gale SAT Interviewed Guest: Susan Jeffreys SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b074vs1b (Listen) SAT The Art of the Lyricist SAT SAT As "My Fair Lady" marks its 60th anniversary with hit songs SAT such as "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "On the Street SAT Where You Live", Clarke Peters explores the career and SAT legacy of its lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and investigates the SAT art of lyricists in general through the BBC archive. SAT SAT Alan Jay Lerner often said that he sweated for weeks to SAT write a lyric for a song. His words highlighted the struggle SAT that he and the other legendary wordsmiths of musical SAT theatre had as they sought to hone the right words to fit SAT their collaborator's music - words which would sometimes SAT translate into the vernacular and speech of generations SAT afterwards - expressions like "Get me to the Church on Time" SAT (Lerner) or "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (Sondheim). SAT SAT Using the anniversary of "My Fair Lady" as its basis, the SAT programme explores the art of Alan Jay Lerner and the other SAT musical theatre lyricists which fill the BBC archives. Many SAT of the songwriting greats are there - Yip Harburg, writer of SAT "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", Dorothy Fields (lyric SAT writer of the hit show "Sweet Charity") and the great Oscar SAT Hammerstein. There are there are the artists who delivered SAT both words and music - including Irving Berlin and Stephen SAT Sondheim. And there are the surprises- figures like PG. SAT Wodehouse who, as well as writing the famous "Jeeves" books, SAT also wrote lyrics for musical theatre. SAT SAT There are also new interviews with the lyricist Charles Hart SAT (writer of words for "Phantom of the Opera" and more SAT recently "Bend it like Beckham"), Millie Taylor, Professor SAT of Musical Theatre at Winchester University and Alan Jay SAT Lerner expert Dominic McHugh. SAT SAT Clarke Peters who's sung in many musicals and written the SAT book for "Five Guys Named Moe" presents this journey of SAT crafting the words for the perfect musical theatre song. He SAT explores the pleasures and pitfalls of a lyricist's life SAT and, in the company of Lerner and many others, takes the SAT listener through from first thought to the opening night. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b07419gj (Listen) SAT The Magus, Episode 1 SAT SAT Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate runs away from his SAT monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small SAT Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure SAT of Maurice Conchis and slowly gets drawn into a world full SAT of strange encounters and elaborate tricks on Conchis's SAT estate at Bourani. When Conchis introduces Nicholas to the SAT enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery who bears a SAT striking resemblance to Conchis's long dead fiancée, reality SAT and illusion begin to intertwine, but what strange game is SAT Conchis playing with Nicholas? Moreover, in this world SAT coloured by artifice and deception, who is really telling SAT him the truth? SAT SAT First published in 1965 John Fowles's novel 'The Magus' soon SAT achieved cult status, but has only been dramatized once SAT before in a film of 1968. Now acclaimed dramatist and SAT screenwriter Adrian Hodges (My Week with Marilyn, The SAT Go-Between, Peter and Wendy, The Musketeers, Survivors, SAT Primeval,) has adapted the novel for this new three-part SAT dramatisation starring Tom Burke (War and Peace, The SAT Musketeers) as Nicholas Urfe, Charles Dance (And Then There SAT Were None, Game of Thrones) as Maurice Conchis, and Hayley SAT Atwell (Agent Carter, Brideshead Revisited) as Lily. SAT SAT Harpsichordist ..... Maggie Cole SAT Recorder player ..... Martin Feinstein SAT SAT Writer ..... John Fowles SAT Adapted by ..... Adrian Hodges SAT Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour. SAT SAT Credits SAT Nick: Tom Burke SAT Conchis: Charles Dance SAT Lily: Hayley Atwell SAT Alison: Anna Skellern SAT Margaret: Josie Taylor SAT Mitford: David Seddon SAT Meli: Chris Pavlo SAT Rowena: Lynsey-Anne Moffat SAT Author: John Fowles SAT Adaptor: Adrian Hodges SAT Director: Heather Larmour SAT Producer: Heather Larmour SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b07414sc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0742mqj (Listen) SAT Brussels Bombing SAT SAT The fact that the Belgian authorities had been expecting an SAT attack doesn't diminish the shock of yet another bombing SAT with mass casualties in a European capital. Belgium's SAT foreign minister said on Sunday that Salah Abdeslam, the SAT prime surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, could have SAT been plotting more operations. Tragically, he was proved SAT right. That Salah was able to hide in Brussels, under the SAT noses of the Belgian police, for more than four months SAT raises uncomfortable questions for them - and also for us. SAT The UK government is still fighting to get its Investigatory SAT Powers Bill onto the statute book. Its supporters believe it SAT will enable the police and security services to fight SAT terrorism and crime more effectively. Opponents say it will SAT destroy our fundamental right to privacy and believe their SAT arguments have been given more force by the revelations of SAT Edward Snowdon about the extent of secret surveillance. The SAT Brussels bombs came on the day that the FBI in America said SAT they'd found a way to get round Apple's security and unlock SAT the phone of an Islamist terrorist who killed 14 people in SAT California last December. Apple had refused to co-operate, SAT saying it would have security implications for millions of SAT iPhone users all over the world. When we're faced with SAT ruthless terrorists, intent on committing mass murder, how SAT much privacy do we have a right to demand? And who should SAT police it? These bombs were in the city that is the symbolic SAT heart of the European Union and that has - for many - come SAT to symbolise the hard-won freedoms and values we cherish in SAT the West. What price do we place on those freedoms and SAT values? And how much are we willing to compromise them to SAT ensure our safety? How free do you want to be? Witnesses are SAT Professor Anthony Glees, Mike Harris, Douglas Murray and SAT Inayat Bunglawala. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b0741lvb (Listen) SAT Heat 11, 2016 SAT SAT (11/17) SAT The All England club at Wimbledon officially caters for SAT tennis and which other sport? What are the first two prime SAT numbers you come to when counting upwards from 100? Which SAT border is the setting for author Cormac McCarthy's so-called SAT 'Border Trilogy'? SAT SAT These are just three of the questions the competitors have SAT to face in the penultimate heat of this year's Brain of SAT Britain contest. Russell Davies is in the chair, at Media SAT City UK in Salford. The winner will go through to the SAT semi-finals next month. SAT SAT There's also a chance for a listener to 'Beat the Brains' SAT and win a prize with devious questions of his or her own. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT JENNY CATHCART, an IT service manager, now retired, from SAT Richmond in North Yorkshire SAT SAT ALAN HARRISON, a retired metallurgist and songwriter from SAT Sheffield SAT SAT RICHARD PALMER, a solutions analyst from Nottingham SAT SAT CHRIS QUINN, a database administrator from Liverpool. SAT SAT 23:30 Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies b0741b8w (Listen) SAT Michael Rosen explores why some of Byron's best loved works, SAT including She Walks in Beauty, first appeared not as poems SAT but as lyrics to Jewish melodies by composer Isaac Nathan. SAT SAT He visits a Synagogue in Central London to hear the songs SAT performed and meets some of those who've recently brought SAT this little known story to public attention. How did Lord SAT Byron become associated with such an important document in SAT the history of Jewish music? SAT SAT In 1815, Lord Byron published one of his most famous pieces, SAT She Walks in Beauty. But it didn't appear as part of a SAT collection of poems - in fact it was produced as one of a SAT number of songs in the collection Hebrew Melodies. Byron, SAT tiring of the formula that had brought him huge success in SAT earlier works like Childe Harold's Progress and The Corsair, SAT was approached by Jewish composer Isaac Nathan, who asked SAT him to write religious lyrics to musical settings that were SAT a mixture of contemporary and ancient Synagogue tunes. SAT SAT Excited by the prospect of examining the Hebrew culture and SAT putting his own deep knowledge of the Old Testament to good SAT use, Byron took up the challenge. He was also keen to SAT impress his future wife, a deeply religious woman who SAT disapproved of his insalubrious lifestyle. SAT SAT Byron and Nathan struck up a strong relationship and, over SAT the course of the collaboration, produced 29 songs. SAT SAT Unfortunately for Nathan, Byron's standard publisher, John SAT Murray, wasn't keen to lose their grip on the poet whose SAT work was funding their expansion and, as Michael Rosen SAT discovers, took steps to minimise public recognition of the SAT musical venture, leaving Nathan out of pocket and - for a SAT long time - written out of the Byron story. SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 MARCH 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b074vt71 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Modern Welsh Voices b03pdhks (Listen) SUN The Abergorki Long Veg Growing Society SUN SUN The Abergorki Long Veg Growing Society by Rachel Tresize. SUN SUN Selwyn's passion is cucumbers. But when he's beaten in SUN Abergorki's annual vegetable growing competition, his life SUN begins to unravel. The final of five original stories by SUN writers from Wales. SUN SUN Read by Ruth Jones SUN SUN Directed by James Robinson SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Ruth Jones SUN Producer: James Robinson SUN Writer: Rachel Tresize SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b074vt73 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 02:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074w18k (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074vt75 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b074vt77 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b074vvvn (Listen) SUN St Mary's Church, Abergavenny SUN SUN From St Mary's Church in Abergavenny. There have been bells SUN in the church since the 16th Century. In 1947, the current SUN ring of 10 was installed in thanksgiving for the end of the SUN Second World War. This week: Spliced Surprise Royal. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b074vs18 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:02 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b074vt79 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b074vvvq (Listen) SUN Hunger for the New SUN SUN A Hunger for the New - or "the life value of everlasting SUN change" - is said to be one of the few constants in life. In SUN the week following the vernal equinox and on an Easter Day SUN coinciding with the first weeks of Spring, the human SUN appetite for new adventures, new environments - even new SUN objects or technologies - is piqued. SUN SUN Mark Tully examines the hunger for new experiences of all SUN kinds with readings from the work of American adventurer SUN John Krakauer, the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht, SUN and novelist and poet Helen Dunmore. SUN SUN There's music too from Arvo Part, Tracey Chapman and Leos SUN Janacek. SUN SUN The readers are Polly Frame, Francis Cadder and Jasper SUN Britton. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Into The Wild SUN Author: John Krakuer Published by Villard SUN Title: Gap Year SUN Author: Joseph O'SheaPublished by JHU Press SUN Title: Yes SUN Author: Brendan KennellyPublished in Being Human by Bloodaxe SUN Title: Everything New Is Better Than Everything Old SUN Author: Bertolt Brecht Published by Methuen SUN Title: The New Citroen SUN Author: Roland BarthesPublished in Bertolt Brecht: Poems SUN 1913-1956 by Macmillan SUN Title: Glad Of These Times SUN Author: Helen Dunmore Published in Being Alive by Bloodaxe SUN SUN SUN 06:35 Sunrise Service b074vvvs (Listen) SUN Fire and Light: the Gothic Revival splendour of Augustus SUN Pugin's personal Church in Ramsgate on the Kent coast is now SUN the Shrine of St Augustine of Canterbury, from where the SUN Rector, Fr Marcus Holden, lights the Paschal Candle from the SUN Easter Fire and leads a Sunrise Service for Easter Day. The SUN Shrine is famed for its Gregorian Chant and Renaissance SUN Polyphony, and Director of Music, Thomas Neal, leads The SUN Victoria Consort in Easter hymns and seasonal music and SUN chant. Plus, a specially-composed sonnet by Sister Mary SUN Stephen. Producer: Rowan Morton-Gledhill. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN BBC Radio 4: … And on this Easter morning our Sunrise SUN Service begins outdoors on the Kent coast. It’s led by SUN Father Marcus Holden. SUN SUN [Atmos of sea; gulls; crackling of fire…] SUN SUN FR MARCUS: SUN Good morning - and a blessed morning because we’re rejoicing SUN in the resurrection light of Jesus Christ. We’re standing SUN outside the south porch of St Augustine’s church in SUN Ramsgate. We can see the sea, the English channel, over SUN which came St Augustine in 597AD bringing the news of the SUN risen Saviour for the first time to the English people. The SUN Easter fire is in front of us and it’s still alight. The SUN fire is a symbol of the resurrection – it is lit on Easter SUN night, or before dawn on Easter Day - and represents how the SUN darkness can never overcome the light of God. It reminds SUN us of how the new light burst forth ‘while it was still SUN dark’. The Paschal candle is lit from the Easter fire with SUN the words, ‘May the light of Christ, rising in glory, banish SUN all darkness from our hearts and minds’. SUN The musical sequence ‘Victimae Paschali Laudes’ has been SUN sung on this day for a thousand years: Let Christians offer SUN sacrificial praises to the passover victim. The lamb has SUN redeemed the sheep: The Innocent Christ has reconciled SUN sinners to the Father. Death and life contended in a SUN spectacular battle: the Prince of life, who died, reigns SUN alive. [Tell us, Mary, what did you see on the road? "I saw SUN the tomb of the living Christ and the glory of his rising, SUN The angelic witnesses, the clothes and the shroud." "Christ SUN my hope is arisen; into Galilee, he will go before his own." SUN ] SUN SUN SUN MUSIC 1: CHOIR - Victimae Paschali Laudes (1’40”) SUN SUN FR MARCUS: SUN The Paschal candle represents Christ risen in glory. Light SUN is the symbol of glory. Once the candle is alight then in SUN turn the candles of all the faithful are lit as a reminder SUN of the light of Christ’s resurrection being shared. As we SUN process into the church with those candles lit, we hear the SUN words ‘Lumen Christi’. Entering through the Holy Door of SUN this Year’s Jubilee of Mercy the choir sings ‘The Light of SUN Christ’ to which we respond, ‘Deo Gratias’, ‘Thanks be to SUN God’. SUN SUN MUSIC 2: (Fr Marcus or Cantor solo) ‘Lumen Christi’…(Choir SUN Response) ‘Deo gratias’ (sung 3 times) SUN SUN FR MARCUS: SUN Now inside the church, we recite part of an ancient prayer SUN of rejoicing in the light of the risen Lord. It speaks of SUN both fire and light: the candle and the flame -and it’s SUN called the Exultet. SUN SUN MUSIC 3: Exultet (in Latin) SUN SUN SUN FR MARCUS: SUN O holy Father, accept this candle, a solemn offering, the SUN work of bees and of your servants’ hands, a sacrifice of SUN praise, this gift from your most holy Church. SUN But now we know the praises of this pillar, which glowing SUN fire ignites for God's honour, a fire into many flames SUN divided, yet never dimmed by sharing of its light, for it is SUN fed by melting wax, drawn out by mother bees to build a SUN torch so precious... SUN Receive it as a pleasing fragrance, and let it mingle with SUN the lights of heaven. May this flame be found still burning SUN by the Morning Star: the one Morning Star who never sets, SUN Christ your Son, who, coming back from death's domain, has SUN shed his peaceful light on humanity, and lives and reigns SUN for ever and ever. Amen. SUN SUN MUSIC 4: HYMN – Lead kindly light 4vs SUN SUN SUN SUN FR MARCUS: SUN As our candles are extinguished we begin to see the beauty SUN of the church within – full of flowers and bursting with SUN white and gold decorations. This is the personal church of SUN the architect Augustus Pugin – he called it ‘his child’. It SUN was his model church of the Gothic Revival. He was laid to SUN rest with his family here in the hope of resurrection on the SUN last day. As the light shines through the east window SUN depicting Christ risen in glory, the symbols of the four SUN evangelists at the base of the window remind us today of SUN their accounts of the resurrection – each distinct, yet all SUN confirming an event which changed them and the world SUN forever. SUN SUN Christians build up a sense of anticipation and expectancy SUN in preparation for this day. We have fasted and repented SUN through Lent following Christ into the desert and have SUN participated, as if we were there, at his passion and death SUN on Good Friday. Now comes joy - Easter is the greatest SUN celebration in the Christian calendar and the faithful are SUN called through sacred rituals and ceremonies to really SUN empathise with the joy of the first disciples on this day – SUN indeed the joy in the heart of the risen Christ. The SUN resurrection gives confirmation of all that Jesus claimed SUN and taught, it demonstrates that death is not the end for SUN the human person and it confirms that darkness cannot SUN overcome the light. Here is the account of St Luke read in SUN churches throughout the world on Easter morning. SUN SUN SUN READING: Luke 24.1-12 SUN READER - TBC: SUN On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women came SUN to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They SUN found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they SUN went in, they did not find the body. While they were SUN perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes SUN stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their SUN faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you SUN look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has SUN risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in SUN Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, SUN and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.’ Then SUN they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb, they SUN told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. Now it was SUN Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the SUN other women with them who told this to the apostles. But SUN these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not SUN believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping SUN and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then SUN he went home, amazed at what had happened. SUN SUN SUN FR MARCUS: SUN The original message of the resurrection literally spread SUN like wild fire. We know that the early disciples and SUN witnesses of the resurrection were changed, never to be the SUN same again. They went far and wide to proclaim that Christ SUN is risen and the message, although persecuted, spread across SUN the world without earthly power, money or military might. SUN The resurrection is so essential to Christianity that St SUN Paul would say, ‘if Christ be not raised then your faith is SUN in vain’. This message had reached the shores of Britain SUN by the second century – there is a Roman baptismal font a SUN few miles south from here at Richborough Fort. Again, when SUN the light of faith was becoming dim after the coming of the SUN Anglo-Saxons who did not know of the resurrection, St SUN Augustine landed here on Thanet and the gospel torch burned SUN brightly once again. It is as if each generation passes on SUN the light of faith to the next like a glowing torch. The SUN window in this church, in the Pugin chantry, depicts St SUN Augustine landing and bringing a book of the gospels SUN containing the good news of the resurrection which was SUN preached to King Ethelbert – England’s first Christian SUN monarch. That message just over a hundred years later led SUN to the building of a Monastery near here called Minster SUN Abbey. Its foundress, great grand-daughter of Ethelbert, St SUN Domneva, and her daughter St Mildred were Abbesses who sang SUN the praises of the risen Christ through the eighth century. SUN Their monastic tradition is continued today with a community SUN of Benedictine nuns. Sr Mary Stephen is from St Mildred’s SUN Abbey and a poet. She has composed this poem for us today, SUN a contemplative way to share the light of Christ. SUN SUN SUN POEM - SR MARY STEPHEN: SUN EASTER SUNRISE SUN MUSIC 5: CHOIR - Haec dies quam fecit Dominus…’ – William SUN Byrd SUN SUN FR MARCUS: [At the font] SUN The Victoria Consort, Directed by Thomas Neal, with William SUN Byrd’s ‘Haec dies quam fecit Dominus’: this is the day that SUN the Lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice.’ SUN SUN Easter is associated with baptism – Pugin’s baptismal font SUN here at St Augustine’s is particularly splendid – it was SUN made for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and reaches from earth SUN to heaven, being four metres high with its canopy. It has SUN exquisite stone carving depicting the original sin of Adam SUN and Eve, Jesus’ death, and his resurrection. SUN SUN [dip candle] SUN SUN At Easter the paschal candle is lowered into the baptismal SUN font three times with the words: “May the power of the Holy SUN Spirit, O Lord, we pray, come down through your Son into the SUN fullness of this font SUN SUN [dip candle] SUN SUN …so that all who have been buried with Christ by Baptism SUN into death may rise again to life with him.” SUN SUN [dip candle] SUN SUN As Christians we remember today our baptismal promises when SUN we passed through death with Christ and into life. We renew SUN these promises today – that we believe in God, in Father, SUN Son and Holy Spirit, and that we reject evil and its SUN allurements. We stand with our candles relit from the SUN Paschal candle and proclaim our faith. Last night many SUN thousands of people were baptised around the country – we SUN pray for them today that they may have great joy and be SUN living witnesses to the resurrection light in our world SUN today. The holy water that we use and are sprinkled with is SUN a reminder of the new divine life of the resurrection. SUN And so we pray… SUN SUN PRAYERS - FR MARCUS/ SR MARY STEPHEN: SUN Prayers of intercession… SUN SUN SUN ALL: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. SUN Thy kingdom come, they will be done on earth as it is in SUN heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our SUN trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And SUN lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. SUN Amen. SUN SUN FR MARCUS: O God, who on this day, through your Only SUN Begotten Son, have conquered death and unlocked for us the SUN path to eternity, grant, we pray, that we who keep the SUN solemnity of the Lord's Resurrection may, through the SUN renewal brought by your Spirit, rise up in the light of SUN life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives SUN and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one SUN God, for ever and ever. 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SUN SUN On the day that the Church marks the Resurrection of Jesus, SUN an opportunity to reflect on the need to search for a sacred SUN space in daily life. SUN Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN BBC Radio 4 and now time for Easter Sunday Worship, live SUN from Worcester Cathedral. The Celebrant is the Right SUN Reverend John Inge, Bishop of Worcester and the preacher is SUN the Dean, the Very Reverend Peter Atkinson. The introit is SUN taken from the Worcester Fragments. These sheets of music, SUN dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth SUN century, were once used to bind books at the cathedral SUN until their significance was recognised and they were pieced SUN together to create a unique collection of mediaeval sacred SUN music. The Eucharist begins with the Allelluia Psallat* – SUN “Alleluia, Sing Praise, happy company, sing we all, happy SUN family!” SUN SUN Introit SUN SUN Choir SUN Alleluia, psallat haec familia! SUN Words and music: anonymous 13th or 14th-century, from the SUN Worcester Fragments SUN SUN The Greeting SUN Bishop In the name of the Father, SUN and of the Son, SUN and of the Holy Spirit. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN Peace be with you SUN All and also with you. SUN SUN Alleluia. Christ is risen. SUN All He is risen indeed. Alleluia. SUN Bishop SUN I bid you the warmest of welcomes to Worcester Cathedral and SUN invite you to celebrate the joy of Easter Day with us. This SUN series of broadcast services during Lent, has considered SUN ‘pilgrimage’, culminating today with the theme “pilgrim SUN living”, and here at the cathedral, during Holy Week, we’ve SUN been reflecting on ‘pilgrimage to the cross’ - so this SUN morning we make our pilgrimage to the empty tomb, and meet SUN the risen Lord Jesus in the breaking of the word and the SUN breaking of the bread, celebrating his glorious resurrection SUN from the dead. Deeply conscious that the world is still SUN racked with the marks of Christ’s passion, we proclaim our SUN confidence that his love is stronger than evil, stronger SUN than death itself, and that it will prevail over all. So SUN with joy in our hearts we sing of this triumphant holy day SUN in the hymn ‘Jesus Christ is risen today’. SUN SUN Hymn Jesus Christ is risen today SUN from Lyra Davidica (1708) SUN Prayers of Penitence SUN SUN Deacon Christ our passover lamb has been sacrificed for us. SUN Let us therefore rejoice by putting away all malice and SUN evil SUN and confessing our sins with a sincere and true heart. SUN 1 Corinthians 5.7,8 SUN SUN Like Mary at the empty tomb, SUN we fail to grasp the wonder of your presence. SUN Lord, have mercy. SUN All Lord, have mercy. SUN SUN Like the disciples behind locked doors, SUN we are afraid to be seen as your followers. SUN Christ, have mercy. SUN All Christ, have mercy. SUN SUN Like Thomas in the upper room, SUN we are slow to believe. SUN Lord, have mercy. SUN All Lord, have mercy. SUN Bishop May the God of love and power SUN forgive you and free you from your sins, SUN heal and strengthen you by his Spirit, SUN and raise you to new life in Christ our Lord. SUN All Amen. SUN Bishop SUN So in a burst of praise for Christ’s resurrection, the choir SUN leads our thanksgiving in a setting by Haydn of that ancient SUN prayer of the Church, the Gloria. SUN SUN Gloria in Excelsis SUN SUN The Collect SUN SUN Bishop SUN Lord of all life and power, SUN who through the mighty resurrection of your Son SUN overcame the old order of sin and death SUN to make all things new in him: SUN grant that we, being dead to sin SUN and alive to you in Jesus Christ, SUN may reign with him in glory; SUN to whom with you and the Holy Spirit SUN be praise and honour, glory and might, SUN now and in all eternity. SUN All Amen. SUN The Liturgy of the Word SUN SUN The people sit for the reading and choir anthem. SUN SUN First Reading SUN SUN Reader A reading from the Acts of the Apostles. SUN SUN Peter began to speak to those assembled in the house of SUN Cornelius. ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, SUN but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is SUN right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to SUN the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ he is SUN Lord of all. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning SUN in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: how God SUN anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with SUN power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were SUN oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are SUN witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. SUN They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God SUN raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, not SUN to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as SUN witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from SUN the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to SUN testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the SUN living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that SUN everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins SUN through his name.’ SUN Acts 10.34-43 SUN For the word of the Lord, SUN All thanks be to God. SUN SUN Hymn – This Joyful Eastertide SUN SUN Words: G. R. Woodward (1848-1934) SUN Music: 17th-century Dutch melody, arr. Charles Wood SUN (1866-1926) SUN SUN Deacon SUN Those are the joyful words of G. R. Woodward, set to music SUN by Charles Wood, preparing us to hear now the Easter gospel. SUN SUN Gospel Reading SUN SUN The people stand for this acclamation which heralds the SUN Gospel reading SUN Choir Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. SUN I am the first and the last, says the Lord, and the living SUN one; SUN I was dead, and behold I am alive for SUN evermore. cf Revelation 1.17,18 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Reader Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to SUN Luke. SUN Reader SUN On the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women who SUN had accompanied Jesus came to the tomb, taking the spices SUN that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away SUN from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the SUN body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men SUN in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were SUN terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men SUN said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the SUN dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told SUN you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must SUN be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the SUN third day rise again.’ Then they remembered his words, and SUN returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven SUN and to all the rest. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary SUN the mother of James, and the other women with them who told SUN this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle SUN tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and SUN ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen SUN cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had SUN happened. SUN Luke 24.1–12 SUN This is the Gospel of the Lord. SUN SUN SUN Sermon SUN STORIES are judged by their endings. However enthralled we SUN have been by the earlier episodes of The Night Manager, it SUN is the final episode tonight that counts. What we long for SUN in a good story is for knots to be unravelled and mysteries SUN cleared up, for good to come out on top and evil defeated. SUN Unlike our everyday experience, a good story takes us into a SUN world in which puzzles are resolved and life makes sense. SUN As Aristotle argued many centuries ago, even a tragic story, SUN well told, can have a cleansing, purifying effect on our SUN minds. SUN SUN But the story of the resurrection of Jesus defies any tidy SUN description. On the face of it, it is a classically happy SUN ending. The innocent victim suffers an unjust death but God SUN raises him to life, and the grief of his friends and SUN followers turns to joy. That is the way we would like the SUN world to be. We wish the violence in Syria or on the streets SUN of Paris or Brussels would stop. We wish the refugee crisis SUN were somehow resolved. When disaster or tragedy strikes, we SUN would like the clock turned back. We would like the world to SUN be other than it is. SUN SUN But the resurrection of Jesus is not that kind of story. SUN It’s not an improbable tale of injustice which God SUN miraculously puts right, the clock put back to the time SUN before he died. For one thing, Jesus’s experience of death SUN is a vital part of the story. His is not a pretence of death SUN with one eye on the resurrection. It’s a real death. In the SUN gospel narratives, Jesus still bears the marks of his SUN crucifixion: Jesus is the one who has come to know what SUN death is like. SUN SUN SUN Nor is it a story in which his friends and followers live SUN happily ever after. As we heard in St Luke’s Gospel, the SUN first disciples heard the news with bewilderment and SUN disbelief. St Mark puts it more strongly: they simply ran SUN away in terror. And when the risen Jesus did collect his SUN followers together, it was not to round off the story, but SUN to commission them for new work in God’s name, to spread the SUN good news, to bring others to know him and love him and walk SUN in his way. Far from being the end of the story, the SUN resurrection turns out to be the start of a new one, the SUN story of the lives lived in this world by his disciples. We SUN had a glimpse of that in the first reading, from the Acts of SUN the Apostles. We might say that when the credits come up on SUN the final episode of the gospel story, the next series is SUN already scheduled. SUN SUN Nor is the resurrection a simple story about the world being SUN put right. The violence on the streets of Jerusalem that SUN Holy Week in which Jesus died did not stop, as his followers SUN soon found out; and that violence has continued in the Holy SUN Land and across the world, in countless conflicts, as we SUN know well. It is into that world that the followers of Jesus SUN went, many of them to suffer as he suffered; and there are SUN places in the world today where Christians die for their SUN faith. SUN SUN And there again, the resurrection of Jesus is not a story SUN about the instant transformation of his followers. SUN Commissioned with his message, often facing persecution, SUN Christians also fail, and sin, and sometimes betray their SUN faith. As we know only too well today, Christian pastors and SUN leaders (people like me) can be unworthy of their calling. SUN We can damage the lives of those we are called to help, SUN betray the Church we are called to represent, and dishonour SUN the God we are called to serve. There is no excuse for this, SUN and every ground for shame, but from the beginning Jesus SUN entrusted his message to fallible people, and he made no SUN promise of an instant transformation of sinners into saints. SUN Every Christian is a pilgrim, someone still on a journey, SUN still exploring, still making mistakes and taking wrong SUN turnings. A Christian is not someone who has arrived at the SUN journey’s end. SUN SUN The story of the resurrection then is not a simple happy SUN ending. It is the beginning of a new experiment in human SUN living, fraught with difficulty and danger, entrusted by God SUN to men and women insufficient in themselves to carry out so SUN great a commission. From the first days of the Acts of the SUN Apostles, the followers of Jesus formed cells and colonies SUN of Christian living, breaking bread together as we do this SUN morning, and (as St Luke puts it) knowing him in the SUN breaking of that bread. SUN SUN And the good news in all of this is that when we Christians SUN get it partly right, when we are faithful to God and SUN recognise his presence in our lives, then those cells or SUN colonies of Christian living which we call the Church can be SUN a power for good. The Church does good less perhaps on the SUN public stage than in the unsung lives of Christian women and SUN men serving God in the ordinary circumstances of daily life. SUN It is what George Eliot speaks of at the end of Middlemarch, SUN ‘the growing good of the world partly dependent on SUN unhistoric acts … owing to the number who lived faithfully a SUN hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs’. The practice of SUN such ‘unhistoric acts’ belongs of course to all people of SUN good will, there is no Christian monopoly of virtue. All SUN people of good will, whatever their religious faith or lack SUN of it, must stand today with arms linked in the face of SUN terror. But Christians are those who have specifically SUN recognised the call of God to live such lives, and have SUN found the presence of the risen Jesus to be the source of SUN inspiration and strength to do so. SUN SUN In a world in which disaster and tragedy still strike, in SUN which wars go on, in which the power of virtue is hard to SUN measure, in which human lives are forgotten and tombs SUN unvisited, Christians believe that the human journey does SUN not end there. To the followers of the risen Jesus, life SUN here is the opportunity to contribute to the ‘good of the SUN world’, and death is the doorway to a life which has no SUN ending. SUN Affirmation of Faith SUN SUN The people stand. SUN SUN Deacon Let us declare our faith SUN in the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. SUN All Christ died for our sins SUN in accordance with the Scriptures; SUN he was buried; SUN he was raised to life on the third day SUN in accordance with the Scriptures; SUN afterwards he appeared to his followers, SUN and to all the apostles: SUN this we have received, SUN and this we believe. SUN Amen. SUN cf 1 Corinthians 15.3-7 SUN SUN Prayers of Intercession SUN The people kneel. SUN SUN After each bidding, the following is sung SUN SUN SUN SUN Sue Carpenter SUN SUN Let us Pray SUN SUN Risen Lord Jesus, light of the morning, you bring joy to SUN those who seek you; SUN Give your joy this day to John our bishop, SUN to those who were baptised and confirmed here last night, SUN to this diocese and cathedral, and to all your Christian SUN people. SUN Inspire us to proclaim afresh the good news of your SUN resurrection. SUN SUN Choir Lord, in your mercy … SUN SUN Risen Lord Jesus, hope of the world, you speak words of SUN peace; SUN breathe your peace upon our world. SUN Guide our Queen and those in authority in the ways of SUN justice; SUN give courage to those who balance freedom with security SUN and those who make difficult decisions for the good of all. SUN SUN Choir Lord, in your mercy … SUN SUN Risen Lord Jesus, bringer of life, you comfort those who are SUN troubled; SUN Embrace those whose lives are shattered by war, fear and SUN violence, SUN particularly the victims of terrorism in Belgium. SUN Give strength to the emergency services, social services and SUN charities, SUN and all who help them to repair damaged lives. SUN SUN Choir Lord, in your mercy … SUN SUN Risen Lord Jesus, loving presence, you walk alongside your SUN friends; SUN Walk with our families, friends and neighbours. SUN We thank you for those who enrich our lives SUN and pray for those who are lonely, burdened or downhearted. SUN SUN Choir Lord, in your mercy … SUN SUN Risen Lord Jesus, wounded healer, your body bears the marks SUN of the cross; SUN Heal all who are suffering. SUN Be with medical staff and carers, both in hospital and at SUN home. SUN We pray for those who are known to us. SUN SUN Choir Lord, in your mercy … SUN Risen Lord Jesus, glory of God, you break the power of SUN death; SUN Draw to yourself those whom we have cherished and all who SUN have died. SUN Give them a place at your eternal banquet, SUN and grant to those who mourn SUN the faith that they may come to share the triumph of your SUN risen life. SUN SUN Choir Lord, in your mercy … SUN SUN At the end of the prayers, the following is said SUN SUN Merciful Father, SUN All accept these prayers SUN for the sake of your Son, SUN our Saviour Jesus Christ. SUN Amen. SUN SUN The Liturgy of the Sacrament SUN SUN The Peace SUN SUN The people stand. SUN SUN Bishop The risen Christ came and stood among his disciples SUN and said, SUN ‘Peace be with you.’ SUN Then were they glad when they saw the Lord. Alleluia. SUN John 20.19,20 SUN The peace of the risen Lord be always with you SUN All and also with you. SUN SUN Deacon Let us offer one another a sign of peace. SUN SUN All may exchange a sign of peace. SUN SUN Deacon The risen Jesus has overcome death - we never SUN have to walk in darkness. So as we prepare to share SUN communion, we sing the contemporary hymn, ‘I am the Light SUN whose brightness shines on every pilgrim’s way’. SUN SUN Taking of the Bread and Wine SUN SUN This hymn is sung, during which the bread and wine are SUN placed on the altar SUN SUN Hymn - I am the Light whose brightness shines SUN SUN SUN Robert Willis (b. 1947) SUN The bishop takes the bread and wine and says SUN SUN Lord of life, SUN with unbounded joy we offer you our sacrifice of praise. SUN As we are fed with the bread of heaven SUN may we know your resurrection power; SUN through Christ our risen Lord. SUN All Amen. SUN The Eucharistic Prayer SUN Bishop The Lord be with you SUN All and also with you. SUN SUN Lift up your hearts. SUN All We lift them to the Lord. SUN SUN Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. SUN All It is right to give thanks and praise. SUN Bishop SUN It is indeed right, SUN it is our duty and our joy, SUN at all times and in all places SUN to give you thanks and praise, SUN holy Father, heavenly King, SUN almighty and eternal God, SUN through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. SUN SUN But chiefly are we bound to praise you SUN because you raised him gloriously from the dead. SUN For he is the true paschal lamb who was offered for us, SUN and has taken away the sin of the world. SUN By his death he has destroyed death, SUN and by his rising to life again he has restored to us SUN everlasting life. SUN SUN Therefore with angels and archangels, SUN and with all the company of heaven, SUN we proclaim your great and glorious name, SUN for ever praising you and singing: SUN SUN Choir - Sanctus SUN SUN Bishop Accept our praises, heavenly Father, SUN through your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, SUN and as we follow his example and obey his command, SUN grant that by the power of your Holy Spirit SUN these gifts of bread and wine SUN may be to us his body and his blood; SUN SUN who, in the same night that he was betrayed, SUN took bread and gave you thanks; SUN he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying: SUN Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you; SUN do this in remembrance of me. SUN SUN In the same way, after supper SUN he took the cup and gave you thanks; SUN he gave it to them, saying: SUN Drink this, all of you; SUN this is my blood of the new covenant, SUN which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of SUN sins. SUN Do this, as often as you drink it, SUN in remembrance of me. SUN SUN SUN Therefore, heavenly Father, SUN we remember his offering of himself SUN made once for all upon the cross; SUN we proclaim his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; SUN we look for the coming of your kingdom, SUN and with this bread and this cup SUN we make the memorial of Christ your Son our Lord. SUN SUN Deacon Jesus Christ is Lord: SUN All Lord, by your cross and resurrection SUN you have set us free. SUN You are the Saviour of the world. SUN SUN Bishop Accept through him, our great high priest, SUN this our sacrifice of thanks and praise, SUN and as we eat and drink these holy gifts SUN in the presence of your divine majesty, SUN renew us by your Spirit, SUN inspire us with your love SUN and unite us in the body of your Son, SUN Jesus Christ our Lord. SUN SUN Through him, and with him, and in him, SUN in the unity of the Holy Spirit, SUN with all who stand before you in earth and heaven, SUN we worship you, Father almighty, SUN in songs of everlasting praise: SUN All Blessing and honour and glory and power SUN be yours for ever and ever. SUN Amen. SUN SUN The Lord’s Prayer SUN SUN The people kneel. SUN SUN Bishop Rejoicing in God’s new creation, SUN as our Saviour taught us, so we pray SUN SUN All Our Father in heaven, SUN hallowed be your name, SUN your kingdom come, SUN your will be done, SUN on earth as in heaven. SUN Give us today our daily bread. SUN Forgive us our sins SUN as we forgive those who sin against us. SUN Lead us not into temptation SUN but deliver us from evil. SUN For the kingdom, the power, SUN and the glory are yours SUN now and for ever. SUN Amen. SUN SUN SUN Breaking of the Bread SUN SUN The bishop breaks the consecrated bread, saying SUN SUN Jesus says, I am the bread of life, SUN whoever eats this bread will live for ever. SUN All Lord, our hearts hunger for you; SUN give us this bread always. SUN SUN Choir – Agnus Dei SUN SUN Giving of Communion SUN SUN The bishop invites the people to communion, saying SUN SUN Alleluia. Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. SUN All Therefore let us keep the feast. Alleluia. SUN SUN SUN The bishop and ministers in the sanctuary receive communion. SUN Choir Lord of the Dance SUN SUN Sydney Carter (1915-2004), arr. David Willcocks (1919-2015) SUN Prayer after Communion SUN SUN Bishop Our pilgrimage, in the light of Easter, is not so SUN much a walk as a dance - so suggest the popular words of SUN Sydney Carter, set to music by a former organist of SUN Worcester Cathedral who died last November, Sir David SUN Willcocks. Let us pray. SUN SUN Bishop God of Life, SUN who for our redemption gave your only-begotten Son SUN to the death of the cross, SUN and by his glorious resurrection SUN have delivered us from the power of our enemy: SUN grant us so to die daily to sin, SUN that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his risen SUN life; SUN through Jesus Christ our Lord. SUN All Amen. SUN All You have opened to us the Scriptures, O Christ, SUN and you have made yourself known SUN in the breaking of the bread. SUN Abide with us, we pray, SUN that, blessed by your royal presence, SUN we may walk with you SUN all the days of our life, SUN and at its end behold you SUN in the glory of the eternal Trinity, SUN one God for ever and ever. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Bishop With whom will you now share your Easter SUN pilgrimage? As we walk with others on life’s journey, we SUN cannot help but share the joy of Easter Day. In the words SUN of St John of Damascus - our final hymn - ‘The day of SUN resurrection, earth, tell it out abroad!' SUN SUN The people stand to sing this hymn SUN SUN Hymn - The day of resurrection SUN St John Damascene (c. 675– c. 750), tr. J. M. Neale SUN (1818-1866) SUN The Dismissal SUN SUN Bishop Alleluia. Christ is risen. SUN All He is risen indeed. Alleluia. SUN SUN The bishop blesses the people, saying SUN SUN God the Father, SUN by whose love Christ was raised from the dead, SUN open to you who believe the gates of everlasting life. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN God the Son, SUN who in bursting from the grave has won a glorious victory, SUN give you joy as you share the Easter faith. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN God the Holy Spirit, SUN who filled the disciples with the life of the risen Lord, SUN empower you and fill you with Christ’s peace. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN And the blessing of God almighty, SUN the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, SUN be among you and remain with you always. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN Choir Go in the peace of Christ. Alleluia, alleluia. SUN Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia. SUN SUN Organ Voluntary SUN SUN Symphonie VI / Finale Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) SUN SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zdbr0 (Listen) SUN Willow Warbler 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 Kate Humble presents the willow warbler. The first willow SUN warblers return from Africa in late March. Willow warblers SUN were once the commonest and most widespread summer migrant SUN to the UK but in the last two decades numbers in the south SUN and east of England have dropped by two thirds. Fortunately SUN in Scotland, Ireland and the west, numbers seem to be SUN holding up. SUN SUN Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b074vt7r (Listen) SUN News with Paddy O'Connell including Easter Rising SUN commemorations. Reviewing the papers: actress Joanna SUN Scanlan, journalist Lisa Markwell and Digby, Lord Jones. SUN Plus a live Easter egg hunt. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b074vw92 (Listen) SUN Alf is turning on the charm, and Helen makes a call. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Alf Grundy: David Hargreaves SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Mr Anand: Sartaj Garewal SUN Anita: Bharti Patel SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b074vw94 (Listen) SUN John Timpson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the businessman, John Timpson. SUN SUN He is chairman of his eponymous high street retailers and SUN the business is in his blood: started by his SUN great-grandfather in 1865 it is now run by one of his sons. SUN SUN Although he fulfilled his family's expectations by running SUN the family firm, he's a man who ploughs his own furrow as SUN all his staff are given the day off on their birthday, and SUN can use the company's holiday homes for free. A proponent of SUN what he calls 'upside down management', his employees, all SUN of whom are called 'colleagues', enjoy an unusual degree of SUN autonomy in the running of the individual shops and 10% of SUN the company's employees have spent time in prison. SUN SUN Married to his late wife Alex for over 47 years, together SUN they fostered 90 children. He has written several books on SUN leadership and pens a weekly business advice column. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: John Timpson SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b074vt7t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b0741n3y (Listen) SUN Series 74, Episode 5 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons asks Gyles Brandreth, Esther Rantzen, Paul SUN Merton & Tim Rice to speak on the topic of his choosing, SUN without deviation, repetition or hesitation for Just a SUN Minute. SUN SUN This week's topics include: Bubble & Squeak, A Leap Year and SUN A Mission to Mars. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Tim Rice SUN Panellist: Esther Rantzen SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b074vw96 (Listen) SUN Food Is Mad - The Update SUN SUN From the guerilla gardener Ron Finley in South Central LA SUN fighting the law to grow vegetables to the project training SUN children in Brazilian favelas to train as chefs, Dan SUN Saladino has shared some inspiring and life changing food SUN projects shared at the MAD symposium in Copenhagen in 2014. SUN But what's happened since then? He wants to hear what those SUN projects have gone on to achieve. SUN SUN MAD (the word for food in Danish) was founded by the SUN celebrated chef of the restaurant Noma, Rene Redzepi. In his SUN own words, it's curated by a group of "chefs, waiters, a SUN former banker and an anthropologist". To some it's a SUN festival of ideas, to others it's like listening to a "food SUN mix tape", over two days an audience of 600 chefs, writers SUN and food obsessives hear a series of presentations about SUN cooking, restaurants, food history and activism. SUN SUN But that was just the start. Ron Finley, a gardener from Los SUN Angeles was prosecuted for growing food in a patch of land SUN in front of his house. He took on the authorities and SUN changed the law. His story has inspired people all over the SUN world. Now his story has been made into an award-winning SUN feature film, showing how other gardeners in South Central SUN LA - gang-members Spicey and Kenya, 9 year old Quimonie and SUN a man just released from a 30 year prison term are changing SUN their lives simply by growing food. Meanwhile FruitaFeia, a SUN Portuguese project to save ugly fruit from going to waste, SUN has 2000 people on their waiting list and is looking to SUN expand while GustoMovida, the Brazilian project training SUN disadvantaged young people is preparing for the Olympics. SUN SUN Presented by Dan Saladino SUN Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN More information... SUN SUN Learn more about the urban gardening movement and watch Can SUN You Dig This? SUN The Film SUN SUN GastroMotiva is an organisation aiming to transform the SUN lives of socially vulnerable people through food. For SUN more information on how they are doing this, click SUN here SUN . SUN SUN The SUN Fruta Feia SUN project is working to reduce food waste and change SUN consumer’s relationships with ‘ugly’ fruits and vegetables. SUN SUN Click SUN here SUN to find out more about how the Mad Symposium encourage a SUN ‘better meal'. SUN SUN And SUN hear SUN the Food Programme’s previous broadcast of Mad2014. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b074vt7w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b074vt7y (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 1916: A Letter from Ireland b074vx8y (Listen) SUN Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole takes a look at some SUN of the 2,000 letters crowdsourced by Maynooth University as SUN part of a special project in Ireland, marking the centenary SUN of the 1916 Easter Rising. SUN SUN The correspondence paints a unique portrait of Irish people SUN coming to terms with monumental events but, at the same SUN time, getting on with everyday life. This isn't the Ireland SUN of 1916 as seen through the history books - it's the Ireland SUN of 1916 seen through the writings of the people as they SUN lived it. SUN SUN There are love letters penned by a couple starting a romance SUN amid the backdrop of the troubles in Dublin, there are SUN letters from soldiers on the Western Front confused at the SUN events back home, there are lost letters and there are last SUN letters from people eventually condemned for their part in SUN the Rising. SUN SUN It was a time when letter writing was at its height. But SUN with the main Dublin post office building at the centre of SUN the Easter Rising, there was a temporary hiatus and some SUN post couldn't be sent for days. As a result, people turned SUN their letters into diaries as they added to their SUN correspondence with updates on events as they happened. SUN SUN Postcards also took an interesting turn following the Easter SUN Rising. Suddenly photographs of the mayhem were being sent SUN around the world - a bit like Twitter or Instagram today. SUN SUN Meanwhile, we discover, life went on. Soldiers worried about SUN the welfare of their children back home and George Bernard SUN Shaw was at the height of his playwrighting fame. SUN SUN Producer: Ashley Byrne SUN A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b074vx93 (Listen) SUN Teesdale SUN SUN Horticultural panel programme. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b074vx95 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations between GPs, students, and a SUN graduate employee and his line manager, about the shift to SUN focus on data, and the significant changes in expectation, SUN all in the Omnibus of the series that proves it's surprising SUN what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b074w040 (Listen) SUN The Magus, Episode 2 SUN SUN Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate runs away from his SUN monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small SUN Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure SUN of Maurice Conchis and slowly gets drawn into a world full SUN of strange encounters and elaborate tricks on Conchis's SUN estate at Bourani. When Conchis introduces Nicholas to the SUN enchanting and mysterious Lily Montgomery who bears a SUN striking resemblance to Conchis's long dead fiancée, reality SUN and illusion begin to intertwine, but what strange game is SUN Conchis playing with Nicholas? Moreover, in this world SUN coloured by artifice and deception, who is really telling SUN him the truth? SUN SUN First published in 1965 John Fowles's novel 'The Magus' soon SUN achieved cult status, but has only been dramatized once SUN before in a film of 1968. Now acclaimed dramatist and SUN screenwriter Adrian Hodges (My Week with Marilyn, The SUN Go-Between, Peter and Wendy, The Musketeers, Survivors, SUN Primeval,) has adapted the novel for this new three-part SUN dramatisation starring Tom Burke (War and Peace, The SUN Musketeers) as Nicholas Urfe, Charles Dance (And Then There SUN Were None, Game of Thrones) as Maurice Conchis, and Hayley SUN Atwell (Agent Carter, Brideshead Revisited) as Lily. SUN SUN Harpsichordist ..... Maggie Cole SUN Written by ..... John Fowles SUN Adapted by ..... Adrian Hodges SUN Producer/Director ..... Heather Larmour. SUN SUN Credits SUN Nick: Tom Burke SUN Conchis: Charles Dance SUN Lily: Hayley Atwell SUN Alison: Anna Skellern SUN Margaret: Josie Taylor SUN Anton: Maarten Dannenberg SUN German Colonel: Bodo Friesecke SUN Greek Resistance Fighter: Andreas Karras SUN Author: John Fowles SUN Adaptor: Adrian Hodges SUN Director: Heather Larmour SUN Producer: Heather Larmour SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b074w044 (Listen) SUN Stories inspired by Jane Eyre SUN SUN Two hundred years after the birth of Charlotte Bronte, SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Nadifa Mohamed and Joanna Briscoe SUN about their new stories, inspired by her most famous of SUN literary lines: 'Reader, I married him' from Jane Eyre. SUN SUN Novelist Susie Steiner, whose own sight is deteriorating, SUN reflects on the impact of visual impairment for both writers SUN and fictional characters, Jeffrey Archer reveals the Book SUN He'd Never Lend and journalist Anna James chooses some of SUN her Spring literary highlights. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Nadifa Mohamed SUN Interviewed Guest: Joanna Briscoe SUN Interviewed Guest: Susie Steiner SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeffrey Archer SUN Interviewed Guest: Anna James SUN SUN 16:30 The Horses b074w046 (Listen) SUN A group of survivors rebuild their lives on a small island SUN that's been spared from global nuclear apocalypse, "the SUN seven days war that put the world to sleep". They've turned SUN their backs on technology. Tractors, abandoned in fields, SUN turn to rust; radios sit silent and ignored in the houses. SUN SUN Then, late one evening, the islanders hear hooves on the SUN road. Strange horses arrive from nowhere, "stubborn and shy, SUN as if they had been sent/ By an old command to find our SUN whereabouts". They offer themselves in service to the SUN humans, to bear loads and pull their ploughs, restoring a SUN lost relationship between man and beast. SUN SUN Edwin Muir's career was bookended by two poems with almost SUN the same title - 'Horses' and 'The Horses' - and these two SUN poems encapsulate Muir's life and work. 'Horses' was SUN published in his debut collection in 1925 and evokes Muir's SUN childhood home on the tiny island of Wyre in Orkney. 'The SUN Horses', his post-apocalyptic fable, comes from his final SUN collection published in 1956. Yet both poems highlight the SUN same theme: a lost paradise. SUN SUN In this programme Kenneth Steven visits Wyre to explore the SUN fears and dreams Muir distilled into those two poems. At the SUN age of fourteen, Muir was forced to leave Orkney as his SUN father sought work in Glasgow. The shock of encountering SUN Glasgow, in his eyes an industrial Hell, had a profound SUN effect on him. Worse still, his parents and his two brothers SUN died in quick succession within a few years of moving to the SUN city. Muir saw Glasgow as part of a fallen world and it SUN brought about a breakdown from which he never fully SUN recovered. SUN SUN This programme is the story of Edwin Muir's Orkney, real and SUN imagined, and how it came to symbolise the lost Eden which SUN was the recurring theme throughout his work. Kenneth Steven SUN visits Wyre and Glasgow to unravel the two Horses poems and, SUN through them, Edwin Muir's life. Kenneth talks to poets, SUN theologians and a psychologist. And we hear the voices of SUN Orkney - including Muir's childhood home on the island of SUN Wyre - reading his masterpiece, The Horses. SUN SUN Presenter: Kenneth Steven SUN Reader: Paul Young SUN Producer: Jeremy Grange. SUN SUN 17:00 The Returnees b0742hlf (Listen) SUN On an August bank holiday in 2014, Shiraz Maher at the SUN International Centre for Study of Radicalisation at Kings SUN College London received an email sent by a disillusioned SUN British jihadist from Syria. SUN SUN "We came to fight the regime and instead we are involved in SUN gang warfare. It's not what we came for but if we go back to SUN Britain we will go to jail. Right now we are being forced to SUN fight - what option do we have?" SUN SUN The man in his twenties claimed to represent dozens of other SUN jihadists' desperate to return to the UK but fearing long SUN prison sentences. SUN SUN Gordon Corera explores the British government's response to SUN managing returnees. In the last two years Britain has SUN brought in temporary exclusion orders and is able to SUN confiscate passports to prevent people preparing to travel SUN to Syria. SUN SUN France has gone one step further - since the Paris attacks SUN in November police has placed over 400 citizens under house SUN arrest and can strip French born dual nationals of SUN citizenship. Denmark and Germany have taken a different SUN approach and instead try to rehabilitate rather than SUN imprison; helping young men and women get jobs, housing and SUN education. SUN SUN The Home Office estimates that around 800 British nationals SUN have travelled to Syria since the start of the conflict and SUN that around half of those have returned, though experts say SUN these are conservative figures. What's the best way to deal SUN with this growing threat, particularly when returnees are SUN responsible for attacks such as those in Paris last SUN November? SUN SUN Gordon Corera speaks with Shiraz Maher, Rashad Ali of the SUN Institute of Strategic Dialogue, solicitor Gareth Peirce, SUN Hanif Qadir of the Active Change Foundation and SUN counter-terrorism officer DAC Helen Ball. We also hear from SUN a returnee. SUN SUN Producer: Caitlin Smith. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b074vs18 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:02 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b074vt80 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b074vt82 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074vt84 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b074w048 (Listen) SUN Janice Long SUN SUN Janice Long chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b074w04b (Listen) SUN It's all the fun of the fair, and Peggy has cause for SUN concern. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01sdmd2 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 6 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth presides over the comedy panel game where, SUN this week, Susie Dent and Lloyd Langford compete against SUN Dave Gorman and Natalie Haynes to find out which team is the SUN most passionate and knowledgeable about words. SUN SUN This week Susie Dent reveals two of her favourite SUN now-defunct words from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary are SUN 'pandiculation' (to stretch while yawning) and 'snirtle' (to SUN laugh in a quiet and restrained manner); Dave Gorman comes SUN up with a new cliche to replace 'Curiosity Killed the Cat'; SUN Natalie Haynes tells us what the Cockney rhyming slang 'a SUN Basil' refers to and Lloyd Langford is asked the meaning of SUN 'dumpoke' from the 1903 dictionary, 'Hobson Jobson - A SUN Glossary of Anglo Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases' (a SUN book which Susie Dent claims is 'a very good read'). SUN SUN Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle 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: Susie Dent SUN Panellist: Lloyd Langford SUN Panellist: Dave Gorman SUN Panellist: Natalie Haynes SUN SUN 19:45 Reader, I Married Him b074w04d (Listen) SUN Reader, I Mended 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 Isy Suttie has Jane do battle with the ghost of Bertha, SUN Philip Hensher sends her into the capitalist clamour of SUN nineteenth-century Manchester and Elizabeth Kuti introduces SUN an extra gothic twist with the appearance of another famous SUN Victorian novelist. SUN SUN Writer ..... Elizabeth Kuti SUN Reader ..... Olivia Hallinan SUN Producer ..... Heather Larmour. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Elizabeth Kuti SUN Reader: Olivia Hallinan SUN Producer: Heather Larmour SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b07466ld (Listen) SUN The Archers, From T20 to PM SUN SUN Radio 4's forum for audience comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b07414nb (Listen) SUN Julian Worricker on: SUN SUN Asa Briggs, social historian and university administrator, SUN who wrote a five-volume history of the BBC. SUN SUN Austrian conductor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, famed for his SUN pursuit of authenticity in both early and modern music. SUN SUN Vlasta Dalibor, co-creator of Pinky and Perky. SUN SUN Professor Robert Acland, a pioneer of microsurgery in both SUN Britain and America. SUN SUN Barry Hines, the author and screenwriter, who adapted his SUN novel A Kestrel for a Knave into the film 'Kes'. SUN SUN And....one of football's greatest players and most SUN successful managers, Johan Cruyff. SUN SUN Asa Briggs SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Prof Michael Farthing, Vice Chancellor of SUN the University of Sussex SUN SUN Born 7 May 1921; died 15 March 2016, aged 94 SUN SUN Nikolaus Harnoncourt SUN SUN Last Word spoke to musician and conductor, Milan Turkovic. SUN SUN Born 6 December; died 5 March 2016, aged 86 SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Robert Acland SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Dr Gordon Tobin, Professor of Plastic and SUN Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Louisville. SUN SUN Born 20 June 1941; died 6 January 2016, aged 74 SUN SUN SUN SUN Vlasta Dalibor SUN SUN Last Word spoke to broadcaster and poet, Ian McMillan. SUN SUN Born 22 May 1921; died 21 February 2016, aged 94 SUN SUN SUN SUN Barry Hines SUN SUN Last Word spoke to journalist and family friend, Paul Allen. SUN SUN Born 30 June 1939; died 18 March 2016, aged 76 SUN SUN SUN SUN Johan Cruyff SUN SUN Born 25 April 1947; died 24 March 2016, aged 68 SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b07414rp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b074vvvv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0741nql (Listen) SUN Corporate Amnesia SUN SUN Phil Tinline finds out what happens when institutions lose SUN their memory and how they can best capture and share the SUN lessons of the past. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b074vt8b (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b074w0zc (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the papers are SUN covering the big stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Moth Radio Hour b074c3rc (Listen) SUN Series 2, London Calling - with Crossfire, and a Vampire SUN SUN True stories told live: Sarah Austin Jenness introduces four SUN tales celebrating all things British. With writer Neil SUN Gaiman. SUN SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b07466lq (Listen) SUN Allergic to Food SUN SUN Finding himself on a restricted diet, Will Self reflects on SUN the rise of food allergies and intolerances which used to SUN fail to invoke his sympathy. SUN SUN "It's not so much that I doubt the physiological component SUN of all this tummy rumbling and grumbling, it's more that the SUN social and cultural aspects of the malaise have grown still SUN louder in the past half decade." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 MARCH 2016 MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074vtbp (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074vtbr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b074vtbt (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b074xc0s (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Right Reverend Rachael Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b074w1xz (Listen) MON Forty Years of Farms for City Children MON MON Michael Morpurgo is best known as a successful and MON much-loved children's author and the creator of 'War Horse'. MON Yet he describes his "greatest story" as the rural charity MON he set up with his wife Clare in 1976. This year Farms for MON City Children celebrates its 40th anniversary and to mark MON the occasion we visit Michael and Clare on the isolated MON Devon farm where the project began. Over the last four MON decades almost 100,000 children from urban schools have MON pulled on their wellies to experience the 'muck and magic' MON of life on a working farm and discovered what it means to MON feed and care for livestock. Now there are two other farms, MON one in Pembrokeshire and another in Gloucestershire, MON providing week-long residential stays. But what challenges MON face the charity today and what are the prospects for the MON next 40 years? Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by MON Vernon Harwood. MON MON 05:56 Weather b074vtbw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tt1kv (Listen) MON Yellowhammer 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 Steve Backshall presents the yellowhammer. The yellowhammer MON is a member of the bunting family and its name comes from MON "ammer" the German for bunting. It's one of the few British MON birds to have its song transcribed into words and seems to MON be saying ..a little bit of bread and no cheese". MON MON Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b074w30h (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b074w30k (Listen) MON Existentialism and Ways of Seeing MON MON On Start the Week Kirsty Wark asks how we make choices about MON freedom and authenticity - questions that preoccupied Paris MON intellectuals in the 1930s. Sarah Bakewell looks back at one MON of the twentieth century's major philosophical movements - MON existentialism - and the revolutionary thinkers who came to MON shape it. Sartre and de Beauvoir may have spent their days MON drinking apricot cocktails in café's but Bakewell believes MON their ideas are more relevant than ever. The historian Sunil MON Khilnani reveals the Indian thinkers who didn't just talk MON about philosophy but lived it, and the photographer Stuart MON Franklin, famous for the pictures of the man in Tiananmen MON Square who stopped the tanks, discusses the impulse to MON record and preserve these moments of action. The art MON historian Frances Borzello looks at the female artists who MON chose the freedom to present themselves to the world in MON self-portraits. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Photo Credit: 'Tank Man' by Stuart Franklin MON MON Kirsty's Start the Week Selfie MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Wark MON Interviewed Guest: Sarah Bakewell MON Interviewed Guest: Sunil Khilnani MON Interviewed Guest: Frances Borzello MON Interviewed Guest: Stuart Franklin MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b074w30m (Listen) MON This Orient Isle, Episode 1 MON MON Professor Jerry Brotton, one of the UK's leading experts on MON cultural exchange, examines Queen Elizabeth I's fascination MON with the Orient. He shows that England's relations with the MON Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more MON amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their MON influence was felt across the political, commercial and MON domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. MON MON Derek Jacobi reads the captivating account of how Britain MON sent ships, treaties and gifts to the royal families of MON Morocco and Turkey, including a gold carriage and a MON full-size pipe organ. MON MON In this episode, we discover the origins of our taste for MON Oriental imports - including the sugar which rotted the MON teeth of our sovereign. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Jerry Brotton MON Reader: Derek Jacobi MON Producer: David Roper MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b074vtby (Listen) MON Spring gardening, Succulents, Botanical cocktails MON MON Jane Garvey visits RHS Hyde Hall in Essex with MON horticulturalist and Guardian writer, Alys Fowler to discuss MON spring flowers, growing vegetables and foraging. MON MON Matthew Oliver is in charge of planting plans for Hyde MON Hall's Global Growth Vegetable Garden - he tell how he hopes MON to inspire young people to grow their own. And Karen MON Robbirts who works on plant trials at RHS Wisley explains MON how they decide which ornamental plants and vegetables to MON test for their Award of Garden Merit. MON MON Heather Cutmore is in charge of propagation at Hyde Hall and MON talks about succulents for indoors and out. And MON horticulturalist and mixologist, Lottie Muir mixes a couple MON of cocktails from her book Wild Cocktails from the Midnight MON Apothecary. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Jane Thurlow. MON MON Botanical Cocktail Recipes MON MON *50ml Gorse rum* MON MON *15ml Cherry Blossom syrup* MON MON *15ml lime juice* MON MON Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker (or jar with lid), fill MON three quarters with ice. Cover, shake and then strain into a MON small cocktail glass. MON For a Cherry Blossom, Honey and Lime Foam (optional): MON MON *1 and a half leaves gelatin (Platinum grade)* MON MON *60ml runny honey* MON MON *60ml cherry blossom syrup* MON MON *60ml lime juice* MON MON *180ml hot water* MON MON *120ml egg whites* MON MON Place the gelatin leaves in a bowl of iced water to "bloom" MON for 10 minutes. MON MON Meanwhile combine the honey, cherry blossom syrup, lemon MON juice and hot water in a small saucepan over a low heat MON until the honey is dissolved. Strain using a fine mesh sieve MON into a clean saucepan. MON MON Squeeze the excess water from the softened gelatin sheets MON and add to the juice. Heat to allow the gelatin to dissolve, MON stirring constantly and without letting the mixture boil. MON Turn off the heat as soon as the gelatin dissolves. Let it MON reduce to room temperature (about 15 mins). MON MON Place the egg whites in a bowl and lightly whisk with a fork MON until slightly frothy and add to the mix. Funnel this mix MON into a professional cream whipper and charge it with two MON nitrogen oxide cartridges following the manufacturer's MON instructions. Shake well for at least a minute and MON refrigerate. Let the foam stabilise for at least 2 hours, MON preferably overnight, before using. MON MON Shake the whipper well before dispensing. Tip upside down MON and gently squeeze the foam onto the top of the cocktail. MON Garnish with a candied cherry blossom. MON Candied Cherry Blossom Garnish MON MON Whisk an egg white and using a fine paintbrush or pastry MON brush, delicately coat the back and front of the petals. MON Sprinkle with caster sugar and allow to dry (at least 24 MON hours). seal in an airtight box and keep out of direct MON sunlight. MON MON MON MON *20ml oleo saccharum (blood orange, rosemary and grapefruit MON with rosemary and scented geranium)* MON MON *50ml freshly squeezed blood orange juice* MON MON *50ml fresh squeezed rhubarb and ginger juice* MON MON *Top with a splash of soda. * MON MON Add the oleo saccharum, blood orange juice and rhubarb and MON ginger juice to a cocktail shaker. Add ice, cover, shake and MON strain into an ice filled rocks glass or wine glass. MON MON Top with a splash of soda. Garnish with a blood orange wheel MON and a sprig of rosemary. MON Oleo Saccharum MON MON *4 blood oranges* MON MON *2 grapefruits* MON MON *2 lemons* MON MON *200g sugar* MON MON *5 sprigs of rosemary* MON MON *8 scented geranium leaves* MON MON Peel the zest of blood oranges (keep the juice for the MON cocktail), grapefruit and lemons. Add to bowl or ziplock MON bag. Cover with the sugar. Add the rosemary and scented MON geranium leaves (or other aromatic leaves). Massage the MON sugar into the zest. Leave at room temperature for at least MON 12 hours, massaging occasionally. MON MON Strain the oily sugar into a sterilised sealable container MON and use immediately. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Alys Fowler MON Interviewed Guest: Matthew Oliver MON Interviewed Guest: Karen Robbirt MON Interviewed Guest: Heather Cutmore MON Interviewed Guest: Lottie Muir MON Producer: Jane Thurlow MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b074w7h3 (Listen) MON Hollywood Endings - Doubles, Episode 1 MON MON Kim and Boyd are a pair of wannabe actors living in the MON unfashionable part of Venice Beach, Los Angeles. They MON struggle to make the rent and keep themselves busy working MON out and doing the endless round of auditions for commercials MON and bit-parts in films. So it comes as a surprise when Kim MON is mistaken for the Hollywood 'A Lister' Faye Dexter, to MON whom she bears a passing resemblance. MON MON Kim at first tries to explain to her admirer, Danica, that MON there has been a mistake, but Danica will not be dissuaded. MON So to keep her happy and to get her out of her hair, Kim MON agrees to have a selfie taken with Danica and gives her an MON autograph. MON MON She little knows this will become the worst day of her life. MON MON A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 The Untold b06yr7v7 (Listen) MON Sanjeev - Saviour of Steel? MON MON The British steel industry is in meltdown. But one person MON believes he has worked out how to make it profitable, and MON he's investing millions. Grace Dent and her producer zoom in MON on events to try and discover his secret. At stake are MON thousands of jobs, so does Sanjeev have what it takes to MON make British steel rise again? MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 11:30 Boswell's Lives b074wb57 (Listen) MON Series 2, Boswell's Life of Marx MON MON by Jon Canter MON MON James Boswell ..... Miles Jupp MON Karl Marx ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON Comedy as James Boswell, Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer, MON pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he attempts to MON write a biography of Karl Marx but before he can start must MON help Marx pen his meisterwerk Das Kapital. MON MON Credits MON James Boswell: Miles Jupp MON Karl Marx: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Writer: Jon Canter MON Director: Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 News Summary b074vtc0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Witness b07500xw (Listen) MON Romania's Orphans MON MON After the fall of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, MON camera crews were allowed inside Romania's state-run MON orphanages and children's homes for the first time. The MON appalling conditions shocked the world and a wave of charity MON workers and volunteers streamed into the country to help MON improve children's lives. Hundreds of children were adopted MON by western families. Izidor Ruckel grew up in a Romanian MON home for 'irrecoverable' children. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b074vtc2 (Listen) MON The Psychology of Trust - are we all susceptible to a MON confidence trick? MON MON Melanie Abbott investigates the story of a man, she is told, MON who has the ability to gain the trust of individuals who say MON they then gave him their money. What made them believe him? MON Would any of us be taken in by a clever con? MON She'll follow a trail of victims from an Australian nurse on MON the trip of a lifetime to a retired British couple living in MON France, who all say he managed to win their trust. How do MON they say they found him out? She talks to the hotelier who MON says she rumbled him and the woman who says she was so taken MON in by him that she wouldn't believe warnings. With the help MON of forensic psychologist Mike Berry and science writer Dr MON Maria Konnikova, she'll unravel the psychology of confidence MON tricksters. What might help people to see them for what they MON are? MON MON 12:57 Weather b074vtc4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b074x71q (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha MON Kearney. MON MON 13:45 A Guide to Coastal Wildlife b07457jx (Listen) MON Rock Pools MON MON What looks a sponge, smells like a volcano and is found in MON rock pools? Well, the answer can be found in the first of a MON new series of five programmes in which Brett Westwood joins MON naturalist Phil Gates on the coast of Northumberland and MON with the help of recordings by wildlife sound recordist MON Chris Watson, they offer a practical and entertaining guide MON to the wildlife which you're most likely to see and hear in MON different coastal habitats beginning with probably MON everyone's favourite childhood haunt, the rock pool. These MON are home to shore crabs and hermit crabs, as well as sea MON anemones, breadcrumb sponges and sea squirts. We learn how MON sea squirts which appear to be little more than bags of MON fluid clinging to the rocks might be our evolutionary MON ancestors, we hear how a school teacher invented glass MON shells to study the reproduction and subsequently MON house-moving antics of hermit crabs, and discover how when MON it comes to building, it's the breadcrumb sponges which have MON mastered the art with some clever self- assembly scaffolding MON tricks! MON Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b074w04b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b074x71s (Listen) MON Rumpole, Rumpole on Trial MON MON By John Mortimer. Adapted for radio by Richard Stoneman. MON MON Following in the footsteps of several distinguished former MON Rumpoles - Leo McKern, Maurice Denham, Timothy West and MON Benedict Cumberbatch - Julian Rhind-Tutt, one of Radio 4's MON most popular actors and much loved star of TV's Green Wing MON and The Hour, now dons the wig and white bands of the most MON erudite, astute, and seldom defeated of barristers in the MON annals of the Old Bailey. MON MON After waking up with a raging tooth-ache, Rumpole finds MON himself in no mood to listen to his boring client Reginald MON Tring, who's accused of the manslaughter of his wife. As MON Reginald drones on with his mind-numbing evidence, Rumpole MON suffers throughout the trial, and argues even more angrily MON than usual with Mr Justice Gwent-Evans. And, when Rumpole MON accuses the judge of deliberately misleading the jury, MON Gwent-Evans warns him in no uncertain terms about his future MON conduct. MON MON Rumpole finds himself on trial, with the end of his career MON in sight. MON MON But, luckily for Horace, he has Phillida on his side. She MON goes searching for the truth, and galvanises not only MON Rumpole's defending counsel - Soapy Sam Ballard QC - but MON also Rumpole's wife. MON MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Horace Rumpole: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde MON Phillida Erskine-Brown: Cathy Sara MON Marigold: Cathy Sara MON Claude Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony MON Mr Justice Gwent-Evans: Nigel Anthony MON Reginald Tring: Gus Brown MON Sam Ballard: Michael Cochrane MON Mr Justice Graves: Stephen Critchlow MON Mr Leering: Stephen Critchlow MON Author: John Mortimer MON Adaptor: Richard Stoneman MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producer: Catherine Bailey MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b074x71v (Listen) MON Heat 12, 2016 MON MON (12/17) MON What's the better known name for the Flavian Amphitheatre? MON Which football stadium has the smallest capacity in Premier MON League history? And which 19th century composer's third MON symphony is known as the 'Rhenish' because it was inspired MON by a Rhine excursion? MON MON Contestants from Middlesbrough, Nottingham, Liverpool and MON York face Russell Davies' notoriously challenging questions, MON in the final heat of 2016. The programme comes from Media MON City UK in Salford. Only one automatic place remains in the MON semi-finals which begin next week. Will any of the MON runners-up today score enough points to qualify too? MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b074vw96 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 'Down With Skool': The Art of Molesworth b074x71x (Listen) MON Philip Hensher explores the art of the gloriously eccentric MON Molesworth books. Nigel Molesworth is one of the immortal MON characters of British literature - a 1950s prep-school boy, MON the 'goriller of 3B' and the 'curse of st custard's'. MON MON Molesworth's diaries, written by Geoffrey Willans, first MON appeared in Punch and were later developed into four books, MON Down with Skool! (1953), How to be Topp (1954), Whizz for MON Atomms (1956) and Back in the Jug Agane (1959). Illustrated MON by Ronald Searle as a boy's school sequel to Searle's St MON Trinian's drawings, they are still in print today. MON MON The books are a kind of satire of 1950s Britain as, after MON the war, the upper middle classes faced the onslaught of MON irreverence, the Welfare State and a new generation that MON didn't see why authority should be respected. Molesworth's MON cynical yet naive outlook on life made him popular with MON young and old readers in the post-war world. He was a very MON long way from the clean-cut school fantasies which had MON entertained the British before the advent of the atomic MON bomb. MON MON The author Geoffrey Willans had worked as a schoolmaster and MON understood the cheerful cynicism of boys, while Ronald MON Searle's illustrative style was dark, Gothic and seething MON with half-hidden obsessions. Searle had spent much of the MON war in a Japanese concentration camp where he documented the MON horrors he encountered, and elaborate psychological points MON come through with concise and economic observation in his MON drawings. MON MON With contributions from Steve Bell, Wendy Cope, Max MON Hastings, Mike Leigh, Chris Riddell, Martin Rowson, Gerald MON Scarfe and Posy Simmonds. MON MON Produced by Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Posy Simmond’s original copy of How to be Topp MON MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b074x71z (Listen) MON Apparitions of Mary MON MON Since 2010 a Vatican commission has been investigating the MON alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje in MON Bosnia-Herzegovina. An announcement is expected soon, amid MON concerns that the supernatural claims of six visionaries are MON getting out of the Vatican's control. Beginning in 1981, the MON apparitions purportedly continue daily, and thousands of MON pilgrims from all over the world travel to the small town MON each month to meet the alleged seers. What exactly are MON Marian apparitions and how have they been explained? What MON are some of the stories associated with them? Why have they MON become such a powerful tool for conversion over recent MON decades? Are they always an aid to religious devotion or can MON they lead to unhealthy superstition? MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b074vtc6 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074vtcc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b074x721 (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 6 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game, MON where contestants must speak for 60 seconds without MON deviation, hesitation or repetition. This week the guests MON are Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Jenny Eclair and Nish Kumar. MON MON Topics on the cards this week include Homer, Russian Dolls, MON and My First Love. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Stephen Fry MON Panellist: Jenny Eclair MON Panellist: Nish Kumar MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b074x4tk (Listen) MON Lynda is kept in suspense, and Alan gets a shock. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b074vtcf (Listen) MON Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe MON MON In 1986, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe released their first MON album as Pet Shop Boys. MON MON 30 years on, the most successful British pop duo of all time MON look back over three decades of stardom and electronic dance MON music as they prepare for a four-night residency at the MON Royal Opera House in London in July, and the release of MON their 13th studio album, Super, this week. MON MON Presenter John Wilson MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Producer: Jerome Weatherald MON Interviewed Guest: Neil Tennant MON Interviewed Guest: Chris Lowe MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074w7h3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Ireland: Looking Beyond the Border b074x874 (Listen) MON Irish Republicans once looked towards the centenary of the MON Easter Rising as the date by which they hoped Ireland would MON be one country. In 2016, the Irish border is still in place. MON But Republicans say their political strategy will deliver MON what IRA violence could not: a united Ireland. Unionists, MON though, say Northern Ireland's status within the UK has MON never been safer. In this programme, the BBC News Ireland MON Correspondent Chris Page examines the state of play within MON Irish nationalism and unionism 100 years after 1916. MON MON The "Irish Question" has perplexed politicians, diplomats MON and academics in Britain and Ireland. But as Northern MON Ireland and the Republic approach their second century, the MON Question is changing. Ulster's Troubles are receding further MON into history. A new generation of political leaders are MON coming forward. Nationalists believe the peace process has MON provided them with the opportunity to persuade unionists to MON join the united Ireland project. But unionists are looking MON beyond the border too - But unionists are looking beyond the MON border too - perhaps to a hybrid political identity that MON transcends ideas of Britishness, or Irishness in favour of MON Northern Irishness. Chris has been asking the new voices in MON Irish politics - north and south - to explain their vision MON for the future. As the dimensions of the debate evolve, MON Chris investigates the economic arguments - and considers MON what, if anything, could bring another seismic shift in MON Ireland. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b074lmsm (Listen) MON Romania: The Shepherds Revolt MON MON Lucy Ash asks why thousands of angry Romanian shepherds MON recently stormed the parliament in Bucharest. Sparked by an MON amendment to Romania's hunting law, the unprecedented MON protest was over plans to limit numbers of sheepdogs and MON restrict grazing rights. The increasing size of flocks is MON leading to growing conflict with both hunters and MON conservationists over land use. Romania has an influential MON hunting lobby - around two thirds of MPs are hunters - and MON they accuse shepherds dogs of scaring off or sometimes even MON killing their quarry. They also claim overgrazing is MON damaging the natural habitat of the deer, the boar and other MON wild animals they hunt. Environmental campaigners are MON concerned that winter grazing by ever larger flocks is MON having a catastrophic effect on biodiversity. At heart this MON is an argument about what the countryside is for. Is its MON main purpose an economic one? Is it primarily for leisure? MON Or should it be about the people who live there? Shepherds MON insist the law is an attack on centuries of sheep-rearing MON and their culture and traditions. MON MON 21:00 The Horns of a Dilemma b07428br (Listen) MON The majority of white and black rhinoceros are found in MON South Africa. This stronghold for these magnificent MON creatures is now being threatened by poachers killing rhino MON for their horns. MON MON Rhino horn, traded illegally in parts of Asia, is thought to MON be a cooling agent in traditional Chinese medicine. It's MON recently been hailed as a cure for cancer, and is seen as a MON status symbol in Vietnam. Made from keratin, the same stuff MON as hair or fingernails rhino horn has negligible medical MON properties, yet people are willing to pay up to £40,000 a MON kilogramme for it. MON MON International trade in rhino horn has been banned under MON CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered MON Species) since the 1990s. Trade in horn was banned within MON South Africa in 2009. Since then, poaching has increased MON exponentially, reaching more than 1300 rhino poached in MON 2015. MON MON Protecting the rhino in National and Provincial parks and MON privately owned reserves is a very dangerous and expensive MON undertaking. The government-run parks, such as Kruger MON National Park have about 75% of the South African rhino and MON are losing the most animals to poachers. The best protected MON rhino tend to be in the privately owned farms. MON MON Many private rhino owners want the ban on the sale of rhino MON horn to be lifted. MON MON This is because, unlike elephant ivory, pangolin scales and MON the bones from lions, rhinos can be dehorned without harming MON the animal. Many rhino owners are already removing the horns MON from their animals to stop them attracting poachers so they MON are sitting on stockpiles of harvested horn. MON MON With education and demand-reduction schemes not working MON quickly enough rhino owners hope to satisfy the demand by MON legally selling harvested horn. Some just want to trade MON within South Africa while others want CITES to allow a trade MON agreement between South Africa and China or Vietnam. They MON say they would use the money earned to put back into MON conserving and protecting rhino. MON MON Others worry that this would just increase demand for horn MON and that by making trade legal, you are making people think MON that it has medical benefit. MON MON It's a huge dilemma. MON MON Producer: Fiona Roberts. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b074w30k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b074vtcn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b074vtcq (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074x876 (Listen) MON Hot Milk, Episode 6 MON MON Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted MON author Deborah Levy. Set in Southern Spain it explores MON female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that MON exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. MON MON Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her MON mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, MON the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that MON might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond MON the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to MON Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. MON His methods appear to have little to do with physical MON medicine and he prompts both women to confront the true MON nature of their relationship. Why is Sophia unable to escape MON her mother's constant complaints? Are Rose's symptoms MON psychosomatic? MON The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root MON of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured MON identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the MON need to be vital and alive. MON MON Today: Dr Gomez insists that Rose gives up all her MON medication and Sofia and Ingrid become lovers. MON MON The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally MON Marmion. MON The producer is Julian Wilkinson. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Indira Varma MON Author: Deborah Levy MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Julian Wilkinson MON MON 23:00 Finding Harpo's Voice b074zdcx (Listen) MON The internationally acclaimed cellist Steven Isserlis first MON encountered the Marx brothers as a teenager when he saw MON their film "The Cocoanuts". And it was the character of MON Harpo Marx, the silent clown of the brothers, who spoke to MON him the most directly. The young Steven became a huge fan, MON to the extent that, instead of practising, he would go to MON the library to read everything he could find about him and, MON as Harpo so famously did, instead of shaking people's hands, MON he would offer his leg instead. MON MON But Harpo wasn't always silent. There were the noises of the MON horns which became his voice substitute. And at most times MON during the films he would play the harp- the instrument that MON got him his stage name. As a musician, this made Steven all MON the more interested in him. MON MON Steven explores how Harpo came to be the silent Marx MON brother- he could talk perfectly well but stopped on stage MON after a bad review. However, without using his voice, Harpo MON managed to create a unique language with the use of props, MON sounds and of course his harp. What were the elements of MON this creation that spoke so eloquently to Steven and what MON legacy has the silence left? MON MON He travels to the home of Bill Marx, Harpo's eldest son who MON he first met decades earlier and who first showed him MON Harpo's raincoat and wig. Steven gets another chance to put MON them on and to hear the sound of the famous horns. MON MON Steven also talks to actor Simon Callow about Harpo's use of MON props and the film critic Jonathan Romney about Harpo's MON technique. MON MON He discusses his harp playing with the harpists Charlotte MON Seale and Imogen Barford. MON MON And he discusses Harpo with the poet and critic Charlene MON Fix, author of the booked "Harpo Marx as Trickster". MON MON Producer; Emma Kingsley. MON MON 23:30 Short Cuts b06gr4b7 (Listen) MON Series 8, The Other MON MON From the other woman to the other Michael Jackson, Josie MON Long hears stories from 'others'. MON MON John Osborne explores how your identity can become MON inextricably linked with someone you've never met, two MON academics discover how a piece of theatre can push you MON outside of society and a homicide detective talks about how MON you communicate with someone whose actions are outside of MON your understanding. MON MON Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON The items featured in the programme are: MON MON A Boy Called Michael Jackson MON Feat. John Osborne MON MON Flopsy MON Feat. Chris Knight and Camilla Power MON MON The Conversation MON Feat. Asbjorn Rachlew MON Produced by Ronan Kelly MON Originally featured in Curious Ear MON http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2013/0529/647430-radio-doc MON metary-podcast-exam-asbjorn-rachlew-anders-breivik-norway/ MON MON The Other Woman. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b074vtgc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b074w30m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b074vtgf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074vtgh (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074vtgk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b074vtgm (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b074x190 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Right Reverend Rachael Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b074x192 (Listen) TUE Living Wage, Farm attractions - lambing, Spring Barley TUE struggling with the mud TUE TUE We debate this week's introduction of the Living Wage on TUE Friday 1st April with NFU and Unite. Worcestershire fruit TUE farmer Ali Capper, new head of the NFU's Horticulture Board, TUE is concerned at the impact of wage inflation on producers TUE and employers, while Steve Leniec, Chair of Unite's TUE Agriculture Sector, says farmworkers deserve the rise. TUE TUE The Easter holidays are a popular time for a visit to the TUE farm and this week, we're taking a look at some of the place TUE where you can experience what faming life is like. And TUE there's nothing more appealing than a new born lamb! TUE Beatrice Fenton visits Penpont Farm, near Wadebridge, in TUE Cornwall, where lambing is a big tourist attraction. TUE TUE Any farmer will tell you, there's always a battle with the TUE weather and this winter was the second wettest across the UK TUE since Met Office records began in 1910. By the middle of TUE March parts of central and eastern England had already had a TUE month's worth of rain. TUE In North Norfolk, farmers are struggling to plant spring TUE barley in waterlogged ground - a crop that's vital for the TUE craft beer market. Even though the soil's light and sandy, TUE beneath the surface the ground's still unstable. Anna Hill's TUE been to see how Teddy Maufe of Branthill Farms is coping TUE with that sinking feeling. TUE TUE Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tvggm (Listen) TUE Corn Bunting 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 Steve Backshall begins July with the corn bunting. Corn TUE buntings may be plain-looking birds which sing their TUE scratchy songs from cornfields, but their private lives are TUE a colourful affair and a single male bird may have up to 18 TUE partners. TUE TUE Corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b074x312 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Global Philosopher b075f7qp (Listen) TUE Should Borders Matter? TUE TUE Michael Sandel explores the philosophical justifications TUE made for national borders. Using a pioneering TUE state-of-the-art studio at the Harvard Business School, TUE Professor Sandel is joined by 60 participants from over 30 TUE countries in a truly global digital space. TUE TUE Is there any moral distinction between a political refugee TUE and an economic migrant? If people have the right to exit a TUE country, why not a right to enter? Do nations have the right TUE to protect the affluence of their citizens? And is there TUE such a thing as a 'national identity'? TUE TUE These are just some of the questions addressed by Professor TUE Sandel in this first edition of The Global Philosopher. TUE TUE Audience producer: Louise Coletta TUE Producer: David Edmonds TUE Editor: Richard Knight TUE TUE (Image taken by Rose Lincoln) TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b074x4t5 (Listen) TUE This Orient Isle, Episode 2 TUE TUE Professor Jerry Brotton, one of the UK's leading experts on TUE cultural exchange, examines Queen Elizabeth I's fascination TUE with the Orient. He shows that England's relations with the TUE Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more TUE amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their TUE influence was felt across the political, commercial and TUE domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. TUE TUE Derek Jacobi reads the captivating account of how Britain TUE sent ships, treaties and gifts to the royal families of TUE Morocco and Turkey, including a gold carriage and a TUE full-size pipe organ. TUE TUE In this episode, one merchant voyage ends in tragedy when TUE the English crew are captured and turned into galley slaves. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Jerry Brotton TUE Reader: Derek Jacobi TUE Producer: David Roper TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b074vtgp (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b074x4t7 (Listen) TUE Hollywood Endings - Doubles, Episode 2 TUE TUE Kim and Boyd are a pair of wannabe actors living in the TUE unfashionable part of Venice Beach, Los Angeles. They TUE struggle to make the rent and keep themselves busy working TUE out and doing the endless round of auditions for commercials TUE and bit-parts in films. So it comes as a surprise when Kim TUE is mistaken for the Hollywood 'A Lister' Faye Dexter, to TUE whom she bears a passing resemblance. TUE TUE Kim at first tries to explain to her admirer, Danica, that TUE there has been a mistake, but Danica will not be dissuaded. TUE So to keep her happy and to get her out of her hair, Kim TUE agrees to have a selfie taken with Danica and gives her an TUE autograph. TUE TUE She little knows this will become the worst day of her life. TUE TUE A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Goodbye Mosquito b074x4t9 (Listen) TUE Over a million people die from mosquito-borne diseases every TUE year. Hundreds of millions more people suffer from the TUE illnesses transmitted by mosquitoes. TUE TUE Malaria, the most widespread mosquito-borne disease, affects TUE 350-500 million people each year. The Zika virus, which has TUE been linked to birth defects in children is spreading. TUE Dengue Fever infects nearly 400 million people each year, TUE causing an estimated 25,000 deaths and an enormous economic TUE cost in affected countries. Chikungunya, Yellow Fever and TUE Eastern Equine Encephalitis are also transmitted by TUE mosquitoes and are on the rise. These are painful and TUE debilitating diseases which can, in some cases, prove fatal. TUE TUE Although malaria is transmitted by several different species TUE of mosquito, Zika, Dengue Fever, Yellow fever and TUE Chikungunya are carried by just two related species, of TUE mosquito - Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (the Asian TUE Tiger Mosquito). TUE TUE So would they be missed if they were wiped off the face of TUE the planet? TUE TUE Biologist Professor Adam Hart knows only too well how TUE complex and interconnected nature is. If we wipe out an TUE entire species, how will the rest of the natural environment TUE cope? Well, it seems the public enemy number one mosquito - TUE Aedes aegyptii, wouldn't be missed very much at all. It's a TUE mosquito that has evolved fairly recently. The females TUE nearly always feed on humans and they breed in and near our TUE homes, often in small pots of water and car tyres. TUE TUE In Goodbye Mosquito, Adam Hart discovers some of the latest TUE technological advances being trialled to rid us of these TUE winged-beasts; including genetically engineering male A. TUE aegypti mosquitoes so that their offspring don't survive. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Roberts. TUE TUE 11:30 Suck It and See b074x4tc (Listen) TUE Grammy Award-Winning songwriter Amy Wadge fell in love with TUE the harmonica after winning one in a fancy dress competition TUE (she was dressed in a bin liner!). Now she investigates the TUE history and potential of the diatonic instrument, a European TUE the toy which in the hands of expert players became the the TUE iconic sound of the Mississippi Delta and the Chicago Blues. TUE Not bad for what was originally a child's toy produced then, TUE as now, in Germany! TUE TUE As music historian Christoph Wagner explains, the very first TUE example of the instrument goes back to Vienna. But millions TUE would soon find their way to the USA, taken there by German TUE emigres fleeing poverty. The poor person's introduction to TUE music, the harmonica would soon find its way to around the TUE globe, from Britain to Australia and even China. But it was TUE in America that it scored its biggest success. And it was TUE there that harmonica technique underwent a transformation, TUE as Chicago -based Joe Filisko explains. Instead of exhaling TUE air, blues players would draw air in, and bend notes to TUE achieve the characteristic sounds of the blues. TUE TUE Amy tries her hand at bending, under the expert tutelage of TUE Steve Lockwood - one of very few people to have studied the TUE harmonica to degree level, and she speaks to one of TUE Britain's best-known players, Paul Jones. TUE TUE It may be the sound of the amplified harmonica popularised TUE the instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, but has it moved on TUE from Chicago Blues and Beatles covers? Canadian beat-boxer TUE Benjamin Darvill - "Son of Dave" - has explored new TUE possibilities with the instrument, and with an original TUE sound that's been heard in edgy TV dramas and commercials. TUE Just going to prove that for all its limitations - 10 holes TUE and 3 octaves - there's life yet the harmonica. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b074vtgr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Witness b075f6v5 (Listen) TUE The Back to Africa Movement TUE TUE In the 1890s racial violence in the American south was so TUE extreme that many black people tried to emigrate to Liberia TUE in West Africa. Although the Civil War had brought an end to TUE slavery, conditions were still terrible for many African TUE Americans. The largest number of migrants came from one US TUE state - Arkansas. Listeners may find parts of this programme TUE distressing. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b074vtgt (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b074vtgw (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b074x4tf (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 A Guide to Coastal Wildlife b074x4th (Listen) TUE Sandy Beaches TUE TUE The sandy beach is one of the most hostile habitats on our TUE coastline and to survive the driving wind, abrasive sand and TUE predation by sea birds, animals either spend much of their TUE lives below the surface or have evolved some very clever TUE adaptations as Brett Westwood discovers when he joins TUE naturalist Phil Gates on the Northumberland coast and with TUE the help of recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris TUE Watson they offer a practical and entertaining guide to the TUE wildlife which you're most likely to see and hear on sandy TUE beaches. On the lower shore, they wander amongst the lugworm TUE burrows in search of razor clams and pogoing cockles! Brett TUE discovers not only how razor clams escape predation by TUE burrowing into the sand with their muscular foot, but also TUE how to age them "It's great I've come all the way to TUE Northumberland to age a mollusc", laughs Brett. Higher up TUE the beach, Brett and Phil gently rake through piles of TUE decaying seaweed to discover a seething mass of jumping sand TUE hoppers; small crustaceans about the size of a woodlouse TUE with legs of two different lengths, which move up and down TUE the beach with the tides. And finally at the top of the TUE beach at the front of the sand dunes, they discuss the TUE remarkable abilities of marram grass not only to avoid TUE drying out, but also to hold back the sand and create stable TUE areas where communities of other plants can take root and TUE grow. TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b074x4tk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b074x9gh (Listen) TUE Rumpole, Rumpole and Hilda TUE TUE By John Mortimer. Adapted for radio by Richard Stoneman. TUE TUE Following in the footsteps of several distinguished former TUE Rumpoles - Leo McKern, Maurice Denham, Timothy West and TUE Benedict Cumberbatch - Julian Rhind-Tutt, one of Radio 4's TUE most popular actors and much loved star of TV's Green Wing TUE and The Hour, now dons the wig and white bands of the most TUE erudite, astute, and seldom defeated of barristers in the TUE annals of the Old Bailey. TUE TUE Rumpole's long-suffering wife Hilda - She Who Must Be Obeyed TUE - narrates a fascinating tale of murder and romance that TUE Horace would prefer to remain untold. TUE TUE An instructing solicitor, Daniel Newcombe, asks Rumpole to TUE defend a young man, Michael Skelton, who's accused of TUE bludgeoning his father to death with a golf club. Hilda TUE finds Daniel to be everything that Horace is not - TUE well-groomed, charming, sensitive and complimentary. TUE TUE After being wooed over lunch, she agrees to act as Daniel's TUE 'spy', reporting back on Rumpole's defence preparations. TUE However, when Hilda realises that Daniel is hiding the truth TUE from her, and from everyone involved in the murder case, TUE she's forced to consider whose side she ought to be on. TUE TUE Hilda narrates the whole story with a refreshing honesty and TUE witty candour that we thought only her husband could manage, TUE and reveals a passionate and frustrated side, as Rumpole TUE catches a glimpse of the true nature of his wife. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Horace Rumpole............... Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Hilda Rumpole ................. Jasmine Hyde TUE Daniel Newcombe ........... Stuart McQuarrie TUE Claude Erskine-Brown ..... Nigel Anthony TUE Mr Justice Graves.............. Stephen Critchlow TUE Mrs Beazley ..................... Cathy Sara TUE TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Horace Rumpole: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde TUE Daniel Newcombe: Stuart McQuarrie TUE Claude Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony TUE Mr Justice Graves: Stephen Critchlow TUE Mrs Beazley: Cathy Sara TUE Author: John Mortimer TUE Adaptor: Richard Stoneman TUE Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE Producer: Catherine Bailey TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b074x9gk (Listen) TUE Helen Castor presents the programme that explores the latest TUE historical and archaeological research. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b074x9gm (Listen) TUE Beasts of the Border TUE TUE As gates close against migrants entering Europe Tom Heap is TUE in Croatia to examine the wildlife impact of the continent's TUE new borders. TUE TUE Red deer have been found dying on the razor wire and the TUE vulnerable local population of lynx is now split between TUE Slovenia and Croatia. With a shrunken gene pool the lynx TUE could soon be lost from the region. TUE TUE From the Austrian Alps, south through the Balkans to Greece TUE the mountains provide a vital habitat for large carnivores TUE like bear and wolf. As new fences rise across the region TUE Europe's peak predators face a bleak future. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b074x9pf (Listen) TUE Gay Cake TUE TUE This programme will focus on the legal issues surrounding TUE the 'gay cake' controversy in Northern Ireland. TUE TUE When a Christian bakery in Belfast was found guilty last TUE year of discriminating against a gay man, by refusing his TUE request for a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan on it, it TUE became headline news around the world. TUE TUE It also divided people in Northern Ireland. Many there see TUE it as a battle between freedom of conscience and the right TUE to religious expression, and Northern Ireland's equality TUE laws. Joshua Rozenberg travels to Belfast to untangle the TUE legal layers of the so-called 'gay cake' story. TUE TUE Producer: Ben Crighton. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b074x9ph (Listen) TUE Peter Lord and Russell Kane TUE TUE Aardman animations co-founder Peter Lord and comedian TUE Russell Kane talk about their favourite books with Harriett TUE Gilbert. Russell chooses Susan Pinker's The Village Effect, TUE Peter Lord's favourite read is Riddley Walker by Russell TUE Hoban, and Harriett's choice is Miss Lonelyhearts by TUE Nathaniel West. Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Peter Lord TUE Interviewed Guest: Russell Kane TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b074vtgy (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074vth0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b061tppy (Listen) TUE Series 10, Family Values TUE TUE Episode Two - Family Values TUE TUE A family funeral reveals some uncomfortable home truths for TUE the Barker family. Brian meanwhile has enthusiastically TUE embraced a new fitness regime. TUE TUE Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all TUE the right jargon but never a practical solution. TUE TUE A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering TUE in other people's lives on both a professional and personal TUE basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and TUE heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of TUE discomfort to her. TUE TUE Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control TUE both her professional and private life In today's Big TUE Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an TUE involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer Alexandra Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Clare: Sally Phillips TUE Brian: Alex Lowe TUE Nali: Nina Conti TUE The Celebrant: Richard Lumsden TUE Bernard: Andrew Wincott TUE Sarah Barker: Sarah Thom TUE Mrs Barker: Brigit Forsyth TUE Roxy: Alex Tregear TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b074xbs2 (Listen) TUE Bert and Rex are bonding, and Rob wants to make a special TUE effort. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b074vth2 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074x4t7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 How to Turn Your Life Around b074xbs4 (Listen) TUE What does it take to succeed if you are born into poverty TUE and neglect? Two people who have done just that explore TUE whether it was down to personality, circumstances or plain TUE luck. Why do so few people manage it? TUE TUE Byron Vincent, a writer and poet, and Dr Anna Woodhouse, a TUE university lecturer and outreach worker, talk to experts to TUE try and discover if their own triumph over lives that were TUE blighted by abuse, drug addiction, homelessness and hunger TUE could have been predicted. They talk to experts about the TUE sort of traits an individual needs to overcome adversity, TUE things like resilience, grit and will power, and discover TUE the latest thinking on what really helps. They explore the TUE way science is looking at the role of genes in determining TUE character. And they look at the importance of outside TUE forces; education, family support, mentors and the role of TUE the Government. At the end, they discuss what they have TUE found with former Welfare Minister and current Chair of the TUE Work and Pensions Select Committee Frank Field, to see what TUE government can do to help lift individuals out of poverty TUE and get them to turn their lives around. TUE TUE Producer: Jenny Sneesby. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b074vth4 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b074vth6 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Audio Describers b05ssqpl (Listen) TUE Matthew Sweet enters a whole new cinematic world that TUE sighted people know little or nothing about - audio TUE description. It's the voice in your ear that tells you TUE what's happening if you can't see the pictures. TUE TUE The audio description profession has its own stars, its own TUE virtuosi. How do they allow visionary cinema to exist beyond TUE the realm of vision? This is cinema for radio. TUE Matthew meets the men and women who do this work - the TUE invisible co-stars of the world's greatest actors, invisible TUE collaborators of the greatest writers and directors. TUE TUE In fact, the practice of using evocative and poetic language TUE to bring moving pictures to life has a much longer TUE tradition. In early 20th-century Japan, Benshi narrators TUE would interpret - and often elaborate on - Western and TUE home-grown films for Tokyo audiences. The art form continues TUE today. TUE TUE In Edwardian Britain, film explainers would bring an aural TUE addition, often with musical accompaniment, to silent films. TUE Matthew Sweet finds this tradition is also alive and well - TUE at a film festival in Scotland. TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b074vth8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b074vthb (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074xbs6 (Listen) TUE Hot Milk, Episode 7 TUE TUE Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted TUE author Deborah Levy. Set in Southern Spain it explores TUE female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that TUE exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. TUE TUE Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her TUE mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, TUE the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that TUE might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond TUE the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to TUE Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. TUE His methods have little to do with physical medicine and he TUE prompts both women to confront the true nature of their TUE relationship.Are Rose's symptoms psychosomatic and why is TUE Sophia unable to escape her mother's constant complaints? TUE TUE The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root TUE of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured TUE identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the TUE need to be vital and alive. TUE TUE Today: Sofia has flown to Athens to meet her Greek father TUE for the first time in eleven years. TUE TUE The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally TUE Marmion. TUE The producer is Julian Wilkinson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Indira Varma TUE Author: Deborah Levy TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Julian Wilkinson TUE TUE 23:00 Love in Recovery b074xbs8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Partners 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 third episode of the series, the group discover that TUE Simon (John Hannah) has been keeping another big secret from TUE them. But he's not the only one keeping a secret. In fact, TUE he's not even the only one keeping THAT particular secret. TUE TUE Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent TUE time in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found support TUE from the unlikeliest group of disparate souls - with one TUE common bond. As well as offering the support he needed TUE throughout a difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, TUE sometimes daily, dose of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and TUE friendship. TUE TUE There are lots of different kinds of AA meetings. Love in TUE Recovery is about meetings where people tell their stories. TUE There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small TUE victories and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, TUE and those stories that you really shouldn't laugh at - but TUE still do, along with the storyteller. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Marion...........Julia Deakin TUE Fiona.............Rebecca Front TUE Simon............John Hannah TUE Julie...............Sue Johnston TUE Danno............Paul Kaye TUE Andy..............Eddie Marsan TUE TUE Written and created by Pete Jackson TUE Producer/Director: Ben Worsfield TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Marion: Julia Deakin TUE Fiona: Rebecca Front TUE Simon: John Hannah TUE Julie: Sue Johnston TUE Danno: Paul Kaye TUE Andy: Eddie Marsan TUE Writer: Pete Jackson TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Director: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 23:30 Short Cuts b06j1xzb (Listen) TUE Series 8, The Clock TUE TUE Josie Long navigates the changing texture of a day - with TUE stories from the rush hour commute through the night until TUE first light. TUE TUE From an afternoon with Dr Clock the horologist through to a TUE serendipitous voice reaching a woman in the darkness of the TUE early hours, we hear stories of time and timing. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE TUE Glass Not Glitter TUE Produced by Abby Wendle TUE First made for the Third Coast International Audio Festival TUE ShortDocs Competition TUE http://thirdcoastfestival.org/library/1123-glass-not-glitter TUE TUE Dr Clock TUE Produced by Veronica Simmonds and John Spence TUE First featured on ABC Radio National's Soundproof TUE http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundproof/dr-c TUE ock/6075288 TUE TUE Horace and Mabel TUE Feat. Horace Parlan TUE Produced by Rikke Houd TUE TUE 4am TUE Produced by Sara Parker. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b074vtjw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b074x4t5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b074vtjy (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074vtk0 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074vtk2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b074vtk4 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b074xf16 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Right Reverend Rachael Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b074xf18 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xj7 (Listen) WED Northern Wheatear WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Michaela Strachan presents the northern wheatear. With their WED black masks, white bellies, apricot chests and grey backs, WED male wheatears are colourful companions on a hill walk. The WED birds you see in autumn may have come from as far as WED Greenland or Arctic Canada. They pass through the British WED Isles and twice a year many of them travel over 11,000 WED kilometres between Africa and the Arctic. It's one of the WED longest regular journeys made by any perching bird. WED WED Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b074xg59 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b074xg5c (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b074xg5f (Listen) WED This Orient Isle, Episode 3 WED WED Professor Jerry Brotton, one of the UK's leading experts on WED cultural exchange, examines Queen Elizabeth I's fascination WED with the Orient. He shows that England's relations with the WED Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more WED amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their WED influence was felt across the political, commercial and WED domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. WED WED Derek Jacobi reads the captivating account of how Britain WED sent ships, treaties and gifts to the royal families of WED Morocco and Turkey, including a gold carriage and a WED full-size pipe organ. WED WED In this episode, we are taken into the sights and sounds of WED a royal pageant held in Whitehall in the year 1600 for the WED Moroccan ambassador. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Jerry Brotton WED Reader: Derek Jacobi WED Producer: David Roper WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b074vtk6 (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b074xq1v (Listen) WED Hollywood Endings - Doubles, Episode 3 WED WED Kim and Boyd are a pair of wannabe actors living in the WED unfashionable part of Venice Beach, Los Angeles. They WED struggle to make the rent and keep themselves busy working WED out and doing the endless round of auditions for commercials WED and bit-parts in films. So it comes as a surprise when Kim WED is mistaken for the Hollywood 'A Lister' Faye Dexter, to WED whom she bears a passing resemblance. WED WED Kim at first tries to explain to her admirer, Danica, that WED there has been a mistake, but Danica will not be dissuaded. WED So to keep her happy and to get her out of her hair, Kim WED agrees to have a selfie taken with Danica and gives her an WED autograph. WED WED She little knows this will become the worst day of her life. WED WED A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b074xq1x (Listen) WED Karen and Colin - Lucky to Be Alive WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two football WED fans who met when one of them suffered a cardiac arrest at WED the end of a match and the other saved his life. Another in WED the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Deciding a Woman's Right b074xq1z (Listen) WED Radio 4 documentary. WED WED 11:30 Charles Paris Mystery b074xq21 (Listen) WED A Decent Interval, Episode 4 WED WED by Jeremy Front WED Based on the novel by Simon Brett WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED Charles has joined the cast of Hamlet but the two leads WED played by the winners of a Reality Show have been eliminated WED from the production by injury and death. WED Charles is determined to find out who wanted them dead and WED there are plenty of suspects. WED WED Credits WED Charles: Bill Nighy WED Frances: Suzanne Burden WED Geraldine: Amelia Bullmore WED Maurice: Jon Glover WED Will: Caolan McCarthy WED Sam: George Watkins WED Ned: Brian Protheroe WED Milly: Rebecca Hamilton WED Artemis: Evie Killip WED Horatio: Richard Pepple WED Marcellus: Ewan Bailey WED Director: Sally Avens WED Author: Simon Brett WED Adaptor: Jeremy Front WED WED 12:00 News Summary b074vtk8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Witness b07500gb (Listen) WED Harrer in Tibet WED WED In 1944, two Austrian mountaineers fled into the forbidden WED land of Tibet to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in WED India. Heinrich Harrer and his friend Peter Aufschnaiter WED spent seven years as guests of the Tibetans, gaining a WED unique perspective on a way-of-life that was about to WED disappear. Harrer became the young Dalai Lama's unofficial WED tutor and later wrote a famous account of his visit called WED Seven Years in Tibet. Hear Heinrich Harrer's memories of WED Tibet from the BBC archive. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b074vtkb (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b074vtkd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b074xq23 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha WED Kearney. WED WED 13:45 A Guide to Coastal Wildlife b074xq25 (Listen) WED Sea Cliffs WED WED What has an old threepenny coin and a sea cliff in common? WED Well, the answer can be found in this programme when Brett WED Westwood joins naturalist Phil Gates on the Northumberland WED coast and discovers how plants and animals have evolved to WED survive the battering waves, salt spray and driving winds in WED one of the most hostile habitats on our coastline, the sea WED cliffs. Their first encounter is with sea pink or thrift, a WED plant which has evolved to survive the high levels of salt WED by sequestering salt into its leaves which then die off, and WED are replaced by new leaves. Lured by the cries of birds WED calling out their name "kitti-waak", "kitti-waak", they WED clamber across the rocks into a cove where kittiwakes and WED fulmars are nesting on a sheer cliff face. Brett learns why WED the young chicks don't fall off their narrow ledges and how WED fulmars keep predators at bay (the clue is in their name WED which means, foul mouth). Below the birds, where the waves WED pound against the rocks, the surface is studded with WED barnacles and limpets, and away from the roar of the waves, WED in a quiet spot amongst coconut-scented gorse bushes Brett WED and Phil discuss just how these creatures manage to 'cling WED on', survive and thrive! WED Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED What connects an old threepenny coin and a sea cliff? WED The connection to what links an old threepenny coin and a WED sea cliff is revealed in this programme. Photograph by WED Sarah Blunt (BBC Copyright) WED WED 14:00 The Archers b074xbs2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b074xr5p (Listen) WED Other People's Countries WED WED How can a house you never really lived in prove so hard to WED leave? A true story adapted from his memoir by Patrick WED McGuinness about his early years and return visits to WED Bouillon, a small town, in rural Belgium. Recorded where it WED happened and featuring talking furniture, singing streams, WED lost languages and the permanent sadness of the low WED countries. With Saskia Reeves. Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Saskia Reeves WED Author: Patrick McGuinness WED Adaptor: Patrick McGuinness WED Producer: Tim Dee WED WED 15:00 Money Box b074xvfl (Listen) WED Should you leave your money to your children, or spend it WED all before you go? WED WED Louise Cooper and guests discuss what to consider when WED passing on your wealth. They'll be talking about how to WED decide what's fair, how to make sure your future is secure WED and how to manage difficult conversations about inheritance. WED They'll also discuss what options you have if you want to WED challenge someone's will or the plans they have for their WED estate. WED WED To join in with your questions and comments, email WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call the programme on 03 700 100 444 - WED lines are open from 1pm on Wednesday. WED WED Louise will be joined in the studio by chartered financial WED plannner Claire Walsh; lawyer Christina Spencer; and WED Professor Mark Fenton O'Creevy of the Open University. WED WED Producer: Ruth Alexander. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b074vth6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b074xvfn (Listen) WED Dance halls, Pick-up artists WED WED Dance halls: a social and cultural history. James Nott, WED Lecturer in History at the University of St. Andrews, talks WED to Laurie Taylor about the origins, meaning and decline in a WED ritual which was once central to many young people's WED romantic lives and leisure time. He's joined by Caspar WED Melville, Lecturer in Global, Creative and Community Studies WED at SOAS. WED WED The 'Seduction Community': a study into the mores and codes WED of self styled, male 'pick up artists'. Rachel O'Neill, Phd WED candidate at Kings College London, interviewed men whose WED attitudes to women have attracted considerable condemnation WED in the wake of the banning of Julien Blanc, US 'pick up WED artist', from the UK. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b074vtkg (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b074vtkj (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074vtkl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b074xvfq (Listen) WED Series 11, Roy Hudd interviews Alison Steadman WED WED Series 11 of the show where one week's interviewee becomes WED the next week's interviewer. The first episode of Chain WED Reaction was broadcast on BBC Radio Five in 1991 when John WED Cleese was the first comedian in the hot seat. Now, 25 years WED on, a new series sees another raft of the world's best-loved WED comedians talking to each other about their lives and work. WED This week, comedy legend and music hall expert Roy Hudd WED turns interviewer as he chats to the much loved actress, WED Alison Steadman. WED WED Roy Hudd has clocked up more than 50 years in showbusiness, WED starting out as a Butlins redcoat in the 1950s and then WED developing a stellar career through numerous successes on WED stage, radio and screen. BBC Radio listeners know him best WED as the host of the much loved News Huddlines on Radio 2 for WED 26 years. More recently, Roy gained plaudits for his moving WED portrayal of Bud Flanagan in the BBC drama 'We're Doomed! WED The Dad's Army Story'. WED WED Alison Steadman is an actress who has been popular with the WED British public and worldwide since making her name in the WED critically acclaimed works of Mike Leigh in the 1970s. She WED went on to deliver much-loved and memorable performances WED across both drama and comedy in Pride and Prejudice and WED Gavin and Stacey amongst many others. WED WED In this programme Roy talks to Alison about her early days WED growing up in Liverpool, her trip to the palace to get the WED OBE and her critically acclaimed work with Mike Leigh. WED WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b074xvfs (Listen) WED Clarrie has something on her mind, and Dan's guest makes an WED impression. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b074vtkn (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074xq1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b074xvh6 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Giles Fraser, Anne McElvoy, Claire Fox WED and Michael Portillo. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b07610vh (Listen) WED Healing Minds WED WED Rachel Kelly draws on her experience of depression, and the WED healing power of poetry, to explain why she believes we need WED a more nuanced approach to treating mental illness. WED WED The first in a new series of thought-provoking talks linked WED to personal experience recorded in front of a live audience. WED WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b074x9gm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b074xg5c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b074vtkq (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074xw23 (Listen) WED Hot Milk, Episode 8 WED WED Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted WED author Deborah Levy. Set in Southern Spain it explores WED female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that WED exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. WED WED Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her WED mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, WED the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that WED might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond WED the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to WED Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. WED His methods have little to do with physical medicine and he WED prompts both women to confront the true nature of their WED relationship.Are Rose's symptoms psychosomatic and why is WED Sophia unable to escape her mother's constant complaints? WED WED The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root WED of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured WED identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the WED need to be vital and alive. WED WED Today: Sofia returns from Athens to Spain feeling liberated WED from her father, but increasingly drawn to Ingrid who is WED waiting for her in Almeria. WED WED The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally WED Marmion. WED The producer is Julian Wilkinson. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Indira Varma WED Author: Deborah Levy WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Julian Wilkinson WED WED 23:00 The Croft & Pearce Show b074xw25 (Listen) WED A brand new sketch show from award-winning duo Croft and WED Pearce, rising stars of the UK comedy scene. 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 last episode of the series, an unsentimental WED relationship counsellor gives marriage advice, a wide-eyed WED work experience girl delights in what she's learnt during WED her time in the Big Smoke, and middle-class powerhouses June WED and Jean must somehow find a way to tolerate their husbands. 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 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b03nt9wl (Listen) WED Series 2, Science WED WED In the first of a new series, Tim Key grapples with the WED concept of science by telling the story of Keith Lewis's WED Monster. He also has plans for a very special scientific WED experiment. Musical accompaniment is provided by Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Tim Key WED Performer: Tim Key WED Producer: James Robinson WED WED 23:30 Short Cuts b06kcbvy (Listen) WED Series 8, Copycat WED WED Howling like a wolf, stolen identities and poetry composed WED from borrowed words. Josie Long presents stories of WED imitation and plagiarism. WED WED Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 WED WED The items featured in the programme are: WED WED Inspiration WED Feat. Tom Robinson WED WED Howling Cameraman WED Feat. Rolf Steinmann WED http://rolfsteinmann.de/ WED Produced by Rachel Simpson WED WED Turd Ferguson WED Feat. Alex Edelman WED Produced by Sophie Black WED WED No More Questions WED Written and produced by Ross Sutherland. WED WED THU THURSDAY 31 MARCH 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b074vtmb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b074xg5f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b074vtmd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074vtmg (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074vtmj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b074vtml (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b074yyxs (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Right Reverend Rachael Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b074yyxv (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tyfr0 (Listen) THU Kestrel THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve THU Backshall presents the kestrel. THU THU The kestrel is widely distributed throughout the UK and when THU hovering is our most recognisable bird of prey. Their THU chestnut back and wings, and habit of holding themselves THU stationary in mid-air are a unique combination;mall wonder THU that an old name for kestrels is windhover. THU THU Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) THU Image courtesy of Nigel Blake (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b074yzwh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b074yzwk (Listen) THU Agrippina the Younger THU THU Agrippina the Younger was one of the most notorious and THU influential of the Roman empresses in the 1st century AD. THU She was the sister of the Emperor Caligula, a wife of the THU Emperor Claudius and mother of the Emperor Nero. Through THU careful political manoeuvres, she acquired a dominant THU position for herself in Rome. In 39 AD she was exiled for THU allegedly participating in a plot against Caligula and later THU it was widely thought that she killed Claudius with poison. THU When Nero came to the throne, he was only 16 so Agrippina THU took on the role of regent until he began to exert his THU authority. After relations between Agrippina and Nero THU soured, he had her murdered. THU THU With: THU THU Catharine Edwards THU Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, THU University of London THU THU Alice König THU Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of THU St Andrews THU THU Matthew Nicholls THU Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Reading THU THU Producer: Victoria Brignell. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Catharine Edwards THU Interviewed Guest: Alice Konig THU Interviewed Guest: Matthew Nicholls THU Producer: Victoria Brignell THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b074yzwm (Listen) THU This Orient Isle, Episode 4 THU THU Professor Jerry Brotton, one of the UK's leading experts on THU cultural exchange, examines Queen Elizabeth I's fascination THU with the Orient. He shows that England's relations with the THU Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more THU amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their THU influence was felt across the political, commercial and THU domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. THU THU Derek Jacobi reads the captivating account of how Britain THU sent ships, treaties and gifts to the royal families of THU Morocco and Turkey, including a gold carriage and a THU full-size pipe organ. THU THU In this episode, Queen Elizabeth I's advisers debate how to THU satisfy yet again the sultan of Turkey's demands for THU elaborate royal presents. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Jerry Brotton THU Reader: Derek Jacobi THU Producer: David Roper THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b074vtmn (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b074zdcs (Listen) THU Hollywood Endings - Doubles, Episode 4 THU THU Kim and Boyd are a pair of wannabe actors living in the THU unfashionable part of Venice Beach, Los Angeles. They THU struggle to make the rent and keep themselves busy working THU out and doing the endless round of auditions for commercials THU and bit-parts in films. So it comes as a surprise when Kim THU is mistaken for the Hollywood 'A Lister' Faye Dexter, to THU whom she bears a passing resemblance. THU THU Kim at first tries to explain to her admirer, Danica, that THU there has been a mistake, but Danica will not be dissuaded. THU So to keep her happy and to get her out of her hair, Kim THU agrees to have a selfie taken with Danica and gives her an THU autograph. THU THU She little knows this will become the worst day of her life. THU THU A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b074zdcv (Listen) THU Thai Buddhism - Monks, Mercs and Women THU THU An unholy spat is stirring the Sangha, Thailand's top THU Buddhist authority - who will become the next Supreme THU Patriarch, Thailand's most senior monk? Meanwhile, THU allegations of 'cheque-book Buddhism', cronyism and THU corruption abound - including allegations about tax-evasion THU on an imported vintage Mercedes car. In Thailand, where the THU majority of the population profess Buddhism, seeking THU ordination isn't unusual. But salacious stories about monks THU who commit serious crimes - everything from sex offences to THU wildlife trafficking - continue to shock. Watching quietly THU from the side-lines is the Venerable Dhammananda - female, THU and a Buddhist monk since 2003. Although the Sangha bars THU women from ordination, there are now around 100 bhikkhunis, THU as female monastics are known, in Thailand. And their THU growing acceptance by some Buddhist believers might partly THU be explained by a widespread disillusionment with the THU behaviour of some male monks. For Crossing Continents, Linda THU Pressly explores the rifts and sexual politics challenging THU Thai Buddhism and its devotees. THU THU 11:30 UK Confidential b074zw48 (Listen) THU The Nazi Persecution Files THU THU Martha Kearney with the newly declassified documents telling THU the stories of Britons persecuted by Nazi Germany. THU THU In 1964, the UK and West Germany signed an agreement that THU enabled British victims of Nazi oppression to seek THU compensation. The total fund was limited to just £1,000,000, THU and the criteria were strict - only those who had spent time THU in "concentration camps or similar institutions", and who THU could prove it, would be awarded cash sums. THU THU A special unit was set up within the Foreign Office to THU process claims. Soon, they were dealing with thousands of THU applications, some seeking redress for their own ordeals, THU others hoping to gain acknowledgment of the suffering of THU their deceased loved ones. There were applications from THU prisoners of war, from Jews - both British-born and those THU who had become naturalised Britons since the end of the war THU - and from ordinary men and women who had become caught up THU in the wave of Nazi oppression that engulfed Europe more THU than 20 years before. THU THU The documents these applicants submitted in support of their THU claims have lain unseen in Foreign Office archives for 50 THU years. THU THU Now, as the files are finally released, Martha Kearney and THU expert guests review them, and we hear the reaction of THU family and friends on seeing them for the first time. THU THU Graphic accounts of torture and maltreatment mix with tales THU of great courage and fortitude. Those who survived years in THU concentration camps provide unflinching evidence of THU systematic Nazi brutality. There are stories of families THU tragically divided, and of acts of remarkable heroism, some THU already well-known, others that have remained unheralded. THU THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b074vtmq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Witness b0750046 (Listen) THU Siege of Sarajevo THU THU Series looking at key events in history, featuring archive THU accounts from the people who were there. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b074vtms (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b074vtmv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b074zhqs (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha THU Kearney. THU THU 13:45 A Guide to Coastal Wildlife b074zdd0 (Listen) THU The Strandline THU THU The strandline offers shelter and food to a diverse range of THU wildlife, but of course you never know quite what you might THU find here as it moves with the tides. Shells, feathers, THU skulls and egg cases might get caught up in piles of rotting THU seaweed or blown away by the wind. It's a very windy day THU when Brett Westwood and Phil Gates scour the strandline, and THU having retrieved their 'treasure' they head off to the THU shelter of the dunes to share their booty; shells of various THU kinds, a feathers, a piece of sea sandwort and some seaweed THU flies - one of the few insects which you might find on the THU beach. Other creatures which you might be lucky enough to THU find include a sea potato or burrowing sea urchin. After THU they have died, what remains is a beautiful heart-shaped THU case covered in tiny holes which mark the point where THU muscular feet once protruded. When alive, the urchins burrow THU into the sand and filter food out of the sea water. THU Strandlines are also good places to look for whelk egg THU cases, which resemble pieces of bubble wrap, but as we hear THU are the sites of cannibalism and molluscan violence! But THU perhaps the most highly prized find on a strandline would be THU a mermaid's purse; the egg case of a dog fish or skate THU although the latter are very rare. And as Phil reveals he's THU not only found egg cases in the past but had a close THU encounter with the adult - a relative of a shark - and THU survived to tell the tale! THU Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b074xvfs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b074zdd3 (Listen) THU Deep Swimmer THU THU The factually-based story behind the unmasking of Mark THU Kennedy, the undercover police officer who infiltrated THU environmental campaigning organisations over a period of THU seven years. During this time he had a series of sexual THU relationships with women who were unaware of his real THU identity. THU THU After a legal action in 2015, Scotland Yard have issued an THU unprecedented apology and paid compensation to some of the THU women, but they have not said how or why they were targeted. THU THU Steve Waters' new drama examines the events leading up to THU Kennedy's unmasking by the activists with whom he had these THU intimate relationships. THU THU Deep Swimmer is based on real events, although names of the THU activists have been changed. THU THU Music: Michael Ward THU Sound design: Alisdair McGregor THU THU Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris THU A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Mark: Joe Dempsie THU Millie: Ellie Kendrick THU Theo: Robert Emms THU Sonia: Laura Elphinstone THU Writer: Steve Waters THU Producer: Boz Temple-Morris THU Director: Boz Temple-Morris THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b074zdd5 (Listen) THU Series 32, Isle of Dogs THU THU An unusual urban walk to finish the series: Clare Balding is THU in London on the Isle of Dogs for a ramble along the banks THU of the River Thames. It's not a true island, rather it's THU enclosed on three sides by the river, and has a rich and THU fascinating history. THU THU Clare is joined by Sarah Wynne, her sister and a friend. THU Sarah moved to the Isle of Dogs when she was six and grew up THU there. People are intrigued when she tells them this, they THU want to know what her childhood entailed: did she ever play THU outside, or go to the countryside, how did she get to THU school? THU THU For Sarah, walking gives her a breathing space in fast-paced THU London life. She often walks with only a vague idea of where THU she is going, and likes to see where she'll end up. She THU finds it empowering to simply follow her instincts about THU which direction to take. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Sarah Wynne THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b074vvvv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b074w044 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b074vtmx (Listen) THU Aidan Moffat on Scottish folk music, Terence Davies on Doris THU Day THU THU With Antonia Quirke. THU THU Aidan Moffat on Scottish folk music, Terence Davies on Doris THU Day. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Antonia Quirke THU Interviewed Guest: Aidan Moffat THU Interviewed Guest: Terence Davies THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b074vtmz (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b074vtn2 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074vtn4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Hal b04stlcv (Listen) THU Crime THU THU Hal Cruttenden stars as a forty-something husband and father THU who, years ago, decided to give up his job and become a stay THU at home father. His wife, Sam, has a successful business THU career which makes her travel more and more. His children, THU Lilly and Molly, are growing up fast, and his role as their THU father and mentor is diminishing by the day. THU THU So what can Hal to as he reaches a crossroads in his life? THU Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - THU Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local THU curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly THU never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs. THU THU Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of THU his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to THU engage in increasingly frustrating conversations. THU THU In this third episode, Hal becomes the latest victim to a THU series of car crimes that have happened near his home. Not THU only has his own personal car space been invaded, but his THU beloved CD collection has been stolen - including Abba, THU Dolly Parton and The Pet Shop Boys. THU THU How can Hal survive this tragedy? THU THU In the process of trying to cope with this crime, Hal also THU tries to find the real man in himself - but in attempting to THU do this, only scares his young daughters and reduces them to THU tears. THU THU The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Ronni THU Ancona, Anna Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel THU Caseley and Emily and Lucy Robbins. THU THU Produced by Paul Russell THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Hal: Hal Cruttenden THU Actor: Dominic Holland THU Actor: Ed Byrne THU Actor: Ronni Ancona THU Actor: Anna Crilly THU Actor: Gavin Webster THU Actor: Dominic Frisby THU Actor: Samuel Caseley THU Actor: Emily Robbins THU Actor: Lucy Robbins THU Writer: Hal Cruttenden THU Writer: Dominic Holland THU Producer: Paul Russell THU THU 19:00 The Archers b074zgr0 (Listen) THU Kirsty is walking a tightrope, and Henry is in trouble. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b074vtn6 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074zdcs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b074x9pf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 In Business b074zgr2 (Listen) THU Economic Rebellion THU THU Why is there so much dissatisfaction about how economics is THU taught at universities? Since the financial crash, many THU students have been in revolt in the UK and overseas, THU determined to change the content of their courses. They are THU not alone. Employers and some economists share many of their THU concerns. Peter Day explores why the subject has changed THU over a generation and why that might matter. THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b074vtmz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b074yzwk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b074vtn8 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074zgr7 (Listen) THU Hot Milk, Episode 9 THU THU Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted THU author Deborah Levy. Set in Southern Spain it explores THU female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that THU exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. THU THU Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her THU mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, THU the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that THU might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond THU the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to THU Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. THU His methods have little to do with physical medicine and he THU prompts both women to confront the true nature of their THU relationship.Are Rose's symptoms psychosomatic and why is THU Sophia unable to escape her mother's constant complaints? THU THU The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root THU of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured THU identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the THU need to be vital and alive. THU THU Today: Rose files a complaint about Dr Gomez' clinic THU (Go-METH) and his clinic becomes the subject of an THU investigation. THU THU The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally THU Marmion. THU The producer is Julian Wilkinson. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Indira Varma THU Author: Deborah Levy THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Julian Wilkinson THU THU 23:00 Down the Line b01s4qqz (Listen) THU Series 5, Food and Music THU THU The ground-breaking Radio 4 phone-in show, hosted by the THU legendary Gary Bellamy and brought to you by the creators of THU The Fast Show. THU THU Starring Rhys Thomas, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix THU Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, Adil Ray, Robert THU Popper and Paul Whitehouse. THU THU Produced by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse THU A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Gary Bellamy: Thomas Rhys THU Actor: Amelia Bullmore THU Actor: Simon Day THU Actor: Felix Dexter THU Actor: Charlie Higson THU Actor: Lucy Montgomery THU Actor: Adil Ray THU Actor: Robert Popper THU Actor: Paul Whitehouse THU Producer: Charlie Higson THU Producer: Paul Whitehouse THU THU 23:30 Short Cuts b06mfs7k (Listen) THU Series 8, Afterlife THU THU How imprisonment revealed an unlikely talent, a musical THU story of what follows after a dust storm has passed and the THU unexpected complications of standing still to watch the THU seasons change. Josie Long hears stories of what follows THU after the main event. THU THU Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 THU THU The items featured in this programme are: THU THU John THU Feat. John McAvoy and Darren Davies THU Produced by Sophie Black THU THU The Novelist THU Feat. Lily Kestecher, Noel Debien, Claudia Taranto and Milan THU Durovic THU Produced by Natalie Kestecher THU Sound engineer / sound design by Russell Stapleton THU THU The Man Who Couldn't Stop the Wind from Blowing THU Produced by Cicely Fell THU Original music by Smith & Watson. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b074vtq0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b074yzwm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b074vtq2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b074vtq5 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b074vtq7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b074vtq9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b076rfbt (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Right Reverend Rachael Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b074zw38 (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 b0378svz (Listen) FRI Wood Pigeon 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 Michaela Strachan presents the wood pigeon. One of our most FRI widespread birds, you can hear this song all year round; FRI just about anywhere. The young are called squabs and along FRI with seeds and green foliage, Wood Pigeons feed their chicks FRI with "pigeon milk", a secretion from their stomach lining. FRI FRI Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b076vwg2 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b074vw94 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b074zw3t (Listen) FRI This Orient Isle, Episode 5 FRI FRI Professor Jerry Brotton, one of the UK's leading experts on FRI cultural exchange, examines Queen Elizabeth I's fascination FRI with the Orient. He shows that England's relations with the FRI Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more FRI amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their FRI influence was felt across the political, commercial and FRI domestic landscape of Elizabethan England. FRI FRI Derek Jacobi reads the captivating account of how Britain FRI sent ships, treaties and gifts to the royal families of FRI Morocco and Turkey, including a gold carriage and a FRI full-size pipe organ. FRI FRI In this episode, we visit the London stage to discover the FRI Elizabethan fascination with the little-known world of FRI Islam, particularly by Shakespeare and Marlowe. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Jerry Brotton FRI Reader: Derek Jacobi FRI Producer: David Roper FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b074vtqc (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b074zw41 (Listen) FRI Hollywood Endings - Doubles, Episode 5 FRI FRI Kim and Boyd are a pair of wannabe actors living in the FRI unfashionable part of Venice Beach, Los Angeles. They FRI struggle to make the rent and keep themselves busy working FRI out and doing the endless round of auditions for commercials FRI and bit-parts in films. So it comes as a surprise when Kim FRI is mistaken for the Hollywood 'A Lister' Faye Dexter, to FRI whom she bears a passing resemblance. FRI FRI Kim at first tries to explain to her admirer, Danica, that FRI there has been a mistake, but Danica will not be dissuaded. FRI So to keep her happy and to get her out of her hair, Kim FRI agrees to have a selfie taken with Danica and gives her an FRI autograph. FRI FRI She little knows this will become the worst day of her life. FRI FRI A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The Lost Art of the TV Theme b05tq6zy (Listen) FRI Few people who grew up in the 1960s could not now - fifty FRI years on - hum you the tunes from The Persuaders, FRI Crossroads, The Avengers, Blue Peter, Top of the Form, FRI Grandstand, The Saint, University Challenge, Panorama, Dave FRI Allen At Large, The Onedin Line, Department S, Tomorrow's FRI World, Dad's Army, Sportsnight - the list goes on and on. FRI The 1970s gave us Fawlty Towers, Colditz, Mr and Mrs, The FRI Two Ronnies, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served, The FRI Goodies, The Wombles, Blake's Seven, Some Mothers Do 'Ave FRI 'Em - and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, whose theme FRI tune perfectly captured the affectionate nostalgia of the FRI comedy. The melodies became so iconic that those shows which FRI survived into the 21st century - Coronation Street, FRI Mastermind, Match of the Day - have never ditched the theme FRI music familiar to generations of viewers. And we haven't FRI even mentioned Dr Who, whose pulsing theme generated by the FRI BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1963 has since regenerated FRI itself many times over, and inspired enough new music to FRI provide a programme for an entire Prom. FRI FRI Rich Morton acknowledges that his age defines his taste in FRI themes, as in so many other things. As a composer of very FRI plausible tunes for TV shows and films which never existed, FRI he favours the thrilling, brassy action themes of the 1960s FRI or the jaunty hipster tunes of the 1970s. Yet his suspicion FRI is that programme-makers in the 1980s - perhaps as a result FRI of squeezed budgets - stopped commissioning FRI specially-written music and turned instead to cheaper FRI alternatives, such as adapting instrumental extracts from FRI pre-existing pop records. FRI FRI Rich argues that, while there are still memorable themes FRI around, far too many shows now have bland or generic music FRI which would defy most people's attempts to hum it, let alone FRI remember it in fifty years' time. In an age when many FRI viewers access TV shows from Netflix, iPlayer or YouTube, FRI the need for an instantly-recognisable theme as a clarion FRI call to gather round and watch no longer applies. FRI FRI In this programme Rich sets out to ask what it was that made FRI those old themes so memorable, and why the TV theme may have FRI diminished in importance as an art form. He's helped in his FRI exploration by some of the great practitioners of the FRI classic TV theme, such as Tony Hatch and Alan Hawkshaw, and FRI also by one of the most successful TV composers working FRI today, Debbie Wiseman. FRI FRI Rich's Top 20 TV Themes FRI FRI As you can see, my selection is firmly rooted in the Golden FRI Age of ITC. These are some of my personal favourites, all FRI written and recorded in the 60s and 70s - but as a musician FRI I'm aware that the work of some great composers is glaringly FRI absent! For instance, Henry Mancini's brilliant compositions FRI for Peter Gunn and Mr Lucky (American TV shows made before FRI my time) both spring to mind as examples of TV theme writing FRI at its very best. FRI FRI Please contact me at @richmortonsound to discuss or argue FRI with my choices! FRI FRI 1. The Persuaders FRI FRI 2. The Avengers FRI FRI 3. Hawaii Five-O FRI FRI 4. The Sweeney FRI FRI 5. Mission: Impossible FRI FRI 6. The Champions FRI FRI 7. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? FRI FRI 8. Department S FRI FRI 9. The Saint FRI FRI 10. Dave Allen At Large FRI FRI 11. The Professionals FRI FRI 12. Thunderbirds FRI FRI 13. The Prisoner FRI FRI 14. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. FRI FRI 15. Man In A Suitcase FRI FRI 16. Starsky & Hutch FRI FRI 17. The Big Match FRI FRI 18. The Strange Report FRI FRI 19. The Protectors FRI FRI 20. U.F.O. FRI FRI 11:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure b074zw4l (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 1 FRI FRI A new sitcom from award-winning comedian Josie Long about a FRI young woman trying to build a new, more fulfilling life for FRI herself in Glasgow. FRI FRI Glasgow is the indie band theme park, where Josie will FRI finally be happy and accepted. But almost as soon as she FRI de-trains at Queen Street Station she begins to think she's FRI made a big mistake. FRI FRI Josie sets about finding friends, a place to live and a new FRI job. FRI FRI Based on characters from the short films "Romance and FRI Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and Douglas FRI King. FRI FRI Josie - Josie Long FRI Darren - Darren Osborne FRI Roddy - Sanjeev Kohli FRI Kerry - Hatty Ashdown FRI Eleanor - Clare Grogan FRI Chris - Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mona - Rebecca Hamilton FRI Fraser - Chris Pavlo FRI Written by Josie Long FRI Producer: Colin Anderson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Josie: Josie Long FRI Darren: Darren Osbourne FRI Roddy: Sanjeev Kohli FRI Kerry: Hatty Ashdown FRI Eleanor: Clare Grogan FRI Chris: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mona: Rebecca Hamilton FRI Fraser: Chris Pavlo FRI Writer: Josie Long FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b074vtqg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Witness b075f6st (Listen) FRI Nigeria's War on Indiscipline FRI FRI Series looking at key events in history, featuring archive FRI accounts from the people who were there. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b074vtqj (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b074vtql (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b074zw4t (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 A Guide to Coastal Wildlife b074zy93 (Listen) FRI Mudflats and Salt Marshes FRI FRI What attracts so many birds to gather on vast expanses of FRI coastal sea mud around the coast? Well, the answer can be FRI found in this programme when Brett Westwood joins naturalist FRI Phil Gates on the Northumberland coast and after wading FRI carefully across a slippery bed of popping seaweed, they FRI explore the sticky ooze of the mud flats, to discover it FRI teeming with life; food for wading birds. As well as cockles FRI and lugworms, there are much smaller mud snails and mud FRI shrimps. The latter are tiny crustaceans, very elongated FRI with enormous antennae like "curved crane jibs" which are FRI found in vast numbers (a conservative estimate is 10,000 per FRI square metre) swimming on the surface in liquid mud or FRI hiding out in tunnels below the surface. This rich source of FRI food explains why so many birds gather here to feed; birds FRI like the smart looking shelduck; a duck which is almost the FRI size of small goose but lays its eggs in underground FRI burrows! Away from the mud, slightly higher up the shore on FRI the salt marsh, Brett and Phil discover sea lavender, a FRI plant which has a clever way of dealing with high salt FRI levels by excreting salt crystals onto its leaves giving FRI them a greyish sheen and a salty taste! FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b074zgr0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b040hjy0 (Listen) FRI Tempting Faith FRI FRI Today is one of the most important days in Martin's life. FRI His daughter, Elizabeth, whom he has never met, has asked to FRI meet him before she emigrates to Australia. FRI FRI On this prodigious day, more than a little anxious, Martin FRI sets off in his Dad's car bright and early, He is determined FRI nothing can or will go wrong on this short journey to meet FRI his daughter... despite the fact that catastrophe has FRI somehow always dogged his best efforts at avoiding trouble. FRI FRI But Martin has not anticipated coming in contact with the FRI whirlwind that is Faith! FRI FRI For Faith this is also a momentous day. She has finally FRI escaped her Guru partner, packed her little car with all of FRI her possessions and is determined to take control of her FRI life for once and for all... when her car is stolen right FRI outside the mall where she has stopped off for a coffee. FRI Martin just happens to be parking in the next lot when Faith FRI jumps into his car and demands he pursues the thieves in a FRI high speed chase - needless to say neither of their days FRI ends as either had anticipated. FRI FRI But they have tempted fate, and it would appear they are FRI destined to be together. FRI FRI Writer ..... Sean Moffatt FRI Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Faith: Karen Ardiff FRI Martin: Patrick Fitzsymons FRI Dad: BJ Hogg FRI Nick: Luke Griffin FRI Cynthia: Dawn Bradfield FRI Elizabeth: Seainin Brennan FRI Writer: Sean Moffatt FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b074zy95 (Listen) FRI A panel of experts answer listeners' horticultural queries. FRI FRI 15:45 Cyprus Avenue b075fdrt (Listen) FRI A chance meeting at the airport awaiting an FRI increasingly-delayed flight sees a young couple discover FRI they have childhood histories - and family tragedies - in FRI common, growing up on the streets of East Belfast, FRI experiences which have defined every aspect of their lives, FRI not least their relationship to the city they once called FRI home. But as they journey back to Belfast, to their families FRI and to the reminders of the past, they slowly begin to look FRI to the future. FRI FRI Lucy Caldwell is an award-wining playwright and novelist FRI whose work is no stranger to Radio 4. Her novels 'The FRI Meeting Point' and 'All the Beggars Riding' were serialised FRI on Book at Bedtime and her drama includes 'Notes to Future FRI Self', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', 'Quicksands' and the FRI Imison award winning 'Girl from Mars'. FRI FRI 'Cyprus Avenue' is included in Lucy's forth-coming debut FRI short story collection 'Multitudes' to be published by Faber FRI on 5th May. FRI FRI Writer ..... Lucy Caldwell FRI Reader ..... Laura Pyper FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b074vtqn (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b074zy97 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b074zy99 (Listen) FRI Lyndon and Martin - Breaking Point FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a climber who FRI fell and broke his back and the paramedic who rescued him. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b074vtqq (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b074vtqt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b074zy9k (Listen) FRI Series 48, Episode 5 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 b074zy9q (Listen) FRI Bert is no fool, and Helen uncovers some truths. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gillian Richmond FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Dan Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Dorothy: Keziah Joseph FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b074vtqw (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b074zw41 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b074zy9s (Listen) FRI Tim Farron MP, Andrea Jenkyns MP, Jess Phillips MP, John FRI Timpson FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the University of Worcester with the Leader of the FRI Liberal Democrats Tim Farron MP, Conservative MP Andrea FRI Jenkyns MP, Labour MP Jess Phillips MP and the businessman FRI John Timpson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b074zy9v (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01mhn54 (Listen) FRI Blasphemy and the Governor of Punjab FRI FRI On 4th January 2011, self-made millionaire businessman and FRI governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was gunned down in the FRI car park of a popular Islamabad market. He had been leading FRI a campaign to amend Pakistan's FRI blasphemy laws, after an illiterate 45-year-old Christian FRI woman, Asia Bibi, from a village in his province had been FRI sentenced to death for blasphemy. FRI FRI Within hours of his death, a Facebook fan page for the FRI assassin Mumtaz Qadri had over 2000 members, before site FRI administrators shut it down. When Qadri was transferred to FRI jail, he was garlanded with roses by a crowd of lawyers FRI offering to take on his case for free. President Asif Ali FRI Zardari, an old friend of Taseer's, didn't go to the funeral FRI for fear of inflaming public opinion. Leaders of FRI state-funded mosques refused to say funeral prayers for the FRI slain governor. The Interior Minister even gave an impromptu FRI press conference announcing that he too would kill any FRI blasphemer "with his own hands". FRI FRI Using his extensive contacts in Pakistan, presenter Owen FRI Bennett-Jones has interviewed Taseer's family and friends FRI and the family of the assassin. He has also secured access FRI to court documents including the killer's confession. FRI FRI The programme includes both interviews and dramatic FRI reconstructions. FRI FRI Presented by Owen Bennett-Jones FRI Sound Design - Steve Bond FRI FRI Executive Producer: Jeremy Skeet FRI Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Sagar Arya FRI Actor: Amerjit Deu FRI Actor: Asif Khan FRI Actor: Faryal Khan FRI Actor: Najma Khan FRI Actor: Abid Majid FRI Actor: Mariam Majid FRI Actor: Ayeesha Menon FRI Actor: Aatif Nawaz FRI Actor: Hassani Shapi FRI Director: John Dryden FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b074vtqy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b074vtr0 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b074zyr0 (Listen) FRI Hot Milk, Episode 10 FRI FRI Hot Milk is the latest novel by Man Booker shortlisted FRI author Deborah Levy. Set in Southern Spain it explores FRI female rage and sexuality and the stubborn primal bond that FRI exists between a hypochondriac mother and her daughter. FRI FRI Sophia, a young anthropologist, has 'been sleuthing her FRI mother's symptoms' for as long as she can remember as Rose, FRI the older woman, is suffering from a form of paralysis that FRI might or might not be imagined. Driven to find a cure beyond FRI the realms of conventional medicine, they have come to FRI Almeria in Southern Spain to visit the clinic of Dr Gomez. FRI His methods have little to do with physical medicine and he FRI prompts both women to confront the true nature of their FRI relationship.Are Rose's symptoms psychosomatic and why is FRI Sophia unable to escape her mother's constant complaints? FRI FRI The oppressive desert heat pushes both to examine the root FRI of Rose's illness and the cause of Sofia's fractured FRI identity. And Sofia discovers the sting of desire, and the FRI need to be vital and alive. FRI FRI Today: In today's concluding episode, Sofia at last feels FRI she can live her own life, but her relationship with her FRI mother Rose has to endure one final test. FRI FRI The reader is Indira Varma and Hot Milk is abridged by Sally FRI Marmion. FRI The producer is Julian Wilkinson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI Author: Deborah Levy FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Julian Wilkinson FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b074x9ph (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Short Cuts b06np61j (Listen) FRI Series 8, Inheritance FRI FRI From the sounds of the womb to fading memories - Josie Long FRI hears stories of what we inherit from past generations. FRI FRI Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 FRI FRI The items feature in the programme are: FRI FRI George Bernard Shaw FRI FRI A Conversation FRI Feat. Walter Murch FRI Produced by Niccolò Castelli FRI https://vimeo.com/136595444 FRI FRI The Waves FRI Feat. Sian Phillips FRI Interview recorded for the Empathy Museum FRI http://www.empathymuseum.com/ FRI FRI Every Heart has a Limited Number of Heartbeats FRI Produced by Martin Johnson and Ann Heppermann FRI Originally featured in the Serendipity Podcast FRI http://thesarahawards.com/subscribe/. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b074zyr2 (Listen) FRI Barbara and David - We Thank Our Lucky Stars FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a husband and wife FRI about how difficult he found life after he had to retire FRI following bypass surgery, and how volunteering improved FRI things. Another in the series that proves it's surprising FRI 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
25 March, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 26/03/2016 - 01/04/2016
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